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Gentoo is a source-based distro, which means that the user should compile everything from scratch in order to get a working installation. It requires a fast internet connection and lots of patience. Installation should normally take quite some hours, depending on the speed of your computer, but the Gentoo guys also offer a 110 MB i686-pre-compiled image that includes the basic software needed to boot Gentoo. The only thing that it doesn't come pre-compiled is of course the actual kernel, which must be configured manually by the user.
To keep the long story short, Gentoo's installation process is definately not for Unix or Linux newbies. While the installation page at Gentoo.org is very self-explanatory, there are still several bugs during the installation process (I personally stumped on a kernel/ACPI bug, while GRUB just wouldn't see any of my IDE drives at all, and had to "emerge" and install LILO) and overall the whole process is slow and at least "sensitive" to user errors. On the bright side, when the system downloads the source for the kernel, it also downloads a special big Gentoo kernel patch that applies automatically, which includes several patches, like the preemptive patch, XFS support, BFS support and other goodies that are not part of the standard stock kernel.
After the basic configuration had finished, I rebooted and, with a single command "emerge kde", Gentoo fetched off the web KDE and all its dependancies (XFree, assosiated libraries etc). And then, I left the machine compiling everything from source (with the optimization flags on), and I went to sleep. The time was already 1 AM. Next morning, the compilation had finished and I was ready to really use the machine as a workstation.
After you get everything working the way you want to, you definetely get a feeling of accomplishment, plus the speed that comes when you compile the whole system with the i686 -O3 GCC (optimization) flags.
User Experience
In my time, I have tried quite a number of Linux distributions, including Red Hat, Mandrake, Corel, SuSE, and recently Lycoris, among others. However, none of them was able to boot faster than one minute or so. Gentoo boots in 19 seconds on my aged dual Celeron 533 Mhz, and what is amusing is that I have installed Gentoo on my "ancient" Fujitsu 10.4 GB hard drive (bought in 1998), while most the other distros I mentioned above were installed on the almost twice faster IBM 75GXP 30 GB IDE drive.
I installed KDM as the display manager, because simply editing the rc.conf (acording to instructions) for the window manager of my choice it didn't work for me. Typing 'startx' was always loading twm, regardless of the rc.conf file. After installing KDM, I chose KDE, and indeed KDE 3.0 loaded. Since then I have also successfully installed WindowMaker, XFCE, Oroborus, BlackBox and IceWM.
Gentoo certainly feels faster than the other distributions, but not under KDE. KDE 3 is just slow for me, with the No 1 slow application being Konqueror. Building KDE 3 from source and with optimization flags certainly helped, but the popular X11 environment is slower than its predessesors in responsiveness (even with bleeding edge kernel patches trying to fight for exactly that). Instead of saying that "KDE 3 is faster under Gentoo," I will have to rephrase that to be "KDE 3 is less slow under Gentoo than on other distros."
KDE 3's general UI responsiveness may be truly bad, but loading times are much better under Gentoo. Konqueror loads in 3 seconds (first load), and open a subsequent window in 1-2 seconds. Under Mandrake with (objprelinked) KDE 2 or 3, it takes 6 seconds to open a Konqueror window and 3-4 seconds to open a new window. And Mandrake is installed on a much faster drive...
You truly realise Gentoo's speed though under a faster environment, like XFCE, BlackBox or WindowMaker. Everything is snappy, and file operations are also fast with the use of the XFS file system. Snappy for a Linux, that is. FreeBSD 4.5 has proved for me to be a bit faster than Gentoo in general usage, plus on loading and shutdown times (16 and 2 seconds respectively as opposed to Gentoo's 19 and 16 seconds - still faster than any other Linux distro I know though).
The other great feature you can find on Gentoo is devfs, which is supported by default, and it really helps greatly on system management. For example, mounting alien partitions or specifying audio drivers for apps like MPlayer, is now a piece of cake.
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John Rooney, the 20-year-old younger brother of Manchester United's Wayne Rooney, headlines a list of young international players who will join the college seniors and Generation adidas signees invited to participate in the annual MLS player combine in January.
The English midfielder, who trialed with the Seattle Sounders and Portland Timbers in August, has signed an MLS contract and will be available for selection by all MLS clubs via the SuperDraft in Baltimore.
MLSsoccer.com caught up with Rooney back in England as he prepares to embark on his American dream.
MLSsoccer.com: Why MLS? What has struck you about the league that you want to play in America?
John Rooney: I've been watching the league for a few years now and it's getting better and better every year. When I went over there in August I thoroughly enjoyed it. I went to one of the Seattle games [while on trial] and the Sounders fans were great. They [Sounders] had great support and it was a great experience. When I went over there it was fantastic from the start.
MLSsoccer.com: How did the opportunity with Seattle come about?
John Rooney: I played for Macclesfield in the English league and they offered me a new contract. But I was focused on the chance and the opportunity to go over there [USA] in August and trial with two teams [Seattle and Portland]. It was the right time in my career to go over there and to improve on my young career.
MLSsoccer.com: Portland manager John Spencer played in England. How did you hit it off during your trial?
John Rooney: I didn't really speak to him. He had only just got the Portland job when I was there. I really didn't get to meet him.
MLSsoccer.com: What was your impression from your MLS trials?
John Rooney: I really enjoyed it. The lifestyle and the football there [in USA] was great. I thoroughly enjoyed it and I wanted to get back over there and have a career over there.
MLSsoccer.com: What's your position on the field and what are your characteristics?
John Rooney: I trialed at midfield. In Portland I played up front in one game and I moved to midfield. Midfield is my best position. I'm probably more of an attacking midfielder. Getting on the ball and making stuff happen, creating plays.
MLSsoccer.com: How has it been waiting four months without a club?
John Rooney: It's been tough. I really wanted to come over there [USA] and now I'm just waiting to get myself going and get started.
MLSsoccer.com: How have you stayed fit over the last four months?
John Rooney: I've been training with Tranmere Rovers. Since I've come home from the United States I've been training there to keep myself fit and in shape. I can't wait to get going.
MLSsoccer.com: Aside from Macclesfield Town, any other offers that came in for you over the last four months?
John Rooney: There were a few teams sniffing around from the higher leagues but I wanted to change my career and go to the United States to build on my own career over there [in USA].
MLSsoccer.com: Are you familiar with the way the SuperDraft works?
John Rooney: When I first went over [to USA] I started reading up about the draft and how the league worked. For the last four months I've been looking at the web site every day and reading about how it works. I have an idea now. I can't wait to get over there and get started.
MLSsoccer.com: Do you have an idea of the teams which are interested in you?
John Rooney: When the draft comes. I haven't spoken to any teams at the moment. When the combine starts I need to address the coaches that are watching and take it from there.
MLSsoccer.com: Any special connections to the USA?
John Rooney: That was my first time in the United States [in the summer]. But I heard a lot of good stuff. My family was on vacation and they love the United States. When I went over there I was just surprised how good it was and I couldn't wait to get back over there [to USA] and play soccer over there.
MLSsoccer.com: What has your brother [Manchester United's Wayne Rooney] told you about the United States?
John Rooney: He told me about a few of the teams he played when they've been over on tour. The team [Manchester United] enjoyed it a lot and he likes it over there [in USA].
MLSsoccer.com: Do you see this as an opportunity to make a name for yourself outside of England?
John Rooney: That's why I want to get over there [to USA] -- so it's just me. And I want to build my own career over there and do my best. Hopefully I'll enjoy it.
MLSsoccer.com: When do you leave England for the United States?
John Rooney: I fly out on the 2nd of January. I'll get used to the time change over there and probably take in a bit of training before the Combine starts [Jan. 7].
MLSsoccer.com: In the meantime, any special holiday plans in the Rooney household?
John Rooney: I'm spending it with the family before I go away. Looking forward to spending it with the family.
MLSsoccer.com: Any messages for MLS fans before they see you at the Combine?
John Rooney: Hopefully they like my style of play, what I bring to the field and the way I am.


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Skip to comments.Barry Bonds hopes to kiss about 40 pounds goodbye this winter
Posted on 10/02/2005 8:15:17 PM PDT by weef
SAN FRANCISCO -- Giants general manager Brian Sabean thinks Barry Bonds could be physically ready to play around 120 games for San Francisco next season.
Barry Bonds hopes to kiss about 40 pounds goodbye this winter.
Sabean and Bonds both have acknowledged the slugger needs an intense conditioning program over the winter to shed some weight Bonds put on while recovering from three operations this year on his right knee.
Sabean hinted that Bonds might continue to work with physical therapist Clive Brewster in Los Angeles this offseason under the direction of Angels' team orthopedist Dr. Lewis Yocum, the pair who oversaw Bonds' rehabilitation for two months this summer in Southern California.
"It's reasonable to think he can play 120 games," Sabean said Sunday before the Giants' final game of the year against Arizona. "Now, will we be in a position to have to rest him and be conscious that he's going to come in some days cranky and not be able to go? The next step is to get him in spring training and get him in a position to be able to do that. I think he wants that."
Bonds, who turned 41 in July, shut it down for the final four games of the season including a three-game weekend series against the Arizona Diamondbacks after playing in 14 games this season with 13 starts in left field -- all last month. The seven-time NL MVP batted .286 (12-for-42) with five home runs and 10 RBIs, drawing nine walks and striking out six times.
He has 708 career homers, third on the all-time list behind Babe Ruth (714) and Hank Aaron (755), Bonds' baseball hero. Bonds homered in four straight games Sept. 16-21.
Bonds said in a recent interview he would like to get his playing weight down to around 200, which would mean losing approximately 40 pounds this winter. He was at 185 as a rookie in 1986, but hasn't been close to that in years.
"I think we all know he can still hit," Sabean said. "Again, he never had a spring training and he had no rehab assignment. So, it's pretty impressive not so much that the skills are still there, but for him to get back on the field to whatever degree, it spurs him to next year and more so how it translated to help the ballclub, I think is good for everybody. I really believe especially a position player no matter how great you are, it's very difficult to take a whole year off.
"He now knows, not that he wouldn't have if he had played, he knows firsthand that he's still the force he was before he missed all this time."
As far as Bonds potentially making a switch to the American League to become a designated hitter, Sabean doesn't expect it to happen.
"He has never made an overture he wants to be anywhere but here," Sabean said. "He's told everybody in the past he wants to retire as a Giant."
Manager Felipe Alou is already envisioning his every day lineup for next season with Bonds in the cleanup spot followed by the skipper's son, Moises.
"We believe Barry is going to come back healthy and better than this year," Alou said.
Under intense scutiny, Bonds will not be juicing, therefore he will be losing muscle mass. Muscle weighing more than fat, Bonds will lose weight.
He's probably off his feed...
LOL...the jokes just write themselves
yep. maybe he'll start to talk with a man's voice, too. nahhhhh...
And his testicles will remain shrunken. Although, I in no way claim to know what they look like.
He can start by cutting off his head. It's filled with adipose.
I wonder If he'll misteriously go into a slump next year, then he'll somehow suddenly come out of it, like Jason Giambi has.
He doesn't need to be in the Hall of Fame for four reasons:
1. He was abysmal in the post season in Pittsburgh. Chico Lind had as many homeruns as he did and if he hit his post roid rage weight the Pirates would have gone to at least one maybe two or three World Series.
2. He juiced. If people can say Palmier doesn't belong in the Hall neither does Bonds, or Maguire or Sosa.
3. Anybody who cannot throw Sid Bream out at home on a single to left when Bream started on second has no business staking any claim to the Hall of Fame.
4. Barry told the media after he won the Home Run Derby at the All Star Game that they could no longer claim he'd never won anything. Anybody who confuses winning batting practice with a real baseball championship is too stupid to be in the Hall of Fame.
Ahh..perhaps my favorite call:
Skip Carey: "Swung -line drive left field! One run is in! Here comes Bream!! Here's the throw to the plate! He issss.....SAFE!! Braves Win! Braves Win! Braves Win! Braves Win!!!!" (Still gives me chillbumps....)
Bonds might continue to work...under the direction of Angels' team orthopedist Dr. Lewis Yocum.
They say the sure fire test for steroids is measuring the head. Working out doesn't make the head get bigger but using 'roids does.
Didn't JFK have to use steroids for his 'Graves Disease' condition? Prior to using the roids, he had a much thinner melon, more like Bobby Kennedy. But you see the pictures of him during his Presidency, and pictures of him and Bobby together, and JFK's head got much bigger.
Bonds is a joke, as are most of these juiceheads in baseball. And don't forget football, the whole league is on the stuff.
Yeah, you may get chillbumps but that call makes me want to raise a few bumps on the top of Barry's humongous roid enlarged noggin.
Oh absolutely. That's a fact.
My comment about adipose was directed more figuratively. ;)
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Mathew Sisson has been trying to buy a home in Boulder for going on a year now.
During most of that time, Sisson encountered a market with below-average levels of inventory and rebounding sales activity.
"It's just really tough," Sisson said. "There are two to three (different) offers typically. I'm right at asking price or often above and still having problems competing with people."
Then the market got even tighter.
Following last month's historic flooding across Boulder County, rental options diminished and homebuyer ranks grew as displaced residents sought shelter; plans to list homes were temporarily shelved because of water damage; and work on new homes was set back by months for repairs and mitigation efforts.
Area real estate observers and research indicate that the flood and torrential rains may not only affect the local housing industry in the short term, but also the long term.
Studying other disasters
A week after the flood, local Realtor Steve Altermatt wanted to get a better understanding of what the Boulder-area housing landscape would look like months from now.
So Altermatt, a Re/Max of Boulder Realtor with 28 years of experience, turned to researching past disasters' effects on their respective housing industries.
To provide some context, Altermatt is examining the number of homes sold, the average sales price, median sales price and end-of-quarter inventory for the cities and markets directly affected by disasters that include the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, and more.
Altermatt is tracking housing data during the quarter before each disaster, the quarter of the disaster and the four following quarters.
As of last week, he still was collecting data from some of the markets and affected counties.
"It's a little too early to say what's happening," he said, adding that he still had plenty more digging to do and questions to ask.
Altermatt noted that the 2007 wildfires in Southern California occurred concurrently with the recession, so it may be difficult to determine the effect of the fires as a slew of foreclosures happened in the following quarters.
However, Altermatt said he was able to glean some possible trends from the initial data he has received.
In several of the markets, the effects in the immediate quarter include drops in inventory and increases in the percentage of listings under contract, he said. During the second quarter after the disaster, home values start to rise.
"In some cases, they rise pretty dramatically," he said.
Average prices of homes sold in Joplin, Mo., for example, climbed by 20 percent in the quarter of the 2011 tornado and by another 16 percent the following quarter, he said, noting scarce inventory levels. The prices dropped down 9 percent in the second quarter after the disaster and remained at that value for the following two quarters, he added.
Altermatt plans to present his full findings in November at the Boulder Valley Real Estate Conference, but added that early local data already is aligning with what he's seen in other markets.
"Our inventory, throughout the whole year, week by week, was 50 (percent) to 60 percent of what was average," he said. "So now, since the flooding, we're at 40 percent of what we see on average."
Low inventory
Inventory levels for single-family homes and attached dwellings in Boulder are 51 percent and 40 percent, respectively, of the 8-year average, said Osman Parvez, a Boulder real estate agent and author of the "House Einstein" blog at boulderrealty.blogspot.com.
"I was really shocked," Parvez said of the current inventory levels as compared to the average levels between 2004 and 2011.
It may take a couple months for the data to show the potential effects of the flood, he said, adding that the October numbers won't be released until early November.
Additionally, the floods hit in September, which typically marks a seasonal slowdown in home sales volumes, he said. As the market thins, the statistics can become easily skewed.
Just how the floods will affect the home-buying process in the future remains to be seen, but Parvez suggested concerns related to water damage and location may sit at the top of buyers' minds.
"In the future, we're probably going to see a lot more due diligence around mold and flood damage," he said.
Prospective homebuyer Amy Gahran said her awareness about potential issues has heightened.
"It worries me as somebody who's looking," she said. "I've heard (that) some people are trying to claim that their property had no flood damage when it clearly did."
Brady Burke, owner of Boulder-based Burke Builders LLC, has taken on a few flood repair jobs for his current client base and had one project stall because the mitigation process was not properly completed.
Burke has had little trouble securing materials, adding that there was an initial shortage of drywall at retailers such as The Home Depot.
"I think people were trying to make immediate repairs ... I think it's probably too fast," he said.
Lafayette-based Drywall Mart Inc. is selling a "few hundred" sheets of drywall per week, supplying roughly five to 10 basement projects per day, said Jon Melsness, general manager.
"This glut of flood-cut for basements ... there's definitely been an uptick," he said.
The boom for Drywall Mart also comes as the drywall equipment and supplies retailer is doing similar work of its own.
Waters from Coal Creek swept through the building at 1901 S. 120th St. and turned the company's steelyard into a gravel yard, he said. The flood washed away thousands of dollars worth of steel, which was "spindled like aluminum foil," Melsness said.
He estimates the company also lost several hundred sheets of drywall.
"We were literally digging out of mud at the same time our customers were," he said. "We stayed open."
Melsness also said it remained a high priority for the company to not change its prices.
"We have not gouged people," he said. "We know what it feels like being flooded."
Under construction
Michael Markel, a 40-year veteran in the local home-building industry and owner of Markel Homes, said he also has heard of instances of price-gouging. Markel said he is concerned that out-of-state subcontractors may be quoting projects for double or triple the actual cost.
"I think people have to be really alert and be careful about what they're willing to pay," he said.
Markel added that his Markel Homes' developments in Boulder County were fortunate in having sustained minimal to no damage from the floods.
While some infrastructure improvements are needed on roads neighboring some projects, the subdivisions themselves remained relatively unscathed, he said.
"We do a lot of work to make sure that the projects are engineered to handle a big event," he said. "Of course, that was a very big event."
Among those efforts were drainage improvements such as detention ponds. The ponds at Markel's subdivisions handled the downpour and metered the water out as designed.
"Some of the places filled up, but at the same time, they didn't spill over or go into people's basements," he said. "But I think the biggest surprise for me, (what) shocked me, were the areas that weren't major floodways in some neighborhoods that got devastated."
At Ryland Homes' developments in Erie, Lafayette, Longmont and Johnstown, about 25 houses were directly affected by the floods and another 25 under construction that were "not dried in" and did not yet have a roof also were delayed, said Dan Nickless, division president.
Ryland also spent more than $250,000 replacing erosion control measures, he said.
"Any of those (erosion control) efforts were completed in three to four days," he said. "Fortunately for us, it's been days, not weeks."
The physical damage taken by homes in development was fairly minimal, but some deliveries might experience weeks-long or months-long delays, he said.
Ryland workers have spent recent weeks tearing off siding and sheeting that was saturated, pumping out excavation pits that filled up like swimming pools and fully drying sites before adding fresh materials.
"We're being very careful," he said. "We're going to deliver the same house they contracted for."
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The Quantitative High Alpha ESG Strategy targets companies with strong financial indicators and sustainability qualities, says Geir Lode, head of Hermes Quantitative Equities.
Sustainable returns: The strategy, launched on May 1, 2013, aims to capitalise on the idea that companies will generate better long-term stock returns if they mitigate environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks. Our analysis indicates that governance risk influenced stock performance more than other sustainability factors from the end of 2010 to March 28.
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Proprietary insight: To generate the scores, we use research from Hermes Equity Ownership Services (Hermes EOS) – which represents about $150 billion of institutional investor assets– and data feeds from Sustainalytics, Trucost, FactSet and Bloomberg. We do not rigidly exclude stocks: companies that are improving the ways that they mitigate sustainability risks, and those in constructive dialogue with Hermes EOS, will be considered for investment.
Governance gains: Among ESG risks, governance was recently the strongest contributor to returns. It drove a 40-basis-point divergence each month between the best and worst-performing stocks, known as the quintile spread, between December 31, 2010 and March 28, 2013.
Quintile spread of the Q-ESG scores categories (%)
Note: The chart above shows the quintile spread, the performance differential between the stocks ranked most attractive and least attractive on each factor.
Source: Hermes Quantitative Equities from 31 Dec 2010 through 28 March 2013.
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With one out of every two marriages currently ending in divorce, marital separation is no longer the taboo subject it once was. However, a new study from the UK suggests that even though divorces are now more commonplace, the mental impact these separations have on children has not decreased.
In fact, researchers claim that not only does divorce adversely affect children during and immediately after their parent's separation, it continues to affect their mental stability well into adulthood.
Plus: Helping Little Ones Cope with Divorce
According to the study, family breakdown during childhood is "consistently associated with psychological distress in adulthood during people's early 30s".
The report goes on to specify, "People who suffer stresses such as parental divorce in childhood are at a higher risk of social and psychological problems later in their adult lives."
Plus: Explaining Divorce to Children
In contrast, children raised in two-parent households were seen to have better health, positive social lives, and more rewarding careers.
"Children whose parents remain married throughout the early childhood years are less likely to suffer from breathing problems such as asthma, to become overweight, or to be injured in accidents by the time they are five years old than children who have experienced a more unstable family situation," said researcher Mel Bartley.
Did you divorce your partner after having a child? How did you handle your child's anxieties regarding the split? Leave a comment and let us know.


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Caltrans needs to stop catering to the needs of cars to zip through our neighborhoods, and instead prioritize safety and access for all street users.
Join us in calling on Caltrans to create strong traffic analysis guidelines that pave the way for bike- and pedestrian-friendly streets.
Caltrans should issue a clear directive to its engineers on how they assess the impact of traffic on our communities, to create streets that reduce car travel and greenhouse gas emissions.
Our petition calls on Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty to show leadership and ensure that Caltrans creates strong traffic analysis guidelines—with the help of stakeholders like CalBike—that pave the way for bike- and walk-friendly streets. Read more detailed background about this petition.
As people who care about biking and walking in California, we urge Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty to move forward immediately with creating strong traffic analysis guidelines that require state highways to be analyzed and designed to reduce vehicle travel and mirror VMT thresholds in the Office of Planning and Research's new CEQA traffic analysis guidelines.
We need strong prescriptive guidelines that make clear that Caltrans engineers should transform how they evaluate and redesign state highways to be complete streets rather than high-speed arterials that divide neighborhoods.Level of service is an outdated way of analyzing traffic impacts on our communities and our environment. Our priority as a state should be to reduce vehicle travel and greenhouse gases and build healthy communities where it is easy and safe to walk and ride bicycles.


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I am graphic designer in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I purchased this house (first time homebuyer) two months ago, and have buried myself in painting, refinishing, and DIY projects (a lot that I picked up from this site) everyday since. The house for the most part is finally complete.
My inspiration comes from the work I do where classic style meets bold colors. The challenges I faced with the space was number a limited budget, things had to be reused, recycled, and done myself. Also, the majority of the furniture came with the home, so putting my personal touch to things was priority number one. Refinishing furniture, painting the walls, etc. made this little garden house a home.
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ST. LOUIS -- Greenville College's Corinne Coon, a sophomore from Warsaw, Ind. (Warsaw Community High School), has been named the Volleyball Offensive Player of the Week for the week of September 12-18.
Coon, an opposite side hitter, averaged 2.63 kills per set and had a .437 attack percentage in four matches played last week. She also added eight total digs and had 11 blocks.
Coon posted nine kills and no errors on 13 total attempts for a .692 attack percentage in a 3-0 victory (25-11, 25-17, 25-19) against Robert Morris University-Springfield. Her next performance of the week included 10 kills and only one error in 24 total attempts, as Greenville defeated Illinois College 3-2 (24-26, 23-25, 26-24, 26-24, 16-14). Coon also added three digs and six total blocks in the win.
In a key conference matchup, Coon came up big with 18 kills and a .429 attack percentage to help lead the Panthers to a 3-2 win (21-25, 25-21, 25-20, 18-25, 16-14) versus Webster University. She finished the week with five kills and three digs as Greenville lost 3-0 (18-25, 20-25, 19-25) to Spalding University.


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Thus far, the trade deadline is unfolding as we expected, with the few teams with desireable resources holding firm on their asking prices to the plethora of teams who all seem to be searching for the same thing.
Today in the New York Post, esteemed national baseball writer Joel Sherman includes a conversation with an anonymous baseball executive whose team has expressed interest in Carlos Beltran. That executive proceeds to lay out the case why the Mets will not be getting a Top 40 prospect in return for Beltran. We probably don't have to point out the obvious conflicts of interest here, but we will anyway. A team that has interest in Beltran is going to do everything in its power to play down the asking price for said player, if only because it will then have a trickle down effect on the market price for other trade candidates. The exec contends that the Mets are going to have to settle for a package of B-level prospects rather than the elite prospect they seek.
One of his rationalizations is the Mark Teixeira and Matt Holliday deals, which are described as a "pittance." Except, as we detailed in a previous post, those deals weren't exactly "pittances." Brett Wallace was a Top 50 prospect who was swapped for Holliday. He is now starting at first base for the Astros and having a solid season. The Braves, meanwhile, landed Casey Kotchman, a major-league ready hitter who was a former Top 10 prospect. I do agree with the executive's contention that teams totally overvalue their prospects. For example, knowing the Phillies' history and organizational philosophy, they would much rather trade Vance Worley than any of their young pitchers, even though Worley has at least shown that he can hold his own against major league hitters and those young pitchers are all at least two or three years away from even getting that chance to prove themselves. That's not saying that Worley has as much upside as Trevor May. But he at least looks like he has a future as a No. 4 or No. 5 starter or, at the very least, a solid bullpen piece. The young pitchers, meanwhile, are still competing against kids who can't legally drink alcohol, and have several years to get hurt or run into other road blocks in their development.
Regardless, it will be interesting to see how the Beltran situation resolves itself. One of the enjoyable parts of the trade deadline is watching the smoke signals that rival general managers send to each other through the media. For example, the executive that talked to Sherman is likely trying to forge some unity amongst the various teams who are competing for Beltran, laying out what an acceptable asking price is. But all it takes is one team to really want Beltran and be willing to part with what it will take to get a deal done. I still get the feeling that is going to happen, that the pressure of the deadline and the pressure to win this year will prompt a GM to part with the prospect the Mets desire.
I do not think that team will be the Phillies. They have too many competitors this time around to get away with the type of deal they used to land Roy Oswalt. Which is why their best course of action may be to go for quantity over quality: a second-division right-handed hitter along with a couple of relievers or maybe even a couple of hitters along with a relievers. Brandon League is a name that has been mentioned, but I don't know how much stock I would place into that. He has a great groundball rate, but he isn't really strikeout pitcher and he's been pitching in a pitcher's park the last couple of years. I just don't see what he brings you that makes him worth parting with anybody of value. The Marlins' Randy Choate would be a viable addition. Oakland lefty Craig Breslow is a guy who is supposedly available, but lefties have been hitting him pretty hard this season.
The biggest relief name out there is the Padres Heath Bell. Depending on the asking price, he'd be a solid addition. But I just don't know that he is going to be worth his asking price. Mike Adams is the better piece in that bullpen, although all of the national reports suggest that he is staying put. If the Phillies do not land a Beltran or a Hunter Pence or a B.J. Upton, the goal should be to fill a couple of needs. Josh Willingham and a reliever or Reed Johnson and a reliever would be my top two targeted packages, but that's just me. I'd also keep an eye on the Marlins' Omar Infante. He's struggled offensively this year, but he brings a lot of value in his versatility, and it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world for the Phillies to build themselves some more infield depth.
Johnson is more of a rotational guy who could play right or left in place of Domonic Brown or Raul Ibanez plus provide some better right-handed punch off the bench. He is also a gritty veteran who is regarded as a great clubhouse guy. Willingham would be more of an every day option, although his defense leaves something to desire. Otherwise, there aren't a whole lot of options out there. A package that includes Ryan Ludwick along with one of the Padres relievers wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. I'm not a huge Ludwick fan. But again, that's just me. He'd definitely give opposing pitchers, particularly lefties, something to think about as they face Ryan Howard. Beyond Ludwick, though, I don't see a lot out there. Conor Jackson is a guy we've mentioned here before, and he's been swinging well lately, but he is more in the Reed Johnson mode. Adding a couple of bats wouldn't be the worst idea, but I don't get the sense that the Phillies think they need to do that.
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I've been reading Horace's Satires, and I must say that I'm having a terrific time with them. I've found some helpful explanatory material on the Web, some pretty hilarious bowdlerized translations too.
Anyway, I have a question regarding the Horatian hexameter. We're a *long* way from the rolling cadences of Vergil, and reading the Satires aloud emphasizes the conversational quality of the rhythm. My problem is with moments like this line ending so :
... retinere velis servareque amicos
(Satirarum Liber I,1,89)
Okay, I know the rule of accent here, but how would you read those feet ? Does the elision nullify the accent displaced by the enclitic and replace it to the strong accent on the long penultimate of servare ? Do the ancient or other grammarians address the accent rule in this sort of instance ? A&G just ignore it in their grammar.
Horace does a lot of funky stuff during those last two feet. Reading his hexameters after reading his lyric poetry is like moving from Ovid to Plautus. A bit unfamiliar at first but a lot of fun once you get the hang of the versification.


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Portman said, "One thing we need to do is to not promote policies in Washington that he's promoting that makes it harder to get ahead in Ohio."
"In this election, you have a very, very clear choice," Fisher told debate viewers. "You can choose someone who has been on the ground in every corner of this state working to save jobs in the middle of this national recession and is just as angry as you are at the Washington insiders who caused this recession. Or you can choose my opponent, Congressman Portman, who the Washington Post calls Mr. Washington."
Portman said, "If you like the way things are going, think we're headed in the right direction, you should probably support my opponent. If you're ready for a change, if you believe there's a better way, I hope you'll join our cause."
"Let's focus first on what policies got us into this recession," said Fisher, "because we can't afford to go back to the same people and the same policies that dug us the deepest economic ditch in most of our lifetimes."
Portman painted Fisher as the status quo responsible for the economic woes.
He cited as an example the air freight company DHL which devastated Wilmington when it began shuttering operations in 2008. DHL shocked city and state officials when it announced plans in 2008 to discontinue ground delivery services, which led to the end of operations in Wilmington and the loss of nearly 8,000 jobs.
Fisher responded to Portman's criticism about company visits that he doesn't need to tour factories because he's has on-the-ground experience negotiating deals and saving companies.
Portman shot back: "Maybe you ought to visit some more of those factories because that's not what I'm hearing."
Portman said the high unemployment rate is creating a "brain drain" for Ohio. "Ohio is falling behind," he said. "We're losing businesses to other states. Some of the bes and brightest young people in Ohio are leaving our state."
Fisher sought to deflect Portman's criticism that he wasn't personally involved in the effort to save jobs. He said you do so "one job at a time, one business at a time." He cited successful efforts to save jobs in his work with Gov. Strickland.
Portman said he is committed to direct involvement to save and create jobs and highlighted a recent encounter with an unemployed Cleveland mother looking for work.
Portman, a top adviser to President George W. Bush, stuck to his main campaign theme: Fisher and the Democrats are to blame for Ohio's nearly 400,000 job losses.
Both candidates argued that other was of more of a career politician and insider, which injected energy into the debate. Fisher referred to Portman--a former corporate lawyer--as a lobbyist, Mr. Washington, a rubber stamp and the chief architect of Bush policies.
Asked by a debate panelist to reconcile such claims with his own long career as a political insider, Fisher said, "The bottom line is not so much whether you serve, it's who you serve. I think he's serving the lobbyists and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the insurance industry and Wall Street," Fisher said.
Fisher said Portman has backed trade policies that have sent Ohio jobs overseas. He repeatedly sought to tie Portman to economic policies of former President George W. Bush, in whose administration Portman served as trade representative.
Portman said Fisher's proposals would mean job-killing higher taxes. "You can't continue to raise taxes," he said.
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland implemented a tax cut in 2005 that resulted in state income taxes that are 16.8 percent less than they were in 2004, said a spokeswoman for Fisher, Ohio's lieutenant governor [under Strickland].
Fisher called for more stringent trade and tax policies to discourage companies from moving overseas. Portman's economic solutions included more favorable tax and regulatory policies to encourage business development, more effective workforce training programs, and undefined spending cuts to lower the deficit. He said his health-care plan would include provisions to restrict malpractice lawsuits, a GOP priority left out of the new law.
A big moment came when Fisher evoked the name of legendary Buckeye coach Woody Hayes when talking about saving jobs at plants like Cooper Tire in Findlay. "It means that we're going down that field, just like Woody Hayes did. Three yards and a cloud of dust, and we are not giving up," he said.
Portman responded by saying, "I think it's an insult to Woody Hayes' incredible record at Ohio State to somehow compare him to what's happening in Ohio the last four years. It hasn't been a successful game. We've been losing the game."
Fisher rejected cutting Social Security benefits and raising the retirement age, although he does want a bipartisan commission to address the entitlement program's long-term fiscal problems.
Although the Bush administration had sought to create private Social Security accounts, Portman said it was "not true" that he supported privatizing the program. Fisher often quotes from a 2007 interview in which Portman called the Bush proposal "very sound."
Portman admonished Fisher to "stop scaring seniors" about Social Security. But he added, "We do need to look at reforming the system" to ensure that the entitlement program survives for future generations
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My 8 for 2008
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It's been a busy start to 2008 and with 365 {well, now 361} more days ahead of me, here are a few creative goals I'd like to focus on for this year:
1. Take more pictures and learn how to better use my camera {Canon Rebel XT} settings.
Whenever we get back from a trip, I always wish I had taken more pictures. This kinda hit me over the holidays while spending time with family. We also tend to have tons of pictures of buildings {husband = architect} and signage {me = graphic designer}, but not very many of us in the places we've been.
I might also like to get a small point and shoot to have with me at all times as I don't always take the "big one" with me. I'm dreaming about a Leica D-Lux 3, but hmmm, maybe we'll have to see how Goal #8 goes.
It's been a long time since my Intro to Photography class (where we processed film ourselves, imagine that) and I just haven't made the time to brush up on the basics. As a result, we've got lots of blurred and washed out photos. Anyways, along with goal number 1 above, I'm hoping to freshen up my photo skills.
So, the more the merrier and practice makes perfect!
3. Print more pictures
I'm sure many of you can identify with this, but I've got thousands of photos and a handful of prints since I started using a digital camera about 6 years ago. Sad to say, our wedding pictures aren't even printed. I'm considering doing hardcover photo books versus prints and finding albums. iPhoto and blurb seem to be the most promising as far as well designed templates; any other suggestions?
4. Get my sewing on
This is pretty embarassing to say, but a couple years back I was given a very nice Janome sewing machine for my birthday and I've maybe used it 2 or 3 times since. I've got lots of fabric stashed away for various pillows and small projects around the house. I'm really good at starting new projects, but not so good at seeing them to the end.
5. Write {and blog} more often
Writing is not a huge strength of mine, but if find that the more I write, the easier it is. I'd also like to keep up with posting on black.white.bliss more often.
6. Keep my home office organized
This is sort of related to creativity. . .I tend to use our second bedroom/my home office as sort of a collecting and organizing space. I pick up all over the house and it all usually gets dumped in that room to eventually be sorted. And eventually never comes. A tidy room means more space of creative ideas to flow!
7. Get my recipes organized
There is just one word to describe the current state of my recipe "box". . .chaos. I also have a very bad habit of not writing recipes down. I've memorized lots of my mom's best recipes and I'd like to be able to pass them on. As much as I dream about designing by own template pages and book covers, I know the reality is it won't happen {see Goal #3, no wedding pictures printed}. I recently came across Tastebook where you can make your own custom recipe books and they seem to have some pretty nice templates. I'll let you know how it goes if I ever get it a try.
8. Start a small design business.
This is something I've always had this filed in the "eventually" folder, but with resources like blogs, Etsy, etc., why not now? I'll probably focus on paper goods {maybe get my Gocco out more often and fire up my tiny little Sigwalt letterpress} since that's what I know best, but who knows, I gotta just take that first step and get out there.
Whoa, so there it is! I think this just might be one of the longest posts I've ever done. . .looks like I'm already on my way to accomplishing #5!


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As an 8-year-old in public school in Newark, N.J., Sotere Torregian was sent with a note for the music teacher, told she could be found in the faculty lounge.
As an 8-year-old in public school in Newark, N.J., Sotere Torregian was sent with a note for the music teacher, told she could be found in the faculty lounge.
Somewhere between his classroom and the lounge, Torregian forgot the "don't forget to knock" instruction and opened the door to find the woman, leg bent at the knee, foot resting on another chair, adjusting her nylon stocking.
The image stuck with the little boy, who later began writing about the enticing image when he was supposed to be working on arithmetic with the rest of his class. His teacher picked up the poem, glared at Torregian and tore up his first attempt at poetry.
Thus began the life of a poet who has never grasped even the simplest mathematical concepts, but is writing his 17th and 18th books of poetry.
His 16th, "On the Planet Without Visa," is what he'll share when he speaks at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Troke Library in Stockton.
The title is personal.
"It's about being out of place, being a stranger in a country," Torregian said. "I've always felt a foreigner here, always felt a stranger in this culture. This is not my culture, not my mindset. In a certain sense, an artist always will be displaced, no matter what country. The only place he's at home is in art."
Torregian, 71, knew that from an early age.
He grew up in a multige nerational family in Newark, N.J. speaking Greek and Arabic in the home shared with his maternal grandparents, who'd emigrated to the U.S. from Sicily. He acquired English when he went to school in the town he hated, one that was racially segregated and put him and his mixed-race family at the bottom of the social ladder.
An only child, he was spoiled by a doting grandmother who shielded him from the dangers of other children and outdoor games.
"Books were my companions: 'The Iliad,' 'Homer,' stories of the Normans and the conquest of England," Torregian said.
Those stories aroused the poet in him, and at 16, he discovered Walt Whitman.
"It came to me I was supposed to be a poet," Torregian said. "I carried 'Leaves of Grass' around with me. It was my Bible, my religion, my literature, my philosophy."
He discovered poetry wasn't just rhythms and rhymes. Whitman was a "barbarian American poet with great lines," Torregian said. "He was writing what I had written. I never made rhymes. I wrote in free verse. I discovered this grand American who opened up the world to me."
A year later, at 17, he began translating poems from French, a language he taught himself, and discovered French surrealists.
"They equally loved Walt Whitman," Torregian said. "They were being rebels and I was a rebel. I found a place where I belonged. I was living here in America, but my heart was in France. I shared their whole philosophy of life, their viewpoint about life, love, the power of love, the quest after the marvelous. Those were the most important things to surrealists. It was a philosophy of being rebellious against established society. That's what got me."
He went to Rutgers University, but never had any intention of fulfilling his late grandmother's dream of becoming the family's first doctor. It was the math issue, true, but also his passion for history, philosophy and the classics, Greek and Latin.
The only career option for someone with degrees in those subjects was teaching, but Torregian couldn't earn a credential without some basic math background. Instead, he headed to New York City and wrote poetry and taught at the first Free University of New York with other poet and artist friends.. He also read his work at Cafe Le Metro, sharing the stage with the likes of Alan Ginsburg and Jack Kerouac.
Intensely shy, Torregian wasn't sure he could read the poems he'd written about his love of women and against the establishment and injustices he witnessed. A friend gave him a couple of swigs of Wild Turkey whiskey and he was just fine, reading publicly for the first time in 1962.
"I felt like Superman," he said.
His first book was published in 1965. He's supported his talent with other jobs. After moving to California in 1967 at the insistence of his pregnant wife, who wanted to return to her native state, he worked at a bookstore, then began working with the professor who started the African-American studies program at Stanford University, teaching classes. He spent 10 years working at a library.
He never stopped writing though, even when he moved to Stockton in 2000 to help his daughter care for her mother, who had mental health problems.
He sometimes teaches a course at Pacific on mystical Islam and its relationship to mystical Christianity, but only if there's a demand for it by students. The father of two daughters and grandfather of a boy and a girl, Torregian doesn't drive and doesn't own a computer. He handwrites letters in beautiful script and sends them in stamped envelopes.
More importantly, he writes his poems, and when he finishes the art work to accompany them, publishes them for all to see.
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Hannibal Hamlin's boyhood in the Oxford County shire town of Paris Hill probably was similar to childhoods of innumerable other boys in small, rural communities.
He loved to fish, hunt, farm, read, and engage in practical jokes.
Hamlin also developed an interest in the law and politics and, in 1860, he became Abraham Lincoln's vice president.


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HRV softball rained out vs. R.A. Long
The Hood River Valley softball team's non-league game against R.A. Long of Longview, Wash., was postponed Monday due to rain. The two teams hope to play today in Longview. Thursday's rescheduled game vs. Oregon City has been postponed until May 1. Game time is 4:30 p.m. at Westside Field.
Youth lacrosse underway in HR
Hood River Youth Lacrosse began its season on April 11 at Westside Field, hosting two teams from Grant, and winning both games. The 5th/6th/7th grade team beat a predominantly 7th-grade team behind Jacob Bohince's three goals and Dustyn Lyons' goaltending. Peter Debbaut added two goals, while Steven Konopasek, Drew LaMaita, Henry Hunt and Cameron Kiyokawa each scored one. The local 8th grade team took control and won its game 20-10 behind Ian Bohince's six goals. Paul Spaulding and Zed Debbaut each scored three, while Jonathan Ing and Eli Camero each had two. The next home match for HR Youth Lacrosse is April 28 at Westside.
Baklenko named new volleyball coach
Hood River Valley High School Athletic Director Mitch Sanders announced this week that the school has hired a new head volleyball for the 2003 season. Former Division I player and coach Jennifer Baklenko will join the Eagles coaching staff this summer and will try to help the program emerge from a down year in 2002, when the varsity team went 0-14 in league. Baklenko played collegiate volleyball at the University of California San Diego, and also coached at the University of Toledo. In addition, she coached club volleyball at the Glass City Volleyball Company in Toledo, Ohio. While at UCSD, she was a first-team all-conference selection three times, and was also named to the NCAA All-West Region first team in 1994.
HRWGA enjoying spring weather
Eighteen ladies counted "Fairway Shots Only" for the game of the day on April 14 at Hood River Golf Course. Jo Smith had the low gross score of the day with only 58 fairway shots. Patsy Prideaux used up 61 strokes to take second and Susan Gutzler was third with 64. Barb Zeller finished fourth with 66 and Clara Rice fifth with 69. Mary Smith finished the low net competition with the best score of 47.5. Carol Knowles was second with 48.5, Vera Hawk third with 49.5, Kaz Sumoge fourth with 53.5, and Jeanie Farwig fifth with 54.5.
Dynamos soccer sign-ups next week
The Hood River Dynamos Soccer Club will be holding registration on Tuesday, April 29, and Thursday, May 1, from 5-7 p.m. in Room 203 at Hood River Middle School. New players must be accompanied by a parent, and must bring with them a 2 x 2 photo, a $50 registration fee and a birth certificate. Returning players need all but the birth certificate. Registration is mandatory either of the two nights, and the fee will increase to $60 after May 1. Scholarship funds are also available. Tryout days are scheduled for May 6, 10, 13 and 14. Call 386-2510 with questions.
Masters swim meet this weekend
The Hood River Valley Masters swim team will be hosting a meet at the HR Aquatic Center this Saturday and Sunday from 2-6 p.m. The pool will be closed to public swimming on these days and will resume normal hours on Monday, April 28.
Trail Daze scheduled for May 10
Hood River Community Education and Shortt Supply are teaming up once again for Trail Daze, which will be held on Saturday, May 10, at Hood River Valley High School. The event will offers a series of informational clinics for a small fee of $15. The clinics will last all day from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and will feature separate hour-and-a-half sessions that focus on orienteering, footwear, hydration and more. One of the highlights of Trail Daze will be a hands-on orienteering demonstration by world-renowned orienteer, Mal Harding. If you would like to learn more, call Community Education at 386-2055.
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