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Editor's Note: Election day is just around the corner and to give our readers a better look at the candidates who've thrown their hats in the campaign ring, Patch will be interviewing each one about what issues are most important to them, who's their fiercest competition and what experience they bring to the table. Here's the second installment of our Names in the News feature.
Paul Kloecker is used to being a leader. The 32-year Gilroy resident served as a Naval engineer officer for 22 years. There, he helped plan and run bases that housed thousands of personnel. After retiring from the service, he became a facilities manager in the heady early days of Silicon Valley, managing design and production before becoming an independent consultant.
He still managed to find time, in between his commute to the Bay Area from Gilroy, to run and get elected to the city council. He served three terms as a councilman, tallying 12 years between 1983-1995.
The father of two grown children made an unsuccessful bid for the counil in 2010. Not to be dissuaded from civic duty, he currently sits on the Parks and Recreation Commission. He also conducts a train at , a job he said affords him the time and proximity to get back into politics with gusto.
Patch talked with Kloecker about what will be different if he's elected this time around, how managing a city is a lot like running a Navy base and how he keeps conflict at bay.
Gilroy Patch: Why did you decide to run for city council?
Paul Kloecker: I thoroughly enjoyed it when I was on the council for 12 years. I want to get back into it. I do it because I like it and it's something I've always enjoyed.
Patch: What are your hot button issues?
Kloecker: We're coming out of a recession and because of that we needed to lay off some police, fire and public safety workers. I'd like to see a return to the appropriate levels of public safety so we can keep crime under control.
Housing construction has slacked off for several years, but it's picking back up again, so I'd like to keep that going. There will be an update of the city's general plan coming up and I'd really like to be involved with that.
I want to be involved in downtown coordination and development. When I was on the council before, I worked closely in collaboration with a lot of different agencies, especially in the Bay Area. Now, I'd really like to focus on South County while still being involved with the Bay Area. We don't live in a bubble, but this time around I have the time and ability to participate in a lot more local things.
Patch: Who do you feel is your biggest competition and why?
Kloecker: I'm not in competition with anyone. I run for the seat. It's not my style to run in competition. I want to work in collaboration with people to make good decisions. I'm not going to say I'm better than this person or that person. It's not worth it to me to do that.
Patch: What experience do you bring to the position of city councilmember?
Kloecker: I'm an engineer and I spent 12 years on the council, where I participated in a wide range of things. I also bring my attitude towards cooperation and collaboration and having mutual respect for others on the council.
I absolutely abhor conflict on the council. Conflict doesn't mean a difference in voting, because that's going to happen. It's an attitude. I'm about resolving conflicts, not creating them.
I'm well versed in group collaboration, group management and getting along with a lot of people in a lot of organizations. If you think you are going to be on the council and run the show, forget it. I want to listen to people, listen to the public, read all the reports and take that information along with what the public is saying to make good decisions. I look for good, sound decision making.
I was involved in running bases when I was in the Navy. They're not much different than cities. We did everything from running bus systems to building buildings to taking care of transportation issues. I bring that experience to the council as well as fiscal management to go along with it.
I also work well with the school district. Because my wife is a teacher, I'm plugged into how the school functions here.
Patch: What's something you want voters to know about yourself?
Kloecker: I want them to know that I'm very interested in the council. I worked hard at it before and I intend to do the same if not more so this time. I'm a hard working, dedicated and capable person. I have the time and the experience. I get along well with people, which is a distinct asset.


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Posted Feb 11, 2011 7:10 PM CDT
By Martha Neil
Michael "Mickey" Sherman isn't complaining.
The 64-year-old Connecticut criminal defense attorney did the crime, and now he'll have to do the time—a year and a day—for failing to pay his federal income tax.
"I didn't get railroaded. I made a mistake. I never groused about paying the price," he tells the Stamford Advocate. "I do believe that lawyers should be held to a higher standard."
But colleagues in the defense bar who were among those throwing a going-away party for Sherman at a Greenwich bar last night wanted him to know that they feel bad about the sentence and will miss a respected local lawyer.
"We all feel bad that we are seeing one of our brother attorneys have to do some jail time," says Howard Ehring, a senior assistant public defender in Stamford.
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The UFC's first event on Fuel is happening this Wednesday night and features an important bout between Jake Ellengerger and Diego Sanchez. Jake Ellenberger has been making waves in the division and is seen by many as one of the pack pushing for a title shot, should Carlos Condit decide to defend his belt without waiting for the return of Georges Saint-Pierre. Diego Sanchez is an interesting character with a non-stop aggressive style. In recent years he has been battling various demons in his life and his nickname change from "The Nightmare" to "The Dream" is supposed to represent a changed man. Either way, this is one of those fights where to powerful forces collide and the consequence will surely be an explosion.
UFC on FUEL TV: Sanchez vs. Ellenberger (LIVE) 2.15.12 (via fueltv)
Recent History
- Diego Sanchez has had two Fight of the Night victories in a row, most recently against Martin Kampman.
- Ellenberger is on an impressive 5 fight win streak, including a huge scalp in Jake Shields.
Ellenberger is massive at 170lb. He has an immensely powerful wrestling style and manages to bully most other fighters. In recent years he has shown a diverse and powerful striking skill set too, as we saw with his brutal knockouts of Jake Shields and Mike Pyle.
Diego Sanchez has one of the most famously intense styles of fighting in MMA today. He pushes a pace that almost nobody can deal with and is wild and almost reckless in his aggression. He is on a bit of a decision streak at the moment, going the distance in his last three fights, but his fights are exciting nevertheless. Sanchez is an accomplished wrestler and submission grappler and loves to use those skills to control a fight, but he is just as likely to use his wrestling to keep the fight standing for a brutal scrap.
Head to Head
Jake Ellenberger's nickname is the juggernaut and it is pretty appropriate. When he is moving forward he is nigh on impossible to stop. Sanchez is something of an indomitable force himself and that is what makes this fight so interesting and exciting. Sanchez has an unstoppable pace and intensity and Ellenberger has unstoppable power and physical domination.
With Ellenberger the bigger, stronger fighter, it may well be him who manages to dominate the wrestling and clinching. For Sanchez, the key will be staying on the feet and attempting to pick Ellenberger apart with sharp boxing. That is where Sanchez will have a problem. He loves to move forward and make fights messy. I wonder if he will have the discipline to stay away from Ellenberger's big bombs and powerful wrestling and I wonder whether he has the skills and footwork too.
To me, it seems like Ellenberger is a huge favourite as he is likely to be the one who controls where the fight takes place and the pace of the action. This more or less takes away Sanchez's main advantage.
Ellenberger will dominate but Sanchez is tough to put away. Ellenberger by unanimous decision.
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A Movie A Day: Quint on CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE (1944)
Little girl, come into the garden. It's pleasant and cool here.
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today's installment of A Movie A Day.
[For those now joining us, A Movie A Day is my attempt at filling in gaps in my film knowledge. My DVD collection is thousands strong, many of them films I haven't seen yet, but picked up as I scoured used DVD stores. Each day I'll pull a previously unseen film from my collection and discuss it here. Each movie will have some sort of connection to the one before it, be it cast or crew member.]
Today we hit the sequel to yesterday's CAT PEOPLE titled CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE which brings back producer Val Lewton, stars Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph and Elizabeth Russell, screenwriter DeWitt Bodeen and Robert Wise, who went from editorial to directorial from original to sequel.
I'm not exactly sure how I feel about this movie. I know I liked it, but I'm also a little confused by it. At least 7 years have progressed since the events of the first movie. Simone Simon died at the end of the first movie and Kent Smith and Jane Randolph have wed and settled down, producing a little girl.
While Simone, Smith and Randolph all return, none of them feel like their characters from the first one. Smith might be close, but that's just because I think he was kind of a dickhead in the first movie and here he's even more so.
Let's get this out of the way up front. The first film was a huge success and allowed Lewton some freedom at RKO. Apparently the way the studio worked with Lewton was to get a title approved through testing them out on general audiences and then they told Lewton to make a movie to go with the title.
At least in CAT PEOPLE Simone Simon does turn into a pissed off jealous murdering cat. There is nothing like that in this movie. Instead the Curse of the title can be interpreted a few different ways.
It could be an almost self-fulfilling prophecy situation where Smith is so paranoid that his daughter might emulate his first, dead cat woman wife that he roughly insists his young daughter be as normal as possible and doesn't tolerate any whimsy of youth… which of course, pushes the girl only further into a more solitude life filled with imaginary friends.
Or the curse could be the Ghost of Irene haunting the garden of the house. I doubt it… Irene as a ghost is sweeter than Irene as a crazy cat lady and really does seem to be a legitimate playmate for young Amy (played by wunderkind Ann Carter).
At first I thought it was going to be Simone returning from beyond the grave to turn the little girl into a cat person, but apparently not. Then the crazy other cat lady from the Serbian restaurant in the first film, Elizabeth Russell, shows up living in the scary house of the neighborhood, the other kids saying a witch lives there.
Oh, boy! Here it is! This is where we get the cat people returning… nope, not there either. Instead Russell plays a very sad character, living with her elderly mother (Julia Dean) who is certain that Russell is a stranger impersonating her long-dead daughter. The pain that Russell shows in her eyes each time her mother says those things is a pretty big clue-in that she's not a crazy cat-imposter, but that her mother is a little on the crazy side.
I have no clue how this film was received back in the day, but I can only imagine that audiences were pissed off that there were no cat people in a movie called CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE, a sequel to a movie called CAT PEOPLE that actually had cat people in it.
Instead it seems the filmmakers decided to experiment a bit and removed all the visual landmarks of the original film. The first is a dark noir thriller set in a sprawling city, this one set in the suburbs (literally the famous Sleepy Hollow) in bright daylight. The original was a sly, creepy psychological story and this one more of a fairy tale.
I wonder what Guillermo Del Toro thinks of this movie… It has a lot of similarities to some of his work. A very talented young actress is the lead in a story with ghosts and crazy ladies… and then there's the theme of having nothing to fear from the dead. It's the living that can hurt you. That's here, too.
Ann Carter is great as the lead, embodying the innocence of youth as well as the strangeness of it. It's a really creepy time if you really think back on it, back when you could imagine anything and believe it with such force that you could start to scare yourself… at least I could… it's why I knew deep down in my heart that the shark from Jaws somehow got into the deep end of the neighborhood pool, even though my brain knew that couldn't happen.
Simone Simon is also noteworthy here. You can see the movie star quality about her, how magnetic she is when she enters the frame. Her ghostly character does have a very sweet relationship with Ann, despite how at first you think she's going to be a sinister influence.
I'm also quite fond of the extremely fractured mother/daughter relationship between Elizabeth Russell and Julia Dean. Dean takes to Ann and quickly forms an even greater ball of bitterness inside Russell. I would have actually really loved to have seen this story told through Russell's eyes as she sees her mother give some stranger the love she herself has been trying desperately to earn for years.
Other than that, I can't say I was taken with anybody else… wait, that's not true. I really dug the man-servant, Edward, played by Lewton regular Sir Lancelot. Awesome name, right? But I still didn't really care much about Kent Smith. I find his performance about vanilla and one-dimensional as you can get. He doesn't have any personality in these two films.
Final Thoughts: I definitely enjoyed seeing this movie and a big part of me even enjoyed that it's such a radical fuck-you switch of gears from the first film. You can't accuse this group of resting on their laurels or playing to the lowest common denominator. The flick misses Jacques Tourneur's confidence and way with black and white photography. Nicholas Musuraca, DoP, returns from the original, but doesn't get as much chance to show off, except during the pretty snowy night sequences. The final flick is a little rough around the edges, but as a curiosity it's a must.
The schedule for the next 7 days is:
Sunday, August 31st: THE 7TH VICTIM (1943)
Monday, September 1st: THE GHOST SHIP (1943)
Tuesday, September 2nd: ISLE OF THE DEAD (1945)
Wednesday, September 3rd: BEDLAM (1946)
Thursday, September 4th: BLACK SABBATH (1964)
Friday, September 5th: BLACK SUNDAY (1977)
Saturday, September 6th: TWITCH OF THE DEATH NERVE (1972)
In answer to some of you in the talkback from yesterday, THE LEOPARD MAN and THE BODY SNATCHER, the only two left over from the Val Lewton Box Set, will indeed be watched later in the column.
I'm actually considering putting a halt to the connecting tissues aspect, freezing the column in its tracks starting October 1st and only watching horror/thrillers for the entire month, not bound by trying to connect them, although I'm sure that'll inevitably occur for a few titles. Then November 1st I'd pick up the column again, right where I left off.
My only concerns are that we're hitting a lot of Val Lewton now and following those up with almost a week of Mario Bava, so I don't want to get horrored out. What do you folks think?
Previous Movies:
June 2nd: Harper
June 3rd: The Drowning Pool
June 4th: Papillon
June 5th: Gun Crazy
June 6th: Never So Few
June 7th: A Hole In The Head
June 8th: Some Came Running
June 9th: Rio Bravo
June 10th: Point Blank
June 11th: Pocket Money
June 12th: Cool Hand Luke
June 13th: The Asphalt Jungle
June 14th: Clash By Night
June 15th: Scarlet Street
June 16th: Killer Bait (aka Too Late For Tears)
June 17th: Robinson Crusoe On Mars
June 18th: City For Conquest
June 19th: San Quentin
June 20th: 42nd Street
June 21st: Dames
June 22nd: Gold Diggers of 1935
June 23rd: Murder, My Sweet
June 24th: Born To Kill
June 25th: The Sound of Music
June 26th: Torn Curtain
June 27th: The Left Handed Gun
June 28th: Caligula
June 29th: The Elephant Man
June 30th: The Good Father
July 1st: Shock Treatment
July 2nd: Flashback
July 3rd: Klute
July 4th: On Golden Pond
July 5th: The Cowboys
July 6th: The Alamo
July 7th: Sands of Iwo Jima
July 8th: Wake of the Red Witch
July 9th: D.O.A.
July 10th: Shadow of A Doubt
July 11th: The Matchmaker
July 12th: The Black Hole
July 13th: Vengeance Is Mine
July 14th: Strange Invaders
July 15th: Sleuth
July 16th: Frenzy
July 17th: Kingdom of Heaven: The Director's Cut
July 18th: Cadillac Man
July 19th: The Sure Thing
July 20th: Moving Violations
July 21st: Meatballs
July 22nd: Cast a Giant Shadow
July 23rd: Out of the Past
July 24th: The Big Steal
July 25th: Where Danger Lives
July 26th: Crossfire
July 27th: Ricco, The Mean Machine
July 28th: In Harm's Way
July 29th: Firecreek
July 30th: The Cheyenne Social Club
July 31st: The Man Who Knew Too Much
August 1st: The Spirit of St. Louis
August 2nd: Von Ryan's Express
August 3rd: Can-Can
August 4th: Desperate Characters
August 5th: The Possession of Joel Delaney
August 6th: Quackser Fortune Has A Cousin In The Bronx
August 7th: Start the Revolution Without Me
August 8th: Hell Is A City
August 9th: The Pied Piper
August 10th: Partners
August 11th: Barry Lyndon
August 12th: The Skull
August 13th: The Hellfire Club
August 14th: Blood of the Vampire
August 15th: Terror of the Tongs
August 16th: Pirates of Blood River
August 17th: The Devil-Ship Pirates
August 18th: Jess Franco's Count Dracula
August 19th: Dracula A.D. 1972
August 20th: The Stranglers of Bombay
August 21st: Man, Woman & Child
August 22nd: The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane
August 23rd: The Young Philadelphians
August 24th: The Rack
August 25th: Until They Sail
August 26th: Somebody Up There Likes Me
August 27th: The Set-Up
August 28th: The Devil & Daniel Webster
August 29th: Cat People
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Aug. 31, 2008, 5:47 a.m. CST
Quint, watch the extras
by Jinxo
It has been awhile and so I may be off here a bit but if I recall correctly Val Lewton had this concept in mind and wanted to do this script. RKO wanted Curse Of The Cat People. So he gave them the film he wanted to make and slapped their title on it with enough connections to the first film to make it a sequel. RKO was not exactly happy with him. But, hey, he got a script made he wanted to and was willing to face the repercussions. I believe Lewton even wanted to try and change the name of the film. And the scene at the beginning with the cat was added at RKO's insistence just so there would actually be a cat in a movie called Curse Of The Cat People.

 And the dad is an even bigger dick than you imply. He doesn't forbid fantasy and whimsy but worse gives mixed signals. At the start of the film the little girl gets in trouble for believing in a bit of whimsy HE himself instilled in her. Sort of like telling a kid there is a Santa Claus and then berating her for being silly enough to believe in him. But watch the film again with no Cat People expectations and it will play as a much better flick.
Aug. 31, 2008, 5:56 a.m. CST
Odd little movie this
by alucardvsdracula
I remember first seeing it about 15 odd years ago and thought it was very odd and very original. Even better though is the DVD set of "Body Snatcher and I walked with a Zombie" - Body Snatcher especially is pretty fuckin brilliant and I can't think of a better Karlof performance.
Aug. 31, 2008, 6:14 a.m. CST
Curse of the Cat People thoughts
by psychedelic
Here's an interesting case example of a sequel. All the main characters from the last movie are there but the audience doesn't get the original's main meat, a woman turning into a cat and stalking people. It's understandable why many people wouldn't find this satisfying. However, the story is pretty good. It's just of a different nature. I commend screenwriter DeWitt Bodeen for coming up with an original tale that's not just another sequel rehash. It's a refreshing change. Yes, he could have made it more sinister by having Irena's ghost talk Amy, the little girl, into doing bad cat-like things. But I like what's there. He wrote The 7th Victim. I'll look forward seeing what he does.
The most effective scenes are of children teasing and then ditching Amy. They twisted my heart some. Ann Carter delivers a very good performance as Amy, one of the best child performances I've seen recently. Except for an unaccredited cameo in '52 she stopped acting at age 13. Too bad. I wonder how she would have been as an adult actress. Julia Dean shines as a lively elderly actress remembering her glory days and making friends with Amy.
The 1950s prototype very square repressed household rubbed my fur the wrong way. But maybe that's the intention. I've had enough of Kent Smith for a while. I miss Jacques Tourneur's addictive direction, but you can't have everything. Overall, it's a pretty good interesting sequel. I wouldn't go so far as calling it a must, but it's definitely a notable curiosity.
I'm all for gorging on horror in October. In fact, my appetite is whetted for gorging on horror in September too. But I'm a dyed in wool horror nut. It's October somewhere in my head all the time. But if you think you might get horrored out, feel free do watch other stuff in September. It doesn't bother me if there's no connective tissue from title to title.
Aug. 31, 2008, 6:44 a.m. CST
Lewton saved RKO's ass.
by Knuckleduster
When he joined in 1942 he was given "complete creative control" as long as he agreed to stick to some very specific rules: He had to use "the studio's already-tested sensationalist titles, to avoid messages, to spend less than $150 000 per movie or per month on shooting and to limit the length to around 75 minutes." Well, after losing a fortune with Citizen Kane, RKO was on the verge on bankruptcy. Lewton completely saved their asses with Cat People.
Aug. 31, 2008, 6:52 a.m. CST
as commissioner of AMAD...
by aint_it_cruel?
(self appointed) I like the idea of a horror-centric October. Maybe start it mid month on the 15th if you're worried about being "Horrored-out".______I love those Curse posters. Talk about false advertising...
Aug. 31, 2008, 7:13 a.m. CST
gotta do the horror movies for october
by bottleimp
I'm pretty sure that you'd be required by law to do so. Keep in mind that you don't always have to look for quality movies-- for every piece of genius filmmaking like Robert Wise's THE HAUNTING, there are dozens of hilariously bad schlock-fests. If I may make a recommendation for the latter, check out a lovely little film called PIECES. You won't be disappointed.
Aug. 31, 2008, 8:06 a.m. CST
October horrorfest
by gnortsmra
How about starting on the 13th and then continuing on through the end? You get the obvious (lucky) 13th reference, and a nice little bookend 13/31 for the month.
Aug. 31, 2008, 9:13 a.m. CST
I'm for it
by Bloo
I like the 13-31 Horror AMAD fest
as for this movie, I caught it a couple of years ago, maybe even close to 10 years ago on AMC or TCM and being blown away having not seen the orignal only Schrader's remake, it really is a twisted bizaree little movie
Aug. 31, 2008, 10:04 a.m. CST
Smith was perfect in the first one
by JuanSanchez
Irena really was both the protagonist and the antagonist. Smith's actions had to be understandable, but you weren't supposed to like and identify with him - you were supposed to feel sorry for Irena. So to me Smith nailed it. Not enough of a bad guy to be the bad guy, but not enough of a good guy to be the good guy because he was meant to be neither.
Aug. 31, 2008, 10:16 a.m. CST
Horror month
by Continentalop
I'm glad to see you add "The Leopard Man" to your list. You will not be disappointed (well, except for the commentary by William Friedkin - not that insightful). As for horror month in october, may I make a couple of suggestions: Eyes Without a Face; Night of the Demon, Dead of Night; Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter; The Changeling (70s version); The Other; Martin; and Targets. You might have already seen some of them, but if not they are worth a look. I would have added "Night of the Eagle" but it is not available on DVD.
Aug. 31, 2008, 10:36 a.m. CST
October horror fest is the way forward...
by Boba Fat
...and maybe can carry on into other months / seasons / holidays? Makes sense for a column that runs for a year. And Quint? I was able to convince myself at the age of 7 that Bruce was in my bath!
Aug. 31, 2008, 10:52 a.m. CST
October Horror sounds sweet
by heavenlykid
I say do it Quint. But I think you should always start with a little 'how this might be connected' thing like you do now. Sometimes there'll be nothing, but I'd be willing to bet there'll be connections more often then you'd think.
Aug. 31, 2008, 10:55 a.m. CST
Extremely underrated...
by thegreatwhatzit
Though Lewton left some poignant footage on the cutting room floor.
Aug. 31, 2008, 11:31 a.m. CST
Fearing the Dead
by ROBRAM89
Why do the living fear the dead, when the living are the ones who are still alive? Profound...and stolen from Plan 9 from Outer Space.
You'll have to start breaking the rules if you want to keep this up -- I think watching a movie a day is more important than, say, keeping up the connections between the movies, which, if you're going by your own collection, there HAS to be a point where a connection can't be made anymore (right?). Same with horror flicks -- if you say you're going to watch all horror flicks, you don't want to watch yourself into a corner and give up as a result. The important thing here is to keep the column/movie watching going, not "following the rules."
Aug. 31, 2008, 2:30 p.m. CST
Brief thoughts
by Geekgasm
The little girl is absolutely remarkable and gives such a great performance. Also terrific is Elizabeth Russell, who made a big impact in "Cat People" with a very small scene. Here, she has a lot more to do and a much more definied character to play, and she's very good. Russell also turns up in "The 7th Victim", which is probably her best performance in a Lewton picture. As with all the Lewton films, there's a very real and believable world created for the story to take place in, and its very easy to get drawn into the Sleepy Hollow of "Curse of the Cat People". In my mind, its more of a sad fairy tale than a horror movie, about a little girl occupying that period of one's life where the world isn't quite real yet, and its beautifully dramatized in the scene where Irena first appears - a shot of AMY's POV of the back yard, where there's a sudden shift in the stage lighting that's like the sun breaking through the clouds, and Irena appears, looking not unlike a fairy godmother from child's bedtime story. Its a magical moment in the film and one that stuck with me.
Aug. 31, 2008, 7:20 p.m. CST
as much shit as people...
by kiwiblackm
... have been giving aicn recently, I've just got to say, Quint, that this series of articles has been some of the best stuff in the site's history. Good work! I've discovered a lot of good older flicks that I never would have thought to pick up before.
Aug. 31, 2008, 7:27 p.m. CST
You Have Enough Movies??
by Slimjimmy
I love the idea for October, but I'm surprised you have 31 horror/thrillers in your possession that you haven't watched. If that's the case, then I thought the 20 movies I have but haven't watched was a lot!!
Aug. 31, 2008, 9:07 p.m. CST
by JuanSanchez
I really like Targets. Really interesting movie.
Sept. 1, 2008, 3:47 a.m. CST
Cat People was GREAT!
by TheGhostWhoLurks
But I never saw the sequel. Sounds like I didn't miss much...
Sept. 1, 2008, 11:45 p.m. CST
yes on make scary time
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Nov. 8, 2008, 11:49 a.m. CST
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The source for the screenplay was, if I recall correctly, a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson called 'Amy and Her Friend". Lovely movie.
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ARDMORE OK-- A proposed bill would allow Veterans and state employees to be exempt from having to pay state income tax.
"I think it might be a good idea, although I think Veterans should pay their part too," Veteran A.G Collins said.
According to officials some state employees have not seen a pay raise in six years while the cost of living has continued to increase. State Representative Aaron Stiles said he thinks Veterans and state employees should be exempt from the state income tax. Other officials do not agree.
"I think it would be great to give tax reduction to not only veterans and state workers but what about those people that are working in the private sector, even at a 7-11, or at a TV station, etc. You want to do a tax reduction for everyone," State Representative, District 48, Pat Ombey said.
One local veteran said he knows some Veterans that have been through so much, and not having to pay state taxes would be great.
"There are so many that are so depressed and wounded that I think it's probably something we could live with and appreciate.," Veteran, H.B Ham said
Local State Representative Pat Ownbey said he doesn't think this bill will pass and instead the focus will be on all Oklahomans, not just one specific group.
"What the focus is going to be on the legislature this year is to do a state income tax reduction for Oklahomans from 5 and a quarter percent to 5 percent," Ombey said.
Ownbey also said Oklahoma hasn't forgotten about our veterans....
"I know the first ten thousand dollars on retirement for the military is tax free from a state perspective."


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Game - All That (Lady)
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On the lead single off his critically and Booth-acclaimed new album, Game recruited four of his most eminent musical colleagues for a Celebration of the things that make his day-to-day existence dope as f**k, with a special emphasis on weed and whips. But there's another blessing in his life so big that it deserved a star-studded record of its own—namely, a certain Lady who's All That and a family-size bag of Doritos. The next single off Jesus Piece sees Jayceon Taylor, Lil Wayne, Big Sean and Fabolous coming together to pay homage to the women in their lives over a soulful instrumental by Cool & Dre. Topped off with a heartfelt chorus from Jeremih, this record is just one of many bangers to be found on the headliner's fifth full-length, out now via DGC/Interscope.
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Mega star Angelina Jolie recently made headlines when she revealed that she had opted for a double mastectomy after learning that she had inherited a high risk of breast cancer. Decisions like this one are difficult for and brave for young women, something that Bright Pink founder Lindsay Avner knows all too well.
At 23, Lindsay became the youngest patient in the country to opt for a double mastectomy with reconstruction, after losing her mother, grandmother and great grandmother, and learning that she also had an 87% risk of developing breast cancer.
During her assessment surgery and recovery Lindsay learned that virtually no resources existed for women like her—who had not been diagnosed with breast or ovarian cancer but wanted to take a proactive approach to their health. So she created Bright Pink®, a non-profit focusing on the prevention and early detection of breast and ovarian cancer in young women, while providing support for high-risk individuals.
Recognizing the natural synergy between Bright Pink and his own lifelong commitment to creating a safe environment for women and their health, Farouk Systems Founder and Chairman Farouk Shami and CEO, Basim Shami have pledged their company's support to Bright Pink with the release of the special edition Bright Pink CHI TOUCH Blow Dryer.
"A beautiful woman is one who is bright, aware and in charge of her body, inside and out," declares Farouk. "Together with Bright Pink, we plan to revolutionize the way women care for their health by ensuring they are educated and empowered to make healthy, proactive choices for their beauty care and in other aspects of their lives."
"We are honored to be receiving this commitment from Farouk Systems and look forward to working together to inspire brightness in young women, both inside and out," said Lindsay Avner, Bright Pink Founder and CEO.
The CHI TOUCH Blow Dryer was originally launched in May 2012 as the first touch screen blow dryer to ever hit the market and has won several awards including Behind The Chair Magazine's 2013 Stylist Choice Award for Most Innovative Tool and Essence Magazine's 2013 Best In Black Beauty Award.
Features like the LCD screen, which allows for customizable speed, temperature and ion output, grabbed the attention of beauty enthusiasts on a global scale, but its ability to cut drying time in half is what really kept this dryer on the hot list. This tool was a fan favorite for many reasons, but the most substantive benefit of this dryer is that it is equipped with a precision engineered AC motor that produces a lower than average amount of EMF radiation and utilizes ceramic, ionic, and far infrared heat to keep hair healthy, shiny and smooth.
The Bright Pink version will be available in September at professional distributors and fine salons including Ulta, Beauty Brands and Regis for SRP $199.95.
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Hi there I saw one at ulta today and had too research. It looks awesome – definitely buying one this weekend. I am a star trek fan – big fan of touch screens, voice comands, holographic displays, like halo decks, tron devices, to put me in the game. Soo, yes I'll pay more money for high tech but I like high tech!


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Bronx, NY (SportsNetwork.com) - Kelly Johnson and Brian McCann each belted two-run homers and Brett Gardner added a solo shot, as the New York Yankees dominated the Boston Red Sox, 6-0, in the latest installment between the AL East rivals.
Derek Jeter, who turned 40 on Thursday, had two hits and scored once in New York's second straight win following a four-game skid.
Vidal Nuno finally won a start at home for the first time in his career. Nuno (2-4) allowed two hits over 5 2/3 frames.
The lefty had been 0-4 in eight previous career home starts, but Nuno received early run support, as the Yankees improved to 6-2 against the Red Sox this season.
"He didn't have a real long inning. He stayed away from that," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "He located the ball extremely well tonight."
Brandon Workman (1-1) yielded seven hits and four runs over seven innings to suffer his first loss since Sept. 8, 2013 at Yankee Stadium. That's when he uncorked a wild pitch in the ninth inning, allowing Ichiro Suzuki to score the winning run.
Circumstances never got to a dramatic finish Friday, although there were a few highlight plays on the defensive side. Suzuki made a diving grab of a ball hit by Stephen Drew to conclude the top of the second and Brock Holt made a leaping catch at the wall in right to rob Brian Roberts of a potential homer in the bottom of the frame. Holt made a diving grab in the eighth.
The Yankees took the lead in the first inning. Jeter singled to right, Jacoby Ellsbury doubled, and then Mark Teixeira lifted a sacrifice fly to left.
Workman escaped a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the third, but Johnson and Gardner clubbed consecutive homers in the fourth. Johnson's blast deep into the seats in right came with McCann aboard. Gardner then homered barely over the wall in right for a 4-0 lead.
Nuno didn't give up a hit past the third inning and was replaced by Dellin Betances after walking David Ortiz with two down in the sixth. That snapped a streak of 10 straight Boston batters retired by Nuno.
Betances walked Mike Napoli, but pinch-hitter Daniel Nava grounded into a force out at third.
Drew's ground-rule double to left broke an 0-for-29 slump in the top of the seventh, but Betances fanned Jackie Bradley Jr. to end the inning.
"The base hit with a guy in scoring position has been elusive. It was again tonight," Red Sox manager John Farrell said.
McCann homered to the second deck in right off Craig Breslow in the eighth. Teixeira was aboard after leading off the inning with a single.
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11:36am Wednesday 14th May 2014 in New Forest By Chris Yandell, Chief Reporter, New Forest
DEVELOPERS have unveiled a £3m scheme that aims to transform a landmark site in a Hampshire town.
Churchill Retirement Living is drawing up plans to build 25 privately-owned one and two-bedroom flats on the site of the former town hall in Christchurch Road, Ringwood.
Earlier this year another developer was given planning permission for 12 apartments and three houses on the land.
But Churchill, which has since bought the site, says it has devised an "improved" scheme that doubles the number of flats and also includes a manager's office, guest suite and residents' car park.
People living in the area are being invited to view the proposals at a public exhibition being held in the town on Wednesday.
Andrew Burgess, planning director at Churchill Retirement Living, said: "As a local company based in Ringwood we're really excited to be bringing retirement living to our home town.
"Because of our location we understand the area well and are keen to give members of the local community the opportunity to speak to our planning team and give their feedback.
"The comments we receive from people at the exhibition will be considered before we submit our application."
Mr Burgess said specialist retirement schemes were a neighbourly form of development.
He added: "Not only do they offer security, peace of mind and independence, they free up larger, family homes for local people.
"This scheme would be built using high quality materials to a traditional design ensure it's in keeping with the character of the area and would offer benefits to local people compared to the existing use of the site."
The land is currently occupied by former public offices that closed following the opening of the new £2m Ringwood Gateway complex.
Previous plans to build 15 homes on the site were submitted by Current Asset Ltd and approved by the district council in January.
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POWHATAN, Va. (AP) - An Amelia man has been sentenced to life in prison for abducting and beating a Powhatan County teacher. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/1aE5B3n ) that Powhatan Circuit Judge Paul W. Cella sentenced 30-year-old James Lee Wolfe Jr. on Monday. Anderson received a broken arm, a severe concussion, multiple cuts and brain bleeding after Wolfe broke into her home, attacked her with a meat cleaver and then drove her to an ATM where he forced her to withdraw money. He also set her home on fire. Wolfe was arrested the next day after employees at a gas station saw blood on money he was carrying.(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KTIV) - We're just 10-weeks away from the closure of Sioux City's John Morrell plant. On April 20th, 1,450 workers will lose their jobs. Western Iowa congressman Steve King hopes those Morrell workers are already looking for jobs.
King doesn't support a suggestion, by Iowa governor Chet Culver, to extend federal unemployment benefits to 39-weeks after a worker loses his, or her, job.
The republican worries some Morrell workers won't start looking for a new job until that 39th week when benefits are about to run out.
King says the 26-weeks workers get, right now, is enough. Rep. Steve King, (R) Iowa says "We shouldn't turn the 'safety net' into a hammock. It should actually be a 'safety net'."
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Theme: Pay It Forward
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
December 10th, 2011
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TEDxEroilor "Pay it forward" will bring together the values and proactive attitudes that need to make their way from generation to generation, in order to boost commitment towards a better world. We all know that without these valuable guidelines to assist the young generation, making a change would be difficult. This is why the speakers of this event are ready to pay forward the best of what life has taught them up until this moment. And, we can assure you, their stories will be breathtaking.
Confirmed Speakers
Cornelius Brody
Before founding iQuest, Cornelius (48) was a management consultant with Cap Gemini, his last position being Managing Director, Romania. Cornelius holds a Master of Sciences in Computer Science from the Polytechnic University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania and an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France. Cornelius combines entrepreneurial drive with a love of sports and music. He used to play water polo and the piano, now he spends his spare time swimming, listening to jazz and reading. "One of the great things about my job", he says, "is that we are creating a lot of value in a highly dynamic environment. It's fulfilling to see our ideas bearing fruit and a strong, healthy company culture in place as we grow, maintaining our flexibility and agility."
Șerban Țigănaș
I am defining myself as an architect. This means a certain formation, a specific perspective upon this world and way to pay contribution in its transformation. To be an architect is "to pay it forward" and I am trying to this in the three ways I may use: trough my work, performed with my team, by what I transfer to my students and with my actions for better architecture. From another point of view of my definition I am presenting myself as being from Cluj, born, loaded with memories and wishes and rooted here. When I succeed anything, there is here where I am the happiest. Partner in architecture and urban planning offices Dico and Tiganas and Planwerk, professor at Architecture and Urban Planning School of the Technical University of Cluj – Napoca and president of the Order of Architects of Romania.
Simona Baciu
Simona Baciu is a visionary and a change agent. She believes that every hardship can be an opportunity to grow. As a technology teacher in the early 90's, she felt burned out and limited in the opportunities extended to her within the Romanian educational system, so she decided to travel the world and see how education was done somewhere else. Almost twenty years later, the International School of Cluj, the school that she founded, has become the only school in Transylvania that is accredited to teach both the Romanian National Curriculum and the Cambridge International Curriculum. With 400 students enrolled, from 25 countries, the school is starting a true revolution in education, being chosen by the Ministry of Education to be a pilot school for educational reform, as "a model of good practice." It wasn't easy getting to this point, but, as Simona would say, the harder the times, the more meaningful the lesson.
Adrian Florea
Adrian is the founder of Trend Consult and currently holds the function of Managing Partner. In the last ten years, Adrian developed and delivered training sessions on sales and personal development, for multinational and Romanian companies, he was involved in consultancy projects, coaching and mentoring for managers and entrepreneurs. Now he is leading the international development of the Trend Consult Group (already extended in Poland and Austria) and he contributes in the research projects and development of the group.
Raluca-Ioana van Staden
Raluca-Ioana van Staden is Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Electrochemistry and PATLAB Bucharest in the National Institute of Research of Electrochemistry and Condensed Matter. She was an Associate Professor at the University of Pretoria (South Africa) and Assistant Professor at University of Bucharest. The author of three books and of more than 170 articles in scientific journals, as well as of numerous chapters in books in the field of sensors technology. She received numerous international prizes from societies such as South African Chemical Institute (Raikes Medal), IUPAC, World International Laboratory, and from innovation salons from Geneva, Warsaw, Moscow, Brussels. The most important prize – WIPO AWARD FOR THE BEST WOMEN INVENTOR was received in Geneva in 2010, at the 38th Salon of Innovation and New Products for a microsensor capable to diagnose 4 types of cancer in less than 6 minutes. She had given and has more than 200 presentations at international conferences and symposiums in Europe, North and South America and Africa. She also holds a B.Sc. degree (1996) in piano and musical education and the M.Sc. degree (1997) in musical composition from the Academy of Music, Bucharest, Romania.
Vasile Dâncu
Vasile Dâncu is President of the Romanian Institute for Assessment and Strategy (IRES) and founding member of the Romanian Association for Assessment and Strategy (ARES). Professor at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Bucharest and associate professor at the National Intelligence Academy and the Faculty of Sociology, University Babes-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca. He delivers courses in General Sociology, Communication, Market Research, Strategic Management. He is a member of ESOMAR (European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research) and he coordinates the section of Sociology Communication, Knowledge and Information Technology in the Romanian Sociologists Society. He became a trainer in intercultural communication after the participation in an European research program initiated by the Franco-German Youth Office (OFAJ). He is also a former director of the cultural magazine "Tribuna" and chief-editor of the publication "Transylvanian Review".
Miriam Cuibus
I am a comedian. My art is one of paradoxes. The fundamental paradox is that I'm not what I seem to be. I have a histrionic spirit, protean, I practice transfiguration, I love the fever and the frenzy of metamorphosis. The comedians are border beings. Ambiguity is our feature. The interval, the gap, "the no man's land" is our homeland. Here the real and unreal are mixed and confused. Here is where the exchange is done, where we receive and where we give forth. I think about the relationship between the actor and the character, then about the relationship with the audience. To give forward relies on to know how to receive. The state of "receive" and "give" is a meeting with two heads. To receive one must prepare, to train, to go through a process in which the expansion of the being takes place. Only an opened and dilated body-spirit can receive and can pay it forward. Give, take, act, react, transform are verbs defining a theatrical act. When playing, I pay it forward. I pay forward to the audience what I received from Euripides, from Shakespeare, from Caragiale or Beckett. When I teach, of course, I pay forward. For my students, I am someone through whom the teaching is going through. To become a master, you must start by being a disciple.
Nicolae Hâncu
Professor Nicolae Hâncu is the number one personality in Romanian diabetology, as often self-defined, "the man his work". Author of pioneering publications in the domain of clinical lipidology and of referenced monographs on cardiovascular and diabetes risk, professor Hâncu had a major contribution in the research development on diabetes, nutrition, metabolic diseases in Romania, but also in increasing its visibility abroad. He shares his vision for the medical profession: "Aesthetics and ethics in medicine are inseparable. I dare to say that they form the gothic arch of our profession. On one of it's side there is the beauty and on the other the morality, and from the peak of their junction perpetual light springs inside the dome, ensuring the path of science towards human health." The recognition of his value materialized this year by being awarded the title of Honorary Member of the supreme institution of culture and science in our country, the Romanian Academy.
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Hi All
I've just finished making a site for a client using SS. I've had to do a few work-arounds for problems I couldn't get answers for. The last thing I'm trying to do is to change the URL that shows when you hover on a link.
At the moment it says
The actual domain name redirects to http://host.qsoftdns.net/~username/
But I'd like it to be masked. I tried adding this to the _config file
However, when I do this I can still view the site, but it's not able to get the .css file for some reason so all the styling is lost. Also the pictures on the pages don't show. But if I view the source of the pictures, copy the URL, then open it on it's own, I can see it.
For example, http://www.domainname.com/assets/Uploads/intropic.jpg shows up ok.
Why can't SS find the files anymore?
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Anyone? Surely this must've come up before no?
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14 June 2008 at 5:54am Last edited: 14 June 2008 5:54am
Hi Sam,
To clarify, when you put http://www.domainname.com/ in a browser it successfully redirects (this is the web server not SS) to http://host.qsoftdns.net/~username/
Taking SS out of the equation if there is a index.html file in here it displays it, right?
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Yeah, but the weird thing is it displays my SS site, I can see all the content, and the menu works, but it won't read the CSS file or display the images, so it's showing an unstyled version of my site...but if I do a direct path to an image or the CSS file in a separate window, using the new forwarded version of the address, I can view them no problem?!?
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Spot Valley, William Knibb capture basketball titles
MONTEGO BAY, St James — William Knibb Memorial High and Spot Valley High were both first-time champions of the ISSA/KFC Western Conference high school boys' Under-19 and Under-16 basketball titles, respectively, on Tuesday at the Montego Bay Cricket Club.
They defeated defending champions Muschett High 2-0 in both sections of their best-of-three finals.
Both games were impaired by persistent afternoon rains that affected western Jamaica for more than a week.
William Knibb rallied from a 16-point deficit near the end of the second quarter to beat Muschett High 61-60 in a nail-biting contest to lift their first Under-19 crown after taking the first game 81-65 last week.
Spot Valley swept all before them, beating Muschett High 69-40, to complete a perfect season and almost match their Game One margin of 60-42.
Daniel Henry of William Knibb was named the Finals MVP for the Under-19 after leading his team back from the edge of defeat, while Jhamonique Brown of Spot Valley was the MVP for the Under-16 final after scoring 27 points and 12 rebounds in an all-round dominating performance.
The second half of the Under-19 final was played in a drizzle, and the officials were forced to call a halt with six-and-a-half minutes left when the rain became heavier. They even had discussions about continuing at a later date.
Muschett led 49-46 then after William Knibb had tied the scores at 46, less than a minute earlier, after trailing 44-28 late in the first half.
After being manhandled in the first game and losing for the first time in the season, Muschett led by Karlington Barrett, who scored 14 of his 19 points in the first half, got off to a better start and quickly led 10-2 with just over two minutes to go in the first quarter.
Henry led the fightback with two big three-point baskets to cut the deficit to two 8-10 at the break, but Muschett reasserted their dominance in the second quarter and opened up a double-digit lead, 35-24, with just over five minutes to play in the half. They managed to get the lead up to 16 points, but once again William Knibb responded late and got the deficit down to six points, 20-26, at the half.
Muschett High suffered a setback early in the third quarter when Alston Billings picked up his fourth foul and then fouled out with four minutes and 42 seconds to go.
William Knibb capitalised on this and went on a run, cutting the deficit to three points, 43-46, at the 7-minute, 21-second mark, then tied the scores at 46 with 6 minutes 56 seconds to go.
After the forced stoppage, the teams then thrilled a big crowd with dogged, determined basketball, as the lead changed hands on almost every possession, and a lapse in concentration might have denied Muschett a third game.
With William Knibb up by one point, 61-60, with 21 seconds to go, they failed to foul early on an inbound play, allowing William Knibb to run down the clock, and despite Henry and Shavaughn Reid both missing a pair of free throws with less than two seconds to go, the victory was sealed.
Reid led William Knibb with 19 points, including a big lay-up and free throw after he was fouled with four minutes 21 seconds to go; Henry had 17 points, while the consistent Alwayde Smith scored 16 points and grabbed 11 rebounds.
Trevor Mowatt had a game-high 22 points, along with 19 rebounds, five assists and five steals, while Barrett managed only five points in the second half to finish with 19 points and 21 rebounds, while Michael Schloss scored nine points.
In the Under-16 game, Brown led the way with 27 points and 12 rebounds, as Spot Valley led 21-11, 33-22 and 49-33 at the end of the three intervals.
Dezron Harris scored 22 points and Shamar Bucknor scored 11 points for the winners, as Alton Ricketts led Muschett with 12 points and Damiane Thorpe scored 10.
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KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Catcher Tony Sanchez fully expected a closed-door meeting with manager and general manager at some point this spring -- the one telling him he wasn't going to make the team's opening-day roster.
If anything, he was surprised it took this long for it to happen.
The Pirates optioned Sanchez, their first-round pick in 2009, and left-handed pitcher Andy Oliver to Class AAA Indianapolis Friday, shrinking the size of their major league camp to 49 players a little more than two weeks before opening day.
"I knew it was going to happen," Sanchez said. "This is further into camp than I thought it was going to happen."
Sanchez, 24, hit .167 in nine spring training games with three RBIs, one home run and one triple. He walked five times in 23 plate appearances and posted a .792 OPS.
Pirates spring training report
- Game:
Pirates 3, Astros 2.
- Starter:
Jonathan Sanchez -- 3 innings, 1 hit, 0 runs, 0 walks, 3 strikeouts.
- Top batter:
Pedro Alvarez -- 1 for 2, double, run, walk.
- Of note:
Pirates pitchers combined for a shutout until the ninth, when Jose Martinez drove in two runs with a single off Brooks Brown.
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Having struggled with command his past two seasons, Sanchez looked sharp in his fifth outing and second start of the spring. It was his second consecutive solid outing. He did not walk a batter Friday at Osceola County Stadium in Kissimmee, Fla., after walking just one in his most recent start. "Felt like old times," Sanchez said. Manager Clint Hurdle said Sanchez is in contention for one of the team's final spots in the starting rotation. "He had some challenges finishing innings initially. Last outing in Fort Myers was much better. This one was ramped up." Sanchez has an opt-out clause in his one-year minor league contract that takes effect March 24, and he said he is not sure if he would stay with the Pirates if they don't make him a starter. "I want to be in the rotation," he said. "I've been in the rotation my last five years. You don't feel good being taken out of the rotation."
- Injury update:
Garrett Jones (oblique) went 2 for 3 with an RBI in his first game since being injured March 6. He also played six innings at first base. "I felt a little jumpy in my first at-bat," Jones said. "But it's OK. I feel fine." ... Relief pitcher Tony Watson, who has not pitched since Feb. 28 while working on mechanical issues, is scheduled to pitch Sunday against the New York Yankees. General manager Neal Huntington said Watson can still get in enough spring-training experience to make the opening-day roster. But he "can't really afford many hiccups," he said. Watson allowed seven hits and four runs in 12/3 innings in his previous outing.
Ideally, the Pirates would have liked to keep Sanchez and Oliver in major league camp even longer, general manager Neal Huntington said. But since both are on the 40-man roster and since it was apparent neither would make the opening-day roster, the Pirates limited their risk by optioning them to the minor leagues.
Had either stayed on the roster past Friday and had an injury that would cause them to go on the disabled list on opening day, it would have affected their major league service time, which impacts arbitration eligibility and years of control.
Nick Johnson gained a year of service time -- and the New York Yankees lost a year of control of a then-top prospect -- when a wrist injury placed him on the major league disabled list before the 2000 season, before he ever made his major league debut.
"It's probably the one drawback of them being on the rosters," Huntington said.
"It kind of forces our hand a little bit. We'd love to keep those two guys in camp a little longer."
Sanchez was the fourth overall pick in 2009, and, after two strong seasons to start his minor league career, his jaw was broken when he was hit by a pitch in 2010 and he missed half the season. Ever since, he has struggled to find consistency at the plate.
"Some days are better than others, especially at the plate," he said. "Behind the plate, it's always the same guy. You're always going to get the guy that works hard for you.
"But at the plate, it's that consistency. It's one of the things that once I get that, the sky's the limit. And I'll be there."
But Sanchez and team management were encouraged by his play this spring, even though his offensive numbers weren't strong.
"He's on the right track," Huntington said.
This spring training provided Sanchez game experience with some of the Pirates' top-line pitchers, including A.J. Burnett, James McDonald and Jason Grilli.
"They threw me in the fire basically and saw me come out on top," Sanchez said.
"That was huge for me, my confidence, my self-esteem, what I can take with me as far as mental strengths, mental notes."
He described his experience as being drastically different from his spring training in 2012, when he saw limited action with major league pitchers.
The Pirates acquired Oliver, 25, in an offseason trade with the Detroit Tigers. He pitched 21/3 innings this spring, accumulating a 15.23 ERA over two appearances.
Oliver likely will begin in Indianapolis' starting rotation, which could allow him to help the Pirates as a starter or a long reliever should the need arise, Huntington said.
"The things we felt the day we acquired Andy, we still feel," Huntington said.
"We love the arm. We feel like we've got some work to do and things we can do to help him."mobilehome - pirates
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The Mountaineers are searching for a way to get out of the
basement of the nation's worst rushing attacks.
With 306 total yards on the ground, WVU ranks 111th
out of 120 teams in the FBS. Despite only putting up 70 yards on Saturday
against LSU, a tiny glimmer of hope emerged and made his case for the starting
It wasn't quite the Virginia Tech game of 2005, but there
were similarities between what Dustin Garrison did on Saturday and what Steve
Slaton accomplished back then.
Both true freshmen, both with plenty of able-bodied rushers
listed ahead of them on the depth chart, both sitting back as those ahead of
them failed to perform.
Slaton played in an offense meant to spring a back for big
yards, and he took advantage of it with 11 carries for 90 yards, including a
spectacular 44-yarder. Garrison only had 46 yards total on 10 totes, but it was
perhaps the best performance of any running back all year.
And Garrison's carries all came in the final 30:26 of the
"He got in there and got a chance and did a few good things,
so we kept him in there," says head coach Dana Holgorsen. "I've been saying
this about competition and how much people play, it's based on the feel of the
game and how it looks once they're in there. When Dustin was in there, he
looked good."
Still, there's no sense in talking to the coaches that
Garrison is "the starter" right now. His week of practice will determine
whether or not he gets the first snap on Saturday against Bowling Green and if
he does, it'll be his job to show why he deserves to continue getting snaps.
"It's a little pressure, but I can't let it get to me," says
Garrison. "I've still got to go out there and work hard and practice hard."
Practice is one thing, but a game is different. In practice,
the speed is generally different, the plays are blown dead sooner and the
overall atmosphere is unlike what players see on game days. Garrison believes
he may be the sort of player who practices hard during the week but can't show
exactly what he's got until it really counts.
"In practice, I've been practicing the same way I've been
practicing since I got here," he says. "Nothing really changed. Whenever the
game comes, things change. Whenever I've got my opportunity, I'll open up a few
The mentality in the coaching staff is to play whoever has
the hot hand. So far this season, the starter hasn't really mattered because
for the most part the starter hasn't been all that hot. When one is getting
stoned at the line, another has been inserted for a fresh set of legs.
Garrison hasn't had the chance to cool off because his reps
have been so limited through four games. His five yards per carry rank tops on
the team by a significant margin and his two rushing touchdowns are the
second-most, despite having just 13 carries to Andrew Buie's 26 and Vernard
Roberts' 41.
He has 86 yards receiving, while the other running backs on
the team total just 30 yards combined.
"We'll see if Dustin can continue making plays and working
hard in practice and see if it can carry over," says his position coach, Robert
This is the first time Gillespie has had three true freshmen
at the top of the rotation at running back. Two of them have gotten starts, but
one has not. The staff is searching for consistency, and to this point,
Garrison hasn't had the chance to show it. Saturday could be that chance, but
nothing is guaranteed.
"Four years from now, we'll look back and you guys won't
have to ask me many questions because they'll be perfect," says Gillespie. "But
right now, they're not. They're going to make mistakes."
Garrison is hoping week five is his chance to prove his
worth and not only get the starting job, but keep it.
"You've just got to be patient," he says. "That's what I've
been doing the past few games and just waiting my turn. Whenever my turn does
come, I've got to execute to the best of my ability."


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When it comes to the books on actual practice of Wicca and Paganism, it's a little more difficult to weed out the stinkers, because so many of them do include the same information as the others. However, there are a few things to watch for that indicate you may want to check other sources to see if they corroborate what the author says.
- Blanket statements. If the author spends a lot of time preaching about "A real Wiccan would NEVER..." or "Real Pagans ALWAYS..." then be skeptical. Because there are so many different traditions of Wicca and Paganism, it's impossible to make blanket claims that apply to every single group, and a competent author should know this.
- Books that encourage dishonesty. One very well-known and popular Wiccan author made a statement in a book years ago encouraging teens to lie to their parents about their study of Wicca. To many adult Wiccans, this basically made the author's entire catalog suspect. A spiritual path should never begin with dishonesty, and it was irresponsible of this author to suggest it.
- Fanciful claims with no backup. If a book claims that a ritual is an Ancient Celtic Druid Ceremony, is there a footnote or bibliography to indicate where the ritual came from? After all, the "ancient Celtic Druids" didn't leave us anything in writing. There's nothing wrong with saying a ritual, poem or anything else is inspired by ancient writings, but be leery of authors who claim to be presenting ancient esoteric knowledge that only they seem to be privy to.
- All gods and religions are the same. Be cautious of books that recommend mixing and matching of pantheons. While it's fine to be eclectic and work with a variety of deities, exercise some common sense when putting them together. An author who recommends pairing up, for example, a goddess of love with a god of war simply because they look nice together is creating a recipe for disaster.
While none of these specifically mean a book is "bad," they should be considered signs that further reading and study is necessary. If what the author is telling you is true, then other books should support their statements.
The important thing here is that if you learn to weed out the good books from the not-so-good ones, you'll be doing yourself a far better service than if you just blindly nod your head and agree with everything a writer says. Just because a book -- or even a really great website -- tells you something doesn't make it true, no matter how much we wish it did. Ideas based upon false information are flawed, and not only that, they tend to make the Pagan community look silly. Take time to read, don't be afraid to ask questions, be willing to admit that people (including you, and including me) are occasionally misinformed, and you'll do just fine.


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Last Saturday over 100,000 people jammed the streets of New York city, protesting the war. 1,200 miles away, with an American flag supported on his hip, Bob Veach became a rally of one.
"I'm out here to show support to the President, our troops, and our country in the midst of these trying times," said Veach. A former member of the Texas State Guard, Veach tried to enlist after the attack on the World Trade Center. "I tried to get in right after September 11th, but that didn't work out. I'm 46, so, that's a little bit over the line," he said.
Also 'over the line,' says Bob, is where the Iraqis have gone with their treatment of American prisoners of wars. "What I heard and what I saw just really made me angry," he said. "If I was young enough I'd be over there with an M-16 in my hands looking for the guys that did it,because there's just no excuse for that," said Veach.
Bob says he intends to be out waving the flag for as long as the war takes, the satisfaction of supporting the troops reward enough, but several people passing by, stop with rewards of their own. "I've been given gifts. I've been given a rose, a beer, 4 or 5 cokes, bottles of water. People just stop to make sure that I'm not dehydrated. Yelling, shouting, very patriotic. It's been very encouraging," he said.
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Last week, the NHL posted a story, "Right wing trio adds to the NHL's expanding diversity," (http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=406830), which features three newer black players in the NHL, including our Chris Stewart.
Three right wings from Toronto, two of them teenage friends, are making an impact with NHL teams and beyond this season. On the ice, they have earned their share of shifts. Plus, as black players, they are adding diversity to the NHL, boosting the number of minority players in the League to 31. Additionally, 17 minority players who have appeared on NHL rosters at one time currently are playing in the American Hockey League or ECHL.
The players who hail from Toronto -- the Los Angeles Kings' Wayne Simmonds, the Colorado Avalanche's Chris Stewart and the Nashville Predators' Joel Ward -- are enjoying their first full seasons in the NHL.
Ward, Simmonds and Stewart are the latest additions to the NHL's growing minority population. Of the 48 current or recent NHL minority players, 29 are black, seven aboriginal, seven Asian, three Hispanic, one Inuit and one South Asian. Thirty-eight blacks have played NHL hockey since Willie O'Ree became the first in 1958.


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Former 140 and 147-pound champ Zab Judah believes that Canelo Alvarez is a good fighter, and more than hype, but he's not good enough to give Floyd Mayweather a serious challenge when the two meet on September 14 in Las Vegas, on Showtime pay-per-view.
Judah feels that Mayweather will pick Alvarez apart en route to his 45th victory:
"I don't see a big chance for Canelo. Yeah, he's a good fighter. He's strong, he comes forward, he's aggressive. But I think that kind of style is tailor-made for Floyd. He chops guys up like that. I think if that Canelo, right there, comes to the table, he'll get chopped up."
This is, really, a widely-held feeling in boxing circles, both with fighters and fans/media, as well as others in and around the sport. Judah has been in the ring with Mayweather, having some success early in their 2006 fight, before Floyd took over and won the fight with room to spare, a bout most remembered for the in-ring brawl between the corners that took place mid-fight.
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Corsair Force GT 120GB SSD review -
The SSD NAND FLASH partitions and the SF2281 controller
The SSD NAND FLASH partitions and the SF2281 controller
MLC vs. SLC
At the beginning, memory cells stored just a single bit of information. However, the charge on the floating gate can be controlled with some level of precision, allowing to store more information than just 0 and 1. Basing on such assumption the MLC (Multi Level Cell) memory came to exist. To distinguish them, the old yet still preferred memory type was called SLC - Single Level Cell.
The decision of choosing between SLC or MLC is driven by many factors such as memory performance, number of target erase/program cycles and level of data reliability. The MLC memory endurance is significantly lower (around 10'000 erase/program cycles) comparing to SLC endurance (around 100'000 cycles).
So what about that new 25nm NAND lifespan ?
Personally I'm not that excited about the new 25nm NAND FLASH memory, the overall lifespan of the ICs has been reduced from 10.000 towards 5,000 program/erase cycles. Yeah, you purchase an SSD on borrowed time. Rumors are that the numbers for consumer grade 25nm NAND flash memory (as used on the SSD tested today) are even lower at 3000 program/erase cycles.
But granted, as drastic as that sounds, it's all relative as this lifespan will very likely last longer than any mechanical HDD. Drive wearing protection will help you out greatly. With a normal filled SSD and very heavy writing/usage of say 10GB data each day 365 days a year you'd be looking at roughly 22 full SSD write cycles per year, out of the 3000 (worst case scenario) available. However, all calculations on this matter are debatable as usage differs and even things like how much free space you leave on your SSD can effect the drive.
Corsair Force GT PCB with 16 Micron NAND flash memory ICs (8 on each side).
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SandForce, opposed to other controllers, enforces a trick as they can write to the FLASH memory less than the competition needs to, by using real time compression. The SF controllers store a representation of your data and not the actual data itself. It does that by using a partition of the available NAND flash memory. This is why on SandForce based drives you do not see an extra memory cache chip, which in fact saves on the bill of materials used for the SSDs.
Now we mentioned it already, but the SF-2281 series controller will support roughly 500MB/s sequential read and write speeds, that's 62.5MB/s per one of the available eight channels. Combined the bandwidth is just exceptional for a single non RAID drive.
SF-2281 controllers support the TRIM command. Deduct a few GB per partition for real-time data compression and then you have your SSD ready. But all that data needs to travel over an interface ... of course. So let's move onwards to that SATA3 interface.
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As often happens in Washington, there's a flurry of activity on an issue - then it drops from the spotlight for a while. Such has been the case with low power radio.
Ever since Arizona Senator John McCain threw up a Congressional roadblock on the greased rails that the National Association of Broadcasters had built for a bill to ban the FCC's re-legalization of low power FM stations, activity on Capitol Hill has dropped off.
Originally, many "inside the Beltway" felt that McCain's introduction of a separate LPFM bill - allowing the FCC's plan to continue yet opening up the new stations to huge lawsuits from commercial broadcasters, - was just a holding action designed to drain off the NAB's lobbying momentum.
It seems to have worked. Only 36 Senators have signed on to the broadcast industry's anti-LPFM bill that the House of Representatives has already approved, but most of those folks added their names to the List of Shame early on in the spring.
For nearly three months now, there has been little or no movement on the legislation. In fact, the NAB's sounding downright desperate for a change. Its most recent "Broadcaster Alert" sent out to its members even brings up the specter of defeat:
Senator McCain has since introduced a revised version of his "FM Radio Act of 2000," giving more of the final oversight of the LPFM project back to the FCC.
However, it is not clear if McCain plans to actually push his revised bill toward a vote. This would be a bad move, as it would still put the new LPFM stations at jeopardy of being maliciously sued off the air by big broadcasters.
Assassination Attempt: Not Dead
The hard-core Congressional enemies of low power radio, still in the pocket of the NAB, have plans to attempt to sneak an bill banning LPFM through by attaching it as a "rider" to a federal budget bill.
Leading the effort in the underhanded attempt is - not surprisingly - Louisiana Representative Billy Tauzin. He's long been fond of special interest money, especially from the radio business. A senior staffer of Tauzin's detailed the plan live, on the air, during an appearance last month on a California talk show.
Just last week Tauzin sent a final demand (co-signed by 10 other members of Congress) to FCC Chairman William Kennard to stop LPFM in its tracks, citing "a mountain of technical evidence that shows low-power FM stations create significant signal interference."
This 'mountain of evidence' is mostly made up of the NAB's deceptive and biased technical studies, which have previously been debunked by both FCC engineers and other parties.
Meanwhile, Tauzin's previous threats to investigate Kennard and the FCC for criminal activity in connection with its approval of LPFM have not materialized.
For its part, the FCC continues to play both sides of the fence well. There's been indications of recent "enforcement sweeps" against unlicensed broadcasters in south Florida, which has traditionally been one of the most active FM "pirate" hotspots in the nation.
At the same time, it has announced the opening of a second LPFM application window for 11 more states at the end of this month. The first round of licenses could be issued this fall, with tentative plans being made to put the first legal LPFM station on the air in October.
Those fighting the fight on the air are also planning a busy fall. They're planning to get in the NAB's face when its radio members meet for their annual convention in San Francisco this September. If plans for the protest pan out, the protesters could outnumber the suits two-to-one.
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Two Loyola Sacred Heart High School students have already started on their senior project this summer helping out local veterans.
Matt McHugh and Tony Madsen have raised enough money to purchase 500 tickets to Osprey baseball games, which they have decided to give to Missoula's veterans.
It was a history lesson at Loyola High School that opened Matt McHugh and Tony Madsen's eyes to the hardships veterans undergo overseas and when they return from duty.
As a thank you, they want to treat our country's heroes to a night of America's favorite past time
"We felt like the veterans game would best fit us. We both use to play baseball and we just want to give a thank you to the veterans," Tony Madsen said.
Totaling a whopping 3,223 dollars, Matt Mchugh and Tony Madsen will send 500 purchased tickets for Missoula veterans to attend an Osprey game this month.
"We thought the Osprey game would be a big enough venue to really give them the honor they deserve," Matt McHugh said.
The pair headed to local businesses and asked for donations to purchase the tickets. It only took about two weeks for the two boys to reach the amount needed to purchase the tickets. Madsen and McHugh are now heading to Missoula Veterans Centers to hand out the 500 vouchers.
"I think it really shows some community pride. I think being a veteran, I think it's important we support veterans in the community and this shows some pretty cool strides, especially from the youth in Missoula," local veteran, Jason Conway said.
The baseball game is on August 18th against the Orem Owlz and The Missoula Osprey have also offered a free barbeque dinner before the game.
Madsen and McHugh said veterans can go to the local Veterans Center or UM Veterans Education Offices to pick up a ticket for the game.