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LOCATION: Christie's New York
DATE: November 14-15, 2012
ABOUT: The bar was raised at Christie's this spring with the house's landmark postwar and contemporary art auction, which took in $386 million — the highest total ever for the category, thanks in no small part to a certain $87 million Rothko. But now Christie's thinks it can do even better, estimating a November sale that could garner upwards of $441 million.
The house will trot out a parade of blockbusters, including an Andy Warhol "Statue of Liberty" canvas for around $35 million and one of his Marlon Brando silkscreens for $15 million to $20 million, Jeff Koons's balloon-tulips are on offer in the $25 million range, and there's another radiant Rothko for $15 million to $20 million, plus a half-dozen Alexander Calders, four Gerhard Richters, and three Franz Klines.
The 74-lot evening sale is graced with several big-name collectors as well. Television producer Douglas S. Cramer is selling works by Ellsworth Kelly and Jasper Johns, while hedge-funder Steven A. Cohen is offering a $15 million, 1983 Richter abstraction, "Prag 1883."
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I administer a few dozen FreeBSD boxes. On some I have senior administrative duties; on others I'm just called in as needed. A few I can best describe as "being stuck with." Every so often, I go on an upgrade spree and rebuild most of them.
CVSup is very convenient. It also uses a huge amount of CPU time and generates disk activity. While you probably don't care about your disk activity or CPU usage, the mirror maintainers care about theirs. In fact, there's a whole bunch of things that users do that give mirror maintainers headaches. You aren't one of those users, of course. You would never dream of annoying anyone, let alone the kind folks donating thousands of dollars of T1s and high-end servers so you don't have to pay for a commercial operating system that doesn't work the way you want it to.
For those who don't know, CVSup was designed by John Polstra. He's also one of the poor buggers doomed to
ride herd over FreeBSD's CVSup mirror operations. When users decide to upgrade their systems via
cron every 5 minutes, he's
the guy who figures out what to do. If a committer goofs and damages
the main FreeBSD source repository, he's one of the guys who gets to
break out vi and perform triage. According to Polstra, there's a lot
users can do to make the mirror maintainers' lives, and his, easier.
First, he says "Make an effort to balance the load among the mirror
sites. Too many people simply (and lazily) use
I remember when there were only three CVSup mirrors. Today, there's
Right now, there are 17 mirrors in the United States. Surely
one of them is closer to you than poor overloaded
It's difficult to say which mirror is actually closest to you, but you
can use
ping for a quick-and-dirty check. Generally speaking,
lower-numbered mirrors are more heavily loaded. Higher-numbered
mirrors have less users, and probably more capacity. In my case,
cvsup16 is less than 50 milliseconds away and responds quite snappily.
Most of the problems users cause come from
cron. How many people
really need to upgrade a system automatically? Do you honestly need
the latest source code every night? Maybe you do. I sure don't, and
FreeBSD is responsible for a considerable portion of my income.
If you're running CVSup out of
cron, do it at a random time. "Don't
run it at xx:00, for instance," Polstra says. Load on the mirrors is quite high on
the hour. Polstra suggests looking at your watch to see where the second
hand points at this particular moment, and use that number of minutes
past the hour.
Think about how often you need to update. Are you really going to build FreeBSD from source every hour? If not, why upgrade your source code every hour? Developers need rapid access to changes, of course, but many users don't have to update their source as frequently as they do.
"Don't ever set up a
cron job to update more often than hourly,"
says Polstra. "Many mirror site maintainers will block you if they catch
you doing that." It takes a good hour to
build world on a fast
machine. If that hour-old code was a burger, it'd be so fresh that
the cow wouldn't know it was gone yet. Why do you need it fresher?
By default, the output of
cron jobs is mailed to root. Read those
messages. Polstra reads the
cvsupd logs on the mirrors, after all.
"Looking at the server logs on the mirror sites, I see many cases
where certain users' updates have been failing consistently for weeks.
Obviously those users aren't paying attention."
Do you use CVSup to upgrade your BSD boxen?
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When you no longer need the automatic updates, get rid of the
job. Many people leave
cron jobs around forever -- they don't seem to
hurt anything. But every mindless automaton pointlessly running CVSup
is quite possibly preventing someone else from downloading code they
actually need.
Some users update different systems simultaneously. "If you are updating multiple machines, do them one at a time," says Polstra. There's nothing like several connections coming from one block of IPs -- or worse, several connections from behind one NAT IP -- to make it obvious that one person is doing a lot of upgrading.
If dealing with these sorts of things sounds like fun to you, and if you have bandwidth and hardware to spare, you might consider becoming an official mirror site. This would give you access to the master CVSup server and a legitimate reason to upgrade your source code every hour.
Finally, John says, "If you have more than a couple machines to update, set up a local mirror, as described in the fine article by Michael Lucas."
There's no such article, I hear you say? There will be in a couple of weeks. Building a local mirror is easy and straightforward. For a small mirror used by only a few people, you can even put it on a laptop and carry it around with you. It turns out that running a mirror doesn't take that much in the way of hardware or time.
First off, here's how the FreeBSD CVSup mirror system works.
There's a master CVS repository on
freefall.freebsd.org. This is the
absolutely authoritative source of FreeBSD code. Users cannot, under
any circumstances, update their systems from
freefall. It's also a
hard-working machine. As the authoritative repository, it must check
to see if files have been changed by some program other than
This is done with
stat (2) which, while not particularly expensive used
one at a time, devours disk resources when it has to check every
single file that has ever been in FreeBSD. Every time someone updates
freefall, disk usage climbs.
The CVSup server on
freefall has only one client,
cvs-master.freebsd.org. Its purpose is to serve as a main source for
official mirrors. "The master mirror is the most efficient by far,"
says Polstra. "It doesn't have to do much disk I/O [those
stat() calls],
and it doesn't have to do too much thinking." The files are only
touched by
cvsupd, and
cvsupd knows perfectly well what files it's
used. As such,
cvs-master can support many main mirrors. Since it's
a key part of the FreeBSD infrastructure, however, access to
cvs-master is tightly restricted to mirror sites only.
These final mirrors are what us lowly users can access. Mirror
machines pull their updates from
cvs-master. Because
cvs-master updates
every 6 minutes, code becomes available on a user mirror not more
than 66 minutes after it appears on
freefall. That's not bad
for a worldwide data distribution system.
If you want to be a part of all this, it's not that hard.
To run an official mirror, you need to first check your hardware. Polstra recommends at least a 400MHz Pentium II, 256MB of RAM, and a good, fast hard disk. This would support 8 to 10 users most of the time, unless there's a recent release. (A release touches every file in the repository, increasing the amount of work needed to update, hence boosting the time required.)
One particular mirror server used to have a single disk, 128MB of RAM, and a PII-400 MHz CPU. It could handle up to eight clients simultaneously, but interactive performance was horrendous when the system was under load. That same system has been upgraded to two Ultra2 SCSI disks -- one for the system files and one for the repository, and 512MB of RAM. Its limit has been upped to 20 clients at a time, and interactive performance is always excellent.
Adding RAM is the best way to increase a CVSup mirror's performance. Updates will happen more quickly -- users will stay connected for a shorter time, so the system load will drop and it can handle more users. This is something of the opposite of the "death spiral" an overloaded machine can suffer from.
Second, you need to check your bandwidth. One mirror chosen at random transferred about 1.1 megabits of traffic out and a quarter-megabit in during a randomly-chosen day. You can't quite serve this over an ISDN line, but a T1 has plenty of capacity to spare.
If you have the hardware and the bandwidth to donate, contact Polstra at firstname.lastname@example.com. Include your location, as he tries to balance mirrors by geography. If your area is short on mirrors and you fit his other requirements, he might take you up on it. John chooses the mirror sites carefully, balancing the needs against the locations offered and the capacity. "I would be unlikely to allow 30 mirror sites in, say, Iceland," he says.
Next time, we'll look at the software involved in setting up a mirror.
Hopefully, we can force John to soon change the naming scheme on the
mirrors to something like
cvsup14.yourstatehere.freebsd.org. And even
if we can't do that, you can set up a local mirror to meet the needs
of your organization.
Michael W. Lucas
Read more Big Scary Daemons columns.
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A maverick VermonterAugust 20,2014
Jim Jeffords left us all too early when he had to retire for medical reasons at age 80 in 2006. His retirement from the Senate deprived the nation of his independent spirit
and courage. Many learned of this about Jeffords for the first time on May 24, 2001, when he bolted the Republican Party and became an independent a fitting title for any Vermonter.
Jeffords decision altered the political control of the Senate and turned it back to a Democratic majority. He made this decision against the advice of all of those whom he cared the most about his advisers, his family and his friends.
As stunning as this was to the nation, it did not surprise those Vermonters who knew Jeffords from the time in 1967 when he was first elected to the state Senate. As a freshman senator from Rutland County, Jeffords bucked his party and joined Democrats to support a major change in the state income tax, which tied the state tax to the federal income tax schedules.
When he was elected attorney general, he led a long and successful effort that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to get International Paper to be responsible for the sludge beds left behind due to decades of pollution from its old Ticonderoga, New York, paper-making plant that was eventually replaced by a newer, more modern version.
Jeffords was also an early fighter for renewable energy and was an early advocate of wind energy development in Vermont, as well as an advocate for Vermont dairy farmers.
As a maverick, Jim Jeffords was never predictable and could and would surprise even those who were closest to him. The Grand Old Party in Vermont never liked him, and he didnt care. He showed that after a tough GOP primary fight for governor in 1972. Jeffords, who lost, never did much to support the GOP nominee, Luther Fred Hackett. The result was the surprise election of Democrat Tom Salmon, of Rockingham, as governor, the very same person Jeffords easily defeated for attorney general just two years before.
So while the nation was stunned in May 2001 when Jeffords left the Republican Party, he was doing nothing more than continuing a long trend that started with his first election to the Vermont Legislature in 1967.
Vermont and the nation lost a true Vermonter with his lonely death in a Washington nursing home Monday at age 80. His memory of service and his courage of conscience, though, will long continue.
Steve Terry, of Middlebury, is a former aide to Sen. George Aiken, former managing editor of the Rutland Herald and former vice president of Green Mountain Power.MORE IN CommentarySure, you can buy your uncle a necktie that he wont wear, or your niece an Amazon certificate... Full StoryFor the past month, I have been watching close friends and family descending into a pit of... Full StoryAdjusting to snow, sleet and cold after spending over a month in an exponentially warmer climate ... Full Story
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By Helena Rodriguez
Recently, I spotted a masculine-looking hombre at the store wearing a nice pair of ostrich-skin boots, a bulky belt buckle and a cowboy hat.
To complement his outfit, he was carrying a pink purse.
"Now, that's a real man!" I thought to myself.
This hombre, of course, was holding the purse for his wife or better half, who was shopping nearby and who, I'm sure, asked him to briefly hold her purse. But I smiled and thought, "Real men are not afraid to carry purses!"
I've occasionally spotted my own father at Wal-Mart carrying or, I guess, holding my mom's purse while she picks up her prescriptions. At my great-aunt's funeral recently, my dad's cousin asked her husband to hold her purse and he looked at us and commented about how it matched so well with his black suit.
I've spotted more than one or two men holding purses in public recently. Once I even spotted a man buying a women's hygiene product and I have to say I admired him. Even we women get embarrassed buying them, and so we try to stuff our shopping carts with other items that we didn't intend to purchase.
This got me started thinking about role reversals. How far are women willing to go for men they love? I wouldn't object to holding a package of briefs or boxers for a member of the opposite sex while he shopped.
Of course, I'd object, though, if someone asked me to hold something like their "Playboy" magazine or watch a shopping cart full of whiskey.
Some women will go hunting or fishing and even ride tractors with their better halves. I can't say, though, that I've heard of many women digging up the sewer line to see what's backing up the plumbing or climbing the roof to reshingle. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
In thinking about role reversals, this reminded me of a couple I know who seem to have done just that. The husband takes on motherly duties while the wife likes to be the fix-it person.
About a year ago, I was in one of those hip, trendy teen fashion stores in the South Plains Mall in Lubbock. It was either Abercrombie, Hollister or American Eagle. What's the difference? I'm sure my daughter Laura knows. But anyway, I suddenly spotted a familiar blonde-headed man and about the same time he recognized me.
He looked at me in surprise. "Helen?"
"Scott? Scott Jones?" And then we hugged. I had not seen him in three years, since we moved away from Hobbs.
As we started to catch up, a young girl, a few years older than Laura, came out of the dressing room and, standing in front of Scott, did a full-circle twirl, modeling a cute mini skirt and blouse. Scott nodded in approval, "Looks nice!" And then the girl disappeared back into the fitting room.
After she disappeared, I inquired about his wife. "And Starla? Where's Starla?"
"Oh," Scott said without so much as a laugh. "She's at Home Depot."
I can't remember exactly what he said she was doing there, but I do remember it had something to do with buying a new plumbing fixture — a sink or maybe a garbage disposal.
When he said this, I had to bite my lip hard to keep from laughing. It was normal life for them, with him taking the girls shopping for clothes at the mall while his wife went to the hardware store. He said she also fixes all the electrical things around the house.
I recalled how Starla liked to take charge of things. She was the star reporter at the newspaper where I had worked in the 1990s and she was also a very good mother. I also recall how she hated to wear makeup or dress up.
I think she once said the only time she wore a dress was on her wedding day, and even then, she really didn't want to.
She enjoyed watching football, back-slapping with the guys and doing things around the house that men usually do.
I'm sure Starla never asked Scott to hold her purse. She doesn't carry one.
I wonder if he ever carries her tool box?
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I'm new to this forum, but am getting really stressed out and tempted to try formula feeding, against my better judgement...
I have an 8 week old litle girl. She has been breastfeeding OK - although generally only for about 10 minutes at a time, if that.
In the past couple of days she's started to scream whilst feeding and then refuse to feed any more. Occasionally, she won't latch on at all - she'll open her mouth as if to latch and then as soon as the nipple's in her mouth she'll scream without starting to suck. However,generally, she only stays latched on for about 1-2 minutes and then screams herself hysterical. Even when she feeds for her 'normal' amount of time, she lets me know she's done by screaming. I'e tried calming her down and then trying again but then she will just scream whilst latched on, however calm she was initially.
I think she's very windy - she's always been a dribbler and spitter - I often worry that she's bringing up everything she takes in! - but in the last few days she's been burping up huge amounts at once.
Infacol seems to make it worse.
She pees and poos OK but her weight gain is slow to static over the last couple of weeks. She is generally alert and up until recently was happy. She sleeps through the night and, even when she wasn't gaining, flatly refuses to eat at night!
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Mama to my all-natural boys: Ian, 9-4-04, 11.5 lbs; Colton, 11-7-06, 9 lbs, in the water; Logan, 12-8-08, 9 lbs; Gavin, 1-18-11, 9 lbs; and an angel 1-15-06
18+ months and for Gavin, born with an incomplete cleft lip and incomplete posterior cleft palate
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Always babywearing, cosleeping and cloth diapering. Living with oppositional defiant disorder and ADHD. Ask me about cloth diapering and sewing your own diapers!
Great news!! I'm glad you persevered.
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Great job!!
SAHM to all my boys
Wyatt 2/23/99
Isaiah 7/11/00
Hunter 2/9/10- made it through our dairy allergy!
and loving from afar, my DSS Kaleb 3/30/97
Way to go mama! I am just getting caught up on your story, but you have worked so hard! Way to hang in there and keep it up!!
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Mom to DD - "MJ" born 9/2007 @ 8lbs 10oz, 21.5" She's 6 years old!
My journey nursing MJ started HERE, but we got through it and she breastfed 19.5 months, self-weaned on 5/17/09
Mom to my current nursling, DS - "ME" born 10/2009 @ 10lbs 1oz, 22.25" He's 4 years old! And yup, he's still nursing.
Ask me about my successful VBAC! Click here for my birth story.
YEAH! DD1 was tongue tied and I was told the same as you, I never could get her to breast feed, because no one wanted to fix it! With new DS he's the worst one tongue tied so far that I have had. This time though I looked for a ped before having DS that would tongue clip. I have had very little problems since the ped clipped his tongue. I learned after DD1 all about that!
I also agree it's harder when they don't fix it at birth. I was also born tongue tied, and I ended up having to have it clipped at 8 years old cause they wouldn't do it to babies when I was little either. And I had major speech problems, it was much harder to fix at 8 then when I was a baby. My dad had his fixed as a baby and never had problems, me I was in speech etc for years and still have a impediment.
Any way, all that being said, also I use a shield. After DD1 (I was stubborn and waited to long to try to use one with her!) I started going to the hospital with a nipple shield in my suit case! With DD2 I was able to wean her off the shield after a few months. But, this way I was able to nurse then right away with out any problems even through their tongue ties and other problems.
I am glad things are going well now. But, just thought I would throw that out there, that tongue tie is genetic, so next children you may want to do like me, keep a shield packed in your bag, and may want to look for a ped that is willing to clip tongues. That way you don't have to jump through hoops to get it done.
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Fabienne St Louis
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Gender: Female
Athlete Year of Birth: 1988
Athlete Place of Birth: Curepipe
Athlete Weight: 55 kg
Athlete Height: 171 cm
Athlete Lives: Forest Side Array
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Athlete Biography
I first took up triathlon when I was 9, because of my sister, Floriane. My coach and my parents are the people who have has the most influence on my sporting career.
I currently train in Paris, and during a typical week of training I spend 7 hours swimming, 8 hours biking, and 3 hours running. My personal best swim (1500m) time is 20:00, bike (40km) 1 hour 5 min, run (10km) 36:45. My favorite ITU race is the African Cup in Mauritius, because it's at home. I've participated in an ITU training camp in Hungary, in 2006. My triathlon goal is to compete in an Olympic Games.
Athlete Sponsors: LagardereMizunoNutratleticInoven
Athlete Language: French, English
Athlete Tri Entry Year: 1997
Athlete Other Sports: Swimming, volley ball
Athlete Hobbies: Singing, modeling
Athlete Proudest Moment: My victory at the Paris triathlon, and participating in my first World Cup in Huatulco. It was very difficult and I was proud to cross the finish line.
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Tygarts Valley sweeps Tucker County in PVC action
PARSONS – The Tygarts Valley High School softball team swept a pair of games from Tucker County Wednesday in Potomac Valley Conference acton.
The Bulldogs (5-6) won the first game 16-2 in three innings and took the second game 24-6 in four innings.
Charity Lower, Alexis Vandevender and Morgan Stout had two hits each for Tygarts Valley.
Shaunna Taylor picked up the win for the Bulldogs in three innings of work.
Bekah Simmons took the loss for the Mountain Lions in three innings on the hill.
Simmons and Sharee Thomas had hits for Tucker County.
Lower notched the win in the nightcap in four innings of work.
Lower had five hits and two RBIs for TV, while Danielle Johnson had four hits and five RBIs.
Vandevender, Pritt and Makayla Harris had three hits each for TVHS.
Simmons took the loss for the Mountain Lions.
Simmons had three hits, while Mariah Bowley added two hits for Tucker County.
Tygarts Valley will travel to Moorefield Monday for a Potomac valley Conference tilt.
Tucker County will visit Pocahontas County on Friday for a conference tilt.
Robert C. Byrd 11, Elkins 1
CLARKSBURG – Alicia Noble and Mecca Henderson had two hits each to lead Robert C. Byrd past Elkins 11-1 Wednesday in Big 10 Conference action.
Henderson notched the win for Eagles in four innings of work. She gave up one run on eight hits, walked one and struck out four.
Michaela Lewis-Lambert took the loss for the Tigers (5-10) in four innings of work, striking out four.
Hailey Collins had two hits and an RBI, while Amy Fincham and Lewis-Lambert had two hits apiece for the Tigers.
Elkins will host Bridgeport at 5 p.m. today for a Big 10 Conference contest.
University 10, B-U 6
MORGANTOWN – Kelby Hall drove in four runs to power University past Buckhannon-Upshur 10-6 on Wednesday.
The Bucs were plagued by six errors in the contest.
Brooklyn Waddell, Claire Linger and Sarah Ling each had two hits for B-U. Linger also drove in a pair of runs.
Megan Williams took the loss, allowing 10 runs on six hits in six innings. She struck out three and walked two.
Sarah Riddle earned the win.
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Then I turned the pressure up on on my reg (stock) because my gun was shooting at 150 fps, potentially too high, and the gun started spewing air out of the front of the gun and through the feednack (I did not have my hopper on) at a high rate. Also, while the gun was firing the bolt did get stuck, UGH, so I went and re-lubed everything.
Anyway - any ideas on what I need to do to fix the air leak issue? First time that has happened to me.
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Halloween on the Farm will feature a haunted hayride, spooky entertainment and Halloween activities.
The Friends of Schumacher Farm Park and the village of Waunakee are hosting the event Saturday from 6 - 8:30 p.m. at Schumacher Farm Park in Waunakee, according to a release.
Event activities include a hayride, music, old-fashioned games, a fortune teller, witches in the granary, kid's crafts, a spooky farm yard, face painting, treats and a bonfire.
Fiddlers from Waunakee High School will play in the barn at 7 p.m., followed by silly and scary songs by David Landau at 7 p.m., organizers said.
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In June 2008, Florida enacted legislation (HB 7135) mandating that buildings constructed and financed by the state must comply with the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system, the Green Building Initiative's Green Globes rating system, the Florida Green Building Coalition standards, or a nationally recognized, high-performance green building rating system. To achieve this mandate, the Department of Management Services was directed to adopt the LEED standards for New Construction (LEED-NC) for all new buildings, and to strive for Platinum certification. The Department of Management Services must also renovate all existing buildings they own and operate on behalf of client agencies to earn certification under LEED for Existing Buildings (EB). The state generally may not enter into new leasing agreements for office space that does not meet Energy Star building standards. The bill also requires agencies to perform a life-cycle cost analysis for all their buildings, to develop the Florida Climate Friendly Preferred Products List (from which agencies must choose appliances), and to contract meeting and conference space with "Green Lodging" designated facilities.
In 2010, Florida Statute § 255.2575 declared that all county, municipal, school district, water management district, state university, community college, and Florida state court buildings shall be constructed to comply with a sustainable building rating system or a national model green building code. This statute is applicable to all architectural plans which are commenced after July 1, 2008.
In July of 2013, SB 1594 empowered municipalities, schools districts, higher education institutions, and community colleges to enter into performance-based contracts for energy management systems, various energy conservation measures, and renewable energy generation aimed at reducing electric consumption. These contracts must undergo investment-grade audits and must have a payback period of 20 years or less.


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'Taxing the cloud' up for debateNovember 18,2012MONTPELIER — Whether to levy Vermont's sales tax on so-called cloud computing will be up for discussion at the Vermont Statehouse.
Cloud computing happens most often when businesses, instead of buying software to run their processes, go on the Internet and pay to use software housed on computers located elsewhere.
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We'd be so good with him.
Stephon Swagabury
Zach Randolph
David Lee
Jamal Crawford
Al Harrington
Germemy Lin
Danilo Gallinari
Wilson Chandler
Id prefer to keep Amare
Who would it be? Who would give us the best chance of winning a championship this year if they were added to the current roster?
This is a hypothetical thread that is in some ways asking 2 different questions:
Which former Knick would be of the highest value to this current roster?
Which recent Knicks PF would fit in best with this team? Stat himself, ZBo, or David Lee? Or Al Harrington, i suppose
Only active players, if their playing in another country that still counts
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We'd be so good with him.
Yeah no doubt it would be scary. Dat rebounding, plus his offense is high quality.
Well if you waive STAT, we would need a PF to replace. Melo's natural position is the SF and Kurt Thomas/Marcus Camby aren't exactly our perfect PF scenario. I would say Zack Randolph. In order for STAT to operate, he needs the ball in his hands. He is not exactly a one dribble and make your move type of guy, and he is not a spot up shooter either (although he does have a good shot when it's on point). We already have an iso option in Melo, and sometimes JR, and we also have spot up shooters and guys who can drive and so on. The point is our offense is great, even if we were to lose STAT. Now, our defense and paint presence can use some work, which is exactly what Zack Randolph would bring. He's the tough, gritty, fight for a rebound, don't give up an easy basket type of guy. If he and Tyson would adjust to each other, there would be a whole new level of defense and anyone that wants to drive in would have to go past these beasts. Zack doesn't need the ball to operate, like chandler, which is perfect in terms of not having to waste a possession on a post up play in STAT. Other scoring options would not be effected.
Now this isn't taking anything away from STAT. He's been trying extra hard on D and rebounding, and on nights where our offense isn't clicking, he can be a real threat for 30 or more points on any given night (similar to the streak he had prior to bringing Melo in).
ehhh i guess my threads a little flawed. We would probably need another PF if we waived Stat, but not necessarily sorta i guess maybe perhaps. Either way Zach Randolphs rebounding would be really nice to have alongside of Tyson Chandler. To be real Id love to have ZBo or Lee over Amare.
There really wouldnt be any need for Crawford on the team in my opinion. JR Smith is also an explosive scorer off the bench that plays more defense then Jamal. And we got Shump returning soon
I like Gallo's game alot but Id prefer both Lee and Zbo over him.
Stephon Marburys another great pick, hes a better version of Felton and would have even better at running pick and rolls with Chandler. He is or at least was a better finisher around the rim, I also believe he has better peripheral vision. He'd see Novak, JR Smith, Kidd, Copeland etc. out there on the perimeter and kick it out to them as soon as he gets double teamed.
It would have to be David Lee. Even though I was for getting rid of Lee so that the Knicks could make a splash at the 2010 free agency I feel that letting Lee walk was a big mistake that is haunting the Knicks right now. Yes, acquiring Amar'e Stoudemire seemed like a no brainer and a great deal after his hot start with the Knicks but it quickly became a terrible deal in the long run. David Lee is playing at an unstoppable level right now and has become a top 5 power forward in the entire league. Amar'e Stoudemire is a walking carcass right now and is 1 or 2 injuries away from retiring.
Humility is a virtue and pride is a vice.
awesome post. it would be gallo for me. i just feel like he was supposed to be our star! of course david lee as well but gallo's my boy
I have to go with Lee. Did anyone hear his interview on the Bill Simmons podcast last week? He really loved this team and was upset we let him go. You could tell he wanted to be here. I also have been reading a Knicks history book called "When the Garden was Eden" about the 70s Knicks and it made a few references to Lee about his respect and admiration from elder Knick legends. He's even flown in from Golden State to pay his respects at funerals where no current Knicks would be present at for former Knick legends. He really understood what it meant to be a Knick and that doesn't come around too often
D Lee no doubt.
" It's a new era for the Knicks "
I don't think Zbo and Tyson would work well with each other. The paint would be too clogged. The reason Gasol and Zbo work so well is because Gasol can hit the mid range jumper and he's quite possibly the best passing big man in the league, something that Tyson does not do well.
My initial thought was Z-Bo, but it'd have to be present-day Z-Bo. Never thought he'd be this good.
But I could also see Gallinari at SF and Melo at PF working well for this team, albeit possibly being a bit short on the defensive end.


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The more knowledge I acquire, the more I can discern from every record I've found so far. I passed most of my grandmother's old photos over at first, gleaning no useful hints from them. Silly me!
This picture is of Karlis Vinakmens, c. 1954 in Germany. The uniform he is wearing is typical of the US Army Labour Service Co at the time. You can just barely make out his shoulder badge.
Although it is impossible to discern which of these two the patch is, it was quite likely one of the two pictured above. The unit I know he was a part of, the 7566 LS Co, was indeed a Latvian unit.
The other insignia that stands out is the triangular one above the flower. It could be one of these, or a variation:
Karlis' appears to be sideways though. I havent found a sideways triangle pictured anywhere yet!
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In exchange for his guilty plea, Brock will receive a three-year sentence in prison and court costs but he will not have to pay restitution. The plea bargain was offered by District Attorney Michael Sheppard.
Visiting Judge Bert Richardson of San Antonio agreed to the plea and will assess the official sentence in approximately three weeks.
Punishment for Brock's crime could have ranged between two and 10 years in prison with a fine between $20,000 and $100,000.
The defense presented a litany of things that were purchased with drug forfeiture money that dwindled from more than $2 million in 2002 to just under $60,000 by 2008.
The police chief claimed to have spent money on criminal informants, yet no cases came before the district attorney, Sheppard said. The state argued that Brock spent money on himself and his family for everything from a big-screen television from Sam's Club to a $1,000 scholarship for his son.
Also listed were his children's cell phone bills, gasoline for a trip to Las Vegas and for biweekly commutes to Rockport, where he is pastor of Salt Lake Baptist Church.
The state said he spent $200 on Lions Club raffle tickets and won $5,000 in gift cards which he kept for himself. He also reimbursed himself for thousands of dollars spent out of his pocket for Gospel-Fest and Rib-Fest.
Other expenditures included reimbursement for a lemur that was to be used for drug interdiction.
"The monkey did not make a good interdiction officer," according to Sheppard.
The evidence also included checks written to cash for $160,000, supposedly for nonprofit organizations.
Sheppard told the court that Brock failed to provide receipts or job-related transactions he claimed to have made.
Brock's attorney, John Gilmore of Corpus Christi, accused the government of conducting "a witch hunt" against Brock.
Sheppard said Brock's secretaries, Marina Balusek and Lillian Linney, brought the irregularities to light. Balusek and Linney contacted the Texas Rangers after they noticed the irregularities. Brock's attorney said Balusek was a "disgruntled employee with an ax to grind."
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Experts scrambling to fix health siteBy Neal P. Goswami
VERMONT PRESS BUREAU | October 26,2013MONTPELIER Programmers are working around the clock to rewrite computer code, switch out hardware and create patches for the underperforming Vermont Health Connect website to ensure that 100,000 or so Vermonters will have insurance coverage Jan. 1.
Vermont Health Connect, the states version of the online health insurance marketplaces mandated by the Affordable Care Act, went live as required by the law Oct. 1. It has been plagued by performance issues, however.
Gov. Peter Shumlin, at his weekly news conference Thursday, continued to vow that the problems will be corrected in time for people required to obtain insurance on the exchange. He repeatedly declined to discuss contingency plans.
Mark Larson, commissioner of Vermont Health Access, said in an interview Friday that the state exchange has struggled with four main issues: speed, verification of identities, communication with a federal hub, and errors when applications are submitted electronically.
Fixes performed by the states contractor, CGI Systems and Technologies, have included addressing the sites security processes.
Verifying identity proved to be problematic with the sites original makeup. Larson said the state has taken significant steps to secure private information but that those measures contributed to the problems with functionality.
That means there are pretty rigid security barriers that you have to get through to sign in, he said. What we were finding is that people were getting stuck too frequently. If you think about an airport, they were getting stuck in security.
CGI staffers were able to remove some of the barriers, according to Larson, who declined to offer more specifics for fear of compromising the sites security. Personal information has not been compromised, he said.
CGI is now trying to ensure that various sections of the online portal are able to interact with each other correctly. The system requires the state site to submit data to a federal hub to verify identity, income and citizenship, among other factors. The federal hub is supposed to accept the data and return its own information.
About 30 percent of the attempted exchanges with the federal hub were unsuccessful after the site went live. Changes made to the site have nearly eliminated those failures, Larson said.
Our health system is just really complicated, and trying to create a portal to make convenient and real-time decisions about coverage means connecting lots of pieces to a really complicated system, he said.
The sites speed has improved by more than 300 percent since the Oct. 1 launch, he said. That was achieved by altering code and hardware.
The sites initial slowness also contributed to communication problems between Vermont Health Connect and the federal hub.
Many attempts would time out before the data exchange was completed. And at times frustrated users would click the next button several times while they waited for results, exacerbating the wait time.
Youre waiting in a long line of people, and every time you press next youre inviting a friend to join you in line, Larson said. Thats where we actually made some changes so at those points we made it so you cant press next again until its done.
Addressing the various error messages has required the most work. Larson said some of the errors have been fixed by simply adjusting settings. Others required changes to the original computer code.
Still, the fixes must be meticulously tested to ensure they will not affect the site in unexpected ways. That has prevented programmers from implementing fixes more quickly, according to Larson.
The exchange site also launched without a major component: the ability to accept payment. Shumlin had promised that function would be ready by Nov. 1 but has since retreated. He said it should now be ready in early November.
Initial testing of the payment system that ties into the insurance companies offering plans has taken place, according to Larson. That testing will continue until it is working properly, he said.
Between now and through next week, testing is really the big focus of our activity, Larson said. ... We have tested sending files, and weve learned things that need to be adjusted. Weve made those adjustments, and the results continue to improve with each step that we take.
Vermont is one of 14 states that opted to create their own exchanges rather than using the federal one, which has seen its own significant problems.
CGI is also the major contractor for the federal site. Larson said the company is not stretched too thin, though, and that Vermont continues to receive the resources it needs.
They are really two complete divisions or entities of CGI that are working on our exchange and the federal exchange, he said. So, we have our own dedicated team and were not competing for resources or use of those resources here in Vermont with the federal exchange.
In fact, CGI has increased the number of people working on Vermont Health Connect since Oct. 1, he said.
The rocky rollout has provided fodder for Republicans who have long questioned the viability of the exchanges. The Vermont House and Senate minority leaders, Rep. Don Turner, R-Milton, and Sen. Joe Benning, R-Caledonia, called this week for Shumlin to exercise a provision in state law that would allow current health insurance plans to be extended into next year.
If the online exchange is not fully functional by Dec. 1, they will call for putting the interests of Vermonters first by deploying the safety provision in the current law or calling for a special session of the Legislature to develop an alternative plan, they wrote in a joint statement.
Republican Lt. Gov. Phil Scott on Friday called that position reasonable.
I think there should be benchmarks and that way we can take some of the politics out of it, he said on Vermont Public Radios Vermont Edition. If we dont meet a certain goal by a certain date then we should back up and make sure that we protect Vermonters. I just want to be realistic, pragmatic. I dont want to paint anyone into a corner. It doesnt mean that anybody has to admit defeat.
State employees and CGI staff are frustrated with the scope of problems that have emerged with the site, Larson said, but they remain motivated to address the issues and make it work.
They arent losing sight of the fact that being successful is a really important step forward in creating greater access to affordable and comprehensive health care, he said.
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Short's Brewing Company
When Short's Brewing Company produced those first 178 barrels of beer in 2004, they must have known they were on to something special. Since then, production at their Bellaire brewpub and now the Elk Rapids brewery has grown exponentially, along with the popularity of the brand.
Now, Short's Brewing Company beers, on tap or in bottles, are a common sight throughout Northern Michigan. So popular are they that readers of Northern Express voted the beer Michigan's Best Product.
The Express talked to brewery founder Joe Short about beer, art and business.
Northern Express: Before you got into making beer, before there was a lot of craft beer for sale in Northern Michigan stores, what kind of beer did you like to drink? What do you think about that kind of beer now?
Joe Short: Back when I became interested in craft beer, there were very few kinds being sold in Antrim County. I liked Sam Adams and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. I was always looking for Pale Ales and IPAs to purchase. When I could find Bell's Two Hearted or Bell's Pale Ale, I'd buy as much as I could get my hands on. I still love those beers today.
NE: Tell us about those wonderful Short's labels. I understand many of them are made by an old college friend of yours, Fritz Horstman, who is a successful artist in his own right. How did you two get started working together?
Short: I met Fritz through a friend at Western Michigan University. I used the name "Short's Brew" on all of my old home brews, and Fritz came up with the dancing Short's logo way before I opened the brewery. We've been working together ever since. When we need a new label, I'll describe it to Fritz and he'll send a few test drawings. When we land on one we like, he'll finish it.
NE: What beer are you most proud of creating?
Short: It is hard to choose, but I would have to start with my favorite, Huma Lupa Licious. As someone who loves American IPAs, Huma Lupa Licious is my conception of what an ideal IPA should taste like. That's why Huma is my favorite beer and, I'm proud to say, our best selling beer. I am also tremendously proud of the Imperial Beer Series of 2007, which included Bloody Beer, Spruce Pilsner, Black Licorice Lager, Woodmaster, Peaches & Crème, Abnormal Genius, Publican Porter, Imperial Soft Parade, Aorta Ale, Black Cherry Porter, the Good Feller, and Ginger in the Rye. Over the past year, we have begun seasonally releasing many of these beers in 12 oz. bottles and that has been very rewarding.
NE: What is the most unusual ingredient you have used in a beer?
Short: Probably horseradish for the Bloody Beer. However, I am also proud of the way we used Rooibos and Lapsang Souchong tea leaves to mimic the flavors of smoke and tobacco in the Gambler, which was an experimental IPA designed to replicate the experience of drinking bourbon and smoking a cigar at the same time. The Gambler was recently chosen by Draft Magazine as one of the top 25 beers in America in 2011.
NE: When do your ideas for beers come to you?
Short: Typically at 10:45 pm on clear, full moon nights. Just kidding. Really, there is no defined answer here because you can't schedule inspiration. Trust me, I've tried. Ideas are born from a lot of things like books, movies, food, taking hikes & walks, long drives and dreams. My creative direction with beer is consistently evolving. I also give a lot of credit to Tony Hansen, our Director of Brewing Operations, and other staff members. Short's employees are always coming up with really cool ideas. We have a policy that no idea is a bad idea. Some ideas are just harder to pull off than others.
NE: What's your favorite compliment you've gotten on a beer?
Short: "I never appreciated beer until I tried yours, and now I love beer!" Or, "I don't know how you guys do it, but this stuff is amazing!" One of my main goals is to change people's minds about beer. It is a difficult task, because everyone has different tastes. That is why we have 20 different kinds of beer on tap every day at our pub. Oh, and I also like when people ask if we could put a Short's Brewery in their town, because it means that they enjoy our beer and our pub.
NE: How often to you come up with an unusual idea for a beer, make a batch, and decide you have to go back to the drawing board?
Short: We are getting really good at hitting the mark on our first try, but there are occasions when we try something and are not satisfied with the result. I brewed Carrot Cake three times because I was convinced that there was room for improvement, but then ended up deciding I liked the first batch the best. If we don't hit the mark, you wouldn't know about it because we wouldn't release it. Given that our beer is so expensive to make, and therefore really painful to dump out, we put a ton of research into every new beer before we brew. We have a method that we use for developing recipes and we spend lots of time mixing ingredients beforehand to get an idea of what the final product will taste like. It is a lot of work, but also a lot of fun. Creating new beers is one of our favorite things to do, and I enjoy the challenge of continuing to be creative while also managing our company's growth. It keeps everything new and exciting.
NE: What advice would you have for young people who want to become entrepreneurs in Northern Michigan?
Short: Entrepreneurs are folks who love what they do, and as a result they do whatever it takes to bring their ideas to fruition. Even if I didn't work at Short's, I'd be making beer and bottling it to give it to my friends, the way I did in the beginning. So first of all, choose something that you love to do and are naturally good at. After that, my best advice is to be tenacious and passionate. In the beginning, I had to work around the clock to keep my business alive. Finally, I believe than an emphasis on quality is extremely important. When I opened my business in Bellaire, I knew we would need to be able to draw people based on the quality of our beer alone. If we didn't make good beer, people wouldn't travel out of their way to get it.
NE: I see from your website that Short's staff takes questions from home brewers about the craft via email. What do you enjoy about helping people who want to make beer on their own? Do you get a lot of questions? What kind of questions do you get?
Short: At this point in my brewing career, it's really easy for me to answer questions because I've had experience with everything these folks are encountering. It doesn't take much time to answer a few questions that might save someone a lot of agony and get them on the right track. I'm a helper by nature. I like to solve problems and think about potential solutions. That's largely what I do now anyway, just on a really big scale. I like putting my knowledge and experience to work. I really enjoy talking about beer and helping other brewers find joy in the craft of brewing.
Unfortunately, more and more, we have more people asking specifically about the processes or formulations that we use to make certain brews. For obvious reasons, we have to keep many of those secrets to ourselves. It is becoming increasingly difficult to tell if someone who asks us a question is a homebrewer or someone who wants to start a brewery and brew like Short's. Still, it never hurts to ask us a question, and we make an effort to respond to every email that we receive.
NE: What's going on with the proposal to open a Short's Brewpub on the harbor in Elk Rapids?
Short: We proposed an idea for the redevelopment of the former Bech's Mustard Factory on Dexter Street. It doesn't sound like the Village is going to sell us the property, but we're discussing a lease. At this time we're exploring all options. We do want to develop an Elk Rapids brewpub of some sort, because that is where our production brewery is located, but we're just not sure how it's going to happen at this time. We are currently in the process of renovating the inside of our production brewery and preparing for the arrival of 16 new tanks, so, as always, I seem to have a million things happening at the same time.


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NFL players should be penalized for using the 'N' word
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson 03/04/2014
If it doesn't buckle, the NFL will toss the flag on the "N" word. And make no mistake, despite the NFL's effort to take the sting out of its proposed penalty flag by calling it a ban on racially offensive chatter on the field, black players will be the ones to get the flag tossed at them.
In this age of rigidly correct political and public speech, no white NFL player would dare purse his lips to shout that dreaded racial epithet at a black player. Remember what happened to Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Riley Cooper who was nailed for using the "N" word in a drunken rant on a cell cam? He had to all but prostrate himself before the league and his teammates to get back in the game.
And there's Miami Dolphins guard Richie Incognito who got ripped as much for using the "N" word and other choice racial epithets against teammate Jonathan Martin as for bullying and harassing Martin. The legions of white celebrities, politicians and personalities who have been caught using the word in recent times have been publicly whiplashed into near-extinction for uttering it.
So it's the black players who would get the flag. And they should, for the very reason that several NFL players, when asked about it, have declared the proposed ban DOA with the shrug and a quip, "Hey, it's part of the culture."
Culture? That's the problem. In times past, a parade of black comedians and rappers had virtually canonized the word. Mercifully, many of them got the message that it's not hip, cool, or funny, and there's absolutely no shock value in it anymore. They have purged it from their acts or toned down their use of it.
But that doesn't seem to include many black ball players who still cling to the lame rationales that the more a black person uses the word the less offensive it becomes. Or, it's a term of endearment. Or, there's no offense in it because everyone uses it.
But whether the "N" word is shouted out on the field wrong-headedly as a bonding or common usage term, or simply spit out in a fit of anger and emotion in a highly charged moment on the field, it doesn't change one fact: Words are not value-neutral. They express concepts and ideas. Often words reflect society's standards. If color-phobia is a deep-rooted standard in American life, then a word as emotionally charged as "nigger" will always reinforce and perpetuate stereotypes. It can't be sanitized, cleansed, inverted or redeemed as a culturally liberating word. The word "nigger" never will be made acceptable. It doesn't matter whose mouth it comes out of or what excuse is tossed out for using it.
The fallback argument against an NFL ban is that it's ridiculous to try and regulate a player's speech. And, besides, there's the First Amendment, which gives anyone license to say pretty much whatever they want as long as they don't libel someone or act on their venomous words. That argument falls apart on two counts. There are still dozens of daily examples in which whites (and other non-blacks) taunt and harass people by calling them "nigger," spray paint the word on their homes, businesses and churches, and physically assault and even murder blacks. In the FBI's annual count of hate crimes in America, blacks still make up the overwhelming majority of victims.
The "N "word reigns supreme as the favorite racial epithet hurled at blacks during these crimes. Even when the word isn't used, the sentiment is that blacks are still fair game to be abused and dehumanized, and the "N" word reinforces that belief. The word "nigger" is and will always have grotesque and deadly meaning to them. And, even if some blacks do occasionally go off the deep end and wrongly harangue whites for using the word, maybe that's because "nigger" pricks agonizing historical and social sores.
The other is that the "N" word is hate speech, endearment silliness notwithstanding, and there's nothing in the First Amendment that protects that. Nor is there anything that prohibits a private entity such as the NFL, or any other business, from regulating the conduct, mannerisms and behaviors of its employees, which is what these players are.
There's yet one more reason the NFL should act. The NFL is the gold standard for sports in America. It packs a wallop when it comes to influencing youngsters on and off the gridiron, their parents and millions of fans. Cleaning up the game, to make it a game worthy of the lofty standard of conduct and decorum that NFL executives repeatedly claim they want to make it, must include the language of players, which can't be separated from their conduct, which millions watch and are influenced by.
The NFL doesn't need an instant replay, official box review or official's huddling on the field, to determine if the flag should be thrown on the "N" word, and that means at its black players. Throw it high for all to see.
Author and political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a frequent MSNBC contributor and an associate editor of New America Media. He is a weekly co-host of "The Al Sharpton Show" on American Urban Radio Network and hosts of the weekly "Hutchinson Report" on KTYM AM 1460 radio in Los Angeles and KPFK-FM 90.7 radio and the Pacifica Network. Follow Earl on Twitter: http://twitter.com/earlhutchinson.
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Will this be a 15 yard penalty? What if it is said in an affectionate way, will it be a 5 yard penalty. Kind of like roughing the kicker. . . . incidental contact versus flagrant contact. I'm just sayin.
Also, will you be penalized for saying "cracker" or is that okay since we all know every white person is one.
posted by Paul G on 3/06/14 @ 02:22 p.m.
When operating in the workplace venue of a private corporation, that company can limit its employees expressions of speech as part of its employment contract.
Tell me RG, are Oreos just sweet, dark crackers with a pale cream filling?
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Caleb Gindl was expecting to celebrate with his teammates at home plate after his homer.
They had other ideas.
Gindl hit his first career home run in the bottom of the 13th inning and the Brewers beat Miami 1-0 on Sunday, shutting out the punchless Marlins for the third consecutive game.
"When I hit it, I thought it had a chance, but I wasn't sure," Gindl said. "I actually thought it was going to go foul, and it snuck in there for me."
As Gindl completed his home run trot, he turned around third expecting to see all his teammates.
All he saw was Jean Segura.
John Axford said the team planned it that way.
"Nobody did except for Segura," Axford said. "I don't think he got the memo. Everyone took off and went and hid in the tunnel. Segura was there for him, to congratulate him, though."
The Marlins' offense finished off a weekend they would rather forget.
Miami has gone a club-record 37 innings without a run, the longest drought by a major league team in 28 years. The Houston Astros were held scoreless for 42 consecutive innings in July 1985, according to STATS.
The Marlins haven't scored since Derek Dietrich drove in two runs in the fourth inning of a 5-2 loss in 10 innings to the Washington Nationals on July 14.
Sunday's game was the longest scoreless game in the majors since Boston won 1-0 in 16 innings at Tampa Bay on July 17, 2011.
The Brewers were the last team in the majors to produce a shutout this season, but now have eight in the team's past 31 games. While the Marlins have been blanked 12 times.
Axford (4-3), the fourth reliever for the Brewers, pitched the 12th and 13th for the win. He helped the Brewers pitching staff set a franchise record with 35 scoreless innings. The previous record of 31 was set April 18-22, 1990.
Facing reliever Ryan Webb (1-4) in the bottom of the 13th, Gindl hit a 1-0 pitch down the left-field line and around the pole, dropping just over the wall and sending what remained of the crowd of 30,773 into a frenzy.
Gindl was recalled from Triple-A Nashville on July 11. He made his second stint with the team this season a special one even though he doubted it would happen.
"I didn't think I would be the one to hit the walk-off," he said after becoming the first player in franchise history to hit a walk-off home run for his first career homer.
"No, not a chance. I thought maybe Brauny or Rickie or somebody like that, but not me."
The Brewers beat the Marlins for the 14th time in the past 17 games at Miller Park, dating to 2009. Miami has just five wins in its past 22 games against Milwaukee.
"It's really tough to see every single guy in the lineup struggle," Marlins manager Mike Redmond said. "I don't think I've seen that before."
Ed Lucas, one of only three batters to get a hit, agreed with his manager.
"We just can't get that timely hit," he said. "It's pretty embarrassing to have a three-game series and not score a run."
Miami's Henderson Alvarez and Milwaukee's Wily Peralta had a stellar pitching duel.
Alvarez allowed five hits and a walk in seven shutout innings and Peralta gave up two hits and two walks and seven strikeouts in eight shutout innings.
"I felt like I was locked in from the first pitch," Alvarez said. "I was very excited to get my first hit."


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Number of families in shelter at Salvation Army spikes
The Salvation Army in La Crosse is struggling to make space as it's flooded with families in need of a place to stay.
Traditionally, the majority of the homeless population is made up of single men, but that trend may be changing.
Salvation Army staff said the number of families has grown to more than 40 percent of the shelter population, with 10 families staying there currently.
Compared to this time last year, the number of children at the shelter has more than doubled.
But the answer to reversing those statistics is more complicated than it may seem.
Sarah Shilts is staying at the Salvation Army shelter with her two daughters and fiance.
She said it's not an ideal place to raise a family.
"It's tough to get this one to sleep when you're in a room with other families and they're trying to get their children to go to bed," said Shilts.
But for many families like Shilts', it's the only choice they have for now.
"We came back in September and we were here until the first of December. We found nice 3 bedroom house and we moved out. Everything was going good until we weren't able to make one of our rent payments, so we ended up coming back," said Shilts.
She's not alone, Salvation Army staff said they've seen a sharp increase in the number of families turning to them for help.
"We have people sleeping in less than ideal situations. We have families and children sleeping on couches, on roll out beds, on cots not in a room, in lounge areas that are used for a play room or TV areas," said Salvation Army Director of Social Services Kelley Bundy.
Bundy said families keep coming back because La Crosse simply doesn't have enough transitional housing services to meet the need.
"If they were able to get into a transitional living program they would be able to work with some type of staff member to really develop some of those budgeting skills, how to keep your house clean, how to work with your landlord, how to navigate community resources for a much longer period of time, which would hopefully prevent them from coming back to the shelter setting," said Bundy.
Shilts said the other main challenge is finding affordable housing, when you're on a limited income.
"I know with the city's waiting list, you have to sit there and wait until they have the funding available again and go through the process all over again," said Shilts. "Take one step at a time, that's all you can do."
There are some transitional housing services in the area like Coulee Cap, which serves four area counties.
Staff said they have to turn away about 20 families a month because they don't have room in their program.
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These are SARA's unofficial versions. The official version is always what appears in the text of the program element on the NSPIRES web page.
Amendment 31: Due Date delayed for Lunar Advanced Science and Exploration Research
The due date for Appendix C.8, The Lunar Advanced Science and Exploration Research (LASER) Program has been changed to February 24, 2011
Amendment 30: Revised areas of emphasis for Strategic Astrophysics Technology
Sections 2-4 of Appendix D.11, the Strategic Astrophysics Technology (SAT) call have been revised areas of technology development in response to the Astro2010 Decadal Survey.
Amendment 29: Final text for NASA Energy and Water Cycle Study
This amendment presents the final version of the text of Appendix A.17: NASA Energy and Water Cycle Study" (NEWS). NOIs are due February 16, and proposals March 22, 2011.
Amendment 28: New proposal opportunity in Appendix C.26 the Mars Science Laboratory Participating Scientist Program (MSL PSP)
This amendment establishes a new program element in Appendix C.26 entitled "Mars Science Laboratory Participating Scientist program" (MSL PSP).
Amendment 27: New proposal opportunity in ROSES 2010 via Appendix A.40, Airborne Science: UAS Enabled Earth Science Program
This amendment establishes a new program element in Appendix A.40 entitled "Airborne Science: UAS Enabled Earth Science Program"
Amendment 26: Addition to B.4, SHP, and D.3, APRA, of a southern hemisphere launch opportunity for sounding rocket flights
Appendix B.4, Heliophysics Research: Solar and Heliospheric Science (SHP) and Appendix D.3, Astrophysics Research and Analysis (APRA) have been amended to include a southern hemisphere launch opportunity for sounding rocket flights.
Amendment 25: Final text for ROSES 2010 Appendix A.36: Advanced Component Technology Program
Amendment 25 releases the final version of the text of Appendix A.36, which replaces the draft text in its entirety. Notices of Intent to propose are due on January 31, 2011. The due date for proposals is March 15, 2011.
Amendment 24: ROSES 2010 Appendix E.7: Explorer U.S. Participating Investigators
This amendment adds to the requirements in Section 2.2.3, Duration of Awards. This change pertains to awards of greater than five years in duration.
Amendment 23: D.10, MOST will not be solicited in ROSES 2010
Amendment 23 announces that the MOST U.S. Guest Observer Program will not be solicited in ROSES-10.
Clarification to D.8 Fermi Guest Investigator – Cycle 4
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Middlebury Wins as RPI Continues Slide
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MIDDLEBURY, Vt. - Middlebury used a 4-0 run in the third quarter, breaking a 7-7 tie, to pull away from visiting Rensselaer (RPI) 13-9 at Youngman Field at Alumni Stadium on Tuesday. The No. 10 Panthers have won 16 of 23 meetings between the two squads, improving to 9-2, while the Engineers (8-5) have now dropped three of their last four contests.
After an 11-goal first quarter, RPI held a 6-5 lead. The lead grew to 7-5 in the second quarter on a fast-break score by Devin Arnold at 6:15. Arnold, recently returned to the field after serving a one minute penalty, caught a pass at the midfield line and raced in for the score. The Panthers tied the game with a pair of goals as Tim Cahill scored a man-up goal at 4:14, while Andrew Conner put one past RPI goalie James Manchester as time expired in the half for a 7-7 score.
Middlebury went on its decisive run in the third, when Cahill netted his second at 8:31. Mike Giordano sandwiched his lone goal between a pair of David Hild tallies for an 11-7 lead heading into the fourth quarter.
The Engineers ended a 22:05 scoring drought when Arnold scored his fourth of the game at 14:10 in the fourth, cutting the Panther to 11-8. Both teams exchanged goals before Cahill notched his hat trick at 4:34, capping the scoring.
Conner, Hild and Cahill each scored three goals, while Conner chipped in an assist for Middlebury. The Panthers held a 37-30 groundball advantage, as Billy Chapman vacuumed up a career-best 10 groundballs. Ryan Deane earned the win in goal for Middlebury, stopping 13 shots.
Arnold led RPI with four goals, while Andrew Miller tacked on three for the Engineers. Manchester played 59:18 in net for RPI, making 12 saves, while allowing all 13 goals.
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Danica takes Pole for Daytona 500
She is already asking me what Speedweeks are and what we can watch. She is on vacation from school this week. She wants me to print out a schedule for her so she does not miss out on anything. So getting my daughter off the ceiling will be interesting.
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Clovis' Salvation Army Angel Toys charity helped local parents facing tough economic times provide their children presents this Christmas.
Salvation Army Major Rachel Gallop said Angel Toys received approximately 1,500 toys including 42 bicycles from local organizations, businesses and individuals to distribute to families Wednesday and Thursday.
"This helps the people realize that somebody cares for them, that they're not out there alone," Gallop said.
"It makes the kids realize that there are people out there who want to do things for them. And hopefully that will give them a role model to follow."
Parents completed Angel Toys applications in October and November to get their children in the gift-giving line.
First, parents filled out a gift request form. Their child's first name and gift request were then written on a paper angel cutout and hung on angel trees at different locations around Clovis such as North Plains Mall, Walmart and Hastings.
Next, members of the community with a charitable Christmas spirit picked an angel off of a tree and purchased the gift the child requested.
Gallop said the annual charity put a system in place this year to facilitate the toy pickup by parents and children.
After parents turned in their gift request forms, they drove around to the side door of the Salvation Army Chapel where Angel Toys volunteers greeted them with smiles and their gift bags.
Gallop said this method of toy distribution greatly reduced congestion in the Salvation Army front office.
"It's run smoothly and it's very organized. People seem happy with what they're getting," Gallop said.
Rebekah Gallop, 16, angel tree coordinator and daughter of Jim and Rachel Gallop, has participated in angel tree since the age of two.
This year she took the reins and coordinated a majority of Angel Toys. She organized bags of toys, families' applications and filled out angel trees with a sense of compassion.
"Today we're distributing all the toys. I've been running back and forth and getting toys for people," Rebekah Gallop said.
"I like giving the toys to families. They are really grateful and that is a really great thing. I like helping the community. I've been doing community service my whole life so I'll probably help in the future," Rebekah Gallop said.
"The kids are very happy. This one little girl was jumping for joy for her little bike so it's just nice seeing that they're happy, that they're getting what they want."


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Morgan Grenfell brand grab triggers dispute
Morgan Grenfell, one of the most noble names in the old City of London, has been resurrected by a cheeky former employee, triggering a dispute over the ownership of the company name. Lawyers say the new claimant may be able to keep it.
Companies are increasingly finding that entrepreneurs are trying to take over unused trademarks under rules that put them up for grabs after five years without use, according to Adrian Smith, partner at law firm Simmons & Simmons.
The original Morgan, Grenfell & Co was founded in 1838 and was one of the grand merchant banks along with rivals such as SG Warburg and J Henry Schroder Wagg. However, like most of the other grand City firms, Morgan Grenfell was taken over by a foreign bank seeking instant entry to London after the 'Big bang' deregulation of the 1980s.
Morgan Grenfell was acquired by Deutsche Bank in 1990, which, in turn, sold the asset management activities to Aberdeen Asset Management in 2005. The brand is no longer used. However, it has now emerged that fund manager Peter Rutter registered Morgan Grenfell Limited at Companies House on August 28, 2013, along with three related names suitable for asset management activities. He does not have a trademark registration, according to the Intellectual Property Office.
Rutter, who was a graduate trainee at Morgan Grenfell, said he would be keeping the companies for "personal use" and that he had a fondness for the names because they have "a certain history". He added: "There will be no getting the band back together."
A spokeswoman for Deutsche Bank said: "We have not had any engagement with Peter Rutter regarding his usage of the brand, neither sold it to him, nor authorised its usage by him. Our legal team will look into Peter Rutter's usage of the Morgan Grenfell name and respond as appropriate."
However, Sally Field, intellectual property partner at law firm Bristows, said Deutsche Bank may not be able to claim the rights to the brand if it cannot demonstrate that it has actively used it in the past five years. She said "simply paying a renewal fee" to maintain ownership of the name is insufficient to ensure continued ownership.


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They're not just sleepless in Seattle. Find out which U.S. cities are the most sleep-deprived.
As part of the Great American Pillow Toss sleep education campaign, Carpenter Co. and SleepBetter.org analyzed data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's annual Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey to rank the nation's most sleep-deprived cities. The study looked at the percentage of the population that reported sleeplessness and the average numbers of days people reported not getting enough sleep in a month.


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Are you familiar with which species are endangered? Here's a look at some of the United States endangered mammals, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. View the list here.
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As we approached, we saw two of Izzy's school friends jumping around naked, in a large inflatable paddling pool. They spotted Izzy and started shouting hello, just as one of their mothers, Julia came out from the house.
"Would Izzy like to come paddling?" she shouted to me.
"Yeh, sounds great," I shouted back, joining her in the garden with her husband Will, and friend Amanda.
"The plan is," continued Julia, "that the children wear themselves out in the paddling pool whilst us adults drink gin and tonic.
"Bloody civilised," I nodded approvingly, taking my place on a sun drenched bench.
Within moments, Will had placed a
So for three hours, we sat under the blue sky and chatted, watched life go by, and laughed at the antics of the children in the pool.
It could have been described as idyllic if it hadn't been for Naughty George. He broke free from his lead, peed up the side of one of the chairs and then proceeded to eat from a bowl of pasta that had been served to one of the children for supper. Even worse, whilst aforementioned sobbing child was being placated, he found the grated cheese pasta-topping and ate the lot.
"I'm really sorry," I shouted, trying to pin Naughty George into a corner.
"No problem," shouted Julia, "he's probably over-excited."
"No, you misunderstand," I responded, "he is called Naughty George because he is actually a complete naus."
"Yes," mused Will, regarding Naughty George disparagingly. Then without even trying to keep up the pretence of 'oh he's a nice dog really', he added "he isn't the most endearing of mutts."
So finally, the sun started setting, and I thanked everyone for a lovely afternoon and set off, striding through the village, and back to my cottage ........ where, upon arriving, I realised that I had left NG tethered to a bench at Will and Julia's house. Doh! Too many gin and tonics.
So I had to endure the 'walk of shame' (which is generally characterised by a slightly wobbly gait), and traipse back through the village to retrieve mutt, and back again through the village again to get home.
All in all though, a very pleasant afternoon, made more so because of its impromptu-ness (yeh, yeh, I made that word up, but I can't think of a better one).
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