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Brandon Beachy turned in another solid performance, but the Atlanta Braves usually reliable bullpen was unable to hold a one-run lead as the Baltimore Orioles were able to defeat the Braves 5-4 in the final game of a three-game weekend series on Sunday afternoon at Turner Field.
Coming off a career-high nine strikeout performance against Seattle in his last game, Beachy pitched five quality innings, allowing three runs on seven hits while striking out six. .
"I just wasn't very good with any of my pitches," Beachy said after the game. "I wasn't locating my fastball, couldn't get my offspeed pitches to break and I just left everything up."
The Orioles offense struck first when starting pitcher Zach Britton hit his first career home run, a solo shot, in the third inning. Britton's home run was followed by a sacrifice fly by Mark Reynolds, scoring J.J. Hardy. After a Nick Markakis RBI double in the fifth inning pushed Baltimore's lead to 3-0, Atlanta responded with a four-run sixth inning to take the lead.
All-Star reserve Chipper Jones began the inning with a walk and was followed by a single by 2011 All-Star starter Brian McCann. Freddie Freeman then began the rally with an RBI single, scoring Jones from second.
After Dan Uggla flied out, Nate Mclouth singled to load the bases. With the bases loaded, former Oriole Julio Lugo grounded out to the shortstop, scoring McCann from third and bringing the Braves within one. Manager Freddie Gonzalez then called on the Braves most consistent pinch hitter Eric Hinske to hit for pitcher George Sherrill and keep the rally alive. Hinske did not disappoint as he hit a two-run single to give the braves a 4-3 lead.
However, Baltimore answered quickly in the top of the seventh when Reynolds hit his 18th home run of the season off of relief pitcher Scott Proctor. The two-run blast gave the Orioles a 5-4 lead and would prove to the eventual game-winnning hit, dropping Atlanta's record to 49-36.
The Braves will host the Colorado Rockies on Monday, July 4 in a matchup between last season's breakout star Ubaldo Jimenez (3-7, 4.35 ERA) and young ace Tommy Hanson (9-4, 2.62 ERA) at 7:10 p.m.Tags: Atlanta, Atlanta Braves, Brandon Beachy, Brian McCann, MLB


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This is unfortunately not a story from The Onion. It's really happening...Rush Limbaugh is being honored with a bust in the Missouri Statehouse.
According to ThinkProgress, the person who selects the individuals for induction into the Hall of Famous Missourians is the Speaker of the House who just happens to be Republican Steven Tilley, who not only chooses who is inducted, but is also responsible for raising private funds to create the busts...
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The Ed Dunlop-trained filly won the Filly & Mare Turf at Lone Star Park in Texas, seeing off Film Maker by a length and a half.
Fallon's rival for the British champion jockey title, Frankie Dettori, won the next race, the Juvenile, on Wilko.
The meeting's headline race, the Classic, was won by Ghostzapper, ridden by Javier Castellano.
Trained by Bobby Frankel, the one-time sprinter showed no problem with the one-and-a-quarter mile distance.
Roses in May, trained by Dale Romans and ridden by John Velazquez, was second, and last year's Classic winner, the Richard Mandella-trained Pleasantly Perfect, was third with Jerry Bailey aboard.
It was Roses in May's first defeat in six races this year.
The earlier victories by Dettori and Fallon gave British horses an unexpected 100% record at the meeting.
Fallon made his move around the final bend and struck for home with a furlong to run.
Despite drifting right in the final stages, Ouija Board held on strongly.
"Most great fillies have got plenty of speed or stamina, but this one has got both. She has a real turn of foot."
Dunlop said that he would almost certainly not run the horse in the Japan Cup because she had shown signs of tiring after a long season.
Ouija Board went into her race the odds-on favourite, but Wilko was a 20-1 shot going into the Juvenile, his first race on dirt.
It was also Wilko's last race for Jeremy Noseda before being transferred into the care of California-based
Craig Dollase.
He said: "Passing the quarter-pole I thought we might just be a good fourth but then they didn't go anywhere in front and the dream came true.
"Jeremy asked me to ride him on a dirt surface in Newmarket last week and he handled it very well, but I don't think any of us really expected this.
"But you know what they say - if you haven't got the ticket, you can't win!"


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Smokies' Szczur making his own luck
No. 10 Cubs prospect collects sixth straight multi-hit game
By Sam Dykstra / Special to MLB.com | May 14, 2013 9:02 PM ET
Say what you will about superstitions, but baseball is rife with them. And to those who hold the most strident beliefs in the voodoo of the national pastime, there is one cardinal rule. Do not step on the foul line when entering the field of play.
Matt Szczur, however, sees it a little differently.
"Oh, I step all over it any chance I get," he said. "I was slumping really badly one or two years ago, and I thought, 'You know what? It can't hurt me any worse than it's going right now.' Ever since then, I've just made a habit of doing that when I go out there."
Despite decades of tradition, the trick seems to be working wonders for him lately.
The Cubs' No. 10 prospect went 3-for-5 Tuesday night out of the top spot in Double-A Tennessee's lineup in the Smokies' 3-2 win over Jackson in 10 innings. It was his sixth consecutive multi-hit game and second three-hit performance in the past three days. In that six-game span, he is 14-for-29 (.483) with two doubles, six RBIs and four stolen bases.
"I'm just feeling more and more comfortable at the plate," he said. "I've just been keeping my approach pretty much the same, and I've been able to put some good swings on the ball. … I'm just trying to let the ball travel and not look for any pitch in particular. Just keep two hands on the bat and swing when I get my pitch to hit."
Before Szczur began his run of multi-hit performances, his batting average sat at a season-low .255 one week ago. It stands at .302 -- eighth-highest in the Southern League -- through 35 games after Tuesday, his first time over the .300 mark since April 20.
The 23-year-old outfielder has matched his games played from last season at Tennessee, but his production has far exceeded that of his first go-round. Szczur batted just .210 through 35 games in the Southern League, where he ended the season. So far, his OPS is more than 100 points higher (.762-.641). He has tripled his RBI total (18-6) and more than tripled his stolen-base total (13-4) in the same span.
"You know what to expect after going through this once," said the former Villanova football star. "It was huge for me to get that experience and playing in the Arizona Fall League helped too. You learn more about how to go up there with a plan and how to set a routine before the game, how I should go about batting practice, stuff like that. That's the kind of stuff I took away from here the first time."
Szczur and the Smokies faced Jackson starter and MLB.com's No. 5 overall prospect Taijuan Walker on Tuesday. The center fielder flied out against the right-hander in the first inning and stroked a two-out single in the fifth. Walker finished with two runs (one earned) on four hits and one walk and struck out six over seven innings, but did not factor in the decision.
"He's got a real hard fastball," Szczur said. "You just have to sit fastball and tip your hat if he throws his curveball, changeup or cutter. All you can do is make sure you're swinging at a good pitch to hit and just battle with him. He's definitely a great pitcher."
The Smokies (19-18) scored the go-ahead run in the top of the 10th when Arismendy Alcantara plated Tim Torres with a two-out bunt single. The victory was the team's fourth straight and came one night after scoring four in the ninth to take a 6-4 decision over the Generals.
"You can feel that it's not just one player, but everybody coming together as a team to help us win," said Szczur, who drove in the go-ahead run with a double Monday. "These guys don't give up ever. You saw that yesterday and tonight. No matter what the score is, we feel like we're able to get a win. It's a lot of fun to play here."
Sam Dykstra is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


text: Digital Insurance ( www.digitalinsurance.com), the nation's largest and most technologically advanced employee benefits-only agency, has acquired Ovation Benefits, one of the country's top independent employee benefits firms. Ovation, headquartered in Farmington, Conn., is the first office in the state to operate as Digital Benefit Advisors (DBA), a growing division of Digital which has 20 offices across the U.S. Managing Principals Bill Carew and Brian Driscoll, along with their 45-member staff, aligned with DBA to provide clients expanded offerings and greater support. "Bringing Ovation into the DBA network marks our largest acquisition to date and represents an inflexion point in the growth of Digital Benefit Advisors," explains Mike Sullivan, executive vice president of DBA and chief marketing officer of Digital Insurance. "Bill Carew and Brian Driscoll, along with their talented team of benefits professionals, add a sophisticated middle market capability to Digital and exemplify our focus on strategic partnerships. This new alliance will reshape the employee benefits landscape in Connecticut and strengthen our marketplace position throughout New England." "Our goal in aligning with Digital is to join with a team that is strategically focused on building best-in-class benefits to deliver the services and support our customers and their employees will need to succeed in the emerging healthcare marketplace," says Bill Carew. "Digital's leadership in the private exchange arena and launch of the Digital Benefits Marketplace creates a platform for us to attract agencies, partnerships and talent across the state," adds Brian Driscoll. DBA combines the commitment of experienced, local market advisors with the sophisticated technology and innovative resources of a respected national company. Employers receive access to a broader variety of carriers, dynamic tools, proprietary products and a private exchange. "Ovation Benefits' size and middle market innovation make this acquisition a significant, strategic achievement for Digital," notes Brent Bickett, executive vice president of corporate finance of Fidelity National Financial (FNF), of which Digital Insurance is a subsidiary. "We are excited about the sustained growth of the Digital platform and will continue to support the company's expansion and recruitment of quality firms and talent."


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Bidding for control of pipeline owner and operator Hastings Diversified is hotting up, with a consortium of local and foreign bidders putting a full cash takeover offer on the table this morning.
A consortium which includes Canadian and local investors is offering $2.35 cash a share for Hastings Diversified, valuing the company at $1.25 billion.
This compares with a cash and paper bid launched for Hastings Diversified late last year, which is hamstring by competition concerns, with the competition watchdog, the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission still reviewing its offer.
Late last week, APA offered to sell one of Hastings Diversified's assets, a pipeline from Moomba, in central Australia, to Adelaide, in a bid to assuage competition concerns.
The new bid has been launched by Pipeline Partners, which is comprised of a consortium of Canadian institutional investor Caisse de dépot et placement du Québec and the Hastings-managed Utilities Trust of Australia.
Its offer is conditional on a number of conditions, including that it be supported by 70 per cent of Hastings Diversified's shareholders.
Independent directors of Hastings Diversified have given the consortium a period of time to conduct due diligence over Hastings Diversified's assets.
The all-cash offer compares with APA's offer of 0.326 of its shares and 50 cents in cash for each share held in Hastings Diversified.
When APA launched its bid, it valued each Hastings Diversified share at $2, based on APA's then share price of $4.60. Its shares are trading this morning at $4.91.
APA already has a 20 per cent stake in Hastings Diversified, and had long been expected to launch a bid to win control, depending on ACCC concerns. APA is yet to respond to the surprise counter bid.
Hastings Diversified's shares are in a trading halt and last traded at $2.11.
Both the Canadian investor and UTA have been partners for several years in investments such as Hochtief AirPort Capital and South East Water.
The Canadian group and UTA are 50:50 shareholders in Pipeline Partners, according to ASIC records.


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Carnival Victory - Canada/New England: Carnival Victory Cruise Review by mom23guys
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Carnival Victory - Canada/New England
Destination: Canada & New England
Embarkation: New York (Manhattan)
Embarkation We were dropped of at the pier by a relative. Coming from the GW Bridge was a snap. No traffic until we reached the turn-off into the piers. We were dropped off at 11:50. The line was moderate but moved very quickly. Once through security there were other lines designated by deck. The Deck seven line was not long. We were given our S&S cards at check-in. We were on-board and on the Lido deck by 12:30. Our cabin was ready about 1:45 and at 2:00 we had 2 of our 3 bags! We unpacked and met our CC group on the Lido by the pizza. Good spot and having the Hawaiian lei made everyone easy to spot. It was a great group of people that we seemed to meet More frequently throughout the trip.
Sailaway This was one of the glorious days that one hopes for - blue skies, white puffy clouds, low humidity, and cool breezes. Sailing past NYC, Ellis Island, and the statue of Liberty was everything I hoped for. When people see our pictures that can't believe the Hudson is that blue and beautiful. We stayed on deck till well after the Verazanno Bridge was fading in the distance. When we returned to our cabin our third bag was already in the room.
Room We had a balcony on the Empress deck. I love this deck because there are no noises from above or below. We were about three cabins aft of the laundry but heard no noise from there. Our only problem was the family next to us seemed to forget they were in close quarters with other guests. The two teens seemed to be wrestling around quite a bit and the mom had a habit of screaming at them at the top of her lungs. This was really annoying at 1:30 AM, however this seemed to stop after day 3. Not Carnival's fault. The cabin was the same as the balcony on the Spirit, although the balcony was narrower. Our cabin steward T was fantastic. Called us by name every time he saw us. The cabin was spotless. T kept our small soft sided cooler filled with ice everyday.
Dining We had requested 8 PM dining and received it. There weren't many children at this seating and since we were traveling sans family this was great. We were in the Pacific dining room at a round table for 8. Our table mates were fantastic. All in 40's-50's. We became great friends and couldn't wait to share our days activities with them. I don't know how they chose tablemates but they did a fantastic job. Food- Loved the lamb the first night, the veal dish was very good, our tablemates said the chicken was delicious, husband liked the prime rib-done perfectly. Our server Garry was top notch, the best we've had. He was personable and chatted with us every night. Our table was often one of the last to leave the dining room each night. Our Asst. Kamong was quite but very efficient. We ate most of our meals in the DR. I enjoyed being served breakfast and not waiting on line at the Lido. We also ate lunch in the DR twice. Buffet was just ok, although the staff were efficient cleaning the tables.
Ports and Sea Days First Sea day was warm and sunny. Lido deck was quite crowded. Band at the pool was fun. Some chair hogs. St. John was overcast and cool. We took the excursion to St Martin and the sea caves. Our guide was very knowledgeable and gave us a flavor for the area. The tides were not cooperative for walking into the caves but a nice trip. It was raining when we arrived back to St. John so we returned to the ship. St John was such a friendly place, roses and lapel pins for everyone when we debarked and a terrific bagpiper playing on the dock for our departure. The fog rolled in between St John and Halifax. It was milky white. I could barely make out the floor of the balcony when standing. Our pub tour of Halifax was cancelled so we decided to go on the hop-on-hop-off bus. Interesting tour but once was enough. The weather cleared in the afternoon for a while so we enjoyed the promenade and Buskers festival. Fog rolled back in for sail away.
Shows and Activities There were plenty of activities on sea days. Husband went to golf clinic and later took a lesson. Said the lesson was helpful and the pro excellent. I went to the art auction for a bit. We would rather relax and read than participate in the games but they were plentiful. Since we had the late seating it was often a rush to get to the shows. The first night's show was just too crowded by the time we arrived. We would head to the Ionian lounge for an after dinner drink and jazz. This is the cigar bar but it was so funny to see people holding their noses or fanning themselves when walking through. It was really not necessary to walk through the lounge to get anywhere on the ship but some people kept complaining about smoke in the cigar bar. Strange!
Service We had great service wherever we went. Friendly helpful staff always willing to do more.
Debarkation Super easy. They used the new zone system. We were Zone 6 so could have been off the ship by 8:45 but waited around a bit had a relaxing breakfast in the DR, since our car service wasn't scheduled till 9:45. Overall Great relaxing cruise, well worth the money. Convenient for a short trip. Less
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CatOS: How do I tag the native VLAN on a 802.1q trunk
Hi Guys,
In IOS you can ask aswitch to tag yor native vlan traffic over a .1q trunk using the switchport trunk native vlan tag command. Is there an equivilant command in CatOS? And if so, can someone tell me what it is?
Thanks in advance
Hi Scott,
'set port dot1q-all-tagged' is the equivilant CATOS command. Check the command reference of your running release to see if this command is available.
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West Carson work means headaches for commuters and area businesses
Closing the outbound lanes of West Carson Street from the West End Bridge to McKees Rocks is causing headaches for some business owners and for motorists snaking through a detour — and there's two years to go.
The closure started Aug. 3, kicking off the first phase of a $39 million construction project. Work will include replacing a 335-foot, structurally deficient viaduct that supports part of Route 51 between the West End Circle and Stanhope Street just north of the Corliss Tunnel.
"It's a mess, but it's as good as can be expected, I guess," said Pittsburgh police Sgt. James LeVier. "Just plan ahead and be a little more patient if you're coming through the area."
He said PennDOT officials have tried to make changes to ease traffic congestion as problems arise.
PennDOT posted detours on the West End Bridge, Route 65 and the McKees Rocks Bridge. Inbound traffic will travel in a single lane on West Carson Street, which will remain open to pedestrians throughout the project. The work is expected to be complete by late August 2015.
PennDOT said in July the department would monitor the detour route, deploying police officers at key intersections and adjusting traffic signals to try to minimize delays. Spokesman Steve Cowan said about 8,000 drivers use outbound West Carson on a typical day, and so far no accidents have been reported.
"Changing the traffic pattern caused some pretty heavy confusion that first day, so we put up more signs and stationed police officers at four intersections during peak hours," Cowan said. "It always takes motorists a few days to adjust."
Cars weaving around Pacific Pride's diesel pumps struggled through tight traffic in the evening rush hour Tuesday where a newly installed traffic light at West Carson and Riverside streets slowed traffic.
Butch Battaglia, co-owner of Battaglia Auto Recycling around the corner, said he received less than two weeks' notice from authorities about the detour. Drivers have been using the business's driveway to avoid the congested roadway.
"They put the light out here for us. They've got cops. They're trying, but whether that will affect my business, only time will tell," Battaglia said.
Crews are scheduled to resurface cracked pavement, rebuild broken sidewalks and replace aging railings and utility lines while upgrading the drainage system, lights and traffic signals.
Pedestrian improvements include building a wider sidewalk between the West End Bridge and its busway entrance with a crossing just beyond. The sidewalk will shift to the inland side from there to Stanhope Street with additional clearance space for trucks and buses.
Police officers will be stationed at four intersections from 6 to 10 a.m. and from 3 to 7 p.m., including at the West End Circle, West End Bridge and Route 65, Route 65 and the McKees Rocks Bridge, and the Route 837 ramp to northbound Route 51, which is closed to through traffic.
Port Authority of Allegheny County spokeswoman Heather Pharo said riders should expect delays on outbound detours for bus routes using West Carson and the West Busway. All routes in the 2-mile corridor are subject to altered traffic patterns.
Megan Harris is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at email@example.com.


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FUOR Digital Selects the AudienceScience® Gateway to Drive Digital Advertising Success
NEW YORK –September 28, 2011– AudienceScience®, a global advertising technology company, today announced that FUOR Digital, a Chicago-based digital media firm, has selected the AudienceScience Gateway for its technological superiority in digital marketing. FUOR Digital specializes in all aspects of digital media campaigns, including digital strategy, advertising, search engine marketing, mobile marketing and web analytics.
The AudienceScience Gateway provides a greater ability to collect and aggregate huge volumes of data from disparate sources, allowing marketers to understand—and assign—their audience segments with unparalleled insight into their interests and intentions. By providing FUOR Digital access to 300+ billion events taking place online on any given day, the AudienceScience Gateway will allow the agency's advertiser clients to better engage their audiences as well as formulate a more robust digital strategy.
FUOR Digital will primarily be using the AudienceScience Gateway to collect, manage and segment the large amount of data that FUOR has access to. They will also integrate AudienceScience's hundreds of proprietary audience segments, using all of the data sources to build highly targeted audience segments for delivery across a variety of media channels. Additionally, FUOR Digital will benefit from AudienceScience's award-winning client service and account management around audience targeting and data management.
"As an agency leading the industry in digital media, it is our responsibility to select the technology partner that can deliver the best for our clients' campaigns," said Josh Dreller, VP media technology and analytics at FUOR Digital. "AudienceScience, with their Gateway solution and personal support and expertise, is the clear choice for us. We are counting on a long and successful relationship."
The AudienceScience Gateway benefits from the company's decade-long foundation of experience, insight and innovation. As the originator of audience targeting and custom audience segment creation, the company currently holds 17 patents with another 44 pending. This underscores AudienceScience's commitment to constantly enhance its technology to better serve the advertising and publishing partners utilizing their solutions.
"We are honored that FUOR Digital has selected AudienceScience as their technology and service partner," said Jeremy Mason, vice president and general manager, AudienceScience Gateway. "As FUOR Digital continues to drive innovative results for their clients, we look forward to the opportunity to address their clients' growing needs in the digital landscape and toward many successful marketing campaigns."
About FUOR Digital:
FUOR Digital is a digital media agency that helps marketers achieve business goals through innovative digital marketing programs. We partner with our clients to help make sense of the digital media landscape as well as track and understand the ROI on their media investment. Our digital marketing experts deliver strategy, insights, and results.
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AudienceScience is the largest and most trusted audience aggregator in the world. As an early innovator of online advertising technology, AudienceScience continues to revolutionize the industry, enabling universal access to audiences and driving digital marketing success. The Audience Delivery System, a comprehensive global media solution, comprises the AudienceScience Gateway, the premier audience targeting and data management platform, delivering efficient and effective online advertising, and AudienceScience Connect™, the industry's first media transaction platform enabling streamlined and transparent premium media buying and selling, including state-of-the-industry Real Time Bidding support. With 300 billion data insights daily into over 386 million people worldwide, AudienceScience makes it simple to find, reach and achieve one-to-one marketing at scale. Since 2003, AudienceScience has delivered over 300,000 targeted campaigns for clients including American Airlines, Financial Times, Gannett, New York Times Digital, Nikkei.com, T-Com, Orange, Terra, Telecom Italia and Wall Street Journal Digital. For more information, please visit http://www.AudienceScience.com and follow @AudienceScience on Twitter.


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The Coalition was locked in a furious battle today over Lib Dem plans to slash the UK's nuclear defences.
Nick Clegg's party said the Trident fleet of submarines should be cut from four to at least three - ending decades of continuous at sea nuclear deterrent.
A Government review said cutting the fleet to three subs would shave £4billion off the estimated £80billion cost of renewing Trident.
But the Tories said the move was "reckless" and a gamble with Britain's defences.
Launching the review, Lib Dem Treasury chief secretary Danny Alexander said it was time to end the "Cold War" posturing.
He said the Lib Dems remained in favour of keeping nuclear missiles but that did not mean pressing ahead with a like-for-like replacement when the four Vanguard submarines end their service in the 2030s.
"This is the ultimate guarantee we often talk about.
"But the reality is that in the current circumstances - and for the foreseeable future - that guarantee does not need to sit on a hair trigger," Mr Alexander said.
He said the report showed that having three subs instead of four would still provide Britain with deterrent but at substantially less cost.
"If continuous-at-sea deterrence is an insurance policy, we're paying too high a premium for our needs," he said.
"The argument that a current adversary would take the opportunity to target the UK during a period when no boat is covertly deployed and launch an overwhelming nuclear strike against Britain is, frankly, not supported by any analysis I have seen," he said in a speech at the Royal United Services Institute - a military think tank - in London.
The report said that moving to a land or boat-based nuclear deterrent would be too expensive and could not be delivered in time given a decision had to be made by 2016.
"We have a big decision to make in 2016, and this study shows that there are credible alternatives that don't compromise our security but do allow us to move on from the Cold War.
"We can adapt our nuclear deterrence to the threats in the 21st century by ending 24 hour patrols when we don't need them, and buying fewer submarines," Mr Alexander said.
However, there was confusion over whether the Lib Dems were in favour of reducing the submarine fleet to three or halving it to just two - an option not included in the report.
Aides to Mr Clegg said the party's policy would be decided at the party conference this autumn and "it may well include two subs."
Mr Clegg said: "This is the most thorough review of our nuclear deterrent this country has ever published
"It clearly shows that there are options for our country that do not simply involve us sticking to the same strategic positions that were taken in the Cold War."
The Conservative Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said the Lib Dems were being "naive or reckless".
"We have had for 45 years now a continuous-at-sea deterrent posture which has served this country very well and we do not believe that with nuclear threats, if anything, proliferating, with more countries seeking to get nuclear weapons, this is the time to downgrade, certainly not to go to a part-time deterrent," he said.
David Cameron also made clear his opposition to the Lib Dem plans.
"The Prime Minister believes in continuous at-sea deterrence. It is as simple as that.
"He has seen no evidence that there are credible alternatives," his spokesman said.
The top brass also waded in to back the Tory stance.
Former chief of the defence staff Admiral Lord Boyce said any move away from a continuous-at-sea stance would be a "step towards unilateral disarmament".
"Deterrence should be available and viable all the time. As soon as you have some submarines locked up in harbour, whether you have two or three or four, the fact is they are vulnerable to attack, they are vulnerable to interference."
He added: "I think that we will not have a deterrent if you do not have a deterrent which is continuously-at-sea deployed, in which case why have it at all? Because frankly only half an answer is simply not good enough."
Labour also sided with the Tories, branding the report "shambolic and discredited."
John Woodcock, Labour MP for Barrow where the UK's submarine fleet is built, said: "The Liberal Democrats' attempt to show Britain could scrap Trident or make do with a part-time nuclear deterrent has been fundamentally discredited with this shambolic review.
"Nick Clegg's preferred option of a mini-deterrent has been ruled out as more expensive than the current plan and his back-up plan of halving the number of replacement Vanguard submarines has not even been included in the final document."
Shadow Defence Secretary Jim Murphy added: "Labour has always said that we are committed to the minimum credible independent nuclear deterrent, which we believe is best delivered through a Continuous At Sea Deterrent.
"It would require a substantial body of evidence for us to change that, but this review does not appear to offer such evidence."


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Beijing, China (AFP) Aug 07, 2013
China's latest milk powder scare will do nothing to increase one of the world's lowest breastfeeding rates, experts say, in the face of misconceptions, economic pressures, and aggressive marketing that "brainwashes" mothers.
New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra was forced to issue recalls in countries ranging from China to Saudi Arabia following a scare over botulism, an infection that can lead to paralysis and death.
In China the scare recalled memories of a scandal over locally-produced tainted milk formula, which left six children dead and made more than 300,000 ill in 2008.
Ths scare was a key driver in a boom in imports that has seen the market for formula grow from a total $1 billion in 2002 to $9 billion this year, according to statistics from the United Nations' children's agency Unicef, and an expected $13 billion in 2015.
The demand for informal imports has at times seen supermarket shelves cleared around the world and retail purchase restrictions imposed from Britain to Australia.
Only 28 percent of Chinese mothers breastfeed for the first six months -- a figure which drops to 16 percent in urban areas.
The global average is about 40 percent, while more than 80 percent of mothers in the UK breastfeed.
Beijing was guilty of a "large marketing failure" to boost breastfeeding, said Robert Scherpbie, Unicef's chief of health and nutrition in China.
"The government is unable to market the benefits of breast milk at a very large scale, because there is this crowding-out by the other marketing from formula companies," he told AFP.
Manufacturers were "really smart with their marketing", he said.
Firms say that "they reinforce breast milk substitutes with all sorts of products that enhance learning, that makes your child smarter, and contains all types of immunogenic substances, whereas natural breast milk already has these substances", he added.
Scherpbie also said the growing Caesarean rates in China had also seen breastfeeding decrease. Just 50 percent of babies in China were delivered in hospitals in 2005, he said.
Hospital delivery is now almost universal but about half of those are Caesarean births, often with babies separated from their mothers soon after birth, making breastfeeding impossible.
Maternity leave could be extended from the current 98-day limit, Scherpbie added. But he said there was great pressure on mothers to return to work in China, where many families are supported by parents who work long hours.
Working mothers take to Internet message boards to air their frustrations over poor breastfeeding facilities in the workplace.
Yanhong Wheeler, a Beijing-based author of books on childcare and breastfeeding, said many Chinese mothers felt victimised because of a lack of basic knowledge on the quantity of breast milk a baby needs.
"The mother's family -- particularly the new grandparents and the mother-in-law -- blames the mother for starving the baby and for not having enough milk if there are any problems," she told AFP.
"And in the background of this, formula milk is everywhere. They are really aggressive about their products. They say they (products) are close to breast milk -- and that is a lie.
"I would say these companies are brainwashing, but not just mothers. Those that should be supportive are also being brainwashed."
Wheeler said babies are often cared for almost exclusively by the wider family in the first month after childbirth, when the mother is often bedridden.
Later, many Chinese babies remain in the care of grandparents when the mother returns to work.
Some formula milk providers approach mothers directly with their products and up to 52 percent of pregnant women had received a free trial, according to a survey by Beien, an Internet message board for new mothers.
"I received quite a lot of samples, mostly in small amounts and they kept coming until even after childbirth," one new mother in Beijing told AFP.
Formula companies in China -- including Abbott, Mead Johnson, Nestle, Wyeth and Yili -- were unavailable for comment.
Increasingly competitive formula companies have targeted markets in poorer countries in recent years. Campaigners have dogged Nestle for decades, claiming the company markets its products to women who would be better off breastfeeding.
Both Unicef and the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommend breastfeeding from birth to six months of age, and continued breastfeeding plus nutritious complementary foods thereafter, up to two years or beyond.
"Breastfeeding is a natural act, but also a learned behaviour which needs social and peer support," Marianna Trias, senior programme management officer for WHO in China, told AFP.
There were still "challenges... to overcome" in China, she added.
China fines baby formula firms $108 million for price-fixing: Xinhua
The firms fined were Mead Johnson and Abbott from the US, Dumex, a subsidiary of France's Danone, Friesland of the Netherlands, New Zealand giant Fonterra -- at the centre of a health scare this week -- and China's Biostime, Xinhua said, citing the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC).
In a corporate statement, Mead Johnson said it had been handed a penalty of 204 million yuan ($33 million).
Biostime said in a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange that it had been given a 163 million yuan fine.
Fonterra, which has had to recall products in several countries this week over a botulism scare, was fined 4.5 million yuan, it said.
It cooperated fully with Chinese authorities and accepted their decision, it said.
"The investigation leaves us with a much clearer understanding of expectations around implementing pricing policies which is useful as we progress our future business plans," Fonterra's president for Greater China and India, Kelvin Wickham, said in a statement.
He added that Fonterra's fine was "in the lowest range" of the penalties handed out.
The NDRC, China's top economic planner, launched the investigation into high prices it said resulted from a monopoly-like situation, mostly targeting overseas firms. Several of them announced price cuts last month.
Xinhua said that three companies -- Wyeth, which is owned by Swiss giant Nestle, Japan's Meiji, and Chinese firm Beingmate -- had been exempted from punishment in the inquiry.
The NDRC said they provided important evidence and carried out active self-rectification, it added.
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Racers ready for Sunday's Soapbox Derby in McKeesport
A tradition of soapbox derby races in McKeesport continues Sunday along Eden Park Boulevard.
The annual Greater Pittsburgh Soapbox Derby starts at 9 a.m., and organizers said it will feature one of the largest gatherings of racers in recent memory.
"It probably goes back to the 1970s when we had numbers this big," said John Wagner, president of the local derby association.
He said word-of-mouth and having derby cars at various events have driven interest in the race.
There are 16 Stock, 16 Super Stock and six Master racers entered. The crowd is expected to be between 300-500.
Winners in each bracket of the double-elimination tournament will advance to the All-American Soapbox Derby National Finals in Akron, Ohio, where more than 450 racers will compete.
Former McKeesport resident and former derby director Chuck Freyer said McKeesport's derby ran from 1954-1972 and started up again in 1982.
In 1972, the All-American Soapbox Derby was rocked by a scandal. Its winner was found to have used an electromagnet in the nose of his car, attached to coils and a battery in the rear.
Freyer said the scandal caused a major lull in the sport, and many communities didn't pick it back up for about a decade.
Racers are putting their cars through time trials and safety inspections at McKeesport Area High School this week in preparation for the race.
Freyer said McKeesport lends a lot of support to the race.
"McKeesport helps us so much," Freyer said. "I got a lot of good to say about McKeesport. Every mayor has helped us ... We can't ask for better than this. Where else can a kid under 16 years old drive on the street?"
Stock cars weigh up to 200 pounds. Super Stock weighs 240 pounds and Master cars weigh 255 pounds. That includes the driver's weight.
Drivers are 7-17 years old. Pace car drivers can be 6 years old. Drivers of pace cars don't compete in the actual race but set the pace and position racers.
Jade Long, 6, of Springdale is driving a pace car. She said the derby is fun and she's excited to participate.
This year's Celebrity class of racers features The Daily News general manager Robert R. Hammond, state Reps. Bill Kortz and Marc Gergely, Allegheny County Councilman Bob Macey, the Rev. Terrence O'Connor of the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, and Trib Total Media news exchange partner WPXI-11 personality Brittny McGraw.
Individuals and businesses sponsor cars to get their names on the vehicles, which are made from kits sanctioned by the All-American Soapbox Derby. Cars cost $400-$600. Top speeds in the McKeesport race range from 28-32 mph and the margin of victory is often hundredths of a second.
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Two men, involved in the fatal bashing of a Sydney shopkeeper, were today jailed for a total of 34 years for the murder.
Shane Andrew Cole was beaten repeatedly about the head after he and a friend, Shane Phillips, were confronted by three men at Mr Cole's south-western Sydney shop, Colie's Cafe, on the afternoon of March 3, 2000.
"I'm happy with the sentence but it is a no-win situation really," Mr Cole's mother tearfully told AAP outside the NSW Supreme Court.
"Nothing is going to bring Shane back but they [the defendants] are someone's sons."
A jury in May found Mazin Mehajer, 26, and John Lou Jacobs, 24, guilty of Mr Cole's murder.
Christian Painter, who had accompanied Mehajer and Jacobs to Mr Cole's cafe, testified against the men in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
Today, Mehajer was sentenced to a maximum of 18 years in jail, with a non-parole period of 13 years and six months, and Jacobs to 16 years and six months, with a non-parole period of 12 years and six months.
Both men will also serve a further four years behind bars for maliciously wounding Mr Phillips and stealing Mr Cole's wallet, mobile phone, jewellery and $500 cash.
In his judgement, Justice Timothy Studdert said Mehajer, Jacobs and Mr Painter travelled in Mehajer's car to the cafe, where Mr Cole and Mr Phillips were putting away soft-drinks into the fridge.
He accepted evidence that Mehajer forced Mr Phillips to the ground, threatened him with a knife and said: "Where is it, where's the cash, where's the stash. I'm cutting your friend's throat here."
"Mehajer was the ringleader in the events that occurred," Justice Studdert said.
"He was the one who knew both Painter and Jacobs, introducing them to each other before they set out on their journey to Leumeah ... he was the first to enter the cafe.
"He was the person armed with the knife.
"These matters render Mehajer's total criminality somewhat greater than that of Jacobs and this difference should be reflected in the sentences to be served."
Justice Studdert said both Mehajer and Jacobs had a good chance of rehabilitation and considered Jacobs's "extremely harsh" upbringing when deciding on a sentence.
Jacobs's parents split up when he was very young and his mother abused drugs, the court heard.
When he was about 15 years old, Jacobs went to live with his paternal grandparents.
Mehajer's sentence was backdated to start on July 30, 2003, and he will become eligible for parole on January 29, 2017.
Jacobs's jail term was backdated to begin on April 15, 2002, and he is first eligible for parole on October 14, 2014.
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49ers tight end Vernon Davis didn't attend the team's voluntary OTAs due to dissatisfaction with his contract. Next week, the 49ers open their mandatory minicamp. That means if you don't show up, it'll cost you. Davis wants to keep his money.
"You know what? I plan on being there," Davis said during a radio interview Thursday.
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A Mexican national wanted in connection to a slaying of a man on the city's southside last summer was arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border Wednesday, authorities said.
Alejandro Talamantes-Osorio, 28, of Nogales, Sonora was stopped for questioning by federal agents when he crossed through the pedestrian gate at the Dennis DeConcini port of entry, said Juan Osorio, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman.
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By a voice vote, the House just passed a "light bulb ban" amendment to the 2012 Energy and Water Appropriations Act (HR 2354). The amendment, offered by climate denier Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX), prohibits spending to enforce the incandescent lighting efficiency standards in the 2007 energy law signed by President George W. Bush:
An amendment numbered 70 printed in the Congressional Record to prohibit the use of funds to be used to implement or enforce section 430.32(x) of title 10, Code of Federal Regulations or to implement or enforce the standards established by the tables contained in section 325(i)(1)(B) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act with respect to BPAR incandescent reflector lamps, BR incandescent reflector lamps, and ER incandescent reflector lamps.
These standards have already spurred the lighting industry to create innovative new incandescent bulbs that are dramatically more efficient than the century-old design the Tea Party is bent on defending. This amendment will hurt jobs, hurt manufacturing, and hurt the environment — helping only coal-powered electricity producers who depend on wasteful use of energy.
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For the first time, NASA has captured and is analyzing a sample of actual Martian water, which was collected by the Phoenix lander. It will take some weeks to fully process the data and determine whether the Red Planet could ever have supported life, but it's a promising development for scientists and space nuts alike.
"We've seen evidence for this water ice before in observations by the Mars Odyssey orbiter and in disappearing chunks observed by Phoenix last month, but this is the first time Martian water has been touched and tasted," William Boynton, lead scientist on the mission, said.
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Edward S. Salsberg, director of the Center for Health Workforce Studies
at UAlbany's School of Public Health, today was named to a blue-ribbon
commission of national health care leaders assigned to address one of
the field's most significant problems: the immediate and long-term shortages
of health care personnel.
The formation of the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Commission
on Workforce was announced at an AHA Board of Trustees press conference
in Washington D.C. on Tuesday.
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in 1996. It has become one of four centers nationwide receiving federal
support to conduct state and region workforce studies. Its numerous
ongoing projects relate to assessing, educating, improving technical
assistance to and providing new data for the health care workforce.
The Center also seeks to improve the effectiveness of the marketplace
for health professionals and other health workers.
Before coming to UAlbany, Salsberg was the director of the Bureau of
Health Resources Development in the New York State Department of Health.
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workforce programs and policies for New York. A member of the steering
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experience in policy-relevant workforce data collection and analysis.
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2002. The report's recommendations will be shared with government leaders
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Commission Chairman Peter W. Butler said: "This is one of the most
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within and outside health care to participate because it will take solutions
involving all of us to head off this growing threat."
Combined pressures - a shrinking workforce, an aging population, traditional
work designs, changing social attitudes about work, financial concerns,
increased demand and other stresses - have translated into a severe
personnel deficit in U.S. health care facilities. Though the nursing
shortage has received much attention, hospitals also face a decreasing
applicant pool of caregivers in general, including pharmacists, technicians,
technologists and therapists.
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Haren scattered eight hits in a complete game, Jay Payton hit a two-run homer and Milton Bradley connected again to lead the Oakland Athletics past the Los Angeles Angels 3-1 on Monday.
BOX SCORE:Athletics 3, Angels 1
Street, who was charged with his seventh blown save of the season on Sunday, was given a rest by manager Ken Macha after pitching in four of the previous five games.
"Knowing Street was down, I definitely wanted to take the ball for the ninth inning," Haren said after his second complete game this season. "In that situation, if Street's good to go, I feel 100% comfortable giving him the ball. But there was no pressure at all to finish it. Our whole bullpen's been great the whole year."
Haren (8-9) overcame a solo homer by Juan Rivera and went the distance for the fifth time in 76 career starts. The right-hander struck out five and walked none in a rematch of his July 9 duel with Ervin Santana— which the Angels won 4-2 at Oakland.
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The AL West-leading Athletics began a nine-game road trip against division opponents with their fifth victory in six tries. They lead the second-place Angels by 1½ games.
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In the spirit of synergy, I hope today's list works as a decent complement to Bob Davie's intriguing series exploring the nuances of what makes some programs so potent.
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The focus of this week's list is the most innovative coaches working today in I-A football. I've limited this to head coaches, and this one has been shaped on a poll of voters. I tabbed a dozen folks whose expertise and insight I respect a lot and had them offer up suggestions. Each expert's opinion focuses on intangibles as well as X's and O's. The list is heavily slanted to the offensive guys. I didn't want it to come out that way, but it is what it is.


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Wouldn't it be great if you could restart your Mac at home or find its IP address just by sending an e-mail? I got the idea for this from Cory Bohon's article at TUAW (read) written back in April on the same subject. I liked the idea of being able to send a simple e-mail message and having my Mac mini do some task. It's a lot quicker than firing up a VNC or SSH session and doing it the long way.
First I would like to begin by explaining the problems I had that needed resolution:
- My Dyndns Dashboard widget is supposed to automatically update Dyndns with the public IP address at home where my Mac mini lives. Sometimes (rarely [only once]) the widget will hang and Dyndns will not get my latest IP address resulting in 404 when I try to access the various sites running on the mini.
- I have an applescript application that will remotely update my Plex library as well as a cron job on the mini that will do the same thing locally. Occasionally running this script, either remotely or as a cron job, will cause Plex to crash – no idea why.
- Sometimes I just need the blasted thing to restart. It's OS X, not God.
I'm going to go through these in order of the easiest to tackle to the most difficult. Also, I'm only going to cover the scripts I created themselves, you can read Cory's article for setting up the mail rules; he does a lot better job than I at explaining it.
Here is the script I used to call up Plex. It's incredibly simple and really speaks to the ease of Applescript.
tell application "Plex"
end tell
Yup, that's it. Simple, yet powerful. All I have to do is send off an email and boom Plex launches. Definitely quicker than loading up VNC and doing it through the GUI remotely. This is especially true given that VNC is somewhat bandwidth heavy and can be slow to respond if the client or server have a lot of network traffic with which to compete.
The article I referenced above has a script for restarting a remote Mac; however, things can go haywire if you have an app that won't quit. Some people commented on Cory's article and mentioned his script would not work if Safari was open with multiple tabs, and they are correct. In my case I have Transmission running and it wants the user to confirm a "quit" before complying. I had to find a way around that as it was preventing the script from being useful. Without further adieu here is the script:
set pwd to "YourPassw0rd"
set cmd to "shutdown -r NOW"
do shell script cmd password pwd with administrator privileges
Pretty cool, only three lines for this piece of magic. The first line creates a variable "pwd" for storing your password. This is necessary because OS X only allows a user with administrative privileges to run the shutdown command. The next line creates a veriable "cmd" that stores the Termainal (UNIX shell) script we will run in line 3. If you open up Terminal.app and type in "shutdown -r NOW" you will be told the command cannot complete because you aren't a super user (sorry mate). Luckily, though, in the terminal you can append "sudo" to the beginning of the shutdown command to run it as an administrator. The result is that the shutdown command will reboot (-r flag) the Mac at a specified time (NOW). For information on sudo and shutdown check out here and here, respectively. The last line is a whirlwind of coding genius; actually, not really. It basically runs "sudo shutdown -r NOW" and passes in the password we used on the first line. Thanks go to Cory for helping me to figure out passing in the password for another script I have.
The last problem, getting my IP address e-mailed back to me, was the hardest to figure out and is the "kludgiest" of the three. The short version is that an Applescript calls another Applescript, fancy. Actually, it's Leopard's fault; Mail 3 does not process mail rules with Applescripts the way it did previously in Tiger and earlier versions of OS X. It used to be that the Applescript that gets called could actually reply to the message which triggered the rule; however, that is no longer the case and Mail limits what can and cannot be done in the Applescript. Unfortunately, I don't know what these limits are sufficed to say that what I need to do is not permitted.
OK, here we go; the Mail rule calls a script which looks like this:
do shell script "osascript /Users/Aron/Scripts/HomeIP.scpt"
That script says run the Applescript found at this location. The script it calls, the one that gets the IP address and emails it, is here:
set cmd to "curl -s http://www.whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp"
set my_ip to (do shell script cmd)
set my_dest to "email@example.com"
set my_subj to "My IP at home"
tell application "Mail"
GetURL ("mailto:" & my_dest & "?subject=" & my_subj & "&body=" & my_ip)
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "D" using command down
end tell
So this one is a little meatier, but if you've made it this far I would be remiss to not go further. The first line is fairly obvious, it stores a Terminal command we're going to use later; if you copy that command into the terminal and run it the output will be you current public IP address. It atually took me awhile to find out whatismyip.com provided that neat little service. Before I finished the script I was using a combination of sed and awk to format my curl output. Anyways, my loss is your gain. The next line takes the standard output from the command that we called "cmd" in line 1 and stores it as a variable called "my_ip". Next, we initialize and set two more variables – "my_dest" gets the e-mail address to which you want your IP address sent and "my_subj" stores the subject of e-mail which will be sent. I could have used my_ip as the subject of the email, but for my purposes I prefer a pretty subject with the IP address in the body of the message.
The next part of this script launches Mail (if it is not already launched) and has it load a "mailto:" URL. The URL gets dynamically created based on the variables we used above so the URL actually ends up looking like this:
"mailtoo:email@example.com?subject="My IP at home"&body=someIPaddress".
When Mail loads that URL it actually creates a new mail message with the properties (recipient, subject, body) we specified. After that it uses Universal Access to automagically press "shift+command+D" to send the message we just created.
All in all, a pretty useful set of scripts if I do say so myself. Hopefully someone will find this helpful to them. If you know of a better way to make Mail send an e-mail any way other than my kludge-tastic Universal Access method feel free to let me know!


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