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This story comes via our sister blog, OnSoftware (in Spanish). Here at Softonic we test a few hundred apps every week, which means that despite the effort most developers put into their products, we still face all kinds of problems regarding program's features, design and management. In fact, after some time testing and reviewing software applications, you realize that they can be easily categorized in different groups, according to their behavior and of course, the trouble they bring to your life as a computer user.
Bearing that in mind, we've come up with these ten categories for the most common problems in software tools. If you have any other group that we've failed to mention, feel free to drop us a line in the Comments section.
1. Freeware, but limited There are many programs that fall into this group. They're labeled as free, but once you've happily downloaded and installed them, they aren't ashamed of displaying messages which kindly invite you to register. Sometimes certain features will remain blocked until you register! What kind of freeware is that?
2. Smile, surprise inside! These programs look really nice and promise great functionality, but also ask you to pay a price for it: they include some sort of unwanted being in the shape of a browser tool bar, an ad-ridden search page or even a piece of malware. You'd better avoid these ones!
3. Hey, I can decide that for myself Something I really hate about software apps is when they configure themselves right after installation, without even asking me first. Things like running when Windows launches, changing file associations or downloading updates are decisions I like to take personally - and not let a piece of source code do it for me.
4. Test me if you can I know developers need to earn a living. I understand their charging for applications. But some shareware versions are so crippled that you can hardly test them. If I can't try a program properly because nearly all of its options are disabled, how will I decide if I want to buy it?
5. Young Frankenstein is here Software apps are meant to be useful, but their appearance is also important. Some programs are so poorly designed that you can tell the developer hasn't spent a single minute thinking about text fonts, color combinations or interface layout. Shame on you!
6. Let's play hide-and-seek! Talking about design, some other tools show a complete lack of usability. It seems that developers make fun of us by misplacing buttons, using endless menus or hiding important areas like Settings or Help. In short: you give up before actually using the program.
7. Wait, there's still room for more When you install an audio player or a CD burning tool it's because you want to listen to music and record discs respectively, isn't it? There's no need to bloat these apps with extra functions such as a tag editor, a duplicate file finder, a multimedia viewer, a cover designing tool… Please, remember the KISS principle. 8. Do you speak Chinese? As English-speaking users, we're lucky: the majority of software produced in the world is available in our language. Still, we find translations that really give us the creeps. I have nothing against translation tools but please, at least bother to check their output.
9. Simply follow the instructions Programs are usually easy to install: double click on the file and follow a wizard that involves clicking on the "Next" button a few times. But when that "few" becomes "twenty" or more, as well as downloading and installing extra data, the whole process turns out to be a real pain.
10. The longest name in the world When you create a program the first thing you need to do is naming it. With millions of software apps already swarming around, it's difficult to come up with original ideas. But this is no excuse to name your program with something like Free Batch Video to AVI MPEG WMV VCD SVCD DVD Converter Plus: too long, too ugly!
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Toad is a code analyzer which take source files as input, and output an XML report with the violations found in the input files.
The XML report also includes the source file's original input for some reason.
It is not possible to specify the encoding of the source files that Toad must analyze. It is able somehow to automagically figure out the right encoding.
Some parts of the XML report will be encoded in UTF-8, but the part where the original code is to be found will keep the original file encoding.
This means that there can be multiple encodings used in the XML report, making it impossible to load with XML parsers which all expect the file to have a single encoding.
Therefore, the XML report must first be preprocessed in order to filter out any non-ASCII byte, so that the XML parser will always be able to parse with ASCII as encoding.
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Seriously, does this not annoy anyone else? Nintendo stubbornly refuse to change any aspect of any of their games. Why do they never - ever - never - massively reboot and revamp their franchises? Not only would it be a welcome and perhaps necessary change after over 25 years - it would also be incredibly cool!
Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Bros, Pokemon, Kirby, Donkey Kong - a lot of Nintendo franchises share the same issue, that they stick to the basics, and only trim around the edges for new instalments. Don't get me wrong, I love Nintendo - If I didn't I wouldn't be on this website everyday rejoicing over news of Super Smash Bros or Mario Kart. But I've been playing their games since I could hold a Gameboy, and I'm pretty darn old now. And now and then, I would love it if Nintendo would throw out a game that completely derives from our expectation, something new and interesting and out of the ordinary. And because I'm a loser, I've thought about the sort of reboots that could be incredible, and darn do I want them to exist!
Pokemon - So how amazing would this be - an expansive, HD open world Pokemon game? I mean, X and Y was good with graphics, but still does not match the level of graphical technology available - they could make it a whole lot better and a whole lot cooler.
And by open world I don't mean several cities with lengths of terrain in between, I mean SKYRIM LIKE. A huge, massively expansive universe, all yours to explore, from the mountains you see far away to the bottoms of the dark oceans - with Pokemon running wild all around. Not only would this look beautiful, it would also offer the opportunity of hunting down rare Pokemon; if you see it, you could follow it to the ends of the earth until its yours. It would also no longer be turned based, but maybe be assign each battle move to a button and then its free-play combat - real intense action battle. I don't know about you, but I would play this game non-stop.
Legend of Zelda - A fantastic game, but getting too cute and aiming for a younger audience these days - which is fair enough of course, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't love a grittier more adult version of the game. I would also love it if Zelda was just a little less linear - they touch upon it in games like the Wind Waker and A Link Between Worlds, giving you a world to explore instead of just forcing you along the narrative - but a game where you could make choices and decisions that effect the state of Hyrule or relationships or alliances with other characters? I'd love it. For once you could make Link evil! I wouldn't - but the choice would be interesting to explore.
A story revamp would be nice too, rescuing the princess gets old fast. "Link, King of the Kokiri, is raging war on Princess Zelda of Hyrule for invading their sacred forest, and the battle is fierce and thick throughout the kingdom - little to do they know however that a greater threat, Ganondorf, is looming in the shadow, feeding off the chaos. The realm is at the brink, but what do you do?" Make this game Nintendo!
Super Smash Bros. - Now, Super Smash Bros. is possibly one of the best games ever invented - so why would I want to change it you might ask? Well, I wouldn't have it changed, I would have thrown into the online world. Keep the same game, but just accept that the internet is a significant part of the gaming world now.
Imagine it! Online world wide tournaments to see who really is the best fighter, online challenges and timing tasks to claim titles and experience and trophies, online help in story modes or boss battles, connect with friends and battle from worlds away! People love to play together and the internet allows this! The internet in Smash Bros could also introduce DLC's, like new weekly characters or new levels or items - people would download those in the bucket loads! Well, I would!
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Temperatures for the next week are expected to be 15 degrees above normal for this time of year, just shy of records, Allen said. The skies are predicted to be partly cloudy with little chance of rainfall, and Allen predicts no fire danger issues.
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It's that time of the year to renew the SSL. After couple of failed attempts I started digging around: The error message that Zimbra throws doesn't tell much.
So, just wanted to share my experience with the community since Entrust is not included in the Zimbra Wiki. I am running Zimbra 5.0.13_GA_2791 on Ubuntu 8.04 32bit. (will upgrade soon to 6)Code:Your certificate was not installed due to the error : system failure: XXXXX ERROR: Invalid Certificate: /opt/zimbra/ssl/zimbra/commercial/commercial.crt: /C=XX/ST=XX/L=XX/O=XX/OU=XX/CN=mail.XX.com Error code: ZaCertWizard.prototype.installCallback M...
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IMPORTANT!!! You MUST select the jetty web server from the list (If you select any other web server the certificate format looks different and it's not going to work)
Copied and pasted the intermediate, root and the signed certificate in separate files (e.g. commercial.crt, intermediate.crt and root.crt)
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Just so I understand correctly. If we do not file a suit before the year is up, then the insurance company is no longer liable for this life altering injury? Such as, they could decide not to cover anymore expenses related to the injury and we would not be able to file any legal suit.
I was worried that if we obtained a lawyer that workers comp would not be so accommodating. Thank you for the information, I will start looking for a lawyer today.
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The Bulldogs whipped an Auburn team that played LSU down the wire last week, and they currently lead the nation in turnover margin, forcing 15 takeaways (nine interceptions, six fumbles recovered) while surrending just two. The cornerback pairing of Johnthan Banks and Darius Slay, often overlooked behind other elite SEC defenders, ranks among the top secondary tandems in the country.But the Bulldogs travel to Tuscaloosa Oct. 27 and trek to Baton Rouge just two weeks later. Winning even one of those games -- no easy feat -- would likely keep Dan Mullen's squad in the BCS conversation entering late-season showdowns with Arkansas and Ole Miss.• Tier 3 -- BCS contenders: Oregon State, RutgersOregon State's emergence has been established by now. The Beavers not only shut down Wisconsin in Week 2, but upended UCLA in Los Angeles last Saturday, an effort that proved they were more than a one-game wonder. 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"And I don't say that without understanding exactly how hard that is. We know full well we're trying to do something that's never been done at Rutgers."• Connecticut at Rutgers, Oct. 6: Before Rutgers can advance any talk of its BCS aspirations, it has to first get by the Huskies. That could be more difficult than it sounds. UConn routed the Scarlet Knights, 40-22, last November and currently boasts the top-ranked rushing, pass efficiency and total defense in the Big East.• Northwestern at Penn State, Oct. 6: Penn State is undergoing an unprecedented rebuilding project. Northwestern may have its best shot at a Big Ten title since the Damien Anderson era. Still, the Wildcats haven't beaten the Nittany Lions since 2004. A win in State College would clear a major mental hurdle for Kain Colter, Trevor Siemian and Co.• Tennessee at Mississippi State, Oct. 13: Both teams have dangerous pocket passers in the Vols' Tyler Bray and the Bulldogs' Tyler Russell. Mississippi State's opportunistic secondary will be tested by big-play wideouts Justin Hunter and Cordarrelle Patterson. If the Bulldogs win, though (and win this weekend at Kentucky), they'll be just one victory against Middle Tennessee away from taking on 'Bama with an unblemished 7-0 mark.SI.com caught up with Rutgers coach Kyle Flood a week after his upset of Arkansas.SI: Are you surprised with your team's success through four weeks?KF: We're really not surprised. We felt coming into the season that we had a pretty good football team. But we were certainly more established on defense than we were on offense. I think one of the keys for us was to figure out who was gonna be the quarterback that ultimately was gonna lead us.SI: How do you feel about quarterback Gary Nova's development as a sophomore?KF: He has done a tremendous job. The things, to me, that are the most encouraging are probably the kind of under-the-radar type of things that fans don't look at. I look at his willingness to throw the ball away when he doesn't have an open receiver. That's a big step for a quarterback to take so he's not forcing the ball. The other thing, in our last game, we had maybe seven or eight different receivers who caught passes. He's not locking on one guy. He's not predetermining anything. He's taking what the defenses are giving him. You do those little things, then you end up with numbers like he had about Arkansas.SI: Through four weeks, Rutgers is allowing just 12.75 points per game. What's made your defense so effective early on?KF: I think it starts with the players, like anything else. We have established leaders at every level of that defense. ... And the ability to keep [defensive coordinator] Robb Smith. He's the only other holdover from the prior staff other than myself. Every other assistant coach on the staff went to the NFL, whether it was the Bucs, the Ravens or the Rams. So we've got an excellent scheme. And we've got the right guy running it.SI: What was the first thing you told your players after being promoted to head coach?KF: I said to them, "It would've killed me inside to watch anybody else coach this team." I've been here seven years as an assistant. I've been through a lot with these players, both on the field and off. I felt a responsibility to be here for them as much as it was professionally wanting to be the head football coach. I wanted them to not have to go through a change. That was really my message.SI: Now that you're 4-0, how do you keep your team from looking ahead to late-season games against Cincinnati, Pitt and Louisville?KF: In college football, it's very simple. People say we don't have a playoff system. We do have a playoff system. It happens every week. There are very few teams in the country that can play for a national championship with one loss. There's a couple, but there's not many. We started the season, like I'm sure a lot of football teams did around the country, with a goal of having a chance to play for and win the national championship. But you can only win one game a week.Chances are, none of these teams will crack the BCS. The odds are too slim, the season too arduous. By November, the natural order will be restored.Even if history suggests otherwise, though, at least two of these teams could remain in late-season BCS contention. The combination of fortunate scheduling and veteran playmakers makes the system ripe for some shakeup, allowing a couple of nontraditional programs to beat out traditional powers. If nothing else, some team from the Big Ten and Big East has to claim a coveted BCS bowl berth.Prediction: Oregon State may have the most talent, but the Pac-12 appears too deep for the Beavers to make a sustained undefeated run. 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Greetings !
Today i reached 1501 elo. It was mostly exhausting and sometimes even frustrating journey for me and one i wouldn't repeat any time soon.
At first i was just messing around with a new deck at 1300 elo but then a win streak of 50 launched me at 1450 elo and i said, lets go!
It took me four days, and I'm so happy it's all over so i can enjoy this game once again
During my climb some of my opponents asked me about the decklist, so here it is:
Hero: Kelthor, Lord of Fury
4x Goblin Scout
4x Ranaar Mauler
4x Blackskull Warchanter
4x Ranaar Harpy
2x Blackskull Goblin
4x Pao Deathseeker
2x Centaur Archer
4x Dreamwalker
4x Crusher
4x Tainted Orc
4x Blackskull Vulture Rider
4x Firebolt
4x Sacrificial Altar
2x Cosmic Realignment
4x Manastorm
4x Week of the Dead
It is more or less what is considered nowadays "a standard Kelthor deck", and it's a very fun and rewarding deck to play.
I don't consider this decklist as final, there are some cards i kept taking in and out as i played, so every advice is welcome.
Briefly about the cards in the deck:
Ranaar Maulers, Blackskull Warchanters, Dreamwalkers, Crushers, Altars: These are the cards this deck is built around, and 4 of each is logical because of that. Reducing the number of the mentioned cards would take this deck in another direction and i don't want that.
Ranaar Harpy: Great defender and an excellent Altar fodder. Can't even think of this deck without it.
Tainted Orc: Same as the Harpy above, plus he is so fat and scary that it takes your opponents attention away from your enragers.
Pao Deathseeker: Nothing new to say about this one, good in almost every deck, really shines in Kelthor deck.
Blackskull Vulture Rider: Perhaps the best card in this deck, and a card best suited for this kind of deck. He can turn dire situation into a completely tolerable or even favorable for you. This is most obvious early game when facing rush decks, but his value falls only slightly as the match progresses.
Goblin Scout: Early game pressure, chump blocker/enrage counter source later on. This deck could do without him.
Centaur Archer: The card that's giving me the most trouble. It doesn't really do anything for me, often times when i have a choice i rather deploy some combination of t2/t1 creatures instead of it. Don't know what to replace it with.
Blackskull Goblin: Great and terrible at the same time. Tried four, and they were too much. I keep him for adrenalin rush and good looks.
Firebolt: Too good to pass by.
Cosmic: The thing is - you can almost hold your own against Tower Otks even without Cosmics, using Altars, Week of the Dead and Kelthor's ability. Stronghold Otk's are harder to deal with even with Crushers out (this isn't the fastest deck out there, so they can spend their first turns doing whatever they like), and that is why i keep them.
How many Stronghold Otk's have i met on ladder? Just enough that i wouldn't be writing this post if i didn't have the Cosmics.
Manastorm: Ladder decks are predominantly spell based, having this is beyond helpful.
Week of the Dead: I had two and rotated other two event slots between Week of Mercs, Week of Taxes, Week of the Tamed Spirits and Market of Shadows. They were either turned against me too many times (Week of Mercs), just weren't very good (Week of Taxes, Market of Shadows), annoyed me like hell (Week of the tamed Spirits tames the Dreamwalker too) or were combination of everything mentioned, so i settled with 4 Week of the Dead.
Besides 4x Week of the dead is very useful vs Otks and good at enabling cheesy and unexpected final blows. Sometimes Kelthor's final blow surprises even me - i start out doing one thing and than in the middle of it i realize i can finish the game.
Advice to all players who are just starting to play Kelthor: There will be loses in the beginning. Kelthor is not easy hero to play, learning how to be cost efficient with sacrifices and card drawing/ability using takes time. I got to 1501, but I feel I'm just beginning to learn how to play him properly.
You can find prettier decklist on mmdoc.net: http://www.mmdoc.net/show_deck/2199/
Cya !


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BERLIN Police say Jason C. Fewer, 41, of Barre, was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and theft of service Wednesday.
Around 4:30 p.m., police responded to the Wayside Restaurant on the Barre-Montpelier Road for a complaint of a male walking out without paying his bill.
About 30 minutes later, police received a complaint of a male fitting Fewers description lying in the road and jumping out in front of an ambulance that was responding to an emergency.
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He was taken back into custody after a short foot chase, police said.
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On Saturday, Ed Schoenfeld finally opened the doors of RedFarm's uptown outpost for lunch — a meal that he's never served at the original Hudson Street location. He tweeted that he'll launch dinner service at 2170 Broadway "soon," which seems to mean "later this month." Hopefully, the opening of Peking-duck-centric Decoy will follow: Schoenfeld's reps say he's aiming for late October or early November. [Ed Schoenfeld/Twitter]


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News for faculty and staff
Marina von Neumann Whitman, professor of public policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and professor of business administration, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, is among 19 women selected for induction into the 2013 class of the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame. A former General Motors vice president, she serves on university advisory committees, counsels graduate students, and serves as a role model for young women.
Shawn Rahl, UNIX systems administrator, on farm work: "It's great to be able to eat the quality foods, mindfully produced, by the efforts of you and your friends."
The School of Music, Theatre & Dance presents the dark comedy "Red Noses" Oct. 3-13 in the Walgreen Drama Center, Arthur Miller Theatre.


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We are proud to announce another upcoming release for 2011: Kito & Reija Lee! They've each had a few releases floating around the past year, notably Kito's EP featuring "LFO" on Skream's Disfigured Dubz label which you can grap HERE
Now the girls have just finished the tracks for their EP with Mad Decent and we're already getting a huge first response. You can check some of those new tracks out in the recent exclusive mix that Kito did for Triple J Radio's Mix Up.
Kito-Triple J Radio Mix by maddecent
This new vocal remix for Spor's "Pacifica" is also amazing, and will
give you a good idea what's in store from us. Tracklist from the mix below as well.
Spor – Pacifica (Kito & Reija Lee Vocal Remix) – Forthcoming Lifted
Gucci Main – Break Yourself (Diplo Remix feat. Lil B) – Mad Decent
Lung – Circulate – Unreleased
Kito & Reija Lee – This City – Forthcoming Mad Decent
J-Sweet – Kerb (Starkey Remix) – Unreleased
Boddika – 2727 – Swamp 81
Spor – Push Me, Pull You – Forthcoming Lifted
Superisk – Find Your Way (Mensah Remix) – Punch Drunk
James Blake – CMYK – R & S Records
Cymatic – Hound Dog – Unreleased
Black Sun Empire – Brommer – BSE Recordings
Cymatic – Glue – Unreleased
Feed Me – Blood Red – Forthcoming Mau5trap
Skinnz – Keep It Gutta – Boka
Kito & Reija Lee – Sweet Talk – Forthcoming Mad Decent
Hudson Mohawke – Fuse – Warp
Guido – Mad Sax – Punch Drunk
JKamata & 2000F – You Don't Know What Love Is (Sukh Knight Remix) – Unreleased
Dub From Atlantis – Silly Little Things (Cymatic Remix) – Unreleased
Kito & Reija Lee – LFO VIP – Unreleased
Kito – On The Floor – Disfigured Dubz
Numan – The Zoo – Unreleased
Kito – Cold Acapella
Feed Me – Cloud Burn – Forthcoming Mau5trap
Starkey – Playing With Fire – Civil Music
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Boddika – You Tell Me – NonPlus
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Photos by Peter Bick
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, April 4. COMING into tonight's competition, Michael Phelps was three-for-three: three events, three gold medals. And that, even though he passed on two events in which he is the world record-holder and was almost a cinch to win here: the 200 fly and the 400 IM.
Tonight, Michael was entered in two more events – the 100 free and 200 IM – where he was to face formidable challenges: Jason Lezak, American record holder in the 100 free; and Ryan Lochte, American record-holder for 200 yards, in the medley.
Men's 100 meter freestyle
Jason Lezak, who set the American record of 48.17 at last year's Olympic Trials qualified first, with Phelps right behind him. The rest of the top-notch field consisted of veterans Neil Walker and Nate Dusing sprinkled in with up-and-comers Ben wildman tobriner, Garrett Weber-Gale, Ryan Lochte and Nick Brunelli.
Lezak took the race out hard, turning at the 50 in 23.18 seconds, .02 off world record pace. Stanford's Wildman-Tobriner turned second (23.41) followed by Walker (23.50), who worked his way back into the race after being left on the blocks by the rest of the field. Phelps was seventh in 23.98, eight-tenths of a second off the pace and seemingly hopelessly out of it.
But don't ever count Michael Phelps out of a race. Ever!
Heading for home, swimming's golden boy kept moving up on the rest of the field, picking off one competitor after another. But ahead of him was Neil Walker. At 75 meters, Walker had caught Lezak, while Phelps was right behind at his shoulder. At 80 meters, Walker had the lead, but there was nothing left in reserve and he began to fade. Quickly.
Lezak seized the chance, regaining the lead and had the race in hand as he passed under the flags. Then Michael just shifted into overdrive and seemingly doubled his tempo. Lezak still had the lead as the two rivals lunged for the wall. But, just as he did in the 100 fly in Athens and again, in the 100 fly here earlier in the Trials, Michael somehow managed to get his hand on the wall first.
The clock told the story: Phelps first in 49.00, a PR; Lezak second in 49.09.
Wildman-Tobriner followed with 49.35 with Webber-Gale fourth in 49.40, both men making the USA 4x100m free relay. Walker (49.42) and Dusing (49.83) will complete the US relay squad as alternates.


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Dec 26, 2013
Obama's Slow Growth Policies Have Stacked The Deck Against American Workers
Forbes: Senior Fellow Peter Ferrara responds to President Obama's remarks on economic inequality.
Nov 26, 2013
3 Confidence Boosters For Businesses Seeking Bank LoansSource: Forbes Senior Fellow Bill Conerly explains the keys to securing a bank loan as a business.
Nov 13, 2013
Entitlement Reform, Tea Party Style
New CBO numbers leave no other choice.
American Spectator: Senior Fellow Peter Ferrara details what real entitlement reform looks like and the effect that it would have on individuals and the economy as a whole.
Nov 05, 2013
The Coming Obamacare Bailout
Taxpayers will have a choice: settle for single-payer or bail out private insurance, which otherwise won't survive the ravages of Obamacare.
The American Spectator: Senior Fellow Peter Ferrara anticipates that Americans will be forced to decide between bailing out bankrupt insurance companies or transitioning into government-run health care.
Oct 30, 2013
The Fed Is Not Changing Its Mind--Yet
Forbes: Senior Fellow Bill Conerly comments on the Federal Reserve's bond-buying and what we should expect the Fed to do in the future.
Oct 22, 2013
Shutdown Hysterics And Debt Drama Queens: What Happens Next?
Forbes: The NCPA Health Care for All Plan would ensure health coverage for all Americans without individual or employer mandates, while offering a trillion dollar tax cut and at least $2 trillion in reduced spending over 10 years, writes NCPA Senior Fellow Peter Ferrara.
Oct 08, 2013
The shutdown as an opportunity
Washington Times: NCPA Senior Fellow Peter Ferrara and Lewis Uhler discuss how the Republicans should address the government shutdown.
Oct 08, 2013
Oh, and By the Way, Our Government Is Totally Broke!
As our politicians engage in their food fight over extending the debt ceiling, we the public should bear in mind the huge problem this obsessive focus on official debt is concealing. Our country is flat broke — and not because of its official debts, i.e.,
Forbes: Laurence Kotlikoff, senior fellow at the NCPA, discusses the US fiscal gap and why the CBO long-term budget outlook is wrong.
Aug 14, 2013
Thank You, Speaker Boehner
You won the debt-ceiling battle. Spending is down. Now it's on to the work you still have left to do.
The American Spectator: NCPA Senior Fellow Peter Ferrara writes about the political struggles Republicans have won since the 2010 mid-term elections and the recommendations of Steve Moore for future policy.
Jul 05, 2013
Block Expansion Of IRS To Administer ObamaCare
Investors.com: NCPA Senior Fellow Peter Ferrera predicts that the Affordable Care Act will increase the number of uninsured rather than achieve universal healthcare coverage.


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A Westbury man was allegedly high and drunk when police arrested him Wednesday night for robbing a Bethpage Dairy Barn, Nassau County police said.
Detectives said 41-year-old Robert Dukich was armed with a crow bar when he entered the store on 1 Collector Avenue just before 11 p.m. and demanded money from the female cashier.
The woman stepped away, police said, and Dukich allegedly pried the cash register open with the crow bar and fled the scene in a green Ford Explorer with cash from the store.
Police were alerted to the crime over the radio and then spotted the Explorer traveling south on Route 135 and failing to stay in its lane, police said.
The car was eventually stopped on the Southern State Parkway at Exit 30S. Police said the smell of alcohol was emanating from his breath and he was allegedly in possession of a crack pipe.
Dukich is being charged with first-degree robbery, DWAI combined with drugs and alcohol, DWAI by drugs, and criminal possession of a weapon.
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Top Chef New York Chefs Cook Fish But One Is Thrown Overboard
February 05, 2009 07:05 AM by DA Southern
Top ChefNew York is now in what is officially being called the "Countdown to the Finale" as we are now left with six chefs vying for the coveted prize of Top Chef after watching Jeff pack up and leave last week. With the Europeans seeming in charge, especially Stefan, the competition will become even more cut-throat as the judges will tolerate zero mistakes from the aspiring chefs.
As the events of the last episode played out, we saw that Carla was feeling underestimated even though she managed to win the last competition. Poor Carla thought that she was being dwarfed by the Europeans and that she could sneak in and take the prize in the end. Fabio was telling how important it was for him to win it for his family and Hosea was talking about being the last American male standing.
The Quickfire Challenge
Padma Lakshmi welcomed the chefs to their next challenge and introduced guest judge, Chef Eric Ripert, as she told them the next challenge that would test their culinary skills. Padma told he chefs that they would be involved in a three round fish elimination tournament that would test their technique and precision as they all would fillet fish for a chance to win the Quickfire.
Round one had Sardines at the forefront of the fillet action as Padma announce that they had five minutes to clean and butterfly two whole sardines according to Eric's example. Carla completely messed up and Leah fared much better, edging herself into the next round. The Europeans fared much better as did Hosea as they all headed to round two.
Round two had Arctic Char on the cutting board as the chefs were given another five minutes to debone and fillet as Eric demonstrated. Jamie and Carla, who had lost the initial round, were sitting out and Leah choked and gave up early in the round giving Hosea and Stefan the final round to lay it all out on the line.
Round three was all about the freshwater eel and the darn things were still moving around and trying to sting Hosea and Stefan or whatever it is they do to you when given the chance. The chefs were funny as they tried to touch the eels and Carla's face at the sight of the eels, alone, made the event priceless. Hosea was intent on taking out Stefan in the challenge in what has become a possible finale battle but, In the end, Hosea could not out-technique his rival and Stefan who again garnered bragging rights for a competition.
The Elimination Challenge
The chefs all headed out to Chef Eric Ripert's restaurant for a look at what a real Top Chef restaurant would look like as they readied for a six course fish meal. The chef's seemed to enjoy the food, except for Jamie, who said she was "Bored with this kind of food." After the six courses were served, the Top Chef knifes were out and Tom Colicchio said that the chefs had to recreate the dishes they just were served.
Jamie was so uninterested in the challenge and it looked as though she might be heading out the door if her attitude didn't improve. Carla seemed especially on edge knowing that her technique was weak in the first challenge and that she needed to step it up or face the possibility of going home.
Hosea was struggling since he said that he had never been schooled as a chef and was not as familiar with the spice ratio that he might need to use and Fabio seemed to be the most confident with his preparation. Chef Ripert came by to check each of the chef's dishes and gave them each pretty valuable tips about their dishes and the chef's then had fifteen minutes to prepare the fish for the judges.
Fabio's dish was first out and the judges were overall impressed with the dish saying that only minor details were missing to make it an exact replica. Leah's dish was savaged by the judges, with Toby Young saying it was "Bland like fish prepared in the Caribbean."
Stefan's lobster was a hit with the judges, making it look like Stefan may have a definite advantage going into the judge's table deliberation session. Carla's idea that she may have been underestimated proved to be true as the judges called her interpretation of her fish dish, "Loyal" and she impressed with her overall presentation.
Hosea's monkfish was a big disappointment and Tom even pointed out that Hosea came from a fish restaurant and that for him to go home on a fish challenge would be a disaster. Jamie's dish was assailed by Toby Young when he said that "Something had gone horribly wrong" with the dish and it looked like Jamie and Hosea might be on the hotseat at the judges table. It would be ashamed to lose Hosea at this point as he and Stefan have had quite a rivalry, but this is Top Chef and one wrong turn of the frying pan could send you home.
Fabio, Stefan and Carla called in my Padma and they were told they were in the top. All three were congratulated by the judges and Stefan picked up another challenge, and continued bragging rites, and he got a trip with Chef Ripert to a Food and Wine festival in Florida.
Hosea, Jamie and Leah were standing in the hot glare of the judges and Hosea freely admitted his mistakes and said he knew where he had gone wrong. Leah's answers made her look like she had given up in the challenge, even to the point of Tom making the comment that she had given up in the Quickfire. Jamie's answers seemed pretty lame and she looked totally uninterested in even being their anymore and made it worse for herself when she said she did not like the fish dish at lunch hat much either. In other words, she probably sealed her fate by telling a world-class chef she didn't like his dish.
All three were equally savaged by the judges and it was hard to tell who would be leaving, although Jamie and Leah seemed to be the weakest as far as their commitment to the success of their dishes. When the three returned, Tom told them they all had made a mistake in observation or execution and that the lessons are ones that they should carry them through their chef careers. In the end, Jamie was sent packing, as her attitude probably got the better of her.
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Nice! I've always had a thing for hand drawn maps!
Nice! I've always had a thing for hand drawn maps!
very nice.. took my eyes a moment to see what was land and see, I think because of the swamp made me think different at first ... lots of adventures to be had there, good entry
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Yeah. That's really nice...the sort of thing you expect to see on the inside cover of an adventure module. Great entry!
Thank you all for the kind comments. I draw these for myself and my grandson (he's 3) we look at the maps and talk about where we're going next.
Maps are a lovely way to make stories. I always loved dreaming them up as a kid, and getting my parents to tell me stories. Your grandson is one lucky kid!
Great map! This looks like a map my players would buy from that questionably shady merchant in the Bazaar, bloodstains and all. I may have to use this in my next game!
I love it and agree with as someone else stated, this looks like something you find inside the cover of a module.
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Today in Washington – September 22, 2010
The House has 15 suspension votes scheduled for Wednesday. The Senate will continue debate on the motion to proceed to S.3454, the Department of Defense Authorization bill, even though cloture failed yesterday. Tomorrow, the Senate is expected to take up a motion on the DISCLOSE Act, S.3628. This is the same unconstitutional bill that received only 57 votes to shut down debate on July 27th. The current expectation is that the House and Senate | Read More »


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People have been using the wind as an almost-free source of power to drive electric generators since the late 1800s, and have sought to improve the technology since then through better understanding of the wind itself and how wind-power machinery interacts with it. Some of the recently reported investigations sponsored by the U. S. Department of Energy have addressed:
As we may see from the reports described below, two major means of conducting this (but not the only ones) are experiments with real wind turbines and computer simulations of turbines.
Much of this work is published by the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL); other long-term and short-term recipients of Departmental support include Sandia National Laboratories, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Savannah River National Laboratory, The Ohio State University , AlphaSTAR Corporation , Western Ecosystems Technology Inc. , and Wyoming Wildlife Consultants LLC .
The DOE-GE 1.5-MW wind turbine is 80 meters tall and has a 77-meter rotor diameter. Photo by Dennis Schroeder, NREL/PIX 19083. (From fact sheet "NREL Establishes a 1.5-MW Wind Turbine Test Platform for Research Partnerships".)
An important experimental resource of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory is its National Wind Technology Center in Boulder, Colorado. The Center's newest facility, described in a recent fact sheet,[Information Bridge] is a 1.5-megawatt wind turbine used as a test platform. This turbine is fitted with an extensive set of instruments; testing it not only determines its power performance, but its vibration characteristics and fatigue loads as well. The new turbine can be used to test wind-turbine control systems and components and to validate mathematical models of wind-turbine behavior.
Like many wind turbines, this new NREL turbine is installed on land. But many other wind turbines are installed offshore, where they offer some advantages over onshore turbines although they present design problems of their own. One type of offshore turbine under development would rest on a floating platform. In actual use, such a turbine would be connected to the onshore power grid by an underwater cable, but for testing, it's only necessary to connect the turbine to a load that simulates the grid and interacts with it appropriately; and it may be more cost-effective to have this load on the platform itself. The design of such a power grid simulator is described in the report "Grid Simulator for Testing a Wind Turbine on Offshore Floating Platform".[Information Bridge]
Improving wind-turbine reliability requires finding out what limits their reliability now. How to go about learning this is described in the Sandia National Laboratories report "Wind Energy Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) : Data Collection Recommendations for Reliability Analysis".[Information Bridge] Fixing component failures, as well as maintaining and operating a wind plant in general, all cost money. How much each of these things costs under various assumptions is addressed in the report "Data Collection for Current U.S. Wind Energy Projects: Component Costs, Financing, Operations, and Maintenance". [Information Bridge]
The power output of a wind turbine can only be as steady as the wind driving its blades, which is not steady at all. We can get a clearer idea of what performance to expect if we observe any patterns in the wind's variations or in the resulting power output. One recent study[Information Bridge] of a set of wind-power plants in Minnesota confirms the major daily and seasonal variations one might expect from ordinary experience, but it also shows a sizeable variation from year to year during the plants' history, with one plant producing almost 40% more power in its most productive year than in its least productive year.
The National Wind Technology Center, whose new 1.5-megawatt turbine is described above, also measures features of the wind that affect the performance of this turbine and others. Since wind speed, turbulence intensity, and dissipation all vary with height across the disk-shaped area swept by a turbine's rotor, they are measured at multiple heights, as described in the recent poster "Characterizing Inflow Conditions Across the Rotor Disk of a Utility-Scale Wind Turbine"[Information Bridge] and the technical report "Turbine Inflow Characterization at the National Wind Technology Center".[Information Bridge] A detailed example of how certain data is taken, analyzed, and used at the Center is given in the technical report "Inflow Characterization and Aerodynamic Measurements on a SWT-2.3-101 Wind Turbine".[Information Bridge]
The view to the northwest across the NWTC in May 2011. Three utility-scale turbines are in the foreground of the picture to the left and right. The 38-m hub height Advanced Research Turbines are slightly set back. Photo by Dennis Schroeder, NREL/PIX 19018. (From "Turbine Inflow Characterization at the National Wind Technology Center".)
The biggest wind power plants use multiple large wind turbines. These plants of course produce many times more power than a single turbine would, but not necessarily as many times more as one might expect. The wind that goes through the rotor disk slows down as it drives the rotor blades and transfers some of its energy to them. The wind that flows around the disk instead of going through it maintains its higher speed, and forms a shear layer with the slower air stream that it overtakes just beyond the disk. This shear layer thickens and becomes more turbulent downstream. If this turbulent wake flows into the disk of another turbine beyond the first, it will drive the second turbine with less force, giving it less energy. Thus in a wind farm, the turbines at the front that are exposed to less turbulence often produce more energy than the ones behind them that catch more turbulence.
The extent of this effect is the subject of both analytical studies and observations of real turbines. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory report "Synergistic Effects of Turbine Wakes and Atmospheric Stability on Power Production at an Onshore Wind Farm"[Information Bridge] compares observations and computer simulations of a wind farm in western North America. Findings from computer simulation of a wind farm off the coast of Sweden are described in the National Renewable Energy Laboratory technical report "A Large-Eddy Simulation of Wind-Plant Aerodynamics"[Information Bridge] and the fact sheets "NREL Develops Simulations for Wind Plant Power and Turbine Loads"[Information Bridge] and "NREL Studies Wind Farm Aerodynamics to Improve Siting"[Information Bridge]; the latter fact sheet also describes the use of a high-resolution Doppler laser system for measuring wind-turbine wakes. Understanding the size and effect of one turbine's wake on another can lead to turbine arrangements optimized for more power output and lower maintenance costs.
Contours taken in a horizontal plane at the rotor hub height of instantaneous streamwise resolved velocity normalized by hub height wind speed. The black bars indicate the turbine rotors. (From "A Large-Eddy Simulation of Wind-Plant Aerodynamics".)
Beyond calculation and experiment with full-sized systems, a third way to study the fluid dynamics of wind turbines is with scale models, as is done with ships and airplanes. But small-scale models present a problem. The different forces that act on a full-sized system are of different strengths, some affecting the system more than others. In a scale model, the same forces may act, but their strengths may be in different proportions. For example, viscosity is more important in relation to gravity for a small-scale fluid system than for the full-size version. Gravitational effects may not be that significant for land-based turbines, but gravity has a significant effect in the water waves that affect a floating platform. So the response of a scale-model turbine on a floating platform to the flow of wind and water won't be similar to the response of the full-size turbine: the smaller the model is, the greater effect viscosity will have relative to gravity. Implications of this fact for scale-model studies of offshore floating wind turbines are discussed in the NREL report "FAST Code Verification of Scaling Laws for DeepCwind Floating Wind System Tests".[Information Bridge]
A wind turbine's usefulness depends not only on how windy its environment is, but on how well the turbine's components hold up to the way the wind stresses them. Predicting these effects is the purpose of several computer programs and experimental facilities.
While we can't see the wind directly, we can determine its force from what we see it doing. This is the principle behind a computer program that takes measurements of how a turbine's support structure responds to the wind, and calculates how forcefully the wind is driving the turbine's rotor. As described in another NREL technical report ("Inverse Load Calculation of Wind Turbine Support Structures – A Numerical Verification Using the Comprehensive Simulation Code FAST"),[Information Bridge] the accuracy of the program's force-from-response calculations for a 5-megawatt onshore turbine was tested by comparing them with corresponding response-from-force deductions of the previously mentioned simulation code FAST. The program's estimates of the rotor thrust are described as "very good".
Simulations can sometimes demonstrate a system's behavior more quickly than experiments with the actual system. But even supercomputers can't calculate fast enough to account for every single feature of a complex system and still outrun an experiment. This isn't a problem if only some features matter enough to significantly affect the system's behavior; as long as a simulation accounts for all significant details, it offers an advantage. But different simulation programs that account for different details may predict different behaviors. Are the differences big enough to matter? That's the subject of the NREL report "Offshore Code Comparison Collaboration Continuation (OC4), Phase I – Results of Coupled Simulation of an Offshore Wind Turbine with Jacket Support Structure".[Information Bridge] The report discusses sources of the differences between different simulations of wind turbines and their support structures, depicts the importance of a support structure's local dynamics, and ends with recommendations about how to simulate the structures.
Wind affects turbine support structures, but its effect on turbines themselves is why turbines are built. Yet the wind doesn't just rotate turbine blades—it also flexes and wears the blades, so the blades have to be designed not to fail as a result. The soundness of blade designs can be checked by actual experiment or by a mathematical analysis of all factors that affect their soundness. The Wind Technology Testing Center in Boston, Massachusetts offers the first option: there, turbine blades up to 90 meters long can be put through static deflection and strain tests as well as multimillion-cycle fatigue tests.[Information Bridge] New computer software designed to certify blades by mathematical analysis is described in the AlphaSTAR Corporation report "Advanced Composite Wind Turbine Blade Design Based on Durability and Damage Tolerance".[Information Bridge]
NREL verified the functionality of the WTTC facilities and test systems by testing a blade from one of Clipper Windpower's 2.5-megawatt wind turbines. Photo by Derek Berry, NREL/PIX 20067. (From fact sheet "Building State-of-the-Art Wind Technology Testing Facilities".)
While the wind's adverse effects on turbines' blades and support structures is significant, the most crippling and expensive failures in wind turbines occur in their gearboxes. With some wind farms having been in service for many years now, turbine gearboxes are found not to have lasted as long as expected. Apparently this is not due to manufacturing problems, but because design analyses haven't sufficiently accounted for important effects on the gears and bearings. Several recent reports describe efforts to discover some of these effects.
One such report[Information Bridge] from The Ohio State University describes experiments with micro-pitting—a progressive wear of gearbox-component surfaces in rolling contact due to severe localized stress concentrations—and efforts to accurately model it mathematically. Another report, from a seminar sponsored in November 2011 by the Energy Department, summarizes many other investigations of damage and failure of components in contact. The report is entitled "Wind Turbine Tribology Seminar – A Recap"[Information Bridge]; tribology (from the Greek tribein, to rub) is the science and engineering of surfaces in relative motion—a common condition in gearboxes and other machinery.
Another report[Information Bridge] from Savannah River National Laboratory describes equipment designed for the Wind Turbine Drivetrain Test Facility, a state-of-the-art laboratory for making actual measurements of turbine drivetrains. And three additional reports from NREL deal specifically with the work of a group called the Gearbox Reliability Collaborative: one report[Information Bridge] describes the Collaborative itself and its plan to understand the causes of wind turbine gearbox failures, while the other two[Information Bridge], [Information Bridge] describe specific experiments with gearboxes and their results.
Exploded view of GRC gearbox components. (From "Determining Wind Turbine Gearbox Model Complexity Using Measurement Validation and Cost Comparison".)
As newer wind turbines are designed to be larger and their components lighter and more flexible, controlling the way they move and interact under the wind's influence becomes more important to prevent damage and possible failure. Algorithms for active computer control of the newer turbines must account for more complex motions. Facilities for testing new control systems at the National Wind Technology Center are described in the fact sheet "Advanced Wind Turbine Controls Reduce Loads".[Information Bridge]
Control of wind turbines can affect not only turbines' own structural soundness, but the power and frequency of current in the utility grid. These physical effects and their economic implications become increasingly important as individual wind turbines and wind farms are added to the power grid, particularly their role in balancing the power load and supplying power during peak demand periods. These points are addressed in the fact sheet "NWTC Controllable Grid Interface"[Information Bridge] and the technical report "Tutorial of Wind Turbine Control for Supporting Grid Frequency through Active Power Control".[Information Bridge]
Four other recent reports deal with the role of wind in relation to other means of producing electric power. One Sandia National Laboratories report deals with reactive power interconnection requirements for wind and solar plants[Information Bridge]; another NREL report discusses methods for estimating the capacity value of wind and solar power.[Information Bridge] The third report, also from NREL, analyzes the variance of wind and natural gas generation under different market structures,[Information Bridge] and the fourth, from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, examines how wind power might be distributed across the country so utilities with scarce wind resources could meet proposed standards for renewable-energy use.[Information Bridge]
These last two reports consider economic aspects of wind power. A different sort of economic effect, in the current market for small sub-utility scale wind turbines, is examined in the report "Certification for Small Wind Turbine Installers: What's the Hang Up?"[Information Bridge] While there is a market for small wind turbines, there is little customer demand as yet for an installer certification standard; the report examines why.
A Skystream turbine in front of the U.S. Capitol. Photo from Southwest Windpower. NREL/PIX 19410. (From "Certification for Small Wind Turbine Installers: What's the Hang Up?".)
Like any other structures, the presence of wind turbines affects their environment in various ways, some better understood than others. One of the more recent reports on wildlife near wind turbines, [Information Bridge] a study by Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc. and Wyoming Wildlife Consultants, LLC of sage-grouse populations near an existing wind farm and at some distance from it, provides preliminary data from observations conducted over a two-year period—not enough to ascertain long-term trends, but a starting point. A quite different environmental effect is described in the Sandia National Laboratories report "Radar-Cross-Section Reduction of Wind Turbines (Part 1)".[Information Bridge] Radar is an important tool in air traffic control, air defense, and weather sensing. Present-day wind turbines interfere with radar because of their size, and their rotating blades cause Doppler shifts in the reflected waves that make it difficult to identify and track moving targets. The report describes how these problems might be lessened through stealth technology.
"Wind power", section 1.2
"Laser Doppler velocimetry"
Research Organizations
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
National Wind Technology Center
Sandia National Laboratories
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Savannah River National Laboratory
AlphaSTAR Corporation
The Ohio State University
Western Ecosystems Technology, Inc.
Wyoming Wildlife Consultants, LLC
Reports Available through OSTI's Information Bridge
Testing and Data in General
Wind and Turbine Dynamics
Wind Stresses
Control, the Power Grid, and the Grid's Economics
Environmental Effects
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I think record bears out that he is a good man. But history is full of examples of good men who did bad things. The acceptance that he was dealing with the aberrant actions of an extraordinary man was the foundation of US District Court judge Jed S Rakoffs sentence in the insider trading case involving former Goldman Sachs board member Rajat Gupta.
Gupta, who was found guilty of leaking boardroom secrets to former hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam by a jury in June, will have to spend two years in jail and pay a fine of $5 million. The sentence passed early on Thursday India time was much more lenient than the maximum of eight years stipulated by US sentencing guidelines. The judge concluded that Guptas actions were the functional equivalent of stabbing Goldman Sachs in the back.
The hearing in an overflowing courtroom (an additional room was arranged for the screening of the proceedings) had its elements of drama. The judge was leaving after reading out the sentence when the defence sought further relaxations. The court agreed to push the surrender date to January 8, 2013, so that Gupta could spend the holidays with his family. Judge Rakoff also agreed to assign Gupta to a medium-security prison in Otisville in New York.
The defence highlighted the philanthropic initiatives spearheaded by Gupta, including his contributions to the fight against AIDS and malaria, a fact that was acknowledged by the judge.
The court can say without exaggeration that it has never encountered a defendant whose prior history suggests such an extraordinary devotion, not only to humanity writ large, but also to individual human beings in their times of need, Judge Rakoff said.
Guptas attorney Gary P Naftalis argued unsuccessfully that his client should not be sent to prison as his fall from grace of Greek tragedy proportions was harsher punishment than incarceration. Judge Rakoff, however, noted that insider trading was a crime that was easy to commit and hard to catch, and the need for a deterrent was strong.
The defence suggested community service in Rwanda as possible punishment, a proposal that the judge termed innovative, but dismissed as peace corps for insider traders.
The judge agreed with the prosecutions view that Gupta breached an extraordinary position of trust. The jury in June found that Gupta disclosed two confidential pieces of information a $5 billion investment in Goldman Sachs by


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May 5, 2006
NIU vs. Toledo Game 1 NIU vs. Toledo Game 2
DeKALB, IL -- Coming into the final weekend of Mid-American Conference play, Northern Illinois University's softball team had to win two of their four weekend games in order to clinch a spot in the league tournament. With the sweep of the University of Toledo Rockets, the Huskies did just that, earned themselves the seventh seed on the march to Midland, MI.
To start the day, Toledo first baseman Leslie Stong led off the game with a solo homerun to give the Rockets (13-38, 4-14 MAC) an early 1-0 lead. But that wouldn't last long as the Huskies had quite a few runs in their bats this afternoon.
NIU (21-24, 10-10 MAC) put up back-to-back three-run innings. The second inning started with a solo shot by centerfielder Kelly Park (North Aurora, IL/West Aurora). A subsequent walk by catcher Elyse Jamrozy (Brookfield, IL/Riverside-Brookfield) put a runner on for freshman first baseman Randi Kreiter (Deerfield, IL/Deerfield) to blast her second career homerun over the right field fence. In the bottom of the third, the Huskies kept the scoring alive by putting another trio of runs on the board. Shortstop Krista McPherson (Beecher, IL/Beecher) led off the frame with a double and later scored when leftfielder Kelly Drozd (Lockport, IL/Lockport) reached on a Toledo error to give NIU the 4-1 lead. After two Huskie outs, Jamrozy ripped a two-run blast to make it 5-1.
Two innings later, the Huskies added another run when Park made her way to third base on a walk, a passed ball, a Jamrozy single. The junior then scored when a fielder's choice to home plate turned into an errant throw, allowing NIU to add yet another run. Finally in the Huskie half of the sixth, second baseman Jenna Roberts (Verona, WI/Verona) led off the inning with a walk and then trucked home on a McPherson triple to right center.
In the second, The Huskies added two more when second baseman Bailey Ouellette (Beaverton, OR/Beaverton) led off the inning with a single and scored on Kreiter's second round-tripper of the day. With a Toledo run in the top of the third, the Huskies came into their half of the frame with a 5-1 lead and promptly extended their lead seven. With one out, Park reached on a Toledo error and then scored on a double by Jamrozy. Pinch running for Jamrozy, Katie Colby (Waukesha, WI/Waukesha) then scored on Ouellette's second hit of the game, this time a double for the seven run lead. One inning later, McPherson and Drozd led off with back-to-back infield singles. The duo were then advanced a base on a sacrifice bunt by Nendza. Park was then hit by a pitch to load the bases just before Jamrozy earned her fourth RBI of the day by patiently waiting for four balls to pass by walking with the bases loaded.
In the bottom of the fifth, NIU put the nail in the coffin when designated player Jenna Mitchell (Matteson, IL/Rich South) reached on a Rocket error advanced to second on a walk by Roberts. Both Mitchell and Roberts took one more base on a wild pitch before McPherson laid down a squeeze and Mitchell was called safe as the ball rolled out of the glove of Toledo catcher Alison Hess.
Pitcher Lindsey LaChiana earned her thirteenth and fourteenth victories of the season by throwing 14 innings, giving up two runs (both solo homeruns) on only eight hits and striking out 13. The senior's nine-strikeout performance in game one was also her season-high. Jamrozy was 3-for-6 with four RBI while McPherson was 4-for-7 with three RBI.
"We had two good wins today," said head coach Donna Martin. "Lindsey pitched well and our defense made the plays when they needed to be made. Offensively, we really spread around the wealth today.
"I'm proud of our team came into today ready to play and ready to accomplish a goal (qualifying for the MAC tournament). We set that goal early in the season and it's always great when you can push yourself and accomplish a goal like that."
The Huskies have two games remaining in the regular season, both against Bowling Green State University. The Falcons are (33-21, 14-6 MAC) after splitting a doubleheader with Western Michigan University today. Saturday's (May 6) night game is scheduled for 6 p.m. before the Huskies celebrate Senior Day on Sunday (May 7) at 1 p.m.


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Any idea why the ymap Zimlet does not seem to work
with Firefox on Linux? I am not getting the missing map problem,
it just doesn't work at all. I checked the security settings in the
browser and I see nothing to prevent it. Java/JS enabled, no popup blocking.
I tested the same Zimbra mail site using IE6 and it works.


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My only issue lies in this screenshot, the path to be specific. The edges of the path does not blend with the grass (that darky brown bit) when in fact it should at least be the same colour as the grass, as this looks wrong.
I noticed that too a while ago, but forgot to change it. Thanks for reminding me! I'll get it done.
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