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"Executive Order Bars Federal Workers From Texting and Driving"
" But that was not before President Obama signed an executive order that tells all federal employees not to engage in texting while driving government vehicles."
Why not "texting or driving" next time? "The last time I looked in a dictionary, "or" was no closer to "while" than "and".
The last time I looked in a dictionary, "or" was no closer to "while" than "and".
Perhaps you need another dictionary, or maybe you should look more carefully. According to Wiktionary:
While and whilst are conjunctions whose primary meaning is "during the time that"
IOW, it means (or implies) "at the same time as"; thus, "I text while I am driving" means "I text and drive at the same time". To most users of the English language, the sentence "I text or drive at the same time" doesn't make much meaning. Ergo, "while" has a good deal to do with "and", and not so much with "or"; some would even say that they are functionally equivalent.
"Texting and driving" is an analogy to "drinking and driving", which does not mean "drinking while driving" but driving under the influence of alcohol intoxication (which is long enough to justify the less precise expression "drinking and driving"). Barring federal workers from texting and driving can be interpreted as barring federal workers from texting and barring federal workers from driving. If the author had meant to express that federal workers are barred from texting while driving, why didn't he wri
Perhaps you need another dictionary, or maybe you should look more carefully.
I'm looking into my SOED very carefully, and yet I have a really hard time trying to spot it.
IOW, it means (or implies) "at the same time as"; thus, "I text while I am driving" means "I text and drive at the same time". To most users of the English language, the sentence "I text or drive at the same time" doesn't make much meaning.
Reading comprehension fail? I should have used a sarcasm tag.
Ergo, "while" has a good deal to do with "and", and not so much with "or"; some would even say that they are functionally equivalent.
Yes, some would, the recipients of negative imperative sentences being some of the most prominent.
Because the conjunction A v B is only true when A and B both are true, while A ^ B is true if at least one of A and B is true.
So it is forbidden now to do both A and B at the same time, while Texting itself and Driving itself are still allowed. Thus only (A v B) is forbidden, but (A ^ B) is still allowed if (not A B).
Um... Ok I'll bite... I think you have the symbols for "and" and "or" backwards [wikipedia.org]
But other than that, you are quite right.
Don't be ridiculous. "and" and "or" can be logical operators. The can also be used to enumerate members of a set. You are expected to know which is which based on context, as anyone over the age of four should be competent to figure out. You're not dumber than a four year old, are you?
Hand in your geek card.
if(employee.is_texting && employee.is_driving)
Unfortunately, there was a serious bug in this program. Due to namespace issues, fragile base class problems, etc, the call was mapped to Kiln::fire() rather than Employer::fire(). It is regrettable that this has resulted in a substantial loss of life. Appropriate steps have been taken to improve coding standards and developer training to ensure that this won't happen again.
In this case, the Executive Order applies to employees of the Federal Government. That sounds like an employer taking responsibility by stating company policy for employees when they are driving employer-owned vehicles. When those same people are driving their own cars on their own time they are still free to be fucking morons and kill themselves.
That sounds like an employer taking responsibility by stating company policy for employees when they are driving employer-owned vehicles. When those same people are driving their own cars on their own time they are still free to be fucking morons and kill themselves.
And kill others. Which is why this is kind of odd, since it's not just the vehicle that's put at risk.
and it's impossible to compose a text message while simultaneously maintain the necessary level of attention to driving.
Rubbish! I'm writing this on my iPhone right now and I am safely in control of this vehic
Texting probably is- I'd think it was covered under reckless driving statutes.
You'd think it was a foregone conclusion, really, that this was a BAD thing to do- but people do it right along with the trying to drive whilst the phone's up to the head. But noooo....
It's illegal where I live (New York) even though I've seen people obviously texting while they're driving. Many states, though, are having problems passing bans because some people think it is a "personal rights" issue. They fail to realize, however, that while you might have the right to take a chance with your life due to texting while driving, you don't have the right to take chances with other people's rights. If you cross the center line and plow into another car head on because you just *had* to reply to your friend's incoming text message, you could wind up killing people other than yourself. (There was a story on NPR where this exact thing happened. The twenty year old who was texting killed a parent and child and he survived.)
Personally, I think it is sad that we even need to ban it. It should be a common sense thing that you shouldn't be looking at your phone to compose a text while you're driving. If you really need to text, pull over, send the text, then start back up. If you really need to talk with the person, get a hands-free set and call them. (Yes, being engaged in a phone conversation is still distracting, but it is less distracting than looking away from the road for a few seconds to type and send a text message.
> Personally, I think it is sad that we even need to ban it.
That's the really silly part... we don't need to ban it. Just about any sane jurisdiction that allows driving already has laws against various forms of reckless or distracted driving. Before cell phones, our parents and grandparents were dealing with people driving while shaving, reading newspapers, having sex (partner optional), applying makeup, eating, beating the kids, etc. This stuff isn't new, and if we aren't enforcing the laws already on the books, creating a new law isn't going to do a damn thing except (maybe) raise awareness of the issue.
Legislators make new laws so that us peons vent our wrath arguing over the merits of the laws, rather than over the merits of having legislators at all.
That's not much of a damn thing, but it does explain why the statute book always grows.
Actually, it turns out that's not the case. I thought it was too, until a recent Slashdot discussion where someone corrected me. I've since done a little more research and found this chart published by the AAA: http://www.aaapublicaffairs.com/Assets/Files/20099111616410.DistractedDrivingLaws.doc [aaapublicaffairs.com] (warning: Word doc, not HTML or PDF for some reason).
Only four states ban "distracted driving", and various other combinations of states ban texting, talking on a phone, or other specific actions. There are only two states (Ohio and Wisconsin) that don't ban any of these behaviors. As for the rest, it's a hodgepodge of restrictions. It's worth checking out the link to make sure you know what your state does, and does not, ban.
All states ban driving in an unsafe manner. States with "driving while distracted" laws are on the way to the same stupid proliferation of laws that leads to "no texting" laws. If someone can drive so well and hold their phone against the wheel such that you can't tell they're texting, you don't need to stop them. Otherwise, it's pretty much always obvious; the guy who is driving like he's got lag needs to be checked out. If it turns out he was on his phone at the time, he should be given a ticket, not for
That's the really silly part... we don't need to ban it. Just about any sane jurisdiction that allows driving already has laws against various forms of reckless or distracted driving.
I'm so sick of people making this argument every time this topic comes up. To penalize texting while driving under the current law, you would have to haul each offender into court, and each and every time try to prove to a jury that texting is indeed distracted driving. Huge amounts of resources would be wasted doing this over and over again. Each time it would be fought tooth-and-nail by slick and clever defense lawyers who would bring in all sorts of pseudo statistics to try raise doubts that texting while driving has been 100% air-tight proven to be dangerous. Remember how they convinced a jury that OJ wasn't guilty?
A specific law would point out that texting while driving == distracted driving, no ifs, ands or buts. This fact would not have to be re-proven in every case. Pay the ticket, move on, and don't do it again.
A specific law would point out that texting while driving == distracted driving, no ifs, ands or buts. This fact would not have to be re-proven in every case. Pay the ticket, move on, and don't do it again.
I am not a lawyer, but I don't think this would have to be proven for every case. First off, precedence would play a big part into this. Secondly, there is no "proof" that speeding is necessarily dangerous (and, it really isn't up to certain speeds - difference in speed is the issue), yet they still smack down tickets left and right without any challenge. So, I think your worry really isn't a valid one. If an officer says, "They were texting and driving and I felt that they were being a reckless towards
A lot of police cars have cameras already; all they need to prove is:
* failure to maintain control of the vehicle
* improper lane changes
* driving left of center
* failure to yield
* driving >10mph under the limit
* reckless driving
In the cases I see where someone is texting and is not capable of multitasking, they are violating MULTIPLE laws already. It's very easy to prove violations of those existing laws when the police cars have cameras on board. Texting l
Just about any sane jurisdiction that allows driving already has laws against various forms of reckless or distracted driving.
Reckless or distracted driving is (somewhat) subjective, those laws will only be used when something happens.
If you want the problem to go away, you need to pull people over for doing it and the fine must be substantial.
Where I live the fine is $200 for using a phone without handsfree while driving (roughly one fine pr 500 inhabitants were handed out last year).
Unfortunately that doesn't seem like a high enough fine to get people to change their behavior. It might help if the fine was raised to the same lev
If you really need to text, pull over, send the text, then start back up.
Isn't New York one of those places where if you're even in your car, on the side of the road and on the phone, they'll still give you a ticket?
Hey Politicians, stuff like this is already illegal. Bear with me now:
If you cross the center line and plow into another car head on because you just *had* to reply to your friend's incoming text message, you could wind up killing people other than yourself.
Driving left of center is illegal (unless legally passing) in the United States. it is a citable offense. Why not enforce existing laws on the books? It will generate a lot of revenue and save lives, and people will learn on their second, third, etc. off
I have heard that laws against texting / talking on the phone / whatever while driving do not actually cause there to be less accidents.
I've heard that listening to unsourced claims by anonymous cowards on Slashdot may be hazardous to your brain functions.
My ideal system for dealing with texting / drinking / $distraction while driving would go like this: Once you've hit someone while being distracted or intoxicated, they get you not only for whatever injuries and damages you do, but also get you for criminal negligence.
That's lovely, unless you're the guy who got dead because no-one pulled the driver for doing something obviously dangerous before the accident.
I propose an alternative approach: anyone who drives a vehicle that is likely to cause a fatality in a collision, and who is demonstrably not properly alert and in control of that vehicle for any reason, should be treated the same way as someone who
and *my* ideal would be to take advantage of the silicon revolution and get the driver out of the equation.
It's illegal in the UK, and quite right too.
Well, saying it's illegal is reasonable enough, but one could argue that it should be covered by general laws about driving without paying proper attention.
The problem with making a specific law against using hand-held phones is that it led to a wave of advertising about how you should buy a hands-free kit to stay safe while you're driving. Some large advertising used literally those words.
Unfortunately, statistically, using a hands-free kit is almost as dangerous as using a handheld kit, and the new law w
Unfortunately, statistically, using a hands-free kit is almost as dangerous as using a handheld kit, and the new law was used by advertisers to condone it.
Do you have a citation for that? The study I saw showed that using a hands free kit had the same effect on your reaction time, which is not the same thing. Someone with one hand on their phone has a greater response time for anything that they need to do with that hand and someone holding the phone with their shoulder has reduced visibility (because they can't turn their head so much). Neither of these was addressed by the study.
Do you have a citation for that?
Sorry, I'm not clear which part you meant.
If you mean the danger of using hands-free, then I agree that a similar change in reaction time is not necessarily the same as as similar change in the overall danger, and clearly the physical limitation of a hand-held device does make the latter worse. This is why I only wrote "almost as dangerous".
The main thing I'm going on in writing "almost" was an experiment (conducted IIRC by the RAC, for a TV documentary around the time the law was passed here) where people
Unfortunately, statistically, using a hands-free kit is almost as dangerous as using a handheld kit, and the new law was used by advertisers to condone it.
The real question is, how do you send text messages with a hands-free kit?
What? Texting and driving isn't already illegal in the USA? It's illegal in the UK, and quite right too.
It's absurd to compare the USA to the UK in this type of situation. It's much more accurate to compare our national government to the EU. Under our Federal system of government, most laws like this are supposed to be handled by individual states, not the central government. That doesn't mean that Congress won't pass some stupid law, only that they shouldn't bother getting involved in minutiae.
There's an argument to be made that since the Federal government pays for much of the maintenance on the interstate
Re "Just federal employees": The president can ban federal employees from texting while driving for work (or having cream in their coffee while on the job, for that matter, if he so chose) by an executive order. Banning all drivers from texting would take an act of a legislature, and this sort of thing is typically done by state law, not federal law. Congress can effectively force states to enact highway laws like this by withholding federal highway funds.
Congress may get there soon, but it takes more time.
It's illegal in many states, but by no means all of them. This is about a Federal mandate that the states all outlaw it.
Now the more interesting question is how you enforce this.
For starters, I think they're going to have to punish managers who want their people available 24x7x365. If you ban cell phone use and texting by federal employees while driving, and the federal employees in question are driving home, you're just going to have to wait. Which shouldn't be a problem - if it is a real problem then you haven't properly trained backup personnel to cover for the guy who's driving home, which means that if he slams into a tree due to texting you're all going to be in much bigger trouble.
This came up in a discussion on another site, and a doctor pointed out "If I can get to the side of the road and stop to handle what could easily be a life-or-death emergency, you can get to the side of the road and stop to handle whatever you're dealing with."
You don't have to ban use of the voice function while driving. Just mandate that they can't do it without using a proper speakerphone mode or other hands-free.
Most of the phones this lot use have Bluetooth as a feature- there's little excuse for not having a "Borg implant" or using a speakerphone device on the visor that ties to their phone while they're driving.
Using a hands-free is only slightly less dangerous than holding a phone to your head.
The problem is no so much the occupied hand as the distracted brain.
I don't know why a mobile is worse, perhaps it's a pavlov dog thing since when you have a phone to your ear you are normally trying to block out your surroundings.
I suspect a big part of it is that passengers are present and can see what's going on on the road.
When there's traffic that needs attention and I, as the driver, get distracted from the conversation I'm having with my passenger, the passenger understands why I'm distracted from the conversation without the need for me to explain why. When talking
The audio quality on phones is quite poor. It takes a lot more brain power to parse language from a poor quality source than from a high-quality source, like the person sitting next to you.
I haven't seen a ranked list of distractions in a while, but when the debate was going on in the early aughts, AAA had a list of "causes of distracted driving" on which cell phone was somewhere around #7 or #10, and "food or beverage" was #1, by like an order of magnitude.
IOW, we're not going after the low hanging fruit first, which bewilders me.
IOW, we're not going after the low hanging fruit first, which bewilders me.
It's because it's not popular and in people's faces right now.
Food is something people have been dealing with in the car since cars first came around. It's something we're familiar with and it's not new. Secondly, going after "food distractions" would most definitely not make a politician popular. As such, no politician would touch that with a 10 foot pole. Texting while driving, however, is something that is pretty obviously stupid, and that has a lot of support from the general public as something tha
Most states have this in place with heavy fines. It's bad enough that people talk on the phone while driving let alone text.
The only way I see them being caught, is for them to have a car wreck which they sure as hell probably will if they text and drive. Maybe the feds will have the added bonus of loosing your job. So it's probably not if but when they wreck if they text.
For starters, I think they're going to have to punish managers who want their people available 24x7x365.
Give me a break. I don't know any SANE human being that expects someone to literally be available 24x7x365. If you have a manger like that, you have much bigger issues to worry about. It is quite obvious that texting and driving is stupid - the enforcement does not need to go past, "You made the decision to do it - I don't care what your boss wants or doesn't want."
I wish it were just teenagers, but these are adults who should know better. If you get in your car, turn the bitch off. Full stop. What really gets me is the douche bags who rationalize what they're doing because, "it's just for a couple of seconds," or, "I'm good at multitasking." Sure, whatever, you bet. Learn how to use your damn voice mail because nothing is that important.
Learn how to use your damn voice mail because nothing is that important.
And if it is that damn important, pull over to the side of the road.
On a serious note, this order really does have some practical benefit because if a federal employee has something that is important enough that it has to be dealt with while driving, the employee can pull over, make the phone call, and the employee's boss will have no justification to complain about the employee being 5 minutes late for whatever appointment s/he was driving to. If the boss complains, the employee has a written policy to cit
I don't think anyone is going to say that texting while driving is a good idea, but it is already against the law. There are laws against reckless driving, and these would include things like texting while driving. Why do we need more rules against something that is already against the rules? If someone is doing this, use the existing rules. Since this is specifically pointed out, does that mean eating lunch while driving is okay, since there isn't a rule specifically against it? What about reading a b
The second of these is a major problem. Things like te
The problem with using reckless driving types laws is that they are too late. Once you are exhibiting a behavior which is reckless (lane changes, etc) the only thing that separates that from a accident is that no-one else had the misfortune of being there at the time. The purpose of texting bans, etc is to stop a behavior which is likely to be a problem BEFORE it is actually a problem.
Broad laws are OK after the fact - you crashed, so it is reasonable to say you were reckless. Broad laws to prevent behav
The problem with using reckless driving types laws is that they are too late. Once you are exhibiting a behavior which is reckless (lane changes, etc) the only thing that separates that from a accident is that no-one else had the misfortune of being there at the time. The purpose of texting bans, etc is to stop a behavior which is likely to be a problem BEFORE it is actually a problem.
How is a texting while driving law any different than a reckless driving law? The odds of a police officer being able to see that I am texting while driving is rather slim. All he can see is that I am looking down more than is safe (if that) or that my driving is erratic. So a texting while driving law is either, also, "too late", or no different than a reckless driving law enforced on behavior. do you really think that with these laws in place people will have their cellphones out by the time the officer g
So? It's hardly the sort of thing you do by accident...and if you're the sort of person who can't understand how stupid/dangerous it is then you don't deserve a license.
Car and Driver published a study in which they compared reading and writing text messages with drunk driving. They only tested reaction times, not vehicle control. But, in general, reading and writing texts led to worse reaction times than being intoxicated. Decent and short read.
http://tinyurl.com/candtextingwhiledriving [tinyurl.com]
As another posted mentioned though, enforcement will be the real issue. Sounds like it will be more post crash cell phone log analysis to see if you were texting than anything they can pull you over for. Because unless you're doing it in a very obvious manner, there's no real way to tell you're doing it until you crash.
[US Transportation Secretary Ray] LaHood also announced that his department would ban text messaging altogether
Oh! Look! There was a baby in that thar water after all! Seriously, texting is a useful mean of asynchronous communication between workers who are not at their computers. Why ban it entirely? I totally agree with the driving ban, but a blanket ban just seem like someone trying to brown-nose to his boss without really understanding the purpose of the boss' new policy. I can see it now:
President Obama and his senior staff are in a meeting:
President: So on our latest driving while distract push, did everyo
I don't text and drive any more, now that I have my Blackberry it's emailing and driving from now on.
Wow - what an AWESOME display of Obama's presidential powers!
"...The executive order 'shows the federal government is leading by example' and 'sends a signal that distracted driving is dangerous,' LaHood said."
What a load of nonsense. I'm not arguing at all with the (relatively trivial) point about texting-while-driving being irresponsible and stupid.
But what this shows is that the FEDERAL government is bogged down in stupid minutiae, and is essentially worthless. What's next, an executive order to make sure you don't run with scissors? Don't drink your coffee bef
disqualify school bus drivers from receiving commercial driver's licenses if they have been convicted of texting while driving
Why not just ban commercial license to people convicted of Careless Driving? What is so special about texting?
This reminds me of the kind of bullshit, where convicted "sex offenders" after they get out of jail, have special tracking restrictions (must register, wear a GPS anklet, whatever) -- but murderers and thieves don't. You can look at such a policy as being pro-protect-thing-children-from-rapists (who could be against that?), but you can also look at it as pro-murder-and-theft.
Uniform fairness washes this kind of bullshit. If you deny commercial licenses to texting drivers but still give licenses to people who drove while masterbating, watching TV, turning around to shout at the kids in the back seat, etc. then you're pro-driving-while-masterbating. Ok, not really but do you see the problem?
Singling out texting-while-driving is as stupid as outlawing crack while still allowing people to drink Drain-O. There are so many ways to fuck up and you'll never enumerate them all, so just cover the general case, dammit. The most this kind of crap can do, is create loopholes: show me the order's definition of "texting" and I'll put on my rules-lawyer-D&D-player cap and show you a way to pervert it and get around it, while doing something horrifically unsafe.
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I have my materials and I'm ready to make a hammock with an integrated bug net from the basic plans at DIY Gear. If you look at the picture on their home page you can see what I'm going to build.
My question is this: Look at the end of that hammock. It's a gathered end hammock so the suspension will just wrap around the gathered end with a larks head in the normal fashion much like this.
But there's also a structural ridge line which is somehow both inside the bug net and also outside the hammock because it will have to wrap around the gathered end as well.
I'm trying to figure out how the ridge line can be secured to the outside of the gathered end and also be inside the bug net without leaving a hole for bugs to get in.

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In this election season, it's a perfect time to discuss what you think are the most pressing problems in Fremont, Newark and/or Union City?
I'll start with some topics:
Do you think Fremont can pull off developing a new downtown area AND the Warm Springs BART station zone?
Is crime a big concern for you? While the Tri-Cities has a lower crime rate than several other Alameda County cities, it seems like there are several home burglaries a week — sometimes per day. Have you been affected by this?
A common election theme this year is this: 'Fremont is great, but we need to do a better job of letting the region and the nation know about it, so we can better attract desirable businesses and residents.' Do you agree? Or is it just election-year bluster?
There are plenty of other issues. Have at it. And let's see if we can do this without discussing long-gone ballpark ideas. Please?


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GRAETTINGER - Supervisors from Emmet and Palo Alto counties discussed sharing possibilities at the River Valley Cooperative Board Room at 106 E. Robbins St. in Graettinger Tuesday.
An initial key point of interest was how much the Emmet County Conservation Board accomplishes - and with two full-time and four part-time people. By contrast, Palo Alto has five full-time and two part-time conservation employees.
Another major difference between the two counties, though, is that Emmet County oversees 300 acres of conservation lands while, according to Palo Alto County supervisor Keither Wirtz, the county to the south has 2,500 acres to supervise.
And, while Emmet County has three campgrounds it supervises, said Palo Alto County supervisor Ed Noonan, "We have hardly any campgrounds."
Palo Alto supervisors seemed visibly impressed when Emmet County Conservation Board director Eric Anderson told then that camping brings in $65,000 to $70,000 yearly to the county.
Palo Alto's conservation budget is also several times that of Emmet County's.
The supervisors also discussed the possibility of sharing a communication center.
"We're kind of duplicating it," Noonan said.
Palo Alto supervisor Jerry Hofstad floated the idea of having a comm center in Graettinger. "I think we could build a tower right here," he said.
"It would seem logical to look at that," surmised Emmet County supervisor Tim Schumacher.
The supervisors also briefly discussed the makeup of their secondary roads departments.
They agreed to meet again in one year.


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The momentum continued four months after this extraordinary march as more than 100 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists from around the country gathered in Manassas, Va., about 25 miles outside Washington, D.C. Recognizing that the LGBT community often reacted defensively to anti-gay actions, they came up with the idea of a national day to celebrate coming out and chose the anniversary of that second march on Washington to mark it.
The originators of the idea were Rob Eichberg, a founder of the personal growth workshop, The Experience, and Jean O'Leary, then head of National Gay Rights Advocates. From this idea the National Coming Out Day was born.
To this day National Coming Out Day continues to promote a safe world for LGBT individuals to live truthfully and openly.
In 1983 ALL MY CHILDREN's Lynn Carson became the first openly gay character in daytime soap opera history.
On August 18 & 19, 1988, AS THE WORLD TURNS character Hank Elliot became the first male on daytime soaps to officially come out, telling Iva Snyder.
Here are four of the most memorable coming out stories in daytime soap opera history.
Billy Douglas (Ryan Phillippe) - ONE LIFE TO LIVE - June 26, 1992
Bianca Montgomery (Eden Riegel) - ALL MY CHILDREN - December 22 & 27, 2000
Luke Snyder Van Hansis) - AS THE WORLD TURNS - May 9, 2006
Will Horton (Chandler Massey) - DAYS OF OUR LIVES - April 4, 2012 (Marlena) and May 17, 2012 (Sami & Lucas)
Which daytime coming out story was your favorite?
For an indie soap take on coming out, check out Rose's (Kate Conway) big moment in OUT WITH DAD below:


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Jim Tracy Fits the Makeup of the Colorado Rockies WellMarch 16, 2011
When the Colorado Rockies brought Jim Tracy in to be the bench coach for the 2009 season, there was no doubt that he was a fall-back plan in case Clint Hurdle couldn't get the Rockies off to a quick start.
Jim Tracy, 2009 NL Manager of the Year talks baseball and gives us a glimpse into his mindset as a MLB head coach.
Every time Jim Tracy walks in and out of his Colorado Rockies office, he sees the Vince Lombardi quote on the back of his door.
"We are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process, we will catch excellence."
Those are the words that continually motivate Coach Tracy, one of the top coaches in the Bigs. I recently had the privilege to meet Coach Tracy and hear him speak. He touched on many different topics, ranging from managing his bullpen to stealing signs. The rest of this article consists of nuggets of wisdom from a great baseball mind. Enjoy.
Jim Tracy on…
"Too many players these days play not to fail. Those are the guys that never reach their potential. Felipe Alou would always tell his players, "I don't want you to play the game afraid." When the hard work has been put in and its game time, let it fly!"
Great Players
"Body language tells me lot about the player. The great players always look the same. They play full bore with a straight face. Whether their team is up 10 or down 10, their demeanor is the same."
Views on the Bullpen (from the coaching perspective)
"I look at pitching from the ninth inning back. There are so few complete games thrown these days that you have to know how your bullpen plays out from the ninth inning back to the first inning."
Pitching (from the coaching perspective)
"You need to identify who your pitchers are. Are they a sprinter or a starter? You take a guy like Eric Gagne, who I coached in LA. He was up and down as a starter for his first few seasons [Gagne was 11-14 in his first three seasons as primarily a starter]. My coaching staff and I noticed he would look good early in games and then tire.
"Once we moved him to the bullpen, he thrived. He was a sprinter. And he made me look good when shortly after we moved him to closer he put together that amazing streak of 84 straight saves. I don't think that record will ever be broken."
The hardest thing to do at the Big League level
"Being a role guy. Someone who comes off the bench in the seventh, eighth, or ninth after not playing for a week. And it's almost always a spot were the team really needs a hit. It's the coach's job to find opportunities to get his role players into games on a semi-regular basis. It's the role player's job to stay mentally sharp and always know the game situation, so he's ready even before the coach calls his name."
Stealing Signs
"I don't ever watch the opposing coaches and try to steal signs. I just watch the runners. Base runners tell on themselves all the time. I'm always watching for them to take a little bigger lead, or crouch a little lower, or look a bit more focused. Most guys will do something different if they are stealing that pitch.
"It's the same thing with some middle infielders. They'll tip pitches by how they move before the pitch. For example, If the SS sees the catcher call for a change up to a right-handed batter, he might cheat a step towards third to cover the hole. I'm always trying to gain information by watching players on the other team."
A current player whom you think will someday make a great manager
"Hands down, Alex Cora. He was one of the best field managers I've ever been around. When I had him and Cesar Izturis with the Dodgers, people would come to the ballpark just to see them turn double plays. It was like poetry in motion. Alex has a great mind for the game, and I think someday he will be a great manager."
Making out his NL lineup
"First off, I won't sacrifice defense in the middle of my field (i.e., C, SS, 2B and CF). I'm lucky to have two of the best young offensive players in the game at SS and CF (Troy Tulowitzki and Carlos Gonzalez), but they both are Gold Glove-caliber fielders as well. Joey Amalfitano used to say, 'The worst thing that can happen in baseball is when, for whatever reason, the extra hitter in the inning comes up when he shouldn't.'"
What I look for in my line up
1 Hole- I need a catalyst that can get on base and run.
2 Hole- My smartest offensive player. A guy who understands the game and can get on base for our 3 and 4 hitters.
3 Hole- My best hitter
4 Hole- Someone with pop who can drive in runs
5 Hole- Hits for power and provides some protection for 4 hole hitter
6 Hole- Cleans up for 3, 4, 5 guys and knocks in runs.
7 Hole- My second 2 hole hitter. He's an action guy who can hit & run and handle the bat.
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Mmmm...retro graphics. I miss it. Since I no longer have any of my old systems anymore,I get my fix from watching Game Sack on YouTube or playing any of today's games that are designed that way. So yes,I grew up with them and will forever love them to death!
I grew up with 8 ad 16 bit graphics. But now I cant stand looking at them.
I have standards, and those standards are HD graphics, no childish game play or mechanics (all nintendo games and Lego games), the game must have complicated game mechanics i.e Arma, good story line. If its on PC it must meet all those requirements and contain mod support.
if it's missing one of those features. It's total garbage and not worth a penny.
Retro graphics..... let me see...... yes as long as it is on a retro game. The new games being developed by people using retro graphics are not as attractive as games using the graphics of today. I, for one, did not by a PS3 so I could play double dragon NES style. I expect to be awed by the beauty of the game after I have played a fantastic game. Example: I put probably 12 hours into Skyrim when I stopped and thought to myself, "Holy crap this is a frigging pretty game."
Oh yeah, when I want retro I have plenty of emulators to get that fix.
graphics aren't the selling point of a game for me. its mostly about gameplay for me. that being said I do prefer newer graphics over the new.
I grew up with 8- and 16- bit graphics. I loved them then and still do to this day. Super Meat Boy and Fez were great callbacks to that era. And Abobo's Big Adventure! What a trip!
I love retro graphics I actually just bought a new snes and getting a genesis soon! Gotta love the oldies.
retro graphics are what gets me through the rest of the week
I enjoy the look and feel of the 8- and 16- bit era, and I grew up in that era so that helps but, my vote is for the "I only care about gameplay" line because in a game thats all that matters. there are so many examples and testaments to that, beautiful breath taking games that after 30 min you realize were not worth the virtual space they take up... then there are games that look horrible and aged about as well as milk, but the core design and gameplay are what make it amazing.
Get your own Gamercard Sig.
I'd have to say that I grew up with them and when I am feeling nostalgic, I probably wouldn't mind seeing and playing some of the old school retro games. In all honesty though I do prefer the HD graphics and storytelling in this era much better then the 8 and 16 bit days.
I enjoy retro graphics plenty. Unfortunately I feel like most games that seem to employ them are remarkably similar and I find it tough to get into them.
no...the closest I play to retro is my DS XL.
Not going to say that I love pixelated graphics specifically, but I do like graphics that doesn't render the scene perfectly obvious and thus requires at least some imagination to percieve.
Got a plentiful collection of both NES, Famicom, Mega Drive, Master System, Gameboy games etc that I play from time to time. There's lots of really interesting graphical examples and it's usually filled with very vibrant colors due to the limitations of the systems.
So overall I'd say I really like pixelated graphics as long as they have a nice use of colors.
I'd also say that I don't generally play games for the graphics so I might as well enjoy more modern titles like Republic Commando just as much as older titles like ZEN: Intergalactic Ninja. :)


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But too bad - the greenhouse effect is a myth, as we all know.
That's not the only myth they are tackling
Put this tower in a hot desert area, where the daytime surface temperature sits at around 40 degrees Celsius (104 F), and add in the greenhouse effect and you've got a temperature under your collector somewhere around 80-90 degrees (176-194 F).
It emits absolutely no pollution - the only emission is warm air at the top of the tower. In fact, because you're creating a greenhouse underneath, it actually turns out to be remarkably good for growing vegetation under there.
Hmmm... What plants grow at those temperature?
Maybe in cooler climes it can be used to grow stuff colder climes (or seasons), however at the locations where it'll be warmer and have more stable temperatures, it's gonna get awful damn windy... That means, amongst other things, rugged plants, lots of soil loss (going straight into the turbines or filters that will need to be replaced!) , and lot of moisture loss.
It's looks like an interesting concept for an energy source, but as for green growing space... doubt it.
the problem is, at those locations, it would only be useful in moderate climes anyway, that don't need greenhouses much.
Also, if you are doing this in the desert, the problem is water, which the greenhouse will not serve to conserve, since there is a constant airflow.
Awesome Dune reference. Frank Herbert would be proud.
lots of soil loss
Where's that soil end up? On the greenhouse glass, of course. If the wind flow is enough to toss heavy rocks 2500 feet up (size and weight of hailstones?) then they'll make quite a dent when they hit the glass below.
Hmmm... What plants grow at those temperature?
Locally mix in some cold air during the winter, it'll be nice.
Kind of like asking, if my natural gas furnace burns a 2500 degree blue flame, how can I use it to keep my house at 72 degrees in the winter?
I am guessing you have never spent the night outside in the Desert.
I live in the AZ desert, and have a green house for 3 reasons. 1) the birds, rabbits, etc even eat the hot pepper plant northern rabbits wont touch. 2) Cold nights, day to night swings of 30F are the norm, northern plants seam confused by this, and don't grow (but don't die either.) 3) Humidity, normal plants lose way too much humidity without a enclosure. My roof panels auto open at 90 degrees, and the misters turn on at 95 then close up to maintain overnight.
#1 seams to apply here, #2, probably be good dual purpose for Nov to March.#3 the moisture should settle out on the way up as it gets cooled. Thus if captured would be available. However I would guess the cooling affect of the water down low, would reduce the efficiency, and thus not be desired.
It's the typical "we want a federal grant" spiel. It will cut your grass for you and cure cancer, as well as produce cheap reliable clean energy. Of course there's no logistical problems involved in keeping plants at the optimal temperature, watering them, etc. Nah, some dufus in a lab coat who has never seen a vegetable outside a supermarket said "hey, we could probably grow plants there too".
Of course it would make a hell of a gnomon for a giant desert sundial. That would keep future archaeologists guessing for quite a while. Just to fuck everyone up they should align the doors with compass directions.
So you are saying the tower is constructed only by increasing carbon dioxide in an open chamber?
Odd, I thought it used heat trapped by passing through glass.
The mammoth 800-plus meter (2625 ft) tall tower will instantly become one of the world's tallest buildings.
Compensating for something there, Arizona?
Don't be ridiculous.
It's an Australian based company erecting this thing.
The mammoth 800-plus meter (2625 ft) tall tower will instantly become one of the world's tallest buildings.
Compensating for something there, Arizona?
No, they're just really excited about clean energy.
lots of moving parts
Maybe in absolute terms, but virtually any other means of electrical power generation has more. The only moving parts here are the turbines. Not only do we have plenty of experience with running turbines (since every other power source uses them), but they should all be independent from one another, so a failure of one doesn't lead to damage or require a shutdown, it just means you're putting out a little less power.
I was under the impression that the turbines surrounded the base of the tower at ground level. Every diagram of systems like this show the same layout.
This was my thought too. An 800m tower is a pretty big target for winds, but I'm pretty sure Arizona isn't all that hostile an environment, though, when I think about it. Very few/ no storms (dustorms maybe), I don't think it gets earthquakes, next to no rain. And the only moving parts, as far as I understand it, are the turbines, which isn't really "a lot". Any power plant is going to have maintenance costs of some kind. This needs no fuel, and supposedly can work at night. It doesn't use rare, expensive,
I'm kind of annoyed when people say "empty desert." The problem with this is a desert isn't empty and the animals that do live there need more area to hunt out edible plants and other creatures than more rain prone climates.
Don't get the idea that I'm some cactus hugger, it's just I live in the arizona desert and people think it's all sand when there is quiet an abundant variety of life that can only be found in an area that's already relatively small.
The big problem is the 0.5% efficiency quoted by Wikipedia. Not only does this waste a lot of nice desert land, but it make the economics difficult. I'd rather see 20% efficient concentrated solar with molten salt storage. Less land and, I'll bet, cheaper in the long run.
Agreed. It has moving parts (turbines), and needs some architecture on a vast scale, but if done right, we (meaning scientists) may learn some technological abilities from this to make it useful in other areas.
I wonder how this compares by price compared to just taking the same amount of area and laying down photovoltac cells either actively tracking the sun, or just passively facing south. Passive tracking gets less sunlight, but doesn't require the presence of moving parts.
I like this tech too, really look like it has solid potential!
This was in the works since 2001 so a decade seems about right. [enviromission.com.au]
into cooler air, higher up. I wonder what the weather will be like near that tower after it goes into operation? This could be a neat experiment!
It's in Arizona, what do they have to lose?
At "176-194 F", I'm not familiar with any plants that grow well.
The efficiency of a heat engine depends on the difference between input and output temperatures, so this can't be very efficient, though efficiency is less important when the input is so cheap.
Yellowstone has some bacteria that grow at those temperatures, perhaps they could be molded into colorful bacon strips.
At "176-194 F", I'm not familiar with any plants that grow well.
The sad part is that is well done for beef. I prefer medium well, myself, around 155 F.
Perhaps on a cloudy day you could stampede cattle under the greenhouse, and have a rather large steak dinner a couple hours later.
Beef jerky factory.
No, this not (sic) a plan to use Congress to generate power, though that would certainly be an endless supply
Yep, another old, tired, stupid and vacuous panning in the summary that you'd expect from a 14 year old who thinks he's massively clever. This is is what Slashdot has become.
This is a ridiculous idea. The only structure that is taller than 2600 ft is the Burj Khalifa (Burj Dubai), which is 2717 ft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_structures_in_the_world [wikipedia.org]
The idea that we would build the 2nd tallest structure in the world for 200 MW is ridiculous. This doesn't even come CLOSE to being a top producer of energy per power plant. The top 10 power plants in the world all produce more than 6000 MW. Even the largest biofuel, geothermal and tidal plants currently exceed 200MW.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_power_stations_in_the_world [wikipedia.org]
Taller doesn't necessarily mean more expensive. It's a big metal tube, not the same as a full building. It doesn't even need to be habitable. Structures of similar heights have been built for radio transmission you know.
Who said anything about more expensive? As for "similar heights", the largest radio tower was the Warsaw Radio Mast [wikipedia.org], which was 2164 ft before it collapsed. The currently tallest radio mast is the KVLY-TV mast [wikipedia.org] which is 2063 ft. This would be 26% taller than KVLY, would be free-standing (unguyed), and would be solid (wind cannot blow through it). This tower is more comparable to a occupied structure.
The current highest capacity wind turbines are 7.6 MW. I haven't been able to find figures on the area pro
Nobody is living inside the tower.
It will be significantly easier to build this than any building for occupation at half that size.
As for the cost, the average US nuclear power plant puts out very close to one gigawatt, and costs on the order of 6-9 billion dollars to build and another 30 billion in expenses over its lifetime. This tower has an estimated construction cost of 750 million dollars, and although I can't find any estimates of the maintenance cost, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say "a hell of a lot less than completely rebuilding it every 3 years of its spec'd lifetime".
Average nuclear reactor output in the U.S. is
It's not habitable. With a payback period of 11 years, it's doing pretty well, particularly for a renewable energy plant.
What would the thermocouple be doing? Facilitating the opening/closing of vents?
Yes, but it would also make the heat worse.
Well the tower being dirty shouldn't cause any problems, the greenhouse roof being dirty would reduce efficiency, I don't know if it's self-cleaning. Rain would be no problem at all, when the desert sun comes up the water will disappear reeaall fast...
In 2005 EnviroMission said that the first solar tower would be up and running before year 2008 in Australia. That never happened.
Now in 2011 they say that it will be ready at the start of 2015 in Arizona. I hope they succeed this time.
to generate electricity, but isn't a major hurtle for projects like this one the distance from where the electricity will be consumed? They're confining this to the desert, because of the daytime temps, but most power is being used on either coast, thousands of miles away.
Depend if you need a B-2 bomber, a few 747s, a large cruise ship, or a power plant.
How beneficial is a large cruise ship in delivering ordinance deep in enemy territory through air defense networks?
The money spent on a B-2 doesn't evaporate into the ether. It becomes paychecks, purchases of materials (from alloys to paper clips), stock dividends for retirement funds and so on. Those paychecks pay mortgages, rent, car payments, groceries, trips to Disney World, condoms, computers....
Solar Cells, and Lightning Rods seem to be the only methods I can think of that produce electricity without the use a turbine/generator combo but neither are viable for wide spread use. It seems to me that we'd do well to invest in methods of converting heat directly into electricity (giant Peltiers?) without the use of a turbine/generator. I would think doing so would theoretically make a number of our existing methods that much more efficient and perhaps open the door for other methods of power production.
Is there a form of viable power production that doesn't require a mechanical generator of some sort?
Radioisotope thermoelectric generator [wikipedia.org]
There are magnetohydrodynamic approaches. You make a lot of hot plasma, cool it by allowing to expand in one direction and then use a big magnet to separate the positive ions and negative electons, which impact different electrodes. I don't think it's terribly efficient (to put it mildly) and the wear on the electrodes is something chronic, but if you want a LOT of power (GW) for short periods (seconds to minutes) for some reason it might be usable. I think Jerry Pournells has a laser launcher powered tha
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TOWNSEND -- Moody's Investors Service restored Townsend's bond rating to Aa3 Monday after the rating had been suspended for a year due to a delayed audit.
Town Administrator Andrew Sheehan said that the rating was an indication of Townsend's stable finances.
"It's a other indicator of the good financial position that the town is in. We've been saying all along that the town's finances are solid and stable and moving forward and this is another indicator of that," Sheehan said. "The report form our auditors at the end of April was very positive, and this is just another positive step in reflecting the position of our finances."
The town's bond rating was revoked last June due to delays in the fiscal year 2012 audit after the town switched auditors.
According to Moody's website, it can withdraw a rating due to "incorrect, insufficient or otherwise inadequate information."
With the rating restored, Townsend is now able to pursue the borrowing that was approved at May's Annual Town Meeting to fund capital expenses.
"We're very pleased with the outcome and hopeful that we can continue to move forward in a positive direction," Sheehan said.
Sheehan said he had few concerns over the past year about the bond rating being restored quickly.
"Really the only concern that I had was the effects of the last recession. It's been a long recovery out in this part of the state and you never know how that's going to be received by the rating agencies, but we've seen good local economic news over the last year, with an uptick in building permit activity and some other economic factors that are viewed favorably," he said.
Moody's representatives wrote in a statement that Townsend's strengths included a historical trend of stable financial operations, modest debt with limited future borrowing plans and low pension and post-employment benefits liabilities.
It listed declines in tax base values and resident wealth levels that are below the state average as challenges that Townsend faces.
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While reviewing the audit of Grundy County finances Monday, members of the board's Finance Committee discussed issues with the Grundy County Health Department's accounting and a resulting criminal investigation.
The Grundy County State's Attorney's office is investigating an employee who may have been committing theft, but State's Attorney Jason Helland, because of the ongoing investigation, would not release a name nor indicate whether the employee is still working for the department.
Tawnya Mack, of Mack & Associates Certified Public Accounts, reviewed the county's fund balances compared to last year's, as well as her new findings.
"We found irregularities with deposits (from the health department) getting to the treasurer's office," Mack said.
Starting in June 2012, new procedures were put into place at the health department and the irregularities were no longer found, but prior to June, it was found that cash was being recorded within the department, but not being deposited with the Grundy County Treasurer's office.
Auditor testing does not check every receipt or deposit, so an exact amount allegedly stolen through the alleged theft is not known as of now, but Mack said Tuesday it is an excess of $10,000.
If the investigation results in charges, the amount stolen will determine whether the theft charges are felony or misdemeanor charges, Helland said.
"At this point we are in the preliminary stages," he said. "No charges have been filed, it's just an investigation in progress."
Board of Health President Joan Harrop said in a phone call Tuesday evening she could not comment on this situation.
According to the audit findings, prior to June 2012 the health department did not have a formal receipting process and receipts were not issued for cash and checks in every division of the department. In addition, there was no reconciliation between the receipt logs maintained by some divisions to what was actually being deposited or recorded.
A new process was implemented June 6, 2012, and all receipts have since been accounted for in testing done after that date.
The committee also discussed a recurring finding this year that was an issue in previous years as well — the health department's accounting system is inadequate.
All revenue and expenses are mainly entered into an Excel spreadsheet and are manually totaled, which allows for errors, said Mack. Cash receipts are also not recorded completely in the spreadsheet, making it difficult to trace deposits.
An update of the system needs to happen soon, Mack said.
"I feel this system is what allowed the theft to occur," she said.
County Board Chairman Ron Severson said he has spoken with the Board of Health regarding this before, and will do so again. The county has made several recommendations to the Board of Health, he said, but the county does not have control of the health department, the Board of Health does.
Finance Committee Chairman John Galloway said the county board could hold back $400,000 in subsidies it pays the health department if it needs to.
"This needs to end this year . . . the auditor comes back every year complaining about their archaic system," Galloway said.
Harrop said she believed a new accounting system had already been instituted at the health department that is a countywide system.
"There were problems throughout the county, not just in our department, and I think the accounting system was replaced countywide," she said.
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The end game at hand, the White House and Senate leaders made a final stab at compromise Friday night to prevent middle-class tax increases from taking effect at the turn of the new year and possibly block sweeping spending cuts as well.
"I'm optimistic we may still be able to reach an agreement that can pass both houses in time," President Barack Obama said at the White House after meeting for more than an hour with top lawmakers from both houses.
Surprisingly, after weeks of postelection gridlock, Senate leaders sounded even more bullish.
The Republican leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said he was "hopeful and optimistic" of a deal that could be presented to rank-and-file lawmakers as early as Sunday, a little more than 24 hours before the year-end deadline.
Said Majority Leader Harry Reid: "I'm going to do everything I can" to prevent the tax increases and spending cuts that threaten to send the economy into recession. He cautioned, "Whatever we come up with is going to be imperfect."
House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican who has struggled recently with anti-tax rebels inside his own party, said through an aide he would await the results of the talks between the Senate and White House.
Under a timetable sketched by congressional aides, any agreement would first go to the Senate for a vote. The House would then be asked to assent, possibly as late as Jan. 2, the final full day before a new Congress takes office.
Officials said there was a general understanding that any agreement would block scheduled income-tax increases for middle class earners while letting rates rise at upper income levels.
Democrats said Obama was sticking to his campaign call for increases above $250,000 in annual income, even though in recent negotiations he said he could accept $400,000.
The two sides also confronted a divide over estate taxes.
Obama favors a higher tax than is currently in effect, but one senior Republican, Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, said he's "totally dead set" against it. Speaking of fellow GOP lawmakers, he said they harbor more opposition to an increase in the estate tax than to letting taxes on income and investments rise at upper levels.
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America has far too much debt at 100 percent of Gross Domestic Product. That debt draws down prosperity from the future. America faces a gigantic black hole between federal spending and revenues with deficits exceeding $1 trillion for four years in a row. This year despite Washington's machinations, the deficit will be the highest than in any year since 1946. But how to bring the trillion dollar deficits and $16.4 trillion public debt under control?
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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Cyntellect, a privately-held biotechnology company, and the Burnham Institute for Medical Research ("Burnham") today announced they have entered into a joint collaboration to develop new applications on Cyntellect's in situ live cell imaging and laser processing product (called LEAP(TM)) to accelerate research by Burnham's scientists. The collaboration efforts will focus on developing applications of LEAP for automated purification of stem cells, stem cell colonies and the differentiated cells derived from stem cells. Cyntellect and Burnham expect these new applications will accelerate discovery of new knowledge of stem cell differentiation factors and pathways, as well as generate cell populations that may be used to deliver the potential therapeutic benefits of stem cells. Under the agreement, Burnham will gain access to LEAP and Cyntellect will gain certain commercial rights to discoveries under the collaboration.
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The Dolphins did not draft anyone in today's NFL supplemental draft.
Terrelle Pryor went to the Oakland Raiders, who overspent invested a third-round pick on the former Ohio State quarterback. No other player was drafted during this draft. All of the remaining players become free agents.
Meanwhile, back at the stately Dolphins facility:
Tony Sparano said the open competition for the starting free safety job between Reshad "Get it on" Jones, as he likes to be called, and Chris Clemons, is still an open competition. Neither player has pulled ahead of the other, apparently.
The dynamic here is interesting. The Dolphins want more big plays out of the position and the team believes Jones can provide that better than Clemons. The Dolphins also want everyone properly lined up and as few mental mistakes as possible in the deep secondary, and that is apparently where Clemons has an advantage over Jones.
The Dolphins need someone to make a crossover.
"I think will go right to the end," Sparano said of the competition. "It's not something I'm rooting for but I think it's going to happen."
Methinks Jones wins, but that's just a prediction and I stink at predictions more than I stink at most other things in life. Nonetheless, Jones is getting better at getting folks lined up and a big play is a big play is a big play.
Speaking of those, Sparano said cornerbacks Sean Smith and Vontae Davis have had the earnest thrill of participating in 510 camp plays before Monday. They are mostly error-free plays as they are averaging only one mental mistake every 70 plays or so. That is excellent as it translate to only one mental mistake per game.
What needs improvement is that neither Davis nor Smith has gotten his hands around enough footballs (interceptions) in practice. That typically shows up in practice before translating to the games. So far, not enough of either.
Moving on ...
Remember the other day I suggested on a previous post the Dolphins should perhaps shelve Reggie Bush the rest of the preseason in order to save him and minimize his injury risk?
Yeah, forget about that because it apparently isn't what Bush wants or expects. I asked Bush if following his very nice debut Friday against Carolina he needed to do some more sharpening of his game or if he felt ready for the season.
"I don't think that as a team we're ready to start the season yet and me as an an individual I don't think I'm ready yet," Bush said. "There's a lot of things I need to work on. I've only played one preseason game here with the Dolphins. I obviously have had a lot of practice with the team but being out there with the team in game situations is a lot different. I definitely think I have a ways to go, so hopefully this next game I'll get the bulk of the plays and get a chance to build on and fine tune my tools."
The Dolphins had a walk-thru at the Nick Saban Memorial Bubble (my name for it) this morning and then went on the field for about an hour before it began to rain. That forced them back inside the NSMB.
Lydon Murtha, Mickey Shuler, Lex Hilliard, Garrett Chisolm, and Patrick Carter did not practice.


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RENO, NV - It's been less than a year since Great Basin Brewing Company started rolling out bottles at their Taps and Tanks facility on East McCarren. In just ten months, their high speed bottling line has packaged a million of their popular craft beers.
"This happened a lot faster than we thought it would," Great Basin owner and brewmaster Tom Young said. "But hey, we have a lot of thirsty people here in Nevada and we know Nevadans have discerning palates and really enjoy craft beer."
They've added extra tanks to the facility to keep up with demand and plan on stepping up production and distribution. Young says local support has played a key factor over the years.
"We have more than 450 contracts in Northern Nevada," Young said. "Grocery stores, liquor stores and lots of restaurants and we're very happy to have that kind of response in the community. We love this place and we hope everybody loves us too."
He says they plan on rolling out a canned version of their top-selling Icky IPA in the coming months.


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Joyce Sims came home from church June 2 and immediately called Lawrenceburg police.
Someone had stolen her tree peony.
The tree is not her favorite planting in Sims' meticulously landscaped backyard at 617 Nickelbie Drive. Sims prefers Crepe Myrtle trees or calla lilies to a tree peony or "peony tree" as she referred to the perennial.
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After 20 years away, Ron Marz goes back to the golf course to find his Other Thing, his respite from writing.
Full article here.
After 20 years away, Ron Marz goes back to the golf course to find his Other Thing, his respite from writing.
Full article here.
I very seldom comment on anything online, Ron, but this was one of those rare times when someone writes an article that sounds spookily familiar. Especially the part about using the Marvel royalties cheque to buy golf clubs for your dad.
My Dad played a lot of golf as a young man. Gave it up when us kids came along. I felt a bit guilty over that when I found out. Dad being Dad he said he had no regrets about anything and it was fine.
When he retired he took it up again but in his late 60s struggled to get round the course with a bag of clubs. My first wage after years of university and earning nothing was to buy him a motorised golfcart. He doesn't get out much on the gold course now - he's eighty in two months - but he still has the cart and he uses it on his increasing-rare visits to the golf course. Easily one of the best purchases I've ever made, perhaps the best.
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Nice article! I actually, played 18 with a friend today, were both comic fans, he works in the industry. I poured a drink put up my feet and enjoyed reading this. I shot a 97 playing for 20 years and I still suck, but it's nice day here in Seattle.


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Texas Beef Barbecue Recipe
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A boneless beef roast simmers for hours in a slightly sweet sauce before it's shredded and tucked into rolls to make hearty sandwiches. "This is a family favorite," notes Jennifer Bauer of Lansing, Michigan, who shared the recipe.
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- 1 beef sirloin tip roast (4 pounds)
- 1 can (5-1/2 ounces) spicy hot V8 juice
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/4 cup white vinegar
- 1/4 cup ketchup
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground mustard
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 16 kaiser rolls, split
- Cut roast in half; place in a 5-qt. slow cooker. Combine the V8 juice, water, vinegar, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, brown sugar and seasonings; pour over roast. Cover and cook on low for 8-10 hours or until meat is tender.
- Remove meat and shred with two forks; return to slow cooker and heat through. Spoon 1/2 cup meat mixture onto each roll. Yield: 16 servings.
Originally published as Texas Beef Barbecue in Light & Tasty October/November 2006, p30
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Reviewed Nov. 8, 2014
"This is SO good. I added some honey and bourbon and it was to die for! Serve with collard greens and tater tots!"
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"Very easy to make! Tastes good not spicy. The kids loved the meat alone with veggies and a baked potato."


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KLRU-Q's Saturday Night at the Movies presents a full-length movie every Saturday night, plus extra content that gives the evening an exciting spin. Here is a peek of what this Saturday has in store:
8:00pm – Masterpiece Mystery! Presents: Poirot X: Murder On The Orient Express
David Suchet (Henry VIII, The Way We Live Now) stars as suave Belgian super sleuth Hercule Poirot in this mystery based on the novels by Agatha Christie. Whether he's on holiday abroad, taking a countryside break or simply going about his business near his central London home, Poirot finds himself exercising his "little grey cells" by helping police investigate crimes and murders, whether they ask for his help or not. Securing a last-minute ticket on the Orient Express from Istanbul to London, Poirot finds himself amongst a host of eclectic fellow passengers. When the train becomes caught in a snowdrift and a passenger is found brutally murdered mid-voyage, the famous Belgian detective is called upon to investigate the crime and find the culprit. Dame Eileen Atkins (Cranford), Hugh Bonneville (Miss Austen Regrets) and David Morrissey (Sense and Sensibility) guest star.
9:30pm – David Suchet on the Orient Express
This program takes us across the Europe of today and reaches into bygone eras. With glamour, insight, charm, beautiful photography and fascinating characters, Suchet leads us on an epic journey on an iconic train through a series of romantic cities and stunning scenery.


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ALGONQUIN – As the village continues its green and conservation practices, it is urging state and federal governments to do the same.
The village wants to renew its agreement with the Sierra Club's Cool Cities program.
The agreement, which is a nonbinding resolution, calls for practices that reduce dependence on fossil fuels and encourages the development of clean energy sources, support of greenhouse gas reduction legislation and reduction of greenhouse gases from 2009 levels.
Algonquin has been part of the agreement since 2007. Village Board members are scheduled to vote Tuesday on the new three-year agreement.
Village operations already include sustainable practices, including water conservation, membership in the Tree City USA program, use of naturalized detention basins, use of alternative fuels such as biodiesel or natural gas and a conversion to LED lights.
"Staff sees participation in the Cool Cities program as a method to recognize the village's innovative strides in conservation and allow greater access to grant funding to further support these initiatives," Assistant to the Village Manager Mike Kumbera wrote in a village memo.
Algonquin is one of 59 communities in the state recognized by the Cool Cities program.
According to the agreement, the cities that sign on urge federal and state governments to enact policies and programs to reduce the country's dependence on fossil fuels and accelerate the development of clean and economical energy resources.
It also calls for the development of fuel-efficient technologies such as conservation, methane recovery for energy generation, wind and solar energy fuel cells and electric and efficient motor vehicles.
The agreement also calls for federal legislation to be adopted that includes "clear timetables and emissions limits and ... a flexible, market-based system of tradable allowances among emitting industries."
Some of the goals listed in the agreement include promoting bicycle trails, incentives for car pooling and public transit, buying only Energy Star equipment and appliances for municipal use, and promoting tree planting to increase shading and to absorb carbon dioxide.
The village has several initiatives that are green-oriented, such as electronic waste recycling. Since 2009, the village has recycled 343,000 pounds of electronics.
Two vehicles in the village fleet also use natural gas. There even is a solar-powered trash compactor, which was provided to the village for free, at Cornish Park.
Algonquin looks to renew with Cool Cities program
ALGONQUIN – As the village continues its green and conservation practices, it is urging state and federal governments to do the same.