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Some old wives' tales are myths, and some even dangerous -- but others are real, and backed by medical science. Check out this collection of old wives' tales that are true.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away: Research at the University of Ulster found that apple phenols protect against colon cancer. Researchers at Cornell University also found that up to six apples a day can prevent breast cancer in primates, and believe this may also apply to humans
Hot tubs may decrease chances of pregnancy: A three-year study at the University of San Francisco found men who switched to showers instead of their normal hour-long hot baths had sperm counts that rose nearly 500 percent.
Long labor, must be a boy: Researchers at Dublin's National Maternity Hospital studied 8,000 births and found that mothers of boys were significantly more likely to have longer labor and more complications.
Don't swim right after eating: The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority says after a meal, blood is diverted to the digestive tract to help assist with the digestive process. Exercise diverts blood to muscles, so it is possible that vigorous exercise after a meal could lead to cramps.
Wear a hat to hold onto your body heat: U.S. military research in the Arctic in the 1950s found up to 80 percent of body heat was loss through the uncovered heads of volunteers. Subsequent research conducted in Army labs qualified the claim, finding that a body at rest loses 7 to 10 percent of heat through the head, and during exercise, up to 50 percent, according to TLC: How Things Work.
Eat your carrots: Researchers at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam found that eating high levels of beta carotene - the compound that gives carrots their coloring - as well as vitamins C, E and zinc, lowers the chance of age-related macular degeneration by up to 35 percent. Other sources of beta carotene include pumpkins, sweet potatoes, pink grapefruit and spinach.
Gain a child, lose a tooth: New York University College of Dentistry did a study of more than 2,500 women and found that as the number of children increases, so does the mother's risk of losing teeth. More children also led to a greater risk of developing periodontal disease.
Drink cranberry juice for a bladder infection: A study done at Harvard Medical School showed that properties in cranberries destroy bacteria clinging to the wall of the bladder. Blackberry juice has a similar effect.
Chicken soup fights a cold: Allabouthhealth.org/UK says that in the 1980s, researchers from the University of Nebraska Medical Center found chicken soup has anti-inflammatory properties that help soothe a cold. Other researchers have found that the amino acid, cysteine, is a byproduct of chicken soup, seems to reduce the inflammatory response that comes from colds and other upper-respiratory infections.
Willow bark tea can cure a fever: The University of Maryland Medical Center says the use of willow bark dates back to the time of Hippocrates (400 BC) when patients were advised to chew on the bark to reduce fever and inflammation. The bark of white willow contains salicin, a chemical similar to aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid). In the 1800s, salicin was used to develop aspirin. White willow appears to bring pain relief more slowly than aspirin, but its effects may last longer.
Swallowing gum can plug up your intestines: Swallowing a huge wad of gum or swallowing many small pieces of gum in a short time can cause a blockage within the digestive system called a bezoar, most often in children who have a smaller-diameter digestive tract than adults, according to Scientific America. But the condition is extremely rare.
Fish is brain food: Fish oil is high in the essential fatty omega-3 and omega-6, which are good for brain health and function. According to Dr. Jennifer Thieman, a recent study showed that, among people over age 65, those with high fish intake showed a lower rate of cognitive decline. Another study, done at Oxford University, found that children with coordination problems who were given omega-3 and omega-6 EFAs over three months showed significant improvements in school performance.
Thumb sucking gives children buck teeth: Unless a thumb sucking child stops before age 4, gums, jaw and permanent teeth can be affected, causing the condition known as buck teeth, according to Kids Health from Nemours.
You'll snore more if you sleep on your back: Sleeping on your back allows gravity to make your tongue fall back into your throat, partially blocking the airway, causing your tongue to vibrate as air passes, increasing snoring, according to the British Snoring and Sleep Apnea Association.
Chewing parsley cures bad breath: Parsley has long been known to counteract garlic breath. Herbalist Dee Atkins says that the high sulphur content of garlic that causes the unpleasant odor it counteracted by compounds in parsley. But putting parsley in food to cure bad breath doesn't work. It takes chewing a sprig of fresh parsley.
Loud music will ruin your hearing: Over time, repeated exposure to loud music or noise can cause hearing loss, according to U.S. National Library of Medicine. Sounds above 80 decibels may cause vibration intense enough to permanently damage the inner ear, especially if the sound continues for a long time.
Spider webs stop bleeding, heal wounds: In traditional European medicine, spider webs are used on wounds and cuts to help healing and reduce bleeding. Spider webs are rich in vitamin K, which can be effective in clotting blood. arachnologist Rainer Foelix says a coating on webs may protect old and abandoned webs from fungal and bacterial attack, giving spider webs an antiseptic quality.
Full moon causes seizures: Researchers at the University of Patras Medical School in Greece found "significant clustering of seizures" around the full moon in a study involving hundreds of patients.
"I can feel it in my bones:" Researchers at Instituto Poal de Reumatologia in Barcelona found that arthritic patients had increased joint pain when there was a drop in atmospheric pressure.
Heartburn during pregnancy means a hairy baby: Pregnant women who reported moderate heartburn had hairy newborns 82 percent of the time while the majority of heartburn-free women gave birth to bald babies, according to a study done by researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Researchers surmise that the pregnancy hormones that stimulate fetal hair growth, also relax the esophageal sphincter, allowing stomach acid to back up into the esophagus and causing heartburn.
Breakfast is my most important meal of the day: Skipping breakfast can lead to low blood sugar. Once food is eaten later, insulin levels shoot up, leading to hunger later in the day and disposition of fat in the abdomen, according to Dr. Judith Reichman, NBC Today Health. Non-breakfasting individuals are more likely to become obese, and to develop heart disease and have higher and earlier rates of mortality, she says.
Trout jump high when rain is nigh: When rain is impending, low pressure systems generally occur, according to Accuweather.com. The lowering of pressure can cause plant particles that were trapped at the bottom of a lake to rise, providing food for small fish. The small fish, in turn, become food for larger fish. The saying may be referring to this increased activity, and not necessarily jumping trout in particular.
Vitamin C Cures Colds: The belief that vitamin C cures colds goes back to disputed claims made by Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling in 1970. TLC, How Stuff Works, reported that in 2007, a sweeping review of 60 years of studies found that taking 200 milligrams of vitamin C every day shortened the duration of colds by a day, and it also seemed to cut the incidence of colds in people who were under extreme stress by 50 percent. Researchers say the antioxidant effect of vitamin C also helps rebuild molecules that are damaged during everyday activities.
Bees never get caught in a rain: Bees stick close to their hives just prior to rain. According to experts, bees use light from the sky to orient themselves. Before it rains, there are ice crystals in the clouds which foul bees' ability to "see," so they move inside before it rains, according to Examiner.com.
Red sky at night, sailors' delight: When we see a red sky at night, this means that the setting sun is sending its light through a high concentration of dust particles, according to the Library of Congress, Everyday Mysteries. This usually indicates high pressure and stable air coming in from the west. Typically, good weather will follow.
Red sky in morning, sailors take warning: A red sunrise reflects the dust particles of a system that has just passed from the west, according to the Library of Congress, Everyday Mysteries. This indicates that a storm system may be moving to the east. If the morning sky is a deep fiery red, it means a high water content in the atmosphere. So, rain is on its way.
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Press Release From the Office of State Senator Rodney Ellis
For Immediate Release
May 24, 2005 Contact:
Jeremy Warren, (512) 463-0113
(Austin)//The Texas House today passed legislation by Senator Rodney Ellis (D-Houston) to boost jury pay. House Judiciary Chairman Will Hartnett (R-Dallas) champions effort to pass first jury pay raise in over 50 years. The legislation is now likely on its way to Governor Rick Perry's desk.
The low compensation rate is making it more difficult for counties to attract jurors, and reducing diversity in the jury box. Senate Bill 1704 would provide a pay raise for Texas juries for the first time since 1954, when the current rate of $6 a day was established. It would increase compensation to $40 a day by charging an additional $4 fee on criminal convictions.
"If you did not receive a pay raise in 50 years, you'd walk off the job too," said Ellis. "That's what is happening now. As a result, we are flirting with having our court system being ruled unconstitutional because the jury box is not representative of Texas."
Low income and minority Texans are currently drastically underrepresented on juries at levels that experts warn jeopardize the Constitutional legitimacy of many convictions. Latinos, for example, compromise more than 30% of the population of Dallas and Harris counties, but make up only 10% of the jury venires.
"This change was critically-needed and long overdue," said Hartnett.
The primary reason cited for this low level of jury participation, is the dismal level at which Texas compensates jurors. At $6 a day, Texas ranks dead last in the nation in what we pay our jurors; at 0 percent, Texas also ranks dead last when it comes to helping counties foot the bill for juror pay. In contrast, many states require that jurors be paid at least $50/day and contribute 100% of the funds to help their counties pay for jurors.
Studies have shown that when financial barriers to jury participation are decreased, participation drastically increases. In 1999, El Paso County increased jury pay to $40 a day which helped their jury show-up rate more than double. When the State of New York increased jury pay, their jury participation more than tripled.
"Hard working Texans who struggle to earn a living wage, can't afford to miss an entire day of work for $6," said Ellis. "Six dollars rarely even covers the cost of parking at the courthouse. We can improve justice and dramatically improve diversity by requiring criminals pay $4 more."

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Dear Editor,
Tell met they are not "Serious" about ending coal production in our nation.
Coal mines have been around since the beginning of time. Man has used fossil fuel to heat, manufacture and several other uses for what seems forever. Coal is as apple pie and baseball are to our society and to just up and decide we no longer need it is just ignorant.
Before long we will also be barred from burning wood. The financial impact to our local economy will be staggering. Everyone I know here in the Ohio Valley has an uncle, brother, father, sister, or cousin who works the coal fields and mines. Coal is our last economic income and good income. These folks risk their lives everyday deep in the earth and around dangerous high walls to provide for us affordable energy.
Any MONEY you have left over each month, if any, you are blessed enough to have, will now go to your electric bill. If you think hard times are here now, just wait … poverty is just around the bend. I guess candles and kerosene will be the new normal for a lot of us who live pay day to pay day. I believe it is now time for US to get "serious" and get "serious" soon. The war on coal is REAL as it's going to get and We The People have to band together if we are to maintain our lifestyle and not just survive from one dollar to the next. A few years back I wrote this in honor of our miners.
"A Legacy of Coal"
From Lafferty to Bannock to Fairpoint on down,
From Midway to Maynard, coal mines were found.
To Crescent to Barton to Blaine down below,
Company houses, hundreds in a row.
Grandpa and Daddy, they all worked the coal,
The blackdamp, explosions, all took their toll.
Mommy would worry, but Daddy would Smile.
I Love You, darling, I'll be back in a while.
Into the darkness with shovel and pick,
We placed in the coal yards, a ball and a stick.
The whistle would echo, the start of a shift,
When Daddy came home, Mom's spirit did lift.
A lifetime of labor to a country we love,
Miners makes a difference with God's help from above.
Why are things changing? Why no respect?
What has happened to the people we elect?
My memories so vivid, just living our goal,
God Bless America, a legacy of coal.
Richard A. Lucas


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There aren't very many things I don't feel comfortable talking about. There's the saying about how you don't talk about politics, religion, or money–I'm devoting my professional life to the study of politics, and I love talking about religion because it's an easy way to wind people up. Money, I don't talk about much, but that's probably related to my having so little. That might change later.
About a third of what comes out of my mouth is either sexual innuendo or scatological humor. I fart at the dinner table and talk about it openly. You get the idea. Really, there are only two things that I think are off the table for discussion: first, my social life from ages 11 to 16. I don't want to talk about that for the same reason Mark McGwire doesn't want to talk about the past–it was a dark phase that I regret and would rather pretend didn't happen.
The other off-limits topic of conversation has to do with the time, my junior year of college, when I went to a party in Columbia, SC, on Friday and woke up 18 hours later in a barn in Tennessee with my pants on backwards, my torso covered in blue and green paint and a goat tied to my left arm. I don't know what happened, and I'm fairly comfortable keeping it that way.
But today, I feel like adding some things to that list. Here are six Phillies-related topics or phrases that I could really go the rest of my life without ever hearing again.
1) "That home run hasn't landed yet…." This one we get a lot as Phillies fans, both because of Matt Stairs' massive dinger in the 2008 NLCS and because Brad Lidge's flakiness has largely been attributed to a similar moon shot he surrendered to Albert Pujols in the 2005 NLCS. It was funny the first time, but after 18 months, it was like we were playing word association. If I say "Matt Stairs," you say "That home run hasn't landed yet." It happened just about every time the 2008 NLCS comes up, which, for Phillies fans, is about 2 or 3 times a day, and justifiably so.
Someone said it, and then a we all started repeating it, and then national commentators started saying it, not realizing that Sal in the Northeast says it when he calls 610 and 6-year-old Dabney Horowitz from Cherry Hill says it when he brings in his Phillies cap for kindergarten show-and-tell. The almost Pavlovian fixation with the phrase "that home run hasn't landed yet" needs to end before someone (read: me) snaps and goes all Brett Myers on some poor, unsuspecting schmuck who thinks it's still clever.
I watched that game, and that home run was certainly a prodigious one. But I distinctly remember the ball traveling in a ballistic arc. I guarantee you that that home run has, in fact, landed by now.
2) Most of what Chris Wheeler says.
I was running this post by the other writers yesterday, and our founder/CEO/Praetor/Dictator-for-Life Brian Michael sent me this. (Careful when you click on it, it's red background/white text, and after reading it for about 6 or 7 minutes, I was convinced that I had done irreparable damage to my retinas).
It's a Chris Wheeler glossary, and it got me thinking. One night in my college newsroom, I opened up soundboards for Borat, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Captain Picard, and decided that I was only going to communicate through those clips all night. The crazy part is that I didn't realize how lame that was until just now.
I'm not a Wheels hater by any stretch of the imagination, but could you replace Chris Wheeler with a bunch of recordings of this he's said in the past without anyone noticing except T-Mac? I say you could.
3) Griping About the Cliff Lee Trade
I wanted him to stay too. Visions of a top-three of Halladay, Lee, and a pissed-off Cole Hamels danced in my head too. But if I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times–you'd regret not getting something for him later, when it's 2012 and the core of this team is either old or gone. Maybe you think pushing it all in now and saying, "the hell with competing past 2011" is worth it. Maybe you think getting a bad first-rounder and a sandwich pick would have beaten getting Aumont, Gilles, and Ramirez. That's fine.
But please stop lining up to jump off the Walt Whitman Bridge when Aumont has a bad outing. Please stop whining every time Ramirez takes the mound for the Phillies or Lee takes the mound for the Mariners. I get it. You're mad. You think it's a bad trade. But Roy Halladay's in town, and the team is, at worst, just as good as in 2009. So calm down. Take deep breaths. Smoke a J. Eat some chocolate cake. But this constant anger (and I realize that we're Philadelphia sports fans) is only going to end in a stroke. We won't be able to accurately evaluate this trade until about 2013 anyway, so let's not spend the next 3 years crapping our pants.
4) "Professional Hitter"
This one comes courtesy of my friend, Special Agent X. He's a government operative, so I'm a little wary of divulging his real name. The only reason I know it is because he and I have been friends since high school. At least, I think I know his real name.
At any rate, he's developed this little tic whenever an announcer or a pundit calls Ryan Howard a "professional hitter." Not because he, and others like him, are not paid to hit, but because of the perception that a "professional hitter" is a particular type of hitter. You see, anyone who is paid to play baseball, from Howard to Tagg Bozied, is a professional hitter, American League pitchers excepted. Let's ditch this one for "slugger," or "masher," or something more appropriately descriptive. I know it's true, but there's gotta be a better way to say it.
5) Referring to players by first, middle, and last name
"Clifton Phifer Lee." "Colbert Michael Hamels." Of course, this gets its genesis with Harry Kalas (God rest his soul)'s famous "Michael Jack Schmidt." But since then, it's been bastardized and used on just about anyone for emphasis. Not just Cliff Lee, but Clifton Phifer Lee. Whoa. In that case….
It's tired. Let's leave the 3-name thing to people like Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Anthony Michael Hall.
Now, for the one that's been bugging me for the longest. Those of you who don't like long posts may want to take a pee break and come back to this one later. We could be here a while.
6) Linking Players' Home States to Their Personalities
If I had a dollar for every time I had heard an athlete called "not a Philly kind of guy," I'd be writing this entry from a well-appointed flat in Paris. Or maybe I wouldn't, because I'd have so much money that I'd spend most of my waking hours extricating beautiful women from my Lamborghini.
There is a sort of hard-nosed, self-effacing athlete that we Philadelphians take to. Brain Dawkins comes immediately to mind. Bobby Clarke. Cliff Lee. But you know what, everyone likes that kind of athlete. And some of the most popular superstars ever in this city were definitely not that type. Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton were hard-working and immensely talented, but both could be surly. Allen Iverson owned this town, but as soon as the Sixers disintegrated and he stopped winning MVP awards, he was "not a Philly kind of guy." Ditto Eric Lindros. Donovan McNabb takes crap for smiling too much during close games. He's the greatest quarterback this city's ever seen, and arguably the greatest offensive player in Eagle history. Let's denigrate him for smiling too much. What a farce.
You know what the "Philly type of guy" is? A guy who plays well, keeps out of trouble, and, ideally, helps the team win games. I'd wager that that's what denizens of any city want out of their athletes.
So let's move on to the aforementioned Cole Hamels. He was a "Philly type of guy" when he was mowing down hitters in the 2008 playoffs, but the instant he slipped up and started getting frustrated, the populace turned on him like a pack of jackals. Now "he's a flaky kid from San Diego" or "You know Cole, he's not a Philly type of guy–he's too Southern California."
I'm confused as to what Cole Hamels' hometown has to do with his attitude. Being from California isn't the reason that Brad Lidge and Jimmy Rollins struggled last year, nor is it the reason that Chase Utley has been so consistently excellent. Shane Victorino's not a fun-loving, energetic dude because he's from Hawaii–I think he'd be exactly the same if he were from Michigan.
But being from San Diego makes you a head case, evidently. So that means that we wouldn't want San Diego native Ted Williams on our team–too flaky. (Though, in all fairness, Teddy Ballgame's head is in a case at the moment)
The simple fact of the matter is that linking a person's personality to his geographic origin is lazy thinking and, worse, usually not germane to the discussion.
Let's never speak of these things again. Total WAR VII goes up tomorrow.
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I agree with some.. and don't agree with others..
1. The Matt Stairs homerun.. was not only HUGE in the situation, the game, the series, etc . . . it was a FREAKING MOONSHOT. . . That is the most NO DOUBT ABOUT IT HOMERUN that I can remember in Phillies history. So while that phrase "It hasn't landed yet…" is old, jaded, etc.. If anyone was to say that about any HomeRun.. THAT is the one. It was like the HomeRun Derby, but in one of the games in Phillies history.
2. .. I thank God for Chris Wheeler.. he's passionate.. he knows his stuff, stories, stats, trades, etc. He's a dork . . . but no more than any other baseball announcer. Im glad he's with the Phillies, and I hope he's here forever (and Yes, I know that I'm def in the minority on this one)
4. I think of "Professional Hitter" as an honory title . . . a guy that battles.. and guys like Ichiro, and Polanco come to mind. The goal of a hitter isn't to hit a HR … it's to do something/anything productive for your offense.. Some guys are great all-around players.. while some guys truely are PROFESSIONAL HITTERS
6. … you kinda had me going here.. but then you got on a McNabb kick. The greatest QB EVER.. for a franchise that's never won the Super Bowl (aka, World's Tallest Midget)..
People just get mad that Hamels is seemingly so laid-back… and doesn't show his emotions like Brett Myers.. or the entire 1993 Phillies team.
But, I will take talent over "Philly type of guy" every single time..
It does have something to do with where you come from though because a kid from New York is generally more agressive.. a kid from Texas is a COWBOY, Gun-sligner, etc . . .and the California guys are generally pretty laid back ..
stereotypes exist for a reason.. and in Hamels' case he fits the SO CAL surfer image perfectly.
Ted Williams WAS flaky. Even Boston hated him. He spit at people, fought with the media, bragged endlessly and dogged it in the outfield. He wasn't a Boston kinda guy. New York would have loved him. Hey, as much as it may be wrong, a lot of cities DO have their own personality types and, by extension, their own brand of player. Philly, Boston, and Chicago (blue collar) love hard nosed players. New York (Broadway) likes showmanship mixed in with their players. L.A. (laid back, to say the least) likes players that act like they don't give a hang, yhus mirroring the fan base themselves. If Kirk Gibson hit that homer for Philly he they would have changed the name of the town to Gibsonadelphia…or…er… something like that. Soooooooooo………players can be indentified by the team they play for, or they can be miscast in a particular town. Examples of miscast players: Schmidt in Philly; Dave Stanley in Boston; ARod in Texas; Richie Allen in Philly; Roger Maris with NYY and there's more. Its true, Michael.
One more thing. I am a reknowned Chris Wheeler hater. Aside from being a lap dog company man, he has a terrible voice, a snide Mr. Know It All commentating style, and a penchant for analyzing the finest baseball points into dust. While I don't know much about him personally, I know that at various times, Harry Kalas and Larry Anderson wouldn't work with him. Sarge belittled him every chance he got when they worked together to the point where "Wheels" stomped up and down and got Sarge demoted. The fact that people just can't get along with Wheeler, along with the Phils unwillingness to just let him go, are the reasons why our broadcasts feature 14 different broadcasters. "T-Mac" is the only one that doesn't seem to mind him. Scott F., Sarge, and LA should be doing the games and "Wheels" should be sent down to Lehigh Valley.
The Dipsy
SARGE should learn the English language
LA is too goofy.. not professional enough, he's a homer, etc.. and that's why we love him..
Franzke should be the future..
Tmac's voice bothers me more than Wheels does..
and I just like the fact that Wheels remembers vivid details of Phillies history.. and not like stats he would've had ahead of time.. anytime a crazy situation happens, he's able to tell you the last people, when a similar play happened, etc. .
Don, love ya babe, but I don't care about the last time something happened. I would guess that he probably has some intern shoving that info in front of his face. I would like crisp, concise color commentary mixed with a sense of humor. The words "Chris Wheeler" and "color" should never appear in the same sentence. He's terrible. Back in the day, he used to do play by play with Richie doing color. That was not nearly as bad. I would love to see Sarge and Wheels work three innings together and see how long it takes for Sarge to make Wheels cry.
The Dipsy
Got a Cherry Hill shout out, woo! haha
I am glad we have a diverse personality range in our broadcast booths. I really still miss both the team of Harry and Whitey and miss them individually. However, I am a Phillies fan for over a half century and am starting to appreciate what we have today. If I start reliving the days of By Saam and Bill Campbell, then I might die. Not because they were bad announcers, but because the teams were so futile. As long as we win, then I will tolerate Chris Wheeler, who is by far the biggest asshole in the booth. But I will give him this: he does know his stuff pretty well. As long as we win. Every group needs a villain and Wheeler is good at this role.
I wish Chris Wheeler's knowledge of baseball could progress into the 20th century with the rest of us. I'd probably settle for the early 1990s, though.
I actually feel that life in Hawaii was part of the reason Shane Victorino is an energetic, fun-loving guy. Nurture AND nature, you know that kind of thing. How can you not be happy when you live where everyone wants to visit and are basically the most successful baseball player your state's ever had?
Since it seems like we're flowing here with #2…Chris Wheeler….I'm on record for saying that I like the guy. Is he the greatest announcer ever? No. But he's a very good analyst. He brings things up that, honestly, I wouldn't have even though of unless he brought them up. And that only enhances my experience as a viewer.
Scott Franske, in my opinion, is the best PLAY-BY-PLAY man this city has ever seen (sorry, I loved Harry….Franske's better) And the combo with L.A. is awesome.
T-Mac is ok, I guess. No harm. No foul.
Sarge is a boob.
Oh no you didn't. Take it back, Chuck. I mean it. Fun is fun but opining that Franske is a better analyst than Kalas is nothing short of sacrilege. Unreal. So, to sum up, your position is that Wheeler is a good analyst and Franske is the best analyst the Phils have ever had? Whoa. Pass the dutchie, my friend. The only way that Chris Wheeler could ever enhance MY experience as a viewer is to spontaneously combust on camera.
The Dipsy
The Dramatic,
what is it that you, personally, don't like about Wheeler?
As far as I can tell.. there is a feud between Harry and Wheels.. from all the way back when games used to be broadcast on PRISM
yea, that long ago..
Sarge is the dumbest announcer in sports..
Don. Read a couple of posts up. Name me one analyst currently broadcasting in ANY sport that never played that sport. I doubt that Wheels ever made it to American Legion ball. Does that take away from his credibility? For me, it does. Trust me, I would entertain you more than Wheels and I would also leave out those incessant stupid phrases that he always uses. Less mind numbing analysis and more color. He's a drone. I find his personality to be ….well, he really has no personality. He's just a grab asser, Don. Thats how he got his job. He's been licking boots from the mail room all the way up to the booth. He's just a snarky little man. And if you're gonna wear a toupee, can you get a decent one? That thing almost bit Garry Maddox once.
As for the Sarge, he is a funny dude. See, he's like… a …real person. He's says goofy stuff that I personally think is hilarious sometimes. Does he know he's actually saying it? Prolly not. AND he provides color (no pun intended). See, I would like to hear about when this play or that play happened to Gary one night in Atlanta in 1975 and have him retell a relevant story than listen to Wheels drive home the same point by relying on something that John Vukovich told him during a gin game once. Wheels sucks in EVERY way, Don.
The Dipsy
This is possibly one of the best pieces I've read here. It is well thought out and well written. Its points are made not by preaching, but by reasoning and humor.
I particularly agree with the last part, about linking personalities with states. That's something I always find incredibly stupid. It would be like saying Alaskans are all Eskimos or Hawaiians all Hula dancers. It would be like those old depictions of black men with bug-eyes and watermelons under their arms, saying "Yassuh."
Someone here has claimed that L.A. fans want "laid back" types, and yet Maury Wills was not only one of the most "hard-nosed" players ever, but also one of the most popular in Dodgers history, and Kirk Gibson's feat is famous precisely because he was tough enough to hit when he could barely stand. I haven't lived in any of those other places mentioned, so–unlike some who claim they're knowledgeable–I won't comment on their heroes or their ideals. Maybe stereotypes exist for a reason, but maybe that reason is not the few oddballs who stand out, but the people looking for excuses to look down their noses at the rest of a state's population.
I might add that I've never met a gunslinger from Texas or anywhere else, unless you count police officers. I did, however, know a biker from Los Angeles who wore a cowboy hat and always carried a butcher knife.
Let's not forget terribly generic nicknames like T-Mac, A-Rod, and (worst of all) J-Roll. Let's stop this orgy of creative lack once and for all please.
Even though I agree with No. 6, I must say this: Michael you have issues.
the werth the wait stuff and finalee is annoying
Those of you hate on Wheels, must not listen to many other team broadcasters. Dipsy, you simply do not like the guy and that is fine, but he does an ok job in my book. Saying that I do not have to listen to him every night. I live in VT with Directv and have the MLB package, work nights and TiVo all the games and watch when I get home. So the people I have to listen to is a crap shoot. But I have heard them all, ok not all just teams philly plays against, and pretty much outside of the Nats guys, whom are probably not the most professional booths guys out their they are a riot. But some of the other teams, Rockies, Padres, Marlins, to name a few are just plain terrible. So before you go hating on Wheels spend a few weeks listening to some other local yahoos and you will see why Wheels stays around.
Oh Yea and Dodger games where Vin Scully talks to himself, I mean he is good play by play guy, but it is just a little off when he poses rhetorical questions to himself
I agree with almost everything here.
I think Chris Wheeler is a good announcer. The stuff he says that annoys people like "No doubles defense" etc. are useful as a fan watching T.V. Also, the Phillies have a pretty good announcing team. T-Mac kind of bothers me, but other than that its fine.
I love when Sarge points out that a guy is a "fastball hitter." Aren't all baseball players fastball hitters?
Phillies management is supposedly making Wheels take that muskrat from his head and cage it in the booth for the telecasts. It bit Sarge last year during one of the games and caused him to garble a lot of words and to make nonsensical comments. I think it was opening day last year.
In considering who are the bad announcers, I always use Tim McCarver as my benchmark. So far, everyone else has scored better in every single way. In a recent study, it was shown that prolonged exposure to Tim McCarver causes destruction of television sets, brain damage, and testicular cancer.
I would just like to sound off on the whole Chris "Wheelz" Wheeler topic.
I have read plenty of negative things about him. Basically, I haven't a clue with whom he got along or who he treated poorly, but this I do know…
I have never liked that douche bag! And, in the earlier days, he was always dumber than a box or rocks.
The Phillies are a religion in my family. You are raised from day one to know it's God, Family, Phillies, Self… and on most days Phillies get listed before Family (and on a few occasions even before God).
My grandmother refused to let the doctors take her in to the O.R. for her scheduled open heart surgery until the Phillies/Royals game was over. So, they waited and the Phillies won. She has since past away, and I have inherited the baseball the 1980 World Series Champs autographed in her honor… She loved them like family.
Oh, back to "Wheelz"… He just rubs me and the rest of my family the wrong way. Sure, we were in our glory with the likes of Whitey, HK, Musser, and Tastykakes (whatever happened to that Tastykake jingle you got to hear 20 times a game?). I recall a simpler time when my cable company carried "Prism" (Prism was a kind of Philadelphia Home Sports channel slathered in HBO and dipped in Skin-o-Max). Now, as I said it was a simpler time… Chris Wheeler sucked the life out of the broadcast booth during home televised games. However, the world wasn't as jaded… So, the TV delay was all but non-existent. That fact allowed every Philly fan watching the Phills on Prism to turn off their TV volume and place their radios on top of the TV… Ahhhhh… thereby neutralizing the the aforementioned Bag O' Douche.
I miss those non Wheeler days. Just like I miss Harry Kalas, Richie Ashburn, Michael Jack Schmidt, and hearing Larry Andersen on the TV (sure he's a "homer" but he tells it like its is… If you're a Phil and you act like a bum, he'll call you a bum, and he has no problem utilizing self-deprecating humor… He's a natural).
I suppose what I'm trying to say is, I'd trade a million Wheelz for one HK and then I'd be ripping off the poor fella' who gave up HK. I personally believe Harry at this very point in time is still displaying far more talent than Wheelz. (aka Bag O' Douche)
First off, this is a great post. I was hooked right from the subject line – not only the proper usage but even the proper pluralization of moratorium? On a sports commentary blog? Awesome, man. I dig a writer who uses the full range of the wonderful English language.
Generally I agree with the points mentioned in the post, even if some of them don't bother me as much as it seems they bother other people.
I know I'm not alone in wishing Scott Franzke and Larry Anderson were doing the TV commentary – I honestly look forward to the days when I know I'll be in the car around gametime and can listen to the game on the radio. But I can honestly say that I can deal with Chris Wheeler – he's annoying at times, but gets the job done. But Sarge… oh, Sarge. The man who speaks in an agonizingly slow drawl of about 3 words per minute, repeats himself over and over again (just as slowly every time), and after dragging the pace of the game to a halt he'll usually just end up rambling something incredibly *ahem* profound along the lines of "Great diving catch, you can see here he just dives, and comes up with the ball, that's just the kind of diving catch where a guy dives and he catches that ball before it has a chance to go past him and not be caught like it would be caught if he dived for it, which is just what he did there, he dove, and he caught it."
(Obviously that's not an actual quote, but read it with a Sarge voice in your head – it's exactly how he announces. Describing in excruciatingly repetitive fashion what just happened as if highlighting some brilliantly deep facet of the game that only a wise man such as he would notice. No one in my house can stand to listen to the man.)
Enjoyed the post and the comments. Wheels is a good guy to have in the booth – like Gary Dellabate (sp?) on Stern – has a lot of good info, but generally irritating, not a broadcaster, shouldn't have the spotlight. I like Anderson and Frankze the best, but can't get the radio broadcast at home consistently (in NEPA), can live with the rest, even Sarge (more so for the unintentional comedy). When the Phils play the Mets, I switch back and forth between comcast and SNY, probably favor SNY a bit more.
If McCarver and Buck, I turn off the sound. Can't stand either of those condescending…guys.
I stand by my post at 6:12 last night…… Chris Wheeler is a "very good analyst" and Scott Franske is the "best play-by-play man this city has ever seen."
I also said that I thought that "Sarge is a boob." By that I mean that he's a TERRIBLE analyst. Yeah, maybe he's funny, like you said, but it doesn't come off well on the air.
Sorry, Dip Man. I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one, huh??
^I DO like Sarge's hats, though
Did anybody like Jim Barniak and Garry Maddox on Prism besides me? I thought Maddox was a tremendous color guy. When he came on the Channel 17 broadcasts (thats what we used to call it) he would do color for some home games. Good analysis, self effacing, with a a Venus Flytrap kind of mellow delivery. Very cool. They wanted to hire him full time but he didn't take the job because he didn't want to travel (so he told the Dipsy himself in a tavern one afternoon). Ah well. My dad used to really dislike Any Musser but I would take Andy 1000 times over "Wheels". Now that I've made a WKRP in Cincinnati reference, Wheels is definitely Herb Tarlek. Right down to the white shoes and belt.
The Dipsy
Herb Tarlek?? Maybe I can see SOME of that. I still like Wheels though,..Andy Musser was good too.
And just for the record….my pronouncement that I think that Franske is the "best play-by-play guy this city has had"…..that takes ABSOLUTELY NOTHING away from Harry.
Harry Kalas was the best all around announcer of any kind for any sport that Philly has had. He was ….and I realize that I'm violating Michael's #6 in his article….Harry Kalas was as "Philly" as you can get. He had such a personality and he was MORE than just a TV or radio guy. He was really an "ambassador" for not only the Phillies but the game of baseball.
Harry touched so many people, young and old, and that's a rare gift. My twelve year old son cried the day he died and loved him so much that he put on his Christmas list this past year that he wanted an "HK" patch. (It was in his stocking). That's from a 12 year old.
Maybe in 30 years Scott Franske will have been elevated to that level in this town. Who knows? He's very, very good….I think he's as "pure" of a play- by- play as there is. He's always technically correct, has great delivery and a great voice, and he knows his stuff. Maybe L.A. makes him better. So what. That's a good thing.
This post has had me in tears laughing this morning.
Chuck, Dipsy, Don,
All I have to say is "you can't make this *&^* up"
For the record, I think Franske is tremendous.
The Dipsy
For some reason that didn't work. Just go to YouTube and search Harry Kalas. It's the vid of him calling the final out of the 2008 WS and Wheels is next to him.
On the topic of who is the best,
I grew up listening to Harry when I lived in PA, in fact he lived in the same neighborhood, so I am impartial to HK, but Franske is very good, I liked Andy Musser as well.
Of course nothing is as good as Whitey and Harry
I think i just like Wheels because he has studied the game so much, that he tells you exactly what to look for in the coming situation . . . and then he tells you why the team is doing it
(which most of US already know.. but when I'm wathichg the game the wifey.. it helps when Wheels answers her questions, instead of me having to do it)
Where T-Mac would just say.. "And the Phillies, now in a No-Doubles defense" .. doesn't describe anything..
Wheels would give you "Phillies going into a No-Doubles defense, they're guarding the lines at 1st & 3rd . . . Outfielders are playing a few steps back.. they want to make sure they keep the ball in front of them here. It's no big deal if a hit drops in, but they want to make sure they keep everything in front of them, and keep guys out of scoring position" .. etc..
Tmac, "And uh.. Wheels.. how about Sarge had BBQ sauce all over his face when he was eating ribs earlier (and then give us a nice, fake laugh)"
Wheels to me.. yea, company guy, kiss-a$$ ??, maybe.. how would we know..
but he cares the most.. its his LIFE.. whereas for guys like Tmac, its a job
and I actually love the combination of Tmac & Wheels.. SO MUCH compared to Tmac & Sarge.. I almost can't watch the games in the 4th-6th innings.. it drives me nuts listening to those two together
Yeah, I mean when someone devotes their life to their job….it shows. That's why we loved Harry so much, too. I mean, from what I understand HK was underpaid but chose to stay here all those years.
That devotion comes across and I appreciate that.
And how can you NOT be a "company guy" if you've been with an organization for almost 40 years like Wheels has. To say that disparagingly is almost like criticizing someone for having devotion or a good work ethic and attitude towards their job.
As a culture, aren't we actually supposed to EMBRACE that?
On the announcers – I think Franske is great. He does good play by play but is a fun guy. LA is well, he is just a fan – he really doesn't add anything other than a virtual drinking buddy – which I suppose is something.
Sarge is a joke – really a waste. He does not add anything except for his hats and I can't listen to "Cadillac time" anymore. What makes it worse is that T-Mac sucks up to him and they go off talking about some game in 1992 while the real game slips by.
I liked T-Mac back when he did radio. But on TV he just will not stop talking! That was the beauty of Harry. He knew you saw the pitch was low. He would just remind you of the count. A little white space is not a bad thing. T-Mac either needs to count to three before talking or he needs to go back to radio where you need to keep talking.
I am neutral to positive on Wheeler. He talks too much BUT at least he knows what he is talking about AND he does talk to players and others before the game so he knows a little more.
For me I would want Franske and Wheeler on TV. T-Mac on radio and replace LA/Sarge with one guy. Hold on for this but the guy should be…..Dobbs. If you have ever heard Dobbs he is well-spoken, intelligent and knows the game. He should be a broadcaster.
LA should go to the bar and watch the game and yell at the TV and Sarge should go shopping.
can i add one to the list?
7) the ever-popular "good clubhouse guy."
This sort of comment has always been like fingernails on a chalkboard, but it was taken about 5 steps too far on Monday. I was watching the phils/yanks game (unfortunately) broadcast on MLBnetwork via the yankee propaganda YES network. it was my first time listening to anything on this network, and i almost puked. all they talked about was the new acquisitions for the yanks–nick johnson, curtis granderson, randy winn, and javier vasquez–and how all of these guys are just fantastic 'clubhouse' guys. i mean DURING the game, they went to a split screen so we could WATCH joe girardi talk about how great the atmosphere in the clubhouse is going to be. oh this will make our team so much more comfortable…i mean come on! yanks seemed pretty comfortable last year winning over 100 games and takin the fall classic…all of these guys are above average, eh maybe not winn, so why not brag about their BASEBALL skills? its just an absolute farce and im sick of hearing about the baseball 'clubhouse' presence. i think people like milton bradley and contract-year manny ramirez fuel this incredibly bad mentality. oh, ok….NOBODY on our team is as bad as those idiots, therefore we have 'good clubhouse' guys. the cubs didnt suck because milton bradley couldnt hack it–they sucked because they languished in mediocrity. The sport of baseball itself just doesnt really depend on the 'clubhouse' presence…brett myers called hamels a baby or whatever…both of them could have gone back out and performed just the same on the field 2 days later. in a sport where sooo much emphasis is placed on individual achievements, one jackass terrible 'clubhouse' guy doesnt ruin it for everyone, and a 'good clubhouse' guy doesnt win ballgames. period.
"LA should go to the bar and watch the game and yell at the TV "
Chuck – Would you agree with me that an employee who is kept on at a business that he has worked for forever but is holding back other, younger and perhaps more talented employees, is not necessarily good for the business? In fact, take out the word "necessarily". Wheels has a good work ethic. He has been loyal to the organization I'm sure. Does that mean we should all overlook the fact that he is NOT a good color analyst? Any useful analysis that some may feel he lends to the broadcast is far outweighed by his personality, which runs anywhere from bland to snippy to haughty, and his bondage to 10 or 15 sayings that he repeats over and over again to describe the action. Additionally, and some may have notived this also, Wheels very often cannot properly identify the pitches that are being thrown. Cutters are sliders, sliders are curves, and curves are "that split pitch he's been working on". That grates on me to no end. And then when a call goes against the Phils, you hear him moan "Oh, come on". Give Wheels his gold watch and send him back to Delaware County. Please.
The Dipsy
Between Wheels… Sarge… and Larry Anderson
Wheels is definitely the best at the job… maybe not as "entertaining as LA".. but definitely more insightful.
You don't want to hear your local announcer with some support for his team??
Merrill Reese does the same thing with calls for/aginst the Eagles..
Jim Jackson & Crew all do it as well..
Who even knows or cares who does 76ers games.?
Does it really matter if Wheels does, or doesn't correctly identify a Cutter/Slider ?? I haven't noticed him call too many things incorrectly in the years and years I've been watching baseball..
and is bad judgement by announcers got you angry … surely you had get frustrated with Harry Kalas' "SWING AND A LONG DRIVE….." on what ended up being warning-track fly balls..
I think people hate Wheels because its been beaten into our brains that HE FEUDED WITH HARRY… WE LOVE HARRY… THEREFORE WE TOO HATE WHEELS..
which is pretty ridiculous
Don – Yes, I hate when the color analyst can't identify a pitch. Thats his freakin job. People can't praise him for his knowledge and preparedness then give him a pass when he doesn't know the difference between a slider and a curve. Actually, its very easy. Harry just used to say "breaking ball" because methinks he had problems with it too. Wheels can just do that. Please. Not only did he feud with Harry but he also got L.A. knocked down to radio because they couldn't work together.
The Dipsy
I really don't notice Wheels incorrectly identifying pitches…
From 100 feet away.. with an umpire/catcher/batter sometimes blocking your view.. its not always the easiest thing in the world to call each pitch either. But I think he does a great job calling pitches, telling how and why they'll attack a hitter a certain way, etc..
and im kinda thinking the incorrectly-identified pitch is something that you may have seen once and just added to your list of REASONS I HATE WHEELS
basically, I feel that you should come up with more examples why you hate a guy for no reason.
"Holding back other, younger and perhaps more talented employees"
Just WHO is Chris Wheeler holding back?? Is there someone else working for the Phillies….perhaps in the mailroom….that is qualified to be in the broadcast booth??
Yeah, and who really gives a rats' you know what about some feud that Harry and Wheels either did or didn't have. So what. Does THAT makes Wheels a bad analyst??
When you think about it ….MAYBE…just maybe…the "feud" was Harry's fault. What about that?
Well I used to really dislike Chris Wheeler-The ultimate torture for me was years ago on Prism when Wheeler was paired with McCarver-no silence what-so-ever! Just 2 guys trying to outdo each other.
Now I kind of accept him for a few reasons:
First-he's a Philly area kid who is a life-long Phillies fan and
Second-even though he wasnt a pro player he has seen more baseball than most people and been around the game for so long that I have to admit he knows the game pretty good and
Third-he just loves and lives for baseball-I can respect that!
That all said he still can come off as a know-it-all and seems to really dislike any teasing and never admits that one of his partners is right or knows something he doesn't. So even though I dislike him less than ever-he still can be tough to take day in and day out.
Sarge-when Sarge is with T-mac there seems to be a tension there-if you hear Sarge with Jim Jackson it's a whole lot different than hearing Sarge with T-mac-they just don't play off each other well-Jim Jackson seems to bring out a relaxed, funny and informative side of Sarge that doesn't come out so well when he is with T-mac. Only thing with Sarge is he tends to state the obvious and over STRESS the wrong syllables sometimes! And please guys we can do without the booth shot on tv of Sarge and T-mac!
T-mac-kind of bland-not much personality comes through at all yet rarely shuts-up.
LA-love him
Franske-love him too
But the combo can be a little trying at times-too often they are laughing about inside jokes that only they get rather than talking about the game or baseball or even letting us in on the joke.
To me I'd keep Franske, LA, Sarge and Jim Jackson.
Wheeler and T-mac could go.
Good posts always bring out the best comments, you guys are cracking me up!
Dips, your hatred of Wheels is akin to my feelings about Sarah Palin, the mere mention of her name or the sound of her voice is enough to make my head explode. I really don't feel that way about Wheels, I kind of agree with Don, he tells some interesting stories (heck, he'd HAVE to, as long as he's been around baseball), he's certainly knows his way around the game, and I don't see how his voice is irritating, but that is a personal thing. Now, the rug, yeah, I believe it up and bit Sarge once or twice, I swear I've seen it move when he gets overly excited.
Feelings on Sarge seem to be to the extreme, either you love him or hate him (in the booth, that is), and I love him! No pretentions, he's just who he is, funny and dorky at the same time. He has a distinct personality which you can always count on, and I find that refreshing.
T-Mac, I'm ambivolent where he's concerned, leaning towards "he gets on my nerves".
Jim Jackson is just a professional in every way, so he's fine, and Franske is awesome, and HOT!
Sorry, but I'm not a huge LA fan, he really is way too much of a homer. I don't mind a little bit of that, but, c'mon, be a little objective. And for me his voice is irritating, but that's just me probably.
I am so stoked for the season to begin….the snow is almost gone here, you can smell the ground awakening from this crap-fest of a winter, it's time for BASEBALL!!!!


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Most of the press coverage of the recent spate of distributed denial of service (DoS) attacks against well-known web sites has focused on the hunt for the perpetrators, how they should be punished, and what effect all this will have on electronic commerce. Few reports have explained how the attacks occur, and fewer still have said anything about how we might prevent them.
Let's take a Linux-focused look at denial of service attacks and what we can do as responsible Internet citizens to assist in preventing them.
A denial of service attack is any act intended to cause a service to become unavailable or unusable. In an Internet environment, a service might be an application such as a web or mail server, or a network service like routing of datagrams.
A simple form of denial of service attack involves sending a stream of connection requests to a service in the hope of exhausting the server of memory or by reaching the server connection limit, if it has one. When either of these conditions occur, the server will either refuse further connection requests or perform so poorly that the service becomes unusable to others. More sophisticated denial of service attacks might involve exploiting bugs or design problems in specific types of servers to cause the server to become extremely busy or fail completely.
A distributed denial of service attack exploits several machines to make the attack. Distributed denial of service attacks are the most effective and insidious because they can generate more traffic from more sources. This makes it much harder to identify the attack's source, and more difficult to resolve.
Sometimes the distributed denial of service attack involves cracking the security of a number of hosts and installing a program to cause denial of service a remote host. Other times the DoS attack exploits poorly configured networks and weaknesses in the IP security model.
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Disallow ICMP to broadcast and multicast addresses from outside
A good example of the latter form of attack is the "Smurf" attack which involves sending ICMP echo request datagrams (ping packets) to the broadcast address of large networks using a faked or "spoofed" IP source address of the host to be attacked. An IP host will respond to ICMP echo requests on either the nominal address or the broadcast address of any its interfaces. When you ping the broadcast address of a network, all active hosts on that network will respond so that for any one request there are many replies. It is this amplification that makes this type of denial of service attack so powerful.
Preventing this type of attack against your own hosts is difficult. If you want to prevent distributed denial of service attacks on your hosts, the best hope you have is to prevent your own hosts and networks from being used to cause denial of service attacks on others and to encourage other network and system administrators to do the same.
So let's look at ways you can configure your Linux-based router and hosts to assist in preventing distributed denial of service attacks. Imagine that we're managing a simple installation comprising one router and three network interfaces. The first is a PPP link to the Internet, and the others are Ethernet interfaces supporting an IP network each. The interface details for our example network are:
To keep these details handy as we work through the examples in this article, you can load them into a pop-up window here.
There are several things you can do to assist in preventing your network from being used in distributed denial of service attacks.
Since some types of distributed denial of service attacks require attackers to execute programs on numerous host machines, you should ensure that your host machines are secure. Remove all unnecessary or unused network daemon programs especially the BSD "r" commands such as rlogin and rexec. Replace them with ssh.
Network programs are sometimes vulnerable to buffer overflow and other types of bugs, exposing your host to exploitation. These are fixed when they are found and you should ensure you are running current and up-to-date versions of daemons to take advantage of bug fixes.
IP spoofing is the term for causing one host to pretend to be another. A well-known case used this technique to gain access to hosts supporting the BSD "r" commands by spoofing trusted hosts.
It's quite difficult to know for certain whether a datagram is genuine or spoofed. You should ensure that any datagrams coming into your network with a source address that belongs to your network are treated as suspect. Kernels 2.2 and newer provide an implementation of the spoof protection described in RFC1812 that will suit most simple network configurations. Some distributions already use this. If yours doesn't, execute the following on each Linux hosts at boot time:
for pfile in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/rp_filter
echo "1" > $pfile
You can protect non-Linux hosts by using firewall rules in your Linux router. To protect our example networks we would use:
For older kernels:
ipfwadm -I -a deny -W ppp0 -S 172.29.16.0/24
ipfwadm -I -a deny -W ppp0 -S 172.29.17.0/24
For 2.2 kernels:
ipchains -A input -w ppp0 -s 172.29.16.0/24 -j deny
ipchains -A input -w ppp0 -s 172.29.17.0/24 -j deny
For 2.3 and newer kernels:
iptables -A FORWARD -i ppp0 -s 172.29.16.0/24 -j DROP
iptables -A FORWARD -i ppp0 -s 172.29.17.0/24 -j DROP
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To prevent "smurf" type attacks you should prevent ICMP messages arriving at
your broadcast and multicast addresses from outside your network. Assuming the
network device that supports our Internet connection is
ppp0 and that
our broadcast addresses are
172.29.16.255 and
For older kernels:
ipfwadm -I -a deny -P icmp -W ppp0 -D 172.29.16.255
ipfwadm -I -a deny -P icmp -W ppp0 -D 172.29.17.255
ipfwadm -I -a deny -P icmp -W ppp0 -D 184.108.40.206/4
For 2.2 kernels:
ipchains -A input -p icmp -w ppp0 -d \
172.29.16.255 -j deny
ipchains -A input -p icmp -w ppp0 -d \
172.29.17.255 -j deny
ipchains -A input -p icmp -w ppp0 -d \
126.96.36.199/4 -j deny
For 2.3 and newer kernels:
iptables -A FORWARD -m multiport -p icmp -i ppp0 -d \
172.29.16.255 -j DROP
iptables -A FORWARD -m multiport -p icmp -i ppp0 -d \
172.29.17.255 -j DROP
iptables -A FORWARD -m multiport -p icmp -i ppp0 -d \
126.96.36.199/4 -j DROP
In 2.2 kernels and newer, you can also use the following command on each of your hosts to prevent them from replying to ICMP echo requests on broadcast and multicast addresses:
echo "1" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts
If you're using a kernel that supports netfilter, you can also use the limiter to limit the volume of ICMP echo requests to all other addresses to a reasonable rate. To limit incoming ICMP messages in our example network to one per second, but allow bursts of two per second, you could use:
iptables -A FORWARD -m limit -p ICMP -i ppp0 \
--limit 1 --limit-burst-number 2
You might optionally want log any matching datagrams to ensure that you're able to see any potential attacks.
If you have limited requirements for Internet access, you might consider an even more tightly controlled firewall. For example, you could filter ICMP to broadcast addresses, even from local hosts to help ensure that even if a local host is breached your network cannot be used as an "amplifier." You might also consider deploying firewalls on each local host rather than relying only on filtering in routers and a more network firewall configuration (such as a NAT or masquerade-style configuration, or use of a perimeter network).
You can minimize the damage associated with distributed denial of service
attacks by being aware of them soon after they begin. It is important to keep
an eye on what is happening on your network and using the logging facilities
of the Linux firewall support can help. Use the
-l argument on
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A three-car crash on Kauai left a 14-month-old girl who was sitting on a driver's lap dead, Kauai County officials said.
It happened at about 2 p.m. Sunday at the junction of Kaumualii Highway and Kalepa Street near Kukui Grove Center.
A Nissan Pathfinder was traveling eastbound on the highway.
The driver of the Nissan was Michael Pagelsdorf Jr., 28, of Puhi. He rear-ended the vehicle in front unaware the vehicles ahead were coming to a stop, police said.
County officials on Monday identified the victim as Kaylie Pagelsdorf.
Michael Pagelsdorf and Kaylie's 2-year-old sister and 5-year-old brother in the sport utility vehicle were not hurt.
Kauai police arrested Michael Pagelsdorf on a charge of manslaughter on Sunday night. He was released pending further investigation.


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1) In my family, folks don't ask if they can start a buisness; they just assume that they can --- and they do.
2) Leone (in this story) has all of the insecurities of a girl, who was raised in a home will little extra money for luxuries and yearned ever so much for more, more and more. . She also has all the "moxie" taught by a family that moved back and forth across the country without much fear of the unknown. She might be afraid of stepping forward, but she never lets it keep her from her goal.
3) Success requires hard work and dedication.
My aunt, the subject of this story, was not the only McPherson who started, built, and nurtured a business. The older sister who loaned "Leone" the money for beauty school, also had a successful dress shop in Calipatria for many years. She and her husband also had a garage, and a couple of grocery stores. Another McPherson sister and her husband had a very successful grocery store in Anderson, California. Two of the brothers, at one time or another, had their own trucks for long haul trucking. My Uncle Ralph was a gypo lumberman, which meant that he indeed worked for himself -- in addition to setting his own terms.
Before my father's death, he ran a succeful potato farm for Zuckerman Farms, as well as building his own farm and creating the McPherson Brothers Farms. When he needed to spray/dust his crops, he created Midland Air Service which provided airplane crop dusting/spraying for his own crops as well as for other farmers in Klamath County and in Heppner, Oregon.
The next generation has gone into business as restaurant owners, independent providers of service, and successful farmers. My McPherson's seem to enjoy building their own business, calling their own shots, and making their own way.
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In good times and bad, Wisconsin's paper industry kept a conveniently low profile and quiet presence, despite its oversize role in the state economy.
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However, there are still some power problems in the Cass St. area where a fuse from an underground connector broke, causing the loss of power to some of the 130 customers on that line, he said. »Read Full Article(9)
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Federal energy regulators rebuffed American Transmission Co. in two separate decisions involving the Pewaukee company's ownership stake in two major power line projects.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission awarded Michigan-based ITC Holdings Corp. a 50% ownership stake in a planned $324 million transmission line linking the Madison area and Dubuque, Iowa. »Read Full Blog Post(2)
Gener8tor accepting applications from entrepreneurs for summer class
A year into its existence, Gener8tor is accepting applications from high-potential entrepreneurs to participate in its summer class.
The for-profit accelerator will provide mentoring and seed capital investments of at least $20,000 and tens of thousands more in services and resources to each start-up, said Joe Kirgues, a co-founder. Gener8tor will work with the start-ups over 12 weeks to help them identify customers and grow their businesses, he said. The young companies will also learn how to position their company to attract more investment. »Read Full Article(1)
Permits for home construction jump 38% in January
Home building permits in Wisconsin's biggest metro areas rose almost 38% in January, the best start for new-home construction since 2008.
A total of 201 permits were issued in the greater Milwaukee area, Dane County, Green Bay-Door County area, Fox Valley and the Racine-Kenosha area in January, according to MTD Marketing Services of Wisconsin Inc., of Oshkosh. »Read Full Article(1)
Asian market expansion plan seeks city help
A market on Milwaukee's northwest side that sells traditional Hmong clothing, Asian-themed gifts, produce and other items is seeking a loan from a city affiliate to help finance a planned expansion.
The business, Milwaukee's Asian Markets Phongsavan LLC, operates within a 14,000-square-foot former engine and transmission repair shop, at 6300 N. 76th St. Pai Yang opened the market, which includes a food court, in 2009. »Read Full Blog Post(3)
Stein Gardens & Gifts moving into Hawks location in Wauwatosa
Stein Gardens & Gifts has reached an agreement to open a new location at Hawks Nursery Co., at 12217 W. Watertown Plank Road, Wauwatosa, Stein announced Monday.
Hawks will continue to independently own and operate its landscape design, construction and maintenance services firm, but will exit the retail garden center business. Stein will open its store at the former Hawks location early April. »Read Full Blog Post(8)
Home brewer hopes to open Wauwatosa microbrewery
Home brewer Andrew Dillard hopes to open a microbrewery on Wauwatosa's State St., where he would brew low-sugar beers for people with diabetes.
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I've always thought it would be great fun to go out and make a market prediction. After all, Wall Street talking heads do it all the time. Even people and songs do it. Heck, Annie sings that the sun will come up tomorrow. Okay, that's kind of a gimme but it's still a prediction. And like hers, my prediction that a correction is coming is about as safe—and accurate—a call.
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William Penn University's football team finished the 2010 season with a 10-1 record. A year later, the Statesmen went 9-2.
The NAIA school's reward for winning 86 percent of its games was being passed over for the national playoffs.
"It was a feeling of being the last team left out," said Marcus Kerrigan, a Cary-Grove grad who is the team's junior placekicker and punter.
In 2010, WPU's only loss was to then-No. 16 McKendree in a season in which the Statesman won their first Mid-States Football Association Midwest League title in 34 years.
"That was tough to take," said John Bryan, the team's starting tight end and a fellow C-G grad.Last fall, both of the team's losses were by one point.
"The playoffs basically came down to a couple of yards," Bryan said.
When the Statesmen gathered Sunday after beating then-No. 9 Grand View, 17-12, head coach Todd Hafner cut to the chase.
"Coach came out (to a meeting) jumping around, saying, 'We're in! We're in!' " Bryan said.
The team's 9-2 record this season finally yielded a playoff berth for the first time in 37 years.
Today, the 13th-ranked Statesmen from Oskaloosa, Iowa, will play defending national champion and fourth-ranked Saint Xavier at noon in Chicago.
"They're the cream of the crop in NAIA," Bryan said. "It's a great opportunity for our team."
Kerrigan, who won his fourth MSFA Midwest League Special Teams Player of the Week award of the season Monday, has a single-season school record of 12 field goals this season, is the team's top scorer with 69 points and is averaging 39 yards a punt.
Bryan, the team's starting tight end, is a key member of WPU's option offense as a blocker, matching up against defensive linemen, linebackers and defensive backs.
The team ranks No. 3 in the nation with 320.9 rushing yards a game.
William Penn's roster has three C-G grads, including redshirt freshman linebacker Sean Bryan, John's brother.
Today's matchup with Saint Xavier is a glimpse into the Fox Valley Conference's past as the Cougars' roster includes Crystal Lake South grads Mike Brown, Ryan Miles, J.D. Barchard and Brett Barchard.
Kerrigan still recalls missing a field goal in regulation that could have beaten the Gators in the 2008 state playoffs. C-G lost, 14-7, in overtime.
"That was one of the worst days I've ever had," Kerrigan said.
All-conference awards: D-III Carthage College men's soccer teammates Michael Dombrowski (Johnsburg), Jordan Innis (Crystal Lake South) and Greg Pignataro (Jacobs) were named All-College of Illinois and Wisconsin Conference honorees this month.
Dombrowski, a sophomore forward who made the first team, had 10 goals and three assists for Carthage (14-6). Innis, a senior forward, led the team with 12 goals and 28 points to go along with four assists to earn second-team honors. Pignataro, a senior midfielder who also made the second team, had a team-high eight assists and scored two goals.
Hot-shooting Hawkeye: Johnsburg grad Melissa Dixon is leading Iowa's women's basketball team in three-point shooting and averaging 7.3 points a game for the Hawkeyes, who have started 3-0 this season.
Dixon, a sophomore guard, is 6 for 13 (46.2 percent) from behind the three-point arc while starting every game and averaging more than 27 minutes a game.
Wheaton winner: Jacobs grad Dan Olsen, a sophomore 184-pound wrestler for D-III Wheaton College, was honored Tuesday as the CCIW Wrestler of the Week.
Olsen went 4-0 at the Knox Invitational last weekend to win his weight class. For the previous week, Olsen was 5-0 with two wins by fall.
CCAC star: NAIA Roosevelt University junior women's basketball forward Maria Tamburrino was named Chicagoland Collegiate Athlete Conference Player of the Week on Nov. 6.
Tamburrino, a Jacobs grad, leads the Lakers (4-1) in rebounding (7.0 a game) and is the team's second-leading scorer (9.0 points a game) and ranks second in blocked shots (seven).
• Barry Bottino writes a weekly column and a blog about local college athletes for the Northwest Herald. Write to him at email@example.com, check out his On Campus blog at McHenryCountySports.com and follow him @BarryOnCampus on Twitter.


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Petra, well-known by the movie, "Indiana Jones". I would like to visit once in my life.
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Petra (Greek "πέτρα" (petra), meaning rock; Arabic: البتراء, Al-Batrāʾ) is a historical and archaeological city in the Jordanian governorate of Ma'an that is known for its rock cut architecture and water conduits system. Established sometime around the 6th century BC as the capital city of the Nabataeans, it is a symbol of Jordan as well as its most visited tourism attraction. It lies on the slope of Mount Hor in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah (Wadi Araba), the large valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. Petra has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985.
The site remained unknown to the Western world until 1812, when it was introduced by Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt. It was described as "a rose-red city half as old as time" in a Newdigate Prize-winning sonnet by John William Burgon. UNESCO has described it as "one of the most precious cultural properties of man's cultural heritage." Petra was chosen by the BBC as one of "the 40 places you have to see before you die".


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Audrey Wells' Virtual Nau
Virtual Nau
A Project by Audrey Wells
It is impossible to imagine, let alone describe, such a thing as a 40 m long Portuguese Indiaman of the early 1600s. Loaded with 450 people, including crew and passengers, food and water for six months, spares and fittings, personal possessions of each and any one, plus the main reason of its voyage: a cargo of around 250 tons of peppercorns, which was complemented with many other spices and drugs, countless bales of cotton and silk cloth of all sizes and colors, furniture, porcelain, exotic animals and thousand of luxury items manufactured in the most exquisite workshops of the far east.
Audrey Wells, a student in the Department of Visualization Sciences at Texas A&M University, has modeled one of these ships and then tried to populate it and load it. Each decision regarding the partition of a space, the design of a detail, the dimensions of a ship part, was pondered, discussed, evaluated in light of the known archaeological parallels, iconography, and contemporary literature.
This is a work in progress that will probably never be finished. So far it has helped us understand much better these complex machines, conceived and built to be inhabited during long periods by an enormous amount of different people and under adverse circumstances. Sailing the long and dangerous maritime route from Lisbon to India and back, these Portuguese India naus were the dark, wandering places Joseph Conrad wrote about four centuries later.
One can only image how many dreams of happiness, wealth and power they carried to and from Asia, how many fearful moments their inhabitants endured, and what anguishes and hopes they have inspired.
Audrey has tried to give us a glimpse of this long gone past, based on the tiny window opened through the excavation and reconstruction of the Pepper Wreck.
We hope that her work may excite the curiosity of the viewers of this project and help us make a case against the destruction of the last Portuguese Indiamen by looters and treasure hunters.
1. To get a better idea of what the "Cave" is see Parke, Frederic I., "Lower cost spatially immersive visualization for human environments" in Landscape and Urban Planning (2005) 73:234-243
Building a Virtual Nau
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People were modeled after the sketches of 16th century Italian painter Luca Cambiaso (1527-1585).
These relatively small ships transported perhaps as many as 400 people in a normal voyage.
To install all these persons in such a small space is a challenge on which we that we are still working. Belew: 400 people next to a 600 ton Indiaman.


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Richards' knee buckled when he was covering first base during a game against the Boston Red Sox. He was treated on the field for 10 minutes before being carted off on a stretcher.
The expected recovery time from the surgery is six to nine months, which could extend into the start of the 2015 season.
The loss of Richards is a big blow for the first-place Angels in their bid to win the American League West title and reach the postseason.
Richards, having an ace-like season with a 13-4 record and a 2.61 ERA in 26 starts, went down in a heap covering first base in a game against the Boston Red Sox in Fenway Park and suffered what manager Mike Scioscia called at the time "a significant injury."
"It's a tough night," said Scioscia, whose team entered Thursday's play leading the Oakland Athletics by 1 1/2 games in the AL West with seven games between the teams coming up the next two weekends. "I can't tell you how bad we feel for Garrett and how hard he's worked. ... This is a tough night for us."
The 26-year-old Richards is the second member of the Angels' rotation to go down: Left-hander Tyler Skaggs underwent Tommy John elbow surgery earlier this season.
Scioscia made it clear that the show must go on and the Angels rallied from three runs down and routed the Red Sox 8-3 on Wednesday night -- with six relievers finishing the game after Richards left for Massachusetts General Hospital in the second inning.


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County Longitudinal Template, 1840-1990 (ICPSR 6576)
Principal Investigator(s): Horan, Patrick M.; Hargis, Peggy G.
The County Longitudinal Template is a tool that enables researchers to allow for temporal changes in the geographic boundaries of counties in the United States. These data provide a decade-by-decade account of the administrative status of each county, starting in 1990 and tracing each census period back through 1840. The first four variables are the county name, ICPSR state code, FIPS code, and ICPSR county code. These four variables allow the researcher to select the counties for the state in question. The next 16 variables are ID variables for each census year, 1990 back to 1840. The last 13 variables are boundary change flags for each census year from 1960 to 1840.
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Horan, Patrick M., and Peggy G. Hargis. County Longitudinal Template, 1840-1990. ICPSR06576-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1995. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06576.v1
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