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ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Jaime Garcia got rocked again by Colorado and fell well short of giving the St. Louis Cardinals three straight pitching gems.
"I made a couple mistakes and paid the consequences," Garcia said after allowing two homers that accounted for five runs in an 8-2 loss to the Rockies on Sunday. "Those guys had been doing an unbelievable job and you want to be able to continue a good thing."
Jorge De La Rosa held the Cardinals hitless into the seventh inning and Troy Tulowitzki's three-run homer ended Colorado's scoreless streak at 28 innings.
De La Rosa did not give up a hit until David Freese's two-out single in the seventh, answering a pair of outstanding performances by St. Louis starters Shelby Miller and Adam Wainwright over the weekend.
"Jaime definitely had a couple of pretty tough acts to follow," manager Mike Matheny said. "We know this is a good-hitting team, we know they're capable of jumping on you and putting up a lot of runs in a hurry. It happened today."
Garcia (4-2) had won three straight starts with a 1.25 ERA and no homers allowed in that stretch of 21 2-3 innings before running into the Rockies. He gave up five runs over six innings and fell to 0-3 with a 10.53 ERA - his highest against any opponent - in four starts against Colorado.
The left-hander entered as the career ERA leader at 8-year-old Busch Stadium at 2.41 but was undone by a changeup that stayed up in the zone against Tulowitzki in the third and a hanging curveball against Charlie Blackmon, who struck out in his first two at-bats, that went for a two-run homer in the sixth.
The Rockies and Marlins are the only National League teams Garcia hasn't beaten.
"How many starts have I made against them? Today was my fourth one?" Garcia said. "Obviously, they have a really good lineup, but I don't think about those things."
Garcia gave up just two homers in his first seven starts and entered with a 2.25 ERA overall.
Jordan Pacheco doubled with one out in the first to stop a 34-inning drought since Colorado's last extra-base hit, according to STATS. The Rockies finished with five extra-base hits, including a two-run double by pinch-hitter Reid Brignac off Carlos Martinez in the eighth.
The Rockies snapped a four-game skid and finished with 11 hits after totaling three in consecutive shutout losses to Miller and Wainwright.
Nolan Arenado, who singled with one out in the eighth to break up Wainwright's no-hit bid Saturday, was among four Rockies with two hits apiece.
The Cardinals lost for just the second time in 11 games. Matt Adams' RBI single off Matt Belisle in a two-run ninth, one of three hits by pinch-hitters, ended Colorado's shutout bid.
De La Rosa (4-3) struck out seven and allowed two hits in seven innings, baffling the Cardinals until Freese singled sharply to right off the glove of a diving Pacheco at first base. Jon Jay followed with a double. De La Rosa finished his longest outing of the season, and his best showing on the road by far, by getting Pete Kozma on a lineout to first.
De La Rosa entered 1-3 with a 5.13 ERA on the road and 2-0 at home with 12 scoreless innings. This was the fourth time he worked six or more scoreless innings.
Tulowitzki's eighth homer stopped the Rockies' scoreless streak two innings shy of the team record. They went 30 innings without a run from Sept. 30 to Oct. 3, 2010, according to STATS.
The Rockies entered the weekend with the top offense in the National League and still led with a .266 batting average going into the finale of the three-game series. Tulowitzki was 0 for 6 in the first two games with five strikeouts and Carlos Gonzalez had been hitless in 15 at-bats before finishing with two singles and a walk.
Blackmon batted eighth after being called up earlier in the day to replace Michael Cuddyer, placed on the 15-day disabled list with a neck injury. He got unexpected cheers after hitting his fourth career homer - he was introduced in his first at-bat as a player making his major league debut.
Colorado had five hits in the first three innings after totaling three and going 40 consecutive at-bats without a hit the previous two days. The Rockies have never been shut out three straight times.
The Cardinals' streak of retiring 40 straight batters is tied for the second-longest in the majors since 1974, two shy of the record set by the Seattle Mariners from Aug. 14-17 last year, with Felix Hernandez throwing a perfect game on Aug. 15. Rangers pitchers retired 40 in a row in 1996.
NOTES: Gonzalez had two singles and a walk and is 6 for 12 against Garcia. ... Cardinals pitchers had a 2.02 ERA over the previous 10 games. ... Cardinals C Yadier Molina was 0 for 3, ending an 11-game hitting streak. He had five hits in the first two games of the series.
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Linux is well known for being a rock-stable OS. X, the client-server based frontend usually used to provide GUI functionallity, however, is known for occasionally going south. In the interest of better understanding of how to deal with this frustrating occurance, I present this brief tutorial.
Often times the unlucky X user will find himself faced with an X window that wont go away. It may refuse to refresh or even close. There are generally 2 ways of attempting to deal with this. If one is able to use a shell, one can run a command, such as:
$ps -ax | grep process name
$kill -9 offending pid
An easier way to deal with this is a very handy program called xkill. this can be run from the shell, run from a menu, or in a pinch summoned with Ctrl-Alt-Esc. Just put the pointer over the offending window and click.
Sometimes, problems with X can be much more serious. These are the times when the whole GUI locks up, or becomes so unresponsive that usual methods of logging off, or even rebooting, are unavailable. This doesn't always mean a forced unclean reboot. The protocol for dealing with this is often disabled in some linux distributions(and does require kernel support). To enable it, use your favorite editor(as root, of course) and open /etc/sysctl.conf and insert a line reading:
kernel.sysrq = 1
After doing that, you should be prepared for amost all X-based porkage
Now next time X goes to sit under a tree, try this sequence of keystrokes:
alt-sysrq-r (should unlock your keyboard. In some cases you may be able to stop here.)
at-sysrq-k (kills all current processes on your virtual terminal.)
alt-sysrq-s (syncs your hard drive.)
alt-sysrq-u (unmounts your filesystems.)
alt-sysrq-b (should give you a reboot!)
If all goes well, you should be able to reboot and recover with your filesystems clean.
None of this is new knowledge to many, but I felt it was good to put it here for all y'all linux newbies...

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What does 200 A at PW ≤ 10 μs, duty cycle ≤ 1% in 2SK1522E data sheet means?
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The 2SK1522E datasheet states a drain peak current of 200 A at "PW ≤ 10 μs, duty cycle ≤ 1%".
What does this mean?
What does this mean?
PW ≤ 10 μs, duty cycle ≤ 1% means that (a) during 1% (or less) of one cycle, (b) a pulse of pulse width 10 μs (or less) is applied. This means that for the 2SK1522E, under these conditions and at the rated channel temperature, the maximum drain current is 200 A.
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Severn Trent Water has started work this week to improve water pipes in South Wingfield to help prevent burst water pipes in the area.
As part of the plans, more than four-and-a-half kilometres of modern water pipes will be installed before the end of summer.
A £600,000 investment will see engineers removing old pipes, which are now prone to bursts as they have become weak with age.
Work will be carried out along roads including Parks Avenue, Wessington Lane, Holme Lane and Birches Lane.
For the safety of the local community, while work is carried out traffic lights will be in place and some roads in the village may be closed.
However, Severn Trent Water is doing all it can to help keep disruption to a minimum.
Severn Trent Water engineer, Liz James, said: "The water pipes in South Wingfield have now grown old and need to be replaced. We started work on Monday, February 10, to install 4.5km of new modern pipes which will help to protect our customers from the disruption caused by burst pipes.
"Over recent months the number of bursts has increased, so we must act now in the interests of our customers.
"While we carry out this essential work we've done our best to keep disruption to a minimum.
"We're working together with Derbyshire County Council to organise roadworks. Unfortunately, while we install the new pipes traffic lights will be in place and some roads in the area will need to be closed. We have written to residents to let them know details and work has now started on Parks Avenue.
"We expect the improvements will be completed before end of August and we appreciate that any work in the road can be disruptive. In the longer term we're confident that the local community will benefit, being protected from the misery caused by burst water pipes."
For any questions on the South Wingfield improvements, Laing O'Rourke can be contacted between 8am and 5pm Monday to Friday on 01332 288047.
Across its region, Severn Trent Water also acts on feedback from customers every day to help detect leaks and bursts on its pipes.
Liz James added: "We maintain a 46,000km network of water pipes across a huge area, so in many cases, we don't know where leaks are until our customers report them. Please don't assume we already know about the burst or leak, even if it's a large one – particularly in rural areas where it's possible for leaks to run for days without being noticed."
Those who spot a leak can call our Leakline on 0800 783 4444 or report the leak online at www.stwater.co.uk/reportaleak.


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Brad Curtis holds up a baby snake he came across during the tour of Riverside Park Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, with the Fort Morgan City Council and other city staff. (Jenni Grubbs/Fort Morgan Times)
The flood caused instability in this trail that runs along the South Platte River in Riverside Park, and the unstable ground that used to be the improved trail, shown here Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, continues to fall down into the river. (Jenni Grubbs/Fort Morgan Times)


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There are two things I love in life... playing games and my family. I work three jobs; one to pay the bills, another as a video game designer at C117 Games, and, of course, here - at Another Dungeon. I own almost every console since the Atari 7800 and am proud of my extensive collection of games. I'm more of a single or coop player but I do dabble in multiplayer on the odd occasion. Tabletop wise I prefer strategic games like Five Tribes or Small World. If you want to have a game or just chat feel free to add me, PM me or email me.


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Maze of the letter C, the 3rd letter in the alphabet, as in Cat, Capture, Create or Carnival. Maze is very psychedelic with vanishing point in the middle of the C expanding outwards. Maze entrance is in the upper left corner and maze exit is in the lower right.
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Paris, 28 Apr 2004
Representatives from 47 countries and more than two dozen international organisations met in Tokyo last week, coming a significant step closer to achieving the goal of an integrated Earth monitoring network.
The Japanese capital was the location of the fourth Group on Earth Observations (GEO) summit. GEO is an intergovernmental working group charged with developing a plan for a co-ordinated global Earth Observation network providing data on environmental factors for both scientific and humanitarian purposes.
GEO was created during last July's Earth Observation Summit in Washington DC and was made responsible for producing a ten-year programme to co-ordinate space and ground based global monitoring systems, to be known as the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS).
ESA and the European Union's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) joint initiative serves as Europe's contribution to the worldwide GEOSS effort.
The 22-23 April Tokyo summit - the fourth such meeting and known as GEO-4 - is the successor to previous gatherings last year in Baverno, Italy and Cape Town, South Africa. The work done at GEO-4 saw the finalisation of a draft implementation plan, which was then approved by ministers gathering at the one-day Earth Observation Summit II immediately following GEO-4 on Sunday 25 April.
"Securing the draft implementation plan represents a useful step forward in turning the GEOSS idea into a reality," remarked ESA Earth Observation Director of Programmes José Achache. "And all participants from Europe were united in their support of GMES as its European component."
The aim behind GEOSS is to maximise the effectiveness of Earth Observation by minimising data gaps, building capacity and exchanging information as fully and quickly as possible.
Developed and developing nations alike will have access to all data gathered by the network, following the model of the World Meteorological Organisation's four-decade-old World Weather Watch, which co-ordinates the globe's weather satellites along with in-situ climate stations.
The increased knowledge of the environment that a similar global Earth Observation system would provide has the potential to be an invaluable resource for global decision makers.
"The feeling is that the summit has made an important contribution," Achache added. "It's about more than only improving weather forecasting and the study of climate change. GEOSS will be a tool for planetary management, a resource for more efficient development and a means of mitigating disasters."
This draft implementation plan will form the basis of additional work to be carried out by five separate GEO Subgroups dealing with the subjects of Architecture, Capacity Building, Data Utilisation, User Requirements and International Cooperation. ESA is a Co-Chair of the Architecture Sub-Group and also a member of the GEO Secretariat.
The finalised ten-year GEOSS implementation plan will be presented for acceptance to ministers at the Earth Observation Summit III, scheduled to take place in Brussels in February of next year.
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How should Christians respond to the imprecatory psalms?
How should Christians respond to psalms that invoke calamity or curses upon one's enemies? From Ligonier's 2016 National Conference, W. Robert Godfrey, Albert Mohler, and William VanDoodewaard consider biblical prayers of judgment. To get real-time answers to your biblical …Read More
Is it wrong for scientists to engage in genetic engineering?
I feel hopelessly inadequate to answer some of the very perplexing issues that have arisen because of the explosion of modern technology. In the case of most ethical questions, theologians have had the benefit of two thousand years of careful …Read More
What is the biblical basis for human dignity?
As a Christian I do not believe that human beings have intrinsic dignity. I am totally committed to the idea that human beings have dignity, but the question is, is it intrinsic or extrinsic? Dignity, by biblical definition, is tied …Read More
How can we as Christians ascertain when God's Word was applicable only to a certain culture and therefore may not be applicable to us today?
The real question here is, Is everything that is set forth in Scripture to be applied to all people of all time and of all cultures? I don't know any biblical scholar who would argue that everything set forth in …Read More
What can Christians expect from God in regard to healing?
I don't know how many times I've seen on the walls of pastors' studies or in Christian homes the little sign, Expect a Miracle. If a miracle is something we can expect, like we expect the postman every morning, it …Read More
What should be the Christian stand on the death penalty?
I'm convinced that our whole criminal justice system is in serious need of reformation and restructuring because it is not working and many inequities exist within it. Christians are divided about the issue of capital punishment. First, there is the …Read More
In the case of a terminally ill person, who should decide when to discontinue life-support systems — to "pull the plug"?
Last year I addressed eight hundred physicians at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. I was asked to address that precise question: How you decide when to pull the plug? I was also interested to note that the largest single …Read More
What is your opinion of abortion, and are there any Scriptures that would back it up?
We are all aware of hellfire-and-damnation preachers who rave and scream about the decadence of the world. It can become tiresome to listen to all of that. I think we all respect people who can disagree with others in a …Read More
I've been wrestling with a career decision. What thinking processes should Christians use in decision making?
Unfortunately, in today's Christian environment the whole idea of thinking has become suspect. It's as if using our natural abilities of intellect—particularly in areas of career— somehow represents a lack of faith. The concept is that we're supposed to entrust …Read More
How do you explain the out-of-body tunnel-like experiences many people claim to have had before being revived?
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text: The Suzuki TL1000R is a special bike. It garnered little love from the media during its release; but despite being discontinued seven years ago, the TLR continues to foster a cult following, especially in Europe. So it doesn't surprise us a great deal that when 25 year old fabrication apprentice, Mathijn Nelis, set out to create is first custom work under the careful gaze of master builder Nico Bakker, that the young Dutchman chose to work with the stout TL v-twin powerplant that dwarfed its Italain competitors during its initial release.


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How do do I inspect compile-time dependencies for packages?
You want a "visual" output of the dependency tree for a particular package?
bitbake --dry-run --verbose $packagename | grep "current path" | less
should give you that information. Another way is the more recent
bitbake -g $packagename && less *.dot
Then, installing for example debian package graphviz we can convet .dot file in .ps
dot -Tps task-depends.dot -o task-depends.ps
And then you can open it with gimp.
!Be careful that big package give a .dot and .os result that require too much RAM, for example mplayer.


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By The Associated Press
Some excerpts from the arguments before the Supreme Court on Tuesday about California's Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage, according to an early transcript released by the Supreme Court:
On whether the case should be before them:
-CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: But a state can't authorize anyone to proceed in federal court, because that would leave the definition under Article III of the federal Constitution as to who can bring - who has standing to bring claims up to each state. And I don't think we've ever allowed anything like that.
-JUSTICE KENNEDY: The problem - the problem with the case is that you're really asking, particularly because of the sociological evidence you cite, for us to go into uncharted waters, and you can play with that metaphor, there's a wonderful destination, it is a cliff. Whatever that was. ... But you're - you're doing so in a - in a case where the opinion is very narrow. Basically that once the state goes halfway, it has to go all the way or 70 percent of the way, and you're doing so in a case where there's a substantial question on - on standing. I just wonder if - if the case was properly granted.
On the question of children of same-sex parents:
-JUSTICE KENNEDY: I think there's - there's substantial - that there's substance to the point that sociological information is new. We have five years of information to weigh against 2,000 years of history or more. On the other hand, there is an immediate legal injury or legal - what could be a legal injury, and that's the voice of these children. There are some 40,000 children in California, according to the red brief, that live with same-sex parents, and they want their parents to have full recognition and full status. The voice of those children is important in this case, don't you think?
-MR. COOPER (representing the people who helped get Proposition 8 on the ballot, in response to Justice Kennedy): I certainly would not dispute the importance of that consideration. That consideration especially in the political process, where this issue is being debated and will continue to be debated, certainly, in California. It's being debated elsewhere. But on that - on that specific question, Your Honor, there simply is no data.
On the question of redefining marriage:
-JUSTICE SCALIA: Mr. Cooper, let me - let me give you one - one concrete thing. I don't know why you don't mention some concrete things. If you redefine marriage to include same-sex couples, you must - you must permit adoption by same-sex couples, and there's - there's considerable disagreement among -- among sociologists as to what the consequences of raising a child in a -- in a single-sex family, whether that is harmful to the child or not. Some States do not - do not permit adoption by same-sex couples for that reason.
On the rights of same-sex couples:
-MR. OLSON (representing two same-sex couples): This is a measure that walls off the institution of marriage, which is not society's right. It's an individual right that this Court again and again and again has said the right to get married, the right to have the relationship of marriage is a personal right. It's a part of the right of privacy, association, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Professor Heather Field has been named Associate Academic Dean designate for UC Hastings, leading the school's efforts to put students first.
Field, who holds the Bion Gregory Chair in Business Law, will replace Associate Academic Dean Keith Wingate, beginning July 1, 2013. Wingate joined the UC Hastings faculty in 1980. He taught Civil Procedure; Race, Racism, and American Law; Critical Race Theory; Reparations: Domestic and International; and Law and the Japanese-American Internment. He also serves on the board of the Community Housing Development Corporation of North Richmond.
As Associate Academic Dean, Field will supervise several departments, enforce academic regulations and the code of student conduct, and play a key leadership role in the college's operations.
"I'm delighted that Heather Field is willing to take on this new role for UC Hastings," said Academic Dean Designate Beth Hillman. "She's an ideal fit because of the great respect she's earned from our students, her innovative approach to legal education, and her proven ability to get things done."
Field is looking forward to the post. "UC Hastings students are smart, engaged, and hard-working, and I truly enjoy working with them," Field said. "I am excited to have this new opportunity to contribute to the quality of their law school experiences. I am also honored to work with the college's outstanding professionals, who are deeply committed to serving and supporting our students. I hope that, together, we can continue to create an environment that encourages and empowers students as they build the knowledge and skills that will prepare them to solve 21st century problems."
Field joined the faculty in 2006, and has played a leadership role in forging and implementing important aspects of the college's new strategic plan. "Heather has an energy and student-oriented focus that makes her perfect for this job," said Chancellor and Dean Frank H. Wu.
Field will continue to teach, including in the college's Tax Concentration Seminar. "Professor Field will stay involved in UC Hastings' well-established Tax Concentration, a course of study near and dear to her heart, ensuring it provides students with the knowledge, skills, and community essential to success in practice," Hillman said.


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This year's Alumni and Family Weekend was a great success.
Alumni, students, families, and friends enjoyed a weekend of
activities and togetherness. Activities included an acupuncture
seminar, a puppet show, campus tours, a book signing, a barbecue,
an alumni vs. faculty volleyball game, a wine tasting reception,
comedy night, a champagne cruise, and more.
This weekend, the Mount also announced a new, ambitious capital
campaign for the Dominican Center. The kick off event for the
public phase of "A Call to Excellence: The Campaign for the
Dominican Center" had more than 500 people in attendance.
You can learn more
about the capital campaign on our website, or view all photos
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Crusaders hold off Johnsonburg Rams
JOHNSONBURG – The Elk County Catholic Crusaders improved to 5-0 on Friday night as they took a 25-0 lead through three quarters and then held off an attempted fourth quarter rally by the Rams to come away with a 25-12 win on Friday night at Memorial Field. The Crusaders racked up a total of 250 yards in the game, with team members rushing for 135 yards and 115 coming from the squad's passing game. Johnsonburg, on the other hand, relied heavily on passing, with 192 of their 214 yards coming on pass plays. A key to the Crusaders' success, particularly in the opening half, was shutting down Johnsonburg senior Mitchell Holmberg. "We were able to get up on Mitch Holmberg there and pressure him a little bit as far as getting the ball. I think that helped," said ECC coach Travis Skrzypek. "Then we went into a little bit more deep coverage in the second [half] and they were able to hit some underneath routes and open it up a little bit." Johnsonburg coach Jesse Schreiber concurred that ECC's coverage on Holmberg hurt his squad offensively in the first half. "The first half, ECC did a great job-- they played two guys, sometimes three guys, on him (Holmberg). They really shut him down," Schreiber said. "At halftime we made some adjustments to try to get him the football in other places, but then they let up on some coverage, which made him open. He's one of our best athletes, so we've got to get him the football as much as we can.""They (ECC) did a nice job shutting him down the first half, so credit goes to their coaching staff and their kids. They had a great plan and they shut him down," Schreiber added. Schreiber also remarked that he hopes the Rams' 12 unanswered points in the fourth quarter motivates the team moving forward. "I think it does wonders for us, mentality-wise, to get some success, to show some success, and to say to our kids, 'We won the fourth quarter, now we can build,'" Schrieber said. "It's a big week obviously here for Johnsonburg, with Ridgway week coming up. It's always a rivalry and it will be fun to see what happens next Friday." The Crusaders were led on the ground by Hank Cappiello with 43 yards on 11 carries. Joe McLaughlin added 35 yards, while Brock McCullough had 31. Quarterback Mitchell Vallone was 4-for-12 for 115 yards, including two touchdown passes to Clayton Housler, one for 78 yards and the other for 15 yards. "Mitchell Vallone did a nice job throwing, and Clayton did a heck of a job catching there in the first half," Skrzypek said. "They hooked up on a couple passes, so that was nice to see the passing game get going a little bit."Holmberg had 31 yards rushing for Johnsonburg and also had five catches for a total of 135 yards, including both of the Rams' touchdowns. Quarterback Frank Kocjancic was 14-for-27 for 192 yards. Elk Catholic won the coin toss and elected to receive. Both teams struggled to get their offenses going early on, though, and they traded punts. After Elk punted the ball away again, the Rams put on the first real drive of the game, getting as close as the Crusaders' 40-yard line before penalties and losses backed them up and killed their momentum. Still, they were able to pin the Crusaders at their own 13-yard line on their next possession; however, following a 9-yard run by Cappiello, Vallone connected with Housler on a 78-yard pass play for ECC's first touchdown of the game with 4:31 remaining in the opening quarter. The PAT failed, and the Crusaders took a 6-0 lead. The ensuing kickoff saw Holmberg return the ball to his team's 15-yard line to start their next drive. Any hope of answering ECC's score was lost, though, when the Rams fumbled the ball away on a pitch from Kocjancic to Holmberg. The ball was recovered by Elk Catholic's Ben Cortina at the Rams' 18-yard line and it took ECC four plays before Vallone connected with Housler once again, this time on a 15-yard pass play, for another touchdown. The try for two failed, giving Elk Catholic a 12-0 advantage with 3:03 left in the first quarter. The teams traded possession of the ball throughout much of the second quarter. On their first drive, Johnsonburg was able to get the ball down to the Crusaders' 13-yard line through a series of nice pass plays by Kocjancic. The Rams decided to go for it on fourth down and Kocjancic's pass was caught cleanly at the 1-yard line. Unfortunately for Johnsonburg, the player making the catch was ECC's Dan Singer, who promptly took off back down the field and was eventually taken down at the 23. While the Crusaders ultimately ended up punting on that drive, they were able to get their momentum going again on their next possession as Vallone made it into the end zone on a 1-yard run with 16.7 seconds remaining in the half. The try for two failed once again, leaving ECC with an 18-0 advantage. With limited time, the Rams picked up a few yards on a pass to Kyle Sheldon, but then Kocjancic's next pass was picked off by Cortina as time ran out, sending the game into halftime with Elk Catholic up 18-0. The Crusaders scored their final touchdown on their opening possession of the second half as they went 60 yards on seven plays with the score coming on a three-yard run by McCullough with 5:33 left in the third. Ryan Seelye added the PAT to give ECC a 25-0 lead. The teams spent much of the remainder of the quarter trading the ball back and forth, which continued until the Rams' second possession in the fourth quarter. The Johnsonburg squad was finally able to finish off a drive, going 67 yards in five plays for the score on a 19-yard pass play to Holmberg. Johnsonburg decided to try for two, but Kocjancic's attempted pass to Caleb Garvey was broken up, making the score 25-6 with 7:11 remaining in the contest. As Elk Catholic began to substitute in players, their offense struggled a bit at times, and they went four-and-out on their next possession to give the ball back to Johnsonburg at their own 32-yard line. It once again took the Rams just five plays to get back into the end zone, this time on a 23-yard pass play to Holmberg. The try for two failed once again, making the score 25-12 with 2:02 remaining. The Crusaders were able to run out the clock on their next possession, with the game ending as quarterback Andrew Gebauer took a knee with only seconds remaining on the clock. Game notesThe Crusaders are now 5-0 on the season and 5-0 in the Allegheny Mountain League. They will be back in action next Friday as they travel to Kane to take on the Wolves in a 7 p.m. contest. The loss drops the Rams to 1-4. Johnsonburg will host Ridgway next Friday at 7 p.m.The winners of the 300 Club Drawings were: 1st quarter - David Wolff2nd quarter - George Murray3rd quarter - Pat Nelson4th quarter - Mike Votano


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South Florida has been irresistible for crime writers, among them Carl Hiaasen, Edna Buchanan and Harry Crews. Now John Dufresne, most famously the author of the novel Louisiana Power and Light, has joined that list with his first mystery novel.
No Regrets, Coyote is Dufresne's eighth novel, and it begins with the killing of an entire family in the fictional South Florida town of Eden. When the police get to the scene of the crime, they find a typed note, which they insist is a suicide letter.
But an amateur detective named Wiley "Coyote" Melville, a local therapist with an eye for detail, doesn't buy it. He thinks the murderer is out there, and along with his sidekick, Bay Lettique, Coyote sets out on a gripping and off-kilter mission to solver the murder. Dufresne speaks with NPR's Jacki Lyden about his book and its characters.
Interview Highlights
On his main character, Wiley "Coyote" Melville
"He's a therapist by trade, and he's called in occasionally because he has what a psychologist calls 'robust mirror neurons.' He's able to look at people and look at their furniture and look at the way they behave themselves and sort of determine ... where it is they're going and what people's motivations are. ...
"[At the same time], he's carrying on with his business. It's like, we all have our lives — whatever trouble's going on in our life, we still have to live it. He has to go to work every day and he has these clients that have various degrees of difficulty that he's trying to work with, and he's also got some problems in his own family."
On Coyote's sidekick, Bay Lettique
"Bay is a professional poker player who used to run an illegal poker game and would call Wiley in to see if anyone was cheating, he could notice who it was. ... And it was usually cops, and they'd have to pay off the police benevolent association so nobody got in trouble.
"And Bay was also like his real estate attorney at one time and all that, and so now they're best buddies. And Wiley worries about Bay and the fact that he can't keep himself away from the poker table, but Bay is successful at it and makes his living that way."
On writing his first murder mystery
"I had been writing these, what I like to think of as literary fiction, for want of a better word, and I got an opportunity — a couple opportunities actually — to write mystery stories with a collection called Miami Noir and then another called Boston Noir.
"I've always written about mysteries, but the mystery is generally about like, who are we? Who are these other people? And why are we doing what we do? And this time the mystery is about not a venial sin, in that sense, but a mortal sin. There's crime and ... a crime has to be solved, but I got to page 250 in the manuscript and I didn't know whodunit."
It's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Jacki Lyden.
South Florida has been irresistible for crime writers - Carl Hiaasen, Edna Buchanan, Harry Crews are just a few who come to mind. But novelist John Dufresne hadn't really tried his hand at the noire genre before. Now, he brings all his gifts for humor and pathos to Eden, Florida, the imaginary setting for the family slaughter that begins Dufresne's new novel, "No Regrets, Coyote."
It's a gripping read and off-kilter. He hails from Massachusetts, originally, but Florida has gotten under his skin since a long time back. John Dufresne joins me from member station WLRN in Miami. Welcome.
JOHN DUFRESNE: Thank you, Jacki. Great to be here.
LYDEN: It's difficult to call a murder mystery fun, but "No Regrets, Coyote" is a fun murder mystery. And yet, it starts with this really brutal, bloody crime. The entire Halliday family is killed in their home in South Florida, and an unlikely character is called in to help solve the crime. He's our protagonist, our hero. His name's Wiley Melville - nice writer's detective-type name - and goes by Coyote. Tell us more about him. He's not actually a detective.
DUFRESNE: No, he's not. He's a therapist by trade, and he's called in occasionally because he has what a psychologist calls robust mirror neurons. He's able to sort of look at people and look at their furniture and look at the way they behave themselves. And so to determine, sass out what it is going and what people's motivations are.
LYDEN: One of the great fun things in this that's sort of a send-up of the whole genre is that he often has to break off from solving the crime to, you know, basically give someone a therapy session because he's so caring.
DUFRESNE: Yeah, he - he's got - he's carrying on with his business. It's like, this is - we all have our own lives that whatever trouble is going on in our life, we still have to live it. He has to go to work every day, and he has, you know, some - these clients that have various degrees of, you know, difficulty that he's trying to work with. And he's also got some problems in his own family with his father is suffering from dementia. And he has to take care of his father, and his sister's kind of a hysteric.
And he's got all - he's trying to juggle all these things together at the same time while also losing his girlfriend and maybe finding another one. In all of this, life goes on for him.
LYDEN: So the Halliday family, sadly, is no more - mom, pop and three kids - and the cops insist that it's murder-suicide. But Wiley, he just isn't so sure. Something doesn't seem right. This suicide note's pretty badly typed - and that's interesting, it's typed - it's found next to the father. Maybe you would give us a bit of that, please.
DUFRESNE: Yeah, OK. So he's given the suicide note that the police have found. He's handed it, too, and it reads like this: To whom it may concern. To start off about this tragic story, my name is Chafin Halliday, my wife Krysia, my boys Brantley, 9, Briely, 8, and my daughter and my precious angel, Brianna, 4. People have put obstacles in my way and know who they are. I'm not insane. But this is no way to live like this. I have let my loved ones down. I have failed at fathership. I had to die. I deserved it. But to love them like I do and to live without them is too hard to bear, which is why we are dead and why we are together on the other side. I could not leave my babies with strangers. Yours truly, Chafin R. Halliday.
LYDEN: Right away, Wylie suspects that there's just something off about all of this. So Coyote's going to set off on this mission to find out what actually happened to this family. He's got a sidekick - and all the detectives need one. This is a poker player and magician type called Bay Lettique. Tell us about Bay.
DUFRESNE: Well, Bay is a professional poker player who used to run an illegal poker game and would call Wylie in to see if anyone was cheating. He could notice who it was, and it usually was and it was usually cops. And they'd have to pay off the police benevolent association so no one would get in trouble. And Bay was also like his real estate attorney at one time and all that, and so now they are best buddies. And Wylie worries about Bay, in fact, that he can't keep himself away from the poker table. But Bay is successful at it and makes his living that way.
LYDEN: Why don't you read to us about Bay Lettique?
DUFRESNE: OK. My friend Bay Lettique, a slight of hand man, does close-up magic. You can shuffle a deck of playing cards, spread them face down on the table and he'll pick them up in order - Ace to King - by suit or by rank, your choice. He once asked me to think of a card - not to mention it, just to picture it. And he not only identified the card, he did it by asking me to open my wallet and pull out the $5 bill that had the rank and suit of the card written on Lincoln's shirt collard in red ink: Nine of diamonds.
He can make a parakeet fly from his iPhone to your iPhone and from your iPhone to his shoulder. I've seen him slice a banana in half with a card he threw from 10 feet away - at least I think I saw it. Bay says close-up works this way: I tell you I'm going to lie to you, and then I lie to you and you believe it because you want to believe.
LYDEN: I just love that.
DUFRESNE: Oh, thank you.
LYDEN: It just sends a chill up my spine. So, John Dufresne, this is your first crime novel, I believe. How did this come to be? You were part of a short story collection solicited from Florida writers?
DUFRESNE: Right. What happened was, you know, I had been writing these - what I like to think of a - sort of literary fiction, for want of a better word. And I got an opportunity, a couple of opportunities actually, to write mystery stories with a collection called Miami Noir and then another one called Boston Noir.
I've always written about mysteries, but the mystery is generally about, like, who are we, who are these other people and what do - why are we doing what we do. And this time, the mystery is - about not a venial sin, in that sense, but a mortal sin, that there's some - there's crime and something has to be - a crime has to be solved. I got to page 250 in the manuscript, and I didn't know who'd done it.
LYDEN: Doesn't somebody in here tell Wylie - I think he's board - about to board a plane somewhere - you know, the thing about Florida, it's not God's country.
DUFRESNE: I think so. Yes, I think that's right. It's a state trooper who pulls him over. And he says: Yeah, I've been to Florida. And, yeah, I didn't like it too much. He said: Well, no, it's not God's country down there.
LYDEN: You know, I think you've given us someone here - you don't really want to say goodbye to the Coyote. I mean, he's a great character. Will we see him again?
DUFRESNE: Yes, we will. I'm working on him now. And he's actually in Nevada right now. And the manuscript that I was working on this morning, I've got him in - he's waking up in a motel in Valmy, Nevada.
So the trouble's going to be in the desert. And I think we may end up coming back to Florida. But he and Bay are out in - they begin in Las Vegas where Bay, of course, is at the poker table. And that's why they went.
LYDEN: Well, John, it has been a great pleasure talking to you. John Dufresne's new murder mystery is called "No Regrets, Coyote." It is great. Thank you so much.
DUFRESNE: Thank you, Jacki. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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San Rafael, CA (PRWEB) January 09, 2013
The Contact Football Camp at Lake Forest College June 16-20, is an established location where Head Coach Jim Catanzaro works with youth football players to ensure they gain insight on the game and improve their skills.
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BLACKFOOT — Each year the Prospectors' Club, a community support organization made up of former Chamber presidents and other Blackfoot business leaders, honors one individual.
"It's for those who've gone beyond the norm for the community," said president Leonard Martin, the publisher of the Morning News.
This year's recipient of the Best Foot Forward Award, presented at the Greater Blackfoot Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Wednesday, is Susan Nalley.
"Susan has been very involved with victims of domestic violence for many years," Martin noted from her nomination document. "She will always go the extra mile to make sure that those victims are well cared for both personally and mentally.
"Susan has been very involved with the Christmas Tree Fantasy for many years," Martin continued. She has also acted as chairman of that event."
In addition, he said, she is involved with the young women in her church.
"Susan is an extraordinary woman," Martin continued. "She is dedicated to our great community, and is able to always see the positive in any situation."
Chamber president Shirley Brumfield noted that 28 new businesses joined in 2011.
She and executive director Leah Rigby presented awards to some businesses whose owners have been particularly supportive of the Chamber in the past year.
Honored as members of the year were Bingham Memorial Hospital and the Morning News.
"The hospital helps us so much," Brumfield said. "And the Morning News is so much help with our activities. They and their staff are everywhere."
Shirley Robinson received the Chamber's volunteer of the year award.
"She's someone very dedicated to Blackfoot and a huge help to the Chamber," Brumfield said. "She has managed Pride Days for several years."
Brumfield also recognized those who help with the Easter Egg hunt, the Legislative Breakfast, with the July 4 fireworks show, with the Pride Days Triathlon, the golf tournament and the I Love ISU fundraising event.
She further honored David Miller, who helped with the transition to a new executive director last spring and Chamber office staffers Jesica Smith and Norma Jones.
"The Chamber can do a lot of things for you if you just use them," Brumfield concluded.


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They didn't feature the recently familiar glitz and glamor of Las Vegas thanks to the calendar crunch created by the league's player lockout, but the NHL's 2013 individual award ceremonies – at least, Part 1 of them – did not fail to provide ample opportunity for debate and discussion.
Presented for the past five seasons in Vegas, the league's awards – eight of which were announced Friday, with the Hart, Norris, Vezina, Calder and Ted Lindsay to be announced Saturday night at 7 p.m. Eastern on NBC and CBC – were revealed live on The NHL Network late Friday afternoon. And two Ottawa Senators employees were among the big winners.
As was widely expected, Sens coach Paul MacLean took home his first Jack Adams Award as the NHL's best coach, while captain Daniel Alfredsson was named the winner of the Mark Messier Leadership Award.
"It's a very proud day for myself and my family and especially for the Ottawa Senators organization and what we've gone through," said MacLean, who was a finalist for the award last season after his rookie campaign as an NHL bench boss. "We're pretty pleased here today."
MacLean, who led the Senators to a playoff spot this season despite having catastrophic injuries to key stars at goal, defense and forward, deflected most of the credit to Ottawa's veterans.
"A ton of the credit goes to Daniel Alfredsson, Chris Phillips, Sergei Gonchar and Chris Neil," MacLean told the NHL Network in accepting the award, which he bested Chicago's Joel Quenneville and Anaheim's Bruce Boudreau to win. "They were the four veteran guys that were still in the lineup and they did an incredible job of leadership, showing the young players what it was supposed to be every night."
The 40-year-old Alfredsson was selected by Messier as the seventh recipient of the award that bears his name and honors "the player who exemplifies great leadership qualities to his team, on and off the ice during the regular season." Alfredsson beat out finalists Jonathan Toews of the Chicago Blackhawks and Dustin Brown of the L.A. Kings. However, Toews did walk away with some hardware of his own – his first Frank J. Selke Trophy as the top defensive forward.
"It means the world," Toews said of the honor. "When you're mentioned in the same sentence…with guys like (past winners and 2013 Selke finalists) Pavel Datsyuk and Patrice Bergeron…to be compared to those guys is absolutely amazing. So it's a special award to win."
In other categories announced Friday, Tampa Bay Lightning star winger Martin St-Louis won the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy – the third of his career – as the game's most gentlemanly player, edging out wingers Patrick Kane of the Blackhawks and Matt Moulson of the Islanders. Penguins GM Ray Shero was presented with the fourth annual GM of the Year Award, beating fellow first-time nominees Bob Murray (Anaheim) and Marc Bergevin (Montreal).
Minnesota Wild goalie Josh Harding, who played the entire season despite announcing in November he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, received the Bill Masterton Trophy for perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey. Red Wings star Henrik Zetterberg won the NHL Foundation Player Award (given to the NHLer "who applies the core values of hockey – commitment, perseverance and teamwork – to enrich the lives of people in his community". And Selke finalist Bergeron was given the King Clancy Memorial Trophy, awarded to the player "who best exemplifies leadership qualities on and off the ice and who has made a significant humanitarian contribution to his community".
The NHL has already announced it will resume its practice of holding the awards in Las Vegas next summer.
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BURNABY, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Jan. 18, 2013) - Icron Technologies Corporation, a leader in USB and KVM extension technology, is pleased to announce that L-com Global Connectivity, a leading U.S. manufacturer and distributor of connectivity products, will be stocking Icron's USB 3.0 Spectra 3022 extender and demonstrating it at the 2013 BICSI Winter Conference & Exhibition held in Tampa Bay, FL, January 20-24th.
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NEWARK, N.J. — — If only it were as easy as one team bus getting stuck in the snow Saturday night. If only it were as easy as some of the boys vainly trying to push the bus free. If only it were as easy as getting a second bus and a long five-hour, 15-minute ride.
If only every Big East story had a problem-solver like Scott Kirkpatrick of Peter Pan.
"Scott was great; he's one of the most remarkable bus drivers I've ever been around," coach Kevin Ollie said after UConn had polished off Seton Hall 78-67 Sunday at Prudential Center. "He got us here at a reasonable hour. We had a successful trip.


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Beautiful Soup is a Python library designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping. Beautiful Soup provides a few simple methods and Pythonic idioms for navigating, searching, and modifying a parse tree: a toolkit for dissecting a document and extracting what you need without writing excess code for an application. It doesn't take much code to write an application using Beautiful Soup.
Getting Started with Beautiful Soup is a practical guide to Beautiful Soup using Python. The book starts by walking you through the installation of each and every feature of Beautiful Soup using simple examples which include sample Python codes as well as diagrams and screenshots wherever required for better understanding. The book discusses the problems of how exactly you can get data out of a website and provides an easy solution with the help of a real website and sample code.
Getting Started with Beautiful Soup goes over the different methods to install Beautiful Soup in both Linux and Windows systems. You will then learn about searching, navigating, content modification, encoding support, and output formatting with the help of examples and sample Python codes for each example so that you can try them out to get a better understanding. This book is a practical guide for scraping information from any website. If you want to learn how to efficiently scrape pages from websites, then this book is for you.
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Sam Mogannam brought our three Core Values to Bi-Rite from his days running Rendezvous du Monde, his restaurant in downtown San Francisco. These hold just as true today.
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Marquez what a move there, hope he makes it stick. Take full advantage of Pedrosa and Lorenzo's injuries. Rookie championship? Has that ever been done in any motorsport?
Edit: Thats a wrap, 4 wins this season for Marquez, the most of anyone. Love it.
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Sven-Goran Eriksson hailed his side's performance as "excellent" after impressive Leicester cruised to a comfortable 4-0 win against east midlands rivals Derby.
First-half goals from David Nugent and Darius Vassell set them on their way, while late strikes from substitutes Jeff Schlupp and Lloyd Dyer sealed the rout.
Eriksson believed the win was one of City's best performances of the season, saying: "I thought it was a great result, and with a clean sheet again. I thought we were excellent and performed extremely well against a good side."
He added: "David Nugent did very well on his return. He has been away for a month and today scored a goal and might have had more. He and Vassell were both very good, in offence and defence.
"The first half was one of the best we've had this season, along with our first half against Forest, and I hope we can go on like this."
Nigel Clough refused to be downcast after his Derby side had crashed to their worst league defeat in almost two years.
He said: "In the first half, for a local derby, we were a yard off the pace.
"In the second half we were a bit better and I thought we were still in the game until the third went in.
"We are a young side and you are going to get results like this with inconsistencies creeping in.
"Although I'm not happy with today's first half, I'm very happy with our start to the season. Until today the lads have done exceptionally well and we are delighted with the 19 points we've already got."
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Source(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXVII, § 2753, as added Pub. L. 110–381, § 2(b)(2),Oct. 9, 2008, 122 Stat. 4084.)
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USA TODAY Sports' Nate Ryan runs down all of the big story lines from Sunday's race.
INDIANAPOLIS – With his wife and 16-month-old son (sporting a matching yellow firesuit) beside him, an American kissed the bricks Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
It wasn't Jimmie Johnson.
It wasn't Ryan Newman.
It wasn't Tony Stewart.
It was an honest to God driver from the Verizon IndyCar Series winning the Indianapolis 500 instead of a Sprint Cup driver capturing the less-prestigious Brickyard 400.
Ryan Hunter-Reay chugged milk in the hallowed winner's circle that recently has seemed reserved only for U.S.-born NASCAR stars in late July.
CLOSE FINISH: Hunter-Reay beats Castroneves by 0.06 second
All of them — Johnson, Newman, Stewart and probably a handful more such as Jeff Gordon, Kyle Larson and Kasey Kahne — likely would have been racing Sunday at Indy if major-league open-wheel racing hadn't imploded in a paroxysm of meaningless acrimony 20 years ago. (Kurt Busch provided a glimpse of that parallel universe Sunday, finishing sixth as the fourth driver to attempt the IndyCar-NASCAR doubleheader in the same day.)
BUSCH: Finishes sixth in his first Indy 500
That's partially why it's become so important – and rare – when an American such as Hunter-Reay wins the Memorial Day weekend classic that cemented Foyt, Andretti and Unser as household names in this country.
"My dream has come true," the Dallas-born, Florida-raised driver said after becoming the first American to win Indy since Sam Hornish Jr. in 2006.
"I've watched this race since I was in diapers sitting on the floor in front of the TV. My son did it today. I'm thrilled. This is an American tradition."
RYDEN: Hunter-Reay's son wore matching firesuit
It hasn't been for so many years since IndyCar was fractured into rival series that lessened its stature while sending prospects scurrying to stock-car racing, which enjoys a larger profile and more robust sponsorship climate.
Hunter-Reay, who entered the postrace interview room to a hearty chant of "USA! USA!" from fans, is only the fifth American to triumph in the 19 Indy 500s since the formation of the Indy Racing League in 1996 signaled a civil war that didn't end until 2008.
PHOTOS: Ryan Hunter-Reay through the years
The significance wasn't lost even among the set that turned Indianapolis into an international showplace.
"It was great to see an American driver winning," said three-time winner Helio Castroneves, who finished runner-up by 0.06 seconds in the second-closest finish in Indy 500 history. "It's great because for several years, the series was (about) a foreigner up front. It's great to see American drivers succeed. The IndyCar Series is showing it's the right way to go. I say that in a positive way, and I mean it."
Castroneves is Exhibit A for how an Indy 500 win can change someone's life. Once known only to hard-core IndyCar fans as the effervescent Brazilian who went to drive for Roger Penske, he now is also the guy who rubbed shoulders with Wayne Newton while tangoing his way to a ''Dancing With The Stars'' championship.
HELIO: Denied a fourth Indy 500 crown
Castroneves has yet to win a title, but his Indy success puts him among the series' top three in popularity and name recognition.
The same will be true for Hunter-Reay, whose 2012 championship will pale in comparison with having his face chiseled on the Borg-Warner Trophy. According to Repucom, which measures the impact and valuation of sports sponsorships, 2012 Indy winner Dario Franchitti received twice as much media value as Hunter-Reay did for the title.
"This is the granddaddy of them all," Hunter-Reay said. "This is where drivers were made and history is made. When I was a kid, I looked up to the Andrettis, Foyt, Unser, Mears.
"Winning this one is definitely a game-changer."
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Team owner Michael Andretti can appreciate it, having led more laps than anyone at Indy without getting a victory. Though he claimed a championship and 42 victories in the CART IndyCar Series, he is as famous for his perpetual heartaches at Indy as a driver as for three victories here as a team owner.
"Going up against the best in the world, not just the United States, is a big deal," Andretti said. "That's why to me it does feel more precious when an American wins it, because he won in an international field."
Hunter-Reay had the opportunity to go domestic in NASCAR. He turned down a chance to test for Hendrick Motorsports several years ago in favor of driving for Bobby Rahal's IndyCar team in 2008.
"It was always IndyCar for me," he said. "I grew up a diehard fan of the sport. I came up in karting emulating these guys when Michael was at his prime. It was a one-way, one-track road. There was no other avenue."
He kept after it while bouncing between underfunded rides in 2009, and the persistence paid off when a one-race deal with Andretti Autosport turned into a full-time deal in 2010.
"This is the opportunity of a lifetime," he said. "I was bouncing from team to team to team. I had to make it happen in a short amount of time (and) pressure-packed circumstances. We won our (fourth) race at Long Beach. It's just a fantastic, fantastic story."
It's a red, white and blue tale of persistence. IndyCar will need many more of them if it hopes to begin a long road back to competing with NASCAR for the attention of mainstream America.
Sunday, though, was a good start.
"I'm a proud American boy," Hunter-Reay said. "That's for sure."
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It was billed as a war between low-tech insurgents and the high-tech U.S. military. But the WikiLeaks war logs from Iraq reveals that the insurgents were sophisticated and tech-savvy, too — embedding cameras in suicide vests, turning trucks into rocket-launchers, and deploying a variety of missiles to menace U.S. troops.
It shouldn't be so surprising, considering that lots of Iraqi insurgents came out of Iraq's huge Saddam-era military, or that some had help from elite Iranian agents. But here's an overview of some of the more ingenious, lesser-known innovations in asymmetric warfare that insurgents developed during the Iraq war to neutralize the U.S.'s conventional advantages.
The Truck- and Wheelbarrow-Based Rocket Launcher
How to turn a truck into a rocket system: First, lease a Toyota. In October 2004, just outside Fallujah, Iraqis were observed mounting a "homemade rocket launcher" onto a "small white Toyota pickup." A High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System this wasn't. But each rocket tube within the truck contained multiple rockets — and it wasn't the only one. Southwest of a Marine observation post, the truck met up with another makeshift mobile rocket-launcher and attempted to take the post out in tandem.
Within weeks, the Marines invaded the city for what became known as the Second Battle of Fallujah. But that didn't stop the advance of improvised mobile rocket launchers. In May 2005, outside nearby Ramadi, troops investigating incoming rocket fire found a "wheelbarrow … with modified rocket launchers welded on the underside." The wheelbarrow rockets were apparently launched remotely: The system was connected to a battery "wired to a phone-base station." Two months later, an Iraqi was detained on suspicion of modifying dump trucks to launch rockets.
Encrypted Communications
Several insurgent groups maintained an impressive amount of operational secrecy and tactical discipline, often keeping U.S. snoops at bay. A clue as to how came on June 11, 2009, when U.S. and Iraqi troops at a hospital outside of Baghdad uncovered a "historical" cache of communications equipment used by the Mahdi Army, one of the hardest-core Shiite militias. Amplifiers, tuners and radio telegraph adapters were somewhat antiquated but looked factory-fresh.
The report of the find indicated that Mahdi Army leaders had real capabilities for directing their forces from long distances: "This equipment could be used to conduct long range, encrypted communications, indicating a high level [Mahdi Army/splinter force command-and-control] capacity." All the gear was "designed for ground or vehicle mounting;" the report suspects Iranian forces provided it to the militia "as part of a sophisticated foreign intelligence project." Ominously, the report concludes that the find "seems to corroborate the thesis that [redacted] is seeding [redacted] with resources to become a future [redacted]."
Missiles, Missiles, Missiles
Some insurgent missiles came from Iran, like the Misagh-1, a knock-off of a Chinese surface-to-air missile. Others had more surprising provenances: a blue truck pulled over northeast of Baghdad in 2005 ferried a U.S. Hellfire missile — the same kind that Predator drones fire — to insurgent fighters.
That's the tip of the iceberg. Insurgents in 2004 possessed shoulder-fired missiles, probably the SA-7, presumably to bring down U.S. helicopters — something al-Qaeda's local affiliate claimed to have done to an Apache 'copter using a surface-to-air missile in Mosul in 2006. A raid in 2005 in Ramadi turned up "USSR surface to air missiles" in addition to 57-mm rockets. Anti-tank surface-to-surface missiles were discovered outside Ramadi in 2006. French-made surface-to-surface missiles were found in nearly the same spot the following year.
Drones in the Hands of Insurgents — and Iranians
The WikiLeaks documents indicate that insurgents and militiamen had some success in bringing down U.S. unmanned spy planes — and many others fell victim to mechanical failure. In February 2006, a report went out that a Shadow drone had crashed in northeast Baghdad, sending U.S. and Iraqi forces racing to recover the sophisticated surveillance and targeting platform. They were too late: Locals reported that militants loyal to radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr had nabbed the drone.
A different document, from February 2009, confirmed a Danger Room report that a U.S. jet shot down an Iranian drone in Iraqi airspace. "This is the first time we have seen a foreign UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] involved in a cross-border incident," the report reads, noting that its flight path indicates a deliberate incursion into Iraq. Whoever wrote the report urged caution in following up, since "it is potentially a volatile political matter."
The Burglar-Alarm Explosive
Chances are, your house's burglar alarm operates by using a passive infrared sensor to detect the motion of an intruder, given away by his body heat. Danger Room has reported in the past that insurgents use that same passive-infrared system to trigger improvised explosive devices to blow up when targets approached. WikiLeaks' document trove confirms it: A 2006 roadside bomb in Kirkuk consisted of seven component explosives using passive infrared to initiate its boom. So was a bomb made of a bunch of mortars placed in the median of a road near Samarra in 2007. No burglar stood at risk of getting blown up for trying to steal your grandmother's jewelry.
The Battering Ram-Equipped Car Bomb
Just outside Baghdad in July 2005, Iraqi police killed insurgents driving in a vehicle — apparently a Chevy Blazer — that plowed through multiple barriers and slammed into a police station. As it turned out, the car was rigged with 600 pounds of homemade explosives — and had a "modified battering ram mounted on the front end." The police station may not have been its ultimate destination. A report on the ramming car bomb reads that the compound insurgents chose as its ultimate destination was a "religious center."
Camera-Equipped, Remote-Controlled Suicide Vests
Insurgents didn't necessarily trust the people they rigged to explode. In November 2006, a U.S. military report warned that some explosive-lined vests were equipped with cameras broadcasting imagery back to insurgent cells and a "secondary detonation device" that could be activated remotely. The idea behind the camera, first unearthed by the Guardian, was to ensure that the suicide bomber had satisfied his superiors that he'd reached a position of maximum potential damage before blowing up. And if he lost his nerve, the report warned, "the observer can detonate the device remotely." Some of these contraptions were constructed out of U.S. military surplus uniforms.
Versions of those kinds of attacks were put into place earlier that year. In February 2006, the military discovered a plot in Baghdad to conduct a multiple suicide attack during a Shiite holiday (judging from the time of year, probably Ashura or Arbaeen). Three terrorists "who were not brave enough to detonate the vests themselves" would wear suicide jackets rigged to explode remotely, with some kind of unspecified guidance system allowing their ultimate controllers to know when the suicide bombers had reached their destination. (Another could be manually detonated by pulling two cords linked to the explosive system, "similar to an aircraft life vest.")
The Videogame Controller Bomb
A Marine battalion operating in Anbar Province in May 2005 found a cache of weapons in a "subterranean room" of a house near Khalidiyah. Much of its contents were unexceptional: rocket-propelled grenades, cordless radios, various fuses. But then there were less familiar items: a satellite-TV remote and a "video game remote," presumably a wireless controller. As it turned out, elsewhere in Anbar in 2004, a different unit discovered a weapons cache containing spools of wire for a homemade bomb, cases of signal flares and a "video game remote control." It's unclear if any bombs resulted from a very dangerous game.
Acid and Bio-Enhanced Bombs
There have been occasional scares in Iraq of insurgents creating impromptu chemical weapons, as in 2007, when insurgents blew up a tanker carrying chlorine to whip up a gas attack. And as Noah Shachtman reported Saturday, insurgents obtained Gulf War-era dessicated chemical-weapons rounds, not to mention their successful importation of "neuroparalytic" chemicals from Iran. But it didn't take sophisticated chemicals for insurgents to trick out their bombs.
On August 26, 2005, a roadside bomb left "red stuff everywhere" after it detonated under a U.S. patrol driving on a road southeast of Balad; one of the troops initially appeared to suffer "burns from touching the substance." As it turned out, no one was wounded, contrary to initial reports, but Explosive Ordnance Division specialists determined the substance was "acid or a phosphorus" intended to burn U.S. troops. The next month in Ramadi, U.S. troops discovered a "possible IED factory" that housed a roadside bomb factory with a certain chem-bio flavor added. Inside: potassium, glycerin and unspecified "seeds"(Castor, maybe?) that could be turned into a "very toxic biological" agent. Not exactly the hallmarks of a low-tech insurgency.
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