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The Onslow County district attorney says an April 8th shooting death of a naked man after a home invasion was justified.
Ernie Lee says David Darling unlawfully entered a home on Fieldcrest Drive and threatened those inside. Darling was shot and killed by the Marine who lived at the house. Darling lived next door.
Lee says the investigation shows at 9:12 p.m. deputies were dispatched about someone trying to get into the home. Nine minutes later those inside the home were waving down deputies.
Lee says Darling was found lying on his back in the living room. He later died at the hospital.
The D.A. says the 24-year-old man in the home says he heard Darling yelling on the street. "I am on a bad trip, and I will not kill myself for her," Darling was heard saying.
The Marine says Darling was naked, running up and down the road and then sat at his front door. His wife opened the door, finding Darling talking about a cigarette. She told him to get off the property.
The people at the house said Darling yelled to let him in and began banging on the front door. The Marine told Darling to leave, warning him he had a gun.
Darling, according to those inside, jumped head first through a screened window, and the Marine shot him three times.
The D.A. says there were two small children in the home at the time and says the Castle Doctrine applies in this case. Lee says the Marine honestly believed he needed to defend his family.
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We expect to find out Friday morning whether charges will be filed against a man for fatally shooting an intruder in his home.
Onslow County deputies said 22-year-old David Darling was shot and killed on Fieldcrest Drive near Jacksonville on April 8th. Darling was attempting to enter a neighbor's home through a broken window around 9 p.m.. The man inside the home shot Darling.
The district attorney is holding a press conference on the shooting at 9 a.m. Friday.


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Itasca Moccasin was started in 1986 by Mardel Bents, who learned the moccasin-making business after being sold a set of leather-working equipment by a salesman from St. Paul, MN. The company was located in the tiny Minnesota community of Lake George, MN, just a few miles to the east of Itasca State Park in North Central Minnesota where the headwaters of the Mississippi River is located. For about 25 years, the company store was a rustic, shopworn souvenir stand that attracted tourists driving to and from the park. Bents (and subsequently one employee), handcrafted moccasins all winter in preparation for the following year's summer tourist season. As each summer season passed by, supplies were depleted until they were replenished during the next winter's moccasin-making season.
Due to its central location between the Leech Lake, White Earth and Red Lake reservations, the company attracted a significant following of Native American customers, who used the moccasins as a part of their regalia for Powwow dances and for other cultural events.
Over the years, Bents perfected her moccasin-making techniques and turned out beautifully made premium-quality moccasins, including custom pattern-making for customers with hard-to-fit feet. Not only did she use basic cowhide, but she had the forethought to introduce the use of premium leathers such as buffalo, elk and moose; she also utilized the most incredibly plush sheepskin for slippers.
Recent Past
In early April 2012, Bents retired and sold the business to Paul Kirkman who changed the name to Itasca Leathergoods to extend the brand identity beyond its moccasin-making roots. Kirkman maintained the company's sole employee and over the next two months completely rebranded the company into a fashion-forward business that was more closely aligned with its premium-quality craftsmanship. The original factory store was gutted and renovated inside and out. The logo was modernized while still clearly acknowledging the company's heritage. Moccasin styles and colors were updated. Advertising campaigns were designed and executed. And most importantly of all, a second store, deemed to be the company's flagship store, was built out and opened in the prestigious resort community of Crosslake MN. Both the original factory store and the new flagship store (re)opened by Memorial Day 2012 and immediately garnered rave reviews from its new and former customers and received generous favorable press. A third store, in Hayward WI, followed in spring 2013, located in a historic turn-of-the-century brick building on Main Street in the heart of downtown.
In 2012, in an effort to diversify product lines, Itasca Leathergoods introduced its first non-moccasin offerings: simple placemats and coasters constructed of durable rugged cowhide, as well as intricately hand-laced placemats and coasters made from dramatic embossed leather. These were followed shortly thereafter by a leather sleeve for Apple's iPad. Of course, all are made of leather, utilizing many of the leather working and hand lacing skills learned over the years. In 2013, the company procured a strap-cutting machine and began to make sturdy belts with honest construction for men and women that are expected to last for decades. Two styles of handbags were introduced in late 2013, along with exquisite men's and ladies' wallets; the wallets are made by a leather craftsman with an incredible pedigree - he apprenticed with two major Italian design houses in his youth.
With all of this growth came the need for additional employees. With the country having just come off a significant years-long recession, we're proud to say that we've increased from our original sole employee and now employ more than ten people - stable manufacturing jobs, the backbone of rural communities.
In planning future growth, we've identified three main areas of focus:
- Our push for 2014 and 2015 is for rapid expansion of wholesale accounts in high-end independent boutiques in urban areas throughout the country; in an effort to spur this growth, we're exhibiting at both national and regional wholesale markets across the country, focusing on product lines such as gifts, accessories and footwear.
- To further diversify our in-store offerings, we will continue to introduce new products and product lines. The near future will bring more styles of handbags and goods for the home, including leather knickknacks, decorative pillows, and (perhaps surprisingly) even leather Christmas decor.
- Over the coming years, we hope to open additional stores in the Mountain states, the South and the Southwestern United States. It is our goal to make Itasca Leathergoods a nationally-known and highly sought-after brand.
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Items ordered with custom leathers or custom color selections are not returnable. Such items are not a part of our normal stock and cannot be sold with our normal merchandise assortments in our stores.
We guarantee a perfect fit for orders placed with custom foot tracings. If your moccasins do not fit, please return them and we will alter or replace them at our discretion to correct the fit. You are responsible for shipping costs back to the store but we will cover shipping charges when the altered or replaced pair is sent back to you. Please allow approximately two weeks for alternations.
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Although rare, we occasionally manufacture a product with a defect that escapes our quality control review. We will repair or replace moccasins or other leather goods that are defective. Items that signify a defect include (but aren't limited to) mismatched leathers, a dropped stitch, cut or abrasion to the leather, or visible glue. Items that don't signify a defect include natural marks or blemishes to the leather, stains and dirt, damage from animal chewing, and normal wear and tear.
In the event you experience premature wear-through on the sole of the moccasin, we may repair or replace it upon our discretion on a case by case basis. This offer for repair does not include normal wear and tear over the years.
Some repairs are relatively easy; others are more difficult. For information about repairs, please call the factory store to discuss whether or not a repair is possible or advisable. Cost for repairs is handled on a case by case basis. Please call 218-699-3978 or send a request on our Contact page.
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- Deliveries: Customers pay for shipping. Our standard shipping and handling rate for deliveries to destinations in the United States is $11.95.
- Returns: Customers pay for shipping back to the Factory Store. Our address is 37144 US 71 N, PO Box 228, Lake George MN 56458.
- If we repair or replace your moccasins, we'll pay the outgoing shipping costs for the pair that is returned to you.
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Greensboro, NC-- Two unfinished products in the Triad are still in limbo as of Thursday and it's because of one construbtion company.
A bonding company for Farley Associates has brought in J.E. Dunn to assess McNair Elementary this week and next. The company will then give recommendations on how to fix it to the insurance company that's picking up the tab to finish it.
Farley Associates was the original construction company working on the building, but Guilford County Schools fired them from the project.
Last week, WFMY News 2 learned that Farley Associates was also working on Fire Station 19 in Winston-Salem. The city notified the company on Friday of the seven-day process to removed them from the project.
On Wednesday, GCS leaders talked with Farley's insurance company, The Hartford, about McNair Elementary school via conference call.
Winston-Salem leaders said they will talk with the insurance company next week to get a new contractor for the fire station. A spokesperson said they will not go through a bidding process; the potential contractors are already selected.


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December 1, 2015
Only three things in life are certain: death, taxes and parking fees. But even a menacing parking meter is an excuse to do some maths.
Imagine, for example, that the car park costs £1.50. The machine only accepts 10p and 20p coins. There are obviously different ways of putting the money into the car park machine, for example
10p, 10p, 20p, 20p, 10p, 10p, 10p, 10p, 20p, 10p, 10p, 10p
10p, 10p, 10p, 10p, 20p, 20p, 20p, 10p, 20p, 20p.
You could probably go for the rest of the month without feeding the machine in the same way twice. Can you feed the machine in a different way each day of the year?
You can find a longer version of this puzzle, including some follow-up questions to investigate, on the Wild Maths site. Wild Maths encourages students to explore maths beyond the classroom and is designed to nurture mathematical creativity. The site is aimed at 7 to 16 year-olds, but open to all. It provides games, investigations, stories and spaces to explore, where discoveries are to be made. Some have starting points, some a big question and others offer you a free space to investigate.
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October 29, 2015
Today is national cat day in the US! To mark the occasion, here's a quick introduction to the most famous cat in the history of science: Schrödinger's cat.
Schrödinger's cat. Image: Dhatfield.
One interpretation of the strange theory of quantum mechanics is that tiny particles can simultaneously exist in states that we would usually deem mutually exclusive. For example, an electron can be in two places at once, or a radioactive atom can be both decayed an non-decayed at the same time. It's only when we go to measure a system in superposition, as this strange state is called, that reality somehow "collapses" to one of the possibilities.
In 1935 the physicist Erwin Schrödinger, who made major contributions to the theory of quantum mechanics, developed a thought experiment in order to demonstrate just how counter-intuitive the idea of superposition is. We let him describe it in his own words, taken from a translation of his 1935 paper:
One can even set up quite ridiculous cases. A cat is penned up in a steel chamber, along with the following device (which must be secured against direct interference by the cat): in a Geiger counter there is a tiny bit of radioactive substance, so small, that perhaps in the course of the hour one of the atoms decays, but also, with equal probability, perhaps none; if it happens, the counter tube discharges and through a relay releases a hammer which shatters a small flask of hydrocyanic acid.
Thus, when an atom decays, poison will be released from the flask and the cat killed. And here's the main point. If it is true that, as long as we don't look, the system can evolve into a superposition state of atoms being simultaneously decayed and not decayed, then it follows that, as long as we don't look, the cat will be simultaneously dead and alive. Poor cat. Or should we say lucky cat?
You can find out more in Schrödinger's equation — what is it? and Schrödinger's equation — what does it mean?.
October 27, 2015
Barrow has written a book about maths and the arts.
John D. Barrow, mathematician, cosmologist and boss of Plus, explores maths and the arts in a public talk in Cambridge on Monday, 02 November 2015. Barrow will look at ways in which maths can shed light upon a range of questions in the arts and how problems of art and design inspire new mathematical questions. The canvas will be broadly drawn with examples from different areas of the arts, including painting, textual analysis, diamond cutting, Henry Moore's stringed figures, ballet, and even the best place to stand when viewing statues.
The talk is from 19:30 to 21:00 at Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, Cambridge CB3 0DS. It is organised by the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research. Non-members will be asked to pay a nominal entry fee of £3.00. Find out more here.
August 18, 2015
In this fascinating talk theoretical physicist Ben Allanach talks about the search for dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider, including a generous helping of information on the Higgs boson. Ben gave the talk on 19 June 2015 to an audience of school students aged 16-17 as part of a mathematics enrichment event at the University of Cambridge.
If you prefer read, the see the abridged version of this talk.
August 4, 2015
In this excellent talk the mathematician Vicky Neale gives a fascinating and easy-to-follow introduction to the prime numbers — from a thorough description of what they are, via the ancient proof that there are infinitely many, to the prime number theorem, the twin prime conjecture and more. By the end of this talk you hopefully agree with us, and Vicky, that the world would be a very boring place without primes.
Vicky gave this talk at the University of Cambridge on 19 June 2015 to an audience of Year 12 A-level Maths students (aged 16-17). It formed part of a mathematics enrichment day organised by the Millennium Mathematics Project with a special focus on encouraging creative mathematical thinking. For more on creative mathematics, visit Wild Maths.
To find out more about prime numbers, browse our articles on the subject.
July 29, 2015
Are you queueing in an airport, wondering if there is a better way to deal with the mass of humanity trying to board planes? Are you stuck at home wondering where the summer weather has gone? Would you like to see our information overloaded world in a more beautiful way? Do you think the world would be a better place if we made lovely maths, instead of war? Then you should book your place for the 2015 British Science Festival
Mathematical love!
This year the festival is in Bradford from 7-10 September. And, as well as delights in all areas of science, there is some fascinating maths to enjoy. In Advanced airports and on-time ambulances, Kevin Glazebrook and Vincent Knight will explain how number crunching improve holiday travel chaos in airports, and get you medical help in an emergency quicker. And on the subject of health, you can join in a mini-epidemic with Erin Lafferty as she reveals the medical secrets behind infection in Can maths decode infectious diseases?
Meanwhile scientist Martin Brinkworth, mathematician Simon Shepherd and artist Marcus Levine will show us the beautiful side of big data in Art and big data and explore what our innate appreciation of aesthetics in these representations can reveal. In Love and war: the mathematical way Hannah Fry will demonstrate the power of maths in understanding human behaviour in the rawest of human emotions. You can find out more about these and all the other fascinating events at the Festival website – booking is now open!
To get you in the mood, you can read more about the maths behind infectious diseases, art, love and war on Plus.


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It was in the dark days of the recession that contingent staffing became the strategy of choice. Companies stampeded to temp services, searching for a cure-all for their HR woes. Contingent workers swelled the ranks of corporate America. Companies called for more.
Now, as the recession lifts, and the smoke clears, two things become certain. One, for many organizations, the contingent-staffing concept simply doesn't solve a thing. Two, for others, it is the solution, a strategy that works. It is truly their heralded panacea for staffing problems.
So what makes the difference between the former and the latter? Most often, those companies-and there are many-that benefit, even depend, on contingent staffing are companies that take it just as seriously as they do any other component of their staffing strategy. When they use the much-ballyhooed phrase strategic staffing, they place the emphasis on strategic. Which means they have direct business reasons for using contingent workers. Which means they demand the same characteristics of their temps that they do of their regular employees: productivity, quality, high performance. Which means, most of all, that they recognize that the relationship takes work to work well.
Contingent planning must be applied for specific-and solid-business reasons.
Just as throwing money at a problem is never a smart solution, throwing bodies at a problem also falls short in the long run. Largely in response to the crunch of downsizing, companies have been packing in contingents for the past few years in record numbers. In 1993, 21% of the total increase in employment came from temporary services, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That increase translated into 1.6 million temporary employees being pumped into businesses each day in 1993, generating a $19.7 billion payroll, according to Alexandria, Virginia-based National Association of Temporary and Staffing Services (NATSS). This year the number is expected to push close to 1.8 million people.
Many of these 1.8 million will be used to their companies' great success. But Professor Stanley Nollen, of Georgetown University's School of Business Administration, worries that a large number will not. "Many companies believe that contingent workers are cheaper than regular employees, and they hire a fair number of them, thinking they will be cutting labor costs. My questions is: Is that really true? I think the answer is that many times it's not true."
Nollen, who authored a book on the contingent work force due out this fall, says that too often companies think that because they pay temps smaller hourly wages and no workers' comp or benefits, this automatically means they're going to come out on top with their budget. Not necessarily, says Nollen. "Do not assume that contingent labor is cheaper. Check it out," he says. "You have to look not just at what you're paying out, but what you're getting back."
Nollen says that despite their initial low price tag, contingent workers may end up costing more in the long run-they take longer to get up and running, and even when they're at 100%, they still won't always match the productivity of long-time workers.
In addition, those companies choosing contingents as a means of avoiding employer-of-record complications will still find themselves mired in many administrative tasks. HR needs to keep an eye on this part of the work force, just as it monitors permanent employees. Just because a temp agency manages the paperwork doesn't mean HR should strap on blinders. "If companies believe that what they gain from contingent work is that they get rid of personnel administration tasks, they are mostly wrong," says Nollen. "If they do avoid these tasks, it is at their peril that they do so."
Many temporary staffing agencies have focused on these weak links, developing partnerships with the companies they serve, so that if there is a problem they can be ready to solve it. "As these relationships are formed, both parties get comfortable with sharing planning information and looking at ways to improve the productivity and quality of the work being done by the flexible work force," says Gordon Bingham, senior vice president of marketing for Melville, New York-based Olsten Staffing Services.
Flexible is truly the key word in the contingent work-force puzzle. "There is only one very good reason for using contingent workers," says Nollen. "And that is to solve a flexibility problem that you have."
Dave Compton, director of operations for Auburn Hills, Michigan-based Automotive Products (USA) Inc., is in agreement on the flexibility issue. "There isn't a big enough cost differential that I'd say we're doing it just [to save] money," he says. "The reason we started was because of the ebb and flow of the automotive industry. We were going in and out of layoff conditions-and I didn't particularly like laying people off."
The company, which pulls in about $60 million yearly in sales of its product-clutch hydraulics for manual shift vehicles-had gotten trapped in a vicious cycle of hiring in the busy periods and laying off in slack times. Using temporaries in the manual-labor operations seemed the way to go. Compton says it gives some much-needed stability to the 300 permanent employees, and provides him with the ability to respond to his company's staffing needs without the former pangs of guilt. "The [temporaries] know that they could be laid off. I think that's the key. The temporary relationship gives us the opportunity to say 'Even though we may lay you off, you can go back to the temp agency and get reassigned.' Whereas with our work force, we'd lay them off and they'd just wait till we called them back, which was never a very palatable situation."
Carpentersville, Illinois-based Revcor Inc. had a similar struggle in meeting an erratic production schedule. As a manufacturer of fans, wheels and housings for air conditioning and heating components, the company was extremely busy in certain seasons and slow in others. "When I came here 7-1/2 years ago, we had this 'hurry up and hire them and then lay them off' mentality," says Larry Brigman, director of HR. "We had trouble getting people because we came to be known as a company you wouldn't stay with." This reputation quickly dissolved when Revcor made the move to using temporaries. Now as many as 100 contingents support the 300 permanent employees in the busy seasons. The increased use of temps allows Revcor to recruit its permanent employees without the stain of ever-looming layoffs.
Organizations often respond to flexibility issues by using contingents. In the Career Horizons 1995 Salary and Employment Survey of more than 500 companies, special projects and peak periods accounted for more than half of all temp usage.
"Use contingent workers as a buffer to the core work force for sure," says Nollen. "That's a good and proper use, and it works." But even when companies choose to use contingent workers for the right reasons, they'll still fumble if the contingents can't deliver the necessary services. Getting temps on their feet and working on their own is critical to success.
Contingents need to be up and running quickly.
KLA Instruments knows what it needs. It needs a contingent work force of highly trained engineers to assist on special projects when necessary. Although the San Jose, California-based yield management company uses temps on every level, it is this group of high-level contingents who play an integral part in the business's success.
KLA, which makes inspection equipment for the semiconductor industry, has integrated its contingents so thoroughly into its staffing strategy that it maintains a commitment to have temp workers comprise 10% of its work force. So crucial are the contingent engineers that they have to get in the swing of things as quickly as possible. So what's one of KLA's biggest hurdles? "Each person coming in has to be trained," says Ginny DeMars, vice president of HR. "So you spend some time in the training mode, and that's always a challenge, because when you have a need for someone, you have an immediate need."
Most temporary agencies have addressed this as well as they can-providing training to their workers before they ever set foot on a customer's doorstep. For instance, for its major clients, Atlanta-based Norrell Corp. examines their business's primary training needs and drills its temps accordingly. The temp service will even customize its training to cover a specific area. For example, when UPS signed on with Norrell as its temp provider of choice for its data-entry operations, Norrell designed a screen simulated to be just like those used at UPS. "We'll test them and get them to a certain key-stroke level before they ever go out there," says Betty Vanstrom, director for Norrell's major accounts programs. The goal is to get them as familiar as possible with their UPS job duties before they ever clock on with the company.
Some temp agencies, such as Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Technical Resources, focus on a certain type of contingent worker-in this case, technical engineers and programmers. By developing a niche in a specific field, they form a group of specialized employees in need of little training. Other agencies create specific branches-for instance, Management Recruiters' InterExec branch, which places interim professional-level employees in various managerial and technical capacities, or Express Personnel Services' health-care placement division.
Terry Petra, a consultant to the staffing services industry and president of Professional Services Consultants, says temporary agencies definitely feel the push from companies to provide ready-to-work contingents: "I know our industry is looking very heavily at how we train them." Statistics bear him out. In a 1994 survey of 2,189 temporary workers conducted by the National Association of Temporary and Staffing Services, 36% of respondents said they received between six and 20 hours of training from temp services in a year; 29% received more than 20 hours.
Even so, contingents still need an extra hand once they get onsite. Revcor is so dedicated to breaking in its temps that several Revcor trainers have the responsibility of working with new contingents the first few days. The idea came up because most of the manufacturing positions are pay-for-performance, so permanent employees often don't want to slow down to explain the processes to contingents. Official trainers can give new temps the information they need to know.
"Our people wear red aprons that say TRAINER," says Brigman. "When we hire people we tell them that if they have a question, look for somebody in a red apron. That's been very successful."
Nollen says that although providing training helps speed up the contingent's productivity, it can become a catch-22 of sorts. "The only way you can recover your training costs is by having the trained contingent workers produce output for a period of time afterwards. But by definition, contingent workers don't stay long-they're temporary." That's the delicate balance: keeping temps around long enough to get a return on the investment while ensuring they don't become unnecessary permanent employees.
The first challenge is curbing premature turnover. The temporary business is by its very nature a constantly shifting creature. The lack of an employment relationship-one of a temporary arrangement's biggest strengths-can also be its greatest weakness. If contingents don't feel good about their work environment or job duties, they aren't likely to remain out of any sense of loyalty.
"When we first started, our turn-over was unacceptable," says Revcor's Brigman. "We wanted to see what we were doing wrong in the process." The company began conducting exit interviews with its contingent workers. Doing so highlighted several problems-one of which was the fact that contingents found it difficult to learn their jobs because no one wanted to take time off to help them. This discovery led to Revcor's assigning the red-aproned trainers to new contingents' work units.
Another way of keeping temps around for a decent length of time is by giving a raise if the contingent is a high performer. "You can try to make them turnover less frequently by giving them equitable pay and benefits," says Nollen. "You can try to lengthen their service by raising their pay for service up to a cut-off point-maybe a year or so."
Nollen suggests keeping a temp's tour of duty to about a year because, although too much turnover is harmful, too long a stay shouldn't necessarily be encouraged either. All good things must come to an end. If a company hired a contingent to work on a specific project or swell the work force for a busy period, there will come a time to let that person go. "You can't keep temporaries doing the same job for two or three years," says Nollen. "Make it attractive for them to stay 10 months or one year or a year and a half, but not three years. It's wrong and it won't work." Nollen says these long-staying temps aren't a good idea because in effect the company will become a co-employer, running into similar legal obligations, employee-rights and industrial-relations issues as those of permanent employees. "You will have an employment relationship with this person, and once that's established, you lose the whole reason to have these people off the payroll in the first place."
Also at issue is the fact that if a temp is doing the same job for more than a year, the position has probably become a necessary one. So stop and evaluate the relationship occasionally. "We have a checks-and-balances system that requires us to look at a contingency work person every six months to see what they're doing and if they're still needed," says KLA Instruments' DeMars. "Then we make the decision if this should become a regular position or if it's time [for the temp] to move on."
Atlanta-based WorldSpan, a computer reservations system owned by a consortium of airlines including Delta, Northwest and TWA, has a similar timetable for its contingent workers, who may number as many as 100 at any given time. "We only allow temporaries to be here for one year," says Paul Sundberg, director of HR. "So either that manager has to justify getting another temp in or they have to justify that this is indeed a position that needs to be on a regular basis." It's not uncommon for a temp to become indispensable. Thirty-eight percent of respondents to the NATSS survey say they've been offered a full-time job at their assigned company.
How to incent high performance in a non-employee?
Permanent employees have a built-in reason to perform well-they want to move ahead. But temporary workers don't have this need. They're not booking for the next promotion. So how do you get them to give you their best work? For starters, you hire the best temp you can get. If you were looking for a new vice president, you wouldn't just call up Dial-A-Body and have them send one over-no questions asked. But many companies take this approach to their contingents.
KLA Instruments is an exception. They want to know exactly what their temps can do. "We interview all our temporary help," says DeMars. "We don't just take whoever shows up at the door. We interview them for their skills and their knowledge, making sure that we believe that they can do what we're asking them to do." DeMars says the company also has a full-time HR person who is responsible for measuring contingents' performance.
Having a relationship with just one or two temporary agencies also helps-they'll know more quickly the company's staffing needs and be better able to fit the bill. For instance, Norrell uses a tool developed by the Princeton, New Jersey-based Gallup Organization to help match a temporary's personality with a company's environment. By probing the applicant with certain questions, it provides an idea of whether the person would work better in a quiet environment, whether they work well on their own or desire more interaction.
Once they're on the job, temporaries should be monitored just like regular employees. For instance, Revcor's temporary agency, Western, uses a weekly evaluation sheet, at the suggestion of several temps who wanted more feedback on their work. "The performance form is a communication tool to inform these people of their attendance, efficiency and safety," says Brigman.
Communication is an often-overlooked component of successful contingent work. DeMars knows that contingents aren't mind readers-they need to be told what's expected of them. "They all need to know what the goal is. We have to make sure that the contingent understands where the vision is, where we're going and what needs to be done. It's important for each manager to impart that upon these individuals."
Many companies incent high performance in their temps by dangling the possibility of a permanent position. Last year, Revcor hired 52% of its temps. Similarly, Automotive Products actually instituted a policy for hiring only temporaries in the direct-labor operations. "If I've got 60 temps and I need 10 more direct labor employees, we'll take that 10 from the temporary work force and bring them on full time," says Compton. "It gives them an interest in [the work], and I believe that if someone's been here 12 months then they deserve the recognition." World-Span's Sundberg finds the temp-to-perm approach has many benefits for the employer. "It's a good chance for a manager to really take a look at a person and know that the person is a good performer."
While some temps go the extra mile in hopes of being hired, others excel because temping is their actual occupation. Olsten's Bingham sees this happening quite a bit now. "Traditionally people took a job with a temporary service with the objective to find a permanent job," he says. "But you're starting to see more people now saying that they'd like to have greater control over when and where they work and in essence becoming a temporary as a career." Steinberg agrees: "In today's ever-changing work environment, temporary work has become a way of empowering yourself." In fact, 38% of respondents to the NATSS survey said they'd been offered a full-time job and declined because they wanted to remain a temporary.
So, after all is said and done, is the contingent work force worth all the effort? When contingent relationships work, they can truly be a strategic solution to a company's staffing challenges. A group of qualified, talented temps can be just as valuable as permanent employees. "There's a lot of advantage to contingent labor," says Nollen. "I'm all in favor of it, when it's done right." The companies that do it right will tell you that it's worth the work.
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because i didn't find any solution to monitor zimbra with nagios i wrote a small script. It's interprets the output of "zmcontrol status" command. Because the zmcontrol can only be startet from the zimbra account you have to edit sudoers file like.
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small (german) article on my blogsite at: Schose's Blog » Blog Archive » Zimbra Monitoring mit Nagios
Script http://andreas.ndfnet.de/showfiles/b...ck_zmstatus.pl
Is it reliable enough to monitor this command? Do you have some other ideas to improve monitoring?? comments welcome!
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Building A Better Bow Tie, Part II: Rear Suspension - The Stovebolt SagaWritten by Chris Shelton on June 1, 2012
Last month we explained how we corrected a goof. If you haven't read the story, someone along the order chain assumed that all '39 Chevrolets rode on the same front suspensions. They don't, and as luck would have it the wrong crossmember showed up at Thun Field Rod & Custom. It turned out a blessing in disguise, for Marshall Woolery took what would've amounted to a repeat of the installation instructions and transformed it into an exercise in creative problem solving. He also revealed a few solid measuring and installation techniques along the way.
Though the rear suspension was indeed correct for the car and installed per the instructions, we still weren't deprived of the opportunity to exercise our problem-solving skills. The rear wheels sat too far forward in the wheel openings. Naturally we rushed to blame the kit, but a review of the photos of the car before we touched it revealed that Total Cost Involved had actually moved the wheels back by a bit.
We initially wondered why the company didn't go all the way but concluded that Total Cost Involved may have been shrewd not to do so. I mean we're assuming that our car wasn't a total freak. Remember, manufacturing tolerances then weren't as tight as they are now and axle locations were probably all over the board. In the kit's case a little bit probably works best for the majority of installations. Ours just needed a little more.
The solution was indeed simple, but it didn't go unquestioned. In fact after seeing what we put ourselves through, one person asked why we didn't just modify the stock suspension to suit our needs. It's a relevant question to ask about like-for-like conversions as these, but we had our reasons to switch rather than fight.
While the parallel leaf rear suspension Chevrolet employed on these cars largely resembles the designs on later cars, it isn't without its peculiarities. For starters, their axles mount differently.
Most axles align directly over their spring's center bolts. Not so with the torque-tube era Chevrolets. Their axles mount just behind the center bolts, a consequence of a hinge that prevents the axle and spring from binding. A conventional axle centered on those bolts will sit too far forward. Naturally, an axle's mounting pads can be re-drilled to relocate the axle, but that doesn't address the glaring shortcoming for our purposes: stance.
These cars stood proud, a consequence of road conditions when FDR was in office. A pair of lowering blocks would correct the stance but that's not without consequences either. By making the driveshaft control the rear axle's torque reaction, Chevrolet could—and did—use narrower rear springs. The springs may prevent an open-driveline axle from deflecting under stock power, but modern power may be another story. Spacing the axle farther from the spring centerline with blocks only increases the leverage and as a consequence the deflection issue. That's a lot to ask of a 70-plus-year-old spring. They fatigue over time, you know.
Custom-height springs solve the stance, bolt location, and age issues. And while they may control axle deflection during acceleration there remains one very big issue: cost. One-off springs aren't cheap. In fact, springs alone are likely to cost more than the entire Total Cost Involved kit, an assembly that also provides modern tubular dampers, replaceable bushings, and all-new hardware. Despite having to center the wheels in the openings by a fraction of an inch we were still days and dollars ahead by using the kit rather than having springs made to fit the stock brackets.
The kit revealed another benefit: time. Despite yik-yakking, futzing about with camera gear, installation, removal, modification, and installation a second time, the car rolled out of the shop—or at least it could have—by day's end.
Every parallel leaf kit installation I've witnessed has surprised me in one way or another. This one did too, only it was a pleasant surprise: this kit not just lowers the car (not all kits follow through on that promise), it lowers the car to the point that the wheel radius matches the fender radius. Sure, we needed to reposition the axle to center the wheels in their houses but that proved pretty straightforward—certainly a lot more straightforward than trying to get the right stance with expensive custom springs.
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The axle's location in the wheelwell didn't exactly make us happy. On the other hand it wasn't terribly out of line. According to the number of cars we've seen since with imperfect wheel location, apparently most people aren't bothered. Woolery was, though.Just because something is off doesn't mean it's off by much. The plumb bob and a tape measure told us that the axle needed to come back by 1/2 inch.Naturally, there's more than one way to skin a cat. The axle pad and plate mounting holes could be filled and drilled, a potentially time-consuming prospect that didn't exactly sit well with Woolery.The shackles have the least effect on spring rate when perpendicular to the centerline between the eyes with the axle loaded (as seen here). These shackles were right at perpendicular but the small angle they'd change because of the move was almost negligible.Woolery relocated the front spring perch back the desired amount, a task that required him to notch its base to clear a parking-brake bracket. For the time being he tacked it in place.A trial assembly proved that Woolery measured right: the wheel is centered beautifully in its house.Satisfied with the wheel placement, he welded shut the original mounting holes and drilled new ones in the correct locations. Remember that bolting the brackets to the chassis best captures both layers of the frame flanges.Decreasing the shackle angle from perpendicular to the spring eyes as shown here increases the spring rate but in this case the change isn't dramatic. If the rate proves too stiff, Woolery can mount the rear perches rearward.Load the rear axle with it on jackstands (the jackstands shown don't quite touch the chassis in this photo) to set pinion angle. Remember that for vibration-free operation, pinion angle is the exact opposite of the transmission output angle. So if the transmission points down 3 degrees, point the pinion up 3. Forget the pinion-down thing; that's to counter axle wrap in leaf-sprung drag cars.


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This weekend, I took a trip to Montreal for the Jean Paul Gaultier career retrospective, The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. When I wasn't eating food I should have avoided before Fashion Week, I was checking out some of Montreal's fashion and tourist destinations. If you're thinking of visiting, here's a few places you don't want to miss.
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The 2015 Atlantic City Comedy Festival consists of two shows on Columbus Day Weekend. The first show is Saturday, October 10, 2015 at 8 pm and the following show will take place on Sunday October, 11, 2015 at 8 pm. Both shows will take place at Boardwalk Hall. Tickets for each show are sold separately.
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Watkins Glen, NY (Sports Network) - Marcos Ambrose prevailed in a frantic
last-lap battle with Kyle Busch and Brad Keselowski to win at Watkins Glen
International for the second year in a row.
Ambrose, whose first career Sprint Cup Series victory came at this 2.45-mile
road course one year ago, ran in third at the start of the 90th and final lap.
Busch led the way on the last circuit, but Busch spun after Keselowski made
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turn nine. Ambrose then held off a challenge from Keselowski during the final
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It's the second straight year that Keselowski finished second to Ambrose at
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Jimmie Johnson finished third, while Clint Bowyer and Sam Hornish Jr., who is
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Jeff Gordon was running in 10th on the final lap, but Gordon spun out of the
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After the race, several drivers reported that oil spots were present
throughout the track on the last lap, leading to multiple spins.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. finished one lap behind in 28th after he spun around coming
out of turn five with seven laps left. Earnhardt Jr. entered this race with
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WHEELING - Wheeling Central's boys' basketball team has finally found its groove.
After losing seven of their first nine games, the Maroon Knights have won six of their last seven.
The latest triumph came inside a packed Stifel Field House on Friday night, where Wheeling Central rode a strong first half to a convincing 72-57 victory against Linsly.
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Wheeling Central's Chase Harler (14) sets up a play during Friday night's game.
''We're 8-8 and that's been our goal,'' Wheeling Central coach Mel Stephens said. ''We had an opportunity at Trinity last week, but stubbed our toe.
''We played well at John Marshall the other night and played very well against a good Linsly team.''
Especially in the first half.
The Maroon Knights exploded for 44 points and a 13-point lead behind 19 from David Park, who finished with 31, and 12 by freshman sensation Chase Harler, who totaled 23.
Park drained six 3-pointers during the first two quarters, a half where Central shot 16 of 26 from the field, including an 8 of 10 effort in the second.
''That first half was without a doubt the best we've shot the ball all year,'' Stephens said. ''Everything we were shooting was going in.''
Not everything. But it sure felt that way.
Park was taking care of the outside shooting, while Harler was controlling the tempo almost by himself.
''That's the type of kid he is,'' Stephens said of Harler. ''He can create his own shot or create shots for other guys.''
Harler did both during the first 16 minutes. He helped key a pair of runs that put the game away early.
The first came in the opening quarter, when the Maroon Knights went on a 11-3 tear that saw a one-point lead grow to nine.
Then, in the second quarter, Park and Harler had all but two points of a 17-6 burst that gave Central a 39-26 lead.
Central's ability to dictate the pace offensively and defensively was a far cry from it's 59-44 loss to the Cadets on December 18 in East Wheeling.
''It was kind of ironic,'' Stephens said. ''We kind of turned the tables on them. Chase was able to drive the ball down the middle and get some baskets and get a few of their guys in serious foul trouble.
''We thought dribble penetration was the key the last time we played. They were able to do a lot of that and (Friday) we went into a zone to try and take that away.''
It worked.
''They had a good gameplan,'' Linsly coach James Wallace said. ''We just could never find a comfort level or a rhythm on offense.
''They came out and took it to us right off the bat. Give them credit and give Coach Stephens credit. They're guys were ready and hungry.''
One of the players who benefited from Harler's creating shots was Brandon Wallace. Wallace scored the final seven points of the first half for Central, the last three coming on a three-point play as the buzzer sounded.
Central led by as many as 16 points.
The Cadets (7-9) pulled to within eight at 57-49 early in the second half, but got no closer thanks in part to Central's 12 of 19 performance from the free-throw line in the final quarter. Park was 9 of 12 during the period, which was almost equal to Linsly's output for the game (10 of 13).
Toddy Goodwin-Rowe and Jabri Blount both scored 15 points for Linsly, with Anthony Wallace adding 13.


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Andy Roddick was spotted at his Macy's Dadeland meet-and-greet at the Lacoste shop yesterday working another, albeit old-school, hairy situation.
It so reminded me of the hideousness that is Fernando Verdasco's hairstyle right now.
So whose situation is hairier: A-Rod or Nando?
(images via getty, pacific coast news)
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
PHOTO OP: Whose situation is hairier?
Labels: Andy Roddick, Fernando Verdasco, hair, photo op, tennis
20 comments:
*opens door*ReplyDelete
*drops luggage, scuba gear, and racquet*
Bon Bini! (Actually, I think that means welcome, but it's the only phrase I learned. Well...I did learn one other phrase, but I'm saving that one for Rafa. ;))
Guess what? During my *lay*over yesterday in Miami, I ran into A-Rod's coach, Larry Stefanki. Let me tell you...he is one SexyBeast. ME-OW. Le mew, le purrrrrrrrrrrrrr...
I'm going to start cheering for Andy now so I can see Larry in his box!
I'm going to say Andy's situation is worse, because he's losing his hair, so he's got now say in how horrible it looks.ReplyDelete
Nando had enough follicles to have a new and unusual haircut bi weekly if he chooses to do so
I agree with Neil, Ducky is losing his hair (feathers? :d). Nando's full head of hair though looks ridiculous. He looks like a monchichi.ReplyDelete
A bad haircut is always preferable, at least you can always grow it back...
- AnonymousMarch 25, 2009 at 10:31 AM
Well, here's the thing,ReplyDelete
Andy Roddick cut his hair like that because he lost a bet and now must suffer through public humiliation as punishment
Fernando Verdasco cut his hair like that because he thinks it makes him look hot
Well not too sure on the hair but Andy is sure hot!!ReplyDelete
Natch you traitor you!ReplyDelete
To both Rod and Dasco:
Oh. My. Ewwww.
Roddick please leave your hat on.ReplyDelete
Seriously, can't decide who's worse.ReplyDelete
I'm not dumping Rafa for Larry. I mean, I'm not carazay. But bumping into a rock hard 40+ year old man with gray hair and crinkly eyes...well, that does things to me.
Where's Richie?
I never thought I would say this but Nandos hair is "better"ReplyDelete
Nando's hair may be stupidy lookin, but he's still one fine piece of man meat. Roddick -- ew, no. Just no. Never. EVER.ReplyDelete
I never thought I'd say it, but Nando's is better. Or at least less awful. Andy seriously needs to do something about the thinning sitch going on up there...ReplyDelete
Just got back from hitting outside! *cheers*ReplyDelete
Hey natch - welcome back! So what was Stanki like in person? Did you exchange pleasantries or did you just feel him up?
I'm with sonja - both are horrid but like narik said nando is still hotter to me. The body people, not the face, THE BODY.
I'm ready for our match against the Agassis. Got the tan going, too. Although without tan lines it's kinda hard to tell. ;)
My encounter with LS was brief, but I did consider removing my clothing and inviting him to get a room with me for a few hours. Then I remembered the client I was meeting might run into LS later in the hotel and I didn't want to lose potential business. As I was leaving, I think I did hear him calling for a maid to clean up the drool I left behind. ;)
Oh yes, and I was sniffing EVERYWHERE in that hotel for signs of Rafa.
natch: As you know your Rafa wasn't in the hotel but was on the 11th green with NaturAna. The Serb's got a death wish I think: Xisca, Rafanatics, you.ReplyDelete
I'd watch my back...or front?
Fernando over Roddick any day. Andy looks like he's stuck in a 1950's musical or something.ReplyDelete
*cries over lack of golfing abilities*ReplyDelete
The only thing I've got is a fab chip shot. Put me within putting distance, we'll be out there for hours.
Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy...maybe Rafa can give me lessons?
*books flight back to Miami, books hours on green with Rafa*
*also books golf lesson*
- AnonymousMarch 25, 2009 at 4:49 PM
who told them that this mohawk wannabe look is in????ReplyDelete
"The Serb's got a death wish I think: Xisca, Rafanatics, you."ReplyDelete
LOL. Totally. I eat girls like Ana for breakfast though. ;)
*now imagines receiving golfing lessons from Rafa*
*Rafarms wrapped around Sonja*
"You hold the iron this way, no?"
*Rafa's and Sonja's hands meet*
*other stuff, er, meets*
"Is this a golf ball in your pants or are you happy to see me?"
- AnonymousMarch 26, 2009 at 4:07 AM
Andy is eek! (he always is)ReplyDelete
Nando is yum! :P


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Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - J.T. Terrell scored 18 points as the USC
Trojans captured a 71-60 win over the Washington Huskies in a Pac-12
Conference conflict at the Galen Center.
Eric Wise added 12 points and eight rebounds for USC (11-13, 6-5 Pac-12)
which has won three straight games.
Scott Suggs had 16 points, Abdul Gaddy added 12 points and Aziz N'Diaye had
a double-double with 10 points and 12 rebounds for Washington (13-11, 5-6)
which has lost six of its last seven.
In the first half USC shot 53.3 percent from the field while holding
Washington to 40 percent shooting as the Trojans took a 40-29 lead at
Though the Trojans cooled to 33.3 percent in the final 20 minutes they hit
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USC knocked down 14-of-15 from the charity stripe in the game while the
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Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - DeMar DeRozan poured in a game-high 23 points
and pulled down eight rebounds as the Toronto Raptors held on to beat the
Phoenix Suns, 101-97, on Friday.
Toronto led, 95-89, after Mickael Pietrus' 3-pointer at the 5:49 mark, but a
Sebastian Telfair layup and a Jermaine O'Neal dunk pulled the Suns within
After Amir Johnson split a pair of free throws, Shannon Brown's layup pulled
the Suns within 96-95 with 2 1/2 minutes to go. Kyle Lowry's pass sailed out
of bounds and the Suns took over with 51.4 ticks left.
Luis Scola missed a spinning hook shot and Marcin Gortat's tip-in rolled off
the rim, but Phoenix was able to secure the rebound and quickly called a
timeout with 33 seconds to play.
Scola took the ball on the left wing and posted up Andrea Bargnani. Scola
faked a spin to his left, took a dribble to his right and put up a leaning
jumper that rimmed out. Scola appeared to be fouled on the play, but the
whistles remained silent.
Lowry was then fouled, but the Villanova product went just 1-for-2 from the
line to give the Suns another chance.
Brown took the ball at the top of the key, took a dribble to his left,
then attacked the basket, but couldn't get the layup to go.
A pair of Bargnani free throws sealed it for the Raptors.
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May 25 2011
House Plans with Basements: 5 Ways to Use the Space
If you are building a new house and have the opportunity to build a house plan with a basement or walkout basement, it is well worth considering. Basements are beneficial in many ways, but perhaps many of us value the extra space a basement can offer more than any of its other attributes. When building a home on a full basement, the possibilities are endless when it comes to how you might use all the additional space. Furthermore, they offer flexibility. From finished to unfinished, basements offer enough space to accommodate your ever-changing lifestyle. Here are a few things you can do with a basement foundation:
- Unfinished Storage: The easiest thing you can do with a basement that doesn't require extra work, finished space, paint, carpet or furniture is to leave your basement completely unfinished. This allows for plentiful storage space for all your needs from packing up the holiday decorations until next year to a place to keep memorabilia from your younger years, not to mention tools, file cabinets, or boxed items like used toys and children's clothes you plan to pass on to a family member or friend.
- Drive-Under Garage: Depending on the slope of your lot and its orientation to the road or street, some house plans with basements are perfect for drive-under garages. In this case, a portion of the basement is dedicated to parking and the garage area can be accessed from the front, rear or side of the home. The remainder of the basement can be used any way you wish.
- Gathering Space: Consider finishing a room or portion of your basement as a gathering space you can enjoy with your family and friends. A family room, rec room or game room encourages relaxation, conversation and family time well spent. Other possibilities might include a playroom for the kids or a home theater. Adding special elements like a full or half bath and compact kitchen or wet bar makes it easy to use the restroom or serve drinks and snacks to friends and family without having to go upstairs.
- Additional Bedrooms: In the instance that you may have lot restrictions limiting the size and footprint of your home, it may not be feasible to arrange all the bedrooms on the main level. For those with a large or growing family, finished bedrooms in the basement give all the children a place of their own while working with lot limitations. Likewise, you may have room for the kids' bedrooms on the main level but would like to have a guest room for overnight visitors that is somewhat private. A basement bedroom can be quite accommodating and comfortable.
- Private Retreat: For those who need a quiet space to get away from it all or need a peaceful place to work, a finished basement is a great place to add a home office, a den, hobby room, exercise area or workshop.
Homes built on a basement foundation not only offer plenty of space, but they have other great benefits too. Take some time to review, Beneficial Basements, to find out what other advantages they offer.
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Houston, TX (Sports Network) - Coco Crisp went 3-for-5 with a solo home run,
three RBI and two runs scored as the Oakland Athletics took an 8-3 win over
the Houston Astros to open a three-game series.
Josh Donaldson drove in two runs while John Jaso added a pair of hits along
with an RBI and a run scored for the Athletics, who split a four-game series
with Seattle to start the season.
Dan Straily (1-0) gave up two runs on five hits with a career-high 11
strikeouts over 6 2/3 innings to get the win.
Jose Altuve had two hits and an RBI while Matt Dominguez and Marwin Gonzalez
also drove in a run for the Astros, who won their season opener on Sunday but
then dropped the next two games against the Rangers.
Brad Peacock (0-1) was touched for two runs on three hits with three walks and
five strikeouts in 4 1/3 innings.
Crisp got things started for the A's in the first inning when he led off the
game with his first home run of the season.
The score stayed that way until the fifth when Oakland expanded on its
advantage significantly.
With the bases loaded, Yoenis Cespedes hit a ball to short that Gonzalez
misplayed, allowing two runners to cross the plate. Josh Reddick then scored a
run when Jaso reached base on a sac bunt and Chris Young walked to again load
the bases. Donaldson followed with a two-run single to right, and Crisp later
drove in two more with a double for an 8-0 advantage.
Altuve got the Astros on the board in the sixth when he singled home
Gonzalez, who had led off with a double.
Dominguez's RBI single in the seventh made it an 8-2 game, and the Astros got
another run in the ninth on a run-scoring groundout by Gonzalez.
Game Notes
These two teams last met in 2007, with Oakland taking two of three in Houston
... Bartolo Colon pitches for Oakland on Saturday while Erik Bedard gets the
start for Houston ... Oakland left 11 men on base while batting 3-for-11 with
runners in scoring position.
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