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If you have never heard of Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA), you would not be alone. He is the sort of guy that does not run out in front of the microphones to give his opinion on much of anything. He also rarely crafts legislation of any sort of pressing importance. For example, right now Mr. Doyle has two pieces of legislation pending in Congress. The first is the "Pet Safety and Protection Act of 2011." I know, the economy is in shambles; President Obama is fiddling while America burns, citizens are sucking down their ninety-nine weeks of unemployment and Mr. Doyle's focus is on "pet safety". Do not try to understand him. You never will. And do not try to understand the thinking of the forty-four co-sponsors of this legislation either considering it is so extra-constitutional that only a nut job would even nibble at it much less bite.
The second piece of legislation Mr. Doyle has pending is an amendment to H.R. 910, "Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011." This amendment is entitled, get this mouthful, "Amendment sought to include a study to determine whether regulations of the Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act to address climate change, if not repealed or otherwise made unauthorized by section 2 of the bill, would cause greenhouse gas leakage and reduce the international competitiveness of United States producers of energy-intensive products." This, by the way, has no co-sponsors.
But Mr. Doyle, who sadly is my Representative, is reliably one thing if not a leading light in terms of doing things of unimportance. He is a lap dog for the Democratic Party's leadership in the House. When Nancy Pelosi says jump, Mr. Doyle not only asks how high but also how often, on how many legs and if there is specifically any time of the day she wants him to jump.
Anyone that has lived in Pennsylvania's 14th Congressional District, and who is not a fool, knows that there is good reason why Mr. Doyle shuns the limelight. This is because whenever he speaks he invariably says something so stupid, so indefensible, that it makes the incoherent babblings of the infamous Alan Grayson (D-FL) look like reasoned debate or President Obama's campaign of "hope" and "change" seem like a solid platform.
This week we were once again treated to in intellectual vacancy of Representative Doyle. In a closed door meeting with Vice-President Gaffe Machine, uh sorry, I mean Joe Biden, he referred to those in Congress trying to set America's fiscal house in order as "terrorists." He then jabbered something about how these people were making it impossible for Congress to spend money.
That is hilarious. But it is not unexpected coming from a man who does not have to worry much about being reelected. His district, a sprawled cobbling together of some of the worst neighborhoods in the Greater Pittsburgh area, is about 70% Democrat in registration. In the 2010 campaign cycle Doyle won reelection with 69% of the vote. His competition was Melissa Haluszcak, a Republican candidate whose campaign consisted mostly of putting up yard signs and hiding from interview and comment requests.
So unless redistricting this year severely changes this district, Mike Doyle knows he has little to fear. He knows that no one of any importance will hold him accountable for stupid comments about things he knows nothing about. He knows that the average voter in this district will never have even heard about his claims that rival the stupidest things ever said. What's worse? Well, most of those here who have heard these comments probably agree with his sentiments.
But the reality? It is Mr. Doyle himself that is the terrorist. Yes, indeed it is true. For a terrorist is someone that partakes in the act of terrorism which is defined as "the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion" (Miriam-Webster Dictionary). Mr. Doyle does this simply by being who he is.
His politics have left the whole of America, from individual citizens to corporations to the financial markets, shaky and terrified. All are uncertain of what is coming next. He has tried for years to coerce Americans towards unconstitutional government through this terror campaign in which he supported TARP, Obama's Stimulus plan, Obamacare and many other stupid ideas that have heaped upon the country so much in the way of bad policy that people like Hugo Chavez are jealous of him.
Yes, it is indeed true. Mr. Doyle is a terrorist trying to blow up America. And like all terrorists he must be defeated or at the very least marginalized into irrelevancy because too many stupid people rush to the polls every election to vote for him in one pathetic district here in Pennsylvania.
I wish Mike Doyle would open his mouth more often. It is so much fun to hear from him and make sure everyone knows just how pathetic this man, this terrorist, really is.
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Nick Swisher's left elbow has bothered him from time to time, but not quite like it did on his first throw from the outfield yesterday.
"I threw it and said, 'Wow, that didn't' feel right,'" Swisher said. "… I know what feels right, I know what doesn't feel right. After yesterday's game, I was like man, I've got to check this thing out. I don't like going to the training room man, it's not my thing. But there are some times. You can't be a hard head all the time, man, and you actually have to go in there. We'll just see what they say and figure it out from there."
Swisher will see the Angels team doctor at some point, probably today. He's expecting to play tomorrow, but it's hard to know anything for certain at this point. Joe Girardi called Swisher day-to-day.
During these past three days — when the Yankees had that long rain delay, followed by the four-hour-plus game, followed by extra innings in Baltimore — Swisher actually played all three days, but that's only after he'd been off on Monday. Girardi said he didn't believe playing those three games had a real impact on the elbow.
"I think it's just one throw, really, more than anything," Swisher said. "I don't know what it is, so I'm going to see the doctor and find out. So, we'll see. I'm not nervous about it but I'd feel a lot better if the doctor said 'hey man, this is what you've got. It's going to be OK.' Because I've never had something like this before. (This is) more sharp pains. Hopefully, it's just a day-to-day thing."
• Jesus Montero is getting a designated hitter start against a right-hander today, and Girardi hinted that he might do that more often. "I think you want to see more," he said. "You don't want him to sit too long between games, either. You want to get him back in there. He's swung the bat very well, showed patience and showed the ability to make adjustments."
• Aside from Swisher, all of the Yankees regulars are in the lineup, but the bullpen is thin beyond Mariano Rivera and Dave Robertson. It's possible, in the next couple of days, that the Yankees will have to move a starter to the bullpen. "We might need someone," Girardi said. "I'm not saying they won't start again, but we might need someone in the bullpen. Soriano's went a bunch of days in a row, Ayala's went a bunch of days, Wade's went a bunch of days, Logan's went a bunch of days. I have Robby and Mo available tonight, but after that, I have to see."
• If the Yankees don't get distance out of Bartolo Colon, Girardi said he's not sure Hector Noesi could be used for a truly extended outing (he threw back-to-back games Tuesday and Wednesday, including multiple innings Wednesday). So, if the Yankees need a true long man, Girardi said it would likely be either George Kontos, Andrew Brackman or Dellin Betances. "Could be one of the kids," Girardi said.
• Speaking of the kids, Betances is here mostly to get his feet wet and get a look at life in the big leagues. He's active, but unlike Montero, Betances isn't expected to play a significant role down the stretch. "You never know," Girardi said. "He might pitch in a game, he might pich great and you might use him more. I don't have any specific plans for him, in a sense, but we'll see what happens."
• Today is Betances' normal day to pitch, which is why the call-up waited until now. He went to Tampa to throw a regular bullpen after the Triple-A regular season, then spent one day at home in New Jersey before flying to California yesterday afternoon.
• Girardi expected Betances to be the last September call-up. He said there was talk about calling up Manny Banuelos, but the Yankees didn't think this was the time to do it. "They talked about him and decided not to," Girardi said. "They looked at his year and said they weren't going to call him up yet."
• The Yankees rotation is not set beyond Sunday. "We'll wait to see how we get through this weekend," Girardi said. "Larry and I are still talking about it."
• I'm sure he doesn't speak for everyone, but Brett Gardner said he actually feels no different today — after those long three days of rain and extra innings — than he would at the start of any other West Coast trip. "No, not really," he said. "I feel pretty good, especially after that long flight last night. I feel better today than I expected to. It's obviously not ideal and something everybody has to deal with."
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A Presidential Campaign In Search Of A Rudder
Douglas HarbrechtWhen Lee Atwater died last March, all of political Washington knew that George Bush would miss the architect of his 1988 electoral triumph once the '92 campaign got rolling. But until the President's polls nose-dived this fall, no one realized just how keenly the loss would be felt.
Atwater earned a search-and-destroy reputation in the '88 campaign by making furloughed prisoner Willie Horton a household name and ridiculing Michael S. Dukakis for being soft on the Pledge of Allegiance. But Atwater's real genius was his feel for the pulse of the middle class. He helped the patrician Bush harness the seething resentments of average Americans.
That instinct has been sorely lacking in recent White House maneuvers. Hurting workers are not assuaged by Bush's assurances that the economy is mending, that a cut in capital-gains taxes will be good for them, and that he'll tackle the problem of inadequate medical insurance when he's good and ready.
'NOBODY IN CHARGE.' Bush has delayed putting the White House into campaign mode for two reasons. He thinks he'll benefit from staying "Presidential" for as long as possible. And he has been unwilling to resolve a bitter internal struggle over who will be top dog in the '92 campaign--White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu or a longtime adviser such as Robert M. Teeter. Despite Sununu's many gaffes, Bush appears to have no immediate plans to ditch the combative staff chief--or to freeze him out of campaign decision-making.
Until Bush stops dithering--and finds a new Atwater--the problems will persist. "They have no plan, and nobody in charge," says top GOP strategist Stuart Spencer. Normally, Bush intimate James A. Baker III would step in to take command. But the peripatetic Secretary of State is working full-time on the Middle East peace conference. In Baker's absence, such veteran GOP pols as consultant Charles Black and former Reagan Staff Chief Kenneth M. Duberstein could be tapped for top roles in the reelection effort.
But first, Bush must free himself from the iron grip of his politically maladroit advisers, including Sununu, Budget Director Richard G. Darman, and Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady. Murmuring that "good policy is good politics," they predict that the economy will soon snap back, allowing the President to resume his glide to reelection.
Such confidence is shared by few in GOP ranks. Republicans are terrified by polls showing Bush's approval rating down to 51% and nervous over growing signs of a GOP bloodbath in the '92 Senate races. Some even worry that the President's passivity indicates lack of interest in a second-term domestic program. In fact, morale is so low in the White House that James P. Pinkerton, who has pushed the concept of empowering the poor as a substitute for traditional Democratic social programs, is thinking of quitting as director of policy planning. Pinkerton has been frustrated to see many of his ideas picked up not by Bush but by Democratic contender Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton (page 60 50 ).
"The President didn't expect to be in this spot," concedes one close adviser. Now, Bush is pinning his turnaround on his January State of the Union Address. He's promising a bold offensive that will, as one intimate puts it, "show the American people the President is as interested in bringing change at home as he has been to the world."
But, hamstrung by the deficit, Bush is unlikely to offer much more than rhetoric. And if he offers merely a slick public relations effort, the Democrats will keep pounding him with charges of domestic neglect. So finding a street fighter like Atwater is all the more important. As former Reagan political director Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. says: "I don't care who he picks, but the President has to pick somebody real soon."


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Thanks to everybody who came, saw and conquered the Free Comic Book Day chaos. If you chose to stay at home in your Luke Skywalker outfit instead then you will have missed out on free comics and window painting. Still, those paintings are up on the windows and will remain so for a bit. Come see Laurence Campbell's Judge Dredd, Gary Northfield's Rupert the Bear and a whole crowd more, including whatever it is that Stephen Collins is currently painting in preparation for Friday night's upcoming launch party for The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil.
If you're still on the lookout for comics for your wee ones there's a new book by David Almond illustrated by Dave McKean that might just be it. There's an interview with Almond here where he talks writing for adults versus writing for children. "With children you can dodge a whole range of categorisations. For me, writing for young people has given me a kind of freedom to write in all kinds of forms that to some adult publishers and adult readers would just seem weird, whereas children just accept them." Same sort of thing Sendak and Gaiman say. Mouse Bird Snake Wolf is about a half-made world by lazy gods and Kirkus love it.
New on the blog since you last looked: we're also launching Gary Northfield's Terrible Tales of the Teenytinysaurs at the end of the month, and in June we're doing the same for Robbie Morrison and Jim Murray's Drowntown. You're invited to both. So are your friends. We ain't fussy.
If you're the kind of person who likes to have signed books then you'll be chuffed to know that Paul Collicutt popped in over the weekend to sign copies of Murder Mile. There's a review at the Guardian if you have no idea what I'm talking about, and another at the FPI Blog with preview pictures too.
In this week's delivery there's body horror and plastic surgery nightmares in the the trade-paperback collection of the completely weird early '90s series, Freaks' Amour, based on the Tom DeHaven novel. Nuclear blast survivors are out to raise money for plastic surgery and they're doing it by any means necessary, travelling sex shows and all. This collection also comes with an intro by Steve Bissette (Swamp Thing) and all the covers by by Mike Mignola, Charles Burns, and James O'Barr, plus an original prose sequel by DeHaven, and Gary Panter's adaptation. Here's a preview. Mark Ryden's The Gay '90s is not the '90s of Freaks' Amour but the ones a hundred years before that. You can see pictures of his OLD TYME ART SHOW here.
There's hardboiled crime fiction in Mumbai Confidential Volume 1: Good Cop, Bad Cop reviewed at Criminal Element. And yet more bad eggs in Red Handed: The Fine Art Of Strange Crimes, a whole new book by Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT). Publishers Weekly say it's "nothing short of exceptional" and First Second have a preview.
We Can Fix It by rude comics drawer Jess Fink (Chester 5000) is a time travel memoir in which she goes back to try and stop her past self being an idiot. IF ONLY THIS WERE POSSIBLE. The FPI Blog has a preview. There's a brief interview here. Looks funny.
Collections: John Arcudi and Jonathan Case's The Creep is in hardcover this week (here's an interview if you've not been following), and Chip Kidd's Batman: Death By Design is out in softcover. Brian Michael Bendis' Peter Parker/Miles Morales crossover Spider-Men is out in trade paperback, as is Steed and Mrs Peel Volume 1: Very Civil Armageddon, and Thunderbolts Volume 1: No Quarter.
Issues #1s: 12 Reasons To Die #1 "by Ghostface Killah" (not Krazee-Eyes Killah as I just typed because I am an idiot who confuses Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes with real life) is reviewed at Ain't It Cool News thoroughly enough that you do not need more from me, Grimm #1 is basically a comic of the TV show (previewed here), and Chin Music #1 is the new Image thing from Steve Niles and Tony Harris set in prohibition-era Chicago. Preview at Comicbook Resources.
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NEWPORT BEACH – City officials are asking the City Council for an extra $6.5 million in finishing the new Civic Center, which was already hotly criticized for its price tag.
City staff members will come to council members Tuesday to approve the extra amount in change orders for the Civic Center project, bringing up the total project cost to $139.9 million, according to a staff report.
According to the report prepared by Project Manager Steve Badum, staff is asking the council to increase the project's contingency fund from $1.6 million to $6.5 million and authorize City Manager Dave Kiff and Badum to negotiate additional project changes in an amount not to exceed $4.8 million.
Staff is also requesting an amendment to the contract with architectural firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson to increase the original contract by $579,670 to a revised cost not to exceed $4.9 million. The staff report says there is enough money in the Civic Center's Capital Project fund to support these increases.
According to the staff report, the civic center and park projects are almost complete and will officially be concluded in July after the final "punch list" items are completed.
Badum says in his report that "despite considerable effort and oversight," the amount of contract change orders went from the initial goal of 2.5 percent of the total construction cost to about 6 percent.
"Six percent is a much more typical contingency amount for a construction project of this magnitude," the staff report says, citing 760 changes to the project, most of which come in under $10,000 each.
City officials had previously estimated the cost at about $132 million, but a review of the project documentation by the Orange County Register in April showed that the final project cost was closer to $139 million. A review of city finance documents at the time also showed that the final price tag, factoring in the cost of financing the project over 30 years, could exceed $237 million.
Because of the extra funding that's being sought, the project's price tag could increase even more.
Here are some items that have caused the price to escalate, according to the staff report:
•Changes to the San Miguel Pedestrian Bridge design. Instead of a concrete finish for the elevator tower, the council picked a zinc metal clad option. The cost of revising plans and structural dimensions totals $22,675.
•A landscape feature with a coastal live oak and assorted rock boulders will cost $9,960.
•Replacement of leaking library windows, $28,760.
•Additional signage at $11,125.
•Additional travel allowance of up to $69,000 for architects who have had to make more visits to the site "due to the pace of the construction project."
•Extra architect fees of $315,000 after the city extended the firm's services to complete the project. Hourly rates remain the same.
•Additional architect expenses from January 2013 to completion date add up to $123,150.
Badum says the entire project is still expected to come in at $139.9 million, but that the final cost will not be known until the project is completed next month. The council will merely take a "budgeting action" Tuesday, he said.
Resident Denys Oberman, who has been critical of what she believes is an "extravagant" project, has already sent in a written objection to council members questioning the rationale for this increase in project costs.
"The city has already committed significant funds and incurred significant debt in connection with the civic center and park project," she wrote to council members. "There are other initiatives and projects which would provide much greater economic and other public benefit – both to the city and to its constituents."
Badum says in his report that he recognizes some in the community "remain frustrated with the overall cost of the project."
"They think the project only involved a city hall building," he says. "We understand that. ... Our hope is that, over time, community members will utilize and enjoy their civic center and see that this was the right investment in the right project at the right time."
The council meets at 7 p.m. Tuesday at 100 Civic Center Drive. For more information, call 949-644-3309 or go to newportbeachca.gov.
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We present a search for the rare decays B+→K+νν̅ and B0→K0νν̅ using 459×106 BB̅ pairs collected with the BABAR detector at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Flavor-changing neutral-current decays such as these are forbidden at tree level but can occur through one-loop diagrams in the standard model (SM), with possible contributions from new physics at the same order. The presence of two neutrinos in the final state makes identification of signal events challenging, so reconstruction in the semileptonic decay channels B→D(*)lν of the B meson recoiling from the signal B is used to suppress backgrounds. We set an upper limit at the 90% confidence level (CL) of 1.3×10-5 on the total branching fraction for B+→K+νν̅ , and 5.6×10-5 for B0→K0νν̅ . We additionally report 90% CL upper limits on partial branching fractions in two ranges of dineutrino mass squared for B+→K+νν̅ .
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MOOSIC -- The possibility has become a reality.
On Saturday night, the captain of the New York Yankees will suit up for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders.
Derek Jeter will begin a rehab assignment with the RailRiders on Saturday, the Yankees public relations department announced Friday afternoon, kicking off the legendary shortstop's final steps in a long road back from the broken ankle he suffered in October's American League Championship Series.
Jeter will play at least five innings at shortstop for the RailRiders, who will face division rival Lehigh Valley at 7:05 p.m. at PNC Field. There was no word from team officials as to how many games Jeter will play with the RailRiders.
RailRiders president and general manager Rob Crain said Saturday night's game -- which is also slated to feature right-hander Michael Pineda's first Triple-A rehab start following last year's shoulder surgery -- already was going to be a busy one at the ticket window. But once word began to spread on Twitter regarding Jeter's rehab beginning at PNC Field, calls began to flood the RailRiders' box office.
Crain said adding Jeter to the mix on an already bustling Fourth of July weekend at the newly refurbished stadium was a dream come true for the staff and area fans, who are expected to flood the park to get a glimpse of Jeter on the road back to the Bronx.
"It's about as good as it gets," Crain said. "We can't wait to welcome Derek into his RailRiders pinstripes for the first time ever. It's going to be crazy."
Jeter's career has been a storybook one, and Yankees fans know the chapters by heart. With him at shortstop, the Yankees have won five World Championships and six American League titles. He is the only player in franchise history to collect 3,000 hits in a Yankees uniform.
But he hasn't played a game since Oct. 20, when he suffered a broken ankle that required surgery in Game 1 of the ALCS against Detroit. He was expected to return in five months, but after an ill-fated attempt to make the opening day roster, doctors discovered another crack in his ankle near the previous injury in April. After that, his target date for a return was pushed back to sometime after the All-Star break, which starts July 15.
Jeter's last game actually came with the RailRiders, when he went 0 for 4 with four weak groundballs in a spring training game against Indianapolis in Tampa on March 23.
Crain expected tickets for Saturday's game to move even quicker as word continued to spread that Jeter would be playing. But he reminded anyone with tickets that gates for the game open at 5 p.m. The game will be played at the same time recording artist Kid Rock will be performing at the Toyota Pavilion on top of Montage Mountain, and the gates are opening earlier to help alleviate the likely traffic snarl on Montage Mountain Road.
"Get here early," Crain warned. "Because if not, you're going to sit."
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This is an introduced South African bee that was detected in Australia in 2000.
It was first found in south-east Queensland and is now know to occur as far north as Bundaberg. It is also known from northern NSW. It seems to prefer suburban gardens.
Its nests are unlike those of any native bees and are made in artificial recesses such as electricity meter boxes and sliding window tracks. This bee does not form hives, but many females may nest together in the same place. The nest cells resemble yellowish cotton wool and are made from plant hairs which the female scrapes from leaves with her jaws.
Length 5-8 mm. This is a black bee with thin pale bands across the abdomen. Females have white bands and males have fawn-coloured bands. The face, sides of the thorax and bottom half of legs are covered with whitish hairs. The distinctive nest is the easiest way to identify this bee.
A female Meter-box Carder Bee, Afranthidium repetitum.
A nest of the introduced Meter-box Carder Bee within an electricity meter box. The cotton-wool consistency of the nest cells is unlike any native Australian bee.
Meter-box Carder Bees often nest in the recesses of sliding windows.
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A1: She needs to start making eggs for Easter...
A2: Drunk and sleeping somewhere.
Blackrock is full. GTFO
While DAOC RVR was superb in many respects the whole Team Lead for each classes was a disaster primarily due to Mythic ignoring urgent issues and famously "tabling" concerns. Some classes like the Cabalist went on for years without updates or improvements. Considering Mythic's involvement in SWOTR this comes to me as no surprise.
Everyday more boring news, realy the summer is too bad for gamers. Its time to leave the wow and try to find a girlfriend.
You actually never played DAOC right ? Cause saying that it was PVP balanced ?!?! DaoC was massively unbalanced and RVR being glorious had nothing to do with balance (the more people you throw in a battle, the less you'll see class imbalance).
RVR was awesome because it was, well, RVR. Not because of classes.
P.S. : Midgard FTW
I wish they would've done something like this on the WoW forums for MVPs. Note: I have no interest in being any forum mod/MVP. Some of those current ones are doing a real good job of making Blizzard look bad.Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
I don't know. Something.
Ran all range on PTR thus far and have been pwning bosses, 1-5 attempts. GL next tier Melee, i am amazed they are going this route again.
Too few servers, too little, too late. My server isn't even on that list. It went from High pop to no pop over a year and a half. My guild died, my friend's guilds died, and now everyone has quit the game as the server transfer fee is bullshtocko (Defiance ftw!). Blizzard has no idea what they are doing anymore. The beast has many heads and they all have no idea what the others are plotting.
This is a good point. Sadly, it's how much of the world is run. The best people for the job aren't always the ones who get the job. Sometimes it's the better interviewer.
But, it can't hurt to have players who play the shit out of the game give feedback for the devs to consider. I'm torn on this.
People are mistaking Class Representative with Class Designer.
These people will represent the class, and if they're not good then the community has itself to blame for voting them in. Same principal as a democratic government, except that you'll actually be able to see the qualifications of a nominee by his posts. If he has very few and all of them are bad then don't vote for him.
In the end it won't particularly matter. A good Class Rep should represent their class in a best possible light. They should be able to carefully articulate any changes their people want and explain why. They should not be biased (though they likely will be) and, at the end of the day, Blizzard doesn't have to listen to them.
How much sway do you think they'll have? I don't think they'll have as much as you think. Elitist Jerks and other theorycrafters have been finding flaws in Blizzard's design for years and Blizzard simply doesn't listen.


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Chemical companies 'misleading' gardeners over toxic pesticides
Sarah Bentley
29th June, 2011
Despite a surge of interest in organic gardening, green fingered consumers continue to favour toxic chemicals to combat pests. But are they being exploited by clever marketing and inaccurate labelling? Sarah Bentley investigates more...Top 10...garden wildlife
Katie Fuller
28th June, 2011
From hedgehogs to house sparrows, British gardens are havens for native fauna. The RSPB's Katie Fuller rounds up her favourites more...UK in bloom: five brilliant British gardens
Jeff Holman
27th May, 2011
Britain's garden designers just keep getting better as this year's Chelsea Flower Show proved. And as Jeff Holman discovered, there's plenty more where that came from more...How Essex schoolchildren help save endangered species through Millenium Seed Bank
Kara Moses
19th November, 2010
Kara Moses reports on a group of 10-year-olds from Holly Trees Primary School who - by fundraising for Kew's Millennium Seed Bank Partnership - have helped secure the future of a rare Namibian plant that was virtually extinct in the wild more...Do the environmental benefits of gardens outweigh the need for affordable houses?
Simon Leadbeater
19th October,2010
The need for more affordable housing is often cited as a reason for building on often-environmentally important garden plots. But does such a policy result in more cheap homes? Apparently not, argues Simon Leadbeater more...How to start growing food on social housing estates
Christine Ottery
30th July, 2010
Estate community gardens are springing up in our cities - here's how to transform a derelict urban space into a food growing hub more...Why botanic gardens are key to our future
Sara Oldfield
14th June, 2010
The unsung heroes of conservation, botanic gardens are quietly acting as 'arks' for our planets endangered plant species. And we should be very glad they are too... more...How to garden with kids
Matilda Lee
10th June, 2010
Tips for passing on green fingers, and a taste for vegetables, to your sprogs more...Reclaiming a derelict site to create a community garden
Matilda Lee
23rd March, 2010
The story of how a group of dissatisfied residents pulled together, got funding, and created a blooming community garden where the work, and the rewards, are shared more...CASE STUDY: setting up an organic market garden
Laura Sevier
26th April, 2007
Septuagenarian Mehr Fardoonji is still to be found with her hands in the soil after forty-five years of organic market gardening more...Growing your own - where to begin
Paul Kingsnorth
19th May, 2009
'Where do I start?' Paul Kingsnorth answers the oft-asked question of those who want to grow their own food - but are lacking in knowledge, time, space, or all three. No problem. Read on... more...The Great Garden Grab
Jack Shamash
1st February, 2007
You may see your garden as a spare room or a place to be in touch with nature, but changes to planning rules mean it is likely to attract higher council tax if it hasn't already been snapped up by a developer. Jack Shamash reports more...
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Alice Klein and Hannah Hislop
1st July, 2005
Imagine a garden pond filled with white and pinkwater lilies and purple irises and humming with a chorus of frogs and birds. Now imagine swimming in it. Alice Klein and Hannah Hislop take a dip in the world of natural swimming pools more...
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WSJ Pushes Myth That Congress Is Trying To Exempt Itself From Health Care Law
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A Wall Street Journal editorial advanced the myth that Congress is trying to exempt itself from President Obama's health care law. In fact, Congress is attempting to fix an error in the law that prevents the government from making its normal contribution to staffers' health insurance.
Basing its editorial on an April 24 Politico article, the Journal wrote that "Congressional leaders were in hush-hush talks to exempt themselves and their staff from the wonders of ObamaCare." The editorial, headlined "Exempting Congress From ObamaCare," continued:
In March 2010 Mr. Grassley tried again to apply the law to all Congressional personnel and to White House officials. His amendment received every Republican vote but it was defeated with 55 Democrats (plus Socialist Bernie Sanders) voting no. However, thanks to Mr. Grassley's earlier success, the law still covered Members of Congress and some of their aides -- hence their latest effort to wiggle out of the ObamaCare mandates.
Congress will eventually find some way to protect itself, but its subterranean scrambling to do so exposes one of ObamaCare's greatest deceits: That if you like the insurance you have, you'll be able to keep it. Even the people who wrote the law don't believe it.
But as The Washington Post's Ezra Klein has explained, Congress is not discussing "exempting" itself from the health care law; it's attempting to fix an error in the law that prevents the government from making its current contribution to the insurance premiums of congressional staffers:
Back during the Affordable Care Act negotiations, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) proposed an amendment forcing all members of Congress and all of their staffs to enter the exchanges. The purpose of the amendment was to embarrass the Democrats. But in a bit of jujitsu of which they were inordinately proud, Democrats instead embraced the amendment and added it to the law.
But no one is discussing "exempting" congressional staffers from Obamacare. They're discussing creating some method through which the federal government can keep making its current contribution to the health insurance of congressional staffers.
In a follow-up post, Klein wrote that "Congress didn't give itself special treatment in Obamacare. It gave itself a special punishment." He added:
If they go all the way in repealing the Grassley amendment, their relationship with the law will be exactly the same as anyone else who works for a large employer -- it'll be how the law is supposed to work. If they do some halfway measure where staffers have to buy insurance on the exchanges but the federal government can help them pay for it, then Obamacare will apply to them a bit more aggressively than it will apply anyone else who works for a large employer -- which was, I think, the actual intent of Sen. Chuck Grassley's amendment -- but it should basically work fine. But as it stands now, Obamacare creates problems for Congress that it doesn't create for any other large employer.
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Steamboat's Cooper Howard was selected to participate in this year's Froecklier/Toll All-Senior State Lacrosse game by lacrosse coaches from across the state.
The senior has been involved in the sport for only two years -- the length of time Steamboat has had a program -- but he has turned into a skilled player in a short amount of time, Sailors coach Bob Hiester said.
"He's done a great job in terms of developing," the coach said.
Howard said he took a liking to lacrosse early on. He enjoys the sport so much he wants to continue playing in college. As a natural athlete, Howard picked up the tendencies of lacrosse easily and continues to improve.
"I'm surprised I picked it up so fast," Howard said. "It's a lot of what my teammates have brought me, and I have to give a lot of credit to the coaching. If I would have picked up any sport after two years, I wouldn't be where I'm at now without the coaching."
Thursday's all-senior game will be the final one for Howard as a Sailor, but his future plans are uncertain.
He will be at Denver Public School Stadium for Thursday's game pitting seniors from the four conferences against each other. Steamboat is a member of the Foothills League, but because the program is in its infancy, the Sailors didn't play a full conference schedule this spring.
Howard will team up with seniors from the Southern League and face the combined team from the Centennial and Continental leagues at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday.
The Sailors are the only boys' lacrosse program on the Western Slope.
"It's a pretty big deal," Howard said. "It's something I thought about since last year. The best seniors in Colorado will be there. I'm a little nervous to see the caliber of play I'm up against."
Howard said he is also a little nervous about what other players will expect from a Steamboat senior. Programs in the Front Range are familiar with the Sailors and how they are trying to build a respectable program in the mountains.
"I want to show that Steamboat lacrosse is real and that we will be able to compete with these teams maybe next year," Howard said.
Howard is the only senior from this year's team making the trip to Denver.
"It will be a neat experience for him," Hiester said. "This will be a real good experience to play with and against the best players in Colorado."


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Europe Bypasses Solar System for Upcoming Science Missions
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Topics: future technology, astronomy, Future Mission Concepts
In September I wrote about the European Space Agency's competition to select its next two large (~€1B) science missions. While many exciting solar system concepts were included, ESA's management selected X-ray and gravity observatories as its missions to fly in 2028 and 2034. Both missions promise to deepen our knowledge of the universe considerably. The journal Nature has a good overview of the missions.
While it's disappointing the ESA did not select a planetary mission, Europe will make strong contributions to planetary exploration in the next two decades with the Rosetta mission rendezvousing with a comet (2014), a Mars orbiter (2016), a Mars rover (2018), the Bepi-Colombo Mercury orbiter (arrives 2022), and the JUICE Jupiter and Ganymede orbiter (arrives 2030). This is in addition to the currently operating Venus and Mars Express orbiters.
Europe can still select planetary missions for its Medium-scale program. The Marco Polo-R asteroid sample return mission is currently in consideration for the next selection. ESA's Mars program is also funded separately and is looking at missions for the 2020s.
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England beat South Africa on opening day of Water Polo Champs
6 April 2014
A great individual performance by Centre Forward Ciaran James earned England a win in their first game at the Commonwealth Water Polo Championships in Aberdeen.
England and South Africa were evenly matched at the start of the game but it was the England Men who took the lead through a well worked Ciaran James goal. Their lead was soon doubled thanks to some nice play from Tom Curwen.
South Africa struck back with a quickfire double of their own thanks to goals from Richard Downes and Lood Rabie. There was just enough time for England to regain the lead as Ciaran James scored his second goal of the match making it 3-2 at the end of the 1st quarter.
Supported by a strong following, the South Africans quickly turned things around early on in the 2nd quarter with goals from Downes and Nick Hock giving them a 4-3 lead.
Unfortunately for the South Africans their fightback sparked the English into life and they raced into a 11-5 lead before half-time, Ciaran James scoring another three goals to take his personal count to five.
The third quarter was more like the first with the South Africans attempting to get back into the game. Lood Rabie leding the way scoring his own hat-trick. Towards the end of the third South Africa started to see rewards for their efforts as they pulled the deficit back to 12-8.
South Africa took their momentum into the fourth quarter, bringing the score back to 13-10 with three minutes to find three goals.
England's defence held on and a late Adam Scholefield goal helped to seal the 14-10 (3-2, 8-3, 1-3, 2-2) win.
Both teams face New Zealand in their next game, South Africa play them tomorrow and England get Sunday off and play next on Monday.


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If you're in the market specifically for waterproof compact to take to the beach or on holiday then be sure to take a look at our round-up of the Best Waterproof Cameras
Olympus has long been a pioneer of the ruggedised camera concept, with the company's early Mju models among the very first digital compacts to offer basic weatherproofing – a theme Olympus built upon with the introduction of the 'Tough' series a few years ago. But whereas Olympus once had the market almost to themselves it's since become a lot more crowded, with most of the other major manufacturers offering a 'tough' model of their own. So how does the 12-megapixel TG-820 measure up?
Well, turning first to its all-important 'tough' specs, the TG-820 is waterproof to 10m, freeze-proof to -10˚C, shockproof to 2m and, in a new twist, crush-proof to 100kg. That just about makes it officially as tough as Chuck Norris, albeit with one hand tied behind his back. While we were able to test the basic waterproofing, freeze-proofing and crush-proofing claims (it passed on all counts), the shock-proofing element is harder to verify and it's certainly worth noting that Olympus do not offer any guarantees should you be tempted to test its effectiveness yourself.
Internally, the TG-820 gets a 5x optical zoom, which offers a 35mm focal range equivalent of between 28-140mm and uses a folded lens design to keep it housed entirely within the camera body. For added protection it's shielded by a metal screen that automatically slides back when the camera is switched on, closing again when it's switched off. The zoom itself is operated by a serrated rocker switch on the top of the camera and is easy enough to operate, although it's also rather sharp and can dig into your fingers if you press too hard.
Shooting modes are all of the fully automatic variety, although there is a good range of options including a Program mode that offers a degree of user control over key settings such as ISO and white balance. This is supplemented by an iAuto scene recognition mode, a Beauty mode for enhanced portraits, and a selection of Scene modes. Last but not least is a generous selection of 12 Magic Filter digital effects and a Panoramic mode for one-touch ultra-wideangle photography. Movie recording abilities extend to a maximum 1080p Full HD (backed up by 720p and VGA quality capture) although sound is recorded in mono.
One aspect that really does impress is the rear LCD screen. Thanks to the combination of thick glass and low-resolution screens these have traditionally been a bit of a let down on ruggedised cameras, however the TG-820 bucks the trend with a class-leading, ultra sharp 3inch, 1.03m-dot screen. Not only is it exceptionally useful for reviewing captured images with, it's also scratch resistant and viewable in bright conditions. Indeed, we've yet to see a tough compact with a better screen.
Picking the TG-820 up for the first time initial impressions are pretty good. There's a reassuring weight and solidity to it that adds to its overall tough appeal. While the majority of the outer shell is constructed from polycarbonate, the front of the camera is inset with a metal plate – although this does appear to be as much for aesthetic purposes as for any added protection it might offer.
On the back of the camera the thumb rest is also constructed from metal and doubles up as the attachment point for the wrist-strap. We were a little bit disappointed to note that the supplied strap isn't particularly robust though. It would be good to see something a bit chunkier, or perhaps even a mounting point that can be used to attach carabineers or suchlike, as seen on the Canon D20. As is usually the case with waterproofed cameras the battery resides inside a fully sealed chamber accessed by a two-part locking mechanism.
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$1,061.97 View ItemDid you not test the video? Even though this device is more a photocamera, it also shoots Full HD Video. ANd for that, I would assume the autofocus is good enough to shoot video. Alas, I bought this cam due to its more than average imagequality. But the autofocus of the video is crap. It keeps focussing and it takes several seconds before it has focussed. But if you then move the camera to another object, or you are just following your daughter walking across the lane, it keeps refocussing because it does not know exactly what to focus on.
Maybe it's me and there's a setting which prevents this, so please tell me. But otherwise this cam is just to shoot photo's but is terrible for video.
I agree with meanrat. I have not yet found a way to stop the autofocus in video mode having a mind of its own and periodically trying to refocus. I have this problem in good light with the camera resting on a surface taking a video of my daughter sat in a chair. My previous old digital camera fixed the focus when video mode was engaged - and believe it or not this produced better video's.
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Workers in community health begin negotiations [1]
"Over the last two years, our members have suffered a real wage cut of five per cent. What we need this time around is a fair and reasonable agreement for our members that takes into consideration the sacrifices that they had to make in 2010 bargaining," said Walker.
Vancouver (30 Jan. 2012) - Talks kicked off between the Community Bargaining Association (CBA) and the Health Employers' Association of BC (HEABC) on January 23 with the exchange of opening remarks and the initial tabling of proposals.
The CBA presented a summary of the priorities identified by the over 13,000 workers employed in community health including proposals related to housekeeping issues, harassment and bullying. The CBA also tabled proposals related to employer and union relations.
Darryl Walker, President of the B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union (BCGEU/NUPGE) noted that under the net zero mandate imposed by the provincial government in the last round of bargaining, health care workers' wages have not kept up with the rate of inflation.
"Over the last two years, our members have suffered a real wage cut of five per cent. What we need this time around is a fair and reasonable agreement for our members that takes into consideration the sacrifices that they had to make in 2010 bargaining," said Walker.
At the BCGEU/NUPGE bargaining conference in December 2011, members identified wage increases, job security, benefits and scheduling as their main contract priorities.
Walker also spoke about the importance of community health and the savings that the sector provides in provincial health care spending.
"Home support services keep seniors and other clients in their homes and out of expensive acute care beds," said Walker.
"If our government invests in community health and in recruitment and retention of workers in the sector, it will save big money in other areas of the health care system."
Negotiations resume in Vancouver on Feb. 6 for four more weeks of bargaining. Additional dates have been set through to the end of March.
The CBA represents health care workers who provide home-based medically-related support services to seniors and persons with disabilities. Workers in the sector also provide community-based health services including mental health and addictions services and administrative support to home support agencies and health authorities.
BCGEU/NUPGE is the largest union in the CBA with over 8,000 members. The other unions in the association are UFCW 1518, HEU, CUPE, HSABC/NUPGE, USWA and CLAC.
The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) is one of Canada's largest labour organizations with over 340,000 members. Our mission is to improve the lives of working families and to build a stronger Canada by ensuring our common wealth is used for the common good. NUPGE
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Cisco Catalyst 3560-E Series Primary Features
• Cisco TwinGig converter module for migrating links from Gigabit Ethernet to 10 Gigabit Ethernet
• PoE configurations with 15.4W of PoE on all 48 ports
• Industry first portfolio to scale beyond 15.4W per port delivering maximum solution simplicity for 802.11n access point deployments
• Access switch models have modular fan and power supply with externally available backup
• Dual redundant power supplies and fans for Cisco Catalyst 3560E-12D and Cisco Catalyst 3560E-12SD aggregation switches for nonstop operation
• Multicast routing, IPv6 routing, and access control list (ACL) in hardware
• Out-of-band Ethernet management port along with RS-232 console port
• Dynamic routing protocols: Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), EIGRP, and Border Gateway Protocol Version 4 (BGPv4)
• Policy-based routing (PBR): Allows superior control by enabling flow redirection regardless of the routing protocol configured
• Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM): For IP multicast routing within a network that enables the network to receive the multicast feed requested and for switches not participating in the multicast to be pruned support for PIM sparse mode (PIM-SM), PIM dense mode (PIM-DM), and PIM sparse-dense mode
• Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP): Tunneling for interconnecting two multicast-enabled networks across nonmulticast networks
• Private VLAN (PVLAN): Provides the ability to restrict communications between hosts at Layer 2 through the use of primary and secondary VLANs
• Full IPv6 routing in hardware
• 1000BASE-BX 1490nm (GLC-BX-D=) (12.2(25)SEB and later)
• 1000BASE-BX 1310nm (GLC-BX-U=) (12.2(25)SEB and later)
• CWDM (supported after Cisco IOS Software Release 12.1(14) EA):
• 100BASE FX (Cisco IOS Software Release 12.2(20)SE and later)
Switch Architecture
• Cisco Catalyst 3560-E access switches provide a true line-rate (nonblocking) Gigabit Ethernet to the desktop solution with two line-rate 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks. The Cisco Catalyst 3560-E also offers aggregation switches - the Cisco Catalyst 3560E-12D, a 12-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch, and the Cisco Catalyst 3560E-12SD, a 12-port SFP Gigabit Ethernent switch with 2 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplink ports.
• The Cisco Catalyst 3560-E access switches have a backplane switching application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), which also makes forwarding decisions, to help the switches perform wire-rate local switching.
• The Cisco Catalyst 3560-E supports a dynamic pluggable module that converts a 10 Gigabit Ethernet slot into a slot that can fit two Gigabit Ethernet ports. This allows for easy migration for customers moving from Gigabit Ethernet links to 10 Gigabit Ethernet links.
• All the Cisco Catalyst 3560-E supports hot-swappable power supplies. In addition, the Cisco Catalyst 3560E-12D and Cisco Catalyst 3560E-12SD aggregation switches offer dual hot-swappable power supplies.
• The Cisco Catalyst 3560-E switches have modular fans. The Cisco Catalyst 3560E-12D and the Cisco Catalyst 3560E-12SD aggregation switches offer four and two redundant field-replaceable fans, respectively.
• The Cisco Catalyst 3560-E supports jumbo frame routing and increases the frame size to 9216 bytes.
• The Cisco Catalyst 3560-E supports uncompressed IPv6 address tables. This allows the software to program the full IPv6 address in the hardware. In addition, equal cost routing for IPv6 uses the uncompressed IPv6 address.
• The Cisco Catalyst 3560-E supports destination stripping of unicast packets.
• Dual hot-swappable power supplies
• Redundant field-replaceable fans
• Advanced IP unicast routing protocols such as OSPF, EIGRP, and BGPv4
• Support for all the Cisco Catalyst 3560-E Cisco IOS Software high-availability features such as FlexLinks and Generic Online Diagnostics (GOLD)
Figure 1. Cisco Catalyst 3560-E Ingress and Egress Queues
Figure 2. WRR and SRR
• Layer 2: MAC source address, destination address, 802.1p, Ethertype, ingress port number
• Layer 3: IP destination address, IP source address
• Layer 4: port number, IP type of service (ToS)
• Nondisruptive: Power supply replacement recommendations, error counter reporting.
• Disruptive: time domain reflectometry (TDR), stress tests, exhaustive memory tests, offline diagnostics, port-ASIC content addressable memory (CAM) tests.
• Health monitoring: Periodic running of nondisruptive tests while the system is in operation.
• On demand: Tests run interactively with the administrator.
• Scheduled: Tests run at a specific time daily, weekly, or just once. Correct operation is dependent on the time source being configured on the switch, such as by manual user input or Network Time Protocol (NTP).
• Protect: When the number of secure MAC addresses reaches the limit allowed on the port, packets with unknown source addresses are dropped until a sufficient number of secure MAC addresses is removed or the number of maximum allowable addresses is increased. In this mode, the user will not be notified that a security violation has occurred. Note that Cisco does not recommend enabling the protect mode on a trunk port. The protect mode disables learning when any VLAN reaches its maximum limit, even if the port has not reached its maximum limit.
• Restrict: When the number of secure MAC addresses reaches the limit allowed on the port, packets with unknown source addresses are dropped until the user removes a sufficient number of secure MAC addresses or increases the number of maximum allowable addresses. In this mode, the user is notified that a security violation has occurred. A Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) trap is sent, a syslog message is logged, and the violation counter increments.
• Shutdown: In this mode, a port security violation causes the interface to immediately become error-disabled and turns off the port LED. It also sends an SNMP trap, logs a syslog message, and increments the violation counter.
• Verifying the intercepted DHCP messages from untrusted ports
• Performing per-port DHCP message-rate limiting
• Keeping track of DHCP IP address assignment binding between the DHCP server and clients
• Inserting DHCP option 82 into and removing DHCP option 82 from DHCP messages
• DHCP option 82 information
• MAC address
• IP address
• Lease time
• Binding type
• VLAN number
• Interface information that corresponds to the local untrusted interfaces of a switch
• 802.1x authentication with VLAN assignment
• 802.1x authentication with per-user ACLs
• 802.1x authentication with guest VLAN
• 802.1x authentication with inaccessible authentication bypass
• 802.1x authentication with voice VLAN ports
• 802.1x authentication with port security
• 802.1x authentication with wake on LAN
• 802.1x authentication with MAC authentication bypass
• Bandwidth as a percentage of the total available bandwidth of the port that can be used by the broadcast, multicast, or unicast traffic
• Traffic rate in packets per second at which broadcast, multicast, or unicast packets are received
• Traffic rate in bits per second at which broadcast, multicast, or unicast packets are received
Layer 2 Features
Layer 3 Features
IP Version 6 (IPv6)
• IPv6 protocol: RFC-2460
• IPv6 addressing architecture: RFC-2373
• ICMPv6: RFC-2463
• Neighbor discovery: RFC2461
• IPv6 stateless auto configuration: RFC-2462
• IPv6 duplicate address detection: RFC-2462
• Jumbo packet IPv6 routing
• MTU path discovery for IPv6 unicast: RFC-1981
• MPv6 redirect: RFC-2463 ICMP
• Support for hop-by-hop options header
• Static routes within IPv6
• RIPng
• OSPFv3: RFC2740
• Ping
• Traceroute
• Telnet
• Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
• Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol over an IPv6 transport
• Domain Name System (DNS) resolver for AAAA over IPv4 transport: RFC-1886
• DNS resolver for AAAA over IPv6 transport: RFC1886
• HTTP server access over IPv6 transport
Software Activation
• IP Base: Enables Layer 2 forwarding, basic IPv6 functionality, and basic Layer 3 routing, including EIGRP stub mode.
• IP Services: Includes IP Base and enables advanced Layer 3and IPv6 routing such as OSPF and multicast routing.
Table 1. Cisco Catalyst 3560-E PAKs
Power Redundancy
Note: The Cisco Catalyst 3560-E aggregation switches do not require the Cisco RPS 2300 for power supply redundancy.
Table 2. Number of Switches Actively Backed Up by Cisco RPS 2300
Software Upgrades
Warranty and Service
• Rapid problem resolution with full-time global access to the Cisco TAC
• Registered access to Cisco.com for powerful online tools and information
• Next-business-day advance hardware replacement (additional replacement options, some as fast as two hours, are also available)
• Ongoing system software updates that enable the network to evolve to changing business needs and increase return on investment (ROI)
• Cisco OS software support to extend the life of Cisco devices with improved security, increased performance, bandwidth management, new protocol support, and greater interoperability


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April 28, 2009 Transaction AnalysisUpdates from the Easts
Placed 3B-R Melvin Mora and RHP Alfredo Simon on the 15-day DL; recalled RHPs Matt Albers and Radhames Liz from Norfolk (Triple-A). [4/15] What a difference a year makes; it's suddenly much more fun to sort through the O's moves as they more closely resemble a team and an organization with a coherent plan. While they made some funky initial choices with their pitching staff, replacing an interesting, ill-starred, and frequently injured option such as Simon with Bergesen is merely an amuse bouche, a taster that suggests how much more there is to come in terms of homegrown pitching. Simon is lost for the season, as he'll need to have his elbow rebuilt and then recover. Since Rich Hill's return from the DL is already in the cards, Bergesen may not claim Simon's spot for keeps, but after a nifty debut and with Adam Eaton and Mark Hendrickson predictably doing all within their respective powers to hand back the jobs handed to them in camp, a defense-dependent sinker/slider slinger like Bergesen can't be a step backwards from the veterans' serially stomped stylings. There isn't nothing but good news abounding in Bal'mer, of course. Liz didn't take long to arrive and see his ERA blow up like Yaphet Kotto, a stunt he's already subjected O's fans to last season. Since, like Kotto, ERAs lack a puffer fish's capacity to expand dramatically without making a mess, the O's understandably elected to send the carnage back to Norfolk, preferring Albers' flirtations with workmanlike middle-innings relief. There is also the nagging concern that the team's now at 13 pitchers, but with Mora due back later this week and Freel perhaps not far behind, that brief fling with a three-man bench (of Chad Moeller, Montanez, and Robert Andino, for reals) should come to an end. The question is whether the O's bring themselves to trim any one of a number of ineffective relievers from the roster, because while optioning Montanez away to make room for one seems likely, beyond that I'd expect an arm to be moved out for the other. While it was nice to take advantage of the roster flexibility afforded them by Ty Wigginton as a four corners player in Mora's absence, Andino and Moeller won't be moved aside by reason of options and the unlikelihood that the club would forgo backups at short or behind the plate. While Felix Pie could be moved as a reward for his hewing too close to the paths of regret too-recently blazed by Corey Patterson, that may have to wait on a firm decision to make room for Nolan Reimold (as suggested by Joe Sheehan earlier today, and reinforced by Kevin Goldstein's observations of his recent hot hitting), instead of merely pushing Wiggy to left, reinstalling Mora at third, and putting Pie on the pine. Admittedly, putting Wiggy in left could short-circuit our recent, elaborate, and understandable enthusiasm for Reimold, but it might also be the more likely immediate action taken by a team that has, after all, first gone through the rigmarole of re-demonstrating that retreads like Eaton and Hendrickson are disasters in cleats as rotation regulars.
Placed OF-R Rocco Baldelli on the 15-day DL (strained hamstring). [4/21] There isn't a lot here to get worked up about. I mean, sure, it's Boston, and that's supposed to mean something on its own, but I'm more amused by the suggestion that, even with a day off before they entered into their big April showdown with the Yankees, seven relievers were not enough to get through three games. To their credit, they didn't just bring up Bowden to play emergency option, they actually plugged the prospect into their Sunday squeaker to help them breeze by concerns over how deep into the game Justin Masterson might be able to go; Masterson came out before the century mark and got the win, and Bowden threw the seventh and eighth, handing off a three-run lead. Since Daisuke Matsuzaka's rehab seems to be progressing well enough, the whole scenario's playing out as another testament to the organization's supple employment of its younger talent, however briefly, in meaningful situations. Once Dice-K is back, they can bump Masterson back to the pen, secure in the knowledge they could always move him back into the rotation if another temporary absence from any of the front five occurs, while they can also take satisfaction in how Bowden responded to a brief, important single-day spin with the team. As for getting Lugo back, let's not jump through hoops. They're paying the man a pretty penny, he'll be an adequate regular, and the hope is that he does enough on defense to not reflect too poorly on the decision to overbid for him while Jed Lowrie's out. Nick Green poked enough safeties and flung himself in front of enough pitches to earn some consideration for keeping as a utility infielder, but it's hard to see how they'll be able to make the space for him if they decide to stick with seven relievers. Since Green's entirely fungible, however heroic he's been in his brief spin as an everyday shortstop, the Sox can afford to option or outright him at their discretion once they're confident that Lowrie will be back sometime in July. Activating Van Every matters little; it's nice to have him, certainly, but as Carter already found out, the playing time for an outfield reserve on this team will go to Baldelli when he's available. Matters might change on that score should David Ortiz's slump last any longer, but if that gets to the point that the Sox want to reconsider that commitment, they won't settle for the Van Everys or the Carters to replace Papi; they'll break out the big-game gun, and go looking for bear.
Placed OF-R Xavier Nady on the 15-day DL (elbow pain), retroactive to 4/15; recalled RHP David Robertson from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (Triple-A). [4/16] As the saying goes, luck can be the residue of design, but sometimes luck is just the residue of luck. Consider the happy circumstance that got Nady out of Nick Swisher's way just in time for the Bombers to discover that, the way new park plays, there's no doubt as to who should be starting in right field. Not that Nady doesn't have his uses, but they're the same virtues we already know about—as a platoon monster doing hulk-smash on southpaws, and with enough sock to be a very good fourth outfielder on a good team. The Yankees are supposed to be a good team, but it might be a little hard to see that when, to replace the immortal Cody Ransom at third base, they've stopped to... Angel Berroa. Apparently innumerable other bipeds weren't available, or had already sought other engagements to make themselves unavailable because they dislike wearing pinstripes in New York City out of fear that Starbucks-swilling Sans-culottes, inspired by latter-day Marats on WFAN, might associate the stripes with investment banking or somesuch. I mean, doesn't it have to be that? The alternative would be that this organization, the same proud organization that struggled to come up with a first baseman better than Miguel Cairo in 2007, learned nothing about the value of adequate replacements from that particular lineup atrocity, and was blowing another week of their season on some new A-Rod substitute at third base that almost no other team in the league would consider. Sure, when Alex Rodriguez returns next week, this might prove a minor matter, but blowing the last few roster spots—let alone lineup cards, not to mention forgoing a decision to simply try to stock their minor league affiliates with useful journeymen—has cost this team in the past, and costs them to this day. It's as if Clay Bellinger wasn't a happy accident, but a choice informed by what we hope must be an appallingly parochial and ideally uninfectious local sense of taste. Then there's the noisy reshuffling of the bullpen, but one of the virtues of a no-name bullpen beyond Mariano Rivera is that, where the team is poorly set up in terms of replacing position players, they have plenty of playable alternatives among their right-handed relief help. That even extends to replacing Wang, at least to some extent; while the fascination with how his latter-day Tewksbury act might play after two strong seasons will have to remain in the realm of the theoretical for the time being, the Bombers seem set to turn to Phil Hughes in his absence. Hughes was and is still a top prospect worth checking out as a starter, even as the relatively non-famous fifth man for the Yankees, so this isn't really a setback for the team. The rotation hasn't exactly lived up to its billing beyond Wang anyway; while they're getting good work out of the seemingly ageless Andy Pettitte, CC Sabathia and A.J. Burnett have both delivered odd foursomes apiece in their starts, while Joba Chamberlain has allowed a lot more baserunners than you may have believed possible, given all the hype.
Placed C-R Michael Barrett on the 15-day DL (shoulder); purchased the contract of C-R Raul Chavez from Las Vegas (Triple-A). [4/18] While the Mets may be adding discarded talent to increase depth they otherwise don't have, pity the Jays, because they have to dip into it, and what they have to lean on isn't very good. Burres and Bullington aren't good options for a big-league rotation, but the Jays' lot as such is that at least one (Burres) is stepping into Romero's slot, while Bullington seems likely to be left in middle relief to help escort and clean up after his fellow pimp'd Vegas minion. Happily, with reports indicating that Romero and Jesse Litsch will both be back in action at some point in May, it creates the question of who gets bumped from the rotation beyond Burres. Brian Tallet has done decent work in his pair of spins in the rotation, and the league doesn't seem to have caught up to Scott Richmond's low-speed offerings yet; because neither really profiles as a reliable rotation regular, the Jays' could get a little Stengelish on us with their fifth slot, using Tallet against some of their division rivals while spotting Richmond against right-leaning lineups. Barring that, they'd have to confront whether David Purcey is going to get turned around, which is worth finding out in the near term anyways. I guess I'd just enjoy the chance that the Jays play to the strengths of a group of pitchers who have their uses, without asking them to do things that they can't because starting pitchers are supposed to start and just start—Tallet might not hold up over a full season's workload in the rotation, while Richmond's off-speed stuff doesn't work all that well all that often against good lefty hitters. Why hammer square pegs into round holes, and then say the players couldn't rise to the challenge, when a bit of creative management could let everyone shine? As for losing Barrett and turning to Chavez, while this reminds me of one of my more feeble buck bets with Jay Jaffe over who would be the Yankees' best possible backup catcher from among their feeble options in the sorry spring of 2007—I picked Chavez because he could catch and bunt (and nothing else), Jay went with the age-slackened bat of Todd Pratt, and the Yankees initially opted for Wil Nieves to make it clear how little it mattered while they seemed secure in their faith that nothing bad would ever happen to Jorge Posada—it seems unlikely that he'll play all that much for all that long. Not only does Rod Barajas enjoy Cito Gaston's full confidence—and why not, since Barajas' range of performance potential bears an uncanny resemblance to Pat Borders', and that'll do for now—but with J.P. Arencibia a likely second-half call-up, it isn't as if they need to sweat who's backing up all that much. Chavez knows the job, and while I could gripe over the lost, potentially cool opportunity to take a quick peek at whether Brian Jeroloman might be able to stick as a tasty lefty-batting backup who gets on base, his performance doesn't even remotely resemble Greg Myers'.
Activated C-R David Ross from the 15-day DL; optioned C-R Clint Sammons to Gwinnett (Triple-A). [4/16] There are three things really in play here: the rotation, their left-field situation, and catching. To dispose of the simplest of the three first, there's no real cause for concern that Tom Glavine appears to be done and that the rotation slot will instead belong to Reyes in the meantime. As is, the Braves have been able to exploit their schedule to good effect, with none of their front four doing anything unusual in terms of their rest patterns, while the fifth slot will come up for only the second time with Tuesday's game. So there's been no in-season impact, beyond the uncertainty over Glavine's status, and given the respective projections for Reyes and Glavine, there's no loss there either (and that's without even getting into Tommy Hanson's likely readiness at some point this season). Basically, the setbacks only involve a sense of compassion, that Glavine's career might end without a last appearance on the mound; don't be surprised if they let him give it a last go in some fashion come September, if he chooses that route, and if the playoff race affords them the opportunity. They're also out money, of course, but since that's only the $1 million base, it's really negligible as these things go. If he doesn't hurt them this year by not pitching, it's just as well, because the Braves' bid for a division title is not so strong that they can afford pity parties and live-game Viking funerals for their own sake. Similarly, the setback for Anderson can't really be considered bad news. Sure, it's an inconvenience, in that they thought they'd found a lefty-swinging semi-regular to give them some element of veteran certainty in an outfield where they chose to take risks with Jordan Schafer's readiness and Jeff Francoeur's bounce-back. They've been rewarded so far by Schafer and Frenchy, while Anderson's the one who's come apart already. This won't hurt the lineup all that much; Anderson's decline over the years isn't a matter for debate, and while I'd like to see them give Brandon Jones every opportunity to supplant him within the role, the initial play calls for a whole bunch of Matt Diaz to try and bounce back from his injury-plagued 2008 and show he still retains value as an adequate fill-in beyond his virtues as a platoon asset. Perhaps contributing to my interest in seeing Jones get that opportunity is the team's losing McCann for an uncertain amount of time; as Will Carroll noted on Monday morning, there's no reasonable guess to be made here as far as how his vision issues play out. While David Ross has more sock than your average backup backstop, add him to a lineup already now counting on Diaz—another right-handed batter—as the regular in left, and that puts the Braves' lineup lean a bit heavily to the right. As is, the Braves' offense can't really afford to be without McCann for an extended stretch, but if it's a couple of weeks and the best-case scenario works out for them, they'll endure. If it's not, they can't really afford to lean on Ross and Diaz when they're already stuck with a low-powered starter at first base and the still far from certain comeback of Francoeur.
Placed LHP Andrew Miller on the 15-day DL (strained oblique); recalled RHP Burke Badenhop from New Orleans (Triple-A). [4/21] Leave it to the Fish to get slippery on us, because losing Miller did not lead to their turning to anyone you would consider a usual suspect for the fulfillment of their rotation neediness. Admittedly, maybe the first call in such a circumstance, Rick Vanden Hurk, is already on the DL, but they didn't replace Miller with Badenhop either, nor did they elevate recently added retreads like Hayden Penn or Dan Meyer to rotation work despite their past experience in the role. No, they did something sort of interesting instead, ditching the disappointing Kensing to take a peek at Taylor, an organizational soldier. Nabbed in the 10th round of the 2006 draft out of Miami of Ohio, Taylor's a strike-throwing lefty who relies on a sinker and a secretive delivery in which he keeps the ball behind his head for as long as possible. It didn't seem to make much of an impression his first time out—force-fed to the Phillies, he walked six of the 22 batters he faced, and plunked another. As if facing the defending world champs wasn't a tough enough assignment, Taylor also had to make his debut with Jerry Layne behind the plate; last season, Layne ranked third among all big-league umps in walks per nine while working home plate. And, lest we forget, Taylor also had just five starts in Double-A last season, having spent most of the year at High-A, and logging just three more starts this season at the level before making his big-league debut just after getting past his 40th inning above A-ball. So, it was a tough assignment, to be sure, and as much as I generally agree with those who—from Casey Stengel to Kevin Goldstein—think a pitcher can be ready on a much faster timetable than just a full season per level, I think it's pretty clear Taylor was out of his depth. So, it's just as well that Miller is due back sometime next week.
Purchased the contract of RHP Livan Hernandez from Buffalo (Triple-A); designated UT-L Marlon Anderson for assignment. [4/11] While there's plenty of bad news to be found here—the now reliably thumpable Livan large only gets to do so because he's no higher than second on the rotation scapegoat depth chart behind Oliver Perez—this much activity doesn't really represent all that much bad news. Losing Brian Schneider for any stretch may leave Omar Minaya feeling jilted because his favorite backstop's on the shelf, but as a practical matter, "making do" with Ramon Castro should more than suffice until Schneider is due back sometime in early May. No, instead what's remarkable about most of these moves being made by the Mets is that while some of their solutions might strike you as less than happy—somebody with an eye toward contention employing both Livan Hernandez and Casey Fossum sounds like a team that might regret losing Nelson Figueroa, after all—but by scrupulously scraping up extra help from the discard pile, the Mets could yet transmogrify into a ballclub with a better supporting cast in-season. If you take a look at their rosters at Buffalo and Binghamton, you understand why grabbing Wily Mo and Lamb represent coups, especially when both are more likely to turn up in Citi Field than shore up a ghastly Bisons ballclub. In a sense, this is a credit to the same instinct that informed their scaring up Fernando Tatis, and consider the alternatives the Mets are currently employing at the back end of the roster. As a veteran righty-batting reserve, Gary Sheffield's playing as if he's an old 40, and not merely 40 years old; Pena might play either corner with Wes Chamberlain's natural grace and Vladimir Guerrero's capacity for off-target "feats of strength" throws, but at least he's still somewhat ambulatory and more capable than Sheff of providing Ryan Church or Daniel Murphy with some quality spotting against lefties. Lamb will have to keep in Buffalo's ice box as a veteran lefty bat to call upon only should something terrible happen to Carlos Delgado, but it beats summoning up somebody like Cuban reject Michel Abreu, and Nick Evans looks like a platoon player for the short side of any duties that come free at first or an outfield corner. Don't get me wrong, neither player's a massive pickup, and neither has as much likely value as Tatis—not unless some other organization hires Jim Bowden, at any rate, because then Pena suddenly has trade value again. But for an organization as desperately thin as the Mets are at the upper levels, I'm just glad to see Minaya aggressively sifting through other people's junk; it certainly beats the polar opposite of absolute indifference to be found up in the Bronx.
Placed C-R Carlos Ruiz on the 15-day DL (strained oblique); recalled C-R Lou Marson from Lehigh Valley (Triple-A). [4/11] Losing Ruiz for at least a few weeks wasn't exactly good news—and since he was scratched from his Monday night rehab start in Triple-A, his time away isn't about to end just yet—but it did give Marson an opportunity to pop by and provide a reminder that he's going to be a good catcher for somebody relatively soon; he certainly hasn't been overwhelmed in his brief bits of caddying for Chris Coste, while Coste's slack bat has to inspire a few questions about whether, at 36 and having already made an improbable journey to get here, he might not really be around for too much longer. We'll see how this plays out, but if Coste can't provide the punch to Ruiz's judy routine from last season as the regular, it isn't hard to see how pressure to take a longer look at Marson could build.
Outrighted LF-L Leonard Davis to Harrisburg (Double-A). [4/15] As folks from Cincinnati might cop to, the sense of despair that's long since set in is perhaps the natural hangover that comes after the end of another Bowden reign of error. Some of this cannot be undone, and isn't even really cause for regret—after last season, re-signing Guzman had a certain amount of logic to it, after all—and while a middle-infield combo of Anderson Hernandez and Alberto Gonzalez isn't especially young or especially good, Guzman will be back today. Having already cycled through three different starters at second base—Hernandez, Harris, and the not-quite-forgotten Ronnie Belliard—it'll be interesting to see which way the team leans now that Guzman's back. Will Gonzalez get added to the keystone mix? Will they stick with Hernandez for defense and the hope that he can post a league-average OBP? It couldn't hurt, though the logic that inspires a commitment to Austin Kearns might also inform a decision to get Belliard enough playing time to keep his creds as a stretch-drive addition shined up. If there's a cause for annoyance among the position player shifts, it's ditching Bard once they decided that if Jesus Flores is a regular, the last thing they need is two backups behind the plate. I don't care for it much, if only because Bard's at least a switch-hitter with a record of having hit somewhere for somebody, where Wil Nieves isn't always a safe bet to hit the floor getting out of bed, and it isn't like he's the best-throwing backstop bobbing about. Clearly, bad days for unions in general means tough times for the International Brotherhood of Backup Catchers, that Bard's time in could count for so little. No, the far more telling symptom of an organization getting over its leather pants experience is the kind of turnover on a pitching staff that, already symptomatic of a full-blown case with its weird collection of leftover projects, can thrash about a bit and wind up with Kip Wells in play and call it progress. It is perhaps more significant to see Saul Rivera going nowhere for all the activity. At least Zimmermann might help the club's fans better endure the miseries of the latest pair of bad-idea veteran add-ons, Scott Olsen and Daniel Cabrera; I don't think it's going to surprise anyone if Zimmermann, John Lannan, Shairon Martis, and Stephen Strasburg are their four best starters at season's end. Adding Bergmann, Mock, and Wells to the relief mix seems to be slathering on too many layers of former starting pitchers in middle-relief work, but I wouldn't go that far. Bergmann's problems with left-handed hitters is such that he's probably never really going to stick as a starter; he wasn't exactly shutting right-handers down either, and stints like last season's swing through the rotation is the sort of thing you'd rather not have to work your way down to if you can avoid it. Mock doesn't seem likely to last; between time lost to injuries over his career, and no real indication that he knew what he was doing in Syracuse (where 10 of 21 batters reached base), and no better work in his appearances with the Nats, the mystery over why his once-dominating stuff never really translated into good work could be bound for history's dustbin. Wells is an interesting resurrection, but I'd compare it to Jamey Wright's career path, where a once-promising career as a starting pitcher withers into a thirtysomething mop-up man. That might sound harsh, but not everybody gets to grow up to be Greg Maddux; some of us have to settle for being the new Jerry Don Gleaton, and last I checked, that guy got a pension. This is a team where the rotation, not matter what its future shape, isn't going to be finishing the sixth inning with any regularity, so a sponge has value, and if Wells perpetuates himself by getting soaky, it's not a bad way to be.
Christina Kahrl is an author of Baseball Prospectus. 18 comments have been left for this article.


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Second Person In Marion County Dies From H1N1 Virus
A second person in Marion County has died from H1N1.
The Marion County Health Department said a 73-year-old resident died of H1N1.
"Our deepest sympathies are extended to the family and friends of this citizen," said Dr. Nathan Grossman, director or the Marion County Health Department. "This tragic loss is a painful reminder that H1N1 flu is still present in our community and reemphasizes the importance of getting the H1N1 vaccine if one has yet to receive it."
Grossman says it's not to late to receive the H1N1 vaccine. Residents can get the vaccine anytime from 8 a.m.- 4 p.m. Monday through Friday at the health department's main immunizations clinic, 1801 SE 32nd Avenue, in Ocala. The vaccine is free of charge.
For more information, contact the Marion County Health Department at (352) 629-0137, Florida Flu Information Line at 1-877-352-3581 or visit www.myflusafety.com, or www.doh.state.fl.us/chdmarion.
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