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Fourteen students from Dover Montessori Country Day Academy, ages three to five, took learning outside of the classroom during a visit to Dairy Queen on Bay Road in Milford on Aug. 9.
Fourteen students from Dover Montessori Country Day Academy took learning outside of the classroom during a visit to Dairy Queen on Bay Road in Milford on Aug. 9.
The students, ages three to five, experienced the work environment and steps taken to prepare lunch and dessert items for customers.
"Because everything is hands-on with Montessori, that's why we like to do activities like this," said Dover Montessori Country Day Academy Owner Margaret Kling. "Learning is experiential. In our environment the kids learn by experiencing, touching and feeling. Everything is sensorial."
The students were given a tour of the kitchen by Dairy Queen Owner Eugene Mills, who pointed out the various work stations and storage areas, as well as food preparation steps and equipment. At the end of the tour, the children were given an opportunity to choose from a variety of ice cream toppings, which they then poured on their own, over a bucket to avoid too much mess.
The trip also coincides with the students' science lessons about liquids and solids, Kling said. It also offered life lessons on how to work as a group and within varying social environments.
"It's not only physical, but it's contributing. We teach them social things that help them with group and work interaction," Kling said. "They have to grow up as social beings and we try to encourage children at an early age to be autonomous."
The reward of ice cream at the end of the trip rewarded the children for their good behavior and taught that hard work truly does pay off.
"It's really fun for them and we admonish it by saying that's their work," Kling said. "Whatever they do in the environment is considered valuable and worthwhile."


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This page deals with setting up Arch Linux on the Dell Vostro 1400 laptop. Nvidia graphics work excellently with the Nvidia 8400GS with no real hacks. I get about 4400 fps in glxgears.
For the Intel Core 2 Duo (and all laptop CPUs) you must follow the instructions to setup the CPU Frequency Scaling.
To know your exact wireless card you can run:
lspci | grep Net
Mini Dell Wireless / Broadcom based cards
If you have a Broadcom BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (and maybe other flavours) you can follow the installation instructions for Broadcom BCM4312.
Intel based cards
Follow the instructions for the Intel Wifi 4965 chipset
Graphical Input
There is more than one way to do this but we'll use HAL. First enter this as root to get hal.
pacman -S hal
Once it is installed you can start it by typing this as root.
/etc/rc.d/hal start
You will want to add "hal" to your daemons list in /etc/rc.conf.
Now that HAL is installed follow the instructions for Synaptic touchpad via HAL policy (this is based on the Vostro 1500 and may not apply but if it seems like everything is frozen after starting X you should probably try this)
First of all it is necessary to install the Xorg server. The easiest way to do this is by entering the following command as root:
pacman -S xorg
Press Y to install all the packages and wait for the download to finish.
Nvidia GeForce 8400M GS
The proprietary Nvidia drivers are setup very easily for the GeForce 8400M GS. Having installed Xorg (see above) you type in this command into the console as root:
pacman -S nvidia
After it has finished downloading you need to configure the Nvidia drivers. You will need to be logged in as root. Enter the following command:
Now, open up /etc/X11/XF86Config in a text editor and comment out the line; Load "type1". For this example we'll use nano:
nano /etc/X11/XF86Config
and comment it out with a hash (#) symble like so:
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Big Ten Weekly Five: 09.28.12 EditionPosted by Deepak Jayanti on September 28th, 2012
- Illinois head coach John Groce could have pulled off one of the best recruiting months of Illini basketball if top 30 recruit Demetrius Jackson would have chosen to play college basketball in Champaign. But instead, one of the best point guards of his class decided to play for Notre Dame instead of Illinois. Illini fans were already excited when Kendrick Nunn, a 6'2″ shooting guard and top 75 recruit, committed earlier in September, but they eagerly waited for Jackson's decision on September 27. The combination of Jackson and Nunn would have set Illinois back on track to competing for Big Ten titles and beyond. Malcolm Hill, a 6'5″ wing and a top 100 recruit, will join Nunn next year as Groce continues to impress the Orange Krush with his recruiting prowess. Tracy Abrams (4.3 PPG, 2.3 RPG) and Joseph Bertrand (6.5 PPG, 2.7 RPG) will most likely be back next season to star in the uptempo, guard-oriented offense that Groce plans to implement at Illinois.
- Continuing with the recruiting theme, Tom Izzo's recent interview with the Detroit Free Press touches on several topics about his recruiting philosophy. Never hesitant to be candid about this opinion, Izzo discussed his view on the "one-and-done" type of recruits. Izzo says, "I never shied away from getting the one-and-done guy but I don't think I want too many of them." He also praised John Calipari for his coaching job with last year's group of freshmen but Izzo prefers to be around a group of veterans. Over the years, several great four-year players have passed through Izzo's system such as Mateen Cleaves, Kalin Lucas and most recently, Draymond Green. Michigan State is one of several teams that are chasing one of the best high school prospects of 2013, Jabari Parker, a forward from Chicago. Even though Izzo doesn't consistently recruit top 10 classes, he is among the best in the business in terms of player development because his players consistently improve their game over their time in East Lansing.
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Kershaw's CG helps Dodgers edge Brewers
Milwaukee, WI – Clayton Kershaw fired a three-hit complete game, and Andre Ethier and Matt Kemp homered, as the Los Angeles Dodgers edged the Milwaukee Brewers, 3-1, to start a three-game set at Miller Park.
Kershaw (5-2) walked one and had five strikeouts to earn his 10th career complete game. He was one out shy of going the distance in his most recent start, last Tuesday against the Washington Nationals.
"It's pretty amazing to play defense behind him," Ethier said of Kershaw. "You thank your lucky stars you don't have to face him. It feels good, but we still need to score more runs for him."
Ethier tacked on an RBI triple for the Dodgers, who were swept in a three-game set at Atlanta over the weekend.
Yovani Gallardo (3-4) surrendered eight hits and three runs and had seven strikeouts over six innings for the Brewers. He's lost three consecutive starts.
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Norichika Aoki drove in the lone run for Milwaukee, which fell to 3-15 this month.
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Kemp walked to start the second inning and Ethier tripled to right field when the ball took an odd bounce off the wall and away from Aoki.
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A securities analyst accused of leaking secret information in 2009 about a potential partnership between Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft to an SAC Capital Advisors hedge fund manager and other traders was arrested and charged in San Jose, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
Sandeep Aggarwal, who worked as an analyst covering technology stocks before moving to India to start his own Internet company, was arrested on Monday by FBI agents in San Jose while visiting the United States. He made his initial appearance in San Francisco federal court on Tuesday, charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud and wire fraud related to insider trading.
Aggarwal, 40, did not enter a plea to allegations that he passed nonpublic information to about a dozen hedge fund managers including SAC portfolio manager, Richard Lee, who pleaded guilty last week days before the hedge fund itself was indicted on Thursday in New York.
SAC spokesman Jonathan Gasthalter declined to comment on Tuesday.
The hedge fund and its founder Steven Cohen, one of Wall Street's most successful investors, have been investigated by the FBI and market regulators for about a decade in a crackdown on insider trading.
Aggarwal, wearing jeans and a dark blue short-sleeved polo shirt in court, was ordered released on a $500,000 bond by magistrate judge Nandoor Vadas and told to appear Friday in federal court in New York, where prosecutors have won about 60 insider trading convictions in the past five years.
One of the conditions of Aggarwal's release was that he would have no contact with SAC Capital or with Lee, the former SAC employee he is accused of tipping. Aggarwal is a citizen of India with permanent U.S. residency status.
His lawyer, Sanaz Nikaein, told the court that her client was planning to cooperate with the FBI after agents first approached him in February and that his arrest had come as "a surprise to his attorney, to his wife and to himself."
Aggarwal's lawyer in New York, Sam Braverman, said he was reviewing the charges.
"Mr. Aggarwal will gladly come to New York to address the charges directly," Braverman said in an emailed statement.
Aggarwal worked in 2009 as a research analyst covering technology at the firm Collins Stewart in San Francisco. He was quoted frequently by the press and even commented publicly on the possibility of a partnership between Sunnyvale Internet company Yahoo and software giant Microsoft. He left Collins Stewart in March 2010.
Aggarwal is accused of tipping Lee and other hedge fund employees about private negotiations between the two companies for the partnership.
Collins Stewart was acquired by Canaccord Genuity in March 2012. A spokesman for Canaccord, Scott Davidson, said "we have cooperated fully with the investigation."
A statement by Microsoft on Tuesday said the company had "zero tolerance for insider trading, and we assisted the government with this investigation."
The criminal complaint against Aggarwal said he told "approximately 14 traders or portfolio managers at various hedge funds" details about the potential partnership.
According to the criminal complaint, Aggarwal told Lee his "best industry contact" who was a "senior guy at Microsoft" said the two companies had resumed their talks, and that senior executives from Yahoo were visiting Microsoft's headquarters, elevating the seriousness of the negotiations.
The former Microsoft employee, who is not identified in the complaint but is described as a longtime friend of Aggarwal's, is cooperating with the government.
The complaint said Aggarwal also gave the information to a trader at another hedge fund, which was not identified in the court document. A representative of the hedge fund later contacted Aggarwal's employer and reported the suspicion that Aggarwal was disseminating nonpublic information.
He also faces a civil suit by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The $14 billion SAC Capital has also been charged with securities fraud and wire fraud. The indictment said the firm fostered a corrupt business culture in which portfolio managers were encouraged to use any means possible to find an "edge" in stock trading.
The criminal charges, along with an administrative proceeding accusing SAC founder Cohen of failing to properly supervise his employees, are connected to 10 former SAC employees have been charged or implicated for insider trading.
"Like many others before him, Sandeep Aggarwal allegedly broke the law and provided material nonpublic information on a Microsoft-Yahoo deal," said FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge George Venizelos. "When questioned by his employer about the source of the information, he lied."


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Stanford University BS 1980
Mari Ostendorf joined the Speech Signal Processing Group at BBN Laboratories in 1985, where she worked on low-rate coding and acoustic modeling for continuous speech recognition. Two years later, she moved to Boston University in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where she her research expanded to include language modeling, prosody modeling, and speech synthesis. She joined the University of Washington in 1999, where she is broadly interested in spoken language technology. She teaches courses in statistical language processing and undergraduate signal processing, and has recently introduced a class on the Digital World of Multimedia, introducing new undergraduates to signal processing and communications. Her current research efforts are centered on rich speech transcription, particularly for purposes of automatic language processing on speech, with more fundamental interests in learning methods for language technology. She has published over 150 papers on various problems in speech and language processing. Dr. Ostendorf has served on the Speech Processing and the DSP Education Committees of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and numerous workshop committees.
Endowed Professor of System Design Methodologies
IEEE Fellow 2005
Sigma Xi
1998 ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Laboratories Paper Award
1999 IEEE Signal Processing Society Paper Award
Research Interests
Statistical modeling for signal interpretation and generation, particularly speech and language processing. Current research efforts are in acoustic and language modeling for rich transcription of spoken language, the use of prosody at the interface between speech and language, learning with sparse data resources, and language technology for bilingual education.
Signal, Speech, and Language Interpretation Lab: http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/
Selected Publications
O. Cetin, M. Ostendorf and G. Bernard, "Multi-rate Hidden Markov Models for Monitoring of Machining Tool Wear," IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, to appear 2007.
R. Bates, M. Ostendorf and R. Wright, "Symbolic phonetic features for modeling of pronunciation variation," Speech Communication, to appear 2007.
I. Bulyko, M. Ostendorf, M. Siu, T. Ng, A. Stolcke and O. Cetin, "Web resources for language modeling in conversational speech recognition," ACM Trans. on Speech and Language Processing, to appear 2007.
with A. Stolcke et al., "Recent innovations in speech-to-text transcription at SRI-ICSI-UW," IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol 14, No. 5, 2006.
with Y. Liu et al., "Enriching speech recognition with automatic detection of sentence boundaries and disfluencies," IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 14, No. 5, 2006.
M. Siu, T. Ng, and M. Ostendorf, "A quantitative assessment of the importance of tone in Mandarin speech recognition," Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 12, No. 12, pp. 867-870, 2005.
I. Bulyko, K. Kirchhoff, M. Ostendorf and J. Goldberg, "Error-correction detection and response generation in a spoken dialogue system," Speech Communication, Vol. 45. No. 3, 2005, pp. 271-288.
D. Palmer and M. Ostendorf, "Improving Out-of-Vocabulary Name Resolution," Computer Speech and Language, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 107-128, 2005.
M. Ostendorf and I. Bulyko, "The Use of Speech Recognition Technology in Speech Synthesis," in Text-to-Speech Synthesis: New Paradigms and Advances, ed. S. Narayanan and A. Alwan, Prentice Hall, 2004.
S. Schwarm, I. Bulyko and M. Ostendorf, "Adaptive language modeling with varied sources to cover new vocabulary items," IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 334-342, 2004.
Selected Recent Conference Papers
B. Hoffmeister, D. Hillard, S. Hahn, R. Schulter, M. Ostendorf and H. Ney, "Cross-site and intra-site ASR system combination: Comparisons on lattice and 1-best methods," Proc. ICASSP, 2007.
T. Shinozaki and M. Ostendorf, "Cross-validation EM training fro robust parameter estimation," Proc. ICASSP, 2007
X. Lei and M. Ostendorf, "Word-level tone modeling for Mandarin speech recognition," Proc. ICASSP, 2007.
A. Mandal, M. Ostendorf and A. Stolcke, "Speaker clustered regression-class trees for MLLR adaptation," Proc. Interspeech, 2006, pp. 1133-1136.
S. Hahn, R. Ladner and M. Ostendorf, "Agreement/disagreement classification: exploiting unlabeled data using contrast classifiers," Proc. HLT-NAACL, pp. 53-56, 2006.
D. Hillard, Z. Huang, H. Ji, R. Grishman, D. Hakkani-Tur, M. Harper, M. Ostendorf and W. Wang, "Impact of automatic comma prediction on POS and name tagging of speech," Proc. IEEE/ACL Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, 2006.
W. McNeill, J. Kahn, D. Hillard and M. Ostendorf, "Phrase structure and segmentation for improving speech recognition," Proc. IEEE/ACL Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, 2006.
C. Boulis and M. Ostendorf, "Using symbolic prominence to help design feature subsets for topic classification and clustering of natural human-human conversations," Proc. Interspeech Conference, pp. 425-428, 2005.
J. G. Kahn, M. Lease, E. Charniak, M. Johnson and M. Ostendorf, "Effective use of prosody in parsing conversational speech," Proc. EMNLP-HLT, pp. 233-240, 2005.
S. Schwarm and M. Ostendorf, "Reading Level Assessment Using Support Vector Machines and Statistical Language Models," Proc. ACL, 2005.
C. Boulis and M. Ostendorf, "Combining multiple clustering systems," Proc. European Conference on Principles of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, pp. 63-74, 2004.
M. Ostendorf and H. Singer, "Maximum likelihood state splitting for continuous speech recognition"
Active Grants
GALE: Rich Transcription for Machine Translation, DARPA, 9/05-11/07
A Collaborative Program for EE Systems Education, NSF, 9/05-9/07
ITR: Translation Technology for Language Modeling, NSF, 9/03-9/07
Recent Graduate Students
Xin Lei, EE Ph.D. 2006, "Modeling lexical tones for Mandarin large vocabulary continuous speech recognition"
William McNeill, Linguistics M.A. 2006, "Segmentation and Feature Selection for Conversational Speech Syntactic Language Models"
Jeremy G. Kahn, Linguistics M.A. 2005, "Moving beyond the lexical layer in parsing conversational speech"
Constantinos Boulis, EE Ph.D. 2005, University of Washington, "Topic Learning in Text and Conversational Speech"
Ozgur Cetin, EE Ph.D. 2004, University of Washington, "Multi-rate modeling, model inference and estimation for statistical classifiers"
Rebecca Bates, EE Ph.D. 2004, University of Washington, "Dynamic pronunciation modeling in spontaneous speech recognition"
Current Graduate Students
Arindam Mandal, EE Ph.D. expected 2007, "Pronunciation modeling in spontaneous speech recognition"
Sarah Petersen, CSE Ph.D. expected 2007, "Language technology for reading-level assessment in bilingual education"
Dustin Hillard, EE Ph.D. expected 2007, "Detecting sentence structure in speech for machine translation"
Scott Otterson, EE Ph.D. candidate, "Tracking speakers in meeting recordings"
Sangyun Hahn, CSE Ph.D. candidate, "Semi-supervised learning techniques for annotating activities in meetings"
Jeremy G. Kahn, Linguistics Ph.D. candidate, "Use of parsing in machine translation"
Alex Marin, EE Ph.D. candidate, "Query-driven topic language model adaptation"
Amy Dashiell, EE M.S. candidate, "Detecting emotion and intent for dialog systems"
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Editor 2006-2008
Computer, Speech and Language, Editor 1998-2003


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for filling:
1 cup mango nectar
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup lime juice
1/4 cup corn starch
1/2 cup orange juice
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
2 1/2 tablespoons butter
6 ounces frozen or fresh raspberries plus a bit of sugar for puree
whipped cream and sliced strawberries for garnish
for crust:
1 cup butter
2 cups flour
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
To prepare crust, preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Lightly grease six tart pans and set aside.
Cream butter and sugar, add vanilla then flour and salt until dough sticks together. Divide the dough into six pieces and press each into a fluted greased tart pan. Prick each crust with a fork and bake at 325 for 40 minutes or until the crusts begin to turn slightly brown.
Let crusts cool completely and remove them from the tart pans.
Then for filling combine the nectar, sugar, lime juice, cornstarch, orange juice and eggs in a large sauce pan and whisk together. Cook over a medium-high heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture begins to boil. Once it does, reduce the heat to low and cook for two more minutes, stirring constantly.
Remove from heat and add butter, stirring to melt and combine.
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The Lady Bisons played their final games ever at the Lipscomb Softball Complex on Wednesday afternoon. The Lady Bisons lost game one of the double header 10-2 and won game two 2-1. The games were the final ones at the site that was once Onion Dell and home to the Lipscomb Baseball program since the late 1940's. The Lipscomb baseball program played at the site until 1991 when they moved Dugan Field to the current location. In 1996 the Lady Bison softball team began playing at the site. The Lady Bisons will play their remaining games for the 2005 season at Crockett Park in Brentwood. Construction on the Lady Bisons new softball complex is set to begin in May/June of this summer and be ready for the 2006 season. The field will be located about 200 yards south of the current field near the Lipscomb Soccer Complex.
In game one shortstop Candice McWherter went 2-for-4 at the plate and scored one run and drove in one run. McWherter now has a batting average of .278. Second baseman Leigh Little went 2-for-3 and scored one of the Lady Bisons two runs. Little now has a batting average of .375 on the season.
Right-handed pitcher Sara Meek started for the Lady Bisons in game one and gave up nine hits and seven earned runs while striking out three batters. Meek is now 3-4 on the season with a earned run average of 3.83. Right-handed pitcher Kim Jacobson relieved Meek in the 7th inning and gave up two hits and two earned runs.
The Lady Bisons scored two runs off of eight hits and committed four errors in game one. The Lady Raiders scored 10 runs off of 11 hits and committed three errors.
The Lady Bisons rallied together and won game two 2-1. The Lady Raiders had an early lead after scoring the first run of the game in the top of the 2nd inning. The Lady Bisons would respond with a two run 5th inning and hold onto the lead.
Starting right-handed pitcher Danielle Catalano pitched her first complete game of the season and gave up five hits and one earned run as she fanned six batters. Catalano also picked up her first win of the season and is now 1-0 with an earned run average of 3.23.
Offensively in game two Little led the way going 2-for-3 at the plate and drove in both of the Lady Bisons two runs. Pitching in offensively was Jessica Wilson, Heather Collins, Jennifer Cannon, and Alysha Forsythe who each had one hit in the game.
The Lady Bisons scored two runs off of six hits and committed one error in game two. The Lady Raiders scored one run off of five hits and committed one error.
The Lady Bisons will travel to Cape Girardeau, Missouri for a double header against Southeast Missouri State on March 8 at 2:00 p.m.


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Weaver out to prove ace label suits him well
ANAHEIM -- In the grand scheme of a 162-game season, getting the ball on Day One may seem like a trivial distinction. But it means something, because the term "ace" is about so much more than merely placing first in a rotation of five. Opening Day starters carry the responsibility of leading a staff, of wanting the ball, of being that proverbial rock and of coming through when needed most.
ANAHEIM -- In the grand scheme of a 162-game season, getting the ball on Day One may seem like a trivial distinction. But it means something, because the term "ace" is about so much more than merely placing first in a rotation of five. Opening Day starters carry the responsibility of leading a staff, of wanting the ball, of being that proverbial rock and of coming through when needed most.
So perhaps it's fitting that nobody in Angels history has done this more than Jered Weaver.
When the Angels face the Mariners at Angel Stadium on Monday night at 7:05 PT, Weaver will be making his sixth Opening Day start -- fifth in a row -- to pass Mike Witt for the most in franchise history. And few savor those big moments more than Weaver.
"He wants it, and he loves it," said Mike Butcher, entering his eighth season as the Halos' pitching coach. "It's real. He's a big-game pitcher. And I think the guys that are on the field and in that clubhouse want him out there as well. He's that type of guy. He brings that to the table."
Fitting, too, that Weaver's opponent will be Felix Hernandez, part of that small, upper-echelon group of elite aces.
Weaver -- third in Angels history with 113 wins -- was part of that group from 2010-12, when he averaged 17 wins, a 2.73 ERA and 216 innings while finishing among the top five in American League Cy Young Award votes each year. Last season, however, the right-hander was limited to 24 starts and elevated his ERA to 3.27, throwing his fastball at an alarmingly low velocity. As a result, many now wonder if Weaver still belongs in that discussion.
"When you're not in the talks anymore," Weaver said, "you want to prove to people that you should be in the talks."
It always seems to come back to velocity with Weaver, because it's rare to see an ace pitcher struggle to hit 90 mph and his average speed last year -- a touch above 86 mph -- was the third lowest among those with at least 150 innings.
"They can talk about it all they want," Weaver said. "I know I throw slow. What do you want me to do? But if I put it where I want to, I'm going to get people out."
In Butcher's eyes, "There aren't too many guys in the game, or who have ever played the game, that have the ability to do what he does with the fastball," so the pitching coach never worries about what the radar gun reads when Weaver pitches.
Until last year, Weaver hadn't really lost all that much velocity. In 2007, his average four-seam fastball velocity was 90 mph. In 2012, it was 88. Last year, however, it dropped to 86.8-- but Butcher sees that as an outlier, a direct byproduct of an injury.
In his second start of the season, at Rangers Ballpark on April 7, Weaver ducked out of the way of a line drive, landed awkwardly on his non-throwing arm and wound up spending the next seven weeks on the disabled list with a broken left elbow.
"Frustrating," Weaver called it. "I like to take the ball every fifth day, man, and there wasn't anything I could do to speed up the process or do anything. I just had to sit and wait."
And he couldn't really work out, because it's too difficult to work on just one side of the body. So Weaver couldn't lift weights, do squats, get too deep into his stretching routine or do any of the things that allow him to build strength in his arm and get his velocity where it should be.
This offseason, though, Weaver worked with massage therapist Yoichi Terada for a month to "get all the limbs and everything feeling up to par." Then he hit the weights hard and was back in the upper 80s in his Cactus League starts, hitting mostly 87 and 88 mph, occasionally touching 89 and 90, and sometimes even venturing into 91.
Butcher expects Weaver to stay around that velocity all season, back where he was in the years when he was capturing AL Cy Young votes.
And Weaver doesn't need much more than that.
"He's got the most unique delivery in the Major Leagues right now," Butcher said. "His deception is not so much the arm angle or the arm slot; it's about how far he is across his body. He's able to hide the ball longer, which makes the velocity that you see as a number play a lot higher than it actually is."
Weaver is also a master of putting pitches together, with razor-sharp command of his two-seamer, changeup, curveball and slider, all of which he can throw at varying speeds.
"He just keeps adding and adding, and mastering every one of them," Butcher said. "He's got tremendous feel, and he sees what the hitter is presenting to him as the game goes on. He's one of the best guys I've ever seen make those types of adjustments in a game."
That's why Butcher doesn't worry about Weaver, even while the rest of the world wonders.
Weaver, meanwhile, welcomes the doubt.
"I always get motivation off trying to prove people wrong," Weaver said. "I've always done that throughout my career. A lot of people said that I couldn't do a lot of stuff, and I've proven a lot of people wrong. That's kind of motivation for me. I love it when people talk."
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Charles Shaw wines, otherwise known as "Two Buck Chuck" for their rock-bottom price, suffered hardly any damage despite being at the epicenter of the California earthquake that jolted Napa County early Sunday.
Fred Franzia, founder of the Bronco Wine Company that sells the cheap wine, said only two bottles were broken by the earthquake and none at the warehouse at Napa Ridge Winery warehouse facility, located near Napa County Airport in American Canyon.
"God takes care of people that price the wines fairly," said Franzia. "A lot of the wineries that have overpriced their wine got hurt, but God doesn't punish people that are fair."
The warehouse holds 700,000 cases of wine or 8.4 million bottles. The two broken bottles fell off the shelf in the winery's laboratory, Franzia said.
Video from the warehouse shows towers of wines cases shaking for a good 10 seconds without toppling.
The stacks "rocked around like trees," but the light-weight bottles were better than others, which saved them, said Franzia.
The wine-maker is known for the selling $1.99 bottles of wine at Trader Joe\'s grocery stores all over the country.
Over the past decade, more than 800 million bottles of "Two Buck Chuck" have been sold, according to Bronco Wines.
"We think we fairly priced our wines, we don't think we are low, we think the others are too high," said Franzia.
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In the postgame locker room following Sunday's disappointing, yet emphatic 31-21 loss to the San Francisco 49ers, the New Orleans Saints talked of missed opportunities and poor execution.
Some racked their brains trying articulate what had just happened inside the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. A few spoke in crackly, somber voices. Others shook their heads in disgust.
Nearly all, though, spoke about bouncing back.
"The good thing is when you come off a loss like that, you just can't get back on the field fast enough," said Saints quarterback Drew Brees, who had two costly interceptions that were returned for touchdowns. "In this case we get back on the field about as fast as you can."
With a short week and the hated Atlanta Falcons awaiting their Thursday night arrival at the Georgia Dome, the Saints have little time to get over the physical beating that was handed out or the mental anguish suffered by failing to move into the sixth spot in the NFC playoff race.
"It was a tough loss for our team to swallow and a tough loss for our coaching staff to swallow," Saints interim coach Joe Vitt said Monday. "But the reality of it is this, we have a 24-hour rule around here and that rule has been cut to 12 hours. At 7 o'clock this morning with put this behind us and we are on to our next games.
"I feel no differently about our football team right now than I did yesterday morning when we woke up and had won five of six games. This team has worked hard, this team is together, this team does not point fingers. And we are moving on to the next game."
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Strange day today and strange season too. In all my years watching Saints football and that's since game 1. I have never turned off a Saints game during the game. Never. I've seen a lot of terrible football from this team, but at least they were trying. They had terrible coaching. Terrible ownership. Terrible scouts and terrible talent for most of those years, but at least they put their hear into it and really tried.
This season, I've been so frustrated with this team and this coaching staff, that I didn't even watch one game due to their stubbornness to continue to run Ingram with no results and I mean NO results and we just kept losing. For a while I just thought it was Kromer not wanting to rock the boat and keep the team together and focused along with his inexperience. I just got so sick of watching Ingram run the ball that I just could not sit through another game of watching him.
Later, during the season, I turned off the Denver game at the start of the 4th quarter. It just made me sick to watch this poor excuse for a defense play as well as watch this offense play without purpose and passion. Now, I've turned the game off in the 4th quarter of last weeks game against the 49ers. Can't diss them because they come to play, not talk, like the Saints do. They come to play, not read their press clippings, like the Saints do. I turned it off because I couldn't watch any more of the hard headed, bone headed coaching of this staff. Refusing to run the best back again in such an important divisional game that would have us in at the #6 seed today as I write this. Refusing to give help to the RT who we just signed off the streed days ago with a TE and allowing our QB to be hurried and harassed
all game long, and to watch our team play hesitant, scared and intimidated. It just made me sick, so I chose not to watch any more of it.
Now, here today, a day when I would have re-watched the game and studied our new RT, the o-line in total, the RB's and our defense. I find myself not even wanting to record the game. Not even feeling like watching this team embarrass themselves, their city and their fans. While some may take offense to this statement, tell me that after you face co-workers who are maybe 49ers fans, Cowboys fans, Falcons fans etc. then think about why you were offended by this post.
The thing that I think makes me so sick after this game and this season as a whole is the fact that even without Sean Payton, even without everything that has transpired throughout the offseason. This team is too talented to be playing like this. I know it, and you know it. We are too talented to be taking teams like Washington with a rookie QB for granted, too talented to be taking a team like the Panthers lightly, too talented to completely lose our composure to a team like Kansas City and basically ruin our season even before it started.
Now, trying to dig ourselves out of our self inflicted hole, we play marginally better. Just good enough to get to 500. Then, when the time comes to put up or shut up, to fish or cut bait, to show the world what you're made of, you come up with this effort? This game plan? This team is better than this, this coaching staff is better than this, and New Orleans Saints fans deserve better than this half hearted play and coaching. Saints fans have been there for this team through it all. Through thick and thin. We've seen every type of football that a fan can see and we know without a doubt that this team is better than what they've shown this year and what they've given us. Saints fans have filled the dome and made their voices heard to give this team an advantage, to help this team win games. They've made the effort, they've shown their heart and it's time this team did too. It's time this team represented it's fans the same way it's fans have represented them.
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SAN DIEGO/ATLANTA (Reuters) - U.S. monetary policy is being kept easier to help offset the harm caused by political fighting in Washington, according to two senior Federal Reserve officials who warned on Thursday of damaging consequences if the nation defaults on its debt.
Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Dennis Lockhart said the disquiet resulting from the budget battle "vindicated" the Fed's surprise decision not to scale back its asset purchases at its meeting last month.
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Dallas Federal Reserve President Richard Fisher warned separately that a default would profoundly unsettle financial markets.
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"Every time there is another factor holding us back, whether it is tax policy, whether it is spending ... it just means we have to keep interest rates lower for longer. We have to do more active purchases," he told an audience in San Diego.
Policymakers have repeatedly said they cannot fully compensate for the impact of tighter fiscal policy or the uncertainty caused by Washington gridlock, but they have a duty to try their best.
"We just have to do more of what we can do ... to, as best we can, offset the influences on the economy from what is happening in Washington," Williams said.
The Fed has already committed to holding rates near zero until unemployment hits 6.5 percent, provided the outlook for inflation does not rise above 2.5 percent. Williams, stressing that this threshold was not a trigger for rate action, said he did not expect the first hike until the second half of 2015.
Additional reporting by Ann Saphir in Dallas, Writing by Alister Bull; Editing by Ken Wills


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The beleaguered Mets – losers of eight of their last ten games – hope to get better tonight with Mike Pelfrey (5-1, 3.02) going against the Yankees.
Pelfrey is making his third start against the Yankees, against whom he is 1-1 with a 5.40 ERA in 10 innings. In his last start, Pelfrey gave up two runs over a season-high 7 2/3 innings Monday at Atlanta, which snapped a five-game losing streak.
With questions throughout their rotation, Pelfrey has been the Mets' most dependable starter, and his 3-0 with a 2.61 ERA in five home starts. Pelfrey attributes much of his success for falling out of love with the sinker. He said he was becoming predictable with the sinker.
"I would almost say I've changed from being a sinkerball guy to a four-seam guy,'' Pelfrey said. "There are times when I'll only use the sinker when I get in trouble. I've changed.''
What hasn't changed is the Mets' myriad of pitching questions, beginning with John Maine, who will be examined by doctors Monday for discomfort and fatigue in his shoulder.
Maine pitched to one batter Thursday night at Washington before being removed. Angry for being taken out, Maine has finally admitted to discomfort, but stubborn as he is, said he didn't think it was necessary to go on the DL.
Raul Valdes replaced Maine and pitched five strong innings. He was so effective, that Jerry Manuel has tentatively penciled him in over knuckleballer R.A. Dickey to start Tuesday against Philadelphia.
The Mets' offense, save a 10-run explosion Thursday night, has been listless for much of May. It has been a brutal month for David Wright, who was 0-for-4 with two strikeouts. Wright has struck out 23 times since May 8.
Here's tonight's line-up behind Pelfrey:
Jose Reyes, SS
Luis Castillo, 2B
Jason Bay, LF
Ike Davis, 1B
David Wright, 3B
Angel Pagan, CF
Rod Barajas, C
Jeff Francoeur, RF
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For one thing, their Uncle Bret Hart is in one of the featured bouts on Sunday, taking on their boss, Vince McMahon, in a Street Fight. And one night earlier, their grandfather, Stu Hart, will be among the inductees to the WWE Hall of Fame.
"It's always nice when the family's involved, like this year with Bret at WrestleMania and Stu going into the Hall of Fame," Natalya told SLAM! Wrestling during a promo stop for WrestleMania in Toronto. "It'll be nice to support Bret, and certainly, David and I are excited about seeing our grandfather get inducted into the Hall of Fame. It's very special for us."
As The Hitman promised on Raw Monday night, there will be Harts all over Phoenix. (And they will be all at the Hall of Fame induction, posted conflicts with Fan Axxess signings be damned.)
"Everybody wants to be a part of it," Natalya continued. "My mom and dad are going. All Stu's children are going. It'll be really nice for the family to get together. My grandfather is my hero, and I know he's David's hero, and a lot of people's hero."
The announced return of Bret Hart at the beginning of 2010 had a lot of pundits predicting that it would be an excellent chance to elevate the next generation, the Hart Dynasty of Natalya, Smith and Tyson Kidd (formerly T.J. Wilson).
Should the Hart Dynasty have been involved in Bret's comeback? Natalya hems and haws a bit about not making decisions about their characters, until Smith jumps in. "I think it would have made perfect sense. Why it didn't happen, I couldn't exactly tell you."
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