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Sipping on some Jim Beam Devil's Cut and watching the Packers-Vikings game. What is everyone else drinking?
Saturday night drinking thread
BW's with the family....some Sam's winter, now tearing through a sixer of snow day.
...typically go dark in the winter, but decided to switch it up for a refreshing summber beverage tonight. Can't be made at myself.
Can't tell if those are normal typos or drunk texting...
Not a strong suit.
Anyway, ran out of Broker's after a cup and a half and had to switch to Bombay...should be a solid night.
Godspeed and GO BLUE!
Beer again. Little Sumpin (Lagunitas). After a long day of softball evaluations for my kids...a pitcher/catcher twin duo.
Good choice. That's what I'm drinking as well. It's pretty delicious.
Easy to find and delish.
So even when boring, its yummy.
John Stamos?
((instant crush))
But he's a time traveler from the past. He's the Mullet John Stamos.
Office holiday party tonight for me, so I'm mixing it up well. A little merlot, a bud light, Dewars, now a little whiskey and coke. Open bar demands variety. I wish they had a better beer selection, but I've got Two Hearted at home.
Just made the wife and I some White Russians
I just did the same for the wife and me.
I am sipping some of the wine I found on sale - Marques de Caceres 2008. A most excellent Rioja wine and highly recommended by me. This, coupled with the Minnesota-Green Bay game makes for a very nice evening indeed.
Water with any cold medicine I can find mixed in.
How is the Devil's Cut? I've been meaning to try it, just haven't got around to it.
I'm definitely a fan of all of the bolder rums and whiskeys that are coming out.
Have you tried Captain Morgans private stock? It's got a nice vanilla spice and goes down smooth enough to be a true sipping rum, which sounds strange, I know.
I thought it was strange when someone at work recommended drinking it straight but I was impressed at how good it tasted by itself.
Strong but I really like it. I drink it with a few ice cubes just to tame it down a bit. I have had it with coke and that got me drunk pretty fast. I would recommend it.
How do they get the stuff out of the wood? I've been kinda nervous to try it since I have no idea how they produce it.
Could they put the wood in some sort of press and get the flavor out and then filter the liquid? Either that or it is just artificial flavor and they lie on the bottle.
Started with a Cuba libre using some nice Cuban rum I got for my wedding, now I'm drinking a Fixed Gear Red Ale. Lakefront Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wi. New glarus ain't got shit on Lakefront.
I've never had Lakefront, but I am a huge fan of New Glarus
Agreed. Lakefront > New Glarus (but not by the wide margin you suggest)
The wide margin is probably a product of the rum. I thoroughly enjoy fat squirrel and their sour beers, but for every day drinking ill take lakefront or Flaming Damsel from Milwaukee brewing co
I, too, call Milwaukee home... Thought have had to live in Kenosha for the past few years. The wife and I are moving back to Milwaukee proper in a few months, I could not be more excited.
Guiness and Strongbow, watching Packers fans hoot and holler at the TV.
Hop Hog IPA from the Lancaster Brewing Company...those amish know how to brew
As I watch season 2 of the walking dead (I'm a little behind, I know)
Rich, dark, and sexy on a Saturday night...
water and lemonade. I'm on painkillers for my knee and Mucinex for my head, so the last thing I need is anything alcoholic.
Tried that last night. I'll stick with the pills tonight and hopefully won't wake up with it even more swollen than it is tonight (like I did this morning).
Go for the hydrocodone martini, man! Your brain cells never liked you anyway.
I'll ask what they think about it.
Watching the game. Jameson on the rocks...dog sleeping at my feet. Doesn't get much better.
Just finished a bomber of Epic Pale Ale and moving on to a bottle of HOPSLAM next. Hahahahah (to you ppl who have to wait on some silly "distributor")
Dragon's milk and Joe Webb makes Denard look like Joe Montana.
I hear opposing things about Seattle brewers. One person will say they're some of the best, the next will say they can't brew for crap. What's your take?
And will that beer really transport me to Asgard?
Elysian puts out a nice range of beers. So do Maritime and Hales and Scuttlebutt and Georgetown and Pike and a bunch of others. Outstate and Oregon have plenty too. No complaints here. I actually changed my mind and went with a Silver City scotch ale instead. 22 ouncer of Bi wasn't cold. Silver City @ 9.2%, Bi only 7.4%, only.
Angry Orchard Cider Crisp Apple
lol, a tall one, one might say
Leinenkugel's Snowdrift Vanilla Porter whilst sitting in front of the fire. The Vanilla Porter is good; nothing to write home about but not bad either.
Love Denard
Goslings ginger beer, myers dark rum. Lime. High ball, lot of ice.
crappy game, nice fire, starting to snow, dog keeping my feet warm....
Here on a brisk night in Northeast Ohio
Love the Leinenkugel's winter selections.
Hofbrau Hefeweizen. I call this "playing it safe."
Drinking rum to forget that I stupidly bet Minnesota +11.
Snowdrift vanilla porter .... Not bad, not great!
after a glorious afternoon of BEATING ASS with a flyrod on the Pere Marquette's winter steelhead, and a white knuckle 2 hour drive through snow, slush and associated winter nonsense, I find that something in a purple bag is especially comforting.
Guiness and football.
Now on to Chimay Red
And these excuses for football games!
Listening to King Diamond. Drank some NyQuil. No, I'm not trying to be gangsta, I gots tha flu.
Bring on the coma!
Variety of silver bullets, Huma, Morrretti and lemoncello
Jim Beam Double Aged
Tröegs Perpetual IPA. Not sure how far west it gets.
That's decent. I prefer the Troegenator though.
A bottle of Turley Zinfandel 2008. It's pretty tasty and I'm glad I've been sitting on it for a few years now
There's fetishes, and then there's just biological complexities.
of what price range I'd be looking at for MBB tickets v. Nebraska? I wouldn't need 50 clubs seats or anything; either two or three together, anywhere in the bowl.
Sweetwater holiday bock. One of their best.
Henry Weinhard's Woodland Pass IPA. Go Pack Go!
From my fam in Kentucky. Gonna be one long day tomorrow
The mountains are blue over here.
Chopin. Lots of it.
Why am I still awake.


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Uncharted 3 released two days ago, and many fans are crying foul. In spite of critical acclaim, many dislike the changes made to the controls of the single player campaign. Complaints include increased input lag and a general lack of responsiveness--something that's not present in the multiplayer component, and in Uncharted 2.
"Look, the aiming in Uncharted 3 single player campaign is definitely broken; it's not in our heads. It doesn't work and it's ruining the experience. I never had an issue in Uncharted 1 and 2. Almost all my kills in UC2 were headshots, now in UC3 it's all air. I hate getting into a gun fight in this game, especially with the brain dead A.I," one commenter said.
"Beating the SP on Hard was a nightmare. I tried to stealth kill every opportunity I had just to avoid shooting a weapon," another noted on Naughty Dog's website.
Naughty Dog's Arne Myer addressed fans' concerns, admitting that "guns fire in a completely different way in Uncharted 2 compared to what you're experiencing now in Uncharted 3," and says that the changes actually give you "a better grasp of whether you were hitting or missing a target."
According to Myer, while the way guns fire is different, "aiming is identical," conflicting popular opinion amongst commenters. "We did adjust the sensitivity to be MUCH higher in Uncharted 3 to give you a more precise feel," he says, but fans argue that the changes have resulted in the opposite effect.
At Shacknews, our Xav de Matos had no problem with the game, saying that not only did the shooting feel "more impactful," he had "no complaints about its responsiveness and feedback." I, on the other hand, found it significantly more difficult to aim in UC3 than UC2. What side of the fence are you?

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Deckside Report: Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Deckside Report: Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Matt Macedo - Head Coach
It's been a smooth trip so far. We got in Sunday and the Dallas Airport with its five concourses was a little crazy but we made it through and the hotel in Arlington is awesome. Arlington is one city over from Mansfield, where the pool is located. It has a Six Flags Park and we drove by the new Cowboys Stadium on the way but that's pretty much been the extent of our sightseeing.
The ISD Natatorium, which is hosting the nationals, is a very fast pool. It has a constant depth, overflow gutters to minimize turbulence and the blocks are about as high as they can be within regulation which is going to help people. The spectators are up high which provides a good vantage point and keeps the decks fairly clear.
Scott McGihon (recently retired UCSD head coach) arrived today which I think gives some added familiarity to the group in this environment. He was part of recruiting most of the upperclassmen on this team so it's good to have him on board. Corrie (co-head coach Corrie Falcon), Michelle (diving coach Michelle Casillas) and I have been here before and the new faces on our staff, Jason Martin and five-time NCAA champion Daniel Perdew are certainly comfortable in this situation but it never hurts to have someone who has been through this 13 times, like Scott has, on the deck with you.


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Interesting statement.
... you won't be able to afford getting onto hotmail's whitelist
I do not see any information on whitelisting anywhere on the Hotmail web site.
These hopelessly ineffective anti-spam "services" fail to consider the impact of their business methods on the poor users. Every one is different. Every one wants you to do a Special Thing to prove your innocence. Every week someone else decides they h
Some spam filters are more aggressive than others.
First, that "solution" forces his clients to check another email account. Major PITA (?)
Second, while PowWeb provides good web hosting for $7.77 a month, bear in mind that you get what you pay for, and that I have been less-than-happy with some randomly introduced email issues.
Do you have any experience with Powweb?
Yes, I do. I've run three websites throught them for over 2 and a half years now; I've been with them through their growing pains and have seen many of the limits (HD space, inodes, throughput) quadruple or more in that time.
PowWeb still makes changes that will catch you with your pants down (apache/php/sql configuration changes, changing your IP address [a real problem if they don't manage your DNS], and others), and they still have problems with email -- the la
Find out why, and fix each thing that comes up. Maybe his mailserver has no reverse DNS, fix that. Maybe his ISP or his IP is on a blacklist, get it fixed or take his business elsewhere. Maybe subscribe to a service that handles email marketing responsibly, like (gasp) Microsoft's bCentral, they will make sure that they don't get blacklisted.
So, basically, I have to do two things. First, I never just blanket-empty my Bulk folder. Second, when I find someone being put in Bulk, I add a "rule" that automatically moves email from them into my Inbox. Unfortunately Yahoo doesn't document that this is what you need to do, so less experienced users wouldn't use this as a solution, if they knew how to do it at all.
I say whitelisting and education in my Subject line, the second is important. I try to persuade people to send email to my home address (which has an effective, no false positives, system enabled, based upon allocating every entity who wants to do business with me a unique, deletable, email address. No, before anyone responds, this isn't like the service that provides you with throwaway email addresses, that's a dumb idea that's likely to just end up with your domain blocked, I want legitimate businesses to be able to do business with me, and do so often on a long-term basis, I'm not trying to scam anyone) if the email absolutely does not have to be read by me at work.
More importantly, people have to realise that most filter-based systems, be they dumb like SPEWS or "learning" like Bayesian systems, carry the risk of blocking legitimate emails - SPEWS type systems are especially bad because their definition of "guilty" includes "being a customer of an ISP that also has a spammer as a customer" and there are anti-spam blacklists that have entire countries listed. The blacklist technologies are a kind of lynch-mob justice, they feed people's lust for revenge, but they ultimately seem to cause more problems than most. The non-blacklist filters, such as Bayesian, are better and not endowed with such a legacy, but they still carry some risk.
The point ultimately is that people need to know that anti-spam systems do not just block spam. You should devote a day a week going through your "marked as spam" messages if your email is important to you - most of the time it's a five minute job anyway, if my experience with Yahoo's bulk mail folder is anything to go by. It's not like you have to read anything more than the names and subjects for the most part.
Actually, I think that this is exactly what will be necessary. Something like e-mail that isn't e-mail, that is based on "sender pays whoever they're getting internet service from" needs to come along and everybody needs to change over. You get to send up to x number of emails or y number of bits during each billing period if you're on a "$19.95 a month for all the dial-up you can eat" type plan and if you exceed that limit you pay extra (rolling over unuse
A bit OTT but you are onto a real problem: blacklists will (and have already) make running mailservers a lot more difficult and thereby will help consolidate control of email by a few big players. Just the sort of thing
It also takes some time to discover that your emails are disappearing: my ISP was blacklisted and it was sever
Unfortunately, since I chose to run my own mailsever, I've now earned the ire of the same anti-spammers, because I'm not using a corporate controlled mail server. Spam is a problem, but it's not worth destroying email over!
Please explain where you've "earned the ire of the same anti-spammers"? I really would like to know.
I know many individuals who run their own mail servers, and in fact many of them are themselves anti-spammers, they chose to run their own server because they wanted stricter spa
Unfortunately, probably not.
Some months ago a spammer was abusing Habeas' copyrights, so I set the SpamAssassin score that my mail server assigned to Habeas to zero. I never removed that zero setting and I expect lots of other SA users also have a zero Habeas score in their SA settings.
For a while, AOL decided that we were spammers, althought that has just as mysteriously subsided.
BTW, I recently stumbled across the AOL web site where they describe their IP based whitelist and how large-volume email sending sites (legitimate mailers) can be added to the whitelist:
http://postmaster.aol.com/tools/whitelist_guides.h tml [aol.com].
While the AOL users may have a reputation for being clueless, the postmasters at AOL.com do some cool things. As I recall, AOL was the first major ISP to start rej
If you're emailing all 600 people in one batch, that's idiotic and email each person individually.
I don't see how it's idiotic--assumming mailservers are blocking mail merely because they consider emails with more than a handful of recipients to mean the mail is spam, I can't see how pandering to such silly behavior is in the long-term best interest of anyone.
In fact, RFC2128 even discourages such behavior:
recipients buffer
The minimum total number of recipients that must be buffered is
100 re
Once spam forces more to go down this track, I'm sure better tools, and better integration with desktops will open the flood gates.
whois -h whois.pairnic.com spamblogging.com
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Administrative & Technical Contact:
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That name sounds familiar. Let me check my inbox -- ah yes:
From: "Eric Smith" <email@example.com>
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Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004
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A. Manette Ansay
Good Things I Wish You
A. Manette Ansay
Good Things I Wish You
Release Date: 6/22/2010
LIST PRICE: $13.99 (you save $4.20)
Main description:
The acclaimed author of Vinegar Hill returns with a story of two unlikely romances—one historical, the other modern-day—separated by thousands of miles and well over a century.
Battling feelings of loss and apathy in the wake of a painful divorce, novelist Jeanette struggles to complete a book about the long-term relationship between Clara Schumann, a celebrated pianist and the wife of the composer Robert Schumann, and her husband's protégé, the handsome young composer Johannes Brahms. Although this legendary love triangle has been studied exhaustively, Jeanette—herself a gifted pianist—wonders about the enduring nature of Clara and Johannes's lifelong attachment. Were they just "best friends," as both steadfastly claimed? Or was the relationship complicated by desires that may or may not have been consummated?
Through a chance encounter, Jeanette meets Hart, a mysterious, worldly entrepreneur who is a native of Clara's birthplace, Leipzig, Germany. Hart's casual help with translations quickly blossoms into something more. There are things about men and women, he insists, that do not change. The two embark on a whirlwind emotional journey that leads Jeanette across Germany and Switzerland to a crossroads similar to that faced by Clara Schumann—also a mother, also an artist—more than a century earlier.
Accompanied by photographs, sketches, and notes from past and present, A. Manette Ansay's original blend of fiction and history captures the timeless nature of love and friendship between women and men.
Review quote:
"Good Things I Wish You is a lyrical, haunting exploration of loves past and present. Witty, sprightly, surprising, this deeply original and utterly captivating new novel by A. Manette Ansay beguiles the senses and dazzles the heart. A beautiful book."
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"A meditation on art and love in the European mode. . . . [Ansay] is a gifted and sure-handed storyteller."
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"A poignant and arresting duet of the historic and the contemporary. . . . Ansay sprinkles bits of letters, photographs and drawings throughout the novel, a deft touch that adds to the book's evocative moods of past and present."
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"Ansay's novel addresses the important question of what role art plays in life. . . . The photos convey a more intimate account of history, as if the reader were flipping through a personal scrapbook belonging to Clara's or Robert's descendants."
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"GOOD THINGS I WISH YOU leaves no variation unexplored, and its delicate melody lingers after the final page."
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"In this pleasure of a book, two love stories are entwined. . . . Photos, scraps from letters and diaries, make this book a fascination. The questions posed by Hart and Jeannette are timeless, as Ansay has them debate the true nature of the Clara-Johannes relationship."
Review quote:
"Intriguingly accompanied by reproductions of Schumann-Brahms ephemera, Ansay's inventive exploration of this eternal romantic conundrum is equally paradoxical in its execution. Spare yet sumptuous, precise yet lavish, Ansay nimbly sifts historical fact through an admittedly autobiographical filter to deliver a richly textured study."
Review quote:
"Reminiscent of The French Lieutenant's Woman, Good Things I Wish You employs a rich and daring metafictional spin on one of the great romances in history to investigate passion and loveand what doesn't change between women and men. Manette Ansay takes great risks to deliver great rewards."
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"A lyrical, haunting exploration of loves past and present. Witty, sprightly, surprising, this deeply original and utterly captivating new novel … beguiles the senses and dazzles the heart. A beautiful book." —Diana Abu-Jaber
"As the parallels between the two relationships multiply, the novel catches fire. . . . Ansay is a gifted and sure-handed storyteller." —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
From the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Vinegar Hill and Midnight Champagne comes a beautifully written story of two summer romances—one of a brilliant pianist, one of a struggling novelist—separated in time by nearly two centuries. If you enjoy the novels of Ann Patchett (Bel Canto), Claire Messud (The Emperor's Children), and Lionel Shriver (We Need to Talk About Kevin), you'll find much to love in A. Manette Ansay's stunningly original Good Things I Wish You.


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Manchester United's Rio Ferdinand has pulled out of England's World Cup qualifiers
Manchester United's Rio Ferdinand has pulled out of England's World Cup qualifiers against San Marino and Montenegro.
Last Updated: 18/03/13 5:23pm
The 34-year-old was forced to withdraw due to a detailed pre-planned training and medical programme he has been told to follow to help manage a long-standing back problem.
England boss Roy Hodgson met Ferdinand on Sunday before taking the decision to replace him with Tottenham's Steven Caulker.
At the meeting, Ferdinand confirmed he was keen to continue his England career and hoped to be selected for the summer and autumn fixtures ahead of the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil.
It had been thought Hodgson would rest the 81-times capped defender for Friday's trip to San Marino but would consider him for the Montenegro tie four days later with Michael Dawson ruled out through injury.
"I'm disappointed Rio will not be available, but due to the detailed pre-planned training and medical programme he must follow it's not possible," said Hodgson.
"However, I was pleased he called and asked to meet with me. It was important to hear from him personally about the way he must manage his body between games.
"This is not to say he cannot play back-to-back games - he can and has proven so. He's out this time due to particular pre-planned details already in place for his programme.
"I must place on record how I was impressed with his commitment to playing for England and I look forward to hopefully selecting him for squads in the future."
Ferdinand said: "It was important for me to be able to speak with Roy face to face and explain the situation.
"One thing I made clear was my passion and commitment to represent my country is as strong as ever.
"It's disappointing I won't be able to play a part in the upcoming games but I told Roy I want to continue to be available for England and look forward to working with him in the future."
Caulker has been called up from Stuart Pearce's U21s for the senior matches on Friday, March 22 and the following Tuesday.


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The 2014 World Cup gets underway on Thursday, when host country Brazil takes on Croatia. Then 63 more soccer games will be played until one of the 32 teams is crowned winner on July 13.
Bill Littlefield, the host of NPR's Only A Game, joins Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson and Meghna Chakrabarti to talk about the teams and the players, who are carrying with them the hopes of entire countries.
- Bill Littlefield, host of NPR's Only A Game.
This is HERE AND NOW.
HOBSON: So the drums are pounding. That's a bit of the song "We Are One" expected to be heard a lot as the 2014 World gets underway in Brazil. Thirty-two teams vying for the bragging rights to be the planet's best. The Cup starts Thursday when the host country Brazil takes on Croatia. And then 63 more games will be played until a champion is crowned on July 13.
And so far, all you may have heard about this World Cup is all the problems that Brazil is having.
HOBSON: True.
CHAKRABARTI: Getting stadiums ready and dealing with protesters who say it's a waste of the billions of dollars in a country with so many impoverished. But for a few minutes at least, we're going to talk mostly about the actual sport being played and the men who play it and the teams they make up, carrying with them, in some cases literally, the hopes of entire nations. And joining us is the biggest soccer fan we can find in the building. He even calls it football. (Laughing) We'll make him say goal a little later on. Bill Littlefield is the host of NPR's Only A Game. Hey there, Bill.
BILL LITTLEFIELD, BYLINE: Hello, Meghna. And it is a low bar.
CHAKRABARTI: (Laughing) In this building, yes.
LITTLEFIELD: (Laughing) In this building.
CHAKRABARTI: So let's start off with the basics. Thirty-two teams in all divided into eight groups, and some of those groups are particularly tough to get out of, lest we say, deadly to get out of.
HOBSON: Well, Bill, you may be getting a call from the World Cup. They finally brought you on to play this year.
LITTLEFIELD: Yes, that was an all...
CHAKRABARTI: Let's call Dempsey. That's Clint Dempsey with your opening game tickets. What are you looking for in the early...
LITTLEFIELD: My apologies.
CHAKRABARTI: That's right - in the early stages of the competition?
LITTLEFIELD: Well, I think there are a lot of interesting things to look at. People who have particular sympathy for the U.S. team have characterized their group as the group of death, which is customary. One group is so designated each time. It isn't. According to ESPN - and I'm inclined to agree with their ratings - the U.S. group is only the third toughest.
The really - the toughest group is Group D, which is Uruguay, England, Italy and Costa Rica. But the U.S. will not have an easy shot. I will be paying attention when they play Ghana because if they can't beat Ghana, they're going to have a real tough time getting out of that group with Portugal and Germany to follow.
I will certainly be watching Group D because England is in it, and there is a real chance England won't get out of it. Gary Lineker, great English soccer player of the past, once said football is a simple game - 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes, and at the end the Germans win. He said that, of course, in '90 after England had lost in the semifinal to Germany on penalties. But it's always a great emotional thing to see whether England can manage to get anywhere in the World Cup.
And I think the other group that's very interesting to me is Group B because it contains both Spain and the Netherlands. Those were the two teams in the final four years ago. The Netherlands's strategy was to go out and do everything but hit the Spanish players with bats because they decided, apparently, they couldn't keep up with them and that was the only way they would have a chance. Happily, Spain won. And so heart won out over thuggery.
CHAKRABARTI: Blinding them with the horn wasn't enough.
LITTLEFIELD: No, it wasn't.
HOBSON: Well, we asked some soccer fans from around the country for their views on the games - who they're going to be watching. Sam Cogenhouer (ph) from Chicago had no problem picking a winner.
SAM COGENHOER: People are saying Germany or Spain all the time. But I think I'm kind of seeing Brazil going all the way this time.
HOBSON: Bill, who do you see in the final four?
LITTLEFIELD: Well, I can understand that pick because the home side frequently has been demonstrated to have a terrific advantage, and Brazil of course is the home of the most beautiful soccer in the world. I would love to see Argentina in the finals or at least in the final four because watching Lio Messi play is a complete delight. And the longer I get to watch him play the better, as far as I'm concerned.
And I would love to see Spain back in the finals. People have been saying about how Spain's day may have come and gone, and so many of the players from Barcelona - Barcelona wasn't so dominant as they had been this year as they had been in the past. But I would love to see Spain in the finals again.
CHAKRABARTI: Well, Bill, you mentioned Messi there. And even though it's a team sport and the players are representing the nations, they're always individual standout players. There's also Portugal's wingman Christiana Rinaldo.
>>LITTLEFIELD Yeah, and don't tell him it's a team sport.
CHAKRABARTI: (Laughing) Oh, yeah, exactly. Who else are you paying attention to in terms of real leaders on the pitch?
LITTLEFIELD: Well, you can't discount Clint Dempsey if you are a fan of soccer in the U.S. He was a little slow getting started when he came back from England this time around. But he's got a bunch of goals in MLS this year already, and he certainly has emerged as a leader on the American team. And I think...
CHAKRABARTI: He's team captain this year.
LITTLEFIELD: Yes. And particularly in the absence of Landon Donovan, who has the record for goals scored in the World Cup by an American - by a U.S. player, I should say. Dempsey is going to be somebody you're going to have to pay some attention to.
HOBSON: Team USA, as you said, Bill, is in Group G, which includes Ghana, Portugal and Germany. Here is what Chris Weaver (ph) from Kansas City had to say about that. And they're calling it the group of death.
CHRIS WEAVER: Yeah, the group of death. It's going to be tough. I'm thinking Germany is probably going to win it all, but definitely going to be a tough group. Yes.
LITTLEFIELD: Maybe it should be called the group of terminal illness rather than the group of death.
HOBSON: Why? Why?
LITTLEFIELD: Because there are two groups, as they say, that are a little bit stronger at least by my estimation. But anyway, he's right that it will be tough to get out. You know, Germany and Portugal are very strong teams. And Ghana is the team that beat the U.S. in the last two World Cups.
CHAKRABARTI: They had a great run a couple of cups ago.
LITTLEFIELD: Absolutely.
CHAKRABARTI: Well, so I have a question for you about the German team because the U.S. coach actually was part of the German team when they won the World Cup, as you mentioned, back in 1990 beating England. So the current U.S. coach - and oh, here I go - Jurgen Klinsmann.
LITTLEFIELD: Very nicely done.
CHAKRABARTI: Very good. So he managed the team when it finished - when the U.S. finished third in the 2006 World Cup. We've got some tape here.
DAVE PAKE: I think the fact that he had his own experience playing in the World Cup and winning it, I think definitely brings that like, European knowledge and things like that. So I think the young guys will learn from that.
CHAKRABARTI: OK, so I actually made an error there. That's soccer fan Dave Pake (ph) talking about the current U.S. coach.
LITTLEFIELD: And about Klinsmann's experience as a player and a coach in Germany. But, yeah.
CHAKRABARTI: Exactly. But, I mean, what do you make of what Dave Pake says there? Do you think that the U.S. can sort of leverage these two things? Plus, it's previous experience, which it did fairly well for the U.S. in the last couple World Cups.
LITTLEFIELD: Yeah, the U.S. has at least qualified for the World Cup a string of times. They're quite impressive unless you look at Brazil, which has never failed to qualify for a World Cup. And they happen to be the home team.
The funny thing about soccer to me - and I'm hardly the kind of expert that grew up with a game because I didn't because I was born in this country. But the thing that's interesting to me is you can coach and coach and coach through the practices and through the workouts, even through the preliminary games. Once you put the players on the field, you can't really coach very much. They can't hear you.
They're out there in a very big field. You can scream and shout but the likelihood is they're not going to pay too much attention to you until halftime. So it really is on the players. And whatever Klinsmann, whatever mindset he's been able to instill in them before the World Cup begins, I think may be a factor. But once it starts, it's on the players. It's one of the things that's kind of attractive to me about the game.
HOBSON: Bill, while you and Meghna and super fans like you are preparing for the World Cup we should mention that the NBA finals is also going on. And we haven't even talked about Dwayne Wade in the flop. But we'll leave that for another conversation. OK, let's hear one thing that people will hear at the World Cup. Lest we forget here from 2010.
HOBSON: Yes, the vuvuzela. Is that how you say it?
CHAKRABARTI: Vuvuzela.
HOBSON: Vuvuzela.
LITTLEFIELD: Vuvuzela.
HOBSON: OK. Well, this year we're going to hear something different. It's called the cachirola.
HOBSON: A little less annoying I think. Are you looking forward to hearing that 24/7?
LITTLEFIELD: Well, since I'll be watching the tournament on television, the mute button is a very handy friend to have. But you're right. I found that a lot less upsetting than the vuvuzela.
HOBSON: Bill is host of NPR's Only A Game talking with us about the World Cup, which gets underway on Thursday in Brazil. Bill, thanks so much.
LITTLEFIELD: Thanks you, Jeremy.
HOBSON: And HERE AND NOW is a production of NPR and WBUR Boston in association with the BBC World Service. I'm Jeremy Hobson.
CHAKRABARTI: I'm Meghna Chakrabarti. This is HERE AND NOW. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Brazil's October IPCA inflation rose 5.45% from the prior year, driven primarily by rising food prices. The data was in line with expectations. Nomura's George Lei and Tony Volpon writes that the data confirms the trend seen recently: Soaring food prices but stable service prices and low regulated prices.
Nomura strategists write: "Looking into 2013, the food price shock will eventually moderate, yet service price inflation is set to rise, as annual price adjustments take place in January and February, and the lagged impact of monetary and fiscal stimuli start to manifest. Even with the government holding down regulated prices, IPCA inflation will likely rise towards 6% in H1 2013, leaving the BCB with a tough choice."
Separately, Bloomberg's Blake Schmidt has a story quoting Brazil's Pension Fund Association head Jose de Souza Mendonca noting that funds holding about $30 billon of Brazilian government debt maturity by 2014 will likely have to take on new risks to boost returns –and many are looking to private equity. Our Barron's Brazil Roundtable made a similar point, noting that these funds may look to stocks since rates at historic lows, offering the stock market a potential boost.
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12/31/2012 Jets Sign QB Matt Simms to Reserve/Future Contract
I remember Bart Scott talking this kid up during training camp last pre-season.
Anybody think Matt Simms has a shot to unseat Mark Sanchez?
As bad as Sanchez has been, I wouldn't bet against Simms.
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Million dollar arm but 5cent head.
Matt Simms (born September 27, 1988) is an American football quarterback for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Jets in 2012. He played college football at Tennessee. He is the youngest son of former New York Giants quarterback and Super Bowl XXI MVP Phil Simms.[1]
Early life and high school
Simms was born in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey to Diana and Phil Simms. His brother Chris, played quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He attended Don Bosco Preparatory High School in Ramsey, New Jersey where he played quarterback for three years.[2] During this time he passed for more than 6,000 yards and 60 touchdowns. Though the team lost the state championship game his junior year, he was selected as a first team All-State player by the Associated Press. The next year they went undefeated and won the state title. After his senior year he played in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl.[3]
After graduating from high school Simms received a scholarship to the University of Louisville.[4] During his freshman year he saw limited action, playing in two games and throwing four passes. Simms then left Louisville to attend El Camino College in Alondra Park, California. While at El Camino he led the team to its fourth consecutive league title and threw for over 2,000 yards in ten games.[3]
Simms later left El Camino for the University of Tennessee. As a child, he always had a dislike for Tennessee's rival, the University of Florida.[5] During the 2010 season he played in ten games and threw for over 1,400 yards.[6]
During the 2010 season Simms was hampered by injuries to key receivers.[7] He lost the starting job late in the season due to poor performance.[8][9]
Matt Simms' performance was the subject of a widely reported "heated dispute" between Desmond Howard and Phil Simms during the week before Super Bowl XLV.[9]
Professional career
New York Jets
Simms was signed by the New York Jets on May 6, 2012.[10] He was waived on August 31, 2012.[11] Simms signed a future/reserve contract on December 31, 2012.[12]
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Maybe you never know... Lets see what happens in terms of genuine competition..
I do believe that Rex will go with whatever recommendation Mornhinweg gives him as far as who he wants the starting QB to be after pissing away the season with Suckhez this year.
Either trade for Flynn/Smith or draft a QB within the first 3 rounds to compete with Sanchez.
... not if he follows his dad's advice and throws the ball incomplete 3 times up 15 with 6 & 1/2 minutes left in the game! ...
They'd be foolish not to bring Matt Simms in to be QB.
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Life is good.
Whether Simms is part of the QB competition or not...Jets should draft a QB...maybe Dysert in 2nd round.
Camp body that is all
...and his name is Mark Travis John Sanchez
They needed a QB to replace the departing Tebow.
The more I think about it, the more it seems appealing to me:
If we can't get Flynn, who is already very well accustomed to the West Coast offense, McElroy, who is a pretty smart kid, actually would fit very well into that role.
For some reason I think Jason Campbell or Moore could both do really well in that system, too.


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Besides her husband she is survived by four children, Michael Baxter, Lynn Domina, Lisa Leith and Pamela Burrows, her sisters, Pamela Lotito and Florence Iannazzi; seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
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Tuesday, February 14, 8:30 to 10 a.m.
Millar Library, Room 160
At this event the newly released data describing the racial disparities throughout the metro region will be discussed by primary researcher Ann Curry-Stevens, assistant professor of social work, and Consuelo Saragoza, senior advisor of Public Health and Community Initiatives at Multnomah County. Following the overview of the data, Dalton Miller-Jones, professor emeritus of psychology, will facilitate a panel discussion with several of our region's prominent employers and leaders:
- Rich Smith, Vice President for Human Resources, Kaiser Permanente
- Joshua Todd, Director, Commission on Children and Families, Multnomah County
- Claudia Valderrama, Global Chief Financial Officer, Wieden & Kennedy
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Cadets Organize Benefit for Local Girl
Thursday, Apr. 18, 2013
The Student Life section of Utah State Today highlights work written by the talented student journalists at Utah State University. Each week, the editor selects a story that has been published in The Utah Statesman or the Hard News Café or both for inclusion in Utah State Today.
Cadets Organize Benefit for Local Girl
By Cale Patterson, features senior writer, in The Utah Statesman, Thursday, April 18, 2013
USU's 860th Cadet Wing and the Arnold Air Society will be sponsoring its third-annual Braveheart Race Saturday, April 20, which will be held at the USU cross-country course. Participants will be able to register for either a five-kilometer or 10k run. The race will begin at 10 a.m. and all proceeds will go to support Melanie Clawson, a five year-old Logan resident diagnosed with severe autism.
Participants can register online until Thursday at midnight or in person on race day.
"We're expecting well over 300 runners — maybe 400 or more, which would be awesome," said Cody Palmer, a committee member from the Cadet Wing. "The majority comes from the runners, but individual donations can make a big difference."
Kirk Dial, committee leader in charge of selecting community members who benefit from the race and organizing and running the event, said they hope to raise a minimum of $3,000.
"In the state of Utah, autistic problems are not covered by insurance," he said. "So basically, anybody that has a child or a family member that has autism, their insurance company will not cover any of their needs, such as therapy or whatever it might be, because it's long-term. We felt that their family could benefit from this the most because everything that they have to do it out of pocket."
The annual race is held in order to benefit local families and individuals who are in financial need, generally as a result of medical expenses. Committee members at the Cadet Wing review a list each year of potential candidates and then try to determine what individuals stand most in need.
"We select an individual and then request permission to sponsor them in this race," Dial said. "We try to invite anybody and everybody to either come and donate to the cause or run in the race."
Clawson's uncle, Mike Swanson, has been involved extensively with the fundraiser through his family ties and his affiliation with the Cadet Wing.
"I've been acting as an intermediary," he said. "Because she's my niece, I thought it was expedient that I should help."
Swanson said the expenses incurred through Clawson's autism, as well as other disorders, some of which include a heart murmur, scoliosis and a sensory disorder, are often difficult for her parents to sustain financially.
"She takes special classes that her parents have a hard time keeping her in because it's hard to find a grant for the money," he said.
Despite her condition and the development issues accompanying it, Swanson said his niece is a joy to be around.
"Melanie is a sweet five year-old girl without a voice of her own because she doesn't talk, but you know that she just loves life," he said. "I don't think I've ever seen anyone that's ever been around her that didn't instantly love her."


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I'm not too big of a fan on getting into the personal lives of celebrities or pro athelets/etc. But as I watched this clip from The Young Turks (you gotta follow them if you want good news), it made me wonder if they have a point about how the American public perceives domestic violence depending on the sexual orientation of the couple.
What do you guys think? Discuss!


text: Sorry revolutionists, you're going to have to wait a little longer until you can escape underground and decimate its thriving civilization. In an investor release, THQ revealed Red Faction: Armageddon has been pushed to May 2011. Originally the shooter was scheduled to arrive in March 2011. No specifics for the delay were mentioned; however, we suspect it has something to do with THQ core game VP Danny Bilson's "ship when things are ready" policy. nope The push means that THQ is missing a big piece from its current fiscal year's release calendar, which ends on March 31, 2011. To compensate for this shift, THQ has lowered its revenue expectations. Expectations were downgraded from between $845 million to $865 million to between $800 million to $825 million for the fiscal year. THQ also expects it will post a loss for the year ending 2010 based on previous predictions. The same release posted rough dates for two other THQ releases. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine is now expected in the summer of 2011, while Saint's Row 3 will see life in the fall of the same year. No word on whether the Red Faction delay will affect the release of the game's upcoming downloadable title or the made-for-television SyFy movie based on the franchise.


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Study Finds 1 in 10 Used Hard Drives Contains Old Personal Data 111
Lucas123 writes "A newly published study by Britain's data protection regulatory agency found that more than one in 10 second-hand hard drives being sold online contain recoverable personal information from the original owner. "Many people will presume that pressing the delete button on a computer file means that it is gone forever. However this information can easily be recovered," Britain's Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, said in a statement. In all, the research found 34,000 files containing personal or corporate information were recovered from the devices. Along with the study, a survey revealed that 65% of people hand down their old PC, laptop and cell phones to others. One in ten of those people who disposed of their old devices, left all their data on them. The British government also offered new guidelines for ensuring devices are properly wiped of data."


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An anonymous reader writes "A report on late Wednesday night relayed that Apple recently purchased the iCloud.com domain from Xcerion for a cool $4.5 million. Indeed, iCloud.com now re-directs to CloudMe.com. With such a hefty price tag, Apple clearly must have serious plans for the cloud in the pipeline..."


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Perl Compiler
- Name: Reini urban
- Email: [hidden email]
- Duration: Until March 2011
- Amount Requested: € $1000 (just for motivation)
Fix most of the remaining perl compiler, i.e. B::C, B::CC, B::Bytecode bugs.
Improve documentation a bit.
Maintain the planned compiler.perl.org site.
Benefits to the Perl Community
A working compiler.
Faster startup time.
Optionally faster run-time if the B::CC optimizations work out as expected.
parrot? I've worked with them. I gave up. Better a half-ass perl5 compiler now, than the ongoing ... with parrot/perl6.
Extend the testsuite reasonably - but less is more. The full author tests for all tested perls on all platforms needs 2 days.
Fix the existing SKIPs and TODOs
Testsuite passing on my main platforms cygwin, MSWin32, debian5, centos5, freebsd7, solaris10.
More fun, less headaches
I don't think I need this.
See below at Project Schedule. From now until end of March 2011, the next surf-season.
Project Details
I successfully ported the abandoned compiler to 5.10 and blead and fixed most of the old bugs, so that the tests pass now on most platforms.
But there's more todo. Finding bugs cannot be detailled here. In the core suite are some, in the top100 modules are some, the community will come up with more. Some are known, some not yet. So far all found bugs could be fixed within 1-2 days, sometimes they are just hard to catch.
- Adjust the perl core suite and find limitations (runperl issues) vs bugs
- Check modules
- Check user reports
- Check weird platforms, compilers, programming tricks.
CC bugs
Well, some bugs are run-time limitations which will require run-time solutions. The sortcv bug [CPAN #53536] is easily understood but hard to fix. Will need at least 2 days concentration on it.
Planned CC Optimizations
Static initialization of readonly data: SVs, AVs, HVs.
-fcog for strings (copy on grow by using a custom destructor)
Fill in missing Opcodes flags for most optimisable ops. Maybe even automatically.
Check possible type declarations with Devel::TypeCheck, MooseX::Types, attributes and such.
I've finished 50% of Malcom's Todo during the winter surf-holidays, and fixed 90% of Malcom bugs in the last year so I'm confident.
I've already got a sponsor for my conference travel expenses. A tip: They could be persuaded to sponsor this grant also :) (cPanel)
Project Schedule
During summer-time I prefer surfing over coding to keep emotional stability in the coorporate environment. Winter 2009-2010 was very productive, because I got a kick by cPanel who needed it.
For the next coding season I might need further kicks, a mini-grant like this might be enough.
2010: Find and fix all remaining bugs. I suspect there are still 5-6 major ones.
2010: Faster testsuite. Now: 8 min user - 40min author - 2 days all perls + plats.
Until March 2011: CC type and sub optimisations
Later (not part of this proposal)
Until 2012: CC unrolling => jit within perl (perl -j)
Reini Urban, living in Graz, Austria. Born 1963, pretty old, yes.
Born Lisper, but I've been writing perl programs since 1992 and released my first module to CPAN in 1995, the perl5.hlp file for Windows, created by some pod2rtf.pl. cygwin maintainer (perl, parrot, postgresql, clisp, ...) for a couple of years, and several B::* modules.
I work for a large HW+SW company (>2000 developers), 8-16 o'clock.
Since nobody is able to help me with the compiler it looks like I'm alone. Hopefully this will change! I even had to write my own Debugger. Yes, I'm aware of trucks. Surfing is not risky at all. Bycycling is more dangerous.


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Fifty-two episodes of this famous radio serial, digitally remastered from the original broadcast recordings. Starring George Edwards in the dual roles of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Although Robert Lewis Stevenson's novella, first published in 1886 as Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, (omitting the word the) has been reincarnated in 123 film versions, not including stage plays, his compelling story of the forces of good vs. evil are best known from the 15-minute radio shows that ran on the Australian Broadcasting Company for 52 episodes from September 9, 1943 to February 16, 1944.
Australian actor George Edwards, known as the man "with a thousand voices", began his performing career as a vaudeville comedian before hitting his stride as a notable stage actor. He is credited with creating the radio serial genre in Australia, and gained fame from his portrayal of the conflicted characters of Jekyll and Hyde.
This audio edition of the original ABC radio broadcasts contain each episode in its entirety, making it the first complete collection of all 52 episodes of the beloved series. A must-have for any old time radio collector, or Robert Lewis Stevenson fan.
Will keep you engaged all the way to the end! Highly recommended listen and one of my favorite dramatizations.
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Small businesses that use Facebook to get the word out and promote their companies should check out a new report from Buddy Media, a social ad-management software provider. The report is drawn from the company's analysis of 200 clients' Facebook posts over a two-week period, in addition to the comments and "likes" spurred by those posts.
The report contains a number of good takeaways, including its findings on post length. It found that Facebook posts containing 80 or fewer characters had 27 percent higher engagement rates than longer posts. (You're not the only one who struggles to be brief: Just 19 percent of all posts analyzed were that short.)


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PLYMOUTH - The trout fishing on local ponds has slowed down, but the stripers are providing some great action in Plymouth and Race Point. The Cape Cod Canal is producing some big bass, early in the morning or late at night. The mackerel are still plentiful at the east end, and the squid have been coming in at night.
PLYMOUTH - The trout fishing on local ponds has slowed down, but the stripers are providing some great action in Plymouth and Race Point. The Cape Cod Canal is producing some big bass, early in the morning or late at night. The mackerel are still plentiful at the east end, and the squid have been coming in at night.
I'm always looking for a new fish story and I picked up a great one last Monday at the Town Wharf. While I was waiting for the Wavelength to arrive with my dinner (lobsters), I noticed a fish truck loading up with yellowfin tuna. I spoke briefly with Brian Ewing and got the full story from Scott May. The 38-foot Bank Tank had just returned after fishing for one and a half day at the Canyons. They caught about 25 yellowfin that averaged about 40 pounds, two big eye tuna weighing 110 and 140 pounds and a couple of dolphin – Mahi-Mahi. Onboard the Bank Tank was Brian's dad, Ben, for this very productive trip. The Bank Tank used to charter in Plymouth's waters but now fishes at the Canyon. Thank you, Scott and Brian, for the information on a great trip!
Plymouth 400 Bass/Blue Tournament
Don't forget to enter Plymouth's 400 Tournament that begins Saturday, July 12, and ends on the 13th. Peter Pioppi and his committee are doing an outstanding job on this year's event. A Captains and Crew cocktail party will be held July 10 at Brewer's Yacht Yard from 6 to 9 p.m. Some great fishing gear will be raffled off and there will be many giveaways.
Over $4,000 in prizes will be awarded in this tournament and you can go to their website at plymouthma400.org/bassandblue2014 or you can call 774-460-1620 for further information. This year the number of entries should surpass last year's event. There will be awards for onshore, offshore and children's categories.
Wavelength Charters
Capt. Dave Hobson is still doing well at Race Point; however, last weekend the fishing was spectacular Friday, so he returned to the same spot next day, and the stripers had disappeared. The Wavelength is available for daily charters and can comfortably accommodate six fishermen. Call Capt. Dave for available dates for an excellent bass, blue or cod trip. He and his longtime mate, Doug Harvey, will give you a trip that you will not soon forget!
Mary Elizabeth
The Mary Elizabeth is now fishing daily and you can call for open boat dates or to charter your own trip. Capt. Tim Brady Jr. is doing quite well with the cod and a few big ones, up to 15 pounds, have been caught on recent trips. The Mary Elizabeth has a booth on the Town Wharf and you can take a ride to the Harbor if you have further questions.
Canal Bait & Tackle
Bruce has had some big stripers come in over the past week, led by a 57-pound beauty that was taken on a live mackerel. Many bass in the 30- to 40-pound class have also come in and the fishing has been great at the Canal. There are still plenty of mackerel around at the east end and the squid have been coming in at night. Black sea bass up to 11 inches have recently been caught and the scup fishing is good. Try jigging at night with a black "Sluggo" or using live eels. Todd Benson landed a 43.3-pound striper last weekend using a live eel.
Cherry's Bait
Maureen has been very busy at Cherry's, not only with the bait but also checking in some big stripers. Last week one fisherman weighed in a 41-pound bass that qualified for a state pin. However, he did not want to be recognized and left after weighing the fish. Brittany Tavares, of Boca Raton, Fla., brought in a bass that measured 41 inches and tipped the scale at 26 pounds. Brittany's dad, Greg, is one of the top striper fishermen at the Seaside Club and is a frequent visitor to the Canal. Greg is the defending champion of last year's biggest striper contest. By the way, Brittany caught her bass at 6:45 a.m. in the Canal, using a live eel. Of course, the eel was bought in Cherry's and was one of the last eels sold that Maureen "guaranteed" to catch a bass!
Cherry's opens at 6 a.m. Monday to Friday and 5 a.m. on the weekend.
Flyin' Finn
Capt. Tom Lundy is off to a great start this season, as his boat took down the "most weight" in the recent Plymouth North Boosters Derby. The Flyin' Finn has been doing well at Race Point and Capt. Tom is fishing daily. Give him a call for available open dates. I'm sure that he will take care of you.
Duxbury Bait & Tackle
Duxbury Bait opens at 8 a.m. on weekdays, closing at 6 p.m. Saturday hours are 6 to 6; Sunday 6-5. John Bunar has been fishing the waters of Plymouth and Duxbury for 25 years and is available for charters. He has been doing well with the sea bass, stripers and an occasional fluke. Call Duxbury Bait for any questions on a charter; he is also available for tuna trips.
Coop is looking forward to the annual fluke derby, which takes place July 12 and 13. He and his crew are always among the leaders in this tournament. There are plenty of blues around the Vineyard and the bigger stripers have finally arrived. Coop's Bait & Tackle is one of the best on the island and is located in Edgartown. If you want some top quality fishing, stop at Coop's as he and his son are also available for a charter trip.
Capt. John Boats
The Capt. John boats are fishing daily from 7 to 3 on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday; 9 to 1 and 2 to 6 Monday to Friday. Whale watches leave the Town Wharf daily, at 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. I would suggest calling the Capt. John for reservations, be it fishing or whale watching.
I spoke personally last week with Capt. Alan Niemi and the haddock fishing has been excellent. The cod have also been very active and a few between 10 and 15 pounds have been caught on recent trips.
Plymouth resident Ken Almeida has been fishing in the area all his life. His column appears every other week during the fishing season. If you have a fish story you'd like to share, write to him care of the Old Colony Memorial, 182 Standish Ave., Plymouth, MA 02360.
Andy-Lynn Boats, 508-746-4558
Canal Bait & Tackle, 508-833-2996
Capt. John Boats, 508-746-2643
Capt. Tim Brady, 508-746-4809
Coop's Bait & Tackle, 508-627-3909
Duxbury Bait & Tackle, 781-934-0242
Flyin' Finn Charters, 617-480-2157
Fore River Tackle, 617-770-1397
G&R Marine, 781-585-9451
Green Harbor Bait & Tackle, 781-834-3474
Pilgrim Belle, 508-747-2400
Plymouth Charters, 508-747-3772
Provincetown Ferry, 508-747-3434
Red Top, 508-759-3371
Wavelength, 508-746-6749


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Virgin Media network downed by scouse power outage
Backup fails
Posted in Networks, 22nd October 2008 14:46 GMT
Power problems in Knowsley near Liverpool downed Virgin Media's cable network in the north and midlands today, leaving customers without broadband or TV for several hours.
The problems began at about 11.30am. Power was restored around 1pm, a Virgin Media spokesman said, and engineers are still investigating the specific cause of the outage. Backup power was knocked out too.
Cable TV is working now, Virgin Media's spokesman said, while broadband and interactive TV services are being restored gradually as DHCP(dynamic IP number pools) systems are refreshed. Telephony was unaffected.
The firm apologised for the failure.
Knowsley is the site of one of Virgin Media's three main network head-ends. It was inherited from Telewest. ®


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Blogito ergo sum! Actually, as N.T. Wright averred, "'Amor, ergo sum:' I am loved, therefore I am." Among other things, I am a Roman Catholic deacon. This is a public cyberspace in which I seek to foster Christian discipleship in the late modern milieu in the diakonia of koinonia and in the recognition that "the Eucharist is the only place of resistance to annihilation of the human subject."
Friday, June 15, 2007
Weird Friday thing
Grab the book that is closest to you.
Open it to page 161.
Find the fifth full sentence.
Post the text of the sentence.
Don't search around for the coolest or most impressive book you have: use the one that really is closest to you.
"Peasants, and those being transported at the start of the mass deportations from the Baltic States and eastern Poland, had a rougher time of it."
Gulag: A History, by Anne Applebaum. The bookshelf is right behind my desk; history shelf eye level while sitting.
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He has the courage not only to demand that all make confession but to do what used to be called "public culpa" - he confesses in the name of all; he himself goes ahead of the others with the example of the historical confession that he demands of his Alexander.ReplyDelete
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Everything about her shimmered and glimmered softly, as if her dress had been woven out of candle-beams; and she carried her head high, like a pretty woman challenging a roomful of rivals.ReplyDelete
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deploy an iPad to every one of its pupils. Now it may become the first school to try to stop its pupils from iCheating in exams. The brains behind Cedars� iPad program is Fraser Speirs, who you may know from his iOS and OS X apps. Now he�s faced with trying to stop a school full of 15-18 year-olds from hacking their way to exam success. When I was in school, we weren�t even allowed to use pocket calculators in our examinations, and invigilation duties required little more than watching for pupils passing notes and whispering to each other. Cedars will instead use PDF exam papers loaded into PDF Expert, which are then printed onto paper via AirPrint to be graded. This brings a whole slew of new �cheat vectors� to the game. Speirs starts off by wiping spare iPads and starting from scratch. Using the configuration utility that lets you administer large fleets of iPad, he switches off almost everything, including Safari, YouTube, app installation and iCloud. Mail remains active, but is locked to prevent new accounts from being added, which leaves iMessage as the main weakness. The trick is that iMessage needs a connection to set up. The schools servers have blacklisted the MAC addresses of the exam iPads, preventing internet connections, which fixes that. To wirelessly print the papers at the end of the exam, a printer is connected to a Mac Mini with an ad-hoc wireless network enabled. It is not connected to the internet. It�s a fascinating problem, and as iPads become more prevalent in schools these issues will surely become more common. Speirs� article is a great read, and as he points out, �I�m defending this system against 15-18 year old kids from Greenock, not GCHQ and the NSA. It�s important not to go overboard with the paranoia.� And remember: even if the kids can hack the system, they�re still going to have to do it fast enough to leave time for the exam itself.
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In less than a month, the Association for Women Attorneys will host its annual bash that includes a silent auction, cocktail reception and an award presented to a prominent member of the legal community.
At this year's event, which will be held Jan. 23 at the Tower Center at Clark Tower, the association also will pass the reins to a new president. Mary Morgan Whitfield, an attorney with Shea, Moskovitz & McGhee PLC, will succeed Frances Riley as the group's 2014 president.
During the cocktail hour, which begins at 5:30 p.m., guests will be able to browse silent auction items and enjoy music from a jazz ensemble. Dinner and the program start at 6:45 p.m., and tickets are $60 for association members, $70 for nonmembers and $40 for law students.
The silent auction will include things such as gift cards to area restaurants, a luxury suite for a Memphis Redbirds game and a weekend getaway at Homewood Suites by Hilton. There's also an assortment of gift baskets, including baskets of knitted baby clothes and beauty products, and a basket from Memphis Farmers Market.
In addition to inducting the group's 2014 board officers and committee chairs at this year's event, the association will present the Marion Griffin-Frances Loring Award, which is given for outstanding achievement in the legal profession, to Linda Warren Seely.
Seely is the director of private attorney involvement for Memphis Area Legal Services Inc. and has served as the 2013 president of the Memphis Bar Association. She began her legal career as a staff attorney and pro bono coordinator with MALS in 1981, and during her career has been on the receiving end of numerous awards and honors. She has also helped expand access and legal assistance to MALS' client population.
Keating Lowery, an attorney with Lawrence & Russell PLC, said the Association for Women Attorneys and its events offer a way for women to get together and support each other in practicing law and also present an opportunity for women attorneys to help the city and legal community.
"Every year we have a banquet and, along with that, an annual meeting and a silent auction," said Lowery, who is a co-chair of the banquet. "Our silent auction – all the money raised from that will go toward our scholarship fund. The new leadership also will be approved and sworn in at the meeting, and we're honoring Linda for her years of service within the Memphis Bar Association and her dedication to promoting the law and women in the law."
The association's board meets regularly, and the group's goals include raising money for a scholarship fund and promoting certain events with the bar and the local legal community.
The 200-member association was formed in 1979 and is made up of attorneys from across the Memphis area. Its president and board members serve a one-year term, and the association's purpose includes supporting lawyers in some of the challenges they face as women and attorneys.
That's done through a variety of means, such as mentoring association student chapter members and promoting public service. To support aspiring attorneys, the association's activities include conducting legal education seminars, the silent auction at its annual dinner, and a golf tournament, among other things.
Association members also are encouraged to offer pro bono service to people who can't afford legal aid.
"We serve to raise money for our scholarship fund and then serve as mentors to women interested in entering the law, and law students, and we also serve as a support system for women in the law in the Memphis area," Lowery said.


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Audyssey Dynamic EQ Becomes Standard in NTT DOCOMO Smartphone Media Players(April 03, 2012)
LOS ANGELES, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 04/03/12 -- Audyssey, the leader in audio technology for the home theater, TV, automotive, mobile and theater markets, today announced that Audyssey Dynamic EQ will be a standard audio technology in media players for NTT DOCOMO's extensive smartphone lineup.
Audyssey Dynamic EQ preserves bass and surround sound at every volume level and is a standard feature in many premier home theater systems. The mobile application of Dynamic EQ in NTT DOCOMO smartphones is customized for its media players. It solves problems often seen in content playback on mobile phones, such as distorted and unnatural sound, low volumes, lack of bass and varying volume levels. Now, when using NTT DOCOMO's music player with headphones, listeners can enjoy great sound and deep bass at any volume.
"For the past decade, we've been creating technologies to eliminate acoustical problems in theaters, studios, home theaters and automobiles," said Chris Kyriakakis, Audyssey's co-founder and CTO. "We're now bringing this expertise to media players so that people can enjoy rich, clear sound from their mobile phones."
Audyssey's work with NTT DOCOMO is part of the company's initiative to enable manufacturers to greatly improve the audio performance in their mobile devices. Last month Audyssey released a major update to Premium Mobile, its audio suite used by major consumer electronics manufacturers to overcome the many acoustical challenges of mobile devices.
NTT DOCOMO products using Audyssey Dynamic EQ will be available in April 2012.
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They're well-to-do and they have a problem -- but they're not alone.
The family of Hannah, a high school senior in Yakima, Wash., is facing a quandary that more than 729,000 American families deal with every year: teen pregnancy. Even their very nice house in their very nice, sheltered orchard didn't keep Hannah, 18, safe. Neither did all her high school achievements.
"I was a homecoming king and queen with my boyfriend of three years," Hannah told "Primetime" in an interview in her hometown. "I was a cheerleader, I played volleyball, I was in a lot of school activities. I really was part of the school."
Last fall Hannah found out she was pregnant by her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Taylor. He was a B.M.O.C., a champion athlete. They were an all-star couple.
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"When I hear an auditorium cheer for Taylor ... You know, he deserves it," said Hannah. "He's worked really hard pretty much all his life to get where he is."
But all of that was derailed by a single moment. Hannah explained how it happened.
"I used to be on birth control," she said. "I just forgot to take it. Me and Taylor would break up and get back together so much it just messed up my period, so I stopped taking it. We used a condom every time until we were on a break and it was spur-of-the-moment. I did Plan B [emergency contraception] after that, but evidently it didn't work."
According to Mark Regnerus, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and author of "Sex & Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers," upper-middle class teens are more likely to use Plan B as a source of protection.
"It's not surprising that Plan B would be more popular among the upper-middle class," Regnerus said in a telephone interview. "They're a more strategic group of kids that have a strong orientation toward their future. I'd be willing to bet, however, that their use of it is not to replace contraception but to augment it, 'just to be safe.' That is, few such kids are consciously playing sexual Russian roulette… Plan B is for when they've 'messed up.'"
CLICK HERE to see photos of Hannah throughout her pregnancy.
Teen Pregnancy: The Day She Found Out
Hannah's best friend, Karly, remembers the day she found out.
"I was with her when she found out," Karly said. "We were actually at a basketball game watching Taylor, and she was like 'Well, I haven't had my period,' so we went and bought a pregnancy test. And we came back, and we did it and she found out she was pregnant. She immediately started crying and she's like, 'What do I do?' And she told him, and then it was just kind of crazy after that."
"When Taylor found out, he was surprised and he didn't take it well at all," said Hannah. "It was my first ultrasound and I was like seven-and-a-half weeks or something. The lady was like, 'Oh my God, you're never going to believe this.' My sister ... was like 'Oh my God, twins' and the lady was like, 'No, triplets!' I felt like I was in a dream because it did not feel real at all."
Hannah found herself multiplying the expense of diapers, clothing and food by three. As a church-going Christian whose faith is vitally important to her, she thought it was God's plan and never considered abortion. But at her next appointment, Hannah learned that one of the babies had stopped growing, and there would be just two babies, both girls.
Eisenhower High School's perfect couple sent the gossip machine into overdrive. "I don't know how people found out, but … like everybody knew by the next day," said Hannah. The girl whom no one would have expected to get pregnant quickly learned that her popularity came at a price. "When I walk down the halls, I see people going 'Is that the girl, is that the girl,' and then I see them look at my stomach ... I have an audience of over 2,000 people and everybody's watching," Hannah said.
Hannah is not alone. According to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, 47.8 percent of all high school students report they have had sexual intercourse. At Eisenhower High about 20 students become pregnant each year, principal Stacey Locke told ABC News. To help the students deal with the challenges that expecting and parenting teens face, the school provides a net of support to make sure students graduate and succeed, she said.
Teen Pregnancy: 'A Huge Detour'
"We provide an all-around support system in every facet of our school so that they can continue to get their education, provide for their child, and be successful when they leave," Locke said.
Hannah's father, Daniel, while very supportive of his daughter, said her experience should be taken as a lesson, not an example.
"This is hopefully going to be a wake-up call to a lot of families that have young girls that are in love and feel that they've met their soulmate and are going to be intimately involved with them," he said. "Let this be a wake-up call to the parents and take the precautions so this doesn't happen to other families."
Hannah, who missed her prom because of the pregnancy, is now facing that "wake-up call" herself, feeling overwhelmed and alone.
"The hardest part now is like, what am I going to do now? There's a huge detour in my life," she said. "I can't do everything I wanted to do. I think about that every day."
Hannah said it's hard knowing that she might not be with Taylor the rest of her life -- the two are currently apart. But he will always be the father of her girls, she said. "Taylor wants them to be in sports. He talks about how he wants to coach their basketball; he wants them to do gymnastics and all this stuff. I know he wants to be involved," Hannah said.
At the start of June, Hannah's thoughts on the future were overtaken by present reality. As her classmates and Taylor were crossing the stage to get their diplomas and ending one chapter of their lives, Hannah was beginning another. On June 4 she gave birth, two months prematurely, to Mya Danielle and Braelyn Marie.
With her babies in her arms, she says there's only one thing she knows for sure. "I'm going to be a strict mom," she said. "My kids aren't going anywhere. And they're not going to have boyfriends, ever.
"Well, at least not in high school."
Unexpected Turn
Early last week, on June 16, Hannah's story took one more unexpected turn.
One of her twins, Mya Danielle, died.
Early infant death is more likely to occur with teenage mothers -- and the younger the mom, the higher the risk. About one in 250 babies born to teens Hannah's age die in the first four weeks of life, compared with one in 300 for moms in their early 20s. Babies born to moms ages 10-15 have an even higher chance of early death.


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On Xbox One, games are games are games. That means indie games and retail games will all appear under one Game Store. Chris Charla, director of the ID@Xbox program at Microsoft, said that consumers have become much more savvy today, which removes the need for differentiation between smaller and larger games. "We think consumers understand the value proposition between a $15 game and a $60 game," he said at IndieCade. "We think that the games that are coming from the ID@Xbox are rad enough that any other studio in the world can ship."
However, with every Xbox One eventually able to become a devkit, there's the potential for the Xbox Game Store to become overwhelmed with titles, much like the App Store or Google Play. Charla says that there are a number of built-in features that will prevent that from happening.
First up, there will be "light concept approval" for games on Xbox One. That means there will be "no fart apps" on Xbox One, even if you try to self-publish one. There's also plans for curation to create "a rational marketplace where good games get seen by lots of people."
There will be ways to sort content on the Store, of course, using rather standard methods: "Most Popular," via release date, sorted alphabetically, etc. However, Charla is most excited to show games that are "trending." These aren't games that are simply popular. Instead, this information is based on "how many of your friends are starting to play this game."
Self-publishing on Xbox One will be a bit more restrictive than on other platforms. For example, Microsoft won't allow devs to set their own prices on games. Developers will be able to offer a "wholesale" price, but Microsoft will ultimately determine the final price that appears on the Store. In addition, developers won't be able to set their own release dates. "We're going to work with you to set the right release date," Charla said, but "we don't want ten games of the same genre on the same date."


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Ronda Rousey to fight Cat Zingano or Bethe Correia next?
UFC boss Dana White is still angling for Ronda Rousey to face Gina Carano next, but another candidate has entered the mix for a shot at the champion.
Bethe Correia beat Rousey's buddy Shayna Baszler convincingly at UFC 177 on Saturday night in Sacramento and called out Rousey in her post-fight interview.
"I want to have a shot at Ronda at some point," Correia said through an interpreter after the fight, according to the LA Times.
Rousey was fired up after hearing that Correia wants a piece of her. She immediately texted White.
"As soon as [Correia] started talking, Ronda texted me and said, 'I want that fight. I want it before somebody else beats her,' " White said. "I said, 'Calm down lady.' "
[Also see: Rousey wanted by WWE?]
Correia is now 9-0 (3-0 in the UFC) and is on the short list of candidates to fight Rousey. White is still hoping to sign Carano to the organization and have her fight Rousey next. He spoke with the media about his attempts to sign the fighter-turned-actress.
"It's still complicated … but we're so close. There's like a couple of minor issues and then we'll be done," said White.
When asked if Carano would be signed by the end of the year, White answered confidently, saying, "Oh yeah."
[Related: Rousey says Carano is worst style matchup for her]
If the UFC isn't able to sign Carano, White says Cat Zingano would be next for Rousey. Zingano beat Miesha Tate in April, 2013 to earn a shot at Rousey. However, Zingano hurt her knee and needed surgery, so Tate replaced her and lost to Rousey for the second time. Zingano (8-0) is still looking for her first shot at Rousey.
But White says Correia is in the mix, especially after what she did on Saturday.
"I don't think Bethe moves up because of the rivalry; I think Bethe moves up because of what she did tonight," White said via MMA Junkie. "That was crazy. The punches she hit (Baszler) with, I haven't seen anything like that since (Phil) Baroni (versus) (Dave) Menne. She looked good tonight. That's what's going to get her a fight with Rousey."
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April 18, 2012
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UC Riverside at Cal State Fullerton
April 21-22, 2012 | Fullerton, Calif.
Anderson Family Field (1,000)
GAME 1: Saturday, April 21, 4 p.m. - Live Stats | Video | Audio
GAME 2: Saturday, April 21, 6 p.m. - Live Stats | Video | Audio
GAME 3: Sunday, April 22, 12 p.m. - Live Stats | Audio
BATTER UP!: Looking to rebound following its first sweep in conference play in almost two years, the Cal State Fullerton softball team (16-21 overall, 4-5 in the Big West Conference) returns home this weekend to host local rival UC Riverside in a three-game series at Anderson Family Field. The Titans and Highlanders open with a doubleheader on Saturday evening (April 21) at 4 p.m. before concluding with a single game on Sunday (April 22) at Noon.
IN THE POLLS: Neither Cal State Fullerton nor UC Riverside are listed among the top 25 polls entering this weekend's contests.
BE A FOLLOWER: Fans can keep up with the latest in Titans athletics by following us on Facebook (CSUF.Athletics), Twitter (@FullertonTitans) and Vimeo.com (vimeo.com/fullertontitans).
I NEED STATS, STAT!: Live stats will be available (barring technical difficulties) for all three of Cal State Fullerton's games this week. Please visit the Cal State Fullerton softball schedule page at www.FullertonTitans.com to access the links.
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? GOOD!: Thanks to a partnership with Arizona-based Stretch Internet, select Cal State Fullerton softball contests will be broadcast live over the Internet at FullertonTitans.com. To access the links, click on the headphones icon in the upper right-hand corner of FullertonTitans.com.
CAN YOU SEE ME NOW? EVEN BETTER!: For the seventh consecutive season, live streaming video for select Cal State Fullerton softball contests will be available (on a subscription basis) live over the Internet courtesy the Big West TV platform. For a monthly subscription of \$9.95 or an annual subscription of \$79.95, fans can catch all the exclusive action from the comfort of their home computers. For more information, please visit www.BigWest.org/TV or access the video player at www.fansonly.com/schools/bigw/allaccess/index.html.
ABOUT UC RIVERSIDE: The Highlanders enter the weekend with an 18-23 overall record and a 1-8 mark in Big West Conference play for eighth place... UC Riverside has lost its last seven-straight outings, swept in conference series by both Pacific and UC Santa Barbara at home over the last two weekends... the Highlanders are just 1-3 in true road games this season and 2-11 away from home when you include neutral sites... Alexis Pickett leads the UCR offense, batting .355 with eight doubles, 16 runs, and 20 RBI in 40 games... Kayla White, batting .325 on the year, provides the pop with eight doubles, four triples, and six home runs to go with 32 RBI... three other players are also hitting better than .300 on the year, helping the Highlanders to a .278 average as a team... Jordyn McDonald (8-12, 3.87 ERA) has seen the majority of time in the circle while Taylor Alvarez (6-5, 4.49) and Amy Lwin (2-4, 4.86) have also seen significant innings.
SERIES HISTORIES: Cal State Fullerton leads the all-time series with UC Riverside, 28-6, having won the last two meetings to take the series in 2011 after the Titans fell in the opener, 4-3... five of the Highlanders' six wins in the series have come over the last four seasons, including their only series win in 2010 at Anderson Family Field, taking two of three from the Titans... all but four of the meetings have come during UCR's stay in the Big West Conference dating to 2002... Fullerton is 13-4 against Riverside at home, including series sweeps in 2002 and 2006.
"POWER IN PINK": Saturday's doubleheader will mark Cal State Fullerton's fourth-annual "Power in Pink" night as the Titans team up with Under Armour to support breast and ovarian cancer research and awareness. A silent auction of Fullerton's game-worn pink jerseys will be held throughout the evening and donations will be collected during the game with proceeds going to benefit the National Foundation for Cancer Research as part of its "Beat Cancer With a Bat" initiative. All fans are asked to wear pink in support of the cause.
TICKLED PINK: The Titans and Highlanders will square off for the first time in Fullerton's "Power in Pink" series... Fullerton is 4-2 all-time in "Pink Day" games, sweeping doubleheaders from Cal Poly in 2009 and 2011 while being swept by UC Davis in a doubleheader in 2010... the Titans are 6-3 overall in those three series, taking two-of-three from the Mustangs in 2009, finishing 1-2 against the Aggies in 2010, and sweeping Cal Poly in 2011.
ANISSA'S "GRAND" DAY: Senior Anissa Young clubbed her second grand slam of the season in last weekend's series finale at Pacific, becoming the first Titan to go yard twice with the bases loaded in a single season since Jessica Doucette accomplished the feat against Cal State Northridge and Ohio State in 2007.
THE YOUNG AND THE STREAKING: With that grand slam, Young extended her season-best hitting streak to six games -- the longest active streak by a Titan after Nicole Johnson's nine-game streak was snapped in the finale against the Tigers. During her current streak Young is batting .389 (7-for-18) with three runs scored, a pair of home runs, and nine runs batted in.
JOHNSON STILL BEING PESKY: While her career-best hitting streak was halted at nine games, that hasn't stopped Nicole Johnson from having an impact on Fullerton's offense as the senior has reached base safely in each of her last 12 games (26 of her last 39 plate appearances) dating back to a win over Utah State on March 11 in Lakewood, Calif. Johnson, who is hitting .517 (15-for-29) with 11 runs scored, five doubles, a pair of home runs, and nine RBI over that stretch, has hit safely in 10 of those 12 contests, walked another time, and was hit by pitch in the other game. She has also walked nine times, slugged .897, and posted an on base percentage of .650 during her streak.
CARTER JOINS THE TOP 10: With her final hit of the Pacific series, a triple to left centerfield, junior Ashley Cater joined teammate Nicole Johnson on the school's career list in that category, moving into a six-way tie for seventh with seven. It was Carter's third triple of the season, tying her career high and matching UC Riverside's Ariel Shore for third in the Big West Conference this season.
OFF AND RUNNING: This weekend's series with UC Riverside will feature the league's top four triples hitters in the Highlanders' Kayla White and Ariel Shore and the Titans' Tiffany Sheffler and Ashley Carter. White and Sheffler are tied for the league-lead with four triples apiece while Carter and Shore are tied for third.
SWEPT AWAY: Cal State Fullerton's sweep at the hands of Pacific last weekend marked the first time that the Titans have been swept in conference play since Cal Poly won all three games from April 17-18, 2010, in San Luis Obispo. The Tigers' sweep of the Titans was their first over Cal State Fullerton since May 14-15, 1999.
A.C. A CHILLING SIGHT FOR OPPOSING PITCHERS: Junior Ashley Carter has picked up right where she left off as a sophomore, entering this weekend's contests with a career-high 44 hits, 23 runs, and 16 RBI while batting a career-best .349 on the season. She ranks tied for fourth in the Big West Conference in hits and eighth in runs scored while standing tied for sixth in average. Her two hits in the finale against Pacific marked her team-high 13th multi-hit game of the season, accumulating 10 two-hit contests and a trio of three-hit performances against Colorado State (Feb. 10), Bakersfield (Feb. 17), and Utah State (March 11).
WHAT? NO YBARRA?: Cal State Fullerton's series opener with Pacific on April 14 marked the first time in almost two months that freshman left-hander Desiree Ybarra did not pitch in a game. Ybarra, who started game two against the Tigers and entered in relief in the finale, hadn't missed an appearance since Feb. 23 when the Titans opened the Cathedral City Classic against Georgia and Boise State. Between those dates, Ybarra had appeared in 21 consecutive games, throwing 97 2/3 of a possible 133 innings (73.4%) with an 8-9 overall record, seven complete games, a 4.37 ERA and 53 strikeouts. At one point, she made eight consecutive starts from March 6-31, going 4-4 with a 5.29 ERA and 30 strikeouts against only nine walks.
SPEED TRAP: After a quick start on the bases, the Titans have been relatively quiet on the base paths as of late, going four games without a stolen base -- Fullerton's longest drought of the season. Things are not all bad, however, as the Titans are perfect in their last five attempts and haven't had a runner thrown out attempting to steal in their last nine games since being caught twice against Purdue on March 14.
LET'S TURN TWO: Twin killings at the hands of the Titans' defense have been happening often in 2012 as Fullerton shares the Big West Conference lead (and stands tied for fifth in the NCAA) with 20 double plays entering this week's contests while also ranking No. 4 in the nation this week at 0.54 double plays per game.
WINNER, WINNER, CHICKEN DINNER: Eight different Titans have tallied game-winning hits this season, led by Eliza Crawford's four this season, while eight different players have come around to score the game-winning run, paced by table-setter Ashley Carter with five.
WE LOVE IT WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGETHER: A wise minor league manager once said, "It's a simple game. You throw the ball. You hit the ball. You catch the ball." When the Titans have been able to pull together all those components this season, they have been nearly unstoppable, batting a robust .347 with 157 hits, a 2.63 ERA, and just 15 errors while outscoring opponents by a 118-51 count in their 16 victories this season. In its 21 defeats, however, Fullerton is batting just .222 with a 7.58 ERA, and 31 errors while being outscored, 172-46.
HOME IS WHERE THE POWER IS: After slugging just two home runs over its first 16 games, Cal State Fullerton's bats have been "plugged in" since its return home to Anderson Family Field. The Titans have hit 13 home runs in their last 20 games, nine of those coming within the friendly confines, including a three-home run game against Michigan State on March 4 -- the most for the Titans in a single game since they slugged four round-trippers against UC Santa Barbara on April 2, 2010.
IRON WOMEN: Outfielders Ashley Carter and Leesa Harris are the only two Titans to start all 37 games at the same position on defense this season, while Carter is the only player to hold on to her same spot in the batting order, hitting leadoff in all 37 contests.
SHEFFLER TRIPLES HER FUN: Junior Tiffany Sheffler smacked her fourth triple of the season in the series opener against Cal Poly on March 31, a total that has her ranked No. 14 in the nation this week and moved her into a tie for ninth on the school's single-season list for that category with 13 other players. A fifth triple this season will bump Sheffler all the way up to a tie for fifth while four more triples will match the school record held by Terri Oberg, who had eight triples in both the 1985 and 1986 seasons.
JOHNSON WITH A TARGET ON HER BACK...: And her knee, and her thigh, and her arm... you get the picture. Senior Nicole Johnson is within striking distance of a rather dubious school record, entering this week's games with 41 career hit by pitches across her first three-plus Division I seasons. Johnson, who was bruised a team-high 15 times last season as a junior (tied for the fourth-highest total in the school's single-season record books), ranks third all-time in school history, needing just six more bruises to tie Amanda Hockett (2000-03) for second place and 15 more HBPs to match Crystal Vieyra's school record of 56 accumulated from 2005-08.
"FASTER THAN FAST, QUICKER THAN QUICK": She is speed. Senior Adriana Martinez remains tied for seventh with Heidi Robertson (1995) on the school's single-season list at 15-for-17 overall on the season with just 12 more steals ahead of her to match Jstone Vines' record of 27 set in 1994. The 15 stolen bases, aside from being a career high, are the most for a Titan since Julie Watson stole 18 bags in 2004 and give Martinez 34 for her career -- just three back of Chenita Rogers (1986-87) for third. The career record is held by Jstone Vines (1991-94) with 59 swipes.
SPEAKING OF SPEED: Martinez isn't the only one burning up the basepaths this season as the Titans rank second in the Big West Conference with 39 stolen bases as a team -- already surpassing last season's 47-game total (32) and their highest stolen base total since 2007 when Fullerton finished with 48 stolen bases.
SPEED THAT'S TWICE AS NICE: Harris' two steals in the opener against Cal Poly on March 31 gave her 10 in 12 attempts on the season, joining teammate Adri Martinez (15-for-17) in double figures in that category this season -- something that hasn't happened since 1994 when Jstone Vines (27-for-30), Monica Bagalayos (26-for-30), and Heidi Robertson (18-for-19) each finished in double digits.


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MIDDLESBORO, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky State Police have seized a number of video gambling machines and some cash at a market in Middlesboro.
Trooper Shane Jacobs said the raid was in response to several citizen complaints about illegal gambling at the Cumberland Market. KSP Detective Tyson Lawson and several troopers confiscated the machines on Monday.
No arrests were made, but evidence will be presented to a Bell County grand jury.
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