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Adelaide argued vehemently that Richard Douglas was not responsible for Callan Ward's concussion, but the AFL tribunal took a different view and gave the midifelder a two-game ban.
The merits of the bump were thrown into further doubt on Tuesday night, with Douglas' hit on the Greater Western Sydney co-captain deemed to be reckless, high contact and high impact.
That would ordinarily result in a four-match suspension (425 demerit points), which could have been reduced to two weeks on account of Douglas' good record and a guilty plea.
The case had been referred directly to the tribunal, who agreed a penalty of 250 demerit points (two weeks) was just.
Douglas will in effect miss three weeks of football, with the Crows' bye coming in round eight after clashes with Western Bulldogs and Melbourne.
The 27-year-old will not play again until Adelaide host Collingwood on May 15.
"I'm disappointed with the way it worked out ... but I'll just cop what happened," Douglas said after the hearing.
Douglas earlier gave evidence he was "categorically" certain he did not make contact with Ward's head, and that it was instead a clash of shoulders.
"You know what you feel. No part of my body touched his face," Douglas said.
"I'm not sure how he didn't see me coming. I'm still staggered he didn't brace."
Player advocate Iain Findlay attempted to press home this point, saying Ward's actions immediately after the bump were that of somebody winded not concussed.
"He was on his knees. You see he spits the mouth guard out," Findlay said.
AFL legal counsel Jeff Gleeson successfully argued Douglas was responsible for Ward's concussion - be it from a clash of heads, as emergency umpire Curtis DeBoy alleged, or his head hitting the turf.
Douglas pled guilty to the charge of rough conduct at the start of proceedings, prior to the debate over whether he made contact with the head or body of Ward.
Earlier on Tuesday, the match review panel cleared Hawthorn captain Luke Hodge and Geelong star Tom Hawkins over incidents in the Easter Monday match.
The panel laid no charges in relation to the game.
St Kilda veteran Adam Schneider, North Melbourne defender Scott Thompson, Fremantle goalsneak Hayden Ballantyne, West Coast captain Darren Glass and GWS on-baller Toby Greene all accepted one-match bans.


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PORTLAND, Ore. (TheStreet) -- Beam (BEAM) has a new owner in Suntory (STBFY), a new home in Japan and a new portion of the Asian market to explore.
But does it still have the right to call its flagship brand, Maker's Mark and Knob Creek "bourbon?"
The $13.6 billion Suntory plunked down for Beam on Monday entitles it to all of the distiller's brands, but it in no way entitles it to call the brands it produces "bourbon." Half a century ago this May, Congress declared bourbon whiskey a "distinctive product of the United States" and, as such, laid the foundation for what distillers could rightfully call bourbon when selling it here in the U.S.
According to federal standards, bourbon made for U.S. consumption must be produced in the United States; made from a grain mix of no less than 51% corn; aged in new, charred-oak barrels; distilled to no more than 160 proof (80% alcohol by volume); entered into the barrel for aging at no more than 125 proof (62.5% alcohol by volume); and be bottled at 80 proof or more (40% alcohol by volume). Age it for two years or more and keep it free of coloring and flavoring, and you've got yourself some straight bourbon.
It's a fairly straightforward rule and it's exactly what both domestic and overseas bourbon drinkers are looking for. According to the Distilled Spirits Council trade association, whiskey made up a whopping 70% of the $1.5 billion in liquor the group estimates the U.S. exported in 2012. That's triple the nation's beer exports and $250 million more than its overseas wine shipments.
Meanwhile, the Kentucky Distillers' Association notes that bourbon accounts for 35% of all spirits produced in the U.S. Bourbon fuels $2.5 billion in sales in the U.S. and in the 126 countries where it's exported and makes up the majority of U.S. whiskey exports. Kentucky would know, as it produces 95% of the nation's bourbon at distilleries including Jim Bean's in Clermont, Maker's Mark in Loretto, Buffalo Trace in Frankfort and Four Roses in Lawrenceburg. The 4.9 million barrels of bourbon aging in that state outnumber its 4.8 million residents.
But not all bourbon makers manage to hang on to their birthright whiskey. Consider the case of Four Roses, which exists today primarily as a small-batch brand. It was the most popular bourbon in the country during the depression and World War Ii, when it was purchased by Seagram in 1953. Seagram wasn't taken with Kentucky's straight bourbon and decided to focus on blended whiskey in th e U.S. instead. While Four Roses' trademark straight bourbon made its way around Europe and Asia, its blended whiskey reduced its brand to bottom-shelf fodder in the U.S.

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Anyone know anything about methadone at a chemical level? We have any uber nerds up in here?
Basically, I want to know if you can make it into a spray form, similar to an inhaler?
Or really, any anti-optiates.
I'm writing a book... not, uh... you know... needing a fix.


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Survey work on I-95 closing some lanes
A week's worth of surveys will shut some lanes on Interstate 95 during the day.
They begin after rush hour Monday.
PennDOT's Gene Blaum says crews are doing the survey work in preparation for the next phase of construction for the Girard Avenue area.
"In preparation for the next construction contract, there are six that are involved in rebuilding three miles of 95 from Race Street to just south of Allegheny Avenue," Blaum said. "That includes the reconstruction and improvement of the Girard Avenue interchange."
Blaum stresses that rush-hour traffic should not be hampered by the surveyors.
"The contractor who is performing the surveys will get on the highway after 9 a.m. and be off by 3 p.m., just closing one lane between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.," he said.
Also starting this week, two northbound lanes will be closed between Philadelphia International Airport and the Walt Whitman Bridge. Work along that stretch won't begin until 10 p.m. and will be wrapped up by 5 a.m.
The much larger project on I-95 is not expected to be completed before 2020, depending on funding.
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Everyone is invited, beginners to masters, to this summer's Chess Connect program at the Fond du Lac Public Library. Players will meet at 6 p.m. every other Monday starting June 16 (June 30, July 14, July 28 and August 11).
Buses to Books returns! Fond du Lac Transit's Buses to Books program allows kids ages 6 to 17 to ride the bus to the Fond du Lac Public Library and back for free on Thursdays June 19 to August 7, using their library cards as bus passes. Kids ages 6 to 9 must be accompanied by an adult, and adults pay full fare. Bus routes and other transit information are available on the Transit Dept. page at www.fdl.wi.gov.
Kids to the rescue! Kids age 8 through high school can learn more about a wide variety of summer volunteer opportunities available by attending the 2nd Annual Youth Volunteer Fair at the Fond du Lac Public Library on Wednesday, June 11, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Teens in grades 6 through 12 are welcome to come to the library to enjoy free Reading is Brain Food summer programming
There's a full roster of great Reading is Brain Food events for kids this summer at the Fond du Lac Public Library, starting Monday, June 16. Full details are available at the Calendar.
A collage created by local artist Mel Kolstad is featured in a new book, The Artist's Library, created by the founders of the Madison-based The Library as Incubator Project.
It has been said that author Linda Lael Miller considers the cowboy to be the great North American myth, the ideal of honor, courage and persistence we need to live up to. After reading Big Sky Wedding, the fifth installment in her Parable, Montana series, I think I agree. The story is the perfect mix of hot cowboy and strong woman intent on ignoring their instant attraction to each other. The author's love for children, animals and nature shine through in this small town, family-oriented, western romance.
The Fond du Lac County Historical Society is bringing treasures out of storage for an exhibit, From the Attic, at the Fond du Lac Public Library Langdon Divers Gallery from June 4 to July 2.
Summer's a great time to upgrade the body's hard drive: the brain. And the best way to do that is to read, read, read. Summer reading programs at the Fond du Lac Public Library – Reading is Brain Food – reward kids, teens and adults for giving their brains a boost.
There are many ways of choosing a book to read. It could be because of the subject matter, the cover, the series, the author, or because everyone is talking about it. I chose Casebook by Mona Simpson because I was intrigued by the author and the excellent reviews. Simpson was born in Green Bay (a Wisconsin connection!). Before her parents married, they had a son whom they gave up for adoption. Simpson did not know about her brother until she was an adult. Her brother was Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple.


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Spotlight on Brazil: COORPOL
Meet This Week's Featured Brazilian Coffee Producer, COORPOL, a Cooperative That is Truly Revolutionizing the Nation's Coffee Industry
Coffee cooperatives in Brazil are making monumental strides in their transition from conventional coffee production to more sustainable and organic methods. These coffee trailblazers are, quite literally, rocking the foundation of the Brazilian coffee industry with their eco-friendly, socially-responsible farming techniques.
This new Producer Profile series, as mentioned previously in the blog "Brazilian Coffee Benefits from Sustainable Farming Methods," will share the stories and successes of the coffee cooperatives working within the Sustainable Sourcing Partnership Project. It's a unique chance to get to know the producers revolutionizing Brazil's coffee industry. This week, meet COORPOL.
Name: COORPOL, Cooperative Regional Industrial e Comercial de Produtos Agricola do Povo Que Luta
Location: Manhuaçu, Southern Minas Gerais
Elevation: between 620 – 1,280 meters
Climate: Tropical with rain in the summer, average of 21 degrees Celsius
Coffee Varieties: Café Robusta, Café Arabica organic and non-organic
Percent Certified: Fair Trade Conventional: 31%, Fair Trade Organic: 38%, In Transition: 22.4%
COORPOL was established in 1998 and is headquartered in Southern Minas Gerais. This region's high elevation is ideal for coffee growing, but it was actually the mineral-rich mountains made mining the initial reason for development in the area (coffee was soon to follow). Though its location is perfect for coffee production, the isolated area proved difficult when coffee producers first tried to access the market. Originally the workers utilized miners' railways to transport their coffee, but today Fair Trade certification and Fair Trade Premiums for community development provide much easier access to coffee markets all around the world. With the support of Fair Trade USA, COORPOL entered into the Brazil Coffee Cupping Competition last year and won 4th place in the organic natural coffee category. COORPOL is now widely acclaimed for its work in sustainability and organic farming methods.
Sustainable and Organic Methods
COORPOL members explain that the greatest benefit of Fair Trade Certification was the immediate availability of funds for building infrastructure. Producing sustainable and organic coffee is a method of farming that many producers were interested in, but because it is such a big investment, many producers lacked the funds to convert their farming methods. But the additional income COORPOL earns through Fair Trade has helped the group invest in sustainability.
Funds have gone towards technical assistance to help producers learn how to produce larger yields in ways that are environmentally sustainable. COORPOL was also able to purchase new tools and machinery to promote their sustainable and organic crops. Often the conversion to organic production requires the purchase of small items such as bags and bins to collect a harvest. These costs can add up quickly, but they are essential to the process of keeping organic production separate from conventional. Helping to buffer costs is COORPOL's investment in cement drying patios. These drying patios provide economic sustainability to the producers by turning out a higher quality coffee bean that sells for a higher price. This is achieved because dirt drying patios do not produce a high quality coffee, but cement drying patios allow the coffee bean to reach a high quality.
Investing in Community Development
COORPOL's Fair Trade premiums support community development projects like the improvement of health care facilities and education investment. COORPOL utilizes its funds to cover the costs of medications and build new Health Centers that are more accessible to members and better equipped for treatment.
The support that cooperatives receive from projects like the Sustainable Sourcing Partnership Project and the Responsible Sourcing Project (along with Fair Trade premiums) also enables COORPOL to build schools and provide scholarships for students to pursue higher education. They also engage in worker trainings on things like recycling, workplace safety, first aid, chemical fertilizer use and sustainable farming techniques. At the end of the day, Fair Trade gives communities the tools they need to invest in their own futures, and to become the best stewards of the land they can be.
You can help support these hard working farmers and farm workers by purchasing Fair Trade certified coffee.
Stay tuned for more on Brazilian coffee in the weeks to come.


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The wrap UGG around lace feature adds a fashionable touch with wooden beads at the end. The highest quality boots and shoes will be made with sheep skin on both the inside and the outside.Added 7 Years Ago from Thefashionboots


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Hedmark County, Norway Genealogy
Norway > Hedmark County
Hedmark is a county in Norway, bordering Sør-Trøndelag, Oppland and Akershus. The county administration is in Hamar.
Hedmark makes up the northeastern part of Østlandet, the southeastern part of the country. It includes a long part of the borderline with Sweden, Dalarna County and Värmland County. Geographically, Hedmark is in the traditional sense divided in the following areas: Hedemarken, east of Mjøsa, Østerdalen, north of Elverum, and Glåmdalen, south of Elverum. Hedmark and Oppland are the only Norwegian counties with no coastline. Hedmark also hosted some of the 1994 Winter Olympic Games.
Hedmark is one of the less urbanized areas in Norway, as about half of the inhabitants live on rural land. Population is mainly concentrated in the rich agricultural district adjoining Mjøsa to the southeast. The county's extensive forests supply much of Norway's timber. Logs were previously floated down Glomma to the coast but are now transported by truck and train.
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'In 1973, I proposed that our Universe had been created spontaneously from nothing (ex nihilo), as a result of established principles of physics. The novelty of a scientific theory of creation ex nihilo is readily apparent, for science has long taught us that one cannot make something from nothing.'
E.P. Tryon (Professor of Physics, City University of New York, USA), 'What made the World?' New Scientist, 8 March 1984, p.14.


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ive been trying to make a dice rolling program. i found this code online but after i save the code to to my desktop as a .py file, i would click it to open it and a black box pops up for about half a second then goes away. it seems like it sais "syntax error" or "invalid syntax" can some body help me and tell me my problem
email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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import random
min = 1
max = 6
roll_again = "yes"
while roll_again == "yes" or roll_again == "y":
print "Rolling the dices..."
print "The values are...."
print random.randint(min, max)
print random.randint(min, max)
roll_again = raw_input("Roll the dices again?")
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 26/1/2011 (2401 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
U.S. President Barack Obama wasn't even born when the Soviet Union sent the infamous Sputnik rudimentary satellite into Earth's orbit in 1957 and he isn't old enough to remember President John F. Kennedy. But it is Kennedy he was using as a model in his state of the union address this week and his comparison between the challenges the United States faces today and those they faced more than half a century ago is apposite.
Remembrances of Kennedy are everywhere. It is just 50 years ago that Kennedy stirred a nation with possibly the best-remembered inaugural address in more than a century. Only Franklin Roosevelt's recession-era appeal to Americans that the "only thing we have to fear is fear itself" comes close to the resonance of Kennedy's speech. "Ask not what your country can do for you," he said. "Ask what you can do for your country."
Kennedy's words were part of a general call to a renewal of American strength at a time when it had been sorely tested. It was the height of the Cold War, a war that the Soviet Union appeared to be winning.
Within just three months of Kennedy's inaugural speech, the Soviet Union would again beat the Americans in the space race as Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin flew into space and circled the globe. American technology was nowhere close. The challenge to America's superpower supremacy led to Kennedy's promise to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade: a promise that was successfully kept by Neil Armstrong eight years later.
A sense of that history permeated President Obama's speech. His self-identification with Kennedy was never more obvious. Kennedy, at 43, was the youngest man ever to be elected to the presidency. Obama was just four years older. Kennedy was the first and only Catholic to be elected. Barack Obama is the first and so far only African-American to achieve the office.
When Kennedy made his appeal for selflessness and public duty, he knew he was speaking for a new generation. Obama, similarly, represents a new generation of power today.
"This is our generation's Sputnik moment," he told Congress at the start of his speech in the peculiar and melodic cadences that are the hallmark of his oratory. It's a style that while different from the clipped Bostonian accent of JFK reflects it nevertheless. Just as his fashionable plain blue suits, white shirts and subdued ties echo Kennedy.
The Kennedy mantle is a mantle President Obama covets and he is right to do so. As he explained, this is his generation's "Sputnik moment" because the supremacy of the United States is yet again threatened by a usurper. President Kennedy faced the implacable Nikita Kruschev, a man who he would soon face down during the Cuban missile crisis as the Soviet Union placed nuclear-tipped rockets on America's doorstep.
President Obama faces a resurgent China, which is building a blue water navy to rival America's, has an economy that is growing far faster than the United States' and it has a far bigger population.
China, as President Obama told his audience, now hosts the biggest solar power research facility in the world.
His response -- for America to have one million electric vehicles on the roads by 2015 and to have 80 per cent of the country's electricity delivered by clean energy by 2035 -- didn't quite have the appeal of putting a man on the moon within a decade. But the nature of the challenge in the early 1960s and the nature of the challenge today is different.
Fifty years ago, it was the United States' military preeminence that was threatened. Today, the threat is economic. The competition with China is about whether American ingenuity and innovation can beat China's strength in numbers of population.
President Obama's answer was that the United States needed to "out-innovate, out-educate and out-build the rest of the world."
On its own, this is prosaic stuff, but President Obama knew the standard he was trying to reach and, while his words will not be remembered as Kennedy's were, he ended his speech with a stirring idea: the idea that dominates American political thought.
Obama evoked the classic "American Dream," the idea that everyone had the opportunity to succeed, even a black American. "This is a place you can make it if you try," he said. It was a thorough appeal to the broadest constituency of all, the same belief Americans have in themselves that Kennedy appealed to a half-century earlier.
The challenge to China is in these words: "The idea of America endures. Our destiny remains our choice."
In the Cold War with the Soviet Union, America won. President Obama is saying that in the competition with China don't count America out. The speech was a rallying cry. It might succeed.
Nicholas Hirst is CEO of Winnipeg-
based television and film producer,
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text: Edgar Reynaldo 111 Report post Posted May 10, 2013 Hello fellow game devs! I am currently conducting a research project for my psych class. I am in need of volunteers to help with my research. All you need to do is to take this short depression screening and answer the question of how many hours you have generally spent programming in an average week over the last 6 months or so. The screening is self scored, and is called Beck's Depression Inventory. Beck's Depression Inventory This depression inventory can be self-scored. The scoring scale is at the end of the questionnaire. 1. 0 I do not feel sad. 1 I feel sad 2 I am sad all the time and I can't snap out of it. 3 I am so sad and unhappy that I can't stand it. 2. 0 I am not particularly discouraged about the future. 1 I feel discouraged about the future. 2 I feel I have nothing to look forward to. 3 I feel the future is hopeless and that things cannot improve. 3. 0 I do not feel like a failure. 1 I feel I have failed more than the average person. 2 As I look back on my life, all I can see is a lot of failures. 3 I feel I am a complete failure as a person. 4. 0 I get as much satisfaction out of things as I used to. 1 I don't enjoy things the way I used to. 2 I don't get real satisfaction out of anything anymore. 3 I am dissatisfied or bored with everything. 5. 0 I don't feel particularly guilty 1 I feel guilty a good part of the time. 2 I feel quite guilty most of the time. 3 I feel guilty all of the time. 6. 0 I don't feel I am being punished. 1 I feel I may be punished. 2 I expect to be punished. 3 I feel I am being punished. 7. 0 I don't feel disappointed in myself. 1 I am disappointed in myself. 2 I am disgusted with myself. 3 I hate myself. 8. 0 I don't feel I am any worse than anybody else. 1 I am critical of myself for my weaknesses or mistakes. 2 I blame myself all the time for my faults. 3 I blame myself for everything bad that happens. 9. 0 I don't have any thoughts of killing myself. 1 I have thoughts of killing myself, but I would not carry them out. 2 I would like to kill myself. 3 I would kill myself if I had the chance. 10. 0 I don't cry any more than usual. 1 I cry more now than I used to. 2 I cry all the time now. 3 I used to be able to cry, but now I can't cry even though I want to. 11. 0 I am no more irritated by things than I ever was. 1 I am slightly more irritated now than usual. 2 I am quite annoyed or irritated a good deal of the time. 3 I feel irritated all the time. 12. 0 I have not lost interest in other people. 1 I am less interested in other people than I used to be. 2 I have lost most of my interest in other people. 3 I have lost all of my interest in other people. 13. 0 I make decisions about as well as I ever could. 1 I put off making decisions more than I used to. 2 I have greater difficulty in making decisions more than I used to. 3 I can't make decisions at all anymore. 14. 0 I don't feel that I look any worse than I used to. 1 I am worried that I am looking old or unattractive. 2 I feel there are permanent changes in my appearance that make me look unattractive 3 I believe that I look ugly. 15. 0 I can work about as well as before. 1 It takes an extra effort to get started at doing something. 2 I have to push myself very hard to do anything. 3 I can't do any work at all. 16. 0 I can sleep as well as usual. 1 I don't sleep as well as I used to. 2 I wake up 1-2 hours earlier than usual and find it hard to get back to sleep. 3 I wake up several hours earlier than I used to and cannot get back to sleep. 17. 0 I don't get more tired than usual. 1 I get tired more easily than I used to. 2 I get tired from doing almost anything. 3 I am too tired to do anything. 18. 0 My appetite is no worse than usual. 1 My appetite is not as good as it used to be. 2 My appetite is much worse now. 3 I have no appetite at all anymore. 19. 0 I haven't lost much weight, if any, lately. 1 I have lost more than five pounds. 2 I have lost more than ten pounds. 3 I have lost more than fifteen pounds. 20. 0 I am no more worried about my health than usual. 1 I am worried about physical problems like aches, pains, upset stomach, or constipation. 2 I am very worried about physical problems and it's hard to think of much else. 3 I am so worried about my physical problems that I cannot think of anything else. 21. 0 I have not noticed any recent change in my interest in sex. 1 I am less interested in sex than I used to be. 2 I have almost no interest in sex. 3 I have lost interest in sex completely. INTERPRETING THE BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY Now that you have completed the questionnaire, add up the score for each of the twenty-one questions by counting the number to the right of each question you marked. The highest possible total for the whole test would be sixty-three. This would mean you circled number three on all twenty-one questions. Since the lowest possible score for each question is zero, the lowest possible score for the test would be zero. This would mean you circles zero on each question. You can evaluate your depression according to the Table below. Total Score____________________Levels of Depression 1-10____________________These ups and downs are considered normal 11-16___________________ Mild mood disturbance 17-20___________________Borderline clinical depression 21-30___________________Moderate depression 31-40___________________Severe depression over 40__________________Extreme depression A PERSISTENT SCORE OF 17 OR ABOVE INDICATES THAT YOU MAY NEED MEDICAL TREATMENT. If you are uncomfortable sharing the results publicly, please PM me your results, and if not, please post them here so I can record them. My scores : BDI - 18 Average hrs spent programming per week over last 6 months - 10 I most definitely appreciate you guys taking the time to help me out. ;) Edgar There are no right or wrong answers, please be as honest as possible. With me, and yourself. If you feel you may have depression, I encourage you to explore treatment options with your doctor and your psychiatrist. I've never been diagnosed explicitly with depression, but I know I have trouble being happy, and I am currently on Buproprion to help with it. Depression is entirely treatable. Don't suffer for no reason. Seek treatment if you need it. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Searching for the Memory Holy Grail: Part 1by Wesley Fink on 7/27/2003 11:13 PM EST
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Anonymous User - Sunday, August 31, 2003 - linkThis single/double side/bank issue is very misunderstood. To further confuse things the memory manufacturers, who finally getting better about reporting full timing numbers, generally don't publish the side/bank count. I'd like to see an article that helps identify whose memory is really double banked, especially at the 256MB level, since its going to take 4 modules for best performance in an 875 system. Since many of these products are best available thru the internet, I don't have the luxury of looking at the modules before I buy.
FYI, I'm also more interested in using well matched double banked components with low timings than in overclocking to the max.
Mushkin has very low timing memory in a 512MB configuration that is double-banked, but it seems like overkill to put 2GB of memory for $800+ into the system at this point. (I also don't know how well the system would perform with this quantity of memory as I hear that more memory can slow timings down.) Their 256MB modules are single-banked unfortunately.
Anonymous User - Monday, August 18, 2003 - linkI would personally buy the Mushkin PC3200 Level II Dual Pack located at this URL: http://www.mushkin.com/epages/Mushkin.storefront/3...
It says that is is CAS 2-2-2 at 400MHz
Unfortunately, Anandtech has not added Mushkin to their test products for any of these articles (not that I have seen at least) so I cannot verify the performance. I hope this due to Mushkin not supplying them samples before they complete testing and go to press. Otherwise, it is just a gross oversite by Anandtech not to include Mushkin. Whatever the case, Mushkin is a big name company with many supporters who will vouch for their quality. I am going to upgrade my memory shortly to these exact DIMMs so I feel comfortable suggesting them. 2-2-2 latency just sounds too good to pass up.
Wiley Reply
DaveH - Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - linkWhat about running slower RAM in the newer chipsets? Like PC2100 in 800 FSB? Reply
Anonymous User - Monday, August 11, 2003 - linkMy personal SiSoft Sandra Memory Bandwidth UNBuffered test results on a Gigabyte 8KNXP (F5 BIOS) with a P4 3Ghz/800Mhz, ATI9800 Pro 256mb, SB Audigy:
Mushkin PC3500 Level II Black
4x512mb, 200mhz, 2-2-2-6, 2955/3017
4x512mb, 217mhz, 2-2-2-6, 2850/2916
2x512mb, 200mhz, 2-2-2-6, 2844/2862
2x512mb, 217mhz, 2-3-2-6, 2423/2493
Corsair TWINX1024-3700
4x512mb, 200mhz, 3-4-4-8, 2724/2782
4x512mb, 217mhz, 3-4-4-8, 2614/2723
2x512mb, 200mhz, 3-4-3-8, 2610/2626
2x512mb, 217mhz, 3-4-3-8, 2491/2542 Reply
Anonymous User - Thursday, August 07, 2003 - linkNeed help determining SS vs DS (Single side/bank vs. Double Side/Bank) - how can you tell, as the memory mfgrs don't usually say? Reply
Rayalkj - Thursday, August 07, 2003 - linkHow similiar does the RAM have to be? I bought a Dell with 2x128 meg ram and want to up it to 512 megs. Do I need the exact same Brand? Just the same sizes? (ie. 2 more 128 meg sticks) Is there something I should look for especially?
... Yes, I am a bit of a noob at this stuff Reply
Anonymous User - Wednesday, August 06, 2003 - linkWould this apply to nForce2 Ultra chipsets? Reply
Wesley Fink - Sunday, August 03, 2003 - linkRegarding "Mixed Memory" configurations, the Best Memory Timings are the fastest timings THAT PARTICULAR COMBINATION WOULD RUN. So they are the best timings for that mix of Dimms. Mixed pairs - particularly widely different memory pairs - can take a very large performance hit in 865/875 boards. The reduction in performance is MUCH greater than we would expect.
As was also stated, we have seen cases of 2 pairs of dimms from different manufacturers that match closely on capacity and timings that perform just as well as 2 matched pairs.
Anonymous User - Sunday, August 03, 2003 - linkRe: "Intel's White Papers address mixed memory
configurations only to say that they will work,
but they will default to the slowest speed and
SPD timings of the mixed DIMMs."
I wish I understood this. I am pretty sure that
I don't. For example, in the first row of the
mixed memory benchmark table the "best memory
timing" is given as 2-7-3-3 but the 512 MB DIMMs
are said to run at 2-5-2-2. Could it be that this
column should be labelled "worst memory timing"?
And suppose that the 512 MB memory was run at the
slower timing, 2-7-3-3, instead of 2-5-2-2.
How does that result in a 25% performance loss?
I would really like to understand this so that
I could predict what will happen when I mix
memory timings, avoid really bad DIMM
combinations and be able to use the not so bad
combinations. So, can someone explain what it
really going on here?
MS - Friday, August 01, 2003 - linkI'll certainly run a few benches myself. It is really interesting that those guys who should know, that is memory and chipset manufacturers are lagging so far behind the "fanboy" community in terms of understanding how things actually work and what factors are really important.
As far as your review goes, I am eager to see it, especially the acknowledgement (LOL)
Wesley Fink - Friday, August 01, 2003 - linkThanks, Michael. Your comments are appreciated, since your memory reviews are always a "must read" for everyone in the industry.
I got an idea for an article from your review of OCZ3700 GOLD at Lost Circuits. When it posts at AnandTech, I think you will find it interesting.
You may want to look at some of ThugsRook's game benches posted in the Forums here. As a skeptic he was trying to prove SS/DS made no difference in game benches. What he found, however, was that SS game benches were consisitently lower than DS benches. The differences were smaller than we see with SiSoft unbuffered, as expected, but they appear to be genuine. Reply
MS - Friday, August 01, 2003 - linkNice review, Wes.
One single issue I have is that if you are running SiSoft unbuffered, you constantly hammer the memory, which means that the idle counter will not go in effect and you keep the maximum number of pages open at all times (I believe it is 32 combined to 16 wide pages in dual channel mode). This is really why you see the performance benefit with double-sided DIMMs.
However, in real life applications, this benefit is not present, at least as far as I can tell. No criticism intended, just a side-note.
p.s. and the guys who did some of the performance studies at Intel used to call me quite a few times .. :-) Reply
Anonymous User - Friday, August 01, 2003 - linkThis reads too much like an ad by OCZ - any non-OCZ users of the P4P800 Deluxe Asus board got a recommendation for best memory sticks to get stable, solid 1 gig of DDR333 (little, if any OC)? Thanks Reply
Anonymous User - Friday, August 01, 2003 - linkIn fact OCZ announced PC-3700 Gold Quad pairs at 2003-07-03 for Intel 875 chipset.:
OCZ Announces Dual Channel Gold Quad kits.
OCZ is pleased to announce the release of OCZ PC-3700 Dual Channel Gold EL DDR memory in 1GB kits featuring quad 256mb modules based on OCZ's recently developed Hyperspeed and Extended Voltage Protection (EVP) technologies.
OCZ HyperSpeed® technology denotes specific OCZ EL DDR ICs built and selected for their ability to run at the highest possible frequency. EVP protection allows the modules to tolerate higher voltage without compromising stability.
"OCZ PC3700 Gold has been a dominant product," said Steve Lee, Director of Strategic Business Development. "By offering hand-tested and matched quad 256mb modules, we have the best solution for dual channel configurations on the market."
OCZ Dual Channel Gold Quad memory will be shipping in 1GB PC-3700 Dual Channel optimized kits rated at CL 2-3-7-3 with an operating frequency of 2.75 volts. Each module is backed by OCZ's Lifetime Warranty and features a Gold layered copper heatspreader. The four matched 256MB modules are tested together on the Abit IC7-G to ensure maximum stability and performance.
OCZ Dual Channel Gold memory has been designed specifically for use with the Intel Canterwood and Springdale chipsets, and thus offers the best performance on these platforms
Wesley Fink - Wednesday, July 30, 2003 - link512MB Dimms are usually DS, but that will be changing with higher-density chips coming out. @56MB Dimms are normally SS right now, but there are exceptions like OCZ 3700 GOLD which are 256MB and Double Bank. The last page of the article has charts which give recommendations from best to worst performance based on memory configuration. The data is from our own testing and the Intel White Papers.
We will include some game benches in Part 2, but ThugsRook, who regularly posts in the Anand Forums, has posted some game benches at several sites showing the performance difference in SS and DS memory modules in gaming performance. Reply
Anonymous User - Wednesday, July 30, 2003 - linkThanks (#25) - I too have noticed that memory vendors claims and board manufacturer compatibility charts are often at odds - seems like it's left up to the builder to actually try it and see if it runs ... (ref post #19). Reply
Anonymous User - Wednesday, July 30, 2003 - linkI noticed that Asus in their P4C800 description (on their web page) says that some manufacturer's memory can only be used in certain configurations - some branda are limited to 2 sticks and some are limited in the total GB size.
The reason they say is: "For optimum performance and overclocking stability". But if true it was rather surprising. For example, in the case of Kingston memory, Asus only two 512 sticks can be used.
I pointed this out to Kingston and they simply responded that four sticks can be used for a total of 2 GB. The tech ignored making any comment about the Asus statement.
So I suppose 4 sticks can be used as long as you run them at the stated settings. But I am not sure Asus means about "optimum performance".
Anonymous User - Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - linkSome real world benchmarks wure would have been nice, even if only 640x480 Quake3 numbers, just to get an idea if there really is a payoff to warrant the added cost that filling 4 banks vs 2 would entail. Reply
Anonymous User - Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - linkI'd also like to see what this means in the real world. I would be interested in some gaming benchmarks, particularly UT2003.
Thanks for the excellent article! Reply
Anonymous User - Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - linkHey Prometheus, please check this asap:
great article btw ;) Reply
jsalpha2 - Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - linkPardon me, cause I'm tired. Did the article say if 4x(256) is better or worse than 2x(512). Assuming identicle brand and speed of RAM.
I think I heard somewhere to go with just two sticks for better performance. Plus then you have open slots for later.
Question #2 Would 2x(512) of cheaper DDR333 be better than 2x(256) of DDR400?
thanks Reply
Anonymous User - Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - linkGreat article, it's just missing latency benchmarks. Reply
Anonymous User - Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - linkOk - pardon the newbie question, but - I'm building a P4c with Asus P4P800 board. I want 1 gig of DDR400 ram - what brand/model number do I buy - ?
Thanks for your help. Reply
Anonymous User - Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - linkThis is all nice and good, but what does it all mean in the real world, run some benchmarks in these various modes and show us whether we should care about it :) bottom line to me is what it does for the games, if i'm losing/gaining 4 FPS i'm more likely to care about the price differences then memtest. Reply
Wesley Fink - Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - linkThese are quoted form Intel's White Paper, p.13 "NOTES: Ranks per Dimm (1 Rank is a single-sided DIMM, 2 Ranks is a double-sided DIMM)". The common practice of using higher-density Dimms every other Dimm on both sides (4 chips per side) is FUNCTIONALLY a Single Bank or Single-Sided Dimm.
As for confirming that 4 dimms was faster, only the tests on the 3.0 were CPU-limited. We also determined maximum overclock on a 2.4C which was not CPU-Limited. Please check Page 7. Reply
Philippine Mango - Thursday, January 25, 2007 - linkWrong, you didn't use a 2.4C, you used a 2.6 processor which from what I know doesn't overclock as well as the 2.8C or 2.4C.. Reply
Anonymous User - Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - link"...we confirmed that the added memory bandwidth more than makes up for the slightly lower overclock with four double-sided DIMMs"
To say you 'confirmed it' is quite a leap indeed... as you notably stated, you were CPU limited in going any higher for 1 and 2 sticks, whereas you clearly reached a blockade with the 4 sticks of memory. It could be that 4 sticks of memory causes a blockade in the chipset performance at some GHz, but with a better CPU you might have gone much higher with the opposing configurations.
-Robert Reply
Anonymous User - Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - link"If you plan to run DDR400 as your base memory speed with an 800FSB processor, your best memory performance will clearly be with four matched double-sided DIMMs"
Can somebody help me to understand this?
I have only heard about 2 matched DIMMs...
Four matched DIMMs is 2 X 2 matched DIMMS?
Thank you very much! Reply
Anonymous User - Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - linkWhile the article was interesting in that it at least confirmed Intel's white paper, I would be interested in your also testing ECC. I have a machine which does double duty as a backup server (plug the disks in the SCSI port and away it goes!). I am just curious as to the performamce hit when ECC is being used. Reply
Anonymous User - Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - linkThe writer does not distinguish between DS and double bank module ;) Reply
Anonymous User - Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - linkReply
Wesley Fink - Monday, July 28, 2003 - linkYes, you read it correctly. the mixed dimms can vary from very large drops - 20 to 27% or so - to very little if any drop for closely matched pairs. Performance seems to fare best when mixed pairs are the same capacities and the same "bank" configuration. Reply
ViRGE - Monday, July 28, 2003 - linkVery good article, Wesley, but I'm a bit confused on your mixed vs. matched DIMM comparison. On the 1st configuration, 2x256DS + 2x512DS, the timings look to be the same as in the 1st table on page 4, the DDR 400 numbers. Am I reading this correctly? It seems odd(although believable) that memory bandwidth dropped 25%, even though it stayed as 4 DS DIMMs at the same timings. Reply
PrometheusN - Monday, July 28, 2003 - linkThanks to a reader for pointing out one correction to this article. The Intel White Paper from the 865 chart reverses 1 and 2 memory positions compared to the 875 white paper. While I did not test 865 performance in the review, I did make reference to the White Paper Chart.
We can also wonder, with Intel not sanctioning PAT on the 865, exactly how the 865 boards WITH PAT will behave, and if memory on an 865 with PAT changes back to the same as 875. Reply
Anonymous User - Monday, July 28, 2003 - linkYou did not close your table on page eight.
3 4 DS/td> Dual Channel
Add a < to the "/td>" ;)
Otherwise... Great article, very informing, thanks for taking the time to write this up. Reply
PrometheusN - Monday, July 28, 2003 - linkSingle-Sided or Double-Sided IS a functional description - but it normally is also a visual description. BEWARE dimms that skip every other chips on both sides. These have 4 chips on each side, but are functionally Single-Sided. Reply
PrometheusN - Monday, July 28, 2003 - linkAccording to CPU-Z 1.18C, 4 Sticks of ram - single or double - do NOT disable "PAT" on the DFI 875PRO or the Asus P4C800-E. It depends on how the motherboard BIOS handles the 4 Dimms.
Wesley Fink Reply
Shalmanese - Monday, July 28, 2003 - linkNice article but what are the real world consequences of these numbers? When DDR was 1st introduced, we only saw a ~10% peroformance increase from a 100% increase in memory bandwidth so I am thinking that the difference between 2 and 4 banks would be trivial. Reply
ghg - Monday, July 28, 2003 - linkHi Prom
Nice review, as we expected from you 8-).
Using 4 sticks of doublesided OCZ 3700 Gold disables PAT according to CPU-Z 1.18c.
Same behavior when taking 4 sticks of singlesided OCZ 4000 ?
ghg - Monday, July 28, 2003 - linkReply
Anonymous User - Monday, July 28, 2003 - linkGreat article. Pity Im too late. Is single sided RAM the same as single bank (electronic) or physically the ram chips are on a single side of the stick. Mushkin in particular are wary of using the single side term. Also What about PAT acceleration in conjunction with lower latency RAM and DIMM number? Some reviews have shown lower FSB with tight timings RAM and PAT acceleration beating looser timings 1:1 higher FSB RAM systems. Ah questions questions? Reply
pakuens - Monday, July 28, 2003 - linkGood article. I'm right in the middle of buying memory and it answered several questions. It saved me from an expensive mistake, as I was considering using two matched pairs, but of differing size.
I like the unbuffered benchmark method. Reply


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The primary innovation over the Whiller design is the use of an evacuated tube solar collector as the collecting element of the cooker. Evacuated tubes have been used in solar hot water systems, and are considered a mature, efficient technology. By replacing the copper pipe and fin in the Whiller design, John Grandinetti claims during his media interview that his indirect cooker design can reach temperatures of 400°F in direct sunlight. The Grandinetti design replaces water with oil for the heat transport mechanism in order to sustain these temperatures.
The large diameter vacuum tube (120mm OD) houses a separate sealed glass tube inside (triple cavity), which displaces most of the interior liquid volume. The resulting fluid space allows for only one gallon of vegetable oil to perform the heat transfer function to the heat retention cook box. The steel cook pan, housed within the insulated cook box, is specially designed to integrate with the glass vacuum tube. A silicone coupling hose (120mm ID) is band clamped to both the glass tube and the cylindrical portion of the steel pan outer dimensions. Tests have indicated that the unit, placed in the sun at 8:30am will achieve a cooking temperature (300° F) by 9:30am and cooking, water pasteurization and autoclaving can be readily achieved throughout the remainder of the solar day. The heat retention cook box and the thermal mass of oil and food within, permits cooking to continue through prolonged cloudy intervals and allows deliverery of hot cooked food as late as 10pm. Cook times are similar to an electric stove making this device a true solar appliance. An example is the 15 liter stove-top autoclave, which can achieve the required 17psi steam pressure within 40 minutes of placement within the insulated cook box. Frying, baking, boiling and steaming have all been successfully accomplished.
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Although she's one of the shorter offerings in Horizon's line of Taiwanese-built motoryachts (which includes models ranging from 62 to more than 130 feet), the new 68 delivers an impressively long list of features and amenities. Her standard equipment includes virtually everything: navigation electronics, entertainment system, a tender with outboard and davit, cookware, tableware, and more. Even napkins and napkin rings are included.
Designed by Greg Marshall, the 68 boasts amply proportioned interior spaces and a versatile four-stateroom, four-head layout. Beneath the aft deck, a private stateroom with double berth and head is suitable for crew, if desired, or for guests if the yacht is owner-operated. Forward on the lower deck, the three main staterooms can be configured in either of two layouts. One features a full-beam master suite amidships, VIP suite in the bow, and third stateroom between them on the port side (seen above). The alternate configuration offers a private full-beam master suite in the bow and side-by-side guest staterooms amidships.
Launching in November, the first 68 will feature a roomy skylounge on her bridge deck; with its centerline helm station, companion/navigator seat, and generous L-shape settee, it offers 360-degree vistas in climate-controlled comfort. Aft on the bridge deck is an outdoor seating area with a barbeque and wet bar and one really slick feature: Built into the countertop is a skylight that bathes the saloon below in natural sunlight or romantic moonglow.
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THEY met at the first-ever draft camp, and were chosen by the same side. They shared a forward line, a premiership and retired many years later on the same number of senior games. For 15 years, Matthew Lloyd and Scott Lucas sat in the same meetings, spent most days together and helped each other become better players. It seems right that they will share an ''afterlife'' honour, too.
Essendon has been distracted, in the past two weeks, and will be for a while yet. But the Bombers will start their season by glancing to a less-complicated past, with Lloyd and Lucas among seven men to be inducted into the club's Hall of Fame at a function next month.
Lloyd's achievements make for a long list: he has kicked more goals than any other Essendon player, won three Coleman Medals, multiple All-Australian spots and a string of other awards. He'll go straight into the Hall of Fame as a legend. Lucas matched his 270 games, played with him in the 2000 premiership side and won two club champion awards, the one prize his good friend missed out on.
Others to be recognised will be former premiership players Roy McConnell, Fred Baring and Daryl Gerlach, along with Bill Brew, a committeeman for almost 40 years from 1930 and last year's No. 1 ticket holder, Bruce Heymanson, a huge supporter of generations of players.
When he played with Lucas, Lloyd knew everything about him - which way he would turn, and in which moment. He knew how he thought, and the same applied in reverse. They were as competitive as they were close, with Lloyd getting the first taste of senior football as a 17-year-old, Lucas getting the next chance and the one trailing the other always doing their best to catch up.
''I think we both had a clear idea of what we wanted to achieve and how we wanted to go about it, but good players drive each other and make each other better and keep each other on track,'' Lucas said. ''We spent so much time together over the years, we worked in the same part of the ground so the relationship kept growing and we were always talking about it: how do we get better, how do we help our team?''
They have used each other since stopping, Lucas at the end of 2009 and Lloyd, the team's captain, one year later.
Lucas has moved mostly into player management, with some media work on the side; he understands the game as intricately as anyone Lloyd knows, so he's one of the first people he likes to run his ideas by as part of his own post-football career talking about the game they both played so well.
''I think we're pretty similar. Our lives have changed … but neither of us has changed too much … we've always seen the game in the same way,'' Lloyd said.


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I went to post in the android forums and noticed when you create your title for a new post, it gives like 5 forum search results back between the title and the post body. I thought it was quite neat. The first thing i thought of are these forums repetitive questions that could be avoided because of something like that.


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There was another topic going on remote thermometers that reminded me of this. There is an instant read thermometer that is truly instant read called the Super-fast Thermapen. I was given one as a gift for Christmas and can honestly say it's the best thermomter I've ever seen.
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The Government should be ashamed that it has been left to the country's retail banks to help teachers and school support staff with financial woes caused by the Novopay debacle, says Nanaia Mahuta.
The major retail banks have recognised the magnitude of Novopay errors and are offering interest free overdrafts to school staff.
"While this is not an ideal situation it will provide some welcome relief to those who are continuing to battle to get their correct pay leading into Christmas.
"Teachers have completely lost faith in Novopay, and many are dreading the Christmas pay period. I raised concerns about the complicated Christmas pay round weeks ago, but there is still no assurance that the bungled Novopay system will be fixed by the end of year.
"Ministers Foss and Parata did not require a proper
trial period to assure them that the system was up to
scratch and they signed off on Novopay's full roll-out
without even seeing the results of limited testing of
"Craig Foss has also admitted that there was no implementation plan when he gave the final green light to Novopay going live.
"Ministers Foss and Parata should step-up and take their responsibilities seriously. They have let this saga drag on for far too long. Teachers deserve better.
"The Ministry of Education needs
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Zito's scoreless run comes to an end
MILWAUKEE -- Barry Zito's run of dominance ended not with a whimper, but a bang.
The Brewers scored eight runs in the third inning on Tuesday, and the Giants' attempt to win for the 17th consecutive game with Zito on the hill ended in a 10-8 loss at Miller Park. The Giants threatened to provide their own fireworks at various points but couldn't quite battle all the way back after falling behind, 9-3.
Zito, unscored upon in his first two starts of the season, issued a grand slam to Yuniesky Betancourt in Milwaukee's monster frame, turning a two-run Giants lead into a six-run Brewers advantage.
"Baseball is kind of a strange game," Zito said. "I actually felt better today than I have the last couple of games. They hit my pitches tonight, so I have to tip my hat. I think they got five hits in a row, and every one of them I'd throw again."
Not that the game was over. After Brandon Crawford homered in the fourth, the Giants loaded the bases with nobody out and a run in during the fifth but only got one more run.
Marco Scutaro scored on a sacrifice fly when Brandon Belt lofted a twisting liner to left field that Ryan Braun snared with a leap, leaving two runners on base. In the sixth, San Francisco loaded the bases with one out and again settled for one run.
Then throw in two blasts to the warning track against reliever John Axford in the seventh and a deep fly by Andres Torres, who represented the tying run but instead made the game's final out when Norichika Aoki flagged down the ball.
"It's part of the game, you know?" said Pablo Sandoval, who finished with four RBIs and drove in runs on three straight plate appearances. "We fight every game. We just try to do our job, we keep bringing runs to home plate. We have to keep focused."
Belt finished with three hits, a stolen base and two RBIs, including a run-scoring single in the ninth against closer Jim Henderson to put the tying run at the dish with one down.
It was an encouraging showing for Belt, who entered the contest batting .140 and saw his batting average jump 51 points.
"There were some times where I might not have been focused on having good at-bats; you go up there and try to filet something, get a hit in there," Belt said of his struggles. "You find out real quick that it doesn't work very well. The best approach is to go up there and have good at-bats and whatever happens, happens."
Zito (2-1) went into the battle having recorded wins in eight straight regular-season starts, with two more wins in three starts during the 2012 postseason. The team's 13 straight regular-season wins in Zito starts matched the third-longest streak in franchise history -- the longest since 1951-52.
"I didn't want him to wear that kind of inning, but he earned the right to be out there, and hopefully he could get out of it, but he left a changeup up that went for a grand slam," manager Bruce Bochy said of the fateful third. "You look at the losing streaks he stopped, the postseason … It's quite a run. He's upbeat, and he knows he's probably going to have a game like this occasionally."
Zito's ERA jumped, from 0.00 to 4.86. His scoreless streak to start the year ended at 15 2/3 innings when Carlos Gomez clanked a home run off the left-field foul pole in the second. The Giants bounced back to plate three runs in the third, with Sandoval's double to the gap scoring two runs, but the Brewers came right back, loading the bases with nobody out in the third.
Zito struck out Braun, but the struggling Rickie Weeks laced a two-run double down the left-field line. Each of the next three Brewers singled, then Betancourt cleared the bases with his homer to left-center, giving the Brewers a six-run lead.
"I had Weeks in a 3-2 battle, and he kept that cutter fair," Zito said. "They were just able to hit my pitches.
"It's just important to put the past in the past and come out and not take anything for granted. Each day is a new day. That's something I pride myself on, going out tomorrow and fighting and grinding."
Brandon Kintzler (2-0) was awarded the win in relief after starter Wily Peralta was chased in the fifth. The Giants' bullpen emerged as a bright spot, with left-hander Jeremy Affeldt unavailable in advance of a stint on the 15-day disabled list, a roster move to be made official on Wednesday. Chad Gaudin threw 2 1/3 scoreless innings, followed by a scoreless frame by Jose Mijares. George Kontos surrendered an eighth-inning home run to Aoki in two otherwise solid innings.
"We were a man short, and they stepped up and gave us a chance," Bochy said. "It's a lot to overcome."
JR Radcliffe is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Question submitted on Mar 31, 2013.
QuestionI am considering building a small retirement cottage on my daughter/son-in-law''s property which includes their home and they hold a mortgage thereon. I would cash IRA $ to do so. What if any concerns, issues do we need to mindful of?
Hi, thank you for the question. There are a number of issues to keep in mind. I do not know your age, but one point you may know is that if you take the funds out prior to your age 59 1/2, then you will be subject to a 10% penalty. You will always be subject to ordinary income taxes on the funds in your IRA when you take them out. The tax rate will be whatever your personal income tax rate is the year you take the funds out.
From a financial planning standpoint, you should consider if you will have enough income to live on the rest of your life. There are many other expenses to consider, such as health care, food, utilities, travel and so on that need to be accounted for before you liquidate your IRA.
There might be legal implications should your daughter's house ever be faced with foreclosure. You should consult an attorney in your area for advice in this area.
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So, I don't necessarily have the best wet suit, but it works pretty good. Its an old 6'5'4' and I always tell myself I'm going to buy a new suit, but always waste that money on a new board. I have a problem.
But the water up here in New Hampshire is still FRIGID... I mean ice cream headaches like crazy, shrunken sack, cold hands and feet etc. I can max about 2-3 hours on a good day, but when the air is really cold too, its usually 1-2 hours per session.
Recently me and my buddies started using wool socks and sweaters under our suits to help stay warm. Believe it or not, it works amazingly well. I actually have only been wearing wool socks, but my buddy does both. He cut the sleeves and lower waist off the sweater so it doesn't get too bunched up. The wool fills the little gaps between your skin and the suit. It allows less water to sit in your suit and lets your body warm it up faster. Thus keeping you warmer.
Has anyone else tried this little trick? If not, I recommend it. We by no means invented this idea. It has been done for quite some time. I heard it from a particular shop owner up here in NH, and he was totally right. Thanks Mike.


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City hires from within for economic development director
Published: Friday, December 21, 2012 at 6:15 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, December 21, 2012 at 6:15 p.m.
Gainesville's new economic development and innovation director comes from within the city's ranks.
On Thursday, City Manager Russ Blackburn announced the hiring of Planning and Development Services Director Eric Bredfeldt in that role.
In a press release, Blackburn said that, after a national candidate search, Bredfeldt was "the best fit for the city organization."
In 2003, Bredfeldt was initially hired as the city's economic development director. He has been the director of the Planning and Development Services Department for five years. Bredfeldt will continue to serve as interim director until a city building official and planning and development services director are hired.
Bredfeldt has a bachelor's in economics from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa., and master's and doctorate degrees in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Florida.
He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and has National Development Council certification as an Economic Development Finance Professional.
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Slow Cooker Orange Chicken Recipe
I was talking to my grandma the other day, and she mentioned that my brother had brought her and grandpa orange chicken from Panda Express.
and that was it. I needed some.
I've made lemon chicken a few times in the slow cooker, and was impressed with the results. I tested out the same recipe with orange juice instead of lemonade, and guess what? Instant orange sauce, without ingesting tons of deep-fried grease or a drop of gluten. Yay!
The Ingredients.
1 1/2 pounds boneless chicken, cut in 2-inch chunks
1/2 cup flour (I used Pamela's Baking Mix)
olive oil, for browning the chicken
1 tablespoon kosher salt
6 ounces (1/2 can) frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed (I'd opt for little-to-no pulp. The pulp can taste a bit bitter when cooked)
3 tablespoons brown sugar
1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
3 tablespoons ketchup
updated 9/20/09: I've heard from a few readers that 1 tablespoon of salt is too much. If you are using iodized or table salt, this will be the case. Kosher salt doesn't taste as "salty" as regular salt, and since the granules are larger, you don't get as much in the tablespoon as you would with regular salt. Adjust accordingly. xoxo steph
The Directions.
Use a 4 quart slow cooker for best results. Dredge the chicken pieces with the flour, and shake off the excess. Go ahead and throw away any remaining flour, we won't need it. Heat olive oil in a large skillet on the stove and brown the chicken on all sides. There is no need to fully cook it, just sear it enough for the flour to stick and get a nice coating.
Plop the chicken pieces into your slow cooker. In a small mixing bowl, combine the orange juice concentrate, brown sugar, balsamic vinegar, salt, and ketchup. Taste. If you'd like the chicken to be a bit sweeter, add a touch more sugar. Pour sauce mixture evenly over the chicken, and toss gingerly to coat.
Cover and cook on low for 6 hours, or on high for 3 to 4. Serve over white or brown rice.
The Verdict.
Delicious. All four of us had seconds. Like I did with the lemon chicken, I sprinkled some red pepper flakes onto my portion, because I like a bit of heat. Everyone else at the table ate it as-is, and was quite happy.
other great take out fake out dishes:
Mongolian Beef
Broccoli Beef
Chow Mein
Fried Rice
and for dessert: super soft gluten free sugar cookies


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ORLANDO, Fla. - An Orlando woman was arrested Saturday on charges of theft and child cruelty after she was caught shoplifting lacy lingerie in the presence of her children, deputies said.
According to the Orange County Sheriff's Office, Ashley Fleischmann, 24, was stopped by a plain-clothes loss prevention officer at the Burlington Coat Factory on East Colonial Drive after she passed all points of sale with no point of returning her clothing items.
In the loss prevention office, Fleischmann produced the stolen items from concealed places on her body, all of which had a total value of $84.91, deputies said. Fleischmann told deputies that the articles of clothing were for her to wear at Crystal Cabaret Gentleman's Club, her place of employment. Fleischmann also said that she had planned to make a quick exit from the store and had hoped that the presence of her children would prevent an arrest, deputies said.
Deputies found that Fleischmann had planned to use her children in the commission of a crime, which is a violation of a Florida State Statute that states, "An intentional act that could reasonably be expected to result in physical or mental injury to a child."
Deputies said that Fleischmann willfully subjected two children to be the witnesses of her crime, which appeared to be a traumatic event for the children, who cried while on the scene. Deputies also said that Fleischmann said that she knew that the children didn't have another legal guardian who was able to pick them up from the store on Saturday.
Fleischmann, who was irate and cried continuously during her time in the loss prevention office, was taken into custody and booked into jail, deputies said. Her children were further traumatized, according to deputies, when they were placed in custody of the Department of Children and Families. Fleischmann told deputies that she didn't know the last time that both of the children had eaten a complete meal.
During her transport to the booking and receiving center, Fleischmann uttered that she just received the care and custody of her children a week prior and she "couldn't believe this was happening again," deputies said.
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ORLANDO - Hundreds of airline workers were told late Tuesday that they may lose their jobs at Frontier Airlines, including employees in Orlando.
Kate O'Malley, a Frontier spokeswoman, told Local 6, the company announced it will outsource roughly 700 jobs nationwide to a third-party vendor as part of an effort to reduce costs.
The layoffs include gate agents, ticket counter and ramp workers. This includes Orlando International Airport and all 28 locations around the country, except for the company's headquarters in Denver, Colorado.
"We need to take every reasonable measure to ensure the future stability and viability of our company and to keep our costs low for our customers," said O'Malley in an email to Local 6 Tuesday night.
The company previously announced customers will have to pay extra if they book their ticket on another website other than Frontier. The company filed for bankruptcy in recent years.
O'Malley said 60 percent of the company's workers are already being outsourced.
It is currently unclear exactly when the last day will be for the workers losing their jobs in Orlando.
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There was an interesting tidbit in Anthony DiComo's recent mailbag over at MLB.com. When asked who would be the Opening Day starter should Johan Santana not be healthy enough to make the start, DiComo wrote:
"Unlike last year, when Collins named his Opening Day starter in the dead of winter, the manager has been tight-lipped on that issue this year — and for good reason. No one knows exactly how ready Santana will be come Opening Day.
Collins has said on multiple occasions that he believes Santana is a true ace, hinting that if the left-hander is healthy, he will receive the Opening Day nod. And that makes sense. But if Santana is anything less than 100 percent come April, then I suspect you're right: Dickey will indeed earn the assignment. Coming off a better and more consistent year than any other Mets pitcher, Dickey would really be the only choice at that point. He was the clear leader of this staff in Santana's absence, and its best pitcher to boot."
This certainly makes sense. Dickey's ERA+ was 113 last year; no other starter topped 84. Dickey was also the only Met to surpass 200 innings pitched. There's an argument to be made that Dickey has earned the Opening Day nod regardless- let Santana work his way back without carrying the extra baggage of the ace label.
After all, the Mets certainly didn't choose the correct Opening Day starter last year. Inexplicably, Mike Pelfrey got the nod over Dickey. In 2010, Dickey edged Pelfrey in ERA+, 138 to 107. Pelfrey edged Dickey in innings pitched, 204 to 174 1/3, but did so in seven extra starts- Dickey pitched deep into games more consistently. And peripheral stats suggested that Dickey was a far better bet to repeat his production in 2011, as he largely did.
The Mets, however, wanted Mike Pelfrey to be an ace. He is tall, he throws hard, and they drafted him high. So he got the start, and proceeded to disappoint fans who shouldn't have been pushed into thinking he was an ace.
I fear the same thing could happen with Santana, who returns from complicated shoulder surgery. It may be moot if he isn't ready to go, but wouldn't it make more sense to put him in the rotation with the idea that he can heal on his own timetable, rather than expecting him to be an ace the moment he is healthy enough to take the mound.
Here's hoping the Mets get it right this year.


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THOUSANDS of service personnel based around Andover are eligible to benefit from a new scheme designed to help them take their first steps in the housing market.
While civilians are eligible for assistance under the Help to Buy scheme, the forces scheme is much more generous.
The Forces Help to Buy scheme enables military personnel to secure an interest-free Government loan of up to 50 per cent of their salary to put towards the cost of their first home.
Taylor Wimpey, which is building hundreds of new homes east of Andover says its development is proving popular with forces.
Emma Jones, associate regional sales and marketing director for Taylor Wimpey, said: "Saving the deposit required for a first home can be difficult, especially for service personnel who move around throughout their military career.
"The Forces Help to Buy scheme is a fantastic opportunity for these would-be buyers to put some roots down and get on to the property ladder."
Purchasers can borrow up to £25,000 and the normal term of the loan is 10 years.


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A phase retraction was an energy phenomenon which could occur in some vessels' shields when power was transferred from one system to another.
Such a phenomenon was observed by Lieutenant Tuvok, chief tactical officer of the USS Voyager, in 2372, while engaged in combat with a hostile vessel in the Delta Quadrant. Noticing that, whenever the enemy transferred auxiliary power to their aft weapons systems, a slight phase retraction in their shields was the result, Tuvok conceived of utilizing a covariant phaser pulse to disable the vessel's entire weapons array, by firing at their aft control systems. (VOY: "Parturition")


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UTNAM COUNTY — Five Putnam County veterans took a special trip on
Tuesday, June 3. They were part of the Flag City Honor Flight hub that
flew to Washington D.C. to visit numerous veterans memorials, Arlington
Cemetery and the Air Force Museum.
Taking the trip were World War
II veterans George Hellman, Fort Jennings and James Baxter, Pandora; and
Korean veterans Bert Diemer, Ottawa; Urban Lauf, Ottawa; and Vince
Westrick, Miller City.
"Everywhere we went people were thanking us for our service," said Baxter. "Adults and kids would come up and shake our hands."
enjoyed the whole thing," said Lauf. "It was overwhelming when we
returned to the hanger at the Toledo airport. They had a ceremony and so
many people to welcome us home. It was a very emotional moment."
men left from Findlay with an escort of law enforcement to the Toledo
Airport. Prior to boarding the plane the veterans were given breakfast
and a special ceremony. The veterans were then flown to Baltimore
Airport where they boarded buses and were first taken to the World War
II Memorial. The veterans also visited the Korean Memorial and Vietnam
'They had a guardian for each veteran," said Diemer. His
guardian, Ann Bosse, Findlay, is the niece of Hellman, who was also on
the tour.
"She was great," said Diemer. "She has done this before
and her own daughter Nicole Bosse also went along as a
"Everything was outstanding," Diemer said.
While at the Vietnam wall he looked up an Ottawa veteran who had died in
the Vietnam war.
"Every where we stopped there were soldiers and
sailors coming up to greet us and thank us," said Hellman. He said he
had mixed emotions about going there since he had been there before, but
acknowledged this was a trip he will never forget.
"When we returned to Toledo there was about 500-600 people there to greet us," he said. "it was amazing."
Brinkman said the last time he was to Washington D.C. the World War II monument was under construction and boarded up.
"This time I got to see the monument," he said. "I really appreciate what everyone did. They were such a nice bunch of people."
Baxter said the mail call that was held upon their return to Toledo was a surprising and special conclusion to the trip.
the veterans got a canvas bag filled with special things and messages
people had sent in," he said. He found out the Honor Flight staff
contacts friends and family members of the veterans to request letter.
Baxter said he received letters from former students and friends. "It
was so unexpected," he said. "It was very special."
An Honor
Flight is conducted by non-profit organizations dedicated to
transporting as many United States Military veterans as possible to see
the memorials of the respective war(s) they fought in Washington, D.C.
at no cost to the veterans. The veterans on the honor flights are
escorted by volunteer guardians, who help them on the flight and around
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Driven to Extremes: The Roadless Pursuit of Scientific Drilling at El'gygytgyn Crater Lake, Arctic Russia
Julie Brigham-Grette, University of Massachusetts
Friday, October 19, 2012, 3:30pm
Spanos Auditorium
This seminar is part of the Jones Seminars on Science, Technology, and Society series.
In the middle Pliocene, 3.6 million years ago, a meteorite blasted open an impact crater nearly 18 km across in central Chukotka, 100 km north of the Arctic Circle. At that time most of the Arctic borderlands were forested all the way to northern-most coasts, the Arctic Ocean lacked perennial sea ice, and the Greenland Ice Sheet did not exist in its present form. In fact, after the meteorite hit, a million years passed before the first major glaciation of the Northern Hemisphere. Much of what geologists know about the transition from a forested Arctic to one of tundra and ice – punctuated by repeated cycles of glacial/interglacial climate change – has been derived from isolated, commonly thin stratigraphic sections that hold only small pieces of the story taken from many different parts of the Arctic. Yet the sediments that accumulated in crater Lake El'gygytgyn since 3.6 million years ago were continuous and undisturbed, making is possible for scientists in 2009 to recover an unprecedented record of Arctic change and chronicle the climate evolution of the high latitude earth system with a new perspective. The sediments from Lake El'gygytgyn contain new evidence of super interglacials over the past few million years that appear to correspond closely with intervals when the West Antarctic Ice Sheet had retreated. This new bipolar teleconnection raises new questions concerning the vulnerability of the high latitudes to a warming world.
About the Speaker
Dr. Julie Brigham-Grette received her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado's Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research. After post-doctoral research at the University of Bergen, Norway, and the University of Alberta, Canada, with the Canadian Geological Survey, she joined the faculty at the University of Massachusetts in the fall of 1987. Dr. Brigham-Grette has been conducting research in the Arctic for nearly 34 years, including nine field seasons in remote parts of northeast Russia since 1991. Her research interests and experience span a broad spectrum dealing with arctic paleoclimate records and the Late Cenozoic evolution of the Arctic climate both on land and off shore, especially in the Bering Strait region. She is the US Chief Scientist of the Lake El'gygytgyn Scientific Drilling Project. Brigham-Grette was 2-term Chair of the International Geosphere/Biosphere Program's Science Steering Committee on Past Global Change (PAGES) with an international program office in Bern, Switzerland, and past President of the American Quaternary Association. She served as one of two US representatives to the International Continental Drilling Program. She is currently Chair of the American Geophysical Union's Paleoclimate and Paleoceanography Focus Group and Vice-chair of the DOSECC Board of Directors for scientific drilling. Married, 2 sons, one of whom is a senior geology major at UMass.


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A Charlie Brown Christmas
From Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
"I watch it with My family every year!"
A Charlie Brown Christmas is a poorly done annual Christmas special based off the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz. Since its first airing in 1965, it has been shown on television approximately one zajillion times; to the point that Lucy pulling the football away is less hackneyed than the sight of that ugly one-red-ornament stick.
However, it did inspire a great Saturday Night Live TV Funhouse spoof and numerous references in an episode of Arrested Development, so props there.
edit Plot
The special starts out with all the kids simply having a wonderful Christmastime.[1] The often shat upon protagonist, Charlie Brown, however, is in his usual mopey, FML attitude. Only this time it's pathetic even by Charlie Brown standards. No matter how hard he tries, he can't find happiness in Christmas, as everywhere he goes, he's depressed from the hollow commercialism of the season. Seeking a remedy, he visits the office of money-loving faux psychologist Dr. Lucy, where she informs Charlie Brown that the school is putting on a play about the Nativity of Jesus, as the ACLU was preoccupied with the whole "civil rights for blacks" thing at the time to care, and suggests he be the director in order to feel like an important part of Christmas, also, a run-on sentence.
Upon arriving in the middle of a chaotic dance number, Charlie Brown ascends to power to bring order to the pageant with an iron fist. After several minutes of uncooperation and games of assgrab, Charlie Brown soon becomes frustrated at their pitiful efforts. Unsure of what the play is missing, Lucy suggests a Christmas tree. Realizing that this is a fantastic idea, Charlie Brown and Linus vow to go the find the perfect tree, leaving Lucy in charge - Lucy being Adolf Hitler to Charlie Brown's Benito Mussolini.
Arriving at the Christmas tree lot, Charlie Brown and Linus are left unsatisfied with the artificiality of all the choices. That is, until Charlie notices a small tree that is as real and it is ugly.
And I mean really ugly. If it were a child, only a mother could love it. It were a puppy, it would be doomed to be put down at the end of the month. If it were a carton of milk, you'd smell it, make a disgusting face and throw it in the garbage while yelling profanities at your careless butthole of a roommate. (You get the idea.) Yet because Charlie Brown was a complete idiot, or because he could see something special in the tree[2], he buys it anyway.
Returning to ground zero proud of his achievement, he presents the official twig of the Peanuts' Christmas pageant, only to have all of them laugh at him, simply because they just couldn't see how wonderful it truly was.
Feeling like the ultimate dolt, Charlie Brown seeps back into his state of depression, completely barren of all faith in humanity. Suddenly, he cries out in angst, "Isn't there ANYONE?! Who knows?! What Christmas is all about?!" Cue Linus' famous monologue on the true meaning of Christmas:
Inspired, not to mention entirely terrified, Charlie Brown decides to take the tree home to decorate it himself. That'll show the bastards!
As soon as he gets home, he notices Snoopy's dog house has won first prize in the lights and display contest. After the WTF reaction fades, he shrugs and snatches a shiny red ornament for the tree. As soon as he places the ornament on the top bough, the tree leans all the way down like an old geezer once the Viagra wears off. Charlie Brown cries in dispair, "I've killed it. Ugh! Everything I touch gets ruined!" He then proceeds to go commit suicide.
The rest of the gang appears, feeling guilty for being dicks to Charlie Brown. They decide to give the tree a little love and finish decorating it.
Returning to snatch some lights off of Snoopy's dog house for which to hang himself, Charlie Brown is shocked to see that his once pitiful tree now looks beautiful. The kids all shout, "MERRY CHRISTMAS, CHARLIE BROWN!!1!!!11", and as the credits roll, everyone, including a finally happy Charlie Brown, is singing "Joy to the World", or some crap like that.
It is at this point, despite how mind-numbingly bored you were for the first 25 minutes of this special, despite how shoddy the animation was, despite how sappy, sickly sentimental this final moment is, you break down and sob like a baby.
edit Soundtrack
- Main article: Greensleeves
Piano and Greensleeves. Lots of piano and Greensleeves.
edit Marxist interpretation
Despite the overt religious message, A Charlie Brown Christmas is considered to be a classic example of subtle Marxist propaganda sneaking into Christmas media, within the same vein of A Christmas Carol, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Charlie Brown's depression of the commercialism of the season is a classic example of the feeling of alienation under a capitalist society. The Christmas pageant, besides showing us that religion is, indeed, the opium of the masses preoccupying us from our misery, symbolizes trying to fit within the the roles society expects of us, i.e. those of long dead generations. Meanwhile, Charlie's poor job as director highlights the folly of centralized management. Finally, the childrens' recreation of the tree in the final act is the revolutionary act of "..building a new world within the shell of the old."
On the other hand...
edit Merchandise
Originally sponsered by Coca-Cola[3], the creators of the smash hit marketing icon Santa Claus, A Charlie Brown Christmas has sprung forth a wealth of merchandise. Everything from DVDs to CDs, books, cards, wrapping paper, ornaments, stockings, toys, plush dolls, board games, t-shirts, pajamas, novelty boxer shorts, gift cards, blow-up lawn displays, placemats, plates, glasses, knick-knacks, lamps, shower curtains, toilet seats, condoms[4], and even a plastic replica of Charlie Brown's crummy tree. Everything to make Peanuts fans enjoy the Christmas season.
As long as they don't forget the true meaning of the holiday, of course. Remember kiddies: The Great Pumpkin frowns upon hypocrisy!
edit Notes
- ↑ We had to pay Paul McCartney to use those words in that order. Worth every cent, if you ask me.
- ↑ One does not negate the other.
- ↑ The original final scene ended with the words "Brought to you by the people in your town who bottle Coca-Cola." [1] Hence, why so many church Christmas pageant renditions of that timeless sacred hymn included unintentional product placement for years.
- ↑ Probably.
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text: NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Democrats and Republicans appear to agree the U.S. government's multi-trillion dollar support for the U.S. housing market needs to shrink, and there is massive money to made for investors who can correctly handicap the companies that stand to benefit from the shakeout. "Moving the U.S. residential mortgage industry back into the private sector offers the greatest growth opportunities in U.S. financials over the next ten years," states a report published Tuesday by Keefe Bruyette & Woods. Such a bold statement would seem to call for a few stock picks, but alas, KBW's report offers not a single one. Still, it has some ideas worth considering. First, post-crisis housing winners such as Ocwen Financial ( OCN) Annaly Capital Management ( NLY) and American Capital Agency Corp. ( AGNC), and will have to reinvent themselves if they are going to continue their success of the past few years. "These firms took advantage of the growth in GSE mortgage production and the spin out of non-prime mortgage servicing. Neither of these trends is likely to continue indefinitely," KBW's report contends. Ocwen, which services long-delinquent mortgages, has picked up massive market share as troubled companies like Bank of America ( BAC) and bankrupt ones like Residential Capital have been eager to rid themselves of difficult servicing responsibilities while raising funds to boost capital levels or pay creditors. Annaly and American Capital--the giants of the mortgage real estate investment trust space, have paid out double-digit dividends by borrowing cheaply and using leverage to buy mortgage backed securities (MBS) issued by Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae ( FNMA) and Freddie Mac ( FMCC). Since the 2008 crisis, the GSEs have supported the mortgage market as private capital has virtually disappeared. Private capital will presumably have to come back at some point, and politicians appear determined to shrink the government's role, though whether they will agree on how to accomplish this goal without sinking the U.S. economy remains to be seen. The task is so perilous that KBW Washington analyst Brian Gardner arguesno first term President would take it on. Thus, the reelection of President Obama--not to mention Congress's urgent need to find expenses to cut to avoid sending the U.S. economy over the dreaded "fiscal cliff"-- has increased the odds of something being done.


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HOUSTON - Police said two armed men shot into a crowd in a northwest Houston parking lot.
The shooting happened in the 800 block of West Little York on Sunday at 6:25 p.m.
As many as 50 people were gathered in the parking lot when two armed men walked up and demanded money, according to witnesses.
Houston Police Sgt. Robert Musick said five to eight people handed over their cash, but the suspects began shooting when two men tried to run to a nearby apartment building.
One of the men was hit in the hip, but is expected to recover, authorities said.
Bullets narrowly missed a 61-year-old woman and her 90-year-old aunt sitting across the street.
Stray shots slammed into a parked car and a house owned by Mabel Henry. Henry and her 90-year-old aunt, Ester Davis, were sitting on the front porch with two other relatives.
Henry said the bullet passed within inches of her aunt's head, and narrowly missed her brother before lodging in a window sill.
"It was a very frightening experience. I wouldn't want to have to live any of that again," Henry said. "People were running left and right and cars running left and right. We couldn't tell what was what."
The two gunmen sped away in the confusion, but hit another car less than a mile away at the intersection of Victory and Wheatley.
Police found money inside the car, but the suspects managed to escape.
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CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (AP) -- A man has been convicted of aggravated murder in the slaying of his daughter-in-law, who was strangled and dumped in a septic tank in southeast Ohio.
A jury in Chillicothe (chihl-ih-KAHTH'-ee) issued its verdict Monday for 48-year-old William Inman, who was held after the March 2011 killing of 25-year-old Summer Inman.
The trial was moved to Chillicothe after unsuccessful attempts to seat a jury in Hocking County.
Inman's wife and son were convicted last year in the killing.
Authorities say Summer Inman was abducted in Logan, was strangled with a zip tie and was dumped in an underground septic tank behind a church in Athens County. She had filed for divorce from William Inman's son and was seeking custody of the couple's three small children.
William Inman denied killing her.