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Sporting News' Hall of Fame basketball writer takes a deep dive into one hot topic and answers four questions burning in his sport—after his wife got him a cake to celebrate being on the threshold of having 30,000 Twitter followers.
He scored 518 points last season, which meant James Michael McAdoo was 75 percent of the way to reaching the 1,000-point career mark with only 50 percent of his eligibility completed.
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He averaged 7.3 rebounds per game, precisely half a rebound less than the great Sam Perkins delivered in 1981-82, when he was a sophomore playing center with arms that stretched to the ceiling and helped North Carolina to grab the NCAA championship.
So why does McAdoo get so much guff?
Once a mock-draft darling, a yearbook cover guy, a preseason All-America candidate, he merely averaged 14.4 points and 7.3 rebounds as a sophomore for a team that advanced to the round of 32 in the NCAA Tournament. For that, he catches the whispers and moans about somehow falling short of what was expected.
He was Scout.com's No. 5-rated prospect in the 2011 recruiting class. He's the only one of the top eight that year who hasn't entered the NBA Draft. Does this mean he has somehow failed? Well, maybe not. Because some other highly-ranked players that year, notably No. 10 (Adonis Thomas), No. 11 (Myck Kabongo) and No. 23 (B.J. Young) renounced their college eligibility without even being chosen in the draft.
McAdoo enters his junior season with better career numbers than John Henson owned two seasons ago, and Henson eventually became a top-15 pick in the draft. At 6-9, McAdoo had to function as Carolina's big man last season, which meant most often being defended by taller, more powerful players, but he hasn't gotten much credit for his willingness to sacrifice.
"I thought he gave up a little bit of himself for the good of the group," ESPN analyst Seth Greenberg told Sporting News. "That's kind of who he is. He's a pleaser. He wants to be liked, wants to be appreciated."
Greenberg is among those waiting for McAdoo to find his niche in the college game. Honestly, all of us who watch the game are.
McAdoo has shown just one exceptional offensive skill in his two seasons: He is among the best-running big men in the college game. Breakdowns provided by Synergy Sports Technologies demonstrate he is lacking in nearly every other offensive area, including post-up and pick-and-roll. He cannot simply run his way to prosperity; that's not how the game is played. He has to find an offensive game.
"He's not a 3, doesn't have a low-post game. He can run, offensive rebound at times. He can rip it and drive it at times. But he has to put it all together," Greenberg said. "I was talking to an NBA guy about him, and everybody is trying to figure out: How does he translate? Because his game doesn't translate even at the collegiate level."
To correct him slightly: It hasn't translated. Which is not to say it will not. Carolina has a few more big bodies to play in the post, which should mean McAdoo getting to play more frequently as a power forward who can face the basket and shoot from mid-range.
In many ways, he's a more experienced and accomplished version of Kansas' Perry Ellis, the difference being that Ellis has been able to remain at one position for his short KU career—and that he wasn't rated nearly so high coming out of high school. Many observers are excited about Ellis because of what they perceive to be possible. There's a suspicion that we've seen all of what McAdoo has to offer. In the right circumstance, though, perhaps not.
2) The Champions Classic is Tuesday in Chicago. Which game are you more intrigued by—Kansas vs. Duke or Kentucky vs. Michigan State?
DeCourcy: The obvious answer would be No. 1 vs. No. 2, but I honestly consider these four teams—along with Louisville and Arizona—to be relative equals. The difference among them at this point amounts to personal taste/evaluation. In the end, it'll be development.
Which is why I'm actually more intrigued by Duke-KU. As we sit here now, with Kentucky point guard Andrew Harrison having missed both of the Wildcats' exhibitions, nearly all of their public scrimmage and some preseason practices, it seems likely we will not get the full picture of the Wildcats against Michigan State. They might win even without him, or with him diminished, which would lead to some breathless conjecture like, "Just think what they'll be like when they get all their players healthy!" That's fantasy sports, though.
Without Andrew, they're one team. With him, they're a different team. Merely putting him on the team doesn't automatically make the Wildcats better. It should, but it's not automatic. Building a team is a process.
KU and Duke are both whole. Kansas will be introducing preseason All-America freshman Andrew Wiggins to America, and Duke counters with preseason All-America freshman Jabari Parker. They might not face each other directly, but certainly their performances will be measured against each other's. KU has to figure out if it has the point guard position covered with junior Naadir Tharpe; Duke must begin the process of discovering whether Amile Jefferson can be a winner at the center spot.
Regardless, seeing four of SN's top six teams in one night is irresistible. And I'll be there.
3) Creighton forward Doug McDermott has averaged 23 points per game the past two seasons in the Missouri Valley. Can he maintain that production in his first year in the Big East?
DeCourcy: I don't have much doubt about that. A year ago, he hit Wisconsin's defense for 30 and Wichita State's—before the Shockers wound up in the Final Four—for 41. In the summer, with many of the most accomplished college players in the nation as teammates, he was by far the United States' leading scorer in the World University Games.
The question for Creighton isn't whether McDermott can keep putting up huge numbers, but whether the Bluejays can prevent a steadier diet of talented opponents from doing the same. Last year's team was 80th in defensive efficiency, and gone from that team is big center Gregory Echenique, who produced two-thirds of the team's measly 92 blocks.
The Bluejays are complementing McDermott with 6-11 junior Will Artino, who played only eight minutes per game last season. Artino's integration into the rotation could be the most important factor as Creighton adjusts to the new Big East Conference.
4) Steve Lavin has his health back and he has a pretty good team at St. John's. Do you agree with Bill Raftery that the Red Storm can win the Big East this season?
DeCourcy: Indeed. I also think they could finish sixth. So much depends on whether this team can find a way to score consistently. With Chris Obekpa blocking shots, they were among the more proficient defensive teams last season. But they shot 41.5 percent from the floor and 27 percent from 3-point range.
There are lots of Big East teams that would love to have Obekpa or Jakarr Sampson or Dom Pointer or Phil Greene—but would any of them want all four at once? The only player who averaged as much as one 3-pointer made per game, guard D'Angelo Harrison, was suspended for all of March. So Lavin faced a lot of issues as he approached this season.
Lavin attracted Philly point guard Rysheed Jordan to run the show. He was impressive in an exhibition win over San Francisco State—but the team barely won, leading Pointer, who had 11 points, six rebounds and four steals to admit to the New York Daily News, "We got a little ahead of ourselves. We didn't come out ready to play."
The Johnnies need maturity, and they need to show they can score. But these are some talented, athletic guys.
5) Boston is 1-4 under Brad Stevens and thus on pace to go 16-66. Any chance you see his reign as Celtics coach being one-and-done?
DeCourcy: The Celtics knew they were rebuilding as soon as they saw Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett board a plane for Brooklyn. Stevens knew it when he took the job.
Stevens is a smart guy. He's got a six-year contract. Danny Ainge built the Celts into champs once; he could again.
It's still not a lock we'll see Stevens back in college. If we do, he'll be a much wealthier man.


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Parents: Be sure you homeschool for the right reason. Just because the public schools have failed spiritually, morally, and academically is only a minor part of the reason. God desires that you do it. In addition, only in the loving, dedicated environment of a home will the great leaders (as youths) be nurtured; those who'll be re-supplying a world devoid of leaders. Try to name a nationally respected, inspirational, God-honoring leader today. Men like Luther, Calvin, Knox, Jonathan Edwards, Patrick Henry, Washington, William Wilberforce, William Carey, Charles Spurgeon. Even our young women have been "feminizedâ€
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Rob Jones scored 23 points and Gyno Pomare
added 12 in his first game to lead San Diego to a 65-51 win over
Nevada on Tuesday night.
Jones was nearly perfect for San Diego (1-1), which led the
entire game. Jones hit 10 of 12 shots, including two to start the
second half as the Toreros increased their 10-point halftime lead
to a 43-27.
Nevada (1-1), shot 32.7 percent from the field, including 24.1
percent in the second half as it fell behind by as many as 25
Joey Shaw led Nevada with 16 points and Malik Cooke had 13.
Freshman Luke Babbitt, who had 20 points and 12 rebounds in his
college debut, was held to three points.
The University of Nevada women's basketball team fell 81-63 to BYU Tuesday night. With the loss, Nevada falls to 1-2 this year while BYU improves to 1-1.
The Cougars' Mindy Nielson led all scorers with 27 points and led five BYU players in double figures. Nevada was led by Dellena Criner who scored 20 points and Brandi Jones who added 14.
BYU led 8-0 with 18:25 left in the first half and extended its lead to 15, 31-16, with 7:59 remaining. The Cougars went up by as many as 24 in the first half before they took a 48-31 lead at the half.
Criner led the Pack at the half with 14 points. As a team Nevada shot 31.4 percent from the floor in the first half while BYU show 58.6 percent including going 5-of-8 (62.5 percent) from three-point range.
In the second half BYU extended its lead to 25 points, 67-42, with 13:09 left in the game. The Pack cut the lead to 18 on a jumper by Jones with 10:38 remaining but the Cougars posted the 81-63 victory.
"I'm really proud of our second half effort," Nevada head coach Jane Albright said. "BYU shot 57 percent in the first half but only 36 percent in the second. Offensively, we had our best half of the year in the second half when we shot 45 percent."
Nevada finished the game shooting 37.5 percent from the floor but just 14 percent (2-of-7) from three-point range. Cherlanda Franklin grabbed a team-high seven rebounds for Nevada. BYU ended the game shooting 46.7 percent from the floor.
Nevada will play its final two games in its five-game 10-day stretch this weekend, playing at UNLV on Friday at 7 p.m. and hosting St. Mary's on Sunday at 2 p.m.


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DURHAM – According the American Academy of Family Physicians, nearly one in ten seniors in America suffers from poor nutrition. This can exacerbate problems already common among seniors, including depression, improper healing, and a depressed immune system.
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LEXINGTON, KY (May 1, 2012) – Keeneland sales graduates, led by Grade 1 stakes winner and morning-line favorite Grace Hall, are among the fillies entered today for Friday's $1 million Kentucky Oaks (G1).
Grace Hall – the 2011 Spinaway (G1) winner and 6½-length winner of the recent Gulfstream Park Oaks (G2) was purchased by trainer Anthony Dutrow for $95,000 at the 2010 September Sale from Bluewater Sales, agent.
Believe You Can – the Fair Grounds Oaks (G2) winner was offered for sale by Brereton Jones/Airdrie Stud, agent, at the 2010 September Sale.
Jemima's Pearl – third in the Fantasy (G2), the Distorted Humor filly was consigned to the 2010 September Sale by Lane's End, agent, and purchased for $100,000 by David Redvers Bloodstock.
Colonial Empress - sold for $175,000 to owner Bluegrass Hall as part of the complete dispersal of the Estate of Edward P. Evans' Spring Hill Farm (Lane's End, agent) at the 2011 November Sale.
Amie's Dini – second in the Fantasy (G2), the Bandini filly was consigned to the 2010 September Sale by Paramount Sales, agent, and sold for $3,000 to co-owner Mike Walker.
Oaks Lily – listed as an also-eligible for the Oaks, the Badge of Silver filly was offered for sale by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent, at the 2010 September Sale.
Keeneland is the world's premier Thoroughbred auction house, conducting four sales annually – the September Yearling Sale, the November Breeding Stock Sale, the January Horses of All Ages Sale, and the April Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale.


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I installed Mageia 2 with full disk encryption (LVM) as I travel a lot. I got it all set up nicely as I like it and then it updated itself (auto update). Now this has NEVER been an issue before. But guess what? It hosed the installation. Only emergency login. WTF????
Hmmmmmmmmmm lots of search engine stuff - I'm not the only one this has happened to. So I spend 4 hours trying to fix it. No go.
Ok, it must have been me, I'll re-install and try it again. Guess what?? Same again. Totally screwed after the update.
Right, I'm pee'd off now. Tried to install Arch from net boot and cd. Ha what a joke. I hate Ubuntu, so I thought ok, lets try OpenSuse (64bit), I have pc controlled radio (PCR 1000) and only Debian and OpenSuse support it. So, I burned a netboot disk, and away we went. Guessed my way through the install process, it wasn't that difficult.
Now I have full disk encryption, BTRFS all working sweetly. Updates DON'T kill it.
BTRFS is brilliant. Need to resize your partitions on the fly - simples! Sorted out the 2 finger scrolling (I prefer 1 finger to the side), back to classic menu, hostname set so it shows on the console, the fonts are ALL readable (unlike Man*)
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Happy New Year!
His Grace is delighted to announce that he was 100 per cent accurate in all of his predictions for 2011: the coalition survived; there was a LibDem meltdown in May; there were wars and rumours of wars; Israel continued to be portrayed as a pariah state; there were terrorist atrocities; taxes increased; people died; and Jesus didn't return.
This is one of the advantages of existing incorporeally in the ether. While His Grace does not quite know perfectly or see God face-to-face, the dim reflections in dark mirrors are certainly fewer. In celebration of his astonishing prescience, His Grace offers the following predictions for 2012:
The Coalition will survive another year.
The UK will remain a full and compliant member of the EU.
There will be wars and rumours of war (especially in the Middle East).
The eurozone will split (but the moon won't turn red).
Meryl Streep will win her third Oscar for The Iron Lady.
She will decline any advances from Mitt Romney to be his running mate.
Barack Obama will win a second term as President of the United States.
Boris Johnson will win a second term as Mayor of London.
The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams will retire.
He will be replaced by another lefty-liberal male.
Pope Benedict XVI will criticise humanistic creeds and moral relativism.
A baby will be born to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
It will be male, and brought up in the Church of England.
Israel will continue to be portrayed as a pariah state.
Taxes will rise again and more people will die.
Jesus will not return.
His Grace again makes the last prediction with a high degree of certainty (though not infallibility), for there is still no sign of the Tribulation or Rapture, and it would be a little rude of the Son of God to upstage Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee celebrations: a God of love simply wouldn't do that. In addition, for the parousia to occur during the Olympiad would take the shine off all the gold medals, since the Lord is citius, altius and fortius than any of them. And finally, Mr Cameron isn't quite ready to give a full account to Jesus and place the government upon His shoulders.
His Grace wishes all of his readers and communicants a happy and blessed New Year.


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NEW YORK - The Columbia men's soccer team will hit the road for the final time this season, visiting Harvard Saturday. Kickoff at Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium is set for 7 p.m.
Columbia has had the last week off from competition after a midweek matchup against Adelphi was canceled due to the inclement weather in the northeast. The Lions are coming off a 1-1 tie on the road at Yale on Oct. 27. Henning Sauerbier scored early on for Columbia, but a second half strike by the Bulldogs pushed the game to a draw.
With Saturday's goal, Sauerbier joined Nick Scott as the only two Columbia players with multiple goals this season. Both players have assisted on another tally this year and are tied with Kofi Agyapong (1-3-5) with a team-high five points.
The Crimson enter Saturday's contest still in search of its first Ivy League victory. Since opening Ivy League play with a 0-0 tie at home against Yale, Harvard has dropped four consecutive conference matches. Harvard's only two wins this season have come against Michigan State on Sept. 7 and at Boston University on Oct. 16.
Zack Wolfenzon, Jake Freeman and Oliver White have each tallied three goals this season to pace Harvard. Wolfenzon has added an assist to lead the Crimson with seven points.
Joe Festa and Evan Mendez have split time in net for Harvard, combining for a 1.71 goals-against average. Kyle Jackson is just 40 minutes shy of eclipsing 1,000 on the season for Columbia. The first-year has made 47 saves and has a .810 save percentage to go with a 1.03 GAA.
Columbia and Harvard have met on the pitch 62 times dating back to 1905. The Crimson holds the all-time series lead, 32-22-5, but the Lions have won each of the last two meetings by one goal.


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A motorcyclist who struck and injured a bicyclist in what authorities say was a hit-and-run crash in Larkfield on Wednesday was fleeing an officer who had tried to stop him and two other bikers for speeding, the CHP said.
The motorcyclist remained at large Thursday, but authorities have leads that might help identify him, Officer Jon Sloat said.
The 20-year-old bicyclist, Windsor resident Joel Aguayo, was said to have suffered moderate injuries in the 3:12 p.m. crash and was treated at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, authorities said.
The biker who hit him had been riding in a group of three motorcycles on northbound Highway 101, south of River Road, shortly before the crash when a CHP officer came upon them and clocked them at about 90 mph, Sloat said.
The officer activated his lights and siren and attempted to pull over the trio but they kept going, exiting onto Mark West Springs Road, Sloat said.
One of the motorcyclists, Clay Clarke of Clearlake, struck the rear of a GMC Yukon at the exit and crashed in the road, prompting the officer to stop to tend to him, Sloat said.
The other two bikers, meanwhile, left the area eastbound on Mark West Springs Road, where one reportedly ran a red light at Old Redwood Highway and collided with northbound Aguayo, Sloat said.
Witnesses saw Aguayo crawling toward the edge of the road, the CHP said. They described the motorcycle that struck him as a Yamaha R1, with gunmetal or gray paint and black markings.
Officers converged on the area and attempted to find the suspect rider but were unsuccessful, the CHP said.
Clarke, 33, was uninjured, meanwhile, and was detained for questioning. He was found to be unlicensed and was cited and released, though his bike was impounded, Sloat said.
Authorities were still looking Thursday for the culprit in the hit-and-run. He was wanted on suspicion of felony hit-and-run driving and reckless evasion, Sloat said.
Anyone with information on the case can call the CHP office at 588-1400.@pressdemocrat.com.


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2003 Track and Field
anderson invitational
Beavers Tune-Up At Anderson
by Nate Smith
March 31, 2003
On a chilly weekend to end the month of March, the Bluffton track and field squads did a little fine tuning before heading into their final month of the regular season. Many athletes used the four-team invitational to either hone specific aspects of their main events, or to rest weary bodies after a heavy travel month.
Bluffton picked up three individual titles on the women's side, all three courtesy of freshmen. Rita Muether continued her dominance in the sprints with victories in the 100 and 200 meters, as the Beavers swept the top three spots in both events. Freshman Marquita Miller and sophomore Jana Hammer also finished ahead of all opponents from other schools, showing Bluffton's strength in the women's sprints. The other individual title was captured by Stephanie Welch in the high jump. Welch later recorded a personal-best time of 2:31.6 in the 800 meters to complete a successful day. Another top effort on the track belonged to freshman Lauren Borga, who placed in the 1500 meters with a time of 5:33.0.
Joining Welch in the high jump was freshman Kirstie Dravenstott, who helped the Beavers complete a 1-2 finish in that event. Also aiding Bluffton's effort in the field events was sophomore Michele Bailey, who placed second in the discus with a toss of 120' 9".
Bluffton's men saw strong cold-weather performances in the sprints as well, with the sprint core of Ryan Nusbaum, Ben Dodds, and Al Pearson performing strong in their top events. Nusbaum continued his strong early-season runs with a close second-place finish in the 100 meters, in a time of 11.33. Dodds finished fourth in an overall close race with a season-best time of 11.50. Pearson, meanwhile, appeared to be fully recovered from a calf strain with a personal-best time of 23.48 in the 200 meters, placing second in that event. Those three joined sophomore Jason Lehman on the 400 meter relay, placing second in 43.5, the best time in recent years for Bluffton. Rounding out the strong performances on the track were freshmen Dan Rosebrock and Floyd Ward. Rosebrock placed in the 1500 meters with a personal-best time of 4:18.6, while Ward finished third in the 800 meters in a personal-best time of 2:02.7.
Bluffton's performances in the field events were led once again by sophomore pole vaulter Fred Yoder and senior thrower Travis Lepley. Yoder placed second in the pole vault with a clearance of 12' 6", while Lepley had an overall strong day, establishing a new personal-best in the hammer throw at 118' 1", and a season-best in the shotput at 40' 8.75". Freshman Jeremy King also claimed a second-place finish for Bluffton in the high jump at six feet, and freshman Kevin Bicker led the Beavers' discus throwers with a best throw of 103' 6".
Bluffton returns to action in Salzman Stadium on Friday, April 4, when they host a USTCA Collegiate Series Meet featuring Tiffin and Heidelberg. The action starts in the field events at 3 p.m. and in the running events at 3:30 p.m.


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The important word in today's article by Michael Dresser regarding the criticism of those involved in Maryland's health care insurance exchange is "contractors" ("O'Malley and Brown hammered on website," Dec. 9).
In the zeal to privatize all things run in government in recent years from federal level to the town hall, "contractors" have been hired to do the work. Government employees, again from the local to the highest level, have been demonized to the point that their use is almost non-existent.
But if you look at the massive problems the country is encountering from the Iraq War to the Affordable Care Act to Edward Snowden, private contractors keep popping up.
Maybe its time to examine this obsessive need — fostered by our "capitalist conservative" friends — to run the country as a business. Governments are not the problem, it seems to me. Let's look very hard at giving the country over to private sector contractors.
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Colleagues, Hi!
I am trying to create web-site targeted to English-speaking auditory. I'm going to add significant amount of text-content, written mostly by me.
However, I am not English native speaker and I am sure I do a lot of mistakes.
I think of adding functionality for typo reporting - you probably have seen this:
If you found a mistake, select it with a mouse and press Ctrl-Enter
I suppose I could implement manually with a bit of javascript and a small script on server side. However I suppose that some centralized web-applications for such functionality exist and I may instead be interested in simply integrating one of them.
Am I correct? Could you provide me a link to such system? And what is your opinion - should I use my own implementation or centralized (if I find one).


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Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli today confirmed that defenseman Steven Kampfer suffered a knee injury Saturday in Springfield while playing for the Providence (AHL) farm club.
Chiarelli said the rookie will be re-evaluated this week but he also estimated that Kampfer would miss around two weeks of action.
Kampfer had been scratched for nine of Boston's 10 games prior to his assignment to the P-Bruins for conditioning.
That would leave veteran Shane Hnidy, who skated in just three regular-season games, as the Bruins' seventh defensemen when they start their first-round playoff series with Montreal Thursday. Chiarelli also mentioned Matt Bartkowski, Andrew Bodnarchuk and Colby Cohen as potential call-ups should the defense corps be struck by injuries.
Chiarelli conceded that Hnidy, who signed as a free agent in February, has "been a little rusty." But the GM was optimistic Hnidy's experience and leadership could help the Bruins if needed.


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(RNN) - We've all seen notes left on bathroom stall walls, but none as uplifting as the one found in a university bathroom that includes words like "worthy," "strong," "brave" and "loved."
Someone anonymously posted a handwritten message responding to girls who had written about their suffering on the bathroom walls.
A Reddit user posted a photo of comforting messages that she found taped to the stall in a women's restroom at the university she's attending.
The user, chellylauren, wrote: "In a girls' bathroom stall at my university, girls have written about some of their most horrifying life experiences. This week, somebody replied."
The letter is addressed to several girls. Very first on the list is the girl who got raped, then the girl with an eating disorder, the girl with an alcoholic father, to the one who lost a loved one, and to all not named above.
The letter has been viewed more than 870,000 times.
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To the girl who was raped: You are so strong. I cannot fathom the pain you must have gone through. The fact that you have the bravery to write it (even on a bathroom wall) gives me hope.
To the girl with eating disorders: I promise you, although I don't know you, you are beautiful, you deserve your health. You deserve freedom from that hell.
To the girl with the alcoholic father: I am so sorry for the agony it must cause. Again, such courage is remarkable you must be such a strong person to see such pain.
To the girl whose father died: Missing them never goes away. The ache of their absence never goes away. But the love they had, the memories you share surely must last. I am sure, out of the bottom of my heart, the people who have left you in this world are exceptionally proud of the person you are.
Everytime I see these walls, these confessions, I feel so blessed to know I have the privilege of seeing them. Your moments, these secrets, are all precious even though they are sad. To all of you (including those I did not mention, and those who have not yet written)
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How Did My Stratosphere Ever Get Shipped? 238
I've been using either a Samsung Stratosphere or a Samsung Stratosphere 2 from September 2012 to the present. Where to begin?
If you open the calendar application on the Stratosphere 2, it usually highlights tomorrow's date as "Today," and lists tomorrow's calendar entries as your list of things to do "Today." Here is a picture of my phone's screen taken on June 2, with the calendar app displaying "Today, Mon, Jun 3 2013" — despite the phone knowing the correct time is 9:22 PM on June 2.
Strangely, in the morning the calendar app would display the correct day as "Today," but would switch to the wrong day some time in the afternoon, and eventually I decided that the calendar app was probably using Coordinated Universal Time to decide what "Today" was, which is 9 hours ahead of Pacific Standard Time.
You'll notice that these images are not screen captures, but photos taken with another phone. This is because some time between the Stratosphere 1 and 2, the screen capture function broke — every support site says you're supposed to be able to take a screen cap on a Stratosphere by pressing the Home and Power buttons at the same time, and that works on the 1, but not on the 2.
If someone else sends a text to multiple recipients including you, the Stratosphere gives you no indication that it's a group text, and there's no way for you to see the other recipients or reply to the whole group. (I had a lot of awkward "What, you were asking everybody, not just me?" moments before I realized what was going on.) Other users have been complaining about this for months, and it apparently affects more Android phones than just the Stratosphere.
The built-in camera refuses to take a picture if the battery is low — it just says "Warning: low battery" and exits. Yes, I know they think they're doing it for my own good since the camera is a battery hog, but a few times I've wanted to take a picture where it was well worth using up a half a percent of my remaining battery life or however much it would have taken, but the phone wouldn't let me. That should be the user's decision, dammit.
When I was in Canada last week, if I tried sending a text message longer than 160 characters, the phone would tell me that the message sent, but it would actually fail silently and never get delivered. I'm not sure whether to blame Verizon, Android, or Samsung for this one (or just, you know), but in the end someone has to take responsibility for the product, and the phone telling you that a message was sent when it actually got lost, is a complete fail. If it doesn't work, fine, give me an error message, but never tell the user a message got sent successfully if it didn't.
During a phone call, the on-screen keypad doesn't work unless the phone is on speakerphone. If the speakerphone is off, the screen goes dark after about 1 second of inactivity, making it impossible to enter an account number or anything else. I can avoid this bug by turning on a speakerphone (which is how I know it's a software bug, not a problem with the touchscreen), but this is a pain if I'm in a public place and don't want to annoy everyone around me who would have to listen to all the voice prompts. (The phone's software seems to be following a rule like: "If the speakerphone is not on, then when the phone moves away from the user's face, assume the user is not actively using the phone and let the screen go dark" — where the bug is that it doesn't make an exception and keep the screen on if the user is actively pressing keys on the keypad.)
At first, these and many, many other bugs produce a state of mind that transcends annoyance to reach a kind of genuine curiosity, where you're asking "How did this happen?" not rhetorically, but because you actually want to know. But eventually the surprise wears off, and you're just left with bugs that are disproportionately aggravating because they obviously would have been caught during even the most basic UI testing. They're aggravating to me not because of how much they get in the way (you eventually get used to them), but because the existence of those bugs conveys a certain lazy attitude towards finding and fixing bugs at all.
I realize this is not a logical reaction. The aggravation you feel towards a bug should depend on how much the bug actually interferes with the user experience, not on how easily the manufacturer should have found it. Rationally speaking, the biggest problem with the phone right now (and the reason I'm having to mail to back to the manufacturer for a replacement) is that the charging port spontaneously broke, so that unless the micro USB charger is plugged in exactly right, the phone can't charge (even if you get it right and form a connection successfully, the connection breaks if you move the phone half an inch). Needless to say, that's exasperating — but it's hard for me to get mad at Samsung over that, because it's not an easy defect to catch at the manufacturing stage. On the other hand, if the calendar app displays the wrong day, I would say that someone should be fired over that except that probably nobody was assigned to do that testing in the first place.
I also posted questions about each of these problems on AndroidForums.com and AndroidCentral.com (those links show all questions recently posted from my username on each site), which have so far received hundreds of "views" but no replies. I mention this because some people think that if you do run into problems like these, all you have to do is post a question and The Community will help you out with a workaround. Nope.
Also, lest you think you can do away with these bugs by downloading third-party replacements for all of these apps, I spent part of an afternoon downloading different texting apps to see if any of them would fix even part of the problems I had with the built-in one. None of them worked much better, although several of them displayed pop-up ads over every third incoming text message, and most of them did not play nicely with each other, giving me no way to disable them so that their notifications would double and triple up on top of each other for every received text. So I gave up. Even if I thought I might eventually find a better app for texting, I didn't have time to test multiple replacements for every built-in default app that didn't work.
Farhad Manjoo has a column up at Slate arguing that the reason many Android phones suck is that they're laden down with adware attempting to extract more personal information and money from the user. I'm sure that's part of the problem, but I can't see how the manufacturer is making any money off of the bugs I ran into; they were just being lazy.
The problem, I think, is that phone manufacturers know that phone reviewers (and users, when they're choosing between models in the store) will focus on easily quanitifiable attributes, such as size, weight, battery life, and the number of megapixels in the camera. The number of aggravating bugs in the user interface is not something that is easy to compare across phones (and in any case would not be printed on the box). Thus market forces simply don't favor the development of a hassle-free interface, because in most cases the phone manufacturers wouldn't be rewarded for it.
And — I don't consider this too much of a stretch — this is where it connects with larger issues for me, because I've been arguing for years that the free market will usually fail to fix certain types of problems, often in the context of threats to free speech and civil liberties, especially if the user lacks information they need to compare multiple options. A major argument in favor of Net Neutrality is that the typical user wouldn't realize it if their ISP were throttling access to certain sites; they would just think that the remote site was responding slowly. Since that information would be hidden from the user, "the marketplace" won't solve the problem on its own. Similarly, every time I say that my Circumventor mailing list keeps getting blocked as "spam" by Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, or AOL (despite being 100% verified-opt-in, natch), someone tells me that if the free market is blocking my emails as unwanted, it must be because the users don't want them. That the free market might make a mistake (in this case, because users don't have full information about what is getting blocked as spam), doesn't occur to them. I think the belief in the infallibility of the free market, is one of the most widespread fallacies of our era — people who would never make the mistake of confusing correlation with causation, have no problem thinking that if a product or service gets blocked by a third-party intermediary, it must be because the end user didn't want it.
And so when I'm staring at my Stratosphere's calendar telling me that tomorrow is actually today, it brings out my aggravation not just towards Samsung, Google, and Verizon, but towards all the people I've heard over the years claiming that the marketplace will automatically reward good products and punish bad ones. If there weren't so many people who believed that, maybe we could have collectively put more effort into rating phones according to their usability, knowing that the "invisible hand" of the marketplace was not likely to solve those problems on its own, and maybe these bugs would have gotten fixed. Instead, the "marketplace" focuses disproportionately on attributes like dimensions, weight, and processor speed that are easily quantifiable.
So perhaps the solution — seriously — would be for some third-party review company to rate each new phone on the Stupid S#!% Index. They test the phone under normal usage, and each time they run into an idiotic bug like the calendar application not knowing what day it is, they file it under Stupid S#!%, and after some fixed period of phone usage they count up all the problems and rate the phone under the Stupid S#!% Index. For greater precision, you could compile multiple scores from different users for each phone and take the average. Now you have a quantifiable rating that can be used to compare one phone to another, and could incentivize manufacturers to do more testing on their phones in order to get a better Stupid S#!% Index score.
The message that Apple keeps pushing about the iPhone, after all, is essentially that it would get a good Stupid S#!% Index rating. In his keynote address at the 2011 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Steve Jobs repeated the words "It just works" like a mantra — unlike, presumably, everyone else's stuff. iPhones don't score well on price, openness, or compatibility with other companies' products (I always have to tell people that my car charger is not an iPhone charger, it's a literally-every-other-smartphone-in-the-entire-world charger) — but all of that scarcely matters to some people as long as It Just Works.
Well, I couldn't tell you. I can't test an iPhone under normal usage because I'm too addicted to the Stratosphere's slide-out keyboard, which enables me to type much faster than a touchscreen but which only comes on a few Android and Windows phones, and not on any version of the iPhone. Maybe I'll try one more time to make the switch to a touchscreen while my Stratosphere is in the shop.
Yes, these most First-World of First World Problems — especially the bugs specific to the Stratosphere — only apply to a small fraction of the population. But it should be a lesson for anyone who thinks the "free market" would prevent this sort of thing from happening.
Meanwhile, every time I hear an ad talking about how "thin" some new phone is going to be, I just want to say to the phone the same thing that I want to tell all the anorexic girls in nightclubs: You're already thin enough. So stop worrying about being thin, and just try to work on not being so f@#$ing stupid.


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According to a recent study, more than half of the Mississippians who file for bankruptcy do so because they cannot pay their medical bills. Clarion Ledger reporter Jerry Mitchell tells host Michel Martin what's causing such devastating costs.
In Mississippi, Bankruptcy Follows Broken Legs
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Berka, quoted in the Saturday edition of The Gilmer Mirror, he abstained on voting on a matter related to the county jail's food service contract because he believes the county's contract with its jail food vendor provides for the county to get a 35.5 percent commission, and that he saw two tickets on which only 33 percent had been paid.
He said he forwarded the information to Sheriff Anthony Betterton.
"If he had paid close attention, he would have seen that the 35.5 percent is in a contract that has not been signed yet" and therefore is not in force yet, Betterton said. "Under the current contract, the jail is to receive 33 percent commission, as shown on the tickets."
Betterton said that "it was another example of commissioners trying to run" things that are under the sheriff's supervision.


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From an artistic point of view, star Mary Pickford famously said, "It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talking instead of the other way around." Likewise, it would have been better all around if Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" films had not come before his new, three-part version of "The Hobbit."
It's not just that the 1937 J.R.R. Tolkien novel, which he began as a simple bedtime story for his children, was written first and covers events that precede the considerably more complex "Rings" story.
Or that, equally true, the huge success of Jackson's "Rings" trilogy, both creatively and otherwise (11 Oscars for "The Return of the King" and nearly $3 billion in revenue for all three films), made it inevitable that the new effort would be overshadowed by its more rewarding predecessor.
PHOTOS: 60 images from 'The Hobbit'
Films as majestic and enthralling as the trilogy are not going to come from a book with "The Hobbit's" straightforward plot and streak of goofy humor.


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Michigan's jobless rate slowly improved through the first 10 months of 2013, even as more people reentered the workforce as the economy slowly improves.
The state's seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate was 9.7 percent in January and 8.3 percent in October, the latest month that labor information is available through the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget. Rates for November and December will be available early next year.
Along the way from January to October, the rate bounced up and down, as it did in most Michigan counties.
The statewide unemployment rate remained a point above the national 7.3 percent rate in October. Unemployment rates in October for Michigan's 83 counties ranged from a low of 5.6 percent in Barry County, in west Michigan, to 17.5 percent in Oscoda County, in the northern Lower Peninsula.
Overall, Michigan employers added a net 42,000 jobs in the last year while the workforce grew by 48,000.
Despite gradual improvement across the state, 26 Michigan counties still had unemployment rates topping 10 percent in October.
In Oakland County, October's 7.8 percent unemployment rate was the lowest for that month since 2008.
The challenge, says Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, is to continue to diversify the county's economy through programs like Emerging Sectors, Medical Mainstreet and Automation Alley.
"I think that's great news," Patterson said. "It shows our programs are working and we intend to pour it on.
"We're at the point we were at before the hardest part of the recession," he said. "I think Oakland County is positioned to take a bow. It's the private sector that's so strong.
"We're not satisfied at 7.8," Patterson said. "We'd like to drive it down to 4 percent. As long as there's one person out there who wants a job, I'm not satisfied."
In Macomb County, the unemployment rate was 11 percent in January but dropped to 8.8 percent in October.
In his annual state of the county speech Wednesday, Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel noted the strong presence of the defense industry in the county, and expansion plans by General Motors and Wayne State University's law school.
"It's a number of things," Hackel said Thursday. "I don't know that any one person can take credit for it.
"We're really aggressive with business retention, we're working much more closely with our regional and local partners to figure out how to attract business."
Hackel said the county is also working closely with Macomb Community College's retraining programs.
In other southeast Michigan counties, unemployment rates from January to October improved from 9.9 percent to 9.7 percent in Genesee County, 15.2 percent to 8.9 percent in Lapeer County, 9.5 percent to 7.5 percent in Livingston County, 8.9 percent to 7.7 percent in Monroe County, 14.7 percent to 9.4 percent in St. Clair County, and 12.5 percent to 10.1 percent in Wayne County.
In Washtenaw County, unemployment edged up slightly from the 5.3 percent rate in January to the October rate of 6 percent.
Statewide, private sector jobs grew by 27,000 in October with gains in professional and business services, education and health services, and retail trade. The gains were partially offset by seasonal job losses in leisure and hospitality services.
The official unemployment rate measures only people seeking jobs in the prior four weeks and doesn't include the underemployed or people who have given up looking for work.
The health of the state's economy is likely to be a key issue in the Michigan's 2014 elections. Voters will pick members of Congress, one U.S. senator, the entire Michigan Legislature, plus governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state and attorney general.


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Bindi Kumar, right, photo bombs Chu Wu and Rishi Patel's picture during the Holi Festival of Color organized by the University's Indian Students Association on Saturday, March 15. The festival is an ancient Hindu religious festival which has become popular with non-Hindus in many part of South Asia, as well as people of other communities. (Photos courtesy of Jon Adams)
A cloud of organic color called gulal surounds Reetobrata Basu. The festival marks the end of winter and the abundance of the upcoming spring harvest season.
Friends (from left) Tshepang Mogwera, Kombe Kapatamoyo, Emma Bryce and Vicki Wijaya pose for a photograph.
Subhabrata Ghoshal looks for his next target. The event is celebrated each year after the full moon in March.
Ohio University students gather to celebrate the Holi Festival of Color. The traditional Indian festival is to celebrate harmony and unity through diversity and commemorates the victory of good over evil.
Vicki Wijiya spreads colored powered on participants in the Holi Festival of Color at Ohio University on Saturday, March 15.
Ohio University students gather to celebrate the Holi Festival of Color. Holi got its name as the "Festival of Colors" from Lord Krishna, a reincarnation of Lord Vishnu, who liked to play pranks on the village girls by drenching them in water and colors.


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Texas Police Dog Certification Competition Comes to Texarkana
Police Canine units have always amazed me. A police dog and their handler share a special relationship. Years ago, I had the chance to take the Citizens Police Academy from the Texarkana, Arkansas Police Department. During the class I got to see how these special dogs work


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The depth of Malaga's financial problems surfaced once again last night after manager Marco Pelligrini revealed he will hold a meeting with the club's players about unpaid wages.
On the field Malaga appear to be mounting a serious challenge to Barcelona and Real Madrid at the top of La Liga, and finished 4th last season having spent £50 million in the transfer market.
However the Spanish club's financial woes were revealed over the summer as they were forced to sell key player Santi Cazorla to Arsenal for around £15 million, less than they paid for him from Villarael a year earlier.
Since then Malaga have impressed in their maiden Champions League campaign and currently sit in 3rd place in La Liga, ahead of Real Madrid.
Now though the issue of money has reared its ugly head once more after Pelligrini admitted he would talk to his players about their options following the 4-3 Copa del Rey win over Cacereno on Wednesday.
"We will talk tomorrow on the subject of the payments," he responded curtly to questions about the club's financial malaise.
Midfielder Duda elaborated somewhat on the goings on behind the scenes, revealing that the players were going to talk about possible action today (Thursday).
"We still do not know what we are going to do," he said. "The most important thing is to talk internally, then we will see what might happen. We will decide tomorrow (Thursday)."
The prospect of Malaga needing to sell in order to balance the books will be music to the ears of the likes of Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal, who have all been linked with a move for talented youngster Isco in recent weeks.
The 20-year-old has impressed in the Champions League and was on the scoresheet in his European debut against Zenit St. Petersburg.
Manchester City were linked with a move for the Spaniard yesterday following the arrival of former Barcelona chief Tiki Begiristain as technical director last week.
The Citizens may have to pay the £30 million release clause written into Isco's contract but are said to be willing to do so in order to land their man.
Liverpool have also been linked with the talented attacker, with Anfield boss Brendan Rodgers said to be a fan of his ability.
Whether Liverpool would be willing to meet Isco's valuation after spending big without much success recently remains to be seen.
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This falls into the annoying and boring category for me.PS I think I dated this guy last year! I can tell you how it ends. LOL.
Sounded like he was lonely to me, the kind of guy that wants a girlfriend to have someone to share everything with. I tend to steer away from people like that since they can be super-clingy. I like having some alonetime, and if i wanted to be worrying about whether something could cope for 30 minutes without me id get a puppy
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This Piano Jazz episode from 1999 features one of today's preeminent jazz singers. Dianne Reeves brings her rhythmic virtuosity to a sparkling set of standards, including duets with host Marian McPartland on "Close Enough for Love" and "Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise."
Reeves was born in Detroit to a family full of musicians — her father was a singer, her mother played trumpet, an uncle played bass for the Colorado Symphony and her cousin is pianist, composer and arranger George Duke. She began studying piano at an early age and recalls singing ever since she can remember. Jazz music, particularly the work of Sarah Vaughan, resonates in Reeves' childhood musical memories.
At 16, Reeves began singing with her local high-school jazz band. The group won a competition that eventually led to a feature performance at the National Association of Jazz Educators. It was there that trumpeter Clark Terry first noticed Reeves' abilities and took her under his wing, encouraging her to pursue a career as a singer. She was invited on several occasions to sit in with Terry's All-Star group, which gave her the opportunity to sing with jazz legends such as Tommy Flanagan, Jimmy Rowles and Louis Bellson.
After attending the University of Colorado for a year, Reeves took off for Los Angeles to pursue her singing career full-time. Though the mid-'70s marked a low point commercially for traditional jazz, Reeves found success in L.A.'s studio scene. She also struck up a fruitful relationship with a budding jazz pianist named Billy Childs. The two worked together for several years in a fusion-style outfit called Night Flight, an environment that encouraged both artists to experiment and grow musically.
Reeves was introduced to a wider audience following an international tour with Sergio Mendes in 1981. A year later, she released her first album, Welcome My Love. This was followed by 1985's For Every Heart. In 1987, she released her third album, Dianne Reeves, the first vocal album on the newly revived Blue Note label. Throughout the 1990s, Reeves continued releasing albums on Blue Note, three of which received Grammy nominations.
In 2000, Reeves released In The Moment – Live in Concert, which won a Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance. Her subsequent two releases, 2001's The Calling and 2003's A Little Moonlight, also won Grammys for Best Jazz Vocal Performance. In yet another Grammy-winning performance, Reeves also appeared on the soundtrack for the film Good Night and Good Luck.
Reeves' latest project is When You Know, a collection of love songs including The Temptations' "Just My Imagination," Minnie Ripperton's "Loving You" and the Reeves original "Today Will Be a Good Day."
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Down 2-1 in Sets, Ivy League Champ Yale Forced Fifth Game
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The Bulldogs dropped a heart-stopping fifth set to Bowling Green in their NCAA First Round match at Rec Hall on Friday evening.
The scores of the match were 16-25, 25-15, 25-21, 13-25 and 15-11.
In its fourth-ever NCAA Tournament appearance, Yale came back from a 2-1 set deficit to force a deciding fifth. The loss snapped Yale's 15-match win streak, and the Bulldogs ended the season 18-6 overall and 14-0 in Ivy Play.
Mollie Rogers and Kelly Johnson led a balanced Yale attack with a team-high 12 kills each, while senior team captain Haley Wessels ended her Bulldog career with 11 kills, 6 block assists and five digs.
The fifth set was pulsating volleyball and featured eight ties and five lead changes.
Yale recovered from a 7-5 deficit to score the next four points. After three straight Bowling Green errors, Kendall Polan rifled an ace along the left side to give Yale a two-point edge.
After a Yale error, Lindsey Butterfield gave the Falcons back the lead with two straight kills. McHaney Carter and Rogers teamed up for block assists on the next point to tie the set at 10.
Carter finished with nine kills, hit. 391 and five block assists. Rogers, a first-team All-Ivy selection, added 17 digs and four block assists.
Leah Shaw's kill put Bowling Green back in front, and the Falcons never trailed the rest of the way.
Bowling Green improved to 9-0 in five-set matches this season, while Yale was playing in its first five-setter of the year.
Yale started strong in an opening set win. The Bulldogs jumped out to an 18-10 lead in the first after Maddie Rudnick passed to Polan, who set up a Rogers for one of her five kills in the set.
Bowling Green turned the match around in the second. Down 7-1 in the set, Carter and Erica Reetz supplied consecutive kills. The Falcons scored the next three point, and would eventually extend the lead to nine at 20-11.
The Falcons led for almost all of the third set. Johnson's kill cut the Yale deficit to 17-16, however the Bulldogs would not get any closer.
Yale turned the match around in the fourth.
Rogers connected off a Polan set, then Carter slammed back-to-back kills, followed by a Bowling Green error to take an 8-4 lead. Yale's inspired play continued.
After Bowling Green scored off a block to make it 11-10 Yale, Johnson added a kill.
From there, Wessels led perhaps Yale's biggest run of the season. Wessels and Reetz combined for a block assist.
On the next point, Polan came up with two huge digs to keep a point alive, and eventually force a Bowling Green error. Reetz and Wessels combined again for block assists to give Yale a 15-10 lead.
Wessels added three more kills and two more block assists in Yale's last 10 points to force a fifth set.
Yale ended the season as the second team in Ivy League history to finish a conference season 14-0 and featured five All-Ivy selections.
Bowling Green will face the winner of Binghamton and Penn State tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. in a NCAA Second Round match.
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Broncos take two from Skyline
BLACKFOOT-The Blackfoot Broncos baseball team showed how Bronco baseball can be played. The Broncos won both of their games when they faced off against the Skyline Grizzlies, Thursday afternoon.
In the first game, Cole Mansanerez started off Blackfoot's scoring when he hit a nice triple and sent Zach Later sliding into home plate. The Broncos went on a scoring spree and gained five runs in the bottom of the fifth inning.
Colby Pearson started off pitching the game finishing with 8 strike outs, and Jaron Katseanes stepped in to finish up the last inning as he pitched a scoreless seventh inning.
"Colby pitched hard today, and I am really happy with the way Jaron pitched. He came off of two days rest and did a good job," Blackfoot head coach Jeff Katseanes said.
The Broncos defense held the Grizzlies from scoring any run until the top of the third inning. Along with that, the defense held Skyline to only four runs for the whole game. The Broncos took the win, 8-4.
The Broncos didn't lose their momentum in the second game as they came out victorious, 10-8.
Blackfoot led throughout but Skyline made one final run at the Broncos as they rallied for 5 runs in the top of the seventh inning but with two outs and the go ahead run standing at the plate, Cody Evans pitched three strikes to thwart the comeback attempt and secure the victory.
Offensively the big inning was the second for the Broncos as they took a 7-0 lead with a mammoth inning which was highlighted by a 3RBI double by Jaron Katseanes.
"I am really happy with everybody's efforts today. They did everything they needed to do to win the game," coach Katseanes said.
Blackfoot (13-3) will play again Tuesday at home against Bonneville at four and six for a double header.
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Blackfoot hitters- Taylor Pearson 3-3 2RBI, Cody Evans 3-4 2B 3B 2RBI 3R, Justin Mathie 2-4 1R. Pitching- Pearson 5 1/3 IP 7H 4R 2BB 8K, Jaron Katseanes 1 2/3 1H 0R 2BB 2K.
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Submission + - Chrome OS Remains Undefeated at Pwnium 3 (paritynews.com)
hypnosec writes: Google has announced that its Chrome OS has managed to remain undefeated during the Pwnium 3 event that was held alongside Pwn2Own. Announced by Google on January 28, 2013 the Pwnium 3 event carried a prize money of $3.14 million. Researchers were asked to carry out attacks against a base Samsung Series 5 chromebook running the latest stable version of Chrome OS. It turns out security researchers were not able to come up with winning exploits even after the competition's deadline was extended. Google Chrome Team has revealed that partial exploit entries have been filled in but, no other details have been released.


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BENSALEM, Pa. — Police in Bucks County arrested a Bristol woman on Friday after she allegedly stole over $280,000 from a friend's estate.
Bensalem Police arrested Cecilia Sarachilli, 52, of the 600 block of Spring Street and charged her with forgery, theft and related charges.
Police allege that Sarachilli took the money from a long-time friend. Sarachilli had power of attorney and was the executrix of her friend who was placed in an assisted living facility in December of 2008.
Her friend remained in the assisted living facility until she died in July 2011. According to police, Sarachilli began her scheme as soon as her friend was placed in the facility. At that point police allege that the 52-year-old began stealing over $180,000 in cash and took out a $100,000 line of credit from a home owned by her friend.
Sarachilli then, according to police, decided to spend the money on herself rather than distributing the funds to family and two charities. Both charities the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Hope for Animals foundation in Morrisville were supposed to receive large donations.
Sarachilli removed herself as the executrix of the estate in late 2012 after two beneficiaries filed a petition against her.
Police said that Sarachilli was arraigned before Magisterial Judge Joseph Falcone, her bail was set at $100,000 or 10 percent bail.
Sgt. Andrew Aninsman, a spokesman for the Bensalem police said on Sunday that Sarachilli posted bail.


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Interim manager Rafael Benitez has revealed how he will use Club World Cup glory in Japan to inspire Chelsea to an astonishing fightback in the Barclays Premier League.
The European champions could find themselves 13 points adrift of Manchester United in the league and seven behind Manchester City by the time they face Corinthians for the world title in Yokohama on Sunday.
But, should they emerge victorious, Benitez plans to repeat a speech that proved the catalyst for his Valencia side's Primera Liga triumph in 2003-04. He said: "People have asked me questions about whether it's a two-horse race. But, realistically, with three points for a game, if you win two or three games in a row, you have more confidence."
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Bette "Jeannine" Hefright
Bette "Jeannine" Hefright, 81, of Water Street, Johnsonburg, died following a series of illnesses on Wednesday, May 21, 2014 while at the Lutheran Home at Kane where she had resided for the past five months.Born Oct. 12, 1932 in Johnsonburg, she was the daughter of the late Guy and Gertrude (Blumquist) Speaker. Jeannine was the oldest of the three children. Jeannine resided in the West End area of Johnsonburg her entire life, attending elementary and secondary schools in Johnsonburg. Upon high school graduation, she attended the Montefiore Nursing School of Pittsburgh where she obtained her BSN degree.Upon returning to Johnsonburg, Jeannine obtained employment at Elk County General Hospital where she began a career in nursing. Mid-career, Jeannine obtained a BS in Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh, which allowed her to finish her career in Social Services/Utilization Review at ECGH. She retired in 1997 from ECGH after 41 years of service.Jeannine was well known for her love of music. During her childhood days, she was active in both the high school music departments and the local drum and bugle corps. Jeannine was member of the Footlighter's theatrical production group and loved participating in the many musical productions of the group. She was also a member of many local choral groups, both church and civic, adored traveling and participating in choral events throughout the area. Jeannine, possessing a beautiful soprano voice, sang many soloist performances to the delight of audiences. On a professional level, Jeannine performed for many weddings and funerals in the area. Family, friends, and neighbors will fondly remember Jeannine entertaining herself for hours at a time playing her piano in her home.Jeannine was a member of the Faith United Church of Christ in Ridgway.Jeannine was the mother of five children and the grandmother "Nana" of 11 grandchildren. Surviving are daughters Nancy Hartman (Tom) of Kane, Lori Waddell (Gary) of East Rochester; sons Thomas Hefright of Johnsonburg, John Hefright (Kathy) of Johnsonburg, and Craig Hefright (Jennifer) of Russell; grandchildren Lynn and Daniel Hartman, Eric and Abby Waddell, Chad and Lydia Hefright, Caleb and Colby Hefright, Christian, Hope and Payton Hefright.Surviving are a brother, Donald (Bud) Speaker (Carol) of Ridgway; and a sister, Marla Johnson (Donald) of Zephyr Hills, Fla. Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by a brother, Harrison, in infancy.Funeral Services for Bette "Jeannine" Hefright will be conducted on Wednesday May 28 at 11 a.m. at St John's Lutheran Church, Church Street, Johnsonburg, with Pastor Stephen Fair.Visitation will be at Ubel Funeral Home, Bridge Street, Johnsonburg, on Tuesday May 27, 2014 from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.The family suggests memorials be made to the Lutheran Home at Kane, 100 High Point Dr., Kane, PA 16735 or Elk County Concert Choir c/o Darien Kontes, P.O. Box 36, Ridgway, PA 15853.


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Children in China
Source: Ola V. Lea Papers, (East Carolina Manuscript Collection #351)
Staff Person: Lynette Lundin
Miss Ola Lea, was a native of Virginia and a Baptist missionary to China and Taiwan for thirty-seven years. In 1925 she accepted her assignment of teaching in China until the outbreak of World War II. These are photographs of children in China, in their padded winter garments.


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Other duties include the management of training and certification for locomotive engineers and conductors, as well as overseeing the Host Railroads group.
Nichols brings 33 years of Amtrak experience to this CTO position, having joined the company in 1979 as a block operator and most recently served as senior director, operating practices. He will continue to bring to Amtrak his solid knowledge base of the regulatory landscape, working relationships and key operating issues at a pivotal time for the company.
This senior leadership position is part of the company's ongoing effort to align day-to- day operations with the Amtrak Strategic Plan and has a clear emphasis placed on achieving quantifiable results. Nichols will report directly to DJ Stadtler, vice president of operations, effective Dec. 17 and will be based in Philadelphia, Pa.


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GoboLinux is a distribution which sports a different file system structure than 'ordinary' Linux distributions. In order to remain compatible with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, symbolic links are used to map the GoboLinux tree to standard UNIX directories. A post in the GoboLinux forums suggested that it might be better to turn the concept around: retain the FHS, and then use symbolic links to map the GoboLinux tree on top of it. This sparked some interesting discussion. Read on for more details.
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another neat trick is that one can pop a app dir off there, put it on a external drive, and ones one wants to use it, reattach it to the system via symlinks.
there are scripts available for it, and i have been pondering about learning enough python to automate the process.
memory sticks full of gobo apps anyone?


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Roman Catholic Church to Cameron: "You are out of your depth"
Joseph Devine, Roman Catholic Bishop of Motherwell, is a feisty, robust and forthright sort of church overseer - the type who doubtless takes the Catholic Herald and at one time might have been beheaded or burned at the stake for asserting a dogmatic spiritual authority over the temporal power of the king.
The Bishop has apparently written a terse and testy letter to the Prime Minister which is rather critical (to say the least) of sundry government policies and of the Prime Minister's whole moral worldview. The Bishop, it might be observed, has form in this, having previously criticised Mr Cameron for 'surrounding himself with secularists'.
Unfortunately, His Grace has been unable to acquire a copy of Bishop Joe's Epistle to the Cameroons (if any reader or communicant can oblige, your treasure will be in heaven), so we must depend on the secondary account of The Scotsman. In summary:
The apparent disconnection between the Prime Minister's assurances and the Government's actions relating to religious liberty in the ECtHR 'only serve(s) to compound our perplexity about the imperfect fit between your statements and actions. You appear to be creating a political culture in which words mean nothing'.
The bishop then asks: 'on what basis can you expect anyone – Christians in particular – to trust or respect you?"
Noting how Roman Catholic adoption agencies have been made to feel 'not welcome', he says: 'That feeling... is the legacy of the last Labour government. Sadly, many of your government's policies show no sign of reversing that, despite your plausible public relations exercises'.
On the Prime Minister's reproach of the Church of England over women bishops to 'get with the programme', the Bishop advises: 'Disagree with decisions by all means, but such graceless comments were indelicate to the point of being offensive. And this from a Prime Minister belittling the nation's established church. Hardly an example to set for society in general and especially for the youth of this country.'
He than asks: 'So where next for David Cameron's spiritual mission?... While I cannot speak for other creeds, let me be quite frank with you. So far as the Roman Catholic Church...is concerned, you are out of your depth. We will take no finger-prodding lectures from anyone or any group devoid of moral competence.'
There are some who might say that the Prime Minister would be wholly justified in responding to that criticism with a phrase including the words 'pot', 'kettle' and 'black', or with some allusion to glass houses and the casting of stones. Certainly, no Roman Catholic bishop in Ireland would presently be so bold. But Bishop Joe then prophesies: 'I suspect it is only a matter of time before you go one step further and outlaw the teaching of Christian doctrine on sexual morality on the grounds of discrimination.'
David Cameron is basically completing what Blair began: Religious freedom 'under your premiership...is no longer being respected in the UK'. And in one final barb, the Bishop observes that the Christian Church has lasted for 'two millennia...and all this amazingly without any direction and guidance from you or your peer group'.
He ended the letter 'Yours Truly', which is jolly nice and Christian of him.
This is a most pleasing rant, to which No10 has apparently promised a comprehensive response. Some will think the Bishop a doddery old fool who speaks on behalf of the medievally-minded and bigoted; others will recognise his apostolic authority to speak truth to power. If any of His Grace's readers or communicants are matey with Bishop Joe, a copy of the correspondence in both directions would be most appreciated.


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I Recently upgraded my Slackware installation to 10.1 and started using GDM as my display manager. Turns out that GDM is pretty nice, I have even been messing with making my own custom theme!
Anyway, today I came across something VERY odd. I have a password policy in place that forces the users on my pc to change their password every month (plain good practice). However, since installing 10.1 I had been aware that it seemed like a long time since I had been informed of my password expiring. Today I switched over to another console (ctrl + alt + f6) to kill a cedega app that had frozen, to my surprise, when I tried to log in I got a message saying "Your password is inactive. Contact the system administrator". Then when I logged out of my X session and tried to log back in my password worked! So basically my password HAD expired but GDM would allow me to log in anyway!
I didn't post this in the "help" section because I'm not really looking for a solution (I just going to switch back to KDM) but I thought it might be worth informing anyone else that uses GDM of the problem.


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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Ultrium 800 GB. Tape type: LTO, Native capacity: 400 GB, Compressed capacity: 800 GB. Colour of product: Gold. Tape size: 1.27 cm, Tape length: 680 m, Tape thickness: 8 µm. Quantity per pallet: 960 pc(s), Dimensions (WxDxH): 113 x 27.9 x 111 mm, Read speed: 120 MB/s
Exhaustively tested, HP LTO Ultrium cartridges meet all your demands for maximum reliability when restoring data, offering high storage density, ease of management and scalable storage and backup performance.Covering five generations of capacity - LTO-1 (200 GB), LTO-2 (400 GB), LTO-3 (800 GB), LTO-4 (1.6 TB) and LTO-5 (3 TB) – and with transfer speeds of up to 1 TB/hr for LTO-5, there is a platform for every need and budget. From LTO-3 onwards, LTO Ultrium WORM cartridges enable the creation of compliant, permanent and tamperproof archives. From LTO-4 onwards, secure AES-256 encryption provides even higher levels of data security and compliance with the most stringent industry regulations to prevent unauthorized data access. From LTO-5 onwards, LTO Ultrium Linear Tape File System makes using tape as easy, flexible, portable and intuitive as using other removable and sharable media, such as a USB drive.Highest Capacity and Performance of any Comparable Tape Technology• HP LTO-5 Ultrium can write or read data at a blistering 1 TB/hour, storing, encrypting and protecting up to 3 TB on a single cartridge, making it the big hitter in large-scale, 24x7, mission-critical IT environments.Ultra-reliable• Superior 'smart grabber' mechanism and mechanical interlock to prevent the leader pin from being pulled inside the tape housing. Sensors detect proper connection and prevent leader loss that would ruin the tape.Secure• Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) version provides tamperproof, compliant data storage.Value for money• Standardizing on HP LTO-4 or LTO-5 Ultrium delivers the capacity to meet shrinking backup windows, industry-standard, AES 256-bit encryption (IEEE1619.1), and interchangeable RW or WORM media; without extra space or IT resource overhead.


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TYLER, Texas, July 22, 2013—For the average Tyler local teenager, summer vacation means pool parties and flip flops, summer jobs and sunscreen. But for local teen Tricia Taylor, 17, summer vacation this year means delivering joy to over 1,000 needy children in the Philippines.
Taylor will learn first-hand the impact a simple shoebox filled with small toys, hygiene items and school supplies can have on a child. Among hundreds of applicants nationwide, Taylor and 18 other youth were selected to travel as "Samaritan's Purse Youth" for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hand-deliver shoebox gifts with Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan's Purse. Taylor and her teammates will travel to Philippines on July 20, and return to the United States on July 27.
"Ever since I packed my first shoebox gift as a little girl, I have wanted to personally share what I call 'the power of a simple gift'," said Taylor. "And this trip is that exact dream come true."
In addition to distributing the gifts at five different locations in and around Manila, the participants will be visiting a local orphanage and implementing a variety of work projects.
The Philippines began receiving shoebox gifts in 1998; since then, over 2.7 million children in the Philippines ages 2-14 have received a gift. In 2013, well over 448,000 children in the country will receive shoeboxes, many of which will be the first gift they have ever received.
Operation Christmas Child is a project of Samaritan's Purse, an international Christian relief and evangelism organization headed by Franklin Graham. Since 1993, Operation Christmas Child has delivered more than 100 million gift-filled shoeboxes to needy children worldwide. Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the project expects to collect another 9.8 million shoebox gifts in 2013.
For information about Operation Christmas Child, call 1-800-353-5949 or visit www.samaritanspurse.org.


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Outlet Opens in Africa
U-T San Diego -- You are cordially invited to Uganda, where Olubugo is opening today.
That restaurant is just 9,432 miles away in the city of Entebbe, near the largest lake in Africa.
The special thing about Olubugo is its grass-roots relationship with Aidchild, a nonprofit that provides care for Ugandan orphans with AIDS. Founded by University of San Diego graduate student Nathaniel Dunigan, its mission heartened Brennan, also a USD graduate. (Full Story)


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The idea of Michael Douglas playing Liberace might seem nearly as outrageous as Liberace himself.
Liberace, forever hailed as �Mr. Showmanship,� was the excess-to-the-max pianist-personality whose onstage and offstage extravagance were legendary, and who wowed audiences in Las Vegas and worldwide to become the best-paid entertainer on the planet during his heyday from the 1950s to the 1970s.
He was the forerunner of flashy, gender-bender entertainers like Elton John, David Bowie, Madonna and Lady Gaga even as he kept a tight lid on his gay private life, which he feared could have ended his career had it come out. (His fans never seemed to get wise.)
By contrast, Michael Douglas is a 68-year-old movie star known for he-man performances and morally ambiguous roles. And he was no piano player.
But Douglas now dazzles as Liberace in the new HBO film, �Behind the Candelabra,� including lavish musical numbers where he tinkles the ivories and flourishes his jewel-and-ermine finery. The film (executive produced by show-biz veteran Jerry Weintraub, a Liberace friend) premieres 9 p.m. May 26. Douglas� co-star is Matt Damon, who, in a casting choice almost as counterintuitive, plays Scott Thorson, a dreamy, strapping teen who in 1977 met Liberace in his Vegas dressing room and almost instantly became his personal assistant, live-in companion and top-secret lover.
�Candelabra� (whose title cites the trademark prop ornamenting his onstage piano) also features Dan Aykroyd, Scott Bakula, Paul Reiser, Debbie Reynolds and a hilarious turn by Rob Lowe as Liberace�s on-call plastic surgeon.
It was the film�s director, Steven Soderbergh, who brought together the two lead actors, helped shape their splendid performances and masterminded this portrait of a loving but bizarre and tempestuous affair.
This show-biz saga may be over-the-top, but there�s plenty of depth and it dives deep.
�We played the script and tried not to wink at the audience,� said Douglas. �It�s a great love story. I watch it and I forget about Matt and myself. Then, pretty soon, I practically forget it�s two guys: The conversations and arguments sound like any ol� couple.�
Adds Damon in a separate interview: �The question for us was, �How do we make this look like a marriage that we recognize?� Most of our scenes we could relate to because we�re both in long-term marriages. It was a male-female story with two guys.�
Well, maybe. But that doesn�t override the risk factor for Douglas and Damon as they tackled roles dramatically at odds with their images and past work.
�I looked at Matt and thought, �Man, this guy�s brave,�� said Douglas. �It�s one thing for me at my age to stretch a little bit and try different characters. But �Bourne�! A man in the prime of his career going this route? I was in awe of Matt�s courage.�
�He�s being nice,� laughed Damon, 42, when told what Douglas had said. �He would�ve done it in a second. He�d never turn down a great role.�
Why did Damon say yes to man-to-man pillow talk and sequined thongs?
�I�ve never said no to Steven,� he replied, noting he had worked with Soderbergh before in �The Informant!� and the �Ocean� trilogy. �It doesn�t get any more fun than working with Steven.�
Douglas, too, had been in Soderbergh films � including the 2000 thriller �Traffic,� during whose production the director first proposed Douglas playing Liberace.
Why did he agree?
�First of all, Lee was a nice guy,� Douglas began, calling Liberace by the given name he never used professionally. �He was a lovely, lovely guy. I don�t play many nice guys.�
Douglas nails Liberace�s velvety, nasal voice and almost-ever-present pearly smile.
�One of the things I enjoyed about this part was, I got to smile,� he said. �I don�t smile a lot in my pictures. I�m always so � grim.�
Still, in �Candelabra,� there isn�t always lots to smile about.
Thorson, a child of foster care, falls sway to Liberace�s charm and support, but it comes with a price. He is subjected to plastic surgery to mold him into a young Liberace (one of the remarkable makeup transformations Damon undergoes). He also becomes hooked on drugs in his mission to stay slim for Liberace, and, after a few years, his addiction and Liberace�s philandering bring a cruel end to the relationship, after which Thorson unsuccessfully sues for palimony.
Douglas, too, sports a variety of looks. Liberace is seen before and after his own plastic-surgery refresher, and, in a final scene, gravely sick from an AIDS-related illness from which he died in 1987 at age 67.
This death scene is particularly haunting for anyone who followed Douglas� recent near-death experience. �Candelabra� is his comeback performance after a brutal 6-month regimen of radiation and chemotherapy for stage 4 throat cancer in 2010.
When he stepped in front of the cameras after his own brush with mortality, he seems to have embraced Liberace as a positive life force and a fitting way to get back in the game.
�Yeah, I did,� he nodded. �I was enraptured by the joy that Lee had. He was a bit of sunshine to me.�
But Liberace also had a dark side. This, Douglas also captures despite a refusal to acknowledge it.
�It sort of happened,� he said. �It was there in the story.�
And while he allowed that �Candelabra� viewers might see Liberace as tormented and self-destructive, among sunnier traits, �I didn�t see him that way. I didn�t see a dark side to him.
�My career has been more in the gray area, if not the dark area,� Douglas went on (needing to point no further than rapacious money man Gordon Gekko in the 1987 film �Wall Street,� a character for which he won a best-actor Oscar, then revived it in the 2010 sequel, �Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps�).
Playing Liberace �was so much fun!� he said. �You put on this mask and it allows you to do anything you want. I don�t get to do that very often. My movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton.�
In �Candelabra,� Douglas certainly got to wear a lot of makeup, and subsequent projects should allow him to embody other colorful characters � such as President Ronald Reagan in the film he was about to start, �Reykjavik.�
�I�ve always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be,� Douglas said. �But during this 2-year-plus hiatus, a bunch of good material came my way.�
As he spoke, he had already wrapped a comedy called �Last Vegas.� Ahead is a Rob Reiner film with Diane Keaton, and a couple after that.
�I�m at an age where I can try different things, do much different stuff than I thought I could do,� he summed up, looking pleased at a career (and himself) unexpectedly reborn. �I�m starting over. What I went through with Liberace has given me the confidence for this.�


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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/23/epsrc_hydrogen_project/
Scientists build caramel-powered margarine-making fuel cell
Cadbury's E. coli hydrogen fermenter
Posted in Science, 23rd May 2006 14:31 GMT
Scientists from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) have found that waste from confectionery production could be used to produce useful amounts of hydrogen for electricity generation. The feasibility study used sugar-rich waste from a Cadbury's factory to power a fuel cell.
E. coli bacteria in a five litre vessel fermented run-off from nougat and caramel production lines to produce hydrogen. A second culture of Rhodobacter sphaeroides was added to increase the yield of the reaction.
Adding palladium turns what little waste does remain into a useful catalyst that can be used in removing PCB pollutants from the environment, making fuel-cell electrodes, or for hydrogenation for products like margarine.
An assessment by a bioprocesses consultancy said the set-up could be scaled up to produce industrial quantities of carbon-free fuel.
Project leader Lynne Macaskie of Birmingham University said: "Although only at its initial stages, we've demonstrated a hydrogen-producing, waste-reducing technology that, for example, might be scaled up in five to 10 years time for industrial electricity generation and waste treatment."
Work is ongoing by the EPSRC to turn the principles proven in this work into practical generation projects. There's a video of the technology in action here. ®