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Mayor Dawn Zimmer supported by the Hoboken City Council deserve kudos for diplomatically getting Hoboken out of inclusion in a very troubling state legislative bill that permits development on existing piers in high hazard areas located in the Special Urban Areas of the state (Briefs 6/29/2013). Good for Hoboken but what about the other 7 communities along the Hudson waterfront and those special urban areas along the shore? Due to Hoboken's action, the bill was amended so that, if adopted as law, other municipal councils could pass legislation to opt out of it. What a waste of legislative work, time and expense to keep this disastrous bill in play! The better action right now is to contact Governor Christie and urge him to veto this bill.
A3933-S2680, according to one of its main sponsors, was intended to help a "handful" of developers who have plans "ready-to-go" on "5 or 6 "piers in these special areas but who now cannot apply for a permit to build due to the designation by FEMA and the state of these waterfronts as super high risk areas known as V Zones. The senator asks for "fairness" for these developers even though these V Zones are in the 100 year flood plain and subject to high velocity wave action of 3 feet or more. Along the Hudson during Sandy, waves rose 4 to 5 feet in most places and even up to 14 feet. Most of us saw the damage done to piers and the Hudson River Walkway. Haven't we learned anything from Sandy? Riva Point, a condo complex built on a pier in Weehawken, was so swamped during Sandy it became an island so that a heart attack victim could only be rescued by quick thinking police who found a pontoon boat to take the victim to the hospital (the patient survived).
Oddly enough, the bill does not mention anything about the 5 or 6 piers or the handful of developers or the need for fairness. There seemed to be no understanding by the members of an Assembly committee that held a hearing on the bill that they were aware of any of this, even that such piers would never be eligible for FEMA flood insurance. Hoboken Assemblyman Ruben Ramos is a member of that committee and was the only one to vote no. Thank you, Assemblyman. The term "existing pier" is not defined in the bill so could someone decide that the stubs of pilings that at one time supported an entire pier constitute an existing pier, or an old map that shows a pier now long gone? This bill is an invitation to place thousands of possible residents in harm's way.
Please join us in urging the Governor to veto Bill S2680-A3933, a faulty and dangerous bill. Go to
www.state.nj.us/governor/contact or phone (609) 292-6001.
Please help stop this from becoming law.
Helen Manogue, President
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States is proposing an urgent mediation mission to help resolve Ukraine's crisis.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power told reporters Friday that the United States wants mediators who will be "seen as independent, credible."
She suggested U.N. official Robert Serry could be part of the mission. Serry was the Netherlands' first ambassador to Ukraine.
She also said that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe had experts who would be seen as credible.
British U.N. Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant later said that such a mediation mission would not require the blessing of the U.N. Security Council. Russia has a council veto and could block action there.
Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said he opposed "imposed mediation."

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Wisconsin DNR launches new fishing app
Wisconsin DNR launches new fishing app
WEST ALLIS, Wis. —
Wisconsin's hook-and-line fishing season starts Saturday.
Wisconsin's hook-and-line fishing season starts Saturday.
Bait shops will be busy, but the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources hopes the iTunes App Store and Google Play will be just as busy.
VIDEO: Hook and line fishing starts this weekend
Sue Beyler with the DNR said a new app is available to help as outdoor enthusiasts hit the streams and lakes.
"It has everything," she said of the "WI Fish & Wildlife Guide" app. "It has everything to help you identify the fish you caught. It can even tell you where you are."
The app is available for iOS and Android devices. It can ben found by searching "Wisconsin Pocket Ranger" in the App Store for Apple products, or in Google Play for Android devices.


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Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit, abridge, or in any way hinder the religious freedom of any person or group. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, in order to protect freedom of religion, ritual slaughter and the handling or other preparation of livestock for ritual slaughter are exempted from the terms of this chapter. For the purposes of this section the term "ritual slaughter" means slaughter in accordance with section 1902(b) of this title.
(Pub. L. 85–765, § 6, Aug. 27, 1958, 72 Stat. 864.)
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CINCINNATI (AP) — Slot machines were clanging and bets were flying for the first time Wednesday as the last of Ohio's four voter-approved casinos began trying to clear a final major hurdle before being allowed to open to the public.
Up to 15,000 invited guests planned to attend an eight-hour dry run of the $400 million Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati on Wednesday. The event is closed to the public and media.
Agents with the Ohio Casino Control Commission will be watching every aspect of the casino's operations during that time and well into Thursday morning, when workers still will be counting the money brought in.
"Slots, table games, the work in the cashier cage, the counting room, the main bank — we're looking at all these sensitive areas to make sure they're complying with the rules and regulations," said Matt Schuler, executive director of the commission. "All aspects of the casino's operations are important to us."
Any major operational problems, such as being unable to accurately count the money, could delay Monday's opening of the casino.
No problems delayed the opening of Ohio's three other casinos beginning in May in Cleveland and Toledo; Columbus' casino opened in October.
If Cincinnati's casino opens on time, that will mean the state's four casinos will have opened in a 10-month period following voter approval in 2009. Voters approved the casinos after a statewide legalization campaign touted the immediate boost the casinos would give to Ohio's economy and despite strong disapproval from anti-gambling groups and others.
The state collects 33 percent in taxes from the casinos, which is distributed to Ohio's schools, counties and cities.
Since they opened, the casinos in Toledo, Cleveland and Columbus have earned just under $404 million through the end of January, generating about $133 million in taxes. Once all four are up and running, their yearly revenues are expected to be just under $1 billion.
Members of the media got a first look at the two-story, 400,000-square-foot casino on Tuesday, when workers were busy making last-minute preparations.
The facility includes 2,000 slot machines, 87 table games, a buffet, a VIP players' lounge with limits as high as $50,000 a hand, a World Series of Poker room, and three outward-facing restaurants, including singer Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville and Bobby's Burger Palace by celebrity chef Bobby Flay.
Flay is expected to attend Monday's opening.
The casino was built from the ground up in just over two years on what used to be a bedraggled parking lot in the city's downtown.
Profits from Wednesday's dry run will be given to charity.
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There were 33 Winnebago County and 106 city of Rockford government employees that earned more than $100,000 last year.
There were 33 Winnebago County and 106 city of Rockford government employees that earned more than $100,000 last year.
In Sunday's Register Star we published THIS STORY about the 6,215 Illinois employees who earned more than $100,000 in 2012. That's 8 percent of the state's workforce. This week, I've been posting tidbits on my blog that I came across while researching Sunday's story.
There were 1,821 people that earned a paycheck from Winnebago County last year, from six-figure earners to those that made just $60 during temporary employment, according to records provided by the county. That means less than 2 percent of those that earned a paycheck in 2012 received more than $100,000.
There were 1,226 people that earned a paycheck from Rockford in 2012, again from six-figure earners down to those that earned a few hundred bucks for temporary work. That's about 8.5 percent of all people who earned any paycheck from the city in 2012 who got more than $100,000.
The top paid employee of Winnebago County was Winnebago County State's Attorney Joe Bruscato, who made $165,870. Public Defender Karen Sorensen was the second-highest paid county employee with a $149,282 salary.
The top paid city employee was police Sgt. Eddie Torrance at $148,293. Police investigator James Joyes is the second-highest earner at $145,742. Three police employees earned more than Rockford Police Chief Chet Epperson's $132,640 salary in 2012. In each case it was because they earned tens of thousands of dollars for overtime work. Six employees of the Winnebago County Sheriff's Department earned more than their boss Sheriff Dick Meyers, whose salary was $114,757 in 2012.


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MULBERRY | Nearly blinded by smoke, with his helmet and radio knocked off, Polk County firefighter and paramedic Jordan Caldwell backed up slowly early Friday morning, dragging an injured woman and hoping the door to the burning home was behind him.
MULBERRY | Nearly blinded by smoke, with his helmet and radio knocked off, Polk County firefighter and paramedic Jordan Caldwell backed up slowly early Friday morning, dragging an injured woman and hoping the door to the burning home was behind him.
Minutes earlier, Caldwell had been on his way to another call at 2:21 a.m. and saw the report of a fire in Mulberry pop up on the screen inside his ambulance.
Caldwell, 25, was close and began driving toward the home at 330 Diesel Road before he was dispatched, he said. "We had a good jump on everyone. The fire trucks were still a few minutes out."
He was there in three minutes, according to county records.
Dispatchers were able to talk to the woman, whose name was not released, but the call got disconnected.
"My house is on fire," the woman said to a 911 dispatcher, coughing and struggling to talk. "Help! My house is on fire."
At one point the call disconnected. When the dispatcher called back, she told the woman to get out of the home.
"I can't," the woman said coughing more. "I can't move."
When Caldwell got there, neighbors were yelling that a woman was inside the single-family wood-frame home, he said. While Caldwell prepared his bunker gear, his partner Glenn Harshbarger assessed the situation.
On the radio, Caldwell said he got the order by his chief: "Go ahead and make a rescue."
At that point, he said, his training kicked in.
"Everything clicked," he said. "It just happened."
Once inside, he said, it was hard to see. It wasn't like a typical fire.
"Usually you see an orange glow," Caldwell said. "I didn't see anything. The smoke was so thick. I could maybe see one or two feet in front of me."
Caldwell stuck close to the ground, crawling; 10, 12, 15 feet inside the home, he said.
He found the woman. She seemed lifeless.
When Caldwell touched her, she began to fight, he said. "She was out of it. She was probably disoriented. I think it's like that last rush of energy that something could happen."
The woman knocked away his helmet and radio, leaving him with no way to communicate with other firefighters outside.
"I didn't want to get turned around," Caldwell said. "I knew the door was 10 steps or so behind me, so I just started backing up."
Smoke had forced the door closed, but he was able to find his way out, finally making it out on the front lawn.
But his job wasn't over. He's also a paramedic.
"Bam! I took my gear off and switched roles," he said. "I did triage on the front lawn and got her medication while we waited for the Aeromed" helicopter ambulance.
The woman, who was the only occupant in the home, did not appear to have any burn injuries but was flown as a precaution to Tampa General Hospital, Polk County Fire spokesman Brad Ruhmann said. Her updated condition was not known Friday.
The home sustained water and smoke damage, and two dogs died in the blaze, Ruhmann said. The State Fire Marshall's Office is investigating the cause of the fire.
Caldwell was hired by Polk County as an EMT in 2008 and received his fire standards in 2009, according to county records.
After the rescue, it took Caldwell about an hour to regain his focus and to calm his nerves.
Outside, he was congratulated and told by those with much more experience that rescues like that are rare and probably won't happen again during his career.
"My adrenaline was through the roof," he said. "It's a night I'll never forget."


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Customers Will Benefit from First Fully Integrated Insurance Suite Managing Strategy, Finance and Operations Powered by Leading-Edge In-Memory and Mobile Technologies
WALLDORF, Germany — SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced plans to acquire Camilion, a leading provider of insurance product development, product life-cycle and underwriting solutions that help insurance companies significantly improve the quality of the business they write and bring new products to market faster.
The transaction will broaden the SAP® solution portfolio in the insurance space, providing insurers with powerful software tools to streamline the management and creation of new products. It also will give insurance brokers and underwriters — those who deal directly with customers — simple, modern tools that speed up transactions. Together, these components could help insurers grow their businesses and reduce costs.
Many insurers today struggle with outdated core insurance systems that are not agile enough to meet rapidly changing consumer needs and the latest technology trends. Insurers seek to modernize these core systems in order to increase the quality of their business and deliver new products to the market more quickly. At the same time, they need software tools that provide instant analysis and simulation across huge volumes of data — all while protecting the value of past IT investments.
The move adds significant value to the integrated SAP® for Insurance solution portfolio and prominently positions SAP in the rapidly emerging market for integrated core insurance platforms, the industry's first "Super Suite." Traditional solution suites for the insurance industry have been limited to policy, billing and claims. SAP, together with Camilion, plans to provide an integrated yet modular end-to-end insurance offering: the SAP® Business All-in-One solution for Insurance. This will include comprehensive integrated capabilities from strategy through finance to operations powered by leading-edge in-memory and mobile technologies, available both in the cloud or on premise.
"With this acquisition, SAP is able to meet the needs of insurers that face a challenging new business environment and that need to make significant product and strategy changes quickly at low risk," said Simon Paris, global head of Financial Services, SAP. "Camilion brings deep expertise and trusted relationships in the new age of insurance applications, well recognized by customers and analysts."
"We are convinced this is a 'win-win-win," said Ross Orrett, president and CEO, Camilion. "It's a win for SAP and Camilion, for our joint customers and for an industry that is modernizing at a staggering pace. We intend to deliver best-in-class products and services from a combined team with unmatched depth in the insurance industry."
Global Underwriting
Leading insurers use Camilion's capabilities to perform sophisticated underwriting of some of the most complex global risks. These capabilities integrate seamlessly with back-end systems to support the entire product life cycle, including the development of new business across the world.
Product Development and Management
Camilion's ProductAuthority® helps customers manage everything about insurance products into re-usable components that can be rapidly adapted to form new products or enhancements. Camilion and SAP have uniquely built their respective solutions from the ground up to externalize product information and agnostically integrate with any core system.
Full Solution for ISO
Camilion helps insurers address the requirements of the Insurance Services Office (ISO) and state policies and regulations in the U.S. Using an advanced automated process for importing and testing content, Camilion builds complete, functional insurance product definitions as interpreted by ISO. The combination of Camilion and SAP solutions will provide a complete platform for insurers with operations in the U.S.
Mobile and "Big Data"
Camilion intends to expand its mobility capabilities for quoting and underwriting, which is critical as brokers and underwriters increasingly work remotely and rely on the latest applications on iPad, iPhone and other mobile devices. One Camilion customer already has more than 10,000 brokers using this capability.
About Camilion
Camilion was founded in 2001 and is an innovative software company that leading insurers use to gain enterprise-wide agility with their products and underwriting. It is privately held, with offices in Canada and the United States. SAP and Camilion have collaborated since 2008.
For more information, visit the SAP Newsroom.
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Several outlets, starting with TSN.ca, have reported that Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara is scheduled to speak with the NHL over the phone about his hit on Montreal's Max Pacioretty last night.
Bruins' Chara, NHL set for noontime phone call to discuss hit on Pacioretty
Several outlets, starting with TSN.ca, have reported that Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara is scheduled to speak with the NHL over the phone about his hit on Montreal's Max Pacioretty last night.
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Sry my english not perfect im not sure about what ur talking about…
Eric { 03.09.11 at 2:10 pm } While it does look much worse in slow mo, Chara still knew where he was and what he was doing, he's a veteran. And he knows perfectly weel what he's capable of with his size.
He should be out for as long as pacioretty. It's his reckless, idiotic mistake that did this to Max and he should suffer AT LEAST the same punishment in terms of missed games if not a class actions lawsuit. If Max's career is over, so should Chara's.
.108 Dar { 03.09.11 at 2:20 pm } This will be difficult to overcome, Brian Savage suffered a broken vertebra in his neck on November 27th, 1999: after a vicious open ice check from Ian Laperriere.
.109 Subban { 03.09.11 at 2:40 pm } Thx ERIC i hpe ur a bruis fan?
Ive seen a picture that ive been takin exactely when the contact whit the pole is made,the arm/and of zdeno still touchins is helmet closed to the pole
1-16second to go he dump the puck 3-second b4
2-Its been 2 game hes lookin gfor a revenge on Max
3-He didnt really did a good hit bu make sure to finish hit but pushing his head whit is elbow arm
4-He never turn iself to see what he did becuz he already knew what he did and pay the innocent card
Thats the 4main reason why i really thing is guilty and beside max for Chara,im sure Lucic and a majority of dirty player on NHL would have not finish it like he did
.110 Eric { 03.09.11 at 2:51 pm } No I'm a Montreal fan, but I would say the same thing if a MTL player did that to Chara or any Bruins player, I want to see that kind of play and any player stooping low enough to do it out of the NHL.
First of all, Mara, how did you even see that fitting to post on a public forum? Do you proofread? Have you heard of it?
Yuck! Habs fans in the soup.
Hes intemp of injury is not on the hit,is becuz after he push his face whit is elbow and then keep hus face inside the bench whit is arm
Chara not a player that injury other player but hes always trying to hurt smaller player and everything im sure hes intention was there but he didnt know it was to going that far
Sure and i agree but becuz the criconstance and player ,Zdeno keep is armat the angle of the post…He didnt have the puc kand 16sec left, Boston would never change to be aggressive adn everything but i hope hit like that would stop…
U love when lucic running afte Pouliot at the end?Mara should to the same to marchand krejci or sgeuin then
One more time in English please?
as for the hit, it was a clean hit, no way Chara was going out of his way to injure paccioretty.
he will get suspended for sure, but it will more than likely be due to the severity of the injury.
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Rounding the top of the players benches to prevent rib and other injuries. Making the transfer area to the partition softer and more absorbant. These two things could prevent injuries without changing the game. The bench area has always been a hazzard and will continue to be. Open doors and a high traffic area. I can't really make a call on the incident because I don't know the intent. The analysts I've heard seem to think it was a hockey play gone bad. I'm glad I don't have to make the decision to be honest. I only wish we could have a Bruins/Habs game without all the crap and name calling.
He didnt give a hit a good hit he push hin whit is elbow then whit is hand arm make sur is face didnt pass betweenhim and the glass….Hes not a player know to do this and only been suspend one but this was clearly is intention and hes know ,like all bruins team, like to choice is opponent ,smaller one and fight whit glove,elbow and know parts of the rink 😛
Lucic is invisible when laraque moen mara is there but know is trying to fight whit pouliot!Last game its was ur fighter last second in the game thats assault and trying ot fight max ;)Sure the history between max and zdeno should count in the suspension cuz its clearly a revenge hit and he never turn back after the hit becuz he know what he did and play the innocence card
I can't take credit for this but it says it all.
Strong Chara + Clean Hit + Bad Stancion Design = NHL should suspend itself for never fixing this glaring rink hazard.


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Daniel Paille played on the Bruins' third line when he returned from a concussion, but despite scoring a goal in Game 2 against the Canadiens, he has since returned to the fourth line – and he doesn't mind at all.
For almost any other player on almost any other team, this would be considered a demotion, and therefore a disappointment.
For Daniel Paille, it's more like a homecoming.
The Bruins' 30-year-old left wing, who missed the first round of the playoffs with what was believed to be a concussion, played Games 1-3 of their Round 2 series against the Canadiens on the third line, in place of injured Chris Kelly. Returns were pretty good: Paille scored a goal in Game 3, which the B's rallied to win, 5-3.
But after losing Game 3 to fall behind in the series, 2-1, the Bruins made a switch. Matt Fraser, a natural goal-scorer, was called up from AHL Providence and played on the third line in Game 4, and Paille returned to where he has spent most of his time since midway through the 201-11 season – left wing on the fourth, aka "Merlot Line," with center Gregory Campbell and right wing Shawn Thornton.
Disappointed, Dan?
"Right now, or even when it happened, no, not really," Paille said. "It's all about playing for the team, and I think right now we're a better team (when we) roll four lines."
That had sometimes been difficult during Games 1-3 against the Habs, in large part because the Bruins trailed so often. The B's staged comebacks each time, but the Paille-Carl Soderberg-Loui Eriksson trio didn't contribute, despite extensive time in Habs territory. (Paille's Game 2 goal gave the B's a 1-0 lead.) The reconfigured Merlot Line, with either Justin Florek (Game 1) or Jordan Caron (Games 2-3) in Paille's usual spot, wasn't productive, either.
"There's no doubt, when (Paille) is on that line, they are a better line," Julien said of the "classic" version of the Merlot trio. "They've been together forever, so there is obviously chemistry there. There's better knowledge of each other, so that's certainly a plus."
Because of injuries to Kelly, and then Paille, it had been close to a month since the B's returned to the Paille-Campbell-Thornton line in Game 4. They weren't quite in synch, but expected that to be the case very soon.
"We've been playing together for so many years, it should just become second nature at this point," Paille said. "When you go back to your original line, you always believe you can go right back together. That wasn't the case (in Game 4), but I think we're ready to go now, for sure."
Paille will stay ready to move up the depth chart if need be, but he'll never be unhappy if he stays where he is.
"I'm good with where I play," he said. "(It's) part of my role … to be ready when called upon to play on higher lines, but I also know I'm a fourth-line player on this team, and I'm not going to change that."
Whatever works: Caron, who played in the entire five-game series against the Red Wings, plus Games 2-3 against the Habs, was left with slightly mixed emotions about being cycled back out of the lineup by Fraser's call-up.
"Obviously, I was disappointed not playing. I wanted to play," said Caron, who scored his first career playoff goal in Game 3 at Detroit. "But we want to move on, like everyone else. The farther we go in the playoffs, the more chances I might get to play.
"I want to win; I want to win the Stanley Cup. Whatever it takes."
Caron, 23, had only played two NHL playoff games before this season, his fourth as a pro. He's now up to nine and hopes to tack on more, but he thinks what he has already done this post-season represents a step forward in his career.
"It tells me I can play in the playoffs," Caron said. "It tells me I've done a good job staying ready, staying sharp, and that I can play with anybody."
Around the boards: As was the case before Game 4, when Soderberg was the lone forward to skip the morning skate, there was only one absentee on Saturday morning – Milan Lucic. … Caron was joined as a healthy scratch by defenseman Andrei Meszaros. … The Habs scratched Daniel Briere, who has 113 points in 116 career playoff games, for the first time this post-season. Brandon Prust replaced Briere.


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Chapter XXIV
On the twentieth of the month, finding it altogether impossible to subsist any longer upon the filberts, the use of which occasioned us the most excruciating torment, we resolved to make a desperate attempt at descending the southern declivity of the hill. The face of the precipice was here of the softest species of soapstone, although nearly perpendicular throughout its whole extent (a depth of a hundred and fifty feet at the least), and in many places even overarching. After long search we discovered a narrow ledge about twenty feet below the brink of the gulf; upon this Peters contrived to leap, with what assistance I could render him by means of our pocket-handkerchiefs tied together. With somewhat more difficulty I also got down; and we then saw the possibility of descending the whole way by the process in which we had clambered up from the chasm when we had been buried by the fall of the hill- that is, by cutting steps in the face of the soapstone with our knives. The extreme hazard of the attempt can scarcely be conceived; but, as there was no other resource, we determined to undertake it.
Upon the ledge where we stood there grew some filbert bushes; and to one of these we made fast an end of our rope of handkerchiefs. The other end being tied round Peters' waist, I lowered him down over the edge of the precipice until the handkerchiefs were stretched tight. He now proceeded to dig a deep hole in the soapstone (as far in as eight or ten inches), sloping away the rock above to the height of a foot, or thereabout, so as to allow of his driving, with the butt of a pistol, a tolerably strong peg into the levelled surface. I then drew him up for about four feet when he made a hole similar to the one below, driving in a peg as before and having thus a resting place for both feet and hands. I now unfastened the handkerchiefs from the bush, throwing him the end, which he tied to the peg in the uppermost hole, letting himself down gently to a station about three feet lower than he had yet been- that is, to the full extent of the handkerchiefs. Here he dug another hole, and drove another peg. He then drew himself up, so as to rest his feet in the hole just cut, taking hold with his hands upon the peg in the one above. It was now necessary to untie the handkerchiefs from the topmost peg, with the view of fastening them to the second; and here he found that an error had been committed in cutting the holes at so great a distance apart. However, after one or two unsuccessful and dangerous attempts at reaching the knot (having to hold on with his left hand while he laboured to undo the fastening with his right), he at length cut the string, leaving six inches of it affixed to the peg. Tying the handkerchiefs now to the second peg, he descended to a station below the third, taking care not to go too far down. By these means (means which I should never have conceived of myself, and for which we were indebted altogether to Peters' ingenuity and resolution) my companion finally succeeded, with the occasional aid of projections in the cliff, in reaching the bottom without accident.
It was some time before I could summon sufficient resolution to follow him; but I did at length attempt it. Peters had taken off his shirt before descending, and this, with my own, formed the rope necessary for the adventure. After throwing down the musket found in the chasm, I fastened this rope to the bushes, and let myself down rapidly, striving, by the vigour of my movements, to banish the trepidation which I could overcome in no other manner. This answered sufficiently well for the first four or five steps; but presently I found my imagination growing terribly excited by thoughts of the vast depths yet to be descended, and the precarious nature of the pegs and soapstone holes which were my only support. It was in vain I endeavoured to banish these reflections, and to keep my eyes steadily bent upon the flat surface of the cliff before me. The more earnestly I struggled not to think, the more intensely vivid became my conceptions, and the more horribly distinct. At length arrived that crisis of fancy, so fearful in all similar cases, the crisis in which we begin to anticipate the feelings with which we shall fall- to picture to ourselves the sickness, and dizziness, and the last struggle, and the half swoon, and the final bitterness of the rushing and headlong descent. And now I found these fancies creating their own realities, and all imagined horrors crowding upon me in fact. I felt my knees strike violently together, while my fingers were gradually but certainly relaxing their grasp. There was a ringing in my ears, and I said, "This is my knell of death!" And now I was consumed with the irrepressible desire of looking below. I could not, I would not, confine my glances to the cliff; and, with a wild, indefinable emotion, half of horror, half of a relieved oppression, I threw my vision far down into the abyss. For one moment my fingers clutched convulsively upon their hold, while, with the movement, the faintest possible idea of ultimate escape wandered, like a shadow, through my mind- in the next my whole soul was pervaded with a longing to fall; a desire, a yearning, a passion utterly uncontrollable. I let go at once my grasp upon the and, turning half round from the precipice, remained tottering for an instant against its naked face. But now there came a spinning of the brain; a shrill-sounding and phantom voice screamed within my ears; a dusky, fiendish, and filmy figure stood immediately beneath me; and, sighing, I sunk down with a bursting heart, and plunged within its arms.
I had swooned, and Peters had caught me as I fell. He had observed my proceedings from his station at the bottom of the cliff; and perceiving my imminent danger, had endeavoured to inspire me with courage by every suggestion he could devise; although my confusion of mind had been so great as to prevent my hearing what he said, or being conscious that he had even spoken to me at all. At length, seeing me totter, he hastened to ascend to my rescue, and arrived just in time for my preservation. Had I fallen with my full weight, the rope of linen would inevitably have snapped, and I should have been precipitated into the abyss; as it was, he contrived to let me down gently, so as to remain suspended without danger until animation returned. This was in about fifteen minutes. On recovery, my trepidation had entirely vanished; I felt a new being, and, with some little further aid from my companion, reached the bottom also in safety.
We now found ourselves not far from the ravine which had proved the tomb of our friends, and to the southward of the spot where the hill had fallen. The place was one of singular wildness, and its aspect brought to my mind the descriptions given by travellers of those dreary regions marking the site of degraded Babylon. Not to speak of the ruins of the disrupted cliff, which formed a chaotic barrier in the vista to the northward, the surface of the ground in every other direction was strewn with huge tumuli, apparently the wreck of some gigantic structures of art; although, in detail, no semblance of art could be detected. Scoria were abundant, and large shapeless blocks of the black granite, intermingled with others of marl [The marl was also black; indeed, we noticed no light-coloured substances of any kind upon the island. (Poe's note.)], and both granulated with metal. Of vegetation there were no traces whatsoever throughout the whole of the desolate area within sight. Several immense scorpions were seen, and various reptiles not elsewhere to be found in the high latitudes.
As food was our most immediate object, we resolved to make our way to the seacoast, distant not more than half a mile, with a view of catching turtle, several of which we had observed from our place of concealment on the hill. We had proceeded some hundred yards, threading our route cautiously between the huge rocks and tumuli, when, upon turning a corner, five savages sprung upon us from a small cavern, felling Peters to the ground with a blow from a club. As he fell the whole party rushed upon him to secure their victim, leaving me time to recover from my astonishment. I still had the musket, but the barrel had received so much injury in being thrown from the precipice that I cast it aside as useless, preferring to trust my pistols, which had been carefully preserved in order. With these I advanced upon the assailants, firing one after the other in quick succession. Two savages fell, and one, who was in the act of thrusting a spear into Peters, sprung to his feet without accomplishing his purpose. My companion being thus released, we had no further difficulty. He had his pistols also, but prudently declined using them, confiding in his great personal strength, which far exceeded that of any person I have ever known. Seizing a club from one of the savages who had fallen, he dashed out the brains of the three who remained, killing each instantaneously with a single blow of the weapon, and leaving us completely masters of the field.
So rapidly had these events passed, that we could scarcely believe in their reality, and were standing over the bodies of the dead in a species of stupid contemplation, when we were brought to recollection by the sound of shouts in the distance. It was clear that the savages had been alarmed by the firing, and that we had little chance of avoiding discovery. To regain the cliff, it would be necessary to proceed in the direction of the shouts; and even should we succeed in arriving at its base, we should never be able to ascend it without being seen. Our situation was one of the greatest peril, and we were hesitating in which path to commence a flight, when one of the savages whom I had shot, and supposed dead, sprang briskly to his feet, and attempted to make his escape. We overtook him, however, before he had advanced many paces, and were about to put him to death, when Peters suggested that we might derive some benefit from forcing him to accompany us in our attempt to escape. We therefore dragged him with us, making him understand that we would shoot him if he offered resistance. In a few minutes he was perfectly submissive, and ran by our sides as we pushed in among the rocks, making for the seashore.
So far, the irregularities of the ground we had been traversing hid the sea, except at intervals, from our sight, and, when we first had it fairly in view, it was perhaps, two hundred yards distant. As we emerged into the open beach we saw, to our great dismay, an immense crowd of the natives pouring from the village, and from all visible quarters of the island, making toward us with gesticulations of extreme fury, and howling like wild beasts. We were upon the point of turning upon our steps, and trying to secure a retreat among the fastnesses of the rougher ground, when I discovered the bows of two canoes projecting from behind a large rock which ran out into the water. Toward these we now ran with all speed, and, reaching them, found them unguarded, and without any other freight than three of the large Gallipago turtles and the usual supply of paddles for sixty rowers. We instantly took possession of one of them, and, forcing our captive on board, pushed out to sea with an the strength we could command.
We had not made, however, more than fifty yards from the shore before we became sufficiently calm to perceive the great oversight of which we had been guilty in leaving the other canoe in the power of the savages, who, by this time, were not more than twice as far from the beach as ourselves, and were rapidly advancing to the pursuit. No time was now to be lost. Our hope was, at best, a forlorn one, but we had none other. It was very doubtful whether, with the utmost exertion, we could get back in time to anticipate them in taking possession of the canoe; but yet there was a chance that we could. We might save ourselves if we succeeded, while not to make the attempt was to resign ourselves to inevitable butchery.
The canoe was modelled with the bow and stern alike, and, in place of turning it round, we merely changed our position in paddling. As soon as the savages perceived this they redoubled their yells, as well as their speed, and approached with inconceivable rapidity. We pulled, however, with all the energy of desperation, and arrived at the contested point before more than one of the natives had attained it. This man paid dearly for his superior agility, Peters shooting him through the head with a pistol as he approached the shore. The foremost among the rest of his party were probably some twenty or thirty paces distant as we seized upon the canoe. We at first endeavoured to pull her into the deep water, beyond the reach of the savages, but, finding her too firmly aground, and there being no time to spare, Peters, with one or two heavy strokes from the butt of the musket, succeeded in dashing out a large portion of the bow and of one side. We then pushed off. Two of the natives by this time had got hold of our boat, obstinately refusing to let go, until we were forced to despatch them with our knives. We were now clear off, and making great way out to sea. The main body of the savages, upon reaching the broken canoe, set up the most tremendous yell of rage and disappointment conceivable. In truth, from every thing I could see of these wretches, they appeared to be the most wicked, hypocritical, vindictive, bloodthirsty, and altogether fiendish race of men upon the face of the globe. It is clear we should have had no mercy had we fallen into their hands. They made a mad attempt at following us in the fractured canoe, but, finding it useless, again vented their rage in a series of hideous vociferations, and rushed up into the hills.
We were thus relieved from immediate danger, but our situation was still sufficiently gloomy. We knew that four canoes of the kind we had were at one time in the possession of the savages, and were not aware of the fact (afterward ascertained from our captive) that two of these had been blown to pieces in the explosion of the Jane Guy. We calculated, therefore, upon being yet pursued, as soon as our enemies could get round to the bay (distant about three miles) where the boats were usually laid up. Fearing this, we made every exertion to leave the island behind us, and went rapidly through the water, forcing the prisoner to take a paddle. In about half an hour, when we had gained, probably, five or six miles to the southward, a large fleet of the flat-bottomed canoes or rafts were seen to emerge from the bay evidently with the design of pursuit. Presently they put back, despairing to overtake us.
Chapter XXV
We now found ourselves in the wide and desolate Antarctic Ocean, in a latitude exceeding eighty-four degrees, in a frail canoe, and with no provision but the three turtles. The long polar winter, too, could not be considered as far distant, and it became necessary that we should deliberate well upon the course to be pursued. There were six or seven islands in sight belonging to the same group, and distant from each other about five or six leagues; but upon neither of these had we any intention to venture. In coming from the northward in the Jane Guy we had been gradually leaving behind us the severest regions of ice- this, however little it may be in accordance with the generally received notions respecting the Antarctic, was a fact experience would not permit us to deny. To attempt, therefore, getting back would be folly- especially at so late a period of the season. Only one course seemed to be left open for hope. We resolved to steer boldly to the southward, where there was at least a probability of discovering lands, and more than a probability of finding a still milder climate.
So far we had found the Antarctic, like the Arctic Ocean, peculiarly free from violent storms or immoderately rough water, but our canoe was, at best, of frail structure, although large, and we set busily to work with a view of rendering her as safe as the limited means in our possession would admit. The body of the boat was of no better material than bark- the bark of a tree unknown. The ribs were of a tough osier, well adapted to the purpose for which it was used. We had fifty feet room from stern to stern, from four to six in breadth, and in depth throughout four feet and a half- the boats thus differing vastly in shape from those of any other inhabitants of the Southern Ocean with whom civilized nations are acquainted. We never did believe them the workmanship of the ignorant islanders who owned them; and some days after this period discovered, by questioning our captive, that they were in fact made by the natives of a group to the southwest of the country where we found them, having fallen accidentally into the hands of our barbarians. What we could do for the security of our boat was very little indeed. Several wide rents were discovered near both ends, and these we contrived to patch up with pieces of woollen jacket. With the help of the superfluous paddles, of which there were a great many, we erected a kind of framework about the bow, so as to break the force of any seas which might threaten to fill us in that quarter. We also set up two paddle blades for masts, placing them opposite each other, one by each gunwale, thus saving the necessity of a yard. To these masts we attached a sail made of our shirts- doing this with some difficulty, as here we could get no assistance from our prisoner whatever, although he had been willing enough to labour in all the other operations. The sight of the linen seemed to affect him in a very singular manner. He could not be prevailed upon to touch it or go near it, shuddering when we attempted to force him, and shrieking out, "Tekeli-li!"
Having completed our arrangements in regard to the security of the canoe, we now set sail to the south southeast for the present, with the view of weathering the most southerly of the group in sight. This being done, we turned the bow full to the southward. The weather could by no means be considered disagreeable. We had a prevailing and very gentle wind from the northward, a smooth sea, and continual daylight. No ice whatever was to be seen; nor did I ever see one particle of this after leaving the parallel of Bennet's Islet. Indeed, the temperature of the water was here far too warm for its existence in any quantity. Having killed the largest of our tortoises, and obtained from him not only food but a copious supply of water, we continued on our course, without any incident of moment, for perhaps seven or eight days, during which period we must have proceeded a vast distance to the southward, as the wind blew constantly with us, and a very strong current set continually in the direction we were pursuing.
March 1.- [For obvious reasons I cannot pretend to strict accuracy in these dates. They are given principally with a view to perspicuity of narration, and as set down in my pencil memorandum. (Poe's note.)] Many unusual phenomena now indicated that we were entering upon a region of novelty and wonder. A high range of light gray vapour appeared constantly in the southern horizon, flaring up occasionally in lofty streaks, now darting from east to west, now from west to east, and again presenting a level and uniform summit- in short, having all the wild variations of the Aurora Borealis. The average height of this vapour, as apparent from our station, was about twenty-five degrees. The temperature of the sea seemed to be increasing momentarily, and there was a very perceptible alteration in its colour.
March 2.- To-day by repeated questioning of our captive, we came to the knowledge of many particulars in regard to the island of the massacre, its inhabitants, and customs- but with these how can I now detain the reader? I may say, however, that we learned there were eight islands in the group- that they were governed by a common king, named Tsalemon or Psalemoun, who resided in one of the smallest of the islands; that the black skins forming the dress of the warriors came from an animal of huge size to be found only in a valley near the court of the king- that the inhabitants of the group fabricated no other boats than the flat-bottomed rafts; the four canoes being all of the kind in their possession, and these having been obtained, by mere accident, from some large island in the southwest- that his own name was Nu-Nu- that he had no knowledge of Bennet's Islet- and that the appellation of the island he had left was Tsalal. The commencement of the words Tsalemon and Tsalal was given with a prolonged hissing sound, which we found it impossible to imitate, even after repeated endeavours, and which was precisely the same with the note of the black bittern we had eaten up on the summit of the hill.
March 3.- The heat of the water was now truly remarkable, and in colour was undergoing a rapid change, being no longer transparent, but of a milky consistency and hue. In our immediate vicinity it was usually smooth, never so rough as to endanger the canoe- but we were frequently surprised at perceiving, to our right and left, at different distances, sudden and extensive agitations of the surface- these, we at length noticed, were always preceded by wild flickerings in the region of vapour to the southward.
March 4.- To-day, with the view of widening our sail, the breeze from the northward dying away perceptibly, I took from my coat-pocket a white handkerchief. Nu-Nu was seated at my elbow, and the linen accidentally flaring in his face, he became violently affected with convulsions. These were succeeded by drowsiness and stupor, and low murmurings of "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!"
March 5.- The wind had entirely ceased, but it was evident that we were still hurrying on to the southward, under the influence of a powerful current. And now, indeed, it would seem reasonable that we should experience some alarm at the turn events were taking- but we felt none. The countenance of Peters indicated nothing of this nature, although it wore at times an expression I could not fathom. The polar winter appeared to be coming on- but coming without its terrors. I felt a numbness of body and mind- a dreaminess of sensation- but this was all.
March 6.- The gray vapour had now arisen many more degrees above the horizon, and was gradually losing its grayness of tint. The heat of the water was extreme, even unpleasant to the touch, and its milky hue was more evident than ever. To-day a violent agitation of the water occurred very close to the canoe. It was attended, as usual, with a wild flaring up of the vapour at its summit, and a momentary division at its base. A fine white powder, resembling ashes- but certainly not such- fell over the canoe and over a large surface of the water, as the flickering died away among the vapour and the commotion subsided in the sea. Nu-Nu now threw himself on his face in the bottom of the boat, and no persuasions could induce him to arise.
March 7.- This day we questioned Nu-Nu concerning the motives of his countrymen in destroying our companions; but he appeared to be too utterly overcome by terror to afford us any rational reply. He still obstinately lay in the bottom of the boat; and, upon reiterating the questions as to the motive, made use only of idiotic gesticulations, such as raising with his forefinger the upper lip, and displaying the teeth which lay beneath it. These were black. We had never before seen the teeth of an inhabitant of Tsalal.
March 8.- To-day there floated by us one of the white animals whose appearance upon the beach at Tsalal had occasioned so wild a commotion among the savages. I would have picked it up, but there came over me a sudden listlessness, and I forbore. The heat of the water still increased, and the hand could no longer be endured within it. Peters spoke little, and I knew not what to think of his apathy. Nu-Nu breathed, and no more.
March 9.- The whole ashy material fell now continually around us, and in vast quantities. The range of vapour to the southward had arisen prodigiously in the horizon, and began to assume more distinctness of form. I can liken it to nothing but a limitless cataract, rolling silently into the sea from some immense and far-distant rampart in the heaven, The gigantic curtain ranged along the whole extent of the southern horizon. It emitted no sound.
March 21.- A sullen darkness now hovered above us- but from out the milky depths of the ocean a luminous glare arose, and stole up along the bulwarks of the boat. We were nearly overwhelmed by the white ashy shower which settled upon us and upon the canoe, but melted into the water as it fell. The summit of the cataract was utterly lost in the dimness and the distance. Yet we were evidently approaching it with a hideous velocity. At intervals there were visible in it wide, yawning, but momentary rents, and from out these rents, within which was a chaos of flitting and indistinct images, there came rushing and mighty, but soundless winds, tearing up the enkindled ocean in their course.
March 22.- The darkness had materially increased, relieved only by the glare of the water thrown back from the white curtain before us. Many gigantic and pallidly white birds flew continuously now from beyond the veil, and their scream was the eternal Tekeli-li! as they retreated from our vision. Hereupon Nu-Nu stirred in the bottom of the boat; but upon touching him, we found his spirit departed. And now we rushed into the embraces of the cataract, where a chasm threw itself open to receive us. But there arose in our pathway a shrouded human figure, very far larger in its proportions than any dweller among men. And the hue of the skin of the figure was of the perfect whiteness of the snow.
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Hello everyone. I was wandering about what system administration tools you people use. Tell me/us about all the important tools that you think are important in order to administrate buisiness computers in or outside of a network. Define every tool, as in why you choose that specific one, and which tools are essential in order to administrate a system/network succesfully.
In my case for my company, my most important tools in order to maintain our system are:
For the *nix boxes and network :
ping - to see if hosts are up and/or lagging
traceroute - to see which ways packets travel in order to reach their destination
ethereal/tcpdump - to see what kind of packets are in transit
rsync/tar - for backups (in my case we have a seperate backup server)
nslookup - to test and query dns
vi - edit important files, and setup scripts
ipconfig - to see and edit NIC configurations such as ip, GW, netmasks, up/down
sudo - allow certain users to perform certain administration tasks
saint - my personal favourite security testing util
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netstat - to monitor active connections
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CRYSTAL LAKE – With less than two minutes dividing Prairie Ridge from a berth in the Class 6A state quarterfinals or the end of its season, Brett Covalt hadn't yet completed a pass.
The Wolves had stuck closely to their triple option offense, which had staked them to a two-touchdown lead. But now, needing to cover 60 yards in less than two minutes, Prairie Ridge had to suddenly shift over to the two-minute offense it works on at the end of nearly all practices.
That scheme includes a slant go-route that the Wolves keep in their pocket, knowing it's there if need be. With 59.2 seconds left, Covalt got the call to put the play into action and lofted a 28-yard pass to a back-pedaling Danny Meikel, whose touchdown catch gave Prairie Ridge a dramatic 21-20 win over Marmion on Saturday afternoon.
With the win, the Wolves (7-4) advances to face No. 1-seed Rockford Boylan (11-0), which knocked off Cary-Grove in another Saturday second-round game.
"It was just do-or-die," Meikel said. "We were just thinking of our community, our teammates. We just wanted to win the game. We weren't ready to go home yet."
Prairie Ridge never trailed until the final minutes when Marmion (8-3) took a 20-14 lead on Brock Krueger's 4-yard quarterback keeper. The Cadets, who had only 32 yards of offense in the first half, staged a fourth quarter comeback, tying the game on Krueger's 14-yard touchdown pass to Josh Meyers with 7:25 remaining. After struggling for much of the day to get rolling, Marmion was two minutes from moving on.
"Give credit to their defense – they were really teeing off on us," Marmion coach Dan Thorpe said. "But what a credit to our kids. [The comeback] wasn't me – it wasn't a speech. It was just tremendous class and character and all of the juices of our seniors and all of our players came out.
"We went down fighting."
Unfortunately for the Cadets, so did Prairie Ridge.
Trailing by six after Marmion missed its point after attempt, Covalt started to move the Wolves down the field locked into two-minute mode. Thorpe said coaches discussed avoiding point after attempts before the game due to high winds. But after the failed PAT, the Comets turned the game over to the defense, hoping for one final stop.
"We were comfortable," Covalt said. "We knew what to do. I think we have a huge advantage on teams because they think we're just run, run, run. But it's good to have the unexpected."
Covalt hit Steven Ladd for an 11-yard pass, getting the Wolves into Marmion territory. A Covalt keeper and a Brent Anderson run got the ball to the 28-yard line, setting up the game-winning touchdown pass. Chris Eschweiler added the point-after to give the Wolves the lead back with less than a minute to play.
"At this point, we've told the guys, 'You've only got to win by one [point] and I think they took it literally," Prairie Ridge coach Chris Schremp said. "The second half of the season has been a test of our kids' mental toughness and I'm sure a lot of people counted us out when we got the ball that last minute, thinking 'Oh, they're not going to be able to score throwing the ball'.
"But we made some plays when we needed to."
The late touchdown stunned Marmion, which began its last drive with poor field position and couldn't respond as the Wolves' defense held. For Marmion, early offensive struggles proved to be too much to come back from.
"We didn't do anything offensively [early] and then the screen passes got us going a little bit and got the momentum going," Thorpe said. "Defensively, we shut them out in the second half – almost – but I'm a lucky guy to be a part of these kids."
The Cadets now have been eliminated from the playoffs by the Wolves in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013.
Marmion 0 0 6 14 – 20
Prairie Ridge 0 14 0 7 – 21
Second quarter
PR–Anderson 23 yard run (Eschweiler kick), 10:57.
PR–Covalt 2 run (Eschweiler kick), 1:28.
Third quarter
M–Eberth 38 pass from Krueger (kick failed), 6:31.
Fourth quarter
M – Meyers 14 pass from Krueger (Montalbano pass from Krueger), 7:25
M - Krueger 4 run (kick failed), 1:57
PR - Meikel 28 pass from Covalt (Eschweiler kick), 59.2
RUSHING–Marmion: Montalbano 4-5, Krueger 17-35 , Warren 5-4, Meyers 3-12. Totals: 29-56. Prairie Ridge: Covalt 29-140, Anderson 13-98, Ladd 12-34, Meikel 1-4. Totals: 55-276.
PASSING–Marmion: Krueger 13-20-204. Prairie Ridge: Covalt 2-6-39.
RECEIVING–Marmion: Warren 2-27, Glasgow 1-3, Olabi 2-12, Montalbano 2-55, Sevenich 1-16, Eberth 2-57, Meyers 3-48. Prairie Ridge: Ladd 1-11, Meikel 1-28
TOTAL TEAM YARDS: Marmion 260, Prairie Ridge 315.


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Malaga owner Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nasser Al-Thani has alleged that his side's elimination from the Champions League is down to racism.
In the wake of los Boquerones' 3-2 defeat at the hands of Borussia Dortmund, in which a controversial late goal denied them a spot in the semi-final of Europe's premier club competition, the outspoken Qatari declared he wants the closing stages of the game looked into due to apparent ill-treatment of his club.
"This is not football but racism clear of all," Al-Thani posted on his official Twitter account.
"I hope to open a thorough Uefa investigation regarding the Spanish club [which went] out this way, which does not affect the spirit of sport.
"Thank you very much [to] the team, you have been champions on the pitch. I'm sorry to go out this way [with] injustice and racism."
Al-Thani previously found himself mired in controversy following his comments about the Spanish media's role in the distribution of revenue from La Liga television rights, and his most recent claims will likely cast the spotlight on him again.
Malaga, who are banned from entering the Champions League next season due to a breach of Financial Fair Play regulations, were on the brink of progression to the last four for the first time in their history until the late turn-around.


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The 2008 Draft
When it comes to evaluating how well a draft worked out for a franchise be it baseball, football, hockey, basketball or really any other sport I am one who always feels that 5 years is a fairly reasonable time frame. Of course in baseball and to some extent hockey the evaluations have to be done a little differently because not everyone from those drafts are going to be established players but for the most part we should have a fairly good idea as to what kind of player they are. Typically speaking I think the 5th professional year for a draft class, particularly and MLB one is a huge year. The quick risers are likely in their 3rd pro season or so, the slow risers are likely entering their first full season or just ready to contribute and the wildcards are likely on their final chance. Its been five years since Neal Huntington's first draft class and of course 2013 will be that class's 5th full year of professional baseball experience. So according to my rule of thumb it should be a big year for them and indeed it is. To my research there are twelve players who still have at least some level of significance to the Pirates franchise, I have broken down those 12 into 6 different categories and will discuss what the 2013 season holds for them. Think of this as a primer for what to look for out of the 2008 draft class this season.
Organizational Players: Benjamin Gonzalez, Jeremy Farrell, Zachary Foster
Essentially this group has no expectations for the 2013 season. The three above players were drafted and signed in 2008 but have evolved into organizational filler; they will likely serve as bench depth or bullpen arms for one or multiple levels in 2013. They aren't expected to contribute to the major league team and at this point really have no discernible prospect value. +
Wildcards: Jarek Cunningham, Quinton Miller
Cunningham and Miller are not that far from bien organizational players but both remain in the system and unlike the three organizational players I have listed do have somewhat of a ceiling. Cunningham is capable of playing 2B and has plus power for the position and Miller was a fairly highly regarded prep pitcher at the time he was drafted. Both of them face uphill climbs to ever make the majors let alone become a significant contributor there but each of them have enough upside that they will have essentially one last chance to rebound in 2013 and show they have some value. Miller is likely to work out of the bullpen at A+, a level he'll be playing at for a 3rd season and at 23 years old is pushing the high side for a prospect at that level. If he shows signs of progress the Pirates may opt to send him to AA early on to give him one last chace but that appears highly unlikely. Cunningham is a little farther along than Miller as he will likely repeat AA this season and should be the starting 2B. At 23 years old he isn't a terrible age for the AA level but another failed year could prove costly to the little prospect status he has remaining. There is a little more hope for Cunningham than Miller as he showed progress last season with his plate discipline, if he can manage to build off that, refind his power and stay healthy (something that has been a struggle for him) there is a chance he could regain his prospect status. Cunningham is facing an uphill climb but it appears he at least has a fighting chance.
Major League Depth: Matt Hague, Michael Colla
Not much to say about these two. Hague and Colla are essentially organizational players but they have advanced far enough along that either one could be potential non horrible at the major league level meaning they will serve as depth in 2013. Hague is well known by Pirates fans because of his hot spring training last year and the fact he subsequently made the Pirates bench. He struggled with his chances with the big club though and spent most of 2012 in AAA. Hague doesn't really profile to hit for much power so his ceiling at the major league level is limited. Hague will almost certainly start the 2013 season off in AAA but this year he won't have a starting position and will be forced into a utility role. The utility role could be a good thing for Hague though as his best chance of making it back to the majors is probably as a utility player who can make decent contact. Colla has spent the last two years in the AA rotation. His numbers over that time are actually fairly decent. In reality he doesn't profile as a starter and unless he returns to AA for another season will not be one in 2013 but as a reliever he has a chance to become a decent depth middle reliever who could fill in at the major league level when injuries or ineffectiveness occurs. Colla and Hague don't come with much upside and aren't really players that will determine if the 2008 draft was a success or failure but 2013 will be a pivotal year in determining whether either one can carve out some sort of a major league career.
Slow Movers: Justin Wilson, Jordy Mercer, Chase d'Arnaud
Wilson, Mercer and d'Arnaud are ultimately going to play a large role in determining how well the 2008 draft worked for the Pirates. A good rule of thumb is that a good draft should give you 3 solid major league contributors. Well the Pirates have one who we will discuss later and have one more who could pay some dividends for them at the major league level but if they are to get any additional help from this class it is going to have to come from these three players. Wilson undoubtedly has the highest upside of the bunch as if he were able to find some control he has the stuff to be a top of the rotation arm. Mercer and d'Arnaud look like their ceiling is likely a major league average shortstop and that may be pushing it. At the end of the day three solid major league contributors doesn't mean three superstars essentially if the team is able to draft one very good regular, a solid back end reliever and a good bench option it has had a decent year. None of these three except maybe Wilson look like they will develop into a solid regular but they all look like potential secondary pieces. Each player has two options remaining meaning they could in theory be brought back next season if they fail to establish themselves but in reality this is a big year for all three. Should any of them not establish themselves as at least a serviceable major league player they will be in great risk of being removed from the roster after the season and unless claimed by another team that usually severely hurts a player's chances of having a good major league career.
Traded: Robbie Grossman (Wandy Rodriguez)
The importance of Robbie Grossman who was the key piece in the Wandy Rodriguez deal might often get overlooked when discussing the success or failure of the 2013 draft but it shouldn't be. Grossman may no longer be in the system but the reason teams have prospects is not for only developing them for their own use but for using them to acquire major league talent through trades, in short they are assets. How Grossman performs this season is largely irrelevant to how the Pirates 2008 draft should be viewed but how his return, Wandy Rodriguez, performs is in my mind a critical part of it. Rodriguez is an established major league and a good performances by him in 2013 will help push up the value the Pirates were able to get out of the 2008 draft. As I stated this will be often overlooked but in my mind the return for Robbie Grossman may very well end up being the 2nd most important aspect of the 2008 draft.
Fast Movers: Pedro Alvarez
At the end of the day the performance of the other 11 players I've discussed mean very little compared to the draft 1st round pick. The success or failure of that draft will forever be linked to how Alvarez performs in his career as a Pirate. Last season saw some encouraging progress from Alvarez at the major league level but the strike out rate was too high. Alvarez at this point is an established major league player and looks like he has a strong chance of developing into a regular however his upside is so much more. He possess the power needed to develop into a true impact bat. This upcoming 2013 season will be crucial to his development. If he is able to build off his success in 2012 Alvarez begins looking like a cornerstone player but if he struggles like he did in 2011 he will once again look like a big bust. As his fortunes go so will the fate of the 2008 draft. Even in an optimist scenario where Wilson develops into a solid middle of the rotation arm, Mercer is able to be a decent place holder at the shortstop position for a year or two, d'Arnaud starts to hit and becomes a good spark plug off the bench, Cunningham regains his prospect value and Hague or Colla carves out a major league niche for themselves the 2008 draft will still feel light on talent if Alvarez fails to produce. In order for him to be a success and by extension the 2008 draft Alvarez doesn't have to perform all that much better than his 2012 numbers going forward but he has to prove that he can that type of player and not be subject to wild down seasons like 2011; building off of 2012 and taking another step, even a small step forward would go a long way in proving just that.


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There's a billboard depicted in Chris Sullivan's animated wonder "Consuming Spirits" advertising beer that promises "the taste that haunts the lips." The same goes for the film. You've likely never tasted anything quite like it.
Dense like a detailed graphic novel in the Chris Ware or R. Crumb vein, but a real movie in every way, "Consuming Spirits" is a strange and wormy accomplishment, the sort of personal epic only the most obsessive of cinematic madmen undertake, let alone complete. It took Sullivan nearly 15 years: three in the writing, he estimates, and 12 in the making. Raised in Pittsburgh, he teaches animation and experimental narrative at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. His film is a seminar in itself, rich and idiosyncratic and inspired.
The style feeds the substance. Currently in a week's run at the Gene Siskel Film Center, the feature — shot in a variety of stop-motion and cutout and line-drawing animation techniques on 16 mm film — feels as willfully antiquated as the story's setting, which is the forlorn Appalachian town of Magnusson City, populated by a collection of grotesques whose lives haven't worked out the way they'd hoped. One key character, Earl Gray, has a voice like a musty closet full of secrets; he hosts a radio call-in show on gardening, which tends toward the uncomfortably confessional, and he writes an outdoors column for the local paper, The Daily Suggester.
Until quite late in the game, Sullivan holds back on revealing Earl's relationship to other key characters. Among them: Victor, who works at the paper, and his special lady friend, Gentian, amateur musicians and employees of the paper. Gentian cares for her mother (suffering from dementia, frequently dining behind a TV tray, in the nude). Early in the film, which is divided into novelistic chapters, Gentian runs over a nun on a country road and hides the body. The local Holy Angels nunnery also houses the local insane asylum, which figures into the plot.
"Consuming Spirits" wanders this way and that, but never carelessly: We peer into one life, one narrative line, then another, and when the connections are revealed, some viewers may feel they're too little, too late. Not me. There's too much dark wit and fastidious observational detail afoot. The voice work is wonderfully laconic. Everything is fluid in "Consuming Spirits"; when Victor, for example, is demoted from paste-up newspaper employee to a delivery person, when he's told the news he momentarily he becomes an infant, cradled in his boss's arms, as if a passing daydream were made manifest. Some of the images recall the animations of Bill Plympton, with characters swimming in their own coffee cups or scissors skittering away from the human trying to use them; other images reach for the mechanical-industrial funk of the Brothers Quay, as the Magnusson City residents drink, reminisce and get through another day.
Sullivan, who wrote, directed, produced, photographed, edited, worked on the music and who knows what else, has said that his movie rests on the notion of love and generosity and the cruel scarcity of both, despite our best intentions. For all that, though, "Consuming Spirits" has a lightness of touch that makes the lives on view peculiarly bracing. Sullivan wears his influences lightly. He has been living with this town and these inhabitants a long time; the miracle is how fresh and alive their world has been made for us.
'Consuming Spirits' -- 4 stars
No MPAA rating
Running time: 2:15.
Plays: Friday-Thursday at the Siskel Film Center. Filmmaker Sullivan will conduct discussions Friday and Thursday.


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Hockey seasons are long.
It takes a while for us to be able to tell with certainty what type of team any given club will become. Take the Winnipeg Jets, for instance. You could look at them at the start of the season as a team that had a young corps of players, but without making any major offseason moves, probably not a competing playoff team after finishing 12th in the conference, 13 points out of a playoff spot last season.
They were also 11th in the conference in "Fenwick tied", a shot-differential metric that's a reliable predictor of wins stretched out over the long season. All shots and missed shots are counted, and only 49% of those events with the score tied were taken at the other team's net.
Suffice to say, there was a lot of room for improvement with the team in Winnipeg. But with all the jumping through hoops to switch around the front office and coaching staff when the team left Atlanta, new General Manager Kevin Cheveldayoff clearly wanted a year to watch his young corps of players.
The team isn't necessarily better than they were last season, but they're more competitive given the state of Eastern Conference teams, particularly Buffalo and New York Rangers, who have taken a bit of a dive this season in shot differential. The Jets now find themselves 10th in the conference in Fenwick tied and 9th in points, so there is noticeable improvement in the standings.
Let's step away from math at the moment and concentrate on a little bit more on what's been fun to watch in Winnipeg lately. The team has won seven out of ten since the end of a long losing streak in Columbus (probably the down point on the season) and have a number of statement wins in that span—a 4-1 win over Washington, and Tuesday night's 2-1 win over the Stanley Cup Champion Boston Bruins—to pull themelves up to 2nd in the Southeast Division.
However, since the start of this span, the team has bee putting 13.1% of pucks in the net with the score-tied, which is well above last season's shooting percentage of 6.8% and the previous season's percentage of 7.2%. The recent run, while fun, is definitely an anomaly, but Jets fans should enjoy it while it lasts.
What gives the Jets an outside shot at the playoffs is that they play in a brutal division. Florida has jumped out to lead, and Winnipeg find themselves in second. Washington has been dead in the water since the arrival of Dale Hunter, with some brutal outings so far, while Tampa Bay and Carolina are both bleeding goals against and losses. Right now, Winnipeg looks every bit like the second best team in that division, even when you consider they're playing with high percentages. This keeps them in the playoff race, a point back of 8th place Ottawa, who have a worse goal differential (-8) than the Jets' (-6).
As noted by Jonathan Willis over the weekend, the Jets were perhaps due for a couple of close-call victories. They earned one Tuesday against the Bruins, and had another last week against Phoenix. The upcoming home stand (9 out of 11 games played at the MTS Centre) allows Winnipeg a greater chance to continue on this streak and earn a bit of separation in the Southeast Division standings.
They aren't necessarily better than last season, but they're playing under better circumstances, namly, the bad division, and perhaps the team is lucky that realignment won't take place until next year. This current Southeast Division is paying dividends right now for Winnipeg in the standings.


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Maintaining Your Old 4x4 Truck - Recycled BucketPosted in How To on October 1, 2008
Whether You Live In the city or out in the country, you're going to need a truck someday. But with the current price of gas and diesel it's really hard to justify buying a new $30,000 to $40,000 pickup and filling it up with $100 per tank unless you need it every day for your job. So how do you deal with those weekend projects where you need some payload capacity to haul stuff like an axle home from the junkyard? And what about when you need a tow rig every month or so to haul your gnarly trail rig out to the dirt? Well, we've got a solution for you.
There are tons of great old trucks for sale, most with a hearty V-8, plenty of load capability, and more character than you can shake a stick at. We know what you're thinking: Why buy an old beater when a nice new truck has so many amenities? Because an old beater can be used and abused, as well as purchased, repaired, and driven way cheaper than a shiny new truck. In fact we'd wager you would spend the same or less in a year if you bought an old truck and drove it every day than if you bought one of those new hybrid cars once you figure in the sticker price. Plus you would be signing up for the oldest environmentally "Green" program ever-recycling.
By reusing a truck and keeping it running for years to come, you can easily thumb your nose at those hybrid lovers who don't realize just how wasteful they are being. Yes, the weekly fill-ups are painful, and it may not tow as fast as your buddy's new diesel, but at least you're not sending off a new-truck payment and new-truck insurance every month.
Next stop was the local auto parts store. We chose CarQuest, where we stocked up on every lube, filter, and coolant, as well as a few mystery oils and sprays we could try. We also picked up some tune-up parts for the truck like new plugs and drainage pans so we can bring back our used oils and drained fluids to be recycled. A bottle of car-wash soap and an air freshener or two don't hurt when reusing an old truck that's sat derelict for years.
The fluids of your recycled truck's engine bay should be replaced first, so we drained the oil, replaced the coolant, and topped old gas with some octane boost and fuel treatment. Plus we check the differential level and added a quart or two as needed. Along with fluids you should change the fuel, air, and oil filters.
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Since this is your beater truck, you don't need to get too caught up in fancy filters and synthetic oils. Sure, they might help, but remember this is an old truck that has probably been happily cruising with regular lubes for years. One area you don't want to skimp on is the brakes. Take some time to check the brake fluid (and clutch fluid if it's hydraulic). If the master cylinder is dry and rusty then chances are the whole system could need some service. But if there is fluid there, then top it off and give it some pumps to see if you have a firm pedal.
The suspension of an old truck is definitely not going to appeal to everyone, but there are ways to make it better. Check the shocks for big dents, excessive rust, or leaking oil. Grease or oil the spring shackles, and if you have time replace all the bushings with new ones-poly bushings will give it a firmer ride, rubber a bit softer.
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Of all the systems on an old truck, the electrical is usually the most cobbled together and the scariest for most folks to take on. First, be sure there is power. We brought a power pack along to boost the battery. Then check the lights to see if the battery is getting power to the accessories (replacing burnt bulbs should be a priority). Check all the plugs going to sensors and switches. Oftentimes these simply fall off. Another thing is to look for burnt or melted wires. If found, these definitely need to be replaced, but don't tear them out until you know where they go.
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Other things to check on an old truck include: the radiator cap. Is the rubber seal dry and cracked? Time to replace it. Also check the brake pads, rotors, and drums. If the material is worn away or there are scars in the metal stopping surface, it's time to replace. Finally, give all the grease fittings in the steering and driveshafts some squirts for a quieter, smoother ride.
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To get your new old ride running great might involve a simple spark-plug swap (look for wet plugs showing oil getting past old rings), or a complete carburetor rebuild you either do yourself with a kit or have done by a pro. Remember this is your beater truck, so don't worry if it takes a little while to get it moving. You're recycling and that's a great reason to spend some time in the garage.
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