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Samsung SSD 840 (250GB) Reviewby Kristian Vättö on October 8, 2012 12:14 PM EST
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AnandTech Storage Bench 2011—Light Workload
Our new light workload actually has more write operations than read operations. The split is as follows: 372,630 reads and 459,709 writes. The relatively close read/write ratio does better mimic a typical light workload (although even lighter workloads would be far more read centric).
The I/O breakdown is similar to the heavy workload at small IOs, however you'll notice that there are far fewer large IO transfers:
|AnandTech Storage Bench 2011—Light Workload IO Breakdown
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While the 840 didn't shine in our Heavy suite, it definitely takes the crown in our Light suite. The 840 Pro is still faster, obviously, but the 840 is the second fastest SSD we have tested. As the 840 is aimed towards consumers, the Light workload test should be a better indication of overall performance than our Heavy suite.
What's rather odd is that the average write speed is over 100MB/s higher than any synthetic write benchmark we ran.
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xdrol - Monday, October 8, 2012 - linkYou sir need to learn how SSDs work. Static data is not static on the flash chip - the controller shuffles it around, exactly because of wear levelling. Reply
name99 - Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - link"I think Kristian should have made this all more clear because too many people don't bother to actually read stuff and just look at charts."
Kristian is not the problem.
There is a bizarre fraction of the world of tech "enthusiasts" who are convinced that every change in the world is a conspiracy to screw them over.
These people have been obsessing about the supposed fragility of flash memory from day one. We have YEARS of real world experience with these devices but it means nothing to them. We haven't been screwed yet, but with TLC it's coming, I tell you.
The same people spent years insisting that non-replacable batteries were a disaster waiting to happen.
Fifteen years ago they were whining about the iMac not including a floppy drive, for the past few years they have been whining about recent computers not including an optical drive.
A few weeks ago we saw the exact same thing regarding Apple's new Lightning connector.
The thing you have to remember about these people is
- evidence means NOTHING. you can tell them all the figures you want, about .1% failure rates, or minuscule return rates or whatever. None of that counts against their gut feeling that this won't work, or even better an anecdote that some guy some somewhere had a problem.
- they have NO sense of history. Even if they lived through these transitions before, they cannot see how changes in 2000 are relevant to changes in 2012.
- they will NEVER admit that they were wrong. The best you can possibly get out of them is a grudging acceptance that, yeah, Apple was right to get rid of floppy disks, but they did it too soon.
In other words these are fools that are best ignored. They have zero knowledge of history, zero knowledge of the market, zero knowledge of the technology --- and the grandiose opinions that come from not actually knowing any pesky details or facts. Reply
piiman - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - linkThen stick with Intel not because they last longer but they have a great warranty.(5 years) My drive went bad at about 3.5 years and Intel replaced it no questions asked and did it very quickly. I sent it in and had a new one 2 days after they received my old one. great service! Reply
GTRagnarok - Monday, October 8, 2012 - linkThis is assuming a very exaggerated amplification of 10x. Reply
Kristian Vättö - Monday, October 8, 2012 - linkKeep in mind that it's an estimation based on the example numbers. 10x write amplification is fairly high for consumer workloads, most usually have something between 1-3x (though it gets a big bigger when taking wear leveling efficiency into account). Either way, we played safe and used 10x.
Furthermore, the reported P/E cycle counts are the minimums. You have to be conservative when doing endurance ratings because every single die you sell must be able to achieve that. Hence it's completely possible (and even likely) that TLC can do more than 1,000 P/E cycles. It may be 1,500 or 3,000, I don't know; but 1,000 is the minimum. There is a Samsung 830 at XtremeSystems (had to remove the link as our system thought it was spam, LOL) that has lasted for more than 3,000TiBs, which would translate to over 10,000 P/E cycles (supposedly, that NAND is rated at 3,000 cycles).
Of course, as mentioned at the end of the review, the 840 is something you would recommend to a light user (think about your parents or grandparents for instance), whereas the 840 Pro is the drive for heavier users. Those users are not writing a lot (heck, they may not use their system for days!), hence the endurance is not an issue. Reply
A5 - Monday, October 8, 2012 - linkAh. I didn't know the 10x WA number was exceedingly conservative. Nevermind, then. Reply
TheinsanegamerN - Friday, July 5, 2013 - link3.5 years is considering you are writing 36.5 GB of data a day. if the computer it is sitting in is mostly used for online work of document editing, youll get far more. the laptop would probably die long before the ssd did.
also, this only apples to the tls ssds. mlc ssds last 3 times longer, so the 840 pro would be better for a computer kept longer than 3 years. Reply
Vepsa - Monday, October 8, 2012 - linkMight just be able to convince the wife that this is the way to go for her computer and my computer. Reply
CaedenV - Monday, October 8, 2012 - linkThat is how I did it. My wife's old 80GB system drive died a bit over a year ago, and it was one of those issues of $75 for a decent HDD, or $100 for an SSD that would be 'big enough' for her as a system drive (60GB at the time). So I spent the extra $25, and it made her ~5 year old Core2Duo machine faster (for day-to-day workloads) than my brand new i7 monster that I had just build (but was still using traditional HDD at the time).
I eventually got so frustrated by the performance difference that I ended up finally getting one for myself, and then after my birthday came then I spent my fun money on a 2nd one for RAID0. It did not make a huge performance increase (I mean it was faster in benchmarks, but doubling the speed of instant is still instant lol), but it did allow me to have enough space to load all my programs on the SSD instead of being divided between the SSD and HDD. Reply
AndersLund - Sunday, November 25, 2012 - linkNotice, that setting up a RAID with your SSD might hinder the OS to see the SSDs as SSD and not sending TRIM commands to the disks. My first (and current) gamer system consists of two Intel 80 GB SSD in a RAID0 setup, but the OS (and Intel's toolbox) does not recognize them as SSD. Reply


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Toyota Australia recalls 12,000 Prius hybrid cars
TOYOTA Australia has announced the recall of more than 12,000 second generation Toyota Prius hybrid cars to fix a potential steering problem. Worldwide the recall effects other models and has forced the company to recall more than 2.7 million vehicles around the globe for the issues related to the water pump and steering.
Japan's biggest automaker said there were no reported injuries or accidents, but it had received about 400 complaints in Japan over the pump issue and a handful about the steering problem.
Toyota Australia says it has received three reports of the problem on local Prius models but none resulted in accident or injury.
According to a statement from Toyota Australia the Prius problem relates to the steering of the second generation model built between May 2003 and April 2009.
"The recall is due to the possibility that the steering intermediate extension shaft may not have been adequately hardened at the time of production," the statement read.
"If this occurred, the steering shaft may become loose while driving under certain conditions. This includes forcefully turning the steering wheel to full lock while driving at a slow speed or sudden contact with road gutters.
"In the worst case scenario, if motorists continue to drive under these conditions the steering shaft may eventually wear out, resulting in the loss of steering ability."
The company says it will replace the shaft with a new, harder one which should only take about one hour to complete at a Toyota dealership.
The firm last month issued a huge global recall of 7.43 million vehicles, including its popular Camry and Corolla models, over a possible fire risk tied to a fault in its electric windows.
Rivals Honda and Nissan have also announced recalls in the past year.
Toyota's latest call back involves a number of vehicles manufactured between August 2000 and December 2011, including its popular Prius hybrid, which suffered from one or both of the defects, it said.
In a worst-case scenario the steering issue could see drivers lose control of the vehicle, while the water pump problem could render it inoperable, the firm added.
About 1.5 million of the vehicles were sold in Japan, with the remainder sold around the world, including in the United States and Europe.
Toyota, once lauded for its safety standards, has been forced into damage control mode in recent years after recalling millions of vehicles over defects.
Earlier this year it added two models to a controversial 2009 recall launched after floor mats became trapped under the accelerator, which was linked to accidents that allegedly caused dozens of deaths.
Toyota's mishandling of the initial problem and other reports of sudden, unintended acceleration led to the recall of more than 12 million vehicles worldwide, a US congressional probe, more than $50 million in fines from US regulators and public apologies by its chief.
Toyota has since worked hard to regain its reputation for safety, while at the same time fighting off the impact of the economic crisis, a strong yen and the devastating 2011 quake-tsunami disaster.
The firm did not supply estimated costs of the latest recall but last year it pegged expenses from some earlier call backs at about 180 billion yen ($2.28 billion).
The Japanese firm regained its position as the world's number-one automaker in the first half of 2012, stealing back the lead from General Motors.
Toyota shares slipped 0.81% to 3,060 yen in Tokyo on Wednesday.

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1. The new logo is ugly. I'm sorry, but it is. This is what happens when you put straight people in charge of site design.
2. Having "security news" and "security products" at the top of every webpage is stupid, and redundant. Although, I guess someone has to fill the void created by the 1,000 square mile banner box at the top.....
2. The AntiPoints system algos. need serious updating. The thresholds have long outlived their usefulness.
3. Having "live moderators" as well as the AntiPoints system causes conflict that needs addressed.
4. The search function needs to be re-written to use mysql's built in functions. This would enable to you to eliminate the search indexing that takes place each time a new thread is created, and would SIGNIFICANTLY increase not only the speed of searches, but of new thread creation as well.
5. Dozens of templates aren't cached as they should be, cuz I didn't fully understand vbulletin's built in caching system when I was last working on it. This is causing thousands of unnecessary DB queries / hour I would suspect. Ooops, mah fault.
6. The back-end vbulletin code needs updated, because there are dozens of cross-site scripting vulnerabilities that have been discovered, that effect the site. In short, it would be very easy to start gathering the passwords of administrators and/or moderators.
7. In case no one noticed, the security news groups aren't updating from usenet anymore, and haven't been. Perhaps they should be fixed so they're actually updating, or else removed entirely if no one is able to get the updating feature working again.
8. The "Oops A Bug" forum is now filled with literally hundreds of bugs that have never been fixed. These bugs effect not only functionality, but security. If this forum is ignored for much longer, the site is going to end up getting hacked by someone, and the database is going to face wrath. AntiOnline is not the type of site that can be neglected for long periods of time before something bad happens......
I have been hoping that Jupiter Media has been ignoring the site because maybe it was doing something cool, like making a new version of it in the works behind the scenes, and were just using this until it was complete. Doesn't look like there's a secret new version in the works, though.
It's beginning to look more and more like they're simply trying to let the site "run itself as is". A recipe for disaster......
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2012 AMSOIL Engine Masters Challenge Monday Results
Robert Peters
Robert Peters (Team 41) and the RTD team kicked off the AMSOIL Engine Masters Challenge for 2012 with a fuel injected small block Chevrolet combination. The Holley EFI system featured a massive Dominator style throttle body on the relatively small 363 cube powerplant. The hedge here was a uniquely modified intake manifold which was designed to deal with the massive airflow potential. Unfortunately, tuning problems showed up right from the start, with what seemed to be an impossibly lean air/fuel ratio. The engine struggled under load, and no amount of tuning seemed to influence the problem. The team did manage to complete the required three qualifying pulls, but the engine's tune was definitely way out of the ballpark. A best peak torque of 527 lb-ft of torque did show the engine's potential.
The University of North Carolina At Charlotte
Score - 2292.9
University of NC at Charlotte NC (Team 40) ran second, running another small block Chevy combination, this one displacing 403 cubic inches. The Accel DFI system equipped engine seemed well prepared, and fired cleanly seemingly close to a working tune. The team members confidently worked the tuning tables to optimize the combination. Things seemed promising in early running. Unexpectedly, the power numbers showed a significant drop, seemingly losing a cylinder. The team persevered, making the three qualifying pulls for a score of 2292.9, but the team was obviously disappointed as the engine scored well below its potential.
TNT Engineering
Score - 2047
TNT Engineering headed by Tony Bogovich was third on our roster, running a 308-cube combination based on a Ford Boss 302. With a top end consisting of ProComp cylinder heads, there seemed to be plenty of cylinder head to make the engine breathe. Unlike our first two fuel injected competitors, this engine featured a Quick Fuel carburetor and a two plane intake manifold. The engine ran flawlessly through the qualifying process, but the overall power curve seemed a little light for a score of 2047, with peak output recorded at 400.7 horsepower and 365 lb-ft of torque.
TM Enterprises
Score - 2188.4
The big Ford Shotgun Hemi engine from TM Enterprises generated plenty of attention with its elaborate fuel injection system and apparent dual-plug configuration. These new twin plug heads from TM are not legal in the street division in dual plug form, so the team simply mocked-up the secondary set of plugs to fit the rules of the event. With 545-cubes of exotic Ford on the dyno, the attention level by all in attendance was high. The team clearly had the engine management system close right from the start, focusing on optimizing and tweaking for max power. The engine pulled cleanly, posting a best of 751 horsepower and 704 lb-ft of torque, finishing with a score of 2188.4.
Kustom Kemp
Score - 2077.8
Return competitors Kustom Kemp always brings AMC power to the show, this time with Lynn Peterson and the teams putting together an OEM based short stroke combination featuring modified production iron heads. The engine displaced 361 cubic inches, and was equipped with a four barrel carburetor. Peak power turned in by the effort was 445.9 hp, while torque checked in at 430.3. This engine is representative of good street power from basic AMC parts. The team finished with a score of 2077.8.
Score - 2228.3
Henderson Power Sports
Score - 2298.2
Henderson Power Sports and the team led by Chris Henderson brought another small block Chevrolet, a 408-cube combination featuring an Accel DFI injection system and a set of AFR 235 cylinder heads. This engine was prep and primed and ready to turn a number, handily passing the 600 horsepower mark, and building plenty of torque along the way. When the dust settled from the final qualifying pull, Henderson completed the day in the number one position in the Street Division, posting a score of 2298.2 points, making peaks of 612 hp and 546 lb-ft of torque.


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DazMode could easily be described as a veteran PC water-cooling evangelist. What this man doesn't know about high performance water cooled rigs, simply ain't worth knowing. Having come close to completing his Orange Build project which was based around our X58A-OC board, we thought it would be cool to see what Daz would do with our GIGABYTE G1.Sniper board. Check out the first video of many:
Part 1: The Unboxing.
Cheers Daz. Can't wait to see the Green and Black Build!
Find our more about the G1.Sniper here.
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OKAVANGO DELTA, BOTSWANA — It happened unexpectedly; a ticked-off trumpet thundered from the inky darkness of the Botswana night outside the Boma, mere metres from where we dined, so intense it reverberated through my soul like the vibrations of a bass drum.
Next, a flash of massive fanned out ears, ghostly lit by campfire and table lantern; then charge!
As tusks and trunk thrust through a V-shaped opening in the traditional African outdoor enclosure's protective stick wall, flight instinct instantaneously propelled guests at Wilderness Safaris' Xigera Camp from the table.
As we fled without thinking, my husband, who was delayed by his chair tipped over in haste, was stopped by a guide and told not to run, as we had been advised numerous times already, particularly when observing cheetahs on foot in Namibia. Slinging his arm firmly around Reid's back, the two big, tall men stood their ground and the several thousand kilogram adolescent male African elephant, who had of late been hanging around the camp, backed away.
We had watched him earlier foraging on lush vegetation, surprised to find him so near the elevated walkway of our camp on Paradise Island in the heart of the pristine Okavango Delta. It's the world's largest inland freshwater delta and one of its most important wetlands, covering a fan-shaped 16,000-square-kilometre chunk of the semi-arid Kalahari Desert, the planet's largest stretch of sand.
He seemed unperturbed by us then. But something now had irritated him, perhaps the couple rising from their chairs directly in front of the V-cut.
Bull elephants often mock charge, Moreri, the veteran guide reassured as we regrouped, our adrenaline being released by laughing at how instinctively we reacted.
"I've never seen people dash out of chairs so quickly," I said, giggling as I noticed I still gripped my mousse dessert glass.
Mock or real, playful or serious, it was no laughing matter. Our headstrong visitor is the world's largest land mammal.
It was a bonding, yet sobering, moment, one in which we realized how tiny and defenceless we are in the vast, survival of the fittest, eat or be eaten African wilderness.
A wilderness that, in many places on the continent, is in jeopardy due to the actions of mankind but is flourishing here in the Okavango Delta, thanks to a forward-thinking government working in partnership with non-profits and companies like Wilderness Safaris.
Both were honoured with 2013 Condé Nast Traveler World Savers Awards: the Okavango Delta won sustainable destination in a developing country for ensuring tourism protects the environment and benefits local people; Wilderness Safaris the wildlife award for its help reintroducing white and black rhinos to the Okavango Delta and funding a project to save Botswana's endangered wild dogs, as well as financing studies to aid in conserving the country's roan antelope and lions.
Botswana's president was also honoured as a Global Visionary for advancing sustainable development at home and continentwide. His steadfast stance? Africa does not need to be destroyed to flourish.
His results speak louder than conservation rhetoric. Whereas elsewhere in eastern and southern Africa the number of savannah elephants, kin of our Xigera friend (or foe), is declining due to poaching, the delta now claims the largest population — about 25,000; too many, really.
That creates a different problem; conflict with humans near settlements, as we got a little taste of first-hand. The pachyderms damage crops and property.
Citing wildlife conflict Africa's greatest conservation challenge, Condé Nast lauds Botswana for forging solutions. Here again, Wilderness Safaris has stepped up, funding Elephants Without Borders in tracking herd movement, as well as supporting a project training farmers to fend off elephants safely by planting chilies and lighting acrid "chili bombs" around crops. With their keen sense of smell, elephants dislike capsaicin, the chemical that makes chilies hot.
Perhaps chilies on our dinner table would have prevented our encounter that night. But we wouldn't have wanted it to. Elephant charge and other surprising wildlife experiences in the raw African wilderness are the most shared stories of our week at three of Wilderness Safaris' 17 Okavango Delta luxury tented camps.
Despite our momentary fright, the next day we find ourselves high atop the great mammals on an elephant-back safari at Abu Camp in northern Botswana, a mere five-minute flight from Xigera. Ironically, three elephants, in no hurry to get off the runway, delay the departure of Tonki ya Makgobogobo (Donkey of the Delta), our Wilderness Air Cessna.
While all of Wildernesses' safari camps are different, one from the other, Abu is unique as it's the only camp with a resident herd of trained elephants.
I'm aboard Cathy, the herd's matriarch, known as the limousine for the most comfortable ride. I'm not nervous at all but I do harbour new-found tusker respect. From her handler, who straddles her neck, I learn Cathy shares Canadian citizenship. Soon after her 1960 Uganda birth, she was taken to a safari park near Toronto. More than 25 years later, she was recruited for a movie in South Africa by Abu Camp's founders, afterwards moving to the camp to help pioneer Africa's first elephant-back safaris in 1990.
Guests can pet, ride, go for escorted walks with, help their devoted handlers care for, and even sleep near the elephants. Their contented rumblings and snores are audible from the mosquito net-enclosed Star Bed on a raised platform overlooking the elephant Boma, the only experience of its kind in Africa.
Besides Cathy, we are joined by the other five Abu elephants, all female and all rescued or born to mothers here. Several previously captive elephants have been released to the wild, and, recently, a young male offspring left the herd.
Each has their own personality. We are soon reminded of their great power when almost two-year-old Warona, the herd's youngest, playfully pushes Reid into a bush, not aware of her already big size.
Her mother Shirheni insists that he, with his shaved head, needs a hat, plucking one off a guide's head and plunking it on his, twice.
We also derive great amusement feeding the elephants pellets after our ride. "Trunk up," we learn, is the mouth opening command, allowing us to throw a large handful of pellets in. "Trunk down" is the order to lower and upturn the leathery appendage, into which we directly dump the food.
For two short days, we are part of this special elephant herd, yet another treasured memory of a trip-of-a-lifetime to the wetland paradise and Kalahari sands of the Okavango Delta.
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Brewers pitching stumble to dead last in NL
Young pitchers haven't come through
There were plenty of questions about the Milwaukee Brewers' starting rotation before the season.
Veterans Zack Greinke, Shaun Marcum and Randy Wolf were gone, leaving the Brewers' fate in the hands of veteran Yovani Gallardo, young but promising Chris Narveson and Marco Estrada, and a handful of prospects.
Many predicted the build-from-within approach would go poorly for the Brewers, but not many expected things to be this bad.
Through the first 62 games, Milwaukee's starters rank dead last in the National League with a 5.29 ERA, lead the league in earned runs and have thrown 360 innings, fewer than all but two NL teams, Pittsburgh and the New York Mets.
With that kind of production, it comes as no surprise that the Brewers are 27-38, 15 games out in the NL Central and just ahead of the last-place Cubs.
"I knew we would have some bumps along the way, that's what I figured. But I didn't think we would struggle like this," manager Ron Roenicke said. "I thought Yovani would be really good, I thought Estrada would be solid. Picking up (Kyle) Lohse at the end, I thought was going to be huge. I thought there were going to be a lot of good games. We just haven't seen them."
Right-hander Mike Fiers dazzled in 2012 before running out of gas late in what turned out to be a playoff race. Highly regarded prospect Wily Peralta appeared ready for the big time and former first-round draft pick Mark Rogers finally got past the injury issues that had plagued him.
Those performances gave Milwaukee's front office enough confidence to give the youngsters a shot in 2013.
In spring training, the youth movement showed signs of trouble early. Rogers lost his velocity and eventually ended up on the disabled list. Fiers struggled with his command, was out of the rotation after just one start and was later optioned back to Triple-A Nashville.
Peralta has been the stalwart thus far, but until recently has struggled with his command and is 4-7 with a 6.03 ERA in 14 starts this season. Alfredo Figaro has been pressed into starting duty and has done well recently, holding opponents to eight runs in 17.1 innings in his three starts.
Hiram Burgos was 0-2 but had a 2.70 ERA at Nashville before he was brought up to Milwaukee, where he went 1-2 with a 6.44 ERA in six starts before landing on the disabled list.
The veteran arms on the staff have gotten off to rocky starts, as well.
Gallardo's fastball has not been overpowering. Until going eight innings against the Marlins on Monday, he had had worked more than six innings only twice in 13 starts. High pitch counts have been a frustrating obstacle for a pitcher considered to be the staff ace.
Narveson has yet to start this season, recovering from injuries. Estrada ended up on the DL in the last week.
There is blame to go around for the Brewers' lack of success. Milwaukee's offense, despite featuring four hitters with averages over .300, has a .247 average with runners in scoring position. Only 75 runs have been scored by Milwaukee in the seventh inning or later, 13th in the National League.
No Milwaukee starter has been the victim of lackluster offensive support more than Lohse.
Milwaukee surrendered its first-round draft pick when it signed Lohse just before opening day. The veteran right-hander has been something of an innings-eater for the most part, but has been the Brewers' hard-luck starter, posting a 2-6 record in large part because his offense has provided just 2.64 runs per start of support prior to his outing against Philadelphia.
"It's a long season so you know there's going to have ebbs and flows," Lohse said. "We're going to score runs sometimes, we're not going to score runs sometimes. As a starting pitcher, you have to go out there and keep your team in the game no matter how many runs they're scoring. That's your job. For the most part, I've been able to do that but you can't concentrate on that kind of stuff."
If the last few games are any indicator, the starters may have turned a corner.
Lohse went eight innings against the Phillies on Sunday and Gallardo followed with eight shutout frames at Miami. Peralta gave up three second-inning runs on five consecutive hits Tuesday but recovered and allowed nothing further in six innings. Alfredo Figaro went seven Wednesday without giving up a run.
Sure, the Marlins have the worst record (19-46) and second-worst offense in baseball, but with the way things have gone for Milwaukee's rotation this season, it's a start in the right direction.
"If we're going to turn this around, that's where it's got to start; with starting pitching." Lohse said. "I've talked to all the guys, we know we have to start doing a better job of keeping the team in games. If we keep it tight, our offense is going to be able to pick us up. But when we fall way behind, that's not good for anybody. It's too big of a hole sometimes to overcome."


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Ryan Howard is named the National League Player of the Month for the Month of September.
While helping to boost the Phillies to the NL East title, Howard had 32 RBIs and an .852 slugging percentage in September. His home run, RBI and slugging percentage marks led the NL.
"Ryan's our carrier," Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said. "When I was in Cleveland, we had more than one carrier. He's our carrier. He's the guy who puts up the big numbers. He's the guy that knocks in the 130 to 160 RBIs. He's the guy who's big in the moment."
Howard hit just .213 in August, but it all came together for him at the plate in September. Before 2008, Howard had been a career .318 hitter in September and October.
"You just go up there with your game plan and, whatever happens after that, happens," Howard said. "You want to come through when your team needs it and provide a lift."
Howard was locked in at the plate in September and the breaks went his way, too.
"When the balls are falling in, it's different," Howard said. "There are some things you could be doing when you're in a slump that you're doing when you're hitting .400. It's all about the ball falling in."
Howard, 28, had nine multi-hit games in September, including consecutive multi-hit games on Sept. 7 against the Mets and Sept. 8-9 against Florida. He also had a multi-homer game on Sept. 3 at Washington, when he hit a pair of two-run shots.
Howard, who was the 2006 NL MVP, finished the regular season with NL-best marks of 48 homers and 146 RBIs. He's the first Phils player with three consecutive 40-homer seasons.
It's the third Player of the Month award for Howard, who also was chosen in both August and September 2006.
Others receiving votes included Dodgers teammates Manny Ramirez (.370, 8 HR, 28 RBIs) and Andre Ethier (.462, 8 2B, 18 RBIs) and D-backs shortstop Stephen Drew (.337, 6 HR, 12 RBIs).
Sharp, the presenting sponsor of the NL Player of the Month Award, will present Howard with a 52-inch AQUOS. Sharp AQUOS is the official high-definition television of Major League Baseball. Howard will also receive a specially designed trophy to mark his achievements. (H/T Phillies.com)
And Howard deserved this, hands down. The 'Big Man' and his bat came through for the team this month, and how. Now if someone would just find some way to fix his leaky glove, everything will be okay when the playoffs begins Wednesday.


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Wow. I can't believe that it is already Sunday night. Time really does fly. It seems like I just did my menu plan for last week. This week is going to be crazy, just as last week was. I have so much going on. I didn't get half of what I wanted to get baked last week done, so I have moved some of it to this week. I am trying to concentrate on using stuff I have in the house and only buying fresh fruits, milk, eggs & veggies. Well, the $100 I spent at the grocery store today shows that I didn't do as well as I had hoped! LOL! I really should stay out of the store when I am hungry.
Sunday ~ Grilled Salmon, okra medley (for me; brocooli for my peeps), steamed brown basmati rice and spinach salad. Oh, the kids also had leftover All Purpose Quick Bread.
Monday ~ Crockpot Roast Chicken, garlic mashed potatoes, steamed green beans & salad.
Tuesday ~ Mexican Pizzas with ground turkey taco meat, mexican rice, & salad.
Wednesday ~ Cheeseburger In Paradise. Hannah has ice skating.
Thursday ~ Filet mignon, baked sweet potatoes or baked sweet potato fries & spinach salads
Friday ~ Homemade pizza, steamed broccoli & salad
Saturday ~ Breakfast for dinner (french toast for the kids), veggie frittata for moi, bacon & sweet potato hash browns.
Baking Projects for the Week
Applesauce Cake
Pie in a Pumpkin
Chocolate Chewies
Pumpkin Muffins (did these once, I need to perfect them)
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The Tennessee State Library and Archives has launched an awesome new project:
The first of its kind in the nation, the Tennessee Civil War Geographic Information System (GIS) Survey shows hundreds of locations where Civil War battles, engagements, skirmishes and other military actions took place. The interactive GIS application for the Civil War in Tennessee is now available at: http://tnmap.tn.gov/civilwar/.
The web site allows modern aerial photography, street maps and land use maps to be overlaid onto sites where Civil War actions occurred in Tennessee. It also links narrative information about these events from the Tennessee Civil War Sourcebook. Complete accounts of all the state units that served in the war are searchable by county along with 1860 United States Census data.
This is one of the most comprehensive and useful online historical tools I've ever seen. You can select any engagement and get its location on a modern-day aerial, street, or terrain map, along with primary source material; instantly access unit histories relevant to each county; see the locations of historic markers across the state; and more.
I clicked on my home county and found OR reports for actions in my hometown, along with descriptions of all the units that included local boys. Pretty cool! Go check it out.


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Beyond "Aunt Betty's Story"
Filling-in some of the gaps in the story of Bethany Veney and following up "beyond 'Aunt Betty's Story,'" the following is from an article I wrote in March 2006 for my column in the Page News & Courier.
Born ca. 1815 in Page County, the daughter of slaves Joseph and Charlotte Johnson, Bethany Johnson – better known as Bethany "Aunt Betty" Veney (for her second marriage to Frank Veney) – has a life story that has been well-documented in "Aunt Betty's Story." The booklet can be found in print and even more easily on the web but has a limitation for the fact that it ends in telling the story of her life in 1889. However, "Aunt Betty" actually lived for another twenty-six years.
Now, I've brought up various aspects of her story and the life of her second husband in a few articles over the years, but within the last year, I have had the particularly good fortune of having made contact with one of Bethany Veney's great-great granddaughters, also of Worcester, Massachusetts. Just last week, as some may have noticed in the Page County chronology in the Page News & Courier, there was a photo of Bethany Veney, which was copied and sent to me by by this descendant. I thought it an appropriate addition to the special features concentrating on the 175th anniversary of Page County. In addition to this fabulous photo, I was also very happy to receive a couple of newspaper articles – one relating the story of Bethany's 100th birthday party, and another, a very informative obituary.
As everyone knows from her story, having been purchased by George James Adams, of Providence, R.I., Bethany was liberated from slavery and taken back to Providence. Of course, there are a few minor details that were not mentioned in the booklet. At the opening of the Civil War, Adams told Bethany that "she was at liberty to go wherever she pleased." As one article stated, "as she used to put it, 'the same as white people.'" Aunt Betty then went to Worcester and one of the first things she recalled doing was making gruel and carrying it to the sick Union soldiers in Brookfield. During this time, she also worked on her own as a laundress and earned extra money by going door to door and selling a bluing solution (made to brighten clothing). Aunt Betty apparently had a thriving business in selling this solution to housewives of her neighborhood and "if one of her customers moved to another part of Worcester it was her custom to carry the bluing to them."
After the Civil War, Aunt Betty returned to Virginia several times and brought sixteen relatives back to Worcester with her, including her daughter Charlotte E. Fickland Jackson (Jerry Fickland being the name of Betty Veney's first husband and Charlotte's father) and her husband, Aaron Jackson.
Like Veney, both Charlotte and Aaron had been slaves in Page County, but, their freedom not being purchased like Aunt Betty's, they remained in Page for a few years after, through the Civil War. Having taken a look into the census records, it looks like Aaron's and Charlotte's first child, Bettie L. Jackson, was born in Virginia in 1867. However, their second child, Martha B. Jackson was born in Massachusetts in August 1869 – showing that they relocated from Page County to Worcester sometime between 1867 and 1869. Other children born to the couple in later years included David T. (1871), Blanche (born ca. 1876 and later married a man by the name of Cooper), Harry C. (1879), and Lena (born after 1886? and later married Lesley Martin Wilson of Maryland). Aaron Jackson died on June 13, 1905, while residing at their home at 21 Tufts Street in Worcester. Jackson had been admitted to the City Hospital with blood poisoning. Forty years since having been a slave in Page County, Aaron was 73 years old at the time of his death. In his years at Worcester, he had been a member of the Volunteers of America and was interested in religious work. In addition to his children and grandchildren, he was also survived by a brother, Olmstead Jackson and a sister, Miss Hennie Jackson. It is uncertain whether these siblings had been slaves in Page County or not, but it seems quite possible. Neither can be located in the United States census records.
On March 19, 1912, "Aunt Betty" celebrated her 100th birthday at her home at 21 Tufts Street in Worcester. A newspaper account from the "Telegram" read "It was planned to have a reception from 2 o'clock in the evening until 9 o'clock last night, but it was long before the beginning when visitors, with guests began to arrive and they continued to come all day, and until Aunt Betty retired last night. Relatives present, were her daughter, Mrs. Charlotte Jackson, with whom she lives, granddaughters, Mrs. Lena Wilson, of Worcester and Mrs. Blanche Cooper of Philadelphia, and great-grandchildren Robert and Emily Cooper and Rheta and Mabel Wilson. The party was arranged by Mrs. B.A. Jackson, 2 Clifton Court." The article stated that over 100 people "called during the day" and "had a chat with Aunt Betty, who appeared in excellent health and in full possession of her faculties. She readily recognized all who came, although there were some she had not seen in a long time. 'I don't feel like 100 years old,' she said. 'No, I don't feel that way, but when I stop to look back, I realize I have lived a long time. I don't think I feel any older than I did a year ago today; when I celebrated my 99th birthday.'"
In addition to visitors, letters had been received "from acquaintances in Boston, Providence, Pawtucket, New York, Washington, Ohio, Michigan and Colorado. In many of each person's letters, money was enclosed. Many of the guests brought money, and it was put away, not to be counted until this morning. Among the letters which Aunt Betty most cherishes was one from Mayor David F. O'Connell, which the postman brought on his first run."
As with any good newspaper account of a person's 100th birthday celebration, there were some great stories about Bethany's life that are certainly of value in mentioning in this article.
"She has been religious and was of the old fashioned Methodist school," noted one newspaper account. "She had never danced, played cards, or taken part in any frivolous past times. She was always opposed to dancing especially the so-called modern dancing and always said that these dances were the work of the devil." She was a member of the A.M.E. Church and for many years preceding her 100th birthday was a member of the Trinity Church. For fifty-seven "consecutive summers she had attended the Sterling camp meetings and her statements of testimony have been the interesting feature. She is a famous blueberry picker and last summer insisted that she had lost little of the strength that has made her old age remarkable for she keeps up year end, in the berry patches, with pickers many years her junior." She believed that "her long life was due to the fact that she always lived regularly and she never touched liquor and she went to church until the past year and the greatest hardship that she had to bear was owing to the fact that her advancing years made it necessary for her to 'miss meeting' on account of her health sometimes and because of the weather."
When she was 96 or 97 years old, Bethany, along with a friend, was headed for a camp meeting but took a wrong car. Instead of arriving at Sterling, she arrived at Clinton, Massachusetts. So, having reached the incorrect destination, she took to the road by foot and walked six miles to make her meeting. "On that occasion she went into a field to rest and while there picked several quarts of blueberries and took them along with her to the camp grounds."
At 1 p.m. on November 16, 1916, Bethany Veney, age the age of 103 years, died at the home of her daughter, Charlotte, at 33 Winfield Street in Worcester. It was said that she "retained her faculties, except her eyesight, in a wonderful manner. Her memory was keen, not in the manner of old persons, in remembering dates of long ago, but she kept herself posted on the topics of interest of today and although she could not read because of her eyesight in later years, she kept posted by asking questions."
Bethany's daughter, Charlotte, died on February 14, 1921 at a home that she had moved to since the death of her mother, at 89 Mayfield Street in Worcester. She was buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery near her mother.
On July 12, 2003, the Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, signed a proclamation honoring Bethany Veney and her life by declaring the day "Bethany Veney Day in Worcester, Massachusetts."


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Hillsville Mayor Greg Crowder found guilty of impersonating law officer
Crowder appeals 90-day suspended sentence
Hillsville Mayor Greg Crowder was found guilty Thursday in Bristol General District Court of impersonating a law enforcement officer.
After reading the verdict, Judge Blake McKinney sentenced Crowder to 90 days in jail with 60 days suspended and a $500 fine. Crowder's wife, Rebecca LouAnne Crowder, was found not guilty of the same charge. Both stem from a March 14, 2013 incident that led to their arrests in August of last year.
Greg Crowder has appealed, and his appeal hearing is set for March 10 in Bristol Circuit Court.
After Crowder entered a plea of not guilty to the misdemeanor charge, Bristol City Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney John Bradwell called four employees of Outback Steakhouse in Bristol as witnesses. Bradwell first called Edward Kaiser, a partner intern at the restaurant.
Kaiser said he returned from an event when travel manager Stacy Craig asked him to speak to Crowder.
"He introduced himself as an off-duty ABC agent that had seen incidents at the table across from him," Kaiser said.
Crowder told Kaiser he witnessed ABC violations of individuals being "overserved" and given "Styrofoam to-go cups." Kaiser testified Crowder said he was an off-duty ABC agent and he didn't want to have to call an in ABC agent. Kaiser said he and Crowder had two different conversations about different alcohol-related issues.
"He didn't want to see me lose my license," Kaiser said. "I was the partner intern at the time, and I was very uneasy and intimidated."
Kaiser said he fired the server waiting the table across from the Crowder's because he was afraid Outback could lose its ABC license.
"He stated he could contact people overseeing our area and he didn't want to do that," Kaiser said of Crowder.
Kaiser said Crowder's wife was with her husband during the second conversation. Defense attorney Robert Ward wanted to know what Mrs. Crowder said to him. Kaiser said he couldn't recall, but the gist was they both were agents.
Kaiser said Greg Crowder also appeared to be very knowledgeable about ABC issues. Being race weekend, he also said he knew agents would be out looking for violations.
"He made it clear he wanted me to be aware of it and he didn't want us to get in trouble," Kaiser said.
Asked if Crowder referred to other ABC agents, Kaiser said Crowder referred to the name Brian. Kaiser said he thought he remembered that name as an ABC agent. Later, ABC agent Brian Edwards testified.
Kaiser said the Crowders were offered to be moved to another table, but elected to stay. He later was asked to show security camera footage showing himself and Crowder speaking at the restaurant, as well as a still photo of the Crowders in the restaurant. The video did not include audio.
"There is no sound, but they prove (Crowder's) present," Bradwell said.
Ward then took his turn to question Kaiser. He asked if he spoke to the traveling manager and bartender prior to speaking with Crowder.
"They told you there was an ABC agent there, didn't they?" Ward asked. "So the first you heard about it was from your employees?"
Kaiser said he checked on the table Crowder complained about and he found four beers, a bottle of wine, and empty Styrofoam to go cups.
"You believe he told you he was an ABC agent?" Ward asked.
"Not believed, he did say it," Kaiser said.
Ward asked Kaiser if Crowder asked him for any favors such as free meals. He also asked if Crowder was drunk. Kaiser said no to both questions.
Craig, a traveling manager from Tennessee helping the Bristol restaurant during race weekend, said her bartender first approached her about a complaint of a table being "loud and obnoxious." In response, she said she offered to move the Crowders to another table, but they refused. She said she stood at a back wall to observe the table in question. She said the people at the table were 22 or 23 years old and were drinking, "but they weren't doing anything inappropriate."
Craig said Crowder briefly left the building, came back in and stated he was an ABC agent. She said she went to Kaiser because she was unfamiliar with how to handle the situation.
Ward asked Craig if anything had happened since that night to affect her memory. She said no. Ward then informed Craig she didn't write in her statement to Sewell that Crowder was an ABC agent.
"No, I said with ABC," Craig said.
Bobbie Dotson, an employee of Outback at the time of the incident, said Crowder came to her twice to complain about the table across from him.
"He told me he was an ABC agent, there was a disruptive table and he wanted to see a manager," Dotson said. "He said he could get (a waiter) fired and the restaurant in trouble."
Ward asked if Dotson put in her statement to Sewell that Crowder said he was an ABC agent. Like Craig, Dotson said she wrote Crowder was "with ABC." She testified, however, that Crowder told her more than once he was an ABC agent. Ward wanted to know why Crowder would have to tell her twice that he was an ABC agent.
"Maybe to stress that he was," Dotson said. "I have no idea."
Jennifer Martin was the Crowder's waitress and she said they were very nice. They talked about Crowder owning a store in Hillsville. He had complained about the table next to them being rowdy, but Martin said she didn't think they were "that rowdy."
"The next thing I know he said he was an officer," Martin said. "He said they were loud and (the waiter) kept giving them alcohol. He said he was an officer and wanted to speak to my manager."
Upon questioning by Ward, however, he noted Martin wrote in her statement only that Crowder had a store, not that he said he was an ABC agent.
Next to the testify was ABC Special Agent Brian Edwards. He said he knew Crowder because his Race-In business is licensed with ABC, and the two went to high school together. Questioned by Ward, Edwards said he had seen a sign in Crowder's store about alcohol. Ward wanted to know what ABC managers do. Edwards said they make decisions about alcohol in the store, but they are not employed by ABC.
Ward then asked Judge McKinney to strike the charge against Crowder's wife. There were no words to misconstrue she was an agent, he said, only "the gist" that Kaiser thought she was in the same position as her husband. That was not enough to find her guilty, Ward argued. McKinney denied the motion to strike.
Ward then called Special Agent Sewell from the Virginia ABC to testify. Sewell said he took statements from Martin, King and Dotson. When asked if any of them wrote that Crowder called himself an ABC agent, Sewell said not to his knowledge.
Bobby Baxter, of Kingsport, Tenn., testified he was at Outback that night. He is also involved in NASCAR and has known Greg Crowder for "a while." Baxter said he never heard Crowder identify himself as an agent, "just that he had a license for selling liquor or beer."
Ward then called Greg Crowder to the stand. Crowder said he has an ABC license for beer in his Hillsville store. He said he and his wife had gone to Bristol for the race and stopped at Outback for dinner.
Ward asked Crowder if he drank that night.
"Nothing," Crowder said.
Did you pay your tab, Ward asked?
"In full," Crowder said.
He said people at the table next to him were drinking, very loud and using profane language.
"I heard a girl say, 'Stop,' over and over very loud. After that, I heard a glass break," Crowder said. "I sat there for a second and told my waitress that somebody was getting loud and violent."
Did you tell her you were an agent, Ward asked?
"No," Crowder said.
Crowder testified drinks were being spilled at the adjacent table and people were trying to knock each other out of the booth. He said he then spoke with the traveling manager and bartender.
Did you say you were an ABC agent, Ward asked?
"Absolutely not," Crowder said.
Crowder said he then spoke to Kaiser and told him he was an ABC manager, but not an agent. Crowder said he was never asked for a statement when he was charged with the crime in August.
Crowder said he thought he was doing the right thing by reporting the incident.
Did you ever flash a badge, Ward asked?
"No," Crowder said, adding that he said he owned a store and said he was an ABC manager.
Ward asked if the case was anything but confusion between the words agent and manager.
"I think that is what this is," Crowder said.
Bradwell saw it differently.
"All witnesses are confused except for you," Bradwell said. "Is that correct?"
"I state my story is 100 percent true," Crowder said.
Did you state you were with ABC, Ward asked?
"Not to my knowledge," Crowder said. "Only that I worked in ABC - a manager, not with ABC."
Ward asked why Crowder would feel compelled to tell them that.
"I thought I was going to be in a violent confrontation to defend a female," Crowder said. "A gentleman at the other table said he would cut her throat."
Ward asked Crowder if he thought Kaiser would lie.
"Not on purpose," Crowder said.
Ward asked Crowder if he ever used the word off-duty or stated he was with ABC.
"Never," Crowder said.
LouAnne Crowder then testified. She said she never told anyone she was an ABC agent or ABC manager. She said she spoke briefly to Kaiser as she left and told him she thought someone was in danger, that she heard broken glass and threats.
At the conclusion of the hearing, Judge McKinney said after listening to all the evidence, there was a glimmer of doubt still in his mind about LouAnne Crowder.
"I think the evidence is lacking to come away with she said she was an agent," McKinney said. "I find her not guilty."
As for Greg Crowder, McKinney said "four independent, non-interested" witnesses all stated Crowder told them he was an ABC agent or officer. He then found Greg Crowder guilty and sentenced him to a 90-day jail sentence, with 60 days suspended contingent on good behavior for 12 months. He also levied a $500 fine against Crowder.
"There was enough evidence for a finding of guilt," he concluded.
Outside the courtroom, Mrs. Crowder said her husband would appeal the case, which is set to be heard March 10th at 9 a.m. in Bristol Circuit Court.


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The last day of 2011. Blogs are filled with the year in review, 'best of' lists, and previews of what's to come.
Me? I'm just psyched about my new calendar.
We may be living in a digital world, carrying our lives around on our smartphones, but I still love selecting the wall calendar that hangs over the desk in my home office.
It used to be a no-brainer — the New Yorker dog cartoons calendar every year. And then they stopped making it two years ago.
So now I journey to Barnes & Noble, not knowing what calendar on the racks and spinners before me will catch my eye. But this year's selection was an exciting combination of all the things I hold most dear:
Dogs. Movies. Celebrities. Kitch.
Yeah, that's a cat. But he wasn't dressed up for the photo. All the Jack Sparrow-ness was digitally added later.
There's also Andy Warhol. And Austin Powers. Dame Edna. Mother Teresa.
Yep. It's gonna be a good year.


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A dancer at an Orlando gentlemen's club faces charges after she was accused of stealing lingerie for her job with her children in tow, authorities said.
Ashley Fleischmann was arrested on Saturday after she was found with $84.91worth of items, including lingerie-style lace underwear, at a Burlington Coat Factory, the arrest report said. She faces charges including petit theft and child cruelty. She was released on $2,200 bond on Sunday, a jail official said.
According to the report, Fleischmann said "she had planned to make a quick exit from the front of the store with the unpaid items and that she had hoped the presence of her children" would stop her from being arrested.
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The two crying children were put into the custody of the Department of Children and Families as no other legal guardian was found, the report said.
Fleischmann also stated that the items were for her to wear at her job at Crystal Cabaret Gentlemen's Club, the report said.
The whole event traumatized her children, who struggled to stop crying during the hour-long process, the arrest report said.
Fleischmann told the deputy that she was a transient and couldn't give a home address, and that she had just gotten the "care and custody of her minor children one week prior and that she couldn't believe this was happening again," the report said.
It wasn't immediately known if she had an attorney.


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Death Cab For Cutie announced an intimate tour this morning that has the indie-gone-major act playing intimate rooms while accompanied by the renowned Magik*Magik Orchestra. And the tour kicks off with a Denver date in April.
Seattle-rooted Death Cab first worked with the San Francisco-based orchestra for its recent episode of "VH1 Storytellers," and this tour presents a unique opportunity to see the band – focusing in its recent "Codes and Keys" release — in intimate environs.
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The small tour will play the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in Denver on April 10.
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Ricardo Baca is the founder and executive editor of Reverb, the co-founder of The UMS and an award-winning critic and journalist at The Denver Post.


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FRISCO, Texas -- Fabian Castillo and FC Dallas continued their current mastery of MLS, overcoming a first-half red card to Blas Perez to post a 2-1 win over Real Salt Lake at Toyota Stadium.
The win extended FCD's unbeaten streak to 10 and -- at least temporarily -- drew them level with RSL, Seattle Sounders FC and Sporting Kansas City at the top of the MLS Supporters Shield standings.
For RSL, the loss ended a three-game winning streak, and continued their struggles in Frisco, where they are 1-10-2 in 13 matches all-time.
Castillo was the catalyst for the Dallas attack on the evening, as he has been all season, and he scored the eventual winner in the 74th minute. It was Castillo's ninth goal of the season, a career high.
Defender Je-Vaughn Watson scored the opener for FCD in the 50th minute, not long after the most controversial moment of the match: a second yellow card to FCD forward Blas Perez just before halftime. After being fouled by defender Chris Schuler, Perez was shoved by Schuler and fell to the ground. Schuler was given a yellow card for unsporting behavior and Perez, who was already on a yellow card for unsporting behavior in the 31st minute, was given a second yellow for simulation, resulting in his ejection from the match.
It was Dallas' ninth red card of the season, a league high and single-season record for the club.
The second half started with RSL trying to find cracks in the Dallas defense, but it was the Texas club that scored first. In the 50th minute, Michel took a corner that deflected off of Schuler and into the path of Watson, who chested the ball into the goal.
The goal breathed life into both teams as RSL chased the game and Dallas were full of hope that they could find a way to get the win. That way was through Castillo, who rounded RSL defender Nat Borchers and stroked his shot into the far low corner past goalkeeper Nick Rimando for his third game-winning goal this season.
RSL pulled a goal back in second-half stoppage time when Olmes Garcia's bicycle kick deflected off a defender and past Raul Fernandez, but it was too little, too late.
Dallas visit the Chicago Fire next Saturday, August 30, while RSL stay on the road, traveling to San Jose to take on the Earthquakes on the same day.


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New: The Last Dermatologist to the Poor
What may be the last dermatologist to Oakland's poor happens to be my dermatologist, as well. That this is the case says something about us both, but I'd rather cover his story.
It took a comment by a fellow dermatology patient to get my attention. The patient had a diabetic condition that caused his blood to rush to his skin, he said.
And my dermatologist was the only one in Oakland who would treat his condition. Did he mean that my dermatologist was the only dermo in Oakland, who would accept Medical-Medicaid?
I asked my dermatologist about this, and he said, gravely, this was true.
If you live in Berkeley, and have stripped-to-the -bones coverage, you may meet my doc. He's a dermatologist to the rich in an upscale Contra County enclave, in his other life.
Still, he devotes four days a week to Oakland, and half of the fifth.
Why didn't I notice that the cracker-box waiting room, and doll-house examination rooms told a story. Was this what has become of the safety-net? Every time I have an appointment, there is a waiting line to rival stadium toilet lines.
The waiting room over-flowed the office, which was too small to contain the crowd, which spilled out into a cracker-box hallway. But it is on Pill Hill.
The waiting line is predominately Asian elderly, Latinos, and the rare black, and even rarer Caucasians . A linguist would welcome the opportunity to hear the tower of Babel
These waiting lines may be telling us something. It tells us that many dermatologists won't take medi-cal.
Perhaps the lines tell us, that although dermatology is glamorous when it removes movie stars' blemishes, it is less so when dealing with the blemishes of the poor, who are more likely to have more serious conditions.
Well, we get no glamour here, except for the dermo, who is very entertaining. He speaks no foreign languages, though.
(Most non-English speakers are accompanied by an English speaking relative).
Often, the dermo's waiting room crowd (crammed into a snuff box--seating ten, crammed elbow to elbow on K-Mart chairs) spills into the equally small hallway. The intimacy in the office leads to pick-up conversations (Wednesday, two women discussed hair styles).
In a narrow Oakland hallway, we were galvanized by an Asian comedian, who didn't realize his comedic flare.
He had a comedian's patter, a staccato delivery and a lively mind. "Obama, wants to tax the rich," he began. "Doctor's are rich, right? They all make more than $250,000."
"Dermatologists, are at the low end," I said. "Radiologists and Anesthesiologists
earn the most; I think dermatologists are at the bottom."
"But they earn enough to be taxed by Obama, don't they?" he persisted.
"I don't know," I said. "I haven't looked it up."
When I did: Forbes Magazine had ranked dermatologists seventh (out of twenty) in medical incomes, at $364,000. The comedian was right. Our dermo was making big bucks, but how could he make that on us?
Perhaps he's running a low-cost office, with an exclusive mass audience of poor people..
He's written papers and spoken at medical conventions.
The next time I see him, I'm going to ask him what makes him tick.
Our South-side Reporter, went off-beat, as usual. He also writes a "philosophical" sex column, Sex@Cal ™ for Berkeley Reporter.


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"I really want to try cross-country skiing!" pleaded my daughter as we headed toward the airport ladies' room to change clothes so we could hike to the "M" behind the University of Montana and reward ourselves with sweet potato fries on the "hip strip" in downtown Missoula.
I was game, having downhill skied in the past, albeit not adeptly. I'd recently announced that I would never ski that way again. I'd been feeling my age and had sworn off virtually everything but walking, fishing or pumping an elliptical trainer. But outdoor desire burns bright, and now I imagined cross-country to be less harrowing a winter endeavor for one in her, ahem, late 50s.
Two days later, we set out to rent the necessary equipment and head for the hills. Geared up and giddy, Katharine pulled out our sack lunches as I turned onto the highway.
"During lunch," I dictated, "we'll start your list of pros and cons." She had brought along a legal pad so that we might create a list of reasons for her to leave her current job for another — or not.
Sandwich gripped in left hand, pencil in right, tablet on lap, Katharine embarked on mental machinations. We approached the dilemma from all angles, and the drive flashed by. By the time we pulled into the parking lot up in the mountains, she had firmly decided to keep her job.
"All that anxiety just to stay," she sighed. "Why did I go through all that?"
"Sometimes … ," I surprised myself with such sagacity, " … you leave home in search of greener grasses and the search leads you right back to the field where you started." Dang, I'm good.
We stepped into our skis and I instructed her with what little I'd gleaned from ogling the Winter Olympics and a few YouTube videos on the sport. She took a few of the usual tumbles, but once underway, we both glided, lunged and poled like the best of them. The scenery was astonishing, the temperature a mild 55 to 60 degrees. We skied sans jackets, gloves or even hats. And the best part? We were the only people on the trail. Glorious.
I'd discovered retirement skiing for the second half.
That's when I stopped to study the trail map — and, while standing perfectly still, suddenly found myself sitting, having whiplashed my neck and overextended both ankles. The brief, sharp pain subsided, and, blessedly, when I managed to crawl until I could hoist myself erect, I was able to ski quite normally the two miles back. Even after a nasty fall, cross-country skiing was kind to my aging physique — not to mention to the ankle I'd broken a year ago, a feat likewise accomplished while standing utterly still.
Later that evening, my bubble burst. The ankle swelled, the sprain became unbearable, and my husband had to carry me to bed, tears running down my cheeks over the loss of the delusion that I might actually be somewhat athletic.
"I'm never doing anything again!" I boohooed as I slapped a bag of frozen peas on the swelling. Sometimes, indeed, those greener grasses (or whiter ski trails) only lead you right back to where you started.
By morning, however, I was considering snowshoeing. I'd read an advertisement: "If you can walk, you can snowshoe."
I can walk. I just can't stand still.
Miller is the author of 300 essays and stories that have appeared in such publications as Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register, Missoula Living Magazine and the Christian Science Monitor. Her monthly column "Peaks and Valleys" appears in Montana Woman Magazine. Visit her blog to read other stories: kcmillersoutpost.blogspot.com. She lives in Huson, Mont.
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A reality check on skis
"I really want to try cross-country skiing!" pleaded my daughter as we headed toward the airport ladies' room to change clothes so we could hike to the "M" behind the University of Montana and reward ourselves with sweet potato fries on the "hip strip" in downtown Missoula.


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Vote on Highway, Transportation Bill Delayed in U.S. House
With a potential shutdown of federal highway and transit programs looming, House Republican leaders abruptly canceled a vote Monday on three-month extension bill aimed at keeping aid flowing to states while Congress debates an overhaul of transportation policy.
With a potential shutdown of federal highway and transit programs looming, House Republican leaders abruptly canceled a vote Monday on three-month extension bill aimed at keeping aid flowing to states while Congress debates an overhaul of transportation policy.
Republicans had planned to bring the extension bill to the floor under rules that require a two-thirds vote for passage. In order to do that, they needed the votes of about 50 Democrats. But Democratic leaders urged their members to oppose the extension in an attempt to pressure GOP leaders to permit a vote on a $109 billion bill recently passed by the Senate. The Senate bill would overhaul transportation programs while extending them through the end of the 2013 federal budget year.
Facing a likely defeat, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, cancelled a vote on the extension bill.
"We are in the midst of bipartisan conversations about a short-term extension of the highway bill. To facilitate those conversations, the House vote on an extension will occur later this week rather than tonight," said Michael Steel, a spokesman for Boehner.
Without action by Congress, the government's authority to spend money on transportation programs and levy federal fuel taxes expires Saturday. Democrats estimate that as many as 1.8 million construction-related jobs would be at risk just as states are gearing up for the spring and summer construction season. The government would also lose about $110 million a day in revenue in uncollected gas and diesel taxes.
The decision to pull the extension bill is the latest embarrassment for Boehner on an issue that he said last fall would be the centerpiece of House Republicans' job creation agenda. For weeks Republicans have struggled unsuccessfully to line up enough votes to pass a five-year transportation overhaul bill. Tea party conservatives object to the bill because it spends more money on transportation programs than can be paid for by user fees like fuel taxes. Democrats are opposed to the measure. They said it penalizes union workers, undermines environmental protections and would be paid for in part by expanded offshore oil drilling.
The extension bill was supposed to buy Republicans time to tweak their bill to the point it could attract enough votes to pass. But, like the larger transportation overhaul, it's not clear that Boehner has the votes to pass a three-month extension even if Republicans follow House rules that would enable the bill to pass by a simple majority vote.
Conservative lobbying groups who want to shrink the federal government oppose the extension. And some moderate Republicans have joined Democrats in a letter to Boehner asking that the House fall in behind the Senate bill instead.
The soonest an extension vote is likely to occur is Wednesday, leaving relatively little time for the Senate to act.
"The most responsible path forward at this point would be to drop the political brinkmanship and pass the bipartisan Senate transportation bill that the president could sign before these critical job-creating programs expire Saturday night," Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., the senior Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said.
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