While with Portland, his roommate on road trips was Billy Beane. Pittaro didn't make the Twins in 1988. He was assigned to Portland, and retired during the season. Pittaro has been a scout and front office executive in the Oakland Athletics organization since 1991. Beane, the Athletics' general manager, identifies Pittaro as one of the scouts willing to rethink everything he knows about baseball. Pittaro joined the Athletics as a scout and cross-checker. He managed the Southern Oregon Athletics of the Class-A Northwest League in 1992. He was named national field coordinator, serving from 2002 through 2007, when he became the club's director of professional scouting from 2008 to 2011. He was named special assistant to the general manager after the 2011 season. Pittaro's father, Sonny Pittaro, was an infielder in the Minnesota Twins' minor league organization from 1960 to 1962 and then a longtime coach at Rider University. After his playing career, Pittaro graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in finance from Rider. He is married to Lisa Gmitter, former soccer player and U.S. national team member. Pittaro is mentioned in "Moneyball", a book focusing on the 2002 Oakland Athletics season. He was initially cast to play himself in the film version. List of terrorist incidents in 2008  This is a timeline of incidents in 2008 that have been labelled as "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism). Manyuchi Dam  Manyuchi Dam forms a reservoir on the Mwenezi River in southern Zimbabwe. It is located in the Mwenezi District. The building of the dam was financed by the Mwenezi Development Corporation. The dam was built to irrigate oil palm estates. The dam was built by International Construction Zimbabwe (ICZ), a division of the southern African construction giant Murray and Roberts, and was completed in 1988. The dam is located in the Mwenwezi River Valley in the middle section of the river. The area is flat and dry and semi-arid with countless dome-shaped mountains and kopjes in which troops of baboons roam at will. When it was built, a number of villages where displaced and forced to relocate by the government to distant places like the area between Ngundu and Chiredzi (District), where they suddenly found themselves labelled illegal settlers by local officials. The dam was built in a gorge that the Mwenezi River makes when passing through the mountains close to the bucolic village of Magomana.