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TCFAF's 3rd Annual Arts & Crafts Expo - December 1, 2012
Greetings from TCFAF! TCFAF's 3rd Annual Arts & Crafts Expo will be held on Saturday, December 1, 2012 under the tent at Turtle Cove Marina from 10:00a to 2:00p. We... Read more
DVD's of the May 19th show available in .MOV and .MPEG4!
As you know we took hours and hours of fantastic footage the week that Rasta and his Bad Boys came to Provo . We are working on a very special... Read more
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Samuel Jules gave me a gift on Friday, before I left to go back to Philadelphia -- an edited clip of the first number of the show. So I share it... Read more
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Opening Night of Bad Boys - Incredible!!!
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Bad Boys at the Beach Today!!
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Bad Boys at the Beach Today!!
From left -- Lee, Rasta Joey, Adrienne, Robbie, Timmy & Ryan!!
Dance Classes a Big Success on MON!
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Dancers arrive today at 2:30PM on the USAir flight!
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Bad Boys of Dance on So You Think You Can Dance!!!
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It's been a week since we've been live, and we already have 14 Backers and $1,536 in the pot! Thank you to all our early Backers! You "Rock!"
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A Barbour County man has been charged with operating a methamphetamine lab at a Belington home.
Adam Seth Keplinger, 32, of 116 Highland Ave., Belington, was arrested Sunday after police received a tip that day from a neighbor claiming she saw someone climb through the window of a Belington house.
Keplinger will face one felony charge of operating a clandestine lab. He is being held at the Tygart Valley Regional Jail in lieu of a $25,000 cash bond
According to the complaint in the Barbour County Magistrate Court, a neighbor in the area called and told law enforcement that she saw someone place a black bag on the porch of a nearby home and enter through the front window. Officers responded to the house on 117 Third St. and discovered footprints in the snow leading from the front porch to the window.
Belington police officer Josh Hymes said Monday that the residence was home to a friend of Keplinger's who had permitted him to enter.
According to the complaint, Hymes first knocked on the door of the house. After he didn't receive an answer, Hymes reportedly contacted the landlord of the property, who then traveled to the scene. Hymes and the landlord entered the home and found Keplinger inside.
The criminal complaint also stated that Hymes and Junior Police Chief Jody Haller investigated the residence together and located an active meth lab, along with a black bag, in the bedroom closet. The bag reportedly had Keplinger's name on it. An instructional book detailing how to make meth was found inside, the complaint stated.
Sgt. J.A.Wyatt of the West Virginia State Police arrived on scene and called in Trooper 1st Class D. R. Woodford of the Elkins detachment. Woodford is a meth lab technician, who confirmed that it was an active meth lab, according to the complaint.
Hymes said the Belington Police Department was assisted by the Junior Police Department, the Barbour County Sheriff's Department and the West Virginia State Police.
Cutright allegedly cut Kenneth P. Nicholson Jr. with a knife at 501 Maple Ave. in Philippi. According to the criminal complaint, a neighbor called the Barbour County Communications Center to report "drama." A representative from the center then called Gillis, who responded to the scene where he reportedly saw multiple individuals in the yard of the residence and on Fourth Street nearby.
Gillis spoke with Nicholson, who told him that Cutright had cut him with a knife. Gillis also noticed an incision on the underside of Nicholson's right forearm, according to the complaint.
Nicholson turned down an offer from Gillis to call the Barbour County Emergency Medical Squad, explaining that another individual would transport him in a private vehicle to Broaddus Hospital for treatment, the complaint stated.
According to the complaint, Gillis then contacted Cutright, who allegedly responded with "Me and Kenny got into a fight" when asked what happened, according to the complaint. Cutright denied having a knife when Gillis asked if he had attacked Nicholson with one, the complaint stated.
Following a conversation with another person at the scene, Cutright reportedly later asked to speak with Gillis in a private room where he admitted to cutting Nicholson because he "snapped," according to the complaint. Cutright described the weapon, but said he didn't know where it was. Cutright was then arrested and transported to Tygart Valley Regional Jail.
Nicholson reportedly later found the knife under the kitchen counter. Gillis noted in the complaint that the knife fit the description Cutright gave him.
Cpl. S. P. Miller of the West Virginia State Police received information in November that suggested Vandevender was registered in Belington, but was not living there, according to the criminal complaint. Vandeveder had registered that he was living at 115 Dayton Boulevard in Belington.
Miller obtained a recorded statement from Linda Arbaugh of Harman, confirming that Vandeveder had been residing with her since he was released from jail on Oct. 1, according to the complaint.
Miller also obtained recorded statements from Linda Arbaugh's children Rebecca Arbaugh, Mark Bennett and James Harper all of whom stated that they knew Vandeveder was living with their mother for two or more months, according to the complaint.

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During the War of 1812, the American commander of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Gallatin came ashore for business in Charleston.
The War of 1812 in S.C.
Some 30 years after the American Revolution, the United States was in conflict again with England in the War of 1812.The two major contributors were the continued British practice of impressing American merchant sailors into Royal Navy service, and expanded British interests in the west, fomented by ties to Native American tribes.There were no major land battles here. Most of the encounters were sea-related, and the state's coastal defenses were elevated.The British did make attempts to blockade ports and conducted occasional raids toward rich Sea Island plantations, including around the Beaufort area.
Behind him, Captain John Silliman's men stayed busy cleaning the ship's supply of muskets and pistols — part of the daily routine needed to stay prepped and ready for the next patrol.
As the chore wore on, someone moved too close to the ship's store of gunpowder where a spark was triggered, followed by a giant explosion. Shortly before 11 a.m. on April 1, 1813, the Gallatin ripped apart.
Three crew members were dead and five others severely injured. A local newspaper called it a "most melancholy occurrence."
Two hundred years later, there's new hope for the Gallatin.
Beginning this morning, a team of archaeologists and divers will begin hunting for what's left of the 200-year-old wreck on the chance there may be enough salvageable to add to the 1812 story.
Personal effects or artifacts that represent the state of South Carolina's coastal defenses might "give a glimpse of the War of 1812 through the actual archaeological record," said Jim Spirek, an underwater archaeologist at the S.C. Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Still, Spirek admits, that after two centuries and a greatly shifted waterfront, it may be a long shot to find much of anything.
The 100-foot long Gallatin — named for Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin — was part of America's infant Treasury Department. It was officially considered a "Revenue" ship, making it a precursor to the modern-day Coast Guard. Its mission included enforcing U.S. maritime regulations covering incoming cargo inspections, embargoes and the like.
Additional duties during the War of 1812 included combat patrols (it carried eight cannons and a crew of 65) and seizing enemy and other suspect shipping.
Records of the day indicate the Gallatin had an impressive service record around the South Carolina and Southeastern coast.
One ship's entry from August 1812 said it captured the English vessel General Blake: "The British ship flew Spanish colors and carried an illegal cargo including African slaves."
The record also shows the ship and crew were active right up to the very end. The Gallatin's last sail was a five-day patrol where she discovered British ships gathering off Port Royal.
Today, she is believed to be one of at least three wrecks in South Carolina waters lost during the war.
This week's search will be confined to a "box" of the shallow harbor close to the city's waterfront and in an area running roughly between the U.S. Customhouse and the Old Exchange Building.
The initial plan calls for dragging a side-scan sonar device behind a boat while looking for sunken "anomalies" in the muck. If something of curiosity is found, for example, a collection of ballast stones, divers would go into the water for a closer look. The ship's cannons were reported to have been recovered shortly after the disaster, so they aren't on the menu.
"The odds are long," Spirek said Monday. But he added, "If we don't look, we'll never know."
Other agencies taking part in the search are the College of Charleston, the Coast Guard and divers from the Charleston County Sheriff's Office, among other local resources. Boat fuel will be the biggest expense.
As a precursor to the search, members of Coast Guard Sector Charleston held a memorial service Monday morning at Waterfront Park in remembrance of the crewmen killed and injured.
Coast Guard Chaplain Len Driskell said the day was part of the long tradition of remembering those in service "who went down to the sea."
Reach Schuyler Kropf at 937-5551.
The Revenue Cutter Eagle (right) was a ship used during the War of 1812, as was the Revenue Cutter Gallatin, which exploded and sank in Charleston harbor in 1813.×
Coast Guard Chaplain Len Driskell and Capt. Michael White, commander of Coast Guard Sector Charleston, dropped a wreath into Charleston Harbor on Monday to mark the 200th anniversary of the fatal explosion aboard the Revenue Cutter Gallatin.×
Albert Gallatin, Senator from Pennsylvania, 1793; Congressman, 1795-1801; Secretary of the Treasury, 1801-1813. (Library of Congress)×


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KBioscience isn't a biobank in the traditional sense: "We destroy the matrix," explained sales director Niels Kruize. Rather, blood, tissue, saliva, and other biologicals including agricultural samples such as seeds, are processed into DNA as quickly as possible, and it is this that is banked for the CRO's customers.
Sample collections are often larger than the customer can hold and need to be condensed, normalized, and standardized. Sometimes they come in with labels that are wrong or just can't be read.
Among the first things KBioscience does is separate these out and apply common barcodes to all the tubes and plates they get in. Samples are then transferred to individual barcoded tubes. "That's a critical step," Kruize said. So critical, in fact, that they dedicate two people to the process, "to make sure that you get the right sample into the right tube."
Samples are mixed with buffer and silica, and as such can remain stable at room temperature for weeks. There is no need for a precipitation step during purification. Eluted samples are tested—including a 220–350 nm scan to test for purity, PCR-based genotyping, and customer-specific assays for quality control—and aliquotted into three portions.
Of the eluted DNA, 80% goes into the 2-D barcoded tube, and 10% goes into plates that are shipped back to the customer. The last 10% is frozen down at -20°C and stored at KBioscience for future SNP genotyping.
The tube with the remaining silica resin, still containing a small percentage of the DNA, is dried and then taped to and stored along with the original sample tube and housed off-site for long-term storage. All fractions remain the property of the customer.
Every step along the way is controlled and documented in the company's custom LIMS. But rather than automating the entire process, which Kruize explained would have been too expensive and error prone, "we buy simple plastic trays and we label them per project. Individual plates and tubes go in these labeled barcoded trays and can be retrieved at any given time."
Within days of the conference, it was announced that KBioscience had been acquired by LGC and will join with LGC's genomics division.
Shadow storage can guard against a catastrophic failure. But that doesn't change the fact that "it's very difficult to handle cold-chain logistics," pointed out Rolf Muller, Ph.D., CSO of Biomatrica. "This goes for the life of the sample from collection, transport, and analysis, to storage."
Freezers are very expensive to operate, equipment-intense, unreliable, and environmentally unfriendly. Dr. Muller thinks it's time for a paradigm shift—for scientists to get past the "paranoia" of the last 100 years of thinking that the only way to protect our samples is to stick them in the freezer.
There are extremophiles called anhydrobiotes that can survive in a dry state without refrigeration, preserving their DNA, RNA, proteins, and cell membranes intact. Biomatrica set out to mimic this process in a laboratory setting.
Beginning with large libraries of potentially stabilizing molecules, the company utilizes "screens to define the best way to stabilize these biological materials at room temperature," Dr. Muller said. Among the company's offerings are products that essentially turn the solution into glass and "shrink-wrap every single biomolecule in the sample."
More recently, the company has developed room-temperature liquid stabilization tools based on osmolytes found in organisms around thermal vents—"molecules that prevent the degradation of proteins in hot environments."
Stabilization in liquid has the advantage that the sample needn't be dried down or speed-vac'd. The sample is stored or transported just like traditionally frozen samples, only they needn't be put in the freezer or shipped with dry ice.
Having samples at room temperature can facilitate a lot of projects that are ongoing in Third-World countries where samples can be collected in fairly crude locations and crudely done, explained Rod Westrop, Ph.D., director of European operations for GeneVault (acquired in February by IntegenX).
"Biomatica's products, we believe, will aid that process by stabilizing the point of collection so that you're getting good quality material coming through."
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on December 3, 2012 - 12:01 AM
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Marcus Easley contained himself after the game, playing it cool and initially doing his best to sound like a sage old veteran. His 55-yard kickoff return late in the second quarter, after which the Bills took the lead for good over the Jaguars? Easley attempted to pass it off as "just another football play."
Sure, Marcus.
You know those winning Powerball tickets? It was just a few numbers on two pieces of paper that added up to nothing … unless you count the $587 million.
The kickoff return against the Jags wasn't just a terrific play for Easley, who made more round trips to hell over the past two-plus seasons than the Grim Reaper. It wasn't just another football play, as he said, or just a confidence booster, as he said, that helped the Bills to a 34-18 victory over Jacksonville on a rainy day in December.
It was more. It was the dream of a lifetime.
"It's been a rough few years. It has," he said. "It gets very emotional on and off the field. It was pretty much the first time I ever had to deal with injuries, especially on this level. You see guys you came [into the NFL] with doing well, and you want to be part of that, especially when you know what you can bring."
The shame, of course, is that it didn't happen three years ago. The Bills believed Easley would become an impact player they needed to help Ryan Fitzpatrick in their short-passing game. He's a big, physical receiver at 6-foot-2, 220 pounds. The Bills drafted him in the fourth round in 2010 as a complement to Stevie Johnson.
His physical tools were never an issue. His problem was staying on the field. Injuries led him to sleepless nights and a ride on the emotional roller-coaster. He wondered how his body had failed him, a knee injury wiping out his first season and a heart ailment ending his second. He worried that he would never play a regular-season game in the NFL.
Imagine, a competitive athlete getting that close to his dream, knowing he put his heart and soul into the game, only to have it all ripped away. The heart ailment took last season from Easley but it didn't take away his spirit. He kept coming back and never gave up.
Finally, on Sunday, he found himself camped under Josh Scobee's kickoff at the 4-yard line. He burst through the middle before being pushed out of bounds, another 15 yards added for a late hit. The Bills scored a few plays later when Fitzpatrick found Scott Chandler in the end zone.
"Seeing the ball in the air and knowing it was coming to me, it was time to make it happen," he said. "It was time to go. This was it. This was the one."
It wasn't his first play in the NFL, but it might as well have been. He covered the opening kickoff that resulted in a touchback. He made a terrific play while covering a kickoff 22 seconds before the half when he tackled Quan Cosby at the 9. Mostly, he showed what he could do with the ball in his hands.
And he left you begging for more.
Now that he's healthy, the Bills need to incorporate him into the offense. He's not a kid, anymore. He's 25 and has been around for three years. The only way he's going to gain real experience is by getting an opportunity to play as a receiver in games. The Bills' win over the sorry Jaguars looked like an extension of the preseason.
Chan Gailey showed off his brilliance yet again Sunday on third-and-7 from the Jacksonville 11-yard line late in the first half. What to call? Gailey left C.J. Spiller on the sideline, again, ignored Johnson and Chandler, forgot about T.J. Graham and dialed up a play for … Brad Smith.
It had little effect on the outcome, but it mattered in the grand scheme. The Bills had little to lose by playing Easley, especially after Johnson was sent to the locker room with a sore hamstring in the third quarter. The Bills had a 27-10 lead, which even for them met the criteria for being in command. The Bills inspired the offense with … Ruvell Martin.
Nobody knows what Easley would have provided. He could have been 50,000 volts off the bench or he could have flopped. There's only one way to find out.
Easley stood on the sidelines a few feet from Gailey with his chin strap buckled, itching for his chance with the offense. He looked like the kid with the long face and sad eyes who begs his Pop Warner coach for playing time.
Please, coach?
"I was ready, ready to go," Easley said. "Steve told me his hamstring was bothering him and told me to be ready. It put me on my toes. I was just waiting and [saying] 'be patient, be patient' like I have been for the past couple of years. I was just trying to stick around for them to give me that look and say, 'Easley, let's go.' "
Finally, with 1:50 remaining, Easley jogged into the huddle with the offense and blocked on three uneventful running plays. His last play from scrimmage came after Fitzpatrick told him where to line up in the Victory Formation, another first for him and rarity for the Bills. There will be more firsts – a first catch, a first down, a first touchdown.
Given what he overcame to get into the game Sunday, he will treat them as if they were his last.
"This was my dream, to play on this level, and it was disappointment after disappointment after disappointment," he said. "When is this time going to come? When is my moment going to happen? You got a little glimpse of it."
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- Artists Artento Divini, Jonas Stenberg
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- Description Dutchman Artento Divini and Swedish producer Jonas Stenberg hit in with another rendezvous production. It's the smashing 'Hammer' that feasts on the Energetic Sounds label.Two big supporters of the rough, techy trance sound, it didn't take long for the talented duo to join forces. Collabs '1 Year Later' and 'Knetter' raised some dust, leading the eclectic big-room movement that today's EDM scene is known for. In 2013, they're given the honour to kick starts the Energetic Sounds label, as Artento Divini and Jonas Stenberg smash it up with 'Hammer'. A strong, playful piece that hits your right in the face. 'Hammer' is the deal, raw is its middle name.


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on December 30, 2012 - 4:30 AM
You probably have seen Danielle Fox of Lancaster working somewhere in the area. Though only 28, she has had many jobs. Her first job was at John and Mary's pizzeria in Alden. She has worked the McDonald's drive-thru. She also has delivered pizzas.
For the past four years, Fox has worked in the hospitality industry as cloak room clerk, housekeeper, banquet manager and hostess. As assistant manager of Russell's Steaks Chops & More and Salvatore's Grand Hotel, Fox displays a work ethic as powerful as her smile.
People Talk: To whom do you attribute your strong work ethic?
Danielle Fox: I was raised by a single parent, and my father was a hard worker, too. But my mom, she taught me well. She worked full time and took care of three kids. She picked up part-time jobs at night, too.
PT: What was your first job after high school?
DF: I actually dropped out, and I got my GED. I worked down the street at Garden Place Hotel as a housekeeper and at the front desk. I worked for Largo Real Estate Advisors, but [the job] wasn't really for me.
PT: Why did you drop out of high school?
DF: I think I grew up too fast. I felt like high school was too immature – all the drama. I just wanted to get out of there. I dropped out the beginning of my junior year. I got my GED before my class graduated. My first job, I worked for a pizzeria as a slinger, dropping off menus at businesses. And I organized my friend's office. It was a hot mess.
PT: What about college?
DF: I went to Trocaire College, where I got my two-year degree in hospitality, but the good thing about working with Mr. Salvatore is that I was able to bring a lot to the classroom, as well.
PT: You never worked as a waitress?
DF: To be a server here, I'd be scared. I know how strict Russ is, and I know that I do not want to get yelled at. I don't say that in a bad way. He's a great mentor.
PT: What have you learned from him?
DF: Something his dad always told him, that you don't have to have an education to be nice. He says that all the time.
PT: What percentage of your time do you spend on coat check?
DF: Twenty five percent. Checking coats is important. It's the first person you see after you walk in [the restaurant].
PT: Why should people check their coats?
DF: Mr. Salvatore is a stickler about people checking their coats. To us, it's proper dining etiquette. You don't want coats hanging over the back of the chair. It just wouldn't look right. There are safety issues, and it's a courtesy for people. We do get a lot of people who walk right past us. Mr. Salvatore will tell them coats are not allowed in his dining room. If you don't hang it, you have to wear it.
PT: What can you tell about a person by the coat he wears?
DF: I don't really judge people.
PT: What was your attraction to the food service industry?
DF: I fell into it and I love it. I love people. I love seeing them smile. I don't like seeing them have a bad day. You know the saying? I try to turn the frown upside down.
PT: What will you be doing in 10 years?
DF: I guess maybe in the future – I'm not one to have a one-year plan or a five-year plan; I live day to day – I'll think about traveling. Like working on a cruise ship, maybe as a housekeeper.
PT: As executive housekeeper what do you do?
DF: I'm in charge of the linen order, going through the rooms to make sure everything is taken care of top to bottom. On my days off, if a few girls call off, I would come in.
PT: What kind of a boss are you?
DF: Easygoing. Our girls only get seven to eight rooms. That's low. I had 10 housekeepers come here to apply, and they told me they had anywhere from 14 to 28 rooms. We give our girls 45 to 50 minutes for checkouts. Stay-overs are different. We're not allowed to touch personal items. We dust around them. Lamp shades need to be dusted every day. I'm picky. When you're heart's in what you do, you notice things like that.
PT: Your rooms are 100 percent nonsmoking. How do you monitor that?
DF: They leave evidence. We just had one the other day who left cigarette butts in a Tim Horton's coffee cup. We strip the room – all the bedding, and we put an ionizer in the room to purify the air. Depending on how bad it is, the occupant can be penalized. It's a $100 fee. That and rose petals. We don't mind fake ones but the real ones – especially if they're red – and they're on the floor in a trail to the bed. Somebody steps on them, and they get crushed into the carpet.
PT: Rose petals?
DF: Yes, if they want a romantic little night. Rose petals will lead right to the bed, sometimes all over the bed. We don't allow that, either. Fake ones we can sweep up and they don't stain. I think they have fake scented rose petals.
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The trimmings are in the trash by now, and the venison has been transformed into steaks, hamburger and bologna.
I enjoyed Pheasant for my Christmas dinner and will have venison for New Year's, all while cozying up to my fireplace.
A few hardy hunters will venture out in this snowy environment to hunt for deer in the after-Christmas season, but most of us have had to go back to work or school or are struggling with the hardships and inconvenience the white stuff has caused.
For wild creatures, the next few months are simply an ugly struggle for survival. The snowstorm of last week made life much more difficult for them than for us.
The "pretty" deer we admired last summer, that were standing in the middle of a far off field grazing on clover are now yarded-up in the snow somewhere just trying to survive. Most will be hungry. Their food is buried under huge snow banks or ice that they cannot dig through.
You don't navigate the outdoor world long before you see that Mother Nature is a cruel, feisty lady who doesn't care at all about individual specimens in the animal and bird world.
Her mandate is "survival of the fittest" and she doesn't care much about how many survive, only that enough do to perpetuate the species.
Christmas marks the time when all wildlife begins a concentrated struggle just to make it until spring.
They are not singing or dancing around mushrooms, they are hunkered down, hoping to evade foxes who would happily have them for lunch or the domestic dogs or coyotes that will run them down in the deep snow and hamstring them and begin tearing at their flesh while they are still alive.
Despite the delusional scenes on Christmas cards, there is no way you will ever find a fox and a rabbit seeking shelter under the same pine tree.
In real life, the fox and owl would be competing to get the rabbit and cardinal for supper.
When snow is deep and ice covers much of the food supply, the wild pecking order prevails.
The buck eats first; the doe next and if there is anything left after that, the fawn may eat. The doe will kick away her fawn if food is scarce. Which is why the young of most species are the first to starve.
Mother Nature operates only so the species will survive. She has no concern or "love" for individual animals. Every wild creature has something it chases, kills and eats and something that chases, kills and eats it.
The hunter is at the top of this pecking order. Hunting seasons are, in fact, a regulated, humane way to harvest excess animals from the woods, creatures that would not survive a winter if food supplies are scarce. And frankly, on most State Game Lands around the state, food is in short supply.
Deer are browsers and if there is anything to browse on sticking up above the snow line, and they can make their way through the deep snow, they'll be OK for another little while.
Much depends on the severity of the winter. Healthy animals in a healthy habitat that is not stressed by over-populations are quite hardy.
If snow crusts over, turkeys can walk about in top of it looking for Japanese Barberry, wild grapes and other fruits, and dogwood berries. Icy, crusted snow is tough for deer however, They slip and fall on it, breaking legs and pelvises, lying for weeks dying of starvation slowly or painfully or as easy lunch for coyotes.
Deer can dig around in fluffy snow to find acorns and other browse but deep, fluffy snow is dangerous to turkeys. They fly down from the roost into it and then cannot get purchase to fly out of it again. Grouse will dive-bomb into a snow bank for shelter but if the snow glazes with ice overnight, the grouse cannot escape.
Then there are the stressors that humans inflict on winter-weakened wildlife. Some folks think it is great fun to chase deer in the snow with their machines until the animals collapse. But they are probably dooming that animal to a slow death by depleting its energy reserves.
Dogs love to chase deer and do it with relish in the winter. Most deer-chasing dogs are pets who are near the stove on cold winter nights and eat Purina by day but who are allowed outside for long periods and fulfill their natural instincts by chasing animals. Many pet owners refuse to believe their Fido would chase deer but just about any dog will chase deer if the temptation arises.
Wildlife has few benefactors. They simply must endure as best they can, whatever comes their way.
Someday, the Bible promises, the wolf shall lie down with the lamb. Until then, the wolf stalks and eats the lamb, the fox eats the grouse, the owl preys on turkeys, the coyote ravages deer, the hawk pounces on mice. Boar bears kill their offspring if given half a chance.
Not pretty is it? Animals act on instinct, not emotion. Their struggle is to survive, however they have to do it. Hunters are simply a part of the natural predator-prey cycle on which the outdoor world operates. That's reality, not Disney.


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I've Just Experienced a Sudden Increase in Affection for Aaron Miles
From Tracy Ringolsby...
Cardinals manager Tony La Russa began lobbying last fall for the release of second baseman Adam Kennedy, wanting to keep Aaron Miles instead. Now he winds up with neither, the front office letting Miles go back in December, and then this week giving in on Kennedy and his $4 million salary when it became apparent there was no trade market for Kennedy.
It could be MUCH worse
According to his stats, Miles has succeeded in the #2 slot with (doing this from sketchy memory, for you extra-literal posters) with around a .313 BA and .355 OBP - and tough with two strikes.
The largest amount of his PA's (over 900) which are pretty sucky, come from lead-off, where he just doesn't get the job done.
I'm hoping Lou realizes that even Sori is a better choice than Miles, The Who notwithstanding.
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Trying to be positive...maybe we are planning on keeping Miles hidden until the playoffs. Playoff stats are better than anything we've seen the past two years - (BA).364 (OBP).417 (SLG).545
why does every KMOKEFE post have an SNL "debbie downer" tone ringing in the background?
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not sure, kmokefe is a real douche though
hope he forgives me down the road
that was fun
In reality, my previous post was a reply refering to Miles sucking. Hence sucking less would an improvement, and the "debbie downer" becomes the optimist.
maybe a stretch
Also, if the bulls do not obtain Amare, they may lose my loyalty.
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they lost my loyalty when they broke the team up in '98.
John Paxson makes Ed Lynch look like a good GM...
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Amen to that! Time-honored sports tradition - you honor the streak. That team should have been kept together until they lost in the playoffs....period. The key parts (Jordan and Pippen) would have stayed for 1-year contracts.
I will forever hate Krause for his arrogance and petulance, and Reinsdorff is guilty by association and complicity in the disaster that has become what passes for the NBA on West Madison Street.
No wonder I could care less if the Sox ever win a ballgame.
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You can join me on the Memphis bandwagon. We've got PLENTY of room and some pretty decent youngsters.
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I took my Daughter to the Grizzlies/Clipper game last Friday. The arena was beyond flat atmosphere wise. Less than half-capacity. Grizzlies down 20 at the half. Zach F"n Randolph had 20 points at the half.
The funny thing is. Memphis University plays in the same building. The forum is sold out every game. Ton's of atmosphere. Loud and rowdy.
Sad state of affairs when the local College outdraws the professional team in town.
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to be fair, you went to a Clippers game which is like going to a WNBA game...
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The sad part is that they tooled the Grizz.
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"The funny thing is. Memphis University plays in the same building. The forum is sold out every game. Ton's of atmosphere. Loud and rowdy."
Point in case people care more about college basketball than the NBA. Personally i love basketball but I can't watch any NBA game ever (except the playoffs). It's boring, one-on-one nonsense and just can't stand it.
Also I bet the price of tickets to the Memphis game are about half of the tickets for the Grizz. Also Memphis could play with the Grizz. They have some good young players but they aren't any good.
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The Memphis Tigers could most definitely NOT play with the Memphis Grizz. It would be ugly. Those young players on the Grizz that "aren't any good" looked pretty good in college.
It just bugs when anyone says that some college team could play with, hang with, or even beat a pro team. They couldn't.
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I'm really not seeing the argument that a guy is a completely different hitter in the #1 spot than in the #2 spot. Maybe slightly different levels of success, but not that vast. I'm gonna have to go with correlation does not equal causation.
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I can't cite specific stats right now, but I do know that Soriano's spread between the leadoff spot and his performance in other lineup slots is pretty wide. I believe his best BA/OBA numbers are as a lead off guy, and when the Cubs got him Lou cited those numbers as the motivation for leading him off. (At least publicly.)
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Yeah. I'm not a big believer in that, but I buy it a little more.
Part of my trouble in this case is that we're talking about the #1 and #2 spots in the order, which unless you bunt or hit and run A LOT have basically the same approach. And typically the #2 hitter is gonna come up with no one on base in front of me in the top of the 1st about 35% of the time. It's basically the same spot, except you've got a more feared hitter batting behind you.
I'm gonna say again, probably a case of correlation does not equal causation. When and where did Aaron Miles bat second as opposed to leadoff (or 8th or 9th, as was often the case with the Cards)? Maybe he got a lot of ABs in the two hole when he was hot--got switched there from the 8th spot. Maybe he hit second a lot against left-handed pitchers while he was in a platoon with somebody. Maybe it's just not a huge sample and the fact that his performance coincided with a particular spot in the lineup doesn't have much to do with anything (I suspect this is a big part of Soriano's numbers).
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Miles hit more often #2 (151 ABs) than anywhere else in the lineup in 2008. He posted .358 avg/.390 oba/.834 ops numbers there.
He hit 7th (.351/.398/.866) and 9th (.255/.311/.602) next most often. As a leadoff hitter he did OK (.286/.348/.729) but only made 23 appearances in that spot. Not sure how many games he started as a #1 hitter.
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About 43% (163/375) of Miles's total career plate appearances in 2-spot came in 2008--his best year to date.
This doesn't prove much, but here's the two most obvious takes on it that I can see:
1. My take: That a Miles's career numbers in the two spot are inflated by his good year last year, which I think he'll have trouble repeating. Also, it could be that his numbers in the #1 spot have been deflated by his poor years in Colorado--maybe he's improved since then and he really is the .350 OBP guy he was last year.
2. Another take: Maybe part of Miles's good performance in 2008 is due to his increase in plate appearance in the 2-hole, where he can hit behind the runner, has Pujols batting behind him, lay down a bunt once in a while, and possibly feels most comfortable.
Also, since we brought up Soriano's numbers, I ran through some of his season splits on Baseball Reference. I noticed that in during some years he actually hit better in the #5 or #3 spot than he did in the leadoff spot that year. Maybe Lou should take a look at that. His OBPs in those spots are a somewhat below his career norm, but his slugging percentage is pretty good. Oh, and he's experienced lower BABIP in those spots than the leadoff spot. Which could mean a number of things.
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You're right on both points, and it's true, the figures are going to be affected by so much from year to year. Soriano could have hit better 1st or 3rd or 5th in the seasons you cite because he was in a better lineup, or a lineup more suited to his hitting philosophy (such as it is).
As for Miles, he won't be batting 2nd in a lineup featuring Pujols this season. And I wonder what affect having a position player batting 9th had on his approach. Probably very little with Pujols behind him, but it might be interesting to ponder.
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Thank you for pointing that out. Miles probably saw 10 breaking balls in his 151 PA's batting 2nd in 2008.
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The Who would agree with him. They can see (for) Miles...
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Some nice drawings of the soon-to-be coldest ballpark in baseball.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but is this the same LaRussa that ran out:
Brent Gates
Walt Weiss
Mike Bordick
Frank Menechino
FP Santangelo
As his starting middle infielders a lion's share of his managing career?
So he likes scrappy white guys. What are you going to do?
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I think he may be referring to the manager who has won, what - three or four rings and has the highest winning percentage over the longest career of anone currently in the biz.
He's proven he's the best in the business an an innovator, all hate aside.
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He's won 2.
And one could argue that Dave Duncan and PED's have as much to do with it than LaRussa.
Even though I do really like LaRussa as a manager. He does seem to really love to small-ball it up. Other than Miguel Tejada and Edgar Renteria. I can't think of any dynamic middle infielder that LaRussa has managed.
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I'll have to file this under "who cares?"
Sorry, Cubnut, but I just fail to see why this matters. Maybe it's like when you're talking to that slightly unattractive girl you don't have any real interest in, then she gets a boyfriend or starts talking to some other guy, and all of a sudden you want her.
So... I guess in this case Miles is the slightly unattractive girl and Tony LaRussa is the boyfriend. And the Cubs are the emotionally damaged guy stuck in the middle.
Nevermind. Hey btw, Aaron, you mad at me for calling you a douche a while back? I hope you didn't take that too seriously.
MLB Central
Matt Leach at MLB.com thinks the Reds may be up to something good even though he's bemused by the mysterious influence that has wrapped a bunch of low OBP hitters around a core of Bruce and Votto.
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Tough crowd today...
check out Ichiro meeting Michael Jordan in 1995
(hat tip to Big League Stew)
Elton John/Billy Joel are this year's Wrigley music act...we know Chad will be there.
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Hmm... nice to meet you, WebAdmin.
And I would love to see Elton John and Billy Joel... anyone want to buy me tickets? Hell... chad - I will even be your date!
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whoops, that was me, forgot to log out, was importing some of our archives last night..
Nothing beats a good rendition of "Piano Man" when you're three sheets to the wind with your buddies, but otherwise I'll pass...
Police lat year would have been cool though if I still lived in Chicago.
speaking of our archives, nothing beats going through the 2006 season...
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My enthusiasm for both alcohol and places that serve it have turned me off completely to Piano Man. I hate when 8 drunk people sing it.
I'll probably hate it more when you multiply that number by five thousand.
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"Turns Out Craig Counsell Was Actually Best Baseball Player Of Steroid Era"
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Scott Moore cleared waivers and will go to Orioles AAA/Norfolk
hmmmm. Ray Durham is still waiting for a phone call too.
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If Durham can be had on the cheap, he makes sense to me to take the spot on the active roster that might go to Hoffpauir or Gathright otherwise--he can do more than either of those guys in a bench role, even if he can't pinch run like Gathright and doesn't have the power of Hoffpauir at this point.
I wonder if Durham has played any outfield or would be able to fill in at an outfield corner adequately.
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I wonder if Durham has played any outfield
He has played a total of 1 inning in the outfield over his major league career.
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Good enough for me.
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From Rob Neyer's latest blog about Griffey and the Mariners:
"Actually, what's more frightening is the notion of an "incentive-laden contract," because that suggests the M's are hoping Junior will play a lot and that Junior's expecting to play a lot. What if he's too healthy to hit the Pavano* but not healthy enough to play well? Might he balk about being benched, and thus failing to reach those "incentives" that weigh so heavily in his compensation?"
" * A wonderful little nugget from the Torre/Verducci book: During Carl Pavano's time with the Yankees, eventually the players began referring to the disabled list as the "Pavano." "
Cubs nicknames
We should come up with our own set of Cub names which describe some action or issue, like..
He Tuffy'd in the Majors, which means he blew his wad the 1st game of his career and then dropped off into obscurity or...
We got Brock'd on that trade, meaning we got fleeced like dumb shits or...
They Zimmer'd (or Ventura'd, if you are a Sux fan) his ass all over the place, meaning he got slapped around like a little bitch (reference to Pedro Martinez tossing his ass on the ground/Nolan Ryan going to town on Robin's cranium)
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...or "He really Glenallen'd that one", meaning he really sent it for a ride.
"Prior drills" meaning anything involving a towel to condition the arm. No baseball of any kind can be involved, or anywhere near this activity.
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He got "Dawson'd" - meaning the dumb-ass pitcher was jogging to first on a sure single to right, only to get thrown out at first by the Hawk
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Jacque - verb - A) To roll over on a baseball to the pull field, generally resulting in a 4-3 putout. (syn: Derrek Lee circa 2008..I kid I kid) B) To swing over the top of a buried slider by a margin of greater than 6 inches. C) To intend to throw a ball to home plate, and have it bounce before it reaches the lip of the outfield grass. D) To use a bat that is at least questionably feminine in color.
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Neifi - To attempt to perfect the art of bunting with two outs in the 9th inning when trailing by a run.
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Lilly'd - firing your glove at the ground harder than you just threw a pitch that went 450 feet!!
toward the middle of the article is ranking of the 3 least improved teams in the national league
all are in the central:
1. Pirates
2. Cardinals
3. Brewers
other than that kind of a shitty piece
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I understand the Brewers. But how did the Cards or Pirates not improve?
To me the Cubs regressed as much as anyone in the division besides Milwaukee.
And the Brewers get Capuano and Gallardo back to replace Sheets and a 1/2 season of CC. Central should be tighter than it was last year.
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I didn't mean to imply that Capuano and Gallardo = Sheets and CC.
But in reality Milwaukee got 48 total starts out of Sheets and CC.
IF Gallardo and Capuano rebound to 2007 and 2006 form. Then the dropoff shouldn't be that great.
I'm not saying Milwaukee will be a 100 win team. But I saw someone on here saying they wouldn't be .500 this year. I disagree with that assessment.
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Capuano had his 2nd TJ surgery last year and might be back by May. I can't think of too many pitchers that return from TJ surgery pitching at the top of their game...seems to take about 3 months to get their control back. And Capuano was merely slightly good before that...
he did get married in November in Hawaii though...
Here's the Brewers situation right now and depth chart...tell me if that was the Cubs how much people would be bitching.
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That's funny - I think the Cubs are better than last year, if you look at the bigger picture (getting Miles at half price after DeRosa's career year, dumping Marquis for Heilman/Marshall at a fraction of the cost, adding a good LH bat in Bradley, not overpaying for Wood, getting something out of Hill, Pie and Cedeno, who were out of options and not going to make the team, etc.)
We are still heads above everyone else in the division, both on offense and with pitching. Would you rather have Looper as your #2 starter or Dempster/Zambrano?
Capuano sucks until proven otherwise!
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These "improvements" are strange... the only thing that you mentioned that would make the team better is the Bradley addition.
There is no way that you can say Miles is an improvement over DeRoesa, or that Gregg is an improvement over Wood. You MIGHT be able to say that Heilman/Marshall is better than Marquis, but I am not convinced about that. And you can't really say that getting minor league players for Hill, Pie, and Cedeno make the team better.
Now... were they the right decisions? Maybe... but the things you pointed out sure don't make the Cubs a better team than last year.
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Well, to your specific point, Woody has had one season in the last 5 where he has not been on the DL for less than four weeks. Indeed, we will be wondering the same with "Gameboard".
And, I strongly feel that getting rid of Cedeno CERTAINLY makes the team better.
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I agree completely with big_lowitzki, the moves might end up being good, but they look horrible from the outside. The only move that looks good in theory is bringing in a switch hitting Bradley, but factor in his lack of health and if he spends his typical 60+ games on the D.L. the team is in trouble. And when Abreu, a superior player, was had for $5 mil guaranteed instead of $20-30 (based on health) for Bradley, it makes the Bradley deal look horrible and we haven't even had everyone report to camp yet.
I'll also say that people shouldn't try and justify Miles as a good addition because his salary is half that of Derosa's. Derosa had grossly outperformed that contract and was underpaid. Weak hitting middle infielders who can't run, can't steal, have no power, and are mediocre defenders like Miles can be had all day long at less than Hendry paid. Miles isn't a bargain, especially when he's replacing Derosa's bat.
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Woh. Don't say you agree with me on something I didn't say.
I don't think that the moves look horrible at all. I just said that the specific comparisons that the previous commenter pointed out did not make the team better than last year's team.
And no, Abreu is not a superior player to Bradley.
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Miles isn't replacing DeRosa's bat - Fontenot is at 2B and Bradley is in RF, and they are both upgrades (IMO). DeRosa had a career year last season at age 33, and his highest HR total before last season was 13, so we really aren't losing that much offense anyways. His versatility was nice, but not for $5.5 million. I wish him success this season, but I'd be surprised if he duplicates his numbers from last year. At the time he was traded, maybe Hendry also thought Peavy was in the near future and he needed to dump DeRo's salary.
I'll argue that if you put the projected starters at their positions for this year and look at last season's starters, we are better in all cases.
RF - Bradley is better than Fuku
CF - Fuku/Johnson are better than a 40-year old Edmonds
2B - Fontenot will be better than DeRosa if he plays extensively
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Not that I like what the cubs have done in the off season, but they have addressed their biggest need with a big name signing. Cards haven't really added anybody, and the Pirates never add anybody.
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Agreed and I'm sure Hendry went into the offseason with 2 plans in mind - one if it appeared the Central Division rivals were going to make improvements and another if they didn't. Barring injuries, we should be the class of the division. Signing Bradley (or Ibanez) was priority #1 and then so was dumping salary, since we have a lot of backloaded contracts.
I do think, given his ABs, Fontenot will be an upgrade over DeRosa offensively, Bradley is much better than Fukudome in RF offensively, and we are probably better off in center with Johnson/Fukudome than a 40-year old Edmonds.
If Hendry had a crystal ball last season, Pie and Hill would have been traded for Roberts in a flash, but he couldn't know those guys weren't going to pan out. At least he got something for them before we lost them for nothing on waivers...
Capuano, an improvement?
So Dr., when can we see you doing stand-up?
I think he lost 12 straight starts before the Beew sent him away...
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Bill Hall out 4-6 weeks (not Ricky) tore a calf muscle while working out
Site slow today?
or is it my Internet connection?
Archives are fun
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my god...a ryu vs. nolasco arguement in there, too.
i also got to assert my then-current marmol-hate (remember when the guy couldn't find the zone to save his life?)
hard to believe we had that crew to talk about just 2 years ago this time. JH has been a "talent" shuffling fool the past many years.
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I liked the bit about Soto not deserving a spot on the 40-man roster. A few months later he was our best young player.
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ST hating on the Rays new owner and GM was great stuff as was me being told I don't know what I'm talking about when it came to the greatness of Ryu by cwtp/navigator...
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Also stumbled on a real gem of a thread back in '05 where the latter of the two slammed Hendry for trading "future hall of famer Dontrelle Willis." Hilarity ensued. Nailed that one.
I could do this all day, really. I've been reading the manny/MikeC reality show. Pretty sure that should be on VH1 between Tool Academy and Rock of Love Bus.
Everybody making fun of John Hill because he had no idea what he was talking about. Those were the days. Those were also the days that our lineup featured an outfield of Hollandsworth-Pierre-Burnitz. Also, we had no shoes, it was snowing, and it was uphill both ways to get to school.
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I wish Newport/Racine would close an italics tag.
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Sorry about that. I enjoyed ST mention of a pair of used hush puppies, didn't remember that one.
Zambrano and Eye Surgery
Carlos Zambrano is contemplating laser surgery on his right eye and has decided against pitching for Venezuela in the WBC.
If Zambrano has surgery, he'd miss about two weeks of action, though he could still keep his arm in shape by throwing in the pen.
- Why didn't he do this some other time during the off-season?
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i really really really don't wanna hear this.
i'm concerned about where his current FB velocity or health is based on this. yeah, it's a jumped-to conclusion, but his excuse and the timing make no f'n sense given how "about" the WBC he has been.
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good news is now 5 K's for Lester through 4 (in a quest for 200 for season). Bad news is he's already at 86 pitches.
be curious how long Maddon sticks with Lester to try and let offense get back into it and get him the win (4-2 as I type, was 4-0)
Fwiw, he needed 2.1 IP to cross 200 for season so he got that at least. He also needs 9 K's for 200K's on season and he has 4 through 3.
cubs score 2 runs thanks to predictable reds pitching and horrible CIN defense...cubs only down by 1 now. heyward even got a gift 2rbi double out of an easy popout. neat.
something named Ty Blach has outpitched Clayton Kershaw through 6 innings (1-0 Giants).
not that finishing 2nd place will matter much nor did this game, but have to think if Hendricks pitches well tomorrow, he could leapfrog Lester in Cy Young voting. Don't see anyway Scherzer doesn't win it regardless and it doesnt' look like Lester has any incentive clauses that matter. Also might give Cueto some votes.
Rather remarkable how many teams have really good 1-2 options this year.
Nats: Scherzer and Roark (and Strasburg was great before injuries)
Cubs: Lester and Hendricks (and Arrietta is still damn good just not as consistently lately)
pretty much what I'm gathering from this thread is that it doesn't matter who you play in 5-game series, but no one wants to have to deal with Cardinal fans if we end up losing.
I can respect that.
first game for lester giving up more than 2 runs since july 24th. hell of a run.
doh, yes...dunno what happened there. jake arrieta is all "bro wut?"
lester going for #20...cubs haven't had a LH (thanks jpep for the correction) 20 game winner since d.ellsworth in 1963.
fwiw, all the games are free on mlb.tv
Short rest for MadBum would be 2 days. WC game is Wed., Games 1 & 2 are Friday/Saturday.
A left-handed one...
J-Hey not finishing with an offensive onslaught.
If Geoff Blum could be a Playoff hero, there is hope still...
Giants scare me. I think you're wrong about Bumgarner, he would pitch on short rest for Game 2 and then full rest for Game 5. Cueto would go Game 1, then short rest in game 4. Add in some really tough outs in that lineup and I want nothing to do with them. With that rotation they can easily steal a series.
Cards are a tough matchup. The rivalry evens out their comparable lack of talent. And like someone said, they love HRs, which is how to beat the Cubs. The upside is that I would feel really good about Lester twice against STL.
j.buchanan with a nice start...5ip 2h 1bb 3k, 0r/er
zobrist with 2HR and a double through 8
heyward 0-4 :(
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High school football teams found out their playoff schedule today as over twenty teams in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura county will participate.
All games are scheduled for Friday, November 15.
Here are the first-round games involving local teams.
Western Division:
Pacifica at Serra
Buena at Morro Bay
Santa Ynez at Camarillo
Cathedral at Lompoc
Channel Islands at Santa Monica
Nipomo at Ventura
Pac-5 Division:
Agoura at St. John Bosco
Servite at Westlake
St. Bonaventure at Notre Dame
Mater Dei at Oaks Christian
Northwest Division:
Verbum Dei at Nordhoff
Bishop Diego at North Torrance
Santa Paula at El Segundo
Carpinteria at La Salle
Bishop Montgomery at Oak Park
Northern Division:
Righetti at Palos Verdes
Hart at Paso Robles
St. Joseph at Palmdale


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Despite the plethora of attention Penryn received
over the last few weeks, Intel's newest roadmaps put the processor launch
for Q1'08. This indicates the launch has not necessarily accelerated even
though the initial
tape-out proved extremely successful.
On the other hand, Intel's 2008 roadmap shows every segment simultaneously
deploying 45nm products. Like AMD's recent 65nm Brisbane
launch, Intel guidance notes the processors will start shipping Q4'07
but the actual launch will come as a coordinated 2008 event.
The first Intel 45nm treatments will come from the quad-core Yorkfield and
dual-core Wolfdale desktop processors. Wolfdale has two
physical cores on a single die and up to 6MB of L2 cache. Yorkfield is then two Wolfdale dice on a single package. Also worth
noting: Wolfdale ships with a 1333MHz front-side bus and Yorkfield ships
with a 1066MHz front-side bus. Chipset support will largely come from Bearlake-family
that was previously
disclosed on DailyTech.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about these two processors is the return of
Hyper-Threading. This, however, does not mean that Yorkfield will
appear as eight logical cores, nor does it mean Wolfdale will appear as
four logical cores. Intel's internal guidance on the subject specifically
claims the processor will ship with Hyper-Threading, but will only utilize 4
threads. On every Intel roadmap in the past, Hyper-Threading doubles the
amount of listed threads in the guidance documentation. Clearly, there is
more of a mystery here still. (Update: Please read the retraction below.)
"The official company policy is that our engineers have left the door open
for Hyper-Threading, but we cannot confirm or deny any future plans for the
technology," adds Intel Public Relations Manager Dan Snyder.
All Penryn cores also include Intel TXT, previously known as Intel LaGrande Technology. TXT stands for Trusted Execution Technology and refers to the collection of devices. The Trusted Platform Module, or TPM, is one component. DMA page protection is another.
Alas, even if 2008 seems like a long time away for the 45nm platform, it's
important to note that all Intel platforms will have 45nm SKUs in Q1'08. Penryn,
the family name for Intel's first generation 45nm consumer CPUs, also refers
specifically to the 45nm dual-core mobile CPU. Intel's current roadmap
claims this processor will lead the Q1'08 mobile push with several low voltage
models coming one quarter later.
For servers, Wolfdale will make an appearance as a dual and single
socket Xeon. It's been long-standing Intel policy to separate desktop,
mobile and server chipsets into different products; Conroe was the Core
2 desktop CPU and Woodcrest, though physically nearly identical, was the
Xeon counterpart. Wolfdale as a server and a desktop CPU indicates
the chips are electrically identical -- though each will likely receive
different packaging for the different sockets.
Yorkfield will not receive the same codenaming treatment as Wolfdale on
the server. Instead, Harpertown will be the quad-core Xeon for two
socket servers. Yorkfield will still be the company's single-socket
quad-core Xeon offering.
quote: Because HT and Multi Cores don't compete each other if not that they're complement each other
HT allows you to start 2 threads simultaneously, though you only have the resources to complete one...
quote: The long pipeline of netburst made HT viable, parts of it were idling while others were busy - HT was just means to increase the load of the chip and thus its efficiency.
quote: So, you're telling me that HT is of the same quality as SMT in a, lets say, Power5 series processor or a Sun T1?
quote: No, dont answer me.
quote: Compared to these two examples, Intels HT is a whackjob. Its fallout from the netburst design - it was a logical consequence of the design, but not remotely close to a "true" SMT design such as the Power5 or T1.
quote: a single P4 core had enough ressources for more than 1 thread. That's why we've seen situations where HT increased performance
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"I have been traveling around the U.S. teaching Irish cooking classes in culinary schools and on television since," Gaffney told the Irish Voice.
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That's what they want. However, they are showing how we got here. The article mentioned that we have treatment courts and supervised bail...both things that keep inmates out of jail and help protect the community from repeat offenders. However, in the last two years, the DA and the judges have denied these programs to a vast majority of petty offenders.
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I'm at an age where it's hard to remember much about my first night working at the Mirror, or even the date. The one thing I do recall clearly is the first person I met that early fall 1990 evening at the newspaper's old building on Green Avenue.
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Neil Rudel broke the news to me after the Penn State game on Saturday that Frank had passed away. He'd been battling illness for several years, but it was still a surprise to hear that Frank was gone - he just seemed so indestructible.
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For example, his desk had its own unique filing system. Nothing was ever lost there, but just try to find it.
Frank was living proof that you can't judge a book by its cover. To the uninitiated, he could be seen as the crusty, cranky, cantankerous curmudgeon one might expect of someone who worked in this business for 40 years.
He didn't get the nickname "Salty" purely from his love of pretzels, which ranked right up there with cigars, Stan Musial and the St. Louis Cardinals.
Think of Lou Grant from popular 1970s television, and you've got a pretty good idea. Frank was no-nonsense. If you reported a game, you better be prepared: Frank had lots on his plate, and he didn't have time for you to add things up or give a sob story about "getting your doors blown in."
If you thought you were getting into sports journalism for the fun and the glory, he wouldn't hesitate to set you straight.
He'd see our creative kicker heads on the front of the sports section that sometimes took hours to develop, shake his head and say he had a better idea: "Steelers win."
Like Grant, however, Frank had a different side, too. He loved sports and loved the kids.
You didn't see Frank's byline or column a lot in my years at the Mirror. If you read the sports section, though, his fingerprints were all over it. He took the lion's share of the calls reporting local results, laid out the scoreboard page and holds a record for typing in Altoona Curve boxscores that, like Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hit streak, isn't likely to be broken.
His name didn't appear on any of it, and he was proud of that. He was a humble guy who didn't need the spotlight.
But when you'd see me doing a big high school playoff breakdown or one of John Hartsock's beautifully crafted columns, or all the writers we could devote to Penn State football, that was at least partially possible because Frank was willing to stay in the office and do all the little, anonymous stuff.
I always knew I could rely on Frank, and not just to get the job done. He was a source of great encouragement over the years. He told it like it was, even when you didn't want to hear it. I remember a lot of times he'd tell newcomers they should have been teachers. When I told him I should have been a teacher, he shot back, "No, Salty, you were made for this job."
That meant a lot.
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Greeley's Go-Cup District is back for good, council members decided on Tuesday.
At a public hearing council members decided unanimously to make the city's open container law for Friday nights permanent, after leaders of the initiative had nothing but gushing reviews from last summer. The Go-Cup District, which incorporates bars and restaurants around the 9th Street Plaza that can serve drinks in special outdoor cups from 5-11 p.m. every Friday, bolstered business downtown and brought a new vibe to Greeley, proponents said.
Alison Hamling, director of downtown experience for Greeley's Downtown Development Authority, said there were no serious incidents last summer after the city approved of a temporary Go-Cup District. The initiative came after a state law passed to allow the specialized open-container laws; Greeley was the first city in Colorado to take advantage.
This year, the Greeley City Council approved of a permanent district in time for the DDA to kick off its schedule of events with "Blarney on the Block" and St. Patrick's Day on March 16 and 17, Hamling said. The regular Friday Fest sessions will then start on May 24, in conjunction with the city of Greeley's unveiling of its image campaign.
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On average, Friday Fests cost about $6,000 per month, with $15,000 throughout the summer from sponsorships. The event was solely funded by the 10 bars and restaurants that participated in the Go-Cup, translating to weekly dues of up to $200 for bars in the best locations.
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- Instructors: Eric Johnson, Aaron Cure
I do development on a daily basis. This information is extremely valuable! I discovered several areas of my applications that have areas where security can be improved.
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ASP.NET and the .NET framework have provided web developers with tools that allow them an unprecedented degree of flexibility and productivity. However, these sophisticated tools make it easier than ever to miss the little details that allow security vulnerabilities to creep into an application. Since ASP.NET 2.0, Microsoft has done a fantastic job of integrating security into the ASP.NET framework, but the responsibility is still on application developers to understand the limitations of the framework and ensure that their own code is secure.
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|DEV544.1: Data Validation
|Aaron Cure, Eric Johnson
Mon Jun 15th, 2015
Improper data validation is the root cause of the most prevalent web application vulnerabilities today. On the first day of this course, students will examine some of the most prevalent web application vulnerabilities, such as XSS, SQL Injection, Open Redirects and Parameter Manipulation. You will learn how to find these issues and how to re-create them in a running application. Then you will use a variety of methods to actually fix these vulnerabilities in your C# code.
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CPE/CMU Credits: 6
|DEV544.2: Authentication and Session Management
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Tue Jun 16th, 2015
A secure architecture is vital for mission-critical .NET applications. This course day examines various built-in .NET security features such as cryptography, password storage, web service security, and many other .NET features you should consider while writing secure code. A number of hand-on exercises will guide you through writing a cryptography utility for storing sensitive data and user passwords, protecting data in memory, exploiting a running application using DLL Injection and much more.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
|DEV544.3: .NET Framework Security
|Aaron Cure, Eric Johnson
Wed Jun 17th, 2015
Understanding how to leverage .NET to design a secure architecture with solid secure coding principals is critical to application security. This course day combines tried and tested information security principals with secure coding principals to help you build rock-solid applications.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
|DEV544.4: Secure Software Development Lifecycle
|Aaron Cure, Eric Johnson
Thu Jun 18th, 2015
This session looks at each phase of the secure software development lifecycle (SDLC) and discusses how security fits into the process. Using what they have learned about web application vulnerabilities, students will review code from an open-source application to identify various vulnerabilities. Then you will perform security testing and actually exploit these weaknesses. Once these weaknesses have been exploited, you will fix them using the security coding techniques learned during the course.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
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The Stetson women's soccer team returns home for its regular season finale on Saturday, playing host to league-leading Florida Gulf Coast at 5:00 p.m. at the Athletic Training Center.
After dropping a pair of difficult road contests at Kennesaw State and Mercer last weekend, the Hatters (6-8-2, 4-3-1) find themselves in a tie for third place in the Atlantic Sun Conference standings with both the Owls and the Bears.
Stetson would clinch a spot in the A-Sun Championship with a win on Saturday against FGCU (11-3-3, 6-0-2), but could also earn a berth into the tournament with a tie or a loss. The Hatters lead sixth place Lipscomb by four points, and hold a six point advantage over ETSU and North Florida. The top six teams make the tournament.
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Stetson seniors Virginia Davis, Amber Grose, Kait Jones, Victoria Troccoli, Alexis Trybinski, and Alyssa Welsh will be honored in a special Senior Day Presentation prior to Saturday's match.
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• The Hatters are currently tied for third place in the league standings with 13 points after falling on the road to Kennesaw State and Mercer.
• The Hatters haven't reached the A-Sun Tournament since 2010 when Stetson reached the semifinals.
• Stetson took part in the A-Sun Tournament for eight straight seasons from 2003 to 2010.
• Welsh leads Stetson with 10 points on the season (4 goals, 2 assists), while Jones (4 goals) and Grose (1 goal, 6 assists) are tied for second with eight points.
• Grose's six assists are tied for third most in the Atlantic Sun Conference.
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• FGCU holds a 5-1-0 advantage over Stetson in the all-time series, which dates back to a 3-2 Hatter victory in the first ever meeting back in 2007.
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Following a hearty hawk breakfast, a rescued red-shouldered hawk was released near St. George on Saturday morning. The hawk was rescued earlier in December and had been recuperating in Morgantown....
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