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SAN BERNARDINO - A jury delivered a sweeping conviction against the remaining defendant in the "Dead Presidents" quadruple slaying of July 2000.
Froylan Chiprez was found guilty on Monday of four counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder. Jurors also found the special circumstances for an intentional killing while being active in a street gang at the time of the crime to be true.
"There was never really a question on the streets as to who did it," said San Bernardino police Detective Marco Granado, a gang expert who testified during the trial. "He should be held to answer to what happened."
On July 9, 2000, Chiprez was part of a crew who went to a residence on Vine Street in San Bernardino and opened fire on leaders of local gangs. Their motive was to remove the high-ranking officials from their positions of power, Deputy District Attorney Denise Yoakum said.
Those who died were 33-year-old Johnny Agudo; his brother, Gilbert Agudo, 27; Anthony Luna, 23; and Luna's cousin, Marcelino Luna, 19.
Armondo Villasenor and Michael Velarde were wounded.
"I'm very happy with the verdict," said Jacinto Agudo, who lost two sons and two nephews in the ordeal.
Jacinto Agudo attended the trial every day and had to relive the incident all over again. He sat through gruesome pictures of his sons and nephews and listened to the testimony of the man charged with their deaths.
"We're all very glad it's over," he said, adding that the family can now rest.
Two of the victims were presidents of San Bernardino street gangs Little Counts and Seventh Street, cliques within the West Side Verdugo, which is controlled by a prison gang, prompting some law enforcement circles to dub the case "Dead Presidents," officials said.
Granado said the shooting fractured the street gangs, and it never got back up to the level it was before.
After the shooting, the suspects fled the scene. Authorities arrested Chiprez on June 21, 2011, in Tijuana and he was extradited to the U.S. six months later.
"I hope the message is clear that just because time goes by, that's not going to keep up from pursuing justice," Yoakum said.
Because he was extradited from Mexico, prosecutors cannot seek the death penalty. Instead, Chiprez is facing life without the possibility of parole.
He is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 9.
Two of the other defendants, Luis Mendoza and Lorenzo Arias, have already been convicted and sentenced to the death penalty.
John Ramirez, the fourth defendant, accepted a plea bargain before going to trial.
Chiprez pleaded not guilty to the charges and when he took the stand during the trial he denied any gang involvement.
His defense attorney James Gass declined to comment after the verdict was read.
Reach Lori via email or call her at 909-483-9378, or find her on Twitter @IEcourtsNow


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Cause of Death: Chanel Phillips Drowned
The Palm Beach County Medical Examiner has initially determined that a Palm Beach Gardens woman, whose body was found in a lake at Jupiter's Abacoa Tuesday, died as a result of drowning.
The vehicle and body of 23-year old Chanel Phillips were found after a report to police of tire tracks leading into the lake.
Our Newschannel 5 partners have the latest.
Meanwhile, friends and family held a candlelight vigil Wednesday night at the lake where Chanel's body was found.
Photo courtesy of: Christina Marsh/Friend of Chanel Phillips

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Simmons, Dan. The Terror
Simmons' lengthy novel tells the hypothetical story of the lost Franklin Expedition to the Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage in the late 1840s. The story is told on a rotating basis through the eyes of several of the expedition members, including the leader, Sir John Franklin; Franklin's second in command, Captain Francis Crozier; naïve young surgeon Dr. Harry D.S. Goodsir; Lieutenant Irving; and several others. Little is known about the actual fate of the Franklin Expedition, but Simmons' account is, for the most part, true to what little has been discovered. In Simmons' version of events, Sir John Franklin is an aging buffoon whose pride does not allow him to make decisions in the best interest of the survival of the crews of H.M.S. Terror and H.M.S. Erebus, but instead lead to the ships being trapped in the sea ice for years, waiting in vain for a thaw as their supplies slowly run out. The men's slow death by starvation, scurvy, lead poisoning and botulism from ill-soldered tinned foods, near-mutiny, outright murder, and injury from frostbite and hypothermia are bad enough (and described in lavish detail), but Simmons has injected an extra horror—a huge white beast is stalking the ice-ridden ships, killing and eating men. Is it a white polar bear? Or is it something much, much worse?
"The Terror" is a book which demands patience. At times as glacial in pace as the ice in which the ships are trapped, it nevertheless builds inevitably toward the horror of the expedition's nightmarish fate. Worth the ride for the historical detail alone, the fantasy/horror addition of the strange white beast on the ice and a final few chapters delving deeply into Inuit legend and mysticism will not be for everyone. Enjoyable.


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Board is like new w/o a ding or crack anywhere. Ridden only half a dozen times. Includes Future AM2 fins. You will not find a used board in better condition. Currently in Greenwich, CT. Asking $475
UPDATE: Just picked up a new board so I will let this one go for $325 or OBO. Board is in Bay Head, NJ and will be available for pick-up until Monday night. Reply to this message or PM me. Still in perfect condition.


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Not long after the Kings' grinding 1-0 victory Saturday over the St. Louis Blues in Game 3, Darryl Sutter invited everyone within earshot to look at the tight-checking, low-scoring, first-round playoff series in another way and with a different perspective.
"There are a lot of little battles going on that only the players appreciate or understand," Sutter said. "Your top guys can't get frustrated and start playing their individual game. The two teams are very even, gave up the fewest shots in the conference, one and two.
"Both goaltenders, everybody understands who they are and what they are."
So what if the Kings scored only one goal in each of the first three games of the best-of-7 series and still trailed 2-1 going into Game 4 tonight? So what if scoring chances were few and far between and there seemed to be little in the way of sustained pressure?
Sutter asked a room filled with reporters to embrace the series' physicality and defensive nature and admire it for what it's become. Or so it seemed after a third consecutive nerve-jangling game that left everyone watching wondering when the goals would come.
St. Louis won the first two games by matching scores of 2-1.
The Kings took the third game 1-0.
"It's typical playoff hockey," Kings defenseman Robyn Regehr said Sunday. "Every inch of ice, it seems like there's a battle out there. Both teams are struggling a little bit offensively.
"That being said, there are reasons for it. Both goaltenders are playing well and making big saves."
Kings goalie Jonathan Quick stopped all 30 shots in Saturday's series-saving victory and has turned away 93 of 97 overall for a .959 save percentage.
Blues goalie Brian Elliott made 20 saves in Game 3 and has stopped 76 of 79 shots for a .962 save percentage.
But there's more to the low-scoring series than simply exceptional play in goal. The Kings and Blues are engaged in a test of will all over the ice, a series of battles that might not fill up the highlight reels but undoubtedly will determine the outcome of the series.
"There's all kinds of things that happen within the game," Regehr said. "Some people call it the game within the game. Call it whatever you want. It's a tough series. It's been a hard-fought series, a low-scoring, tight series. There's all kinds of stuff that's happening out there.
"As an individual, you want to win as many of those little battles. I enjoy it, yeah."
If the uncertainty of such close games is wearing on Sutter, it's not showing. He seemed more upset by persistent questions from reporters about his team's lack of offensive punch than by his team's actual lack of offensive punch. He's chided a few about expecting too much.
Sutter bristled when one reporter asked Sunday if the coach was concerned about managing only two shots on goal in the third period in Game 3. Sutter said simply of the Blues' 10-2 advantage in shots in the final period, "Whatever. Whatever. You count shots. I don't."
"You've got to understand," Sutter added. "It's the playoffs. It's one-goal games. All three of them were one-goal games. Everybody's trying to score a goal, but it's not that easy when you have the two best defensive teams in the conference (meeting in the series)."
Given the Kings' offensive struggles, Sutter raised a few eyebrows by dressing seven defensemen, instead of the usual six, for Game 3. He offered an explanation Sunday for adding Alec Martinez to the defense corps for Saturday's game.
"Fourth line hasn't been playing much and our fourth-line right wing has played hardly at all," Sutter said. "So, I thought I'd give Jeff Carter, Dustin Brown and Justin Williams a couple of more minutes. It gets us away from matchups. It worked (Saturday) night. Gives us more energy."
Plus, by playing Martinez for the first time since April 2 against the Phoenix Coyotes, Sutter kept penalty-killing specialist Keaton Ellerby in the lineup. Ellerby helped the Kings deny the Blues on four power-play chances during Game 3.
"I don't think either team has had much momentum in the series, that's how close it is," Sutter said. "It's a one-goal, one-shot kind of a deal, right? Momentum is ... players are confident on both teams, so it just kind of goes from shift to shift. "


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With the end of official support for XP on April 8, Microsoft is pushing hard for everyone to upgrade. If you aren't sure whether or not you're running the XP operating system, Microsoft has made it easy. Click here to visit amirunning.xp.com. If you're running XP, you'll see this.
You can then scroll down for a countdown clock and a link to learn more about upgrading to a newer version of Windows. There are also buttons to share via social media. So if you have friends who aren't so tech-savvy, it's a great way for them to quickly check their operating system.
~ Cynthia
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WATCH: Dierks Bentley covers Avicii's 'Hey Brother'
Listen to Dierks Bentley on iHeartRadio
Dierks Bentley is sharing a bit of his set from last weekend's Country2Country Festival. On Thursday he posted a video of his performance of Avicii's "Hey Brother" on YouTube.
The clip was taped during Bentley's performance in London on Saturday. He was also featured at the C2C show in Dublin, Ireland last Friday.
Dierks was part of a lineup that also included the Zac Brown Band, and the Dixie Chicks, while Martina McBride was on board for the London show.
Hey Brother. There's an endless road to rediscover... https://t.co/0e40zkXKQK
— Dierks Bentley (@DierksBentley) March 20, 2014


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There are several posts on how to fix this and that on all releases of BT, however, for the newbie its a tad easier if we can just create one script that will take care of it all. I just put it on my netbook this morning and I'm going through forums and google searches and trying to put it together. Obviously this is going to take some time, because I make sure to reboot the machine each time I make a change to ensure it stuck. If the community could help out to create this script that would be awesome.
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##BT5R1 quickfix script version 0.0.1
##written by: the awesome helpful linux community
##I prefer mysql bc i use it for other apps as well. If anyone can remove postgres w/o fubar (its not list in dpkg) please add
read -n1 -p "Get MySQL going and NULL root password? Note: Please change your root sql pass. (Y/n) [default=YES]" add_mysql
case "$add_mysql" in
y|Y|"") apt-get -y install mysql-client mysql-server libmysqlclient-dev; service mysql start; mysqladmin -u -p'toor' password ''; echo 'Please select Ruby1.8 in Auto mode - hit ZERO'; update-alternatives --config ruby; gem install mysql;;
n|N|*) echo ""; echo "Skipping MySQL";;
read -n1 -p "Autostart MySQL on boot? (Y/n) [default=YES]" add_mysql_startup
case "$add_mysql_startup" in
y|Y|"") sed -i 's/exit\ 0/#exit\ 0/g' /etc/rc.local; echo 'service mysql start'>>/etc/rc.local;;
n|N|*) echo ""; echo "Skipping MySQL Autostart";;
read -n1 -p "Remove Postgresql? (Y/n) [default=YES]" clean_pgsql
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Carl Fiessinger is the new executive chef at 350 Main Brasserie and the Spur Bar and Grill in Park City. Fiessinger, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, is a graduate of Johnson Wales Culinary Arts College. He previously worked at Panache, Boulevard and Zola in Salt Lake City.
Holiday passport
The free Holiday Window Stroll at the Grand America Hotel begins on Friday, Nov. 23 and features 14 unique displays that celebrate holidays around the world. Guests who get their "passports" stamped at each window will receive a treat at La Bonne Vie, the hotel's French-style patisserie,
When • Friday, Nov. 23 through Monday, Dec. 31.
Where • Grand America Hotel
Cost • Free, details at grandamerica.com
Red Ribbon special at Bambara
Order the three-course Red Ribbon lunch special at Bambara next week and the downtown restaurant will donate $1 to the Utah AIDS Foundation. The lunch costs $13 and includes choice of soup or salad, one of three entrees including the house hamburger, smoked turkey wrap with bacon or the special of the day and warm chocolate chip cookie.
When • Monday-Friday, Nov. 26-30
Where • Bambara, 202 South Main St., Salt Lake City; 801-363-5454
Cost • $13
Wine dinner at Martine
Enjoy a four-course dinner paired with the wines from French wine grower Louis Latour at downtown's Martine Cafe. Chef/owner Tom Grant's menu includes monkfish prepared "lobster style," rabbit confit and braised duck leg. Each course will be paired with a different wine.
When • Tuesday, Nov. 27, 6:30 p.m.
Where • Martine Cafe, 22 E. 100 South, Salt Lake City,
Cost • Dinner is $35; wine pairings are an additional $25
Details • 801-363-9328. Reservations required
Surprise supper benefits hurricane victims
By Invitation Only an underground dinner event with a surprise location is offering a special dinner this month to benefit those affected by Hurricane Sandy. A portion of the dinner price, as well as all donations made that night, will be matched by the FFG Foundation and NuSkin Force for Good Campaign.
When • Friday and Saturday, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, 7 p.m.
Get invited • email email@example.com. Include first and last name, date you wish to attend, telephone number and the number of guests in your party. Don't get impatient, as it may take a week to get a response.
Cost • $80 per person plus tax and tip. Diners must prepay with Visa or Mastercard when making their reservations. Wine not included, but BYOB is accepted. No corkage fee. Dinner options available for vegans, vegetarians and those who are gluten-free or who have other food allergies.
Gingerbread competition
Let the frosting fly! Children ages 5 to 12 are encouraged to decorate their own gingerbread house and enter it into the fourth annual Gingerbread Jimmi House Competition. Winning entries will be awarded cash prizes.
When • Houses are due Monday, Dec. 3, by 6 p.m. Judging begins at 6:30 p.m.
Where • Park City Library, 1255 Park Ave., Park City
Details • Applications available at the Park City library or gingerbreadjimmi.com.
More • After the competition, gingerbread houses will remain on display through Jan. 1.


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Exhibits in the Library
Pollak Library has been providing support to the campus community since its opening in 1964. We endeavor to support the campus and community at large through our exhibit programs highlighting the work of faculty, staff, and students. The Library Exhibition Committee was formed in February 2012 and is made up of five library faculty and staff members.
Our goal is to reflect the activities, scholarship, ideas, and culture of the campus and our extended community. We encourage guest curators and collaboration with other departments on campus and with community organizations. The Library Exhibit Program is a creative way to engage the interest of the campus and community and to publicize services, programs, and collections.
Please click here to view current and upcoming exhibits. All exhibits are free, handicap accessible, and open to the public during library hours. Regular campus parking rules apply.


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Ballou sends Suns into SAL Finals
Nats prospect collects four hits, scores three runs in clincher
By Jake Seiner / MiLB.com | September 7, 2013 8:15 PM ET
The Nationals promoted Isaac Ballou from short-season Auburn to Class A Hagerstown with a week left in the regular season, hoping the 23-year-old outfielder could get his feet wet in time to contribute in the South Atlantic League playoffs.
It looks like the plan has worked.
Ballou went 4-for-5 with a double and three runs scored on Saturday night as the Suns advanced to the SAL Championship Series with a 6-2 triumph over West Virginia.
Hagerstown took the best-of-3 semifinal, 2-1, and will face Savannah for the title in a best-of-5 series that begins Monday at Municipal Stadium.
Selected by Washington in the 15th round of this year's Draft, Ballou raised his postseason average to .583 after a disappointing six-game experiment to end the regular season. He batted .111 in his first 27 at-bats, striking out six times and failing to register an extra-base hit.
The Marshall University product has a double in each of his first three playoff games, going 1-for-4 in a series-opening 6-1 win and 2-for-3 with two runs scored in Friday night's 6-3 loss.
The leadoff hitter said the brief regular-season exposure to the SAL helped him prepare for postseason play.
"In short-season, there were a lot of 3-1 fastballs, 2-1 fastballs," Ballou said. "The first couple of games up here, there were a bunch of changeups. I wasn't struggling, necessarily, but I didn't swing like I should have, wasn't making the necessary adjustments.
"I discussed it with [manager] Tripp Keister, what my approach was and what I need to do, what he was seeing and how I was feeling. The rest is history. He says, 'I know you can play here. I have faith in you. Step up and be an intricate part of this team.'"
Ballou's first three hits Saturday came off Pirates No. 5 prospect Luis Heredia (0-1), who lasted three innings and surrendered three runs on 10 hits.
"There was no big secret tonight," Ballou said, "just go up and be aggressive."
The Suns' No. 2 hitter, Tony Renda, went 3-for-4 behind Ballou, picking up two RBIs and scoring a run. Shawn Pleffner and Wander Ramos also had two hits and two RBIs apiece.
After Hagerstown starter Kylin Turnbull (1-0) allowed two runs on six hits over five innings, Ronald Pena held the Power to one hit over the final four frames for his first playoff save.
Jake Seiner is a contributor to MiLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @Jake_Seiner. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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- 03/01/2006
EPSCoR, which stands for Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, is a federal program designed to increase research infrastructure and capacity in states like Nebraska.
Nebraska EPSCoR is a statewide program that assists Nebraska educational institutions in enhancing their science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and biomedical research; helps educational infrastructures increase research and development competitiveness; and fosters economic development through support of technology transfer. The major recipients of Nebraska EPSCoR research grants are the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the University of Nebraska Medical Center, the University of Nebraska at Omaha and Creighton University.
Registration for both events is free but required to attend. The registration deadline for the Research Expo is March 17 online at epscor.unl.edu/events/researchexpo.shtml and the deadline for the Innovation Forum is March 22, online at http://espcor.unl.edu/events/innovationforum.shtml.
The first-day event March 29 is the second annual Nebraska Research Expo, where researchers will showcase developments supported by past and present National Science Foundation EPSCoR Infrastructure Improvement grants. Full-day sessions will highlight integrated structural biology and bioinformatics, bridge engineering and metabolite signaling. Half-day session topics include nanoscale and nanostructured semiconductors, wireless networks and distributed sensors, nanomanufacturing engineering, basic biological research on aging and longevity, biosensors and networks, and genome-wide gene regulatory networks.
Fred Choobineh, Nebraska EPSCoR director, said the March 29 expo will highlight research and development opportunities for businesses and ideas for future collaboration between university researchers and those in Nebraska and beyond.
"We are pleased to be a facilitator and provide a venue for businesses and scientists in the state to exchange ideas and form partnerships," Choobineh said.
Speakers March 29 are Sherry Farwell, NSF EPSCOR head, as well as specialists on metabolite signaling including researchers from Iowa State University, Purdue University, University of North Carolina, Georgia Institute of Technology, Wake Forest University and UNL.
For the first time in conjunction with the research event, the Nebraska Innovation Forum will follow on March 30, spearheaded by Pete Kotsiopulos, vice president for University Affairs at the University of Nebraska. In addition to Nebraska EPSCoR and the University of Nebraska, the Innovation Forum is sponsored by Bio Nebraska Life Sciences Association, Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, Lincoln Chamber of Commerce, Midlands Venture Forum, Nebraska Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Nebraska Department of Economic Development, and the Nebraska Economic Development Association.
Speakers are University of Nebraska President James B. Milliken, Dan Berglund, President and CEO, State Science and Technology Institute; Martha Connolly, Director, Maryland Industrial Partnerships at the University of Maryland; Tom Walker, COO and Executive Vice President, Oklahoma Technology Commercialization Center, and Joe Panetta, President and CEO of BIOCOM.
Kotsiopulos will moderate a panel at 11 a.m. March 30 on higher education including John Brasch, associate vice chancellor for technology development at UNL; Winnie Callahan, director of the Peter Kiewit Institute; Thomas McDonald, director of UNeMED Corp., and Kim Galt, associate dean for research at Creighton University.
"This is a new opportunity for Nebraska's policymakers, business leaders and higher education leaders to come together, learn about economic development activities around the country, consider opportunities that exist for Nebraska to develop its niche areas, and create new partnerships, new jobs and improve the economic prosperity of our state," Kotsiopulos said.


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|Adam Milazzo <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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After running xfs_repair -n, I get some stuff that looks like this: entry "backup" in directory inode 128 points to free inode 12583040, would junk entry entry "desktop" in directory inode 128 points to free inode 16777344, would junk entry entry "t" in directory inode 128 points to free inode 33554240, would junk entry ...as well as others... These are exactly the three directories I need to recover!! However, from the look of the message, it seems like it's going to "junk" the entry, making it more difficult to recover. I'm thinking that directory inode 128 is the root directory, and the inodes mentioned are the directory inodes of those subdirectories. Is there a way (using xfs_db perhaps?) to get the inodes and/or extents of the files in those directories? Could I use this information to recover my files (note that there is important information regarding the situation in my original post, below)? I'm trying to figure out how to use xfs_db to do this... If anybody would be kind enough to give me a few instructions on this, or point me to some documentation about the format of the directory inodes (whatever I would need to get at the file extents), I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance, Adam M. -----Original Message----- From: Adam Milazzo To: 'linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx' Sent: 4/23/2002 12:36 PM Subject: low-level XFS drive recovery In a bout of impatient, early-morning foolishness, while trying to quickly "format" /dev/hda1 (mounted under /mnt), I did an 'rm -rf /*' from a chroot'd shell, but didn't realize until I pressed Enter, that I had /dev/hdb1 mounted. However, it was too late, as the second drive was nearly instantly wiped clean, taking with it all my important stuff! So I went to bed. I learned a few lessons, like making better use of 'mount -o ro'. However, the damage was already done and I am trying to restore the data on that drive. I know that the XFS FAQ claims that there's no way to undelete, and that's understandable. However, I might be in luck in this case. The drive was freshly formatted and had a number of large files copied to it from another drive, and no writing/deleting was done after that point (except when it was deleted by rm -rf). Also, no writing has been done since the deletion. My hope is that the files are [still] in contiguous blocks on the disk. My first question is: How likely is it that after writing some (rather large, 100 meg average, but up to 700 meg) files to a freshly formatted XFS partition, that they would be in contiguous blocks? Second: after the rm -rf /* recursed into that drive's mount point and did it's dirty work, is there anything left of the directory structure? Or was that all wiped out? I dumped the first 8 gigs of the drive to a file on another drive, and am writing a program to scan that dump file and attempt to pull out anything that looks like a data file (basically by scanning for valid file headers). However, it's slow work, and is almost useless if the files are not stored in a single contiguous blocks (hence my first question). Also, if there's anything left of the directory structure that I could use to find where files begin and the filename, that would be very helpful. Perhaps it's relatively trivial to restore the entire drive just by rebuilding the directory structure, given the special circumstances of my situation. Or perhaps the entire thing would be extremely difficult because the files are broken up. So, if anybody could provide some information that would be helpful, and/or point me to some good information on the low-level details of the filesystem structure that might be useful in aiding my recovery of the data (or giving me enough information that I can deem it pointless without going through all the work), it would be greatly appreciated. Also, does anybody know of a good hex editor (or sector editor)? I'm looking for the following features (In decreasing order of importance): * Fast searching of text and binary data * Ability to open huge files (>2gb) * A display of the word, dword, and maybe quadword value that begins at the byte under the cursor. * Ability to select a chunk of data and save it to a disk (directly, or in a round-about way) * A built-in calculator? curses-based would be okay, but something for gnome/X would be nice. Thanks a lot in advance! Adam M.
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+ Matt Allison photos ARE featured all over
Diversions recently ran a piece on Virginia Hoffman and "Florida in Context" Feb. 21. The exhibit has been on display since March 1, at Sarasota County Visitor Information Center and History Museum, 701 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota.
The article also talked about area photographer Matt Allison, whose work is featured in the exhibit, as well. Well, Ringling College of Art and Design hosted a competition, "Sticks and Clicks," in conjunction with Patrick Dougherty's installation on the lawn at the future home of SMOA. There were a few divisions for amateurs, professionals and students; a total of 462 entries were judged. Allison took second place in the professional category for his photo, featured above. Amateur Ricky Perrone won the grand prize for his photo, "Silent Village."
Allison's photo, "SMOA Sticks," was the only photo he entered. "It took me three separate trips to get one I was satisfied with," he says. "And, I shot it on the way back to the parking lot."
+ A fashionable music series begins
The Ariel String Quartet kicked off Designing Women Boutique's 2013 Evening Performing Arts Winter/Spring series with a presentation Tuesday, Feb. 27. Last year, DWB hosted an evening series with the Sarasota Ballet, and this is the first evening series presenting a variety of performing-arts groups. The events begin with a private shopping session and appetizers. Tickets for the intimate showcase are $35 per event.
The performance was in conjunction with The Perlman Music Program Suncoast — Ariel String Quartet members are PMP alumni from Israel. The young string musicians performed four pieces to present the type of program they are bringing to the schools as part of the PMP/Suncoast Education Outreach Program. The quartet hosts the program at more than 15 area schools in Sarasota County to encourage and inspire elementary- and middle-school students to study classical music. For more information about the educational program, visit PMPSuncoast.org or call 955-4942.
For those looking forward to the daytime series, Summer Salon will pick up June 27 at DWB, 1226 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota.
+ Student's portrait is highly acclaimed
The Ringling College Library Association Town Hall Lecture Series not only affords the community an opportunity to hear world leaders speak about moving-and-shaking, and the press a special Q&A session, but it also gives students a chance to share their talent. Following the press Q&A with political leader and neurologist Dr. Ben Carson Feb. 27, student Chris Baldwin unveiled a portrait he made of Carson.
"Well, I've had a lot of portraits done of me, but I think that's the best one," Carson said.
Baldwin said he was inspired by Carson's story and wanted to create a concept of duality.
The other students chosen so far this season to show their artistic vision through the portrait representations of the visionaries featured in the lecture series were Martina Crepulja of Jacqueline Novogratz; Sean Monaghan of Walter Isaacson; and Dan Cruit of Robert Gates.
The portraits sit on stage during the lecture, and the speaker gets to take the piece home to remember their experience in Sarasota.
+ Honoring navy seal Chris Kyle
Sarasota sculptor Gregory Marra and Gene Sweeny, of Salt of the Earth USA, were discussing building a Navy SEAL sculpture when they heard about the death of Chris Kyle of Midlothian, Texas. Kyle, a sniper and Navy SEAL, was killed Feb. 2, at a remote shooting range in Erath County, Texas, where he was helping fellow veteran Eddie Ray Routh with post-traumatic stress disorder. Routh shot and killed Kyle. On Feb. 9, Marra reached out to Kyle's family about giving them a statue of Kyle as a gift to be erected wherever they'd like. The family lives in Texas. The sculpture left Sarasota March 4 for Texas, to where it will be cast into a bronze statue. It has not yet been decided where in Texas the statue will find a permanent home.
Hot TIckets
37th annual Pineapple Antiques Show and Sale: This annual antique sale, presented by the Rotary Club of Sarasota Sunrise and First United Methodist Church, to benefit at-risk children and families in crisis, opens at 5 p.m. March 7, with an evening preview party and sale with jazz entertainment. Tickets are $15 for the March 7 event; $6 March 8 and March 9. It takes place at Sarasota Municipal Auditorium, 801 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. For information, call 928-2817 or visit firstsrq.com.
New Stages: Narrative in Motion — Kate Weare Company: This modern-dance program takes place at 7:30 p.m. March 7 through March 9, at the Historic Asolo Theater, 5401 Bay Shore Road. Tickets range from $15 to $25. For more information, call 360-7399.


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LISTEN: Cassadee Pope talks tattoos!
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Cassadee Pope has a few tattoos, and she says they are all music-related.
She recently stopped by Washington D.C.'s WMZQ where she talked about her ink. She says, "These tattoos that I have are about three years old now. So they're still pretty new to me, and they're all music-related. So I know that passion will never fizzle, and I'll always love it.
Find out which tattoos she would think about getting in the future in the full interview below:
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Sharknado! The Perfume!
It seems as far-fetched as a real sharknado -- but a Sharknado perfume? Yeah, that's an actual thing.
On her website star Tara Reid is selling a scent called Shark by Tara. The fragrance is described as a "light and refreshing perfume perfect for day-to-day wear." For some reason, it doesn't smell like a shark.
The perfume "incorporates a plethora of 'lavender' colored flowers, which is Tara's favorite color" and boasts "nodes" of iced mint, violet, lemon, jasmine, amber and musk.


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Friday, July 10 2009 - In the Media
'Deadly Dust' - Niels Harrit on Electric Politics Podcast
See also: RussiaToday interviews Niels Harrit. Transcript and description here. Also, Dr. Harrit will speak in Madrid on July 21: Details here.
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by George Kenney
July 10, 2009
9/11 skeptics keep strengthening their case. Most recently, in a scientific paper that analyzes material from dust collected in lower Manhattan immediately after the event. This paper establishes beyond any doubt that nano-thermite (an exotic, military compound), in very large quantities, was present in the World Trade Center buildings during their collapse. Now it's up to those who defend the establishment narrative to demonstrate how the nano-thermite could have gotten there.
The simplest explanation, of course, is that it was used to bring the buildings down.
This podcast reviews the paper with its lead author, Dr. Niels Harrit. Niels is a professor of chemistry at the University of Copenhagen, where he's been teaching for about forty years. Even if you don't agree with 9/11 skeptics, listening to Niels you'll most likely find him honest and believable.
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It takes a theory to beat a theory. Up to now, that's played to the strengths of the establishment narrative for 9/11. But with the discovery and analysis of nano-thermite residue from dust collected in lower Manhattan immediately after 9/11, the counterfactual burden falls the other way. To get the story from the source I turned to Dr. Niels Harrit, lead author of a recent paper (.pdf) that examines the dust in exhaustive detail. A professor of chemistry at the University of Copenhagen for over forty years, with an impressive publication record (.pdf), Niels brings a high level of professional credibility to the 9/11 truth movement. I was very happy to talk with Niels and I thank him for his tremendous public service. Total runtime fifty eight minutes. Dare to question convention!
If you like this podcast please feel free to forward the link.
Listen here: http://www.electricpolitics.com/podcast/2009/07/deadly_dust.html
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Did the media do an "ok job" of explaining health care?
Washington Post reporter Chris Cillizza thinks the media did an "ok job" at a "damn near impossible" task: explaining health care reform:
Wilmington, NC: You mentioned the public "souring" on health reform. I suspect that measure is simply a reflection of the tone of the coverage, rather than an informed opinion. Every conversation I have heard on health reform has been notably misinformed or, at best, uninformed. Seriously, the state of public understanding of the issue and its proposed legislation is a cosmic joke. Do you believe our news media has performed well in the aggregate in informing us on this matter? Do you know of any polling data that might contradict my sense of the utter cluelessness of pretty much everyone out here about this policy?
Chris Cillizza: I think the media has done an ok job is trying to explain what is an incredibly complex and wide-ranging bill to the public.
The simple fact is that explaining an overhaul of the health care system in our country in 30 column inches of a 20 minute television broadcast is damn near impossible.
I think the media has done a terrible job at a relatively simple task. See, Cillizza is right that explaining everything about health care reform is damn near impossible. On the other hand, explaining the basic facts of "an overhaul of the health care system in 30 column inches or a 20 minute television broadcast" is incredibly easy. The media just chose not to do it.
For example, one of the central disputes over the public option was whether or not it would increase the deficit. Opponents said it would, and were frequently quoted as such in the media. But the Congressional Budget Office said that, in fact, it would reduce the deficit. But those news reports indicating that critics claimed it would add to the deficit typically failed to make the point that, according to CBO, this was not true. Had the media wanted to "explain" the basics, it would have been incredibly easy to make sure that every news report that mentioned the public option indicated that it would reduce the deficit.
And the same applies to other basic facts about the reform package. 300 million Americans were never going to understand every aspect of health care reform. But 300 million Americans don't need to understand every aspect of health care reform. Had the media committed themselves to explaining -- over and over again -- the basic facts that everyone does need to know, they would have done a much better job.
Instead, the news media basically punted on actually explaining things and focused on politics and process and minutia, while passing along politicians' claims and talking points without indicating whether or not they were true.
As for the "ok job" part: I'll renew my recent challenge to the Washington Post [1]:
The Post has a polling budget. If they're so convinced that they've covered health care "pretty well" -- well enough that they can devote extensive resources to figuring out who golfers sleep with -- let's see them prove it. I dare the Post to conduct a scientific poll of its readers, asking them a basic question about health care reform: According to the Congressional Budget Office, would health care reform that includes a government-run public insurance option increase the deficit or reduce it?
If the Post has done a good job of covering health care reform, a large majority of its readers should be able to answer that question correctly. It would cost just a few thousand dollars -- a drop in the bucket for a newspaper like the Post -- in exchange for which the Post would be able to brag about how great its reporting is, and how well informed its readers are. And the paper would get to throw the results in the face of the critics Farhi dismisses [2] as "presumptuous and self-serving" people who "lecture" the Post about " 'serious' news" simply "to telegraph that they themselves are verrrrry serious people and that we should follow their sterling example." Won't that be satisfying!
What's the downside? There is none, unless, of course, the Post thinks that the results would embarrass the paper and undermine its claims to have done a good job of reporting on health care.
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An apology is owed
It has been brought to my attention that I have been somewhat hard on a particular Linux distro and its esteemed project leader. I am told that I have said some mean and unfair things about this distro and its leader, and that I should take some time to rethink my position on said distro and the person in charge.
I have called this person some nasty names, mostly in private but sometimes in public. I have called him out in on these pixelized pages of Larry the Free Software Guy for what I think — or at least now I realize, I mistakenly thought — were ridiculous moves and questionable motives in making his Linux distribution.
It was arrogant, mean and stupid of me to be so unwaveringly rigid on my criticism over all this time, and I realize now that an apology is owed.
So please accept my heartfelt and sincere apology Andrew Wyatt, lead developer and project leader for Fuduntu, for all the things I've written and said about you and your project. Anyone who takes the time to create a Linux distro to push forward the wider FOSS paradigm — in the spirit of community and not with a me-first agenda — deserves much better than the shallow criticism I've heaped on you and Fuduntu in the past.
I'm very sorry.
Allow me to make it up to you by giving the latest version of Fuduntu a test drive for a review on this blog in the next few days.
Also, Andrew, I hope we can work together going forward for the betterment of the FOSS paradigm.
[You didn't really think I was going to apologize to The Mark and the Ubuntu Apocalypse, did you?]
This blog, and all other blogs by Larry the Free Software Guy and Larry Cafiero, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND license. In short, this license allows others to download this work and share it with others as long as they credit me as the author, but others can't change it in any way or use it commercially.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and develops business software at Redwood Digital Research, a consultancy that provides FOSS solutions in the small business and home office environment.)
May 11, 2012 at 12:58 pm
Thanks Larry. I appreciate it and of course I accept. I can sometimes be less than kind myself, and return the apology for being critical towards you in the past. I look forward to reading your review, if you find any problems feel free to let us know – we'll try to help get them fixed.
May 11, 2012 at 1:08 pm
May 11, 2012 at 1:09 pm
….I thought sure "The Mark" was about to get an apology and I read voraciously to see why……nice way to lead a person on.
May 11, 2012 at 2:15 pm
Larry :
Yep, we could both stand to be a bit more civil going forward to everyone. Deal?
I always try to be civil to people who are civil to me. I can't promise to be nice to people that aren't though, that would go against my nature and be a promise I may not be able to keep. 🙂
May 11, 2012 at 2:17 pm
Well done. Step 10 in AA is: Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
It takes a big person to be able to do that, alcoholic or not…
May 11, 2012 at 2:20 pm
I enjoyed the last phrase… in small print! 😉
May 11, 2012 at 2:20 pm
Now this is how you apologise! everyone says things they regret later on, or gets it wrong, but this really sets the standard for awesome apologies. Good on you!
May 11, 2012 at 2:50 pm
You had me there, Larry. Hilarious!
May 11, 2012 at 4:04 pm
Congrats to both of you! RonP
May 11, 2012 at 5:23 pm
so where's the offending posts? i'm sure they make for a better read than this.
even though i don't know who the victim is, violence is always interesting 😀
May 11, 2012 at 9:17 pm
Neato. I haven't heard of Fuduntu until now. I'll try it out on a virtual machine. It looks like it is using the whole dock idea… something I'm still not crazy about. If the battery usage improvement is that spiffy I'll try it on my lappy. Thanks Larry & Andrew for bringing it to my attention.
May 13, 2012 at 9:51 am
"Now this is how you apologise! everyone says things they regret later on, or gets it wrong, but this really sets the standard for awesome apologies"
Yes you sometimes say things in a second which you'll regret for a lifetime. Just like me.
Sorry Horte. I'm very sorry, though it's too late.
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First of all we would like to apologize for the lack of updates in the past few weeks. All the guys on the team have been very busy with life, training, jobs and off course, many of us were at black hat and Shmoocon.
Since we have done away with some of the meta-packages you may have to grab some of the tools individually such as airdrop-ng, so for example
to get it you need to apt-get update && apt-get install airdrop-ng
So we have made a large update today with the following items included:
Open Vas 3.0
John the ripper updated to 184.108.40.206 with all the relevant patches
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Aircrack-ng updated to latest SVN
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Intercourse and Conception after a Miscarriage
How many months is it considered safe to have intercourse after having a miscarriage? Is it true that the chances of getting pregnant are higher after a miscarriage?
I would like to know your thoughts.
Thanks a lot.
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Hello Jennifer,
Often, the time it takes to conceive after miscarriage is directly proportional to how long the previous pregnancy was before miscarriage. A woman who miscarries at 10 weeks will typically not be able to ovulate again for a few weeks to months, because it takes time for the pregnancy hormone (hCG) to come back down. hCG is produced in larger amounts as early pregnancy progresses in order to keep you from having a period (and losing the baby).
Some practitioners recommend waiting a month or two before trying to conceive again. But I've known women who conceived the very next month after miscarrying and went on to give birth to a healthy baby.
As for whether the chances of getting pregnant are higher after a miscarriage, I've actually never heard of this.
Hope this helps, and feel free to ask any more questions you may have.
Warm regards,
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This article appeared in Scientific American,
November 1996.
Below you'll find the first section of the article.
To read the article in its entirety,
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A new model of this reading disorder emphasizes defects in the language-processing rather than the visual system. It explains why some very smart people have trouble learning to read.
by Sally E. Shaywitz, M.D.
One hundred years ago, in November 1896, a doctor in Sussex, England, published the first description of the learning disorder that would come to be known as developmental dyslexia. ¥þPercy F., . . . aged 14,... has always been a bright and intelligent boy,¥ÿ wrote W. Pringle Morgan in the British Medical Journal, ¥þquick at games, and in no way inferior to others of his age. His great difficulty has been¥äand is now¥ähis inability to learn to read.¥ÿ
In that brief introduction, Morgan captured the paradox that has intrigued and frustrated scientists for a century since: the profound and persistent difficulties some very bright people face in learning to read. In 1996 as in 1896, reading ability is taken as a proxy for intelligence; most people assume that if someone is smart, motivated and schooled, he or she will learn to read. But the experience of millions of dyslexics like Percy F. has shown that assumption to be false. In dyslexia, the seemingly invariant relation between intelligence and reading ability breaks down.
Early explanations of dyslexia, put forth in the 1920s, held that defects in the visual system were to blame for the reversals of letters and words thought to typify dyslexic reading. Eye training was often prescribed to overcome these alleged visual defects. Subsequent research has shown, however, that children with dyslexia are not unusually prone to reversing letters or words and that the cognitive deficit responsible for the disorder is related to the language system. In particular, dyslexia reflects a deficiency in the processing of the distinctive linguistic units, called phonemes, that make up all spoken and written words. Current linguistic models of reading and dyslexia now provide an explanation of why some very intelligent people have trouble learning to read and performing other language-related tasks.
In the course of our work, my colleagues and I at The Yale Center for the Study of Learning and Attention have evaluated hundreds of children and scores of men and women for reading disabilities. Many are students and faculty at our university¥ús undergraduate, graduate and professional schools. One of these, a medical student named Gregory, came to see us after undergoing a series of problems in his first-year courses. He was quite discouraged.
Although he had been diagnosed as dyslexic in grade school, Gregory had also been placed in a program for gifted students. His native intelligence, together with extensive support and tutoring, had allowed him to graduate from high school with honors and gain admission to an Ivy League college. In college, Gregory had worked extremely hard and eventually received offers from several top medical schools. Now, however, he was beginning to doubt his own competence. He had no trouble comprehending the intricate relations among physiological systems or the complex mechanisms of disease; indeed, he excelled in those areas requiring reasoning skills. More problematic for him was the simple act of pronouncing long words or novel terms (such as labels used in anatomic descriptions); perhaps his least well-developed skill was rote memorization.
Both Gregory and his professors were perplexed by the inconsistencies in his performance. How could someone who understood difficult concepts so well have trouble with the smaller and simpler details? Could Gregory¥ús dyslexia¥ähe was still a slow reader¥äaccount for his inability to name body parts and tissue types in the face of his excellent reasoning skills?
It could, I explained. Gregory¥ús history fit the clinical picture of dyslexia as it has been traditionally defined: an unexpected difficulty learning to read despite intelligence, motivation and education. Furthermore, I was able to reassure Gregory that scientists now understand the basic nature of dyslexia.
Over the past two decades, a coherent model of dyslexia has emerged that is based on phonological processing. The phonological model is consistent both with the clinical symptoms of dyslexia and with what neuroscientists know about brain organization and function. Investigators from many laboratories, including my colleagues and me at the Yale Center, have had the opportunity to test and refine this model through ten years of cognitive and, more recently, neurobiological studies.
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Cellphone Could Place Killer Near Crime Scene
An FBI communications expert testified Wednesday cell tower data placed a phone linked to a suspected killer close to the Canoga Park street where a high school soccer player was murdered in 2012.
Special agent Chad Fitzgerald, who's assigned to a special FBI cellphone analysis team, said a 44 second call made minutes after the murder must have been placed from an area about a mile north of the home where 17-year-old Francisco Rodriguez was shot to death.
The testimony on the third day of the trial of 24-year-old Jason A. Schumann in Van Nuys was presented to try and prove Schumann and his girlfriend, Elizabeth Ibarra, were close to the crime scene at the time of the murder.
Fitzgerald said the phone used to place the call was registered to a prepaid Sprint wireless account under the name Wilbert Guardado at Ibarra's parents' address.
Later, an LAPD detective testified a stolen immigration identification card bearing the same name was discovered during a search of Schumann's Calabasas townhouse.
Police said Schumann probably killed Rodriguez out of jealousy, after Schumann learned the El Camino High School soccer player had become friends with Ibarra while Schumann was serving time in L.A. County jail in 2011.
Earlier Wednesday, Ibarra's sister told jurors she overheard Schumann bragging he always carried a handgun, and said she couldn't understand why her sister stayed with him.
"When I asked her to leave him she said she wasn't going to - she was scared - they had a baby together," the sister said.
L.A. County Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman also tried to offer jurors more circumstantial evidence linking Schumann to the shooting.
LAPD Detective Jeff Briscoe testified he found a single unfired round of 40-caliber ammunition during a search of Schumann's bedroom, and two other baggies of unfired 40-caliber ammunition in Schumann's parents' room.
On Tuesday an LAPD firearms analyst testified a 40-caliber handgun was used to murder Rodriguez.
-- Eric Leonard at Van Nuys Court


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Best Of :: Sports & Recreation
Yeah, alligators are pretty badass, but there's more to Florida's flora and fauna than those leathery, prehistoric beasts. The trails at Cypress Creek offer a glimpse into seven of the state's ecosystems that are home to an array of creatures both great and small. Step over bobcat and deer tracks as you amble through an oak and pine canopy before wandering past Sandhill cranes and purple gallinules chilling in a marshy flatland. Routes are well-suited for beginners but varied enough to hold a veteran hiker's attention. The 2,000-plus acres — much of which was acquired and rehabbed by the county in the past 15 years or so — are blissfully underused. That said, don't be shocked if one of those gators (or a snake or two) crosses your path at some point in the journey. Parking and entrance are located north of Indiantown Road, about one mile west of Florida's Turnpike.
He was supposed to be a choker. A guy who shrank in the big moments. LeBrick. And after roughly 1 billion articles disparaging him after the Heat lost in the NBA Finals in 2011 to the Dallas Mavericks, it was apparent that the "LeBron James will never be Michael Jordan" argument was once again imminent. Then the 2012 NBA Playoffs happened. And LeBron showed the world that he had the coal-fired nuts to carry a team into the finals and obliterate all haters' hopes and dreams of watching him disintegrate into a fine powder. LeBron was an absolute freight train of devastation with his athletic prowess, littering the court with the decaying corpses of the Knicks, Celtics, and Thunder, telling any and all who doubted him, mocked him, and otherwise said ridiculous things about him to go and fornicate with farm animals. With a primal intensity usually reserved for professional assassins, LeBron came through with what was possibly the single greatest one-man performance ever witnessed in NBA Playoff history. He has carried those powers into the 2013 season, where he just won a fourth MVP award, which is something Michael Jordan never did. Grace and violence. Beauty and devastation. Poetry and triumph. LeBron James is a walking epic poem.
Red from The Shawshank Redemption was obviously a Miami Dolphins fan. When Andy Dufresne tells him that, no matter how bleak things get, despair can never touch the hope that resides in us all, the frustrated Red replies, "Hope is a dangerous thing." And maybe that's because, as a Dolphins fan, Red has tried to believe that the new hotshot quarterback is the heir apparent to Dan Marino. Since Number 13 retired, the Fins have plowed through no fewer than 12 signal callers, all of whom fizzled out and got thrown back into the fetid garbage heap of failure. But now there's Ryan Tannehill, Miami's 2012 first-round draft pick, who has taken up the hope mantle and will try to bring that elusive thing called "winning" to a disillusioned fan base. In his rookie season, Tannehill threw for 3,294 yards — that's more than Marino threw in his rookie year. Tannehill also chucked 12 TDs and finished the season with a respectable 58.3 completion percentage. More important, he's shown he possesses the moxie and badassitude we haven't seen since Marino roamed the field and annihilated NFL defenses. The Dolphins have now armed themselves with new weapons, such as receiver Mike Wallace and tight end Dustin Keller. So Red, Dolphins fans can leave their worries behind. Ryan Tannehill is the hope Andy Dufresne was talking about.
Let's face it: There's not much to get excited about from the Miami Marlins this year. The good news from the Marlins penchant for trading their best players away for no-names is that they also got to replace the train wreck known as Heath Bell at closer. With Bell shipped off to Arizona, the closer's role opened up for 26-year-old Steve Cishek, who came into the role with guns blazing. Drafted by the Marlins in 2007, Cishek was a skinny kid whose fastball topped off at just 82 mph. But thanks to a growth spurt and some seasoning through college, Cishek now breaks the radar gun at 95 mph with a nasty fastball that gives opposing hitters the hives. Stepping in as the closer late in 2012, Cishek proved that Marlins fans need not worry about at least one position. The six-foot-six gangly heat thrower converted 13 of 14 save opportunities over the season's final three months, allowing opposing batters to hit a paltry .183 average with runners in scoring position during that time. Cishek was also the lone bright spot for the monumentally disappointing Team USA during this year's World Baseball Classic. So playing with a losing team and having success should be nothing new to him. The Marlins have plenty of problems going forward, but the closer ain't one. That is, of course, until they decide to trade Cishek for another crop of no-names.
The Florida Panthers have been an absolute mess. Injuries, bad breaks, and poor play have made the most irrelevant of all local pro teams fade even deeper into the ether. However, if there were ever a reason to start paying attention to the Cats and start readying that bandwagon, it's their goal-scoring, point-amassing, defense-obliterating rookie sensation Jonathan Huberdeau. The Panthers selected Huberdeau third overall in the 2011 NHL draft (one of the benefits of being consistently stinky!), and the results have been pretty consistently kick-ass from the word "go." In his first year with the minor-league Sea Dogs, Huberdeau scored 15 goals and added 20 assists for 35 points in 61 games. In 2011, he led all scorers at the Memorial Cup (the Canadian junior-league championship), signaling he was more than ready to throw down with the big boys. Huberdeau is a virtuoso with a hockey stick in his hands. He can finesse a pinpoint-accurate pass one minute and turn a puck into a lethal heat-seeking missile that annihilates hockey nets the next. In his first pro season with a depleted Panthers team, Huberdeau has been a star. He leads all NHL rookies in points and is a virtual shoo-in for the Calder Trophy, the award given to the league's best rookie. The Panthers are still stuck in the muck of mediocrity. But their future is certainly bright with Jonathan Huberdeau setting fire to the NHL ice with his awesomeness.
Florida Atlantic University baseball finished atop the Sun Belt Conference in 2012, and if the major baseball analysts and experts from Baseball America and Perfect Game USA are to be believed, the Owls are poised to repeat that feat this year. Better yet, they have an excellent chance at hitting up the NCAA tournament, where they can test their mettle against the big boys. A huge part of their success comes from their six-foot-five, dart-throwing southpaw, Austin Gomber. Gomber started nine conference games in 2012 for the Owls, posting a 3.82 ERA and mowing down 63 batters in the process. He also led FAU to a three-game sweep against rival Florida International University when he pitched a six-inning, ten-strikeout gem against the Golden Panthers. This season, Gomber has led FAU back atop the standings, where he's enjoyed a stretch of retiring 14 consecutive batters while continuing his dominance over FIU with an eight-strikeout performance earlier in the season. FAU baseball is ready to make some noise and wreck some butts in the NCAA baseball landscape, and Gomber will be leading the way with his flamethrower arm.


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