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Campground has 30 sites, but most are seasonal with maybe 10 at most for overnight. Electricity at our site only 15 amp. Site was grass and very unlevel. RV park on west side of town close to golf course. - Onemoretrail
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Nicest KOA I have stayed at! Most KOAs stack you on top of each other. This one had plenty of space for each site and between sites. In addition lots and lots of open space around the park to make you not feel cramped. All utilities worked well. Also, got DirecTv to work here. - sheltieRV
We've been KOA members for years. We've always been happy (with only one exception) and make an effort to find and stay in KOAs at every opportunity. This KOA is no exception! The staff, as with almost every KOA, is warm and welcoming when you arrive. The sites are large, with great pull-throughs and grassy areas with picnic tables. If you have a pet, there's a huge field that the campground managers keep trimmed all the way around. Makes for a great morning walk with the pooch! Full service with power, water, sewer. The office has a gift shop and a few necessities if you're out. Located only 4 kms from Hinton makes it a very convenient place to stay. We loved the quiet! One of the nicer locations for a campground - well off the highway and nowhere near railway tracks! We would definitely stay here again! - Kelly S
Very clean and quiet park. Well maintained site. Washrooms clean all the time. Mountain can be seen in the distance. Columbia Ice Fields and Jasper close by - too tall
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A lot of nice big sites, well treed and very spacious in between sites. Very secluded area (closest store or anything is an hour away) with an absolutely beautiful lake and river. Did not swim in lake but it looked very inviting! No showers or running water but the pit toilets are some of the cleanest we have seen. The only downside in my opinion is that it is about 37km off the highway on a dusty dirt road. Everything was coated with a thick layer of dust. Other than that, we really liked the place and would probably go back. - trump5
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Great dry camping spot. We had a site overlooking the lake and near the playground. Our 29' trailer fit well into the site (especially when we corrected the concrete barrier). Free firewood. Self registration. Only outhouses available. Small beach access. Beautiful country to visit. 20 minutes from Hinton. Other campgrounds available in park but reserved at this one and was pleasantly surprised. - Strybos


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Long known as one of golf's most attractive males, Adam Scott is spoken for. Sorry ladies.
The world No. 2 golfer – who could've become No. 1 this week at the Players Championship if he hadn't flubbed his way to a 5-over 77 on Thursday – secretly got married to his longtime girlfriend, Marie Kojzar, three weeks ago at Scott's house in the Bahamas. Only a few friends and family members attended, while Scott wore a suit and bow tie and his bride donned a "non-traditional" dress.
"It's official. I am a settled down man and very happy," Scott told the Australian Associated Press. "We just decided to get on with it, we've known each other long enough, let's go and jump right in the deep end. It was just our family and a few friends and obviously there are a lot of people we would have liked to have had there who weren't but we decided to have a very low key affair.
"It was more about not building it up into something too big that may have gotten out of hand but it was a fun event for everyone who was there and hopefully we will have fun celebrating with other friends when we catch up with them."
Scott, 33, and Kojzar, 32, first began dating nearly a decade ago before splitting up. They got back together prior to Scott winning his first major, the 2013 Masters. Kojzar works as an architect and hails from Sweden.
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Everton FC boss Roberto Martinez was asked about Chelsea FC loanee Romelu Lukaku's future and he stated that it would not be determined until after the World Cup. The young Belgian has had a fantastic season with the Merseyside club and has set the Premier League alight with goals and assists aplenty but unfortunately for Chelsea supporters it has been for other clubs. There has been much speculation about whether Romelu Lukaku will return to the Chelsea fold as they search for a new batch of strikers but hopefully that question is answered sooner rather than later.
Roberto Martinez on Romelu Lukaku:
"Chelsea are delighted with his progress and the player has developed an incredible relationship with our fans. His memories will never evaporate, but we will see what's next. We'll see what's the best thing for everyone. But everything will be in stages: how Chelsea are doing in their own squad and how that frees some players.
It's going to take a bit of time and I don't think Romelu's situation is going to be resolved before the World Cup, in truth. I think it will be after the World Cup. We are too close to Romelu to hope he has a poor tournament! We hope he has a really, really good World Cup and then decides to come to us."
The most common rumor is that Chelsea will try and get a discount on the purchases of midfielder Matt Barkley and defender John Stones (great name by the way) by swapping Romelu Lukaku for the pair. The main issue with that is that it is simple supply and demand as to why that would not make much sense. Great midfielders and defenders are tough to find but they are much more common than a truly prolific or world class striker.
Romelu Lukaku may not be world class yet but many signs in his development point to that and Chelsea would be foolish to cut loose a 20 year old who has done so well in the Premier League. The main benefit of adding Barkley and Stones would be their homegrown status but is that truly worth getting rid of a potentially world class striker? The simple answer to that is no.
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They're no Britney and Kevin in terms of celebrity status (or bad music), but like the aforementioned couple, Brody Jenner and Lauren Conrad are so over.
Less than a month after Brody confirmed he and Lauren, a.k.a. "LC," were seeing each other, the two have split up. The Gossip staff is astonished this romance didn't last. It definitely wasn't a ploy to get the attention of Kristin Cavallari or anything.
"We're not together anymore," Brody Jenner told a source on Thursday at the launch party for the new furniture collection at Minotti in L.A.
The news was echoed by his mother, Linda Thompson, who told People at the Environmental Media Awards.
"I think Brody's pretty single right now. He's on his way to Miami. Bikinis, thongs. I think he'd better be single right now," said Brody's
MILF mother.
Lauren Conrad's representative, Nicole Perez, had no comment.
On October 18, Jenner revealed that he and Conrad, who became famous on Laguna Beach before starring in her own spin-off, The Hills, had started dating.
"I don't know what you consider dating, but we're seeing each other, we're having a great time with it. She's an amazing girl," BJ said.
Conrad, however, was coy about her relationship with Jenner at the time, saying only that, "He's a nice guy."
In early October, Jenner split from Nicole Richie, whom he started seeing in August, just weeks after ending his year-and-a-half long relationship with Cavallari, Conrad's nemesis on Laguna Beach.
Conrad split from her fellow Laguna Beach alum Jason Wahler in August. J-Wahl was recently spotted with -- guess who -- Cavallari. Chances are, the drama isn't finished yet.
Why yes Lauren and Brody look super cute together, but nothing beats her and Stephen. I will always keep my assumption that Lauren Conrad and Stephen Coletti will get married. They would make some gorgeous children.
Oh God, would I die to meet Lauren.
I saw some of the episodes of the 2nd season of the hills. and brody is a really nice a guy. him and lauren should keep it going. who cares about jason. jason and kristin deserve each other
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A Mass of Christian burial was held Thursday, Jan. 20, for former Saukville resident Marie A. Rennicke, 88, who died Jan. 17 at St. Joseph Hospital in West Bend.
The Mass was held at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Grafton. Burial was at the parish cemetery.
Arrangements were handled by Mueller Funeral Home, Grafton
Former Fredonia resident Irene M. Nett, 83, of New Holstein, died Monday, Jan. 24, at Calumet Medical Center in Clinton.
A Mass of Christian burial will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 28, at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in New Holstein. Father Harold Berryman will officiate.
Visitation will be at the church from 11:30 a.m. until the service.
Burial will be at the parish cemetery.
A memorial fund has been established in Mrs. Nett's name.
Arrangements are being handled by Sippel Funeral Home, New Holstein.
Former Port Washington resident Bernadine M. Fritsch, 64, died at her home in Slinger on Wednesday, Jan. 19, after a lengthy battle with lung disease.
Services were held Saturday, Jan. 22, at Church & Chapel in Milwaukee.
A memorial service will be held in May at St. Peter of Alcantara Catholic Church in Port Washington.
Memorials to the family or for Masses at St. Peter's Catholic Church are requested.
Ronald F. Wysocki, 63, died of pancreatic cancer Tuesday, Jan. 11, at the Horizon Hospice Inpatient Unit at Columbia St. Mary's Ozaukee Hospital in Mequon.
He lived on Briarwood Lane in Port Washington.
A memorial service for Mr. Wysocki was held Saturday, Jan. 15, at Poole Funeral Home. Deb Hamm, pastoral assistant for the Tri-Parish Cluster of Northern Ozaukee and Southern Sheboygan Counties, presided.
Retired Grafton plumber Donald L. Clarke, 81, died of congestive heart failure Sunday, Jan. 16, at Horizon Hospice on the campus of Columbia St. Mary's Ozaukee Hospital in Mequon.
A funeral service will be at 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 21, at Schmidt & Bartelt Funeral Home, Mequon. Father Mike Barrett will preside.
Visitation will be at the funeral home from 11 a.m. until the service.
Memorials to the American Heart Association are requested.
A procession to Resurrection Cemetery in Mequon for committal prayers and full military honors will follow.
A memorial service will be held Saturday, Jan. 22, for former Port Washington resident Beverly J. Rosal, 70, who died Sunday, Jan. 16, at her West Bend home.
The memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Phillip Funeral Chapel in West Bend. The Rev. Paul Pfeffer will preside.
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The Life Enrichment Center at Oyster Bay invited American Legionnaires and members of the VFW to a luncheon held on Friday, May 23, prior to Memorial Day.
"They usually invite us to lunch in honor of Memorial Day, but this year they will also invite us for Veteran's Day," said American Legion Commander Reginald Butt, Jr., of Quentin Roosevelt Post #4.
Also attending were members of VFW Post 8033. Longtime American Legion Auxiliary member Palma Monaco Douglass read the prayer.
"We are gathered here at this time to pay tribute to the memory of those who made the supreme sacrifice," Douglass read. "Thus we do immortalize the brave deeds of our soldiers, sailors and Marines who have given their lives on land, on sea and in air; and all who have gone from our home and hearts into the service of our country. The highest tribute this organization can render these men and women the most profound respect all of us can demonstrate is to apply to our lives the strong faith and understanding courage which was theirs. Grant to them patience in the long wait, hope in the dark, steadiness in victory and loyalty in defeat. We thank thee for the unselfish devotion of those who have sacrificed their lives that we might enjoy the liberties for which our forefathers fought."


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News Shopper brands Woolwich 'area of death, death, death'
Proper local newspapers champion their communities. We don't have any in south-east London, though.
We're lumbered with the News Shopper, which has decided to write off Woolwich as a " a troubled area of death, death, death" after a man died in the train tunnel near Woolwich Dockyard station. The quote the line's based on doesn't even support the headline – a neighbour simply said: "We don't want death, death, death round here."
Not that many people around Woolwich Dockyard will see the paper writing off their neighbourhood – the title distributes precisely zero copies there; like my own street, the high-rises and council flat dwellers of post code sector SE18 5 aren't considered valuable enough for the Petts Wood-based paper's advertisers. As with the paper's hysterical branding of New Cross as "murder mile" a couple of years back, it's the Shopper doing all it knows how to – revelling in the grimmer aspects of urban life to satisfy the prejudices of a suburban audience.
With last night's tragedy on a bus in Lee, and the stabbing outside the New Cross Venue, I expect there'll be more of this to come in this week's paper, for those of us they actually bother to deliver it to. While the council's dire Greenwich Time is a terrible propaganda paper, it's not the only one in this area with a cynical agenda. We'd be better off without both of them.
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We'd be better off witthout a particular newspaper on the basis you don't like their sensationalising stories of crime and death? What a shocking statement.
"… chasing everything that bleeds, and then asking non-eyewittnesses for non-relevant views just does the area down. It's a cheap substitute for proper reporting …"
Or in the case of 853 regarding this one right on our doorsteps – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19630793 – any reporting at all. South-east London is a violent, crime-ridden area where 14-year-olds are knifed to death on the streets and there's no ignoring it.
Darryl –
While your readers appreciate that this is a blog on local politics and Council governance, not a news website, it is a bit strange that your only reaction to these recent horrific events has been to slag off the 'sensationalist' reporting of them by a local paper.
Surely events such as these deserve analysis and investigation – of police policy, for example, or crime trends in the Borough? Would seem a better use of your time than attacking the News Shopper.
Just saying…
I'm not sure what 853 could add at this point to the reporting on the tragic stabbing in Lee?
And if anyone should be doing an analysis of "crime trends in the Borough" it surely should be the News Shopper itself, or the council, not this blog. (and anyway FWIW both the recent stabbings took place in the neighbouring borough of Lewisham.) God forbid that the News Shopper might actually do some investigative journalism of its own…
I don't think anyone is saying the News Shopper shouldn't report bad news, but does it really need to seize on it with such glee?
In my home area (in notLondon) the local free paper definitely used to have a role in speaking up for the community, rather than seizing on every bad thing that happened to kick it while it was down, what would be the point of that?
@ Franklin – I meant that my hometown was down rather than Woolwich or Greenwich. And I didn't say there was no point reporting bad news, I said the paper didn't need to seize on it with glee and I stand by that.
And yes, lets see the evidence – the police publish local crime data so if the News Shopper had a mind to it could do something with it.
I'll have a nosey at the crime stats if I get time, can't promise anything today though!
One thing to say though is that borough-level crime statistics, while interesting, are not particularly practically useful as the variation within boroughs is probably as big as the variation between boroughs.
The last time I checked the 02 was the number one crime spot in the Royal Borough (sic).
Is this still the case?
There's always more to statistics than meets the eye…
"subwards" (as they are described on the met site – they are actually called middle layer super output areas or something equally catchy) are designed to be roughly similar in population size (rather than spatial area) to each other, as opposed to wards which can vary hugely in population size. They're also supposed to not change boundary so they can be used to (more easily) monitor trends. I'd guess though that the crime around the O2 bears fairly little relation to the population of the subward…
Thanks Franklin – Yes, it is the Dome that's the cause of the majority of the crime. A cop friend of mine says that the Dome really distorts the Borough crime figures.
The bulk of the crime there is theft (purses/handbags/mobiles), public disorder (pissheads basically) and the occasional 'lower-level' assault.
Most of the people nicked there do not live locally.


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Charles Arlinghaus: A brazen attempt to hold schools hostage
New Hampshire's charter school law has been in limbo for the better part of a year. The Attorney General's Office has told the state Board of Education that its interpretation of language passed last session prohibits the board from allowing any new schools to open. Oddly, the authors of that language intended precisely the opposite.
This session, to clear up the misunderstanding or competing interpretations, legislation was proposed to restore the old statutory language. The sole purpose of such a change is to clarify the board's ability to authorize schools and resolve the attorney general's objection.
How controversial is this bill? It isn't. The bill was endorsed by the House Education committee and passed the full House on a voice vote. Nor is this a partisan issue. The current governor has a history of being supportive of charter schools and her budget includes the funding to open a few more each of the next two years. This legislation makes that possible.
Further according to a recent news report "the Board of Education and the Attorney General have both said they would welcome the clarity such a change could provide."
So without any concerted opposition, this common-sense legislation should pass quickly so the new schools everyone agrees should be authorized can open and be ready for the school year starting in September. So it would have seemed until political gamesmanship entered the stage.
Although it has already passed the House once, the bill has to go before the House Finance Committee. It was in Finance that the games began. Rep. Dan Eaton saw the bill as a political pawn to be held hostage.
Eaton is a particularly powerful member of House Democratic leadership. He is both majority floor leader (a key parliamentary position) and chairman of division 2 of House Finance (one of the most important budget writing positions).
In a public hearing, Eaton discussed with a lobbyist testifying before the committee his idea that the House neither pass nor defeat the bill. Instead, he wanted to hold the bill - and therefore the ability of the government to authorize new charter schools that the governor and state board are ready to support - hostage to future budget negotiations.
Eaton said "I'm looking at this as political. I want to have a trump card or two, and this is a healthy trump card" for a future negotiation with the Senate over the state budget.
Consider what he's saying: He liked the bill and supports the policy, but he believes he can use the bill as part of a hostage negotiation with the Senate. He wants to say to the Senate "I know you want this, but we'll kill it even though we like it too unless you do something else we want that is completely unrelated."
Without question, some give and take and normal compromise will be part of a budget process. Everyone expects the House and Senate to pass different budgets and to then negotiate over the details of what gets included. But this bill isn't part of that process and wouldn't be part of that negotiation unless Eaton gets to keep it captive in a back room. In effect, he's looking at charter schools and saying, "I'm sorry you got caught in the crossfire, but I think I can sell you for a good price."
The governor's budget plans on five additional charter schools opening in September. The state Board of Education has said there are five schools ready to be authorized as soon as this language is in place. What no one counted on was Eaton's desire to "have a trump card or two."
Every session there are maverick legislators who go off on their own with some half-baked plan. But remember that Dan Eaton is no maverick backbencher. What makes this attempted abuse of power harder to excuse is that he's one of the most powerful members of leadership. Division chair of House Finance is one of the most powerful positions in the House, as is majority floor leader, and he has both jobs.
There's a simple solution here: kill it or pass it. The bill isn't complicated. You want to authorize new schools or you want to extend a moratorium. But don't hold schools hostage to your Machiavellian budget gamesmanship.
Charles Arlinghaus is president of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, a free market think tank based in Concord. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The Tahoe Queen is located 900 Ski Run Blvd. South Lake Tahoe, CA at Ski Run Marina Village. The M.S. Dixie II is located at 760 HWY 50, Zephyr Cove NV at Zephyr Cove Resort. Both vessels will board at 10am and depart at 10:30am for a race start near Edgewood at 11am. Guests can join the party and excitement aboard either boat for only $25 per person, includes Tahoe's only Paddlewheel Brunch Buffet.
Reservations can be made by calling 1-800-23-TAHOE. Because this is a special race event, the cruise will not go to Emerald Bay.
Itinerary for both vessels:
10am - Board Vessel
10am to 11am - Brunch Buffet
10:30am - Departure from Ski Run and Zephyr Cove
11am to 11:45am – The Race from Edgewood to Camp Richardson
11:45am – Boats Position for Trophy Presentation
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12:20 – Arrive at home port and disembark
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Children: $10
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Parking at Ski Run Marina will be $10.00 per vehicle and $8.00 at Zephyr Cove Resort.
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Turkey condemns Pakistan blasts
Thursday, April 10, 2014
ANKARA - Turkey condemned the blasts in the Pakistani cities of Baluchistan and Islamabad that killed dozens of people in the past two days.
An explosion ripped through a train in Baluchistan, killing 17 people on April 8.
Another blast hit a busy fruit market in the capital Islamabad on Wednesday, killing at least 24 people.
Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a written statement on Thursday that it strongly condemns any act of violence targeting Pakistan's peace and security.
"We extend our condolences to the families of the victims and wish a quick recovery to the wounded," the ministry added.
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That poor, mangy dog. I've never heard of Pigtown, by the way.
That poor, mangy dog. I've never heard of Pigtown, by the way.
Pigtown? No, me either. And I drove a yellow van for a living.
giving FLA a run for it's money
in the race to be the Jethro Capital of the Whirled
Wow. That's all I have to say about this.
I am more interested in the natural history of rednecks. Looks like Pigtown is some type of biosphere reserve for them. Makes me feel good they are out there doing their thing.
Pigtown may be near Frogtown. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKwteCwCSMw
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Chupacabra my arse!!!! They killed my teams mascot!! These…. these…obvious Toluca fanaticos.
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Completing the Boston Marathon is a story to share when you get home. When you get a really good time it is an even bigger deal. Hope Bain from Colorado Springs did both, but after witnessing the bombings during the marathon she wants the Boston Marathon medal and jacket she got after the race to represent something other than her achievement. "I want it to be about the victims, the community [of Boston] and the running community," said Bain.
Bain was in the finish area when the bombs exploded. "Within minutes we saw lines of ambulances and SWAT teams and fire trucks." After arriving back home in Colorado Springs and seeing the shootout and manhunt she realized she had likely been close to the suspect for days. "The lockdowns were right where we were staying. We walked MIT campus Tuesday night at like 10:00 at night after going to dinner."
One of the things that stood out to her in the days following the tragedy was strength and compassion from Bostonians. She says when they recognized her as a runner they would ask if she was okay. "Strangers coming up to us, some of the police...checking in which was very impressive because I didn't feel like I needed to be embraced. I felt like they needed to be embraced."
The scenes of Boston in turmoil won't deter her from going back. She plans to be there next year either as a runner or in the crowd cheering.
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Hackers crack PlayStation 3 hardware, again
Nope nope nope
I just watched the video and it's legit.
HP to 'spinoff PC biz'
Hmm this could be a good thing
To be frank, HP's hardware line is the only good thing going for them. Their software and drivers are bloated, slow and poorly coded. If someone else ends up with the hardware line, perhaps they can focus on that and do it well.
Maybe they can call the spinoff 'Compaq'..
Is Facebook worth more than Google?
This author is an amazing troll!
..or just fucking stupid.
Pissed-off elves bombard Icelandic town with rocks
Holy batshit, fatman! .. er, I mean ..
Intel: Windows on ARM won't run 'legacy apps'
I guess that means that the native x86 viruses won't be running on ARM either :)
Sounds like another good reason to leave 20 years of crap behind and look to current version apps!
iPhone to whup Sony PSP 2
Sony doesn't like their customers
Why buy anything from Sony when they have a track record of suing people who try to modify their product that they bought and legally own.
AIBO - check.
PS3 - check.
FU Sony.
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Exeter Uni goes offline to fight mystery malware
The University of Exeter took the unusual step of temporarily taking its network down this week in response to a virulent virus outbreak. Computers at the south west England university were taken offline on Monday for a clean-up in response to an unidentified malware outbreak, which has since been contained. By Thursday the …
Not standard practice?
You have a site with hundreds of computers linked by a gigabit LAN to some pretty high-speed servers hosting millions of pounds worth of research data (and all the clerical, admin, student work etc) and there's a particularly virulent worm making its way around your network. It's been stated that it corrupts data on infected machines.
If the choice comes down to "Drop the switches, lose live data, save the majority of stored data" or "Stay up, risk reinfection of cleaned clients, potentially lose large quantities of stored data" I'd have the breaker out faster than you can say "I'm in the middle of a COMMIT!"
hmmm, sounds familiar
Where'd that link go to the old, old security report surrounding the appearance and rapid spread of the first internet worm? I can't remember what the response was now - let it run riot to best study and eradicate it, or start isolating stuff ASAP, firebreak style, and communicating over phone and limited email links instead.
Well, there you go....
I suppose full marks are due to those who shut down the system to limit the damage but when everything seems to rely on a big interconnected network the phrase "putting your eggs in one basket" spings to mind. Why does everything have to be so network based when it is a prime target for those who are not adept to living in a civilised society?
I would have thought that some form of back-up (yes, I konw it's old fashioned, but it works) network in a limited form could at least have kept the VoIP working. Good job the mobile phone network wasn't taken out as well!
Have a nice day.
very odd they went down as well
I'm pretty sure the IP Phones where I am use completely different subnet addresses, switches and the like. They are able to share the PC ethernet cables in a limited way, to allow for ease of location, but the traffic for the two different systems is quickly filtered apart at the nearest reasonably smart router (some areas are devoid of IP Phone or have them on dedicated sockets because there aren't enough of the said routers about).
Shouldn't have been too hard to say "ban all traffic from devices on IPs X thru Y but allow that on A thru B"? Or even, for certain domain based nets, ban them by MAC list...
But then when you notice something awful happening and dive for the Big Red Switch there may not be time for considerations like that. If we had something similar going on, we may suffer just as bad. And now I'm trying to remember if the phones were affected that one time we had a NIC in a remote part of the building run wild and start barfing 1000 broadcast packets a second over the entire LAN... probably so? But then we do also have an analogue PBX kicking about for emergency backup anyway.
Thinking of your first point though, this is why chucking all your stuff in the cloud is risky. I'll stick with my plethora of optical backups and flashdrives. Sneakernet is hard to kill without a rifle.
Graham Clueless?
"Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said that systems may have been taken offline to fight a worm that exploited a specific vulnerability, perhaps involving Vista. Cluley added that although disconnecting systems is not standard practice in malware cleanups, it may be necessary to stop a handful of systems reinfecting everything else."
Sure it's very often a first response action?! Find the source of the outbreak and if possible isolate the bastard(s) asap! Then clean or destroy as necessary taking time to do it properly without worrying about what further damage it can do.
Place I'm working at recently had a problem with a rogue laptop (ironically an unauthorised pen-tester who's script got carried away and started locking out domain accounts!). One of the first responses was to track down the source via MAC address and then shutdown that switch port. Second response was to find the muppet and have a *quiet* word with him, and the manager who let him onsite... ;-)
sounds about right
Sophos is rather over-paranoid in my limited experience. You're unlikely to get any nasty infections whilst making use of their services, but at the same time you may find it rather difficult to get any work done either. If the programs you need aren't being auto quarantined or firewalled, then it's running endless PC-crippling scans and finding lots of "suspect" files to put in data-jail.
Though it may ultimately pay off in THESE situations!
"The Cornwall campus was isolated from the main University of Exeter network"
Was? It always has been! The network's run by University College Falmouth, and is completely separate from the main Streatham/St Luke's network anyway.
It's been quite a laugh sitting here, watching the panicky emails come in. I feel rather smug.
Was the query you sent done by e-mail?
That would explain why you haven't got any response.
anyone else think..
... that since no-one has yet given a name to this worm, and now four days later it doesn't seem to have got anywhere else, it might be some student's unauthorised, unofficial and extra-curricular CS project ?
isolated subnet
Surely the obvious solution is to isolate all of the Windows boxes in a diseased subnet; then when the inevitable virus outbreak occurs you can shut it down without affecting computer users.
As no-one else has said it yet, I must post the inevitable.
Well if you...
are going to have lots of windoze on the network, you get what you deserve.
(or as i paraphrase it, if you sleep with dogs you are going to get fleas)
Catcher in the Blades...
cornflicker is doing the rounds again...
and some leading AV apps are not handling it correctly !!!
STOP.... my servers gone tits up again...
Since this is right on my doorstep...
it seems the students are actually swapping over to Ubuntu fast rather than risk losing all their work.
So far i've had a que at my door here in Falmouth for the last 2 days.
Sensible Measures
It's surprising that there's been almost no report on the topology of the affected network, and how that ultimately contributed to the large-scale effects of this incident.
As with most universities, Exeter University widely uses public IP addresses in it's 220.127.116.11/16 primary network allocation for connected devices (this huge subnet means there's no technical requirement for any address translation since they're a long way from subnet exhaustion).
However, the University regularly uses /21 (255.255.248.0) subnets internally, with insufficient segregation [with VLANs] of logical segments. In addition, many network segments are wired in long spurs, which means that isolating one network segment may necessarily require isolation of cascaded segments which needn't have been architechted in that way.
Finally, and arguably most importantly, the university uses no internally firewalling of it's subnets in their central routing platform (think: zoned firewalls). There is firewalled access for traffic originating outside their primary /16 network, but that still leaves 65k+ addresses all of which can directly connect to each other. To my knowledge there is little or no IDP or traffic monitoring across segments, although this only helps if you actually segregate your networks at the Layer 2 & Layer 3 level.
Certainly, there's no excuse for an attack which (ostensibly) only affects Windows workstations and servers to mean that VoIP networks should be affected, and indeed it should be possible on any corporate network to leave VoIP up and running, even if there's shared infrastructure.
Finally, you have to wonder how the majority of network connected Windows machines went un-patched.
Just my $0.02, but didn't seem that anyone else was saying it.
No-one's mentioned
whether or not Exeter has any Unix/Linux kit.... I would hope so (students at my Uni are heavily intio ubuntu), but of course taking the whole network offline would also take the non-Windows stuff off as well!
Quite sure there're a few well pissed off Unix users, wondering why they're penalised for the lack of security in other areas!
All the P's
As usual ignored
As usual panic when it all goes wrong
Maybe they'll learn one day
Proper Prior Planning Prevents P*ss Poor Performance, Produces P*ss Poor Protection, Promotes Pain, (and probably in this cae) Prevents Payrise
Far Too Optimistic....
> As usual ignored
> As usual panic when it all goes wrong
> Maybe they'll learn one day
No chance - you obviously have no experience of the management culture at the University concerned!
not my problem
im a student there and thankfully due to the shortcomings of the IT department here i now have an extra week to complete my work! more time down the pub yeehaaa!
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The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence and severity of extrapulmonary disorders and to quantify the impact of extrapulmonary organ manifestations on morbidity and mortality of COPD patients.
Furthermore the investigators evaluate the relationship between systemic inflammation and organ involvement.
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|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
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|Impact of Systemic Manifestations/Comorbidities on Clinical State, Prognosis and Utilisation of Health Care Resources in Patients With COPD
- Change from baseline in BODE-Score at 18 months [ Time Frame: at initial visite, after 18 month ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The BODE-Score comprises BMI, airway obstruction, dyspnea and exercise capacity and is a good predictor for death in COPD patients. Progression is defined as a change in BODE-score by >=1 point over the observation period.
- COPD related mortality [ Time Frame: after 18 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- COPD related hospitalization [ Time Frame: after 18 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
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|November 2010
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|December 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Chronic diseases and comorbidities have an increasing impact on individual life and health care use, as exemplified in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Currently, independent, comprehensive databases allowing for an integrated view are lacking. The study will for the first time establish a large, comprehensive longitudinal database covering a broad panel of comorbidities an markers of systemic alterations. These data will be of unique value in revealing specific phenotypes of COPD via patterns and risk profiles of comorbidities, enabling a more precise diagnosis and targeting of therapy, and an efficient allocation of resources.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
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|Genders Eligible for Study:
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Since the original recruitment strategy was not as successful as expected,the mode of recruitment was extended to other physicians, patients' groups and organisations and advertising to local media. The recruitment is supported by professional measures of communication organized by the coordinating centre Marburg.
Inclusion Criteria:
- aged 40 years and older
- diagnosis of COPD (GOLD-Criteria)
- informed consent
- available for repeated study visits pver 18 months
Exclusion Criteria:
- having undergone big lung surgery (e.g. lung reduction, lung transplant)
- Moderate or severe exacerbation within the last 4 weeks
- having a lung tumor
- Unable to walk or to understand the intention of the project
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01245933
|Kreisklinik Bad Reichenhall, Zentrum für Innere Medizin-Lungenzentrum
|Bad Reichenhall, Germany, 83435
|Ev. Lungenklinik (ELK), Krankenhausbetriebs gGmbH, Pneumologische Klinik
|Berlin, Germany, 13125
|BG-Universitätskliniken Bergmannsheil GmbH, Medical Clinic
|Bochum, Germany, 44789
|Forschungszentrum Borstel, Medizinische Klinik
|Borstel, Germany, 23845
|Krankenhaus Lindenbrunn
|Coppenbrügge, Germany, 31863
|Krankenhaus Coswig
|Coswig, Germany, 01640
|Klinik Donaustauf, Zentrum für Pneumologie
|Donaustauf, Germany, 93093
|Ruhrlandklinik Essen, Westdeutsches Lungenzentrum
|Essen, Germany, 45239
|EvA-Study Center, Helholtz Zentrum München
|Gauting, Germany, 82131
|Justus-Liebig-Universität, Medizinische Klinik II
|Gießen, Germany
|Universitätsklinikum Greifswald der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität, Zentrum für Innere Medizin
|Greifswald, Germany, 17475
|Krankenhaus Großhansdorf, Pneumologisches Forschungsinstitut
|Großhansdorf, Germany, 22927
|HIT-Hamburger Institut für Therapieforschung GmbH
|Hamburg, Germany, 20354
|Medical School Hannover, Dep. of Pneumology
|Hannover, Germany, 30625
|Universitätsklinik Heidelberg
|Heidelberg, Germany, 69120
|Thoraxklinik Heidelberg
|Heidelberg, Germany, 69126
|University of Saarland
|Homburg, Germany, 66421
|Fachklinik für Lungenerkrankungen Philippsstiftung ev.
|Immenhausen, Germany, 34376
|Universitiy of Kiel
|Kiel, Germany, 24105
|Universitätsklinikum Leipzig, Department Innere Medizin
|Leipzig, Germany, 04103
|Klinik Löwenstein
|Löwenstein, Germany, 74245
|Universitätsmedizin der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz K. d. ö. R.
|Mainz, Germany, 55131
|Philipps-University Marburg, Medical Center, Dep. of Pneumology
|Marburg, Germany, 35042
|Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Medizinische Klinik Innenstadt
|Munic, Germany, 80336
|Klinikum Nürnberg, Medizinische Klinik 3, Schwerpunkt Pneumologie, Allergologie und Schlafmedizin
|Nürnberg, Germany, 90419
|Universitätsklinikum Rostock, Zentrum für Innere Medizin, Abt. f. Pneumologie
|Rostock, Germany, 18057
|Klinikum Berchtesgardener Land, Schön Kliniken, Fachzentrum für Pneumologie, Allergologie und Schlafmedizin
|Schönau am Königssee, Germany, 83471
|Krankenhaus Bethanien gGmbH
|Solingen, Germany, 42699
|University of Ulm
|Ulm, Germany, 89081
|Missionsärztliche Klinik GmbH, Innere Medizin
|Würzburg, Germany, 97067
|Study Chair:
|Claus Vogelmeier, Prof.
|Philipps University Marburg Medical Center
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|Claus Vogelmeier, Prof. Dr., Philipps University Marburg Medical Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01245933 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|November 18, 2010
|Last Updated:
|June 17, 2014
|Health Authority:
|Germany: Ethics Commission
Keywords provided by Philipps University Marburg Medical Center:
systemic inflammation
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lung Diseases
Lung Diseases, Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
Respiratory Tract Diseases
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Photos and Description of this 4 bedroom holiday chalet in Lapland - AURA log chatlet and sauna
115 m° log chatlet with 4 bedrooms up to 11 peoples and sauna building.
Modern facilities equipped cottage in Finnish Lapland wilderness. Here you can experience the rugged Lake Inari in Lapland, the best of it´s nature and find a place to cool off everyday's life. Very good place to see the auroras in autum to spring time.
Excellent possibility of boating, fishing, berry picking and hiking terrain immediately from the yard.
In the summertime you can experience white nights and the midnight sun. What could be better than boating in midnight sun that does not set down at all? Inari lake in the summer has also found as a great opportunities of fishing. The lake is one of Finlands best fishing destinations. Here you can get a catch f.ex. the northern salmon fish.
In autumn, the colours change into stunning autumn colors and it's time to pick berries and wander around in the wilderness, which will open as soon as the villa grounds. You also can do some fishing in lake and it's islands.
During the winter- and springtime it is a great point of time to see the impressive northern lights at the night time. Great is also to do some nordic skiing or go ice fishing on the lake.
During night time is a also possible sense the silence - the silence of the nature can be found so unbreakable, that it can be found to be heard.
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- children welcome
- non smoking only
About Hannu Hakala
We are a southern part of Finland living family who is in love with the silent nature of Lapland and in particular the Lake Inari and we want to share this experience with the others.
Hannu Hakala purchased this chalet in 2000
Why Hannu Hakala chose Lapland
The unique possibility to meet silence, relaxation and peaceness without getting dull.
What makes this chalet unique
Authentic Lappish cottage with modern facilities. Authentic Finnish relaxing wood heated sauna. One of the best area in Finland to see auroras in winter nights.


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Pixelation in a specific spot on the screen at random moments?
Okay, I really don't know if this is my monitor, or my 7970 graphics card.
I don't know, because the graphics card is brand new (I don't have any long-time experience with it), and the monitor is now using the DVI port versus the VGA (it had always used the VGA before because that's the cord it came with and I saw no reason to use a different cord).
But at random moments, this one spot on my screen (Always the same spot) goes pixelated while playing games. It's not very big, and it's right at the bottom, but it's definitely enough to be distracting and annoying.
But when I change the resolution to another resolution (does not matter what res) and then back to the one I was using, it seems to fix it.
Note that this does not ALWAYS happen, nor does it happen often, but it does happen.
I just want to know if this is monitor or graphics card related, and if there is a solution to the problem other than the temporary one I have now?
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There's a handy trick to test if display distortions are in your physical display or in GFX card / system.
When this happens next time, create a screenshot. Now inspect (view) this screenshot. If the distortion is also visible in screenshot, the culprit is your GFX card or system, if it is not visible in screenshot the culprit is your display.
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I know these are not dead pixels but maybe dying ones there a few testers you can use -
BenchmarkHQ several to choose form.
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The first step to making an existing maintenance facility more efficient is looking at its meter system.
Maintenance facilities are the operational backbone of transit agencies, helping wash, clean and maintain thousands of buses, railcars and ferries each and every day. This regular maintenance makes them huge consumers of water and energy (and money). Many cities across the country are mandating transit agencies create more efficient facilities not only as good stewards of the environment, but also to help the bottom line. The first step to making an existing maintenance facility more efficient is looking at its meter system.
Traditionally, meters were simply tools to help business pay their utility bills. Today, they provide the forensic data for energy usage — tracking where heat, water, electricity is going, how much is being consumed, by what and from where? Trouble is, most existing buildings' meter systems are a maze of tangled data.
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1. Investigate how the base is metered. You can't improve what is not measured.Older bases may not have meters that separate buildings or separate lighting from process loads like vacuuming. Often, portions of the base are built at different times and the meter address does not match the building address. The goal is to separate the process load from the lighting, plug and mechanical loads.
2. Add meters if major uses cannot be tracked with existing meters.Temporary meters can save money but they require more staff time to monitor and move. Permanent meters provide historical trending. The concept of long-term and permanent metering plays into the Environmental Management System (EMS) goal of continuous improvement
3. Identify major energy users.There are many activities at transportation facilities (like CNG fueling, bus/train washing, vacuuming, other process activities) that aren't part of typical building's energy uses (like traditional heating, cooling and lighting). The key is to do some up-front estimating on which areas should be metered separately and how this metering will be used for current or future energy reduction measures.
4. Use Portfolio Manager to track energy and water usage.Use Energy Use Intensity (EUI) as the yardstick and not an Energy Star score. Maintenance bases are non-ratable for Energy Star. There is not a comparable bus or rail maintenance category. Special considerations in Portfolio Manager (PM): Shift work is difficult in PM. Even though there is not a national comp or a category in PM, use PM to create computer historical data and define the baseline from which to improve. Staff understand this concept if they have an EMS.
RELATED: How to Develop a Successful Transit Facility Project 5. Consider using LEED EBOM to document and measure performance. This can be a tool to keep stakeholders accountable. It is a widely understood metric to demonstrate (internally and to the public) the level of performance and commitment.
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Chicken McNuggets from China
- Phaedrus Sep 6, 2013 06:41 AM
Given China's less than competent food safety record, be afraid. Or stop eating chicken McNuggets.
Oh, I know!!!! I read this yesterday and was horrified. Just horrified. The problem is not only that they'll sell this food here, but that we'll have no way to know that it came from there. I've long made a point of not buying food items from China (frozen fish, pine nuts, etc.). Unfortunately, we actually do like chicken nuggets at home (there are some nice varieties, organic, healthier); it's one of the few things my picky toddler eats, and it is so helpful when life gets hectic. But now...
If consumers stop buying processed chicken products, maybe food manufacturers will be forced to review this decision. Ugh.
Statement from the USDA administrator on the subject.
I read about this yesterday. I don't eat any processed chicken food items, but I would stop if I did. I can't believe that they're allowing this.
Doesn't anyone remember the HUGE outbreak of avian flu in the live chicken population of China? Thousands of dogs were sickened on Chinese-made dog jerky?
Quite frankly, I don't really trust the USDA. How much you want to bet that the USDA would "quietly allow" the eventual use of Chinese-raised chicken in these products?
And now the American chicken processing plants will no longer have USDA inspectors, but they'll be replaced with employees of those companies? Ummm.....isn't that like allowing the fox to guard the hen house? That is completely idiotic.
re: LindaWhit
If there are no US inspectors in the Chinese plants, what's to stop the Chinese plants from adding anything they so choose to the chicken products?
re: RedTop
Your use of the phrase Nanny State makes no sense at all in this context.
re: Glencora
I think the key is to buy real food you can verify the source of and make it yourself.
That said, I've never eaten a chicken nugget and I don't plan to make my own, either.
I'm thinking of the lines of Chinese parents lining up to buy American baby formula because they don't trust and refuse to buy China's stuff. Can't blame them.
re: mcf
my thought, exactly...if Chinese food processing and inspection can't be trusted to not poison their own children, they sure can't be trusted to ship safe food elsewhere.
Between that and the Smithfield deal, we may end up vegetarian before this all settles out.
re: sunshine842
Not moi, I'm a meatatarian. Just have to know what and who my sources are.
I hate buying any "microwave safe) dishware from China, too, since it all gets hot in there. Not to mention their undeclared lead problems in children's toys, why not dinnerware glazes?
Anything so it can remain on the $1 menu is fine with the vast majority of customers. For those who have never eaten it, will never eat it, and have no impact on the bottom line, why should they care about your first world esthetics?
Important to note that this will apply to any processed chicken product, so even say a can of chicken broth, could come from China. A lot of chowhounds don't eat things like chicken nuggets, but a lot more will sometimes take a shortcut with a canned broth, or concentrated chicken stock paste. Avoiding these imported products altogether will require a lot of vigilance. And eating out? forget about it!
re: MelMM
This goes way beyond chicken. The USDA's rules require that only certain foods must be labeled with the country of origin. Anything considered processed as defined by the USDA doesn't have to state where it's from. Hotdogs, Spam, fish sticks, cured meats, etc. – all exempt from COOL label requirements since they are all obviously processed food. A bag of frozen peas from another country would have to state where the product is from, but a bag of frozen mixed peas and carrots or a mixed fruit cup are considered processed food, and are exempt from the labeling requirement.
re: MelMM
Yes! MeIMM, you said it well. Chicken stock, chicken soup, other types of precooked chicken meals (there are other frozen chicken foods besides nuggets).
As for eating out, I must say that sometimes I shudder a little when eating at some restaurants as I wonder where they get their ingredients...
Question for those of you trying to avoid all foods from China. The article in the OP was just about processed chicken products, which had previously been allowed, and then were banned due to concerns about bird flu. But what is not addressed is that all along, all kinds of other foods, including fruits and vegetables, have been legal to import from China. So take garlic for example - I believe China is the world's largest producer, by a long shot, as as far as I know, there is no regulation against importing fresh or processed garlic into the US. And I don't think there is a labeling requirement for it. So let's say you buy a bottle of barbecue sauce, or hot sauce, or pasta sauce, that says it is made in the US. I think (and someone can correct me here if they know more about labeling laws), it could still have say, granulated garlic from China in it. And I don't think there is any way for you to know that, outside of calling the manufacturer of every product you buy, and even then, would they tell you? So to what extent can you really avoid foods made in China, whether you eat chicken nuggets or not, and even if you are a vegetarian?
re: kmanihot
The inferior, cheaper pine nuts from China/Russia/Vietnam give me pine mouth. Thankfully, I've finally found that Wegmans carries the Italian ones. A bit far to drive for just pine nuts, so I'll stock up and freeze some next time I go.
re: LindaWhit
I've sometimes found some from Turkey that are good. I never had pine mouth, but I don't like the taste of the Chinese and Russian ones (plus, the concerns with contaminants etc).
If I end up making it to my nearest Wegmans (about one hour away) I'll make sure to stock up on the good pinoli!


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Admiration was at the forefront of a jostling crowd of emotions Jake Peavy dealt with as he watched Kerry Wood walk off a major-league pitcher's mound for the final time last week. Wood's ill-tempered right shoulder finally said ''enough'' after 14 seasons, 1,380 innings and way too many rehab starts, simulated games and towel drills, and he retired at 34.
''I have tremendous respect for Kerry Wood and what he accomplished in his career, especially coming back from all those injuries,'' Peavy said. ''He reinvented himself and went to the bullpen because he wanted to keep playing. How many guys would do that?''
Not teammate Chris Sale, but that's a good thing. Closing, wherein every pitch is high stress, might be the worst possible assignment for a big-talent 23-year-old with a fickle left elbow.
Intimations of his own mortality also crossed Peavy's mind as he watched an emotional Wrigley Field crowd salute a longtime favorite. Peavy and Wood are former National League contemporaries who have traveled similar paths.
A major-leaguer at 20, Wood became a Chicago sensation when he struck out 20 Houston Astros in his fifth major-league start, a performance so spectacular and surreal it skewed our expectations beyond reason. The sad truth is we'll never know how good Wood might have been.
He threw a baseball with audacious power and skill, but it's as if he weren't meant to — this year's trip to the disabled list was Wood's 16th over 14 big-league seasons. Health issues always seemed to override his talent. Wood won 80 games in a Cubs uniform, same as Ken Holtzman and 12 fewer than Bill Hands, and never more than 14 in a season.
You'd swear it was more, that it should have been more.
Peavy was a big-leaguer at 21 and a Cy Young Award winner at 26, so dominant and still young enough that he seemed worth the four prospects the White Sox surrendered to take him and his $52 million contract off the San Diego Padres' hands in 2009.
But Peavy was hurt then, and he has been hurt for much of his time in Chicago. If his injuries weren't as frequent as Wood's, they were just as serious, most notably a detached latissimus dorsi muscle that drove him from the mound in agony while he was pitching against the Los Angeles Angels at U.S. Cellular Field on July 6, 2010.
''I was scared,'' Peavy conceded. ''This muscle that's normally at the back of my shoulder felt like it was down at my side. I knew it was bad.''
In layman's terms, a complete tear occurred in the tendon connecting one of the big, power-providing muscles at the back of the shoulder with the humerus. Muscle torn loose from bone. Try throwing with major-league velocity after that little setback.
Dr. Anthony Romeo performed a revolutionary reattachment procedure but warned Peavy that recovery was uncertain and that rehabilitation would require a year. Peavy was back on the mound in 10 months, displaying the same flinty resolve that brought Wood back so many times.
''We're wired like that. We're ballplayers, we're competitors. It's what we do, and it's all we know,'' Peavy said.
''There are times when you're rehabbing, you might have a bad day or a setback and you wonder if it's worth it, but if you want to play badly enough, you fight through it and you keep going.''
Chicago hasn't seen much of the nasty, heat-flinging dominator who was 58-33 with a 2.97 ERA for the Padres from 2004 to 2007, the Cy Young winner by unanimous decision in '07. Peavy has tried to will himself and talk himself into being that guy again, but baseball is what have you done for me lately. Words that don't match deeds often are dismissed with a skeptical roll of the eyes, even well-intentioned ones.
This year has been a trip back in time. Peavy took a 5-1 record and a 2.39 ERA into his start Saturday against the Cleveland Indians. Though the Tribe reached him for seven runs, the Sox backed him with 14, so Peavy is 6-1. Even if he never revisits the Peavy of 2007, he can live with it.
"It's not even in the back of my mind," Peavy said. "When I go out there, I might wish I had the stuff I had in 2007, but I can't worry about it. I have to find a way to get hitters out. That's my job. I'm fortunate and blessed to still be doing it."


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Basic combo: Arcane Gate (Wizard Utility 10, HOTFL) + Dominate (wherever you can get it) (technically forced movement works too, but is much more unreliable).
Arcane Gate creates a rift between two squares that are both within 20 of you. The trick is to pick a square on the ground level, and a square 20 squares straight up.
This adds 10d10 to any falling damage that might be going on anyway, and does 10d10 in it's own right. That sounds neat to me.
-Flight: If you can fly, you can add the maximum height of your flight to the fall. +1d10 damage per two squares above the ground. Actual lasting Flight makes this do +20d10, since you can fly 20 squares straight up before Gating...
-Improved Tome of Readiness: Always broken, but.. doing this EVERY encounter? Naaaasty. And you get it one level later than you get Arcane Gate in the first place.*
* question for the room... the guide says:
"Improved Tome of Readiness: (AP) Con 13, Wis 13. Technically, this lets you use your favourite daily utility pretty much every counter (And later, every encounter with a bit of power recycling), since you can expend a higher level encounter util. Just be aware that some DMs consider this cheesy (And if they don't already, they might do so after you show them why). That said, it is a VERY strong feat. Just be ready for a PHB-slap or two."
; since you get two level 10 utilities in your spellbook AT level 10, can't you just go with an encounter utility and Arcane Gate (or other Daily Utility of choice) as your level 10 picks, prepare the encounter one and Tome the Daily? So it's "every encounter" right from level 11 onwards, no? (rather than "and later")
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Daxon are delighted to announce their fantastic Mid-Season Sale, which gives up to 50% off selected items. Alongside this great mid-season sale, Daxon are also able to offer free delivery when you spend £40 or more on your order. This great delivery saving is activated by using the code 8040 at the checkout and can be used on full priced and sales items.
New Arrivals At Castaluna
This week Castaluna are delighted to bring you a selection of New Arrivals to the website, showing off the great quality and range of products available from Castaluna for Autumn-Winter 2014. With the Winter months fast approaching, warm jackets and trousers will be on everyone's shopping lists and we have some fine examples of these to show you.
M&S Home Event: Up to 30% off Furniture
Marks & Spencer have a great selection of online deals right now, with up to 20% off homeware; 20% off gifts; 30% off furniture; 60% off garden furniture; 50% off mattresses; and up to 60% off conservatory furniture. We list the full details for you, and the start and end dates of this M&S offer.