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Opening Weekend: Hail the pitchers04/09/2012 4:50 PM ET
By Benjamin Hill / MLB.com
Four days down, 152 to go.
Opening Weekend is now in the books, a baseball extravaganza that featured 120 teams in 10 leagues over four levels of play competing in their first games of the season. Given this exceedingly large sample size, it would seem a fool's exercise to reduce the weekend's myriad action into a concise summary statement.
But we here at MiLB.com are nothing if not fools, so how about this: Pitching reigned supreme.
Indeed, our nation's emerging men of the mound had a veritable coming-out party this weekend, with top prospects and unheralded journeymen alike stymieing the opposition with apparent ease. Perhaps this anecdotal phenomenon can best be summed up through the strange case of the Charleston RiverDogs, who swept a three-game set against the Rome Braves on the strength of scoring four runs. Total.
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The RiverDogs won again Saturday, and this time the pitcher in Rome's loss column was none other than rehabbing Braves right-hander Tim Hudson. The three-time All-Star was touched for two runs -- one earned -- over three frames, and that was all the offense Charleston would need thanks to the dominating trio of Caleb Cotham, Wilton Rodriguez (who was perfect over three innings and earned the win) and Ben Paullus.
After the ballgame, Hudson was magnanimous in defeat.
"It's fun to hang out with these kids," he said. "I can see their hunger and passion. It reminds me of my time in the Minors. It's good to see."
The offense of both teams was left hungry in Sunday's finale, with the RiverDogs once again pulling out a 1-0 victory. Bryan Mitchell, the Yankees' 20th-ranked prospect, faced just 19 batters over six innings and earned the win. This must have left Rome's A.J. Holland scratching his head afterward, as the tough-luck hurler took the loss despite a respectable day's work of one unearned run allowed over 6 2/3 innings.
Plenty more where that came from
Though the Charleston-Rome series was on the extreme end of the pitching dominant side of the equation, there is, indeed, plenty more where that came from. A leisurely stroll through the MiLB.com news archives reveals pitching-themed recaps and write-ups galore, with star performers including first-rounders such as Boston's Matt Barnes, Baltimore's Dylan Bundy and Arizona's Trevor Bauer.
Runs Scored on Opening WeekendRuns per game for the first four days of the Minor League season since 2005
And then there are more unlikely stories, such as that of Lehigh Valley's Tyler Cloyd. The 24-year-old was slated to start the season with Double-A Reading but received a spot start with Lehigh Valley after scheduled starter Dave Bush was suspended during Spring Training. Cloyd went ahead and made the most of his serendipitous assignment by hurling six perfect innings against Scranton/Wilkes-Barre -- the first time in franchise history that a pitcher had attained perfection for such a sustained length of time.
Chicks still dig 'em
Though overshadowed by their pitching brethren, there was still a plethora of Minor League sluggers who were able to leave a mark this weekend. After a 30-homer season with Round Rock last season, Mike Bianucci picked up where he left off by homering in each of his first three games with Triple-A Round Rock.
Bianucci, however, isn't atop the Minor League leaderboard. That honor goes to High Desert shortstop Brad Miller, who went yard once Thursday, once Saturday and then, for good measure, twice Sunday. Though it appears unlikely that the Clemson product will be able to maintain his 140-homer pace for the duration of the season, he has already exceeded what he was able to accomplish in 2011. Miller, the Mariners' second-round pick in 2011, made his professional debut with Class A Clinton late that season and failed to go yard over 53 at-bats.
Meanwhile, the Trenton Thunder went into to the record books by bashing a franchise-best seven home runs against New Hampshire on Saturday. The team was aided by a meteorological phenomenon not referenced in their moniker: the wind. Twenty-one-mile-per-hour gusts at Trenton's Waterfront Park led to two long balls apiece by Cody Johnson and Robert Lyerly, and one from Zoilo Almonte, Melky Mesa and Jose Gil.
The off-beat beat
Each month, MiLB.com's Crooked Numbers column documents the most anomalous on-field happenings to occur in Minor League Baseball. Certainly, Opening Weekend provided a few candidates.


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The Manly's premiership defence is gaining momentum as they posted back-to-back victories with a 34-10 trouncing of Parramatta at Brookvale Oval this afternoon in front of 15,916 fans. Sea Eagles centre Jamie Lyon turned in an impressive first half performance to again further his claims for an Origin recall as he helped dismantle his former club.
It looked like an upset was on the cards when Jarryd Hayne raced 30 metres to score the first of his two tries in the 8th minute but a crushing tackle from Anthony Watmough in the 12th minute derailed any hopes Parramatta had of victory.
The Eels lost dynamic halfback Kris Keating in the tackle to a broken jaw after a sickening head clash with Watmough.
The tackle also served as a wake-up call for the Eagles as they went on a try scoring spree.
The Eagles crossed the line four times before the break, to shut the Eels out of the game 22-4 at halftime.
Lyon was instrumental in two of the tries to again give voice to the cries for him to be returned to a Blue jumper.
He set up the first Eagles try, racing 30 metres before linking up with Matt Ballin who scored adjacent to the posts. In the second, he drifted across field, taking defenders with him before throwing a beautiful flick pass to David Williams who crashed over in the corner.
One of the only highlights for Parramatta, in a game which they also lost Nathan Cayless to concucssion, was the performance of fullback Hayne.
He was in everything trying to ignite the Eels, as he scored an incredible solo try in the 54th minute.
With nothing on, Hayne received the ball on the 5th tackle and grubbered towards the posts, getting a fortuitous bounce off the posts as he regathered to score.
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The Oklahoma Christian University Music Department has "something coming" on Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 10-12: the 22nd annual Valentine Cabaret dinner theater, featuring the music of the legendary Broadway composer Leonard Bernstein.
The festivities will start at 6 p.m. each evening, with a catered candlelight dinner in the McIntosh Conservatory, located inside the Garvey Center on the OC campus, followed by the Cabaret performance at 7 p.m. in the adjacent Recital Hall. The dinner menu will be a tossed green salad with dressing, followed by a hot London Broil steak, whole new potatoes with parsley butter, and grilled fresh vegetables, with chocolate and raspberry swirl cheesecake for dessert. Tea, hot coffee and water will also be served.
This year's Cabaret is titled "It's Love: Bernstein on Broadway," and will feature 20 songs from the musicals "West Side Story," "On The Town," "Candide," and "Wonderful Town." The show will trace the ups and downs of relationships through such Bernstein favorites as "Something's Coming," "Maria," "New York, New York" and "A Little Bit In Love."
The Cabaret cast members are Laura Bowles, Hannah Faye Foster, Rachel O'Laughlin, Courtney Tarpley, Moriah Willing, Sam Durrill, Reece Kingcade, Cody Summerville, Brett Vanderzee and Brian Wilcox.
The show is directed and choreographed by Barbara Berard, with music direction by OC staff accompanist Eric Grigg, who will also play piano for the performances.
Patrons may also visit the University Gallery to view the exhibit of works by political cartoonist, Paul Fell. Tickets are $18 for the dinner and show, or $7 for the show alone. For tickets, call the OC Music Department at 425-5530, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.


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The Chain Game is for anyone who wants to play along, we are going to start a game from the beginning and take it to 100%.
Please read the Rules/Guidelines before you start to play.
The Rules/Guidelines are here so that the game can progress and everyone can have an enjoyable experience while making a contribution to its completion.
Joining the Chain Game is easy and new players are always welcome. If you're new and want to plunge right in, simply follow the Quick Start Guide for now and read the complete set of rules later. You're excused for now, but eventually you'll have to...
Newbie's Quick Start Guide (by rubregg)
- Call a turn by posting in this topic
- Download the last save
- Play one mission
- Upload your save on gtasnp.com or the New uploader by hmvartak,
- Post the link to your game back here within 3 hours. Edit your original posting to do this. Have a look at other players' postings and you'll get the idea.
- You can follow this link to go directly to the latest posting in the topic.
- Call the mission that you want to do or just call a turn by posting in the topic.
- The definition of a "mission" is "any named mission". Examples are "In the Beginning" "Learning to Fly" and "Big Smoke". If the save file name changes, then it's a "named mission".
- Download the previously posted save file. We want to use the same save file throughout the game and take it to 100%. After 100%, we can see who has the fastest racing times.
- Use the posting format (see below for the format).
- Complete ONE named mission only, save it and post a link back in the topic (use edit). See below for a listing of 'named' missions that are 'lame' & may be done with one other 'named' mission.
- Use Samutz, New uploader by hmvartak, Rapidshare or YouSendit to upload.
- Wait until 3 other turns have been completed before calling another mission.
- If 6 hours pass without another gamer calling a mission, then the 3 mission rule is reset & anyone may call a turn. This does NOT mean to wait 6 hours between personal mission/turn calls.
- Time limit to complete the mission is 3 hours. We will use the post time in the topic. The timer starts when a mission is called. After 3 hours and the caller has not posted, it's a forfeit and anyone else may call a mission.
- The caller may call a forfeit. The forfeiter should wait at least one turn before calling another mission/turn. The forfeited turn will not count towards the '3-mission' rule.
- In the event of two gamers calling a mission the first one does the called mission.
- Mission strategy is up to the caller - just don't use cheats/trainers.
- Do not save after getting busted or wasted.
- The caller may purchase/collect items (weapons, etc.), eat, dress, date, get a tattoo, workout & get a haircut for CJ.
- The caller may do any non-named missions/collections/deliveries in the 3 hours. Please report any extra stuff in the Notes section.
- The caller doesn't have to call a mission when all they want to do for example is collect/do 25 tags, or do the Vigilante mission. In that case, just call a turn, but remember that the 3 hour time limit will still apply.
- We expect the players to also adhere to the gtaforums.com rules. This will include "No warez/piracy (linking to, requesting or discussion of illegally obtaining copyrighted material) & Never open multiple accounts."
A request to all players:
Please try to post the completion percentage from the stats after you have completed your turn. This will help in putting together the stats at the end of the round (stats by girishb). The completion % can be found in STATS/MISC.
- Do not fail a mission unless it's to collect a special vehicle (BP/DP/EP/FP). If a special vehicle has been collected, let us know in the Notes section.
- Try to keep the safe house saves minimal. If you have a game crash problem on your system multiple saves are alright - save when you don't want to lose some progress.
- Avoid known glitch situations, though you may use the the one for "NRG-500" and the Ammu-Nation glitch (but remember that some players like to see the clip count which disappears when the ammo exceeds 9999).
- Try to save with full armor.
- Collect ammo when possible.
- Save close to available missions when possible.
- Lets try to have the last save for 100% be "End of the Line, so lets try to get everything else done before that.
- "Lame Missions":
Some missions are Named Missions although they are in fact only cut scenes without any action going on. These missions *are now Free Missions* and can be combined with any other one Named Mission. --> Examples: Verdant Meadows, Fish in a Barrel
- Stadium Events:
All Stadium Events *are now Free Missions* and can be combined in any number with any other one Named Mission.
- Race Tournaments:
With the exception of the 3 races you do within the storyline (Lowrider, Badlands A/B), all races *are no longer Named Missions*.
--> You can do up to 3 races if you don't do a Named Mission as well.
--> You can do 1 race if you also do a Named Mission.
(Thanks to rubregg for putting the 'Lame' missions rule together)
- Have FUN!
<Here's a link for The Chain Game FAQ>
For those who would like to spray tags/collect oysters/take snapshots/gather horseshoes, you can find the program for SAMA here, it will provide relevant maps showing which ones are left.
Links to pdescobar's convert program and V2.0 scripts:
Link to rubregg's Easy script switcher (PC)
Here is the posting format to use:
Mission: Use the mission name as it appears on the screen. Don't use mission descriptions like 'that mission where you chase the jet'
Called by: Use your handle.
Status: 'in progress' or 'completed'.
Notes: anything pertinent to the mission/strategy or extra stuff done.
Completion %: from stats section
Welcome to Chain Game 31. Round 31 will be the same save as the previous round. As (almost) always, it is a modified version of a version 2 save with many interesting changes/additions. We hope you will enjoy playing it as much as we've enjoyed creating it. Please remember that you should not save after being wasted/busted and instead should replay your turn if you have time.
All Chain Game officers are now equipped with a Chain Game Checker. This checks the save file for the number of cheats used, times wasted, times busted and some other things.
The major change for Round 31 is that the barriers and objects are switched so that they appear for v2 players but not for v1 players. This means that a v2 player will have to complete the missions Green Sabre, Are You going to San Fierro?, and Yay Ka-Boom-Boom.
This round features several modifications that are the results of our tests with the pedestrians of San Andreas. Expect to see some new faces in every area of the map.
While our description continues to take the form of hints and allusions, the map now contains (almost) everything. A couple of new features are left to be discovered, but 99% of the stuff that can be mapped is mapped. Also, a full feature list is on the way and might be posted later in the topic. Note that the map now displays the rubregg Cheetah in its standard location as he is home recuperating.
Changes from the unmodified game:
- Exports, and most mission-unlocked vehicles available at the start of the game; export spawns should still disappear once the car is exported
- Some changes to export vehicle locations to resolve conflicts with other parked vehicles; in all but one case (the Sanchez) the new location is quite close to the original one.
- Some minor changes to school rewards, airstrip vehicles, SF fire trucks, and a couple other cars to resolve conflicts as well. Most of these changes appeared in Round 19 as well.
- Some original vehicles have been tweaked to spawn a little more reliably such as the Maverick on the LS Skyscraper or parked cars near safe houses. Caution: Some vehicles may spawn suddenly; it is not a good idea stand in the exact location of a missing vehicle.
- You might find a green-colored vehicle in your garage; such vehicles are specially designed to help with certain tasks...
- An entire new set of additional vehicle spawns have been added to the map; some enabled right away, and others will appear as the game progresses. A couple will be familiar from previous rounds but most will be new and different. Where are they? -- you'll just have to look around and see.
- In order to improve stability, some of the less useful original vehicles have been removed. These include some of the Karts as well as some vehicles which have another of the same type very close by. For example, rather than having two Dodos right next to each other, you may only see one of them now.
- Three adrenaline pills have been added in Los Santos
- Jetpacks are available in each of the three major cities but might require some work to get to.
- Several new brides have bin added all over the map.
- The fixed SF Bribe from previous chain games returns to its familiar location behind the SF firehouse
- Some additional pickups have been added in some other places...
- To allow for new picks some standard pickups (canes) have been trimmed.
- Bridge barriers will appear for version 2 players, but probably not for version 1 players. This means that a player running the v2 executable must complete the missions Green Sabre and Yay Ka-Boom-Boom.
- All non-special clothing available at the start.
- Bike School & Boat School available at the start; Driving School icon is visible but it will not unlock until after Wear Flowers in Your Hair
- Race Tournaments available at the start. Note that SF to LV is not completable until the barrier comes down; Military Service is more difficult because of the barrier, but can be completed. Also, please do not complete Lowrider Race, Badlands A, or Badlands B until their associated missions have been passed.
- Vehicle mod shops in SF and LV are open at the start but without radar icons
- Gyms open at the start but without radar icons
- Food, Clothing, Barber, Tattoo, and Ammunation, are not altered and follow normal storyline unlocking.
- Zero's RC Shop is open from the start and probably won't close.
- Crack Den is open from the start but will close once Cleaning the Hood is attempted.
- Madd Dogg's Crib is open from the start but will close once Madd Dogg's Rhymes is attempted and will remain closed until "A Home in the Hills" is passed.
- Vargos Gang House is open from the start but will close once Burning Desire is attempted.
- The Pleasure Domes club is open from the start of the game but will close once Ice Cold Killa is attempted.
- Sindacco Abattoir is open from the start but will close once The Meat Business is attempted.
- Planning Department is open from the start but will close once Architectural Espionage is attempted.
- Finally, a few markers may not lead where you expect them to...
- Note that the Queens interior now has the LS Big House interior.
- The Johnson House is open before Big Smoke
- The Redsands West property no longer has a usable garage; instead, there is a new Dock garage at Toreno's ranch which can store boats, amphibious air vehicles, and even small land vehicles. It is usable from the start and marked on radar as a "Boat Yard"; there are also some special objects at each corner of the garage marking its size.
- The car garage at the airstrip is usable from the start; this is similar to how the Doherty garage is usable in the standard game. The hangar will remain inaccessible until the airstrip is purchased.
- Some Pay n Sprays have increased in size and can support a greater variety of vehicles.
- There is a new Pay n Spray enabled behind the LV Dance Club; it is marked on the radar and is very large, so a wide variety of things could be sprayed there...
- Several garages previously used only in missions have been reassigned to more useful tasks at the start of the game.
- The save disk inside Madd Dogg's Mansion has been moved to a new location in the first room on the left; saving there should now avoid the basketball glitch.
- The Queens save disk has now been moved inside to the armoury.
- New to this round are boat jumps. These are ramps scattered all over the map in the main water ways of San Andreas.
- 19 of the original jumps have been removed and replaced with new jumps; some of the new ones are fairly easy and some are extra-challenging.
- 2 of rubregg's "backbreaker" in foster valley have been replaced.
- Please note that SAMA should now show all the jumps and record their status properly.
- Some zones have been adjusted so gang wars are able to be triggered in SF and in LV.
- For round 31 several of the zones have added features and added pedestrians.
- Sixteen current and former Chain Game contributors have been honoured in this round; see how many references you can find.
- There are a couple new ways to make money if you look around
- The underwater glitch has been integrated as a feature. Note that CJ swims faster with the Frame Limiter On.
- There are some new ways to travel quickly between cities
- Some local property taxes have been reassessed.
- Be sure to look around and check out some of the new additions before doing everything the same old way; you might find something that'll help you do, for example, early vigilante without the Hunter or HPV.
- Some added features are intended to expand on what can be accomplished with 4-stars. For example, a new jump might show you how to enter restricted territory and a special vehicle may help you survive while you're there.
- Some added features are intended to give an introduction to Chain Game Rallies; that discussion inspired this modification and will hopefully lead to future fun stuff
- People who would like to play this save independently should download the version 1 or version 2 saves provided below. The chain game is using a version 2 save with a rules patch applied which these saves do not have.
- For this round, the barriers and map objects should work correctly with your given version. That is, people with the v1 exe and scripts playing the v1 save should see all the barriers and objects properly. And so should people with the v2 exe and the v2 scripts. A hybrid installation is not recommended for the Independent Play saves.
- Also please note that a few of our additions and changes might confuse third-party tools like trainers and save-editors so be especially careful when using them while playing these saves.
- Chain Game 31 v1 for independent play
- Chain Game 31 v2 for independent play
- There are a few things still unmapped which will initially not appear on a feature list. Whenever new things are added we like to keep a bit of mystery about them to encourage exploration and experimentation. We hope you do some investigating, try out new things, take notice of your surroundings, and share your finds with everyone else.
- We have tried to manage the balancing act of adding fun new features while making minimal changes to items from the original game. We have also worked hard to ensure that all changes function under the original game scripts without requiring any modification from the players. Hopefully you will agree that our choices were sound ones.
- Your input is encouraged; please give us your comments regarding this round's features. If you don't want to post them in the topic so as not to clutter it or spoil anything for anyone else, feel free to PM either OrionSR or pdescobar. We are particularly interested in issues where new/changed vehicles or pickups are not spawning properly but any feedback is welcome.
- For those who are curious, a variety of tools were used in the creation and testing of this. Pieces of this were made via a custom Darkpacted mission script made with SannyBuilder, modified IPL files, and the GTASA Control Center. It was then unified together by hex-editing parts of a couple different saves together; hex-editing was also used in a couple of cases to overcome limitations of the tools and finish off the features. Saving in the Jefferson Alley was accomplished with CLEO. And, as always, Samutz' GTASnP uploader was invaluable in helping with the design and testing.
- Primary designer: OrionSR
- Additional help and coding: pdescobar
- Testing and ideas: JAJ, ryan92, rubregg, zmoonchild, jaj's brother
- Special thanks to GTA Phreak for his help with the gang war testing and for the inspriation behind the water features.
This supplement is designed to discuss some of the technicalities of the Chain Game's rules, and it was thought best to provide these in the original post.
(1) Abuse of the '3-mission' rule:
Callers are encouraged to understand the basic ethos of the Chain Game. One should only call a mission, once the previous caller has completed his/her called mission and posted the new save. That's the basic idea of the chain: a new link can only be attached as long as the previous one is bound. Hence, to call a mission while a previous one is being completed, defeats the entire logic of the chain. In such a case, one can actually wait around and call every 5th mission beforehand, and negate the possibility of others to call the mission. This seems to be a fine loophole of the 3-mission rule, which callers should not exploit. Let's also consider the fact that when a mission/turn is called that the 3 hour timer has started.
(2) Exceptions to the 'One Named Mission' rule:
•"King In Exile"
•"First Date"
•"First Base"
•"Gone Courting"
•"Made in Heaven"
The above missions are all cut scenes in the Catalina strand in the Badlands. The icons for her missions trigger each of these, in sequence, though it is up to the caller to decide which of Catalina's jobs they'd want to pull off. In each such case, the caller should call the cut scene (like "First date") and also the job (e.g.: "Local Liquor Store"). The format should be: Missions: First Date/Local Liquor Store. The caller can't help but do a 'double', so to say, as one can't save after the cut scenes, and in these cases the 'one named mission' rule is exempted.
•"Back to School"
•"Learning to Fly"
•"Boat School"
•"Bike School"
The above vehicular schools are comprised of 'named' tests (e.g.: "Burn and Lap", "Circle the Airstrip", "Land, Sea, and Air", "Stoppie" etc.). Callers should take note that 'named' tests are not equivalent to 'named missions'. Hence, callers should call schools and not particular tests, even though it may seem, for some, to be against the 'one named mission' rule. To call and do one single test, or only a set of two/three tests, would only add confusion to future callers, and be an impediment to the progress of the Chain Game. Callers also note: in the posting format, you should use "Back to School" and "Learning to Fly" and not 'Driving School' and 'Flying School'.
• The 'CV' icon at Wang Auto after "Back to School" and "Yay Ka Boom Boom" are completed
This one's a little different from the first four, as even though an icon appears for Cesar on the map, and you go to the dealership at Doherty, it is not followed by a mission, and instead opens up Cesar's strand at San Fierro. This is different, also, from "Verdant Meadows" because even though the mechanic involved is the same, the latter is a named mission, while this is not. Callers may buy Wang Auto after the completion of "Back to School" or "Yay Ka Boom Boom" (whichever is done later), and this will not be considered as a violation of the 'one named mission' rule. Alternatively, callers may buy it before starting "Zeroing In", if it wasn't purchased beforehand.
(3) Missions exempt from the 'One Named Mission' rule:
• The Chiliad Challenge
• "Verdant Meadows", as mentioned above
• "Fish in a Barrel"
• "Stadiom Events"
• Los Santos Race Tournaments
• San Fierro Race Tournaments
• Las Venturas Race Tournaments (Cars)
• Las Venturas Racing Tournaments (Aircraft)
(4) Non-storyline missions which alter the save names:
• Zero's Missions
• Cesar's Missions in San Fierro
• Heist Missions in Las Venturas
(5) Other things to keep in mind:
• Dating : All callers can help CJ progress with any of the 6 girlfriends in the game. It does not have to be called separately, and if it is, then the '3 hour' rule will apply as always. It is best not to alter CJ physically and instead collect all oysters as soon as possible to make him forever desirable.
• Import/Export : All callers are allowed to participate in exporting cars, and this does not have to be called separately. Callers, however, must remain true to the spirit of the Chain Game and only export cars when full earnings can be availed. Do not export damaged cars. Callers can also help by storing cars on the lists beforehand as and when they come across these. The Cheetah and the Huntley are probably best to stock up early.
• Turf Wars/Gang Wars : These can be separately called for, and also be completed otherwise. The second round of wars in Los Santos should be completed before "Riot", as this saves a lot of trouble and makes the last few missions speedier. The posting format for these would be: Mission: Gang Wars.
Have fun playing!
The Chain Game Officers
Inactive Chain Game Officers
I would like to thank crazyanurag, ajkhan316', Plaka, Tornado Rex, & wolf68k for helping put this together.
Also thanks to:
OrionSR & pdescobar for the starting save.
meth. for the 100% checklist.
pdescobar for the banner artwork.
Samutz for the [SnP] Uploader/Downloader & special chain game oriented addition.
hmvartak for a special chain game oriented Uploader/Downloader.
pdescobar for the V2 conversion program.
I got the idea for the Chain Game from Orion_SR 08/05.


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Jay Chandrasekhar and Kevin Heffernan of 'The Babymakers'
In using scenes of adult movies in 'The Babymakers,' how much do you regret not using 'Ted Mosby: Sex Architect'? KH: [Laughs] Yeah, I know, it should have been in there. "Ted Mosby Sex Architect" was like the tamest porn movie that you could make. JC: What was that? KH: That was the "How I Met Your Mother" episode that I did. And so it was like, eight o'clock on CBS, we had to walk a fine line about doing a porn story. It was still fun, it was good, but you could only do a certain type of moaning and things like that. JC: Were you the architect? KH: I was the porn star sex architect.-- Matt Pais Click here for the full Q&A
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The smoke around the status of Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson seems to be growing.Now, don't get me wrong. I don't want anything good to come for Georgia Tech. And as a blogger, CPJ is a great resource for material. Still, if they are in a coaching change situation, or there are rumors around about that, it'll only distract from matters at hand come Thanksgiving week.
Selfishly, I want him to stay at Tech forever.
Now, that site is a bit of a rumor mill (their name makes it so), but they are also right more than they are wrong. The next few weeks bear watching closely on North Avenue.


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YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) - Derek Thompson scored 16 points to lead Eastern Michigan to a 65-58 victory over Miami (Ohio) on Saturday.
Glenn Bryant had 13 points for the Eagles (9-9, 2-2 Mid-American) and Daylen Harrison scored all 10 of his points in the first half for Eastern Michigan. The Eagles shot 58 percent in the first half in building a 38-25 lead.
Will Felder led the RedHawks (7-9, 2-2) with 12 points and nine rebounds. Allen Roberts finished with 11 points.
It was Eastern Michigan's first win over Miami since Feb. 6, 1997 - the RedHawks had won the last 16 meetings.
Miami trailed by 14 midway through the second half, but came within 60-58 on Jon Harris' 3-pointer with 1:49 remaining. But Jalen Ross made two free throws with 56 seconds to play for the Eagles, and Bryant hit three free throws in the final 30 seconds to complete the scoring.


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This team is doing great- one of the highest scoring teams and one of the best defending. Spacing looks much better, Melo is actually playing efficiently, and everything seems to be coming together very smoothly thus far. 5-0 start, best since 1993.
Are they better off without Stoudemire? Will he be a liability? When he comes back, will he disrupt the offensive and defensive flow?


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Hi there,
I've just installed all what i need to learn Ruby on Rails. I've got a Sitepoint book that runs through a tutorial on building a site similar to Digg, and it's discussing 'Saving an Object' which i run through the ruby console:
ruby script/console
from that i run:
>> class Story < ActiveRecord::Base; end
which returned:
=> nil
I then went to enter the next line:
>> story = Story.new
i got the following error returned when i entered story = Story.new
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: Mysql::Error: Unknown system variable 'NAMES': SET NAMES 'utf8'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:150:in `log'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:281:in `execute'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:472:in `connect'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:165:in `initialize'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:88:in `new'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:88:in `mysql_connection'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:291:in `send'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:291:in `connection='
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:259:in `retrieve_connection'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:78:in `connection'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/base.rb:1080:in `columns'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/base.rb:2363:in `attributes_from_column_definition_without_lock'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/locking/optimistic.rb:55:in `attributes_from_column_definition'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/base.rb:1922:in `initialize'
Any ideas?????
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Check your config/database.yml file. See if there is a line encoding: utf8 in there. Try deleting that line from test, production, and development.
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Use another tutorial
Hey Westy,
I picked up that same book you are using by Patrick Lenz.
Although I can't offer you advice to the error at hand, I can tell you that you should stop using that book and save yourself some time.
The book is fairly outdated and with all the new updates, it is a new playing field. I suggest you look for a new tutorial, I've been looking into this site http://www.pragprog.com/
I'm up to about chapter 6 in Lenz's book and i have just about had it with asking people and looking for workarounds due to the newer updates.
Here are the time consuming issues I have encountered. I run Leopard so maybe not all these issues apply to you.
1) Chapter 2: Issue with Mac OS 10.5 defaulting to SQLite Database adapter even after installing mysql (a simple fix)
2) as a result of the first issue... Not all databases were auto created as Lenz says in his book and have to be manually created(also a simple fix, but takes a bit of looking)
3) In one chapter you will have to call a scaffold method within a controller and you will get a Scaffold method error. It turns out that rails ditched the Scaffold method in its latest update. Of course Lenz couldn't predict this but if you want to continue the tutorial you will have to create it manually with .script/generate scaffold, this is tricky and i still can't figure it out completely since you have to append attributes to the to the newly generated scaffold.
Like I said, try a newer tutorial. And if its Digg you want your site modeled after you can always come back when you are a bit more knowledeable and gander through his code archive.
Hope this helps, and if you have any help to give me with that third issue I mentioned above, i wouldn't mind trying since i already have put a lot of time into lenz's tutorial.
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check to see if your adapter is mysql rather sqlite in your config/database.yml


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It would only seem fitting Mother Nature would deliver her Christmas "presence" on Christmas Day.
"Around 9 o'clock I could hear the wind blowing really hard," explained Madisonville resident Nicholas Hipps.
Locals on Texas and Main in Madisonville say "she" paid a quick visit…
"Five minutes later it [wind] all stopped," added Hipps.
But it was just enough time to leave footprints in just about every nook and cranny on Highway 21 in Madisonville. Heavy winds uprooted trees; split many in half; and blocked roadways.
"We were all shocked because we didn't think it was that bad," said Hipps.
Concerns of a possible tornado had Hipps taking a break from unwrapping presents to scope things out in the front yard.
"I was out there by the door and then when I opened it I could see this tree split and hit this car," said Hipps.
Hipps' next door neighbor's mustang has seen better days; and so has the rooftop of the Madisonville Funeral Home.
"The damage is obviously on the west end of the building here," said Billy Walters, Madisonville Funeral Home owner.
Billy Walters never expected to be walking back down memory lane with Mother Nature so soon -- especially on Christmas Day -- but after she threw a temper-tantrum on the roof of the Madisonville Funeral Home, Mr. Walter's was back to square one.
"We had a storm come through here about three years ago and we had to put a whole new roof on it," added Walters. "My friends called me yesterday and they told me the whole roof was gone which really shook me up and I came on down and I saw that most of my roof was still there."
Most of the roof is still in-tact, but heavy winds ripped off a quarter of it and carried it roughly 40 yards away.
"It was just remarkable how it could rip it away from the building and blow it across the road over there," added Walters. "The wind had to be blowing 30-40 miles an hour, maybe more than that and it about blew us off the roof."
Although it appears snow staked claim on the rooftop -- Walters says -- that's not the case.
"You can see the insulation from the building scattered all over the parking lot and all over the roof," Walters said. "It's definitely not snow."
A few extra hands, a blue tarp and some TLC provided a quick fix for an unexpected repair.
"It will get fixed and we're still in business so, we're grateful it didn't tear anything up worse than what it already is," said Walters.
In the meantime -- crews continue to restore those without power --- and the city will continue doing their part to clean up the streets.
There are no reports of injuries and the Madisonville City manager says crews are continuing their efforts to clean up any hazardous debris blocking the roadways.


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On September 8, women will converge on the Cove's campus to learn what it really means to reflect the heart of Jesus. Popular speaker and author Elizabeth George will talk about how women can do this through developing trust in God and knowing His Word. In the article below, she gives a preview of what it looks like in a daily life.
Do you have a hard time trusting God? Is it hard for you to stop in the midst of a busy day and pray? Almost everyone would answer "yes" to this question.
For women, this is particularly true.
"I think we're hyper-responsible. We carry a heavy load of responsibility, whether we're married or single, with our jobs, with our families, our in-laws, caring for failing parents, and extended family," Elizabeth explained.
"We carry so much responsibility and want to do so well at it that we take it all on ourselves. We actually start to trust in our abilities to manage it and have a good schedule that works. We feel worthy if all our ducks are in a row. The problem with this is that we forget to pray. We forget to involve God."
To help combat the problems of prayerlessness and worry, she will be leading a women's seminar, "Reflecting the Heart of Jesus." After all, to have a life of constant prayer and unwavering trust in God are two of the most profound qualities of Christ we can reflect.
"Jesus trusted His Father with everything and prepared for each day through prayer. So, that's the best way we can emulate Him. We can give Him our worries for the day, and worries about the people in our lives. We can pray over the day, pray over our problems, and pray for God's provision," she said. "I want to talk to the ladies about getting into a habit of doing these things, because this will only grow a deeper connection with God and a greater trust and love for Him."
Elizabeth George wants the message to the women during the weekend to resonate with them for the days, weeks, and even years to come. She explained that in order for them to continue praying and trusting, they must know and love God's Word.
"I want them to know the importance of growing each day in God's Word. His Word is new every morning. We may have read the Bible every year of our lives, but every day He has a new message for us; we can see things we didn't see before.
"I also want them to go home knowing that every breath God allows us to inhale should be exhaled in prayer," she continued. "We need to be in constant communication, constant communion, thought by thought, step by step, sorrow by sorrow. The connection is always there through prayer. Ultimately trusting the Lord is a good thing. He's working for our Good. And that is my bottom line."
There is still time to join us! Register for the seminar here.
Worship leader, songwriter, artist, pianist, wife and mom, Shannon Wexelberg will be leading worship during this women's retreat!


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The video technology has been ratified by the DVD Forum for use in the High Definition (HD) DVD format; it was jointly developed by the Motion Picture Expert's Group (MPEG) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and has been ratified into the MPEG-4 specification as well.
Apple has already demonstrated H.264 in action at April's NAB 2004 show in Las Vegas. The video codec can scale to everything from 3G smart-phones to high definition television and video. At NAB, Apple showed H.264 video playing on Power Mac G5 systems in full HD resolution (1920 x 1080 24p) at between 6.8 and 8MBps -- about half the data rate of MPEG-2, the video compression standard used in DVD encoding.
Apple senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller said that Apple is supporting the H.264 specification because of the codec's quality and its basis on open standards. "QuickTime 6 has already topped 250 million downloads, making it one of the most successful media standards ever, and we will be adding support for H.264 to QuickTime next year," he said.
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About a week ago, I created a new DB (e...) and put it on the server and edited. ALL FINE THERE
However for some reason certain tables in another DB (f...), scripts in separate folder but with the same table names were over written with the information from DB e.. even though DB f.. has not been edited in months, the databases have different admin usernames and passwords, etc. However there are other DB's on the account, in separate folders, with the same table names that have remained untouched.
The scripts are located in different folders under different domains. Below are the two files which regulate access to the DB of each site. The folders are password protected so hacking is also impossible. The only way to alter the DB is to access it through the /admin as the sites themselves are not accessible.
Is this my problem or a problem with the account host. They are telling me that the it is my problem and asking me to pay $15 for a backup restoration. I don't see how that is possible. BTW the scripts are not mine but CubeCart's.
I would appreciate any help and/or suggestions as to why this might have happened.
$glob['dbdatabase'] = 'account_f..';
$glob['dbhost'] = 'localhost';
$glob['dbpassword'] = '************';
$glob['dbprefix'] = '';
$glob['dbusername'] = 'account_username1';
$glob['installed'] = '41';
$glob['rootDir'] = '/home/account/public_html/folderone/foldertwo';
$glob['rootRel'] = '/folderone/foldertwo/';
$glob['storeURL'] = 'http://domain1.com/folderone/foldertwo';
$glob['dbdatabase'] = 'account_e..';
$glob['dbhost'] = 'localhost';
$glob['dbpassword'] = '************';
$glob['dbprefix'] = '';
$glob['dbusername'] = 'account_username2';
$glob['installed'] = '33';
$glob['rootDir'] = '/home/account/public_html/folderone1/foldertwo2 /folderthree3/';
$glob['rootRel'] = '/foldertwo2 /folderthree3/';
$glob['storeURL'] = 'http://www.domain2.com/folderone1/foldertwo2 /folderthree3/';
it depends on how they're written. if you have the same table names in multiple schemas, and it's connecting to the wrong schema i could see how it's viable. you might want to contact cubecart though, they'll know more about their internals
Thank you, I'll contact CubeCart.


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hi all guys! i want to ask a quick question to the pr0s:
is there a class that has really few counters/cons(maybe important cons!but very few) and for the rest is nearly flawless? i mean a thing like the heavy of team fortress whose really counters are spy and snipers and if u put him in close range he has no rivals... or the siege engines from warcraft 3: they can't touch ground units but they do their specific job superwell(destroy buildings) and are very tough. hope the question isn't too strange


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As promised--and a week after the PlayStation 3 release--the 'Back to Karkand' downloadable content for Battlefield 3 launched today on PC and Xbox 360. To celebrate the launch, EA has whipped up a little video showing off its remake of the Battlefield 2 map Sharqi Peninsula.
Back to Karkand packs four grimy remakes of classic Battlefield series maps, plus new weapons, vehicles, and other sorts of things that make shooting faces fun.
It's free if you pre-ordered BF3 to score an upgrade to its 'Limited Edition.' If not, you can buy Back to Karkand now through Origin and the Xbox Live Marketplace for $14.99 (1200 MSP).
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A list of obituaries in today's Kirksville Daily Express
Larry Harper, 74, Kirksville
Jerry Lawrence, 71, Kansas City, Mo.
Dr. Hubert Moore, 81, Lenexa, Kan.
Winford Pearson, 84, Queen City, Mo.
Betty Thompson, 69, Brashear, Mo.
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Sign your boyfriend loves you 1: Boys' night
Boys' night is a sacred night for the male of the species and has been central to your man's existence since he turned 16. Poker is played, beer is drunk and girls are gawked at. Yet, this Friday where was your boyfriend? Was he living it large with the lads, or at home with you, snuggled up in couple heaven? Once your guy bails on boys' night you know he's in trouble and that he's caught a one-way train to Love Town. Be prepared for some initial hostility from his friends though, as a bromance gone wrong can get ugly. Can you handle it?
If you're not sure how you feel about your guy loving you, or whether you will say 'I love you' back, ask yourself whether you'd ditch girls' night for him.
Sign your boyfriend loves you 2: He opens up to you
Although it's a bit of a stereotype even our lovely 21st century boys struggle with the idea of opening up and talking about their feelings. Recent research has come up with a reason why guys may find it more difficult to open up than women do. Their findings suggest that after emotional stimulation men's immune systems and blood pressures take longer to return to their normal states compared to women who have experienced the same emotional stimulation.
Therefore scientists think that men may be reluctant to chat to you about their emotions because it makes them physically vulnerable. So, if your guy decides to tell you about his horrible boss, his rollercoaster relationship with his mother or his feelings of inadequacy when he's with his friends, he's not just unloading. It's a true sign he loves you and that you will be the last lady to be granted entry into his LBB (little black book).
Sign your boyfriend loves you 3: He talks about your future
If you're lying in bed, or brushing your teeth, or cooking your dinner and your man suddenly looks dreamy-eyed and asks you how many kids you want, you may as well hang up that sports kit because lady, you aren't going to be a player for long; your boyfriend loves you. If your man keeps asking you questions about your future as a couple or your hopes and dreams for life, chances are he's sussing out whether you're wife material and whether his emotional investment will pay off.
He may ask you about where you want to settle down, what kind of house you want or what your views are on marriage. These questions may be asked casually or seem like a joke, but they give him an insight into what your future may be like together. When he asks you things about your future answer carefully. He may use your replies to judge whether you're compatible as a couple.
Sign your boyfriend loves you 4: Affection without the sex
When your boyfriend runs his fingers through your hair and tells you that you look hot, you know he's feeling horny and wants to get it on under the covers. So what does it mean when he runs his fingers through your hair, tells you that you look hot and then leaves the room? Do you need to run out and buy a miracle cream that promises to make you look 10 years younger, or buy enough make-up that could turn a warthog into a dazzling princess?
Our answer is no. Not only are you pretty enough without tons of ugly cosmetics, when your guy gives you love and affection and doesn't want sex it doesn't mean he's gone off you or doesn't find you attractive any more. It means he loves you. You can even start checking his receipts and pockets for an engagement ring if he's still doing it after six months.
Sign your boyfriend loves you 5: He asks for your advice
If you need to know whether your boyfriend loves you or whether he thinks of you as another fling, you should pay attention to those times he asks you for advice. When guys are single they become very independent and make lots of decisions for themselves (even if it does mean wearing that terrible T-shirt). However, when men get comfortable in a relationship they give up some of this independence and begin to take on their partners' views and opinions.
So, the next time he asks you what he should do to get a pay rise or what shoes look good on him, be aware that this shows he considers your relationship as being serious. It also shows you that he respects your opinion, which is a big part of falling in love. Read more on realbuzz.com...
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Chef Joe travels to the upper east side of New York City to learn more about this cozy restaurant that has been in business for the past 33 years. A staple in this neighborhood, this intimate restaurant offers an overall, great dining experience. Back in the test kitchen, using Sun dried Tomato Pesto, Chef Joe creates a chicken dish stuffed with the pesto and potato flakes plus a pasta dish using Gnocchi and the pesto as the garnish!
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China- and Romney-Obsessed Toledo Blade, Politico Fail to Report Fiat's Plans to Import New Jeep Model to Be Made in Italy Into U.S.
Toledo Blade reporter Tyrel Linkhorn got sucked in by Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne's misleading email to Chrysler employees today. The Politico's Alexander Burns relayed Linkhorn's gullibility to the rest of the nation — or at least the few people scattered throughout the nation who might bother to read it.
Marchionne, as quoted by Linkhorn told employees that "Jeep assembly lines will remain in operation in the United States and will constitute the backbone of the brand. It is inaccurate to suggest anything different." While that may be true, it doesn't change the fact that the company announced plans to build a new Jeep model in Italy which will be exported to Europe and North America. As Bloomberg reported this afternoon:
Marchionne, 60, has said Jeep has the best opportunity among all of Chrysler's brands to succeed globally. Fiat, which is working on a production plan for Europe to account for the region's slumping demand, said today that it will build a small Jeep in Italy for export beginning in 2014.
The Jeep, which wasn't identified by name, is a new model for Europe and the U.S. that isn't currently in production, according to a Fiat presentation. A small Jeep was among the 66 new and existing vehicles that Marchionne showed at a convention last month in Las Vegas, according to dealers who asked not to be identified because the meeting was private.
Since its bankruptcy in 2009, Chrysler has announced about $4.2 billion in investments for Jeep models and plants that produce them in Detroit; Belvidere, Illinois; and Toledo, Ohio. The three investments will add about 5,700 jobs combined by next year, Marchionne wrote today in his message to employees.
While that investment and the job additions (if the figures are truly correct) are indeed nice, it doesn't change the fact that Fiat will be making a Jeep model in Italy which could have been made here. If the company continues to choose Italy or any other locale outside the U.S. for Jeeps to export to America, older models made in the U.S. will gradually move through their product life cycle. If they're not replaced with newer models, at some point U.S. production will end up coming down and the need for the entire cast of current U.S. workers will diminish.
Thanks to the non-business press's obsession with playing "gotcha" on Mitt Romney and his comments about Fiat and China, Marchionne has just pulled a fast one, and now has set a precedent that he can make Chrysler and Jeep branded vehicles overseas and export them to the U.S. and the rest of North America without objection. Way to go, guys.
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LONDON — On Thursday, Britain's prime minister, David Cameron, rebuffed a call by Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to hand over the Falkland Islands, 31 years after the two countries went to war over the South Atlantic archipelago.
''The future of the Falkland Islands should be determined by the Falkland Islanders themselves,'' Cameron said. ''They're holding a referendum this year, and I hope the president of Argentina will listen to that referendum and recognize it is for the Falkland Islanders to choose their future, and as long as they choose to stay with the United Kingdom they have my 100 percent backing.''
In an open letter to Cameron published Thursday in British and US newspapers, Fernandez said he should abide by a 1960 UN resolution urging member states to ''end colonialism in all its forms and manifestations.'' Britain should begin negotiations over the sovereignty of the islands, which were ''forcibly stripped'' from Argentina on Jan. 3, 1833, she said.
The two countries went to war in 1982 after Argentine forces invaded the Falklands, which Argentina calls the Malvinas. Tensions heightened last year, with Argentina protesting Britain's deployment of a warship to the region.
''The question of the Malvinas is also a cause embraced by Latin America and by a vast majority of peoples and governments around the world that reject colonialism,'' Fernandez wrote. The Falklands are situated 8,700 miles from London, she wrote.
Her letter follows Britain's decision last month to name a territory in the Antarctic after Queen Elizabeth II, as part of celebrations over her 60 years on the throne. Argentina, which claims the land, said the decision was a provocative act.
''The people of the Falklands are British and have chosen to be so,'' the British Foreign Office said. ''There are three parties to this debate, not just two as Argentina likes to pretend.''


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PHILADELPHIA -- The Phillies have their issues, but they very much believe they have time on their side.
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PHILADELPHIA -- The Phillies have their issues, but they very much believe they have time on their side.
It is still early, they say.View Full Game Coverage
Maybe it is or maybe that is dangerous thinking. But this week's four-game series against the moribund Marlins seems like the perfect opportunity to get on a roll. They started on a good note Thursday with a 7-2 victory at Citizens Bank Park.
"You said we're struggling and we're 4 1/2 games back, so that's pretty good," Phillies right fielder Delmon Young said. "If you said we're hot and we're 4 1/2 games back, that would be a bad thing. No one has really taken off yet. That's what happened last year in Detroit. We were picked to win it. We were under .500 most of the year, then we got hot. It's six months. You just want to stay within striking distance. If you can stay within striking distance and be in a pennant race on Sept. 1, you still have a chance to win the division."
But the bright orange Marlins jerseys must have been a welcomed sight after the Indians thrashed the Phillies over two games this week in Cleveland.
The Marlins (8-21) are the worst team in baseball.
"I want us to come out and play like we did," Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said. "I don't get caught up in somebody else's record. I think any team can beat you."
Some clutch hits would help. The Phillies (13-16) were 1-for-17 with runners in scoring position this week against the Indians, and 0-for-1 against the Marlins after they stranded Michael Young following a two-out double to center field in the first.
But Domonic Brown hit a solo home run to right field in the second inning to tie the game at 1. It was his fourth homer of the season. Ryan Howard homered to left field in an impressive nine-pitch at-bat in the fourth to make it 2-1. Howard is hitting .326 (14-for-43) with four doubles, three homers and 12 RBIs in his last 12 games.
Erik Kratz turned an 11-pitch at-bat into a leadoff walk in the fifth, which led to two more runs to make it 4-2. The Phillies scored three more runs in the eighth inning to put the game away.
Brown singled to score Howard in the eighth to finish his night 3-for-4 with a homer and two RBIs. After his averaged dropped to .206 on April 23, Brown is hitting .387 (12-for-31) with two doubles, two homers and seven RBIs in his last eight games.
"I'm going to tell you something," Manuel said about Brown. "He definitely can fit into our offense. I've always said he's going to be a good hitter, if you guys remember. I'm not just saying that because he got some hits tonight. Really. He's got talent to be a good hitter. He's got talent to hit the ball out of the yard."
Phillies right-hander Kyle Kendrick allowed two runs on seven hits and two walks while striking out five in seven innings, halting the Phillies' two-game losing streak. Somebody called him a stopper afterward. It might be too early for that label, but it is worth noting the Phillies have won each of his previous three starts following losses.
Kendrick is 12-10 with a 3.30 ERA in 29 starts from May 5, 2012, through Thursday. He has evolved into a quality pitcher, although some fans still have trouble looking at him that way. Maybe another few good months will change their thinking.
"I've always kind of expected this out of me," Kendrick said. "I know it hasn't been there in the past like I've wanted, the fans have wanted it, my teammates, the coaches, the organization. But I expect this out of me. Hopefully now I can be consistent like that and every time out give us a chance to win the game. That's the main thing as a starting pitcher. I'm feeling comfortable and confident I can do that every time out."
It was important he pitched well Thursday. Anybody can beat anybody, like Manuel said, but the Phillies need to beat bad teams like the Marlins. If they do, maybe they can stay within striking distance in the National League East, like Delmon Young said. And then who knows what might happen?
Todd Zolecki is a reporter for MLB.com.


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Crosby Out for Game 1 vs. Islandersby Michelle Crechiolo / Pittsburgh Penguins
Penguins captain Sidney Crosby said he will not play in tonight's Game 1 of the Pittsburgh's first-round series against the New York Islanders.
Crosby saw the doctor on Tuesday. He worked on a fifth line in Wednesday's morning skate and did not practice on the power play after working one-on-one with strength and conditioning coach Mike Kadar before team practice.
"I'm not in good (enough) of shape yet," Crosby said. "Obviously not going to play tonight. Whenever I kind of take a regular morning skate, I'm sure that will be a pretty good sign I'm in."
Crosby said while the doctor's visit went well, his physician was just not ready to clear him for a return to game action.
"He said everything looks good, he just wasn't prepared to clear me to play," Crosby said. "Obviously I would have loved to have the chance to play tonight, but it's not the way it is and I'll make sure I'm ready when the time comes."
There is no timetable for Crosby's return and he does not have another visit to the doctor currently scheduled, but he is certain they will be in communication.
"(The doctor) just said that he'll be in touch with me, to let him know if I feel anything different," Crosby said. "But I'm sure he'll be around and checking up things pretty closely."
Crosby missed the last 12 games of the regular season after breaking his jaw in a meeting with the Islanders on March 30. He returned to team practice on April 26 after skating with Kadar for the previous 10 days.


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. . . but the Arizona Diamondbacks are in first place.
Matt Cain has given up NINE runs in his last 12 innings of work. Today the first five guys in the Brewers lineup rapped out seven singles in the first three innings to go up 3-0 and put the Giants in a huge hole. Cain, from what I could see, didn't look bad, but he had some lousy luck and the Brewers hit good pitches. They are an excellent hitting club and the best team at home in the league. In the 6th, though, Cain gave up three hits with two outs and they tacked on two more runs. The pitch to Rickie Weeks was a clear mistake and got too much of the plate, and a hit to the pitcher (even though Gallardo is a good hitter) was inexcusable. It looked like Matt was going to put in six or maybe even seven with just the three runs, which would have been tolerable. But he let the game get blown open and that made any chance at a comeback impossible. Coming back from 3-0 would have been tough enough, and perhaps impossible today anyway. Yovani Gallardo did not break a sweat as he sliced neatly through a Giants "attack" that featured FOUR rookies. Emmanuel Burriss, Brandon Crawford, Brandon Belt, and Chris Stewart all started. I suppose it is a stretch to call the 29-year old catcher now with his fifth big league club a rook, but the 37 AB in 2007 with Texas is his highest season total, and today was his only 27th career game. Santiago Casilla is back and worked a scoreless inning. Freddy Sanchez got his 1000th career hit, a nice milestone.
One year ago today Buster Posey was called up and started at first base at home against the last-place D-backs. He got three hits in a 12-1 victory. The Giants were 26-22 after that game, in third place 2-1/2 games behind the Padres, a half game back of LA, and a half game ahead of the Rockies. They'd scored 201 runs and given up 160. (This year's team has scored 177 and allowed 186.) The 2010 season is proof that there is a lot of baseball left after Memorial Day, but today's game was a depressing affair. I have the feeling this hard, cruel stretch will continue. There is some uncertainty and a bit of scrambling in the wake of The Collision. The pitching will continue to be tough. Matt Cain will get his groove back. But the starting eight will be a mess for a while, even when Pablo Sandoval returns. They had a great run of comebacks, walk-offs, and close victories, but those kinds of wins are too dependent on good bounces, close plays, and other lucky breaks. The next series--four in St. Louis--will be very tough. The Giants come home for ten games after that before their next off-day on June 13th.
Sunday, May 29, 2011
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- Ron said...
Panic point for me is Huff. Despite the fact that his meager total of RBI's leads the team, he is being counted on for much more. The biggest stat that makes me cringe every time is the OBP in the .270's. It was perhaps foolhardy, but unavoidable, for us to give a big contract to a guy who has had trouble putting back-to-back good seasons together. We really had no choice. But, he's got to pull himself out of this. Without Uribe & Posey, we really have to lean on Huff for the heavy-lifting.
- Mon May 30, 09:49:00 AM PDT
- M.C. O'Connor said...
Huff is as low as he can go at this point. He's hitting like Aaron Rowand. Wait, Rowand is actually better.
- Mon May 30, 03:33:00 PM PDT
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It seems that after a nearly three years of (bumpy) gains, sentiment is shifting in the direction of stocks — maybe, just maybe, we're finally seeing the Great Rotation back into equities.
It's true that many investors have missed out on rising stock prices, and it's fair to argue that their return to the market, coupled with signs of a recovering economy, point to further gains to be had.
But there could be a big fly in that particular ointment, one that could hinder stocks more than we realize: amid all the empty talk of debt ceilings and deficits there's one issue that's being overlooked:
Wages have fallen to a record low as a share of America's gross domestic product. Until 1975, wages nearly always accounted for more than 50 percent of the nation's G.D.P., but last year wages fell to a record low of 43.5 percent. Since 2001, when the wage share was 49 percent, there has been a steep slide…
Meanwhile, it's been a lost economic decade for many households. According to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, median income for working-age households (headed by someone under age 65) slid 12.4 percent from 2000 to 2011, to $55,640. During that time the American economy grew more than 18 percent.
Those numbers are from a great piece by Steven Greenhouse over the weekend that considered an issue that our political class steadfastly ignores: the decline of middle class wealth.
It's often noted that a big chunk of Standard & Poor's 500 company revenues from overseas, and that's true up to a point — the US still accounts for 54% of sales, however. The health of the demographic chunk that does most of the buying in this country should be important to every investor — and by many lights the situation isn't good at all.
It's not just that middle class incomes have stagnated and even fallen (in real terms) in recent decades. In the bigger picture, little is being done to address unemployment, while the most recent policy battle, over taxes, actually ended up hitting the middle class pretty hard, with the expiration of the payroll tax taking 2% out of most people's paychecks:
The 2 percentage point increase in taxes will take $125 billion from consumers' pockets this year, estimates Michael Feroli, chief U.S. economist for JPMorgan Chase & Co., which in October lowered its forecast for first-quarter economic growth to 1 percent from 1.5 percent.
So where does that leave us? With retailers worried about consumer spending, companies continuing to make layoffs as a way to improve margins, wages still stagnating…and policymakers doing nothing to address what's becoming a chronic problem.
Now, you could argue that we're on the cusp of an innovation that will power new industrial jobs, or that as wages increase in emerging markets, we're going to see many manufacturing jobs come back to the US. You may also hope that politicians fix the country's fiscal problems and leave us with a fairer, more progressive system that will reenergize the middle class and help power the US economy. But that way of thinking is medium-term at best, and somewhat too hopeful at worst; and in any case it doesn't address the problems we're facing in 2013.
In recent weeks, looking at the data I've made a fairly bullish case for the economy, and thus markets. But I think it's also plausible to see that, bubbles aside, if nothing is doing to fix the problem the relative decline of the middle class will put a cap on where stocks can go in the months and years ahead.


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This post will explain some of what has already been done, including screenshots, and also give a little sneak peek of things to come.
So let's jump right in. Feval now has levels. You don't necessarily get stronger as you level like most games, but you do progress and unlock new things, such as items, which we'll go into more later. The current level cap is 20. Experience is currently gained from getting kills and playing games (more for winning). It is possible earning medals will also give experience in the near future.
Below is a general screenshot of the game. Level information is visible in the top right corner.
Feval has had a few usable items for awhile now, but the item system has been completely redesigned and new items have been added (with many many more to come). Each player can pick two items they wish to use and then during matches that allow items, they can use them when they are not on cooldown. Each item has its own cooldown and can only be used when it is not on cooldown. As you level up, you unlock the ability to use certain items.
Below is a screenshot of the Items tab inside the Profile. This is where players can pick what two items they wish to activate and use.
Medals and More
Feval used to use an achievement system with tiers of statistical challenges to beat to unlock new overlays and such. Well, the game now only has medals (with many more to come), statistical information just for viewing pleasure, and overlays are unlocked with acorns via the shop (explained more below).
Below are a couple screenshots of the Medals and Statistics tabs in the Profile. Darkened medals are medals not yet earned.
Feval now has an ingame shop. Currently the only thing purchasable is overlays, but eventually other things will be available for purchase. Special acorns collected from playing games are no longer used for score and are now used as the Feval currency. An extra special currency that can be purchased with real money and can be used to purchase certain things is planned, but not yet implemented. The shop will be a very important part of Feval in the future.
Below are a few screenshots of the shop interface.
The first part of Feval's new lobby system has been implemented. Currently players can create custom games and join custom games. Players can pick from some premade maps, pick the versus type (free for all or team), and pick the mode (currently only Normal and Deathmatch). Premium members can pick Custom and make their own maps (which will be getting a lot of new features very soon).
In the near future, Feval will have an automated "quick play" matchmaking system and the lobby system will of course be updated appropriately. Quick play will basically match players up against players around their skill level. Players will be able to decide the types of games and modes they wish to play as well.
Also in the future, Feval will be getting "mission games" that they can play with their friends. Mission games will basically be co-op vs AI games with objectives. More information will be released on them in the future.
Here are a few screenshots of the first stage of the lobby system in action.
Feval has also been upgraded in different areas. Cosmetic improvements, system efficiency improvements, and much more. And there is a lot more to come.
So what else is coming that hasn't already been mentioned? Let's condense it all. Clans, friends list, seamless cross server play, groups and group play, new characters with different forms of combat, improved powerup system with many new powerups, scripted map editor (make almost anything you want - minigames), and much much more.
So stay tuned for more information! Fan the Iccusion group and get alerted about further Feval 2.0 Beta updates!
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If you have a white cone shaped nozzle, unscrew it from the tube and push the hard stuff out with a nail or similar sharp object.
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I chuck a drill bit into the cordless and drill into it.... caution not to slip and put into your hand...
Posted 19 May 2012 - 05:19 AM
I chuck a drill bit into the cordless and drill into it.... caution not to slip and put into your hand...
hah something like that happened to me on another project.. hand slipped and got into the palm lucky me it just nicked it.
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Did you also choose a temperature-dependent bitrate of 320 kelvinbits per seconds?
Isn't that a bit ogg?
Try ubuntu one.
I think I'll wait until hell freezes over. I'll keep my data stored on my own devices; storage is dirt cheap and the storage devices are very small these days. I just don't see any advantage to uploading my music to anybody, especially Google since they yanked my firstname.lastname@example.com address a few years ago with no explanation or recourse; I'd used it to correspond with friends and family, sign up for subscriptions to
One of the easiest things to do is fling music across the net. You can do it with Apache and DynDNS and roll your own or you can do something else.
Rolling my own with Apache is not difficult (I've done it) but is not likely what Joe User is going to do. Opera Unite is drool proof - it even makes a domain service like DynDNS superfluous. Plus it's been running on Linux since forever ago, it seems.
And my music stays put on my own machine at home.
A lot of NAS appliances offer this too. Some also have dedicated iPhone and Android apps -- though the quality probably varies a lot. Still, I personally find the Google Music app to be subpar on Android. It's gotten a lot better, but worse too in many ways. Some things require too many clicks/taps - and I dont really need a dynamic colored background or the little dropdown context menu. It seems somewhere alone the lines the UI designers forgot they were designing for touchscreens.
Is the streaming accessible via iPhone or Android phones?
iPhone didn't do anything that you couldn't already do with Symbian or WinMo, either (in fact, it still does less in many areas). Didn't stop it from becoming the single best selling smartphone in a very short time.
I'd love to try it out
Why? mp3's are small. Just get yourself a portable player with an 80GB (or larger) hard drive and you'll be set for months of uninterrupted music.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see any practical value to this service. Maybe if it let you stuff blurays into it, that would be something. But just dinky little music files? Especially when it transcodes it to mp3 so you can't ever get the original back out? What good is that?
Sooooo let me get this straight. You take your phone, the thing you kinda really need for people to get a hold of you, for emergencies, etc, and run the battery down by using it as an MP3 player, because while you're not too cheap to buy a several hundred dollar Android smartphone you ARE to cheap to buy a $150 MP3 player?
Maybe I'm just weird, because I don't get it. I have a 4Gb Sandisk, gets 27 hours on a single AAA, and at 64Kb (which frankly with all the outside noise when I'm out and about is the best
Nothing is subpar compared to 64kbps MP3s.
Personally, I don't carry an MP3 player for the same reason I also don't carry a camera, watch, address book, PDA and handheld GPS: convenience.
On the other hand, I don't stream; I just got a big microSD card and I sync using Wifi. But for people with large music libraries, streaming is probably cheaper.
I used to be in the "I want my phone to just be a phone" camp.
Now I have an Android smartphone. I generally get ~24 hours out of it between charges, though I plug it in every night. Playing music with it consumes almost no battery - optimized hardware decode paths and all that. I can play music for a couple hours and still be at 80-90% battery - which is enough to last me until the next morning, if need be.
I wouldn't call it a "sub par" player, either, I don't know why that is assumed. It has all the us
I'm getting right around 13 hours on my phone with 9-10 of that being google music streaming. I can do the same battery tiimes with slacker as well. Also since I sit at my desk mostly all day, i could always plug my phone into the computer to charge it if i wanted.
I've dropped point and shoot cameras for everything outside of camping for my cell, my watch is also my cell, my mp3 player too.
64kbps??? that is telephone quality maybe.
Well when I'm using it I'm either out walking (can't jog after getting my knee torn up in a bike wreck) or doing a service call and in those situations I have so much background noise and other crap that frankly anything higher is just being wasted.
Now at home? That is a completely different story. I have everything in 320k either running to my cans or to my old 80s stereo through the aux input but sadly since moving into my apt I don't get to blast the big old Pioneer anymore and will probably end up givin
i too have a sandisk 512mb player somewhere buried. it still works, but now my phone has an 8gb microsd card, so...
The problem I have with the phone players is I always seem to end up in an "either or" problem. it is 3AM, I just got the gear packed away after doing a great show at the club, I need to wander around the streets to burn off some of this energy and
With the Sandisk I just walk into the corner gas station and say "Hey where are the AAA batteries at?" and most of the l
Being able to access your collection from multiple devices from anywhere with an internet connection is the major draw of Subsonic [subsonic.org]. I'm still trying it out and deciding if it's awesome or just kinda cool, but so far I'm liking not having to upload everything to the cloud first.
There. Fixed that for you.
It looks like it's not actually a real port of the music manager, rather a Wine port with their wrapper stuff, like Picasa.
As long as it's tested and supported (well, Google levels of support, which aren't exactly great), who cares?
Although I do use the Windows version of Picasa with Wine instead of the version wrapped by Google, but that's because they're lagging the versions behind (the Linux 'port' still doesn't support facial recognition).
It's a small package, with no dependencies on Wine, only on packages that I already had installed on Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit. It works quite smoothly. The only hitch is that it tries to use the notification area, which doesn't exist in Ubuntu 11.04's Unity interface.
Google offers a number of applications for Linux, and has repositories for current versions of Ubuntu. Google claims to use OS X and their own rebranded version of Google internally more than they use Windows, so it's only surprising that there was
Once the MAFIAA gets hold of this, a buffering phone is the least of your worries.
They already know of this. Google asked them for a license on reasonable terms, but eventually gave up (on "reasonable"). Sometimes I wonder if that Google engineer who flipped the "go online" key did it with his middle finger.
I hear you. Was kind of interested in Spotify until I tried it, super long gaps. Not impressed!
What's so special about google music compared to something like grooveshark?
I could already upload all my music to grooveshark and listen to it from any computer and there is also a mobile app for devices that don't support flash like the iPhone and iPad.
What makes grooveshark better than google music IMO is that with grooveshark you don't even need to upload much of your music because it's already all there since you essentially have access to everyone's uploaded tracks. But you can still upload your own i
Grooveshark's business model appears to be based on blatantly infringing copyright, then hoping they can negotiate deals with the record labels. Google Music is based on doing something that probably isn't copyright infringement (although the RIAA may disagree), backed up by Google's lawyers. I like Grooveshark, but I don't know that it's going to be around for very long.
If I recall correctly, OGG and MP3 use very different (lossy) compression techniques. As a result, converting from one to the other will drop audio quality substantially.
What's the point of providing a feature that will, in all likelihood, make your music sound bad?
If I recall correctly, OGG and MP3 use very different (lossy) compression techniques.
That is true.
As a result, converting from one to the other will drop audio quality substantially.
That is false. Converting to any lossy format causes a change from the original source, of course, but there's no reason why it becomes magically worse in these circumstances. You'll see about the same amount of change on average regardless of whether the starting waveform was direct from a ADC, from an MP3 decoder, from an OGG decoder, or whatever. Whether that constitutes a "drop in audio quality" is debatable -- sometimes its actually an improvement, but then "audio quality" is a bit subj
Both OGG and MP3 lossy compression techniques work by sacrificing aspects of the original waveform that often go unnoticed by the human ear. Some approaches even take advantage of what's considered the auditory equivalent of optical illusions, removing large chucks of audio information which, due to how the human ear and brain processes audio, go by almost completely unnoticed. It's actually pretty cool
My point is, from what I read a couple of years ago, many of the more ambitions compression technique
lol, I just noticied that my thread title has been sanitized to OGG = MP3!
It's supposed to be OGG <=> MP3.
If I recall correctly, OGG and MP3 use very different (lossy) compression techniques. As a result, converting from one to the other will drop audio quality substantially.
What's the point of providing a feature that will, in all likelihood, make your music sound bad?
You will not be able to tell the difference on your cell phone earbuds, which seems to be the target use of Google Music.
You probably would not be able to tell the difference on a $5,000 home audio system either, but whatever.
And even sillier, it's not necessary - Android plays Vorbis just fine...
Transcoding lossy formats is always evil. No support is better than propagating generational errors on digital formats.
Well, they might have found out how to do the conversion in an information-preserving way.
There are some smart people at google, you know...
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Yesterday my newest grandson, Andrew, was one week old. Now that he is tube-free, my daughter and her husband were allowed to bring Ian to the hospital to meet his younger brother. He was not allowed to come into the NICU, but his parents were able to alternate holding the baby at the window so that Ian could at least see him. My son-in-law sent us some pictures and I just had to share them. Ian was given a "Big Brother" shirt for the occasion. In the first picture you can just see Ian's anticipation. In the second, it is apparent that he seems to be happy with the result.
|Roland and Andrew


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Everton have launched a bid to land Sevilla striker Alvaro Negredo, according to reports.
Negredo, Sevilla's top scorer in La Liga with nine goals to his name, has been linked with a move to Tottenham, Arsenal and Chelsea in the past.
Jose María del NidoSevilla are reportedly eager to sell up in order to help ease their financial woes, and club president was in London earlier this month in order to tout the 27-year-old to potential suitors.
Sevilla reportedly value Negredo at £13 million but could accept less than that because of their financial problems.
According to BBC Sport, Everton have made a move for Negredo after a move for Dutch international Leroy Fer fell through, although he is not a direct replacement.
They report that talks are set to continue between the two clubs today as the January transfer window draws to a close.
Tottenham have been linked with a move for the Spanish international this week, and are still said to be in the market for a striker. According to Goal.com, Spurs want to take Negredo on loan, something Sevilla are not keen on.
Spurs have been credited with an interest in Leandro Damiao, Bafetimbi Gomis as well as Negredo in recent weeks, although manager Andre Villas-Boas says he is not expecting any movement in or out of the club today.
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