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Could explain me the difference between Perl and Python?
Sure I can, but first you explain to me the difference between a flower and an airplane
My point is, they are two different scripting languages and cannot be directly compared. If you want to know the difference, read some material on both languages and see for yourself
Perl is complex old language.
Python is new OO language designed to take the best from all languages.
I terms of cars:Perl is old dirty Range Rover without one wheel when Python is new concept with anti-gravitation drive from exhibition.
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Why do people say such ridiculous crap like that? I agree phthon is a great language, but perl is not a creaky old language chugging along on three wheels.
Phython is not all that new. Its only 4 years younger than perl, which appeared circa 1987, with python appearing circa 1991.
Perl and python have a lot in common. Automatic memory managment and dynamic data types make them very similar to write code for and think of in the same way. Both have a large library of modules.
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The differences are they are two different languages, and nothing more. Just like the differences between PHP and Python, Ruby and Python, C and Python and so on. There are always people that like one language or hear something about a language and believe what they hear, and use those feelings to act like one is better than the other. None of it is true. All of these languages are excellent. In fact, Perl is more mature than most and offers better reliability and security than most (comparing it to things like PHP, for example, and that's not to say PHP is bad).
Perl also offers OO if you want to use it, it's just not forced on you by design. Some people think that makes Perl a worse choice compared to Python. Again, that is not the case. That's like saying C is not good because C++ exists and is OO. It doesn't at all take anything away from C and it's a standard and is excellent. Perl is very powerful and very flexible. If you understand the language well enough, you can have scripts be stable, secure and work bug free for many, many years. There are absolutely no drawbacks to Perl. The same is true of Python, if you know it well, then you'll be set.
Perl has been widely used for decades and remains well used and powerful. It's always growing, just like Python, PHP and Ruby. You can't lose knowing any of them. Look into them and see what one's you like best and excel it in, or just learn both. It truly gets tiring seeing people bash languages that they don't understand at all, when they are excellent choices.
All of these languages are excellent.
It can't be! If they are different then something must better and something is not so excellent.If we have Hundai, Toyota and Jaguar. Can we say all these cars are excellent?
Programming language must be simple to read and easy to learn and write.Perl and C are examples of most complex languages among popular languages.
I do not think it worth to invest in Perl coding if you are able to use different language.
To assume that some languages must be poor languages because of the "choice" is more than a little short sighted. This is like saying that one car is a better one than another because of the color options. Just because you like one car better than another because of the color, doesn't mean it's a better car, especially for someone else that doesn't care about the color, but the use.
Clearly, some languages are better suited for certain tasks, but they can all perform mostly the tasks, and many just as well as the other, provided you compare one proficient programmer in one language to another in another language.
I'm sorry, but you're just showing ignorance about programming if you claim that they "mist be simple to read and easy to learn". The famous "C Programming Language" book by Kernighan and Ritchie is ~190 pages, without the attached reference manual, which only brings it to a total of 258 pages. It's short, easy to understand and one of the most powerful and most used languages in the world for the last 30 years,
The Perl language is painfully easy to use and understand. Perl, like C, and like PHP, Ruby, Python, C++, and any other language, can certainly get involved and complex, but only if you make it complex. Nothing in any language is difficult to grasp. If you don't have the mind for it, and thus think it's too complex, then you don't understand it, and you not understanding it doesn't make it a poor choice for someone else.
In fact, for web applications and data processing, especially working with text (which 99% of the web related files are made of), it's a superior choice. Again, simply because you don't agree it's easy or readable or non complex, doesn't make it so. I should know, I've been coding in all of these languages for years, and I'd certainly know if one was that much more complex over another.
I don't recommend anyone listen to this guy. It's ludicrous to claim that Perl should be avoided. Notice I'm not bashing any language, because they are all worth learning, and Perl is certainly common and powerful enough to justify. Just knowing only Perl would provide you with the tools to do anything anyone could throw at you that can be done in any other interpreted language. It's sad to see people making claims about programming languages, arguing and flaming about it, when they have no basis for doing so.
I can't agree that web apps is all about text processing.
Does Perl is exactly easy to read and understand as Java or Python or even PHP?
I think it's obvious that how "easy" a language is to read, depends on the person and what languages they know. You don't know Perl, you claim to know Java and Python, so of course it's going to look unfamiliar to you. If you had someone that just coded in PHP or Perl look at Python or Ruby code, there would be a lot of things they didn't understand either. How can you actually argue that Perl is a poor language because you don't know it? If you knew it, you'd therefore be able to understand it and it would be easy to read and use. If it WASN'T easy to read and use, then that shows that you don't know it. You can't have it both ways.
That's like saying that a spoken language (French, for example) is more complicated and not as good of a language as Russian. Well, if you KNEW Russian and not French, then clearly French is going to appear to be more difficult to read and understand. That doesn't mean one is better than the other, unless you happen to be living in Russia or France. For example, it's clear that English isn't your first language, so maybe you're just not understanding it, and maybe it makes you angry? Quick, what is the best spoken language in your opinion and what one is a bad choice to learn if you wanted to learn a foreign language?
Actually, never mind, I see your problem. You're one of those people that bashes languages you don't understand. I just read over this thread: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=573113 and after seeing you actually blame the PHP language because of how poorly a web host decides to set it up or fail to secure the server, I don't think debating about languages with you will get either of us anywhere. For your information, there are plenty of exploited scripts/programs that are insecure which are written in a lot of languages and use a lot of different API's/interfaces.
The fact you continue to yell about how PHP is bad because someone decides to run it insecurely and in the Apache API as a module and without any real security settings, shows you know nothing about the most basic things regarding the languages and how they are ran. The user PHP scripts run as have nothing to do with the language. For your information, Ruby and Python can run as the global web server user (nobody) as well, and on a poorly set up server, you can still read other user's files. That's not the language's fault, it's the server admin's fault for not setting up a secure web server environment.
A poorly coded script doesn't mean the language is poor. An insecure script doesn't mean the language is insecure. An insecure server setup doesn't mean the language is insecure. For example, we run PHP with the suPHP wrapper and PHP scripts run as the user's own ID, not the global web server user (nobody). We implement many things to run it securely, but it's not the language, it's the interface and how it runs in the web service. I'm not going to get into a debate, especially if it's not based on anything legitimate. I'm not upset that you feel the way you do about Perl, but for God's sake, man, have a rational and valid reason to argue that a language is bad.
Offtopic: PHP for me is not just language but how it is used. When I spoke about PHP I mean how it is used usually. (I think php thread is closed if you wish to reopen it then we will talk in different thread not here)
I have programmed multi-process daemon many years ago in Perls + many cron tab scripts.I remember that default Perl build does not support threads and many perl modules are not thread safe.
I think Python has a better threads support.
What is important for me is that Perl is hard to read. It is hard to read perl code.When I firstly read Python code I understood it.
Please don't formulate your opinion as a fact. I'm sure there are people out there that find Python hard to read, and Perl easy.
Like The Greer tried to explain to you several times, its a matter of opinion. It's okay to express that opinion, but right now you're only using the authority argument to try and win some argument that can't be won, because there is no "good" and "bad" in this matter.
Ok. That is my opinion but we are sharing our opinions about Perl vs Python
Let wait when someone will tell that python is harder to read or more complex to learn.
The problem was your first "opinion" was so one sided and not correct (although it is an opinion so there might not be a correct or incorrect) there is no way to want to agree with anything you said. My experience is that perl is harder to learn, not by much, python is easier to read, but not by much.
Does one outperform the other? Depends on the application. Perl makes writing real world applications fast and easy, python might too but I don't have enough experience to say with any authority.
That ends my participation in this thread.
Okay, how about this then; I was using Perl back before Python was created. A few years after Python was more popular, I looked into it and attempted to browse over some code. It was more difficult to read and understand. Why? Because it was new to me and I knew Perl well. Does that somehow mean that Python wasn't as good as Perl? Of course not. So, at that time, Python was indeed more difficult to read. As for how "complex" a language is, I suppose if you don't know it at all and try and understand it, it'll appear to be complex. Anything will be complex in appearance if you don't know it. I really don't see any room for debate here, and continuing this conversation would be a waste of time better spent on other things.
Probably the biggest difference off the bat is that Python uses whitespace (ie, indentation) as syntax, in that it is required. I don't know of any other language that does this.
Python's OO implementation is probably better than Perl's (or at least a bit more intuitive). I love Perl but I'm not a fan of writing OO code in it. On the other hand, Perl's regular expression implementation is a lot more intuitive than Python's (and just about every other language as well). Regexes are a bit of an arcane tool, but incredibly useful once you get familiar with them.
Perl and Python are pretty ubiquitous too. Perl comes with just about every modern Linux/BSD distro (I think Python does too) and both are available on Win32 platforms as well.
I don't know nearly as much about Python as I do about Perl, but I think you'd be fine doing either. I think Perl is falling into disuse as a web language in recent years, but it's still arguably the most useful sysadmin's scripting language.
Python didn't come in the box with my Debian 4 (Etch) installation, had to add it manually.I believe Perl came in the box
Well, you could stretch that buy saying that there are official packages for it for about any distribution without having to otherwise configure or leave apt-get
Yes, it's probably just a single shell command away on any distro.


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An $18,000 tool intended to reduce the severity of playground accidents has sat in city storage for more than a year.
In 2010, the City of Winnipeg contributed $3,600 toward the purchase of an $18,000 Triax 2000 machine, which measures the impact of falls from play structures. The remainder of the money was raised through grants and partnerships with the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority and the Manitoba Association of School Trustees.
The Triax 2000 stands on three legs and has a steel baseball-size device hanging by a cord in the centre. When the device is activated, the ball drops to the ground and measures the hardness of the surface in G-force units, generating a graph that can be viewed on site and later uploaded to a computer.
Accidents happen, but the severity of them can be reduced if the machine's measurements are used to make changes to a playground.
However, the Triax needs a tune-up.
In 2010, the year it was purchased, it was used a total of 30 times. It hasn't been used since, as it has to be sent to the New Jersey manufacturer to be recalibrated at a cost of $822, plus shipping. The city said the machine is sitting in storage.
"Thankfully, we've had no injuries to our children. However, accidents happen. The schools really need to take a look at the incidents that happen on their playgrounds," said Melissa Shatford, who has two children going to Highbury School in the Louis Riel School Division.
"If this tool is available for them to determine whether their playground is safe or not, then they should be utilizing it."
Dave Domke, the city's manager of parks and open spaces, said the city purchased the Triax machine as a research tool and never intended to use it on every playground. He said the machine is used to audit one aspect of current playground safety conditions, and inspectors typically monitor playground safety through visual inspections.
He said winter is the best time of year to send it for recalibrating, but the city went all last winter without sending it in for that purpose. As a result, no research using the Triax was done during the summer this year.
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For anyone that says this is stupid please let us know what YOU have invented, hold patents on and are trying to protect. If your answer is none then you have no right to pass judgement.
But I guess it is easier to sensationalize to get an audience than to report the entire story.
[Update] Judge: Only the Gallery Infringement Claim is Valid, Samsung Will Continue to Sell Phones Pending Application Update. [Update] Judge: Only the Gallery Infringement Claim is Valid, Samsung Will Continue to Sell Phones Pending Application Update
Patent wars are stupid to begin with, rather than innovate and bring products which attract customers, companies like Apple and others would rather sue competitors in order to block their products from reaching an audience of those looking for alternatives. Even more ridiculous is when Apple falsifies information about the competitors' products they claim infringes on theirs, for example, changing image ratios of the Samsung Galaxy S, Galaxy S II, and Galaxy Tablets on the report in order for Samsung's products to be scaled in a way to look more like Apple iPhones and iPads.
So is Apple just gonna go from country to country until they get what they want?
That's whats wrong. Apple should not have been given patents for so much generic crap that has been implemented for years. But money talks, and the patent officers are probably sitting on thick brown envelopes.It appears Apple's ability to patent everything that iPhone does from the device's physical appearance to user interface is going to pay off handsomely.
I still don't understand why Samsung is the sole target. LG Prada (2006) "looks" like an iPhone, every digital photo frame "looks" like an iPad. I'm delighted the Judge has told Apple their "Slide to Unlock" argument and 9 other arguments are invalid. Maybe this judge can't be bought.
The idea and design of iPhones and iPads isn't Apple's doing. The idea and design of such devices are decades old.
If you can't handle the competition....then sue I guess.
i said it before let me say it again once ios5 is out android and blackberry will sue the **** out of apple im so glad i sold my iphone and got a android so much better and apple knows it the reason it goes after samsung is because they are partners and that samsung has the biggest and best phone right now suing and blocking only makes apple look even more scared ios5 is way behind other software. removed
If you can't beat them then sue them. That should be Apples motto.
lol. Blow to the gut? This is a speed bump for Samsung....nothing more. And I wouldn't call the exclusion of the Galaxy Tab a "small win".....that's a very significant win considering what Apple was shooting for.
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Now, prosecutors say that a second suspect may be on the run, identifying in CCTV footage a man carrying a large bag next to Khalid El Bakraoui in the metro, French and Belgian media reports. Prosecutors reportedly are not sure if the fifth suspect died in the attack or escaped the blast. Peter Weber
Powerball officials say a sole ticket-buyer in Massachusetts has won the massive $758.7 million jackpot, the second-largest Powerball win in U.S. history, after correctly picking all six numbers for Wednesday night's drawing — 6, 7, 16, 23, 26, and Powerball 4. The lucky Bay Stater snapped a streak of 20 jackpot-less Powerball draws. There were also some lesser winners — two tickets sold in Florida matched the first five numbers, earning $1 million apiece, while four people won $200,000 and 24 players won $50,000. Powerball tickets — sold in 44 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands — cost $2, and the odds of winning the jackpot were about 1 in 292.2 million. The winner can take a lump sum of $480.5 million or opt for 30 payments over 29 years. Most winners choose the cash payout. Peter Weber
On Wednesday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) declared a pre-emptive state of disaster for 30 counties and Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) set up a crisis task force to prepare for Tropical Storm Harvey, expected to make landfall in Texas on Friday night or Saturday morning as a Category 1 hurricane. The National Weather Service and state and local officials are especially worried about Harvey because it is slow-moving and expected to dump 10-15 inches of rain or more on Houston and surrounding areas over the weekend as it crawls northeastward. The National Weather Service issued its first-ever storm surge watch for Calhoun County, Texas, some 150 miles southwest of Houston, meaning that water could rise 4 to 6 feet above ground.
Harvey "could become the first major natural disaster of the Trump presidency," warns Eric Holthaus at Grist. "This is the kind of storm you drop everything to pay attention to." It has already been a wet August for the Texas Gulf Coast, and so the ground is saturated and primed to flood, while Houston is especially vulnerable to devastating floods because of poor city planning and lots of pavement, he notes, and the worst models have 20 to 40 inches of rain dumping on parts of Texas and Louisiana.
GFS 12z solution for #Harvey is an epic deluge as system meanders through SE Texas for many days. Flooding obviously major concern. pic.twitter.com/b13ge4jIoR
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Then there's the warming climate, Holthaus says:
Floods like the one in the worst Harvey forecasts have come at an increasingly frequent pace. Since the 1950s, the Houston area has seen a 167 percent increase in heavy downpours. At least four rainstorms so severe they would occur only once in 100 years under normal conditions have hit the area since May 2015. With a warmer climate comes faster evaporation and a greater capacity for thunderstorms to produce epic deluges. ... If Harvey's rains hit the coast with anywhere near the force of the most alarming predictions, we'd be in for disaster. And judging by how New Orleans and Houston have handled recent rains, coupled with the state of federal disaster relief, we're not ready for it. [Grist]
You can read more about Harvey's dangers as Grist. Peter Weber
For their first wedding anniversary, Susan Landis gave her husband, Sam, a gift that changed his life: A DNA kit that connected him to the family he'd spent decades wondering about.
Sam Landis was adopted in 1974 by a couple in Cincinnati. He was six months old at the time, and because it was a closed adoption, he was never able to find any of his biological relatives. After Susan gave him the DNA kit, they waited for the results and ultimately connected with a cousin, leading Landis to his birth father, Greg Baker. "I don't have any regrets and I know he doesn't either, and the time was just right for us to meet," Landis told WLWT. "It was God's timing."
Landis and his wife flew to Orlando, where they met Baker, his mother, and his wife; Landis also found out that his birth mother died in 1997 and that he has a half-sister. "When I saw him and he looked just like me, there's no doubt," he said. "A DNA test wasn't even needed. I can't even explain the joy that I felt and then when I got to hold him and hug him. I felt that we belonged together." Baker told WLWT he always wanted to search for his son, but respected the fact it was a closed adoption. "I always thought about him, always prayed for him," he said. Catherine Garcia
They didn't speak the same language, but it didn't matter — two young baseball players at the Little League World Series used technology to communicate.
The coolest thing I've seen today: players from the DR and South Dakota having a conversation w/ @Google translate. #MLBLittleLeagueClassic pic.twitter.com/qUyVZPgr44
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Former ESPN anchor Bob Holtzman was at the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, on Sunday when he stumbled upon a familiar scene: Two boys glued to their phones. But it turned out they weren't focusing on a game or surfing the internet — the players, one from South Dakota and the other from the Dominican Republic, were using Google Translate to talk to each another. Holtzman tweeted that watching these kids form a new friendship was the "coolest thing" he saw that day. Catherine Garcia
One of the peculiarities of baseball is that in some of the most memorable games, very little happens. So it was in Pittsburgh on Wednesday night. Dodgers left-hander Rich Hill pitched eight perfect innings, until Pirates shortstop Jordy Mercer got to base on an error in the bottom of the ninth. Hill still had a no-hitter when the 0-0 game went into extra innings, and then Josh Harrison stepped up to plate in the bottom of the 10th.
An incredible way to lose a no-hitter for Rich Hill. Josh Harrison, walk it off pic.twitter.com/Fds5GlirhK
— Dugout Nation (@DugoutNation) August 24, 2017
Harrison's leadoff homer ended the game and Hill's (9-5) no-hitter, giving Pittsburgh the win and Hill the loss.
Rich Hill:
After 8 innings: Perfect game
After 9 innings: No-hitter
After 10 innings: A loss
Life comes at you fast.
— YourSports (@YourSports) August 24, 2017
According to ESPN's statisticians, Hill still walked away with a record of sorts, albeit one he probably didn't want.
Rich Hill is the first pitcher in the last 100 seasons to throw at least 9 innings, allow 1 or fewer hits with no walks, and get a loss.
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) August 24, 2017
The last perfect game — where a pitcher doesn't allow any runner to reach base — in the major leagues was in 2012, when Seattle's Felix Hernandez shut out Tampa Bay. Los Angeles could have retired Hill after nine innings, but according to The Associated Press, "to get official credit for a no-hitter under Major League Baseball rules, a pitcher must complete the game — going nine innings isn't enough if it goes into extras." Still, cold comfort though it may be, Hill isn't alone in coming close and losing it all, AP notes: "Back in 1959, a Pirates pitcher had perhaps the most famous near-miss of all when Harvey Haddix lost his perfect game and the game itself in the 13th at Milwaukee." Peter Weber
More than 1,000 demonstrators marched to the National Football League's headquarters in Manhattan on Wednesday, in support of former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
Kaepernick was criticized by some people for his decision to not stand during the national anthem, in protest of police brutality against blacks. In March, he opted out of his contract with the team he led to a Super Bowl, and he remains unsigned; supporters say he is being punished for his activism. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has denied that the league is blackballing him.
The demonstrators want to see Kaepernick signed by the start of the regular season in September. Many wore jerseys with Kaepernick's name on the back, The Associated Press reports, and chanted, "Boycott! Boycott!" Several people spoke, including Rev. Jamal Bryant, who asked the crowd: "How in the world can we call ourselves the land of the free, the home of the brave, and you get vilified and criminalized just for speaking your mind? The NFL has proven with their treatment of Colin Kaepernick that they do not mind if black players get a concussion, they just got a problem if black players get a conscience." Catherine Garcia
The White House is preparing to send the Pentagon a memo with instructions on how to implement President Trump's proposal to ban transgender people from serving in the armed forces, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The new policy will let Defense Secretary James Mattis consider a service member's ability to deploy when deciding whether to remove him or her from the military, the Journal reports, and it gives Mattis six months to re-establish the ban on transgender soldiers. The memo also directs the Pentagon to stop paying for gender dysphoria treatments for transgender military members currently serving. Trump announced on Twitter last month he would reinstate the ban on transgender individuals serving in the military, a year after it was abolished by former President Barack Obama. Catherine Garcia


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Son of John H. Bledsoe and Mary A. Kernes. On the 1880 census for Russell Co., KY, young Kotz is listed as "Kotzibus." He first married Orianna (Ora) Chamberlain, of Barbourville, Knox Co., KY, in about 1893. In 1894, they had a son, Clyde C., but the marriage soon ended in divorce. K. B. Bledsoe worked as the local newspaper editor while he lived in Barbourville. Later, after moving away, he became an insurance agent and married Ruby E. Young, with whom he had a daughter, Mary L. In 1930, they were living in Louisville, KY. Kotz B. Bledsoe served in the War with Spain, enlisting in 1898.
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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
What's the best way to get in the door of a top prospect?
This question has to rank among the top five most commonly asked questions from business development professionals. It's asked in a variety of ways including:
No matter how the question is asked, the answer is always the same: If you want to get in the door, you need to give the prospect a reason to open it.
The two most important things a business owner or professional has are time and money. When you ask for an appointment you are taking up both of those, so it better be worth it for them to meet with you.
4 Steps To Success
If you want to be successful at business development, if you want to not only get in the door, but also have a successful meeting and leave with a definite next step, then you must know and follow four strategies to get you in the door!
Walk a mile in their shoes– Steven Covey said it best: "Seek first to understand." If you want to get in the door, then you must first understand why that door is closed and what it means to get it open. All too often as business development professionals we are only thinking about the sales calls from our point of view, why we need to get in the door and why we need this meeting? If you want to get the door open, then take the time to walk a mile in your prospects' shoes, and get clear in your mind as to why it is worth it for them to give up both their time and money to meet with you. Shift your paradigm (and your body language and energy) to ensure they understand you, respect what they are giving up to meet with you, and you are clear in your mind their return on investment.
Give 'em a reason– Would you give up your precious time or resources to meet with someone you have never met from a company you know nothing about? I would guess no. You need to have built your reputation to proceed itself and, if possible, you need to find a meeting, a networking event, a connection, some way somewhere to meet and/or connect with your prospect before you ask for a meeting.
Make it sexy– If you want to not only get in the door but stay in the door, you need to be a value-add business development officer. Invest in their success before you even think about them investing in yours. You need to be more attractive, more enticing than all the other business development officers out there, and I am not talking about a losing 10 pounds or buying a new outfit. The only thing "sexy" to a business owner or CEO is how you can make their business more success and their life easier. You need to be ready to do that earlier and more often, and beyond the scope of them just investing in your products and services.
Stay in the game– Sometimes CEOs really are too busy to meet with you. If you want the doors to open, and if you want to land the business, you need to understand sometimes that it takes time. Patience is a virtue. Your job is to stay in the game, continue to find ways to connect and add value; before you know it, that door will open and the meeting will happen.
Meridith Elliott Powell, author of "Winning in the Trust and Value Economy" (2013) is an internationally certified coach, speaker and business development expert. She is founder and owner of MotionFirst, where she helps executives and business owners build cultures that make sales fun, easy and incredibly productive.


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A caller to the Bill Bennett Morning in America radio show last Wednesday claimed Tea Party supporters are "anarchists" and want to bring down the government.
Ever the gentleman, Dr. Bennett patiently asked the caller where and who he had heard this from. The caller couldn't cite any source.
We can: It came from the ether, where overheated rhetoric hovers like foul smog over our politics.
The hyperbole was particularly gaseous during the government shutdown. The left called conservative Americans, many of whom support the Tea Party agenda, "arsonists," "jihadists" and "terrorists." And, oh yeah, "anarchists."
The rhetoric is delusional, dangerous, unproductive and unfair.
Remember a few years ago when Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and several others were shot by a deranged gunman in Tucson, Ariz.? The left and their compliant media immediately, almost reflexively, blamed conservatives and conservative rhetoric. As it turned out, of course, the shooting had nothing to do with that. But liberals nonetheless lectured conservatives about the perils of over-the-top verbiage.
Well, look who's over the top now.
Atlanta editorialist Cynthia Tucker didn't stop with Tea Party supporters. She blamed whites in general for the shutdown.
"I knew some whites would have difficulty w/ a browner America but didn't know they'd wanna destroy the country over it," she wrote in a posting on Twitter.
Wow. Neither did we!
All this blather has an effect – like convincing a radio caller that the goal is anarchy.
An Internet video this past week also showed that a number of people on the street even blame former President George W. Bush – who left office in 2009 – for this month's government shutdown.
There's little doubt that conservatives in Congress have tripped over themselves with their brinksmanship. This page, while supportive of the Tea Party's ends, has criticized the recent tactics.
But, as a CNN reporter remarkably cautioned a biased CNN anchor recently: "Let's be careful about using the term 'radical,' because a lot of those folks feel like they're standing on principle today, even though they didn't come out on top in this."
Thank you.
In addition, how about some perspective? How about a little fairness? How about a little even-handedness?
Yes, again, even this page, which supports the Tea Party, disagrees with what their favorite congressmen did in the case of the shutdown. But is seeking a sane and moral budget – one that doesn't immorally steal from future generations – really all that "radical"? Is it radical or extreme to ask the government to live within its means, as every one of our families must, in order to stave off bankruptcy and ruin?
Moreover, what about the folks on the other side of this dispute? Those who seek only to spend what we don't have, who blindly support "borrowing" trillions from future generations, who risk bankrupting the country and perhaps someday collapsing the dollar (China is already pushing the world to leave the dollar behind)? Isn't that more properly the radical position in this debate? They maintain, as Nancy Pelosi did recently, that there's absolutely nothing to cut in the budget and that, in fact, the government needs more of our money.
That's preposterous and insulting, and quite suicidal for the republic.
What happens when future generations are saddled with both our ongoing debt (about $17 trillion and counting) and the currently unfunded costs of Social Security and health care for future retirees (an estimated $90 trillion-plus)? What will their quality of life be? Or is ours so much more important than theirs?
We'd say that kind of indifference, neglect and injustice is the real radical position.


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Goddess Renuka is associated with the Goddess Yellamma worship in Karnataka and parts of Andhra Pradesh,
Legend has it that Renuka was the wife of Sage Jamadagni and he suspected her of infidelity and ordered Parashurama to behead her. Lord Parashurama obeyed his father and when Sage Jamadagni wanted to reward his son, Lord Parashurama asked him to bring back his mother. Thus Renuka, the mother of Lord Parashurama, was brought back to life.
This story found numerous interpretations in rural culture and Renuka is believed to be an incarnation of Goddess Durga and in this incarnation she represented the fate of many rural women who were falsely accused of infidelity or other crimes.
Goddess Renuka performs the role of Mother Goddess and is responsible for the welfare of her devotees, for curing diseases and protecting the cattle. A large number of Goddesses worshipped in rural culture are forms of Goddess Durga. She is given different rural names and characteristics but her role remains the same that of the Mother Goddess.


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We may not be ready to hear this yet, but the Holiday season is upon us. If visiting Washington, DC during the Holiday months, and intend to attend some of the season shows you may want to plan ahead and purchase tickets now.
The American Ballet Theatre will be featuring the NutCracker at the Kennedy Center's Opera house from December 8th-11th. Tickets for this show sell out quickly. Prices range from $45-$150, and may be purchased on the Kennedy Center's website. Please visit Kennedy Center's website for additional information on this show and other shows being featured. The Kennedy Center is accessible by the the Foggy Bottom metro station, serviced by the blue and orange lines. The Kennedy Center offers a free shuttle service that runs in 15 minute increments just steps away from the metro station's entrance.
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>Running 101>Staying entertained? Stuck on a dreadmill.
Roads were made for journeys...
Out of curiosity ... why are you stuck on the t(d)readmill? Why not run outside (at least for the next month or two)?
Click on the link on the first post...
Okay, maybe it won't help, but it should make you laugh!
Stuck on the Dreadmill for the weekday workouts so far because ... 2) I haven't managed to convince my body it loves running so much to wake up at an ungodly hour to get it done first thing in the morning.
Princess Cancer Pants
There are people in here with asthma. I think zoom-zoom's one of them.
• Chemo
• Chemo-Radiation
• Surgery
• Return to kicking my own ass by 2018
She was not strong. She was valiant. Radiant. Brave and broken. The beauty she discovered in the aftermath was unparalleled to anything she had known before, because it had come at such a cost.
~ Unknown
This will be my first Winter running, so I wonder what that will do to my lungs. I can remember in HS that I didn't like running outdoors when it was really cold and dry and that it led to a bad hacking cough, but I'm not sure if that was an asthmatic issue, or just general dryness irritating my throat.
The hacking cough I had today I am pretty sure was asthmatic related, and I know it gets worse with heavy pollution which is fairly common here in the winter if we don't get rain.
I spent a semester in the UK back in the early 90s and got sick with some nasty sinus bug that had me feeling like death for 3 weeks and crap for the following 3. I'm certain their cold, damp weather combined with the awful pollution didn't help matters. That was before I was diagnosed with any sort of asthma, but I have always had sinus issues and it really made life miserable for a while. I probably should have been on an antibiotic for a bacterial infection, since I had all of the symptoms that I now have when I get raging sinus infections.


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We got a puzzle. I'm not sure what prompted us to buy it, but the design of a collage of coffee cups was appealing. The box clearly stated "500 pieces." It seemed like a good winter activity. We opened the box and poured it out on an old enamel table in the kitchen, immediately catching the puzzle bug.
I have no idea why we were somewhat obsessed with putting together this puzzle, but it was difficult to walk by the puzzle pieces without stopping at that table and finding a piece or two that would fit. Other times, several minutes would go by, as piece after piece were fit together. The entire puzzle took one week. We were pretty proud of our handiwork.
OK, we couldn't wait to go out and get another one. Since we accomplished the 500-piece puzzle in such a short time, we opted for a 750-piece one this time.
This puzzle has an intricate design of front doors. It was rather daunting, and the box laid unopened on that same enamel table for a couple of weeks. Finally, though, I opened it up, and was quite surprised. The 750 pieces looked more like 7,500 pieces, and each piece was very small. I put the lid back on the box and continued to ignore it.
Remember those puzzles you had as a kid? You sorted through the pieces, searching for all the ones with a straight edge, since those pieces would create the border of your picture. Then you started filling in the blank space inside the border; before long, your picture was complete. Not so easy.
I stood in front of the puzzle pieces and attempted to find the ones with the straight edges. I'm sure we spent hours on that task alone. Finally accomplishing the border wasn't very satisfying, especially with what seemed like a bazillion more pieces staring back at me from inside the box. To make matters worse, it was difficult to actually see any of the patterns on the pieces with my not-so-young eyes. And on top of that, it was difficult to tell if the pieces really fit, or they just kind of fit ... which usually meant they didn't fit at all.
And so it was the other night when I pulled up a kitchen chair to the table and sat before a mountain of puzzle pieces that had yet to find a home. I attempted a few pieces that didn't come close to fitting and sorted through the mountain of remaining puzzle pieces. Before I knew it ... I was lost in thought instead of focusing on this collage of front doors before me.
Probably 30 minutes went by before I came to a realization that has continued to knock on the front door in my own mind. I found it rather ironic that night that as I sat before this conglomeration of puzzle pieces, of how much this puzzle resembled my life ... maybe your life too?
You see, when we first start out, we are given a lot of guidelines about life ... kind of like the border pieces of the puzzle before me. And then ... a myriad of circumstances/experiences happen in our lives — kind of like the myriad of puzzle pieces before me. Like we attempt to make all those puzzle pieces fit inside the border, so do we attempt to make all of life's experiences/circumstances fit too. Sometimes the pieces fit; sometimes they don't ... as we attempt to finish our own personal picture.
Putting together the puzzle — whether it's the one on the old, antique enamel table or the one of my life — is a process. And when you finally put that last piece into the jigsaw puzzle — or you take your last breath and finish your personal puzzle, you end up with a picture that tells the trials and tribulations, the good and the bad, the irregular issues and the common pieces that make up your life.
Puzzling? Perhaps I shouldn't get so nutty about making all the pieces fit ... rather just enjoy the process of putting all those pieces together.


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Shayna Leib - Glass Art
I am speechless when it comes to this fresh artist and the amazing colors she uses to recreate glass that appears be coral on the ocean bottom. A huge fan of glass artist Chihuly, I think she surpasses him in talent (yes, I said it). Take a peek at her website and be blown away.


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A roundup of trading on major world markets.
NEW YORK - US stocks closed higher on Friday, with the S&P 500 hitting its highest level in five years, helped by a steady December jobs report and a surprise improvement in a key index for the service sector.
The December job creation numbers came in at a modest 155,000, not enough to spark great optimism but showing strength given the unsteady political policy climate of recent months.
In addition the latest ISM index on the service sector showed unexpected growth in December, the fastest in 10 months, led by new orders and employment.
That helped the Dow Jones Industrial Average finish up 43.85 points, or 0.33 per cent, at 13,435.21.
The broad-based S&P 500 advanced 7.10 points, or 0.49 per cent, to 1,466.47, its highest close since December 31, 2007.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite inched up just 1.09, or 0.04 per cent, to 3,101.66, held back by a 2.8 per cent fall in Apple shares.
LONDON - European stock markets rebounded from early losses as investors mulled the impact of US jobs data amid growing concerns over the Federal Reserve's bond-buying scheme.
Minutes from the Fed's December policy meeting indicated overnight that the US central bank's huge monetary easing measures could be scaled back sooner than expected.
But financial markets also had in hand the US government's jobs report for December, which showed only a bit of growth, as expected, prompting some to hope the Fed would stay in stimulus mode.
In London, the benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies added 0.7 per cent to close at 6,089.84 points.
Frankfurt's DAX 30 index was up by 0.26 per cent at 7,776.37 points and the Paris CAC 40 gained 0.24 per cent to 3,730.02.
HONG KONG - Tokyo and Shanghai stocks advanced on their first trading day of 2013, but other Asian markets were hit by profit-taking after the US fiscal cliff deal and fears over the Fed's bond-buying scheme.
Investors took their cue from New York, where equities ended in the red after minutes from the December Federal Reserve policy committee meeting indicated the bank's huge monetary easing measures could be scaled back sooner than expected.
Seoul was off 0.37 per cent, or 7.47 points, at 2,011.94, and Hong Kong shed 0.29 per cent, or 67.51 points, to 23,331.09.
Tokyo, however, climbed 2.82, or 292.93 points to 10,688.11 - having surged more than three per cent at one point - as the yen tumbled on relief over the fiscal cliff deal.
And Shanghai, which was also back for the first time this year, closed up 0.35 per cent, adding 7.86 points to 2,276.99.
WELLINGTON - New Zealand shares fell, as a rally that had pushed the NZX 50 Index to a near five-year high faltered on concerns the gains had left some equities fully valued.
The NZX 50 fell 7.3 points, or 0.2 per cent, to 4,075.04 points.


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2 Chainz, 'Based on a T.R.U. Story': Rapper Reveals Producers on LP, Speaks on Kanye West
Atlanta rapper 2 Chainz — previously known by the incredible moniker Tity Boi — has been making noise lately, bringing out surprise guests like T.I., Young Jeezy and French Montana during recent shows, adding southern validation to Drake's Club Paradise tour and logging collaborations with everyone from Gucci Mane and The Weeknd to Diddy and Chris Brown.
After he stood us up at SXSW so that he could hit the studio with Kanye West, The BoomBox finally got Chainz on the phone and talked with him about his upcoming album Based on a T.R.U. Story, his appearance on the new Nicki Minaj single "Beez in the Trap" and his incendiary new visual for "Riot," which premieres next week.
Tell us about your new video for "Riot." We heard there's a lot of fire involved.
Yeah, it's a movie. Should be coming out real soon. It's a lotta fire, a lotta black smoke, a lotta rioting. The whole inventory, you know what I mean? It felt good to do the video, it came together pretty cool. I can't wait to see it on my big screen.
What's the concept, besides that it's a riot?
That's basically the concept. Energy, crowd participation, riot gear. That became the concept.
How was SXSW?
SXSW was epic for me. I never been before, plan on going back. I had a couple shows there, the crowd was diverse, to say the least. I brought Kanye and Big Sean out one night, shut the whole event down. That's what I do, bring the new energy in, bring that swag. I was received very well down there, actually think I have a show coming up in Austin.
What was the highlight for you?
When I brought Kanye on stage, and then we went in my studio and got some work done — that was my highlight. It was wonderful, it's a great thing. Everybody was there, all the cameras. You know, surprises is always good for people. It was cool, it was whatever you can imagine. It was really dope, you know.
Watch 2 Chainz Perform With Kanye West at SXSW
Last year, Kanye's performance was the biggest event at SXSW. For him to come out as a surprise guest during your set was a huge.
Wow, I didn't know that. I'm like, I can't believe I didn't know about this damn event. I heard about it or something, but it's huge, and like I said, it was people everywhere. That was real dope, 'cause me and him [Kanye] have been talking, and he just was like "I might show up." I was kinda like, keeping my fingers crossed, you know.
We know you're into fashion, what did you think of the fashion at SXSW?
It wasn't much fashion there. It was hot, dry. People were kinda lettin' it hang out down there. Of course I was swagged up, but it wasn't a lotta fashion down there, in my opinion.
A lotta drunk people walking around?
Yeah, they cool.
You're on Drake's tour. What else do you have going on?
I've been doing spot dates, probably done about 200 shows in a couple years, so it's just workin'. I got "106 & Park" [this] week with Nicki Minaj. I have an album coming out this year, Based on a T.R.U. Story, so working on that, staying consistent.
Talk a little bit about the Nicki Minaj appearance, you're on her second single from her Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded album.
Yeah, it's just a love thing. I think she's performing a lotta records from her album there, so I'm there to show some support and everything, you know.
How was working with her?
It's cool, I've known Nicki for years. Shout out to Lil Wayne, Young Money. I've been extended family for years, so we hadn't been in the booth together, but we've been around each other, we've performed together, we road buses together. To finally get up and do a song and they react like this, it was real good for both of us, you know?
What's up with your album?
It's coming out this year. I'm excited about it. Great features. Excellent production. Still a work in progress. [I'm] about 75 percent done with that.
Any new collaborations?
I may talk about some producers, but I'm gonna have some elements of surprise on the album. Of course I'm workin' wit my Drumma Boys, my C-Notes, my Lex Lugers, my Mike Wills, plus this new generation, the new people that I'm working with as well. It's a well-put together project. It's conceptual, and you should be looking out for some new dope visuals too.
2 Chainz' Based on a T.R.U. Story will be in stores Aug. 14.
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Taylor Momsen is Still Flashing People
Taylor Momsen turns 18 next month which makes these nipple shenanigans less edgy and hXc with each passing day, but here she is performing in Leicestershire yesterday because I'm an historian. Years from now, we'll look back at these photos and go, "Man, I miss the sweet, innocent Taylor Momsen who just used to put electrical tape over her nipples," which will make a lot more sense once she starts making her vagina quote Edgar Allen Poe during her stage show. I don't see this going any other way.
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IT LACKS the romanticism of last week's five-wicket haul on debut at the MCG to bowl his team to victory, but for Fawad Ahmed, receiving his first full-time playing contract is nevertheless a significant milestone in his long journey to becoming a professional cricketer.
The leg-spinner's four appearances for Victoria - three one-dayers and one in the Sheffield Shield - have been enough to trigger an automatic upgrade from match payments to match payments and a healthy annual retainer.
Under the pay deal agreed between Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers' Association, those appearances have resulted in Ahmed's addition to the Bushrangers' contract list on the base deal of $50,000.
Although the season is nearly at an end, the Pakistan-born bowler is entitled to the entire amount over the next four months - and is on track for a larger contract when the Bushrangers review their squad at the end of the season.
Ahmed, 31, came to the attention of the Victorian hierarchy two years ago when he was combining playing duties for Hoppers Crossing in the Victorian Turf Cricket Association with a casual job in a warehouse, after he sought permission to attend Bushrangers training sessions.
He was accepted because ''we're always looking for net bowlers,'' said Shaun Graf, the general manager of operations at Cricket Victoria.
Ahmed was subsequently recruited to work in its Harmony in Cricket multicultural program, a role he maintains, but Cricket Victoria soon realised his potential for on-field honours.
''Early days, I remember 'Hodgey' [Brad Hodge] and 'Ronnie' [Andrew McDonald] saying, 'this guy is really good', and then he started getting a few of them out for fun. They all rated him,'' Graf said.
''One of the things that he did was that he just bowled, he just loved bowling. He'd be the first one to start and the last one to leave - and he's the same now. It's not as if we're giving him a free ride. He's performed at grade level and he's performing now at state level.''
Ahmed's first-class career in Pakistan was cut short by threats he received from religious fundamentalists who accused him of promoting Western culture by playing and coaching cricket.
While the obvious reaction to Ahmed's startling shield debut against Queensland last week was why had Victoria not selected him earlier - his match figures of 7-162 were the best by a debutant spinner since 1971-72 - he was not eligible for selection until his claim for asylum in Australia was accepted in mid-November.
The next hurdle Ahmed is aiming to clear is being made an Australian citizen, which would make him eligible to represent Australia immediately rather than wait for the deadline of August 18. For that to occur the federal government would have to expedite that process.
Graf said Ahmed's strict adherence to his Islamic religious beliefs had not hindered his integration with the Bushrangers squad.
''He's a really welcoming bloke … he's got a really good sense of humour,'' Graf said. ''Because of his religion he's obviously got his quiet time where he goes and prays, and we've had to make allowances for that at the MCG.
''He's fine, he mixes well. The guys respect his religion and his culture, and he's very respectful himself.
With Victoria having lost three first-choice bowlers - James Pattinson, Peter Siddle and Glenn Maxwell - to the Test team, Graf said the Bushrangers were rapt to be able to call on Ahmed for the last stanza of the season, including Wednesday's one-day cup final against Queensland.
He was also confident Ahmed would not be affected by speculation he is destined to play for Australia. The speculation increased after he received glowing reviews for his shield debut.
''He's a level-headed fellow. He's got a degree in international relations … so he's quite an intelligent fellow,'' Graf said. ''I don't think there's any problems at all. He'll be able to handle it.
''He's hungry to play - he's desperate - because he hasn't come through the system where we tend to reward people very early and they tend to get a bit ahead of themselves.
''He's a guy who's had it all taken away from him and all he wants to do now is play cricket because he loves it.''


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- We love summer. But let's face it, the sunny season has some drawbacks. It can be hot, sticky and full of sunburns and mosquitoes. A Grain of Paradise promises these berry cheesecake ice pops will make it all better whenever you get hit by the summer doldrums.
- The Mighty Girl is determined to try 1,000 different types of fruits in her lifetime. While we may not be quite as ambitious, we're excited to try her top 10.
- Becky Bakes' s'more pudding jars are fabulously simple. Pack them for the perfect picnic treat.
- More mason jar fun– Plan your lunch week ahead of time. These vegan salads by Healthy. Happy. Life keep fresh for up to 5 days.
- While you might not need another chocolate chip cookie recipe, you do need these tips from the pastry chef expertise of Brave Tart to perfect your next batch.
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- In need of a go-to recipe for chocolate chip cookies? Get Kelsey Nixon's essential take on the cookie here.
- Stay cool with refreshing strawberry mojito ice pops or paletas de pay de limon (lime pie ice pops).
- Give the gift of pie, with Kelsey's cherry pie in a jar.


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When it came to updating Flash Player, IT administrators used to face a common problem: The users on the systems are usually regular users, but they were prompted to update Flash Player. Since they don't have administrator rights, an update would always fail. This circle repeated itself once every 7 days, on average, until the IT administrator pushed an update to Flash Player to all affected systems.
A workaround was to set AutoUpdateDisable=1 in a mms.cfg file and to push this file to all systems. The user wouldn't be prompted to update anymore, but it didn't make it easier to update Flash Player.
Today, I'd like to introduce a new way to update Flash Player in a corporate environment: With the introduction of Adobe's Flash Player Background Updater, we made it easier for IT administrators to push updates to Flash Player. A detailed description is available in the Flash Player Administrator Guide. In general though, the way to do this is pretty simple. This is what you need:
- A server with the following configuration:
- Open port 80 for HTTP requests.
- Open port 443 for HTTPS requests.
- A valid SSL certificate for HTTPS access on port 443.
- The ability to store files on the server in an Adobe-specified folder structure.
- The ability to deploy mms.cfg configuration files to clients on the network.
Once these prerequisites are fulfilled, you can start mirroring the official builds from Adobe. For the latest and most up-to-date instructions on how to do this, please refer to the Flash Player Administrator Guide (p17-19).
I'd like to highlight a particularly informative blog post by Tyrone Wyatt. In his post, Tyrone explains how he managed to automate the mirroring of Flash Player builds onto his internal server. I did not get a chance to test this out for myself yet, but it seems like all the right ingredients are present to make this work on virtually any network. If you need some inspiration on how to automate your mirroring of Flash Player installers, I recommend you read Tyrone's blog post.
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ALVIN, Texas - An Amber Alert was for a 1-year-old boy was canceled after he was found safe.
Alvin police said Manuel Recendez was taken as his mom pushed him in a stroller on West Phillips near 2nd Street about 5:20 p.m.
Detectives said three males and two females in a white Nissan pulled up and took Manuel.
Shortly after 9 p.m., police said that Manuel was found safe.
One of the suspects who knew the parents' telephone number called to say they had taken the child, investigators said. Police said they were listening in on that call.
Officials said they negotiated with the suspects to drop the boy off at Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital on Astoria Boulevard near Beemer Road.
Police said four women took Manuel to the hospital. Those women were questioned, but officials have not named them as suspects.
Detectives have not released any information about the suspects who took Manuel, only saying they are looking for at least five people.
The motive for the kidnapping has not been released.
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Oh no! That kind of behavior is behind me now.
(But it's a good thing we aren't discussing tis in Arabic. LOL )
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Slava wrote: ... Now that you've brought it up, I've always enjoyed playing with words, and your board name is a good one. "Star" in Russian could be a shortened form of "stariy," meaning old. So you could be a Star Gazer, or a Stariy Geezer.
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Seattle, WA (SportsNetwork.com) - The Oakland Athletics placed infielder and designated hitter Alberto Callaspo on the 15-day disabled list Saturday with a strained right hamstring and recalled infielder Andy Parrino from Triple-A Sacramento.
Callaspo, who is batting .234 this season, was injured in Friday night's game against Seattle. He has appeared in at least 16 games this season in four positions, including each infield spot except shortstop,.
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ENSURING that vulnerable people don't get isolated is the aim of Accessible Transport West Somerset.
The charity has landed £8,556 from the Gannett Foundation to convert a minibus for use by elderly, disabled and less mobile people.
ATWEST provides community transport so people can shop, get to medical appointments and meet up.
Funding officer Barbara Middleton said: "We're delighted to have got the grant – it's wonderful.
"In these days of financial and bus route cuts we've become even more important in keeping the community healthily independent and keeping elderly people out of care homes.
"We provide customer-friendly transport, which reduces isolation, depression, loneliness and promotes greater community participation.
"We escort people out of their homes to shop, see to their daily needs, and keep more confident and active for longer."
The charity's main services are: escorted shopping routes; dial-a-ride services; group outings; a travel club for people to visit local amenities; and a social car scheme to take people to hospital outside the area.
With 45% of people in West Somerset over 60, the charity's work is vital – in 2011 it covered nearly 140,000 miles on 13,000 journeys.
In many cases it offers reduced fares thanks to support from Somerset County Council.
Barbara said: "One of the people who use our service summed it up by saying 'life goes on and we're still part of it because of what you do'."
To volunteer for the charity or for more details, call 01643-709701.


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Astros rally late to win season series vs. Yanks
Club plates four in seventh as Feldman, bullpen step up in Bronx
NEW YORK -- We've grown accustomed to the Astros winning games by slugging home runs, which they did Tuesday when Chris Carter belted a tiebreaking, three-run blast in the ninth inning. They resorted to some rare small ball Wednesday night.
The Astros batted around in the seventh inning on the strength of a leadoff walk and five consecutive singles after one out to rally for four runs and clinch the season series against the Yankees with a 5-2 win at Yankee Stadium.
The Astros, who are 4-2 so far on the road trip against the Red Sox and Yankees, improved to 11-39 when not hitting a home run.
"That's a good ballgame there," manager Bo Porter said. "We have relied on the home run quite a bit, and today was a prime example of keeping the line moving, and I felt guys had great at-bats. [Hitting coach] John Mallee did a great job of preparing those guys for those at-bats, and they did a great job of executing."
Scott Feldman (7-9) won for the third time in four starts for the Astros by allowing eight hits and two runs in 6 2/3 innings and striking out a season-high seven. In beating the Yankees for the second time this year, Feldman has eight quality outings in his past 11 starts.
The Astros' bullpen came up with several big outs in picking up the final 2 1/3 innings, with Kevin Chapman retiring Jacob Ellsbury on a strikeout to end the seventh and strand runners at second and third.
"That's probably the biggest part of the game right there, pick me up, leaving a couple guys on base like that," Feldman said. "I owe him a dinner or something for that."
Josh Fields worked a scoreless eighth, and Jose Veras picked up his first save with the Astros since he had 19 for them last year by retiring Ellsbury on a fly ball to right field to end the game with runners at first and second. Veras handled the ninth because closer Chad Qualls was dealing with back stiffness.
"There wasn't a chance I could make a better pitch than that one [to Ellsbury], because if I don't make that pitch, then it's going to be 3-1 [count] and I'm going to be in the situation [where] they can tie the ballgame with one swing," Veras said. "So I just went right at home with my best pitch, my sinker."
The Astros were without a baserunner until Robbie Grossman singled to start the fourth and scored on a double by Dexter Fowler. A solo homer by Stephen Drew in the fourth and a safety-squeeze bunt by Ellsbury in the fifth put the Yankees ahead, 2-1.
"We've got to find a way to score more than two runs," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "It's hard to win when you only score two runs. Our pitching has been pretty good, but that's a tall task."
The seventh-inning outburst began when Jason Castro drew a leadoff walk from starter Michael Pineda. Lefty reliever David Huff struck out Jon Singleton before giving up a single to Marwin Gonzalez to put runners at first and second. Esmil Rogers came in from the bullpen and gave up four consecutive singles, including RBI hits by Jake Marisnick (2-for-4) and Jose Altuve around a go-ahead two-run single by Robbie Grossman (2-for-5).
The five consecutive singles by the Astros in the seventh came on a span of 10 pitches and resulted in the 5-2 lead.
"I thought the guys locked into their at-bats and had an idea of exactly what it is they were looking [for], what they wanted to do, and they did a good job of putting good swings on those pitches," Porter said.
Brian McTaggart is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Tag's Lines. Follow @brianmctaggart on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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NEW YORK - Call girls, white-collar crime and murder. It's just the tip of the iceberg in an explosive Season 14 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Once on set, you learn it takes more than a week to shoot one fast-paced, ripped-from-the-headlines episode.
Star Mariska Hargitay told KPRC Local 2 that she still gets chills reading the scripts.
She said, "After 14 years, you're like, 'Aren't you just done with it?' And I read a script and I go, 'Wow! I love this! I've never done this and I love this. I've never done this.' This is exciting to me."
Hargitay's character, Detective Olivia Benson, is already off to a troubled start as her squad captain is under fire after waking up next to a dead call girl.
She said, "It's very difficult seeing someone fall from grace, so I think the rug is getting pulled out this year a lot by her pillars, and so she's trying to figure out what she has left to hold onto."
And this season, we'll peel back the layers on Liv's new partner, Detective Nick Amaro, played by Danny Pino.
Hargitay said, "Danny Pino is just a rock star in my opinion. It's been such a pleasure to work with him. So fun and he's good … and invested and cares and sexy, no question about that!"
KPRC Local 2 reporter Rachel McNeill asked Pino, "I feel like last season we just scratched the surface with your character. A lot more to come this season? He's very tormented!"
Pino answered, "I think his family life is incredibly rocky and that's going spill over into his professional life, so it will make for a very volatile squad room."
Hargitay said, "I love my job. I love the people that I work with, and so I think I am infused with energy that way."
As a wife and mom of three, Hargitay also finds time to help raise more than $10 million for the Joyful Heart Charity, which empowers survivors of rape, domestic violence and child abuse, clearly inspired by her work on set.
Hargitay said, "I feel very grateful in life. The show has brought me to a place where I can start this foundation that really I feel like is my life's work and maybe the reason I was born."
The 300th episode of Law and Order: SVU will air in this new season and show veterans say they're still surprised by the twists and turns which may be the key to its success.
Ice T, who portrays Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola," said about an upcoming episode, "I've seen that script. I was confused until the end, so it's really, really good. You don't know who did it. It's crazy!"
Pino added, "The plot twists are equally as challenging and surprising to the actors as they are for the viewers."
When asked, "Are you going to be there for the next 300 (episodes)?"
Pino laughed, "We'll see. I'll bring my cane. I'll be ready to knock it out!
Ice T added, "I want to do 600!"
The fans are right there, rooting them on to catch the bad guy every time.
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When it comes to Bombers fans, Tom Goodhand is the kind of dyed-in-the-Blue-wool and pure-Gold season-ticket holder the football club relied on for so many years to keep it out of the red -- which makes this story all the more sad and meaningful.
The story starts last Friday, when the retired physician -- and the father of former Free Press editor Margo Goodhand -- was the only fan watching the team practise from the otherwise empty Canad Inns Stadium stands, and a Free Press photographer -- not knowing who Goodhand was -- saw a good picture. In retrospect, it was one of those rare moments where synchronicity meets symbolism. Because the next day, Goodhand was alone at the stadium in a different way.
Saturday was the last Bombers game of the season -- the last one in the old ballpark, too -- and after reading my column on Friday about Owen Preston, the Big Blue fan who attended games at every other CFL stadium this year without getting frisked like a felon, Tom Goodhand decided it was time to take a stand. He fired off a heat-seeking missile of an email to the Bombers board of directors, warning he would refuse to be patted down at Saturday's game.
Goodhand said more than that.
He told them if they insisted on the pat-down, and the practice persisted, it would be the last game he attended.
He would not renew his season ticket when the Bombers move to Investors Group Field in 2013.
But the email bounced back. So, Saturday he arrived early for the game and dropped off a printed copy of his letter at the Bombers office.
Then off he went to take his stand.
And when the security person at the gate asked him to raise his arms so he could be searched, Goodhand said no.
"I asked to see someone else."
By someone else he meant a board member or someone other than another member of the stadium security staff.
The first security member said he couldn't do that and called for another member of the security team.
"He said the same thing," Goodhand recalled. "I said, 'Well, I'm not going to be patted down and I certainly intend to go to the game.' "
Just then, an older woman intervened. She wasn't attired like a member of the security team, but she spoke with authority, as if she might have been part of the Bombers management.
"She said, 'It's the last game of the season, let him in without the security pat-down.' "
Suddenly, it was as if the woman had thrown a block, the way a burly Bombers linemen does. The security personnel stepped back, a hole opened in the Bombers stadium defence, and Goodhand went right through it. Untouched.
They didn't lay a hand on him.
"I am proud of myself for taking this stand," Goodhand told me after his equally proud daughter contacted me. "But when I realized that I was the only one of the roughly 20,000 male and female fans at the Montreal-Bombers game to enter the stadium without suffering the indignity of a 'professional' pat-down, I began to think that perhaps I was tilting at windmills."
Goodhand also told me this, though.
"I'm surprised that somebody else hasn't done it. We're just a bunch of sheep."
As of Monday afternoon, the Bombers office had acknowledged receipt of his letter, but Goodhand was still waiting to hear from a board member. The acknowledgment came from Carol Barrott, the Bombers customer service manager. She wrote and defended the club's pat-down policy the team intends to continue.
"I am sorry to hear," she concluded, "that you are considering not renewing your tickets for the 2013 season at Investors Group Field."
Tom Goodhand doesn't accept the football club's policy and, if it continues, he pledges he won't buy more season tickets.
He would like many other fans to stand up as he did and say no next year to being frisked. That's unlikely to happen, of course, and he knows it.
But judging by emails I've received from other longtime season-ticket holders, Goodhand can take comfort in knowing there are other mad-as-hell fans who aren't going to take it anymore. "It" being the generally disrespectful treatment Bombers fans are feeling from Bombers management. The ones who have written to me have vowed to cancel their tickets, too. For what that's worth, at least Goodhand doesn't find himself alone in the stands, there.
By the way, for the record, I'm proud of Goodhand.
The rest of you dyed-in-the-Blue-wool sheep should be, too.


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Harriers chairman Mike Bright said there was still time to enter the race, which last year was voted fifth in the Runners' World Top 10 half marathons.
Last year's was completed by just over 1,330 runners.
The male and female winners were Sam Humphrey in one hour and ten minutes and Hilary Mott in one hour, 26 minutes.
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