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On or alongside? Obviously nobody would go for any free service that inserts ads INTO their business documents, but I think most people aren't especially bothered by the idea of having automated advertisements sitting next to what they're doing. It's never once bothered me in Gmail, and I honestly don't even know if they're present in GDocs. Neither is Sun's product of course, but Google seems to be doing quite well by, at it's core, providing free products to people.
Something tells me that I'd find it significantly more distracting in OpenOffice, but that's probably more due to its interface being more than cluttered enough already. I'm sure part of it is that we're used to seeing ads in a browser window but nowhere else; I think the bigger issue is that giant stupid flashing banners that some people try using to monetize their freeware is hugely distracting to the point where it makes the product harder to use. OO is a respectable piece of competition for MSOffice for 99% of users, but after having been spoiled by the interface in Apple's $80 iWork08 suite, OO is never something I'd pay for given its paid competition. If they could revamp it with a clean interface and wanted to put a narrow strip of text ads at the top for unpaid users, I suppose that's an option.
It's a bad position to be in - right now, OpenOffice is just burning money, it's not easily monetized through advertising (probably ineffective, lower acceptance, too small of an audience), and it probably wouldn't stand a chance of competing as paid software. Even if it was $10 at Best Buy and still free for download (identical versions, you're paying for the CD and distribution basically), people are so tuned into "Microsoft(R) Office[TM]" as their office suite that it would just get ignored in stores.
MySQL at least seems to have a business model behind it, and one that's at least not losing money even if it's not immensely profitable (I have no idea what the numbers look like, but it can't be bringing in a ton or else they wouldn't be having these issues).
I think most people aren't especially bothered by the idea of having automated advertisements sitting next to what they're doing.
Except when you have a mobile dial-up, and you get 3 Gb a month. Then, anything that tries to download anything I didn't tell it to gets deleted, fast. Like MSN Messenger.
Strip away the add revenues from Google search and how much is left? When consumer sales hit bottom what happens to Google?
Sorry, that isn't being bold. Taking a cattle prod to Microsoft isn't bravery, more like suicide. And preloading OO.o is exactly that, you would be directly threatening their biggest cash cow. Do it and you will find yourself buying your OWM copies of Windows from Ingram Micro at rack rate, which is intended to be a price to kill any OEM doing more than a couple hundred units a month. If you can't ne
This is a worthwhile project -- without it, the Linux desktop basically ceases to exist (sorry KOffice fans, it's a great project, but it isn't even close to OpenOffice in terms of being usable as a true MS Office replacement).
I'm not sure throwing more man hours at OpenOffice is really the solution. In my opinion, Microsoft Office is at its core poorly designed, and poorly executed. OOo strives to be an MS Office replacement, but even if it manages to do everything MS Office does better and faster, it will still be mediocre.
This is a little off topic, but what I think we really need is an open standard for office program integration so that one group can make a spreadsheet, another can make a wordprocessor, and you can be guar
Yeah, but since OO is open source, why would anybody download the version with adds? I mean they're going to have to make some huge improvements on the "ad-supported" version to make it better than the open source version, and there's nothing to stop the open source version from catching up in a couple months anyway.
I don't get it.
Certainly not a smart move with Novell doing their repackage with Go-oo, and IBM basing Lotus off an earlier version. I can just see the users flocking in droves to either of those two suites now. This is Novell's chance to basically steal OpenOffice.org right out of Sun's hands. I'm not sure if Novell would handle it well, but they can hardly do worse than Sun, from what I've heard about their management of OO.o.
...but they can hardly do worse than Sun, from what I've heard about their management of OO.o.
Sun's management of both OpenOffice [oooforum.org] and Java [java.net] is lousy. They don't listen to their users -- the Java bug-tracking and voting system is bogus, and OpenOffice is "primitive".
Read the threads linked to above to get an idea of Sun's utter cluelessness.
Somewhere along the line the engineers making cool things were replaced by "Process Black-Belts" who spend all their time talking about "six sigma" and making engineers fill out reams of paperwork to make the smallest change to an existing product, never-mind innovating on something new and cool that the market might want.
Well now Google is the one in the industry making cool things and Sun is competing against IBM with its products. IBM doesn't waste time with Six-Sigma process people. They focus on the customer and build what the customer wants. When you're competing against IBM the problem is that your customers realize that IBM is most likely still going to be here in 20 years and your company most likely is not.
Sun could reverse this process by starting to make cool things again and trusting that if they build it the market will come. I don't really see that happening, though. They'll probably fire all their engineers and keep all their process people, which is exactly the reverse of what they should be doing.
ZFS, dtrace, zones, Solaris Cluster, xen, java, and MySQL aren't "cool things?"
Sun is one of the biggest open source companies around even if their OS isn't the most popular. I know if it wasn't for SXCE and OpenSolaris I wouldn't be using Sun products at all, it's great to have the free versions to learn on and you can just add a support contract later if you want it.
> I _think_ they meant assisting companies that was to brand the office product, so if say
> Dell wanted to pre-load an office suite, they could install a Dell branded Star-Office or OOo.
They would certainly do that, but as I just noted in a post above, there will be no OEM preloading of OO.o because Microsoft would destroy anyone who attacked it in such a direct way. Simply forcing them to buy Windows at the retail OEM rates would be more than enough to do it and 100% legal. So that's off the table.
there is no way -- I mean NO WAY -- that I will accept advertising on my business documents.
That is not even close to what Schwartz is planning. In his blog he compares how Sun gets paid for the optional bundling of the Google Search Bar with the Java installer. He then goes on to say that he plans on selling that kind of 'space' to other companies. He makes the point that Sun distributed 60 million java runtimes last MONTH - that is a lot of eyeballs to advertise to and that's what he as apparently monetized even further with microsoft in addition to or instead of google.
As for similar bundling with OpenOffice, he's talking about including links (not just URLs) to services, similar to the Google searchbar - e.g. fax services, place kinkos for bulk printing, sign printing, cloud-based document storage, and database hosting, etc. It is the same thing we are used to with free software, the software is one a time cost so make it free once its paid for, but the individual, optional but useful services around the software have ongoing costs so use them as a source of income.
You won't have to use any of the "cobranded" services, but if you want to, Sun will make it really, really easy for you to do so, and in return they get a cut of whatever you spend in the services.
Is that the Google Search Bar which installed by default when I installed a minor update to the JRE? Cocksuckers didn't even ask me, if I used the "Recommended Settings" - it just suddenly appeared.
Fucking terrible behaviour.
I totally agree.
Koffice wont have that advertisement noise.
Advertisements. On your documents. Your important documents..
Do you think *anyone* would be open to this? Sun's board above all?
"Let's really screw ourselves and any chance we have to have OOo float.. How about selling ad space on people's documents! It works like the specialized coupon printers at the Grocers'!"
"If Writer detects a keyword, 'overdue', for example, it sticks an ad for Accenture in the footer!"
"Capital Idea!"
Take a breath.. Imagine a branded OpenOffice, as in the c
I don't think they see it as much as giving stuff away as potentially getting developers for free.
They need further development, they can't afford it right now, open source code offers a solution.
They earn their money on supported versions, hardware and also support of running the systems I assume.
Giving stuff away happens when things are "Free" as in beer.
Making things available happens when things are "Free" as in Freedom.
Java has been free like beer for ages. Coincidentally, SUNW/JAVA stock values were higher than they are today.
Free stuff attracts people. Microsoft wins developer mindshare with free or ridiculously low-cost software development tools. College students learn what they can afford to learn.
Free stuff up front with paid support to be delivered in the future is the way things seem
They're a systems integration company. They don't need to sell "invented here" to be profitable.
Sun will sell you whatever you want. Invented by Sun, or not.
They sell solutions, not widgets.
Sun mostly sells hardware, and adds anything whatsoever the customer needs to build a solution. This includes software, obviously, but also cisco gear, racks, UPSs and the like.
--dave (biased, you understand) c-b
Their FY2008 services revenue was $5.26B, storage revenue was $2.35B, and their computer systems revenue was $6.26B.
While the services revenue is up 3% from FY 2007, storage revenue is only up 1.6%, and computer systems revenue is down about 3%.
Given that 38% of their revenue is derived from services, and that services is their fastest growing growth sector, what makes you believe that services doesn't provide a revenue stream in practice?
I remember Sun adverts during the dot-com boom days that mocked IBM for having a huge range of stuff, where as Sun sold only one simple stack of stuff- theirs.
I remember Sun adverts during the dot-com boom days that mocked IBM for having a huge range of stuff, where as Sun sold only one simple stack of stuff- theirs.
That was during the dot-com. After the dotBOOM, the only companies that survived are those who sell solutions.
But will that be changing any time soon? We can all see financial problems on the horizon for Sun, yet they have the tech, people, products and customers to become much more like IBM.
Lets hope they don't take good things like open office and java down with them. ( like it sounds they are doing.. )
Advertisements? How stupid can you get.
The Sparc architecture is not significantly better than x86-64 to justify the additional cost and "non-standard" architecture to buyers,
they pretty much stopped doing sparc stuff years ago. their new gig is the T series (t1000 and t2000 series). these are high-cpu (thread) count chips and when you do the equiv of 'show cpu' (so to speak) you get 32, 64 even 256 lines of output on status per 'cpu' (thread) that you can turn on or off (on a running system) or put into pending-standby. you CANNOT do anythin
You do know that the T Series, were actuelly X86_64 cpu until Sun bought it, and changed the instruction set to sparc right?
Personally I think that change, was the biggest mistake that sun have done in recent years.
No matter what you might believe or have read, Linux is not Enterprise quality software.
We are barely there.
Speaking as an Enterprise Linux architect, the tools and stability of Linux distrubutions are not up to snuff. Sun handily beats Linuxes in this area.
ZFS, Jumpstart, FLARs, package management, patching... The list goes on.
Anyone who suggests FUSE as an option needs to get a clue. Selling NAS isn't always an option, or even viable. Kickstart/AutoYaST are OK for what they are, but the systems manage
I'm not a software guy, so maybe I'm missing something. But paying $1 billion for MySQL (less than 1 year ago!) didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Wasn't a lot of the code GPL?
As of yesterday the stock market values the equity at $3 billion. And actually values the company at only $1.6 billion (they have $2.6 billion in cash but also have $1.3 billion in debt).
Maybe a company that throws money around so freely deserves to go out of business. Even in 2008, a billion US dollars is still a *lot* of money.
MySQL's business model was to sell commercial licenses to people who were too legal risk adverse to use it without one.
Sun, thankfully, has a completely different business model.
They sell solutions. If they don't have to pay for licenses for MySQL they can offer solutions that include MySQL for cheaper than if they have to. Does that add up to a billion dollars? No idea.
They also sell "MySQL boxes" - that their engineering group has tuned specifically to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the hardware and give it to the database. Schwartz talks about doubling the performance of MySQL on certain equivalent hardware platforms. Presumably anybody could do that, or they could pay for the MySQL engineering team to do it and get it right. Schwartz is banking on it being more cost effective for customers to rely on the MySQL engineering team to do the optimizations than
whether or not MySQL is more or less secure than Postgres is another matter altogether
Now that statement puzzles me.
If your systems are designed for maximum security, the database is on a separate server to the application, both servers are firewalled to only allow known-good connections through, the connection between application and database may if necessary be encrypted, the user the application connects to the database as will only have the permissions it needs (and indeed won't even be able to establis
You could have tripwire verify state on both systems and watch if there are any intrusions.
If there is, you sever the link between app and db. That's why I like using a brouter. Hackers see no firewall nor can they access it.
Actually the thing they sold(and still do sell) is a more "up to date" MySQL(including security fixes).
Wouldn't that be a breach of the GPL? If they are distributing a product based on GPL code but not distributing the source with it...
As far as I remember, the GPL can't be "time shifted" like that.
Well, I guess like everything else in business, things are interpreted in units of "time-to-sue".
They own all the copyright to the MySql code and as such they can do what they like with it.
The fact that they distribute some of their code under the GPL puts conditions on what *you* can do with it. But they aren't bound by those conditions.
... like everyone seems to be doing these days.
Maybe a company that throws money around so freely deserves to go out of business.
No, they need help from the government, so they can throw YOUR money away! (Sorry, I tend to get cranky after reading "The Economist" these days.)
Maybe this Open Source Strategy will work for Detroit:
"(ring) Hello, President Obama here. Oh, Hi GM. What? You want how many BILLIONS? Get yourself Open Source! Good-Bye! (slam)"
Thx for the comments on MySQL as part of Sun. The MySQL business is growing faster now than before (measured in revenues) and we are the fastest growing major DBMS business in the world. So, although someone could claim I am biased, I think it is fair to say that the acquisition made sense from a pure revenue growth perspective.
Additionally, Sun is selling hardware to MySQL users and customers - servers that provide a performance boost over what people use today.
Thirdly there are synergies between MySQL and
From my perspective (I've used and bought Suns for decades), Sun is heading full tilt down a path towards the cliff edge. What they're doing is 100% wrong.
Their interest in open source is fine, but it's not a good strategy for business profits unless they want to become another RedHat providing Linux services and support --- a role in which they would be coming up from behind very slowly. It's a role for which they're not cut out, because their reputation in the open source world is marginal at best because they've always been half-hearted about it.
Sun needs to stop thinking of open source as a business strategy, because for them it's merely what's referred to as a hygiene factor in social sciences --- it's not a benefit when it's exercised, but it's a severe demerit when it's not exercised. In other words, yes, be fully open with software, but not because it's a source of profits, but because you'll be shunned without it.
For profits, capitalize on what you have: awesome hardware and competent Professional Services. Invest more in your CPU division with its great Niagara processors, so that when Intel is offering 16-core CPUs and talking about 64, you can be offering 256-core and talking about 4096. Take on nVidia and AMD on the SIMD front, so that while they're toying with noddy graphics cards for GPGPU, you can offer 64k SIMD stream processors far more tightly coupled to your host cores.
We've recently entered the Age of Multicore, and you (Sun) have a good reputation in that area, and you know how to build good hardware (nobody has ever marked you down for that). Why not capitalize on your existing skills, resources and reputation in this area, instead of chasing rainbows?
What a piece of crap these things are. There are two big problems:
1. Build quality. They have a small power switch and LED board mounted near the left front that is activated by a pen. Invariably, people press it too hard and destroy the switch, which results in a nonbooting server. But the boards are service parts (they probably are worth 10 or 15 bucks tops) and cannot be purchased in bulk. I mean, i'd be ok with this if we could buy 20 or 50 of them and keep them on hand. They're not so hard to replace. But WTF. I mean, people with little physical strength can render the server inoperable.
The front panels fall off regularly, the optical drive bezels might as well be scotch taped on. Video hardware is chancy and may not work in some cases. I have over 50 of these things so I know whereof I speak, bought in several waves. I mean, if this was Dell i'd understand, their stuff is cheap. But this server is not cheap!
Anyway Sun warranty service is also pretty slow to respond to us, though they do eventually fix the problems, at the cost of devices being out of action for significant stretches of time.
2. Poor integration and poor choices for third party parts. For instance, PXE booting on all four included NICs must execute during bootup. No disabling this is possible. Dell used to do this shit too, but at least Dell was cheap. The x4100 is expensive for an x86 server of its meager specifications.
In addition, the RAID controller is an utter piece of garbage. Most RAID controllers - think Dell PERCs, or HP/Compaq Smart controllers, will treat the disk array as a set of disks that can be transported between servers as a unit, and will be read by the controller as the same unit regardless of the system it is put in. Not so the Sun DPT controller. It apparently stores the RAID config in flash on the card or something, so when you move the disks between systems it basically refuses to recognize the array as a unit. You pretty much have to perform a recovery on the first disk of a RAID 1 set and then reintegrate the second drive, which is a scary prospect when you have data you care about and time is of the essence.
Why DPT of all vendors, anyway? And why did DPT screw the pooch so bad with this one? They have perfectly workable RAID controllers that do not have this flaw. Oh and the controller is dog slow too.
Anyway, they got the contract for a particular large government agency's servers for a particularly large program, so that's why I have the things and they keep getting airdropped on me. I'd like to shitcan them all but I have to make the ones that aren't broken at any given time work until they finally get EOL'd. Hopefully soon.
But yeah, i'll never even look at Sun gear again.
Why is it that stupid people always put the blame on the vendor. There must be a pattern in there...
We have over 50 xfires (4100s, 4200s, 4600s) in production, so I feel an obligation to comment on this drivel.
Sorry, either you're just making up shit here or you're the wrong guy for the job.
Why would you even need a raid controller? ZFS takes care of that for you.
The problem with Sun is that they're WAY behind the curve compared to even IBM in supporting Open Source (remember, IBM spent a huge amount of money porting Linux to run on their "big iron" platforms back in better economic times).
Because IBM has a great reputation as a computer services company nowadays, they can easily offer powerful enterprise-wide computing platforms at reasonable prices--and IBM has much more name recognition than Sun.
It's absolutely clear IBM is contributing tons to Open Source. It's easy to note 'ibm.com' addresses in changelogs for tons of projects.
Generic Linux contributions and the success of Linux is key to them. You sell Linux to x86 users, you suddenly have a nice bridge to Linux on POWER. That seems to have been a pillar of their strategy.
While this is a good thought, and they also derive some recognition as general Linux experts, I'm suprised they haven't more directly capitalized on their investment. I wou
There's one little problem with your suggestion, Morgaine: A huge cashflow and credit crunch is in progress, and companies are NOT choosing to buy big, expensive new servers right now. According to the AP [tinyurl.com],
...[S]ales of its high-end servers... fell 27 percent in the latest quarter to $576 million. That's a staggering shortfall for a division that contributes a quarter of Sun's overall revenue.
"Build it and they will come" is not going to work in the current economic climate.
their reputation in the open source world is marginal at best because they've always been half-hearted about it.
I'm not really agreeing or disagreeing with that but just to provide an alternative opinion
"I think Sun has, well, with this contribution, have contributed more than any other company to the free software community in the form of software. And it shows leadership. It's an example that I hope others will follow." - Richard Stallman
http://www.fsfe.org/en/fellows/ciaran/ciaran_s_free_software_notes/sun_s_choice_of_the_gpl_and_rms_in_the_webcast [fsfe.org]
I quite disagree: open source needs something to run on, and the price-performance of the Niagara is impressive. In the machine room, I'd rather have Sun, IBM or H-P gear than anything built on mas-market PC parts: I hate fixing critical components (;-))
Open source software, on the other hand, is improved by being in a mass market: the price is already as low as you can get, so the effort goes into improving the quality. It's very welcome in my machine room.
Sun's approval rating drops by 15% - 18% today.
"but CEO Jonathan Schwartz contends users will be more inclined to try open-source products such as MySQL, OpenSolaris and Sun's GlassFish application server during a time of economic stress."
So, during a time of economic stress people will just be crawling over themselves to pay for MySQL, OpenSolaris, and GlassFish when the reason they would use those during such a time would be that they are free?
In moving to cut its current workforce by between 15% and 18% today, Sun is trying to stay ahead of a falling knife.
What does it mean for a company to "survive" if it lays off most of its employees? I don't see what the point is.
I've often thought about this notion of a company's lifespan. Where is it written that companies should live forever? They are made up of people with finite lifespans. Companies clearly go through similar "life" phases: enthusiasm of youth, conservatism of middle age, fatigue of
Since OO is FOSS, someone will simply fork the code with all that crap commented out.
Sounds like a new fork of OO is needed, one that is 'ad-free'.
With the stock market crash there are a LOT of companies like this. The problem is that they are burning through their cash so buying them does no good.
I have contributed to OpenOffice.org (testing) since earlier days. I had to switch away from it in January because trying to pass a contract back and forth with someone who uses MS Office resulted in a corrupted layout. (lots of other problems like that in the past, now I don't know).
Let me just say that as much as I have wished well for OpenOffice and Sun, there is no way at all I would use OpenOffice if it had ads in it. Sure they can make money but just don't put advertising in it. I wouldn't use it for
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Danny Wimprine started the night playing from behind.
About 40,000 passing yards, in fact, shy of Montreal quarterback Anthony Calvillo's all-time CFL career passing mark.
That stark statistic reveals all you need to know about the Alouettes' 32-11 win over the Calgary Stampeders last night at McMahon Stadium.
Only a perfect game from everyone wearing Stamps jerseys, including Wimprine, could have turned this one into a Calgary win.
Now it's clear the 7-7 Stampeders need to fast-track No. 1 pivot Henry Burris back for the next start, an Oct. 14 visit by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
Burris, his left hand in a cast since tearing ligaments Sept. 9 in Edmonton, isn't scheduled to have the heavy club cut off for another three weeks but he'll need to play despite the damaged digit on his non-throwing hand.
"I hope to," said Burris, who dressed as an emergency third-stringer and will see a specialist tomorrow for a progress report.
"You don't want to come back too early to sacrifice one game for the rest of the season ... I've got two weeks now until we play Hamilton, so each and every day it feels more comfortable. It's getting stronger."
Give the 24-year-old Wimprine 'A' for effort in his first pro start but the University of Memphis product -- No. 3 on the depth chart behind Burris and Jason Gesser just three weeks ago -- didn't take a bite out of Calvillo's career passing edge with just 35 first-half passing yards compared to Calvillo's 142.
Wimprine said he was pressing too much.
"I didn't do well," said Wimprine, who fumbled the ball at his own 30 on just the second snap of the game.
"After having such a rough start and a bad night, I'm pretty sure I second-guessed a few things. I was trying to get things going and couldn't really get any momentum and it was kind of a snowball effect. It didn't really go very well."
Wimprine's two first-half interceptions and a couple of drops by Ken-Yon Rambo and MarTay Jenkins compounded the pivot's problems, although Nik Lewis hauled in a nine-yard TD in the early going.
The Alouettes pass rush also applied consistent pressure while the Montreal secondary provided solid coverage, Stamps head coach Tom Higgins conceded.
"We would have liked for him to come out and to have executed at a higher level," Higgins said.
He added it's "too early to say," whether Burris will return for the next start.
Wimprine gave way to backup Josh Harris midway through the fourth quarter after completing just seven of 20 passes for
92 yards, one touchdown and three interceptions.
Harris, who arrived in camp just two weeks ago, completed five of nine passes for 43 yards while also scrambling for another 38 yards on two carries.
Despite the efforts of the young fill-in QBs, Stampeders fans have to be hoping they see neither again this season, opting instead for Burris's return.
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DETROIT — He gets it. Max Scherzer gets it.
The Detroit Tigers right-hander may be in the midst of his best season, statistically speaking, earning him plaudits and praise from every corner of the baseball world, and deservedly so.
"He's at the top of his game," Tigers manager Jim Leyland has said.
Scherzer may be doing something, in terms of wins and losses, that's only been done three in the last 50 seasons, drawing comparisons to iconic pitchers that tickle his fancy, and stroke his ego.
He's already been written in for the American League's starting gig in the All-Star Game, in some quarters, and the AL Cy Young after that.
"There's a reason why he's 12-0 — he's really good," Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon told reporters, after Scherzer remained unbeaten with the Tigers' 6-3 win Friday night.
When you come right down to it, though, Scherzer knows that he cannot take sole credit — as much as people would like to give it to him — for his historic 12-0 start to this season. He knows he's not here without a ton of offensive support and a little luck, to go along with very good, very solid, very consistent pitching on his part.
That's why he's been so unerringly consistent in his message after each and every successive win, repetitively responding to questions with essentially the same answer, one that's a large part humble, and an equally large part realistic.
"It's nice to be (insert current win total here)-and-0. I'm not going to lie," is the essence of what he's said each and every time.
You think I'm kidding, exaggerating for effect? Not even a little bit.
Here's proof:
At 7-0 ... "If I were 0-7 but pitching well and giving the team a chance to win, I'd still be proud of that," he said then.
At 8-0 ... "You can have as much success in the league but that's all it comes down to, your next start," Scherzer said that day.
At 9-0 ... "It's nice. Don't get me wrong — I love being 9-0 — but it's more important that we won," he said afterward.
At 10-0 ... "It's special to be 10-0," Scherzer said later. "But at the end of the day, I don't measure my success on being 10-0. I measure my success on everything else I do on the mound."
At 11-0 ... "(What does it mean) to me personally? Not much," he said at the time. "To be 11-0 means that everybody else around me has done their job."
And then Friday night, when he went to 12-0:
"All I thought about is winning today. My personal record is more a reflection of the team," Scherzer told reporters. "I don't get caught up in the win-loss record, because it's kind of fluky. (Thursday), Doug (Fister) goes seven innings, one run and gets a no-decision. I go six and (give up) three and get a win. So that's why it's a fluky stat."
Therein lies Scherzer's reluctance to claim more than his share of the credit for this.
He knows that he gets an ungodly amount of run support — more than any other pitcher in the American League, at 6.31 runs per start — meaning that the offense should get a large share of the credit for what's seen as his "personal" success.
Does he deserve some credit, maybe even the lion's share? Yes. Absolutely.
Does he deserve all of it? No.
And that's been his point for nearly three months.
You cannot judge a pitcher solely on their win-loss record, as dazzling as it may be.
If you want to come along and say that Scherzer deserves mention among the game's best because of his WHIP or strikeout-per-nine inning rate or strikeout-to-walk rate or his batting average against, you'd probably be more accurate.
He's top three in the AL in all of the above.
Wins and losses are more a product of a good offense, good timing AND good pitching. All together.
Yes, it shows a pitcher who's consistently taken his team deep into starts, and turned games over to the bullpen with his team on top. That's not all it shows, though.
"It just also shows how good of an offense we have. I haven't had some of the best times and they've picked me up," Scherzer said. "The win-loss record is a fluky stat at times, especially when you're on a good offensive team like I am. But at the end of the day, I judge myself not necessarily on record but how I pitch. Right now I'm pitching well, based on other things besides win-loss record."
How deceiving can it be?
Scherzer is 12-0 with a 3.10 ERA, which ranks 28th-best in baseball.
Kansas City's new ace, James Shields, has a 2.99 ERA, but is just 3-6.
Washington's phenom, Stephen Strasburg, has an ERA a full half a run better than Scherzer's — at 2.41 — yet has eight fewer wins and six more losses.
Why is that significant? Strasburg is dead last in the majors, among qualifying starting pitchers, ranking 98th in run support at 2.61. Shields is 59th at 3.94.
"You're not 11-0 unless you're pitching good. I'm sure you've had some games in there where he caught a break where we've scored at the right time," Leyland said less than a week ago. "(He's) probably caught a couple breaks but we've also done very well obviously."
How about a better example: Cole Hamels of the Phillies is living through the opposite extreme as Scherzer, as far as success, approaching records for losses by the end of June that predate World War II.
Hamels is 2-11 on the season, thanks to run support of 3.18 that ranks 87th in baseball — and is about half what Scherzer gets.
The tough-luck Phillies starter has recorded 11 quality starts, just one fewer than Scherzer has, and has allowed just two more home runs than Scherzer's 11, which rank as the most on the Tigers. (For reference, Scherzer has allowed as many homers as Justin Verlander and Doug Fister combined.) Hamels has a MLB-worst six losses in quality starts. Scherzer, obviously, has zero. (Anibal Sanchez and Fister have three each, Verlander two, Rick Porcello one).
Scherzer is in a three-way tie for the most "cheap wins" in baseball, picking up two wins in games in which he did not record a quality start.
"Trust me — when you're winning games, they're scoring 6-7 runs for you and you're 10-0 with a 3.00 ERA, you're on top of the world," Hamels was quoted by ESPN's Jerry Crasnick. "You don't have to think much; you just go out and react. When players have to get through the grind, that's when you can tell they're good. That's what I'm trying to do."
That's much the same sentiment as the one espoused by Verlander, who's gone through his own struggles this year, just a season and a half after being lauded for an historic campaign in many of the same ways as Scherzer is now.
"Funny game. That's why there's hot and cold streaks in sports. That's the way it is. When you're hot, you try to extend it as long as you can, stay in that rhythm. When you're not, you try to get it out, get back to where you're supposed to be, as quick as possible," Verlander said after his last start.
"It's not easy. When it's going right it is easy. When it's going wrong, it seems like everything kind of goes wrong."
Everything's going right for Scherzer right now. No question about that.
He's striking people out at the nearly the same voracious rate he did a year ago.
He's keeping people off the basepaths, cutting down on his walks and hits allowed.
He's keeping his delivery in a consistent, repeatable arm slot, something he'd struggled with on a game-to-game basis throughout the early portion of his career. Now, he may be making those tweaks on an inning-by-inning basis. The inconsistent, on-again, off-again "Mad Max" persona hasn't shown up this season, at all.
He's not overthinking things, either, something that the cerebral Scherzer (to this day one of only two big-league athletes I've ever heard discussing the Big Bang theory on a game day) had been known to do.
"He's a really bright guy, in a lot of areas. A very smart kid," Leyland said. "I think he's fine tuned it to where he's not overloading the computer."
And ... he's getting a boatload of help from his offense.
Just look at Friday night. Miguel Cabrera hit two monster home runs, trumped only in magnitude of the blast from Prince Fielder that hit the catwalk on the roof of Tropicana Field in Tampa.
"I don't know if Miggy was 4-for-4 or 5-for-5, but it was a lot-for-a lot," Scherzer told reporters. "You got to see first-hand today the best player in the game hitting two home runs on three pitches. ... It's the offense that set me up."
Does he love that love from the bats? "Oh, my gosh, yes," he laughed last week.
Max gets it. He gets it's not just him.
He gets that he's doing his job very, very well, but he's winning because everyone's doing their jobs well when he's on the mound.
As for the All-Star Game start?
I have a feeling Max "gets" that, too.
He deserves it — for all the right reasons, in addition to his 12-0 record.
Matthew B. Mowery covers the Tigers for Digital First Media. Read his "Out of Left Field" blog at opoutofleftfield.blogspot.com.
AL Ranks:
Where Max Scherzer ranks among American League pitchers, entering Saturday's games.
Run support....6.31...........1st
WHIP = walks + hits per inning pitched
H/9 = hits per nine innings pitched
K/9 = strikeouts per nine innings pitched K/BB = strikeout-to-walk ratio WAR/P = wins above replacement for pitchers (all stats from BaseballReference.com, ESPN)
Most wins to start a season without a loss, since 1919 (courtesy STATS, LLC)
Season Player Start
1959 Roy Face, PIT 17-0
1937 Johnny Allen, CLE 15-0
1969 Dave McNally, BAL 15-0
1986 Roger Clemens, BOS 14-0
1956 Brooks Lawrence, CIN 13-0
1978 Ron Guidry, NYY 13-0
2013 Max Scherzer, DET 12-0
1929 Tom Zachary, NYY 12-0
1939 Atley Donald, NYY 12-0
1941 Elmer Riddle, CIN 11-0
1973 Roger Moret, BOS 11-0
1985 Andy Hawkins, SD 11-0
1985 Dennis Lamp, TOR 11-0
1997 Roger Clemens, TOR 11-0


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Hi Everyone,
First off I"m NOT a coder and am not good at pretending to be. I appreciate any help someone could give me.
I am trying to add recent threads from smf to my webpage. I've followed the directions (as best I could) from various boards and had no luck. Probably because I'm not doing it correctly.
Here is my website. Notice the red block about halfway down the page. That is the error I'm getting. http://www.3d-mafia.com/master_template.shtml [nofollow]
I've inserted the code for shtml type sites:
This is what I have above the head:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "hxxp:www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd [nonactive]">
<?php require("/path/to/forum/SSI.php"); ?>
<html xmlns="hxxp:www.w3.org/1999/xhtml [nonactive]">
This is what I have in the box called "Recent Forum Posts":
<!--#include virtual="./SSI.php?ssi_function=recentPosts" -->
Can someone tell me what I'm missing?
If you have SSI.php included in regular PHP at the top of the page, you don't need to use the SHTML declaration.
You should be able to just replace that <!--#include --> with:
--- Code: ---<?php ssi_recentPosts(); ?>
--- End code ---
OK...this is really strange. I did as you said and saved the file. When I FTP'ed it up to the server I got nothing. I looked at the source behind the page I had just uploaded and it didn't have any of the code in the page. I double checked the page to make sure it was saved in Dreamweaver and it was. I then deleted and uploaded again and still nothing. I'm going to upload the file here. Can someone take a look at it at tell me what I'm doing wrong please.
Thanks in advance.
That's a shtml page and unless you've got it set to parse php, what you have won't work.
Remove that php include statement at the top. Then where you want the recent posts to appear, remove the php line there and add the following:
<!--#include virtual="forum/SSI.php?ssi_function=recentPosts" -->
If this page isn't at the root of your site , then you'll need to change the path to SSI.php
Thanks so very much for the solution. It is working great. I'm not a programmer and truly don't pretend to be very well. It's great people like you that are helping broaden my knowledge. I appreciate your help.
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March 4, 2006
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The UC Santa Barbara women's tennis team cruised past visiting UC Davis by a final count of 7-0 Saturday at the UCSB Tennis Stadium. The Gauchos won all three doubles matches before winning six in singles, all in straight sets.
With the victory, the Gauchos improve to 8-5 in dual meet action, while the Aggies dropped to 1-8.
In doubles, Andrea Pintar and Charlotte Scatliffe defeated Robin Guier and Ally Muller, 8-4, at no. 1. UCSB's Chelsea Glynn and Marielle Gruenig, at no. 2, defeated Nancy Mok and Audrey Wingo, 8-0. At no. 3, it was Leslie Damion and Mio Fukushima claiming an 8-2 victory over Jessica Harris and Jenna Kappel.
Gruenig, Glynn, Pintar, Scatliffe, Damion and Fukushima all posted victories in no. 1-6 singles, respectively.
In three exhibition singles matches that did not count in the results of the match, UC Davis won two matches. Kaitlin Callan defeated Kristen Wilson, 8-5. Brittany Kausen defeated UCD's Emma Shapiro, 8-4, and Harris posted an 8-4 victory over Juliette Mutzke.
UCSB returns to action Sunday, March 5 at 11:00 a.m. when they welcome Cal State Northridge.
UC Santa Barbara 7, UC Davis 0
Singles 1. Marielle Gruenig (UCSB) def. Robin Guier (UCD), 6-3, 6-0. 2. Chelsea Glynn (UCSB) def. Ally Muller (UCD), 6-2, 6-4. 3. Andrea Pintar (UCSB) def. Audrey Wingo (UCD), 6-0, 6-0. 4. Charlotte Scatliffe (UCSB) def. Jenna Kappel (UCD), 6-0, 6-2. 5. Leslie Damion (UCSB) def. Nancy Mok (UCD), 6-4, 6-2. 6. Mio Fukushima (UCSB) def. Yuka Otaka (UCD), 6-2, 6-2.
Doubles 1. Pintar/Scatliffe (UCSB) def. Guier/Muller (UCD), 8-4. 2. Glynn/Gruenig (UCSB) def. Mok/Wingo (UCD), 8-0. 3. Damion/Fukushima (UCSB) def. Jessica Harris /Kappel (UCD), 8-2.


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Dozens of black alumni from the 1960s and 70s were at FSU to share the past and celebrate the future.
In the heart of FSU's campus a bronze statue stands strong to honor FSU's first African American students who integrated the university more than 40 years ago.
Black alumni traveled from hundreds of miles away to reflect on the first days of integration. Carmena Bostic was just one of three African American students in 1963.
The integration statue depicts the first African American student, the first athlete and first homecoming queen, Ms. Doby Flowers.
In a procession to the stage, alumni say its wonderful to know their efforts and struggles will be forever remembered.
Since the 1960s, FSU has gone from a student body of one African American to more than 4,500. Not including HBCU's, the university ranks 3rd nationwide in awarding bachelor degrees to African Americans.


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Texas, along with 37 other states and the District of Columbia, resolved a lengthy investigation into Google's collection of personal information from unsecured wireless routers at private residences and businesses.
Under the agreement, Google must pay $7 million to the states involved in the investigation. They are also required to destroy all the data that was collected.
According to Greg Abbott, the Attorney General of Texas, the information included e-mail and search histories.
"For two years, Google violated Texans' privacy rights and secretly collected personal information from their wireless routers," said Abbott. "Today's agreement requires Google to destroy any personal data that was improperly collected and imposes important new privacy protections that govern the Street View program going forward."
Google initially denied that its Street View vehicles were retrieving the information, but later admitted that it had "mistakenly" engaged in the practice.
The data collection was tied to the Street View project, which seeks to enhance the Google Maps platform by sending out vehicles across the nation to photograph residences, businesses and other improvements in neighborhoods.
According to the investigation, while the properties were being photographed, the Street View vehicles were also outfitted with special devices to scan and store data from wireless networks that were not password protected.
Google initially maintained that no emails, web search histories or other personal information was collected by the vehicles, and that the collected information was limited to data that identified the existence and location of a wireless network.
However, the State's investigation showed that Google also collected data that was transmitted by these wireless networks from 2010 to 2012.
In addition to the $7 million fine and destruction of data, Google must also notify users and obtain consent before collecting additional data, implement an employee training program highlighting network users' privacy and develop a public service campaign to educate network users about how to better secure their personal information while using wireless networks.
If you have a wireless network in your home, the attorney general recommends you secure the network with a password and activate encryption features.
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The Bears, remember them? It seems like ages ago since that Monday night pasting by the Packers. In reality it was only two weeks ago and the Bears and their fans have had the bye week to either dwell on it or forget about it.
This week it's the Lions, from their new home in downtown Motown with their new quarterback, rookie Joey Harrington. Meanwhile the Bears, looking to avoid their fourth straight loss, are starting Chris Chandler, who turned 38 last week...
As usual we welcome you to this play-by-play feature. And as always, don't forget to drop us a line.
Football is coming up...
First quarter
It's quite possibly colder in this office than it is outside. I apologize in advance for any typos but I'm wearing mittens.
The Bears can't win; they lose the toss. Paul Edinger kicks to Desmond Howard and the Lions start at their own 22. ... Harrington's first pass hits Bears linebacker Rosevelt Colvin right in the hands, but Colvin drops it. ... Running back James Stewart runs through a huge hole for 14 yards; Stewart runs again on second down but is caught from behind by Bryan Robinson for no gain. ... Harrington throws to Larry Foster for a gain of 17. The Bears are called for illegal contact. Detroit declines and the Lions are in business. ... For the love of God, there's a sack by the Bears. Of course it's not by a down lineman but by linebacker Mike Caldwell, who came untouched on a blitz. ... Stewart gains that back with a 9-yard run across midfield. ... Third and 10, Harrington avoids the blitz and throws to rookie tight end John Owens--not to be confused with the John Owens, who is stopped short. ... The Lions John Hanson trots on to try a 55-yard field goal that falls short.
I see on the wire that cornerback R.W. McQuarters is not playing. Sorry for not telling you that sooner. I'm rusty after the bye week.
Chris Chandler's first play as a Bear is a play-action dump to tight end John Davis, who weaves for 10 yards and a first down. ... Anthony Thomas runs up the middle for maybe a yard and then catches a short pass from Chandler for about 4. ... Chandler pulls a John Elway with the ol' hard count cadence move and draws the Lions offsides. Cleary a veteran move. Third and short and Leon Johnson busts through the line for a first down. ... More play action and Chandler has all day and hits Dez White at the 2. White made a great play keeping his feet in. Of course, the Lions are challenging the call. These eyes say he's in bounds. OK, this is hard to explain but the replay shows part of a camera on the sideline that looks like it's part of White's foot and it's right on the line. It's really the tiny light atop the hand-held camera. The refs overturn the call. I don't know what to say. Is that guy down there from NFL films? Get Steve Sabol on the horn. ... After that the Bears return to their old form and run the dreaded wide-receiver screen that nets nada. And to make matters worse they're called for holding. ... Now the refs are huddling up again. Let's go, people. Something about only one set of headphones are working. Huh? This is football? ... Back to the game, second and 20 and Chandler looks for White down the right sideline again but it's overthrown. ... On third down, Chandler scrambles and scrambles and scrambles and throws it away. Bears punt.
That replay reversal was ... let's just say, not good.
Stewart runs up the middle through another huge hole. But then is stuffed for a 10-yard loss on second down trying to run outside. ... Harrington scrambles and runs it himself and is knocked out of bounds by Brian Urlacher. Harrington jumps up like he's Brett Favre and slaps Urlacher on the butt. He has to be hurting. ... Harrington avoids the rush and lobs it to his back, who is stuffed. Harrington looks pretty good--very active--but the Lions have to punt.
From the Bears' 42, Thomas runs up the middle for a couple. ... A short pass to Thomas brings up third down. ... White picks up 9 on a crossing pattern. ... The announcer keeps calling Marc Colombo "Marco." What the? Hey, fuggedaboudit. White falls on a reverse and it's second and 20. ... Thomas doesn't get much and then Chandler is sacked on third down. ... The punt bounces into the end zone.
The Lions runs Stewart up the middle again on first down, but this time Urlacher fills the hole as the first quarter ends.
Second quarter
Harrington throws incomplete and then hits Foster for a short gain, bringing up fourth down and another thrilling punt. And another flag. Penalties and punts. Can't get enough of those.
Thomas runs for a few up the middle and then turns the corner on second down and levels the defensive back. That's the Thomas we remember from last season. ... On third and short, Chandler throws an out pattern to Marcus Robinson for a first. Well done. ... Thomas bursts through the line and then cuts right into Marty Booker. The ball is loose but Thomas falls on it. Second and 1. ... A dump to fullback Daimon Shelton picks up the first. ... Thomas finds a hole and breaks a decent run for about 8 yards. ... Fox shows Jim Miller on the sideline with his helmet on. He's not coming in, people. Just pipe down. ... Someone it's second and 9. Booker drops two straight passes and Edinger comes on to boot a 53-yard field goal.
Bears 3, Lions 0
Foster botches the kick, picks it up, gets blasted and drops the ball again. The Bears recover. But the replay shows the ball hit the ground and came out. This will be reversed. ... Twenty minutes later it is. Lions' ball. ... Harrington throws to Az-Zahir Hakim on a crossing pattern and then hits Aveion Cason on the run down the sideline for a 30-yard gain. Two great throws by the rookie. ... After a short gain by Stewart, Harrington rolls left and hits Az Hakim but the Lions are called for holding. Third and 16 from the Bears' 38 and Cason drops a Harrington pass. ... John Jett, no relation to Joan, comes on to punt. And it's a good one. The Bears will start at their own 3.
Ralph from Boston e-mails, saying the Bears seem to play at the level of their opponent. Good point, Ralph. You could also say the Lions are playing down to the Bears' level.
Chandler looks for some breathing room with a short pass to tight end Dustin Lyman. ... Oh, brother. Thomas fumbles at the 6 and the Lions' Robert Porcher recovers.
Stewart blasts up the middle right at Urlacher and into the end zone.
Lions 7, Bears 3
Vinny Sutherland returns the kick to the 18. ... Chandler rolls left but it sacked by a blitzing Donte Curry. ... On second down Eric Davis picks off Chandler and returns it to the 16. That was quick.
Stewart runs up the middle inside the 10, but is stuffed on second down. This guy is really explosive. He really hits the hole. The Bears' Reggie Austin is down. He got hit helmet to helmet. He's up and walking off the field. ... Harrington, under pressure from Colvin, rolls right and hits running back Cory Schlesinger at the 1. Mike Brown saves a touchdown with a big hit at the goal line. ... Harrington looks for the tight end in the end zone, but Colvin makes a diving play to knock the pass down. ... Stewart is stuffed and it's third down from the 2. ... Stewart is hit behind the line, spins and is met by four Bears short of the goal line. Mike Caldwell hit Stewart in the back field. The Lions call timeout. Great goal-line stand by the Bears' defense. Wait, the Lions are going for it. ... Scratch that goal-line stand comment, Stewart scores on the same play the Bears just stuffed.
Lions 14, Bears 3
With just over a minute to go, the Bears take over at the 20. ... Chandler hits tight end Fred Baxter with two quick passes and the Bears are at midfield. Timeout. ... A screen pass to Thomas goes nowhere. Thomas didn't get out of bounds. ... Chandler takes a quick snap and hits Dez White for 26 yards down the sideline. ... Dustin Lyman is dragged down short of the first down and inbounds. The Bears call timeout with 11 seconds remaining in the half. ... Chandler makes the Lions jump offsides again, which doesn't mean much at this point. ... Chandler steps up in the pocket and drills it to Booker in the end zone for a touchdown. Very calm and cool drive there by Chandler. Seventy-six yards and Chandler hung out in the pocket and found Booker for the TD.
Lions 14, Bears 10
The Bears got one back right before the half. That was big. If not for those two turnovers, this might be a different game.
Here comes Terry Bradshaw. Mute, please.
Third quarter
After Sutherland takes the second-half kickoff to the 25, Thomas runs for a couple. ... Chandler is hit as he throws by Luther Ellis and almost throws another interception. Ellis is called for driving Chandler into the ground, giving the Bears a first down. ... Thomas runs twice for a yard. ... Chandler hits Baxter for a first down. But again, Chandler is blasted after he throws the ball. He's holding his left hand but stays in the game. Good thing he's right handed. ... Thomas is stuffed again. ... Play action and Thomas makes a tremendous block, picking up two blitzing Lions. Chandler throws long to Dez White to the 4. ... One play later, Thomas powers in for the touchdown.
Bears 17, Lions 14
A 75-yard drive aided by a big Lions penalty and the Bears regain the lead. Chandler is really hanging in there and making things happen but paying a serious price. Remember, Henry Burris is the next option.
Stewart changes direction and breaks one for 20 yards before pulling the gutless Franco Harris move and ducks out of bounds. ... Bryan Robinson gets to Harrington and Harrington fumbles. Alfonso Boone falls on it and the Bears are in great field position. After looking so solid Harrington looked like Shane Matthews there.
A touchdown out of this would be big. Of course the Bears runs two uninspired plays and face third and 9. ... Chandler overthrows Booker and here comes Edinger for a 42-yard attempt. Kick good.
Bears 20, Lions 14
Three straight runs up the middle by Stewart move the Lions to midfield. The Lions' offensive line is having its way with the Bears defense. ... Stewart gets the ball on third and inches and runs for 6 yards. ... More Stewart and he runs for 8 and then picks up the first down inside the Bears' 30. ... Stewart, Stewart, Stewart. Finally the Lions are stopped--by a holding penalty. Second and 16 at the Bears' 30. Harrington fakes a reverse to Hakim and then throws a poor pass. ... The Bears blitz, Harrington rolls out and throws for Hakim in the end zone. Jerry Azumah breaks up the play but Phillip Daniels is called for roughing the passer. It was over. The Lions were done until that penalty. First down Detroit. ... Cason weaves his way inside the 10 but the Lions are called for clipping. It's coming back. Again, can't get enough of the penalties. The way this boring game is going, all we need now is a replay or a punt. ... Harrington throws to Cason to the 10 again, but the Lions are short. Fourth down. ... I've lost track how many times the ball has bounced back and forth between the 30- and 10-yard line. The Lions are about a yard and a half short and call timeout to discuss something. ... They're going for it again. Let me guess. A running play to Stewart? ... OK, we've just seen the worst play in football. Worse than a punt. When the offense tries to make the defense jump offsides on fourth down and it doesn't work so they take the delay-of-game penalty. They needed a timeout for that? Field goal good.
Bears 20, Lions 17
Good thing the Bears signed this return specialist Vinny Sutherland. He's quite adept at running right into the pile. And another penalty on the Lions. Re-kick and Sutherland has been replaced by local guy Ahmad Merritt. Wow. Dick Jauron with a quicker hook than Jerry Manuel. Vinny, we hardly knew ye. Merritt busts the kickoff 63 yards. Great run behind some great blocking. And get this: no penalty.
Bears start at the 30. Thomas busts one up the middle for a decent gain and the ball goes flying at the end of the play. The Lions recover. High and tight, Anthony. His second fumble of the game. End of the third quarter.
Fourth quarter
A few nice runs by Stewart has the Lions at midfield. But on third and 9, Harrington over throws Scotty Anderson. Anderson was wide open. ... Jett's punt lands at the 1 like a pitching wedge and is downed at the 2.
Thomas finds a hole and is brought down at the 9. He was really holding on to the ball there. ... Another run gets the first down. But that's about it. Two runs from Thomas get nothing and it's third and 10. The Bears get a gift as the Lions are called for encroachment. ... Third and 5 and the Bears go to Robinson, who stops short of the first-down marker and the pass is broken up. Punt, please.
Lions run Stewart a few times and get nothing. On third down Urlacher slips through the line and nails Harrington as he throws incomplete. Harrington gets up and slaps Urlacher on the back. More Favre behavior. You guessed it, another punt.
Thomas runs up the middle, Chandler throws a short pass to Shelton and Thomas runs again for the first down, staving off another punt for now. ... How long have we heard about Chandler throwing the best deep ball in the league? Let's see it. ... Instead Thomas runs twice and it's third and short. We may have another punt in our future. But first a Bears timeout. ... Third and very short from the Lions' 34 and Johnson runs for a very short gain. This will be close. We may have our punt. The chain gang comes out. This is Motown but the Lions sound people do not cue up Sam Cooke. Anyway, it's first down for the Bears. ... The Bears run twice, bringing up another third and 6. With 2:52 on the clock the Lions burn a timeout. ... Chandler rolls right and is nailed by Corey Harris on a safety blitz. Here's our punt.
Harrington comes on with 2:21 on the clock and down three. He'll start at this own 22. ... Harrington is pressured and throws it out of bounds. That should be an intentional grounding penalty. Harrington was still in the pocket. Ref say there was a receiver in the vicinity--on the bench but in the vicinity, no less. ... Harrington hits Scotty Anderson for a first down and that takes us to the two-minute warning. ... Harrington throws to Anderson again but Reggie Austin pokes it away incomplete. This will be a ref review with under two-minutes to play. Another delay. Why not? This will be reversed. It was a completion and Austin poked the ball out of bounds. There's nothing more exciting in football than a ref with his head in the replay hood. We'll be with you in about 20 minutes.
OK, as predicted it's overturned and Lions first down Lions at the Bears' 48. ... Stewart catches a short pass and takes it the 32. ... Harrington guns to Hakim at the 15. ... A short sideline pass to Anderson stops the clock with a minute remaining. ... Harrington dumps one to tight end John Owens who lumbers and fights to the 3. Not sure what's going on here now: Stewart is stopped short by an early whistle by the refs. Third down, 11 seconds left and the Lions will go for the win. The Bears call timeout. ... Harrington is pressured and Mike Green grabs ahold of Hakim for a pass interference penalty. Green saved the touchdown but it moves the ball 6 inches from the goal line with seven seconds left. Of course the Lions call for a pass play and it's broken up. With 5 seconds on the clock the Bears call their final timeout. ... The Lions line up four wide. They're going to throw it again. Unbelievable. Harrington drops back and is blindsided by Larry Whigham. But the play is dead. A false start is called on the Lions. The '89 49ers offense this ain't. ... Finally Jason Hanson comes on to try a 24-yard field goal. It's good and this brutal game goes to overtime.
Bears 20, Lions 20
The Lions pound it with Stewart all game and then run two pass plays on the goal line with the game on the line. That last sequence was about as ugly as it gets.
There are still 2 seconds on the clock, enough time for the Cal-Stanford band play. Instead the Bears just fall on the squib kick. A second on the clock and the Bears take a knee.
The way this game is going it'll end on a game-winning punt. Is that possible? Where's Heidi when you need her?
The Bears lose the toss and will kick.
Edinger's kick goes out of bounds and the Lions will start at the 40. Not a good start.
Stewart runs twice and picks up the first down at midfield. ... Stewart runs again for a couple. Seriously, did the Lions rehire Wayne Fontes for that goal-line sequence? Where was Stewart? He must feel like Barry Sanders right before Sanders retired. ... Stewart runs right, hurdles Urlacher and is brought down at the Lions' 35. Lions kicker Hanson is already warming up on the sideline. ... Green and Urlacher bring Stewart down behind the line. Big play for the Bears because that puts the Lions right on the edge of field-goal range. ... A short run is shy of the first down and here comes Hanson for a 48-yard attempt. It's good and this one's over.
Lions 23, Bears 20
The Bears lose a punt and penalty party to Detroit and fall to 2-4.


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Is MIL laughing from nerves? I have a tough time talking on things like skype- for some reason it makes me very uncomfortable. Maybe she can't really think what to "say" to a small kid on the phone, so she's laughing as a default response. That would be my guess. Maybe ask her if she'd like to read a story over skype. My Dad buys two copies of story books and mails one to my niece- then they read it "together".
I do think kids know from a pretty young age that they are being laughed at and not taken seriously and they dislike it as much as an adult would. I imagine if MIL laughs hysterically when DD is trying to be serious, she will shut down. Kids liked to be laughed at when they are being funny, but not all the time.When DH was young, he mispronounced his middle name in a way his family thought was cute. They would ask him to say his name and when he would, they would laugh. DH apparently didn't enjoy being laughed at because he would clam up when asked to say his name. He was around 2 at the time.I don't think MIL is trying to be rude. Maybe laughing is her way of trying to connect with DD and she find her very delightful. It can be kind of touchy to bring this up because it may seem like you are trying to manage MIL's behavior. My suggestion would be to tell her that DD was trying to tell her a serious story and DD think you are making fun of her when you laugh at her during those times.
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Div. IB: Britain scores silver as Ukrainians can't score enough
KYIV – With a tournament-closing 3-2 overtime win over host Ukraine on Saturday, Kazakhstan returned to the elite division for 2012 after just a one-year absence. In earlier Division I Group B action, Great Britain earned silver by beating Poland 3-2, and Lithuania relegated Estonia with a 5-2 victory.Kazakhstan – Ukraine 3-2 (0-0, 1-1, 1-1, 1-0) Game Sheet PhotosEarning its fifth straight victory on what was ultimately an inconsequential OT goal by Fyodor Polishuk at 2:01, Kazakhstan parked Ukraine's hopes of rejoining the elite 16 like the two Skoda cars at either end of the packed Palace of Sports. The Ukrainians settled for bronze."Kazakhstan has been the best team of the tournament," said Ukrainian head coach Dave Lewis. "They deserve where they're going next.""If you win something, it's always special, especially with your national team,' said happy Kazakh forward Konstantin Pushkaryov. "It's twice as good."Although Ukraine brought the tournament's top scoring trio in the Minsk-based line of Oleg Shafarenko, Oleg Tymchenko, and Olexander Materukhin, it couldn't muster the offence it needed – victory by four or more goals – to take top spot.Even the relentlessly enthusiastic crowd, including the military cheering section that occupied the Kazakh end of the arena for Periods One and Three, wasn't able to lift the home team quite high enough.It was a physical, fast-skating game with stickwork aplenty in front of the net and along the boards."This was the most difficult game for us, both psychologically and because Ukraine created more chances against us than anyone else did," said Kazakh head coach Andrei Khomutov.The Ukrainians ran into penalty trouble at the outset, giving Kazakhstan an extended two-man advantage. However, they killed it off with authority, and goalie Kostyantyn Simchuk grabbed the puck with extra flourish when he made a save.At 8:24, Ukraine's Dmytro Nimenko was sent off for checking from behind in the Kazakh zone. Simchuk stood tall again again, stopping Vadim Krasnoslobodtsev on a golden chance from the right faceoff circle. While the Ukrainians managed another kill, they wasted precious time that should have gone toward goal-scoring."We were forced into penalties because of how fast Kazakhstan played," said Lewis. "They came at us hard."Kazakhstan's Roman Savchenko tripped up Alexi Mikhnov to give the Ukrainians a man advantage to close out the period. Yet Kazakhstan's strong box play left Ukraine without a single prime scoring opportunity.The penalty parade continued in the second period. Ukraine's Sergei Klymentiev clipped Yevgeni Fadeyev with a high stick in the Ukrainian end just after the four-minute mark.It was with Tymchenko in the box for tripping that Maxim Belyayev opened the scoring with a solo power play effort for Kazakhstan at 11:11 of the second, coming around the net and putting it upstairs on Simchuk.After that, the Kazakhs began clogging up the neutral zone to frustrate their opponents. Still Ukraine, continued to press and the Kazakhs bent, taking three consecutive minor penalties.Ukraine finally broke through with 20 seconds left in the period, as Yuri Navarenko grabbed the puck to the right of Kazakh goalie Vitali Yeremeyev and banged it in the open side. (Navarenko, quirkily, once played three years in Spain before returning to his native land.) The crowd exploded with relieved joy.There was more excitement just past the five-minute mark of the third when Tymchenko backhanded home a rebound to make it 2-1 Ukraine. The Ukrainians lost some momentum, though, when Klymentiev took a slashing penalty almost immediately afterwards.With 7:38 remaining, Kazakhstan fought back and got the tying goal courtesy of Andrei Gavrilin on a nice setup by Alexei Troshinski.Facing a desperate situation, the Ukrainians tried to break through the Kazakh defence. But there was no way for them to score enough goals with the limited time remaining."As far as our approach to the tournament, I don't know that I would change a lot," said Lewis.When the buzzer sounded to end regulation time, the Kazakhs rushed to the bench to congratulate one another, knowing they'd won whatever happened next, since they would get at least one point. It was certainly an unusual way to celebrate, but that didn't matter to Kazakhstan."This was a tough game," said Pushkaryov. "We scored, they scored. Lots of power plays, lots of penalty-killing. But we stayed in the game and we did the right things."Now Kazakhstan will look ahead to 2012, wondering whether it can stay up in the top division or even improve on its all-time best finish, 12th place in 2005.Despite not getting promoted, Ukraine can take pride in a hospitable, well-organized, and well-supported Division I tournament. The Ukrainians will now look forward to news next month from the IIHF World Championship in Slovakia. Competing with Denmark and Russia, they're bidding to host the 2016 Worlds, and the allocation will be announced during the IIHF General Congress in Bratislava.Final Ranking:1. Kazakhstan 142. Great Britain 123. Ukraine 104. Poland 65. Lithuania 36. Estonia 0Individual Awards as selected by the Tournament Directorate:Best Goalie: Stephen Murphy, Great BritainBest Defenceman: Roman Savchenko, KazakhstanBest Forward: Olexander Materukhin, UkrainePoland – Great Britain 2-3 (1-2, 1-0, 0-1) Game Sheet PhotosGreat Britain ultimately earned silver with a hard-fought 3-2 victory over Poland in Saturday's Division I Group B action.With 6:56 left in the game, working with a 5-on-4 advantage, Ben O'Connor scored the winner from the side of the net, stuffing one past Polish goalie Rafal Radziszewski's pad and punching the air in exultation."We're obviously elated," said British coach Paul Thompson. "Poland is a very good team, and we had to contain lots of pressure. Our goalie, Stephen Murphy, proved he's as good as any goalie."After Kazakhstan beat Ukraine 4-3 in overtime in the closing game, Britain's 12 points assured it of silver.Jonathan Weaver chipped in a goal and an assist and David Clarke added two helpers for the British."Great Britain was very good, maybe better than in previous years," admitted Polish coach Wiktor Pysz.For this game, the Poles were drastically undermanned. They played with just 16 skaters, lacking injured forwards Jakub Witecki, Damian Slabon, and Krzysztof Zapala, and defenceman Jaroslaw Klys. Yet they outshot the British 37-20. With the loss, Poland finished fourth in Group B. It's just the second time in the last nine years that Poland has wound up lower than second in a Division I group.The Poles grabbed a 1-0 lead at 6:51 when Filip Drzewiecki accepted a slick Krystian Dziubinski centering pass from behind the goal and beat Murphy from the edge of the crease. That tally sparked the red-and-white squad for a while, as they carried the play with crisp passes and put the British back on their heels.A pair of quick goals restored the Union Jack's momentum. The British capitalized with 6:45 left in the first period, using a sweet three-way passing play on the man advantage. Jonathan Weaver finished it off by beating Radziszewski high to the glove side from the slot."We were banking on our power play and it paid off," said Thompson.Just 40 seconds later, Britain took a 2-1 lead when Russell Cowley burst into the zone and flung a wrister that tipped off the Polish defender into the net.The second period was a tense duel. The crowd gasped when Britain's Danny Meyers stepped into the Polish zone and rang one off the goal post. Apart from the small but vocal contingent of British fans, they heartily chanted "Polska!", knowing that a Polish victory would make it easier for host Ukraine to earn promotion. Poland gained courage, bagging the equalizer with 6:24 left in the second period, as Krystian Dziubinski one-timed home a Filip Drzewiecki feed from behind the goal line. The Poles began going hard to the net, and Murphy had to be sharp to foil a 2-on-1 attack with under two minutes left.Vigorous Polish forechecking slowed the pace and forced Britain into the third period's first penalty, as Corey Neilson was sent off for tripping at 6:48. But considerable pressure around Murphy's crease yielded nothing.The Poles pulled their netminder with under a minute left, but no avail. The British mobbed their goalie in celebration before the playing of "God Save The Queen."Thompson spoke afterwards about the importance of continuing to add players in their teens and 20's to the British roster, preparing for the day when valued veterans like David Longstaff and Ashley Tait no longer carry the load. "We had just four days to prepare," he added, noting that an increase in that area would also pay dividends.Lithuania – Estonia 5-2 (2-1, 1-1, 2-0) Game Sheet PhotosPovalis Verenis scored two goals to lift Lithuania to a 5-2 win over Estonia in Saturday's Division I Group B opener. The result gives Lithuania fifth place and a Division I berth next year, while Estonia is relegated.Lithuania has hung on to its spot in Division I each year since securing promotion from Division II in 2004.Verenis got the winner midway through the game. At 11:57 of the second, he took a pass from Arnoldas Bosas, cruised to the top of the hash marks, and shot a low wrister past Koitmaa, restoring Lithuania's two-goal lead.Donatas Kumeliauskas led Lithuanian point-getters with a goal and a pair of assists, and Bosas and Egidijus Bauba had two helpers apiece."The key to our victory was good discipline," said Lithuanian coach Sergej Borisov. "I am satisfied with the result."The Estonians were outscored 29-8 over five games and will treat this as a learning experience. They topped Division II in 2010 with a massive goal differential of 62-5. But the speed and intensity of Division I, relatively speaking, was a bit too much for them to handle, although they improved in their last two games, including a 5-2 loss to host Ukraine."We had some problems with goaltending in this tournament," said Estonian coach Dmitrij Medvedev. "Our top goalie, Mark Rajevski, couldn't play because he couldn't get away due to work commitments. In this game, Villem-Henrik Koitmaa had some difficulties. Also, we took a lot of penalties and you can't win that way."The power play was a major key for Lithuania.Leading Lithuanian scorer Mindaugas Kieras drew first blood at 5:12 on the power play, sending a center point drive past Koitmaa. At 9:49, it was Arturis Katulis firing home a power play slapper from the left faceoff circle before Koitmaa could get across. Despite skating hard, the Estonians didn't move the puck well enough to capitalize on either of their two man advantages.Estonia got on the board with 43 seconds left in the first period when Vassili Titarenko poked the puck past the left post of Lithuanian goalie Mantas Armalis.In the second period, the Estonians started laying on the body to slow down their Baltic rivals, but they ran into more sin bin trouble with stick fouls.Underdog Estonia refused to quit, making it 3-2 with 4:40 remaining in the middle frame. Aleksandr Petrov knifed through the Lithuanian defence before dishing a lovely pass right to Toivo Sursoo, who fired it in the open side.The Lithuanians got some breathing room at 8:28 of the third period when Kumeliauskas came down the right side and unleashed a shot that squeaked through Koitmaa's glove.Hopes of an Estonian comeback faltered in the last 10 minutes with more untimely penalties, including a double-minor for high-sticking to top sniper Andrei Makrov. Verenis added an empty-netter with 1:02.There is a bright spot for the future of Estonian hockey in 18-year-old Robert Rooba. Although the tall Espoo Blues junior forward went pointless in his Division I debut, he is ranked 92nd among European skaters for the upcoming NHL draft. No Estonian-born and trained player has ever played in the NHL.LUCAS AYKROYD


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LYNN HAVEN, Fla- The Bay County based Club Fusion volleyball team is ready to play in the biggest tournament in the team's history. The team is playing in the Junior National Championships in Atlanta, one of the only Bay County teams to do so in club volleyball.
The Club Fusion volleyball team is in unfamiliar territory. They will play in their first ever Junior National Championship tournament against the top teams in the country
"This is a higher than a state championship," Fusion Club Coach Stephen Canfield said. "This is national, we're in a division with 48 teams from all over the country."
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Club Fusion is made up primarily of Mosley High Varsity players, but this year they added Arnold alum Katie Steelman to the mix. Adding the Southern Miss signee to the likes of Morgan McCabe, who's signed with Brenau University, and Deanna Canfield, who's a South Alabama commit, has helped put the team in this position.
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As of right now i bought a MAF adapter plate to fit a big filter...Little difference, but better pickup. My aim if to just increase the get up. Plus i like the intake sound. But hey, even 5hp is something with such a low output motor.
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Sony Ericsson Wireless Manager software is easily installed on your laptop PC. Wireless Manager offers an intuitive user interface including new buttons of browser quick start and mail client, SMS and address book applications. Wireless Manager provides control of connections, data using, information about messages and contacts.
Sony Ericsson Image Editor is free software that lets you crop, zoom, rotate and adjust color, contrast and brightness settings for many PC image file formats, and send the resulting image directly to your phone. Modem drivers for Sony Ericsson phones (included in this package to make IR communication easier with T68 and T300 on XP (XP will look for a modem to install when the phone is placed at the IR eye and this will happen everytime if no modem is found))
We can say that Backup programs are living essentials. Unfortunately, the mobile operating systems stability is not so high and we can't entrust important data to these devices. Besides, using Backup program you can make backups, for example, just to transfer data from one device to another or for synchronization.
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This software lets you convert a DVD to your phone and watch it in great quality in full screen landscape mode. A memory card as small as 128 Mb is sufficient to store a full length feature film. You can watch your DVDs on the go, on any Symbian UIQ-based phone, such as the Sony Ericsson P900-series, from a postage stamp size memory card
Media Go is an application developed by the Sony company to help Windows users organize their favorite music, movies, and pictures. It also provides you with a simple and efficient way to transfer your media files to multiple Sony devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and many others.
Octopus Suite provides a set of tools with which you can unlock codes for various mobiles type, such as: Sony-Ericsson, Hawei , SKY, etc. It works with Octopus Box. Through its interface, you are able to update your device software, update the device card, etc.
The program for copying music from compact discs Disc2Phone allows without difficulties fill in your phone with songs you like. You can move audio files, to your mobile phone. Drag and drop audio files straight from an audio CD to the program window. Then these audio files will transfer in to the phone memory.
E.M. PowerPoint Video Converter is an all-in-one PowerPoint to video converter. It can convert PowerPoint presentations to almost all popular video formats such as AVI, MPEG, MPEG2 TS, MP4, WMV, 3GP, GIF, FLV, SWF, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, H.264/PSP AVC Video, MOV, Youtube FLV with excellent quality.