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Was that payback?
It's no secret that Jesse Litsch is a control pitcher. He stays around the strike zone, and rarely strays too far off the plate with a pitch. So, it raised a few eyebrows when the rookie's first pitch to Alex Rodriguez in the second inning on Monday went behind New York's third baseman.
Could it be possible then that the errant offering was some sort of delayed — by more than two months — retaliation for the much-debated shout by A-Rod at the Rogers Centre on May 30? Litsch said that wasn't the case, and it would seem a little farfetched that a Toronto pitcher would wait so long if they were going to issue some sort of payback.
"It was just a two-seamer that got away from me, basically," Litsch said. "I tried to go in on him all game. He got a base hit up the middle on an inside pitch also. I'm not going to give away the inside. Yeah, what happened, happened, but I go inside a lot."
For those of you who are out of the loop, A-Rod shouted as he ran behind former Jays infielder Howie Clark at third base on May 30. The yell confused Clark, who thought shortstop John McDonald was calling him off. The ball dropped to the turf and the Yankees four runs in the ninth and won the game, 10-5.
Considering Toronto played New York in the Bronx in July and nothing happened between the clubs, Yankees manager Joe Torre didn't think much of Litsch's pitch on Monday. It also wasn't a big deal for the home-plate umpire, who didn't warn anyone after the pitch sailed behind A-Rod's legs.
"They played us four games at our place," Torre said. "Unless they didn't care about doing it there and they did it here, that doesn't make sense. It's always surprising when you see somebody throw behind somebody, but obviously the umpire didn't think anything of it, because nobody warned anybody."
I know some of you fans were probably wondering about the play. I say we put this thing to bed.
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I agree with you Jordan in that this thing should be put to bed. If they wanted any payback it should've been done at Yankee stadium. I personally believe that A-rod thought it was intentional based on the way he tried to take Johnny mac out on the double play ball. It was clean but you could tell by his reaction afterwards that he wanted to knock John on his @$$.
If it was payback it was a waste of time.
Lets play the game and forget the garbage.
Matt Stairs is not hurting but Overbay is so who do you play an idiot can figure that one out but Gibbons can't.
Downs has done a great job for the team this year"But" the Yanks kill him why the h—,bring him in it made no sense to me all it did was cost us the game Gibbons again.
I have said all year get rid of Gibbons and I'll keep saying it for the rest of the year.
Lets hope Burnett holds together this time and helps this team finish with a little bit of dignity.
Boston and New York will not be caught this year to bad we had our chance and blew it.
I have high hopes of this team finishing with at least 90 games so good luck to them.
Stairs is a butcher in the field. As much as you might want his bat in the lineup, he's a poor choice defensively with a ground ball pitcher on the mound and a lineup with lots of lefty and switch hitters who are going to be hitting it to the first base side.
With Accardo as the closer, Downs was the only choice in the bullpen who's any good at getting lefties out.
I never saw the game yesterday, but from reading all the press-there seems to have been 3 plays in question.
One, was Litsche throwing behind A-Rod. Two, was A-Rod sliding into 2nd base. Third, was Johnny Damon sliding into 2nd base.
I'm sure Damon's slide wasn't intentional, but it sort of sounds like A-rod's was. I'd also be very surprised if Litsche's pitch was intentional.
Did anyone see these plays and have comments.
Dear Jordon, I hear by delaire your blog moot. You update your blog tardy, by the time you post something like the lineups, the game is already in the 4th inning, which makes doing that useless. I only read your "blog" becuase the blue jays have none, you and blaire dont count. Update your blog whenever you can like everyone else, not at a specific time every day like you do.
Smarten up or i'll hit you with my cain.
Love Ted.
Funny and true ted. Tons of beat writters update their blog very often and it puzzles me why baitians is always the same stuff as http://www.bluejays.com.
Dont be affraid to speak your mind and update your blog 3-4 times a day with information. Every time you post it doesn't need to be a book. For example, After Burnett pitched you could of given us his line for the day and get quotes later.
Hey, I'll always accept criticism and suggestions. You have ot keep in mind, though, that my responsibilities are to the Web site first and the blog second. The blog is completely voluntary. I like to use it as a way to get the news, notes, lineups and any other little tidbits out there before the game begins. What's ironic, is the comments here are in a post that strays from my usual format. Once we get to the offseason, when my work day isn't so consuming, you'll see more of the kind of posts you're suggesting. Thanks for the input.
Just so you know, for the future, most AAA clubs, including Syracuse have gameday running when they play a game. It works identical to the game day on the Jays site.
You can get there by going to the following Syracuse web site;
You will see gameday hightlighted-just click and enjoy.


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The Boy Scouts of America's premier drug abuse prevention program, Drugs: A Deadly Game!, has been completely revised and is now available. The new 18-page youth booklet, Choose to Refuse, replaces "Take A Stand Against DRUGS" the drug abuse prevention booklet referred to in the Webelos Fitness Activity Badge, Requirement 8, Webelos Scout Book, 2003 printing.
Since 1987 over 18 million Drugs: A Deadly Game! booklets have been distributed to schools, churches, libraries, community anti-drug coalitions, law enforcement agencies and Scouting units—wherever there is a need for a colorful, attractive, easily understood piece about the dangers of being involved with drugs. Drugs: A Deadly Game! is for all youth, boys and girls—not just Scouts.
The overall theme of Choose to Refuse is: "working together we can be a powerful force against drugs." The booklet features five drug-free kids who speak to today's youth about many of the drug-related issues they may possibly face. There's Leo, the sports guy who gets his rush from perfecting his kickflip boardslide. "Iron" Will, who refuses to be pushed into things that aren't right. Tisha, who wants to keep herself healthy to run her own company one day. Clarity, the brainiac, who doesn't want anything messing with her head. And, Amy, whose friends are the biggest thing in her world, friends she supports to stay drug-free. It's kids talking to kids in a way that they will understand.
Choose to Refuse reprises the 3-page centerfold body chart, showing the ill effects of drug use on the body. New on the chart are googly eyes, Swiss cheese brain, garbage dump lungs and slug muscles. Yes, a little icky, but it gets the message across to kids that drugs interfere with the body's normal functions. Also new are pre- and post-testing, a website - http://old.scouting.org/drugquiz/, the N.I.C.E. way to say "No", and a Family Pledge to "choose to refuse" harmful drugs.
Accompanying the youth booklet is the completely revised Leader's Guide that helps adults to effectively present Choose to Refuse to boys and girls, first grade through high school.
Check with your local SCOUT SHOP™, or your local council for individual or bulk copies of the youth booklet and Leader's Guide, or you may order them in boxed sets of 90 youth booklets and 10 Leader's Guides for $40.00 per box (price as of October 1, 2008) —shipping and handling included, except for outside U.S. To order, download the Drugs: A Deadly Game! Order Form from the BSA website.. Other program materials are also available using the same order form, including posters, banners, stickers, and Tee-shirts.
This pamphlet should be used to fulfill requirement 8 of the Webelos Scout FITNESS Activity Badge, in lieu of the booklet mentioned in the Webelos Scout Book.
Call the Drug Abuse Task Force, 972-580-2376, for additional information, or write them at:
Please note. We will not reproduce the pamphlet on this web-site. BSA uses the income from sales of the document to offset the costs of preparing it, and to help operate the National BSA Drug Prevention Task Force.
The US Scouting Service Project wishes to thank BSA and the staff of Boys' Life Magazine for providing us with the information on this page, including the copy of the booklet cover which appears above.

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Developed by the NCR Corporation, the payments group within the company has created a way to withdraw cash from an ATM without having to pull an ATM card out of a purse or wallet. Assuming that a bank customer has an Android or iOS smartphone with a built-in camera, the customer approaches an ATM and launches the NCR application. After the app loads, the customer enters the four digit PIN number tied to their bank account on the smartphone touchscreen. When the pin is accepted, the app brings up all bank accounts related to the customer's account.
At this point, the customer can choose if they want to withdraw money from their checking or savings account. After picking an account, the customer chooses a dollar figure on the smartphone touchscreen. In the NCR example, there are preset dollar figures in addition to a custom option to withdraw a specific amount of cash.
Once the dollar figure is picked, the customer taps the scan button to launch the camera on the smartphone. The customer simply scans the QR code on the ATM screen with the camera application. At this point, the transaction is confirmed and cash is dispensed. The customer gets an electronic receipt on the smartphone screen as well.
According NCR management, the entire process takes about ten seconds to complete. In addition, someone waiting in line at an ATM could hypothetically run through all the first steps on the smartphone and would be ready to scan the QR code immediately when they reached the front of the line. From the bank's perspective, there's no new hardware to purchase since the ATM software would only have to display the QR code on the ATM screen. The company argues that this technology also improves safety as thieves can't utilize ATM skimming devices to collect debit card numbers since the customer has no need for an ATM card anymore.
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Immigration's last-ditch pitch
Immigration reform forces' last-ditch pitch for action before the end of the year: individual political self-interest.
They've tried appeals to presidential politics, economic and tax calculations, rational argument, Christian and moral values, humanity, the American spirit. They've pushed the idea of giving Washington something positive to show for 2013. As President Barack Obama noted Monday in San Francisco, there's even a group of people camping out on the Mall in a fasting protest that Vice President Joe Biden visited Monday.
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"Of course, just because something is smart, fair, good for the economy and supported by business, labor, law enforcement and faith leaders, Democratic and Republican governors — just because all that is in place doesn't mean we'll get it done," Obama said. "Because this is Washington we're talking about, and everything's looked at through a political prism."
( PHOTOS: Immigration reform rally on the National Mall)
Obama publicly endorsed House Speaker John Boehner's plan to do immigration reform in parts. Advocates hoping to make him deliver by year's end believe they can turn several dozen House Republicans hoping to run statewide in 2016, 2018 and beyond — as well as lawmakers whose currently safe seats could be threatened by state legislature shifts by the 2021 redistricting — into a pressure point within their conference to force action.
For now, the argument will be pressed directly to ambitious members by advocates armed with their own polls and demographic data cross-referenced to voter trends — as well as the unspoken suggestion of support from soon-to-be-less-occupied billionaire Michael Bloomberg and other individuals and groups backing reform.
Those pushing for fast action on reform argue that failing to back immigration reform — and allowing the issue to bleed into 2014, and therefore probably into 2015 and beyond — could serve as a disqualifying factor for House Republicans in races for governor or senator or even attorney general and other statewide positions. That, they believe, is the way through a stalemate they blame in large part on gerrymandered, insulated House districts.
( CARTOONS: Matt Wuerker on immigration)
"I think it's pretty simple, and the math isn't very complicated: while opposing immigration reform can be politically tenable in a narrowly drawn congressional district, the majority of voters in those same states have made it clear that they'll hold candidates accountable for opposing reform," said John Feinblatt, chief policy adviser to Bloomberg and chairman of the Partnership for a New American Economy, which will be one of the leading groups recalibrating the focus.
"People can get away with it if they're content to be a member of Congress for the rest of their careers," Feinblatt said. "But if they have ambitions either statewide or ambitions to rise in the House, opposing reform is something that could jeopardize their future."
Feinblatt wouldn't get into specifics about spending, though said "all options are always on the table" for Bloomberg and he's not alone — the National Association of Manufacturers has started its own PAC to join the groups spending to help "educate" voters on members' positions on immigration reform. Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns, meanwhile, has already shown willingness to advertise against specific members for their votes on that issue.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama challenges immigration heckler)
Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.), who's widely assumed to be looking forward to a run for governor or Senate several cycles from now, is a perfect example of the kind of member advocates now have in their sights to get pushing for action before the end of the year. He'll never have a problem in his Peoria-based district from if nothing happens on immigration reform. But try selling that to voters throughout Illinois by 2016 or 2018, goes the argument, and he won't be able to escape from the shadow of nothing getting done and not pushing for more himself.
Schock's office declined to comment on the speculation about his political future, but pointed to comments the congressman has made for years that the current immigration system is "broken" and in need of reform.
"If you want to break out of Springfield and Peoria, Feinblatt said, "the truth is that we've got the numbers to back it up."
Those numbers are from state polls taken this month in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin which show 53-16 percent of people calling themselves less likely to support candidates opposed to immigration reform. They've also looking at members of Congress in Texas, Arizona, California, Illinois and Pennsylvania.
"We already saw the Ghost of Christmas Past in the 2012 election," said one of the people involved in the planning. "We intend to show them the Ghost of Christmas Futures."


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|Folding buckle with push buttons for added security. Engraved with ships wheel Connect emblem and the Michel Herbelin logo
|Black with stainless steel applied indexes and white minute track. The functions phone, sleep, activity and notifications are labelled at the 2, 4, 8 and 10 positions.
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Mens Stainless Steel and FKM Rubber Newport Connect
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A new generation Newport
The Newport Connect features a classic analogue dial while integrating smart functions.
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As well as being a fully fuctioning sports timepiece, the Newport Connect is a multi-functional smart watch. The watch has 3 main information elements; call or message notification, activity and sleep tracking.
The watch vibrates and turns to point to the desired subject area when needed to keep the wearer in touch with all the physical and social demands of modern life. Indicated by the hands and a vibration mode, these functions are easy to use: the transition from a smart functionality to the analogue time display is made by simply pressing on the crown.
While it is busy notifying its wearer of incoming calls and messages, it also ensures optimal physical well being: it tracks activity and sleep time with dynamic coaching that offers suggestions and tips according to the wearer's profile and target goals. It is also a helpful travel companion, automatically resetting to local time zones, but remembering the time in the city of origin: a major advantage in managing time shifts.
When a call or message notification is received on the mobile phone, the watch vibrates: the two hands move to PHONE, at 2 o'clock for calls, or to NOTIFICATIONS, at 10 o'clock for messages. A single push on the crown triggers the movement of the hands back to the time position.
Activity tracking can be viewed by pressing once on the crown. When the minute hand points to ACTIVITY at 8 o'clock, the hour hand indicates the percentage of activity obtained on the graduated circle, at the centre of the dial. After two seconds, the hands return to their initial position.
Based on an identical mode of functioning, the sleep tracker is displayed by pushing on the crown for 3 seconds. The minute hand points to SLEEP at 4 o'clock, while the hour hand indicates the percentage obtained on the graduated circle, at the centre of the dial. Two seconds later, the hands return to the time.
The Newport Connect functions with the MMT-365 application, available for iOS and Android. Once it is downloaded onto the smartphone, it is possible via Bluetooth to monitor activity and sleep for the day, the week or the month, thanks to simple, easy to understand graphics. The data collected on the watch is memorised for up to 30 days and can be saved on the cloud and restored if needed.


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Friday, 21 February 2014 09:47 AM
VIENNA — Iran and six world powers on Thursday ended nuclear talks with agreement on a framework for future negotiations but little progress on the main issue of what nuclear concessions Tehran must make in exchange for an end to sanctions stifling its economy.
In a joint statement at the end of three-day talks, officials for both sides said they would meet again in Vienna on March 17, continuing a process likely to take at least six months and probably longer.
Separately, the U.N. nuclear agency confirmed that Tehran is meeting its commitments under the first-step pact that led to this week's negotiations, which seek a more ambitious deal.
The agency noted that Iran's stockpile of nuclear material that can be turned quickly into the fissile core of a nuclear warhead had diminished by nearly 20 percent to 161 kilograms (355 pounds) under the first-step agreement, which took effect last month.
Expectations had been modest as the talks started Tuesday. The announcement of an agreement on future talks appeared aimed in part to raise hopes that the negotiations had a chance to succeed.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who came to the talks vowing that Iran would never strip down its nuclear facilities, was smiling and relaxed as he read out the joint statement.
But in a message apparently intended for skeptics at home who fear that Iran will give up too much, he told state TV afterward that his nation would "not close down any site."
The six on the other side of the table — the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany — want Tehran to agree to significant cuts in its nuclear program.
Iran opposes cuts, saying its program is not aimed at building weapons. The United States and its partners say Iran must accept an agreement if it wants an end to sanctions crippling its economy.
"We have ... identified all of the issues we need to address for a comprehensive and final agreement," said Catherine Ashton, the EU's top diplomat, who convened the negotiations.
"It won't be easy, but we've gotten off to a good start," she said in a statement read later in Farsi by Zarif.
A Western diplomat said Ashton would visit Tehran March 9-10 to lead EU-Iran talks. He demanded anonymity because his information was confidential.
From Baghdad, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow sensed that "all sides are interested in being serious and being pragmatic."
The talks are designed to build on a first-step deal that commits Iran to initial nuclear curbs in return for some easing of sanctions. The deal can be extended by mutual consent after six months.
Under terms of that accord, Iran has already begun to carry out a series of steps. They include diluting or converting its stockpile of higher enriched uranium and not to make any more for the next six months.
Iran also agreed not to increase its stockpile of lower-enriched uranium and not to set up new centrifuges at its enrichment plants as well as to rigorous oversight by the U.N. nuclear agency.
Sanctions being suspended during this interim agreement include those on Iran's petrochemical exports, its trade in gold and precious metals, its car industry and the supply of parts for Iran's civil aviation industry. No new sanctions will be imposed while the first-step deal remains in effect.
In a report Thursday, the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency said Iran was keeping its side of the bargain.
The agency commended Iran's "positive step forward" in granting greater access to nuclear facilities. But alluding to the agency's efforts to identify whether Tehran was working secretly on nuclear weapons, the report said "much remains to be done to resolve all outstanding issues."
All six countries want to leave Iran with little capacity to ramp up its nuclear program into weapons-making mode with enriched uranium or plutonium.
They say Iran should dismantle or store most of its 20,000 uranium-enriching centrifuges, including some not yet working. They also want a reactor that is currently under construction either to be scrapped or converted from a heavy-water setup to a light-water facility that makes less plutonium.
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Neil Young Plans Hi-Def Portable Music Player for 2014
Nearly a year after unveiling his hi-def music device Pono on 'The Late Show With David Letterman,' Neil Young sounds like he's getting ready to let it out into the wild.
Young made the announcement on the Pono's Facebook page on Sept. 3, promising an "early 2014″ launch and reiterating his team's commitment to delivering the highest possible sound quality.
"The simplest way to describe what we've accomplished is that we've liberated the music of the artist from the digital file and restored it to its original artistic quality — as it was in the studio," Young explained. "So it has primal power. Hearing Pono for the first time is like that first blast of daylight when you leave a movie theater on a sun-filled day. It takes you a second to adjust. Then you enter a bright reality of wonderfully rendered detail."
All that detail, said Young, will restore that rush of emotion you felt when listening to your favorite songs as a kid. "This music moves you," he continued. "That's why so many musicians are behind PonoMusic — this is important work that honors their art. This is the way they wanted you to hear their music."
Explaining that the Pono team works with "artist-approved studio masters we've been given special access to," Young pledged to make their wares "just as accessible as any music you buy and listen to today" and promised, "we'll be launching both the Pono portable player — an updated version of the one I showed on David Letterman's program — and an online library, with all your favorite music available in PonoMusic quality. Everything you need to feel music anew."
As Vintage Vinyl News reports, Pono won't be alone in its quest to improve your listening experience. On Sept. 4, Sony announced the imminent roll-out of its own Hi-Res Audio line, which claims to "make high-resolution audio a more convenient, compelling and cost-effective listening experience for digital music enthusiasts everywhere."
To that end, Sony's planning the release of two hi-res players: a 1-TB model that lists for $1,999, and a 500-GB counterpart that will sell for $999. Here's hoping Young's Pono player will put a smaller dent in consumers' wallets.


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Miley Cyrus Gives Liam Hemsworth's Old Clothes to a Thrift Storeby Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
"Out with the old, in with the new," is apparently Miley Cyrus' new motto, and she's sticking to it.
The singer does not want to leave any reminders of her ex-fiance, Liam Hemsworth, floating around — including his leftover clothes, which she has reportedly donated to a thrift shop in West Hollywood called Out of the Closet, a source told the U.K.'s Daily Mail.
"Miley wanted everything gone, so she sent Liam's clothes off to a local charity store that benefits people with HIV and AIDS," the insider revealed. Among the supposed items were two cashmere sweaters (one from Barneys and one by Ted Baker), Nike workout clothes, Hugo Boss pants and more.
"I hope that Liam doesn't need any of that stuff because Miley never asked him if he wanted it before it got packed up," the source claimed.
But it doesn't look as if that is any cause for concern to Cyrus, who isn't looking back.
"I just believe when a chapter is done, you have to close it and start that new one and that's kind of where I am right now," Cyrus said of the breakup in an appearance on 'The Ellen Show.'
No word yet on what Hemsworth has to say about his ex's hefty donation, but we bet Macklemore would be pretty pleased.


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Kurtz apologizes on CNN for errors
Howard Kurtz took to his "Reliable Sources" show on CNN on Sunday to apologize for his "inexcusable" erroneous report last week about NBA player Jason Collins and for a string of past mistakes that the media critic admitted he was sometimes too slow to correct.
During Kurtz's extraordinary 15-minute long confession of journalistic sins, he repeatedly said he's learned a lesson and promised to double- and triple-check all his facts in the future to win back the trust of readers and viewers. It was a humbling appearance for someone who was once regarded as the nation's leading media critic.
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A chastened Kurtz remained composed throughout tough questioning from two media reporters during the segment and at times he looked directly into the camera to assure viewers that he's a changed person.
( Also on POLITICO: The Howie Kurtz saga)
"This show has always been about turning a critical lens on the media," Kurtz said as he opened "Reliable Sources" during which he was questioned by POLITICO's Dylan Byers and NPR's David Folkenflik. "This time the media mistake was mine — a big mistake, more than one, in fact."
"Here is what happened and here is why I did what I did and why it was clearly wrongly handled by me," he continued. "On Monday, I read the Sports Illustrated article by Jason Collins, the first pro male-team athlete to come out publicly as gay. I read it too fast and carelessly missed that Jason Collins said he was engaged previously to a woman and [I] then wrote and commented that he was wrong to keep that from readers when, in fact, I was the one who was wrong."
( Also on POLITICO: Daily Beast drops Kurtz)
Kurtz continued: "My logic between what happened between Jason Collins and his former fiance and what was and wasn't disclosed — in hindsight, well, I was wrong to even raise that and showed a lack of sensitivity to the issue. Also, I didn't give him a chance to respond to my account before I wrote it and in addition my first correction to the story was not as complete and as full as it should have been."
Kurtz's approach on CNN very much had the feel of the time-tested survival strategy of a politician trying to salvage a career after being caught in a high-profile transgression. He was calm and serious as he admitted mistakes past and present, vowed to learn from them, issued heart-felt apologies to all affected by his actions, and asked that he be judged on the breadth of his work, not just a handful of incidents.
The apology comes after CNN announced last week that "Reliable Sources" is under review.
During the show, the media critic turned to the camera and spoke directly to viewers, saying, "This is not a ritual for me where you just come on camera and say you're sorry and hope to move on. I'm truly sorry about what happened. I believe deeply in good journalism and fair journalism, and I am determined to learn from this episode and minimize the chances of anything like this happening again."


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Let $X$ be a separable Banach space, and let $\mathbb P$ be a Radon probability measure on $X$ with zero mean and covariance operator $K : X^* \to X$. Let $x$ be an $X$-valued random variable with distribution $\mathbb P$.
I would like a simple upper bound on the size of $\mathbb E \|x\|^2$ in terms of the operator norm $\|K\|$. In his textbook The Concentration of Measure Phenomenon, Ledoux proves that $$\mathbb E\|x\|^2 \le 4 \|K\|$$ as a consequence of a concentration inequality for a simpler example (where the vectors are sums of vectors with i.i.d. random coefficients $\eta_i$ such that $|\eta_i| \le 1$ a.s.). Because of the boundedness assumption, the argument doesn't quite work in this setting, though I'm certain I could generalize it if I needed to.
Nonetheless, I'm certain that the estimate I'm looking for is buried somewhere in the literature on concentration of measure (and in fact is probably due to Talagrand). Could you please point me in the right direction?
Edit: The inequality as I previously wrote it is incorrect. The correct inequality should be $$\operatorname{Var}(\|x\|) \le 4\|K\|,$$ implying $$\mathbb E\|x\|^2 \le 4\|K\| + \left( \mathbb E\|x\| \right)^2.$$ That is, the size of typical random element could be quite large (i.e. $\mathbb E\|x\| \gg 1$, as in Mark Meckes's example in the comments), but the deviation is only of the order $\|K\|^{1/2}$.


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Q- With the conference season winding down, what is the team focusing on with the NCAA postseason nearing?
SCHMIDT- Our team is approaching every practice, match, and point the same way. Our goal is to get 2% better each day.
Q- The top six teams in the region hail from the CCAA. Would you rather face a CCAA team for the third time this year or face a new opponent?
SCHMIDT- I would like to face a CCAA team again. Our conference has always been extremely competitive, and we have a lot of scouting information on each team. We are prepared to play UCSD volleyball no matter who our opponent will be.
Q- Senior Day is Friday, November 7 against
SCHMIDT- Before our matches this weekend, Cara's (Simonsen) family was nice enough to host our team at their house for lunch. While there, the whole team shared many laughs while playing games like "Zip Bong" and "Samurai." Another fond memory I have with the seniors is going to $2 sushi on Tuesday nights.
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SCHMIDT- I enjoy playing both middle blocker and outside hitter. There are different roles associated with each position, and I'm glad to play wherever the team needs me. I approached the two positions differently. As a middle, I am constantly moving and everything is fast, so I would listen to songs with a faster beat before the game to pump me up. As an outside, I had to pass and be the release hitter, so I would listen to calming music to allow myself to focus better and be relaxed.
Q- What are some of your favorite warm-up songs?
SCHMIDT- Disturbia by Rihanna is my favorite warm-up song.
Q- What do you like about head coach Tom Black?
SCHMIDT- Tom cares about everyone on the team and is an extremely dedicated and hard-working coach. He is very observant in practice, and when we split up into three courts, he seems to be able to see everything on all three courts at the same time. He believes strongly in the Gold-Medal Squared system, and as a result gives very constructive and helpful feedback on the court.
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SCHMIDT- I love to read, play the piano, and play sudoku.
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LONG BEACH, Calif. - Both the UC Santa Barbara men and women's swim teams took first place on Monday as action concluded at the three-day Finis Collegiate Invitational at Belmont Plaza.
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Sophomore Tim Freeman posted a first-place finish in the 200 breaststroke while also posting a "B" qualifying time of 1:59.60. On the women's side, Emily Adamczyk also posted a "B" standard in the 200 breast with her time of 2:16.34.
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2012 NAIA Football Players of the Week - No. 9
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Terrance Cobb of Cumberlands (Ky.) has been named the NAIA National Football Offensive Player of the Week, Kelton Reed of Kansas Wesleyan has been tabbed the National Football Defensive Player of the Week and Jahron Reynolds of Bethel (Tenn.) received National Football Special Teams Player of the Week honors, the national office announced Monday. Cobb, Reed and Reynolds were chosen for their performances during the week of Oct. 22 - 28 and were selected out of a pool of conference and independent award winners.
Cobb, a running back from Knoxville, Tenn., played a significant role in the Patriots' 62-19 thrashing of Campbellsville (Ky.) last Saturday. The junior ran for a career-high 327 yards on 27 attempts, including touchdowns of 74, five and 36 yards. It is the third-straight week that Cobb has rushed for more than 250 yards and scored three touchdowns. Additionally, Cobb set the Cumberlands single-season record for rushing yards (1,472) and rushing touchdowns (21) with the performance.
Cobb currently leads the NAIA in rushing (1,472), rushing yards per game (163.6), scoring (126), all purpose yards (1,650) and scoring per game (14.0). For his career, the 5-11, 220-pounder has accumulated 3,366 rushing yards and 42 touchdowns, which both rank second on the Patriot all-time list.
Reed, a defensive back from Plano, Texas, helped Kansas Wesleyan hand Southwestern (Kan.) its first home loss of the season, 35-17, on Oct. 27. The junior compiled three tackles, but it was his NAIA individual game-high tying three interceptions that were the keys to victory. All three of Reed's picks stalled potential Moundbuilder scoring drives, including two in the end zone. With the win, the Coyotes were able to remain tied with Ottawa for the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference lead heading into the final two weeks of the season.
On the season, Reed is second on the team with four interceptions and seventh with 40 tackles (28 solo). He is the second Coyote to win the Defensive Player of the Week honor this season.
With his team trailing 14-6, Reynolds, a junior from Chattanooga, Tenn., fielded a kickoff on the 3-yard line and sprinted 97 yards for a touchdown to cut Bethel's first quarter deficit to 14-12 at Cumberland (Tenn.). Bethel ended up winning the game, 32-30. It is Reynolds' first career kickoff return for a score and set the Wildcats' record for longest touchdown return. He also had a 19-yard and 18-yard return to go along with 55 punt return yards and 55 receiving yards en route to a team-best 245 all purpose yards.
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Offensive Nominees: Brandon Large, Dakota State (S.D.); Tevin Lake, Marian (Ind.); Andrew Brimhall, Evangel (Mo.); Brett Giesen, Kansas Wesleyan; Brandon Smith, Northwestern (Iowa); Taylor Parsons, William Penn (Iowa); Dakota Stonehouse, Carroll (Mont.).
Defensive Nominees: Kalii Robinson, Southern Oregon; Jd Barchard, Saint Xavier (Ill.); Rob Keeney, Doane (Neb.); Craig McDonald, Belhaven (Miss.); Joshua Fairley, Baker (Kan.); Greg Beatty, William Penn (Iowa).
Special Teams Nominees: Andrew Muzljakovich, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Josh Boggs, Doane (Neb.); Mackenzie Crossley, Montana Western; Colton Johnston, Benedictine (Kan.); Joe Cannon, Tabor (Kan.); Tom Greenwood, Concordia (Mich.).
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Special Teams: Jordan Delbaugh, Nebraska Wesleyan
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Special Teams: Ty Littzen, Morningside (Iowa)
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Week 4 (Sept. 24)
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Week 5 (Oct. 1)
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Special Teams: Casey Clarke, Campbellsville (Ky.)
Week 6 (Oct. 8)
Offense: Austin Dodge, Southern Oregon
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Special Teams: Cole Boger, Morningside (Iowa)
Week 7 (Oct. 15)
Offense: Joel Nixon, Morningside (Iowa)
Defense: Paramore Tapa, Faulkner (Ala.)
Special Teams: Keondrick Daniels, Union (Ky.)
Week 8 (Oct. 22)
Offense: Eric Williamson, St. Ambrose (Iowa)
Defense: Joe Camacho, MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.)
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This paper details models and algorithms which can be applied to evacuation problems. While it concentrates on building evacuation many of the results are applicable also to regional evacuation. All models consider the time as main parameter, where the travel time between components of the building is part of the input and the overall evacuation time is the output. The paper distinguishes between macroscopic and microscopic evacuation models both of which are able to capture the evacuees' movement over time. Macroscopic models are mainly used to produce good lower bounds for the evacuation time and do not consider any individual behavior during the emergency situation. These bounds can be used to analyze existing buildings or help in the design phase of planning a building. Macroscopic approaches which are based on dynamic network flow models (minimum cost dynamic flow, maximum dynamic flow, universal maximum flow, quickest path and quickest flow) are described. A special feature of the presented approach is the fact, that travel times of evacuees are not restricted to be constant, but may be density dependent. Using multicriteria optimization priority regions and blockage due to fire or smoke may be considered. It is shown how the modelling can be done using time parameter either as discrete or continuous parameter. Microscopic models are able to model the individual evacuee's characteristics and the interaction among evacuees which influence their movement. Due to the corresponding huge amount of data one uses simulation approaches. Some probabilistic laws for individual evacuee's movement are presented. Moreover ideas to model the evacuee's movement using cellular automata (CA) and resulting software are presented. In this paper we will focus on macroscopic models and only summarize some of the results of the microscopic approach. While most of the results are applicable to general evacuation situations, we concentrate on building evacuation.
We examine the feasibility polyhedron of the uncapacitated hub location problem (UHL) with multiple allocation, which has applications in the fields of air passenger and cargo transportation, telecommunication and postal delivery services. In particular we determine the dimension and derive some classes of facets of this polyhedron. We develop some general rules about lifting facets from the uncapacitated facility location (UFL) for UHL and projecting facets from UHL to UFL. By applying these rules we get a new class of facets for UHL which dominates the inequalities in the original formulation. Thus we get a new formulation of UHL whose constraints are all facet–defining. We show its superior computational performance by benchmarking it on a well known data set.
Given a public transportation system represented by its stops and direct connections between stops, we consider two problems dealing with the prices for the customers: The fare problem in which subsets of stops are already aggregated to zones and "good" tariffs have to be found in the existing zone system. Closed form solutions for the fare problem are presented for three objective functions. In the zone problem the design of the zones is part of the problem. This problem is NP hard and we therefore propose three heuristics which prove to be very successful in the redesign of one of Germany's transportation systems


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Volume 18: April 2, 2006 to May 27, 2008. This volume is part of the printed archives of L/L Research's extraterrestrial channeling transcripts. The content is metaphysical and spiritual in nature. The sources are members of the Confederation of Angels and Planets in the Service of the Infinite Creator. Often the format is Q&A, where the source responds to questions from the research group members. The channels for L/L Research are Don Elkins, Jim McCarty and Carla L. Rueckert, with additional channeling by other group members from time to time. This series of volumes spans the years from 1972 to the present. The most recent transcripts are available at the L/L Research site, www.llresearch.org.
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American qualifiers upset Moscow champions in Berlin
The American qualifiers upset the freshly crowned Moscow champions, Konstantin Semenov and Viacheslav Krasilnikov 2-0 (21-18, 21-13) on Thursday at the lovely Beach Mitte courts.
"We were confident coming in", said Bourne. "We know we can beat anyone out here on an even day. So, we just did that."
The first set was close till 18-18. Then Bourne, with three kill blocks in a row on Krasilnikov, finished the set at 21-18.
The Americans, playing fast and attacking a lot on the second touch, grew in confidence and took a lead from 7-7 in the second set. Russia's defender Krasilnikov got all the pressure and did not have a good day. He either hit out or in Bourne's block.
"Standing next to this other guy (Semenov) I am not tall", said the 1.95m blocker. "But I guess I put my hands in the right spot. I just thought: hopefully he brings the ball down to me every once in a while."
Steady play
At their first match point, 20-13, Hyden claimed victory with a cross-court spike. "We just played steady", 24-year old Bourne said. "It's a lot of ups and downs and we just said: play steady. Took care of the easy place."
Bourne and 41-year old veteran Hyden hooked up last season, their best finish so far was a 9th place at the 2014 Shanghai Grand Slam. Being the oldest player on the Tour does not bother Hyden a bit.
"You just find a young kid that can play volleyball and you take him on. No, you know, it's a lot of work. It's eating healthy, maintaining my weight all the time, even in the off-season. There's a lot of work going in at the gym. Got to take care of business while you're off the court. There's a lot to it."
He plans on continuing for a couple of more years. "I think so, being out here makes it look a lot easier than waking up in the morning. But yeah, I feel like it. That's my plan. Until some young kid comes along that can play as well as me and decides to take him (Bourne) on. That's the way to go."
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Bourne and Hyden came from qualification, with a 2-0 win over Qatar on Wednesday. A nice warm-up? "I don't think it's an advantage. I think it's just a lot of extra work. You know, we could come out here and train a little bit and work on stuff we need to, instead of playing matches. So anytime you can skip qualification and get directly into main draw you have an advantage."
About their surprise first win in Berlin he said. "We expected to win them all! But seriously, we have beat good teams before. Everybody out here has an hour to see who's better. So as long as we play our game, we'll fight."


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Maquet Turkey has won a major contract for the delivery of 600 SERVO-s ventilators to 163 public clinics in 74 Turkish cities. The tender process took a total of two years, from first negotiations in mid-2012 to the final bid letter in May 2014. It is the first step in a framework agreement set out over a period of four years by the Turkish Public Procurement Institution, and totaling 3,000 ventilators overall. Maquet won the tender against six other companies, who will, however, be allowed to compete again in the next stages of the tender.
Installation occured in four phases
The Turkish Ministry of Health stipulated that the entire installation, training and documentation of the new ventilators had to be completed by November 20th, 2014. In order to meet this deadline, Maquet Turkey decided to distribute the devices in four shipments, focusing first on remote areas and small orders with 1 to 5 ventilators per city or hospital. The first shipment, which was sent out at the beginning of August, saw 170 SERVO-s delivered to 54 hospitals in 33 cities. There were further shipments of 170, 85 and 90 units, respectively, in September and October, and Maquet Turkey completed all requirements by November 15th – five days ahead of the ministry's specification.
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HTC has a high-end Android handset on the way codenamed Runnymede; we first heard of this device a few weeks ago when it showed up in some EXIF data on a photo sharing site. Now we've received the full rundown on the features and specifications of Runnymede, which will be among the first phones to emerge from the collaboration between HTC and Beats Audio:
– Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread
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– Bundled Beats headphones (not earphones)
While on the surface the specs here aren't cutting edge — screen resolution, processor speed, RAM, and video capture are all bested by other handsets on the market — it's the details that make Runnymede sound like a winner. The camera, for instance, is said to feature a backlit sensor plus 28mm wide-angle lens and focal ratio of f/2.2 (compared to the iPhone 4's smaller f/2.8); in video mode, it can supposedly capture footage at 60 frames-per-second, more than twice that of the average handset. Obviously sound quality will also play a big role here, with Runnymede featuring SRS Surround, dual microphones, and even recognizing when it's plugged into the Beats headphones.
Apparently Runnymede will ship in time for the holidays, although carrier adoption is still a mystery. Assuming Eternity launches in the same timeframe, both Android and Windows Phone fans will have a 4.7-inch HTC handset to choose from before the end of the year.
Update: AndroidGuys has published a complete spec sheet for Runnymede, including a small image, which depicts the phone as all white (just like the upcoming Radar/Omega). Additional specs of note include 14.4Mbps HSDPA, SuperLCD display, 1600mAh battery, Bluetooth 3.0, gyrospcope, and a "dust proof" design. A second, 32GB capacity model has also been tipped, priced 30 pounds higher than the 16GB variant, which will go for 530 pounds unlocked through whichever UK retailer/carrier the leaked document pertains to.


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Filtering an Excel 2007 Pivot Chart
Just as you can filter an Excel 2007 pivot table to display a subset of data, you also can use the PivotChart Filter pane to filter a pivot chart so that it shows just the information you want it to show.
When you graph the data in an pivot table using a typical chart type, such as column, bar, or line chart that uses both an x– and y-axis, the Row labels in the pivot table appear along the x– or category-axis at the bottom of the chart, and the Column labels in the pivot table become the data series that are delineated in the chart's legend. The numbers in the Values field are represented on the y– or value-axis that goes up the left side of the chart.
You can use the drop-down lists in the PivotChart Filter Pane to filter the charted data like you do the values in the pivot table. As with the pivot table, remove the check mark from (Select All) or (All) option and then add a check mark to each of the fields you still want represented in the filtered pivot chart.
Click the following drop-down buttons in the PivotChart Filter Pane to filter a different part of the pivot chart:
Axis Fields (Categories) to filter the categories that are charted along the x-axis at the bottom of the chart.
Legend Fields (Series) to filter the data series shown in columns bars, or lines in the chart body and identified by the chart legend.
Report Filter to filter the values charted along the y-axis on the left side of the chart.


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BlackRock Inc.'s (BLK) strong investment performance and robust new business helped push profits 34% higher for the world's largest asset manager in the first-quarter 2011 earnings period, the company reported Thursday.
Net income totaled $568 million, 34% higher year over year, but 14% lower compared with the previous quarter, when BlackRock's profits skyrocketed 107% higher. Revenues were 14% higher, at $2.28 billion versus $1.99 billion in the year-earlier period, and 8% lower than the $2.49 billion of revenues earned in fourth-quarter 2010.
Net income was down $89 million compared to Q4 2010 primarily due to the seasonal nature of performance fees, according to BlackRock's Q1 2011 earnings release.
Earnings per share were $2.89, 33% higher than last year's EPS of $2.17 and 14% lower than Q4 2010's EPS of $3.35, which beat analysts' expectations for EPS of $2.75.
"I am very pleased with our year-over-year growth in revenues and adjusted EPS, driven by strong investment performance, robust new business in long-term products, increased demand for BlackRock Solutions and continued expense discipline," said Chairman and CEO Laurence D. Fink in a statement. "Our new business results, including $82.4 billion in the pipeline, are a direct result of the differentiated value we are delivering for our clients."
Assets under management (AUM) totaled $3.65 trillion at March 31, up $87.5 billion, or 2%, during the quarter. Growth in AUM was driven by a $100 billion improvement in market and investment performance and $34.7 billion of net new business in long-term products, including equity, fixed income, multi-asset class and alternative investments. These reflected net inflows in all asset classes, client regions and distribution channels.
LPL Financial CIO Burt White commented on BlackRock's earnings, saying they were superior to those of big-money banks because the asset management group is profiting from investor confidence. Big banks like JPMorgan and Bank of America are suffering from low loan demand while Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley's earnings this quarter were driven by fixed-income trading, "frankly a low-margin part of the business," White said.
"For the asset management group—BlackRock, T. Rowe Price and Legg Mason—those numbers are pretty good and will continue to be pretty good. Investors are coming through," White said. "BlackRock's earnings were quite good. You've really seen that what's driving
their business is the profitability on the fixed-income side of the house and some of the alternative investment side of the house. Those are the two parts that are really helping them, and they've done quite well, and we think that will continue."
BlackRock Q1 2011 earnings highlights:
- BlackRock was added to the S&P 500 Indexjust after quarter-end, "which is a testament to the quality of the franchise we have built," Fink said.
- Equity AUM increased $69.1 billion from year-end to $1.764 trillion.Net new business during the quarter totaled $10.5 billion, reflecting $8.3 billion of net inflows in index, including $7.2 billion of iShares and $2.2 billion in fundamental active portfolios. Fundamental active equity performance was mixed, with 59%, 58% and 77% of AUM performing above the benchmark or peer median for the one-, three-, and five-year periods ended March 31.
- iShares grew $34.2 billion during the quarter to $624.4 billion. Net new business of $10.5 billion was driven by $7.2 billion in equities, $2.3 billion in fixed income and $0.9 billion in alternatives. In response to geopolitical unrest in the Middle East, investors retreated from emerging markets into developed market equities and fixed-income ETFs. In addition, investors flocked to iShares MSCI Japan, which attracted net inflows of $3.0 billion during the quarter.
- The first quarter 2011 operating margin was 35.0%,which included $21 million of launch costs for the $1 billion Resources and Commodities Strategy closed-end fund. Operating income of $819 million, improved $92 million, or 13%, compared to first quarter 2010 due to the effect of growth in base and performance fees as well as BlackRock Solutions and advisory fees. The decline in operating income, as compared to fourth quarter 2010 is explained by base fee and cost improvements being more than offset by a $243 million reduction in performance fees given the significant number of funds that have an annual measurement period in the fourth quarter.
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Tanabata (七夕?, meaning "Evening of the seventh") is a Japanese star festival, originating from the Chinese Qixi Festival.[1] It celebrates the meeting of the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi (represented by the stars Vega and Altair respectively). According to legend, the Milky Way separates these lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the lunisolar calendar. The date of Tanabata varies by region of the country, but the first festivities begin on July 7 of the Gregorian calendar. The celebration is held at various days between July and August.
Wikipedia - Tanabata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanabata
The eight islands of Japan sprang into existence through Divine Intervention.The first two gods who came into existence were Izanagi no Mikoto and Izanami no Mikoto, the Exalted Male and Exalted Female. It was their job to make the land for people to live on.They went to the bridge between heaven and earth and, using a jewel-encrusted halberd, Izanagi and Izanami churned up the sea into a frothy foam. As salty drips of water fell from the tip of the halberd the first island was formed. Its name was Onogoro.So far, so good. But when Izanagi and Izanami first met on their island, Izanami spoke to Isanagi without being spoken to first. Since she was the female, and this was improper, their first union created badly-formed offspring who were sent off into the sea in boats.The next time they met, Izanagi was sure to speak first, ensuring the proper rules were followed, and this time they produced eight children, which became the islands of Japan.I'm sure you did not fail to miss the significance of this myth for the establishment of Japanese formal society.At present, Japan is the financial capital of Asia. It has the second largest economy in the world and the largest metropolitan area (Tokyo.)Technically there are three thousand islands making up the Japanese archipelago. Izanagi and Izanami must have been busy little devils with their jewelled halberd...Japan's culture is highly technical and organized. Everything sparkles and swooshes on silent, miniaturized mechanisms.They're a world leader in robotics, and the Japanese have the longest life-expectancy on earth.Text by Steve Smith.


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LANCASTER, Pa. – Joe Rollins (Temple Hills, Md./Surrattsville), a senior on the McDaniel football team, has been named a Beyond Sports College Network Football Athlete of the Week for the week of Sept. 14.
Rollins, the Centennial Conference (CC) Offensive Player of the Week, led the Green Terror (1-1, 1-0 CC) to a 21-14 victory over Moravian, running for 219 yards on 29 carries. He also scored all three touchdowns for McDaniel, covering 44, 21 and 15 yards on his first-half scoring scampers. He also caught an 11-yard pass for 230 all-purpose yards. It was his sixth career 200-yard rushing day.
With the 219 rushing yards, Rollins moves into second place on the program's all-time rushing list with 3,604 career yards. He also moves into ninth place on the CC's all-time list.
In 2013, Rollins has 337 rushing yards on 51 carries with five touchdowns. His yards and touchdowns are both conference bests.
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ROCKFORD - Lori A. Daniels of Wisconsin tipped bikini-clad exotic dancers the night of Sept. 8, 2012, at Rockford's State Street Station while she waited for her friend, a bartender, to get off work.
But when Daniels grew impatient and wanted to leave the bikini bar before it closed at 2 a.m. - she wanted to see her boyfriend - she made what turned out to be a fatal mistake. Daniels got what was supposed to be a simple ride home in the green Ford Explorer of her acquaintance Ebert Davison of Beloit, who was with Kody R. Walsh of Rockford.
Davison testified that Walsh was in the back seat when he shot Daniels twice in the head and killed her as they drove toward Beloit along Interstate 90. After Daniels was killed, Davison testified, Davis was forced at gunpoint by Walsh to continue driving toward his home in Beloit.
Walsh says he is not guilty of all charges, which include first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and aggravated unlawful discharge of a firearm. His trial is taking place this week in Judge John Truitt's courtroom.
Winnebago County Assistant Public Defender Nick Zimmerman told jurors that he plans to argue Davison framed Walsh for Daniels' killing.
"It was crazy," said Davison, who until that night considered Walsh a close friend. "I couldn't believe what happened. That's not Kody. He was family. He would stay with my kids. That's not the Kody I know."
Security video footage from outside Davison's Beloit home, where he had installed four cameras, shows that once they arrived, Walsh robbed Davison and held him at gunpoint. Davison said Walsh struck him in the head with the butt of the handgun.
In the security camera video, Davison cowers and ducks for cover as he holds his hands up. Walsh apparently opens fire as Davison scrambles into the house. Davison runs through a back door out the front once he thinks Walsh has driven off in his SUV.
"There's a dead lady in my truck and my friend has a gun on me," Davison said in response to a question about why he ran in one door and out the other in search of help. "I want to get as far away from that as I can." All Daniels had wanted was a ride home.
Daniels had gone to the bar with her longtime friend Demetrius Scott of Beloit. Scott was dating Daniels' friend Kelly Schobinger, who worked at the bikini bar as a bartender and waitress.
Schobinger testified that Daniels had been her best friend for 18 years.
Daniels' car was parked at Schobinger's Beloit residence. When Schobinger arrived home after work with Scott about 2:30 a.m. Sept. 9, 2012, Daniel's vehicle was still there.
Schobinger grew visibly emotional as she recalled how her desperate calls to Daniels' cell phone went unanswered as she sensed something was horribly wrong.
"I called her 6, 7, 8 times," Schobinger said. "It could have been more."
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Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Exchange Server is a messaging and collaborative software product developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Windows Server System line of server products and is widely used by enterprises using Microsoft infrastructure solutions. Exchange's major features consist of electronic mail, shared calendars and tasks, and support for mobile and web-based access to information, as well as supporting very large amounts of data storage.


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- Horn of the Black War Wolf
- Item Level 40
- Binds when picked up
- Races: Orc, Undead, Tauren, Troll, Blood Elf
- Requires level 40
- Requires Riding (150)
- Use: Teaches you how to summon this mount. This is a very fast mount.
- Vendor 2000
This item is a PvP reward, and can be purchased for 2000 from Raider Bork <Mount Quartermaster> outside the Hall of Legends in Orgrimmar alongside the other PvP reward mounts.
The black war wolf has red armor Covering its black matted fur, decorated with the Horde symbol on the front armor pieces. Underneath, there is a small red collar with a golden emblem, tied with black leather straps, and also a leather harness. The saddle is Red and has a small piece of folded cloth to the rear of it.On the forelegs, there are small red Leather bands. The wolf has very long, black claws. The eyes are glowing blue, and the wolf wears a bronze head piece tipped with spikes. It looks similar to the Frostwolf howler, albeit being Red and black. It has many sharp teeth and a pair of ivory tusks like most other wolves.
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