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Beautiful Data 18
|Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions
|Edited by Toby Segaran and Jeff Hammerbacher
|O'Reilly Media, Inc.
|A collection of twenty essays and chronicles from the implementers of successful projects revolving around real world data processing and display.
Chapter One deals with two projects done by grad students: Personal Environmental Impact Report (PEIR) and your.flowingdata (YFD). This chapter starts out slow describing how the system harnesses personal GPS devices — a common trend in phone development these days. After clearing the basics, the chapter reveals a lot about the iterative developments the author took to select and include a map interface to effectively and quickly display several routes that a user has driven with intuitive visual queues to indicate which was the most environmentally expensive. Trying to stick with the green means good and red means bad proved difficult and they employed an inverted map of mostly shades of gray to avoid clashing colors with the natural colors on a regular map. The final part of PEIR discussed a Facebook application that simply paired you up against friends also using PEIR. This gave the user a relative value basis of otherwise incomprehensible numbers surrounding their environmental impact. YFD focuses more on an interface for accumulating Twitter data from a user to help them track sleeping and weight loss.
The second chapter deals entirely with constructing a very simple survey that has a variable length depending on what answer you give to an earlier question. While this seems to be a very simple task, the chapter does a great job of explaining how you can make it better and why doing this makes it better. A great quote from this chapter is "The key method for collecting data from people online is, of course, through the use of the dreaded form. There is no artifact potentially more valuable to a business, or more boring and tedious to a participant." The chapter points out that for every action you require the user to make, the user may decide the survey is not worth their time. Yes, clicking "Next" on a multi-page form only gives the user another chance to decide this isn't worth it. Furthermore, many pages might cause the user to be unsure of the real length of the survey. So they decided against this and instead made the survey branch from one page so that page would continually get a little larger depending on how you answered the questions. Knowing the targets for the surveys were older made a copy large font mandatory as 72% of Americans report vision impairment by the time they are age 45. This chapter dealt more with collecting the data, respecting the source of data and building trust with the participants than displaying the data they provided.
Chapter Three deals with the recently disabled Phoenix that landed on Mars and how precisely the image collection was done. While it might seem like the wrong place to do it, there was actually pre-processing and compression done on board the lander before transmission to Earth. This article tackles interesting issues that are long thought to be an extinct animal in computer science where resources are constrained and radiation bombarding keeps the CPU modestly lower than your average desktop. Do you process the image in place in memory or make a copy so that the original image can be retained during processing? These are familiar issues to embedded developers but stuff I haven't touched since college. While the author details the situation on all fronts down to the cameras being used, it's largely a blast from the past as far as resource aware computing is concerned. Then again, I doubt any of my code will ever be flight certified by NASA.
Chapter Four has a very interesting analysis and description of Yahoo!'s PNUTS system for serving up data in complex environments like tackling issues with latency across the world when dealing with social networking. The chapter does a decent job of explaining how issues are resolved when replicated servers across the United States become out of sync and the resolution strategy. The chapter ends on an even more interesting note explaining why Yahoo! deviated from Google's BigTable, Amazon's Dynamo, Microsoft's Azure and other existing implementations. This tale of well thought out design is a stark contrast to Chapter Five which centers on a Facebook 'data scientist' that — instead of explaining the solution as a well planned finalized implementation — tells the trial and error approach of a very small team of developers treading into waters unknown with data sets of Sisyphean proportions. It was tempting for me to read this chapter and chastise the author for not foreseeing what numbers could come with making it big in social networking. But the chapter has a lot of value in a "lessons learned" realm. It may even prepare some of you who are writing web applications with a potentially explosive or viral user base. While it's popular to hate Facebook and in turn transfer that hate to the developers, no one can argue against them being one of the most successful social networking sites and any information of their (sometimes flawed) operations certainly proves to be interesting.
Chapter Six was completely unengaging for me. The chapter covers geographing. More specifically the efforts to take pictures of Britain and Ireland and map/display them geographically. The images would aim to cover a large area than users could tag them with what they see (tree, road, hill, etc). Unfortunately it never really registered with me why someone would want to do this and what the end goal was that they were aiming for. Instead they managed to produce some pretty heinous and very difficult to digest heat maps or "spatial tree maps." By embedding coloration and lines into the treemaps the authors hoped to convey intuitive information to the reader. Instead my eyes often glazed over and sometimes I flat out disagreed with their affirmation that this is how to display data beautifully. You're welcome to try to convince me that geographing has some sort of merit other than producing pretty mosaics of large image sets but it took a lot of effort for me to continue reading at points in this chapter.
Chapter Seven sets the book back on track in "Data Finds Data" where the writers cover very important concepts and problems surrounding federated search and instead offer up directories with some semantic metadata or relationship data that makes keyword searching possible over billions of documents. For anyone dealing with large volumes of data, this chapter is a great start to understanding the options you have to processing your data when you first get it (and only once) versus searching for that data just in time and paying for it in delay. While the former incurs much more disk space cost, Google has proven that paradigm shift definitely has merit.
Chapter Eight is about social data APIs and pushes gnip heavily as the de facto social endpoint aggregator for programmers. The chapter mentions WebHooks as an up and coming HTTP Post event transmission project but doesn't offer much more than a wake up call for programmers. The traditional polling has dominated web APIs and has lead to fragile points of failure. This chapter is a much needed call for sanity in the insane world of HTTP transactional polling. Unfortunately, the community seems to be so in love with the simplicity of polling that they use it for everything, even when a slightly more complicated eventing model would save them a large percentage of transactions.
Chapter Nine is a tutorial on harvesting data from the deep web. What they mean by this is that — given proper permission — one can exploit forms on websites to access database data and then index that instead of merely being relegated to static HTML pages. In my opinion, this is a fragile and often frowned upon approach to data collection but as this chapter (and many others) illustrates, sometimes data is locked up due to lack of resources to expose it. This means that if a repository of information is meant to be available to you through a simple submission form, you can tease that information out of "the deep web" and into your system with the tricks mentioned in this chapter.
Chapter Ten is the story of Radiohead's open sourced "data" music video of "House of Cards" and the collection process from the kinds of devices used to the methodology of collecting that data to the attitude they used when treating the data. This chapter is a sort of key for understanding what data you have with Radiohead's offerings and I heavily recommend it for anyone interested in taking a stab at this video. The most interesting things I found in this was their method for collection and, more importantly, their decision to actually degrade the data and opted not to texture when displaying Thom Yorke's face — citing artistic choice. This chapter gave me one very amazing display tool that I am embarrassed to admit I had no knowledge of prior to this book: processing.
Chapter Eleven is the story of a few people that chose to do something about serious crime problems in Oakland. The city was compiling reports of crimes weekly but they weren't opening up the data. You could do a search and get a very minimal display on a map of crimes that had happened. This caused Oakland Crimespotting to arise. At first they were forced to graphically scrape and estimate crime locations so their own system could offer it back to the user in more intuitive and useful ways to the citizens so the citizens could take action. At first they were forced to work around problems but in the end the city government came to its senses and began offering them the data in a far more open format. From browsing the site now, you can get an idea of the tale this chapter tells. The evolution of that end product is chronicled in this chapter.
Chapter Twelve center's on sense.us, a potentially powerful product that aims to empower users to analyze and create notations on graphs that might relay correlations between factors inside US Census data. The only disappointment with this chapter is that sense.us isn't live for us to use. The tool shows powerful abilities in collaboration in analysis of census data but also is a double edged sword. There's nothing that stops this tool from being used for political and monetary ideals instead of purely academic revelations. They used tools like Colorbrewer and prefuse to dynamically generate graphs and charts that were pleasing to the eye. Then they used 'geometric annotation' (a vector graphic approach to recording user's doodling and annotations) in order to facilitate collaboration. The notes the researchers took on the collaboration between their pilot users is probably more intriguing than their actual approach to display good graphics. Each user seemed to take a natural progression from annotation producer to annotation crawler and then bounce between them as other user annotations gave them ideas for more annotations to create. While not exactly ideal collaboration, it's interesting to hear what users do in the wild when left to their own.
Chapter Thirteen "What Data Doesn't Do" is a very short chapter with a set of ten or so rules that are intended to remind you that data doesn't predict, more data isn't always better or easier, probabilities do not explain, data doesn't stand alone, etc. This chapter felt sort of like a pause and remember way point through the book. Just when you've gone through these great stories of success, the book, reels you back into reality with this chapter. In other chapters you'll be reminded to avoid pitfalls like the narrative fallacy but this book just reminds you quite literally what data doesn't do automatically for you. It's an indicator that you need to shore up these things that data doesn't magically do when you present data.
Chapter Fourteen is Peter Norvig's "Natural Language Corpus Data" and does not disappoint. Once the reader is empowered with the code and the data in this chapter, it almost seems like one could solve several problems using ngrams, Bayes' theorem and natural language analysis. As you read this chapter, Norvig lays out how to tackle several problems with ease: decoding encryption levels up to WWII, spelling correction, machine translation and even spam detection. In just 23 pages, Norvig conveys a tiny bit of the power of a corpus of documents coupled with the willingness to be a little dirty (total probabilities summing to more than one, dropping ngrams below a threshold, etc). It's clear why he's employed at Google.
Chapter Fifteen takes a drastic turn into one of Earth's oldest data stores: DNA. As the chapter so coyly notes, programmers can view DNA as a simple string: char(3*10^6) human_genome; The chapter gives you a brief glimpse of DNA analysis but focuses more on the data storage involved in facilities that are currently working to harvest data from many subjects. As of the writing of this chapter, one facility was generating 75 terabits per week in raw data. Most interesting to me from this chapter was ensemble.org, a site to find DNA data, genome data and also collaborate with other researchers on annotating and commenting on certain parts and regions of DNA.
Similar to the previous chapter, Chapter Sixteen focuses briefly on chemistry and describes how data was collected "to predict teh solubility of a wide range of chemicals in non-aqueous solvents such as ethanol, methanol, etc." Having a very minimal chemistry background, it's never really revealed what purpose this data collection has but nonetheless the chapter explains a lot of challenges in this environment that are similar to other chapters. The interesting aspect of this chapter is that the team used open notebook science to collect this data and therefore faced the challenge of cleaning crowd-sourced data. A constantly recurring problem in these chapters is how one represents data and chemistry apparently has many standards — some more open than others. This book makes a very good argument for open standards and selecting open standards when one witnesses the screen scraping, licensing issues and costs researchers face when unifying data even for something as old as the representations of chemicals.
Chapter Seventeen is the case study of FaceStat, a statistically more ambitious Hot-or-Not effort from researchers. The site would allow anyone to upload a photo of a person and then allow users to rate them and tag them. After collecting this data, the researchers used the ubiquitous R statistical language to do some feature extraction on the data. Of course, the chapter first deals with cleaning the data and catching bad user input. While this chapter sounds like vanilla run-of-the-mill feature extraction, it also includes some interesting display examples as well as the very interesting yet controversial stereotype analysis. From taboo topics like attractiveness vs age line fitting to the sexism of tags to using k-means in order to establish stereotype clusters in the data. While other chapters sought offense through possible privacy concerns, this chapter reveals more about the callow stereotypes that internet inflict upon each other.
Chapter Eighteen looks at the San Fransisco Bay Area housing market from a very interesting selection of recent years. What differentiates this chapter from so many of the others (we collect, clean and process the data) is that it needed to break the data down by neighborhood to find the really interesting features of the data. The neighborhoods could then be grouped into six different groups with their increase in house prices to their decline in house prices. Only one group had one neighborhood that showed no decline (Mountain View). Unfortunately for this chapter and the next one, by the time the reader arrives they appear to be straight forward replications of ideas from other chapters. Chapter Nineteen is brief chapter on statistics inside politics. Aside from revealing five or six interesting correlations in voting revealed through data, this chapter merely relays what we already know: politicians implement statistics to a sometimes harmful degree (gerrymandering).
The last chapter is, appropriately, about the many sources of data exposed on the internet and the problems everyone faces in matching entities from one data source to another. The idea of using a URI to describe a movie hasn't really seemed to catch on. And if that wasn't enough, even words like "location" used to describe a column could mean drastically different things between houses and genomes. The chapter lists out a number of sources where data is available to download and tinker with (most already listed in the book) and proceeds to analyze an algorithmic (collective reconciliation) way for a system to differentiate between two movies with the same name. Naturally the author of this chapter worked on freebase which was recently (and predictably) acquired by Google. Although a short chapter, it speaks to problems that all online data communities face and what prohibits mashups from automagically happening between two disparate data sources holding data that is actually related.
With the exception of chapter six, every chapter offered me something that I won't forget. More importantly, most chapters offered a data source or data processing tool that expanded my toolbox of things to use when programming. The only reason this book misses a perfect 10/10 from me is chapter six and a couple of the later chapters feeling like weaker ideas from earlier chapters rehashed into a different domain. A worthwhile book if you work with data — whether you be a consumer or producer.
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Really did you want a cliche of a video of her in the club talking to her boyfriend or some shit? I didn't, I love the video.
I'm convinced it's an inside joke that I know nothing about.
there are many reasons to like gaga. many have already been named. i would add that she is some kind of anti-paris-hilton (anti-britney, anti-fergie): a singer/songwriter with genuine talent and a strong voice pretending to be a shallow, vapid starlet.
but why is gaga the arguably biggest star of the moment, and not just another moderately successful diva? why did it not work that way with alison goldfrapp, roisin murphy or sophie elllis-bextor?
the thing is, no matter how much people tend to complain about how predictable pop-culture is: the public is fickle, and fame and success are, ultimately, unpredictable. no one can exactly say why some super-stars are super-stars, why some blockbusters are blockbusters. thats why some stars never quite have their breaktrough, despite their talent and record company backing (how long have kylie minogue or robbie williams been trying to break in the us?). thats why sometimes, a star comes seemingly out of nowhere and shoots straight to the top. thats why following all this is still so much fun!
i must not "get" her. the music is completely average pop and she looks like a retard. wearing a birdcage on your head doesn't make you "edgy" and "groundbreaking", it makes you look stupid. zero interest in anything she does.
"much ado about nothing"
She sucks.
People always have to go against the grain in an attempt to look cool or above the fray. I like her because she's daring, different and can sing.
Thanks for the acoustic version I have changed my mind now, I assumed she was put together buy some creative stylists...how wrong was
But at the end of the day it was great to see two of my favorite girls singing together!
I personally love gaga because she is weird. Don't get me wrong, Britney will always have a place in my heart, but I feel like Lady Gaga is so strange/creative that she's kinda made her own genre.
Her music is good, and her remixes/acoustic performances are always great too. She puts on one hell of a show, her recent tour beat the hell out of any of britneys or even the spice girls for me personally.
I can definitely see why people would dislike or even hate her, but you gotta admit that shes got spunk.
Gaga and Beyonce both suck, and I would never subject myself to one of their albums willingly. They each have like one good song.
It's yet another example of the stupidity of society.
Gaga is a disgrace to music.
Because she sang "bad romance".
Most gays have bad romance.
I dont get the craz either
I think someone had said it in an earlier post, but it all just boils down to having the right sound and look at the right time.
I honestly don't get why people are/were head over heels for Madonna or Britney. But they were promoted with the right stuff at a time when few were doing their acts. How many less successful "copycat" performers appeared after them? How many gays flocked to their concerts back in the 80s and 90s?
I went from thinking "wtf is a lady gaga" to loving 90% of the Fame Monster. Personally I think she's a little more talented, skilled, and intelligent than most of the other pop artists out right now. So I'm assuming people saw the same in Madonna.
She and Cher both had crazy attention seeking outfits and a different sound and were embraced by gays everywhere. I don't think its really fair to single out Gaga and exclude those people who were doing similar stuff at the same stage in their careers
Her sh!ts catchy as hell too
As soon as I knew the video would be 10 minutes long, I knew it wouldn't be as good as Bad Romance, (which, by the way, is just flawless). The main problem with this video is that the first 2:40 minutes are so boring. After all the hype about this video, you are really gonna start singing the song in a public phone? How predictable!
But the rest after that is really good with all the colors, fashion and insanity. I love every part that involves sandwiches, they make me LOL.
Watched it the second time skipping all the intro in prison and I like the video much better now!
Bad Romance still beats it, though.
I think if GaGa does a simple video, many would complain that she's losing her touch.
The video just came out and people are trying to be messy. Who's this stranger bitch trying to get her buzz up?
I think she appeals to a lot of young girls who don't feel like they belong in the "in crowd". She takes her differences and her perceived inadequacies and instead of hiding them away she puts them right out there and celebrates them. In a way, lines like "I'm a freak bitch, baby" can give adolescent girls who feel like they are on the sidelines a lot of confidence
And she also appeals to a lot of gay men who *always* like strong women that make it on their own terms in spite of what anyone else might say...
Therefore, she kisses gay men's asses, because she would be nothing if it wasn't for them. . .and because she loves them, they love her, support her and party at her shows.
The End.
Why couldn't she just be her real self and never transformed into that convoluted persona?
Musically, Stefani Germanotta > Lady Gaga IMHO.
I love both Lady Gaga and Beyonce. One because they both are different from anyone in their field.
Also, the reason they stand above from the rest, (Reasons why Britney and Madonna were ground breaking), they can perform. People can't hate their music, their personality and their appearance, but they can not deny their ability to put on an incredible show.
Also, unlike Madonna and Britney, Gaga and Beyonce can actually sing.
I definitely like Lady Gaga she's talent, but I don't think her edgy outfits and antics match her very mainstream dance pop music. For that reason I can't call her a genius and revolutionary.
Why would I sacrafice myself for Gaga you ask?
Because she takes what I am feeling, and what I have always felt
And instead of saying "This boy means just so much to me!"
What is said is "He ate my heart"
It is all about the connection to the music
This is why she is famed, because of all the people saying "OMG Y DO U LIKE HER PLZ?"
Or "luz she is so WEIRD and STRANGE"
Some of us just listen to her music and move on.
We are forced to transform when our beloved is attacked.
Don't fuck with us
There are more disco sticks where that came from
Art is simple. You take something that everyone feels or does. Then you simply express it in a new way.
Oh and it's safe to say
If she does not win at least 4 VMA's for telephone and/or bad romance
MTV headquarters will be burned down.
NVM, now im angry.
She puts on an absolutely phenomenal live show I will say
I'm beautiful in my way - cause god makes no mistakes - I'm on the right track - baby I was born this way!
I think because she's one of the first singers to really break so many boundaries, her fashion, songs, controversy - this is a singer who no one thought would last but is now writing Pop history.
I'm subjective cause I'm admittedly a massive fan, but to me, It's something new and energetic, and between her clothing, interviews, songs, videos etc - can't really fault her!
It really depends on the context ... were you nude?
Comparing the "Bad Romance" music video to "Telephone" isn't really fair, imho. Both are so totally different, and while I love both, "Telephone" was a continuation of "Paparazzi" after all. Both are essentially telling a story.
"Bad Romance" was just like fuck you all, here I am, something completely new, different, weird, and visually stunning. And it was awesome. I realize it also told a story, but not a short film
Everything this woman does is just phenomenal.
I'm beautiful in my way - cause god makes no mistakes - I'm on the right track - baby I was born this way!
I wish Gaga spent more time on the Fame monster though. Loved the whole concept.
And, totally random, when I was watching the video, I thought that the girl standing directly next to her in jail before she answers the phone was her, just with brown hair.
Turns out it's her sister
I'm beautiful in my way - cause god makes no mistakes - I'm on the right track - baby I was born this way!
I wish we didn't like our vapid amusements quite so much. Is it a fair judgment to say that we're overly enchanted with the banality of surfaces?
Because she utilizes her ability to shock, outrage, and spark comment to constantly remain the center of attention. Certainly sounds like several gay men *I* know...
Why is Lady Gaga treated like God???
because she IS God. Duh.
Underneath everything I guess I always dreamed I would be the one to take you away from all this wasted pain...
I really liked how she gave a song, that really is basic and nothing too deep a really dense video.
As always, another video going down in history. Especially if people keep talking about it like they are here.
Why do I like her? Because her look is provocative, but it's playful. C'mon, cigarette sunglasses in prison? That to me was a fucking scream. She has such a sense of humor about her and does not take herself seriously, even when she feigns seriousness.
But then you listen to her music--it's pop, and it's mainstream, but it has that edge. It defies you to not move to it, and as someone else put it so beautifully, it takes what many of us feel and expresses it in a way that is exciting and graphic.
To me, when I think of her as a musical painter, she stands out because she is the painter, the brush, the paint and the canvas. She synthesizes it all together, daring the audience to see themselves in her picture, even in the most outrageous strokes, colors and patterns.
Too many mainstream artists sing from their egotistical perspective and try to pull you in; too many alternative artists sing with raw emotion but try to shove you out. Gaga sweeps you up in her spectacle and laughs loudly in your ear, while dancing you off with a pinprick to your heart.
In a way, I think the pairing of Gaga and Beyonce is a good move, because one wants to be an icon and needs to prove she has more than just catchy lyrics and clothes tricks, and one wants to be a diva and needs to prove she has more than just beauty and vocal tricks.
While I've always liked Madonna, I don't worship her as many do, because honestly I've always felt like she was a product too. She's the grand manipulator, churning out endless reinventions in a very calculated way. Ray of Light was honestly the first album where I felt like she was really exploring something because she was interested in it, rather than just repackaging herself.
I've enjoyed most of Beyonce's music over the years (except I loathe Single Ladies and If I Were a Boy), but I liked her far more in Destiny's Child. I think she's much better as a part of something bigger than just herself.
With that said, I have always loved pop music, and I enjoy all of these ladies. There's room for all of them on the charts, and I certainly think women rule the pop music landscape.
Lady GaGa > Madonna.
Underneath everything I guess I always dreamed I would be the one to take you away from all this wasted pain...
Gaga's message so far about celebrity and fame would have been far more revolutionary if she had burst onto the scene before Paris went to jail, Britney and Lindsay went to rehab, and Ms. Ritchie popped out a kid. Time will tell if she has what it takes to become this generation's Madonna, actually saying something relevant before everyone else had already started saying it.
I thought the same thing, too. I was like "So is Gaga gonna play multiple roles?" What if her sister becomes another Gaga... one is enough for the world.

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2010 volleyball
Bluffton 3, Adrian 2
Bluffton opens 2010 with five-set win over Adrian
September 1, 2010
By: Erin Oberly, sports information assistant
BLUFFTON, Ohio - Leading off their 2010 campaign in Founders Hall, the Beavers of Bluffton University took down non-conference opponent Adrian College in a five-set match on Wednesday, Sept. 1. Their home debut against the Bulldogs proved to the Bluffton faithful that the defending HCAC champions have done the necessary preparation in the preseason to pick up where they left off in 2009.
Head Coach Steve Yarnell noted that the home-court advantage once again proved to be a positive factor in the Beavers' victory against the improved Adrian squad. "We had a great crowd tonight for our home opener and Adrian gave us a battle. They are a much improved team from last season and should make some noise and finish in the top half or their conference. I thought we did some good things but we have a lot of work to do if we want to achieve all of our goals."
Next, the Beavers travel to Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, to compete in their first tournament of the season. Their first match of the weekend is against the Fighting Muskies of Muskingum University this Friday, start time slated for 2:30 p.m. They immediately follow with a match against the Allegheny College Gators at 4:30 p.m.


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TCM HD coming soon to Directv. Disney Jr. debuted today on Directv.
I might threaten to cancel to see if I can get the Sunday Ticket for free.
TCM HD coming soon to Directv. Disney Jr. debuted today on Directv.
I might threaten to cancel to see if I can get the Sunday Ticket for free.
I watch Comedy Central quite a bit-- The Daily News and The Colbert Show are phenomenal. My oldest child adores three or four shows on the Nick channels. My wife watches Nick and Nite after the kids have gone to bed.
"You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat."
-- Christy Matthewson
"Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot."
-- Leo Durocher
TCM in HD?
Go Gators!
"In my day you had musicians who experimented with drugs. Now it's druggies experimenting with music" - Alfred G Clark (circa 1972)
I "juked" them last year. My local channels are out of Dayton, yet I live closer to Columbus. Unfortunately, the Dayton channel, during football season, rarely if ever, broadcasts games of my fav team. I told them I was entertaining an offer from TW that gave me my locals from Columbus, and I wasn't going to go another season not being able to watch them. Directv fixed me right up. Going to do it again this year too.
"In my day you had musicians who experimented with drugs. Now it's druggies experimenting with music" - Alfred G Clark (circa 1972)
I think all this chopping and slicing and dicing of TV shows is going to remove any kind of loyalty or favoritism that people might have for providers like Viacom, DirecTV, Time Warner, etc.
All this threatening and cutting off of channels and holding customers hostage is a completely bass-ackwards way of doing business and they are cutting their own throat.
The future is internet-based channels ala Netflix and the sooner companies realize that, the better off they'll be. Just ask one-time huge names in the video market like Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, and all those companies about becoming a dinosaur.
For a time, I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Got $10 off my bill and Starz free for six months just for calling. Heard about this deal on Twitter @Directv
Hugs, smiling, and interactive Twitter accounts, don't mean winning baseball. Until this community understands that we are cursed to relive the madness.
I might have to call if it's $10 off a month. I don't care about movie channels, it's almost a burden having to remember to call and cancel them in 6 months.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." - H. L. Mencken
"Trying is the first step towards failure." Homer Simpson
"I wasn't looking too good but I was feeling real well." Keith Richards
In case you didn't know Viacom and DTV came to an agreement. From everything I read Viacom gave up most of their demands. Not a significant increase and DTV will not have to carry the Epix channel.
Reds Fan Since 1971
These days, with all the shows you can watch streaming over Hulu Plus and Netflix, I'm surprised Viacom would try to pull a stunt like that. If I could, I would just pay for the live sports channels and kids channels and just stick with a Hulu Plus and Netflix subscription, which I can watch streaming over the tv through my Xbox.
Wear gaudy colors, or avoid display. Lay a million eggs or give birth to one. The fittest shall survive, yet the unfit may live. Be like your ancestors or be different. We must repeat!
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One of my favorite albums that Elvis ever did, and my absolute favorite studio FTD.
Sun Jan 11, 2009 4:36 am
Cryogenic wrote:Even though I can sympathise with where it's coming from, I don't quite agree with the criticism for "Girl Next Door Went A Walkin'". I implore everyone to give this a closer listen. Wrapped up in this superficially sweet ballad is a savage piece of criticism. Elvis takes a relatively ordinary -- though, even in its pregant state, by no means meagre song -- and, backed and spurred on by that incredible band and personal thirst of his, transforms it into social protest. Or does he? Listen to the way he allows his baritone voice to sound fatigued and exasperated, especially on the line: "Settle down to life." He drags out the word "life" so it sounds more like: "liffffffe". The "fffff" sound conjures images of the singer turning away in a mix of distaste and sarcasm. He cannot believe that such a young woman -- the eponymous "girl next door" -- has gone off and gotten locked into a marriage so soon. Hasn't she paid attention to the rock 'n roll revolution -- *the* social revolution of the time (paving the way for others) -- that he has spearheaded? Hasn't she learnt anything from what's been happening around her? Indeed, the song ends with the line, "Settle down to life," where Elvis bears all his disdain, crystallising the record's theme, recited four times.
I really like "Girl Next Door Went A'Walkin". Another interesting feature -- again, in that all-important line -- is Elvis' ambiguity with the actual wording: is it, "Settle down for life," or, "Settle down to life"? Elvis seems to opt for the latter, but it's hard to say. The latter seems to carry greater irony -- how does one settle down "to" life? Does that even mean anything at all? Is it as meaningless as a rushed marriage? Of course, this girl may truly love "the boy she likes". The onus may be on the singer himself: he is the one "surprise[d]" that the girl thought that love was "paradise". Perhaps this has nothing to do with social criticism; perhaps the singer and the girl are merely different people. Perhaps we're only getting the biased interpretation of the singer's own appraisal of the situation. In any case, there is a frustrated idealism at stake here. Some of that same frustrated idealism and skewed perspective on marriage would come back to haunt Elvis later on. This song is more important to the culture of the time and the life of EP than it's credited for. Afterall, a piece's relevancy to culture and the artist is our compass for great music -- and I submit, without recourse to irony, that "Girl Next Door Went A Walkin'" is a great song on a great album.
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As a recent geology graduate employed in the petroleum industry, I appreciate Dr. Parrishs defense of those that work in industry (GSA Today, v. 19, no. 6, p. 1112).
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Posted 28 July 2003 - 12:00 AM
My 96 Legacy right front turn signal is intermittent, so I was gonna swap out bulbs. Do I have to take the whole frikkin' headlamp assembly out of the car? I don't see any other way.
Of course, the Chilton's that is supposed to cover my year doesn't really cover it, since it tells me to remove the screws in the front of the lens cover, and there aren't any...
How many bolts do I remove to get this thing out? I see two on the top of the light housing, and one that is behind the front grill. Is the bottom of the assembly held in with bolts as well?
Did the same guy design this setup and the cup holder as well??
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Posted 28 July 2003 - 03:25 AM
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Posted 28 July 2003 - 04:56 AM
Unfortunately, you do have to remove the whole headlamp assembly.
The single piece corner lamp and headlamp assembly only exists in the 95-96 models. They switched to a 2 piece version in 97. <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/ohwell.gif ALT=":\">
You got the screws right - Two on the top, and a third on the side behind the grill, which you will have to remove.
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Posted 28 July 2003 - 05:22 AM
I wonder if he was involved in the engineering of the 2.5 head gaskets as well...
Thanks for the info RC. I was gonna take it apart last night, but wanted to be sure.
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Posted 28 July 2003 - 12:31 PM
Glad they went back on the 97 models
Posted 14 April 2005 - 09:27 AM
I have a '97 Legacy OB and my left front turn signal bulb just stopped working. In my Haynes manual it shows the turn signal assembly separate from the headlight assembly, and that you just pull the turn signal assembly and replace the bulb. Wrong. It's all one piece on my car.
So, 1997 Legacy Outbacks (or at least mine) have one assembly for the headlight and turn signal. You gotta pull the whole thing to replace the turn signal. Based on my car, it wasn't until '98 that they made the change to a two piece assembly. Unless it was a running change in the '97 MY?
Posted 14 April 2005 - 10:46 AM
Good news: About 3 screws does it. Easy after the first time.
Posted 14 April 2005 - 03:02 PM
I have a '97 Legacy OB and my left front turn signal bulb just stopped working. In my Haynes manual it shows the turn signal assembly separate from the headlight assembly, and that you just pull the turn signal assembly and replace the bulb. Wrong. It's all one piece on my car.
Ah yes. The Haynes manual used a 1998 Outback to take the pictures. If you look at the back cover, there's a picture of the mechanic and one of the photographers working on the car and the blurb mentioned that it was a 1998 Outback. Looks like Subaru made some revisions to the Outback every year between 95-99.
In regard to the headlights, if the lens is clear and smooth and you can see the diamond reflector, it is 2 peice; the 1 peice headlight/turnsignal combo has stripes in it to focus the beam.
Posted 14 April 2005 - 04:10 PM
The only thing I would add to what has already been said is that after you remove the grill, remove the three screws (two on top, on on the side) you need to pull the headlight assembly straight towards you (towards the front of the car). Don't try to move it sideways or swing it outward. I had to pull pretty hard (enough to rock the car forward a bit), then it popped out.
I bought two bulbs 'cause if I didn't I knew the other side's bulb would burn out within 10 miles
FWIW the procedure is also described in the manual, although not everyone has one of those available.
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Skip to comments.Newsweek Editor Calls Obama "Sort Of God" - Literally (Evan Thomas: "He's sort of God."
Posted on 06/09/2009 2:10:33 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
[Evan Thomas:]
"...he [Obama] has a very different job from Reagan was all about America and you [Chris Matthews] talked about it. Obama is 'we are above all that now.' We're not just parochial. We stand for something. I mean in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above the world, he's sort of God."
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Bull. You losers bash conservatives/Republicans, not liberals/Democrats, and especially not Obama.
That black guy? coming up with the Obama song... those kids coming out and doing that Obama military march saying "Obama, Obama, Obama" ... the talk about Obama being "The One" (among many other things)... and now this.
Stalin never had it so good.
And on top of that, Evan has the gall to say that it is "parochial" to put America first.
Obama needs to put a stop to all of this worship of him coming from so many liberals.
Problem is, is that I think he actually revels in it.
What say you?
will the ACLU now seek to have Newsweak removed from public school libraries?
And they wonder why they're losing circulation??
"He's sort of God."
I "sort of" run over with my global-warming fomenting SUV, and then burn with evil tobacco ash, the free copy of LeftWeak that infests my office every Wednesday.
Nuff said...
I say in the media's mind, there is no sort of about it. The media worships the ground Obama walks on. Saddam Hussein did not have this level of backing by his government media.
Norman Thomas (Evan's grandfather): "The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."
Nuff said...
They, aong with Matthews and Evan Thomas, are probably too busy happy with all of those thrills going up their legs to do anything else.
The Long View by Rob Long on National Review. Priceless.
Evan Thomas adoring on his prayer rug again? Graphic testimony to the crippled emotional flotsam breaching the surface of the pond scum of leftism.
Rush was right. All they were missing was their god.
It makes sense. For new-liberals (and more than a few posters on this site, unfortunately) government is their god. They expect it to feed the poor, heal the sick, and protect them from "evil" (the definition of which varies from person to person rather than any moral absolute).
He is only putting into words what well over 50% of the population believe, whether they would admit it or not.
If Obama is God, I'm an atheist.
Liberals are always looking for a human savior (other than the Lord Jesus Christ). This is definitely a mental disorder.
And Chrissy Matthews (He of the tingly leg) could only respond "uh, huh..." MSNBC is this country's version of Pravda and they know and are proud of it.
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Even without two of their top players, the New York Knicks continue to have success.
They'll try for a fourth consecutive victory as they face the struggling Atlanta Hawks in interim coach Mike Woodson's return to Philips Arena on Friday night.
With Amare Stoudemire and Jeremy Lin missing their second consecutive contests, Carmelo Anthony and rookie Iman Shumpert both had 25 points as New York went on a 21-0 third-quarter run and beat Orlando 108-86 on Wednesday.
Above .500 for the first time since they were 6-5 on Jan. 12, the Knicks (26-25) have won two in a row and eight of nine since Woodson replaced Mike D'Antoni. New York has a 2 1/2-game lead on Milwaukee for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.
"As a coach I'm always interested in when you're short-handed who's going to step up and make plays?" Woodson said. "And we're getting it from everybody and that to me is a sign of a good, quality team that wants to win."
While Stoudemire hopes to return from a back problem by the end of the regular season, it's uncertain if Lin will play Friday due to an injured knee. The Knicks, though, have been faring well no matter who has been on the floor.
Reserves J.R. Smith and Steve Novak combined for 28 points as New York shot 50.6 percent overall and outscored the Magic 65-30 over the second and third quarters.
New York is allowing an average of 86.0 points under Woodson, a vast improvement from the 96.5 opponents were scoring against the Knicks under D'Antoni.
"Right now, with the coaching change, we've been playing extremely well,'' Anthony said. "Guys seem to be responding pretty well. We've been really locked in on our mission right now.''
After failing to score more than 17 points in each of the previous seven games, Anthony has totaled 53 in the last two without Stoudemire and Lin. Anthony scored 15 in a 99-82 home win over the Hawks (30-22) on Feb. 22, but he's averaged 24.3 points in eight career games at Atlanta.
The Knicks have won three straight over the Hawks by an average of 14.0 points, and they've taken three of four at Philips.
Woodson gets a chance to experience this matchup from the Knicks' point of view after serving as Hawks coach from 2004-2010. His former team has dropped two straight since a four-game winning streak, falling 98-77 to Chicago on Wednesday.
Atlanta showed some expected fatigue against a Bulls team that was without injured star Derrick Rose, shooting 40.0 percent for the game and getting outscored 77-54 after the first quarter. The Hawks were playing for the fifth time in six days.
"We couldn't get anything going,'' said forward Josh Smith, who had a team-high 19 points.
Hawks star Joe Johnson, however, thought the problem ran deeper than the busy schedule. Atlanta had jumped out to a 13-5 lead.
"Sometimes, we're not so disciplined,'' Johnson said. "It seems like there's a few guys who don't know their roles on this team. We do a lot of things that don't help us.''
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University of Mount Union community members have donated gently-used items that they no longer need or use for the sale. Items such as clothing, appliances, furniture and other valuables will be available for purchase. Proceeds will benefit the United Way of Greater Stark County and will be used for a new service-learning program at Mount Union. Remaining items will be donated to local non-profit agencies.
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"Capture the Lion" is a team tag game using running, skipping, walking, seeking and capturing skills
P.E. & Health
Title – "Capture the Lion"
By – Jenna Bauberger
Primary Subject – Health / Physical Education
Grade Level – K-5
I. Performance Objectives:
- A. Psychomotor: At the end of the Capture the Lion lesson, students should be able to perform various forms of locomotion including, for example, the skills of running, skipping, and walking. The students will also be able to perform the skills of seeking and capturing while avoiding being tagged. This will be assessed by the Quick Reference Plan Book Key.
- B. Affective: At the end of the lesson, students should gain an appreciation for the social skill of working with others to free captured teammates and a lion and be able to reflect on how they feel about their teamwork and their own performance.
II. Material or Equipment:
- A. Lesson plan
- B. Whistle
- C. 2 Stuffed Lions
- D. Cones
- E. Pinnies
III. Procedure:
- A. Instant Activity:
- In hall announce: When we walk into the gym today, we are going to play a quick game of Freeze Tag. The last person in this line is "It," who we call "The Lion". As soon as you enter the gym, begin moving around to get away from the "The Lion". "The Lion" will run around trying to tag everyone. When you get tagged you must freeze and stop where you are. The only way to free a tagged person is for two people to join hands around the tagged, frozen person and circle them twice. In order to completely free the tagged person, the students circling must make the sound that a lion makes. What sound would that be? (Roar) Remember to FREEZE when you hear the whistle. Does everyone understand?
- B. Attendance/sneaker and safety check/medical notes
- C. Introduction:
- 1. Hook: Did everyone enjoy that game of Freeze Tag? What happened when the lion tagged you? What did you classmates have to do to help free you? Today we are going to play "Capture the Lion". This game is similar to the freeze tag game that we just played, but we will be outside on the big field! We will be focusing on good teamwork and sportsmanship, because that is what is most important in physical education!
- 2. Review: What was the last thing we did before break? (egg hunt) When we were outside doing the egg hunt, what were we trying to do? (finding, teamwork, safety)
- 3. Today: "Capture the Lion"
- 4. Safety:
- a. outside-stay in sight of teachers-no roads
- b. 2 hand touch-no pushing or shoving
- c. be aware of others
- 5. Whistle: When I blow the whistle once: FREEZE and face me
- D. Activity:
- 1. Explain:
- a. break class into 2 equal teams (blue and gold team)
- b. game played on field divided into 2 sides
- c. blue team offense tries to capture gold side's lion and vice versa
- d. blue team defense tries to tag gold team's offense using 2 hand touch and a "Roar", and vice versa
- e. tagged students go into opposite team's "lion's den"
- f. only way to free teammates from den-3 teammates to form ring (holding hands) around captured teammate and walk them back to side while roaring.
- g. first team to capture lion and bring it back to their side wins game
- h. student holding lion can still be tagged and must go to "lions den"
- i. we will play running, then walking, then skipping
- j. REMINDER: don't forget offense and defense!
- 2. Skill:
- a. tagging
- b. avoiding
- c. running, walking, skipping
- d. capturing
- e. teamwork
- E. Challenge:
- 1. running only
- 2. walking only
- 3. skipping only
- F. Transition:
- 1. Give pinnies to each team
- 2. Walk outside in line with team
- 3. Gold to one side, Blue to other
- 4. Begin game on whistle blow
- G. Transition: Whistle upon capturing lion
- H. Closure:
- 1. Great job today! Everyone followed directions
- 2. Shake 2 people's hands from opposing team
- 3. What did we practice today?
- 4. You have shown good teamwork and are ready for Field Day! 5. Thank you for participating. Have a great week!
- I. Assessment/Evaluation:
- 1. Students will be assessed according to the Quick Reference Plan Book Key
- 2. Students who display excellent behavior will be rewarded
V. Evaluation
- 1. Did I follow lesson plan successfully?
- 2. Did I successfully adjust to needs of students?
- 3. Did I address safety issues and other issues as they occurred?
- 4. Did I have control of the class at all times?
- 5. Did the students have fun?
- 6. Did I clearly explain the objectives of the class?
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Spurs, Liverpool to lose out on Sneijder
Wesley Sneijder has opened negotiations with Galatasaray about a move to the Turkish Super Lig, seemingly dashing the hopes of the likes of Tottenham, Liverpool and Manchester United who had been linked with the midfielder.
The Netherlands international has been made an outcast at Inter Milan by manager Andrea Stramaccioni - he has not featured since September and was released on winter break early, with the Nerazzurri still having two games to play.
Sneijder's wife, actress and television personality, Yolanthe Sneijder-Cabau, was recently quoted as saying her husband was set to move away from the Italian city this month - although she later claimed to have been misquoted.
The former Real Madrid and Ajax star has been heavily linked to the Premier League with Tottenham and Liverpool reportedly interested.
But Galatasaray appear to have made headway in their pursuit of the playmaker after posting official notice of developments regarding a transfer on their club website.
"Galatasaray announces it has begun negotiations with the FC Internazionale for the transfer of Wesley Sneijder," the statement said. "The public will be informed of developments."


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G.M. Hill Engineering
Gina Hill founded G.M. Hill Engineering, a structural engineering firm, in 2004 following a stint at design-build firm Haskell. "I had one employee to start — me," she says. Right away she landed jobs designing residential homes during the height of the housing boom. "I probably designed anywhere from 600 to 700 residential projects my first year," she says. "It was crazy." But after the real estate bubble burst, her revenue declined 50%. She bounced back by returning to her roots as a designer of commercial and educational buildings. One recent project was the $35-million renovation of Jacksonville's Lee High School. She now employs nine and has annual revenue of just under $1 million and revenue growth of 22% from 2010 to 2011.


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Trevor <heart> OpenVPN Access Server
Posted in Servers, 1st October 2010 11:24 GMT
Sysadmin blog First there was OpenVPN community edition, an SSL VPN product popular with enterprises, and a model of open source development. The maturity and staying power of OpenVPN led its developers to create an enterprise version, OpenVPN Access Server (OpenVPNAS), which was an attempt to fund both payware and open source versions.
OpenVPNAS is a web interface to OpenVPN's features as well as a service delivery platform to ease deployment of the OpenVPN client. OpenVPNAS charges $5 for a license, for which you get two free client access licences, so you can experiment before deciding if the convenience of the interface is worth the cost.
OpenVPNAS server is available as an installable package for RedHat/CentOS, Fedora and Ubuntu, and as a virtual appliance for either VMWare or Hyper-V. The client software covers Windows NT 5 through 6.1. The server side of OpenVPNAS offers integration with PAM, LDAP and RADIUS, and the ability to use a local DB. It scales from one to hundreds of thousands of concurrent connections, offering active/passive failover support. Active-active, including load balancing, is promised in the future.
You get statistics and logging features, and an API to integrate of third-party apps. There are also client installers for OSX and Linux. New features are being added on a regular basis, but the documentation is thorough.
At its most basic the OpenVPN client can provide a remote user access to network resources using an SSL tunnel. It can also be configured to share resources on the client and server network. It can even serve as a layer 2 Ethernet bridge.
Use the client for dynamic application deployment: it can deploy and execute scripts or applications based on a trigger. There are security features on the client and server sides so that only the right person can download a pre-configured client, which can be restricted in where, when or how it can access the server.
The real prizes are OpenVPNAS GUI and, more specifically, the pre-canned virtual appliance. If you need to set up a VPN server in ten minutes so almost any group of client operating systems can access to your network, this is what you need.
Sadly, the interface at the moment doesn't support what I require: an OpenVPNAS virtual appliance on each site as a dedicated non-layer-2-bridging site-to-site VPN server. It's possible, but not yet fully integrated into the GUI.
It's one of very few things this product doesn't do, and a configuration I could get to work just fine in the community edition. That said, even though I had purchased just 10 client access licenses, OpenVPNAS was quite happy to provide support to get OpenVPNAS to work the way I wanted it to.
Other projects have attempted to simplify OpenVPN configuration (the OpenVPN-admin module for Webmin is an example of the effort put in by OpenVPN GUI projects). But the folks behind OpenVPNAS are out in front in providing an easy-to-use interface to OpenVPN. ®


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Bremen's dream run ends in OT
BREMEN — It was a game neither team deserved to lose, but someone had to.
Bremen's football season came to an end Friday night when quarterback Nate Leeper was stopped a yard shy of the end zone on fourth down in overtime. As Rensselaer Central players rushed the field in celebration, Bremen fans stayed in their seats, wishing they could see just one more play.
No. 1 Rensselaer Central 35. Bremen 28.
"You're the best team I've ever been a part of," Bremen coach Bob Holmes told his players through tears. "You put Bremen football back on the map and there's nothing to be ashamed of. "
In a contest that was like an Ali-Frazier fight, with both combatants answering the other's shots all night, Bremen came up just one punch short.
"We've been in big ball games before and these kids did an outstanding job of taking Rensselaer's best blows and playing toe-to-toe," Holmes said. "All we can ask is for them to give 100 percent, and I guarantee they left it all on the field."
Bremen was hurt down the stretch by the absence of star running back Braxton Miller, who went down with a leg injury early in the fourth quarter.
"You can't coach injuries, and you have to play with what hand you're dealt, and we did an outstanding job," Holmes said. "There's no regrets."
The instant classic was one of the most entertaining games in the state this season, right from the start.


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Not Nearly as Fun as a Real One
Broncos vs 49ers (Pre-Season Game 3)
Ahh the football pre-season…It seems real, but sadly like a lot of things in life… it's not.
This is our second year as Broncos season ticket holders. I skipped both preseason games last year and Krista took the kids each to a game. This year, Krista took Mylee to the Broncos/Bears game and Hunter and I checked out the Broncos/49ers.
Baseball spring training and Football preseason are two totally different entity's.
For me, baseball spring training is relaxing, not too crowded and it's fun to wander around the stadiums and the practice fields exploring. Plus that time of year in Arizona the weather is perfect.
The football pre-season…Not so much.
Our first visit to Dove Valley was this year on my birthday and I found it sadly unimpressive. I must admit, I've never attending a football preseason workout before so I had nothing to compare it to.
As we heading inside Dove Valley and I got a good look at the joint, I wasn't exactly sure what I was expecting. I guess maybe a little more frill?
Bronco fans were packed inside like sardines on the sidelines of what looked like a high school football field but nobody seemed to mind. It was blistering hot with very little shade unless you were part of the media. The media had nice shade tents set up along the end zone.
Here's a few photos from back on Aug 7.
Champ Baily
It was fun, Mike the Rox Addict was there as well and I'm sure I'll be back but not until the novelty of having Manning as our quarterback dies down just a bit.
Anyways, back to Sports Authority Field.
I was shocked that I stumbled across free parking and it was only 4 1/2 blocks from the Broncos stadium…Hell Yeah!!
Tailgating was in full swing, but on a toned down level compared to any regular season game. My mission today was to spend some quality time with my boy, watch some football and practice my photo taking skills so I'm ready to rock on Sept 9th vs the Steelers.(Broncos first regular season game).
So lets roll with a picture show.
Dudes feet were real close to those spot lights.
Go Prater!!
Matthew Willis.
Manning looking for Demaryius Thomas.
Champ ain't lett'n go.
Decker just before his TD catch, the football is right next to the horse's ass. Manning played for less than a quarter and had the Broncos up 17-10.
Caleb Hanie scrambling for the ball.
Broncos led 24-10 at the half. I felt like Manning and most the starters looked pretty good.
That soon changed. Because it's pre-season I'll spare you the details and make a long story short.
Final Score
49ers 29…Broncos 24
I'm "D" the Ranter and one thing is for sure, pre-season games may be a joke but the Rant is serious business this Broncos Season.
Go Broncos…"D"


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Guest Author - Allan Harris
Some jobs demand your creativity, others just demand that you show up.
So how do you keep your creative juices flowing when you dont feel like it?
What do you do when you need new song lyrics NOW? Or you have to quickly score part of a movie or a game? What if you need to finish an article on marketing yourself for a two oclock newspaper or magazine deadline?
The secret is this: just show up, no matter what!
Give yourself the conditions you need to start.
When you want your car to take you somewhere, you
- Put gas in your fuel tank.
- Start the engine.
- Keep it running.
And it takes you where you want to go.
But thats mechanical, you say. Step one, two and three.
The creative process is similar.
Gas in your tank allows your car to run. Similarly, you can set up conditions to allow your creative juices to flow. If youre thinking
- I cant do this, because I dont feel like it.
- because Im not feeling inspired.
- because the well has run dry. Etc
Clear the decks.
Go back to step one and put some gas in your tank. How? Allow yourself the possibility to explore what you DO want! Did I know the exact way this article would come out before I wrote it? No. The fun of writing was to LET the words flow out in a different way than I expected. Thats FUN.
Fill your fuel tank by changing your attitude from I cant to I dont know if I can or not, to maybe I can, to Ill just explore no matter what I feel like, and maybe it will even be fun.
Step two start your engine. Take some action steps. You dont have to go to the front of your car, raise the hood and connect wires for it to start. All you have to do is put a small key into a slot and turn it. Do the same thing creatively. Take a tiny action step.
If youre writing a tune, give yourself permission to be silly, just to see what will happen. Fool around with a series of chords any chords. Put one in front of the other. Change them around. Add a new one. Pretend youre a kid with a new set of blocks and you can assemble them any way you like.
Writing lyrics? Put some on paper. Make a dumb rhyme. Replace some words with others. Move them around. Make silly associations.
For step two, instead of working at it, play at it. The more you play, the more ideas will come to you. If your engine has been inactive for a while, you may have to push the starter a few times. No matter, because youre priming your pump, until it becomes easier and easier.
Step three: keep your car running till you get where you want to go. Creatively, just keep doing what youre doing. If your brain says I cant, say thank you for sharing, and then keep on keepin on. If your brain says: Im too tired, thank it for sharing again, and keep going.
After a short time, your brain will get the idea that youve started your car and you want it to carry you to your destination. You just put the key in the ignition, turn it, and it responds. You can get to the same point creatively.
A friend of mine was a professional writer, but got out of practice. He needed to write a series of articles to boost his business, but he had a classic case of the I cants. The first week of trying to write was agony, because he was stretching muscles he hadnt used for a long time.
It took him a couple weeks till he was regularly writing again, till it started to flow. Then it felt great! And he was ecstatic.
How do I know this process works? Because when you have a production company, you have to produce on demand. Did it work? Sure. For a few hundred projects.
So put some gas in your tank. Start your engine, and keep it running. It will take you where you want to go.
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remotehost rfc931 authuser [date] "request" status bytes
This module furthermore supports the use of an error log file to record internal server errors. The error log format is more ad hoc than Common Logfile Format, but conforms to the following syntax:
[date] access to path failed for remotehost, reason: reason
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Module: mod_log(3)
ErrorLog defines the
filename of the error log
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relative to the ServerRoot, for example:
ErrorLog logs/error_log_8080
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TransferLog defines the
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Video: First Spring Practice
Helmet numbers are the bright yellow now, and looks like the grey facemasks are here to stay.
Is not a safe assumption.
As was discussed here:
"The gray facemasks were the practice set all year, and the helmets won't be reconditioned until after spring practice anyway, so they'll be using whatever is on hand. Which means gray facemasks and numbers. "
Point taken.
Did the practice helmets always have hi-liter colored numbers on them? I thought the old helmets had the oldschool maize numbers. The sugar bowl helmets definitely had the oldschool maize, so if these are the same (which they might be, since they have the BCS stickers), then the numbers at least have definitely been redone since then.
a couple snaps weren't right on the mark. Definetly something to keep an eye on.
With a new center. Forgive me if I'm not yet worried.
It's the first day of practice, obviously it's not gonna be perfect so don't read too much into that. Now if it continues then yea but come on they haven't played in nearly 3 months.
Commence over-analyzation
Not to be a downer or anything.
Not enough data, so I make big.
One data point ... let's extrapolate!
- We're doomed! or ...
- 12-0, baby!
My work is done.
And that turned out to be an 11-2 season that ended by winning the Sugar Bowl so I'm ok with it.
First practice video.......... and we have a discussion about helmet stickers? Let's talk about the tight spirals Denard was actually throwing or something pertinent to performance come September 1st.
Spring practice is always such a tease, but I'll take it.
Watched the whole vid with glee. What is it about that winged helmet that makes me smile and makes everything seem alright with the world?
also the colors are pretty cool....
you are quite astute
* With the weather, it really _will_ be Spring practice for at least a few days.
* I agree with the above poster that Denard's throws looked pretty good.
* Is it just me, or is Gardner still shot-putting the ball a little bit? I saw only a single throw.
On an underneath route like that, a little shotput-ish motion isn't too bad. the jury remains out until we see a full throw.
I thought that video would serve as a welcome relief from the months of not seeing any live football. I was wrong. Like a smoker lighting his first cigarette in a long time, it did nothing but awaken the inner beast who demands MOAR FOOTBALL.
Damn you, MGoBlue.com. Damn you.
Mmm... Cigarettes...
Wait, what was your point?
Spring football signals the return of Doug Karsch height jokes.
Awesome...took only 12 seconds for us to get a shot of Hoke working on his Spring pointing.
Here is how old and out of touch I am (I'm 38, married, 2 kids, (I drive a DODGE STRATUS)).
This morning as I usually do on Saturdays at about 7am I'm out for a run and I'm passing through the UM practice field area. The sun is just coming up and there is a fine mist coming off the railroad tracks and coming across the lacrosse field. Of course I start thinking about the first football practice and wondering how it will go. As I head north on State St. I notice lots of people out and about and some house parties. "Huh" I think, "they must be stoked for the first practice cause I only see this on game days."
It wasn't till I got to Ashley's I realized it was St. Patrick's day. A pointless holiday if you aren't Irish, an alcoholic, or if you are burdened by the twin drudgeries of work and family.
St. Patrick's day is fun but it's just an excuse to get drunk. Just like Cinco De Mayo.
you sir, should be a poet or a novelist. The beginning of that middle paragraph sounds like it should be in an English novel.
Upon re-reading my eloquence I realized the lacrosse field is NOT next to the tracks but rather the field hockey field. Field hockey, lacrosse.....I'm an old man and can't tell the difference....
Man it's awesome to see all that...only 168 days till the Season starts
if we have completed all of the penalty requirements from StretchGate and that the team can now use all the normally available practice minutes?
And complete.
missed out that we had completed our penalty requirements.
It's amazing on some folks on here can take a video that last 2.24 of 1st spring practice and make judgment calls-Hilarious some of you. Let them get through the spring and pads and start hitting and then maybe some assumptions can be made. But you know what happens when you assume! Chill Out folks
I've been on here for awhile just not posted-It's apparent there are some non-athletes that post on here regularly that have no clue but have high opinions.
What would spring ball on mgoblog be like without exaggerated overconfidence and insecurity?
The internet (and MGoBlog) is made for over analyzing and jumping to wild conclusions based on limited data
My point was that you must be new here if this surprises you. This literally happens every year during spring.
the fact that those people don't need a whole 2:24 to reach those conclusions!
I guess it takes all kinds.
But U first. It's worth it.
Thank you for the video. It's amazing how good it makes you feel to see the boys of team 133. I can't wait for the second weekend of April. Go Blue.
Like baseball's opening day!
I imagine this is what a shot of heroin feels like..but better
and faster
-Coach Jackson
This is like the last beer in the refrigerator. One and done? No way, I want more!
Go Blue!
After the Spring Game last year we lost 1/5 of the readership to hangings and other forms of suicide because of how ugly it was. And none of them lived to see 11-2.
No matter how bad we look, I will always love watching Michigan men in winged helmets.
Denard threw a spiral!!!! we gon be the big ten champs!
Just hope we get rid of gray facemasks, Bo didn't like them and neither do I.
as long as we win.
Is it just me or when Denard speaks, doesn't the world seem a little more mellow!!!!
Looks like all the weight gain or loss is positive, for the 133rd year in a row!
Why did he say "open practice" instead of "spring game"? I hope he just considers those to be interchangable. If the scrimmage portion is any shorter than last year then they might as well not even have an open day (from a watching football perspective. Getting money for Mott's is still worth it).
That one Denard throw was worlds better than any throws he made last spring that we were able to see. If he can get the "reading" mentality in the pocket to become second nature the offense will have unprecedented success. Everyone outside Alabama and Ohio State would be dead in the water trying to defend them, and even those guys would have some serious issues between Fitz, Denard taking off on the run, or Denard hitting open intermediate routes consistently.
I have reviewed ALL the data from the first spring practice, and I can categorically say that the following is absolutely true about team 133:
Ricky Barnum will have snapped at least one ball during practice.
Jordan Kovacs will have been interviewed at least once.
Vincent Smith will still be very small and very jacked.
All hail my awesome powers of data analysis!
football could not have started at a better time...great to see