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Facebook moving closer to a Facebook-powered Android phone
0. phoneArena posted on 29 Mar 2013, 11:28
Yesterday, Facebook sent out invitations to an event on April 4th that contained the cryptic message, "Come see our new home on Android." The rumor mill quickly jumped to the idea that Facebook was working on another phone, but the reality may be even more pervasive. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Facebook wants to hijack new Android devices' homescreens with its News Feed...
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1. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
Facebook, please "F" OFF!
Sorry for rude comment. :)
6. Aeires (unregistered)
Don't use Facebook and don't miss it.
8. menny07 (Posts: 89; Member since: 13 Dec 2012)
Facebook is getting increasingly rogue. Its no wonder seeing that their first funding as a company came from the CIA, if you know what I mean...
*snoop snoop*
2. jaytai0106 (Posts: 1888; Member since: 30 Mar 2011)
hahaha at that point, the facebook will be removed from my phone. Tell Mark to suck his own c**k
3. amansingal14 (Posts: 309; Member since: 08 Sep 2012)
LOL, here where custom roms step in... Or better, stop using Facebook. Make them go bankrupt :)
PS - Sorry for being rude, but if you mess with my phone, you mess with me.
4. avin007 (Posts: 139; Member since: 28 Feb 2013)
I want my camera app and homescreen to be hijackd by sm porn sites.......jst my wishful thinking!!!
5. KickRocks (Posts: 186; Member since: 22 Mar 2011)
If this is even remotely true, even in the slightest, I mean even a hint of force on me and my android experience, I will say Goodbye Facebook and hello Google plus. Screw it, I might just start using it now because of this rumor!!
7. Daftama (Posts: 619; Member since: 03 Nov 2012)
Delete FB bye bye
9. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
NOT HANKS UNISTALLED FB APP now they gon too FAR. FCKING idiots. sorry bout my language but they just get me so mad.
10. Aeires (unregistered)
If FB tweaks out your Dalvik, I would think Google would treat that as a malicious app and force them to remove that capability or be banned. Question is though, would Google cut off FB? It's going to be interesting to see how this pans out and what FB's real plans are.
11. bxbomber718 (Posts: 15; Member since: 13 Dec 2010)
And just for that I will soon be uninstalling the FB app and just using it via my mobile web browser which seems to be more responsive anyway. What's interesting is I don't see them trying to attempt this same sabotage on iOS devices even on legacy ones...smh
13. boosook (Posts: 1442; Member since: 19 Nov 2012)
That's because iOS is not advanced enough to let them do these things! :) You can't write widgets, you can't add things to the lockscreen or replace the launcher.
In Android you can do all these things. Technically speaking, they could do an app that, upon installation:
- replaces the launcher
- replaces the camera app
- replaces the messaging application
- adds a widget to the homescreen
This would be very invasive... so I suppose most users would react badly.
12. Luuthian (Posts: 323; Member since: 09 Sep 2011)
This makes a lot of sense. Blink feed is already somewhat akin to a Facebook feed, so naturally HTC would be the one to extend a hand. They're probably hoping devices using the new Sense 5.0 with the Blink feed would benefit from having Facebook be the center of your home screen news.
Like the article states though, I'm having trouble seeing this as a big win for Facebook...
14. naveenstuns (Posts: 180; Member since: 19 Feb 2012)
I heard two days ago mark is entering POLITICS!!!!!
16. terabyteRouser (Posts: 457; Member since: 18 Oct 2011)
This article is seething with anti-Facebook bias. Journalistic objectivity is a pure afterthought.
17. YaBoiDre10 (Posts: 84; Member since: 15 Nov 2012)
I don't want the government I mean Facebook montoring my phone. No thanks
21. threed61 (Posts: 259; Member since: 27 May 2011)
If you're using an Android phone, Google already monitors everything on your phone anyway, what's the difference?
23. YaBoiDre10 (Posts: 84; Member since: 15 Nov 2012)
ALL phones are monitoted but I don't want them having access to my home screen lol
18. gmracer1 (Posts: 646; Member since: 28 Dec 2012)
I just threw up in my mouth.
20. Android4u (Posts: 456; Member since: 16 Aug 2012)
Deleted my fb one week after creating it
28. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
i've just uninstaled mine, WTF CIA FBI GOVERMENT FACEBOOK AND GOOGLE will be able to gain access!
One thing tho my buffer size is 64 MB, Rooted vis VMHeaptools and MCTweaker™
22. DeathR34PER (Posts: 21; Member since: 05 Dec 2012)
Man, not gonna lie, sooner or later there's going to be even more random phones that are going to be like from Twitter, Tumblr, Bing, Yahoo, etc...
Kinda dumb really...just saying.
24. humaningeneral (Posts: 3; Member since: 29 Mar 2013)
Google probably knew and stayed quiet.
25. Edmund (Posts: 656; Member since: 13 Jul 2012)
Reading the comments here, you get the feeling that android fanboys have a hard time building human relationships outside of their computer generated online gaming worlds'.
26. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
"...have a hard time building human relationships outside of their computer..."
Since when Facebook is outside of computer??? Think before making stupid statements...
27. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
Human relationships need build in real life not in a Facebook!
29. techloverNYC (Posts: 601; Member since: 20 Nov 2012)
im getting tried of facebook, but Im not a fan or twitter or tumbler. Im not a stalker nor do I want to stalk someone.
30. nanbanda (Posts: 17; Member since: 30 Mar 2013)
"face puked" :)
31. gogowho (Posts: 37; Member since: 12 Mar 2013)
don't need facebook


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By Martin Roberts (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2012). 286 pgs. $19.76. Order, www.authorhouse.com.
Reviewed by Aaron Frederickson
An old African proverb states, "Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter." In Secret History, Martin Roberts explores various perceived miscarriages of justice that took place in the United States during the Red Scare, as well as other cases abroad. In doing so, the author has written a treatise on justice from the perspective, and in defense, of the hunted.
The main focus of the book revolves around Whittaker Chambers and his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, which led to the downfall of Alger Hiss. Roberts take a single-sided approach as he attempts to poke holes in not only the credibility of Chambers but also how the U.S. government was combatting the real or imagined threat of Communist revolution in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Roberts documents what some consider Chambers' questionable background and his connection to Communist activities and his later march toward American patriotism as he struggled to make amends for his sinister past. Although these efforts are well documented, some accusations leveled by the author against Chambers and other individuals appear to be based in speculation and spite rather than fact. In other instances, the author seems to draw conclusions based on the slight possibility of an event taking place, instead of giving deference to the American concept of reasonable doubt. In doing so, Roberts on occasion goes out on the proverbial cliff to reach what appears to be a preconceived conclusion.
Roberts also tackles the alleged miscarriage of justice perpetrated by the British government against IRA terrorists. This portion of the book was of more interest to me because it covered topics not typically known about or discussed in the United States. However, Roberts at some points goes out of his way to avoid the obvious conclusion and instead reach a pre-determined result.
As a whole, this book was interesting and kept my reviewer's attention with relevant information not typically found in the annals of American history. It also stimulated additional research and curiosity into the topics covered, along with questions about how history typically is presented from the victor's point of view.
The book is relevant in today's society as Americans struggle with questions concerning the use of NSA wire-tapping techniques, domestic use of drones to collect intelligence, and other methods of intrusion on personal privacy. The book provides a European perspective on notions of justice and rights that Americans hold sacred and that are enshrined in the Bill of Rights. The reality is that issues we dealt with more than a half century ago continue to challenge us as we determine the balance between individual liberty and collective security.
Aaron Frederickson, William Mitchell 2002, is founder of MSP Compliance Solutions, St. Paul, Minn.
By Susannah Sheffer (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt Univ. Press, 2013). 224 pgs. $27.95. Order, www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com.
Reviewed by Lijana Puknaite
Susannah Sheffer offers rare insight into capital defense attorneys' emotional world in Fighting for Their Lives: Inside the Experience of Capital Defense Attorneys. The author explores the experiences of 20 postconviction capital defenders. She reveals the motivations for pursuing this psychologically intense area of law, the moving fight for each client's life up to the last moment before the execution, reactions to witnessing executions, and the effect this work has on the attorneys' lives and their families.
The book's main strength is its substance. Because Wisconsin does not have a death penalty, there are few opportunities here to talk with practicing capital defense attorneys. When those rare occasions arise, most attorneys do not like to share the emotional details of their practice. In this book the author leverages her status as both an insider and an outsider (she is engaged in death penalty work without the personal experience of being a capital defender) to uncover the innermost world of capital defenders through frank and open conversations.
In the chapter "The Fighting," for example, one of the capital defense attorneys reveals his feelings about his battle with cancer. Cancer gave him a glimpse of mortality – a feeling that his clients face every day. He compares himself – a capital defense lawyer trying to prevent a client's execution – to the oncologist who helped him beat cancer. In the same chapter, another attorney explains the helplessness and desperation of his work by sharing an anecdotal illustration comparing a capital defense attorney to a great surgeon. In the surgeon's situation, the only thing he has to worry about is saving someone who is at death's door. In contrast, a capital defense attorney is not only trying to save a client's life but also battling another "surgeon" in the "operating room" – the prosecutor – who is trying to kill the "patient": the defendant.
Although the book's substance is interesting, the presentation and format are somewhat distracting. The author combines the comments and reactions of multiple attorneys in a single paragraph, all supplemented by the author's own responses and observations. Although I understand the author's desire to downplay the personalities of the interviewees, I found it quite challenging to follow and differentiate the participants in the interviews.
Overall, this is a powerful book. I would recommend it to anyone, because the death penalty is an important societal issue. However, this might not be the best book for bedtime reading.
Lijana Pukinaite, Illinois 2009, is a staff attorney at the Dane County Circuit Court, Madison.
By Brian K. Johnson & Marsha Hunter (Phoenix, AZ.: Crown King Books, 2nd ed. 2013). 208 pgs. $24.99. Order, www.ipgbook.com.
Reviewed by Peter M. Young
The foreword to The Articulate Attorney begins by stating the obvious: Communication is "the most critical lawyering skill." The authors then go on to describe how – with practice – any lawyer can learn to articulately communicate by synchronizing body, brain, and voice into one fluid communicative machine. The book holds valuable lessons for all attorneys, regardless of field of practice. Every lawyer must – at some point – persuasively communicate an idea to someone, and this book can help hone the ability to do so.
In addition to being interesting, the book is structured in a very intuitive fashion. The first chapter – "Your Body" – gives the reader good suggestions regarding how to confidently, credibly, and comfortably address the audience before even saying a word. In addition to suggesting how to appear persuasive, this chapter provides handy illustrations and charts that help to further clarify the authors' message. From a practical standpoint, this chapter is very useful in that it illustrates certain persuasive techniques that are likely underemphasized in a more formal learning environment, for example, law school.
The second chapter – "Your Brain" – does an effective job of teaching the reader how to convert his or her brain from a rapid-fire source of nervous energy into a more coherent source of good ideas, which can then be translated into a comprehensible vocal message, using techniques described in the third chapter – "Your Voice." This chapter describes the volume, pitch, pace, and mechanics of properly phrasing a spoken sentence or series of sentences.
Finally, the fourth chapter – "How to Practice" – does not simply admonish the reader regarding the importance of practice as an exercise but gives helpful practical tips on how to do so while employing the lessons of all three previous chapters at once. Perhaps the most helpful component of this chapter is a subsection that deals with how to effectively combat certain common "problems" encountered by public speakers: speaking too loudly or softly, speaking too quickly, generous use of the word um, and so on.
In the final analysis, The Articulate Attorney presents a multistep method for the clear and persuasive expression of ideas. The book's usefulness is not limited strictly to those of us who talk to juries but is likely beneficial to any lawyer who has to convince anybody of anything. Although written by nonlawyers, the book presents a coherent "how to" guide for lawyers. The opportunity to learn from two authors whose minds have not been indelibly scarred by the Socratic method and other such cruelties is certainly an opportunity worth taking advantage of.
Peter M. Young, Marquette 2009, is an associate with Habush Habush & Rottier, S.C. and practices in the Wausau, Rhinelander, and Stevens Point offices. He focuses his practice on personal injury and product liability litigation.
By Susan Nash (iUniverse Inc., 2nd ed. 2012). 418 pgs. $19.97. Order www.barnesandnoble.com.
Reviewed by Valerie Revnew
I was interested in this book as a way to help my clients collect on judgments. Skip Tracing Basics is broken down into two major parts. In the first 200 pages or so, the author focuses on the different types of skip traces (that is, asset searches), common methods for finding information for the different classifications, insights on different occupation options, and warnings on how to protect oneself from identity thieves, all while inserting humorous stories with occasional random tips, such as how to tell if you are looking into a regular or a two-way mirror.
A majority of the book focuses on finding people as opposed to finding assets. There is also more of a focus on finding individuals once you have a substantial amount of information such as Social Security number, driver's license numbers, and other information from a mortgage application or similar paperwork as opposed to how to find the substantial information on an individual or how to verify you have the correct Steve Smith. I would have liked to see more focus on those latter areas.
The author attempts to provide a system that can be used, with variations, from state to state. Admittedly, this is a difficult task. For the most part, she does a good job at laying out the different types of skips (unintentional, convenient, intentional, soft-core intentional, hard-core intentional, and intentional-skip fraud) that asset searchers will encounter and general outlines for what techniques generally work the best for each type. She provides brief descriptions of all of them as well as the most common and easiest methods for trying to find each type. She also highlights the major reasons for performing searches, including pre-litigation planning, locating witnesses, postjudgment collections, finding heirs, and finding former tenants.
Nash attempts to cover a lot of ground but starts to get lost in the middle of the book when talking about tracing real estate assets. She goes into the entire robo-signing foreclosure debacle without providing context for how robo-signing affects finding skips. She also touts her abilities a little too much for my taste: there are several more pages to the book than necessary talking about how good she is and how successful she has become. The book could be streamlined by removing sentences such as, "Skip tracers do not need to lie to get to the bottom of the truth. Let the facts speak for themselves and don't get in the way of facts."
The most useful part of the book by far is the second half, consisting of reference materials Nash uses in her asset searches. Included are descriptions of websites, broken down into categories such as databases, public records, governmental records, criminal records, military records, corporate links, and social media. The websites run the gamut from the expected three credit bureaus, to sites that contain mug shots of people arrested and charged with crimes, www.bustedmugshots.com, to how to trace a person's invisible tracks on the Internet (history that is not a regular part of regular search engines). Nash includes copies of the applicable federal statutes, such as the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and reference material for each state's Secretary of State agency.
For me, this book was a keeper as a reference material on websites to use to search different service providers. I would not purchase this book expecting to be able to read it and immediately begin collecting on judgments but would definitely expect the book to assist in an already existing practice.
Valerie (Val) J. Revnew, DePaul 2002, is a business attorney with Epiphany Law LLC, Appleton, where she heads the commercial litigation department.


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hello sir,
myself jyothi,
1> i need to know the difference between strcpy and memcpy, i wanted to know internally how it is different,plz answer me sir
2>why the const keyword doesn't work in linux platform,it gives just warning,can u plz tell me about this why is it so
with regards
1. strcpy() works on null-terminated strings, and has no length limitations;
memcpy() works on arbitrary data of a given fixed length... Aside from that, they
both preform the same basic function: shifting data around in memory... But, you
use memcpy() when you want to copy an exact amount of data (possibly containing
embedded null chars) from one location to another, and strcpy() when you want to
copy a variable-length null-terminated C string from one location to another...
(Actually, it's not very good practice to use strcpy() even for its intended use, unless
you can guarantee that the destination buffer is at least as large as the source
string... You're better off with something that restricts the max copied length, so
you don't overflow the destination buffer... But, there's still no standard function
that does this properly... strncpy() doesn't really count, since it will simply refuse
to null-terminate the destination in the case that the length is exceded, which is
generally not very helpful... Something like the BSD's strlcpy() is what's needed...)
2. I have no idea what you're talking about... "const" works just fine, and is used
quite liberally in prototypes in many system headers... (Grep for it under
"/usr/include/" if you don't believe me...)
thank u for u r quick reply sir,
about const keyword i will explain to u now,
when i make constant pointer i.e
int i=20;
int const *p;
its giving me only warning that it is readonly but it is giving me the output as 90,so i wanted to ask y its not giving any error,but it works fine in DOS flatform.
sir i have some confusion on working with memcpy and memmove,i have worked on it but i am confused with working and their difference,can u please eloberate and explain me how it differ and how it works with an example
with regards
Well, when you do something like that, you're deliberately breaking the specs,
and what happens is usually completely undefined and left up to the compiler
designers to decide how to handle... In your case, you've got a non-constant
int, and you're assigning a pointer to it to a pointer to a const int... So, the
compiler informs you of what appears to be a bug in your program (dereferencing
the pointer to a const int and assigning to that location), but since it's fairly liberal
about it by default, it lets you do it anyway if you're set on ignoring its advice...
And, since the real int you were pointing at was NOT a true constant, it was able
to actually be modified... If you made "i" a const (and either made it "static", or
moved it outside of main() so it's a global), then the compiler would store it in
read-only memory, so your attempt to assign to it would cause your app to
seg-fault... So, basically, the compiler is doing nothing wrong in letting you get
away with the above stupidity... Good C compilers ALWAYS let you shoot yourself
in the foot if you are determined to do so; if they didn't, they'd be too restrictive
to write useful code in... The best they can do is warn you of your apparent
stupidity, and if you want to ignore them, that's your own business... But, if that's
not hand-holding enough for you, you can always compile with "-Werror" (or,
whatever equivalent, if you're not using GCC), so that any warning is considered
an error which prevents compilation...
As for memcpy() vs. memmove(), the only difference is that the former may not
work properly when the source and destination buffers overlap, while the latter is
guaranteed to work in that situation... Eg:
char buf[16];
char buf2[16];
memcpy (buf, buf2, 16); /* this is normal expected usage */
memmove (buf, buf2, 16); /* will work fine, but it's overkill and unnecessary */
memcpy (buf, buf + 4, 12); /* not guaranteed to work properly (but, probably will) */
memmove (buf, buf + 4, 12); /* guaranteed to work properly */
memcpy (buf + 4, buf, 12); /* almost certainly will NOT work properly */
memmove (buf + 4, buf, 12); /* guaranteed to work properly */
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"feature a screen res of 1366 x 768"
*shakes head wearily*
HP has revealed a host of Intel Ivy Bridge notebooks with a potential release mooted for next month. While still unsure of exact dates for when Intel plans to formally roll out its newest processor, three of the four HP laptops just announced are set to hit shelves with it. HP Pavilion Ivy Bridge These are the HP Pavilion …
"feature a screen res of 1366 x 768"
*shakes head wearily*
The video for the DV6 states that it has a full HD screen, either the article or the video has it wrong
People have been downvoted in this commentshed for complaining about low resolution screens.
I suspect that such downvoting may be some sort of sockpuppet for HP. You might spend a jolly half hour investigating my paranoia.
For what it is worth, I'd point out that my new TomTom has a higher pixel density than these worthless doorstops.
You'll note that there's a little "3" after the Full HD boast in the video, which corresponds to a fleetingly displayed wodge of small print (you have to be quick with the pause button) at the end stating that the full HD bit "varies by model and region". The HP info page linked to does not give any screen specifications at all. Given that HP aren't giving any details, I went with assuming the article to be accurate.
768? 1080? 768? Double those and I might be interested.
"14in dv4 and 15.6in dv6 feature a screen res of 1366 x 768"
That's where I stopped reading. It is a travesty that smaller tablet screens have better resolution.
The video for the dv6 states that it has a full HD screen, so either the article or the video has it wrong. Just a shame that HP have decided to plaster the laptop with stupid labels such as "HP TrueVision HD" next to the webcam. When will they learn that less is more?
""""14in dv4 and 15.6in dv6 feature a screen res of 1366 x 768"
That's where I stopped reading. """
Exactly. I had 1280x768 in 10.6 inches in 2004, and 1366x768 in 8.9 inches in 2008. Where have all the reasonable DPI screens in laptops gone? (Yes, I know the netbook fling is to blame.)
Even desktop LCDs are only just starting to catch up to CRT DPI - I had ~110 DPI in 2001, and the new 27" 2560x1440 screens have just caught up to that (30" LCDs are about 110DPI.) My current monitors will do 120 DPI, which comes out to 2560x1600 in 25", or 2560x1440 in 24.5" - those would be some nice LCDs.
Now don't get me started on chicklet keyboards...
no thanks
What the hell for? Improved defenestration performance?
Maybe it's to artificially extend the battery life?
Also, I'd like to know whether HP will abandon those STUPID straight-out power pins. Those damned straight-out pins bang against things and risk damaging the power port. They should do what other power supply/adapter makers do: MAKE or PROVIDE a 90-degree bend, and if one is provided, make the plug part by the laptop case short so that it doesn't frackin' desk surface space or get banged by the mouse, by books, or a lamp. I don't know wtf runs through some engineers' or marketing execs minds, but my most recent laptop was most SPECIFICALLY NOT an HP for several reasons:
My previous HP DV x pavillion:
-- straight-out power pin kept banging on things or kept getting banged by things.
-- the front had cheap siliver-metal-looking plastic that hung up on my backpack zipper and tore off
-- the 17" (size was nice) display was way too shiny
-- the 2h 20m battery (under Linux) was a 30 minute battery by month 10, and a 15 minute battery by month 12, and 2 minutes by ~ 18 months. I now is a zero minute battery
-- the fan, when the Pavillion was on AC, ran LOUD, and it was quite stressful, agitating, irritating, and rage-producing. On battery (when the battery was good) it ran quieter
-- it ran HOT before, and the power supply runs HOT still. Both the case and power supply ran hot enough to prompt me to buy and use multiple cooling pads to convince myself that I'd get 4 years out of the hardware
I now is a desktop-laptop-replacement.
It was replaced by a recent quad-core, AMD-based Gateway
My laptop purchases (for my personal ownership):
9/5/11 Sony Vaio, ~13" cost $1299; died due to controller cable problem because of excess removal
~ 1/2008 Gateway, 17" cost me ~ $800, still runs, but battery is a gonner. Bad aspect ratio for CAD, but it is still decent for running older CAD drawings and playing music files
~1/2010, HP Pavilion, AMD CPU and graphics, mentioned above ~ $700, runs hot, loud, and non-mobile unless I buy a replacement battery, only 2 GB, I had to bump it up to 4GB
10/2011, Gateway, 15.x" display, 4 cores, came with 4 GB, which I bumped up to 8 GB
I admire the reported (and purported) battery life of several Apple laptops (in 2010, I watched a guy for 8 hours nurse his 17" Apple laptop as he programmed and surfed (mostly via consoles, hehehe, but he still toggled in and out of Expose or whatever that is), but no way in hell I'll pay those prices! Well, not unless IBM/Lotus reactivate and improves Lotus SmartSuite and port a version to run on Macs... THAT would be well worth jumping to a 17" Mac, even if SmartSuite cost $500 and the Apple laptop cost $2,000 -- so long as it still gets ~ 7 hours for that screen size.
If HP wants to see me buy a 2nd HP laptop:
-- make a 90-deg bend pin
-- make the batteries more manageable by Linux-oriented battery management tools and STOP using proprietary BIOS calls kludged/foisted by MS/BIOS/HP decision-makers.
-- make the 17" laptops about 1lb lighter, to say, 6 lbs vice 7.8
-- make the laptops run cooler
-- make the laptops run QUIETER
-- get rid of bogus flashing and tear-off cheapo plastic
-- ditch the ejectable CD/DVD and go with a slot
-- price it at $800 or less
-- endow it with 8 GB and BAN THE RESELLER from stripping the RAM out of the system and jacking up the prices to get the RAM restored
-- keep a physical kill switch for the radio (wi-fi, blue-tooth, etc.)
-- keep the antennae in a port that can be opened and the antennae removed at will by the owner
-- make it possible to remove or swap hard drives-- better yet, install reasonably-sized Solid State drives and provide, say, 3 or 4 ports so that one can be the OS SSD, and multiple others can be removable/hot-swappable data drives, or one can be an OS failover/RAID-like drive, or simply a periodic clean copy of the default OS setup
-- install a lifetime, 5-minute battery to enable the owner to swap out battery sticks without shutting down
-- make a y-splice connector accessory or build in two power connector ports so that when on AC, the owner can swap in or attach an external 6-hour battery that has its own pin and power supply.
Hows about you pass the comments in this thread to whoever gave you the press release, and then tell us what they said.


text: Am running ZA Pro V9.3.014.000 along with Free version of AVAST anti virus. Downloaded and tried to install ZA V100.250.000 When I try to install, I get the following message. "Zene Alarm can not be installed on a system already has AVAST Antivirus installed. Your system does not meet the installation requirements." What is this conflict between a FireWall and a AntiVirus program. I have been a ZA customer more years than I can remember.


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Hey guys,
I mentioned this in another thread but still haven't found a solution. My main PC absolutely refuses to download a core, and I can't seem to figure out why. I've just removed XP and installed Fedora Core 9, and STILL get the same error, with the firewall turned off.
[14:46:39] - Ask before connecting: Yes
[14:46:39] - Proxy: localhost:80
[14:46:39] - User name: 60l23 (Team 2630)
[14:46:39] - User ID: 5ED5C0674E329F42
[14:46:39] - Machine ID: 1
[14:46:39] Loaded queue successfully.
[14:46:39] + Processing work unit
[14:46:39] Core required: FahCore_78.exe
[14:46:39] Core not found.
[14:46:39] - Core is not present or corrupted.
[14:46:39] - Attempting to download new core...
[14:46:39] + Downloading new core: FahCore_78.exe
[14:46:40] > Press "c" to connect to the server to download
c[14:46:41] - Establishing connection
[14:46:44] - Error: HTTP GET returned error code 0
[14:46:44] + Error: Could not download core
[14:46:44] + Core download error (#2), waiting before retry...
[14:46:50] + Downloading new core: FahCore_78.exe
[14:46:50] - Error: HTTP GET returned error code 0
[14:46:50] + Error: Could not download core
[14:46:50] + Core download error (#3), waiting before retry...
And so on... I just experimented with the "ask before connecting" option, leaving it off doesn't change anything. Same goes with the proxy settings.
I can't think of any router firewalls I may have in place that would allow a browser to access the cores but not the client... I have no trouble downloading them manually, but I'm not going to deal with downloading a new core every time one is released.
As promised in the other thread, if anybody can help, I'll gladly fold under their name for a while on this box. It's an Athlon X2 @ 2.8, not great, but also has an 8800GTS that I'll gladly fold under if I get windows back on it.


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Johnson makes presence felt in return
Nationals first baseman drives in run in first game since 2006
By Bill Ladson / MLB.com
WASHINGTON -- Nationals first baseman Nick Johnson is a low-key person. When he talks to the media, for example, his voice is low and he usually gives three- or four-word answers. However, one should believe that Johnson was on a high on Sunday night in the Nationals' 3-2 victory over the Braves. It was Johnson's first game since he broke his right leg on Sept. 23, 2006, in a collision with outfielder Austin Kearns at Shea Stadium. With his mother, wife and daughter watching in the stands, Johnson acknowledged he was a little emotional when he was introduced before the game. "When I was out there in center field, it was pretty cool," Johnson said. "It was just a lot of emotions going through my head -- all the work I put in, my family being here to see me go out there for the first time, it was great." Johnson made his presence felt right away in the first inning against right-hander Tim Hudson. With Cristian Guzman on third, Johnson blooped a double over the head of Braves first baseman Mark Teixeira, scoring Guzman. It was Johnson's first hit since Sept. 19, 2006, against the Braves. Kearns followed with a single to score Johnson. "It was great. It was pretty cool," Johnson said. "There was a lot of fun out there. Great time." Even Kearns got emotional seeing Johnson run the way he did. It became evident that Johnson's leg problems are a thing of the past when he motored home from second in front of Jeff Francoeur's throw to the plate. "It looked like he didn't miss a beat," Kearns said. "He had the slide and the little tumble. He was in midseason form. Nick is not hesitant at all. He is feeling good. That's all a big plus." Johnson, 29, missed all of last season while rehabbing his leg, and it was frustrating at times. Originally told that he would be ready for 2007 Spring Training, Johnson was still noticeably limping when February rolled around, and he was unable to participate in fielding practice until June, when he noticed he still wasn't right. He had problems backhanding the ball to his left and hitting the ball to left field.
Bill Ladson is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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GRAMMYs On The Road With Bombay Bicycle Club And Walk Off The Earth
The Recording Academy Chicago Chapter played host for GRAMMYs On The Road at Lollapalooza on Aug. 3–5 in Grant Park in Chicago. The Chapter conducted exclusive backstage interviews with artists performing at the festival, including UK indie rock quartet Bombay Bicycle Club and Canadian quintet Walk Off The Earth.
Bombay Bicycle Club discussed the difference between fans in the UK and the United States, songwriting and how they balance business and music, among other topics.
"[We write] everywhere, really," said Bombay Bicycle Club frontman Jack Steadman. "Usually when you sit yourself down to write music, nothing really happens. So usually it's in unexpected places and it's quite spontaneous."
Hailing from North London, Bombay Bicycle Club is comprised of Steadman, drummer Suren de Saram, guitarist Jamie MacColl, and bassist Ed Nash. Their debut album, I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose, was released in 2009. The group won the Best New Band award at the 2010 NME Awards. Bombay Bicycle Club's most recent album, 2011's A Different Kind Of Fix, reached No. 22 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart.
Walk Off The Earth discussed their viral cover of Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know," creative influences and the importance of the Internet in the music industry, among other topics.
"We've been working towards having a viral video for a long time, a couple of years now," said multi-instrumentalist Sarah Blackwood regarding their cover of Gotye's hit. "We knew that it would eventually happen. … When people watch that video, they go back and look at all of our other stuff."
Based in Burlington, Ontario, Walk Off The Earth is a musical five-piece band consisting of Blackwood, Joel Cassady, Gianni Luminati, Ryan Marshall, and Mike Taylor. They have released two albums, 2007's Smooth Like Stone On A Beach and 2010's My Rock. Their unique interpretation of Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know" has garnered more than 132 million views on YouTube. Walk Off The Earth 's latest single, "Little Boxes," was released in March.
(GRAMMYs On The Road at Lollapalooza: Interviews and news contributions by Ramon Alvarez-Smikle, Christina Castillo, Max O'Kane, and Emily Ornberg.)
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Patricia Blough
Missing since July 2, 1966 from Indiana Dunes State Park, Indiana
Classification: Endangered Missing
Vital Statistics
Circumstances of Disappearance
Blough and two of her friends, Ann Miller and Renee Bruhl, disappeared from the Indiana Dunes State Park in Indiana on July 2, 1966.
The women arrived at the Indiana Dunes State Park at approximately 10:00. Miller parked in the park's lot and the women hiked to a spot approximately 100 yards from the Lake Michigan shoreline. A couple reported seeing the women leave their belongings on the beach at approximately 12:00 and enter the lake together. The witnesses saw them speaking to an unidentified man operating a 14-16 foot long, white boat with a blue interior and and outboard motor, sometime afterward. The couple reported their observations to a park ranger around dusk when they noticed that the women's belongings were still sitting unclaimed on the beach. The witnesses stated that the women went aboard the boat and headed west with the driver.
The park rangers soon learned that missing persons' reports had been filed for Blough, Miller and Bruhl over the weekend in Illinois by their families. The rangers began investigating the park and located Miller's Buick in the parking lot. Her car keys had been located with her belongings and some items of the women's clothing and other personal effects were still inside the vehicle. The park rangers contacted other law enforcement agencies, including the United States Coast Guard.
A search for the missing women was initiated on July 5, three days after the women disappeared. More witnesses began substantiating the initial reports that the women entered a white boat operated by an unidentified man. Later accounts described the male as in his early twenties with a tanned complexion and dark, wavy hair. He was wearing a beach jacket at the time. A visitor was filming home movies at the state park on July 2 and offered his reels to investigators. The search was immediately narrowed to two boats once authorities viewed the footage. One was a fiberglass 16 - 18-foot long trimaran runabout with a three-hulled design, which was operated by a man fitting the description of the unidentified driver. Three females matching the missing women were seen aboard the smaller boat in the footage. The second boat identified was a 26 - 28-foot Trojan cabin cruiser with three men aboard along with three women. The cabin cruiser was seen at approximately 15:00, three hours after the women entered the smaller vessel. Investigators believe that the women may have been dropped off on the beach by the driver of the smaller boat while he drove back to retrieve two male friends and the cabin cruiser. Blough, Miller and Bruhl were reportedly seen eating and walking along the sand dunes after this time. They were approached by another unidentified man, who accompanied them on to the cabin cruiser. Witnesses stated that the cabin cruiser was equipped with a radio / telephone antenna, but apparently did not have a name printed on its stern. This final sighting has never been confirmed, but is considered reliable by authorities.
All three women were horse enthusiasts, which pointed to a possible connection with criminal activity. Blough and Miller met while boarding their horses at the same Illinois stable. Miller was employed as a horse exerciser at Oak Brook Polo Club at the time she vanished. She and Blough were associated with men who had criminal backgrounds in the horse market. Blough was reportedly having problems with 'horse syndicate people' in the spring and summer of 1966.
Drowning was considered a possibility in the disappearances, but unlikely. The boats they were reportedly seen boarding on July 2, 1966 have never been located, nor have the unidentified men spotted on the vessels been seen again.
The Indiana Dunes State Park where Blough, Miller and Bruhl were last seen is now called the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.
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The Second Vatican Council, at least in the Western world, was followed by decades of dissension from authoritative Catholic teaching, a phenomena that did much to weaken the Church's evangelizing mission.
Many are the reasons for this widespread dissent, not the least of which was the fact that Vatican II coincided with a period of massive cultural upheaval in the West.
However, it cannot be truthfully said the council's teachings were a counsel to the faithful to fashion the will of God as they see fit. Some took what Vatican II said about the sense of the faithful, about conscience and about religious liberty as opening the door for the faithful to reject or select only some Church teachings. In fact, that is not the case.
Indeed, the council provided a strong reaffirmation of the need for the faithful to adhere to magisterial teaching – the teachings of the popes and those bishops in communion with him.
When the council spoke of the sensu fidei in Lumen Gentium 35, it was not providing a licence for the laity to override the teachings of the popes and bishops. Rather, it said that God gave the laity an understanding of the faith "so that the power of the Gospel might shine forth in their daily social and family life." That understanding of the faith calls us to conversion, not to write our own ticket.
The offices of pope and bishop include a call to proclaim God's word in season and out.
The offices of pope and bishop include a special office and call to be prophetic, to proclaim God's word in season and out. That was part of the office of the apostles and it is essential to the unity of the Church that it be passed along from generation to generation.
The unity of the Church is not an amorphous spirit or a nice feeling. It is a unity in truth. Truth, especially in faith and morals, is not easily discerned. Pride and ignorance are both huge barriers to one knowing the truth. Humility requires us to seek knowledgeable guides who will help us know what God teaches.
Christ promised to be with the apostles and their successors until the end of time and to send the Spirit to lead them into all truth.
The popes and bishops do not have a special pipeline to God that allows them to know his will better than anyone else. They do, however, have a consecration and responsibility – to go along with Christ's promise – that ensures that as a body they will not be in error when teaching basic truths of faith and morals. The pope does have a charism of infallibility, a charism that has tended to be used with reticence.
Church teachings are not conjured up by the pope on his own initiative. They develop and emerge over the centuries as the Church reflects on God's Word – both Scripture and tradition – and as it reflects on erroneous interpretations of the Word. A formal declaration of an infallible teaching is the end of a long process.
Lumen Gentium reiterates the Church's teaching on papal infallibility when it says the pope, "as supreme pastor and teacher of all the faithful . . . proclaims in an absolute decision a doctrine pertaining to faith or morals" (25). Such decisions do not need others' approval; they are "irreformable by their very nature."
There are also the infallible teachings of ecumenical councils. As well, although individual bishops "do not enjoy the privilege of infallibility," when they are in agreement among themselves and with the pope about a particular teaching, "even though dispersed throughout the world," they can teach definitively and absolutely.
The Church's infallible teachings are not just those about Mary's immaculate conception, her assumption into heaven and the male-only priesthood that popes have formally declared. It surely also includes the teachings found in the Apostles' and Nicene creeds and other teachings as well.
However, what is most important is not so much what has been infallibly taught as what is true. Truth includes a wider body of teaching than what is certainly true. Certainty is a modern obsession, but the person who seeks wisdom will not make certainty his or her sole guide.
In that regard, the council says the faithful must give "loyal submission of the will and intellect" to all that the pope teaches. A Catholic will always receive papal pronouncements as well as those of bishops who teach in communion with Rome "with a ready and respectful allegiance of mind" (25).
All of this puts the Church - and Vatican II - at odds with the modern spirit of autonomous reason. God has given us the faculties of intellect, will and judgment, and we should use them appropriately. But God did not give men and women the ability to make up their own truth. Only God creates truth. The will ought always to bow before truth.
Today, however, we don't want to bow before anyone or any truth. We too often resist the best guides we have to truth in the matters of faith and morals.


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STANWOOD — They've traveled 17,482 miles this hockey season, and they've got the cowbells to prove it.
Tom and Doris Rupert have held season tickets for the Everett Silvertips since the team got started in 2003.
They witnessed most of the team's pivotal moments over the years, and that big series with the rival Seattle Thunderbirds starting Saturday? Oh yeah, they'll be there.
This year, the Ruperts made all 72 games played during the regular season — 36 at home, 36 away.
Doris Rupert, 63, worked in aerospace before retiring this year. Tom Rupert, 59, works as a manufacturing engineer.
Their house in Stanwood, their two Jeeps, their wardrobes and even her fingernails are decked out in Tips tones: green, silver, white.
The Ruperts have a human-sized stuffed bear that wears a Silvertips jersey. They named him "Nimitz," and he goes along on the trips.
If you spend much time in Everett, the name makes sense. The Tips' mascot is a bear named Lincoln, after the aircraft carrier that for years was based in Everett. Another carrier, the USS Nimitz, now holds that spot in the skyline on Port Gardner.
Doris Rupert loves to take photographs and make collages. A favorite theme in some pieces is including a memento from every arena where the Tips have played. Her favorite photography subjects include Nimitz the bear, the couple's two Beagles, Benny and Betsy, their three grandkids and the round-about scenic drives the couple takes to and from games in the U.S. and Canada.
The Tips are set to play the Seattle Thunderbirds at 7:05 p.m. Saturday and again on Sunday. It's the first time the rivals will face each other in the Western Hockey League playoffs since Everett joined the league more than a decade ago.
The Tips asked the Ruperts to go out on the ice after a recent game. The team shared the news of the couple's perfect attendance at games this year.
The team wanted to show its appreciation for passionate hockey fans, said Zoran Rajcic, executive vice president and assistant general manager:
"The commitment that Tom and Doris showed in attending every game this season is another great example of the unbelievable fan support we've enjoyed in this community for 11 seasons now," he said. "I've always been impressed by the way our fans have embraced and supported this team from day one."
Before the team shared the news, though, the Ruperts had kept their little project mostly private — unless folks asked.
And people asked. Mostly, the question was, "Why?" Doris Rupert said.
"Because we want to and because it's something we enjoy doing," she said.
Their devout fandom, though, is less of a secret.
At the first Tips game every year, the Ruperts grab some of the small magnetic season calendars, and the pocket-sized paper versions.
They give them to family and friends: Be forewarned, the Ruperts will be busy on certain afternoons and evenings.
On occasion, they've made a wedding before a hockey game. They bring their Tips jerseys in the car, or change at home on the way. They made one ceremony "and skipped the dancing part" to get to a game, Doris Rupert said.
The Ruperts didn't know they liked hockey until the Tips came to Everett.
Before hockey, they were "typical Washington football fans," Tom Rupert said.
They loved the fast pace of hockey, and the hard work of the young men who played. The grandkids, the youngest of whom is now 13, liked the games, too.
"It was such fun," Doris Rupert said. "It was interactive, with the energy and the spirit that you could feel. It was like, we're a part of this, and it's cool."
They were there when the Tips won the Western Conference Championship in Kelowna, B.C., in 2004.
"That set the hook," Tom Rupert said.
The Ruperts like to meet up with other hockey fans for chicken wings and beers before the games. They listen to the post-game analysis on sports radio. When other folks are traveling to away games too, they try to stay in nearby hotels.
They like seeing historic hockey arenas, especially in Canada.
The trips also give them a chance to see the country. They meet new people.
"We now have good friends in places where we never would have even had a reason to go," Tom Rupert said.
He drives. She takes pictures. They eat Chex Mix and Subway on the road.
"I love Medicine Hat," she said. "There's been a sunset every time we've ever been there."
Of course, they have cowbells. They receive them as gifts, and they keep some in the car, but on occasion, they need more. Even if she doesn't have a cowbell on hand, she has Tips stickers to decorate a new one, purchased on site.
"She has an assortment," Tom Rupert said.
At home games, the Ruperts always sit in Section 209, Row 1. At away games, they aim for seats on the lower level, on the glass, just for a different vantage point.
The Seattle-Everett rivalry dates back to the Tips' beginnings, Tom Rupert said. Some folks who lived in the north sound and were longtime T-birds fans had to reconsider their allegiances. Some fans tried to support both teams, but it got to be too much, he said.
The Ruperts decided awhile ago that if they ever move from Stanwood, they're staying in Silvertips vicinity. Part of the reason they didn't tell folks about their plans to attend every game this season was because they needed to make sure they could do it first. They didn't want to jinx it.
"It was just something we wanted to do, and as we're getting toward the end, it's been a bigger thing than we thought," Tom Rupert said.
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ALCS Game 7 tidbits
Rays, Sox make homer history; interesting facts about starters
By Bryan Hoch / MLB.com
Spotting a trend: Expansion teams have now advanced to the World Series in seven of the past nine seasons, with the exceptions coming in 2004 and '06. The last expansion team to win the Fall Classic was the Florida Marlins in '03.
Deeper and deeper: Willy Aybar's seventh-inning home run off Red Sox starter Jon Lester was the 26th home run hit in this American League Championship Series, which surpassed the all-time postseason home run record for homers in a single LCS. The old mark of 25 was set by the Cardinals and Astros in the 2004 National League Championship Series.
Most homers in first playoff appearance
Getting right to it: There were six first-inning home runs hit during the 2008 ALCS, but only one by the Red Sox -- Dustin Pedroia's solo shot in Game 7.
Productive Pedroia: Pedroia's nine runs scored tied him for second place in ALCS history, one behind the mark set by teammate Kevin Youkilis in 2007. Pedroia now shares the No. 2 spot with the Yankees' Hideki Matsui, who scored nine runs in the '04 ALCS.
Rookie RBIs: Evan Longoria's RBI double in the fourth inning gave him eight RBIs for the ALCS, tying him with Cincinnati's Pat Duncan in 1919 for most RBIs by a rookie in a single postseason series.
No easy task: Only three times in playoff history have both teams won three consecutive games in a series. In the 2003 NLCS, the Cubs won three straight after dropping the opener to take a 3-1 lead before the Marlins came back with three wins to clinch the pennant. In the '04 ALCS, the Yankees had a 3-0 lead before the Red Sox ran off with four wins in a row to move on to the World Series. The Red Sox then did it again in '07 to take a 3-1 advantage away from the Indians.
Big-bashing matchups
|Most combined home runs in a postseason series
|T.B. (16), Bos. (10)
|Hou. (14), Stl. (11)
|Bos. (12), NYY (8)
Game 7 facts: Since 1982, a Game 7 in the postseason had been played 21 times coming into Sunday, with the home team winning 16 of those. The home club is 8-5 in Game 7s in LCS history, and on just four occasions has the Game 6 loser won Game 7: 1988 Dodgers, '92 Braves, 2003 Yankees and '06 Cardinals.
Best when chips are down: The 2008 Red Sox were the eighth team to force a Game 7 of a LCS after trailing, 3-1. Six of the seven previous clubs that have come back from a 3-1 deficit have finished the task in Game 7 and won the LCS. Of those clubs, Boston is the only franchise to have accomplished the feat multiple times, doing so three times -- 1986, 2004 and '07.
Backs against the wall: The Red Sox had won nine straight ALCS elimination games. Boston overcame a 3-0 deficit in the 2004 ALCS to defeat the Yankees, and then overcame a 3-1 hole to topple the Indians in the 2007 ALCS. The Red Sox are now 26-11 in postseason elimination games, including a 13-2 mark in their past 15 such games. Their only losses were Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS and Game 3 of the '05 ALDS.
Young guns on display: The only pitchers younger than Lester (born Jan. 7, 1984) and Matt Garza (born Nov. 11, 1983) to start a Game 7 of the LCS were John Smoltz (born May 15, 1967, and started NLCS Game 7 on Oct. 17, 1991), Roger Clemens (born Aug. 4, 1962, and started ALCS Game 7 on Oct. 15, 1986) and Bret Saberhagen (born April 11, 1964, and started ALCS Game 7 on Oct. 16, 1985).
Can we see some ID? At 24 years and 286 days, Lester became the fifth-youngest left-handed pitcher to start a playoff Game 7, and the youngest since the Cardinals' Joe Magrane (23 years, 115 days) in the 1987 World Series vs. the Twins. Lester had never lost consecutive starts in his career before Sunday.
Winning ways: With 104 victories, including the postseason, the Rays have won 37 more games than they did in 2007. That marks the biggest increase in wins from one season to the next in Major League history, trumping the 1903 Giants, '46 Red Sox, '91 Braves and '99 D-backs, all of whom enjoyed 36-game improvements. The 1890 Louisville Colonels won 61 more games (27 to 88) to set the all-time high.
Bulked up for October: Entering Game 7 on Sunday, B.J. Upton had seven home runs in 42 postseason at-bats. He had nine in 531 at-bats during the regular season.
Bryan Hoch is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Twenty years of net job creation — Barry Ritholtz
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Hot, wet and messy
Attendees at 35 Denton's Hot Wet Mess seemed to share a single opinion about Saturday's all-day event: It was hot.
Volunteers for 35 Denton, the organization that presents the downtown music festival of the same name each spring, clearly had their ducks in a row. Organizers and security opened the North Texas Fairgrounds gates promptly, and the first band started as scheduled just before 2 p.m.
The crowds were thin as the one-time Denton band Fergus & Geronimo sailed through its set. A small line of early birds were already climbing the stairs of the giant inflatable water slide that kept brave festivalgoers cool while the sun was high in the sky.
The heat was the only thing 35 Denton couldn't control.
Patrons strolled around in board shorts, swim trunks, short shorts and bikini tops.
"It's so hot. That's why we're standing over here next to the sprinklers," said Karla Trevino, who was indeed standing by a lawn sprinkler going full blast. "We've been drinking [beer], but we've also been drinking a lot of water. The sprinklers and the other stuff are really nice, too, when you want to cool down. The folks at 35 Denton are good about making sure to add in these little surprises."
Staffers had hoses, sprinklers, a few inflatable wading pools and one portable pink sink, where attendees were filling neon-colored squirt guns.
Patrons who bought meals and ice cream from the food trucks made beelines for a makeshift bar. Its tent cast some shade — something that was scarce at the fairgrounds. Ice melted fast in buckets and bins, and plenty of people slugged warm bottles of Vitamin Water, provided free by the event sponsor.
Lindy Pace said she wasn't planning to take a plunge down the water slide.
"No, I think that might make my mess situation worse," she said, riffing on the event's name, which she said was just right. "I wouldn't mind if someone sprayed me with that water hose over there."
Pace said that, though the event lived up to its name, she thought it could be wetter.
"I want some water," she said. "Real water. Not Vitamin Water. Vitamin Water is great, and I have had about seven bottles of it since I've been here. But I'm ready for regular water."
Justin McCarthy said he came to see Unknown Mortal Orchestra and wasn't disappointed.
McCarthy saw beatboxer Reggie Watts, whom he said is "like this philosopher of the modern era, and he makes it humorous as well."
Vendors considered the mini-festival a success.
"We believe having a presence at events like this is important," said Natasha Stoked, a co-creator of Austere, a new magazine about do-it-yourself culture, design and fashion in North Texas. "You don't see a lot of magazines at events like this, and that's too bad. The clothing people are here, the art people are here. Why shouldn't a magazine be here?"
Thousands attended the event, which ended Saturday night with DJ Sober and — for many festivalgoers — Hot Wet Mess-themed house parties and rock shows throughout the city.
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I'm here to give you the heads up! There'll be a blogger movie meet this weekend. It's pretty impromptu and very hastily conjured via comment spamming so don't be surprised if it flops. Haha. Thing is, if there are even 5 of us interested, we're going anyways! And even right now, we've already confirmed more than 5 so... IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S REALLY HAPPENING, BAY-BEH! Details are as follows:
Date: 20 April 2008
Day: Sunday
Time: 2:30pm
Location: Cineleisure, Mutiara Damansara
Movie: Definitely, Maybe (Genre: Comedy/Romance/Drama)
The movie's subject to change, okay. Other possible movies to go for are (in no particular order): (1) Three Kingdoms, (2) Horton Hears A Who, (3) 27 Dresses, (4) The Water Horse, and (5) 2 Days In Paris.
But come on lah. Don't just watch it for the sake of watching it. So what if it's you're not really into the movie we suggested? (More like already decided on. Haha.) So what if you're not into chick flicks. (This movie was chosen by a guy, actually. =p) Don't be a kill joy lah. Watch it cos you wanna meet the faces behind the blogs. (Will update on who's going when things are more confirmed.)
And male bloggers, you have NO EXCUSE not to come cos there are THREE HOTTIE GIRLS in this movie we've chosen. (I don't believe I just said that. *rolls eyes*) And girls, you also have no excuse! The lead character, Ryan Reynolds, is cukup leng chai, okayyy. (This is not a reflection of my standard in men. I'm just trying to psycho you guys to come.) So... just throw caution to the wind and come!
Do note, however, that we're not Nuffnang. We aren't worth millions (yet) so we can't book the entire cinema. As such, we will be buying tickets at 2:45pm SHARP, and we'll only be getting tickets for whoever's there with the moolah at the time. Would be very helpful if you'd leave a comment to state your interest in joining us, though. It makes for better expectation management and helps with the entire planning process. Thank you, and hope to see you there!!! =)


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Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra Exhaust System Questions
stacks125 Posts: 6i have a 95 gmc with the 350 tbi motor, i have flowtech headers and then 2.5" pipe running all the way back with a h-pipe from flowmaster right after the headers and no cats with two super 44series and then it cuts out right after the rear axle to keep it hidden with no tips, its got a great low, high horsepower sound with no rasping at all and everyone that hears it seams to like it and yes it still is loud but sounds good
kommeat Posts: 1Okay now I'm confused I've done dual exhausts on several vehicles and this one has stumped me. I'm Running 2.5 inch Duals from the Manifolds back. I'm Using Holly RedHot glasspacks on each side. With the vehicle in park reved up to even 4k the trusk has a nice purr not overly loud but just enough for the good dual sound. I put this thing on the road yesterday and MASHED the pedal to see what it would do. The minute the engine broke 2500 RPM this thing sounded like it had NO exhaust whatsoever. I pulled the glass packs to see if i had one in backwards cause they weren't marked for easy installation and i've taken them off two or three times while tweaking the pips to make sure they fit perfect. The glass packs were installed properly. I Also noticed i have a MEAN tick in the donut gasket on the passenger side so i pulled the pipe at the manifold and checked the donut ring. it looks fine and seals properly to the naked eye. Both rings got replaced when i put the duals on so i know there is no wear in them and this was the trucks first run. ANYONE got any ideas. I'm stuck as to why this things gets so loud at higher rpms but only under load. Oxygen sensor reading show normal at idle and it never kicks the S.E.S. light on so i dont think its bad burn. The passenger side has a little funky smell to it when first running but i think that might be cause the truck hasn't run in like 7 months and it was running lean a little rich while the computer was resetting. (battery has been out for the whole 7 months so computer had to reset)
shortboxfever Posts: 1hi i have a 2007 shortbox reg cab 2wd sierra(new body style) and ive intstalled tru duals with glass packs. sounds like the garbage i thru out last night. i was wondering does anyone know how to bypass the o2sensor and co sensors on either side of the cat. any info would be great thanks!!
keshabell305 Posts: 1I just purchased a 1996 chevy tahoe 4WD, and we have changed the oil. it still had lots of exhaust smoke, but less than it did before the oil change. After maybe 20 minutes of driving,there is always white smoke and fumes. please let me know what is going on.
White smoke is not good. Usually indicates a blown head gasket. The reason there is less of it after the oil change is because the new oil has less coolant mixed in with it.
glock75 Posts: 1Kommeat, I have a gmc 3500 with a pass side leak that sounds like the doghnut did u fix urs and if so what was it mines also a tick. Thanx
aljamea3 Posts: 1I have a 2004 gmc sierra 3500 with a 6.0 gasoline engine and just got a new long tube headers for it but don't know how to do the exhaust design and I have a borla muffler so dose any one have any useful ideas I mean should I make it with one in put and two out puts or the opposite or two out and two in and what pipe should I use Y pipe, X pipe or H pipe what is the best to get the most power and an aggressive truck sound.
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durmax07 Posts: 1We just traded a 2002 Chevy Silverado 1500 HD with the 6.0L and 4:10 rear gears. Back in March 10 I heard the exhaust leak and thought it was the exhaust gaskets, however it was the manifold bolts. Only 2 bolt on each side were holding the manifold on. I got lucky and the mechanic was able to get them out without pulling the heads. Cost $1200.00
$1200 to tighten the exhaust manifold bolts?
davejr Posts: 1I took my truck into the dealer yesterday to have the exhaust manifold replaced. This is after I had been complaining for months about a leak and the noise it was making. And by the way, at 50,000 miles the dealer replaced the cam and lifters becuase they had worn to the point that the engine was making strange noises. This will be my last American made vehicle. Should have stayed with my Nissans, Toyotas and Hondas......Out 360,000 miles on my last Nissan before the timing change stretched and began to run rough. In 70,000 miles this GMC has spent more time in and out of dealerships than it has on the road.
I am sorry that your Sierra has not been a satisfactory vehicle for you. Is it still at the dealership for repair, or have you gotten it back? I look forward to an update on how it runs after the dealer visit, and if we can be of any assistance, please let us know in an email with more information on your situation.
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brianm60556 Posts: 1I have the same issue on my 2009 Chevrolet 2500HD. This truck has never been abused or used for towing yet. I went to the dealership yesterday and they told me this is not covered under my warranty. I came home and looked at what is covered, and it says "manifolds" in the items listed. I'm going to follow up AGAIN with the dealership and try to get them to pay to fix something that was poorly engineered. Perhaps Sarah can suggest who at GM I can contact to get this resolved???? I payed enough for the truck that some simple exhaust bolts should be fixed.
Good evening,
We'd be happy to look into this further and move towards a resolution. Please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com with the following information so we can get a case started: your name and Edmunds username, phone and address, the last 8 digits of your VIN and current mileage, and the name of your involved dealership.
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Elana Drell Szyfer on Global Vision, Jewish Leadership, and a Woman's Journey to the Dead Sea
Elana Drell Szyfer on Global Vision, Jewish Leadership, and a Woman's Journey to the Dead SeaSunday, May 5, 2013 - 2:00 pm
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Elana Drell Szyfer is CEO of AHAVA North America and Deputy CEO of AHAVA Dead Sea Laboratories, Inc. An expert marketer with a successful history of launching and repositioning prestigious brands, she has increased AHAVA's North American sales by as much as 50 percent. Among her varied roles, she promotes AHAVA products on the Home Shopping Network, oversees the Dead Sea Essentials line sold exclusively at Target, speaks publically about counteracting anti-Israel propaganda, and serves as a mentor for the Fashion Institute of Technology's Graduate Program.
Before joining AHAVA in 2011, Ms. Szyfer was Senior VP of Global Marketing for Estée Lauder Brand, where she led the re-launch of Advanced Night Repair, introducing it to a new generation of now loyal fans and helping to double the brand's annual sales. Ms. Szyfer has also held top-level positions at L'Oreal's Lancôme Division, Avon, and Prescriptives, a division of Estée Lauder Companies.
Ms. Szyfer is a graduate of Columbia College of Columbia University and the Stern School of Business at NYU. She is on the board of the Women's Philanthropy Division of the MetroWest Jewish Federation. In 2011, she received the National Council of Jewish Women's "Woman Who Dared" award. In 2012, she was honored by Jewish Women International as one of JWI's "Women to Watch" and was selected by The Forward as a member of the "Forward 50," putting her among the most influential Jewish Americans.
Ms. Szyfer was introduced by Roz Varon, Emmy Award-winning Traffic/Transportation Anchor for Chicago's top-rated ABC 7 News This Morning. She also hosts the station's Weekender entertainment round-up and writes Roz on the Road, a blog that covers topics from construction challenges to life challenges. Ms. Varon is a breast cancer survivor who works diligently to help heighten cancer prevention and awareness. Recently, the Girl Scouts honored her as a role model with their "Smart Cookie" award.
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To coach young children where I live, I had to get licenses from a couple of coaching courses that totaled five days of instruction. We were taught all sorts of drills -- a few of which resembled soccer-playing -- and were given some useful tips. Like keeping plastic bags in your coaching bag in case you need to pick up dog poo before practice.
By Mike Woitalla (from Soccer America Magazine's Youth Soccer Insider)
The league provided first-aid kits in our coaching bags. But injury management training wasn't included in the required coaching courses.
So I signed up for an American Red Cross first-aid course. There I spent most of the day becoming intimate with Rescue Annie, learning CPR, and working that wonderful little machine, the defibrillator. (It actually speaks!) But the kind of first-aid I'd most likely encounter at the soccer field was barely covered.
The team I coached at the time had, believe it or not, four parents who were doctors. So whenever one of the little players got hurt, I simply looked down the sideline and picked an MD to attend to the child.
But what if I didn't have doctors on the sideline?
My response to injured players had been mainly based on what I remember from how the trainers responded to hurt players when I played high school and college ball. Certainly, depending on long-term memory or the odds that there are docs around isn't a satisfactory approach.
Coaches aren't expected to be doctors, but they must attend to injured players and make the difficult decision of whether a player is fit to play after suffering an injury.
To help educate coaches on injury management, orthopedic surgeon Dev Mishra has created SidelineSportsDoc.com – "The Coach's Guide to Youth Sports Injury Management."
Dr. Mishra has served as a team physician for the University of California, he is currently a team physician for several San Francisco Bay Area high schools, and is a member of the team physician pool with the U.S. Soccer Federation. On a weekly basis at his medical practice he sees youth players with significant injuries that started out as minor injuries.
Extrapolating from what he has witnessed, he figures that the potential number of major secondary injuries -- those injuries that became worse because a young player was returned to play before his or her injury had recovered -- suffered by youth athletes nationally is 1 to 2 million annually.
In other words, much grief and cost could be saved with an informed first response from the sidelines and prudent decision-making in determining when a player should return to action.
One of the components of SidelineSportsDoc.com -- which also offers downloadable MP3 content – is the clear, concise PDF for soccer coaches that covers the most common soccer injuries -- including abrasions, ankles, knees -- and pretty much every other type of injury or ailment that a coach could come across.
The beauty is that it's not a daunting document. It's reader-friendly and easily comprehensible. It provides an invaluable four-step guide to on-field injury evaluation applicable for every situation. For all injuries, it includes the crucial advice on what "Red Flags" to look for, how to make the "Play of Sit?" decision, and basic sideline management of the injury.
Also included, of course, is advice on when to call for professional medical personnel.
Reading the PDF or listening to the MP3s -- which run about 5 to 7 minutes per injury -- leaves one feeling much more self-assured about the prospects of attending to a hurt player. And a coach's confident countenance can go far to settle a child shaken up by an injury.
Shortly after I perused the SidelineSportsDoc PDF, a player on my team suffered a bloody nose. That too had been covered: "To control bleeding, use a clean cloth, paper towels, or gauze, to cover the nose. Firmly pinch the soft part of the nose just beneath the hard bridge of the nose and hold for at least 3-5 minutes …"
As is usually the case, the injury was minor and she soon returned to play. But it sure was nice to be prepared.
"The Coach's Guide to Youth Sports Injury Management" for soccer is available at SidelineSportsDoc.com.


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Cooking With Myra: Be thankful for what you have
Nov. 22, 2011 at 5:22 a.m.
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
By Myra Starkey
I cannot remember my first Thanksgiving, although I know it was surely filled with friends and family.
In our family, the holiday traditions are almost sacred, particularly Thanksgiving and Christmas, and being part of the family means being present and involved in this yearly congregation of the relatives. There could hardly be an acceptable excuse short of death for one's absence. During the holiday season, I have always been surrounded by family, and for this, I am truly thankful.
I was blessed to grow up in a town where one set of my grandparents lived. Maw Maw and Paw Paw lived just 15 minutes from my house, and my sisters and I spent a lot of time there. They were my father's parents, and my dad was an only child, so my sisters and I had them to ourselves.
On most Sundays, we ate lunch at my grandparents' house immediately following church. We all attended Trinity Baptist Church in downtown Lake Charles, and they lived just minutes away. Somehow, my grandmother could prepare a piping hot meal within minutes of us arriving from church, and this was before the invention of the microwave oven.
Maw Maw started the meal preparation the night before, and sometimes we got to spend Saturday night at their house. She allowed all three girls to take part in rolling dough for pies or rolling dumplings for chicken and dumplings or flouring chicken for frying.
She would put on her apron and then put an apron on each of us. Of course, on us, these would hang to almost our feet since we were little kids. And we would have to stand on chairs to reach the countertop. And we probably made a mess. We might have slowed her down a bit, but she never seemed to care. It was as if there was nothing more in the whole world that she would rather be doing than cooking with her young granddaughters.
Those Sundays around the dining room table were taken for granted when I was a child. I remember sitting in the oak chairs on top of encyclopedias, so I could reach the table. My grandmother would often use her good china with a blue and gold edge. My parents and grandparents would linger long after the meal was over just visiting and catching up on the activities of the week before. My sisters and I would leave the table and go play hide and seek in the back part of the house. If the weather was good, they might let us run around outside among the hydrangea bushes, which were large enough to either hide in or to use as a "safe base" if we were playing tag.
Even the average Sunday lunch was special, but holidays were all the better because they seemed to call for a gathering of relatives from far and near in one place. Holidays are sort of like family reunions except that it's only for your closest relatives, and it's pretty much the same group every year unless there is an occasion of a marriage, birth or death.
Thanksgiving would generally take place at my parents' house, with my mom preparing the turkey and the relatives filling in with all the sides.
My father had the kind habit of also inviting many non-relatives to the event. These were people who he knew would otherwise be alone on that day, and to him, it just didn't seem right that anyone should eat by themselves on such a day. It is hard to feel as thankful on Thanksgiving when one dines alone.
Our house would be filled with so many people, they were sitting on floors, on the stairs and on the porches. My mom would say that my dad would bring them in from the "highways and the hedges." I think our count one year was 75 people. I remember that my father would treat these strangers like family the best he could.
My mom hated to use paper plates, so we served on real plates, and everyone took turns in the kitchen washing dishes after the meal was over. Many folks stayed to watch football in the afternoon, or take short naps before eating one more time prior to their trip home.
I think I may have taken those childhood holiday meals for granted, since I now realize how difficult it is to get everyone together at the same time. It is sometimes hard to enjoy the moment of such events like Thanksgiving when so many other things compete for our attention.
I found myself stressing over the Thursday meal while shopping early on Sunday evening with the throngs of other mothers and grandmothers, who would be preparing their special feast. I had to stop and remember that the food is not the most important part of the day. I do really enjoy the meal and fellowship, but the reason for the holiday is to give thanks to God for all he has given us, as our health and good fortune is often beyond our control.
Most everyone will bake a turkey or a ham, or continue some other family tradition on Thursday. I found a recipe for a beautiful stuffed pumpkin filled with wild rice that I thought would be a great side dish this year. I'll add that to the green beans with bacon, sweet potatoes with brown sugar, fresh cranberry sauce, homemade rolls and pumpkin pie. I am making myself hungry just thinking about the meal to come.
Myra Starkey lives in Victoria. Write her in care of the Advocate, P.O. Box 1518, Victoria, TX 77901, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Under the weather, Johnson perseveres
By Ken Gurnick / MLB.com
"I threw up a couple times before the game and that made me feel better," said Johnson, a former Cub making his Wrigley Field return. "And the IV got some fluids in me, but I was a little woozy my first two at-bats -- [a comebacker and a strikeout].
"But I started to feel better as the game went on. Then I had a horrible headache overnight and figured if it didn't go away, today wasn't going to be pretty. But it went away, and I finally had a little bit to eat this morning and I'm feeling a lot better."
Johnson said his wife and child were released from the hospital on Thursday morning and flew home.
Dodgers summon Miller, designate Ortiz
CHICAGO -- The Dodgers purchased the contract of right-handed reliever Justin Miller from Triple-A Albuquerque on Thursday and designated for assignment reliever Ramon Ortiz.
Despite the move, the Dodgers remain a pitcher short. Manager Joe Torre said another move is likely, probably a swing man, and he indicated it wouldn't be made until after the club sees what its latest fifth-starter candidate, Carlos Monasterios, does in Colorado on Friday night.
That could mean left-hander Scott Elbert is under consideration. He starts for Albuquerque on Friday. Charlie Haeger has a rehab start for Class A Inland Empire on Saturday, and Torre said, "my guess is he'll join us shortly."
Torre said he would use the durable Miller to pitch out of a jam during an inning or for multiple frames.
"He can pitch every day. I saw him do that with the Giants last year," said Torre. "In Spring Training, we knew we couldn't take him, even though you want on your staff someone with durability."
Miller, 32, is known as the "Human Tattoo," because his body is covered with them, and he's spent parts of six seasons in the Major Leagues with Toronto, Florida and San Francisco.
The Dodgers have 10 days to either trade, release or get Ortiz through waivers to send him to the Minor Leagues. He can refuse such an assignment, and said he would first talk to his agent before committing.
"I'm happy for the opportunity they gave me to start and relieve," said Ortiz. "I try to do my best. That's baseball. It's only two months, but I don't put excuses. I know I'll be fine."
Ortiz was 1-2 with a 6.30 ERA. Miller, coming off shoulder surgery last season, was 0-1 with a 2.22 ERA in 18 games with Albuquerque.
"Any time you get called up, it's a surprise," Miller said. "But I've been doing this long enough to know that you just go down and battle and control what you can control and put yourself in the best position, so when they need someone for it to be you."
Meanwhile, George Sherrill seems to be making a miraculous recovery. Two days after going on the disabled list with middle back stiffness, he was able to throw a bullpen session. He's likely to continue the sessions, then go out on a Minor League rehab assignment.
Ethier to start rehab in Memphis
CHICAGO -- Disabled outfielder Andre Ethier will begin a Minor League rehab assignment with Triple-A Albuquerque in Memphis on Friday night, manager Joe Torre said on Thursday, with Ethier's return to the Dodgers targeted for early next week.
"He'll play there Friday and Saturday, maybe take Sunday off and be available in the early part of the week," Torre said of Ethier, who broke the first knuckle on the little finger of his right hand during batting practice almost two weeks ago.
"It's open if he feels he needs more. We have to make sure we get him back with no hesitation. Whether he goes 0-for-10 or 5-for-10, whatever he feels he can do. He seems to have no issue here taking batting practice outside. When he's finished, it's a little achy, but it didn't hold him back at all. And with the splint, he's in no danger of hurting that spot."
New ring found in solar system -- Torre's ring
CHICAGO -- Dodgers manager Joe Torre, who received a rare phone call from his buddies aboard the International Space Station last week, received a rare photo on Thursday.
Astronaut Garrett Reisman e-mailed Torre a photo of the manager's 2000 World Series ring floating in weightlessness aboard the Space Station. Torre sent the ring, along with Dodgers jerseys of his and coach Don Mattingly, for the final flight of the space shuttle Atlantis, which returned to Earth on Wednesday.
Torre met Reisman in Las Vegas, and last year was given a tour of NASA's Johnson Space Center while the Dodgers were in Houston.
Last week, Torre's cell phone rang at his Dodger Stadium clubhouse office and it was Reisman, having routed the call through the Johnson Space Center.
Ken Gurnick is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - A judge has rejected the self-defense claims of two brothers in the slaying of a man during a confrontation in a Daytona Beach neighborhood.
On Monday, Circuit Judge Margaret Hudson denied the "stand your ground" argument by Ray and Wayne Greenlaw, who claimed they feared for their lives when they opened fire on Brian Leverett and slashed his friend, Justin Riley in 2011.
The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports the judge noted that Greenlaws didn't call 911 when they left their home seeking Riley and Leverett. She also noted that in initial interviews with investigators, neither mentioned that the victims had weapons.
Officials say Wayne Greenlaw fired 15 rounds from his rifle while his brother fired several rounds from a pistol. Both are being held in the Volusia County Jail.
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Morse ready for game action in Florida
By Bill Ladson / MLB.com
Morse is expected to play three games and then start a rehab assignment soon thereafter.
The team is hoping that Morse returns to action on June 8, when it plays the Red Sox. However, according to Johnson, there are people in the organization who hope that Morse can play in a Major League game before that.
"In Morse's mind, he is ready tomorrow, as soon as he is playing one game," Johnson said. "His throwing is what aggravated his arm. I'm not worried about his hitting. He is always thinking about hitting, and he has been hitting on the sly, probably throughout this whole thing. I'm more worried about him throwing, and that could aggravate it."
Johnson pleased with Harper's play, demeanor
PHILADELPHIA -- Before Wednesday's game, Nationals manager Davey Johnson said he didn't think there will be any ill will between Phillies left-hander Cole Hamels and Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper.
"That is a dead issue," Johnson said.
Harper showed how to get revenge in a 9-3 loss to the Phillies on May 6 at Nationals Park. With two outs in the first inning, Hamels hit Harper in the back with his first pitch to the 19-year-old rookie, then acknowledged after the game that it was his intention to hit Harper.
After getting drilled, Harper advanced to third on a single by Jayson Werth. Harper was then able to pay Hamels back by stealing home while the pitcher tried to pick off Werth at first base. Harper became the second player in Nationals history to steal home, and the first to do so on a straight steal.
"The only thing that exacerbated it is Hamels saying something," Johnson said. "He didn't head hunt or nothing like that. He hit one of my good hitters in the back. It didn't bother my guy. As far as I'm concerned, it's just an off-the-cuff remark from a left-handed pitcher. ... [Wednesday's] game is more important than that little incident. It's past us."
Harper, 19, has been a valuable player ever since the Nationals called him up to the big leagues on April 28. Entering Wednesday's action, Harper was 23-for-87 (.264) with two home runs and nine RBIs. Harper already leads the team in triples with three, and has hit everywhere in the lineup except for first, fourth, eighth and ninth.
"I didn't expect him to be here as quickly as he is here," Johnson said. "I didn't expect him to look as comfortable as he looks up here. I think he is very relaxed. He is having fun, he is expressing his talent. It's much needed. His energy level [from a young player] is always important on a ballclub. It's nice having him."
Zimmerman returns to lineup for finale
PHILADELPHIA -- After missing a day because of right shoulder issues, Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman was back in the starting lineup against the Phillies on Wednesday.
Manager Davey Johnson said he should have monitored Zimmerman closely after he came off the disabled list earlier this month because of the same issues.
"After the 17 days he was off, generally, I would want to give him some time off in there rather than push it," Johnson said. "But he is so valuable to the ballclub that I didn't even want to go there. But as I told him the other day, we are in a long war. We can miss a battle here, let's make sure that we are around for most of them."
DeRosa back with Nats after visiting father
PHILADELPHIA -- Outfielder/infielder Mark DeRosa returned to the Nationals after spending the last two days with his ailing father, Jack, who has cancer.
"He is battling hard. He has had a few surgeries in the last couple of days to give him a chance to be strong enough to accept the chemotherapy that he has to go through," Mark DeRosa said.
DeRosa is hoping to be playing in a Major League game by June 15. He is currently on the disabled list because of left oblique strain. DeRosa said he is feeling better and has been able to hit and throw.
"Hopefully, I'm not too far off," DeRosa said.
After a couple of days of hitting, DeRosa hopes to start a rehab assignment soon thereafter.
Bill Ladson is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, All Nats All the time. He also could be found on Twitter @WashingNats. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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StarDust: Salma Hayek Had to Bone Antonio Banderas to Break Into the Biz + More
– The prospect of filming a love scene with Antonio Banderas made Salma Hayek cry. [Amy Grindhouse]
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– Nicki Minaj "accidentally" showed the world her nipple. Again. [E Online]
– Jennifer Lawrence says Josh Hutcherson and Sam Claflin are in an epic on-set bromance. [Hypable]
– We'll have to wait until 2013 to see Hugh Jackman sweaty and shirtless. [ScreenCrush]
– Britney Spears is trying to stunt her ageless children's growth with coffee. [TooFab]
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