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Countdown to Spring Training: No. 6, Brandon Belt
If there's one player that Giants fans will be watching this spring, it's Brandon Belt.
The left-handed hitting first baseman/outfielder made quite a splash in his rookie season of professional baseball.
After being drafted in the fifth round in the 2009 Amateur Draft, Belt signed so late that he didn't make his pro debut until 2010 for high Class A San Jose.
In 77 games in San Jose, Belt his .383 with a .492 OBP and a .628 slugging percentage. His numbers only dipped slightly when he made the move to Double-A Richmond — .337-.413-.623 in 46 games.
He completed the season at Triple-A, where his averaged dipped to .229 in just 61 at-bats in 13 games — a very small sample. However, his OBP (.393) and slugging (.563) remained very good. Belt also hit .372 in 22 games in the Arizona Fall League.
The Giants have said they will give Belt every chance of winning a spot on the 2011 opening day roster. They have also said Belt will only break camp with the big club in 2011 if he is an everyday player.
So the reasons to allow Belt to open the season with the Giants are clear: if he shows he's ready to play, then he should play. And the Giants clearly could use whatever offense they can get. Also, his ability to play first base or left field adds to his allure. Plus, the Giants could use another left-handed bat in the lineup, with only Aubrey Huff and switch-hitters Andres Torres and Pablo Sandoval there right now.
But there are other reasons for the Giants to wait on Belt, and let him start the season at Fresno.
No reason to rush: The Giants won a World Series title with basically the same lineup that they'll roll out in 2011. So there's no reason to rush Belt to the majors for added offense. As it is, the Giants will have some key roster decisions to make. If Belt makes the opening day roster, it likely comes as the expense of 1B Travis Ishikawa. Belt's left-hand bat and above-average glove would make Ishikawa expendable. And Ishikawa is out of options, meaning he'd have to be cut or traded.
Don't want to get it wrong: The Giants don't want to break camp with the big club, only to show that he's not quite ready for the bigs. If he has to be sent down in May, who do the Giants have in Fresno to call up, if Nate Schierholtz and Ishikawa have been dealt away. By waiting, the Giants could bring Belt up when another player heads to the DL. This would give the Giants the chance to see how Belt handles big-league pitching without sacrificing any organization depth.
Midseason spark: It can't be understated how much the addition of Buster Posey to the lineup last May provided a spark to the Giants when they needed it. Belt could be that spark in 2011.
Arbitration clock: If Belt opens the season in the majors — and stays there — his arbitration clock starts ticking, putting him on track to be arbitration eligible after the 2013 season. The Giants will have a payroll of $120 million for 2011. If you count players under contract or arbitration eligible, the payroll may already sit at $100 million for 2012. And that doesn't count any free agent deals needed to fill potential holes at 2B, SS, outfield or bullpen. Tim Lincecum and Brian Wilson will be eligible for free agency after the 2013 season, and Buster Posey and Madison Bumgarner will be eligible for arbitration. Do the Giants really want to add Brandon Belt to that list? By waiting until late May or June to call up Belt, they can push that arbitration date back until after 2014.


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Vermont Harvest, a new program piloted by Green Mountain Farm-to-School (GMFTS), will allow families receiving federal SNAP benefits, known in Vermont as 3SquaresVT, to purchase $75 worth of fresh fruits and vegetables at local Northeast Kingdom grocery stores.
The primary goal of the program is to increase the purchase of fresh fruits and vegetables by low-income consumers participating in SNAP by providing incentives at the following retail locations: C&C Supermarket in Barton, Ray's Market in Irasburg, Craftsbury General Store in Craftsbury, and Vista Foods in Newport.
Beginning in August, SNAP participant households in Orleans and Essex counties will receive information about the program and instructions for redeeming their coupons, which will arrive beginning in September and remain valid through February 2016.

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A garage sale pricing guide
How to Price Garage Sale Items
TDS Reader Solutions
Pricing Garage Sale Items
It's been awhile since I've had a garage sale, so I'm clueless about how to price garage sale items. I was wondering if some of you could help me?
We have a small sofa and loveseat and other furniture, microwave and other small appliances, pots, pans and dishes, some power tools. adult clothes, assorted knickknacks, DVDs, VHS, CDs and some jewelry (Some nicer and some just for fun).
Thank you so much! This would be very helpful!
Guide to Garage Sale Pricing
For the person needing pricing information for her garage sale items, there is a place on the Salvation Army website that has a garage sale pricing guide for the value of items. I would price items lower than their listing for a garage sale. The website is satruck.org/donation-value-guide
Consider Your Neighborhood when Pricing Garage Sale Items
The best rule of thumb in garage sale pricing is about half of what you paid for it, or less, depending on the condition. Or consider what you would be willing to pay for it. The area you live is another important factor. If you live in an upscale part of town, you can ask more and probably get it. However, if you are near a college campus, many apartment building complexes or senior living centers, you should price things a bit lower to ensure they sell.
To get a good feel for the right price, visit your local thrift stores. It will give you an excellent idea what the market will bear.
SP in Fargo, ND
Basic Guide to Garage Sale Pricing
A good rule of thumb is 10% of retail, except for high demand items like children's clothing and baby items, where you might get a little more if it's in good shape or is a premium brand name. The more attractive your tables and set-up, the more likely you are to get a good price. This includes having a neat, clean yard and garage. Make sure your items are clean and that there are electrical outlets or extension cords available to easily check for working condition of appliances and tools. Clothing should be sorted by gender and type and either stacked neatly on tables or hung on hangers. The few things you can get away with displaying on a tarp or blanket are children's toys (all the better for the littlest shoppers to reach them) and shoes.
- Furniture will usually sell for $5 to $50.
- Small appliances are usually hard to sell, so price them between $5-$25.
- Pots, pans, and dishes are even harder to sell, unless you've got something high-end like Le Creuset, Townecraft or some cast-iron pieces. I would suggest checking eBay for prices on those items.
- Power tools usually sell pretty well, so you might get a little more. Price between $10 to $50.
- To move adult clothes, you may have to stay within a 25 cent to three dolllar range, and only go above for recent, like-new, brand name clothing.
- Children's clothing can sell for up to $1-$5, and if you have sets of children's clothes stacked on a table, use a safety pin to keep the sets together or you'll be forever digging through for the pants to match the shirt someone is trying to buy.
- Knickknacks are a little unpredictable, going anywhere from 10 cents up to $20. If something is marked with a brand name or a maker's mark, do some research online.
- Where I live, DVDs will sell for $2-$4. CDs are usually $1-$2. Books 25 cents to 50 cents for paperbacks and $1 for hardbacks.
- Jewelry is usually priced 25 cents to $3, but if you've got some fine jewelry, it would be worthwhile to check out a reputable jewelry store that purchases gold and silver.
On some items, I will lower the price as the day wears on, or even earlier if an item is getting a lot of interest but doesn't sell. I also usually have a free box with things that I think someone might find useful, but I wouldn't ask them to pay for, like clothing with tears or stains, damaged items, pieces missing, etc.
The Do's and Don'ts of Garage Sale Pricing
For pricing garage sale items, you might want to consider a few things:
- Do you want to clear out the clutter or put you kid through college? While you may very well make quite a bit of money with your garage sale, you shouldn't look at it as an opportunity to "get rich," which can lead to higher pricing of items. Chances are good that those who arrive at your garage sale will quickly discover your prices being too high and won't buy anything!
- Your prices should reflect that of your neighbors' garage sales. Those who come to your sales often select to go to garage sales in a specific location for a reason. The prices on your items should be comparable to that of what your neighbors have sold/are selling their items. If you are selling your daughter's designer jeans for $15 a pair, and your neighbor is selling her daughter's same designer jeans at $7 a pair, guess whose jeans the buyer will purchase? All things being equal (except for the price), whose jeans would you purchase?
- Visit other local vendors, such as Craigslist, Goodwill, Salvation Army and other thrift shops. This is particularly helpful for "big ticket" items, such as furniture, appliances, etc. Spend a bit of time surfing the web on Craigslist to check out local prices. If your items do not sell at the garage sale, you may want to consider putting them online! (Or better yet, advertise your garage sale on Craigslist!)
Here are some helpful hints of what not to do when considering pricing of items:
- Do not consider what you paid for it originally, how much you love it, or how often you used it. Buyers frequently do not care if you paid $1,500 for a sofa, it sat in your formal living room and no one ever sat on it.
- Do not consider how long you've had it or who it belonged to. Just because it's been sitting in your attic for 20 years or owned by your great aunt Agnes does not mean it's a bargain if it's over-priced. It also doesn't mean that people will be willing to pay more for it because it's old or never used.
The exception to these is, of course, if an item is truly a collectable or very valuable. Then you may be better off having it professionally auctioned or having it sold through a private sale (via an appraiser).
Pricing Garage Sale Items Is a Snap
We have a huge garage sale every year and pricing is a snap. We keep the price to approximately 50% to 75% of what the item would cost new. You can always check out eBay for questionable items, such as collectibles.
Set Prices for Your Garage Sale with Your Goal in Mind
Want to know how to price garage sale items? The first thing you need to decide is whether you are selling items to make money or if you are hoping to get others to pay you something to cart off stuff you don't want anymore. If the former, you should visit local thrift shops and antique shops to see what they are asking for similar items. This will give you an idea of the value of your items, but be prepared to carry most of your stuff back into the garage at the end of the day. Note that most shops don't sell out in a day. If the latter, which is the reason for my sales, I price items at what I would want to pay for them if I were considering purchasing them at a garage sale. Since I am an avid bargain-hunter, this means that I price my items considerably below their market value. However, at the end of the day, I have some space in my basement and some money in my pocket.
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After reading this post, hopefully all of our loyal readers will finally understand the simplicity and beauty of the Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) concept.
First, I should mention that today we published an issue brief on the new statutory PAYGO law proposed by President Obama and introduced in the House of Representatives to coincide with today's PAYGO hearing in the House Budget Committee, featuring OMB Director Orszag. This proposal puts in place a law that requires any new spending or tax cut legislation to be offset so that it does not increase the deficit. If it did, the law forces automatic spending cuts designed to balance out the difference.
The Concord Coalition supports enactment of statutory PAYGO. The basic message in our brief is that PAYGO can be, and has been in the past, an important budget enforcement tool that helps promote fiscal responsibility. However, PAYGO shouldn't be thought of as more than that, and certainly not as a silver bullet that can somehow solve the nation's long-term fiscal challenge. That isn't because it doesn't work, but because PAYGO -- by itself -- doesn't cut any spending or raise any taxes. Rather, it just aims to keep Congress from increasing the deficit and digging our hole deeper, as opposed to digging out of the hole we are already in.
Just looking through the Concord archives, since 2004, we have written at least 13 publications where PAYGO rules were the major focus. And that only covers a time period since the law expired! In these publications we spend pages and pages explaining different ways the rules can work, analyzing the different proposals that have come up over the years, and the different ways legislation would be affected by PAYGO. All of that has been important for us to do, especially because it allows us to educate Members of Congress and their staffs as they consider changes in legislation and rules. However, sometimes the basic point of PAYGO can get overlooked in these detailed analyses.
All you really need to know is this: PAYGO rules are designed to force Congress to pay for the things it wants.
It is that simple.
If Congress just paid for the things it wanted, there would be no reason to build these convoluted rules to try and force them into it. We would have no need to learn about points-of-order, exemptions, or sequestration -- boring, technical PAYGO terms. All that has to happen to stop this would be for Congress to get in the habit of cutting spending or raising taxes whenever it wanted to raise spending or cut taxes. Chris Parnell said it best to Steve Martin in that Saturday Night Live skit advertising the innovative financial planning book Don't Buy Stuff You Cannot Afford: "You make sure you have money, then you buy it." (Have we mentioned before that you should see the movie I.O.U.S.A.?)
And sure, we could understand if during genuine economic crises Congress had to increase the deficit (as they did with the stimulus bill). And yes, there still might be some need to discuss the difference between spending in annual appropriations bills (which is not covered by PAYGO) and mandatory spending (which is covered by PAYGO). But really, the main point is still the same. If Congress simply paid for new things, we wouldn't have to worry so much about particular details of particular PAYGO regimes.
In the traditional absence of serious discussion on the Hill about how to attack the country's long-term fiscal challenges, we have often turned to discussing procedural tools to stop the bleeding. Our hope is that Congress might now re-accept those procedures, and then we can turn our full attention to where it really matters -- taking care of those pesky, long-term fiscal challenges brought on by an aging population and out-of-control health care costs, and the hard choices that will be required to solve them.
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Did you see the film in the victory theatre? I'm curious how that is. They're still expanding, and won't be finished until 2014.
Started as the "DDay museum" but now it's turning into much, much more.
Glad you liked it.
How much snow are they projecting in Cincy? We're supposed to get 3 to 8 inches here around Charleston.
It's been snowing up here constantly for almost a week. Got about 6" in the initial snow fall and a constant light accumulation has added another 6" to my back deck. In NE Ohio, we've been surprised that we didn't get this kind of snow in late November/early December. Just waiting for Lake Erie to freeze over and cut off the snow machine.
Wear gaudy colors, or avoid display. Lay a million eggs or give birth to one. The fittest shall survive, yet the unfit may live. Be like your ancestors or be different. We must repeat!
Not even an inch on the ground here in Bloomington yet, and schools are closed.
Next Reds manager, second shooter. --Confirmed on Redszone.
I backed out of the driveway at 7 am and there was nary a flake of snow in the air. But yet Mason schools are cancelled for the day. They already had a 2 hour delay last night at 7 pm. Its just beginning to snow out here in Fairfield. They could have had all the kids at school by now before it all hit.
One thing about cars is that there are many more of them on the road than 30 years ago. The volume is much higher.
Be less stupid.
When I pulled into work today, they had spread a sand/gravel/dirt mixture all over the parking lot. It looks terrible and I wonder how effective it will be against 3-5" of snow.
The thing that surprised me was that my girlfriend enjoyed it more than I did. And I'm the history nut.
What if this wasn't a rhetorical question?
All models are wrong. Some of them are useful.
You have to get the kids home, once you get them there.
Sounds like Cincinnati should hold a Winter French Toast Festival to get rid of all that excess bread.
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text: The Bank of Ocean City recently announced it would be sponsoring the live broadcast of Stephen Decatur High School's football games on WQMR 101.1FM this season. As a result of the partnership, the bank will be giving a plaque to the MVP of each game as well as making a $50 donation to the football program's athletic boosters. Above, from left, are Bank of Ocean City's Earl Conley, this week's MVP Delonte Tate, Coach Bob Knox and WQMR's Rick Charles


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I have been through all the suggestions from Firefox Forum and Zone alarm suggestions on this thread.
Firefox / IExplorer/Google Chrome have all been freezing for the last few weeks on my Laptop running Vista Premium.
I have now uninstalled the Free Zonealarm and running Windows firewall.
I have not had a freeze since, even leaving the laptop in hibernation mode with Chrome open as started up without a fault.
My conclusion must be that Free Zone Alarm is the problem.
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BOSTON — They say no man is an island, but Michael Richard Smith has been creating his own floating homes in Boston Harbor.
The Coast Guard and Boston police are keeping an eye on the unconventional camper who has been tying his canoe to small offshore docks in the city's inner harbor and pitching his tent to sleep at night.
The 49-year-old Maine native said Tuesday he's been paddling the waters of metro Boston since October with all his possessions aboard a 14-foot, 40-year-old aluminum canoe he patches with duct tape when necessary.
Smith detests the term "homeless" and describes himself as just another "fellow citizen."
He said he feels most secure when he sleeps out in the harbor, and lists his biggest worries as the wakes of fast ferries and drunken boaters.
"It's about as safe as I could be," said Smith, who's also camped on at least one inner harbor island. "Anybody who would want to hurt me or take my things, they have to have a boat. And boat people stick together."
The Coast Guard spotted Smith a few days ago, and said while the mariner has been moving around, he hasn't moored anyplace where he's a threat to security or his own safety.
"What it really seems like is he's trying to figure out whether it's feasible to live out there," Coast Guard Lt. Joe Klinker said Tuesday.
The Coast Guard official said the agency would take action if Smith entered a security zone, but that he has stuck to recreational areas.
"It's not a major concern for the Coast Guard right now," Klinker said. "… A lot of people who don't have a place, live by the water. But on the water is unique."
On Monday night, Smith tied up and slept on a floating dock about 100 yards offshore from the New England Aquarium.
Boston Police Department's Harbor Unit has offered him city services, but he declined, police spokeswoman Cheryl Fiandaca said Tuesday. She said Smith did accept a new life vest with reflectors and a whistle from police.
Police told Smith not to operate his canoe at night, because it doesn't have lights. And while police said they'll continue to check on his safety, like the Coast Guard, they said Smith doesn't appear to be breaking any laws.
Smith said he spent about a year camping further north in Massachusetts before his sister helped him transport his canoe to Boston's Seaport District. Once there, he put the vessel he named "Alice Williams" in the water behind the InterContinental Hotel, the same neighborhood where Red Sox baseball team owner John Henry has been known to dock his 164-foot yacht "Iroquois."
The name of Smith's canoe is a tribute to the family of Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island whom the mariner admires for his support of First Amendment freedoms. He used the name of Williams' mother, because he said women need more recognition.
Smith said he's spent years trying to advocate for better public schools, and has passed on a newsletter he's written on the topic to politicians, including Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. The canoe owner said he thinks about public policy as he's paddling through the harbor and that living on the water has taught him balance, patience and fortitude.
Smith is a wiry, mustachioed man with long brown hair who tucks a silk pink rose into the brim of his explorer hat. He dresses in layers to stay warm, but also doesn't seem to mind that colder weather will be coming as winter arrives.
Smith plans to sleep out in Boston Harbor all winter and prefers to concentrate on the beauty of his surroundings rather than the bareness of his accommodations.
Before sunup Tuesday, Smith saw a shooting star skitter across the New England sky and said later he made a wish meant for all people, no matter where they bunk at night.
"I wished self-esteem for all of us," he said.


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Kylie Joson
Staff Writer
OCEAN CITY – This year's
Memorial Day was a hot one, but the heat didn't stop the heavy crowd of local
residents and visitors that gathered for a day of patriotism and remembrance.
Monday, May 31 marked
the sixth annual observance of Memorial Day at the Worcester County Veterans
Memorial in Ocean Pines, and Steven Rakow U.S. Marine Corps (ret) was the
keynote speaker at this year's annual ceremony.
Some Americans view
Memorial Day as the unofficial beginning of summer. Although Ocean City was
ready for the rush of tourists coming to town for the three-day weekend, the
attendees of the ceremony did not treat this holiday just as a day off and
worrying about if they would have enough hot dogs and hamburgers and what time
the boat races were. It was a day to commemorate the U.S. soldiers who have
died fighting to preserve freedom,
During Memorial Day,
it's paramount for citizens to remember the sacrifices men and women in uniform
made to fight for freedom, said Rakow.
"A nation reveals itself
not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it
remembers," Rakow quoted President John F. Kennedy as he spoke at the memorial
on Monday.
Rakow is a graduate of
the U.S. Naval Academy and retired as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine
Corps Reserve. He has 20 years of experience leading Marines as a Marine
Officer and after leaving active duty in 1992 he attended law school and
practiced law in Ohio before joining Rakow Homes, Ltd. He served as vice
president of the Eastern Shore Builders Association and served as a director on
the board for the Maryland State Builders Association for two years. Rakow, his
wife, Kelley, and three daughters reside in Worcester County. Steve and
Kelly also run CrossFit in Ocean City.
Rakow comes from a long
line of military leaders. His father and grandfather both served the country
and even though not pushed into the military life, it was all he knew growing
up. He wanted his chance to serve the country and be apart of something he
could be proud of.
At this year's memorial,
the late Roseann Bridgman was honored with a bench in her dedication.
Bridgman, who passed in
November, was one of the founding members of the Worcester County Veterans
Memorial Foundation. Though not officially considered a veteran, she was a
consummate military wife and paid tribute to all military spouses on Memorial
Day each year.
At the ceremony on
Monday, Betty McDonough recited Bridgman's favorite poem, "Military Wife",
before members of Bridgman's family unveiled the bench. The poem was
impeccable. The detail the poem painted left you with an image that describes
the sacrifice military wives go through and what Bridgman embarked.
When asked to comment on
Bridgman, Rakow said, "Without Rosann, the memorial would not have got off the
ground. She was a big part of creating a place where people can show their
gratitude to their loved ones."
The event was full of
patriotic citizens and created a moving and grandiose ceremony. It was a
spectacular event. The flags blowing in the subtle breeze, retired veterans all
around, numerous bikers paying their tribute, firefighters showing their
support, State's Attorney Joel Todd playing "Amazing Grace" on the bagpipes,
and the assortment of musical performances created an atmosphere where you
couldn't help but be proud to be an American.
The finale kicked off
with the Rifle Volley and the releasing of a flock of snow-white doves. If you
missed it this year you'll surely want to plan to be their next Memorial
The Worcester County
Veterans Memorial in Ocean Pines wants the public to know it is your memorial.
You are invited to honor your loved one with a private ceremony at the
Memorial. Any United States veteran from the Revolutionary War to present day
can be honored. Rakow, his father, and grandfather all have brick pavers
honoring them.
"You do not need to be
deceased to have a brick paver at the memorial," Rakow said.
Bricks can be purchased
to honor any U.S. veterans who have served in war or peace.
Any civic organization
in Worcester County wishing to honor veterans or other military currently
serving in the Armed Forces of the United States by conducting an appropriate
ceremony at the Memorial site is welcome to do so with the approval of the
Foundation Board of Directors.
More information about
the Worcester County Veterans Memorial can be fund my visiting www.OPVETS.com.


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I blame Ben Goldacre, quite frankly. He was telling people on Twitter about a bizarre flyer that had come through his door – though seemingly not targeted at him personally – and my love of reading about conspiracy theories came to the fore and forced me to go look at David Icke's Swine Flu website.
(By the way, according to Icke, men doing building work turning up in unmarked white vans is suspicious and indicative of a global conspiracy at work on the Isle of Wight. Yes, it seems that Icke wants to elevate White Van Man alongside the Black Helicopter in conspiracy myth.)
I could go through the craziness, but that would spare you the fun of reading it yourself. But what got my attention was Icke claiming that:
Something very big is about to go down. I can't say exactly when, but we are talking months, not years.
Scary stuff, I'm sure you'll agree. Not that Icke himself appears to, given that the front page of his website, rather than urging people to prepare themselves to hide from the coming 'Orwellian control-system' is exhorting them to come hear him speak at the Brixton Academy in May 2010. Yes, because global totalitarian dictatorships ushered in at the behest of our secret lizard Illuminati masters turn out to be surprisingly tolerant of mass gatherings of the supporters of The One Man Who Saw The Truth.
(Of course, I'm saying this because I'm a member of the secret Illuminati conspiracy, and the Finance And Audit Scrutiny Committee meeting I'm going to tonight is merely cover for the real business of the New World Order that we'll be discussing afterwards)


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Consider the U.S. oil extravaganza and thoughts turn to North Dakota, West Virginia and Texas. But in a decade, the biggest oil producing state may be California, according to Bloomberg. Which would be an irony given the state's Governator-approved greening policies.
That's if the recently-auctioned Monterey Shale licenses come up gushing. About 64% of all America's shale-oil reserves could be buried under the Golden State.
In West Virginia, Norwegian oil giant Statoil has bought 70,000 acres of the Marcellus Shale play, The Wall Street Journal reports. The $590-million deal means it now has operational interest in Bakken, Eagle Ford and Marcellus.
The biggest U.S. oil deal of the day, was made by Sandridge Energy. The company sold its Texas operations for $2.6 billion to fund expansion in western Kansas and Oklahoma.


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Canton, OH (SportsNetwork.com) - Transition can be a dirty word for a professional athlete.
Over the course of a lifetime, a career, especially in the NFL, is a very short one and once the cheering stops, players often find themselves searching for something to replace the adulation.
Not Michael Strahan, the former New York Giants' star who is set to be enshrined in the Hall of Fame on Saturday night.
"If you want to feel like Superman," Strahan said on Friday, "that is a great way to do it."
If anything Strahan is a bigger star today than he ever was when he was terrorizing quarterbacks throughout his 15-year NFL career. And that's not hyperbole even though the Houston native earned seven Pro Bowl selections and five All-Pro nods with the Giants after being drafted by the club in the second round of the 1993 NFL Draft out of Texas Southern.
"My goal when I first started was just to make a little money so I didn't have to move back to my parents' house," Strahan said. "I didn't want to disappoint my parents. So that was my goal, to kind of just make my parents proud, make them happy, play as hard and just do the best I could do."
Mission accomplished.
Strahan was a dominant NFL pass rusher, amassing an NFL single-season record 22 1/2 sacks in 2001 and finishing with 141 1/2 over his career, fifth all- time behind fellow HOF members Bruce Smith, Reggie White and Chris Doleman as well as Kevin Greene. Strahan, though, was no one-trick pony and was also the rare two-way defensive end, regarded as one of the best edge players defending the run.
"I loved playing the run more than rushing after the quarterback," Strahan told reporters in Canton. "That is a fact. I loved the fact that the other guy was 100 pounds bigger than me and no way I'm supposed to beat him.
"But if I'm strong, I use leverage, if I get off the ball quicker, if I studied him enough to know him better than he knows himself, I can get in the backfield and make a play and get up and look and there is a 350-pound guy on the ground and I'm standing over his guy like, 'Guess what?'"
Strahan also turned it up against the toughest competition, leading a ferocious defense that stunned the previously unbeaten and 12-point favorite New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII, and often excelling against players like Jon Runyan, the former star right tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles who is currently the U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 3rd congressional district.
Strahan has often described the nasty Runyan as the toughest player he ever competed against but a quick look at the numbers says Strahan had more sacks against Runyan's Eagles than anyone else (21 1/2).
Despite all of that Strahan remains tremendously self-deprecating, even claiming he's not sure if he could have cracked the starting lineup if he was competing against the defensive ends who replaced him with "Big Blue."
"These guys are so talented, I don't know if I would have started," Strahan said. "If you look at Justin Tuck, Osi Umenyiora, Jason Pierre-Paul and myself, I'm No. 4 ... I'm No. 4, believe me. Talent-wise and looking at what these guys can do, I'm No. 4 easily."
As good as Tuck and Umenyiora were on the Giants and JPP continues to be, none of those players are on a trajectory toward Canton.
Strahan's post-NFL resume is arguably more impressive. A player who always embraced media attention while active, Strahan himself has become a larger- than-life television personality and pitchman, often playing up his gap- toothed smile.
Football remains a part of his eclectic playlist but it's just a small piece of the Strahan brand. He remains an analyst on Fox NFL Sunday but his far bigger gigs are his spots for Subway, along with his co-hosting gig on the television morning talk show "Live! with Kelly and Michael," alongside Kelly Ripa, a post formerly manned by the legendary Regis Philbin.
Strahan's personality is so gregarious that he was even given the opportunity to star in a FOX sitcom and he was the host of Pros vs. Joes alongside fellow good friend, national NFL writer Jay Glazer, who is scheduled to induct him on Saturday. His "Q rating" is such that his breakup after a five-year engagement to Nicole Murphy was major entertainment news.
In times good or bad, though, the smile remains, so much so that it became a problem for Blair Buswell, the Pro Football Hall of Fame's chief sculptor.
Buswell always recommends that inductees not smile when they are sitting for their busts because "teeth don't look good on bronze busts."
"I presented a unique challenge, because I told him I wanted to smile," Strahan told the New Yorker. "If I close my mouth, people won't know who it is."
Somehow I think they would have figured it out.


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What a game. It was a playoff atmosphere, thanks to the crowd and the heroics by Jamal Crawford. This game was meaningless statistically but to Knicks fans and player it meant a lot. They were not booed off the court. They were cheered. No games in the Garden till November but this was a game to feel good about.
Sure we went 17-36 since the New Year's. But hey when the Knicks win it is is always something to enjoy.
This off-season will be under a microscope. From Isiah's moves, to the education an Jamal Crawford, and to the changing of Marbury's game.
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Mr. Anderson comes down to the ring and said he has been a man of few words as of late, but he kicks ass and goes home and sleeps like a baby. He did sign a deal with the devil, and agreed to join Immortal as a business decision, but it was a bad one so he doesn't blame the fans for booing him. He says it's because of Bully Ray that he is on the outs, and thanks him then says if they hated him before they are really going to hate him now. Anderson says he is going to start tonight by going after Kurt Angle, because Angle has been avoiding Sting so much that he overlooked him still having a rematch opportunity. He says he is cashing in his title shot tonight, and he knows it won't be Angle by himself, so he says he won't come alone either, and introduces his backup.
Sting comes out to the ring and says Immortal cost him the World Title, but they didn't take him out and he is like a fungus that won't go away. Sting says Hogan thought he had the power and the advantage last week when he was the enforcer in his title match, but he has something better in store. He says this week he has the power of the Network behind him, so he will be the special enforcer in Anderson's match, and he is going to gnaw away at Hogan and Immortal until he gets rid of them forever.
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Pope repeatedly elbows Magnus in the head, then turns around to fight Williams, but Magnus uppercuts him then they use a quick tag to hit a double team maneuver for a two count. Pope gets clotheslined off the ropes then tries fighting out of the corner but Magnus pulls him down on the ropes and hits a flying clothesline for two. Pope fights back and drops them both, then finally makes the tag to Devon, who hits a flying shoulder block off the ropes and a side slam on Williams. Devon drops Magnus with a neckbreaker and hits a side slam on Williams, then double clotheslines them both and makes the cover as Pope clotheslines Magnus out of the ring.
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70 functions – One System: Montepio Bank installs 105 CINEO systems
Wincor Nixdorf is to install 105 cash recycling systems from the new CINEO generation at the branches of Montepio Bank, one of Portugal's leading banks. Rollout of the systems, which are equipped with passbook processing and cash/check deposit modules, has already started and will be completed in April 2012. Following installation, Wincor Nixdorf will maintain the systems for a period of three years.
Montepio Bank is one of the country's few financial institutions to run its own network of automated teller machines known as "Chave24". As customary in Portugal, the bank provides its customers with a wide range of functions on the systems. They can use the CINEO 4080 cash recycling systems to deposit or withdraw cash, as well as conduct many other kinds of transactions. For instance, bank customers can pay their bills, deposit checks or refill prepaid mobile phone cards at the machines, to name just a few of the total of 70 functions they offer.
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For Castellanos, Triple-A a whole new universe
Top Tigers prospect taking in 'learning experience' with Mud Hens
By Jason Beck / MLB.com
TOLEDO, Ohio -- Nick Castellanos has never been as close to the Majors as he is now. There's just an hour's drive between him and Comerica Park, and an injury or an offensive slump between him and the 25-man roster.
But then, until this past weekend, Castellanos had never worn a Chewbacca-patterned baseball jersey, either.
'It's going to be interesting," Castellanos said about the Mud Hens' Star Wars weekend.
It was. While kids with lightsabers and Darth Vader masks cheered and a guy on stilts donned a Chewbacca suit and maneuvered around the field between innings, Castellanos' training as the Tigers' potential next run producer continued. Like Luke Skywalker's time on Dagobah in "The Empire Strikes Back," it has been a learning process.
The Mud Hens have struggled to score runs all season, so four runs in three days (and 31 innings) against the Charlotte Knights were more of a continuation than a weekend slump. It has surprised Hens manager Phil Nevin, whose team was supposed to be based around hitting.
Castellanos, meanwhile, saw a continuation of what pitchers have been trying to do to him all season. They tried to jam him inside with fastballs sometimes. They tried to get Castellanos to chase at other times.
They did what veteran pitchers do, which is what makes Triple-A baseball a different experience from Double-A.
"The pitchers, they're more consistent with their pitches," Castellanos said. "They don't miss their spots. They try to get you to hit their pitches a lot, so sometimes you really have to work counts and try to get a pitch in your favor."
When Castellanos made it to big league camp with the Tigers for a few Spring Training games last year, he was admittedly in awe of being around players he grew up watching, such as Miguel Cabrera. At Triple-A, he's getting a similar experience from players he's facing.
Castellanos saw Jeremy Hermida in the Columbus outfield a couple weeks ago and remembered the home run he hit for the Marlins, Castellanos' hometown team, in his first Major League game. That was in 2005, when Castellanos was in junior high. He faced Armando Galarraga a month ago and remembered the near-perfect game he threw for the Tigers in 2010, days before Castellanos was drafted.
"So now it's definitely interesting seeing all these guys who have played in the big leagues and are playing down here," Castellanos said. "It just makes you humbled that Triple-A ain't no cakewalk. Triple-A is definitely a tough league, and to succeed here, you've got to grind."
That's what Castellanos is doing. With a .232 average and .671 OPS, including a 1-for-17 stretch for May, his time in Toledo has been a grind.
Castellanos will get a 3-1 pitch and ground out to short, as he did in the first inning Saturday, then foul off a couple pitches before sending an 0-2 pitch through the middle as he did in the 11th. He'll work a count full, hit a hard line drive and watch it carry directly to the left fielder, as he did in the ninth Sunday.
"It's a learning experience," Castellanos said, "the highest competition I've played against. The game's a little bit faster. I feel like I'm making really good strides in the outfield. Just trying to find a little bit more consistency at the plate. I'll have one good game where I'll feel great, then I'll have like two games where I can't find it. It's just an adjustment period right now."
For those who figured Castellanos' Triple-A tenure would go like his stops at Class A Lakeland and Double-A Erie, it might have been a surprise. This is more like his 2011 arrival to full-season ball at West Michigan. Castellanos hit just .179 (12-for-67) in April that year, then batted .331 the rest of the way.
Whether Castellanos goes on that same midseason tear remains to be seen, but nobody expects him to hit in the .230s all year. Even Nevin, as frustrated as he has been with the Mud Hens' offense, expects his 21-year-old No. 3 hitter to handle the learning curve. That's the least of his concerns.
"I'm not worried about his hitting. He's going to hit," Nevin said. "There are adjustments to be made, and he's learning along the way, but he's going to be a special hitter."
This is what the Tigers wanted Castellanos to experience. When Larry Herndon made it to Detroit to receive an award last homestand, he talked more about Tigers prospects he worked with as a hitting coach at Lakeland than he did about himself. One was Avisail Garcia, who Herndon watched become a hero last fall. The other was Castellanos, who is ranked No. 1 in the Tigers' system by MLB.com.
"I had Nick for about a half-year," Herndon said. "That's all I needed to have him for. Fantastic hitter, just a natural. He has the stuff to be an outstanding big leaguer. He follows pitches. He watches the game. You can't fool him too much. He's just young."
The greater concern for the Tigers is to get Castellanos adjusted to the outfield, continuing the conversion he made from third base last summer. Instead of early hitting with Leon Durham, Castellanos will take early work with roving outfield instructor Gene Roof. After spending last summer tracking fly balls, his focus is on getting good jumps, taking efficient routes and learning both hitters' and pitchers' tendencies to position himself before the ball is hit.
"The last two weeks, his outfield play has been exceptional," Nevin said. "Gene Roof has done a heckuva lot of things with him. He's been working his tail off. Every day, he's out there. He asks to come out early. He asks to do extra things. I'm very proud of the strides he's made out there."
It's less noticeable than Castellanos' hitting, but that's the goal. The less people notice him out there, the less people think of him as a converted third baseman. When Castellanos makes a play such as a running catch on a soft fly ball Sunday, taking advantage of a jump, it gets easier.
"Kind of an ongoing joke here is whenever I make a nice play or something, it's like, 'Hey, you almost looked like an outfielder on that,'" Castellanos said.
The more Castellanos gets that, the better his chances of making the jump whenever his hitting comes around. Cabrera isn't going anywhere at third, but one can see an eventual path to Detroit for Castellanos in left field, maybe on a part-time basis late in the year. But it isn't imminent.
Castellanos is just an hour away, and yet it's a longer journey than that.
"You can't get down," Castellanos said. "Realistically, I'm not having great success right now offensively, but I have my fair share of extra-base hits. I have a couple home runs. And realistically, being 21 in Triple-A in any situation's really good. Now, it's just a matter that I'm in a great spot and come every day to work, and I know my results are going to be there at the end of the year."
Jason Beck is a reporter for MLB.com. Read Beck's Blog and follow him on Twitter @beckjason. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland
Die Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland e.V.
Usselmann, Franz. "Die Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland." Volk auf dem Weg, n.d.
Translation from German to English by Claudia Müller, Halle, Germany
When the German troops retreated from the Soviet Union in 1943/44, an estimated 350,000 German-Russians were resettled and naturalized to the former Warthegau by an order of the German-occupying authority.
After the occupation of East Germany, approximately 250,000 persons were seized by the Soviets and taken back to the Soviet Union. Approximately 100,000 people were seeking refuge in western occupied zones. However, even in the western occupied zones German-Russians were at first not safe from the swift action of Soviet repatriation commando units because the Western Allies had committed themselves in an agreement to extradite to the Soviets those Soviet citizens who were in their occupied zone.
In the first postwar years German-Russians were not permitted to disclose their identity even in the western-occupied zones; they had to disappear to avoid being seized by Soviet repatriation commando units.
This was relatively easy because German-Russians have, as a rule, typical German standards and had been born in settlements with German names that also exist in Germany as for example Karlsruhe, Kandel, etc. Approximately 30,000 German-Russians emigrated from West Germany primarily to the U.S., to Canada, to South America and to Australia for fear of the Soviets and for economic reasons. After the breakdown in 1945, the churches cared for the needs of displaced persons and refugees.
A few denominational relief agencies cared for the German-Russians and their needs at that time. Only after the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany did well-known representatives of German-Russians and some relief agencies decide on 22 April 1950, to organize associations for resettlers from the East. Dean J. Schleunig, pastor Heinrich Roemmich, Dr. Karl Stumpp and Dr. Gottlieb Leibrandt were among the initiators.
The "Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Ostumsiedler" was established as Landsmannschaft at the assembly of federal delegates on October 15, 1950. In a big announcement in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt, the Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland turned to the German public for the first time and demanded of the Federal Government to attempt the release of those ethnic Germans who were detained in Soviet labor camps. In addition, they requested equal treatment of displaced persons from the Soviet Union with all other ethnic displaced persons.
The appeal made to the Federal Government to support the release of our fellow ethnic Germans did not go unnoticed. Back then, from September 9 to 13, 1955, we could follow in the press and over the radio how decisive and persistent Dr. Konrad Adenauer spoke up in Moscow for the freedom of our of countrymen. Final equality with other displaced persons could only get pushed through after lengthy negotiations and decisions at the highest courts. The reason is a different social order and the resulting different legal systems in the Federal Republic of Germany and the Soviet Union.
The Landsmannschaft is a registered society located in Stuttgart; its charitable status is recognized. It operates with many volunters and only a few full-time employees.
It maintains chapters in all states and in some dozen local branches. They attend to material, cultural and social integration by assisting in establishing a social structure for Aussiedler but also by educating persons concerned and by granting legal aid.
The Landsmannschaft pursues and promotes the research of history, culture and the present situation of the ethnic German minority in the [former]USSR and publishes the research results in the news media. Discussions and contacts with politicians, scientists, organizations likewise serve to spread knowledge of our work and our intention. Also, our newspaper Volk auf dem Weg serves as a mouthpiece.
Recently, the "Arbeitskreis zur Erforschung des europäischen und außereuropäischen Russlanddeutschtums" (Study group for the research of European and non-European Russian-Germanism) was established within the Landsmannschaft. The Landsmannschaft sees itself also as representative for those Germans living in the [former] Soviet Union who are denied self-representation. It supports the reunification of families, the immigration beyond family reunification and attaining national and individual rights of ethnic Germans in the [former] Soviet Union.
Franz Usselmann is chairman of the board of the Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland, Stuttgart, Germany
Reprinted with permission of the Verein für das Deutschtum im Ausland e.V.
Our appreciation is extended to Claudia Müller for translation of this article.


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Recently bought this from Tescos at a bargain £5.99 when it was on offer. Normally this retails at around £14.99 or £9.99 on etailers. I previously had Play.com 2GB storage device and never used the full space until recently when linux distributions became much larger.
Main reason for buying this was to create a USB installation for the new OpenSuSe linux distribution. It held the boot disk just about with enough to spare. So its 4GB, its USB 2.0 compliant so it isn't as fast as USB 3.0 but not nearly as costly. It feels light compared to my Play.com flash drive.
As such, the build quality is a bit dubious as it feels flimsy and fragile. Wouldn't recommend dropping this around or leaving it in your pocket and accidentally sitting on it (I did so on my Play.com device and it still worked!).
As it has no cap it is a push device. This too feels flimsy and thats my main problem with this. The plastic used could have been a bit more rugged. It just doesn't feel sturdy enough. Otherwise it works as its supposed to.
I have recently found myself needing to carry documents around with me so thought I would invest in a memory stick. Having never purchased such an item before I chose a middle range priced Sandisk Cruzer 4 GB £10 from Sainsburys.
Sandisk Cruzer 4 GB
*Storage Capacity: 4 GB
*Interface Type: Hi-Speed USB
*Software Included: CruzerSync, Skype, SignUpShield
*OS Required: Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4
*Readyboost compliant and can be used with Microsoft Vista
This is a great little Flash Drive and when I say little I mean little the stick itself is only about 2 inches long. It is a sleek little gadget in basic black. The great thing about this stick is that the drive is retractable which means that there is no hunting around for a lost cap. I have read others found the slide sticky but I have not had this problem at all.
Sandisk Cruzer 4 GB is really easy to use you do not need any software or anything like that for it to work you just plug it in and go. I have found it a very roomy drive and can store load of pictures and documents on it. There is also a security system so you can password protect the sticks content. The transfer time is really quick which is great.
I have found that the stick is very durable as it has been bouncing around in my bag for months and has suffered no ill affects.
There is really not much more to say other than shop around as you can get these drives for a few pounds cheaper than I paid.
Sandisk cruzer memory sticks come in different sizes, I have seen them range upto 32GB. I am by no means an expert at all, and didn't really know what I was looking for, but when I told some friends I needed a memory stick they recommended Tesco's as they had seen them cheaply. I seem to be always doing shopping there anyway, and the lure of clubcard points never seems to fail. I chose completely based on price, and that lead me to this 4GB memory stick for £5.99.
The memory stick has what I believe to be quite a unique design. It has a plastic push in and out button, which withdraws the precious valuable end into itself so it cannot get damaged. This is much better than the ones with lids. I had one of these before for work and the lid fell off in my bag and I couldn't find it again, which instantly rendered it useless, without extra special care.
The memory stick feels quite flimsy and cheaply made, but its performance has never backed up those thoughts. I used this to save photos I had taken for a family wedding and then it got passed back and forwards between all my family members as they slowly copied them onto their own PCs one by one.
Everyone managed to use this memory stick, so it is obviously very easy to use, and it came back to me in one piece, with no damage to the precious USB metal pieces. This shows it is pretty hardy, and therefore, to me, very good value for money.
I have windows 7 and it worked well with it, it was very fast to load when I put it in the PC. Some software popped up, which I quickly closed down as I never use the standard software, I just open the USB stick up in my computer.
This memory stick was ideal for me-hardy and easy to use. It wasn't a downside for me, but maybe for you, depending on what you would like to use this for. It doesn't have password encryption.
As a student it's important for me to back-up work, as I spend a lot of time writing up assignments and don't want to lose them! At my place of study there is a system whereby we all have our own account and are able to save work on to there. This means it's always accessible whenever in this place. This is handy and I'd never had any problems with it until I suddenly was unable to find a very important piece of work. Needless to say, it couldn't be recovered and I had to spend the whole night writing it back up to a much lower standard. It was at this point I decided I needed to back up all of my work, so I decided to purchase a USB stick.
I went into ASDA to try and search for one, and this is the one I picked up. I had no background knowledge on these whatsoever, and being under £10 I just picked up this one in the hope it would perform well. Generally this USB will always be priced around £10 and you can purchase it at the usual places. I recommend looking in ASDA, trying Amazon and other electronic stores.
The design of this USB stick is dreadful. It looks very cheap and the plastic design isn't very nice. The design wasn't what I was going for, I just wanted practicality so I wasn't too fussed about this. I have been using this for around two months now and the brand name on it has already started to wear away which isn't so good.
Another thing I despise about this USB stick is the slider. I thought it was quite nifty when I brought it as it meant you didn't need a lid on the stick. You simply push the slider and out pops the USB. It looks easy, yet I seem to have so many problems with mine. Occasionally the slider will get stuck which can be a problem if I'm in a rush and needing to save something.
When you insert the USB (if you can finally get it to slide up...just kidding) an orange light shows up and then fades continuously. This is up to you what you would think about it because my friends love it and think it's a quirky design to such a boring product. However, I find it very annoying if I'm working with the USB stick inserted as it distracts you when you can see the light.
Moaning over, this USB stick really does have good points. Firstly, the price is fantastic and hard to beat. Especially for 4GB, £10 seems a bargain to me! There's no point paying a considerable amount more for a USB stick that looks pretty because at the end of the day, don't they all do the same thing?
Speaking of its performance, the USB is fantastic and really does the job well. Files can be transferred quickly and easily and I was able to use it without even reading instructions so I'm sure you can too. It's very simple to use and when inserted into your PC or laptop, will load up on its own. If not you have to go to 'My Computer' and it will be located in there somewhere.
Overall, the practicality of the USB stick is 5/5 however the design really does let it down. If the slider worked all the time perhaps it would get a higher rating. A fair four stars should be awarded to this as it is really good for the price you are paying! Thanks for reading.
I bought my San Disk 8 GB Cruzer a few months back now after a power surge in my computer caused me to lose a number of my holiday photos. "Never again" I thought and purchased this cheap but handy portable storage device.
The Cruzer has been really good and reliable and I've managed to store pretty much everything I've got on both memory cards and my computer on here as a back up. Its also been handy to take round to show friends our holiday snaps as it doesn't require and additional software to use it on another computer.
The only downsides to it, in my opinion, is that it is quite cheap looking in appearance (granted, it doesn't cost that much in the first place) and the white plastic slider in the centre of it (needed to reveal the actual USB computer attachment) seems a little poorly made and can be a little unreliable in its functionality. For some reason, it rather tackily lights up orange when attached to the computer which all seems a little bit unnecessary in the circumstances!
Overall, I'd say for the price, the San Disk 8 GB Cruzer is a good little product with great storage potential and is only let down by its cheap build and design.
USB sticks are invaluable in my job. Transferring data and settings from PC to PC means I can have a virtually paperless office and have backups of my stuff left right and centre.
SanDisk is a well known name in data storage and despite it's ubiquity it is clear from the Cruzer4 that it doesn't scrimp on quality in its products. Though USB sticks are solid state - i.e. no moving parts, I have lost count of how many of them have fallen to bits within 6 months of regular usage. I've had my Cruzer for a few months now and it still feels like it's new. The fancy slider is pretty pointless however, I've never really used it and I doubt many would - it's a fancy feature that could really be done without.
Despite this, it's a good little product, not only for file distribution or on Vista powered PCs for memory boost. It's cheap, and most importantly, will last without disintegrating and losing your stuff.
A good buy.
This memory stick is incredably usefull. It was cheap to buy and has easily enough space for word documents and pictures. It is highly durable. Small and incredibly easy to use. It is very easy to copy or transfer files from one pc to another. It comes highly recommended. It can easily be attactched to a key chain. It also illuminates whilst in use. However the switch to push the usb slot out can stick at times and can even get stuck in the computer if not inserted correctly.
However it is a geat device which is cheap cheerfull and really, really easy to use. The flashing LED even tells you when the device is in use.
It would make a good gift for christmas for someone who uses computers and has to change documents from one compuer to the other.
Sometimes hoever because of its size it can go missing. Overall though a great product


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Rereading Major Barbara and wondering how heroic and right Shaw thought Undershaft should be considered? Is Undershaft's commitment to the previous Undershaft's dreams and obligations a kind of trueness? And what of Cusins? Is his Greek a goodness or a dressing?
A friend asks for the "Auden poem with lines "We must love each other or die." A line readers grew to love and a line that Auden grew to hate. First he changed "or" to "and" then he dropped the whole stanza. Then he dropped the poem from his Collected and completely disavowed it as untrue. Later after Auden's death, the original poem, "September, 1939" was restored. How good was Auden's sense of his own poetry?
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TACOMA, Wash. – "Tacoma is on the move again. You can feel it," wrote President Ronald R. Thomas in an opinion piece published in The News Tribune on Jan. 16, 2013.
The University of Puget Sound president highlighted many of recent advances seen in Pierce County—pointing out that "a great city endures and rises to the challenge in tough times." The same can be said about venerable institutions, he wrote, and this year we celebrate the 125thanniversary of one of them: the University of Puget Sound.
Read the article "Tacoma and UPS march arm-in-arm to the heights": www.thenewstribune.com/2013/01/16/2437181/tacoma-and-ups-march-arm-in-arm.html
Read about Puget Sound's 125th Anniversary: www.pugetsound.edu/125/
Read a biography of President Ronald R. Thomas: www.pugetsound.edu/about/office-of-the-president/biography/
Photo: President Ron Thomas chats to students near the Jones Hall arches. By Scott Areman.
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Much appreciated bigmac and welcome to the RR forums.
Bosh was a monster last night. Too bad no one other than him and Caldy bothered to show up last night...well Amir too.
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Thanks BM!
I'm looking forward to watching this game again (and again!)
Wright's man defense on Wade in that period was probably more important than his trey (we were leading by 4 at the time but it was the dagger).
We need to start keeping a list of Raptors great one word quotes.
1. Punjabi
2. Ball
3. Let's NBA
*two words but how can you not include that in the list!
Thanks man, you're doing a huge favor to a fan like me who can not watch any raptor game live. I'll be clicking on your links everytime
Anyone get a chance to see the Friday PTI episode? They had a part on Hedo's "BALL" line.....hilarious
Sorry, no link yet as it just aired but definitely worth a watch
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The Golden Suns (2-0) made 50-of-88 field goal tries, out-rebounded Crowley's Ridge 53-26 and forced the Lady Pioneers into 40 turnovers.
Arkansas Tech broke three-year old records for points, margin of victory and field goals made. The field goals attempted record had stood since Jan. 26, 1991, when Arkansas Tech attempted 85 field goals against Philander Smith College.
The Golden Suns extended their home winning streak to 21 consecutive games and improved their Tucker Coliseum record under head coach Dave Wilbers to 88-4.
Six straight Crowley's Ridge points cut the Arkansas Tech lead to 11-8 with 15:19 left in the first half, but it was all Golden Suns from there.
Danielle Frachiseur's basket with 14:54 to go in the half sparked a 30-6 Arkansas Tech run that staked the Suns to a 41-14 advantage with 7:09 left until halftime.
Arkansas Tech led 60-22 at the intermission and cruised to its 63rd win in its last 64 home women's basketball games.
Cara Neighbors and Anna Lea Little scored 18 points apiece to lead eight Golden Suns who reached double figures in scoring. They were joined by K.T. Davis (17 points), Jae Tucker (14 points), Krisztina Velkey (14 points), Jacinda Myers-Sanders (13 points), Mary Crow (12 points) and Ali Whisenhunt (10 points).
The Golden Suns will conclude a season-opening three-game homestand by hosting Ecclesia College at Tucker Coliseum on Monday, Nov. 18, at 5:30 p.m.


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If there's one thing we've learned from the endless string of sex scandals emanating from Washington D.C. and various state capitals, it's this: if you're in politics and you have aspirations to higher office, you should keep your mouth shut about your peers' philandering.
Leave it to the tawdry bloggers and the so-called "journalists" to squawk with outrage every time some pol gets caught with his pants down. If you're a senator, a congressman, or a governor, do not say a word -- because it will come back to bite you when you get caught cheating, which, if you're in politics for any amount of time, is nearly inevitable.
In fact, the best way to guarantee that you'll stray and get caught is probably to dump on the last guy for the very same thing. (The one possible exception to this rule is the profoundly asexual Joe Lieberman, who condemned fellow Democrat Bill Clinton's extramarital affair a decade ago and has probably never thought of sex again.)
It's such a common ritual. Politican X admits to affair, asks for privacy. Politician Y, wishing to carve out a niche as a moral crusader or cater to the values crowd or just get some free publicity before the next round of elections, runs to every major media outlet hollering about how Politican X must be accountable to the people of the state and it's not the adultery as much as the cover-up, and so on and so forth. Several years later, Politician Y admits to affair, asks for privacy, and is horrified to see that the networks actually recordedall his pious excrescence from several years ago. And suddenly he's got people calling for his head not because of his affair and not because of his lying but because of his hypocrisy.
It has happened so many times that you can pretty much predict who's going to cheat on his wife just by seeing who's yelling the loudest about the latest scandal. (Tim Pawlenty, anyone?)
Whenever these incidents arise, there is plenty of moral outrage to go around. But as James Carvillesuggested Sunday on CNN, smart politicians will leave the outrage to the pundits and say as little as possible about the poor fallen Governor of South Carolina. Otherwise you're just asking for trouble in your own back yard.
Thrice-married political consultant Sara K. Smith writes for NBC and Wonkette.


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When Blizzard announced the concept of rated battlegrounds, many players, including myself, were ecstatic. Only my old vanilla main has a PvP title, and I'd always wanted to try getting one on my druid. I imagined that we would queue for battlegrounds as usual, but that our ranking on the ending scoreboard would combine with our personal win/loss ratio to create our personal battleground rating. Over time, players would be separated by rating and would wind up in battlegrounds with others of similar skill. The way I imagined it, forming premade groups would be an advantage, but not a necessity for rated play.
Needless to say, that's not how things turned out.
I understand the reason why Blizzard requires full premade groups for rated battlegrounds, and I can see how very good players could wind up with a less than stellar personal rating due to unlucky battleground groups. Still, it's not what I had envisioned, and the fact that my favorite large battlegrounds like Alterac Valley and Isle of Conquest are not represented is disappointing. Blizzard recently announced that it's eliminating the 15v15 bracket, making all rated battlegrounds 10v10, which might help groups that are scrambling to find enough players -- but will (at least for the moment) exacerbate the problem of battleground diversity. Blizzard plans to adapt other maps for the 10v10 bracket, but for now, the available rated battleground scenarios are much less numerous than normal, unrated battleground options.
Have you tried rated battlegrounds? Were they everything you'd hoped for? What do you think Blizzard could do to improve the system ... or do you like it just the way it is?


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Marketplace Morning Report for Friday, November 18, 2011
President Barack Obama is in Indonesia today, and will attend the signing of a deal that could bring 110,000 jobs to the U.S. Reporter Scott Tong concludes his three-part series from the Horn of Africa. Meanwhile, in the ongoing European debt crisis, Spain is the latest hot-button country. And store employees fight back against Black Thursday openings.


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I finished my second attempt at a GUI button yesterday (C and openGL). Not great, but it does resize and I can change the label .... AND! the label stays centred throughout the resize. Thanks to the help I got here yesterday, the code is a little more tidy and organised in one place.
However, it still did take a lot of lines of code, started to resemble spaghetti, and started to get pretty complicated. For example it took ages to figure out how the various updating functions affected each other so that I could get resizing to also update the button label so it stayed centred. Then there were loads of little internal functions like shifting between screen and ortho coordinates, which became increasingly hard to keep track of.
It lead me to question a number of things....
1) I have read that OOP is a natural way to program GUIs. People talk a lot about code reuse and inheritance as being some of the reasons for this. Is this true?
a) If so, does this mean it would be better if I started to learn something on C++ or objC (I'm on a mac)
b) Is C a perfectly adequate for the job? ... And if so, are there any top tips for programming GUI objects in C, or is it simply 'code and learn'.
And finally
2) The searches I have made tend to lead me to existing GUI frameworks rather than referring to the process of developing GUI's. Does anyone know of a good basic reference for this which will talk about things like a framework for thinking about GUI code and structure, and concrete stuff such as "Making a button"
Sorry for all the questions and I hope this is not too general a question for the forum.


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Duncan's injuries not major, Spurs dodge serious trouble
Updated 3:02 pm, Sunday, February 10, 2013
What you heard rippling across San Antonio about 4 p.m. Sunday was the sound of an entire city exhaling at once.
A day after Spurs All-Star forward Tim Duncan had to be helped off the floor in the first half of a victory over Washington with one teammate under each arm, an MRI exam revealed no structural damage to his injured left knee.
Duncan will be listed as day-to-day, and he is likely to join the team on the nine-game rodeo trip that opens Wednesday in Minnesota.
The 36-year-old put a fright into a sellout crowd at the AT&T Center on Saturday, when he crumpled to the floor after Wizards forward Martell Webster rolled into the back of his legs late in the second quarter.
That Duncan emerged from the pileup with nothing more severe than a sore left knee and a mild right ankle sprain counts as good news for the Spurs, who believe they can survive their captain's absence in the short term.
"As a team we just have to pick up the slack," reserve forward Matt Bonner said. "Obviously it makes a big difference when he's not playing, because he's such a great player. So we just have to buckle down that much more. Everybody else has to play a little better."
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Having dodged what could have been a season-destroying bullet, expect coach Gregg Popovich to err on the side of paranoid caution when it comes to allowing the two-time NBA Most Valuable Player back on the court.
The Spurs' second-leading scorer, leading rebounder and top shot-blocker, Duncan is in the throes of a resurgent season that hearkens to some of the best years of his prime.
Later this month in Houston, he is scheduled to return to the All-Star Game for the 14th time after missing the festivities last year in Orlando for the first time in his career. It is not immediately clear if Duncan's injury situation will affect those plans.
If it makes the Spurs feel better about proceeding without Duncan, they have been here before — and as recently as last week.
After spearheading a victory Jan. 21 in Philadelphia, Duncan missed four consecutive games with lingering soreness in his left knee before returning Saturday.
The Spurs ripped off four consecutive wins without him, part of a season-best 10-game winning streak they will now take with them on the road.
It is true that all four of those victories — over New Orleans, Phoenix, Charlotte and Washington — came at home against the dregs of the league. With five of the next nine opponents under .500, however, it's not as if the rodeo trip constitutes a visit to the torture chamber.
Having already banked a league-best 38-11 record, the Spurs own a hefty margin of error in the Western Conference playoff race.
"We've still got a team," said Boris Diaw, the 10th-year player likely to start at Duncan's power forward spot. "We'll have to play a little differently. When Timmy's not there, we don't play in the post as much. We try to move the ball a little more."
Throughout his 15-plus NBA seasons, Duncan has enjoyed remarkable fortune when it comes to contact injuries.
Most of the 33 games he has missed since 2004-05 have been for reasons of rest, prescribed by Popovich.
The last time Duncan missed more than two consecutive games with injury was in December 2007, when he suffered a sprained ankle and bruised knee after getting tangled with Portland's James Jones. He missed four games over 12 days.
Coincidentally, Webster — then a Trail Blazer — was on the floor for that spill as well, though he was not involved in the play.
"He's one of the greatest ever to play this game because he's a tough guy," Spurs guard Danny Green said of Duncan. "He's played through some pain and some injuries. He's not going to show you he's hurt."
How soon Duncan might return to the court to resume his season-long taunting of Father Time remains to be seen.
In the meantime, Duncan's teammates are preparing to go on without him, bolstered by Sunday's revelation he could be back sooner rather than later.
"We don't know how long he's going to be out, but we still have to get the job done," forward Stephen Jackson said. "We just have to continue playing with a sense of urgency regardless of what team we're playing or who's out there."
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Source: Cowboys give Sean Lee big money, but he'll earn more if he stays healthy
IRVING – Sean Lee is one of the Cowboys' most important players and now the middle linebacker will be paid a salary commensurate to his value.
Lee signed a six-year contract extension Wednesday that will keep him with the team through 2019, a league source revealed.
In total, the base value of the deal is $42 million but Lee could make a maximum of $51 million because of escalators that will kick in if he plays 80 percent of the team's defensive snaps in a given season.
He will also receive a $10 million signing bonus and the $16.15 million awarded over the first two years of the extension – a figure that could eventually increase to $20.15 million after the 2016 season – is fully guaranteed.
Lee, 27, is entering his fourth season and was set to become a free agent in 2014. Since being drafted in the second round in 2010, he has made 195 tackles and seven interceptions, distinguishing himself as one of the leaders of the Cowboys' defense.
"Sean's just a great football player," head coach Jason Garrett said earlier this month. "He's got great instincts for the game. He sees things. He diagnoses plays. He loves the game. He loves the game maybe as much as anybody I've ever seen. He's so committed to getting himself and our team better. His standard for himself and for everybody else around him is really high."
Lee especially commands respect among his peers. Many of his teammates, even ones older than him, regard him as a coach on the field. But Lee has yet to make it through a season unscathed. In his rookie campaign, he was sidelined because of a pulled hamstring.
The following season a dislocated wrist kept him from playing in a victory over Seattle. Last October, he tore ligaments and the plantar plate in his right big toe, forcing him to miss the final 10 games.
"If you want to be a great football player you need to be on the field," Lee said. "Going forward, I'm going to do everything I can to try to stay healthy."
If he can do that, the Cowboys feel confident Lee will produce. That's why they made sure Lee wasn't going anywhere by giving him his biggest payday to date.