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- Some clients were perfectly happy with your services, but had to cut back or even fire your company due to budget cuts. Be sure to stay in touch with these clients because when things get better they'll likely want you back. Also ask for letters of recommendations to offer new prospects.
- Build relationship with your vendors. Many of them are in the same boat and will be willing to help out other businesses if you do the same. Plus, they are usually "in the know" on who is looking for new cleaning contractors. Just make sure your business is one they will recommend.
- Show more value. One member of The Janitorial Store is investing in employee training programs, automated quality control systems like Cleantelligent, and a new and improved website. Be sure to communicate these changes to your customers. If you're using technology like Cleantelligent, show your clients and prospects how it works and how it can improve quality control in their building. If you have a new safety training program, show them the program and/or invite them to attend one of your training sessions.
- Paying your employees well, offering comprehensive training, and offering opportunities for advancement helps to attract a better quality employee. If you hire better quality employees you'll end up spending less time hiring and training, and productivity will increase due to having better trained, long-term employees. This will all add profit to the bottom line.
- Customize your specifications lists and re-do them for current clients if necessary. The days of having one generic specifications list is over. If the only way to keep a customer is by cutting back on service, then take a good look at ways you can trim the fat so you can still make a profit.
- Some companies are offering day cleaning so they can save their clients money on their utility bills. Others are offering "cooperative cleaning". For example, letting the customer empty their own trash and clean their own desks, while they clean the rest. Get creative on ways to save clients money.
- Consider offering some free cleaning services like a free floor buffing or window cleaning for every third service, and incorporate that into your proposal.
- If you're not charging for managing restroom supplies and trash can liners, you should, because that is a profit center. And the more volume you can get the better the pricing you'll receive.
- Offer to manage light bulb changes. You can charge for the bulbs, charge for the time it takes to change them, and charge for recycling.
- Get creative in your marketing - what worked in the past may not work today. There are lots of opportunities for marketing on social media sites like Facebook if you do it right. (Check out my interview with Carlos Martinez).
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Seattle Symphony's new principal flutist, Demarre McGill, and new principal cellist, Efe Baltacigil, talk about taking their careers to new phases in a new town.
There's more than one newcomer on the Benaroya Hall stage this season.
The arrival of French conductor Ludovic Morlot to head Seattle Symphony is the biggest news, of course. But the principal chairs for flute and cello have also recently been filled, by Demarre McGill and Efe Baltacigil, respectively.
Both seem raring to go. At the first Masterworks concert of the season, they were among the first onstage, diligently practicing runs before the concert started. And they both had their spotlight moments, especially in the fourth movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 3.
Last month, McGill and Baltacigil shared their thoughts about their musical tastes and their new musical home.
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Demarre McGill
Demarre (de-MARR-ay) McGill, the former principal flutist with the San Diego Symphony, replaces Scott Goff, who has retired after 42 years with Seattle Symphony. It's clear McGill, 36, has been a vital presence on the San Diego music scene, co-founding a vibrant chamber series, Art of Élan, which he'll continue to codirect.
Still, he couldn't be more excited about joining the Seattle Symphony at a time of new leadership and new direction.
At his audition, he says, he "definitely felt the energy of the orchestra. … And as I investigated further, there were two things that just blew me away, really impressed me: Morlot's programming … and how welcoming the musicians have been."
The warm welcome, he says, has come from members of Seattle's flute community as well as symphony players.
What does McGill hope to bring to the orchestra?
"I think that like the other principal instruments, the principal flute is an important voice of the ensemble. So I like to say just 'playing pretty' is an important part of my job description. But not just that," he stresses. "It may be about me if I have a solo. Otherwise it's really about creating a glorious unified wind sound."
McGill says it has been fascinating to play works he hasn't performed before. "It doesn't happen all the time. After you've played a number of years in orchestras, you'll find the same old friends in the repertoire."
With works by Dutilleux, Varèse, Zappa and Gulda on Morlot's playlist, McGill has been feeling he's a student again: "It's a really nice feeling … studying the recordings and learning the stuff from scratch. That's very exciting."
McGill began playing the flute in Chicago when he was 7 years old, starting with a used silver flute his mother gave his father before Demarre was born.
"I loved it immediately," he says of the flute. "My father just said, 'Blow across it like you blow across a Coke bottle.' And that was my first lesson, I guess."
A flute teacher, conveniently, happened to live around the corner.
"For seven years after that," he remembers, "I would have these moments of passion. … I couldn't stop practicing, and then I would just plateau. Then I would have another moment of musical ecstasy, with just a little short piece."
McGill, for whom the word "upbeat" might have been coined, listens to "absolutely everything" — blues, R&B, hip-hop, jazz, folk music, world music — and a recent comment by Morlot about there being "only good music and not-so-good music" made a special impression on him.
"I read that and thought: This guy is going to be fantastic for the city, because he has the right perspective."
Regarding the future of the symphony orchestra in a frenzied media culture, McGill is an optimist: "I definitely am not preaching this little doomsday thing at all. I don't believe that with orchestras."
He cites the richness of the classical repertoire itself — "The music has been around this long for a reason" — but some of his optimism comes from his experience with Art of Élan in San Diego, where he and his fellow musicians worked inventively to connect with the public.
"Once that connection is made," he says, "good things will happen. I think that, from what I can see and from what I've read, the Seattle Symphony is on the right track."
Efe Baltacigil
The new principal cellist of the Seattle Symphony, who hails from Istanbul via Philadelphia, is more wry in manner than McGill — but still good company.
For Efe Baltacigil (EFF-ay bahl-ta-ja-GIL), the principal-cello seat — which has been vacant since Joshua Roman withdrew from it in 2008 — is a step up from his post as associate principal cello with the Philadelphia Orchestra. But the attractions of his new position go well beyond its prestige.
When Baltacigil, 33, toured here with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2007, he instantly fell in love with the city. "It was May or June," he recalls, "and it was brilliant weather and amazing people and excellent food. And maybe one of the best concert halls in the U.S. In my opinion, Carnegie [Hall] and Benaroya are definitely the top two."
It wasn't just the music and the concert hall that appeal to him, however.
"I have to be honest here," he smiles. "I love sailing and I love windsurfing. That probably is also another very important factor. I'm from Istanbul, which is surrounded by three seas, and I have to have water within my reach."
Baltacigil is from a family of string players. His middle brother plays double-bass with the Berlin Philharmonic, while his youngest brother studies cello at Istanbul's Mimar Sinan University Conservatory, where Efe himself graduated before attending Curtis Institute.
Their father is a double-bass player in the Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra. "Also he plays quite a bit of jazz," Baltacigil says, "so me and my brothers, we spent lots of time in the dark jazz bars, late nights, growing up."
Baltacigil calculates, with amusing precision, that his own preferred musical diet is roughly 75 percent classical and 25 percent improvisation: "I really do enjoy listening to good-quality jazz and good rock."
Improvisation, he feels, is "very freeing and quite helpful to any musician. It really adds to your personal vocabulary." His main improvisational outlet is an "electronic ambient" band called Mico Nonet.
What about Turkish music?
His mother, he says, is after him to do more in that vein. She's a singer who trained on the kanun, a traditional Turkish string instrument. But Turkish music with its microtones and modes is, he explains, an entirely different animal: "In order to do it justice, you really have to study it hard."
Like McGill, Baltacigil stresses the importance of having the Symphony's connection with community be "as deep as possible," with the musicians becoming "the bridge between the composer and the listeners' ears and mind."
When asked how he accomplishes that in the course of his normal day as an orchestral musician, he launches into an amusing tirade.
"Right now, my normal day is not normal. I just got back from Europe, so I wake up at 5:30 — which is not normal for any musician."
Despite the challenges of jet lag, Baltacigil echoes McGill's optimism about the Symphony's prospects.
"With Morlot's musical sense and programming," he says, "and with the organization's marketing, I think great things will happen."
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Yes, we have gone about this, but as you know - its not an easy feat. The simplest way is to format your drive, and take say a picture, and copy it to the hdd, then follow the process to dump it - voila - encrypted and unencrypted data.
Yes, we have gone about this, but as you know - its not an easy feat. The simplest way is to format your drive, and take say a picture, and copy it to the hdd, then follow the process to dump it - voila - encrypted and unencrypted data.
Sure. What I was asking about is if such data pair (encrypted + decrypted) is readily available for others to look at. Currently I do not have appropriate equipment to do this myself - that's why I am asking so that I could relay the data to the smart guy dealing with encryption. For what I know that would be a challenge for him to try to find out what the encryption is (for example the level of compressibility can tell you interesting stuff about cipher strength).
In my opinion it would be highly interesting to have first dozen of sectors of PS3 partition decrypted - it would tell us something about what kind of filesystem is being used...
I spoke with NDT today about this, and he said to tell you to contact him on IRC and he will pass some along for you and your friend to examine.
If you join EFnet, just /msg CJPC and he will direct you to NDT there.
RexVF5 did you manage to get the data you were looking for?
Not yet, NDT said on IRC today to pass this along to him tho:
Boss, is there any news on this one? I am hanging on IRC as much as I can but still nothing. I do not want to be impatient - just asking.
I will message you now...
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ahh yes... but, does anyone remember the inside drama of the HDLoader for the PS2?
Why don't you guys try to get the partition table? It gives alot of info about partitions and filesystems. You can try to format the HDD and dump the partition table. Then, reformat the drive, create the OtherOS partition and redump the partition table. With this you may have something to look at...
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7 days late and no pregnancy symptoms.
My husband and I have been TTC for a while now but we're not stressing out about it. My cycles are usually VERY VERY regular (27-30 days) but today, it's day 37 and still no sign of period. Been having cramps all week, feel like my period is about to come but i'm still waiting. Very gassy too. However, no pregnancy symptoms at all. Breast tenderness only started yesterday (at day 36). taken 3 HPT's and all negative. I am a yoga teacher and I'm pretty calm and don't stress about many things so I don't see how my missed period is stress related. Also, had a medical check before TTC and all was normal and healthy. Hoping to be pregnant and also hoping someone else has experienced the same and could help me :)
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I'm pregnant :) 12 weeks this Sunday :)posted 06/12/2013 by Shiana1
This gives me a little bit of hope. I am 7 days late and not signs of my period coming or any breast tenderness or any other pregnancy symptoms yet. I already took HPT and it came out negative, but i think it was early. Now I'm thinking of doing the blood test.posted 08/05/2013 by roxydawls
You could take a blood test now, yes i think :) I hope you will get good answers :)posted 04/20/2013 by bl�m�na
@blomina is it not too early for a blood test? Read so many question-answers on babycentre that said HPTs can be as accurate as blood tests after a missed period. No? My hopes are high at the moment.posted 04/20/2013 by Shiana1
I'm so glad someone else is in the same boat as me. I'm 7 days late, no symptoms not even breast tenderness but I did have menstrual like cramping for 5/7 of the days. I haven't had the cramps in the last two days but still no period. I've taken 4 HPT and all negative. Wondering when is a good time to book the doctors appt or if I just keep waiting out taking HPT every day or so.posted 08/04/2015 by Anxiouslady
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Bossio argued that the country should end what she called the "double-speak" about abortion. According to statements published by the newspaper "El Espectador," Bossio is worried about poor women because "they have many kids and they have no way to obtain abortions, while women who are well-off can go to any clinic and get one."
Although efforts to legalize abortion on demand have failed in Uruguay, pro-abortion lawmaker Margarita Percovich said a new bill on the issue would be coming before the Uruguayan Congress this month.
"Since we have so many reform measures to take up this year, we did not want to include it in the agenda of the Senate Health Care Committee, but we do plan to bring it forward in 2007," Percovich said during an interview with the newspaper "La Republica."
The feminist senator said that in order to prevent another defeat like the one in 2005, the bill would be presented "as a question of human rights," and not as a health care issue.
President Tavare Vasquez, a leftist who has declared his full support for the defense of the unborn, said recently he would veto any law that would attempt to legalize abortion in Uruguay.


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It also requires a knack for spotting valuable clients and the discipline to give them the right amount of attention, people in the industry say.
For some advisers, that's easier said than done.
Although advisers typically get 80% of their income from the top 20% of their customers, many get bogged down tending to their less-lucrative clients. By devoting too much time to average accounts, these advisers have less time for things that could significantly boost their business—such as deepening relationships with wealthier clients or mining for new customers who have the potential to be more profitable.
The challenge for advisers is figuring out how to hang on to their average accounts without letting them distract from the bigger fish.
Here are some suggestions:
Who's Got What?
Advisers first need to sort their client list to determine who is and isn't worthy of being showered with attention. Sometimes it isn't as clear-cut as it seems.
For starters, clients aren't always up front about their total net worth, says Sean Cunniff, a brokerage analyst at the Needham, Mass.-based research firm TowerGroup Inc. Just because they have only $250,000 invested with one adviser, it doesn't mean they don't have millions elsewhere.
Advisers who fail to ask clients what other assets they have and how that money is being managed could unknowingly be pushing dollars out the door, says Mr. Cunniff. Advisers who tend closely to wealthy clients with far-flung assets may eventually win their trust and more of their business.
But net worth shouldn't be the only deciding factor when ranking clients, analysts say.
Clients who are willing to concentrate most of their assets with a single adviser could eventually prove more valuable than their wealthier peers because they are less likely to pull business from the firm.
Also, advisers shouldn't overlook clients who aren't high net worth now, but are headed in that direction. This may include 30- and 40-somethings with lucrative careers or the children of wealthy clients who will one day inherit their parents' money. (For a related story, see "Getting Them While They're Young.")
Draw the Line
Once the client list is sorted, advisers need to take a no-nonsense approach.
Service-level agreements outlining how often and by what means clients will be contacted keep advisers from going overboard on less-lucrative accounts and set client expectations at a reasonable level.
For example, for a smaller fee, clients could get quarterly performance reviews over the phone and an annual in-person meeting. For a higher fee, they could get monthly calls and quarterly in-person meetings. Or, service levels could be based on how much active money management the client desires.
"Tiered servicing is brilliant," says Stacey Haefele, president and chief executive of HNW Inc., a New York-based consulting firm for financial advisers and brokerages. "It's not saying one [client] is more important than the other, just that they desire, and are willing to pay for, a different level of service."
If communication with less-lucrative customers is going to be kept to a minimum, advisers need to make the most of those few conversations.
Andrew Neale, the head of wealth management at Fogel Neale Partners LLC in New York, says he creates communications guidelines, asking clients how and when they would like to be contacted, and under what special circumstances—say, a big drop in gold prices—they would want to touch base.
"It's very easy to get caught up with needy clients," says Mr. Neale. "Every firm has them. But when you're managing clients' money, you're also managing the client. Managing the client in a respectful and sensitive way is a very fine line to draw."
Some advisers reach out to average accounts on a more regular basis but in ways that don't require huge investments of time. For example, instead of one-on-one meetings and phone calls, they may send lower-end clients monthly newsletters and include them in group lunches and cocktail hours.
It's important to keep smaller accounts happy, too, says Kevin Mahn, chief investment officer of Hennion & Walsh Asset Management in Parsippany, N.J. Advisers are asking for trouble if they focus only on a few big clients, he says, because if they lose one, they "lose everything."
Learn to Delegate
Delegating smaller accounts to client-service associates, or other staff members who aren't advisers, is another tactic that can free up time for top relationships, according to Mr. Mahn.
He calls these staff members the hidden jewels of brokerage firms. On the front line with clients, many are registered with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and possess basic brokerage licenses, such as the Series 7 and the Series 65. Advisers shouldn't underestimate the level of trust clients put in these associates, Mr. Mahn says.
Some advisers try to free themselves up by outsourcing investment-management duties to portfolio managers. Others form partnerships with other advisers, which allows each to focus on a specific area—say, a certain investment product or client segment—increasing the firm's efficiency.
Advisers also can encourage clients to help themselves. Teaching them how to read their quarterly statements, review their accounts online and do some research on their own helps reduce the routine phone calls advisers often have to field.
But it's a fine line, experts say. Advisers have to be careful not to diminish the value they, as professionals, bring to the table. If clients start to think they can manage their money themselves with the free planning tools and research available online, they aren't going to see an advantage in paying an adviser.
"If a magician reveals some of his tricks, the audience can entertain themselves for a while, but if he reveals all his tricks, they won't pay to see the show," says Ms. Haefele.
Letting Go
Still, it is inevitable that some clients just won't be worth an adviser's time.
"Advisers intellectually know it's a problem, but they don't want to do anything about it or take the time to look at their book specifically," says Bing Waldert, a brokerage analyst at Cerulli Associates, based in Boston.
It can be tough when clients bring in their friends or children, asking their adviser to do business with them, but it's important to be selective, Mr. Waldert says.
Rather than refusing to speak with clients or potential clients who lack significant assets, some advisers try to "price" them out by telling them it's going to require higher fees to serve them at the level they deserve. Clients typically will think they are doing the rejecting when they find a cheaper alternative.
Many firms now have the option of sending smaller accounts to call centers or online self-service platforms, so they don't have to turn them away entirely.
"You can give the clients an alternative within your brokerage group, so they don't feel as much like they're getting the boot," Mr. Waldert says. "And even though it feels like a step down, they might actually get better service from the call center than from you when you're preoccupied with bigger accounts."
For Mr. Neale, it's an age-old issue that he hasn't quite conquered. "By the law of human nature, we can't keep everybody happy all the time," he says. "Sometimes it's inevitable we'll fail for one reason or another. But we have to figure out why, address it, and keep going."
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We are in the Eastern Panhandle of WV and are due soon. Would be interested in this as well.
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I put 161K miles on my 94 BMW 740I up and down a mountain, The ultimate driving machine is not a joke. I've driven a 320 Mercedes but nothing matches. The Mercedes floats on the freeway a few miles over the speed limit. The BMW with its 2000 Psi hydraulic pump for the suspension and steering lowers the vehicle 1/2 to 1 inch and the steering and suspension gets stiff this keeps you in touch with wheels to steering to the road sensation. I am however heart broken when I blew a head gasket, As an aircraft mechanic I figured I could do it and to my surprise the car is well engineered. Just mark everything, use containers and label them, take pictures as you dis-assemble just to be sure. Most important get the $110 manual. The other point is special tools, don't worry you can improvise and you may need to make a couple of timing blocks for the camshafts. My problem here and now is after it was all back together It was running like the timing was incorrect, so I double checked and again and again, then found my oil level sensor had burnt wires and was no longer registering a 1k ohm resistance. called and found $400 cost for a new part. Went to the junk yard and with an ohm meter and 10 mm wrench, paid $17 for a used one. Now my $150 diagnotics tool does not work and I am at a loss. Thinking it is my EC module, no break out box to check it. Anyone have any ideas? BMW owner in love with the 740I
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It does the trick, been great for climbing.
Great chalk
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Love how its coarse and has some chunks to it, not a fan of the ultra powdery fine chalks. Super good friction and it lasts a while, good stuff!
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This is my go to chalk for maintaining dry hands when my hearts pumping and the sun is beating.
Good chalk
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Although chalk is just chalk and it won't make you climb 5.14 instead of 5.10 no matter which one you use, I find that this one has good grain size and drying characteristics. I've been using this brand for many years and it's still my favorite.
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- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Wouldn't go climbing without it. I often get sweaty paws while climbing, so it's awfully convenient to have some help in the Non-Clammy-Palms department. And it's super affordable, so it's kind of a no-brainer! Good stuff right there - and it won't clump up in your bag (unlike other junk out there), which is another reason why I love this stuff.
Sweaty hands + Super Chalk = Dry hands
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The chalk performs as it should, keeps your hands nice and dry when you're working hard, getting scared or both :)
Gets the job done
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I get some pretty clammy hands climbing and this Metolius Super Chalk does the trick. It's affordable so you can seriously load it up before your route or project and be confident your sweaty hands won't fail you. Try it out!
It does the job well.
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We go through plenty of chalk for the climbs that need it. This one is a solid choice.
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I am going to be honest; I bought this because of the appealing price. It's cheap! If you're a climber you simply need chalk, constantly. So get a big bag! It is cheaper to buy in bulk and plus you can fill up your friends bags. I personally don't like the feeling of chalk in general, it makes my hands dry and makes me cringe a little; but this chalk is pretty bearable, if I were to like chalk it would be this kind of chalk.
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I've been using this same chalk for years now and it does its job. I gave it 4 of 5 stars because its chalk, ya know?
All you need it to be is chalk!
Chris Sharma, Matt Segal, Lisa Rands, and Beth Rodden use it, so why not me too?
Gets the job done and I love the large 15 ounce bag because even though I climb nearly everyday, it still lasts awhile and gets cheaper per unit the more you buy, as per usual.
does what it's supposed to
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I discovered this chalk long before I ever got into climbing. I first became familiar with it as a student athletic trainer working with a college gymnastics team. It's excellent for optimizing ones grip, a draw back it can serve as an irritant on dry or damaged hands. Tape cuts or other abrasions will be slow to heal with use of this product. That being said it's tried and true, I trust it to do its job and that's what matters.
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It works!
Great chalk which keeps my hands nice and dry when out on hot days. I like the fact the bag is resealable!
Great chalk!
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Sometimes people like to think chalk is chalk is chalk. But there are differences and I like a little bit of this stuff while climbing.
Some folks love to chalk the heck up but I prefer a just a tad of chalk while climbing and this is the stuff.
The packages are resealable while is great and I keep a pack in my trunk for those gym days.
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I have always had issues with sweaty hands and this chalk is great. The drying agent and the chalk combine for the best grip out there!
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I'll admit, I know very little about chalk which is why I opted for this chalk, the price was right and thus far, absolutely no complaints!
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My hands sweat a ton while I climb. So anything I can do to avoid yelling "take" simply due to my hands slipping from sweat is a win in my book. This chalk is so good I may use it on the next date I go on just to keep my sweaty hands dry....
Great chalk
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Ino Patron scored twice and had two RBI for Long Beach State.
March 25, 2011
Palo Alto, Calif. - Long Beach State stormed out to a 6-0 lead after four innings in support of Friday night starter Andrew Gagnon, and the Dirtbags held on to beat No. 12 Stanford 6-3 in Palo Alto. Gagnon struck out eight batters and allowed two runs over six innings.
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The Dirtbags then extended their lead with a big inning in the third. Jeff McNeil led off the inning with a base hit, and Brennan Metzger was hit for the 33rd time in his career, tying him with Bobby Crosby in the LBSU record books for fourth place to put a pair of runners on. After Matt Hibbert pushed over both runners with a sacrifice, Patron drove a two-run single up the middle. Another hit by Matt Duffy put Patron in scoring position, and he came home to score on a single by Jonathan Kim, making the score 4-0.
Back-to-back singles by Michael Hill and Kirk Singer got the Dirtbags going once more in the fourth inning, and both players scored in the inning to provide Long Beach State with a 6-0 lead.
That was more than enough for Gagnon, who had another outstanding start for Long Beach State, setting a season high with eight strikeouts while allowing just six hits. His major trouble came in the fifth inning, when a walk combined with a hit batter put two runners on, and singles from Stephen Piscotty and Eric Smith scored two runs for the Cardinal.
Gagnon got out of the inning, and pitched a hitless sixth to get the game into the hands of the bullpen, which combined for three innings of relief between Kyle Friedrichs, Jon Maciel and Eddie Magallon.
Magallon entered in the ninth and retired the side in order to record his fifth save of the season, while Gagnon improved to 3-3 with the win. Patron finished the day with two runs scored and two RBI while going 1-for-3.
Long Beach State and Stanford will attempt to avoid the rains in a rescheduled 5:30 p.m. start on Saturday, and close the series on Sunday with a third game.
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Everybody's favorite Olympic nag today reassures the USOC not to worry about us lying on the floor crying and screaming and slamming our little fists into the hardwood: We'll be back to our adorable selves after a good nap. Read more.
Mediaite reports.
Wendy Blom, Executive Director of SCATV, sits down with Eric Fellinger, Board Chair of Union Square Main Streets, and Esther Hanig, Executive Director of Union Square Main Streets to discuss their grassroots fundraising campaign to help provide farm fresh food to Somerville neighbors in need of Farmers Market SNAP benefits. Support their endeavor: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/20...
Help us dust off and unlock our community vaults! Join your neighbors for a special film screening at Davis Sq. Theater on June 20th at 3pm.
Saturday, June 20th! Jump back in time with us as we rediscover the history of community + place, and explore how it has changed. Or will we discover that it hasn't changed much? The full line-up of videos will be announced late May. Community Vault proceeds will help support the mission of Somerville Community Access TV station--your local community media center.
ABC News reports on a ship passenger who was airlifted to one of our local hospitals:
He was taken to Tuft's Medical Center in Sommerville, Massachusetts.
H/t Broadway Jay.
This morning's Boston Metro cover story was about the series of groping attacks reported around Boston University over the past few days, with a "BU Babes" headline superimposed on a photo of a woman from the waist down in a pink dress and heels. Read more.
Something tells us Chris Faraone at the Dig won't be going out for (espresso) shots with the boys from the BC football team anytime soon.
It's true that the media is typically biased toward alpha males, and has looked the other way as thousands of them have been marginalized in the press; but if we learned anything from today's report in the Globe, it's that Division I athletes are some of the most oppressed people among us.
Aformer Herald staffer expounds on the dying art of good headline writing (also, Atex, but that's likely to be of interest mainly to former ink-stained wretches).
And right in the middle of an interview, too.
PIX: This is my photog @tvdang72 laughing at me as I pick bird poop out of my hair. And me, grossed out. pic.twitter.com/nU1uwA7hBW
— susantran (@susantran) May 2, 2015
Neal Gaffey spotted a newly Denver-booted Sports Hub SUV on Canal Street today.
A fed-up citizen provides evidence of just how trashy the news business is these days, with a complaint about the news crews covering the Tsarnaev trial:
The news trucks covering the courthouse leave all of their trash in trash bags on the sidewalk even when they leave their vans unattended for weeks at a time. The trash bags rip open and the trash goes everywhere. This has been going on for months. I have called the news stations and reported this to the city and no one has done anything. I walk by this everyday on my way to work. I have many photos of this disrespectful behavior.
Western Mass Politics & Insight reports Politico is eying Massachusetts for a state-specific politics site.
H/t La Bibliotequetress.
Dan Kennedy reports that WFNX refugee Henry Santoro is leaving phoenix-from-the-ashes RadioBDC to become a news anchor at WGBH radio.
He joins fellow ex-Phoenicians Peter Kadzis, Adam Reilly and David Bernstein - and Kennedy himself, a regular on the station's Beat the Press.
The sheer awfulness of Noah Feldman's nostrum culpa really needs to be seen to be believed: He links the Hernandez and Tsarnaev cases and concludes that we're to blame, for Hernandez at least, because Bostonians like sports too much.
It would be easy to say that we Bostonians aren't implicated in Hernandez's crimes, because we were ignorant of them. But that seems much too easy.
Several eggs, actually. Jesse Haley gives us a bird's-eye view of the roof of WGBH in Brighton, newly furnished as a goose nursery.
Mark Katic, who started at WBZ in 1999 by filling in on sports reports, then moved to news reporting and anchoring, died today, colleagues say.
Lana Jones, a fellow NewsRadio reporter, tweeted:
Remembering a warm, generous man who brought insight and unbridled enthusiasm to the WBZ newsroom. Rest in peace, Mark Katic.
He leaves his wife and daughter.
Sure, I could send e-mail to Globe Direct about how their circulars keep winding up on our porch (this morning, lovingly placed underneath some pruning shears on our porch - wouldn't want it to blow away, eh?), but I've taken a fancy to calling 888-MY-GLOBE because at least that way I get to cost them some money for the privilege of ignoring all my previous e-mails and phone calls about how I don't want their circulars.
Yeah, there is the annoying fact you'll be put on hold for a couple minutes, but, hey, that's why God invented cell phones that turn into speaker phones when you flip them over.
UPDATE: Judge bars one specific WHDH photographer from courthouse and jury.
WCVB reports the judge in the Aaron Hernandez case is considering banning Channel 7 from the courthouse after jurors reported one of its vans followed them yesterday and somebody inside took a picture of their license plate.
DronesX, a startup seeking to become the authoritative source on the burgeoning drone industry, is seeking a reporter to cover droney things in the Boston/Cambridge area. "Actors who look good on camera" eagerly sought, but they have to have reporting chops, too, and not be a human drone.
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