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Tim Hudson pitched into the eighth inning, Chipper Jones hit a two-run double, and the Braves defeated the Astros, 4-1, on Friday in the opener of a three-game series.
Hudson (11-4) continued his mastery of Houston, improving to 5-0 lifetime against the club. The righty allowed one unearned run on four hits with two walks and three strikeouts over 7 1/3 innings. He is 7-1 over his last nine starts.
Martin Prado and Dan Uggla both had an RBI double for the Braves, who have won nine of their last 10 games and are 15-6 since the All-Star break.
"(Hudson) is one of those guys, every time he goes out there he just performs for the team," said Prado. "We're just trying to get some runs to support him."
Armando Galarraga (0-1) took the loss in his second start of the season, giving up four runs on five hits with seven walks and four strikeouts over 5 1/3 innings.
"Galarraga really got his pitch count up by being behind in the count...but for the most part he seemed to pitch around the walks," said Houston manager Brad Mills.
J.D. Martinez drove in the lone run for the Astros, who fell to a major league-worst 35-72. They are just 3-29 over their last 32 games.
Jones has hit safely in 27 of his last 30 games, spanning back to June 19. He had a pair of RBI in Thursday's win over the Marlins and equaled the feat on Friday, plating Prado and Jason Heyward with a third-inning double to right.
Uggla, whose error in the sixth led the Houston's only run, followed later in the third with a two-out double, plating Jones for a 3-0 lead.
Prado finished 2-for-3 with two walks and drove home Michael Bourn in the fourth inning with his second double of the game -- a shot into the left-field corner.
In the sixth, Ben Francisco singled and moved to second base on Uggla's throwing error. He went to third on a Brett Wallace groundout and scored when Martinez grounded out to Jones at third.
Eric O'Flaherty recorded the final two outs of the eighth and Craig Kimbrel struck out the side in the ninth for his 31st save of the season.
The Braves are now a major league-best 61-1 when taking a lead into the seventh inning or later.
Game Notes
This was Hudson's seventh career start against the Astros...The Atlanta bullpen has allowed just 18 earned run over the past 89 inning (27 games)...Galarraga did not record a decision in his season debut on July 28...Earlier Friday the Astros placed recently acquired reliever Francisco Cordero on the 15-day disabled list with right foot sesamoiditis. The 37-year-old righty has gone 0-3 with three blown saves and a 19.80 earned run average in six appearances since joining the Astros as part of a 10-player trade with the Blue Jays on July 20.


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Titans raise $100k for charity
The seventh annual Gold Coast Titans Charity Ball encompassed everything about the generous community spirit of the Gold Coast at Jupiters Hotel and Casino on Saturday night with over $100,000 raised for four Gold Coast Charities.
Overall, the club's charity and community fundraising programs which include the annual Charity Ball has given back more than $1 million dollars to charities and community organisations in this region over the past seven years.
As expected the big ticketed item for the night was the Audi Q3 which attracted a tug-of-war bidding across the 750 guests in the Pavilion Ballroom.
The brand new luxury vehicle eventually falling under the hammer for $56,000 after kindly being donated by the Gold Coast Audi Centre in Southport.
Guests were wowed by the Las Vegas themed ballroom and performances from Elvis, Franky and the Seasons, Tom Jones impersonators and Vegas Showgirls as they dug deep to support Sporting Wheelies & Disabled Association of Queensland, The Salvation Army, Titans 4 Tomorrow and the Gold Coast Titans Community Foundation.

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Published: 2012/11/05
Anders Osborne, Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, Keller Williams and More Share the Stage During HeadCount's Participation Tour
HeadCount's Participation Tour kicked off at Baltimore, MD's SoundStage on Friday night. From there, the tour moved north to Philadelphia's Blockley on Saturday and then, the run swung south to Washington, DC's Howard Theater. As previously reported, Anders Osborne and Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk co-headlined the multi-city run, which has been re-branded as a benefit for the victims of Hurricane Sandy in the wake of the storm.
As expected, each show featured a number of unique sit ins. On Friday, Furthur guitarist John Kadlecik sat in with Osborne for a stretch of songs, including a set-closing take on "Franklin's Tower." Bonerama—who were a last minute lineup addition—also sat in with Osborne while The Bridge guitarist Cris Jacob joined Dumpstaphunk at the end of the night. On Saturday night in Philadelphia, Osborne joined Dumpstaphunk for a take on The Rolling Stones' "Miss You." Last night, Kadlecik emerged during Osborne's set for "Jealous Love" and remained onstage as Keller Williams joined Osborne for "Sugaree." Williams also sat in with Dumpstaphunk for "Bitch" and "Just a Little More."
HeadCount's Participation Tour will conclude with a pre-election party at New York's Highline Ballroom tonight. In addition to Dumpstaphunk, the evening will feature North Mississippi Allstars, Bela Fleck, Questlove, Amy Helm and Scott Metzger, among other special guests.


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At the Star Ledger but they do an excellent job finding Jet beat writers:
Jenny Vrentas
Connor Orr
And now Darryl Slater he just posted an excellent article about Ducasse development
and the ins and outs of OLine play:
FYI Darryl Slater is Tannys pen name.
It's just unfortunate that they don't stick around too long.
Didn't Mehta start at the Ledger?
They're good and then they leave.
Good article and I think jets fans are going too love the addition of Colon. I have followed him most of his career and if it wasn't for the injuries he would be considered a top notch Olineman as of now.
Not the greatest Tackle but plays the guard position much better and is ideally suited as a RG. Could play either Tackle position in a pinch.....and while he would not excel, I believe he would be better than anyone else on the roster. Keeping my fingers crossed he stays healthy.
Ducasse story is great but until he proves it on the field......I'll reserve judgement. I hope he pans out and I might be one of the only people that did not have a problem with Tannys selection. Kid has some imposing size and athletic ability. Unfortunately I don't think he'll ever get it and while he did play well in the preseason.....he also had the usual matador plays. Hope he proves me wrong.
Go Jets.
It'll be interesting to see how a different QB fares behind our line ... last year I think the line got unfairly judged because of Sanchez's hesitations / holding the ball too long. Hopefully Geno is more decisive, even if it means throwing it away / scrambling for a yard or two rather than taking the big hits & fumbles that result.
As long as he stays healthy, Colon can be our Damian Woody at the right guard position.
You don't know how important these vets are until you don't have them. I like Colons pedigree coming from a Steeler organization that I despise due to their crossbread redneck fans, but also respect for their toughness & team play.
Really like their coach Mike Tomlin.
Star Ledger has always been a quality paper. You can back to the 90's with Paul Needell and Kim Jones. The paper seems to prefer quality and substance over sensational headlines.
It is the editors. They don't try to sensationalize everything or pressure the beat writers for controversial stories.
Sadly, I heard their publisher is threatening to close them down over a labor dispute. I think that is why most of the good ones leave.
Another quality read from the Star Ledger, this time by Michael Fensom about MM and the wide receivers:
Agree ... Great read & nice informative story!
Love what we've seen out of Colon so far ... Him mentoring Vlad only adds to that ... Stay healthy brother!
I actually like the idea of Ducasse starting, it's the same with Geno. We have to see what we have with these guys before the offseason. If Jet fans are honest with themselves this is a year of talent evaluation. A lot of the contracts will be released in the offseason clearly a significant amount of cap space. Holmes is not playing for this year, he's playing for his NFL career. If we release him because of a subpar year, no one else will sign him to a significant contract. Sanchez may very well be released this year when healthy if Smith plays like he has great upside. That's why the Jets signed Quinn. I think Idzik understands a rebuilding process and part of that is turning away from the bad press that Sanchez gives. Butt fumble, turnovers, dancing semi nude while be recorded. All of these things don't sound like a $50m franchise QB.
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Game #62 Recap: [Insert Brad Boyes Pun Here]
Yet again, the Sabres were shaky late. This time, Miller rose to the occasion and strongly reminded people of the level of play he's capable of. The result (with goals from Myers, newcomer Boyes, and Hecht) gave the Sabres two huge points and set up a massive showdown with the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday night.
For the fourth straight game, the Sabres were a pain in the butt to defend down low, using their new favorite forechecking scheme that I love so much – the two man crease crash. Once possession is established, one forechecker sits on top of the crease while the other streaks out front to grab the point shot's rebound and put it home. I'll be posting about it more in-depth later. The transition game is also on the upswing, much to Sabres' fans delight.
But of course, the defensive zone breakout was slow and uninspired yet again. It's not that the Sabres don't have the chance to get it out, but rather they aren't taking those chances for reasons unknown. That hesitance will cost them sorely against teams with an aggressive forecheck.
Brad Boyes had a great game in his Sabres debut. Besides his powerplay goal that at the time was the game-winner, he had a number of big hits and backchecked well enough to break up a few rushes. He seems quite suited to playing in Lindy Ruff's system and will look plenty comfortable once he's practiced with the Sabres.
Tyler Myers had a defensive game unlike any other he's had before. He was a rock in his own zone, looking very different from the Myers who started out the season in an epic rut. The desperation of battling for the playoffs manifested itself in the sophomore tonight, and it showed in his play.
Speaking of manifesting, the spirit of George Vezina seemingly possessed Ryan Miller, especially late. It's been a refreshing resurgence for the reigning goalie of the year, who's posted stats of 1.85 GAA and .938 SV% since sitting out one game against Montreal. He's making the kind of clutch saves again which overshadowed his above-average that he hadn't been early in the season.
Thursday is undoubtedly the single biggest game of the season for the Buffalo Sabres. Their host, the Carolina Hurricanes, currently sit two points ahead of the Sabres with 2 more games played. A win in regulation for the visitors will create a tie for 8th place with the Sabres winning the games played tie-breaker. Also of the utmost importance is the fact that if the Minnesota Wild beat the New York Rangers in regulation as well, the Sabres will then sit one point back of 7th place with three games in hand.
I believe the more important tie breaker (at the end of the season) would be wins which the winner of this game will have an edge in.


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Take a look at the Tour De France from the eyes of Wakefield residents, one week on from the spectacular Grand Depart.
People from across the district flocked to see the event, heralded "the grandest of Grand Departs" by organisers.
The pictures were taken on Buttercup Pass in North Yorkshire by Jacqueline Lambert, of Denby Dale Road, and in Sheffield by Sophie Mei Lan, from Thornes.


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The dkLab Apache is a patched Apache distribution for those who plan to use the Apache Web server to serve multiple separate sites working under different, fully separated, and independent Unix users. It does not require you to install any OS kernel modules or disable setuid, and works correctly and intelligently with KeepAlive turned on and MaxRequestsPerChild greater than 1.
Elvyx is a tool designed to monitor and profile JDBC activity. This JDBC profiler has a wrapper that intercepts access to the database and sends this information to the elvyx server. The server receives the information, stores the data into a database, and serves this information to the client. The client shows SQL statements, bound SQL statements, elapsed time, elapsed time preparing the statements, and more.
phpFaber URLInn is an extended version of the phpFaber TinyLink script. Several features were added, like keywords, email notification, and link statistics. Using these features, your visitors can convert long URLs into short ones that can be sent to others by email. Visitors can also monitor statistics for their URLs. The administrator may delete URLs, enable or disable advertising, and can even add advertising only for particular URLs.
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Step forward for Oracle developers
Oracle is a step closer to launching its planned graphical programming environment, designed to simplify development of database tasks.
The company has published an early release of Project Raptor, which enables software developers to browse database objects, run SQL statements and SQL scripts, and edit and debut PL/SQL statements using a set of graphical tools
Unveiled last fall, Project Raptor is due for release on Windows and Linux in early 2006. A version for Mac is also in the works.
Project Raptor is designed to improve developers' productivity and simplify the development of every-day database tasks. As such, Project Raptor connects to databases through the industry based Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API.
Project Raptor fits into a trend among Java tools and platform vendors of introducing graphical tools that mask the complexity of building enterprise systems in Java. Many are borrowing from a style of development pioneered by Microsoft in its Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) for Windows.
However, Project Raptor appears to work in Oracle environments only, connecting to Oracle Database 184.108.40.206 or higher and is based on Oracle's JDeveloper IDE. ®
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AUSTRALIA 3-238 (Watson 60*, Clarke 56*, Mathews 1-26) leading SRI LANKA 156 by 72 runs in 2nd Test at MCG. Day two, lunch.
CAPTAIN Michael Clarke has broken predecessor Ricky Ponting's record for most Test runs by an Australian in a calendar year as his team entrenched its commanding Boxing Day Test position against Sri Lanka.
Australia added 88 runs without loss in the first session of day two to go to lunch at the MCG 3-238, with Clarke on 56 and deputy Shane Watson on 60. Their fourth-wicket partnership stood at 121.
When Clarke reached 56 shortly before the break, with a single off Dhammika Prasad, it took him past Ponting's previous record from 2005 of 1544 runs at 67.13. As of the lunch break Clarke's 2012 record was 1545 runs at an average of 110.36.
Sri Lanka had the opportunity to remove both batsmen shortly before lunch but squandered both opportunities off the bowling of finger spinner Rangana Herath, which admittedly were tough. Stand-in wicketkeeper Kumar Sangakkara missed a leg-side stumping when Clarke was on 54 while captain Watson's hefty back-foot cut was fumbled by captain Mahela Jayawardene at first slip.
Australia began day two at 3-150, with Watson on 13 and Clarke on 20. While the leaders' session scoring rate of just under three runs per over was subdued they rarely looked troubled by the Sri Lankan attack. The visitors were down one paceman after left-armer Chanaka Welegedara suffered a suspected hamstring strain while bowling the 10th over of the day.
Australia's batsmen were so solid that Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene elected to protect runs by employing a fielder at deep point, which offered both batsman a huge gap between gully and cover to nudge singles and rotate the strike.
One of Clarke's rare uncertain moments – before the stumping opportunity – occurred in the 54th over when he was struck on the helmet by a menacing bouncer from Shaminda Eranga. It had no noticeable effect on his demeanour.
When the captain brought up his half-century in the 60th over it marked a 100-run partnership with Watson. When his deputy reached the same milestone two overs later it took their partnership past their previous 103. That partnership came in the second innings of the 2009-10 Boxing Day Test against Pakistan, when Watson scored his first Test century – which remains his only century achieved in Australia.
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The DIY ethic in music has extended far beyond the back-to-basics sensibilities of the punk scene.
It's prevalent in Africa where economic necessity dictates that anyone wishing to make music must take such an approach, fashioning instruments from whatever's close to hand. This is the modus operandi of Jagwa Music, a collective of eight youngsters from the streets of Dar-Es-Salaam who play percussion forged from plastic piping and arm themselves with battered, long-discarded Casio keyboards wired up to ancient megaphones.
Fronted by a pair of spectacular dancers and a singer/MC whose lyrics tell of survival in the at-times turbulent Tanzanian capital.


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As Boston begins its search for a new superintendent, the School Committee will try to avoid the missteps, repeated delays, and disappointments that marked its previous hunt six years ago.
But potential obstacles are emerging.
With Superintendent Carol R. Johnson announcing her intention to retire on April 24, the committee will not have enough time to hire a permanent replacement before she leaves in July, forcing it to focus first on finding a temporary leader.
Then the search for a permanent successor could sputter at times, as the mayoral race heats up. That is because the most desirable candidates may be reluctant to give Boston serious consideration until they know if their vision and leadership style will mesh with whoever replaces Mayor Thomas M. Menino after the November election.
"You really want to know who your boss is going to be," said Dan Domenech, executive director of the American Association of School Administrators.
But Michael O'Neill, the School Committee chairman, said he is optimistic that this search will go smoothly. Members will, for the first time, discuss how to proceed with replacing Johnson at their meeting Wednesday night, and they will hear a presentation about the experiences of other districts that recently hired superintendents.
"We want to learn from the other [superintendent] searches done in the city and in other cities," O'Neill said. "What is important is getting the right person who is a leader in urban education, who recognizes the things we have done well to date and things that can be improved. We have a lot going on in Boston and we don't want to lose that momentum."
The search arrives at a critical time. Boston is in the midst of rolling out a new system of evaluating teachers and administrators, and early results are raising concerns about why black and Latino teachers are being placed on improvement plans at higher rates.
School district leaders also are scrambling to prevent a possible state takeover of two schools, and are carefully implementing a new system of assigning students to schools closer to home, the biggest change in student assignment in more than two decades.
Menino has made finding a new superintendent a top priority for his remaining months in office, saying in a speech last week, "I am confident that we will bring the very best educator to Boston to take our school system to the next level."
Dot Joyce, spokeswoman for Menino, said the mayor, who appoints the School Committee and has considerable say over the hiring of a superintendent, has not ruled out bringing in a new school chief before a new mayor is elected, but she stressed any discussion about a timeline was premature.
"Let's get the process started, and then we will make those determinations," she said.
The prospect that Boston's superintendent search could get off on a bumpy start is rekindling memories of the previous search, a long and arduous task that for many turned into a huge embarrassment.
In September 2006, Menino announced with much fanfare that Manuel J. Rivera would become the city's next superintendent, ending a nine-month search marred by repeated delays, accusations of secrecy, and the abrupt withdrawal of most finalists after the Globe revealed their names.
But four months later, Rivera unexpectedly bowed out as contract negotiations soured and after he secured another position with the New York governor's office — angering Menino. Many city politicians blamed Liz Reilinger, then School Committee chairwoman, for the debacle, prompting her to resign as head of the search committee, concerned the criticism would create a distraction in a new search.
"Our failure was we did not nail [Rivera] down on a contract right away," said the Rev. Gregory Groover, a School Committee member who also served on the previous search committee. Groover later co-chaired the search that ultimately lured Johnson from Memphis.
Mary Tamer, another School Committee member who also served on the previous search committee, said, "I would not expect history to repeat itself again."
Boston will face stiff competition for a new superintendent, driven by a dwindling pool of desirable candidates and a high turnover of superintendents across the nation, education specialists said. The American Association of School Administrators estimates that the average tenure in large districts has shrunk to less than three years.
"The superintendency has quickly become one of the toughest jobs in the country, particularly in urban settings," said Domenech. "The economic recession, plus the continued demand for improved performance in those city districts, has made it incredibly tough for individuals to go in there to do the job — in essence to perform miracles to make the kinds of gains that the board and community might be expecting."
Searches are underway in districts including Prince George's County, Md.; Oakland, Calif., New Orleans; Indianapolis; El Paso; Wake County, N.C.; and Camden, N.J. Nevertheless, Boston, long considered a plum assignment, should attract a lot of attention, specialists said.
"They will have more people [applying] than other districts in the country," said Bill Librera, president of the northeast division of Hazard, Young Attea & Associates, an executive search firm headquartered in Illinois. "Boston is and probably will always be a draw as a city and a school district. . . . There isn't reason to be pessimistic about potential responders to the position."
Even against the backdrop of a mayor's race, specialists said highly sought-after candidates would probably agree to be interviewed confidentially in the initial phases of the search, but would probably be reluctant to have their names publicly revealed as finalists until after the mayoral election and, in some cases, after they have an opportunity to meet the new mayor in private.
Seeking a new job can be risky for candidates already serving as superintendents elsewhere, potentially causing their local boards, parents, and teachers to question their commitment to the district. They also would not want to take a job only to discover they do not get along with a new mayor, and may have to start looking for another post again.
Earlier this year, the school board in Prince George's County announced three finalists for superintendent, but all abruptly pulled out because a bill gained momentum in the Legislature that would give the county executive the power to hire the superintendent instead of the school board.
O'Neill said Boston's School Committee most likely will create a search committee to vet the candidates, and that there would be a round of community meetings. He said he hopes the committee will appoint an interim superintendent by the end of May or early June.James Vaznis can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @globevaznis.


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FITCHBURG -- The call comes in and firefighters race to the fire scene.
Upon arrival, they find a fully-involved building, with flames leaping into the sky. Thick, black smoke billows upward over the city, sending ash and embers floating out in all directions. The radiating heat can be felt before they reach the property, and it has already begun to melt the surrounding snow.
The hydrant on the other side of the street is a different story, however.
A week of below-freezing temperatures has completely frozen its port covers shut, and it's the nearest source of water. A firefighter is able to pry one of the cast iron covers off using a hydrant wrench with a connected steel persuader bar for added leverage, but the brass threads break off with it, leaving him unable to attach the valve and hose.
All the firefighter can think about is finding another source of water, because the fire is raging. It spreads with each moment that passes, and the longer it takes to begin dousing it, the more likely it will spread to the adjacent building.
"The first thing is plan B, get water. It doesn't matter if that hydrant doesn't work, it's off the table," said Fire Chief Kevin Roy. "You get another hydrant, get a water supply. You have to think quick, you've got to make a decision."
An event similar to the one described above happened on Wanoosnoc Road Jan. 16, when a faulty snowblower battery charger sparked a two-alarm barn fire. When firefighters arrived on the scene and tried to connect to the nearest hydrant, the threads broke off with the port cover, Roy said.
Luckily, according to Fire Captain Gregg Normandin, occasions such as this don't happen very often. He can remember only one other time, a few years back, when the same thing happened while responding to a train fire in West Fitchburg.
According to Roy, pretty much any equipment that handles water is subject to freezing given the right conditions, regardless of its age. He's found that it's more of a matter of maintenance.
During the two-alarm fire that struck the former Northlander Manufacturing Co. building on Water Street on Dec. 30, 2011, firefighters struggled with multiple problem hydrants, he said. At the time, Roy said, hydrant flushing and flow testing hadn't been conducted for a couple of years. He said that particular fire prompted a closer working relationship with the Water Department, to ensure that city hydrants were being flushed, inspected, lubricated, painted and primed with antifreeze on a regular basis.
Water Commissioner Denis Meunier said all of the city's 1,800 hydrants are now flushed and maintained -- and repaired or replaced, if necessary -- at least once, if not twice, each year, in the spring and the fall. Since July, over $20,000 has been spent on hydrant parts and repairs, and his department has performed work on 48 different hydrants throughout the city since the fall, he said.
There is no city ordinance or law that states how and when fire hydrants must be inspected, Meunier said, but attending to them is "just a general good practice."
As hydrants are flushed, beginning with those at higher elevations first and then moving to those in the lower areas, a maintenance list in order of priority is generated, he said. Sometimes, when a hydrant is, for instance, hit by a car and needs to be replaced, that hydrant would move to the top of the list, Meunier said.
He said he or someone from his department is in contact with Roy after each fire to discuss how the equipment works and if any further maintenance is needed.
Roy said hydrant maintenance has vastly improved over the past year, and that the repair list has gotten considerably smaller. As of Thursday, he knew of only five hydrants marked out of order: 145 Connors St., 350 Madison St., 378 Main St., 938 Main St. and 82 Simonds St.
At the four-alarm fire on Hale Street last Friday, each of the nine hydrants that firefighters tied into to battle the massive blaze that destroyed two buildings worked fine mechanically, Roy said, but they ran into a different problem.
"Because we needed a large volume of water, with the size of fire, we were drawing so much water that some lines had low pressure," he said.
According to Normandin, firefighters tied into six hydrants on one water main and three on the other in the area.
"Every time you open something on the same line, you're losing pressure, you're losing volume," he said.
Normandin likened the situation to an example one might find in the home.
"You have the dishwasher running, you open a valve on the sink, then you flush the toilet. What happens? You lose water pressure and volume in the sink," he said.
According to the Water Department, about 350,000 gallons of water were used to fight the Hale Street fire. Roy said firefighters were using almost 7,000 gallons per minute to fight the fire.
He said he's still not sure what caused the three-story brick Seretto building, built in 1913, to become so engulfed in flames, and no cause has been determined.
"We're getting reports that part of the inside of that building was stripped down the studs," Roy said. "In other words, the walls were gone, and it was just like a lumberyard. So that, when it's wide open, would help the fire spread much quicker."
There have also been reports that the building was full of boxes of firewood. He said the building was pretty secure, with the first floor boarded up.


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The Div. 3A, No. 11 Burroughs girls basketball team trailed 18-2 in the first quarter, but never gave up on itself.
Although the Burros lost to Silverado 67-62 Wednesday in the Burroughs Barn, the Burros showed they are ready to take on any team, anywhere with their performance.
"I told the kids after the game that when we trailed 20-6 at the end of the first quarter, they could have packed it in, but they stayed in it, cut the lead to one in the third quarter and we had a couple chances to maybe tie it up in the end," BHS Coach Robert Campbell said. "I was proud of the way they played. We just ran out of time."
RIDGECREST — The Div. 3A, No. 11 Burroughs girls basketball team trailed 18-2 in the first quarter, but never gave up on itself.
Although the Burros lost to Silverado 67-62 Wednesday in the Burroughs Barn, the Burros showed they are ready to take on any team, anywhere with their performance.
"I told the kids after the game that when we trailed 20-6 at the end of the first quarter, they could have packed it in, but they stayed in it, cut the lead to one in the third quarter and we had a couple chances to maybe tie it up in the end," BHS Coach Robert Campbell said. "I was proud of the way they played. We just ran out of time."
To start the game, Burroughs came out in its man-to-man press, but the Hawks broke it easily with lobs over the top of Burroughs' players trying to deny the basketball. Silverado (3-7, 2-0 in the DSL) scored almost exclusively on layups early in the game in building a big first-quarter lead. With 3 minutes left in the first frame, Silverado held an 18-2 advantage.
"We were a mess in the first quarter. We didn't adjust very well, but once we settled down, we found a rhythm," Campbell said.
By the end of the first quarter, only three Burros had scored points with Silverado leading 20-6. However, the Burroughs press and depth soon began to wear on the Hawks, who were outscored in the next three quarters.
Burroughs (6-3, 2-1 in the DSL) relied on the scoring of Candace Perez, Talia Forsythe, Aubrey Hayes and Joanna O'Neil to start its comeback in the second quarter. The four players accounted for all the Burros points in the frame. Hayes, Perez and Forsythe all had four points in the quarter, while O'Neil had five to cut Silverado's lead to 33-23 by the intermission.
"After we adjusted a little better to what they were doing to us, stopped their inside shots and made them play in the half court, the game changed," Campbell said. "We pressed in the first half to get them tired, because they have only eight players, while we play 10 or 11 people each night."
In the second half, the whole momentum of the game changed in the Burros' favor when they started making crisp passes into the post. Perez, Alex Simmons and Madison Schiller all started to penetrate into the middle of the Hawks' zone defense, then dished the ball off to Forsythe, O'Neil and Jennings for easy baskets.
"Our inside game was really good tonight," Campbell said. "Talia hit some really nice shots, Joanna led us in scoring and Chantia had a nice night as well. They were leaving the inside wide open, so when our guards penetrated, we were making some nice passes. Madison made a couple really nice passes and Candace made some as well."
With the ball movement and an inside scoring presence, the Burros went on a 14-5 run in the middle of the third to cut the Hawks' lead to one at 45-44.
On the defensive side of the ball, the Burros went to their half-court trap to get the ball out of the hands of Ebony Black-Smith, who had 20 points on the night, but had only two in the third quarter. The Burros stuck with their trap for much of the second half, which made Silverado scramble and caused turnovers that led to Burroughs baskets.
"We went to the trap in the second half and it worked. I think if we had another minute, we win that game," Campbell said.
Silverado made a key adjustment at the end of the third period to go to a half-court trap of its own, which led to a couple key turnovers. The Hawks converted the turnovers into more layup opportunities. The Hawks closed the third quarter with a 5-0 run to end the frame, which bounced their lead back up to six, 50-44, heading into the fourth quarter.
"The trap hurt us a little at the end of the third quarter," Campbell said. "We have to go help when one player is getting trapped in the corner. We talked about that yesterday, but we'll continue to work on stuff like that."
In the fourth quarter, Schiller stepped up her game. She hit two big jumpers that kept the game close, while Perez hit another big shot for the Burros to keep the game within striking distance, the Burros couldn't get the ball to a shooter for a 3-point attempt in a couple key situations down the stretch.
"We scored 17 and 21 points in the middle two quarters. We scored 18 in the final quarter," Campbell said. "We just need to start better. We had to climb back from a big deficit early in the game. They only shot 12-of-28 in the second half against us. In the third quarter, we held them to 7-of-17 shooting, so that was huge. We shot 16-of-30 in the second half. We shot over 50 percent."
O'Neil led the Burros in scoring with 16 points and added eight rebounds.
"Joanna had a great game tonight," Campbell said. "She had a great game on both ends of the floor."
Perez had 12 points and seven assists. Forsythe had 10 points. Jennings had six points. Hayes had six points and five rebounds. Schiller had five points. Simmons had four points, while Celsea McGrew had three points.
Campbell said his team must refocus and prepare for Victor Valley at 5:30 p.m. Friday in the Burroughs Barn.
"I told the kids after the game that we have to move on. We have another game on Friday, so we need to bring the same type of intensity we had tonight. We can't sulk about this loss," Campbell said. "Let's learn from it and let's get ready to play on Friday. Our team is starting to learn how to play together and everyone is starting to gel, so that's good. I really saw some things tonight that showed this team isn't a selfish one. We were making sure we were getting the ball to the right person, but we have to keep getting better.
"This was one of those games when you get into the playoffs that you have to win, so it was good that we got to see that tonight."


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KAYSVILLE — David and Nicole Saunders have two sons on missions for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Brian Saunders is in Tallahassee, Fla. and Daniel Saunders is serving in Washington, D.C. All the finances were worked out. All the timelines were set in place.
But that was before LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson announced in October an age change for missionaries. Instead of males having to wait until they were 19 years old to qualify for missionary service, they could now apply to serve at 18 — if they will have graduated from high school. The age requirement for women was lowered from 21 to 19.
The Saunders family was watching the announcement at their home in Kaysville, Utah. Before David Saunders even thought of all the implications, his high school-age son Ammon had already texted, "Great. Now I don't have to go to college (right away). I can go on my mission after high school."
This meant there would be three sons out on missions at the same time.
The Saunders are not alone in having their schedules and finances scrambled by this announcement. But for many parents contemplating how their children's missions would impact them financially, Scott C. Marsh has good news: Sending kids on missions is cheaper than having them at home.
Marsh, the owner of Scott Marsh Financial, a registered investment advisory firm based in Salt Lake City, and a professor of personal finance at BYU, recently asked young women in a large class if they were planning on serving missions before the announcement. He says 39 percent indicated they had planned on going. He then asked how many young women had changed their plans and decided to serve a mission after the announcement. An additional 39 percent had decided to serve.
Financial health first
Bryan Sudweeks, an associate teaching professor of finance at BYU, ties financial mission preparation into the overall financial health of a family.
Sudweeks recommends the website personalfinance.byu.edu for sound financial advice.
"It is important to get our financial houses in order to be an example for our kids," he says.
Jason Palmer, a financial planner with One Financial Advisors in Highland, recommends getting an emergency fund in place with 3 to 6 months worth of living expenses. He also says to begin living as if you have an extra $500 expense in the budget now — which will make it easier to save the money and make sending the money out less jarring when the time comes.
Marsh says having savings for a mission is a good idea because, like an emergency fund, it can prevent obstacles and financial surprises from getting in the way of accepting a call to serve.
He also says saving is good for the potential missionary because it leads them toward supporting themselves on the mission.
Palmer agrees.
"There's just something to being able to say to someone you are teaching, 'I paid my own way here.'" Palmer says. "Parents need to not overlook the value of that and the value of having the potential missionary tapping into his or her own savings."
But even though saving for a mission is a wise way to be prepared for financial surprises and to build a young person's self-esteem, having him or her away on a mission may not be the burden people expect it to be.
Saving souls and dollars
"If you actually do the numbers," Marsh says, "it is less expensive to have a kid on a mission than to have them at home."
In November 1990, the LDS Church announced the standardization of mission costs which, at the time, could vary from $150 to $750 a month. The current standardized cost is $400 for missionaries from the U.S.
On top of this are non service-related expenses that are paid with personal funds, says church spokesman Scott Trotter.
"These expenses may include clothing, bicycles, medical costs not paid by the mission, phone calls home and other personal expenses," Trotter says.
But how do these expenses all add up against having a child at home?
Marsh takes conservative estimates of average income from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's "Cost of Raising a Child Calculator."
For a family making $58,000 a year or less:
— Transportation costs for a child are about $2,150
— Clothing is about $988
— Education is about $1,150
— Other expenses are about $900
This is a total of about $5,188 a year saved in expenses by not having a child at home.
With tax advantages added in and the cost of the mission taken out, Marsh says it is about $1,348 a year cheaper to have a kid out on a mission.
To outfit a missionary, however, can cost anywhere from $800 to $2,000. Marsh says this could be paid for by the money saved by having the missionary out serving. He also says in some areas a missionary may receive close to $1,500 in cash donations from relatives and ward members.
Marsh jokes that when he has shown these numbers to faculty and staff at BYU, some parents have suggested that the church's next big missionary announcement could be that missionaries could serve twice as long.
But these numbers are averages and not every missionary has the support of family to this extent. Others want to pay for their mission as much as they are able.
A great problem
Sarah Martin in Highland is a junior who has been going to Utah State University for two years. The way her life's schedule had been going, she was not planning on going on a mission.
"Now, with the age change, it seems like it is the perfect time," she says.
Martin has been working two jobs — only the money she was saving for college is now going toward her mission.
"My parents are awesome and support me 100 percent," she says. "They would pay for it, but they would like me to pay for as much as I can so I would value it more."
Martin says she just finished filling out the paperwork and was planning on meeting with her bishop to move the process forward.
The opportunity to serve a mission has opened up for many who didn't plan to go or to go so soon. For Palmer, this is a great problem to have.
"There are some financial challenges that are not pleasant," he says. "Often my clients are dealing with an unexpected illness or a disability something bordering on the tragic. These things are why we have emergency funds and are prepared. But a 'problem' such as not knowing how you are going to come up with the money so your child can go do spiritual voluntary service? That's pretty awesome. It is great for people to come up with solutions for things that are positive."
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Just playing devils advocate here but read the following paragraph.
"A more reasonable example: Is it stupid to expect the computer to save the work automatically? Imagine Bob, a person new to computers, who types for an half an hour or so, assuming that the program automatically preserves his work, then when closing the program, misinterpets the do you want to save? dialog as "do you want to save the last few minutes of work?" and answers no. Interfaces need automatic save, which would make it easier for both acclimated and unaclimated users."
If Bob Misinterprets the dialog as "do you want to save the last few minutes of work?" and answers no, then automatic saving would be doing EXACTLY what he doesn't want to do by saving his work automatically. How is this helpful?
I sort of agree with the original posters point of view. If people are unwilling to read important dialogs and end up losing their work then screw them. It isn't a flaw in the design of the OS or application.


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WILMINGTON, Mass. — The David Krejci-less Bruins practiced again today at Ristuccia Arena before departing for Pittsburgh and their first game at the brand-new CONSOL Energy Center.
The last time the Bruins visited the Steel City, of course, Marc Savard suffered his serious concussion at the hands of Matt Cooke's check to the head at the old Civic Arena.
That play helped spark the movement for a new league-wide rule against hits to the head and also caused a maelstrom about the Bruins' lack of toughness. Some perceived Boston's decision not to immediately retaliate against Cooke as a major sign of weakness.
Eventually, the Bruins and Penguins met again, this time in Boston. And Shawn Thornton answered the bell by fighting Cooke on his first shift of the night:
While Savard is out of the lineup again due to complications from that concussion after a brief return in the playoffs, Cooke is still skating a regular shift for the Pens after re-signing in the offseason. There could be opportunity for more revenge, but Bruins head coach Claude Julien believes his club has turned the page.
"I don't think really, unless you guys ask those questions, it hasn't been talked about," said Julien after practice. "At one point, you have to move forward with your team and let things happen the way they should – simple as that. If we want to keep wanting the revenge here the next two, three years, I think we're losing a lot of focus on what we have to do right now. If he reacts in a certain way that deserves retribution, we'll deal with it then."
As for Thornton, he makes less $1 million per season, so he decided to side-step any Cooke-themed questions as to avoid any monetary punishment from the NHL.
"I'm going to avoid the question all together," he said.


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COAL CITY — It took Coal City 10 seconds to take its first lead of the season. Thirty-one minutes and 50 seconds later, the Coalers had their first blowout win.
In between, the outcome was rarely in doubt as the Coalers prevailed 55-28 in the varsity boys basketball season opener for both teams at the 2012 Coaler Turkey Tournament. They were ahead 14-5 by the end of the first quarter and 35-9 at halftime.
"We knew we had a great opportunity to come out with a lot of returning guys and three-year players and set the tone for the season," Coal City forward Nick Peters said after scoring a career-high 21 points and adding 10 rebounds. "I couldn't have told you the score would be what it was, but we felt we had the opportunity to take it to them."
A Brennen Shetina three-pointer was the first basket of the season for the Coalers, but from there, they scored exclusively on two-pointers and free throws. The short-range shooting paid off early, as Coal City was 14-for-30 from the field in the first half. GSW, meanwhile, suffered through a 4-for-28 half and a 13-for-51 night in coach Justin Stevenson's debut.
"I thought we had some open looks, including some easy ones, and missing us got us down and took us out of what we were looking to do," Stevenson said. "My hat's off to (the Coalers). We knew their gameplan would be to go inside, and we allowed them to do that with far too much success."
Coal City turned the ball over once in the entire first half.
"Our big thing is to take care of the ball," Coal City coach Brad Boresi said. "It's something we have struggled with the past two years with many of these same kids. It's good to see that we've made progress and that our hard work in taking care of the basketball may be paying off."
Shetina finished with 11 points and had two steals for the Coalers. They got six points and five rebounds from Lane Cowherd.
"Gardner had some uncharacteristic misses," Boresi said. "All summer, one of our focuses was on playing better man-to-man defense. That's something we haven't done well enough in the past, and it was the key coming into this year. One of our goals is to hold opponents under 40 points, but if we can hold them under 30, we'll certainly take that."
Tristan Noonan and Dalton Wright tied for the GSW team lead in points with 6, and Noonan added a team-high seven rebounds.
Coalers thump Panthers at Turkey Tournament
COAL CITY — It took Coal City 10 seconds to take its first lead of the season. Thirty-one minutes and 50 seconds later, the Coalers had their first blowout win.


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Is it any wonder Andy Green draws standing-room-only crowds for his yearly barbeque? Who wouldn't want to attend a Corvette party that includes free dyno pulls, free labor on bolt-on parts installations, free food and drinks, and a raffle for prizes ranging from coolers and T-shirts to a complete supercharger kit? Throw in gorgeous weather; live music; vendor booths from Wilwood, Air Flow Research, Vortech, Adams Car Care, and more; and the camaraderie of mingling with like-minded C5 and C6 nuts, and you have a must-do affair to put on your calendar.
Andy has thrown this bash for a number of years now as his way of saying "thank you" to the customers who have made his tuning business so successful. Attendance has grown with each party, and this year, the overflow of Vettes filled block after block around A&A's Oxnard, California, facility.
New this year was the appearance of several C6 Z06s. Some were bone stock; others had already been leaned on. At least one was a clone-Andy is turning a standard C6 into a Z06 with "everything a Z06 has and more," including a C5-R-based 427 fed by a humongous Vortech blower. (We plan to show you more of this car in a future story.)
The lure of free dyno time invariably draws some high-powered cars to Andy's picnic, and this year was no different. Several Vettes, many familiar to this magazine's readers, spun the drums to well over 600 hp. We would have had even more, but several guys confided to us that their cars weren't quite ready to enter this high-stakes game. "We'll be ready next year," they assured us.
Gary Sage
Tarzana, CA
'03 Z06, 819 Hp/693 Lb-Ft
This ghost-flamed Z has made several previous appearances in VETTE, including on the cover of the Oct. '05 issue and as a participant at Andy's barbeque that same year. In 2005, Gary's 756-horse pull was the second best of the day; this year, he was at the top of the class with over 800 wheel horsepower. The difference? Andy swapped the ProCharger F-1R supercharger Gary had on his Vette's 427 for an A&A Vortech system using a YSi-trim head unit. When asked how much boost the blower was pushing, Gary said, "When your foot's in it, who has time to look at gauges?"
Never satisfied, Gary was talking to Andy at the party about making even more power. The C5-R-based engine is torn down yet again, awaiting a set of LS7 heads and new headers.
Engine: 427ci C5-R block
Reciprocating Assembly: 4-inch Callies crank, Eagle rods, Diamond pistons, 9.5:1 compression ratio
Heads: AFR 225cc
Cam: Custom grind with 232-/238-degree duration
Intake Manifold: 90mm F.A.S.T.
Throttle Body: 90mm LS2
Power Adder: A&A Vortech system with YSi-trim supercharger, Vortech blow-off valve
Exhaust: Custom headers
Other Parts: Exedy dual-disc clutch
Rick Sperling
Granada Hills, CA
'01 C5 640 hp/547 lb-ft
Rick's bright-yellow C5 is another former VETTE cover car (Sept. '05), and it, too, has received some significant upgrades since then. In 2005, Rick had modified the basically stock LS1 with a Magna Charger and bigger injectors, netting him 443 horses at the wheels. This year, he came to Andy's party with a new ProCharger centrifugal blower in place of the roots-style Magna, AFR 225 heads (Rick is president of Air Flow Research), a Comp Cams bumpstick, headers, and more. A&A and GRC Performance did the installation and tuning work; the results speak for themselves.
But Rick's not done, either. There's a methanol-injection system in the works that he hopes will add another 50 rwhp. We plan to cover that install and bring you the results in a future issue.
Engine: 346ci LS1 block
Reciprocating Assembly: Stock, 10:1 compression ratio
Heads: AFR 225cc
Cam: Comp Cams 220-/228-degree duration, 0.581-/0.581-inch lift
Intake Manifold: 90mm F.A.S.T
Throttle Body: 90mm LS2
Power Adder: ProCharger D-1SC with twin intercoolers
Exhaust: Kooks 171/48-inch headers, C5 Z06 exhaust
Other Parts: Yank/Gear Star/American Performance 4L80E transmission, Yank 3,400-stall converter, Baer brakes
Joel Feingold
Los Angeles, CA
'98 C5, 626 hp/587 lb-ft
A big gun in 2005, Joel made the cut again this time around. And like our other heavy hitters, he came back and made even bigger numbers than before. Unlike the others, the changes Joel made during the year were limited to a bigger aftercooler tank. But it-working in tandem with a Vortech T-trim blower and methanol injection-was good enough to bump up his Vette's output from last year's 613 to 626 hp. And that was late in the day when the air in the A&A dyno cell was hot, smoggy, and far from optimal.
Engine: 346ci LS6 block
Reciprocating Assembly: Stock crank, Eagle rods, Diamond forged pistons, 9.2:1 compression ratio
Heads: CNC-ported LS6
Cam: Comp Cams 220-/226-degree duration, 0.560-/0.569-inch lift
Intake Manifold: Stock LS6
Throttle Body: Ported LS6
Fuel System: 55-pound Siemens injectors, custom fuel system with LP in-tank pump, inline Bosch pump, surge tank with Kenne Bell Boost-A-Pump, fuel-pressure regulator
Power Adder: Vortech T-trim supercharger, methanol injection
Exhaust: Kooks headers, LG Motorsports 3-inch X pipe, Borla Stinger exhaust
Other Parts: C5-R springs, QA1 adjustable shocks, T-1 sway bars, Brembo brakes, Nitto NT-01 tires on HRE wheels
Steve Bastow
Santa Monica, CA
'06 Z06, 471 hp/447 lb-ft
Steve's Vette is a little different than the other cars profiled here-his was the most powerful stock C6 Z to cross the A&A dyno on party day. Steve's car was just the 37th Z06 built, and he was delighted to pick it up from Bowling Green.
Andy Green
Oxnard, CA
'05 C6 "Unfinished Project," 512 hp/458 lb-ft
Leave it to Andy to turn over 500 hp in a car he isn't even finished with yet. This black C6 actually belongs to one of Andy's customers, actor Adrien Brody, and it's on its way to being much more than you see here. At the party, the car still had its LS2 motor, fitted with a Vortech V-1 supercharger. Eventually the car will get one of A&A's forged 427s and probably a bigger huffer, with the goal of achieving 850 rwhp and more than 700 lb-ft of torque.


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I lock them in my basement, then Christopher Walken and I prank them.
If that doesn't work, go to their offices and switch off the main power panel a few times until they get the hint.
Also helps against neighbours who play loud music in the middle of the night...
Document it thoroughly and submit a report to the authorities. If that doesn't work, go to their offices and switch off the main power panel a few times until they get the hint.
I was thinking more along the lines of thermite bomb on top of the main building transformer. Problem is that their servers are probably virtualized on some offshore blade farm.
No, their host is theplanet.com in texas. (do an nslookup on their latest site name theutraining.com - 188.8.131.52 - they keep changing it, for obvious reasons).
Report it to email@example.com
...If that doesn't work, go to their offices and switch off the main power panel a few times until they get the hint.
Uhhh...yeah...speaking of "laws against that"...
Next time you send them an email or letter, be sure to CC your Attorney General.
How can we, collectively, take action to make them understand that we do not like their mass mailing practice?
Are you under the impression that spam continues because people think we like it? That if they only understood how much we don't like it, they would stop?
How can we, collectively, take action to make them understand that we do not like their mass mailing practice?
Are you under the impression that spam continues because people think we like it? That if they only understood how much we don't like it, they would stop?
I just hope that doesn't mean you are one of the mindless masses who believes that spam is sent out purely to make people angry or waste their time. People of even moderate intellect realize that spam is all about money, and the only way to stop the spam is to stop the flow of money to the spammers - or at least make it more difficult for them to get so much money so easily.
I always wondered who would even read a spam message, let alone respond to it. Has anyone here ever met someone who bought something off a spam email? Someone must be doing it, I just can't imagine who.
The issue with spam is that it is so cheap that even incredibly low rates of return can still be profitable. Like one in a million rates of return, or even the prospect of one day getting a single hit.
People fall for those Nigerian prince scams a few times per year.. reasonable to expect if someone can fall for that, someone can fall for anything. More importantly, the cost per spam is so cheap that even if you only get a few people per million emails, you probably make money.
Commerce isn't the majority of spam these days... most of it (that I've ever seen that is) is worm chatter. Bots trying to spread the infection.
Alternatively, make their expenses exceed the income or make the degradation to their quality of life exceed the value they derive (tell their kids "your daddy is a dirty spammer and the whole world hates him").
One must be careful not to cross any legal boundaries, but that leaves plenty of room for a bit of personal feedback when you know their physical location.
Correct. It continues because they think it is effective.
Contact the group being advertised for.
Tell them you will not use their services, explain why (including the firm).
Don't use their services.
Thus the issue is being handled at the wrong end. Create a spam system yourself, and spam Quebec. Some small number of people will respond positively to your campaign. Use the profits from the campaign to hire assassins and have those people killed.
When you can no longer afford to hire killers to eliminate people that respond positively to spam, the problem will have been defacto resolved.
In order to eliminate ethical concerns, this process should probably be automated - otherwise the profits might actually
1) Start a business.
2) Send spam, ostensibly advertising your competitors.
4) Profit!
True. The thing with spam, like much advertising, is that it's based on wishful thinking and something almost like superstition. They spend money on advertising, and unless they're a huge megacorporation doing serious market research, they just sort of hope that it pays off. Unless there is a big dive in profits that correlates with a marketing campaign, ideally with many angry letters to give the marketroids a hint at what's going on, they'll assume it's all hunky-dory.
They spam, profits are roughly the sa
You can even take the "think" out of there..
Spam is effective because it's ultra cheap and there are just enough people who will go for it.
I have done this once or twice. Its amazing how much people don't get it when you call up complaining about their advertising practices.
Generally the people willing to advertise with spam are of the opinion that, if you don't want their service, you should just hit delete, and not call them.
Report them to their ISP.
How can we, collectively, take action to make them understand that we do not like their mass mailing practice?
Are you under the impression that spam continues because people think we like it? That if they only understood how much we don't like it, they would stop?
Are you under the impression that spam continues for the fun of it, just to annoy people?
Root cause analysis my friend. There would be no spam if there were not plenty of idiots still generating click revenue behind it.
Rather, his request is a thinly-veiled plea for vigilante/mass action from the Slashdot community. That kind of making them understand.
Like calling 1.800.861.6618 [theutraining.com] or emailing them at firstname.lastname@example.com [mailto] (ooh, that's the first time I've made a mailto link in a
Which could actually happen, I wouldn't be surprised. I stand by, curiously awaiting report of the results.
as for unsubscribing, well, that just shows them that a live human actually is at that address and reading email from spammers.. Goldstrike if you called and unsubscribed.
If they use the unsubscribe link in order to actively maintain you on their list, that smells like fraud to me.
Remember that something doesn't have to be in direct contravention of your country's Data Protection Act (or equivalent) to be spam -- contract law still holds, and if they offer a way to unsubscribe, you take it and they don't unsubscribe you, that's a breach of agreed terms.
Yes, and considering the value of the relationship you can sue to collect your $0. The "agreed terms" are certainly being abrogated but you do not have anything of value happening here.
A court is more likely to fine you for wasting their time.
actually, they somehow seem not to like when people call them. i usually look up some number, cal it. i start with "hi, do you receive spam ?" - "um... yes" (who doesn't ?) - "do you like it ?" - "...no" (some get suspicious here, some don't) - "then why do you send spam ?"
and here i take some time to rant about spam. sometimes they are very like "sorry" and such, then i just rant for a while. sometimes they are aggressive and go like "what's your problem, just delete it" - then i become slightly more rude,
this. Occupy their main office. Bill them for their services of delivering you junk mail. Submit to collection agencies. Show up at their houses. The usual stuff.
I suppose "high explosives" wasn't the answer the guy was looking for.
Really, it's the only way to get through to some people.
dun dun duh.....
Add a entry in your mail server to drop everything from their netblock. Better yet, block them at your DNS, too.
Publicise the names and personal details of their CEO and board of directors.
Subscribe their email addresses to every spam product and service you can find.
Or better, pull a Ralsky on 'em... http://slashdot.org/story/02/12/06/1554227/howto-annoy-a-spammer [slashdot.org]
Get together a list of people who are willing to take action. Get board member and managment phone numbers.
Start calling them, 24/7. No person call more than once a day. Coordinate times, so that they receive calls every ten minutes, 24 hours a day. It is important that no one person call more than once per day. If you have 140 people, you can call every ten minutes for an entire day with no duplicates. If the phone answers, provide a polite, succinct message such as, "Please stop sending me email".
and I work on the other end, supporting a few million email accounts. I like ESPs like you, because you work diligently to keep your senders on the up and up, but this scumbag will just move on to some other ESP, or worse, start connecting with hosted email providers like us, and spam from there.
There is no way to defend against it EXCEPT to put their phone numbers and domains in black lists from the start. That, and as per a suggestion above, kill it with fire.
Have you considered taking them to court?
Or you could just filter or even tarpit their mail servers and forget about it. If you use free webmail just click the spam button on each mail and sooner or later they will get blocked.
I think there are a few companies like that. I get constant spam from a bunch of jokers calling themselves clubline football.
The CAN-SPAM act loses what little punch it has as soon as you cross the state line from New York into Quebec . . .
The first sentence of the summary says
For years, a business named Compu-Finder has been sending spam all around the province of Quebec, Canada
Is CAN-SPAM Canadian?
Is CAN-SPAM Canadian?
CAN-SPAM. Canadian-SPAM Act. Makes perfect sense to me.
cosumer rights here are shit. Get some signs, friends and park your ass at their door. Piitch forks could be used if not enough sings are available.
Ah, but it's Quebec.
Make sure they follow the language laws, if not, report them to the language police. They're apparently quite vicious.
Also, Quebec has very special status in Canada since they basically want to do everything themselves and only give token attention to Ottawa (they have their own sales tax - QST, that the Harper Government (tm) is paying $4B or so for them to change it to an "H" to implement the HST which would do the same thing). Quebec can easily make it very hard for a business that's not obeying its laws to do business inside Quebec, even if they're not in Quebec.
It's why in Canada there's lots of things that are "excluding Quebec" - not just sweepstakes/lottos/etc, but also products that basically are unavailable to be shipped to Quebec. They have the requisite French, but they don't meet some other part of Quebec law and are therefore disallowed.
Quebec has a special legal status in Canada because Canada is still, last I checked, a federation.
That being said, Francophones are welcoming, friendly people. Some people live here without ever uttering a French word and Quebecois go out of their way to accommodate them. Those who want to learn French are actually annoyed by it.
Montreal is a truly multicultural city, and every small culture is free to express itself, in all manners, restaurants, soccer team fans, and they are and do feel appreciated.
Look a
Small claims courts are easier if you're a local. There's no way I could sue them, but you could.
Just block their domain and get on with your life. If you value your time at, say, $20/hr, how much are you willing to spend in order to get nothing in return?
Ironically, getting nothing is exactly what he wants. It's funny how much time we spend trying to get people to stop wasting our time.
After all the spam I've gotten in the past ~15 years? If I found out there was a spammer in my own city, I'd be willing to spend at least a couple of evenings trying to shut them down.
If all you are interested in is money, then indeed the best thing is to do nothing. If however you value other things, then the return might be worth it.
Not everything can be easily calculated in an amount of dollars.
At first glance we see this is the personally efficient way to handle the situation. Block their mail and move on. But then we might wonder if we're being a little selfish, not engaging our computer skills to help out others, the many others who are negatively affected by this spam. A little altruism is generally recognized as a noble thing...
This could lead us to thinking about the systems that have been developed for reporting spam, how individuals have been empowered to spend little effort in reporting, and how, when summed, that individually trivial effort, of thousands and thousands of people, collectively makes powerful anti-spam effect.
Then maybe we complete the circle, realizing that we are the beneficiaries of these powerful anti-spam systems, that our time is greatly saved by these systems, and that we are not just being altruistic in our contributions, we are helping ourselves.
The personally efficient way to handle many things is this way, being helpful to the larger community that you are by nature a member of, and personally capitalizing on the beneficial effects of the economies of scale and other mass dynamics/synergistic effects.
This is where selfishness meets altruism. So, why not help others, when you are really helping yourself?
Just block their domain and get on with your life. If you value your time at, say, $20/hr, how much are you willing to spend in order to get nothing in return?
The satisfaction of seing a spammer ruined would be worth several hours of my time for me. Sure it is pure and evil revenge. However, doing to them the only thing that makes them stop is... well, the only road you can take to eventually make them stop.
Blocking their domain seems like the low-cost solution. Until you realize that you need to block not only their domain, but hundreds of others as well. Increasing the risk of spamming by making them pay, on the other hand, has effects beyond the one you sued o
I heard on IRC that they use pirated software to spam, although I have no first hand knowledge or documentation. Are there not paramilitary heavily armed SWAT team like organizations that break down doors, like we have in the land-of-the-unfree to your south?
Also CP is sold by spammers, and they are spammers, so they probably traffic in CP, correct? The legal system loves to bust CP distributors.
I've had the issues as the original poster. So, about 6 years ago, when I was about to change email addresses anyway, I signed up for an account at Spamgourmet.com [spamgourmet.com]. I hoped that I would never need to worry about unsubscribing again.
It works perfectly. I place unique characters in every address that I give out online. The first 'n' messages to a particular address get forwarded to my main address. After that, they get eaten by spamgourmet. I have to manually increase the limit or designate an exclusive
Right here. [amazon.com]
Within a week after I had been contacted by one drug spammer that I sued, my spam load went down by 50%.
Another Spammer I sued, put in place a strong anti-spam policy and apparently quite effective.
When I went after Avtech Direct (Arlene Sediqzad and Gary Hunziker ) for spamming, I also helped arrange 21 lawsuits against them. After this was over, Sediqzad told me she wish she never heard of e-mail, and had not heard of it until Gary Hunziker got her into using it. Another spammer, Robert Smoley [sun-sentinel.com], stopped, only because he was charged, pled guilty, and sentenced to 40 months. They also seized over $40M of money and property from him. I think that is one of my most productive 45 minute phone calls with an IRS agent ever.
But this company you talk to is like Smoley, or Ralsky who needs to be sued multiple times or imprisoned for a while before they stop spamming.
Make sure every Spammer and their dog knows their business email address. And keep an eye open for changes to follow suit.
Then the harassment will stop.
We need a few examples made.
Nah, firebombs are too impersonal, and then you need a message sent out of band...messy.
Far better to do it up Cartel style...find them... leave them hanging from bridges, with the word "Spammer" cut crudely into their flesh.
It may be tempting to scrap "OPT OUT" followed by your email address... but this is not recommended for reasons that are left as an exercise for the reader.
Which is not to say the former action is recommended, mind you. However, I am pretty sure that I wouldn't cry over the brutal loss
Or, even better, if you can get their fax number how about full-color Goatse in the mail or by fax? By email too, but Goatse coming out of a fax machine seems like it would be a nice gift to send them.
I read about someone who responded to them with a carefully written contract, saying that they have the email address for business purposes, and by emailing him at that address, they were entering into a business relationship with him. In doing so, they were liable for his billing purposes, and that every email would be billed at his normal billing, in hour increments.
And that continuing to email him was considered an agreement of terms. And ask them to kindly provide their billing address.... and legal ser
It rhymes with "shmashmit shmurder".
The legislation hasn't been passed yet, but it's on the table.
Sue them! That's the American way! Or do Le Québécois not think they are in North America?
Send them an email, carboned to every email address for everybody in the company you can find. That email says something along the lines of:
I am getting a large amount of spam emails from your company. I have tried normal channels to get them to stop, but they have actually gotten worse. I am appealing to you to put a halt to these emails. I will forward you examples of the emails I have received.
Then set up an auto-forward rule that forwards every single spam to that same list, with the text:
Here is an example of the spam I am receiving from your company. As I acquire more examples, I will forward them on as well.
I bet they'll stop in a few days.
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Staff Assembly Minutes
November 10, 2011
Call to Order: Noon
Approval of Minutes: A motion was made and seconded to approve the October minutes. Motion passed.
Introduction of New Staff: Briana White, the new Senior Administrative Assistant for the POST Academy, was introduced.
Legislative Update—John Martin, Vice President of Communications & Marketing
Vice President Martin discussed the upcoming legislative session which starts the second week of January and continues through March or early April.
NIC's most important task in the legislative cycle is to pass the college budget. The state's economy is always a factor, and our funding has decreased over the last three years to the 2001 level. North Idaho College has three sources of funding:
- State funding
- Tuition & fees
- Kootenai County homeowner property taxes
The good news for the 2012 legislative session is that the state is projecting potential for a small surplus, which is a good indicator of no additional cuts to state funding.
Anticipated upcoming legislation issues include:
- Proposed re-districting of trustees proposed by Frank Henderson of Post Falls for the second year in a row, which would create sub-districts within each taxing district. NIC will oppose that initiative and lobby to keep our current system.
- Expect the initiative regarding weapons on campus to re-surface, which proposes that local boards of trustees should not be allowed to restrict people who are permitted to carry weapons on campus. We can expect the NRA to provide strong backing. NIC is developing rationale to fight this initiative.
- NIC is working to develop potential sources of additional revenue. One possibility is based on the tuition reimbursement from other counties. Currently home counties of nonresident students reimburse the college for a maximum of $500/semester, up to a total aggregate reimbursement of $3000 per student We propose raising the total maximum reimbursement to $6000.
- We will request capital funding for a new career and technical facility at Workforce Training as well as expansion of the Meyer Health Science Building.
John will be retiring from NIC in January. Mark Browning, currently the Communications and Legislative Coordinator at the Idaho State Board of Education, has been hired as NIC's new Vice President of Communications and Marking.
Long-Range Visioning and Planning (Erin Norvell)
The November committee meeting is today and revisions are still being made, with plans for the committee to bring their recommendations to the Board of Trustees for a final decision. For current updates and to submit your feedback, go to the Long-Range Visioning and Planning home page http://www.nic.edu/lrvp/.
St. ASNIC Food Drive (Erin Norvell)
We will again be collecting food donations around campus for the St. ASNIC event on December 7th. Email updates on drop-off locations will be coming your way.
Construction Updates (Garry Stark)
- The opening date for the road through the Ed Corridor is next Tuesday with a ribbon cutting ceremony in the log yard by Academic Way.
- There will be over 500 new parking spots in the Ed Corridor.
- The city passed the PUD request with the requirement that 10% of the property is set aside as green space.
- The sea wall is slated for repairs and a fence will be installed.
- Paving of the Centennial Trail will start this week.
- New handicapped parking spots are being added on campus.
- New ADA ramps are being installed by Molstead Library now. We have spent a total of $25,000 on ADA access ramps and sidewalk repair around campus.
- New LED lights have replaced the sodium lights around campus. The new lights are much brighter and more energy efficient. The money for the project came from an Avista rebate thanks to the efforts of Bill McElver and his crew.
- The old boathouse is gone, making way for a new pole building structure.
- Two new docks have replaced the old NIC docks. Replacement of the ramps is pending; Sarah Fladeland is working on a grant for ADA accessible docks that will eliminate the steep incline.
- Some of the concrete pile leftover from the mill demolition will be recycled to use on new parking lots as needed for Phase 1B. This has turned out to be a cost savings to NIC, since new crushed concrete would have cost $20/yard.
Board Update (Erin Norvell)
The approval of departmental projects for the 1.8 million in state surplus funds will have a second reading next month. The monument sign is on hold for now due to design and placement issues.
Employee Day (Erin Norvell)
Employee Day is on February 21st. We'll have a keynote speaker in the morning, with the afternoon reserved for department activities. We are calling for presenters, so contact Erin or Hiedi Schrader with suggestions.
NIC Holiday Party—December 9th
Shout-Out: Vonnie Kerr recognized Leslie Slinkard and Robin McLeod in Accounts Payable. Way to go, ladies!
Adjourned: 1:00 pm


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.. and thin is the new Bold. Hey, I'm on a fontroll today. It's an official word now.
I mentioned the Bold font in passing again when the Bold forum announced its imminent demise (*sob*) - but Kenneth Pilo who founded Bold as an advertising and design forum as well as site in Sweden isn't the lazy type (he's even managed to spawn four times though I hear his missus did a lot of the grunt work, pun intented and seriously bad) so he created the Bold font as well as the now skinny version of it. Pilo thin is what happens if you remove the meat from the bold, yes, it's the line left. I like that. Like the size 0 of famous fonts. Check it.


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Practices Open to Public
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Yale's pre-season practice schedule, which is open to the public, is under way and includes single and double sessions up to the start of classes on Aug. 28, followed by afternoon sessions leading up to the Sept. 21 opener at Colgate.
The Elis are typically on the field from 9 to 11:45 in the morning. If there is a second on-field workout that day, it would be for an hour starting at 4:15. The normal exceptions would be scrimmages, including the 1 p.m. Sept. 7 contest at Brown.
The Bulldogs practice on real grass and synthetic surfaces next to Yale Field and the DeWitt Cuyler Track. The finishing touches are currently being applied to the newest artificial turf, on Clint Frank Field, which will be available to the team in a few weeks. Frank Field is used for both practices and JV games.
Brown came to the Bowl last September (see photo) to scrimmage, so this year's meeting is at Providence, two weeks before the Ivy League teams kick off the 2013 season. The two meet again in November on the Class of 1954 Field.
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No. 21 UNLV beats UTEP 62-60
- Associated Press
- December 17, 2012 - 10:09 PM
EL PASO, Texas - Bryce DeJean-Jones scored 12 points and Anthony Marshall added 11 for No. 21 UNLV in a 62-60 victory over UTEP on Monday night.
Jaques Streeter scored with 27 seconds left to UNLV's lead to two points. DeJean-Jones had an opportunity to make it a two-possession game but missed two free throws with 15 seconds left.
Konner Tucker had a last-second opportunity for the Miners after taking an inbounds pass from the far sideline for a 3-point attempt which bounced up and off the rim.
Katin Reinhardt scored 10 points for UNLV (9-1), which had a 17-2 run in the first half and still led by as many as 15 points in the second half before the Miners started their closing run. Anthony Bennett added 10 points — nine in the second half — for UNLV.
Julian Washburn had 13 points and Tucker, playing in his first game at UTEP, added 12.
UNLV shot 44.9 percent from the field and made 10 of 18 free throws, seven in the second half. The Runnin' Rebels were 8 for 17 from 3-point range, hitting six in the first half.
Momentum shifted toward UTEP after an altercation near the UNLV bench. After officials reviewed tape, DeJean-Jones was assessed a dead-ball technical with 10:05 left in the game. C.J. Cooper missed the free throw and UNLV held the big lead for another couple of minutes before UTEP slowly worked the deficit down thanks to a clutch 3 from John Bohannon before the shot-clock buzzer and free throws from Streeter and Tucker down the stretch.
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Thanks to Reginald T. for the following WWE SmackDown! spoilers from Spokane, Washington. These will air this Friday on SyFy:
Dark Match:
* Johnny Curtis defeated Ted DiBiase
WWE SmackDown! (Airing Friday):
* World Champion Randy Orton opens the show but is interrupted by Christian. He talks about Over the Limit and challenges Orton to another match. Sheamus and Mark Henry both interrupt. Teddy Long comes out and says the same guys are still arguing about a title shot. Christian vs. Henry vs. Sheamus is booked for tonight's main event.
* Sin Cara defeated Chavo Guerrero in their rematch from Sunday. This was better than the pay-per-view match.
* Cody Rhodes and his employees brought out more brown bags. Cody insulted the crowd until he was interrupted by Daniel Bryan to a pretty big pop from his homestate crowd.
* Daniel Bryan beat Cody Rhodes with the LaBell Lock. After the match, Cody Rhodes attacked him, layed him out with a CrossRhodes and put a brown bag over his head.
* Booker T enters the ring and invites Michael Cole in. Booker talked about Cole losing to Jerry Lawler at OTL and applauded him for apologizing on RAW. Booker wants Cole to apologize to the SmackDown fans. Booker played Cole by ducking his handshake and showing a pic of Lawler's foot in his face. Booker gave Cole mints like Lawler did on RAW.
* Backstage interview with Christian.
* Kane defeated The Great Khali. Jinder Mahal came out after the match and shoved Ranjin Singh. Khali went to help Ranjin up but ended up crushing him with the vice grip. Mahal and Khali left together.
* Ezekiel Jackson beat Heath Slater by DQ when The Corre interfered while Zeke was controlling the match.
* Backstage interview with Sheamus talking about the main event.
* Tamina and Alicia Fox beat AJ Lee and Kaitlyn, who had Natalya at their side. Alicia hit the axe kick for the win.
* Sheamus defeated Mark Henry and Christian to become the new #1 contender to Randy Orton's World Heavyweight Title.
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Manchester United have joined Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur in the race to sign highly-rated Feyenoord star Jordy Clasie, reports the Daily Express.
The 21-year-old midfielder is widely regarded as one of the hottest prospects in the Eredivisie at the moment, and has been likened in playing style to Barcelona maestro Xavi Hernandez.
Gunners boss Arsene Wenger has been credited with an interest in bringing Clasie to the Emirates Stadium, while Andre Villas-Boas is believed to have identified the Dutchman as a long-term replacement for Scott Parker at White Hart Lane.
However, both Spurs and Arsenal will face competition from Premier League leaders Manchester United, with Sir Alex Ferguson also weighing up a bid for the £6.5million-rated midfielder.
The Red Devils manager wants to strengthen his Old Trafford options in the middle of the park ahead of the 2013/14 campaign, and according to Spanish website fichajes.com, Clasie is the man on the 71-year-old Scot's summer wish-list.
Clasie has impressed in 34 appearances for Feyenoord this season, scoring two goals and making numerous assists, catching the eye of a number of top European clubs, including Serie 'A side Fiorentina, who are thought to be the only club to make a firm offer for the player's services.
Last month, Feyenoord's technical director Martin Van Geel was quoted by the Daily Mail: "We do not need to sell him, nor do we particularly want to, but we have to think of the player's ambitions and evaluate the offers from other clubs.
"There is an offer from Fiorentina, but we'll only discuss it at the end of the season. Right now the players must focus only on Feyenoord."
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BEAR Data Solutions today announced it has been named to CRN's third annual list of the Tech Elite 250. Companies on the 2013 Tech Elite 250 list represent an elite group of IT solution providers that have invested in the training and education needed to earn the most advanced technical certifications in the IT Channel for data center or cloud.
In compiling the list, CRN editors worked with the UBM Tech Channel research group and a team of outside experts to define the most customer-beneficial technical certifications in the IT channel. These technical certifications have enabled solution providers to deliver the most premium products, service and support to their North American customers.
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"The 2013 Tech Elite 250 list recognizes an exclusive group of solution providers that have invested in training and technical know-how to help their customers understand the benefits of some of the most sophisticated technology deployments in the market – and have shown a dedication to helping customers innovate while reducing costs," said Kelley Damore, Senior Vice President, Editorial Director at UBM Tech Channel. "By identifying and adapting to the skills and training needed to best serve today's customers, members of the Tech Elite 250 have proven their commitment to delivering the products and services that today's customers value most."
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Yale To Race Four Eights
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale women's crew races one more time this fall. The Bulldogs will have four eights at Sunday's Princeton's Chase. The women's eight is scheduled to go off at 11 a.m.
"The Princeton Chase is a much better regatta than the Head of the Charles for colleges," said Yale head coach Will Porter. "It is a clean course with very few turns and only one bridge. We enjoy racing at Princeton on their man-made lake. It is perfect for rowing."
The Bulldogs had a successful day at the Head of the Charles. The varsity eight was the second fastest collegiate crew in the championship eight, while Yale's second eight and four also raced well.
"We are continuing to train with an eye on the spring," Porter said. "These fall races are a great way to break up the monotony of training and let us size up the competition."
The Bulldogs are tentatively scheduled to open the spring season against the University of Texas in March.
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Microsoft gives WVU $245K in accounting software
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Microsoft Corp. has given the West Virginia University College of Business and Economics $245,000 worth of accounting software and annual support.
The gift was announced Thursday. It comes from the Microsoft Dynamics Academic Alliance program.
Dean Jose Sartarelli calls it a valuable gift to the school's accounting students.
Associate Professor Richard Dull says the software will be used initially be used in accounting systems courses, but it won't stop there.
Students will later be able to use it to learn concepts related to internal controls, fraud and error detection.
The Management Information Systems department may use it, too.
Dull says it will help teachers go beyond the theoretical side of accounting to the real world by using a system that thousands of employers use.


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By Teresa Rivas
Shares of Kroger (KR) were ahead 2.7% in morning trading, on news that it will acquire fellow grocery chain Harris Teeter Supermarkets (HTSI) for $2.44 billion.
Kroger said it would buy all outstanding shares of Harris Teeter for $49.38 per share in cash. Although that's not much more than the stock's closing price yesterday, it is a 33.7% premium to the company's share price on January 18, when reports first surfaced that Harris Teeter was exploring strategic alternatives. Private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management LP was also said to have made a bid.
Kroger said it will finance the deal with debt and assume Harris Teeter's outstanding debt of about $100 million. The company says Harris Teeter will add between six cents and nine cents to its per-share earnings the first full year after the deal closes.
Harris Teeter operates 200 higher-end supermarkets in the southeastern U.S., from Delaware to Florida, and should add 10% to Kroger's current store count. The combined company will operate 2,631 supermarkets across 34 states.
For Kroger, it is the company's largest deal in almost a decade and a half; It purchased Fred Meyer in 1999 for $13 billion. Like its grocery chain peers, Kroger has faced intense competition in recent years from new entrants to the market, from big box discounters like Target (TGT) and Wal-Mart (WMT) and dollar stores like Dollar General (DG) and Dollar Tree (DLTR) that have expanded their food offerings.
While Kroger has been more successful than some in fighting off these new foes through low prices, it is also looking to attract more well-heeled consumers from competitors like Whole Foods (WFM) with higher-end offerings.


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Last chance for Florida seniors to get own title
Last chance for Florida seniors to get own title
Mar. 22, 2013
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Kenny Boynton and Erik Murphy arrived at Florida not too long after the Gators had won consecutive national championships.
They are down to their last chance to get one for themselves.
Boynton and Murphy are part of the only Florida group to win consecutive outright Southeastern Conference regular-season titles, and the seniors helped cut down the nets after clinching the second in their final home game earlier this month. They have been to the NCAA tournament every season, this time as a No. 3 seed in the South Regional.
Except they haven't been able to get Florida back to the Final Four, coming so bitterly close the last two years.
"We want to leave that legacy of just being winners," Murphy said. "We've just got to win every game we can."
Florida (26-7) plays its NCAA opener against Southland Conference tournament champion Northwestern State (23-8), a fast-paced team that constantly shuffles five players at a time on and off the floor and is the NCAA's highest-scoring team (81 points per game).
Plus, the Demons were also a No. 14 seed in their last NCAA tournament appearance seven years ago. They opened that tourney with an upset victory over Iowa.
"Everybody is just reminiscing on the 2006 team," senior James Hulbin said. "We're just pretty much trying to set our pace for our own memories in the future, future players at our program too. We're playing with a lot of confidence, we just play our game."
Instead of national titles like 2006 and 2007, the Gators were coming off consecutive appearances in the National Invitational Tournament when Boynton and Murphy arrived as highly touted freshman.
Florida immediately got back to the NCAA tourney their first year, then overcame a 13-point deficit in the second half of its opener against BYU. Boynton scored 27 points, but the Gators lost in double overtime.
They made it to regional final games each of the past two seasons, and led late both times. Only to lose to Butler in 2011 and Louisville last March.
"We can't dwell on the past," Boynton said. "Right now, it's a new season. We learned from our mistakes from last year. We're ready to make a run in the tournament."
Against Northwestern State, the Gators better be ready to run.
Demons coach Mike McConathy's unconventional system involves the rotation of two groups of five players in and out of the game — similar to a hockey team switching lines during a game. Each group will play several minutes at a time.
Only guards Shamir Davis and Jalan West average 25 minutes a game for the Demons. There are five Florida players who get more than that, including Boynton as one of two at 32 minutes.
"A former coach that passed away told me I wouldn't play for myself," said McConathy, who first used the system as a junior college coach. "The reason I did this was because we had so many good players. I was having a lot of morale issues. So I figured that if I played 10, I could at least keep 10 happy."
West said the Demons try to pressure and wear down other teams. He said that style of play holds everybody on the roster accountable to each other.
"You're not going to be in the game the whole time, even if you're hot," West said. "You've got to trust your teammates to get in the game and do the same thing that you were doing."
The Demons got their automatic NCAA bid when they knocked off 27-win Stephen F. Austin in the Southland Conference tournament title game.
Florida coach Billy Donovan, whose team blew a 12-point halftime lead and lost to Mississippi in the SEC tournament finale, doesn't expect Northwestern State's style to affect how his team uses its players.
"For us, we're going to sub based on fatigue, foul trouble, those kinds of things," Donovan said. "I also do think matchups, if there is a matchup to their substitution that we need to change. But that wouldn't be anything different than what we would normally do in a given game."
The Gators are third nationally, allowing only 53.7 points a game while outscoring teams by 18 points a game. The 66 points by Ole Miss were the most allowed by Florida in 12 games. Only two opponents have scored more — Kansas State's 67 before Christmas and Arkansas' 80 on Feb. 5.
Boynton is already Florida's career leader in 3-pointers made (329) and needs only five more points to join Ronnie Williams as the only Gators ever with 2,000 career points.
What he really wants is six more wins — and a national title.
"And nothing less than that," he said.