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The upcoming SC Pride festival is what everyone is talking about in Columbia and a key move by the organization coordinating the festival is a good reason why:
Displaying a multitude of colors, the rainbow flag is now hanging from lamp posts on Main and Gervais Streets. The brightly colored banner is a sign of diversity and acceptance for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender citizens.
"It definitely will promote the event, but I also hope it makes people realize that there is a strong LGBT community that exists in Columbia," said Vice President of Center Operations Santi Thompson with the SC Pride Movement.
Thompson adds that for the first time in the organization's 21 year history, the rainbow flags will fly in downtown Columbia in celebration of this weekend's SC Pride Parade and Festival.
The flags not only had to be approved by the City of Columbia, but the organization also had to get clearance from businesses along the two streets.
"I think the flags being flown on Main Street and Gervais Street make people excited and will help them realize it's not as backwards as we think," said Thompson.
For many lgbt South Carolinians who have to live with the stereotype of our state being backwards, these flags and the increased visibility they bring are a like bursts of fresh air. It also reveals the steady pace the SC lgbt leadership has been working to make things better for our community.
The banners also caught local anti-gay leaders by surprise. Oran Smith of the Palmetto Family Council was asked about the banners and all he could muster is the following:
"I think the mistake the city has made is being knee deep in agenda for a specific organization promoting a specific kind of lifestyle,"
If you ask me, he is probably upset. Up until yesterday, he probably thought he had the easiest job in the state.
For more information on the SC Pride week, especially Saturday's festival featuring 80s diva Taylor Dayne, go here. Full disclosure time – I will be one of Saturday's speakers and will also be receiving the Order of the Pink Palmetto.


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Recently, I'd related a series of dreams I'd had to the group in chat. Naki & Sage suggested I write some stories based on them.
As such, I have. I've decided to write it in occasional installments, from a diary perspective...and what better place to do that than in a LiveJournal?
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The Yankees vs. The Red Sox on Paper: The Outfield and Designated Hitter
If you read Part I of my analysis of the Yankees and Red Sox on paper, here's Part II
Right Field: Nick Swisher vs. J.D. Drew
Right field is such an important position on the field and playing the position requires a strong amount of defense. The Yankees and the Red Sox do not have the best defensive right fielders in the A.L., but both do so much to help the team win.
J.D. Drew was signed as a free agent prior to 2007 and had a history of injuries. Boston took a risk signing him, but with that risk has come a pretty good reward. Drew, for the most part, has stayed fairly healthy with Boston and his offensive numbers have climbed over the past couple seasons. Last season he hit 22 home runs and drove in 68 RBIs, despite holding a batting average of .255.
In the Bronx, Nick Swisher has quickly become a fan-favorite. His light-hearted attitude and funny personality has brought calmness to the Yankees and he brings a strong clubhouse presence to the table.
In both seasons Swisher has been with the Yankees, he has hit a total of 58 home runs and has knocked in 171 runs.
Center Field: Curtis Granderson vs. Jacoby Ellsbury
Speed and concentration are probably the two characteristics that define center field. Both the Yankees and Red Sox own center fielders that have those key essentials.
Curtis Granderson provides the Yankees with solid defense. He has the ability to catch fly balls on the run, has shown a decent arm (five outfield assists last year) and has overall demonstrated good leadership in center.
The only knock against him is his strife against left-handed pitching. Yet he still hit 24 home runs last year and knocked in 67 runs with 76 runs scored. If Granderson can show a little more patience at the plate and draw more walks, he will really be dangerous next year. He only walked 53 times in 2010.
Jacoby Ellsbury only played 18 games last season, being sidelined with an apparent rib injury. He didn't hit any homers and only recorded five RBIs, but when he is healthy, he is deadly. In 2009, Ellsbury led the league in triples (10) and stolen bases (70).
In terms of his defense, Ellsbury is known to take a lot of risks; he dives for a lot of fly balls and his success rate is probably above average. But throwing caution to the wind one too many times can be costly, as evidenced by his injuries.
Left Field: Brett Gardner vs. Carl Crawford
The Red Sox have a slight advantage here, but only in terms of offense.
Defensively, Carl Crawford is as good as they come. As everyone knows he has the speed needed to be an impactful outfielder. Crawford won the Gold Glove for left field in 2010, showing once again he does not need to prove himself as a defender.
Brett Gardner was described by Michael Kay as, "Carl Crawford, just as a cheaper price." In a lot of ways he was correct, being that Gardner is just as fast as Crawford, maybe faster. However, Crawford is a four time All-Star, an All-Star Game MVP (2009), and came in seventh in last year's MVP voting.
Gardner was sidelined in 2010 with a wrist injury and he needed surgery in the off-season to rectify it. In 2010 he hit five home runs with 47 RBIs and batted .277.
Crawford on the other hand hit 19 homers, batted .307, drove in 90 runs, and led the league in triples with 13.
Designated Hitter: Jorge Posada vs. David Ortiz
Posada's offense has already been highlighted, but as mentioned before, he will be the Yankees' everyday DH. The Red Sox will counter that with their Big Papi, David Ortiz.
Like Rodriguez, people can say what they want about Ortiz being on the "down side" of his career. But if last year was any indication, Big Papi still has a lot left in the tank. Boston's slugger clubbed 32 homers last year and knocked in 102 runs on a .270 batting average.
Ortiz says it all the time, "All I do is hit. That's what I am here for, because I don't play defense."
And Ortiz can still hit. When he steps up to the plate, there's no doubt that his presence alone can intimidate a pitcher.
Posada may not intimidate a pitcher the way Ortiz does. But the Yankee DH did have 18 home runs last year, as previously mentioned.


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it's a useless phone
I have been using this phone for the past one year. It's reception is hopeless. but it looks very good though and the options are really cool.
its just ok
i had this phone for about a year and a half.
very durable- i dropped it at least 50 times and nothing happened to it.
some nice features like the ringtone maker and camera (even though it could be better)
very hard to figure out. I figured this phone out in about 5 minuts, but when my friends needed to call someone they could never figure out how to actually call them
the joystick can be very annoying
When I had this phone it had just OK reception. I've had worse and now i have better, but its just average and haven't had any complaints of people not being able to hear me.
overall i have nothing to complain about besides the joystick, other than that this phone is just for someone who wants a phone to make and recieve calls
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A Great Phone
I got this phone from my friend I got it and it was unlocked. I was a AT&T customer.
**Color screen is awesome the best I have seen
**At myt610.com you can download free ringtones and wallpaper and themes that made the phone even better.
**I got a bodyglove case for this phone and that made it good as well
**The phone is very durable I dropped it several times
**The joystick is a nice touch and helps navigate the screens
**The only thing that I can say as far as a con for this phone is if you lose the hands free you are in trouble. It does not use the standard hands free which makes it almost impossible to find another. Without paying an arm and a leg for it
Okay Phone, but I've had better
This phone is OK but, personally it is not one of my favorites. If I was rating the phone on my experience and opinion alone, I would probably only give this phone a 2. on the other hand, both my husband and brother-in-law seem to love it, so there must be some redeeming qualities to it. Here's my opinions:
-Great picture quality for such a compact
-User friendly once you get to know it.
-Long battery life.
-Case is relatively easy to change.
-Can set Different ring tones for callers
-Have trouble hearing well without ear bud
or similar device.
-Hard to seen screen in brightly lit areas,
such as outside on a sunny day. (IRONICLY)
-No voice dialing.
-Menu button can be finicky.
The first two cans are the biggest flaws for me.
Great Phone
- Nice quality camera when i download it into my laptop via infrared
- Bluetooth
- Better ringtones quality than Nokias
- 65K Screen
- International capable
- Okay receptions
- Bad camera results in the sunlight
- Too fragile (I messed up my LCD screen the other day)
- Signal issues but it was fixed when I upgraded my firmware to 06
I have T610 Blue Unlocked and used this as International phone (outside the US).
excellent phone
great smart little phone. simple and easy to use. no problems at all
T610 not very strudy, support = Stinks
The phone had great features well it worked...
Reception was so so...
The phone droped a total of 12 inches onto burber plush carpet...
Phones screen went haywire...
I am told by T-mobile it would cost $70 to replace the phone because of the screen... Bare in mind that when they still carried it it would be a free/ they pay me to take phone.
They suggest I call up SE
I do, I get Errin Rep id # 46569.
She was polite but worthless...
SE wanted to charge me $150 to replace the phone.
This is last years model that the cell companies are paying people to take...
That and the phone died after droping 12 inches onto Extremely soft carpet.
POOR build, Extremely poor support. Warranty = A JOKE.
Kevin L. Ward
Cell phone collector,
Nice phone
I got this phone in Feb 2004 and have had it since then, using it on different carriers in and out of the US.
- Lovely screen.
- Flawless Bluetooth.
- Small and light, classic design.
- Fully-functional email client.
- Screen scratches easily.
That's pretty much my only beef with the phone. I don't use the camera.
This phone has been excellent in its service, and I couldn't find a decent phone to replace it with in T-Mobile's lineup, so i'm getting an Audiovox SMT-5600. Really a great phone.
Good Choice, but not the best
Good Design
Good Menu (great icons)
Big Screen (for a celular)
Great Colors
Shock Resistant (fell from a 2nd floor and nothing happens)
Long Battery Durability
Medium Signal (sometimes, stays in EMERGENCY only)
Sometimes it stucks (and i have to remove the battery and turn it on again)
When it's a sunny day, i cannot see the display.
That's so...
Sorry for my english...i'm practicing ;)
Things Best about Sony Ericcson T610
The T610 is by far the best phone. It has its up's and down's.
1. FREE Ringtones....with the T610 bluetooth and infared technology you can get free ringtones.....who dosent want free rintones. AND not only free ringtones but FREE games, FREE Software, FREE walpaper, Free Themes, and Free Screensavers. You can get all of this stuff at http://myt610.lasyk.net/ . Your computer also has to have bluetooth or infared technology. For Bluetooth, on your T610 make your computer one of your devices and make a passwarod for it. In the provided website, click "download now" for the item you want. Save it in a folder, Right-click your file and send it to your phone. For Infared, align your phone to the infared port. Download and save file. And send it to your phone.
2. The Battery life is the BEST.
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Welcome back to another installment of The Numbers Game. Today we'll be looking at every player who has ever worn the number 5 for the Pilots and Brewers, including the ever colorful George Scott and former slugger Geoff Jenkins. So, let's get down to business.
Seattle Pilots:
Don Mincher – 1969: As mentioned in yesterday's article, the Pilots had two All-Star selections in 1969: the previously mentioned Mike Hegan and Mincher. The interesting thing here is that Mincher is the only Pilot to have actually played in an All-Star game as Hegan, selected as a reserve, did not see play.
Mincher is also one of five Twins players (including Harmon Killebrew, Tony Oliva, Rich Rollins, and Zoilo Versalles) to have hit a homerun in the 7th inning of the June 9, 1966 contest against the Kansas City Athletics. The five home runs in a single inning still stand as a Major League record for the most home runs batted in a single inning. The hits were given up by Catfish Hunter and Paul Lindblad.
Milwaukee Brewers:
Phil Roof – 1970-71: A great defensive catcher who was not really known for his bat, Roof recorded a career best 13 home runs for the fledgeling Milwaukee club in 1970. Early in 1971, Roof would suffer a concussion on a ball pitched by Twins pitcher Bert Blyleven. Three months later, he would find himself traded to the Twins where he would catch for Blyleven in just his second appearance for Minnesota.
Paul Ratliff – 1971: The third former/future Twin on today's list, is Paul Ratliff. A sub-Mendoza Line batter (.171 in '71 and .071 in '72), Ratliff was acquired from the Twins for the previously mention Roof in 1971, acquiring his previously worn number 5 (he would switch to 17 in '72). He was traded to the California Angels on July 28, 1972 and never again appeared in a major league game.
George "Boomer" Scott – 1972-76: The first player on today's list who didn't play for the Twins is the one-of-a-kind Scott. George was a 3 time American League All-Star ('66, '75, '77) and an 8 time Gold Glove award winner ('67-'68 and '71-'76). Offensively, Scott hit over 20 homeruns (which he refered to as "taters") six times in his career, and tied Reggie Jackson for the most in the AL in 1975 with 36, a career-high.
Known for his sense of humor, Scott wore a distinctive necklace which he told a reporter was made of the 2nd baseman's teeth, and nicknamed his 1st baseman's glove "Black Beauty". Scott is also well known for wearing a batting helmet while in the field, something he started doing while with Boston in the 60's after opposing fans pelted him with objects while playing on the road.
Jamie Quirk – 1977: Quirk played one season with Milwaukee in which he went .217/.251/.330 with 48 hits and 8 walks in 93 games.
Tony Muser – 1978: In his final year in the majors, Muser only appeared in 16 games for Milwaukee where he recorded an underwhelming .133/.212/.233 with 4 hits and three walks in 30 at bats.
No player was assigned the number 5 in the Brewers organization in 1979.
Ned Yost – 1980-83: Used primarily as a backup catcher, Yost spent the first 4 years of his playing career in Milwaukee. He had his best hitting season as a member of "Harvey's Wallbangers" in 1982 recording a stat line of .276/.324/.429 with 27 hits and 7 walks over the span of 40 games.
Yost would return to Milwaukee as manager in 2003 where he would take the team from perennial losers to championship contenders. He would be fired from the team on September 15, 2008 after the team went into a two week long tailspin en-route to a wildcard playoff appearance.
Doug Loman – 1984-85: In Loman's only 2 seasons in the majors, he had a career stat line of .246/.325/.366 with 35 hits and 16 walks in 47 games.
No player was assigned the number 5 in the Brewers organization in 1986.
B.J. Surhoff – 1987-95: Drafted 1st overall by the Brewers in the 1985 amateur draft, Surhoff would make a career for himself based on both consistency and versatility. He batted over .280 in 12 of his 19 major league seasons and appeared at every defensive position, other than pitcher, throughout this time. Despite these accomplishments, Surhoff would only be selected to the All-Star game one time (1999). He finished his career with 2,326 hits and 1,153 RBIs.
No player was assigned the number 5 in the Brewers organization in 1996.
Kelly Stinnett – 1997: The final player to wear number 5 for Milwaukee in the AL is Kelly Stinnett. In 44 games for Milwaukee between '96 (wearing number 11) and '97, Stinnett was .177/.250/.244 with 11 hits and 5 walks.
Geoff Jenkins – 1998-2007: Playing all but his final season with Milwaukee, Jenkins ranks 3rd on the Brewers all-time home run list behind Hall of Famer Robin Yount and Prince Fielder. To add to this accolade, Geoff hit over .300 in both his 2nd and 3rd seasons in the majors (.313 in '99 and .303 in '00), was named team MVP in 2000 and was selected to the National League All-Star team via the All-Star Final Vote contest in 2003.
After declining Jenkins option for 2008 on October 30, 2007, Geoff would go on to sign with the Philadelphia Phillies on December 20, 2007. As a member of the 2008 Phillies, his team would defeat the Brewers in the NLDS en-route to winning the World Series. Jenkins would be released by the Phillies at the end of Spring Training in 2009.
Jenkins would retire from baseball as a Milwaukee Brewer on on July 9th, 2010.
Ray Durham – 2008: Acquired in a trade with the Giants for prospects Steve Hammond and Darren Ford in July of 2008, Durham would finish his major league career as a Brewer. He would bat .280/.369/.477 in 41 games with 30 hits and 15 walks.
No player was assigned the number 5 in the Brewers organization in 2009 and 2010.
Taylor Green – 2011-12: Debuting on August 31st, 2011 as a pinch hitter, Green singled in his first at bat. He would average .270 in 37 at bats for Milwaukee that year. Due to the acquisition of Aramis Ramirez in 2012, Green's current role is that of utility infielder and pinch hitter.
I'll be back tomorrow to look at those players who wore number 6.
Kevin Kimmes is a regular contributor to creamcitycables.com and an applicant for the 2013 MLB Fan Cave. You can follow him on Twitter at @kevinkimmes.


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Here's the coldblooded calculation at work as President Obama shapes his foreign policy agenda: If he took "full ownership" of the Syria problem through direct military intervention, that's probably all he could accomplish during his second term — and even then, he might fail in reconciling that country's feuding sects.
Here's the coldblooded calculation at work as President Obama shapes his foreign policy agenda: If he took "full ownership" of the Syria problem through direct military intervention, that's probably all he could accomplish during his second term — and even then, he might fail in reconciling that country's feuding sects.
So Obama is moving instead toward a more pragmatic approach in Syria, with the CIA playing a central role supplemented by the State Department and the U.S. military. The U.S. will train Syrian rebels and help build governance in areas liberated from the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Washington will work harder to coordinate policy with the key regional powers — Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Jordan — whose conflicting agendas have threatened in recent days to pull the Syrian opposition apart.
But Obama won't make the all-encompassing commitment in Syria that some want because he fears it would devour the remaining years of his presidency.
This pragmatic line on foreign policy was evident during Obama's trip to the Middle East this month. Though the president is often criticized for his passive, "leading from behind" style, he actually made some notable advances on the trip. The challenge, one that Obama has often failed, will be to follow through with coherent "out-front" leadership.
Here are three strategic gains that emerged from the trip:
Obama breathed a little life back into an Israeli-Palestinian peace process that had all but expired. He did this largely by the force of his March 21 speech in Israel. What he accomplished was the diplomat's trick of riding two horses at once: The speech was a love letter to Israel, as one commentator noted, and it was also a passionate evocation of the Palestinians' plight, and the need to "look at the world through their eyes." Obama pulled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toward the U.S. position on military action against Iran. Netanyahu said that "if Iran decides to go for a nuclear weapon — that is, to actually manufacture the weapon — then ... it would take them about a year." He said the U.S. and Israel share "a common assessment" of Iran. This sounded close to agreement with Obama's position that the trigger for a military strike would be an Iranian breakout toward a bomb; that's quite different from the "zone of immunity" arguments Netanyahu was making last year, which viewed Iran's very possession of enrichment technology as the threat.
What these exchanges demonstrated is that Obama is stronger politically than he was a year ago and that Netanyahu is weaker. The Israeli prime minister is now trying to associate himself with Obama's Iran policy, rather than pressuring him on "redlines."
Obama brokered an important reconciliation between Netanyahu and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. With the region in turmoil, this was a matter of vital national interest for both Israel and Turkey, but it took Obama to provide the personal link that made it happen. This was a payoff for Obama's cultivation of Erdogan since 2010, and for his "reset" with Netanyahu.
Syria remains the test of whether Obama can, forgive the term, "lean in" more during his second term. Obama has been slow to see the dangers of U.S. passivity there: For months he let things drift in Syria; the U.S. had a nominal commitment to strengthening command-and-control within the opposition but no real policy on the ground to accomplish it.
Obama is now said to understand the risk that Syria's sectarian conflict will spread to Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan if the U.S. doesn't take stronger action.
The president is still said to resist the simple formula of "arm the rebels," but he seems close to partnering with friendly intelligence services in the region on what would be a major covert action program.


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Charitable giving this Ramadan
As Muslims, we have to be thinking of where to give our money throughout the year, but especially when we must.
Should we give to one organization or, should we divide it among a few…or many?
While giving to one organization may focus more money towards your favorite charity, there are many others who also deserve some money and even small amounts help a lot. It can make them feel their work is appreciated and although your donation may seem like a drop in the ocean, the sages say, "surely even the drop increases the ocean".
Muslims support the Masjid they frequent and for the most part, we sit satisfied after giving to them. Some of us also give to periodic calls for emergency aid…calls that are unfortunately, getting less periodic and more frequent…there are victims of hunger, war, floods, earthquakes, diseases…the causes are as endless as is the suffering.
"Compassion fatigue", some say, as if to excuse further giving. Sadly, "Compassion fatigue" is for the fortunate one who are not in need of immediate compassion.
"Compassion fatigue" is an abdication from Life, some of us feel as if we can just throw up our arms and ask the skies, "Just how long am I supposed to continue giving?!" The answer, although we do not hear it, is, "As long as you are alive".
Not only must we give as long as we have money, we must continue to give even when we do not have the money…can we get some money for a worthy cause from someone else? Can we DO something for the cause? Can we SAY something in support of the cause?
ALL of this, counts as charity.
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World Series 2013: Boston Red Sox claim third MLB crown in 10 seasons
BOSTON — For the third time in 10 seasons after an 86-year drought, the Boston Red Sox have won the World Series. Shane Victorino, back in the Boston lineup after sitting out with a stiff back in St. Louis, drove in four runs in Game 6 on Wednesday night, and the Red Sox crushed the Cardinals, 6-1, to win the best-of-seven series, four games to two. Here's how it happened, as it happened...
With the World Series returning to Fenway Park for Game 6 on Wednesday night, and the Red Sox trying to win a championship on home turf for the first time since 1918, David Ortiz goes back from first base to his usual role as Boston's designated hitter. Playing the field for three games in St. Louis clearly did not have an effect on the 37-year-old's game — he went 7-for-9 in the National League park as the Red Sox won two of the three games at Busch Stadium.
Ortiz's return to the DH spot allows John Farrell to put Mike Napoli back into the Boston lineup at first base, batting cleanup, and Shane Victorino — held out of Game 5 even though he said his back stiffness had cleared up — is back in right field. Victorino, who had been batting second, drops down to sixth as Farrell prefers to have second baseman Dustin Pedroia bat second and Ortiz third. Daniel Nava gets a seat on Boston's bench.
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Facing Game 2 winner Michael Wacha, who is 4-0 with a 1.00 ERA in the playoffs, the Red Sox go with center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury in the leadoff spot as usual, followed by Pedroia, Ortiz, Napoli, left fielder Jonny Gomes, Victorino, third baseman Xander Bogaerts, shortstop Stephen Drew and catcher David Ross. John Lackey, the winning pitcher in Game 7 of the 2002 World Series, gets a chance to go for the clinching victory in another Fall Classic.
Facing Lackey, Cardinals manager Mike Matheny goes with a very similar lineup to the one he put forward in Game 2 — the only change is that first baseman Matt Adams and designated hitter Allen Craig flip-flop in the batting order. There are, however, significant changes from St. Louis' Game 5 lineup, starting with Adams returning from the bench and Craig going from first base to DH. Right fielder Carlos Beltran, the cleanup hitter on Monday, is back in the No. 2 spot, shortstop Pete Kozma sits, and Daniel Descalso plays in his place. Jon Jay also returns to center field, bumping Shane Robinson to the bench.
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The Cardinals have second baseman Matt Carpenter leading off, followed by Beltran, left fielder Matt Holliday, Craig, catcher Yadier Molina, Adams, third baseman David Freese, Jay and Descalso.
The evening starts with Carpenter sending a deep drive to left field, but a backtracking Gomes makes the catch on the warning track before crashing into the Green Monster's scoreboard. Beltran hits a ball hard into short right field, where Pedroia is well-positioned to turn it into an out. It's noticeably louder at Fenway than it was for Games 1 and 2, with cheers on every strike. The crowd is plenty satisfied as Holliday hits a bouncer to Napoli, who takes the ball to the base himself for the final out of a 1-2-3 inning.
Wacha strikes out Ellsbury, then has a nervous moment as Pedroia sends a ball deep down the left-field line. On a night when Carlton Fisk threw out the first pitch at the first Fenway Park Game 6 since the Hall of Famer's legendary 1975 home run, Pedroia applies no body english, and his ball goes well foul. The Boston second baseman then grounds out to his opposite number, Carpenter. Now it's time for Ortiz, 11-for-15 in the series, with nobody on base, much to the Cardinals' relief. Pitching carefully, Wacha goes to a full count, and winds up walking Big Papi. The decision to work carefully to Ortiz, if not pitch around him, pays dividends as Wacha strikes out Napoli swinging to end the inning.
The inning begins much the same way the first did, with a deep drive to left field. This one, from Craig, goes farther than Carpenter's — off the wall for a single as Gomes plays the carom well and, well, Craig can barely run on his bad foot. Molina follows with another single to left field, on the ground, and then Adams hits another ball that sends Gomes backtracking. This time, he makes the catch for the first out. The Cardinals are hitting balls hard against Lackey, but now are into the struggling bottom part of their order. Freese hits a soft fly to right that's easy for Victorino to handle in his first play after missing two games. On an 0-2 pitch to Jay, Lackey throws a bouncer, allowing Craig to go to third and Molina to second. The right-hander rebounds by getting Jay to swing and miss for strike three to get out of trouble.
Gomes gets Boston's first hit of the night, a single that dunks in front of Jay. The Fenway crowd starts chanting Wacha's name in a very different cadence than the jaunty silliness of Fozzie Bear. The rookie issues a five-pitch walk to Victorino. Bogaerts pops up on the next pitch, and Molina records the first out of the inning in front of the third-base dugout. Drew also pops up into foul territory, slightly farther afield, but it's an easy play for Carpenter coming over behind first base with plenty of time to call off Adams and settle under the ball. Ross can't catch up to Wacha's fastball on a strikeout that ends a very similar-looking inning to what the Cardinals just had.
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Lackey gets his second strikeout as Descalso declines to swing at anything. Carpenter does swing, and hits a line drive over the leaping Drew and into center field for a single. Beltran hits another ball hard, but on the ground and at Drew for an easy double play. It's a five-pitch inning, much needed after the 27 that Lackey threw in the previous frame.
Ellsbury rips a ground ball between first and second for a leadoff single, and with Boston's semi-new lineup, that's immediate trouble for Wacha, as Pedroia is up next with Ortiz on deck. Pedroia breaks his bat, though, grounding out to third base. That moves Ellsbury to second, and the Cardinals — finally — decide that pitching to Ortiz is a fool's errand. Big Papi gets an intentional walk. Once again, Napoli follows an Ortiz walk by striking out swinging. Gomes takes a pitch off the arm to load the bases for Victorino.
Victorino blasts a ball off the Green Monster, scoring Ellsbury and Ortiz easily. The play at the plate on Gomes is close, but he's safe, and it's 3-0 Red Sox. They are 18 outs away from winning the World Series if Lackey and the bullpen can piece it together the rest of the way. Wacha has given up as many runs in the inning as in his previous four postseason starts combined. Bogaerts hits a rocket, but Freese snares it to end the inning.
The first of those 18 remaining outs comes quickly, as Holliday bounces to third base — the third straight Cardinals batter to put the first pitch in play. Craig grounds a single into left field for his second hit of the night. Molina hits a potential double play ball, but the ball hits the heel of Pedroia's glove, and both slow-footed runners are safe on the bobble. Adams lines out to left field again, this time with Gomes coming in instead of out. Freese checks his swing on a third strike that he should have swung at, and the Cardinals strand another pair of runners.
Drew, without a hit since an infield pop-up that dropped in front of Adam Wainwright in Game 1, sends Wacha's first pitch into the Boston bullpen, which sparks action in the St. Louis bullpen. With the game now 4-0 on Drew's homer, Lance Lynn starts warming up.
Ross strikes out, Wacha's fifth K of the night, but Ellsbury follows with another deep drive to right field. It lands short of the wall, and Ellsbury settles for a double. Pedroia flies out to right, which pushes Ellsbury to third base. After a second intentional walk to Ortiz — Big Papi's third walk of the night — Wacha's night is over. Lynn comes in from the bullpen, and Napoli, twice a strikeout victim against Wacha, flops a single into center field to drive home Ellsbury and make it 5-0. Gomes walks, and the bases are loaded again for Victorino. He singles home Ortiz, the second time the intentional walk has come around to score, and it's 6-0.
Lynn leaves without having recorded an out. As Seth Maness steps onto the mound, fangraphs.com has Boston's win expectancy at 97 percent.
Jay leads off with a charitably scored infield hit, as Drew's homer heroism goes unsullied by an E6 on his record. Drew quickly redeems himself defensively by snaring a ball from Descalso, then Carpenter gets his second hit of the night on a single to right. Beltran flies out, moving Jay to third, but Holliday hits another fly to right to end the inning and put the Red Sox four innings from the title — a position where they can start thinking about the bullpen at even the slightest hint of trouble for Lackey, who now is in position for his second World Series-clinching victory.
The Red Sox are looking for an extra point on their touchdown, but also just kind of killing time with their at-bats at this point as Kevin Siegrist enters from the St. Louis bullpen. Drew grounds out to first base and Ross flies to center. Ellsbury hits a grounder to second, but Carpenter boots it to keep the inning going. Ellsbury takes off too soon and winds up in a rundown. After Siegrist's pickoff throw, Adams throws to Descalso, who throws back to Adams, who throws to Carpenter, who throws to Siegrist, who is too far off the bag, and Ellsbury gets back. It is not the Cardinals' night. Pedroia flies to right to end the inning without further incident. He's 0-for-4, and probably does not care even a little bit.
Craig hits a lazy fly ball to center field. Molina hits a grounder that requires a nice diving stop from Pedroia, who has not carried his tough offensive night into the field. Adams strikes out. Nine outs left for the Red Sox. Six runs to get for the Cardinals. A World Series that has featured so much drama appears to be well on its way to ending with a whimper — again, not that anybody in New England cares. They're getting the party going.
Ortiz is not intentionally walked to start the bottom of the sixth because there's nobody on base and it's a 6-0 game. Ortiz strikes out and, likely to prepare for his Hall of Fame induction with the waiting period waived, Siegrist is removed from the game in favor of Carlos Martinez. Napoli strikes out looking and Gomes grounds out to shortstop, so it's back to the outs countdown that is the Cardinals' turn to bat.
Lackey has no intention of turning things over to the Boston bullpen. He strikes out Freese and gets Jay to ground out to second base. Descalso hits a rope down the right-field line that bounces off the side wall in foul territory, and the St. Louis shortstop wisely stays at first base as Victorino fires in to hold him to a single. Carpenter then sends a ball down the left-field line for a double, and even though Gomes struggles to pick up the ball, Descalso stops at third.
Beltran gets the Cardinals on the board with a single to left field, and St. Louis continues running the bases conservatively, as Carpenter stops at third. Farrell comes out to the mound, but Lackey convinces the manager to let him stay in the game and face Holliday. During the at-bat, Lackey crosses the 100-pitch threshold, and pitch No. 102 is a wild one, allowing Beltran to advance to second — it doesn't get nearly far enough away from Ross to give Carpenter a thought about scoring. Holliday walks, and that's it for Lackey. Junichi Tazawa enters from the Boston bullpen to protect the 6-1 lead — the tying run is on deck, so it's technically a save situation, meaning that if Tazawa emerges with the lead intact, he can get a hold, because there's also no way he's staying in to get seven outs. Tazawa gets the big one, as Craig hits a hot smash to first base that Napoli knocks down, then fields and tosses to the pitcher covering. The Cardinals have left nine runners on base, and need to score five more runs before they make six more outs if they hope to extend the World Series even to extra innings of Game 6.
After Victorino flies to left and Bogaerts to right, Drew collects his second hit of the game — and third of the series — on a line single to left. Ross flies to center. Martinez has pitched impressively, albeit in what amounts to mop-up duty.
Brandon Workman takes the mound to start the inning against Molina. A fly ball to right field that Victorino has to jump for after getting a late start on the play is the closest the Cardinals get to a hit against the rookie. Adams grounds to second. Freese grounds to third. The Red Sox are three outs away, and Koji Uehara looms in their bullpen.
Randy Choate comes in to pitch for the Cardinals, walks Jacoby Ellsbury, and leaves. He's the second Cardinals pitcher in the game to fail to record an out, though this is not as much of a disaster as Lynn's appearance. Trevor Rosenthal gets Pedroia to bounce into a fielder's choice, bringing up Ortiz for a victory lap of an at-bat. Rosenthal's foot catches in the dirt on the mound, so anyone with "balk" on their World Series bingo cards gets to fill that spot as Pedroia moves down to second. First base is now open, so the Cardinals decide to walk Ortiz intentionally one more time, for old time's sake. Assuming that he doesn't get another at-bat, Ortiz will finish the World Series batting .688 -- 11-for-16.
Napoli completes a golden sombrero with his fourth strikeout. He'll take a World Series ring to accessorize it. Gomes bounces back to the mound.
It's Koji time.
Jay flies out to left. The Red Sox are two outs away.
Descalso flies out to left. One out away.
Carpenter strikes out. The Red Sox are the champions of the baseball world once again, and in front of their own fans for the first time in 95 years.


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From: AgWeb
By: Ben Potter, Farm Journal Technology Editor
New collaborations drive the next wave of advancements
Precision agriculture has officially left its infancy. Companies have layered a full suite of products and services on top in recent years, including remote alerts, geo-tagging functionality, fleet management services and more. Now, data management is the next challenge to conquer.
"Early innovators have upward of 15 years of yield data and soil maps, but not many are doing much with that information," says Jeff Farrar, vice president of sales for Outback Guidance.
Thanks to the collective efforts of the ag industry, a farmer has more options than ever to put data to use on the farm. Solutions don't just come from precision ag companies anymore, either. A growing list of tractor manufacturers and even seed companies are dabbling in the precision ag space, including John Deere, AGCO, Case IH, Monsanto Company, DuPont Pioneer, Burrus, WinField and Steyer Seeds.
Some ventures, such as the Monsanto Integrated Farming Systems program, will develop farm-specific field prescriptions that deliver hybrid and planting rate recommendations. The
initial offering, FieldScripts, will be commercially available in 2014.
WinField, with its R7 Tool, has also made big investments in supporting its seed products with top-notch precision ag capability. The R7 Tool employs the use of satellite imagery and soil maps to showcase soil variability so farmers can make smarter seed selection. This tool was recognized in March as the Agricultural Retailers Association (ARA) Technology Contest Winner. ARA president and CEO Daren
Coppock says investing in precision ag is a logical move for seed companies.
"It's extremely beneficial for ag retailers to have new technology available to them that helps ensure they are informing their customers about the right amount of seed, nutrients and crop protection products to place in their fields at the right time," Coppock says. "Innovations like the R7 Tool enable our industry to produce crops in a more environmentally sound and efficient manner.
By understanding a farmer's geography, soil types, nutrient levels and maturity levels, Ohio-based Steyer Seeds can better select the right portfolio of hybrids for individual farms, says Ben Steyer, administration with the company.
"To be successful, we have to help the farmer be successful," Steyer says.
With the assistance of MyFarms, Steyer Seeds combines proprietary product knowledge with the farmer's data to procure hybrid selection and plant population recommendations. Customers select their fields from Google Earth maps. Back-end programming pulls up a wealth of data—everything from soil type to yield potential. As farmers enter additional information about their farm, such as crop rotation, traits used, etc., the algorithm spits out recommendations that users can accept or tweak as needed.
Steyer says the process allows the farmer to be the "ground specialist," and his company to be the "seed specialist." Adding precision ag becomes the tool that brings the two together, he says.
Left behind? As precision ag has made huge strides during the past decade, farmers can do more with their field data, and new terms such as "telematics" and "fleet management" have crept into the lexicon.
But all of this progress has left some small- and medium-sized farmers wondering if new functionality is only tailor-made for larger farm operations. That's definitely not the case, say industry experts.
"It is low-hanging fruit for the big guy," admits Dave Swain, manager of ATS marketing with AGCO. But, he quickly adds, smaller operations can gain just as much value.
Even a farmer with just one tractor can still use AGCO's Ag Command telemetry software to his or her advantage through maintenance alerts, detailed vehicle performance (speed, miles per gallon, etc.) and tracking vehicle location.
"It all depends on what your expectations are," Swain says. "Farmers have to ask themselves, what's the tipping point where it's a value to them?"
Matt Hesse, America's sales manager with Trimble's ag division, says farmers shouldn't feel overwhelmed jumping into precision ag because there are often simple entry points to help ease them into the new technology.
"You can start simple, get comfortable with using it, and then upgrade or add on the next solution later," he says.
Farms of all sizes can benefit from some sort of connectivity, Hesse contends—whether it's through diagnostics, guidance, planter monitoring, vehicle synch or simple data transfer.
"It really just depends on what you want to do first," he says.
Cost is an important factor to consider as well. Tim Heins, product manager with Raven Industries, says most farmers can get a basic guidance package for under $2,000. Be sure to balance the monetary cost against the savings in time and stress, he adds.
What's next. New innovations will continue to drive the precision ag industry forward, says Illinois Soybean Association CEO Craig Ratajczyk.
"We're only going to get smarter," Ratajczyk says. "Some think we're at the top of our game, but we're nowhere near there."


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PDF version of Eucalyptus Beginner's Guide – UEC Edition
We have just released the PDF version of "Eucalyptus Beginner's Guide – UEC Edition, V1.0" and you can download it from https://cssoss.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/book_eucalyptus_beginners_guide_uec_edition1.pdf. Please help us enhance the book by posting your suggestions as comments here.
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Eucalyptus Beginner's Guide – UEC Edition
Table of Contents
- Introduction to UEC and its components
- Installation & Configuration
- Web Interface
- Image Management
- Instance Management
- Storage Management
- Network Management
- Security
- Troubleshooting
- Euca Commands
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[Eucalyptus Beginner's Guide – UEC edition] Chapter 7 – Network Management
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Storage Management
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Eucalyptus Networking
In System mode, CC generates and assigns a random MAC address to the VM instance while requesting NC to bring up the instance. NC attaches the VM instance's virtual NIC to the physical NIC on the node through a bridge. This mode requires that the Nodes are connected to the enterprise network directly. Instances obtain an IP address using DHCP, just as physical machines on the network do.
This mode is very easy to setup as it does not have any additional prerequisites in terms of networking, except for a running DHCP server on enterprise network, and is a good way to get started with Eucalyptus, particularly if you want to set it up on your laptop/desktop to get a basic understanding.
This mode of networking is similar to "Bridged Networking" that hypervisors like VMware, VirtualBox etc. offer or like "tap" networking offered by KVM/Qemu.
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[Eucalyptus Beginner's Guide – UEC edition] Chapter 2 – Installation & Configuration
|Chapter 1
Introduction to UEC and its components
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Web Interface
The following sections describe how to install and configure a basic UEC setup spanning 3 servers. 2 Servers(Server1 and Server2) will run Lucid 64-bit server version and the third server will run Lucid Desktop 64-bit version(Client1). We have decided on installing the Desktop version on Client1 so that we can use Firefox or other browsers to access the web interface of UEC and also to use RDP/VNC clients during the image creation process.
What we have used as a sample setup is a typical minimal Eucalyptus setup. Client1 above need not be a dedicated machine. If you need to setup Eucalyptus on a single server, you can refer to UEC: CC and NC on a single machine . However, such a setup will not support Managed and Managed-NOVLAN modes of networking. Read the rest of this entry »
[Eucalyptus Beginner's Guide – UEC edition] Chapter 4 – Image Management
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Web Interface
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Instance Management
Eucalyptus Machine Image(EMI)
A Eucalpyptus Machine Image(EMI) is a combination of a virtual disk image(s), kernel and ramdisk images as well as an xml file containing meta data about the image. These images reside on WS3 and used as templates for creating instances on UEC. Each Linux EMI is a combination of the following:
- An XML file with a name like "karmic.img.manifest.xml" with information about one or more hard disk images, a kernel image and a ram disk image (id – emi-65440E7E)
- An XML file with a name like "vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-server.manifest.xml" with information about the corresponding kernel image(id – eki-39FC1244)
- An XML file with a name like "initrd.img-2.6.28-11-server.manifest.xml" with information about the corresponding ramdisk image(id – eri-71ED1322)
Each of these images has its own ID that can be used while running the instances. More on this in the chapter on "Managing Instances" Read the rest of this entry »
[Eucalyptus Beginner's Guide – UEC edition] Chapter 8 – Security
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Network Management
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Eucalyptus provides ingress filtering for the instances based on the concept of security groups. A Security Group is a named set of rules that Eucalyptus applies to the incoming packets for the instances in Managed and Managed-NOVLAN modes. You can specify a security group while launching an instance. Each security group can have multiple rules associated with it. Each rule specifies the source IP/network, protocol type, destination ports etc. Any packet matching these parameters specified in a rule is allowed in. Rest of the packets are blocked. Read the rest of this entry »
[Eucalyptus Beginner's Guide – UEC edition] Chapter 3 – Web Interface
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Installation & Configuration
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Image Management
Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud provides a minimal web interface to manage user credentials, manage images, administer user accounts, etc.
In our sample setup, the web interface is accessible at:
You have already finished setting up the password for the admin user of the web interface while working on Desktop1 in the chapter on "Installation & Configuration".
A user trying to access the interface for the first time, would need to sign up and would be able to use the interface after the account is approved by the administrator. The approval of the account by the administrator results in an emal to the user.


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Snowy Forest Night
A gorgeous night! The clouds have cleared after a couple days of snow. The moon is making the forest glow. Fairbanks, Alaska.
Ballaine Reflection After Sunset
Silhouetted boreal forest and reflection at Ballaine Lake - Fairbanks, Alaska
Fresh Snow - Blue Sky
I was out on the Loket Tributary to the Black Rapids Glacier in the Alaska Range on September 3, 2014. About 6 inches to a foot of fresh snow helped make for some stunning contrast against the rock and sky. Unfortunately, It won't be safe to return until the snow is solid enough to support body weight over crevasses and moulins. This was the nicest day I've had out there this year!
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Peak Sunrise
The pastels turn fiery as the Sun nears the horizon. Taken on the Alaska Dog Musher's Association trail system on the Creamer's Field Migratory Bird Refuge. It's sunrises like these that keep me going in the dark winter here.
Aurora Curtain - Vertical Panorama
Northern Lights near Cleary summit along the Steese Highway.
New stream
On the Black Rapids Glacier in the Eastern Alaska Range. Eventually the slushy blue streaks in the snow from a few days before this gave way to water channels in the ice beneath the surface. Sometimes they find old channels from previous years, sometimes they don't.
In the summer of 2014 we spent two weeks camped on the glacier and had to cross many of these streams. It was still early in the melt season which meant that there weren't any moulins yet to drain the water for the surface. This meant that to get across the glacier we had to jump over many of these streams, a handful of which were quite wide.
My knees would often be swollen and sore at the end of the day. I was always more comfortable jumping to my dominant, right leg, but when I didn't mix it up I paid for it later. I started jumping all the small streams to my left leg, and only to my right if there were consequences for missing a jump.
Autumn's Winter
An early snowfall fell in September of 2013 in Fairbanks. The foliage was just coming into peak and the oranges and yellows were beautifully covered in a bit of white. I would not mind if snow fell every year on autumn leaves.
Quintessential Autumn in Fairbanks
Beautiful fall foliage along the shores of Peat Ponds in the Goldstream Valley north of Fairbanks, Alaska. Part of the Interior Alaska Land Trust.
Looking out over Fairbanks and North Pole as the Sun rises from Ester Dome.
The Land Before Time?
The Savage River Valley in Denali National Park & Preserve. You should be able to spot Fang Mountain without a problem.
Aurora Corona 2
While driving back to Fairbanks from the White Mountains we saw the sky erupt from within the car. With the corona right overhead I pulled over as soon as possible near Chatanika and just caught the tail end of it.
Autumn in Denali National Park
Mountains south of the Park Road in Denali National Park and Preserve. "Rivers" of yellow wind through the red foliage and "lakes" of green spruce dot the hillsides. I have yet to find a place that I would prefer to be in autumn, even though the season here is incredibly short. The splendid colors only hang around for about a week before the deciduous leaves fall, followed shortly by the snow.
September - The view from US Creek Road
Taken during a late autumn drive into the White Mountains of the Alaska Interior for a dayhike. The White Mountain Recreation Area is incredibly remote, but littered with trails for hiking, snow machining, and skiing. Bordered by the Steese and Elliot Highways the rest of the 1 million acre rec area must be accessed by a handful of mining roads and by trail.
Icy slough
Watching the sunrise near Chena Hot Springs Road.
Grizzly Bear - Denali National Park
The brown bear paused from eating soapberries to look around before returning to the river. I can't believe how beautiful, almost human, it's eyes were. This really wrapped up a fantastic bus trip into Denali National Park.
August - Mt. Shand
The south face of Mt. Shand (12,660 feet, 3859 meters) in the Alaska Range. That's about a mile of vertical, exposed rock.
Changing seasons
A month earlier this landscape was vibrant green. Over the course of a single day I could witness the tundra reddening. Slowly, the bright scenery becomes muted by orange, red, and gold shining through the remaining spruce, willow and alder leaves, and grasses. The clouds and rain are held back by the Alaska Range, although the wind still howls through with occasional 60 mph gusts. The hills are beautiful and I just want to sit and watch the brush blow in the wind.
Canwell Glacier Dusting
Summer is over. The Sun rises over the Canwell Glacier in the Alaska Range on August 31, 2014. I had such a headache as I hiked out from my campsite in the Rainbow Basin because I forgot to bring my coffee. I managed to take a few photos as I sprinted down the icy trail to get on the road and hit up the IGA in Delta.
Never forget coffee again, Lee. Never again.
blogpost: Camping in the Rainbow Basin
End of a wonderful night
Taken in the winter of 2012 on Murphy Dome. I definitely drove our car into a snow bank on this lovely evening. Luckily the aurora stayed out long enough that even after all the digging, flagging down cars, and towing the car out of a ditch we still were able to watch the show.
The Hills along Chena Hot Springs Road outside of Fairbanks, Alaska after most of the leaves have already fallen.
Boreal Winters
A little light shining through in our boreal forest.
Quiet walk
Boardwalk on the Boreal Forest Trail at Creamer's Field.
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You like the pigs in Angry Birds? Do you feel bad for the pigs? Well, good news: the pigs are the stars in the next game from Rovio, the creators of Angry Birds. The game is called Bad Piggies and, Rovio hypes, there's "not a slingshot in sight".
So what kind of game is it?
With no screenshots out, we'll have to rely on a description from Fast Company which makes the game sound like some sort of combination building-and-driving game:
The swine are stranded on a desert island and have to build vehicles and contraptions to make their way to the delicious eggs that they can't seem to get enough of. Though there is a three-star mechanic at work, there are no birds in sight, and the pigs are bouncy, jovial, and downright likable-a far cry from the snorting, antagonizing characters from the Angry Birds installments.
There's not much intense thinking required: An intuitive interface guides the player in assembling the vehicle, and if it crashes before collecting all three stars, the player is taken right back to the start screen.
The game will be out on September 27 for iOS, Android and Mac. There will be Windows 8, Windows Phone and other PC versions "shortly" afterwards, according to Rovio.


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Wrestling predator love
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Last updated 2/13/2013 at 8:17am
Imagine this. You come home from work late at night; you go out to the garage to feed the cats like you always do. Cats are acting kind of skittish as you move to the garage. Then you find out why, a juvenile cougar with a mouthful of porcupine quills is waiting for his meal too. That's what local hot rodder Steve Knighten found a few weeks ago. His cats are still afraid to go to the garage.
I have also heard from other locals of seeing large coyotes, packs of dogs, and cougars all in town. Hunting our local cats and dogs at night, they are also following the deer in as they sneak in looking for grass and other chow. So keep your pets in at night. I also heard that an eagle picked off a local couple's chicken. So the big birds are getting a little hungry too.
A large group of local wrestlers are headed to the Tacoma Dome this weekend. Lake Roosevelt, Almira-Coulee-Hartline and Wilbur are all sending wrestlers, and all three have a chance to bring home some hardware. Good luck to you all. Lake Roosevelt will be leaving town at 9:30 Thursday morning; I challenge you all to line the streets as they head out and give them a proper send off. They have a good chance of bringing home three individual championships and a team championship. So show your support. Thanks to Steve Hood and Lee Largent for their dedication to local wrestling and our kids.
Valentine's Day is tomorrow. Yep, I said tomorrow. So there is still time to go to a local business and pick up a gift. There are lot of specials and sales in the local businesses. The Wizard in the Grove says he will be looking forward to the last minute fellas that come in with sweat on their brow looking to find some flowers to keep them out of the dog house. If you show up with a piece of gossip, it always makes your roses look a little better. That's what John says, anyway. On a personnel note: I love you honey, Happy Valentine's Day. (Blowing ya a kiss right now.)
Well the old Ground Hog in Pennsylvania says that winter is just about over. Thank goodness. I am ready for spring. The cold and fog has made the area seem a little too gloomy this year. Looking forward to sunshine, warm weather and birds. Yep, time to go birding again. I am excited.
If you see a member of the Ridge Riders Association, congratulate them and give them a pat on the back. The Colorama Rodeo was just about dead a few years ago and that would have really hurt our celebration. But with hard work and dedication they resurrected it and it was named Rodeo of the Year in the state. They also won Business of the Year at the chamber of commerce banquet. Well deserved. Oh yeah, some guy named Kohout won something too. But he doesn't want a pat on the back, and whatever you do, don't touch his hat.


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Gas prices hit all-time high
Motorist group survey says nationwide pump prices reach a fresh record as crude keeps cruising; California and Hawaii pay the most.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The price of gasoline rose to an all-time high Wednesday, according to the widely followed survey conducted for the motorist group AAA.
The average price of regular rose overnight to $3.246 a gallon, according to AAA's Web site. That's nearly 2 cents higher than the previous record of $3.227, which was first set last May and matched Tuesday.
Regular was $2.953 on average at this time last month and $2.543 a year ago.
Hawaii and California fetched the highest prices at the pump, as consumers had to shell out an average of $3.61 and $3.59 respectively for a gallon of gas. But New Jersey and Missouri drivers found gas prices to be nearly 60 cents a gallon cheaper, paying $3.02 and $3.04 respectively.
When adjusted for inflation, gas prices are still below their peak. The record on that basis was $3.405 and set in March 1981, according to the Energy Information Administration.
The fuel price survey was conducted for AAA by Oil Price Information Service.


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KStars: A Desktop Planetarium for KDE
The KStars Team is pleased to announce the latest stable snapshot release of KStars, the powerful graphical desktop planetarium for KDE. Recently featured in Linux Magazine, KStars displays an accurate representation of the night sky as seen from any location on Earth, on any date, including all of 40 000 stars, 13 000 deep-sky objects, all planets, the Sun and Moon, and 2500 comets and asteroids. KStars has an intuitive interface that makes it easy
The program works like a virtual
New features in this release include:
KStars is a part of the KDE Edutainment Project.
Very Good
The entire virtual universe looks amazing!
By Anton Velev at Tue, 2003/04/08 - 5:00am
A job well done
I must add a congratulations too. I was impressed when I saw the first versions of this a while back. It's something I always wanted to see in KDE, but never had the time to help with. I'm lost without my star guide from my old Palm Pilot, but this is far more impressive.
For those interested in astronomy, either as a hobbyist or a professional, KDE is a great platform to start porting the old astronomy apps and writing new ones. It would be great to see some IRAF enhancements in KDE, such as a kgterm, kimtool, etc. Also an IRAF cl syntax highlighter for Kate.
By George Staikos at Tue, 2003/04/08 - 5:00am
Bug with Kstars and Gnome desktop?
There is a bug that happens on my Red Hat Linux 9 and KStars under Gnome. I don't know which program's fault is, but I know that it happens only when KStars (latest version) is loaded on my [email protected]@75Hz Gnome desktop, with the "nv" 2D driver.
Any ideas from the authors? Thx.
By Gentu at Tue, 2003/04/08 - 5:00am
Re: Bug with Kstars and Gnome desktop?
I think KStars uses OpenGL. If you're using the 2D driver, then that rendering is being done in software by mesa. It's probably grabbing all the cpu time it can get, which is why the other apps will be slow. Try running some other OpenGL programs and see if you get the same problem. You could use NVidia's supplied drivers which perform very well for 3D, unless you're a "free software only" type of person, in which case you'll just have to live with it. Them's the breaks.
By Psiren at Tue, 2003/04/08 - 5:00am
Re: Bug with Kstars and Gnome desktop?
We don't use OpenGL yet, so that can't be the issue. I used to have a problem where my X server would eat all of the CPU when KStars was opened, which sounds similar to what you are seeing. Try running 'top' while kstars is running, see if it's X that is using the CPU. You might try upgrading to this new version.
Send me an email (kstars AT 30doradus DOT org) or open a bug if the upgrade doesn't work.
What about making it a screensaver also? So when running as a screensaver KStars starts in fullscreen mode. Would be nice
By Peter at Tue, 2003/04/08 - 5:00am
Re: Screensaver?
Or a wallpaper?
By EK at Tue, 2003/04/08 - 5:00am
Re: Screensaver?
Yes!!!! Like QtVision does it when it goes desktop mode (TV picture as wallpaper/on root window)
That would be nice!
By Sangohn Christian at Tue, 2003/04/08 - 5:00am
Re: Screensaver?
Can't wait to see that.
By a.c. at Tue, 2003/04/08 - 5:00am
Re: Screensaver?
Sounds like you don't have the Xv extension loaded in your X server. This is a common error and is in the README file.
By Richard Moore at Tue, 2003/04/08 - 5:00am
Re: Screensaver?
Another astronomy software for KDE
[shameless self promotion]
If you like KStars and if you have a 3D card check out Celestia:
you can download RPMS for Mdk 9.0 and Suse on SourceForge
An rpm for Mdk 9.1 is available in the contrib folder of Mandrake mirrors.
You can browse the handbook (in development) here:
By Christophe Teyssier at Tue, 2003/04/08 - 5:00am
Re: Another astronomy software for KDE
Celestia is awesome. It's definitely been an inspiration for KStars.
Re: Another astronomy software for KDE
Actually the star info in the RMB popup menu in Celestia is directly inspired from KStars, so thank you too!
I was thinking of having some integration with KStars too, like a [Point this object in KStars] entry in the popup menu. Does KStars has a DCOP interface?
By Christophe Teyssier at Tue, 2003/04/08 - 5:00am
Re: Another astronomy software for KDE
Re: Another astronomy software for KDE
No, not yet but we already have a script language so it should be easy to add.
By Christophe Teyssier at Tue, 2003/04/08 - 5:00am
Feature request
I was actually using this program to help me figure things out while using the Keck telescope in Hawaii a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately one feature that I would really like (perhaps its there but I couldn't find it) is the ability easily add new objects. I know that its possible to load them from a text file - but I couldn't figure out the format that was needed and it would be really nice to have a dialog box for doing a quick-and-dirty addition of a new object.
Really nice program though. :-)
By dr_lha at Wed, 2003/04/09 - 5:00am
Re: Feature request
Having a GUI for adding custom objects is a good idea. In the meanwhile, you can find details about the custom-file format in the file README.customize. Basically, each line consists of colon-delimited fields:
By LMCBoy at Wed, 2003/04/09 - 5:00am
Re: Feature request
Yes - it was really just a matter of timing. I needed to get an answer quickly so thought I'd give kstars a try. When I found out that I couldn't do it quickly I used another program so never really investigated the text format. I was a little rushed at the time, Keck time is valuable :-)
By Dr_LHA at Thu, 2003/04/10 - 5:00am
Re: Feature request
TYPE : RA : DEC : MAG : "Name of Object"
BTW - another quick question: Can I assume by the feature above that you don't use proper motions when calculating star positions? What kind of accuracy can one expect from kstars: minutes? seconds?
Thanks again.
By Dr_LHA at Thu, 2003/04/10 - 5:00am
Re: Feature request
We don't yet use proper motions. We correct for precession/nutation/aberration/atmospheric refraction. Minutes?! That's harsh, man :) The positions of stars are as good as the SAO, modulo the lack of proper motions, which is only going to matter for a handful of stars, and only for dates far from the present day.
By LMCBoy at Thu, 2003/04/10 - 5:00am
Re: Feature request
Hehe - sorry about that! Congrats on the Hubble Fellowship BTW.
By dr_lha at Thu, 2003/04/10 - 5:00am
Glad this is in Knoppix
... because it's one of my favorite things to show people, really a slick piece of software. My astronomy is about as strong as my astrology (;)), so I do little besides enter a location and look at all the pretty dots, but the location db is very complete, it's great to see that even many smallish U.S. cities are listed.
Kids like it, too! :)
By Tim at Wed, 2003/04/09 - 5:00am
What a wonderful tool for people... well done, Jason. I know that you worked hard on this. Hope lots of people will use it.
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Source: The Age National, March 2014
In a bittersweet development for Nick Auden's family, the "Save Locky's Dad" campaign appears to have expanded access to the potentially life-saving drug he was seeking, just three-and-a-half months after he died.
Mr Auden, a Melbourne-born father-of-three who died from advanced melanoma aged 41 last year, spent the last two months of his life in a desperate race against time to get access to one of Merck or Bristol-Myer Squibb's promised new "anti PD-1" drugs.
The immunotherapy drugs, known as Lambrolizumab and Nivolumab, have been shrinking tumours in scores of people in clinical trials and Australian Grand Prix boss Ron Walker has credited the Merck drugs with saving his life.
Despite receiving more than 524,000 signatures on a Change.Org petition and the backing of politicians and celebrities, including Ricky Gervais last year, it has now emerged Mr Auden missed out on a compassionate access scheme in the US by just a few months.
Mr Auden, who was living in the US where he worked as a commercial manager for Orica, could not get the investigational drugs because he missed out on clinical trials. For this reason, he pleaded with the companies to give him what is known as "expanded" or "compassionate" access to the medication, which is an option for the companies while the drugs are still in development.
In cruel timing, Merck announced this week that it was launching an "expanded access program" for its PD-1 drug Lambrolizumab (or MK-3475) in the US for people "who have serious or immediately life-threatening illnesses for which no comparable or satisfactory alternate therapies are available."
A spokeswoman for the company said it planned to make the scheme available to Australian patients "at the earliest possible time" but did not say when that could be. At the moment, only 175 patients with melanoma are receiving the drug in clinical trials.
Mr Auden's bereaved wife Amy Auden welcomed the program but said the timing was "absolutely devastating".
"Words cannot express the emotion I feel… The people at Merck said that they did not want to 'play God' by giving the drug to Nick (they were concerned about not having enough of the drug for everyone with stage 4 melanoma), however by denying Nick the drug, they in effect did just that," she wrote in an email.
"Every minute of every day I am reminded that Nick is not here and I am widowed at 38 with 3 young kids. Right now, however, I am trying to focus on the fact that were it not for the campaign, a compassionate use program for the new melanoma breakthrough drug would not be a reality for others."
Shortly after arriving in the US in 2011, Mr Auden was diagnosed with stage four melanoma. The prognosis for the disease is poor, but the new anti-PD-1 drugs have been raising hope it will improve. It is unclear if the drug offers a cure, but doctors say some people have lived years on the drugs when they would have otherwise died within months.
Mr Auden repeatedly failed to meet the criteria for clinical trials of the drugs, however in 2013, he qualified for one before a bowel obstruction later disqualified him from it.
When his disease progressed in November last year and it became clearer that he would not get compassionate access to an anti-PD-1 drug, he flew to Texas with his wife Amy for a last-ditch experimental treatment called TIL Therapy. They hoped it would stave off the cancer's progress until he got an anti-PD-1 drug.
Sadly, it did not and Mr Auden's health deteriorated. He was flown to his Denver home via air ambulance to spend a last, precious, few days with his three beloved children, Locky, Hayley and Evan. He died on November 22.Read original article


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Another in a series of New England getaways on public transportation.
HYANNIS — The CapeFlyer doesn't really fly. But the train doesn't sit in traffic either as it rolls from South Station down to Hyannis, the Cape's own hub. Even better, the most dreaded part of the journey — crossing one of the two auto bridges over the Cape Cod Canal — is now the most fun. Instead of the stall-and-crawl on the highway, the CapeFlyer rumbles across the ingenious railroad lift bridge, which is lowered for trains and then raised to allow ships to pass beneath. Train service to Cape Cod was last offered in 1984 under the Dukakis administration. We ran into the former governor greeting riders on a Sunday night train back to Boston. The CapeFlyer, he said, "was long overdue."
The CapeFlyer will run at least through Labor Day. Trains depart South Station on Friday at 5:12 p.m. and on Saturday and Sunday at 8 a.m. Return trains leave Hyannis at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. (For those who stay all week, there's a Hyannis-Boston train Friday at 8:30 p.m.) Travel time is roughly 2½ hours aboard double-decker commuter rail cars. One hybrid car has racks for about 30 bicycles (free, first come, first served) and a snack bar. On most trips, passengers can also chill with wine, beer, Bloody Marys, and Cape Codders.
South of the Middleborough station, the Flyer leaves the suburbs behind for views of cranberry bogs and marshes. At the Buzzards Bay stop, some passengers jump out to the platform for a better view of the railroad bridge and hop back on for the ride over. Once on the Cape, the train follows the canal and skirts the incredible salt marshes of Sandy Neck. Since no one has to keep their eyes on the road, everyone can enjoy the scenery.
The train arrives at the Hyannis Transportation Center, where buses connect with other Cape towns. On Friday nights, for example, the Plymouth & Brockton Street Railway Co. (508-746-0378, www.p-b.com, round-trip $7-$18, bicycles $5 each way if space permits) heads to the outer Cape. It's about 50 minutes to Wellfleet or 80 minutes to Provincetown. On Saturdays and Sundays, Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority (800-352-7155, www.capecodrta.org, per ride $2, age 60 and over $1, free but limited bike space) buses reach Dennis Port in 45 minutes or the Chatham rotary in 70 minutes. For freedom from bus schedules, reserve a car from Enterprise Rent-A-Car (508-778-2205, www.enterprise.com, starting around $40 per day) and it will be waiting for you at the Transportation Center.
But, in the true spirit of a hassle-free getaway, stay in Hyannis and dedicate the travel time that you've saved to simply enjoying summer.
As Cape Cod's commercial hub, Hyannis is often overlooked by vacationers, but it has plenty of diversions. From the Transportation Center, a weekend trolley (free) makes a loop about every 30 minutes that covers the downtown, the harbor, and Kalmus Beach, which is well equipped with lifeguards, bathrooms, and a snack bar. The downtown and harbor area are compact enough to cover by foot. The shops and restaurants of Main Street are literally around the corner and it's a 10-minute walk to the harbor. A bicycle is another good option to reach the beach. Rent one at Bike Zone (323 Barnstable Road, 508-775-3299, www.bikezonecapecod.com, from $20 per day) and helpful staff will direct you to Kalmus Beach (a leisurely 15-minute ride) and recommend a safe and scenic route to the picturesque village of Osterville.
Busy Hyannis Harbor is filled with fishing boats, ferries, cruise boats, and sailboats. Hy-Line Cruises' (138 Ocean St., 508-790-0696, www.hylinecruises.com, adults $16, children ages 3-11 $8 or free on morning trips) one-hour sightseeing trip gives an overview of Hyannis history and landmarks, including the Kennedy Compound. Both the Bay Spirit catamaran (180 Ocean St., 508-771-0107, www.bayspirittours.com, adults $18, 12 and under $8) and the Cape Cod catboat Eventide (146 Ocean St., 508-775-0222, www
.catboat.com, adults $35, over 62 $30, children $10) time one of their cruises to sunset. If you have little ones along, they can dress like pirates and search for hidden treasure aboard the Sea Gypsy (Ocean St. Dock, 508-394-9100, www.pirateadventures.com, $22.50) and take a few spins on the sweet carousel at the Funhouse Arcade (541 Main St., 508-790-0167, $3).
Two museums are great for a rainy afternoon. The Cape Cod Maritime Museum (135 South St., 508-775-1723, www.capecodmaritimemuseum.org, adults $5, students and seniors $4, 7 and under free) recounts five centuries of local history on the water. One man's personal relationship with the sea is explored at the John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum (397 Main St., 508-790-3077, www.jfkhyannismuseum.org, adults $8, over 65 $4, 10-17 $3).
Judging by all the restaurants on Main Street, breakfast is the most important — or at least most popular — meal of the day in Hyannis. The Daily Paper (546 Main St., 508-775-9711, www.dailypapercapecod.com, $4-$11) serves everything from lobster benedict to banana and candied walnut pancakes. For casual harborside dining, Spanky's Clam Shack (138 Ocean St., 508-771-2770, www.spankysclamshack.com, sandwiches and entrees $9-$30) is a good bet for fish and chips or whole belly fried clams.
Round-trip fares from South Station to Hyannis are $35 (one-way fares are $20). Kids 5 and under ride free. Tickets can be purchased at South Station, with the MBTA mTicket mobile app, online at www.mbta.com, or from the conductor on board the train. Details are spelled out at capeflyer.com.
Patricia Harris and David Lyon can be reached at harris.lyon@verizon


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Dawson's tied the knot – again.
James Van Der Beek married his pregnant girlfriend Kimberly Brook Sunday in Israel, YnetNews.com reported.
The "Dawson's Creek" star and Brook were photographed in Tel Aviv ahead of a small ceremony at the Kabbalah Center, according to YnetNews, an Israeli news site.
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The pair also attended a birthday party in honor of Kabbalah Center founder Rabbi Shraga Berg, whose Jewish spiritual movement includes Madonna and other celebrity adherents.
On Sunday, Van Der Beek, 33, announced his nuptials on Twitter, but was scant with details.
"Best day of my life so far," he tweeted cryptically.
An hour later he wrote: "The woman I love did me the honor of became my wife today ... I look forward to earning her for the rest of my life."
Late Monday, a rep for the former "Dawson's Creek" star told People mag the couple wed in "a small spiritual ceremony surrounded by a few close friends and teachers."
Back in March, Van Der Beek finalized his divorce to actress Heather Ann McComb, his wife of six years.
Three months later, Van Der Beek and Brook revealed they were expecting a girl in the fall.


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Mill House
SIMON CHEST-ANVIL FINISHView full Mill House collection
The Mill House collection reaches back to our roots and highlights the old techniques utilized during the early days of American furniture making. During those times craftsman were limited to solid lumbers and the materials they had, and they used techniques that were functional and visible to construct the furniture they built. The furniture itself was built with a form-follows-function perspective which resulted in pieces that were inherently well made. Due to the use of those varying resources and the purposes for each piece, this led to a sort of unintended eclectic style which, ironically, is popular today.
Care & Cleaning/Care of Finish - Finishes are naturally resistant to minor everyday hazards or accidents, however, some precautions are necessary to maintain the beauty of wood furniture. (1) Dust with soft cloth slightly moistened with water. Always rub in the direction of the wood grain. (2) Do not place beverages directly on furniture. (3) Furniture should not be placed in direct sunlight. (4) Remove any spills or smudges immediately.
Seven drawers, hand holds in back of case and adjustable levelers. The third and fourth drawer down have wood drawer dividers.
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