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(MCT) — CHICAGO — Lance Louis cried.
Not on the field in front of his teammates. Not on the sideline while the medical staff tugged at his left leg.
Instead, the Bears' right guard reserved his weeping for the ride home from Soldier Field the night of Nov. 25. Tears trickled down his cheek as his slumped inside teammate Patrick Trahan's Ford pickup, and Trahan remained mum as his roommate struggled through the moment.
"I don't think there was anything to be said at that point," Louis recalled.
What happened hours before spoke volumes about Louis' emotional state. Vikings defensive end Jared Allen delivered a brutal blindside block to Louis after a Jay Cutler interception. The impact sent the 6-foot-3, 320-pound Louis tumbling to the ground.
"When the doctors came up, they thought I had a concussion," Louis said. "But I heard a pop. By the time I got over to the sideline, I knew I tore it."
Louis ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee — the same injury he endured in his right knee during college. Allen's hit not only kept Louis from finishing a contract season, it caused an already much-maligned offensive line to regress.
Regardless, Louis says he holds no grudge against Allen.
"I never faulted him," Louis said Friday in his first public comments since the injury. "I'm pretty sure he didn't have any bad intentions toward me.
"I'm hard on myself. I should have looked. I felt like I should have taken a peek or something. But ... I know what I signed up for. There's always that possibility of getting hurt in this game."
Allen apologized through the media for what Bears teammates termed an "unnecessary" play. In their minds, the $21,000 fine assessed against Allen wasn't severe enough.
"If he did get fined or didn't, it wouldn't have mattered to me," Louis said. "It happened. It's football. It's unfortunate, but I'm cool. I have no doubt I'll be back playing at a high level."
Besides, Louis has overcome much worse.
While growing up in a desolate area of New Orleans, Louis never imagined escaping the depressing environment and having a successful pro football career.
"There were no good sides of town in New Orleans," he said. "None."
One incident struck fear in Louis more than any other. It was during his senior year of high school, when he attended a dance with some friends off the East Bank. Afterward, Louis and a couple of friends were robbed at gunpoint. The gunman aimed at Louis and demanded the throwback jersey he was wearing.
"There wasn't too much to say," Louis remembered. "I just pulled it off my back. What else was I going to do but give it to him?"
Surviving a life-threatening situation makes the recovery from a devastating knee injury seem trivial. Saturday marked the fourth week since surgeon Mark Bowen repaired Louis' ACL. Louis started light rehab exercises a few days after surgery.
"I really never experienced any pain after surgery," Louis said. "It's strong. It's getting better every day. Everything is going cool."
Louis faces six-to-eight months of recovery and could start light jogging in eight more weeks. At this stage, his days consist of three hours of rehab at Halas Hall with electrical stimulation to strengthen the quad. He wears a cumbersome black brace for protection.
Louis never has regained his full range of motion in his right knee, but he anticipates better results with the left.
"I should be fine by training camp," he said. "I want to come into a camp and it be like I never left."
Watching Vikings running back Adrian Peterson have an MVP-caliber season eight months after ACL surgery inspires Louis.
"He's so much of an inspiration to me," Louis said of Peterson. "I'm looking forward to seeing where I'm going to be at. He motivates me to work even harder and not take anything for granted because it's possible."
Before Louis was lost with five games remaining in the season, there was talk of him being in line for a new contract. His four-year rookie deal is set to expire March 12, when he officially becomes one of the Bears' 18 unrestricted free agents.
Having a season-ending injury came at the most inopportune time and no doubt complicates contract talks.
"It was in my mind for like the first day or two," Louis said. "That's not on my mind right now. My mind is on trying to get back on the field."
Louis handled his business when on it. He started 11 games and was arguably the team's best offensive lineman this season. Bears radio analyst Tom Thayer, a starting right guard on the 1985 Super Bowl champs, believed Louis played at a Pro Bowl level before the injury.
"First of all, he took what he learned as a tackle and was able to be a better offensive guard, a more helpful guard to the tackle," Thayer said. "But he also had the athleticism to move in space."
Offensive coordinator Mike Tice often praised his play during the season.
"Everything in my game is from Coach Tice," Louis said. "Coach built me to the player that I am today, although I still have a long way to go."
As the Bears prepare for a largely new coaching staff after the dismissal of Lovie Smith — and the line likely braces for life without Tice — Louis hopes he remains an integral part of the team's plans though general manager Phil Emery has made it clear overall line play has to get better.
"I want to be a Bear for life," he said. "That's a no-brainer. I love Chicago. I love everything about it. The Bears' organization is a great place to be. And I want to be here a lot longer."
And he may be, as he's a far cry from the unpolished, former tight end he was as rookie seventh-round draft pick.


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In the summer of 1969 a strange new Bob Dylan double LP hit record store shelves in a plain white sleeve. The words "GF 001/2/3/4" were stamped on the cover, though later editions were called Great White Wonder. One record consisted of the tracks from the long-rumored Basement Tapes, while the other one was largely folk covers taped live in 1961. Nobody realized it at the time, but it was the first commercially available bootleg.
Great White Wonder flew off shelves, kicking off the age of the rock & roll bootleg. In the four decades since, Dylan has been bootlegged more than any other artist. In 1991 he decided to beat the bootleggers at their own game by releasing the three-CD set, The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3. He's since put out six more volumes (always with better sound quality than what's previously circulated), but it's done nothing to stop the flood of underground releases.
His refusal to release a single show from the Never Ending Tour, the complete unedited Basement Tapes or countless other legendary bootlegs has led to a very active underground Dylan recording community. To a newbie the sheer amount of material can be overwhelming, but here's a guide to the best of every era of Dylan's career. As the man himself sang in 2001, "Some of these bootleggers, they make pretty good stuff."
Carnegie Chapter Hall, 11/4/61
Dylan had been playing New York coffee houses for just 10 months when he got booked at the city's most prestigious venue, even if it was in the smallest theater in the Carnegie Hall complex and only 53 people showed up. A great recording of half the show has circulated for years, though the inclusion of the previously unreleased "This Land Is Your Land" on the No Direction Home soundtrack seems to confirm that Columbia has the entire set in their vaults.
Clearly nervous to be on a big stage 40 blocks uptown from the Village, Dylan doesn't play a single original, instead opting for tried-and-true tracks like Woody Guthrie's "1913 Massacre," which formed the basis for his own "Song To Woody" recorded just a few weeks later. The highlight is Bukka White's "Fixin' to Die," which also appeared on his debut. In less than two years he would hit the main stage at Carnegie Hall with an arsenal of original material.
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Town Hall, 4/12/63
Near the height of his protest period Dylan played one of the biggest gigs of his career at New York's Town Hall. Columbia taped it for an official release and many tracks leaked out over the years, but in 2008 the complete soundboard appeared online with 10 unheard tunes. Through the 24-song set Dylan focuses on finger-pointing social justice songs like "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues," "Who Killed Davey Moore" and "Masters Of War."
In the year and a half since his Carnegie Hall show, the 21-year-old had developed incredible confidence onstage, regularly causing the crowd to break into laughter or listen to his words in absolute silence. Writing in the New York Times, Robert Shelton gave the show a rapturous review. "Mr. Dylan's mastery of mood built up an almost physically discomforting intensity in 'Ballad Of Hollis Brown,' a song about death on a South Dakota farm," he wrote. " 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' about the pollution of the atmosphere with fallout, generated similar tensions through repetition and an inexorable guitar beat." The pristine bootleg is far and away the best recording from this period of Dylan's career.
The Complete Basement Tapes
Of the many versions of the Basement Tapes to trickle out over the years, the official release by Columbia in 1975 may be the worst. Not only did the Band overdub new guitar and drum parts, eight of the tracks didn't even stem from the legendary Basement sessions – and some of them didn't even feature Bob Dylan. A source tells me there are 10 CDs worth of material floating around, but so far only enough material to fill four CDs has popped up. It's still enough to make it the greatest of all Dylan bootlegs. Not only do you get to hear Dylan and the Band going on a journey through the history of American music on covers ranging from Hank Williams' "You Win Again" to Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues," but you get to hear Dylan at his most relaxed and silly as he cracks himself up singing an impromptu song fans have labeled "See You Later, Allen Ginsberg."
In the second half of the set Dylan begins writing his first original sings since his motorcycle crash in the summer of 1966, and they are a far cry from the "thin, wild mercury" sound of Blonde on Blonde. "I Shall Be Released" and "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" have become campfire sing-alongs over the years, but it's fascinating to hear them as little more than early sketches. The latter is particularly revelatory because an early take has surfaced with completely different lyrics, mostly nonsense like: "Look here you bunch of basement noise, you ain't no punching bag… pick up your nose you canary, you ain't goin' nowhere." By take two they had it nailed. If the Dylan camp has any sense, a definitive, undoctored Basement Tapes box set will be their next release.
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Rolling Thunder Revue
The Dylan camp has released two official live albums from the Rolling Thunder Revue. The first, Hard Rain, is an intense nine-track disc drawn from two May 1976 shows. The other, the Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue, cobbles together various songs from the fall 1975 leg. Both have absolutely pristine sound and show the band (led by David Bowie guitarist Mick Ronson) in peak form.
The problem is that neither set represents a single show or includes tracks from the other artists on the tour. After all, the tour was conceived as a multi-artist gypsy caravan across America. For the best complete 1976 show, check out New Orleans 5/3/76. By this point in the tour Dylan's marriage to his first wife Sara had been severed beyond repair, purging "Sara" from the setlist and replacing it with Blood On The Tracks songs like the snarling "Idiot Wind" and "You're A Big Girl Now." You also get a sense of the complete show, with Joan Baez doing her hit cover of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," Kinky Friedman doing his signature song "Asshole From El Paso" and Roger McGuinn's solo take on the Byrds classic "Eight Miles High." Just an unbelievable night of music that's worthy of a box set release.
Charlotte, 12/10/78
Few eras of Bob Dylan's live career have a worse reputation than the 1978 tour. Backed by an 11-piece band, the show featured radically rearranged versions of Dylan's greatest hits – with lots of saxophone and back-up singers. Just weeks into the tour Columbia taped Bob Dylan At Budokan, which was originally only supposed to come out in Japan. Cringe-worthy, slick versions of "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "Blowin' In The Wind" sullied Dylan's reputation as a live performer for years to come, but when the tour came to America many months later it finally hit a groove. By this point Dylan was playing songs from Street Legal, which was recorded with his touring band. Unlike most of his catalog, these tracks were actually enhanced by the big band. On this tape from Charlotte, Dylan is on fire as the band plays killer versions of Street Legal tracks "Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)," "We Better Talk This Over" and "Changing of the Guards." With the exception of "Señor," he'd play virtually nothing from the drastically underrated Street Legal over the next three decades.
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Toronto, 1980
Dylan may have faced some backlash when he toured with an electric band in 1965, but it was nothing compared to what he dealt with 15 years later. After converting to Christianity and cutting an album of born-again songs, Dylan hit the road singing only the new material. He also preached from the stage. "I told you 'The Times They Are A-Changin' and they did!" he told a crowd in New Mexico. "I said the answer was 'Blowin' In The Wind' and it was! And I'm telling you now, Jesus is coming back, and he is! And there is no other way of salvation."
Often lost amidst all the craziness is the fact that the new songs were great, the band was amazing and he was singing with more gusto and conviction than he'd ever shown before. At this Toronto stop (which was also videotaped), he opens with "Gotta Serve Somebody" and rips into gospel classics like "Precious Angel" and "Slow Train." Guitarist Fred Tackett, drummer Jim Keltner and keyboardist Spooner Oldham form the core of one of Dylan's all-time great backing bands, and the finale of "Pressing On" is positively chilling. Beginning alone at the piano, Dylan is slowly joined by the band and back-up singers into what erupts into what is perhaps the most emotionally raw performance of Dylan's career. An absolute must-hear for Dylan aficionados.
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Sydney, 2/24/86
With the exception of a six-week European stadium run in the summer of 1984, Dylan stayed off the road between 1981 and 1986. When he returned he was at the absolute nadir of his career, but with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers serving as his backing band he slowly began to revitalize himself. "I didn't figure I had much of an audience," Dylan wrote in 2004's Chronicles. "As big as the crowds were, Petty was drawing most of the people."
That's a bit of an understatement, and even if it were true the show was largely devoted to Dylan's catalog. At this Sydney show – which is captured on an absolutely flawless soundboard recording– Dylan is in an unusually chatty mood, telling stories behind songs and lashing out at the rock critics who had been ravaging him. In a nice change of pace from his usual Sixties nostalgia shows, he plays a large amount of new songs – highlighted by "Lenny Bruce," "Seeing The Real You At Last," "I and I" and "In The Garden." The masterpiece here, though, is "When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky." On Empire Burlesque Arthur Baker buries the song underneath layers of horrendous Eighties production, but with the Heartbreakers the song is revealed to be one of the all-time great forgotten Dylan songs.
The Never Ending Tour:
In June of 1988 Bob Dylan kicked off a tour that has yet to stop. Nearly every show has been taped, leaving fans with hundreds upon hundreds of tapes to sort through. Here are some of the best.
Jones Beach, 6/30/88
This is the best soundboard from the early G.E. Smith era of the Never Ending Tour. The setlist isn't very adventurous, but the guitarist adds an extra oomph to standards like "All Along The Watchtower" and "Maggie's Farm." It opens with a fairly rare "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and has a gorgeous "Boots Of Spanish Leather."
Toad's Place, 1/12/90
The single weirdest show in Dylan's career. This four-and-a-half-hour marathon set was a warm-up before the 1990 leg of the NET kicked off. Extreme rarities like "Man Of Peace" and "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine" are mixed with shocking covers like "Dancing In The Dark." By the end he's taking requests, and playing whatever the crowd yells for. You have to hear it to believe it.
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The Supper Club, 11/16/93
The most beloved gig of the Never Ending Tour. In this tiny New York club Dylan performed an acoustic gig that outshined the following year's MTV Unplugged by a huge margin. Lost Eighties track "Tight Connection To My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love)" is transformed into a song of haunting beauty, while "Queen Jane Approximately" has never sounded so tender. Ironically 1993 was a lousy year of the NET, but on this November night Dylan played his most perfect show of the past quarter-century.
Woodstock, 8/14/94
He refused to play the original, but in 1994 the Woodstock payday proved too tempting. Playing to his biggest crowd in years, Dylan goes the extra mile delivers fiery versions of "Highway 61 Revisited" and "Jokerman." It was overshadowed by Nine Inch Nails, Green Day and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but he definitely didn't phone this one in like many had predicted.
El Rey Theater, 12/19/97
Time Out Of Mind not only revitalized Bob Dylan's recording career, it seemed to have revitalized his concerts as well. With an arsenal of great new songs and the addition of guitarist Larry Campbell, the winter 1997 theater shows are some of the most beloved shows of the NET. Sheryl Crow guests on "Highway 61 Revisited" and "Knockin' On Heaven's Door."
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San Jose, 5/19/98
The band assembled here – with Bucky Baxter and Larry Campbell on guitar – ranks among the greatest backing groups Dylan has ever worked with. This soundboard captures them at their peak. "Love Sick" has never sounded so haunting, and "Tangled Up In Blue" soars like it hasn't before or since. The sound is also better than most officially released live albums.
Tramps, 7/26/99
In the middle of a co-headlining tour with Paul Simon, Dylan booked a last-minute show at the miniscule Tramps in New York. Elvis Costello comes out for "I Shall Be Released," but the real highlights are "Visions of Johanna," "Seeing The Real You At Last" and "Every Grain Of Sand." Dylan's always more adventurous in small halls, and this stunning show is the best example of that.
Seattle, 10/4/02
Fans were stunned at opening night of the Fall 2002 leg of the NET when Dylan began the show on piano, playing the born-again track "Solid Rock." Shock turned to outright disbelief when he covered the Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar" and three Warren Zevon songs. It persisted through the rest of the year – with tracks by Don Henley and Neil Young coming in later. These shows were the most bizarre and fun of the NET and must-hears.
London, 11/21/05
Opening with "Rumble" to honor the recently departed guitar great Link Wray, Dylan pulled out two of his most unexpected songs of his live career at this London show: the first (and to date only) performance of the Basement Tapes gem "Million Dollar Bash" and a cover of the Clash's "London Calling." He sounds like he was having a blast, and the crowd goes absolutely batshit crazy. If only he did stuff like that more often.
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By MATTHEW B. MOWERY/Digital First Media
TOLEDO � The Detroit Tigers may have misplaced their offense someplace in the Pacific Time Zone, but they�re not going to find it sitting south of the Michigan-Ohio line.
Considering they scored just six runs in the final 55 innings of a disappointing West Coast swing, losing the final four games, it�s pretty obviously a trend they�d like to reverse in their upcoming nine-game home stand.
Just don�t expect that process will involve calling for reinforcements � not yet anyway.
As enamored as folks can get with can�t-miss prospects, there�s no reason to believe that anyone currently on the Triple-A Toledo roster can fix what ails the Tigers at the moment.
It�s highly unlikely that the organization will suddenly reverse course on how they�d like to handle a guy like top prospect Nick Castellanos, clearly someone whose growth they don�t want to stunt by using him as a stop-gap solution.
And Castellanos still has things to work on in Toledo.
�Rarely do you ever see a 21-year-old platooning in the big leagues. They�d rather them play every day in the minor league level to develop,� Castellanos said last week, acknowledging he�d been on the same page with Tigers manager Jim Leyland when the team had decided not to make him part of any big-league platoon situation in left field, instead eventually going with journeyman Matt Tuiasosopo.
�Up there, what Jim said is when he told me I�m coming down here, he said when the rest of your game looks as comfortable as you do in the box, then you�ll be up here.
�Obviously at that time, I swung it really well in big league spring training, but when he�s talking about playing defense, running the bases, picking up signs from the coaches, just everything, being a complete baseball player. Because to get there is the easy part but to stay there is the hard part, and in order to stay there you can�t just hit well, you can�t just run the bases well, you�ve got to do everything well. I think they�ve said it time and time again, when I get there, they don�t want me to be a guy that goes up and down, they want me to stay there.
�So in order for that to happen, I have to do everything up to their expectations.�
Everything, not just one thing.
The one thing he can do extraordinarily well is hit.
Everyone knows that. It�s almost the sole reason Castellanos was ranked among the top 25 prospects in baseball (No. 21 by both Baseball America and MLB.com) heading into this season.
�Well, Nick is really at home in the batter�s box. He�s really, without question, at home in the batter�s box. He�s got some things to learn how to do yet,� Leyland said this spring.
�We really like him a lot. He�s got a chance to be something really special. But just learn to play the outfield, become a little more instinctive on the bases. He�s got that one important ingredient � he can hit � and that�s a big tool. That�s usually the one that speaks the loudest, but you�ve gotta work on the other things as well. And it�s not that he doesn�t, it�s just that hitting comes natural for him, and a couple other things haven�t, maybe. ...
�He�s at his best when he has that bat in his hand. ... He�s really a good looking young hitter. That�s just the way it is.
�And the best thing about that is, he knows he can hit. He knows he�s a hitter.�
At this point, though, Castellanos is a one-trick pony, and he�s still even got some work to do to iron out that one trick. He�s currently hitting .230 through the Mud Hens� first 19 games.
Part of that is bad luck, hitting balls right on the screws, but right at defenders.
Part is playing in cold weather for just the second time in his career � something the native Miamian only experienced previously when playing for the Class A West Michigan Whitecaps.
And part of it is just getting used to a new level.
�It�s a jump. It�s the highest level I�ve played at. Guys are a lot better at their job, pitchers are a lot more consistent. Defense is a lot better. So it�s just another adjustment I have to make and it�s a level I�m going to have to get used to,� Castellanos said
�It�s also getting used to the way guys pitch at certain levels. I�ve noticed here guys use a lot more off-speed pitches. Everything moves a little bit more, no one throws as hard as they do in the lower levels. Of course you have your guys like their closer, who will come in for an inning or so and light up the radar gun, but for the most part everybody hits their spots, everybody�s moving balls.
�If you look back, the only level that really I didn�t need an adjustment period in the beginning was in Lakeland. West Michigan, I had a little bit of a slow start as I got used to everything, also in Erie. I had about 15 or so games where I wasn�t hitting too well and after you start getting used to your team, used to your surroundings and get comfortable in your lineup, then everything starts rolling. Sometimes you just need that one good game, then after that everything just keeps going.�
He�s also got other adjustments on his mind, like continuing to improve as an outfielder, a move he made in the final two months of last season, switching from third base.
For now, he�s a left fielder.
�He�s going to be play left field. He�ll stay out in left field unless they call down and tell me something different. I think that�s the best spot for him, at this point, within our organization � and for him, to be honest with you,� said Toledo manager Phil Nevin, who made a similar transition from third to outfield when he was traded to the Tigers in 1996.
�When you go out there, it�s a different kind of first-step quickness. At third base, it�s a different reaction (compared) to the outfield. When I made the move, the hardest thing for me was remaining focused. You can kind of get lost out there � and I know Nick�s personality. He shows a lot of the same qualities. And you can go out there, and just find yourself counting grass blades, and don�t get a ball hit to you for six innings.�
Castellanos concurred.
�It is. It�s easy to get distracted and it�s easy to think about your at-bats or whatever when you�re in the outfield, instead of focusing on the hitter because at third base if you�re not focusing on the hitter, you�re going to eat one. In the beginning, it was a little more difficult for me to keep my concentration but now it�s just becoming second nature, just because of the amount of games I�m playing out there,� he said.
�Hopefully in the future I want to get back to third base, but I know as long as Miguel�s there and Prince is over at first, those guys are going to play 160 days out of the year, so I got no business over there.�
There�s also the factor of simply getting used to a bigger body.
Castellanos has grown an inch, and put on 30 pounds of muscle since the Tigers drafted him in with their supplemental first round pick in 2010 out of Archbishop McCarthy High School in the Miami suburb of Southwest Ranches.
�A lot of people don�t understand, but it takes time for an athlete to get used to a bigger body, too. You�re 170 pounds, and all of a sudden, you�re 190, 195 pounds � that�s a big difference. You�re carrying more weight, you�re trying to keep your speed, your flexibility. You�re stronger, you�ve got more power, but you�ve gotta make sure you can keep everything else going, too,� Leyland said. �Sometimes, it takes time for that.�
So has it happened yet?
�He�s 20 years old, guys. He�s growing still. That�s just part of growing. And you�re going to see that. He�s going to be a big, physical guy,� Nevin said.
�You may not see the power right now, but if you�re a baseball person, and you�ve been out there, and seen players grow, it�s in my opinion, when I watch him, he�s going to be a home run hitter in the big leagues. He�s going to hit for average, but he�s going to hit home runs. He�s going to hit 25-30 home runs in the big leagues.
�That�s just my opinion.
�Is it going to happen now? It�s not going to happen now. And I don�t expect him to try to do it. I expect him to keep doing the same things he�s been doing. ... But right now, he�s fine where he�s at.�
Matthew B. Mowery covers the Tigers for Digital First Media. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com and follow him on Twitter @matthewbmowery.


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Kenny Williams makes it official. Chris Sale will start the season in the bullpen.
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KW wants three lefties in the bullpen to go after the tough lefty hitters in the Central division.
Ozzie says that he'd prefer that Thornton be the Sox closer, but will take his time to make a decision.
Peavy threw 40 pitches off the mound. Said he felt "free and easy." Good first day.
Until Peavy is ready, Sox will fill gap with off days and a couple possible candidates. Ozzie forgets their names.
Merkin says their names are Phil Humber, Charlie Leesman, Jeff Gray or Lucas Harrell.
BTW, now we know the answer to the previous post, Did Kenny Williams change Don Cooper's mind on Chris Sale? No, he didn't.
UPDATE: Merkin expands on the bullpen-starter decision:
The 22-year-old rookie had been in discussions as a possible temporary replacement for Jake Peavy in the fifth starter's spot, assuming Peavy's road to full recovery from season-ending surgery to repair a torn latissimus dorsi muscle in his right shoulder doesn't lead him to Opening Day. But during organization meetings involving the White Sox front office and coaching staff held Thursday morning, it was decided the White Sox were best armed with Sale as a full-time reliever on the heels of his stellar 1.93 ERA posted out of the bullpen in 2010.
That decision won't alter the White Sox decision to use Sale as a starter in Cactus League action, a plan Williams believes will be best-served for the southpaw's overall development.
"This is very important because I had to explain this to my coaching staff as well," Williams said. "The reason I had Chris Sale prepare as a starter is because that's what he has done his whole life.
"So if you now tell him to prepare differently, might you not see the guy you last saw in September? We want him to prepare as he did so we can expect the same guy to show up. That means using all of his pitches and building him up as a starter.
"He has shown he can transfer that to a relief role," Williams said. "Had we said he's going to be a reliever from Day 1, might he prepare as a reliever and not build his arm up and legs up? We want him to be the best guy we just saw."


text: Frederic C. Smedley, a lawyer and peace activists, presents Dr. King with a proposed plan aimed at applying pressure on President Johnson and other political leaders to end the war in Vietnam. The plan includes such actions as bombarding Congress with letters, demanding that President Johnson resign, and urging Republicans to nominate a ticket with candidates in support of an anti-Vietnam war policy. If none of the suggestions are effective, Smedley encourages a push for an independent ticket.


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Garrison Russell
Garrison Roy Russell passed away with his wife by his side on June 17, 2012 in Spokane at the age of 58. Garrison was born on July 9, 1953 in Denver, CO, the son of Thomas Ferris and Nola (Wiedmann) Russell. He was raised in Van Nuys, CA where he attended school. On his sixteenth birthday, Garrison received his pilot's license, driver's license and motorcycle endorsement. He continued fly¬ing while in high school and graduated from Van Nuys High School in 1971. Garrison went on to attend USC and UCLA while teaching aviation ground school and advancing his flight ratings. He earned his Certified Flight Instructor and Certified Flight In¬strument Instructor ratings and began teaching stu¬dent pilots and taking charter flights while working for an FBO at Van NuysAirport. In 1975, he moved to the Cedar Creek area north of Colville and ran several businesses, including flight instructing, flying for the U.S. Forest Service and operating the Colville Airport fixed base operations with his father, Tom Russell, while im¬mersing himself in the study of the Bible. On May 28, 1977, Garrison married Alexandria "Zandy" Key¬ser at Cedar Creek. While living here, Garrison became an Air¬line Transport Pilot and was active in Washington Pilots' Asso¬ciation. During this time, his children, Wonder (1979) and Levi (1981) were born at Mount Carmel Hospital. They resided in the Colville area until 1985, when Garrison moved his family to An¬chorage, AK after becoming an Air Traffic Controller with the FAA. He then transferred to the Flight Standards District Office as a Principal Operations Inspector, and soon after transferred to the FAA Regional Office as a Regional Specialist. In 1990, Garrison received a call to fly for MARKAIR airline. He served as captain, flying Boeing 737's throughout rural Alaska and across the United States until MARKAIR ceased op¬erations. Garrison then returned to Cedar Creek with his fam¬ily, and for the next three years embraced the opportunity to write his book,"SonPlacing." In 1996 when the book was compete, Garrison resumed his passion for flying and aviation and moved to Juneau, AK where he became a Supervisor of Operation Inspectors. Then it on to Montreal, Canada, and Bangkok, Thailand for 2 1/2 years working for ICAO, the UN agency responsible for aviation stan¬dards worldwide, before settling in Spokane after returning to the FAA. After a year at the Spokane FSDO as an Operations Inspector, Garrison accepted a position as the International Training Pro¬gram Manager for the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City, OK as their first remote sited employee. Garrison was able to work abroad when needed and also stay near his family in the Spo¬kane and Colville area. Garrison's work brought extensive travel, as over the years he visited nearly every corner of the globe delivering much-needed training and expertise to Civil Aviation Authorities around the world. Garrison's contributions to aviation safety include training and procedures that are be¬coming the standard worldwide. Garrison's most treasured times were spent with family, aunties, uncles and cousins, and enjoying the many interna¬tional, Alaskan and stateside travel adventures they shared. He was a very gifted teacher and was often recognized for his ex¬ceptional intellect and creativity. Above all else, he had a great love and passion for his Heav¬enly Father and pursued the study of the Bible and the sharing of his faith. His book "SonPlacing" has been a great blessing to thousands. Garrison was preceded in death by his father, Thomas and by a sister, Valerie Byrd.He is remembered with great love and admiration by his wife, Alexandria "Zandy" Russell; daughter, Wonder Russell; son, Levi Russell (wife, Laura); mother and step-father, Mert and Nola Russell Wiedmann; sister and brother-in-law, Heidi and Bruce Johnson; brother-in-law, Vernon Byrd; and nephews, Matthew and Andrew Byrd, and dozens of beloved relatives and cousins.A memorial for Garrison R. Russell will begin at 3 p.m., Sat¬urday, July 14 at "Our Place" at the Ark in Cedar Creek. Memorial contributions may be given to "Our Place", 3912 Cedar Creek Road, Colville, WA 99114. Please visit the on-line memorial and sign the guestbook at www.danekasfuneralchapel.com. Danekas Funeral Chapel and Crematory is entrusted with the arrangement.


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The Vehicle Production Group (VPG) may not have become a household name since it set up shop, but if you had any interest in boxy but wheelchair-accessible vehicles, you probably knew the automaker's MV-1 van. That said, the Florida-based company has now, as of this week, shut down.
Despite receiving a $50 million loan from the Department of Energy in 2010, the company has now shuttered its operations. The natural-gas-powered MV-1 – VPG's only model – was being produced in Mishawaka, Indiana by AM General. Yes, that's the same AM General that used to build civilian Hummer models, which helps to explain why the MV-1 actually used a number of interior parts and switches previously found in Hummer vehicles.
It is worth noting, however, that VPG has yet to file for bankruptcy – it has simply suspended production and shuttered its corporate offices after having its reserves frozen by the DOE after its cash level fell below a government-mandated threshold, which was part of the agreement for the loan. The company has just three of its 100 employees left.
According to Automotive News, VPG has already built 2500 vans and raised $400 million in capital, and former VPG CEO John Walsh told AN that the company still has a backlog for 2300 more copies of the handicapable van. That said, Walsh also reported that VPG had drawn the full amount on the DOE loan and yet to begin repaying the government. He also told AN there are two companies within the "automotive sphere" that have shown interest in VPG, "one being a current partner that 'has a lot to do with building the car.'"
It hasn't been an easy spring for Congress on this matter either: VPG follows Fisker as the second automaker to receive funds and miss repayments. That company let 75 percent of its staff go earlier this month and has been under fire for the whole debacle.
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Garden Talk: October 11, 2007
From NGA Editors
Striking Purple-Leaved Pineapple Lily
Pineapple lily (Eucomis comosa) is a subtropical plant that produces sword-like leaves and pineapple-like flowers. It?s hardy only in USDA zones 7 to 10 but can be grown as an annual in colder climates. While many pineapple lilies have green foliage, a few sport darker colored leaves, and one of the best is the variety ?Oakhurst?.
Not only does ?Oakhurst? feature deep purple leaves, in midsummer it produces pink-purple flower stalks in the shape of mini-pineapples. The flowers are excellent for cutting, lasting up to six weeks in a vase. ?Oakhurst? grows best in full sun, is heat tolerant, and forms a clump 2 feet tall and wide at maturity. It makes a great container plant and in northern climates can be overwintered in a protected garage or shed, or grown indoors as houseplant.
For more information on ?Oakhurst? pineapple lily, go to: Terra Nova Nursery.
Identify Your Plants Via E-mail
It happens even to the most knowledgeable gardeners: You see a plant you like but you don't know the name of it, and your gardening friends don't know what it is either. Sometimes even a local Master Gardener or garden center employee can?t figure it out. So where do you go to identify the plant?
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at the University of Texas, Austin, has a solution. They have a new program called "Mr. Smarty Plants." You can ask questions online for free and send them digital images of your mystery plant to identify. They ask for your geographic location, the site where you found the plant, and a number of images of details such as leaves, stems, flowers, fruit, as well as the entire plant.
For more information on Mr. Smarty Plants, go to: Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center .
New, Stronger String Trimmer
Cutting weeds and edging grass with a string trimmer is a thankless job, yet many homeowners like the manicured look that these machines afford. One of the most annoying aspects of using string trimmers is replacing strings that break when they contact hard surfaces such as rocks and fences. A new string trimmer boasts a design that reduces the breakage problem.
The Pivotrim is a string trimmer head featuring a unique design that allows the string to rotate and pivot when it comes in contact with a hard surface, reducing the chance that the string will break. The head also features a different string-loading mechanism. Instead of winding the nylon string around a spool and threading it through a small hole, you simply push the two ends of a pre-cut piece of string through two holes and pull tight. The string automatically locks into place.
The manufacturer claims the Pivotrim head fits on 99 percent of the gas trimmer models on the market.
For more information on this new string trimmer head, go to: Better Heads LLC.
Will Biofuels Help Reduce Global Warming?
Biofuels are all the rage. With soaring oil prices and a desire to reduce our dependence on foreign energy resources, there's a lot of interest in growing corn and other crops to be processed into fuel, such as ethanol. Also, many believe that burning biofuels will reduce carbon dioxide emissions and slow global warming. While biofuels can reduce our dependence on foreign oil, new research raises questions about whether they will help slow global warming.
Much of the concern about global warming has been focused on carbon dioxide, but nitrous oxide has been found to have 300 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide. Corn and other biofuel plants that need high nitrogen levels for growth generally release high nitrous oxide levels into the atmosphere when burned, so researchers wondered about their potential impact on global warming.
The scientists investigated the amount of nitrous oxide produced by corn, rapeseed, and other plants commonly used as biofuels. They found that these plants had more potential for contributing to global warming than offsetting it because of the nitrous oxide they emit. The scientists calculated that growing nitrogen-rich plants as biofuels could result in a zero net gain in reducing global warming and might even increase the warming. Plants that require less nitrogen and therefore release less nitrous oxide might be better choices for biofuel.
For more information about this research, go to: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.


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Modern technology and expert club fitters will help you shoot lower scores
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One of the great mysteries of golf is why a perfectly sane person who happens to be three inches taller, 30 pounds heavier, and eight years older than the average American golfer will pay $800 for a set of clubs off the rack. That same person wouldn't even think of buying a $400 suit without at least having the pants hemmed, yet they expect to hit a golf ball like Rory McIlroy with clubs made for Joe Average.
With today's technology and plenty of experienced, trained experts at hand, there's no reason to not buy a golf club with the same attention to size and fit as you would a pair of shoes. You can get some advice at leading golf retailers, but I went a step further and went through the fitting process with three Westchester specialists, each using different technology, to see what I could do with my equipment to improve my game. The results were remarkable.
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Linguistics (Undergraduate Minor)
Specific Requirements
|College or School
|College of Arts and Sciences
|Romance Languages and Linguistics
|Eighteen credits, to include LING 080 (Intro to Linguistics) and fifteen additional credits of Linguistics courses. Other relevant courses may be chosen with the consultation of a Linguistics minor advisor. Of these fifteen credits, at least nine credits must be at the 100-level or above. No more than three credits may come from courses also used to fulfill the student's major.
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|PSYC 109 or PSYC 161 (or Instructor's permission) required for CSD 208; PSYC 001 and either PSYC 109 or PSYC 130 required for PSYC 236 and PSYC 237. Foreign language courses 001, 002, 051 and 052 are required for upper level courses. In addition, GERM 155 or GERM 156 and one other 100-level German course are required for GERM 213; SPAN 140 is required for SPAN 211.
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DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — In response to calls to improve the military's handling of sexual-assault issues, 90 service members at an Ohio Air Force Base are being given self-defense training and will in turn instruct their colleagues.
The training at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton is part of the effort to re-emphasize the culture of respect and dignity in the service amid pressure to improve the military's response to sexual assault issues, said Col. Cassie Barlow, commander of the 88th Air Base Wing at the base.
The 90 Air Force members, along with 10 employees of nearby Wright State University, are taking the self-defense training from martial arts teachers, according to the Dayton Daily News (http://bit.ly/1g4mDaI).
Barlow said those trainees will then be certified for a two-year period to instruct their colleagues.
"It's much more than just a self-defense program," Barlow said. "There's the physical side of it, but also a mental and psychological side."
"It hits all the things in the research like resiliency, assertiveness, self-confidence and situational awareness," Barlow said.
Second Lt. Coraviece Terry said serving in the military with so many men can give some women "a sense of defeatedness," so she was glad to participate and hopes to help train others.
"I think this will definitely give me a sense of confidence, knowing that I have the knowledge to protect myself if I'm attacked," Terry said.
America's military has been under pressure in the past year to improve its handling of sexual-assault issues. President Barack Obama told military leaders they had one year to "step up their game exponentially" in both prevention of and response to sexual assault cases.


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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Utility officials say fewer than 5,000 customers remain without power in the Philadelphia area, but forecasters are warning residents that another storm is on the way.
PECO reports more than 4,900 customers without power in the five-county Philadelphia as of Tuesday morning, more than 3,300 of them in Montgomery County.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch for Wednesday evening to late Thursday night for snow, sleet and freezing rain expected in Philadelphia and surrounding areas, with 6 to 10 inches of snow and a trace of ice predicted. Six inches or more is also predicted in parts of central Pennsylvania.
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Regular price: £27.19
New York Times best-selling author Elizabeth Lowell adds a bold chapter to her impressive body of romantic fiction with Only Love. She has won the Romance Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award and has over seven million copies of her works in print.
Shannon Conner grew up in a Colorado cabin, isolated from the world. Now she lives as a lonely young widow in the cold mountains. Forced to fend for herself, Shannon valiantly attempts to deflect the harassment of local bullies, but she is grossly outnumbered. However, when Rafael "Whip" Moran, the man who will defend her honor, enters her life, everything changes. Unprepared for the feelings Whip unleashes within her, Shannon is torn between her fear of this rugged stranger and a burning desire to be with him.
Richard Ferrone's seductive narration will have listeners enthralled by Lowell's passion-filled prose.
This is the fourth story in the 'Only' series. In order there are 'Only His', 'Only Mine', 'Only You' and 'Only Love'. In my opinion 'Only His' is the best of the four stories, but a close second would be 'Only You'. 'Only Mine' has a very odd start to it which left me very unsympathetic with the heroine, but I did warm to it by the end. 'Only Love' is probably the weakest of the four stories, but I still found Elizabeth Lowell's description of the scenery enthralling and the settings of these four stories were really a large part of the appeal. Richard Ferrone has a wonderfully warm and soothing voice which was perfect for the male characters, and he did as well as any man could (with such a deep voice) for the ladies!
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Loved the book, the taming of Whip Moran was delicious!!! And the way they joined their lives with that of the previous characters was very enriching...I'm only sorry I can't join them for other adventures
I liked the unusual setting & Shannon's character. I found Whip to be a whimp. And if he told her one more time that he did not want to be tied down from his wanderlust I would have screamed. Someone said this was the best of the love series but I do not feel that way.
The story was good it was just horrible the sounds of saliva noises. Hard to listen
The author appears to have a really warped view of life. Don't waste your money on this one.
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text: Stacie Dorego Johnston Man Sentenced to Life in Prison By Flo Jonic • May 16, 2013 A former Johnston man has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his common-law wife. Donald Greenslit was also sentenced to the maximum allowed by law for several lesser crimes. A jury found Donald Greenslit guilty of murder, following a nine-day trial in March. Prosecutors argued that on January 22, 2012 Greenslit murdered Stacie Dorego, his common-law wife. He tried to hide the crime by dismembering the her body and burning it in a fireplace in the basement. The victim's two children were present at the time of the murder.


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I am glad that there are such rigorous QC controls in place at Apple to protect Customers from issues like this. I am also glad to see that the issue was corrected so quickly, with Apple being upfront with customers about the issue, and working with carriers to correct it.
It's examples like this that make it easy to clearly identify why using Apple products is such a good idea, for all involved.
Exactly, and the perverted criminal competition has changed the landscape all around to make Apple Maps look bad.
Don't worry, it's all part of Apple Innovation. You must be using the phone wrong or something. You'll be able to buy a patch soon.
... and by "patch," we of course mean the iPhone 6.
Don't worry, it's all part of Apple Innovation. You must be using the phone wrong or something. You'll be able to buy a patch soon.
No, it is exactly the way AT&T and Verizon want it.
Why should the carrier care, the fault lies here with Apple, so a discussion with your local collection of badly geniuses is what you need.
So if Hyundai lies about it's cars fuel efficiency, you go and discuss this at your gas station, right?
So if Hyundai lies about it's cars fuel efficiency, you go and discuss this at your gas station, right?
Strike that. Reverse it.
The carrier sells the product.
While it is an Apple bug. the Carrier wasn't diligent enough to check for that flaw, and they are selling a device that could rack up minutes without the user knowing. For the most part if Verizon doesn't charge for the excess they are the good guy. If they charged than they will be less trusted.
what about roaming? roaming in Canada is like $2+ a meg.
That headline is the mean interpretation of all Apple bashers, whereas the Apple fanboys will call it a glitch or a minor mishap.
Somewhere along the infamous, slippery path both may have delivered a relevant piece of an annoying truth.
Normally, aurologist would suggest drinking more Apple juice. Wont work here, thatt'd be kinda cannibalistic.
Probably this is a different issue with the reported issue, but I have noticed that iOS is bypassing the wifi network and flip to cellular data network every so often (and flips back again). This happens probably a handful of times in 1 hour. This is easy to check if you have a wifi AP with tcpdump or wireshark running on it. It's especially bad when you're running VoIP app that needs to register properly so that calls can be routed to the proper IP address.
There is a setting I believe (I've only seen the s
There is a setting I believe (I've only seen the screenshots - I didn't install iOS6) that enables iOS to use 3G if it detects the WiFi is bad. Could this be the case - your device has a terrible/slow/laggy WiFi connection and it decides using 3G would at least lead to a more stable internet connection?
I'll check for this setting. However, I don't think the WiFi connection is slow at all. The WiFi goes to a corporate network with 100 Mbps dedicated connection to the Internet both up and down. Something is definitely amiss. Btw, iOS 6.0.1 does not fix this issue.
Ok, I have an extra iPhone just for development which I put on a pre-paid plan that charges 1 euro for every day you use the 3G network. I have used that kind of plan on Maemo/MeeGo and Symbian phones for years and I never had a charge while at home since I have a good WiFi network.
You are starting to see where I am going eh?
So, a couple of weeks after I added such a card on the iPhone, which was a bit more than a year ago (so we are talking about iOS 5), I disable the WiFi to do some testing with 3G. In co
My Samsung Galaxy S (Fascinate) does the same thing. Its a battery-saving behavior, but at least the Android phone had a setting to let the user control whether or not it disabled the WiFi comms when the screen is off for an extended period and the phone wasnt plugged in to the wall.
Go back two years when Android was really taking off and you'll see lots of user complaints about impossible overnight uses of their 3G data eating away their limited usage plan.
iPhone has always done this (so definitely not an iOS 6 or iOS 5-specific thing). It's a battery-saving measure. Actually, don't most smartphones do this? (Apple or not)
Alright, here's a data point that might throw a monkeywrench into this situation...
I have an ipod, still on 5.1.1, that I drive around all day connected to a verizon wifi hotspot thingy with a 3GB data plan. Usually, I download the couple of podcasts I listen to at home before work, but if I forget, I'll go ahead and download it out on the road, they run about 40 MB or so. The only other thing I do is a few emails, a few google searches, and the occasional look at facebook.
In the past, I would sometimes get
First maps, then no YouTube app for the iPad and now this. Things aren't looking good for iOS post-Steve Jobs.
I don't think many people are being affected by this bug - some are, for sure, but it's not hugely wide-spread. I certainly haven't noticed anything odd going on with the data usage of the 3 iOS devices in this household since upgrading to iOS6.
The new maps does suck, that's for sure though. Not so much the app itself (the vector-based mapping engine is pretty awesome actually, much faster and lighter on data usage than the old bitmap maps)
How much bandwidth is wasted by buggy software (and by "buggy" I also mean super-inefficent borderline stupid codig) per year...?
This process can check if this value is zero, and if it is, it does something child-like. -- Forbes Burkowski, CS 454, University of Washington


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I think Tebow should start
Or insane, I don't give a ****....
I'm readying my reaction gif urls
I think Tebow should start
Greg Buttle delivers unbiased opinions about the Jets
i love this time of the year fo realz....
I would like to at least see the offensive line be able to run the ball at least tonight
Also for the record, Bi-gal Powell sucks
Nice punt
This ****ING Cruz play
Nice hit by Landry..
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will sanchez do tebowing? should jets ever get td
lolz - timeout after a timeout.....can we get Schotty back?
schotty got fat
time out??? wlf?
this team would be great if it were the 1950s
wow....Hunter gave up a sack....who'd a thunk....
sack let in by hunter ... deja vu all over again
This Jets team just screams 'below average' in all aspects....
are they letting Cruz run free? did the Jets agree to that before the game started?


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Irish Moss FLAKES, 16oz - Maine Coast Sea Vegetables
The carrageen extracted from Irish moss is used world wide as a colloidal thickening agent in many foods and cosmetics. If you eat ice cream, you have already eaten this Irish moss extract. In Ireland, this short, bushy, red sea plant was traditionally boiled with milk and sugar to release the gelling agent (carrageen), then cooled to form a pudding, sometimes called Blancmange.
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Carbohydrates: 12.29 g (44 calories, 12% by weight)
Proteins: 1.51 g (4 calories, 2% by weight)
Alcohol: ~
Water: 81.34 g (81% by weight)
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A Catholic Clash Over Contraceptives In The Philip
series: Global 3000
air date: 3/27/13 6:30 PM
Singin' It Loud: The Burmese Girl Band That's Breaking With Tradition - After decades of military rule, Burma has witnessed dramatic social change in the last two years, including a relaxing of strict censorship rules. What do these new developments mean for the younger generation? Global 3000 meets the Me N Ma Girls, a popular girl band. These five young women are role models for young girls. Their brand of politically charged pop is challenging conventions and breaking with tradition. Feeling the Beat - Finnish Rapper Signmark - Signmark, alias Marko Vuoriheimo, from Finland is a rapper - and he's deaf. His message to deaf people is that they need to stand up for their rights! He's never seen his deafness as a hindrance in his career and says that he and his band are a well-practiced team. If the rest of the world knew sign language, he says, he wouldn't need an interpreter. So is he disabled or just a linguistic minority? Solar Sister - Solar Power is Empowering Ugandan Women - 95 percent of the population in Uganda has no electric power in their homes and relies on paraffin lamps for lighting. But not only is kerosene expensive, it's also a serious pollutant. Set up in 2010, the project Solar Sister has now provided almost 32,000 Ugandans with solar technology - and trained women as saleswomen. They're earning a living, helping their community and protecting the environment. In the course of ten years, a solar lamp saves over 600 liters of kerosene and that means CO2 savings of 1.5 tons. Solar Sister hopes to have helped save 10 million tons of CO2 over the next ten years. The Philippines - Is Contraception a Sin? - The state of the Philippines is strictly Catholic, and most people believe that it's their duty to have children. But a new bill is designed to reduce the country's high birthrate, with free condoms and improved reproductive health education. But bishops are calling the bill's supporters 'terrorists'. The soaring birthrate is taking its toll on social services and public infrastructure, let alone the job market. But even so, the new bill is deeply divisive.
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I am setting up an old machine to use as a web server internally on my office network. This is for design purposes before uploading sites to a webhost. I am using MDK9.0 and Apache/php and have it running OK.
I can open the web server using 192.168.0.3:80 which opens the file at /var/www/html/index.shtml. I have replaced this file with my own index.html which is fine.
Question : I would like to keep the files for the web sites on /home and would like to know how to reference them. I have tried, temporarily, accessing a content management system at /home/mike/tmp/cinj152/index.php as a link but get a 404 error. What am I doing wrong?
Any advice welcome. TIA
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A romantic comedy will be certain to delight the audience this Friday night (Feb. 22) at the Wieting Theatre in downtown Toledo.
Opera fans and those who just enjoy live entertainment are promised a real treat as OPERA Iowa Educational Touring Troupe takes to the stage for their performance of Gaetano Donizetti's romantic comedy The Elixir of Love.
The event is being sponsored by Toledo PEO Chapter DF as a fund raising event for the historic Wieting renovations.
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The cast and crew of the 2013 OPERA?Iowa production of The Elixir of Love which will be performed live on the wieting Theatre stage this Friday night (Feb. 22.
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Enjoyment of the production is enhanced by "perfect performance acoustics in our newly renovated 1912 opera house," according to Wieting Guild member Mary Fasse-Shaw.
Admission for the 7 p.m. performance is $12 for adults and $8 for students. Tickets are available at The State Bank of Toledo, Lincoln Savings Bank and at the door the night of the opera.
A reception for the cast and audience follows the performance at the next-door Toledo Community Building.
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Opera Iowa is also appearing at the South Tama Elementary School on Friday in a performance of Three Little Pigs. This event is for students only.
ABOUT OPERA Iowa
OPERA Iowa Educational Touring Troupe members are handpicked from nationwide auditions of more than 800 singers to share their love of opera with audiences of all ages. The talented young performers of the 2013 OPERA Iowa troupe are: bass Brad Baron of Glen Rock, N.J;. baritone Greg Jebaily of Florence, S.C.; tenor Robert Lilly of Houston, Texas; soprano Amedee Moore of Dayton, Ohio; and soprano Andrea Shokery of Gahanna, Ohio. The music director is Tzu-Hwa Ho of Taiwan and the technical director is Jessica Rechin of Buffalo, N.Y.
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WHAT:?OPERA?Iowa performance of Elixir of Love
WHEN:?Friday, Feb. 22, 7 p.m.
WHERE: Wieting Theatre, 101 S. Church, Toledo
TICKETS: State Bank of Toledo, Lincoln Savings Bank, at the door on Friday evening- proceeds - Wieting Renovation fund - Sponsored by Toledo PEO?Chapter DF
RECEPTION-Cast and audience following the performance at the Toledo Community Building adjacent
OPERA Iowa Educational Touring Troupe, a program of Des Moines Metro Opera, Inc. began this tour on Jan. 28. OPERA Iowa will visit more than 60 schools and communities, giving 80 or more performances for approximately 20,000 school-aged children starting on January 28 and extending through April 12. The school performances are presented in conjunction with interactive and engaging workshops that meet the National Standards for Arts in Education guidelines. The troupe will also give 11 evening concert performances for community audiences in various locations across the state. These performances are open to the public.
Des Moines Metro Opera, founded in 1973, is an independent, non-profit, professional opera company dedicated to bringing world-class opera productions and vital performing arts education to central Iowa


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Doesn't that theoretically nail you down to somewhere within 252 ish machines? (Assuming IPv4).
The first 3 octets seem like they could be enough to personally identify you based on your DNS Search records.
I was under the impression my ISP was giving me a public IP Address - and thats what I was paying for. I am of course behind my own NAT Table on my Personal Router.
Well if your like my house it is closer to 1 in 765. NATs are wonderful for that. As they can determine IP but not one of the four users across 9 computers with Internet access.
If you read the entire post by google, you'll notice they are suggesting only the first 3 octects of the IP address are transmitted. Now while this could theoretically be used to censor regions of users, it could not be used to expose you (since it isn't the complete IP address)
No, but given that only an additional 255 (or is it 254?) users besides you can be coming from that range, it's not like over time someone can't correlate this to you.
I'm not convinced this doesn't have privacy implications, or that
Web sites already know where you're coming from. They have your IP address. Every single one of them, unless you're using a proxy. The problem is they can't easily redirect you to the server closest to you once you've already resolved their address. The only in the whole system who do not know your IP when you're browsing the web is potentially the authoritative DNS server; the usual case is the same people who run the authoritative DNS server also run the web server, so while they don't get your IP when you do the DNS lookup they will when you eventually land on the site.
The problem is they can't easily redirect you to the server closest to you once you've already resolved their address.
What's wrong with an http redirect? They seem to work just dandy for akamai.
No, but given that only an additional 255 (or is it 254?) users besides you can be coming from that range, it's not like over time someone can't correlate this to you.
Could be 256.
only the first 3 octects of the IP address are transmitted...could not be used to expose you
Combining this with the information from the already quite pervasive tracking google does, I can't imagine that identifying your one-of-256-addresses is anything other than trivial.
The first three octets limit you to a maximum of 256 machines. In practice, most addresses are assigned in
Of course, since this is only to give them enough information so you can access a Google server nearby as opposed to one somewhere else, they'll have your FULL IP ADDRESS about 1/100 of a second later.
Google doesn't need this to track you. In fact, this information is less useful than what they already have. This is about Google (and anyone else who has distributed datacenters) being able to make better decisions about which datacenter to send you to. This saves them bandwidth charges, which adds up to B
even the first 2 octets can be enough to reliably identify with some digging. what do you think 3 is gonna do?
I'm not worried about the "evil" aspect of it. This just doesn't sound like what DNS should be used for.
Thank you! Came in here to say this. Did the submitter even read the article?
And for those interested:
Our proposed DNS protocol extension lets recursive DNS resolvers include part of your IP address in the request sent to authoritative nameservers. Only the first three octets, or top 24 bits, are sent providing enough information to the authoritative nameserver to determine your network location, without affecting your privacy.
To: DNSEXT (DNS Extension Working Group, Internet Engineering Task Force)
From: Paul Vixie
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010
"I don't think that's a general enough solution to be worth standardizing.
please investigate the larger context of client identity, beyond the needs
of CDN's."
I also agree with his later statement in the same thread:
"it may be too dangerous in any form but that's a separate issue."
-- Terry
Now while this could theoretically be used to censor regions of users, it could not be used to expose you (since it isn't the complete IP address)
Sure it could expose me. I have my own Class-Cs - two of 'em. When I'm on one the first three octets point straight to me.
When I'm running from my DSL I have an eight-IP address block (broadcast / broken-broadcast / modem / five-usable) so first three octets point to a group of 32 of which I'm one. For DSL users with one-usable it points to a group of 64 users
doesn't impress the babes anymore
now you have to own your own Class-C before a woman even gives you a second glance
and even then, they'll still flock to those assholes strutting around with those Class-Bs
The proposal says they would only use the first three octets. And users could just use a different DNS server if they had a restrictive servers that blacklisted Iran or whatever.
The summary isn't even close to correct. What the hell is going on with Slashdot these days?
its ok they hate Micro$oft more (yes thats a dollar sign in there
Does accuracy matter? They got you to surf and comment, didn't they?
These days?
The summary isn't even close to correct. What the hell is going on with Slashdot these days?
Hormonal adolescence. To the new youth Google is the old guard. You mark my words, before long we'll be having deep and meaningful conversations about anarchy and the meaning of existance.
What a load of crap. There is no way to exploit that. If a someone wants to block certain IP ranges, it is much more efficient to do so at the HTTP (or whatever the protocol in use is) level, rather than in DNS.
Even if this gets introduced, every DNS server will continue supporting the old (without 'IP forwarding') way of doing things, so it's easy enough to pick a DNS server which doesn't forward your IP. Everything will work just as it does now (you won't have the potential speed advantage you might get with the new system though).
Whoever wrote TFS doesn't know the first thing about how networks work. Looking at what just happened in China, do you think that Google of all companies really wants to endanger your privacy?
The reason why Google offers public DNS servers and why they came up with this is because they want to make the internet faster for everyone. And they're doing it in an open, backwards-compatible way.
This is a good idea and should be implemented.
> The reason why Google offers public DNS servers and why they came up with this is because they want to make the internet faster for everyone.
BAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAA...Yes, Google only wants rainbows and ponies for ALL the good children!
My good AC, I actually think you aren't a Google astroturf, but how naive can this be? Google is a public corporation whose fiduciary duty is to make money for their shareholders, not make the intertubes flow more smoothly, unless that causes Google to make more money.
This is extraordinarily important for efficient operation of the internet. If people want to block you, they can, DNS or no DNS. However, for global load balancing, this is vital. You want to connect to a server near you, not near your DNS server.
This will not stop the proper function of proxies.
Internet already work withouth the need to propagate this information. Following the OS concept of "Less power", the less information about you that is propagated, the less problems.
"By returning different addresses to requests coming from different places, DNS can be used to load balance traffic and send users to a nearby server. For example, if you look up www.google.com from a computer in New York, it may resolve to an IP address pointing to a server in New York City. If you look up www.google.com from the Netherlands, the result could be an IP address pointing to a server in the Netherlands. Sending you to a nearby server improves speed, latency, and network utilization."
It seems this balancing is already possible withouth the need to propagate that data. I choose here safety/privacy, over a potential speed gain. Also the risk is for everyone, but the gain is just for a few ones (the people that has lots of servers and need a balancing solution)... hence, is unfair. My view of this.
It seems IPv6 will be in use soon; so why tinker with DNS requests on IPv4 ?
Also, does anybody know how GEO locating an IP will be done on IPv6 (at least down to country level) ?
this is what anycast routing was invented for. the root servers use it, why not secondaries?
There are already many uses where the IP address of the resolver is used to determine service, basically every CDN etc uses this technique.
This extension is needed if you want OpenDNS and the like to Not Suck when fetching Akamai sourced content, youtube videos, etc.
And its not like the owner of the DNS authority won't find out who you are anyway, after all, you then CONTACT THEM DIRECTLY WITH YOUR IP ADDRESS!!
That's the part that I don't get about what people are moaning about. You're obviously connecting to the host server at the end, it's inherent in the DNS request (unless you're doing a whois or something, but that's not the same is it?).
I think most people are getting jacked up about "could be used for tracking purposes".
++ Mod parent up. I wish I had mod point.
That work around has the nasty side effect of increasing your DNS load by an exponential factor, which isn't good either.
Imagine you're hosting web servers. If you can handle N HTTP queries, you can also handle N DNS requests, unless your DNS servers are completely useless. Even with TTL 0, you'll only get at most the same number of DNS requests as you're getting HTTP queries.
I can't se how this does give any more information to Google or other users.
Example: If i do a lookup on www.slashdot.org then this query should newer hit any dns server controlled by Google.
The only way a query would end up on a google controlled dns server, would be if the domain i looked up were owned by google, and in that case I don't care, because then I am about to visit the site anyway which mean they will have my entire ip.
look, you can already use whatever DNS server you want. if you're worried about your traffic being analyzed by someone else's DNS, just use your own (or a privacy-respecting) DNS elsewhere.
DNS is just the obvious way to ensure that clients use the best path to content.
DNS is just the obvious way to ensure that clients use the best path to content.
Isn't the obvious way a combination of anycast + bgp? It works quite well, and is administred by knowledgable network specialists who also happen to know the exact topology of their backbones. Putting it in DNS instead opens the door to endless misuse by domain owners who believe in geo-specific discrimination. CDNs should work transparently, but allowing end users (a.k.a. domain owners in this particular case) to tinker that
You can't reliably anycast TCP. The session might switch servers in the middle.
...don't fix it.
So youre a fan of sitting on internet explorer 7 for the next 10 years? Or firefox 2.0?
No, those both have plenty of vulnerabilities. They're broken.
The DNS protocol is not broken. In fact, besides the tricks and hacks corporate Earth have tried with it (404 redirection as an example), it's worked pretty damn well for me for the past 20 years.
I like it. I don't know what the aggregate increase in efficiency across the net would be, but I'm betting if Google is suggesting it, it could be significant. While there are some potential abuses, they're really no different than what can already be done at the router/server level currently.
The use of the word 'marginal' needs to be disambiguated too. It means 'not of central importance.'
The reason the internet is so successful is that it has a core that doesn't try to think too much. Get packet, forward packet, etc..
If load balancing is a concern, the client node should determine where the best place to get content from is at, NOT some hack which makes DNS less reliable, and noisier.
Use digital fountains and give out multiple sources to get streams from, and let the end user's computer figure it out. They are the ones in the best place to determine which is a more reliable stream of packet
So how do I redirect the user to the server that is closest to them without knowing their ip?
So how do I redirect the user to the server that is closest to them without knowing their ip?
Firstly, geographical proximity has nothing to do with quality of connectivity. (Some helpful fellow slashdotter pointed that to me, a few days back). So, redirecting user to nearest server doesn't help much. In fact, it could even slow down connectivity because of the computation involved in calculating proximities.
Secondly, the existing system works just fine for location-based DNS redirection.
The way things currently work, really makes sense for most people. Your ISP is a single hop away and you want the authorities to talk to it (not you) so that it can cache the result. And it's ok to have that extra traffic between the recursive resolver and you, because it's not a long ride.
But what Google is asking for also makes sense -- if you're using a far-away recursive resolver.
And the very premise of that is stupid. Why the fuck would anyone want to use Google for DNS, instead of something closer
Because their ISP plays stupid games with DNS and setting the DNS numbers on the computer is a tad easier than setting up and running a DNS server.
Or it would send a user from Iran or Libya to a 'domain name doesn't exist' server.
And who would be the victims? The same people whom Google is claiming to be fighting for.
So even if your resolver DNS already has the answer cached, it's supposed to transmit the request again so the authoritative server can see the requesting client's IP network, and possibly return a different answer. Is it supposed to cache that, or not? Is a resolver supposed to use this extension for all queries, or only load-balanced ones? The draft includes no mechanism for specifying whether a particular query should or should not use the extension. I assume then that a resolver patched with this ex
This all sounds totally crazy if you're Paul Vixie and have written a little article titled What DNS Is Not [acm.org] which specifically mentions that it shouldn't be used for this.
How quickly we forget [slashdot.org].
This will completely destroy IP rotation aka load balancing. I hope they aren't allowed to do it.
Sounds like a terrible idea to me.
If a caching DNS server that serves multiple users in multiple countries, then suddenly, it's not caching anymore.
If there are multiple possible IP addresses that I can be directed to, why not just send all of them to me, and let me (my DNS server) decide which one is best?
What if have more than one IP? Which one should I use?
How often is it, really, that the route to the DNS server isn't the best route anyway? I.e. is the tiny benefit of a slightly better route for a han
The company I work for has a Class A IP network and is not based on the US.
I'm physically located in Atlanta, but all of the existing geolocation services which I am aware of that use my exposed IP address seem to want to place me in the center of Europe somewhere.
Will this be smart enough to do better?
We've been running into this wall for a while, and let me tell you, the workaround is the most disgusting mess imaginable. Trying to manage views/geolocation when everything is hidden behind a caching server is horrible. There is no car analogy.
Sure, this might give google more information about you, but frankly, they already have it if you're querying their servers (directly). Where this benefits them, and other content players, is when they aren't the default DNS server. This allows them to know that
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I'll go first.
I need go to pick up my chinese food now.
So I'll write a thousand words.... Nah, I say fuck it like our defense did tonight.
Go Blue.
This pretty much sums it up. You win in my opinion.
You did that twice
Rick's? Who's going to Rick's?
College aged ladies with loose morals who are too inebriated to function and frat guys/older creepers with small genitalia and shirts that are two sizes too small. And of course a sprinking of a few other people just there to laugh at the ensuing shitshow as well as some who just didn't know any better.
I think I'll watch some Fresh Prince tonight.
Can't watch ESPN for at least 3 days. (not necessarily a bad thing)
Sometimes you need a beatdown to get woken up.
LSA2000 will like this one
To the fans knocking the team:
It's "pedophile".
Chi mo
This guy wins. Shut it down everyone. Good season. The Internet is yours. So with it what you will.
On a side note: Fuck! Really?
I'm going to refer to postgame drunken mgoblog posts, from now on, as "one hundred elevens".
Well, now that that's over with, lets move on to the games where the opponents will just be mice, I hope...
Yup, that was a dumpster fire last night, and no one knew how to put it out.
I get it, cause it's like we didn't even show up!!
enjoy Bolivia after your stupid posts.
I don't have a picture, but did anyone else see Denard after that Bellomy interception? I laughed even after that beat down.
I don't like you as a poster.
This is the George McGovern of posting nights for me, dude. I'm not too pleased myself.
you also enjoy listening to Sigur Ros after a loss.
Thanks for helping me test my scroll bar. It still works.
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When the Saturday a week before St. Patrick's Day is also the first mild day after weeks of freezing cold, what do you get in a college town like Amherst?
Some call it a party. Some call it a riot. In the sunny mid-afternoon, the Advocate observed that the downtown that's home to the bars whose promotional gimmicks helped create the Barney Blowout was calm, with small groups of young people walking around quietly in green hats or T-shirts, mostly making their way back up North Pleasant Street toward the UMass campus.
But during the late morning, thousands—an estimated 4,000 in all, twice as many as last year—had gathered, first at the Puffton Village and then at the Brandywine apartment complexes north of the campus, according to police reports. Some were roaring drunk, some were passing out. Light poles were knocked down. By 1:30 a crowd had formed in the neighborhood of North Pleasant and Fearing Streets.
When police in riot gear called for the crowds to disperse, some people threw bottles, glass as well as plastic bottles, and full cans of beer. Four policemen were injured, though the injuries were reportedly not serious. Back in town, a drunk man grabbed a car with a woman and her family in it and rocked it, frightening those inside. Another person jumped onto an empty car, causing several thousands of dollars' worth of damage.
The police used pepper spray to disperse the crowds—including, some witnesses said later, people who were trying to leave the scene but didn't leave fast enough for the police. One student said he entered an area he didn't know police had ordered the crowd to vacate and was deliberately sprayed in one eye, behind his sunglasses, after being handcuffed. He has reportedly contacted attorneys about filing a suit against the town.
The following Tuesday, 100 UMass students marched to protest what they called the "overreaction" of police, who, they said, had peppersprayed many who were not exhibiting threatening behavior. Marchers complained about excessive use of force by the police and called for public meetings so students and police could discuss how to avoid angry confrontations in the future.
Earlier, however, another blowout had been in the making: a media frenzy that, in a weekend when pre-St. Patrick's Day boozefests were going on at colleges all over the country, singled out UMass. Around the U.S. and as far away as Britain, the UMass Blarney Blowout eclipsed other news items. Amherst residents got messages from friends in other parts of the country demanding to know what was going on.
"More than 70 arrested at rowdy student celebration in Massachusetts," howled the headline in The Guardian. The number of arrests was later confirmed to be 55; fewer than half the arrestees were UMass students; and only two of the arrests were for assault—most of the rest were for failure to disperse, disorderly conduct and liquor law violations—but the journalistic bottles and cans had already hit their mark.
The university was embarrassed; Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy, who donned the mantle of penance even before it was clear exactly who had done what, intoned that it was "a sad and difficult day for our campus and for the town of Amherst." The town was embarrassed. The reporting that streamed from presses near and far hardly wavered from the assumption that all the perpetrators were from UMass.
If trouble like the trouble caused by this year's Barney Blowout is to be prevented, the event needs to be understood rather than just hyped, and in that regard the media did little to help. By Monday a number came to light that should have quieted down the Zoo-Mass bashing at least a little, but hardly did: some 60 percent of those arrested were actually not enrolled in UMass.
"The majority of the people who were arrested were not UMass students," UMass spokesman Ed Blaguszewski confirmed. "That in no way excuses the behavior of UMass students who were arrested. I think what it does indicate to some degree is that in our world of hypersocial media, word can get out very quickly where people want to gather, and this is not unique to UMass. All sorts of visitors came here—a number of people who were from other colleges, different colleges far beyond the Springfield area."
Police records showed that of the 55 people arrested, only 21 were UMass students; others came from colleges as far away as the University of New Hampshire, the University of Rhode Island, even Georgetown University. Fourteen of those arrested were not students at all.
That many of those arrested, and possibly many among the crowds who partied that day, were outsiders gives rise to one of the tough questions that must be answered if the pre-St. Patrick's Day revels are to be kept under control. It's a question that through the years has arisen in relation to other problems, including drug dealing and other crimes sometimes committed at UMass by non-students: how can people with no business at UMass be kept off a campus that's state property, not private property like the campuses of nearby Amherst, Hampshire and Smith colleges?
Blaguszewski said UMass officials are developing strategies to head off influxes of people from outside the university at times when the excitement level among students is expected to be high.
"One of the things we've learned is, we've always known that a big place like UMass can be an attraction or magnet for people who have nothing to do with the campus," he explained. "With Twitter and Facebook, that process can be accelerated. One of the things that we will study is limiting numbers of guests within our residence hall system for that weekend. What we observed [on Friday night, March 7] that was much larger than the year before was many more cars in our parking lots and more people in our dining services."
In the past, the university has restricted visiting for very short periods such as a day in order to to head off mass misbehavior, Blaguszewski pointed out. "We've done that in the past," he said, "for major sports events."
Students aside, at one level the Blarney Blowout is no more a town-gown problem than a town-town problem. The yeast on which it grows is the desire of local bar owners, who never disguise their interest in making what they can off a local college population some 25,000 strong, to capitalize on the St. Patrick's Day boozing tradition even when the students are away on the holiday itself. The bars can't offer discounts on drinks, which is against state law, but they can offer promotional novelties like green beer, and they foster the mood that has given the Blowout the status of a tradition.
This season, press reports of pre-St. Patrick's Day bashes at other colleges included the information that in State College, Penn., Penn State took money from its parking fee revenues to pay local bars not to open on the days when rampages were expected. In Amherst, local attorney Peter Vickery has requested that the selectboard shut down bars during Blarney Blowout time next year.
Asked if the town has talked to bar owners about how to prevent conviviality from getting out of hand, Amherst town manager John Musante said, "Yes. That won't be a new thing. There's ongoing dialogue with the business community and with the downtown bars. Prior to, during and now after this most recent weekend, we've reached out, and town business owners, the Amherst Business Improvement District and UMass, we're all talking about other approaches we might take."
This year's Blarney Blowout and the publicity that hyped it were especially unfortunate for UMass because there had been indications that the rowdiness factor had diminished this year. Last fall the number of off-campus "incidents" involving students had dropped significantly from the number at the corresponding time—Sept. 1 through Dec. 8—in 2012. Not only did the number of police complaints fall from 431 to 227, but the number of students involved dropped from 431 to 289. And UMass didn't make the Playboy list of the wildest party schools of 2013. Now, however, the Blarney Blowout has won the state university's flagship campus the doubtful accolade of a spot on the list of the 15 wildest pre-St. Patrick's Day fests in the country.
Said Musante, who is a UMass alumnus himself, "The issues go way beyond UMass and the town. It's a phenomenon—the idea that young people can go out and get drunk before St. Patrick's Day."•