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It may have taken more than a year to complete, but there likely isn't a more fitting tribute to the legacy of Cris Quinn than the newly opened Cris Quinn Indoor Soccer Facility.
The new facility, located on the Beaumont Youth Soccer Club (BYSC) complex, held its grand opening Monday. It's the same location where the late Quinn could be found frequently mowing the grass and tending to the dozens of soccer fields for kids of all ages.
"This is a culmination of everything Cris started," said Glen Morgan, who along with Wayne Reaud, The Beaumont Foundation, the Cris Quinn Foundation and others helped to fund the state-of-the-art facility. "He would have done this sooner or later and it is just a culmination of everything he started out here.
"The thing is that he wasn't just a soccer enthusiast; he was a kid enthusiast, and he went out to different areas and helped different kids with different things. This is just one measure of the kind of work that Cris started, and it is our small attempt at trying to continue his legacy in doing those kinds of things."
Morgan said land for the new indoor soccer facility was contributed in the form of a long-term lease by the drainage district, and the electrical work was done by the IBEW Local 479.
Becky Quinn, who watched two of her children kick the first goals at the new facility, said it's beyond anything she had imagined and is a fitting tribute to her late husband's legacy.
"It really is amazing," Quinn said. "This was the first day that I have actually seen it and I couldn't believe how large and beautiful it is. It's going to be a great place. He would be very happy."
The new facility is unlike any between Houston and Baton Rouge, according to John Werner, who saw the project through to completion. He said playing indoors will help young soccer players learn different aspects of the game and improve their techniques, which could help them gain soccer scholarships in the future.
"It is a great opportunity for the community and the kids," he said. "It is a first class facility that stands up to any in Houston, Dallas or Austin, and it's great to teach the kids technique. For the real dedicated players, it will be a place where they can practice and train year-round regardless of the weather. And again, the indoor soccer game is credited with being a great method of developing skills because of the nature of the game."
Those sentiments were shared by Thomas Shenton, who came to America from England and is now the BYSC's head trainer.
"When you compare it to other areas and other clubs I have never seen where you have fields as good as those outside linked to a facility indoors as good as this, usually they are separate," Shenton said. "So for the BYSC and the Spindletop Youth Soccer League to have a facility like this in Beaumont is astronomical in terms of the youth soccer world. It's huge for this area. Even in England you don't get facilities like this.
"My conception of soccer for youth here is the way they progress and this is basically a step up for college and getting scholarships. This will enhance the opportunities they will get whether it is playing for Lamar or playing for a club elsewhere at a different university."
The facility is open for free-play for the remainder of the week and schedules will be implemented for skills training, games and other activities throughout the weeks ahead. There is already a 12-week training program in the works, and Shenton said he hopes to see more kids utilize the new indoor facility.
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The search for competitive iron alternatives in the currently high-priced raw materials market has sparked a new company with a veteran industry executive at its helm to step up to the plate.
The company, Magnetation Inc., Nashwauk, Minn., hopes to produce additional raw material for the North American steel industry by late summer using mineral leftovers from years of iron ore mining in northern Minnesota. It has developed a patent-pending mineral processing technology capable of recovering iron ore concentrate from such materials as hematite—classified as non-magnetic, though actually very weakly magnetic—that are left in lean ore stockpiles and natural ore tailing basins scattered across Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range.
Larry Lehtinen, chairman of Magnetation, has 30 years' experience with established and entrepreneurial ventures in the iron ore industry. He opted to create the new enterprise for partially personal and partially professional reasons. "The main reason is a man can only golf so much," he quipped. "I am a mining engineer by training and I did work similar to this in my early career so I have a soft spot in my heart for this kind of technology."
Lehtinen has extensive experience with iron mining and iron-related technology. He served as a vice president at Inland Steel Mining Co., Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. and Steel Dynamics Inc. (SDI). He left SDI in 2000 to form two entrepreneurial ventures Ferrometrics Inc., a consulting firm, and Mesabi Nugget LLC, which demonstrated iron nugget-making technology. He sold Mesabi Nugget to SDI in 2007 and remains a consultant on that project, in which SDI and Japan's Kobe Steel Ltd. are cooperating to make nuggets for SDI to use in its steelmaking operations.
Magnetation intends to produce material that extends the life of the Minnesota iron range and offers steelmakers a competitive iron alternative amid rapidly rising raw material costs (the benchmark price of iron ore fines, for example, rose 65 percent this year compared with 2007).
The Magnetation product, which Lehtinen said is similar to fines both chemically and metallurgically in that it contains 65-percent iron, will be priced in accordance with the benchmark eastern Canadian ore concentrate price. The Magnetation concentrate can be sold as feed for sinter plants at steel mills, for rotary hearth furnace-based direct-reduced iron (DRI) plants and for other iron-making technologies.
The value of the Magnetation product comes when steelmakers or DRI producers purchase it instead of international ore. "We're competing against sinter coming from Brazil," Lehtinen said. "There's at least a $75 (per tonne) freight cost coming from Brazil. We can get it there cheaper."
North American steel industry demand could easily absorb Magnetation's 1-million-tonne addition to the raw materials marketplace, Lehtinen said. Magnetation also will consider international sales, but high freight costs could prohibit that from occurring.
In addition to turning former ore waste into a valuable steelmaking product, Magnetation's technology will allow the company to process as-yet-unmined lower-grade material previously believed to be unprofitable.
The venture also is ecologically conscious, Lehtinen said. Once Magnetation processes waste iron into usable ore concentrate, the company will turn the exploited land into ecologically functioning wetland. "Our work reshapes useless land into environmentally functioning land that had been covered with stockpiles that existing taconite miners cannot use," he said. "This technology proves it's recoverability."
Magnetation thus will not only make money selling its concentrate, but it can sell credits for wetland creation to other companies involved in land-use projects. "There are a number of new projects going on in upper Minnesota," he said, pointing to Polymet Mining Corp.'s recovery project at an old LTV Corp. site, Minnesota Steel's embryonic ore and steelmaking facility and the two separate nugget plants being developed by SDI and Cleveland-Cliffs. "It looks like a technology with an environmentally positive spin to it. It fits really well with green technologies."
Lehtinen said production will start shortly, although he didn't provide a specific estimate.
The company represents a long-term venture in a cyclical industry, he added. "You never know how long it (the industry) stays up, but with our low-cost structure, offering low-cost iron units, we'll be around. We have enough to run at 1 million tonnes (annually) for 50 years."
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The Columbus Crew announced today that it has signed UNC forward and Crew Soccer Academy product Ben Speas to a multi-year contract as a Homegrown Player. Per club and league policy, no further terms of the deal were disclosed.
A native of Stow and graduate of Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy, Speas began his college career at the University of Akron where he appeared in 50 matches and notched four goals and six assists, helping the Zips reach the NCAA Men's College Cup final in 2009 and win the national title in 2010.
In 2011 Speas transferred to the University of North Carolina where he appeared in 26 matches and tallied seven goals and 10 assists. He capped a dream season by scoring the lone goal in a 1-0 victory over UNC-Charlotte in the 2011 NCAA Men's College Cup final. For his efforts, he was named the tournament's Most Valuable Offensive Player and was later named the 2011 College Player of the Year by Soccer America.
"I can't wait to finally put on the Black & Gold," Speas said. "I've been going to Crew games since I was eight years old and have been able to see most of my coaches play at Crew Stadium, so this is a dream come true."
The 5-8, 155-pound Speas was part of three youth national championships with the Crew, the 2010 U-19 USYS McGuire Cup title and back-to-back USL Super-20 titles in 2010 and 2011. He was also on the 2008 Crew Soccer Academy U-17/18 team that finished third at the Development Academy National Finals. Speas is also a U.S. national youth team veteran, having competed at the U-20, U-18 and U-17 levels.
"Ben is a talented young player who we have had the good fortune to work with and watch watch develop over the last four years," said Crew head coach Robert Warzycha. "He has the ability to get out of tight spaces quickly, combines well with others and has good vision. We are proud that he has earned the opportunity to progress to the professional level."
Speas becomes the club's third Homegrown Player, joining forward Aaron Horton and goalkeeper Matt Lampson. A club may sign a player to his first professional contract without subjecting him to the MLS SuperDraft if the player has trained for at least one year in the club's youth development program and has met league criteria. Players joining MLS through this mechanism are known as Homegrown Players. There is no limit to the number of Homegrown Players a club may sign in a given year.
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Born: Jan. 17, 1991 (Stow, Ohio)
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BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A crash blamed on a bear running across a road sent a pickup careening into a Colorado creek, causing a young passenger to be swept away to her death, authorities said.
The girl was carried off by the current following the accident that was reported at 4:46 p.m. Saturday in Boulder Canyon, the Boulder County Sheriff's office said.
The 13-year-old girl floated several miles down fast-moving, runoff-swollen Boulder Creek, with rescuers from more than a dozen agencies attempting to reach her at various points, the Daily Camera newspaper reported.
"We were in contact virtually the whole way. We had eyes on her," Lt. Bruce Fenfold of Boulder Fire and Rescue told the paper.
After more than an hour, she was pulled from the water shortly after 6 p.m. and rushed to a hospital, but the sheriff's office said efforts to save her failed.
The Daily Camera reported http://bit.ly/1iH7PRZ ) she had been riding in a pickup truck with her father and sister, who were able to climb out of the water.
"It was later learned by Colorado State Patrol that the crash was caused by a bear running across the road," Sheriff's Cmdr. Steve Cullen said in a news release. "One vehicle stopped suddenly to avoid the bear and was rear ended by the victim vehicle, which then went into the creek."
Boulder Fire and Rescue diver Brad Lupher told the paper that she was not breathing when pulled from the water. Crews performed CPR.
No names were released. The office said the coroner will determine the cause of death.
The paper said that circumstances surrounding the rescue were made extremely difficult by the unusually high rate at which Boulder Creek has been flowing. Just two days prior to this incident, tubing had been banned on parts of the creek, as water was flowing as much as eight times the typical rate.


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Bryan Cranston's critically-acclaimed Broadway turn in All The Way has official become a theatrical success after recouping its $3.9 million (£2.44 million) costs.
The Breaking Bad star has been portraying former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson in the political drama since the play's grand opening in March (14), and days after the cast and crew celebrated their 100th performance, the show is now turning a profit.
And the success continues to build - All The Way, which runs until the end of the month (Jun14), is for a top awards at Sunday's (08Jun14) Tony Awards - it is nominated for Best Play, while Cranston is shortlisted for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role.
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Back in grade school, I proposed doing a book report on "Gold Rush!" — a computer game first released in the late '80s. My teacher thought I was trying to pull a fast one.
Yet the truth of the matter is "Gold Rush!" contained more text and actual history than the heavily illustrated dinosaur book I chose instead. But the dinosaur sketches were encased in binding. "Gold Rush!" had disks.
There was a day when the most popular games were essentially interactive novels — point, click, read and type. That day was killed by the first-person shooter, which ushered in an era during which the most dominant of games were competitive and reflex-based. But there's good news for those who believe a written sentence is more powerful than digital bullets or the ability for players to hijack a virtual car and use it to run over streetwalkers: Words are making a video game comeback.
This summer's "80 Days," based on the texts of Jules Verne and available for Apple's mobile devices, is a book that can be played. Or maybe it's more accurately described as a game that can be read. Regardless, the emphasis in "80 Days" is on the wonders of global exploration — and history, albeit with a twist of sci-fi. This combination has made "80 Days" a summer reading highlight. Or is that a summer gaming highlight?
Created by small English studio Inkle, "80 Days" is a re-imagining of Verne's well-known "Around the World in Eighty Days," only here boats and rails are joined by all sorts of steampunk-inspired creations — mechanical horses, magnificent steel airships and practically magical bicycles — and prose is more important than any new railway. All of this serves to open up the world, the routes and the narrative options afforded to the player.
And this is key to the enjoyment of "80 Days," for it's not the locales that dazzle as much as the people. The Inkle team has reshaped Verne's story so the perspective is not from that of upper-class Englishman Phileas Fogg, a man whose interests in world affairs don't extend much further than winning a bet, and is, instead, from the point of view of Fogg's servant Jean Passepartout.
This is no small shift, as while the restaurants and hotels Fogg visits may be posh, and there's certainly no shortage of folks willing to aid a member of high society for some cash, Fogg's universe is a bubble. As the game's writer Meg Jayanth describes it, the original story is "about two white guys going around the world" who "almost never leave the British Empire." That is, their worldview is shaped by imperialism.
Through Passepartout's eyes, however, the game shows us how the rest of the world — the common people — react to Fogg's posturing. When the game visits India, we see how the country is skeptical, to say the least, of England, and as Fogg dines and reads abroad, Passepartout mingles with down-on-their-luck canal boat operators, hopeful revolutionaries and prejudiced middle-classmen who "rarely talk to servants."
So, while "80 Days" has outlandish technology and, well, space aliens, Passepartout comes face to face with the very real-world racism and classism that Fogg's stature allows him to casually ignore. Oh, and the love interest in the original, the Indian princess Aouda, isn't a helpless victim to be rescued from being burned alive but is, rather, a no-nonsense heroine.
"What if the most important thing about these characters is not whether they can help or hinder the protagonist on his journey?" says Jayanth of her interpretation. "Then it becomes really obvious to have more women in the game, to have more marginalized groups. On a purely selfish level, it's simply more interesting. It was also important to me. I'm Indian. I'm a woman. If you have the world available, it'd be nice to see some more people like me being heroes."
Part strategy game and part choose-your-own-adventure novel, "80 Days" has players lightly managing money, goods and health to survive the travels, but the game is essentially based on conversations. Chances are you'll never see all of Jayanth's text, as "80 Days" boasts about 10,000 individual choices for the player to make and some aspects of the story, including details on Passepartout's past, aren't even revealed on the first play through.
Often I would encounter a stranger who would divert me from my chosen path and would soon find myself on a completely different continent than what was initially planned. I bought some goods to sell in Bangkok only to never actually make it near Thailand, and one chat with a beggar may suddenly open up three or four different narrative routes.
"On one complete play through, you see perhaps 3% of the text that's in the game, I reckon," says Inkle co-founder Jon Ingold. "When you start again, we don't show you the exact same beginning that you saw last time because that would be annoying. It's possible to play the game six times without ever seeing a single piece of text repeated."
There's been a slow-building resurgence of text-driven games in the independent sphere in the last few years. The Web browser game "Depression Quest" is a gripping, choice-driven narrative about what it feels like to constantly be overwhelmed, and last year's iOS game "Device 6" is a gorgeous mystery — the text moves and wraps around images and responds to touch — where language is the key to solving puzzles.
Likewise, "80 Days" becomes a joy to read for the way it uses text to elegantly form sentences before our very eyes. When Passepartout has to make a choice, be it attending to Fogg's needs or following a mysterious red-haired adventuress who is spied traversing a moving train, a click of the desired statement causes the sentences to move and expand across the screen.
Treating text as a visual medium in itself is a simple but effective tool in making "80 Days" feel like a story that the player is collaborating in developing. And don't mistake a clean presentation for a lack of ambition.
"We're tricking readers into becoming gamers and gamers into becoming readers," Jayanth says.
— Todd Martens | @Toddmartens | @LATherocomplex
'Valiant Hearts: The Great War' upends the combat video game
'Road Not Taken': You're not getting any younger
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Keep Weeds Out of the Garden Using 'Green' Techniques
COLUMBIA - For many people, summer is a time to enjoy a blooming garden. However, tending to gardens often means using harsh chemicals. But some experts say they are not necessary.
A number of gardeners are practicing green-friendly ways to tend to their gardens. Mary Love, who has been gardening her entire life, said her grandmother taught her natural ways to garden when she was little.
"If she had a very persistent weed that she couldn't get rid of, she would use straight vinegar on a really hot day and pour it down the stem," Love said.
Love said another way to kill off the unwanted garden intruders is to mix dish detergent and water and give the weeds a spray down. She said her grandmother would also use boiling water. The best way to use this tactic is to boil water in a kettle and then pour it on the crown of the weed.
Chuck Bay, owner of Wilson's Garden Center, said weeds will die if they loose access to light. He said one way to do this is to place newspapers on top of the weeds.
"It's just like a weed barrier," Bay said. "Its another physical barrier for the plants to keep from coming up out of the ground and you'll hold it down with something, typically mulch."
One natural weed killer recipe calls for one gallon of vinegar, one cup of salt, warm water and a shot of dish soap.
A sure way to stop weeds from growing is to make sure they have no access to water. Be sure to water plants closely so none sprays onto the weeds. Eventually, once the weeds are thirsty enough they will die.


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Microsoft introduced role-based security with SQL Server 7.0. Server and database roles simplify security administration by letting individual users inherit permissions granted, revoked, or denied to those roles. Moving users in and out of roles is much easier than assigning individual permissions to users. At the database level, you can add custom roles. In addition to the standard database roles to which you can assign users, a second type of SQL Server database role exists—an application role. You don't assign users to an application role, as you would to other roles; instead, all users of the client application that activates an application role automatically share that role. The permissions granted to the application role are in force for the duration of the connection that activated the application role.
Application roles are session-based (connection-based) rather than user-based. To activate an application role, you run the sp_setapprole system stored procedure, which requires two parameters: role name and password. After an application activates an application role, SQL Server applies the permissions granted to the application role to the session that the application is using.
Application roles work with both Windows NT and SQL Server authentication, even though application roles don't apply directly to users. After executing the sp_setapprole stored procedure to invoke an application role, you can't disable or deactivate that role for the duration of that connection. SQL Server ignores permissions that an application user might have that are independent of the application role*SQL Server considers only the application role's permissions. To return a database user's original individual security context, the user must disconnect the application from SQL Server and reconnect without activating the application role.
Uses for Application Roles
If you want your users to work with SQL Server data only when they run a specific application, application roles can be useful tools. For example, suppose you have an inventory-control database and you've built a Visual Basic (VB) application that lets users work with inventory. You might not want your users to connect directly to the inventory-control database or to modify sales data. By granting permissions to an application role, rather than to users or database roles, you ensure that users can access inventory data only when running the application.
Another use for an application role might be to prevent an application from executing ad hoc queries. For example, you might use Microsoft Excel as a front end for a decision-support application that queries SQL Server, creating pivot tables and charts for further analysis. However, you don't want Excel users to use Excel's querying tools to perform unauthorized ad hoc queries. You can force users to run the Excel Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros that you've programmed to activate the appropriate application role, rather than granting users permissions that they might use in unapproved ways.
The steps you take to use an application role with VBA macros are essentially the same as the steps you take to use ADO code in VB or any VBA host. The GetData() function opens an ADO Connection object, executes sp_setapprole, creates an ADO Recordset, and copies the ADO Recordset's values into a worksheet. Executing the Close method on the Connection object deactivates the application role.
Application roles can also simplify security administration. Suppose you have many users who access SQL Server through only one application and you don't want to have to manage individual logins and enable database access for each user. An application role requires only one login, which many users can share.
Like a standard database role, an application role exists only in relation to the particular database for which you created the role. After you activate the application role, you can directly access another database only if you've created a guest account in the second database. The application role will have only the permissions granted to the guest account in the second database.
Creating an Application Role
To add an application role to a database, you must, by definition, be a member of the sysadmin fixed server role or of either the db_owner or the db_securityadmin fixed database role. To use Enterprise Manager to create an application role in a database, right-click the Roles node under the database you want and choose New Role from the menu. Select the Application role option, and type in a role name and password for the application role. The sp_setapprole stored procedure requires the role name and password as arguments when the stored procedure activates the application role. You can also create an application role by using the sp_addapprole system stored procedure, as the following script—which creates an application role named ProductApprole with a password of password on the Products database—shows:
USE Products EXEC sp_addapprole @rolename = 'ProductApprole', @password = 'password'
Next, you assign permissions to the application role. Note that the application role inherits permissions from the public role, so if you want to close security loopholes, revoke all permissions for the public role on objects that you want to secure. When you deny all public permissions on the database tables, as Figure 1 shows, no role, not even the application role, can directly access the database tables. Denying all permissions on the database tables effectively prevents all ad hoc table querying. When you grant permissions to execute selected stored procedures to the application role after you revoke the public role's permissions, as Figure 2 shows, the application role can access the underlying table's data through the stored procedures if the tables and related stored procedures have a common owner.
If you deny all permissions to the database's tables, you must create views, stored procedures, or—for SQL Server 2000—user-defined functions (UDFs) to allow access to your data. Permissions that you grant to views, stored procedures, and UDFs take precedence over permissions that you deny to the underlying tables, as long as the views, stored procedures, and UDFs have the same owner.
After you create the application role and adjust database object permissions, you need to consider how SQL Server is going to authenticate users before the application role is activated. SQL Server Books Online (BOL) states that application roles let the application, rather than SQL Server, assume the responsibility of authenticating users—but that statement isn't strictly true. A user or client application must still pass SQL Server authentication to activate an application role (i.e., you can't get to a database's application role unless SQL Server lets you in).
Regardless of whether you use a SQL Server login or Windows logon, SQL Server preserves a user's identity even after activating the application role, so you can track individual user activity. Application roles provide the security context within which the database object permissions are checked, but the actual user's identity isn't lost.
The Guest Account
If you create a guest account in a database that has an application role, you don't have to grant database access to individual user or group logins. You still need a SQL Server login, but you don't need to enable database access for that login. The guest account enables anonymous access without sacrificing identity or security.
You can easily test application roles by using Query Analyzer. A Query Analyzer connection for login Rocky, which Figure 3 shows, displays the results of running the suser_sname() and user_name() functions to return the login name and database username both before and after an application role is activated in a database, which Rocky has accessed by using the guest account. Using the guest account for an application role doesn't sacrifice the logged-on user's identity; SQL Server hasn't enabled Rocky as a database user. Note that the database username is guest before the sp_setapprole stored procedure runs and ProductApprole (the application role's name) after the stored procedure runs. However, SQL Server still returns the login name (Rocky).
If Rocky had been enabled as one of this database's users, user_name() would have returned Rocky, rather than guest, before the sp_setapprole stored procedure activated the application role. Even after sp_setapprole activates the role, you can use suser_sname() to obtain Rocky's login identity.
Application Roles and Systems Administrators
Any member of the sysadmin fixed server role, including the systems administrator (sa) account, has unlimited and irrevocable permissions to perform any action in a SQL Server instance. SQL Server automatically maps the sysadmin fixed server role to the database owner (dbo) database account. Whenever you see dbo as a database object's owner, an sa created the object. The dbo user (or sa) is immune to all DENY restrictions on database objects. However, if you use a sysadmin connection to activate an application role, SQL Server sets the sa's permissions aside for the duration of the connection and uses only the application role's permissions.
Before activating the application role, the sa has full table access, even after denying to the public role all permissions on user tables. After the sp_setapprole stored procedure executes, as Figure 4 shows, SQL Server limits the administrator to the application role's permissions, which include the public role's DENY. However, when the application role is activated, SQL Server doesn't consider sysadmin or dbo, permissions. The only way for an sa to regain sa privileges is to close the connection, then reconnect to the Products database.
Visual Basic Techniques
If you want to use an application role with a VB application, you'll probably use an ADO connection to invoke the application role. (You could also use Data Access Objects—DAOs—Remote Data Objects—RDOs—or any other library capable of executing a stored procedure.) When the VB application opens, you instantiate one public or module-level Connection object to share among your procedures; then you run the sp_setapprole system stored procedure immediately after connecting to the database. Or you can open multiple connections as needed and run sp_setapprole for each connection. You can also use a connection that you define in the VB Data Environment designer to activate an application role. (For more information about using application roles in the Data Environment, see the sidebar "VB Data Environments and Application Roles.")
One important caveat: Application roles aren't compatible with OLE DB connection resource pooling. (Microsoft documents this problem in the article "PRB: SQL Application Role Errors with OLE DB Resource Pooling." ) OLE DB automatically pools connections. When you close an OLE DB connection, the connection isn't immediately closed. Instead, OLE DB returns the connection to the pool and reuses it if OLE DB receives another connection request with the same characteristics. The connection is closed only if OLE DB doesn't receive such a request within the timeout period, which defaults to 60 seconds. The problem is that connections that have had application roles set on them cause runtime errors when OLE DB retrieves them from the pool, even if you explicitly closed the connection.
To use application roles with OLE DB, either through the MSDASQL ODBC provider or the SQLOLEDB native provider, you must turn off connection pooling. You can turn off connection pooling in your connection string by adding the phrase OLE DB Services = -2. In some scenarios, such as Web sites that use Active Server Pages (ASP) ADO code, application roles might not be a viable option because of the overhead required to open a fresh connection each time you need one. For this reason, application roles benefit primarily client/server applications, rather than n-tier architectures. Middle-tier objects usually work better by using the role-based security available in COM+ instead of application roles.
You could, of course, create your own pooling scheme by holding multiple connections open and allocating them as needed, but setting up a pooling scheme isn't a trivial task. In typical client/server applications, each client could reduce overhead by holding open one global Connection object for the duration of the application, provided that your licensing can support the requisite number of open connections.
The code in Listing 1 uses a Connection string (strConn) that specifies integrated security (Integrated Security=SSPI) and turns off resource pooling (OLE DB Services = -2). After the connection opens, the sp_setapprole stored procedure executes immediately, activating the application role, which remains in effect as long as the connection stays open.
The code in Listing 2 runs in a command button's Click event procedure and opens an ADO Recordset by using the Connection object that the code in Listing 1 created. The code in Listing 2 then assigns the ADO Recordset to an MSHFlexgrid control's DataSource property. After you activate the application role, you can open and close any number of ADO objects over the same connection; you need to activate the application role only once. The activation remains in effect until you explicitly close the Connection object, as the Unload event of the form that the code is running in shows in the following example:
Private Sub Form_Unload(Cancel As Integer) mcnn.Close Set mcnn = Nothing End Sub
Using Application Roles in Access Projects
Using an application role in a Microsoft Access project (.adp) is straightforward because an Access project requires only one OLE DB connection to SQL Server. Access's CurrentProject object has an OpenConnection method you can use to create the connection programmatically. (Make sure you turn off connection pooling in your connection string.) After you have connected the project to SQL Server, you use CurrentProject.Connection's Execute method to activate the application role. This example conditionally executes the sp_setapprole stored procedure based on CurrentProject's IsConnected property*if you aren't successful in connecting to SQL Server, you'll trigger a runtime error only if you try to activate the application role, as Listing 3 shows.
To disconnect from SQL Server and deactivate the application role, use the CurrentProject object's CloseConnection method:
If CurrentProject.IsConnected Then CurrentProject.CloseConnection End If
To create the connection in code, you must create a project with an empty connection by canceling the Data Link Properties box when creating the new Access project. Add your own startup login form that opens the connection to SQL Server and activates the application role.
When you use application roles with Access projects, you must consider how Access updates data in forms based on views or stored procedures. The Products database application role is based on a security schema that denies all direct access to tables and uses views and stored procedures instead. The problem you run into is that a form based on an updateable view will be read-only if you try to use the form to update data because Access constructs an UPDATE statement that references the base tables defined in the view, not the view itself. Because the application role doesn't have permissions on the tables, the update fails, which you can see in action if you open a trace in SQL Server Profiler. If you update data from a form based on an updateable view of the Suppliers table, the following code is the first part of the statement that SQL Server processes:
EXEC sp_executesql N'UPDATE "Products"."dbo"."Suppliers" SET "ContactName"[email protected] WHERE "SupplierID"[email protected] AND ...
To work around this read-only form problem, you have two options: Grant the application role the necessary permissions on tables, or define your view by using the VIEW_METADATA option. Using VIEW_METADATA in your view definition makes SQL Server return metadata information about the view to the client application. Access can then use this additional information to construct an UPDATE statement against the view, not the underlying table. The following code is an example of the syntax you use to create a view with the VIEW_METADATA option:
CREATE VIEW vwShippers AS SELECT * FROM Shippers VIEW_METADATA
Using Application Roles with Access Databases
You can't use application roles with a linked-table Access database (.mdb). The tables are linked through ODBC, not OLE DB, and you have no control over the opening of connections to service these links. Therefore, you have no way to execute sp_setapprole on these hidden connections. Access forms and reports can construct and execute many queries, potentially consuming multiple connections. But you don't have a way of telling ODBC to automatically activate the application role on all these connections.
The only way to use application roles with Access databases is to create an unbound application, using ADO Recordsets or pass-through queries to load all the data and modify it by posting changes through the same mechanisms. The Jet database engine neither parses nor executes pass-through queries in the same way that it parses and executes a regular Access query. The Jet engine passes the SQL statements that comprise the query through to the designated data source so that you can execute commands and run queries directly against SQL Server.
To work effectively with pass-through queries, you must understand several properties that determine their behavior. Aside from setting the pass-through query's SQL property, which contains the text that a pass-through query sends to SQL Server, you must set the Connection string in the query's ODBC Connect Str property. The following Connection string example uses integrated security to connect to the Products database on the local server:
ODBC;Driver=\{SQLServer\};Server=(local); Database=Products;Trusted_Connection=Yes
Another option for pass-through queries is to create a Data Source Name (DSN) to use in the Connection string, but this option requires that you configure the DSN on each user's machine. Simply specifying the connection information above might be an easier option to maintain.
Access is unpredictable about the precise time when it opens a new ODBC connection. A pass-through query that provides data to an Access object might execute once or more than once, depending on the object and the user's behavior. Or, a pass-through query might open a new connection or use a connection that's already open.
If you run the sp_setapprole stored procedure and the application role is active, you'll get a runtime error when the pass-through query executes. To avoid this error, you can code into the pass-through query some logic that tests whether the T-SQL user_name() function returns the application role's name. This logic provides a reliable way to ensure that you won't execute sp_setapprole on a connection that already has an application role in effect. The following example conditionally executes the sp_setapprole stored procedure, then executes the procProductList stored procedure:
IF (SELECT USER_NAME()) <> 'ProductApprole' EXEC sp_setapprole 'ProductApprole', 'password' EXEC procProductList
Figure 5 shows the completed pass-through query definition and the query's property settings, including the specification that the query returns some data. Note that Access pass-through queries can't handle multiple resultsets. If the stored procedure returns more than one resultset, Access processes only the first one and ignores any remaining resultsets.
You don't have to use the Access UI when you create and modify pass-through queries. You can manipulate pass-through queries in VBA code, using either the DAO or ActiveX Data Objects Extensions for Data Definition Language and Security (ADOX) object libraries. DAO is the older object library, but Microsoft created and optimized DAO specifically to work with the Jet engine. When you're working with Jet objects, DAO usually gives you the best feature selection and performance.
To use DAO in Access 2000, you must first set a reference to the Microsoft DAO 3.6 object library, if such a reference doesn't exist. If you're working with an earlier version of Access, use the DAO version appropriate to that release. To modify a pass-through query, create a DAO QueryDef object and modify the object's properties. Listing 4 shows the code you might use to modify a pass-through query's SQL property, then execute the query.
Instead of modifying an existing pass-through query or creating a new saved query, you can create a temporary pass-through query by giving the query a zero-length name, as the following command shows:
Set qdf = db.CreateQueryDef("")
Or, you could use ADOX to modify a pass-through query. The logic is the same as DAO, but the syntax differs. You can find examples of how to use DAO and ADOX to modify queries in the approlemdb.mdb example file.
To hide the design of your pass-through queries from your users, you could use Access security to keep Access from exposing the application role's name and password. Or, you could limit your use of pass-through queries to those in VBA code, which you can protect by converting your Access .mdb files to Access .mde files.
Powerful and Convenient
Application roles can provide a powerful and convenient way to administer security in client/server scenarios. Application roles eliminate the need to enable multiple database users, and the permissions granted to an application role are available to your users only when they run your application.
The sp_setapprole stored procedure activates an application role, and you can execute this stored procedure from ADO, DAO, or RDO code or from an Access pass-through query. You can also use application roles with bound VB applications that use the Data Environment designer. The most important limitation of application roles is that you can't currently use them with pooled OLE DB connections, making them unsuitable for use in middle-tier objects. With that limitation in mind, you should consider the convenience of using application roles when users are running client/server programs that directly access SQL Server.


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The upcoming annular solar eclipse will be the best such event visible from the U.S. in decades — with a stunning "ring of fire" observable from California to Texas.Eclipse-lovers haven't experienced a "central" solar eclipse from U.S. soil in nearly two decades (1994, to be exact). But those of you out west will soon have a good chance of seeing one on May 20, 2012, when the path of an annular eclipse covers a wide swath from northern California to the Texas Panhandle.
May's event is called an annular or "ring" eclipse because the Moon passes directly in front of the Sun but will cover only 88% of it. The undersize lunar disk results because the eclipse occurs just one day after the Moon reaches apogee, the most distant point in its orbit around Earth. So the black lunar silhouette will appear completely surrounded by the Sun's disk from a generously wide path that's at least 150 miles (240 km) across. Astronomers refer to this kind of incomplete lunar shadow as an antumbra.
|Weather prospects:Here is a summary along the U.S. eclipse path provided Sunday morning by eclipse meteorologist Jay Anderson. (Check his website for last-minute updates):
The central and western part of eclipse track are forecast to be largely cloud free. An incoming Pacific system has slowed, so that California and Nevada look good.
The morning satellite image shows a big blob of low cloud north of Lubbock, extending into east-central New Mexico. This stuff should dissipate fairly early in the day. However, it is a sign of moisture in the lower atmosphere, and it will burn off by first turning into cumulus.
The most significant threat area is near Carlsbad, New Mexico, as the short-range model shows cloud and rain in this area by eclipse time. So anyone at the southeastern path limit should consider a different destination. The latest model offers some encouragement for Lubbock area, though this city is not yet out of the woods.
For the rest of the track, almost nothing is happening in the lastest infrared satellite image. Even the system expected over Colorado and northeast New Mexico is little more than high-level cirrus at present, a sign of upper-level forcing that will probably help the development of shower clouds later in the day. All in all, it's probably about the best weather situation I could have imagined for today.
WARNING: Because the Sun's disk won't be completely covered, you'll need to take careful precautions when attempting to view the ring or any phase of the partial eclipse. Looking at the Sun with your bare eyes, or with an inadequate filter, can permanently damage your vision.
There are several good ways to observe the Sun safely. You can view through special "eclipse shades" (not regular sunglasses) or a #13 or #14 rectangular arc-welder's glass. You can set up your telescope or even tripod-mounted binoculars to project the Sun's image onto a white card or other flat surface, and watch that. Special solar filters are also made to fit over the front of your telescope. Check out these safe eclipse-viewing options recommended by the editors of Sky & Telescope.
Or you can watch the eclipse online.A Transpacific Eclipse
The event is first seen across Southeast Asia at dawn. The city of Guangzhou in southern China sits within the eclipse track, as do Tokyo, Osaka, and Yokohama in Japan, along with Hong Kong and Taipei. That's 36 million people in those six cities alone! Weather permitting, easily more than 100 million early-risers in Asia could see this ring eclipse. Then the Moon's shadow races 4,000 miles (7,000 km) eastward across the Pacific, narrowly missing Alaska's Aleutian Islands before making landfall along the California-Oregon border. By then it's already late afternoon locally.
Many towns in southwest Oregon (such as Medford), northern California (Eureka, Redding), central Nevada (Reno), southern Utah (St. George), northern Arizona (Flagstaff) and New Mexico (Albuquerque), and northern Texas (Lubbock) lie within the annular zone. Remember: the farther east you are along the track, the more important it becomes to find a clear western horizon. The table below shows a sampling of well-positioned cities and towns.
|Circumstances for May 20th's Annular Solar Eclipse
|Annular eclipse begins
|Annular eclipse ends
|Sun's altitude
|Medford, OR
|2m 46s
|Eureka, CA
|3m 59s
|Redding, CA
|4m 35s
|Reno, NV
|4m 26s
|Grand Canyon, AZ
|3m 17s
|St. George, UT
|4m 13s
|Albuquerque, NM
|4m 26s
|Lubbock, TX
|4m 13s
Sky & Telescope has compiled an list of predicted times for more than 40 places along the path (12-hour clock or 24-hour clock). This interactive Google map lets you zoom in on any point along the track.More than 30 U.S. national parks lie within or very near the path as well, and the National Parks Service is getting ready to host big crowds of expectant visitors. Here's a list of public events.
Veteran eclipse-chasers sometimes debate whether it's best to view an annular eclipse from the path's centerline versus near its edge at the northern or southern limit. Centerline locations have the advantage of briefly showing the lunar disk precisely concentric with the Sun's. However, edge-viewers enjoy an extended display of "Baily's beads" — the momentary flashes of sunlight peeking through valleys along the lunar limb.
Similarly, observers in California have the advantage of seeing the Sun well up in a late-afternoon sky. That's a definite plus if your western horizon is partially obstructed, and you'll be able to watch the entire 2½-hour-long event — from the first little nibble of the lunar disk to the last. On the other hand, there's no denying the dramatic possibilities farther east, say in eastern New Mexico, when the Sun-Moon encounter hangs just above the horizon's sunset point.For those who can't get to the path of annularity, most of North America will see at least a small bit taken out of the Sun that day — and many will enjoy a very deep partial eclipse.
For example, San Franciscans will see the Sun 84% covered at 6:33 p.m.; from Denver, it's 79% at 7:30 p.m.; and those in Dallas will see 67% of the Sun missing as it slips below the western horizon. Find out the predicted circumstances for Asia and Canada and for locations across the United States.
Weather Forecasts
As for weather prospects, "May is not a good time to start an eclipse in Asia," notes meteorologist Jay Anderson, "but it's a very good time to end one in North America." The monsoon season is under way in southeastern Asia by eclipse day, and statistically many locations along the path in southern China have an 80% chance of cloudy skies.
By contrast, late-spring weather is generally fair in California, and the start of monsoon season in the American Southwest will be weeks away. "This eclipse is tailor-made for U.S. observers," Anderson concludes. For details, check out his comprehensive weather analysis for various eclipse locations.
Curiously, this late-spring event will be the first eclipse of 2012. Get details about other eclipses on this year's calendar.
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Massive traffic congestion in and around the northern Israel city of Haifa last month was the result of a targeted cyber-attack, it was reported on Monday.
An unnamed Israeli cyber-security expert speaking on condition of anonymity told the Associated Press that computer problems that caused major traffic jams for two days straight were more than just standard "technical difficulties."
According to this official, a Trojan-horse attack targeted the security cameras in the tunnel, prompting officials to close the thoroughfare for 20-30 minutes. The next day, the system was hit again, resulting in an eight-hour shutdown and causing an estimated hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages.
The matter had been classified until now, with Israeli officials publicly stating that the unusual snafu had been caused by a mere "computer glitch."
Earlier this month, IDF Chief of Staff Gen. Benny Gantz warned that the next war against Israel will include major computer attacks aimed at bringing the Jewish state to a standstill.
"A vast cybernetic war will rage that will affect not only the military but also the civilian systems," Gantz said during the 20th Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies conference at Bar-Ilan University.
Last year, Israeli officials revealed that the Jewish state is targeted by as many as 1,000 cyber-attacks per minute. In addition to the thousands of low-level cyber attacks Israel fends off every day from individual hackers, there are also a regular number of attacks by foreign government agencies.
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There were quite a few records set at last night's Big Game from network ratings to incredible touchdown runs, but Alicia Keys' soulful take on the national anthem was the real standout.
The R&B superstar's piano rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner" officially was the longest in Super Bowl history, according to USA Today, after it clocked in at 156.4 seconds.
Keys' pitch-perfect version surpassed Natalie Cole's milestone 152-second salute to the Stars and Stripes at the 1994 Super Bowl.
Alicia Keys sings the national anthem at the 2013 Super Bowl
The last artist to best the two-minute mark with Francis Scott Key's patriotic (and octave-challenging) song was Jennifer Hudson at the 2009 Super Bowl. Hudson, by the way, returned this year to sing "America the Beautiful" with the Sandy Hook Elementary School choir during pregame festivities.
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The client's vision, along with the hard work and talent of their vendors {especially the amazing planning and design duo at Enjoy Events Co.}, was captured beautifully by Braedon Photography. We are loving all of the amazing details, from the gorgeous location, Beaulieu Garden in Rutherford, California, to the perfect blush touches in just the right places and the chevron-patterned, gold sequined linens. Absolutely gorgeous!
We adore this shot of the couple's full wedding wardrobe. It paints the full picture and shows that coordinating pieces can have great impact. With our custom design process, you're not forced to choose pieces that perfectly match. Instead, you can personalize each piece and modify elements to create your ideal suite. For instance, the lush florals appear on the first panel of their save the date trifold and backside of their response card and are balanced by the bold graphic patterns on the second panel of their save the date and the backside of their response card. The duplexed warmed white colored paper, custom blush ink color and shine from the pearl foil create a subtle, yet show stopping suite.
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John DiStaso's Granite Status: Guinta moves toward 3rd run for 1st CD seat; in 2nd CD, Lambert hires staffer, O'Brien parts ways with his
By John DiStaso, Senior Political Reporter
Kathy Sullivan: Where are the Republicans willing to challenge NH's top Democrats?
TUESDAY, JULY 23: SHAHEEN: BROWN VISIT = CASH REQUEST. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is sounding an alarm with supporters, trying to turn another planned visit to New Hampshire by former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown into reelection campaign cash.
Brown earlier this year created a stir by not ruling out the possibility of establishing residency in New Hampshire and running against Shaheen next year. He owns a vacation home in Rye.
He visited the state four times and now is apparently planning a fifth visit.
First-term state Rep. Joe Sweeney, R-Salem, says he has booked Brown for a $50-a-person fundraiser on behalf of his own reelection campaign to the state House, scheduled for Aug. 9 at the Derry-Salem Elks in Salem.
Sweeney says he had never met Brown but invited him via email more than a months ago, "and we spoke on the phone a bit and worked it out that he would appear."
Shaheen's reelection campaign email contends Brown's appearance at the Sweeney fundraiser shows, "Former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown continues laying groundwork for a run against me in New Hampshire, with (former George W. Bush adviser) Karl Rove urging him on."
She asks for donations "to make sure we're ready for Brown and Rove's attacks."
TUESDAY, JULY 23: "IRS ABUSE" EVENT POSTPONED. Last week we reported on UnionLeader.com that the New Hampshire Republican Leadership Institute and the national Tea Party Patriots will host an event on federal government "abuse," focusing on the IRS, on Thursday (July 25).
Institute executive director Andrew Hemingway told us today the event has been postponed until Aug. 15 at the Raddisson Hotel in downtown Manchester.
MONDAY, JULY 22: GUINTA, LAMBERT, O'BRIEN. There is much activity on the Republican congressional campaign front in New Hampshire today.
We've learned former U.S. Rep. Frank Guinta is moving aggressively toward a third run for the 1st District U.S. House seat.
Ethan Zorfas, Guinta's former chief of staff and former campaign manager, is working with him again.
"Frank has begun making calls to donors and to Republican leaders and discuss running again for the U.S. House," Zorfas said Monday.
"He has some family and personal obligations he needs to fulfill," said Zorfas, but he said he expects Guinta to become a candidate in September.
Guinta confirmed in an interview that he has recently "spent time on vacation with my wife and kids and talked about what if anything I should consider for 2014. We came to a decision and I can say that I'll make a formal announcement in about my political plans in September."
At the same time in the 2nd District former state Sen. Gary Lambert is closing in on a run for the 2nd District U.S. House seat and has hired the same Zorfas to organize his effort.
"Ethan will definitely have a part to play in the campaign," said Lambert.
He said he and Zorfas are in Washington, D.C., today at meetings with potential supporters and donors, as well as with officials at the National Republican Congressional Committee. He said he has an "action-packed" day in Washington planned for Tuesday, as well.
"Ethan is going to have a major role in the campaign, if there is one," Lambert said. He said he expects to make a decision on whether to run "sooner rather than later."
But, he said, "It is looking very positive."
Zorfas said his role with Lambert "will not preclude me from working with Frank." He said he expects to have major consulting roles for both.
Lambert's move forward toward a congressional run comes after potential 2nd District Republican primary foe Bill O'Brien, the former New Hampshire House speaker, raised only $42,000 in the second quarter.
O'Brien, we've also learned, has parted ways with the staffer he hired in May to help in fund-raising and other campaign basics -- Andy Demers, a former campaign operative for both Ron and Rand Paul.
O'Brien confirmed Monday the move was "a jointly reached decision."
O'Brien had hired Demers back in May as he geared up his exploratory effort for a possible 2nd District U.S. House run.
Demers worked as a top staffer on the 2010 Senate campaign of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and the 2012 presidential campaign of Ron Paul.
O'Brien did not attribute the departure of Demers to his fundraising total, but did acknowledge, "we had bigger expectations for the quarter."
"Andy and I worked together and we wanted to see if we could develop a campaign together. And we gave ourselves a limited period to see if that would happen and we think it's best that we move on to different opportunities," said O'Brien.
But O'Brien said he every intention of continuing his exploratory effort.
Lambert has not yet filed a fund-raising committee with the Federal Election Commission.
Guinta defeated Democratic U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter in 2010, but then lost to her in 2012.
Initially, he had been said to be weighing a third run against Shea-Porter against the possibility of a U.S. Senate run against Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, but in recent weeks has been focusing more on another House run.
In mid-March, the former Manchester Mayor in March reemerged from his election loss as the founder and chairman of the Independent Business Council of New Hampshire, a limited liability company that would advocate for conservative fiscal and regulatory policies on behalf of independent business owners.
Guinta said that regardless of "what I do politically," the IBCNH will continue as "a strong small business advocay group. It is something that is needed in the state and is really very separate from my political endeavors.
Guinta said that since the last election, "I've had some time to reflect on how things are going and see what direction the New Hampshire delegation is taking the country and I'm don't necessarily think the people of New Hampshire are happy with the same thing -- the economy, the debt, the deficit, the issues of health care" and the IRS.
"People are frustrated," Guinta said. He also said that in traveling through the state, Granite Staters remain unhappy with the economy and "the level of representation they are getting in the first congressional district."
He also said he hears "contrast about how engaged I was as a constituent service member of Congress, with the job fairs and summits I hosted, and how strong I was there and that's certainly not continuing right now."
Last week, Republican Executive Councilor Chris Sununu took himself out of contention for governor, the U.S. House or the U.S. Senate in 2014. Sununu said he intends to run for a third term on the council.
(For earlier Granite Status reports, click on "Granite Status" above.)


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BOSTON (AP) — Boston police officer Steve Horgan never imagined that a simple gesture celebrating a thrilling comeback by the Red Sox would create such a buzz.
Horgan raised his arms over his head in jubilation after David Ortiz's eighth-inning grand slam tied Sunday's AL championship series game against the Detroit Tigers and sparked the Red Sox to a 6-5 win, tying the series at one game apiece.
Photos captured Horgan's raised arms next to the upturned legs of Tigers outfielder Torii Hunter, who tumbled over the short wall into the Fenway Park bullpen in an unsuccessful attempt to catch the ball.
The result: a flood of media attention and a new name for his joyous, hands-up gesture: "Horganing."
It all seems a bit too much for Horgan, 50, a laid-back, 27-year veteran of the Boston police department who seems stunned by all the attention.
"I'm humbled by it," Horgan said Tuesday at Boston police headquarters.
Horgan, a patrolman, said he's been assigned to various duties at Fenway Park for the last 20 years. This is his first year in the bullpen.
Horgan said when he first saw the ball coming, he thought Hunter was going to catch it. When he didn't, Horgan reacted instinctively.
"Because I'm a Sox fan, I just raised my arms," he said.
Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said Horgan has taken all the attention in good humor, agreeing to strike his pose for countless photos.
"It's great that Steve is now part of Red Sox history," Davis said.
Hunter initially indicated that he was upset with Horgan for cheering before going to help him, but later said he was only kidding.
Horgan said that as soon as he saw Hunter fall, he started walking toward him to try to help. Other players were already at his side motioning for medical help.
Hunter, 38, is a five-time All Star who has developed into one of the Tigers' emotional leaders. He admitted Monday that he was shaken up, but was in the lineup Tuesday for Game 3, as the series resumed in Detroit. He was placed second in the lineup and singled in his first at-bat.
"I was going to give it every attempt to go out there and try to catch that ball," Hunter said. "If it takes for me to get knocked out or die on the field, I guess I've got to do it."
AP Sports Writer Noah Trister contributed to this report from Detroit.


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New gear protects Manchester police dogs facing dangerous situationsBy BILL SMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader
May 06. 2013 9:50PM
MANCHESTER -- Eight city police dogs are being outfitted with bullet-proof vests thanks to a charitable organization devoted to protecting police dogs around the country.
Vested Interest in K9s, a Taunton, Mass.-based group, recently presented body armor for the Manchester police dogs, plus a canine assigned to the Freedom Police Department, to the police members of the K-9 unit.
Officer Scott Ardita, who has worked on the unit for the past several years, noted that Manchester police dogs are on duty for much of the day, especially on night shifts where they will track suspected criminals, enter in situations too dangerous for a person and protect their handlers against attacks.
Before they hit the streets with the dogs, the police handlers go through 14 weeks of training, so the members of the city K-9 unit can protect the animals that often protect them.
"You develop a bond with your dog; it's something you can't put your finger on," Ardita said. "Your dog knows you, your dog knows your emotions, your dog knows if you're scared, your dog knows if you're angry."
The vests cost about $1,030 each, and will defend a dog against most bullet and knife attacks.
Four of the vests were purchased with a $5,000 contribution from Marcus and Summer Stern of Cambridge, Mass.
"We love dogs," Summer Stern said. "We love the opportunity to protect the canines as much as their human counterparts are protected. They're in battle, they're fighting, it doesn't seem fair for them not to have the same protection."
As Manchester canine officers led their four-legged companions on a demonstration of how the dogs were used, the Sterns noted that it was the first time they had seen the dogs they support in action.
"It's amazing," Summer said as German shepherds followed the voice commands of their police patrol handlers, responding immediately to voice command and reacting instinctively to scenarios simulating those they had been trained to confront.
The effort to provide protective gear to police dogs is spearheaded by Sandy Marcal of East Taunton, Mass., who said she got the idea while watching an Animal Planet program on K-9 patrols.
Vested Interest provided 66 of the vests to police departments around the country last year.
This year, 217 protective vests are being donated as the result of fundraising efforts through the Groupon.com Daily Deals website and a grant from a California pet insurance company.
"This is strictly to protect the four-legged canine heroes," Marcal said.
City Police Chief David Mara said the police dogs are a valuable part of the department.
Mara cited a case a couple of years ago when an elderly woman got lost in the woods and was found when a search dog led rescuers to her after she had been out all night. The police chief said that having a police dog who could pick up the woman's scent and find her saved the woman's life.
The role of the dogs is not limited to searching for people or contraband.
"If somebody is inside a building, instead of sending a police officer in there who could get hurt, we'll send the dog in and they'll come out," Mara said. "They help us a lot."


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NEW YORK — After a week in New York City and two decisive wins in exhibition games, the final 12 players for the USA Basketball men's roster for the FIBA Basketball World Cup have yet to be announced. But one player who seems to have cemented a spot in the starting lineup is Denver Nuggets forward Kenneth Faried, a player whose inclusion in the initial player pool was questioned by some.
"Since we've been here I've, I guess, proven people wrong saying I wasn't a good fit," said Faried after posting 12 points, 5 rebounds and 2 blocks in 12 minutes during a 112-86 win over Puerto Rico. "People saying 'That kid's not gonna make it on the team.' 'Oh, why did they bring Kenneth? Why is he even starting?' Hey, I'm gonna just keep proving people wrong."
Proving people wrong is nothing new for Faried. While playing at Technology High School in Newark, NJ, Faried wasn't recruited extensively by bigger college programs because he hadn't played against elite high school competition. Faried ended up at Morehead State University in Kentucky, where he finished his four-year career as the NCAA all-time rebounding leader (post-1973, when the NCAA split into Divisions) as well as a collegiate second-team All-American.
Faried's college credentials didn't help much when the NBA came calling, as he dropped to the Nuggets with the 22nd pick in the 2011 Draft. He totaled just 20 minutes in Denver's first 21 games that season, but his relentless energy in practice earned him a chance, and once he broke into the lineup he couldn't be removed. He finished his rookie year on the NBA's All-Rookie first team.
Faried impressed USA Basketball brass last summer at the team's training camp, and parlayed that into an invite to this summer's camp. In the weeks since, he's used his perpetual motor and nose for the ball to earn what looks like a starting spot on Team USA.
He's heard the questions — "I hear everybody saying stuff. I hear everything." — and, as he's done at every level, he's answered them with resounding clarity.
"Same story, different chapter, basically," Faried said. "Again, I'm just out here trying to prove everybody wrong. And again, I have to do it at another level, and that's the USA level. Hopefully, after this run is over with, we come home with the gold, people will say, 'Oh, OK, we apologize,' and show me some respect. If not, until then, I'm gonna have to keep proving people wrong."
Against Puerto Rico, with Coach Mike Krzyzeski still trying out different line-up combinations, Faried was told he wouldn't play much in the first half, and he didn't, totaling less than 5 minutes. But in the third quarter, Faried showed why he's called "The Manimal," teaming with Anthony Davis to give the U.S. a dynamic interior presence, unleashing a flurry of blocks and rebounds and dunks and tip-ins to help the USA push what was a five-point halftime lead to a 20-point advantage heading into the fourth.
"I play hard and my teammates start having fun, and my energy is contagious," said Faried. "It's been contagious my whole life. People come out basically to see me play, and guys feed off my energy, and this is what happens: We win games.
"I feel as though we're having fun, if anything. When you're having fun everything else just falls into place. Guys want to get after it. We're playing great defense. That's what we're trying to do, stick to our motto: Play defense. Lock down whoever their best player is, whoever their second go-to player is. We want to lock down all five, basically."
Don't make the mistake of thinking Faried somehow feeds off the slights accumulated throughout his career. He hears them, he shrugs them off, and then he outruns and outworks any doubts.
"No, that really is not what drives me," Faried said. "Just going out there and playing every day, and lacing my sneakers up, and being blessed to play the game I love. I don't go to work every day. I just go have fun."
It's been quite a ride, but the guy who has spent much of his life being overlooked is smack in the middle of Team USA. Just don't ask him if he feels like he belongs.
"I know I belong," said Faried. "Ain't no feel like it, I know I belong. So I'm not worried about anything."


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St. Patricks Day isn't celebrated with the same gusto everywhere you go, but if you're in Daily Voice Country, you're in luck. New York, Connecticut and New Jersey were all ranked among the rowdiest places to celebrate the holiday, according to candystore.com.
New York took the top spot, featuring 32 parades this year, including the annual televised tradition in New York City.
New Jersey took second thanks to 18 parades of its own as well as the Annual Guinness Run in Highlands.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A transgender girl has been moved to Connecticut's juvenile home for boys after she was accused of assault, the latest transfer of a troubled teenager who was sent to a psychiatric facility after supporters protested her confinement in a women's prison without criminal charges.
The Department of Children and Families said Sunday that the girl, identified only as Jane Doe, assaulted another youth and a staff member and destroyed property at the Children's Psychiatric Center in Middletown on Saturday night.
Officials said there is no "suitable place" at the psychiatric facility "that can ensure the safety of youths and staff" and moved her to the nearby Juvenile Training School, Connecticut's only secure facility for delinquent boys. She is in a single room separated from the other residents.
Gary Kleeblatt, a spokesman for the agency, said the unit at the psychiatric center where the girl had been held is the only secure, all-female facility run by the agency. He said he could not release details of the alleged assault.
The DCF statement said state police had been notified.
"We are confident they will take whatever action they deem is appropriate," the agency said.
Her lawyer, Aaron Romano, criticized the agency and Commissioner Joette Katz for issuing a news release rather than notifying him or other lawyers representing the youngster.
"I am shocked and disappointed at the commissioner," he said. "I question whether the commissioner should continue to be in her position if she believes in this litigation in the press."
Romano accused DCF of breaking promises to get therapy for his client and seek foster care.
"Nothing has materialized," he said.
The girl had been detained in the Connecticut adult women's prison without criminal charges and was moved last month to the psychiatric center.
She had been in DCF custody before being sent to jail. DCF officials said she was too violent for them to handle and asked a state judge to transfer her into Department of Correction custody as authorized by a seldom-used state law.
The judge approved the request in April.