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From Springsteen to Letterman, Sandy disrupts
NEW YORK — Broadway, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center all remained dark Tuesday as Superstorm Sandy left the New York entertainment industry fighting to go on with the show — even if it meant performing for empty studios.
That was how David Letterman and Jimmy Fallon taped their late shows Monday night, leading to some remarkably quiet monologues. On Tuesday, as the city took account of the damage wrought by the storm, some late-night shows were moving back into full production, while the aftermath of Sandy continued to cause the cancellations of film premieres, film and TV production and even that most unshakable performer: Bruce Springsteen.
The Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert scheduled for Tuesday night at the Rochester Blue Cross Arena in upstate New York was postponed until Wednesday because of the hurricane. Officials at the arena said the concert was rescheduled due to flight cancellations for Springsteen's band and more than 1,000 ticket holders.
The fallout for touring musicians will depend in part on how long it takes public transit and other infrastructure to return to normal, said Gary Bongiovanni of Pollstar, the trade publication that tracks the concert industry. Atlantic City, where a lot of acts perform, was particularly hard hit. New York concert cancellations included those for Journey at the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn and a Beacon Theater benefit concert for marriage equality that was to feature Rufus Wainwright, the National and They Might Be Giants.
"Everyone knows there is no shows in New York tonight, but what about Wednesday or Thursday … when do you make the decision to try and drop things and rearrange your schedules?" he asked. "Financially everyone is taking a hit on this thing, and you make the best of it like any other natural disaster."
In New York, despite a downed subway system and a large swath of Manhattan being powerless, others were pushing on.
ABC announced Tuesday that Jimmy Kimmel, who had planned to bring his Los Angeles-based "Jimmy Kimmel Live" to Brooklyn for a week's worth of shows, will be live from the Harvey Theater at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Tuesday night after canceling Monday's show.
Jimmy Fallon, after sending his studio audience home Monday, planned to resume taping "Late Night" with an audience Tuesday.
Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" both canceled Tuesday night's tapings. Representatives for Letterman's "Late Show" didn't immediately respond to questions about Tuesday's plans.
Letterman and Fallon's taped shows Monday, sans studio audiences, were an unusual sight. Letterman read his trademark top 10 list with hand-written signs held up for each entry, and guest Denzel Washington showed up in a yellow rain slicker, claiming he swam to the Ed Sullivan Theater. On "Late Night," guest Seth Meyers said the experience was "like watching Charlie Rose if he had a band and everybody was a little bit high."
"Saturday Night Live," for which Meyers is a head writer, is expected to put on a new show Saturday as scheduled, with host Louis C.K., who himself had to cancel two Sunday stand-up performances in New York.
The city revoked film permits for all five boroughs on Tuesday, after doing the same Monday. Production on many New York-based prime-time series was affected. The sets of "Smash," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," "30 Rock," "Deception" and "Do No Harm" were closed Tuesday, NBC said. "Special Victims Unit" won't tape Wednesday but decisions had yet to be made for the other series. Other series temporarily knocked out of production included "666 Park," "Gossip Girls" and "Person of Interest."
Films forced to stop shooting include Darren Aronofsky's "Noah" and Akiva Goldsman's "Winter's Tale," and the Tuesday premiere of Joe Wright's Tolstoy adaptation "Anna Karenina" was canceled.
ABC's "Good Morning America," NBC's "Today" show and "CBS This Morning" aired live Tuesday with extensive storm coverage, though "GMA" was forced to cancel its planned Wednesday Halloween special.
Daytime shows were less successful Tuesday, with production called off for "Live! With Kelly and Michael," "Katie," "The View" and "The Chew." ABC said work on all the programs would resume Wednesday.
While Broadway theaters were closed and ready to reopen Wednesday, the thriving downtown off-Broadway community, with most of its theaters in lower Manhattan, was still assessing the damage and likely facing a longer time off. The superstorm already forced the well-respected Vineyard Theatre in Union Square to cancel performances of its world-premiere production of "Checkers," which was to open Wednesday.
Many of the cultural institutions of New York remained shuttered Tuesday. Aside from Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center cancelling performances, the Metropolitan Opera and Radio City Music Hall were also closed. Even the 57th St. entrance to Carnegie Hall — which also canceled Wednesday concerts — was blocked by a street closure due to the dangling crane. The Metropolitan Opera said Tuesday that it planned to go ahead with its Wednesday evening performance of Thomas Ades's "The Tempest."
Most movie theaters on the East Coast in the path of the storm have been closed since Sunday night and many continued to be Tuesday. Clearview Cinemas said its 47 theaters in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were closed Tuesday. AMC Theaters listed some 60 theaters in the area that were closed Tuesday, though some outside of New York could open later in the day. National Amusements, which runs Showcase Cinemas and Cinema de Lux locations in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts says: "With the exception of a few still waiting for power to return, all of our theatres are open."
Losing several days of box office for such a large area of the country would likely mean millions to Hollywood, although early weekdays are lesser moviegoing days and current new releases — "Cloud Atlas," "Silent Hill: Revelation 3-D," "Fun Size" — were already attracting little interest.
Any impact on movie ticket sales in the coming weekend is difficult to estimate, said Hollywood.com box-office analyst Paul Dergarabedian. Debuting this weekend is the animated Disney comedy "Wreck-It Ralph," the Paramount thriller "Flight" and the martial-arts "The Man With the Iron Fists."
"I think 'Wreck-It Ralph' is going to have a huge opening, but if it's less than expected, I think a lot of people are going to lay that on the doorstep of the hurricane," Dergarabedian said. At the same time, he added: "A film like 'Wreck-It Ralph' could be the antidote to the hurricane for families looking for an escape. It's a very escapist, fun movie. We'll have to take a wait-and-see attitude."
AP Global Entertainment Editor Nekesa Moody and Entertainment Writers Mark Kennedy in New York and Lynn Elber and Christy Lemire in Los Angeles contributed to this report.


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Monday morning did not arrive with pleasant news for the Motorola Mobility work force. Google, which bought Motorola in May, told staff Sunday that it will begin cutting 20 percent of its employees and closing 33 percent of its offices worldwide.
The move is inevitable seeing as how Motorola has been struggling to be profitable, losing money in 14 of the last 16 quarters, reports The Wall Street Journal. This 20 percent cut will account for approximately 4,000 jobs from its 20,000 employees along with 30 out of its 90 offices slated for closure. A third of the layoffs will come after United States-based employees though it has not been specified which facilities will be affected.
In reducing its work force, Google said in its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that this change will "shift its emphasis from feature phones to more innovative and profitable devices." Which makes sense, since Motorola will have a long way to catch up with Android giants Samsung and HTC.
According to The New York Times, Motorola aims to "stop making low-end devices and focus on a few cellphones instead of dozens." This means a cut from its current 27 phone models to select, higher end editions — ones that are packed with unique features no other phones have such as the ability to recognize who is in the room based on voice or batteries that can last for days. Still, an analyst even described Motorola as being "left in the dust by the competition and kind of missed the smartphone transition," so these ambitions are purely hopeful, to say the least.
The cuts are slated to cost Google no more than $275 million which will be recognized in the third quarter, with continuing charges to incur within the next few quarters. Google told investors that they should anticipate "significant revenue variability" as part of an overall restructuring to make Motorola a viable company again.
"While lower expenses are likely to lag the immediate negative impact to revenue, Google sees these actions as a key step for Motorola to achieve sustainable profitability," Google stated in the SEC filing.
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The partisan rancor of the presidential campaign will have to give way to fiscal compromise no matter who wins, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein told CNBC.
In recent days Blankfein has signed on to an effort to pressure Washington lawmakers into resolving the "fiscal cliff," a term Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke coined to describe a series of tax hikes and spending cuts that will take place if Congress and the White House fail to reach deficit-reduction targets.
He said he's optimistic a deal can get done despite how bitterly the battle has been fought between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. (Read More: 'Get It Done,' Immelt Tells DC on Fiscal Cliff Fix)
"Whatever the outcome, the country's looking at this election as a referendum," Blankfein said. "Whoever wins the election, I think there will have to be a compromise. The other side is not going to go into a funk."
The cliff entails a series of measures, most prominently tax cuts enacted during President George W. Bush's tenure, as well as extended unemployment compensation and a fix on the Alternative Minimum Tax.
While much of Wall Street has been banking on a settlement before the end of the year, Goldman's own economists have expressed worry that investors are being too sanguine over what might happen.
Blankfein warned of the consequences if a resolution does not occur. (Read More: Companies Are Sitting on More Cash Than Ever Before)
"It won't be a winner-take-all, because at the end of the day they have to bring the other 49 percent — or, heck, the loser may have 51 percent of the popular vote — they have to bring that along and that will make the outcome and compromise more stable in the long run," he said.
"Depending on who wins, we should have a right-of-center outcome or a left-of-center outcome," he added. "But personally I do think it shouldn't veer too far from the center or else it's going to be a very volatile and unstable situation."
Despite the danger of not resolving the cliff issues, Blankfein said he has hope for the economy, which has languished under 1.3 percent growth and a high unemployment rate.
"If you keep your eye on the ball you can see we have an extraordinary amount of terrific things going for us, specifically in this country," he said. "Demographics, the energy situation, the fact that we've chewed through a lot of our problems...this next generation is going to have great opportunities."


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Welcome to NatStats 2013
Keep up with all the latest session discussions on our twitter: www.twitter.com/absstats and use #NatStats2013
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and the National Statistical Service (NSS) welcome you to the NatStats 2013 Conference website.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics will be hosting the third NatStats conference at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, 12 - 14 March 2013.
NatStats 2013 will build on the enthusiasm and passion generated throughout previous NatStats conferences held in 2010 and 2008. The conference will provide a unique opportunity for key stakeholders from across the statistical community to help build a strong and vibrant National Statistical Service in Australia.
The theme for NatStats 2013 is
"A better informed Australia: the role of statistics in building the nation".
The conference will explore what nation building means to Australia, and how statistics are critical in informing the decisions which shape our future. An exciting program is being designed with policy and decision makers in mind. Senior staff from policy departments, academia, community organisations and the private sector as well as key international speakers will be invited to provide their perspectives on the role of statistics in building Australia through informed decision making.
As a participant at the NatStats 2013 Conference, you will contribute to the effective use of better, broader and more comparable information which will assist the NSS. Improving the NSS will allow better monitoring of government services, improve access to and use of data by the wider community, and reduce overall costs for the provision of government information services.
We look forward to your involvement in this significant national event.
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Have you every faced this problem wile using Synaptic, when Synaptic looks like some old Windows 95 application? The reason for this is that once you start changing the ugly Ubuntu themes those applications which run using the sudo command still use the ugly Windows 95 like sudo theme. To make it look pretty like your other applications do this.
Fire up your terminal and paste these commands in one by one:
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sudo ln -s ~/.icons /root/.icons
sudo ln -s ~/.fonts /root/.fonts
Now your theme, fonts and icons will be carried on to your sudo account and applications running under sudo account will also look better, like this:


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Cameron baseball player enjoyed Puerto Rico experience last week
Last week, Cameron High School graduating senior baseball player Austin Standridge spent most of that time participating in the Coast to Coast Baseball Program in Puerto Rico. He said the trip was an unforgettable one."I'm glad to be home, but let me tell you it's was an experience that I will never forget in my opinion," Standridge said. "It wasn't long enough. It was very different, but awesome."With the hopes of playing college baseball in the near future, Standridge believes participating in the Coast to Coast program will benefit him at the next level."I believe that it will help me prepare for college a lot better," he said. "We had to be on time for everything. It also showed how a lot of college practices go, and I love it because there was no walking around. It was all serious. You ran to your spot on the field, whether it was practice or a game."One of the most surprising things to Standridge was how quickly all the players meshed together."As soon as we all met, we all bonded like we went to school together," said Standridge, whose team went 6-2 during the week. "It was as if we were all best friends since we were little. The coaches said that we are the best group that they have ever coached there."By and large, Standridge was pleased with his performance on the diamond while in Puerto Rico."I hit pretty decent," he said. "I hit probably one of my most impressive home runs there. I hit somewhere around .500, which was good because we faced some real good pitching. I also pitched pretty good, but I got one of the losses because of a few errors."Needless to say, being in Puerto Rico was an eye-opening experience for the Cameron graduate."That part of the world is very pretty, but you had to pay attention to where you are at all times," Standridge said. "You don't want to end up in the wrong neighborhood."Because Standridge participated in this event, he can participate in any Coast to Coast program or programs he wishes."I'm very glad that I got to play," he said. "After the last game, I was talking to the coaches, and they said that once you make it to Coast to Coast, you get to go to any of their camps and showcases. But like I said, it was most definitely the most fun baseball trip I've ever been on. My mom (Kim), my nanny Nay, my aunt Darla and my nanny's friend, Connie, had a blast, too."


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By Holly Crenshaw, Special to CNN • Updated 26th March 2013
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The sun is warm. The beer is cold. And the mood is as bright as the midday sky.
It's spring training season, a time when hopes remain high across baseball-loving America.
Here in
Cactus League
territory, the fans of 15 different baseball teams have descended once again on greater Phoenix — an area so dense with ballparks that even "away" games are often less than an hour away. There are hot dogs and hot tamales, shopping malls and swimming pools, mountaintops and margaritas — a full roster of reasons to hop on an Arizona-bound plane.
Every year for six weeks or so, you can't swing a bat here without hitting a baseball fan. By the hundreds of thousands, they return each spring to cheer on the Giants or the Royals or the Reds. Still, none of those fans may be as loyal and long-suffering as those of the Chicago Cubs.
For decades, they have gravitated to Mesa and luxuriated in the preseason oasis that is spring training — a shimmering sliver of optimism that may, once again, prove to be a mirage.
But who needs to think about that now? Who needs to be reminded that last year the Cubs had their worst record since 1966? And, OK, that they haven't won a World Series since 1908?
A non-fan's spring training pilgrimage
An authentic ballpark feel
Today, we are months away from the chilly realities of October. Today, as the first sunburn of the season settles across our skin, we are warmed and relaxed and oblivious to the sting that may follow.
Perhaps the "D" in a Cub fan's DNA stands for denial -- or determination. Because no matter how badly the team plays (and please feel free to insert your own joke here), they still manage to break attendance records season after season. The turnout defies logic, yet it's a force of nature that cannot be denied.
It's an annual phenomenon that starts here in Mesa, which has served as the preseason headquarters of the Cubs for six decades. Their home base is
Hohokam Stadium
, which seats 12,500 baseball traditionalists who enjoy its easy accessibility and authentic ballpark feel.
"The Cubs are really woven into the fabric here in Mesa," says Michelle Streeter, Visit Mesa's director of communications. "They've been training here since 1952, so generations of Mesa residents have grown up watching and following this team."
"So many Chicagoans are either transplants who have relocated here or folks who have purchased vacation homes here," she added. "It's a rite of passage to come and cheer for the home team."
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A new park in Wrigleyville West
Next year, the Cubs will move into a new spring training complex under construction in Mesa's Riverside, just a few miles from Hohokam in an area that's already being called Wrigleyville West, in homage to the Cubs' storied Wrigley Field. Surrounded by shops and restaurants, the new stadium will hold 15,000 and sit in a larger park that includes paths, playgrounds, practice fields and a public lake.
"We fought long and hard to stop the Cubs from going anywhere," Streeter says. "We have a long friendship and kinship with them, and they are now locked in for the next 30 years. And the new stadium will be spectacular."
What won't change with the new location are the intangibles that help define the spring training season: the near-perfect weather, the camaraderie, the sense of tradition mixed with new beginnings.
Hours before the game begins, tailgating Chicagoans have already set up shop in the Hohokam parking lot, where they are grilling bratwursts and launching another round of beanbag toss. Others survey the Cub merchandise at a roadside T-shirt stand that's fanned by palm fronds swaying in the breeze. Still others settle with their blankets and babies on the berm, the grassy sloping outfield that feels a bit more family-friendly than Wrigley's rowdy bleachers.
There are dusty-purple mountains on the horizon. There are players signing autographs within easy reach — not just the less-familiar hopefuls but marquee major-leaguers like Alfonso Soriano, who's stooping and smiling for a photo with a little girl.
And somewhere in the distance, there is "Sweet Home, Chicago" playing on the P.A.
Long road to umpiring in the majors
'10 inches of snow back home
Kristen Stoklasa of Crystal Lake, Illinois, has made a spring pilgrimage to Hohokam every year since 2004. This time, she's here for two weeks and sharing a house with friends.
Other than her madras shorts, she's kitted out entirely in team paraphernalia — from her Wrigley Field t-shirt to her Croc-style slip-ons studded with Cubs logos. She also owns a bucket hat covered with autographs she's collected in Mesa.
"It's fantastic here," she says, as she browses the souvenir shop in search of even more Cubs gear. "It's a lot cheaper than the games at Wrigley Field. Plus, there are ten inches of snow back home, and here I am in shorts."
Chicago-born Paul Spokas "just got lucky" when he landed a job in Scottsdale, where he enjoys being part of the large Chicago expat community.
His proximity to Cubs spring training has made him "more popular" than he was back home, he jokes, especially because it comes with temperatures in the 70s and inexpensive tickets to the game.
Inside the low-slung stadium, it's easy to feel close to the action. The best seats in the house — those in the field box section — cost just $28 apiece. A spot on the berm, where you can practically chat with the outfielders, runs $8.
As the afternoon settles into its final innings, the beer vendors hawk a final round of Old Style and glance over their shoulders at the scoreboard. The light that washes over the stadium takes on a golden hue. That's when it feels like, every now and then, life presents us with a perfect moment.
The sun is warm. The beer is cold. And miraculously, the Cubs beat the Padres 9-3.
Where to stay
A mile from
Hohokam Stadium,
Phoenix Marriott Mesa
is a newly renovated high-rise hotel with a Cubs baseball package rate that includes a standard room and grandstand seats for two.
Located in the
Mesa Riverview shopping center
, the
Hyatt Place
at Mesa Riverview is surrounded by shops and restaurants and will enjoy an even better home advantage when the new stadium opens in Riverside next spring.
For more suggestions, check the
Visit Mesa
list of hotels.
5 great baseball stadiums
What to visit
At the
Mesa Historical Museum
, situated less than a mile from Hohokam Stadium in downtown Mesa, baseball fans can take in "Play Ball: The Cactus League Experience," a year-round exhibit on Mesa's role in the founding of the Cactus League. Among the baseball memorabilia and other historical items on display are team uniforms from the early 1900s.
For those whose interests extend beyond the outfield wall, the
Mesa Arts Center
offers live music, dance, comedy and theater performances, plus gallery spaces and free lunchtime concerts.
Where to eat
Originally owned by Cub announcers Harry Caray and Steve Stone,
Diamond's Sports Grille
may be the closest thing to The Cubby Bear outside of Wrigleyville. It offers a pre-home-game breakfast buffet and such pun-laden menu categories as "The Starting Line-Up," "Field of Greens," "Designated Hitters" and "For the Little Leaguers" — plus Chicago favorites Goose Island and Old Style beer to wash it all down. There's also a free shuttle service to and from Hohokam.
Chicago transplant Paul Spokas takes visiting Cub fans to
West Addison Sports Bar
in Scottsdale, named for one of the landmark streets that bounds Wrigley Field. The pub doubles as the hangout of choice for Chicago Bears and Notre Dame football fans.
He also rejoiced when
opened recently in Scottsdale, with a second location being planned near the new stadium. Already, its Chicago-style hot dogs, Polish sausages and Italian beef have proved so popular that it takes a traffic cop to keep the customers flowing. Unfortunately, Spokas says, "I still haven't found a deep-dish pizza here like home."
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text: freenode/#sbcl - IRC Chatlog Search Friday, 9th of November 2018, 15:19:26 UTC 15:54:04 pfdietz1 ** NICK pfdietz 16:46:14 stassats the new wxallowed detection works 16:46:25 Xof NEWS entry please 16:47:27 stassats not my addition! 16:48:36 stassats is it really newsworthy? now, if it actually worked with w^x 16:49:06 joshe I didn't think a NEWS entry was worthwhile, it wasn't even a build fix 16:49:38 stassats default w^x would probably be not a good idea, but optionally it's somewhat trivially doable 16:50:00 stassats always allocate on new pages, the GC will coalesce them laer 16:50:10 Xof we get flak on reddit for a trend decrease in the number of NEWS items 16:50:40 Xof I realise that this might not be the best reason for an extravagantly detailed NEWS 16:50:49 stassats well, right now lisp is getting flak on reddit for PRINTING IN UPPERCASE 16:50:59 joshe don't you mean LISP 16:51:10 Xof slightly more importantly, having this kind of thing in NEWS sends the signal that yes, we do care (a little bit) about things being broken 16:52:19 stassats if we're testing for w^x, why not for noexec too? 16:52:21 pfdietz More NEWS entries, especially if they boost my ego. 16:52:36 Xof at least to the extent of telling people that things are about to be broken 16:52:41 joshe /home isn't noexec in the default install 16:52:54 stassats well, not limited to openbsd 16:53:22 joshe and I'm not sure adding detection for an openbsd feature added two years ago really sends a message that someone really cares ;) 16:53:53 joshe but sure, I can add an entry 16:54:00 pfdietz Thinking "fix committed" is not enough state; should indicate if the bug had been present at the last release. Short term bug fixes of things that were never released do not belong in the release notes. 16:54:19 stassats noexec fails really early, so, no need 16:54:32 stassats make-config.sh: 263: make-config.sh: ./generate-version.sh: Permission denied 16:56:10 stassats i have some other stuff to work on, otherwise i would've tried my hand at w^x 16:57:14 joshe I tried to follow what was going on but quickly got lost 17:00:23 stassats i think the simplest thing to do is just to inflate the code object size at creation time to be a multiple of pagesize, then reprotect when gcing 17:00:40 stassats and probably reconstituting sanctify-for-execution on x86oids 17:01:35 stassats it does sound so simple i might actually try doing it 17:03:10 joshe that would be nice 17:07:32 pkhuong foreign callbacks will become even heftier 17:08:03 stassats well, it's optional, and openbsd doesn't mind performance degradation for performance reasons 17:08:08 stassats for security 17:09:40 joshe pkhuong: become heftier as in use more virtual address space? 18:15:36 pkhuong joshe: 18:15:47 pkhuong and actual memory 20:36:51 asarch What went wrong?: http://paste.scsys.co.uk/582188 20:37:25 stassats nothing, actually 20:38:19 stassats scratch that, that's not a usual sb-concurrency test failure 20:38:25 stassats not the usual 20:40:41 joshe make: *** [../asdf-module.mk:41: test] Illegal instruction (core dumped) 20:40:59 joshe that seems a bit odd 20:41:18 stassats seen that reported, but it builds fine here 20:41:39 stassats i unscrewed my virtualbox and installed 6.4 20:42:03 joshe the sb-concurrency tests frequently fail on openbsd but I don't recall how 20:43:13 stassats the frequently fail on risc 20:43:22 stassats but not by doing illegal things 20:43:50 joshe there are a few timing problems in various tests caused by openbsd's course scheduler granularity 20:49:56 asarch :'-( 20:53:51 asarch Can it be solved? 20:54:57 stassats it needs to be reproduced by me or joshe 20:54:59 stassats first 20:55:23 stassats or you need to send the core dump and the binary 20:55:32 asarch How could I get it? 20:55:51 stassats /cores? or your `pwd`? 20:56:57 asarch Ok, then tar vcf core-dump.tar sbcl-1.4.13/ 20:57:14 asarch And then gzip --verbose --best core-dump.tar 20:57:22 asarch How could I send you? By email? 20:57:31 stassats i would only need the dump and the src/runtime/sbcl file 20:57:56 stassats did you find it? 20:58:32 asarch find . -type d -name cores <- Finds nothing 20:58:45 asarch find . -type f -name sbcl: ./src/runtime/sbcl 20:58:59 asarch There is no /cores dir 20:58:59 stassats well, it's not named "cores" 20:59:07 pkhuong asarch: you're looking for a file, probably named "core" or "core.$PID" 20:59:10 asarch D'oh! 20:59:53 asarch I found /output: after-xc.core, cold-sbcl.core and sbcl.core 20:59:59 stassats that's not that 21:00:02 stassats that's sbcl's 21:00:04 asarch ./contrib/sb-concurrency/sbcl.core 21:00:19 pkhuong asarch: you want the actual core dumped by the OS when the process crashed. 21:00:23 stassats that's probably it 21:00:57 asarch http://paste.scsys.co.uk/582189 21:01:06 asarch That is all the core I found 21:01:14 stassats ./contrib/sb-concurrency/sbcl.core is the one 21:01:24 asarch Ok 21:03:43 stassats what CPU do you have? 21:04:23 asarch The command line I used was: ./make.sh --fancy --prefix=$HOME/bin/sbcl 21:04:50 stassats oh, i did not build with threds 21:04:58 stassats just hold on, don't send me anything yet 21:05:14 asarch From dmesg: http://paste.scsys.co.uk/582190 21:05:20 asarch Do you want the full dmesg output? 21:05:43 asarch Ok 21:05:51 asarch ACTION waits for new instructions... 21:07:13 stassats that's an atom, but nothing about it is out of the ordinary 21:09:13 stassats sb-concurrency tests are kinda slow on openbsd, maybe i need to adjust the cpu number detector, but no sigills yet 21:10:05 stassats asarch: ok, i can't reproduce it now either, so, i'll need that core dump after all 21:12:33 asarch Ok, how could I send it to you? 21:13:15 stassats @gmail.com 21:14:24 asarch Ok. Warte bitte because I am from Mexico... 21:14:30 joshe I can reproduce on real hardware 21:14:47 stassats joshe: can you tell me which instruction it is then? 21:15:08 stassats asarch: they speak german in mexico? 21:15:22 joshe let's see 21:16:15 stassats i've been thinking the other day, why don't we catch sigill 21:16:22 stassats or do we? 21:16:47 joshe huh, gdb thinks it's in futex() 21:16:59 asarch A little :-P 21:17:00 joshe 0x00000002f137f510 <futex+0>: mov $0x53,%eax 21:17:00 joshe 0x00000002f137f515 <futex+5>: mov %rcx,%r10 21:17:01 joshe 0x00000002f137f518 <futex+8>: syscall 21:17:01 joshe 0x00000002f137f51a <futex+10>: retq 21:17:48 stassats openbsd has futexes? 21:17:59 stassats and sbcl uses them? 21:17:59 joshe oh nevermind, $pc is futex+10 which is into the trapsled 21:18:26 joshe I don't think sbcl uses them directly, but via the pthread_* functions, sure 21:18:43 stassats do you have a backtrace? 21:18:44 joshe http://man.openbsd.org/futex 21:19:19 joshe bad stack pointer, maybe: 21:19:19 joshe Cannot access memory at address 0x2f9c379d8 21:19:26 stassats if openbsd does have futex then sbcl should use them, because the non-futex path is really horrible 21:19:51 pkhuong joshe: is 6.2 old enough to assume no one runs older releases? 21:20:26 joshe 6.2 isn't supported by openbsd anymore, but some people may run it 21:20:30 stassats pkhuong: it could be make-config.sh detected, i don't think openbsd is big on binary compatibility across versions anyway 21:20:49 joshe yea, libc is already bumped with every 6-month release 21:21:08 joshe the libc major version, that is 21:21:16 stassats but i'd rather be improving the mutexes on darwin, not openbsd 21:21:20 stassats (cause that's what i use) 21:22:04 pkhuong stassats: I honestly think the old futex emulation code was the right approach... too bad reentrancy was so hard. 21:23:31 joshe https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jre/90bce0519cc928859282c36c7ba65494/raw/aba75d89ead5f9861371f42e35e96e51749f4379/gistfile1.txt 21:24:49 pkhuong joshe: can you print the instruction bytes? 21:26:28 joshe (gdb) x/16xb futex 21:26:28 joshe 0x2f137f510 <futex>: 0xb8 0x53 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x49 0x89 0xca 21:26:28 joshe 0x2f137f518 <futex+8>: 0x0f 0x05 0xc3 0xcc 0xcc 0xcc 0xcc 0xcc 21:26:35 Bicyclidine ** NICK bike 21:27:22 joshe http://ref.x86asm.net/coder32.html#xC3 21:28:05 joshe I suppose that should be coder64, but the opcode is the same either way 21:31:16 stassats disassemble /m ? 21:32:00 stassats or what was the option 21:32:29 pkhuong joshe: any other thread in that core? 21:32:47 stassats oh yeah, it's sb-concurrency 21:32:58 asarch Did you get it? 21:33:28 joshe oh, 12 other threads in _thread_sys_nanosleep 21:33:56 stassats asarch: not yet 21:35:20 joshe I updated that paste with disassemble /r and info threads 21:35:59 stassats you didn't link the paste, though 21:36:03 stassats but the raw file 21:36:23 joshe my bad https://gist.github.com/jre/90bce0519cc928859282c36c7ba65494 21:38:32 stassats it's all in os code, so, what gives? 21:38:36 asarch Maybe at the spam folder... 21:41:55 stassats ok, sigill does land in ldb 21:42:19 stassats asarch: nothing 21:42:41 stassats so, a sigill in a foreign thread would not be caught 21:43:26 stassats i only have 1 core in my vm, let's increase that 21:46:29 asarch ACTION whispers: "Damn Hotmail!" 21:47:15 stassats no failure with two cores, but it appears to be even slower 21:52:27 stassats but openbsd still thinks there's one core 21:52:57 joshe I see what you mean about being used to the old host-2 output 21:53:07 joshe I keep thinking it's about to dump the cold core 21:53:41 stassats when you stare at the same thing for over a decade you get used to it 22:01:41 asarch Gotcha!: "Blocked for security reasons!" 22:02:21 stassats can't be sending illegal instructions 22:07:15 joshe I wonder if the kernel would send SIGILL for other reasons 22:08:04 joshe oh, I think that's how something with an invalid stack pointer is killed 22:08:15 stassats unaligned? 22:08:35 stassats why is it surfacing with multiple threads only? 22:08:36 joshe outside of a region with a special mmap flag 22:08:49 stassats why doesn't it happen to me? 22:09:46 stassats do i need an smp kernel to get multiple cores or something? 22:10:37 stassats i had only one core during installation 22:10:37 asarch_ D'oh! 22:10:43 asarch_ The file was so big... 22:10:49 asarch_ This is the link from Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wcwohmr0km2sdpv/debug.tar.gz?dl=0 22:11:00 joshe oh, yes if you added cores then you need to change kernels 22:11:12 stassats and how do i do that? 22:11:32 joshe mv /bsd /bsd.sp && mv /bsd.mp /bsd 22:12:17 joshe which is all the installer would do on the next upgrade anyway 22:12:44 stassats ok, now i need to find bsd.mp 22:12:57 joshe oh right, it wasn't installed 22:13:35 stassats i can just download it 22:14:21 asarch_ ** NICK asarch 22:14:42 asarch Did you get it? 22:15:16 joshe ftp http://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/$(uname -r)/$(machine)/{bsd.mp,SHA256.sig} 22:15:18 joshe signify -C -p /etc/signify/openbsd-$(uname -r | tr -d .)-base.pub -x SHA25.sig bsd.mp 22:15:34 joshe ;) 22:19:48 stassats oh yeah, sigill here 22:22:09 joshe if I'm reading this right, you get killed with an uncatchable SIGILL if the kernel can't write to your stack while delivering a signal 22:22:54 joshe so where'd the bad RSP value come from? 22:23:00 stassats that shouldn't be the case, it can write to the stack 22:24:03 joshe gdb shows no memory mapped where RSP points in the core dump I have 22:25:07 stassats 1 is the main thread, we move the stack without informing the os 22:25:10 joshe also, you can pkg_add gdb as root to get a less-old gdb installed as 'egdb' 22:26:19 joshe hm 22:31:54 stassats and it's non deterministic 22:38:55 stassats well, $rsp is kinda not where the control stack is supposed to be, but it may be just sigaltstack 22:41:16 stassats but it has no trouble receiving signals 22:45:11 stassats well, if $rsp is not even dump 22:45:12 stassats ed 22:45:41 stassats i actually see some output in the console 22:46:20 stassats trap [sbcl]47135/509372 type 6: sp 220f3fdf8 not inside 220d50000-220f40000 | 22:46:20 stassats trap [sbcl]39758/313918 type 6: sp 244f77178 not inside 244d88000-244f78000 22:47:09 joshe oh huh, how about that 22:49:38 stassats (< #X244d88000 #x244f77178 #x244f78000) => T 22:55:31 asarch Sorry, sorry. dhclient went crazy 22:56:19 stassats that is pretty cloe to the end, but still, what is it talking about? 22:56:52 asarch Did you get the files? 22:57:02 stassats asarch: no need anymore 22:57:40 asarch :-( 22:57:57 asarch Can you fix the problem? :-) 22:58:58 joshe we're investigating 22:59:16 asarch Yeah! 22:59:24 asarch I'm glad I could help 22:59:33 asarch Take your time guys! 22:59:37 stassats i already pry into the internals of the thread struct on darwin 22:59:46 joshe anyway, it's just a test failure 22:59:52 joshe go ahead and install and use it 23:00:02 stassats to set the stack boundaries, maybe openbsd needs that as well 23:00:34 stassats even if MAP_STACK is used, the check appears to be expensive if it's out of specified bounds 23:01:57 stassats i probably don't have access to p_spstart 23:02:17 stassats i would assume it's in the kernel 23:04:03 joshe yes, in struct proc 23:04:11 stassats oh, it updates p->p_spstart 23:04:18 stassats uvm_map_check_stack_range 23:04:25 stassats so, it shouldn't be always expensive 23:05:22 stassats now, it only happens on dualcore, can it be that it's accessing p->p_spstart while it's being updated? 23:06:28 stassats that would explain (< #X244d88000 #x244f77178 #x244f78000) => T 23:07:10 joshe I'd guess it'll be covered by the big kernel lock or a process subsystem-wide lock 23:10:34 stassats and the kernel can't be interrupted, can it? 23:11:40 stassats well, the process has been running for some time, the main thread p_spstart should have settled down 23:12:06 stassats and new threads are already born with the right stack locations specified 23:13:56 stassats and it's fine for the main thread, or for "bsd" 23:23:00 stassats i have no more new clues 23:23:56 joshe so, is it correct that sbcl will use a lisp stack allocated out of the heap? 23:24:19 stassats well, you did change it to use MAP_STACK 23:24:24 joshe so that RSP might point outside the thread struct? 23:24:38 stassats no, that shouldn't happen 23:39:15 stassats threads.pure also fails 23:40:30 stassats it's say type 6, which is sigsegv 23:40:53 stassats but the main thread should have received countless sigsegvs by that point 23:50:33 stassats https://gist.github.com/stassats/1081ccb72c9468f1f7f4c06698b7fc16 23:50:38 stassats all on that trap 23:51:18 stassats except for run-progrm 23:52:51 joshe run-program is a known problem on the openbsd side, the fix is to stop disabling PIE 23:53:12 stassats well, it's something about the environment 23:53:20 stassats anyway, i blame the OS 23:53:25 stassats (for the trap) 23:54:00 joshe http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/Wrong-linkage-to-environ-with-Wl-nopie-td338325.html 23:56:41 stassats i think i would need to recompile the kernel to get more insight 23:57:06 joshe I've already added a few printfs but they weren't enlightening 23:57:44 joshe uvm_map_check_stack_range() is returning false because of the uvm_map_lookup_entry() case 23:57:44 stassats i wanted to know where exactly in https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/sys/uvm/uvm_map.c#L1774 it returns 23:58:15 joshe maybe the stack page was unmapped somehow? 23:58:27 stassats not really possible 23:58:49 stassats well, for sbcl, not for the os to do 23:59:21 joshe or it ran off the end of the first MAP_STACK page and into a normal data page, and the kernel only noticed on the next signal delivery? 0:00:44 stassats you're mapping the whole thing map_stack 0:00:51 joshe anyway, in that file it's returning on line 1788 0:00:52 stassats there's nowhere it can go outside of it 0:01:45 stassats what is p->p_vmspace->vm_map.serial? 0:01:59 stassats so, i assume it gets there by p->p_vmspace->vm_map.serial != p->p_spserial 0:02:01 joshe would sbcl mprotect() any part of the stack later? 0:02:18 stassats the guard pages, but that's only on stack overflow, which is not the case here 0:02:46 joshe u_int serial; /* signals stack changes */ 0:03:03 joshe that's all I know 0:03:16 stassats altstack, that we do use 0:03:29 stassats but it's inside the thread struct well 0:03:32 stassats as 0:04:47 joshe ah, I see 0:05:22 joshe it's a serial number which exists to invalidate those p_sp* members 0:05:36 stassats it's ++ 0:05:47 joshe it's incremented when MAP_STACK is added or removed 0:06:09 stassats new threads are MAP_STACKed 0:06:28 joshe p_spserial should be per-thread 0:06:29 stassats is that actually needed? 0:07:08 joshe there's also some magic to automatically apply MAP_STACK to whatever you pass to sigaltstack() 0:09:15 stassats i would assume pthread_attr_setstack does the job of map_stack, and map_stack is only needed for the main thread 0:20:58 stassats if you're saying 1788, then sp is completely unmapped, nevermind MAP_STACK 0:21:43 joshe right 0:25:37 stassats can it be caused by thread destruction? 0:26:08 joshe so I added a printf to sbcl of the initial thread struct address 0:26:09 joshe pid 36644 initial stack 0x290fbe000-0x2914b00b8 0:26:18 joshe versus the kernel message: 0:26:19 joshe trap [sbcl]36644/487632 type 6: sp 2cfa37a78 not inside 2cf848000-2cfa38000 0:26:21 stassats we schedule thread unmapping when another thread dies, but there's a window when a second thread may have just died but the os is still writing something 0:27:19 joshe hm 0:28:59 stassats something like 88a92a8129b6559c140e16e8d0e01bb7bba56f6a 0:34:15 stassats it would be good to know what's the PC when that "type 6" sigsegv is delivered 0:34:53 joshe oh good idea 0:41:53 joshe it's the same as in the core dump, <futex+10> 0:42:20 stassats makes sense 0:42:42 stassats well, it's in the main thread, the main thread shouldn't die, should it? 0:42:55 stassats why is it starting from 1 and not 0? 0:42:57 joshe if it's not in the initial thread then it must be in a thread struct which was unmapped after the thread finalized 0:43:44 joshe I think that thread numbering is gdb's, the OS uses random pid-like IDs 0:44:54 stassats gdb indeed starts from 1 0:45:13 stassats so, there's no way thread 1 is being deallocated 0:48:01 stassats a new message syscall [sbcl]83491/452323 sp 254937cd8 not inside 254748000-254938000 0:48:04 stassats syscall, not trap 0:48:18 joshe oh right, futex 0:49:28 joshe well I'm getting a trap, presumably the page fault from trying to retq with sp pointing to unmapped memory 0:50:26 joshe how is that happening though, the sp value it's being killed for isn't even inside the main thread's stack 0:55:41 stassats removed free_thread_struct(post_mortem);, can no longer crash in info.impure.lisp 1:00:49 stassats we are calling pthread_join, so it shouldn't be existing anymore at all 1:00:53 stassats before free_thread_struct 1:01:02 stassats so, how come and why the main thread is receiving it? 1:07:27 stassats well, i'm still puzzled and will leave it at that for today 1:12:15 joshe oh! 1:12:28 joshe this isn't happening in the main thread 1:12:50 stassats well, duh, i never believed that anyway 1:13:23 joshe the thread didn't make it into the core dump 2:19:54 slyrus1 ** NICK slyrus


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D Smith necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 113 diseños de 28 diseñadores freelance.
Evergreen Venture Services
We are a group of experienced business professionals (CPA's, investment bankers, etc.) that have joined forces to provide a one stop solution to business start up's and early stage ventures.
We provide a variety of services, including accounting, financial management, business planning, designing marketing strategies, investor presentations, etc.
We specialize in commercializing new technology in the bio medical, information technology, and wireless communication industries.
We are each middle age with experience in advising new ventures as well as in starting our own ventures. We work in the Houston and Boston areas.
We make starting a new vneture easier, faster, cheaper, safer, and with less dilution of ownership than other alternatives.
Our target market are entrepreneurs, inventors, research institutions, investors, and other stakeholders involved in new ventures.
Most of our clients will be younger than us, with less business experience. Some will be tech geeks, and may have little understanding of what we do or the value we bring to the new venture.
We need a logo for our web site and stationary that tells our story and conveys an image of the value of our services.
Our logo should convey an image of experience, competence, growth, financial success, and team work.
We selected the word "Evergreen" to be in our name because it conveys some of these images.
We are open to use of color, movement, etc. We would like to avoid clip art and standard images.
I've attached a Word doc with more info on our company.
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Ask a member of the Neosho wrestling program and he'll likely tell you there's no such thing as an offseason.
Ask a member of the Neosho wrestling program and he'll likely tell you there's no such thing as an offseason. The team doesn't believe in taking time off, and that's what helped lead them to Columbia, Mo., last week as the 7-12 grade teams competed at the Mizzou Team Camp on June 9-13.
With the varsity team coming off its third state title in four years, the Wildcats took first place out of 18 teams spanning 13 states to take both the gold and silver divisions.
"I was very proud of our young men for their commitment to use this opportunity to help our team grow," Wildcats coach Jeremy Phillips said. There are individual camps that our kids attend, and those are important, but team camp helps us understand wrestling for more than ones self, the value of bonus points, and allows leaders to evolve."
Phillips said he challenged his wrestlers to set goals prior to entering team camps. The "smart" goals, as he put it, were highlighted by a challenge for each wrestler to evaluate their performances in order to "address weaknesses and build upon strengths."
"After technique sessions and duals we put in extra (work) to do just that," Phillips said. "I was pleased with how we embraced the extra which means while everyone else is beating us to the showers and to the cafeteria, we are putting in time to improve."
Phillips said the team had a rigorous schedule.
"Our schedule each day was an hour of technique and dual each morning, two duals in the afternoon and then two hours of technique in the evening," he said. "This was already a pretty demanding schedule. This allows my kids to really see the concept return on investments and the sacrifices they make will pay off."
The team also seemed to develop more chemistry, according to Phillips, which could spell trouble for the rest of the state in the future.
"In addition to the improvements on the mat, I saw this group become more like a family the last few days, and that is key to winning championships. Truly caring for those who are committed and working with you for the same common goals is what helps, I think, maximize potential and make the experiences priceless memories that we will cherish forever.
"I look forward to us building upon this experience and preparing for another exciting season this winter."
He then added an important caveat: "Our goals between now and then will be embraced in the weight room four days a week and on the mat at least two days."
Yep, no offseason.


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Joint research project yields results
Long-running UK research by the Hawk and Owl Trust and the British Trust for Ornithology
The Hen Harrier Winter Roost Survey (HHWRS) has been running continuously since its instigation by the late artist and ornithologist Donald Watson and harrier enthusiast Dr Roger Clarke in the early 1980s.
Dedicated volunteers record harriers at roost sites on six co-ordinated days throughout the winter. Roost counters are encouraged to record sex and, if possible, age of the birds seen as well as the numbers of birds (though typically the results comprise numbers of adult 'grey' males and 'ringtails', which includes adult females and juveniles of both sex). Recorders are asked also to provide some details of the weather conditions and to report sightings of other raptor and owl species.
In a world of agricultural intensification, climate change and, unfortunately, continued persecution of hen harriers and other raptors, the HHWRS provides an invaluable tool for keeping track of changes in hen harrier numbers in the UK, and indeed, is the only one of its sort for non-breeding raptors in this country.
The Hawk and Owl Trust has joined with the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) to continue the HHWRS, which the two trusts have helped fund for some years. They would like to see this survey grow to cover already known roosts which are not, at present, counted as part of the survey.
The HHWRS would be delighted to welcome more volunteers. Contact Nigel Middleton for more details by email at email@example.com or Anne Cotton at the BTO email@example.com or tel 01786 458 021).
Those lucky enough to carry out hen harrier roost surveys frequently encounter other raptor and owl species that either use the same roost or the habitat around it. Marsh harriers are frequent in the south and counts of these are encouraged and passed on to those monitoring these birds. Short-eared owls and merlins are frequently recorded near the roost site and Barn Owls and Buzzards also. One lucky observer in 2009-2010 found a vagrant pallid harrier near his roost and in 2010-2011 a northern harrier (North American hen harrier, regarded by some as a separate species) was reported.
Data analysed from the 2009-2010 winter showed up apparent differences in winter distribution between grey birds (mainly adult males) and brown birds (females and immature males).
Data highlights distribution puzzle
Proportions of males were higher in the south and southwest of England than in the east of England (south of Lincolnshire), matching the patterns reported from the survey data in the 1980s and 90s (see below for a list of HHWRS-related publications). Counts from the north of England and Wales were too low to interpret, so more data from these regions would be helpful in establishing if this is a countrywide trend.
Reasons for such intersexual segregation are currently unclear, though climate (and in particular temperature) may be involved, the smaller males potentially needing more benign winters in which to survive than the larger females. Prey availability is likely to be the other key environmental factor, though no current research can offer any insight into either hypothesis.
Alternatively, a modest but significant influx of dispersing juveniles from northern Europe into eastern England could tip the ratio in favour of ringtails in this region, meaning that the regional segregation would be one of age-groups, not sex. Demographic patterns and migratory behaviour are just two of the many fundamental biological processes that HHWRS data can help to illuminate in the future.
The survey requires very little in the way of bird ID skills, so is ideal for the tyro birdwatcher who is hesitant at undertaking one of the BTO's more general volunteer surveys; all you need to do is find a suitable vantage point near roosting harriers and wait and see!
Further reading
Clarke, R. 1988. The diet of hen harriers roosting in Wicken Fen. Cambridgeshire Bird Report 62: 52-58.
Clarke, R. & Watson, D. 1990. The Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus Winter Roost survey in Britain and Ireland. Bird Study 37: 84-100.
Clarke, R. & Watson, D. 1997. The Hen Harrier Winter Roost Survey. The Raptor 24: 41-45.
Dobson, A., Clarke, R. & Clarke, M. 2009. Factors affecting the vulnerability of farmland birds to predation by Hen Harriers Circus cyaneus in winter. Bird Study 56 (1): 132-136.


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25 years later, VTA light rail among the nation's worst
A quarter of a century ago, Santa Clara County's first light-rail train left the station as excited supporters heralded a new wave of state-of-the-art transportation to match the region's burgeoning high-tech industry.
But there was no grand celebration this month as Silicon Valley marked 25 years of light rail.
The near-empty trolleys that often shuttle by at barely faster than jogging speeds serve as a constant reminder that the car is still king in Silicon Valley -- and that the Valley Transportation Authority's trains are among the least successful in the nation by any metric. Today, fewer than 1 percent of the county's residents ride the trains daily, while it costs the rest of the region -- taxpayers at large -- about $10 to subsidize every rider's round trip.
Even light rail's supporters concede the train has not lived up to expectations thus far, but they are optimistic that slow and steady increases in rider counts will continue.
"I believe we are ultimately going to realize the (original) vision," said Kevin Connolly, VTA's transportation planning manager. "But I think what's happened is that it wasn't quite as easy or quick as originally conceived of 30 years ago."
So what exactly has gone wrong, and what needs to change to make the next 25 years a smoother ride for Silicon Valley's trolley line?
Bumpy start
The VTA system, which cost $2 billion to build and $66 million per year to operate, is one of the most inefficient light-rail lines in the nation:
The network that officials envisioned in the 1970s and '80s wound up being twice the size, more expensive, less efficient and less popular than first thought.
"It is an unmitigated disaster and a waste of taxpayer money," said VTA critic Tom Rubin, a transportation consultant based in Oakland. "I think the original concept was very seriously flawed."
Still, light-rail supporters argue the trains have put a dent in Silicon Valley's notoriously nasty freeway traffic, providing more than 32,000 one-way trips each day. For perspective, if all those riders drove on Highway 101 in the South Bay, traffic would increase more than 6 percent.
"If we didn't have the current system, we would have terminal gridlock," said the train's godfather, Rod Diridon, a transit advocate who pushed for the network as a county supervisor decades ago.
Reasons are clear
Still, VTA light rail has struggled -- and it's mostly because of the valley's sprawl, transportation experts and agency officials say.
Connolly noted that the South Bay's first light-rail line was built along onion fields, where planners had expected homes and businesses to pop up along the route. That contrasted with the strategy in most other cities, which is to put light rail along existing, dense corridors.
For the most part, the density never materialized in Silicon Valley. As Connolly spoke at VTA headquarters along its main light-rail line on First Street, he noted the orange groves across the street.
"In our case we tried to graft a big-city transit type of mode onto a suburban environment, and it's still kind of a work in progress," Connolly said.
San Francisco's Muni light-rail system, which carries five times as many passengers as VTA, features dense housing and jobs near stations that riders can walk to, avoiding traffic jams and the huge parking costs.
More commuters in the South Bay, on the other hand, stomach awful traffic and record gas prices because the region offers plenty of free parking, and its businesses and homes are spread out. And that's not changing any time soon.
"Changing land-use patterns is something that is hard work and takes a long time and a lot of political will. It happens in an incremental way, property by property," said Gabriel Metcalf, executive director of SPUR, a Bay Area planning nonprofit.
Riding the rails
Many riders say they use light rail because they don't have any other way to get around -- and they like that it's clean, affordable and consistent.
"It's very convenient for me," said Mark Vindiola, 47, who takes the train from his home in Milpitas to school and work because he doesn't drive. "I'm happy it's there and I want (the service) to continue."
But their main complaint is speed, which is often less than 10 mph in downtown San Jose.
"It just takes a while to get through downtown," said Sabrina Baca, 17, as she sat on the train with 18-year-old Fernando Fernandez and their 7-month-old daughter. Asked why they and most people ride the train, the couple said, in unison: "Because they have to."
Light rail is generally less economically efficient than long-haul heavy train service such as BART or Caltrain, though San Jose's system is especially feeble.
Light-rail agencies in Minneapolis, Houston, Newark, N.J., and Phoenix each run less service than VTA yet carry more passengers than the South Bay's network. Several cities that are much smaller than San Jose -- from St. Louis to Salt Lake City to Portland, Ore. -- also feature light-rail systems with more riders than VTA.
Sacramento -- which also opened its light-rail network in 1987, operates with approximately the same level of service and runs through a similarly sprawled-out region -- carries nearly 40 percent more passengers per day than VTA.
Connolly pointed out that the Sacramento line has a built-in customer base of state workers who take the line, at a 75 percent discount, to their jobs. The closest VTA has to that: San Jose State students, who make up a large chunk of VTA's riders largely because the line carries students to the university for no additional charge, a cost built into their tuition.
Another issue is that San Jose's downtown -- while denser than most parts of Silicon Valley -- is still not the jobs destination seen in the urban cores of other cities. For many riders, it's a place to get through, not to.
Future changes coming?
Acknowledging the need to improve, the VTA is undergoing a $27 million project to make the service more attractive, largely by adding tracks to launch express trains. VTA is also kicking off an efficiency effort to cut service costs 5 percent, which could help land new grants from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the Bay Area's transportation agency.
Expansions to Los Gatos and East San Jose are also proposed, but those, too, are forecast to attract very few riders and carry large, unfunded capital costs.
"In general, we can't lose sight of the fact that we have to do the basics better," Connolly said. "We have to be faster, we have to connect with better destinations."
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What I will be back to share with you is my new recipe for "Steel Cut Oats In-An-Instant", as you see in the photo. Reminds me of Cream of Wheat that we pretty much grew up on as kids. Did you eat that too? We always had it with brown sugar on top! Nice memory. :)
Anyhow, back very, very soon! Until then, read this clever excerpt:
It is absurd that we eat pigs and love dogs and don't even know why. Many of us spend long minutes in the aisle of the drugstore mulling over what toothpaste to buy. Yet most of us don't spend any time at all thinking about what species of animal we eat and why. (Source: Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows)


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For the most part, I love where I live.
My home is a 1930s Craftsman bungalow in a small town located deep within the mountains of North Carolina. We have four gorgeous seasons, organic farmers markets, insanely huge numbers of Trick-or-Treaters, and the Blue Ridge Parkway. Even better, we're next-door neighbors to Asheville, "The Paris of the South," one of America's most thriving cities for the arts.
Asheville bursts with art deco architecture, street musicians, art galleries, funky coffee shops, community theaters, street festivals, ballet troupes, cupcake bakeries, fire-eaters, vintage clothing boutiques, independent cinema, and mouth-watering restaurants that take pride in using fresh, local ingredients.
Like I said, I love where I live.
For the most part.
Because once a week, my small town (NOT the city of Asheville) publishes a newspaper. And, once a week, my small town is subjected to editorials such as the following.
(I am not making this up. The following literary abuses -- ALL OF THEM -- are the work of the newspaper's editor alone. I'm only omitting names to provide him with a titchy cushion of anonymity. Which, after last week's nasty editorial about the inauguration, I am not entirely sure he deserves.)
To get the full effect, please read this carefully. Even better, read it aloud! And remember: this was written by the editor.
COMMENTARY: Does everything change?
As a student at [X] High School the preferred music of choice was Rock-n-Roll and I fell right into a lot of what people were listening to back in the late 70s and early 80s.
However, my best friend in high school was a Country music fan. Not much of what was currently playing but more of the stuff from the 50s and 60s. I listen when I was ride in his vehicle and was not much swayed by what I heard. Just as he was not swayed when he rode in my vehicle.
Now more than 20 years later, what was deemed Rock back then is now Country and I enjoy a lot of what country music produces this days and none hardly any of what the Rock genre produces.
So what's changed? In my opinion, the entire music scene.
What was Country is no more, what was Rock is now Country and the stuff is now called Rock, well...and guess I'll have to chalk up to the generation gap.
One constant I have notice in Country music is that their still sing about life, love, living in the country, and the highs and lows that come with it. I guess that's what draws me to a lot of the tunes. It's music that I can relate to and enjoy listening.
I guess with time we all change with time, all except my high friend. As far as I know, he's still listening to the stuff he listen in high school. I guess that's make another constant.
Seriously. WHAT? My mind boggles. BOGGLES!!! Where does one even begin? How about the fact that when read aloud it's practically a Mad Lib?
"I listen when I was ride in his vehicle"
"none hardly any"
"One constant I have notice in Country music is that their still sing"
And the last paragraph! Did you catch that two of the three sentences start with the phrase I guess?
"I guess that's make another constant."
"I guess with time we all change with time" (?!?!?!)
And I love the bit with his "high friend." Who would that be? Cheech or Chong? Clearly this is begging for a letter to the editor. Jarrod thinks it should be written in a similar style. Here is his suggestion:
I read your article about the Rock-n-Roll how its the Country now and how its changed with my Friend. I think it was so good and to point this out impact! I lot of the friends I was high with also now relate to it. When I was outside my grandparents house, then in the car. I will appreciate the insightful insight you provide to me about today and how it has changed yesterday.
Tee hee! My husband is so clever.
What would you say to this editor?


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August 9, 2012
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Content for briefs is selected from e-mail submissions to Community Editor Amy Edgett at firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit http://www.sierrasun.com to submit events online. Please limit descriptions to 50 words. E-mail submissions may be 150-300 words. Items published in the print edition news space permitting.
National Sand#8217;mores Day celebration
Northstar will celebrate Americaand#8217;s favorite campfire treat, the sand#8217;more, on National Sand#8217;mores Day, Aug. 10. In honor of this tradition, complementary sand#8217;mores will be offered throughout the day to resort guests. And, in the evening, guests are invited to enjoy the free outdoor film screening of a Disney summer classic, Heavyweights (rated PG).
For further details, or to purchase tickets for Northstar events, call 800-GO-NORTH or visit http://www.NorthstarCalifornia.com.
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Ta-Hoe Nalu paddle festival
Paddle the Big Blue. Two days of fun for all ages and skill levels, Aug. 11 and 12, Kings Beach State Park. Reception party on the beach. Live concert from 6-9 p.m. Visit http://www.tahoenalu.com.
Tahoe League for Charity to host
author of and#8220;River of Red Goldand#8221;
Tahoe League for Charity will feature Naida West author of and#8220;River of Red Goldand#8221; during their August Luncheon and Speaker Series on Aug. 13, at Jakeand#8217;s on the Lake in Tahoe City. The luncheon starts at 11:30 a.m. and cost $17 per person. Please call 530-525-7579 to make reservations.
Naida Westand#8217;s novels encompass the three fields of California history: Native American/Euro-American contact period; the Gold Rush; and the turn-of-the-century Gilded Age. Her inspiration developed from the historic value of her home along the Cosumnes River and the Sacramento area where West grew up. She has been thrilling readers for years. Visit http://www.tahoeleagueforcharity.org.
Tahoe Truckee California Democratic Club
Jack Uppal is running for U.S. House of Representative and will speak at a town hall meeting. This program will replace the August meeting.
You are urged to attend (and bring friends) to the following informative program: Town Hall Meeting introducing Jack Uppal, the moderate running for the U.S. House of Representatives, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 6:30-8 p.m., Truckee Tahoe Airport Community Room, 10356 Truckee Airport Road, Truckee. For more information go to: http://www.JackUppal.com or Tahoe Truckee California Democratic Club, John Foster at 530-546-7660 or Lynn Booth at 530-214-8094.
Please join Placer County Libraries
for and#8216;Community Conversationand#8217;
During the past few months, a number of meetings have taken place at a variety of Placer County libraries where citizens provided insight into their communities so the Library may align services to meet their needs.
Now itand#8217;s the Kings Beach Libraryand#8217;s turn. The meeting, on Tuesday Aug. 14, 10 a.m.-noon, at the Kings Beach Library is meant to provide insight to the Placer County Strategic Planning Consultant about what community goals are and how those goals affect library service needs. The consultant will initiate a lively discussion.
A two-hour period is planned to obtain the information needed for the strategic planning document being created where initiatives and goals will be set by the Library.
Please join us and be a part of North Lake Tahoeand#8217;s future! Kings Beach Library, 301 Secline Street, Kings Beach, 530-546-2021.
Jeremiahand#8217;s Tree Service workers gain certification
Hunter Nelson, field operations manager for Jeremiahand#8217;s Tree Service, has earned the designation of Certified Tree Risk Assessor (#CTRA 1564.) Previously, his uncle and co-worker, Jeremiah Nelson, was the only other arborist in the Tahoe and Truckee areas holding this certification (#PNW 532). The course content focused upon tree biology, structural mechanics, risk theory and practice, reading tree conditions, assessing and assigning levels, and prescribing risk mitigation strategies. Hunter adds CTRA to his long list of tree industry certifications. Jeremiah and Hunter have also become Certified Wildlife Protectors (#'s 591 and 593) from the Wildlife Training Institute. This course is designed for the tree care industry and utility line workers. The instruction includes caring for injured and orphaned birds and mammals, state and federal wildlife protection laws, including the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and pre-work wildlife survey detection. Find the arborists at http://www.jeremiahstreeservice-tahoe.com, on Facebook or call 530-581-1945.
Bunco play not and#8220;for women onlyand#8221;
10983 Beacon Road, Truckee, Aug. 18, 2-5 p.m., play 2-3 games with food, beverages, prizes and fun. Cost is $20 buy in for all. Sponsored by Truckee Tahoe Republican Women Federated, 805-698-6515.
Asado for Lake Tahoe Ski Club
The 19th Annual Gourmet Asado for the Lake Tahoe Ski Club Foundation (LTSCF) will be held at the Quist estate at 2340 Sunnyside Lane in Tahoe City on Aug. 19, 1-5 p.m. The LTSCF offers financial assistance every year to dozens of alpine ski racers in the North Tahoe / Truckee area. In addition to the Argentinean Asado, food is prepared by top local restaurants. There will also be a silent auction and raffle with a grand prize of an Apple iPad 3. Raffle tickets are available at the event or at Tootsieand#8217;s in Tahoe City. For more information contact Kirsten Appleton at 916-599-1562, firstname.lastname@example.com or visit http://www.laketahoeskiclub.com.
High speeds, illegal passing puts
Caltrans workers at risk
Excessive speeds and illegal passing in narrow travel lanes between Emigrant Gap and Rainbow on Interstate 80 has the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and the Gold Run California Highway Patrol (CHP) concerned for construction workerand#8217;s and motorist safety through the Emigrant Gap project area.
The Emigrant Gap construction zone is an 11-mile stretch with narrow 11-foot lanes, a full foot narrower than usual. Drivers are speeding and passing illegally through this construction zone, creating a dangerous working environment for Caltrans workers. Drivers save only an average of one minute and 50 seconds by speeding through this construction zone. Caltrans is warning drivers they are subject to double fines, increased insurance rates, and the possibility of killing themselves and others.
Caltrans and CHP are prepared to act before a fatality occurs. In the last 10 days there have been seven collisions in the Emigrant Gap construction zone. These collisions resulted in injury, damage, and extensive traffic back-ups and delays. The scarcely two minutes drivers save by speeding isnand#8217;t worth the consequences.
and#8220;40-ishand#8221; reunion announced
The and#8220;40ish Reunionand#8221; for Truckee High Schooland#8217;s classes of 1970 through 1975 is scheduled to take place on the weekend of Sept. 28-30. Get-together at Jasonand#8217;s Grille, picnic at Crown Motel Beach, party at Cal-Nevaand#8217;s Indian Room, and breakfast / golf at Brockway Golf Course are planned. For more information, contact David Kahn at email@example.com or 530-587-7581.
1940s Placer High Picnic announced
A 1940s reunion picnic will be held on Saturday, Aug. 25, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at Auburn Recreation Park. All 1940s alumni and guests are invited to attend. All reservations must be received no later than Aug. 10, 2012. Cost $20 per person. Call 530-885-3538 for reservation forms and additional information.


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CHICAGO (Reuters) - People with diabetes in the United States and several other countries do not get effective treatment to control their disease, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday, and health insurance, not personal wealth, plays a big role in determining which diabetics get good care.
The findings suggest millions of people with diabetes are undiagnosed or poorly treated, putting them at risk of an early death from heart disease or significant complications of diabetes, such as blindness, chronic kidney disease and foot problems that can require amputations.
"Too many people are not being properly diagnosed with diabetes and related cardiovascular risk factors. Those who are diagnosed aren't being effectively treated," Dr. Stephen Lim of The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle said in a statement.
"This is a huge missed opportunity to lower the burden of disease in both rich and poor countries," said Lim, who worked on the study published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization.
Diabetes is reaching epidemic levels. An estimated 280 million people, or 6.4 percent of the world's population, are suffering from it, according to the researchers.
Overweight people have an increased risk of developing it, and cases are predicted to rise swiftly in coming decades as obesity rates increase.
The research team used data from national health surveys to study diabetes diagnosis and treatment rates in the Colombia, England, Iran, Mexico, Scotland, Thailand and the United States and found widespread rates of undiagnosed and poorly treated diabetes.
In the United States, nearly 90 percent of adult diabetics - or more than 16 million adults aged 35 and older - fail to meet widely accepted targets for healthy levels of blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol.
In Mexico, 99 percent of adult diabetics are not meeting those targets.
In Thailand, up to 62 percent or more than 663,000 men surveyed are either undiagnosed or untreated for diabetes.
Of those who had been diagnosed with diabetes, many are not getting the treatment they need, the team found.
Of diabetics in all the studies, the range of those who met goals for blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol ranged from a low of 1 percent in Mexico to a high of 12 percent in the United States.
"The cost of leaving individuals with diabetes untreated in the future will be huge, and a lot of the costs could be averted by better management of the health risks of these individuals," Dr. Emmanuela Gakidou, who led the study, said in a telephone interview.
Surprisingly, personal wealth and education were not a significant factor in the rates of diagnosis and treatment in any of the countries except in Thailand.
But health insurance status played a major role.
"In countries where we had information on health insurance, it actually played a significant role in getting diagnosed and effectively treated for diabetes," Gakidou said.
The effect was the strongest in the United States, where adult diabetics who had insurance were twice as likely to be diagnosed and treated as those who had no insurance.
"That is a big effect in a country with a large population of adults with diabetes," she said.
In October, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention projected that up to a third of U.S. adults could have diabetes by 2050 if Americans continue to gain weight and avoid exercise.
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Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... Sheriff's investigators have at least 2 eyewitnesses who place Bieber in the driver's seat. We're told one witness is a neighbor who chased Justin down on foot, in his socks.
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Any individual who has observed the goings on in a given place for a period of time can tell you that there are interesting things happening all the time. If you can imagine the stories this house could tell of the history it has seen, they would be as varied and interesting as her history itself.
As an example, if you've ever had breakfast in our luxurious dining room, with it's quarter sawn oak walls and period murals depicting Victorian life, you would never guess that the room once housed a motorcycle gang and at least one large Harley Davidson. Yet such is the story shared by one guest who had rented an upstairs room years prior to the restoration of the home. During renovations a good sized pocket, carefully carved into the top of the door in Mrs. Hancock's room was discovered, who can guess what it as for? Would the house tell of rare jewels stored there for safe keeping, or a snifter hidden for cold evenings? The Hancock House, apparently had custom oversized picture rails made for one third floor room, during refinishing, peculiar intentional grooves were found on the top of the oversized picture rails. Given that the third floor was reserved for child-care & instruction, could it be this room was where the young boys played? Did they perhaps place their toy trains on these shelves at night? Since the walls cannot say one way or the other, the room has been named the "Train Room".
Chuck or Susan would be delighted to chat with you about any number of these and other stories about the Hancock House and the treasures within. Such stories can not only heighten the charm of your stay here, but also add to your understanding of days now past; of Tiffany-windowed churches and grand public buildings, riverboats and horse-drawn trolleys, and most of all, the people that brought life to times that would otherwise be naught but dusty history now.


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What is the origin of the baby bib? Who can know for sure? What is certain is that new moms will be doing a lot of laundry and one thing that can help is to have a lot of bibs. Now you can buy bibs in plenty of places around town - easy-wipe vinyl from drug stores or big-box stores; fancy, lacy or even designer bibs from clothing stores and high-end boutiques and Etsy will offer many handmade lovelies to choose from. It's funny - with all those options, it is still nice to make your own. Sometimes Nana's and Momma's just want to a DIY project to put a little extra love in there. XOXO! Such was the case for us last weekend.
I fell for these two fat-quarter prints. They just reminded me of our little Fiona who's current best friend is her real family doggie, Berkeley. The tiny daisies on the black field is also a winner destined to hide a splatter of smashed carrots. I bought a new clean white terry cloth bath towel for $2.99 at my local Wal-Mart to cut and use as the soft and absorbent backside of the bib. The fabrics are laid out below after I pre-washed them.
With little Miss Fiona and her Momma (my daughter Lauren) spending some extra time with us while Daddy/Hubby was on a business trip we had grand illusions of getting a great deal of sewing/crafting done over the week. Unfortunately the little granddaughter ended up getting the dreaded cough and cold AGAIN and so most of our efforts were toward getting her through that and getting some sleep. :-)
Now luckily bibs are not terribly difficult and the folks at Instructables made it very simple for us. I got started and made the doggie bib first and then Lauren turned out the adorable tiny daisy bib. We ended up extending the pattern to make the bib about 1/2 inch longer since Miss Fi is nearly 12 mos. old. We used Velcro as the closure and its working very well.
Mis Fi was starting to feel better by Saturday afternoon she was kind enough to model the finished products. Love that face! We think these are bright, fun and great additions to her everyday bib wardrobe. Already we are thinking of ways to dress the next ones up with rickrack and floral adornments. Don't be afraid to try this project if you are a beginner. **You might use flannel as the backing fabric instead of terry cloth for an even easier sewing experience.
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You've probably heard what today is by now: Finnish/Swedish Heritage Day!
Just kidding. It is a day for celebrating Finnish Swedes and Swedish Finns (not Swedish Fish) — but it's also Election Day, if you hadn't gathered.
If you're as over-saturated by the election as we are at this point (we are about on par with this little girl), we suggest you look ahead a few sunrises from now to the most important meal of the day — breakfast.
This Saturday, Nov. 10, start your day with world-renowned curator and all-around hoot Dr. Bob Bakker. We're serving up the bacon with Bakker from 9 to 11:30 a.m. and some of the staff that put the whole paleo party together.
Guests can meet Dr. Bakker, watch his special presentation geared especially to kids, participate in dinosaur activities and enjoy nibbles and noms with the Bakkster.
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June 29, 2012
June 29, 2012 (Fullerton, CA) - U.S. Men's National Team captain Carlos Bocanegra will contribute his talents, experience and wisdom to the 2012 Cal South Pro+ Summer I.D. Camp on Friday, July 6 at Concordia University in Irvine. Bocanegra will appear as a special contributor at the camp, leading sessions that focus on what it takes physically and mentally to reach and maintain elite levels in the soccer world. Bocanegra's audience will be comprised of players in the Boys 1997, 1998 and 1999 age brackets from both Cal South and Washington Youth Soccer.
Bocanegra says he's looking forward to talking with the players. "It's going to be cool to see this group of boys, especially those from Southern California. This is where I grew up and it's always been a region with great talent." The opportunity for the boys to measure themselves against other elite players is very important. "I went to camps like this and began to understand what it was going to take to get to the level of other Cal South players like Eric Wynalda or Cobi Jones. My message is going to be that at this stage of their soccer lives --around 14 or 15-- it's time to start taking the game seriously. They should still have fun, but it's going to take some commitment and work to keep getting better."
Cal South Director of Coaching Education Steve Hoffman is excited to have Bocanegra as a part of the camp's curriculum. "Having any professional player talk to our young players is fantastic, but when you have a player like Carlos Bocanegra, who started his soccer playing days in Southern California and has represented his country, that's even more special. I feel Carlos has conquered the world of soccer by playing the game in multiple countries. It shows us all what a special player Carlos is. I am really excited for the Pro+ players from Washington and Cal South to spend a little time with our national team captain and Cal South alum."
The summer I.D. camp is part of Cal South's Pro+ Elite Player Identification program. Pro+ was instituted earlier this year to expand and enhance the identification and advancement opportunities for youth soccer players in Southern California. Holding the camp locally means that costs can be kept to a minimum, allowing more players to participate. U.S. Soccer's participation means that players will be seen and instructed by top level scouts and coaches. In addition to the boys' camp from July 4-7, there is a girls' camp that runs from June 30-July 3.
Bocanegra is not the only member of the U.S. Soccer establishment who is scheduled to be part of the camps. U.S. Soccer Technical Advisor Rod Becerra, who has responsibility for identifying and training top talent in Southern California, will be looking for potential national team members. Damon Nahas, the head coach of the U.S. Girls U15 team will be working during the girls' training sessions, as will Girls U14 assistant coach Mark Carr. Michael Ndoumbe, a U.S. Soccer scout, will be attending both camp sessions. USC All-American, team captain of FC Twente in The Netherlands and Cal South alumnus Ashley Nick will be a guest at the girls' camp. Finally, all campers will have sessions with sports psychologist Joshua Medcalf.
For more information on Cal South Pro+, please visit www.calsouth.com/proplus.
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One of the most interesting things I've read lately in the papers and on the blogs has been the slow drumbeat for the return of Bobby Valentine as Mets manager. All these people who should know better, who blast the Mets for repeating their same mistakes over and over again, are clamoring for them to return to the not-too-distant past in bringing back the flawed Valentine.
Can you really go home again? Can you reheat a souffle? Can a torn relationship be made whole again? Experience tells me probably not. Valentine had his chance, and in 1999 and 2000 had playoff teams that fizzled out. Yes, they reached the World Series in 2000, but after blowing Game 1, they were essentially done.
Could Valentine without Steve Phillips work? I doubt it. Valentine is a lightning rod for controversy and in much the degree of Billy Martin, a quick fix. He energizes at first, but then things regress. He does not sustain.
As bad as Jerry Manuel was this year, it must be remembered the team was in first place until injuries sacked the season. We can't say with certainty the Mets would be in the playoffs had they stayed healthy, but they were headed in that direction.
Manuel definitely has shortcomings, but the season was so hideously fractured by injuries it would have been unfair to not give him another chance. Remember, it wasn't Manuel's fault the Mets didn't have the reserves to bring up from the minor leagues or to make a trade.
Yes, Manuel should have handled some things differently, but the argument can be made many of his mistakes were made because he didn't have any other options. I've not been shy in listing what I didn't like, but looking at things objectively, I can see his reasoning.
Given the same situation, I don't believe Valentine would have been any better. I'm not sure anybody could have been any better.
For those wanting Valentine, it must be remembered no championships were won during his tenure, and that reaching the World Series was in large part because they didn't have to face the Atlanta Braves in the playoffs that season.
From what I remember about the Valentine Era is there was always a controversy. There was always a distraction. Valentine was constantly at odds with somebody, whether it be his general manager, a player or somebody in the media. Valentine liked to play people off of each other and the clubhouse was about taking sides on one issue or another.
Those wanting Valentine either have short and selective memories, an agenda, or don't know what they are talking about.
In the long run, we'll need 2010 to see if Manuel is the answer, and odds are he'll get a short leash because of the impatience that comes from being in New York. But, the Mets have been there and done that with Valentine.
A return to the past would not be good for the Mets' future.


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This is their Selbu Modern hat pattern. I loved knitting this!
The book also contains another beautiful hat pattern, Kiva Hattu. which I have been invited to put together a style board for using the awesome Polyvore website in honor of the blog tour.
Kelbourne Woolens Volume 1- Blog Tour Stop
13 comments:
- CraftyKaty said...
I'd love to find the source of the jacket and necklace in this post! Love them. BTW, ordered my copy of the book yesterday! Can't wait.
- March 5, 2013 at 9:47 AM
- Cecile said...
I love the hawthorn cardigan from that collection. It'd be perfect for Spring, I'm keeping it in my short list of things to knit for myself soon :)
- March 5, 2013 at 11:03 AM
- amchart said...
This does look like a beautiful book.
- March 5, 2013 at 11:09 AM
- Lammas said...
The pattern "Kiva Hattu" means in Finnish "A Nice Hat" and it really is a nice one!
- March 5, 2013 at 10:59 PM
- Anniki Leppik said...
This is a gorgeous hat!
- March 5, 2013 at 11:23 PM
- Quill said...
The jacket is from Boden. I know because I have it! It's awesome... but they might be out of it until winter...
- March 6, 2013 at 6:12 AM
- knitterlydesigns said...
I love that outfit. Oh, to be so stylish.
knitterlydesigns on Ravelry
- March 6, 2013 at 12:05 PM
- kpultzdesign said...
love the color palette of your outfit!
- March 6, 2013 at 6:48 PM
- Rose said...
I love your style board. Fun site.
All the patterns in the book deserve to have boards created for them.
- March 7, 2013 at 12:03 PM
- Anita said...
I'm so glad our fashion sense is going back to the stylish era. I just love gloves, beret's and other knitted accessories that are out there.
Cheers, Anita.
- March 9, 2013 at 9:42 PM
- TACIStudio said...
This looks like a wonderful hat. I love your patterns. Have just bought corsage. Can't wait to start. I just found your blog and m so happy :)
- March 12, 2013 at 10:21 PM
- TACIStudio said...
This looks like a wonderful hat. I love your patterns. Have just bought corsage. Can't wait to start. I just found your blog and m so happy :)
- March 12, 2013 at 10:22 PM
I have been meaning to try the Selbu Modern for so long! Yours looks fantastic.
- March 13, 2013 at 3:47 AM


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Axial Rubicon RC Jeep Build: Part 3Posted in Project Vehicles on April 8, 2014
In the first two installments (more on that here and here) of Jp's Axial SCX10 Jeep Wrangler Axial Rubicon build-up we introduced you to our SCX10 2012 Ready To Run (RTR) R/C Jeep project build. Don't think that we're not a fan of the big boy toys either, we just like having a capable scale rig to play with when our buddies break down on the trail.
The build started off with a few simple upgrades that we made to the truck to improve performance and most important of all, the fun factor of wheeling the ultimate toy. Now that our Axial SCX10 Rubicon Jeep is more capable than ever before, we are going to personalize the Jeep a bit more and continue to upgrade parts to improve the looks and performance of the little Jeep.
Since no Jeep is truly trail ready without a nice coat of paint, we're going to show you how to make your Axial SCX10 Jeep Rubicon look like the ultimate pint-sized trail crawler. The first thing we'll start off with is laying down some custom colors.
Once we had our Axial SCX10 Jeep looking smoother than butter, it was time to add optional parts from Axial Racing as well as a few other goodies from our friends over at Gear Head RC.
Follow along as we show you how to paint the outside of the Axial SCX10 RTR body to add some personality and killer looks. Once we've got that sorted out we'll show you how to bolt on some Gear Head RC Sixer beadlock wheels as well as a Gear Head RC roof rack and even some lights for a possible night run in our Axial Jeep Wrangler's near future.
Keep your eyes peeled as we plan on taking this thing with us to Moab for Easter Jeep Safari 2014!