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WASHINGTON - JULY 24: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Sheila Bair listens to opening statements during a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill July 24, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee heard testimony from the government's top financial regulators about the Obama Administration's plan to overhaul the regulation of financial institutions in the wake of the current economic downturn. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)


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Graveyard Critters!
This theme was suggested by Diane Wright, who authors three cemetery blogs: The Kansas Rabbit, The Wright Graveyard Stew, and The Grave Yard Rabbit Travels Wright
We were invited to post our photographs of cemetery critters.
Now I have a number of photographs showing 'critters' carved or otherwise illustrating cemetery stones - from doves to lambs and deer. I even have several showing horses. But all too few of my photographs show live critters of any kind in a cemetery.
The most memorable critter I've seen in a cemetery was a hedgehog in the Bassingbourn Cemetery in Cambridgeshire, England, and, no, this wasn't Spike the Road Safety Hedgehog. This was a real live little hedgehog. Again, no photo - I was too busy staring and thinking "Hey, it's Mrs Tiggy-Winkle!"
Back at home, I'm a city girl, and a Pacific Northwest city girl at that, so I think the live critters I've seen the most in cemeteries would be seagulls or those very cheeky crows. But they seldom sit still close enough for me to try taking their photographs. Many people here like to walk their dogs in local cemeteries. This is often a controversial topic, and some cemeteries have restrictions, but it's certainly not uncommon to see dogs (on leashes).
Whenever I can I visit cemeteries in the rest of British Columbia, though, and we are always warned to watch for bears and sometimes snakes. On a summer trip to the Whonnock Cemetery in the Fraser Valley last year, we saw evidence of a bear - if you know what I mean - but, thank goodness, no bear.
Last year, at the Anglican Church's Nicola Cemetery (established in 1905, St. Michael's Anglican Church) which has lots of high grass and holes in the ground, I was so busy watching out in case of snakes that I almost stepped into a whole mess of ants just outside a grave enclosure. This time I did take a picture, but if you can see an ant in there I'll be surprised. I can't, but I swear! there were hundreds - all were busy trotting back and forth in that one area.
CLAPPERTON Monument, Nicola Cemetery, (Anglican), British Columbia, Canada. John T.W. Clapperton, died 1913 and Rose Clapperton, died 1918. 2009 photograph, M. Diane Rogers.
Many cemeteries have attractive landscape features which may include 'critters' too. Here is a photograph of the beautiful heron fountain just inside the entrance to Ocean View Burial Park in Burnaby, BC, near where I live. (Herons are my favourite birds.)
The Graveyard Critters edition of the Graveyard Rabbits Carnival will be posted soon by the Association of Graveyard Rabbits on the Association's blog. Be sure to read the full carnival.

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Fabulously Fast Quilts and Quilting Tips Blog Tour
Today is my stop on the Fabulously Fast Quilts and Quilting Tips Blog Tour! Fabulously Fast Quilts is a new book written by talented quilt designer and super nice person(!) Amy Smart. You probably know her from her blog Diary of a Quilter. I was thrilled to get a look at Amy's book and participate in her blog hop.
Image by Martingale, and Photographer Brent Kane
Fabulously Fast Quilts is a great book for beginners on up. Amy starts off with few pages on basic quilting techniques and then jumps right into 12 clever patterns. The patterns are separated into four technique categories.
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I just love the punches of solid red on her Fast Four Patch quilt.
Image by Martingale, and Photographer Brent Kane
And speaking of solids, check out this show stopper. This is Amy's Crossing Guard quilt and I am in love!
Image by Martingale, and Photographer Brent Kane
In celebration of Fabulously Fast Quilts, Amy has asked each of us on the tour to share a quilting tip. I decided to share more of a design tip, because design is the first step in making a quilt, right?
My tip revolves around pulling a perfect bundle of fabrics for your quilt. Often putting together fabrics for a quilt is the hardest part. If you are stuck, one trick is to base your bundle on a favorite print. This can be a piece of fabric or even a photo or painting.
This is a print I absolutely adore from Bonnie & Camille's April Showers line. I pulled fabrics from my stash that corresponded to all the colors in this particular piece of fabric. This works just as well in a fabric shop. Make your pile of bolts and create your own custom fat quarter set.
Fabric designers just know what looks good together, right? And even if you don't include the original inspiration fabric on the quilt top, it would make a perfect quilt backing!
You can read more tips from other quilt bloggers all week long!
Monday April 28 Sachiko Aldous of Tea Rose Home April Rosenthal of April Rosenthal Designs Jennifer Mathis of Ellison Lane
Tuesday April 29 Jen Wilding Cardon of Stitch This! Martingale Blog Amy Ellis of Amy's Creative Side Lori Holt of Bee in my Bonnet
Wednesday April 30 Faith Jones of Fresh Lemons Quilts - Me! Melissa Mortenson of PolkaDot Chair Amy Gibson of Stitchery Dickory Dock
Thursday May 1 Lee Heinrich of Freshly Pieced Lynne Goldsworthy of Lily's Quilts Jeni Baker of In Color Order
Friday May 2 Katie Blakesley of Swim Bike Quilt Lindsay Conner of Craft Buds Sherri McConnell of A Quilting Life


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Photograph, Marcus J. Parrott
Author: No authors specified.
Date: c. 1857
A portrait of Marcus J. Parrott, a lawyer and politician from Leavenworth. He was a member of the Topeka Constitutional Convention, 1855. In 1857, Parrott was a delegate to the Free-State Conventions at Topeka, Centropolis, and Grasshopper Falls. In 1857 and 1859, he was elected the Kansas Territorial delegate in Congress.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: B Parrott, Marcus *1
Item Number: 102669 Number of images: 1
Keywords: Engravings; Parrott, Marcus J., 1828-1879; Photographs and Illustrations
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Flash: Large Meteor Seen in Berkeley Tonight
A large meteor streaked across the night sky tonight and was seen and heard throughout the Bay Area and in Berkeley.
Locally, it was seen over Berkeley's Elmwood neighborhood appearing to move in a northeast directions, with multiple colors and a long jagged tail, followed by what sounded like an explosion.
Sky observers took to social media to report that they had seen a bright fireball with hues of red and orange break up overhead shortly before 8 p.m., accompanied by a loud boom.
The sound was so loud, some residents reported it shook their homes, making them think it may be an earthquake.
Jonathan Braidman, astronomy instructor at Oakland's Chabot Space and Science Center, said the meteor likely hit the Earth around the Martinez Hills and was roughly the size of a car when it broke up over the Bay Area.
Braidman said that hikers may be able to find small pieces of the meteor, called meteorites once they land on Earth, in the hills north of Martinez.
Meteors are hunks of rock and metal that have broken off from asteroids and fallen from space, breaking up as they enter Earth's atmosphere.
Braidman said that the meteors hit the upper layer of Earth's atmosphere traveling 25,000 mph or more, but the atmosphere slows them down and breaks them up so that when they hit the ground they are only traveling between 200 and 400 mph.
Tonight's meteor appeared for about four or five seconds and was traveling fairly slow compared to some other meteors, indicating it was probably fairly large.
But the boom that residents heard was a sonic boom, caused by the falling object traveling faster than the speed of sound, and was probably moving at over 1,000 mph, Braidman said.
Braidman said that the meteor is not at all related to the Orionid meteor shower expected to peak over Saturday night and Sunday morning.
A meteor shower is actually not an accurate name for this weekend's phenomenon, Braidman said, and that the "shooting stars" that stargazers will see this weekend are in fact small pieces of comet.
The Orionid phenomenon is predictable because it occurs when Earth passes through the trail of Halley's Comet, but tonight's meteor sighting is far less predictable, despite that as much as 15,000 tons of material falls from space each year.
"Even though this kind of thing happens often, it's pretty rare for people to see it," Braidman said.
He said that often such material may not fall in a populated area, potentially just falling into the middle of the ocean.
But stargazers can increase their chances of seeing a meteor or other astronomical phenomenon by going somewhere dark, away from city lights.
The Chabot Space and Science Center offers two free public star viewings weekly on Friday and Saturday nights starting at 7:30 p.m. In addition to this weekend's Orionid shower, viewers can also catch glimpses of Jupiter, the Moon and nebulae there.
The observatory is located at 10000 Skyline Blvd. in the Oakland Hills.
Sightings of tonight's meteor were reported throughout the Bay Area from Santa Cruz to San Jose, Oakland, Berkeley, Pacifica, Daly City, Sausalito, and even in Davis.


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Online video is no different from broadcast or cable TV: advertising dollars follow consumers' eyeballs.
And with Google Inc. GOOG, +0.51% at last figuring out how to make money off the millions of videos on its YouTube site, the search giant is finally reaping a healthy return on its 2006 acquisition.
That's good news for Google bulls looking for another source of revenue to sustain the company's annual growth rate, which has slowed since the purchase of Motorola Mobility last year. The shift to mobile devices is also impacting the pricing of Google's adds, one factor in the company's disappointing second-quarter report on Thursday afternoon.
With Google still maintaining its dominant share of search advertising, any gains it can make in the market for display advertising will goose revenue growth, which analysts currently peg at just 16% for 2014.
And as video ads become a larger share of display advertising — at the expense of so-called static ads — Google is well-positioned to put an even tighter squeeze on rivals Yahoo and Microsoft.
A report surfaced this week that Google is once more negotiating with media companies for the rights to stream movies, TV shows and other video content over YouTube. If Google can secure those rights, that would be bad news for other companies making money off Internet video content, including Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +0.22% and Netflix Inc. NFLX, -1.70%
Yet that's a big "if," given that the producers of video content don't want to repeat the mistake of their counterparts in the music industry, who watched the Internet extract much of the value from that business.
A copyright lawyer who helps negotiate deals between content creators, producers and distributors (and who speaks to me on the condition of anonymity) has described the mindset of media moguls in New York and Hollywood toward the Internet this way: "You can smell their fear in the room."
Anyone who makes a living distributing mainstream TV and movies would have to be a fool not to see that the threat from YouTube — which is backed by Google's very-deep pockets — could easily match what Apple Inc. AAPL, -0.81% did to the music business with its iTunes store.
Yet even so, Google can offer content producers something they crave — an online platform that's already serving up billions (with a "b") of hours of YouTube video every year, combined with technology that can place highly-targeted ads alongside every one of its videos — from flying cats to Oscar-winning movie scenes.
The recent stories about Hulu, which is co-owned by Walt Disney Co. DIS, -2.56% , 21st Century Fox FOX, -1.63% and Comcast CMCSA, -0.55% — and which reportedly talked to potential buyers yet failed to consummate any deal — shows that the largest U.S. media companies still aren't sure what to do about Internet distribution.
On the one hand, the Internet has the potential to become another lucrative, global stream of advertising dollars for them.
But at the same time, YouTube might ultimately do to video content what it has done to other media — including music and newspapers — namely, capture a growing chunk of the advertising pie.
Figuring out just how to split that pie is likely what helped scuttle any deal for Hulu, which owns next-day, online broadcast rights to programming from its parent companies. Don't look for savvy media executives to give Google access to that type of valuable content anytime soon.
Yet Google may only need to come to agreement with one major content producer to tip the balance of negotiating power in its favor, because any such producer will suddenly have online distribution that its rivals lack.
Given the ultra-competitive nature of the entertainment business, it's unlikely that type of deal would remain exclusive for very long.
And even if Google can't come to terms with Hollywood anytime soon, its latest results show that it can continue to nibble away at the online advertising pie even with content that's NOT mainstream.
For Google bulls wanting to wade further into a stock that's already gained 25% this year and almost 60% during the last 12 months (as of late trading Thursday), the growth of YouTube may provide the best reason.


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NEW YORK — A key al-Qaida figure wanted by the FBI for the murder of 17 U.S. sailors aboard the USS Cole reportedly has resurfaced in Yemen despite reports two months ago that he had been killed in a CIA drone strike in Pakistan.
The apparent re-emergence of Fahd al Quso, defiant and healthy, shows yet again that some reports about the deaths of top terrorist targets in northwest Pakistan ultimately prove to be inaccurate. To prove that he is alive, al Quso permitted his photograph to be taken with Arafat Mudabish, a Yemeni journalist who interviewed him last week.
"As you see in the photo, he was fine," Mudabish told NBC News in a telephone interview from Yemen. "He lives in an isolated mountain area where there is no Yemeni government presence. The tribesmen are protecting him. … His health was obviously good."
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U.S. and Yemeni officials did not dispute the authenticity of the interview with al Quso.
"We have every reason to believe he is alive," said a U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "Sadly, he is still causing trouble." A Yemeni official, who also asked not to be identified by name, said: "We never said he (al Quso) was killed. It was the Pakistanais and the Germans that said he was killed."
The official added that the Yemeni government has made two attempts to capture al Quso over the past year and will continue to do so.).
Al Quso has been a sore subject for U.S. officials for years and remains on the FBI's "most wanted" terrorists list with a $5 million reward for his capture.
He was indicted by a federal grand jury in New York in 2003 in the Oct. 12, 2000, bombing of the destroyer USS Cole — a terror attack that Osama bin Laden later celebrated and used to recruit new al-Qaida members in the months before the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Al Quso also is believed to have attended a key planning meeting for the 9/11 attacks in Malaysia.
But despite being arrested by Yemeni security forces, the Yemeni government of President Ali AbdullahSaleh later let him go , infuriating U.S. officials. He last surfaced publicly last spring in an al-Qaida propaganda video in which he boasted about the attack on the Cole and threatened more attacks against the United States.
But on the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Cole bombing in October, there were multiple press reports out of Pakistan that al Quso had been killed in a CIA drone strike. U.S. intelligence officials never confirmed al Quso's death and privately expressed skepticism, but they also acknowledged they had no hard proof either way.
Mudabish's interview, published Friday in the London based Arabic newspaper Asharq Alawsat, seems to settle the matter. As Mudabish relayed it to NBC, al Quso also used the occasion to score a few propaganda points: He said he had rejected a Yemen government offer to surrender in exchange for unspecified "promises" and denounced the U.S. government for a cruise missile strike in Yemen last Dec. 24. That strike ironically was followed by equally inaccurate reports that radical imam Anwar al Awlaki, who hails from the same Yemeni tribe as al Quso, had been killed.
In last week's interview, al Quso claimed that five civilians were instead killed in that air strike, Mudabish told NBC.
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The U.S. role in that air strike and another one the week before in Yemen, which reportedly killed 421 civilians, have received renewed attention recently as a result of the disclosure of an internal State Department cable by WikiLeaks.
In the cable, describing a meeting between Saleh and Gen. David Petraeus, then commander of the U.S. Central Command, the Yemeni president appears to agree to cover up the U.S. role, sticking to a cover story that the air strikes were conducted by the Yemeni military. "We'll continue saying the bombs are ours, not yours," Saleh is quoted as saying in the cable .
U.S. officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment about al Quso's reappearance.
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Scoop: 2 BROKE GIRLS on CBS - Saturday, January 18, 2014
2 Broke Girls is a comedy about the unlikely friendship that develops between two very different young women who meet waitressing at a diner in trendy Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and form a bond over their dream of one day owning their own successful cupcake business. Only one thing stands in their way - they're broke. Sarcastic, street-smart Max Black met the sophisticated, school-smart Caroline Channing when the uptown trust fund princess was having a run of bad luck due to her father's Wall Street scandal, which caused her to lose all her money and forced her to give waitressing a shot.
At first, Max sees Caroline as an entitled rich girl, but she's surprised to find that Caroline has as much substance as she does style. When Caroline discovers Max's knack for baking amazing cupcakes, she visualizes a lucrative future for them and they begin to save money to reach their start-up money goal of $250,000. As the girls' cupcake tally expands week-to-week, they become closer to their goal and to each other. At the diner they are surrounded by their offbeat, colorful "work family": Oleg, an overly flirtatious cook; Earl, a hip 75-year-old cashier; Han, the eager-to-please owner of the diner; and Sophie, the girls' outrageous upstairs neighbor. As Max and Caroline climb toward their goal, we see that their "smarts" plus their "hearts" might just be the recipe for success.


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On Pete O'Neal's bookshelf, in his tin-roof bungalow in the Mount Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania, is a collection of Lonely Planet travel books to Australia, Southeast Asia, Brazil, and other countries. He looks at the tomes wistfully: as an exile in East Africa for the past 38 years, he's never been to any of these places.
Mr. O'Neal was the founder and leader of the Kansas City chapter of the Black Panther party, and cannot return to the United States without facing a prison sentence for a federal gun conviction. The fake passport that he once used to travel the world has expired, virtually trapping him in this country.
But after nearly four decades in the bush, O'Neal has since shed his belligerent revolutionary fervor.
In lieu of political posturing, he now spends his time reading to orphans, teaching local youth, and running an exchange program for disadvantaged African American children. His neighbors call him "Mzee," or Elder.
He was charged in 1969 with transporting a gun across state lines – an accusation he denies – and faced up to 15 years in US prison. Instead, he jumped bail in January 1970 and fled with his wife Charlotte on fake passports to Sweden.
After a short stint leading the international office of the Black Panthers in Algiers, they arrived in Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere, then one of the world's most prominent socialist leaders, promised him a haven. O'Neal, during a recent interview at his rural compound in Imbaseni, recalls: "They told me, don't get into any trouble, do something productive, and you're welcome to stay here."
As an exile in East Africa for the past 38 years, that's what he has tried to do.
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Arriving in Africa with two young children, O'Neal had to learn how to make his own bricks to build a home, farm, and survive next to a national park teeming with wild buffaloes, elephants, and – perhaps most dangerous of all – mosquitoes. By his count, he's had malaria more than 15 times. Now 70 years old, he limps through his compound, recovering from recent surgery performed by a volunteer doctor.
It's the hard life in Tanzania that took the edge out of his attitude, he says.
"I came here with practically no money," he explains. "We had to learn how to work, how to farm, how to support ourselves. Here you either work or you fall through the cracks – Tanzania gives no quarter."
In time, he tried to get back to the spirit of community service he first learned as a Black Panther, which he says was more important than the political violence in the 1960s and '70s for which the group is remembered.
"Don't, don't, don't link violence automatically to the Black Panther Party," O'Neal exclaims. "The jewel in the crown for the Black Panther Party was always the community projects."
"That was the best thing I ever did in my life," he says, "and for the 40 years that I've lived in Africa, I've tried to continue that."
Founding a community center
In 1991, he created the United African Alliance Community Center (UAACC) on a 4-acre plot of land about 20 kilometers from Arusha, Tanzania's launching point for wildlife safaris. The organization relies on a group of American volunteers to give education services, teaching English, computers, empowerment through the arts, music, HIV-awareness, and film classes to Tanzanians.
When O'Neal first arrived, the compound was wild bush. Now it is cluttered with a computer lab, music studio, radio station, basketball court, vegetable garden, and a horse corral. The loud classes and civil rights-themed murals that adorn the walls give it the feel of a backpacker hostel.
He also invites disadvantaged African Americans from Kansas City to participate, and runs an orphanage for local children.
On a recent day in July, 12 scraggly children aged 4 to 14 lay sleeping curled on a floor around a napping O'Neal. These were his kids: some of the 21 children he and his wife adopted since 2000, whose parents were either too poor to pay school fees or had died from HIV or malaria.
Impacting lives
The youngest, a wily 4-year-old named Joshua Emmanuel, first came to Imbaseni when he was 2-years-old. His single mother was traveling around Tanzania begging for food at the time, says Mwajabu Sadiki, a Tanzanian woman who volunteers at the center.
Ms. Sadiki first met Pete when she was 15, and says she volunteers at the center to pay back what she first learned there.
"I learned everything here: how to speak English, design, computers, sewing, even yoga," Sadiki says. "Now I teach it all to the kids."
O'Neal says he hopes the American volunteers take away something as well.
Ashley Zwerin came to UAACC as an exchange student from Stony Brook University. Of all the things she experienced in Tanzania, "UAACC was by far the most influential, and life-changing for me," she says.
Ms. Zwerin returned to the United States and redoubled her community service efforts, she says, and helped raise thousands of dollars to support O'Neal's programs.
Focused on Tanzania
Through his interactions with the volunteers and Satellite TV, O'Neal keeps up with new ideas. He says he is impressed with how far race relations in the US has progressed, and never expected Barack Obama's presidential victory.
"In a weird sense, it made me almost proud as an American to think that something like that could happen in the country that I thought was the epitome of racism," he says.
So if the warrant for his arrest was canceled, would he return?
A long pause reveals his wariness.
"I'd be scared to death, but I'd love to see the land of my birth, to drink from the well that produced me," he says. "But citizenship doesn't interest me like is used to anymore."
He has long since stopped trying to overturn his conviction, and recently gave up efforts to acquire Tanzanian citizenship.
"I would much rather just focus on the things I want to do," he says, "and that's the community work that we're doing here."


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Mumu (Japanese: ZUZU), known as Zuzu in Chuang Yi's translations, is one of the Pokémon that Ruby has received in the Pokémon Adventures manga. Mumu is used in the Toughness category for Contests.
When Ruby was rescued by Sapphire from a pack of wild Mightyena, she took him to her Secret Base, he thought she was a Pokémon of some sort, and was shocked to the spine when she started talking. The two ended up getting into a fight after he ordered Nana to bite this supposed "Pokémon," and still holding his own Pokémon from fighting back, he phoned Professor Birch on the Pokégear that was in his bag, and was told to choose the "blue Pokémon," which he then chose over the "green one." However, against Sapphire's well-trained Torchic, it was no match even with its type advantage. After Ruby was told the "cave girl" was in fact Birch's daughter, who had been helping him with his field research, they resolved this dispute before a wild Seviper suddenly attacked them. When Sapphire seemingly subdued it, the two decided to make a bet after getting into an argument over Contests and Gym battles, and that the one who wins all the Contests or Gyms in the Hoenn region wins the bet. With Sapphire unconscious from the injuries she received from the Mightyena, Ruby swiftly defeated the Seviper after treating her, and later nicknamed the Mudkip "Mumu." Mumu tended to have a running nose.
Being that Ruby still was predisposed to Contests rather than battles as his father would intend, Ruby then continued his journey to conquer the Contests, and met several wild Pokémon that attacked him and Mumu, such as Dustox and Nuzleaf. In doing so, the boy then decided that he would be best for the Tough category of Pokémon Contests.
When the two arrived in Slateport City, Mumu finally evolved into a Marshtomp and gained the awe of the Pokémon Fan Club Chairman, who also adored Kiki and Nana and tried to help Ruby enlist in the Contests there, but with no Hoenn Contest Pass, he wasn't accepted. Instead, the two ended up being dragged into a mire when three Magma Admins kidnapped the two along with Captain Stern. Tied up and put to sleep by the gas Tabitha's Torkoal speed, it wasn't until a while later that Ruby awakened, and Mumu popped out of his ball to help free its owner. Upon realizing that the one interrogating Stern for information now was in cahoots with Tabitha and Courtney, who had attacked him and Sapphire before, Ruby used his Pokéblock-making skills to lure Blaise's Slugma into the Submarine they were planning to steal, and after being subjected to his traumatizing illusions, instead seized the opportunity to escape on the emergency escape pod installed in the submarine with a series of Earthquake attacks.
Awakening quite a while later, Ruby and Mumu drifted all the way to Route 119 where Ruby was again attacked by a Seviper, this time with a Zangoose, and thanks to their fangs impaling all his party Pokémon's balls, it had to be a wild Feebas that had grown attached to Ruby who finished them off. After reluctantly adding it to his team, Ruby would be stricken with another danger, possibly the worst of all: his infuriated father, who had been tracking him down ever since the beginning of his journey. Nana and Kiki were no match for his Slaking, being that Norman taught the two Pokémon their moves, but Mumu was another story, and with his well-hidden Mud Shot, managed to distract the leader for a while before his Vigoroth began to counter it. Through an unfortunate chain of events, just when the fight seemed to go to a halt with Castform's help, both Ruby and Norman's lives would be in peril as they hung from a pipe, and nearly had a deadly fall that they avoided thanks to the Running Shoes he received for his birthday weeks ago.
With this training, Ruby and Sapphire teamed up again against Maxie and Archie after they insidiously defeated Wallace, and succeeded in driving them away before their Plusle and Minun delivered the final blow.
In the Emerald chapter, Mumu appeared in Ruby's party again, but despite being enlisted as one of the three Pokémon he registered with for the Battle Dome tournament, wasn't used to battle Emerald. However, he was the only one of his entire party to be used to move up along the Battle Tower when Guile Hideout seized control of it, and after the villain succeeded in invoking a wish from the Jirachi he captured, Mumu was taught the ultimate Water attack, Hydro Cannon, and teamed up with the 8 other starters to destroy Guile's fake, giant Kyogre monster.
Moves used
|A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.
- Although Mumu doesn't evolve into its final stage until volume 19, the cover art depicts him as a Swampert along with Sapphire's Chic (which by then was already a Blaziken) the volume prior. This might be due to the fact that before being released in volume form, few to several rounds, even within the same chapter, may be left uncollected, and so the fans were expected to be aware of its evolution already, which happened mere chapters after the end of this volume. Alternatively, it may just be a result of the fact that Mumu and Chic were always seen in the same evolution stage when placed in a volume cover together, just as Exbo, Megaree, and Feraligatr were in the covers for the Gold, Silver, & Crystal chapter.
See also
For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Mudkip, Marshtomp, and Swampert.
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President George W. Bush, whose White House was legendary for its secrecy, seems to have turned over a new leaf in his post-presidency.
A previously undisclosed directive Bush signed almost two years after leaving office could result in many of his official records becoming public faster than those of his predecessor, President Bill Clinton, experts say — a move that's drawing praise from unlikely quarters.
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Bush's letter to the National Archives about his presidential records, obtained by POLITICO under the Freedom of Information Act, establishes nine categories of documents cleared for release to the public. They include memoranda and reports provided to Bush and his aides that are "purely informational or factual in content," talking points on policy decisions, scheduling files and recommendations about whether to sign legislation, while still allowing for withholding of some details of sensitive policy debates.
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The relatively expansive directive stands in contrast to Bush's approach to the public's right to know while he was in office, when his administration battled to the Supreme Court to keep secret the work of Vice President Dick Cheney's Energy task force and reversed a Clinton-era presumption favoring disclosure in Freedom of Information Act cases. The Bush order also sets his approach apart from Clinton's instructions for his White House records — a process that led to about 33,000 pages being held back for more than 12 years after the 42nd president left office.
On Friday, the latest batch of about 7,300 pages of those Clinton-era records emerged from the Clinton Library, revealing the scramble to lay political blame for the failure of the Clinton health care reform drive and how the president was advised to tackle questions during a trip to Vietnam about his avoidance of the Vietnam War draft.
While Bush's letter was signed about 3½ years ago, its true test has just gotten under way. That's because, by law, White House records become subject to Freedom of Information Act requests from the public five years after a president leaves office. That window opened at the Bush Library in January of this year. In the first week, it was open to FOIAs, the Bush Library received more than 200 requests from journalists, scholars and activists.
A close observer of White House operations, Towson University political science professor Martha Kumar, said Bush likely views himself as having little to lose and something to gain by being open with his official files.
"He left the presidency very comfortable with his record. I think that'll carry through into the release of information from it," Kumar said. "I think he believes his actions were justified and that the records will demonstrate that."
An analogous letter Bill Clinton signed in 2002 took a different approach, appearing to lift the legal restrictions on all confidential advice unless it was covered by certain exceptions. However, experts and former National Archives officials say that the outlines of those exceptions were so unclear that even mundane records were often withheld.
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"In general, I would say that the Bush letter is more helpful and concrete than the Clinton one," said Scott Nelson of Public Citizen, an attorney who has fought for broader public access under the Presidential Records Act. "On its face, the Bush letter appears to do more to 'ease' the restrictions than the Clinton one did, and to empower the Archives to make its own decisions about releasing materials as to which the restrictions have been 'eased.'"
"Bush chose to delineate categories in which he was waiving restrictions," said Sharon Fawcett, who retired in 2011 as director of the Archives' presidential libraries division. "He operated more from: 'This is what you should open. This is what you must close….' That helps to speed up the review, rather than saying, 'I'm mostly willing to open confidential advice, but I want to look at it first.'"
That extra step, said Fawcett, means "great quantities of materials have to go through the eyeballs of the [president's] personal representative to identify material everyone is comfortable with." That's what happened following Clinton's 2002 directive, she said.
The high marks Bush is receiving for his letter are startling, since historians and a media coalition complained loudly and bitterly in 2001 about an executive order he issued ceding additional power to former presidents to prevent disclosure of their records. A judge struck down part of the order in 2007.
In a measure of liberal disdain for Bush's action, the first executive order President Barack Obama signed after taking office revoked the earlier order.
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"I further request that the NARA staff pay particular attention to, and appropriately consult with, my designated representatives regarding confidential communication, including electronic communications, containing substantive advice or recommendations involving White House staff serving as Assistants to the President," Bush wrote in the Nov. 15, 2010, letter.
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Here, too, there are nuanced differences. Bush's letter says he's considering easing even those restrictions and appears to give his representative authority to do so. Clinton's urges that the restrictions be interpreted "as narrowly as possible," but doesn't appear to give the go-ahead to disclose any of the information in the categories deemed most sensitive.
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The final game has been played (the Mets won, if you care) and the final roster decisions have been made. Next stop: Miami. A couple of thoughts before Opening Day:
- Jason Bay is injured. You didn't think this wouldn't happen, did you? Not Bay's injury specifically, but an injury to one of the team's better players. I may be reading too much into my Twitter feed, but I think it's fair to say that Bay's injury solicited a fair amount of "same old Mets" reactions. Sure, it's not a good thing. But injuries happen, especially to soon-to-be 32 year old outfielders. I could be alone here, but I think it's at most a minor set back and is not at all related to anything that happened in 2009 or 10. Bay will be back at some point, he'll be healthy, and he'll probably exceed his 2010 production levels. Until then, some combination of Lucas Duda, Scott Hairston and Opening Day starter Willie Harris will tide the team over.
- Speaking of Willie Harris, he's starting in left field on Opening Day. Well, that's sub-optimal. But after they sing the anthem and watch the fighter jet-flyover, Opening Day is just one of 162 games. As long as Carlos Beltran stays healthy, the threesome listed above should be able to roughly approximate Bay's production.
- Speaking of Carlos Beltran, he's apparently healthy. Or, at least as healthy as he's likely to get this season. I've made no attempt to hide the fact that I'm a big Beltran fan and I'm extremely happy that he's going to play on Friday. I've come to grips with the fact that he'll never be the player he once was: those days are over. But I'm excited about his bat. Maybe I've read to many articles, too many beat-writer tweets from batting practice or minor league games, but it sounds to me like his bat (and, just as importantly, his batting eye) are still as good as ever. He may not be able to cover ground like he once did and I'll probably hold my breath every time he rounds first on his way to second, but he'll help this team. I have no doubt about that.
I'm on record over at Mets Fever saying that I think the Mets will "go 87-75 and finish 2nd. I don't think that will be good enough for the Wild Card, but they'll be in contention late." Despite recent developments, I still feel that way. Sure, it's a bit optimistic and quite a few things have to go right, but I think they'll get some breaks*. And even if they don't, I refuse to dampen my optimism. Our long, cold winter is finally over: Mets baseball is back and we're about to embark on another 162-game summer. Let's get ready to enjoy it for all it's worth.
*That's as far as I'm willing to "show my work". As much as I admire (and struggle to employ) statistical analysis and forecasting, I was unwilling to peek too far behind the curtains for my pre-season prediction. I'm aware of the flaws this team has and I know that banking on a few breaks to go the Mets way is lazy, but I'm going all in on optimism. Will I be disappointed if they don't win 87 games? Not unless they lose more than 83: this team is better than last year's. Anything in-between is acceptable to me, and I chose to bet on the high side. So there you go. And Let's Go Mets!


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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Gary Denbo must have been a really awful hitting coach
(Of course, there is the scary prospect of what Denbo is going to do to the Jays' minor leaguers, now that he's been offered a roaming instructor position with the team.)
The first two innings of last night's 14-1 demolition of the Reds provided a week's worth of highlights, including three homers (THREE HOMERS!), lots of extra base hits, and hitting with runners in scoring position. Not that we're going to break out the party hats and print our playoff tickets at home (for a small fee) straight away, but you've got to hope that this "see ball, hit ball" approach that the new/old regime is preaching is going to result in more big innings like last night.
Alternatively, the Jays could just try to make sure that they face Bronson Arroyo as often as possible. (Hope the singing career is going well for Bronson, because he might need something to fall back on.)
J.P. and Dunn...more hilarity!
It goes on and on and on. It's like watching The Hills, only without the hot/dumb women and Spencer's bizarre flesh-coloured beard. To be honest, we don't even give a rat's ass anymore.
Wednesdays...with J.P.?
What are the chances that the embattled GM hits the airwaves tonight? And if he does, will a minion from Rogers be sitting beside him to taser him should he make any controversial comments?
Gibby's parting words
John Gibbons appeared yesterday on the Fan 590 with Herbal Fat Boy Gord Stellick and the perpetually incredulous Damien Cox. Gibby sounded sanguine about everything that went down, and seems more or less at peace with it all. As excited as everyone is about Cito, we hope people recognize that Gibby acquitted himself pretty well, especially over the past two years. We'll miss him (and that's coming from someone who was demanding his head on a pike on this very blog.)
7 comments:
- the ack said...
not sure about another managing job, but I think Gibby would make someone a great bench coach.
Let's see Pedro Martinez try and toss him around during a brawl.
oh yeah, and after last night, PLAnevermind....
- June 25, 2008 at 11:06 AM
- Andrew said...
Everyone should call in as Adam Dunn tonight.
- June 25, 2008 at 12:37 PM
- Tony said...
- June 25, 2008 at 2:25 PM
- Mono said...
I agree with *the ack*, the Gibbons would make a good bench coach. Criteria: Looks like he doesn't give a darn but knows how to lay down the law in the dugout. Listening to Wilner and canvassing every article I can I still can't make heads or tails about why our hitting uniquely flatlined with Denbo. What we do know is to collectively hope Arroyo gets released and picked up by another AL East team
- June 25, 2008 at 8:01 PM
- Joanna said...
I think it was doing what Denbo suggested, getting frustrated when it wasn't working, losing confidence. x 9. Or x 6 or 7, anyone who just did what they felt like doesn't count.
I love that you know who Spencer is, Tao. That guy is like the worst, douchiest guy ever. I see him as the next GM.
- June 25, 2008 at 9:53 PM
Gibby's big mistake was that he sounded like Charlie Manuel's little brother. Except if you cut thru the accent etc., he had some intelligent stuff to say. CM on the other hand, I needed an interpreter when he managed the Indians.
- June 26, 2008 at 5:08 PM
- MK Piatkowski said...
I too would like to see Gibby end up somewhere. The man handled himself with class. How he's handled his firing has impressed me immensely.
- June 28, 2008 at 1:40 PM


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Video: First Talking Computer Pizza Order
This video from 1974, which is making the rounds on the web this week, documents the first computer assisted pizza order. The experiment enabled the speech impaired subject, Donald Sherman, to place an order for a large 16-inch pepperoni, mushroom, ham and sausage pizza to be delivered to the Michigan State University Artificial Intelligence Computer Lab, which developed the technology that made the call possible. It took several attempts for a pizzeria to accept the order, with a hangup from Domino's, before Mr. Mike's Pizza patiently took the order. From a quick Google search it looks like any pizzeria by that name in the Lansing area is long gone.
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Somewhere in Kabul, There is an Italian Bakery
No, that's not the opening line for a joke; there really is an Italian bakery in Afghanistan. It's also where today's cakes come from. Let's see what our military folk are getting for their birthdays, shall we?
Not bad, not bad - although it looks like the cake suffered from a little friendly fire. But what's up with all the random silver balls? It reminds me of those plastic bubble mazes we had when we were kids.
Wait, I can explain this one! Submitter Sara writes, "One of my guys was a reservist who had been a male stripper, hence the naked rear."
Ewwkay. Wait, [head tilt] do you guys see a naked rear? Kind of looks like pants to me - or shorts, I should say. And the shading - why?
But most importantly: we're sending MALE STRIPPERS to Kabul?!? Dang, joining the army has never seemed so appealing - am I right, ladies? I mean, assuming this picture is not representative of what said strippers actually look like...
This is like one of those old Magic Eye pictures: I simultaneously see a bear and an armadillo. But before I can decide which it is, I'm distracted by all those baffling silver balls again. I guess the Italians use them like sprinkles - metallic, molar-breaking sprinkles, but sprinkles all the same.
Sara C., for the cakes, and for all you do on our behalf, thank you.


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Vikings owner Zygi Wilf made it clear on Sunday that Leslie Frazier will return as coach next season despite the team's record falling to 2-10 with the 35-32 loss to the Denver Broncos.
"Leslie will definitely be back next year," Wilf said.
Wilf also said there might be some evaluation of the coaching staff, but he indicated that he didn't see any changes happening unless Frazier asked for changes.
The media have been pushing for Wilf to name a full-time general manager for the Vikings, but if Wilf is planning to make any changes in the football administrative staff headed by Rick Spielman, he didn't say. He has said he is satisfied with the way the football operation is being run.
Wilf realizes that the absence of star running back Adrian Peterson for most of the past three games has hurt the team's chance of winning.
Wilf blamed other injuries for a lot of the Vikings' problems, and it is his belief that now that the team has an established quarterback in Christian Ponder, other holes can be filled through the draft and free agency or by getting players healthy.
Meanwhile, Wilf continues to hope that the Legislature will find a way to build a new stadium for the Vikings. He has been encouraged by some of the moves recently.Harvin shines
Two former University of Florida teammates -- Percy Harvin and Tim Tebow -- were on display Sunday, and both put on a show.
Harvin may have had his best day as a pro, catching eight passes for 156 yards and two touchdowns. One of the touchdown receptions was 52 yards, the other 48, as Harvin proved he is the best wide receiver in the NFL.
"Offensively, we played a pretty solid game," said Harvin, who missed two days of practice last week and credited Ponder for his big day.
"I take my hat off to Christian," he said. "A lot of that is just him. If I'm not out there in practice and not running routes, he's just going off of his confidence and the confidence he has in me. So my hat's off to everybody who keeps preparing."
About his college teammate Tebow, Harvin said: "He won the battle. I played with him, he's a great leader and a great teammate, and he led his team to a 'W' today. We'd like to come away with the win, but we had some problems with things."
Yes, the Vikings might not win a game the rest of the way, not with the worst secondary in the NFL and Peterson sitting out.Homecoming for Decker
Former Gopher Eric Decker, who was tied for fourth in the NFL with eight receiving touchdowns before Sunday's game, had only four passes thrown to him Sunday. He caught two for a total of 25 yards.
It was a great homecoming for Decker, who had a ton of fans on hand.
"Our mentality is if it's close in the fourth, we're going to find a way to win," Decker said. "No matter how it gets done. That's what we've been doing."
He described Tebow as a miracle worker.
"He brings a positive attitude, and his optimism has rubbed off on guys," Decker said.
Decker said the Broncos must play better on offense.
"It just comes down to execution," he said. "We had some penalties, and you can't do that stuff. It kills you. That's something we have to stress in practice and get better at and get a quicker start so we can take some pressure off the defense."Vikings need help
Brian Billick, the former Vikings offensive coordinator and Baltimore head coach, did the color commentary on the Vikings telecast for a second consecutive week, and he believes the Vikings need some help.
"Well, they need an outside presence at receiver," Billick said. "[Devin] Aromashodu looked good today, but obviously they need a little bit of that.
"Defensively, they're getting a little older. Their secondary is getting banged up, and they probably need to address that."
Billick said the secondary problems are especially notable.
"They were patient in what they did with their eight-man front to keep Tebow from running the ball, but there were three or four breaks in the secondary where they had broken coverages," he said. "They had some big plays down the field that obviously were mental breakdowns. They've got a lot of new guys in there."Praises Tebow
Vikings defensive end Jared Allen talked about how Tebow hit the open receivers.
"The one good play I thought he had was, he extended the play out to our right and cut up underneath me, and as he was going out of bounds he hits a guy," Allen said. "But again, the guy's wide open. But he's an athlete. I don't know, he's obviously a winner."
As usual, Allen hated losing.
"It's the toughest thing ever," he said. "You prepare all week and you think you're going to win the game, and you squander it.
"You know, the way I look at it is, if you're on the field I need your best. And you know, that will be the coaches' job to evaluate that and put the people in where they're supposed to be.
"We'll try to get this one behind us and go beat Detroit."
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Cool, awesome work bro! ;)
Pokémon3D is a recreation of the old Pokémon games Gold/Silver by Nintendo/GameFreak (but, of course this game has nothing to do with them ;) You're the hero of the game, and as usual, you want to be the best Pokémon trainer of all time. So let's go, visit some grass and catch, battle and defeat wild Pokémon, explore towns and routes in 3D, collect items and Pokémon, play with a friend in LAN co-op and much more. The game is currently under development and features are added frequently.
Cool, awesome work bro! ;)
i am having some problems. When i open the Pokemon3D file and press (start game 0.15) so will the game window not open. i did download the same way you did show in the video, but it will not start.
PS: i got a pc with windows 7
I've done everything that you said in this video, but it still won't open. NEvermind, just downloaded XNA, and it's working fine. Thanks for the tutorial!
The download files on the forum link and the tumbler link have been updated with a new launcher. This should fix some issues with launching the game.
Trend Micro PC Protection? Is that an antivirus of some sort?
Is there anyway i could play pokemon 3d multiplayer?
i donwloaded the zip file but the game wont start nothing happens
it dosent want to work what can i do!
I open the game but i get this:Error (509)
This account's public links are generating too much traffic and have been temporarily disabled!
Thanks dood!
OMG your tone of voise is horrible...
I hope this game become big this is what we pokemon fans need!!!!!!! keep up the good work devs
I made a Detailed Fan Trailer,
Hope you guys like it and please keep it up with this proyect !
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Holy crap I love this mod, don't get me wrong but your voice man, not even your voice, it's just the way you speak you sound like a 10 year old the way you tail off at the end of each sentence.
When i start my game it starts to spin i dont know what to do
i download this and start the launcher en cannot press on game start help please
Is there a way to catch mew and/or celebi?
Only registered members can share their thoughts. So come on! Join the community today (totally free - or sign in with your social account on the right) and join in the conversation.
Forum post with all the files in a .zip:
Official Launcher download:
Starting and Installing help forum:
A quick note:
You may notice that in the video, the zip file contains 'Pokmon3D.exe'. Even though the video goes over a launcher file called Pokmon that shouldn't be used, this is the official launcher. This was an issue with zip files, and it has been fixed.
The forum page and tumblr links have all been updated to 0.15.1, adding a MySQL backing to the launcher as well as bug fixes for it.


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Observing Student Problem Solving
|Introduction | Which Group Paid More? | Problem Reflection #1 | Sharing-Division Word Problem | Problem Reflection #2 | Classroom Practice | Observe a Classroom | Summary | Your Journal
Ms. Ramiro's third-grade class is beginning to learn about division. She introduced the division problem below by saying, "Please work with your partner to write a sharing-division word problem. Your problem should go with the number sentence '25 ÷ 10 = ?' Try not to have food in your problem! Then, solve your problem."
Anna: Sharing division -- is that like the cookies problems? Like, 25 cookies for 10 people, how much is each person's fair share?
Anna: We could do baseball cards.
Anna: That's good. What would the answer be?
Anna: It would be dumb to tear them in half. You can't go to the movies with half a ticket.
Anna: Five tickets isn't enough to give them one more each. But, there's enough to give one-half to each, like we did in some of the cookies problems.
Anna: They could each have two dollars -- look at our work on the tickets problem. They would use up 20 dollars that way. What about the other five dollars?
Anna: Why don't we try it like in the cookies problems and give half a dollar to each kid? If you break five dollars in half, you get 10 half-dollars.
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This is the third year that Nielsen has presented the award in the U.S. This year's product winners were all launched in 2012 and met the standards for distinctiveness, relevance and endurance in order to qualify. The winning companies join an expanding and elite group of marketers that will convene at Nielsen's Consumer 360 event in San Antonio in June to examine successful new product innovation and drivers of in-market success. The 2014 Breakthrough Innovation Report will also be launched at the event and will feature in-depth case studies of the winners and their approaches to successful innovation.
"Successful innovation is never easy," says Taddy Hall, Senior Vice President, Innovation, Nielsen, "but nor is it complicated. Breakthrough Winners don't rely on luck or genius. The hallmark of successful innovation is that they resolve struggles or fulfil aspirations; they perform jobs in consumers' lives."
The U.S. Nielsen Breakthrough Innovation Project is a multi-year in-depth analysis of more than 17, 000 new launches from 2008 - 2012, which has resulted in the selection of 62 winners over three years. The lessons learned from these successful new product launches were summarized in a series of reports released by Nielsen and available by request. The winning companies gather at Nielsen's global thought leadership event, Nielsen Consumer 360 to share findings and insight into successful new product innovations.
Nielsen analyzed over 3,400 new consumer product introductions which launched in the U.S. in 2012 to determine which products demonstrated breakthrough results. The 14 winners were required to meet the standards for distinctiveness, relevance and endurance in order to qualify. The analysis, combined with prior research on more than 17,000 new launches from 2008 - 20112, led to the conclusions and recommendations found in the U.S. Breakthrough Innovation Report, which will be published in June during Nielsen's Consumer 360.
Nielsen Holdings N.V. (NYSE: NLSN) is a global information and measurement company with leading market positions in marketing and consumer information, television and other media measurement, online intelligence, mobile measurement, trade shows and related properties. Nielsen has a presence in approximately 100 countries, with headquarters in New York, USA and Diemen, the Netherlands. For more information, visit www.nielsen.com.
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Read the following article today on GigaOm– Seeing as I inadvertently left my briefcase and laptop in a cab this week and it took a few days to get it I may be a bit behind. (Thank you to the incredibly kind cab driver in New Orleans who brought it back to the airport so they could send it to me though! Was quite the good karma day where that was concerned)I somehow usually disagree with Simon on things, might be because of background, ideaology, where we work, or something, but in this article I find myself agreeing with his latter viewpoints quite a bit. For instance this time around I think Desktop Virtualization or Remote Desktops are poised to take off. I also agree with him that Ethernet is changing the way storage networks have been historically run and designed, although in the case of FCoE it is doing so in a very transparent way that is as non-disruptive as possible to both storage and network administrators. I think 'Clouds' are the next hype-term for the next year or two. People are coming to grips with Virtualization and how it reshapes IT, creates service and software based models, and in many ways changes a lot of the physical layer we are used to. Clouds will be the next transformation over hte next several years, building of of the software models that virtualization enabled.Wanted to say thank you to all the customers and partners I met at CiscoLive/Networkers last week. Was great seeing all of you, all 11,000 of you for that matter. Also wanted to pass a special thanks to those who filmed some vlogs with us and the 1500 or so who joined me wishing DIno Farinacci a 'Happy Birthday'. Take Care.dg
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Rays relievers confident 'pen can be best in baseball
TAMPA, Fla. -- Joel Peralta didn't hold back when asked what he thought about the Rays' bullpen.
"On paper, it's got to be the best bullpen in the league," he said. "If everybody performs the way that we should, we have a lot of arms that can do good here, that can pitch against anybody. ... It's a great bullpen."
TAMPA, Fla. -- Joel Peralta didn't hold back when asked what he thought about the Rays' bullpen.
"On paper, it's got to be the best bullpen in the league," he said. "If everybody performs the way that we should, we have a lot of arms that can do good here, that can pitch against anybody. ... It's a great bullpen."
On paper, here's what the Rays have. Starting at the back end, Grant Balfour has returned to become the team's closer. Setting him up will be the likes of Heath Bell, Juan Carlos Oviedo, Jake McGee and Peralta. Then who knows who for the final two spots, but the selection will be made from a deep pool that contains Josh Lueke, Mark Lowe, and Brandon Gomes. If one wants to delve even deeper, there's Jeff Beliveau, C.J. Riefenhauser, Kirby Yates, Juan Sandoval, Steve Geltz and Sam Runion.
Rays manager Joe Maddon thought the team would have an above-average bullpen, and nothing he has seen thus far can convince him otherwise, even if Oviedo has yet to arrive due to his ongoing visa problem.
"We haven't even seen Oviedo yet," Maddon said. "Grant hasn't really pitched as well as he can. I really believe [he hasn't had his usual amount of adrenalin pumping just yet]. Once he gets going, the latter part of the game, you're going to see the numbers you're used to seeing.
"Oviedo's going to be very interesting. The reports are good that he's throwing the ball well, that kind of stuff. Jake is trying to put together this curveball as part of the package -- he's very interesting. Peralta is still really good. And then we just have to fill out the back side of it. Whether it's Lueke and Ramos and all these other guys, Mark Lowe has looked really good. So there's so much going on with this group."
Historically, Balfour has never been one to shine during Spring Training. He has compiled a 6.25 ERA over his past seven Spring Trainings. Ironically, his best preseason numbers (other than 2013 when he pitched just four innings) came in 2008 with the Rays when he was designated for assignment at the end of camp. Thus, Maddon's lack of concern for where Balfour stands on March 9.
Over the years, Balfour has been a member of some pretty solid bullpens, and even he's impressed with what the Rays have assembled.
"Looking at the names, it's great," Balfour said. "Shoot, you look at it, we're pretty stacked, you know. I like it a lot. You've got guys who can fit into all types of roles, guys who have been around a while that can pitch all different roles, which is nice to have. They have that experience. A bunch of lefties, righties, we have that mix."
Balfour offered a disclaimer since he is a "bullpen guy" before noting of this year's bullpen: "I see it as a backbone for us winning games. Help us win ballgames, especially the one-, two-run games. The game that you want to win that will make a difference at the end of the year that will get you into the playoffs."
McGee believes this year's bullpen is as "deep as it's been" since his arrival in 2010.
"We had a veteran group in 2010 -- we had [Joaquin] Benoit, Balfour, and [Rafael] Soriano," McGee said. "This year we have Balfour, Heath Bell and then Peralta can handle the seventh, eighth and ninth."
As far as roles go, McGee believes they will evolve as the season moves along.
"I think a lot of times what Joe likes to do is he'll see the lineup coming up in the sixth inning or seventh inning and base his decisions on that," McGee said. "I think we're going to be kind of fluctuating, not really have assigned innings other than Balfour throwing the ninth."
Gomes personifies the caliber of player competing for the final spots. He's spent parts of three seasons in the Major Leagues, all with the Rays. He's proven time and again that he's got the makeup and the stuff to be a solid bullpen performer, but he's a long shot this spring because he still has an option. That means the Rays can send him down to Triple-A Durham without having to chance losing him. Such a scenario adds overall depth. So, in theory, having an option will count against Gomes' chances of breaking camp with the team.
"Every year it's competitive since my first year here and, obviously, before then," Gomes said. "It's been a great bullpen -- they've put together an extremely talented group of guys. A lot of turnover, but they just keep replacing different guys. So for me, it's not really that different of a situation we're coming into, and I think it makes everybody better in the end."
Gomes added that he wouldn't want to be in any other kind of situation, because it boils down to the Rays having a quality bullpen and also a winning team.
Peralta made 80 appearances in 2013 and would be fine with his number of appearances going down slightly this season so he'll have plenty left in the tank for a postseason run -- a run he believes is possible for this year's team.
"The type of team we're going to have, we're going to be way better than last year," Peralta said. "We've got a lot of the same guys starting, the bullpen has gotten even better than before with Bell, Balfour and Oviedo. If we perform the way we should, I think we're going to be the best bullpen in the league. To me, we have been a top-three bullpen in the league the last couple of years, so with the names that we've got, we should be better than last year."
Bill Chastain is a reporter for MLB.com.


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If you wonder why the machinery maker Caterpillar is laying off more than 20,000 of its workers, the answer comes through loud and clear in the latest report on America's gross domestic product.
Americans' production of goods and services fell at a 3.8 percent annual pace in the final quarter of 2008, and one of the steepest parts of the slide was in exports.
The global economic downturn means that Cat, which not many months ago was one of corporate America's big stories of industrial success, is selling a lot fewer excavators and pipe layers.
For years, US exports grew faster than GDP. But in the most recent quarter exports fell much faster than the rest of the economy, declining at a 20 percent annual pace.
It's a sign of how a recession that began with trouble in American mortgages has gone global, and now that global impact is bouncing back at the US.
"That's a huge decline in what has been … the fastest growing sector of our economy," says Ken Mayland, who heads ClearView Economics, a consulting firm near Cleveland. Any pullback from globalization and trade "threatens to dull and tarnish the overall world prospects for growth."
The GDP report, released by the Commerce Department on Friday, also unveiled sharp weakness by consumers at home – but the overall decline in economic activity was not as big as economists had forecast.
One reason was that business inventories rose more than expected, placing a temporary mask on the overall weakness. Consumer spending fell at a 3.5 percent annual pace for the quarter, similar to the retrenchment a quarter earlier.
Deflation for the first time since the 1950s
Since all these numbers are on an inflation-adjusted basis, it's worth noting that in the fourth quarter an unusual thing happened: The gauge of overall prices used to adjust the GDP numbers showed deflation for the first time since the 1950s. The deflationary pressures spread beyond oil to affect the prices of holiday retailers.
Durable goods including big-ticket items such as automobiles have been hit particularly hard by the consumer slowdown.
President Obama focused on the economy's troubles again Friday, unveiling a task force to focus on strengthening the middle class. He urged quick passage of his economic stimulus plan. But he also said the economy needs more than just more jobs, it needs better ones that offer average Americans "a way forward and a way up."
For now, hard times for Americans are being felt not only at home but abroad. Imports to the US declined at a nearly 16 percent annual pace.
"A lot of the burden of the US slowdown is being borne by foreign producers," Mr. Mayland says.
Since GDP measures goods and services produced at home, exports add to GDP, while imports are subtracted out. In the most recent quarter, the sharp drop in exports and imports essentially cancelled each other out in terms of their effect on the nation's growth rate.
But that doesn't mean that sharp drop is unimportant.
The sharp plunge reflects significant problems for the world economy. In recent years, the world economy overall has seen its fastest growth in modern times. The expansion of commerce has meant expanding productivity rates and jobs, allowing most nations to grow faster than they could without such ties.
Now, the globe could see its first overall decline in the volume of trade in many years.
On Friday, Caterpillar announced it plans to cut another 2100 jobs, on top of some 20,000 layoffs announced earlier in the week.
"[Caterpillar] must drastically reduce our production levels and cost structure to remain competitive for the long run," Bob Williams, a company vice president, said in a statement. Cat has 113,000 employees worldwide.
New worries about protectionism
Some economists worry that the recession could cause nations to focus more on self-interest -- with the risk that measures designed to protect domestic jobs could backfire by deepening the global downturn.
So far, this remains more a risk than a reality. The danger is that modest actions could end up provoking larger ones.
"The latest versions of the US fiscal stimulus package contain provisions regarding 'domestic content,'" Richard Bernstein, chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch, said in a note to clients Thursday. "The protectionist trend is gaining strength much faster than we thought even just a few weeks ago."
The delicate US-China relationship -- with China relying on huge exports and America being the largest importer -- faces new tension. As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama pledged to take a tougher line on trade issues with China. Beijing reacted angrily last week when US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told senators at his confirmation hearing that China was manipulating its currency.
Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday the Obama administration had made no determination on whether China was manipulating its currency and would not make a unilateral attempt to block its exports.
In a phone call Friday, Chinese President Hu Jintao told President Obama that he wanted to strengthen cooperation between the two countries to fight the global economic slowdown, China's Xinhua news agency reported.
Of course, one man's "protectionism" can be another's bid to correct abuses of current trade law. But economists generally say that a recession is a risky time for trade relations to fray. In the Great Depression, rising trade barriers deepened the downturn.
Wire service material was used in this report.