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Beverage Industry Delivers on Commitment to Remove Regular Soft Drinks in Schools, Driving 88% Decline in Calories
Mar 08, 2010, 09:52 ET from American Beverage Association
NEW YORK, March 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- America's leading beverage companies have delivered on a three-year commitment with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a joint initiative of the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation, to remove full-calorie soft drinks from schools across the country and replace them with lower-calorie, smaller-portion beverages. As a result of the landmark agreement there has been an 88 percent reduction in calories from beverages shipped to schools since 2004.
The American Beverage Association (ABA) released today the Alliance School Beverage Guidelines Final Progress Report, confirming that the beverage industry's major companies – The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, Dr Pepper Snapple Group and their systems of local bottling companies that work directly with the school partners – have transformed the beverage landscape in schools across America. The report was prepared by the independent firm Keybridge Research, LLC, which has prepared the previous two progress reports.
"A critical component of the Alliance's national effort to end childhood obesity has been our work with the beverage industry to reduce the amount of calories our kids consume in schools," said President Bill Clinton, founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation, who co-leads the Alliance with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and American Heart Association President Clyde Yancy. "We are encouraged by the significant progress we've made and look forward to continuing our work with participating schools, companies and the American Beverage Association to give young people the options and opportunities they need to lead healthier lives."
"It's a brand new day in America's schools when it comes to beverages," ABA President and CEO Susan Neely said. "Our beverage companies have slashed calories in schools as full-calorie soft drinks have been removed. The beverages available to students are now lower-calorie, nutritious, smaller-portion choices."
This Alliance School Beverage Guidelines Progress Report marks the third and final assessment of the impact and status of the implementation of the Guidelines. In May 2006, the Alliance for a Healthier Generation worked with representatives of The Coca-Cola Company, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, PepsiCo and the American Beverage Association to establish Guidelines that limit portion sizes and reduce the number of beverage calories available to children during the school day. As a result of the Guidelines, the industry committed to changing the beverage mix in schools across America by removing full-calorie soft drinks and providing for lower-calorie, nutritious beverage options in age-appropriate portions by the beginning of the 2009-2010 school year.
"Childhood obesity is a complex problem, and there is no one single solution. The core of the problem, however, is that many of our children and youth are consuming too many calories," said Clyde Yancy, M.D., president of the American Heart Association and medical director for Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. "School is a unique environment where students make food and beverage choices with limited supervision and begin to set food preferences that last into adulthood. The Alliance School Beverage Guidelines are a tool for reducing students' access to calories during the school day and changing behaviors that may lead to a lifelong improvement in caloric consumption."
Under the voluntary Guidelines, 100 percent juice, low-fat milk and bottled water are allowed in elementary and middle schools, with the addition of diet beverages and calorie-capped sports drinks, flavored waters and teas in high schools. In addition to the removal of full-calorie soft drinks from all schools, the shift towards more lower-calorie, smaller-portion beverages is also contributing to the overall reduction in calories available from beverages in schools.
The report shows that industry delivered on several important markers:
- Calories available from beverages in schools have been cut dramatically. In fact, 88 percent fewer beverage calories were shipped to schools between 2004, the last comprehensive data available prior to the agreement, and the end of 2009.
- Full-calorie soft drinks have been removed. Shipments of full-calorie soft drinks to schools have declined by 95 percent during that time.
- We have successfully changed the beverage landscape in schools across the country. The Guidelines provide for a range of lower-calorie, nutritious and smaller-portion beverage options. At the beginning of the 2009-10 school year, 98.8 percent of schools and school districts measured were aligned to the Guidelines.
"The beverage industry has made a very significant shift in the beverages being shipped to America's schools," said Dr. Robert Wescott, president, Keybridge Research LLC. "The reduction of calories in schools is real and meaningful. The data truly speaks for itself."
Since announcing the Guidelines in 2006, beverage companies have spent thousands of hours educating and training sales forces, and have invested millions of dollars in retrofitting vending machines, repackaging products and reconfiguring production lines and equipment, among other activities.
"The Guidelines are a shining example of how industry, schools, parents and non-profit organizations can work together towards the common goal of reducing childhood obesity," Neely said.
For a copy of the Alliance School Beverage Guidelines Final Progress Report or for complete details on the Guidelines, please visit www.ameribev.org.
About the American Beverage Association
The American Beverage Association is the trade association representing the broad spectrum of companies that manufacture and distribute non-alcoholic beverages in the United States.
About the Alliance for a Healthier Generation
The American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation joined forces in May of 2005 to create a healthier generation by addressing one of the nation's leading public health threats – childhood obesity. The goal of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation is to reduce the nationwide prevalence of childhood obesity by 2015, and to empower kids nationwide to make healthy lifestyle choices. The Alliance works to positively affect the places that can make a difference to a child's health: homes, schools, restaurants, doctor's offices and communities. For more information please visit: HealthierGeneration.org.
SOURCE American Beverage Association


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Sangamon County is about halfway toward the nearly $40 million needed for a double-decker underpass and overpass at a heavily traveled intersection between Chatham and Springfield.
The project at Iron Bridge and Woodside roads also would bring MACARTHUR BOULEVARD south to the intersection.
�We could get started as early as 2016, if the funding would happen to come through,� Sangamon County highway engineer Tim Zahrn said.
He said a combination of local, state and federal money has been lined up for a project the county believes is much needed given the residential growth between Springfield and Chatham, and the coming of high-speed rail. A Union Pacific rail line runs just west of the intersection.
�We�re about halfway there,� Zahrn said.
What would $40 million buy?
n MacArthur Boulevard extended three-quarters of a mile from Interstate 72 to Woodside Road would open new north-south corridor between Springfield and Chatham.
n Underpass for Union Pacific trains.
n Overpass for vehicle traffic and the Interurban Bike Trail.
n Intersection moved just west of existing intersection.
As anyone caught in commuter backups could testify, the intersection of Iron Bridge and Woodside is among the busiest in the county. Traffic at the intersection averages 10,000 to 11,000 vehicles a day, according to Illinois Department of Transportation figures.
Zahrn said, pending the overpass and underpass construction, not much can be done to ease the congestion because of the railroad and intersection configuration.
Groundbreaking is scheduled for Aug. 21 for the CARPENTER STREET UNDERPASS in Springfield. The date was announced at a local transportation planning committee last week. The $10.2 million underpass between Ninth and 11th streets is the first major piece of railroad consolidation.
The long-term plan is to move Third Street trains to the 10th Street rail corridor, if local officials can come up with the estimated $316 million needed.
Expansion by acquisition continues at BRANDT INC. of Springfield. The agricultural services company just completed its buyout of LEMON AG SERVICES INC. of Waverly. Lemon Ag Services was founded in 2004, according to a joint announcement from the companies.
Lemon Ag becomes part of Brandt�s retail agronomy division, according to the announcement. Founder Mike Lemon remains as plant manager.
Brandt has completed a series of acquisitions of smaller ag services companies in the past year, bringing the company total to 25 retail locations in central Illinois. The corporate headquarters is at 2935 Koke Mill Road in Springfield.
The company, brandt.co, marked its 60th year in 2013.
The SPRINGFIELD AIRPORT AUTHORITY is considering whether to reapply after the Illinois Gaming Board rejected a video gambling license for the airport, executive director Mark Hanna said last week.
The airport, which had contemplated gaming devices in the passenger terminal, was among applications rejected in the spring.
�They said, since we don�t have a bar and provide pour service, we are not eligible,� Hanna wrote in an email. �However, we do maintain a liquor license and sell.�
The �future home� sign is up for CALVARY TEMPLE CHRISTIAN CENTER on the south side of Springfield. The site is west of Second Street, north of Interstate 72 on what was to have been the Legacy Sports Complex.
Plans for the church are going through the city zoning and building process.
ACCENT AUTO has relocated to 1613 North Grand Ave. E. The vehicle detailing shop had been in the former Robert�s Automotive space at 1900 S. Sixth St. The phone number is 523-1303.
Permits are coming in to the city Building and Zoning Department for a major expansion of CONCORDIA VILLAGE at Archer Elevator Road and Iles Avenue. Lutheran Senior Services, the not-for-profit parent company, announced the $22 million project last month.
Permits filed in the past week include 67 independent living units, three multifamily complexes and a wellness center.
Other permits filed, approved or renewed:
n SHOP �N SAVE, 1501 S. Dirksen Parkway, drive-thru pharmacy.
n WICS-TV, 2680 E. Cook St., studio and office remodeling.
n THE ROCKET SHOP, 2648 E. Cook St., convenience store.
n CASEY�S GENERAL STORE, 800 North St., new store.
n TJ MAXX, 2801 S. Veterans Parkway, remodeling.
n FAIRFIELD INN, 3446 Freedom Drive, lobby remodeling.
n STAY BRIDGE SUITES, 4231 Schooner Drive, renovation.
n COOPER�S HAWK WINERY AND RESTAURANT, White Oaks Mall, fixture installation.
n WILLOW & BIRCH, 3061 Hamlin Parkway, salon remodeling.
Contact Tim Landis: 788-1536, firstname.lastname@example.com, twitter.com/timlandisSJR.
Listen to his WUIS/SJ-R business report Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning on WUIS 91.9 FM, 89.3 FM and WUIS.org, or online at www.sj-r.com.

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10 August 2009
Babes in Toyland...
My Monopoly bag:
A puzzle of mine, of the United States of America:
These flamingo glasses give you the strangest vision:
11 comments:
- Erika said...
I'm kind of obsessed with those LEGO high heels. There's an element of Rainbow Brite mixed in with all these LEGO fashions. What fun! :)
- August 10, 2009 at 8:54 AM
- She's Dressing Up said...
Looove the flamingo glasses!!
- August 10, 2009 at 10:03 AM
- Lottie said...
Lego's cute, i saw these lego earrings once and i was gonna get them, but i had no money!
the eye runway model is weird though!
- August 10, 2009 at 11:18 AM
- Couture Carrie said...
Very cool post! Love Legos on the runway!
- August 10, 2009 at 11:47 AM
- Eliza said...
i love those legos, it's such a great idea :D oh, and the flamingo glasses are so funny! <3
- August 10, 2009 at 1:43 PM
- Sher said...
Those flamingo glasses look like fun!
I've liked those scrabble pieces as jewelry that I've seen on Etsy.
- August 10, 2009 at 8:41 PM
- Amelia said...
I'd like some lego jewelry. Especially of the super-oversized sort!
- August 11, 2009 at 2:02 AM
- Cathy Voyage said...
I like the lego in the hair!
- August 11, 2009 at 2:33 AM
- nurmisur said...
I don't miss toys but I miss the stationary with Sarah Kay drawings.
- August 11, 2009 at 6:03 AM
- E said...
Love those JCDC looks. He is the king of fun in fashion. There needs to be more designers like him.
- August 11, 2009 at 6:40 AM
- Hey Harriet said...
What a fun post. And I LOVE those glasses!
- August 12, 2009 at 2:13 AM


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DOTHAN, AL - The Dothan Police Department needs your help in locating Dantrail Lee Mills who is wanted in connection with the shooting that occurred at the "7 Sisters" bar on Sunday April 14, 2013.
Police are asking anyone with information on Mill's whereabouts to call the Dothan Police Department or CrimeStoppers at 334-793-7000.
• Dantrail Lee Mills, black male, 28 years of age. Mills stands at 6 feet 1 inches and weighs approximately 160 pounds.


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MONTREAL — Visitors to La Ronde are not allowed to bring their own food into the site, except for certain medical reasons, the amusement park announced July 22 in a reversal of an apparent leniency shown toward those with religious requirements.
The statement was released less than a week after a Journal de Montréal reporter went undercover as a traditionally dressed Muslim woman and wrote that she was allowed to bring in a lunch she pretended was halal with no difficulty.
The reporter approached the entrance gate wearing the religious headscarf and carrying a food container. A security guard, noticing her hijab, placed a sticker on the container reading "approbation médicale" ("medical approval") and let her in.
The reporter wrote that "there seem to be exceptions for religious groups who are allowed to pass through the turnstiles with kosher or halal meat," even though the food she brought in – a smoked meat sandwich – was neither kosher nor halal, and was not even glanced at by the security guard.
The headline read, "Lunches banned at La Ronde, except for Jews and Muslims."
CJAD radio later cited an unnamed La Ronde security guard as saying that observant Muslims and Jews were being allowed to bring in their own food, since the park has no kosher or halal concessions, but this quote didn't appear in the Journal story.
"After taking into consideration the comments from our clients, La Ronde would like to clarify that only visitors with special dietary needs associated with a medical condition may be given permission to bring food into the park," communications manager Catherine Tremblay said in a statement.
All other visitors must eat food sold at on-site concessions or leave their own food in their car or in expensive lockers near the entrance of the park, which opened as the midway for Expo 67 and is now owned and operated by the U.S. company Six Flags.
They may leave the site to eat in the picnics areas of the surrounding Parc Jean Drapeau and return without having to repay.
Rabbi Reuben Poupko of Congregation Beth Israel-Beth Aaron said that whether or not people with religious dietary needs are accommodated is a secondary issue.
He said he's deeply troubled that certain Quebec media regularly look for instances of supposed privileges granted to religious minorities, and that the province's political class remains silent as these provocations, as he sees them, continue year after year.
Rabbi Poupko said he hasn't heard any complaint in the Jewish community about La Ronde's food policy and that the "no outside food rule" is the norm at most entertainment and sports venues.
He points out that kosher concessions are available at some parks and increasingly at stadiums and arenas across North America, including at a Six Flags park in New Jersey, but he recognizes that it's question of economics.
"The fundamental issue is this: American journalism has a history of trying to replicate the experience of minorities to expose racism. In Quebec, these investigations are undertaken to expose the alleged privileges of minorities. It's a bizarre phenomenon.
"The sole purpose is to cater to the xenophobia of the nativists and exacerbate social tensions."
Worse, is that "not a single Quebec politician stands up to this mischievous attempt to whip up tensions," Rabbi Poupko said.
"This tells you that the political class believes that they only way to gain votes is by joining the forces of division."
The next print edition of The CJN is Aug. 1.


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This year's snooker World Championship, currently taking place at The Crucible in Sheffield looks like being one of the most open tournaments in years.
Four-time champion, John Higgins has fallen in the first round, losing 10-6 to qualifier Mark Davis. Hotly fancied number three seed and 2010 Champion, Aussie Neil Robertson has also been shocked in the first round, beaten 10-8 by another qualifier, Robert Milkins.
With current champ Ronnie O'Sullivan having spent most of the season away from the game, after deciding not to compete on the circuit, many fans feel it will be too much for him to come straight back and win the tournament after such a long break.
O'Sullivan has made it through the first round but the bigger tests lie ahead.
Judd Trump, another of the fans favourites, has also made it through the first round and will surely be champion one day.
Shaun Murphy, the number five seed, is another attacking player who promised much after winning the title in 2005 but has not been able to win it again since.
Dechawat Poomjaeng, the Thai qualifier, won many fans with his first round victory over the number six seed, Stephen Maguire. Poomjaeng went the wrong way twice on his entrance into the arena, then spilled his water on the floor, leading to many people to compare him to Manuel from Fawlty Towers. But on the table Poomjaeng excelled and despite only being number 70 in the world shocked Maguire to win 10-9.
China's Ding Junhui has gone largely unnoticed in the build up to this year's tournament. He has been tipped in the past many times to take the title but always disappointed, so perhaps with less pressure this could be his year.
Mark Selby, the jester from Leicester, and number two seed is another of the favourites who has never really lived up to his promise when at the Crucible.
Long gone are the days when one man, such as Steve Davis or Stephen Hendry, dominated the game and won successive world titles, which is probably a good thing for the game.
This year any one of Selby, Trump, O'Sullivan, Ding or Murphy could win the title, but with the shocks so far there could also be a complete outsider come through and surprise us all.
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What I was thinking about using instead is two mini-ITX PC's in a 42" Leviton can. Each PC would feed into the 1x4 HDMI extender below. I haven't decided on a brand of TV yet, so feel free to comment on that too. What I'd like to get are TV's with a published text based IP protocol to where one could use a socket connection and control the TV or receive status changes from the TV when any of it's buttons are locally pressed.
I saw that new HDMI extenders and splitters are out that use HDBase-T signals. Could HDMI splitters and extenders finally be reliable? I've never used an HDMI splitter, but can a splitter distribute protected content over some number of displays? If so, what happens to the other displays when one display is turned off?
Here's the 1x4 extender and splitter combo I was looking at over at Monoprice:
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"She was in my office one day, and I made a gesture saying -- and I was standing close to her -- and I made a gesture saying you are the same height as my wife. And I brought my hand up to my chin saying, 'My wife comes up to my chin.'" At that point, Cain gestured with his flattened palm near his chin. "And that was put in there [the complaint] as something that made her uncomfortable," Cain said, "something that was in the sexual harassment charge."Supposedly, the woman and her lawyer asked for a "huge" settlement, but she got very little, just enough to induce her to terminate the lawsuit.
Rush Limbaugh's reaction today:
Now, we don't have any evidence of ice packs on a busted lip as we had with Juanita Broaddrick and Bill Clinton. Yeah, Bill Clinton and Juanita Broaddrick, "Hey babe, you better put some ice on that, you're bleeding at the lip." We don't have any of that. This story appears to me to be a close relative of the hit job that the Washington Post is doing on Marco Rubio. It's not a news story. This is gutter partisan politics, and it's the politics of minority conservative personal destruction, is what you've got here. Rubio and Cain unfit to lead, don't you see. We cannot have a black Republican running for the office of president. We can't have one elected. We can't have an Hispanic.
The left owns those two groups, and those two groups are gonna forever be minorities. Those groups cannot ever be seen to be self-sufficient or rising above, on their own. Those two groups are owned -- lock, stock, and barrel -- by the Democrat Party and anything good that happens to any black or Hispanic in American politics can only happen via the Democrat Party....
This is how the mainstream media keeps the Republican Party in check: They're scared to death of this kind of thing happening to them. Pure and simple. It's also why (I'm just predicting) you're not going to see too many people in the official Republican establishment rise up to Herman Cain's defense. You know, if this exact circumstance (as I just mentioned) had happened in a conservative publication, not only would the Democrats and the media be going after the women -- as James Carville did and others during the Clinton years -- they'd be going after the reporters. They'd be going after the publication. Anybody who had anything to do with the story, it would be search-and-destroy. Our side will not do that.


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So my 3.12 CNE is no good any more? Dang!
well it probably runs just fine.
I know I have a complete install of 3.12 and manuals around work some where. the hard part is getting it to work with windows XP.
A CNE is a certification for Novell (Certified Novell Engineer.)
and you have know idea how many I knew that couldn't do squat.
I did a lot of work with Novell back in the 3.x days and it was a workhorse. When Microsoft first decided to try and penetrate the server market NT was a joke. I won't say that current MS server products are not good, in some cases they are. In my opinion, what really killed Novell and boosted Microsoft was that anyone and their brother could write server side code for Windows (not that it means it was good code, just much easier to do.) You had to be pretty good to write server side Novell code. So bu
Attachmate have stated that there will be no change in the relationship between SUSE and OpenSUSE
Indeed, given that Suse was reportedly one of Novell's main profit centers, it seems unlikely that it or OpenSuse is in any danger of disappearing. In fact, it looks like Suse may be becoming a separate subsidiary of Attachmate, independent of the former Novell
I wish. 7.2 was the last version I really liked.
System halted Wednesday, April 27, 2011 4:30:00 pm EDT
Abend: Page Fault Processor Exception (Error code 00000002)
OS version: Novell NetWare 4.10 November 8, 1994
Running Process: SCRSAVER.NLM
Stack: AC 1F 65 01 E7 66 03 F1 50 CA 65 01 03 00 00 00
Press "Y" to copy diagnostic image to disk.
Otherwise press "X" to exit.
pew! pew! pew! pew!
Congratulations! You have just vanquished a dragon with your bare hands! (Unbelievable, isn't it?)
Move over Richard Keil - this is a true memorial abend!
(for those too young: http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/memorial.shtml [f-secure.com])
Reading this, I kinda wondered what ever became of Wordperfect, once a dominant player in the business world (along with Lotus 123), before Microsoft, well, Microsofted them.
Now I remember, Corel [wikipedia.org] bought Wordperfect, and apparently it's still around [corel.com].
Reading this, I kinda wondered what ever became of Wordperfect, once a dominant player in the business world (along with Lotus 123), before Microsoft, well, Microsofted them.
Now I remember, Corel [wikipedia.org] bought Wordperfect, and apparently it's still around [corel.com].
Microsoft really had nothing to do with Wordperfect's death. They were far and away the number one DOS word processor and felt they could ignore that newfangled Windows thing that came along. By the time they realized that Windows wasn't a passing fad, it was too late. And it didn't help that their intial Windows versions were crap.
Novell bought Wordperfect for $800 Million and just a couple of years later sold it to Corel for $200 Million. Then a few years later Corel (the entire company) was sold for $200 million.
I'm not a lawyer, but I deal with them every day. WordPerfect is still used a lot in the legal profession. Not too long ago, I was reading the transcript from a hearing from 2007 as a part of which the court reporter certified that in addition to the printed transcript, she had also provided the document in WordPerfect 5.1 (yes, for DOS) format. Yes, really.
Digital Research
Simian GNOME
Burma shave.
Why do I find myself wanting to follow that up with, "we didn't start the fire..."?
Just another example of innovate or die. They had a HUGE place in business servers years ago, and then they just sat down on their laurels, and never stood back up.
Was there even anything worth acquiring in this sale? even the name brings a musty smell to a conversation.
Just another example of innovate or die. They had a HUGE place in business servers years ago, and then they just sat down on their laurels, and never stood back up.
No, their prices were being undercut by Microsoft, which had independent revenue stream in the form of MsOffice and Windows. It is impossible for any company to fight this in their own turf. Microsoft will simply wait for you to run out of cash and then sweep in and peck on the carcass.
No, there network stack was horrid, and they where late to tcp/ip. trying to force IPX to be the de facto standard.
Novell was under cutting MS, not the other way around. They moved very expensive net cards at cost, and if pressed they would give you netware.
Novell could not handle large business and large business number of users. In a desperate attempt to deal with this they bought Unix. Instead of improving their design.
By the 90s MS TCP/IP implementation was starting to blow Novell IPX out of the water,a
Ahh but the days of bindery hacking were fun.
One place they had some business was in migrating businesses from Netware to Linux. I once talked to a salesman about their Linux business trying to understand how they were going to make money. His answer was that they would offer user hand-holding support, but no custom development contracts. They were intent on offering free tools to make it attractive to move away from Netware and Novell intended to basically charge for the service doing that. But they seemed to have no plan what so ever about how t
They had a HUGE place in business servers years ago, and then they just sat down on their laurels, and never stood back up.
Their Netware product was arguably better that Microsoft's offerings but the problem was that Microsoft's competing product was good enough for most customers and it was cheaper and bundled. Businesses don't make money by buying network management software. Novell built their Netware business around features that was missing in Microsoft's offerings. When Microsoft provided it, Novell's business model no longer made sense. The only reason they hung around as long as they did is because ripping that sort
Whats "Attachmate"? Dating website? Some sort of trademarked fastener, you know, like tapcon (tm)?
Some robotic device NSFW, I guess!
"What's the difference between a lawyer and a tick?... when you die, a tick falls off!." - Joke of the Day.
>Whats "Attachmate"?
I think it's a friend who's needy... we all have one of those
alternatively, it may be a BDSM position... not sure, not an expert in the field
will meet you all here again when its Nokias turn
Now I feel really old. Again.
You're basically talking about eDirectory vs Active Directory, right? And you are implying that eDirectory was the better product?
Uh no. That was true 15 years ago, but as soon as Active Directory came out it was time to jump ship to MS. Still, to this day Novell has a few hold outs ( and sadly, I've worked at several of them ). The difference between AD and ED is startling. Why any company would put up with ED is beyond me; I'm fairly certain that some of the CIOs involved were getting kick backs from
I had a very long discussion with a Novell devotee about ED vs AD back in 2000 and from I got that ED and AD were functionally equivalent with different methods of implementing core functionality.
All of the disadvantages of AD he cited were the result of on him not really understanding how AD worked.
I was told the same thing, by admins who were in the process of recovering from an abend ( the window servers had no unplanned downtime in recent memory ).
So that throws reliability out the window ( pun not intended ). Next up, capability; Everything today is written for windows, and there are only a few edge cases that edirectory addresses that active directory can't do. So ya, toss that one out too. Bloated? That's a fuzzy term really, that most people fail to understand. Sure, the base install is la
Next up, capability; Everything today is written for windows
That is irrelevant. The server software that is important to run on a server is available on systems o
Ah, a troll. You got me.
Actually, what set you to troll status was the fact that you said windows will randomly crash. Anyone who's spent any time administrating windows knows that windows, by itself, doesn't randomly crash. Hasn't since the 2000 days. It's software and drivers ( note: the same thing that will abend your high and mighty netware servers ) that'll do it. Well, and flaky hardware. All of which are common problems for all OSes.
I've worked several places with SLES, netware and the various versions of windows runni
Under Banyan Vines it was called StreetTalk. Your login was your name @ office @ organization or jsmith@houston@slashdot
It was far superior to NT 4.0's domain system and was licensed for inclusion into Active Directory starting with Windows 2000. In Banyan, all file shares and printers were easily located in the directory the same way. Resource @ server @ organization such as: publicfiles@serverca001@slashdot or xeroxprinter@serverny003, part of the reason Microsoft licensed the technology was to enable placing resources in the directory structure.
The downside to StreetTalk was networks with over 1024 servers. It was never intended to grow that large back in the 80's and early 90's. The largest Banyan Vines network was actually run by the United States Marine Corps with over 5800 servers. The Marines had to break the network up into three sections each containing less than 2000 servers. They created what was called ELMS gateways that linked and allowed some resources to be shared across the three different "zones".
Starting in 1998 the Marines Corps began transitioning away from Banyan Vines to Windows NT 4.0 and the release of Windows 2000 with Active Directory which was updated to address the issues the Marines had with large networks was the final deathblow to Banyan in the US market. Shortly afterwards Banyan announced they were going back to making hardware only and licensing the StreetTalk directory out. Within a couple of years Banyan was gone from the networking world.
Banyan originally started out making ICA (communication cards) for mainframes and other Network OS's. They decided to have a go at making their own NOS to exploit both the hardware and software side of the house. The Banyan servers sat on top of a bastardized unix operati
Why any company would put up with ED is beyond me;
Given that in this day and age there are several prescription treatments for ED along with dozens of bogus "herbal" remedies I can understand your frustration. No one should put up with ED anymore.
Software companies have their own "physical laws" of operation.
1. Innovate
2. Incorporate
3. Reorganize
4. Downsize
5. Distribute the proceeds
It's just completing the cycle.
I couldn't name a company that has escaped this Schwartz child limit. Microsoft isn't so much that type of company as a "holding company" and it has a longer life cycle. If companies were stars, Microsoft would be a red dwarf, Novell a yellow sun, Netscape a blue giant (or maybe a Eta Carinae that went Nova).
If Microsoft lasts as long it cou
If Microsoft lasts as long it could be with us for billions and billions of years (lol).
God I wish there was a +1 Scary moderator option.
What a stupid pile of crap.
Things grow, and eventually die. Geez, what a fucking lighting bolt of wisdom that is.
How do you explain the software companies that dies before step 3?
the required 54 3.5" floppies to install it's product. Also, an era of crappy network stack design.
Anyone remember the sheep? Novell pretty much did them in. I'll bet they're laughing now.
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They say this lipstick provides:
- Weightless sensation.
- Luminous and Fresh colour
- Meltingly soft application.
- Pop of colour
- Flutter on your lips
- New sensation
- Feather light feel
Whenever a lipstick says it has a light feel or pop of colour I worry that it is yet another wishy washy super sheer lip colour that is incredibly throwaway and dull. I do honestly love my Chanel glosses and Shu Uemura lipsticks because they tend to have 'something else' about them that makes them pop on the lips. If I want a plain, glossy lip colour I could buy a 99p lipstick that does the same.
Anyway, here is the lipstick. Sweet Berry has no shimmers:
I think it's a cute touch that the lids are different colours (on the top) depending on what shade you choose – so a pink shade will have a pink lid. Makes it easier to identify I guess!
Swatch – this Sweet Berry is not too plummy, which I hate, it's quite a mauve-rose-nude shade on me at least:
Pigmentation on my hand at least seems decent. It goes on very smooth indeed and has a balm like texture.
Now – is this comparable to Revlon Lip Butters? (Review here). Hmm well…
I like both. Revlon has a thicker texture (it is a butter after all) and quite shimmery depending on the shade. The finish is different – I feel like Revlon leaves a moderately shiny, glossy, slightly gloopy finish.
L'oreal Caresse is much lighter in texture and smooths over the lips where Revlon settles a little into the lines.
Someone also compared this to Shu Uemura Rouge Unlimited – it has that same water shine finish which is gorgeous. Shu's shades have more depth to them and are more interesting BUT it is far more expensive and the packaging always cracks over time. It is also a sloppier texture whereas L'oreal's holds it's shape because it's a harder lipstick.
Anyway here is the lip swatch – it covers lines beautifully, it has a nice amount of pigment, a light texture and smoothness to it – it actually stays on really well, I can feel it on my lips for a good 5 hours or so.
Yes, this is a winner from L'oreal.
Look out for 3 for 2 offers! Boots and Superdrug always have them going on! I will definitely buy more of these when I need a new lipstick (probably never then, hehe!).
You can buy the lipstick from Boots (£7.99) and other L'oreal stockists.
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Niagara Falls Hotel Celebrates the Season With Niagara Winter Festival of Lights
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NIAGARA FALLS, ON -- (Marketwire) -- 12/17/12 -- Niagara Falls is spectacular year-round, but every winter the World Wonder transforms during the Niagara Falls Winter Festival of Lights (WFOL), taking place just minutes from Courtyard Niagara Falls, a newly renovated hotel in Niagara Falls, Canada.
For 30 years the festival has brought holiday magic to the area around this Niagara Falls hotel, and this year the world-renowned festival is bigger and better than ever. More than 3 million sparkling lights cover a route of more than 3 miles, which includes the Skylon Tower, referred to by locals as "Niagara's largest Christmas tree." While past years have seen the tower strung with lights, this year it will be illuminated with 12 special projectors and three image projectors, which will project images on the underside pod of the tower. Don't miss the special light show taking place every night until the end of the WFOL, January 31, 2013.
For more information on the WFOL, visit http://nfcourtyard.com/blog/2012/10/26/happy-30th-birthday-to-the-niagara-winter-festival-of-lights/.
While you don't want to miss what Canoe.ca calls one of the Top 10 winter festivals in Canada, this hotel in Niagara Falls, Ontario is also the ideal location for your New Year's plans, putting you just a short walk or cab ride away from the biggest events. Queen Victoria Park will host Grammy Award-winning artist Nelly Furtado, who will ring in the New Year with an outdoor concert. Joining her will be the JUNO Award-winning rock group Hedley and the electro-pop trio Dragonette. Furtado will take the stage with a backdrop of the magnificent falls, and through the night fireworks will light up the sky in an unforgettable display. Food and beverages will be available at the event, as well as a licensed area for adults.
If you're looking for another New Year's option close to this hotel near Niagara Falls, electronic music superstar Deadmau5 will hold court at Scotiabank Convention Centre. Doors open at 9pm, but Deadmau5 will go on at midnight and play into the early hours of the morning, making this a great afterparty for those who aren't ready to call it a night after the Queen Victoria Park concert.
For more information about New Year's Eve in Niagara Falls, visit http://nfcourtyard.com/blog/2012/12/07/ring-in-2013-at-the-niagara-falls-new-years-eve-party-of-the-year/.
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I am also looking for Weapons Pak II (Great Wars), No problem if they are in loose condition (I want them to be shipped in loose anyway) !
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I'm writing you this letter to let you know that the time has come for us to part. Yes, we were together for those years, and I did give you everything that I had to give, but the day has come that I must be moving on to another. I see no other way for our relationship to go. I hope that some day you'll be able to get through the bitterness.
Formerly yours, Bill Belichick.


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HTCSense.com has made a comeback, starts by letting you customize your future HTC One X+
When HTCSense.com first came out. it was more of a gimmick than a feature. It allowed HTC customers to download ringtones, wallpapers, HTC Skins, and other assorted knick knacks. The few useful features it had included syncing contacts and a tracking feature that would find your lost or stolen phone. While it was kind of nice, it didn't allow for much more than that. HTC may have noticed, as they took down the service earlier this year. They promised they'd make it better and then bring it back.
Well, it didn't take them long because HTCSense.com is back. With the impending release of the HTC One X+, who's specs were recently leaked on Twitter, HTC has also announced the return of HTCSense.com. With the return comes some old favorites and some new features.
HTCSense.com underwent quite the overhaul. In addition to the stuff you could do before, HTC has added a number of new features. One such feature is you can now save your email accounts on your HTCSense.com account along with your Dropbox account. However, the biggest new feature is that you can actually set up your phone without actually having your phone.
The new HTCSense.com allows you to set up applications, emails, home screens, wallpapers, ringtones, etc all from the website. Then, when you sign into your HTCSense.com account on your phone, all that information transfers over. The apps are downloaded, the wallpapers are set, etc. This is a really unique feature that no one has really done before.
What HTC phones will get to use the new HTCSense.com?
Unfortunately, no current HTC phones are scheduled to get support for the new HTCSense.com. For all intents and purposes, the new HTCSense.com is being slated as a HTC One X+ only feature. This will probably disappoint a number of current HTC fans. No doubt that developers and hackers will at least attempt a way to work around that.
Despite its exclusivity, the new HTCSense.com is actually a pretty nifty little achievement. If you're a future One X+ owner, you can go set up your future phone right now. Then simply sign into your HTCSense.com account when you get it and watch your phone configure itself. To give it a shot, check out the new HTCSense.com website.
Is the new HTCSense.com a good selling point for the HTC One X+ or is it going to alienate current HTC customers for not supporting their devices? Let us know your thoughts.
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I can only agree but not ease your mind. K-Meleon is the browser I like best - perhaps since Netscape. I have just tested Midori, it is less annoying than IE and the others but still not good enough. As long as it is safe to use K-Meleon I'll stick to it. But is it safe?
take it easy!
KM is not heavily developed as many others, but it still very usable in versions KM 1.6 and 1.7 (they have some small limitations - each theirselves own, but being used together - in parallel - they can handle 99,9% of www).
So it seems that today's KM will remain actual at least for next year and we can expect that developers will make new version during this period.
Don't panic and don't fear to use new KM remixes!
Not familiar with these sites or the files? Also, trying to go to these two sites hung up K-Meleon 1.6beta 2 until I used Ctrl Alt Del to kill the process. Opening in other browsers gave me languages that they did not interpret.
P.S. Firefox 8, Opera and Iron failed to load this site, however Firefox 3.6.24 was able.
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 11/23/2011 04:50AM by ndebord.
I'm not sure I understand you post properly.
Visiting this links hangs your KM 1.6b2? Right?
And other browsers seem to have problems there?
What can I say...
I haven't any problem with current links even with 1.5.x
I particularly wonder about Opera cause this is Opera hosted file sharing project "Opera Unite".
O! Seems like I understood!
These are direct links to 7z-archive files (packed KM portable installations) and they open in browser as text instead of open/save dialog appearance.
Just point your browsers to upper dir
and look into folders "K-Meleon_1.6" and "K-Meleon_1.7"
There will be short lists of downloadable files - pointing on K-Meleon-1.6.1db+.7z or K-Meleon-1.7.8db+.7z respectively will show link to download (to the right of the filename) - click it and get it!
It's worth noting that these remixes still need slight workaround for proper work but it's very easy.
I'll open new thread devoted to dugbug's KMs as I found them most usable now for myself and think - for average KM user too.
Gotcha... perhaps you could edit your earlier posts so others also go up one level on the site, making it a 2 click download.
Who is dugbug? May I ask, as I am not familiar with that handle?


text: I have only been hunting using Archery tackle for 2 years and i can say without a doubt without my local pro shop i would be completely lost. I just wanted to start this thread so we can give some credit to the fine people who work on our bows. My local pro shop is Bullseye Archery in Laramie WY. Charlie is one of the most knowledgeable hunters i have come across. Tops in my book.


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The first day of school is right around the corner. Are you ready? M caught up with the fashionable Peyton List from Disney Channel's Jessie. She has her own fashion-focused Instagram account and also showcases her creative designs from Nintendo's new game Animal Crossing: New Leaf on Pinterest, so she's quite the stylish gal!
With Animal Crossing: New Leaf, users can act as the mayor of their town and design their own pieces of clothing and accessories and then share them on their Pinterest page!
"It's so much fun because they have a boutique and you can design your own clothes, which I've been doing a lot of," Peyton tell us. "I started designing things I would wear in my personal life or in real life. Actually, recently, I designed a black and white striped dress, which I love. My character wears it everywhere in the game."
Speaking of Peyton's personal style, we talked back-to-school fashion with the Jessie star, too. Peyton had some great advice about getting ready for the first day of school.
Tip #1: Try on everything in your closet ahead of time so you're not rushed on the big day. "When you go back to school, you want to stand out and look super cute!" Peyton tells M. "I always plan my outfit a long time before."
Tip #2: Get to bed early so you can wake up early to style your hair and makeup to perfection. "Go with what you feel like and look your best. Get up really early and do your hair and makeup," Peyton advises. "Take a long time [to get ready] and look your best on the first day of school!"
Tip #3: Peyton's golden "first day of school" rule? Go all out! "Take your own personal style and make it a teeny bit better for the first day," Peyton says.
Want to see more of Peyton's best outfits? Check out Twist's gallery of her best red carpet looks!


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Marvel Universe
Real Name
Silvio "Silvermane" Manfredi
Supreme Hydra
First Appearance
Amazing Spider-Man #73 (1969)
(Human) Gray, (Cyborg) None
Silvermane's organization was once allied with Hydra where he was the criminal mastermind behind the temporary fall of the Kingpin, but his criminal activities mainly deal in international drug manufacturing and trafficking operation. At one time, Silvermane had a chemist trying to manufacture a synthetic form of heroin. The chemist took in runaways and experimented with the drug on them, but almost all of them died. Two of the teenagers did survive, but the drugs had altered them into the super humans known as Cloak and Dagger. Once these two vigilantes found out that it was Silvermane's organization behind their transformation, they set out for revenge. Spider-Man tried to protect Manfredi, but Dagger used her light daggers to give Silvermane a heart attack. Silvermane was saved from death when his brain was placed in a robotic body making him more than human. The mob boss turned cyborg hunted down his would-be killers leaving Spider-Man to try and save Cloak and Dagger's lives. The fight led to the subway and Silvermane got past Spider-Man and almost took revenge on Cloak, but Dagger used her light knives to seemingly kill Silvermane again.Answer, that Silvermane went in search of Dagger because she had absorbed some of his life force during their last meeting, and now he wanted it back.
The Kingpin had the Rose set up a phony drug deal to attract the attention of Cloak and Dagger in order to lure Silvermane back into the Kingpin's clutches, but it also brought Spider-Man and the Black Cat to the scene. During a struggle over Dagger, the Answer came up with the theory that Dagger's light may be able to cure the ailing Vanessa Fisk, and he swooped down to procure her for his employer. Cloak teleported after them, but not before Silvermane could jump inside Cloak's dark force cape. Dagger was taken to the Kingpin's penthouse, but her energy was too depleted to help his wife. It seemed there wouldn't be enough time for her to regenerate her powers as Silvermane attacked determined to get his light back. Cloak soon arrived, but in his weakened stare was no match for the Answer. The Kingpin was defeated by Silvermane and Spider-man couldn't stop him either. It was the Answer that saved the day when he sacrificed himself in order to restore Dagger's light so that she may return what Manfredi is longing for. Dagger did give Silvermane his light allowing his intelligence to resurface, and then she healed her partner, Cloak. Silvermane, confused, left the penthouse, and the Kingpin blamed Spider-man and the Black Cat when Cloak and Dagger refused to help his wife.
During a gang war, Jack-O-Lantern attempted to assassinate Silvermane, but only destroyed his bionic body. Silvermane's head continued to survive and was secured in an abandoned Hydra base until a new body could be fashioned. Silvermane used an android commando squad to defeat Spider-Man and bring him to his underground headquarters. There he planned to drain Spider-Man of his blood in order to become stronger than ever before, and in doing so he would use his powers to place himself as an Underworld leader. Spider-Man managed to free himself, but was too injured to do any serious harm to his captor. The Black Cat arrived to provide a timely rescue, and Silvermane's headquarters was severely damaged during the resulting brawl. Silvermane tried to salvage footage of Spider-Man's secret identity, but was destroyed along with the tape when his lab exploded. It was soon revealed that the obliterated Silvermane was merely an android and the true Silvermane was alive and well.Silvermane showed himself in public when a meeting of powerful crime organizations was held in Las Vegas. He was about to teach some of the members of the Hand a lesson when Daredevil subdued him by slamming a slot machine into him rendering his robotic body useless. That didn't stop the criminal mastermind as he returned with another genius plan to take his place as head of the Maggia. Limbless and immobile, Silvermane used what was left of his body to take control over much of New York City's computers in order to cause chaos as he saw fit. In addition he hired Hydro-Man, Speed Demon, the Beetle, and Boomerang to hunt down and capture Deathlok. He even had upgraded the old Scorpion outfit to create a new villain called Scorpia to aid them in this task. Silvermane wanted Deathlok's artificial body to use as his own which would make him one of the deadliest individuals in the world. The disorder Silvermane triggered brought Spider-Man, the Punisher and Daredevil into the conflict, and the three heroes opposed his sinister plans while Deathlok surrendered himself in order to stop the mayhem.
Joseph Manfredi, son of Silvermane, was affiliated with a group called Heavy Mettle and was having problems with the newly reformed New Warriors. Silvermane told his son that the other families didn't think Joe could handle the super teens, but Joe told his father not to worry. Silvermane told his son that if he was embarrassed again, he would take Joe out himself. Eventually, Maggia business took Silvermane to a riverfront warehouse to a secret meeting with other Maggia leaders across the country. The meeting was called by the Grim Reaper in order to unite the families, but before business could be concluded the Avengers arrived and captured at least three of the top members. It is unknown if Silvermane was among those captured. Even if he was, it may have been an android duplicate considering he was present in human form instead of his cyborg body.It has yet to be revealed when and where Silvermane will strike next.
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By virtue of him being the first Bruins goaltender off the ice today after the morning skate, Tuukka Rask seems scheduled to get the start against Buffalo tonight at TD Garden.
Bruins head coach Claude Julien is a big believer in redemption, so it stands to figure he would turn to his NHL sophomore just a few weeks after the bench boss pulled Rask after one period of a wild 7-6 loss at Buffalo New Year's Day night.
Rask's brief appearance against the Sabres on the first night of 2011 was one of just four times the netminder didn't provide Boston with a quality start so far this season. Quality Starts are defined by Robert Vollman of Hockey Prospectus as any game during which a goaltender allows two or fewer goals and/or produces at better than the league average as far as save percentage. For this season and all the years since the lockout, that number has been around a .913 save percentage.
While Rask is just 4-9-1 on this season, he has 10 quality starts and his 71-percent rate of producing a QS is good enough to rank in the top 10 in the NHL among goaltenders with at least 10 starts. That the Bruins are 4-5-1 in Rask's QS performances (teams generally win 75 percent of their starters' QS outings), shows that Rask's lack of success has more to do with the team in front of him than his play. For comparison's sake, Tim Thomas has produced a QS 78 percent of the time.
Another interesting stat created by Vollman is the Really Bad Start, which is any game the starter doesn't stop at least 85 percent of the shots against. Rask has suffered just two of those, including that New Year's game. So if he gets the start tonight, Rask will be looking to keep his QS streak alive and erase the memories of that awful game in Western New York.
If it makes Rask breathe any easier, Buffalo will be without winger Drew Stafford. The Sabres forward, who has scored four goals against the Bruins' Finnish goaltender (and three more against Thomas), is out with an injury tonight. A QS is a QS regardless of who's in the opposing lineup.


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Your sarcasm/ha-ha meter is dialed in today, Brian. You should draw a little arrow on there so you know where to set it tomorrow.
2010 Recruiting: Drew Dileo
Previously: S Carvin Johnson, S Ray Vinopal, S Marvin Robinson, CB Courtney Avery, CB Terrence Talbott, CB Cullen Christian, CB Demar Dorsey, LB Jake Ryan, LB Davion Rogers, LB Josh Furman, DE Jordan Paskorz, DE Jibreel Black, DT Terry Talbott, DT Richard Ash, and C Christian Pace.
|Greenwell Springs, LA - 5'10" 170
|#17 LA to Tiger Rag.
|Other Suitors
|Stanford, Virginia, Northwestern
|David Eckstein. Oh, fine… Wes Welker. Shoot me. Black guys he might remind you of: Darius Reynaud and Dorrell Jalloh.
|Previously On MGoBlog
|Commitment post. Plenty of Dileo content in FNL.
When Drew Dileo, a small, white slot receiver from Louisiana, committed to Michigan early in the last recruiting cycle, the internet was displeased. This site was openly skeptical of him in his "Hello" post; message boards lit up with negativity about Rodriguez's recruiting; rivals joked that he would move to tackle because he was fairly large for a Rodriguez recruit.
This is why from the horse's (pony's?) mouth:
"I was thinking I might end up at Louisiana Tech, a smaller school like that," he said.
It didn't help that early reports had Stanford his only other BCS offer, with Tulane and Rice the other suitors. Nor did the composition of Michigan's class at the time. Dileo was the fifth receiver and second slot, a luxury recruit seemingly out of whack with Michigan's roster composition who wasn't even much of a luxury.
Complaints ensued, and from the complaints came the generic questions about doubters, and from the generic questions about doubters came the positive attitude and general likeability to make doubters feel like heels:
"I know my profile isn't as great as a lot of other kids' around the country," he said. "I know (Michigan) reached out there a little bit to get me. It's not about proving anybody wrong. I just don't want people up there to feel like I wasted a scholarship."
I hope all of you think about what you've done.
So let's get past all that. Yes, Dileo is an odd recruit to be in this class and his rankings are uninspiring. But that doesn't mean he's doomed. It would turn out that Virginia and Northwestern had also offered, so… there's that. Rivals ranked him #24 in Louisiana, which isn't world-crushing but is just behind LSU WR commit Armand Williams and in front of prospects headed to Texas A&M, Texas Tech, LSU, and Florida State. He is also way in front of a guy named "Deuce Coon." Go Louisiana naming industry.
In high school, Dileo was a multi-purpose threat capable of scoring in literally every way you can without playing defense:
In two years as a Parkview starter, Dileo has compiled 3,300 all-purpose yards — 1,210 rushing, 620 receiving and 1,470 on returns.
As a sophomore, Dileo, who runs the 40-yard dash in 4.5 seconds, became the first Parkview player to score on a kickoff return and a punt return; pass for a score and rush for a score; and catch a touchdown pass in the same season.
Michigan was the "most aggressive" school after Dileo, declaring that they "just had to have him." Despite his commitment, "several" SEC schools pinged him during his senior season.
None of this elevates Dileo to the level of a prospect Michigan fans should be thrilled about, but they are indicators he can contribute. And if there's one specific place a redundant slot receiver can contribute immediately, it's catching—not dropping—punts and then running the other way. Dileo's strange addition becomes far less strange in this context:
"I think they are looking for me to return punts more than anything, but I'll play a little slot receiver," Dileo said.
Dileo has also returned kickoffs for Parkview Baptist in the past. Opposing teams stopped kicking to him this season, though, after he averaged more than 42 yards per kickoff return as a junior. …
What makes Dileo a competent return specialist is his combination of sure hands, agility and quickness. Much like an outfielder in baseball, a return man must accurately judge when and where a kicked ball will land while factoring in kick trajectory, ball rotation and the wind's effect. Unlike baseball, a return specialist also has 11 members of the opposing team ready to hit him as soon as he fields the ball.
Dileo was also a baseball star for PBS, FWIW, and ESPN's evaluation also brings up his return skills($):
As a punt returner he fields the ball and accelerates while reading blocks on the run. Maintains balance even after being hit. Fights for every inch of return yardage and can make defenders miss in the openfield. As a kick returner shows the same savvy and determination. Follows the wedge and breaks into the clear at just the right moment.
Elsewhere, a local observer claims Dileo's field vision on returns is "sick" and that he is "a threat to take it all the way" on any kick or punt he gets his hands on; Touch the Banner declares him an "excellent" returner who looks to "get upfield in a hurry." If Dileo spends the next few years doing nothing except making correct decisions on punts—if he holds on to the damn ball—he'll be well worth the scholarship.
Dileo also projects as a slot receiver in college, where he draws comparisons to someone totally unexpected:
"He [Fred Jackson]told us Drew reminds them of Wes Welker," Simoneaux said.
I know you were thinking someone would bring up Grant Fuhr. No such luck. Even if Wes Welker is the most hackneyed, obvious comparison anyone could possibly make to a white slot receiver, it must be said that the scouting reports do kind of bear it out. More ESPN:
Catches the ball easily in traffic and hauls in the pass even knowing he will be hit immediately after the reception. Can turn back across his body to make the difficult catches. As a slot, runs the counter and reverse to perfection. Hits and spins for extra yardage and is tough to bring down. Often slips through arm tackles to keep making positive yardage.
They also break out the white guy descriptors, calling him "sound," "solid," and "sure" in the same freakin' sentence. That just begins the avalanche of grit:
"It just goes to show you there's still room for kids who are great athletes that have a great heart and work ethic," Parkview coach Kenny Guillot said. "There's a lot more room than people want to think."
Dileo might not have as much bulk as some of the running backs in this class, but without question he has the heart.
"He's just a humble, humble kid," Guillot said. "When everyone's leaving, he's the one in the weight room putting up weights. We have guest speakers every Thursday and have pizza, he's always there picking up the pizza boxes and stuff like that.
"We like our kids to stay humble and hungry. We preach that to them and preach to them about (being) team players. We talked to Coach Rodriguez about that, and he said one of the things he felt like he had to overcome when he first got to Michigan, there was a lot of I going on."
More local observers call him a "pure football player" and "true gamer" while claiming he's 5'8" (though someone else disputes that, saying he's 5'9" to 5'10"): never has a Michigan recruit been described by so many as David Eckstein in a helmet.
Some random blogspot guy compared Dileo to Darius Reynaud, so there's that, and the positive descriptors don't stop at his outstanding character. His coach calls him "one of those one of those kids who could be in a phone booth and still make people miss"; the locals claim he's "very slippery"; Jim Stefani invokes "slippery" as well and says he "excels in space with his great quickness and elusiveness."
TTB, always clear-eyed about things, sounds a note of disagreement—"I question his ability to be fast enough or elusive enough to be a major contributor at the next level"—that the recruiting sites certainly imply, but we'll leave the last word to his coach:
"I've been coaching a long time and I remember an old pro scout told me many years ago, when a guy can make the first guy miss" that's a dangerous weapon, Guillot said. "He does a great job of making the first guy miss."
Do that after catching—not dropping—all the punts and "waste" won't be a word uttered within six sentences of Drew Dileo.
Etc.: GBMW profile. Brief UMGoBlog interview. Scout commit article. Interview. A ton of local articles mentioning Dileo. He's white so there's a creepy CasteFootball thread on him.
Why David Eckstein/Wes Welker/Darius Reynaud/Dorrell Jalloh? The former two are because he is very, very gritty. If you bought Drew Dileo brand lettuce you could smooth furniture with it.
The latter two are close analogues to what Rodriguez will hope to get out of Dileo. Jalloh was a nothing recruit—literally, he was not ranked at all by Rivals or Scout—who became a productive multi-purpose threat at West Virginia. Reynaud is 5'10" and was a middling three-star receiver out of Louisiana who also became a productive multi-purpose threat at WVU.
Guru Reliability: Just under high. No combines apparently but a high profile player on a smallish but high profile high school in a relentlessly scouted state.
General Excitement Level: Moderate. If RR & co really did bring him in just because he's an awesome returner and he lives up to that immediately it is a great, great offer given the disaster zone M has had the past couple years there. His receiving upside seems limited.
Projection: Will be very interested to hear how things are going in fall camp as far as returns go. If no one latches onto the job and Dileo's in the running he will play this year. If someone, Gallon most likely, beats him out he'll redshirt and develop on the bench until Roundtree graduates.
If you bought Drew Dileo brand lettuce you could smooth furniture with it.
Brian Cook FTMFW.
It was a great line that Brian Cook wrote.
It caused me to LOL.
(see, I can be a sportswriter!)
I know that this is cliche, but special teams really are under-appreciated. If RR wants to recruit a guy for the sole purpose of fielding a punt (or kickoff) and running the other way, I have no problem with that at all. A good return man can be the difference between starting on our 20 (or worse) and starting at the 30 or better. 1 scholarship for the potential of consistently getting these 10+ yards? I don't see the problem. It is not that different from burning a scholarship on a great punter. A highly recruited punter will generally only kick about 10-15 yards farther than your average run-of-the-mill walk on punter, but we are all happy when we recruit a great punter.
For no other reason than the facts he's grateful and eager to prove his value to the TEAM
We have guest speakers every Thursday and have pizza, he's always there picking up the pizza boxes and stuff like that.
Minor example, but is great to see/read. I'm excited for this kid.
You won't hear me complaining about a scholarship spent on a return specialist, no sir
Drew is such a team player that his name says "Ew" before "I"
he gets straight up the field most of the time. The best return guys have no hesitation and go forward. No idea if he'll play at slot but he looks good to me as a return guy and maybe special teams on punts and kickoffs. Welcome.
Do we know if Drew is on campus already and in summer classes? I re-watched the Wisconsin game from two years ago on BTN recently and everyone that returned a punt or kick fumbled.
If he can field punts and return kick offs without fumbling, he is for sure a good pick up. He sort of reminds me of that kid from Manchester, MI that played for Wisconsin 10+ years ago. Anyone remember his name?
I think you're thinking of Nick Davis, who never did much damage against us but torched the rest of the Big 10.
We will come back to this post over & over again in the next 4 years.
Also, Brian, how much grit you got in your game?
I think we are under-estimating his future potential. I think he could be thrown into the return duties almost right away (or right away after a RS season), but let's say he redshirts. He will be the only slot in his year, only one slot a year ahead of him (Gallon) and then the rest of the slots on the team are at least 2 years of eligibility ahead of him. It also doesn't look like we'll get a slot receiver in the class behind him since it's a smaller class and we have a bigger need for OL and defense.
That means that when Dileo is a junior, he'll be #2 on the depth chart behind Gallon, and the rest of the slots on the team will be true sophs or RS frosh at the oldest. That bodes well for Dileo a few years down the line.
Dileo's best bet to get on the field sooner than later is on Special Teams. However I see no reason why he couldn't be a major contributor at slot as an upperclassman.
We're still recruiting a few guys who could play slot this year. With the tight end position slowly disappearing, we're going to see more four-wide sets. Dileo could be a decent slot guy to pick up a few yards here or there, but he's not as dynamic as guys like Odoms and Gallon can be.
Re this: it seems like he runs that seam route pretty well. Maybe he could give us a little middle of the field stretching.
some options for slots that aren't listed as slots.........
Blair White (a walk-on in East Lansing)
Barry Pierson (kid from St. Ignace; the punt-returning hero of 1969's The Game)
Jack Clancy (superb convert-reciever from the mid-60's who still holds a few records)
John Kolesar (did his best to go unnoticed until it was time to blow MSU and OSU games wide open)
...is that when this Dileo kid runs onto the field to catch punts and everyone else is wondering 'who the hell is that?' I will already know a ton about him and be able to root for the little bastard in an educated manner.
It's like an addiction, this place.
I've dated girls I came back to much less often than this place, and they were like crack to me...
that my addiction and my support group are one and the same. (These are the same friends who just want to know who wins and could care less about the back-stories.)
Thank you for enabling, and welcome Drew.
This is the first time I've watched his film, and he looks great. Some of it is less than superb competition, of course, but that is true with all high school film. There were reports on other sites that shall not be named that he was at the indoor facility returning Hagerup punts a few weeks ago. Most of the report was on the punting, so I don't know how Drew looked. I think he's a diamond in the rough get for us.
Special teams are important, and I think it makes sense to use a scholarship on a reliable return man, just as you would on a kicker and punter. I think the ideal punt returner is a guy with good speed and great hands who played outfield in baseball. Dileo is listed on his high school's 08-09 roster as a second baseman, but middle infielders chase a lot of popups. This guy looks like a good pickup.
I think the ideal punt returner is a guy named Steve Breaston . . .
No love for Charles Woodson?
Wasn't really that good a punt returner. Pretty unimpressive, for the most part. Except when it counted most. Where he always was the best player on the field.
I always feel like Breaston was shrouded behind Maningham and Edwards, but he really got to shine in special teams. A great team player who was there when you needed him.
Wonder how his return stats compare to Woodson and Howard?
Consistency vs. Big Plays in Big games. The other were more memorable...but did it far less often. (Only punt returns, because the others didn't do the Kick off returns that often).
Year PR # Yds Avg TD Long
All of them had inflated numbers due to long returns...but more glaring when you've had less returns. Take away their big senior season runs, and Breaston's is still an 8.8 average, and Desmond still has a 11.1 average, but Charles drops to 6.3. And his previous year is 28 yards with a long of 27. So 4 other ones for 1 yard.
Now Woodson and Desmond only played 3 years, and Woodson was all defense his first. And Howard didn't get as many touches as people would think, because there was this guy named Welborne ahead of him...
Throw in Kick-off Returns and other stuff, and you can see why Steve leads in so many categories. Charles was Charles. He wasn't a great punt returner. He wasn't really a great receiver. (Though obviously he was a GREAT cornerback). What he could do that I've never seen from any other college player is he could make the big plays, at the biggest moments, without fear. He was the definition of money. Desmond, probably would have been a historic returner, if he had stayed for his senior year (and as above mentioned, didn't have such PR competition...Alexander with and after him too). He did it with style, in the biggest games too.
But look how some of them other than Breaston (who obviously got keyed in on, and kicked away from a lot more after his freshman season...not to mention got banged up there) did their first few years. But by the time they were done, they had impressed us as pretty spectacular return men. Just goes to show...If Drew isn't lighting up the world catching punts as a freshman...it doesn't mean he can't or won't.
I've said this on the site before, but guys like Dileo, Paskorz and others are the kinds of guys that teams like Wisconsin, Iowa and Northwestern use as the basis for 8-10 win seasons. It's the lack of precisely these kind of high quality FOOTBALL players in the depth chart since 2007 that has repeatedly caused Michigan problems.
If Dileo can do one job well, catching and returning punts, he'll be able to help Michigan flip games that have been lost in the recent past (2009 Iowa immediately springs to mind) because of special teams miscues.
Also, another Louisiana recruit who a majority of this board shat on to the point that an OPPOSITION HS corch showed up at MGo to defend him, Carvin Johnson, is being lauded for his abilities so far this summer, and likely will be in the two-deep this fall.
Teams not only need great athletes, but they also need specialists like these guys who know their roles and do them well. I applaud this recruit. The Michigan fanbase needs to quit with the presumed arrogance that scouting services know what the Michigan football team needs better than Rich Rodriguez. Dileo is exactly what we need after watching Mathews, et al, destroy the PR position the past two years.
Seriously, I love me some Carvin Johnson and Jake Ryan. I can't wait to see what they're able to get done once they've been around a few years.
Johnson might well play this year, he's been given lots of plaudits already in AA.
I agree with you re: these two guys. i understand the benefit of getting the best players, but just because a team doesn't get those best players, doesn't mean they can't win big. Certain teams prove that every year.
Johnson playing well this year would make me a happy, happy man.
...will put 10 to 15 lbs on him in no time. He'll be a little trouble maker for the opposition. I see him sort of like Sam McGuffie lite (without the hurdles and flips).
I hope that he is not Sam McGuffie lite - no disrespect to former players, but Sam didn't exactly work out too well for us. He was too light to take a hit and not fast enough (at the college level) to avoid taking one. He also turned his back to the line at the first sign of contact. I would prefer Breaston lite . . .
Shrimpy white guy who is fast, changes direction quickly, and dynamite on kick and punt returns? He just needs a receding hairline and a few Big Ten track wins to be:
Iowa's Tim Dwight. We should be so lucky.
I was trying to remember the name of the guy at Iowa who was totally kick-a** at returning punts "back in the day" and you nailed it.
I sure as hell hope Dileo's as fast as Dwight, but I don't think this is an apt comparison.
he almost single-handedly ruined our perfect 1997 championship season.
someone at the University should compile all of these "2010 Recruiting" posts and distribute it at the home opener. Keep the fanbase educated on the new players and possibly even find a way to put some money in Brians pocket...
"What the Dileo?"
How about "The Real Dileo"?
so let it be done.
Why is that being white is so bad when it comes to describing football players? People on blogs such as this seem to use "white" as a qualifer/crutch to his abilities.
If Drew was black, what would we being saying?
Sorry for the quasi-political rant, but it is getting out of hand IMO.
I can tell you this, if Dileo was black they wouldn't be saying he was white.
This is the funniest line I've read on this site in a while.


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Sometimes the beautiful colors occupying Hank Holland's canvas mix with tears.
Tears of joy, he says.
Sometimes the beautiful colors occupying Hank Holland's canvas mix with tears.
Tears of joy, he says. Holland knows not everyone is lucky enough to find their true calling at 35 years old.
Holland began painting five years ago. Since then, color on canvas has become more than a hobby. It's his living. He has sold nearly 8,000 paintings in less than 2,000 days of painting.
"When someone wants to buy your art, its a hell of a gift and its so humbling," Holland said as he adds a dash of yellow to create a moonlight reflection on his newest piece. "I just sit back here and cry sometimes because I'm so blessed."
Holland's success is made even more impressive considering the ailment he grew up with.
"Being in business for yourself with a disability is difficult because people don't take you seriously," Holland said. "But when people walk in and see a painting on the wall, they don't see a disability. They see ability."
Looking at one of his paintings, one has no clue Holland was born with cerebral palsy, a neurological disorder that affects the development and coordination of body movements.
What is clear from his paintings is his geographic roots. Most of his art depicts idylic scenes of raised homes sitting over water under a canopy of mossy cypress.
Holland was born and raised in Lockport, where he still resides.
"My paintings are Louisiana. It's what we are surrounded by. It's what I cut my teeth on," Holland said. "My daddy had me on the bayous fishing at 5 or 6. You paint what you know."
Following high school, Holland worked odd jobs and took some classes at Nichols State University but never got into painting until his mother died.
Holland's mother painted as a hobby. After her death, Holland said, something was missing in his life.
"You need that mother, that nurturing. When you don't have that availability, you have a huge void," Holland said. "I had this urge like a knife sticking me in the back: I want to paint. I need to paint."
Painting, he said, brought him peace.
"Every day, I pray that they can see from heaven what I have done. I've become a good man," Holland said, choking back tears. "I would give anything for her to sit down in that chair and watch me paint. It would be cool."
Holland's discovery of art happened close to when his arthritis, a condition of his disorder, made walking for long periods excruciatingly painful. Working his previous job became impossible.
So he sold his first painting at Jackson Square in New Orleans. From there, he started the Baby Jane Studios Facebook page that brings him most of his business.
Painting hasn't made him rich, but he said he is thankful to have found his passion.
"Some days I eat steak and some days I eat bologna," he jokes. "Many people with disabilities don't have the opportunities I do — a beautiful child, a beautiful wife, a home, an occupation. I feel so blessed."
Together with his wife Maria, who was also born with cerebral palsy, he has big plans for the future including a nearly complete children's book featuring children with disabilities.
Growing up, Holland was subjected to the hateful teasing of other boys.
"Most of those kids I'm friends with now. They buy my paintings. They were kids. No harm, no foul," Holland said.
Holland said the aim of the book is to teach kids how to interact and accept other children with disabilities.
"It's something I think even adults can read and learn something about," Holland said.
Holland is also in the process of starting a nonprofit group that will offer scholarships to students with disabilities who want to pursue a career in the arts and study in Louisiana.
Holland can also be found giving motivational speeches at local schools.
"I'm thankful I can give back," he said. "So many people I can thank in this town for the lessons I have learned. It takes a village to raise a child. I'm so thankful for people here."
Holland's work can be found on the Baby Jane Studios Facebook page, HankHollandFolkArt.com or by emailing him at email@example.com.


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The Adelaide Oval strip is breaking up just as Lyon, its former assistant groundkeeper, suspected it would in this second Test of wild contrasts. The picture of Australia, via Michael Clarke, David Warner and Michael Hussey, hacking the South Africa attack apart on days one and two could not have been further removed from what AB de Villiers and Faf du Plessis were up to on Sunday afternoon. Given a formidable 430 victory target the prefixed pair could hardly be blamed for setting their sights on grinding out a draw, even if it remains distant on the horizon with the Proteas resuming on the final day skating on thin ice at 4-77 and only Jacques Kallis, carrying a hamstring injury, to come before the tail.
As stumps they were ambling along at a pace that would hold up a snail. They prodded or padded up to everything directed at them as Clarke, saving his bullets for Monday, took the ball himself and handed it to other part-timers Rob Quiney, David Warner and even the extremely occasional Ricky Ponting.
Tedious, but with intent - to miraculously save an unwinnable match - de Villiers (12 from 101 balls) and du Plessis (19 from 74) put on 32 in 29 overs together and will set out to continue their obduracy as long as they can. They will surely be met with more stiff challenges than that thrown their way in their two-hour stand of stubbornness. And that is where Lyon comes in.
At 25 and five days he on Sunday became the youngest off-spinner to acquire a half-century of Test scalps for Australia and, on a strip increasingly suiting him, will fancy himself on Monday. He was pilloried for poor domestic form in the lead-up to this series, but improved in Brisbane and, via his stock off-break rather than his novelty alternative ball, he appears more comfortable by the day.
''He's copped a little bit of pressure here and there and he probably didn't start as well as he would have liked to in Shield cricket,'' said Australian fast bowler Peter Siddle.
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On Sunday, Lyon was central as South Africa, with 4½ sessions to survive, slumped to 4-45. He took 2-15 in 15 overs, prompting Hashim Amla (17) to edge to Clarke, who fumbled but completed the catch at slip, and then sent Jacques Rudolph (three) on his way for a fourth time in four attempts. Ashley Mallett predicted that Lyon might do a Daryll Cullinan on the struggling Rudolph and he was right.
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