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Free network administration tools such as Wireshark and Spiceworks can be invaluable for analyzing and monitoring an existing network and identifying possible trouble spots. For example, the CRN Test Center recently experienced extremely poor performance when using a particular resource on one of its VMware servers. After quickly examining the network topology map like the one provided by Spiceworks and comparing it with prior map snapshots, testers were able to identify a network cable that had become disconnected. Having a documented baseline of normal corporate network operations and behavior will become a most valued asset when things start to go wrong.

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A movie produced by an independent studio, or an unheard-of writer/director; it tends to star actors you've never seen before. Indie movies commonly make you feel artistic or inspired after watching them... or, sometimes, just leave you feeling like you wasted an hour and a half of your time watching something that made absolutely no sense. Can also be referred to as an artsy movie.
"Hey, lets go to Blockbuster and rent some indie movies! I heard Wristcutters and The Chumscrubber were really good!"
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American Legion Post 183 had wanted to thank the following individuals for their participation in Shirley's Memorial Day ceremonies, but due to an unfortunate mix-up at Whiteley Park, an incorrect list was read. The listed personnel began before 9 a.m. in order to ensure successful military ceremonies.
FIRING SQUAD: John Guthrie, Geoff Hemenway, Seth Meyer, Rich Noll, Paul Wilson, Aron Griffin, Matt "Woody" Woodward. COLOR GUARD: Diane Fox, Miriam Ursua, Tom Seraton, Mike Flood. DRUMMERS: Steve Holbein, Mike Bulger, Scott Bulger. BUGLERS: Joe Duffy, Timothy Fill from Immaculate Heart of Mary School Marching Band. Also: Charles Church, Carl McKoon, Gerry Wheeler, Ed Landry, Doug Landry.
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Francisco "Maza" Rodriguez's return to his first club Chivas is unlikely to be the happy affair he may once have envisaged.
Now wearing the colors of Chivas' bitter rival Club America, Guadalajara fans are preparing to welcome him back for this Sunday's Super Clasico by throwing fake money as he enters the pitch.
"All Rojiblanca fans that go to the clasico, bring false or toy money and when Maza enters the playing field and is close, throw them," reads a heavily promoted message on one Chivas fan site.
The gesture highlights the general consensus among Chivas fans that Maza chose to join America from Stuttgart for financial reasons.
On signing for the Aguilas in January, Maza stated that Chivas had been interested in bringing him back but that "the most important project I saw was what they presented at America."
Rodriguez left Chivas in 2008 for PSV and moved on to Stuttgart in 2011.
"Chivas is part of my past, I'm lived important times and very bad times there," Maza said back in January. "I like to live in the present and talk about the present. Today is America and I'm 100 percent focused on this club."


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You can catch enough vegetables to make a Sunday stew at this weekend's Irish-Italian Parade in Houma.
You can catch enough vegetables to make a Sunday stew at this weekend's Irish-Italian Parade in Houma.
The parade, which rolls at 1 p.m. Sunday, will start at West Park Avenue near Piccadilly restaurant, turn onto Hollywood Road, continue down Main Street, turn onto Barrow Street and disband at Town Hall, 805 Barrow St. There will also be a post-parade celebration at the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center.
Krewe members will hold a Mass and sit-down breakfast at Piccadilly before the parade.
Houma's annual St. Patrick's Day parade on the east side of Houma was a hit for more than a decade, but it had a 10-year hiatus until it was revived last year on the west side, said S.P. LaRussa, a Houma real-estate developer who helped conceive the original Irish-Italian parade.
The parade will feature a 250-member krewe riding 12 throwing floats, LaRussa said.
The procession will also feature truck bands, six deejays, marching bands and two car clubs showing off their antique cars. There will be a grand marshal leprechaun riding with his pot of gold.
Different from Carnival parades, parade-riders throw items that revelers can take home and cook such as cabbages, potatoes, onions, carrots and turnips. There will even be bananas and pineapples for those with a sweet tooth, LaRussa said.
"You've got people along the route telling the float riders what they want, with a stew pot going," LaRussa said.
Julius and Lyn Hebert are king and queen of the parade.
LaRussa said the parade was a big success last year, but he's expecting an even bigger and better parade this year.
"Come ready to catch, because we'll be throwing," LaRussa said.
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If the first rule of public speaking is to know your audience, then the first rule of Twitter is to realize that you are speaking publicly. Last week, Game Informer shared a rumor that the next Xbox would require an active internet connection at all times. Following that, Microsoft creative director Adam Orth (pictured above in his Twitter profile image) took to Twitter with some impolitic thoughts on the matter.
Game Informer has learned from sources close to the matter that Orth is no longer with Microsoft. A call to Microsoft's main switchboard confirmed this fact. Our sources, who wish to remain anonymous, suggest that Orth resigned in the wake of last week's events. We haven't been able to confirm whether this was a voluntary or forced resignation.
Microsoft isn't commenting on the "always on" rumor or today's talk of a May 21 reveal for the console. We can't say for sure if Orth's "deal with it" approach is confirmation that users will need to be online (though with news emerging today of television integration, it's becoming more likely), but we can safely assume that his employer didn't appreciate him commenting on the matter. The company issued the following apology last week in response:
"We apologize for the inappropriate comments made by an employee on Twitter yesterday. This person is not a spokesperson for Microsoft, and his personal views do not reflect the customer centric approach we take to our products or how we would communicate directly with our loyal consumers. We are very sorry if this offended anyone, however we have not made any announcements about our product roadmap, and have no further comment on this matter."
We have contacted Microsoft and Orth regarding his departure, and will update the story with their responses should they provide them.


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Javier…I'm Sorry, Baby…
Yanks Lose, Javy Struggles
Last night's game didn't have too many positives. That could've been my fault. I wasn't watching the game like I should've been. Instead, I was flipping back and forth from the Yankees to the Celebrity Apprentice. See, the Apprentice is on on Sundays, but I didn't watch it last time because of Opening Night. So I figured I'd catch the rerun on Friday. But then I realized that Friday was Javier's debut! How could I miss that? I only gave Javier half my heart last night. And he struggled. My fault, Javybaby. The Yankees lost 9-3 last night, and I am disgusted with myself.
Pitching Analysis: I watched the first three innings of the game without flipping channels, because the Celebrity Apprentice didn't come on until 8. Javier looked very good…striking out Rays left and right. He didn't allow a run through the first 3 innings. But after that, well…things fell apart.
Oh, Javier! I'm so upset…I'm sorry you struggled so much…you poor thing, you look flustered.
The 4th inning was gross. When I flipped back, the Rays had died the game at 2. By the end of the inning, it was 5-2 Rays, thanks to a homer by Carlos Pena. I was worried then, because I say how well Price was throwing. It was going to be a long night for the Bombers.
Back to the Apprentice I went.
When I flipped back, I saw Javy had completely lost it. It was 8-2. I didn't know what had happened at the time, but the Rays were hitting him hard. Aybar hit a 2-run homer as well. Javy looked flustered, tired, and beaten. He was pulled for another sexy pitcher, Sergio Mitre. Sergio was not accustomed to coming in in the middle of an inning, and he surrendered another run. Aah! But other than that, Sergio looked good…very good 😉
Offensive Analysis: There was not much offense last night, but I'm not mad at the Yankees. David Price is to blame. Congrats on your good pitching, David. We'll getya next time.
The only offense came in the 4th and the 8th. In the 4th, A-Rod hit a 2-run inside the park home run! Okay, okay…it was a triple, RBI that scored Nick Johnson (who finally hit! Now we are just waiting on Tex), and an error which allowed Alex to score…forgive me for embellishing. I switched channels just in time to see it. That gave the Yanks a 2-0 lead, which would soon vanish.
The 3rd run came in the 8th inning, where Jeet doubled, and scored on a Nick Johnson double. I was annoyed that they didn't score more. There were none out, and a man on second. But they couldn't scrape across anything else. It was just 9-3…
It wasn't fun last night…Let me apologize to my boys: Yankees, I am terribly sorry. You know how it is: you get hooked on those shows and look forward to them all week. And I didn't watch in Sunday to see you guys. Last night's episode wasn't even good…it was upseting. Donald Trump fired Rod Blagojevich. I wanted Blago to stay longer because he's funny. But no. Trump had to ruin everything.
"Governor, you're fired." LOL
I should have just forgot about the show. I betrayed you guys. I'm so so sorry…especially to you Javier. You were good when I watched you, but lost it when I left. Please don't hate me.
And Granderson! Oh, I barely saw you last night…I miss you ♥ All I saw was the last pitch of one of your at-bats where you struckout. That left an icky taste in my mouth.
Yankees, I won't ever make the same mistake. Better luck today, guys.
I'll be watching.


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News Flash: People bypass inconvenient security features. Security reduced as a result.
How does this at all lead to a "death knell" for SSL?
The death knell for SSL is getting louder
What does this mean? Just that vendors should be using the newer versions of SSL that were rebranded TLS? Or is there another, competing technology that is recommended instead?
It means that both Gunkerty Jeb and Timothy didn't read TFA and are both fucking stupid.
Summary: libraries allow you to selectively ignore part or all of the certificate chain verification, including OpenSSL, which is exactly what your fucking browser asks you to do when you visit a site with a self-signed or expired cert. TFA argues that this is the wrong behavior. TFA also doesn't understand that sometimes you don't care that much about MITM, just that the traffic is encrypted to make the current session opaque.
TFA also doesn't understand what the layers of security are around Amazon's EC2 toolkit, either.
TFA also doesn't understand that sometimes you don't care that much about MITM, just that the traffic is encrypted to make the current session opaque.
Your session is not going to be very opaque if there's a man in the middle listening in.
TFA also doesn't understand that sometimes you don't care that much about MITM, just that the traffic is encrypted to make the current session opaque.
That allows you to have a wonderfully secure conversation with whoever is snooping. Great step forward there!
It's important that clients verify the identity of the servers to which they connect, but they can do so in many ways. Public HTTPS does it in a particular pattern, but a self-signed certificate also works (provided you've distributed the server's public key to clients in a trusted way first). The problem with self-signed on the public HTTPS web is that there's too many sites for it to be at all practical for you to acquire all their self-signed public certificates before connecting to any of them; that advantage (of the CA system) ceases to be very relevant on a closed system such as an intranet, though larger intranets can go for things like a private CA.
Expired certificates or non-matching host certificates are a demonstration of poor deployment.
Yup. And a lot of times people just don't give a damn.
There are other reasons to use weak SSL - most of them rather stupid and created by not-so-bright IT policies. For example: tunneling through stupidly configured proxy servers often requires an SSL connection - it does not matter to anyone involved what certificate is used to establish such a connection, the proxy simply often wants the connection to be encrypted using SSL.
The public CAs are fundamentally untrustworthy. Your only hope is to do like ssh: keep track of certificates that have been seen, and raise an alert if a site's certificate ever changes. Self-signed isn't worse than China-signed, Belarus-signed, Russia-signed, France-signed, Israel-signed, or any of the other supposedly "trustworthy" public CAs you so love.
I'm sure that would work really well: NOT
This policy does not work because one of the first website people visit is Google, they change their certificated on a weekly basis (yes all servers; every week they roll out new certs).
(yes all servers; every week they roll out new certs).
Apparently I just hit the one server, they forgot about:
Common Name (CN) www.google.com
Serial Number 4F:9D:96:D9:66:B0:99:2B:54:C2:95:7C:B4:15:7D:4D
Issued On 10/26/11
Expires On 10/1/13
Unless "new certs" means one that was issued a year ago.
I don't know that is what I heared in a presentation, I think it is somewhere online. I'll see if I can find it somewhere.
Doesn't matter, unless they roll out a new CA cert every week.
It's the longevity, and security, of the CA cert that matters.
I don't really like the CA model either, but your suggestion doesn't seem thought through. SSH asks you to actually verify the key fingerprint of the new host key you are trying to connect to; this would be quite hard for non technical users that want to visit their bank website etc.. And like other commented, that would also be a PITA with key rollovers.
No, the real solution I think is developed in the DANE IETF WG: distributing keys through DNS, secured by DNSSEC.
TFA also doesn't understand that sometimes you don't care that much about MITM, just that the traffic is encrypted to make the current session opaque.
That's because that's a nonsense idea. If the scheme you use is vulnerable to MITM, the session using that scheme are not opaque to unintended eavesdroppers. That's what "MITM" means.
TFA also doesn't understand that sometimes you don't care that much about MITM, just that the traffic is encrypted to make the current session opaque.
Others have already weighed in, but I have to pile on too. You need to realize this is an absurd position.
What is the point of an 'opaque session' if you are having it with an unknown party?
If you are willing to talk to anyone who presents themselves as the endpoint and you don't authenticate them, what does it matter if someone else can't listen in... for al
Your parent stated it badly. It's not that you aren't worried about Monkey in the Middle. It's that you aren't worried about third party identity verification to avoid MITM. If you self-sign your own certificate, then you know that it's valid. You aren't relying on a third party signer (e.g. VeriSign) to validate it. You are validating it.
The thing is that for this to work, you need to verify the certificate. If you don't verify the certificate, then you can end up with MITM attacks. There is a mecha
MITM in cryptography usually stands for "man in the middle". "Monkey in the middle" is a kid's game where a group stands in a circle and tries to keep the ball away from a single kid designated the "monkey".
MitM success means opaque fail. If you want opaque, you must prevent MitM. If the transit has no MitM opportunity, then what's the point of opaque in the first place.
It means that this "post" is really clickbait. And now we know why no one RTFA.
Yes, it is and it's bs that libcurl got caught in the middle. By default libcurl is secure.
It means that this "post" is really clickbait. And now we know why no one RTFA.
Yes - please, nobody make any more topical comments about the "death knell" phrase or you're just going to encourage this kind of submission whoring and editors who play along. They'd love to see a long thread debating the merits of whether or not TLS is about to go extinct, and there will be trolls to fuel such an absurd thread if you allow it.
They'll have to make do with a small number of page views on the meta bitching about
Unfortunately they can't leave TLS because of IE 6 and maybe IE 7(?) support. These apps use HTML from IE for functionality and need to support these older browsers for corps and people who refuse to upgrade to a modern browser.
Another reason to also get rid of XP as you can't upgrade someone's IE from your own setup.exe program.
Arstechnica.com had an article (older as I can't find it to link) which showed TLS to be ineffective by 2016 as computers became faster and through collisions will be able to hack t
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A death cruller!
As long as you are using a legit SSL cert ( avalible for less than $10 anually) with decent cipher strength ( again, avalible for less than $10 anually), man in the middle should be impossible with TLS/SSL and the proper use of it by the client ( don't connect and send sensitive data, if the ssl cert isn't valid or the signer isn't trusted).
There's not really any such thing as a "legit" certificate; you're referring to a signed one. This does nothing to protect against a man-in-the-middle attack. What it does do is establish a chain of trust linking your certificate back to an authority. If that authority is trusted then your cert can be too (to the extent you trust the authority). If, and that's a big if, we trust that _all_ trusted authorities will thoroughly vet the certificates they sign then we can _trust_ that a MITM attack cannot occur, but realistically "legit" certificates do nothing more than that. If, say, the US DoD (once/often? a trusted authority) decides to MITM you, they can just sign a cert and MITM you.
The only way to actually prevent MITM is to exchange the certificate (or some verification mechanism like a hash) in some sort of trusted manner (e.g. distributing it's hash with a client app).
You can get them for free from StartSSL, and most browsers/vendors will trust them.
The current versions of SSL/TLS are never vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks unless a trusted certificate authority is compromised (as long as both client and server implement RFC 5746). Whether the certificate authorities are trustworthy is another question, of course.
This particular problem is caused by folks disabling the SSL stack's built-in chain validation and then not implementing their own. As far as I know, there are exactly two correct ways to support self-signed keys in Android: provide your own trust store that includes trust for that specific self-signed key or subclass the X509 validation class to add that specific self-signed key as an additional trusted anchor into the list of trusted anchors that it returns. Unfortunately, there's a lot of very bad advice out there, particularly on sites like Stack Overflow, telling folks to disable chain validation entirely. The result is that not only does the app trust that self-signed key, it also trusts any self-signed key.
It doesn't help that there's no canonical source for that information from Google, so there are many, many questions on sites like Stack Overflow that all ask the same basic question in different ways and get different answers....
Patient: Doctor, when I drill a hole in my hand, I can't scoop up water from the bucket to drink.
Doctor: Why did you drill a hole in your hand?
Patient: So that the acid wouldn't stay in my hand.
Doctor (alarmed): Why did you put acid in your hand?
Patient: Because the bucket dealer wanted too much money for a bucket.
Yeah, it's like that.
How is the wrong implementation of a protocol in a framework library a fault of the protocol?
Either devs need to be aware that there's extra steps in validating using an SSL library in their framework of choice, or the framework needs to be patched appropriately, but based on the concepts the article's provided, sounds like bad implementation aka crap code, and not enough QC. Some OOP would help make the implementation easier though...
This is a problem of bad APIs and people not competent to select libraries with better ones. The same would happen with any other encryption protocol. Implementing and using cryptography is hard, in particular because testing will usually not show anything is wrong and testing is still the only thing most software "developers" have in their bag of tools to ensure correctness. As long as people without a clue decide they can implement cryptographic libraries or use them, these things will continue to happen.
This is a problem of bad APIs and people not competent to select libraries with better ones.
While that might sound true, I think the problem is deeper than that. The issue in a lot of cases is developers having to deal with non-ideal SSL/TLS setups that they have no control over.
It usually goes like this:
Dev monkey gets told by PHB, we need to make our communications secure, so implement SSL. Dev monkey adds SSL support to the app. Code seems to work. Testing (or even worse, someone in Production) comes back and says: dev monkey's SSL code doesn't work with our Customer XYZ's server. Dev monkey tests things himself and finds that Customer XYZ is using a self signed cert or an expired cert. Dev monkey tells PHB that Customer XYZ needs to fix their setup. PHB tells dev monkey that the setup cannot be changed because of ABC and that dev monkey needs to "code around the issue". Dev monkey updates app to not choke on bad certs. Code gets released, and Customer XYZ's remote worker gets p0wned by a man in the middle attack. Customer XYZ blames PHB, PHB blames dev monkey. Dev monkey sighs and gets another mountain dew.
Dev monkey updates app to not choke on bad certs [...] PHB blames dev monkey
The PHB got the blame exactly right. The Dev Monkey proved he didn't understand SSL as soon as he did a blanket "trust everything." Dev Monkey screwed the pooch.
In the real world, dev monkey doesn't get to do what dev monkey wants, a good step would be to ask management what to do since customer won't change set up that way monkey covers monkey's ass and if the customer gets backed, management can deal with it on a my guy told you so basis.
Exactly. In the real world, dev monkey doesn't get to make the decisions. If dev monkey doesn't code around the problem, PHB finds a different code monkey to make the change. Not everyone gets to work for themselves or for a small startup where they can make their own decisions.
To be honest...
If I was consulting for a company and I clearly outlined the risk of allowing self-signing certs to them and they said we'll take it, I'd make sure I had something in writing... like an email & I'd do it for them anyways, if they get MITM'd later, I'd refer to them to the email. You can't always stop people from taking short cuts, but making them aware of the risks is more than most people probably do.
As a MITM attacker, can't I just spoof the sender's domain here?
Granted, it does add a fairly decent layer of complexity to the MITM : http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/understanding-man-in-the-middle-attacks-arp-part2.html [windowsecurity.com]
Sorry for the nitpick, but 'R' isn't a valid hex character.
Your dev monkey is fucking incompetent and should be slapped with a smoked mackerel in the face.
A reasonable developer would just add XYZ's cert to the list of trusted certificates manually. If you think about it a little, it doesn't matter who tells you that a purported XYZ's certificate is indeed XYZ's. It could be one of the trusted CAs, selected for by Microsoft, Mozilla or Google. Or it could be the holy trinity of XYZ's CEO, CTO and CFO, materializing in your office in person. It could even be your PH
Sure but good luck updating XYZ cert in the certificate store for hundrends and hundreds of clients.
If you try to document it so that the user can update it then there is a 50-50 chance they will screw their certificate store and then not even their banking, gmail or shopping would work.
While this does not seem to be the issue in the OP, this is definitely a realistic scenario. Maybe I should have said that the implementation on both sides of the tunnel needs to be competently done.
The compliant about libcurl is baseless. It's said VERY CLEAR in the documentation how to use the feature. If stupid devs can't figure it out that's hardly the fault of a library developer. I've never had an issue with it and I've used it in C, C++, and PHP.
To repeat what I said on the mailing list. If I break my thumb with a hammer do blame the hammer or do I blame myself?
As Yehezkel Horowitz pointed out on the mailing list.
This is the quote from the FAQ
>Q: How do I use cURL securely?
>A: CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER must be set to TRUE, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST must be left to its default value or set to 2. Anything >else, such as setting CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST to TRUE, will result in the SSL connection being insecure against a man-in-the-middle attacker.
The real answer should be - cURL defaults are secure - no need for any code to use it securely.
In general I think the very short answer for this publication should be RTFM.
The little bit longer answer would be -
1. cURL is a C code library - you can't set a value to TRUE since this is not in the language syntax.
So you has somewhere in your includes something like "#define TRUE 1" - you must be aware to this issue - this is an important part of the relations between computers/compilers/programmers.
2. Before setting any option to cURL - you should read the very clear documentation about this option.
As to what we can do to make cURL even better (in order to protect unprofessional users that don't know what they are doing), We could make '1' to act as '2' (verify peer identity), and add a special magic value (i.e. 27934) that will act as todays '1' (check for CN existence but don't verify it).
I think they owe everyone at libcurl an apology.
Just to clarify Yehezkal didn't say they owed every at libcurl an apology. I did.
This is the quote from the FAQ
>Q: How do I use cURL securely?
>A: CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER must be set to TRUE, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST must be left to its default value or set to 2. Anything >else, such as setting CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST to TRUE, will result in the SSL connection being insecure against a man-in-the-middle attacker.
1. cURL is a C code library - you can't set a value to TRUE since this is not in the language syntax.
So you has somewhere in your includes something like "#define TRUE 1" - you must be aware to this issue - this is an important part of the relations between computers/compilers/programmers.
It is good that the default is secure, but this is bad API design. There are at least two ways it can be improved:
1) The name "CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST" implies a boolean value, so "set(CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, TRUE)" looks like reasonable code after a quick glance. Since the option is a multiple choice option, not a boolean, it should be named something like "CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST_MODE".
2) C has had enums since forever. The values "1" and "2" are opaque magic numbers, and flags that are this important should be set with well-named enums, not with magic numbers. Further, if the API setter function was typed with the appropriate enums, the compiler would have complained when it saw "set(CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, TRUE)".
Yes, the application devs used libcurl incorrectly, and yes, the above criticisms are nitpicks, but a library this important should be designed very defensively to minimize the change that users will make dumb mistakes.
Oh please please mod parent up!!!
That api design is retarded.
While those are valid points and should be corrected I still say it's the fault of the developers and not libcurl. Every option is documented well and the documentation is easy to find.
I think fault is not 0-sum. It can be totally the developer's fault and still a flaw in libcurl.
If I break my thumb with a hammer do blame the hammer or do I blame myself?
Sometimes, and sometimes, respectively. If the head rotates 90 degrees on the handle, or flies off the handle, on a low-mileage hammer without having undergone any abuse, and the thumb was hit a result of that fault, then you blame the manufacturer of the hammer and perhaps sue them. They almost certainly have insurance for this kind of thing.
Otherwise you're well advised to blame yourself.
Touche, I was using that phrase in the context of libcurl though. In this case none of those things happen
Forgive me for not proof reading a post on the Internet. Hopefully, the world won't come to an end, but if it does I hope grammer nazis die first.
Oh my god, a parameter that takes either '2' or TRUE???
What the hell is that?
I will stick with my strong typed languages thank you very much.
While libraries like cURL have excellent documentation, other libraries such as OpenSSL have terrible documentation. Assuming that the cURL developers understood how to use OpenSSL correctly, it's quite simple for me to use their library to establish a secure connection.
What's harder is to figure out how to do it with OpenSSL. There is no obvious starting point for opening a secure connection that you can glean from reading the man pages. There are books you can buy on the subject, but that doesn't excuse the library authors from writing easy to understand documentation. The library itself is quite elegant: with just a few steps you have a secure connection that you can read and write just as if it were any other network connection (or, for that matter, a file on disk). But figuring out how to correctly set up and tear down a connection using that library isn't well documented at all.
By default libcurl is secure. It's only insecure if you mess with an option. Personally, I'm glad that option is there.
This is the quote from the FAQ
>Q: How do I use cURL securely?
>A: CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER must be set to TRUE, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST must be left to its default value or set to 2. Anything >else, such as setting CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST to TRUE, will result in the SSL connection being insecure against a man-in-the-middle attacker.
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Thirteen financing institutions from the Pacific region have gathered in Koror this week to learn from Palau's successful green home energy model.
The four day workshop titled "Home loans for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Workshop", is a first to be held in the region and will inform the thirteen members of the Association of Development Financing Institutions in the Pacific (ADFIP) on how Palau has been implementing its energy home loan programme.
"For the past three years, the National Development Bank of Palau has been running a very good home loan programme that promotes renewable energy and energy efficiency," says Anare Matakiviti, Coordinator of the Energy Programme at IUCN Oceania Regional Office.
"In the next few days we will inform ADFIP members how Palau is running their programme and in doing so we hope that they will replicate the programme in their own countries"
The energy home loan programme,targets new residential and commercial buildings including tourism outlets and so far it has benefited not only the customers, but also the wider Palau economy through new businesses, employment creation, less diesel use and a renewed national interest into energy efficiency measures.
The workshop was opened on Monday morning by the President of the Republic of Palau, His Excellency Johnson Toribiong.
"The impacts of climate change on Small Island Developing States(SIDS) particularly for us here in the Pacific will require a paradigm shift in how we provide energy to promote socio-economic development," says Toribiong.
"Palau together with the Federated States of Miconesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands has initiated the Green Energy Micronesia Initiative which places emphasis on energy efficiency and renewable energy to try and minimise the imapcts of climate change," Toribiong added.
The workshop has been organized by ADFIP and IUCN Oceania Regional Office with assistance from the Centre for Development Enterprise Regional Office in Suva, the SPREP PIGGAREP project and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community's North REP project.
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They're both mesmerized, but for very different reasons...
Awwww, what a cute photo.
Jato - Blenheim, Nov. 2007
Zoey - Ruby, June 2008
Haha! That looks SO much like Bandit when we go to Petsmart and Petco. He wants to catch the birds AND the fish, too!
haha ,cute pic
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Charlotte & Christian
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Payrolls Report
"The headline looks pretty strong," Tom Porcelli, chief U.S. economist at primary dealer RBC Capital Markets LLC, said of the durable-goods report. "The biggest report is the payroll, and that's where our attention will shift this week."
Employers added 161,000 workers in January, after a 155,000 increase in December, a separate survey showed before the Feb. 1 report from the Labor Department. Other data this week may show manufacturing is stabilizing and consumer spending increased, based on responses from economists.
Treasuries pared losses as pending U.S. home sales declined in December for the first time since August, with the index falling 4.3% to 101.7 after a revised 1.6% increase the prior month, the National Association of Realtors reported today in Washington. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey projected no change.
U.S government debt has handed investors a 0.9% loss in January, the worst monthly performance since March, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch indexes. The MSCI All-Country World Index of shares gained 5.4% in January including reinvested dividends, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Central Banks
Yields climbed last week when the European Central Bank said lender will repay more of its loans than forecast, spurring optimism the worst of the region's debt crisis is over.
The ECB said lenders will pay back 137.2 billion euros ($184.7 billion) of its three-year loans, so-called Longer-Term Refinancing Operations, this week. The figure compares with the median forecast of 84 billion euros in a Bloomberg survey of economists.
Fed policy makers said they may end their $85 billion monthly bond purchases sometime in 2013, with members divided between a mid- or end-of-year finish, according to the record of the Federal Open Market Committee's Dec. 11-12 gathering.
Central banks in the U.S., the U.K. and Japan are all buying bonds to pump money into their economies as they try to spur growth. The ECB has indicated it is willing to do so.
"Bond yields depend on how long Fed stays low & when/if U.S. reaches 6.5% unemployment, 2.5% inflation," Pacific Investment Management Co.'s Bill Gross, manager of the world's biggest bond fund, wrote in a Twitter post. "My estimate: 2015."
The difference between yields on U.S. 10-year notes and same-maturity Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, a gauge of trader expectations for consumer prices over the life of the debt, widened to 2.56 percentage points last week. The average over the past decade is 2.19 percentage points.
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BUCKTOWN — Promising beginning. Disappointing end.
That recurring theme could describe more than a couple late season games for the Owen J. Roberts girls soccer team. The Wildcats had a chance to change that tune against Central Bucks East in a District 1 Class AAA consolation game Thursday night.
A 1-0 lead in the first half courtesy of forward Juliana Provini took care of the first part.
Unfortunately for the Wildcats, Mariah Lichter, Shaun Kane and the Patriots took care of the second piece.
C.B. East rallied from a goal down and had Owen J. under sustained pressure following Lichter's game-tying goal with 10 minutes in regulation before Kane netted the winner early in the second overtime to advance the Patriots with a 2-1 victory and end Owen J. Roberts' season.
C.B. East moves on to play Pennridge, a 2-0 winner over Pennsbury Thursday, in a District 1 consolation game that will determine the region's last PIAA qualifier Saturday.
The Wildcats' bid for a second straight to the PIAA Championships also ended in a season that began with such high hopes following last year's run to the state semifinals.
In the end, a 17-5-1 season would be viewed a success by nearly any team. Yet falling in the final of the Pioneer Athletic Conference playoffs and missing the state tournament saw the Wildcats fall short of their goals.
"We weren't good enough to win this year when it came down to it," coach Joe Margusity said. "I can cite a bunch of reasons, but we just weren't good enough to play a full 80-minute game."
All too often of late the Wildcats games were more than 80 minutes, just like it was against C.B. East.
A team that found postseason magic time and time again last year, couldn't reclaim any of that magic with the season on the line.
"I think we knew that it was a big game, but I don't know, I feel like we weren't there today," OJR captain Emily Morgan said. "We would say something and we wouldn't follow through with it."
The Wildcats deserved their lead when Provini won a foot race against the C.B. East defense and popped a shot past Patriots keeper Paige Marcinkowski in the 20th minute.
"We always say for the first two minutes after scoring to come out strong and defend and I think we did that but I think then we sat back and it allowed them to take over the game," Morgan said.
Defending wasn't the problem. In fact, early on the Wildcats were passing crisply and were the better team. But the link play between the back line and the forwards became steadily bigger as the Patriots gained a foothold in the midfield while pressuring the ball more.
The Patriots increasingly gained momentum in the second half until they seemed perfectly due to even the score.
"They had the better part of it in the first half, but the girls saw it through," said C.B. East coach Paul Eisold. "Kudos to the girls because they could have easily stopped playing (after going a goal down) and they chose not to.
"I knew we were gaining momentum and the game started turning. But when that happens you always became a little bit cautious because you become a little more susceptible in the back. Their No. 9 (Provini) is very fast, a very good player. You saw it on the first goal what she's capable of."
C.B. East got the equalizer when Kane sent a corner kick to the far post, which Nicole Pannella got a touch on and played back across the face of goal. Lichter was on the doorstep and drilled it into the empty goal to even it at 1-1 with 10 minutes left.
"On that corner where they scored I had said aloud, 'I have a bad feeling about this,'" Margusity said. "We were absorbing too much pressure and causing too much pressure on ourselves. They are a good team, but they weren't creating tons of chances. We were turning over the ball too much, we weren't moving the ball enough."
Earlier, Owen J. nearly took a 2-0 lead just before halftime on another race under the defense by Provini, but the Patriots defense recovered just in time. For C.B. East, midfielder Holly Moyer was excellent and created some of her team's best chances, once having her cross hit the far post, another forcing a super reflex save from OJR keeper Aly Mento a few minutes before Lichter's goal.
The momentum was firmly against OJR, especially late in regulation where C.B. East nearly looked destined to win it before OT.
The Wildcats saw it through to overtime and saw Marcinkowski save a quality long-range free kick from senior defender Gabby McKee late in the first OT after considering themselves lucky when C.B. East's Taylor Mysza's 20-yard free kick sailed high minutes earlier.
But just a minute and a half into the second overtime, Kane found herself in a race with a ball over top of the OJR defense, similar to the earlier goal scored by Provini. The attacker won again, Kane getting the game's decisive touch.
Early leads fell by the wayside in every one of the Wildcats' district games, the 3-2 win over C.B. South where Morgan got the game-winner in the final minute before having Downingtown West rally to a 2-1 win in the second half in the quarterfinals. So to see the same end occur against C.B. East was certainly tough to take for OJR.
"I think we definitely underachieved," Morgan said.
But the disappointing end didn't ruin the journey for Morgan.
"As a whole our team is great. I love each of the girls. Even on the field where we sometimes have our troubles, there was always unity. It's a great group of people so in that sense we achieved pretty high," she said.
Mento, one of four senior starters for OJR (Morgan, McKee, Steph Tamburro), made six saves while counterpart Marcinkowski stopped five ... C.B. East had 12 shots total (eight on target) to OJR's 7 (6 on target) ... The Patriots had the corners advantage, 5-3.


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The Churchillian Side of Chris Matthews
To be revealed on Oct. 25 at an awards ceremony.
Dredge your overstuffed furniture. Scrape the bottom of your purse. Shatter your kid's piggy bank. Do what ever it takes to find $500 for a ticket to the Churchill Centre's Oct. 25 fund-raising dinner at the Willard so you can witness the presentation of the Emery Reves Award to Chris Matthews for lifetime achievement in journalism.
The Reves Award goes to the member of the TV commentariat who flings the best on-air spittle, which poses the question of why Matthews didn't win the prize a decade ago and have it retired in his honor. Just joshin'. Actually, the award honors "excellence in writing or speaking about Churchill's life and times, or for applying his precepts and values to contemporary issues among the English-Speaking Peoples," according to the affair's invitation.
How has Matthews applied Churchill's precepts and values to contemporary issues among English-Speaking Peoples? Churchill Centre President Laurence Geller paints Matthews' accomplishment in these bright colors in a press release. "Mr. Matthew's [sic] passion for a free and open press and the public debate that it sparks is legendary. … He is an enthusiastic supporter of democracy and has been a learned member of the news reporting fraternity throughout his distinguished and prolific career."
Legendary. Supporter of democracy. Learned reporter. Distinguished. Prolific. All of these words may capture Matthews' character, but not as well as do flighty, braying, shameless, and opportunistic. It's a shame that nobody gives a Sammy Glick Award. Matthews would be a cinch.
What makes Chris run? Back in 1989, Los Angeles Times reporter Tom Rosenstiel tracked the Matthews ascendancy from political aide and speechwriter to media star.
"He made no secret about it. Chris Matthews wanted to be a pundit, a player, a face on the Sunday political talk shows," Rosenstiel writes. But the transformation required journalistic credentials, which Matthews lacked. The San Francisco Examiner, then the underdog afternoon daily in the Bay Area, was only too obliging. In 1987, it made Matthews an Examiner columnist and inflated him with the title of "San Francisco Examiner Washington bureau chief," something that would look distinguished on a TV Chyron below his grinning face. (At the time, the Examiner had only one other D.C. reporter.)
The dodge worked. In 1989, Washingtonian named Matthews one of the city's "top 50 journalists," writes Rosenstiel. It was a nice trick considering that Matthews was barely even a journalist.
After apprenticing on The McLaughlin Group, Face the Nation, Good Morning America, and CBS Morning News, Matthews won a co-anchor spot of his own on NBC's fledging cable TV network in 1994. Except for one decent book—1996's Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America—it's been klieg lights, non sequiturs, and bombast ever since.
If the Churchill Centre has yet to corral a presenter for Matthews, allow me to suggest Vanity Fair's James Wolcott, who appreciates the man's talents. In his 2004 book, Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants, Wolcott writes:
Matthews manages to outrace his contradictory statements by blustering so many excitable things so fast and so often that pinning down the discrepancies is like trying to grab a gust of wind by the tail. He isn't a cynical dissembler. He seems to suffer from some pundit variant of short-term memory loss. Each day on earth erases the days before. He says what he believes and believes what he says, and has the liberating advantage of always working from a blank sheet.
Just like Churchill.
Matthews is no stranger to the Churchill Centre, having served as master of ceremonies at its 2005 in Chicago, when the Reves Award went to Tom Brokaw [ PDF ]. That night, Matthews proved once again that he'll say anything to please a crowd by calling Brokaw "perhaps the most accomplished journalist of our time." Brokaw is OK, but if an accurate roster of the top 500 of journalists of our time exists, he's not even on the waiting list.
But journalism awards given by outfits like the Churchill Centre aren't meant to compete with the Pulitzer Prizes. They're fund-raisers, and they exist to sell enough tax-deductible tickets to support the nonprofit's various programs. According to the Churchill Centre's IRS Form 990s for 2005 and 2006, available through Guidestar.org, the 2005 awards ceremony honoring Brokaw was a smash, netting the organization about $175,000.
It's just a show, and you're not expected to believe anything you hear there. Sort of like Chris Matthews' Hardball.
Addendum: Watch Jon Stewart blister Matthews on the Daily Show.
Chris Matthews' official bio states that he won the David Brinkley Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism in 2004. Except for learning (via Nexis) Bernard Shaw has won the award and that Barry University has given it out, I know practically nothing about it. Fill me in with e-mail to email@example.com. (E-mail may be quoted by name in "The Fray," Slate's readers' forum, in a future article, or elsewhere unless the writer stipulates otherwise. Permanent disclosure: Slate is owned by the Washington Post Co.)


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Question/opinion: Does the whole "hash-marked" part of the dipstick represent a quart? Pint? Something else?
I know the capacity of the whole xmission, but I don't really need that. I'm just interested in how much fluid it takes to move the level on the dipstick a certain distance (like, say, 1/4 inch).
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RUTHVEN -- A Mass of Christian Burial for Robert J. Pettit was held Monday, Aug. 19, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Spencer. Concelebrants were the Rev. Bill Schreiber and the Rev. Tom Geelan.
Interment was in Riverside Cemetery, Spencer. The Martin-Mattice Funeral Home in Ruthven was in charge of arrangements.
Robert Joseph Pettit, son of Claude J. and Marie B. (Frederick) Pettit, was born Dec. 23, 1938 in Emmetsburg.He attended several area schools including St. Ellen's Catholic School in Emmetsburg, Sacred Heart Catholic and Spencer High schools in Spencer and graduated from Roosevelt High School in Des Moines. He served in the Iowa National Guard and was stationed in San Francisco, CA during his service.
The Pettit family was best known for its musical talents.Bob and his sisters, accompanied on the piano by Marie, toured the Midwest, singing in several area fairs and events, eventually landing in Chicago. From there, the family moved to Los Angeles and began performing regularly on the George Gobel Show as "The Kids Next Door." Their success grew as they recorded albums and performed with both comedic and musical celebrities.
Missing his home state, Bob returned to Iowa and worked as a salesman in several area businesses in Spencer. In 1984 Bob was appointed Ruthven city clerk, and became a friendly community fixture for the next 20 years. He retired in 2004 to spend more time with family and friends and pursue his interests. Bob enjoyed hunting, fishing and golfing and was an avid Iowa Hawkeye and Emmetsburg E-Hawk football fan.
On June 23, 1973, Bob married Kathryn Patrick at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Spencer. The couple had met a year earlier serving as best man and bridesmaid at their mutual friends' wedding. To this union, two children were born, Paul Joseph and Molly Frances.
Bob never strayed from his love of music. He was a member of the band Spectrum 70 and continued to perform on his own around the Iowa Great Lakes area. He also performed in both Emmetsburg and Spencer Community Theater productions. In 2008, he and his sisters were inducted into the Iowa Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Arnolds Park. As an active parishioner at Spencer Sacred Heart Church, Bob participated in the parish choir.
Bob passed away Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013 at Mercy Medical Center in Mason City after a brief illness at the age of 74. He was preceded in death by his parents, Claude and Marie; his sisters, Alice McEvoy Blackstock and Mary Blake.
He is survived by his wife, Kathy, of Ruthven; his children Paul (Rachel) Pettit of Des Moines and Molly (Matthew) Sutton of Flagstaff, AZ; his grandson, Nicholas Pettit; brothers Donald (Mary Ann) Pettit of Reno, NV; Claude Pettit and Thomas Pettit of Emmetsburg; sisters Patricia Crowell of Bullhead City, AZ and Claudia (Larry) Prince of Ruthven, as well as many other relatives and friends.
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I have a dell 19 in lcd monitor and for some reason whenever I leave it alone for a spell (i am not really sure how long because sometimes i'll walk away and then come back later, and i don't really time my potty breaks...) my screen will go into power saver mode. Now I know its in power saver mode cause instead of the green light, it has the orange light, and whenever i move the mouse or touch a key it comes back on.
The issue is that according to all my settings under the "power control settings" of the configure kdesktop box of the display settings, everything is disabled.
This issue has been ever present since I started using this OS.
When i first found the display settings the "enable power management box" was UNchecked...
it was still going into sleep mode (or standby, forgive my 20+ years of MS speak)
Then I enabled power management mode, and took all the sliders to the disabled position...
Still the same thing. The display goes into standby.
I really dig the Open GL screensavers, and know that they are running cause i catch a glimpse of them when i move something, but sadly cannot enjoy them cause the stupid screen goes black.
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Stories and a Q&A session with the 1960s civil rights activist and founding member of the Black Panther Party
What's wrong with free breakfasts for kids? Plenty, would be the answer if you asked that question in 1969 of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover—at least if the free breakfast was coming from the Black Panthers. On Nov. 1, a man whose name is synonymous with the Panthers, Bobby Seale, spoke at the Saint Clare Room on the SCU campus.
The event was standing-room only, and the stories covered a lot of territory and 50-plus years, from Seale's work in aerospace and youth jobs programs in Oakland—to the Panthers' free breakfast programs and health clinics. There were tales of carrying guns (legally) into the California statehouse and of trials where he was charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Framing much of the stories was Seale's discussion of a feature film project he hopes to see through. Certainly the roads and stories looped and swerved. But among the simple points that Seale wanted listeners to take away was this: "Hitch your wagon to the human liberation star."
One of the questions Seale fielded after his talk was about what message he has today for young African American men. "Make sure your beliefs and understanding correspond correctly to reality," he said.
Watch the video: Watch Bobby Seale's talk in its entirety, along with the Q&A, below.
Want to see one take? SCU Professor of Economics Bill Sundstrom writes about Bobby Seale's talk in his blog.
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The Times of London calls Robert Wittman "the most famous art detective in the world." During his 20-year career with the FBI, Wittman recovered more than 225 million dollars in stolen art and antiquities.
Joan Cartan-Hansen talks with Robert Wittman about what it is like to go undercover to reclaim a stolen Rembrandt or a priceless piece of American history. Wittman discusses founding the FBI's Art Crime Team and recounts stories from his memoir, Priceless: How I went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures.


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POMONA, Calif. --
Brown, who lost in the opening round of eliminations, had to wait until the final round before he could grab the championship trophy, when Tony Schumacher lost in a photo finish to Brandon Bernstein.
Brown entered Sunday's eliminations 67 points ahead of Tony Schumacher and for a while it appeared that Schumacher would put together another magical come-from-behind victory to take the title. Schumacher's U.S. Army dragster lost the final to Bernstein's ProtectTheHarvest.com dragster by eighth-thousandths of a second.
When the win light went on in Bernstein's lane, Matco Tools dragster driver Brown was mobbed by his teammates, family and friends in a huge celebration at the starting line.
"I feel so blessed to be in this moment right now and this is a big huge moment," Brown said. "I am just glad we could bring it home for Don Schumacher Racing. To win the world championship the way the competition has been this year in Top Fuel and to run and compete how we've been doing all season long is just phenomenal. We all switched the lead back and forth a bunch of times. Is this really happening?"
Brown, who earned six victories in 11 final rounds and was top qualifier three times en route to his title, continues the great history of diversity in NHRA, joining pioneering champions Shirley Muldowney, Cruz and Tony Pedregon, Hector Arana and Angelle Sampey.
"If I can be an inspiration for any of the kids out there who have dreams, any Americans, that's all I want," said Brown, who became the 18th different driver to win a Top Fuel world championship title.
"It's awesome, we did a great job all weekend," Bernstein said. "It's been a long time since we've had a win. It's a really good team and it's a lot of fun. I don't think I've ever had a win where I had to wait so long for the TV interview. Hopefully next year we're in a better position to challenge for the championship. We'll come out next year and try to get a championship."
Jack Beckman claimed the Funny Car world championship title when he outlasted teammate Ron Capps and took the title by two points in one of the closest points margins in the history of the category.
Top qualifier Capps lost in a close semifinal round to rookie Courtney Force and dropped out of contention. Beckman was crowned champion before his semifinal matchup against eventual race winner Pedregon, which he ultimately lost.
Beckman's title gave team owner Don Schumacher both nitro championship trophies and more than a million dollars in earnings for the weekend, duplicating his effort from 2005 when his son Tony won Top Fuel and Gary Scelzi took the Funny Car crown.
Beckman, a cancer survivor who won the 2003 Super Comp championship, came on during the Countdown playoffs and moved into contention with a win at St. Louis. He took the points lead at the event in Reading, Pa. when he set a national performance record and was the No. 1 qualifier. A major historian of the sport and former drag racing school driving instructor, Beckman, who drives the Valvoline/NextGen Dodge Charger, was more than thrilled with the outcome.
Cruz Pedregon (Funny Car), Allen Johnson (Pro Stock) and Andrew Hines (Pro Stock Motorcycle) joined Bernstein (Top Fuel) as race winners of the final event of the NHRA Full Throttle Countdown to the Championship at historic Auto Club Raceway at Pomona.
"We've probably left five or six races on the table this year and we put it together this weekend," Pedregon said. "But we've always had a fast car. We placed third overall last year, and after winning today, we finished fourth this year and I think we've proved we belong with the top teams. We're a smaller independent team, but with the way we finished, I think we can build on this and be one of the favorites heading into next season."
"Our team is so awesome and the Mopar Dodge Avenger has just performed flawlessly," said Johnson, who on Saturday gave Dodge its first Pro Stock championship since 1994 and fifth overall. "Determination and my father (who is his engine builder) is what got us to this point. He wanted to do this all his life and my whole focus was winning this with him. A lot of hard work and determination went into winning this. We had a dominating performance in this Countdown, won a championship and ended with a win. What more can we do? That has added just a little more emotion to it."
"It was by far the best bike I had all year," Hines said. "This was an absolutely phenomenal bike I had all weekend long. It was a total joy to get down the track."
The 2013 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series opens Feb. 14-17 with the O'Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Winternationals at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona.
POMONA, Calif. -- Sunday's final results from the 48th annual Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona. The race is the final of 23 in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series:
Top Fuel -- Brandon Bernstein, 3.762 seconds, 320.81 mph def. Tony Schumacher, 3.753 seconds, 325.53 mph.
Funny Car -- Cruz Pedregon, Toyota Camry, 4.035, 306.12 def. Courtney Force, Ford Mustang, 7.878, 75.79.
Pro Stock -- Allen Johnson, Dodge Avenger, 6.528, 212.76 def. Vincent Nobile, Avenger, 6.533, 211.66.
Pro Stock Motorcycle -- Andrew Hines, Harley-Davidson, 6.766, 198.29 def. Eddie Krawiec, Harley-Davidson, 6.805, 197.54.
Top Alcohol Dragster -- Chris Demke, 5.236, 274.00 def. Jim Whiteley, 5.248, 275.84.
Top Alcohol Funny Car -- John Lombardo Jr., Chevy Monte Carlo, 5.599, 261.02 def. Tony Bartone, Ford Mustang, 5.641, 263.62.
Competition Eliminator -- Doug Lambeck, Pontiac Sunfire, 8.313, 160.90 def. Bo Butner, Chevy Cobalt, 8.285, 162.39.
Super Stock -- Abe Loewen, Pontiac Grand Am, 9.698, 139.91 def. Jimmy DeFrank, Chevy Cobalt, 10.631, 89.49.
Stock Eliminator -- Eric Waldo, Ford Mustang, 10.657, 125.24 def. Gary Waldo, Chevy Nova, foul.
Super Comp -- Cameron Ferre, Dragster, 8.943, 167.93 def. Matt Constant, Dragster, 8.927, 174.68.
Super Gas -- Ryan Herem, Chevy Corvette, 9.958, 147.17 def. Peter Bothe, Porsche, 9.868, 145.05.
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RENO, Nev. -- Dancers, amateur boxing and delicious food are all part of this weekend's Cinco de Mayo Festivities. Family members-young and old- have a chance to experience some Mexican culture at the Grand Sierra Resort's 14th Annual Cinco de Mayo Festival.
If you drive by the Grand Sierra Resort this weekend, you'll hear loud music, get a whiff of freshly made tacos and it's hard to miss the towering carnival rides.
For 14 years, the festival has been bringing Latin music and dancing horses to Reno, but most importantly, bringing families together.
"The Hispanic community is really big on family and that's something that people who aren't Hispanic can take a part of," Leslie Valencia, event manager said. "Everybody's here with their their aunts, uncles, and we're all having a great time."
Valencia's father, Jose produced the event and says the most important aspect for him is making sure families enjoy the experience.
"He brought the carnival so the kids and parents can enjoy the whole day together. You know it's not just for adults," Leslie Valencia said.
This year's emphasis is on the kids, but there is also amateur boxing and a soccer tournament for the adults.
"It takes my memories back to Mexico," a Carson City resident said.
Families of every culture-young and -old came together to celebrate the Mexican heritage.
"I've never really gotten into my heritage and this seemed like a pretty good chance to hang out and figure it out," Niles Salas, 13-year-old attendee said.
It's one of the biggest festivals of the year for the Hispanic community. Whether you're watching dancing horses or eating authentic Mexican food, you'll get experience a slice of Mexico.
The Cinco De Mayo Festival will be open tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Admission is free for children under 12 years old and $5 for ages 12 to 65.


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- After going 10 days straight between contests over the past two weeks, the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagle baseball team will have just one practice day between a weekend sweep of Austin Peay and a non-conference battle with Middle Tennessee State (29-18/14-10 Sun Belt) on Tuesday. Gametime in Bush Stadium is 6 p.m.
Last time the two rivals met, Tech (23-21/9-5 OVC) suffered a tough 9-8 loss to the Blue Raiders in Murfreesboro on April 20.
Right-handers Matthew Shepherd and Tristan Archer kept Tech within one run through the top of the seventh inning against the Blue Raiders in that contest, but the bottom of the seventh proved devastating for the Golden Eagles.
The Blue Raiders capitalized on relievers Ryan Hopkins and Wade Bilbrey and scored four runs on four hits to make the score 10-5. A.J. Kirby-Jones stepped in to close the inning and stranded three MTSU runners on base and get the Golden Eagles into the eighth, but the damage was irreparable.
Tech combined for seven hits from six different players over the course of the game but couldn't touch Kevin Whittaker in the final innings to chip away at MTSU's lead. MTSU added another run in the bottom of the eighth to wind up with an 11-5 victory.
The Golden Eagles will look to settle the score at home this time around. Ben Burgess and Casanova Donaldson both logged on-base stats and a slugging percentage of .500 during the first meeting between the Golden Eagles and the Blue Raiders, and Donaldson was the only Tech player to record a multi-hit game in Murfreesboro.
Both players are coming off of steller performances this past weekend against APSU, and will look to carry the trend into Tuesday evening's game. They each added four RBI's and a home run to Tech's stats this weekend, and combined for seven hits, three walks and two hit-by-pitches.
Freshman right-hander Nick Price (1-0/6.67 ERA) will take the hill first for Tech, while righty Hunter Adkins (1-2/7.41 ERA) will throw for MTSU.
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At the Bar:
Tiberius: Look at those women, my...god, I'll...need a...wingman. Red Shirt, accompany my away team.
Red Shirt: Aw Crap.
Tiberius: Look at those women, my...god, I'll...need a...wingman. Red Shirt, accompany my away team.
What makes you think Denny Crane or James T. Kirk need a wingman to pick up chicks?
Duh, because Hooker had that obvious car hood humping fetish; what did he need women for?
holy crap... they're really making pon farr?
Dragon*Con lampooned this a couple years ago in one of their fauxmercials at the con:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mboR7Y3pFUg [youtube.com]
That's what the transporter is for. Beam her up, Scotty. Leave the dress.
If you're going to boldly go where no man has gone before, you wanna smell like it.
for when you really expect to get shot down
*squirts some "Red Shirt" cologne on himself*
Here, let my try some of that.
Hmmm...smells pretty g
Tiberius - For a man who wants to rule the Universe
Red Shirt - For those that will NOT return from the away mission
Pon Farr - For those that believe the AXE commercials
Let that blood sucking vampire cloud know how you roll with the wafting fragrance of Red Shirt cologne!
Too bad the name Obsession is taken, as it could be a sickly sweet smell like honey.
You fanbois can keep your Jolene Blalock and Jeri Ryan.
Give me Kate Mulgrew any day. I'd pilot my shuttle into her delta quadrant any day.
I'd pilot my shuttle into her delta quadrant any day.
Until she opens her mouth. You'd think with 24th century medical technology they could cure smokers voice.....
That used to be called "sultry" in B.P.C. (Before Political Correctness)
Hahahaha, BPC? I love it!
Of course smoking used to be cool in movies. Now organizations count the number of light-ups in each film. "Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the cough.".
Yeah, god forbid somebody enjoys doing something that might be bad for them. We'll have to unleash the vice cops on them
Lace: The Final Brassiere?
You mean "poon fart"?
For those days when you want to smell like a queef
Wow. If Miss Masterson's costume was cut any looser, you'd need to yank that episode off the air, and move it to HBO. (Now there's an idea.)
Seeing as there's no Venus Drug listed there. I mean, come ON! That'd sell like commuicator replicas at a convention.
Give me some of the Ponn Farr perfume, so I can squirt it on female classmates. Maybe I can finally get laid.
(ducks a spitball)
I we sure these are designed to attract the female of the human species?
"Tiberius" - the smell of a soldier who wants to attract the ladies
"Red Shirt" - the smell of a soldier after a barroom brawl over the affections of a lady
"Ponn Farr" - the smell of the soldier who won said brawl, after retiring to a private room with the women he was fighting over
"Cold Shower" - the smell of the soldier after the lady walks out on him when she realizes she's fallen for a brute
"Ponn Farr" - Smell like a rutting Vulcan.
Finally, I always wanted to use the line "Hey baby you smell like a rutting Vulcan".
How about Kobayashi Maru
Its a blend of Deer Musk and Skunk.
Actually, Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs [blackphoen...emylab.com] has been doing this kind of stuff for years. Check out Picnic in Arkham [blackphoen...emylab.com] and the The Neil Gaiman Collection [blackphoen...emylab.com] among others....
I don't know about you, but I've always wanted to smell like Herbert West! (or a Shoggoth!)
Looking for an opportunity to use your nanoprobe?
No, using this you will never get better than 3 of 10.
Come on, "Eau de 7 of 9" perfume!
Because, "Resistance IS futile..."
even better name... Chanel No. 7 of 9
lol, this shit writes itself!
or simply "Borg" with fancy umlauts over the "o" to make it seem European.
Are they telling us we stink?
Perhaps you have heard Russian epic of Cinderella? If shoe fits, wear it!
And their showering frequency.
Why every morning, the average Trek geek steps into his shower, hums the Trek theme loudly for 60 seconds, and calls that a sonic shower.
Water hardly ever comes into it.
that associated the name 'Ponn Farr' with 'Porn Fan'???
The first thing that came to my mind, it being a perfume, was "PONG FART".
Yeah, I've never buying that. EVER.
Actually, the first thing I read when I saw "Ponn Farr" was "Porn Star"
this has been done. I'd like to see a cosmetic company release a product line under the umbrella company name. Now that would be fun to market.
Already been done: http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/olay/29771/images/29771-hi-Olay_Eye_Definity.jpg [prnewswire.com] I can't believe no one at Olay has seen a Resident Evil movie... Oh wait, maybe I can.
Because whatever it is those green alien chicks [wikipedia.org] of Orion wear, it sure excites my pleasure receptors!
What they need is Trek SOAP. Preferably in the shape of various Trek heroines and female villains. Then the fanboys might actually use it.
Yeah, but not the way it should be used....
Ponn-Farr and Away
DragonCon TV made that joke way back in 2005
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mboR7Y3pFUg [youtube.com]
I am a trek fan and excited about the new movie
Not possible. The phrase before the conjunction is contradicted by the phrase after the conjunction.
Either you're a trek fan and your horrified by the new movie. Or you're not a trek fan and are excited about the new movie.
I am actually kind of curious as to see what my school's perfume smells like, probably grilled cinnamon stickies and ice cream, well I am hoping it would smell something like that!
Just where do you go to school at?
Then we can meld more than minds!
Star Trek lately has all been about the money, so I'm not terribly surprised. Especially since Star Trek is a wholly-owned property of Paramount. After all, why does everyone seem to have a different Starfleet "uniform" even though they're practically in the same time period? Or how even one series can change uniforms. It gets fans to buy more licensed goods.
Anyhow... any good fan would know what my
"Scent of a Klingon" (useful to get some spare cubes around
I'll wait for scent of 7 of 9 to come out!
I'm female. I'm a Trekkie. I like perfume.
I know what I'm getting for my birthday this year!
Brilliant marketing! Men are lousing at getting presents for their wives and girlfriends. A gift of the "pon farr" scent not only says, "I love you" but also "I will go through a hormonal frenzy in order to make love to you". Sounds pretty awesome to me.
I would also recommend packaging the scent with a DVD of TOS "Amok Time" and VOY "Blood Fever" to get her in the mood for logical lovin'.
Lets face it, isn't Pon Farr really saying "I will only have sex with you or any woman if my body chemistry makes me choose between sex and death and even then it is a close call".
And women suck at buying presents at well. I always get soap and socks. Why? A bar easily lasts a year or two and I still got socks that bend.
Are they telling us we stink?
Have you ever been to a convention? I haven't, but if word of how bad hygiene is at these things gets out to someone who never has gone (and has no intention of ever going to one, ie, me), it might be a sign.
Each bottle comes with a tinfoil bikini and a giant can opener for your wife or girlfriend, and Kirk's "Training Harness" for yourself.
Send the kids to relative for the weekend, and recreate the infamous battle between the Thralls and the Newcomers in your very own bedroom.
Invite the neighbors to come over and watch and place bets with quatloos.
> Are they telling us we stink?
Geeks with poor personal habits. Who woulda thunkit.
It's good that someone is finally selling a product specifically targeted at female Star Trek fans.
Unfortunately, it seems the first obvious need they found in that demographic was for something to improve their smell.
OH MY GAWD!!! That's just what I need... to be stranded in the delta quadrant with a horny vulcan humping my leg like an over sexxed retriever! I think not!
That's just speciesist!!! Parmaq, by Kelvin Klein, A little blood wine and bad poetry... then BAM!!! Spank it like a Targ!
Air is water with holes in it.


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2013 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration
"Marching On…Together"
January 17–21, 2013
Fifty years after the March on Washington, we pause to celebrate what has been accomplished, and rededicate our lives to "Marching On…Together." The schedule of events is outlined below.
Thursday, January 17
Graduate Forum—Shane Claiborne
10:30 a.m., Seminary Chapel
Shane writes and travels extensively speaking about peacemaking, social justice and Jesus (see additional details below).
Talking Point Forum—Shane Claiborne
11:30 a.m., Pioneer Memorial Church
With tears and laughter, Shane Claiborne unveils the tragic messes we've made of our world and the tangible hope that another world is possible. Shane writes and travels extensively speaking about peacemaking, social justice and Jesus. He is featured in the DVD series "Another World Is Possible" and is the author of several books, including The Irresistible Revolution, Jesus for President, and Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers. (www.thesimpleway.org)
Volunteer Service Fair
12:30–3 p.m., Office of Campus Ministries
If you were inspired by Shane Claiborne to "become the answer to our prayers," stop by to see some ways your commitment can make a difference.
Documentary Short Film
"The Barber of Birmingham"
7 p.m., Buller Hall, Newbold Auditorium
His barbershop in Birmingham, Ala., has been a hub for haircuts and civil rights since 1955. Civil rights activist "foot soldier," James Armstrong, looks back on the movement as he witnesses the election of Barack Obama in this Academy Award®-nominated short film. Discussion to follow, led by Kathryn Silva-Banks and Paul Kim. Co-curricular credit available. (http://barberofbirmingham.com)
Friday, January 18
8 a.m.–noon, Campus Center
"I Have a Dream"
A recording of Martin Luther King Jr.'s watershed speech will run continuously on the new flatscreen in the Student Lounge. Experience the power of his speech—50 years later.
Sabbath, January 19
New Life Fellowship
11:45 a.m., Seminary Chapel
Camille Warren and Joseph Warren II will present King's speech—"But, If Not"—in honor of their father, Joseph W. Warren Sr. This sermon was originally delivered by King at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga., on November 5, 1967. The topic is civil disobedience using the biblical Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego as examples.
This year's Legacy of Freedom Award will be presented posthumously to Joseph W. Warren Sr. The award will be presented to the Warren family at New Life Fellowship, Pioneer Memorial Church and One Place.
Monday, January 21
Day of Service
Harbor of Hope Youth Day
Larry Ulery, Harbor of Hope staff and AU Student Association officers are coordinating a day of on-campus activities and events for kids from Benton Harbor. There will be six stations manned by student volunteers: Storytime, drama, arts & crafts, music, open gym and basketball. It begins at 9 a.m. in Buller Halls' Newbold Auditorium with worship and a viewing of part of the MLK I Have a Dream speech. There will be two rotations of activities, viewing of the educational cartoon "My Friend, Martin," lunch, and then additional station rotations during the afternoon. To participate, contact Linda-Rose Michel (AUSA Social VP) at email@example.com or Debbie Weithers, MLK chair, email@example.com.
8 a.m.–5 p.m., Campus Center
"I Have a Dream"
A recording of Martin Luther King Jr.'s watershed speech will run continuously on the new flatscreen in the Student Lounge. Experience the power of his speech—50 years later.


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Welcome friends! 2MH is back. I know it's been a while, but after penning the Gary Leeman hate tribute, I, and certainly you, noble reader, are just coming down to normal levels of rational calm, and there's this whole thing about how there's been present day hockey related content to get angry over (Phoenix, am I right?), but here we are.
Once a yearly, regular thing Flames fans had become accustomed to now appears off on the horizon, a glimmering oasis of higher illusion. Back in the days of yore, the Flames were, to soften the tone as to not hurt the eyes of Flames fans today, competitive. They may have not always been contenders, but you know what they say, WHEN YOU GET TO THE DANCE, ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN.
It happened once. Well, more than once, but let's talk about this once. We'll delve into this deeper, but there's one culprit we can attribute this particular slice of Flames' misery on, and seeing as you've already read the title, it's probably someone you might think.
Yes, it's
Pavel Bure Kirk McLean.
The Year Was 1994
The world changed in the year nineteen ninety four, in ways that would forever alter the way we as a society operated. American and Russian Presidents Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin signed the Kremlin Accords, a major coup in the pledge to decommission nuclear programs. NAFTA was formed. Schindler's List took the cinematic world by storm, as the Steven Spielberg epic won 7 Academy Awards. Plucky advocate for hope and mental health, young Kurt Cobain was tragically murdered by his wife, forever pushing the world into an abyss of flannel shirts and self loathing.
Teemu Selanne turned 38.
And the Calgary Flames, our heroes, weathered the storms of change in their 14th National Hockey League campaign.
You see, in the 1993-94 season, the NHL had morphed into what is more or less the current incarnation we know today. The NHL realigned the conferences, divisions, and playoff formats. The Smythe Division was no more, and the Flames were, somehow now a member of the PACIFIC (!!) Division in the Western Conference. The Western Conference was now also a thing.
And your Calgary Flames, well they flourished. Change suited them like whatever was a nice looking suit in 1994, which was probably not really nice, because the nineties.
The Flames owned. They flew through the regular season, becoming the inaugural champions of the Pacific Division (again, !!), guaranteeing them a 2nd place overall in the Western Conference. Led by a three pronged attack of 40 goal scorers in Gary Roberts, Robert Reichel, and Theoren Fleury, while, somehow, being backstopped in goal by Andrei Trefilov, Jason Muzzatti, Jeff Reese, Mike Vernon, and best goaltender ever Trevor Kidd.
The Flames, who had the previous season been upset by the Los Angeles Kings in the first round, certainly knew that they had a tough postseason opponent in the Vancouver Canucks, but one they felt like they could win. And they could have. They had the tools.
But something stood in the way.
Kirk McLean???
Kirk McLean is awful. Like, seriously. no one likes you, Kirk McLean, except for the people in Vancouver, but they are atrocious people with destructive properties that cannot be ignored. In 1988, when the blockbuster Bruce Willis action saga DIE HARD!!! (the name DIE HARD!!! must always be spelled out with extra pomp and circumstance and exclamation points to truly charecterize it's excellence) was released, 20th Century Fox made a last second name change, spelling Willis' John McClane in a less conventional way so as to not invite comparisons with the then Devils goaltender (Incidentally, the studio had no issue at the time with McLean teammate and Die Hard namesake John MacLean. They just really hated Kirk, as do we all)
Kirk McLean had a forgettable career doing this or that or something, I don't know. I think he played for Oshawa for a while, marginally, no doubt before either being drafted by the Devils in 1984 or being hired as an usher the record was never quite clear. Anyway, he somehow snuck into the equipment room and donned himself some pads but then lost out on the Devils' starting goaltender job to the likes of Sean Burke, Chris Terreri, Craig Billington, Karl Friesen, and Alain Chevrier, and that is hilarious.
He managed to play in his first game in the NHL, somehow, in 1986, while Chris Terreri was injured with something called the flu, and the Devils' other backup (OTHER BACKUP???) Friesen had been released. McLean played in relief of Chevrier and won the game, because it was the 80's and these things seemed to happen.
Anyway, McLean was eventually traded to Vancouver and blah blah blah, rebuild, Pavel Bure happens, Trevor Linden is loved by all, no one cares. This is not the story we want to tell today. The story of Kirk McLean is not unlike the history behind Kraft Dinner: it's a household name, you know it's there, you don't really care where it came from, and in the end you know it's going to give you cancer.
Why we hate Kirk
That's Kirk Cameron, by the way, who everyone also hates.
You may be asking yourself "Why are we 2MHing Kirk McLean? He wasn't a particularly uncomfortable thorn in the Flames side. He was certainly no Trevor Kidd"
And then you would shudder at the thought of Trevor Kidd, and all the relapses of every one of those addictions you thought you beat flare up, and now your kids won't talk to you and you're back in the unemployment line, and well it's been a pretty crazy ten seconds for you, hasn't it?
Well, the difference in this instance, compared to past Two Minutes Hate! case studies is breadth of work. Quite often, past 2MH candidates have been showcased for large bodies of work in the sphere of pissing off Flames fans. In the case of Kirk McLean, it all comes down to a single moment in time.
Yeah, that one.
This is infuriating. The Flames, as we've established, were the superior team that year, and this, a supremely entertaining and hotly contested seven game series was down to the wire. Game 7. Overtime. Stanley Cup playoffs. It certainly does not get any better than that.
And then it happened. Vernon deftly makes the save off a wrister from the half boards. The puck flutters harmlessly in the air to the other end of the Flames defensive zone, where a waiting Gary Roberts, young and hard nosed as he was wont to be, flips the puck out of the zone where diminuitive speedster Theoren Fleury pounces. Robert Reichel, the third member of this All 40 Goals Scored line, smelling blood, also charges down the ice while the plodding Vancouver defensemen fail to pick up on the developing odd man rush on time. Flat footed, they are also surpassed by a breaking Gary Roberts, creating what is essentially a 3 on 1.
Again, in overtime.
Fleury, perceptive to Reichel's lurking in the slot, shifts to his side and feeds a wide open Reichel with the puck while Roberts drives to the net. The cage coould not be more yawning. Reichel, eyes agape, recieves the disc, cradling it on the curve of his Sher-Wood (maybe) stick, angles the crisp past towards the looming net.
It's over. It's Kirk McLean. It's the Flames destiny. It HAS to be over. Onto round 2 and beyond.
And then, a toe.
Kirk McLean's toe.
The man who made an entire career out of defining himself as a stand up goalie all of a sudden felled the Flames hopes for more postseason glory by discovering the two pad stack.
The play was immediately dubbed "The Save", a kind of epithet that ensures the moment is forever immortalized and ranked in the upper echelons of sports mystique. But this had to have been by accident. McLean must have tripped on his blade or a stick or nothing, or something, because no way was this goaltending heretic ever that graceful nor was that on purpose. One assumes he realizes that there was no way Reichel was going to miss and was already in the process of skating towards the dressing room where he would let the media know that he was in fact, a fraud.
(We still know it's true, Kirk, doesn't matter if you spent the rest of your career shrouding that little secret)
At least the Flames were still alive, aspirations for Stanley still intact, their inferior opponents on the ropes, until double overtime when the tragic happened:
Yeah, we don't like you either, Pavel.
The Young Guns era was a short 4 seasons away.
Rest assured, friends, everyone got what was coming to them on this one. The Canucks, on the strength of The Save, made it to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final, where the deadly combination of Mark Messier, Mike Richter, and an abundance of goal posts kept Vancouver from tasting hockey's most prized delicacy. This, in turn, led to Vancouver residents destroying their city over a hockey game and oh God where have I heard that one before?
I don't need to tell you that Vancouver still has yet to achieve this goal.
They also traded McLean and a young Martin Gelinas, noted playoff warrior, to the Carolina Hurricanes in a deal where Enrico Ciccone was part of the return coming the other way, so good call on that one, guys.
McLean, for his part, in no short supply of karma, would spend the rest of his post Vancouver career playing backup to those who had been ahead of him in New Jersey, those who would thwart him in previous playoff runs, and Trevor Kidd. So that soothes the sting a little bit.
But not enough, obviously, which is why this has been your Two Minutes Hate! May you forever be the victim of Brian Noonan's offensive exploits.
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- Gary Leeman
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