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Another computer consultant has been hired by the county of Marin, this time to conduct workshops.
Marin supervisors this week approved a $106,475 contract for "business process improvement consulting services," hiring a consultant to facilitate workshops with human resources staffers whose advice will help develop new business, software and related systems for managing personnel affairs.
Collective HR Solutions of Belmont got the job and will work in collaboration with Plante Moran, a Michigan consultant in line for fees to date of about $900,000.
Officials made clear the latest consultant will be paid with salary savings already in the budget of the Department of Human Resources.
County Administrator Matthew Hymel said the consultant spending is aimed at averting another fiasco such as occurred with a $30 million computer system the county is scrapping because it never worked right and is too expensive to maintain — an outcome Hymel says might have been different had more consultant advice been sought in the first place.
"This is part of the strategy to have a more successful implementation," he said of seeking outside advice about the design of a new computer and software system.
In effect, personnel staffers will work with the consultant to help design a system that resolves their work and efficiency needs.
Personnel chief Joanne Peterson said that "due to the increasing demands on the department to provide core human resources services, our existing staff resources do not have the capacity to conduct this work."
"Conducting this Phase 1 assessment and addressing these issues upfront are part of the 'lessons learned' from the prior implementation," Peterson said in a report to the county board.
Plante Moran was hired last year to analyze the way the county does business, make recommendations for efficiencies and help select a new system to replace the computer program it is junking. The company won two other contracts to conduct a "business process" review of the finance department, formed by consolidating the auditor-controller and treasurer-tax collector offices several years ago. Redesigning key business processes with the consultant's help "will ensure that the selected system will fit the needs of the county," according to finance chief Roy Given.
The Board of Supervisors, claiming fraud, racketeering, bribery and other wrongdoing, filed two high-profile lawsuits in 2010, saying taxpayers were ripped off by a problematic computer system that a grand jury calculated cost $28.6 million by 2009 — although Hymel contends some costs would have accrued regardless of what system was installed. But supervisors settled the case earlier this year for just $3.9 million, and approved a gag order barring public explanation — after spending more than $5 million in legal fees.
Dropped in the settlement deal crafted behind closed doors were all claims against computer consultants Deloitte and SAP, as well as the county auditor who managed the project before quitting to join SAP.
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PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(April 8, 2008) – The Honourable Jay Hill, Secretary of State and Member of Parliament for Prince George-Peace River, and Mr. Dick Harris, Member of Parliament for Cariboo-Prince George, on behalf of the Honourable Monte Solberg, Minister of Human Resources and Social Development, congratulated the Prince George Nechako Aboriginal and Employment Training Association and WCG International HR Solutions on the approval of their two projects to help 135 unemployed older workers to retrain for new careers."The Government of Canada is committed to creating the best-educated, most-skilled and most flexible work force in the world, and that work force includes older workers," said Secretary of State Hill. "That is why we're proudly investing in these projects, which we expect to benefit up to 135 unemployed older workers from the Prince George area, and specifically help former workers from the forestry industry."
Together, these organizations will receive up to $1,327,916 ($1,115,336 from the Government of Canada, and $212,580 from British Columbia's Ministry of Economic Development) to deliver two projects carried out under the Targeted Initiative for Older Workers. Hubodulh'eh and Community Connections will provide employment assistance services, as well as a combination of other activities such as specific skills training based upon labour market demands and work experience.
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From: Golden, CO
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rating: 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b
|No gear needed. Just 4-5 slings and a couple draws. Thought the traverse was much harder than 5.9 though. An 80m rope might get you down.
By Richard Shore
May 28, 2012
rating: 5.10a/b 6a+ 19 VI+ 19 E2 5b R
A very nice climb. Thoughtful and engaging. Anywhere else, this thing would be a **** classic (I give it 4 only to offset the OP's 1 star). Only one detractor in my opinion...
The FA party skipped a good stance for a bolt right before the crux. As is, you have to do the crux moves ~15' out left (horizontal) from the 4th bolt. A fall from here would be disastrous; a huge pendulum across a face full of knobs and smack into the corner below. No reason not to give this one the dreaded "R." I'll agree with the Croft/Lewis guide rating here, 5.9 leader will need a change of underwear.
2 ropes to rappel. Long slings on the 4th and 5th bolts (start and end of traverse) will help with rope drag up higher.


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Brendan is right, it was in New Zealand. Stuff.co.nz, the Fairfax Ltd news site, also had a report on it.
That is totaly the Cthulu of lovecraftian lore.
Looks like it's from the Watchmen graphic novel (not the movie). Maybe there's a connection of the Watchmen and FSM…
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. - Randy Moss took stock of the jeers of incensed Buffalo fans, who vociferously objected to New England's going for it not once, but twice, on fourth-down situations late last night as the Patriots steamrolled their beloved Bills.
Moss knows what it's like to be an anti-hero, a polarizing figure, an admired yet despised talent. He has lived that for most of his professional life, a mercurial, gifted athlete whose immense skills and football intelligence never have been questioned but whose work ethic and team-building skills have.
Until now. Until here.
Since Moss arrived in New England, he has been, by all accounts, a terrific teammate, a dutiful student, a Bill Belichick disciple. He has mastered the complex offensive system, has adopted a low profile, has deflected praise on the few occasions when he has spoken publicly.
In exhibition season, he predicted he would not be a distraction or a detriment. He told his doubters he would prove to them New England had done the right thing by taking him on.
Last night, in the wake of his finest performance yet as a Patriot, Moss was told he had every right to declare, "I told you so."
"I'll take a pass," he said.
"I'm past all that," he continued softly, shortly before an onslaught of media descended on his locker. "By me showing up at minicamp, I think I put that all behind me. Everything's going good now. It's working out. I don't even want to dwell on any negatives from the past.
"What we're doing as a team, I think it speaks for itself. I don't need to be in the paper. I don't need to say anything. I think what we're doing out there says it all."
So here is what Moss had to say in upstate New York last night, in case you couldn't keep up with the offensive barrage he and one Thomas Brady laid on the overmatched Bills.
With his 13th touchdown reception of the season (and his first of the night), Moss set a team record, eclipsing Stanley Morgan (12 in 1979), who once was the standard by which all New England receivers were measured. Nice to know you, Stanley. This rolling stone will gather more Moss before it's done, and you might have to get used to being second fiddle in the record books.
Moss also set a Patriots record with four touchdown catches - all in the first half. That wasn't just a team record, it was also a personal record.
Moss now has surpassed 1,000 yards for the season (1,052) and is well within range of Morgan's regular-season mark of 1,491 yards, which has been in place for 21 years.
He recorded his seventh 100-yard game of the season (128 yards in all) and the 53d of his career, putting him well within range of the idle and injured Marvin Harrison (59), who is third all-time on the list and better get well quick if he plans to stay there.
So who will stop this Patriots team, which steamrolled the shorthanded Bills, 56-10, by scoring on every possession orchestrated by Brady's steady hand? (That's 7 for 7, for those of you scoring at home).
Who, if anyone will make this franchise pay for going for it twice on fourth down and short yardage inside the 10-yard line? The first time, the Patriots were ahead, 35-7, and looking at fourth and 1 from the Bills 3. They went for it, and scored when Brady lobbed a rainbow pass to Benjamin Watson in the rear right corner of the end zone.
The second time, Belichick and the boys were on top, 42-10, in the waning seconds of the third quarter, and it was fourth and 2 with the ball at the 10. This time, Brady hit Moss on a quick out which, naturally, secured the first down and eventually led to a rushing touchdown by rookie Kyle Eckel.
And Belichick actually likes Bills coach Dick Jauron.
Just imagine what he'll do to Eric Mangini and the Jets in Week 15.
Frigid Bills fans were so furious with New England's fourth-down play calling, they start chanting a nasty two-syllable word that cannot be repeated here.
Naturally, none of this has any effect on your New England Patriots, who continue to dominate both sides of the ball with such fervor that one wonders how anyone can mount a legitimate challenge.
Asked to analyze the beating his team laid on Buffalo, Moss pointed the finger squarely at his coach.
"Coach Belichick put us through it," Moss explained. "He kept telling us, 'Be ready. Be ready.' It was a hard week. Especially mentally. He tore our heads off on Monday. He tore our heads off on Wednesday and Thursday and Friday. I've got to commend him for that. Not many coaches bite down hard like that."
Moss was an equal opportunity humiliator. He froze George Wilson on Brady's 43-yard touchdown bomb to him in the opening quarter to push the Patriots in front, 14-0. He burned old friend Jabari Greer on a 6-yard strike to make it 28-7. And, with 10 seconds left until halftime, he trashed Donte Whitner on a 17-yard score.
"From an execution standpoint, there's no telling what we can do," Moss said.
He has a dream quarterback, a dream team. He's not ready to declare it the best offensive team he's ever been a part of - "Check the '95 Vikings," he said. "We still hold the record for most points in a season" - but you wonder when those records will fall, too.
"It's all that humble pie that Coach Belichick fed us this week," Moss insisted. "It was more like humble pie casserole. Coach Belichick is not letting us get too ahead of ourselves. He has straight tunnel vision. I've always known Bill Belichick to be a helluva coach.
"I consider him to be the best ever."
The receiver knows his coach will catch some flak for those fourth-down calls. He's aware the Patriots are the most feared team in the NFL, but quickly have become the most disliked team as well.
Randy Moss can live with that. He already has.
Jackie MacMullan is a Globe columnist. Her e-mail is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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131 F3d 146 Jaquias v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
131 F.3d 146
Aurora Fe Abaoag JAQUIAS, a.k.a. Aurora Fe Abaoag Jaquias, Petitioner,
IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.
Nos. 96-70980, Aci-jvr-kla.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Nov. 7, 1997.**
Decided Nov. 20, 1997.
NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel.
Petition to Review a Decision of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, No. Aiw-ioi-lvj.
Before BROWNING, BRUNETTI, and FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judges.
Petitioner, Jaquias, is a native and citizen of the Philippines. She claims the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) abused its discretion by denying her motion to reopen her deportation case. Her motion requested that the BIA extend or reinstate her term for voluntary departure and reopen her case so that she could request a change in status. Her request for a change in status is based on an unadjudicated visa petition. The visa petition is founded on her marriage to a United States citizen during the pendency of her deportation.
The BIA has no authority to extend a term for voluntary departure. That power rests solely with the District Director. 8 C.F.R. § 244.2. Because it was beyond its jurisdiction, the BIA did not abuse its discretion by refusing to grant the requested extension.
The BIA may reinstate an alien's voluntary departure. But, that power is limited to reinstatement of terms 30 days from the date of its decision, or the original term set by the Immigration Judge (IJ), if it has not already expired. Matter of Chouliaris, 16 I & N Dec. 168 (1977). The BIA did grant petitioner's request for reinstatement of the original term of her voluntary departure. There is no abuse of discretion here.
Before granting a motion to reopen, the BIA requires a prima facie showing of eligibility for a newly acquired claim to relief from deportation. Matter of Arthur, 20 I & N Dec. 475 (1992). An unadjudicated application for adjustment of status based on a marriage that occurs during the pendency of deportation proceedings is not prima facie evidence of eligibility for an adjustment of status. Id.
The BIA's policy on unadjudicated visa applications based upon marriage to a United States citizen during the pendency of deportation proceedings is in accord with the statutory mandates of the amendments to the 1990 Immigration and Nationality Act Dielmann v. INS, 34 F.3d 851, 853 (9th Cir.1994).
Since petitioner could not meet the standard for reopening her case, it was not an abuse of discretion for the BIA to refuse to do so.
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Keeneland sale: Pure Clan commands $4.5 million
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Multiple Grade 1 winner Pure Clan became the first horse to surpass the $1 million mark during Wednesday's second session of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale, and she finished well past it to produce the highest price of the sale so far, drawing $4.5 million from Brazilian-based Borges Torrealba Holdings.
The 7-year-old Pure Clan, a daughter of Pure Prize, was a six-time graded stakes winner during her racing career, highlighted by Grade 1 scores in the 2008 American Oaks Invitational Stakes and the 2009 Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes. She retired with 8 wins from 16 starts for earnings of $1,987,948.
Goncalo Torrealba, who owns TNT Stud in Brazil, said that Pure Clan will remain in the U.S. for her broodmare career at Three Chimneys Farm in Lexington, where Torrealba .said he and farm owner Robert Clay "plan on breeding her to nice horses together."
Torrealba said he would make the decision about whether to breed Pure Clan to race or sell at a later time, but he probably will play it on a foal-by-foal basis.
"It really depends on what comes out," he said. "The fillies, we would keep for sure. The colts might go out on the market. I'm not sure yet. We're trying to build a broodmare band."
Pure Clan sold in foal to Bernardini after producing her first foal, a Smart Strike filly, earlier this year. Torrealba is familiar with the top side of the in-utero foal's pedigree, having previously owned Bernardini's dam, Grade 1 winner and 2006 Broodmare of the Year Cara Rafaela, during her racing career.
Pure Clan is out of Grade 3-winning General Assembly mare Gather The Clan, who has produced eight winners from 11 to start. She is a half-sister to Grade 2 winner Greater Good and stakes-placed winner Gather the Day. Her notable family members include champion sprinter What a Summer and Grade 1 winner Sky Diva.
Bred in Kentucky by A. Lakin & Sons, Inc, Pure Clan was raced by owner Lewis Lakin and trained by Robert Holthus. She was consigned by Hill 'n' Dale Sales Agency, agent.
"She was a fantastic mare to look at, just very athletic, great presence and class," said John Sikura of Hill 'n' Dale. "She always had her ears forward and her eyes wide open. Nobody could look at her and forget her. This mare had a real charisma about her, and she was like that every time she was shown."
This was the first time that Pure Clan had been sold at public auction. Prior to this sale, the highest-priced foal out of Gather The Clan was the Deputy Minister mare Wonder Lady, who brought $200,000 at the 2002 Keeneland July yearling sale, then commanded $250,000 at the 2011 Keeneland November sale.


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Can a spring retainer help straighten two misaligned teeth?
my top front tooth on the right and the tooth next to it are a little misaligned. the rest of my teeth are perfectly straight. the front tooth is pointing inward and the one next to it outward. I got a consultation and the dentist said I would need braces for 18 months but I don't believe that my teeth are even noticeably crooked to other people it just bothers me haha. I want to fix them without braces or Invisalign. is there a cheap way to fix a small problem like a spring retainer maybe?
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Sometimes our goals are more limited than the "complete" or "comprehensive" option presented to us. While a full set of braces is "best" and more comprehensive, sometimes the time or money involved is more than we value or are willing to commit. Options are nice. Often in cases like this, a spring retainer, or better yet an Inman aligner, is a better option.
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it's very possible that a simple solution would work, provided the situation is really as you describe it. An orthodontist told you differently, so I have to wonder, but it also sounds like he just gave you a routine time estimate for his full treatment case without really considering a limited treatment plan.
A few pictures would help.
A few pictures would help.
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What kind of chores do your kids do?
My Boys are 10, 9, & 7
My boys are in charge of keeping their bedroom, game room, and bathroom clean ( and it doesn't have to be spotless)
the older are in charge of vacuuming they alternate with me( we take turns vacuuming)
the older two also take turns with me loading and unloading the diswasher
All three are in charge of trash duty
We also alternate putting their clothes away after i washed them
They also sweep & mop sometimes.
There is nothing wrong with having your children do chores. I have 3 girls. (12, 8, and 5) The oldest does the dishes after dinner and folds laundry. The 8 year old helps put away laundry. The 5 yr. old feeds the dog. All are responsible for keeping their rooms clean. And they keep they're bathroom picked up (floor free of dirty clothes and empty toilet paper rolls).
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my 3 year old sweeps the floor with the swiffer dry cloth, cleans his room, helps with the wash and the dishes.
My youngest now 7 loves to do that
DS1- Take out the garbage. cut the grass/rake leafs/shovel drive way, keep his room clean & clean up after himself
DD1- Help wih dishes, walk the dog, keep her room & clean up after herself
DS2- Take out recycling, clear the table, keep his room clean & clean up after himself.
DD2- Set the table, feed the dog, keep her room clean & clean up after herself.
DS3- Pick up the toys, keep his room clean & clean up after himself.
My kids are 3 and 18 months.
They put their clothes in the hamper, make their beds, set the table, help with emptying the dishwasher, and putting their toys away.
Mainly at this point to keep their rooms cleaned up and to clean up after themselves around the house, but I have them help out with random other things too
Im envious. My kids will not do anything around the house.. I can physically take their hand to make them pick up something and still they wont. I have no back up from my husband, he sits there like a rock and lets me deal with the kids. When they refuse he lets it stay that way for good. I cant go too long before I break down and do it myself because get tired of living in filth.


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Here's some whipstitch in the real world, warts and all.
And here is how to do it. On the front:
My stitches are quite vertical on the first photo, with the stitches on the back being diagonal. If you would like both sides to be diagonal (like on the double-sided edge of the felt birds), insert your needle at the top of the zig-zag, a bit further away from where it came up at the bottom of the zig-zag, like in this photo.
You can also see my whip- and blanket stitch video over here, and read more about the felt bird kits here.


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I hear a small group of Wisconsin artisan cheesemakers who specialize in affinage (the art of aging cheese) are occasionally meeting to share ideas on how they can work together to make even BETTER aged artisan cheeses.
These folks are the real "cheese underground." Some are aging their cheeses in natural caves while others are using state-of-the-art temperature and humidity-controlled rooms. As Wisconsin's artisan cheese industry matures, it seems more cheesemakers are studying and mastering affinage - it's another way for them to put their own signature on a piece of cheese and add a little to their bottom line along the way. Once a cheese is aged for 6 months, a year or three years, it carries more taste, becomes more valuable and people like me are willing to pay more for it.
A good example of someone pushing the affinage envelope is Willi Lehner, Bleu Mont Dairy, near Blue Mounds. He's been selling his cheese at the Dane County Farmer's Market on the Capital Square in Madison since 1988 (pictured above) and has a cult following of cheese connoisseurs. This guy has a straw bale "cave" on his farm - and he's started making bandaged cheddars and aging them until the rinds resemble a piece of art. The last time I walked into his aging room, a co-worker - and I am not making this up - literally squealed in delight at the sight of Willi's cheese's blooming molds. I've got to admint that it's not something you see every day.
That experience made me realize that not only are Wisconsin artisan cheesemakers crafting amazing-tasting cheese, they're molding a product that routinely makes people gasp at its beauty. Could there be anything better?


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Goji berries. Broccoli. Celery. Sea Veggies. Those are just some of the nourishing foods reputed to enhance fertility. But what you drink has an impact, too. As I type away in my home writing office, I like to sip, sip, sip from a mug throughout the day (and, when I work late, throughout the evening). Because I'm trying to conceive, I wanted to examine what I should be putting into that mug – and what I should be leaving out. Here's a look at some beverages with advice from fertility nutritionists:
Water with Healing Herbs and Spices
Probably the best drink you can incorporate into your day is fresh water. Water keeps you hydrated and flushes unwanted toxins from your body. To separate out impurities, fertility nutritionist Breea Johnson of Pulling Down the Moon recommends filtered water over tap or bottled. She also suggests drinking room temperature or warm water. "Cold beverages can impair circulation and slow down digestion," she says. When that happens, blood is taken away from reproductive organs to deal with the digestive system. To add a twist of flavor, I might infuse my warm water with healing herbs and spices. For example, Ayurvedic practitioner Niika Quistgard taught me how to dry roast cumin seed and steep it in a pot of warm water for a few minutes. Cumin is also known to aid digestion, so it creates a healing tonic to boost overall health. (For additional recipes, all courtesy of Quistgard, click on this article titled "Kitchen Medicine").
Warm Organic Milk
Milk confused me for a long time. I love it, but I've read a lot of negative information about it. Will it hurt fertility or boost it? Holistic medicine is all over the map about it. Some practitioners claim dairy is a disaster because it produces mucus and is hard to digest, yet other practitioners claim milk gets a bad rap. When I participated in an Ayurvedic detox regime in India to boost my fertility, the first thing the clinic gave me was a glass of warm milk. Quistgard, the director of the clinic, said, "Milk replenishes deeper tissues, like reproductive tissues, and it's emotionally nutritive – it comes from a cow, a peaceful, mothering animal."
My neighbor, Baboo (grandfather), during my stay in India. I drank milk from his cow.
The key, according to both Johnson and Quistgard, is to ensure that any milk you drink comes from grass-fed cows that are happily living the good life. Non-organic milk from grain-fed cows should be avoided. If you're like me – lactose intolerant – heat your milk before consuming it. Doing so changes it protein structure and makes it easier to digest. I bring a cup of whole milk to a boil and then add a little turmeric, an herbal medicine with anti-inflammatory properties. Sometimes I mix in a dab of raw honey, too. It's a delicious evening drink that makes me sleepy, so it's perfect for those nights when anxious thoughts (Will I ever get pregnant? Will our adoption papers be accepted?) are racing through my brain.
Coffee and Alcohol
A few months ago I was interviewing psychologist Alice Domar for an article about fertility foods, and I asked her about coffee and alcohol. I presumed they were two big "no-no's" when it came to managing my fertility diet. Her response surprised me. She said, "Look – if my parents and your parents didn't drink when trying to conceive, neither one of us would be here!" Ok, so an occasional glass of wine or Cuppa Joe (organic, naturally) may help me relax or reenergize my mood, but for the most part, they should be avoided. Alcohol and caffeine are both known to raise the risk of miscarriage. My acupuncturist suggested a 20% guideline. She said, "You don't want your diet to be so strict that it takes the joy out of your days, so allow yourself a cup of coffee or glass of wine 20% of time." According to my calculations, that's about one and half days a week.
Further Reading: "Rethink Your Drink" by Breea Johnson
What do you like to drink? Are you in a dairy dilemma about milk? Do you struggle with resisting sugary sodas or artificially flavored fruit drinks? Are there flavors you enjoy adding to your water, like lemon, mint, or cucumber? Have you ever tried a fertility concoction? What ingredients did you use to create it?
About Jenny Rough
Jenny Rough is a lawyer-turned-writer. Visit her on the web at www.jennyrough.com


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Two scorers won't be enough
Last year, the U.S. national team made a habit of staging late rallies to salvage results. This was alternately interpreted as a sign of strength and of weakness.
The fact that the U.S. was struggling and was either falling behind or failing to score until the late going made the team seem inefficient and vulnerable. But the resourcefulness of the U.S. was certainly impressive, and the team's ability to score late goals was proposed as a special skill in coach Bruce Arena's estimation.
First-round Gold Cup games confirmed this trait. In the three group games, the U.S. scored six goals, five with less than two minutes remaining in either half.
The U.S. does not have exclusive claim on this never-say-die characteristic. But the elite national teams do have this in common. Argentina, Brazil, Germany, and Italy have long traditions of dramatic comebacks, their players' confidence and concentration levels usually a notch above the opposition during crunch time.
Fitness levels and physical preparation play a part, but late-game heroics are mostly a mental exercise, and are something that will separate the U.S. from the smaller countries in this region.
The U.S. performance in the first round of the Gold Cup has shown that persistence is not enough, though. The national team has progressed in overall ability in recent years, the level of the MLS has improved. But the country is not producing a proportionate number of difference-makers.
DaMarcus Beasley, Landon Donovan and, possibly, Clint Dempsey and Steve Ralston, are the only players who can be expected to produce offensively at key times among Gold Cup players. When Eddie Johnson, Eddie Lewis, and Brian McBride return, the team will be more dynamic. But the U.S. will have to develop more offensive threats, or risk being too easily defused by opposition tactics.
In the past, U.S. players were so similar that other teams' scouts would sometimes not even differentiate between them. The style was so predictable that defensive tactics would not be concerned with specifics or subtleties, just containing the directness of the U.S. players, causing them to overextend, then finding the right moments to counterattack.
In general terms, the world has defended against England's national team in much the same way. Scouts would note that the English display no real weaknesses, all the players are focused and strong, their technique is very good, and they can not only run fast, they can play fast. So, you do not fight fire with fire. You do not try to match their strengths at every turn. You wait for those moments when they burn themselves out, you slow things down, you confuse them.
The English were thought to be increasing in sophistication, thanks to the globalization of the Premiership and the presence of coach Sven-Goran Eriksson. But they were no match for 10 Brazilians in 2002, so there is still some ways to go. The U.S., though, is not yet at the England level, judging by the April exhibition in Chicago.
At its best and in the right circumstances, the U.S. can succeed against nearly any team. But without its best players, the U.S. is appearing quite ordinary.
One thing that is happening to the U.S. is that Beasley and Donovan are becoming increasingly targeted by the opposition. Defensive midfielders can be expected to continue to take some hard shots at them. Teams have been going after Claudio Reyna for some time, causing him to retreat to find space, forcing the U.S. to start its attack from well behind the halfway line. Reyna has been very good at remaining composed. But there are questions about how Beasley and Donovan will react.
Canada successfully baited Donovan in Seattle, causing him to take a caution for retaliation. Such provocation is not new to U.S. players; they endure some especially tough treatment in Latin America. But in the next World Cup, the increased media coverage could exacerbate circumstances, as it did in Euro 2004, when a Danish camera was trained on Italy's Francesco Totti, catching him in the act of spitting at Christian Poulsen. Next time, there could be a camera devoted to Poulsen, and it might reveal him as a not totally innocent party.
Referees are constantly reminded about not only catching the retaliatory party, but also the provoking one. Television cameramen are not given the same mandate, and the most graphic image is often the retaliation. A little shirt tug, a raking of the Achilles' tendon, the stepping on a toe, all can be irksome; but these are difficult to detect, and they often occur when everyone is looking the other way.
The point is, Denmark decided to defuse Italy by going after Totti. The tactic worked. The next World Cup will be staged in Germany, where Poulsen is employed, and Beasley and Donovan could well be subjected to some special treatment. So, the U.S. should be working on developing other game-breakers, and that appears to be what Arena is doing with Dempsey.
The problem is, nobody is quite sure of Dempsey's position. Dempsey joined the New England Revolution as a projected backup defensive midfielder to Shalrie Joseph, but soon demonstrated that he should be a starter, and in an attacking position. Arena said this about Dempsey after the U.S.-Costa Rica game in Foxboro: "It is going to be interesting to see what is the best spot for him, where he ends up as a player, what is his spot on the field. I tend to think it will be closer to the goal."
Dempsey is clearly going to be an important part of the future of the U.S. national team. In Dempsey's first U.S. appearance, a World Cup qualifier against Jamaica in Columbus last November, he broke away with one of his first touches, held off a defender but shot left-footed directly at the goalkeeper. Dempsey repeated that play against Costa Rica nearly nine months later, another signal that he lacks experience.
In between times, Dempsey performed as a defensive midfielder, attacking midfielder, and forward, scoring two goals for the national team. Dempsey is physical, skillful, uninhibited. During pre-game warmups, you can pick out Dempsey flipping the ball to himself and teammates a dozen different ways. It is another sign that Dempsey is not easily intimidated by circumstances or foes. He has not displayed enough of a threat to become a target in the international arena, yet. When that happens, Dempsey will have arrived.
Frank Dell'Apa is a soccer columnist for The Boston Globe and ESPN.


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Western Digital announces plan to acquire SanDisk
Yesterday, Western Digital announced plans to acquire SanDisk Corporation, a company that specializes in memory chips and SD cards. According to a statement released on Wednesday, Western Digital will purchase all of SanDisk's shares in a deal totaling about $19 billion; a combination of both cash and stock will be paid.
Western Digital's CEO Stephen D. Milligan will serve as chief executive of the combined company, while SanDisk's President and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra will join WD's board of directors. As is common, this planned acquisition must have both regulatory and shareholder approval, and likely won't close until Q3 2016 as a result. Toshiba's joint venture with SanDisk will be ongoing.
Said Mehrotra in a statement, 'Joining forces with Western Digital will enable the combined company to offer the broadest portfolio of industry-leading, innovative storage solutions to customers across a wide range of markets and applications.' One of those markets is certainly photography. What are you thoughts on the acquisition? Let us know in the comments.
From all the storage brands I tried, these two are the most reliable products. They work as advertised and never let me down, unlike Samsung, Transcend and Kingston, each of whom made me scream at least once! I hope the joint company will get even better.
Mehrotra is as useless as the MS CEO. He reduced the company to nothing sourcing everything to india even though it was not cost effective ( had kick backs from TATA.) I know this as an insider who witnessed more than my share of dirty business practices. He lined his pocked many times over and will continue to as his worthless body sits on the WD board. What a joke. And as was mentioned earlier in comments - no there will be no more EE of Sandisk for R and D or any other function- sad, really. Another one bites the dust.
Sandisk is a great company but lost direction/motivation in the last 5 years. Not updating their MP3 player line which was very popular, releasing so-so media readers, Sandisk has been a company which has just cruised along with only predictable memory media products.
I.hope WD can inject new vision and prosperity.
Mike FL,
Judging a company exclusively by a how well it behaves with a Microsoft product really isn't a wise decision. Never embrace the latest OS by MS. I have W7 and it's been working like a charm. Why? Because it takes many years for an OS to become reliable. All you're doing is playing catch-up when you continually upgrade to the latest OS.
What exactly were you looking for in W10 that you couldn't get in W7, I have to ask. Other than the "FREE CLICK HERE NOW!" message from MS.
Jason Busch;
I upgraded all my W7 and W8.1 PCs to W10 as W10 is MS' final windows version if MS' CEO does not change mind on the road.
BTW, MS ended of W7's mainstream support early this year, but hackers will not stop to working on W7 for example. Of course, W7 will still get 5 more years of extended support.
Regarding to "What exactly were you looking for in W10 that you couldn't get in W7"? I get less in W10 than W7 as W10 still has no" Windows Media Center" for example.
so true based on Mehrotra
WD is smart, they are in the "storage business" It took them too long to realize that. Storage is moving to a blended model of SSD and the traditional.
It will be business as usual but WD needs the flash manufacturing capability of Sandisk to remain relevant in the future as hard disks are on their way out on many applications, becoming a niche in a few years.
They're quite late though, probably waiting for Sandisk's price to come down, as Samsung is at least 1.5 years ahead versus all flash storage makers.
Since there has been no news of this from Sandisk I am guessing this is a predatory takeover.
Since Sandisk seems like a perfectly viable company I would see this as a bad thing specially for all the employees at Sandisk who will became "redundant".
Sandisk actually has manufacturing capability (rare for a brand name these days) so I guess it could be a win win if WD injects some cash for R+D and upgrading so that Sandisk can remain competitive. Will this happen though?
Currently Sandisk seems to always get beat out on price by Adata, in Canada at least. And I have found products from both reliable. I have SSDs and microSD cards from both.
I feel sad for it, i like sandisk so much for the customer service and reliability, not the same about wd.
Smart move on WDs part, my feeling is spinning disk is on the way out. Especially for anything consumer oriented like portable hard drives. An SSD is a fraction the size as a portable HDD, but more importantly they are 3 or 4 times as fast for both reads and writes and much less likely to suffer damage if they are dropped. What does Seagate have up their sleeve? Hopefully something...
Convergence playing out. Spinning disks are losing share to SSD in the commercial markets, just starting to play out for consumers. If you're a leader in spinning disk, you've got to do something to get ahead of that.
Remember when the high capacity CF cards used in cameras had spinning disks? I kept one, probably should donate to a museum.
Pretty indifferent towards this myself... My last couple SD cards were Lexar/Micron, Sony, or even Transcend. My last couple PC drives were all Samsung SSD. SanDisk makes decent cards, SSD, and NAND of course, WD still makes decent HDD that we'll need for a long time (if not at home for backups then in data centers); this easily makes them the biggest supplier capable of serving both mediums.
After reading all comments, I saw that most people pis perceiving WD as a rather untrustworthy manufacturer.
No prob. After trying different brands i settled on Sandisk only for all my flashcards. First CF, now only MicroSD. Never ever had an issue with them, much less any data loss.
After trying different brands i settled on WD and IBM/Hitachi for all HDDs i bought. Never had any issue with them, neither in desktops/workstations nor motebooks nor NAS/Raid systems (but the Raid controller once broke, leaving the entire array useless, luckily had a full backup, no data lost).
Today and going forward I only buy solid state memory (SSDs). Currently Samsung is my vendor of choice. Also no issues whatsoever up to now.
If Sandisk shareholders want to cash in, and WD shareholders believe, it's worth buying, then good for them.
If future products are good, reliable and cost-efficient, i'll keep buying. If not, then not. As simple as that.
Oh boy! I used to like Sandisk, until they get acquired by WD, then I will have to find another brand. So sad. Why can't these people leave well enough alone?
Or looking at it positively, Sandisk may inject reliability into WD as a whole?
Make your own judgement rather than anecdotal posts on forums. Keep in mind too, that there are basically 2 HD manufacturers today - everyone else is a subsidiary - including HGST, who makes the most reliabel drives per Backblaze. Guess who owns them?
WD is no worse than any other spinning disk company, and the entire reliability issue is the spinning disk part. I imagine nothing will change with SD other than where the money goes. If anything they could use the memory from SD to make WD SSD drives, so probably nothing changes in terms of SD.
It might be important to distinguish internal from external drives. Western Digital bare drives seem to have a much better reputation for reliability than the enclosures WD puts them in.
My experience is consistent with the Backblaze study. I bought a couple of the infamous run of flawed Seagates a few years ago, they threw up errors, wouldn't even format properly. Soured me on the brand.
The Western Digitals my family has owned have been flawless so far, internal and external, 2.5" and 3.5".
My judgement is from [my] experience, not anecdotal. Every single WD drive I have ever owned has had problems of one kind or another. In all honesty the most reliable have been the RED drives I run on my Synology DiskStation. So far so good.
And the software is simply atrocious on anything but the bare drives. I had a SAN from them that they themselves said could not be fixed. I ended up not taking the 3rd replacement and switched to Synology. More expensive, but better software.
How can I ignore my reality? It is you who are ignorant of it. Living by statistics is missing out on actual quantification. If you can show me the statistics you refer to, maybe you can gain back some credibility. So far your statistical analysis is based on what? 50 people here out of a million or so who own products?
I usually buy what is on sale from ibm, hitchi, wd, seagate and maxtor, samsung over the years. 1 ibm failed and 2 western digital hhds. I adviod wd hhd as much as i can now with hitchai or seagate as the perfer hhd. Hope they dont cut corners on scandisk product. Overall the solid state hdd and sd card i dont have much issues with.
OMG I hope not. My many SanDisk drives (physical and SSD) have always been as near 100% reliable as possible. My WD drives are mostly in the pre-smash-to-pieces state, because they KEEP failing, but I DARE NOT bin them - because someone, somewhere, can probably access my (broken) data.
WD - leave SanDisk be, PLEASE!!!
I take my failed HDDs apart (most need a star drive screwdriver). The discs inside can be used as mirrors or art, etc or can be destroyed without too much trouble. However, I am really after the magnets inside, as they are very powerful (although unidirectional). Anyway, I use them around the house, such as putting them in my pants pocket so that I can hold tools on the outside of my pants pocket when, say, working up on a ladder. Great for holding screws, nails, etc, also. Just don't put a memory card anywhere near them!
If you use software called Killdisk to zero your disks' data, put a hammer through them a few times to make sure, then a few bullets from the gun you are bound to have for good measure, then not even God could extract data from your disks.
I agree with your comment.
Take your old disks to a company that shreds them. It's not only secure, but it's an awesome sound.
Now, that's an interesting one. But there are perils...for Sandisk, as we know it (not for its shareholders). The other way around: those WD HDDs (REALLY) refuse to die...5 - 6 years up and running already. Incredible.
Obviously, drives that spin are being replaced by drives that don't. But judging by the prices of SSD, there's not much money in WD's new business. There still seems to be good markup in CF cards but how many are sold and how long will CF be around?
SanDisk has much better marketing than WD so that's something.
Well, SanDisk has been a very trusted name for many of us. I just hope Western Digital doesn't fix something that isn't broken, as companies sometimes have a tendancy to do that at times.
The only model for successful aquisitions I am aware of is corporations buying technological startups. What Apple and to some degree, Microsoft and Google are doing all the time.
This aquisition is none of this. A dying dinosaur buying rather than innovate to delay death. This will not end well, except for current Sandisk shareholders.
BTW, if you compare WD and SD stock, investors seem to think the same.
WD seems to be after sandisk's SSD business. In two years, we will have 15TB+ SSD and physical drives dont seem to be keeping up. WD spinning disks have a death date all over it just like DSLRs....its just a matter of time. Next up, maybe Nikon will buy samsungs camera business.
Well, I'll take the bait!
I agree about ssds vs hdds, but dslrs vs mirrorless is not the same. Light from a mirror is faster than any electronic viewfinder could hope to be; at best you won't notice a difference, but it cannot be faster, and it's unlikely to be clearer or nicer to look at in typical shooting conditions. It might be cheaper, but that's another argument entirely.
For consumers, this may be the case, but Winchester drives will still be prominent in business and mission critical implementations.
That is a valid point about optical viewfinders compared to electronic but I could also point out how an EVF could effectively give you night vision depending on sensor performance. Also, most people care about size and with a VF. you are not limited by the size of the mirror/sensor.
I would love a medium format size VF on a full frame camera, how about you?
The lag and dynamic range is an issue. Lag could easily be overcome by good timing on the photographers end.
Both of these companies specialize in products that require a lot of R&D, very expensive R&D, if they are to be successful. Sometimes, those R&D expenses can be more than one company can handle alone.
You may have seen the news recently that the CEO of Fiat-Chrysler wants to "merge" his company with GM. That's because autos, like electronics, require huge amounts of investment just to stay current or ahead of the competition.
And, as the blind radio station operator said in, "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou", "...we got to beat that competition..."
Sandisk is my favourite brand of SD cards. It would be sad if WD ruins them.
Spinning rust is inherently unreliable. Most HDDs die after a couple of years. Many die a long time before that. Some are defective straight out of the box. As it happens my most recent DOA was a WD.
So far the only one I haven't lost any of are Samsung HDDs. Three drives bought, three still work. (I did have to say that..? Why did I have to say that..?)
Hitachi/IBM/HGST have produced the drives that failed me the most. IBM/HGST were sufficiently bad that I lost several RAID5s, as the drives failed faster than I could RMA and replace and rebuild them... It was HGST's warranty process that guaranteed I'll never touch one of their drives again. Having to pay out of pocket to return failed drives to them, which they then only sent a replacement for on receipt. The replacements were usually drives that other people had already RMAd (based on the data fragments on the ones that showed any signs of life), assuming the replacement drives span at all - several didn't even spin.
Sounds like people with a lot of money buying other people with a lot of money and they are all making money.
I don't have a lot of money but I do stand to make some money from this merger. It doesn't take a "lot" of money to make some money...
Sounds like you need to go to business school :).
Actually, most acquiring companies tend to pay too much for new acquisitions, relative to future value. They are difficult to work sometimes, regarding operational cultures of two different businesses etc. The target company's shareholders usually do well in the short term.
I would say as an outsider this merger makes sense, not just for people to make money but also for human civilisation, for society at large.
You can own stock too, you know. Just like you can get involved in politics. That's the beauty of benign, non-autocratic civilisation, and the efficiency of capitalism.
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A report by USSRPhoto is shedding some light on the return of the famed Zenit camera brand. It seems the full-frame mirrorless camera they're working on will be made in part by Leica using components from the Leica SL.
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ELYRIA — Monday's power outage at Elyria High School made the preparation of meals for students throughout the district impossible because all food service functions are centralized at the high school.
The decision to centralize food services at Elyria Schools was made years ago when the new Elyria High School was under construction. When the high school was completed in 2012, the new kitchen began providing all of the district's meals. Monday's power outage at the school was the first time the process was interrupted.
Electricians were at Elyria High all day Monday and finally, by 7 p.m., school officials were able to say power had been restored and school would be held today. The cause of the outage is undetermined at this time.
Elyria Schools has a more then 70-percent participation rate in the free and reduced lunch program, and it provides breakfast to the elementary schools as a part of its food service program. Each day, thousands of meals are prepared, packaged and shipped to buildings across the district.
Without electricity, food service workers were unable to carry out those duties, district spokeswoman Amy Higgins said.
"Aside from this isolated problem, having a centralized kitchen has worked out very well for the district," Higgins said. "The kitchen facilities are state-of-the-art and it is really the best solution for feeding the district."
The decision to close school undoubtedly caught parents off guard, but changing to bagged lunches or on-site meal preparation for the schools not affected by the power failure was not an option. The schools do not have a food inventory.
"Coming up with 8,000 bagged meals at the drop of a hat cannot be pulled off, not with all the dietary restrictions to students we face every day as well as the restrictions to what the federal government expects from school lunches," Higgins said.
Elyria is not the only district to centralize food services across the region. Lorain Schools also consolidated its food program.
Jeff Hawks, executive director of operations for Lorain Schools, said all breakfast and lunch meals are prepared at Lorain High School.
Lorain School uses Aramark Education as its food service provider. Sodexo is the food service provider for Elyria Schools.
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Softball Falls 6-2 to North Texas in Season Opener, Rebounds in Nightcap Win over TAMUCC, 7-5
AUSTIN, Texas - The University of Memphis softball team (0-1) could not get their offense going in the 2013 season opener as the Tigers fell to North Texas (1-0) on the first day of the Texas Classic in Austin, falling behind 6-0 before succumbing 6-2 on an Ashley Kirk 4-hitter.
The Mean Green got on base first with Paige Kisling drawing a walk in the bottom of the first. With two outs, Kisling attempted to steal second but was thrown out by catcher Amber Lindahl to keep the game scoreless after one.
In the second, North Texas' Jackie Miller had the first hit of the game with a two-out single to left field. However, the Tigers picked up the third out of the inning on the following batter to escape a threat from UNT.
While the Tiger offense blew cold in the first few innings of the game, as UNT pitcher Ashley Kirk fanned four batters in the first three innings of play, the Mean Green put up two runs in the fourth inning with a 2-out rally, capped by a Brook Foster doubled to right field.
In the fifth, shortstop Laura Curtis got Memphis' first hit of the season with a one-out double to the center field wall, her fifth career double. First baseman Libby Goranson moved Curtis to third on a groundout, but Kirk's fifth strikeout of the game kept Memphis off the scoreboard heading into the bottom of the fifth.
North Texas stretched their lead to 3-0 as Danielle Hoff sacrifice fly to right field to plate Karly Williams at the end of the fifth.
After Memphis was held to another three-and-out in the top of the sixth, Jordan Terry got UNT started with a one-out walk. Bryana Wade followed with a single to right center to advance Terry to third before scoring on a groundout by Williams. Hirsch then singled and advanced to second on the throw to put runners in scoring position for the Mean Green. Kisling helped North Texas add two more runs with an infield single to score Poole before Hirsch scored to make it 6-0 as Memphis attempted to tag Kisling out between first and second.
Memphis managed two runs in the seventh on an RBI single by Curtis to center field that plated Kelly Braman and make it 6-1, followed by a sac fly to center from Goranson to score Mosby and cut the Mean Green advantage to 6-2. However, that would be as close as the Tigers would get.
Ellen Roberts took the loss for Memphis, giving up nine hits, five earned runs and striking out three on the day. Kirk struck out six for UNT and allowed the four hits with two earned runs and zero walks. Curtis led Memphis at the plate, going 2-of-3 and adding one RBI.
Memphis softball is now 4-4 in season openers.
The Tigers bounced back against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at 3 p.m. to close out the first day of the Texas Classic. Trailing 5-4 in the fifth inning, the Tigers (1-1) drove in three runs and held Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (0-2) scoreless the rest of the game to earn a 7-5 comeback win.
The Islanders struck in the first inning with a single to right field from Mickayla Cochran. After an illegal pitch from Memphis, Cochran came around to score off a double from Megan McKinney to put TAMUCC up 1-0 heading to the bottom of the first.
After struggling in the first game of the day, Memphis' offense came alive as center fielder Lelani Bernardino tripled to left center to lead off for the Tigers. Second baseman Morgan Mosby followed with a single to right field to bring home Bernardino and knot the game at one-all. Shortstop Laura Curtis got in on the action by laying down a bunt to put runners on first and second with no outs before designated hitter Kelly Braman reached on a fielder's choice by tapping down a bunt. Curtis scored on the following play as first baseman Libby Goranson reached first after a throwing error to make it 2-1 Memphis.
The Tiger offense was far from being done as pinch runner Wheeler Hill stole second to put her and Braman in scoring position. Third baseman Cierra Mangum laid down a bunt and advanced to second on the throw while Braman and Hill came home to score and push Memphis' advantage to 4-1 after one inning of play.
In the third inning, the Islanders knotted up the game at four. Cochran led off the inning with a full-count walk, followed by a single from Dani Tefft and McKinney's three-run bomb.
In the fourth, TAMUCC re-took the lead back as Lindsey Lyles led off with a walk for the Islanders. Hayley Galloway then bunted Lyles over to second before an error by the Memphis infield allowed Lyles to score as TAMUCC took a 5-4 lead.
In the bottom of the fifth, Memphis got the offense going again as Mosby reached on a fielder's choice before Curtis doubled to left field to put runners in scoring position. Braman then drew a walk to load the bases with one out. An Islanders' throwing error at home plated Curtis and Mosby, giving Memphis a 6-5 advantage. Third baseman Cierra Mangum kept the momentum going with an infield single before Lindahl reached on a fielder's choice to load the bases once again. Pinch hitter Georgeanna Goodwin came in to her first collegiate game to draw a walk that brought home Goranson and pushed the Tigers' lead to 7-5 after five innings.
The Islanders attempted a late rally in the sixth as Cochran reached on a throwing error followed by a single from Tefft. With two outs, Jamise Jackson drew a walk to load the bases for TAMUCC. However, Tefft would be called out on interference to end the inning for the Islanders.
Ellen Roberts came in and allowed just one hit in the final two innings of play to pick up the save, her first on the season and the fourth on her Tiger career.
Sophomore pitcher Sara Pearson earned the win for the Tigers (her second career W) while TAMUCC's Ashley Elicerio took the loss. Bernardino and Curtis led Memphis with two hits apiece while Curtis also scored twice to lead the team.
Memphis will continue play at the Texas Classic tomorrow with a 1 p.m. contest against No. 7/9 Texas. The game will be televised on the Longhorn Network.
Game Notes
• Amber Lindahl moved all-alone into 2nd place in the school record books for career runners caught stealing with 25 when she threw out Paige Kisling attempting to steal second in the first inning against North Texas. Kimmi Hayden holds the school record with 30 runners thrown out.
• Lelani Bernardino hit her 5th career triple in the first inning versus Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, tying her for second in school history with Leila Dolfo (2006-09), and scored her first run of the season in the first inning. It is the 75th run scored of her career, which ranks sixth in school history. Bernardino had her 28th multiple-hit game of her career and the first on the season. Bernardino moved into a tie for third place in career hit by pitch with 15, tying Maddie McKinley (2008-11).
• Morgan Mosby drove in her 17th career RBI and first of the season versus TAMUCC.
• Laura Curtis scored her 20th and 21st career runs against TAMUCC with runs in the first and fifth innings. Curtis has doubled in three-straight games dating back to last year. She now has six doubles in her career and two this season.


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By E.J. Dionne Jr.
Thursday, July 22, 2010; A19
It's rare to see a dry run for an election campaign. But over the next month, Australia will provide a testing ground for some of the core themes in this November's American elections.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who took office in June after the fall of her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, has called an election for Aug. 21 -- they do things fast down there -- in which her Labor Party will be using a central argument that U.S. Democrats hope to invoke against the Republicans.
Gillard's statement opening the campaign left no ambiguity about Labor's message. "This election will revolve around a clear choice," she declared, "whether we want Australia to move forward or back." In one minute and 41 seconds, Gillard used a variation of "move forward" six times and "go back" four.
Labor's slogan, "Let's move Australia forward," is thus all about its subtext: that Australians don't want to return to conservatives who governed the country for 11 years before Labor's 2007 victory.
And in the coming months, one of the Democratic Party's very favorite words will be "Bush," as in George W. Bush, by way of making the same point. Democrats hope they can persuade voters to see their ballots in this year's midterm elections not as an up-or-down vote on their own stewardship but as a choice between -- well, going forward, or moving back to the Bush era.
Over the past few weeks, a series of Republican tactical errors helped inject the Bush legacy into the political dialogue. When Republicans went on the offensive in calling for a renewal of the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, Democrats were given the opportunity to assail one of the former president's least popular initiatives.
And when the heads of the Republican campaign committees for the House and Senate, Rep. Pete Sessions and Sen. John Cornyn, defended the Bush record on Sunday on "Meet the Press," Democrats pounced.
They quickly produced an online advertisement that repeatedly quoted Sessions saying "we need to go back to the exact same agenda," and suggesting that the agenda he had in mind was Bush's.
A party spokesman insisted that the quotation in question was not a reference to Bush, although Sessions had said earlier in the show: "People had jobs when Republicans were, not only in charge, but George Bush was there." With polls showing voters more inclined to blame Bush than President Obama for the economic mess, all such statements by Republicans will come at a high price.
Can the forward-or-back theme work? That's where Gillard's Australian experiment comes in. In many ways, her center-left Labor Party is in a far better position than the Democrats. The Australian economy is a global marvel. It never went into recession, and Australia's unemployment rate is an astonishingly low 5.2 percent.
Given the country's buoyant economy, it is remarkable that Labor members of Parliament even considered ousting Rudd. But Rudd was dropping in the polls, hurt by his government's mishandling of cap-and-trade legislation and controversy over its proposed tax on soaring mining profits.
Rudd's colleagues panicked and, lacking a strong base in the party's factions, he was forced aside for his deputy, Gillard, who moved promptly for an election to legitimize her leadership. The switch at the top halted the momentum of the opposition Liberal Party (which, just to keep Americans confused, is actually the conservative party) and its leader, Tony Abbott.
And to make the trans-Pacific comparison even more interesting, Abbott's party is running on themes the Republicans hope to use here. Its latest advertisement includes the tagline: "More Labor. More Waste. More Debt. More Taxes." To drive home the Liberals' point that new leadership has not altered the incumbent government's direction, an announcer opens and closes with: "Nothing's changed. It's the same Labor."
For now, Gillard has pulled ahead in the polls, partly by virtue of a disciplined personal performance in her first weeks in office and also by tying Abbott to the earlier conservative government's unpopular labor relations policies -- even though Abbott has said he would not reintroduce them.
As Australia goes, so goes America? Not necessarily. But for the past decade, politics in the two countries have run in tandem, with Rudd's 2007 victory prefiguring Obama's. At the very least, when Democrats say our election is about whether we want to move forward or go back, they can give a respectful nod to Prime Minister Gillard.


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BIRMINGHAM, AL August 11, 2014 – The Southeastern Conference coaches have selected No. 14 South Carolina to finish third in the SEC this year, the conference office announced Monday.
The Gamecocks are coming off one of the most successful campaigns in program history, finishing 2013 with a No. 15 final ranking. South Carolina compiled a 17-4-2 record and posted the only undefeated home record in school history (11-0-0). With an 8-2-1 effort, Shelley Smith's squad finished behind league co-champions Florida and Texas A&M. The team also recorded its sixth NCAA appearance in the last seven years.
Florida and Texas A&M are predicted to top the conference table again in 2014, with the Gators (164 points, six first-place votes) narrowly edging the Aggies (162 points, six first-place votes) as the favorite to claim the 2014 Southeastern Conference women's soccer title.
Points were compiled on a 13-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis, though each coach was not allowed to vote for their own team.
The Gamecocks began practice last week to prep for an exhibition match at Duke on Thurs., Aug. 14. After opening the regular season on the road at East Carolina on Fri., Aug. 22, South Carolina kicks off its home slate against Samford on Sun., Aug. 24.
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Texas A&M (6), 162
South Carolina, 136
Kentucky, 129
Tennessee, 125
Georgia, 84
Arkansas, 77
Ole Miss, 71
Missouri, 71
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I met Craig at the Shell Houston Open. He is a great guy. He invited me to a Dynamos game and said he would bring me up front if I came. He was a pretty good golfer.
I wouldn't mind having him kick for us once KB leaves us. XD
he nailed a 63-yarder? holy crap. met him once. cool guy, but he didn't look like he could make 63 yard field goals.
It appears KB had to prove he could do it too. Props to Kris for nailing it.
As he said the other night on the news cast... "It's a whole lot different when guys are lining up and coming at you....." (or something to that effect) and "he didn't want Kris' job".
Is he as cute as Kris??
Yeah big difference when it's not in a game over 6 foot something OL and DL (with their hands up) getting the trajectory low enough to travel that far but high enough to clear the lines + the pressure on top of that. But 63 yards is impressive nonetheless, from both guys.
Hobie doesn't think so....
When we saw him at the Shell Houston Open my mom said OMG. She never really notices anything but she noticed him.
I thought he went with Nflnutswife to get his toes done?
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This is the first edition of an ongoing series of reviews on properties (budget hotels and hostels) we're staying at during our travels in Asia, as part of our partnership with HostelBookers.com.
Cebu City, the second largest metropolis in the Philippines, is a blur of chrome jeepneys, traffic fumes and eclectic street food stalls. The chaos and sporadic rudeness seemingly contrast with the laidback attitude of the Filipinos who are known worldwide for their warm hospitality. For the first-time traveler, it can even feel slightly daunting.
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Palazzo Pensionne also has a small bistro-style restaurant with a limited menu of basic Filipino dishes. A pity that the only time we were going to try it it was already closed, but the hotel is just a hop away from several restaurants in the area, and if you'd prefer to stay in for the night, the hotel also orders fast food deliveries for you. While Palazzo Pensione may not be located right in the heart of the city, it's just a short jeepney ride away.
The room rates at Palazzo Pensione range from US$13.68 to $22.28 per person per night. If you are looking for comfortable but not too expensive stay in the center of Cebu, Palazzo Pensione is definitely value for money. Overall, we enjoyed our stay and would highly recommend it if you ever find yourself in Cebu City.
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