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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
The lines that separate us
As a soccer journalist, my livelihood depends on the beautful game. My way of life revolves around soccer and I will spend much of my time between now and November around the game.
I find it strange/ironic/irritating that 90 percent of Americans couldn't give a shit about the beautiful game, which is my passion as both a fan and reporter.
At no time is that more pronounced than today, game day of a U.S.-Mexico match. These are special days to me. They don't happen very often (once or twice a year isn't very often) so I treasure them. I can't remember where I was each of my last 10 or 15 birthdays or the details of Thanksgivings or Christmases over the last decade-plus but I can recall with great clarity where I was for every U.S.-Mexico game since 1995. The emotion and passion and electricity produced by these games is, to me, unmatched.
Yet here we are, preparing to go out in the world or deeply immersed in it already, surrounded by people who honestly could not care less. The lady at the front desk, the guard who stands watch over the parking lot, the annoying guy in the next cubicle, the lady at the checkout counter, your boss, none of them gives a rat's ass.
I guarantee most people out there don't even know it's going on, don't know the hatred many Mexican fans feel toward Landon Donovan, don't know that Mexico draws tens of thousands of fans to these games but still can't beat the U.S., don't know that Hugo Sanchez is 0-2 against the U.S. and that Ricardo Lavolpe, Javier Aguirre and Enrique Meza all failed to beat the U.S. on American soil as well, don't know the emotions this game can produce. They don't know what it feels like when your team's ball hits the back of the net and you vibrate in unending joy, or when the other team scores and you feel like your favorite toy just got smashed to a million pieces.
I've been consumed by this game for weeks, by the rivalry for more than a decade. I've been along for the ride in person and via television, as have many of you. I guess that's why I feel a kinship with you guys, because we both understand what this games means. We both get it, even though many of our friends and co-workers most certainly do not.
Whatever happens tonight, whether you are a US fan or a Mexico fan, it's going to be a great game and a fantastic and memorable ride. Dinner, kids, homework, spouses, chores, bills, everything will take a back seat for a couple of hours. We'll all be immersed in the game, and everyone else is just missing out.
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Thanks for this post, LB. This is great stuff, and I know that so many of us visitors to Sideline Views can strongly sympathize with your sentiments.
What a great day today is! Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent for Catholics like me, England v. Switzerland, Ireland v. Brazil, France v. Spain (anyone know whether this will be televised or streamed online??? I'd love to see my beloved Les Bleus, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen), and of course, the cherished nightcap, U.S. v. Mexico.
Who cares if most of the country is oblivious. My DVR is working overtime...
- February 6, 2008 at 7:36 AM
You know, I love the rivalry, and I'm stoked for the game, but I'm not too frustrated by most people's lack of interest in it. To me it's more important that people have been paying attention to Super Tuesday than Rivalry Wednesday. (Of course, a lot of Americans weren't paying attention to either, which is dismaying.)
- February 6, 2008 at 8:08 AM
Even for soccer fans, the U.S.-Mexico matchup might seem more special if they hadn't met twice last year.
For non-soccer fans, meanwhile, let's not forget that ESPN made a HUGE deal out of their World Cup qualifier in the Azteca on Easter, 2005, and after the United States lost...well, Americans don't like losers.
- February 6, 2008 at 8:18 AM
- A.C. said...
I'm all groggy from staying up late to watch the Cali and Mo returns.
But the little bit of energy left in me is amped for the game.
- February 6, 2008 at 8:19 AM
Listen Luis....I meet soccer writers from all over the nation..... after this article... i have to let you know you lne of the best....
Thanks dude,
Eddie Z.
- February 6, 2008 at 8:30 AM
to be honest i for one don't care that others may not care...i'm lucky that my co-coworkers are hockey fans, baseball fans, football fans (both), basketball fans and i can appreciate the love they have for their team or sport...i enjoy the sports i enjoy not because the world loves them but because i love them...if 95% of americans don't know about this game so be it because that other 5% will give it the passion it deserves and at the end of the day that's all that matters...
i love to golf and you know what Tiger Woods did for the sport (he fucked it up)...now i have to pay twice as much and wait twice as long just to play...and you know what Beackham did for soccer here...he made it expensive!!! Going to a Galaxy game is more expensive than going to see my beloved Angels. Geeeez
- February 6, 2008 at 8:50 AM
That was really well written, perfectly expressive. I love a few sports and soccer is the main one. I'm kinda rare in that I coach soccer and I love NFL football just as much. I cannot wait to watch this game tonight.
- February 6, 2008 at 8:56 AM
I am a fanatical USMNT fan and my wife, born and raised in Mexico, roots for the green weenies :)
Trust me, I'm on my best behavior...we've had moments in my house when my wife dressed my daughter in a green weenie uniform, and I went upstairs and put a Landon Donovan jersey on her...(BTW-you are right that he is the most hated American south of the border with the exception or Senor Bush :))
I also know that if MEX wins I am sure to get a phone call from my 81-year old father in law, but only hear the sweet sound of silence when the USA wins...by the way, he thinks Landon is a great player...
While there is no way my daughter will ever root for MEX against the USA, I had to give in and let her cheer for Chivas USA...although I've become a fan of Pachuca (she actually has cousins in Hidalgo)...
What's sad is how the majority culture doesn't get it, nor do they understand that the day the USA beat Mexico in the 2002 WC it was probably the worst day in Mexico since the Marines were in Mexico City...
- February 6, 2008 at 9:21 AM
I only wish I could have written that better.
- February 6, 2008 at 12:34 PM
errr...hopefully, that reads like a major compliment, which it is.
- February 6, 2008 at 12:35 PM
- CACuzcatlan said...
I have no problem with most people ignoring this. I just have a problem with people hating on soccer. I don't like a lot of other sports, but I don't hate on them.
What I really hate is when the people who don't know anything about soccer and ignore the national team for years try to celebrate a victory with us. Eff them. I want to view and celebrate with real fans. USA FTW!
- February 6, 2008 at 2:48 PM
- JT (Chicago) said...
Nice one LB. It's their loss. Hope all enjoy, regardless of the result.
- February 6, 2008 at 6:51 PM


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Chris Jones loves his hometown. Memphis made him tough and street smart and strong. His identity as a person and his reputation as a basketball player stem from the city's roots -- fearlessness and resiliency borne out of survival in the tough parts of town; skill developed on Memphis' playgrounds and courts. But the city never quite loved him back, at least not enough for his own satisfaction. It was teasing with its heart, downright stingy with its respect.
That's because it all belonged to another. Memphis already had a poster boy and his name was Joe Jackson. The city was his oyster, he Memphis' beloved pearl.
The heir apparent to Penny Hardaway, the kid who would score more than 3,000 points in high school, the McDonald's All-American, national player of the year candidate, and, most importantly, the homegrown product who would stay home to play at the University of Memphis, Jackson inked an audacious tattoo on his arm as a 10th-grader.
It read "King of Memphis." Even in the King's hometown, no one blinked.
Certainly not Chris Jones.
"For me to get my own, I had to go through Joe because there was no one bigger than him," Jones said.
Jones is three long, hard years removed from all of that, on his own road, his own journey as Louisville's starting point guard.
Except sometimes no matter where the road leads, it's hard to forget where it started. When Jones faces his hometown team for the first time on Thursday night in Louisville, when his No. 12 Cardinals battle Jackson and the 24th-ranked Tigers, it won't just be a pivotal contest in the American Athletic Conference. It will be Jones' past colliding headlong with his present, who he was intersecting with who he's become. It's never supposed to be about individual matchups, but sometimes, this time, it just is.
"He's still got a chip on his shoulder," said Jones' high school coach, Jermaine Johnson, who is now on staff at Georgia Southern. "Trying to beat Joe, that right there is the story of his basketball career."
To be clear, there is no personal animosity between Jones and Jackson. Jones respects his adversary immensely and appreciates his talents. Jackson returns the compliments -- "he's a great player," he said simply Wednesday night.
It's just that Jackson always has been a personal growth chart for Jones, the bar he could never quite reach.
They played the first time when no one was looking.
Johnson dragged Jones for a meeting and a helping of humble pie. Johnson had spied Jones in a church league, liked his spunk and his game. He brought him to Melrose High School, envisioning an inside-out game featuring Jones and the already enrolled Adonis Thomas.
But Jones was like a lot of kids from the tough Orange Mound section of the city -- scrappy, but also undisciplined and unpredictable. He lived with his mother and sisters, scraping by as families there do, sleeping next to a pit bull in a back room at night for company and security.
"I wasn't a troublemaker, but I did what everybody else did because they were my friends," he said. "I didn't know no one else but them, so I did what they did. I thought it was cool."
He thought it was cool until Johnson intervened, and handed him a basketball. Jones had been playing for years, but the structured version of the sport showed Jones a whole new world of possibilities -- college and a career, a paycheck and a future.
He wanted all of it. Mostly, though, he craved to be the best.
So one day Johnson showed him the best.
By then Jackson, a high school sophomore, already was on the road that would lead him to Memphis glory, so popular that high school gyms would fill up in minutes when he played.
Johnson knew Jackson played every day around 2. He called and asked Jackson's AAU coach if he could bring his feisty point guard over for a game of one-on-one.
"I didn't know anything about Chris Jones when he came to the gym," Jackson said. "We went at it. We got to arguing a little bit in that game. That's why I respected him. I liked his toughness."
Jackson knew that toughness, knew it firsthand. Jones and Jackson really aren't much different. Jackson, too, grew up in Orange Mound, the son of a single mother who struggled to make ends meet. He, like Jones, got a lift from someone else -- in his case, his maternal grandmother, Lillie Cox.
She took him in when he was middle school, raised him and made sure he stayed on the basketball courts -- even if it was in the wee hours -- instead of the streets.
So Jones, all spitfire and attitude when he walked into that gym, wasn't entirely unfamiliar to the more polished Jackson. Except at that point, Jones was only spitfire and attitude.
He was set up to fail.
"He got back in my truck, crying, all snotty-nosed and ready for a fight," Johnson said. "I told him, 'You work hard and he'll get the last cry.'"
Not long after that first game, word got back to Jackson that the anonymous, snotty-nosed kid was getting better.
"I heard a lot. You hear a lot in the city," Jackson said. "There was always something with Chris, not from him but from other people. People always talking about him, what he was doing. It didn't bother me. You just play basketball."
They would play five times during high school and Melrose would win four, none bigger than the 2010 state championship game.
Melrose won 75-70, with Jones scoring 35 to lift both the state title and the MVP trophy.
"They were always great games. Melrose had stacked teams. Stacked," Jackson said. "It was never a one-on-one thing. They had a lot of guys that transferred in there. They were pumped to play me, too. They were triple-teaming me, totally denying the ball. Their coach, he was my first AAU coach. I think a lot of people wanted to prove something."
Melrose did, and Jones did, and still.
Still, Memphis held back.
"Everyone thought I wasn't on his level," Jones said. "I'd say it took until the fourth time where people said, 'OK, maybe Chris is for real.'"
Just when the chatter finally started, when respect seemed close at hand, Jones' career went off the tracks. While Jackson moved on to the University of Memphis, Jones headed to Oak Ridge, a military academy in North Carolina, for his senior year.
By January he was back in Memphis, booted from Oak Ridge. The short-fused Jones had, Johnson said, "one of his temper tantrums, and they don't tolerate that at a military school," earning him a one-way ticket home.
It was too late to play basketball, so Jones simply re-enrolled at Melrose, took classes and graduated. By then he was committed to Tennessee, not quite hometown Memphis but still the beloved state school. It was a good choice, out from under the thumb of his hometown but close enough that word of his success would travel.
And then the bottom fell out again; actually, it fell out twice. Bruce Pearl was fired amid an NCAA scandal and Jones failed to qualify academically.
While his old friends went off to the bright lights -- Thomas to Memphis, former AAU teammate Austin Hollins to Minnesota and, of course, Jackson to his second year at Memphis -- Jones ended up at Northwest Florida State College, a junior college in Niceville, Fla. Junior college will humble even the proudest athlete. Chartered-flight visions become bus-ride realities. No one is really there by choice. There is always something -- academics, temperament, ability -- that has to be repaired.
This wasn't the path Jones imagined, certainly wasn't the one he preferred, but it wound up being the best move of Jones' life.
At Northwest Florida, he played for Steve Forbes, the former Volunteers assistant also scarred by Pearl's shrapnel. Forbes had known Jones for years. He knew how he had cooled in Jackson's shadow, knew how it fueled him. But he also knew Jones' passion could be his undoing.
"He's the most highly competitive person I've ever coached. Ever," Forbes said. "It can be his biggest strength and his biggest weakness. He will fight every fight."
Maybe it was all the pent-up frustration from trying to win over Memphis and best Jackson. Or maybe it was all those nights next to a pit bull.
"It's like his meanness rubbed off on him," Johnson joked.
Whatever it was, Jones' temper had become his calling card as much as his skill. He'd get ticked at the smallest of transgressions, blowing up over an obvious foul call, steaming at his teammates when they didn't play up to par.
"I always told him, it's about your character, what's in you," Johnson said. "I remember one teacher telling him he'd never amount to anything and I challenged him. Is she right? That's what he had to figure out."
What Forbes didn't coach out of him, the reality of a last chance via juco did. Jones changed. Matured? Yes, but changed more. He became a playmaker on top of a scorer, a teammate instead of a dictator.
He twice led Northwest Florida to the national championship game and, as a sophomore, earned national player of the year honors.
Suddenly the player who felt like he would never get his was being courted by Kansas and Louisville.
He chose Louisville, where the Cardinals desperately needed him. Rick Pitino returned a stocked roster from his national championship team save one critical piece -- point guard Peyton Siva.
Pitino knew what he was getting. Jones wasn't Siva.
His former assistant, Steve Masiello, almost begged him not to recruit Jones -- "Don't even write him a letter is what he told me," Pitino said -- but Pitino liked what he saw and what he didn't like, he could fix.
"Chris has a competitive disorder, to put it kindly," he said. "How do you stop it? You keep blowing the whistle and calling fouls in practice. He'll get the message."
And for the most part, Jones has. There are still flare-ups, but on a soap opera team, Jones has been remarkably stable.
"He stepped out of the shadows and made a name for himself," Forbes said.
And now on Thursday it all comes full circle.
Both schools have bigger fish to fry than simply settling an old score with a high school rival.
Both players insist this isn't about them. But there is a guarantee of just one more meeting (an American tourney matchup is possible), and so the subplot in the big plot does matter.
"If you're a good player, you want respect from your hometown. You gotta have it," Jackson said. "You get respect from Memphis, you get that swagger. People know who you are and what you're about no matter where you go."
Jackson knows because he's had that respect for years.
Chris Jones still wants his.

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Some random thoughts....
The trendy idea that strike-outs are no big deal is silly. It's an out. At the least you lost 33.3% of your chances to continue the inning. BUT the number of times a player K's needs to be ballenced against his overall production. Adam Dunn strikes out...I don't care too much in light of his run, home run and RBI production. Jason LaRue strikes out and I'm far less forgiving, just the same as if he flyed out or ground out.
Players over 30 are not useless and don't turn into a pumpkin when the clock strikes 12:00 as some try to imply. When used properally they can add much to a team in production (Aurila, Rich) or experience to pass along to others (Merker, Kent). BUT players skills diminish with age. It's a fact of life. There are some outliers (Ryan, Nolen) but mostly you better keep a sharp eye on guys as they reach 35 and don't count on them forever (Clayton, Royce). Don't hang on to the past.
Fuzzy Clubhouse stuff is a valuable skill. In any orginization you have to be able to manage people, keep them happy, and keep them focused on the common goal. Juggling an ever changing roster is a skill that is needed. BUT let's not get silly about it. Just like any manager, strength in one skill-set does not make a manager good. There's a lot more to the task of being a manager than one skill whether it be line up, running the pitching staff, in game management, clubhouse stuff, etc.
Having "potential" doesn't garentee success at the MLB level. Every orginization has guys with "potential". How many of them actually make it to "the show" and contribuite? Let's not get wacky because a guy once had "potential". Must guys with "potential" end up with another label after a while. It's called, "in a new line of work". BUT, when do you get a guy with potential, real solid potential you better guard it with your life. Develop the guy methodically and with purpose. All it takes is for one guy with real potential to break onto the sceen to really improve your entire team. Value potential.
Sometimes I think this stuff gets lost in the arguments, debates and polerized positions.


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Hendersonville-based Jetlag Learning was awarded the "Most Innovative Ed Tech Product" at the recent Software and Information Industry Association annual conference, which focuses on education-related software and digital content.
Using Jetlag's browser-based program, titled simCEO, elementary to college-age students can create their own online companies and manage stock portfolios.
Despite the fact that Jetlag is only five years old, simCEO is now used by more than 600 teachers in 40 countries, according to company founder and CEO Derek Luebbe. He is a part-time Hendersonville resident and full-time principal at the American International School of Budapest. He's spent the last 18 years working in American International Schools around the world.
SimCEO can be customized by a teacher to target specific age ranges and subjects, such as history, economics, math, etc.
Teachers can create a "Classroom Stock Market" and add news items that might affect a company's growth strategy or stock price. Students have to react in real time, altering how their company might approach a new market or making any number of moves in an effort to, for example, stabilize a falling stock value.
Students can buy and sell stock in their classmates' companies, further altering the online business simulation.
"From a learning perspective, that's one of the great components: instant feedback. If you can get feedback, just like a video game gives you feedback, that's a major component of learning. (Students) don't need to wait for the teacher to grade their paper and hand it back," said company founder and CEO Derek Luebbe.
"It's one of the few examples in education today where kids are creating and evaluating each other all the time. That's what we adults do all the time. That's a good thing. They're creating their own solutions, but they're learning from and evaluating each other. Those are the kinds of environments we need more of in education today."
He added that teachers can use the simulation to teach a variety of subjects, or even time periods.
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Luebbe created simCEO when he was a history and economics teacher in search of new ways to bring what he calls "the four Cs of 21st century skills" into the classroom: creation, collaboration, communication and critical thinking.
"Those are the skills I want my kids to come out of school with," Luebbe said. His three daughters are in 10th, seventh and fourth grades at American International School of Budapest, where his wife, Laurie, teaches second grade.
An annual simCEO subscription for 20 students costs $69, but Luebbe explained that he wants to share the program with Henderson County schools for free for a year.
"We want teachers to experience it without having to pay for it," he said.
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The nation's columnists have exhausted themselves searching fiction for anecdotes and admonitions that will illuminate David Petraeus' affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell.
Not only have the writers rounded up the usual suspects -- Shakespeare, Homer, Sophocles -- Richard Cohen of the Washington Post invoked gritty Chicago novelist Nelson Algren who said "Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman who has more troubles than your own." (Algren was correcting Sophocles who warned don't sleep at Mom's.)
General Petraeus offered the American people a portrait of perfection. The elected officials, journalists, and officers who responded with disbelief when his affairs became public lacked the imagination to understand a fundamental rule of psychology -- nobody is the same person 24 hours a day. Fiction never makes this mistake. A playwright or a novelist can as easily imagine David Petraeus naked as in a uniform weighted-down by medals.
I suspect biographers fall in love with their subject all the time. It's fair to say James Boswell, the English language's first biographer, was intoxicated with Samuel Johnson. Boswell doted on the poet, essayist, and lexicographer's every word, and idealized Johnson's learning, erudition, wisdom and courage. Yet modern biographers of both men know Johnson hid much from not just from Boswell but the eyes of future biographers, burning hundreds of his letters in a frenzied conflagration before his death in 1784.
General Petraeus took his biographer to Afghanistan. Hard to believe in a democratic society. This seems more like Caesar. And why didn't Petraeus write his own story? Ulysses S. Grant did, and produced one of the great American autobiographies. Of course Grant was old and sick when he wrote, not on active duty, and he had a bit of tutelage from Mark Twain.
Norman Mailer, were he here, would be perfect to write the story of David and Paula, perhaps in a long, digressive Esquire essay like those he composed in his prime. For Mailer, who enjoyed exploring the kinks and contradictions of the military-industrial complex, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency succumbing to unauthorized desire would be an irresistible opportunity to explore the tormented psyche of American leaders torn between lust and body-numbing probity. Mailer actually believed President John Kennedy, whom he called the hipster in the White House, had the capacity to liberate Americans from the small-town Puritanism stifling their sexuality and driving them crazy.
For Mailer, speaking in Mailerese, Kennedy was "a man whose personality might suggest contradictions and mysteries which could reach into the alienated circuits of the underground, because only a hero can capture the secret imagination of the people, and so be good for the vitality of his nation...." For Mailer "the secret imagination of the people" was definitely sexual.
But sometimes people are far simpler than Mailer makes them. Maybe the story of David and Paula can be summarized by few words from songwriter Neil Young: "Better to burn out than to fade away." The world can be lonely place no matter how long your resume.
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Just got my copy of the Baseball Prospectus annual and I was glancing at the Reds section and thought I'd offer up a few interesting points from the book in case anyone was wondering. Haven't gotten as far as the pitchers yet, so maybe I'll do that later or someone else can if they feel so inclined.
Some things that jumped out at me:
- They have nice things to say about Denorfia, giving him a .263/.336/.419 line to go with 13 homers and a .256 EQA. 20% breakout and a 48% improvement.
- Dunn does well again, .263/.393/.558 line with 41 homers and a .313 EQA. 0% attrition rate, 24% breakout, 10% collapse, and 67% improve. Good stuff.
-EdE. is another Red who does well in BP's eyes, though they make a note of Narron's Dusty Baker-ish affinity for the vets. 22 homers, 75 RBI's, a .275/.344/.485 line, with a breakout of 43% and a 63% improve. Top comparable is Eric Chavez in case you were interested.
- Junior gets a .281/367/.541 line with 29 homers and a .299 EQA. BP sees just a shade over 500 PA's for Griffey.
- Austin Kearns: .275/.367/.510, 21 homers, EQA of .292, top comparables are Pat Burrell and Dale Murphy, not bad.
-They see a bit of a backslide for Felipe, a .266/.338/.433 line, 15 homers, an EQA of .260 and his VORP is cut in half, down to 21.7. A 24% breakout and a 46% improve.
-Wily Mo Pena: pretty much a repeat of his 2004 season from a HR, RBI, PA perspective, but his line of .282/.345/.558 is significantly better than '04 and a huge leap from last year. EQA of .292.
The overview portion can be summed up quite nicely by saying that DanO set the entire organization back several years and did nothing to improve the farm system, which was thought to be his forte. My favorite line: "The Cincinnati player development system is worthy of the term "farm" only in the sense that the Stalinist collectives of the 1930's Ukraine were a farm system - they caused millions to starve to death."


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Remember when everyone thought McCourty was the steal of his draft? How'd that work out?
This is 6 weeks, and he looks very good. But as soon as someone finds a weakness in his game (and somebody will) others will exploit it.
Jones comes from a great family of athletes. Great character guy. Hard worker with a great motor. Did you know that Chandler Jones' brother is the best fighter in the world right now?
Remember when everyone thought McCourty was the steal of his draft? How'd that work out?
This is 6 weeks, and he looks very good. But as soon as someone finds a weakness in his game (and somebody will) others will exploit it.
The Jets picked Coples over Jones in the draft, so it is safe to say that they preferred him as a player. I am pretty sure we can both agree on that, correct?
So based on that scenario, do you really think that 6 pro games would really change their opinion?
I don't see how that is possible.
I think that Jones will end up being the better player. He is playing a position that is more conducive to making impact plays and he is on a team where he will be playing with a lead a lot. That said, I also think he is just a flat out more talented player. It is what it is.
Hopefully this organization comes to their senses and moves to the 4-3 with both Coples and Wilk inside where they can get mismatches on Centers and Guards. We need to get at least one legitimate pass rushing DE and an athletic MLB.
Then we will be straight.
Jets liked Jones, there was just a limited amount of film on him at Cuse, so he was seemed as a bit of a reach at 16. They probably saw Coples as a safer pick because they probably saw him as, worst case scenario, a solid run stuffing DT/DE.
I think after watching Jones' play at the NFL level through 6 games, and seeing that he is already a force as a pass rusher that teams need to game plan for, the Jets would easily change their pick. Why is that so hard to comprehend? lol
And no, 6 games isn't enough to make a decision. The first 5 games Coples was barely even playing. He played yesterday and had a great game. At a minimum, and a very bare minimum at that we should at least wait a year before proclaiming so and so is better.
Now I liked Chandler coming out, but to compare him to Pierre Paul thus far isn't accurate.
And as big a fan as I am of Chandler (who many people here probably couldn't have recognized in a lineup until draft day) I worry about injury troubles. He had quite a few problems with injuries at Syracuse, Bones has injury issues, and Arthur has injury issues. They don't tend to go away.
On clear passing downs Coples will be moved around but very often rushing from the inside... Exactly what we want. Mo is not yet a very good pass rusher so I really don't care where he's rushing from.
And I still predict that Chandler runs into injury problems in his career. I liked him a lot as a player, but that was a big question for me. And a big part of being good is staying healthy.
Great call on te injuries. That could prove to be an issue, especially at the NFl level.
In his first start yesterday, Coples had 2.5 sacks, with one being nullified by Luck intentionally grounding the ball on his way down and cats are talking about Chandler Jones??? The two teams play next week so we will all see Coples and Jones live and we can compare and contrast for ourselves. A little perspective, J.J. Watt had only 5.5 sacks all of last year yet in year 2 he is a dominant player. Writing a player off after 6 games into their rookie season, better yet, writing someone off after they have a multi-sack game for your team and then coveting your rivals player is silly. Start a thread after their head-to-head match up please and I hope that you will be rooting for the player wearing Green and White to have the better game.
Chandler was crazy to evaluate though because his hips seem to operate independent of his body. His lower half could still be moving forward at the same time his upper half of his body was getting beaten by the offensive lineman. Either way, he was strong and quick. His quickness wasn't elite though... But because of the athleticism and weird body type, he seems to be able to find a way to beat offensive linemen. Actually, much like Coples. Coples is extremely difficult to block on the inside.
I would've been happy with Chandler, but the injury stuff was the red flag with me. I would've been happy with Coples, but the mental thing scared me. (It's possible though that he's just someone like Robinson Cano where you can't tell that he gives a ****, but he actually does). Melvin INgram I liked more than all of them, but the body type scared me.
I still predict Ingram ends up the best, but Coples has the best upside. Chandler is an exciting guy though and it does suck he went to New England. Was hoping they could make another ****ty pick like Solder (and so many others over the last several years)
The argument with picking Coples during the draft wasn't over Jones, in fact Jones was supposed to go later 3rd or 2nd round pick. It was coples vs ingram, or an o-lineman, or a WR. That being said I liked the Coples pick.
This comparison imo is silly. Lets wait a year. You never know what will happen. I liked what Coples did yesterday with more PT, BUT it was against the Colts o-line. Jones seems to be having a good year, BUT a lot of his stats have come from the Pats having big leads on teams.
Who knows, they both could end up sucking and Bruce Irvin could be the best defensive player picked.
Im just happy Coples has shown signs of life after watching Golhston flatline for 5 years.
I get you, but JPP in his rookie season had 4.5 sacks. Players adjust at different rates. I think Coples looks slow to us now because he is still thinking out there and not reacting. As he understands whats happening and can anticipate we will see the player that dominated the senior bowl against his college peers.
Also, though I agree Jones is a talent, the Pats system always over inflates a players value and even their stats. McCourty had what, 10 picks as a rookie. Now... I love to see him lined up against our wideouts. Mayo, a tackling machine early on, now...he's ok but not the next Ray Lewis. Coples' upside is better than anyone that was on the board when he was drafted I know we all , especially me, have Gholsten Anxiety, a terrible condition, but Coples is the real deal and will actually reach his potential. Heck in his first start he has already surpassed Vernon's CAREER production. Let's give him time and let the kid blossom.
"Earlier this week, both Calvin Pace and Defensive Coordinator Mike Pettine questioned Coples practice habits, basically stating that they want to see the effort that he put into the game equate the effort that he practices with."
"New York Jets coaches and players are saying DE Quinton Coples must show more intensity in practice, something that was also an issue for Coples in college."
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Jiggers anchored in the port of Mar del Plata. (Photo: StockFile)
Labour conflict complicates squid jiggers sailing out
Friday, January 18, 2013, 23:00 (GMT + 9)
Argentine Association of captains, pilots and skippers criticized the Argentine Chamber of Jigger Fishing Vessels Shipowners (CAPA) for failing to appear at the meeting convened by the Ministry of Labour to discuss a wages increase.
Following this refusal, the guild decided the non-fulfilment of the normal duties at the start of the fishing season of squid (Illex argentinus) on the part of the jigger shipmasters.
According to Jorge Frias, general secretary of the Association, before "the corporate unwillingness in the negotiations, the union confirmed their freedom of action and will apply the corresponding direct measures," Ambito informed.
It was expected that wage increases were discussed during the meeting.
The union proposed its affiliates not to cast off lines until a meeting with fisheries managers is carried out and there is some progress in the dialogue, Pescare reported.
"It is two years we don't renew the agreement. So far we have had conversations, but we were unable to get anything written on paper," said Frias.
Meanwhile, CAPA representatives argued that the Ministry of Labour had not notified them "in good time".
"We have been talking for a year. Now everything gets out of hands by the early start of the season, but we hope that we will come to an agreement," said the agency spokesman, Guillermo de los Santos.
Meanwhile, the Ministry ordered the book record for 30 days. When the terms expire, the Government will reconvene the parties.
However, the parties are expected to seal a deal before that time.
The Illex squid fishing starts today, 14 days ahead of schedule, because the Federal Fisheries Council (CFP) decided to anticipate the season start.
Related article:
- Areas for squid capture authorized
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Dominican Republic and Mexico open with victories in Baja California
Tijuana, Mexico, March 8, 2013 – The Dominican Republic and Mexico opened with victories in the Baja California Women's International Volleyball Cup at the Baja California High Performance Center on Friday.
The U20 Dominican side scored a 25-13, 25-21 victory over the Baja California U18 team while Mexico, comprising a combined team of U20 and U18 players won 25-23, 25-20 over the Baja California U20 squad.
The Dominican Republic and Mexico teams are preparing for the FIVB Junior and Youth World Championship in Czech Republic and Thailand later this year while Baja California will host the National Olympic Festival in April-May.
Pamela Soriano tallied 15 points to lead the strong attack of the Dominican side coached by Brazilian Wagner Pacheco.
Coach Pacheco was pleased with the performance of his pupils saying, "We feel great playing here, because Baja has always been a place that brings us good luck." "I still remember when we won our silver medal at the Junior World Championship and also here our senior team qualified here to the Olympics," he said.
In the other match of Friday, Alejandra Isiordia made successful comeback after three months of rehabilitation from back surgery. She finished with 6 points following Andrea Cruz's 7 as the top scorers for Mexico.
"It really feels great to be back on court," Isiordia said. "I had to be patient but at this time I am back on track and working hard for the World Championship."
On the other side of the net, last year's MVP of the cup Seomara Sainz topped the losing team with seven points. "I have switched between the two squads in order to have two levels of preparation both with the national team for the world championship and with the state squad for the national festival," Sainz said.
Saturday's action features a volleyball marathon with each team playing three matches, including the semifinals.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Jerry Sloan is still all sharp angles and heavy knuckles, but the emotion comes easier these days. That was clear when the Jazz raised the banner with Sloan's name at halftime of Friday's game against Golden State.
The coach got teary-eyed, both before and during the ceremony. But he wasn't alone. The sellout crowd gave him a series of standing ovations. Quite a few people in the stands appeared emotional, too.
Particularly those hoping the Jazz will get back to the NBA Finals sometime soon.
It could be a long time before a Hall of Fame coach and two Hall of Fame players play again at ESA.
Beforehand in the interview room, Sloan choked up when speaking of Karl Malone and John Stockton, who flanked him — just as they did in the old days. It was a draining day for the coach who won 1,223 games.
"I thought that was the number of technicals I got," Sloan deadpanned.
The day began with a luncheon that included former players and colleagues such as Bryon Russell, Mehmet Okur, Howard Eisley, Thurl Bailey and Mark Eaton. Then there was the handwritten letter of congratulations from Barack Obama that applauded his "standard of excellence" and added that Bulls fans such as him still claim Sloan "for your grit and work ethic."
It's true. Beneath the hand-woven silk ties, Sloan was usually sweating like a dockworker.
On nights when the Jazz weren't tough enough, he complained his guys were playing like they were wearing tuxedos.
But on Friday the focus wasn't on the game for much of the night. Friends and family were given John Deere ball caps at the luncheon, which they tipped in unison to Sloan.
By game time, the crowd was primed. TV analyst Bailey started things off with a smooth rendition of the national anthem. The first tribute video came with 5:56 left in the first quarter, featuring remarks by Clippers coach Doc Rivers and Charles Barkley. That launched the first standing ovation.
In subsequent segments, Jeff Hornacek and former foes Pat Riley, Rick Adelman, Doc Rivers, Shaquille O'Neal, Gregg Popovich, Doug Collins and Lenny Wilkens chimed in.
"There will never be another one like you," Riley said.
Not everyone can ride a tractor into the Hall of Fame.
The second standing ovation came just before half. O'Neal chimed in by saying to Sloan, "Come back! We need you!"
Then the cameras cut to Stockton, sitting across from the scorer's table.
People couldn't have leaped up faster if someone had shouted "Fire!"
A similar reception was accorded Malone, whenever he was shown on the message screen.
As the halftime horn sounded, the chant began: "Jerry! Jerry!"
Sloan dutifully thanked the fans, the Larry H. Miller family and his players, and deflected his own credit.
"It's been a great day, although we tried to get away from it," Sloan said.
He thanked everyone he could think of, then pulled the ceremonial rope. A banner rose to where it nestled beside the 10 others in the ESA rafters.
"This man is everything good about basketball," Collins said in his remarks. "There was not a better man, ever in the NBA, than Jerry Sloan."
Sloan's response was brief though heartfelt. But it was obvious he never much cared for applause, at least not when it was directed his way. One season during the playoffs, a luxury sports car was parked in the lower concourse, where media were interviewing him. Someone began teasing him about the expensive car being his.
Sloan's reply: "I couldn't even afford the tires."
All his country appeal, as well as his Hall of Fame credentials, were on display on Friday.
"I didn't think I would make it through the day," Sloan said before the game.
Said Malone: "Twenty-four-seven, 365, give me a call."
Stockton concurred, adding, "I love you as a coach and as a man."
Not coincidentally, the Jazz played hard, long a trademark of Sloan teams.
Current coach Tyrone Corbin was up and sweating and pacing from the start, not unlike Sloan did, back in the day.
Which was a good thing. Last thing anyone wanted was to be accused of playing like they were wearing tuxedos.
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I was under the impression that Itanium was all but dead. I'm guessing Intel must be contract bound to bring out new versions.
If that was the case, why bother making performance improvements inside the core? Why not just move it to 32nm and double/triple the number of cores / socket?
Though I agree, this was likely a significant loss on intel's books.
Yeah, I'm sure there was a big argument with oracle threatening to sue when Intel said they were dropping Itanium architecture several months ago.
This is what I don't get, you look up the numbers and the chip is all but a corpse, my guess is they already had these designs done before itanic lost any chance of gaining real share and now they are hoping to simply carve a niche out with it, something like how POWER and SPARC have their niches.
But according to the Wikipedia they sell than 200k Itanium chips a year [wikipedia.org] which while that makes it not a money loser for a giant like Intel you have to wonder if its worth keeping the lights on for such a small mark
The recommended ASP is ~$4000/tray. Anyone know how many itaniums are there in a tray? Multiply the unit price by 200k, and you'll get the cash that Intel would be making on those.
But honestly, there are some markets Intel should attack w/ this CPU. For starters, supercomputers. The platform from Cray discussed yesterday - that one looks just perfect for a whole bunch of these. There are quite a few supercomputer projects in a number of countries, and Intel should target the Itanium at all of them.
But honestly, there are some markets Intel should attack w/ this CPU. For starters, supercomputers. The platform from Cray discussed yesterday - that one looks just perfect for a whole bunch of these. There are quite a few supercomputer projects in a number of countries, and Intel should target the Itanium at all of them. That alone would have a bunch of them flying off the shelves.
Er, no. Itanic is just an over-grown, over-engineered DSP. The GPUs that they use as co-processors in supercomputers these d
RISC was actually the optimal CPU architecture. CISC had a lot of things, such as variable instruction lengths, different modes of addressing and so on that complicated the hardware. RISC simplified some of that by reducing the number of instructions that were needed since all the programming was done in higher level languages like C, but still kept techniques like branch prediction, speculative execution and register renaming in the CPU itself. As a result, RISC never had problems maintaining compatibil
Another approach would be to add an abstraction layer between the hardware and software very much like what is done with virtualization, Java, ZFS, LVM, DirectX, Crossbow et al. That would make the software more independent of the underlying hardware...
Isn't that basically how CISC works nowadays?
Oh please! While FOSS might be able to work in the server niche that is pretty much the ONLY place it works and even then not great, as the redistribution clause means you can't stop people from simply making endless copies. By distributing as a binary you make people buy the next version to get bug fixes and upgrades, which in turn pays for the bug fixes and upgrades to be written. There is a good reason why the largest FOSS company on the planet, Red hat, wouldn't make a pimple on the ass of MSFT and Appl
The rest of us jerk off to pictures of girls instead of conspiracy theories. Try it one day!
My leaky/biased memory says these machines were a speed disappointment. Is this doubling going to make them faster or slower than an x86?
Perhaps Intel fell into the trap of not communicating with the compiler team, but HP certainly did not.
The development of the EPIC concept at HP already started in 1992 as the to-be-successor for the HP-PA architecture. Look up e.g. the many joint research papers of CPU-architecture and compiler engineers for PlayDoh (or see e.g. http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/93/HPL-93-80.html for an intro to PlayDoh).
The compiler technology to do well for EPIC architectures was mostly available by the time IA64 launche
Just as the AlphaServer had desktop equivalents, so did the Itanium, which were discontinued.
HP had in the 90s acquired 2 VLIW companies - Multiflow and Cydrome - and already had a lead in VLIW compiler technology. Once they made the alliance w/ Intel, they had the grand vision of replacing both the x86 and PA-RISC lines w/ the successor Merced. As I pointed out above, leading RISC CPUs were already adapting MIMD techniques intrinsic to VLIW, while moving the dynamic analysis to the CPU to the compiler didn't do much for the CPU real estate, since they weren't using much to begin w/.
Yeah, Intel
The current Xeon E5-2670 (8 core, 2.6GHz, 2012) can do roughly 4x the performance of the previous Itanium 9350 chip (4 core, 1.73GHz, 2010), according to spec.org CPU2006 benchmark results. I think Itaniums do slightly better with FP, the Xeons win with INT.
But that's per chip, and the Itanium systems are going up to 8 chips, so a single 8 socket Itanium system was getting roughly the same performance (in 2010) as a 2-socket E5-2670 in 2012. I don't think the Xeons go up to 8-sockets.
I don't think the Xeons go up to 8-sockets.
Intel do have xeon processors that support 8-socket systems and afaict at least HP and supermicro make 8-socket xeon solutions (I think HP sell them as fully-built servers while supermicro sell them as a "barebones" system to which you add processors and drives yourself).
However afaict the processors that support 8 socket setups are both underwhelming (high core counts but low clockspeeds and still on nahelm technology) and expensive compare to those for 2-socket systems.
My leaky/biased memory says these machines were a speed disappointment. Is this doubling going to make them faster or slower than an x86?
The big issue, IIRC, is that Itanium was dead slow in its x86 emulation in the first few rounds. Intel's ideas as initially to emulate the x86 chips in software so that the Itanium wouldn't lose their x86 market and they could switch everyone over. They later went back and remove the software emulation and put an x86 die on to do the work in order to make it faster.
In native mode, I've never heard a complaint about Itanium and speed - only its x86 support mode.
I looked at some older TPC results, and see the previous Itanium delivering 4/7 the speed of the T5440, one of Sun's oldest threads-not-clock-speed boxes. Compared to IBM Power 7, Itanium delivered 4/10, so the doubling should being it up to 80% of the IBM.
Not to be sneezed at! Nevertheless, not competitive with Power, Fujitsu (Sun) M series or even the new Sun T4 boxes.
I looked at some older TPC results, and see the previous Itanium delivering 4/7 the speed of the T5440, one of Sun's oldest threads-not-clock-speed boxes. Compared to IBM Power 7, Itanium delivered 4/10, so the doubling should being it up to 80% of the IBM.
Not to be sneezed at! Nevertheless, not competitive with Power, Fujitsu (Sun) M series or even the new Sun T4 boxes.
One question that begs: were those TPC tests done on Itanium optimized well enough for Itanium? Or was there another bottleneck other than the processor?
One of the early on issues with Itanium was that it was hard for the optimizers to get right. I think they solved that, but I don't know when.
And of course it is hard to make apples-to-apples comparisons between architectures unless you have a reference system where the only thing you change is the processor, and verify that the code running on top of
From Intel's view as an innovation company, it kind of makes sense to try out new stuff on a platform that will not matter that much.
And since they know HP will buy them, Intel know they will be field tested.
It's because they spent a shit ton of money porting software to it. They don't want to have to incur that cost again to port away.
Still who is going to buy it now?
Remember the Alpha? Slashdot ran on Alpha's for 5 years. They had a new version out and it didn't matter. HP wanted Itanium and purposedly made sure people wouldn't buy it and crippled the product line for the inferior Itanium. Makes you wonder why they bought it?
After Windows 2000 dropped support in RC 3, it didn't matter. Who in their right mind would invest in a dead platform?
This new chip could be 20x faster than a xeon and use 1/10 of the power! No one wants to invest i
I wonder what management is going to do or are doing? I expect they are already underway replacing them. I doubt HP is porting them to x86 or ARM as it maybe too late for those that are retiring these with win32 or Linux equilivent of different applications that do the same tasks. It is not like you can get an emulator for these but these are systems I would not want to invest a penny into anymore as it would be a penny lost 3 years down the road when intel stops production and I can no longer even get moth
If you think some brand name beige Linux box is going to replace a nonstop system do yourself a favour and come out of mom's basement.
Nonstop actually means what they say.
No. Stops.
Hell, on the OpenVMS side, it wouldn't shock me a bit to find out that they don't even HAVE a team any more that's capable of porting it to other architectures. They likely say they do, to fulfill government contracts that specify that OpenVMS can't be orphaned, but I wonder what the reality is.
If HP ditch Itanium, they effectively ditch HP-UX. They can (have?) ported HP-UX to x86, but why would anyone pay top $ for HP-UX on x86 - they would just use Linux instead. Without HP-UX, they don't have a tier 1 platform & will be drowned by Red Hat & SuSE.
Meanwhile, Intel is busy building the RAS features of Itanium into x86 - as these get implemented into Linux, HP-UX will become irrelevent anyway.
IBM & Power have a little more headroom - be interesting to see how long it lasts.
We already switched.
Thank you Oracle for convincing us that it is dead.
No one will touch it with a 10 foot pole. I hope HP wins the lawsuit agaisnt them and Intel also sued Oracle for damages. When they violated that contract it gave a lot of hurt for those who have invested so much in Itanium.
Now it doesn't matter as no one will touch it.
From TFA:
Poulson can issue 11 instructions per cycle compared to Tukwila's six.
These go to eleven.
You can still buy Itanium chips? Holy crap. Are they found on the same aisle of the department store as the iceboxes and cotton gins?
This is just Intel putting on a show of competing with themselves so that they don't get accused of monopolistic behavior...
This is an annoucment for a 32nm Itanium. Intel has been shipping 22nm x86 since spring.
Intel has been shipping 22nm x86 since spring.
It seems that in the Intel x86 world the higher you move up the product line the older the technology gets.
Intels x86 processors right now are best grouped by the sockets they use. There are basically three "current" (that is not "replaced" by a newer socket) sockets.
LGA1155 is the mainstream desktop and low end single socket server socket. This is the only socket for which 22nm parts are currently available.
LGA1356 is intended for low end dual socket systems but I get the impression it didn't really catch
If it hadn't been for AMD's 64 bit extensions, we'd all be running Itanium servers right now. AMD forced Intel to release a 64bit x86. If AMD hadn't, all of the effort that is being put into Intel's current 64bit chips would have go into Itanium and it would be a very strong platform. The alternative, PAE, sucked.
Well as long as you ignore that all the legacy x86 software that is still running today wasn't going to be ported to Itanium. People would have just stuck to x86 rather than spending billions on porting and rebuying working software.
Sounds like the itanic all right.
They had one at LinuxExpo once, back in the day, allegedly running DeadRat, but we couldn't see it because it had overheated and they took it away.
its name was Itanic Poulson... its name was...
The rich get rich, and the poor get poorer. The haves get more, the have-nots die.


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After being the starring act for several years, the electric car backed into the shadows at this year's International Geneva Motor Show as carmakers grow weary of waiting for sales to take off.
Electric vehicles were not completely absent from the showrooms as the 83rd edition of the Geneva show began, but no new models were unveiled and car company executives on site for the media days on Tuesday and Wednesday barely mentioned them.
"Public confidence [in electric] has really fallen since its peak at the Paris show in 2010, when we only talked electric," BIPE analyst Clement Dupont-Roc told reporters.
Back then, French carmaker Renault, which leads the electric market, opened the order books for its first electric models and CEO Carlos Ghosn said he expected the cars to represent 10 percent of the market by 2020.
Renault's compatriot PSA also plunged into the space, as did Japan's Nissan with its Leaf.
However, as things stand today, sales have fallen far short of expectations.
In France, which claims to be the leading market in Europe for electric, less than 6,000 new such vehicles were registered last year.
The low volumes are part of the explanation for the weak offering on display in Geneva, but there are other issues as well.
"There are three tasks we have to overcome when it comes to electric vehicles. One is pricing, second is the milage they can cover and the third is infrastructure," Mitsubishi president Osamu Masuko told reporters at the show.
Mitsubishi has been providing PSA with electric cars, but in August last year the French carmaker halted the influx since it was unable to unload the ones it already had.
"We had weak forecasts for electric, and now, we're selling even less than those weak forecasts," said Maxime Picat, who is in charge of PSA's Peugeot brand.
Nissan has also been unable to meet its objective of selling 9,000 Leafs in Europe.
As a result, it was showing a new version in Geneva offering better range and especially a lower price, according to industry media.
Chevrolet, which already has the Volt electric car and is preparing to launch a new, smaller one called Spark, is also not betting on a European boom in the segment any time soon.
"I don't see [electric] growing in a down market," Susan Docherty, who head's the company's European operations, said at the Geneva show.
Analyst Dupont-Roc agreed that growth in the segment will likely be a few years off.
"A turn-around could come in 2016, 2017, when the electric vehicles that are today mainly bought for fleets arrive on the second-hand market," he said.
In the meantime, carmakers are biding their time, offering environment-conscious customers low-emission, small-engine cars, and are highlighting other greenish technologies like hybrids.
The leader in the sector, Toyota, for instance unveiled a new electric/gasoline hybrid at the Geneva show.
And PSA was pushing its Hybrid Air technology, which uses petrol and compressed air.
"We want to show that electric hybrids are not the only possible solution," said Karim Mokaddem, who is working on the project and promises coming cars will use just three liters of gasoline to drive 100km.
Meanwhile, Volkswagen unveiled its lightweight plug-in hybrid XL1 at the show, which it says consumes less than one liter of petrol per 100km and weighs less than 800kg.
However, Volkswagen is only planning on making 250 units, and is unlikely to immediately take the market by storm.
Nissan, German Daimler and US carmaker Ford are meanwhile aiming to hit the accelerator in their development of affordable fuel-cell vehicles — a technology that is taking a while to get rolling but that they hope to get on the roads by 2017.


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By TOM FOWLER
Shell will build plants in Louisiana and Canada to produce liquefied natural gas as a fuel for heavy trucks and large ships, the company said Tuesday.
The LNG terminals are among the latest efforts by energy companies to create greater demand for what is now a glut of natural gas in North America.
Shell, one of the largest gas producers in the US, will build the facilities in Geismar, Louisiana, along the Mississippi River south of Baton Rouge, and in Sarnia, Ontario, on the southern shore of Lake Huron just east of Michigan. Each plant will be able to produce 250,000 tpy of LNG by chilling natural gas to negative 260 degrees so it can be compressed into a liquid and stored in high-pressure insulated tanks.
The facilities will be relatively small compared with other natural gas liquefaction terminals around the world, such as those in Qatar, but they will represent a doubling of the liquefied-gas manufacturing capacity in the US and Canada, said James Burns, Shell's general manager for LNG fuels in the Americas.
Natural gas is used as a transportation fuel in some parts of the world, mostly for fleets of vehicles like buses and garbage trucks which use centralized refueling stations. Compressed natural gas is more widely used than LNG, but LNG has proven to be effective for very large trucks that drive great distances.
Few ships now run on LNG, according to The Lloyd's Register Group. But the fleet is expected to grow because of increasing environmental restrictions in the most polluted ports and the improving cost competitiveness of LNG compared with oil.
A Great Lakes cargo-ship operator has signed on as a future LNG customer, Mr. Burns said. Shell is also planning to operate three supply vessels in the Gulf of Mexico that will run on LNG, and it is in the process of converting some of its land-based drilling rigs to run on the fuel, rather than diesel.
The facilities are expected to take about three years to complete. Shell would not disclose the cost of the projects.Dow Jones Newswires


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SHIRLEY -- The Board of Selectmen's meeting was scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Monday, with an executive session first. But with only a couple of items on the agenda -- appointments to the Recreational Fields Committee and extending the closing date for the pending sale of a town-owned building -- the board decided to reverse its agenda.
After polishing off its public business in about five minutes, the selectmen adjourned into executive session, reportedly to discuss litigation initiated by the ACLU against the town on behalf of a board member who has been banned from public buildings in town for the past year.
According to previous newspaper articles, the American Civil Liberties Union has taken up the cause of Robert Schuler, whose comments during sessions of the two boards he serves on -- the Sewer Commission and Finance Committee -- prompted selectmen to banish him.
Until he complies with certain conditions, Schuler can't attend Town Meeting without a police escort, nor can he enter the town offices, where the Finance Committee meets, or any other public building in town. Despite the ban, the two boards support him as a valued member and he continues to participate in their meetings. He has since been reappointed to Finance Committee, in which he participates by telephone.
In addition, the police were instructed to confiscate guns from his home, which have not yet been returned.
Conditions selectmen set for reinstating his rights to enter town buildings and to get his guns back hinged on psychiatric counseling and anger management, but Schuler has apparently failed to comply.
In the suit, Schuler claims selectmen's action against him violated his civil rights.
Selectmen, however, said at the time that his remarks, repeated at least twice in public, constituted a threat.
Schuler, for his part, said he was not threatening anyone when he said he might have to get a gun and shoot someone but was basically only kidding. He was reacting, he said, to selectmen's foot-dragging when it came to addressing town budget problems. He called his statements "hyperbole."
The selectmen met in executive session for less than an hour, reconvening publicly only to adjourn.


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When I got my new air conditioner, I was told the manual J heat need was 91k btu. My oversized heater puts out 114/78 btu. I've dropped some money on upgrading my returns and supplies in an attempt to get the 2000cfm that I apparently need for my the second stage furnace. The ducts are certainly better, but by no means do they meet this boards level of perfection.
I am thinking about trapping the furnace in first stage (rather than 1 stage 1 zone, >1 zones--second stage). I highly doubt i need the second stage.
Is this going to damage the furnace? Does it somehow need to be exercised in the higher stage (on the off chance we get a tremendous cold spell and I need the extra heat)?


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October 28, 2011 > Gutierrez completes Eagle Scout project
Union City resident and member of Mission Peak District Scout Troop 273 Matt Gutierrez completed his Eagle Scout Project at the end of August 2011 at Fire Station No 4, Union City.The 18-year old and his crew converted an existing front lawn into a low-maintenance and water-conserving landscape using a bay-friendly technique called sheet mulching. The latter entails laying cardboard or newspaper over an existing lawn, then placing layers of compost and wood mulch on top. The layers suppress weed growth and decompose naturally to create a vibrant ecosystem containing healthier soil and plants. Day lilies, sea lavender, harbor dwarf nandina and electric pink cordyline were planted in the area in front of the fire station and on Eastin Court. Union City Public Works staff Alex Quintero and Eugene Gordillo assisted.The bay-friendly landscape requires watering once every two weeks instead of three or four times per week which the lawn used to need at this time of year. It is hoped that this project will encourage homeowners to substitute drought-tolerant gardens for their thirsty lawns."The idea for the project arose through discussion with Union City Grounds Supervisor Nelson Kirk. I liked the idea of saving water by using eco-friendly plants; it reminded me of part of the Outdoor Code, 'Be conservation minded,' explained Gutierrez."I started planning my Eagle Project on May, 26, 2011. Before executing the work on-site, I wrote a proposal containing key planning facts - what items would be needed, where to source them, identifying what the volunteers would do at each stage of the works and contingency plans to overcome any problems that might arise. The project's completion depended on successful management of the volunteer crew. I consulted Mr. Kirk about the species we would plant and the quantities of mulch and cardboard required. Troop 273's Scoutmaster, Lee Amon, approved the project. Completion of my Eagle Project represents a big step forward in my Scouting life; it was an opportunity to assume responsibility for others through my own actions and decisions to achieve a goal," he added.For Gutierrez, becoming an Eagle Scout means more responsibility. He is mindful of what he has learned, viz. helping others whenever he can and applying the skills he has acquired through Scouting to real life situations.The Chabot College student joined Cub Scouts as a Tiger Cub when he was in the first grade, aged 6, and has worked steadily towards becoming an Eagle Scout. Twenty-one merit badges are needed towards qualification as an Eagle Scout; a dozen are compulsory and the remaining nine are elective. Gutierrez has earned 29 - Camping, Citizenship in the Community, Citizenship in the Nation, Citizenship in the World, Communications, Environmental Science, Family Life, First Aid, Lifesaving, Personal Fitness, Personal Management, Swimming, Basketry, Fingerprinting, Indian Lore, Leatherwork, Archery, Art, Electronics, Fishing, Reptile & Amphibian Study, Motor Boating, Painting, Skating, Music, Pets, Canoeing, Small Boat Sailing and Reading.As for the future, Gutierrez plans to transfer from Chabot College, Hayward, and to become an Electrical Engineer and work with Robotics.For more information about Scouting within the San Francisco Bay Area Council, visit www.sfbac.org. Alternatively contact Joe Barton at (510) 577-9227 and firstname.lastname@example.com or Steve Armstrong at email@example.com about the different scouting units in the Mission Peak District (serves Fremont, Union City and Newark) and Tres Ranchos District (serves Hayward, Castro Valley, San Lorenzo and San Leandro).For more information about Scouting within the Santa Clara County Council, visit www.scccbsa.org. Alternatively, contact Ken Schott at (408) 280-5088 or email@example.com about the different scouting units in the Coyote Creek District (serves Edenvale, Evergreen, Milpitas, Berryessa, Alum Rock, Mt. Pleasant, parts of downtown and East San Jose).


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From: CO, United States
Genre: Rock, Rockabilly, Psychobilly
We are three piece rockabilly band from Lafayette, Co.
formed in 1994, and have toured extensively in Europe and the U.S. We have two CDs and one mp3 only Ep available.
There are a lot of videos of us on Youtube.
We have toured quite a bit this year, but are currently focusing on getting our internet presence streamlined and systematized.


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MIDDLEBURY — A potential strike by Chittenden County Transportation Authority (CCTA) drivers would have an impact on the Addison County Transit Resources' Burlington Link Express that buses riders between Middlebury and Burlington.
As of Friday afternoon, CCTA drivers are slated to go on strike as of Monday, March 17, after having rejected the latest contract offer.
Jim Moulton, executive director of ACTR in Middlebury, said the strike would result in the Burlington Link Express suspending its weekday runs along Route 7 between Middlebury and Burlington until an agreement is reached. The Link Express has stops just outside Vergennes, in North Ferrisburgh, and in Charlotte, Shelburne and South Burlington.
But Moulton said ACTR will continue with at least limited weekday runs with its Route 116 Connector, which operates from Middlebury to Burlington via Route 116. It has stops in Bristol, Starksboro, Hinesburg and South Burlington.
For more information, contact ACTR at 388-2287.


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Friday, November 17, 2006
Thursday in the MZone - Two days, baby! TWO DAYS TO GO!
Today, we put up the most stuff we've ever put up in one day. Scroll down (and keep scrolling) to find...
* Details on our live Internet broadcast tonight and who our special guests are
* Is Katie Holmes' family pissed about missing the M/OSU game due to her wedding to Tom Cruise? Knowing this site, what do you think?
* We get a couple of the coolest pictures we've ever received from a Marine stationed in Iraq
* About all this M-OSU rematch talk, Yost isn't in favor
* Our most jam-packed Two-Minute Drill
* Michigan fans say good-bye to one of their own
Ok, off to get ready for our show tonight. And as always...
Thanks for reading.
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I saw some weak jokes at Michigan's expense on this site. I need some support, we gotta fight back with some OSU digs.
- November 16, 2006 5:39 PM
Since you asked anon, someone just forwarded these to me:
A guy in a bar leans over to the guy next to him and says,
"Wanna hear a Buckeye joke?" The guy replies, "Well, before you tell that joke, you should know something. I am 6' tall, 200 lbs. and I am an Ohio State Graduate. The guy sitting next to me is 6'2", 225 lbs. and he is an Ohio State Graduate. The guy right next to him is 6'5", 250 lbs. and he is also an Ohio State Graduate. Now, you still wanna tell me that joke?"
The first guy says, "No, not if I'm going to have to explain it three times"
It was reported that the Ohio Football Coach Jim Tressel will
only be dressing 20 players for the Michigan game ...the rest of the players have learned to dress themselves.
What's the only sign ofintelligent life in Columbus? "Ann Arbor: 187 Miles"
How do you get an Ohio State graduate off your front porch? Pay him for the pizza.
Four college Alumni were climbing a mountain one day: An OSU grad, a Michigan grad, a Penn State grad, and a Notre Dame grad. Each
proclaimed to be the most loyal fan of their Alma mater. As they
climbed higher, they argued as to which of them was the most loyal of all. They continued to argue all the way to the top when the Notre Dame grad hurled himself off the mountainside shouting, "This is for
the Fighting Irish!" Not wanting to be outdone, the Penn State grad threw himself off the mountain proclaiming, "This is for the Nittany Lions!" Seeing this, the Michigan grad walked over and shouted, "This is for the Wolverines!" and pushed the Ohio State grad over the edge.
What did the OSU grad say to the Michigan grad? "Welcome to
McDonalds. May I take your order?"
A young man hired by a supermarket reported for his first day of work. The manager greeted him with a warm handshake and smile, gave him a broom and said, "Your first job will be to sweep the store." "But, I'm an OSU graduate," the young man replied indignantly, "I
even played football there!"
"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know that," said the manager. "Here, give me the broom; I'd better show you how."
Two Ohio State football players were partying on campus when a bartender asked them why they were celebrating. The smart one said proudly that they had just finished a jigsaw puzzle and it only took them two months.
"Two months?!" exclaimed the bartender.
The Buckeye proudly replied, "Yeah, but the box said 4-6 years!"
A little boy and his mother were walking through an Ohio
cemetery when they came upon a headstone that read: "Here lies an OSU graduate and a good man." The little boy asked his mother, "Mommy, why did they bury two people in there?"
Coaches Jim Tressel and Lloyd Carr are walking down the beach
talking about the rivalry between Ohio State and Michigan. As
they are walking, Lloyd trips over something in the sand. Upon closer inspection it turns out to be a genie's lamp. "Who disturbs me?" asked the genie. Jim and Lloyd both say they did. "You will each get one wish," said the genie.
Jim offers to go first. "I want an impenetrable wall built around the entire state of Ohio so that none of those stupid Michiganians can ever get in. I want it as far down into the ground as it is high and I want it to be completely sealed in so that we can finally have our peace!" The genie grants the wish to Jim and he isinstantly whisked away to his new paradise.
The genie now tells Lloyd he'll grant him one wish. Lloyd says, "Fill it up with water."
Why is ice no longer available at Ohio State football games?
Because the senior who knew the recipe finally graduated!
- November 16, 2006 8:08 PM
Just checking in from Auburn! I do own a fitted navy Blue ball cap with the big maize color M, as my parent lived in Birmingham, MI, for a few years. Good luck this weekend! Win or lose you have a great team!
- November 17, 2006 12:04 AM
A great place to find out everything you ever wanted to know about DETROIT AND MICHIGAN
- November 19, 2006 2:22 PM


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Sept. 22, 2008
NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA - University of Massachusetts Boston women's soccer player Katherine Wall (Arlington, MA) has been named Little East Conference Women's Soccer Defensive Player of the Week for her play during the week of September 15-21, it was announced today by the conference.
Wall was outstanding in the Beacons' only match of the week at Rhode Island College on September 20, shutting down the Anchorwomen's top offensive threats in a 2-0 shutout victory for UMass Boston. The victory was the Beacons first over a conference opponent since September 28, 1995 when UMass Boston defeated Rhode Island College, 1-0, in Providence, RI.
The sweeper has played in four of six matches, this season, starting all of them.
An Arlington High School graduate, Wall was a captain as both a sophomore and junior for the Beacons and currently ranks fifth in the program's all-time games played list with 53. The defender has seen time as a midfielder during her career as well and stands fifth on the career points list with 22, including six assists and eight goals to put her in fourth place and sixth place, respectively, among UMB's career leaders.
UMass Boston is 2-4-0 overall, including 1-0-0 to tie for first place in the LEC standings and will be in action again on Tuesday, September 23 when it hosts Fitchburg State College at 3:30 p.m. at the Clark Athletic Center Field.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW)-- Councilman John Alcala has officially submitted his letter of resignation as he leaves his city seat for a state post.
Alcala is leaving his council position after winning the 57th District Seat of the Kansas House in November's election.
Alcala says his resignation is "effective midnight December 31, 2012." Friday morning city staff were working to clarify what that date means-- as the "midnight" reference created some uncertainty.
Alcala's Letter:
Madam Clerk:
Please accept this email as my official resignation from the Topeka City Council effective midnight December 31, 2012. In my fourteen years on the Council I have enjoyed working with everyone associated with city government. But I am especially grateful to the citizens of District 2 for giving me the opportunity to be their voice and to serve their interests as their councilmember.
I have met so many great people along the way--it is impossible to count them all. I look forward to my new challenge as a member of the Kansas Legislature as I continue to serve the people of this community.
My very best to all those who continue to serve and make our city such a great place to work, live and raise our families.
May God continue to bless everyone who calls themselves a Topekan.
John Alcala


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Latest update : 2011-07-15
"War weakens you"
The French press asks whether there should be a speedier pull-out from Afghanistan following the death of six French soldiers there over the past two days. There's also extensive coverage of the US debt crisis. And one paper goes to a Paris park to meet Tunisian refugees who have fled their homeland full of optimism only to face a harsh reality.
Much media attention in France focuses on the six French soldiers killed in Afghanistan over the past couple of days. Le Parisien-Aujourd'hui-en-France argues that there are some soldiers no one is talking about: the almost five hundred men injured during the decade-long conflict. The paper talks to some of them, including a mine victim and a chief corporal wounded during an ambush. It also gets the opinion of psychiatrist Michel Lejoyeux who argues: "War doesn't harden you up, it weakens you". Symptoms go from experiencing "a why did I survive" guilt feeling to constant nightmares and re-living the experience.
Le Monde says the deaths cast a shadow on Thursday's National Day celebrations and have renewed debate on speeding up troop withdrawal. France's death toll in Afghanistan for 2011 has reached 17, which is higher than the toll for the whole of last year. Le Monde points out that the deaths followed President Nicolas Sarkozy's surprise visit to the country on Tuesday.
Libération reports on comments by France's Army Chief of Staff Admiral Edouard Guillaud who says Taliban fighters no longer have control on the ground and "realising they can't win" are "resorting to blind terror". The paper, too, is asking whether France could speed up its pull-out. France currently plans to be out of Afghanistan completely by the end of 2013. Libération says a quicker exit than that "could ruin the efforts made over the last decade".
La Tribune leads with the word: "L'Angoisse" ("The Anxiety") reporting on the countdown in the United States as Democrats and Republicans try to dig the country out of a debt crisis similar to those seen in Europe. On events this side of the Atlantic, it reports on the Fitch credit rating's agency downgrade of Greek debt from B Plus to Triple C meaning that "a default is a real possibility". And concerning Washington, it says China – the US's main creditor – "wants to see measures guaranteeing investors' interests are protected". La Tribune concludes overall that "reason should win out" despite tense negotiations on Capitol Hill.
The left-wing daily Libération, meanwhile, argues that the European Union should investigate what it describes as the "irrationality of the credit rating agencies". It reports the ECB, IMF and OECD consider the agencies are making the crisis worse. And says the explanation for that goes back to the 2008 financial crisis which harmed the agencies' reputation and has now made them now conservative – small C – in their forecasts and stricter in their ratings.
And Le Monde reports on four Tunisian refugees of the Arab Spring who have made a base in the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, one of the large parks on the right bank here in Paris (in the 19th arrondissement). They say that they crossed the Mediterranean full of optimism but are now resigned to their fate. One of the four, Karim, says he is too ashamed to contact his family back in Tunisia after three months away. It's estimated that 600 to 900 Tunisian refuges of the Arab Spring are now in Paris.


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Student or Learner
1. He talks as though he knows a lot.
2. He talks as though he knew a lot.
Could somebody please tell me the difference in meaning between the two sentences? Or is one of them grammatically wrong?
Thanks in advance.
#1 uses "talks" and " knows" - both present tense, so OK.
#2 would make sense if we match the tenses - " He talked as though he knew a lot". - both past tense, so now OK.
buggles (not a teacher)
Just spotted e2e4's response and I have to disagree - maybe a moderator will chip in.
2. He talks as though he knew a lot.
These were the two sentences which the OP asked about. buggles said that #1 was correct and that #2 was incorrect. I agree with her/him, "He talks as if he knows a lot" is correct, as is "He talked as if he knew a lot".


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A pursuit that began in Liberty County ended on the Armstrong Atlantic State University campus late Sunday afternoon after a crash that sent two officers to the hospital.
Savannah-Chatham police spokesman Julian Miller said Liberty County deputies began pursuing a white pickup in that county, and eventually both the Midway and Richmond Hill police departments joined in. Richmond Hill police dropped out once the truck exited their jurisdiction, Miller said, but Liberty County deputies and Midway police continued pursuit.
The truck, which Miller said was traveling at a high rate of speed, struck another vehicle at Ga. 204 and U.S. 17 and ran red lights down Ga. 204 into Savannah. Near Science Drive, the driver of the truck attempted to pass a Savannah-Chatham police patrol car on the right that was pulling out of Armstrong, striking the car and spinning it.
The driver of the truck then lost control and the truck started flipping over, eventually landing upside down off Abercorn Street on Armstrong's campus.
The two male occupants of the truck then exited the vehicle and ran through campus and into a neighborhood behind the school, where they were apprehended by Chatham County Sheriff's Office deputies, Savannah-Chatham police and Liberty County Sheriff's deputies, Miller said.
"We had two officers that were in the patrol car and they have been transported for treatment," Miller said. "We don't know the extent of their injuries. ... They don't appear to be life-threatening, but we don't know that at this point. We're still trying to check that out."
Miller said the Savannah-Chatham officers in the car that was struck were on patrol and were not involved in the pursuit. Police did not have immediate information about the condition of the people who were in the car that was struck by the truck at Ga. 204 and U.S. 17.
Officers from multiple agencies remained at Armstrong after sunset Sunday working the scene. Police on Sunday evening had not released the names of the two men who were arrested or indicated what charges they face or why the pursuit began.
-Dash Coleman