text: On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Joe Landman wrote: > The higher levels you work at in abstraction, generally the slower the > performance of the code. But then the higher levels of abstraction > generally map better into our own thought processes. > > Here is a great way to do LU decomposition of a matrix in Octave/Matlab: > > [l , u , p ] = lu ( a ); > > This takes matrix a and represents it as a lower triangular, an upper > triangular, and a permutation matrix. C.f. > http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/octave/octave_145.html . > > While using this is a great way to write out what you want to do at a > higher (more abstract) level, writing out an LU solver in C (a good one > that performs well) is quite a bit harder. And more prone to error than > using the above. Unless, of course, you use an excellent numerical library for C like the GSL, in which case you have a whole range of things you can do: http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/LU-Decomposition.html and where this is just the first step of many of them. Your observation isn't incorrect, it is just inapropos. Indeed, if I had to choose to trust something like incomplete gamma function evaluation in octave or in the GSL, I'd pick the GSL. But then, I'm on it's list... One can abstract any set of chores in C. Octave and matlab both are probably written in C and in that case represent just such an abstraction. To write new extensions of either one would therefore require you to program in C in order to create such an abstraction. Good structured programming is all about creating just the precisely correct layers of abstraction -- the right "objects", the right "methods" -- to perfectly structure the procedural core of your code. Indepedent of language, really -- just as true for C++ or Fortran or Basic as it is for C. Honestly, I suspect that there are two or three things the nay-sayers were thinking about when they described C as "unsafe". First and foremost is probably the continued existence of unsafe I/O commands e.g. gets() which enable buffer overwrite attacks in the hands of the unwary. Second and intimately connected is likely the use of pointers and still other commands, e.g. sprintf instead of snprintf which are both security risks in the hands of the unwary and easy to "break". Third is probably C's lack of strong checking for types and sizes (impossible in a universe where casts on pointers and overlaying memory spaces are routinely used as forces for good, but that also make it more or less impossible to prevent a user from overwriting the end of their own vector. C considers it to be your data and stack segments, and if you want to overwrite them, that's your business and it will be presumed that you know what it is. The first of these (and half the second) is a valid concern -- yes, one shouldn't use the "bad" string/char I/O commands any more and NEARLY everyone knows it at this point but it would be even better if they just made gets etc just go away and the heck with the fourteen remaining suid root programs that still use gets() to accept user input. Sorry guys, you'll just have to close those security holes and move on. The latter of the (and half the second) are part of C's great power. One of my favorite examples involves ODE solvers. Most canned ODE solvers require that they be passed a VECTOR of ODEs and initial conditions to return a VECTOR or new values. Alas, I tend to solve ODEs that are e.g. nearest-neighbor coupled on a spatial lattice in 3 (or more!) dimensions. There are two ways to solve this problem (for say a cube of side N sites). One is to allocate a single linear vector of length N^3 (to make the ODE happy) and write your ODE derives routine with a whole lot of Evil pointer arithmetic -- that (i*jmax + j)*kmax + k kind of stuff so that you can do such transparent code as: U = - coup*vec[(i*jmax + j)*kmax + k]*vec[((i+1)*jmax + j+1)*kmax + k+1 + ...; which makes me hurt just to look at it but let's you evaluate the derivatives and integrate with a straight vector solver. The second way is to pack the offsets of the LINEAR vector vec[] into a 3d pointer ***site -- one time, with reusable code -- and then the code becomes U = - coup*site[i][j][l]*site[i+1][j+1][k+1] + ... ; while you can STILL call the ODE solver with the *vec... So, are pointers a force for good or evil? Neither. They are a programming device, a tool, a way of directly accessing memory in a way that you can clearly visualize and over which you have near complete control. Used carefully, used well, pointers are so powerful that I literally cannot imagine programming without them. They solve many problems "perfectly", and as you can see from the example above, they can enable "magic" to be done that otherwise requires the explicit and bug-prone programming of multidimensional offset arithmetic and obfuscation of a simple arithmetical expression OR the encapsulation of the linear vector ODE solver in a complex wrapper that allocates linear scratch memory and copies over the contents of an actual site[][][] matrix (both ways) to advance the solution each step. This is just one thing that makes a "dangerous" feature a thing of immense power that can be used to write surprisingly elegant code. It's also precisely the same kind of thing that permits crackers to overwrite the execution stack of badly written program. > You make your choices, and you pay the cost of the choices. Now THIS I totally agree with. The programmer is ultimately responsible for the program. I leave you with a couple of koans from the Tao of Programming: 4.2 A novice asked the master: ``I have a program that sometime runs and sometimes aborts. I have followed the rules of programming, yet I am totally baffled. What is the reason for this?'' The master replied: ``You are confused because you do not understand Tao. Only a fool expects rational behavior from his fellow humans. Why do you expect it from a machine that humans have constructed? Computers simulate determinism; only Tao is perfect. ``The rules of programming are transitory; only Tao is eternal. Therefore you must contemplate Tao before you receive enlightenment.'' ``But how will I know when I have received enlightenment?'' asked the novice. ``Your program will then run correctly,'' replied the master. 4.3 A master was explaining the nature of Tao of to one of his novices. ``The Tao is embodied in all software - regardless of how insignificant,'' said the master. ``Is the Tao in a hand-held calculator?'' asked the novice. ``It is,'' came the reply. ``Is the Tao in a video game?'' continued the novice. ``It is even in a video game,'' said the master. ``And is the Tao in the DOS for a personal computer?'' The master coughed and shifted his position slightly. ``The lesson is over for today,'' he said. rgb > > Joe > > -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Monday, October 11, 2010
Art for TV: "Good art and selling are not incompatible in TV"
There's an awful lot that's interesting about Georg Olden. His biography at the AIGA website is a fascinating read. For our purposes however, Olden is noteworthy because he was such a singularly passionate advocate for the use of illustration on television during those early days. Among his credits, Georg Olden supervised the visual identities of programs such as "I Love Lucy", "Lassie" and "Gunsmoke."
Although known principally as a designer and art director, Olden was also a pretty terrific illustrator, as you can see below. (Maybe that's why he was so supportive of the idea of using illustration on tv)
The article below describes how, in his role as director of graphic arts for the CBS Television network, Olden convinced skeptical show producers to budget for the commission of title cards illustrated by both well-known illustrators...
... and notable new comers.
Whether Olden was successful in his mission is hard to say from my limited understanding of this esoteric niche market. If other television networks were convinced to follow Olden's lead, their efforts are not much in evidence in the industry publications of the day (at least not any publications that I have access to).
In the 1952 NY Art Directors Annual for instance, nearly every piece presented has Olden's name attached to it as either illustrator or art director.
Read the introduction to this 1955 article from Art Director & Studio News and it sure seems like Olden was a one man band in this regard.
But I'm fascinated by the thought of someone like Georg Olden, who clearly loved illustration, being in a position to incorporate it into this emerging new medium...
It brings to mind these times we live in - and the (relatively) recent emergence of another new medium - the Internet - and those of us who have lived through the transition from print to web. Its been a long strange trip...
... and I'm not sure we've arrived at a destination.
Maybe Georg Olden's fervent belief that illustration had a place on television was misguided. As a child of the '60s I don't recall ever seeing much in the way of illustrated title cards. I would guess that by the time my generation started watching television, Olden's experiment had ended in failure.
Maybe there really never was a place for the static image in a medium of constant motion.
But as a community we illustrators owe George Olden a debt of gratitude for his unwavering belief in our chosen discipline. And we ought to think seriously about what we ought to be doing to remain relevant in a post-print era.
* my Art for TV Flickr set.
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- charlie Allen6:32 PM
You're losin' me here, Leif! A long, strange trip from print to web....and....not sure about the destination. It seems a shorter trip in my career, but....the point is....there IS no destination. Creativity is endless and will continue to prevail in all kinds of human communication, as well as in all other forms of human endeavor. We're born that way.ReplyDelete
Coming from a provincial illustrator background and mood, i'm obviously less interested in the entire cartooning presence in the print media....and even less in the myriad uses of cartooning in TV and movie worlds. I appreciate and enjoy greatly the talents employed....but it's another creative category. Even just in print, it's apples and oranges. Each does a job....but with different requirements and goals.
And....where does it stop with the cartooning? Are the New Yorker and other print publications one-liner funny cartoons included? That's an old and a very large field. Are the equally old and prolific areas of political cartoons considered? There are great talents, and countless gems have been produced in both of those fields. And where do the immensely popular animated cartoons and figures come in? Can all of that fit....in a blog?
Well, it is titled Today's Inspiration....so maybe so!
- Anonymous10:09 PM
Leif, A very insightful and sensitive blog. I doubt few have ever thought much about the graphics used in the early years of TV were much to think about, but your posting shows how interesting and varied these were. As one who grew up on 1960's TV, they had a very pleasant nostalgia about them.ReplyDelete
Leif, those cards by Georg Olden reminded me a lot of some cards (accompanied by limited animation) that I've seen used in old kinescopes from local TV stations like WJW in Cleveland. In some way, shape, or form they certainly did influence at least local artists there through 1965 - 1966.ReplyDelete
Charlie; thanks for sharing your thoughts on the subject - sorry I lost you on this one. Actually, I don't think we're that far apart on the subject. I agree that the journey of one's career as an illustrator ought never arrive at a destination... but it would be nice if there was an occasional rest stop! That doesn't seem to be the case right now. I'm perhaps more attuned to it currently because I'm teaching what will hopefully be the next generation of graphic arts professionals and I see clearly the skills, technology, and marketing challenges they will have to overcome to be successful... and it concerns me.ReplyDelete
I see many parallels in the way the industry changed during the '50s w/ the arrival of new technology like television and faster film photography. This post and the preceding ones are about exploring those parallels - though perhaps not spelled out to the degree I would have liked to - if only I were a better communicator! - which is probably why i lost you so, my apologies.
Regarding cartooning and its many permutations and their relationship to illustration - I'm afraid our positions differ dramatically. I don't see the compartmentalization you do - to me they are all part of the same graphic language of the (commercial) artist, and all connected very closely in purpose.
Can a blog do justice to the documentation and analysis of those many components? Its been five years and over 1,250 posts so far... and I feel like we have barely scratched the surface!
Anonymous and Michael; thanks for your thoughts on this topic. I was a kid in the '60s as well (a little kid, mind you) and I don't have any memory of title cards like this... I certainly recall the ones at the beginning of all the Warner Bros. cartoons they showed on tv - and I loved those!ReplyDelete
But what Georg Olden attempted in the '50s fascinates me... and I marvel at the thought of all those illustrators producing artwork that appeared so fleetingly on a flickering screen... and has no doubt been lost forever ( with the exception of these few reproductions we see here today ). I am also intrigued by the thought of how, briefly, illustrators of that time might have thought that a new market was opening up for them... it really brings to mind what's happening currently with illustration on the Net, and how the future of illustration seems (to me at least) really unclear - as it must have back then as well.
- Remo12:58 PM
I think, in the main, Olden made the wrong choice of illustrator for this medium.In choosing what you might call high-brow illustrators you substitute immediacy for prestige.ReplyDelete
Most of these cards lack the strong graphic impact we saw in the tv animations for fiddly line conceptual illustrations that would need the kind of study you could give on the printed page, not fleetingly on the tv screen.
That's an excellent point, Remo - I can't disagree. I'm not sure it would have made a difference in the long run, but among the examples shown, the clean, simple, graphic pieces are certainly the most effective ones for the job at hand. Thanks!ReplyDelete
Thank you for making me aware of not only another graphic talent, but also one that happened to be black. Your post encouraged me to learn more about this trailblazing talent. Thanks!ReplyDelete
- Rich5:13 PM
This Mr.Olden, whom I didn't know before, in my opinion definitely has a Picasso touch.ReplyDelete
Ms. Krause; its a pleasure. I had never heard of Olden before but I'm so impressed I want to know more about him as well. If you find any details beyond the bio on the AIGA website and decide to blog about Olden, drop me a line! :^)ReplyDelete
Could that Andrew Warhol be a young Andy Warhol? I know he did some illustration work and commercial art in the 40's.ReplyDelete
- Rich3:22 AM
As to the Picasso:ReplyDelete
Sorry, mistook that Chavez illustration as well as another one for Olden.
Should have put my goggles on.
Joel; I would think that Andrew Warhol was one and the same as Andy Warhol. I have a few more pieces I found here and there in my old magazine collection which I'll post one of these days. What I find so interesting about this early example(actually there is another Warhol further down) is that the young Warhol seems to have been influenced by David Stone Martin's work.ReplyDelete
I clearly see the Martin, ( another artist worthy exploring), influence in these early Warhol works.ReplyDelete
This has been an interesting posting on many levels. Thanks for responding and look forward to more great posts.
- Anonymous9:30 PM
Wonderful post, thank you.ReplyDelete
I love illustration for many reasons, and one of the odder reasons is the idea of brilliant, amazing work being produced by people who remain, to this day, totally obscure. I see work like that displayed in your post and I want to shout: Your work is not forgotten, and by it, you have made the world a better place whether people know your name or not!!
Don't know if these would qualify as TV "cards," but your post made me think of the illustrations that ran behind the closing credits of some late 50's, early 60's TV westerns: Maverick, Wagon Train, Bonanza, etc. The old private eye series Peter Gunn also employed a very cool graphic when it broke for a commercial.
Just a great blog-- thanks again!


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Keith Miller and his wife were sipping iced tea on their back porch when they saw the lightning strike that sparked the blaze on June 28, 2013. Two days later, winds quickly changed direction, pushing the flames toward Yarnell. Those in the path of the fires had mere minutes to escape.
Keith was out in the yard and saw the flames at 10-12 feet high some distance away. After turning around to do some yard work for a few minutes, he looked back and saw "a wall of flame 100-150 feet, maybe 200 feet, high."
The Millers evacuated in their vehicles as the fire reached the big oaks and other trees on their property. "When that storm hit it, it was like a large tornado," Keith said."It left very little standing. Even a chain link fence was burned to the ground. Our house burned totally. After we cleaned it up, you could see holes in the concrete floor. That's how hot it was. I've never seen anything like it."
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- Susan Crabtree said...
you're not spoiled-you're geographically fortunate! :)
- February 22, 2010 at 8:38 PM
- jamie@giggledustparties said...
This born and raised in PA girl is soooooo jealous..as I sit here on this dreary Tuesday looking at a wintry mix falling on the 2ft of snow outside of my window. If only my entire family didn't live in PA, I would be heading south tomorrow!:-)
- February 23, 2010 at 6:52 AM
- Rach said...
I think I would actually enjoy exercising in that scenery!
- February 23, 2010 at 7:05 AM
- Wendy @ Whimsy & Wise Events said...
I'm a SoCal girl too! Born and raised. We definitely ARE very lucky!!!
- February 23, 2010 at 7:31 AM
- Beverly said...
I was spoiled when I lived in south Florida, too. Your views are beautiful.
I am just back to work this week. It had been so long since I felt like visiting anyone, and I really missed everyone very much.
- February 24, 2010 at 4:28 AM
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yeah, same here. I live in southern California too.
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Our life in the dead of winter.
It's colder than a wicked witch's ta-ta's in Boston.
We've been a bit cooped up lately, what with the newborn and the fact that our front yard is now a sub-zero freezer. And somehow we've gone from a formerly TV-free household to one that recently had to replace its DVD player because it... err... fizzled out?
We've been watching a lot of movies lately. They've become a bit of a crutch for me. Sometimes it's all I can do to occupy Julia so I can nurse Charlie or cook dinner. I realize that I should be engaging her in some slightly more enriching activities, like perhaps lessons in the principles of thermodynamics as I boil the water for spaghetti, or a frank discussion about carbon emissions as I take out the trash, but poor Charlie has been screaming like a banshee for the past few days and nights, and I am so tired.
So, here we are, a bunch of couch-potato junkies, popping movies into the DVD player like pills. This morning, I put in The Sound of Music and later found Julia pretending to sleep on the stairs.
"Juje, what are you doing?" I asked.
"No, I'm Gretl. You're Liesl." she replied. "Now you carry me upstairs and sing "For long. Farewell.'"
The other day, we watched The Wizard of Oz and Julia spent the day skipping around the house in her ruby slippers from Target, carrying her stuffed green wiener dog in a basket. "Julia, it's time for bed," I said, only to be met with: "No, I'm Dorothy. And, you're the wicked old witch." (Yes, that's me—especially at bedtime.)
We'll watch Fiddler on the Roof and later find Julia absorbed in a tea party, raising her tiny tea cup and shouting: "To life! To life! L'chai-im!" before tossing her tea back like a shot of vodka.
One time, I thought her brains were getting a bit scrambled when she was acting out the scene from Cinderella where the prince tries to find his elusive love with the wayward glass slipper. Only, Julia was trying to put one of her tiny ruby slippers on Will's foot. "Juje," I interrupted, "Are you trying to see if Daddy is Cinderella?"
"No!" she sighed, with the exasperation of a 13-year-old. "I'm trying to see if he's the wicked witch!"
I must admit that the Cinderella thing has had me increasingly worried. Cinderella seems to be popping up more and more often in Julia's playtime musings. She refuses to wear anything but a dress these days—often with a tiara. I'm thinking that maybe she's getting a bit brainwashed?
Still, this Cinderella thing does have its advantages. For instance, there's the "What do I have to do now, mean stepmother?" game. It goes something like this:
Julia, donning her apron: "I'm Cinderella. You're the mean stepmother. What do I have to do now, mean stepmother?"
Me: "Mop the floors, Cinderella!"
Julia: "Okay!" (Julia hums happily as she grabs her broom and "sweeps" the kitchen floor for a minute. Then...)
Julia: "What do I have to do now, mean stepmother?"
Me: "Fold the laundry, Cinderella!"
Julia: "Okay!" (She gleefully grabs a handful of clothes from the laundry basket and—shockingly!—folds them. Hmmm...)
This game can go on for hours. (Before you report me to the Department of Child Services, keep in mind that this is the same tyrannical toddler who loves to blow her whistle and bark orders at me to march around the house like one of Captain von Trapp's children.)
Cinderella has other benefits, too. Like, when Julia wants me to be the prince. She grasps both of my hands and swings me into a dance, gazing dreamily up into my eyes as she croons: "So this is Looooooooooooooooove."
So it is. But, when I'm done feeling a little woozy, the worry creeps back in. I worry about the messages these movies are sending my impressionable daughter. Just when I've worried myself into a lather, Julia sidles up to me and says:
"Yes, Juje?"
"No, I'm Cinderella. You're the prince."
"Oh. OK. Yes, Cinderella?"
"I DON'T want to marry you!" (She stomps her foot for emphasis on the "don't," then saunters off.)
I think it's safe to say that my child has retained a modicum of her own mind amidst all the drivel. Still, the guilt factor has had me packing my two still-sleepy tots into a cold car on a freezing winter morning and rushing off to gymnastics and art classes, just to make sure that Julia's being properly stimulated. And on those days when we watch one too many movies, and the guilt creeps back in, I think about the time when Will came home from work and asked "So Julia, what did you do today?" I was already feeling that familiar cringe of guilt creeping in when Julia said:
"I pretended."
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What better time to talk about the summer game than a week that opened with a wintry mix of precipitation, a little slush, a dash of sleet, a touch of freezing rain, and a rush to Randy's Citgo to get the snow tires on.
Before the Major League Baseball playoffs began, I told a group of sports fans at the Elderly Services headquarters that anyone who pretended to know who would win the World Series was, in so many words, full of organic fertilizer. Anything can happen in a short series, including favored teams choking away 3-0 leads in seven-game sets.


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Author: Ignacio Mas, Senior Fellow, Center for Emerging Markets Enterprises at the Fletcher School, Tufts University
With M-PESA and the whirl of innovations that it has triggered, there is no doubt that Kenyan payments are becoming more electronic. But, at the same time, are they any less paper-based? It's hard to argue that is the case, if one looks at the Central Bank's data. (Currency and GDP are from its statistical bulletins, and check volumes are from its Annual Reports; and remember that M-PESA was launched in April 2007).
The value of currency in circulation has remained essentially flat, especially if you discount the 2007 high blip (I doubt that M-PESA's cash-busting bang was largest during its first nine months of operation). Likewise, the volume of checks is on an exceedingly gentle decline. The average check value has dropped quite significantly, but surely that's due to competition from electronic funds transfers at the high value end rather than from M-PESA with its small-ticket transactions.
To me this lack of visible impact on paper highlights the two key pending transitions that M-PESA –and mobile money more generally—needs to undergo.
First, customers need to see value in storing their balances electronically. As long as most customers have the practice of withdrawing any electronic money they receive immediately and in full, M-PESA will remain essentially a cash-to-cash service, and as such it sustains rather than reduces the role of cash in the economy. (My recent mantras: M-PESA is better cash, not better than cash and you can't go cash-lite on empty accounts.)
Second, businesses need to see mobile money as an easier way not only of paying and getting paid, but also of managing the information around those payments. It needs to link with order management, invoicing, accounting, reconciliations; possibly even inventory and fleet management. Mobile money needs to have the kind of flexible application programming interfaces that allows corporates to handle transaction flows seamlessly within their own systems rather than as a separate universe of transactions. It must solve basic trust issues that arise when there is no prior relationship between buyer and seller. (My recent mantras: solve business paint points around mobile payments and think of cash as a highly-evolved visual-acceptance payment instrument.)
Without these two transitions, to more electronic storage of value and flexible interfaces into business IT systems, mobile money will continue to be an extremely useful extension of the Kenyan payments system, but it will hardly be at the core of it. The core remains very paper-centric.
Ignacio Mas is currently a Senior Fellow at the Fletcher School's Center for Emerging Market Enterprises at Tufts University, a Senior Research Fellow at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, an Associate with Bankable Frontier Associates, and an independent consultant. You can find further details of his work at: http://www.ignaciomas.com.


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The familiar blue and yellow uniforms dotting the parquet in pregame warmups did not send Celtics star Paul Pierce spiraling into a series of painful flashbacks.
It was against last night's opponent, the Indiana Pacers, that Pierce unraveled in the 2005 postseason, losing his cool, his shirt -- and a huge chunk of his credibility after his implosion in Game 6 of the opening round of the playoffs was replayed from coast to coast.
There's Pierce, ejected from the game at a critical juncture. There he is, defiantly removing his shirt and waving it above his head as he left the court. There he is again, meeting the media with a ludicrous bandage wrapped around his jaw, mocking the referees and embarrassing the most decorated franchise in the NBA.
It is behind him now. Truly, it is.
''I haven't watched it," Pierce said. ''I sort of left it there."
It isn't easy to rebuild trust with fans, teammates, and coaches. Ask AWOL Indiana forward Ron Artest. He failed in his attempt to put a far more egregious incident behind him, and has disrupted his team yet again with his criticism of his coach and his request for a trade.
Pierce has done the opposite. He has been a reliable teammate, accommodating to the fans and the media, and solicitous of a coach that he once chafed against. He offered a public apology for the embarrassment he caused, something Artest could never bring himself to do. He has been a leader, a team guy, and has flat out been one of the best players in the league through the first two months of the season.
It hasn't been easy to erase the image he projected last May. Pierce spent most of last summer evaluating himself and his future with the only team he has ever played for, while his reputation absorbed a beating.
His initial conclusion: He asked the Celtics for a trade.
''I mentioned it," he admitted. ''At the beginning of the summer, I thought that was the best thing. But I wasn't going to do it through the media. I talked to them myself."
The problem, he quickly learned, was asking for a trade took his future out of his hands. All the various landing spots were relayed to him in one way or another, and some of them frightened him. Executive director of basketball operations Danny Ainge, for instance, was enamored with point guard Chris Paul (good call, Danny), and at one point the Celtics and Trail Blazers discussed the No. 3 overall pick and Nick Van Exel, whose contract was about to expire, for Pierce.
''When I heard that one, I made it known [to Boston] that I wasn't going there," said Pierce. ''And, as the summer went on, we just never got to the point where it [a trade] became a real serious option."
There were still issues to resolve. One of the most critical was for Pierce to make peace with coach Doc Rivers, who didn't hesitate to challenge him, criticize him, or sit him if he didn't like the results. Coaches don't normally treat stars that way. Pierce barked out his displeasure, but Rivers, to his credit, held firm.
''I just think we didn't communicate as much as we should have," Pierce said. ''We aired it out at the beginning of this season. He told me what he expected of me, and we left it at that. I respect Doc. He played this game. He's still a young coach. He's still learning. So am I."
Pierce has been woven into the fabric of the Celtics landscape for so long now, it's easy to forget he turned just 28 in October. His contract is up in two years (three if he exercises an option worth $16.3 million), and he will have some decisions to make.
''Obviously, at this point of my career I'd like to contend for a championship," he said. ''If things keep going backwards, that's something I don't want to do."
With yet another infusion of not-yet-ready-for-prime-time talent instead of a veteran presence, it's obvious Boston will be taking yet another step to the rear this season with an eye toward the long-term future. How long can Pierce live with that?
''You've got to put everything in perspective," Pierce said. ''I've had a lot of ups and downs, but Boston, for the most part, has been loyal to me, starting with taking me with the No. 10 pick.
''My loyalty is to the franchise. And, as time goes on, and things develop, if there's a situation where I think it's time to go, hopefully they'll be loyal to me."
In the meantime, coming into last night's game Pierce was averaging a career-high 26.6 points a game, sixth in the league behind such luminaries as Allen Iverson, Kobe Bryant, and LeBron James. He was averaging a career-high 8.7 rebounds, shooting a career-high 49 percent, shooting a career-high 3.5 percent on 3-pointers, and submitting a career-high 1.5 steals a game.
''What I'm proudest of Paul for is that he's moved on," Ainge said. ''It's not what he did, but how he responded to it.
''Everybody makes mistakes. Paul was in a situation last season where we were on a nice little roll, then our season ended in a very ugly fashion.
''Did he deserve criticism for our [playoff elimination]? No. We won the game that he was ejected from. Did he deserve some criticism for his behavior? Yes. But there was no way I was going to be down on Paul Pierce because of that. That's ridiculous.
''Things like this happen in pressure situations. I don't think what Paul did was near as bad as what Scottie Pippen did, and he's one the 50 greatest players of all time."
For those of you who have blocked out those Bulls years, in 1993-94, Pippen's first season without Michael Jordan (his Airness was in Birmingham, Ala., trying in vain to hit fastballs), he refused to take the floor in the waning seconds of an Eastern Conference semifinal playoff game against the Knicks because coach Phil Jackson diagrammed the final shot for Toni Kukoc, instead of Pippen.
Kukoc went on to hit the shot, and Pippen went on to earn a scarlet letter he carries with him to this day.
Pierce will do his best to erase his own badge of shame, knowing full well that some people will never let him forget. Scars heal eventually, but they never disappear.
''I really don't worry about that," he said. ''If, at the end of the day, that's all they can say about Paul Pierce when my career is over, I'm fine with that. I've never had problems off the court. I've got no blemishes on my family, nothing."
In a perfect world, Al Jefferson becomes a 20/10 guy next season, Gerald Green's voice changes and he actually gets to act like one of the big boys, and Delonte West, Kendrick Perkins, et al experience a quantum leap in experience and ability.
If not, the clock continues to tick, and as Pierce settles into the prime of his career he might ask for that change of address again, only this time with conviction.
''I understand what we're up against," Ainge said. ''It's a race against time. But I really believe Paul is one of those players who can bridge the gap with these younger players. He's the kind of guy who will still be playing at a high level in his 30s. He could be like a Reggie Miller with these young guys, if he wanted to."
Don't ask Paul Pierce about the future. He is trying to immerse himself in here and now. Last night against those blue and yellow uniforms, he poured in 25 points, 7 rebounds, and 5 assists in 40 minutes, and received absolutely no technicals.
Sure beats the past.
Jackie MacMullan is a Globe columnist. Her e-mail address is email@example.com.


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ROCHESTER — Two men, including a Rochester resident, were recently convicted of theft by deception for fraudulently receiving unemployment insurance payments.
Leonard Nadeau, 56 of 55A Walnut St., and John P. Allen of Cumberland County in Maine, must not only pay back the benefits they received but also pay assessed penalties and interest.
Allen worked and earned wages while collecting benefits. He was convicted on Sept. 20 and sentenced to two years with all but three months suspended and two years of probation. He was ordered to pay $15,171 in restitution and a penalty of $7,585 plus interest.
Nadeau was found guilty of fraudulently receiving unemployment benefits totaling $18,175 and sentenced to three years deferred. If he pays $500 per month for three years, he will serve one year of probation. If he does not pay the debt timely he will serve jail time. In addition to the principal, Nadeau owes $9,087 in penalties and $4,867 in interest.
Several other cases are currently working their way through the criminal justice system, according to Maine Department of Labor.
Maine Commissioner of Labor Jeanne Paquette said, "Obtaining benefits under false pretenses is a crime. It takes money away from people who are genuinely in need and burdens employers through increased unemployment taxes."
"The (Maine Governor Paul) LePage Administration has made strengthening the unemployment system a priority, and an important part of that is preventing unemployment fraud," she added.
For people claiming benefits, unemployment insurance fraud usually involves someone misrepresenting information to qualify for unemployment benefits. For example, an individual might continue to receive benefits after fully returning to work, might not report wages earned from temporary work, or might file for benefits under false pretenses or provide false information to the Department of Labor when filing claims.
To identify when people receiving benefits are hired for permanent work, the department cross-matches the list of active claimants against the National Directory of New Hires Database and against employer-reported quarterly wage data.
On the employer side of the unemployment system, fraud includes intentional misclassification of employees as independent contractors, misreporting worker wages to avoid payment of unemployment taxes and "SUTA dumping," a rate manipulation practice for obtaining a lower tax rate than a business' unemployment experience would otherwise allow.
The Department of Labor actively pursues the collection of benefit overpayments and any associated fines and interest. The collection process usually begins with by contacting claimants to request repayment or establish a repayment schedule. However, the department regularly uses state income tax filings and lottery winnings to offset monies owed; it also may reduce any unemployment benefits an individual may be eligible to receive. The department garnishes wages when other collection methods prove unsuccessful.
Citizens can report instances of suspected unemployment fraud by phone, email, fax or mail; information is available at www.maine.gov/labor/unemployment/fraud.html. Tips can be kept confidential.
Two convicted of fraud for receiving unemployment benefits
ROCHESTER — Two men, including a Rochester resident, were recently convicted of theft by deception for fraudulently receiving unemployment insurance payments.


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By JULIE HATFIELD / Daily News
Posted Jan. 11, 2014
If you think the Red Bar restaurant is quirky and full of character, meet its landlord.
TC Cannon is 76 and almost always is dressed in University of Alabama Birmingham green, bound for a sporting event. He has taken college classes every year since the 1970s, but charms his longtime girlfriend into typing all his papers.
He has operated bars since 1947 although he isn't much of a drinker, says the key word for Catholics like him is "moderation," and doesn't let the fact that he's not positive of the details stop him from telling a good story.
What's more, his best friends — the ones he bought the Red Bar building with in the 1960s — were all characters like him: folks who wouldn't mind that artists have painted Hindu gods on the building's entrance or flames on its original wood window sills.
"Do you know how it came to be called the Red Bar?" Cannon asks, launching into a story of opening weekend and his friends' reaction.
"Every redneck in the five-county area showed up. And one of those threesome looked around and said, 'Redneck.' "
Quiet beach town
Cannon tells lots of stories about the "threesome" — Gene "Flossie" Florence, Van Belcher and his older brother Joe — the latter of whom became a full-time Grayton Beach resident whose house was "a mini-casino." They were all part of a seven-member investment group called Future Inc.
One day in the 1960s, his friends were vacationing at a Grayton Beach house called the Wash Away that still stands.
Grayton was an especially quiet beach town back then, "no asphalt, no concrete, no nothing," Cannon said. The threesome was visiting the town's country store, owned by the first Van Butler, when they chanced a question.
"My buddies all said, 'Why don't you just sell us this place, Mr. Butler?' " And he agreed. One of the young men scrounged up $500 for a down payment and they wrote up a bill of sale, likely on one of the brown paper sacks next to the register.
"It had two gas pumps, a washateria (one washer and one dryer), a game room, a convenience store," Cannon said. "Everything was wood, the booths, the tables, the chairs.
"Everybody carved their name into them, and the worst part of this story is that's all covered up."
The new owners kept the building operating as a convenience store for a while, although they built a small bar for themselves onto the back. They enjoyed it mightily until authorities discovered it and shut it down.
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The former Butler store was leased out over the decades, including a stint in the '80s as the popular Paradise Café. Even in 1995, Grayton Beach still opened its doors to tourists in the spring and closed up tight in the fall.
So Olivier Petit's grand-opening announcement for the restaurant Picolo then, was a surprise.
"I said, 'Uh oh. Now we leased the place to a goofball that's going to open a restaurant in January,' " Cannon said.
But Petit had advertised free food and booze for the opening on Super Bowl Sunday. There were TVs inside the restaurant and even a few outside in the sand. And everyone showed in the middle of winter.
Now the restaurant, bar and live-music venue is beloved by locals, tourists and Cannon himself. The Alabama license plate on his minivan even says RED BAR.
"Once we were in Georgia at a gas station and people approached us and said, 'Oh, that's our favorite restaurant,' " said D.J. Nobinger, Cannon's longtime girlfriend.
Cannon is proud of the restaurant's success and the part he and his fun-loving friends played in fostering it. He was among the youngest of his investment group and is prone to press a napkin to his eyes as he talks about them.
Cannon now owns the Red Bar building with others such as Ty Lee and attorney Lloyd Blue as the Grayton Group, but he is the only remaining original owner.
Some people, including state Rep. Matt Gaetz, have met with him to ask about buying the property, but Cannon isn't interested. He spends most of the year in Birmingham, where he is Grayton Beach's biggest fan, giving out personal business cards that advertise the Red Bar on the back.
"It's not all wine and roses," he said. "The traffic, the parking, it's an ongoing battle. But this is the No. 1 sales tax-paying restaurant in Walton County. That alone gives it a strong playing card at the table."


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Country Ranch and Bacon Pea Salad Recipe
I used to hate peas when I was younger. Every time my mother would fix them for dinner, I would bury them under some other food to try to get out of eating them, or drown them in ketchup to hide the taste.
However, since I've gotten older, I've acquired a taste for peas. Well, at least in this delicious and creamy pea salad. The best news is that since the salad also contains bacon, my husband and boys will eat it too.
Country Ranch and Bacon Pea Salad
3/4 cup ranch dressing
1/3 Greek yogurt
1 cup cheddar cheese, grated
1 medium size red onion, chopped
10 slices bacon
32 ounces frozen peas, thawed
2 teaspoons black pepper, ground
Toss the bacon in a skillet and cook until well done. Pull the bacon out of the pan and chop into little bits.
Whisk together the ranch dressing and Greek yogurt.
Strain the peas in a colander to get rid of any excess water. Place the peas in bowl and add the bacon bits and chopped onion. Pour the ranch mix over the peas and bacon and stir until well combined. Sprinkle the cheese and ground black pepper over the top of the pea salad and then gently stir until it is all mixed together.
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text: Adelaide - Actions speak louder than words for South Africa's world number one Test team and the players needed little encouragement to turn around their fortunes on day two of the second Test against Australia, according to paceman Morne Morkel.Spanked for 482 runs on day one, South Africa rattled through Australia's last five wickets prior to lunch before captain Graeme Smith struck a patient century to drive the tourists to 217-2 at Adelaide Oval by Friday's close. Morkel symbolised the South African grit, capturing three wickets in the morning as the hosts were dismissed for 550 and the paceman notched his first five-wicket haul against Australia after being punished by their batsmen a day earlier.VIDEO: Australia v South Africa: 2nd Test Day 2 Highlights Among his wickets was Michael Clarke, who he bowled for 230, less than 24 hours after the Australian captain blasted him for five boundaries in an over to bring up his 150th run. "We're a team that realised and knew what was needed to be done," Morkel told reporters. "The time for talking was over so we needed to react and we needed to step up and pull up our socks. "I know it wasn't our best performance on Thursday but it was also a performance we needed to put to bed. "This team always finds a way to fight back and I think in a way you can never count us out and we'll fight hard for the next few days and hopefully we can go well." While opener Alviro Petersen and number three Hashim Amla lost their wickets cheaply, Smith defied the Australian bowlers throughout the heat of the day to give the Proteas renewed hope. Rather than blaze away in a feisty counter-attack, Smith built the South African total at a patient three runs an over to leave the eight Australian bowlers thrown into the attack frustrated. "He's one of the best captains I've ever played with," Morkel said. "The amount of passion and pride he's got for this country and the way he's leading - a lot of the people don't see what's happening in the changing room, behind the scenes. "We needed a guy up front to be solid and he's still there... I hope tomorrow can be a really big day for him." South Africa's hopes may also hinge on the batting of another bulky stalwart in Jacques Kallis, despite the all-rounder straining a hamstring on day one. Jacques Rudolph came in at number four in Kallis's usual spot and did his part with 25 not out to give the 37-year-old time to recuperate. "Luckily he had a day's rest now," said Morkel, who backed his team mate to be up for the task. "Jacques is an unbelievable leader for the team and if we need it, he'll step up. "If he's 40-50 percent fit, he's a really tough guy and he'll bite the bullet for us."


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Athletes from marathon runners to fitness buffs who have long complained about the moisture-retention characteristics of cotton athletic wear will soon have a new option.
A cotton textile innovation, Double Dry Cotton, will be the fabric of choice for the first-ever line of men's and women's cotton athletic wear made by Champion, a division of Sara Lee Corporation.
Scheduled for a spring launch, the Double Dry Cotton line takes advantage of proprietary moisture management technology that delivers exceptional wicking performance while maintaining the look, feel, and comfort of cotton.
The finishing process that imparts the moisture management characteristics to the fabric was created by Cotton Incorporated.
"This is great news for consumers who want the softness and comfort of cotton, plus moisture management to keep them cool and dry," said Heather Stefani, vice president of marketing for Champion.
"Today's athletes — whether they are performing at the highest level of competition or just beginning a workout routine — are looking for moisture management to keep them cool and dry. Now, with the introduction of Double Dry Cotton, there is an alternative to traditional synthetic materials."
"This technology offers the same improved moisture management properties as the synthetic and blended activewear products in the market, but in a preferred all-cotton version," says Don Bailey, vice president of textile research and implementation for Cotton Incorporated, the research/promotion organization supported by checkoff funds from American cotton producers and U.S. importers of cotton textiles.
By pulling moisture to the outside of the fabric, the garment will absorb less moisture, dry more quickly, and have less propensity to stick to the skin when it is wet.
The ability to give cotton knits and wovens true moisture management performance over a wide range of fabric constructions and weights is a very significant accomplishment for cotton, Bailey notes.
The Champion Double Dry Cotton line will include a variety of styles and colors and will be sold at sporting goods stores, department stores, and national chains, with prices ranging from $18 to $34.
Bailey said this technology will work for any casual or active apparel product where the key is moving moisture away from the body to the outside of the garment, including but not limited to gym apparel, tennis and golf apparel, and casual wear.


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(CNN) -- After a series of problems that included a police officer using a racial slur, the new police chief in a Tennessee town is trying to clean up his department's image by requiring all applicants to take a polygraph test.
"I felt that it would help me to select people with good moral character to be police officers," Chief Shane Sullivan told CNN on Saturday. "The town's had enough bad happen to it, and I want to rebuild the department and give them professional law enforcement."
The polygraph test asks whether the person has ever viewed child pornography or committed a racially motivated crime. It also asks about criminal history, work history or possible drug or alcohol abuse, said Sullivan, who recently took over as police chief in Coopertown, a town of about 4,000 people just north of Nashville.
It does not ask candidates whether they are racist.
"No one that has been given the test has failed it," Sullivan said. "I have had a few people come in and ask me about employment, and once I tell them about the polygraph, I've had a couple not come back or not show any more interest."
The Coopertown Police Department was rocked last summer when an officer was caught on video using a racial slur after stopping a black driver, CNN affiliate WSMV reported.
The officer was fired, the police chief resigned and the four-member department was dissolved, WSMV said.
Several years earlier, the department was accused of targeting Hispanic drivers, and the town was notorious for being a speed trap along its section of Interstate 24, the station reported.
Sullivan said he decided to start the polygraph tests after taking one himself when he was hired.
"I saw from my examination that if I had any hidden agendas or any bad thoughts or anything like that, that it would have come out," he said.
The public and administration have been supportive of his move, he said.
"They understand there are a lot of changes that need to be made to do what they need in terms of law enforcement," he said.
One resident who spoke to WSMV said he doesn't believe a lie detector will fix all the town's problems, but he says it's a sign that Coopertown is moving in the right direction.
"People are ready to move on, and they don't want to be associated with the past stigma that the last people in office put on the town," resident Michael Primm said.
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The greatest challenge to staffing the nation's classrooms with the most motivated, highly qualified teachers is making teaching an attractive profession with career opportunities for those who seek those challenges. According to The New Teacher Project, currently the 20 percent of teachers deemed irreplaceable due to their success, actually end up leaving their schools due to neglect and inattention.
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The market is acting like it thinks National Grocers by Vitamin Cottage is going out of business, but Charles Rotblut, editor of AAII Journal, says the skepticism makes the micro-cap stock worth buying, pegging it as the "Buy of the Week."
Appearing on MoneyLife with Chuck Jaffe, Rotblut said that National Grocers by Vitamin Cottage passed the Journal's "Piotroski High F-Score Screen," which performed the best of any AAII screen in 2012. The screen seeks low price-to-book value stocks with strong and improving financials.
NGVC, which went public last July, operates a chain of stores that sell natural and organic groceries and dietary supplements, running 59 stores in 12 states, with 12 more stores set to be opened this year. Revenues have grown at a double-digit pace for three years, Rotblut noted, and sales growth is up; the company is profitable, but it is trading at a price-to-book ratio or 0.17 and a price/earnings ratio of 1.8.
Despite that, Rotblut said that "The market right now is pricing this company to go completely out of business. The market is saying 'Shut everything down, liquidate, take the money away because it's not going to survive.' But this is a cash-flow positive company; it is generating positive cash-flow, generating positive earnings, it is achieving revenue growth, so I think there is upside."
With that in mind, Rotblut said he expects the stock to double in the next year, but warned "If you start seeing growth slowing down at any point between now and the end of the year, that might be a sign where you want to step away and asking yourself what is going on."
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MyTwoCensus Editorial: Fingerprinting changes are long overdue because the media failed to report on the potential problemsThursday, June 3rd, 2010
For nearly a year, MyTwoCensus.com was the only media outlet reporting about the problems that the Census Bureau faced in terms of fingerprinting the 1.4 million people who were set to work for the 2010 Census. And we continue that fight today.
In December 2009, I reported that a convicted felon in Alaska was working in a supervisory position for the Census Bureau. This was discovered only after the man killed his mother and then himself. Clearly, this incident should have made calls for improved fingerprinting procedures at the Census Bureau obvious. However, the Census Bureau maintained the status quo and did nothing — fending off my questions and ignoring my concerns.
This incident occurred two months AFTER I originally posted the flaws of the 2010 Census fingerprinting process that were written by child advocate and fingerprinting expert David Allburn, who offered solutions to the Census Bureau that were ultimately refused. Allburn wrote:
(1) The Bureau should announce that trainees are responsible for the "readability" of their own fingerprints, and that fingerprint "failure" due to un-readability (or to discovery of disqualifying criminal history), terminates the canvasser's employment. This stops attracting ex-felons who would intentionally blur their prints, but it is manifestly unfair to honest workers whose fingerprints are blurred by the inexperienced print-takers. This is fixed by step two.
(2) The Bureau should augment its fingerprint capture by adopting part of our patented "self-capture" technique. Invented by a war veteran, the method has applicants use an extra minute or two to make their own set of "backup prints", observed and authenticated by the print-taker. Barcoded and enclosed with the cards forwarded to the scanning center, those self-captured prints are readily available for fixing any individual print impressions found "bad." Well tested, this gets the cards through the FBI with the same dependability as live-scanning offers, typically twenty times better than the old rubber-stamp method now in use.
Only after a handicapped woman was raped by a 2010 Census employee and a sex offender was caught going door-to-door did the Census Bureau decide to change their policies. Is that what it takes to create "change" in America?


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Lower energy usage makes LED lighting better for the environment, but it's a very green technology in other ways as well. LED lighting is also much safer for the environment because it is mercury-free and doesn't produce IR or UV rays, which can be harmful to humans. In other words, LED lamps are the greenest and most environmentally-friendly source of light on the market.


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After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and restore order to the universe once and for all, no matter what consequences may be in store.
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Simba idolises his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar, Mufasa's brother—and former heir to the throne—has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is ravaged with betrayal, tragedy and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba's exile. With help from a curious pair of newfound friends, Simba will have to figure out how to grow up and take back what is rightfully his.
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I've been making it a point to get outta the city and hit the beautiful hilly trails that surround us in the San Francisco Bay Area. This time of year the weather is great, wild flowers are popping and the trails aren't quite so saturated with the summer crowds.
Last weekend I embarked on what I have since dubbed "The Dot Com Death Run", a 15 mile run with 4200' of elevation gain and descent. Don't steal that name race directors! I might use it and start my own race with that one day. I picked the MONTE BELLO OPEN SPACE PRESERVE (photo above)... I was actually on my way to Portola Redwoods State Park but I saw the Monte Bello parking area and decided to check it out. I had a map of the area in my hiking book so I felt comfortable to get out there and explore. Once I parked I realized I had only brought one large bottle of water and only two 12oz Amphipod Bottles and there was nowhere to fill up on the run or in the parking lot. Shit. The last store I saw was about 30 minutes earlier. I had some salt tabs, 3 GUs and figured I would just tough it out. As you can see in the pic, there is quite a lot of exposed ridge there and it was about 75 that day. You can also see in the pic that it drops down 2000' to Stevens Creek. I took off along that ridge for a couple miles and came to a crossroads. I decided to drop down to the creek which was an extremely steep 1.5 miles. Then I hung a left at another trail intersection and ran along the creek for a few miles. At this point, I hadn't seen anyone for a while and running in completely new territory I was starting to feel kinda "out there"... especially being a dude who lives in the city :) Was I going to be able to remember the turns I made on the way back? Was a mountain lion going to try and make me dinner? All of this analysis was taxing my running and then I remembered some wise running wisdom I once heard (or read) "take what the trail offers you". This is good advice for life as well, so I carried on. 5 minutes later I ran up to the creek crossing and one of the most amazing Redwoods groves I have ever seen. I crossed Stevens Creek and ran the 2 miles and 1800 ft up to the ridge at Skyline Blvd. My water conservation was going as best it could which meant I drank most of it already.
I turned around and bombed back down through the redwoods across the creek (forcing myself not to drink any creek water... it was so cold and tempting though) and pushed back up the gently rolling creek side trail to the base of.... the death climb. I saved about 4 ounces of water to drink when I got to the top. I was parched at this point. I started up the hill into the sun trying to run every 50ft or so. Damn that hill was steep. As I was about 2/3 of the way up a turkey vulture started circling me... I yelled up to him (or her), "I'm not dead yet!" and I mustered up some energy to run another five feet :) Deep in thought on the ascent of the death climb I started thinking back to the views of Silicon Valley from the ridge above and then I started thinking of that turkey vulture thinking about how close my proximity to death looked and then it dawned on me, this run would forever be known as The Dot Com Death Run.


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On September 12, 1962, the Washington Senators played the Baltimore Orioles. Going into the game, which was played in Baltimore, the Senators were in last place, well behind ninth place Kansas City and 31 games behind first place New York.
Washington manager Mickey Vernon thus fielded a line-up that featured four rookies — Ed Brinkman, John "Red" Kennedy, Don Lock and Ron Stillwell — plus two undistinguished reserves — Joe Hicks and Bud Zipfel.
Vernon's starting pitcher, Tom Cheney, wasn't terribly distinguished either. In four previous seasons, he had played for three clubs – St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and Washington — compiling a 3-7 record.
But Cheney possessed a great arm. Though only 5-11, 170 pounds, he had a blazing fast ball, a wicked curve when he could command it, a slider, a sinker, and even a knuckle ball. And in 1962, it was coming together for him. Going into the September 12 game, his control vastly improved, Cheney's ERA stood at a very respectable 3.27.
Glancing at the Senators' pathetic line-up before the game, Senators' bullpen coach George Susce told Cheney he might need to pitch a no-hitter to win. This wasn't an ideal comment, since Cheney's pre-game nerves were his worst enemy, according to Dick Schofield, a teammate of Cheney's in Pittsburgh (and the grandfather of Jayson Werth).
But on this day, Cheney had no-hitter stuff. Brooks Robinson, who struck out only once, said there were times when he didn't see Cheney's fast ball. And Ken Retzer, the Washington catcher that night, recalled that every pitch in Cheney's arsenal, even the knuckler, was working to near perfection.
The Senators staked Cheney to a one-run lead in the first inning on a single by Stillwell, a double by Chuck Hinton, and ground out by Zipfel. Then, they stopped scoring.
Cheney made the one-run lead stand until the seventh inning. Marv Breeding doubled with one out and Charlie Lau (later a famous hitting coach), delivered a pinch hit single to tie the game.
The score remained 1-1 at the end of nine innings. Cheney had struck out 13 Orioles. As he would later recall, however, Cheney wasn't thinking about strikeouts. Rather, he was fixated on picking up a win, of which Cheney had recorded only 5 so far in 1962, despite the quality of his pitching. They paid for wins in those days, Cheney remarked.
During the extra innings, Cheney insisted his arm was fine and that he didn't want to be lifted. His arm was, indeed, fine. From the ninth inning through the fifteenth, Cheney allowed no hits (nearly the "no-hitter" Susce had talked about).
Whether Cheney should have been permitted to pitch 16 innings is another matter. Even in 1962, such an outing was considered clearly excessive. But Vernon was not decisive manager, and he deferred to Cheney, even to the point of allowing him bat leading off the 15th inning.
By then, Cheney had broken Bob Feller's strikeout record of 18 (which Feller accomplished in 9 innings). Cheney achieved this in the bottom of the 14th. With one out he fanned Breeding for number 18. When the public address announcer noted this accomplishment, Cheney appeared to lose concentration, and fell behind pitcher Dick Hall in the count. But Cheney then fired three strikes past Hall (who started his career as an outfielder and could still hit a little) to break Feller's record.
In the sixteenth inning, Cheney accomplished his mission. Zipfel homered (the last of the 10 he would hit in his brief career), and Cheney shut down the Orioles in the bottom of the inning to gain a 2-1 victory. Fittingly, the game ended when Dick Williams (the future manager) took a knee-buckling curve ball for the strike three – the 21st that Cheney threw that night.
Of the 21 strikeouts, 15 came against five hitters. Hall, Breeding, Dave Nicholson, "Diamond" Jim Gentile, and Russ Snyder all whiffed three times. Nicholson was the easiest batter in baseball to strike out at the time and Gentile wasn't far behind. Hall was a pitcher though, as noted, not a bad hitting one. Snyder, on the other hand, struck out infrequently.
How much of a toll did this 16 inning, 62 batters-faced outing take on Cheney? He was bombed in his next start (September 18) and did not pitch again for until September 30. In that last start, however, he gave up only one run in eight and two-thirds innings.
And Cheney was nearly unhittable early in the 1963 season began. He pitched complete games in each of his first four starts, allowing only 2 runs and 15 hits in the process, while striking out 38.
Cheney couldn't maintain that pace, of course. But with control problems seemingly behind him, his ERA was well below 3.00 when, in mid-July, while working on another shutout, something popped in his arm. Cheney wouldn't win again in 1963 and would win only 3 more times thereafter.
As the current Washington baseball team prepares to shut down its ace, Stephen Strasburg, prior to post-season play, it's sobering to think about Tom Cheney, and to contemplate what this wonder-arm pitcher might have accomplished with just a little of the "pampering" modern pitchers receive.


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