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How does this compare to the Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive that was released recently? Any chance of a group test of consumer level NAS boxes?
The 𧴩.56 price quoted is actually for the old 500GB model
Why is the price listed as '𧴩.56 (Inc VAT)' which for the 500GB, but you reviewed the 1GB?
Ah, crumbs. My eyes were deceiving me. Thought it was remarkably far below the MSRP. As mentioned in the review, this still represents outstanding value at the MSRP of 𧵠.99.
I still don't really get the idea. An old celeron-something PC is free from freesycle + 2 new 1tb drives = 2x㿨 = 𧴰. A little hungry on the energy side (depends) and a little more ugly and space consuming, but as for the abilities and flexibilities..! And, of course, price.
I doubt somehow most user would want to go to such lengths. I know I wouldn't.
Nice to see a gigabit interface on a cheaper NAS.
I really hope NAS enclosures become as cheap as USB enclosures as demand goes up. Does this unit have a wake-on-lan feature?
Does it spin down the drive (apparently not all NAS's do) & what's the power draw like??
I've gone with Лис's idea - though it was an old pc from work with FreeNas put on it. The main drawback is it hasn't got SATA, so I'm currently stuck with an old 200gb IDE drive I had spare. It's the power it must suck up running 24/7 that I really don't like though. (planning to borrow a mates power meter at some point...)
No word on the performance? the old WD World Edition had realy useless transferspeeds (7-10mb sec over gbitt), any improvement here?
I use a Mac as my main PC and a netbook running XP as travelling machine. I always have a problem with automated backups for the Mac (including Time Machine) in that backups of a Mac are not readable as files on an XP. Does anyone know if I used this WD would the back up files from my Mac be readable from a windows machine on the network or remotely?
Updated with read and write speeds as well as power figures.
@ Rob - That's because Windows and OS X use different file systems (OS X uses HFS+ and Windows uses NTFS). Windows doesn't natively recognise HFS+ formatted drives so you will need a program in order to access the data on them (I think MacDrive and TransMac do this). At least, this is my understanding of it as I have never used a Mac.
@ smc8788 - thanks for your input. I appreciate why I presently cannot read Mac backup files on a Windows system. That is why I am curious whether the WD provides me a solution, without resorting to third party apps (I tried and did not find them useful). The video about this drive on the WD website suggests that a mixed Mac PC network is fully functional. I am unable to locate a website in UK that sells this drive. The 'latest price' link on TR goes to 100 of wireless router products.
Rob, this will support a mixed mac and PC network - see the screenshots for what file systems is supports. I've not found anywhere that's selling these yet. I'll keep an eye out, though.
The con with a lot of these storage solutions branded by Hard Drive mnaufactures is that they dazzle buyers with "features" while often hiding the fact that they have stuffed these products with turtle-slow 4200rpm drives. The slowest of the slow.
This review fails to address this question at all. Doesnt even raise it. I'd much rather read about hard issues like that, than run through "details" than can be found anywhere.
Any luck with anyone selling these yet?
1. So far as I'm aware the drive that's used in this is identical to WD's normal Green Power drives, which run at circa 7,200 rpm.
2. While there are speed differences between NAS devices you're still hugely limited by the network connection so it's all a bit moot.
3. How many situations is the NAS box speed of concern to your average home user, the likes of which this device are targeted at.
I have the original 500GB Mybook world at it was unable to share certain types of files is this still a case on the new version?
Also is the firmware available to download as the menus are much cleaner than on the original?
I bought this from IT247.com (𧴺 and free postage). So far I am happy with what it can do. It works plug and play out of the box for my Mac, with no software needed. I then loaded the backup app and registered free on line for the web based remote access. All of this worked flawlessly. My main machine, my iMac, now background backs up incrementally to the network drive. I can access all the files, with read and write permission, from any web browser remotely. The strength of this system is that it works with a Mac/PC mixed system. Which means I can access the backup of my Mac from a Vista or XP PC on the same network (meaning sharing a wi-fi connection on the same router). Most Mac back ups are not readable by a PC (e.g. Mac Time Machine backups cannot be read by a PC), so this is really good news for me. There is an application for Vista and XP to detect and manage the network drive. On my Vista machine this worked fine, but on both my XP laptops, I could not get the detection software to work at all (even trying the later version from the WD website). So for my XP machines I had to manually map the network drive - not difficult, but also not at all intuitive for most users. Anyway, apart from this problem, I now have the system I am looking for: Mac / PC; silent incremental back up of my Mac to a network drive, that can be accessed by a PC on the local network or via a web browser on the internet. It is what I was looking for and this provides the solution in a relatively inexpensive package.
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The car brand created Ctrl-Z Day to promote its BMW Z4 model.
Automobile brand BMW harnessed the power of social media to promote its latest car model the BMW Z4.
The brand created a new holiday called Ctrl-Z Day and, with the help of key bloggers on China's microblogging site Sina Weibo, was able to get over 300,000 microbloggers to tell the world what they would 'undo' in their lives if there was a Ctrl-Z function in life. The bloggers revealed their number one regret in 140 characters or less and used the hashtag #CtrlZDay.
Ctrl-Z Day became viral when Key Opinion Leaders on Weibo started tweeting and promoting the fake holiday. Weibo users believed that the second Friday of July was a 'worldwide day of regret.'
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Life is not a flat road. There will inevitably be setbacks, a few of which you will have no choice over, but regret can't reverse them. Rather than remembering the past, it is better to look forward to the future. Life doesn't have a Ctrl Z. Control Z4: drive and have no regret!
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The guessing game of whether Sarah Palin will run for president in 2012 will no doubt kick into a higher gear because of a new story in The New York Times Magazine.
The 2008 vice presidential nominee tells writer Robert Draper that she's weighing a White House bid and "engaged in the internal deliberations candidly" with her family.
The piece on the ex-Alaska governor's organization was previewed this morning by Politco's Mike Allen. A preview of the NYT magazine piece is in this hyperlink.
In the story, Palin discusses how she'll have to prove her record, saying it's "a hurdle I would have to cross, that some other potential candidates wouldn't have to cross right out of the chute."
She goes on to explain her frustration at what she says is "the warped and perverted description of my record and what I've accomplished over the last two decades."
Palin has been criticized by some Republicans, including Bush political strategist Karl Rove. He recently told a British newspaper that he wasn't sure how Palin's new reality show about Alaska "fits in the American calculus of 'that helps me see you in the Oval Office.' "
Palin hasn't been shy about knocking what she calls the "lamestream" media.
But she told our colleague Gary Strauss, who wrote a cover story last week about her TLC show, that she did her homework on Draper and agreed to chat with him after she got positive reports.
"Word back to me was he seemed (like) a decent and professional reporter. So I cold-called him when I had some time and chatted with him on the phone outdoors in the sun to see if he needed any clarification," Palin told Strauss by e-mail.
The exchange is covered in USA TODAY's On Deadline blog.
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Keep in mind that their ballistics figures (2200 fps) are based on a rifle barrel (24"?). Out of a pistol, they'd do well to make 1500, and it's only a 30gr. bullet. Still comes up way short of half the energy of a 5.7. Don't get me wrong - I think .22 Mags are cool, but they're really not in the same league as a 5.7.
I saw where there's an Argentine submachine gun that shoots .22WMR. I would NOT want to be on the receiving end of that! Bet it's got a blistering rate of fire!
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I've worked in Egypt with Liverpool University on several fieldwork research projects since 1997. My areas of interest include tomb architecture of the Old Kingdom (2686-2181 BC) and studying how the form of tombs is an expression of the funerary practices and beliefs for the time. I'm preparing a study for publication that considers the components of tomb design that made an ideal burial and how tombs were used.
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I joined the antiquities department in 2011 after working for over 20 years within National Museums Liverpool. I've worked on several Capital Projects including the Ancient Egypt gallery (opened 2008) and the Museum of Liverpool (opened 2010). Over the next 10 years it is the department's aim is to fully refurbish all of our galleries, dramatically increasing the amount of material we have on display and to make all of our collections available online. I will be supporting this strategic development of the antiquities department.
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I am responsible for curating Greek, Roman, European and British antiquities. I joined National Museums Liverpool in 1999 and I worked in planning public events at both the Walker Art Gallery and the World Museum interpreting collections and temporary exhibitions. I was appointed as the Head of Museum Partnerships in 2004 and supported collaborations across the sector.
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NEW YORK — Jacob deGrom dominated until dealing with discomfort in his throwing hand in the seventh, then escaped a no-out, bases-loaded jam that inning to help the New York Mets beat the Los Angeles Angels 3-0 on Friday night and snap a seven-game losing streak.
The Mets avoided their first eight-game skid since losing 11 straight in 2004.
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A blog by Southern writer and historian Dale Cox, Civil War Florida shares information on and discusses the events of the Civil War in Florida. Topics of interest include troops, battles, skirmishes, campaigns, raids, forts, naval actions, ships, soldiers, officers, books and historic sites.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
The Attack on Ricco's Bluff, Florida
The Battle of Blakeley, Alabama
Ricco's Bluff - Liberty County, Florida
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
A Union grave in Washington County, Florida
Monday, January 28, 2008
Captain Harrison Tillinghast
Born in 1841, Tillinghast was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in Company F, 2nd Florida Infantry, on May 10, 1861. Promoted to 1st lieutenant one year later and finally to captain, he was with the 2nd Florida during Lee's 1862 invasion of the North. The son of a prominent Jackson County family, the 21 year old captain served in some of the bloodiest fighting of the war.
During the Peninsula campaign, he was wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines, Virginia. This was the same battle that resulted in the wounding of General Joseph E. Johnston and the assumption of command by General Robert E. Lee.
Tillinghast was killed in the brutal fighting at Antietam (Sharpsburg) and buried in Maryland, far from home. Like many Southern soldiers and officers, he was memorialized by his family at home through the erection of a stone in a local cemetery.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Civil War Florida Top Ten (1/26/08)
Here are this week's ten best selling nonfiction books about the Civil War in Florida, based on the statistics at www.barnesandnoble.com:
- The Battle of Marianna, Florida (Cox)
- The Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida: The Confederate Defense of Tallahassee (Cox)
- Rebel Storehouse: Florida's Contribution to the Confederacy (Taylor)
- Florida in the Civil War (Wynne and Taylor)
- Confederate Florida: The Road to Olustee (Nulty)
- Florida's Lighthouses in the Civil War (Hurley)
- The Civil War on Pensacola Bay, 1861-1862 (Driscoll)
- Stephen Russell Mallory: A Biography of Confederate Navy Secretary and United States Senator (Underwood)
- Discovering the Civil War in Florida (Taylor)
- The Battle of Olustee, 1864: The Final Union Attempt to Seize Florida (Broadwater)
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Thank you to everyone who has contributed to helping making my books, The Battle of Marianna, Florida and The Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida so successful. I donate the profits of these books to historic preservation efforts in Florida and your support has made it possible for me to provided much needed assistance and funding to a number of worthy organizations. Thank you.
The Calhoun County War, Part Five
The 1st Brigade of the Florida Militia began operating from the McIntosh home at West Wynnton shortly after arriving on the scene. In a series of marches through the country side, they encountered and apprehended small parties of Regulators. Matilda Dunham, the teacher who had been evacuated from the McIntosh home with the other women and children, wrote on October 7th that she had heard from Calhoun County and that the militia had "captured a few of the insurgents, regulators, or whatever they may be, but none of their leaders."
The campaign continued, however, until finally the main body of regulars was encountered and subdued. "The troops have captured 60 or 70 of the rascals," wrote Dunham on October 10th." Judge McIntosh informed his family in a letter that the disturbance was almost over.
By October 17, 1860, the Marianna Patriot was able to report that the war was over:
Our Militia, under Gen. Anderson, have returned from Calhoun County, in good health &c., bringing with them twenty seven prisoners. And we are gratified to hear that all is peace and quietness in that distracted county.
A total of 57 men were charged with crimes against the state or federal governments. Thirty were released and ordered to appear before the next session of the circuit court. Twenty-seven were held in custody and placed in the jails at Marianna and Apalachicola.
In the time between the end of the "war" and the next session of the court, Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States. Judge McIntosh resigned from his post and Florida joined other Southern states in calling a secession convention. The first regulator trial was set to take place in Apalachicola in December of 1860 and drew observers not only from Florida, but from the neighboring states of Alabama and Georgia as well. The unnamed regulator was acquitted. The judge then ordered the rest of the trials moved to Marianna, evidently believing that such a move was necessary.
There is no evidence that any other trials ever took place. Many of the men who fought in both the regulator and "Durden party" wound up serving in the Confederate forces during the Civil War. Gen. Anderson continued to serve as a militia general until 1862, when the state militia was disbanded. In 1864 he joined the Marianna Home Guard as a private and was captured during the Battle of Marianna. He was carried away to a Northern prison camp for the rest of the war. Judge Finley became a brigadier general in the Confederate service. Solicitor Barnes became the lieutenant colonel of the 1st Florida Infantry Reserves.
In the tumult of the war, the Calhoun County revolt was largely forgotten and remains an obscure footnote in Florida history to this day.
Friday, January 25, 2008
The Calhoun County War, Part Four
Some interesting insights to the events that took place in Calhoun County in 1860 can be found in the letters of Matilda Dunham, a 22 year old teacher from St. Augustine who had been hired by Judge McIntosh to tutor his children. She resided with the McIntosh family at West Wynnton and witnessed the events there first hand:
The Regulators, 75 in number, are a set of lawless men who have taken the law (as they style it) into their own hands, threaten to kill everyone in Calhoun County, except fifteen. Who are the 15? No one knows. The camp is about 6 miles from Wynnton and they have scouts out at all times.
By the morning of October 2nd, the militia was forming in Marianna and preparing to march south. The editor of the local newspaper described the situation and termed the Regulators a "band of outlaws" that was "creating confusion and terror among the good citizens." He went on to explain that "outrageous and unlawful acts" had been perpetrated in Calhoun County and that the violence had spilled across the border into Jackson County.
The militia marched from Marianna on the morning of October 4, 1860. The exact number of men taking part in the campaign is not known, but surviving records indicate that the force consisted of the 1st Brigade. Companies from Jackson, Washington and Gadsden Counties are known to have participated, all under the command of state Brigadier General William E. Anderson.
The troops pushed into Calhoun County and marched to Judge McIntosh's home at West Wynnton, which was converted to a military headquarters. The soldiers camped in the plantation buildings and on the grounds.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
The Calhoun County War, Part Three
Following the Regulator attacks on the Durdens and Musgroves, fighting quickly spread through much of Calhoun County. Local legend holds that a significant gun battle took place on the grounds of the courthouse in Abe Springs and other attacks and reprisals rippled across the landscape.
It did not take long for news of all this to reach the home of U.S. District Judge McQueen McIntosh at West Wynnton, a small community on the Apalachicola River south of Blountstown. Alarmed by the severity of the outbreak, Judge McIntosh spread the alarm to Marianna and Circuit Judge Jesse J. Finley. Immediately upon receiving the call for help from McIntosh, Judge Finley set out for Calhoun County with his solicitor (prosecutor) W.D. Barnes.
It is interesting to note that all three of these men soon would be serving important positions with the Confederacy. Judge McIntosh because a C.S. District Judge. Judge Finley, giving up the practice of law for the practice of arms, became a Confederate general who served in some of the heaviest fighting of the war. W.D. Barnes became the lieutenant colonel of the 1st Florida Infantry Reserves and fought at the Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida in March of 1865.
Upon reaching West Wynnton, Finley and Barnes met with Judge McIntosh and other officials and learned more about the situation in Calhoun County. Concerned over the spreading danger, they helped arrange the evacuation of the women and children from McIntosh's home and then attempted to meet with the leaders of the Regulators to arrange a truce.
The Regulators, however, refused to end their attacks and threatened to exterminate numerous other Calhoun County families. They warned that they could muster as many as 500 men by calling in reinforcements from other locations. The Durden and Musgrove party, on the other hand, had fewer than 60 men in arms and were in danger of being massacred.
Unable to bring the fighting to a peaceful resolution, Judge Finley declared that an insurrection was underway in Calhoun County. He dispatched a courier to Marianna with orders for Brig. Gen. W.E. Anderson of the Florida Militia to call out the First Brigade of the State Militia (today's National Guard). Judge McIntosh also dispatched a message to Apalachicola, calling U.S. Deputy Marshal H.K. Simmons to Calhoun County with instructions to prepare to serve such processes as ordered by the court.
The stage was now set for a showdown between the Florida Militia and the U.S. Government on one side and the Regulators of Calhoun County on the other.
We will continue our postings on the "Calhoun County War" tomorrow.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
The Calhoun County War, Part Two
During the fall of 1860, with the national election in an uproar and threats of secession spreading across the South, the other great issue of the time - slavery - ignited outbreaks across the South. It is a little known fact that thousands of white Southerners, many of whom would fight for the Confederacy, opposed slavery before the war. During the last months of 1860, pro-slavery regulators attempted to suppress these views and violence often resulted.
The Northwest Florida counties, where only a very small percentage of the population owned slaves, were fertile ground for anti-slavery sentiments. In Calhoun County, a small group of people opposed to slavery began meeting at the home of Jesse Durden during the late summer of 1860. Thirty-one years old, Durden was a farmer with family spread through Calhoun and Jackosn Counties.
The meetings quickly drew the attention of a group of pro-slavery men, who circulated a petition calling for either the expulsion of the Durdens and their friends from the county or their extermination. A band of "regulators" was formed and threats were issued, but despite the warnings, the meetings continued.
Events finally came to a head on September 24, 1860, when the regulators attacked the Durden home. The Marianna Patriot filed a report on the incident the following day:
Yesterday a party in Calhoun, styling themselves 'Regulators,' went to the house of one Jesse Durden, and we learn shot him, giving him a mortal wound. They then met and shot Willis Musgrove from his horse, who died instantly, also wounding Larkin C. Musgrove. These are the facts as we have been able to gather them, but it is believed that last night another battle was fought between the Regulators and the Durdens. All this happened near Abe's Spring Bluff, in Calhoun Co.
The report that Willis Musgrove had been killed was premature, he actually survived the fight, but Jesse Durden was killed as reported. Their outraged families and neighbors fought back with a vengeance and fighting soon erupted through the piney woods of Calhoun County. In less than a day, the county deteriorated into a state of open warfare.
We will continue the story of the Calhoun County War in our next post.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
The Calhoun County War of 1860
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Monday, January 21, 2008
The Julee Cottage - Pensacola, Florida
Little has been written about Florida's antebellum population of free African Americans, yet they represented an important part of the state's black history.
More common in seaport communities like Pensacola than in the interior farming counties, free African Americans worked in a variety of trades. They worked as sailors, carpenters, blacksmiths, farmers, seamstresses and in a variety of other occupations. Most of their homes, like the Julee Cottage seen here, were simple, but so too were the homes of the vast majority of the state's white residents prior to the war. The number of people involved in operating large plantations or who held slaves was actually very small in comparison to the total population of the state.
Free people of color in Florida before the Civil War also included little known Native American communities that dotted the landscape, especially across Northwest Florida, along with the few remaining Seminoles hidden deep in the swamps of South Florida. Census records for the Northwest portion of the state often identify these Native Americans as "mulattos," but others avoided the census taker or concealed their race out of fear they would be forced from the state. More on that over coming days.
The Julee Cottage is preserved as part of the Historic Pensacola Village complex in downtown Pensacola. For information, visit their website at: http://www.historicpensacola.org.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Civil War Florida Top Ten
- The Battle of Marianna, Florida (Cox)
- Rebel Storehouse: Florida's Contribution to the Confederacy (Taylor)
- Florida's Lighthouses in the Civil War (Hurley)
- Florida in the Civil War (Wynne & Taylor)
- Confederate Florida: The Road to Olustee (Nulty)
- The Civil War on Pensacola Bay, 1861-1862 (Driscoll)
- The Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida: The Confederate Defense of Tallahassee (Cox)
- Stephen Russell Mallory: A Biography of the Confederate Navy Secretary and United States Senator (Underwood)
- Discovering the Civil War in Florida: A Reader and Guide (Taylor)
- The Battle of Olustee, 1864: The Final Union Attempt to Seize Florida (Broadwater)
Thank you to everyone who continues to make the Battle of Marianna and Battle of Natural Bridge books so successful!
All of the books on our Top Ten are available through www.barnesandnoble.com.
Friday, January 18, 2008
Murder in the Ranks at Pensacola, 1861
"UNFORTUNATE OCCURRENCE. – We regret to learn that an unfortunate difficulty occurred last night between two members of the Chipola Rifles, from Jackson county, which is likely to terminate fatally to one of the parties. The difficult arose as to the relative strength of the two men, when a lie was passed, and a man named Joel Brown received a blow on the head from a stick of wood in the hands of the other man, whose name we could not learn. Brown's skull was badly fractured, and he was conveyed to the hospital of Dr. R.B.S. Hargis. The assailant escaped. We have since learned that Brown is dead."
The Chipola Rifles were organized in Marianna shortly after Florida left the Union. H.H. Baker was the captain. They were added to Col. Patton Anderson's 1st Florida Infantry in March when that unit was formed and served at Pensacola Bay. I have not been able to find anything else about Joel Brown, so far.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
St. Andrews Bay on the Eve of the Civil War
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Lt. Col. Uri B. Pearsall - 99th U.S. Colored
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Wartime Sketch of Asboth in Action
Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park
Monday, January 14, 2008
Four Mile Landing - Walton County, Florida
Sunday, January 13, 2008
The Gregory House - Torreya State Park
Saturday, January 12, 2008
A New Blog of Interest - Arkansas in the Civil War
If you enjoy reading Civil War Florida, you might also enjoy another new blog that I started this week, Arkansas in the Civil War. The address is http://civilwararkansas.blogspot.com.
As many of you know, I'm a native of Two Egg, Florida, but divide my time between the Sunshine State and the Natural State. I've developed an attachment for Arkansas. It is, quite honestly, a beautiful state. The people are warm and friendly and the mountains are stunning. The Ozarks, in particular, are so connected to their past that it feels almost possible to reach out and touch it.
To share a little of Arkansas and its special history, I've started the new blog and I hope you will take time to check it out from time to time and learn more.
Waddell Mill Pond - Jackson County, Florida
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Webbville - Plantation of Lt. Col. W.D. Barnes
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
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New Battle of Marianna Monument
There are many SCV Chapters around the South, but the West Camp is one of the most proactive when it comes to preserving history that I have encountered. The members have initiated a very impressive Graves project to clean up and restore graves of Confederate soldiers throughout Jackson County. This project has really impressed me because the West Camp is going beyond just talking about heritage and is doing something to make sure that the men who fought for the South are honored and remembered. Every soldier who fought in the war deserves a decent headstone, well-maintained grave and to be remembered now and then.
Monday, January 7, 2008
Davis-West House - Marianna
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Campbellton Baptist Church
Owens-Bellview Cemetery - Jackson County
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Fort Barrancas, 1861
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
The C.S.S. Jackson in the Chattahoochee River
The Jackson was just days away from completion when a Union army commanded by General James H. Wilson attacked and captured Columbus in April of 1865. The ironclad was captured by the Union soldiers, who were astounded by its advanced design and weaponry. They destroyed it before leaving Columbus.
The ship vaguely visible behind the Jackson in this photograph may be the C.S.S. Chattahoochee, a second warship constructed on the Chattahoochee River during the war. A third vessel, the C.S.S. Viper, was also operational at war's end. The Viper was a torpedo boat designed for use in ramming torpedos into the sides of Union ships.
The Confederates hoped to steam the three warships down the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers to attack the Union warships blockading the port of Apalachicola. Had they been completed in time, there is little doubt that the Jackson, Chattahoochee and Viper could have easily overpowered the poorly maintained Union ships off Apalachicola.
The wrecks of both the Jackson and Chattahoochee can be seen today at the Port Columbus National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, Georgia. The Viper was captured intact by the Federals, but was lost during a storm as she was being towed from Apalachicola to Key West after the war.


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Measuring The Success of E-Learning Initiatives
by Carmine Porco — "The pressure is on e-learning initiatives to prove their salt before any investment is made", says Julie Kaufman, Research Manager, IDC Canada. "Enterprises are demanding a business case before the purchase of a LMS (Learning Management System) or any other software or service behind e- learning initiatives.
While proof of return on investment (ROI) is a necessity, organizations are also requiring proof that e-learning delivers on its promise. "As well, executives are now demanding proof that e-learning will also improve employee learning, retention and satisfaction."
Many corporations substantiate their e-learning initiatives after the fact by eliminating related jobs or reducing travel expenditures for training. Although these are viable cost savings, they should not be the sole motivation for an e-learning initiative. E-learning must demonstrate that employees are learning more efficiently and retaining more of the curriculum compared to in-class training, thereby improving employee productivity.
"While you may use a lot of numbers to convince executives, deployment of e-learning must be focused on people," says a recent study out of Brandon-Hall research, which emphasizes the 'learn' in e-learning. "E-Learning is not about technology, tools, content, etc. It is about training people and the resulting effect on your organization."
Simply throwing courses online is not a viable model for success. Before one can measure the benefits of an e-learning initiative, one must understand what it intends to measure. Planning the e-learning initiative is of paramount importance if an organization is going to reap the rewards.
Planning questions that require answers:
What are your specific e-learning goals? (e.g. train more in less time, increase sales, etc.)
How will you align e-learning to the needs of the business?
What groups and how many employees require or desire access to the courses?
What kinds of e-learning courses are desired?
Do employees want or have an appetite to learn online?
As e-learning will not supplant all training, how will the two relate?
What are the critical success factors?
How will results be measured?
Who will responsible for the rollout and subsequent maintenance?
Which executive will be the champion of the e-learning initiative?
To answer these questions and to ensure success, a number of planning activities are required:
A needs assessment to determine if the initiative is a "must have" or a "nice to have"
A requirements analysis to document and understand internal stakeholder needs
User research to determine to what extent employees welcome and will use e-learning
A feasibility study to determine the potential barriers to success and whether the initiative can be implemented in a reasonable time, at a reasonable cost
A strategic plan that documents specific objectives and goals and how they align with organization goals
A communication plan on how the organization will market the initiative to ensure use
A business case proving the cost benefit analysis and ROI
A measurement plan detailing the critical success factors and performance measures (e.g. use, ROI, etc.)
"For these improvements to occur, an e-learning strategy needs to be based on an analysis of your business requirements followed by sound planning and implementation," says Brandon-Hall. "Good e-learning can reap great benefits. Bad e-learning can't."
"Without the proper due diligence early in the process, many e-learning initiatives are doomed to fail," adds Kaufman. "We have seen many enterprises putting the cart before the horse and get trampled".
"Also, implementing e-learning can require a substantial effort for your company. Courseware may need to be developed, technical platforms may need to be purchased or upgraded, key people need to become allies and supporters of the cause," says Brandon-Hall.
Once planning is complete and e-learning is 'live', there are many metrics that can be utilized and would have been defined in the measurement plan. Different metrics are applicable to different types of e-learning which includes:
Video on demand
Virtual live classroom
Interactive simulation
Content authoring & management
Skills and knowledge assessment
Examples of e-learning metrics that could be utilized in proving your business case include:
Enabling product to market faster
Reassigned or reduced head count
Travel and accommodation cost reduction
Increased revenue
Reduce training time and costs
Reduced printing and distribution costs
Improved employee retention and satisfaction
Enhanced customer satisfaction
Easier tracking and measurement
Improved organizational performance
To enhance existing training programs and to find cost savings Compaq introduced online training in mid-1995. Compaq's Learning Utility is a single interface and search and retrieval tool to access all training courses and information resources at the global computer company. The Utility supports both novice and expert users and provides access to proprietary, vendor and local content and is divided into three categories: Licensed Courseware (from market vendors such as SmartForce and business specific companies such as Microsoft, Cisco, etc.), Compaq Specific Courseware (Compaq product specific courses, etc.) and Documentation (downloads of hardware/software manuals, sales advisory guides, etc.).
In total Compaq's Learning Utility offers over 3000 courses and over 5000 documents. In 2000, total e-learning downloads (and courses taken) equaled 342,412 with the average download cost reduced from $9.59 in 1999 to $7.78 in 2000. Excluding travel costs that would have been saved by employees having to previously travel to attend training, the Utility achieved total annual savings surpassing US$13 million in 2000. (Source: Jim Melanson, Director, Compaq, "Workforce Planning & e-Learning", February 28, 2001).
Success stories and case studies abound. There is no longer a question as to whether e-learning is a winning technology, but whether it can produce winning results at your organization. Plan ahead, document proposed metrics, and measure performance from the outset. When built well and used effectively, e-learning has proven that it not only saves money but can also enhance employee productivity and satisfaction.
A Senior Internet Business Consultant and a regular writer and speaker, Carmine Porco is the Vice-President of Prescient Digital Media. For more information on Prescient's CMS Blueprint service, or for a free copy of the white paper "Finding ROI", please contact us.


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Why your film gets picked depends on a complex set of reasons, and it comes down to a single fact: film festivals, and programmers, aren't necessarily what you think! Learn the top mistakes and missteps filmmakers often make when researching, applying and attending film festivals.
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Tim Curran should quit music and be a surfer again. The music world is saturated enough by longhaired, folksy acoustic guitarists. Does it really need to thief another one of our surfers?
Give him back, music world. We need more guys who can consistently stick head-high air-reverses in heats, as Tim did on his way to win the Katin Pro/Am on Saturday. The win also solidified team Hurley's first place finish ahead of Jack's.
Tim didn't sing in his victory speech, a promising sign that the music world may be letting him go. Another sign, a better one, was Timmy saying this:
"My plan this year is to take a break from the music tour and do as many fun events as possible to try and build my World Ranking. I'd love to eventually get back into the US Open."
Katin Pro-Am Team Challenge Final Team Results:
1 – Hurley 48 points
2 – Jack's 37 points
3 – Buell wetsuits 31 points
4 – Rusty 27 points
5 – Dragon 25 points
Katin Pro-Am Team Challenge Final Result:
1 – Timmy Curran (HUR) 18.50
2 – Chris Waring (DRA) 13.06
3 – Micah Byrne (HBHS) 11.17
4 – Tanner Gudauskas (JAC) 11.10


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Written by: Arlene Sanchez Walsh
Pentecostalism's beginnings are rooted in the description of "tongues of fire" that fell upon the heads of Jesus' followers who gathered to pray in Jerusalem around the time of the Jewish Festival of Weeks (Pentecost). The Book of Acts (2:4) continues, "All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them." The Book of Acts, along with Paul's commentary and instructions regarding the other nine gifts of the Holy Spirit, form the central tenets of Pentecostalism.
From this description, what Pentecostalism is, where it began, and how or if it still continues into the present are all issues up for theological and historical debate. What can be described as Pentecostal beginnings might better be framed as "charismatic" activity, which was attested to hundreds and hundreds of times over the span of the formative years of the Church. This is important to note, since one of contemporary Pentecostalism's key arguments for its validity as a core part of Christian history is its existence as part of an unbroken stream of supernatural activity spurred by the direct experience of the Holy Spirit, thus tying all Pentecostals back to the Book of Acts.
Most of this Pentecostal activity in the early Church followed familiar biblical patterns focusing on prophecy, visions, healing, and exorcisms (casting out of demons). Specific descriptions of speaking in tongues (glossolalia) are often nuanced, inferred, but there are some descriptions of speaking and singing in languages that were not known to the speakers (xenoglossia). Since glossolalia and xenoglossia are both a part of Pentecostalism's contentious history, it should be noted that both phenomena were described in early Church circles. Suffice to say, historically there have been detractors who have doubted that either of these phenomena is possible, and they often posited that Church leaders who had experienced such phenomena were either deluded or deceived, and that most were theologically very dangerous.
Montanus, a 2nd-century Church leader, was considered a heretic because of his claims to receive direct revelations from the Holy Spirit. Montanus, and his female companions, Priscilla and Maxmilia, preached throughout Phrygia (modern-day Turkey), that direct revelations from the Holy Spirit had given them the ability to prophesy and to receive visions, and a renewed zeal for prayer and fasting. Challenging the notion that one did not need the authority of the Church to be a faithful Christian, Montanus and other leaders who believed that the Holy Spirit could lead them to the truth without the guidance of the Church's authority were simply too dangerous for the Church to accept. Most, if not all, of Montanus's followers were branded as heretics, including noted Church leader Tertullian.


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After finishing work early tonight. I thought I would have a look and see if there was any decent movies on. Unbeknownst me Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was just starting. Fuck Yes. Had been looking forward to this one for a while. One of the first movies Ive seen since Room 1408 that I had no idea what the story was. And I loved it. Best way to watch a movie, hands down, is to not know a thing about it. Even though how hugely popular the series is, I've still managed to avoid any details. Even though so many people I know have claimed to have read the book, they still didn't say shit. Thanks Mum.
Anyways, I'm a little biased because the movie featured Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, who did a masterful job with The Social Network (which I still listen too every week). The music is brillant in this one as well. Very cold and chilling.
I'll be short. Daniel Craig deserves Best Actor. Rooney Mara deserves Best Actress. Both amazing. Beautifully Shot.
And just a last word. I don't care if you prefer the book or the swedish versions. This is not an Americanisation of the books/movies. It doesn't have cliche characters, short running time or anything that defines a mainstream Hollywood film. Don't compare this to the other versions. This is just David Fincher's execution of an awesome book. And what a fucking execution.
So happy that I can see a Muppets movie and a David Fincher movie at the cinema in the same month.


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It's time for a YouTube pop quiz...
Who is Antoine Dodson?
If you answered "Mr. Hide Ya Kids, Hide Ya Wife," you'd be correct.
Too easy? Let's try a more difficult one.
Who is Joey Mazzarino?
Not so sure? ...
The beautiful star of the "Sesame Street" I Love My Hair video.
Does the Sesame Street song "I Love My Hair" ring a bell? That's right... Joey Mazzarino is the man behind the Muppet—the writer of the wonderful song that hit YouTube a couple weeks ago and quickly became an overnight sensation. I was recently granted the opportunity to sit down with Mr. Mazzarino and ask him the questions that you most wanted answered. He has already given stellar interviews to NPR and the Huffington Post, but I still wanted to take the opportunity to ask the questions that may have been overlooked. So, I reached out to the talented and lovely ladies of the CurlyNikki.com community to help facilitate the interview. Hopefully, we have covered everything and more that you wanted to know.
CN: I started my blog for the same underlying reasons you wrote the song for your daughter. I'm sure you're tired of repeating it, but could you give our communities the background story?
Sure! A year ago, when my daughter was four, I started to notice that she wasn't happy with her hair. She repeatedly expressed a desire to have straight hair like her mother's. She wanted to be able to toss it, and flip it back and forth. Like most girls her age, she has a collection of Barbie dolls—a mix of African-American and white ones, and unfortunately only three of them have curly hair. It's incredibly difficult to find Barbies with curly hair! One day, while playing with one of her white dolls, she said, "I'd like to have long, blond hair like her." I thought the problem was unique to us—being two white parents raising an African-American daughter. But then when Chris Rock's movie "Good Hair" came out, I realized that it was a much larger issue. I spoke to my executive producer about it and asked her if I could write a song that touched on hair and self-esteem. We were just finishing the writing season for the year, but she gave me the go-ahead, anyway. I wrote the lyrics and we got Chris Jackson, a wonderful composer and Broadway star, to do the music. He turned it around very quickly and we were able to shoot it!
Was the song particularly difficult to write? Was it hard finding the right words?
Not at all. I would always tell my daughter, "I love your hair! It's great! It's so beautiful and curly! Plus, you can do so many great things with it!" And she would always respond, "But I want hair like yours, I want hair like Mommy's'!" So I found myself reflecting on the stuff I told her while I was writing the lyrics, and it was actually one of the easier things I've ever had to write.


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A transgender man who had been taking testosterone jabs for years thought he was out of shape and needed to work out more, but it turned out he was pregnant.
Kayden Coleman, 29, who lives in Florida, had lived as a man for nearly a decade and was waiting for a double mastectomy when he noticed he was putting on weight.
Now married to husband Elijah, he had been taking hormones for five years and never expected he would get pregnant.
But ahead of the mastectomy operation he had had to stop taking the injections.
A trip to the doctors confirmed Mr Coleman was 21 weeks pregnant, and the couple began to prepare for the surprise new addition.
Inspirational quotes about LGBT rights
Inspirational quotes about LGBT rights
1/27 Caitlyn Jenner
"Why do people think it's OK to ask deeply personal questions when you're transgender?"
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2/27 Kanye West
"Look, I can be married to the most beautiful woman in the world, and I am. I can have the most beautiful little daughter in the world, and I have that. But I'm nothing if I can't be me. If I can't be true to myself, they don't mean anything," the rapper said about Jenner.
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3/27 Stephen Fry
"Homosexuals are not interested in making other people homosexuals. Homophobes are interested in making other people homophobic."
4/27 Hillary Clinton
"Gay rights are human rights."
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5/27 Anderson Cooper - Journalist and TV host
"The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud."
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6/27 Laverne Cox - Actress
'"We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love."
7/27 PM David Cameron
"I am proud that we have made same-sex marriage happen. I am delighted that the love two people have for each other — and the commitment they want to make — can now be recognised as equal."
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8/27 Kellie Maloney
"We don't have a choice. People think we wake up one morning, put a dress on and be a woman. I knew about it when I was very young but I was brought up in a male world and had responsibilities, I was frightened and I wanted to beat it. I didn't want to lose my friends. In the end I was so depressed and so desperate, I tried to commit suicide about three times."
9/27 Ellen DeGeneres - comedian and TV host
"To me beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are."
10/27 President Barack Obama
"Just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them."
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11/27 Zac Efron - Actor
"To me, being gay was just another way that you can be."
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12/27 Lance Bass - former NSYNC member
"The thing is, I'm not ashamed - that's the one thing I want to say. I don't think it's wrong, I;m not devastated going through this. I'm more liberated and happy."
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13/27 Ed Miliband - former Labour leader
"Whether you're gay or straight, you should be able to signify your commitment, your love, with the term marriage."
14/27 Kate Bornstein - Author
"Gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white."
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15/27 Adam Levine - Maroon 5's singer
"Maybe we should make straight marriage illegal. It doesn't seem to have a very high success rate."
16/27 Tom Daley - Olympic diver
"I felt so alone and trapped in who I was... for people to be so supportive about it has been amazing."
17/27 Kurt Cobain - Former musician
"I'm not gay, although I wish I were just to piss off the homophobes."
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18/27 Jay-Z - Rapper
"You choose to love whoever you love. It's no different than discriminating against blacks."
19/27 Brittney Griner - Basketball player
"I am a strong, black, lesbian woman. Every single time I say it, I feel so much better."
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20/27 Daniel Radcliffe - Actor
"You don't have to be gay to be a supporter, you just have to be human."
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21/27 Elle Page - Actress
"I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission... I suffered for years because I was scared to be out... I'm gay."
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22/27 Michael Sam - NFL player
"I want to own my truth... No one else should tell my story but me."
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23/27 Pink - singer
"I think the best day will be when we no longer talk about being gay or straight... It's not a gay wedding, it's just a wedding. It's not a gay marriage, it's just a marriage."
24/27 Jason Collins - former NFL player
"When I acknowledged my sexuality, I felt whole for the first time."
25/27 Ricky Martin - singer
"Acceptance has to come from within and this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed."
26/27 Frank Ocean - Musician
"I believe that marriage isn't between a man and a woman; but between love and love."
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27/27 Elton John
"So I am deeply saddened and shocked over the current legislation that is now in place against the LGBT community here in Russia. In my opinion, it is inhumane and it is isolating."
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He gave birth to baby daughter Azaelia, now 22 months old.
Mr Coleman's pregnancy appears to have gone largely unnoticed outside their family.
"This woman in a shop said to me, 'Honey, you look like you're pregnant'. I just laughed and said, 'I am pregnant!' She didn't believe me," he was reported by The Mirror as saying.
In the hospital he said he was well treated by the medical staff but eventually became fed up with medical students coming in to see him.
"It got to the point where I had to put my foot down and demand a C-section," he said.
Speaking about his daughter, Mr Coleman said: "I couldn't imagine, and don't want to imagine, life without her. She is amazing."
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A conservative national daily on Saturday apologized for carrying an advertisement for books whose author claims that Jewish people were behind the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
The advert ran in a Nov. 26 regional edition of the Sankei Shimbun and promoted the works of Richard Koshimizu, a self-styled journalist and activist who also blames Jews for the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in the United States.
The natural disasters of 2011 sparked the man-made Fukushima nuclear disaster and left 18,000 people dead or missing.
A little-known figure in Japan, Koshimizu used the promotional space to market a book claiming the United States is a "Jewish dictatorship state" that detonated an atomic bomb deep underwater to deliberately trigger the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated Japan's northeast coastline.
In another book featured in the ad, Koshimizu claims the Holocaust was a fabrication designed to establish the state of Israel.
"It is extremely regrettable that an advertisement of this content was carried and delivered to our readers, and we deeply apologize to readers and the people of the Jewish community," Sankei President Takamitsu Kumasaka said in a statement published in the paper.
"It was obvious there was a fault in our screening of advertisements," he said.
Kumasaka added that he received a letter of protest over the ad from Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish rights group.
"The Sankei considers the Holocaust by the Nazis as an unforgivable, heinous crime and does not side," the president said.
The Sankei said the ad was in the Tokai/Hokuriku edition covering central Japan, where it has a circulation of 5,000 copies.
Japan does not have a large Jewish community and the vast majority of the populace practices a mixture of imported Buddhism and indigenous Shintoism.


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Slow play penalty overshadows Sybase Match Play semi-final match
By mustang6560 on 5/21/12
Azahara Munoz defeated Candie Kung 2&1 to win the Sybase Match Play Championship Sunday. But, her first professional victory on the LPGA was overshadowed by a controversial slow play penalty during her semi-final match against Morgan Pressel.
It all reverted to the morning semifinal in which Munoz and Pressel were both slow, although Munoz was admittedly a little slower. They were warned about slow play after nine holes and put on the clock after No. 11.The awkwardness of the Azahara-Morgan match did not end there. On the 15th green, Morgan accused Azahara of touching her intended line, which Azahara denied. The rules officials reviewed the videotape and said they did not see any evidence of a breach of rules, so Azahara was not assessed a penalty and she made the birdie putt to square the match heading into the 16th. The Spaniard went on to win the match against Morgan 2&1.
I feel bad for both players. Obviously, it sucks Morgan was assessed a slow play penalty, which changed the momentum of the match. But, it also sucks for Azahara because many people will discount her first career victory.
In professional sports, you hate to see the referee decide the game by calling a technicality penalty (a foot fault in tennis or a travel in basketball). And in the case of the Sybase Match Play Championship, the decision to assess a slow play penalty against Morgan decided the match. I guarantee you that the big wigs at the PGA Tour headquarters will follow the reaction of the next few weeks to decide if/when the PGA Tour will potentially cost one of its players a match.
Following the final round of the tournament, Morgan was there to congratulate Azahara on her victory, which was a great gesture of sportswomanship. The pair were friends prior to the start of the Sybase and they said they will remain friends after the Sybase. What's $225,000 between friends (Azahara won $375k to Morgan's $150k)?
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bkuehn1952 says:
Assessing a "slow play" penalty at that point of the match was a poor decision. That being said, once one is told that you are on the clock, the only sensible thing to do is to play within the time constraints. 30 seconds is a long time to hit a shot, especially with a caddy at your side. If I had to wait 30 seconds to hit my shot once it was my turn, I would go crazy. The final onus for the result is on Morgan Pressel.
SpaceMaNy0 says:
What's traveling? Haven't seen that called in years.
Duke of Hazards says:
I'm going to start putting my wife on the clock in the morning when she's getting ready for work... then again, that's probably not a good idea.
Banker85 says:
Tech for traveling, i take it you don't run a basketball blog on the side huh Nate? But i get your point about letting the ref's be a factor in the outcome of a game. A win is a win and most wont remember the issues down the road just the W.
mustang6560 says:
@Banker85- I thought people would misinterpret the word *techincal* so I changed it to technicality.
Banker85 says:
lol @ Duke, good luck with that! "Uh Honey you are 30 seconds over your time limit for ding your makeup. I'll have to assess you a 100 stroke penalty" haha get it 100 strokes!
Duke of Hazards says:
I see what you did there, Banker. I'm actually just worried that my plan will backfire and I'll end up losing the hole.
okay, now I'm done.
mjaber says:
The only violation called less frequently than travelling in basketball is "palming".
jcstoll says:
So the pace of play rules different between match and stroke play? From the Kevin Na experience at the Players, there was a lot of talk about slow play on the PGA tour, and suggestions of a stroke penalty, vs just the current non-publicized nominal fine. But in match play it's loss of hole?
jkyleolson says:
From the way I read this, they both were warned. One listen and one didn't. I see no need to complain about the enforcement of a rule.
legitimatebeef says:
Nathan. It's a bit sensationalist of you to declare "Slow play penalty decides Match Play semifinal.." According to my math Munoz won the match by two holes. Pressel was assessed a one-hole penalty. Ignoring the so-called axiom of causality, even if the penalty had not been assessed Munoz still had a good chance of one-upping Pressel by match's end. If the match had been tied when the penalty was assessed, only then might it be fair to say that the penalty decided the match.
Torleif Sorenson says:
(1) This is the tip of the iceberg. If the LPGA starts doing it, you'd better believe that Tim Finchem is willing to start enforcing the rules on the PGA, Nationwide, and Champions tours. Glen Day, consider yourself warned.
(2) This reminds me of a rule NOT enforced - the controversial skate-in-the-crease rule that was ignored when Brett Hull skated around Dominik Hasek in Game 6 of the 1999 Stanley Cup Final, scoring the GWG in 3-OT.
Banker85 says:
even better then the first one Duke! +2
Banker85 says:
@beef: but Pressel would have been up 3 holes at that point had she not been penalized. Up 3 holes with 7 to play is somewhat daunting and the momentum was clearly on Pressel's side. So it in reality was a 2 hole swing on 1 hole. Munoz went from being down 3 to just 1 and back in it. I got your back Nate!
mustang6560 says:
@Banker85- (double taps chest with clenched fist, points to sky). @legitimatebeef makes a fair point though, so I amended the title as to not misrepresent the nature of the penalty.
accarson3 says:
Just curious...when is the clock started on a shot? Is it when the ball is addressed or does it start when selecting a club, looking at the line, fixing socks, etc.?
mmontisano says:
now if only the PGA TOUR will grow a pair and do the same.
Bryan K says:
How is the 30 seconds assessed? When does the clock start?
Seriously? When it comes to "slow play", I tend to find more fault with what people do in between shots.
DaRupp13 says:
Banker and Duke...that was hysterical.
accarson3 says:
@Bryan K...you are right about slow play, I was just wondering when the PGA/LPGA started the "official" clock on shots.
sjm says:
from what i seen. munoz was the reason the pair was put on the clock. pressell has always played pretty quick. they should be timed seperately. seems like so much common sense.
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