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Obama stands tough, Beltway freaks out
(For more on the fiscal cliff negotiations check out David's discussion with Charlie Mitchell, #TAN Editor-in-Chief, in the first half hour of last week's radio show here or continue on.)
The rates are set to expire at the end of this month unless Congress and the administration reach an agreement on an extension. Mr. Obama wants to continue the existing rates on 98% of Americans. But, Republicans refuse to pass anything that doesn't include an extension of the Bush tax rates for the wealthy.
As the President has pointed out in speech after speech, doing nothing means tax rates will go up across the board. And the average American family of four would see their 2013 taxes go up by over $2,000.
Last week, the President not only attacked the Republican position, he encouraged Americans to join him. In a rally at the White House, Mr. Obama said, "I'm asking Americas all across the country to make your voice heard. Tell member of Congress what a 2K tax hike would mean to you; cAll you members of congress, write them an email, write on their Facebook walls, tweet it at My2K."
The pundit class was displeased.
David Gergen of CNN said the President's approach "was clearly intended to score political points with Democrats rather than entice Republicans into serious negotiations."
David Brooks of the New York Times told NPR that Mr. Obama had stuck "a thumb in eye" of Republicans and that his position was an "insult." Brooks declared himself "mystified."
Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post called the White House's opening bid "pathetic" and said "this is not negotiating, it's chest-thumping."
Chest-thumping? A thumb in the eye? Scoring political points?
The last time I checked, President Obama won the 2012 election. Voters endorsed his call to have millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share. And the fact that President Obama is playing hardball with GOP henchmen in Congress who are willing to crash the economy in order to protect the wealthy, well that's great news.
Keep in mind, this is the same President Obama who began key negotiations in his first term by compromising first with democrats before even staking out a position with Republicans.
I get that the beltway pundit class wants high minded negotiations, behind closed doors, and in an environment of give and take.
But that environment hasn't existed in D.C. since President Obama took office. There has been nothing high minded about the continuous, scorched earth GOP obstructionism.
The President wasted time in his first term thinking he could reason with Republican lawmakers, appeal to their better angels, and satisfy the beltway establishment.
Now, the President has finally figured out that the only way he will get Congress to negotiate and compromise is after the GOP has been cornered, humiliated, and hammered. Only then will the GOP begin to respect this President and realize they will pay a price for each day they defy him.
If the beltway pundits aren't happy about this legislative and political brass knuckles approach, so be it. Most Americans don't care what the pundits think. The only thing that really matters is what the President gets done. And by standing firm and hitting hard, President Obama is making progress.
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My 13 year old son likes to run around in the woods with his aiforst rifle so every other weekend he goes out in the woods for these aiforst games where they wear protective gear and shoot plastic pellets at each other lots of fun, right? I like the idea of him being out in the fresh air with men of ages 12 to 60 forming brigades and playing soldier great stuff.This past weekend I was disappointed to hear that the organizers put a man in a suit and Obama mask as a target to play a round of Kill Obama . He ran around and all the guts n glory guys took shots at him for fun. At first I was disappointed then I thought I'd lodge a complaint (I mean this is my president, right?), in the end I just decided that my son is old enough to make up his own mind about what kind of person he wants to be. His half-brother Junie is black and his best little brother.What's wrong with America? I can't fix people, but I can damn sure help to create a great man my son. This weekend he's back at it again with his rifle learning from the stupid adults.


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About Imran, he reportedly said: "He's an absolute knob is Imran Khan, that's the only way to describe him."
About Imran, he reportedly said: "He's an absolute knob is Imran Khan, that's the only way to describe him."
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doing plenty for grassroots cricket doesn't give you a free pass to say whatever the hell you want. first impressions of paul marsh: you moron.Paul Marsh Paul Marsh @Marsh_Paul
For all the criticism going Greg Ritchie's way, understand that he has raised many thousands of dollars for grassroots cricket over many ...
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years with the same style of speech. It is not meant to offend it is meant to make people laugh & he does that better than most #perspective
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To be clear I'm not defending racism. I know Greg well, I don't believe he's racist & he's done plenty for grassroots cricket
(to a greater extent, you could say he's not doing a lot for grassroots cricket by offending the entire australian muslim community and hiding behind the pathetic "hey you choose to be offended!" defence )
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Indians can't bowl - Where has the rumour come from as I myself and many indian friends arwe competent fast bowlers ?
With the English bid I said: Let us be brief. If you give back the Falkland Islands, which belong to us, you will get my vote. They then became sad and left
TBF, leaving aside the obviously dodgy overtones, the joke wasn't awful.
The comment to Wessells is just...wow...tho. As one understands South Africans consider "kaffir" as roughly on a par as we do the n-word. Poor form and a worse defence for poor form.
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"The committee discussed the issue of illegal bowling actions, and believed that there are a number of bowlers currently employing suspect actions in international cricket, and that the ICC's reporting and testing procedures are not adequately scrutinising these bowlers."
- Even the ICC's own official press release thinks things must change
What's appropriate (or what's permissable, rather) in a changing room isn't necessarily so for a public audience.
Just to echo what others have said about Kleinveldt: not a test bowler. Jerky action and it's never going to generate much more pace than he gets now. Looks to use the same dietician as Philander too.
But yeah you're right; said team clown wouldn't then go ahead and re-tell those jokes to a public audience.
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got tv on in the background did they hit kepler up about it at all?
Nah they didn't - thankfully.
Going on record to say Kleinveldt shouldn't be playing Test Cricket, in fact hopefully this is his last Test match. He could end up a decent ODI player though.
Staid, boring, and a reminder of hell on earth coming in the following four days, but the cricket being on makes them somewhat more bearable.
As Brumby said, there's a time and a place, and when someone like Ritchie defends his Muslim joke by saying "It's just a little humourous joke to indicate that they're not my favourite people of my choice" then it's safe to say there's basically no chance of him being anything than a bigoted **** who deserves nothing but contempt. That doesn't mean all race-related jokes are actually racist though; obviously they require a certain closeness and environment - you need to know the guy taking the piss isn't actually serious or it's offensive - but looking for ways to get offended out of context will just make you constantly sour.
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Recently employees of Gutterridge Harley-Davidson as well as members of the Tilton EMS and Medix received Heart of the Community awards from Provena Regional EMS for saving the life of a Tilton man.
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Julie said her husband is undergoing therapy now for some speech issues and for some physical issues on the right side of his body. He was able to attend the awards presentation at Gutterridge Harley-Davidson.
Troy Dunn, training center coordinator for Provena Regional EMS, and Michael Brown, CEO of Provena United Samaritans Medical Center presented the Heart of the Community awards to Gutterridge employees Michael and Roger Gutterridge, Tilton EMS members Todd Schultz, Brian Schull, Dan Pentecost, Richard Austin and Sarah Hudson and Medix employees Roger Lange and Matt Myers.
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text: Short Menus vs. Long Menus What's Worse: A Menu That's Too Short or Too Long? by Susannah Chen 3/19/11 18 Reactions 8 Shares Print 0 0 8 0 0 It's been said that haute cuisine is true art, but I'd argue that composing a menu takes some serious skill, too. First off, the food has to read like it's appetizing. Then there's the issue of how many items should be offered. Everyone's got a different number: when I dine out at a restaurant that offers less than 10 menu items, my guy complains that there's not enough selection on the menu. Yet if I open a menu to find 100 offerings, I'll almost certainly be overwhelmed. As someone who has a tough time making decisions both big and small, I'd rather be faced with a terse menu than a paralyzingly long one. Getting the length just right, it seems, is quite a tough line to toe. Which do you consider the greater of two evils? And what's the magic number when it comes to menus? 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I also find that shorter menus have better prepared dishes. chow 3 years i'm really picky about my foods so i'd rather have a long menu so i can have plenty of choices to reject danakscully64 3 years Both can be a pain, but I'd rather have a long menu than a short. I'm a vegetarian and often the "short" versions have absolutely nothing or 1 item for me. I work at a restaurant with a huge menu, it can be nice to have a huge selection. fuzzles 3 years Snarky, Not to mention Applebees, Fridays, and the generic like. Give me a good old Mom and Pop place that does what they do and they "do do" it up well in a relatively healthy manner. :) snarkypants 3 years i agree with those who say that a big menu usually means not fantastically prepared food. i find that the more concise the menu, the better the food. case-in-point, the cheesecake factory. ENORMOUS MENU. mediocre food that is horribly unhealthy and filled with preservatives. myhousemd 3 years Even if there are a ton of options on the menu, I can usually ignore half of it because of the headings. I have an idea of what sort of food I'm craving, so I ignore the parts of the menu that don't pertain to me. (I also looove reading menus. If the menu is too short, it's like reading a book with a promising plot that ended far too soon.) tigr3bianca 3 years I agree with fuzzles, a short concise menu is usually best. Offering more than 20 entrees can be nice if you eat at a place a lot. But a restaurant that offers less can concentrate on those items and make them spectacular. fuzzles 3 years This thread has me thinking about the long gone, but best g-damn burger place ever. (It was consistently named in the nation's to 50 burgers.) Hilltop Tavern in Mankato, Minnesota. A little hole-in-the-wall place that sat 20 people max. The menu--burgers, slaw, potato salad and baked beans. 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The Lady Pirates (6-3) shot near 60 percent from the floor in the second half (15-26, 57.7) to secure the comeback win. Shala Hodges scored 15 points to lead the Lady Pirates' charge, while Tatiana Chapple scored 12 of her 14 points in the second half for the win.
"This game got away from us," JU head coach Jill Dunn said. "We played well in the first half, but got away from our strengths in the second half. We have to remain consistent for the full 40 minutes to secure the win."
Senior Crystal Bell paced the Dolphins (1-9) with 13 points off the bench. Sophomore Jade Cargill recorded 11 points and 12 points for her first career double-double.
The Lady Pirates erased an eight-point, second-half deficit with a 13-0 run, capped on a Chapple layup, for a 48-43 lead (12:22). The Dolphins finally broke the charge with a Cargill layup, but the Lady Pirates followed with a 9-2 stretch for a 59-47 advantage with 7:41 remaining. JU chipped away and got the deficit in the final seconds to 68-62 on a three-pointer from sophomore Ciara McLee before running out of time.
McLee and junior Maggie Wilson each finished with 10 points for the Dolphins. Sophomore Abril Peeples added eight points in the loss.
In the first half, Britny Edwards had three straight buckets to give the Lady Pirates a 15-10 advantage (13:41). Edwards extended the ECU lead to 21-15 on a layup at 11:19. The Dolphins cut the deficit to 21-20 on a jumper and three-pointer by Wilson on consecutive trips. Bell added a three-pointer on the next possession to give the Dolphins their first lead with 9:41 left. ECU regained the 28-27 lead on a three-pointer in the final four minutes, but the Dolphins ended the half on three-pointers from freshman Britney Holliday, Bell and McLee to take a 36-31 advantage.
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The Oregon Ducks and Arizona State Sun Devils sit atop their respective divisions in the Pac-12, and neither has yet to play a game with this much weight.
Chip Kelly's 6-0 Ducks visit Tempe, Ariz., for a showdown with Todd Graham's surprising Sun Devils on Thursday. Though fireworks are to be expected, this one could come down to two very talented but underrated defenses.
ASU's defense is led by junior defensive tackle Will Sutton, who has burst onto the scene with an NCAA-leading 8.5 sacks. He will lead the charge to challenge young Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota, who has yet to face such a strong defensive front seven.
The Sun Devils (5-1, 3-0 Pac-12) come in giving up 14.2 points per game, good enough for ninth in the nation. The Ducks aren't too shabby in that regard either, as their 20 points allowed per game ranks 32nd.
But then there are the offenses. Oregon (6-0, 3-0 Pac-12) will rely upon a ground attack that puts up more than 300 yards per game behind Kenjon Barner and the explosive De'Anthony Thomas. At 52.3 points per game, Oregon will compete with a Sun Devils' offense that scores at a 40.5 point clip per outing behind the efficient arm of sophomore quarterback Taylor Kelly, who is in the top five nationally in passing efficiency.
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Green and Affordable Living in Montana
A resourceful sound mixer sources some local design talent, rolls up his sleeves, and builds small, green, and affordable in Bozeman, Montana.
Brian Whitlock had been living in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for 15 years when he began to experience an acute case of SSTF (Swanky Ski Town Fatigue). This affable, artistically inclined sound mixer for documentary films and TV longed to put down roots in a low-key community populated by fellow creative souls. And he needed to do it on a budget, which aced him out of Jackson Hole.
Whitlock ultimately settled one state north, in the laidback college town of Bozeman, Montana, where he lucked upon a lush, near-to-downtown plot of infill land bordered by century-old hedgerows and three graceful ash trees. He dreamed of a Michelle Kaufman–designed prefab home, but the price—$225 per square foot—was too steep. It turned out, however, that a custom design was less expensive than his prefab fantasy. Intrinsik Architecture, a progressive, collaborative Bozeman firm accepted Whitlock's challenge: Create an efficient, mountain-ready modern home for $150 per square foot.
Whitlock was a hands-on client in the most literal sense—his flexible work schedule permitted him months at a stretch to labor full-time on the house with his contractor, Josh Blomquist of CWJ & Associates. Though hardly a journeyman homebuilder, Whitlock wasn't afraid of getting his hands dirty, especially if it meant saving some cash. Of all his toil, though—cabinetry, hardscaping, building furniture and concrete forms— he is perhaps the most proud of his DIY electrical work. The cost of hiring an electrician can account for 10 to 20 percent of a building, so by wiring the house himself he saved around $30,000. "People have a visceral fear of electricity, which is healthy in some ways," he says. "But I think it gets a bad rap."
Those in the "scared of electricity" majority take heart—Whitlock learned a trick worth passing on to your electrician. "Run conduit for locations where you might need future electrical," he advises. "I ran conduit between panels and subpanels, to exterior locations for outdoor lights, and between my office and the mechanical room." You never know where you'll need to plug in in the future, but Whitlock is set if his electrical needs change.
One of the most ingenious money-saving tricks Whitlock and the Intrinsik team employed on the interior is the perfect marriage of custom and off-the-shelf. "I used the Pax closet system from Ikea in a birch finish for both wardrobes and the storage wall in the downstairs bathroom," he says. Using the company's online planners and collaborating with Intrinsik principal Dan Harding, he tweaked interior walls to fit the Ikea units to achieve a built-in, high-end look. "It makes cabinets and closets look much more custom than they are," he explains.


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Arbitrage said [[My understanding of the "fix" for cameras that aren't showing any AF problems is just extra lubrication to prevent the black plastic particles from wearing off and spreading themselves throughout the camera internals.]]
That's what worries me, how did they 'fix' the situation? Spray soem silicon on the parts that rub together? IF so, then this lubrication WILL eventually rub off too, and then we'll have dry plastic parts rubbing agaisnt each other spreading debri throughout hte camera again, and the plastic parts will further be damaged from further wear and tear because the mirror box mechanisms were not properly constructed right fro mthe beginning-
I have read TVSTAFF's posts before- and he brigns up soem good points- one of which I mentioend above-
[[Canon Canada has told the one poster on DPReview that the specs in the prism area (these are the black dots seen through the VF) are not part of the recall problem and don't affect the actual picture (which is true, they are just ugly to look at and disappointing on a $7000 camera). They said they could replace the prism but that would be not covered under warranty or under the recall.]]
That's funny because everythign I've read, they are a direct result of the faulty mirror box mechanisms causign hte debri throughout hte camera- and quite honestly, where else is htis debri going in the camera? Is it landing in delicate electronic areas?
I did some research and it's a piece of plastic that rubs up against a piece of steel every time the shutter is pressed. Common sense would tell you that at some point the steel wins! It's like when we were kids and played paper, stone sissors.
You can only put so much oil on the piece and at some point it wears out. No amout of oil can solve this issue. It's a piece of plastic rubbing up on a piece of steel. At some point the plastic breaks and your 1DX is wothless.
If Canon knew this and still sold the cameras to people it's just like stealing in my book.
Worse yet! Canon now knows it and is still selling the 1DX.
Worse worse..... There are people with 1DX cameras that could fail at important times.
Worse worse worse... Canon knows this and is doing nothing but sending defective camaeras back to their clients.
The Japanese used to have honor and pride in their products. I remember when made in Japan was associated with quality... I guess those days are gone. No BUSHIDO. When the old Japanese leaders of industry passed away so did the honor of their products!!!! The Canon 1DX is now proof that Japanese Manufacturing has lost ground to China. I never thought I would live to see the day.


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Friendships and families stay together. He went on another trip down Memory Lane during the Christmas season when he saw Willard NeSmith and his contraption he built for great-grandson Jordan. It was an old-fashioned truck wagon. Now, I don't know how old-fashioned it turned out but I see one thing right off that ours did not have — a steering wheel.
It took a rocket scientist to add the steering wheel with a rope running from the axel to the pole that let one's feet guide, then up to the pole with the wheel to guide. WHEW! That was beyond our simple model. Well, after all, Willard spent all his working years with Alabama Power with a crew of men. But a little birdie told me that his wife, Kathleen, is handier with the tools than he is. At least I have seen her at the church doing plumbing jobs, electrical jobs, even climbing on the roof to repair something.
When I looked at the pictures Floyd made of the truck wagon with Willard modeling as the driver, it reminded me of the first electric train my son received for Christmas. It was about 1958 and the Teaford men could not wait for Santa to deliver the little boy's gift. The men set up the train track and there is where most of them spent the day on the floor switching the engine, running loops, and adding a lit cigarette in the smoke stack to have an authentic puff as the train ran the track.
You know the old saying? "Boys will be boys."
Floyd tells of those bygone years concerning the truck wagon: "Years ago, we had a truck wagon road on the hill behind where Randall Cooner now lives. It came off the hill and into my grandfather's pasture. Some of the wagons had steering wheels on them, but the ones built in a hurry we guided with our feet on the front axel, or either a rope tied to it and we steered by pulling on the rope. Some of the boys in this group with me were Leon and Willard NeSmith, Jimmy Guthrie, Willard Guthrie, and sometimes on the weekends Pete Files joined us.
We always had a tree someplace in the road so we would have to go around it, but sometimes we did not make it and we would hit the tree. We would ride down the hill and then push the wagon back up so we could come down again. We were lucky that none of us broke any bones, but we did get lots of scratches and bruises.
"We built the wagons with Black Gum trees for our wheels and small hickory trees to saw out the axels and added scraps of any wood available. Our steering wheel attached to a broom handle, if we could find one. Old plow lines for rope (there were plenty scraps of these around the farm), and we could always borrow (steal or swipe) a little axel grease to keep the wooden wheels greased.
Many enjoyable hours were spent out doors. You never heard a child use the words 'I'm bored!' If you did say this, you would be given something to 'unbore' you in a hurry. I have often wondered why our parents would say to us, 'Get out of the house and play outside or go to the woods.' Maybe they were hoping we would get lost and not find our way back. (smile) Oh, well, 'playing in the woods' is another story."
A note was added about pipe tobacco.
"Do you remember how the old home-grown tobacco smelled in a pipe? Uncle Darl Guthrie lived down behind us and he would take a short cut though our yard going from Mayfield's Store (Floyd's uncle, a Naval retiree). It seems that we could smell the smoke from his pipe for 30 minutes after he went through the yard.
My grandfather (Andrew Jackson "Jack" Guthrie) had a small tobacco crop behind the old crib and he raised enough to furnish him for a year. He would twist it after it dried and hang it in the barn. I do not remember him chewing it, but I can remember him sitting in the corner of the front room reading the paper or listening to the radio with his old pipe in his mouth."


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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
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Written by J. K. Rowling in 2001 under the pseudonym of Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an guide to all the magical creatures in the Harry potter series made for a Comic Relief event.
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The book is based on a textbook purchased by Harry Potter in his first year at Hogwarts. The book describes 75 different magical species found throughout the Wizarding World as well as the history of Magizoology. The contents of the book as well as an explanation of each section are as follows;
- About the Author- Information describing the life and history of author, Newt Scamander
- Foreword by Albus Dumbledore- A foreword by Albus Dumbledore explaining the purpose of the book
- Introduction by Newt Scamander- Explaining the reasons behind writing this book
- About This Book- An introduction of what the book is all about
- What Is a Beast?- An exact definition of what classifies as a beast
- A Brief History of Muggle Awareness of Fantastic Beasts- History behind the view of a Muggle on the beasts
- Magical Beasts in Hiding- Information on the beasts which are currently in hiding
- Why Magizoology Matters- Information regarding the importance of Magizoology
- Ministry of Magic Classifications- Danger classifications from the Ministry of Magic
- An A-Z of Fantastic Beasts- A list of all the known beasts in the Wizarding World
The book also contains several 'scribblings' by Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, making notes on certain things.


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7-Foot-9 Player Joins ABA Club
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CHEVY CHASE, Md. - The "have size, will travel" basketball odyssey that's taken 7-foot-9, 370-pound Sun Ming Ming from China to California to Kansas to North Carolina made its latest stop Wednesday in the back room of a Chinese restaurant in this tony Washington, D.C., suburb.
That's where the Maryland Nighthawks of the American Basketball Association introduced their newest player, a man they're touting as the tallest in the history of professional basketball.
Sun donned a uniform with the number 79 _ Get it? _ and his new team's owner and coach and a teammate all gushed about his "basketball IQ" and "soft hands."
The 23-year-old _ who complained the XXXXXXL sweat shirt the team gave him was too small _ was asked what his goals are.
"I hope," Sun said, "I make the NBA some day."
To which Nighthawks owner and ABA chief operating officer Tom Doyle said: "I'm quite sure he will."
Really? After all, Sun hasn't played organized basketball in more than six months, since a brief stint with the Dodge City Legend of the United States Basketball League.
Turns out, the NBA doesn't overlook 7-footers.
"We will monitor his progress. His name has cropped up, but since he's never really played, I don't know how he can be on our radar," Marty Blake, the NBA's director of scouting, said in a telephone interview. "We would be interested in a player of some repute anywhere in the world, especially one who's 7-9. ... As (former Utah Jazz coach) Frank Layden always said, 'You can't teach height.'"
Sun moved from his native China _ where he played on a second-division team _ to California about 1 1/2 years ago in hopes of making it in pro hoops. His career was put on hold last year while he had two operations for a pituitary tumor that led to his extraordinary size but threatened his life.
Sun said those procedures were successful and he's getting into shape. Doyle noted that his big addition needed extra training after taking time away from the court to shoot a fight scene in Jackie Chan's upcoming "Rush Hour 3."
"That was very fun," Sun said.
Nighthawks coach William Rankin expects Sun to be able to play about 28-30 minutes a game; his debut comes Saturday. That will also be Rankin's debut with the Nighthawks _ he was hired about a week ago from a junior college team.
"When I interviewed for the job, I asked, 'Do we have a 7-footer?'" Rankin recounted. "And (Doyle) laughed and said, 'We have someone who's almost an 8-footer.'"
Sun has been in town about 1 1/2 weeks, working out daily with Nighthawks guard Randy Gill, who said of his new center: "Every day, somebody's going to get dunked on."
Doyle is big on Bill Veeck-style marketing, and he's hoping to organize an exhibition game with nearly-as-tall-as-Sun former NBA players Gheorghe Muresan and Manute Bol to raise money toward Sun's more than $100,000 in medical bills.
Did the Nighthawks want Sun more for his ability to play basketball or to draw crowds (the team averages about 600 spectators in its 1,000-capacity Montgomery College gym in Rockville)?
"There's no question that having Ming here sells tickets," Doyle said. "But there also is no question that having him here is a huge presence in our middle."
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If I remeber right this was the player that was raising alot of eyebrows come pre-draft . He had been working with someone but the name escapes me.
Some were seeing him as a high as a late lottery pick just based on his potential, and if he got on the right team could develop behind a solid big man. But then he had his surgery and basically dissapeared because they thought his career was over. Hopefully he gets a chance
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That's pretty tall!! I wonder if he can dunk?
I get the most pissed off looks from people with my VKG 4 LFE Wisconsin license plate, and I LOVE IT!!
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There's some guy who goes to UNC-Asheville I think? who is about that tall
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They don't have camera's that can take full body shots in China? Those are some pretty impressive hands there.. You know that is a big dude when a basketball looks like a softball in his hands..
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Also look how tiny Yao Ming looks in the background standing next to him.
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TLC or Lifetime channel ran a segment on him earlier in the week, for being that tall and over 350lbs (i think), he moves very well for somebody with that size.
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another reason why i hate my parents for not popping out a 7 foot tall child..im a decent basketball player, and i play guard..with my skill set id be a pro at 7 feet..instead i play rec and intramural ball and stand 5'10"People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.
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If you are interested in applying for an FLP, attend one of the information sessions hosted by the Faculty Leader and Academic Affairs. (See each program's specific information for dates and times.) At the information session, you will receive an overview of the course description, itinerary, costs, deadlines, etc. A Financial Aid representative will also be on-hand to answer any questions you may have.
As part of the application process, students are required to meet with the Financial Aid Office prior to submission of the Faculty-Led Program Application. Students who qualify for federal and state financial aid, private student loans, and SFAI scholarships/fellowships may use their funds toward the cost of the program as long as they meet all requirements.
Accepted students are responsible for paying all tuition, fees, and material costs associated with the course as well as a Program Course Fee that covers housing, some meals, site visits, and transportation. All tuition, Program Course Fees and any additional fees, and costs must be paid in full prior to the start of the course. Depending on the course, the Program Course Fee may or may not include the cost of travel to and from the course site.
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Today, a ceremony dedicated the refurbished B52 model at the Dakota Territory Air Museum to Chief Master Sergeant Richard Etchberger who served in the Air Force during the Vietnam War.
Before his deployment, he worked at the radar station in bismarck, his only domestic station during his enlistment.
On March 11, 1968, He lost his life saving three comrades who had been maintaining and defending a radar installation in Northern Vietnam.
In 2010, Etchberger posthumously became the only Chief and E-9 to ever receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
His son Cory carries a humble pride for his father, and says North Dakota is a special place for their family.
(Cory Etchberger, Son of Medal of Honor Recipient) "North Dakota plays a big part of our family's life. In fact the man who figured out that Dad really did deserve the medal of honor is from North Dakota and of course Congressman Pomeroy is the one who started this whole process for our family. And I can tell you, I'll tell you the same thing I told the President of the United States, the Secretary of the Air Force and the Secretary of Defense; my father would be very proud of this Air Force."
The Dakota Territory Air Museum is open to the public through October 19 Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m and on Sundays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Chantelle Pepple says she hopes people will have a greater appreciation for what "this monster took from this world and my family."
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Been a while but I am back for some help. The sickel bar on my cub tends to jump of the bolt that the front housing hangs from. Usually when I am in thicker grass. Am I just trying to cut something I shouldn't or is it something I am missing? Should I cut the first run taller and then go back? Just purchased five more acres that adjoin my home and will need to start cutting it at least a few times per year.
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The Elkhart County Parks is offering a "Holiday at the Mill" on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The public is invited to Bonneyville Mill and the One Room School House to see its decorations for the holiday season, see cornmeal being ground and get a chance to purchase or make crafts.
Visitors can taste samples of cookies made with Bonneyville whole-wheat flour, as well as purchase their own flour and cornmeal for healthy cooking this holiday season.
Children will be able to make handmade Christmas ornaments, visit with Santa, and experience the One Room School House also decorated for the season.
At 11 a.m., Stanger Trees will present a program in the mill barn on how to choose the best holiday tree.
Admission to the event is free, but participants should dress for the weather. In addition, a 10 percent discount will be offered in the gift shop for those unique stocking stuffers. This will also be the last chance to purchase flour and cornmeal (while supplies last) until next May when the mill re-opens.
Bonneyville is operated by the Elkhart County Parks and is located 53373 C.R. 131 in Bristol. For more information, call 574-535-6458 or visit www.elkhartcountyparks.org.


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The following statement was issued by Stuart Chaifetz to Patch today. We are reprinting it here without alteration.
A little over one week ago, I posted a video on YouTube which was, at its core, a public statement of my love for my son. Little did I realize, or could ever dream, that people from around the world would hear my son's story and open their hearts to him. I am truly overwhelmed and grateful beyond measure.
When I produced that video all I had hoped for was an apology from the classroom staff, something I could offer my child on the day he was ready to face what had happened to him. Now it appears I may be able to offer him something more: justice.
Yesterday I was contacted by a representative of the Cherry Hill School District. After a long and in-depth discussion, I was assured that the District is dealing with this issue with the seriousness it deserves. After careful consideration, I have decided to allow them the space they need to do that.
I had intended to release more audio clips detailing what happened in my son's former classroom, but once I realized that by doing that I could contaminate and potentially derail the investigation, I made the decision not to.
However—if at any time I feel the district is not following through in a responsible manner, then I reserve the right to release further information to the media. I doubt anyone who has seen my video would think I would do otherwise.
I did not intentionally mean to mislead anyone about the release of the new audio. This is, however, one of those times when circumstances change and a difficult choice needed to be made. I am trying to do the right thing for what I hope is a just outcome to this ordeal, and I hope everyone understands that.
While I will give the District the time to investigate, I shall not be idle. My life has been forever altered by the heartbreaking stories of abuse and bullying that have been sent to me by the thousands. From across the nation I have heard from current students and former students. Some have special needs, many letters were from parents with special needs children. From the sheer volume of it all, the only conclusion I can make is that bullying is a bane of catastrophic proportions.
I am not anti-teacher in any way. I respect teachers. But I am mystified and dispirited by the current system of tenure that makes it so difficult to fire a bad teacher, or gives them long periods of paid leave while the system grinds to a crawl.
Therefore I shall reach out to every member of the New Jersey State legislature and tell them that not only is reform desperately needed, but that they have more than forty-three thousand people on our Facebook page, and one-hundred-fifty-three thousand people who have signed our petition ready to help create a fair and equitable system that protects good teachers, but gets rid of the bad ones.
To the teacher's union I say this: I am not your foe. I am not here to be the weapon that destroys what you have fought hard for. I only seek moderate and reasonable change.
When four million people spend seventeen minutes watching a father tell the story of what happened to his son in school, then that should be a clarion call that things must change.


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Softball splits doubleheader with Emory and Henry at home
March 06, 2012
Winston-Salem, NC-The Salem College softball team split a doubleheader with the Wasps of Emory and Henry. The Spirits used a 7 run inning to propel the team to a 7-4 victory, before they dropped the second game 13-0. Abby Settles (Reidsville, NC) recorded 11 strikeouts in the win. Salem's record now stands at 3-7 overall this season.
The Spirits recorded 12 hits in the first game. Kayla Kennedy (Goldsboro, NC) went 3 for 4 and had 3 runs batted in. Ellie Vizcaino (Wake Forest, NC) also had 2 runs batted in, and she went 2 for 3 in the game. Salem came back from a 2-0 deficit to score 7 runs in the bottom of the sixth. Settles pitched all 7 innings for the win.
In the second game, Salem could not get a run on the board against Jennifer True of Emory and Henry. Shelby Drummonds (Boone, NC) went 2 for 3 for Salem, and the Spirits finished with 5 hits. Drummonds was the losing pitcher in the game.
Salem returns to action on the road this weekend for a non-conference game at North Carolina Wesleyan on March 10th.


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An East Texas man has been sentenced to a decade in prison after he crashed his car, killing an East Texas mother who was riding with him.
In October of 2012, Justin Lee Echols was driving with his passenger, Michele Allen of Harleton. The wreck happened on county road 217 in Smith County near Overton.
Michele was killed in that crash, and Echols fled the scene.
Echols plead guilty to criminally negligent homicide and accident involving injury.
Today in court the Allen family was able to address Echols.
"He should have stayed with her but he wasn't man enough to do that," 9 year old Isaac Allen said.Tonia Allen said she was angry when she took the stand in her victim impact statement.
"When I was sitting up there I was angry. He wasn't showing any remorse," Tonia Allen said.
"He never told me if he was sorry or not," Isaac Allen said.
The two sentences will be served concurrently. So, he will be eligible for parole after four years.
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Paul Daley and 135-pound champion Eduardo Dantas returns to the Bellator cage this November as the promotion inches closer to their 2013 Spike debut.
MMA Legend Babalu Sobral talks about the recent debacles he has encountered while trying to secure a fight. Sobral details a Canadian Fight League cancelling 4 fights and One FC changing his opponent and weight class. (source: mmaprime.tv)
The UFC will hold UFC 140 at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Concacaf Gold Cup 2011 United States The 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup will be the 11th edition of the CONCACAF Gold Cup competition and 20th CONCACAF regional championship overall. The ...
In his first fight since being released by the UFC, Patrick Cote defeated Kalib Starnes via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28) last night at Ringside MMA 10 in Montreal. Photo: TopMMANews.com
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This week's power rankings is based on the most interesting player to hit just one home run for the team. This is a good way to sift through Baseball Reference's Play Index and say, "Whoa, I had no idea that ____ played for ____!" several hundred times in one day.
1. Kansas City Royals - Orlando Cepeda (off Luke Walker, 8/14/74)
This is a wake-up call for you. This is a time to rethink your life, and how you will provide for your children. Imagine if your dad bought an Orlando Cepeda/Royals shirsey, tucked it away for 30 years, and then presented it to you today. Magical. Amazing. Transcendent. You would have a Kansas City Royals shirsey with Cepeda's name and number on the back.
Now is your chance. Get that Tejada/Giants shirsey. When Jorge Posada signs with the Astros in the offseason, snatch one of those shirseys up and save it for your kid. He'll thank you later. DON'T PASS UP THIS CHANCE, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY.
2. Arizona Diamondbacks - Randy Johnson (off Doug Davis, 9/19/03)
It would be too easy to populate the list with pitchers, so you won't see many of them here. But exceptions are made in special circumstances. Randy Johnson actually hit a major-league home run. This is not widely known. There aren't tributes to this home run before every Diamondbacks game. It's not part of the opening to This Week in Baseball. It should be.
The home run went 385 feet, which is 383 feet farther than Johnson had ever hit a ball prior to the home run. Yet as with most things related to baseball and video, we'll never get the chance to see it.
I would pay $10 for the home-run video, MLB Advanced Media. Why won't you take my money?
3. San Diego Padres - Everyone
You could build a pretty good all-time lineup from the Padres' one-homer club:
C -Sandy Alomar
1B - Derrek Lee
2B - Marty Barrett
SS - Ozzie Smith
3B - Jeff Cirillo
LF - Jason Bay
CF - Jim Edmonds
RF - Al Bumbry
P - Gaylord Perry
Half of those players passed through the Padres on their way out of the game, but half of them passed through on their way into the game. The Padres have always been so generous with their young players.
4. Chicago White Sox - Manny Ramirez (off Max Scherzer, 9/17/10)
George Foster was also on the list, but there's something special about Manny's time with the White Sox. And by "special," I mean "completely forgettable." I remember lines from "Empty Nest" episodes from 25 years ago -- how is it possible that I already forgot that Manny Ramirez was on the White Sox? Next thing you'll tell me is Jim Thome was on the Dodgers.
5. Los Angeles Dodgers - Paul Waner (off Ed Heusser, 6/2/43)
I always forget which Waner is the good one and which one is the less-good one. This is the good one, Big Poison.
More importantly, one of the other players on the Dodgers' one-homer list was Jigger Statz.
There are great old-timey names, and then there are names you couldn't make up if you had a focus group filled with the greatest minds of a generation.
Jigger Statz. Let it sink in for a while. Write it on an index card, and check in with it throughout the day.
Jigger Statz.
6. Boston Red Sox - Al Simmons (off Tiny Bonham, 8/29/43)
Simmons is on the short list of the most underrated players of all-time -- a Hall-of-Fame outfielder with a career .334/.380/.535 hitter over 20 seasons. He was with the Red Sox for just 40 games at the end of his career.
But as long we're talking about awesome names, note that Simmons is on the short list of the most underrated names of all-time. Baseball Reference gives Simmons a full name of...
Aloysius Harry Simmons (Bucketfoot Al) born Aloys Szymanski.
This is the second-most Thomas Pynchon character name in the history of baseball. The first, of course, is Mariners minor leaguer Jetsy Jens (Menese) Extrano.
7. Oakland Athletics - Zach Wheat (off Tommy Thomas, 7/15/27)
Just as we're starting to feel sorry for ourselves for not living in an era without a Jigger Statz and "Bucketfoot Al" Aloysius Harry Simmons, comes another Hall of Famer, Zach Wheat. Someone back in the '10s or '20s gave Zach a nickname. "Buck." Zach "Buck" Wheat.
That person then married someone boring and awful, and they had boring and awful kids. Those boring and awful kids had boring and awful kids, and one day, one of those kids said, "Say, if you take the first letter of 'Alex' and the first syllable of 'Rodriguez' and just mash 'em together, you get a great nickname!"
There have always been bad nicknames. We just can't help looking to the past with rose-colored glasses.
Counterpoint: Jigger Statz.
8. Florida Marlins - Tim Raines (off Armando Benitez, 5/24/02)
9. Baltimore Orioles - Tim Raines (off Tim Wakefield, 10/5/01)
Tim Raines's lone homer with the Orioles came during the lone week he was with the club. The Expos traded him to Baltimore with a week left in the season so he could play with his son, Tim Raines, Jr., who played parts of three seasons with the Orioles.
Unfortunately for the family, it got a little weird. Tim Raines, Sr. has exactly one more home run as an Oriole than Tim Raines, Jr. If my dad did that to me, I'd be pissed off for the rest of my life.
10. Cleveland Indians - Sam Rice (off Roy Mahaffey, 6/15/34)
At this point, I'm going to assume that it was a fad for Hall-of-Fame outfielders in the '20s and '30s to play for a random team before they retired and hit a single home run. It was like dancing the Charleston atop a flagpole, but with home runs and a heckuva lot more train travel.
Note: This piece gave me an idea for a steampunk novel about a group of teenagers who put their Charleston-on-top-of-flagpole videos on some early-20th century version of YouTube. That's all teenagers would have done back then. We'd all be speaking German right now as a consequence. Keep your filthy hands off my novel idea.
11. San Francisco Giants - Tony Lazzeri (off Curt Davis, 6/30/39)
Can the universe create an underrated Yankees Hall of Famer? This is proof that it might be possible.Tony Lazzeri was an excellent second baseman for a long time, but you don't hear his name as much as other Yankee greats.
Also, Lazzeri and the Yankees beat the Giants in the 1936 World Series. Lazzeri on the Giants was the start of Operation Forget-Us-Not, a component of Yankees psychological warfare. The Yankees would plant a broken-down star on the team they defeated in the World Series, subconsciously reminding the world of their dominance.
The Braves tried to do the same thing with Andruw Jones this year, but they were unclear on the concept.
12. St. Louis Cardinals - Rabbit Maranville (off Freddie Fitzsimmons, 6/9/28)
Minnie Minoso was on the one-homer list, and he was probably a better player than Maranville. But Rabbit is in the Hall of Fame, so that broke the tie. Besides, if there weren't an old-timey infielder named "Rabbit" with a mug like this ...
... already in the Hall, we'd have to invent one. His induction just saved us time. Apologies to Jon Bois for nicking his terminology, but that's the most old-time player ever. Look at him. He's ready to stab you if you get too close to his Grape Nuts, just like your great-grandpa would have.
13. New York Yankees - John McGraw (unknown, 1901)
Lance Berkman is/was a better player, but McGraw is a bigger overall baseball legend. Plus, this is a great chance to remind everyone that the Yankees were once the Baltimore Orioles. McGraw hit his home run in 1901 for the Baltimore Orioles, who are now the New York Yankees.
So cheer up, Orioles fans! These things automatically reverse themselves every few thousand to few million years, just like the magnetic poles. Any day now. Aaaaaany day now.
14. Cincinnati Reds - Curt Flood (off Moe Drabowsky, 9/25/57)
Most of the players on this were past their prime, but Flood was a teenager when the Reds traded him to the Cardinals for a couple of nondescript pitchers, and he hit a home run in one of his four Cincinnati at-bats. His career OPS with the Reds: 1.250. Take that, Joey Votto!
15. Philadelphia Phillies - Johnny Evers (unknown, 1917)
Evers was a Hall-of-Fame second baseman, mostly known for his work with the Cubs (and the Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance poem). I never realized how long the Cubs' title drought really was until this list. It's been so long since the Cubs won the World Series, there aren't even box scores on Baseball Reference for the regular-season games that year. Talk about a way to make a baseball nerd gain some perspective.
16. Los Angeles Angels - Andres Galarraga (off Justin Lehr, 10/1/04)
There aren't too many modern players on this list, but of the ones that did make it, this is easily the most forgettable pairing. Galarraga had so many phases to his career. He was an All-Star with the Expos, and he was completely washed up at 30 ... until he went to Colorado and restarted his career. He played until he was 43, and everywhere he went, the fans loved him.
Except Anaheim. He showed up because of an accounting error. The airlines sent his luggage there instead of retirement, and it took seven games to straighten everything out.
17. Atlanta Braves - Ray Boone (off Willard Schmidt, 9/6/59)
Ray Boone is known mostly for his prodigious, baseball-player-producing sperm. At least, he is to me, which is one of the reasons that Baseball Nation has asked that I don't write about Ray Boone too much.
Also, the next time you're feeling sorry for Octavio Dotel or Kyle Farnsworth for being traded so much, remember that Boone played for three teams in 1959. That doesn't give a fella a lot of time to go Cecil Jacobson on the baseball world, so Boone's work was even more impressive.
18. Texas Rangers - Omar Vizquel (off Justin Speier, 8/7/09)
On August 7, 2009, Justin Speier gave up a home run to a 42-year-old Omar Vizquel. Speier never pitched in another major-league game.
At the risk of seeming heartless, that's probably how the universe should work. Nice and linear, easy to understand.
19. Pittsburgh Pirates - Tim Wakefield (off Mark Portugal, 7/7/93)
Tim Wakefield is the career home-run leader for his college, Florida Tech. Tim Wakefield is the only player from Florida Tech to make the majors. You would think these two things are unrelated, but you'd be wrong.
Here's what usually happens when Tim Wakefield swings:
20. Chicago Cubs - Willie Wilson (off Roger Mason, 9/6/93)
Willie Wilson had 41 home runs in his career. Thirteen of them were inside-the-park home runs. This is especially impressive considering that Kauffman Stadium has always had pretty vanilla outfield dimensions.
Also, Wilson is seventh on the Cubs' all-time home run list.
21. New York Mets - Brett Butler (off Allen Watson, 7/20/95)
Another lead-off great who hung in just long enough to do a single non-lead-offy thing for a team that no one will ever associate him with. Even though he played for three more seasons after his Mets homer, it was the last home run he ever hit. This is partially because Butler played until he was 40, and partially because Butler stood 4'3".
22. Colorado Rockies - Steve Finley (off Vinnie Chulk, 4/17/07)
So one day, Finley was sitting at home, thinking about his nickname -- "Slut of the NL West" -- and feeling guilty that he never really earned that nickname. How could he, if he never played for the Rockies? So he called up his agent, got a gig with the Rockies, hit a single home run, and retired, comfortable in the knowledge that he had truly earned the "Slut of the NL West" moniker.
Well, that should be his nickname.
23. Milwaukee Brewers - Tony Fernandez (off Bruce Chen, 5/16/01)
I feel like this is the twist of an Encyclopedia Brown mystery. Did Bugs Meany give himself away by saying that Tony Fernandez was still playing in 2001? Or did he give himself away by saying Bruce Chen has been in the league for ten years? One of the two can't be true, and that's going to break the case wide open. Maybe I'll just have Sally Kimball punch him in the junk. Bugs Meany, I mean. Not Fernandez. He didn't do anything wrong. Except maybe boot a ball in the World Series when he probably shouldn't have.
Fernandez hit his only home run as a Brewer in his last game as a Brewer, which is good, because otherwise you'd be sitting here reading something about one of the Jeff D'Amicos, and I don't have the time to figure out which one was which.
24. Washington Nationals - Felipe Alou (off Mike Paul, 9/19/73)
And as he rounded the bases for he the last time in his career, he overheard relievers in his own bullpen laughing at him. It was then that he decided to wage a secret war on relievers and their fragile, precious little arms. Somewhere right now, Jim Brower is still warming up in case the other team pulls within seven runs.
That's probably a joke that only a Giants or Expos fan would get. But the best way to explain it is this: Alou pinch-hit for Ron Fairly in this game. As far as bad managers and bad announcers go, that was like Elvis meeting Nixon in the White House - a summit of absolute titans.
25. Seattle Mariners - Vince Coleman (off Todd Van Poppel, 9/22/95)
In his career, Todd Van Poppel faced Cecil Fielder, Kirby Puckett, Jose Canseco, Moises Alou, Aramis Ramirez, Albert Pujols, Andre Dawson, Harold Baines, Don Mattingly, Manny Ramirez, Ellis Burks, Derek Jeter, Scott Rolen, George Brett, Eddie Murray, Miguel Cabrera, Mike Piazza, Darryl Strawberry, Chipper Jones, Alex Rodriguez, Robin Yount, Adam Dunn, Matt Holliday, Victor Martinez, and Barry Bonds. He did not allow a home run to any of those players.
Vince Coleman.
26. Minnesota Twins - Jason Tyner (off Jake Westbrook, 7/28/07)
Tyner had 1220 at-bats in his career before July 28, 2007. With this home run -- the only one of his career, much less the Twins -- he dropped down to 19th on the Kuiper List. Let's take a look at the home run:
Well, of course. You can't pitch Tyner there.
27. Detroit Tigers - Ruben Sierra (off Andy Pettitte, 8/9/96)
28. Toronto Blue Jays - Ruben Sierra (off Steve Karsay, 6/7/97)
At the trading deadline in 1996, the Yankees traded Sierra and the #12 prospect in baseball for Cecil Fielder. Sierra was 30 years old, but he was about five years removed from his last good season. He must have felt pretty down. Then in his first game against his old team, he hit a home run and drove in all five runs in a 5-3 win. He probably said something like, "Yeah! Rubes stilllll got it! Suck it, Yankees!"
Then Sierra resumed being terrible. The Yankees won the World Series.
29. Houston Astros - Keith Ginter (off Jimmy Haynes, 9/30/00)
This one doesn't mean anything to anyone else, but I remember being so jealous of the Astros and Keith Ginter. He was a middle infielder with all kinds of power in the minors. Turns out his breakout season was in the Texas League when he was 24. There are enough red flags there to welcome a cosmonaut home.
You could also build a pretty sweet rotation just from one-homer pitchers who went through Houston in the late-'90s and early '00s: Andy Pettitte, Darryl Kile, Russ Ortiz, Roy Oswalt, Mike Hampton
30. Tampa Bay Rays - Hank Blalock (off Bud Norris, 5/23/10)
The Rays don't have a super-long history, so it was unlikely that there would be a Hall of Famer on the list. But they did have two former Home Run Derby contestants: Blalock (2004) and Damion Easley (1998) both hit just a single home run as Rays. To break the tie, I matched their totals in the Home Run Derby against each other. Blalock had three home runs. Easley had two. Blalock gets the nod.
In other news, there were only eight players in each league during the 1998 and 2004 baseball seasons. You'd think that you'd hear more about that, what with all of the games being cancelled and all. But no. What a fascinating time in the sport's history.
Power Rankings of Yesteryear:
8/10 - Ballpark quirks
8/2 - General manager conversations
7/26 - Trade deadline strategies
7/19 - Ballpark names
7/5 - Mascots
6/27 - Promotional giveaways
6/21 - Health inspection reports
6/13 - Random ex-major leaguers in minor-league system
6/6 - Awesome names in draft history
5/31 - Team logos
5/24 - Annoying people
5/17 - Song titles
5/10 - Hair metal bands
5/3 - Sitcom locations
4/24 - Team names


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Running Drupal on Amazon EC2 LAMP Config with Serverless Puppet
I'm currently working on a project that involves running Drupal on Amazon EC2. To save time in setting up future new VM instances, I decided to take the opportunity to learn puppet. For the time being, I'm using a single VM to run the full LAMP stack and running puppet without a server by copying my puppet manifest to the VM and using puppet's apply command to apply it locally. However, this manifest can easily be adapted for a multi-VM environment. After some tinkering, I came up with the code below.
class web { package { 'httpd': ensure => 'present', } package { 'php': ensure => 'present', } # Update this to use your respective time zone value exec { 'php_config': command => '/bin/sed -i "s/^;date.timezone =/date.timezone = \'America\/Chicago\'/g" /etc/php.ini', require => Package['php'], } service { 'httpd': ensure => 'running', enable => true, hasrestart => true, hasstatus => true, subscribe => Package['httpd', 'php'], } # Drupal requirements start here package { 'php-pdo': ensure => 'present', require => Package['php'], } package { 'php-mysql': ensure => 'present', require => Package['php'], } package { 'php-xml': ensure => 'present', require => Package['php'], } package { 'php-gd': ensure => 'present', require => Package['php'], } package { 'php-mbstring': ensure => 'present', require => Package['php'], } # Drupal requirements end here } class mysql { package { 'mysql-server': ensure => 'present', } service { 'mysqld': ensure => 'running', enable => true, hasrestart => true, hasstatus => true, subscribe => Package['mysql-server'], } # Equivalent to /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation without providing or setting a password exec { 'mysql_secure_installation': command => '/usr/bin/mysql -uroot -e "DELETE FROM mysql.user WHERE User=\'\'; DELETE FROM mysql.user WHERE User=\'root\' AND Host NOT IN (\'localhost\', \'127.0.0.1\', \'::1\'); DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS test; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;" mysql', require => Service['mysqld'], } } class {'web': } class {'mysql': }
With this code saved to a file called manifest.pp (.pp being the file extension for puppet manifests), I can spin up a VM and do the following to set it up:
scp -i key.pem manifest.pp ec2-user@host:~/ ssh -i key.pem ec2-user@host sudo yum upgrade -y sudo yum install -y puppet sudo puppet apply manifest.pp rm -f manifest.pp exit
At this point, I have a basic Apache/MySQL/PHP configuration capable of receiving a Drupal 7 installation.
Source: http://matthewturland.com/2012/02/13/setting-up-ec2-for-drupal-with-puppet/
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Yaron Levy replied on Sun, 2012/06/10 - 10:35am
This mostly works, but beware if you add complexity and do not want to only manage your php and webserver. Go out of your way to find providers that work (i.e. nginx{"whatever": "docroot" =>"/srv/www" } or puppet will bite you with dependency hell :)
We've been using it for a year now to manage around 20 servers in dev, staging and production and this was the major thing that annoyed us. Reusing code can be a bit of a hassle if you start wrong.