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A man was thrown in jail after trying to steal socks from a Walmart store in Exton, Pa. But it seems socks weren't the only article of clothing he needed, as he was buck naked.
Store surveillance footage caught the 6-foot-4, 300-pound man walking around the store in the buff. No word on why the man was nude or what style of socks he tried to lift.
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Plenty of people use Walmart as their drugstore -- but not all the drugs being sold there are found in the pharmacy department.
A janitor found a "shake and bake" methamphetamine lab in the women's restroom at a Walmart store in Boaz, Ala. The custodial worker discovered a Nestle water bottle and five empty packets of pseudoephedrine -- the makings of the psychostimulant drug also known as "the poor man's cocaine" -- in a bathroom stall.
Curiously, the pseudoephedrine wasn't a brand sold at Walmart, so the chemists couldn't have gotten it in house. But apparently, they thought Walmart would make a good meth den.
At a Walmart in Lexington, N.C., a man loaded his cart with $476 worth of merchandise that included a vacuum cleaner and a microwave oven. He then tried to pay at the register with a fake $1 million bill, insisting to the cashier that it was real. (The largest U.S. bill in circulation is $100 -- not even close.)
Store staff called the police, and the man was charged with two felonies: attempting to obtain property under false pretenses, and presenting a phony document as a legitimate form of payment.
A shopper looking for a new wallet at a Walmart store in Falmouth, Mass., discovered 10 human teeth in the zipper compartment of the billfold he was about to buy. One of the adult teeth had a filling, according to police. Save for its toothy contents, the wallet appeared new, complete with merchandise tags.
In one of the more creative attempts at shoplifting, an 18-year-old man outfitted in a cow suit swiped 26 gallons of milk from a Walmart in Garrisonville, Va. The man was seen crawling as he exited the store in an effort to emulate an ambling bovine.
The cow impersonator was at least generous with his dairy loot: Witnesses told the sheriff's deputies that he was handing out the stolen milk jugs to passersby outside the store. Law enforcement officials later caught the milk thief at a nearby McDonald's.
A man was glued to his seat -- literary, in the men's bathroom at a Walmart store in Elkton, Md. In what appeared to be an April Fool's prank that went way too far, the 48-year-old victim got stuck to a toilet seat smeared with glue and couldn't get up.
The man called for help and emergency workers tried in vain to unstick the man. Eventually, they gave up and unbolted the seat from the toilet, then took the man to the hospital with it still attached to him. There, the seat was removed from his ... er, seat. The man was said to have suffered only minor injuries to his derriere.
To conclude with an episode that is equal parts strange and sweet, Wayne and Susan Brandenburg first met at a Walmart in Brunswick County, North Carolina, when Susan was a cashier and Wayne was a shopper.
Love blossomed, and when the time came to tie the knot, the couple opted to exchange their wedding vows where their courtship began. In front of family and friends, the Brandenburgs said 'I do,' in the layaway section.
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text: richard November 17, 2011 8:21 PM rob. i agree that vergne is highly impressive and deserves a seat, i have been wondering about the timing. then i remembered, there are NO regs concerning these tests, so cars can run without rev limiters and other mods are also allowed. i mean, look at birds times in the merc. he could replace nico or schumi! there is also the state of the track, temperatures etc to be taken into account. so maybe we should be a little cautious about the times. Reply Report abuse 2 agree 1 disagree


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Paris (AFP) Nov 30, 2009
For decades, debate over whether to limit global population growth was stifled or ignored, branded as immoral and a return to heartless Malthusian logic.
But the potential impact on climate change of a planet teaming with up to ten billion souls has again forced the issue into the open ahead of the December 7-18 UN climate conference in Copenhagen.
In a sign of change, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) has declared that braking the rise in Earth's population would be a major contribution to fighting greenhouse gases.
"Slower population growth... would help build social resilience to climate change's impacts and would contribute to a reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions in the future," the agency said in report in November.
If, by 2050, Earth's population stood at eight billion rather than nine billion, that would save between one and two gigatonnes of carbon per year, buying precious time for cleaner technology and other policies, its report said.
That figure is comparable to savings in emissions by 2050 if all new buildings were constructed to the highest energy-efficiency standards and if two million one-gigawatt wind turbines were built to replace today's coal-fired power plants.
The 104-page document is the first by a UN agency to address the climate-population link so explicitly.
It highlights the option of a gentle, voluntary decline in population expansion, thanks to access to contraception and empowerment of women.
In a slew of papers published in September by Britain's Royal Society, University of California scientist Malcolm Potts pointed at the impact of an expected population rise in the United States, from 300 million today to between 450 million and 500 million in 2050.
"Every unintended birth prevented in the US will permit the rest of the world to breathe a little easier," said Potts.
The United States is not only the world's No. 2 polluter in volume terms, it is the seventh highest in per-capita terms: around 23 tonnes of carbon per head per year, or roughly 10 times that of the world's poorest countries.
In the emerging giant economies, a challenging picture emerges, say experts.
China's one-child policy, for instance, has purportedly averted 300 million births. But it also provided a huge spur to the economy, which in turn generated greenhouse-gas emissions, helping to make China the world's No. 1 carbon culprit.
In the world's poorest countries, where 99 percent of the growth of the world's population will occur over the next four decades, reduced fertility would be a boon for adaptation.
It would mean fewer demands on the environment and fewer people exposed to water stress, floods, poor harvests, bad storms and loss of their homes.
"How Niger is going to feed a population growing from 11 million today to 50 million in 2050 in a semi-arid country which may be facing climate change is unclear," Lord Adair Turner, a British businessman and academic, observed crisply.
Some experts say the population debate has been sidelined thanks to natalists in rich countries, who argue vociferously that growing populations are an asset.
These voices also maintain that plunging fertility is a risk, exposing a country to a pensions time bomb as a smaller workforce struggles to fund a growing population of greyheads.
Yet population policies also carry the taint of Thomas Malthus, whose dire 18th predictions of hunger, disease and death through overpopulation fell apart when mechanised farming and the "Green Revolution" fed the swelling billions.
More recently, cases of forced sterilisation in India in the 1970s and controversy over China's one-child policy helped to make population a no-go area for some.
"Very few people can even discuss" population curbs, said Bob Engelman, vice president for programmes at the Worldwatch Institute, who lead-authored the UNFPA report.
"They don't believe it arrives at a reduction of population growth through humane, rights-based methods -- through men's and women's intentions to have fewer babies," he told AFP.
In the UN climate talks, 37 developing countries have already included population issues in national plans for addressing global warming, while the European Union (EU) has suggested factoring in "population trends" in efforts to tackle emissions.
Will population policies one day become a climate-change bargaining chip?
That possibility seems remote, although Engelman believes that eventually the world cannot escape the core issue of carbon justice -- how many tonnes of CO2 should be emitted per head of population.
"In Copenhagen, most people will be saying, 'please, it's going to be hard enough to do anything at all right now, the last thing you want to do is bring up an issue as controversial as population'," he said.
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Eurogamer: Is Kinect too expensive?
Peter Moore: We're about to find out. Microsoft is obviously incredibly bullish. But I hear in the UK in particular the pre-orders are strong. The entire industry, ourselves included, are looking forward to a strong launch from both them and Sony. But the consumer is in the driving seat on this one so we'll wait and see.
Eurogamer: When we ran the story saying Kinect will cost �130 in the UK, there were quite a few negative comments from gamers saying it was too expensive. I wonder, though, how casual gamers will feel about the price.
Peter Moore: You could argue that they're even less likely to pay that kind of money - the more casual people just don't see the benefit. Like I said, we're about to find out. We're only a couple of months away from launch. So from the point of view of the consumer, they're going to determine whether it's too expensive or not.
Eurogamer: Are you happy with the commercial success of the last Tiger Woods game?
Peter Moore: Commercially, the numbers speak for themselves. It's not where we'd want to be on a year on year basis. It's been disappointing, in particular on the Wii. There's no hiding, because the results are there. The Wii has been a disappointment.
It was a difficult year because we had the Wii MotionPlus bundle the previous year. That was a tremendous platform for us to sell on. We had strong advertising, strong support from Nintendo, both Nintendo of Europe and Nintendo of America. Consequently we always knew [this] was going to be a difficult year.
I will say this: we're continuing to focus on the Ryder Cup being a boost for us, and then Tiger on Move becomes a good opportunity for us to get on a new platform launch. You're going to see Tiger well represented as part of the Move launch from our point of view.
Remember, Andrew Wilson from my team was on stage at the Sony press conference at E3. They chose that as the game they thought showed off Move best. We'll get a boost this September. Ryder Cup is in October. We have the Ryder Cup licence. We have online teamplay built into the game, but Ryder Cup hasn't started yet. Whenever it's in Europe it's a big boost for us because it's a popular tournament over here.
So, it's a little early, but the early numbers are disappointing.
Eurogamer: What about from a quality perspective?
Peter Moore: When you look at Metacritic we're down a point or two, but I don't think there's been a drastic drop. Anything over 80... Particularly something like golf where there are no monster changes, there are no player trades, no new uniforms. We've built upon feature upon feature upon feature.
The other thing we've done, which people forget, is launch Tiger Woods Online. So while we're looking for console business and saying, boy, I wish we'd sold more, we've stretched our reach into other areas. Tiger Woods Online is a long play into bringing in new golf consumers in a different way. And that of course is not recorded from a sales perspective.
So yes, disappointed with the early going. It's a long road. Tiger as a game always has a long tail. We've got some heat coming up with the launch of Move, the Ryder Cup in October, and then Christmas is always strong for golf. Probably come January we'll look at the situation again.
Eurogamer: Some analysts suggest the situation with Tiger's private life has impacted sales.
Peter Moore: Yeah, it's a consumer call. I'm sure it probably has something to do with it, but there are a lot of elements. That's a consumer call we have no control over.
We've been clear on our positioning. We stand by Tiger as a golfer. He's still the number one golfer in the world. I don't think there's much doubt he'll get picked for the Ryder Cup - that would be a big disappointment for people in Europe. Tiger not playing well is not good for golf. It's as simple as that.
We've been consistent in standing by him, continuing to do so, and look forward to the day when he gets back to the form that won him 14 Majors and 71 PGA Tour events. You don't suddenly lose it. Of course, he's got a little bit of a challenge going on in his private life. We wish him all the best with it.


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When I first saw this card, I figured that Paul Casanova couldn't really be a catcher. First, he looks so lean and athletic, more like a fleet-footed outfielder than a muscular or overweight catcher. Though it's impossible to tell how fast a runner is from a still photograph, it looks like Casanova knows what he is doing in running the bases. With his fists clenched and his arms extended, Casanova appears to have excellent form. As he's rounding the third base bag, notice how his left leg is touching the inside corner of the bag while his right leg is about to step above and beyond the bag. That's textbook baserunning on how to cut the third base bag as you're making a mad dash toward home plate.
Technique aside, this Topps card is one of the most beautiful of the 1973 set. It's a wonderful action shot of a baserunner who appears to be giving maximum effort. Without any hint of blurring, which is sometimes a problem with the '73 action shots, Casanova's full body is located squarely within the picture frame. Finally, there's a nice contrast between the Braves' bold blue jersey and the green artificial turf behind Casanova. There's some mystery, too, involving the location of the picture. Based on the road blue, we know that it's an away game for the Braves, but I can't tell if it's Candlestick Park or Veterans Stadium or some other National League location.
Paul Casanova presented me with other challenges, too. While growing up in 1973, I had no idea that Casanova was Latino, and not an African-American. More specifically, he hailed from Colon, Cuba. The name, Paul Casanova, just didn't give away his background. A check of his biography showed his full name to be Paulino, which would have given me a better clue.
Additionally, I never would have guessed that Casanova played in the Negro Leagues. He was born in 1943, only four years before the birth of Jackie Robinson, but Casanova did play in what amounted to the remnants of the Negro Leagues. He was a standout for the old Indianapolis Clowns, one of the last all-black teams that remained standing.
The Indians scouted Casanova while he played semi-pro ball in Cuba. Coming away impressed with his commanding presence, the Indians offered him a free agent contract in 1960. But he would never see the light of day in Cleveland. For the most part, he served as a bullpen catcher, coming to bat only six times for their low-level affiliate in the Northern League before drawing his release. The Indians decided to give him a second chance after the season, signing him in December after scouting him in winter ball. But they released him the following April, this time without giving him a single minor league at-bat. The Indians simply didn't think he would ever hit.
With no other teams calling, Casanova decided to spend the summer of 1961 playing for the Clowns, an independent all-black team that barnstormed across the country. Life was hardly glamorous with the Clowns, whose players often slept on the bus and sometimes had to endure tripleheaders. During one tripleheader, Casanova went 5-for-5, with one of the hits coming against the legendary Satchel Paige. Casanova's play with the Clowns caught the attention of the Cubs, who agreed to pick up half of his salary and eventually signed him to a contract in late September.
The Cubs brought him to their minor league camp in 1962 and assigned him to their affiliate in the Texas League. He played in two games, accruing one at-bat, and then the Cubs released him. So after a grand total of seven minor league plate appearances, Casanova had already been cut loose three times.
Barely 20 years of age, Casanova now faced an early crossroads in his career. For a spell, he decided to give up the game and pursue a career in construction. But the Washington Senators, through the efforts of scout John Caruso, showed interest. Caruso told him to stick with baseball. Come October, Caruso and the Senators offered him a minor league deal. "He never saw me hit," Casanova told Bob Addie of The Sporting News. "All he wanted to do was see me throw. The following spring, the Senators assigned him to Geneva of the NY-Penn League.
Given his first dose of real playing time in Organized Ball in 1963, Casanova hit a respectable .261 with seven home runs in a league known for its pitching. The Senators decided to keep him at Geneva in 1964 and watched him dominate the league. He hit .325 with 19 home runs and a .508 slugging percentage. He was now on his way.
Casanova's strong performance at Geneva earned him a bump up to Burlington in 1965. Taking on the role of a workhorse, he played in 142 games, hit .287, and ripped eight home runs.
The 1965 edition of the Senators badly needed help at catcher, where Mike Brumley had hit a measly .208 with a .280 on-base percentage. So when Casanova's minor league season ended, the Senators called him up to Washington for a late-season audition. In making his major league debut, Casanova became the second-to-last Negro Leaguer to advance to a big league roster. (Only Ike Brown, the future Tiger utilityman, would debut later than Casanova.) In a five-game trial, Casanova received 14 plate appearances and responded with a .308 batting average. It was the smallest of sample sizes, but it gave the Senators hope for the future.
Just to be conservative, the Senators put Casanova at Double-A York of the Eastern League to start the 1966 season. Casanova hit only .211 in a handful of appearances, but the Senators experienced a flood of injuries, affecting their catching situation. Dissatisfied with Brumley, they farmed him out and made the call to Casanova, who suddenly became their starting catcher. In his first major league game, he hit an eighth-inning home run, which also happened to break up a no-hit bid by Fred Talbot.
The rookie receiver responded by hitting .254 with 13 home runs while playing fine defense, highlighted by a 46 per cent success rate in throwing out opposing basestealers. Those attributes counterbalanced his free-swinging ways, which resulted in only 14 walks on the season.
Defensively, Casanova made a unique impression. He was built different than most catchers, tall and rangy, at six feet, four inches, and 190 pounds. When opposing batters bunted against him, he reacted with catlike quickness, pouncing on the ball before firing a bullet to first base. Combining quick footwork with a cannonlike throwing arm, Casanova offered a package of talents that was difficult to find in a catcher.
Although Casanova finished behind a pair of Red Sox, George Scott and Joe Foy, in Rookie of the Year voting, Senators skipper Gil Hodges cast his vote for his own catcher. "I wouldn't trade 'Cazzie' for Scott or Foy either," Hodges emphatically told Bob Addie. "This boy could be a really great catcher. He has done a remarkable job for his first year in the big leagues."
As an organization, the Senators saw enough in Casanova to consider him their catcher for the foreseeable future. A fast start to the 1967 season earned him some notoriety, as did the events of a June 12th game against the White Sox. Casanova played all 22 innings behind the plate, throwing out three basestealers, and then capped off the performance with a game-winning hit. It was his only hit in nine at-bats that night, but it ended the longest night game in American League history.
"No kidding, I'm not tired," Casanova told UPI after 22-inning game. "I could have gone another 10 innings." Simply put, he loved to play.
Casanova's catching and hitting earned him a place as a backup on the American League All-Star team, though he did not appear in the actual game. Even more significantly, he would receive some support for league MVP that October, with the writers putting him 21st in the balloting. If not for a second-half tail off, he would have finished significantly higher in the election.
The Senators loved Casanova's on-field enthusiasm, which made him a fun player during a conservative era. They appreciated his hustle and exuberance, the way that he ran out to his position at the start of each inning. They also enjoyed the ritual of each at-bat. Instead of walking up to the plate, he practically ran toward the batter's box. He then took two all-out practice swings, settled into a deep crouch, and planned to swing at anything close.
Washington's brass adored his spectacular defense, in particular a powerful throwing arm that allowed him to throw out 49 per cent of runners. The Senators also liked his power potential (nine home runs). Conversely, the lack of plate discipline became a concern. In 141 games, he drew only 17 walks. That's why his on-base percentage rested at .273 by season's end. If anything, he swung more wildly in 1967 than he had as a rookie.
Casanova's absence of patience hurt him more badly in 1968. He began the season in a deep slump. By the end of June, his batting average stood at an intolerable .181. Even within the context of a 1968 season that saw pitchers at a major advantage over hitters, the Senators needed more offense from their catcher. So they sent Casanova to Triple-A Buffalo in the hopes that he would regain his stroke and his confidence.
During a nearly month-long stint in the International League, Casanova hit .273 with a couple of home runs. They were not great numbers, but they were sufficient to merit a recall in late July. He regained his starting catching job and hit a little better over the second half, lifting his final average to .196. But the overall numbers remained putrid. A .210 on-base percentage, fueled by only seven walks, and a .252 slugging percentage simply could not be glossed over. Even his defense suffered, as he threw out only 38 per cent of baserunners, a figure that was barely above league average.
By 1968, Casanova had also developed a reputation as someone who enjoyed the night life a bit too much. He stayed out late at nightclubs, drinking the dancing the night away while missing curfew. The habit drew several fines from manager Jim Lemon.
Despite his struggles, the Senators did not give up on Casanova, who would lead American League catchers in double plays on three occasions. He retained his starting job in 1969, while being exposed to a new manager in Ted Williams. On the plus side, Casanova drew a career-high in walks. On the negative side, the total was only 18, just one better than his previous high. He batted a mere .216 and reached base only 25 per cent of the time. On a team where most of the hitters showed significant improvement under the tutelage of Williams, Casanova mostly maintained the status quo.
As his batting woes continued, Casanova began to lose playing time, first to veteran John Roseboro in 1970 and then to young Jim French in 1971. The ongoing struggles would prevent Casanova from making the switch from Washington to Texas, as the Senators prepared to execute a franchise switch and become the Rangers.
Fast approaching his 30th birthday, Casanova was headed out of town. At the famed 1971 winter meetings, the Rangers traded him to the Braves for fellow catcher Hal King, a far better hitter than Casanova.
The Braves already had a strong hitting catcher in Earl Williams, the 1971 National League Rookie of the Year. They wanted (and needed) a strong backup, a defensive catcher who could tutor Williams. Casanova filled the role perfectly. He hit only .209 in 49 games, but the Braves didn't care about that. When he played, he served as a deterrent to opposing baserunners. They attempted only 18 steals and were thrown out eight times. A 44 per cent success rate for Casanova proved that his throwing remained top-notch.
After the 1972 season, the Braves decided to trade the defensively-challenged Williams, sending him to Baltimore in a blockbuster trade. That decision opened some playing time for Casanova in 1973; he became the right-handed half of a platoon with young Johnny Oates. The additional playing time exposed Casanova, whose defensive play, including his throwing, slipped from his 1972 performance. But he did become involved in a history-making moment that summer. On August 5, Casanova caught Phil Niekro's no-hitter against the Padres. Niekro threw knuckleballs almost exclusively that day, but Casanova handled all of them without incident.
As Casanova prepared for the 1974 season, he became involved in a venture in Venezuela, his home during the winter. Along with the White Sox' Pat Kelly and his NFL brother Leroy Kelly, Cazzie opened up a nightclub. It was the perfect business venture for the man who liked to party.
With his outgoing personality, Casanova became connected to the most famous player on the Braves. He and Hank Aaron emerged as friends. Like Casanova, Aaron had also played in the Negro Leagues with the Clowns, albeit at a much earlier time. Sharing a common bond, the two men became the closest of friends.
As Aaron tied and then broke Babe Ruth's home run record, Casanova watched with special interest. Shortly after hitting his 715th home run, Aaron came to the plate and hit No. 716. Stationed in the Braves' bullpen, Casanova caught the home run ball and then gave it to Aaron.
Casanova spent a lot of his time in the bullpen that summer, as the Braves reduced him to the role of a No. 3 catcher and defensive caddy. Oates now shared playing time with Vic Correll, who had been acquired from the Red Sox. Limited to 104 at-bats in 42 games, Casanova batted .202. He played well defensively while tutoring the younger Oates and Correll.
The Braves brought the 32-year-old Casanova to spring training in 1975, but Aaron was now gone, having been dispatched to Milwaukee. Casanova faced an uphill battle in trying to make the team, in part because the Braves liked one of their young catchers, 21-year-old Biff Pocoroba. The last straw came late in the spring, when Casanova injured his elbow. On March 28, with just a few days remaining in spring training, the Braves released the ailing Casanova.
The late release hurt Casanova's hopes of catching on with another club, given that most teams were looking to cut down their rosters rather than add veterans at the last minute. The elbow injury also curtailed his greatest strength as a player. No one expressed interest in Casanova, forcing him to call it quits after 10 years in the big leagues. And with the release of Casanova, only one ex-Negro Leaguer, a fellow named Hank Aaron, remained in the major leagues.
Long retired from the big leagues, Casanova just turned 72. Most would consider that retirement age, but not him. Ever smiling, he continues to work with youngsters at a baseball academy that he and two fellow Negro Leagues alumni opened in Florida. The academy is affectionately called "Paul's Backyard." It exists as a safe haven where Casanova instructs youngsters on how to play the game properly.
I imagine Paul also tells kids how to cut the bag the right way, just like he did on his 1973 Topps card.


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U.S. Immigration and Customs EnforcementAn ICE Special Response Team trains at Fort Benning, Ga.
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ICE employees have accidentally or intentionally fired their guns or been involved in an operation where there was gunfire nearly 150 times from fiscal year 2004 through the first quarter of fiscal year 2011, according to records obtained by California Watch through the federal Freedom of Information Act.
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In one case, an immigration agent accidentally shot his wife while firing at a practice range. A special agent in Puerto Rico shot himself in the right foot. Another ICE employee accidentally discharged a handgun while in a hotel before attending a firearms instructor course at Fort Benning, Ga.
The shooting of two agents last month in the ICE offices in Long Beach, however, was not an accident. Ezequiel Garcia shot Kevin Kozak, ICE's second in command in the Los Angeles area, six times. The two men had gotten in an argument over Garcia's request for an internal transfer, which had been denied. Garcia was killed when another agent responded and struggled for the gun.
The shooting came a year after gunmen ambushed ICE agents on assignment in Mexico, killing one agent, Jaime Zapata, and wounding another. While the use of force is common in law enforcement, the workplace shooting was a first for the agency.
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Few if any recent studies are available that examine the use of force by federal agencies, making comparisons difficult. The International Association of Chiefs of Police tracked such data a decade ago, but ran out of funding for the program, which then was dropped.
The agency's Freedom of Information officers provided overall shooting numbers for years 2004 through early 2011, but provided detailed records only from 2006 on.
Based on records that began in 2006, Texas had the highest number of shootings, followed by California and Florida. Animals are also a frequent target, often shot after threatening officers. Of 53 intentional shootings between 2006 and 2011, 21 involved an animal.
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The New England Patriots continue to add to the 23 roster transactions they have made since cutdown day. It appears that the Patriots hadn't cleaned out RB Leon Washington's locker for a reason, as the team has announced that they have re-signed Washington. They have also moved OL Josh Kline from the practice squad to the 53-man roster as OL Will Svitek is out of Sunday's game against the Buffalo Bills due to a knee injury.
To make the moves work, they also announced that they have waived DL A.J. Francis and signed OL Braxston Cave to the practice squad.
Washington has had quite the week as he has been cut by the Patriots, worked out for the New York Jets and then signed by the Patriots today. Washington will not see any action from the running back position as Steven Ridley and Shane Vereen will garner most of the workload in Sunday's game against the Bills. However, Washington will likely be relegated to PR/KR duties as the he has eight kickoff return touchdowns in his career, tied for most all-time with Josh Cribbs.
Kline was signed on September 4 after being released on September 2. He has been on the practice squad throughout the whole week. Cave was claimed off waivers from the Cleveland Browns before being released on September 5.
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Feel the force: The top gay Star Wars moments
Announcement of new Star Wars sequels has GSN searching a galaxy far, far away for a glimmer of LGBT pride
So far the 'force' has not been with Star Wars fans after hearing the surprise news that Disney plans to make three new sequels to the iconic space saga.
George Lucas's last prequel Revenge of the Sith seemed to kill off whatever enthusiasm was left for the much-loved franchise and the prospect of another tedious swish of the light saber makes you want to turn to the dark side.
However, it may not be all bad news. After all, with Lucas Arts now in the hands of Mickey Mouse and co, the big boss is highly unlikely to have much input into the new films.
That means whoever takes the helm of the Millennium Falcon next could be free to steer it in a fresh direction, opening up the possibly of introducing some much needed gayness to the galaxy far, far away.
While Luke Skywalker's coming out story is unlikely, the inclusion of an LGBT Ewok or two is not beyond the realms of possibility.
Besides, there's enough material in the originals to get your gaydar blinking on red alert.
GSN reads between the lines to dig out Star Wars' gayest moments:
1) C-3PO and R2-D2
The droid duo's romance was surely written in the stars. From the moment their LED eye sockets first met on dusty Tatooine in The Phantom Menace, you knew it was the beginning of a beautiful bromance. Threepio is WALL-E to R2's EVE and when the cameras weren't rolling, you can bet your rusty plug socket there was a sand dune with their name on it.
2) C-3PO – a gay man trapped inside a robot's body?
For a lowly protocol droid, Threepio is pretty damn fabulous. From his bling gold suit to his camp intonation, the robot is fierce with a capital 'F'. Even with his dismembered torso strapped to the back of a Wookie in Empire Strikes Back he pulls off huffy diva better than most drag queens.
3) Han Solo and Chewbacca
Beauty and the Beast meets Howard the Duck, never has there been a homoerotic bestiality love affair so hot and yet, so wrong. From cuddles to tears in Empire when Han looks on as Chewbacca is tortured by stormtroopers, love is in the air and it smells like Wookie. And who didn't want to see hottie Harrison lock furry rubber lips with Chewie after Solo is defrosted from carbonite at the beginning of Return of the Jedi? Only Jabba knows the truth.
4) Jar Jar Binks
Loathed by Star Wars purists, but loved by kids who frankly don't know better, this goofy alien from the planet Naboo is camper than a row of tents. Many people mistook his clumsiness in the prequels for a vain attempt at slapstick, but something tells me there was a Vogue shape in there somewhere. Nuff said.
5) Light sabers
Stylish, bright and phallic, the light saber is the gay weapon of choice. Only Harry Potter's swish and flick wand manoeuvre is more suggestive. And doesn't Luke look stunning in that sweeping black Jedi cowl with matching boots in Episode VI? The intergalactic fashion police approved.
6) Princess Amidala/Padme
She may have been as stiff as a board, but Natalie Portman's turn as Darth Vadar's squeeze made all the boys jealous with her flamboyant dress sense and drag queen make-up. 'I will not condone a course of action that will lead us to war,' she bemoans in The Phantom Menace before mouthing Gloria Gaynor's disco classic I Will Survive.
7) Gay gaming – a new hope?
The films may not yet have introduced an LGBT character but the makers of the sci-fi fantasy's games have. Star Wars: The Old Republic, a online role-playing game developed by Bioware, came under fire from Christian traditionalists for its plans to include a gay storyline. In January 2012 the developers announced they are launching a same-sex romance component to satisfy some complaints. So, is this a new hope or nothing more than a phantom menace? Disney, we wait with bated breath.
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Greek Cypriot families wandered anxiously through the narrow and dingy streets in the north of the divided city.
All of a sudden, the impossible was happening.
On the first day that travel restrictions between the two sides of the island were eased, several hundred Greek and Turkish Cypriots had their first chance since 1974 to visit each other's half of Cyprus.
It all came about in a matter of hours - after a surprise announcement by Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash that he was amending travel rules, provided that Cypriots from both communities returned home the same day.
While the change was not accompanied by anything dramatic like the destruction of the Berlin wall, it was, nevertheless, an emotional day.
"For nearly 29 years I have been wanting to go through this gate," said one Turkish Cypriot mother with her family waiting on the northern side of the line in central Nicosia, "and now I am free to do so."
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"I feel like I am living a dream," said another.
Greek Cypriots were equally incredulous. "I can't believe what I am seeing," said Andreas a taxi driver.
For Turkish Cypriots, the prospect of being able to cross into the much more affluent south opens up major possibilities.
Kemal, who raced towards the Greek Cypriot checkpoint, said his aim was to get a Republic of Cyprus passport so that he could travel to Europe and get a job.
The republic has been admitted into the EU, but membership rights do not apply to the Turkish-occupied northern part of the island.
For many Greek Cypriots, travelling to the north will mean an emotional return to towns and villages abandoned nearly 30 years ago.
"I am from Famagusta, and today I am going to visit my town, my country," said Paschalis Nicolaou, a 51-year-old customs officer, his eyes brimming with tears.
The question being asked on both sides of the UN line is why Mr Denktash, who for decades has discouraged contact between the two communities, has changed his mind.
Over recent months there have been large anti-government demonstrations in northern Nicosia.
No matter how important the latest developments are, Cypriots from both communities question their long-term significance.
For the political issues dividing the two sides are as intractable as ever.
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"In the past we couldn't even talk to each other, and now we will have the chance to do that."


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The Federation of the Green Parties of the Americas is the organization of Green parties in North America and South America. The Federation is one of four of its kind around the world; three other federations exist on other continents. The principal office of the organization is located in Mexico City. The presidency of the organization consists of three Co-Presidents, namely Julia Willebrand (United States of America), Jorge González Torres (Mexico) and Marco Antonio Mroz (Brazil).
In North America, Green parties are organized at the state or province level; in South America, they are organized by country. Many Greens focus on grassroots activism rather than state and national politics; "Think globally, act locally" is a common slogan among Greens. This organization is also especially concerned with the kidnapping case of Ingrid Betancourt.
Member parties[edit]
- Brazil: Partido Verde do Brasil
- Canada: Green Party of Canada
- Chile: Partido Ecologista
- Colombia: Colombian Green Party
- Dominican Republic: Partido Verde Dominicano
- Mexico: Partido Verde Ecologista de México
- Nicaragua: Partido Verde Ecologista de Nicaragua
- Peru: Partido Ecologista Alternativa Verde del Peru
- United States: Green Party of the United States
- Uruguay: Partido del Sol
- Venezuela: Movimiento Ecológico de Venezuela
See also[edit]
- Federation of Green Parties of Africa
- Asia-Pacific Green Network
- European Green Party
- Global Greens
- List of green political parties
- Worldwide green parties
External links[edit]
- Federation of Green Parties of The Americas - Official site. Retrieved August 14, 2016.
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Rocsi was born in Honduras. Having moved to New Orleans with her family when she was young, the bi-lingual television host claims the Bayou State as home. Immersed in the eclectic culture, Rocsi became well versed in many genres of music, but hip hop was always her main ingredient. "Hip hop is in my blood; it's programmed into my DNA," she says. After graduating from college, she deejayed her way into the tough Texas and Boston radio markets, before making her home at Chicago's Power 92 FM.
During her successful run in Chicago, she auditioned for Black Entertainment Television (BET)'s New Faces Search and was selected as an on-air host, beating out more than 5,000 other competitors in the process.
Since 2006, Rocsi has co-anchored (along with Terrence J), 106 & Park, BET network's flagship show. Seen in 85 million households across the globe including Japan and Africa; the show is one of television's most influential programs with the ability to open a film, or make an album reach #1. Diaz also continues to nourish her love for radio as the host of BET's nationally syndicated radio program 106 & Park Weekend Countdown.
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Roz Savage Is Rowing Solo Across The Pacific Ocean
Roz Savage not only has the best name in the world. This 33-year-old chickadee is also a bad-ass rower. After being bored to tears at an office job, she decided to leave it all behind in 2000, and head out on a mission to row across the Atlantic Ocean. Now that she's completed that, she is on a voyage to become the first woman to cross the Pacific Ocean solo. She's been on her journey for 99 days now, and is writing blog posts as she makes pit stops at RozSavage.com. (That's her passing Diamond Head in Honolulu, Hawaii, above.) Other than that, it's just her, the seagulls, and her oars.
Roz's mission has got me thinking—if you left your job and, uh, money weren't an issue, what would you do? I think I'd start a gourmet ice cream cart in Central Park.


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Danish magazine Se Og Hor has published bottomless photos of Kate Middleton, toweling off and wearing a bikini top on a balcony/porch beside Prince William. I'm assuming these pics were taken at the same time as the topless photos, when she and William were vacationing in the South of France — meaning they assumed they had some motherfucking privacy.
The grainy paparazzi pictures — which we aren't posting or linking to — are now blasting around the Internet and making me feel icky (especially because you can't even really see anything other than the fact Kate's bikini bottom has been removed).
Seriously, this shit needs to stop. Being a famous person in the public eye does not mean it's acceptable to publish surreptiously-snapped photos of her private parts, especially given how the couple has made efforts to keep aspects of their private life private. The lurid fascination with women's private parts, from paparazzi pics like these to upskirt pics by creeps with cell phones out in public, has got to stop. It's not your body to do what you want with. It's not being put on display for you or anyone else. Allow women to have some personal dignity. </rant over>
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LDL Receptor
PDB file 1N7D
This file depicts the extracellular domain of the human LDL receptor. Structure solved by G. Rudenko, L. Henry, K. Henderson, K. Ichtchenko, M. S. Brown, J. L. Goldstein & J. Deisenhofer in 2002.
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Look for the b-propeller structure.
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You can ignore the ligands designated KEG, which are phosphotungstate complexes.
Examine the nature of the sugar chains on this glycoprotein. Compare to diagram of a typical N-linked oligosaccharide chain above.
Question: To what type of amino acid side chain is each sugar chain linked?
The LDL apoprotein B100 is bound by a series of cysteine-rich repeats, that are
stabilized by disulfide bridges. Each repeat includes a binding site for calcium.
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Also use the command line to select calcium; then display as spacefill with color CPK.
Note the positions of the domains with disulfide linkages.
Identify acidic residues that serve as ligands to the bound Ca++ ions.
In this sample crystallized at acidic pH (as in an endosome) two of the
cysteine-rich repeats, designated R4 (127-163)
and R5 (176-210) make contact with the
b-propeller. It is postulated that this interaction,
favored at acidic pH, causes the receptor to release bound LDL.
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Find the two His residues in the b-propeller
and one pointing at the b-propeller from R5 that are
thought to form salt bridges that would titrate as pH changes from the
extracellular space to the more acidic endosomal lumen.
(The pKa of the His side-chain is such that it would have a + charge
within the endosome.)
At the more neutral pH of the extracellular space, R4 & R5 domains have a lowered affinity for the b propeller domain.
Question: What might be the conformation of the string of cysteine-rich domains if not bound by the b-propeller?
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In the second part of the paper, we formally prove that there are very sharp limits on the usability of PUFs for OT and KE {\\em beyond} the above stand-alone, good PUF scenario. We introduce two new and realistic attack models, the so-called posterior access model (PAM) and the bad PUF model, and prove several impossibility results in
these models. First, OT and KE protocols whose security is solely based on PUFs are generally impossible in the PAM. More precisely, one-time access of an adversary to the PUF after the end of a single protocol (sub-)session makes all previous (sub-)sessions provably insecure. Second, OT whose security is solely based on PUFs is
impossible in the bad PUF model, even if only a stand alone execution of the protocol is considered (i.e., even if no adversarial PUF access after the protocol is allowed). Our impossibility proofs do not only hold for the weak PUF definition of the first part of the paper, but even apply if ideal randomness and unpredictability is assumed in the PUF, i.e., if the PUF is modeled as a random permutation oracle.
In the third part, we investigate the feasibility of PUF-based bit commitment beyond the stand-alone, good PUF setting. For a number of reasons, this case is more complicated than OT and KE. We first prove that BC is impossible in the bad PUF model if players have got access to the PUF between the commit and the reveal phase. Again, this result holds even if the PUF is \"ideal\" and modeled as a random permutation oracle. Secondly, we sketch (without proof) two new BC-protocols, which can deal with bad PUFs or with adversarial access between the commit and reveal phase, but not with both.
We hope that our results can contribute to a clarification of the usability of PUFs in cryptographic protocols. They show that new hardware properties such as offline certifiability and the erasure of PUF responses would be required in order to make PUFs a broadly applicable cryptographic tool. These features have not yet been realized in practical PUF-implementations and generally seem hard to achieve at low costs. Our findings also show that the question how PUFs can be modeled comprehensively in a UC-setting must be considered at least partly open.
the view of any (perhaps cheating) efficient verifier can be
efficiently simulated up to small statistical distance. Kilian, Petrank, and Tardos (STOC \'97)
constructed ZK-PCPs for all languages in $\\NEXP$. Ishai, Mahmoody,
and Sahai (TCC \'12), motivated by cryptographic applications,
revisited the possibility of \\emph{efficient} ZK-PCPs for all $L \\in
\\NP$ where the PCP is encoded as a polynomial-size circuit that
given a query $i$ returns the $i\\th$ symbol of the PCP.
Ishai \\etal showed that there is no efficient ZK-PCP for $\\NP$ with
a \\emph{non-adaptive} verifier, who prepares all of its PCP queries
before seeing any answers, unless $\\NP \\se \\coAM$ and
polynomial-time hierarchy collapses. The question of whether
\\emph{adaptive} verification can lead to efficient ZK-PCPs for $\\NP$
remained open.
In this work, we resolve this question and show that any language or
promise problem with efficient ZK-PCPs must be in $\\SZK$ (the class
of promise problems with a statistical zero-knowledge \\emph{single
prover} proof system). Therefore, no $\\NP$-complete problem can
have an efficient ZK-PCP unless $\\NP \\se \\SZK$ (which also implies
$\\NP \\se \\coAM$ and the polynomial-time hierarchy collapses).
We prove our result by reducing any promise problem with an efficient
ZK-PCP to two instances of the $\\CEA$ problem defined and studied by
Vadhan (FOCS\'04) which is known to be complete for the class $\\SZK$.
linear equations, which have been perturbed by a small amount of
noise, from truly uniform ones. The problem has been shown to be as
hard as worst-case lattice problems, and in recent years it has served
as the foundation for a plethora of cryptographic applications.
Unfortunately, these applications are rather inefficient due to an
inherent quadratic overhead in the use of LWE. A main open question
was whether LWE and its applications could be made truly efficient by
exploiting extra algebraic structure, as was done for lattice-based
hash functions (and related primitives).
We resolve this question in the affirmative by introducing an
algebraic variant of LWE called \\emph{ring-LWE}, and proving that it
too enjoys very strong hardness guarantees. Specifically, we show
that the ring-LWE distribution is pseudorandom, assuming that
worst-case problems on ideal lattices are hard for polynomial-time
quantum algorithms. Applications include the first truly practical
lattice-based public-key cryptosystem with an efficient security
reduction; moreover, many of the other applications of LWE can be made
much more efficient through the use of ring-LWE.
receiver $\\cal R$ through $N$ node disjoint bidirectional paths in the network, $t$ of
which are controlled by an adversary with \\textit{unlimited computational power}.
$\\cal{S}$ wants to send a message $m$ to $\\cal{R}$ in a \\textit{reliable} and \\textit{private} way. It is proved that SMT is possible if and only if $N\\ge2t+1$. In Reliable Message Transmission (RMT) problem, the network setting is the same and the goal is to provide reliability for communication, only.
In this paper we focus on 1-round $\\delta$-RMT and $(0,\\delta)$-SMT where the chance of protocol failure (receiver cannot decode the sent message) is at most $\\delta$, and in the case of SMT, privacy is perfect.
We propose a new approach to the construction of 1-round $\\delta$-RMT and (0, $\\delta$)-SMT for all connectivities $N \\ge 2t+1$, using list decodable codes and message authentication codes. Our concrete constructions use folded Reed-Solomon codes and multireceiver message authentication codes. The protocols have optimal transmission rates and provide the highest reliability among all known comparable protocols. Important advantages of these constructions are, (i) they can be adapted to all connectivities, and (ii) have simple and direct security (privacy and reliability) proofs using properties of the underlying codes, and $\\delta$ can be calculated from parameters of the underlying codes.
We discuss our results in relation to previous work in this area and propose directions for future research.
In this paper, we present the first cryptanalytic result on the full version of this cipher using two pairs of related keys. We discover that the differential sequences for the last invocation of the round function can be computed by running the full cipher, due to which the search space for the key can be reduced. Base upon this observation, we propose a probabilistic attack encompassing two phases, preparation phase and key recovery phase. The preparation phase, requiring $2^{80}$ effort in time, aims to reach an internal state, with $0.5$ success probability, that satisfies particular conditions. In the key recovery phase, by attacking the last invocation of the round function of the encryption (decryption resp.) using the proposed differential sequence analysis (DSA), we are able to recover $36$ bits (another $44$ bits resp.) of the $128$-bit key. In addition, the rest $48$ bits of the key can be exhaustively searched and the overall time complexity of the key recovery phase is $2^{49.63}$.
Note that the proposed attack, though exhibiting an interesting tradeoff between the success probability and time complexity, is only of a theoretical interest at the moment and does not affect the security of the Hummingbird-2 in practice.
(Eurocrypt 2010), has been steadily finding many uses in numerous
cryptographic applications. Still, the Ring-LWE problem defined
in [LPR10] involves the
fractional ideal $R^\\vee$, the dual of the ring $R$, which is the
source of many theoretical and implementation technicalities. Until
now, getting rid of $R^\\vee$, required some relatively complex
transformation that substantially increase the magnitude of the
error polynomial and the practical complexity to sample it.
It is only for rings $R=\\Z[X]/(X^n+1)$ where $n$ a power of
$2$, that this transformation is simple and benign.
In this work we show that by applying a different, and much simpler
transformation, one can transfer the results from [LPR10] into an ``easy-to-use\'\' Ring-LWE setting ({\\em i.e.} without the dual ring $R^\\vee$), with only a very
slight increase in the magnitude of the noise coefficients.
Additionally, we show that creating the correct noise distribution
can also be simplified by generating a Gaussian distribution over a
particular extension ring of $R$, and then performing a reduction
modulo $f(X)$. In essence, our results show that one does not need
to resort to using any algebraic structure that is more complicated
than polynomial rings in order to fully utilize the hardness of the
Ring-LWE problem as a building block for cryptographic applications.
curve as with Boneh and Franklin. More, our scheme is basing in its study of simulation in the problem 4-EBDHP which is more efficient than q-BDHIP used by Skai Kasarah. We provide the prove of security of our scheme and we show its efficiency by comparison with the scheme declared
above. Even if it we have a little cost in complexity, but as in the field cryptography we are more interested to the security, this makes our proposition more efficient.


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How times have changed from the days when Microsoft was feared by all within the technology industry. Over the years it has tried desperately to recreate its desktop monopoly in the mobile market, only to to be stopped at every turn by Android and iOS. PC World reports that Android and iOS both increased market share in the second quarter while Microsoft's Windows Phone has declined.
According to PC World:
According to IDC, the total combined market share of Android and iOS swelled to 96.4 percent during the second quarter, up from 92.6 percent a year ago. That left just 2.5 percent of the market to Windows Phone, down from 3.4 percent in a year's time.
Unfortunately for Microsoft's Windows Phone, Apple's iOS devices dominated the high end of the market, while Android—with 84.7-percent global share in smartphone operating systems—tended to dominate the low-end, sub-$200 market. That left precious little room for Windows Phone, even though recent efforts to lower the platform's licensing costs should have helped propel it in the market.More at PC World
I think it's time for Microsoft to face an unpleasant reality. Almost nobody wants Windows Phone; its situation in the marketplace just seems to go from bad to worse. Windows Phone seems to have become a perpetual and ignored also-ran that has been blown off the map by Android and iOS.
One has to wonder how much money Microsoft has spent trying to attain market share for Windows Phone. However much it was, it's clear that it wasn't money well spent. I wonder what Microsoft could have done with all of that money if it had put it somewhere besides a fruitless attempt to chase Google and Apple in mobile devices?
At this point I just don't see Microsoft ever being able to salvage Windows Phone. It is past time for the company to consider abandoning mobile devices altogether and begin putting its resources into other products where it still has a fighting chance. But I don't think Microsoft is ready to accept this yet, so we're most likely in for at least a few more years of watching the market share of Windows Phone dwindle away to nothing.
LEGO's FUSION apps for Android
Android Police takes a look at LEGO's neat FUSION apps for Android that combine real world physical blocks with a virtual game.
According to Android Police:
With its new FUSION line of products, children (both young and old) can take physical blocks and create things that come to life inside of a tablet or certain phones. To launch the brand, LEGO has dropped three apps into the Play Store. I don't know about you, but six-year-old me really, really, wants to play with these.
The core functionality behind each app is the same. Players build structures using the blocks that come within each specific LEGO FUSION set, then they take a picture using their mobile device to replicate it on-screen. The starter sets provide enough diversity to appeal to a broad range of people.More at Android Police


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Martin Brodeur stopped a 2-on-0 breakaway along with 35 shots and Ilya Kovalchuk and captain Zach Parise scored in the first two rounds of the shootout as the New Jersey Devils recorded a 2-1 victory over the visiting Columbus Blue Jackets on Wednesday.
Dainius Zubrus had a goal in his third straight game as New Jersey won for the seventh time in its last 10 games - despite taking only three shots in the third period.
Jared Boll's redirection of Marc Methot's blast from the point at 6:01 of the third tied the game for Columbus (5-13-3), which has the NHL's worst record. The Blue Jackets saw their first two-game winning streak since February come to an end.
The Blue Jackets peppered Brodeur with 17 shots in the third period.
Brodeur's best play of the game didn't result in a save when he foiled a 2-on-0 breakaway by poke-checking Rick Nash's pass to Vinny Prospal on the doorstep early in the second period.
Moments later, Zubrus banged home a rebound of Adam Larsson's shot from the point for his seventh goal at 4:09 of the second.
Patrik Elias also had an assist and has a point in four straight games, 11 of his last 12 and 17 of 20 games this season. The Devils have earned at least a point in all eight games against the Blue Jackets (6-0-1 with a tie).
Curtis Sanford made 23 saves and fell to 2-0-2 after his fourth straight start.