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More people now vote absentee than show up at polling places on election days, yet California's elected leaders can't bring themselves to change the rules that frequently have more poll workers than voters. It's a huge waste of money.
Case in point: My own voting experience in San Francisco. I won't get on my soapbox, but I consider the act of voting a civic responsibility. I love to walk through my neighborhood to my designated polling place, which is almost always set up in someone's garage. I don't know how much longer this election-day routine will last -- because it's clearly wasting California's money.
I was the only voter in my polling place when I voted. I was outnumbered four to one by poll workers.
One located my name on the registration rolls then took my signature. Another handed me my ballots. Once I'd marked my selections, a third worker removed the receipts from the ballots and gave them to me, and a fourth paid observer made sure I properly fed my ballots into a machine. I'm not sure which of them offered me an "I Voted" sticker, but I asked for a second so that I could give one to each of my twins. I want them to know that because voting is a right that's been won with so many sacrifices, it's our minimum responsibility to be citizens of a democracy. When they're not in school, I take them with me.
I fear this tradition must change if it doesn't disappear altogether, but I have allies in Sacramento who don't want to face reality. Given the fact that absentee voters now outnumber people like me, does it make any sense to adhere to old rules that dictate each polling place (for every 1,000 voters) be staffed by four workers? Each of them earns at least a hundred dollars per day. Some make $150.
For five years now, election officials have been trying to convince Sacramento that the rules are antiquated. For their own reasons, Democrats and Republicans are concerned that making modifications that guide more voters toward absentee voting will somehow have a negative impact on their respective parties on election day.
One such proposal actually made it through the state legislature in 2008, but it died when Gov. Schwarzenegger carried out his slash-and-burn vetoes of a desk full of bills to get the legislature to focus on the state budget.
Since County officials complain consistently about the cost of so many elections in California even as money becomes tighter, it seems inevitable that changes will be made; fewer polling places perhaps, or far fewer poll workers, or a combination of the two. Might we at some point come to rely solely on mail-in balloting?
I hope not. I love the tradition of standing in a little booth and then feeding my ballot into a machine and feeling like I've participated in something special. But I also recognize a waste of money when I see it. Changes could save the state millions of dollars. Just leave me a polling place somewhere.


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CHICAGO -- The Chicago Blackhawks knew their Friday night game with the Anaheim Ducks was a marquee matchup, and they came out ready. Jerry Rice Jersey . Marian Hossa scored two goals, and Kris Versteeg and Bryan Bickell also tallied to lead Chicago past Anaheim 4-2 to end the Ducks eight-game winning streak and hand them only their second loss in the past 20 games. Despite scuffling along at 1-1-3 in its past five games, defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago entered the game with the NHLs second-best point total. And through most of the showdown against league-leading Anaheim, the Blackhawks were a step quicker and more determined physically. "We knew wed be facing the hottest team in the league," Hossa said. "We knew we had to stop them somehow. "We got scored on the last few minutes, but we still got the two points, which is important." With Chicago cruising 3-0, Anaheims Ryan Getzlaf scored on a wrist shot to cap an odd-man break with 6:13 left in the third to end Corey Crawfords shutout bid. Then Kyle Palmieri connected on a 40-foot shot 53 seconds later to make it close before Hossa scored into an empty net with 7.6 seconds left. Crawford made 19 saves to help the Blackhawks end a five-game losing streak against Anaheim -- including three straight in Chicago -- and beat the Ducks for the first time since December 2011. And Chicago made its statement. "Everybody comes into this building and playing us as the defending Stanley Cup champion, everybodys got their game high," Hossa said. "Now were playing the team in first, and everybody in the dressing room can feel the intensity. "Everybody prepared really well. We always have trouble playing this team. Thats why the win is big." Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville liked what he saw for most of the game. "We had a good purpose, it seemed, every shift," Quenneville said. "All of a sudden its 3-2 and anything can happen at the end. "But we got out of this one, but for the most part, the other 54 minutes, we played the right way." Anaheims run of 18 wins in 19 games began with a 3-2 shootout victory at Chicago on Dec. 6. It was the longest span of one-loss play since the 1967-68 Montreal Canadiens won a record 20 of 21. "I think we were ready, but we were really tentative," Anaheim coach Bruce Boudreau said. "We were sitting around and watching them as though we were watching the Stanley Cup champions rather than playing. "Maybe with all the pressure weve gotten in the last two days, some guys maybe werent ready for this," he added. "Its a learning experience. To be on top theres a commitment you have to make or you dont stay they very long." Anaheim goalie Jonas Hiller was sharp and made 31 saves, but his 14-game winning streak ended. That run tied him for second-longest in NHL history with four other goalies. Hiller hadnt lost since a shootout defeat to Los Angeles on Dec. 3. "I think it was definitely not our best game," Hiller said. "If you play a team like the Blackhawks, you cant just try to work for half a period or one period and hope you win." Chicago outshot the Ducks 35-21. Versteeg collided with Bickell behind the Anaheim net at the end of the second period and didnt skate in the third. Hes out day to day with an upper-body injury. Chicago outshot Anaheim 15-8 in the first period and led 2-0 after 20 minutes. The Blackhawks dominated early, and Hossa opened the scoring with a short-handed goal at 10:34. Toews skated quickly out of the Chicago zone and sent the puck to Hossa on right wing. As Toews streaked down the slot, Hossa faked, used Anaheim defenceman Cam Fowler as a screen and fired a low shot under Hillers pads. It was the first time the Blackhawks had opened the scoring since Jan. 3, a span of six games. Versteeg made it 2-0 with 2:54 left in the period when he batted in a loose puck that two Ducks players couldnt handle. Anaheims Matt Beleskey knocked the puck away from Versteeg as he tried to cut in from the right corner, but it deflected off defenceman Sami Vatanen and toward the net. Versteeg got a piece of the flipping puck and directed it past Hiller. Crawford made a point-blank pad save on Corey Perry with 1:13 left to maintain Chicagos two-goal lead. He stopped Saku Koivu on a short-handed 2-on-1 break early in the scoreless second. Aided by three power plays, Blackhawks outshot the Ducks 11-3 in the middle period. Bickell made it 3-0 at 10:13 of the third. He gained a step on Anaheim defenceman Ben Lovejoy, plowed down the slot and fired. Hiller got a piece of the shot, but it rolled over him and into the net. After Getzlaf cut it to 3-1 with 6:13 left, Palmieri fooled Crawford on a low 40-foot shot from the slot 53 seconds later to set up a wild finish. The Ducks pressured and pulled Hiller for an extra attacker with 1:10 left, but couldnt tie it. NOTES: The Ducks announced D Sheldon Souray will miss the season after another operation on his right wrist. Souray, 37, was injured during summer training and he never got on the ice in his second year in Anaheim. ... Ducks D Bryan Allen returned after missing five games with a lower-body injury. ... Chicago leading scorer Patrick Kane has no goals and just three assists in nine games following a career-high 14-game point streak during which he had eight goals and 17 assists. ... Anaheim sent top goalie prospect John Gibson back to the minors without making his NHL debut and assigned long-injured D Luca Sbisa to the AHL on a conditioning loan before Fridays game. Jeff Wilson Jersey . You can see all the action on TSN2 beginning at 7:30pm et/4:30pm pt. Chicago won two of three games during its stay at the United Center. The club began the homestand with a 5-1 win over Pittsburgh on March 1 and fell to Colorado on Tuesday before posting another blowout win in Thursdays tilt against Columbus. Tevin Coleman Jersey . The Calgary skip fell 10-8 to Swedens Oskar Eriksson in semifinal action Saturday and will face Switzerlands Peter de Cruz for the bronze medal (Saturday at 10pm et/7pm pt on TSN2).LONDON, Ont. - Max Domi scored the shootout winner to lead the London Knights to a 4-3 victory over the Erie Otters in Ontario Hockey League action on Wednesday.Julius Bergman also had a shootout goal, plus a goal and two assists in regulation time for London (3-5-0), while Christian Dvorak and Michael McCarron rounded outt the Knights attack. Bruce Taylor Jersey. .Alex DeBrincat struck twice for the Otters (6-0-1), and Dylan Strome also scored. 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ATLANTA (AP) Kammeon Holsey scored 14 points, Robert Carter pulled down 10 rebounds and Georgia Tech's defense stifled The Citadel in a 73-41 rout on Saturday.
Marcus Georges-Hunt had 12 points on 4 of 5 shooting from beyond the arc in the first half for the Yellow Jackets (8-2), who won their fourth straight and improved to 6-0 at home.
Matt Groselle and Lawrence Miller each had nine points for The Citadel (3-7), which shot 25.4 percent from the floor for the game. Stephen Elmore finished with eight points and 10 rebounds.
Carter had nine points and Julian Royal added eight for Georgia Tech, which shot 43.7 percent.
Kentucky transfer Stacey Poole, who became eligible after the first semester, made his debut for Georgia Tech and scored all of his seven points in the second half. He also had five rebounds.
The Yellow Jackets' biggest lead was 36 points with 6:19 to play.
Georgia Tech made of nine of its first 13 shots and led 20-3 before the game was nine minutes old as the Bulldogs started 1-for-10. The Citadel got within 22-10, but Georgia Tech then went on a 17-0 run and the lead was 41-16 at halftime.
The Citadel shot just 19.4 percent in the first half and was 1-for-11 from behind the 3-point arc at intermission and 3-for-22 for the game. Van Scyoc missed eight 3-point attempts.
Ten players scored for the Yellow Jackets.
Georgia Tech played its second straight game without Jason Morris, who is battling plantar fasciitis. The junior wing, a key reserve, is averaging 4.9 points per game.
The Yellow Jackets have home games against Fordham next Saturday and UT-Chattanooga on Jan. 2 before opening ACC play by hosting Miami on Jan. 5.
Georgia Tech's losses are to California in the DirecTV Classic at Anaheim, Calif., and at No. 10 Illinois.


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Jennifer Lawrence has wasted no time in leveraging her Oscar-nominated role in "Winter's Bone," positioning her self as the odds-on favorite to land the lead in one of the hottest upcoming tween tent poles. Now Josh Hutcherson is trying to elbow his way into being her leading man.
Lawrence is all but signed to star as Katniss Everdeen in "The Hunger Games," reported Deadline on Friday. Two days later, Hutcherson told EW he was campaigning for the role of Peeta Mellark, Katniss' love interest.
"I love Peeta. The character is so much who I am—self deprecating, a people person. And he'd be such a great character to play! Like in the third book? Oh my God."
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We haven't read the books on which this three-picture franchise is based, but Lawrence and Hutcherson would immediately make this infinitely more appealing than, say, "Twilight."
Lawrence has a big year ahead of her, with roles in "The Beaver," "Like Crazy" (saw it at Sundance, she was great in a very small role with limited dialog) and "X-Men First Class." Hutcherson will be seen in the "Red Dawn" remake, "Carmel" and a "Journey to the Center of the Earth" sequel.


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text: Chuck Hagel was an early Republican critic of the Iraq war and a harsh opponent of the Bush administration [EPA]You have to do no more than watch this attack ad produced by the neoconservative pressure group the Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI) to understand the significance of Chuck Hagel's possible nomination as US secretary of defence. The former Republican senator from Nebraska is guilty of a cardinal sin which has cut short many promising careers in Washington. He has proved himself insufficiently loyal to Israel and less than enthusiastic about confronting Iran. Signals from Washington are mixed. Barack Obama's myriad capitulations have earned him a well-deserved reputation for invertebracy; and some reports suggest he has caved already. But in the Byzantine world of Washington intrigue, one has to proceed with caution. Since the beginning of Obama's presidency, some of his more sensible initiatives, such as the opening to Iran, have been sabotaged by officials within his administration speaking anonymously to the press. What better way to kill a controversial nomination than to convince everybody that it is already dead! The ECI, a relatively new actor, has not been alone in targeting Hagel. It has been ably assisted by the American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League, AIPAC, the Republican Jewish Coalition, the National Jewish Democratic Council, The Israel Project, and the Zionist Organisation of America. Affiliates from both within and outside the government have gone on the offensive. The op-ed pages of the Washington Post, the Weekly Standard and the Wall Street Journal have all helped amplify the smears. The chorus has been joined by the familiar cast of Israel apologists in Congress, led by Chuck Schumer, Joseph Lieberman and Eliot Engel. Besides accusing Hagel of "endemic hostility towards Israel", one of them, Engel, has also detected a "prejudice". So ferocious has been the assault that it has led MJ Rosenberg, a one-time Israel lobbyist who has emerged as a staunch critic, to observe: Never before has virtually the entire organised Jewish community combined to stop a presidential cabinet appointment because it deems the potential nominee insufficiently devoted to Israel. Critic of the Iraq war If the lobby has been relentless, Hagel's support hasn't been entirely passive either. Not everyone has been as blunt as the influential columnist Andrew Sullivan who has called on the president to "grow a pair". But Hagel has also received solid backing from realist greybeards, including four former National Security Advisers, two Republicans and two Democrats and several retired diplomats. Inside Story Americas - Are there any winners of the Iraq war? His record of independence has earned him support from liberal organisations like MoveOn and Just Foreign Policy; and intelligent progressives like Chris Hayes and Glenn Greenwald have also defended him against the smears. He has received the endorsement of eminent scholars like Stephen Walt and David Bromwich, establishment heavy-weights like Lee Hamilton, and even the relatively dovish pro-Israel groups like J-Street and the Israel Policy Forum. It is of course a misrepresentation to say that Hagel bears an animus toward Israel. Like almost every other US politician, he too has paid tribute to the Moloch-on-the-Hill with mealy-mouthed platitudes about the sanctity of the "special relationship". He may have been sceptical about the Iraq war but when he was called on to vote for it he, like his fellow realist Colin Powell, signed on with the rest of them. But that is not what this is about. The intent is Pavlovian: if you aspire to high office in Washington, your commitment to the "special relationship" better be 100 percent. Even mild criticism could jeopardise your ascension. Most establishment careerists have taken this lesson to heart and exercise prophylactic self-censorship. Those running for high office usually signal their intent by declaring their unqualified admiration for the State of Israel. A record is then chalked up of either sponsoring or voting on pro-Israel legislation. Adopting an uncompromising stance toward Israel's enemies also helps. One's reliability is further affirmed by cultivating a "tough on defence" reputation, adopting a generally hawkish foreign policy position and calling for greater defence expenditures. (All of this makes it easier to justify military and diplomatic support for Israel and pass it off as serving American interests.) Hagel, however, has left too many doubts about his commitment. In a 2006 interview with Aaron David Miller, Hagel stressed: I'm not an Israeli senator. I'm a United States senator… I support Israel, but my first interest is I take an oath of office to the Constitution of the United States, not to a president, not to a party, not to Israel. If I go run for Senate in Israel, I'll do that. In Washington, where every politician is required to affirm the identity of US-Israeli interests, such words constitute heresy. The senator, however, has been equally provocative in deeds. Hagel was an early Republican critic of the Iraq war and a harsh opponent of the Bush administration. In his reckoning, it was the "the most arrogant, incompetent administrations [he had] ever seen or ever read about"; it was led by men whose intransigency was unmatched by a personal record of military service. In 2005, he was the most prominent Republican to vote against John Bolton's nomination as ambassador to the UN. During the 2006 Israeli assault on Lebanon, Hagel questioned the US government's unconditional support for Israel and called for greater sensitivity towards Arab concerns. In 2009, he signed a policy statement urging the Obama administration to engage Hamas and foster reconciliation between the two main Palestinian factions. Hagel refused to sign the various AIPAC-sponsored anti-Iran bills and, in a move that most irked the lobby, joined two former heads of US Central Command, General Anthony Zinny and Admiral William Fallon, to advise the president against war with Iran. His biggest sin however was his lack of decorum in addressing Washington's political realities. In the same interview with Miller, Hagel made the banal but provocative observation that the "Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people" in Congress. Potential check on militarism Hagel's sloppy description was sufficient to earn him accusations of bigotry. But as the rest of the interview makes clear, what the senator was really talking about was the Israel lobby. The distinction between the two may exist more in conception than in reality but is nevertheless important to understand; if only to avoid accusations of "prejudice". "Hagel is conscious of the limits of American power and can serve as a potential check on militarism in a manner career bureaucrats like Leon Panetta never could." The late great historian Tony Judt once observed that what makes the Israel lobby distinctive is that unlike other lobbies it is not content with achieving its desired political outcomes; it also had an interest in denying its own existence and enforcing silence on the subject of its lobbying. It exists "to silence as well as to voice, to suppress as well as to secure". During Obama's first term when a similar battle raged over the appointment of former Ambassador Chas Freeman as the Director of National Intelligence and when Chuck Hagel's name was first floated as a potential adviser, Natasha Mozgovaya of the Israeli daily Haaretz reported on an astonishing reality of American politics. "Every appointee to the American government", she wrote, "must endure a thorough background check by the American Jewish community." This is a curious position for a democracy to find itself in where an interest group lobbying on behalf of a foreign state can exercise veto power over government appointments based on ideological litmus tests. The distortion it engenders has been obvious in the disastrous course of recent US foreign policy. For the majority of Americans who are tired of perpetual war, the battle over Hagel's appointment presents an opportunity to check this decline. They can finally confront the forces of militarism and restore much-needed sanity. It is not a coincident that the line-up of Hagel's detractors looks remarkably similar to the line-up that promoted the Iraq war and is eager to bomb Iran. Hagel is far from a perfect candidate but he has many qualities that make his candidacy worth defending. As Bromwich notes: There is not another American of high reputation in public life who has proved himself so free of the disastrous illusions that led to the Global War on Terror…[Hagel] is an independent thinker and a dissident… a man so alienated from the Republican war madness and other kinds of madness that he walked away from his party in 2008. Given the political constraints in Washington, it is possible that Hagel will disappoint; but at least the possibility of change will not have been entirely extinguished. Hagel's defeat will have a chilling effect on all non-conformists. Hagel is conscious of the limits of American power and can serve as a potential check on militarism in a manner career bureaucrats like Leon Panetta never could. The Purple Heart veteran could also cut military spending without courting accusations of weakness. His failure will only embolden the most radical militarists in Washington and ensure a retrenchment of the status quo. You may or may not agree with Hagel's politics, but if you agree that independent thought shouldn't be penalised and dissent not banished from government, then you can do worse than sign up to the campaigns being organised by Just Foreign Policy and MoveOn. Muhammad Idrees Ahmad is a Glasogw-based sociologist with a specialisation in US foreign policy. He edits Pulsemedia.org and can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter: @im_pulse SOURCE: Al Jazeera ABOUT THE AUTHOR Muhammad Idrees AhmadMuhammad Idrees Ahmad is Lecturer in Digital Journalism at the University of Stirling. @ im_PULSE Politics


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Philadelphia Phillies – Awards: On-Based Percentage Champions.
In its 128-year history as a member of the National League, the Phillies have won twenty-one on-base percentage titles. Thirteen Phils have won the title, with five of them winning it more than once.
The first Phil to win the title was Hall of Famer Billy Hamilton, who did in it 1891 with a .453 percentage. He would win the second and third title to be won by a Phil player by winning it two years in a row, in 1893 and again in 1894, with on-base percentages of .490 and .521, respectively. Hall of Famer Ed Delahanty would become the second Phil to win the team's fourth title, the fourth in five years, by winning it in 1895 with an on-base percentage of .500. The next Phil to win the title would be Roy Thomas, who would win the Phil's fifth and sixth titles in 1902 and 1903, with marks of .414 and .453. The fourth Phil to win the title, the team's seventh, would be Sherry Magee, who would win it in 1910, with a .445 percentage. The fifth Phil to win the title would be Gavvy Cravath, who won the title in 1915, the year that the Phils won their first National League title and in 1916, with marks of .393 and .379. It would be fourteen years before another Phil would win the team's tenth title, which would be done by Lefty O'Doul in 1929 with a mark of .465. The seventh Phil to win the title would be Hall of Famer Chuck Klein, who would win the team's eleventh title in 1933, the year that he won the batting triple crown, by posting an on-base percentage of .422. The eighth Phil to win the title would be Dolph Camilli, who would win the title in 1937 with a .446 percentage. The next Phil to secure the title would be Hall of Famer Richie Ashburn, who would win the title in 1954, 1955 and 1958, with percentages of .441, .449 and .440. The tenth Phil to become the on-base percentage leader would be Dick Allen, who would win the title in 1967 with a .404 mark. Pete Rose would become the eleventh Phil to win it, winning the team's seventeenth title in 1979 with a .418 mark. The twelfth Phil to win the title would be Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt, who would it in the strike-shortened year of 1981, 1982 and 1983 with marks of .435, .403 and .399. The thirteenth, and at the moment last, Phil to win the title would be Lenny Dykstra, who won the team's twenty-first title in 1990 with a .418 mark. No Phil has won the title since then.
Of the twenty-one titles won by the Phils, eleven of them, or almost half of them, have been won by Hall of Famers, with Billy Hamilton, Richie Ashburn and Mike Schmidt each winning three titles, while Ed Delahanty and Chick Klein would win the other two titles. Roy Thomas and Gavvy Cravath, other than the three Hall of Famers, have won more than one title, with each man winning two titles. The Phil with the highest on-base percentage when he won the title was Hamilton with his .521 mark in 1894, while the Phil with the lowest percentage was Cravath with his .379 mark in 1916. Phils have won the title four times in the 19th Century, seventeen times in the 20th, and so far have not won it in the 21st Century.
Who will be the next Phil to win the title? I have really no idea.


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From a Washington State Patrol news release.
Washington State Patrol Trooper Jay Farmer, with the help of passing motorist Jim Kocker, swam approximately 50 feet out into a pond to save a trapped driver in a submerged car near Ellensburg. The vehicle had left the roadway crashing through a fence coming to rest in the pond with only the roof visible. The driver was unable to exit the vehicle on his own because he was unconscious.
Kocker swam out to the vehicle prior to Trooper Farmer's arrival but, he was unable to get into the vehicle as the doors were locked and windows up. Kocker felt he had to fight off the onset of Hypothermia prior to going back for a second time with Trooper Farmer to rescue the driver. Trooper Farmer brought his expandable baton to break the window. In a team effort, the pair was able to break a window, make entry into the vehicle and unbuckle the driver. The driver was removed from the vehicle and brought to the shore by Trooper Farmer and Kocker to a waiting ambulance. The driver was transported to Kittitas Valley Healthcare to be evaluated.
Had it not been for the heroic actions of Trooper Farmer and Good Samaritan Jim Kocker, the driver could have surely perished. While many other drivers had stopped, Jim Kocker, a former lifeguard sprung into action prior to the arrival of emergency personnel. Kocker again risked his life, going back for a second time to effect a rescue with Trooper Farmer.
When asked about rescuing the driver, Trooper Farmer stated, "Any Trooper would have done the same. It's what we do."


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The Alternative Press Collection in the Department of Special Collections contains nearly 300 titles, mostly non-mainstream newspapers in their original form, from the late 1960s to the latter 1970s. Many of the newspapers are from California, but there also are numerous examples from other parts of the U.S. and a few issues from countries such as Great Britain and the Netherlands.
The topics covered in the Alternative Press Collection are wide-ranging and include extensive discussion of the Vietnam war, free speech, the role of government vs individual rights, women's rights and gay and lesbian issues, religion in contemporary society, environmental issues, communal living and counter cultural expression in the arts and literature.
In many cases the items in the Alternative Press Collection are single issues or short runs of newspapers but in some instances, as with the LA Free Press or the Berkeley Barb there are much longer runs spanning several years. All materials are available for research in the Special Collections Reading Room. A guide describing the collection more fully is available here on the Online Archive of California (OAC) or in the Special Collections Reading Room.


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Turning the sp_BLITZ SQL Server Takeover Into a General Health Report
As many of you have probably noticed, I haven't blogged in quite a while due to work commitments, health issues and various family commitments (don't want to go on too long here with excuses J), but I decided a perfect first blog post back might be taking the stored procedure that a friend and his consulting group have so graciously shared with the community. I am, of course, speaking of Brent Ozar's sp_BLITZ stored procedure intended to help a DBA see what they are inheriting when someone dumps a new server on them. I kind of took a different twist on this and figured that this might be a great tool to use on all of the SQL Servers in an environment periodically by creating a report around it.
Some Background
I work as the lead DBA in an environment with over 160 SQL Server instances (a number that seems to grow by at least five or so every quarter) and somewhere in excess of 2,000 databases ranging in size from what some of you might consider laughably small to some rather large data warehouse databases, many of which are mission critical to our business. To manage this environment, I have a team of two other DBA's that I lead. One started with the company the week after I started and the other, a junior DBA, has been with us just over a year. We have a great team, but even with three DBA's, it is hard to be proactive without some tools to let you know what is going on. Unfortunately, we don't have the budget for some of the major monitoring tools as the cost for our environment would be rather substantial. Needless to say, it is left to me and my team to be creative and create our tools and instrumentation. That is where Brent's sp_BLITZ script comes in. With a report written around it that my junior DBA can go through on a weekly or monthly basis, we can be much more proactive with some of the more basic or fundamental settings that someone who shouldn't have access to change, but always inevitably does, changes without our knowledge.
The Report
So, the report itself is pretty simple. Unfortunately, it does require that you have a server that has linked servers to all of your servers (we have a centralized DBA server that we use for this) and the sp_BLITZ script that can be downloaded from here has to be installed on each of these servers. This is a perfect use for the SQL Server 2008 Central Management Server feature that we have set up on our DBA monitoring server. What I have done in the report is created two datasets, one that queries a table that we maintain with an inventory of all of our SQL Servers which will feed the "Server Name" report parameter and the second which actually runs the sp_BLITZ stored procedure on the server that has been chosen from the dropdown. Brent has a great video on exactly what his script does at http://www.brentozar.com/blitz/. This report just gives you a format that you can go out and run off of your Reporting Services site or even schedule to run automatically in a Reporting Services subscription and have it automatically emailed to you or posted out in a document library on a SharePoint site if you are running Reporting Services in SharePoint integrated mode. This report does require that your Reporting Services service is at least 2008 R2 in order to work. One of the nice things about this report is that the URLs that Brent provides in the output for this stored procedure are active links in this report, so if you click in that URL cell, you will be taken to the page on Brent's site that explains the Finding. Below are some screenshots of the report in collapsed and expanded form (all private information has been blacked out to protect the innocent or at least those who sign my paycheck J):
Figure 1 Collapsed Version of Report
Figure 2 Expanded View of Report
Setting Up The Report
So, to use the report that is freely downloadable at the end of this blog post, all you need to do is go into the Data Source for the report and change it to the name of your monitoring SQL Server or at least a server that has linked servers to all of the servers that you want to manage with this report, like so, replacing the text <Type Your Monitoring Server Here> with the name of your monitoring server.:
The next step is to make sure that you have a table on your monitoring server that has an inventory list of all of the servers from your environment and replace the <ServerName.database.schema.tablename> text in the query in the Servers Dataset with the pertinent information for your environment. See below:
From here, it is just a matter of deploying the report to your Reporting Services server and making sure that Brent's stored procedure has been created on all of the servers that you wish to monitor.
The report can be downloaded here (you will need to go to Brent's site mentioned earlier in this blog post to get the latest version of his sp_BLITZ script). I hope that you find this to be one of the many helpful tools in your tool chest to keep your environment in check.


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Around The World, an event inspired by all the cultures and fashions on our fair planet, is in full swing and packed full of unusual treats. Each region has its own section but, in the spirit of the melting pot that Second Life has become, I have mixed and matched my nationalities to my heart's content.
Above is the Antique Pakistani Furniture available from Senzafine and, to match its abundance of rich colours, the Tango Dress from Has Been. Posing items being, of course, in abundance at Around The World, I'm using one of the Strength mini-set poses from !bang.
A little more mellow but no less inviting, the Zen Garden Skybox from Ziau features your very own Zen sandbox and original poetry for your contemplative moments. I'm wearing the Seattle dress from Geometry with the Aussie Ugg Boots by Intrepid and playing about with the African Child and Malkia posing sets from Motionless, which come with a handy HUD version that I'm sure will be every photographer's delight.
For those of us with bulging virtual closets and a hunger for more, you'll have no trouble keeping your eyes on the prize at Around The World. Above you can see the Fur Poncho on offer from Orquidea, the Say It! New York cropped sweater from Apple May and the My Faithful shirt from Intrepid, all worn with Intrepid's Patriot Jeans.
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I am going to a conference soon, and my wife cannot part with her laptop now, so I bought a $300 Asus Eee-PC netbook (1005HAB), with a 9-cell battery that gives me close to 9 hrs of battery time. I bought it online through Best Buy (I know, I know), and picked it up at the store a few days later. I had Windows7 Starter Edition on it. I prepped a USB drive using a the KDE Startup Disk Creator program and the Kubuntu 10.04 Netbook Edition ISO. I had to find the BIOS first (F2), and tell the netbook to boot from USB, but after that, Kubuntu Netbook installed without a hitch. I chose to wipe everything, since the netbook came with the OS media (if I ever want to install Windows, yuck – but hey, I paid for it). I set it up with separate partitions (including /boot) and formatted everything with EXT4 (for later conversion to btrfs when the 2.6.36 kernel comes out).
Everything worked right out of the box. Including wireless and suspend-resume. Sweet. It is a little slow, but who cares? This thing is so neat. I am a little addicted to being able to go anywhere around the house now and surf, blog, email, and administer the other machines from this thing. When I am done, I can close the lid, and later open it back up, wait a bit, and then be prompted to unlock the screen and get back online, no sweat.
In addition to updating the kernel to 2.6.35-17 and updating KDE to version 4.4.5, I also installed the MediBuntu repositories, set up the USB smartcard with Acrobat Reader, Firefox, and Thunderbird, and got the camera working with the new gmail video chat software. One more thing – to get the function keys to work, I had to edit my /etc/default/grub file and change the line
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I also installed "eee-control-tray" from the repositories for better control over the camera, touchpad, etc. The only thing I do not like is the touchpad, in fact. When scrolling on a web page, it likes to keep scrolling whenever I move it into the page to click on a a link. I use a USB wireless mouse now. We are taking this thing everywhere we go now.
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Capt. George Vancouver arrived at this place that bears his name 220 years ago and it's to his landing spot at Acadia Beach on Breakfast Bay that Terry Slack takes me.
We arrive at almost exactly the time that Vancouver did on an almost identical neap tide of only 3.32 metres. We look across the stripe of latte-coloured water from the Fraser River across the bay and try to imagine no freighters, no houses, no highrises, no bridge.
Slack is part sleuth, part historian and full-on storyteller. He grew up on the banks of the Fraser, fished since he was seven, salvaged logs (earning the nickname "River Pirate") and is passionate about his neighbourhood, which includes the University Endowment Lands, Pacific Spirit Park and all the water that encircles Point Grey.
Using Capt. Vancouver's logs and tide tables for 1792, Slack believes he has pinpointed the landing spot.
We walk along the beach searching for the three "weeps" that Vancouver mentioned in his logs – fresh water running down from the rivers and the streams. The captain needed fresh water to replenish his ships' supply. He found it, staying ashore only about an hour. It is this city's shame, Slack says, that there is no marker here. No information about Vancouver's landing. No signs or brochures direct people to this spot near Howling Rock where the winter winds blow hard down from Howe Sound.
There are plaques commemorating the Spanish explorers closer to Spanish Bank beach, but nothing for the captain.
Vancouver's landing spot was the destination we had set out for nearly two hours earlier when we met at the park board's fish and chips stand on Spanish Bank.
It's at that beach that Slack, his family and many other Vancouverites fished for smelts in the spring and early summer. "We had smelt shacks that we'd float along from the north arm of the Fraser in May and June and anchor here. We sold the smelts or traded them for food with the tugboat guys who'd stop," he says, showing me one of the nets he used to use. "Everybody used to have one of these in their basement."
The smelts all but disappeared about 20 years ago, their spawning grounds covered by the sand dredged from the bay to make the gravelly beach more attractive to swimmers and sunbathers.
But they used to spawn at the high-water mark. On those evenings in May, June and the end of July, families would set their nets and wait by bonfires blazing on the beach.
"I'll probably not see that [the spawning] again in my lifetime, but maybe my grandchild will," says 72-year-old Slack, pointing to where the sand is being eroded and the pea gravel uncovered by the relentless tides.
English Bay used to have three canneries: English Bay, Eagle Harbour and another near Lighthouse Park.
During the Second World War, all three canned the herring that also used to spawn on these beaches and donated it to Canadian troops overseas.
Salmon also used to be plentiful in the bay. In the mid-1960s, Slack's family had its largest single-day's catch of salmon in English Bay — 1,100 pounds from the early Stuart run.
We leave the beach, cross Marine Drive (originally called Queen's Road) and go up the Admiralty Trail into Pacific Spirit regional park, which only exists because Slack and others lobbied for nearly 20 years to have it saved from development.
The steep-sided ravine is devoid of fir trees, which were first logged by the Spanish searching for masts and spars.
"We are walking on a trail that was probably walked on by [Spanish explorer Dionisio Alcala] Galiano in the 1700s and by Vancouver and by [Cayetano] Valdes," says Slack.
Two millennia ago, there were longhouses here. First nations people gathered berries, fished and used the summer winds from the south to dry smelts, herring and salmon.
During the 1890s, John Stuart had a dairy farm here.
"He wanted to get his cans down to Queen's Road and back. So, he invented a zipline. It was Vancouver's first zipline ... A can zipline," Slack says with a delighted laugh.
As we pass a giant cedar stump, he tells me that in the early 1900s, squatters lived in the woods and used portable mills to cut shakes and shingles for the roofs of the fast-developing city.
There are also Cascara trees. In the 1920s and 1930s, locals stripped the bark, put in it big sacks and sold it to pharmaceutical companies to make laxatives.
"It was an amazing industry until they figured out how to synthesize it. During the Dirty Thirties [the Great Depression], people were paid 10 to 15 cents a bag."
Later, the forest supported people who collected and sold Spanish moss. More recently, Slack found and reported people who were illegally collecting ferns and salal leaves and selling them to florists.
Leaving the trail, we cross back across Marine Drive and head down to Acadia Beach along a wide slope that was once intended to be a ring road leading to a float plane dock and maybe even a ferry landing. It was another scheme Slack helped defeat.
We pass two huge boulders — the two sisters — one is marble like those at Lighthouse Park, the other deep grey.
The beach is littered with dozens of logs that have broken loose from a boom. It ignites Slack's memories of being a salvager. Finally, after pausing at Vancouver's landing place and taking a look further west toward the Second World War towers and Wreck Beach, we turn and head back to where we began.
At the park board concession, I choose fish and chips liberally sprinkled with malt vinegar, a throwback to my childhood, while Slack has a wild salmon burger – a reminder of last season's abundant run.
We talk about how Vancouver seems intent on forgetting its past. Then, we part with the promise that next time we'll walk along the Fraser.


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Paula Werneck Illustrates The High-Rise Structures: Porto Rio De Janeiro Mixed Use Structure
Paula Werneck, the project leader of the award winning work High-Rise Structures: Porto Rio de Janeiro - Mixed use structure by Paula Werneck explains, Brazil is going through a crucial moment in the international scenario. The World Cup 2014 and the Olympic Games in 2016 requires several changes throughout the country but particularly in Rio de Janeiro. Aiming at the requirements of these events, the project presented is originated from the mixed use: a convention center, a hotel, a business center, shops and apartments. All the aspects are very well integrated by the public square wich is the main feature of this project inviting the public space into the private building and so it becomes an open block.Unique within a chaotic environment..
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Suborder: Haplorrhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Superfamily: Cercopithecoidea
Family: Cercopithecidae
Subfamily: Cercopithecinae
Genus: Macaca
Species: M. nigra
Other names: black ape, Celebes crested macaque,
Celebes ape, Celebes macaque, crested black macaque, Sulawesi
crested black macaque, Sulawesi macaque; cynopithèque nègre or
macaque des célèbes (French); macaca negra (Spanish); celebesmakak,
svart sulawesimakak, or svartapa (Swedish)
Although they are monkeys, crested black macaques are sometimes
wrongfully referred to as apes because of their extremely truncated
tails (Groves 2001). Usually one of the best ways to differentiate between
a monkey and an ape is to look for the presence of a tail, but this is difficult with crested black macaques because their short tails are difficult to see.
Crested black macaques have entirely black faces and bodies except for
the striking bright pink coloration of their ischial callosities,
leathery, hairless pads on the rump. The hair on their heads forms a
long, backward, and upward-directed pointy crest and they have
prominent, bony cheek ridges and a shelf-like brow bone (Rowe 1996;
Groves 2001). They have short tails that are only about 20 mm (.79 in)
long (Bynum 1999). Crested black macaques are sexually dimorphic, with males almost
twice the size of females: males measure between 520 and 570 mm (1.71
and 1.87 ft) and weigh 9.9 kg (21.8 lb), on average, while females
measure 445 to 570 mm (1.46 to 1.8 ft) and only weigh 5.5 kg (12.1 lb),
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compared to females. They use these in aggressive encounters with other
males while competing for access to females and during intergroup
encounters while defending food resources (Hadidian 1980; Kinnaird &
O'Brien 2000). Crested black macaques are semi-terrestrial, spending time moving on
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They are restricted to the tip of the northeastern-most peninsula of
Sulawesi and on an island 345 miles from Sulawesi, Pulau Bacan, where
they were introduced by humans in 1867 (Rosenbaum et al. 1998a). Though
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years, they exhibit the same morphological, ecological, and
behavioral patterns (Rosenbaum et al. 1998a). On Sulawesi, they are
found in Tangkoko Batuangus-Dua Sudara, Gunung Ambang, and Gunung
Manembonembo Nature Reserves as well as Bunaken Marine National Park
(Bynum et al. 1999). The majority of the population is found in
Tangkoko and it is here where most of the field research has been
conducted. Research on Bacan has been conducted at Gunung Sibela Nature
Reserve (Rosenbaum et al. 1998a).
Until recently there were few field research studies conducted on crested black macaques
in the wild and the result is little published information about behavior, ecology,
social organization, and reproduction. This pattern has been reversed in recent years and some of the researchers working
with this species include Timothy O'Brien, Margaret Kinnaird, and Barry
The northern peninsula of Sulawesi is highly seasonal and characterized
by its volcanic geography. Tangkoko ranges over an area with elevations
from sea level to 1351 m (4432 ft). Within the reserve, landscape
patterns include severely disturbed and burned areas, abandoned
regenerating gardens, secondary
forest, and primary forest
(O'Brien & Kinnaird 1997). Throughout their entire range on Sulawesi and some of their range on Bacan, crested black macaques live in areas of habitat disturbance ranging from small gardens surrounded by primary forest to clear-cut areas (Rosenbaum et al. 1998b). The severity of habitat disturbance changes the floral composition of the landscape, and macaques are found in differing densities according to disturbance (Rosenbaum et al. 1998b). Annual rainfall in this region is
between 1550 and 2400 mm (3.77 and 7.87 ft) with the majority of rain
falling between October and May. The temperature is fairly constant
throughout the year, ranging from 21.7° C (71° F) to 34.4° C
(94° F) at the coolest and hottest points in the year, respectively
(O'Brien & Kinnaird 1997). The temperature and climate on Bacan is
similar to that on Sulawesi and vegetational communities on Bacan range
from lowland tropical forest to montane rainforest at the higher
elevations. Gunung Sibela, the nature reserve where crested black
macaques are studied, is located at an elevation of 2110 m (6922 ft)
(Rosenbaum et al. 1998a).
Crested black macaques use a variety of habitats including lowland
and montane primary forests, early and mature secondary forests,
areas of cultivation surrounded by primary and secondary forests, actively logged
forests, and areas of dense human habitation and agriculture (Rosenbaum et al.
1998a). Though they are found in actively logged forests, they are found in lower
densities in these highly disturbed areas (Rosenbaum et al. 1998a). Crested black
macaques spend their days traveling, feeding, foraging,
socializing, and resting. Of these activities, they spend 59% of their time traveling,
foraging, and feeding and the remaining part of their day is spent
resting and socializing (O'Brien & Kinnaird 1997). Socializating occurs
in the morning and midday, and resting occurs in the mid to late afternoon. Traveling,
feeding, and foraging are distributed evenly throughout the day (O'Brien & Kinnaird
1997). They are primarily terrestrial, spending more than 60% of their day
on the ground foraging and socializing. Crested black macaques are
mainly frugivorous,
spending 70% of their time feeding on fruits, but they consume a huge
variety of foods including seeds, leaves, flowers, pith, herbs, grass
seeds, fungus, bird eggs, birds, and small vertebrates such as lizards
and frogs (O'Brien & Kinnaird 1997). They are not seen above 1250 m
(4101 ft) and the majority of observations occur below 700 m (2296 ft).
Elevation restrictions are probably linked to low levels of fruit
abundance at higher altitudes on Bacan. At Tangkoko, they do not range
above 1100 m (3608 ft) (Rosenbaum et al. 1998a).
In Tangkoko, group size varies between 27 and 97 individuals, and groups
have overlapping home ranges. Average monthly home range size varies from .47
to 3.48 km² (.18 to 1.34 mi²) and the average daily path
length is 2388 m (1.48 mi) but varies greatly depending on
access to primary forest (O'Brien & Kinnaird 1997). When crested
black macaques have access to primary forest, they spend much less time
traveling, presumably because of the higher quality of the habitat and
higher abundance of fruit in these areas. Additionally, during periods
of highest fruit abundance, crested black macaques do not travel as far
each day (Kinnaird & O'Brien 2000). Group size on Bacan is much
smaller with groups having, on average, 20 individuals (Rosenbaum et al.
1998a). Population densities in Tangkoko average about 30 individuals
per square kilometer (19 per square mile), though in unprotected areas
of Sulawesi they are significantly lower, with only about five
individuals per square kilometer (3 per square mile)(Feistner 2000).
On Bacan, densities of crested black macaques are as high as 170 animals per square kilometer (106 per square mile) in primary forest, but in logged forest, densities are
considerable lower, with 133 individuals per square kilometer (82 per square mile)(Rosenbaum et al. 1998b).
Content last modified: February 2, 2006
Written by Kristina Cawthon Lang. Reviewed by Margaret Kinnaird.
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The Jab in Real Contact Stickfighting by Guro Crafty
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"The Jab in Real Contact Stick Fighting" ©2013 DBI
By Guro Crafty
As we have had occasion to discuss many times over the years, in order to avoid "spending the night in the hospital and to leave with the IQ with which we came" we must do things in a different way from a death match.
Amongst these different ways is the use of head gear—specifically fencing masks. Previously we have discussed the issue of the weight of the masks, but all of them protect the face, albeit with the risk of some impact getting through to the face in the "first generation" masks. This is as it should be for what we do. Losing an eye, getting a nose pulverized, losing perhaps several teeth in an instant, and similar consequences might leave us lastingly damaged and diminished in our mission to prepare ourselves to "walk as a warrior for all our days".
Of course, this also means the way we fight is distorted from a real world "die less often" fight.
Amongst these distortions is that we tend to use heavier sticks so as to command attention and impose consequences through the protection of the fencing mask, especially as we use second generation and third generation masks.
We also tend to jab less or not at all; not only because it tends to have little effect to the face, but also because the heavier sticks tend to be more challenging to jab well and if we hit with little effect while our opponent is swinging a heavy stick with powerful intentions, things could go poorly for us—and so many of us wind up with stick fighting skills limited to roof blocks and various slashes.
For those of us who think of the stick as a tool for DLO ("Die Less Often") situations in the street, this can be a real void in our game. A light stick is a fast stick and a more deceptive stick and a fast jab to anywhere in the face , especially in or near the eyes and other particularly sensitive areas, is going to tend to really alter the direction of the altercation.
Additionally it is worth noting that in DBMA we have the concept of "Consistency across categories" i.e. we look to have the same idioms of movement for weaponry, empty hands (e.g. MMA), and for the street interface of gun, knife, and empty hands—what we call "Die Less Often"(DLO). Thus if we do not have a jab in weaponry fighting, we will tend to not have one in empty hands or DLO. (The same principle applies to redondos-- be they frondos, brondos, or horondos)
So, what to do? After all, we don't want to get tagged in a Real Contact Stick Fighting fight while using a technique that may lack the impact that commands respect, nor do we want to fail to install a tremendously relevant skill for the real world.
We have seen analogous conundrums present themselves previously with sport knife dueling, thrusting, and stick & knife wherein "scores" in the context of Real Contact Stick Fighting yield less result than they may well would have in the real world, not infrequently at the cost of taking shots that would not have otherwise been taken due to the lack of pain and/or damage from these "scores".
For what it is worth, my sense of things is that as we have persisted in these areas we have seen people develop genuine skill in delivering such scores. The attitude is not dissimilar to the "counting coup" some Native Americans did before the white man disrupted the existing eco-systems of aggression.
"Counting coup" was where a warrior would get so close to an enemy that he would touch the enemy with his weapon without harming him—at the risk of his life, a proof in the eyes of all he could have killed him but did not. Great respect was given by all on both sides for such acts. In the context of skirmishes between tribes defining boundaries of territory, the boundary could shift without the losing side feeling the need to avenge a fallen warrior.
My suggestion with regard to jabs has two parts.
In the first part, it is to take a similar attitude—to risk the consequences of not pulling off the jab unscathed in order to develop the skill of doing so in the adrenal conditions of a Dog Brothers Gathering in order that one actually install this skill which IS quite relevant for DLO situations.
The second part is to realize that one CAN develop a jab which imposes consequences even when the opponent at a Gathering is wearing a fencing mask and light gloves! And with this one becomes not only better prepared for the street, but also a better stick fighter at Dog Brother Gatherings.
In my opinion, unfortunately some of us regard traditional FMA as being mostly being what I sometimes playfully call "martial arts and crafts" (a term I see taking hold elsewhere by the way). This is not without reason! There are fanciful notions to be found in many systems!
However, let us not throw out the baby with the bathwater. In my opinion there is A LOT of true fighting value to be found in the FMA, and that includes learning how to jab well. A good jab is much more than simply flicking out from the elbow and retracting – though that can work, particularly with targets on an unprotected face! But for a jab to work on a face/head protected by a fencing mask or on a hand protected by the gloves such as we use, we are going to need more than that—and this may well make the difference in the street as well where bad people whose pain tolerance may well greatly increased by adrenaline and/or drugs may not be damaged or deterred as readily as we might think.
In Dog Brothers Martial Arts, the three main FMA systems of influence are Inosanto-LaCoste Blend Kali; Pekiti Tirsia Kali; and Lameco Eskrima, and each of them has particular jabs well worth studying. Amongst the jabs we teach (the naming is my own, I tend to be quite awful when it comes to keeping proper track of terminology):
*the Inosanto Four Count Jab
*The Pekiti stick Jab (see Top Dog's seguidas in DVD#4 of our Real Contact Stick Fighting series)
*The Pekiti Pakal Knife Jab
*Lameco 1 & 2
*Lameco 3 & 4 (the first motion of each)
*Lameco Pluma
*Happy Dog Jab (a.k.a. The Lameco "I" jab)
Anyway, there it is—some thoughts which may be of use to you as you begin your training for 2014.
Walk as warriors for all our days!
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Re: The Jab in Real Contact Stickfighting by Guro Crafty
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As a lefty, I have always loved the jab, especially the inside jab. This post reminds me of the old school boxers and the cheesy movie about Gentleman Jim.
Nostalgia aside, I think there are several good points and questions raised.
One basic point: If an opponent cannot feel a jab through protective gear, what makes us think a really dangerous person would? That is a question that gives us pause.
The second point comes to our own ego. If we ignore a hit because the headgear or gloves lets us, what have we gained? An illusion of our own abilities and a false sense of self? This is where it gets really tricky. If we stop the encounter because of a hit, we are teaching ourselves to stop when it matters. But if we ignore hits because of gear, we are imagining ourselves to be ubermensch. I think the compromise is to keep fighting but acknowledge the touch and hit- a reverse counting coup. And, after the encounter, giving the training partner credit to keep us humble.
The questions come. Is there more than one type of jab? I think there is. There is the 'feelgood' jab. A line from the shooting world (in keeping with the cross categories pattern) goes thus: Most people shoot to make themselves feel better. I think it is from Clint Smith.
Many people throw the jab because they don't know what to do but feel like they should do something other than dance around in a guarded posture. Note how many boxers launch bad, off balance attacks as soon as the 10-second warning smacks the mat. Perhaps it is merely my opinion, but our actions should have a purpose and intent.
Assuming intent and clear purpose, I can see at least three types of jab-which become the same thing at higher levels.
The distracting jab. One is merely trying to draw a reaction and thus set up for a later move.
The trapping jab. One is trying to occupy a limb/weapon while one is busy elsewhere. It's very similar to the first jab but with a bit more stickiness.
The positioning jab. This is a jab that is designed to move a head or limb into position for the following strike that does the real damage. It should have more ooomph and structure behind it.
Which brings me to another thought. What is a jab? It's not a KO shot but it should have something behind it. A balancing act. If there is nothing behind it, people will (and rightly so) ignore it. I am reminded of a training partner who was dancing around with a knife like US Army 101 knife fighting meets West Side Story. What that tells us is that the person doesn't really want to fight and we should just go. Too much effort and we put ourselves into an off balanced position like we're in a Rocky movie. Going back into the martial arts and crafts, to me, that is where working the drills with increasing power while never breaking good structure and balance comes in to play. Work the drills and pull our ego out of it.
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"One basic point: If an opponent cannot feel a jab through protective gear, what makes us think a really dangerous person would? That is a question that gives us pause."
As I understand it, the idea is that any jab with a stick, even a relatively light one, to the teeth, nose, temple, eyes, anywhere near the eyes, etc is going to tend to have effect upon the recipient.
What is a jab? In DBMA we define it as shot that retracts. A shot that carries through we call a "slash".
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Thank you for the elucidation. I always admit that my experience in stick fighting, especially full contact, is rather limited. Most of my experience is with empty hand and firearm.
From the times I have been clocked in the head with various hard objects, I can say that it doesn't take much to elicit a response. Even a whipping branch from a willow tree coming at the eyes tends to make one duck as much as a boxer's overhand right. Many years ago, one of my most influential teachers told me to respect every fist as much as a knife. To do otherwise is to teach ourselves bad habits. If we rely on headgear to protect us, we are like LEO's relying on body armor or the old knights relying on the breastplate. Headgear should be insurance not a bulwark.
As a warning to go along with the use of heavier headgear (a topic I remember from the past), my experience is that heavier, rigid headgear tends to amplify the brain rattle and the shock felt in the neck and spine. Punches that would lightly rock me bareheaded would really jar my brain and spine. So, perhaps those using the heavier head protection are merely trading one type of damage for another. The force has to go somewhere.
I was speaking somewhat rhetorically when I asked what a jab was, but I again thank you for the clarification, Crafty. I think what I was trying to say is that perhaps one should jab a little deeper before retracting to compensate for the headgear. In one of my arts, we call this the difference between a whiphand and forefist. The same shot, thrown with the same speed. But the forefist takes slightly longer because the additional 2-3 inches of penetration increases contact time.. It may be that one needs to practice a slightly deeper stick jab to offset the change in distance to target caused by the headgear.
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that was one of the most well thought out and argued articles on a specific technical issue in martial arts I've read in a long time. I'm going to recommend it to my FB friends and students.
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Tail wags for the kind words Tuhon Bill.
Coming from you that is high praise indeed.
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