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This week's Friday Fiction is hosted by the talented Yvonne "Vonnie" Blake, over at her blog My Backdoor Ministry. Click here to read and share more great fiction! Don't forget to leave a comment.
A/N: I have the oddest threads of mythology and mythological creatures running through my head right now, so I apologize in advance if there's more myth than typical fantasy in this week's Friday Fiction. I just haven't been able to get Keera and Melissa out of my head. Thanks for reading!
A/N: I have the oddest threads of mythology and mythological creatures running through my head right now, so I apologize in advance if there's more myth than typical fantasy in this week's Friday Fiction. I just haven't been able to get Keera and Melissa out of my head. Thanks for reading!
"How is she?" Mrs. O'Leary was halfway out of her chair as her older sister descended the stairs.
"How long has she been out?" Melissa waved her away, taking a seat by perching on the sofa's arm. "She's fast asleep. Don't wake her unless the house is on fire. Did you find the humidifier, Stan?"
Mr. O'Leary emerged from the kitchen with a grey plastic machine tucked under one arm. "Found it and filled it."
|found on google images. I own nothing.
"Go plug it in, I'll wait 'till you're back." Melissa accepted a cup milk tea, wrapping her long fingers around the fat ceramic mug. Her brother-in-law hurried up the stairs.
Several minutes later, he returned, a crease in his brow. "She's so still."
"After effects of the first keening." Melissa offered a grim smile. "Have you figured out who it might be?"
Mrs. O'Leary hesitated. "It could be one of three people. There's Aunt Maggie, Uncle Lester and Grandma Molly."
"How bad off?"
"Aunty M had a stroke, Uncle Les is recovering from bad case of the flu on top of his fractured ribs and punctured lung. Grandma Molly—well, I haven't heard from anyone lately, but she was admitted for a broken hip. I don't think that she would-"
"And you didn't feel any inclinations?"
"No," Mr. O'Leary sighed. "I think that's where we figured out something was wrong with Keera."
"When did she start?"
"This morning, but she's been moping about all week. I thought it was something at school. You know how kids are in high school."
"I thought she graduated."
"She was—I mean, is. She's a dual-enrollment student. I thought the courseload was probably too heavy."
"And friends? Does she have any?"
"Now that you mention it," Mrs. O'Leary exchanged a glance with her husband. "I don't think she has. I certainly haven't seen nor met any of her new ones and the old ones don't come around any more."
"Since she was mopey or from way before that?"
"Couple of months back." Mr. O'Leary counted on his hands. "She started getting quieter then."
"Ah," Melissa hummed. "I see."
Silence filled the cozy sitting room, broken by the occasional crackle in the fireplace or the chink of a spoon on ceramic.
"Can you help her?" Mrs. O'Leary twisted her fingers in the hem of her oversized cardigan. "Please?"
"I've already come all this way," Melissa smiled over the top of her half-empty mug. "And I helped you when your inheritance came in, didn't I?"
Mrs. O'Leary ducked her head. "You did. I remember. That's why I called you and not Mum."
Melissa chuckled. "Keera will be fine. I hope you both are ready for what that means."
The warmth of the moment faded almost at once. Somber expressions were reflected all around as the realization dawned.
"Hey. It's alright." Melissa pulled herself together, extending her hands. "Here, come on. Circle up. Family that prays together, stays together, after all, right?"
Faint smiles touched the faces of her younger sister and brother-in-law as they drew nearer and they all joined hands. They took turns, heads bowed, saying a prayer for the youngest member of their little family, seeking comfort and asking for guidance.
A group hug followed the private moment and Melissa finally sighed and stepped back. "You knew it would happen," she reminded them. Eighteen is the oldest you can manage to hold it off."
"I know, but I still hoped," Mrs. O'Leary began. She stopped.
"It's not a curse." Melissa reminded her, quietly. "Don't think of it as a curse."
"It's hard to see it as anything else."
"I-I should probably make some calls." Mrs. O'Leary turned away, retreating to the kitchen.
Her husband watched her leave, worry showing on his face.
"Has she been like that since Keera changed?"
Mr. O'Leary frowned. "Maybe. More of less."
Melissa made a sound in her throat and folded her arms. "That's not good. I wish you'd called me earlier."
"Is it that bad?"
"A first keening is always tricky, especially if she's not sensitive to family. You said she's been pulling away, shifting back, withdrawing?"
"Yes. But she's always been a good kid. Quiet, but good."
"Good is fine. Quiet, not necessarily so." Melissa sighed. "If you have a sleeping bag or something, I'll bunk in the same room. Sleep on the floor. It should help her rest easier. Jean might want to do the same."
Mr. O'Leary nodded, slowly. "We have camping gear in the laundry room." He paused. "Was Jean's own this—bad?"
"Worse." Melissa drained her cup and handed it over. "Which reminds me. They'll both need you, so make sure you're available." She rolled her neck to the side, hearing it crack. "I have the feeling you're not particularly fond of your family members."
His face hardened. "They're not particularly fond of Jean." He said, evenly.
"Fair enough." Melissa allowed. "Just be there for her. She's likely been holding back the emotional and mental backlash without even realizing it. Mum did the same for her when she was coming into it, because she hadn't realized that was what was happening with me the few years before. It made it easier on Jean, but a headache for me when Mum turned out to be her first keening."
Mr. O'Leary winced. "She never talks about it."
"She wouldn't want to and I don't like to." Melissa tugged her ponytail loose and began to run her fingers through pitch black tresses. "But you don't have to worry about history repeating there. If there's ill in the family, they're always called first." She tipped her head forward. "Leave the sleeping bag outside of her room. Knock once and then run, if you can. Don't stay there. I might be tempted. It's been a while."
"A while?"
"Too depressing for a bit, so I went backpacking through the Alps for stress relief." Melissa snorted. "It was very relaxing. Nothing really dies up there, you know? Not people, anyway. The sorts of people that I'm related to, I mean."
He grimaced. "I see."
"We're protective of our young," Melissa explained. "And you may have noticed that there are no male banshees. So if you're there longer than you should, I might see you as a threat."
Something shattered in the kitchen and a squeak of surprise drew their attention.
"Jean?" Mr. O'Leary bolted for the kitchen.
Melissa followed at a more sedate pace, hovering just in the doorway as she watched the couple embrace. "None of the three?"
"All of the three." Mrs. O'Leary swallowed, tears streaming down her face. She stood amidst shards of what had been the teapot and matching teacups. "My baby girl-!"
"Tea and bed." Melissa shook her head. "More tea, then bed." She corrected. "Don't step on those. Clean it up tomorrow." She threw at look at Stan. "Get her to calm down. I'll check on Keera."
As she turned away from the doorway, black hair began to turn silvery-white and her immaculate outfit grew shabbier. Soft white light glowed from her form as her features sharpened and her face turned gaunt. Gnarled, knobby fingers gripped the wooden railing and Melissa O'Leary, Head Banshee of the O'Leary clan, glided up the stairs to guard the bedroom of her niece.
(c) Sara Harricharan

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text: > taking a look at your graphs, we might want to tweak our kernel a little, > because our netgears with the acenic chipset do not perform nearly as > well. We found that network performance varied greatly with motherboard chipset. I have a comparison of an 840 chipset system with an 860 chipset system at: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~hartner/cluster/cluster.html The 840 chipset system had a peak bandwidth of about 400Mbits/sec, whereas the 860 chipset system had a peak bandwidth of about 500Mbits/sec. I literally took the drive out of the first system to test the second system, so the only difference was the MB chipset and CPU. Our performance tests were not CPU bound, which leads us to believe that it is the MB chipset that made the difference. Mark


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15 years of KDE e.V. - Today
Last Tuesday (November 27, 2012) was the 15th birthday of KDE e.V. (eingetragener Verein; registered association), the legal entity which represents the KDE Community in legal and financial matters. We interviewed two of the founding members (Matthias and Matthias) on the why, what and when of KDE e.V. in the beginning and presented a video interview with emeritus board member Mirko Böhm. Today, we focus on the present with interviews with two current KDE e.V. Board members, Lydia Pintscher and Cornelius Schumacher. On the bottom, we've got a nice puzzle for you. And next week, we'll present an impression of the day to day activities of KDE e.V.
Lydia Pintscher on being a board member
In this interview, Lydia points out the importance of the e.V. in explaining to people what KDE does and how it is worth supporting it in this world with increasingly high-walled gardens and vendor lock-in.
Why did you choose to volunteer for the KDE e.V. Board of Directors?
How would you describe the job of KDE e.V. and its Board today?
The Board decides on the direction, distributes money, and does a lot of the day-to-day tasks to run a non-profit. Generally speaking, the Board makes sure things happen. Claudia Rauch, KDE e.V.'s Business Manager (and only employee) supports the Board a great deal in these tasks.
You have been involved for quite a long time both within the community and the formal organization of KDE e.V. Please tell us a bit about how both have changed over the years?
What challenges do you see for the future of KDE e.V.?
How does it make you feel thinking about what KDE has become?
Cornelius Schumacher - President of KDE e.V.
Camila Ayres interviewed Cornelius to get the views of the President of KDE e.V. In the process, it comes out that the work on KOrganizer never seems to be finished. And Cornelius gives us a glimpse of 2013 and the future of KDE beyond next year.
Camila: I'm here with Cornelius Schumacher to talk a bit about KDE e.V. How did you start with KDE?
I started hacking like crazy for a couple of years and then I got involved in the organization behind KDE, KDE e.V.
How did you get to the KDE e.V. Board of Directors?
Tell us a bit more about KDE e.V. and its Board.
The second is support. The main goal of KDE e.V. is to support the community in creating great software. Great KDE software. We do that mostly by organizing Akademies, an annual event, and by supporting people to go to sprints. These are focused events where people can get together for a short time in small groups to write code, inject creativity and momentum into the community. That's where we can do a lot as KDE e.V. using the money we get from donors and sponsors. This is a really important aspect of the community because we can support people who otherwise wouldn't be able to contribute to KDE in the same way.
Third area is the governance aspect. Of course KDE is an open source project. We are doing Free Software. We are using normal governance mechanisms which are typical for these kind of projects. The important aspect of our way of governance is that the people who are doing the work decide what is happening and what is done. That's where KDE e.V. took the conscious decision to not interfere with how these processes work. The people who write the code take the decisions about the code. KDE e.V. does not get involved with control over how development is being done.
This is an important decision that KDE e.V. made. We support the community, we represent the community, but we don't control the community. So we don't get involved in development. About the concrete questions of development, we are only involved in the support part. In this way, we don't introduce friction in the community by trying to decide things that should be decided by the people who are doing the work.
So that's what KDE e.V. is about: representation, support and governance.
You have been active for quite a long time in KDE. Please talk about how both have changed over the years... the Community and KDE e.V.
It was an interesting situation when I started, because in this transition, everything was broken. People were just hacking like crazy and putting things back together again. We wouldn't do it this way any more. Look at KDE. How it is now. Much bigger, much better organized. We have unit tests, we have continuous integration. We have all this stuff that's needed to run a big project that has a lot of code.
And of course the growth of the community is showing. So at Akademy, there are more people. I remember at the first big gathering in a small village in the Czech Republic. We had about a hundred people there, and everyone was sitting in 2 big rooms and hacking. There will also a couple of talks, but hacking really was the focus. Nowadays at Akademy, there are more people, and also more interaction and more coordination needed. There is still a feeling that we are one community. But now there are subgroups that work on a specific part of KDE. So it's not just one group of people where everybody is knowing everybody. But groups of teams that work together to create something bigger. That's also an interesting development.
For KDE e.V. as an organization, we have achieved the ability to run our business in a professional way. We have supporting members. An office in Berlin. An employee who is helping the community by doing all the administration and organizing. These things would be really hard without somebody who can spend full time on it. We have a professional organization behind KDE to support those things. That reflects the relevance of the project. KDE is one of the biggest open source projects on the planet. We are in a situation where we can actually sustain this organization to support the community to write all the wonderful KDE software we have.
What challenges do you see in the future of KDE e.V.?
People also have phones, tablets, all kinds of other devices. So that's an area where a lot of development is going on. If you look at how Android developed, you see an interesting way that Linux became very popular that no one expected a couple of years ago. And certainly not when KDE was founded. So we're dealing with these challenges. Finding a place there for KDE. There are a lot of things going on. People working on Plasma Active and other stuff. There we see challenges where KDE as a project has to extend its reach and write software that is not only important and focused on the desktop but in new areas as well.
And for KDE e.V. Our mission is to support those changes, so of course this is a challenge for us as well. In general for KDE e.V., we had some good times from the financial point of view over the last couple of years when Nokia bought Trolltech and jumped in heavily, betting on Qt. There were more resources available than there are now. Things are getting a bit smaller. We have be more careful with our planning and with our expenses so that we actually can sustain the activities we have built up over the last couple of years. That is certainly one of our biggest challenges--to make sure that KDE e.V. is organized enough to be able to support the community the way the community needs.
I see that there's still a lot of enthusiasm out there. I was really excited about the donation campaign for the Randa Sprints a short while ago. We reached out to people in the KDE community and outside the community, to KDE users asking them to support the sprints and KDE with donations. We got the donations we needed for those sprints. So I'm pretty confident that the community is strong to sustain all those activities we have put in place. But it certainly will take some effort. So from the KDE e.V. point of view, that is the most challenging part of the next few years.
What are the plans for KDE e.V. for 2013?
Another particular goal for 2013 is that we want to get closer to the Qt community and work closer together with that group. Obviously Qt is an important part of KDE. That's the library that all KDE applications are based on. Now Qt is more independent and also has open governance. KDE has an opportunity to contribute there in a way that wasn't possible before. We want to remove barriers which were there for historical reasons or perhaps because of a corporate structure. I was at Qt Developer Days which just happened. There we had a lot of interesting conversations about KDE and Qt and how the future could be. I'm seeing a lot of opportunities there. Together KDE & Qt make a strong team. If you look at who's active in the Qt community, there are a lot of KDE people or people who have some KDE history. There are people working on things where we can work together. So that's something that KDE e.V. could potentially support. We could get people involved to grow the contributor base. It's important that we get rid of barriers that prevent us from being the most effective. And then, of course we will run sprints again and are trying to reach the same level as we reached this year. It was a bit tougher to run the sprints from a financial point of view. Things will be different next year so we have to be careful about what we support. We want to do as much as we can. So that's one of the goals for the next year.
You have been involved with KDE for quite a long time. How does it make you feel when you think about what KDE has become?
I also didn't imagine that we would reach this level of professional organization. A nice office in the middle of Berlin together with the FSFE. That we would run something like the Desktop Summit two years ago in Berlin together with GNOME. We had hundreds of people working on the Free Desktop in one place. That's really exciting.
What always surprises me is how strong the ties of the KDE community are. That's something which actually hasn't changed over the years. I'm a bit surprised that it doesn't really change that much. If you go to a meeting with other KDE people, it still feels like meeting old friends. That's the same as it was at the beginning. That feeling comes from having a strong community and bonds between KDE people, which is quite impressive. That's something that makes me happy.
Thank you very much for your time. It is awesome to talk with you. It's great to get the perspective of the past and get some ideas about how the future might be.
Recorded interview transcribed by Carl Symons
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Quest of the 42
The first article featured a collage of images from 'the early days' as well as one outlier. We've now slapped some numbers on it - it's up to you to assign names/descriptions/memories/etc to them in the comments!
Guess on the numbers
6 = KDE desktop, possibly around 2.4
By Ingo Malchow at Thu, 2012/11/29 - 11:59pm
Some additions
22 = 26 = Matthias Ettrich
By Milian Wolff at Fri, 2012/11/30 - 1:28am
Crazy People
Yes, we KDE guys have always been crazy people. Holy shit, some of the pics really look (intentionally) weird. I still remember how we shot the photo 16+17 to make fun of Ralf while he was sleeping. Totally hilarious.
By Torsten Rahn at Fri, 2012/11/30 - 7:16am
That also solves the question
That also solves the question of who person 16 is :P
By Ingo Malchow at Fri, 2012/11/30 - 10:55am
I did before and...
By Ingo Malchow at Mon, 2012/12/10 - 1:07pm
KFM 0.0.1 users represent!
LOL, I remember using KFM 0.0.1 with Window Maker when it launched. Good times and good stuff. I wish KDE all the best going forward.
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Ace made a big impression on pre-k and kindergarten students at Baltimore's Lakewood Elementary School yesterday, dazzling them with tricks, soaking up their pats and hugs and swearing in two classrooms whose students took the "Oath of Kindness," a pledge to be kind to animals.
How this latest stop in our continuing travels came to pass was actually pretty simple, and amazingly bureaucracy-free.
A teacher friend asked if we'd visit. We said yes. She got the necessary clearances and, before you know it, a 130-pound Rottweiler-Akita-chow-pit bull mix was being snuggled, stroked and hugged by a bunch of children half his size.
Karma Dogs, the therapy dog organization of which Ace is a member, came up with two more volunteers who visited the school along with Ace and me — Janet Shepherd and her dog Tami, and Kathryn Corrigan and her dog Puddy.
Together, we covered six classrooms in just over an hour, administering the oath, passing along some basic dog safety tips and stressing the importance of treating animals kindly.
Karma Dogs developed the "Oath of Kindness" after the death of Phoenix, a pit bull puppy who was set on fire by Baltimore teenagers in the summer of 2009 — not the first, or last, case of its type in the city.
The oath reads: "I … pledge always to be kind to animals. I promise never to hurt an animal, be it dog or cat, furry or fat. I promise to tell my friends to be kind to animals and if I see an animal that is being hurt I will tell an adult right away. Scaly or slimy, feathered or blue, to this promise I will be true."
After reciting the pledge, the children receive a certificate,which is "pawtographed" by the dog, in this case, Ace. The hope is that children who have openly declared they will not be violent towards animals will remember that, tell their friends and inform adults when they see an animal being taunted or abused.
Of the students Ace and I appeared before, about a dozen raised their hands when I asked who was afraid of dogs. But only one declined a chance to pet Ace. Several more had some trepidations, but those seemed to melt away as they watched the other children interact with him.
They were eager to ask questions, and talk about their own pets. One girl spent three minutes talking about her Chihuahua, which she said had the same name she did. Not until the end of her dissertation did she reveal that her dog was a stuffed toy.
I cautioned them against approaching stray dogs, told them to always to ask the owner before approaching a dog, showed them how to let dogs sniff their hands as an introduction and encouraged them to treat dogs as they'd like to be treated — calmly, kindly and lovingly.
Ace made an impression on the children in several ways, I think –through his size alone, his gentleness and his back story: a stray adopted from the shelter, like most of the other Karma Dogs, who went on to try and help humans.
He also made an impression with his pawprint, stamped on each of the certificates that was handed out.
The teacher behind the event (who also took these photos) was Marite Edwards, a longtime friend of Ace's. When she took the idea to her principal, she learned that the school and district were looking at ways to add dog safety and kindness to animals to the curriculum.
That another case of animal abuse surfaced in Baltimore over the weekend — that of a cat set on fire by two teenagers — confirmed just how much those lessons are needed.
You can find more information about Karma Dogs at its website.
(Photos by Marite Edwards)


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QUOTE: "D-Bus facilities are accessible from the command shell via the qdcop command-line tool and can be explored using the graphical dcop-viewer application. D-Bus is essential for all KDE applications and should autostart when requested."
I guess the tool names have to be adapted to d-bus, i.e. qdbus and qdbusviewer?
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Politics & Government
Dan Walters: California Legislature drops ball on abusive teachers
The Wall Street Journal published a lengthy, front-page article the other day about two municipal employees in a Greek city who murdered its mayor "in the grisly conclusion to a suspected embezzlement scheme."
The two killers were sent to prison, but as it turns out, the Journal reported, they cannot be fired under Greek civil-service law, so they remain on the city's payroll, basically for life.
The tale says much about Greece and its chronic fiscal and economic crisis. If you can't remove assassins from the public payroll, do you really have any hope of getting your financial house in order?
We may chuckle at Greece's folly, but the case also raises a question: Other than degree, isn't what didn't happen to those two murderers very similar to what didn't happen to Mark Berndt, a Los Angeles teacher so depraved that he fed his semen to young children in what he called "tasting games" during a years-long pattern of sexual abuse?
The Los Angeles Unified School District wanted to fire Berndt, of course, but he invoked his rights under complex state laws that, much like those Greek laws, make it virtually impossible to fire a teacher regardless of the cause.
Ultimately, the school district paid Berndt, who faces 23 felony charges, $40,000 to resign – after he had continued to be paid and accrue pension credits for many months. It also paid $30 million to the families of abused children.
Almost immediately after the case erupted last year, state Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Los Angeles, introduced legislation to make it much easier for abusive teachers to be fired, and his bill zipped through the Senate. But it died in an Assembly committee when the powerful California Teachers Union objected, saying it would violate teachers' due-process rights.
This year, the CTA offered its own bill on teacher dismissals, carried by Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan, D-Alamo, saying that it would streamline the process without violating teachers' rights.
The Legislature, in a demonstration of the union's political muscle, sent it to Gov. Jerry Brown despite objections from school boards, among others, that it actually would make firing teachers for cause even more laborious and uncertain than it has been.
Brown vetoed the bill, agreeing with the critics that it would make the discharge process "too rigid and could create new problems."
However, the veto merely left the present system intact, meaning that were another Berndt-like case to arise, an abusive teacher could once again game the stacked system to avoid discharge and perhaps get another payoff.
Brown said in his veto message that he wants the Legislature to improve the system. As long as the CTA and other teacher unions remain implacably opposed to anything that would fundamentally change the process, however, nothing will happen.


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale baseball team used last week's non-conference doubleheader- a split with Sacred Heart- to get back on track after starting the Ivy League season with four straight losses. The goal has changed this Wednesday, however, as the Bulldogs will look to use a non-conference twinbill against Fairfield to keep their momentum rolling after taking three of four games from Gehrig Division Cornell and Princeton this past weekend. Yale (15-12-1, 3-5 Ivy) will send right-handers Greg Lyons (1-2, 5.79 ERA) and Chris Finneran (0-0, 5.40 ERA) to the mound in the squad's final tune-ups prior to the commencement of Red Rolfe Division play on Saturday at defending Ivy League champion Dartmouth. The Stags (12-14, 3-3 MAAC) come to Yale Field as winners of four of their last five games.
Wednesday's twinbill will close out a string of eight consecutive home games for the Bulldogs, who have gone 4-2 on the homestand thus far. Junior second baseman Gant Elmore is batting .478 over the stretch, raising his season batting average to a team-best .405. Elmore and senior first baseman Trygg Larsson-Danforth have each racked up five runs batted in over the last six games, with Larsson-Danforth notching of his RBI on a walk-off home run against Cornell on Saturday.
Senior right-hander Robert Gruber has tallied three relief wins in his last three appearances, posting 5.2 scoreless frames to lower his season ERA to 1.38. Junior southpaw Vinny Lally (5-1, 4.75 ERA) has also tallied a win on the homestand, while junior left-hander Brook Hart (1) and sophomore right-hander Greg Lyons (2) each notched a save this past week.
On the season, the Bulldogs are batting .311 as a team. Yale, which has four qualifying players (min. 62 at-bats) hitting over .300, is slugging a scorching .497, with nearly 38% of its hits going for extra bases. The Elis are also 37-for-54 on the basepaths and boast a .961 fielding percentage. Larsson-Danforth leads the way with seven home runs and 32 RBI, and junior third baseman Andy Megee has stolen 10 bases on 13 attempts.
The Yale pitching staff owns a collective ERA of 5.51 in 220.2 innings of work. Batters are hitting .308 against Elis' hurlers, who have recorded 173 strikeouts and issued 93 walks (1.86 K/BB ratio). Lally leads the staff with five wins, while Lyons' two saves are a team best.
The Fairfield Stags are hitting .277 as a club, led by a .380 average for Anthony Hajjar. Hajjar is the only regular player hitting over .300, though Tucker Nathans is just a shade below that with a .298 batting average in addition to his 21 RBI. Marco Garamella has driven in a team-best 25 runs for the Stags, who are 27-for-39 on stolen base attempts with a .956 fielding percentage.
Fairfield's hurlers boast a 7.14 ERA and 1.33 K/BB ratio (146/110) in 223.0 innings on the mound. Rob Gariano (2-3, 3.65) pitched a complete game on Saturday, while Sam Robertson (2-2, 5.29 ERA) went eight innings on Sunday. Dan Urbanovich, who pitched the ninth for Robertson in a non-save situation, is the only other Stags hurler to have thrown in a live game since April 5.
Yale has won four of the last five meetings with the Stags after last season's split in New Haven. The Bulldogs' game-one win was the record-breaking 333rd victory in the Yale career of Mazzuto Family Head Coach for Baseball John Stuper. Yale leads the all-time series dates, which back to a 6-3 Elis' win on April 30, 1973, but a 24-14 margin.
The Bulldogs return to the diamond on Saturday for the first of back-to-back doubleheaders at Rolfe Division opponent Dartmouth. Action returns to Yale Field the following weekend as the Bulldogs host a quartet of games with another Rolfe Division foe, historic rival Harvard.
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A French woman who was abducted in Yemen in February along with her translator was on her way home on Friday after being freed.
Isabelle Prime, 31, had been working in Yemen for the World Bank for about a year when she was kidnapped.
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The state-run Oman News Agency quoted an unnamed official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirming that Prime arrived in the sultanate early Friday in preparation for her repatriation to France. Oman played a role in negotiating her release in coordination with "some Yemeni...


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Organized in 1972, the Friends of the Porter Public Library is a non-profit volunteer organization which supports the library by giving volunteer service and monetary contributions. These monetary gifts support programs and purchase items that are beyond the library's regular budget.
The Friends raise funds from membership, Portables Gift Shop, the Book Nook, annual Big Book Sale (which is held in February each year), and periodic special fundraiser throughout the year. Since its inception the Friends have donated over $650,000 to Westlake Porter Public Library! The donations have been used to purchase Outreach vans, underwrite the Summer Reading program, Joyful Noise programs, various staff incentives, computers and programs for the Children's area, new shelving for the Popular Materials department, furniture and equipment, library and audio materials, and programming.
In addition, the Friends provided funding for the Quiet Reading Room and Grandma's Attic, when the library went through a major renovation and doubled its size in 2001. They also provide underwriting for the biennial "WestFest", a literary celebration that brings accomplished authors to Westlake for lectures and school appearances. Recently they donated money to the new Friends Garden near the library entrance. Every summer the Friends hold their annual Ice Cream Social, which coincides with the conclusion of the Summer Reading program.
Download a membership brochure, or pick one up at the Reception Desk in the lobby of the library and join this active and great group who support Westlake Porter Public Library.


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A friend of mine sent me an article published by our U. S. Department of Justice this morning (Feb. 13). In looking at the Department of Justice Website a thought occurred to me that there is no accounting for the number of employees that we lowly taxpayers are funding. There is no 10, 20, or 30-year chart showing how much this government agency has grown in the recent past, especially during our latest great recession.
In my humble opinion, I can see no reason why the U.S. and North Carolina citizens should not be openly shown these numbers. Again I would like to point out the possible growth in the past six or seven years, when the ordinary taxpayers� job was deliberately shipped over sea by our brilliant Congress and Mr. Clinton.
I am sure that the total figures and their bloated rise over the past few years would infuriate the taxpaying public.
Finally, I would respectfully ask that the annual budget figures be listed for the past 10 or 20 years. If the additions of all the employees don�t cause people to have cardiac arrest then the individual government budgets will.
So come on federal, state and local governments, give the taxpaying public an even break and let us know what and how much we are paying for!


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Terminator 3: The Redemption gives gamers an opportunity to experience the world of Terminator like never before -- they can go places and do things that have only been hinted at in the films," said Jim Galis, executive producer, Atari's Paradigm Entertainment studio. "The Terminator movies are known for their incredible chase scenes and total destruction -- Terminator 3: The Redemption recreates that moment-by-moment intensity with incredible action-driving only the Terminator license can provide."Terminator 3: The Redemption continues along the Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines movie storyline, but then branches in three distinct timelines, including present day Los Angeles, the desolate, post-apocalyptic world and an eerie, alternate future where no humans exist. You can fight toe-to-toe with other Terminator models in melee combat or take over vehicles in all three timelines to race, chase, and blast their way through 14 levels of intense arcade action.
Terminator 3: The Redemption, developed by Paradigm Entertainment, is available for the PS2, Xbox and GameCube for an estimated retail price of $39.95.


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From Middle English, from Old French premisse, from Medieval Latin premissa ("set before") (premissa propositio ("the proposition set before")), feminine past participle of Latin praemittere ("to send or put before"), from prae- ("before") + mittere ("to send").
premise (plural premises)
- A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
- William Shakespeare
- The premises observed, / Thy will by my performance shall be served.
- William Shakespeare
- (logic) Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced.
- Dr. H. More
- While the premises stand firm, it is impossible to shake the conclusion.
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- (usually in the plural, law) Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
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- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 19, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
- trespass on another's premises
- (authorship) The fundamental concept that drives the plot of a film or other story.
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proposition antecedently supposed or proved
either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced
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premise (third-person singular simple present premises, present participle premising, simple past and past participle premised)
- To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.
- To make a premise.
- To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows.
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- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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Budgit ManGuard BEHC 2 ton Electric Chain Hoist 20 ft. Lift 115-1-60
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Budgit Hoist 2 Ton Manguard BEHC Electric Chain Hoist with 20 Foot Lift Height
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- 115 Volt Single Phase Power Supply
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- Includes Rigid Top Hook
- Includes Mesh Chain Container
- Push-Button Pendant Control - Two Button Single Speed
- Standard Pendant drop is 4 feet less the hoist lift height
Budgit Electric Chain Hoists are designed for most heavy duty industrial lifting applications. They are designed to an H4 duty rating which is 300 starts per hour and 30 minutes per hour on time. Bugit's BEHC Manguard hoist list options and range of features make it the perfect solution for a range of industries.
Standard Safety Features Included:
- Overload Clutch - Protects the operator, hoist and supporting structure by preventing lifting excessive loads beyond rated 2 Ton capacity
- Paddle Type Upper & Lower Limit Switch – Shuts down power to the hoist automatically preventing the lower block from colliding with the hoist frame.
- Safety Latches – Spring loaded safety latches for both upper and lower hooks.
- Designed To Meet ASME/ANSI B30.16, CSA, NEC electrical codes and is ISO 9001 certified.
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- Single speed standard.
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- Gearing totally enclosed in oil-bath lubrication for long life.
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- Paddle type upper & lower control limit switch.
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Jib cranes are the most cost effective and versatile type of lifting equipment. They are great for use in production lines to keep machining cells, workstations and warehouse production moving. Jib cranes also work well to aid larger overhead crane systems. Jib cranes are easy to install and cost effective, with less structural limitations than other material handling options.
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Ian Baker
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Ian Baker joined the Thayer School faculty in 1982 and has served as both Chair of the Engineering Sciences Department and Director of the M.S. and Ph.D. programs, and currently serves as the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.
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NGC 1275 (Perseus A) Multi-wavelength Composite
The active galaxy NGC 1275 is also a well-known radio source (Perseus A) and a strong emitter of X-rays due to the presence of a black hole in the center of the galaxy. The behemoth also lies at the center of the cluster of galaxies known as the Perseus Cluster. By combining multi-wavelength images into a single composite, the dynamics of the galaxy are more easily visible. Detail and structure from radio, optical and radio wavelengths combine for an aesthetically pleasing, but nonetheless violent depiction of events going on at the heart of the galaxy.
X-ray data from the Chandra's Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer and radio data from NRAO's Very Large Array were combined with optical wavelengths in the red, green and blue from Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys. In the composite image, the X-ray data contribute to the soft violet shells around the outside of the center. The pinkish lobes toward the center of the galaxy are from radio frequencies. The radio emission, tracing jets from the black hole, fills the X-ray cavities. Dust lanes, star-forming regions, hydrogen filaments, foreground stars, and background galaxies are contributions from the Hubble optical data.
Image: NASA, ESA, and L. Frattare (STScI);
Science: X-ray: NASA/CXC/IoA/A.Fabian et al.; Radio: NRAO/VLA/G. Taylor; Optical: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Fabian (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK)


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The company says it has combined three new products -- the Allen-Bradley Kinetix 5500 servo drive, the Kinetix VP low-inertia (VPL) servo motor, and single-cable technology -- into one EtherNet/IP solution for building motion-control systems.
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2 cups oats
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A manure separator for both hog and dairy operations manufactured in Taiwan is now available in the United States.
The T-R Separator has been used on hog manure for 20 years. A couple of years ago the manufacturer opened an office in Canada, and now distributors sell the separator in the United States.
The separator is 24 ft. long, 2 ft. wide and 2 ft. deep. Part of the separation process relies on the formation of a biological membrane on the surface of the separation screen. A flexible rubber paddle rubs over the screen, forcing out liquids, which are then drained and filtered. The final step includes squeezing to remove more liquids. Contact Blossom Agritec Ltd., Dept. FIN, 2584 James St., Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada V2T 3L5, 604/852-1688.
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Prices: rollbar, about $733; canopy, $213; and windshield, $205. Contact FEMCO Inc., Dept. FIN, Box 1186, McPherson, KS 67460, 316/241-3513.
Sprayer redesign
The popular RoGator chemical sprayer, manufactured by Ag-Chem Equipment Company, has been redesigned into four new models: the 554 with a 500-gal. tank, the 854 with an 800-gal. tank, the 1054 with a 1,000-gal. tank and their biggest model, the 1254, with a 1,200-gal. tank.
A frame-mounted exhaust system reduces noise and vibration on the 854 and larger models. All models boast an air-ride, patent-pending suspension that the manufacturer calls the best ride in the industry. The cab on the two largest models is redesigned for improved visibility and ergonomics. Contact Ag-Chem Equipment Co. Inc., Dept. FIN, 5720 Smetana Dr., Minnetonka, MN 55343, 612/933-9006.
Irrigator for small fields
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Span lengths for the pivot system run in 10-ft. increments up to 120 ft. The smaller pivot is cheaper to purchase and operate than a conventional center pivot system. It runs on a 1/8-hp motor and is lighter than a conventional pivot with up to 33% less tower weight and 66% less tire compression per square inch. Sprin-kler outlets are spaced 5 ft. apart, and drops are available in 3-ft., 5-ft. and custom lengths. Contact Div. of Irrigation Components International, Dept. FIN, Box 1063, Mobile, AL 36633, 334/432-5085.
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The Megastar paint may be used with a urethane to decrease drying time and increase the hardness and chemical resistance. Megastar comes in white and is sold in drums, 1- and 5-gal. containers and aerosol cans. Contact Omega Coating Corp., Dept. FIN, Box 1318, Eldorado, KS 67042, 888/386-6342.
Rotary cutter floats
A new 5-ft. Hawk rotary cutter is available from J Bar Corporation. The cutter features four wheels and a floating hitch to help it float over rough terrain and avoid scalping. Four blades do the cutting instead of the standard two blades to give a smoother cut. Contact J Bar Corp., Dept. FIN, Hwy. 27 N, Trion, GA 30753, 706/734-3449.
Low-cost loader
If you need to move some hay or silage bales and don't want to tie up a tractor with a front-end loader, the Hydra Frame will solve the problem. At a cost of $1,495, the frame becomes an inexpensive loader. The price includes the frame, super-penetrating spear and two small bale stabilizing spears.
The Hydra Frame, manufactured by M&H Metal Works, will self-level with one set of tractor remotes. The company manufactures the frame with 2-x4-in. tubing and 1/4-in.-thick walls. It withstands loads up to 4,500 lbs.
Farmers may purchase other attachments for the frame, including a boom, forks and silage head. All are interchangeable. Plus, the silage head will transport and load plastic-wrapped bales without puncturing the wrap. Contact M&H Metal Works, Dept. FIN, 341 W. Weeks St., Norman Park, GA 31771, 912/769-5100.
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Those old, past-season bales can become palatable again with the HayMaker system. The unit injects round bales with a liquid nutritional supplement while transporting them. The supplement provides necessary nutrients and makes the hay appealing to cattle.
Just one operator can attach the HayMaker to a tractor. The system includes a 50-gal. tank for the supplement, which will treat 12 large bales. After the tractor picks up a bale, the supplement is injected into it. A 500-lb. bale can be treated in about 25 sec., according to the company.
A molasses-based supplement also is available for the system. It replaces lost protein, vitamins and minerals and renews the hay's aroma and taste. You can also have your own formula created to meet your herd's specific needs.The basic system costs about $2,250. Contact HayMaker Nutrition Injection Systems, LLC, Dept. FIN, 12 Hefner Dr., East Ellijay, GA 30539, 706/276-2603.
Easy mower hookup
The Hay Caddy takes the hassle out of hooking up a rotary disc mower to a tractor. The caddy attaches to most popular brands of rotary disc mowers. >From then on, the caddy can be hooked up with a pin to the tractor drawbar. The caddy has two wheels and a PTO shaft extension. Cost for the unit is about $2,200. Contact Kelley Manufacturing Co., Dept. FIN, Drawer 1467, Tifton, GA 31793, 912/382-9393.
Deep tillage
A new line of no-till equipment is being manufactured by Harrell Company. The conservation deep tillage tool can be adapted to a wide variety of crops, from corn to cotton, with one of several attachments. The tillage tool features a 1/4-in., high-strength alloy steel shank with lifter wings and leading coulter. The lifter wings raise the soil just below the compaction layer to fracture and aerate the soil. Various tools may be mounted behind the ripper on the tillage tool. Contact Harrell Co. Inc., Dept. FIN, Box 289, Pelham, GA 31779, 800/332-8232.
New plate planter
A redesign of the rotary plate seed planter for better accuracy is now available from Argentina. U.S. farmers may purchase the 3-pt. precision planter as an alternative to more expensive pneumatic planters.
Agrometal, a major equipment manufacturer in Argentina, modified its planters to provide very accurate planting. Different plates allow the planter to be used for corn, soybeans, cotton or peanuts. Box capacity is 2 bu. A six-row, 3-pt. hitch planter with no options starts at about $11,000. Contact Agrometal, Dept. FIN, Pablo Pittaluga, 516 Lakeview Dr., Cedar Town, GA 30125, 770/748-2527.
Cushioned air grain (c)
A grain-handling system that offers a cushioned ride for grain is available from Kongskilde. The system features a unique electronic air regulator design that monitors and controls the amount of air and grain in the pipeline. This ensures consistent air flow, gentle entry to the air stream and a smooth transfer. The air-flow system involves only two moving parts. Servicing is normally at ground level.
The unit's rotary valve has flexible rubber paddles that give instead of break. The paddles are adjustable and easily replaced at a low cost. The system works with new and existing grain drying and storage facilities. System models range in capacity from 53 to 2,106 bu. Contact Kongskilde, Dept. FIN, 231 Thames Rd. E., Exeter, Ontario, Canada N0M 1S3, 519/235-0840.
Cozy calves (c)
A one-piece, plastic calf nursery is chock full of features to help dairy farmers raise their calves. The nursery includes integrated bottle holders, a manger with removable pails and a large interior for longer growth periods. Dimensions of the nursery are 62 in. wide x 96 in. long x 55 in. high. A top and rear ventilation system provides optimum climate control. Adjustable vent caps keep the nursery rainproof. Contact Agri-Plastics, Dept. FIN, 7793 Young St., Grassie, Ontario, Canada L0R 1M0, 905/945-3116.
Low-profile tractor
Farmers seeking a low-profile, stable tractor can try out the new Ergit series of tractors from the Italian manufacturer Antonio Carraro.
The TC- and TF-series tractors measure under 6 ft. tall, making them ideal for spraying applications. Low profiles make the tractors very stable in steep hill situations. The series of tractors delivers from 48 to 82 hp.
The unusual tractor design incorporates all smooth body work with no corners, as well as easy access, and space and protection for the driver.
Six different models are included in the Ergit series. Prices start at $19,000. Contact Antonio Carraro, Dept. FIN, Box 39143, Denver, CO 80239, 303/375-0638, visit the company's Web site at www.antoniocarraro.it.
Inexpensive horsepower
A tractor made in India provides 39 hp for a sticker price of $9,840. The tractor, a Eicher 364 N.C., is being distributed in the United States by Belarus. E. W. Muelhausen, service representative with Belarus, reports that the tractor is designed specifically for farm utility work. Contact Belarus, Dept. FIN, 7075 W. Parkland Ct., Milwaukee, WS 53223, 414/355-2000.
Oiling cows
The Easy Way brush oiler will take care of your cows' insecticide needs. The oiler combines a cattle oiler brush with a curtain inside the brush to spread the insecticide evenly over the entire brush. Cows rub the oiler, which helps them keep groomed and controls flies, lice, ticks and other external parasites.The oiler can be mounted on a post, tree or an Easy Way mineral feeder and Face Fly Fighter. An optional stand is also available.
The brush oiler with a mount sells for $329.50. The stand sells for $159.50. Contact Easy Way Cattle Care, Dept. FIN, Box 325, Decorah, IA 52101, 319/387-0932.
Double-compartment tank
Crown introduces a new tank designed with two separate compartments to give growers the ability to carry large quantities of two different chemicals out to the field at the same time.
The 3250H double-compartment tank consists of two 1,625-gal., heavy-duty, polyethylene compartments. Each compartment slopes to its own sump for drainage. At the end of the sumps are molded-in, 3-in. drain fittings. Each compartment has a 24-in. hinged transport lid. An agitator may be installed on both compartments. The tank comes complete with a transport skid and assembly hoops.
According to the maker, cost of the tank is less than the cost of a comparable stainless steel tank. Contact Crown, Div. of Snyder Industries, Dept. FIN, Box 577, Marked Tree, AR 72365, 870/358-3400.
Made in China
If you're looking for an inexpensive utility tractor, the Tyger 180 may fit the bill. Retailing at $4,995, it's claimed to be one of the least expensive tractors available in the United States.
According to U.S. distributor Masters Farm Supply, the 18-hp Tyger is a fuel-efficient, easy-starting diesel tractor. Contact Masters Farm Supply, Dept. FIN, Rt. 3, Box 392, Hwy. 73, Altha, FL 32421, 850/762-3221.
Tractors from India (c)
Two new models of a utility tractor made by Mahindra in India are now available in the United States. The 4505 model offers 43 hp with 341/2-hp PTO. The 5005 model delivers 50 hp with 42-hp PTO. The two tractors feature a four-stroke, direct-injection, water-cooled diesel engine and range in price from $12,500 to $13,500. Contact Mahindra USA Inc., Dept. FIN, 17723 FM 2920, Tomball, TX 77375, 281/351-9686.


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Masaga hat-trick seals gritty Chiefs win
March 16, 2013
Lelia Masaga proved to be a real handful for Southern Kings, scoring three tries in the Chiefs' victory
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A hat-trick to winger Lelia Masaga has given Chiefs a 35-24 win against a resolute Southern Kings outfit at Nelson Mandela Stadium.
A large crowd at the Port Elizabeth ground acknowledged Chiefs co-captain Liam Messam, who led his side out in his 100th Super Rugby match. From there the Chiefs ensured he reached the milestone on a winning note as the defending champions recorded a four-tries-to-two victory.
Chiefs halfback Augustine Pulu's opportunity to shine was snuffed out within 60 seconds after he was given a yellow card for not releasing the tackler. The Kings did their best to make the most of the numerical advantage by scoring nine points in his absence, but in the end it was to no avail as the Chiefs finished their South African tour with a win and a loss.
For the Kings, their second consecutive loss will be disappointing, but the fighting spirit they showed against the defending champions, particularly in defence, will see them feared by other Super Rugby sides in weeks to come.
Gareth Anscombe kicked the Chiefs to 15 points courtesy of three penalties and three conversions while Kings No.10 Demetri Catrakilis kicked four penalties and a conversion for a personal tally of 14 points.
Messam led the side out for the first encounter between the two sides as the metaphorical David took on Goliath.
Catrakilis was penalised for a dangerous tackle on centre Tim Nanai-Williams, and it was subsequently converted by Anscombe.
The Kings five-eighth kicked a penalty of his own before Anscombe kicked the visitors back to a three-point lead after almost 18 minutes.
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The Chiefs were able to find their mojo following the twin penalties, and when play was spread quickly through the backs it was a long pass to Masaga that gave the visitors the first try of the match. Masaga was in the action soon after with his second try after some clever inter-play between Nanai-Williams and Cruden.
While referee Stuart Berry went upstairs to look at a couple of seemingly forward passes, it was a later pass from Cruden to Masaga that saw the Chiefs winger score his second try for the night and for the season.
A Kings penalty reduced the deficit to 6-18 before Segeal Petersen capitalised on a Masaga fumble to sprint 80 metres and score a try on the stroke of halftime to cut the deficit to 13-18. It was as close as they got, however.
Two tries within 14 minutes in the second half to Sam Cane and Masaga's third, saw the lead extended to 19 with well over a quarter of the game remaining.
Petersen looked as if he could have had his fourth try of the competition after he kicked a ball halfway down the field, but Asaeli Tiokirotuma was on hand to take the ball into touch.
Augustine Pulu took to the field in the 60th minute but was made to sit out the following 10 after referee cited him for a professional foul in holding up play.
The hosts capitalised immediately when Jacques Engelbrecht benefitted from a large buildup to reduce the deficit to 14 as Pulu watched on from the sin bin.
Another Catrakilis penalty saw the deficit reduced to eight with 11 minutes to play, but Anscombe replied straight back to give the Chiefs a 35-24 victory.
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