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By Jason Beck / MLB.com
• Leyland usually doesn't make much out of Spring Training slugfests like Sunday, but sounded an observation about his bullpen after Phil Coke, Al Alburquerque and Darin Downs combined to allow four earned runs on six hits over the final three innings.
"Nobody's getting excited," Leyland said. "But I saw some things today that I did not like. And I'm not talking about the starter. When guys came out of the bullpen today, I saw some things that I didn't like too well."
• The Tigers continued their St. Patrick's Day tradition of green hats and green batting practice jerseys on Sunday. It's one of the rare days when the Tigers don't wear their regular-season uniforms for a Spring Training game.
Tuiasosopo opening eyes with impressive power
LAKELAND, Fla. -- Matt Tuiasosopo says he isn't doing anything differently this week than what he was doing for two weeks prior. He's the same hitter he's always been. There are no major adjustments to explain the tear he has found himself on over the last seven days.
It's just that every ball he hits now seems to travel 400 feet to left field.
"The more you're getting out there, you start getting comfortable in the box, you start getting into your rhythm," Tuiasosopo said after hitting his third home run in four days and just missing another in Sunday's 12-10 loss. "Early on, I was maybe pressing a little too much, trying to really show them what I can do. So I just had to go out there and trust the ability God has given me."
It's not just the home runs. When he followed his two-run homer with a double off the left-field wall in the ninth inning, he had his fourth multi-hit game in his last five contests. In the other game, he only had one at-bat.
After going 0-for-14 with no walks and seven strikeouts to start the spring, Tuiasosopo looked destined among the first cuts to Triple-A Toledo. Once he doubled in the ninth inning of a March 4 win over Houston, he flipped the switch.
Since then, he's 11-for-20 with five doubles, three homers, eight RBIs, seven runs scored, four walks and five strikeouts.
It's a good sense of timing. He's a right-handed hitter who can play the infield and outfield and is now on a Spring Training tear for a team that's looking for a right-handed hitter to carry as a reserve outfielder. That search is one reason why he took a Minor League deal, knowing the Tigers had a lot of left-handed hitters.
"I just wanted to come into spring and have fun, show them what I can do, play in the infield, outfield," Tuiasosopo said earlier in the week. "They've got lefty hitters in here, so maybe I can be the right-handed bat for them, show them the versatility and have fun with it. I don't know what's going to happen, but I can come in here and all I can control is how I work in the game and whatever happens, happens."
Tuiasosopo was so far down the pecking order coming into Spring Training that he left camp to be with his wife for the birth of their first child and it was hard to notice he wasn't around. Wife and baby Josiah are in Florida with him now, doing well. He's doing better, and he's getting enough attention that his name at least comes up among guys in the mix for a 25-man roster spot.
It's still a long shot. Jeff Kobernus bats right-handed as well, plays the outfield and provides the speed factor the Tigers want off their bench. Detroit still has another roster spot to play with after backup catcher Brayan Pena and utility infielder Ramon Santiago, but that would seem more likely for a left-handed hitter if Detroit carries another bat.
The counterbalance to the spring tear, of course, is his history in the Minor Leagues, which is what left him a Minor League free agent. He's a .260 hitter over nine years in the Minors, having hit .226 and .242 over the last couple years with 249 strikeouts in 857 at-bats. And the Eric Patterson saga last spring shows how torrid springs can fizzle out.
Still, the more Tuiasosopo hits, the longer he gives himself a chance.
"I'm at peace," he said. "I can't control what they decide."
Garcia out indefinitely with heel injury
LAKELAND, Fla. -- The good news on Avisail Garcia is that X-rays taken Saturday on his right heel came back negative, confirming nothing more than a bruise. The bad news, certainly for his chances of making this team out of camp, is that the right heel bruise will sideline him until further notice, according to head athletic trainer Kevin Rand.
"He'll be treatment-only until he's asymptomatic," Rand said.
Garcia suffered the injury lunging at first base trying to beat out an infield grounder Saturday against the Cardinals and left the game. It was a play that manager Jim Leyland criticized on Saturday, but tried to explain on Sunday. He didn't want to discourage the hustle, but definitely the decision.
"I think that he thought that was his best way to get on base for us, so I agree with that," Leyland said. "That can happen when you're playing hard, but it's not a smart play."
Garcia was moving around the clubhouse in a walking boot and on crutches Sunday morning and said he couldn't put weight on his foot.
At this point, Rand said, Garcia is more than day to day.
The Tigers open the season in Minnesota in 15 days. Garcia's chances of making the team already were shaky considering team president/general manager Dave Dombrowski's quote earlier this spring that Garcia and Nick Castellanos were unlikely to make the team unless they were projected to get enough at-bats to not stunt their growth.
Now, the realistic question might be whether Garcia is ready to play anywhere when the season begins, or he opens the season on the disabled list before heading to Toledo on a rehab assignment.
"I think he was or is definitely in the mix," Leyland said. "But it goes back to what we talked about before -- what's going to be the best for him, or what's going to be the best for the club? I don't know whether he's going to be on the club, but I'm crazy about him. He's got it all.
"His last hurdle is, like everybody else is normally, how much do you hit? I mean, there's no question he can play defense, run, do all that stuff in the big leagues right now. I'm thrilled about him. I really like him a lot. ... He's one of the guys I just enjoy watching him play. If I was a fan, I'd enjoy watching him play."
Smyly struggles with offspeed pitches vs. Nats
LAKELAND, Fla. -- Drew Smyly struck out five of the 12 hitters he faced through his first three innings, changed speeds effectively and looked as he has for most of this spring.
Once the offspeed pitches started hanging, the bottom fell out in a hurry.
"I was in a good little groove," Smyly said, "and then next thing you know, like six pitches into the [fourth] inning, it was too late."
Instead of the 0-2 counts Smyly was enjoying for most of the first three innings, the Nationals were hitting Smyly's first or second pitch. Tyler Moore homered on a 1-0 pitch down the left-field line. Ian Desmond just missed doing the same, settling for a double off the wall in left-center on the same count.
"He got the ball up a little bit and paid for it," manager Jim Leyland said.
He had fared much better with his offspeed pitches over his previous four starts. One bad outing won't nullify that. Plus, if the Tigers stay on their current pitching order, Smyly will get another shot at the Nationals in his next start Friday. Still, Smyly wasn't happy with himself over it.
"They were hacking, and I was throwing it up," Smyly said.
Berry experiences left knee soreness vs. Nats
LAKELAND, Fla. -- A week after Quintin Berry returned to the Tigers outfield mix from left knee patellar tendinitis, the left-handed hitting speedster left Sunday's game against the Nationals with left knee soreness.
It happened after only one plate appearance. Berry replaced Austin Jackson in center field for the start of the sixth inning, then drew a walk and scored leading off the bottom half. Once the Tigers batted around and Berry's spot came up again, Don Kelly pinch-hit for him.
Leyland said after the game that he made the move because of the soreness.
Berry is currently scheduled to make the trip to Viera for Monday's rematch with the Nationals, while Jackson is slated to stay home. If Leyland scratches him as a precaution, he could use Kelly or Jeff Kobernus in his place.
If it's more than a short-term move, however, it makes Berry's case to crack the roster tougher. He missed two weeks with the tendinitis before returning last weekend, then got plenty of work over three of the previous five days.
Leyland discusses upcoming roster cuts
LAKELAND, Fla. -- Tigers manager Jim Leyland likes to say in many Spring Trainings that he can get a read on a lot of players trying to make the team by how they react when more cuts are made and the clubhouse starts emptying out. He had a new description for it on Sunday as he tried to warn reporters of what was ahead in the final two weeks of camp.
"It'll get real interesting here in a couple more days," Leyland said. "What happens is you get closer and closer and closer to the bell ringing, and sometimes guys respond differently. Some guys respond for the better, and some guys respond for the worse."
Wednesday's off-day, Leyland said, will be a separation point. The Tigers have had that off-day scheduled in most years midway through the next-to-last week of camp. It gives them about 10 days to focus on the roster spots still to be decided, get prospects back to their Minor League teams for more playing time, and try to judge if they need to make a move at the end.
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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Spence Roberts filed a private club application last month with the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division of the state Department of Finance and Administration for Italian Gardens, located in downtown Russellville.
If approved, Italian Gardens would become the second downtown restaurant granted a permit. Fat Daddy's Bar-B-Que secured a permit earlier this year, in preparation for opening a downtown location this fall.
Also in September, Xia Lin filed a private club application on behalf of U-Like Oriental Buffet, located at 107 N. Elmira Ave.
If both applications are accepted, the restaurants would be the 15th and 16th to receive private club designations in Russellville. Venezia's Italian Kitchen became the 14th private club in the city when its permit was approved and became effective Sept. 4.
Through a five percent tax on alcohol sales, the city of Russellville collected $60,225 in 2012 after drinkers spent more than $1.2 million at the city's private clubs.

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Some African dung beetles roll their feasts of dung away to avoid the hordes of other hungry bugs at the pile. But now researchers who report their findings in the October 23 issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, have discovered that the beetles also use the balls in another, rather clever way: The moist balls keep the bugs cool even as they push a weight up to 50 times heavier than their own bodies across the scorching sand.
"Like an air conditioning unit, the moist ball is cooled by evaporative cooling," said Jochen Smolka of Lund University. "The beetles climb their cool balls whenever their front legs and their head overheat from pushing this huge dung ball across the hot South African sand."
The discovery marks the first example of an insect using a mobile thermal refuge in this way. It is also a demonstration of the remarkably sophisticated strategies that insects and other cold-blooded creatures employ to maintain their body temperatures.
Smolka's team stumbled upon this unusual behavior completely by accident. In fact, dung beetles also climb atop their dung balls to perform an "orientation dance" that the insects use to work out where they are going. As they watched for the dancing, the researchers began to notice that the beetles climbed their balls of dung much more often in the heat of the midday sun.
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Once on top of a ball at midday, the beetles were often seen "wiping their faces," a preening behavior that the researchers suspect spreads regurgitated liquid onto their legs and head to cool them down further. That's something the insects never do at other times of day.
To show that it was the beetles' hot legs that made them climb the ball, the researchers applied some cool (as in temperature) silicone boots to their front legs as alternative protection from the heat. "To our great surprise, this actually worked, and beetles with boots on climbed their balls less often," Smolka said.
The findings are yet another reminder of the many creative solutions found in nature, Smolka added. "Evolution has an astonishing ability to make use of existing structures for new purposes--in this case using a food resource for thermoregulation."
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Frieri adding cutter and changeup to arsenal
By Owen Perkins / Special to MLB.com
PEORIA, Ariz. -- Ernesto Frieri is starting his fifth big league campaign after going 5-2 with a 2.32 ERA while splitting last season with the Padres and Angels. He converted 23 of 25 save opportunities for the Halos, but he's still working on getting better, adding a changeup and cutter to complement his fastball.
"I'm excited," he said about his cutter after using it effectively in Thursday's win over the Padres. "Can't you see the smile on my face? I'm excited about those two pitches. They're going to help me a lot."
He didn't throw his changeup, because he's working on it primarily against left-handers, and the only lefty he faced was Yonder Alonso, who popped out on a first-pitch fastball. The cutter was especially effective against Cameron Maybin, who grounded to third on a full-count cutter.
"Camerin Maybin looked bad with that pitch," Frieri said. "That was a cutter from inside to right down the middle. He didn't hit the ball that good. That means it's a good pitch. It means it looks just like my fastball. That's what I want. They see my fastball all the time. Last year, they knew the fastball was coming, and I threw the fastball. Now they know the fastball is coming, and [I throw the] cutter. Got him!"
Frieri admitted if the season started tomorrow, he wouldn't feel ready to use the cutter or the changeup, but he's optimistic of having confidence in them by Opening Day.
"This is the best level in baseball," Frieri said. "You got to make adjustments to stay here. You have to keep working. Just because you had a great year, are you going to sit there and relax? No. That's not me. I keep improving myself. I like to compete, to get better, and to try new stuff."
Manager Mike Scioscia was pleased with the results as Frieri capped his fourth Cactus League outing with his fourth scoreless inning, keeping a perfect 0.00 ERA next to his name.
"Ernie looked sharp," Scioscia said. "The whole pitching staff's doing a good job. Garrett [Richards] pitched well. C.J. [Wilson] had good life and really threw some good breaking balls. Those guys are right on pace with where they need to be."
Pujols gaining strength through running program
PEORIA, Ariz. -- Though Albert Pujols made his spring debut on Tuesday, he did it in the designated hitter's slot while the Angels stood ready to use a designated runner for Pujols if he made it on base.
He went 0-for-3, and spent the following two days working on running drills in preparation for his next start, expected to come on Friday at home against the D-backs.
"He's getting two good running workouts in -- yesterday and today," manager Mike Scioscia said. "And then he'll be ready to get out there [in a game] tomorrow. He's still got a little work to do on the practice field running before we want to push him hard into playing games, but he's getting there. He could have played today, but our medical staff felt better with him getting a good workout on the cuts and running and maybe getting ready to play tomorrow."
Pujols is still a week or so away from taking the field at first and running full steam, but easing him into the lineup in the DH slot is helping him get his timing down against live pitching while he hones the other elements of his game.
"He got very aggressive on the outfield cuts, and he'll repeat that and probably transfer it to some easy base[running], Scioscia said. "It's a progression. I don't think it's going to take too much time until you're seeing him out there running the bases. Certainly within a week's time, if he has no setbacks, he should be out there running."
Scioscia said Pujols is already running at 90-100 percent along the edge of the outfield grass, noting, "He was getting after it."
Halos want Conger's arm to catch up with bat
PEORIA, Ariz. -- Hank Conger is earning manager Mike Scioscia's confidence as he bids to be the Angels' backup catcher behind Chris Iannetta.
A veteran of 73 big league games over parts of three seasons, Conger is having a big spring at the plate, hitting .462 (6-for-13) with a double, a homer, and eight RBIs, but Scioscia highlights his throwing as an area of focus this spring.
"As far as his progress behind the plate, it's been very tangible," Scioscia said. "The one area I think we're feeling more comfortable is his throwing. But this spring, it hasn't manifested itself on the field the way we'd like. Just yesterday, his exchange was long, his arm stroke was long, and he really wasn't doing the things that he has improved on, so he was a little erratic throwing the ball yesterday."
Most of Conger's experience in 2012 came with Iannetta on the disabled list due to a right wrist injury, and Conger is hoping to put a package together that would convince the Angels he's ready to crack another Opening Day roster, having made the club out of Spring Training in 2011. He made 48 starts that year and threw out 16 percent of basestealers.
"On the practice field, he's making a lot of strides," Scioscia said. "At some point, you need to bring that consistency to the game, and we're very confident he will. He has to find it. At times, he's shown he can throw the ball with great proficiency, and at times he's been erratic, but it's in him for sure to find that consistency."
Conger has a .979 career fielding percentage behind the dish, compared to Iannetta's .995 spanning a 505-game career. And though he played less than one-tenth of Iannetta's 623 innings in 2012, Conger's small sample size yielded a comparable percentage of catching 25 percent of those attempting to steal against him.
"A catcher has to be able to deter a running game, there's no doubt," Scioscia said. "But that doesn't mean you're throwing rockets right on the corner of the bag every time. There's a level that you need where teams have to either work for their stolen bases or they know the timing's against them. A catcher's tag time will deter them from running. I think Hank has that ability to get to that level. There's no doubt he has the arm strength to control the running game to the extent we would need him. It's really going to be a function of that consistency."
Former Angel Washburn helping young hurlers
PEORIA, Ariz. -- At 38 years old, the left-hander from Wisconsin looks like he could still win 10 games for the Halos, but Jarrod Washburn isn't in camp to try to crack the roster.
The 107-game winner is only back for a week, passing on some of his southpaw wisdom to the pitching prospects vying for a spot on the roster. Washburn went 75-57 from 1998-2004, pacing the club with an 18-6 record and a 3.15 ERA in 2002, when he started the first game of the Angels' World Series triumph.
"It's kind of nice if there's a lefty throwing a bullpen. Me and [Mark] Langston and [Mike] Hampton, we just kind of tag-team," Washburn said.
Langston is in his first year providing color commentary on the Angels' radio broadcasts, and Hampton is the new pitching coach for Double-A Arkansas. Together they have 48 seasons and 343 wins under their belts, but don't ask Washburn for insight on hot young pitchers.
"I don't know if I'm smart enough to [identify prospects]," Washburn said. "I'd be able to tell you, 'I like that guy,' but I don't know if I'd know his name. If I see his face, I'll tell you.
"[Jason] Vargas is great," Washburn said of the 14-game winner picked up from the Mariners to bolster the rotation, noting that the two crossed paths in Washburn's final season. "I love him. When I played in Seattle, I liked him a lot. That's going to be a nice, solid addition."
Washburn is playing his part in developing new talent, signing on as the head baseball coach for his alma mater, Webster High School in Webster, Wis., population about 643. He has been working with younger players in his hometown, and is poised to reap the rewards.
"Since I retired, I've been working with the youth program [in Webster], building it up," Washburn said. "The first grade I've worked with, they're eighth graders now, so they'll be in high school next year, and I figured with the talent level coming up, it just needs some stability in the program."
Asked if he was forging a path to a Major League managing job in the tradition of Walt Weiss, who parlayed a 20-6 record with Regis Jesuit High School in Aurora, Colo., last spring to a job managing this year's Rockies, Washburn laughed it off.
"You never know," Washburn said. "I doubt it."
Owen Perkins is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Is Palo Alto prepared to deal with the Big One?
Original post made on Nov 18, 2012
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a resident of Midtown
on Nov 18, 2012 at 12:23 pm
Check out the second column at: Web Link
a resident of Crescent Park
on Nov 18, 2012 at 2:37 pm
We have actually been told that the Bi One will hit the East Bay Hills, not here.
But Palo Alto is NOT prepared for a quake on the San Andreas Fault, despite the fact that a number of houses here had damage after the 1989 earthquake.
a resident of Meadow Park
on Nov 19, 2012 at 3:54 pm
We all managed to survive the Loma Prieta earthquake OK. Loosing your electricity is no big deal. If it's off for two or three days you may loose your frozen food.
In the late 1970's I was living in Los Altos Hills when a huge winter storm came through. Our electricity went out for 10 days because a power pole came down on Natoma Road. Power had to be restored in urban areas first, we were considered rural. It was Winter, and I had a baby.
Somehow we managed with a wood burning fire place and Jack-in-box takeouts. But then I lived in Europe through WWII, when we only had electricity for 4 hours a day.
a resident of Mountain View
on Nov 19, 2012 at 11:02 pm
maguro_01 is a registered user.
It's possible that Washington and Sacramento can't really back up this area as they might with financial constraints and that effort may now be politicized - recall Romney wanted to abolish FEMA and flip-flopped after Sandy.
If there are funds that can be constructively spent on earthquake resistance they might be. A reinforced school building and an ordinary bike bridge is preferable to a bridge that's an architectural wonder as a minor example.
I believe that Mountain View still has a few of those apartments on stilts over a parking area - why is not clear.
Oakland, I understand, has a lot of brick buildings made of salvage brick from the San Francisco earthquake.
More and more businesses are just computer terminals in function and we will increasingly be dependent on the Cloud. Some gas stations after Sandy apparently couldn't function even with power because communications weren't up - bad idea. In 1906 BA did business on wooden tables in front of the bank. Not very likely now. A bank branch is just a computer terminal.
I hope emergency plans take many such matters into account and suspect more work could be done.
a resident of Barron Park
on Nov 22, 2012 at 2:44 pm
You'll Manage: Remember the Loma Prietta epicenter was more than 80 miles south of here and was about 6.9 on the Richter scale. We don't what the strength of the next one will be or its epicenter.
Serafine; I don't think any earthquake expert can predict where the next "big one" will hit, where its epicenter will be, nor whether nearby faults will also be triggered.
It is possible that many if not most will not have power for many days. The loss of frozen food will be the least of our worries. Gas stations, banks, food distribution, hospitals and first responders will be overwhelmed. Each family should make every effort to plan to be self sufficient to the greatest extent possible for at least seven days.
a resident of Midtown
on Nov 22, 2012 at 2:57 pm
"But Palo Alto is NOT prepared for a quake on the San Andreas Fault, despite the fact that a number of houses here had damage after the 1989 earthquake."
PA can't keep the lights on during the morning of a beautiful, uneventful Thanksgiving morning. What are ya worried about?
"We have actually been told that the Bi One will hit the East Bay Hills, not here."
The Bi Ones prefer a more urban setting, like downtown, from what I'm told.
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BBC bosses keep jobs despite failure to act in Savile case
THE BBC has not sacked a single executive, despite admitting that a lack of leadership left it in such a state of ''chaos'' that it was ''completely incapable'' of dealing with the Jimmy Savile sex abuse allegations.
A £2 million ($3 million) review commissioned by the corporation concluded Wednesday that bitter infighting, flawed decision-making and ''rigid management chains'' led to one of the biggest crises in the corporation's history.
It found that executives were warned more than a year ago about Savile's ''dark side'' but still pressed ahead with tribute programs about the presenter.
A separate report found a senior executive approved a Newsnight program that led to Lord McAlpine, the former Tory treasurer, being wrongly accused of child abuse without asking if basic checks had been made.
Six senior executives and editors were singled out for criticism in the reports - the findings of which were accepted by the BBC in full - but none have been fired. Two have quit, three are being moved into new positions in the BBC and one has kept her job.
The decision not to fire anyone was taken by the broadcaster and approved by the BBC Trust, which is headed by Lord Patten of Barnes. The trust has no power to remove staff except the director-general.
Conor Burns, a Conservative member of the House of Commons culture, media and sport select committee, accused the BBC of failing to ''take responsibility'' and hold its executives to account.
''There were clear and flagrant breaches of the BBC's own editorial code, and while that has been accepted no one has taken responsibility for that systemic failure,'' he said.
The report on the Savile investigation, by the former Sky News executive Nick Pollard, described a culture of ''shocking'' infighting where traditional newsroom camaraderie had been replaced by a ''fundamental lack of trust''.
In November last year, a film investigating Savile's activities was dropped by Peter Rippon, then editor of Newsnight, after he decided that victims' claims were ''contestable'' and ''not worth the fuss''. His decision was criticised by Newsnight journalists, who said it was ''a breach of our duty to the women who trusted us to reveal that Jimmy Savile was a paedophile''.
Mr Pollard, who examined more than 10,000 emails and interviewed 19 people during his investigation, said Mr Rippon's decision not to broadcast was ''flawed and wrong''. Mr Rippon yesterday resigned as editor but remains a BBC employee.
Helen Boaden, the BBC's director of news, was also criticised for the ''casual'' way in which she informed George Entwistle, the former director-general, about the potential controversy surrounding the Newsnight programme. Ms Boaden resumed her position on Thursday.
Mr Entwistle resigned last month after 54 days in the job with a £450,000 pay-off, double the amount he was entitled to. The payout was labelled ''unacceptable'' by the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee in its report.
''Public servants should not be rewarded for failure,'' said the committee's chairwoman, the opposition Labour Party politician Margaret Hodge. ''This cavalier use of public money is out of line with public expectations and what is considered acceptable elsewhere in the public sector.''
For months after the Savile film was dropped, the BBC's publicity machine kept a lid on the story but when it finally broke in October ''the BBC's management system proved completely incapable of dealing with it'', the report says.
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Lynagh grateful after stroke recovery
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Australia legend Michael Lynagh has spoken of his gratitude for the help he received in his recovery from his recent stroke.
The former Queensland and Australia fly-half spent two weeks in the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital after suffering a stroke in April. Apart from losing vision in his left eye, Lynagh has made a full recovery.
"I'm very lucky," he Sky Sports News. "I think being relatively healthy and younger, it certainly helped in my recovery."
Reflecting on his experience, he added: "I've certainly learnt a lot about strokes and the recovery of them, and how it affects young people - and older people of course. I've become very involved in the Stroke Association and a number of other charities, both here and in Australia, and also the hospital in Australia which was fantastic for me.
"It's an illness that one needs to understand, and also understand the symptoms to try and help people when you see it happening, to get them to a hospital quickly. That's what happened to me and I'm very grateful."
Ahead of the new Aviva Premiership season, Lynagh tipped Sale Sharks' new signing Danny Cipriani to return to English rugby as a better player following his 18-month stint in Super Rugby with the Melbourne Rebels.
"It's been very much an up-and-down time for him," Lynagh said in assessing Cipriani's time in Australia. "We've seen him do brilliant things on the rugby field and some not-so-brilliant things on the rugby field and off the rugby field.
"Him now coming back to England to try and play well for Sale and also get back in the England reckoning will be quite important for him. I think the rugby experience, and experience of a different culture and way of playing the game will be very educational and very good for him and I expect to see him come back a better player for it."
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ATKINS - First-year Atkins head volleyball coach Tracey Brown didn't realize the success she would have replacing former Red Devil coach Kevin Lea. Coincidentally, she didn't think her team would be facing the old coach in the state playoffs, either. But the Lady Red Devils will get a chance to square off against their former coach, who is now with the Lavaca Lady Golden Arrows at noon Tuesday at the Harrison Youth Center.
The Lady Red Devils (6-6, 5-5 AAA Central Conference) went from not winning a single game last season to a .500 record where they finished third in the conference.
"Honestly, I didn't think we have this much success my first year. I thought we had a chance to do better this year than last because the girls had another year of experience behind them," said. "Last year was the first time some of these girls ever played volleyball, so I knew another year would help them and let them be able to compete more."
Atkins finished third in conference play, which gave them a bye with the No. 3 seed in the district tournament where the Lady Red Devils finished fourth after losing to Mayflower on Oct. 16.
"I was very proud of the girls for finishing third in conference," Brown said. "We were just praying to get that fourth seed and to get third was great, we were all excited."
Atkins lost the first game of the match 15-25, but rallied in the second to win 25-23. In the third game, the Eagles scored 10 unanswered points before Atkins got its first serve, but the Lady Red Devils made a game of it, eventually losing 19-25. Jordan Harris had three kills, four digs, an ace and a block. Andrea Haney had five aces, four kills, a dig and a block. Chelsey Alexander had eight aces, 10 assists, a kill and a dig. Marlee Shannon had five aces and a kill in the tournament. Harris and Haney were named to the All-Conference team, Haney was also named to the All-tournament team.
"I wish we would have done better in the district tournament because I felt like we should have been third or even second because the girls have just improved tremendously this year," Brown said. "We pulled together and played as a team. We played better those matches than we did other times."
Brown said when the team defeated Mayflower in the second game of districts, it was some of the best teamwork she'd ever seen all year long. She said the team was working together and not worrying about who had the most hits or stats, but playing together and doing what it took to win. She said the team would need to take that same mentality into the game against Lavaca.
"Lavaca is very good. They're undefeated in the AAA Northwest Conference, and they have a great overall record. They're a tough team. Lavaca has had strong teams, so we know we're going in and going to have to play the best we've ever played to compete with them, but we're going to try to do that," Brown said. "We're not giving up knowing that they're a great team, we're going in trying to give them the best game we can give them and hopefully we might could cause an upset. We would love that if we could."
Brown was part of Lea's staff last year when he was the head coach at Atkins. Brown said she has an idea of what to expect from Lavaca and what it could throw at the Lady Red Devils, but said she is preparing her team to the best of its abilities. She said her players are a mixture of nervous and excited about playing against their old coach.
"The girls feel it's not just a volleyball game to them, it's a little bit more," Brown said. "They want to prove themselves and play a good game."
No matter the results of Tuesday's match, Brown said she is proud of her girls and their accomplishments to this point. She said it was the teams' preseason goal to make state. Now the Lady Red Devils have a shot at showing their old coach how much they've grown and what he's missing.
"I'm proud I just have such dedicated girls and we look forward to getting to play Lavaca," Brown said. "The girls are excited about getting to see coach Lea because they respect him."


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Today (Feb. 21), Allen revealed that she has named her upcoming album, wait for it… Sheezus. According to Glamour, Allen made the title announcement on The Graham Norton, which will air tonight. "It's a confident title choice," she said, "and a little nod to Kanye West."
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Following on from my '48 hours in Brighton' feature in June's magazine, I've put together a Best Bits guide to this fabulous city. Obviously this is by no means an exhaustive list. I've focused on central Brighton but with extra time I'd recommend spreading your wings to explore Hove, the more genteel western side of the city with its parks, cafés and Regency squares. However, for the purposes of reigning in my enthusiasm here is my pick of the main action...
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http://www.silentpcreview.com/A_Better_ ... Efficiency
Try not to get too worked up in differences of 5 watts or 10 watts... but it's a very interesting read nonetheless, one of the few times I've seen the actual improvements in efficiency actually quantified between power supplies at a similar given load (rather than a as a percentage of power supply capacity, which is what individual reviews tend to do).
The difference between older less efficient units (often certified 80PLUS and 80PLUS Bronze) units vs. newer units (often 80PLUS Gold and 80PLUS Platinum certified) is quite marked. Makes me glad we finally retired the Seasonic S12 II/M12 II's from the System Guide...
Seems a pretty arcane way of saying the exact same thing. "Power Lost" isn't really a very informative metric. With load power and efficiency percentage, you have all the information you need. Of course, these need to be measured there and then.
If I just fire off Handbrake over 4 cores and Furmark over 2 GPUs, I'm showing 422 watts at the wall. I don't have the kit to measure what my PSU is actually delivering on the other end (but SPCR seems to), I work it out to be about 380 watts. So I can say "It delivers a load of 380 watts at 90% efficiency while drawing 422 watts from the wall" and I'm saying the same thing as SPCR here, doing so much more clearly, and giving enough information for the reader to derive any other figures he needs.
SCPR seems to want to emphasise the "power lost" term, but the correct term to be emphasising is the conversion efficiency - 90% in my case - while giving the input and output powers.
I think it's pretty useful actually.
It's relating the information in a way similar to how people talk about engine's putting out a certain amount of horsepower at the flywheel versus at the rear (or front or both) wheels at a certain RPM, and plotting it out at several points. You almost instinctively know you want the two numbers to be as close as possible, and I think it's easier to see that without percentages.
Makes it easy to see where one model may outperform another at a particular load, so if you know what your machine's pulling most of the time, you can see which unit does better in that range.
Also, I think the idea is that the reader doesn't have to derive anything; I don't know a lot of people who hear "you do the math" and go "YAY!" Most of them are on Ars, come to think of it.
One thing that SPCR review does which most don't is take things down to really low wattage. Most reviews stay at 20% of rated efficiency or higher, in line with the 80+ rating scheme which also only does 20-100%.
If you're building a modern office PC with a simple i3/i5, iGPU and SSD (which I happen to have done twice in the last month) then your idle wattages are below 20% of the rated load of even a 300W PSU. So I was asking myself: "Should I buy a 300W bronze PSU or a 400W gold PSU?" This SPCR article provided decent information.
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Seems a pretty arcane way of saying the exact same thing.
It's saying the same thing, though I wouldn't call it arcane but practical.
I usually know roughly what a system I need a PSU for will consume. Let's say it's 50W idle and 300W under high load. Now I wanna know which PSU to take and with that load anything from 350W to maybe 550W could be reasonable, as there might be a 500W platinum PSU that's more efficient than the 350W ones. As their efficiencies are tied to relative load levels, I first need to see at what load level for the wattage class my system would end up.
Now I can start comparing the PSUs.
If I would have given their efficiency at certain wattages, I could just look up which ones perform well on the wattages I need and whether the platinum 500W unit is better at the 50W I need than the silver 350W. If I get the difference in absolute wattage, I can even directly estimate how much of a difference this will make in kWh for a given usage profile. That's the number I get billed by.
This way one could argue that the important metric is excess wasted power or for AC'd homes excess heat losses, not conversion efficiency. I tend to think in conversion efficiency, too, though.
The suit in me tells me to look for absolute numbers, though, as every single Watt running 24/7 costs me two bucks a year and a PSU saving 5W on the idle load of my home server may be priced €10 higher if I run it three years.
In the end I am just happy if I get numbers for an absolute load in either way. Because then the main guess work, efficiencies at load points between measurements, is finally gone.


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MISSOULA, Mont.—Officials in Granite County have released the names of two Colorado residents who died in a rollover crash on Interstate 90 in western Montana.
The Montana Highway Patrol says the westbound sport utility vehicle veered into the median near Drummond on Wednesday afternoon. The driver overcorrected and the SUV flipped and traveled back into the median.
KECI-TV reports ( http://bit.ly/10gJjkI) the crash killed 24-year-old David Crow of Littleton, Colo., and 23-year-old Katrina May of Durango, Colo.
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The Moroccan city of Khribka will host the 8th African Film Festival to be held during the period between July 14 – 21, with the participation of 17 films from 15 African countries.
The event will be opened with the screening of the Egyptian film al Saher (the magician), in honor of its late director, Radwan al Kashef, according to Morocco News Agency.
17 African film will participate in the festival contest including, "A journey in Waga" from Congo, al Abwab al Mulaqa (the closed doors) by Egyptian director Atef Hatata, "States" from Gabon, Atash (thirsty) by Moroccan director Saad Sharaibi, "100 Days" from Rwanda and "House of Peace) from Chad.
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This new live album (along with attending a Radiohead show) proves this ain't just a studio band. Live, they bring it. Unbelievably powerful emotion and stage presence with frontman Thom Yorke leading the charge. All the songs here were recorded in Europe and Los Angeles, and except for one new song, the band draws on material from their last two albums. 11/15/2001 - John Richards
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I'm starting 2013 off on wheels... a new rolling ironing station
I built a big ironing board cover for my ironing board and now that I'm in my new house & new craft mecca, I find that I move my ironing board all over the place. I got tired of it collapsing on me when I moved it so I made a new rolling ironing station.
I took pictures along the way to make a tutorial. That's on my to do list for the week
I found the 36" high rolling shelves on Walmart.com for $40. I'm sure that will be the biggest question asked about this set up - where'd I get those shelves?...
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Wow pies 1 and 2 sure look different. Hopefully they were good and you have a good time tomorrow. Everything I've heard about Jeff Varasano seems to be good.
Sounds great! Jeff Varasano was a big influence on me.
TooMe too... but what would members consider his style to be?
Ya I also started with his site. Would it be considered elite NY/nearlypolitan?
The term I have heard is "NY Elite"
Is a starter/poolish used with Elite pizza?
Cool Yeah Thanks and looks good . I had the pleasure of Finally Meeting Jeff as well at the Pizza expo VPN private Party this year. Very Nice Guy ! and verypasionate abou the whole pizza thing. He was also an influence on me with his dissertation and oven Hack I read it Page by Page probab;y several Times ! Once and a while he will evn like a pie pic I post on my Facebook page which always gives me a good feeling Thanks and best of luck in ATL !
I'm with Chau. This is Neo-NY and definitely not NY elite. NY elite (what I call coal) has no historical connection with sourdough. Jeff, on his recipe page, went through great trouble to acquire Patsy's starter, only to later find out that Patsy's doesn't use a starter.Not that that really matters, though, as sourdough definitely has a history with NP pizza. So, this, being a NP/NY hybrid, is within that paradigm. Because of the sourdough aspect and quick bake time, though, I would say that this pie has very little ties to NY.Nearlypolitan has a history of being used on this forum to describe flawless Neapolitan pizza done in a home oven, so I wouldn't use it in this context.
Thanks for the video's John...everything looks great! I think it is so cool that your boy seems really interested in things pizza. Bob
Eyes closed I cold not tell the difference in styles. I mean no disrespect at all to the NY Elite style in comparing it to what I do know about my favorite (NP) style of pizza. John K


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BERLIN- The 8th Annual Toys for Tots Open golf tournament at River Run Golf Club in Berlin last Friday was a huge success with a record amount of funds raised for the worthy charity.
The 8th Annual Toys for Tots tournament last Friday at River Run raised a record $9,573, or the highest amount raised by the event since its inception eight years ago. Led by a solid sponsorship team including Rommel's Ace Hardware, the tournament blew away the old record, resulting in a nice chunk of change for the Toys for Tots program in the upcoming holiday season.
"Thanks to our sponsors, the entire $9,573 will be spent on toys from local area merchants," said Toys for Tots coordinator Ed Hearthway.


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UMass men's basketball nips Siena, 64-63
ALBANY, N.Y. -- If Siena basketball coach Mitch Buonaguro doesn't see Chaz Williams again, he will be a happy guy.
The University of Massachusetts point guard beat Siena last December by making four free throws in the final seconds to clinch the victory. On Wednesday night, Williams' jumper with 3.3 seconds left to play put the Minutemen up by a point. Sampson Carter deflected an inbounds pass by Trenity Burdine and the Minutemen escaped with a 64-63 win.
"He's been making plays like that since he's been at UMass," Buonaguro said. "Last year, it was the same kind of game and Williams took the game over."
Williams, who scored a game-high 23 points, had been held pointless since draining a 3-point shot with 11 minutes left in the game. He got the ball with about 24 seconds left, dribbled almost 20 seconds off the clock and then drove to the hoop for the game-winning basket to end a two-game losing streak.
"It's a play that we usually run at the end of the game. Coach [Derek Kellogg] had the faith in me. He didn't call any time outs and he left the game in our hands," Williams said. "I just had to go make a play."
UMass trailed by as many as 17 points in the first, by 34-24 at halftime and by 13 early in the second half. The Minutemen, who shot 11 of 34 from the floor in the first half, started heating up in the second. Making shots led to successfully pressing and that kept cutting into Siena's lead.
UMass led 6-5 in the first half and didn't lead again until Carter's jumper with 11:54 left put the Minutemen up 44-43. UMass did lead by as many as six before the Saints came back. Siena went up 62-58 on O.D. Anosike's layup with 3:46 left. It was the last basket the Saints made.
"It's probably the strangest 3-2 [record] I've ever seen in my life," Kellogg said. "Three last-second game winners are probably unheard of and unfathomable. I guess we'll take it, and hopefully these guys will play a little better on Saturday and into next week."
The Minutemen will be home at the Mullins Center on Saturday against a Miami team that upset 13th-ranked Michigan State on Wednesday.
"We just still have to find our identity," said Kellogg. "We're still searching for straws on how we're supposed to play, how we're sharing the ball and how hard we have to play. Saturday's another day."
Williams threw a long lead pass to Jesse Morgan for a layup with 51 seconds to play, cutting the Siena lead to 63-62. Out of a time out, Siena's Rob Poole missed a jumper and the rebound went out of bounds off a Saints player. That gave the Minutemen the ball with 24 seconds remaining and gave Williams the chance to put his team back in the win column.
The Minutemen looked awful in the first half, scoring 24 points and missing their first 12 shots from 3-point range.
"I thought the guys weren't confident and didn't play as hard as we should and could," Kellogg said. "That's what I let them know at halftime. You can go away and put your tail between your legs, or we can come out and scrap and battle a little bit."
Terrell Vinson had 17 points for UMass while Maxie Esho and Carter each had 10 rebounds off the bench.
Evan Hymes led Siena with 15 points while Anosike had a double-double with 13 points and 13 rebounds.
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Although this event was less devastating than its counterpart at the end of the Permian Period, which occurred roughly 50 million years earlier and eliminated more than 95 percent of marine species and more than 70 percent of terrestrial ones (see Permian extinction), it did result in drastic reductions of some living populations. The end-Triassic extinction particularly affected the ammonoids and conodonts, two groups that serve as important index fossils for assigning relative ages to various strata in the Triassic System of rocks. Indeed, the conodonts and many Triassic ceratitid ammonoids became extinct. Only the phylloceratid ammonoids were able to survive, and they gave rise to the explosive radiation of cephalopods later in the Jurassic Period. In addition, many families of brachiopods, gastropods, bivalves, and marine reptiles also became extinct. On land a great part of the vertebrate fauna disappeared, although the dinosaurs, pterosaurs, crocodiles, turtles, mammals, and fishes were little affected by the transition. In fact, many authorities maintain that the end-Triassic mass extinction on land opened ecological niches that were filled relatively quickly by dinosaurs. Plant fossils and palynomorphs (spores and pollen of plants) show no significant changes in diversity across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary.
The cause of the end-Triassic extinction is a matter of considerable debate. Many contend that this event was caused by climate change and rising sea levels resulting from the sudden release of large amounts of carbon dioxide. The release of carbon dioxide from widespread volcanic activity associated with the rifting of the supercontinent Pangea could have strengthened the global greenhouse effect, which raised average air temperatures around the globe. Other authorities suggest that the relatively modest heating caused by rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere could have liberated massive amounts of methane trapped in permafrost and undersea ice. Methane, a much more effective greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, could have then caused Earth's atmosphere to warm significantly. In contrast, others maintain that the mass extinction was triggered by the impact of an extraterrestrial body (such as an asteroid or comet). There are also some who argue that the end-Triassic extinction was not the product of a single major event but simply a prolonged turnover of species across a considerable amount of time and thus should not be regarded as a mass extinction event.


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Settlement Reached in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Lawsuit
The parties to a lawsuit challenging New York State's participation in, and its rules to implement, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative ("RGGI") have reached a settlement. On December 23, 2009, a proposed consent decree was filed with the Supreme Court of the State of New York in Albany. The litigation, which commenced on January 29, 2009, was brought against Governor Paterson, various State entities, and Consolidated Edison ("ConEd") by Indeck Corinth, the operator of a gas-fired energy co-generation facility that held a long-term contract with ConEd.
Two other gas-fired energy co-generation facilities with long-term ConEd contracts later intervened in support of Indeck. As described in the proposed consent decree, Indeck alleged that New York's participation in RGGI was outside the scope of the State's lawful authority and unconstitutional, and that the rules implementing RGGI were arbitrary, capricious, and not supported by a proper record. Indeck contended that its long-term contract prevented it, unlike other generators without such contracts, from passing on to ratepayers the costs of complying with New York's rules implementing RGGI ("RGGI Rules").
RGGI is an agreement among ten Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states, including New York, to limit greenhouse gas emissions through a cap-and-trade system. As summarized by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority ("NYSERDA"), the agreement "calls for states to cap power sector carbon emissions through 2014 and then reduce emissions by 2.5 per year for the next four years, resulting in a 10 percent reduction by 2018." The RGGI Rules were promulgated by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and by NYSERDA. As summarized by the DEC, the RGGI Rules "require power plant owners in New York to obtain sufficient allowances to cover their annual CO2 emissions," primarily by purchasing them at auctions or through a secondary market, but with "a limited number of allowances" allocated at no charge to power generators with long-term contracts that prevent them from passing the cost of such allowances to ratepayers.


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BERLIN- Worcester Prep's boys' varsity basketball team thrashed Eastern Shore Independent Athletic Conference (ESIAC) rival Gunston, 77-44, last week to improve to 15-1 on the season.
The Mallards jumped all over the Herons in their penultimate game of what has been a special season. Zander Farr led Worcester with 23 points, while Harrison Brennan scored 20 and Matt Reilly added 13. With the win, the Mallards improved to 15-1 on the season, their only loss coming to Salisbury School back on January 18. Worcester will have one final regular season tune-up this afternoon against Delmarva Christian on the road and the ESIAC playoffs are set to get underway next week.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A jury on Thursday night found a father guilty of allowing a convicted sex offender and another man to have sex with his then-9-year-old daughter.
After a three-day trial, the jury deliberated for less than three hours before finding Christopher Perry, 42, guilty of all eight charges, including sexual battery, conspiracy to commit sexual battery, lewd and lascivious molestation and child neglect.
"We were hoping for complete accountability and responsibility with this jury, and we are very pleased," prosecutor Jessica Villella said after the verdict was read.
In sentencing Perry to six life sentences plus 45 years, Judge Adrian Soud said the maximum legal punishment can't reverse the harm he's done to his child.
"She would turn to you and her mom any time she was sick, any time she was hungry, any time she needs protection. And rather than provide for her, you hated her," Soud said. "You deserve every ounce of responsibility the law can impose."
UNCUT: Judge doesn't mince words in sentencing of Christopher Perry
Perry testified in court Thursday in his own defense.
Perry said he met Robert Young, the man accused of molesting the girl, 18 years ago when they worked together at S&S Cafeteria. Perry was a dishwasher and Young a line cook.
Once the two started hanging out, Young told him he was a convicted sex offender and that 20 years prior he was having sex with a 17-year-old who lied about her age.
Young moved into the Perry's home at the beginning of December 2010. Perry said it was his wife Mary's idea to let him sleep in their daughter's room, and he didn't think anything of it.
Perry was holding back tears while on the stand Thursday talking about his daughter.
"She's my heart and soul," he said. "I love her to death. She's everything to me. I never thought in 100 years this man would touch my daughter. He's always been with women. I never thought little kids, never thought he would do this to me."
Perry said he lied to Department of Children and Families investigators looking into the case about Young sleeping in the girl's room because "it would have just started a bunch of crap" he didn't need at the time.
Perry said he didn't have any idea about the sexual abuse and that his wife didn't tell him anything. He said he talked to his daughter after she left DCF and asked her if anything happened, and she told him no.
Perry said he didn't know anything about the sexual abuse until he and his wife were arrested March 2, 2011.
The prosecution argued he didn't make much effort to find out what was happening to his daughter, and Perry admitted he never specifically asked his daughter if Young touched her.
Perry admitted he saw Young bathing his daughter, but didn't think it was a big deal, saying Young was like a stepfather to his kids.
Perry also claimed he didn't know Young's prior sexual conviction was for molesting his 13-year-old stepdaughter. But when the prosecution played a recording of Perry admitting it to investigators, Perry stood up in the courtroom and screamed, "Your Honor, I never said that."
"Mr. Perry, have a seat," the judge told him.
The prosecution argued Perry turned a blind eye to clue after clue because Young financially supported the family, and prosecutors questioned Perry's actions, or lack thereof.
"Sitting here today, do you think you did everything you could to protect your daughter?" prosecutor Alan Mizrahi asked Perry.
"Yes," Perry responded.
Mary Perry had already pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 years in jail.
Halveland has pleaded guilty to lewd and lascivious molestation and is awaiting sentencing. Young, a registered sex offender, is awaiting trial.
The girl's grandmother, Patricia Woloszynowski, is also charged with allowing the sexual abuse to take place. She's awaiting trial.
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Kingwood HS girls' track team OK after bus crash
Published 3:17 pm, Saturday, August 24, 2013
No serious injuries were reported Saturday morning when the driver of a bus carrying the Kingwood High School girls' track team apparently passed out.
The driver and two students were taken to area hospitals, but at mid-afternoon Saturday, everyone was reported in good condition, said Humble ISD spokeswoman Jamie Mount.
The incident happened about 11:50 a.m. Saturday as two Humble Independent School District buses were returning to Kingwood High School from a morning track meet at Cypress Ranch High School, Mount said.
The buses were eastbound on Beltway 8 near the JFK Boulevard exit, when one driver is believed to have briefly lost consciousness, she said.
"The bus veered to the shoulder and came to a stop," she said.
The bus, which was carrying about 30 track team members, did not strike anything, she said.
The other bus was not involved in the accident.
A replacement bus was sent to pick up the passengers from the affected bus, Mount said.
The bus driver and one student were taken by ambulance to Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital in Humble. Another girl was taken by her parents to Kingwood Medical Center in Kingwood, Mount said.
No other information was available, she said.


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Press Briefing at NATO Headquarters
Tuesday 31 July at 14h00
Major General Stephen Day, Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans, ISAF Joint Command (IJC), will brief the press via video conference on "ISAF's evolution to the Security Force Assistance concept." Security Force Assistance reflects a fundamental adjustment from Coalition-led operations to supporting Afghan Security Forces operations.
An audio and video recording of the briefing will be available in English after the event (http://www.nato.int/).
Media who cannot attend may send their questions by email to firstname.lastname@example.com. These will be answered during the briefing.
Journalists holding a 2012 valid permanent NATO media pass will have access as for a Ministerial Meeting. Media representatives not in possession of a 2012 valid permanent NATO media pass and wishing to attend the event are invited to request accreditation directly at the main entrance of NATO, on 31 July, starting from 13h00. They will have to present an ID and a valid press card from a recognised national professional body.
Those media representatives not in possession of a valid press card are invited to send a signed letter from their editor to NATO Press and Media Service, no later than Tuesday 31 July, 10h00 (fax +32.2707.1399; email: email@example.com ).
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July 8, 2009
Guess Who: Who is disguised as the Unabomber Sitting on a Pipe?
What is he reading, btw? It looks like a children's Greek mythology book.
18 comments:
- AnonymousJuly 8, 2009 at 1:45 AM
Thank you, TCA!!! I was having an awful day. It's so nice to know that when I need a pick-me-up, you're here to provide it! Thanks!!! I love this site! :-)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 8, 2009 at 1:46 AM
I looooooove Rob, but that has to be one of the most unattractive pics of him I have ever seen. Of course, I'd still throw myself at his feet (or other body parts) in a heartbeat.ReplyDelete
ufff even here he looks soooo scaryyy hahahaReplyDelete
OH. FREAKING. GOD. I have that book. Oh gosh. Oh me.ReplyDelete
!!! That made my day. Thanks dearest Twicrack!
thank you guys for visiting my blog. :-ReplyDelete
- thparkleJuly 8, 2009 at 2:14 AM
Why in the world would he be reading a Greek Mythology book? Perhaps it's just a prop for the movie and he's just carrying it around? Or looking up what a greek god looks like as he played a greek god look-a-like Edward, LOL!ReplyDelete
He looks like he's about to take a gigantic poop on that fence. And I still want to make out with him. What the hell is wrong with me? LOL!ReplyDelete
I think the book is just a prop. In some other pictures I saw the little girl he's been photographed with also carrying the same book as he walks with her.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 8, 2009 at 2:46 AM
**** THE BOOK IS FROM THE MOVIE..ITS HIS "LITTLE'S SISTER'S BOOK FROM THE MOVIE*****ReplyDelete
He looks a little like Joaquin Phoenix- in his messed up state!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 8, 2009 at 2:56 AM
Stephenie Meyer loves the Percy Jackson books. Which is actually having its first book made right now in Vancouver! Books are based on Mythology... could he be researching a part....???ReplyDelete
Heidi Ho, I actually think there are times when 'cleaned up nice' Joaquin Phoenix and RPattz look alike! I've said this to friends before and got the 'crickets chirping' look in return.ReplyDelete
It's nice to know I'm not as nuts as I thought . . . or wait, you did only compare them in disheveled states . . . maybe I'm not out of the woods yet, ha! :)
- AnonymousJuly 8, 2009 at 4:45 AM
lucky pipeReplyDelete
p.s. this pic of Rob reminds me of a cat with a back itch, finding something to take care of it on . . . if only he had his face raised to a gleaming sun, this picture would've been perfect, LOL!ReplyDelete
whoa...dude. i have that book. that's the book my mom used to teach us about myths and stuff when i homeschooled fourth grade... niiiice.ReplyDelete
Maybe it's a movie scene or something. Then again poor man-in-hiding does love his hoodies.ReplyDelete
Thats what I find most attractive about Rob, amongst a gazillion other things. But his goofiness an ability to not give a flying crap what everyone thinks is to me THE most attractive thing about him. Im loving that he reads things like that. He says because he didnt attend college he reads as much as he can to make himself smarter. Love it!ReplyDelete


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With March's homicides, this year's totals have already surpassed the total for the previous year. In 2009, there were 18 homicides and for this year so far, there are 21. The beginning of the year started out with a step in the right direction but what will it take to get our communities back on track? Maybe what we need are those community prayer walks and vigils as a reminder that violence cannot and will not be tolerated. It takes the whole community, not just one particular group.
As part of an ongoing effort to heighten awareness about the effect of murder in the Black community, the New Pittsburgh Courier will compile a list of homicides in the county each month. It is our hope that as the list of victims grows, so will a true understanding of how these lost lives affect the mental health, economic well-being and self-image of the region's Black neighborhoods.
Out of the 21 murders in 2010—14 were Black and 11 of them were Black men.
March Homicides (7)
MARCH 7—Mara Knox, a 41-year-old Black female from Windgap, was found fatally stabbed with multiple wounds to the abdomen in her home in the 3800 block of Haven Street. She was taken to Allegheny General Hospital, where she later died. Authorities have arrested her husband Anthony Knox. He allegedly stabbed her, went after their children and then stabbed himself. He has been charged with homicide, two counts of attempted homicide and aggravated assault.
MARCH 14—Mark Barry, a 55-year-old Black male from Marshall-Shadeland, was found dead and guarded by his dog with a gunshot wound to the chest in the 2700 block of Mullins Street in Marshall-Shadeland. He was allegedly walking his dog when he was approached by two teens who intended to rob him. Police have charged Cordell Brown and Tyrone Thomas with homicide, conspiracy, robbery and carrying a firearm without a license.
MARCH 15—Lee Schwartz, a 43-year-old White male from Squirrel Hill, was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head and found on a hillside in the 100 block of Hazlett Street in the North Side. No one has been charged with the homicide.
MARCH 20—Josef Moore, a 21-year-old Black male from North Braddock, was found fatally shot in the head in the 500 block of Margaret Way in North Braddock. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities have charged Sean Robinson with homicide and a firearms violation.
MARCH 24—Taushad Thompson, a 2-year-old Black male from the Hill District, was found with head injuries at a home on North Fourth Street in Clairton when police answered a call. He was taken to Children's Hospital of UPMC, where he later died of blunt force trauma. Authorities charged Eric L. Johnson with criminal homicide and endangering the welfare of a child. He had been watching Thompson.
MARCH 24—Melvin Johnson, a 20-year-old Black male from Sheraden, was found shot in the head by police when they responded to a call of someone shot at 1008 Chartiers Ave. He was pronounced dead at the scene. He was allegedly shot when he and another male tried to rob an apartment. No arrests have been made.
MARCH 27—Shirl Esseny, a 60-year-old White female from Pittsburgh, was found fatally shot in the lower abdomen in the 6800 block of Frankstown Avenue in Homewood. She was taken to UPMC Presbyterian, where she later died. She had been coming home from the Homewood Branch of the Carnegie Library when she was hit. She was not the intended target. Authorities have arrested Anthony Thomas, 15, and charged him with homicide, possession of a weapon by a minor and carrying a firearm without a license. They also later charged Robert Brown, 16, with the same charges plus criminal conspiracy. Her name has also been reported as Cheryl Esseny.
JAN. 1—Lillainya Rachko, a 29-year-old White female from Beechview, was found beaten to death with an aluminum bat in the basement of an Orangewood Street home in Beechview. She allegedly was beaten by her boyfriend, William Murray, who later committed suicide.
JAN. 6—Uniquea Hines, a 23-year-old Black female from Clairton, was stabbed to death in the neck in her Clairton home on Baatan Drive in Century Town Homes. Police arrested and charged Herbert Benson, the father of her two children. He allegedly entered her home, went to her room and assaulted her and another male. He left the room and returned with a knife and then stabbed her. Her children were home and saw the incident. She ran to a neighbor's home, where she collapsed and died. Benson has been charged with homicide, burglary, assault, child endangerment and resisting arrest.
JAN. 15—Marcel King, a 40-year-old Black male from Pittsburgh, was found stabbed in the chest and laying face down in the courtyard of the 2100 block of Elmore Square in the Hill District. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Tyrone Taylor has been charged with criminal homicide. He and King allegedly had an argument.
JAN. 20—Adelani Bajomo, a 50-year-old Black male from Stowe Township, was found dead with a gunshot to the chest on Belleau Street on the North Side. He was allegedly killed while driving a passenger in his jitney. He died at the scene.
JAN. 24—Arnaldo Scalfari, a 65-year-old White male from McKeesport, was found shot to death in his corner store, Aldo's, at Jenny Lind and Packer streets in McKeesport. It appears to have been a robbery. No one has been charged with the homicide. The investigation is ongoing.
JAN. 31—Omar Battle, a 27-year-old Black male from Pittsburgh, was fatally shot in the back outside AutoZone in the 200 block of Penn Avenue in Wilkinsburg Jan. 29. He was taken to a local hospital, where he died two days later. No one has been charged with the homicide, the investigation is ongoing.
February Homicides (8)
FEB. 7—Decarlos Lewis, a 2-month-old White male from North Versailles, was found unresponsive by authorities in his Hyer Avenue apartment in North Versailles when they responded to an emergency call made by his father. He had been in the care of his father. Michael Lewis, the child's father, has been arrested and charged with homicide, endangering the welfare of a child and resisting arrest. He is currently awaiting trial.
FEB. 13—William Ford, a 31-year-old Black male from Penn Hills, was found dead with multiple gunshots to his torso in the 7200 block of Frankstown Avenue in Homewood. No one has been charged with the homicide. The investigation is ongoing.
FEB. 14—Devin Dastion, a 21-year-old Black male from the North Side, was found fatally shot with multiple gunshot wounds in the 2300 block of Holyoke Street on the North Side. He was taken to Allegheny General Hospital, where he later died. No one has been charged with the homicide. The investigation is ongoing.
FEB. 17—Lisa Sipper, a 46-year-old White female from Penn Hills, was found shot to death in the garage of her home in the 100 block of Glenfield Drive in Penn Hills. She was reportedly shot by her husband, William Sipper, who later killed himself. The incident has been ruled a murder-suicide.
FEB. 17—Ryan Davis, a 20-year-old Black male of Lawrenceville, was fatally shot in the chest by a Pittsburgh police officer after he resisted arrest and attacked the officer when she tried to arrest him at East Liberty Boulevard because he matched the description of a robber. Officer Janine Triolo allegedly ordered Davis to put his hands against the wall, he complied and when she went to handcuff him, he turned around punched her in the face, pummeled her, held a gun to her head and tried to take her service weapon. After she regained control of her weapon she fired two shots, one hitting Davis. Triolo has been placed on administrative leave with pay, which is standard procedure, while the incident is being investigated.
FEB. 22—Daton Boyd, a 22-year-old Black male from Pittsburgh, was found fatally shot in the 2100 block of Elmore Square of the Hill District by officers responding to a call. He was taken to UPMC Mercy Hospital where he later died. No one has been charged with the homicide. The investigation is ongoing.
FEB. 25—Sean Murphy, a 40-year-old Black male from Penn Hills, was fatally shot while waiting at a traffic light at the intersection of Paulowna Street and Bigelow Boulevard in Polish Hill. An unknown person came up to his vehicle and shot Murphy, causing him to press the gas pedal and run into a vehicle, which caused a chain reaction incident with four vehicles. He was taken to UPMC Presbyterian, where he later died. No one has been charged with the homicide, the investigation is ongoing.
FEB. 27—Davon Williams, a 25-year-old Black male from Arlington, was found dead behind a vacant home on Hays Avenue in Mt. Oliver. He reportedly had been shot earlier in the week and ran behind a home. His body had been covered in snow. Authorities have not charged anyone, but have obtained a warrant for a suspect. The investigation is ongoing.


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Hi, I found this on the beach this weekend... and despite googling for a long time - I still am no clearer to know what it is.it could be some resin ??.it was amongst alot of driftwood on the shore... Thanks
Hi I'm not an expert and this is only a thought, could it be a peice of volcanic Sulphur?
The picture DSCF2403 looks like there are solidified bubbles in the object.
If you set fire to Sulphur it burns with a blue flame. (Don't inhale the fumes!)
Hi, thanks for your message Habdab ... I will try this tomorrow and let you know the results.. Regards BG
could it be amber?


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Adirondacks > Cascade Mountain > Climber's Log
Cascade Mountain Climber's Log
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Date Climbed: Oct 26, 2008
|my first high peak,,great views
|Posted Aug 5, 2009 8:28 pm
Date Climbed: Oct 9, 2008
|My first high peak!
|Posted Jun 23, 2009 2:12 pm
|cold chairs on Cascade
Date Climbed: Dec 8, 2008
|Rasgoat guided. great views. solid rock summit was way cool. classic east coast day.
|Posted Feb 12, 2009 11:51 pm
|Great views!
Date Climbed: Dec 8, 2008
|I would say the bast view in the Dack's. Very easy hike but fun. It was -15 the night before and when we got to the summit the temperature was 0. No crowds.
|Posted Jan 8, 2009 6:38 pm
|Avoid this trail on weekends in summer. Nice hike and summit block when crowds are absent
|Posted Dec 21, 2008 11:51 am
|Cascade and Porter
Date Climbed: Oct 8, 2006
|Had very clear weather, had great views. Very busy weekend, but fun peaks.
|Posted Nov 14, 2008 4:34 pm
|A Great Start!
Date Climbed: Oct 9, 2008
|My first 46er! Pretty easy hike but a good solid incline. The most amazing views that appear from an open face below the summit. The views from the Summit are even more breathtaking! Windy October day... probably 30mph sustained. thought i was going to be blown off. Hit up Porter Mtn. too. Nice half day hike.
|Posted Oct 10, 2008 10:15 am
|Cascade Sept 2008
Date Climbed: Sep 21, 2008
|Nice hike, pretty easy as far as the High Peaks are concerned, great hike for dogs! We coupled it with Porter made a nice morning, glad we went early, we were second group to the summit and passed probably 100 other hikers on the way down! Still a great day hike
|Posted Sep 24, 2008 7:19 pm
|Easy High Peak
Date Climbed: Jul 27, 2008
|Nice easy peak that we did pretty quickly. A lot of people on the summit but that was to be expected. Great views.
|Posted Aug 20, 2008 1:31 pm
|Cascade Mountain
Date Climbed: Jun 19, 2005
|Climbed via the Cascade Mountain Trail from Route 73. My first peak in the Northeast over 4000' and not my last one either. A few minutes after summiting the fog burned off and we had fantastic views of the Great Range. Lots of people on a Saturday afternoon but it didn't detract form the mountain's splendor.
|Posted Aug 11, 2008 1:00 pm
|Sam Page
Date Climbed: Nov 17, 2007
|Fresh snow and even fresher wind.
|Posted Apr 20, 2008 10:49 am
|From Porter
Date Climbed: Jan 13, 2008
|Headed over from Porter. Had the summit to ourselves. Gorgeous day! Enjoyed the sunshine and stayed at the summit to have lunch. Some of the best views I've seen (usually fog, rain, clouds ruin things!). Fun peak and you can't beat the views! 19/46
|Posted Jan 14, 2008 9:07 am
|I've been on this peak numerous times, and will forever be beat up by my friends for taking a date up it in winter. She survived! She dumped me afterwards, though.
|Posted Dec 1, 2007 10:11 pm
|Nice dayhike
|Hiked it several times with Porter.
|Posted Oct 27, 2007 10:35 pm
|From route 73
Date Climbed: Oct 6, 2007
|Climbed this one a couple of weeks ago with the whole family. A great little peak and everyone was having fun. Of course that was before a storm hit us on the summit and rained on us the rest of the day!
|Posted Oct 20, 2007 12:24 am
|Bark Eater
|Great day trip
Date Climbed: Aug 2, 1977
|Climbed along with Porter. Nice day trip!
|Posted Aug 26, 2007 7:08 pm
Date Climbed: Aug 30, 1987
|My first High Peak. Loved the rocky dome, pools of water, moss, and the view. Being 6, I wanted to "slide" down Big Slide. Remember wanting to climb over to Porter but my dad wouldn't allow it (so we just had to come back years later).
|Posted Jul 17, 2007 2:09 am
|one of the best
Date Climbed: Jul 25, 1993
|Does this several times. I know I'll get some argument but its one of the best. Its short and relatively easy so its great when there is not much time, or for taking that friend who wants to see what the high peaks are all about, and hell its got one of the best summit views.
|Posted Jun 27, 2007 9:35 am
|Opening Day '07
Date Climbed: May 8, 2007
|My first hike of the year. I know real late in the year to be starting out, but a fella has got bills to pay! Some snow still sticking around, so it made nice scenery. It was crazy windy on the top. Enough to push you around, and make you crouch real low at times. I just basically ran up there to the benchmark, and then got the hell out of town.
|Posted May 9, 2007 10:07 am
|Sarah Simon
|Lovely, plenty of snow on the way up
Date Climbed: May 12, 1997
|Upstate New York is a very pleasant surprise. Lovely. Rugged.
|Posted Apr 20, 2007 1:17 pm


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Elvis tribute artist Martin Anthony led a flash mob at the Westfield Mainplace Mall in Santa Ana Tuesday afternoon singing a medley of Elvis hits.
Dozens of dancers and singers joined Elvis for a spontaneous performance as an advance to the upcoming 13th Annual Elvis Festival at the Orange County Market Place.
This year also marks the 35th anniversary of Presley's death, which was August 16,1977.


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All sorts of things are going on in Forks this weekend. The post office has even gotten into the act and created a special stamp! According to the Forks Forum (the local newspaper):
"The Forks Post Office and the LaPush Office are issuing two new Twilight-themed stamped envelopes just in time for this weekend's Bella's Birthday celebration at Tillicum Park.
The LaPush Post Office is selling special pictoral postmark of Team Jacob and Forks Post Office is offering a special pictoral Team Edward postmark. Each envelope also has a special Forks cancellation and a birthday cake stamp. Both envelopes sell for $4 each.
Last year the Twilight special issue sold several thousand copies. The special stamped envelopes were only available for a short time and are now collector's items.
A Forks Post Office van will also again be set up at Tillicum Park to sell the Twilight envelopes, plus offer mailing services for Twilight fans who purchase souvenir gift items from Twilight vendors.
For more information on the envelopes send an email to the Forks Post Office."