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(Photo by Washington Post/Newsweek Interactive. Does Mike Rizzo need to do something -- anything? -- by 4 P.M. today to help his case for removing the "Acting" prefix from his job title?)
4 P.M. looming: Make a move, Mike!
Ben Goessling of the Washington Times thinks the Nats are perfectly happy to stand pat, or make a few minor moves at best; here's hoping the Rizzo can at least flip Beimel and NJ for mid-level prospects.
But in the interest of rumor mongering, there's this fun little nugget from this morning's Fort Worth Star-Telegram, an otherwise throw-away line in a piece about the Rangers' pursuit of Roy Halladay (and starting pitching help in general):
Other pitchers who might be available are left-handers Zach Duke and John Lannan.
Lannan? Is Mike Rizzo dangling John Lannan out there? Or at least listening to offers?
Of course, last night, word broke that a market for Nick Johnson had miraculously reappeared: with both the Marlins and Rockies reportedly interested; as of 12:30 a.m. this morning, there's reportedly an offer on the table from the Marlins for NJ from the Marlins according to Ken Rosenthal and Jon Paul Morosi of FOXSports dot com:
The Marlins are waiting to hear if the Nationals will accept their offer for first baseman Nick Johnson, according to major-league sources.
The proposed deal would send Class AAA right-hander Ryan Tucker to Washington, with the Nationals paying part of the approximately $1.8 million remaining on Johnson's contract.
Guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens...
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What a fleet you have. Love the Mopar Muscle.
Dec 8, 2008 at 4:03 pm
alls i can say is WWOOWW! incredible garage. almost doesnt seem fair one guy could all those killer cars.
Dec 18, 2007 at 10:20 am
You picked the right name for your garage. Lots of money there. Superbird is my favorite, I never see one at car shows.

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Allen Lessels' UNH Notebook: Thus far, A's for the Wildcats' football 'D'
May 05. 2013 8:15PM
DURHAM -- JULLIAN TURNER. Hayden Knudson. Casey DeAndrade. DeVaughn Chollette.
Note the names.
Chances are, followers of University of New Hampshire football will be hearing them quite often in the fall and for several falls to come.
They are among the young defensive players who UNH coaches are counting on to help retool their defense heading into the 2013 season.
Early returns have been impressive, including in Saturday's Blue-White game that brought an end to spring practice.
Head coach Sean McDonnell was especially pleased with his first-team defense, which gave up little to the offense on Saturday. The defense came up with half a dozen turnovers, including one on special teams.
Defensive coordinator John Lyons was happy, too.
"I've been real pleased with how hard the guys have been playing," Lyons said. "They've been running round, been making some plays, coming up with some turnovers. It kind of feeds off itself. It's a good way to end up for us."
UNH finished 8-4 last year and the defense had its moments - it was second in the Colonial Athletic Association in turnovers created - but it also had its rough times, particularly in a couple of late-season games.
Long-time starters at linebacker, Matt Evans and Alan Buzbee, were both very productive and leave big holes to fill.
Chollette is a linebacker and Turner a defensive lineman. Knudson and DeAndrade are defensive backs.
Knudson played some last fall as a true freshman and Turner played as a redshirt. DeAndrade and Chollette both will be redshirt freshmen, playing for the first time in the fall.
The defense has been a point of emphasis.
"In order for us to get to the next level in the playoffs - we have a great offense, one of the best in the nation - we need to bring our defense along and become one of the better defenses in the nation," said Jimmy Vailas, a senior defensive lineman out of Bedford and Kimball Union Academy in Meriden.
The Wildcats have tweaked theirs, Lyons said.
"The biggest thing is, we've kind of simplified some of the things we're doing but at the same time it gives us a lot of flexibility," Lyons said. "I think that the kids really seem to like it. There's a little less thinking involved. We're really trying to do everything we can to get them playing fast and not thinking, 'Am I going here, going there?'"
Knudson had a nice interception on Saturday and Chollette, DeAndrade and Turner all received awards from McDonnell in a postgame reception for being most improved at their position.
Vailas was among a number of regulars who did not suit up on Saturday. He's recovering from a neck injury and said he will be ready to go for fall camp in August.
In a pregame ceremony, he was honored with the third Todd Walker Teammate Award. Vailas was best friends with Walker, a UNH wide receiver who was killed in March of 2011 while protecting a friend during an attempted robbery.
THE FOOTBALL PROGRAM will run its annual clinics at four high schools around the state in early June. They will be held at Dover on June 4, Manchester Memorial on June 5, Londonderry on June 6 and Nashua South on June 10. The sessions begin at 5 p.m.
The fee is $15 per person and players should wear workout clothes and cleats with no helmets or shoulder pads. There will be a one-hour offensive session and a one-hour defensive session, followed by a 7-on-7 passing game for the skill players and one-on-one session for the offensive and defensive linemen.
More information is available from Bob Callahan at 502-1349.
BRETT PESCE, a regular and solid contributor to UNH's hockey defense this past season, is highly rated among North American skaters ranked by the Central Scouting Bureau heading into the NHL entry draft late next month.
Pesce, 6-foot-3 and 175 pounds, is rated at No. 40 among North American skaters and is first among players who are already in college. Most of the players on the list have been playing juniors and are not yet in college.
One of the youngest players in Division I last year, Pesce turned 18 on Nov. 15. He had a goal and five assists for UNH and was a plus-6 in plus-minus statistics.
THREE of the five men's basketball recruits coming to UNH for next fall are from Texas.
Jacoby Armstrong, a 6-foot-6 forward, and Jaleen Smith a 6-foot-4 point guard, recently signed national letters of intent to accept UNH scholarships, joining Daniel Jackson, a 6-foot point guard, who signed last November.
The other newcomers are 6-foot-6 forward John Edwards out of Charlotte, N.C., and Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, and Williams Gabriel, 6-foot-8 out of Lagos, Nigeria, by way of Huntington Prep in West Virginia.
Coach Bill Herrion is excited about the depth and athleticism the recruits add to the UNH frontcourt.
The Wildcats, he said, borrowed an idea from the University of Hartford in recruiting Texas.
The Hawks had five Texans, three sophomores and two freshmen, on their roster this past season. "It's such a big state and it gets overlooked some," Herrion said "There's not as much competition in recruiting. There are a lot of players with fewer scholarships available. If some of these guys were up here in the Northeast in prep schools or high schools, I'm not sure we get them."
Frank Okeke, a Wildcat who will be a sophomore next season, is also from Texas.
Chris Orozco, a UNH freshman with Okeke this past season and a high-scoring recruit out of Tenafly, N.J., has decided to leave the program and is transferring, Herrion said.


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Rule 8.928. Contents and form of briefs
(a) Contents
(1)Each brief must:
(A)State each point under a separate heading or subheading summarizing the point and support each point by argument and, if possible, by citation of authority; and
(B)Support any reference to a matter in the record by a citation to the volume and page number of the record where the matter appears.
(2)An appellant's opening brief must:
(A)State the nature of the action, the relief sought in the trial court, and the judgment or order appealed from;
(B)State that the judgment appealed from is final or explain why the order appealed from is appealable; and
(C)Provide a summary of the significant facts limited to matters in the record.
(b) Length
(1)A brief produced on a computer must not exceed 5,100 words, including footnotes. Such a brief must include a certificate by appellate counsel or an unrepresented party stating the number of words in the brief. The person certifying may rely on the word count of the computer program used to prepare the brief.
(2)A brief produced on a typewriter must not exceed 15 pages.
(3)The information listed on the cover, any table of contents or table of authorities, the certificate under (1), and any signature block are excluded from the limits stated in (1) or (2).
(4)On application, the presiding judge may permit a longer brief for good cause. A lengthy record or numerous or complex issues on appeal will ordinarily constitute good cause.
(Subd (b) amended effective January 1, 2013; previously amended effective January 1, 2011.)
(c) Form
(1)A brief may be reproduced by any process that produces a clear, black image of letter quality. All documents filed must have a page size of 8 1/2 by 11 inches. If filed in paper form, the paper must be white or unbleached and of at least 20-pound weight. Both sides of the paper may be used if the brief is not bound at the top.
(2)Any conventional font may be used. The font may be either proportionally spaced or monospaced.
(3)The font style must be roman; but for emphasis, italics or boldface may be used or the text may be underscored. Case names must be italicized or underscored. Headings may be in uppercase letters.
(4)Except as provided in (11), the font size, including footnotes, must not be smaller than 13-point.
(5)The lines of text must be unnumbered and at least one-and-a-half-spaced. Headings and footnotes may be single-spaced. Quotations may be block-indented and single-spaced. Single-spaced means six lines to a vertical inch.
(6)The margins must be at least 11/2 inches on the left and right and 1 inch on the top and bottom.
(7)The pages must be consecutively numbered.
(8)The cover-or first page if there is no cover-must include the information required by rule 8.816(a)(1).
(9)If filed in paper form, the brief must be bound on the left margin, except that briefs may be bound at the top if required by a local rule of the appellate division. If the brief is stapled, the bound edge and staples must be covered with tape.
(10)The brief need not be signed.
(11)If the brief is produced on a typewriter:
(A)A typewritten original and carbon copies may be filed only with the presiding justice's permission, which will ordinarily be given only to unrepresented parties proceeding in forma pauperis. All other typewritten briefs must be filed as photocopies.
(B)Both sides of the paper may be used if a photocopy is filed; only one side may be used if a typewritten original and carbon copies are filed.
(C)The type size, including footnotes, must not be smaller than standard pica, 10 characters per inch. Unrepresented incarcerated litigants may use elite type, 12 characters per inch, if they lack access to a typewriter with larger characters.
(Subd (c) amended effective January 1, 2016; previously amended effective January 1, 2013, and March 1, 2014.)
(d) Noncomplying briefs
If a brief does not comply with this rule:
(1)The reviewing court clerk may decline to file it, but must mark it "received but not filed" and return it to the party; or
(2)If the brief is filed, the presiding judge may with or without notice:
(A)Order the brief returned for corrections and refiling within a specified time;
(B)Strike the brief with leave to file a new brief within a specified time; or
(C)Disregard the noncompliance.
Rule 8.928 amended effective January 1, 2016; adopted effective January 1, 2009; previously amended effective January 1, 2011, January 1, 2013, and March 1, 2014.
Advisory Committee Comment
Subdivision (b). Subdivision (b)(1) states the maximum permissible lengths of briefs produced on a computer in terms of word count rather than page count. This provision tracks a provision in rule 8.204(c) governing Court of Appeal briefs and is explained in the comment to that provision. Subdivision (b)(3) specifies certain items that are not counted toward the maximum brief length. Signature blocks, as referenced in this provision include not only the signatures, but also the printed names, titles, and affiliations of any attorneys filing or joining in the brief, which may accompany the signature.


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The San Francisco Giants recalled P George Kontos from Triple-A Fresno Saturday, June 9, and optioned P Steve Edelfsen to Fresno in the corresponding move.
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San Francisco Giants RPs Guillermo Mota and Dan Runzler were awarded the final two spots in the team's bullpen, according to MLB.com's Eric Gilmore. RPs Ryan Vogelsong and Steve Edelfsen were sent to the minors. P Marc Kroon was also optioned to Triple-A Fresno, but isn't sure if he will report.
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POUGHKEEPSIE — Call it a case of instant celebrity.
POUGHKEEPSIE — Call it a case of instant celebrity.
Ever since the Marist College men's crew team found a giant plastic and fiberglass head floating in the Hudson River earlier this week, it has been the most talked-about subject on campus.
"It is really big," said Greg Cannon, the college's director of public affairs. "It's in front of the boathouse right now and everyone wants to take a photo with it."
The head, which is about 7 feet high and 5 feet wide, was recovered by crew coaches on Monday morning. Crew coach Matt Lavin said the men's team was out for rowing practice when he caught sight of the head bobbing in the Hudson.
"I noticed there was this giant thing floating in the river, so we rowed out there," Lavin said. "It's the weirdest thing that I've ever found in any body of water."
After practice, he and another coach took a boat out to the head, which was floating on the west side of the river, near Highland, lassoed it with ropes and towed it in, he said.
Cannon said the head has metal rods poking out of it and appears to have a metal frame at its center.
"When they pulled it out of the water, it was waterlogged and took 10 men from the crew team to haul it up on the dock," Cannon said. "It weighed 1,000 pounds, maybe."
As a result of the discovery, the school has found itself fielding calls from across the country. They've even been contacted by British news media.
Cannon explained that the school had hoped that all of the publicity would have resulted in someone coming forward to claim the head by now. But so far, no one has reported losing a head.
Some believe the Grecian-style creation might be a missing theater prop. A member of the women's crew team told school officials that she spotted a similar-looking head recently when she was riding on an Amtrak train in Rhinebeck.
"The more fun theory is that it may have broken loose from Mardi Gras and floated down the river," Cannon said.
In the meantime, the big head on campus has found a temporary home in front of the boatbouse. Lavin said the crew team has been enjoying the attention as well. "It's been kind of fun," said Lavin.


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What's missing from IBM's OpenFlow product are the applications that target specific functions such as virtualization and security. Recent SDN announcements from Hewlett-Packard and Citrix highlighted applications that address those needs and provide an easy path to solve a problem.
Enterprises that struggle with existing networking limitations but aren't yet ready to embrace emerging technology may need a push to move to adopt OpenFlow and SDN. Targeted applications that solve well-defined problems could provide that push.
The Programmable Network Controller is rather expensive. A single controller and switch license is $92,000. In a redundant environment--and for something this critical a redundant design is required--you'll need a separate license, which comes to $184,000. Each additional switch license is $1,700 for a single- or dual-controller environment. IBM said standard discounts apply, so there's negotiating room. Even so, the price seems to target larger installations, which should come as no surprise. Service and cloud providers that have dynamic networks rely on automated management and configuration, so they have the most to gain from SDN and OpenFlow at this time.


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CHICAGO (AP) — Carlos Quentin homered and drove in three runs and the San Diego Padres battered Cubs starter Edwin Jackson in a 13-7 win over Chicago on Tuesday night.
Edinson Volquez (2-3) was good enough to beat the Cubs for the fifth time in his career, working 5 2-3 innings and allowing four runs while striking out three in his first outing against Chicago while with San Diego. Volquez is 5-0 in seven career starts against the Cubs, including 3-0 at Wrigley Field.
Quentin was 3 for 4 with the home run and two doubles. He is 34 for 101 (.337) with nine homers against the Cubs in his career.
Jackson (0-4) is still seeking his first win since signing a four-year, $52 million contract in the offseason. He pitched 4 2-3 innings, giving up 11 hits and eight runs, and was booed off the field when he was removed by Cubs manager Dale Sveum.
San Diego, which had a four-game winning streak snapped Monday, has won five of its last six games. The Padres' run total — the most they've ever scored at Wrigley — and their 17 hits were both season highs.
Yonder Alonso and Nick Hundley both had three hits and a home run for San Diego.
The Padres broke the game open with five runs in the fifth, all charged to Jackson, to take an 8-0 lead. Alonso's two-run homer gave the Padres a 7-0 lead, while Chase Headley and Quentin had RBI doubles in the inning.
Volquez's sharp single to center capped San Diego's scoring in the inning.
The win is Volquez's second straight after the right-hander beat Milwaukee on April 24 with seven shutout innings. His walk of Dave Sappelt to lead off the sixth ended a streak of 13 consecutive innings without allowing a base on balls.
He also walked Luis Valbuena and Darwin Barney with two outs to load the bases and end his night at 96 pitches. Dale Thayer then replaced Volquez, and ended the inning by getting Julio Borbon to fly out to right.
The Cubs' streak of 25 games decided by four runs or fewer to start their season was snapped. The 25 games was a team record and second all-time behind only the 1914 Tigers (33 games).
Chicago tried to mount a comeback in the fifth. Valbuena and Starlin Castro both had two-run home runs, cutting San Diego's lead in half. With one out in the inning, a Borbon line drive hit Volquez in the left foot. Volquez made the play to get Borbon at first and stayed in the game.
Quentin's second home run of the season in the sixth gave San Diego a 9-4 lead.
David DeJesus' home run in the seventh that cut the Padres' lead to 10-5 was originally called a double but was overturned after a review.
Hundley's three-run home run in the eighth gave the Padres a 13-5 lead.
Cody Ransom homered in the ninth for the Cubs, giving him home runs in consecutive games against his former team. Anthony Rizzo was 3 for 4 with two doubles and an RBI.
NOTES: Mark Kotsay was in right field for the Padres, his first start since April 22 against Milwaukee. Before Tuesday, Kotsay had two at-bats in San Diego's last six games, both strikeouts. Chris Denorfia moved to center. . Wednesday's pitching matchup is San Diego's Andrew Cashner (1-1, 3.26 ERA) against the Cubs' Scott Feldman (1-3, 2.92). Cashner was a first-round pick by the Cubs in 2008 and was traded to San Diego for Rizzo in January 2012. . Sveum said he's got a closer but he "doesn't know who it's going to be every night." ... Cubs reliever Kyuji Fujikawa is scheduled to have a bullpen session Thursday, and if that goes well he will begin a rehab assignment Sunday at Triple-A Iowa. Fujikawa has been on the disabled list since April 13 with a right forearm strain.
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Delicate Balance!
The oil market(NYMEX:CLK14) is still locked in a delicate balance of geopolitical risk and ample supply. Talks with Russia that seemed to go nowhere increase the odds that there will be more sanctions directed at Russia. Russian Troops are still on the Ukraine border.
The West Texas market may be getting some support from the aftermath of the collision and oil spill in the Houston Shipping Channel that may impact oil supply in the Gulf Coast. At the same time the odds for more stimuli in China and Europe are increasing.
Eurozone inflation hit a five-year low increasing the odds that the European Central Bank will move to buy loans and other assets from banks to help support the Eurozone economy or quantitative easing European style. The Eurozone economy is well below the central bank's target. The Eurozone inflation rate fell for the third consecutive month to a new low of 0.5% in March well below the target range of 2%.
Chinese stocks rose after hopes that China's Premier Li Keqiang will act to support the Chinese economy. More stimulus increase demand expectations but there are still lingering worries that China after allowing one default may not be able to put the genie back in the bottle. If the official manufacturing data disappoints Tuesday another round of stimulus will happen. That may also give gold a bounce. Weakness in the Chinese economy and a rising currency has slowed Chinese demand. Yet the market looks like it is bottoming looking for a little help from our Chinese friends.


text: Driving simulation is a big market within the gaming fraternity; there are numerous wheel stands, cockpits, driving wheels and of course games available, but which do you choose if you are a casual driving gamer. Even the most casual gamer doesn't really get off on driving using a controller because it just doesn't feel right. . . . → Read More: Xbox Driving Wheels For The Budget Minded


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No suprise on live search there
Considering if you want to find something through a MS search engine, you have to type in only keywords that have nothing to do with what you want, No suprise its one of the lowest there.
Nevermind what the small ads say, it seems Americans just aren't curious any more. Latest figures from Comscore show those living North of the Rio Grande are amongst the world's least prolific internet searchers. The web research firm said yesterday that 61 billion searches were carried out worldwide in August, with 755 million …
Considering if you want to find something through a MS search engine, you have to type in only keywords that have nothing to do with what you want, No suprise its one of the lowest there.
... since most Americans already think that they know everything .
MS just had 2.1 billion. MS the "also ran" in another statistic.
But what is Baidu... *quickly goes and types that into google.*
83.5 searches in a day? a week? a Googleplex?
Ever consider that Americans are actually BETTER than your average euro at searching, and therefore don't have to search repetitively in order to find what they want? Of course not, it is just too easy for you to continue not using your brain and fall back on the standard European reflex of "Americans suck".
never answer ignorant insult with ignorant insult. It's not their fault. It's mostly brainwashing and envy.
Americans DO suck you hypocritical fuckwit.
<- As illustrated by Miss Hilton here; a perfect example of how the rest of the world views Americans.
If you type Baidu into Google does that also kill the internet?
@David Warren
Ever considered that Yanks only go to half a dozen websites? Outside of Fox News, YouTube and MySpace there's not a great deal more they need. They don't realise you can get news from the rest of the world. Hell they don't even realise there is a rest of the world. Most of them believe Al Jazeera is a terrorist propaganda network.
"Ever consider that Americans are actually BETTER than your average euro at searching"
"fall back on the standard European reflex of "Americans suck" "
You do suck, and you know it. And it's not just us sniffy euros, the rest of the world hates you as well.
If there was an icon for "Dumb 'mercan", I'd be using it right now.
I wonder how many people use rss, automatic news searches, and other automated methods for receiving information of interest. I bet that if this were calculated, Americans would be found to use this method for finding information more than their European counterparts.
I can't speak for all Americans, but I have been so busy most days earning a living for my family that I don't have time to sit and type into a search engine. All of the news that is of interest to me is delivered to my E-Mail in-box or posted on my iGoogle page, automatically.
Little of the news I get comes from Fox, CNN, ABC, NBC, or CBS, as they seldom have anything of relevance to report. Google News sure digs up a lot of interesting stuff from all over the place, though.
So busy you had time to read the whole article, all the comments and then post one yourself?
Wow, the rest of the world must be so lazy next to your burger chowing selves! Or is it just that America is a heartless wasteland of consumerism presided over by a retarded puppet?
er... am I missing something or do we have a bit of a typo here? (or is that the "point" and I'm being dense?)
"However, North America's 206.3 million searchers clocked up a mere 77.4 searches."
I suspect it means 77.4 searches each, in which case, it is not that far below the global average and there aint no story.
americans work longer hours because they are less productive than us europeans. that's why they don't have time to surf the web in search for fun
That's not from me but from the economist: (http://economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9612033)
Sorry for the Pomys among you, the brits are less productive than the yanks.
Why is the title of a Nirvana album the first word of the article? Am I missing something?
Never thought I'd see a war bout this, but I guess Americans and the British have to fight over the "top dog" spot all the time. We're both the top countries in arrogence with our "our (country, culture, military, people, political system [insert one]) is better than yours" speaches every day of the week.
How one draws a conclusion about national curiosity from two statistics is beyond me. What about the old ways of searching encyclopedia's or asking people that are knowledgable in the field of intrest. What about unique searches, ones that don't have similar keywords? If Europeans each had 30 searches about a topic, but couldn't find what they were looking for until the 30th search then the research on "curiosity is skewed". How was the data collected? Was it by ip? What if millions of students and employees are searching behind a proxy? Wouldn't that make it seem as if they were all one person?
Honestly this debate is one of the stupider wars I've seen on The Register yet.
"Latin America may have had only 50 million searchers, but they clocked up 95.7 searches each. The second most curious searchers were in Europe, with 209.7 million searchers who averaged 85.1 searches each. Asia Pacific's 258 million searchers clocked up 78.7 searches each.
"In the Middle East a rather low 30.6 million searches managed 69.8 searches each.
"However, North America's 206.3 million searchers clocked up a mere 77.4 searches."
How did they get these statistics? Did they, for instance, count "separate IP addresses" as "users"/ I'm no statistician, but would static addresses like internet cafés, libraries, schools, etc., skew the "searchers" number and, hence, the number of searches per searcher? This might, potentially, explain the significantly higher number of average searches on the significantly smaller number of "individual users" in the Latin American results. (I don't know the per capita penetration of private home computers vs public terminals in Latin America.)
Secondly, I note that the references seem to be to North America, not the U.S., per se. Do the original figures differentiate between U.S. and Canadian users? It may make no difference or it may make a significant one. No way of knowing without more information.
Thirdly, NorthAm's "mere" 77.4 searches per searcher is a "mere" 1.3 less than the Asia Pacific number, and a "mere" 3.5 searches per month before the worldwide average. Are these really significant values?
Fourthly, while the numbers, admittedly, show that North America rated belor Latin America, Europe, and Asia Pacific in searches, the order that the results are presented - Highest, lower, lower, lowest, one-up-from-lowest - could be argued as being slightly ambiguous and potentially subconscously misleading, since we are used to ranking from highest to lowest or lowest to highest in a straight line, rather than the "J-turn" that this listing took. Edward Tufte would probably give you a stern talking to about that, Mr. Fay!
Finally, "Microsoft's Live Search – just relaunched – clocked up 2.1 billion." Are yoe sure that wasn't originally "Microsoft's Live Search... cocked up 2.1 billion."
Hey, I'm sure if you discounted the Internet habits of the Talibangelists in the U.S.A., you'd find the remaining, oh, 45-50% of us on the coasts are fairly savvy.
So before telling us that, "Wow, the rest of the world must be so lazy next to your burger chowing selves! Or is it just that America is a heartless wasteland of consumerism presided over by a retarded puppet?"
...just remember that many of us here understand that we live in a heartless wasteland of consumerism (not too different, though, from Soho in London, I might add) presided over by a retarded muppet (my edit).
Of course, I'm not sure what that makes the UK. It's one thing to be ruled by a retarded muppet (and hate it, and try to resist it when possible), quite another to be ruled by that retarded muppet's handmaiden (ie Blair/Brown, or Sarkozy, etc).
Ding ding, we have a couple of winners on the show tonight, ladies and gentlemen!
Geez, don't go reinforcing any stereotypes by rising to the mildest of trolling, will you?
What did the European say to the American with a degree in Nuclear Physics and Mathematics....
Stupid American !
Q: "What did the European say to the American with a degree in Nuclear Physics and Mathematics...."
A: Yes thanks, I would like fries with that.
See, that goes to show just how little you really know about how this country really works. An American with a degree in Nuclear Physics and Mathematics CAN'T get a job at McDonald's or the equivalent; he'll be told he's overqualified. :)
Now, that having been said, I'd like to throw my voice in behind those calling for a bit of rational civility here. Mainly, rationality. If you want to insult Americans, that's one thing, but please, do so on something that makes sense - our grammar, arrogance, imperialism, etc. This particular argument, however, is just pathetic - it's so obvious that you're grasping at any reason to hate Americans, ANY Americans, that it's funny in a sad sort of way.
Finally, before I leave to more productive matters: why, oh why aren't basic statistics required to get a degree?
I'm a bit disappointed that El Reg should allow so many vitriolic posts. I'm amazed that a couple of statistics about search engine usage can devolve into such hate.
El Reg moderators should be ashamed that they let such posts here, many of them by Anon users.
If you have a viewpoint you feel strongly about, get a back bone and post with a name.
About the article: Who cares about who searches more! It smacks of some meaningless statistic that a moron in middle management would use as some way of making themselves sound more important. Those of you that have seen Drop the Dead Donkey will know what I mean when I mention Guss.
Tis a sad day when I wish for a post by amanfrommars to lighten things up a bit!
I see we have moved from blaming George Bush to blaming the Entire North American continent for all the worlds troubles.
I guess this is progress, but can we just skip to the end and blame the entire human race.
This kind of blind hatred scares me a whole lot more than any friggin global warming...
Unlike you ill informed Europeans, we already know everything and thus have little use for silly things like "search" ; )
I blame it on Canada. I'm sure they're dragging the results down !! ; )
Still, interesting to see how quickly "the reg" turned a completely irrelevant statistic into a U.S. bashing story. I guess that's life at the top. Everyone's always taking shots!
Sorry to ruin everyone's fun here in bashing the yanks.
If you take the data given you find that its nearly perfectly normally distributed (for the mathematically inclined the goodness of fit is 86% using the shapiro-wilks test)
These figures are exactly what you would expect to see when everything is as it should be and as a result you can say that no group is significantly below the others
So from a statistical standpoint we're all doing pretty much the same amount of searching
One also assumes that the average SOL (Schlep OnLine) prizes the web over all other net services. Does the survey really include all Archie users? And don't forget gopher and Veronica.
That said, why would anyone search the web at all? Heck, if you can't form a decent advanced search on the web you might as well try to take a sip from a fire hose. If you can form a good search the chances are you will only make one if any at all. Finally, consider the web has come to resemble satellite TV, sure, there are FFFFFFFF addresses on the IPV4 but there is nothing worth watching in the entire world.
Dont forget Mexico is in North America
Shouldn't that read Mexicans are in North America, I am sure the border patrols would have something to say about the original post
I would have expected comments to be far more intelligent that many of those appearing above.
Lest we forget whom saved whom's "arse" after having handed it to them only shortly before ...
" I'm just sayin' "
Perhaps you didn't notice, but Americans invented the internet and all 3 search engines mentioned in the article are American companies. Maybe Americans are all busy inventing the next big things while the rest of us are just having fun figuring out how to use their current kit!
The first uptakers of internet access are going to be the heaviest users. As the size of the internet connected population increases, so does the number of lighter users, thus lowering the average of measures such as web searches per user. All this investigation shows is that there is a higher proportion of Americans on line.


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Victor Valdés
Valdés (l'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 1982) was Barça's first choice keeper for 12 seasons and 602 games, and is considered the club's greatest ever stopper alongside the legendary Ramallets
Carles Puyol
Puyol (La Pobla de Segur, Lleida, 1978) has been one of the most important in Barça's history. His determination, strength, heart and love for the club were his defining characteristics and that is what made him a vital figure in the team's defence for so many years
Samuel Eto'o
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Anderson Luis de Souza 'Deco'
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The Brazilian striker (Porto Alegre,1980) joined the Club in 2003 and changed its history forever. In his five seasons at the club he became one its greatest ever footballers and made a decisive contribution to winning two League titles and the Champions League
Patrick Kluivert
The Dutch striker (Amsterdam, Holland, 1976) came thorugh the youth ranks at Ajax before joining Barça in the summer of 1998. As a blaugrana he scored 145 goals in 308 matches, making him one of the top scorers in the Club's history
Vitor Borba Ferreira 'Rivaldo'
Rivaldo (Recife, Brazil, 1972) was signed from Deportivo la Coruña at the start of the 1997-98 season as a direct replacement for his compatriot Ronaldo, who had left for Inter Milan after an exceptional year in Catalonia
Ronaldo Luiz Nazario
Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1976, Ronaldo joined Barça in 1996 from PSV Eindhoven, as an outstandingly promising young striker. He scored 47 goals in 51 matches, many of them unforgettable strikes, in his only season in Barça shirt
Luis Enrique Martínez
The popular 'Lucho' (Gijón, 1970) came to FC Barcelona in the summer of 1996 as a free agent after having played at Real Madrid for five seasons. As versatile a player as there has been, he won the Barça fans over very quickly due to his leaderships skills and his commitment
Sergi Barjuan
Sergi Barjuan (Les Franqueses, Barcelona 1971) was a pacey and strong left back with a penchant for getting forward. He was one of the mainstays of the famous 'Dream Team' and later in his career was one of the captains of the first team
Romario da Souza
Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1966, Romario came to FC Barcelona from PSV Eindhoven in 1993. In just a season and a half at Barça he showed that he truly was a 'comic book player' just as Jorge Valdano had described the Brazilian striker
Hristo Stoichkov
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Josep Guardiola
One of the finest players to come out of the Club's youth ranks, Josep Guardiola (Santpedor, 1971) was a gifted midfielder with an exquisite technique and an ability to read the game, he was the fulcrum of the team with the famous number '4' on his back
Ronald Koeman
'Tintin' Koeman will always get a mention in FC Barcelona history for scoring the goal that handed Barça victory in the 1992 European Cup at Wembley. He scored 102 goals in his six years at Barça, an incredible tally for a defensive player
Aitor Beguiristain 'Txiki'
Aitor Begiristain (Olaberria, Guipúzcoa, 1964), or 'Txiki' as he is known, was another of the key members of the legendary 'Dream Team'. He was a versatile striker who could play behind the striker or out wide in his preferred position on the left wing
Guillermo Amor
Amor (Benidorm, Alicante, 1967) is an important figure in the Club's history after having made 550 appearances in a Barça shirt. A player who is a symbol for the Club's youth set up, his arrival to the first team squad coincided with the explosion of the 'Dream Team'
Michael Laudrup
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José Mari Bakero
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Andoni Zubizarreta
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Enrique Castro, 'Quini'
Quini (Oviedo, 1949-Gijón 2018)) was the epitomy of goalscoring excellence. Known as 'el Brujo', 'Quinocho' and 'Quinigol', he was one of the best known strikers in European football at the time. A real poacher in the area, 'Quini' famously survived a kidnapping during his time at Barça
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José Ramón Alexanko
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Francisco José Carrasco
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Hans Krankl
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Johan Neeskens
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Miguel Bernardo Bianquetti 'Migueli'
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Johan Cruyff (1947 - 2016)
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Joan Manuel Asensi
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Antoni Torres
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Carles Rexach
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Francisco Fernández "Gallego"
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Joaquim Rifé
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Josep Maria Fusté
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Eladio Silvestre
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Julio César Benítez
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Jesús Maria Pereda
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Salvador Sadurní
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Sandor Kocsis
Known as 'Golden Head' due to his amazing abilities in the air, Kocsis (Budapest, Hungary, 1929 – Barcelona, 1979) escaped from Hungary in 1956 following the Soviet intervention in his country, when he was already an established star of his time
Ferran Olivella
Olivella (Barcelona 1936) has been one of the greatest captains in the history of the Club and one of the players who has played the most amount games for Barça (500). He was a talented, consistent defender who read the game excellently
Evaristo de Macedo
Evaristo de Macedo (Río de Janeiro, Brazil, 1933) was one of the best foreign signings Barça ever made, and was an outstanding goalscorer. He had typically Brazilian skills, an ability to shoot with both feet and an undeniable nose for the net
Eulogio Martínez
Eulogio Martínez (Asunción, Paraguay, 1935 – Calella, 1984) was one of the highest Barcelona goalscorers ever, with 168 goals in 225 appearances. He also had the honour of being the first man to score at Camp Nou
1954. Signing Luis Suárez, the Golden Player
Luis Suárez's arrival at Barça meant that one of the best teams in history was made even stronger
Ramón Villaverde
Ramón Villaverde (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1930 - Barcelona, 1986), one of Barça's greatest ever South American imports, came from Millonarios of Bogotá, where he had formed an incredible partnership with Alfredo Di Stéfano.
Sigfrid Gràcia
Gràcia (Gava, 1932 – Barcelona, 2005) came from a barcelonista background, where his style of play was highlighted by the sacrifices he made on pitch. His commitment and his honesty led to him admired by everybody, fans and team mates alike
Ladislao Kubala
A legendary figure at the Club, Kubala (Budapest, Hungary, 1927 – Barcelona 2002) signed for FC Barcelona in June 1950, when he arrived with a team of refugee players from Eastern Europe called Hungaria
Gustau Biosca
Gustavo Biosca (Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, 1928) is one of the best central defenders to play for the Club. He came up through the youth teams and broke into the first team in 1950 and from then on was a fixture in the side
Joan Segarra
Known as "the great captain", Segarra (Barcelona, 1927 - Taradell, 2008) was one of the moast charismatic players in the history of FC Barcelona.
He was a true gentleman on the pitch, and his noble and very proper attitude won him the admiration of respect of the entire footballing world
Antoni Ramallets
Antoni Ramallets (Barcelona, 1924 - Barcelona, 2013) was one of the best goalkeepers in the history of Barça and in Spanish football in general. 'The Maracaná cat' as he was known stood out for his quick reactions and his intelligence between the posts
Estanislau Basora
Basora (Colònia Valls, Barcelona, 1926 - Las Palmas, 2012) was considered one of the best wingers in the history of Spanish football. He was known as the "Monster of Colombes" following his memorable performance in an international friendly between France and Spain
Gonzalvo III
Marià Gonzalvo (Mollet del Vallès, 1922 - Barcelona, 2007), known as Gonzalo III (his other two brothers also played for FC Barcelona), is one of the best players to ever have worn the blaugrana colours. He was a terrific all round footballer during his career
Josep Seguer
Born in Parets del Vallès (Barcelona) in 1923, Josep Seguer spent his entire career at FC Barcelona. He was a very versatile player who was comfortable in any position on the pitch and he became one of the pillars of the 'FIve Cups' side
César Rodríguez
One of Barça's greatest ever players. A natural centre forward and an extraordinary goalscorer, famous for his powerful headers, César (León 1920 –Barcelona 1995) is one of the players who has scored most times for for the Club. In the Spanish League in the 1947-48 season he was top scorer with 27 goals in 24 games
Mariano Martín
Known as the 'fury of the area', Mariano Martín (Dueñas, Palencia, 1919 – Barcelona, 1998) was one of the best strikers ever to grace FC Barcelona, incredibly scoring more than one goal a match. He suffered a serious knee injury in February 1944
Josep Valle
Josep Valle (Oliete, Teruel, 1917 - Barcelona, 2005) was a two-footed winger with outstanding skills, tremendous speed on the break and a thunderbolt of a shot. When his playing career came to an end he went on to become a coach
Francesc Calvet
Francesc Calvet (Sant Joan Despí, Barcelona, 1921 - Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, 2001) was a member of the legendary Five Cup Winners of the 1951/52 season and one of Barça's best ever full backs
Josep Escolà
The gentleman of football, Escolà (Barcelona 1914 – Barcelona 1998), was a striker who was known as "The Professor". His 223 goals in 253 games mean he is one of the Club's top scorers of all time
Martí Ventolrà
Considered one of the best wingers in Barça history, Ventolrà (Barcelona, 1906 – Mexico City, 1977) was one of the biggest stars in the team in the thirties. An explosive player, he was amazingly fast and an expert dribbler.
Ángel Arocha
Ángel Arocha (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1907 – the Ebro front, 1938) is considered one of the leading goal scorers in the Club's history. He scored 215 goals in 207 games for Barça before losing his life fighting for the Francoist forces in the Civil War at the age of 31
Ferenc Platko
Platko (Budapest, Hungary, 1898 – Santiago, Chile, 1983) was signed in 1923 as the replacement for another legendary Barça keeper, Ricardo Zamora. He achieved it thanks to his exceptional quality in between the posts
Vicenç Piera
Known by the nickname of "The Witch", Piera (Barcelona 1903-1960) was born in the Barcelona district Santos and was one of the best right wing players in the history of Spanish football. With his exceptional talent, he was one of the pillars of famous side from the 1920s
Josep Samitier
Considered the most emblematic player in the history of FC Barcelona and the best European forward of his times, Josep Samitier (Barcelona 1902-Barcelona 1972) led the terrific Barça in the golden age of the twenties. As technical secretary years later he was the man who signed Kubala
Agustí Sancho
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Emili Sagi-Barba
Emili Sagi (Bolívar, Argentina, 1900 - Barcelona, 1951) was born in Argentina to Catalan parents is considered one of the finest players of the pre-Civil War era. Sagi was a quick and powerful player who was always capable of the unexpected
Ramon Torralba Larraz
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Carles Comamala
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: The 109th Congress, led by Republican Senators McCain, Warner, and Graham and with the acquiescence of many Democrats, is poised to legalize torture, trials with secret evidence, and annulment of the right of habeas corpus. The measure also protects administration officials from prosecution for war crimes. If this measure becomes law, its name will live in infamy.
Earlier this month The Nation.com exposed this stealth attack that the Bush administration was secretly planning against the rule of law. The reasons we gave to save the War Crimes Act are even more pertinent today.
The US War Crimes Act of 1996 makes it a felony to commit grave violations of the Geneva Conventions. The Washington Post recently reported that the Bush administration is quietly circulating draft legislation to eliminate crucial parts of the War Crimes Act. Observers on The Hill say the Administration plans to slip it through Congress this fall while there still is a guaranteed Republican majority–perhaps as part of the military appropriations bill, the proposals for Guantánamo tribunals or a new catch-all "anti-terrorism" package. Why are they doing it, and how can they be stopped?
American prohibitions on abuse of prisoners go back to the Lieber Code promulgated by Abraham Lincoln in 1863. The first international Geneva Convention dates from the following year.
After World War II, international law protecting prisoners of war and all noncombatants was codified in the Geneva Conventions. They were ratified by the US Senate and, under Article II of the Constitution, they thereby became the law of the land.
Wishing to rebuke the unpunished war crimes of dictators like Saddam Hussein, in 1996 a Republican-dominated Congress passed the War Crimes Act without a dissenting vote. It defined a "war crime" as any "grave breach" of the Geneva Conventions. It thereby advanced a global trend of mutual reinforcement between national and international law.
The War Crimes Act was little noticed until the disclosure of Alberto Gonzales's infamous 2002 "torture memo." Gonzales, then serving as presidential counsel, advised President Bush to declare that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to people the United States captured in Afghanistan. That, Gonzales wrote, "substantially reduced the threat of domestic criminal prosecution under the War Crimes Act."


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If you've just sat down after a day that included taking your very intelligent child to a Kumon math tutoring session, shuttling another to soccer practice and piano lessons, supervising the homework of both to make sure it's perfect, and making a midnight trip to the grocery store to pick up the organic grapes for tomorrow's nutritionally balanced lunches, then Hyper-Parenting: Are You Hurting Your Child by Trying Too Hard? is for you. According to authors Alvin Rosenfeld, M.D., and Nicole Wise, there's a lot of this kind of hyper-parenting going on out there. This parenting style can be loosely defined as one that attempts to control everything in a child's environment with the aim of achieving a perfect outcome. It's not realistic or healthy, say the authors. Chapter by chapter, examining everything from parents' reliance on "expert" opinions to the huge impact of media messages on parent behavior, Rosenfeld and Wise make a compelling argument for their premise. They encourage parents to turn the lens inward and ask themselves what messages they are sending--not with their words, but with their behavior. Hyper-Parenting is a book for parents at every stage in the parenting game. It's never too late, or too early, to try to tune out some of the noisy clamor around us and thoughtfully reflect on our values and what we really want for our children. --Virginia Smyth --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. (Amazon.com review)


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Johnson attended Miami Senior High School, where he graduated in 1999 and was rated as one of the top prospects in the country. As a senior Johnson caught 32 passes for 931 yards and was named a Parade All-American.
Johnson enrolled at University of Miami, where he was a standout wide receiver on the Hurricanes' successful football team. He was MVP of the 2002 Rose Bowl, where quarterback Ken Dorsey connected with Johnson for 2 touchdowns and 199 yards. Johnson finished his University of Miami career catching 92 passes for 1,831 yards (19.9 avg.) and 20 touchdowns. His 1,831 receiving yards is ranked fifth on the University of Miami's all-time career list.


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Pentesting Java/J2EE - Discovering Remote Holes - Marc Schoenefeld
Visualizing Source Code for Auditing - Lisa Thalheim
HITBSecConf2006 - Malaysia - PACK 2
KEYNOTE 2: What application security tools vendors don't want you to know and the holes they will never find - Mark Curphey and John Viega
Scapy and IPV6 Networking - Phil Biondi and Arnaud Ebalard
Finding Secrets in ISAPI - Nish Bhalla
Pentesting Windows Vista BitLocker Drive Encryption from the Inside - Douglas MacIver
HPP - A New Approach to Cybercrime - Raoul Chiesa
The Biggest Brother - Roberto Preatoni and Fabio Ghioni
Towards an Invisible Honeypot Monitoring System - Nguyen Anh Quynh
Hacking a Bird in the Sky - Hijacking VSAT Connections - Jim Geovedi and Raditya Iryandi
Smasing the stack for Profit; period - Rohyt Belani
Using Neural Networks and Statistical Machinery to Improve Remote OS Detection - Javier Burroni and Carlos Sarraute
MOSREF - Using Cryptography and Injectable Virtual Machines in Security - Wes Brown
Hacking Trust - Anthony Zboralski and Dave McKay
Yet Another Web Application Testing Toolkit - Fyodor Yarochkin and Meder Kydyraliev
VoIP Phreaking - SIPhallis Unveiled - The Grugq
Subverting Vista Kernel for Fun and Profit - Joanna Rutkowska
A bonus video of the charity auction is also included on the Day 2 pack! On a related note, the Call for Papers for HITBSecConf2007 - Dubai is now open! See you guys next year!


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Kings Point, NY – The USMMA football team faced something no other team in the history of NCAA Division III had before them; a three-week gap in between regular season games. The Mariners showed little signs of rust early, scoring the game's first 20 points en route to a 26-14 victory over WPI on the road Saturday afternoon. Zachary Boucher (Wyckoff, NJ) rushed for 103 yards and a pair of touchdowns as the Mariners also earned their first Liberty League win of 2013.
Merchant Marine (4-1, 1-1 Liberty) got on the board first with a Boucher two-yard touchdown rumble at the 5:53 mark of the first quarter. The Mariners had faced a second and long at midfield early in the drive but an Engineers' roughing the passer penalty extended the possession. The USMMA defense looked especially fresh, limiting the home team to just one first down in the opening quarter. Michael Biehn (The Woodlands, TX) paced the defense with nine tackles and one sack on the afternoon.
The Mariners extended its advantage just over one minute into the second quarter as Matthew McDaniels (Malverne, NY) found Matthew Berglund (North Kingstown, RI) for a 15-yard touchdown pass. McDaniels, who entered the game as one of the leading rushers in the NCAA, also did plenty of damage with his legs. The sophomore quarterback ran for 137 total yards, including a 78-yard touchdown sprint that made it 20-0 with 11:41 to play in the first half.
WPI (2-5, 1-3 Liberty) would immediately answer McDaniels' score as Zach Grasis returned the ensuing kick-off 49 yards to put the Engineers deep in USMMA territory. It took seven more plays but Grasis eventually found his way into the end zone for a one-yard touchdown run that cut the Mariners edge to 20-7. That would be the score as the two sides headed into the intermission at Alumni Field.
The Engineers forced a Mariners three-and-out on the first possession of the second half and got the ball with good field position on their own 44 yard line. WPI then marched the 56 yards on nine plays in 3:21 to make it a one-score game at 20-14. The touchdown came on another one-yard rush, this time with Jacob Grills burrowing his way over the goal line.
WPI seemed to gain the momentum after another quick stop of the Mariners offense and quickly headed up the field for a potential go-ahead score. However, the USMMA defense came up with the play of the game on fourth-and-one at its own 24 yard line. Patrick Keyes (Parsippany, NJ) came up with a big hit to stop Grasis for no gain and turn the ball over on downs.
Merchant Marine widened the margin with a drive that started with 14:56 remaining in regulation. The Mariners would go on to use 5:54 on 11 plays as Boucher's second touchdown, this time from one-yard out, moved the score to 26-14 after a failed two-point conversion. WPI had one last drive down the stretch but with just under two minutes left was forced to go for a fourth-and-three at the USMMA 15-yard line. This time it was Scott Cokeley (Ukiah, CA) who dropped the ball carrier short of the first-down marker, sealing the Mariners 26-14 triumph.
The Mariners held the Engineers to 0-for-5 on fourth down and just 5-for-18 (28%) on third down. Merchant Marine racked up 298 rushing yards and has won the time of possession battle in every game this season.
The USMMA football team heads to RPI next weekend to make-up a game original scheduled for October 5.


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Below are some solutions for homesickness that are often helpful:
1. Call home. This may sound like common sense, but it can really help. The key factor, however, is not to call home all of the time. Don't call more than once a day, and keep the conversation positive. But if you miss your friends, family, boyfriend, or girlfriend, giving them a call can sometimes help ease the heartache.
2. Go visit home -- once. Visiting home can be a great way to recharge yourself and get some of that TLC (not to mention home cooking) that you need. But going home too often can frequently make homesickness worse. Let yourself go home when you need it, but make sure it doesn't turn into an every-weekend occurrence.
3. Go out with your college friends. Sometimes, a night out with your college friends can do wonders for homesickness. It can take your mind off of things back home, can help you relax and have a good time, and can reinforce relationships that will make OC feel like home sometime soon.
4. Call a friend from back home. Chances are that your group of friends spread out as each of you went to different colleges. And chances are that your group of friends is missing each other. Give a friend from home a call and catch up for a little while. It may do wonders for your homesickness to just touch base for a quick phone call.
5. Get out of your room. It's incredibly easy to hide in your room in college. But doing so prevents you from meeting new people, trying new things, and experiencing college life in general. You didn't go to school to hide in your room, right? Make sure to spend large chunks of your time out of your room -- even if it's just at the student center, the caf, or the library -- and get your mind on other things. You never know what might happen, but you do know that it won't happen if you're alone in your room all the time.
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Calling all creative, talented and enthusiastic Madisonians! Come together to unleash and show off our community's potential by cooperatively creating real products in less than 24 hours. Connect with people to make your idea a reality or utilize your skill set and experience to help bring other exciting ideas to life- all while meeting cool people and generally having a blast.
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Cool down on the way.
Cool down on the way.
Today is the beginning of a cool down with afternoon highs reaching the mid to upper 80s. Highs will continue to drop to the 70s and lower 80s early this week all due to the placement of our jet stream.
The ridge of high pressure that has been settled over us has migrated to the west pushing the extreme heat out of our area. Now we are under an upper level area of low pressure that's allowing cool and dry air to filter in the region.
A weak disturbance will drop south tomorrow giving us a chance for a few isolated showers. We will stay cooler and dry for the early part of next week, with a chance for a few isolated showers on the 4th of July.


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When the three brothers went to Hong Kong, they sought instruction in the White Crane style of martial arts under Master Kwong Bên-fu. In addition they sought out the great exponent of the Lion Dance in Hong Kong, the White Crane style Master. Not only are they martial arts masters but also bone-fide masters in the Lion Dance.


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Martin D. Weiss Ph.D. – Money and Markets October 9, 2011
As soon as we see the likelihood of major bankruptcies and defaults, we don't wait around. We warn you immediately.
We know you need time to get your money out of danger. And we also know that financial disasters don't obey any particular clock.
They can strike suddenly — especially in the stock and bond markets, where investors often start selling in anticipation of the troubles to come.
That's why we specifically warned our readers about …
• The failure of Bear Stearns 102 days ahead of time (Money and Markets of December 3, 2007) …
• The failure of Lehman Brothers 182 days ahead of time (Money and Markets of December 3, 2007 and March 17, 2008) …
• The near-failure of Citigroup 110 days before (Money and Markets of August 11, 2008) …
• The failure of Washington Mutual 51 days before (Money and Markets of August 11, 2008), with advance warnings also issued many months earlier (Safe Money Report of March 2007 and June 2008) …
• The demise of Fannie Mae four years before it collapsed (Money and Markets of September 24, 2004), plus …
• The failure of nearly every bank and insurance company that has occurred since Weiss Ratings began rating them decades ago.
Now, the time has come to issue new advance warnings — some of the most important in the 40-year history of my company.
My new warnings are mostly focused on Europe. But as I'll explain below, they're bound to have a life-changing impact on nearly all investors in the U.S. and around the globe.
Warning #1
Greece will default very soon.
Banks and other investors who hold Greek notes and bonds have already seen massive losses in their market value — over 50% on 2-year notes and even more on other issues.
Until now, European authorities have turned a blind eye as their largest banks continued to carry these toxic assets on their books at full value — as if they were the best, most pristine assets in the world … as if the sovereign debt crisis never happened!
But now, European authorities are finally conceding that the banks must "partake in any solution of the crisis."
In other words, the banks must bite the bullet and take some big hits in their Greek loans. They must officially recognize at least some portion of their losses.
Conclusion: Whether the banks accept this "solution" voluntarily or not, it will mean Greece is in DEFAULT!
Warning #2
The contagion of fear will spread.
Anyone who thinks global investors will turn a blind eye to the Greek default is in for a big shock.
Greece is not a small, third-world country. It's a member of the European Union and part of the euro zone. It has over 328 billion euros in debt, more than Ireland and Portugal combined.
Moreover, Greece is not alone, and investors know it. Investors will automatically assume — with good reason — that if one major Western government can default, so can others. And with that assumption, they will refuse to lend any more money to highly indebted governments. Or they will demand outrageously high yields.
Warning #3
European megabanks will collapse.
Some of Europe's largest banks will collapse under the weight of defaulting sovereign debts and in the wake of mass withdrawals.
Spain's banks are especially vulnerable, swimming in a cesspool of bad mortgages left behind from that country's giant housing bubble and bust.
In fact, this year, the European Banking Authority ran stress tests on the largest banks in Europe; and among the eight banks that failed the test, five were Spanish. Their names:
- Caixa Catalunya
- Unnim
- Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo
- Grupo Caja 3
- Banco Pastor
Major French banks are bigger and in no less trouble. They barely passed the stress tests. And that was DESPITE the fact that they were allowed to cheat — not booking a penny of their losses on loans to Greece, Portugal or Ireland. According to Bankers Almanac, on a consolidated basis …
• BNP Paribas has $2.7 trillion in assets, making it the largest in the world …
• Crédit Agricole has $2.1 trillion and is the world's fourth-largest bank, and …
• Société Générale has $1.5 trillion.
The total assets of these three French banks alone are greater than the total assets of the banking units of JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup.
All three are drowning in bad loans to PIIGS countries. All three are in danger, in my view.
But there's an even more imminent threat: mass withdrawals!
You see, banks in the euro zone get less than 35% of their funds from deposits, according to Bloomberg data. Instead, they rely far more heavily on what's called "wholesale funding" — money borrowed from other banks and institutions.
In other words, they're hooked on HOT MONEY!
That's the kind of money that is quickly withdrawn at the first sign of trouble. And that's also the same kind of money that caused mass bank runs in the U.S. three years ago — runs that doomed big U.S. banks like Washington Mutual, while nearly sinking giants like Citigroup and Bank of America.
Big European banks are especially vulnerable because they rely on hot money far more than U.S. banks. And many appear to be suffering big runs at this very moment.
This is why the European Central Bank rushed to the rescue last week with 40 billion euros in emergency loans for banks suffering withdrawals. But 40 billion is a drop in the bucket, barely covering ONE CENT for each dollar of PIIGS' debts outstanding.
In the weeks ahead, will governments stand idly by while their biggest banks collapse? Initially, no, which leads me to …
Warning #4
European governments will suffer a
cascade of new credit rating downgrades.
The richest governments of the European Union — France and Germany — will scramble to rescue their failing banks, and so, global markets may breathe a temporary sigh of relief.
But recent history proves that the entire concept of bank bailouts is seriously flawed because of the following, now-obvious sequence of events:
• In their zeal to save the banks and the economy, the governments gut their own fiscal balance.
• They suffer big downgrades, losing their stellar credit ratings.
• And as soon as they have to borrow more money, they must pay through the nose with far higher interest rates.
In other words, in their zeal to lift banks up from the brink of failure, the governments themselves are dragged down into the abyss.
Case in point: Last week, we learned that Dexia, a Franco-Belgian megabank, is in distress. It's smaller than the giant French banks in trouble. But its assets are still 1.5 times the size of Belgium's ENTIRE economy!
What happens if the government of Belgium tries to help rescue the bank? It will surely lose its still-good credit rating.
Indeed, late Friday, Moody's announced it's ALREADY putting Belgium on review for a downgrade just based on the POSSIBLITY it may have to bail out banks like Dexia.
Moody's specifically states that a key reason Belgium is on the ratings' chopping block is "the impact on the already pressured balanced sheet of the government of additional bank support measures which are likely to be needed."
And the prospect of big bank bailouts is also a key reason other major PIIGS countries have suffered massive downgrades in recent days. (More on this in a moment.)
Warning #5
Spain and Italy will be next to face
default on their massive debts.
Spain and Italy have nearly $3.4 trillion in debt, or about 10 times more than Greece.
But with their borrowing costs surging and their big banks failing, they will be unable to borrow enough new money to pay off old debts coming due.
Result: Spain and Italy will also risk default.
Warning #6
Global debt markets will
suffer a critical meltdown.
In anticipation of a default by a country as large as Spain or Italy, nearly all debt markets in the world will freeze, as investors withdraw in panic.
This panic will not only crush the borrowing power of the PIIGS countries, hastening their default … but it will also threaten to melt down the bond markets of countries like France, Germany, Japan, the U.K. and the U.S. That could mean sharply higher interest rates and, ultimately, the inability to borrow at almost any cost.
Warning #7
The vicious cycle of sovereign debt defaults and
bank failures will lead to a global depression.
Sovereign debt defaults will trigger more bank failures. More bank failures, in turn, will precipitate more sovereign debt defaults.
This vicious cycle will cut off the flow of credit to businesses and households, sink the global economy into a depression, and perpetuate the vicious cycle.
Ultimately, we will see an extended period of great economic hardship for billions of people on every continent.
If so, I don't blame you, and I assume you have your reasons. Yet there are far stronger reasons to be skeptical of all those who believe we can easily avoid disaster …


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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The police chief of the violent Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo is missing, authorities said Monday.
Tamaulipas state prosecutors said they have opened an investigation into the whereabouts of Roberto Balmori Garza, police chief of the city across the border from Laredo, Texas.
Tamaulipas prosecutors said in a brief statement that state officials in Nuevo Laredo will be in charge of the investigation.
Local media reported that two of Balmori Garza's brothers were found shot dead Sunday inside the trunk of a car in the neighboring state of Nuevo Leon. One of his brothers was a federal investigator, media reported.
Tamaulipas prosecutors' spokesman Ruben Dario said Balmori Garza disappeared over the weekend. He said he couldn't give any other information on the case or confirm the media reports of the death of Balmori Garza's brothers.
Nuevo Laredo, a stronghold of the Zetas drug cartel, has been the scene of bloody drug-gang turf battles since the beginning of the year.
Two years ago, gunmen killed a retired army general who had been police chief of Nuevo Laredo for a month. Two of his bodyguards also were slain and two suffered wounds.
The Zetas, known for its viciousness, has been fighting its former ally, the Gulf cartel, in Mexico's northeast since early 2010.


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Two letters appeared side by side on Nov. 11. One was a plea to save a wonderful old building, Molly Stark Hospital ("Saving Molly Stark: Network and get community involved"), the other about replacing a decrepit old school building ("Thanks, voters, for giving children of Canton Local a brighter future"). The contrast in opinions regarding two similarly-aged buildings was striking.
On one hand, we have a building far too dangerous to human health to even enter without extensive protective clothing due to asbestos. We'd have to spend $10 million to bring it up to code before the real preservation work could begin. But the Molly Stark Hospital is a building worth saving?
On the other hand, we have a building that is still in daily use and, with proper maintenance and periodic upgrades, could have easily continued as a useful school. But this building is 80 years old with wiring, etc., that is inadequate for current technology. So, they decide to tear it down and replace it with a $30 million-plus facility.
The high school I attended, St. Ignatius in Cleveland, was built in 1886 and is still in use. No one is calling for its replacement.
I'm no architect, but I'm pretty sure that when it was built 127 years ago, the builders didn't provide adequate wiring and facilities for today's technology. But somehow, this building was upgraded and cared for over the decades to assure its use into the future.
If they can do it, why can't Canton Local?
Perhaps the stewards of the Canton Local Schools, and other school systems demanding new facilities, should be held accountable for failing to proactively maintain and incrementally upgrade their facilities on a timely basis. Rewarding their lack of stewardship would seem a bad precedent.


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