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Since I keep forgetting how to prepare my binaries from the CLI, I thought it would be better if I wrote it online for future reference. Perhaps someone will find it useful as well.
This howto I will show how you can split archives into bits and make parity files from the CLI.
You will need non-free software to do the following steps.
First we need necessary software, namely rar to archive and split the binaries, and then par2 for error correction during download.
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# apt-get install rar par2
Let is assume I have the file debian-8.6.0-i386-netinst.iso inside my home directory, with the path /home/hallvor/debian-8.6.0-i386-netinst.iso
I then issue the following command:
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$ rar a debian-8.6.0-i386-netinst.rar -v50m -m0 debian-8.6.0-i386-netinst *
This command will start rar and create several archives, starting with a file called debian-8.6.0-i386-netinst.rar. -50m means that rar will split the archives into file sizes of 50 megabytes. -m0 means no compression, 3 is default and 5 is best. The iso will be stored inside a folder named debian-8.6.0-i386-netinst when it is extracted, and the * means all files in the directory will be appended. The advantage of creating a folder for the extracted file is especially apparent for a multi-file archive, where files otherwise could be accidentally mixed with others.
Parity files will make your Usenet client able to repair downloads with errors.
You can now remove the .iso from the directory.
Issue the following command to create parity files:
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$ par2create "debian-8.6.0-i386-netinst" -r20 -n10 *.rar
-r20 means it will create parity files of 20% redundancy, and -n10 means 10 files.
The parity files can be verified with
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$ par2verify *.par2
The files are now ready to be uploaded.
Uploading files
There are not many options available for uploading files if you want to use open source software on GNU/Linux. One of the most popular ones with a GUI is JBinUp. It works well, uses Java, but is closed source. Other options are newspost, bur unfortunately it hasn't been under active development since more than a decade. Then there is sanguinews - a very good CLI usenet uploader for GNU/Linux.
Sanguinews is not in the official repositories, so we need build-essential and ruby-dev to install it.
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# apt-get install build-essential ruby-dev
You can now install sanguinews as a gem
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# gem install sanguinews
Now we need to put a config file called .sanguinews in your /home directory (as regular user)
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$ nano ~/.sanguinews.conf
Paste this content into the file
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# Sample config file
# Groups to post to
# Separate multiple groups with comma
groups = alt.binaries.test
# Your identity
from = witty_nickname <firstname.lastname@example.com>
# Username to use for authentication
username = your_username
# Password
password = your_password
# server to use
server = your_server
# Use SSL connection?
ssl = yes
# port
port = 563
# number of connections
connections = 10
# article size in bytes
article_size = 768000
# Wait this many seconds before trying to reconnect after unsuccessful upload
reconnect_delay = 5
# Subject prefix to use
prefix = "[sanguinews] - "
# Enable nzb creation
nzb = yes
# Use header checking? Upload will be slow but reliable.
header_check = no
# Debug information
debug = no
# headers
# X-No-Archive
xna = no
You need to at least edit the following parts: groups (to post to), username, password and server.
After you have finished editing everything, press Ctrl + X, and then Y to save the changes.
You can find different options for sanguinews by typing sanguinews --help
hallvor@debian-hp:~$ sanguinews --help
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sanguinews v0.80.1. Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Tadeus Dobrovolskij.
Comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. Distributed under GPL v2 license(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt).
sanguinews is a simple nntp(usenet) binary poster. It supports multithreading and SSL. More info in README.
Usage: sanguinews [OPTIONS] [DIRECTORY] | -f FILE1..[FILEX]
-c, --config CONFIG use different config file
-C, --check check headers while uploading; slow but reliable
-f, --file FILE upload FILE, treat all additional parameters as files
-g, --groups GROUP_LIST use these groups(comma separated) for upload
-h, --help help
-p, --password PASSWORD use PASSWORD as your password(overwrites config file)
-r, --recursive process all files under each directory recursively
-u, --user USERNAME use USERNAME as your username(overwrites config file)
-v, --verbose be verbose?
-V, --version print version information and then exit
Let's upload something and assume that I put all the files above in ~/upload
The files can then be uploaded with
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$ sanguinews -v /home/hallvor/upload/


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In the health club business, many of us pride ourselves on our service and hospitality. And we are much better at customer service today than we were yesterday, but not nearly as good as we want to be and need to be tomorrow. We work hard to hire right, treat staff right, treat customers right and constantly improve.
These efforts seem to be rewarded. As I write this, the industry's average annualized attrition rate is 25.44 percent, and its trailing 12-month employee turnover is 18 percent. Not bad, but I keep asking myself: Why aren't these numbers lower?
Let's not kid ourselves about retention. Retention can initially improve through tactics such as locking members into long-term contracts and making cancellation painful. But the use of these tactics won't go unpunished. At some point, your customers will break free and run like hostages. Once exploited, people rebel. Sometimes it's mild rebellion, other times it's loud and nasty.
Retention is the lagging indicator of customer loyalty. It is a result of the love your customers have for your business. Stop seeking retention and start seeking loyalty.
What if you measured attrition based on when customers' hearts left your club, not when their bodies and wallets left your club? What if you measured how many current and former members still love your business? In other words, of the people still paying dues, how many do so but don't really love your business? Of the people who cancelled, how many did so but still love your business? If the answer to the former is "zero" and the answer to the latter is "all," you have the highest loyalty possible.
Retention is thought of as people still paying their dues. When they stop paying, they move to the attrition side of the ledger. But if you could measure the investment of their hearts instead of their money, how many members and former members would be on the "loves us" side of the ledger, and how many on the "doesn't love us" side? Your retention/attrition metric and profit and loss ledger are likely not reporting this.
Imagine that long-term value was your only objective. Consider if the only metric you were going to use to determine long-term value was customer loyalty. Where would you start? How would you determine if things you were doing were detrimental to your loyalty objective?
Here's a simple filter to determine if your operation is creating even minor feelings of exploitation with your customers. Restaurateur Danny Meyer, in his book "Setting the Table," writes, "Hospitality is what happens for you, not to you." If your focus is on service and hospitality, look at every process and interaction through this lens. Start with how you answer the phone, transfer a call, check someone in, sell a membership, sell personal training, set appointments, sell merchandise, allow for a guest, cancel a membership and handle complaints. Dig into each of these and see if it is happening to or for your customers. During the cancellation process, are you turning a customer who loved your business into a former customer who now despises your business?
Let's suppose you've looked at every process and are mortified to discover that almost all of these things, by design, are happening to the customer. How do you turn your ship around? Not by commanding your staff to be hospitable. Not by stating a new direction and mandating that everyone attend customer service training.
You start by looking at how you manage and lead your employees. Are their jobs happening to or for them? Are you outwardly hospitable with an inwardly hostile culture? Hospitality and service work when they are an embedded part of your culture. You can't ask people who do not feel that they are treated well to treat others well. As always, everything begins with you.
If long-term value is the wish of the owner/investor, you have one path to follow: Only the right culture can create happy and loyal employees. Only happy and loyal employees can create customer loyalty. Only customer loyalty can create long-term value. Only long-term value will create a happy owner/investor.
Blair McHaney is CEO of Confluence Fitness Partners Inc., which does business as Gold's Gym of the Wenatchee Valley in Wenatchee, WA. He also previously served as president of the Gold's Gym Franchisee Association.

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Software Quality Metrics
Pattern Metrics in OOAD
Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) has at last come of age; it is the preferred software development technology today. Sophisticated online transaction-oriented applications and systems in aerospace and medical technology have been using C++ for years. The emergence of Java as the preferred language for Internet application development has established OOAD and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) as major players. Many college and university computer science programs are Java-based nowadays, and many application groups are busy converting COBOL and PL/1 applications to Java. The use of OOAD both in the development of new systems and in their conversion from legacy procedural language implementations favors the discovery and use of design patterns. A design pattern is a microarchitecture that provides a proven solution to design problems that tend to recur within a given application or software development context. A design pattern includes its static structure as the hierarchy of classes and objects in the pattern and their relationships. It also includes the behaviors (to use the Java term) or dynamic relationships that govern how the objects exchange messages. Design patterns are classified by their users into three groups; they are either creational, structural, or behavioral. Creational patterns concern object creation. Structural patterns capture class or object composition. Behavioral patterns deal with how classes and objects interact. Most patterns are discovered in existing software packages when they are either modified or rewritten by very senior programmers or software architects who notice their repetitive occurrences. A research group at the Institute for Scientific and Technical Research in Trento, Italy has developed a set of metrics for OO software applications that allow them to extract design patterns automatically.21
Ostensibly the major benefit of understanding and using repeating design patterns in OOP is to enhance code reusability. However, software quality enhancement has significant benefits as well. Not only do patterns reduce the unique SLOC in an application, they also reduce its effective volume, increase development productivity, and simplify later enhancement and maintenance. The technology frontier in software development today is learning how to break high-level architectural design into its architectural components. This is similar to how a building architect breaks his or her overall design into horizontal microarchitectures such as stories and plazas and into vertical micro-architectures or infrastructure components such as HVAC, plumbing, power, elevators, and stairways.
The future of software quality is further automation by automatic program generation. This means the ability to break the overall customer-responsive architecture (form follows function) into successively lower levels of architecture, down to micro-architectures such as design patterns from which quality application software can be generated automatically.
Key Points
- Historically software quality metrics have measured exactly the opposite of quality—that is, the number of defects or bugs per thousand lines of code.
- Software is a multidimensional concept that can be viewed from many professional and user viewpoints.
- Two leading firms in customer-focused software quality are IBM and Hewlett-Packard.
- IBM has a proprietary measure set, whereas HP uses five Juran quality parameters.
- The Naval Air Systems Command coined the term Total Quality Management (TQM) in 1985 to describe its own quality improvement program. It soon spread worldwide.
- The four essential characteristics of a TQM program in any field are customer focus, process improvement, quality culture, and measurement and analysis.
- TQM made an enormous contribution to the quality of enterprise software in the early 1990s, just in time for the Y2K transition.
- Until recently, most software quality metrics were of an in-process nature; metrics to support DFTS must be applied upstream in the development process.
- Small programs (less than 100 LOC) exhibit 1.5 defects per KLOC. Large programs (more than 1,000 LOC) exhibit 1.5 defects per KLOC. Medium-sized programs often have only 0.5 defects per KLOC.
- Sophisticated software tools for measuring software quality, such as PAMPA, are beginning to appear.
- OOP goals in software reusability tend to enhance software quality as well.
Additional Resources
- M. Shaw and D. Garlan, Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline (New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1996), p. 1.
- P. B. Crosby, Quality Is Free: The Art of Making Quality Certain (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979).
- J. M. Juran and F. M. Gryna, Jr., Quality Planning and Analysis: From Product Development Through Use (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970).
- S. H. Kan, Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering (Singapore: Pearson Education, 2003), p. 7.
- P. C. Patton and L. May, "Making Connections: A five-year plan for information systems and computing," ISC, University of Pennsylvania, 1993.
- IEEE, Standard for a Software Quality Metrics Methodology (New York: IEEE, Inc., 1993).
- Ibid, p. 10.
- Op cit Kan, p. 312.
- Op cit Kan, p. 327.
- S. D. Conte, H. E. Dunsmore, V. Y. Shen, Software Engineering Metrics and Models (Menlo Park, CA: Benjamin/Cummings, 1986).
- IFPUG, International Function Point User's Group Standard (IFPUG, 1999).
- D. B. Simmons, N. C. Ellis, H. Fujihara, W. Kuo, Software Measurement: A Visualization Toolkit for Project Control and Process Measurement (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1998).
- Op cit Kan, p. 55.
- Op cit Simmons, et al., p. 250.
- Ibid, p. 257.
- D. Garlan, R. Allen, J. Ockerbloom, "Architectural mismatch: why reuse is so hard," IEEE Software, Nov. 1995, pp. 17.26 (p. 20).
- D. Garlan and D. Perry, "Introduction to the special issue on software architecture," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, April 1995, pp. 269.274 (p. 269).
- Op cit Shaw and Garlan, p. 1.
- G. Avritzer and E. J. Weyuker, "Investigating Metrics for Architectural Assessment," Proceedings of the Fifth International Software Metrics Symposium, pp. 2.10.
- Ibid, p. 8.
- G. Antoniol, R. Fiutem, L. Cristoforetti, "Using Metrics to Identify Design Patterns in Object-Oriented Software," Proceedings of the Fifth International Software Metrics Symposium, pp. 23.34.
About the Authors
Bijay Jayaswal is the CEO of Agilenty Consulting Group, LLC. He has held senior executive positions and has consulted in quality and strategy for the last 20 years and has helped introduce corporate-wide initiatives in reengineering, Six Sigma, and Design for Six Sigma and has worked with senior executive teams for effective implementation of such initiatives.
Peter Patton has been a leader of large development projects and is the author of seventeen books, book chapters, and monographs on computer hardware and software architecture. Both authors have done extensive writing and college teaching, as well as consulting to software development groups.
About the Source of the MaterialDesign for Trustworthy Software: Tools, Techniques, and Methodology of Developing Robust Software
By Bijay Jayaswal, Peter Patton
Published: Aug 31, 2006, Hardcover: 840 pages
Copyright 2007 Pearson Education, Inc.
Retail price: $64.99
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EXFO Inks Global Partnership with Artiza Networks to Offer Wrap-Around Testing of LTE eNodeBs Français
Oct 04, 2012, 08:52 ET
Addition of the DuoSIM LTE Tester extends EXFO's end-to-end network simulation solution portfolio
QUEBEC CITY, Oct. 4, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - EXFO Inc. (NASDAQ: EXFO) (TSX: EXF) announced today a global commercial and technology partnership with Artiza Networks (Japan) to jointly provide the most complete and advanced line of wireless network simulators, from RF and functional testing to very-large-scale EPC traffic generation.
A market leader in LTE radio access network (RAN) testing, Artiza Networks has developed highly advanced eNodeB testing capabilities which, combined with EXFO's existing QualityAssurer test platforms for IMS, LTE and EPC core, creates a complete solution for end-to-end load testing. The DuoSIM LTE test platforms, which deliver wrap-around testing of the LTE eNodeB, enable high-capacity simulation of up to six sectors and 1000 user equipment units (UEs) per sector, for a total of 6000 UEs, towards the eNodeB. This leading LTE RAN testing solution is also ready for the LTE Advanced standard.
Thanks to this partnership, EXFO now offers an LTE eNodeB wrap-around testing solution that provides the industry's highest C-plane burst generation capacity with up to 500 calls and 300 pages per second, enabling first-class stress testing and leading to a more robust live network. In addition, the solution's unique ability to select the RF range using software means that no additional hardware is required for a different RF range. EXFO therefore becomes a one-stop shop for true end-to-end LTE network simulation, thanks to a wider, more comprehensive solution portfolio.
"I am delighted to announce Artiza as our global commercial and technology partner for offering the world's highest capacity LTE UE simulators—a sector that is mission-critical in radio access network design and optimization," said Germain Lamonde, President and CEO of EXFO. "Combined with our entire line of high-capacity EPC, VoIP, IMS and 3G core simulators, Artiza's products vastly expand the scope of our solutions for leading wireless network equipment manufacturers and mobile operator labs."
"This agreement with EXFO opens the global market for Artiza and builds upon the tremendous success we have enjoyed so far in the Japanese market in massive 3G and LTE UE simulation," said Takashi Tokonami, President and CEO of Artiza Networks. "Global wireless equipment makers and mobile operators will now be well supported with the highest capacity test solutions available today."
The joint EXFO-Artiza solution will be showcased at the upcoming 4G World event in Chicago (USA), from October 29 to November 1, 2012.
About EXFO
Listed on the NASDAQ and TSX stock exchanges, EXFO is among the leading providers of next-generation test and service assurance solutions for wireline and wireless network operators and equipment manufacturers in the global telecommunications industry. The company offers innovative solutions for the development, installation, management and maintenance of converged, IP fixed and mobile networks—from the core to the edge. Key technologies supported include 3G, 4G/LTE, IMS, Ethernet, OTN, FTTx, VDSL2, ADSL2+ and various optical technologies (accounting for an estimated 35% of the portable fiber-optic test market). EXFO has a staff of approximately 1700 people in 25 countries, supporting more than 2000 telecom customers worldwide. For more information, visit www.EXFO.com.
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If all goes as planned, Scotland will be the first part of the UK to legalize same-sex marriage, even though surveys show that the majority of Scots disapprove of the decision.
"We are committed to a Scotland that is fair and equal and that is why we intend to proceed with plans to allow same-sex marriage and religious ceremonies for civil partnerships," says the deputy first minister, Nicola Sturgeon. "We believe that this is the right thing to do."
Wow. Can you imagine any major U.S. politician saying anything like that?
The government said religious groups won't be forced to officiate gay marriages if they don't want to, and that the first marriages will likely take place in 2015.
Scotland to Legalize Gay Marriage [Newser]
Image via PerseoMedusa Shutterstock.


text: First and foremost, great call today swellinfo. I took a half day at work and it was well worth it, with overhead sets and hollow barrells. It really felt like a lot of energy and I'm wondering if there's any chance you think a DP would pay off tommorrow. I know its forecasted small, but waist high n clean is enough to get me up at sunrise... whatya think?


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MLC School
Wx12415, 5/400049: the identification numbers assigned to my grandfather throughout his service in both World War 2 and the Korean War. This work stands as a tribute to my grandfather's inspiring efforts to overcome the traumatic memories, which so vividly intruded upon his everyday. My work attests to the human ability to cope through identification with a referential image of beauty, such as that of the orchid.
Saggus's body of work explores a personal journey and memory. How are memories significant in understanding historical events? In what way has this artwork captured the essence of this particular memory? How does the work differ from a written document?
From the inside #1 2008 is part of a series of photographs by Maria Elvira Escallón that depicts the aftermath of a terrorist attack on a club in Bogotá, Colombia on 7 February 2003. What we see are traces left by people fleeing the building. View all the photographs in the series. Do you think the images convey the emotions of the people involved? How do the images affect you?


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Police officer convicted of dangerous driving which left cycling musician seriously injured
Police officer convicted of dangerous driving which left cycling musician seriously injured
Before the trial, British Transport Police officer David Lynch (31) had pleaded guilty to careless driving but denied the more serious offence of dangerous driving.
PC Lynch and a colleague, PC Gary Thomas, were responding to an emergency call and were using their siren and blue lights. At the trial, the prosecution testified that Lynch had driven over a hump-backed bridge on Queensbridge Road, Hackney, at around 68mph miles an hour, on a road with a 30mph speed limit. Evidence from an eyewitness described seeing Lynch's police car take off, with all 4 wheels leaving the road surface (the police investigator also said that marks on the road supported this). The car then hit cyclist Joseph Delmonte, throwing him onto the bonnet of the car and then crashing into a tree. His passenger Gary Thomas also testified that he believed Lynch was driving too fast for the circumstances. The incident had prompted an Independent Police Complaints Commission investigation into the case.
During the trial at Southwark Crown Court, Delmonte was described as a singer-songwriter who was about to launch his first album when he was injured. Judge Pegden said the accident had ruined the career of the artist, who was still in constant pain following the incident 17 months ago. He has needed major surgery to correct three breaks to his spine as well as facial surgery which could have affected his singing ability.
He has also been left with a brain injury that leaves him "fumbling for words" and unable to remember lyrics to his own songs.
Prosecutor Sam Brown told the court that Mr Belmonte, known to his friends as "Pepe", had had to relearn how to walk and how to play the guitar.
A statement he read out on behalf of Mr Belmonte said: "I can't really explain the effect it has had on my life. I am very depressed at the reality that I will never be the same person again. I miss my life as it was before."
Lynch will be sentenced on October 8th, but has been told to expect a custodial term.
Roger Geffen, CTC's Campaigns & Policy Director, said:
"Our thoughts are very much with Pepe Delmonte and his family.
"It is at least reassuring that the Crown Prosecution Service pursued a 'dangerous' driving conviction, rather than accepting the lesser offence of 'careless' driving, as so often happens in other cases. The pressure on them to do so in the case of a police officer must have been particularly strong.
"However it is a shame that PC Lynch felt unwilling to acknowledge that driving at high speed over a hump-backed bridge on a residential street, even on an emergency call, was bound to cause danger that would be obvious to a competent driver, and that 'dangerous' driving was therefore the correct charge in this case.
"Delmonte's survival means that any custodial sentence will inevitably be relatively short - and, given that Lynch was responding to an emergency call, we have no wish to dispute this in the circumstances. However, drivers who do not recognise their responsibilities for other people's safety are a threat to society. In the interests of both justice and public protection, we therefore believe PC Lynch should face a substantial driving ban before he is let loose on the roads again."


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CRASHDÏET Completes Recording New Album
Swedish glam rockers CRASHDÏET have completed recording their new album at Kingside Studios outside Stockholm with producer Otto Wellton. The CD, which has not yet been mixed, is tentatively scheduled for release in January 2013.
A snippet of the demo version of the new CRASHDÏET track "Change The World" can be streamed in the YouTube clip below. The clip was filmed in New York City.
The new CRASHDÏET CD can be preordered at this location.
CRASHDÏET has been touring quite a bit in the last two and a half years, opening up for such bands as MÖTLEY CRÜE, OZZY OSBOURNE, MICHAEL MONROE and WEDNESDAY 13, and traveling everywhere from Australia to USA to Brazil.
CRASHDÏET performed a new song "Anarchy" for the first time on June 7 when they played at Kaisaniemi Park in Helsinki, Finland as the support act for MÖTLEY CRÜE.
The band's third CD, "Generation Wild", was recently released on vinyl. This gatefold LP features the new bonus track "Hollywood Teaze" as well as updated artwork.
"Generation Wild" entered the official chart in Sweden at position No. 3.
CRASHDÏET in 2009 announced the addition of Simon "Simme" Cruz from the Stockholm act JAILBAIT as the group's new lead singer.
The band parted ways with its previous vocalist, the Finland-based H. Olliver Twisted, in July 2008.
New song "Change The World" (demo version):
New song "Anarchy" performed live in Hollywood, California (August 2012):


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My Baking Diary - Moist Chocolate Cake with White Choc Topping
>> Friday, March 30, 2012
This is my 1st time baking an actual-sized cake! Since I've done cupcakes numerous times, I thought it'll be good to try out my hands on an actual-sized cake for Gloria's popo's birthday. I've been staying in the same house with her since the beginning of last year. It would be lovely if I can actually bake her a cake for her birthday!
I was quite worried when the batter looked more "watery"/liquid-ish than my usual cupcake ones, but I just went ahead to bake the cake anyhow. It turned out superb in texture & taste! Pretty much just the way I wanted! Hurray!
So for the icing & topping, white chocolate shavings came to mind since I had a block of white chocolate. I had to have some "cream" to get the white chocolate shavings to stick, so I did up a simple buttercream just to be the "sticking agent" for the white chocolate. I actually used the "fruit peeler" to shave my white chocolate :D I'm gonna finish the cake's deco with strawberries right before serving to preserve freshness of the fruit :D I'm PLEASED!
My initial plan was to have the cake looking just like those from the shops where there's cream in between (I've to cut the cake into half & put it back together). I also wanted to coat the sides of the cake with cream & cover it with toasted nuts at the bottom & the white chocolate shavings at the upper end of the sides.
I couldn't get my "vision" accomplished this time :( I didn't have proper tools & utensils to get it done. No cake box. No cake tray to place the cake just like in cake shops. I just didn't plan to bake actually, thus I didn't buy.
Oh well, home-baked looking cake, straight from the heart :) *love*
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An autumn afternoon becomes a whole new ball game when paired with this set of wooden yard dice and a little friendly competition. Made from solid wood and branded by hand, this set comes in a handy jute tote for carrying to-and-from backyard festivities for years to come.
- Set includes six solid white pine dice and jute drawstring carry bag
- Instructions for 10 dice games included
- Handmade in Minnesota, USA
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Madonna Kisses Anderson Cooper at the GLAAD Awards
Think Britney Spears is jealous?
Madonna and Anderson Cooper embraced in a a big smooch as she presented the CNN newsman and talk show host with an honor at the New York edition of the GLAAD Media Awards at the Marriott Marquis. Cooper was the recipient of this year's Vito Russo Award, which goes to an openly gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender media professional who has made a significant difference in promoting equality.
Cooper spoke publicly about his sexuality for the first time last year with an email to journalist Andrew Sullivan. "The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud," he wrote.
[Related: Stars Go Glam at the GLAAD Media Awards]
The Material Girl, who memorably kissed Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera during a performance at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, also left people buzzing about her outfit. She was decked out in a full Boy Scout's uniform — her version of it anyway, featuring special touches like fingerless gloves and a cowboy hat — to protest the organization's ban on gay scouts and scout leaders.
"I wanted to be a Boy Scout, but they wouldn't let me join," she told the crowd. "I think that's [messed] up. I can build a fire. I know how to pitch a tent. I have a very good sense of direction. I can rescue kittens from trees. Listen, I wanna do for the community."
During his acceptance speech, Cooper thanked his boyfriend since 2009, Benjamin Maisani.
"[Being gay] has allowed me to love and be loved, to open my head and open my heart in ways I would have never predicted," he noted. "The ability to love one another, the ability to love another person is in my opinion one of God's greatest gifts and I thank God every day for the ability to give and share love with the people in my life. My family, my friends, my partner Benjamin, thank you very much."
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The owner of a 2011 Chevy Cruze that had its steering wheel fall off while driving at 65 mph posted this video to prove his point. It's a case study in how one person can sway a giant corporation.
According to the original poster, the wheel fell off while carrying four people, including a child, on a highway; the driver was able to coast to the side of the road after the steering wheel came loose. The incident forced General Motors to recall 2,100 Cruzes in the United States and an additional 400 in Canada; nearly all were still at the Ohio factory, and inspections there and at dealers found no other Cruzes with the same loose fastener that led to the Minnesota case.
In the realm of auto safety, a recall over one incident with no injuries is usually not a big deal. But because of this quasi-viral video, and the patina of "Government Motors" that surrounds GM like a cloud of exhaust, even one misstep can put GM back under scrutiny.


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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco private-equity executive was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of drunkenly posing as a TSA agent at San Francisco International Airport and groping at least two women he pulled aside for further searching.
Eric Slighton, 53, was arrested about 12:30 p.m. at the International Terminal's A-side security checkpoint after he reportedly led at least two women into a private booth to pat them down, San Mateo County sheriff's spokeswoman Rebecca Rosenblatt said.
Authorities said the financier, who lists himself on his LinkedIn profile as managing director of Aktis Capital Singapore, was caught by other screeners when they spotted him taking women into the booth without a female screener — a practice prohibited by TSA regulations.
Slighton was arrested by San Francisco police only on suspicion of public intoxication, since the women he came into contact with could not be located in the airport, officials said. TSA authorities are investigating whether he should be booked on false imprisonment charges.
TSA officials declined to discuss the case Thursday, noting only that the incident did not involve any employees with TSA or Covenant, an airport security firm. The agency also declined to comment on the investigation into the airport security breach.
"TSA is aware of the alleged incident and is cooperating with law enforcement," the agency said in a one-sentence statement Thursday.
According to Slighton's bio on the Aktis Capital Group website, he was previously the director of Barclays Capital and Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong. He was also co-founder and CEO of ComMira e-Solutions, a San Francisco firm specializing in business-process automation software.
Officials at Slighton's firm did not return calls for comment Thursday.
Slighton was released from San Mateo County Jail on Wednesday evening and will be arraigned Aug. 18, District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said. The list of counts on which he will be arraigned has not yet been determined by Wagstaffe's office.
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Sales Representative
Forwarding / Paris
Mainfreight is a global supply chain services provider. From its humble beginnings in New Zealand, Mainfreight has expanded its global footprint to what it is today. With 240 branches and 7,200 team members in Europe, the United States, Asia, New Zealand and Australia, Mainfreight prides itself on providing the best possible service to its customers and being a company that offers exciting careers to its team members.
Culture, family and philosophy are the foundations of our three pillars of Mainfreight. We are a company that believes in teamwork to make Mainfreight the best logistics company in the world. We believe in internal promotion and we only want the best people who want to join our history and have a lifetime career with us. Our workplace is a stimulating environment, but an exciting one that is constantly changing and offering new opportunities around the world.
Sales is the driving force behind our business in Mainfreight and we are looking for energetic and enthusiastic members to join our sales team in Mitry Mory for the Road Transport activity. Our Head Office in Mitry Mory is looking for an enthusiastic and sales-hungry member to join our growing sales team as an external representative. Our strategy is simple, we want to be the best global supply chain provider and we want the right person to join our journey and contribute to our history.
The Role
- Being a pivotal member of the Branch, focusing on leading from the front and bringing new customers to our business, never accepting mediocrity
- Supporting your customers as their business grows with ours.
- Focusing on key customers in the Market that will bring us long term partnerships, and not short term gains.
- Learning and selling continuous improvement solutions and becoming a trusted advisor to our customer
As well as the above, this role has the freedom and encouragement to proactively seek out and develop future initiatives. All this is done from within an autonomous, close-knit, supportive, ambitious and fun TEAM environment.
For this job, we are looking for :
- A passionate, energetic team member with a strong sales focus and want for our team to succeed
- A solutions minded person who sees sales as the lifeblood of our business
- Previous Transport knowledge is an advantage but not a necessity
- A true Mainfreighter who seeks not just to maintain standards, but beat them and constantly redefine our performance level
- Without accepting status quo, you will bring an energetic approach to developing our business further
- You must have a big picture and long term focus, and move with pace and sometimes impatience
- Excellent communication skills; with your team, the customer and the group – this is paramount across cultures
- A passionate person who can see themselves being with Mainfreight for the rest
Do you share the same passion and team spirit?
Send your CV to Marine DENIAU (Human Resources Manager):firstname.lastname@example.com


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Placerville - 2's and 3's on the Go!
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Wednesday, Nov. 20, 9:30 & 11:30 am
Join us for an energetic storytime designed to promote early literacy skills through songs, rhymes and stories. Perfect for children who aren't quite ready to sit for storytime. Each session will end with a hands-on sensory activity.


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Morales' ambitions grow as he reaches milestone
ST. LOUIS -- Kendrys Morales kept the baseball from the 100th home run of his Major League career in the Mariners' 6-1 loss to the Astros on Wednesday, but the veteran designated hitter hopes there are many more milestones still ahead.
"It's just a number," Morales said Friday through interpreter Jaime Navarro, the Mariners' bullpen coach. "I just have to keep playing and go for 200 and 300 and keep going."
Morales has plenty of motivation to do that, having left Cuba early in his baseball career and then worked his way up through the Angels' system before shattering his ankle while jumping into a home-plate celebration in 2010.
That injury, coming after a breakout 34-home run season in 2009, cost him a year and a half of games just as he was hitting his prime. He returned to bat .273 with 22 homers and 73 RBIs last year for the Angels and is hitting .280 with 21 home runs and 76 RBIs for Seattle with two weeks remaining.
"It inspired me to play hard and do my best and keep playing the same way after so many obstacles in my life, with the ankle and everything else," Morales said.
Morales has been one of the Mariners' positives this season, providing a steady bat in the middle of a young lineup after being acquired in a trade for Jason Vargas over the offseason.
"From the beginning, I've felt comfortable," he said. "It was a good opportunity coming to Seattle and as soon as I got here, I knew they'd give me that chance. I just keep playing hard, just doing my thing. I feel comfortable and like what they're doing here. I'm just going to keep doing whatever it takes to help this ballclub."
As for looking ahead? Morales will be a free agent following the season and the Mariners have made some initial inquiries, but he'll wait to see how things play out.
"I have had good numbers from the beginning this year and I just want to keep doing what I've been doing," he said. "After the season, I'll think about what comes next. But for now, I'm just working to finish strong and do the things I need to do."


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The Vexing Dilemma of the Housing Market
It will be years before most of America sees gains in home prices again that match historic norms. There are too many problems to resolve.
The country's persistent housing woes have Washington flummoxed. Some four years after home prices started to plunge, they continue to sink, and foreclosures to rise. As a result, the building and real estate industries remain sluggish, and consumers…skittish.
There simply is no "fix" for the housing market, and new policy questions are just making matters worse. Mortgage modification programs have proved to be of very limited help. Relatively few homeowners are being assisted, and many of those who do manage to get their loans restructured only wind up defaulting again. State probes into banks' shoddy paperwork on foreclosures are also postponing the market adjustment that's needed. Banks, litigators and regulators are at a stalemate, pushing the tidal wave of foreclosures — another 2 million this year, following 2 million in 2010 — further and further into the future.
The desire of policymakers for long-term financial reforms is complicating matters even more and adding to the short-term market pain. Bank regulators want tighter lending rules — making permanent the requirement for down payments of at least 20% and setting high income and credit hurdles in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of the recent boom and bust. But that kind of permanent tightening would bar many potential home buyers from getting financing and further crimp the market.
In addition, most in Congress want to curb Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the quasi-governmental mortgage companies, arguing that the giant duo risked too much taxpayer money on iffy mortgages. But doing so at this point would bring new risks to a still fragile financial system. As some reformers suggest, a gradual reduction in the maximum loan that could be backed by Fannie and Freddie might generate a private secondary market. But no one knows how quickly or smoothly it would come about. After all, investors, bankers, lawyers and others are still untangling the knots in the $2-trillion secondary market spawned during the most recent housing boom.
And the fact is, Fannie, Freddie and the Federal Housing Admin. back 90% of new mortgages today. Dramatic, swift reform of their operating rules would likely wind up weakening demand. It would surely limit options for lower-income buyers. As a result, the behind-the-scenes discussions that are going on now among key Senate and House members won't move to the fore for a few more years. In the meantime, however, the uncertainty about what will happen keeps would-be home buyers and lenders on the edge.
Proposals to curb mortgage interest write-offs add to market anxiety. Although a long shot, such plans will get serious attention by federal budget cutters, given the volume of red ink to be sopped up. Just talking about cutting the deduction will give potential home buyers another reason to delay plunging into the market.
The bottom line: Time alone will cure the nation's ailing housing market. It'll be years before most of America sees historically normal gains in home prices again — the result of enormous overhanging supplies combined with constrained demand. And that's one big reason this economic recovery will take a meandering path.


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Activists: More than 100 killed in central Syria
- Activists said forces loyal to Assad wielding knives and guns swept through a small farming village
- A government official in Damascus denied the reports of carnage in the hamlet of Haswiyeh
- Rebels still control several neighborhoods in the region
BEIRUT (AP) — Forces loyal to President Bashar Assad swept through a small farming village in central Syria this week, torching houses and shooting and stabbing residents in an attack that killed up to 106 people, including women and children, activists said Thursday.
The assault on Haswiyeh outside the city of Homs took place on Tuesday, but was only coming to light two days later as the scale of the killings became more apparent. The attacks appeared to have sectarian motives and bore a resemblance to the attack last May on the nearby village of Houla that killed 108 people and drew international condemnation of the Assad regime.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll in Haswiyeh at 106, and said some of the dead were "burnt inside their homes while other were killed with knives" and other weapons. It added that there are reports that "whole families were executed, one of them made up of 32 members."
Youssef al-Homsi, an activist based in Homs, also said at least 100 people were killed in Haswiyeh. He sent The Associated Press via Skype a list of 100 names said to have been killed. In addition to whole families, the list included individual names of 15 women and 10 children.
Omar Idilbi of the Local Coordination Committees activist group put the death toll at 37, but said the figure was from Wednesday and that more bodies have been found since then.
It was not possible to confirm the activist reports because of severe reporting restrictions in Syria.
A government official in Damascus flatly denied the reports of carnage, saying no such killings took place in the area at all. He said "the army protects civilians and their properties," and accused rebels of using civilians as "human shields. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media.
However, the pro-government daily Al-Watan reported Thursday that Syrian troops advanced in the countryside of Homs "cleansing the villages of Haswiyeh and Dweir as well as their fields" from gunmen. It did not elaborate.
Rebels and government troops are known to have clashed in the area around Haswiyeh earlier this week. Rebels still control several neighborhoods in Homs, Syria's third-largest city, as well as other areas in the region. The city and surrounding countryside have been hit by heavy fighting since shortly after the country's crisis began in March 2011. The U.N. says at least 60,000 people have been killed in the conflict.
The Observatory and al-Homsi said all of the dead appeared to be Sunni Muslims, suggesting that the killings may have been sectarian in nature. Al-Homsi also said locals reported that many of the attackers came from the nearby village of Mazraa, which he said is predominantly Shiite.
Sunnis make the majority of Syria's 23 million people, while Assad and most of the top officials in his regime belong to the minority Alawite sect, an off-shoot of Shiite Islam.
The opposition accuses Alawite militiamen loyal to Assad of trying to carve out a breakaway enclave for themselves by driving out local Sunnis, killing entire families and threatening anybody who stays behind. They say killings in overwhelmingly Sunni villages close to Alawite communities are meant to lay the groundwork for such an enclave.
An amateur video posted online showed five women surround by children as they sat on the floor describing what happened in Haswiyeh.
"They entered homes, slaughtered women and children then burnt them," said one of the veiled women holding a young boy. "They slaughtered members of the same families then turned the diesel heaters on them."
"We did not fight and we had no gunmen. We are all workers trying to make a living," she said angrily. She added that some homes were robbed as the soldiers were looking for money and jewelry.
Another video showed a burnt room with what appeared to be two charred bodies on the floor. A man could be heard weeping in the background. The caption says the video is from Haswiyeh.
The videos appeared genuine and corresponded to other AP reporting on the events depicted.
Elsewhere in Syria, activists reported violence in different parts of the country Thursday including fighting in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in Damascus. The Observatory also reported air raids in the capital's suburbs, which have witnessed heavy clashes between troops and rebels in recent weeks.
The Observatory and the LCC also reported clashes in the town of Beit Saham, just south of the capital and near the city's international airport, and that an air raid killed at least 15 people in the town of Kfar Nabouedeh in the central province of Hama.
State-run TV said troops repelled an attack on the main airport in the eastern city of Deir el-Zour near the border with Iraq.
It said clashes in the northern town of Ras al-Ayn near the Turkish border continued Thursday between rebels and members of the government-leaning Kurdish Democratic Union Party, or PYD. The Observatory said at least eight rebels and one PYD fighter were killed.


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Chris Vein named deputy CTO for government innovation in the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
San Francisco CIO Chris Vein is headed to the White House, according to Fast Company. Vein will serve as deputy CTO under Aneesh Chopra at the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
During his tenure in San Francisco, Vein was roundly praised for being an adroit innovator and technology champion. Last year, Vein was named one of Government Technology's Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers.
As CIO, some of the projects Vein was working on included: virtualizing servers in the city's main data center and extending the city's fiber network to some of the most disadvantaged citizens in the city and county. Vein is perhaps most well known for creating DataSF.org, a Web portal that publishes more than 100 public-sector data sets that residents can mash up to create shared applications.
"We are opening up a dialog that's never been there before between the city and citizens," Vein said of DataSF.org. "They're sharing their experience and expertise to help improve government."
Though the Office of Science and Technology has not released an official statement about Vein's move, the agency's website currently lists him as Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Government Innovation.
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Fate of Brown's special election plan uncertain
As the gulf appeared to widen over the weekend between Gov. Jerry Brown and Republican lawmakers, Democratic legislative leaders said they are poised to pursue options aside from seeking GOP support for a special election to help solve California's budget deficit.
After months of discussions but no real progress, budget negotiations appeared to reach an impasse after Senate Minority Leader Bob Dutton, R-Rancho Cucamonga, released a list of more than 50 policy and budget reforms Republicans want in exchange for their votes on Brown's plan.
The GOP wish-list covered a broad range of proposals - including converting public employee pensions to 401(k)-style plans, tying future state spending to inflation, restoring funding for county fairs and moving next year's presidential primary to March, rather than June as Democrats would like.
In a statement posted on his website over the weekend, Dutton said Democrats' rejection of GOP ideas "proves that they were never serious about a true bipartisan budget, but instead are only interested in Republicans giving in to their demands for more taxes."
He called the Republican requests "small but important changes" and necessary reforms to fix California's long-term budget problems.
Brown campaigned for governor last year on a pledge that he would ask voters to decide about any tax increases. He had hoped to have a special election in June to ask voters for a five-year renewal of temporary tax increases enacted two years ago. The Democratic governor wants to solve the nearly $27 billion deficit by balancing the tax extensions with about $14 billion in spending cuts and fund transfers, some of which he signed into law last week.
The Republican counteroffer included limiting the extensions of the increased sales, personal income and vehicle taxes to 18 months instead of five years, but doing so would leave the state billions of dollars short for implementing another of Brown's plans. The governor also wants to shift a host of responsibilities from the state to local governments, believing cities and counties can handle them more efficiently.
Republicans oppose much of that plan, which includes transferring some inmates to county jails and supervision. They also oppose Brown's plan to eliminate redevelopment agencies, which have been criticized as grab-bags for developers that rob schools, law enforcement, fire departments and other community services of local tax revenue. Many local government officials praise redevelopment agencies as one of their best tools for kick-starting construction projects and rejuvenating rundown areas.
The GOP leaders also want to ask Californians to vote on reducing public pensions and setting a state spending cap.
County clerks, who would be responsible for organizing a special election, have warned that time is running out. Most have said they would need 88 days to comply with state laws, print and mail out ballots, and find poll workers - which would mean an end-of-June election even if a deal were struck in the next few days. Brown and the Democrats originally had hoped for a June 7 election.
Talks appeared to stalled after Dutton and Sen. Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar, released their list of demands late Friday.
Brown "was presented with a thorough outline, which reiterates our priorities, including: getting our state back on track by reining in runaway spending; controlling unsustainable public employee pensions; getting people back to work; protecting and improving our state's public education system; and making critical adjustments to the governor's flawed budget," the two lawmakers said in a joint statement.
Dutton's involvement marked a change in direction for his caucus. A separate group of five GOP senators had been meeting with Brown to discuss their demands to roll back pensions, place a cap on state spending in future budgets and reform regulations for business. Some of those senators said Friday they had turned negotiations over to Dutton and Huff, who is vice-chairman of the Senate budget committee.
Democrats, who have a majority in both houses, need two GOP votes in each house of the Legislature to put the tax extensions on the ballot. It's not clear whether the Republican caucus in the Assembly will provide two votes.
Democratic legislative leaders are now hinting that without major progress in the talks, they may try to approve the special election on a simple majority vote, a move that would almost certainly be challenged in court because legislative ballot measures require a two-thirds majority. The Senate and Assembly were on call until the next regularly scheduled session on Tuesday.
Democrats also could introduce an all-cuts budget, which would include billions of dollars more from schools, or try to qualify an independent initiative on the tax extensions for a special election this November.
Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, appeared frustrated after learning of the detailed GOP wish list.
"I think this takes us clearly to a point where we will quickly have to decide whether or not to pursue solutions that do not require Republican votes," he said. If Republicans don't want to compromise, he said, "they'll force us to act as if they are not parties to this discussion."
Brown has alternated between condemning what he sees as excessive demands from Republicans and striking an optimistic tone about the possibility of a deal.
He did not comment after receiving the list of 53 Republican demands, but his spokesman, Gil Duran, said the governor had expected the issues to narrow after months of talks, "not to expand beyond the borders of what is possible."
He said it was not realistic for a minority party to expect to get 53 things "for the price of one" - a vote to put tax extensions on the ballot.
"That being said, we have a governor who's eminently reasonable, and he's going to continue to talk and work to find the common ground and the issues that we might be able to reach agreement on, because the stakes are very high and the people of California will truly suffer the consequences of these cuts if they do not get the chance to vote on whether or not to extend current taxes," he said.


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KooRaRoo Media has been updated to version 1.7.0 and is now available for you to download and install.
The new and enhanced features include:
- New: Support for downloading online metadata for videos from TheMovieDB
- New: Allow changing column widths in the main view
- New: Allow choosing language priorities for retrieving online video metadata
- New: Automatic processing of online metadata for video files when adding or updating files
- New: Added an option to reset the main window layout
- New: Allow modifying year and month for file properties and also show them in the main view
- New: Retrieve embedded thumbnails from certain video files
- New: Allow resizing the dynamic criteria dialog and auto-select entries based on typed information
- Improved: Better external subtitles processing when adding video files
- Improved: Non-English character handling when processing metadata
- Improved: Detect blocked ports when KooRaRoo starts and prompt to unblock them
- New devices: Dish Hopper/Joey, Thomson TVs.
- Device improvements: LG BDPs, Sony TVs, Sony Google TV, Vizio TVs.
- Fixed: When remote playback is started using "play to" and more files are later added to the playlist, switch to queue playback mode
- Fixed: Incorrect subtitle set for some external subtitles, causing incorrect rendering on devices
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- Other minor fixes and enhancements.
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Gossage wants steroids users barred from Hall
Goose Gossage watched Mark McGwire's televised confession to steroids use and was happy his former teammate came clean. That's where the praise ended, with the Hall of Fame reliever saying there should be no place in Cooperstown for McGwire or any other player who used performance-enhancing drugs.
``I definitely think that they cheated,'' Gossage said Tuesday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. ``And what does the Hall of Fame consist of? Integrity. Cheating is not part of integrity.''
For Gossage, Hank Aaron still holds the career record of 755 home runs and Roger Maris owns the season record of 61. The Goose tosses out the fantastic figures posted by Barry Bonds, McGwire, Sammy Sosa as part of a ``cheating era,'' dismissing them as if they were scuffed baseballs being rolled to the clubbies. He equated them with Pete Rose, barred from the Hall ballot because of his lifetime ban for betting on Cincinnati while managing the team.
``The integrity of the Hall of Fame and the numbers and the history are all in jeopardy,'' said Gossage, inducted two years ago. ``I don't think they should be recognized. Here's a guy Aaron, we're talking about the greatest record of all records. And he did it on a level playing field. He did it with God-given talent. And the same with Maris, absolutely. These are sacred records and they've been shattered by cheaters.''
Hall of Famer Willie McCovey wouldn't factor drugs into the equation and said he likely would vote for McGwire if he had the opportunity.
``Whether he took steroids or not, he did so much for baseball,'' McCovey said. ``He almost helped save baseball for a few years there.''
Joe Morgan, a Hall of Famer and the board's vice chairman, feels bad for players who didn't use performance enhancers.
``Those guys are being penalized twice,'' he said. ``First, the guys who did steroids had all those great numbers, made all the money, and the guys who didn't do steroids and just had good years, didn't make as much money. So they get hurt there. Now at the end of their careers when you have to compare those numbers to the guys who did do steroids, they're going to get hurt again as far as the Hall of Fame is concerned. So I can't in my own mind excuse what happened, whatever the reason.''
U.S. Anti-Doping Agency executive director Travis Tygart dismissed McGwire's claim that steroids didn't help him become a better player, that they only allowed him to become more healthful.
``It's just crazy. I don't buy that for a second,'' he said. ``It's sort of disappointing you don't just come clean, take full responsibility. But the trend is with most athletes we've seen in baseball that they take half responsibility.''
Former World Anti-Doping Agency president Dick Pound criticized baseball commissioner Bud Selig, who issued a statement declaring the Steroids Era over.
``I think the jury is still out on that issue and that the self-serving statements by Bud Selig do nothing to increase confidence,'' Pound said in an e-mail. ``What has emerged in the whole baseball mess is that drug use is widespread and that even the best players are involved - and still MLB is whistling past the graveyard.''
Steve Trachsel, who gave up McGwire's historic home run No. 62 a dozen years ago, was saddened by McGwire's admission.
``It's disappointing because it's such a great moment in the history of sports. So many people were rooting for him and Sammy, not just in America but all around the world,'' Trachsel told the AP. ``It's kind of disappointing the whole thing is kind of dirty now.''
Byron Dorgan, a U.S. Senator from North Dakota, used McGwire's confession as an opportunity to urge the Hall of Fame Veterans Committee to elect Maris, a two-time AL MVP who grew up Grand Forks and Fargo.
``More than forty years after breaking Babe Ruth's home run record, Maris now stands as the only player to do so without the use of steroids,'' Dorgan said. ``It's important to set an honest example for our nation's children who put themselves in danger when they try to emulate their sports heroes by bulking up with performance-enhancing drugs.''
McGwire's tearful admission that he used steroids for a decade, including when he hit 70 homers in 1998, was the talk of baseball.
``Hopefully that will help clear the air and we can move on,'' Houston Astros president of baseball operations Tal Smith said.
McGwire, who retired in 2001, had been widely ridiculed since he evaded questions before a congressional committee five years ago, repeatedly saying he wasn't there to address his past. His confession was sparked by the St. Louis Cardinals' decision in October to hire him as hitting coach.
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Wasps win in Paris to take last spot in European Champions Cup
English side beat Stade Francais at Stade Jean-Bouin to take 20th and final place
Stade Francais 6 Wasps 20: Wasps have taken the 20th and final place among Europe's elite next season after seeing off Stade Francais with a stirring 20-6 second-leg win in Paris.
The Premiership side edged last week's first-leg at Adams Park 30-29 but arrived at the Stade Jean-Bouin as underdogs to complete the line-up for next season's European Champions Cup.
However, Wasps did not lie down and let their intentions be known from the outset as Tom Varndell went down in the corner after six minutes.
James Haskell and Alexandre Flanquart were sent to the sin bin after Josh Simpson saw a try chalked off, but Andy Goode's kicking meant they Wasps boasted a five-point aggregate lead at the break.
Dai Young's side had another try scratched off in the second half after a knock-on in the build-up to Varndell crossing but, with the hosts a man light after Antoine Burban saw yellow, Wasps soon stretched their lead as Guy Thompson completed a fine team move.
Goode duly converted and then hit a 40-metre penalty after replacement Michael Van Vuuren became the latest to go to the sin bin as Stade were impressively overcome.
Wasps started Thompson at number eight in the French capital after Nathan Hughes returned to Fiji for his wedding, which was booked before he joined the London club last year.
After the creation of the seventh-placed play-off, he postponed returning to the Pacific island so he could join the squad in the first-leg against Stade, when Goode's match-winning penalty in the final act at Adams Park saw Wasps draw first blood.
Goode was again on the scoresheet within minutes of the return leg, converting after their early intent was rewarded as Varndell crossed the whitewash for the first score of the game.
The outhalf failed with a penalty attempt soon after, allowing Jules Plisson to knock over a three-pointer after Wasps were penalised.
It began a period in which Stade kicked on, although they were fortunate not to fall further behind to another try.
Varndell intercepted and played out wide for Simpson to run the length of the pitch before going to ground under the posts.
However, a high tackle from Thompson saw the try chalked off after referring to the television match official, whose guidance saw Haskell and Flanquart sent to the sin bin for their reaction in the deadball area.
It saw the play swing in Stade's favour, with Plisson knocking over for three points moments later to reduce the deficit to 7-6 behind rather than 14-3.
Goode floated over an effortless penalty on the Stade 22 as half-time approached and, thanks to some fine defending, the Premiership club boasted a five-point aggregate lead at the break.
Wasps, much improved from last week, were frustrating the hosts, with that emotion epitomised in the 54th minute as Burban was given a yellow for a late hit on Goode.
There was controversy as a lack of replays saw alleged eye-gouging against Stade waved away, with the host broadcaster quickly dragging up video of a knock-on in the build-up to Varndell scooting under the sticks shortly after.
That try was scratched off but Wasps soon deservedly pulled further ahead as Haskell offloaded to Ashley Johnson, who returned favour for Thompson to dive over the line.
Goode added the extras and Stade's miserable afternoon continued as Van Vuuren was sent to the sin bin as they were again reduced to 14 men, with the outhalf sending over the penalty.


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Bowa comes full circle in fourth act with Phillies
Bench coach glad to be back with team he previously played for, managed
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Billy Martin played for the Yankees and also managed the team five separate times. Six stints for the same organization. That just doesn't happen very often -- not in baseball, not in the business world, not anywhere.
Which only underscores the fact that Larry Bowa beginning his fourth separate term with the Phillies is a pretty remarkable feat in its own right. Player. Coach. Manager. Now, at 68, back again as manager Ryne Sandberg's bench coach. F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous observation that there are no second acts in American lives does not apply here. Clearly there's some sort of invisible magnetism that keeps drawing them together.
"I've thought about that. I think I'm very fortunate," Bowa said Monday before hitting ground balls on the half field at Bright House Field. "But this was where I was raised in baseball. They say everything comes full circle. This sort of puts a period at the end of the sentence. I'm back with the Phillies. I've never left Philadelphia. I've lived there since I played my first game [in 1970]. So this uniform is special to me."
Magnets, of course, can both attract and repel. And that's what makes his most recent comeback even more fascinating. Or as club president Dave Montgomery put it with a smile, "I think passion is what opens doors for Larry. And sometimes closes doors for Larry."
There's a certain cinematic quality to this saga. So let's present it with the help of a movie director's clapperboard.
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The first split was the most traumatic and, in retrospect, his association with the club could have ended right there. It happened after the 1981 season. Bowa had been promised a contract extension by owner Ruly Carpenter. Before it could be signed, the team was sold to a syndicate headed by Bill Giles, who didn't feel obliged to honor the unwritten agreement. The spat became public. Bowa called Giles a liar. Giles fired back, then eventually traded Bowa and Sandberg, then an unproven prospect, to the Cubs for veteran shortstop Ivan DeJesus.
"Looking back, hindsight being 20-20, I knew I was getting closer to the end of my career and I wanted to get a nice contract," Bowa said. "I thought I deserved it. Bill was the [club president]. He's still here, and as far as I'm concerned, I consider him a good friend.
"Looking at it from the other side, if I was Bill, I might have said, 'Nah, I don't want him here.' There were a lot of bad things said, mostly on my part. As you get older, you realize, 'That was stupid.' Looking back at it, it could have been done differently on my part."
Then-general manager Lee Thomas wanted to bring Bowa back to be part of manager Nick Leyva's staff in 1989. Giles had to sign off on the decision and didn't hesitate.
"I don't hold grudges," Giles said. "He truly loves the Phillies. It just seemed to me when I got rid of him that it was the best thing, because it had become such a public brouhaha. And it was the right thing to bring him back."
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Bowa coached for the next eight seasons under Leyva and Jim Fregosi. But when Terry Francona was hired in 1997, it was thought that it might be uncomfortable for the new guy to have a franchise icon figuratively looking over his shoulder.
"I understood that, no question," Bowa said. "That's just how organizations run. Managers like to bring in their people. It's a comfort zone. You're together from February to October, and [sometimes] you don't feel comfortable or maybe you don't know the guy."
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He was hired to replace Francona for the 2001 season. Then-general manager Ed Wade thinks the fact that he had been part of the organization twice before was a plus.
"From the standpoint of people being familiar with him and his love of the Phillies and his knowledge of the game -- having the opportunity to have so many people in the organization who knew him from his previous stints probably made him more attractive to the Phillies than to the people who didn't know everything about him," Wade said.
Bowa admits that he was disturbed when he was let go with two games remaining in the 2004 season.
"My feelings were hurt, because I thought I did a good job of turning things around," he said. "That was a bad team. And I don't mean anything bad about Tito. They just didn't have the talent. Then you have to come in and change the whole culture of the clubhouse: 'This is not acceptable. You've got to start winning games.'
"And I thought I did a real good job. With the exception of the one year when we had a game we didn't play [and finished 80-81], I was over .500 every year. And it wasn't a great team, but you could see it was a team that was starting to get the message. I didn't think that was fair, but any manager who gets fired thinks it's unfair."
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Bowa had a comfortable job at MLB Network that he enjoyed. But the chance to get back on the field, to work with Sandberg, proved to be irresistible. Still, Sandberg had to sell the Phillies on Bowa 4.0. Montgomery ticked off several reasons why the idea was green-lighted.
"I think, first of all, his passion for the game and his affinity for the club are clear," Montgomery said. "Yes, he finished his career somewhere else, but the reality was that he considers himself a Phillie. And, certainly, we do. He did manage at San Diego and he did coach in L.A. and New York. But if you add it up, his total time with us is pretty extraordinary.
"We've shown that the door is always open for Larry. Every time he left, there were still loads of people who respected him and were friends with him. I certainly think anybody that's known him has incredible respect for his knowledge of the game. That's legendary. For his age, he's remarkably current as far as knowing today's players. That's very unusual. Nobody eats, drinks and sleeps it more than Larry Bowa."
And, in the end, that deep affection runs both ways and explains why he returns to the Phillies as surely as a homing pigeon. In fact, Bowa will be forever grateful that the Phillies signed him in the first place. If they hadn't, none of the above may have occurred.
"They're the one team that gave me an opportunity," Bowa said. "Hey, there could have been a whole lot of teams that signed me. I didn't get drafted. I look back at that and realize this team took a chance on me. And who knows? If I didn't sign here, I probably wouldn't have played pro ball. So I owe a lot to the Phillies' organization. Everything that I have and everything that I've achieved, it was through the Phillies."