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|MLB Career Stats
|NY Mets
|NY Mets
|NY Mets
|16th in NL
|12th in NL
|7th in NL
|3rd in NL
|24th in NL
|6th in NL
|9th in NL
|3rd in NL
|14th in NL
|7th in NL
|2nd in NL
|6th in NL
|10th in NL
|5th in NL
|24th in NL
|5th in NL
|11th in NL
|25th in NL
|16th in NL
|March 30, 2011
|Atlanta Braves released LHP Billy Wagner.
|October 13, 2010
|Atlanta Braves activated LHP Billy Wagner from the 15-day disabled list.
|October 10, 2010
|Atlanta Braves placed LHP Billy Wagner on the 15-day disabled list. Left oblique
|December 2, 2009
|Atlanta Braves signed free agent LHP Billy Wagner.
|November 5, 2009
|LHP Billy Wagner elected free agency.
|August 27, 2009
|Boston Red Sox activated LHP Billy Wagner.
|August 25, 2009
|New York Mets traded LHP Billy Wagner to Boston Red Sox.
|August 20, 2009
|Billy Wagner roster status changed by New York Mets.
|August 14, 2009
|GCL Mets sent LHP Billy Wagner on a rehab assignment to St. Lucie Mets.
|August 12, 2009
|Billy Wagner assigned to GCL Mets from St. Lucie Mets.
|August 5, 2009
|Billy Wagner assigned to St. Lucie Mets from GCL Mets.
|August 3, 2009
|Billy Wagner assigned to GCL Mets from St. Lucie Mets.
|July 31, 2009
|Billy Wagner assigned to St. Lucie Mets.
|June 5, 2009
|New York Mets transferred LHP Billy Wagner from the 15-day disabled list to the 60-day disabled list.
|April 5, 2009
|New York Mets placed LHP Billy Wagner on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to March 27, 2009.
POSTSEASON: Closed out New York's 2-0 win over the Cardinals in Game One of the NLCS...It was his third postseason save tying him for the most career saves in club history with Armando Benitez and Tug McGraw...Earned his first career postseason save in New York's 6-5 win in Game One of the NLDS vs.Los Angeles...Also notched a save in Game Two vs. LA in the Mets' 4-1 victory.2005 Finished the season with a career-best 1.51 ERA, the lowest among all NL relievers and second lowest in the majors (Mariano Rivera, 1.38)...Ranks seventh among active relievers and 21st all-time with 284 career saves...Ranks third on the All-Time Save List among lefthanded relievers...Led all major league relievers in games finished (70)...Among NL relievers, ranked second in opponents average (.165), third in save percentage (92.7), fourth in strikeouts, seventh in saves, tied for eighth in innings and ninth in strikeouts per nine innings (10.08)...Had the sixth 30-save season of his career and his fifth consecutive 20-save season (ninth overall)...Began the season with an 11.0-inning scoreless streak (10 games)...Earned the 250th save of his career, April 25th at Washington in a 5-4 triumph...Picked up his second career hit, May 1st vs. Florida...Named to the NL All-Star team, his fourth All-Star selection, but did not appear in the game...Suffered the loss on July 3rd vs. Atlanta to snap his streak of 82 consecutive appearances without a loss...Compiled a 0.54 ERA (two earned runs/33.1 innings) over his final 33 games, which began with a season-best 18.2-inning scoreless streak from July 22nd-September 5th...Had a 19.0-inning scoreless streak in road games, May 25th-September 30th...The Phillies went 18-1 over a 19-game stretch of his appearances, July 19th-September 1st...Suffered losses on back-to-back days, September 6th and September 7th vs. Houston, only the second time in his career he took the loss in back-to-back appearances...Struck out six batters in his final 2.1 innings. 2004 Had a 1.69 ERA in 25 save situations...Finished first among National League relievers with 1.12 walks per nine innings and fifth with 10.99 strikeouts per nine innings...Earned a win or save in the club's first five wins (1-0, 4 saves)...Pitched in four consecutive games for second time in his career, April 15th-April 18th...Placed on 15-Day Disabled List on May 14th (retroactive to May 8th), with a strained right groin muscle...Activated on June 8th...The walk he issued on June 19th vs. Kansas City was his first of the season and snapped a 28.2-inning streak of not issuing an unintentional walk, dating back to 2003...Did not allow an earned run in 18 straight appearances (19.1 innings) from July 1st-September 23rd...Placed on the 15-Day Disabled List for a second time on July 30th (retroactive to July 22nd), with a strained left rotator cuff...Activated on September 4th...Had his first career ejection on September 11th at the Mets for throwing at Cliff Floyd...Served a two-game suspension, September 17th-September 18th, for his actions following the ejection...Phillies went 40-6 in his 46 appearances, including 17-0 to finish the season. 2003 Named Astros Pitcher of the Year by the Houston Chapter of BBWAA...Reached career highs in saves, innings and games...His 44 saves set a Houston franchise record, breaking his own of 39, set twice (1999 and 2001)...Finished third in majors in saves, behind Los Angeles's Eric Gagne (55) and Atlanta's John Smoltz (45)...Ranked third in the National League in save percentage (.936)...Among NL relievers, was tied for first in games finished (67), second in strikeouts, third in opponents average (.169), and fifth in ERA, innings and strikeouts per nine innings (10.99)...Became 20th pitcher in major league history to record 30 or more saves in at least five seasons...Converted 16 straight save opportunities from May 2nd-June 17th, including 11 in May to tie with Eric Gagne for most in the majors...Recorded his 200th career save to set the all-time Houston record (surpassing Dave Smith's 199) on June 8th vs. Tampa Bay...Pitched perfect ninth inning to close out a combined six-pitcher no-hitter in an 8-0 win on June 11th at the Yankees...It was the first no-hitter against New York since 1958...Had a season-best 20.2 innings scoreless streak from July 2nd-August 19th (eight hits, five walks, 28 strikeouts)...Made his third career All-Star appearance on July 15th at U.S. Cellular Field...Pitched 1.0 inning, yielding a run...Converted his final 22 save opportunities of season (July 8th-September 22nd), a franchise record...Also held the previous record of 19 consecutive saves converted...Appeared in two games in the NLDS vs. Atlanta. 2002 Pitched in a career-high 70 games for the Astros, going 4-2 with a 2.52 ERA (21ER/75IP) and 35 saves...the 75 innings pitched were also a career-high total...ranked ninth in the National League in saves...had 35 saves in 41 opportunities...inducted into the Salem-Roanoke Baseball Hall of Fame in Salem, Va., in February 2003...did not allow a run in his last 14 appearances, throwing 16.0 innings and lowering his ERA from 3.15 to 2.52 from Aug. 23-Sept. 25...allowed only six hits while walking three and striking out 18...his 35-save season gave him 181 for his career, trailing only Dave Smith (199) in franchise history...single-season save total also ranked fourth in franchise history...converted 181 of 216 (83.8 percent) save chances during his career...386 appearances rank fourth in club history...surpassed Joe Sambito (353, 1976-82, 84) on July 12 vs. Cincinnati, becoming the franchise leader for a left-hander...has 20-or-more saves in five seasons, one shy of Smith's franchise-record six...recorded 10 saves in August with a 3.00 ERA (5ER/15IP) in 14 appearances...recorded nine saves in 11 outings from Aug. 1-23...in his sixth blown save of 2002 on Aug. 9 vs. Atlanta, allowed a season-high three runs in the ninth inning, his most since giving up four on May 24, 2000 vs. Philadelphia...had saves in four consecutive appearances (8/1-6)...had eight saves and an 0.82 ERA (1ER/11IP) over 11 games from July 17-Aug. 6...charged with his fifth blown save when Pittsburgh's Aramis Ramirez hit a game-tying, ninth-inning, leadoff homer on July 27...earned his third win...also suffered a blown save when Ramirez hit a two-run homer on July 15...hit with his second blown save and first since April 18, but earned the win on June 16 vs. Texas...the win was his first since May 9, 2001, snapping a five-game losing streak from May 23, 2001-May 24, 2002...posted a 1.93 ERA (3ER/14IP) and five saves over 13 games in May...earned the 150th save of his big league career on May 4 against the Mets...allowed a game-tying, three-run homer (A. Boone) in the ninth on April 18 at Cincinnati for his first blown save...then worked 12.0 scoreless innings (4/21-5/23). 2001 Converted 39 of 41 save opportunities (95.1 percent) en route to being named to the NL All-Star team...Converted 18 straight save opportunities (25 games) from May 12th-July 26th...Placed on the 15-Day Disabled List on June 4th with a left forearm strain...Activated on June 18th. 2000 Missed the final three-and-a-half months of the season after suffering from a partially torn flexor tendon in his left elbow ... underwent surgery on June 27 and remained on the disabled list for the rest of the year ... Surgery was performed in Los Angeles by Dr. Lewis Yocum with Astros Team Medical Director David Lintner assisting in the procedure ... a partial tear in in the flexor tendon was reattached to the bone ... additionally, a buildup of scar tissue was removed ... Began the year in typical fashion, saving three of the Astros' first four wins while retiring 16 of the first 20 batters he faced in 2000 ... Notched his first save of the year on Opening Day at Pittsburgh on April 4 ... also recorded saves on April 9 vs. Philadelphia and on April 12 vs. St. Louis ... allowed just one run in his first six appearances ... Tagged with his first blown save and first loss of the year on April 23 after allowing the winning run to score in an 11-10 slugfest with the Padres ... Recorded a save on May 4, his fourth of the year, at Chicago (NL).retired all four batters he faced ... Earned his first win of the year on May 7 at Los Angeles in a 14-8 victory, working 1.1 innings ... retired the side after entering the game with the bases loaded and two out in the eighth inning ... Suffered back-to-back blown saves on May 12 and 13 vs. Cincinnati, his second and third of the year ... His fourth blown save occurred in the first game of a May 22 doubleheader at Milwaukee ... entered the game in the ninth inning with a 9-6 lead but allowed three runs as the Brewers overcame a seven-run deficit to win the game, 10-9, in 10 innings ... Suffered his fifth blown save and was charged with his third loss on May 24 in a 9-7 defeat vs. Philadelphia.gave up four, ninth inning runs including a go-ahead homer ... Yielded a game-tying run in the ninth inning in a 5-4, 10-inning victory over Atlanta on May 26 ... it was his sixth blown save and fifth in a row ... Notched his first save since May 4 on May 28 vs. Atlanta, preserving a 4-3 lead ... Suffered his seventh blown save on June 9 at San Diego but notched the win as Houston rallied for two runs in the ninth inning in a 7-6 victory ... Recorded his sixth save on June 13 at Colorado after pitching a scoreless ninth inning ... his eighth blown save came at the hands of Todd Helton's ninth inning game-tying solo homer two days later ... His last appearance was on June 17 at San Francisco when he walked four batters, allowing two inherited runners to score in addition to another run allowed via a walk ... his failure to retire a batter in that outing marked only the second time in his career that he has not recorded an out in a single appearance (also: April 28, 1999 vs. Arizona). 1999 Won the NL Rolaids Relief Man of the Year Award...Named to the National League All-Star team at Boston...Pitched a scoreless inning...His 39 saves set an Astros single-season record...Received three third-place votes in Cy Young balloting...Had more saves than hits allowed (35)...Averaged 15.0 strikeouts per nine innings with a career-high 124 strikeouts...Had a 19.1-inning scoreless streak from May 23rd-July 6th...Struck out eight straight batters from August 13th-August 18th...Finished the season with a 23.1-inning scoreless streak. 1998 Had the third-best single season for saves in club history with 30 ... only Doug Jones in 1992 (36) and Dave Smith in 1986 (33) have had higher single-season totals for Houston ... his 62 career saves are tied for fourth on the club's all-time list with Doug Jones (1992-93) ... he converted 19 consecutive save opportunities between his first blown save on April 12 at Los Angeles and his second on July 11 at St. Louis ... rebounded from his blown save on July 11 to earn his 22nd on July 14 at Arizona ... the next night at Bank One Ballpark, he was struck on the left side of his head behind the ear by a line drive off the bat of Kelly Stinnett in the bottom of the ninth while trying to hold onto an 8-7 Houston lead ... he was alert and conscious on the field as his vital signs remained good ... he was removed from the field on a stretcher after suffering a concussion ... after being hospitalized overnight in Phoenix, he returned to Houston on July 16 and was placed on the 15-day disabled list that day ... he worked on balance and coordination exercises before being cleared by doctors to go to Double A Jackson on a rehabilitation assignment ... he pitched in three games for the Generals, working 3.0 innings with no walks and seven strikeouts ... he was recalled from his rehab assignment and reinstated from the DL on August 6 ... on August 9 in the Astrodome, he returned to the mound working 1.0 scoreless inning in an 11-2 win over the Phillies ... in his next outing on August 10 against Milwaukee, he faced three batters, striking out the last two, to earn his 23rd save in a 5-2 Astros' victory ... on August 15 in a head-to-head battle against the Cubs in the Astrodome, he entered a 4-4 tie in the top of the 10th ... he struck out the first five batters he faced, including Mark Grace, Sammy Sosa and Brant Brown in the 10th, before the Astros scored in the bottom of the 11th to give him a 5-4 win ... he established his single-season best when he earned his 24th save on August 19 at Philadelphia ... his previous high was 23 in 1997 ... the next night in Milwaukee, he suffered his third blown save of the season when he gave up a two-out double to Marc Newfield to tie the game 5-5 ... the Astros eventually lost 6-5 in 10 innings ... he converted his next five save opportunities through September 12 before blowing opportunities in consecutive outings on September 14 and 16 against the Mets ... his 30th save came on September 20 at Pittsburgh when he pitched a scoreless ninth behind Shane Reynolds (7.0) and Jay Powell (1.0) in a 2-0 shutout ... he retired 34-of-58 first batters he faced and did not allow any of the nine baserunners he inherited to score ... averaged 14.6 strikeouts per nine innings pitched (97 SO/60.0 IP) over his 58 appearances ... for his career, he is averaging 13.6 strikeouts per nine innings (270 SO/178.1 IP) ... he struck out the side 11 times ... his single-game high for strikeouts was five, which he did twice, including June 14 at Cincinnati over 2.0 innings and August 15 against Chicago over 2.0 frames ... earned Houston's lone postseason victory, winning Game 2 in relief ... had allowed a two-out, two-strike, two-run homer to San Diego's Jim Leyritz in the top of the ninth inning to tie the game at 4-4, but the Astros rallied in the bottom of the ninth with a run off San Diego's Trevor Hoffman for the victory. 1997 In his first full season as a major league closer he converted 23 of his 29 save opportunities, which tied for the ninth-best single season for saves in club history ... he struck out 106 batters in 66.1 innings, which established a major league record for strikeouts per nine innings pitched (minimum 50.0 innings) at 14.4 ... the previous record was 14.1, which was set by Cincinnati's Rob Dibble in 1992 (110SO/70.1IP) ... his 106 strikeouts established a club single-season record for relievers ... the previous mark was 104 by Danny Darwin in 1989 ... his 62 appearances topped the Houston staff ... had a strong April, going 2-1 with a 0.60 ERA and converting all five of his save opportunities ... he did not allow a run over his first 14.2 innings pitched to start the year ... the streak was snapped on April 28 in his final appearance of the month when Colorado's Vinny Castilla belted a two-out, solo homer in the top of the 10th to snap a 6-6 tie and deal the Astros a 7-6 loss ... he converted his first four save opportunities in May to run his season-opening streak to nine straight ... his first blown save came on May 21 against Cincinnati when he allowed the game-tying run in the eighth, even though the Astros won the contest 4- 3 in 14 innings ... his strong work continued through the end of July when his record stood at 7-3 with a 1.64 ERA (9ER/49.1IP) and 19 saves in 22 opportunities ... his month of July was similar to April in that he did not allow a run until his final appearance of the month on the 29th against St. Louis ... he pitched 12.2 innings before a two-out single by Delino DeShields drove in a run in Houston's 5-4 victory ... August proved to be his most difficult month of the year as he went 0-3 with a 9.72 ERA and failed to convert his two save opportunities ... he allowed nine earned runs in 8.1 innings in August, which was as many earned runs as he had allowed over the first four months of the season combined ... he bounced back with a strong September, going 0-2, but converting his last four save opportunities ... in the five appearances covered to convert those four saves, he did not allow a hit or walk in the 3.2 innings pitched and struck out eight of the 11 batters he faced ... for the season, he struck out the side 13 times ... some of his best work came against the two clubs chasing the Astros in the NL Central race, Pittsburgh and St. Louis ... his combined numbers against those teams were 1-0 with a 0.71 ERA and a perfect five-for-five on his save opportunities in 10 games ... in 12.2 innings combined, the Bucs and Redbirds could manage only five hits and one earned run against him, while he walked only five batters and struck out 28 ... in the post-season, he pitched in only one game of the NL Division Series against Atlanta ... he allowed three hits and two earned runs in one inning of Houston's 13-3 loss in Game Two at Turner Field. 1996 Started his year as a Triple A starter and finished by becoming a major league closer ... had a 6-2 record with a 3.28 ERA in 12 starts for Tucson to start the season ... his contract was recalled from Tucson on June 2 when the club asked for waivers for the purpose of granting an unconditional release to Greg Swindell ... he joined the major league club to work in relief and came out of the bullpen on June 6 against Colorado in the Astrodome ... he worked 3.1 innings in a 14-7 loss to loss, following starter Doug Drabek, who lasted only 1.2 frames ... earned his first major league decision in his next appearance on June 8 at home against the Phillies, a 7-3 win ... he entered a 3-3 tie in the sixth and left after seven innings with the Astros ahead 7-3 ... his first major league save came on June 14 at San Francisco ... he pitched three shutout innings in relief of Mike Hampton in a 9-1 Houston victory ... struck out a career-high seven of the 11 batters he faced on June 26 at Los Angeles, but did not get the save as Todd Jones came on to record the final out in a 4-2 win ... his second save came six days later at San Diego ... he allowed a hit and a walk, but held on to a 4-3 win for Donne Wall ... he fanned five batters on August 4 against San Francisco in the Astrodome, including Barry Bonds and Matt Williams on a combined six pitches with the bases loaded in the ninth inning, for his eighth save ... was placed on the 15-day DL on August 23 after suffering a strained left groin muscle at home on August 22 in an 8-6 loss to Pittsburgh ... he was reinstated on September 7 ... converted nine of his 13 save opportunities ... allowed only 28 hits and struck out 67 batters in 51.2 innings, an average of 11.7 strikeouts per nine innings ... opponents only hit .165 (28x170) against him and lefthanded hitters only .083 (2x24) ... named to the Topps Rookie All-Star Team following the season. 1995 Saw his first major league action after being drafted by Houston in the first round of the June, 1993 draft ... after spending much of the season at Double A Jackson and Triple A Tucson, his contract was purchased by the Astros on September 12 ... made his major league debut the next night at New York, retiring the only batter he faced in a 10-5 defeat ... it was his only appearance with the Astros in 1995.


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Be careful about who you accuse of being on the government dole because it could be your neighbor. Or the person you see in the mirror.
Be careful about who you accuse of being on the government dole because it could be your neighbor. Or the person you see in the mirror.
That's because about 23 percent of personal income in San Joaquin County in 2009 came from some government program, according to a sweeping analysis of every county in the U.S. by the New York Times.
Across the nation, the government now provides almost $1 in benefits for every $4 in other income.
The biggest support programs in this county are Medicaid - which poured the equivalent of $2,046 per capita into the county in 2009 - and Social Security - which poured in about $1,690 for every man, woman and child. Added to the other support programs - Medicare, income support such as food stamps, veterans' benefits and unemployment insurance - total government support amounted to $7,346 per person.
That's about 23 percent of income, up from about 17.5 percent 10 years earlier in 1999, before the dot-com bust and well before the Great Recession.
The growing reliance on these safety-net programs is not unique to San Joaquin County. Nationwide, it's about 18 percent of total income compared to about 12.5 percent in 1999.
The biggest problem is that Americans are getting older and the boomer tsunami coming toward the Social Security and Medicare programs threatens to swamp them. Medicare already is the fastest growing safety net program (and, unfortunately, one of the hardest to fix).
The raw numbers are frightening enough, but behind the numbers are real people with real needs.
This makes it all the more critical that Congress and the White House lower their partisan voices and find the political will to shore up these vital programs.
And they need to do it before time runs out.

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In Raymond, stolen street signs are a problem
October 29. 2013 8:29PM
RAYMOND — At least 17 street signs, stop signs and town line marker signs have been reported missing since August, according to Raymond police.
They began getting calls for missing street signs in the area of Lane and Batchelder roads on Aug. 14, and since then, the calls have not stopped coming in.
Police said the total losses of the thefts is quickly approaching $1,000.
Raymond Police have asked residents to be on a "vigilant lookout" for anyone they suspect of being responsible for the thefts, or if they see any suspicious activity.
Any Raymond Highway Department vehicles conducting needed maintenance on signs will typically do so during the day and in a marked vehicle.


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Budweiser Brewmaster's Project 12
Has anyone tried these? I recently bought a 12 pack of this Project 12 of Bud which has 4 bottles each of three different special brews from the different A-B brewmasters. Its called Project 12 because all 12 A-B brewmasters came up with their own brew and it was narrowed down to three. I though all three beers were great, much better than Budweiser or Bud Light, and better than some craft beers. One of the brews (the red one) reminded me of Budweiser American Ale (do they still make that?). This is a good move for the Budweiser brand and I hope A-B keeps doing these special brews. I usually buy craft beers (I love the seasonal variety packs) but had to try this from A-B and was not disappointed.
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Along with Gareth Bale and Juan Mata, Suarez and Van Persie are considered front runners for the award, for which the voting closes on Tuesday.
|Robin van Persie are 9/4 with Bet365 to be the Premier League's top scorer
"You could say it is because he is my mate, but I think we can all see how good Robin is, even if Suarez has more goals," he told reporters.
"Overall, Manchester United are top of the League and he has made the difference.
"It was 15 points this week – that is unbelievable."
Suarez's reputation for diving is expected by some to count against him in the final reckoning for the award, and Vlaar admits the Uruguayan found himself in a similar situation in the Netherlands.
"You talk about the dives in England, but it was the same in Holland. What can I say? Things happen in a game, the story follows him," he added.
"I remember there were some issues in the papers at home where it was talked about.
"But it has stopped here, just as it did eventually in Holland. I think his quality as a player has made that change.
"I think he wants us to talk about his qualities and he is doing the right things at the moment to make that happen."


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Newtown shooter's mom had close ties to family's Kingston, NH homesteadBy ALAINE GRIFFIN and JOSH KOVNER
The Hartford Courant
February 18. 2013 9:38PM
Nancy Jean Champion was born in Salem, Mass., on Sept. 6, 1960. She was the daughter of Donald Champion, an airline pilot and his wife, Dorothy, who worked many years as a nurse at a local elementary school. Together with her sister and two brothers, she grew up on the family's farm in Kingston, N.H. - a homestead that dates to the 1700s - tending animals and working the soil.
"She told me that as a farm girl, she learned how to butcher animals," said Marvin LaFontaine, a Kingston resident who met Nancy Lanza when their sons were in the Cub Scouts. "She was comfortable with raising livestock and then butchering them. Not that it was fun, but that's what they ate. It wasn't for sport, it wasn't fun; it was their food."
She would later meet Peter Lanza; the two married on June, 6, 1981.
The newlyweds built their own home on the family's Kingston farmland. While Peter went to college to become an accountant, Nancy was the breadwinner, working in the new accounts division of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. in Boston's financial district, an hour's drive away.
Nancy Lanza would later tell a New Hampshire law enforcement official, who spoke to The Courant on the condition of anonymity, that in the early 1980s she had been assaulted on the Boston Common, a daytime attack in front of onlookers.
The official said that some time later, Nancy went to the Kingston Police Department to notify them that she was afraid her attacker would victimize her at her home. The law enforcement official could not recall the name of the assailant and The Courant and "Frontline" were not able to locate court records related to the case.
Nancy and Peter's first son, Ryan John Lanza, was born on April 10, 1988. The new mom continued to work, dropping off her son at day care before taking the ride to Boston each day.
But the balancing act grew tough through the summer of 1991, when Nancy became pregnant again, this time with Adam. She suffered severe morning sickness, and by November 1991, she had taken a medical leave of absence after developing hypoglycemia, a blood sugar disorder.
On April 22, 1992, after a cesarean section at Exeter Hospital in New Hampshire, Adam Peter Lanza was born.
She sued John Hancock, alleging that the company discriminated against her after she became pregnant with Adam.
For eight years, Lanza said, she had consistently won high marks from her bosses on job evaluations. But after she became pregnant with Adam, Lanza said, her work was more harshly criticized. Before she took her leave, the company told Lanza there would be restructuring in her department and that although her position might be eliminated, she would still have a job.
But as she was about to return from maternity leave, Lanza received a letter from John Hancock informing her she would be laid off, court documents show.
She blamed the firing on her pregnancy, charging in the lawsuit that she began to experience "episodes of physical pain, distress, headaches, insomnia, crying spells, nausea and increased nervousness." The case eventually was settled.
She confided in LaFontaine that she was suffering from a potentially fatal autoimmune deficiency, an unspecified disease that seemed to come and go. She told LaFontaine that she hadn't even revealed her illness to family members
When her husband landed a job with General Electric in Connecticut in 1998, Lanza agreed to the move because she believed it would be good for the boys.
"I was shocked when they were going to Connecticut," LaFontaine said. "It was her husband's idea and she didn't want to go at first. ... She didn't want to leave because her baby brother lived right next to her in town here and she was close to him."
In the end, she made the move because of the educational opportunity it afforded the boys, LaFontaine said. "She thought the schools in Connecticut were better, and I'm sure I'm going to have to agree with that."
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Georgia Power is done digging downtown.
The power utility celebrated the completion of its historic district network upgrade Thursday, more than six years after the $80 million project began. The work included replacing 112 miles of cable, rebuilding or upgrading 342 manholes, installing 79 new power transformers and building 12 additional transformer vaults in a 40-block area.
Georgia Power CEO Paul Bowers and the utility's regional leader, Cathy Hill, marked the upgrade's completion by dedicating a commemorative manhole cover medallion at the intersection of Bryan and Bull streets.
"We made a commitment to make Savannah a world-class city from an electric grid standpoint," Bowers said. "The network in Savannah today surpasses any network in the United States."
City government and civic officials, including Mayor Edna Jackson and Bill Hubbard of the Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce, joined other community and business leaders at the event.
Jackson praised Georgia Power as a partner and said the interruptions caused by the work were necessary for "progress."
Hubbard called the process "seamless" and said the crews involved in the process - six involved with construction and as many as eight laying the new cable - were professional and polite.
"It was not nearly the inconvenience many were concerned it would be," Hubbard said.
Georgia Power launched the project in 2006 shortly after a merger with Savannah Electric. The underground network dates to the late 1800s and was built by Savannah Electric's predecessor, Edison Electric. The infrastructure was constructed of outdated materials, such as terra cotta and brick-and-mortar ducts and conduits, according to Brad Wilkinson, a senior engineer with Georgia Power and the de facto project manager.
Most of the wiring dated to at least the 1930s and was low capacity. Downtown's power needs more than doubled between the mid-1990s and the start of the project and resulted in overloads, Wilkinson said.
Those overloads contributed to a pair of explosions and fires in a five-month span in 2008. The incidents prompted Georgia Power to install clamps on several downtown manhole covers and to accelerate the project. The upgrade wasn't originally scheduled for completion until 2015.
The updated network boosts power capacity downtown to 13,000 volts from 4,000. Much of the infrastructure is now made of reinforced concrete or PVC.
The underground network should comfortably serve Savannah for the next 100 years, Wilkinson said. Yet it was designed to easily be expanded and upgraded.
"We worked on, over and under the streets of Savannah to ensure we have a system capable of serving the city for many years into the future," Hill said.
Georgia Power will now turn its attention to upgrading the rest of Savannah's electric grid. The utility has committed $350 million to those improvements, said Bowers.


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Anyone in the Phoenix area in Arizona:
Apparently The Fountain is playing again at Tempe Cinemas starting today.
Anyone in the Phoenix area in Arizona:
Apparently The Fountain is playing again at Tempe Cinemas starting today.
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I was wondering this too. Schoolio needs to start up his thread over here.
Now that The Last King of Scotland has reopened I may actually have to go see it. Forest Whitaker was to be my leading man, in my minds eye, for the screenplay I'm working on and now he is way too big. Perhaps when all is said and done he'll still work on some small projects. I'm glad he's finally gotten the recognition he deserves.
Pan's Labyrinth is awesome. We d/l'ed and watched it a couple weeks ago, but I really want to see it in the theatre. Very violent though, so I can't bring the kids. This is actually one movie whose poster and name made me want to see it without knowing anything else about it.
I saw 'The Queen'. it was ***tty good.
saw very few '06 films in theaters:
United 93 (love it, #2)
The P restige (like it a lot)
The Queen (love it, #3)
The Departed (love it, #4)
Superman Returns (like it a lot)
Mission: Impossible III (in Blu Ray - gorgeous in BR, okay film)
X-Men: The Last Stand (Blu Ray - beautiful in BR, film boring)
The Da Vinci **** (sDVD, sucks)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (sucks)
Monster House (just bought Blu Ray with Kung Fu Hustle BR in BB)
Miami Vice (sDVD, like it)
The Devil Wears Prada (like it)
Babel (my most favorite, #1)
Borat (like it )
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (BR still to see ... comes free with PS3 ... not planning in seeing it)
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (sDVD, like it)
World Trade Center (Blu Ray, like it)
Inconvenient Truth (sDVD, love it)
Thank You For Smoking (sDVD, love it)
Scoop (sDVD, like it)
V for Vendetta (HD DVD, have not opened it yet)
Pan's Labyrinth was amazingly amazing. Completely not what I expected (a sort of child's story or something like a M. Night Shyamalan piece). Some of the parts scared me because it was so violent.
I also recently saw Children of Men and Little Miss Sunshine, and I loved both of them.
Schoolio's Movie Corner, btw.
I don't think I'm hosting a 2016 collaborative playlist.


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Independence Day fell on a Wednesday this year, right in the middle of the week, so it's fair to say that not every Los Angeles County resident was at the top of his or her game the day before, and didn't necessarily scan the agenda of the Board of Supervisors and notice the plan for a special election, early next year, so property owners could decide whether to adopt a new parcel tax to pay for storm water cleanup.
But it's coming. Mail-only balloting begins in March, at about the same time as the Los Angeles mayoral and City Council elections (and city attorney and controller and half of the Los Angeles Unified school board and half the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees; and maybe a city sales tax; and maybe up to three more city taxes), and runs until May 7, two weeks before the city has its next election -- the runoffs. The same city ballot (May 21) may well include a vote to change city pension benefits.
The Board of Supervisors voted to move ahead with the election, but not every member was pleased about, as Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich said at the pre-4th-of-July hearing, "doing it in an off-year election when there are less people voting, and having a mailman instead of having the opportunity [of] going to the polling booth and voting." (See the transcript here).


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There are changes going on in our lives right now. My almost-two year old is potty learning and he has become very defiant towards us and sometimes mean. He hits us and talks back - typical two year old behavior, but I'm just at my wits end with him. I'm already tearing up even thinking that I may have come to this decision to wean him.
He still nurses quite a bit. During the week he nurses in the morning, after work, before bed and throughout the night when he wakes. On weekends when I am home with him he will nurse 5-7 times a day.
He says "nurse please?" or "nursies -- please?" when he wants to nurse and in addition he signs "please" and cries when I tell him no. I can tell I am hurting his heart and I really don't want to hurt him. His latch sucks lately and I don't want to nurse him.
I feel guilty. I wanted him to be in charge and decide when he was done. I feel like he still benefits nutritionally from breast milk (and very much so emotionally)....he is not on the growth charts at all for height or weight for his age (19lbs/30.5") - and I'm not sure if cutting out breast milk will have a negative effect on his already slow growth.
My cycle is all messed up. It never was before becoming pregnant with him, I am just beginning to learn how to chart my cycle so I can figure out what's going on, but I am sure it has tons to do with the fact that we are still breastfeeding.
I just don't know what to do. I am so sad and stressed and I feel like weaning will be so so hard and that he's not ready. I just want to love it and have it be easy. I don't even know that weaning is the answer.
I told him that he couldn't nurse this morning before work and I feel so so much guilt. I'm just very sad and need some help please. My husband has supported my decision to possibly wean but asked me "well how long are you supposed to nurse for?" --- well I dunno! What do you guys think?


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Just wondering if anyone could suggest some reggae festivals in UK/Europe for this Summer.
I like the look of Reggae Geel in Belgium, Garance in France and One Love in UK but seeing if there are any more similar to these...or if anyone who has been to these recommends them. Cheers


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Southern_Canuck wrote: Who's better?
Nope - I think Mallet is it. In 2010-11 he was Rimouski's "goon"... but then he had to go and become an offensive top 6 force for them in 2011-12!
I don't want to get too far ahead of things, but I liked what I saw.
Should be noted that he was fighting Carter Bancks who is listed at 5'10 and 165. Anything other then a total beating in that fight would be concerning.
I think it is wayyyy early to claim he is tougher then guys like Kassian, and Bieksa, guys who have fought and won against legitimate NHL scrappers.
Either way, liked what I saw from Mallet as well, that was a great hit and over all he looked quite comfortable on the ice.


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WORCESTER — Enrollment is up in city schools, according to preliminary numbers the superintendent gave the School Committee Thursday night.
Melinda Boone told the committee in her school opening report that 516 more students enrolled this year than by Oct. 1 last year. North High School alone has taken on 57 new students; Columbus Park added 51 students this academic year, according to Ms. Boone's report.
Ms. Boone cautioned that those numbers still have to be "scrubbed" in advance of the Oct. 1 reporting deadline for enrollment, but she noted that the committee's commitment to controlling class sizes has made absorbing that enrollment easier.
For example, Ms. Boone said, in the city's elementary schools, the current class size ratio is 21.5 students per teacher. But among the 579 elementary classrooms, most classrooms have 23 students or fewer. There are 46 classrooms with 27 to 30 students, but there are no classrooms with more than 30 students, Ms. Boone said.
School Committee member Brian O'Connell said he noticed that in kindergarten, for instance, there are 59 classrooms with 23 to 30 students, and asked if there were plans to reduce those class sizes.
Ms. Boone said that the issue with kindergarten class sizes is more specifically associated with facility space limitations. There are 2,300 kindergartners enrolled in city schools, representing around 10 percent of the entire school population.
"Where those numbers were large, we just physically can't put another teacher in there," Ms. Boone said.
Still, in response to a question from committee member Tracy O'Connell Novick, Ms. Boone said city schools are not yet out of space in general. There are space challenges in individual schools, but yet there are other schools where there is space available. And in some schools, the increase in numbers of students might look large, but is absorbed across grade levels. For example, at North, that 57-student increase works out to only 14 more students per grade level.
Ms. Boone noted that the big news to mark the start of the new year was this week's announcement that Union Hill Elementary School exited its Level 4 status with the state, and that the city's other Level 4 school, Chandler Elementary School, is making strides to shed its status as an underperforming school.
Later in the meeting, District 4 City Councilor Sarai Rivera and Casey Starr of the Main South Community Development Corp. told the committee that the school system needs to play a role in dealing with what they described as an uptick in prostitution and drug dealing in Main South.
Ms. Rivera, who lives on Lucian Street, said she fears what her children have to walk by on their way to school in the neighborhood. She said the council and City Manager Michael V. O'Brien have been working with the Main South CDC, but said action must be taken now.
Ms. Boone said it takes a community solution, and said dealing with the public safety situation in Main South is an example of the need for the entire community to come together.
A meeting was held earlier this week involving local and school officials; committee member Jack Foley said one concrete suggestion out of the talks was perhaps increasing lighting and camera surveillance around schools in the neighborhood.
Mr. Foley also noted that there is a perception that increased police presence farther downtown has pushed a lot of the criminal activity outward, which has perhaps caused the spikes.
Mr. O'Connell said it's an issue that truly needs to be addressed. He said he heard from students who attend Claremont Academy that they are afraid to cross Main Street to get to the Boys & Girls Club, a building that was built for them.
"An area that was accessible to them has become inaccessible," Mr. O'Connell said.
Ms. Rivera's son, Caleb Encarnacion-Rivera, a student at University Park Campus School, asked the committee if perhaps training might have a positive effect. He said students could be educated in how to alert police about suspicious activity through the Police Department's anonymous Text-A-Tip program.
School Committee member Donna Colorio proposed several motions reflecting her criticism of the state's adoption of Common Core standards. Ms. Colorio and four people in the audience said Common Core takes local authority away from municipalities and the state and replaces it with a nationally mandated educational system.
Ms. Boone said Massachusetts has not lost out by adopting the Common Core standards. And as far as local control goes, Ms. Boone said, the city has been following state standards for years. And she said 90 percent of the Common Core standards in English language arts, for example, align with state standards.
Mayor Joseph M. Petty, who chairs the School Committee, said the committee couldn't change the city's position on Common Core if it wanted to. Ms. O'Connell Novick appeared more sympathetic with people who may be concerned about Common Core standards, but said Thursday's conversation would have been more appropriate two years ago when Common Core standards were being proposed.
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Restricting Access to MythWeb: Apache Access Controls
If you have elected to enable the web interface for MythTV in a manner that would make it accessible from the Internet, or perhaps wish to simply be extra careful about who is allowed to access MythWeb and from where, there are numerous ways Apache's access control mechanisms can keep things under control for you. With just a few minutes' work, one can have Apache restricting access to MythWeb based on IP addresses (where the user is connecting from), usernames and passwords, or some combination of both (for example, requiring passwords only when the user is connecting from outside the local LAN).
Access control file permission caveats
Something one should keep in mind when working with Apache's access control files is that there are three things you should avoid, and one thing you should do.
- You should not make these files writable by the Apache role user or role group, ever. Doing so might allow an attacker to be able convince Apache to modify the access controls in order to gain further leverage over your system.
- You should not store these files (excepting .htaccess) under the DocumentRoot (the directory that is the "root") of the webserver where Apache might show them to a remote user as if they were "just another web page". This could expose configuration details that might (again) let an attacker gain further leverage on your system.
- You should not make these files world-readable, ever. Apache runs as a particular user and group id, and the configuration files belonging to those should be all that is needed for Apacahe to be able to read it's configuration information. World-readable files may allow users with a local unix account to be able to read configuration data that might let them gain further leverage on your system.
- You should make these files explicitly readable by Apache by using the chgrp and chmod commands to make the files read-only for the role group your Apache httpd runs as (most distributions name this 'httpd' or 'apache', but occasionally 'nobody' or 'nouser').
For those who have been paying attention, yes there are more directives here than the number of commands actually needed to implement them, but it's important that you know why these things are so, particularly if you are planning on making your MythWeb installation available over the Internet where some really malicious people could get at it.
.htaccess or httpd.conf
There are two ways to convey configuration tokens to Apache, and in general there isn't any significant difference between them for the (very small) scale at which we'll be working. Pick whichever one you are more comfortable with and stick with it. Remember that access control problems happen most often in the wee hours of the morning, so it's simply a matter of self-preservation that access control rules need always be as simple (and as obvious) as possible to reduce the chances one might make a mistake a sleep-addled brain wouldn't notice.
If you like to your configurations modular--with all the related files in the same place for ease of backups and/or upgrades--you will probably wish to use an .htaccess file in the MythWeb directory. If you followed the INSTALL documentation that came with MythWeb carefully, you should have implemented an AllowOverride directive that will allow an .htaccess file (if present) to dictate what is needed. If you like to keep all of your configuration data in one and only one place, then you will most likely be interested in putting the access control directives directly into Apache's main configuration file, usually called httpd.conf and usually (depending on your distribution) found in the /etc/httpd directory.
The main difference between them is that when you use .htaccess Apache automatically "knows" that the directives in it apply to that directory and all subdirectories. When you put these directives in httpd.conf, they simply need to be enclosed in a set of <Directory "/path/to/actual/files"></Directory> tags so that Apache knows what directories they apply to. For the remainder of this documentation, you will be expected to understand that any changes to httpd.conf will require that extra step. In general, using .htaccess tends to be less confusing to new users.
Username/passwd protection
The first method of restricting access to MythWeb we'll go over will be simple username/password controls. The passwords and usernames Apache uses are not the same ones that the system uses to allow you to login to the machine. They will be kept in a special file which (again) should not be stored under the DocumentRoot. Usually this file will be named htpasswd or htdigest but for the sake of clarity and because these files can be named pretty much anything you want, we're going to simply name the file passwd. For the purposes of this documentation, we'll also assume you are putting these files in the /etc/httpd directory (particularly since it's outside of the DocumentRoot).
There are two mechanisms for authentication that can be used by most Apache packages "out of the box". The first is called "Basic" authentication, and the second is called "Digest" authentication (which is only more secure when it is set up using a much more involved process than we're going to get into here). There is no difference between these two methods from the user's point of view. With Apache 2.0 enabling Basic authentication requires the mod_auth module, and Apache 2.2 changes things slightly, using mod_auth_basic and mod_authn_file. This information is being supplied for the sake of completeness because most Linux distributions will already have both of these modules compiled and included in the default Apache configuration, so one normally won't have to worry about it. The links to the Apache documentation are provided for the people who want to know the gory details about them, and in the interests of keeping this documentation short and to the point, they will not be explained here. Most installers won't even need to care.
Setting up username/password protection is really simple. The configuration tokens one needs for Basic authentication are as follows:
AuthType Basic AuthName "MythWeb" AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/passwd Require valid-user
You can put these in a file called .htaccess in the top MythWeb directory as-is, or you can put them in your httpd.conf enclosed in <Directory></Directory> tags as discussed earlier. Note that wit some less feature-laden browsers (handhelds/PDAs and cell phones for the masochists out there) Digest authentication may not work at all. Again, remember that only the Apache daemon needs to be able to read this file and should not be allowed to write to it. The following commands may likely set the permissions on the .htaccess file to what you want:
chown root .htaccess # Makes root the owner of the file chgrp apache .htaccess # Assigns the file to the apache group as well chmod 750 .htaccess # Grants full access to the file owner... # ...but only read access to the group
Once these directives are in place, you will need to create the /etc/httpd/passwd file and then store some usernames and passwords in it. Simply using the `touch` command (or any text editor) will be enough to create the new passwd file, but you can also pass the -c argument to htpasswd/htdigest and they will create a new password file, obliterating any existsing usernames and passwords in the process. Storing the passwords in a lightly-encrypted form is done with the htpasswd command. If you are using Basic authentication, you can create the new password file and add a username/password pair (replace "mythuser" with the username you prefer) to it with just one command, like so:
htpasswd -c /etc/httpd/passwd mythuser
This command will prompt you for the password you want for that username. You can issue the exact same command later to change the password for a username, or you can use the -D argument to delete the username entirely. Just be careful not to use the -c option after the file has already been created as this will cause htpasswd to destroy the old file (and all the usernames/passwords in it along with it) and create a new one from scratch.
Don't forget to set the correct permissions on /etc/httpd/passwd when you're done creating this file. The default ownership may not be what you want. For example, the following is probably very close to what you would need to set the file permissions correctly.
chown root /etc/httpd/passwd # Makes root the owner of the file chgrp apache /etc/httpd/passwd # Assigns the file to the apache group as well chmod 750 /etc/httpd/passwd # Grants full access to the file owner... # ...but only read access to the group
Removing Restrictions Internally
While any outwardly facing web interface should be secured, users may choose to leave access unrestricted from inside their own network. In the same location, in the same file as before Apache must be told to grant access when any of the requirements are met, rather than require they all be met:
Order deny,allow Deny from all Satisfy any
Now you can grant access to machines individually, or to a network as a whole:
Allow from 192.168.1.2 192.168.1.3 192.168.2.2 my-pc.my-domain.com Allow from 192.168.1 192.168.2 my-domain.com


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In 2000, Lawrence Summers (Treasure Secretary) stated in The Wall Street Journal that "The constant pursuit of [that temporary] monopoly power becomes the central driving thrust of the New Economy."
The statement is the total opposite of what the recent antitrust rulings against Microsoft concluded.
What Summers is saying is that monopolies are necessary for innovation, and that the government should never intervene with, for example, Microsoft or Intel and their dominant positions.
His reasoning, and with him dozens of other experts, is that the New Economy's costs are almost exclusively upfront, in the development phase, and the manufacturing and distribution costs are close to zero. New Economy companies get rewarded for innovating extremely quickly and then grabbing a huge share of the market before some other innovation comes along and destroys them. Once they are in that position, they build a barrier and discourage new entry, creating a monopoly position. Current antitrust regulation is in place to prevent that, but Summers argues that that is the wrong action to take... If it weren't for that monopoly, a product's price would go down to whatever the marginal cost is, the high fixed costs from the development phase cannot be recovered, thus factually limiting and almost destroying innovation.
An excellent example is a browser: the more people own a particular browser, the more attractive that browser gets, and the higher the "switching costs" get (that is, the cost to switch to another browser). It quickly gets to a point where a quasi-monopoly is created, and where it is virtually impossible for others to enter the browser market. If the government intervenes with antitrust regulations (like what happened in the Internet Explorer case), though, innovation will be slowed down to a crawl (MS doesn't want to spend a bunch of money on IE anymore, since they don't have that monopoly anymore).
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The term mononuclear phagocyte (MNP) is used to describe a broad class of cells that have a single central region (nucleus) and that remove debris from tissues (phagocytosis). Cells that perform this function are often considered part of the immune system, even though they can be found in any tissue of the body, including the brain.
The main MNPs in the brain are called microglia. In the brains of persons with Alzheimer's disease, microglia are abnormally active, and there is evidence that they migrate to areas containing amyloid plaques, one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's pathology. Furthermore, activated microglia secrete hormone-like substances that promote inflammation, another prominent feature of Alzheimer's.
Another group of MNPs are called monocyte-derived macrophages. Monocytes are found throughout the body. Signals that are still not well understood stimulate the entry of monocytes into the brain, where they change into another type of immune-related cell called macrophages. Macrophages serve to engulf and then digest debris that may be found in the brain and they may contribute to the disease process. There is evidence, for example, that monocyte-derived macrophages may contribute to the development of Alzheimer's brain changes in ways distinct from microglia.
Four investigators from the Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University have proposed a collaborative research project to study the roles of microglia and macrophages in the development of various aspects of Alzheimer's pathology. Details of each investigator's research plan can be found in the descriptions of the component projects by Dr. Bruce T. Lamb, Dr. Sanjay W. Pimplikar, Dr. Richard M. Ransohoff and Dr. Daniel Wesson. Considered together, the results of these studies are expected to yield new insights into the mechanisms by which inflammatory signals and cells of the immune system contribute to the development of Alzheimer's disease.
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Thames Valley Schools. Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Thames Valley Schools. Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> United Kingdom View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message microbabeJoined: 03 Feb 2010Posts: 115 Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:44 pm Post subject: Thames Valley Schools. Hi, Does anyone know if they are decent to work for ? I have an interview on Thursday and can't find a lot of info about them. Many thanks, Back to top john123Joined: 29 Jan 2012Posts: 83 Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:48 pm Post subject: It depends how much dignity you have. And using the word 'decent' is a bit of a no-no regards summer schools I am afraid. I touched them many years ago, and never again with a barge-pole. I went quietly about my business, being polite where I had to be, and actually attempting to teach the kids something. For some reason a group of lads from one country decided to gang up on me, and intimidate me by forming a circle around me and hurling mis-pronounced insults in English I think. It was not fun. This episode was seen by the Director of the show who did absolutely nothing. And when these lads were swinging one of my students against a wheel of a slowly accelerating bus, I was victimised by the oh-so powerful losers at the top for giving the offenders a ruddy good eye-balling and telling off. Discipline - not in this day and age I am afraid. All-round respect and care for teachers - zero. So-called 'carers' who travel with the children for a free holiday - arrogant and obnoxious. Kids - carefully selected from the crazy zoo. DOS - a perfectionist, but not a teacher. Food - better ready meals from Kwik-Save in its heyday. Pay - distinctly average. Teaching materials available - almost zero. No, not decent. Back to top john123Joined: 29 Jan 2012Posts: 83 Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:49 pm Post subject: Regards John. Back to top GriffinParkaJoined: 16 Dec 2010Posts: 41Location: West London Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 9:37 pm Post subject: TVSS I'll second that. Worked for them once and never did a summer school for years afterwards. When I asked on the phone, prior to interview, how much the pay was, the director snorted something about 'peanuts'. Says it all really - the attitude towards the teachers was very dismissive. Should never have done it, but I was desperate for cash (and unqualified, I might add!) Back to top microbabeJoined: 03 Feb 2010Posts: 115 Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:12 pm Post subject: Thanks for the replies. Had the interview will have to wait and see now. It went OK I think. Will keep applying for more summer jobs. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> United Kingdom All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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For four years, Kevin Arden drove a car most people wouldn't want to sit in for four seconds.
All through college, Arden's 1970s, light-blue Chevy Chevette was his way to make the 20-minute trek to the West Virginia University Institute of Technology. For starters, that meant using a screwdriver as an ignition key and worrying about a passenger-side door that wouldn't open and nearly got a classmate killed.
"The only thing right with it was that I kept it running. I couldn't afford anything else," he said. "If it works, there's no reason not to keep it."
Arden is senior project engineer with the Shock Technology Group at Northrop Grumman Newport News, working in a department that has helped design some of the leading technology for the Navy.
His willingness to work with what he's got is what co-workers and friends point to when describing Arden, a man who looks as though he could just as easily be a football player as an engineer with clearance to work on classified military projects.
Arden's research focuses on keeping underwater explosions from rattling the computers on submarines. His group has used everything from off-the-shelf technology to systems they've designed on their own.
His soft-spoken, to-the-point demeanor underscores an average-joe outlook -- he's as comfortable building a system to play video games as he is helping to design ways to keep submarines safe.
It's that sort of down-to-earth practicality that's kept the single father of two from giving up when things got rough.
Born Jan. 11, 1963, in Rolling Meadows, Ill., Arden was one of eight children. When he was 2, his father abandoned the family, and his mother, Imogene, moved to West Virginia to be near family and find work. She eventually landed a job as a department store manager.
Money was always tight, Arden said, and he spent most of his free time hunting and fishing in the mostly rural town of East Bank. He also spent lots of time doing artwork, taking a great interest in the dimension-warping works of M.C. Escher, a Dutch graphic artist. He doesn't know why Escher appealed to him so.
"I really couldn't tell you," he said.
Arden enjoyed working with chalks but dabbled in just about everything. Through grade school and high school, his art enthusiasm continued, but he also got into sports.
By the age of 8, Arden was involved in Little League Baseball. He played center field in baseball and forward on the basketball court. The sport in which he had the most success, though, was football.
He started out playing linebacker and running back before his high school coach made him a full-time linebacker.
"As the years progressed, I got too slow for offense," he said.
He made the All-Conference team and, had he been a bit quicker and bigger, Arden said he might have looked more seriously at an NFL career. Neither the weight nor the speed came.
Arden said he never considered his art as a viable career option. In fact, up until his senior year in high school, he'd never considered any sort of career.
"At that point, I had given no thought to what I was going to do," he said. "Nobody ever asked me."
That would all change thanks to one art class.
Having taken most of the other art electives by his senior year, Arden signed up for a drafting class. The technical art meant very detailed line work, which really attracted Arden. During one assignment, his teacher -- whom Arden still calls Mr. Hopkins -- prompted a question.
"The teacher said, 'Have you ever given any thought to what goes in that drawing? Have you looked into what an engineer does and how he decides what the design should be?' " Arden said. "That sort of clicked on something in my mind."
Arden looked into the field, and eventually decided he liked it.
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Always good in math -- he worked through college calculus in high school but missed 45 of the 50 spelling questions on a year-end English exam -- Arden neglected taking other high school courses that would have better prepared him for engineering school. More than anything, it was the change of pace that haunted him his freshman year at West Virginia.
"All the responsibility is yours. They give you the information, you're expected to study it, and then they give you the test," he said. "My freshman year in college was my worst year."
An "A" to "B" student all through high school, Arden watched his grades plummet to straight C levels.
It was also during that time that his mother learned she had breast cancer. She survived after undergoing surgery.
All of those issues pushed Arden to work with someone he'd barely spoken to during his first semester in college: Betsy Dulin.
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Dulin is now associate dean of the College of Information Technology and Engineering at Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va.
In their second semester of college, she was a classmate in Arden's chemistry and dynamics classes. Because of his math mind and her chemistry know-how, the two made a deal to help each other.
Though Arden's somberness was one of his most striking attributes, his silence didn't hide his real personality, she said.
"He's very quiet and stoic. He's always been a person who quietly does what he needs to do," said Dulin, now a close friend of Arden's. "But he had a great sense of humor."
One of those admittedly geeky hijinks came when the school showed a 3-D film. The 3-D glasses were left in a barrel outside the chemistry lecture room. Arden told Dulin that the class would be using the glasses to look at 3-D slides of molecules. It took Dulin a few minutes of sitting in the class wearing the glasses before she realized that he was joking.
Then there was the time a Bunsen burner got too close to Dulin's hair.
"Kevin, in this deathly calm voice, just said, 'I think your hair is on fire,' " she recalled.
And of course, there was the Chevette.
One day, a classmate needed a ride to school, so Arden obliged. Unbeknownst to anyone, the floorboard under the passenger side had rusted away, leaving the carpet exposed, and it caught on fire. The big problem, though, was that the passenger-side door wouldn't open.
That wasn't the only problem.
"If you wanted the heat turned on, he would take out some pliers and tools and get under the dashboard to connect the wires himself," Dulin said. "Hardly anything worked on the car without some tinkering."
Along the way, Arden also became hugely interested by the budding technology of computers.
"When I got there, they were using a mainframe and punch cards," he said. "It wasn't very exciting."
But by the time he graduated, personal computers were gaining steam, as were some of his favorite computer applications: video games.
"We went through several, that's for sure," he said, adding that his favorites included Pong and the Atari system when it was first introduced.
Along with his skill for video games, Arden's grades also improved and his interests began to focus on bridge design, mostly because of the artistry and math involved.
But right after graduation, his resume brought the shipyard knocking. Arden accepted after realizing that, in practice, designing bridges usually meant smaller designs that didn't lend themselves to artistic expression.
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His first day at the shipyard was an orientation session. And it was memorable: It was the day the space shuttle Challenger exploded.
"I remember coming in on the first day," he said. "Somebody actually brought a TV into the orientation room so we could watch the news."
Arden started out in the aircraft carrier hull structure division, eventually becoming part of a 30-person team that designed the hull for the Seawolf-class attack submarines. After that 10-year project ended, a new project started in shock protection.
The work hasn't consumed Arden's life, though.
He still finds time to sketch outdoor scenes, and he still enjoys bass fishing in Gloucester as well as deer hunting at West Point. He built a network between three Pentium computers just to play interactive video games, especially his favorite, Starcraft. Part of that enthusiasm has rubbed off on his children: 15-year-old Kevin wants to study computers to be a computer graphics artist, while 13-year-old Michael enjoys the outdoors and hopes to be a park ranger.
For Arden, the work's been a lot like his old Chevette: difficult at times, but it's gotten him where he wants to be.
"I'm very happy and satisfied," he said. "I'd say it was all a good experience."
Michael Hines can be reached at 247-4760 or by e-mail at email@example.com


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Swinging Foursome: A FantasyMy name is Madhav. I live in the USA with my wife Veena. Last night Veena came across a story "My First Lesbian Encounter" on White Shadow stories web site. The story was very exciting and we both liked it very much. Veena and I also write stories about our sex experiences and exchange them with our close friends. We would also like to exchange our stories with your sex stories. I have never had any sexual experience before marriage, but recently we started swapping and now I am having group sex quite regularly which also include Bi-sex or lesbian activities. I am a Senior Engineering Manager. We are living in the USA for last 15 years. I am 34, 6' 1", 185 lbs., slightly overweight, fair and handsome. Veena is a housewife, 28, 5' 11", 110 lbs., 36C-26-36. We have been swinging with our close Indian friends for the past 5 years. About my swinging life. For a long time I suspected that my wife Veena had been fantasizing about making love with other couples. But about 5-6 years ago she started telling me that life is too short and we should also experience how it would feel to make love with other people since before marriage we both never made love with anyone else. She wanted to feel a different man's body in her arms and she said that she would also like me to enjoy feeling of a different lady making love with me. Whenever she talked about this, her performance increased. So I thought that thinking of her making love to another man and me making love to another lady does turn us on a lot and we were having a wonderful lovemaking those days. Later I thought that if my wife likes it I guess there is no harm in talking and I also started talking about me making love with another lady. By way, she also confessed that she had had two real life lesbian encounters with two different girls (of course, both happened after our marriage). I was at first shocked and felt disgusted whether she was not satisfied with my performance; she assured me that it was not the point but somehow she liked the touch of a 'girl', and I accepted it as a matter of fact. So after talking about me making love with another lady almost every night, I became little bolder and agreed to do it in reality with another couple. We started looking around and our eyes fell on Raghav and Anu who were living in our own neighbourhood just few streets away from our house. Over the years we have become very good friends with Raghav and Anu. They both were of our same age. Raghav is 35 and Anu is 26, 5' 9", 100 lbs., 34B-26-36, slim, with sharp features. Veena and I were very attracted with their nature and beauty. After setting our eyes on Raghav and Anu, we started fantasizing about them while making love. Whenever I make love with Veena, I usually tell her how juicy and attractive her pussy is and how easily I can ask Raghav to make love with her. She too sometimes asked me which pussy I want today by taking several of our friends' names including Anu. When I saw how much Veena was enjoying, I started to ask her gently whose cock was in her pussy. Soon without any hesitation she said it is Raghav's cock. I would not say anything but I can feel that she was fantasizing her having sex with another man, because her level of participation and performance has also increased. Then I also started telling Veena that Anu would also like to enjoy my cock and one day I asked her to make love with me thinking she is making love with Raghav and also call me Raghav while I fucked her. Soon she also started asking me whose pussy I am fucking and I would gladly say Anu's pussy. I also started calling her Anu when she was making love to me. We enjoyed this fantasy lovemaking almost everyday. So then one day suddenly it happened with Raghav and Anu about 5 years ago without any planning. One day Raghav and Anu invited us for a dinner. We went to their house in the evening and there Raghav and I had few scotch, and for a change both Veena and Anu had some margarita. Then somehow Raghav started talking about XXX movies because he knew that Veena and I watch XXX movies quite often. Raghav asked Veena if she has seen an Indian XXX movie. Raghav said that it would be fun to watch these movies with Indian people making love in it. Veena told him that 'now Indian XXX movies are also becoming available in the USA,' and 'yes, Madhav and I have seen a few Indian XXX movies. They are more exciting than American movies because it is totally a different experience to see sari-clad Indian ladies making love with different men.' Veena told him that 'I have a rented Indian XXX video in our car that Madhav was going to return on our way back from Raghav's house. If you want to see how Indian XXX movies are, you can watch the movie we had in the car, before Madhav returns it later tonight.' Since Anu has not seen an Indian XXX movie before, Raghav suggested Anu that they should watch that xxx movie in their bedroom before we leave. Veena said, 'go ahead; Madhav and I can watch some other regular Indian movie in your family room.' Veena did not know what Raghav had in his mind but Raghav said that it is rude to leave guests in the family room alone and insisted that we are all adults and if at all we will watch a xxx movie, we would watch it together. For which Veena and I had no objection, but looked like Anu was not very sure about the idea. Then Anu and Veena went to the kitchen, and in the kitchen she assured Anu that it is ok to watch such movies with close friends. They came back from the kitchen with more samosas and drinks and after a few minutes Anu told us quietly that she has agreed for watching the movie together. Veena went outside to the car and got the movie 'Garam Mirch'. We all went to their bedroom. Veena and I sat down on the side sofa and Raghav and Anu sat on their bed. Raghav put the lights off and started the movie. We had seen the movie before so we just sat on the sofa and watched Raghav and Anu's reaction of the Indian movie. After some time it seemed that Raghav got excited watching the movie and suddenly covered himself and Anu with a blanket, and looked like as if he has started doing some kind of foreplay with Anu. So I also got excited and started deep kissing Veena and squeezing her breasts. Since Raghav and Anu were covered with blanket cannot see us, she also started squeezing my cock over my pants and we both got into a heavy foreplay. Suddenly Veena noticed that the blanket has got shifted a little and we could partially see Raghav's bare bottom moving back and forth. He has gone on top of Anu and looked like they have actually started fucking. Seeing that I asked Veena that she would also like to fuck me, but she was very shy and hesitant because we did not have any cover. But after few more minutes, she also became hot watching the fuck film and listening to the noise made by Raghav and Anu. After watching these two fucking on the bed who were now barely covered by the shifted blanket, Veena also agreed to let me fuck her on the sofa. I realized that Veena was more excited than I was. She suddenly took off her clothes and came on top of me and started taking my clothes off. Very soon I realized that we both were totally naked on the sofa like Raghav and Anu on the bed. We can see in the dim light coming from the TV that by this time the blanket was completely gone and Raghav was fucking Anu openly on the bed in front of us. I guess it also excited me and as soon I entered Veena from the top, she screamed some thing very loudly as if my cock is going into her pussy for the first time. Suddenly, the whole atmosphere got changed, and Raghav and Anu also knew that we have also started fucking each other in the same room. That was the start of a new era in our life that introduced us to the joy of Group Sex. Suddenly I remembered Veena's conversation with me about fucking other couples and asked her if I want to enjoy something like that today. She asked. 'what do you mean, what else do you want me to enjoy now?' I said how about enjoying Raghav today. I said, 'I am so hot today that it makes no difference to me now'. Then Veena asked Raghav if he wants to have a change and enjoy having her. He said yes, only if Anu also wants a change. Then I asked Anu if she wants to have experience with me. To everyone's surprise Anu said why not, if it is ok with Veena why it should make any difference to me. This was the breaking point. At that time Raghav invited Veena and me to join them on the bed. Raghav got up, turned on the lights, and came back to the bed. Suddenly we found things have changed and all of us were sitting on the same bed totally naked in the bright light. Anu and Veena looked very sexy without any clothes. Then Raghav lied down on the bed and pulled Veena to mount him from the top. She climbed on Raghav and put his cock inside her pussy. Anu lied down beside me; I mounted her between her thighs, inserted my cock inside her pussy, and started pumping Anu. Veena saw that I have also started fucking Anu. The bed was kind of small for four people so our bodies were rubbing each other. Anu's legs were up in the air and she put her one leg on my moving ass. Raghav's one leg was on Veena's leg, and Anu was kissing her husband Raghav who was getting fucked by Veena. There is nothing more exciting than watching your wife fucking your friend in front of your own eyes when you are also fucking his wife on the same bed. We all four came together and the explosion was just great and it cannot be described in words. I came on Anu's pussy mound outside her pussy and Raghav came inside Veena's pussy. Then we took some break and had some more snacks and drinks. We talked for a while and later in the night we decided that both Raghav and I together would fuck Anu and Veena one at a time while the other lady is just watching. So both Anu and Veena made Raghav and me ready for the threesome by sucking our cocks and Raghav and I together fucked both Veena and Anu, one by one. Raghav and I first fucked Veena when Anu was sitting on the same bed and watching. Raghav fucked her doggie style while she sucked my cock. And then Raghav and I both fucked Anu when Veena was watching. I fucked Anu and she sucked her husband. Then Raghav and I asked both Anu and Veena to lie down on the bed together and Raghav and I kept on going back and forth to Veena and Anu and fucked both of them all night long until I came on Anu's silky ass and Raghav came on Veena's belly button. To tell you the truth, Veena and I were so excited by our first swinging experience that we fucked again when we went home the next morning. That night Veena and I talked a lot about our first foursome with Raghav and Anu, and it was very interesting to find out that in addition to fucking with some one different, the most excitement we got was from the scene of four people fucking together on the same bed, and watching our spouses fucking with other's husband or wife in front of our own eyes. Before our first experience I didn't even know how I would feel to see Veena making love with another man, and how I would prepare myself to let the other man make love to my wife in front of me. At first I did not like it that much, I thought that Veena is letting me make love with other women so she can freely enjoy those girls and their husbands. Then I found that it was really fun to make love with other couples. In addition to enjoying different women, I found it very exciting to watch Veena and another lady enjoying making love in front of my own eyes. I enjoyed seeing beautiful expression of joy and satisfaction on her face when the husband is giving her non-stop strokes for good 30 minutes in front of me. Veena also in addition to enjoying other ladies, likes to see me enjoying making love with other women in her presence. Although I was hesitant in the beginning about swinging, now I have found swinging is the only type of sex where a wife can enjoy making love with other men and still comes back to her husband so she can make love with him more. No regrets, no cheating, no guilty, just pure fun.
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I am the reason black metal purists hate Deafheaven. The genre has occultic origins, a much-recycled murderous backstory and a purebred fixation on ghastly shades of black, white and grey. So here comes a band that dresses suavely, skips the whole Satanic bit and names its pastel-colored second LP (out this week) after basking in sunlight, all while pushing black metal�s blisteringly intense sonic framework further into the dream-pop ether. I adore this record, and I lead Bible studies for God�s sake.
Disclosure, Settle
Dance music has at least as many niches as metal, and I would be kidding if I told you I was immersed in the world of UK garage (pronounced �gehr-edge� � thanks, SPIN!) that spawned hits across the pond around the turn of the millennium. Until last week the name MJ Cole meant nothing to me. But this Disclosure record, Settle, has me vibing out at my desk constantly. I saw them at SXSW this year too, and even back then it was clear that these young brothers from Surrey value songwriting as much as rhythms and textures.
Fat Tony, Smart Ass Black Boy
Suffice it to say Houston rapper Fat Tony (a moderately wise, frequently wisecracking everyman proponent of food, booze, sex, weed and armchair philosophy) and his in-house producer Tom Cruz (a minimal, melancholic madman) should be on your radar and in your iTunes.
Kanye West on �Saturday Night Live�
The best SNL performances are the ones that leave you wondering how that just happened � think Fear or Sinead O�Connor. My favorite is Radiohead in 2000 right after Kid A came out, when Thom Yorke stalked the stage like a rabid man-child. But Yeezus gave Yorke a run for his money with the magnificently staged, (un?)righteously angry �Black Skinhead� and �New Slaves,� the most exquisite middle finger in recent memory.
Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City
I haven�t heard another album this year that matches this one in terms of melody, arrangements or emotional resonance. I would not have expected such excellence from Vampire Weekend, who previously struck me as either a pleasant curiosity or a dreadful annoyance depending on my mood. But here they are, cleverly and thoughtfully grappling with death amid effervescent pop music that sounds wonderfully alive even amid the crystalline sheen. This album is great. Go listen to it.


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I love strong flavors and plenty of heat. So Sichuan food, known for its spices, is one of my favorite Chinese regional cuisines. Kung Pao Chicken is one of the most well-known Sichuan dishes. It is super-popular on most American Chinese menus. But there's no reason to wait until you go out to enjoy this dish. You can make it at home in just 30 minutes. Get the recipe: Kung Pao Tofu And when you make Chinese food yourself you can keep it healthy with less oil and soy sauce. Plus you can bump up the amount of vegetables in it. A combination of broccoli and peppers is delicious. To cut down on prep time I like to use broccoli crowns, which are the tops of the bunches, with the stalks cut off. Most supermarkets sell broccoli crowns and although crowns are more expensive than entire bunches, there is considerably less waste. Tofu makes a delicious stand-in for chicken in Kung Pao Tofu because it soaks up tons of flavor from the sauce. Here are recipes for healthy versions of Chinese dishes that are easy to make at home:
Jessie Price is the editor-in-chief of EatingWell magazine. Besides her work on 11 other EatingWell books, she is the author of the James Beard Award-winning The Simple Art of EatingWell and EatingWell One-Pot Meals. She lives in Charlotte, Vermont where she stays busy growing her own vegetables in the summer and tracking down great Vermont food products when she's not working.


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Driver with gun threatens trio who yelled for him to slow down
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MANCHESTER -— Three men who yelled at a driver to slow down in a back alley Monday night were later threatened by the man who returned with a black handgun and aimed it at them, according to police.
Police said the incident happened about 6:30 p.m. in a rear alley between Spruce and Cedar streets. According to the three men, they were working on a car parked in the driveway at a Spruce Street address when they saw a green sport utility vehicle traveling through the alley at a fast speed. The SUV's side view mirror nearly struck one of the men as it passed, the men reported.
The men called out to the driver to slow down. The SUV stopped, backed down the alley toward the men, and the driver got out and confronted them. He told them he had a gun, although he didn't pull one out at that time.
The driver then got back into the SUV and left. He was described as a black man about 6 feet tall weighing 250 pounds and wearing a gray tank top, jeans and sneakers. A passenger in the SUV was described as a middle-aged white man with dirty blond hair and a scruffy beard, wearing a black zip-up jacket.
A few minutes later, the SUV returned, only this time the white man was driving it. The black man got out of the passenger seat, walked toward the three men and pointed a black handgun at them as the green SUV followed slowly behind him.
Police said the man reportedly swung the gun at the head of one of the men, brushing against his head with his hand. Ultimately, the intimidating man returned to the passenger seat of the SUV, which drove off.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call police at 668-8711. Anonymous tips for cash rewards may be made through Manchester Crimeline at 624-4040 or online at manchestercrimeline.org.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 8, 2007) - For the fourth time this season every ETSU player who dressed saw action, as the Lady Bucs scored 47 second half points en route to 87-61 victory over Gardner-Webb inside Memorial Center Thursday night.
With the win, the Lady Bucs improved to 13-9, 9-3 in the A-Sun, while Gardner-Webb had their three-game winning streak snapped and drop to 9-14, 6-6. ETSU moved to 4-1 at home in conference games, where they have not lost since Jan. 6. The Lady Bucs did something that at the time #1 Maryland could not accomplish this season, which was put up 87 points against the Runnin' Bulldogs.
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The Lady Bucs opened the second half on a 19-4 run and extended their five point halftime lead to 59-39, thanks to a Belcher lay-up with 12:11 remaining. The ETSU lead would stay at or around 20 for the next couple minutes, until the Lady Bucs decided to have some fun and open the game wide open. Over the next three and a half minutes ETSU was on fire as they connected on seven consecutive possessions, which included back-to-back threes from Brooke Wilhoit (Sevierville), and then fellow senior Moring decided to get in the action by scoring on back-to-back possessions with a long-range bomb and a jumper right inside the three-point arc. During the stretch the Lady Bucs gained their largest lead of the night at 33, 81-48, as they went on 16-4 run to take total control of the game.
For the game, the Lady Bucs shot 45.9 percent (34-74), compared to 51.3 percent (20-39) by the Runnin' Bulldogs. Turnovers and bench points proved to costly for Gardner-Webb as they turned the ball over 28 times and were outscored, 41-15, by ETSU's bench. Both teams shot the ball well from the free throw line as they were a combined 31-of-42 (73.8 percent). ETSU finished 11-of-14 (78.6 percent), while Gardner-Webb was 20-of-28 (71.4 percent) on the night.
In the first half, ETSU got off to a shaky start as Gardner-Webb opened up to its largest lead of the night, 14-5, at the 14:11 mark thanks to the strong shooting of Harmon and Smith. Over the next four minutes the Lady Bucs posted a 12-2 run, and took their first lead of the game when DeVault knocked down a three with 10:35 on the clock. The rest of the half remained close as there were five ties during the final 10 minutes. However, ETSU built a little lead right before half as they finally took advantage with a 10-2 run in the final two minutes and fifty-two seconds, holding Gardner-Webb to only one field goal during the stretch.
ETSU held a 40-35 lead at the break despite shooting 42.9 percent (15-35), compared to 72.2 percent (13-18) by Gardner-Webb. Bench points were key for the Lady Bucs as they outscored the Runnin' Bulldogs, 20-6, thanks to Moring giving ETSU a spark with eight points in the first frame. The Lady Bucs also managed to force 13 first half turnovers which led to 15 ETSU points.
The Lady Bucs will look to win their fourth straight game at home when they host