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In terms of collision rule, wait and see
I guess baseball's new guidelines on home-plate collisions won't hit some of us like a line drive to the gut after all. As the World's Biggest Baseball Traditionalist, I still don't like it, but I feel better since those in charge of such things dropped the nuclear approach -- with a shove from two powerful entities ... the MLB Players Association and common sense.
They've decided to just take it slow, experiment with this rule for a year and, if needed, make some adjustments after that.
I guess baseball's new guidelines on home-plate collisions won't hit some of us like a line drive to the gut after all. As the World's Biggest Baseball Traditionalist, I still don't like it, but I feel better since those in charge of such things dropped the nuclear approach -- with a shove from two powerful entities ... the MLB Players Association and common sense.
They've decided to just take it slow, experiment with this rule for a year and, if needed, make some adjustments after that.
Who knows? By the All-Star break, Major League officials in conjunction with the players might even decide to revert back to the old system that has been around since the invention of left field.
That's just me talking, and that's also me dreaming. If the Red Sox can win three World Series championships within the past decade after 86 years of The Curse, then the game can let runners and catchers have their way at home plate without restrictions. Which brings me to something I've said before along these lines, but it never gets old: Quick, outside of the Buster Posey horror three years ago at home plate, name all of the times in history involving a catastrophic injury to a catcher or to a runner trying to score?
See what I mean?
As for reality, when baseball finally discovers the right mix between what traditionalists want and what keeps prominent guys off the extended disabled list, the game will have a definitive rule for the ages regarding bang-bang plays at the plate. I'm guessing that rule won't be friendly toward the stuff of Pete Rose and Ray Fosse. It will be more like, what?
That's the question. That's also the problem. I mean, talking about an example of all or nothing. Unless you go all (allowing everybody to go with the flow of the situation) or nothing (runners can't run into catchers and catchers can't block home plate, period), you'll end up with what we have now -- good intentions wrapped in uncertainty when it comes to the practical application of the rule.
Let's start with the big-picture interpretation of Rule 7.13, which, by design, could evolve into an ever-changing entity throughout this season. As a whole, it says a runner can't go out of his way to collide with a catcher while sprinting toward the plate, but it also says the catcher can't block the plate without the ball in an effort to keep the runner from scoring.
Few issues there, but let's dig a little deeper. Turns out, collisions aren't totally banned under the new rule. Huh?
Under the new rule, if the catcher is blocking the plate with the ball in his hand while the runner is charging toward the plate, the collision is allowed. The collision is also allowed if the catcher is trying to field a throw while moving across the basepath while the runner is approaching.
If you didn't know any better, you would say that sounds like what baseball already had during these situations. Trust me. It isn't, at least not according to the fine print of the new rule.
You have to go to the "comments" section for clarification. The catcher, for instance, can't "block the pathway of the runner as he is attempting to score," unless the catcher has the ball. If the catcher violates that stipulation, "the runner shall be declared safe."
There also are restrictions on the runner. While heading for home, the runner isn't allowed to change course down the baseline in an attempt to knock the catcher from the field toward the upper deck. Plus, the runner can't do a Rose imitation by lowering his shoulder while plowing into the catcher, and the runner isn't allowed to use his hands, elbows and arms. If the runner does any of those things, he automatically will be called out.
Too bad all of this isn't that simple.
The natural instinct for highly competitive athletes is to do whatever it takes to prosper during every situation, and Rule 7.13 will force runners and catchers in that category to do the unnatural for them. It will increase their frustration, and it may cause injuries to some player who is trying to dial it back in a split second.
Veteran catcher A.J. Pierzynski is as driven as they come, and he told USA Today, "There are going to be plays at the plate late in games where you need to block the plate, saving a run that ultimately gets your team into the playoffs, and not given that opportunity is unfair."
It also is unfair to give the already heavily saturated umpires another set of things to worry about during games. Even though they will be allowed to use baseball's expanded replay system this season to make sure their home-plate decisions are correct -- not only regarding safe or out calls, but Rule 7.13 -- most umpires pride themselves on getting it right the first time.
And then, there is this: Depending on the judgment of the umpires and baseball officials, runners and catchers who violate the rule are subject to ejection from the game, a fine, a suspension or a combination of all of the above.
I'm glad this is just an experiment.
Terence Moore is a columnist for MLB.com.


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DETROIT (AP) — Detroit can move ahead with a plan to settle a ruinous multimillion-dollar debt with two banks for $85 million, a judge said Friday as he also urged the bankrupt city and other creditors to reach more deals.
Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes signed off on the agreement to pay UBS and Bank of America.
The settlement is just a small portion of the city's $18 billion in liabilities, which include $12 billion not secured by taxes or other revenue.
Each bank will get $42.5 million spread out over a number of years — a "reasonable" amount, Rhodes said.
The city said in a release Friday afternoon that it already has paid about $12 million of the $85 million owed the banks.
Rhodes said the plan reduces the amount of principal owed to the banks and extends the time to pay what's left. The agreement also doesn't require a new loan, he said.
Rhodes had denied earlier proposals for $220 million and $165 million as too generous.
Detroit had pledged casino tax revenue in 2009 as collateral to avoid defaulting on pension debt payments. It allowed the city to get fixed interest rates on pension bonds with the banks, but the arrangement became too costly when interest rates plunged.
The city had owed $288 million on the so-called swaps deal, made in 2005 and 2006.
The settlement is important in emergency manager Kevyn Orr's plan to restructure Detroit's debt and get the city out of bankruptcy by mid-October. It gives Orr momentum and could eventually persuade the judge to order a "cram-down" on other creditors, especially retirees, if they don't make their own deals.
"Now is the time to negotiate," Rhodes said. "Litigation should be a last resort."
Under a cram-down, Rhodes can approve a bankruptcy exit plan if, among other things, it's been accepted by certain creditors and is considered fair and equitable to other creditors who are opposed.
Earlier in the week, in a separate deal, banks agreed to accept 74 cents for each dollar of $388 million in bond debt.
Detroit continues to hold mediation sessions with retirees, representatives of the city's two public pension systems and others.
"We're making good progress in reaching consensual resolutions with our creditors and stakeholders," Orr said in a release Friday. "The city's $18 billion debt load is suffocating, and the longer parties wait in hopes of a better deal, the more dire our collective situation becomes.
"We don't have the luxury of time. The offers on the table are grounded in reality and they won't last forever."


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Nick Foles, Eagles, had a rookie-record 32 completions while throwing for 381 yards and two touchdowns to help Philadelphia end an eight-game skid the teams longest in 42 years with a 23-21 victory at Tampa Bay.
Cam Newton, Panthers, had two touchdown tosses and ran 72 yards for another score, finishing with a career-high 116 yards rushing, to lead Carolina past Atlanta 30-20. Hes the first player in NFL history with at least 250 yards passing, 100 yards rushing and a TD pass and run in the same game.
Philip Rivers, Chargers, threw three touchdown passes, two to Danario Alexander, in San Diegos 34-24 win over Pittsburgh.
Eli Manning, Giants, threw four touchdown passes as New York cruised to a 52-27 rout of New Orleans.
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Jamaal Charles, Chiefs, ran for 165 yards, breaking off an 80-yard TD run on the games first play for Kansas City, in a 30-7 loss at Cleveland.
Adrian Peterson, Vikings, rushed for 154 yards and two touchdowns to lead Minnesota to a 21-14 victory over the Chicago Bears.
Marshawn Lynch, Seahawks, had three touchdown runs ran for 128 yards on 11 carries in Seattles 58-0 win over Arizona.
Doug Martin, Buccaneers, rushed for 128 yards and a score in a losing cause as Tampa Bay fell to Philadelphia 23-21.
Alfred Morris, Redskins, had 122 yards rushing and a TD on 23 carries as Washington edged Baltimore 31-28 in overtime.
Brandon Marshall, Bears, had 10 catches for 160 yards and a TD in Chicagos 21-14 loss at Minnesota.
Kenny Britt, Titans, caught eight passes for 143 yards in a losing cause as Tennessee was edged 27-23 by Indianapolis.
Jason Avant, Eagles, had seven receptions for 133 yards to help Philadelphia top Tampa Bay 23-21.
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David Wilson, Giants, returned a kickoff 97 yards for one touchdown, ran for 100 yards and two more scores and piled up a team-record 327 all-purpose yards in a 52-27 win over the New Orleans Saints. Hes the first player in NFL history with 200 kickoff return yards and 100 yards rushing in the same game.
Dan Bailey, Cowboys, kicked a 40-yard field goal as time ran out, sending Dallas to a 20-19 victory over Cincinnati.
Bobby Wagner and Richard Sherman, Seahawks, each had two interceptions Sherman returned one for a TD in Seattles 58-0 win over Arizona.
Aldon Smith, 49ers, had two sacks in San Franciscos 27-13 win over Miami for an NFL-leading 19½, passing Fred Deans franchise-best single-season mark of 17½ and moving within three of Michael Strahans seasonal NFL record set in 2001.
Robert Griffin III sprained his right knee in the Washington Redskins overtime win over the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday, but a team spokesman said an MRI revealed that everything is clear in terms of significant ligament damage. Spokesman Tony Wyllie said Griffin does not have a major knee injury and specifically ruled out a season-ending torn ACL. ... Chicagos Jay Cutler was 22 of 44 for 260 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions in a 21-14 loss to Minnesota, but took a wicked hit to the head from Everson Griffen in the fourth quarter. He has a neck injury. ... Buffalo Bills running back Fred Jackson hurt his right leg in a 15-12 loss to the St. Louis Rams, and his status for the rest of the season is uncertain.
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As long as it remains the case that the Moon has no useful natural resources that can be profitably extracted and returned to Earth then all nations will be quite happy with the status quo which is that no single nation has jurisdiction over the Moon. With regard to DXCC the ARRL can invent any DXCC entity it wishes - on the Earth or elsewhere. While the number of humans in space remains so few it is unlikely they would create DXCC entities on the Moon or any other orbiting satellite such as ISS. It would just result in the Astronauts being jammed off the air by hams desperate for another DXCC entity. Realistically you're not going to see tens of thousands of Humans living outside of Earth for a millenium or more so the question is academic, unless of course a few decades from now some enterprising DXpeditioners hire a tourist space rocket flight for a week long DX-pedition in space ??? 73 Trevor M5AKA --- Mike SCOTT <email@example.com> wrote: > Just throwing this out there, but would the ARRL, (or any other governing > body for that matter), have any jurisdiction or authority on the moon? > > > > >From: Edward Cole <firstname.lastname@example.com> > >To: "Ransom, Kenneth G. (JSC-OC)[BAR]" <email@example.com>, > >"John P. Toscano" <email@example.com> > >CC: firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com > >Subject: [fieldops] Re: [amsat-bb] Re: ISS a Satellite or an airplane? > >Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:28:07 -0800 > > > >At 10:11 AM 9/15/2007, Ransom, Kenneth G. (JSC-OC)[BAR] wrote: > > >We have this sort of discussion every year before field day. ARRL > > >permits contacts VIA the ISS for credit as a satellite but does not > > >count contacts TO the ISS crew for credit (though many are made just for > >fun). > > > > > >Since the ISS is a unique situation (currently being the only manned > > >satellite with amateur radio gear), the ARRL has some conflicting > > >rules to deal with. It is a satellite so contacts via it should be > > >legitimate. It is a manned craft not in contact with the Earth so it > > >does not count for contacts just like an aeronautical mobile contact > > >does not count. > > > > > >I personally do not think having the ISS declared a DXCC entity is a > > >good idea. The crew would be overwhelmed when on and the ISS is not > > >a permanent installation. > > > > > >On the other hand, what do you think the ARRL will do with manned > > >amateur radio locations on the moon? > > > > > >Kenneth - N5VHO > > > >Ken, > > > >In my opinion astronaut contacts at ISS should be regarded as > >satellite contacts. But then ISS and shuttle contacts are so unique > >they deserve their own recognition and a QSL from them is certainly > >one. I suppose a WWAS (worked all space shuttles) or WAA (worked all > >astronauts) might be considered? But we already had a space-race so > >do not need to repeat that with ham contacts :-) > > > >Regarding Moon contacts I would suppose the Moon would be set up with > >grids like earth, so each grid would suffice (exploration of the > >lunar landscape will probably dictate some demarcation scheme). I > >would guess that off-world radio contacts would not be included into > >the DXCC for the same reason as ISS. But as the Moon and planets are > >populated an ETDXCC would evolve. Of course this already exists as > >an award from the SETI-League. > > > > > >73, > >Ed - KL7UW > >====================================== > > BP40IQ 50-MHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com > >144-EME: FT-847, mgf-1801, 4x-xpol-20, 185w > >DUBUS Magazine USA Rep email@example.com > >====================================== > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Fieldops mailing list courtesy of AMSAT-NA > >firstname.lastname@example.com > >http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/fieldops > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via email@example.com. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > ___________________________________________________________ Want ideas for reducing your carbon footprint? Visit Yahoo! For Good http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/environment.html _______________________________________________ Sent via firstname.lastname@example.com. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Post-Katrina scandals have abated and the homicide rate dropped markedly last year, but violent crime still plagues New Orleans and challenges abound for the person who ultimately replaces police chief Ronal Serpas.
Serpas, the city native and career police officer who took over the department in 2010, announced his retirement Monday at a news conference with Mayor Mitch Landrieu. He is joining the faculty at Loyola University of New Orleans' Criminal Justice Department.
For now, at least, his duties fall to Michael Harrison, the commander of the city's 7th police district. Harrison's biography includes nearly 24 years with the police department, and a stint in the Louisiana Air National Guard. He also is an ordained minister, according to the city.
"Mayor Landrieu has made it clear, murder reduction remains a top priority," Harrison said during the news conference at City Hall.
Homicides dropped in 2013 to a nearly three-decade low, but headline-grabbing violent crime continues. There was, for instance, last year's mass shooting at a neighborhood Mother's Day parade and a June 29 gunfight on Bourbon Street that killed a bystander — a young woman visiting from Hammond, Louisiana.
The department, meanwhile, is suffering a manpower shortage, down from about 1,600 officers to fewer than 1,200.
Landrieu and Serpas have pushed reform efforts while under a federal court order to clean up the department — the results of a Justice Department investigation they invited. Critics of those efforts say the mayor and police chief have hurt morale and contributed to an exodus of officers.
"It will be disguised as a morale issue, but it's really just resistance to change," Serpas said.
Monday's change of command was announced abruptly and led to questions about whether Serpas, 54, was pressured to leave. It came the week after he acknowledged the department had failed to release news about an officer-involved shooting for two days. Furthermore, a new City Council member has said there is increasing dissatisfaction with Serpas' job performance.
Serpas said he was not leaving under pressure and ticked off a list of accomplishments, including the decrease in homicides, a beefed-up homicide unit, and the formation of an anti-gang task force that includes state and federal officials. He also took credit for helping Landrieu rebuild a force that was reeling in 2010 from revelations of deadly police violence in the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
"Between 2005 and 2010, the train had come off the tracks," Serpas said.
Landrieu named Serpas as chief shortly after taking office in May 2010. At the same time, the new mayor invited a thorough U.S. Justice Department probe of the police force. Federal investigators already were digging into the post-Katrina shootings of unarmed people at the city's Danziger Bridge and the death of Henry Glover, who was shot by a police officer and whose body was later burned in a car by another officer.
The result of the federal probe was the 2012 "consent decree" in which the city agreed to a host of changes in policies governing hiring, training, discipline, procedures for use of violence, and several other elements of police work. A federal monitor is overseeing compliance.
Landrieu and Serpas began reforms even before that framework was in place. Rafael Goyeneche, head of the Metropolitan Crime Commission, a private law enforcement watchdog group, credits Serpas with making changes in a corrupt police department culture, including zero tolerance when officers are caught in a lie.
"Chief Serpas knew what he was getting into when he left Nashville," Goyeneche said. "He came here not to win a popularity contest but to do a job."
Goyeneche added that investigations improved under Serpas, enabling prosecutors to make better cases.
Eric Hessler, attorney for the Police Association of New Orleans, is among strident critics of new policies in which a new city office governs the hiring of off-duty officers for private security details.
"It's not in better shape than it was when they got there," Hessler said of the department under Landrieu and Serpas.
But Hessler also added that Serpas was hamstrung by the city's budgeting policies, which included a hiring freeze early in Landrieu's tenure.
Serpas has had help lately from state police. About 50 troopers were pulled from neighboring areas or from other duties within the city to temporarily beef up patrols after the French Quarter gunfight.
But continued gun violence has some city officials on edge.
"We have more shootings than ever," new City Council member Jason Williams said on a recent Web-based interview program, during which he said there was growing support to oust Serpas.
Serpas began his police career in New Orleans in 1980, leaving to head Washington state police in 2001 and later leading the Nashville department. He said Monday he had begun making retirement plans after Landrieu was re-elected this year.
Landrieu said Harrison, 45, is in the running to permanently replace Serpas.


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Jose Mourinho has agreed a deal to re-join Chelsea as their manager this summer – and is poised to bring £50 million striker Radamel Falcao with him.
Goal.com understands that the Real Madrid boss will be unveiled in the Stamford Bridge hot seat in the coming weeks following a breakthrough in negotiations with the club.
Negotiations have centred on how much control Mourinho will have in recruiting players and staff, as well as his place in a management structure where low-profile technical director Michael Emenalo holds the levers of power.
It is believed that, following a series of twists and turns during discussions, an agreement in principle has been reached for the Portuguese to take over from interim manager Rafael Benitez this summer.
Mourinho will pen to paper and formalise the deal when he ends his three-year spell in Madrid later this month.
A report in Germany last week claimed that Chelsea were on the brink of landing both Mourinho and Atletico Madrid's spearhead Falcao.
Goal.com understands that the European champions have since made further progress with both deals and are confident that Mourinho will soon be in place as their new manager.
The deal to capture Falcao, who is also represented by super agent Jorge Mendes, still requires some work but the Londoners are confident that Mourinho can unveil him as one of the first signings of his second spell at the club.
|Jose Mourinho has been here before. Just under three years ago, also at the Santiago Bernabeu, the Portuguese lifted his second Champions League trophy, with Inter, and then moved on straight away - just as he had done with Porto six years earlier.
After leading Inter to their first European Cup success since 1965, Mourinho revealed he was moving to Madrid, but was much more coy in the press room moments later. "I haven't decided yet," he told the international media. And in any case it would be hard to leave, because he loved Inter, he explained.
But his mind had been made up and something similar happened on Tuesday night. "Would he be staying at Madrid?" he was asked. "Maybe not - I love to be where people love me to be," was his reply. So anywhere but Spain, then, given all the problems he has had with players, press and just about everybody else.
Down in the press room itself, he was less forthcoming and claimed he may still be at the Spanish side next term. But he won't be. His earlier words gave the game away - he has never truly felt the love at Madrid and now is the time to move on to a place where he really does feel appreciated. So Chelsea seems ideal.
Chelsea are prepared to allow the Belgian keeper to continue his development by staying in Madrid for another season if it eases Falcao's path to west London.
The Blues have made it clear that they are willing to activate the £50.8m release clause in the striker's Atletico contract.
The deal is a complex one because of third-party ownership issues - with Mendes part of a consortium holding an interest in Falcao - but Chelsea have intensified their efforts to land the front man in a bid to ensure the transfer can be completed.
The London club have made Falcao a contract offer and it is believed that personal terms have already been agreed on a deal that is likely to make the striker one of the highest paid players in Premier League history.
Goal.com exclusively revealed in March that the former Porto man is chasing a deal worth around £250,000 per week.
Mourinho and senior Chelsea officials regard the Colombian, who has scored 32 goals in 36 games for Atletico this season, as an upgrade on current front men Fernando Torres and Demba Ba.
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Ron Carey looked like a tired stereotype: the disgraced labor boss on the witness stand, with dark bags beneath his eyes, denying accusations of wrongdoing in a made-in-Queens accent. In a federal courtroom in Washington, Charles Carberry, a stout, balding, rough-along-the-edges former prosecutor who used to lock up Wall Street and mob crooks in New York, was hurling one brutal question after another at the beleaguered Teamsters president. Why didn't you monitor the financial practices of your campaign? Why did you make misstatements to investigators about the flow of money between various Teamsters funds? Why didn't you demand more information about the funny-money business at the union once it became public? Why did you attend a retirement party for a Teamster accused of swindling a local? With each question, Carey's shoulders drooped further; his combativeness faded. In various ways, Carberry, chief investigator for the Independent Review Board (the I.R.B. investigates and adjudicates cases of internal Teamsters corruption), was asking over and over how Carey could not have known about the scheme in which his campaign aides illegally funneled nearly a million dollars in union funds to outside groups in return for donations to Carey's re-election campaign. Carberry's inquisition had a powerful implicit message: If you really didn't know, how can you claim to be competent enough to manage the nation's largest union?
Months before these three days of hearings in January, Carey's re-election victory over Jimmy Hoffa, the son of the notorious corrupt labor chieftain, had been overturned by a court-appointed elections officer. Subsequently, Carey was disqualified from running again. He voluntarily took a leave of office–but did not fully step aside so that reformers in the union could coalesce (and recover) behind another candidate. The U.S. Attorney in New York was still investigating the scandal, and perhaps him. And now in this proceeding, the I.R.B. was weighing charges against Carey. The labor leader was near bottom, fighting not to be kicked out of the union he joined in 1955 as a teenager. But the defiance that first marked his testimony dissipated under Carberry's assault, and after the grilling, Reid Weingarten, Carey's high-profile attorney, didn't bother to ask further questions. The members of the review panel–former Federal Judge Frederick Lacey, labor attorney Grant Crandall and ex-C.I.A. director William Webster–looked downcast. In the courtroom audience, Hoffa supporters chuckled with glee. On Carberry's face was a thin smile. Carey's last-ditch attempt to save his reputation, to preserve his union standing, was teetering.
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Another month, another set of outages come along to delight those who follow Microsoft's journey to cloud nirvana. On August 7 it was a power outage that affected their Dublin datacenter and affected service to European users of Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS). Curiously, the same outage (originally reported as being caused by a lightning strike on a transformer in the Dublin CityWest district and later assessed as a failure of the local power grid) also knocked out the Amazon EC2 service for some of their customers. Thankfully the BPOS outage didn't last long and a flurry of Twitter updates helped to reassure customers that Microsoft was doing everything necessary to address the problem.
Of course, this outage didn't affect all BPOS users because Microsoft distributes companies across its cloud datacenters around the world, taking into account requirements such as data location (some customers require data to remain inside specific national borders), server and storage availability, and ability to on-board users. In addition, BPOS (and Office 365) "double-teams" datacenters so that if a customer loses service from one datacenter another datacenter is available to take on the load.
Although BPOS outages have been reasonably common over the last year or so, we've heard from Microsoft that Office 365 would be different. The story goes that Office 365 has been re-engineered from scratch and has taken account of the problems that have occurred for BPOS since its launch in 2007. Indeed, on June 22, Microsoft replied to some user enquiries with a tweet saying that "Office 365 should provide a more stable service. It is built from ground up new…"
The issue that knocked Office 365 out on August 17 therefore came as a surprise. This was the first major outage suffered by Office 365 since its formal launch in June and started around 3:18pm EST and lasted for approximately two hours until service was slowly restored from 5:23pm onward. Inevitably, it took time for the service to resume normal operation as mail queues had to be cleared. Some users reported that things only really reached normality around 6pm. The times reported here are taken from customer tweets as people reported the loss and then return of service.
Apparently the underlying cause was a networking problem that affected Microsoft's North American datacenters. The outage only affected Exchange Online and users could not connect to their mailbox using Outlook or OWA. Both SharePoint Online and Lync Online chugged ahead (the same outage affected Microsoft CRM but this isn't part of Office 365). Those who were online reported that messages to external domains took far longer to be delivered. My Exchange mailbox based in a European datacenter remained online throughout and delivered its normal high quality of service.
The twittering class rapidly filled the ether with commentary that varied from advice that now would be a good time to get a coffee (but for so many hours in the middle of the working day?) to loud complaints decrying the frailty of cloud services and the inability of Microsoft to diagnose what was going on. Others commented that they were in the middle of testing or learning about Office 365 and the downtime didn't inspire confidence. Tweets from Microsoft to advise users to check the service dashboard (which had some problems of its own during the incident) or consult the blog telling them how to get support didn't do much to soothe troubled brows. Likewise, tweets from PR people telling of the wonder experienced by companies that had just signed up for Office 365 or those about products that integrate with Office 365 didn't help either.
The Office 365 outage was made more embarrassing because it occurred on the same day that Microsoft Press launched a free ebook called "Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime", The assertion in the PR write-up that "Office 365 is Microsoft's smart and simple answer to cloud computing" rang a little less true following the problems with Exchange Online.
No one can legislate for power outages as these can happen at any time in any place and affect datacenters dedicated to individual companies as well as those shared amongst many. The same is true for the network connections that link datacenters with the Internet. However, outages such as those on August 7 and August 17 demonstrate once again that cloud services do not operate in a state of perfect utopia and that companies that sign up for cloud services must realize that even the most professionally-designed and operated datacenter operation can be taken offline by unpredictable and unexpected happenings. What's therefore important is that cloud services providers demonstrate how quickly they can detect out-of-course events, react appropriately, and restore services. Ideally without users noticing!
How critical events are handled by the service provider is a critical topic to cover during the negotiation of a Service Level Agreement (SLA) and it's a topic that should involve a great deal of input from a company's technical staff. After all, it's natural that management is focused on the SLA terms and conditions, including financial penalties that flow from lack of delivery of service, and that the legal team will probably do an excellent job of ensuring that the right language is in place to protect the company's interest.
But it's simply not good enough to assume that any cloud provider will anticipate problems that cause additional costs to mount for a company. Indeed, if any criticism can be levelled at cloud providers about how they deliver technology, it is that they make far too many assumptions as to how technology is consumed within individual companies and attempt to make one solution fit all needs. The technical staff should understand how users work within their company so their function is to ask the difficult but essential questions of the service providers during SLA negotiations to ensure that all bases are covered.
For example, if one of a datacenter pair is rendered inaccessible, how quickly is it possible to transfer user connections to its pair? Will any configuration changes be required to user PCs? Forcing an Outlook profile update to reconfigure the PC to pick up a new datacenter might become a horror story for many companies, especially if they don't have reliable and centralized control over PCs. But of course, that's never the case in the real world… is it?


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Hawks' Super Bowl classics should make room for another
For much of the Rhode Island High School football world, Bishop Hendricken's dominance might be getting old. But love 'em or hate 'em, you've got to say this about the Hawks: they sure can deliver a championship game classic.
With 2013 Super Bowl tickets punched for Hendricken and Cranston East, we may be in for more. It's hard to pick against the Hawks on the first weekend of December, and it's even harder to pick a blowout.
In 2010, they beat a gritty, talented Portsmouth team 20-17 for the program's first title since 1995. In 2011, they knocked off unbeaten La Salle 17-14 in shocking fashion. In 2012, they did it again, in an even bigger surprise, winning 26-20. That's three Super Bowl titles by 12 points, and each game has been fantastic – drama, storylines, heroes, wild finishes.
Sign me up for more.
Yes, Hendricken beat Cranston East 35-7 in an October regular-season meeting. But bank on that one at your own peril. The 'Bolts are a different team. The Hawks have looked more human.
There's reason to believe the rematch will be different.
Start with East. They were firmly on the skids when they played Hendricken, struggling on defense and fighting through some uncharacteristic hiccups on offense. The loss to the Hawks was their worst game of the year.
They lost one more game, to Portsmouth, and were in real danger of missing the playoffs. They have surged since then, knocking off La Salle to start a four-game winning streak.
It continued in dominant fashion Tuesday night. The 'Bolts went on the road to face top-seeded Barrington, and flipped the script on a 41-37 regular-season loss. Their defense delivered its best performance of the season. The offense clicked. The scoreboard lit up – 46-13 East.
The blowout was the strongest proof yet that East is not the same team that struggled. Rather, it's the team many expected to see when the 'Bolts were ranked second behind Hendricken in the preseason Rhode Island Sports Media poll.
Now the 'Bolts get another rematch. This one may not be so easy to turn around. East's offense is a nightmare match-up for Barrington's defense, but that's not the case for Hendricken, whose secondary may be the only one in the state that can match up with East. On the other side, Remington Blue and company were a nightmare for East in the regular season, rushing for nearly 500 yards.
But you get the feeling that this East team is in the midst of something special. At the beginning of the year, the expectations hung over them. When the struggles started, it looked like they might collapse under the weight. But they went into the fire and came out the other side, tougher and stronger. They're writing their own storyline – an urban school that was in D-II until four years ago, playing in front of a home crowd, against a team they haven't beaten since they moved to D-I. It's got the makings of the kind of upset Hendricken has pulled the last two years.
The Hawks will be fully aware of that – and they've got stories of their own. Chief among them is the chance to make history. No team has won four consecutive Rhode Island Super Bowls. With a win Sunday, Hendricken's dynasty would become Rhode Island's greatest dynasty.
As I write this, we're getting ready to record our Football Focus Podcast. I will soon be required to make a prediction. It's a tough call.
But I think I know one thing – it's going to be a great game.
William Geoghegan is the sports editor at the Warwick Beacon. He can be reached at 732-3100 and email@example.com.
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'The Simpsons' Spoofs 'Game of Thrones' In Awesome Opening Sequence
Sunday night, 'The Simpsons' payed homage to HBO's 'Game of Thrones' with an opening that gave Springfield a Westeros-style makeover. The sequence featured all the maps and gears that mark the beginning of a 'Game of Thrones' episode and also had 'Simpsons" characters dressed in medieval garb.
As you can see, Homer wouldn't last a day in a Machiavellian fantasy realm because he's just too lazy. Bart, however, would be right at home, provided he gets to bring his skateboard and water gun. Mr. Burns as king? But of course.
The opening ends with a giant couch — making it the biggest 'Simpsons' "couch gag" yet. If that sinister music has you pining for the real thing, the second season of 'Game of Thrones' begins on April 1st. Check out the original opening sequence below to see how the Springfield version compares.


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Sun, 19 Aug 2012 11:09:37 -0700
Houston Astros bench coach Joe Pettini, St. Louis Cardinals first base coach Chris Maloney and Cincinnati Reds minor league manager Jim Riggleman appear to be viewed as candidates for the team's permanent managerial job. It is uncertain whether interim manager Tony DeFrancesco is under consideration for the permanent job.
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|MLB | Six more named to NL All-Star staff
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National League All-Stars manager Tony La Russa named former St. Louis Cardinals pitching coach Dave Duncan, Cardinals pitching coach Derek Lilliquist, Cardinals hitting coach Mark McGwire, Cardinals third base coach Jose Oquendo, Chicago Cubs first base coach Dave McKay and Houston Astros bench coach Joe Pettini to his NL coaching staff.
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The Houston Astros named Joe Pettini as their new bench coach Wednesday, Jan. 11, replacing Al Pedrique.
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Acts matter. Words do, too.
How often have we tossed out a careless remark that stung, whether we meant it to or not? In our everyday lives, we are probably guilty of this more often than we would like to admit; after all, we're only human. But when someone is grieving, at such a time of vulnerability and pain, words have the power to comfort or to leave deep wounds.
For one who is grieving, the world becomes a strange and frightening place. When someone we dearly love dies, our world with them also dies and we not only feel vulnerable, we are vulnerable. So, what people say to us at such a time matters.
After my husband died, I had people say things that I still shake my head at in wonder. What were they thinking? Some remarks were clueless. Others seemed downright cruel. Is it because our culture doesn't teach us much about dying and grief, so we prefer to minimize it, to brush it away? And, yet, we do this at the very moment the grieving person needs the deepest heart connection we can summon to support her.
Here are some of the things said to me and how they made me feel at the time.
"Will you marry me?" Yep. Got this one even before my husband had died.
"You should get out of the house; how about coming to a dance?" This was said within two weeks of my husband's death. No, I do not need to get out of the house. If, a year later, the curtains are still drawn and newspapers are piling up outside, then you might want to make this suggestion. Otherwise, please leave me to my own solitude. It might be just what I need right now.
"You're lucky you're still so young. You can still meet someone else." Being young just means more of my life ahead of me without the person I love. As for meeting someone else, it's the last thing on my mind.
"It must be a relief for you after all the caregiving." Really? A relief that my husband is dead and our child has no father?
"He's in a better place." There is no better place than in my arms.
"How long has it been now, a few months? You should be getting over it." So utterly clueless it doesn't even dignify a response.
My suggestion as someone who has been there: If you don't know what to say, then remember what one woman said to me: "I don't know what to say. I'm just so sorry for your loss." That was just fine.
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You'd think that the prime minister of the United Kingdom had better things to do, but alas - David Cameron is going to tackle pornography on the web with a set of measures that can only be described as clear cases of totalitarian censorship, in which internet service providers, technology companies, and individuals are forced to block pornography.
The general idea is simple: all pornography will be blocked from the web in the UK by default, and if you want access to it, you will specifically have to tell your ISP to unblock it. This will instantly create a nationwide database of people who want access to pornography, but as we all know, government databases are never abused and are never leaked and are never hacked.
That's not all, though. Cameron wants to take all this a step further, and certain internet search terms will be made illegal - they will be blacklisted and not turn up any results. Google and other search engines will apparently be forced to comply, which essentially amounts to the UK government imposing UK-wide censorship.
This obviously raises loads of questions that a simple politician cannot answer. What happens when researchers at a university are conducting research into any of the matters covered by the censored speech? For that matter, which speech will be made illegal? Can we still search for Lolita? What about Vladimir Nabokov? The Police's "Don't Stand So Close To Me"?
The possession of "extreme pornography" will become illegal. What exactly constitutes as "extreme" will be determined by the government, and this, too, raises a whole load of questions. What about regular films about extreme sex acts? What about erotic novellas? Who - and what - will determine the boundaries? Will they be explicit and clear, or - more likely - implicit and vague?
Lastly - and get this - the UK police will create a huge database of child pornography which can then be used "close the net on paedophiles". While I'm all for catching those people, I get incredibly nervous whenever a government is building databases, since governments have shown to be about as competent at IT security as Microsoft is about selling Surface RT tablets (*).
This just seems like a terrible, terrible idea. The goal of fighting child pornography is obviously a noble one, but I doubt any of this will help the UK achieve said goal in any way, shape or form. Combating regular pornography is idiotic, stupid, senseless, and void of any understanding of human nature.
It's the parents' job to protect children from pornography. In fact, a study by the UK government conducted only last year among parents found that "respondents very clearly said that children's online safety is the responsibility of parents or a shared responsibility between parents and businesses". Why does someone who I would guess received a proper education dismiss simple science?
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Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid, head coach Andy Reid's son, was promoted to defensive line coach. Assistant defensive backs coach Al Harris was promoted to secondary coach with an emphasis on cornerbacks. Assistant quarterbacks coach Corey Matthaei will also work with the offensive line. Assistant linebackers coach Mark DeLeone will have an expanded role on defense. The Chiefs also hired Joe Bleymaier to serve as offensive quality control coach, Taylor Embree as a defensive assistant, Mike X. Smith as assistant defensive line coach and Devin Woodhouse and Ryan Reynolds as part of the strength and conditioning staff.
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|Chiefs | Hire several assistant coaches
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The Kansas City Chiefs have hired former Philadelphia Eagles defensive line coach Tommy Brasher as their defensive line coach, former Eagles wide receivers coach David Culley as their assistant head coach and wide receivers coach, former Eagles tight ends coach Tom Melvin as their tight ends coach, former Eagles quarterbacks offensive quality control coach Matt Nagy as their quarterbacks coach, former Eagles assistant to the head coach Corey Matthaei as quality control coach and Temple graduate assistant Britt Reid as quality control coach. The team also hired Barry Rubin as their head strength and conditioning coach and Travis Crittenden as their assistant head strength and conditioning coach.
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The Internal Revenue Service advises churches and other tax-exempt organizations that, under federal law, they are "absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office." But the 2012 election campaign that mercifully is coming to a close demonstrates that some religious leaders, while they may be abiding by the letter of the law, are willing to undermine its spirit. To wit:
•A week after Mitt Romney visited the venerable evangelist Billy Graham, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Assn. removed Mormonism from its list of religious cults. Graham's son, Franklin, also an evangelist, wrote an article titled "Can an Evangelical Christian Vote for a Mormon?" The answer: Yes. (According to the New Yokr Times, Franklin Graham said the "cult" reference was mistakenly made by a staff member.)
•In Peoria, Ill., Roman Catholic Bishop Daniel Jenky ordered priests in his diocese to read a letter to parishioners the Sunday before the election criticizing "the president" for including contraception in his health insurance mandate. Jenky then warned that "Catholic politicians, bureaucrats, and their electoral supporters who callously enable the destruction of innocent human life in the womb also thereby reject Jesus as their Lord." He ended with this appeal: "I therefore call upon every practicing Catholic in this diocese to vote. Be faithful to Christ and to your Catholic faith."


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Question mark over Tony Blair web privacy policy
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Tony Blair kicked off the website for his "foundation" this month, but the man who was a control freak in office seems to be taking a far more relaxed attitude to running his web presence.
The site will be the shop window for all the great things the still young and vibrant if manifestly ex-PM is planning to achieve. It highlights Blair's valiant efforts to bring peace to the Middle East and even has a copy of a speech - just the one mind you. It also links to his sports foundation. And, well, that's about it so far.
For a man so adept at controlling the party's communications and his own public image, it seems ironic that the site was designed and built by Messy Media. It may be less of a surprise it's hosted by Positive Internet.
Moving onto the site's privacy policy, we're not quite sure if we're surprised that For the purposes of the Data Protection Act of 1998, the Data Controller for Tony Blair is ????????????????.
Is ???????????????? one of Tony's old compadres from his Number 10 days? Or is it just a case of old habits dying hard when it comes to one of Tony's team stepping up and taking responsibility?
Either way, we suspect a rousing chorus of Daily Mail outrage will eventually force Tony to regretfully accept the resignation of ????????????????. Then, after a decent interval, ???????????????? will surely be welcomed back to a job at least as responsible.
Perhaps ???????????????? will take on the job of maintaining the website. This should be at least as taxing as enforcing Tony's privacy policy. After all, according to the site's terms of use:
The Information [on the site] does not constitute an offer and Tony Blair makes no warranty or representation as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for purpose of the Information or the reliability of access to this Website.
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September 20. 2013 12:21PM
Nashua man arrested on felony charges in gun incident
NASHUA – A city man is accused of firing a gun from the deck of his Hampshire Drive apartment Thursday night, hitting two vehicles parked outside.
Colton Seymour, 24, of 28 H Hampshire Drive, was arrested just before midnight after officers found him hiding on his second floor apartment deck, according to police. He is charged with reckless conduct, two counts, and resisting arrest.
Police said they received reports at 10:40 p.m. Thursday that someone was firing a gun from Seymour's apartment building.
Officers discovered the damaged vehicles, each hit by a single bullet, and further investigation led them to Seymour's apartment, which they entered. Seymour was arrested after a brief struggle with officers, police said.
No one was inside the vehicles that were hit and no one was injured.
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Seymour was detained on $7,500 cash bail pending arraignment Friday in 9th Circuit Court, Nashua District Division.


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Being serious has its down side. Age seems to compound it.
The avid hand-wringers remind us constantly that the world is going to hell in a handbasket, and you say to yourself, take a deep breath because it was ever thus. You try to tune out the noise and keep perspective.
But maybe they're right, you begin to wonder. Encountering the rude and clueless is no longer an occasional random event but an everyday burden. Civility is dead, and anger is in the air. And the young. Yes, let's get started on the young.
They spend their days in the fantasy land of video games, in a state of willful arrested development. Well, the boys do, and I mean boys, as in not grownups. The other day, I told a 20-something female friend that I weep for the womenfolk of her age ever hoping to find suitable husbands. Yeah, she said, I've kind of given up.
And their social skills, we are told, are abominable. Actually, there is evidence that all that online time rewires the brain and makes the brain's user less capable of empathy, which is a rather big part of being a human. Personally, I think living too deep into the computer forest is part of what causes the maddening literal-mindedness that makes it impossible to have a conversation with some of these unearthly beings.
Or maybe it's me. I know perfectly well what I'm talking about, except for all that stuff I can't remember and that other stuff on which my memories are as sure as they are wrong. Why can't these young people – with decades less of a knowledge base growing less relevant by the day – keep up with all that?
On the other hand, why would they bother? Still, at some point, the young gather around the elders for the counsel and guidance that can only come from life's many experiences, right? Am I less interesting than the latest app? Wait. Don't answer that.
Last weekend the Scouts camped and fished. There were no video games, unless it was on phones well hidden from me. We talked about fishing, and we learned the right knot to tie on a hook, where to set the bobber, which bait or lures to use and how. We caught fish and wondered aloud about other cool places to fish. We cooked and ate and cleaned up, and two of those three skills are less common among the young than you might think.
We fussed, and we got along. We heard owls and coyotes in the night. Directly or indirectly, we talked about America, as we always do. We talked about books to be read over the summer, and what school brings this fall, and that awesome part from that awesome movie that was awesomely funny. The refrain from "Let it Go" was sung a few times. Yes, by boys. It was a moment. You had to be there.
It was life, and it wasn't simulated, so that's something. The young drive us crazy, but they give us hope.
So although I am entirely inclined to be very serious and join the hand-wringers, I'll save my energy for more worthy things.
Like remembering all that vital stuff I forgot.
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FIFA 14's launch week sales were down by 24 per cent compared to the launch of FIFA 13, but the game recovered by the year end to be up on what FIFA 13 managed in the same period, reports MCV.
According to data supplied by UKIE/GfK Chart-Track, sales of FIFA 14 closed 2013 at 2.65 million copies, putting it ahead of what FIFA 13 managed by the same time in 2012.
FIFA 14's recovery can be attributed to sales on Xbox One and PS4, particularly Day One Xbox One units that came bundled with the game. 364,000 Xbox One consoles were sold in 2013, but it's not known how many included a copy of FIFA 14.
FIFA 14 was only outsold in 2013 by GTA 5, which managed 3.67 million units.
Source: MCV #771