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Even as his star was ascending, however, Kosinski was all but finished as a writer. His last six books became progressively more trivial, self- absorbed, and unreadable; and there drew closer the day of his exposure as a literary fraud. In June 1982, the Village Voice revealed that Kosinski (for whom English was a second language) had made extensive use of translators and collaborators to write all his books, and then had concealed the fact. George Reavey, a poet who was embittered by his own lack of literary success, complained to anyone who would listen that he wrote The Painted Bird. But Reavey was only one of several who could have made the same complaint, and not only about The Painted Bird. Being There so closely resembled a prewar Polish bestseller called The Career of Nikodem Dyzma as to deserve the charge of plagiarism. Kosinski never fully recovered from the Voice's expose. The remainder of his life, as he himself said, was spent running from it.
A fitting end, some might say, to a literary life that was built upon lies. For years Kosinski passed off The Painted Bird as the true story of his own experience during the Holocaust. Long before writing it he regaled friends and dinner parties with macabre tales of a childhood spent in hiding among the Polish peasantry. Among those who were fascinated was Dorothy de Santillana, a senior editor at Houghton Mifflin, to whom Kosinski confided that he had a manuscript based on his experiences. Upon accepting the book for publication Santillana said, "It is my understanding that, fictional as the material may sound, it is straight autobiography." Although he backed away from this claim, Kosinski never wholly disavowed it. He described the book as an "auto- fiction," explaining that it "draws upon a childhood spent, by the casual chances of war, in the remotest villages of Eastern Europe." Although it is not "easily justified," he said, it is nonetheless "convenient" to classify The Painted Bird as nonfiction.
And so it was widely received. Reviewing the book for the New York Times Book Review, Elie Wiesel said, "It is as a chronicle that The Painted Bird . . . achieves its unusual power." Other critics described it as "semi-autobiographical" or a "testament," praising its historical value. As late as 1976, in a preface to the second edition, Kosinski continued to prevaricate. He never said outright that the book was not an autobiography. The reason he rejected the label, he said, was that he did not wish to be cast "in the role of spokesman for my generation, especially for those who survived the war." Even so, anyone who "bothered to refer to actual source materials" would find that he "was not overstating the brutality and cruelty that characterized the war years in Eastern Europe." He even quoted a death camp commandant to establish that the theme of his book was true to the experience of all Jewish children under the Nazis: "The rule was to kill children right away." And then he repeated the story he had told so many times before: to save him, his own parents had sent him away to live among strangers, just like the unnamed boy in The Painted Bird.
The trouble is, it wasn't true. And yet the truth about Jerzy Kosinski, as set forth in this new biography by James Park Sloan, may be even more fascinating. For though he disclaimed the role of spokesman for his generation, he was representative of it in many ways. A creature of postmodernity, he suffered-and celebrated-some of the most destructive pathologies of the age. It was as if he were hellbent on acting out the rupture in human values caused by the Holocaust. That was the central theme of his novels, and of his own life.
Born five months after Hitler came to power, he was the only child of Moses and Elzbieta Lewinkopf, a Jewish couple living in Lodz, Poland. His father changed their name to Kosinski-a more Polish-sounding name-in 1939 when he moved the family 120 miles away to the eastern border of German- held Poland. Far from giving up his son to the care of someone else, Moses Kosinski took in and eventually adopted the son of another Jewish family in the region. Here the family waited out the war, passing as Gentiles. Jerzy was carefully instructed to deny he was Jewish if challenged. It was a lesson that took a lifetime to unlearn. After the war, Moses Kosinski threw in with the "reds" against the "white" Polish loyalists, and when the Soviets took control, he was rewarded with a party appointment. For Jerzy his father's position meant a superficially trouble-free postwar existence: high school, photography, girl friends, jazz, cafe society, student-exchange trips to Russia, and the University of Lodz.
Unlike his father, however, he despised communism. Sloan ascribes it to personality-Kosinski disliked conformity, he says-but in reality his anticommunism seems to have been principled enough. His intellectual mentor, the sociologist Jozef Chalasinski, was a dissident who believed that Marxist orthodoxy was destroying any possibility of a Marxist humanism. Seeing that human values would never be restored to Poland as long as the Communists were in power, Kosinski left the country for the United States in 1959. He did not return for nearly twenty years.
His first two books were contributions to the literature of anticommunism. The Future Is Ours, Comrade (1960) and No Third Path (1962) were published under the pseudonym "Joseph Novak." Inside accounts of the harshness of life under the Soviets, they were based on Kosinski's own visits to Russia. Although he tries to make a case for behind-the-scenes CIA sponsorship of the books, Sloan has no hard information and is not to be trusted on this score: for him, anyone who is anticommunist simply must be a "John Bircher"; the only reason he can imagine for writing an anticommunist book is to further "propaganda efforts directed at the Soviets" while tricking Americans into "accepting high levels of funding for defense and intelligence spending."
Sloan is generally helpless in dealing with ideas. A novelist and teacher of creative writing, he belongs to the vaguely leftist culture of American universities, and treats all writing as more or less fiction. Kosinski, by contrast, was a sharp-minded and lifelong man of the right. Although The Painted Bird made him popular with young readers, he scorned the student movement of the sixties. From firsthand experience he knew the falseness of the promise of "liberation."
And yet he also yielded to its allure. Despite his contempt for the political ideas of the young and their so-called "counterculture," Kosinski was an enthusiastic participant in the sexual revolution of the sixties and after. One of the most troubling features of the biography that Sloan has written is its attention to Kosinski's sexual life, which is recounted in detail. To be indelicate, when in the film version of Being There Chance the Gardener (Peter Sellers) tells EE (Shirley MacLaine), "I like to watch"-provoking an infamous solo performance by MacLaine-he is not speaking for Chance alone. Kosinski frequented the sex clubs like Plato's Retreat that flourished in Manhattan before the outbreak of AIDS, usually in the company of an attractive young woman not his wife. Married twice-to the eighteen- years-older steel heiress Mary Weir and to a descendant of Bavarian aristocracy named Katherina von Fraunhofer-he was spectacularly unfaithful. He sought out three-way sex (two men and a woman); he procured lovers for (and copulated in the presence of) his stepson. He duped one young woman into bed by claiming that he had no penis, and then nearly raped her.
What was the reason for this sexual adventurism? Sloan sets it down to a love of "sexual theater" that mirrored Kosinski's compulsive need to lie and feign and pose in all areas of his life, compensating for "the hollowness at the core of his being." This theory explains much: the reckless driving, the abuse of small dogs, the thirst for fame, the fabrication of personal experience, the secretiveness about how he wrote, the denial of his Jewish identity. "There was a hollow space at the center of Kosinski that had resulted from denying his past," Sloan writes, "and his whole life had become a race to fill in that hollow space before it caused him to implode, collapsing inward upon himself like a burnt-out star." On this theory, Kosinski emerges as a classic borderline personality, frantically defending himself against intense feelings of hopelessness and abandonment. He even appears somewhat heroic, because he restrained himself from crossing the border into all- out psychosis.
What this theory cannot explain, however, is Kosinski's strong moral opposition to communism and persistent loyalty to political freedom. Naturally, his biographer would like to dismiss Kosinski's political convictions as yet another compulsion. "If he had any deeply ingrained ideology of his own," Sloan writes, "it was a sort of paranoid anarchism, with special emphasis on the plight of unusual and gifted individuals within 'collectivities.'" The evidence is otherwise. After the collapse of Soviet hegemony in Central Europe, Kosinski spearheaded the organization of AmerBank, the first western bank to be chartered in Poland. Friends worried that his best energies were being siphoned off into nonliterary projects, but Kosinski was committed to bringing capitalism and economic freedom to his homeland. Hardly the act of a paranoid anarchist.
Nor can the psychological theory account for the haunting power of Kosinski's one great book-The Painted Bird. Strictly speaking, it is not a Holocaust book. Like the Vilna ghetto poet Abraham Sutzkever, Kosinski rarely mentions the German exterminators; but unlike Sutzkever (who reserves speech for the Jewish dead), Kosinski aims to exhibit the cruelty and backwardness of the Polish peasants among whom his six-year-old narrator, who is indifferently Jewish or Gypsy, must hide. The one passage in which the Holocaust is discussed ("Perhaps the world would soon become one vast incinerator for burning people") is immediately followed by a longer scene in which the rape of a Jewish girl is described in brutal and excrutiating detail. The Painted Bird is notorious for its horrors: eyeballs are gouged out of sockets, animals are tortured, women are violated with bottles holding manure, men are devoured by rats. "The Germans puzzled me," the boy says. "Was such a destitute, cruel world worth ruling?"
This is the question that Kosinski's whole life was given over to answering. That he died by his own hand suggests that his answer, finally, was No. And so Kosinski joined a line of Holocaust writers- Tadeusz Borowski, Jean Amery, Paul Celan, Primo Levi-who by committing suicide testified that the world was beyond repair. Although The Painted Bird may not be directly about the Holocaust, although it may not be based on Kosinski's own experiences during the Holocaust, it is nevertheless an indispensable document of the Holocaust. It is perhaps the greatest example of what is coming to be known as a "second- generation" book: a contemporary report of the hell in which a survivor of the Holocaust must live, one generation after the event.


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1. What do you think about the track records Rosalie mentions, hers and the others? How many people do you think Esme has killed? Emmett? Alice?
She did admirably well, not as well as Bella or Carlisle, though, of course. I can't even picture Esme or Alice killing anybody, period, but I know Alice had to, to survive until she adopted the Cullens. As for Emmett, we know he killed at least two.
2. What do you think about Edward's reaction to Rosalie being changed?
I think he was just confused about Carlisle's motivation behind changing her.
3. Rosalie set out to kill the men who had harmed her. Do you think any of the Cullens helped her? How do you think Carlisle felt about her killing people?
No, I don't think Esme, Edward or Carlisle helped. I don't see Carlisle liking it.
4. What do you think about Rosalie's reasons for disliking Bella? Do they make more sense now that you know her story?
She doesn't need to dislike Bella just because she wants to be a vampire. She can like the girl, dislike her choices, though. No, they still don't make sense to me.


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"a clever web-meets-TV idea where three members of your commoner gardener public get to rough shoulders with a similar number of genuine poker pros"
Two eggcorns in one sentence!
Adrian: I really liked "commoner gardener" so looked for further confirmation from Google and to my disappointment found this on the 'Letters' page of Guardian Unlimited:
Common or garden (Letters, October 18) is of course a corruption of commoner-gardener – a now obsolete status once accorded in some Oxford (and perhaps Cambridge) colleges to a poor student who supported his studies by working in the college garden. It is possible that a distorted echo of this found its way into Matthew Arnold's Scholar Gypsy.
James Burns
Perhaps James Burns is wrong but I suppose the expression must have some origin and it does seem fairly compelling. It's still an interesting find as your example of 'commoner gardener' was an eggcornish variant of what must be a 'sleeper' eggcorn (common or garden) of 'commoner gardener'. (I wish that last sentence made more sense).
Not only are there two eggcorns in that first sentence, one of them is probably a double-banger. I also love that an apparent folk etymology has managed to seduce its slinky little way into this forum, albeit with considerable sobriety and circumspection on Peter's part. Growing up, I always heard the expression as "common garden". Later I started to run into "common or garden". It seems reasonable to suppose that "common or garden" arose from the habit, demonstrated profusely in seed catalogues and other lists of cultivated plants from the early 19th c., of referring to standard garden plants as, for example, "common, or garden lettuce". See , with common or garden lettuce, thyme, centaury, lavender, pea and nightshade. "Common garden" would be from the same source. Then it's a small jump to "commoner garden" followed by the ever-so-tiny perseverant "commoner gardener" and suddenly we're faced with a phrase of a whole different snootiness quotient. Here are some more hits; see especially number 3.
My fil is a nasty, evil, sly little man masquerading as a commoner garden variety pants and i am SICK of him bullying my husband :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
Glossary: FIL, father in law, and MIL mother in law, are fairly common acronyms on gossip boards.
it was not a smart-phone, just a commoner garden one.
No I swear to God. I thought "commoner gardener" meant like "even the gardener would use it"... That's the truth. It never occurred to me it might be something else. I'll concede defeat on that one
First perp account, ireland
I do find it difficult to grasp as to why God made us with longings for marriage, children (I.E. commoner gardener 'human' feelings) that do not meet the manner in which God wishes us to live our lives for him.
Might the use of "common, or garden lettuce" instead of "common garden" been to avoid confusion with "Common Garden", in the sense of public or shared? The Common Gardens arose as an institution in the 18th c., it says in my notes, though I don't know where I picked that up. Here's an ambiguous hit from what I suppose was the cusp, in 1789:
if, from this poem he attends only to some of the common flowers of a common garden, his views of nature will be greatly extended, many cheerless moments will be filled with the most rational entertainment, and what at first began in amusement, may terminate in scientific acquisition. Our author is no common guide in this respect and his notes contain a more judicious selection, and a better connected view of the arguments in favour of the sexual system, than any one work that we have yet seen. The oeconomy of vegetation, and the physiology of plants, form the first volume ; but this didactic poem is deferred till another year, to afford time for the repetition of some experiments.
Sorry I let that one run on a bit. I was fascinated by the use of the term oeconomy of vegetation so early in the development of our current scientific view of nature.
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I had always heard "garden variety" with or without "common", and understood it to mean "ordinary, of the sort you might find growing in anyone's garden." I never thought of commoners or gardeners, smooth shouldered or not. Interesting …
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
Garden variety is lots clearer. Here are some first circle blends of the above.
The quest is to completely shift the balance of power, we will rub shoulders the wrong way and the wrong people and obstacles will rain in thunderstorms, but we will make it if we persevere
I am a nice pussy cat normally, however, if someone rough me the wrong way, my claws come out for certain!
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I had always heard "garden variety" with or without "common", and understood it to mean "ordinary, of the sort you might find growing in anyone's garden." I never thought of commoners or gardeners, smooth shouldered or not…
My experience was exactly the same as DavidTuggy's. Never heard of "common or garden"; always heard/used "garden variety". I don't know if David lived in Mexico his entire life, but I've lived mostly in Michigan and California, and I'm thinking that these are regional differences in phrasing (UK/Canada vs.USA?)
The current N-grams are great for time gradients. We need a regional mapping n-gram too, for internet hits, though that might be difficult.


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I'm new using openMP and I try to parrallelise a Loop, but I always have a seg fault with the same portion of code. I analyse it with walgrind and I get a strange data race. Here is the error by valgrind:
==25622== Possible data race during read of size 8 at 0xD5FF08 by thread #1
==25622== Locks held: none
==25622== at 0x43E7AA: Matrice4x4::glueTM(Point*, int, Point*, int, int, int) (Matrice4x4.cpp:513)
==25622== by 0x44381F: Modele::CACTermAdd(int, bool, int, int) (Modele.cpp:661)
==25622== by 0x4424BA: Modele::Add(int, Word*, int, int, int, int) (Modele.cpp:400)
==25622== by 0x4045EF: Greedy::Run(int) (Greedy.cpp:194)
==25622== by 0x4701D5: main._omp_fn.0 (main.cpp:251)
==25622== by 0x46E38E: main (main.cpp:236)
==25622== This conflicts with a previous write of size 8 by thread #2
==25622== Locks held: none
==25622== at 0x43E5CB: Matrice4x4::glueTM(Point*, int, Point*, int, int, int) (Matrice4x4.cpp:473)
==25622== by 0x444BE8: Modele::CANTermAdd(int, int, int) (Modele.cpp:876)
==25622== by 0x442506: Modele::Add(int, Word*, int, int, int, int) (Modele.cpp:405)
==25622== by 0x4045EF: Greedy::Run(int) (Greedy.cpp:194)
==25622== by 0x4701D5: main._omp_fn.0 (main.cpp:251)
==25622== by 0x543C829: gomp_thread_start (team.c:116)
==25622== by 0x4C2A69B: mythread_wrapper (hg_intercepts.c:219)
==25622== by 0x5860D14: start_thread (pthread_create.c:308)
witch means tha the Matrice4x4 object seems to be shared between my two thread. But it's not. Both are seperate object instanced by the "Modele" object rigth before.
And there is the code for my loop:
#define USEOMP
#pragma omp parallel for private(sim)
for (int i = 0; i < nbrTurn; i++) {
#pragma omp critical
sim = params->SetGreedy();
// Run the Greedy algorithm
The sim object is the Greedys that are separatly instance wich create each their own Modele objects wich instance their own Matrice4x4 object. How can it be a data race in this case?
Thank you for your help.


text: EXHIBITING CULTURES Graduate Standing or permission of instructor. The modern museum has come a long way since its emergence in the nineteenth century as a "cabinet of curiosities." Instead of merely displaying objects, museum exhibits today draw on recent scholarship in art, literary criticism, and social history to offer broad interpretations about the origins, meaning and value of objects, as well as theories about the thoughts and behavior of the people who made them and used them....The transformation of the museum from reliquary to forum has forced curators to reassess their role as cultural custodians. Increasingly, curators must ask if museums retain the responsibility of validating and confirming tradition, who has the authority to interpret history to the public -- indeed, who "owns" history? A. Henderson & A. Kaeppler (eds). 1996. Exhibiting Dilemmas, 1-2. This course will explore the ideas, values and symbols that pervade and shape the practice of exhibiting other cultures. It will examine the ways in which museums and other sites of exhibition accord objects particular significances, the politics of exhibitions and display strategies, and the interpretive differences between art, anthropology and other types of museums and institutions which exhibit other cultures. Requirements for this course: two research papers and class presentations.


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Baked Pasta with Butternut Squash
Accented with sage and pancetta, this gorgeous baked pasta dish is loaded with delicious, nutritious vegetables. To save some prep time for this recipe, look for cut-up butternut squash in your produce department.
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Level: Moderate
Yield: About 12 cups
Serves: 6
- 4 oz. pancetta
- 5 shallots
- ground black pepper
- 2 tsp. olive oil
- 1 butternut squash
- 1 container Brussels sprouts
- 10 medium sage leaves
- 1 can chicken broth (1 3/4 cups)
- 1 package cavatappi or corkscrew pasta
- 1½ c. reduced-fat (2%) milk
- 1 c. freshly grated Parmesan cheese (about 3 ounces)
- ¼ c. plain dried bread crumbs
- Fried sage leaves for garnish*
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. In nonstick 12-inch skillet, cook pancetta over medium heat about 10 minutes or until browned, stirring occasionally. With slotted spoon, transfer pancetta to medium bowl. In same skillet, cook shallots with 1/4 teaspoon pepper about 5 minutes or until golden, stirring frequently. Transfer shallots to bowl with pancetta.
- In same skillet, heat oil over medium heat until hot; add squash and cook, covered, 10 minutes, stirring often. Add Brussels sprouts, sage, and broth; cook, covered, 10 to 12 minutes or until vegetables are tender and most of liquid is absorbed.
- Meanwhile, heat large covered saucepot of water to boiling over high heat. Add pasta and cook 2 minutes less than label directs. Drain and return to saucepot.
- Stir milk into skillet with squash and heat through. Add squash mixture, pancetta mixture, and 3/4 cup Parmesan to pasta in saucepot; toss until well mixed. Spoon pasta into 3-quart ceramic baking dish and sprinkle with bread crumbs and remaining Parmesan. Bake 30 minutes or until center is hot and top is golden. Garnish with sage leaves.
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Andy Powell landed a fine for his ill-discipline against Bath © Getty Images
Sale Sharks No.8 Andy Powell has escaped a suspension but has landed a fine following their game with Bath at the weekend.
Powell pleaded guilty to "mouthing foul language and making an offensive hand gesture to spectators" - an incident that occurred in the closing stages of the match following his sin-bin. He was hit with a £5,000 fine of which £4,000 is suspended until May 30, 2013.
While Powell escaped a ban, Sale fullback Tom Brady was not so fortunate. He was "charged with an alleged dangerous tackle" on Ben Skirving and was hit with a two-week suspension. He will be free to play on October 16 and will miss Friday's game with Leicester and their Heineken Cup clash with the Cardiff Blues on October 14.
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"They just started banging on trash cans and decided to put it together as a thing. It's a really, really original, creative, emotional drum corp."
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"Whatever your goal in life might be, don't take no for an answer. When you take no for an answer you won't get what you want to achieve."
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Astros exhibit sights, sounds of Fourth of July
By Chris Abshire / MLB.com
HOUSTON -- Few holidays scream baseball quite like the Fourth of July.
Houston joined in the festivities Thursday, as the Astros rocked Independence Day-themed hats, armbands and necklaces.
Uniformed military personnel were invited to the ballpark and honored as they stood along the baselines with both Houston and Tampa Bay players during the pregame introduction.
The 36th Infantry Division Band's Soldier's Chorus sang a solemn but poignant national anthem prior to the game, with the American flag draped across shallow center field behind them.
The holiday's presence was felt in the atmosphere throughout the ballpark.
Before Thursday's game, the Astros held a street festival outside Minute Maid Park, complete with cotton candy, food vendors, a dunking booth, balloons, a magician, live music and a lady dressed as the Statue of Liberty.
The music in the pregame was American themed, from John Mellencamp's Americana to several renditions of "God Bless America" to Ray Charles' version of "America The Beautiful," which soundtracked the Fourth of July scene in baseball staple "The Sandlot."
Fans were offered mini American flags as they entered the park, and many waved them proudly, wildly cheering for the military personnel entering and exiting the diamond.
"Today just speaks baseball, it speaks family and it speaks hot dogs," Houston manager Bo Porter said. "Hopefully, it speaks an Astros win, too."
Looking beyond record, Norris makes All-Star case
HOUSTON -- Astros pitcher Bud Norris is not shy about his desire to play in the 2013 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
"It would be a huge honor," he said. "That's what every player dreams of."
The All-Star rosters will be announced at 5:30 p.m. CT on Saturday and televised nationally on FOX.
Norris has a case, though the Astros' first-half struggles and low profile could hurt his candidacy. There is no arguing with his numbers, which present a compelling profile.
The righty has a 3.22 ERA with 76 strikeouts in 18 starts, anchoring a burgeoning Houston rotation that has been mostly impeccable since mid-May.
"I think he's definitely getting All-Star consideration," manager Bo Porter said. "I think he's pitched well enough to be one. That's out of our control. I would definitely give him my vote, because he's been our best pitcher the whole year."
Last week, Angels manager Mike Scioscia called Norris "one of the best we've seen" all season. Then how is Norris' 6-7 record so decidedly underwhelming?
Houston has not hit for Norris often, scoring only three runs a game behind him. Over Norris' last 10 starts, that number has been even worse, as the Astros plated just 23 total runs in those outings.
It has left Norris on the hook for no-decisions and losses even when he has shut a lineup down, like last Friday, when he allowed no earned runs in seven innings but the Angels scored three times after he departed to win, 4-2.
"When you talk about wins and losses, a lot of things are out of your control," he said. "It's more about the quality of the outings. How productive is this guy, is the question. The wins and losses don't speak to that."
His ERA could actually drop to 3.06 if he wins an appeal to MLB about a hit call that he hopes to get changed to an error from the White Sox game June 17.
Norris, who has become a trade magnet but has been pledging his commitment to the Astros, said an All-Star nod would be more than just a personal achievement.
"Being an All-Star would be a big deal for me, but also an honor for this organization, too," he said. "I've made my case on the field, but these guys play the defense and get the hits that help me do that."
Familiar faces abound in Texas for Astros' president
HOUSTON -- Astros president Reid Ryan wishes his new team had remained in the opposite league of the Texas Rangers, whose CEO is his dad, Nolan.
"The Rangers will always be family to me, and so will the Astros," Ryan said. "The fact you can be a big Astros fan and Rangers fan, to be honest with you, is a little bit tough now because they're in the same division. People are having to draw sides. To me, it's not about the Rangers or Astros, it's about the people. And that's what I'm excited about."
He will have to draw sides for at least one weekend, though, as the Astros invade Arlington on Friday for a three-game set at Texas. Even as a front-office figure, Ryan said that had not dulled his competitive fire, especially against his famous father's team.
"At the end of the day, whether you're playing dad in the backyard in a pickup basketball game or in college or in high school in the orange and white game in Alvin, whatever it is, you want to win the game, you want to do your best. You want to beat the people on the other side of the field from you."
The younger Ryan was driving to the Ballpark in Arlington on Thursday but planned to stay only for Friday's game.
Ryan might be as excited about seeing friends in the Rangers organization as he is about the baseball on the diamond.
"It's going to be great to see those guys and see my dad and everybody, but it's not just my dad," he said. "I have so many deep, lifelong relationships with people over there, [Rangers Enterprises executive vice president] Jay Miller, [Texas bench coach] Jackie Moore, [Ballpark Entertainment executive VP] Chuck Morgan, [Rangers executive VP of communications] John Blake, [Texas pitching coach] Mike Maddux. I could go on and on and on.
"Those guys have treated Jackson [Reid's son] so well over the years," Ryan said. I'm talking about the Nelson Cruzes of the world, guys like that. It will be fun. It's not a stressful deal at all. All those guys have treated me in a positive way and are very happy for me."
Chris Abshire is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The day started out with blue bird skies and a HCSC Enter the Dragon competition where riders from all around the area came to showcase their talents in the monthly slopestyle competition that acted as a qualifying series for the USASA Nationals competition taking place in New Mexico later this month. Riders of all ages spent the morning oooing and awing the judges in hopes for selection to compete in one of the thirty-five spots set aside for them in the Trans-Am.
Jardine Hammond of TransWorld spent the morning herding her diligent (and attractive) worker bees around the course trying to get everything set up in time for the selection process which would launch us into an extremely humorous and memorable Mt. Bachelor Trans-Am.
As the Smith Limo loomed in the distance, the wanna be competitors salivated for the invite passes that Jardine wagged around while belting out name after name through her trusty bull-horn. One by one the soldiers emerged from the crowd and made their way up the modest little hill to take aim at, for some, a mouth full of diamond plate, and others smooth, styley lines.
Ten minutes of practice opened the field for the jam style format where riders took as many hits as possible at the Smith limo or an easier orange rail before hitting up the mini quarterpipe box allowing for numerous possibilities and combinations.
Dan Reisch, a Bend local and the usual event announcer in these parts held it down with his super-human ability to recognize and remember ever masked kid's name, helping to get the crowd stoked out on the ridiculous competition that we were all witnessing. Dave Reynolds freestyle coach for Mount Bachelor Ski Education Foundation (MBSEF) had his eight year olds absolutely killing it on the orange rail, one rockin' his tongue out the whole way while the older kids in his group where destroying the Smith rail, one said rider, Austin Smith, showed us what was up with a 270 on, 270 off the limo.
"I thought that was pretty good, earlier today though I had really good style with my arms all up in the air over the jumps. I've really been working on that," said Austin.
Martin Ciszek stuck a rump slide Iika style off the Limo, while Chip Butts threw down styly front lips, followed closely by his Bend crew Chris James and Squirrel with too much good stuff to name. For the ladies, Celeste Rhodes of Boardsports in Eugene, Oregon was layin' it down with such smooth boardslides on the limo that people where really wondering what she ate for breakfast. Lilly McCabe from Ashland was giving Celeste a run for her money while Levi Gilkenson riding for Black Bomb tossed his lanky frame into a front flip off the end of the limo causing the judges to start holding on for the battle that would undoubtedly ensue.
After nearly an hour Jardine called it quits for the comp and rounded everyone up for a product dash complete with tons of free stuff from the sponsors. Stuff from Smith, Ride, Campbell's Soup at Hand, Zumiez, Quicksilver, DaKine, Red Bull and of course TWS sent the kiddies on the road down the hill to the pizza party content and ready to stuff their faces.
John Dough's hosted the "after party" where the winners were announced in the usual format. Thayne Mahler, however, added a little humor to the show by presenting Austin Smith with the "Rubber Foot Award" which was formerly part of his prosthetic leg, which apparently, he didn't need anymore. Thayne said he usually would give the winner some snow gear from his vault but for some reason or another that didn't suffice this year, and the kids where awed by his contribution otherwise. All in all the comp went awesome, the mood however, changed when a far off cell phone ranng with the news of the passing of TWS friend Josh Malay.
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Pittsfield City Council votes to seek input from school officials at meetings
PITTSFIELD -- The City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to invite school officials to attend future meetings to discuss school budgets and the work of the School Building Needs Commission.
Councilor at large Barry J. Clairmont asked that the school department be invited to attend the next council Finance Committee meeting "to present an update on their FY 2013 revenue and expenses through the second quarter versus budget."
Clairmont said that although the council has no jurisdiction to review the school budget, he hopes officials will attend a meeting because it would likely result in worthwhile discussions and prove informative for the public. He said he hopes such meetings could be arranged on a semiannual basis.
Council President Kevin Sherman and Ward 5 Councilor Jonathan Lothrop put in a petition asking that the School Building Needs Commission "provide an update to the City Council" on efforts to build a new Taconic High School or perform extensive renovations.
The long-sought major school project has awaited final decisions on an updated vocational curriculum and other issues. A vocational plan recommended by the Building Needs Commission in November drew to School Committee meetings a stream of business owners and others critical of the proposed elimination or reduction of auto body and metal fabrication programs as part of an updated curriculum aiming at what are perceived more current requirements in the workplace.
The School Committee has not yet accepted the curriculum plan, which is considered a necessary step toward gaining state approvals for the project. The work would likely receive 78 percent state funding.
Also Tuesday, councilors approved acceptance of a $400,000 state grant for Phase 2 of the First Street Common Rehabilitation Project.
James McGrath of the city's Department of Community Development said Phase 2 work includes site grading and underground utility and drainage work. Electrical work will support lighting for safety and security.
The city is matching the grant for this phase of the four-phase project with $500,000 already budgeted, Sherman said.
Ward 7 Councilor Anthony J. Simonelli asked whether the current volunteer effort by firefighters to create an outdoor skating rink on the Common was now part of the project in light of previously voiced concern a rink might cause damage to a finished park site.
McGrath said the master plan for the park did not include plans for a rink, "but I don't really want to leave it off the table."
The rink idea is a popular one, he said, "so I don't want to say there will never be one." He said he wants to explore the issue of potential damage to the park further.
"There was a lot of interest," Simonelli said. "I guess I'm happy it will be explored."
The council, without debate, also approved Mayor Daniel L. Bianchi's nominations of Richard S. Stockwell for the city Licensing Board and William P. Sturgeon for the Council on Aging.
Stockwell, a Marine Corps veteran who served in Vietnam and who has worked at several restaurants in the area as a chef or manager, was appointed to the unfinished term of Albert Pisani.
Pisani resigned in October after serving for 30 years. The unfinished term expires June 3.
The council also confirmed new city Public Health Director Gina M. Armstrong, who was hired last month by the Board of Health.
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A Letter in Reply: Dear Mychal, Darnell, Kiese, Kai, and Marlon
I've read the previous essays you've written for Gawker's True Stories series and I just read your collective piece, "Echo" in Kiese's new book, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. I heard, and really felt, the sinew of pain and joy in your autobiographical offerings and would like to respond with my own.
I was born over 40 years ago in a small African village located in an eastern city on the Atlantic coast of North America called the Bronx. I can't say that my childhood was idyllic but it certainly didn't resemble the "bleak childhood fantasy" Baldwin experienced. And I would certainly relive it again. For a child growing up in the 1970s, the Boogie Down was a dangerously magical place. Life was structured around stoops and bodegas, play and penny candies, stickball, basketball, and games like Ringolevio and Hot Beans and Butter.
There was always one Black person whom you played with and whom you just knew was Black like you (of the Negrus americanus variety) and then one day you heard his mom call him in a language you didn't know—Puerto Rican or Dominican Spanish—and then he would look at you like he was a part of a spy ring and his cover had just been blown, and you would look at him with that look that said without actually saying the Richard Pryor line: " What kinda n*gga is you?" Eventually there would be some other dude the two of you played ball with and his mother would call him too, but in language that sounded eerily like English but usually was accompanied with some elegant phrase like "Bumboclot." This had you and your Puerto Rican or Dominican friend (of the Negrus latinus americanus variety) looking at him with that same, "What kinda n*gga is you?" look.
We played often and sometimes we fought. Everyone thought they could scrap until the Jamaicans (we called them West Indians) changed the game with a strange new weapon—the headbutt. In the world of knuckle-up street fighting, the headbutt was the equivalent of the atomic bomb. Needless to say, there weren't many fights with the Jamaican dudes. Part of still believes that they were the reason guns became the weapon of choice in the South Bronx because once a n*gga headbutted you, you really had few actionable comeback options.
I'm joking of course. Kinda.
My father had a tight grip on the bottle and loose hands when it came to my mom, so she left him for good when I was seven. I never saw him after that. Never really missed him. It is a loss that had a tumultuous and giving beauty. He gave me a five-speed Schwinn, and I am told I have his dimples and charisma, so there is that.
Like most hoods, mine had categories of poverty, there was poor, there was po', and there was P (pronounced Puh) for all those folks like my family who were so poor they couldn't even afford the two "o's" and the "r."
I have lived on both coasts. My mom heard Gladys Knight and when she said, "L.A. proved too much for the man," my mom figured she was a woman and what was too much for the man, would be just enough for her, a strong woman.
So we moved to Los Angeles—South Central, Los Angeles, to be precise. When you are from the bottom and you change cities or states, most often you don't really change your dire circumstances; you simply rearrange them into different categories of despair, which you hope will be more manageable. South Central was also a dangerously magical place, too, but that experience was given motive force.
The automobile introduced a new concept into my ghetto lexicon: drive-bys. I survived the killing streets. Many of my friends did not—including some who are still on top of the ground.
I wouldn't say that I was ever "thugged out" but you won't find me sipping tea with my pinky poked out, either. I would say I am a combination of two types of educational systems—the 'hood and the good. I believe that what defines a person is not what knocks them down, but what they get up from. There is nothing really all that exceptional or outstanding about me. I am not the kind of cat that is going to turn heads, but my being—the way I exist in the world, my sense of style, humor and personality—has opened many doors over the years, and I have tried to hold the door open long enough for another sister or brother to walk through. The echo each of you created in your letters opened a door for me.
Mychal Denzel Smith: As I read your letter, I smiled because I saw in you a wonderful example of the giving beauty of loss. You are 26, the same age as Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X when they stepped onto the national stage. In your story where you saw Kryptonite, I saw the making of Superman. The Martins and Malcolms of our world are hewn out of the bedrock of hurt, self-doubt, loss, and self-discovery. They are not born. Every brother in our society has what I call a Walter Lee moment. As you recall, Walter Lee Young is the character played by Sidney Portier in the film adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's generous play A Raisin in the Sun.
There is a moment in which Walter Lee has lost the money they inherited from their fathers life insurance policy. The family is worried about being able to move into the all-white Chicago suburb of Clybourne Park after the neighbor "welcoming committee" has offered to buy them out to prevent them from integrating the neighborhood. At first he agrees to sell out. He'd been broken (or so he thinks). He feels the weight of responsibility and it's crushing him. And when the moment of truth arrives, he looks at his son, his wife, his sister, and his mother and he finds the strength to stand up and shoulder the weight of manhood. He rejects the offer and tells Mister Charlie, aka Mark Lindner, that he and his family are moving in after all. That's the Walter Lee moment. Each of us has a Walter Lee moment where we must decide to stand up, shoulder the weight or buckle under it. Manhood is a process that ends in products, though the process never ends.
Try not to give too much energy to arriving at manhood on time; it is far better to be in time. As an elder told me once in my rush to arrive, "All time is real and understanding that is power."
Darnell Moore: I don't know what its like to be a gay man. Word on the street is that I was trying to holla at the honeys in the nursery on the day I arrived—but I do know what it's like not be loved fully by those whose purpose should be to love you fully. When I was younger I was one of those dudes that thought that to be gay and a man were antonyms. I was certainly a part of that riptide that pulled a lot of brothers down just trying to keep my head above water.
I am sorry. Truly.
As I got older saw more of the world and saw more of the world in me, I came to understand that what I was pushing back on was the ways in which gay men's assertion of manhood disturbed my own notions of manhood. Much in the same way that Black agency forces white folks to recalibrate their sense of identity, so too does gay men's agency force us "straight" Black men to rethink our notions of manhood and gender. I believe the term you used to describe this was "heteronormativity." My dexterity with complex concepts sometimes get the better of me. I hope I didn't do violence to what you meant.
Let me just say, the loss of the acceptance of ones humanity can be powerfully disabling, if we allow it to be. As I continue to grow up, I have learned from our gay brothers and lesbian sisters that a part of growing into adulthood is about finding the world that welcomes you, all of you—or if you cant find it, having the courage and vision to create it. That, to me, is revolution.
Kiese Laymon: I'm down for you like four flat tires. Thank you for your honesty. Much of our bravado, swagger, and virulent sexism that informs the unstable elements of manhood are as much the result of whom we imagine women to be as they are about whom men actually are. Thank you for reminding me.
Like white supremacy, patriarchal identity is built upon a shared lie, in which we, and many of our sisters, are complicit. You are right when you say to "give up the game" is to tell on ourselves. We protect sexism, misogyny, and patriarchy not just to protect other men, but to protect that part of this shared lie that our own identities rest so unsteadily upon. This palimpsest of manhood needs to be erased in order to rediscover a kind of manhood that is constructed from a sense of personhood rooted in women and men in contact and conversation with the values that animate our best spiritual selves.
I am reaching, I know, but to dream is free. It is the failure to dream that is exorbitantly expensive. Only a fool imagines himself a writer with pen but no ink. And I thank you for reminding me that it is the fool who thinks that only men create and shape other men. We have been quite foolish.
Kai Green: When Kiese asked me to participate in the conversation and to reply to all the letters, I thought "I got this. How hard can it be to respond to brothers talking and thinking about a spectrum of manhood?"—and then I read your letter. A woman who becomes a "transman" and who loves women and men is a book, not a letter. I wanted to know more about what unique insights you might have about men, about women, about life as a transgender person, as a person of African ancestry. I want to know how these multivalent perspectives informed your thinking, being, and doing as a transman.
Reading your letter put me in mind of the work by Lorand Matory's Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion and Ifi Amadiume's Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society. Both examine the intricate ways in which Africans have thought of, conceptualized, understood and inhabited gender and identity within specific cultural context. Stay with me: I also wonder to what extent our investment in Western worldview delimits our ability to understand gender and identity as spiritual realities that have material manifestations.
Is it possible that one could be born with a woman spirit in a man's form and vice versa? I don't know. What I do know is that African societies have wrestled with these questions in the past, relying on worldviews that accommodate much more expansive operational notions of gender and identity. Of course, by now you must also be thinking but what about the anti-LGBT sentiments on the continent? I would note the impact of colonialism but also that all societies have their range of complexities and contradictions and that we must examine all of it in the hopes of constructing a more harmonious world, a world that welcomes all of us, or as I said before, the courage to create a new one.
I was educated within a tradition that taught me that the goal of thinkers and scholars is not to produce answers but to ask better questions. Perhaps your courage will yield better questions. I hope you maintain the courage and curiosity to pursue them openly.
Marlon Peterson: Kierkegaard wrote that we live life forward and understand it backwards. I suppose there is a quality of truth in that statement. Looking back offers us the opportunity for reflection that helps us understand our current location. It's horrible situation to feel like one is in prison whether incarcerated or not. Like you, I have been incarcerated. Twice, actually. Unlike you, I have never been in what you call, "Mister Gilmore's house."
I have always been blessed with good women in my life, but I wasn't always good to them. In fact, I was quite mean at times. I have never raised my hands to a woman, but I wont front and say that its something I never considered. And while I am proud of that I have never physically abused a woman, I know that I have been emotionally abusive. I see infidelity as a form of emotional abuse.
It wasn't until I decided to confront my own hurt that I began to change and move closer to the man I wanted to be. And brother, confronting that kind of hurt is like ripping duct tape off of a gaping wound and pouring rubbing alcohol on it.
I don't have to tell you how repressed anger and hurt eat away at the body and soul. I think there is giving wisdom in your suggestion that we not suffocate our spirits by holding in love. My hope for you is the same as my hope for myself that: that we find a good partner and love that partner like s/he is as essential to your life as oxygen. No matter the question, for Black people, literally and figuratively incarcerated, Black Love is always the answer.
Brothers, in looking over my letter I realize that I have violated the most basic rule of an epistolary relationship: brevity.
I apologize.
My hope is that as we build, share, think and live with the kind of humility that acknowledges we not only have a lot of questions, but that we are also willing to live and work our way openly and courageously to the answers. Thank you for your letters. Thank you for your work.
In life, love and liberation,
Àdisà Àjàmú is the Executive Director of the Atunwa Collective, a community development think tank in Los Angeles, California. He is the co-author, along with Thomas Parham and Joseph White, of the fourth edition of The Psychology of Blacks: Centering our perspectives in the African consciousness (2010). Currently, he is completing two books, a collection of short stories and a collection of essays on African (American) life and culture.
In a project overseen by contributing editor Kiese Laymon, Gawker is running a personal essay every weekend. Please send suggestions to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Hi All,
I am going to have several days to ride in the Upper Penninsula. I have never been there. My starting and ending point will be at the Mackinac Bridge and I will have Friday afternoon/evening, all day Saturday, returning to the bridge on Sunday afternoon.
I am looking for suggestions on routes, rides, points of interests, etc. I prefer 2 lane highways with sweeping turns and beautiful scenery. I would really like to see some of Lake Superior. I don't mind being on 4 lanes if it means getting to better riding. I plan on staying in motels or hotels. So, any desinations or recomendations for lodging and dining are welcome.
Thanks in advance,
Chris McCarthy


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Colin Langlois
Age: 23
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Years snowboarding: About a decade
Home: Mammoth Lakes, California
Height: 6'3
Weight: 175 pounds
Stance: Goofy, 23 inches wide, with eighteen degrees in the front and negative-six in back.
Forward lean: A little bit.
Board: I ride the Burton UnInc. Series for everything--a Gigi '58 ($500) in parks, on rails, and for jibbing: and a DCP '61 ($500) for powder and big jumps.
Boots: Burton Shaun White, size nine in black ($240).
Bindings: Burton Mission Limited Cartel in tan and white ($200).
Personal Settings: I use fire-dried boots, and I take my FLADS off.
Tuning techniques: You gotta dull your edges for street rails and wax your board for everything else. I wax my board weekly. Speed is my friend.
Riding style: Balls out.


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Marlins reel in Castillo
Veteran infielder another option for Florida's third-base void
By Joe Frisaro / MLB.com
Late Monday afternoon, the Marlins announced the signing of Jose Castillo, who brings experience playing either second or third base.
The 26-year-old, formerly with the Pirates, is coming off a season where he batted .244 with 18 doubles and 24 RBIs. In 2006, Castillo appeared in a career-best 148 games, hitting .253 with 14 home runs and 65 RBIs.
Castillo has recently been playing Winter League ball for Caracas in Venezuela, where he was batting .370 with seven homers and 34 RBIs through 45 games.
The Marlins are exploring several infield options to fill the void at third base created in early December, when slugger Miguel Cabrera was traded to the Tigers during the Winter Meetings.
Castillo has primarily played second base in Pittsburgh, although he appeared in 34 games at third base in 2007.
The signing of Castillo places Florida's 40-man roster at 39.
The addition of Castillo also gives the team the flexibility to move second baseman Dan Uggla to third base. In his two big league seasons, Uggla has never seen action at third, but he played some games there in the Minor Leagues.
The Marlins also continue to look at other free agents on the market, including Jorge Cantu.
Joe Frisaro 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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Our featured research news in 2008 looked at new treatment approaches, prevention strategies, drug research, and changes in medical care. The studies also reflected the changes in medical industry to decrease unnecessary costs without cutting care. Here is a quick recap on heart health research featured from 2008.
Heart Health News
Heart disease remains the number one killer of men and women. The research highlighted in the research news focused on decreasing the risk factors like high blood pressure and high cholesterol and finding and refining lifestyle changes that can make a difference.
New information was released about drug combinations:
- A statement about combination drug Vytorin was released in February. It stated that although the drug helped lower some cholesterol levels it did not slow or lower arterial plaque build-up as hoped.
- A study published in May reviewed the potential of combining well-known high blood pressure medications, ACE-inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers. The combination was no better than the single drug in preventing further illness or death. The study also suggested the combination may have some additional kidney risks.
More studies have supported that changing our habits can lead to better heart health.
- Long periods of sitting at our desks, more than 2-3 hours at a time, may increase the risk of blood clots.
- Results from the Nurse's Study and the Health Professional Study suggested that caffeine consumption was not found to have a significant association with heart disease.
- Red meat may increase blood pressure for women over aged 45. Rates of blood pressure increased as the amount of consumed red meat increased.
- Walking can help men reduce their cholesterol levels according to a study that had men walk for 12 weeks, aiming to use 300 calories on each walk.
A clash of technology was also discovered. The popular MP3 and iPod player headphones may cause interference with heart devices like implanted defibrillators or pacemakers when less than 1.2 inches (3 cm) away.
How Does This Affect You?
Many factors of heart disease can be prevented or managed through a healthy diet, regular physical activity, and keeping a healthy weight. If you have a risk factor like high blood pressure or high cholesterol, work closely with your doctor to manage the condition and decrease your risk of further heart problems.
- Reviewer: Larissa J. Lucas, MD
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BERLIN – A Berlin man being sought by local law enforcement agencies and U.S. Marshals for over a week was apprehended late last week when police found him holed up in a makeshift campsite in the woods near the Worcester-Wicomico line.
Last Friday morning, a multi-agency search team, including the Worcester County Sheriff's Office, the Maryland State Police, Maryland Natural Resources Police and the U.S. Marshal's Office, located Robert Lee Miller, 38, and took him into custody. Miller had set up an elaborate system of warning devices to alert him if anyone came near his hiding spot, but authorities were able to take him into custody without further incident.
Miller's capture ended a 10-day, multi-agency manhunt for Miller, who was wanted in connection with an attempted robbery in Berlin back on July 22. Miller was also wanted by U.S. Marshals on a fugitive warrant for violating the terms of his probation on a weapons conviction dating back to 2003.
On Wednesday, July 22, Worcester County Sheriff's Deputies responded to the area of Logtown Rd. in Berlin for a reported burglary and theft. During the course of the investigation, a Sheriff's Deputy located a pick-up truck parked on a dirt trail off the main road and encountered a white male later identified as Miller, sitting in the vehicle.
While being interviewed by police, Miller, who has a long history of run-ins with the law in Worcester County, was able to flee into the woods near the Worcester-Wicomico county line. An intense multi-agency manhunt was launched both on the ground and in the air. Late last week, the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation (WCBI) took over the case and continued the investigation.
During the investigation, it was determined Miller was also wanted by U.S. Marshals on federal charges. A check of federal court records showed Miller was convicted in 2003 on charges of a felon in possession of ammunition and was sentenced to over four years in jail followed by three years of supervised probation including six months of home detention. In December 2008, Miller was arrested in Worcester County on several charges including driving under the influence, driving while impaired, negligent driving, and driving on a suspended license among others. That arrest violated the terms of his parole and probation in the federal ammunitions possession case.
After Miller was taken into custody last Friday, the Worcester County Sheriff's Office served him with an arrest warrant charging him with burglary and theft. U.S. Marshals were also on hand and served Miller with outstanding warrants related to his probation violations.


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proof that iPhone
exclusivity in the U.S. is about to go the way of the dodo?
Look no further than second place U.S. wireless carrier AT&T's U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission filing which assures
investors that sales will continue strong even "as these
exclusivity arrangements end." To help remove any
ambiguity of what it might be talking about, the report goes on to
state, "We believe offering a wide variety of handsets reduces
dependence on any single handset."Apple appears on the
verge of finally embracing multiple carriers within the U.S.,
adopting the approach that, in part, allowed Android to surge
ahead of it in the U.S. smartphone market. But
to jump to the number one and number three carriers in the U.S.,
Verizon and Sprint, Apple must first produce a CDMA-capable
iPhone (the current iPhone works on GSM, a rival
technology). According to a June
report from Digitimes, Apple
has a CDMA iPhone 4 designed and tested. What's more,
reportedly the company is ditching troubled
supplier Foxconn, instead awarding the CDMA iPhone 4
manufacturing contract to Taiwanese-owned rival Pegatron (to be fair,
if this holds true, it may merely be because Foxconn does
not currently have the additional capacity to handle the
contract).The phone reportedly will ship in Q4 2010 -- just
in time for the holiday season. Bloomberg also
reported that a CDMA iPhone is on its way, jumping to
Verizon and possibly Sprint. Another report indicates that
T-Mobile will officially
pick up the iPhone, as well, which currently is only available to
customers who jailbreak
and unlock iPhones.A jump to the rest of America's
top carriers -- including the nation's largest carrier, Verizon --
could yield a massive surge in iPhone subscribers and big profits for
Apple and its new wireless partners alike. If Apple can get
its antenna
problems under control, that is.Speaking of the
iPhone hardware, it appears that Mark
Papermaster has seen the last of his days in Cupertino.
The top executive, who came
to Apple after a fierce
legal battle with former employer IBM over his contract, has
reportedly been canned.The news was first
reported by The
New York Times.Apple
insider John Gruber, who runs the blog Daring
first suggests that Papermaster was released for the iPhone 4 antenna
debacle, writing:
what I've heard, it's clear he was sacked. Papermaster was a
conspicuous absence at the Antennagate press conference. Inside
Apple, he's "the guy responsible for the antenna" — that's
a quote from a source back on July 23.
then seems to recant, posting the
next day:
Apple have a "make one mistake and you're fired" policy? No.
But, if the mistake is big enough, sometimes yes. But I don't even
know whether the iPhone 4 antenna is the only thing that led to
Papermaster's sacking....It's Mansfield, not Papermaster, who
appears in Apple's
six-minute iPhone 4 promotional video — and that video was
shot weeks (months?) before the iPhone 4 was unveiled....But
maybe Papermaster was already on the outs, and Mansfield was already
overseeing the engineering of things like the Retina Display and the
A4....One last tidbit from an informed source: the bug on the
"touching it wrong" signal loss issue was filed two years ago.
This is not a problem they didn't catch, or caught too late. So, on
the one hand, clearly the fundamental antenna design predated
Papermaster's time at the company. But on the other hand, there was
plenty of time to find a solution to the problem. I.e., it's not
that Apple should not have used an external antenna. It's that it
should have been even better.
numerous Apple-centric writers, Gruber has some of the best inside
access to Apple, so if he doesn't know exactly why Papermaster is
sacked, it's clear that just about no one does. One thing's
clear, though -- the iPad/iPhone/iPod hardware team is moving on and
Papermaster isn't part of that process.


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Lynx vs Sparks Final: 83-74 - Recap
Seimone Augustus scored 23 points leading the Lynx to an 83-74 victory over Los Angeles at Target Center on Wednesday.
Minnesota was the ATS victor, as they covered the 7.5-point spread as a favorite. Over-Under bettors who played UNDER the total of 161.5 were rewarded at the payout window.
Maya Moore had 20 points for Minnesota and Janel McCarville chipped in with 12 points. Lindsay Whalen had 14 assists for the Lynx, while Rebekkah Brunson was the team's top rebounder, grabbing 11 boards.
The Sparks got a 25-point performance from Candace Parker, who was supported by 14 points from Kristi Toliver. Nneka Ogwumike had 4 assists in a losing cause for Los Angeles, while Candace Parker grabbed 8 rebounds.
The Lynx hit the break leading 45-33 before taking care of business in the second half.
The rebound battle favored Minnesota as they grabbed 32 boards, while Los Angeles only had 29.
Minnesota looks to continue their winning ways next game with a battle against the Storm. The Sparks will aim to get back on the winning track at Tulsa.


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It's difficult to debate and rank Beyoncé's best songs. With a deep catalog of five albums and soundtrack cuts, the singer has recorded a number of tracks that resonate with fans. While most artists hope to have at least one or two songs that have a significant impact, Beyoncé has several records that have helped shape radio, push the limits of what's to be expected of an artist, and even impacted the careers of others.
10. "Irreplaceable"
While Beyoncé has recorded a number of ballads, "Irreplaceable" was about as slow things got on the radio. Originally penned as a country song, Bey transformed it into a radio-friendly R&B jam. The song defied genres, appearing on urban, pop and country stations and represented one of her largest crossover hits. Everyone was singing "to the left, to the left" as they kicked their unfaithful men to the curb.
9. "Flawless"
One of the most surprising tracks from Bey's fifth album was "Flawless." First released as a teaser, the full-length version combined trap music, rap and a speech delivered by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Adichie's speech about feminism exemplified Bey's transformation as a representative of female empowerment. As an artist, Bey has pushed that message on stage and off but never more so completely than on that record. But Adichie's speech was not just a message to women, it's a message to anyone "who believes in the social, political and economic equality."
8. "Say My Name"
While technically a Destiny's Child song (which were purposefully left off the list), it was the first song to recognize that the other girls in the group were really Bey's backup singers. After swapping out LaTavia and LeToya for Farrah and Michelle, Bey took center stage on the group's biggest hit. There was only one name on people's lips: Beyoncé. It was just a matter of time before she became a solo star.
7. "Ring the Alarm"
"Ring the Alarm" is the most aggressive and emotionally charged Beyoncé song yet. Thanks to the blasting siren, Bey's paranoia was not just heard but shoved down your ears in three minutes of fury. While not a huge radio hit, the song transformed Bey as a live performer. Her performance at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards demonstrated her ability to make jaws drop during what most artists use a time to safely plug their project. Since then, Bey has become a staple at award shows and the Super Bowl.
6. "Telephone / Video Phone"
While Beyoncé has worked with several female artists, "Telephone / Video Phone" marked her most significant collaboration to date. Her and Lady Gaga came together on sister tracks from each of their albums. In the world of fighting divas, Bey and Gags proved the two were not above working together. While "Telephone" raced to the top the charts, it was "Video Phone" that served as a message about the future of sexting: We were all going to be sending sexy videos via mobiles one day. Thanks to SnapChat and Vine, we're practically there. Leave it Bey to predict to the future.
5. "Countdown"
The fourth single from 4 was a melting pot of musical genres. Funk, hip-hop, Latin pop and dancehall sounds were brought together in a track that propelled Bey's career forward while parodying her former group's final records. The song landed with fans largely in thanks to a frenetic music video that rocked the Internet. Much like the song itself, the video melded together pop culture references from Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker to Audrey Hepburn in Funny Girl. Debuting in October of 2011, the video also served as a celebration of Bey's pregnancy with shots her bump scattered throughout.
4. "Drunk in Love"
The first of two lead singles from Beyoncé's fifth self-titled visual album, "Drunk in Love" became a surprise crossover hit. One of the most sexually free of Bey's songs, the singer was having sex in the kitchen with her husband seemingly serving as the conception place of Blue Ivy. In what is the bookend to "Crazy in Love," "Drunk" is about a woman in full control of her romantic (and sexual) destiny. While it's still early to fully appreciate it's larger impact, "Drunk" has spawned parodies (see "Dunkin Love"), hashtags (#Surfboardt) and a live Grammy performance that felt like a sex tape in the making.
3. "Run the World (Girls)"
While it became the most divisive of Bey's singles, it did more to show where the singer was going rather than please her fans at large. By hijacking Major Lazer's "Pon de Floor," she bluntly announced that she doesn't care what people. She was a defiant R&B fashionista that was focused on taking women to the top and shoving her Gareth Pugh heels in the face of whoever got her way. The risks that she took here would later lead to tracks like "Flawless" and the Arabic arpeggios in "Drunk in Love" as well bolster the career of Diplo. The producer (and one-half of Major Lazer) went from producing indie darlings, M.I.A. and Santigold, to mainstream juggernauts, such as Justin Bieber, Usher, Bruno Mars, and Britney Spears.
2. "Crazy in Love"
The lead single from Bey's first solo album not became the song of the summer of 2003 but easily became one of her best records to date. "Crazy in Love" arrived with so much fevered energy that there was no looking back on Destiny's Child. The singer's solo career was here and it was going to be big. It also marked Jay Z's first appearance on a Bey track (she had previously appeared on his single "'03 Bonnie & Clyde"). The guest spot on this song and Pharrell Williams' "Frontin'" injected new life into Jay's sagging career. (The Blueprint 2 did no favors for anyone.) While it wasn't confirmed they were dating at the time, the song marked the beginning of their relationship with their other collaborations ("Déjà Vu," "Upgrade U," "Drunk in Love") serving as markers of their personal life.
1. "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"
While not as timeless (or as good) as other songs in Beyoncé's deep catalog, "Single Ladies" definitely has the most cultural relevance. Thanks to a Gwen Verdon-inspired dance routine, the video became one of the most recognizable of the singer's career. Suddenly everyone from Joe Jonas to Liza Minnelli was doing the dance spawning a craze that swept the nation, the Internet and flash mobs everywhere. Bey even got in on the joke by performing a parody on Saturday Night Live with host Justin Timberlake. In addition to launching viral sensations, it also launched the career of Heather Morris. The actress was the singer's backup dancer during The Beyoncé Experience world tour and part of the singer's "Single Ladies" promotional tour. Morris took the knowledge to the set of Glee, where she was hired to teach the choreography to Chris Colfer. She was later added to the cast and became one of the show's most memorable characters. Without "Single Ladies," there would literally be no Brittany S. Pierce.


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CARSON, Calif. -- Robbie Keane scored an fantastic goal in the 17th minute, but it meant little in the grand scheme (the goal is below) as LA fell 2-1 to Real Salt Lake on Saturday night.
The Irish forward--who will now depart for international duty--opened the scoring inside of 20 minutes in the midst of an impressive LA push towards goal, when he received a pass from Juninho that he struck with a beautiful left-footed volley, beating RSL goalkeeper Nick Rimando for the opening strike. However, after the goal, disaster struck as LA went down in the span of three minutes when Fabian Espindola scored in the 25th and 28th minute to put RSL ahead for good.
Following the match, Keane was quick to reflect on LA's inability to capitalize on early chances.
KEANE: "I don't know, I don't really care, when you lose a game, it's not really that important, to be honest with you, I'm disappointed with the result like everybody else. It was a game, I think, the first 20 minutes when we got the goal we were controlling the game and then we gave two goals away in the space of two minutes probably. So, I think that killed us."
(On what the Salt Lake defense was doing that made it tough for LA to score...)
KEANE: "Nothing, really. Because if you looked at the first 20 minutes we about (had) four or five chances, but after that, as soon as you concede two goals, they sit back and invite pressure on and put two banks of four (players) and obviously made it difficult."


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Following Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's bang up job at the Golden Globes Sunday campaigns are likely underway to petition for them to host every awards show, Superbowl, inauguration and Bris from this moment on, but even considering their combined genius, Jodie Foster managed to hijack the evening.
From Amy and Tina to Jodie's big "announcement" here are the six biggest things that happened at this year's Globes.
6) Lena Dunham and her Shoes
Two-time winner for best actress in a comedy and for creating the year's best comedy Girls, Lena Dunham very charmingly demonstrated that she can not walk in heels. Proving once and for all she really is the "every girl" Lena struggled to the podium in whatever decidedly non-sensible shoes she was sporting.
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5) Darcy St. Fudge and Damien Francisco
Although they were the hosts Amy and Tina still managed to crash the show as altar egos Darcy St. Fudge and Damien Francisco (respectively). Darcy and Damien were robbed as best actress and actor nominees for Dog President. Maybe it's just me but I kind of want to make out with Damien's mustache.
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4) Jennifer Lawrence Pisses Off Meryl Streep Devotees
Winner for best actress in a comedy for Silver Linings Playbook, Jennifer Lawrence, latched on to her Globe and immediately said, "I beat Meryl," ( a quote from The First Wives Club). Although J-Law recently told Vanity Fair that she's pretty much obsessed with Meryl (who isn't?), fans of the doyenne of Hollywood ranted all over Twitter about how disrespectful Jennifer was, "nobody insults Meryl" etc… I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Meryl likely would have laughed and tipped her hat to Jennifer had she been there.
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3) J-Lo's Dress (enough said)
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2) Amy and Tina's Opening Monologue
Only Amy and Tina could walk away from ripping on the likes of James Cameron and James Franco fairly unscathed. These two are unstoppable together. I love the way Tina calls Amy her "nemesis."
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1) Jodie Foster Comes Out - Makes Everyone Cry
Lena Dunham had her moments, Amy and Tina proved they're the best hosts ever, J-Lo stopped the show wearing the sexiest doily ever but it became Jodie Foster's night when she officially came out of the closet in a masterpiece of obfuscation that will have queer studies classes and linguists dissecting her speech for decades to come. Not only did Jodie thank her former partner Cydney Bernard, her two sons' other mother, but she announced that she is single, sparking the fantasy lives of hopeful lesbians who've adored her since she starred in Foxes. Here's Jodie's masterful coming out that sent half of the room into tears.


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First number, last word
By Tom Singer / MLB.com
2-0: The record of A.J. Burnett -- who has never pitched a game as early as April 1 -- on April 2. A 25 percent chance of precipitation is forecast for Opening Day game-time on Monday at 1:35 p.m. ET.
"Ninety-nine-point-nine percent. Does that work?" -- A.J. Burnett, the Pirates' Opening Day starter, in response to whether he feels 100 percent ready heading into the season.
Bell excited about first Pirates opener in 17 years
PITTSBURGH -- As the Pirates went through a preseason workout on a surprisingly mild and dry Sunday afternoon, many of them could look forward to their first season opener at PNC Park. That is just an obvious consequence of your Opening Day roster having 12 newcomers from last season to this.
However, only one man in a Pittsburgh uniform could anticipate a deja vu experience with a 17-year delay. Jay Bell, the club's new hitting coach, is excited about his first Pirates opener since 1996, the last of his seven seasons as the team's starting shortstop.
Oddly, however, the Pittsburgh opener that Bell remembers most was a bittersweet personal occasion. It was in 1989, when the Bucs went into the home opener at Three Rivers Stadium off a season-opening series in Montreal in which Bell went hitless.
"We came home, in my third at-bat I finally got a hit -- infield single to shortstop -- then after the game I got sent down," recalled Bell.
It wasn't until late July that he came back up, and this time it was for keeps.
"It's just so great to come back here and see these fans here for a workout," Bell said, surveying fans crowded around the Pirates' dugout. "We didn't have anything like this [a free workout for fans] in Three Rivers.
"One thing I've always been impressed with Pittsburgh fans: They covet their home opener and come out en masse, looking for the brand of baseball that reflects who they are."
Hurdle keeps an eye on injury to Cubs' Barney
PITTSBURGH -- The Pirates could get a little opening series break if Darwin Barney, one of the National League's newly minted Bucs killers, is forced to miss three games with a knee injury suffered in the Cubs' final preseason game.
Barney sustained a five-inch gash in his left knee going for a foul pop in Saturday's exhibition against the Astros in Minute Maid Park. The Cubs are considering having the second baseman start the season on the disabled list, but that decision does not have to be made before Monday morning.
While earning a National League Gold Glove Award for his defense last season, Barney was only a modest hitter -- but not against the Pirates. He went 18-for-54 (.333) against Pittsburgh pitching, with an on-base percentage of .410, while batting .245 against the rest of the league.
Barney also is 12-for-40 (.300) against the trio of Pirates pitchers scheduled to go in the series: Opening Day starter A.J. Burnett, followed by Wandy Rodriguez and James McDonald.
"They haven't set the roster yet, but we're planning for him being in," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said prior to Sunday afternoon's workout. "If he's not … how many times have you seen that the guy who shows up instead becomes a rock in your shoe as well?
"We have no control over that. We've got the backup plan on whoever could fill in for him. Whoever it is, we'll be ready for that Opening Day roster tomorrow."
Brent Lillibridge is expected to start at second base for the Cubs if Barney can't play.
Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Yes yes, the time is now
It's time to rise and shine, it's time to proceed
It's time to succeed
Comes a time in your life when you gotta make it happen
It's J-Treds y'all, and it's my time
So check it out
[Verse 1]
There's no stopping the sands of time, no one can define
How fast hours pass in the hourglass of eternity
Divine uncontrollable; only fast learners realize
To shoot for the stars before they last burner is empty
Time's crucial, moving swiftly; goin nowhere if I'm in neutral
Don't wanna have to get shifty
Fuck that, "let it be" attitude
Detrimental to gettin my papers, has me settling for pencils
No. 2, no worse, no better
I wanna grow cheddar on my family tree
Guess the go-getter's what I gotta be
I admit, wouldn't hurt to win lottery
But 'til then I'm payin dues - everyone got a fee
And I'm paying out the ass; ain't no stacking bills
Just relayin the cash in one hand, out the other
With no cloud of buddhas to show for it, no soaring
To heights out of this world - I'm in a low orbit
So it's countdown to takeoff, make every moment count
Cause future plans got me fiending, foaming at the mouth
Hungry for success, helps me sell out my mother's address
My money's a mess, I've yet to discover the flesh
Of the one I call my essence who makes me shine in her presence
I'll consider the questions, of all these dime pieces
Walking these city streets, with crazy fly features
Holding hands with matchin Tag Heuer timepieces
Access, et cetera, and the mind of a predator's needed
In this cold world, where it's kill or be killed
So I'm goin all out, to get a taste of the good life
After that, you best believe, I'm coming back for weed, son
Son it's just one life to live, I'mma live it never fake it
Going all out to shine
And what nobody's giving, I'm takin, never slacking
Cause time is life and I'mma make it happen
Just one life to live, I'mma live it never fake it
Goin all out to shine
And what nobody's giving, I'm takin, never slacking
Cause time is life and I'mma make it happen
My plan of action is do it, get it done, and keep it movin
My peoples included, and my family maxing
My crew's essential, to realize, full potential
Strength in numbers eases the mind, suits the mental
Knowin it's a team effort to stack the green, and treasures
And the pleasures in life, that can never be measured
Steadily rise and spreadin my wings, forever striving
Determined to make it happen or die trying
To realize my wildest dreams, no time for childish schemes
Or violent means, every day see thugs, gettin his
Custom price of glamorous, way too extravagant
All I have to invest, is blood sweat and tears
I'm aiming high; ain't just about, mansions and yachts
It's about plantin the crop, and watch it get large
Cause mom said, God bless the child that's got his own
Give a man fish it's a meal but teach him, he never starves
I'm kinda slim - so it's time to build this foundation
TNF collaboration, we at the top of the buttons
Time to get down to business, close knit, with assosciates
So it's never "Could you look out" but "Fam I got you covered"
Fat paystubs, by all means, and dates loves
Conquer hate and make love, these are the things, men are made of
Handle a Honda, but hold the weight with suede gloves
Plant seeds, 8 Is Enough, that's way too much
No matter the number, it's now or never, rainy days, cloudy weather
Can't stop me, from making it happen
My plan of action's, to be following, a solid scheme
Cleverly planned, takes more than a dollar and a dream
Now I realize, me and my team can live real lives
And no longer, peep the next man, with green eyes
If he can, why can't we? We just as able
If at first we don't succeed, we'll try Plan B
However many attempts, I'm forever ready
Any setbacks is only temporary, they'll be through in a flash
So that one day, son I'll look back and laugh
So when detected, don't stress it, cause this too'll pass
Like the sands of time
Remember that, from when the track was beginning?
Since then its been like five more minutes
Wastin, time to chase it, know what I'm sayin?
Cause those finer things in life are what's awaitin
It's time to make it happen
It's like that, J-Treds making it happen
My man Coms makin it happen, shalom
We all doin this
The time is now
It's time to see what life holds
Yo it's time to find out
Ain't no stopping this
Keep movin on


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Deep, Open Ocean Is Vastly Under-Explored, Study Finds
ScienceDaily (Aug. 3, 2010) — New research from the University of Sheffield has discovered that the deep open ocean, by far the largest habitat for life on Earth, is currently the most under-explored area of the sea, and the one we know least about.
The research, published in the journal PLoS ONE, has mapped the distribution of marine species records and found that most of our knowledge of marine biodiversity comes from the shallow waters or the ocean floor, rather than the deep pelagic ocean- the water column deeper than the sunlit surface waters but above the sea bed.
This area is home to uncounted animals which never experience a hard surface, including megamouth sharks, giant squid, and a myriad of smaller species of gelatinous animals and other planktonic organisms.
The research was led by Dr Tom Webb, a Royal Society Research Fellow and marine ecologist from the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, in conjunction with the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) secretariat at Rutgers University, and the Consortium for Ocean Leadership in the USA.
The team used data from OBIS, which collates all available information on geographical distributions of marine life, to plot the position in the water of seven million records of marine species. They combined this data with a separate dataset of the bottom surface of the ocean, and then attributed each separate record to a position in the ocean, to enable them to provide a global analysis of the depth distribution of recorded marine biodiversity.
The almost limitless deep waters of the sea have been largely under explored due to a long-held belief, first expressed by Charles Wyville Thomson, leader of the challenger Expedition in the 1870s, which effectively launched the discipline of deep sea biology. He believed that life in the deep water was confined primarily to a belt at the surface and one near the sea bed, and believed the area in the middle to be almost completely without larger animals.
More recent sampling, employing new techniques, has revealed that this is not the case, and the deep pelagic is actually teeming with life.
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RICHMOND HILL — Jenkins coach Bakari Bryant has told his players all season they have to earn a reputation and accolades with their play on the floor.
On Thursday at Richmond Hill, the Warriors (24-2) reinforced their standing as one of the best teams in Class AAAAA with a resounding 81-49 victory over Richmond Hill in the semifinals of the Region 3-AAAAA tournament. It was Jenkins' third victory over the Wildcats this season and set up a region championship showdown with Effingham County tonight.
Jenkins' Jamelle Lanier canned three 3-pointers and scored 17 points in the first half as the Warriors piled up a 47-23 halftime lead. With four minutes remaining in the second quarter, Jenkins led 34-19 but forced seven turnovers in the final minutes and closed with a 13-4 spurt to put the game out of reach.
Bryant had rested his first five for most of the second quarter, and the rested starters wreaked havoc when they reentered the game for the final moments of the first half. Lanier scored seven points during the outburst, and point guard Brenden Carter had four steals that led to baskets by Jahmel Thomas and Malik Benlevi.
"I tell them all the time that the way to make a name for themselves is to go out and play to the best of their abilities," Bryant said. "We don't have anything hanging in the gym, so we've got to go an earn a reputation like (Savannah High and Johnson) have done."
Lanier, a senior who is being scouted by Claflin University and Armstrong Atlantic State, scored the Warriors' first five points, and Benlevi's dunk made the score 7-1 only three minutes into the game. The Wildcats stayed within striking distance from the free-throw line in the first quarter, but Jenkins owned a 24-7 rebounding advantage in the first half and the Warriors' nonstop pressure defense forced Richmond Hill into 23 turnovers in the first two quarters.
"Basically, we wanted to work on executing the offense and having the poise and patience to get what we want," said Bryant, who played 15 players in the second quarter alone in an effort to exhaust Richmond Hill's thin bench. "We tried to emphasize all aspects of offense and defense, and we were able to do that."
Benlevi was the only other player in double digits for Jenkins with 11 points, but 16 Warriors scored at least two points. When Bryant subbed in the second unit, Deonta Polite chipped in six points and Romaine Gray slashed through the Wildcats for eight points.
With the game's outcome decided, Bryant elected to rest his frontline players for the majority of the second half. Jenkins defeated Effingham County by seven and 17 points in the teams' two previous meetings this season, and Bryant recognizes that claiming the region championship over the talented Rebels and star Jakeenan Grant will be a tall order.
"It's always going to be a tough game between Effingham County and Jenkins, and we know it's hard to beat a team like Effingham County three times in a season," Bryant said. "We are going to have to stick to our plan and then make adjustments. If we go out and give 100 percent, all the rest ought to take care of itself."
Carter 4, Gray 8, Woodson 4, Robbins 2, Bryant 3, Johnson 2, Waldburg 2, Malik Benlevi 11, Jamelle Lanier 17, Thomas 4, Johnson 2, Lamar 3, Polite 6, Williams 2, Polke 4, Sams 7.
Daniel Wilder 13, Isaiah Hill 19, Hall 8, Washington 5, McKenzie 2, Walker 2.
Records—J 24-2; RH 9-18.


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Hi guys how are you all.
Newayz i got a problem with Anti-virus Personal accessing the internet to update. It used to be able to update fine till i got the newst verson of ZA and now it can no longer access the net to update. I have got it in the program control to access the internet but it never is able to connect. But as soon as i turn off ZA i can update then have to boot ZA back up. I cannot figure out why it is doing so.
Its been doing this for a month or two i just havnt really complained till now.
Every other program can access the internet i got no problem with accessing it its just Anti-virus Personal.
Any help will be great
Thanks guys
O and BTW my ZA is the latest verson as when ever i try to update it sayz im up to date. It is also the free verson that u just download not ZA pro
Operating System:
Windows XP Pro
Product Name:
ZoneAlarm (Free)
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text: On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 04:25:17PM +0200, tegner at nada.kth.se wrote: > Very helpful! Thanks! > > But I'm still curious about how you make - automagically - the hardware ethernet > line in dhcpd.conf initially. Say you have 100 machines. One way I would think > of would be to use kickstart and: > > Install the machines and boot them up in sequence and using the range statement > in dhcpd.conf (so that the first machine gets 192.168.1.101, the second > 192.168.1.102 ...) > > Once all nodes are up use some script to extract the mac addresses for all the > nodes and either modify dhcpd.conf - or - discard of dhcp completely and > hardwire the ip-addresses to each node. > > But I'm sure there are better ways to do this? If you want to use static ip addresses anyway (as I do), why do you use dhcp at all? I use a kickstart file with something like network --bootproto static --device eth3 --ip 172.17.254.1 --netmask 255.255.0.0 --gateway 172.17.0.1 --hostname ks1 --nameserver 172.17.0.1 and have on the master node a set of ip addresses reserved for kickstart installations: 172.17.254.1 ks1 172.17.254.2 ks2 172.17.254.3 ks3 172.17.254.4 ks4 172.17.254.5 ks5 In the %post section of the kickstart file I then run a script that increases a counter on the master node, returns that counter as the real ip address of the new node, and updates the /etc/hosts file on all other nodes. I have installed my cluster (96 nodes) that way all by myself without any (big) problems ... maybe I just was too lazy to learn how to deal with dhcp. Cheers, Martin ======================================================================== Martin Siegert Academic Computing Services phone: (604) 291-4691 Simon Fraser University fax: (604) 291-4242 Burnaby, British Columbia email: siegert at sfu.ca Canada V5A 1S6 ========================================================================


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12 Smart Tips for Hosting a Successful Yard Sale
This producers-only market is celebrating its 36th anniversary this year. A bazaar-like component—with beauty products, arts and crafts, and handmade furnishings—was added in 2009 and has helped to draw more than 8,000 visitors on especially nice Sundays. Visit the gourmet pickle stand In A Pickle, which has an ardent fan base who loves its nine varieties, or wash down a snack down with classic glass-bottled milk from South Mountain Creamery.
(Baltimore Farmers' Market & Bazaar, April 7-December 22, 7am-12pm)
When it started in 2006, the Brattleboro Winter Farmers' Market gave farmers a place to sell their still-plentiful produce when traditional markets had closed for the winter. In addition to making fresh, local food affordable to those in the community (they accept SNAP, formerly known as food stamps), the Saturday market has also become a destination for foodies from Massachusetts who love its proximity to I-91.
(Winter Farmers' Market, November 3-March 30, 10am-2pm
If Vermont winters don't entice you, plan a summer stop at the decades-old Brattleboro Farmers' Market, May through October.)
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PORT ORANGE, Fla. - The Port Orange Golden Corral restaurant that is under fire after a video showing food being stored next to a Dumpster was posted to YouTube was inspected Tuesday morning and had few violations.
A spokeswoman from the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation called the inspection "satisfactory." The report noted 10 violations and six were corrected immediately during the inspection.
The report didn't turn up any signs of violations as significant as what was captured on video by employee Brandon Huber, according to the official.
A Golden Corral manager was fired Monday after Brandon Huber posted the video to YouTube during an apparent inspection.
In the video, Huber says the restaurant was undergoing an inspection as he walked to the Dumpster area.
"Apparently, what my company likes to do to get ready for inspections is put their food by the Dumpsters," he says.
The video, titled "all you can eat ribs" and posted to YouTube on July 1, then shows uncooked hamburger patties, ribs and other foods in the Dumpster area. Flies can be seen hovering over the hamburger meat.
After being contacted by Local 6, Golden Corral released a statement, claiming Huber's father tried to blackmail the restaurant with the video.
"None of these items were served to a single customer. All were destroyed within the hour at the direction of management. Brandon Huber, the employee who made the video, participated in the disposal of the food. The following day, the father of the employee posted an offer to sell the video for $5,000, which was not accepted. The manager involved in the improper storage was terminated for failing to follow approved food-handling procedures," Golden Corral said in the statement.
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