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Update on Deb's DadWednesday, June 20th, 2007
Silver Blue here, guest blogging for Deb as she waits for information regarding her Dad. He's currently in Chesapeake General Hospital, with what they think is pancreatis (secondary diagnosis is femoral hernia). They also think that he may have had a gall stone to attempt to pass and get lodged in his system somewhere. The doctors have run tests and the results have not been received, yet.
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It Is All About BTC, LTC, ETH, ZEC mining as well as other alternative crypto currencies
Nowadays Bitcoin is only mined by those who have managed to secure some sort of ASIC mining hardware, because it is pointless to mine BTC with GPU let alone with CPU miners. That is the reason why there are not that many Bitcoin mining pools left and there are a few larger ones that most people are mining in. Below you can see a list of the top Bitcoin mining pools with a short info about each one of them:
GHash.io – 0% mining pool fee, PPLNSG payout system, merged mining NMC/DVC/IXC
Eligius – 0% mining pool fee, CPPSRB payment system, no registration required
BTC Guild – 3% PPLNSG, 7.5% PPS pool fee, merged mining NMC
Discus Fish – Some sort of a large private(?) Chinese pool
Slush – 2% mining pool fee, RBPPS payment system
BitMinter – 1% mining pool fee, PPLNSG payment system

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Dry Notes from the Underground
A version of this article appears in the March/April 2002 issue of Home Energy Magazine.
March 01, 2002
Research shows that homeowners invite mold growth and serious health risks with a finished basement that has moisture problems.
Some basements are dry, usable living spaces—whether by design, or simply as a result of the climate or water table. Others—and this may be the majority with older houses—have significant moisture problems. Finishing or adding insulation to a basement with moisture problems may encourage the growth of mold, creating a dangerous situation. Retrofitters and weatherization crews should be careful when undertaking such work to make sure that they are not putting the occupants at risk. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) has undertaken several research projects on damp or wet basements.We have looked at the causes of, and the proposed solutions to, this problem, and we are examining the health implications of living with dampness and mold. CMHC has also been represented on a Canadian committee studying new basements, together with the National Research Council, representatives of the concrete and insulation industries, home builders, and scientists.This committee has been meeting for several years and its final recommendations are expected in 2002.The recommendations listed below are based on the information gathered from all these sources. Older Basements &...
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With all of the music out there today it can be just as hard for an independent band to be heard as it is for people to find them. With too much information out there, it is easy to get lost in the noise and to only hear one side of the argument. Here at Nanobot Rock, we love to discover new artists and new styles and share them with the public, but offer a different approach in how we review them. Our reviews are written by fans of music for fans of music. Sometimes, we'll get more than just one take on the same album. Like friends talking about music, let's discover new music together.
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A few movie recommendations for St Patrick's Day from one who knows☘
A few movie recommendations for St Patrick's Day from one who knows☘
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News and updates on current Offaly History projects.
Taking a delve into the politics of sport
Contemporary newspaper articles and illustrations from the Great Hunger in Ireland, 1845-52
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Some clarity for enterprise cloud storage
Cloud storage is a next-generation IT infrastructure that's altering the data storage landscape. And its cast of key players is beginning to take shape.
- Tony Asaro, The INI Group
Cloud storage is moving beyond the hype and the cast of key players is beginning to take shape.
For the last year or so, cloud storage has been on a roller coaster ride in terms of hype, buzz and, yes, plenty of skepticism. But it's not just a passing fad. Private clouds aren't just another way of talking about old IT stuff in a new way. And public clouds are real alternatives and becoming pervasive.
Cloud storage is a next-generation IT infrastructure that's altering the data storage landscape. The changes will happen in obvious and not-so-obvious ways. The obvious ways include using cloud storage for backup, disaster recovery and archiving. The less obvious ways include new business models and applications being developed specifically for the cloud.
EMC Atmos offers private and public cloud storage. And even though EMC has been at it for a while, I personally haven't run into any companies using that technology. I know they're out there, but the only Atmos user I've spoken to is using it as a Centera replacement. NetApp is offering FAS in the cloud with major service providers and giving big incentives to NetApp salespeople to drive this business. True to form, NetApp is leveraging FAS for everything, including cloud storage. EMC's and NetApp's strategies are polar opposites—EMC has a number of different storage systems with little synergy among them even as they sometimes overlap, and NetApp has a single storage system it uses for everything. Interestingly, while they have diametrically opposed strategies, they're both very successful overall and you can't argue with success.
Hitachi has positioned its entire storage portfolio for cloud storage, and Dell is leveraging its DX solution. Hewlett-Packard hasn't announced anything significant, and IBM doesn't have anything substantial to speak of yet.
Nirvanix is an interesting emerging enterprise cloud storage vendor with an end-to-end solution that makes it extremely easy for companies to use its cloud storage. Nirvanix provides an easy-to-manage complete solution with front-end usability, security, reliability, performance, multi-tenancy and global access combined with back-end controls, reporting, management and analytics. It isn't just a storage system that scales and supports HTTP, which so many other vendors tout as a cloud platform. Rather, Nirvanix provides a holistic solution designed specifically for businesses to use without being cloud experts.
This is exactly the requirement I wrote about here nearly a year ago for what was needed for cloud storage to succeed. Having a storage system built just for the cloud is important but it's barely half the story. It's the application and management of that infrastructure that's essential to a true cloud storage solution.
Another trend in enterprise cloud storage is the use of open-source file systems to build your own. Techie IT professionals are considering Gluster, Hadoop and other extensible, scalable file systems. But they face a two-fold challenge: They need to bulletproof their homemade storage systems, and they need to build the front-end and back-end applications to manage and offer these services. It's daunting but achievable; Amazon and Google are examples of companies doing this even though it was outside their core competencies.
Google is also an important player in cloud. More and more companies are moving to Google Apps and, as a result, are using Google infrastructure, which should also be considered enterprise cloud storage as real businesses are replacing their on-premises applications with Google's offerings.
I haven't mentioned Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as an enterprise cloud storage service because it truly isn't that. Amazon S3 isn't a total solution and seems to have no interest in being one. Rather, it's a utility that you can build your own apps to use. However, I believe next-generation Web-based businesses will continue to use Amazon S3 and, in that sense, it will be a storage platform for the enterprise.
I can see enterprise cloud storage playing out with EMC driving Atmos within its own customer base, which sometimes works (e.g., Data Domain) and sometimes doesn't (e.g., Centera). But EMC will get customers and generate business, things it tends to do very well. Expect a major IT vendor to acquire Nirvanix and then go head-to-head with EMC Atmos. Those two vendors will dominate this market, with other vendors having pockets of success here and there but never assuming a dominant position. Of course, that depends on who buys Nirvanix and how well they execute. Google will continue to drive more business applications into its cloud, which will impact storage vendors and application vendors such as Microsoft and Oracle.
There is no endgame with the market going in one direction or the other. Instead, most users will have a mixture of on-premises IT, private cloud, public cloud and applications in the cloud. There will be a handful of major leaders and the others will be forever chasing their tails.
BIO: Tony Asaro is senior analyst and founder of Voices of IT.
Related Resources
- 3 Common Cloud Challenges Eradicated with Hybrid Cloud –SearchStorage.com
- Cloud Storage for Primary or Nearline Data –SearchStorage.com
- Cloud Backup and Cloud Disaster Recovery Essential Guide –SearchStorage.com
- CW Europe – September 2018: Costs stack up for Dutch government IT projects –ComputerWeekly.com


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Great progress has been made in the industry's efforts to reduce the environmental impact of electricity generation, even as demand for electricity increases.
The U.S. electric power sector has reduced air emissions substantially under existing programs.
EPA projects that power sector mercury emissions will be reduced by approximately 90 percent due to its Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) and other Clean Air Act regulations.
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HM and TL seals for grease lubricated applications
SKF offers an extensive assortment of radial shaft seals for less demanding grease lubricated applications operating at moderate speeds. The majority of these seals are designed without a spring. The seals are generally installed with the sealing lip facing outward to provide maximum exclusion ability. Typical applications are grease lubricated agriculture machinery.
The illustrations below show the most commonly used designs within this assortment from SKF. Contact SKF for additional information on available designs.
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Alex and Derek King, 2002 News
Florida teens, were convicted in September of second-degree murder in the killing of their father, Terry, who was blugeoned to death by a baseball bat in Nov. 2000. Another man, Ricky Chavis, 40, a former friend of the family, stood trial for the same murder but was acquitted. Chavis was also charged with molesting Alex and being an accessory in the murder. The judge, who heard both trials, threw out the boys' convictions in October, claiming that the prosecution's unusual tactic denied them due process and a fair trial. The judge ordered the two sides to try to work out the case in mediation.


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UniversalSlate necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 40 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
Habas Green Coffee is looking for a logo that conveys a feeling of old-world while at the same time feeling like a fresh company (isn't it always the way, though? :)
Habas Green Coffee
Habas Green Coffee is an online company that wholesales organic, green (meaning un-roasted), coffee beans to artisan roasters across the United States and Canada. The thing that's different about us is that we only sell green coffee in half-sacks (35kg) and full-sacks (70kg). Other companies either only sell in small 1lb - 5lb bags to 'home roasters' or in full pallets to commercial roasters.
Our client base is going to be smaller, artisan roasters that need to buy in much larger quantities than the home roaster but can't yet afford full pallets. These people are very 'down to earth' and people-friendly and don't necessarily respond well to a 'big corporate' entity. We need a brand/logo that they are going to respond well to, like a breath of fresh-air, the kind of fresh-air that makes them feel like they are going to be taken care of :)
What we are looking for is a versatile logo (i.e. can be embroidered). See below for technical details.
Alright! Thank you very much for reading this and participating in the design process. We really appreciate your talent and hard work.
The winning designer will likely also be asked to design a webpage layout for us on 99designs.
- Comes with three colorways: on white, on black and black-and-white.
- If using color, please use only up to four Pantone colors(including black). We are going to be printing the logo with offsetprinting and will not be using 4/4 process.
- Please focus more on the illustrative element instead of the wordmark. The logo needs to work independently of the wordmark.
- It needs to look 'timeless' but also 'fresh'. A thought I had in mind would be to use the look of 'wood-cuts'. An example of what I mean by 'wood-cuts' can be seen here. This is just a thought. If you're good at this sort of thing, you may be able to totally impress us.
- 'Earth-tone' colors would be a good place to start.
- Keep in mind, this needs to look cool. So, make sure your entry is super-cool :)
- Does not contain any gradients
- Does not contain any 'Web2.0 reflections' or shadows
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"LEED Demand Response Credit: A Plan for Research towards Implementation." 2012 Greenbuild Conference & Expo. San Francisco, CA, 2012. LBNL-6014E..
Price Responsive Demand in New York Wholesale Electricity Market using OpenADR. LBNL/NYSERDA, 2012. LBNL-5557E..
"Responsive and Intelligent Building Information and Control for Low-Energy and Optimized Grid Integration." ACEEE 2012 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 12-17, 2012. Pacific Grove, CA, 2012. LBNL-5662E..
Automated Demand Response Technologies and Demonstration in New York City using OpenADR. LBNL/NYSERDA, 2013. LBNL-6470E..
"Automated Price and Demand Response Demonstration for Large Customers in New York City using OpenADR." International Conference for Enhanced Building Operations (ICEBO) 2013. Montreal, Quebec, 2013. LBNL-6472E..
Demonstration and Results of Grid Integrated Technologies at the Demand to Grid Laboratory (D2G Lab): Phase I Operations Report. 2013. LBNL-6368E..
Grid Integration of Aggregated Demand Response, Part 1: Load Availability Profiles and Constraints for the Western Interconnection. 2013. LBNL-6417E..
Hawaiian Electric Company Demand Response Roadmap Project Final Report. 2013. LBNL-6215E..
"Understanding the Effect of Baseline Modeling Implementation Choices on Analysis of Demand Response Performance." ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition. Houston, TX, 2013. LBNL-5560E..
"Fast DR: Controlling Small Loads over the Internet." ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA, 2014. LBNL-185726..
"Field Experience with and Potential for Multi-time Scale Grid Transactions from Responsive Commercial Buildings." ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. Asilomar Convention Center, Pacific Grove, CA, 2014. LBNL-185827..
Costs to Automate Demand Response – Taxonomy and Results from Field Studies and Programs. 2015. LBNL-1003924..
Demand Response Research Center - Final Report. 2015. LBNL-1005753..
Field Testing of Telemetry for Demand Response Control of Small Loads. 2015. LBNL-1004415..
Intermittent Renewable Management Pilot – Phase 2. 2015. LBNL-179019..
Predictability and Persistance of Demand Response Load Shed in Buildings. 2015. LBNL-187399..
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Born into a family of monsters who catapulted me into addiction and self-loathing, I, now a 63-year-old, have been sober since 11-16-2007. I am proud of that! Now, more than anything, I want people to see that a life beginning in unspeakable child abuse and domestic violence can heal and blossom into a happy and productive life.
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Jwfmccain necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 191 diseños de 47 diseñadores freelance.
Andover Capital Corporation
We are a new, but ambitious Investment/Holding company. The name "Andover" is from a town called Perth-Andover in New Brunswick Canada, where the founder was born.
(1) Business owners - business owners we are purchasing companies from will look at our logo and website
(2) General public/Media
(3) Lawyers, bankers, consultants and other professionals
(4) Friends and family
(5) Advisors
(1) Attributes - Professional, bold, powerful look
(2) Colors - Dark/navy blue(or silver), and dark grey
(3) Size / Shape - Prominent "Andover", with "Capital Corporation" in smaller font underneath. Thinking the logo would look good to the left of the text, or prominently on top/center of "Andover"
(4) Fonts - Professional/classic type font
(5) Legible - we need to make sure people can read it properly
We are an investment firm so we need to be professional. Looking for a logo that
I have attached a few logos I like to start guiding the potential output
In terms of what the logo could be, I am open to suggestions, but my initial thoughts are either:
1) A symbol that resembles an "A"
2) Some sort of bridge theme. The town "Andover" is known for its old bridge, maybe have some sort of "A"/bridge logo similar to the Auckland logo I have attached?
If you want any more direct data to help make the logo please email me: email@example.com
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A Unique Educational Resource in Acadia
Created and maintained by volunteers, the Wild Gardens of Acadia offer park visitor an award-winning microcosm of Acadia's uniquely varied plant communities in a serene brookside setting. The Wild Gardens include over 400 plant species, all indigenous, in twelve sections designed to represent natural plant communities found within Acadia National Park. Mountain, heath, seaside, coniferous forest, and eight other habitats are represented.
Volunteers at the Wild Gardens of Acadia help maintain the gardens, guide visitors, and care for the grounds. Volunteers also work on interpretive materials for the Gardens, such as the popular "Quick Guide to Common Ferns of the Wild Gardens of Acadia" and educational activities such as "Art in the Gardens." For more information, contact Stephanie Clement at 207-288-3340 or use our volunteer information request form.
The Gardens not only enhance understanding of native plants and their habitats but also foster stewardship—ensuring that parks and gardens continued to be sustained through volunteers and private philanthropy. This tremendous volunteer effort has been recognized by awards from the Garden Club of America, the New England Wild Flower Society, the Garden Club Federation of Maine, the National Council of State Garden Clubs, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and a Certificate of Appreciation to the Wild Gardens of Acadia committee from the National Park Service. In 2011, the Wild Gardens of Acadia celebrated its 50th anniversary.
In 2010, the Wild Gardens of Acadia became an official committee of Friends of Acadia. The Gardens are still maintained primarily by volunteers, along with a head gardener and an intern sponsored by Friends of Acadia; they plant, study, collect, propagate, label, and fundraise. This newly formalized relationship offers stability and assistance that will allow the Wild Gardens of Acadia to thrive for the next 50 years and beyond.
Each June, the volunteers of the Wild Gardens of Acadia hold a benefit plant sale at St. Savior's in Bar Harbor, from 9 a.m. to noon. Offerings include native plants, vegetable seedlings, herbs, annuals, and perennials, which are donated by local nurseries, private estates, and the WGA volunteers. The sale is held rain or shine. All proceeds help support the Wild Gardens of Acadia.
To support this program, contact Lisa Horsch at 207-288-3340 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Visitor Information for the Wild Gardens of Acadia »
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Student or Learner
Studying abroad
Studying abroad or studying overseas is when another in order to get a higher degree. Most of students prefer to complete their higher which keep them in risk of many social problems such drug abuse, alcohol drink, and others. The students must be taking care of themselves in order to stay in safe manner.
In conclusion, studying abroad has more benefits for students. The students become more independent. Also they can improve theircountries.
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Is it IELTS essay? In my opinion, it is too short. If you write IELTS essay, you need to write the minimum number of words is 250 words.


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20th Century Fox has now officially brought online the new trailer for James Cameron's Avatar that has been playing in theaters. You can watch the trailer using the player below or in High Definition QuickTime here!
Opening in conventional 3D theaters and IMAX 3D on December 18th, the anticipated film stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Peter Mensah, Laz Alonso, Wes Studi, Stephen Lang and Matt Gerald.


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Publications 2003
Bellwood, D.R. (2003). Origins and escalation of herbivory in fishes: a functional perspective. Palaeobiology, 29: 71-83.
Bellwood, D.R., A.S. Hoey and J.H. Choat (2003). Limited functional redundancy in high diversity systems: resilience and ecosystem function on coral reefs. Ecology Letters, 6: 281-285.
Birrell, C.L. (2003). Influences of benthic algae on coral settlement and post-settlement survival: implications for the recovery of disturbed and degraded reefs. MSc thesis, James Cook University.
Caley, M.J. and P.L. Munday ( 2003). Growth trades off with habitat specialization. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, B (Supplement), 2003: S175 - S177.
Caley, M.J. and D. Schluter (2003). Predators favour mimicry in a tropical reef fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, B, 270: 667-672.
Chisholm, J.R.M. (2003). Primary productivity of reef-building crustose coralline algae. Limnology and Oceanography, 48: 1376-1387.
Cronin, T.W., N. Shashar, R.L. Caldwell, J. Marshall, A.G. Cheroske and T.-H. Chiou (2003). Polarization signals in the marine environment. In: "Polarization Science and Remote Sensing", J.A. Shaw and J.S. Tyo (eds.), Proceedings of SPIE, 5158: 75-82. SPIE, Bellingham, WA, USA.
De Sloover, J.R. (2003). Terrestrial vegetation patterns and plant communitites on Pacific coral cays. Scripta Bot. Belg., 24: 155-167.
Elliott, J.P. and D.R. Bellwood (2003). Alimentary tract morphology and diet in three coral reef fish families. Journal of Fish Biology, 63: 1598-1609.
Grutter, A. (2003). Feeding ecology of the fish ectoparasite Gnathia sp. (Crustacea: Isopoda) from the Great Barrier Reef and its implications for fish cleaning behaviour. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 259: 295-302.
Grutter, A.S. and R. Bshary (2003). Cleaner wrasse prefer client mucus: support for partner control mechanisms in cleaning interactions. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, B. Supplement, 270: S242-S244.
Grutter, A.S., J.M. Murphy and J.H. Choat (2003). Cleaner fish drives local fish diversity on coral reefs. Current Biology, 13: 64-67.
Hubble, M. (2003). The ecological significance of body size in tropical wrasses. PhD thesis, James Cook University.
Jones, C., A.S. Grutter and T.H. Cribb (2003). Rhipidocotyle labroidei n. sp. (Digenea: Bucephalidae) from Labroides dimidiatus (Valenciennes) (Labridae). Zootaxa, 327: 1-5.
Klanten, S.O. (2003). Molecular phylogeny, temporal patterns of lineage diversification and phylogeography of the surgeon fish genus Naso (Acanthuridae). PhD thesis, James Cook University.
Kroon, F.J., P.L. Munday and N.W. Pankhurst (2003). Steroid hormone levels and bi-directional sex change in Gobiodon histrio. Journal of Fish Biology, 62: 153-167.
Lachlan, R.B. (2003). An annotated list of the hawk moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) of Lizard Island, Queensland. Australian Entomologist, 30: 1-3.
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Next week, Baker, Crestview and Laurel Hill volleyball teams compete in district tournament action for a championship and a spot in the state playoffs. Each district�s top two teams qualify for the playoffs.
Next week, Baker, Crestview and Laurel Hill volleyball teams compete in district tournament action for a championship and a spot in the state playoffs. Each district�s top two teams qualify for the playoffs.
BakerSchool�s squad, which opens play Tuesday in the District 3-1A tournament at Chipley, seeks an 11th straight district championship and a 21st consecutive trip to the playoffs. The Gators will play the winner of Monday's match between Jay and Chipley. The finals are 6 p.m. Thursday at Chipley.
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Mojave, Calif.-based XCOR has selected ATK's Aerospace Structures Division for the detailed design and manufacture of the composite wings and control surfaces of the Lynx Mark I suborbital reusable launch vehicle, the two companies announced Nov. 14.
Test flights of the winged Lynx Mark I, with the ATK subassemblies, are scheduled to begin in early 2013, XCOR spokesman Bryan Campen says. This will pave the way for rocket-powered flights to altitudes of around 200,000 ft. starting later in the year.
The ATK-made wing incorporates final design changes made to improve stability and control based on data from a series of subsonic wind tunnel trials dating back to 2009 at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in Dayton, Ohio.
These revealed a post-stall pitch up condition. Follow-on tests at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., conducted jointly with AFRL under a cooperative research and development agreement prompted further refinements to improve stability.
The changes stretched out the development timescale for the program, which was originally aiming at first flight in 2010.
Along with modifications to the nose section, which is now broader, the chine was also extended further outboard. The wingtip-mounted vertical tails were also been redesigned with a larger chord and extended ventral fins for added stability.
Once the initial design phase is complete and phase two begins, ATK says it will fabricate the wing structures at its facilities in Clearfield, Utah.
The Mark I will be the test and development pathfinder for a more capable Mark II production version designed to carry a passenger and experiments to 350,000 ft. from around 2014 onward.
XCOR plans up to four commercial suborbital flights per day of the Mark II, from multiple runways, offering government, commercial and educational clients 3 to 4 min. of microgravity at altitudes of 100 km (60 mi.). A Lynx Mark III, aimed at service entry in the 2015-2016 time frame and configured with an external dorsal payload pod, also is being designed.
The two-phase agreement with ATK adds a new twist to emerging commercial space development. "Until recently, NewSpace companies and established aerospace primes like ATK often had minimal interaction with companies like XCOR as the subcontractor," said Andrew Nelson, chief operating officer for 13-year-old XCOR. "With this effort we are establishing a model of how smaller NewSpace companies may utilize established government primes as our suppliers.
ATK has demonstrated they are nimble, cost-effective and can leverage deep experience from prior larger projects."
In August 2011, XCOR was selected by NASA to integrate and fly suborbital research and development missions under a $10 million Flight Opportunities Program agreement.
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December 2
Pitching is still number one on the Phillies' shopping list as the 106th edition of Baseball's Winter Meetings got underway today.
Pat Gillick huddled with his staff in the club suite in late afternoon to touch base on where the Phillies stand. Gillick assigns his staff to different clubs. For example, Major League Scout Gordon Lakey may have three clubs. He'll spend time checking with those clubs to see if there is a fit for a trade.
In many cases, pounding the lobby would be part of Lakey's schedule. The Gaylord Opryland Resort Hotel is a sprawling complex spread out over nine acres. There's one lobby near the registration desk, but not one conducive to lobby sitting.
This place is so large Major League Baseball has set up a program for all GMs in which someone from the hotel staff will take Gillick (for example) to another club's suite if he has a meeting with a particular club. Otherwise, Gillick would need a compass, a map and roller skates.
Ruben Amaro will spend most of his time conversing with agents. He's spoken several times last week with the agents for Aaron Rowand and Kyle Lohse. Both are seeking long-term deals.
With the signing of Tori Hunter, the market has been set for centerfielders. Rowand and Andruw Jones will try to ride that wave. Starting pitchers may hold on to see when and if Johan Santana is traded. The team acquiring Santana would attempt to sign him to a multi-year contract at gigantic numbers. Once that happens, the market has then been set.
Gillick will reconvene his staff early in the morning and again in mid afternoon each of the next three days to learn of the latest intelligence.
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In response to some comments posted here….
**Most of the hiring at these meetings is on the minor league level, as far as the business side of the game. Occasionally, a major league team might make a hiring on the minor league player development level. Probably a couple hundred young folks will be looking for jobs in the game this week. Starting in the minor leagues is a great way to begin a career.
**I'm sorry, but we didn't come up with an alternate home uniform to copy the Eagles' throw-back uniform they wore earlier in the NFL season. Baseball has been ahead of football in this area. Remember, we wore an all-burgundy uniform in 1979, I believe. We lost the game and never saw those uniforms again. Larry Christenson was the starter and loser in that game. "LC" still complains that we asked him to wear the burgundy uniform during the 2003 Veterans Stadium closing ceremonies.
**Chances are the 25 players that will take the field on opening day next year won't be determined until spring training. A roster this month most likely will change before the March 31 opener.
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What are your thoughts on Erik Bedard? Simply he is young and a good pitcher. I know the Phillies don't like the idea of trading prospects for a short term solution but Bedard is locked up till 2009 and we can sign him to an extention. Maybe some sort of Bedard+ Mora for Carrasco and some other prospects trade?


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Quality Awards for NAS: With a lineage that goes back to Sun and StorageTek, Oracle's network-attached storage (NAS) boxes are meeting, and maybe exceeding, expectations.
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Quality Awards for NAS: With a lineage that goes back to Sun and StorageTek, Oracle's network-attached storage (NAS) boxes are meeting, and maybe exceeding, expectations.
About the survey
The Storage magazine/ SearchStorage.com Quality Awards are designed to identify and recognize products that have proven their quality and reliability in actual use. The results are derived from a survey of qualified Storage/ SearchStorage.com readers who assessed products in five main categories: sales-force competence, product features, initial product quality, product reliability and technical support. Products are rated on a 1.00-8.00 scale, where 8.00 is the most favorable score. This is the sixth edition of the Quality Awards for NAS systems; there were 206 responses to the survey with ratings of 389 products/product lines.
File storage is front-page news in the data storage world these days, with talk of "big data" and the relentless growth of end-user information forcing us to focus our attention -- and storage infrastructure efforts -- on storage systems for file data. The good news is that storage vendors appear to be up to the task, with users generally expressing high satisfaction with their products on the sixth Storage magazine Quality Awards for network-attached storage (NAS).
Oracle Corp. storage users are apparently the most satisfied among the legions of NAS users. Their high marks across the spectrum of service and reliability propelled Oracle to the highest ratings among both enterprise and midrange NAS systems.
Over our six NAS Quality Awards surveys, we've seen six vendors garner top honors in the enterprise group and three winners among midrange NAS systems since NetApp Inc.'s earlier dominance when it won the first three Quality Awards. In this year's survey, average ratings for both groups set records with new highs in every category except two.
Below, is a listing of the products that were included in the Storage magazine/ SearchStorage.com Quality Awards for NAS survey. The number of responses for each finalist is shown in parentheses after the product name.
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Enterprise. Oracle's 7.36 is the highest overall score we've seen in all the NAS Quality Awards surveys. EMC Corp. set the record in the previous survey, but Oracle bested that mark by more than half a point. Oracle set the record by earning the highest marks in all five ratings categories, with an unprecedented score of more than 7.00 in each category. EMC's showing was nearly as impressive, finishing with a 6.99 overall score, which would have easily won any previous NAS survey.
Oracle's ratings were strong across all categories, with its highest marks coming for its sales efforts, product feature sets, and relatively quick and painless deployments. EMC was also a strong challenger in all five categories, posting sterling scores that included two 7.00-plus ratings, with the other three coming in at 6.92 to 6.98. The other vendors also fared well, with Dell Inc. posting a very respectable 6.54 to finish third, followed by NetApp (6.40) and Hewlett-Packard Co. (6.13).
Midrange. In winning the midrange group, Oracle didn't set a new overall score record, but it did manage to tie the best overall mark, a 7.15 set by IBM on the last survey. IBM couldn't quite repeat its record-setting performance, but it earned a 7.02 to finish second -- only the third 7.00-plus overall score ever among midrange NAS.
Oracle and IBM battled through the five rating categories, with Oracle prevailing on four and IBM finishing first for sales-force competence. IBM came in second for three categories and third in the final one. NetApp's solid 6.75 was good for an overall third place, followed by HP (6.42), EMC (6.35) and Dell (6.15).
Enterprise. Across all the NAS Quality Awards surveys, no vendor had ever cracked the 7.00 mark for the sales-force competence rating category, but this time Oracle plowed right through that barrier and didn't stop until it reached 7.45. That astounding score was earned based on statement scores ranging from 7.32 to 7.56, with Oracle's highest ratings coming for keeping its customers' interests foremost, being knowledgeable about its customers' industries and being flexible. EMC's 6.92 in the category put it comfortably in second, just ahead of HP (6.89).
Breaking down the numbers
- Enterprise NAS vendors provide solid backup for their sales teams, as evidenced by the overall average of 7.08 for the statement "The vendor's sales support team is knowledgeable."
- Before Oracle's achievement, no NAS vendor/product had ever received 7.00-plus scores for every statement in the sales-force competence category.
- EMC had three 7.00 scores, highlighted by a 7.25 for having a knowledgeable sales team; HP had the other two 7.00-plus statement scores in the category.
Midrange. IBM scored approximately 7.00 for all sales-force competence statements to finish with a winning 7.20 average, which was high enough to put it well ahead of second-place finisher Oracle (6.94).
NetApp posted very consistent scores, ranging from 6.38 to 6.89, across the six category statements for a laudable third-place average of 6.66.
Breaking down the numbers
- IBM had the highest scores for all six statements in the sales-force competence category.
- IBM's highest marks were for having flexible sales reps and knowledgeable sales support teams.
- Oracle netted two over-7.00 scores: a 7.28 for knowledgeable support teams and a 7.04 for "My sales rep keeps my interests foremost."
- NetApp's strengths came from its sales support teams (6.89) and being knowledgeable about its customers' industries (6.87).
Enterprise. Oracle posted one of its top category averages (7.43) to take initial product quality honors. In doing so, Oracle showed remarkable consistency, with scores ranging from 7.38 to 7.44 on the six statements in this category, including four 7.44 ratings. EMC didn't threaten Oracle's dominance, but its second-place category average of 6.92 is the second highest ever recorded. Dell was a distant third with a still-strong 6.50 score.
Breaking down the numbers
- Oracle's 7.44 statement scores were earned for products that need little vendor intervention, requiring a reasonable amount of professional services, ease of use and good value.
- The "good value for the money" statement is a key indicator in this category, and all vendors scored well: Oracle (7.44), EMC (6.79), Dell (6.47), NetApp (6.07) and HP (6.00).
- EMC had the only other two 7.00-plus statement scores: a 7.12 for installing without defects and a 7.06 for not needing too much in the way of professional services.
Midrange. IBM gave Oracle a run for its money in the midrange initial product quality category, ultimately finishing second with a notable 7.21 to Oracle's 7.33. IBM topped Oracle on three of the six statements, but was somewhat undone by the "good value for the money" statement when it scored a 6.69 to Oracle's 7.39. NetApp had two above-7.00 statement scores for an overall 6.83 for third, while HP had a single 7.00 on its way to a category average of 6.72.
Breaking down the numbers
- Midrange NAS vendors are getting it right the first time: The across-the-board average for "This product was installed without any defects" was an impressive 6.92.
- This is the first time that two vendors -- Oracle and IBM -- had averages of more than 7.00 for the initial product quality category.
- Oracle's 7.39 for the key "good value for the money" statement easily led the field, but the others also scored well to yield a group average of 6.64 for this statement.
Enterprise. Even after a good sales experience and a problem-free implementation, it still comes down to what the system can do. Apparently, Oracle users are happy enough with their systems' capabilities to help earn the vendor a 7.47 score for features. That's the highest-ever score for enterprise NAS, and it helped build an overall group average for the product features category that was also a record breaker. EMC finished second with a 7.04, the second-best score ever and enough to have prevailed in previous surveys.
Breaking down the numbers
- Oracle's top scores were a 7.56 for management features and a 7.50 for mirroring features.
- EMC was the only other vendor getting 7.00-plus scores: a 7.08 for mirroring features, 7.15 for management features and 7.30 for capacity scaling.
- NetApp was again the model of consistency, finishing third with a 6.66 average built on scores ranging from 6.35 to 6.93 on the category's seven statements.
Midrange. IBM racked up three statement scores of more than 7.00 to earn a category average of 6.99, but couldn't overtake Oracle's six 7.00-plus tallies and 7.24 category score. System capabilities don't seem to be a concern among midrange NAS products, as all vendors fared well in this category.
The overall category average was 6.66, enough to edge out the last survey's average.
Breaking down the numbers
- Oracle's highest marks were posted for mirroring (7.39) and management (7.34); its lowest score was a still-lofty 6.93 for "This product is interoperable with other vendors' products."
- IBM's three above-7.00 scores included a 7.33 for mirroring, 7.23 for remote replication and 7.15 for snapshots.
- NetApp's sturdy third-place 6.85 featured a 6.94 for snapshotting and a 6.94 for remote replication.
Enterprise. This was a closely contested category, but Oracle triumphed once again with five 7.00-plus scores to four for EMC for an overall edge of 7.28 to 7.10, respectively. Product reliability is typically one of the strongest categories for enterprise NAS products, and all finalist vendors performed well this time; Dell showed its enterprise muscle with good scores on patching issues to come in third with a 6.68, followed by NetApp (6.38) and HP (6.30).
Breaking down the numbers
- Oracle had the top single statement score with a 7.44 for "The product meets my service-level requirement."
- EMC registered the second-highest statement score, a 7.37 for the key statement "This product experiences very little downtime."
- You can apparently count on enterprise NAS, as scores for the downtime statement were solid across the board for an aggregate 6.91 average.
Midrange. Oracle was pressured by IBM for midrange NAS reliability honors but ultimately outpaced its rival, 7.22 to 7.00. Of the five statements in this category, Oracle had only one sub-7.00 score, while IBM had two.
Third-place finisher NetApp (6.70) had the only other above-7.00 statement score in the group for systems that experienced little downtime.
Breaking down the numbers
- Three vendors scored more than 7.00 for the statement "This product experiences very little downtime": Oracle (7.46), IBM (7.15) and NetApp (7.05).
- IBM's 7.17 for "Patches can be applied nondisruptively" was the best in the group.
- Vendors might want to revisit their upgrading procedures: "Vendor provides comprehensive upgrade guidance" netted the lowest averages among all vendors.
Enterprise. We've said many times that a solid support system can help a vendor get back into a user's good graces with timely fixes and tech advice. This group of enterprise NAS vendors, led by Oracle's 7.17 category average, posted the best overall average support score to date.
Oracle snared 7.00-plus scores for seven of the eight category statements, but EMC put up three sevens en route to a 6.98. Dell (6.64) registered its third third-place showing.
Breaking down the numbers
- Oracle's highest mark was for taking ownership of customer problems (7.33); it scored nearly as well for timely problem resolution (7.30) and documentation (7.29).
- EMC meets expectations: EMC picked up the highest statement score in the category with a 7.43 for "Vendor supplies support as contractually specified."
- Do vendors need better buddies? The lowest average among all vendors was a 6.29 for "Vendor's third-party partners are knowledgeable."
Midrange. Oracle had five scores of 7.00 or better on its way to a category-leading average of 7.02.
IBM (6.70) had the only other two 7.00-plus ratings, but it wasn't enough to prevent Big Blue from being nudged out by the ever-steady NetApp, which built its second-place 6.71 on another narrow range of scores running from 6.59 to 6.97.
Breaking down the numbers
- The highest single statement score was Oracle's 7.22 for providing adequate training; the second highest was IBM's 7.18 for supplying support as contractually specified.
- Four of the six vendors received their lowest ratings for "The vendor provides adequate training."
- Oracle had ratings of 7.11 for three statements: timely problem resolution, taking ownership of problems and documentation.
It doesn't have any bearing on the Quality Awards survey rankings, but we ask how much of a commitment respondents have made to each vendor's products in terms of installed capacity. When it comes to its users' average installed capacity, NetApp edged Oracle with 104 TB to Oracle's 102 TB. Enterprise stalwart EMC wasn't far off with 99 TB.
Oracle's midrange NAS users reported an average installed capacity of 94 TB, well ahead of EMC's 83 TB, followed by NetApp (62 TB), IBM (61 TB) and Dell (60 TB).
We also asked if respondents would make the same purchase again given what they know now. Fairly often we don't see a direct correlation between ratings winners and "buy again" favorites, which may just be a case of growing comfortable with a product over time. For enterprise NAS, the buy-again numbers track the rankings fairly closely, with 97% of Oracle users ready to sign on the dotted line again. Oracle also topped the charts among midrange vendors, although less impressively, with 89% saying they'd come back for more.
BIO: Rich Castagna is editorial director of the Storage Media Group.


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May 31st @ The Indians
For quite a while, it looked like the Yankees were going to lose this one because they couldn't touch Carl Pavano. And, for a Yankees fan, that's an ugly turn of events.
I'm not 100% sure where that places on the "turn of ugly events" scale? It's not as bad as taking a shower in prison, and, for a brief moment, forgetting where you are and bending over to pick up a bar of soap off the floor. And, perhaps it's not as bad as being forced to take your one-eyebrowed cousin with bad B.O. to your high school prom. But, it's still a major harshing of your mellow…again, if you're a Yankees fan.
However, thanks to Jeter, Damon, Teixeira and a gaggle of Tribe relievers, the Yankees were able to knot the score, for the moment, in the eighth inning, and take the "W" away from the American Idle.
Too bad the Yankees could not close the deal on this one.
I know that many are quick to blame Gardner, Robertson, Coke and/or perhaps, to an extent, Hughes for this one. But, to me, those guys are all green and should not be counted on to do the heavy lifting in a game like this one.
I have to go back to that eighth inning – right after Teixeira got that clutch double to tie the game. After that hit, the Yankees had a runner on second (Tex) representing the tie-breaking run – with their four and five hitters due up, A-Rod and Cano, and just one out. But, the two colossuses of clutch could not get the job done against the immortal Matt Herges…and that left the game tied until the ninth when it all came crashing down.
Once Alex and Robbie let the air out of the balloon in that spot…I just knew that this one was going to be dicey…and could go either way…especially with "Cashman's Bullpen of Doom" at the ready. It was just a matter of time…


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To live in this world you must be able to do three things: To love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; And when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. -Mary Oliver
I haven't seen too many around lately. Things have been tough lately for dreamers. They say dreaming is dead, no one does it anymore. It's not dead it's just that it's been forgotten, removed from our language. Nobody teaches it so nobody knows it exists. The dreamer is banished to obscurity. Well, I'm trying to change all that, and I hope you are too. By dreaming, every day. Dreaming with our hands and dreaming with our minds. Our planet is facing the greatest problems it's ever faced, ever. So whatever you do, don't be bored, this is absolutely the most exciting time we could have possibly hoped to be alive. And things are just starting -Waking Life
want to write something witty,something so funny it cracks you up and describes me in the same breath...:)not possible is it?so I'll just let it be and let the words paint a picture....whether its a childish painting of a kindergarten kid or simply an earnest attempt at painting my own gauche little painting..:)...................... I have left the girl I was supposed to be and someday I'll be born........
''समर शेष है, नहीं पाप का भागी केवल व्याघ्र, जो तटस्थ हैं, समय लिखेगा उनका भी अपराध।'' -रामधारी सिंह दिनकर
To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.-William Blake
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|Gulshan. on Being Judgemental
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"Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. And if this answer rings out in assent, if you meet this solemn question with a strong, simple "I must," then build your life in accordance with this necessity; your whole life, even into its humblest and most indifferent hour, must become a sign and witness to this impulse. Then come close to Nature." -Rainer Maria Rilke
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Saturday, July 3, 2010
Introduction: The (delightfully lewd) Ocean Whisky tradition
Intro: The delightfully lewd world of Ocean whisky // Map: Charting the Ocean tradition // The early years (Part I) // The early years (Part II) // Sanraku Ocean // Death and the afterlife
Nowadays, the story of Japanese whisky is basically all about two large companies, Nikka and Suntory, and a few tiny independents. The histories of Nikka and Suntory, prominently featuring their two great founding fathers Masataka Taketsuru and Shinjiro Torii, dominate the industry's narrative to such an extent that I think a lot of people go away with the idea that these are the only narratives.
That is not true.
If you spend any time exploring Japanese whisky, you start to notice the bones sticking out of the ground. Even during the war, it was not just Suntory and Nikka making whisky for the troops, but also Takara Jozo and Tokyo Shuzo. Immediately after the war, the Takara, Toyo and Tokyo distilling companies were all making malt whisky and there were plenty of other companies dabbling in the market. Unfortunately, a lot of these other traditions have now died off. I have talked a little about Takara elsewhere, and I have notes on the others waiting for a spare moment to be written up, but there is one skeleton that is larger than the others: Ocean whisky.
It is fun (for a bloke, at least) digging around Ocean because, in its heyday, when Ocean was one of the big three Japanese whisky companies, it had a distinctive obsession with the ladies:
[Etc., etc., etc., and I think this was one of their brands too: etc. ... .While I am at it, I might as well link to one of my favourites from the "Carry on up the Japanese whisky" scene. As far as I know, it has nothing to do with Ocean, but I think you will agree that "Busty - the whiskey bottle cover" is an essential accessory for any discerning whisky connoisseur.]
Back to Ocean. This lineage in Japanese whisky is complex. It will take several posts to unpick all the strands. In this first piece, I am just going to map out the ground and some of the names that are associated with the Ocean tradition:
Nowadays, a large slice of the Ocean tradition is owned by Kirin. The Karuizawa distillery is a former Ocean distillery. Another (now defunct) whisky distillery that has cropped up on the Japanese whisky market over the last year is the Kawasaki distillery. Ichiro's Malts bottled some grain whisky from Kawasaki over the past year.
The Karuizawa distillery came under Kirin's umbrella through a take over of Mercian, so that brand too is part of the Ocean story. Then, going back into history, anything that bears the names Ocean whisky, Sanraku, Sanraku Ocean, Showa Brewery, Sunluck, Nisshin, Daikoku Budoshu, M.K mark Sweet Home Whisky, and (way way back in the mists of time) Kaitakushi Budou Jozoujo are all tied up in the story.
The tale of the Ocean tradition takes in desperate attempts to make fuel for Zero fighter planes in alcohol stills, some long forgotten malt and grain whisky distilleries, some nice whisky, and some spectacularly foul stuff (and that is a judgment from one of the people who made it). It is going to take several posts to get through all that.
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- Mark Connelly said...
It seems to be a thing of those times. Lamb's Rum did something similar in the early 80s and my local brew, Tennants, used to have girls on the can in those days too.
- July 4, 2010 at 9:32 PM
I remember the Tennants.
- July 4, 2010 at 10:30 PM
I think the link you wanted to include was the following:
- July 4, 2010 at 11:35 PM
- July 4, 2010 at 11:42 PM
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Spring Training Memories
This time of the year, I can't wait for spring training. After all the snow, that feeling has really escalated. Let's face it, I'm a lousy Eskimo.
The sounds of shovels, snow blowers, plows needs to be replaced by the crack of the bat, a fastball thumping into a catcher's mitt and the voice of a Phillies announcer from Florida.
Going back many decades, I couldn't wait for the sound of By Saam broadcasting a game from Jack Russell Stadium. It meant good-bye to old man winter and hello Mr. Baseball.
Then, a few decades ago, I went to Clearwater for my first spring training with the Phillies. Stayed at the Fort Harrison Hotel. A card table in my room was my desk. Portable typewriter and a hotel phone provided the equipment. Needed to use a copying machine? Visit the hotel's sales office.
Seeing Jack Russell Stadium for the first time was something I will always remember. After years of visualizing the place, I was now there to work as a bright-eyed rookie. My job? Didn't know. Learned something different every day as part of your basic on-the-job training.
We only had one field, the one at the stadium. Workouts lasted all day. Players stood around more than they were active. Players were packed in a tiny clubhouse under the first base stands. The manager's office was not much bigger than a phone booth. Rookies dressed in "rookie row", a narrow row of narrow lockers on your left as you walked into the clubhouse.
Once the games began, it seemed like more fun. Crowds were thin. Never forgot my first game. Cookie Rojas was the first batter and he grounded a ball back to the pitcher who overthrew the first baseman. I jumped out of my metal folding chair, "Go, Cookie Go." The late Allen Lewis, a Hall of Fame writer with the Inquirer, grabbed me by the belt and yanked me back into the chair. "Sit down. Rule number one in the press box, no cheering." I don't remember what I said but I never cheered in the press box again.
Alumni Memories
Starting Tuesday (16th), many of the Phillies Alumni will offer their spring training memories in this space. Have been receiving some great, great memories. I'm sure you will enjoy.
At the same time, Scott Palmer will provide video of Alumni memories on this site. Scott will provide daily video updates from Clearwater.
Your Memories
Before then, let me know your spring training memories…your first spring training, where you stayed, what impressed you the most, what didn't you like, etc.
Time to warm up and think baseball.
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Ahh yes…..how many days until pitchers and catchers? Not sure of the exact number but I have my family's countdown, 16 days until WE report!
Our first Spring Training was 2008, and little did we know what we were seeing the beginning of. I took my oldest son Alex, who was 6 at the time, stayed at the Holiday Inn Express right down Coachman's Road, and from there it's a 3 minute drive to the ballpark and a 2 minute drive to Lenny's. Perfect.
We remember watching this new guy names Brad Lidge, who was kind enough to sign autographs the day after he hurt his knee. I remember looking at this kid in khaki shorts and a polo shirt, thinking how young he looked. Now, on the diamond, he appears so much older and who could have known that his picture would be the iconic moment of our Championship Season? Awesome stuff.
For those of you who have not been down to Spring Training, you've got to get there. The Carpenter Complex is right next to Bright House Field, and provides an intimate setting to enjoy the sights and sounds of the game. You are very close to the players and can hear them talk and joke. The combination of late winter baseball with Florida weather is as close to perfect as you can get. Plus Clearwater Beach, on Florida's Gulf Coast, is beautiful.
Took the whole family last year, and we're all heading down again soon. We'll be the ones with the loud twin boys. Looking forward to seeing everybody there!
My first Spring Training was just 2 years ago in 2008…I picked a good year to go it seems! I went by myself and did not know anyone else there but made lots of great friends right away. From a guy sitting next to me in the airport in Philly to Clearwater locals and entire families who traveled long distances to be there. That is what I remember the most; total strangers stopping to chat with me like we were old friends. Baseball brings people together like that. And then I even ran into an old friend whom I had not seem in almost 20 years; he was working as an usher at Bright House field and ran over asking if it was really me. Add to all that baseball, sunshine and being able to mingle with the players and it was the best two weeks I had ever spent away from home.
I went again last year and it was just as wonderful. Sadly, this year, I am out of money and the snow has made things difficult with many days out of work that I need to make up. I am so depressed I cannot go this year :O( But I know you and Scott will keep us all up to date on what goes on. So I'll be freezing my behind off in Delaware, but I will be in Florida in spirit.
Spring Training cannot get here soon enough! My hubby and I will be making our fifth ST trip this year. Went previously in 2000, '02, '03 and '07. So many memories! Seeing Tug McGraw give a fan a (jokingly) hard time because the guy handed Tug a card to sign of him as a Met; the guy in 2003 who insisted very loudly that Rheal Cormier was Jesse Levis, and Cormier just smiled and played along; the players looking like Chrismas elves on St. Patrick's Day with their green uniforms and red batting helmets; walking around the bases after the final ST game at Jack Russell. Plenty of others too! Mostly just relaxing in the warm sunshine watching the Phillies play baseball, and not having to get (too) worked up about the outcome of the game!
We'll be there the 11th through 18th – I'll make sure I say 'hi' if I see you!
My first spring training was also in 2008. My wife and I along with my 10 month old son joined my father who had been 4 times along with my brother and brother-in-law who had been there 3 times. We got some great autographs, enjoyed shepards, and clearwater beach. We stayed at the LaQuinta Inn across from the stadium, I would not stay anywhere else because we could walk to the stadium everyday. Can't wait to get back next year we are already planning!


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1 wounded in Elam Avenue attack
Two people are in custody and one person is recovering after a shooting in Eden.
Investigators said the incident started about 1:40 a.m. Wednesday.
Police said they received multiple calls of shots fired near Elam Avenue and Johnsie Billie Harris Street.
The callers told police that a gray Buick or Oldsmobile and a white extended cab Ford pickup were involved in the altercation.
About the same time, police received a 911 call from a home at 432 Elam Ave. about a person who was shot.
When authorities arrived at the scene, police said they found Andrew Davidson of Ridgeway, Va., suffering from a gunshot.
He was taken to Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro for treatment.
Investigators said they believe Randy Lee Tuggle Jr. of Eden and Davidson got into a fight with 19-year-old Tyler O'Neil Clifton and 46-year-old Michael Wayne Wright near the home on Elam Avenue.
Officers said Clifton shot Davidson and fired several shots into Tuggle's pickup.
Police said Clifton and Wright drove off in the Oldsmobile after the fight and Tuggle chased them to Johnsie Billie Harris Street before ramming the vehicle, causing extensive damage.
As Tuggle continued to push the Oldsmobile with the truck, officers said Clifton and Wright fired shots at the pickup, striking the windshield and hood several times. Tuggle stopped the chase at that point and returned to the home.
Detectives said the Oldsmobile was found a short time later on Highway 14 North, about three miles outside the city near the Smith River Bridge.
Officers said the vehicle was disabled thanks to the damaged it had sustained earlier.
Police said the driver, Ashley Wells, as well as Clifton and Wright, were found at a J Mart convenience store at 904 Virginia St. in Eden.
Clifton has been charged with one count of felony assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and one count of felony discharging a weapon into an occupied conveyance while in motion.
He is being held in the Rockingham County Jail on a $75,000 bond and is due in court Jan. 29.
Wright was charged with one count of felony discharging a weapon into an occupied conveyance while in motion. He is being held at the jail on a $50,000 bond and will also make a court appearance Jan. 29.
Police said the case is still under investigation and anyone with information should call Detective Ronnie Markham at the Eden Police Department at 336-623-9240 or Rockingham County Crime Stoppers.


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