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The new rule seems like a way to cut down on congestion but some think it's a sign that babies, toddlers who refuse to walk, and actually kids altogether should just stay home with grandma.
The new rule sparked a debate over whether Comic-Con is a place for babies and kids?
Geek Mom over at Wired.com posted the news from Comic-Con in her blog:
For safety reasons, the Fire Marshall will not be allowing strollers inside the programming rooms. This includes rooms 2, 4, 5AB, 6A, 6BCF, 6DE, 7AB, 8, 11AB, 23ABC, 24ABC, 25ABC, 26AB, 28E, 32AB, Ballroom 20, and Hall H.
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This might not seem like a big deal but over the years the international comic book convention, which attracts over 100,000 people, has become a hang-out for cool, hipster geeky parents—the sorts of parents who put their babies in Wilco onesies, dress their little girls up in homemade Princess Leia costumes, and teach their little boys how to knit and make sauerkraut. Babble blogger and S.F. local Sunny Chanel describes the scene "with Klingons and Stormtroopers alike pushing their Maclarens and Graco Quattros through the throngs."
Now parents will have to park their strollers and rouse their sleeping babies if they want to attend a talk on "How to Create a More Realistic Fictitious World" or "How to Break into Television Writing"—or they could skip the stroller and use an Ergo backpack instead (although this could be tough with an elaborate costume). But some bloggers are saying that the stroller ban in programming rooms might be reason to leave kids at home.
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NEW YORK – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today filed a complaint and entered into a consent decree in federal district court with B & H Foto and Electronics Corp., resolving a national origin discrimination case on behalf of Hispanic workers at one of the largest retail sellers of photographic, computer and electronic equipment in the metropolitan area.
The EEOC's lawsuit, filed under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 alleged that B & H paid Hispanics in its warehouses less than non-Hispanic workers and failed to promote them or provide them health benefits based on their national origin (EEOC v. B & H Foto and Electronics Corp., No. 07- CV-9241). The court filed complaint is resolved simultaneously through the voluntary settlement of this matter by consent decree under which B & H agrees to comply with the requirements of Title VII; equalize the wages of Hispanic employees to their non-Hispanic coworkers; and to work with the EEOC in a claims process to distribute $4.3 million in monetary relief to individuals who were paid less, not promoted, or denied benefits because they are Hispanic.
"We commend B & H for working cooperatively with us to resolve this matter without protracted litigation," said EEOC New York Trial Attorney Louis Graziano. "We encourage other employers to follow B & H's example of resolving this case expeditiously and in good faith."
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EEOC New York District Director Spencer H. Lewis, said: "Employees are entitled to work in an environment free of pay disparity and discrimination due to a person's national origin. Every individual deserves the freedom to compete in the workplace on a fair and level playing field."
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USPTO Says Copies Of Academic Articles Submitted As Prior Art Are Covered By Fair Use
from the wanna-fight? deptWith all the heat that publishers are starting to feel from the academic community, you might have thought that they'd avoid upsetting anyone else. But it seems that some publishers have decided to go after lawyers who make patent applications that include copies of academic articles as prior art. As the PatentlyO blog explains:
A number of scientific journals have begun to threaten law firms and their clients for submitting copies of journal articles to the USPTO. The typical cease & desist letter that I've seen says something like the following:In a way, that's strange: you would think that academic publishers would want to encourage this kind of use, since it establishes their titles as a kind of "gold standard" for prior art. Obviously the prospect of making some easy money proved irresistible."We've been trolling through USPTO records and found that you submitted a copy of one of our articles articles to the USPTO and we suspect that you maintained other copies in your files and distributed additional copies within your organization. These actions constitute copyright infringement and are not fair use. We will sue you unless you come into compliance with our CCC licensing scheme."
Surprisingly, perhaps, the USPTO has waded in to this squabble and offered its opinion in a statement (pdf):
Patent applicants or their attorneys sometimes make copies of copyrighted NPL [non-patent literature] and submit those copies to the USPTO, pursuant to the USPTO's disclosure requirements. The USPTO considers this copying to be protected by the doctrine of fair use.In the rest of its eight-page document, the USPTO goes on to explain the legal reasoning that led it to come to that conclusion.
It's rather remarkable to see the main US body responsible for promoting one kind of intellectual monopoly -- patents -- asserting that another -- copyright -- doesn't apply. And it will be interesting to see whether publishers want to raise the stakes by taking on the USPTO as well as lawyers, inventors and angry academics.
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Sweep! Yankees advances to ALCS
The biggest play of the game is Jeter throwing out that base runner at the bottom of 8th inning when Hughes is in trouble again.
I know most Yankees fans may still be in the heaven for advancing to second round of playoffs. But, be honest, I feel nervous about our bullpen. Joba, Hughes and even Mo look shaky. Another thing worries me is the lineup. It seems to me Jeter, A-Rod and Teixeria are the only persons hitting now. Hopefully, I just think too much.
The players of the game: Pettitte, Jeter and A-Rod.
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- MJB said...
ALCS is almost here!
I'm not too worried about the team or the bullpen. I'm a little concerned about consistency. They seem to struggle early and come back late. I hope they can keep up the intensity the whole game.
Some other writers are making a big deal about possible 4th starters. I feel that the post season fits Joba's style perfectly. He's cocky, emotional, and intense. He was shaky down the stretch, but who wouldn't be with all those "Joba Rules"? If they need someone to start besides CC, AJ, and Andy, I hope its Joba. This is what they were preparing him for!
CC starts it off tonight! There are some weather concerns, but it seems to be OK for now.
As your blog says, Lets Go Yankees!
- October 17, 2009 at 2:57 AM
- Jessica Lee said...
Sorry to reply your comment so late. Thank you to stay with me.
As for Game 4 starter, I don't think Joba is our answer. I will go with Gandin.
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- March 21, 2010 at 12:29 PM
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- December 10, 2010 at 3:56 AM
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Aerospace companies and military forces around the world have relied for decades on Donaldson Aerospace and Defense, a division of the Donaldson Company (NYSE: DCI), for high-performance filtration systems for commercial and military propulsion systems.
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I enjoy the time I spend in the lobby of the Gangnam dentist's office. It's nice, comfortable, a good place to read, the only distraction being the occasional sounds of drilling off in the distance. I imagine that it might be my girlfriend's teeth getting drilled – perhaps I should rush to her rescue, James Bond style, kicking the drill out of the dentist's hand and then blinding him by reflecting the big dentist light into his eyes with that weird mirror-on-a-metal-stick thing. Anyways, this is what I'm thinking while sitting on a big couch in the lobby.
Then something crashes. There's a girl with an enormous shopping bag and she's broken something, unaware of how deadly the sways of her bag are, the same way dogs don't know that their farts smell. The dentist's office had put out glass cups with colored beads in them, some sort of decoration, and the girl knocked one over. A staff person rushes to her, telling her it's okay and allowing her to leave, embarrassed but uncharged. There's glass and beads all over the floor, and I'm watching all of this like it's the most interesting thing that's happened in years. Call it waiting room enchantment. Lobby boredom bewitchment.
First, Girl A runs up with a Kleenex. "A Kleenex?" I think. "What the hell is she gonna do with a Kleenex? It's broken glass all over the floor. That's like trying to suck a runny nose with a Dirt Devil." She's looking at the scene frantically until Girl B takes over, appearing at her side with a broom and a dustbin. Girl A runs off, opening up the opportunity for Girl C to join in the fun. She takes the broom out of Girl B's hand and starts sweeping the mess. Girl B stands there and watches. Then Girl A reappears with a mop. It's insanity. I start expecting more girls to appear with whatever they can find – a swifter, a vacuum, someone drives up in a Zamboni, whatever. Eventually, Girl C sweeps the glass while Girl B holds the dustbin. It isn't working, so Girl C puts the broom down and starts kicking the glass into the dustbin with her foot. Girl A comes back with a file folder and finishes the job, thankfully, by using it to complete the floor-to-dustbin transfer of glass. All of this takes about two minutes.
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Students to Speak at Mens Studies Conf.by Howard Hewitt • March 28, 2012 Share:
Two Wabash students and two professors will travel to Minneapolis Thursday to participate in the American Men's Studies Association national meeting. The Wabash men will be participating in a session about young male reading habits.
English professors Warren Rosenberg and Eric Freeze will make the trip with junior Wyatt Lewis and senior Reed Hepburn. The Wabash contingent will join students and faculty from Hampden-Sydney to speak on two panels.
"The topic is "Guys Read," a response to a website that posits a "crisis" in young male reading habits and takes a pretty stereotypical view of how to redress that problem," Rosenberg explained. "We will all be discussing this and basically positing that if there is a crisis, and we doubt its scope, that our students read quite well and quite differently than the stereotype might predict."
Freeze believe there is a myth about the types of literature that appeals to young men. "At an all-male institution, I think sometimes we pander to what we believe guys will like: action-packed literature with guns and blood," Freeze said. "But I've seen more men affected by novels like Kate Chopin's The Awakening or Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. These are stories about marginalized women who are different from the norm and who have to negotiate their difference in the larger context of a society that doesn't understand them. I've found great reception for these narratives from our students who sometimes feel this same marginalization and misunderstanding coming from an all-male institution.
"Texts that push men to redefine what it means to be male, that help them learn the more important qualities of empathy and understanding, are the ones that have had an enduring impact on the students I've taught."
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Coldest place moves from one Antarctic site to another
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SAN FRANCISCO — A swath of icy slopes in Antarctica has staked an unofficial claim as the coldest place on Earth.
Frigid pockets of air downhill from the East Antarctic plateau can chill ice surfaces to as low as –93.2°Celsius, reported Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., in a press conference at the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting on December 9.
"It's colder than dry ice," said his NSIDC colleague Garrett Campbell. "If you took your glove off, your hand would freeze off very fast."
The new low, recorded in 2010, edges out the previous record of –89.2°C, which was set at Antarctica's Lake Vostok in 1983, several hundred kilometers away.
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I have just posted the presentation that I gave at the Hamburg MySQL User Group last Tuesday. You can download the presentation here.
I have added a few slides on advanced topics: backup, replication and the distributed repository, which did not actually make it into my talk. However, these topics came up in the discussion over a few drinks afterwards.
Thanks to Lenz for the opportunity to present the BLOB Streaming Project and to those that were there for the good feedback.
As Lenz said, it was a "pretty technical crowd". For example, it did not go unnoticed that a denial of service attack could be launched by a malicious client, that establishes many upload connections that fill up the server's file system. Although unreferenced BLOBs of this type are deleted from the repository after 5 minutes, this is still a serious threat for anyone that exposes the MyBS HTTP port to the internet.
To prevent this it may be necessary to limit upload to clients with specific IP addresses (which could be specified by a system variable). Lenz suggested using HTTP-based authentication such as digest access authentification. Any other ideas would be welcome.
Another question was whether a BLOB could be deleted while it is being downloaded from the repository. Although BLOBs are not locked while they are downloaded, I have just realized that this is not a problem. The BLOB remains in the repository after deletion until the compactor thread removes it by deleting a repository file that contains the BLOB. And this is only done once all readers have release the repository file.
I have submitted this talk under the heading An Introduction to BLOB Streaming for MySQL Project as a proposal for the MySQL Conference & Expo 2008. And, if it is approved I will also be presenting Inside the PBXT Storage Engine at the conference. Ronald mentioned that there have been nearly 300 submissions so I will be quite lucky to get both talks approved! :)
PrimeBase XT (PBXT) is a transactional storage engine for MySQL which can be loaded dynamically by the pluggable storage engine API of MySQL 5.1. It has been designed for modern, web-based, high concurrency environments. Full MVCC (multi-version concurrency control) support and a unique "write-once" strategy make PBXT particularly effective under heavy update loads.
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As for the deleting. I am wondering if new readers are allowed if something is marked as deleted? I assume not, otherwise one could keep something alive indefinately be just opening new downloads ..
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Hmmm..., didn't think of that one!
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MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Will the Rich Push Us Off the Cliff?
Remember the old adage about looking at a glass that is half-filled with water? The pessimist decries that it is half empty, and the optimist enthusiastically asserts that it is half full.
That reminds me of the whole notion of the "fiscal cliff," a term that derives from the GOP and corporatist/Wall Street mantra that we have a deficit problem from excess spending and not a revenue shortfall from those who don't pay their fair share for democracy. Of course, it's a little more complicated than that, such as having a military-industrial complex that is bloated with government dollars. It was Eisenhower, the Midwest mainstream iconic Republican – and war hero -- before wealthy plutocrats and Hollywood scripting turned Ronald Reagan into the patron saint of the GOP, who warned us about the Pentagon and big business collaborating the nation into bankruptcy.
Reagan's 1965 autobiography is entitled "Where's the Rest of Me?" That is an apt metaphor for what is going on in the Republican Party now as they have remained silent about an alternative to a deficit reduction plan set forth by the White House.
The Republicans have spent decades masterfully defining the terms of the political debate. Only a party that has no shame or principles could begin an assault on Obama for a deficit that was run up by Bush and the Republicans with tax cuts for the rich and a bill for two ill-conceived wars.
Most Republicans are quick out of the gate to boast about the self-flattering concept of American Entitlement, but then they hide their wallets whenever they are asked to pony up to pay for the cost of living in a democracy.
A very high degree of corporate profits come from advances made in the public sector: the Internet, television, biomedical and pharmaceutical advances, NASA space program research, just to name a very short list. Not to mention that our public schools and federal research provide a bank of human and intellectual knowledge that enrich private corporations.
George Lakoff explains in a Truthout article today "Why It's Hard to Replace the 'Fiscal Cliff' Metaphor," as he titled his commentary. It's a complicated and accurate neuro-linguistic analysis, but, as Lakoff notes, that doesn't mean the fiscal cliff term is accurate.
Take that glass filled 50 percent with water. When we apply it to the fiscal cliff, maybe our governmental coffers are lacking revenue from those who think that freedom has no price to pay for it, nor does the government financing in education, infrastructure and research that makes their engorged profits possible have a cost. Maybe the glass is 50% empty because of financial obligations that the very rich have to the nation that made their fortunes possible, but they refuse to ante up.
Maybe, however, that glass is not 50 percent empty, but could be 50 percent fuller by cutting the Pentagon budget and ending the US's need to assert absolute global military dominance.
As Lakoff observes in his Truthout commentary:
Progressive economists like Paul Krugman and Robert Reich have rejected the fiscal cliff metaphor, but with different arguments and different alternative metaphors. Krugman points out that the idea of the fiscal cliff is tied to an economically false argument about the dangers of the deficit. He argues instead that the deficit is too small and that we need to invest more, not less, in the development of the economy. The real danger, he argues is that what is called the "fiscal cliff" is really an "austerity bomb." The result would be dangerous cuts in necessary economic investments and safety nets, which would hurt many people and the economy as a whole, as well - just as austerity programs in Europe have done. And Krugman has correctly pointed out that using the fiscal cliff metaphor helps conservatives because it accepts their economic theory of deficits.
But, even if one accepts the tsunami use of the term "fiscal cliff" (which the media and politicans have), the issue is whether lack of revenue from those who can pay the freight for rejuvenating a vibrant economic democracy will do so – and along with Defense Department cuts – avert the cliff – or will they toss us off the precipice, while they transfer even more of their funds to offshore accounts?
The austerity/deficit budget "frame" is a convenient perspective that benefits the pocket books of the rich.
Let the plutocrats and corporate lackey politicians who created the cliff under George W. Bush pay their tithe for the privilege of living in a constitutional democracy that generally basically gives away its government supported research, services, and tax cuts and favored "leases" to the private sector -- or charges a fee so nominal as to be basically a gift. That would go a long way toward filling up that glass of water.
This isn't really a question of an imminent deficit crisis (what is more important is stimulating the economy which will in the end bring in more revenue to reduce the deficit); it's a question of greedy individuals paying the piper.
That will prevent the US from being pushed off of a cliff as the global rich fly off on their private jets to the Cayman Islands.
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Their season has been part folly and part frustration, but today the Yankees found a new low to their crazy summer.
Andy Hawkins, who just three weeks ago was on the verge of being released by the team, pitched a no-hitter but lost to the Chicago White Sox, 4-0, when the Yankees committed three errors in the eighth inning. No other major league player has ever given up no hits and been beaten so decisively.
In baseball's season of no-hitters, Hawkins pitched the sixth. It was also the third in a span of 48 hours. On Friday night, Dave Stewart of the Oakland Athletics and Fernando Valenzuela of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched no-hitters. But they won.
Hawkins suffered the defeat when a two-out fly ball hit by Robin Ventura with the bases loaded was dropped in left field by a Yankee rookie, Jim Leyritz, allowing three runs to score. Ventura scored another run when Jesse Barfield, blinded momentarily by the sun, dropped a fly ball hit to right by Ivan Calderon.
Hawkins wasn't certain how to separate his emotions afterward. Fans cheered him when the game was over and his teammates applauded him when he entered the clubhouse, but he never allowed himself to smile.Continue reading the main story
''I'm stunned; I really am,'' he said, still standing on the field. ''This is not even close to the way I envisioned a no-hitter would be. You dream of one, but you never think it's going to be a loss. You think of Stewart and Fernando, coming off the field in jubilation. Not this.''
Miserable Company
Hawkins is not alone, however. Thirteen other no-hitters have been losses. Two of those were nine-inning games, the last on April 30, 1967, when Steve Barber and Stu Miller of the Baltimore Orioles held the Detroit Tigers hitless but lost, 2-1. And, on April 23, 1964, Ken Johnson of Houston no-hit Cincinnati but suffered a 1-0 defeat.
Hawkins is the eighth pitcher in Yankee history to throw a no-hitter, the first since Dave Righetti beat the Boston Red Sox, 4-0, on July 4, 1983.
''I told him to just think of it as a no-no,'' Righetti said, using baseball slang for ''no-hitter.'' ''It's something he'll never forget the rest of his life. But you're really not sure how to feel. The guys clapped for him when he came in, but I don't think anybody really knows how to act.''
Clearly, Hawkins did not. When he walked into the Yankee dugout after the eighth inning, he consoled Leyritz and accepted handshakes and pats from teammates, but he seemed drained and disappointed.
''Everybody congratulated me,'' he said, ''but I gave up four runs and lost. I'm stunned that I threw a no-hitter, and I'm stunned that I got beat. I'll have to sleep on this.'' Matched by Opponent The Yankees were almost no-hit themselves. Greg Hibbard, the starting pitcher for the White Sox, retired the first 16 batters he faced before Bob Geren reached base on an infield hit in the sixth. Hawkins, meantime, set down the first 14 White Sox hitters, walked two and opened the eighth by getting Ron Karkovice and Scott Fletcher to hit pop flies.
Then everything seemed to come apart. Sammy Sosa hit a bouncer to third, which Mike Blowers dropped. The scoreboard initially flashed that it was a hit, causing players and coaches in the Yankee dugout to wave wildly toward the press box. But the official scorer, Bob Rosenberg, ruled the play an error.
''I kind of went on a psychological seesaw,'' Hawkins said, ''but then I got back into the game.''
But he also walked Ozzie Guillen and Lance Johnson, loading the bases.
Stump Merrill, the Yankee manager, walked to the mound but said later that he never had any intention of removing Hawkins for relief help. He offered only soothing words. Hawkins then got Ventura to hit a fly ball to left, which should have ended the inning. But Leyritz, after circling toward the warning track, dropped the ball after it fell into his glove. Next Stop Tara? ''He hit it right at me,'' said Leyritz, who seemed strangely cavalier afterward. ''I made a wrong move to the wrong side, and it got caught in the wind. I didn't think I could catch up to it. When I did, it hit the top of my glove.
''You get down on yourself because you hate to lose a no-hitter on something like that, but that's baseball. Tomorrow is another day.''
The game was only the third Leyritz had started in left field. Merrill rested Mel Hall, his regular left fielder, against Hibbard and moved Leyritz from third base to left. Blowers started at third.
But Hawkins said he could not fault his fielders.
''It's a tough outfield wind,'' he said. ''Jimmy did his best. I know he's upset, but he has no reason to be.''
Ventura, meanwhile, said he had simply hit the ball and run for first.
''I didn't see it,'' he said. ''I just hit it and ran, and three guys scored.''
One more crossed the plate on Calderon's fly ball, which Barfield lost in the high sun.
''I knew I was in trouble the moment he hit it,'' Barfield said. ''I saw it go up and tried to stay with it as long as I could. I almost caught it right on the tip of my glove.''
Hawkins finally retired Dan Pasqua on a pop fly to short to end the eighth, but when he finally reached the dugout and sat down, all he had was a four-run deficit. And after the Yankees failed to rally in the top of the ninth inning he had a loss, too.
''You can't put it into words,'' Merrill said. ''The guy gives you that kind of performance, and we give the other team six outs in the inning. But he still pitched a no-hitter for me.''
It was small consolation for Hawkins. He has won just once this season, and his troubles reached their height early last month when the Yankees decided to release him because of a series of poor performances but then kept him when another pitcher was injured.
''I'm happy as I can be on one side,'' he said when it was over. ''But on the other side, I'm still 1-5.''
Cant' Catch A Break:
Here is how the White Sox scored their runs in the eighth inning yesterday.
Karkovice popped out to second.
Fletcher popped out to second.
Sosa safe on third baseman Blowers's fielding error.
Sosa stole second.
Gullen walked.
Johnson walked, Sosa to third, Guillen to second.
Ventura safe at second on Leyritz's error in left field; Sosa, Guillen and Johnson scored.
Calderon safe at second on right fielder Barfield's fielding error, Ventura scored.
Pasqua popped out to shortstop.Continue reading the main story


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Pre-game preview: Fordham
Here's your pre-game preview of the UConn-Fordham game tonight at the XL Center:
Records: Fordham 2-8, UConn 8-2
Last game: Fordham beat Princeton, 63-60, Saturday; UConn beat Maryland-Eastern Shore, 84-50, Monday.
Probable starters
G -- 6-0 so. Ryan Boatright (15.1 pts, 4.3 assists)
G -- 6-1 jr. Shabazz Napier (16.6 pts)
G -- 6-5 fr. Omar Calhoun (10.3, 3.9 rebs)
F -- 6-8 so. DeAndre Daniels (10.1 pts, 4.4 rebs)
C -- 7-1 jr. Enosch Wolf (3.8 pts, 2.9 rebs)
G -- 6-0 fr. Jermaine Myers (4.3 pts, 2.6 assists)
G -- 6-2 so. Bryan Smith (9.2 pts)
G -- 6-1 jr. Branden Frazier (15.6 pts, 4.6 assists)
F -- 6-8 sr. Chris Gaston (12.5 pts, 7.8 rebs)
F -- 6-9 so. Ryan Canty (7.9 pts, 6.8 rebs)
-- Fordham faced two Big East teams, losing at Pittsburgh(86-51) and at St. John's(58-47). Wins came vs. Penn and Princeton.
-- Common foe: Harvard (Fordham lost, 73-64, UConn won, 57-49).
-- Series history: 22nd meeting, with UConn leading 11-10. Huskies won five straight, including last meeting, 94-75, in 1999.
-- Top reserve: 6-8 forward Travion Leonard (6.6. pts, 3.8 rebs).
-- Gaston is an Atlantic 10 preseason first team pick. He's led the conference in scoring the last three years.
-- Hot: Boatright has made 15-of-21 field goals, including 7-of-11 3-pointers, in the last two games. He's averaging 18.5 points during that stretch.
-- Cold: Sophomore forward Tyler Olander only four points and two rebounds in 32 minutes last two games.
-- Napier and Gaston both tried out for the Puerto Rican national team last summer.
"He's a terrific player," Napier said. "He's going to do his best to get his points. I think our frontcourt will come in and give him havoc and make it hard for him to score."
-- As always, rebounding is a focal point for the Huskies who've lost the battle of the boards in all but one game this season.
"I want our guys to continue to rebound and continue to focus on it," coach Kevin Ollie said. "I think it's going to click. We just keep planting seeds about what have to do this. Hopefully, our harvest comes soon."
-- Freshman Omar Calhoun is coming off a career-best 22 point performance in a rout of Maryland-EasternShore. He made 8-of-11 field goals.
In the two previous games, he had scored just five points on 1-for-11 shooting.
The next step for Calhoun is to be the consistent scorer that UConn needs him to be.
-- Check back later for post-game breakdown and video. Follow me on Twitter @GavinKeefe
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War for Sake of the Elves
|Previous war: First War with Melkor
|Next war: Wars of Beleriand
|War for Sake of the Elves
|Beginning: VY 1090
|End: VY 1100
|Place: North of Aman, northwest Middle Earth
|Outcome: Decisive victory for the Valar, Downfall and Chaining of Melkor
|Major battles: Battle of the Powers,Siege of Utumno
|Valarian forces of Aman
|Melkor and his servants
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The War for Sake of the Elves was fought by the Valar, under orders from Manwë, the Elder King, against Melkor to liberate thenewly-awakened Elves from his influence. It culminated in the near-apocalyptic Siege of Utumno, where Melkor was captured, enchained, and imprisoned for three ages of the world.
After the Fall of the Two Lamps, the Valar held council among themselves and spoke of the message they had received from Eru Ilúvatar of his coming children, the ElvesTemplate:Ref. Yavanna spoke among them and said:
- "Ye mighty of Arda, the vision of Ilúvatar was brief and soon taken away, so that maybe cannot guess within a narrow count of days the hour appointed. Yet be sure of this: the hour approaches, and within this age our hope shall be revealed, and the Children shall awake. Shall we then leave the lands of their dwelling desolate and full of evil? Shall they call Melkor lord while Manwë sits upon Taniquetil?"
- ― The Silmarillion, Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor
Tulkas likewise agreed with the necessity of immediate action. But the Valar chief, Manwë, bid Mandos to speak, and he replied:
- "In this age the Children of Ilúvatar shall come indeed, but they come not yet. Moreover it is doom that the Firstborn should come in the darkness, and shall look first upon the stars. Great light shall be for their waning. To Varda ever shall they call at need."
- ― The Silmarillion, Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor
While Oromë conducted his hunting trips on his great steed Nahar, he heard the sound of many voices singing, the newly-born Elves. He met them and spent time among them, and yet perceived the influence of Melkor anong them. Oromë reported these happenings to the Elder King, who once again called a gathering of all the Valar, even the far-off Ulmo. He then proclaimed:
- "This is the counsel of Ilúvatar in my heart: that we should take up again the mastery of Arda, at whatever cost, and deliver the Quendi from the shadow of Melkor."
- ― The Silmarillion, Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor
The War Begins: The Battle of the Powers
The titanic conflict between the Valar and Melkor now began in earnest, with the Host of the West (Valar) confronting the Host of the North (Melkor). Melkor would ever remember that this war was begun for the Elves' sake, and it would be burned in his memory. The hosts first clashed in the North-west of Middle Earth, and that region battered and broken by this showdown. This was known as the Battle of the Powers, and the Elves knew little of details of the battle. They could feel the earth creaking and groaning under them, and saw bright lights in the North, like those of great fires.Template:Ref
The Siege of Utumno
Melkor retreated to his great underground fortress of Utumno. There the Valar besieged him for years, and fought many battles before its gates. It was during this time that the contour of Middle Earth was changed, with the Great Sea being widened. The Bay of Balar was carved, and the great river Sirion came into existence. The northern highlands of Hithlum and Dorthonion, sources of Sirion, were raised up as new mountain ranges. The far north was laid waste, as the Valars' power descended into the deep pits of Utumno. In the end, the pits were uncovered, and Tulkas wrestled Melkor and cast him down, and bound him with a powerful chain.
The Valar, while mighty, were not all-powerful. They failed to find some of the deepest chambers under Utumno and Angband, and Morgoth's lieutenant Sargon was never captured. Some Balrogs and other evil creatures hid there, and other dispersed to the far edges of the earth. The Valar dragged Melkor back to Valinor for judgement before Manwë, in the Ring of Doom.


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Kovacevic: Pirates clueless about winning
If nothing else about these collapsing Pirates brings you comfort, consider this: Soon, their prospects will be infinitely better prepared to invade walled compounds in Pakistan.
No, really.
On this very Friday, as I learned over the past week, the team's Florida Instructional League sessions in Bradenton will open with three days in which 100-plus minor leaguers never touch a bat or ball, and no team instructors take the field.
Instead, they'll be put through drills by a group of former Navy SEALs.
Yeah, those SEALs. All caps.
As Kyle Stark, the assistant general manager in charge of this, explained upon my asking, the goal will be "to give our guys a unique training experience to reinforce various lessons we stress all the time pertaining to leadership, team building and mental toughness."
Stop there for a moment.
Let me ask: Who was the last player to come up from Triple-A Indianapolis who could execute a simple sacrifice bunt?
Ever seen a good bunt from Alex Presley, Josh Harrison, Brock Holt or Chase d'Arnaud?
The last I can recall bunting well was Pedro Ciriaco. He was taught in the Arizona system.
OK, back to Fort Bradenton.
There are players, agents, even team personnel who are fuming over Stark's plan. And I can see why. By all accounts, the exercises will be grueling bordering on punishing — as if the SEALS have any other kind — and have absolutely zero to do with their chosen profession.
Stark has a thing for military methods, and I'm sure that brings some benefits.
But this is too far.
This is what you do once you've gained the reputation of, say, the Twins for masterful fundamentals. You don't do it when, as we saw Monday in Cincinnati, d'Arnaud steps on the bag with his left foot — wrong one — to get no outs from what could have been a double play. The next day, he had to be taught the right way by the major league staff.
I share this not because it's pertinent to the Pirates losing 23 of their past 32 games.
It isn't.
Neither was that silly Aug. 23 expedition to Seven Springs, fresh off a San Diego red-eye, to shoot clay pigeons for charity.
But both are emblematic of a franchise that — it's clearer than ever — has no clue how to prioritize winning.
No urgency for it.
No fire.
And if that's off base, please feel free to tell me how.
Tell me what Bob Nutting, the man with the most say, has done this summer to advance the cause of the 2012 Pirates.
He authorized trading for Wandy Rodriguez and his guaranteed $12.2 million at the deadline. It was the right move.
But was that same authorization in place to get the more sorely needed bat?
The Pirates could have had Chase Headley from the Padres for a top-five prospect, either Brad Lincoln or a sandwich draft pick, plus a third piece. That was a fair, affordable price, even before Headley erupted into the National League's best player in the second half.
Moreover, Headley's rights could be controlled through 2014, assuming the team would pay a high salary through arbitration the next two years.
Was cost the problem?
Tell me where Frank Coonelly has been seen or heard of late.
Where's the all-in leadership from the man running the ship?
Tell me what Neal Huntington did at the deadline beyond getting Rodriguez and giving up little for Travis Snider and Gaby Sanchez. Assuming the GM worked without financial restraint, that was a case of little ventured, little gained.
Even if he was restrained, he easily could have upgraded his roster fringe. He didn't. That's why minor leaguers are doing the pinch-hitting now.
Tell me how Clint Hurdle has overseen two collapses now.
I applaud the man for turning the Pirates around. Really, it took a special personality. But he's the one who came up with the slogan FINISH for his team, and he, maybe more than anyone, must come to grips with why that line gets drawn in July.
Have you seen Hurdle lately?
Looks like a beaten man.
And don't let the players off, by any means.
Tell me who, beyond A.J. Burnett, Joel Hanrahan, Garrett Jones and a few others, should escape blame.
Tell me how, all over again, Andrew McCutchen's rise and fall will mirror that of the team.
Not anymore.
Tell me how Pedro Alvarez slugs 27 home runs but utterly disappears for weeks.
Tell me how Jose Tabata was demoted for laziness in the heat of a pennant race.
Tell me how Huntington will ever be allowed to sign another free agent after his latest misfires with Erik Bedard, Clint Barmes, Rod Barajas and Nate McLouth.
The entire organization, top to bottom, has hard questions it must answer.
Why is winning such an issue, even after some winning actually takes place?
How are they still losers?
Maybe one of those hard questions, eventually, will be why it was ever important to teach prospects how to pick off the next Osama when they can't pick off a runner at first.
Dejan Kovacevic is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at [email protected].


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Look on page 52 and you'll see that for the first time in many years, HOT ROD has coverage of the insider-only SEMA trade show as we share 26 of the top show cars from the event at the Las Vegas Convention Center. To give you some reflection on how the hot rodding world has changed over the past 39 years, we dug up this selection of photos of manufacturer booths from the '71 SEMA show as photographed for the now-defunct Hot Rod Industry News trade publication. See how many brands you recognize.
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This issue's cover story reveals a long-standing enterprise that is not dead: the improving of a factory muscle car into a specialized edition of same. Our feature this month is a Camaro turned into a Trans Am, but in 1978, the news was that Dennis Mecham of Arizona's Mecham Pontiac was turning new Trans Ams into Macho TA's. Dave Wallace, still an HRM contributor today, is seen in the driver seat in this outtake photo from the story in the July '78 issue, in which he led with, "Would you believe a 14.29-second new car?" Yeah, in 2009 we call it a V-6 Camaro. But 31 years ago, the Macho took a handful of speed parts to run 14s, making it 1 second quicker in the quarter than a stocker.
John Lingenfelter died after a racing accident in 2003, but his legacy is still felt-so much so in fact, that his is the name most often associated with 1989's Sledgehammer Corvette that was street legal with all the amenities yet ran 254 mph at Ohio's Transportation Research Center after having been driven 700 miles. The car was actually a Reeves Callaway project, though Lingenfelter is remembered as the builder of the twin-turbocharged 350 making 880 hp (a huge number 20 years ago) and for driving it on the glory run. The story is in the Apr. '89 issue of HOT ROD.
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Read this month's Roddin' at Random for news about Larry Larson and his '66 Chevy II that has won HOT ROD Drag Week(tm) two years in a row and that just ran in the 6s in Las Vegas. Then consider this photo from the '93 HOT ROD Fastest Street Car Shootout. Back then, it was huge news when Monte Berney's blue-and-white Chevy broke into the 7s. For the second running of the Shootout, we staffers required the racers to drive 25 miles around the Memphis Motorsports Park road course, then shut off their cars and get them restarted within 30 seconds. Monte failed; so did hero Danny Scott in the Seafoam Green Camaro. Pete Walsh's Nova and Paul Germano's '67 Nova ran low 9s but did not make the cut. Today, cars that can really drive 1,000 miles in a week are in the 6s. Think about it. Sadly, Memphis Motorsports Park, site of all the HRM Shootouts and the recent Pump Gas Drags(tm), shut its doors about a month before press time.
The publication of the Mar. '10 issue marks the first from the publishing company's new home in El Segundo, California. We just moved away from a Wilshire Boulevard address near Beverly Hills where we had been for 16 years, but the 8490 Sunset Blvd. office in West Hollywood is the one old-timers pine for. Here's how it looked just after Petersen Publishing moved into the former bank building in 1968. The building has stood abandoned for many years and will likely eventually meet the wrecking ball.


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