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The unveiling of the new logo also kicked off "Takin' It To The Streets," which included the Downtown Art Walk, a barbecue cook-off, Collectibles on Commerce street vendors, Tri-Peaks Community Market, a retail merchant promotion, live music and more.
Although various efforts were made over the years to establish a brand identity for the downtown district, the process was recently initiated again by the Downtown Master Plan (DMP) steering committee. Committee chairperson Jimmy Streett believed branding downtown should be one of the first steps taken by the DMP steering committee as it began implementing some of the initial aspects of the master plan.
"Russellville's downtown is one of the unique aspects of our city — one bursting with economic, historical and recreational potential," Streett said. "Therefore, its distinct identity needs to be recognized and promoted as one of the jewels of our community, and this new brand will accomplish that.
"Over the next few years, I believe people will not just go to 'a shop' downtown, but will instead go to 'shop downtown.' So keep watching as Russellville Downtown continues to move forward."
Main Street Russellville (MSR) Executive Director Betsy McGuire emphasized the new brand identity package does not replace the MSR organization logo, but is intended to give a fresh, new identity to the historic downtown district.
Russellville Mayor Bill Eaton spoke highly of the branding efforts.
"This is something that has been discussed for quite some time, so I want to commend the dedication of those working on this project through its completion," he said. "Because of their hard work, we now have an attractive logo that vibrantly represents our downtown historic district."
Initial plans for communicating the new brand consist of street banners, store and office signage and other promotional ideas associated with future events planned downtown.
For more information about the Takin' It To The Streets event, visit www.facebook.com/mainstreetrussellville

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text: Stephen Decatur Middle School had a number of winners at the Worcester County Tech Fest held at Worcester Technical High School last month. Above, eighth graders Mitchell Cooper, left, and Chase Merritt are pictured with Superintendent of Schools Dr. Andes. Their project, "Name That Tune" was a multimedia SMART Board presentation and won a Gold Award. Below, eighth graders Jennah Lupiwok, left, and Brooke Davis are pictured with Andes. Their project, "Six Ways to Eat an Oreo" won a Gold Award in the multimedia category. Also part of this project, but not pictured, was Breanna Shelton.


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Twins recall right-hander Hendriks from Triple-A
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Hendriks will be starting in place of right-hander Nick Blackburn, who was outrighted to Rochester on Monday after struggling to a 7.39 ERA in 19 starts this season.
"I'm happy to be back up here, so hopefully we can move forward and stay up here," Hendriks said. "After I got sent back down, I told myself to just stop screwing around with my mechanics and get back to what I was doing in Spring Training. Step back, get set and throw. It was helping me out."
Hendriks was impressive in Rochester, posting a 2.20 ERA in 16 starts. He also struck out 82 and walked 28 in 106 1/3 innings. His last start came Friday, when he allowed four runs on seven hits over seven innings.
Hendriks, though, has had trouble translating his Minor League success to the Majors, as evidenced by his career 6.71 ERA in 12 big league starts. He's 0-5 with a 7.04 ERA in eight outings with the Twins this season.
"He's obviously had his struggles up here, but he's done very well in Triple-A," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "Whether he can make the jump up here and separate remains to be seen. We'll get another opportunity to look at him. He's done what he's supposed to in Triple-A and they've actually told me he's the best pitcher in that league. And that's saying an awful lot. There's a lot of young arms in that league."
Rhett Bollinger is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Bollinger Beat, and follow him on Twitter @RhettBollinger. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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I have spent almost 25 years managing Unix-based systems. I feel I can share some tips to ease users' live when they have to install a new Linux-based OS (Operating System) on their computer.
I am not going to make the distinction here between Linux being the kernel, Gnu being the OS, and what you get being the distribution. I am going to misuse the word Linux to designate a full Gnu/Linux-based OS.
This tutorial was initially aimed at "advanced" users who might try several Linux versions during their computers' live. But keep in mind that a simple OS upgrade may in many cases be viewed as a new installation. As a consequence, even Linux beginners may be interested by this How To. My piece of advice is therefore to try to read it, no matter what is your experience with Linux. If you do not understand the concepts presented below, go for the simplest installation with your Live CD, enjoy and build experience with your new Linux distribution without fear. Conversely, if you understand this How To, I think you better follow its guidelines, even if it seems hard the first time. If you do not understand why it is so important to thoroughly prepare a computer for a multi-OS usage, believe me, you will understand the day you will upgrade your OS for a new version that finally is less satisfying than the previous one.
There are presently more than 300 maintained Linux distributions available. Even if you know today which version you want to use, you may wish to try another one later. Also, you may hesitate someday between upgrading your OS or keeping your current version. Because you never know in advance if the new OS version will be better than your current one, you should not erase your current version to install the new one. In other words, you must install the new distribution on its own partition. This way, it will be very easy to come back to your previous OS without relying your backups. As a consequence, never install a Linux system without having at least another system partition to test another OS, even if today you are sure you will never change your OS. So you MUST plan to have at least two system partitions to leave you the liberty to test other OS without destroying your current one. Installing a new OS or upgrade on a separate partition offers several other advantages as shown below. This means that if you want a non-Linux OS such as Windows along with Linux on your computer, you will need at least 3 system partitions: One for Windows and at least two for Linux.
Some Linux OS such as Ubuntu give you the option to upgrade an existing system by simply clicking an "Upgrade" button. This link http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2 explains why this is usually a bad idea and why you better make a fresh installation of the new OS version. Carrying out a fresh installation of a new version of your current OS is the same thing as installing a different OS. That is why this tutorial is basically for everybody who understands the concepts described below. With the multi-OS scheme presented here, the operation is very easy. I have not upgraded a system for a long time, I always make a fresh installation.
I am going to cover these steps:
- If it is a first Linux installation on your computer, you must partition the disk;
- If you already have an OS on your computer, you must back up user and system data of all your OS versions;
- Test the new distribution in a Live CD session to check whether the OS can manage all your hardware without too much hassle;
- Install the OS on a free system partition;
- Test and configure the installed OS;
- If the new OS is not as good as your previous one, come back to your favorite one just by rebooting it. If you made no mistakes, you will not need backups.
2. Partitioning your hard disk
If this is your first multi-OS installation, you MUST read this Web page http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Lucid_Multiple_OS_Installation to fully understand how to partition a hard disk and how to configure GRUB to prepare a multi-boot system. If you do not understand everything in the Web page, do not be afraid, you will just need to type in a terminal the instructions provided. Using thereafter your computer will make you to understand many things. The advantage of following their scheme is that installing subsequent OS will need no manipulations of your GRUB configuration beside editing the title of the new OS in an ASCII file. So, this is something to do only once during the lifetime of your computer when you do not change its system hard disk. That saves a lot of time and makes the test of new OS a piece of cake. Today, installing a new Ubuntu-based OS such as Linux Mint takes me around 15 to 30 minutes (backups and test phase not included of course). I am actually writing this tutorial in a temporary OS that I installed on my computer a couple of days ago. I will probably not keep the new OS because I still prefer Linux Mint 13. Fortunately I work with this multi-OS scheme, hence coming back to Linux Mint 13 will just request me to reboot my computer and to slightly edit my user account configuration to restore my Mate panel, i.e., just a few minutes of my time.
Disk partitioning can be debated at length. For your first installation, read a bit about this topic. The effort will save you from a lot of difficulties later. I do not fully agree with the howto found on this site about disk partitioning because the author advocates to have a single OS on your hard disk. As I wrote above and will show below, this is one of the biggest mistakes you can make when you install an OS on a computer. Go immediately for a multi-OS scheme.
I will consider here that hard disk space is not an issue for you. If you have a small hard disk, adapt all partition sizes to your constraints. Your first task before partitioning your hard disk is to decide how many OS you want on top of Linux. You must have one partition for each non-Linux OS plus at least 2 partitions for Linux. For example, if you just want Windows installed along with Linux, you will need 3 system partitions. In such a case, install Windows first because its installer will destroy all prior work. Then:
- Create two 15- to 20-GB partitions for two Linux OS. In Linux world, 15 GB/"system partition" should be sufficient today, even for huge Linux OS such as Linux Ultimate Edition. If you fear needing more system space in a couple of years, reserve 20 GB/"system partition". That is what I usually do.
- You also need a swap partition. To be safe, book 4 times your RAM for your swap partition. It is a bit over killing but with modern hard disks, who cares?
- Create a 1- or 2-GB partition for /boot.
- Some people also like to have /tmp on its own partition with special read/write access for security reasons. If you choose that option, consider that editing a Blue Ray movie may easily require more than 15 GB of temporary space.
- It is highly recommended to leave /home on its own partition to protect the system from lacking disk space when the users fill their disk partition. This way, the users will not be able to fill the system partitions with their own data.
- Usually the swap, /boot, /tmp, and /home partitions should be unique on a hard disk because you will only boot one OS at a time. So all OS can share those partitions. Do not replicate them for each OS.
3. Backing up data
If it is not the first OS installation on the computer, back up the user and the system data of each OS. If you are upgrading an existing OS carrying out a fresh installation of the new version, the system data must contain at least /etc and the list of packages that were installed after your current OS had been set up. Your OS should provide a simple tool to extract such a list. I want to stress here that it is the list of packages, not the packages themselves. This way, when the new OS version is installed, you will have an easy way to know which packages you may need to install besides those automatically provided by the new distribution. For /etc, check etckeeper to manage /etc on your future OS to keep track of the changes you will bring yourself to /etc (http://aymanh.com/version-control-linux-configuration-files-etc-etckeeper). It simplifies a lot our life when we upgrade a system because it is easy to spot and replicate our own modifications to /etc. That will be detailed below.
A Ubuntu-based OS installer generally asks for a user name. The user ID 1000 will be assigned to that user name. Always keep this user as a testing user or you will get into trouble from time to time when you test a new Linux version. The reason is that if the home directory of the user with ID 1000 does not exist, the installer will create and configure a new one for the default desktop environment of the distribution. Conversely, if the home directory of that user exists, the installer will not overwrite it. This can create problems when an obsolete configuration of a desktop environment conflicts with a new version producing a broken user account. Hence if you leave the home directory of a user with ID 1000 when you install a new Linux version, you may find yourself with a broken account when you login for the first time in the new distribution. That may mislead you to believe that the new distribution is bugged or poorly designed. In conclusion, you must always move away the home directory of the user with ID 1000 before installing a new Linux version. This way, you can be sure that you will be able to login with a clean configuration the first time you login in your new OS.
If the home directory of a user with ID 1000 already exists, move it away like this:
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sudo mv /home/username /home/username.bak
If, unfortunately, you are the user with ID 1000, you must change your user ID. Run your favorite user management tool from someone's else account with administrative rights and change your user ID for something else above 1000. When this is done run in a terminal:
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sudo chown -R your_username /home/your_username
That will recursively give you back the ownership of all the files and subdirectories from your home directory. Once there are no more home directories with user ID 1000, you may think about installing the new OS.
4. Testing the new OS in a Live session
Now it is time to test the new OS with your Live CD. After downloading the new OS ISO image file, check the file validity with md5sum. To do that, type in a terminal:
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md5sum your_image.iso
and compare the result with the expected one provided by the OS provider. For example, if you downloaded Linux Mint Mate 13 edition 64 bits, go to the download page http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=104 and you will see that the MD5 result is 2d84f671ad77a8019dfa6e1d00572d82. So if you type in a terminal:
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md5sum linuxmint-13-mate-dvd-64bit.iso
the result must be 2d84f671ad77a8019dfa6e1d00572d82 linuxmint-13-mate-dvd-64bit.iso. Any other answer would mean an incomplete or corrupted ISO file, hence you would need to download it again. Too many people have struggled for days with their new installation just because the downloaded ISO image was corrupted.
Several Linux distributions offer the possibility to boot a Live session of their OS, i.e., a session that only runs in your RAM without modifying your hard disk content. This way, you can test a bit the distribution before installing it on your computer. Those preliminary tests are often sufficient to reject a distribution saving us a lot of time because they avoid us a full installation on our hard disk. If your distribution cannot open a Live session, go immediately to the next section "5. Install the OS on a free system partition". Otherwise, read the rest of this section.
Once you know that your ISO image is clean, you must either burn it on a CD/DVD or put it on a USB device. I prefer my USB key because I bring it everywhere with me. This way when I am away I can always boot my favorite Linux OS if I can access a computer nearby. For this, I created a 2-GB partition on my 8-GB USB key to place a Linux Live CD on it. When I want to test a new OS, I use UNetbootin to transform the 2-GB partition of my USB key into a bootable Live "CD/DVD" from the new OS ISO image. I then boot a Live session of the OS from my USB key. If I am satisfied with the distribution, I let it on the key. If I prefer my previous system, I put it back on my USB key from the old Live CD ISO image. Then I put my key back in my wallet to have it with me everywhere I go. That is handy. If you test a Ubuntu-based OS, it is likely that UNetbootin will be able to produce a persistent Live USB key that automatically saves your changes between sessions. That helps a lot over time. If you do not know UNetbootin, do not worry there are tons of howto guides about it.
Boot the Live device. Do not install the OS yet, start by checking the compatibility between the new distribution and your hardware. You will know within a few minutes if the OS can handle your whole hardware without a lot of tweaking. If some devices are not properly managed, search in the Internet whether a solution exists. In an hour you can sometimes see in forums that managing some of your hardware by the new OS may require a very long battle. Experienced Linux users know that they are likely to eventually reach their goal, but sometimes the cost does not worth the result. In such a case, keeping your current OS and waiting 6 months for the next release is often wiser. Using another distribution may also be an interesting option if you crave for the last release because it contains a very important feature for you.
If you plan to equip different computers with your new OS, test the Live version on each of them. For example, if you want to install the distribution on 3 computers, do the test on the 3 pieces of equipment before beginning the installation on the first one. Would you like to work with that OS if some important hardware of one of the computers cannot be managed by the OS? Of course, it is better to discover that the OS cannot run on one of the 3 computers before finishing the installation on the two other ones.
5. Install the OS on a free system partition
If you are convinced to install the OS, what to do depends on your situation.
If it is the first Linux installation on the computer, you are unlucky because you will need to configure GRUB for the subsequent OS installations. This is tedious. Follow accurately the aforementioned guide and you will end up with a bootable system managed by a great GRUB configuration (http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Lucid_Multiple_OS_Installation). I will not copy the guide, so follow it from now before resuming your reading here.
In contrast, if you already have the multi-OS GRUB configuration described in the guide, you will see how your life will be simple from now. Let's assume that you have a nice running OS that have satisfied you but you want to test another one. It can be either a different distribution or an upgrade of your current one. You have already done every steps written above, you have noted somewhere the partition structure of your hard disk, so you are ready for the installation.
Because we are in a Linux Mint forum, I will describe the steps of most Ubuntu-based OS such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint, or Linux Ultimate Edition. Within the Live session, click on the terrifying "Install..." button. After you have answered a few questions, the installer will find out that you already have one or several OS on your hard disk. It will ask you whether you want to install the new distribution along the other ones, or to replace one of them by the new one, or to carry out a custom installation. It is very important that you choose a custom installation or you may break your GRUB configuration rendering your previous efforts to nothing.
In the custom installation, you will need to choose what to do with each partition.
- Let the swap partition being your swap partition for this OS too.
- Choose the system partition where the new OS must be installed, choose its format (I usually use EXT4), and request the partition to be formatted and mounted on /.
- Do not format any other partition. For example, if /tmp is on its own partition, you may be tempted to format it to have a fresh /tmp. Do not do that because it will change its UUID, and your previous OS will not be bootable anymore till you edit its /etc/fstab file to take the new /tmp UUID into account. If you do not understand this, do not bother, just do not format anything but /.
- Complete your tree structure by requesting to mount the home partition on /home without formatting it. Do the same if you have other partitions to be mounted on your new OS system such as /tmp.
- Do not mount your separate boot partition. Leave it alone or the installer will break your GRUB configuration.
- Finally select the new OS system partition to install the new GRUB configuration. By default, the installer will suggest you to install the new grub configuration on your hard disk MBR, i.e., /dev/sda in most cases (the choice is often at the bottom of the installation screen). If you accept, your GRUB configuration will be destroyed. You must choose the partition which will be mounted on /. For example, if you decided to install the new OS on /dev/sda6, request the new grub configuration to be installed on /dev/sda6. This way, the new OS will be properly chainloaded by GRUB when you will boot. Again, if you do not understand the exact meaning of this choice, do not bother, just follow the instructions and you will be fine.
About 10 to 15 minutes after, the installer will tell you that it has finished. If you are very impatient you may reboot. In the first GRUB screen, choose the line corresponding to the new OS and you will boot it. When you see the second GRUB screen, just strike the Enter key because the new OS is automatically chosen by default. But be careful, the first GRUB screen was not updated by the installer. So you will not see the new OS name. You must know which line corresponds to that OS. Actually, when the installer has finished its work it is easier BEFORE rebooting the computer to edit the boot/grub/menu.lst ASCII file of the small boot partition to correctly indicates which is the new OS. For example, if the small boot partition is /dev/sda2, and if your new OS is on /dev/sda6, open a terminal in your Live session before rebooting and type:
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sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
sudo gedit /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst &
If gedit is not in your distribution, use any other text editor distributed with your OS. Search the line containing rootnoverify (hd0,5) (the number 5 here means the 6th partition (/dev/sda6) because the first partition is numbered 0; I know this is silly but this ball and chain comes from the past ). Replace the line just above rootnoverify (hd0,5) which contains title... by title your new OS name. You can also change the order of presentation of the OS to place your main one at the top. This will be the OS automatically booted when you do not press a key at boot time.
I also always want a line to be able to boot an OS from the first USB drive that may be interpreted as a hard disk. For this purpose I added this code near the end of boot/grub/menu.lst:
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title An OS from the first USB drive
rootnoverify (hd1)
chainloader +1
This adds the line "An OS from the first USB drive" to the first GRUB menu. When I want to boot from my USB key or from an external hard disk, I disconnect all the devices that might be interpreted as hard disks, I just connect the one to be booted from, I reboot or switch my computer on, and I choose the line "An OS from the first USB drive" to boot. No more need to play with the BIOS to boot from my USB key or any other USB device. No more need to burn a Live CD on blank CD or DVD to install a Linux distribution.
So, to summarize how to install a subsequent OS after the data was backed up, after the ISO image was checked, and after the test user home directory was moved away:
- Boot your Live CD/DVD (I use my USB key with the aforementioned GRUB line);
- Test the OS compatibility with your hardware (a few minutes if you are not unlucky);
- Click on the "Install..." button;
- Select a custom installation and choose wisely what to do with your partitions;
- Tell the installer to proceed;
- Optionally edit the boot/grub/menu.lst ASCII file of the boot partition to indicate which menu line correspond to the new OS;
- Reboot.
6. Test and configure the installed OS
Let's assume that you called your test user testy. Login as testy. Immediately update your system through the update manager according to your taste. Some people install all available updates while other prefer to stick to the security ones. If you install all available updates, go for a walk because it can take half an hour.
Now you have an up-to-date system. Before installing the new OS you had saved the list of packages that you had installed on your previous OS after its initial set up. Take the list and install everything you want. Then, update /etc. It is where etckeeper is handy, specially if you still have your previous OS on another partition. For example, if you use Git as your control version system for etckeeper, and if your previous OS is on /dev/sda5, type in a terminal:
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sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt
cd /mnt/etc
gitk &
Browse the /etc version tree. It is very easy to spot the modifications you brought yourself to /etc on your previous system. You can then import them in your new OS. Do you see now how handy can be etckeeper? Without it, most people cannot remember all the /etc files they modified on the previous OS, they just remember some of them producing an uncleanly configured system. A few days ago, I imported in a newly installed system ALL my /etc own modifications from the previous OS in less than an hour. I therefore had my mail services, printers, and other features fully set in one short session. Now you should have a new system functionally at least at the level of your previous one.
Before login in you own account, keep testing the main features you usually use but only with testy account until you know whether you will keep or reject the OS. This way, you will not damage regular user accounts by bringing modifications only valid for the new OS. Because you have not touched yet user data, you can come back to your previous OS without work at all. If you decide to give up your new OS now, just type in a terminal:
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sudo rm -rf /home/testy
sudo mv /home/testy.bak /home/testy
sudo reboot
and you are done. You will reboot your previous OS exactly where you left it before starting to install the new one. Nothing modified! Is not it incredibly easy?
If you did not work with the multi-OS scheme and if you installed the new OS over the old one, now you would need to recover the old OS from backups with all the hassle that comes with restoring a system from backups. This is not always an easy task because inexperienced Linux users do not know what to backup and to restore. For example, they usually do not know how to handle /dev and /proc. On top of this, the Linux installers usually reformat the system partition (the partition mounted on /). This changes its UUID. As a consequence after restoring your previous OS, you will end up with the old partition UUID instead of the new one in your GRUB configuration and in /etc/fstab rendering your system unbootable because the old UUID does not exist anymore. With the multi-OS scheme you just suffer the first time to create a good multi-OS GRUB configuration. But following line by line the tutorial cited above is not too difficult. Even if you do not fully understand what you are doing the first time, you would probably be able to follow the instructions. Once it is done your life becomes incredibly easy when you want to test new OS or just upgrade your current one. People who blindly jumped from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 know exactly what I mean!
Let's go back to your new OS. If you decide to keep it after testing it with testy account, you must update the user configurations. Logout from testy and login in your own account. Your account might be a bit messy due to an old desktop environment configuration incompatible with the new one. Normally, it should not be a problem. Most of the time, I can set my account as I want in one or two hours.
The work you are doing now in your account is likely to create incompatibilities with your previous desktop environment. So if you decide later to go back to your old OS because you discover a deal-break failure in the new OS, you will need to reboot your previous distribution and to recreate your old desktop environment either manually or from backups. This is usually quickly done. The last time I came back from a different distribution to the previous one after working for a week with my account in the new distribution, it took me about half an hour. I do not know what time would have been necessary if I had replaced my old distribution by a new one in a mono-OS configuration. Certainly much more than half an hour. In my case, I just rebooted my old OS, and I edited my account configuration for about 30 minutes.
Of course, if you are happy with your new OS and with your new desktop environment your are done. Enjoy!


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My grandmother raised me and my two sisters. I knew my mom and my dad, but they were in the military, so my grandmother was by far the biggest influence on me.
Everything I am is because of her. She taught me everything I know. She was a disciplinarian when necessary, too. I got quite a few whippings, but she always spoke the truth. My morals, my sense of respect and my work ethic come straight from her. I can look back and credit her for everything that I accomplish in life.
I got into baseball because of her, too. I had a knack for throwing things. As a little kid I was always in the driveway throwing rocks and hitting stuff. My grandmother picked up on that and steered me into T-ball, mostly as a way to keep me off the streets and out of trouble.
The neighborhood I grew up in, Callahan, Fla., wasn't the best. It's about 30 minutes from Georgia and about 15 minutes from Jacksonville. It was a "druggish" neighborhood, a lot of people dealing drugs. They didn't mess with us, though. The one thing that kept me away from that stuff was I knew my grandmother would beat my behind if I ever got into that kind of trouble.
I also had a bit of a temper growing up and she worked with me on that. Pretty soon, with her help, I realized that you need to behave a certain way and control yourself if you're going to achieve the things you want in life. She helped me become a better person.
One of the biggest lessons I learned from her is that nobody is going to hand you something in life; you have to get out and work for it. I loved baseball so much I didn't mind the hard work, though. I knew I could play. I had some success at every level and fell in love with the game at early age. I just wanted to play, play, play.
Even after I left home, she was always there for me. I'd talk to her on the telephone. It just made her happy that I was doing something that I loved and working hard to achieve my goals. I had friends and cousins who have had opportunities that didn't work out for various reasons. For me, I knew I loved baseball and I didn't want to let anything come between me and that.
Talking to my grandmother was good for me. She was the one person I could confide in and know that I was getting the truth in response. She wasn't the type who would tell you what you wanted to hear. She kept me on the straight and narrow and pushed me to keep going and to work hard.
She was so happy for me when I finally reached the major leagues last year. I had some pictures that a friend had taken, so I wrote a note to her on the photos, telling her how much I love her and how she made me what I am. That made her cry. She never saw me play in person but she found so much joy watching me on television. She was very old school. She didn't like to fly and rarely left home. Just near the end when she had to go to the hospital.
I found out she had lung cancer about two or three weeks after last season was over. She had smoked for a long time. She didn't tell me about it for the longest time. My sister finally told me. So I went back and visited with her and about a week after I left she passed away. I was initially waiting until Thanksgiving to see her but I'm glad I went as soon as I did. Otherwise, I wouldn't have had the time to see her and tell her how I really felt about her.
So I have no regrets now. She told me that it was her time and she wasn't afraid to be going because it was was God's will. She told me that all her work here on earth was done.
I also got married during the offseason. So I had one strong woman leaving my life and another coming in to help me. Not that Jody could ever replace my grandmother because they have different roles. But I love her to death and she's just like my grandmother in a way -- she's very truthful and doesn't let me get away with things. I respect that. Jody is a smart woman and she has a sense of direction. We both know what we want out of life and that makes it fun.
I only knew Jody for eight months when we got married but, for me, I know when it's right, it's right. It felt right. When my grandmother was leaving my life, she came in. She's picking up all of the slack. Now she's the person I talk to and confide in. Like my grandmother, she doesn't just tell me what I want to hear.
My relationships with the rest of my family have been growing closer since my grandmother passed, too. I talk with my older sister, Christina, and my mother all the time now. My grandmother was the glue to our family and when she died we needed to all come together. My sister is like my grandmother, too. She also speaks her mind.
I won't be able to speak with her on the telephone but my grandmother will remain with me this season. She'll always be looking down from heaven on me. She knows what I'm doing. She's looking at me right now and smiling because I'm doing a good job of living my life and I want to keep doing a great job for her. I am the all the things that she was, so she lives through me.
Howie Kendrick, a 10th round draft pick in 2002 who has risen to become one of the Angels' top prospects, batted .285 with four homers and 30 RBIs over two stints with Los Angeles in 2006. He batted .359 in 292 minor league games.
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HOUSTON - A family is desperately searching for a traveling blogger who has been missing for a week.
Victoria Erickson, 31, was last seen in the Montrose area. She was staying at Pat Greer's Kitchen on West Clay Street near Taft
Relatives said Erickson was traveling across the country blogging about vegan food and healthy lifestyles when she vanished.
"There was no sign of a struggle or anything like that, which is encouraging," said Erickson's twin sister, Katherine.
Erickson's car was found, along with her dog, computer and cellphone. Relatives said she would never leave them behind.
"I won't allow myself to entertain negative thoughts," said Katherine Erickson. "Those fears come up. I've cried and paced around and then let it go."
Katherine Erickson said it is possible A family is desperately searching for a travel blogger who has been missing for a week.that family dynamics may have caused her sister to leave on her own. She said Victoria Erickson also suffers from depression.
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"When we were really young, as children, we had a psychic connection," Katherine Erickson said. "Everything we do mirrors each other. It's a beautiful relationship."
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Graphic Novel Review: Iron Man: Iron Metropolitan
PUBLISHED: 14:56 10 June 2014 | UPDATED: 14:56 10 June 2014
Tony Stark and his newly discovered brother Arno set about building the city of the future - but reckoned without opposition from the Mandarin's rings
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Tony Stark should be reeling in the wake of two life-altering revelations. Not only is he adopted, and therefore Howard and Maria Stark are not his birth parents, but they had another progeny who has lived his entire life in an iron lung, his brother Arno.
But instead of allowing these dramatic discoveries to force a reassessment of his place in the world, Tony has resolved to do what he does best – build for the future. This time, however, it isn't weapons, cars or suits of high-tech armour he's focusing on, it's something a whole lot bigger.
Following the death of his arch enemy, the Mandarin, the villain's base of operations, an island state off the Chinese coast known as Mandarin City, has deteriorated into a slum of crime and vice, making it an ideal location for Tony and Arno's vision of a new, self-sustaining city of tomorrow.
But although the Mandarin is dead, his powerful alien rings survive, and have gained sentience for the first time, prompting them to seek out new hosts who can continue their goals of world domination, and bringing these new ring-bearers into direct conflict with the Stark boys…
One of the obvious themes of writer Kieron Gillen's run on Iron Man has been that of identity. From Stark's decision to take a sabbatical alongside the Guardians of the Galaxy in deep space, his later discoveries about his own origins, and now his resolution to leave a legacy based on the creation of a better way of living, it's almost as if Tony has an itch which he can't quite scratch.
Instead of confronting any of the revelations he has encountered during his bout of soul searching, he has brushed them aside in a quest for that next big challenge. That can't be healthy, and is sure to result in a narrative pay-off further down the line.
Iron Man remains one of the more interesting characters in the Marvel Universe, a far cry from the generic playboy of his earliest appearances and thanks in no part to Robert Downey Jr's movie portrayal, and these latest stories are no exception.


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So the State can sell us yet another item no one needs or wants and milk more money from us, not only in the intial fee but later in fines, of course. (The excuse that license plates help solve crimes is patently bogus. So rarely does that happen that a fascist organization actually awards a prize when it does). But license plates hand Leviathan another huge advantage, too: utter control of the serfs.
Mayor Mike "Nanny" Bloomberg has forced owners of gas stations to ration their product. And how does he accomplish that? Via those useless but expensive license plates: "Under rules in the city and [on Long Island], motorists with license plates ending in odd numbers or a letter or other character can buy gas or diesel on odd-numbered days. Those with plates ending in even numbers or the number zero can buy gas or diesel on even-numbered days."
Naturally, cops are enforcing this decree: all the police-state's dictates become an opportunity for its banditti to boss and shove the sheeple about. And what of the enterprising New Yorker who swaps license plates with his neighbor to circumvent Nanny's tyranny? "The mayor warned … [that] the police can easily look at the registration sticker on the windshield [New York requires this display for easier ticketing, and the sheeple comply without complaint] and detect the trickery. 'So, don't try to be cute,' he said." Nanny loves his insult, which his subjects routinely and cravenly overlook.
Imagine: Amerikans would rather have inept, vainglorious cretins like Nanny dolling out scarce supplies than the impersonal, eminently fair market. But then, these dolts cooperated in re-electing a murderer, kidnapper and serial liar to another four years, too.9:51 am on November 9, 2012 Email Becky Akers


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One soldier's cure for pneumonia
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There appears to be a really nasty winter flu bug going around and most of my family and friends seem to have caught it. It starts off with a fever and cough, and although the fever goes away after a few days, the coughing seems to last forever. As I write this, I'm starting my second week of hacking all over everyone, and my youngest son recently informed me that I need to go see a doctor.
"You know," my son warned me, "people are getting pneumonia from this thing."
"Did I ever tell you my pneumonia story?" I asked my son.
"Do you want to hear it?"
"Well," I continued anyway, "it was early February in 1969, and it was supposedly one of the coldest winters ever recorded up in the Pacific Northwest, and there I was, in Fort Lewis, Washington, trying to live through my first day of Army basic training. A decrepit old military bus had unceremoniously dropped me and about 40 other inductees off in the middle of the frozen night and some crazed sergeant wearing a Smokey the Bear hat pulled all the way down over his eyebrows seemed determined to keep screaming at us until dawn. A wet, blowing snow kept falling and my California attire – short-sleeved shirt, cords, tennis shoes and a windbreaker — simply wasn't keeping any of my important body parts warm. The chill factor had to be way below zero and having spent my whole life in West Sacramento, I had simply never experienced being that cold and miserable before. I mean, my hands and feet felt like they were frozen, and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get my teeth to stop chattering."
"No, that came about five weeks later," I explained. "For the first month or so, everyone was actually just trying not to catch spinal meningitis."
"Spinal meningitis?" asked my son, his face showing his first apparent interest in my little story.
"Yeah, we had an outbreak of it in our barracks just weeks after I arrived – up on the second floor where about 50 guys lived — and three guys caught it, and one of them died from it. It's really nasty stuff and is very contagious, so all of us on the first floor were sure hoping it didn't make its way down to us. And one of the things they did to keep the meningitis from spreading was to keep all the barracks windows wide open, day and night, no matter how bitterly cold the weather was outside."
"So, that's how you caught pneumonia?" asked my son, still hoping to cut to the chase.
"I guess that could have been part of it," I said, "but they always had us running around outside in that awful weather, doing endless physical fitness drills and marching from one place to another, not to mention the long hikes and overnight camp-outs in drafty pup tents. Anyway, one way or another, I ended up sick as a dog and tried for as long as I could not to go on sick call, because the platoon sergeant hated it when any of the recruits he was responsible for tried to use illness as an excuse to get out of their training."
"And when you finally went on sick call, they told you that you had pneumonia?"
"No, I didn't learn about that until after they had admitted me to the base hospital with a 104 degree temperature and this really mean nurse kept throwing me into cold showers. I finally told her, `Hey, if you don't stop doing that, I'm going to catch pneumonia', to which she replied, `You already have pneumonia!' And she was the same nurse who came by a couple of days later, took my temperature, and matter-of-factly said, `You know, if you don't break that fever by tomorrow, you're going to die'."
"Really?" asked my son with disbelief. "She actually said that?"
"Yeah, she wasn't much into the bedside manner thing. Anyway, back then the only thing the Army seemed to do about pneumonia was cold showers and forcing you to drink lots and lots of this god-awful punch drink – and I'm talking gallons of it every hour. I don't remember them giving me any medicine, and the only time I saw a doctor was every morning for a few minutes when he would come to the pneumonia ward and quickly check out the chest x-rays we all had to take at the crack of dawn every day. They were placed in big vanilla envelops at the foot of our beds and every time the doctor would check out my chest x-ray, he would just shake his head kind of hopelessly and move on to the next one. But the worst part was that I had been told before I got to the hospital that if I ended up missing a full week of basic training, they would recycle me, and I was sure that would kill me if the pneumonia didn't."
"Recycle you? What does that mean?"
"Well," I explained, "if you missed too much training from being sick, then they would simply recycle you back with the next batch of new recruits and you would have to start all over again with them, which meant re-doing all the hardest parts of basic training, not to mention losing all the friends you had managed to make, and as far as I was concerned, I was simply not going to let that happen, no matter how sick I was!"
"So what did you do?"
"Well, on my fourth morning there, I overhead the doctor telling the guy next to me who was always bragging about how fast he was getting better that his x-rays were looking great and that if it continued he would probably release him back to his unit the next day. So the next morning, after everyone had taken their x-rays but before the doctor came to look at them, I waited until the coast was clear and then I exchanged my no-doubt still bad x-ray with the new one from the guy who was getting better."
"You're kidding? You switched x-rays?"
"That's right. I had noticed that the doctor never really looked at the names on the x-rays or anything. He just held them up in the light for two seconds and moved on. And when the doctor looked at the new x-ray in my envelope, he seemed a little surprised, but he quickly told me that I would be getting out of the hospital right after lunch. So back to my unit I went as fast as I could, and thankfully it was a Sunday, so I took it easy all that afternoon and night and since most of the training the next week was classroom stuff, I was able to start feeling better by the middle of that week. And best of all, I didn't get recycled."
"But what happened to the poor guy who ended up with your x-ray?"
"I don't have a clue," I admitted. "He definitely looked shocked, though, when the doctor held up my real x-ray and told him he had taken a turn for the worse, but in the military, they just call guys like that `collateral damage'."
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reohn2 wrote:One of my pet hates is snobbishness,our society is riddled with it,and non more than those who categorise cyclists into 'real' cyclists and not proper cyclists or only 'people riding bikes' or POBs,etc.
There are many types of cyclists and anyone riding a uni/bi/tri or quad cycle are cyclists,when they get off it and walk they become pedestrians,likwise anyone driving a car are motorists until they get out of it,get on a bike then they become cyclists.
There are idiots about in any walk or ride of life,unfortunately there's not enough police enforcing the law to make people think twice about their actions or responsibility toward the rest of society.
Regarding the OP's opinion that anyone riding on a pavement is an idiot,if he hadn't taken his ball home I would like to have asked him to clarify his statement.IMO in certain circumstances riding on the pavement is an idiotic thing to do,OTOH in another situation it's the safest .
To clarify,city/town centre with lots of pedestrians walking about riding on the pavement is stupid antisocial and dangerous.Fast busy 60mph unused pavement, it can be the safest option.
There's a stretch of very fast very busy dual carriageway not far from where I live (google earth A580 from j23 m6 east toward Manchester),which has a perfectly well surfaced cyclepath completely seperate from the road,yet I still on occasion see cyclists exercising their right to ride the carriageway
As for riding two abreast in some circumstances it's ludicrous ie; two cyclist on a fast A road,but at other times it's the best and safest way to ride ie;six or eight riders are no worse to over take than a slow moving tractor/traction engine/horse and or cart,etc,but invite close and dangerous overtaking by motors if they file out.
The key thing is context,when and where to or not,unfortunately there are a lot of very selfish and ignorant people using our roads,some are pedestrians some are cyclists and some are motorists but that said the ones who are likely to cause the most injury and disruption are those driving motors of any kind.
There is also a very unhealthy class system operating in UK society which is a blight on our country and we are all the worse for it.
Just my 2d's worth.
On reflection I shall add comment. There are it appears a number of genuine enthusiastic 'cyclists' making points.
If Si and others feels that I am a snob, then fair enough, maybe I am! If anyone else thinks the same, fine I am not concerned.
There are it appears people who I assume to be CTC members (a Club of what I have assumed to be grown up people?) who actually see no wrong in pavement riding!
My response is that my opening post was trying to show that idiots on pavements cause untold damage to Cycling and its cause. Cycling via CTC generally are supposed to stand up for cyclists. Cyclists are in my mind people of all ages and one must assume creed and religion also, who behave because they want to be seen as genuine people and not idiots.
Riding on the pavement caused the dispute in my opening post. The poor man who was in the right was assaulted and is now in Hospital with a broken body. NOT real cyclists but yobbos.
If genuine cyclists ride on pavements they are lawless as riding on pavements is against the law no matter where when or how!
Please remember that the more the motorist (and I am one) sees cycles on pavements the more they believe cycles should be on pavements.
I know the roads of todays World are pretty busy, in fact where I live is very busy (even more so during all School Holidays as I live at the seaside) but if all cycles rode on the rode it would give motorists and the bunch of idiots supposed to be Government a better view. Volume equals visibility?
The CTC representatives that I have seen on TV or read about online in Newspapers do not give our cause much sense. I read that one CTC representative advocates running red lights because it is safer? It is breaking road law. How idiotic can that be?
Sustrans is doing a great job for family cycling and commuting I guess but again if motorists are aware of off road lanes they will believe cycles belong off road.
I hope that I have made my point now? I am sorry if some people feel upset in any way, maybe I am a little more to the point than most.
I rest here. But please the only reason I write is because the subject is close to my heart and mind and one which affects me in a great way. I have my reasons to feel the way I do. I pay Members fees every year to CTC but feel very let down. The ONLY reason I remain a member is because one day I may require a little help from the 'valued' insurance I am 'given'.
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Casanova's luck may never run out
Veteran catcher considers himself fortunate to be at opener
By Marty Noble / MLB.com
Casanova was in uniform -- No. 30 -- and standing on the first-base line Monday when members of the Mets and Marlins were introduced before Opening Day only because Ramon Castro was again assigned to the disabled list. It wasn't a career first for Casanova. Indeed, he was the Opening Day catcher for the Brewers in 2002. But he hadn't seen a big league Opening Day ceremony since then -- nor all that much big league time, for that matter.
At age 36, Casanova is a genuine journeyman. If and when he plays this season -- for the Mets or their Triple-A New Orleans affiliate -- the team will be his 26th, the organization will his 12th. If he appears in a game with the Mets, they will be his sixth big league employer. If his 2008 debut is with the New Orleans Zephyrs, he will have played with 10 Triple-A teams.
"You've gotta like baseball to do what I do," Casanova said before the game Tuesday. "I love it. Lucky me."
He says that a lot -- "I'm lucky." He felt lucky in 1990 when he was selected by the Mets in the eighth round of the amateur draft.
"They were my grandmother's favorite team. She was happy then. She'd be happy now," he said.
And he was luckier when he was with the White Sox in 2005. He has a World Series ring.
And last year, he was lucky when he played with the Rays in St. Petersburg, minutes from the home of family members in nearby Clearwater.
"I've seen so many places, not always in the Major Leagues," he said. "I would like to see more, But I'd like to stay here and play for a while."
Marty Noble is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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They need to dumb those commercials down for 'Mericans. Just throw a half naked babe on the bike and they'd sell them by the boat load
They need to dumb those commercials down for 'Mericans. Just throw a half naked babe on the bike and they'd sell them by the boat load
And to think they actually paid money for those things.
The first one would make me NOT want a BMW. The narrative on all of them is ridiculous. I guess the gruff voice is meant to jump on the Harley tough guy image bandwagon.
I guess I'm just not restless. Nor reckless.
I ride to get there when I get there, not to get there faster. To me it's the journey. Sure, there has to be a destination, when I get there. No ride, except one, lasts forever.
One of the very few ads I ever saw that I liked, about anything was the one from some years ago "Riding, or touring thru' Norway".
That was a good one.
And Marlice Van De Meer with the VW.
They would have a better ad with a father and son talk about the quality of a BMW motorcycle and then show both of them riding away. Maybe have Dad on something older, like a R90S and the son on something new, like a F or G series. Have an announcer state that quality never goes out of style and then show the Roundel at the end.
True, they could have done better.
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Past: 1978 Yamaha XS 750, 1976 BMW R60/6
The commercials can be seen on Youtube. Type in "Feed Your Restless" There are three different versions: GS1200, K1600, and S1000RR
A little slide dobro guitar sounds like it wants to be a bad-boy Harley cross over. .. . which is probably who they're aiming at income-wise.
So, did I see this correctly, or maybe it's sloppy film editing ... I get the distinct impression that these BMW riders stiffed the diner. First one shot with no food on the table, then a shot with a "well, are you doing to wait on us" look on their faces, a shot of the guy impatiently bouncing his foot, and then the tab, picked up from the table, with partially eaten food in the back ground....
"It is what you discover, after you know it all, that counts." _ John Wooden
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Saw the S1000RR version during telecast of Sprint Cup qualifying.
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SO... TV has some redeeming value after all, then?
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I'll take a stab @ an answer. That type of adverts [lifestyle] seem to be the 'rage' ! Do this, drive that, eat this or that, and you'll be cool, smart,tough, tall,..etc. Like these good lookin' folks in the commercial. Ever notice?... so many of the car commercials that show the car they're selling is sliding sideways, in the water, or kicking up a cloud of dust...same sort of thing {IMO}
And again, {JMO} but allot of folks get into motorcycles FOR the perceived "cool" factor...some re-capture youth kinda thing.
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Atwater Beer Buzz October 19
Greetings from crunchy Vail!
Let the snow begin! We've had our first couple of "scrape your windshield" mornings, and snow on the deck. It's more of the icy, crunchy kind to be sure, but it's white and it's encouraging!
Our Atwater Sweepstakes is underway. We'v attached the information below, complete with QR code. You can win a night at the Vail Cascade + 2 seats at the Brewmaster's food pairing event for any of our Brewmaster's Weekends through April. You can register at www.AtwaterSweepstakes.com, and we'll draw about 30 days prior to each Brewmaster's Weekend. Good luck!!
Wednesday Nights are turning into a great evening for us with our weekly complimentary craft beer tasting and $2 pizza slices! Josh poured some terrific Left Hand treats last night to a steady stream of interested and happy guests and locals. They tasted the Left Hand "flagships", Sawtooth & Milk Stout Nitro, as well as Warrior Fresh Hop and Wake Up Dead Imperial Stout. Congrats to Left Hand for their Sawtooth medal at GABF, and thanks to Josh for being here last night to support our programming!
Next Wednesday you can look forward to Oskar Blues goodies from 5:30 – 7:30pm as well as those tasty pizza slices. Dylan will be bringing up the following beers from their Lyons/Longmont world for your sampling pleasure: Dale's Pale Ale, G'Knight Imperial Red Ale, Ten Fidy Imperial Stout and Deviant Dale's IPA. Join us!
New Belgium's Peter Bouckaert and Wynkoop's Andy Brown will be joining us for the next Brewmaster's Weekend, and we're happy to share with you the 4 beers that will be included in their Small Plates & Craft Beer Pairings on Saturday, November 24th. Our staff is excited to design a really cool menu around these diverse and interesting beers, and you can sample them with the Brewmasters & our culinary team. Event will begin at 5pm and run until about 6:30pm. Reservations are available by calling 970-479-7014, and the cost is $25/person.
Two of the beers that will be presented are collaboration beers called Brewjolais Nouveau, the first brewed in 2011 and the other more recently in 2012. These are brewed around the time of the grape harvest, and are interesting, complex beers. The third is Wynkoop's Belgorado IPA, and the final beer is New Belgium's Peach Porch Lounger, a collaboration with G Love that is part of their Lips of Faith series. Once a menu has been finalized we'll share it with you via our blog and and Facebook.
On to this week's current updates! There have been no changes to the craft beer list, although there are several waiting in the wings for the last few bottles to move through from their predecessor.
This week's Friday Featured Flight ($7) will be:
- Dogfish Head Tweason'ale
- Victory Prima Pils
- Avery IPA
- Dixie Blackened Voodoo
- Sierra Nevada Bigfoot
And our Craft Draft Flight maintains the following, although we understand the Samuel Adams seasonal is about to rotate to Winter.
Remember that our Craft Draft Flight is only $5 during our Fall season!
- Hacker-Pschorr Weisse
- Stone Pale Ale
- Samuel Adams Octoberfest
- Boulder Mojo IPA
- New Belgium 1554
Looking forward to seeing you for Friday Night Flights, and remember to register to win in our Atwater Sweepstakes!
We're continuing our 50% off Large Plates & Pizzas as well as our complimentary valet parking. It's never been easier to stop by and visit.
Thank you so much for your support of our craft beer program!
Laura Lodge
Craft Beer Program
PS. Next week will be an email reprieve, as I'll be out of town, however, our Wednesday Night Craft Beer Tasting with Oskar Blues and Friday Night Flights will happen as per usual!


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Red Sox acquire Bedard from Seattle
By Ian Browne / MLB.com
The Red Sox traded four Minor Leaguers in two separate deals. Catcher Tim Federowicz, pitcher Stephen Fife and righty Juan Rodriguez were sent to the Dodgers for outfielder Trayvon Robinson. The Red Sox then dealt Robinson and outfielder Chih-Hsien Chiang to the Mariners to complete the exchange for Bedard and Minor League reliever Josh Fields, a right-hander.
The transactions came the day after Boston had a tentative agreement to get Rich Harden from the A's, only to back out of that move because of concerns about the right-hander's health. That meant Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein had to seek out a last-minute alternative.
"A number of starters ended up not being moved, for one reason or another, and it wasn't clear we were going to be able to get anything done until the last minute again," Epstein said. "I don't know why that always happens to us. It was another last-minute deal, and we're really glad not to get just any starting pitcher but to get somebody who's capable of shutting down any lineup in the league when he's right. He's certainly capable of pitching big games for us down the stretch and somebody with enough talent to take the mound in the middle of the pennant race or in a playoff game if that opportunity presents itself."
Bedard, whom the Red Sox are familiar with from his years with the Orioles, also has a recent history of injuries.
The lefty was recently sidelined with a sprained left knee, but returned from the disabled list on Friday night, getting shelled by the Rays.
"We stayed on him and we scouted his first start back the other day in which he looked healthy," Epstein said. "Rusty, certainly, but healthy. We thought, based on the looks from this year, his stuff was coming back -- he was throwing well. He looks like someone who can really help us."
Bedard, 32, has made 16 starts, going 4-7 with a 3.45 ERA. In 91 1/3 innings, he has allowed 77 hits and opponents are hitting just .226 against him.
"In April, even though the results weren't great, the reports on his stuff were encouraging," Epstein said. "Obviously, in May and June, he was throwing very well and getting hitters out consistently from the left side and right side. Really started to look like one of the better left-handed pitchers in the league again, so we were certainly on him then, and then he ended up missing the month with the knee injury."
Though the Red Sox already own the best record in the American League East at 66-40, they were happy to get another weapon for the stretch run.
"He's got great stuff," said Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia. "We're really excited to have him. He's going to help us a ton."
"He's nasty," Red Sox third baseman Kevin Youkilis said of Bedard earlier this week. "I think he owns me. When he was pitching against us, when he was healthy, I don't know if we beat him -- he beat up on us. He's good. He has a great slider. When he's healthy and he locates pitches, he's a pretty remarkable pitcher."
With the return of Clay Buchholz (back injury) uncertain and Daisuke Matsuzaka long since gone for the season, the Red Sox had been actively searching for some rotation depth to help back up co-aces Jon Lester and Josh Beckett. John Lackey, Tim Wakefield and Andrew Miller are the other pitchers currently in Boston's rotation.
Epstein said that at least for this week, nobody from the rotation will likely get bumped. The Red Sox don't have another off-day until Aug. 11.
Meanwhile, there is definitely concern about Buchholz, one of Boston's best pitchers. He hasn't pitched since June 16, and the uncertainty of when he will be able to come back played a big role in Boston's pursuit of Bedard.
"Clearly, we have some concern for Clay," said Epstein. "It's been almost a couple months now, which is longer than we expected it to be. We're still waiting for some more feedback and another opinion. I think we have a feel for what might be going on. Clay is seeing another expert [Monday] for his opinion, then we're all going to put our heads together early this week.
"Any time a pitcher of his caliber is not on the mound for a while, throws a side as he did on Monday but can't necessarily back it up with another side, get out there on a rehab assignment, there's some concern. We think we're in the process of getting to the bottom of it. We're all going to put our heads together early this week and talk about it with Clay before we discuss it publicly."
Two other pitchers the Red Sox had targeted -- Ubaldo Jimenez and Hiroki Kuroda -- could not be obtained. Jimenez was dealt from the Rockies to the Indians, while Kuroda informed the Dodgers he would not waive his no-trade clause. Then came the Harden talks, which fell apart late Saturday night.
"We felt, looking at our club, like we certainly needed to add a starting pitcher," said Epstein. "If nothing else, for depth purposes, but we felt like that was the best way we could impact the club right now. The trading deadline is July 31, and besides the non-waiver trades, you have to finish building your club that can hopefully take you through the last two months of the regular season, which are the toughest, and, if we're fortunate to get where we're going, in the postseason.
While there has been a lot of outside talk that Bedard, who isn't big on talking to the media, might have a hard time in the spotlight that is Boston, Epstein did enough research to think there's a fit.
"We're very comfortable with adding Erik to this ballclub," Epstein said. "More than anything, I think he's a really good fit for this club, and I think he's going to get along just fine with his teammates. He's very competitive when he's on the mound.
"Maybe he lets his arm do the talking a little bit, which is fine with us. I think based on what we know about him, he's going to fit in really well with his teammates and enjoy being a Red Sox in the middle of a pennant race. We're looking forward to him joining this club."
On Saturday, the Red Sox supplemented their bench depth with the acquisition of utility infielder Mike Aviles from the Royals.
Though one deadline passed on Sunday, the Red Sox could still make moves in August, and Epstein has done so several times in the past.
Going forward, deals involving players on the 40-man roster cannot be made unless the players already have cleared waivers. In other words, the player must be offered to the other teams in reverse order of the standings, and if he is claimed by one of the teams, he cannot be traded. The club that placed the player on waivers can either withdraw the request and keep the player, work out a trade for the player or simply let the player go to the claiming team.
As for the move that was made on Sunday, Red Sox pitching coach Curt Young is looking forward to working with Bedard.
"I kind of know Erik a little bit," said Young. "I was on an All-Star team with him in [Japan in] 2006. I know he goes about his business the right way, and I know health has been an issue for him. Hopefully, I can help him."
Manager Terry Francona should announce on Monday when he will slot Bedard into the rotation.
"He was tough on us," Francona said of Bedard. "He was real tough on us. He's a guy that's shown he can pitch in the American League East. The first half of this year, before he tweaked that knee, he was pretty solid. His stuff is good. We're excited. I'd like to talk to him first, but I know Theo talked to him and he sounded like he was excited. We'll build him back up. He just came off the DL on Friday, so we'll build him back up and get him in there."
Ian Browne is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brownie Points, and follow him on Twitter @IanMBrowne. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.