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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (June 2, 2012) – The Chicago Fire (5-3-3; 18pts.) pressured throughout the match but fell victim to a pair of second half goals in the space of four minutes as they fell 2-0 to the New England Revolution (5-7-1; 16pts.) Saturday night at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass.
The Revolution nearly drew first blood in the third minute when winger Lee Nguyen pushed the ball up the left for Saer Sene. The French striker centered into the box for Jose Moreno who laid off for Benny Feilhaber but the U.S. international pulled his right-footed effort just wide of sprawling Fire goalkeeper Sean Johnson.
The Fire responded in the 17th minute after Sebastian Grazzini was hauled down on the left by Fernando Cardenas resulting in a dangerous free kick 30 yards from goal. Midfielder Pavel Pardo's take on the dead ball found the head of Gonzalo Segares who flicked it past Revs goalkeeper Matt Reis but off the back post.
The visitors remained dangerous toward the half-hour mark when a lazy ball out of the back from Cardenas was intercepted by Fire forward Dominic Oduro. The speedy Ghanaian strolled up the right before his chipped effort to the back post curled just wide in the 29th minute.
The last chance of the half came in the 36th minute as Orr Barouch dug a ball out at the top of the New England box. The Israeli youth international then laid off for Grazzini who hit a first-time effort that Reis smothered on the hop to take the teams into the locker room knotted at 0-0.
Frank Klopas' side came out of the interval raring to go and nearly went ahead early on when Pardo cut into the box on the right, chipping for Barouch at the back post. The ball popped up back into the area, finding an open Oduro. The Ghanaian measured his header past Reis but off the post in the 47th minute.
Grazzini would provide danger four minutes later as Barouch cut a through ball for him toward the box. The Argentine playmaker fired a low blast that deflected off Revolution midfielder Shalrie Joseph before Reis made a bobbled save. With Oduro waiting on the door step, the New England keeper followed up by swatting the ball away from danger.
The Fire continued to pour on the pressure in the 59th minute as Oduro played a square ball to the left for Patrick Nyarko. The Ghanaian attacker collected and with space to shoot, drove a quick effort that forced another diving stop from Reis.
New England would gain steam after the hour mark when Sene slipped a ball through midfield which found newly substituted Revolution attacker Kelyn Rowe in stride. The rookie drove one-on-one toward Johnson's goal and fired a low effort that the Fire keeper kept out with a kick save in the 65thminute.
Four minutes later the Fire would see reacquired forward Chris Rolfe make his return to the field for the Men in Red, coming on in the 69th minute for Dominic Oduro. Just seconds after his entry though, the Revolution would find the go-ahead goal when Feilhaber played Rowe into the box with a perfect through ball out of midfield. The substitute strolled in and flicked his effort inside the right post to give the home side a 1-0 lead.
The pair would link up again four minutes later to put the game away. This time it was Feilhaber who played a quick combination with Rowe before the rookie slotted him into the box on the right. Running onto the ball, the U.S. international calmly slotted his effort inside the back post to give the Revolution a 2-0 lead in the 73rd minute.
Johnson would be called upon again in the 75th minute when Nguyen intercepted a clearance out of the back before leaving the ball for Stephen McCarthy. The midfielder posted up with his back to goal before turning and blasting an effort to the top right corner that Johnson sprawled save, ending the game with a 2-0 score line.
The Fire return to action on Sunday, June 17 when they welcome the New York Red Bulls to Toyota Park at 4:00 p.m. CT live on NBC Sports Network and 97.5 ESPN Deportes.
- The match was the 60th competitive game played between the Fire and Revolution all-time – the most games the Men in Red have played against any one opponent. The Fire hold a 28-22-10 advantage across all competitions and 18-14-9 mark over the Revolution during MLS regular season play.
- Forward Chris Rolfe made his first appearance since rejoining the team from Danish side Aalborg BK on April 16. His entry into the game in the 69th minute marked his 150th competitive appearance in a Fire shirt.
- Goalkeeper Sean Johnson made six saves in the losing effort.
- Fire forward Orr Barouch earned his first start of the season and the third in his 34 career MLS appearances.
- Fire striker Dominic Oduro appeared in his 46th consecutive regular season game for the Fire. The Ghanaian attacker has played in every Fire regular season match since joining the club via trade from Houston one game into the 2011 campaign.
New England Revolution 2 – 0 Chicago Fire
Chicago Fire: Sean Johnson; Dan Gargan, Jalil Anibaba, Austin Berry, Gonzalo Segares; Logan Pause © (Rafael Robayo 74'), Pavel Pardo, Patrick Nyarko; Sebastian Grazzini; Orr Barouch (Federico Puppo 77'), Dominic Oduro (Chris Rolfe 69')
Substitutes not used: Paolo Tornaghi, Hunter Jumper, Michael Videira, Daniel Paladini
New England Revolution: Matt Reis; Kevin Alston, Stephen McCarthy, A.J. Soares, Chris Tierney; Fernando Cardenas (Kelyn Rowe 64')', Shalrie Joseph ©, Benny Feilhaber, Lee Nguyen; Saer Sene, Jose Moreno (Blake Brettschneider 77')
Substitutes not used: Bobby Shuttleworth, Darrius Barnes, Diego Fagundez, John Lozano, Jeremiah White
Scoring Summary
NE – Kelyn Rowe (Benny Feilhaber) 69'
NE – Benny Feilhaber (Kelyn Rowe) 73'
Misconduct Summary
CHI – Orr Barouch (caution) 60'
Referee: Fotis Bazakos
Assistants: Craig Lowry, Greg Barkley
Fourth Official: Jorge Gonzalez
Attendance: 12,523


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Robert Huston Milroy was born in Washington County, Indiana in 1816. He was the son of Samuel and Martha (Huston) Milroy. At the age of 24, he attended Military School in Norwich, Vermont. When the Mexican War (1846-48) broke out, he enlisted and became Captain of the First Indiana Regiment. He was admitted to the bar in 1850 and moved his family to Rensselaer, Indiana in 1854.
After hearing the news of the fall of Fort Sumter (16 April 1861), Milroy enlisted a company of volunteers from Jasper County and was commissioned Colonel of Company G 9th Indiana Volunteers. On February 2, 1862, he was commissioned as Brigadier General and continued in various commands. He was made Major General of Volunteers in 1863.
After a disastrous defeat in Winchester, Virginia, June of 1863, General Milroy was brought up before a court of inquiry on charges of cowardice. He was later acquitted of all charges. The General resigned from the army in1865 and returned to Civilian life. In 1872 he became Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the State of Washington, and from 1875 to 1885 he was Indian agent with headquarters at Olympia, Wash. He died March 29, 1890 and is buried in Olympia.

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AVE MARIA, Fla. -- To say Steven Kinney was thankful to be in Ave Maria, Fla. the last week-and-a-half would have been an understatement.
That's because a string of injury setbacks dating back to October 2010 have made this his first visit to the team's preseason home in the three years they've come to Southwest Florida.
"It's tough to put it in words," Kinney told Chicago-Fire.com this week. "It was just good to be here with the guys from the start."
WATCH: Kinney Talks Start vs. Columbus
Looking Back
For Fire fans, the 2010 MLS campaign was mostly a forgettable affair.
There was the menial start to the season from which the club never really recovered. Couple that with the early round U.S. Open Cup defeat in June and an uninspiring group stage exit from SuperLiga that followed the next month.
With a month left in the season, the team's playoff hopes were on life support.
One bright spot from that otherwise undistinguished year was the emergence of a mostly unknown 22-year-old defender from Elon University. The first player from the school to be invited to the MLS Combine, Kinney would also become the first Phoenix alum to sign with an MLS club after being selected 45th overall by the Fire at the 2010 MLS SuperDraft.
Though he spent the first half of the campaign as an understudy to the likes of C.J. Brown and Wilman Conde, the Norcross, Ga. native made the most of his first MLS appearance, hitting both posts off set pieces in a 1-0 loss to defending MLS Cup champs Real Salt Lake in early July.
Weeks later, the converted right back would come good, heading home his first professional goal in a 5-1 loss to Monarcas Morelia in a SuperLiga match at Toyota Park.
His growth into his newfound position was evident and he continued to stay dangerous on set pieces, leaving then Fire head coach Carlos de los Cobos to select him in 14 of a possible 17 matches following his first appearance.
Though long since eliminated from playoff contention before the last day of the season, there was no doubt the team at least felt well about its newly found right back heading into 2011.
A Fateful Night
Just five days before his 23rd birthday, the Fire led Chivas USA 2-1 in the 58th minute of an otherwise meaningless match at The Home Depot Center.
Kinney went up for a header at the edge of the Fire 18-yard-box and as he came down he said it felt like someone had kicked him. When Fire Athletic Trainer Bo Leonard informed him there had been no one within 10 yards, they both knew it wasn't good.
The prognosis was a ruptured Achilles tendon.
Less than a week later he had surgery to repair the injury and the recovery timeline was 6-8 months, likely to wipe out a good chunk of what would be his sophomore MLS campaign.
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"After such a great end to the year personally, the injury was devastating," he said.
Though he kept his spirits high in recovery, it would only be the first in a series of injury disappointments.
"Around that six or seven month period I started to get back into it, doing some running and then I came down with a sports hernia."
With an estimated five-to-six month recovery time, the setback would wash away all hopes of Kinney appearing in 2011.
Just as he began to return from the sports hernia, a posterior tibular injury began flaring up that would keep him out until mid-summer 2012.
"There were three ups and downs where I came so close to getting back and every time something else would happen."
Though doubts were raised as to whether or not he would ever play again, the thought of retirement never occurred.
"To be honest, it never crossed my mind. I always thought that I was young and there was a reason this had happened and my mentality was always to keep my head to the grindstone and just push through it and eventually it will all work out."
Kinney didn't let his time away from playing go to waste, choosing to expand in other areas.
In 2011, he was named the club's Humanitarian of the Year after spending numerous hours as a volunteer at Children's Memorial Hospital.
Only able to watch training sessions from the bench, Kinney also grew his overall soccer brain.
"The time off really sucks sitting on the sideline and watching everyone play. One benefit was it allowed me to sit back and study the game more. I could watch someone like Arne [Friedrich] all last year. I could study how someone like him plays the game and really learn from that.
"It wasn't just sitting on the side and feeling sorry for myself, I became more a student of the game in that time."
Return to the Field
Nearly two years after the first injury occurred, Kinney would finally return to the field, logging 60 minutes in a reserve match last August against Colorado.
"There was a lot of excitement there for me this morning," he said following that match. "I woke up thirty minutes before I usually do, pumped and ready to go. I didn't have nerves, just pure excitement."
He'd go on to play the full 90 in two of the team's final three reserve games but just as he was getting back to match fitness, the season ended. While all of his teammates were ready for an offseason break, Kinney was still raring to go.
"I've learned that my timing hasn't been the best," said the soft-spoken defender. "I've dealt with the frustrations and it only made me hungrier to get back to camp this year."
Training Camp
With the first phase of preseason camp now complete, Kinney hasn't played the part of someone that's been away from an MLS game for over two years.
"I feel fresh and overall just really great. Usually when I come back after some weeks off, my back is a little sore but I'm fine now. It's great to be back among my teammates."
January 2013 marked Kinney's first trip
to Ave Maria
In Sunday's preseason opener, he logged 30 minutes as a center back in the second period of the team's 2-0 win over Florida Gulf Coast University. In perhaps a sign of progress, he paired with Austin Berry and the rest of the starting group in Wednesday's 2-1 loss to Columbus.
All throughout camp he's earned praise from head coach Frank Klopas.
"I'm just excited for Steve," said the third-year Fire manager. "To know what he's gone through and see how well he's doing in camp, you can't help but feel good for a person that perseveres in that way.
"We're happy with the progress he's made and the form that he's showing."
While he's been used as a center back through the first two matches, Klopas insinuated that he feels good enough to potentially use Kinney again out on the right.
For Steve, he just wants to play again.
"I'll play wherever the coaches see me helping the team out the most. I'm a natural center back but I played a lot on the right in my rookie year. If they want me to play forward, I'll do my best.
"I'm just happy to be back out there again."


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Drew Soicher seems to cross a line with Denver Broncos' Alzheimer joke
Didja hear the one about Drew Soicher's awful opener and social media flap?
Soicher, the 9News sports anchor, got the jokey TV rhythm right (sounds like a vaudeville gag) — but the content uncomfortably wrong. His opener blew up as a tasteless one-liner on social media.
"So much talk about Alzheimer's at Broncos training camp, I keep checking my roster to see if that's a new player on the team."
That was his opener on Thursday, after Wednesday's Denver Broncos' announcement that Pat Bowlen had resigned control of the team, acknowledging he's dealing with Alzheimer's disease.
But Soicher, who is known for his often comic style, explained the line "was not intended as a joke, was not delivered as a joke" and said social media played a big role in spreading the misunderstanding.
When some viewers took his comments "out of context" he apologized, but the Twitterverse was off and running.
He responded by posting the full context:
So much talk about Alzheimer's at Broncos training camp that you wonder if that's the name of a new player on the roster. To clarify, I am not joking about anybody's illness. In an attempt to convey the information about the prevalence of conversation regarding Alzheimer's disease at Broncos training camp (Pat Bowlen's resignation as CEO and the death of Demaryius Thomas' grandmother), I delivered a line which some viewers found offensive.
"It's all posted online, nothing to hide," Soicher told The Denver Post on Friday.


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Jay Cutler, welcome to fatherhood. I'd like to tell you it's all teddy bears and precious smiles and that fresh-baby smell, but I'd be lying. And I don't want to do that to you, Jay.
You see, we have something in common, you and I. We are now both fathers--and we both started down this road at the ripe old age of 29.
My kids are past the diapers and pacifiers stages, though, which puts me in the unique position of being your fatherhood mentor.
It's a duty I do not take lightly. The advice I'm about to dish out is some of the most important--and honest--you'll hear.
Get used to being a zombie. I know this'll come as a shock, but newborns cannot feed themselves. And even though your son Camden is not much bigger than a regulation-size NFL football, he'll have to eat every two or three hours--around the clock. And he'll, ahem, expel that food around the clock too, which means you and Kristin will be getting little sleep.
Prepare for disgusting sights and smells. I don't need to explain this one, do I? You've hung around naked jocks and locker rooms all your life, but even that couldn't prepare you for the waste that your child will produce--continuously.
Leave the lullaby singing to Kristin. I don't want to be mean, but we've heard you sing, and your style isn't well-suited for singing a child to sleep. At least, a child with ears, that is.
Smile. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you've got that whole "I'm too cool to smile" thing going on, but that's not gonna be the face you want your son to see. All it takes is one half-hearted smile, and he'll smile back at you. It's glorious.
Enjoy it. Being a dad, if I must say so myself, is the coolest thing a man can do, full of endless rewards and unexpected joys.
Of course, you and Kristin are probably rich enough to hire a nanny to deal with your newborn, so most of this is probably all for naught.
But, if there's one thing you need to know, Jay, it's this: Just throw the damn ball.
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'O'Gara could return for Ireland'
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Ireland assistant coach Les Kiss and team manager Mick Kearney have denied that Ronan O'Gara's Test career is over.
O'Gara was omitted from Ireland's squad ahead of the weekend's clash with France in Dublin despite question marks surrounding first choice fly-half Jonathan Sexton's fitness. With Sexton absent, Paddy Jackson was given the nod against Scotland in their round three loss but ahead of France, Declan Kidney has opted to draft in Ian Madigan in place of O'Gara.
At the start of the Six Nations it seemed that O'Gara was Ireland's second choice fly-half and was present on the bench for their first two matches against Wales and England. But after his performance against Scotland, it seems that he has drifted to fourth choice and following his omission from the squad on Sunday, some suggested that his time with Ireland was at an end.
Kiss, however, denied these suggestions. "Ronan continues to provide value whenever he's around the camp. I have every faith that he will put his hand up and say 'I'm still part of this picture'," Kiss said. "That's how I see him responding at this stage. Without a doubt he'll be disappointed, but nothing's finished yet and he could be back in the picture pretty quickly."
And these views have been echoed by Kearney. He added: "I don't think this marks the end of Ronan's international career. There's still every possibility that he may be involved again. By leaving him out of the squad for France, it certainly wasn't Declan's intention that he was writing off his international career. That's not the case at all.
"It's a selection call. Declan spoke to Ronan yesterday. He wanted to give Ronan advance warning of what his thinking would be. If Ronan had come in he'd have been running in the centre or on the wing. Out of respect, Declan didn't want him to do that. It wasn't that we were signalling the end of his career, there's still a decent possibility that Ronan will be involved before the end of the Six Nations."
Sexton is still in the mix to face France on Saturday but Kearney described his chances as 50-50. They are also waiting on the fitness of Donnacha Ryan and Craig Gilroy but Mike McCarthy should be fit.
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Leading Fuel Card Provider Values Brocade Market Leadership, Reliability and Network Security
Leading Fuel Card Provider Values Brocade Market Leadership, Reliability and Network Security
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - Jul 19, 2011) - Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) today announced that FleetCor, a leading independent global provider of specialized payment products and services to businesses, commercial fleets, major oil companies, petroleum marketers and government fleets, has selected Brocade as the vendor to build its cloud-optimized network. This new network enhances FleetCor's ability to securely process millions of transactions monthly and ultimately better serve its commercial accounts in 18 countries in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Millions of commercial payment cards are in the hands of FleetCor cardholders worldwide, and they are used to purchase billions of gallons of fuel per year. Given this volume of network-based transactions, network reliability, scalability and security were critical factors for FleetCor to consider in its selection process to maintain superior customer satisfaction.
In addition, FleetCor selected Brocade as its networking expert to help evolve its data center and IT operations into a more agile private cloud infrastructure. Brocade® cloud-optimized networks are designed to reduce network complexity while increasing performance and reliability. Brocade solutions for private cloud networking are purpose-built to support highly virtualized data centers.
"When we evaluated networking vendors to build our private cloud, we looked at market leadership and non-stop access to critical data," said Waddaah Keirbeck, senior vice president global IT, FleetCor. "Brocade cloud-optimized networking solutions are perfect for our data centers because they allow us to optimize applications faster, virtually eliminate downtime and help us meet service level agreements for our customers. Moving to a cloud-based model also provides us the flexibility to make adjustments on the fly and access secure information virtually anywhere and anytime."
FleetCor installed a Brocade MLXe router for each of its three data centers, citing scalability as a major driver for the purchase. This approach enables FleetCor to virtualize its geographically distributed data centers and leverage the equipment it already has, at the highest level, to achieve maximum return on investment. The Brocade MLXe provides additional benefits for FleetCor by using less power and has a smaller footprint than competitive routers; critical in power-and space-constrained locations in order to allow for growth. The Brocade MLXe also enables continuous business operation for FleetCor based on Multi-Chassis Trunking, massive scalability supporting highest 100 GbE density in the industry with no performance degradation for advanced features like IPv6 and flexible chassis options to meet network and business requirements.
The Brocade ServerIron ADX Series of high-performance application delivery switches provides FleetCor with a broad range of application optimization functions to help ensure the reliable delivery of critical applications. Purpose-built for large-scale, low-latency environments, these switches accelerate application performance, load-balance high volumes of data and improve application availability while making the most efficient use of the company's existing infrastructure. It also delivers dynamic application provisioning and de-provisioning for FleetCor's highly virtualized data center, enables seamless migration and translation to IPv6 with unmatched performance.
As an added benefit for its bottom line, through the use of Brocade ADX Series switches and Brocade MLX™ Series routers FleetCor has eliminated thousands of costly networking cables, saving it hundreds of thousands of dollars and allowing the company to segment, streamline and secure its network. FleetCor has also been able to easily integrate Brocade network technology with third-party offerings already installed in the network, for complete investment protection. FleetCor anticipates moving to 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) solutions for its backbone switch in the near future.
"We wanted a dependable, secure, redundant, 24 by 7 backbone switch in each of our data centers to help us leverage the benefits of cloud computing and the Brocade MLXe delivered on all fronts," said Keirbeck. "By virtualizing our data center, Brocade allows for non-stop access to the mission-critical data that FleetCor and its customers rely on every day. We chose the Brocade MLXe because of the tremendous results we already saw from our existing Brocade solutions and the exceptional support and service."
According to a report from analyst firm Gartner, "Although 'economic affordability' is an immediate, attractive benefit, the biggest advantages (of cloud services) result from characteristics such as built-in elasticity and scalability, reduced barriers to entry, flexibility in service provisioning and agility in contracting."1
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This years Aspiring School Leaders Retreat, sponsored by DOE and MAPLE, will be held May 1-4 at Nemo.
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This Spanish drama takes an unblinking look at the grim realities of life among Madrid's economically and spiritually underprivileged underclass. David (Unax Ugalde) is a homeless man who struggles to get by with the help of his friends -- dope-dealing Carlos (Juan Diaz), cheerful but misguided Abundio (Fede Celada), and half-bright Titanlux (Benjamin Seva). One day, David meets a beautiful woman, Maria (Pilar Lopez de Ayala), and is immediately smitten. He sets out to earn her affections, and as Maria is charmed by David's ardor (as well as his poetry), she quits her job at a diner to be with him. David and Maria move in to Carlos's apartment, but Carlos's girlfriend Elena (Beatriz Sanchez) is not at all happy with their presence and asks them to leave. Desperate to earn some money, David makes the acquaintance of Facundo (Antonio Dechent), a high-level drug dealer who supplies Carlos with his product. Facundo recruits David as a new salesman and he starts pushing heroin on the streets, quickly making enough money to afford an apartment for Maria and himself. But Maria is eager to make some extra money of her own, and when she meets Veronica (Beatriz Arguello), a prostitute living in their building, she follows her lead and is soon turning tricks on the side; when David finds out about her new career, he soon turns to heroin to ease his heartbreak. Bailame El Agua's soundtrack features the song "But By Your Side" by Los Secretos -- grimly ironic, since vocalist Enrique Urquijo, who helped write the song, died of a drug overdose by the time the film appeared in Spanish theaters. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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In no particular order:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: This is what I read at the age most geeks I knew were reading Tolkien. There's the obvious comedy veneer to the narrative, but underneath is fairly meaty philosophy. Story in short: Arthur Dent gets his house demolished to make way for a highway bypass, only to find himself lost in the Galaxy when, in a cruel twist of some form of irony, his planet is destroyed to make way for an interstellar bypass. Hilarity ensues.
Jurassic Park: Dinosaurs, eating people, in a zoo setting? Wuwu~! Sure, I picked it up mere months before the film release; I was twelve, so sue me. Still a fun, fun read.
Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side collections: I blame my father (for the former) and grandmother (for the latter). Who gives an eight-year-old such subversive materials, really? Accounts for my philosophic bent today, I suppose.
Cruel Shoes: Come for the titular story, stay for "The Day the Dopes Came Over" and "How to Fold Soup." (Hmm, again with the satire; methinks there's a trend ...)
Stuart Little: Okay, it's a kids' book. It's also a rather endearing tale, about growing up different and still finding one's place in the world.


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"The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.0, the fourteenth major release of the NetBSD operating system. Changes from the previous release include scalability improvements on multi-core systems, many new and updated device drivers, Xen and MIPS port improvements, and brand new features such as a new packet filter. Some NetBSD 6.0 highlights are: support for thread-local storage (TLS), Logical Volume Manager (LVM) functionality, rewritten disk quota subsystem, new subsystems to handle flash devices and NAND controllers, an experimental CHFS file system designed for flash devices, support for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) protocol, and more. This release also introduces NetBSD Packet Filter (NPF) - a new packet filter, designed with multi-core systems in mind, which can do TCP/IP traffic filtering, stateful inspection, and network address translation (NAT)."


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NEW YORK — With its low cost of living, balmy climate, and cheap property prices, Ecuador has been ranked the top foreign retirement destination for North Americans for the fifth consecutive year.
The South American nation bordered by Colombia and Peru scored the highest marks in InternationalLiving.com's annual ranking of the best places to retire.
With monthly estimated living expenses ranging from $900 to $1,400, Ecuador surpassed Panama, Malaysia, Mexico, and Costa Rica, which rounded out the top five countries.
"I think the combination of a welcoming culture, the great weather, the affordability and its proximity to the United States all go together to make it a good package," Dan Prescher, the special projects editor for the website, said on Thursday.
"Panama has a lot of the same things going for it, but it isn't quite as affordable as Ecuador," he added in an interview.
Editors at InternationalLiving.com analyzed data and information from correspondents in the countries most popular with American and Canadian retirees to compile the results, which were based on a host of categories: cost of living, climate, property prices, healthcare, ease of integration, retirement infrastructure, entertainment and amenities, and special benefits for retirees.
A large part of Ecuador's appeal is how inexpensive it is for retirees. A beer costs just 85 cents. A doctor's visit is $25, roughly the same price as a one-hour massage.
"Seniors resident in Ecuador qualify for half-price entertainment and local transport, discounted airfares and refunds of sales tax," Prescher added.
Panama, which came in a close second, won praise for its pensioner visa, which speeds up residency, retiree discounts on medicines, entertainment and restaurants, and its friendly people.
Malaysia, the only Asian country to make the top five, drew retirees to its shores with its tropical climate, low cost of living and cheap rents, similar factors that boosted Mexico and Costa Rica's appeal to retirees.
Most of the better countries for retirees were Spanish speaking, including Uruguay, Colombia and Spain. Thailand, which placed ninth, was the only other Asian nation to make the top ten, thanks to its affordability, exotic locales and outdoor lifestyle.
Although the language may differ, Prescher said retirees adapt easily because they usually choose a country with a culture familiar to them.
"Most people know or can learn enough Spanish to get along," he added.
Malta squeezed in at No. 10, winning points for its very low crime rate, Mediterranean climate and abundance of English speakers. English is the second language of Malta, which is a European Union (EU) member.
Ireland, France, Portugal, and Italy were other EU nations that made the ranking of 22 countries, along with the Philippines and New Zealand, which scored the worst for the cost of living, along with France, but ranked high for integration.
"The places that have been popular with expats for the last five to 10 years tend to stay in the rankings unless something drastic happens, a big political or economic change," Prescher explained.
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At least 21 people were hospitalized Saturday evening when an apparent drunken driver drove a vehicle into a crowd during the Endymion parade in New Orleans.
New Orleans police said the crash happened before 7 p.m. at Orleans and Carrollton Avenues, where Endymion rolled through for its annual Carnival parade.
Officials said someone driving a pickup truck crashed into the crowd, injuring numerous people along the parade route. Mayor Mitch Landrieu said the victims were taken to at least 10 hospitals. None of them sustained life-threatening injuries.
The driver, who has not been identified, was taken into custody. New Orleans police Chief Micheal Harrison said Saturday the driver was "highly intoxicated."
Harrison said the driver was traveling on the opposite side of the parade when he struck two vehicles, veered off to the other side and struck a dump truck. Before the driver struck the dump truck, several pedestrians were hit.
Multiple law enforcement officers, paramedics and bystanders helped the victims. Harrison said the victims range from children 3-4 years old and to adults in their 30s and 40s. Seven victims declined transportation to the hospital.


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Two thieves want answers. Riyria is born.
For more than a year Royce Melborn has tried to forget Gwen DeLancy, the woman who saved him and his partner Hadrian Blackwater from certain death. Unable to get her out of his mind, the two thieves return to Medford but receive a very different reception --- Gwen refuses to see them. The victim of abuse by a powerful noble, she suspects that Royce will ignore any danger in his desire for revenge. By turning the thieves away, Gwen hopes to once more protect them. What she doesn't realize is what the two are capable of --- but she's about to find out.
The second novel in the Riyria Chronicles series, like the first novel The Crown Tower, a reader doesn't have to have read the Riyria Revelations to follow along. This novel did contrast the first, however, in that it introduced several new characters (new for new readers) and dived more into the political landscape of the world of Elan. Though it doesn't make the story difficult to follow, it's Riyria Revelations and perhaps even future Chronicles novels.
worth paying attention to all the players here as many of them play a role in
For readers of Revelations, they will be all to familiar with many of the characters that make their first appearance here. Like Gwen from the first novel, they were all interesting characters that deserve more 'screen time' and here, they finally get it. Though at times, revisiting these characters can be a bit bittersweet.
Royce and Hadrian's role in this story is much more reactive and their time in the story may have even been smaller than the time we spent with the new characters. Fortunately, it doesn't hurt the book, as all the characters featured are integral to the story and interesting as well, especially the guardsman Reuben Hillfred. As the plot progresses, Royce and Hadrian play a larger role which adds to the pacing and makes the book difficult to put down once you're a few chapters in.
As for the dynamic duo, we get a look at how they've bonded, if ever so slightly, since the first novel and at the growing pains they are still going through. Royce in particular has an important moment of growth as he discovers falling back into his own murderous ways isn't the best solution to all of his problems as Hadrian, in a smaller way, learns the same about his pacifism.
Again, a bit of a different type of story than the first novel and we may see that with this series. With each book able to stand on it's own, every story could end up having a different feel to it, something that may benefit a book about the growth of two characters in a rapidly changing world set a year apart.
The Rose and The Thorn comes out September 17th.
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What Is a Christian?
So what exactly is a Christian? Is it a person who believes certain things? Or maybe a person who does certain things? Or is it perhaps a person who experiences certain things? Yes. Bingo. That is correct....on all counts. All three of those characteristics describe what it means to be a Christian.
You cannot be a Christian without believing in Jesus as your Savior. Secondly, you are not a Christian unless you experience "streams of living water" flowing within you. That is the presence of God inside your body and soul. Without that experience, you are not born again no matter how much window dressing there may be in your outer life of religion and morality. Finally, you are not a Christian if you are not following Jesus. That is the "doing" part.
Your entrance into Christianity begins with belief. At that moment, you also experience the new birth. The streams of living water which enter you at conversion immediately begin to propel you in the direction of serving God, loving God, and loving others.
Jesus said, "If a man is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him." (John 7:37,38) That is the wellspring of God....and it flows within every Christian....within each person who has been converted, that is, born again.
Your daily need from the moment you are converted is to "stay in the flow." It's not just a matter of "staying in the know." It's not just about head knowledge, even though head knowledge and true doctrine are critical. From the very beginning of your new life in Christ, it becomes a matter of staying in the flow of God's love and power as you "walk by the Spirit" and "not by the flesh." (Galatians 5:16)
That is to say, your life is now empowered and directed by the Holy Spirit. The main thing that will get in the way of this new life is "self." Your agenda....your natural impulses....your sin....your personal ambition or pride....your greed or lust or worry....your perceived "right" to do it your way. Those are the things which will block the flow of God's work in our lives. So....it is necessary for us to stay in the Word....and prayer....and Christian fellowship....and obedience....if we are going to stay in the flow of God's power and love.
The "know" of Christianity is what you believe. The message in the Bible is clear and understandable. The "flow" of Christianity is what you experience. This actually makes you a new creation and moves you in a godly direction. The "do" of Christianity is the result of knowing the greatest "doer" of all time. Jesus said, "Anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing." (John 14:12) That's just what happens when you become a Christian.
Christianity isn't just believing. It isn't just experiencing. And it isn't just doing. It is all three....everyday....for the rest of your life. At the end of your life on earth, you are welcomed into heaven....not because of anything you have done to "earn" it....but rather, your entrance into heaven is entirely the result of Jesus dying for your sins on the cross. Period. His work gets you in....and through faith in Him, God saved you....and all you did was to "ride the wave" which the Lord provided in your life.
Are you in the flow of the Holy Spirit? Or are you still "dead in your sins" and unconverted? Are you a Christian? If so, you have believed some things about God....you are doing things as a result of your conversion which flow out of your love for God and others....and you are experiencing the daily influence of the Holy Spirit who now resides inside your body, which has become the "temple of God" and the place where He dwells on earth.
A Christian believes things. A Christian experiences things. A Christian does things. Believing, experiencing, and doing are all part of what it means to be a Christian. Are you one?
If not, then consider this: "Today is the day of salvation." (2 Cor. 6:2) "Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord." (Acts 3:19) "Repent and believe the good news." (Mark 1:15) "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved." (Acts 16:31)
Just as there was only one door to enter Noah's ark, there is only one way to enter the kingdom of God. Jesus said, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6) Without Jesus, you can never believe, experience, or do anything that will connect you to your Creator and to the one true God. He is your only hope. He is your only ticket. He is your only Savior.
Will you repent of your sin and receive Him into your life today through faith? Will you trust Him with your earthly life, as well as with your eternal well-being? He is trustworthy. He is faithful. He is "the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth." (John 1:14) What a Savior! What a friend! What an opportunity you have right now!
"Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life." (Revelation 22:17)


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Marvel Entertainment's renowned heroes find themselves in an unfamiliar and unsettling position in the pages of the just-released "Age of Ultron" series: defeated, demoralized and desperate.
After years of well-placed warnings that have gone unheeded, the ever-adaptive artificial intelligence that is Ultron — a creation of Avengers co-founder Henry Pym — has finally realized his potential as conquering villain. He has turned the planet into a dystopian landscape that is wrecked beyond compare with technology at the top of the food chain and humanity on the extinction trail.
In short, said Brian Michael Bendis, who wrote the series that debuted Wednesday, Ultron has lived up to his promise.
"Ultron is one of the big villains of the Marvel universe, up there with Dr. Doom and Magneto," he said this week. "He's been a threat — a constant threat — and they've never been able to defeat him because of the nature of his being."
Now, with Ultron's ability to adapt, react and learn, his promise has gone global and what was once a vibrant planet is nothing more than piles of debris with androids and mechanized robots running roughshod across the surface and heroes like Iron Man, the Sensational Spider-Man, Moon Knight, Invisible Woman and Hawkeye in the shadows.
It is, Bendis said, a reckoning of sorts with the Marvel universe "destroyed" and "half the heroes dead and half the world is dead."
Those that are left — remnants of the Avengers, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, the Hulks — are living in the shadows, fighting back, Bendis said, and they aim to stop what happened from ever happening again.
"It's not an imaginary story. It's happening in Marvel continuity," he said of the tale, which has the first three issues out this month, followed by issues 4,5 and 6 in April, all illustrated by Bryan Hitch. The heroes "are going to break some rules with the space-time continuum."
The 10-issue story is illustrated by Bryan Hitch, Brandon Petersen and Carlos Pacheco, with a fourth artist that Marvel is keeping secret.
Tom Brevoort, senior vice president for publishing at Marvel and editor for "Age of Ultron," called the series one that will leave readers confused and, possibly, upset, too.
"Part of the ethos we're trying to adopt, as part of Marvel Now, is the idea that really, anything can happen and the sky is the limit," he said. "'Age of Ultron' is the exemplar of that. It's supposed to make people feel edgy and uncomfortable."
Moore reported from Philadelphia. Follow him at www.twitter.com/mattmooreap.
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Finally Linux has got full read-write open source NTFS support! Preliminary benchmarks show that the still unoptimized driver already sometimes twice as fast as ext3 and 20-50 faster than the commercial Paragon NTFS. Interestingly Captive NTFS, which uses the native Windows NTFS driver, fails all benchmarks with file loss.


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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A team of five Louisiana emergency managers, including the head of the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, have been deployed to New York to assist officials there in responding to Hurricane Sandy.
In addition, two GOHSEP staffers who had been working in Pennsylvania traveled to New Jersey on Nov. 3 to offer their assistance as well. The Louisiana team, including GOHSEP Director Kevin Davis and emergency managers form Calcasieu and St. Tammany parishes, left Tuesday for the East Coast.
Davis says the trip is a chance for the state to share its experience in disaster response with communities that offered similar help to Louisiana following Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Gustav. The Atlantic hurricane season runs until Nov. 30.
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Style # 197913
Simply stunning and ultra-chic, this bebe bodycon dress features sheer lace panel at neckline and soft texture lace at body. Try it with a belt and statement earrings for quick pop.
- 92% nylon, 8% spandex
- Center back to hem: 29" (74 cm).
- Hand wash
- Made in USA
- Model is 5'9" and is wearing a US size S
- Exclusively available online.
Lace Shoulder Bodycon Dress - WEB EXCLUSIVE is rated out of 5 by 9.
Rated 4 out of 5 by Angi16 from Hot dress for a night out! This dress is definitely a body conscious dress! Perfect for a girls night out. I wore the blue one recently for a friend's bday party. My only complaint is that it does ride up quite a bit. It was short on me, but in all fairness I am 5'10. I bought the P/S and it fit me like a glove. I have a slender frame so no lumps and bumps for me! However, if your figure has a few more curves this material will not hold it in and you will be uncomfortable in it. If your confident with your shape then flaunt it in this dress and a pair of high nude heels and a python clutch!
Date published: 2012-10-16
Rated 5 out of 5 by Kel16 from STUNNING! I LOVE THIS DRESS! I got it in virtual pink and the actual color is a little brigther than show in the pic. I am 5'4 and 96lbs and the s/p fits perfect like a glove! This is a bodycon dress though so if you are not absolutely comfortable with your body then i wouldn't recommend it because it does not hide anything. The fit is amazing and the material is pretty good quality! I definitely recommend the dress and excited to purchase more bodycon dresses from Bebe!!
Date published: 2012-10-16
Rated 5 out of 5 by Jenna33 from In Black! I got this dress in black.. and let me just say.. it was absolutely AMAZING! The lace details are beautiful and so feminine! It looked just incredible and I got so many compliments on it! One thing though is that it's extremely tight, not in a really bad way, but it will show every lump and bump you have. So if you're not confident with your body, I would not suggest getting this dress. It's definitely going to be more flattering on slender women. It also runs a tad bit long in my opinion.. I'm actually incredibly short, 5'2", but it goes down to just above my knees. I was going to get it altered but I found that it actually looks just fine if you roll it under. I like that about the dress actually because I can have it shorter or longer depending on the occasion. I do really recommend this dress! It's sexy and classy at the same time. Best dress I've purchased in a long long time!
Date published: 2012-10-07
Rated 5 out of 5 by asj from Im lovin' it "I bought this dress in virtual pink size p/s. Im 5'5" 115 lbs and this dress fits me beautifully. When I first opened it, I was like wtf!! It just looked like there was nothing to it, I mean very minimal material. Once I put it on I fell in love. I would have to disagree with other reviews Ive read about poor quality. The material is of good quality in my opinion and I am very picky."
Date published: 2012-08-21
Rated 5 out of 5 by ljk from Bombshell Bodycon "This is the ultimate sexy lace dress. The fit is a bodycon, which means skin-tight so if you're insecure about your body, this is not the dress for you. It hugs every curve and really emphasizes a womanly shape without showing too much skin. Beware, however, that the material is easy to snag so avoid wearing rhinestone jewelry."
Date published: 2012-07-30
Rated 4 out of 5 by erinna from I wish I got it in black "It is a pretty dress with sexy lace and great length. I am 5'1 and 100 lb, the size S fits me very well. However, different from the other's review, I think the white is half see through. I guess it depends on your comfort level as well. I don't want to pay extra shipping for exchange, so I will keep it. I just have to wear a thin under layer in order to wear this dress outside during day time. I wish I got the sexy black, then don't need to worry about the see through problem...:("
Date published: 2012-06-05
Rated 2 out of 5 by houseofhauteness from Cheap looking "First let me start off by saying that this dress leaves absolutely NOTHING to the imagination. It is skin tight and without any sort of liner, so any folds, creases or *gasp* flab* and it will not only be completely visible, but it'll stick out like a sore thumb in this dress. I purchased the white one in a M/L. Let me be clear that I am usually a 2-4 / xs in Bebe apparel. However, I thought I would go a size up since I could tell the dress was on the tight side. I was disappointed to see the quality of this dress. Even though you can't see through the white one, it should've come with some sort of lining for the price. To be perfectly honest with you, you could purchase the same dress at Merry Go Round, Body Shop or a comparable clothing store for around $20. I feel like a street walker in this thing. It is already on it's way back for a full refund. Very dissapointed."
Date published: 2012-05-30
Rated 5 out of 5 by glamgal from Fabulous!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "I bought this dress in black and I loooooooove it. Is the perfect length and the lace on the back is very sexy. I'm 5'6 ,130lbs and the size p/s is perfect!!!The material is very good quality. Good job Bebe!!!!!!!!!"
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A 32-year-old man was in critical condition Wednesday and the man accused of shooting him Tuesday night was in jail.
FORT WALTON BEACH � A 32-year-old man was in critical condition Wednesday and the man accused of shooting him Tuesday night was in jail.
Christopher Lynn Carroll was at 204 Alden Drive in Ocean City when a man wearing a gas mask and hoodie came through the house�s back door with a pistol in one hand and a knife in the other, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff�s Office.
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The suspect, who officials believe is 27-year-old Michael David Tuele of Shalimar, demanded drugs and money from the resident, Kathryn Serna, the Sheriff�s Office reported.
Serna, who lives at the home with her two daughters, told sheriff�s deputies she grabbed her children and ran to a bedroom ahead of Tuele.
Neighbor's react to shooting >>
It�s unclear exactly what happened next, but investigators believe Carroll confronted Tuele and the two men struggled over the gun.
Carroll was shot in the chest and fell to the floor. Tuele is accused of then stabbing him several times before fleeing, according to Tuele�s arrest report.
Carroll was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Pensacola.
Sheriff�s deputies set up a perimeter in the neighborhood minutes after the shooting was reported, but could not find a suspect.
After leaving the home, Tuele called a friend to pick him up, according to the report.
While driving Tuele to his apartment, the friend asked what was going on. At that time, Tuele showed him a small wound on his upper thigh and said, �I think he shot me. I may be bleeding to death,� his arrest report said.
Tuele declined to go to the hospital for treatment.
When the friend returned to his home, he told deputies he saw an article on the Daily News� website about the home invasion near where he picked up Tuele. He then called the Sheriff�s Office and volunteered to help by placing a controlled phone call to Tuele.
During the call, Tuele told his friend, �They struggled, man, tried to get the gun away from me and (he) might have got shot in the chest,� Tuele�s arrest report said.
Tuele was arrested later Tuesday night and charged with aggravated battery, weapon possession and home invasion robbery.
Contact Daily News Staff Writer Angel McCurdy at 850-315-4432 or email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @AngelMnwfdn.


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GRANTS PASS — Three timber counties are asking voters to raise their taxes to restore deep cuts to law enforcement forced by the expiration of a longstanding federal subsidy.
Residents of Lane, Curry and Josephine counties will be voting this May on measures to fund law enforcement.
All three counties saw big budget gaps after a federal safety net for timber counties known as the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act expired, and taxpayers refused to pay the difference. County officials are hoping that voters will agree to restore bare-bones law enforcement services after a year of living with revolving jail doors, reduced sheriff's patrols and fewer prosecutors.
Curry County — the smallest — is in the worst shape.
"If it fails May 21, come June 30 there is a very, very good likelihood Curry County won't exist as we know it today," Sheriff John Bishop said. "We won't have a jail, we won't have patrol, we won't have a Sheriff's Office period.
"If it does pass, it will allow us to continue running until a permanent solution is found."
For many timber counties, that permanent solution depends on more logging on the patchwork of federal timber in Western Oregon and Klamath County known as the O&C lands, which reverted to the federal government after the old Oregon & California Railroad went bankrupt. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management sends half the proceeds from timber sales to the counties. Revenues plummeted 18 years ago when logging was cut back to protect fish and wildlife habitat. Congress created a safety net, which has not expired.
So far, taxpayers paying some of the lowest tax rates in the state have refused to raise them.
In Lane County — the biggest of the three counties — voters have turned down the past nine law enforcement levies. But Commissioner Sid Leiken hopes that this time will be different.
Commissioners voted to put a five-year law enforcement levy before voters that would raise $14.5 million the first year just for the jail. Surveys indicate that voters would be willing to pay for more jail beds, both adults and juveniles, but not for more rural patrols, prosecutors or probation officers. "People know exactly what they want and what they will vote for," Leiken said. "Based on the surveys, this gives us the best chance."
The levy would boost jail capacity to 255 beds for the next five years. Otherwise, the jail stands to fall to 26 beds in two years.
Lane County District Attorney Alex Gardner said the jail makes every piece of the law enforcement system work.
"Treatment doesn't work because there is no jail," he said. "The court system doesn't work because there is no jail. Drug court is eroding because we don't have the capacity."
In Josephine County, which has the lowest tax rate in the state, voters last year refused to plug a $12 million funding gap. After a year of releasing inmates early because of a shortage of jail beds, commissioners are coming back with a measure to triple the tax rate to raise $9 million a year. Just what it would cover is being worked out, but the levy would pay for animal control, school security and jail beds. "Frankly, it's a last resort," Commissioner Simon Hare said. "We see it as a bridge to a long-term solution the board is working on."
Hare said he has little confidence timber payments will be restored any time soon. The county is looking at generating $1 million a year from 30,000 acres of county timberlands, and moving the county fairgrounds out of town, so the facilities in town could generate rental income.
The Curry County five-year law enforcement levy would triple the tax rate, costing the average homeowner nearly $300 a year to raise $4.5 million in the first year and $5 million in the last.
Local economic development falls far short of the mark, Curry County Commissioner Dave Itzen said. To generate the $3 million in lost timber payments, the county would need to add to the tax rolls 70 new $100 million golf courses, or 21,087 new homes, or 3,507 new McDonald's restaurants.
Timber counties seek tax hikes for law enforcement
GRANTS PASS — Three timber counties are asking voters to raise their taxes to restore deep cuts to law enforcement forced by the expiration of a longstanding federal subsidy.


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If you want to see how stark raving mad the Left has become, check out this analysis of the power outage in the DC area, and especially Pepco's perennial sluggishness in restoring power after outages in parts of DC and the Maryland suburbs (always days behind Dominion Power in Virginia): it's all the fault of Republicans, you see, for favoring the introduction of competition to electricity markets (which never really happened in Maryland). This summary is especially clueless:
So, to recap, we have have a government-subsidized, untaxed, virtually unregulated, corporate monopoly (rather than a city utility) that has no real incentive to reduce outages or downtime, because (a) there's nowhere else for its customers to go for electricity, and (b) they get paid whether they're supplying us with power or not.
And just who was it who created the business model of a government-supervised monopoly? Oh yeah, that's right—liberals (or the original "Progressives" if you prefer).
A key phrase in the passage above is "no real incentive to reduce outages or downtime." "No real incentive" applies to most government sanctioned monopolies, like the DMV, the TSA, and the public schools. Economist Arnold Kling has an answer: break up Pepco, and allow tiered reliability pricing and outage reinsurance—in other words, some real competition and market incentives.
It might be interesting to combine the approaches of tiered pricing and competition. For example, if the indemnity rate is set on the basis of Pepco's past performance, a competitor might calculate that it can earn a profit by swooping in and taking over maintenance. If the competitor is more reliable, it will enjoy the reliability premiums from tier-one customers without having the indemnity costs that Pepco would suffer.
I hope that readers understand that I am not proposing these as ideal solutions to the problem of electricity reliability regulation. The main point is that we should appreciate the economics of the situation. First, regulation is inferior to market competition as a force for driving improvements in quality. Second, when there is no market price for something of value (in this case, reliability), incentives are bound to be misaligned.
A rather appropriate topic for the Power Line blog, it seems to me.


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Court grounds packed on first day of marriage case
WASHINGTON (AP) — They mostly kept their distance, these supporters and opponents of gay marriage, as they massed Tuesday in front of the Supreme Court to proclaim with signs and slogans their conflicting views about the cutting-edge question before the justices.
People who favor legalizing same-sex marriage carried pictures of gay weddings and families and held signs that read "marriage is a constitutional right." They waved American and rainbow flags, and one man in devil horns danced in pink heels and a rainbow tutu.
Opponents, meanwhile, marched down a roadway in front of the court, hoisting placards including "Every child deserves a mom & dad" and "Vote for holy matrimony."
By the time the court began its session, which on Tuesday dealt with California's ban on same-sex marriage, the sidewalk outside was packed. Supporters spilled over to the other side of the roadway. "Gay, straight, black, white, marriage is a civil right," the crowd chanted at one point, followed by "we honor this moment with love."
Many supporters of gay marriage came with homemade signs including ones that read "a more perfect union," ″love is love," and "'I do!' want 2 B (equals)" Some signs had pictures of gay couples. "Together 34 years," read one, "married with pride," said another.
Gahan Kelley and Bonnie Nemeth, both 69, of Richmond, Va., had matching signs with their California marriage license on one side and a picture of their wedding ceremony on the other. The couple married in California during the 142 days when it was legal.
"This decision can change our lives tremendously," said Kelley of the Supreme Court cases.
Nemeth said she was hopeful that the court would support gay marriage.
"I really think we're going to win," she said.
Another couple, Stacey Parker, 37, and Debbie Sentner, 43, drove from Toledo, Ohio, to Washington to demonstrate. The pair married in Massachusetts in 2009, but their home state doesn't recognize their marriage. On Tuesday they carried signs that said "Tired of being a second class citizen" and "we the people means everyone."
"To us we feel married but we don't really feel complete until we can actually get all the rights and recognition that a lot of people take for granted," Parker said.
While many people were at the court to demonstrate, others stood in line to get inside the court to hear the arguments. Actor-director Rob Reiner, who helped lead the fight against California's Proposition 8, which barred gay couples from marrying in the state, was at the head of the line. Some people had waited since last Thursday — even through light snow — for coveted seats to hear the argument.
Supporters of gay marriage were initially the majority of the crowd standing outside the court, but a smaller group stood holding signs backing traditional marriage. Mike Krzywonos, 57, of Pawtucket, R.I., wore a button that read "marriage 1 man + 1 woman." Krzywonos, a retired metal worker, said his group is the "silent majority."
"The whole country does not want this," he said as helped hold a sign that read, "just because you don't get it does not give you the right to change it."
The crowd of opponents swelled just as the court began considering the case not long after 10 a.m. EDT. Opponents staged a march down the street in front of the court as supporters stood on both sides of the roadway. Some conversations between the two sides got heated, even with police escorting the group. Austin Ruse, 56, was one of the people who exchanged words with the other side, asking two women supporting same-sex marriage whether a man should be allowed to marry his adult son.
"If anyone can get married then marriage has no meaning," Ruse said later.
Christine Clark, 47, of Pittsfield, Pa., was participating in the march with her teenage children and their cousin. She said she knows and loves gay people but does not believe in gay marriage.
"We're not hating," said her daughter, Lydia Clark, 13.
Outside the court after the argument had concluded, supporters of same-sex marriage chanted, "Equal justice under the law," the motto inscribed on the face of the marble court building, and cheered as their attorneys, David Boies and former solicitor general Ted Olson, emerged from the court.
Boies called the arguments a "very thoughtful hearing." Asked if the court was ready to make a sweeping ruling, Olson said he had "no idea."
But Olson said public support is in favor of same-sex marriage.
"We are confident where the American people are going with this," he said. "We don't know for sure what the United States Supreme Court is going to do, but we're very, very gratified that they listened, they heard, they asked hard questions, and there's no denying where the right is and we hope that the Supreme Court will come out in that way when they make this decision in June."
Andrew Pugno, an attorney for ProtectMarriage.com, the group that defended Proposition 8 in court, said his side was able to say everything they wanted to during arguments and would look forward to the court's decision.
"I think that we'll see a very reasoned decision from this court," he said.
The court will hear one more day of arguments on the issue of gay marriage. On Wednesday the court will consider a case involving the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman.
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Aim for the stars and you'll clear the fence by a mile - apparently words from Buzz Aldrin, although we can't actually find any evidence of the fact. As it stands, it doesn't really matter because what's at the core of that nugget has nothing whatsoever to do with today's App of the Day on Pocket-lint. The link is to do with space, and, now that we're lunk, on with the app...
Solar Walk
- Platform
- iPad and iPhone
- Price
- Free
- Where
- iTunes
Space. You've got to love it. So big, so vast, so black and yet so full of objects so impossibly far away. In fact, the thing is that it's so bloody infinite that it's rather hard to get a grip on. That's where Solar Walk comes in, allowing owners of iPads, iPods and iPhones everywhere to take a saunter through the stars without fear of its asphyxiating vacuum and carcinogenic cosmic rays.
The app, which is normally 69p, is free for a while, so get it while you can. With it you can zoom and pan your way about the solar system and way, way beyond, using the axis of time to watch how each celestial body moves in relation to the others. There's a search to help you zero in quickly on whatever planet, comet, star or constellation you're after and different modes and angles to view from, too.
What we really enjoy are the videos within the app to help explain some of the basics, such as how eclipses of the Sun occur and why tides are the way they, well, are. It's just a shame that there's not more of them: videos, that is, not tides.
Fortunately, most of the night sky's features do come with information pages all of their own, with all sorts of extra pictures, facts and additional knowledge with which to impress your friends.
There are very few downsides to downloading Solar Walk at all. It's probably a notch or two away from being a classic. Improvements to the fun factor could be made but it's certainly slick and pleasant enough as it is. Oh, and fortunately you can go into the settings and switch off the background music that must surely be ripped off a Deep Forest album circa 1995.
New Age eco-electronica, eh? Those weren't the days.
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|November 28, 2012, 04:21 AM
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Location: AZ
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Savage lady hunter
Just wondering if anyone out there had any actual hands on experience with one of these rifles from Savage and if so what you and/or the lady of the house thinks.
My lady of the house likes it best of all the compact rifles she's handled in the store. The Howa 2in1 was in the lead after the first hands on but she did not care one bit for the hogue overmold stock. I actually fell a little bit for the tikka t3 lite and think I may end up with a 300wsm later down the road.
I'm sure it will be what she ends up with because Im all for going with "I feel comfortable with this one over the rest". Just wondering mainly if the bad boy or girl I guess in this case will shoot.
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It is a savage it should or will shoot great and the only worry is if it fits her .
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I am having the same problem - I am wanting a LH in .308, and am just really wanting to 'shoulder' one before I buy it to make sure it fits. Nobody seems to have one in stock anywhere, and when I called Savage to try and find out if they knew of any of their dealers within a couple of hours of me might have it, got bounced around and told to just 'call around' as the final answer. Boo...I have already done that. Think I am going to bite and just order one, though.
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We all want to give our kids the richest childhood experience.
When I took my kids to the snow for the very first time a few weeks ago, their sheer delight and enthusiasm made me equal parts happy and sad. Happy because I have never, ever seen them happier and sad because I hadn't allowed them to experience it sooner.
When I think back on my own childhood, I have treasured memories of Girl Scout camp, hunting for sea shells on the beach, horseback riding, and yes, even those sucky piano lessons. The good, the bad, and the totally awesome childhood experiences made me the woman and mom that I am today.
There are so many rich experiences to share with our children and the best part is, they don't have to cost a lot of money. Let's check out the 25 things every kid should experience. Please feel free to offer your suggestions in the comments below!
Being part of a team 1 of 25"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."
~Babe Ruth
Teamwork, the sweet taste of victory, and the bitterness of defeat are just a few of valuable lessons children can learn from team sports.
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Camping 2 of 25"The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man."
~Author Unknown
Every child deserves the chance to experience nature in its purest form. From hiking and roasting marshmallows, to sleeping under the stars - camping is the stuff of cherished childhood memories.
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Chores 3 of 25"All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today."
~Ralph Ransom
A little hard work never hurt anybody. Besides, why should Mom and Dad have all the fun?
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Snow 4 of 25"A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship."
~Markus Zusak
Snow is an experience to remember. Only children can block out the cold and see the beauty of snow for what it really is - a soft place to land.
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Farm life 5 of 25"Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose."
~Mike Johanns
Every child should witness the hard work and dedication that goes into farm life. Oh, and the smell of cows is a memory they won't soon forget.
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A lemonade stand 6 of 25"Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else."
~Alan Sugar
Encourage your young entrepreneur at every possible opportunity. Greatness surely awaits those with the fortitude to succeed.
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Flying a kite 7 of 25"Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with the wind."
~Hamilton Wright Mabie
Is there anything more perfect than flying a kite on a beautiful day? Didn't think so. Any excuse to look up towards the heavens is good enough for me.
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Bowling 8 of 25"Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain."
~Martin Mull
Bowling is like a metaphor for life, there are lessons to be learned from the gutter.
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The fair 9 of 25"Go to the Fair, Templeton. You will find that the conditions at the fair will surpass your wildest dreams."
~via "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
Where else can you eat fried butter and chocolate covered bacon? Mmm, bacon. Fairs are great, wholesome fun for the entire family!
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Cooking 10 of 25"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
~Harriet Van Horne
Cooking is a wonderful way to create delicious memories your child will cherish. As an added bonus, cooking reinforces math skills and the value of proper nutrition.
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Fishing 11 of 25"Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers."
~Herbert Hoover
The serenity of fishing is a wonderful way to reinforce the power of patience and quiet togetherness.
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Horseback riding 12 of 25"No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle."
~Winston Churchill
There's something so wild and free about horseback riding, much like childhood itself.
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Giving 13 of 25"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."
~Maya Angelou
The experience of giving to those in need is one of the greatest soul treasures we can offer our children.
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The library 14 of 25"To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one."
~Chinese saying
Give a kid a library card, and you give them the world.
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A family reunion 15 of 25"Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!"
~Albert Einstein
To give your child the gift of meeting their extended family is to give the gift of belonging.
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A live stage production 16 of 25"The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life."
~Arthur Miller
Whether it's Disney on Ice or Shakespeare, every child deserves the opportunity to experience the magic and beauty of the stage.
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The beach 17 of 25"Our memories of the ocean will linger on, long after our footprints in the sand are gone."
Kids and the beach belong together. There's nothing like the ocean to remind us of how small we really are.
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Caring for a pet 18 of 25"The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic."
~Henry Ward Beecher
Pets teach our children countless life lessons in the form of an unconditional friend.
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Helping fix stuff 19 of 25"The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty as the son who neglects them."
Fathers, cease every opportunity to teach your sons about life and home maintenance; their future bank account depends on it.
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A friendship with a special needs child 20 of 25"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
~Albert Einstein
Your child's relationship with a special needs child may be one of the most valuable friendships of their young life.
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Riding a train 21 of 25"If God had intended us to fly, he would never have given us the railroads."
~Michael Flanders
The railroad is not only a rich piece of our nation's history, it's a beautiful way to travel.
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Being in a wedding 22 of 25"Twenty-three is the best age [to get married] because you know the person FOREVER by then."
~Camille, age 10
There's something absolutely precious about a child taking their role in a wedding so seriously. Plus, you probably won't get to see your son in another tuxedo until his prom night.
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Gardening 23 of 25"I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation."
~Phyllis Theroux
Learning about food from the source gives a whole new appreciation for our environment and its sustainability. That, and getting dirty is fun!
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Learning to swim 24 of 25What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? ...when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
~Alfred Alder
Not only is learning to swim important for safety's sake, the process takes patience and practice, and more patience and practice.
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A slumber party 25 of 25"I believe in angels, the kind Heaven sends. I am surrounded by angels, but I call them my best friends.
Nothing lasts forever, except your child's memories of staying up all night, talking about crushes, freezing training bras, and spilling soda on the carpet.
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What else should every child experience?
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To all:
If you like to drive a vehicle with different than OEM tires than you had better get on the phone or email and contact your representatives on this one. Oregon's Governor is pursuing a bill that will make it illegal to install tires of a greater rolling resistance than stock. This means that even mud or snow tires will be illegal even if they are the same size due to the softer compound and higher rolling resistance. Taller or wider than stock tires will be completely out of the question. More info here including how to contact your representative:
If you don't live in Oregon you may still want to contact these people and your local representative so these lame ideas don't come up in your state.
Best of luck to all of us in stopping this one,
Jim Cole
CAGE Offroad Products
Dave Walters
Tri Cities Peak Putters
Land Use Coordinator
It's a Scout thing
February 17, 2009
Dear Dave,
Thank you for contacting me with your concerns about House Bill 2186. Your feedback is important to me and helps inform the actions I take in the Legislature.
As you may be aware, HB 2186 is a part of Governor Kulongoski's effort to raise environmental standards in over state and limit carbon emissions.
The intent of section (3)(1)(d) is to allow the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission to set standards for certain replacement parts that can increase greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, not to ban parts. The standards would apply to both after-market products as well as original parts to the vehicle. The rules would be designed to prevent a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions from replacement parts while still ensuring a full range of consumer choice in products. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) does not expect this to affect a large number of products. The proposal is modeled after similar changes in states like California to improve, not ban, automotive parts.
In their testimony before the House Environment and Water Committee, DEQ made clear their commitment to amend the bill with new language to be written in cooperation with the Northwest Automotive Trades Association, the Automobile Aftermarket Industry Association and others to clarify their intent.
Thanks for writing me. It is an honor representing you in the Oregon House of Representatives and I hope you will continue to write me about issues that are important to you.
Dave Hunt
State Representative
Speaker of the House
Dave Walters
Tri Cities Peak Putters
Land Use Coordinator
It's a Scout thing
You Oregon kids really need to get after this.
Dave Walters
Tri Cities Peak Putters
Land Use Coordinator
It's a Scout thing
I got the same reply from him, and two from others.
Thank you for your message regarding House Bill 2186. This bill
reflects a concept created in the Governor's office. It was then
referred to the House Committee on Environment and Water (on which I
serve as one of eight members). At the bill's first hearing, held on
Tuesday, February 3rd, I explained to the witnesses from the DEQ that I
was not happy with the concepts contained in the bill. The delegation
of power to the DEQ is far too great and the economic impact of the bill
is too far reaching. The bill will, I am sure, require additional
public hearings.
I represent District 60 (Malheur, Baker, Harney, and part of Grant
County). I am certain that a majority of my constituents will oppose
many of the ideas in the bill, particularly those which will negatively
impact our economy. I would strongly suggest and recommend that you
contact your state representative and share with him (or her) your
thoughts regarding this bill.
Very Truly Yours,
Representative Cliff Bentz
District 60
Dear Ken,
Thank you for your email on HB 2186. While I support measures for
improving our environment, I am opposing this bill in its current form
for a number of reasons including the potential detrimental effects it
has on those in the used-parts industry. As Vice Chair of the House
Environment and Water Committee, you can be sure that I will do all I
can to oppose this bill or amend it to a form that is more acceptable.
Your comments are appreciated.
Representative Vic Gilliam
House District 18
(503) 986-1418
I ended up writing an email to the House Speaker as well as the House Environment and Water Committee opposing H.B. 2186. This is what I wrote:
I am writing in regards to H.B. 2186. My main concern with this bill is Section 3.1.d: "Restrictions and prohibitions on the sale and distribution of after-market motor vehicle parts, including but not limited to tires, if alternatives are available that decrease greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles;"
I can see the ideology behind this bill but I feel that the thinking involved in this bill is severely flawed for multiple reasons. First of all, the sale and distribution of aftermarket parts for cars is a huge industry in Oregon. This bill will choke out that market, creating more economic challenges in this tough time we are in. Basically we will only have one tire available for our vehicle. That tire will be focused on emissions only. The problem with this is you will end up killing tire manufactures and distribution centers that depend on tire sales. That one tire that will be available will be over-priced because it will have a monopoly on that tire size that is protected by the government. That will lead to people waiting even longer to replace tires on their vehicle, creating more safety issues on our roadways. The fact of the matter is, even with these new "eco-friendly" tires, there will still be issues in safety. Remember the Firestone tires on Explorers? That tire was designed for the best fuel economy possible to get the explorer to meet federal standards. This line of thinking will not work and it has been shown in other areas of regulation in the past.
Furthermore, this will continue to hurt the economy due to the hobby's of people that use their vehicles as recreation. Every year I drive to multiple car shows in the area. Every year that takes buying things from local vendors. Everything from gas to get there, food while I'm there, detailing my car before I go, et cetra. Not only will this bill kill peoples hobbies and borderline infringe on the right to happiness, you will be putting another nail in the coffin of our fragile economy.
Please throw out H.B.2186 as soon as possible! It will cause more damage than it will good.
Chad Holznagel
Newberg, OR
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FZJ80 - 37's, lifted, locked, geared, dented
Passed the house and on its way through the senate, but don't know how many changes were made in committee.
1981 Cherokee W/T, 360, T-18, Warn 8274 in custom bumper/deer strainer (tested and approved)
1988 Cherokee 4 door, 3" Rancho lift, custom sliders/steps, custom roof rack, custom camo paint, custom camo headliner, custom bumpers and Warn 9500 HS, 31-10.50's
Only 31's, but can drag self with either rig
BLM John Day/Snake RAC-OHV/Recreation Representative
Wolfpack 4x4's - Region 5 - "Cave Lupum"
Pres.- Outcast Land Use Review Team
Wow, you've got weinies in Salem like we have in Oly? We must be too close to Kalifornia
Dave Walters
Tri Cities Peak Putters
Land Use Coordinator
It's a Scout thing
They now have a super majority in both houses and can pass any fool thing they want without fear.
1981 Cherokee W/T, 360, T-18, Warn 8274 in custom bumper/deer strainer (tested and approved)
1988 Cherokee 4 door, 3" Rancho lift, custom sliders/steps, custom roof rack, custom camo paint, custom camo headliner, custom bumpers and Warn 9500 HS, 31-10.50's
Only 31's, but can drag self with either rig
BLM John Day/Snake RAC-OHV/Recreation Representative
Wolfpack 4x4's - Region 5 - "Cave Lupum"
Pres.- Outcast Land Use Review Team
Yup, just like the raid on NOVA. That's gonna start a war up here...
Dave Walters
Tri Cities Peak Putters
Land Use Coordinator
It's a Scout thing
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