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Sunday, July 27, 2008
It Would Have Been Nice
It would have been nice if FLop had ran out a strike three passed ball in the top of the first. Instead, Felipe Lopez jogged and was easily thrown out by The Los Angeles Dodgers Catcher Russell Martin.
It would have been nice if Jason Bergmann could have laid down a bunt in top of the third. Instead, Our Number 57 tapped the ball directly back to Dodger's Pitcher Clayton Kershaw--who immediately threw to Nomar Garciaparra for the first out. The Dodgers shortstop relaying the baseball to first for a key double play. Why is it, that so many pitchers, in the short History of Our Washington Nationals, can not bunt?
It would have been nice if Lastings Milledge had not gotten himself thrown out at third base on a routine ground ball to Casey Blake at third base in the top of the fifth. Being aggressive, Our Number 44 never stopped rounding second base on Blake's toss to first base on Paul LoDuca's grounder. Dodger's First Baseman James Loney relayed a perfect toss to Nomar Garciaparra backing up the play at third for the very odd 5-3-6 Double Play. The Defensive Play of This Game which immediately found Milledge apologizing to Our Manager Manny Acta when Wil Nieves followed this odd twin killing, with a double down the left field line. A two baser that would have scored Lastings and tied this game at one run apiece. Yes, that would have been nice.
It would have been nice if Milledge and Willie Harris had communicated on a routine pop fly to left centerfield by Matt Kemp in the bottom of the 5th. A sure out misplayed when both players backed off calling for the ball. A muffed single that proved costly, when Russell Martin followed with a clean single to left scoring Juan Pierre--running one base ahead of Kemp.
It would have been nice, if Jason Bergmann, like John Lannan, could receive some offensive support from Our Washington Nationals when he pitches well. Unfortunately, few pitchers are perfect. And when Our Number 57 allowed a NO DOUBT Home Run to James Loney in the bottom of the second--you had to get that feeling--this game was lost--again.
Yes, it would have been nice, to think otherwise. But, after losing 2-0 to The Los Angeles Dodgers, shutout three of their last four games, and going Zero For California--Our Washington Nationals head back across the country tonight on pace to LOSE 103 Games. That's pretty remarkable considering all the high hopes during Spring Training for 2008.
It would have been nice if Washington had won ONE GAME in either San Francisco or Los Angeles.
And how nice would it be NOT to lead The Major Leagues in Being Shutout. Today--Washington's 15th Whitewash of 2008.
Still, I would love Our Washington Nationals to shutdown The Phillies & Their Fans this coming Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday--this coming week at New Nationals Park. It would be nice to beat Philadelphia--at home. That would be bring me Great Joy!!--Again.
Game Notes & Highlights
I guess Ryan Langerhans' terrific efforts earlier in the road trip meant nothing. Hot, consistently stroking some nice hits, and knocking in some key runs--Langerhans just sat on the pine--most of the West Coast Swing. I understand that Milledge needs to play, but you need to find a way to get Ryan's hot hitting bat into each game--in a meaningful way. He needs to play. Let's not waste his talents--again. Interestingly, On ESPN's Baseball Tonight this evening--they named Langerhans' catch over the leftfield wall at Petco Park in San Diego earlier this season--the finest catch of 2008--thus far. The man can play some "D".
It would also be nice if Our Washington Nationals had let Pete Orr know that they would not be using him anytime soon. Our Canadian Infielder was offered the opportunity to play for his native country in The 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. The last time Baseball will be played in this international competition, for the near future. Since telling Washington he decided to remain in The Majors, Orr has not played one inning of any game. That's sad. Pete Orr may be far from the best infielder out there, but he hustles and gives his all every time. Someone should thank him for turning down a big personal achievement--in his baseball career--and play him--every once and awhile.
It would also be nice if Our Washington Nationals start playing as many of their hungry youngsters as possible. I can root for youth. It's difficult to cheer for Odalis Perez, FLop and Paul LoDuca right now. That threesome has no collective future in Washington. None whatsoever. Put Our Future Out There On The Field--we have nothing else to lose.
Sorry to hear that "The Guz" has a thumb problem--apparently from being hit while batting in San Francisco earlier this week. Why do I have this feeling that Cristian Guzman is going on the Disabled List and eventually will be lost for an extended period of time?
Finally--it would be nice to know what maneuvers Our General Manager Jim Bowden is not only considering, but has been actually offered so far, for the potential July 31st Trading Deadline Deals. Having no idea what might transpire--I am curious to know whether Our Washington Nationals have ANY CHANCE of picking up a useful part in Our Future. Seems we already traded our most useful commodity, Big Jon Rauch, to Arizona earlier. This coming Thursday is going to be pretty interesting. Will Some Team Get Desperate--To Our Advantage? We can only hope.
PS--Never have I been a big fan of ESPN. The Sports Network which has become to big for itself. A Brand Name that many times means less sports reporting for hype. So, It really hurts when ESPN's Karl Ravech on Baseball Tonight makes the comment that The Los Angeles Dodgers Clayton Kershaw is looking for his first victory in 10 starts. And John Kruk replies--"Well no EASIER TO TEAM to gain a victory from than Washington." The fact may have some truth to it--but the way ESPN always makes fun of any team outside of New York & Boston--shameful. No respect. Last time I checked--John Kruk played for some pretty awful teams, as well, in his career. He must understand how it's difficult to perform, at times, when the media continually kicks you down.
Today's InGame Photo--(AP) Francis Specker
45 comments:
- JayB said...
Time for me to ask.......do you still have confidence in Manny Acta?
Almost two years we have been watching his team not run to first (more than just FLOP), Pitchers who can not bunt and outfielders who can not call balls.
I really want to know if you think 2 years, 2 spring trainings, 260 ball games.....is enough time for Acta to put in place the baseball culture that was promised?
I really want to know if you think he even cares anymore.
- Jeremy said...
Felipe Lopez makes me sick. If he's not tradeable by 7/31, we absolutely have to DFA him. He's a cancer on this team.
- paul said...
Great post, SBF. I really appreciate it on such a desultory day for the team.
BTW was anyone else impressed with the presence that Garrett Mock had last night? I think he and Perez might swap roles at some point.
im so sick of this sh**. A team in a slump like this, that goes on these terrible streaks of losing needs a good manager that can step in and do something to slow the bleeding. Every team loses, but when a team with half decent talent that goes 0-5 against the weak n.l. west, well, that team needs a better manager. damn it
- An Briosca Mor said...
Every team loses, but when a team with half decent talent that goes 0-5 against the weak n.l. west, well, that team needs a better manager. damn it
Who is this "half decent talent" you speak of? Don't name players on the DL. Base it on actual performance, not potential. Then give me your half decent roster. Remember, you need eight half decent position players, five half decent starters and a half decent relief corps. And they all have to be playing half decently in any given game if you want to put together a win. You can't blame Manny for this one, much as you'd like to. Even a great manager can't put together a half decent team unless he has half decent parts to work with, and Manny doesn't have that.
- JayB said...
As usual ABM blusters yet again....just like the "how do you know Bowden did not tell Chad first".......we know......ABM, we know……..
On Manny Acta, we know he has had enough time teach Bergman to bunt.....we know he has had enough time to bench for all time players who do not hustle......we know he has had enough time to throw Jim Bowden under a bus for tying his hands; for making him hire and keep Lenny Harris on the staff and for making him play Lopez, Pena, Estrada, Lo Duca instead of players who want to be here.
We should hold Acta responsible for the effort and fundamentals of the team regardless of the players the Nationals put on the field. If Jimbo is making out the lineups and picking the coaches then Acta must call him out to earn the respect of his players. If his players see Acta as a puppet of Jim Bowden who can blame players for the lack of respect they are showing Acta and the game. Acta is showing them he does not care about the game, the record or his players.
Any one notice the team played better with the no-regulars. One reason, the care. The so called future "know" they are going to play. I'm not down on Manny, because he can't control this team if he doesn't control the lineup. But, I won't ever trash Frank. He would have everyone playing hard.
It would have been nice---if the Lerners had never hired Jim Bowden
Milledge is a dumb, dumb baserunner and his throwing arm is pathetic. If this guy is the future of the Nats, then the future is as grim as the present.
- An Briosca Mor said...
As usual ABM blusters yet again....just like the "how do you know Bowden did not tell Chad first".......we know......ABM, we know……..
As usual, JayB shows that he doesn't have a clue about anything. First of all, if I "blustered" about the Cordero thing (which was merely asking the "how do we know" question when indeed we didn't know) I also recanted my comments immediately when the truth came out. When has JayB ever recanted anything?
On Manny Acta, we know he has had enough time teach Bergman to bunt
Manny is the manager. It's not his job to teach pitchers who never learned how to bunt in the first place to do it in the midst of a season. If he did that kind of thing with all the players who need that kind of instruction, he'd have no time left to manage. Bergmann should be seeking out bunting instruction from wherever he can find it (hey, he could ask Shawn Hill). If he's not doing that, it's on Bergmann, not Manny Acta.
.....we know he has had enough time to bench for all time players who do not hustle...
If he does that, then who's going to be left to play the games? You want him to start every game out with a 15 to 20 man roster and go from there?
...we know he has had enough time to throw Jim Bowden under a bus for tying his hands; for making him hire and keep Lenny Harris on the staff and for making him play Lopez, Pena, Estrada, Lo Duca instead of players who want to be here.
When it all comes down to it, JimBo is Manny's boss. Name me any profession where a subordinate can throw his boss under the bus and not end up losing his own job in the process. There are many problems with this team, but contrary to the drumbeat JayB continues to put out, Manny Acta is not one of them. Manny is far from perfect - as would be any manager - but he's doing the best job possible of painting lipstick on the pig that is this year's Nationals team. At the end of the day, it's still going to be a pig. Don't blame Manny for that, blame the guy who bought and assembled the pig: Jim Bowden.
- JayB said...
Manny is responsible for the teams fundamentals.
While ABM masters the obvious (no Manny does not need to teach him personally), Manny can make sure Pitchers put in the time with his staff to learn this skill. While ABM masters his skills of misdirection (Bergman has been in 2 Acta run Spring Trainings) I ask why Acta has not made these priorities over the past 2 years. If your boss is making you look bad and turning in your work under your name, you call him out, and nobody would accept Manny being fired by Jimbo....get real ABM you know that!
Point here is Acta seems to given up on this team. He should play the people who will play hard. If Jimbo does not like it then go public with it, if not he earns the blame for this PIG.
- Sam R said...
Unfortunately Krukie was right. We have become an almost automatic "W" for other teams, even sub .500 teams. More than once I've heard the opposing team's announcers on XM broadcasts point out we were a team to "get back on track" against. So Kruk did his job as an analyst - pointing out the facts, albeit them sad facts.
Take me out to the Ballgame!
Wow, this is getting ugly. My opinion is the players ultimately responsible for not being able to come with the fundamentals but Manny as a manager has to evaluate his players and make sure they can do the job and we are a HORRIBLE bunting team. Tim Redding, Ryan Zimmerman, and CGuz (at times) can lay down bunts. Willie Harris has been miserable at bunting. Roger Bernandina comes up and the talk was what a great bunter he is and he struggled. We play interleague and watch the Orioles pitchers who rarely bat lay down bunts. What does that say for this organization???
I blame Manny too.
Baserunning blunders. Milledge got thrown out twice early in the year on similar plays. Less than 2 outs without a force with a ball hit to SS and Milledge on 2nd. Both times he runs to 3rd and thrown out. It should happen once and only once. It is on Milledge but the coaches/manager must take some responsibility too on these type of plays.
On ESPN with Kruk, can't blame him in this instance for speaking the truth. We have the worse record hence the easiest to beat by definition.
- An Briosca Mor said...
Oh, I see. If I bring JayB over to my school for two years to teach him the fundamentals of English language grammar and spelling, and after two years JayB still can't put together a coherent sentence, then it's all my fault and I should be fired.
Tell me, JayB, how many of your grade school teachers ended up being fired? Or were they able to throw the principal under the bus and save their jobs?
If your boss is making you look bad and turning in your work under your name, you call him out, and nobody would accept Manny being fired by Jimbo
Sure sounds like you would accept Manny being fired by JimBo, JayB. I guess that makes you a nobody, eh? And to get real with it, probably only a handful of major league managers aren't basically puppets of their GMs. Torre, Piniella, Cox, Francona. Who else? Those are probably the only managers who could risk throwing their GMs under the bus without getting fired themselves. Hell, Frank Robinson probably contemplated throwing Bowden under the bus a few times, but didn't. And he got fired anyway, didn't he?
- SenatorNat said...
It is a wonder that the Nats are not fodder for late night T.V. monologues - they are fast becoming a team ready to give some of the early expansion year Senators (1962-64)a run for their money on both futility and total absence of fire or starpower. The slogan for 1964 Senators, incidentally, was "Off the Floor in '64" (I have another infoamous 1964 slogan for JayB re: ABM "In your heart, you know he's right!")
The best thing for Nationals fans for the longrun well-being of the team is for the 2008 version which played the inagural year at Nationals Park to lose 105 games. Only then, will Fast Eddie Cohen have to concern himself with whether this $55 million payroll is costing the family real money.
Right now, the Nationals are averaging 50,000 fans per victory or so, taking the 20 wins and dividing them into 1 million fans thus far. This should continue to be the average: should the gate be 2.2 million this year and about 40 home wins, it should actually go up a click or two. Thus, compelling case can be made that each victory is actually worth more fans per than Nationals Park has capacity to seat. While this may seem wholly illogical accounting, I suggest that a winning team in D.C. is worth another million or more in attendance - that the demand function is highly elastic. Thus, if the CFO were to feed the meter with, say, $75 million payroll, the ROI would be tremendous.
The flip side: counting on Dukes; Milledge; Bonifacio; Flores; Lanan to sell season tickets in 2009, along with the face of the franchise and perhaps Adam Dunn is going to see a drop-off in season ticket sales of at least 10% should this team finish with over 100 losses.
Manny Acta is experiencing a sophomore slump as manager, with many good excuses for it, but he should remain. For Bowden, it is a matter of time, only, before he is dismissed. Another DWI could mean sooner rather than later; but, his No Tender to Cordero admission on a radio program which openly mocks the Nats is a clue as to why no one in MLB has any respect for the guy. His presence suggests that D.C. has no serious mouthpiece or negotiator for the team - he is a caricature of a GM - looks one of those ESPN mini-series types, or one out of North Dallas Forty.
Cordero came across on TV Saturday as such a decent boyish guy - makes Bowden look even worse than had #32 been a typical MLB brat.
The mystery man amidst this choas is Kasten - is he just riding such a tiger in the Lerner Family quest for ROI that he cannot suggest anything mature like a sophisticated GM, given a rational payroll to work with, without being eaten?
This team is where we thought it would be when it moved here four years ago. By now, we would have seen progress. Other than a number 3 pitcher in Lanan, and a number 5 in Bergmann; a wonderful young better than average third baseman; and a shortstop having a career year, what have we seen in ANY OHER player that is dependable for 2009 and beyond?
Trust in the power of the blog and abject failure to force ultimate success. All Good.
- An Briosca Mor said...
what have we seen in ANY OHER player that is dependable for 2009 and beyond?
Our attempts at stockpiling Jesus (like some deranged priest up at the altar in a frenzy of consecration) have been 50% successful, I'd say.
An Briosca Mor said...
Oh, I see. If I bring JayB over to my school for two years to teach him the fundamentals of English language grammar and spelling, and after two years JayB still can't put together a coherent sentence, then it's all my fault and I should be fired.
No, you are in charge and you should fire the one that can't do the job then, but if the person can be teached then make sure they get the lesson!
If the person can be "taught", is relative to the student.
Ryan Zimmerman barely spent time in the Minor Leagues and knew how to bunt so he didn't learn it there.
I think every player that moves up the ranks has their own skill level and we have specialized coaches such as the Hitting Coach to teach the finer points.
Zim would not need the work at bunting, but clearly most of the pitchers and as mentioned Willie Harris, Bernandina, and some others would.
As also has been said before, when you are at the bottom, the only way to go is up so these coaches have their work cut out for them.
I am still going to games and will cheer the great plays and have no problem complaining about the bad ones.
What I don't want to see are players not hustling and taking things for granted. They made a right move with Estrada and they have a few more to make.
No excuse for not hustling and lack of fundamentals.
- JayB said...
You might have a point if teachers could pick their students and if the pool they pick from was only the top 1% in the world and if they were able to pay their students several $100K and have them be in their class full time every day for 8 Months a year.
Alas, teachers get what they get and all 100% of kids must attend school so……………………….as usual you have no point at all. Oh and I do not depend on my spelling to provide for my family so don't feel bad for being such a jerk, you are who you are.
- SenatorNat said...
"Why can't we all just get along" - by hating FLOP unanimously?
We can bicker, but everyone knows a player who is smart and hustling - you cannot hide stupidity and laziness behind some tired "Sportsspeak quotes." Zimmerman never gives these stupid quotes, for example. Manny is so resigned to a team playing with no energy that it filters down to the whole squad. What happened to Belliard's bat this year?
Finally, rookie pitcher Kershaw tells ESPN after first victory: "We know the Nationals are anxious at the plate - that they swing at the first or second pitch..." He is 20 years old, yet he knows that this tendency is a grave disadvantage for the Nationals. Manny has to demand, at a minimum, a major league hitting coach to complement his major league pitching coach.
Trust in the power of negative thinking. All good.
- An Briosca Mor said...
You might have a point if teachers could pick their students
You think Manny picked any of these players you fault him for not being able to teach? He's working with what he's given to work with - and you're expecting him to perform miracles with them. There are two guys named Jesus on the team, but no one who can immediately solve all the team's problems just with a laying on of hands. But yet you expect Manny to be able to do that, in each and every case or it's him that's the problem. No exceptions, right? Doesn't matter that the cast of characters he has to teach these fundamentals to is a continuous revolving door of players coming in and going out. Having a system like the Oriole Way of the '80s would be great, but remember this: Rome was not built in a day. Although I'm sure that if you'd been in charge back then, JayB, it would have been, right?
- JayB said...
Acta and his coaches can teach pitchers to bunt....trust me this is something I know about...it is not that hard.....just takes practice.
Acta does not need the top talent of professional baseball players to teach them fundamentals and insist they play hard.
Anyone want to supports ABM's premise that Nats players are so bad they can not learn to bunt?
ABM...Try again....you still have no point
- SenatorNat said...
"Aristeia:" great energies are gathered for a day; dispersed; and then regenrated for yet another day, in an epic wonder of consistency.
This, according to George Will in his book "Bunts" is what makes baseball and its intricacies so absorbing and classical. And, since he used the metaphor Bunts as his title, so shall I suggest that the little things done repeatedly, with effort towards proficiency and refinement, are the embodiment of the game. And, yes, all pitchers should be working on this FOR THEIR OWN GOOD; as well as all players. And, run out every ball, too. And ALL managers can demand at least this of ALL players. Manny being Manny - nevertheless...
Trust in Groundhog Day. All Good.
I agree with JayB although I don't think Manny Acta is to blame for everything.
With that said, Manny shouldn't be fired this year as has been the hot topic on the Nats Board along with firing JimBo....
Lets hope he learns something because this is a team that has to play at 100% or they won't win. Plain and simple.
No mental mistakes and no base running mistakes and hit the cut-off man and get the bunts down and most of all----hustle!!! The negativity is contagious!!!
It starts with Manny and filters down.
- JayB said...
Agreed, Acta does not be fired but he does need to step up and get his team functioning for the rest of the year and YES....next spring training he must focus on fundamentals and effort.....no more stories of Pena, Dukes and Milledge swinging for the fences in BP....they all have things to work on and it and hitting BP pitches into the woods.
- An Briosca Mor said...
Anyone want to supports ABM's premise that Nats players are so bad they can not learn to bunt?
ABM...Try again....you still have no point
That's not my premise. I'm saying that Manny Acta has been saddled with so many players who are weak on fundamentals that there's no way he or his coaches can teach them all one-to-one as you suggest. (Why? Because they've never been taught these so-called fundamentals at lower levels. Pitcher's bunting, for instance, is not a fundamental when the only pitchers who even bat in almost all of baseball are in the National League. It's a wonder any pitchers can bunt when they first come up.) Also, growth and change, even when taught, do not happen overnight. You can blame the organization for not having a "back to fundamentals" attitude (e.g. the Oriole Way of old) but you can't just pin it all on Acta because he says he wants things to be that way and they haven't been. He did not pick these players or even all of the coaches. Veteran players should be preaching this. So should coaches throughout the organization. If they're not, don't blame Acta, blame the guy who hired these veteran players and coaches: Bowden.
JayB, try again. You still have no clue.
- JayB said...
"Pitcher's bunting, for instance, is not a fundamental"
When in a hole...stop digging.....
Clueless about baseball....that is our boy ABM....he just thinks is he says it loud and often he must be right.
Facts are that Bergman has gone through 2 Acta spring training (not worth much it seems) and most of two seasons…..It is an issue of lack of Acta leadership.
ABM - You try again. How come when we play American League teams at Nats Park the AL teams can bunt? I saw the Angels pitchers bunt? Why, because it was an emphasis with their pitchers in late May and early June as Mike Scioscia said in a Press Conference talking about "preparedness" for Inter-league.
These are professional players who know how to do it. Practice makes perfect and if they can't per-fect it then they have a place called the bench or AAA.
There is no excuse for not knowing fundamentals and don't make up excuses for Manny Acta.
Manny promised us when he accepted the Manager's job how this team would hustle and do the little things.
It is his fault that he has allowed this atmosphere and that is the frustration of JayB and others here.
We can blame JimBo for a lot of this team's mess but the fundamentals are on the Manager.
- JayB said...
Oh and SBF,
Jump in any time, or do you agree that "bunting is not a pitcher fundamental" like ABM?
- An Briosca Mor said...
Bunting is something every pitcher ought to be able to do, but it's not taught as a fundamental any more as pitchers come up through the ranks, because pitchers don't bat any more as they come up through the ranks. It's as simple as that.
I agree that fundamentals should be part of spring training - a big part. But in order to do that, it helps if the players you're drilling on the fundamentals during ST are the same players who'll be on call to execute the fundamentals during the season. In other words, you want to teach those pitchers to bunt who will be your starting rotation during the season. How many starters did the team go through last season, thirteen? How many pitchers entered ST this year knowing they would be in the rotation, so they could focus on things like bunting instead of focusing on just making the team? One, maybe two.(Hill and Perez.) Same for position players. Very few spots in the lineup were certain. It's one thing to cavalierly say that the manager should just make sure every player has his own personal fundamentals coach, and a whole different thing to try to implement that in the face of a revolving door of personnel changes. This team needs to stabilize itself, stop wasting time with stopgap third-tier veterans, and just start playing the kids. Only then will Manny's preaching of fundamentals have a chance to pay off.
- An Briosca Mor said...
A Hall of Fame manager once took stock of his last-place team and lamented Can't anybody here play this game? Hall of Shame wannabe GM JayB would have fired that manager on the spot.
- JayB said...
You really have no idea what you are talking about here.....and you are not smart enough to take good advice on digging holes either.....oh well you are who you are.
- An Briosca Mor said...
Okay, JayB. You're the manager. Bergmann fails to lay down a bunt. What do you do?
(a) Pull him immediately and make him miss his next start in penalty. Who pitches in his place on short rest?
(b) Ship him to the minors until he learns how to bunt. (Insert name of replacement starter here;_________. Remember to include all roster moves necessary to complete this move, including implications for the rest of the season as you remit this same punishment on every other player who fails to lay down a bunt.)
(c) Commit hara-kiri. (And no, that's not the late Cubs announcer. I know how to use a spell-checker.)
(d) Continue to preach and teach, hoping eventually it will sink in.
Seriously, what would you do here? Or if I'm so clueless, name me another feasible choice of action.
- JayB said...
Or, instead of all the hyperboles you could just do the obvious.....
Require him to spend two one hour sessions each day in the batting cage bunting (only bunting). Instead of sitting on his butt during the games he is not pitching....he needs to be under the stands bunting every day until he gets it right. It really is not rocket science....it is a commitment to doing it, that is all it takes. I had a coach that would set up cans in an arc around the plate and we had to be able to hit the cans with bunts. You learn when you can not get out of the drill until you can do it.
Since you obviously have never done it, I guess you have to nonsensical solutions......
Before you try to save face ABM....if that is what Acta has been doing for 2 years with Bergman it would show. He is as uncomfortable bunting today as he was as a rookie. Acta has not been Teaching at all in this case.
- An Briosca Mor said...
No, you're right, I have never done it. But I know enough to to know that bunting in the cage against a pitching machine can only take you so far. Eventually you have to practice against some semblance of real pitching. if you have one guy on a team who can't bunt, then it's feasible to find time for him to work on bunting during your 40 minutes or so of live BP each day. But if your entire pitching staff needs to work on bunting, then not so much.
If Bergmann hasn't been in the cage practicing bunting, that's on him, not Manny. These are professional players. They shouldn't require hand-holding. So tell me, if you're Manny what do you do when Bergmann or any other player doesn't do the work he should be doing as a professional? Don't duck the question now by telling me I don't know what I'm talking about, either.
- JayB said...
If I am Manny, I am in charge. I tell Bergmen what he will do and when. I lead the team not wait and hope that players do the right thing. IF and this is not likely at all, Bergmen does not do what I have told him, he runs and then he sits a start and then he goes to AAA. Nobody, ignores a direct instruction from the Manager.
But again....you really have no clue how a baseball team functions do you?
An Briosca Mor said...
So tell me, if you're Manny what do you do when Bergmann or any other player doesn't do the work he should be doing as a professional?
Ask Frank Robinson what he did with superstar Alfonso Soriano when he was very very reluctant to play LF.
We didn't have a bunting problem when Frank managed here. Frank also had no problem when Ryan Zimmerman bunted for numerous hits in 2006.
Here's the short story, Manny's team has not been fundamentally sound.
Mistakes will be made when you are a young team but don't make the same exact mistakes twice.
- An Briosca Mor said...
Mistakes will be made when you are a young team but don't make the same exact mistakes twice.
I wouldn't argue with that. But JayB railed last season when Nook Logan made mistakes in CF, not calling fly balls and such. Nook Logan is gone now, and it's Milledge making those mistakes and on the learning curve. Same goes for many other positions, as well as pretty much the entire rotation. Why is that Manny's fault?
My point, which JayB seems not to grasp, is that there's only so much a manager can do if his entire team is fundamentally unsound. He can't bench them all in retribution, nor teach them all at once. Someone has to go out and play the game every night. Manny didn't ask for a team that is fundamentally unsound, it was given to him and now he has to deal with it. It's not his fault, and he hasn't given up on the team nor does he "not care any more" as JayB said. He's certainly not a perfect manager (nobody is) but really it's not his fault the team sucks.
This bunting problem is just another reason teams need more than one pitching coach. All this talk about Manager Acta leaves out the role of pitching coach St Claire. Shouldn't he have some responsibility? Yes, but bunting isn't high on his list because he has other more important pitching issues to resolve.
- An Briosca Mor said...
Yes, but bunting isn't high on his list because he has other more important pitching issues to resolve.
As does pretty much every pitcher on his staff. So the Angels pitchers can bunt, whereas the Nats pitchers can't. Well, what else is different about those two staffs? The Angels staff has the pitching part of the game down pretty well now, so they can take the time to perfect their bunting. The Nats pitchers are still working primarily on their pitching. They do that every game, whereas relatively speaking bunting is not such a high priority for them now. A bad pitcher who can bunt is still a bad pitcher, after all.
- Jim H said...
I think you're being a bit romantic in your memories about Frank's stewardship. I remember just as many failed bunts. There may have been more successful bunts as well...but that's because the Nats were bunting from the second inning on.
There were a ton of missed bunts. That's what made those managerial decisions so frustrating. The team was lousy at bunting, but Frank kept giving the bunt sign, anyway.
- paul said...
Can we get Jayb and ABM to square off in a mascot race?
- An Briosca Mor said...
I call dibs on the Abe suit. JayB has to wear Teddy.
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Wednesday, August 24
Let the FedEx Cup Playoffs Begin
THE FEDEX CUP PLAYOFFS get underway on Thursday with The Barclays at Plainfield Country Club in Edison, New Jersey. The four-event playoff series, which includes the Deutsche Bank Championship and BMW Championship, concludes in Atlanta with the Tour Championship.
After much criticism and formula tinkering, the FedEx Cup points race has slowly gained acceptance. No, it's not the majors or the Ryder Cup. No, it can't compete with football. But it's far better than the days when everyone tuned out after the PGA Championship. With all that cash up for grabs, the top PGA Tour players surely welcome the playoffs and gladly play deep into the month of September. That's good for core golf fans.
Above are PGATour.com's top 10 shots from The Barclays. I remembered three of the shots. Four, actually. After seeing it again, I did recall Sergio Garcia's putt in his 2008 playoff against Vijay Singh. Of course, I also remembered Vijay's long one that he made on top of Sergio. And there was Matt Kuchar's iron out of the rough to three feet. That was last year.
I think Heath Slocum got robbed, though. Slocum's tournament-winning 20-footer in 2009—the biggest putt of his life and the one that beat Tiger Woods—is No. 6 on the list.
Really? Only No. 6?
That's just wrong.
−The Armchair Golfer
3 comments:
- Health Network said...
but no Tiger :(
- The Armchair Golfer said...
Yep. No play, no playoffs.
Yes....I remember that putt.
And Tiger failing to make a 10 footer,later complaining about the greens in Jersey City.
However,that was the beginning of the decline of Tiger to where he is today.
And it brings me back to boxing,when Mike Tyson was beating the bejeebus out of every fighter he faced,you never see him complain to the referees.
When Mike started to lose his ability you could see him complain every time after the referees break a clinch.
Well the same with Tiger,anyone remember Tiger & Pardaig Harrington in the last group on a Sunday duel some yrs ago,maybe in Pennsylvania,anyway ,they were playing so slow the officials put 'em on the clock.Harrington made a terrible shot and Tiger went on to win.
However,it was Tiger's post game comments that showed he was heading in a different direction.Tiger said,they,the last pair should not have been put on the clock....in other words adhering to the clock was only for the groups ahead & not the last pair.
I was stunned & wondered how can golf's #1 player at the time be so cavalier with the rules of golf.

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Google Ventures is investing in Cool Planet Energy Systems, a company aiming to produce cheap biofuels in its first commercial processing plant, according to reports.
Google, along with BP, ConocoPhillips and NRG, are investing in Cool Planet, a company that pants to replace gasoline with biofuel, GigaOm reported. The California company announced this week that it will create biofuels that will cost $1.50 a gallon at a new 10 million-gallon processing plant that will take around $50 million to build. Cool Planet wants an additional $50 million for production and other expenses.
The company wants the project built and ready to go by 2014, according to Cool Planet chief executive Howard Janzen. Although most biofuel plants are twice the size, Janzen said that the smaller size will cut costs and serve an area within a 30-mile radius.
This isn't the first time that Google has invested in green or cleaner energy. Last year, Google invested $168 million in a solar farm in the Mojave desert, and earlier this year the tech titan gave $100 million to an Oregon wind farm. The latest investment in biofuels is in keeping with Google's mission to promote green energy and there will likely be more to come.


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Earle N. Barber Jr., lawyer and board member
Earle Nelson Barber Jr., 83, a lawyer who had served on the boards of many area nonprofit organizations, died Nov. 28 at his home in Cathedral Village, Andorra.
Mr. Barber was a former partner in the Chestnut Hill firm of Barber, Sharpe and Rosenberger and had practiced law for more than 50 years.
For many years he had held leadership positions in numerous local organizations. He was a past president of the Springfield Township School Board, the Businessmen's Association of Germantown and the Germantown Community Council.
He was president of the Ivy Hill Cemetery Company and had served on the board of Germantown Hospital for more than 30 years.
He also had served on the boards of the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, the YMCA of Germantown, the First United Methodist Church of Germantown, the Wyck Association and the Concord School House, and had been chairman of the committee that organized the Northwest Center for Older Adults (now the Center in the Park).
He was a trustee emeritus of the Woodmere Art Museum – his favorite institution – where he had exhibited some of his sculptures. As executor of the Dwight V. Dowley Estate, he was involved in the awarding of substantial funds to the museum and the Philadelphia Orchestra as well as gifts to many local art and music groups.
Born and raised in Germantown, Mr. Barber was a graduate of Germantown High School, Cornell University and Temple University Law School. He had also lived in Wyndmoor and Whitpain Township.
He is survived by his wife, the former Elizabeth Hewitt; a daughter, Jan H. B. Miller; sons Locke W., Christopher K. and Paul T., and 10 grandchildren.
A memorial service was held Dec. 2 at Chestnut Hill Village. Memorial donations may be sent to the Woodmere Art Museum, 9201 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19118, or the Germantown Historical Society, 5503 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19144. – WF
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Carlos Dabezies, 95, formerly of Chestnut Hill, a retired staff economist for the United Nations, died of complications of heart disease Nov. 30 at his home in Rydal Park, Jenkintown, where he had been living for the past five years.
A native of Buenos Aires, Mr. Dabezies joined the United Nations in 1948 shortly after the organization was founded. He traveled to Lebanon, Laos and throughout Latin America during his UN career, and his work was profiled in an article in the Chestnut Hill Local several years ago.
After retiring in 1965, he became a U.S. citizen and served for another decade as treasurer of his church in New York City.
He and his late wife, the former Priscilla Parnell, moved to Chestnut Hill in 1989 to be near their daughter Marta Dabezies and her family who live in Mt. Airy. The Dabezies became active members of the Chestnut Hill Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Dabezies was a graduate of Buenos Aires University and received a master's degree in public administration from what is now the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
He was a lifelong music lover with an extensive collection of recordings, a student of languages, an amateur mathematician and a connoisseur of good wine and food.
In addition to his daughter, he is survived by a son, Carlos, and three grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at a later date.
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My name is Marie-Claude Julsaint. I'm with the World YWCA [Young Women's Christian Association] in Geneva, Switzerland. I'm the program director for the Americas and the Caribbean region.
What are you presenting here today in the poster session?
This is the work of the YWCA of Kauai, part of YWCA USA and its work on prevention of sexual violence and integrating HIV prevention into that work.1
Can you tell me what you found?
Marie-Claude Julsaint
What they found in Kauai is that one out of four young girls is a victim of sexual assault. For the boys, it's one out of six. Rates are very high on the island, so the YWCA is doing a lot of work around giving information, but also counseling, around violence against women, but sexual violence more precisely.
How do you educate children who are experiencing sexual violence? Who gets educated? Is it parents or children? How does that work?
The information goes out to everyone, but we focus mostly on young people, and also the parents, and women because the YWCA works with women and girls, in general. Also, only 31% of the cases get reported because of the fear and stigma surrounding sexual assault on the island. We need to get the information out there, so that people feel open about speaking out about what they've experienced and getting proper counseling.
Can you tell me why the sexual assault rates are so dramatically high among this population? One in four girls, one in six boys and only 31% reported cases seem like very high rates. Do you have any idea why that's the case?
I think when we look at the conditions, social economic conditions, in terms of lack of employment and poverty -- because this is a vulnerable population -- I think those are some of the reasons why violence is so high.
Did you find that there were any particular risk factors, where children of certain economic backgrounds, or certain ethnic backgrounds, were more or less at risk?
It is true that the indigenous population on the island is, I would say, the most vulnerable population in terms of sexual assault. So yes, the work of the YWCA targets this population.
How was the prevention information disseminated?
Because we're working with adolescents, young people, the prevention work is done through theater, dance, and activities of the sort that would attract young people -- doing it in a fun way.
What is the age group?
The age group is between 15 and 24.
Can you give me an example of what a typical program would look like and how that would incorporate both HIV prevention and assault prevention?
To be totally honest, YWCA has just recently integrated the HIV prevention work into the domestic violence and sexual assault work that they've been doing for many years. This has been done in partnership with Malama Pono, an organization that does a lot of HIV information. This is how we've been working -- with programs that already exist in the communities that people are familiar with. We have been working in partnership with other organizations that have more expertise in HIV prevention.
Why is it useful to combine these programs? What is the connection between childhood sexual assault and HIV infection?
We know that there are links between HIV infection and violence, whether it's violence against women, sexual violence or domestic violence. It's important to give that information, first of all, to prevent HIV; but also, those that have been victims of sexual assault need to know that they can have counseling and testing.
Because people who are victims of sexual assault, you're saying, might be at greater risk of acquiring HIV as adults?
Thank you so much.
You're welcome.
This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.
- Baumung L, Julsaint M.-C. Sexual violence prevention education. In: Program and abstracts of the XVII International AIDS Conference; August 3-8, 2008; Mexico City, Mexico. Abstract TUPE0647.


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First released in 2004, Kompakt are now repackaging the original version of "Timecode" alongside two remixes from the self-proclaimed hip-house originator Tyree Cooper and Studio Bauhaus member Axel Boman. Steeping his buoyant interpretation in Windy City nostalgia, Cooper takes the original's bassline down several notches, before installing a deep assembly of signature chords and a circling patter of hand percussion. While the American's assured version is perhaps a little safe, Boman crafts an altogether more abstract work that's propelled by low-end groove and hazy delays.
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In the lead-up to April 5th's Wisconsin presidential primary, CNN's Anderson Cooper hosted a town hall-style forum where each presidential candidate took questions from the audience on important policy issues, including defense, education, and healthcare.
One exchange in CNN's town hall included brief but confusing remarks by businessman Donald Trump on the federal government's role in education:
(You can read the full transcript here.)
QUESTION: In your opinion, what are the top three functions of the United States government?
Trump: Well, the greatest function of all by far is security for our nation. I would also say health care, I would also say education….
Cooper: So in terms of federal government role, you're saying security, but you also say health care and education should be provided by the federal government?
Trump: Well, those are two of the things. Yes, sure. I mean, there are obviously many things, housing, providing great neighborhoods…
Cooper: Aren't you against the federal government's involvement in education? Don't you want it to devolve to states?
Trump: I want it to go to states, yes. Absolutely. I want – right now…
Cooper: So that's not part of what the federal government's…
Trump: The federal government, but the concept of the country is the concept that we have to have education within the country, and we have to get rid of common core and it should be brought to the state level.
Donald Trump's comments on the federal role in education are confusing. Not only do they directly contradict his avowed position of ending the federal role in Common Core, but they also show a fundamental misunderstanding of the U.S. Constitution's grant of limited power to the federal government—especially the limitations imposed by the 9th and 10th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which state that all powers not expressly granted to the federal government remain with the states and the people.
The Constitution provides for a limited federal government, one that does not interfere with the day-to-day lives of citizens. Not only is the U.S. Department of Education NOT expressly provided for in our Constitution, but it takes over a job that historically (and, as HSLDA believes, constitutionally) has been held by state and local governments.
Making education one of the top three priorities for the federal government is a huge mistake. It will lead to a continuation of the massive growth in federal involvement and control in education. As the federal role in education grows, programs like the Common Core Sate Standards and Race to the Top will continue to threaten the freedom of families, and ultimately the educational freedom of homeschoolers.
Moreover, the U.S. Department of Education does not show any signs of shrinking anytime soon. Be it longitudinal data collection programs, universal early education programs, or national standards, federal involvement in education will do nothing but grow unless educational responsibility is given back to the states.
Education—particularly homeschooling—works best when decision-making is left to the primary interest-holders in the future of children: their parents and families. Expanding and continuing the federal role in education is likely to do nothing but add burdensome regulations to homeschools and remove educational responsibility from parents and from state and local governments.
As this elections season moves on, HSLDA will continue to track the position of each presidential candidate on issues that matter to homeschoolers. You can read more of our articles on the 2016 race here.
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The National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) in Athens, Greece, has committed itself to curating a number of recent exhibitions of internet art. Their current show, "Tag Ties and Affective Spies," features contributions from both net vets and emerging surfers, including Christophe Bruno, Gregory Chatonsky, Paolo Cirio, JODI, Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar, Les Liens Invisibles, Personal Cinema and The Erasers, Ramsay Stirling, and Wayne Clements. The online exhibition takes an antagonistic approach to Web 2.0, citing a constant balance "between order and chaos, democracy and adhocracy." Curator Daphne Dragona raises the question of whether the social web is a preexisting platform on which people connect, or whether it is indeed constructed in the act of uploading, tagging, and disclosing previously private information about ourselves on sites like Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook. Dragona asks whether we are truly connecting and interacting, or merely broadcasting. While her curatorial statement doesn't address the issue directly, the show's title hints at the level of self-surveillance in play on these sites. Accordingly, many of the selected works take a critical, if not DIY, approach to the internet. The collective Les Liens Invisibles tends to create works that make an ironic mash-up of the often divergent mantras of tactical media, culture jamming, surrealism, and situationism. In their Subvertr, they encourage Flickr users to "subverTag" their posted images, creating an intentional disassociation between an image's content and its interpretion, with the aim of "breaking the strict rules of significance that characterize the mainstream collective imaginary..." JODI's work, Del.icio.us/ winning information (2008) exploits the limited stylistic parameters of the social bookmarking site. Using ASCII and Unicode page titles to form visual marks, a cryptic tag vocabulary, and a recursive taxonomy, their fun-to-follow site critiques the broader content of the web by crunching it through the filter of an open platform. The show has an obligatory tag cloud and, in true JODI style, this piece is tagged "del.icio.us, detournement, ww w w w w w." In a work that generated much discussion on Rhizome, earlier this year, Ramsay Stirling reminds us of the history of the relationship between viewers and electronic media. By adapting Richard Serra's and Carlotta Fay Schoolman's Television delivers people (1973), Stirling's Internet delivers people (2008) follows the hacker tradition of making only a few small modifications to the text to comment on the similarities and differences between producers, consumers, and products in the television and internet contexts. The exhibit is also accompanied by essays by Alessandro Ludovico on "Identity as a multilayered self in Web 2.0 environments" and Juan Martín Prada on "Forms of Resistance," who concludes that it may only be through that latter that we will "see what is truly 'social' about 'social media'." - Marisa Olson
The Web 2.0 is such a great source of inspiration! it is dynamic and ever changing. I like to see exhibitions on it. It is contemporary, it is now, it is everywhere.
By the way, check out the coming back of the Clubmaster Ray Ban sunglasses. They brought these back from the 80's and the original design inspiration is from the 50's. Quite interesting. Ray Ban Women's Sunglasses
Agreed. Without the web it will be impossibel to see such a great picture and in fact most people will never have a chance to have a look. Internet is one of the greatest invention of mankind.
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I like the tag cloud that i have on my site but I think I will switch to this one, looks cooler.
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I will for sure add one of these to my sites! Thanks for the idea!
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I really like this tag cloud, it's very sexy. I don't use them on my sites yet because I've not understood how it benefits the reader other than visual impact, but I might add them now.
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I love the tag cloud I always read them on every blog I go to. i think they are a gret addition.
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Let's also not forget that such tags are extremely useful for SEO purposes as well. I think a tag could is great addition to any website!
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That tag cloud is really effective for technical WP themes. My friend recommend me to use it. It is great though. For SEO? yes I know that the standard tags will do the SEO and of course this one is too.
I see tag clouds all over the web, but rarely do I actually use them. I understand they have a place, but in my surfing world, they could be left out.
I don't mind them as art though...Sarah
Hmmm.. I'm not an avid tag cloud user but tag cloud as art, why not?
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This is great info. Im like April. Have not been an avid tag cloud user in the past, but Im warming up to the idea more and more. The tag clouds are pretty cool!
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Internet art is something I am very interested on. I willl definitely apply.
And by the way, the Ludovico's work is amazing! you must experience it! ;)
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tags are funning and very handy)
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I have been looking at The Grinder to see what it is like at performance testing. Though I found the getting started section to cover the tool but it didn't really cover the the I want to click here, here and here and have it just request a page from my web server, so hopefully this will get you past that. I have always found the first five minutes with a tool the complicated ones and need enough to get going and over that first hurdle.
Pre Reqs:
- A web server that you have permission to test with. For me it is localhost and running on port 80.
- I am doing this on Ubuntu doing something similar on Windows should do the trick.
The steps:
- Download The Grinder 3
- Unzip it. I unzipped it to /home/test/Desktop/grinder-3.2
- Create a new directory /home/test/Desktop/grinder-3.2/demo. All files created, edited etc should be in here.
- Create a new file in demo called grinder.properties I copied the below from the examples directory and changed the grinder.script to simple.py
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# # Sample grinder.properties # # # The properties can be specified in three ways. # - In the console. A properties file in the distribution directory # can be selected in the console. # - As a Java system property in the command line used to start the # agent. (e.g. java -Dgrinder.threads=20 net.grinder.Grinder). # - In an agent properties file. A local properties file named # "grinder.properties" can be placed in the working directory of # each agent, or a different file name passed as an agent command # line argument. # # Properties present in a console selected file take precedence over # agent command line properties, which in turn override those in # an agent properties file. # # Any line which starts with a ; (semi-colon) or a # (hash) is a # comment and is ignored. In this example we will use a # for # commentary and a ; for parts of the config file that you may wish to # enable # # Please refer to # http://net.grinder.sourceforge.net/g3/properties.html for further # documentation. # # Commonly used properties # # The file name of the script to run. # # Relative paths are evaluated from the directory containing the # properties file. The default is "grinder.py". grinder.script = simple.py # The number of worker processes each agent should start. The default # is 1. grinder.processes = 1 # The number of worker threads each worker process should start. The # default is 1. grinder.threads = 1 # The number of runs each worker process will perform. When using the # console this is usually set to 0, meaning "run until the console # sneds a stop or reset signal". The default is 1. grinder.runs = 0 # The IP address or host name that the agent and worker processes use # to contact the console. The default is all the network interfaces # of the local machine. ; grinder.consoleHost = consolehost # The IP port that the agent and worker processes use to contact the # console. Defaults to 6372. ; grinder.consolePort # # Less frequently used properties # ### Logging ### # The directory in which worker process logs should be created. If not # specified, the agent's working directory is used. grinder.logDirectory = log # The number of archived logs from previous runs that should be kept. # The default is 1. grinder.numberOfOldLogs = 2 # Overrides the "host" string used in log filenames and logs. The # default is the host name of the machine running the agent. ; grinder.hostID = myagent # Set to false to disable the logging of output and error steams for # worker processes. You might want to use this to reduce the overhead # of running a client thread. The default is true. ; grinder.logProcessStreams = false ### Script sleep time #### # The maximum time in milliseconds that each thread waits before # starting. Unlike the sleep times specified in scripts, this is # varied according to a flat random distribution. The actual sleep # time will be a random value between 0 and the specified value. # Affected by grinder.sleepTimeFactor, but not # grinder.sleepTimeVariation. The default is 0ms. ; grinder.initialSleepTime=500 # Apply a factor to all the sleep times you've specified, either # through a property of in a script. Setting this to 0.1 would run the # script ten times as fast. The default is 1. ; grinder.sleepTimeFactor=0.01 # The Grinder varies the sleep times specified in scripts according to # a Normal distribution. This property specifies a fractional range # within which nearly all (99.75%) of the times will lie. E.g., if the # sleep time is specified as 1000 and the sleepTimeVariation is set to # 0.1, then 99.75% of the actual sleep times will be between 900 and # 1100 milliseconds. The default is 0.2. ; grinder.sleepTimeVariation=0.005 ### Worker process control ### # If set, the agent will ramp up the number of worker processes, # starting the number specified every # grinder.processesIncrementInterval milliseconds. The upper limit is # set by grinder.processes. The default is to start all worker # processes together. ; grinder.processIncrement = 1 # Used in conjunction with grinder.processIncrement, this property # sets the interval in milliseconds at which the agent starts new # worker processes. The value is in milliseconds. The default is 60000 # ms. ; grinder.processIncrementInterval = 10000 # Used in conjunction with grinder.processIncrement, this property # sets the initial number of worker processes to start. The default is # the value of grinder.processIncrement. ; process.initialProcesses = 1 # The maximum length of time in milliseconds that each worker process # should run for. grinder.duration can be specified in conjunction # with grinder.runs, in which case the worker processes will terminate # if either the duration time or the number of runs is exceeded. The # default is to run forever. ; grinder.duration = 60000 # If set to true, the agent process spawns engines in threads rather # than processes, using special class loaders to isolate the engines. # This allows the engine to be easily run in a debugger. This is # primarily a tool for debugging The Grinder engine, but it might also # be useful to advanced users. The default is false. ; grinder.debug.singleprocess = true ### Java ### # Use an alternate JVM for worker processes. The default is "java" so # you do not need to specify this if java is in your PATH. ; grinder.jvm = /opt/jrockit/jrockit-R27.5.0-jdk1.5.0_14/bin/java # Use to adjust the classpath used for the worker process JVMs. # Anything specified here will be prepended to the classpath used to # start the Grinder processes. ; grinder.jvm.classpath = /tmp/myjar.jar # Additional arguments to worker process JVMs. ; grinder.jvm.arguments = -Dpython.cachedir=/tmp ### Console communications ### # (See above for console address properties). # If you are not using the console, and don't want the agent to try to # contact it, set grinder.useConsole = false. The default is true. ; grinder.useConsole = false # The period at which each process sends updates to the console. This # also controls the frequency at which the data files are flushed. # The default is 500 ms. ; grinder.reportToConsole.interval = 100 ### Statistics ### # Set to false to disable reporting of timing information to the # console; other statistics are still reported. See # http://grinder.sourceforge.net/faq.html#timing for why you might # want to do this. The default is true. ; grinder.reportTimesToConsole = false # If set to true, System.nanoTime() is used for measuring time instead # of System.currentTimeMills(). The Grinder will still report times in # milliseconds. The precision of these methods depends on the JVM # implementation and the operating system. Setting to true requires # J2SE 5 or later. The default is false. ; grinder.useNanoTime = true
- grinder.properties:
- Following the bit at the very end of getting started guide setup the three .sh scripts (setGrinderEnv.sh, startAgent.sh, startConsole.sh) as outlined and place them in the demo directory. I changed them to run to use bash instead of ksh as have bash installed not ksh.
- setGrinderEnv.sh:
#!/bin/bash GRINDERPATH=/home/test/Desktop/grinder-3.2/ GRINDERPROPERTIES=/home/test/Desktop/grinder-3.2/demo/grinder.properties CLASSPATH=$GRINDERPATH/lib/grinder.jar:$CLASSPATH #How I found it #ls -l `which java` #The above gave me: /usr/bin/java -> /etc/alternatives/java #ls -l /etc/alternatives/java #Which gave me: /etc/alternatives/java -> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/ PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH export CLASSPATH PATH GRINDERPROPERTIES
- startConsole.sh:
#!/bin/bash . ./setGrinderEnv.sh java -cp $CLASSPATH net.grinder.Console
- startAgent.sh:
#!/bin/bash . ./setGrinderEnv.sh java -cp $CLASSPATH net.grinder.Grinder $GRINDERPROPERTIES
- setGrinderEnv.sh:
- Make the four .sh scripts executable chmod +x *.sh
- Run ./startConsole.sh
- Run ./startAgent.sh
- In the Grinder Console under the Processes tab it shows that the agent has connected to the console
- Create a new file called simple.py and place the following in it:
- simple.py:
from net.grinder.script.Grinder import grinder from net.grinder.script import Test from net.grinder.plugin.http import HTTPRequest test1 = Test(1, "Request resource") request1 = test1.wrap(HTTPRequest()) class TestRunner: def __call__(self): result = request1.GET("http://localhost:80/")
- simple.py:
- In the script tab select simple.py and click the send changed file to worker processes button
- I found that the console could not upload the files to the agent because one of the threads died with a "Java.lang.OutOfMemoryError : Java heap space" error. To get around this in startConsole.sh I added -Xmx1024m to the java command like the below
- startConsole.sh:
#!/bin/bash . ./setGrinderEnv.sh java -Xmx1024m -cp $CLASSPATH net.grinder.Console
- startConsole.sh:
- So turn the agent and console off. And then start the console and the agent
- Click the start processes button
- Yay you are now testing against your web server
- When you are done click the stop button and you can have a look at the results
- So there you go the Missing Grinder Getting Started Guide.
Where to from here? Well you can have multiple agents, talk more than just HTTP (look in the examples directory for JDBC, JMS, SMTP, etc) and record TCP streams via a proxy.
Something I found out later. The reason I was getting the heap of space was that the log directory was one of the directories which was trying to be synced up the agents and this was too large so it crashed console. I will have to figure out how to make it save the logs somewhere else.


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For the Grammy Awards official after-party, celebrants went to India.
Actually, they just went to the Los Angeles Convention Center, right next door to the Staples Center where the 55th annual Grammy ceremony was held, but the space inside was transformed into a Bollywood party.
Belly dancers writhed rhythmically on various stages beneath lanterns and bright pink canopies, while aerial gymnasts dangled overhead. The massive ballroom was dotted with such stages and food stations boasting fare from Asia and America.
The B-52s and Estelle performed, drawing partygoers to the dance floor.
Multiple Grammy-winner Skrillex was among the celebrants, but he made an early exit — likely to attend one of many private post-Grammy parties planned for throughout the city.
— Sandy Cohen, www.twitter.com/APSandy.
Colombian rocker Juanes has been so inspired by performing the songs of his idols at Grammy events this week that he plans to include a few English tracks on his new album.
"Now I can sing in English easier than before," he said backstage after performing a bilingual version of Elton John's "Your Song." "Probably I'm going to do some tracks. Maybe four."
Juanes also performed Bruce Springsteen's "Hungry Heart" at Grammy's MusiCares event honoring The Boss over the weekend.
"It was such a great opportunity for me," he said. "I just met Elton John tonight. I met Bruce last year... They are an inspiration to me. I grew up listening to all this music when I was a teenager, and now I understand them a lot more so I love them even more."
— Sandy Cohen — www.twitter.com/APSandy .
"It's been like I've been hanging out with my entire CD collection." Grammy winner Zac Brown backstage on performing with legendary musicians during Grammy week.
— Sandy Cohen — www.twitter.com/APSandy.
CARRIE UNDERWOOD's PROJECTOR DRESS
Carrie Underwood used the huge skirt of her gray dress as a digital projector during her Grammy Awards performance.
As she sang "Blown Away" and " Two Black Cadillacs" various images flashed on her dress.
"They can do a lot of amazing things with projectors these days," she said backstage, holding her trophy for best country solo performance. "We had a dress especially made. I said I should take that home and we can watch movies on it."
Underwood said she had to stand in a specific spot on the Staples Center stage to make it work.
"It took a lot of precision," she said.
— Beth Harris — Twitter http://twitter.com/bethharrisap
Justin Bieber can't catch a break.
Not only was the superstar singer not nominated for a Grammy, but a Ustream session that Bieber launched at the same time as the ceremony Sunday to answer questions from fans crashed because it was overloaded. The technical snafu immediately began trending on Twitter, inspiring such popular hashtags as (hash)ThankYouForTryingJustin and (hash)JustinUseRedTube.
Bieber tweeted to fans that "livestream is over capacity it not letting me in the room." He apparently couldn't overcome the blunder and later promised to upload a video.
— Derrik J. Lang — Twitter: http://twitter.com/derrikjlang
Rick Ross is a businessman as much as he is a rapper.
"There's a lot of networking to be done here," he said on the red carpet at Sunday's Grammy Awards, adding he had already done "three or four deals."
Ross likes how his genre has taken what he sees as its rightful place at the annual ceremony.
"I feel like hip hop is most definitely more present at the Grammys," he said, noting the presence of what he called such "underground legends" as Nas.
— Beth Harris — Twitter http://twitter.com/bethharrisap
Adele says she's been so busy singing nursery rhymes to her new baby son that "I don't really remember what's cool and what's not."
Still, she was cool enough to add another Grammy to last year's six-award sweep when she won Sunday night for pop vocal performance for "Set Fire to the Rain (Live)."
That may have to hold her for a while.
She's set to perform her Golden Globe-winning song from the James Bond film "Skyfall" at the Oscars in a couple weeks, and says she's been so busy she's had little time to work on her new album.
"I'm not very far along at all," Adele confessed backstage at the Grammy Awards. "I've been out of the loop really."
— Sandy Cohen — www.twitter.com/APSandy
"I don't know what I was thinking writing the chorus for this song. If this is in HD, everybody can see our faces, and we are not very young." — fun. lead singer Nate Ruess as the band accepted the song of the year Grammy for "We Are Young."
— Sandy Cohen — http: www.twitter.com/APSandy
The Grammy Awards show started at 8 p.m. EST. Not at 8:05 or 8:07 or 8:10
The late-arriving celebrity crowd quickly learned that fact when they were kept in a vestibule with all the regular folks until the first commercial break. Only then were they allowed to take their seats.
That meant Drake, Jenna Jameson and Tito Ortiz had to cool their heels while Taylor Swift opened the show with her exuberant performance of "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together."
The waiting continued as host LL Cool J greeted the audience and on through Ed Sheeran and Elton John's performance.
The stars' handlers did manage to move them to the front of the line that was waiting to get in.
— Nekesa Mumbi Moody — Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nekesamumbi .
"I was up against all these guys who had much bigger records and a bigger splash. It makes an old girl feel good." — 63-year-old singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt, who earned her 10th career Grammy in the best Americana album category for "Slipstream," beating out a field that included Mumford & Sons, The Lumineers and The Avett Brothers.
— Beth Harris — Twitter http://twitter.com/bethharrisap
"So he calls me up and he's like, 'I still love you.' And I'm like, 'I'm sorry, I'm busy opening up the Grammys.'" — Taylor Swift, during her show-opening performance of her Grammy-nominated song "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together."
— Anthony McCartney — http://twitter.com/mccartneyAP
After Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" won the Grammy for best pop duo/group performance, he revealed that Kimbra wasn't his first, or even his second, choice for the song.
He had already gone through two female singers for the track and was waiting on another vocalist when "she called out."
"I built so much expectation with that vocalist that I was feeling a little crushed," he said backstage after collecting the Grammy.
It came down to Kimbra to sing on the song that was recorded in her apartment. It was last year's biggest hit.
As for the unnamed singer, Gotye said she makes wonderful music on her own and "shouldn't be mad."
Gotye also won the Grammy for best alternative music album for "Making Mirrors."
— Mesfin Fekadu — Twitter http://twitter.com/MusicMesfin
Kelly Clarkson is in good company backstage at the Grammys.
The original "American Idol" champion, who's performing at Sunday's ceremony, posted a photo to Instagram of her dressing room door, which featured the names of her roommates: Alicia Keys and Miranda Lambert.
"Our dressing room rules!" wrote the "Stronger" singer.
Clarkson later uploaded photos of her glam squad curling her hair, as well as a close-up of her glittery custom nail polish.
"Should we call it 'Stronger'?" she asked.
— Derrik J. Lang — Twitter: http://twitter.com/derrikjlang
"It would mean my name changes in the press forever." — Frank Ocean, speaking on the red carpet about what winning a Grammy would mean to him.
— Nekesa Mumbi Moody — http://www.twitter.com
"I think it's appropriate that Taylor thanks us. We've been carrying her for a while and it's getting a little tiring," John Paul White of the Civil Wars, who won a Grammy for the song "Safe & Sound" from "The Hunger Games," which he co-wrote with Taylor Swift.
— Sandy Cohen — Twitter http://www twitter.com/apsandy
Last year's best new artist, Esperanza Spalding, is back winning Grammys again this year — with a little help from the music teacher who began training her when she was 8.
The jazz star and her teacher, Thara Memory, claimed the award for best instrumental arrangements accompanying vocalist(s) for "City of Roses" at Sunday's Grammy pre-telecast.
Spalding escorted Memory to the stage to accept the award and was moved when speaking about their student-teacher relationship. She also noted the "City of Roses" composition features some of Memory's 16-year-old students.
Spalding also won a Grammy Sunday for best jazz vocal album for "Radio Music Society."
— Mesfin Fekadu — Twitter http://twitter.com/MusicMesfin


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That is what one of the firefighters on a Grayback Forestry fire crew told a reporter for VBS.TV, when attempting to describe what it is like to be a wildland firefighter.
The 14 minute video below expands on that, at times from the point of view of a rookie or reporter that was thrown into that role for a day or so. The photography is excellent, and when I saw the images of a fire warehouse and a chain saw it brought back those smells.
Check it out, it's worth your time.
Here is how the video is described at VBS.tv:
Whenever someone at our office bitches about being overworked, our stock response is "Beats digging ditches." While the express intention of the statement is usually not-so-supportive, we think it's a healthy reminder that at the end of the day, we are all basically professional emailers and should be thankful for such.
The wildland firefighters who work for Grayback Forestry in Southern Oregon have no such motivational adages because their job is actually digging ditches. Around active forest fires. On the sides of mountains. You can't even bitch at these guys for having cushy government pensions to fall back on when they get older, because they're all private-sector contractors. Which means if they aren't out fighting forest fires or doing preventative forestry on unburned woods (basically extreme landscaping), they are losing money. They are literally the hardest working men in tree business.
We spent a few days following a crew of Grayback forest-firefighters walk up the sides of what most people would consider a cliff to chop down underbrush in preparation for a controlled burn. This is what they like to call "project work," aka the light stuff in between fires, and yet it was still some of the hardest most least-rewarding work we have ever tried to do in our lives. Unless you consider 12-hour-plus shifts of backbreaking labor, virtually zero outside recognition, and occasional accusations of being shills for the timber industry rewards. Which we do not.


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I just bought Tim Burtons Ed Wood.
This year, I'm demanding the Criterion Hitchcock set (especially since 3 of them are going OOP).
it's probably just silly of me to ask but can you fix the full screen problem, cause I have good will hunting and wag the dog fullscreen, and it's painful.
Got these for my girlfriend, can you believe she likes this stuff?


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19th September
Browsing code completed, ready for implementation, first alpha on iOS is not a huge number of weeks away now.
19th September
Browsing code completed, ready for implementation, first alpha on iOS is not a huge number of weeks away now.
Most of target codecs are running on actual iOS hardware now, I'm working to make the user interface alpha testing worthy now.
Benchmark scores from iPod Touch 4gen:
FLAC: 61x realtime
Vorbis: 25x realtime
Musepack: 55x realtime
More codecs (Opus, WavPack) pending also.
WavPack/normal: 29x realtime
Opus: 13x realtime
This is the slowest supported device, so Opus is confirmed usable on all iOS devices that we support.
iPad version is functional
Benchmark scores for iPad 2 / iOS 8.0.2 / 2 threads ( the CPU is dual-core ):
AAC 101x
ALAC 50x
FLAC 189x
MP3 79x
Musepack 173x
Opus 44x
PCM 1300x
Vorbis 93x
WavPack 88x
A bit late update but,
The first alpha of foobar2000 for iOS (build 1) is out - released on 28th October.
Readme & downloads
A new update with a large number of fixes is being prepared.
Build 6 out
Readme & downloads
Build 7 out
Readme & downloads
Only album artwork indexing fixes. All device IDs sent to us until today are now included.
Build 8 out, only changes are to add more UDIDs, so everyone upto today can test.
Build 9 out.
New UDIDs included.
Fixed browse tree randomly showing nonsense on the root level.
DSPs (skip silence, hard limiter): Sorry, didn't make it into this build, my fault - forgot that the whole relevant menu branch is debug build only. Monday build will include this.
Last edited by Peter; December 5th, 2014 at 12:05 PM. Reason: Updated info
Build 10 released.
An equivalent of Windows foobar2000 "Preferences" system is now included.
Right now there are only two preferences page: Media Library ( existed before ) and DSP Manager (new). A whole bunch of DSPs from Windows foobar2000 has been ported over; there's more to come. You can enable/disable DSPs as well as reorder them in the chain.
DSP capability has been added to the decoding speed tester also.


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Today's dish is a vegan version of the classic linguine with clam sauce, minus the clams.
It's a recipe from the December issue of "Vegetarian Times" that caught my eye.
This dish gets its hearty taste from shiitake mushrooms and nutritional yeast. These ingredients, along with another, arame, can be classified as umami - also referred to as the fifth taste.
Arame is a dried seaweed ingredient used in many Japanese dishes. I had a hard time finding some so I opted not to use it.
Along with salty, sweet, bitter and sour, umami is said to add savoriness to dishes. In essence, using umami ingredients gives a meaty flavor without using meat.
Mushrooms are a common umami ingredient. Shiitakes have a mild steak-like flavor and add a nice mellow umami taste to this dish.
When using shiitakes, wipe the caps clean with a damp paper towel and remove the stems. Shiitake stems aren't too thick. I use scissors to snip them. The stems tend to be tough and are best used in making stocks.
In addition to the nuts that are sprinkled on last, this dish gets a nutty and semi-cheesy flavor from another umami ingredient, nutritional yeast. It's often described as having a salty, Parmesan cheese taste.
Nutritional yeast is yellowish in color and sold in flake or powder form. Flakes are the best for this dish. Nutritional yeast is similar to brewer's yeast. Both come from the same strain of yeast and are used as nutritional supplements. But brewer's yeast is a by-product of beer-making, according to the online Cook's Thesaurus, and that's what makes it bitter. So don't substitute one for the other.
And don't confuse nutritional yeast with yeast used in baking. Nutritional yeast is not active, so it is non-leavening. It's pasteurized, which deactivates it.
Once the nutritional yeast is deactivated, it becomes a good source of nutrients, the thesaurus says.
Most health food stores carry nutritional yeast. Better Health Store locations sell it in bulk and carry several brands.
Prices range from $6.50 for a 4�-ounce container to $18 for a 16-ounce one.
Vegan linguine with shiitake cream sauce
Serves: 6 / Preparation time: 10 minutes / Total time: 30 minutes
According to the "Vegetarian Times," Mark Reinfield, author of several vegan cookbooks, "revamps a classic Italian recipe, replacing clams with a combination of shiitake mushrooms and arame, a sea vegetable available in the Asian food aisle of supermarkets."
12 ounces dry linguine
2 tablespoons arame, optional
2 tablespoons olive oil
6 cloves garlic, peeled, minced (about 2 tablespoons)
3 cups fresh shiitake mushrooms, stemmed and cut into �-inch cubes
� cup dry white wine
1� tablespoons lemon juice
1� cups unsweetened soy, rice or macadamia nut milk
3 tablespoons nutritional yeast
2 tablespoons Earth Balance margarine, optional
� teaspoon red pepper flakes
3 tablespoons fresh flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped
4 teaspoons pine nuts or walnuts, chopped and toasted
Cook pasta in boiling, salted water according to package directions. Reserve about 1 cup of the cooking water. Drain the pasta. Meanwhile, if using arame soak it in � cup hot water.
Meanwhile, in large skillet heat the oil over medium heat. Add garlic and cook 1 minute, stirring constantly. Add mushrooms, wine and lemon juice; saute 5 minutes, adding about � cup of the reserved pasta cooking water (if needed) to prevent sticking.
Reduce the heat and add soy milk, nutritional yeast, margarine (if using), red pepper flakes and arame with soaking liquid; season with salt and pepper, if desired. Cook 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Divide linguine among four plates, top with shiitakes and sauce, and garnish with parsley and pine nuts.
Tested by Susan M. Selasky for the Free Press Test Kitchen.
Nutrition information: 386 calories (21 percent from fat), 9 grams fat (1 gram saturated fat), 65 grams carbohydrates, 16 grams protein, 114 milligrams sodium, 0 milligrams cholesterol, 5 grams fiber.


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Reports that Revive and Restore is funding an effort to bring back the extinct passenger pigeon — and other species — brings to mind Stephen King's 1983 horror novel "Pet Sematary," in which a cat and a boy are brought back to life after being buried in a Native American burial ground. They're indeed back in the land of the living, but they're not quite right.
Or perhaps "Jurassic Park," though re-creating dinosaurs wouldn't be possible even with today's advanced genomic technologies.
Because a full DNA profile of the extinct pigeon doesn't exist, the passenger pigeon genome would be mixed with DNA from the band-tailed pigeon to re-create the passenger pigeon, a species that once numbered in the billions until becoming extinct in the early 20th century. Without the full genome, though, those who argue against "de-extinction" say it would be a new bird and not the passenger pigeon of old.
Those against de-extinction also say efforts to conserve habitat and endangered species are more important, considering the earth to be in the midst of a sixth mass extinction, primarily caused by humans and climate change.
One of the biggest challenges of reviving an extinct animal — even a close facsimile — is where to put it. Is there a habitat that will support a new passenger pigeon? What about a re-created woolly mammoth — also on the list of candidates for de-extinction — now that its former habitat of grassy steppes has become tundra. The chances are great, experts say, that de-extinct animals would quickly become extinct again.
Proponents counter that the genomic technologies they're developing can be used to help in the recovery of endangered species. That may be the best argument for the pursuit of de-extinction, but only if the two camps can find a way to work together and if de-extinction isn't seen as just an end in itself.
And if the de-extinction movement helps bring more attention to the possibility we truly are experiencing another mass extinction — one that could ultimately threaten man's future — so much the better.


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Reishi Ganoderma lucidum
This legendary species of Ganoderma was favoured by Chinese Emperors with a long history of use as a part of a healthy diet.
Its Chinese name, ling zhi, means, 'divine mushroom' or 'longevity mushroom', perhaps because of its ability to survive for such a long time.
Like many mushrooms and foods such as oats it is packed-full of beta-glucans which are special polysaccharides known to nourish.


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The Information Governance Alliance have commissioned a revision of the
Records Management Code of Practice. A working group from the IG Alliance,
Department of Health, NHS England and the Health and Social Care Information
Centre will work together to redraft the Code of Practice. Comments and
suggestions for change are invited. Further more specific consultation will
take place with professional groups and other organisations directly impacted
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interested in records management in health and social care.
If you wish to make any comments and suggestions for change about the
current Code please can you send them to the mailbox listed below:
Copies of the current Records Management Code of Practice can be found at
the website below;
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Currently working on a design for a side project (name and details to come) which I needed more space for. I upped the overall size to 1080px wide and created an 18 column grid system for it. The design is targeted to a unique group of professionals who in any event should not have an issue viewing the site.
If you use it, let me know, it would be great to see what you have achieved with it.
If you liked this post, you may like to download the FREE Weather Icons I created. You can download them free of charge and use them as you like.


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CVE-2014-1217 - Unauthenticated access to sensitive information and functionality in Livetecs Timelive Apr 23 2014 10:37AM
Portcullis Advisories (advisories portcullis-security com)
Vulnerability title: Unauthenticated access to sensitive information and
functionality in Livetecs Timelive
Vendor: Livetecs
Product: Timelive
Affected version: 6.2.71
Fixed version: 6.2.8
Reported by: Richard Hatch
It was possible to access a URL that allowed unauthenticated access
to sensitive configuration change functionality, and also revealed the
database connection
string (including authentication credentials) used by TimeLive to access
the database.
The following URL was identified:
Note: This URL was identified by entering "timelive default credentials"
into the Google
Internet search engine. At time of writing the URL was revealed by the
first result returned
by Google.
Further details at:
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reserved worldwide. Permission is hereby granted for the electronic
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