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It's not surprising that Engineered Systems accelerate the debugging and resolution of customer issues.
But what has surprised me is just how much faster issue resolution is with Engineered Systems such as SPARC SuperCluster.
These are powerful, complex, systems used by customers wanting extreme database performance, app performance, and cost saving server consolidation.
A SPARC SuperCluster consists or 2 or 4 powerful T4-4 compute nodes, 3 or 6 extreme performance Exadata Storage Cells, a ZFS Storage Appliance 7320 for general purpose storage, and ultra fast Infiniband switches. Each with its own firmware.
It runs Solaris 11, Solaris 10, 11gR2, LDoms virtualization, and Zones virtualization on the T4-4 compute nodes, a modified version of Solaris 11 in the ZFS Storage Appliance, a modified and highly tuned version of Oracle Linux running Exadata software on the Storage Cells, another Linux derivative in the Infiniband switches, etc.
It has an Infiniband data network between the components, a 10Gb data network to the outside world, and a 1Gb management network.
And customers can run whatever middleware and apps they want on it, clustered in whatever way they want.
In one word, powerful. In another, complex.
The system is highly Engineered. But it's designed to run general purpose applications.
That is, the physical components, configuration, cabling, virtualization technologies, switches, firmware, Operating System versions, network protocols, tunables, etc. are all preset for optimum performance and robustness.
That improves the customer experience as what the customer runs leverages our technical know-how and best practices and is what we've tested intensely within Oracle.
It should also make debugging easier by fixing a large number of variables which would otherwise be in play if a customer or Systems Integrator had assembled such a complex system themselves from the constituent components. For example, there's myriad network protocols which could be used with Infiniband. Myriad ways the components could be interconnected, myriad tunable settings, etc.
But what has really surprised me - and I've been working in this area for 15 years now - is just how much easier and faster Engineered Systems have made debugging and issue resolution.
All those error opportunities for sub-optimal cabling, unusual network protocols, sub-optimal deployment of virtualization technologies, issues with 3rd party storage, issues with 3rd party multi-pathing products, etc., are simply taken out of the equation.
All those error opportunities for making an issue unique to a particular set-up, the "why aren't we seeing this on any other system ?" type questions, the doubts, just go away when we or a customer discover an issue on an Engineered System.
It enables a really honed response, getting to the root cause much, much faster than would otherwise be the case.
Here's a couple of examples from the last month, one found in-house by my team, one found by a customer:
Example 1: We found a node eviction issue running 11gR2 with Solaris 11 SRU 12 under extreme load on what we call our ExaLego test system (mimics an Exadata / SuperCluster 11gR2 Exadata Storage Cell set-up). We quickly established that an enhancement in SRU12 enabled an 11gR2 process to query Infiniband's Subnet Manager, replacing a fallback mechanism it had used previously. Under abnormally heavy load, the query could return results which were misinterpreted resulting in node eviction. In several daily joint debugging sessions between the Solaris, Infiniband, and 11gR2 teams, the issue was fully root caused, evaluated, and a fix agreed upon. That fix went back into all Solaris releases the following Monday. From initial issue discovery to the fix being put back into all Solaris releases was just 10 days.
Example 2: A customer reported sporadic performance degradation. The reasons were unclear and the information sparse. The SPARC SuperCluster Engineered Systems support teams which comprises both SPARC/Solaris and Database/Exadata experts worked to root cause the issue. A number of contributing factors were discovered, including tunable parameters. An intense collaborative investigation between the engineering teams identified the root cause to a CPU bound networking thread which was being starved of CPU cycles under extreme load. Workarounds were identified. Modifications have been put back into 11gR2 to alleviate the issue and a development project already underway within Solaris has been sped up to provide the final resolution on the Solaris side. The fixed nature of the SPARC SuperCluster configuration greatly aided issue reproduction and dramatically sped up root cause analysis, allowing the correct workarounds and fixes to be identified, prioritized, and implemented. The customer is now extremely happy with performance and robustness.
Since the Engineered System configuration is common to other SPARC SuperCluster customers, the lessons learned are being proactively rolled out to other customers and incorporated into the installation procedures for future customers.
This effectively acts as a turbo-boost to performance and reliability for all SPARC SuperCluster customers.
If this had occurred in a "home grown" system of this complexity, I expect it would have taken at least 6 months to get to the bottom of the issue.
But because it was an Engineered System, known, understood, and qualified by both the Solaris and Database teams, we were able to collaborate closely to identify cause and effect and expedite a solution for the customer.
That is a key advantage of Engineered Systems which should not be underestimated.
Indeed, the initial issue mitigation on the Database side followed by final fix on the Solaris side, highlights the high degree of collaboration and excellent teamwork between the Oracle engineering teams.
It's a compelling advantage of the integrated Oracle Red Stack in general and Engineered Systems in particular.


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Edmonton Stingers strike first against Knighthawks
The Edmonton Stingers continue to dominate their home court at the Northlands Expo Centre, defeating the Guelph Knighthawks 110-91 on Thursday night.
It was their fifth straight win as they improve to 9-4, including a 7-1 stretch at home, as they prepare to take to the road for a rematch in Guelph on Saturday, July 20, against a Knighthawks squad that fell to 3-10.
"We have to go out there and punch them in the face first and send them a message," said Aida Peter-McNeilly of the Stingers. "We wanted to put our staple on the game."
Grandy Glaze led the way for Edmonton with 28 points and 15 rebounds, while Xavier Moon added 19 points and 10 assists.
"We want the best for everybody and we play unselfish," said Travis Daniels, who had 23 points and 11 rebounds. "When we play together, we're so tough to stop."

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text: SALT LAKE CITY — Jamaal Tinsley usually has a pre-game exercise routine, but he was told "not to do a lot" before Saturday night's game with Phoenix. It turned out that starting point guard Mo Williams was a late scratch because of a strained muscle in his thigh, putting Tinsley in the starting point guard spot.As it turned out, Tinsley did a lot in the 94-81 victory as he dished out 14 assists — his best total in five seasons — and directed a Jazz offense that got the ball into the big men better than in any previous game."I thought he was great,'' said Jazz coach Tyrone Corbin. "It's difficult and people don't understand how when somebody goes down and you actually start and play the minutes… he got us into the stuff we needed to get into.''Tinsley, a nine-year NBA veteran, said it wasn't a big deal to suddenly be on the floor 41 minutes instead of the 10 or 15 that he's usually plays with the Jazz."I'm used to it,'' he said. "Whatever they need from me I try to go out and do my best and play hard. I try to stay ready and control what you can control.''Tinsely didn't score a point on the night, but had six assists in the first quarter when the Jazz ran out to a 10-point lead and had 10 assists by half. That's more than Williams has had in an entire game this year. Tinsley picked up two more assists in the third quarter and then had two down the stretch to Al Jefferson to help put the game away."I had the opportunity to play more minutes,'' Tinsley said. "It always feels good to win a game, whether I have two or three assists.''Tinsley will likely go back to the bench when Williams returns to the lineup, but Corbin is glad he can count on his veteran point guard."I just respect his professionalism,'' Corbin said. "Of all the time he's been here, he has always been ready when we have called on him and he has done everything we have asked him to do and I really appreciate that.''ROAD TRIP: The Jazz are 0-4 on the road this year and now they embark on a week-long road trip with four games in six days, beginning Monday in Toronto. From there, the Jazz go to Boston Wednesday, Philadelphia Friday and Washington Saturday.Corbin gets tired of talking about the Jazz road woes, but he says they need to start playing like they do at home."This is what we need,'' said. "We have to transfer our effort at home on the road and do it for 48 minutes. We've talked about it and talked about it and now we have to go out and do it. We've talked about it enough.''Beisides this week, the Jazz have two other four-games-in-six days road trips — one the week before Christmas and the other in the second week of March.HONORING VETS: With Veterans Day on Sunday, the Jazz celebrated Saturday night with Military Appreciation Night. The Jazz had donated numerous tickets to active military and veterans and honored several service members during timeouts. Before the game, Sgt. 1st Class Jason Myers sang the national anthem with the Hill Air Force Base Honor Guard presenting the colors. At halftime, the BYU Air Force ROTC drill team performed. Between the third and fourth quarters, anyone who had served in the military was asked to stand and be recognized.JAZZ NOTES: Mo Williams sat on the bench near the coaches nattily dressed in a gray suit with a light purple shirt and purple tie. He also was wearing some of those black-rimmed glasses that are so popular with NBA players off the court, although it looked like they had actual glass in them . . . At the end of the first half, Goran Dragic was whistled for a technical foul for apparently saying something to an official. So the second half started with, Gordon Hayward shooting a free throw for the Jazz. Alas, he missed . . . Randy Foye, who played so well in the home win earlier in the week when he made five 3-pointers against the Lakers, couldn't hit a thing Saturday. Foye finished 0 for 7 from the field, including 0 for 4 from 3-point range . . . The Jazz made just two of 14 3-pointers on the night for 14.3 percent.


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Kristen Wiig's life has changed a lot since she left Saturday Night Live a year ago, she tells Access Hollywood.
SNL's Kristen Wiig Joins Arrested Development
"The show was seven years of my life and a six-day work week and you're constantly with your friends all day, all night," she said at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Thursday.
"You sort of live and breathe the show," she explained. "Then, when it's over, you kind of feel a little lost... It was definitely an adjustment, even just the hours and [no longer] being in New York."
Wiig earned four consecutive Emmy nominations for her work on SNL, which included expert impressions of Suze Orman and Kris Jenner. In the summer of 2011, Wiig co-wrote and starred in Bridesmaids, which went on to earn $169 million at the domestic box office. She'll next appear in Ben Stiller's The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and opposite Will Ferrell in Anchorman: The Legend Continues.


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Friday, June 15, 2012
Many current and retired Dodgers are signing autographs tomorrow
I know in recent days I haven't posted much. I apologize. I'm still under the weather. It takes a while for me to rebound.
In the meantime, just a reminder.....
Many current and retired Dodgers are signing autographs tomorrow.
Click the name for more details.
A.J. Ellis
Dee Gordon
Don Newcombe
Elian Herrera
Jaime Jarrin
Jerry Hairston Jr.
Josh Lindblom
Kenley Jansen
Manny Mota
Steve Garvey
6 comments:
- Gill Cards and Beyond... said...
Man, wish I could go 2 all of dem but got so much 2 do n decided 2 go 2 da AJ Ellis signing since is closer 2 home n my wife luvs AJ Ellis...lol...we r da 4gotten fans in da valley n gona take dis opportunity 2 go 2 a signing dwn here :) Get well bra..
- June 15, 2012 at 3:09 PM
- Roberto Baly said...
Thanks man. Good luck tomorrow. :)
- June 15, 2012 at 4:36 PM
- jonathan said...
What happened. To the garvey one?
- June 15, 2012 at 5:24 PM
- Mike Barnhill said...
@Orlando - Garvey signing is still on, but I could not get a confirmed time. I called and they said, "when he shows up", but in a much nicer way. I'll be there at 11:30.
- June 16, 2012 at 7:59 AM
- Unknown said...
Got back from the AJ signing a little a bit ago. Super nice guy was talking with everyone, wanted to know everyone's name and how they were doing. The guy taking the pic for me didnt know what he was doing so i was getting frustrated and ended up not smiling in the pic haha. I looked like i didnt wanna be there haha. Oh well its all good. Super nice guy and very humble.
- June 16, 2012 at 1:39 PM
- Gill Cards and Beyond... said...
AJ was really nice n after we went 2 get something 2 eat wit da fam...we went back n asked 4 a family pix n he was really nice about it. Was so kool cause both my daughters have da same initials AJ n my wife got a solo pix wit him as well...lol
- June 18, 2012 at 10:39 AM


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Jon Rafman, A Man Digging (2013), Single channel HD video
Jon Rafman uses the intricate tableaux of Rockstar Games' Max Payne 3 as cinematic source material for his new machinima work, A Man Digging (2013). In this meandering and Robbe-Grillet inflected narrative, Rafman ruminates on the simulated sunbeams glinting through favela windows within the game, a melancholy sunrise in a deserted subway car, a heavy fog over a slate grey harbor. He can only do so, however, after killing every character—whether enemy or bystander—in the scene. In this way, Rafman makes visible the tension between the game as object of contemplation and the game as a continuous stream of connected events.
Although many makers outside of the industry have used video games as source material—Peggy Ahwesh, JODI, Eva and Franco Mattes, and Phil Solomon, to name a few—A Man Digging highlights a particularly frustrating issue in contemporary game design: namely, a pushy Artificial Intelligence system that goads the player into constantly responding to the checkpoints, achievements, and goals that are all in the service of what tends to be called a game's "narrative." Although these events don't necessarily develop plot or characters, they are seen as central components of driving (or forcing) the player toward a sense of completion and finality that can only be accomplished through linear gameplay. As a result of this insistent narrative-centric design, players are prevented from exploring the potential for triple-A games to take on the unique, interactive potential to create contemplative and self-reflective video game environments.


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About 300,000 chickens die in egg farm fire
Crews battle blaze for nearly 15 hours; no people injured
LA GRANGE, Wis. — No humans were injured but about 300,000 chickens died in a livestock building fire in La Grange overnight.
Lauderdale-La Grange Fire Chief John Duerst said dozens of area departments were on the scene of the fire at S&R Fresh Egg Farm that was reported at about 7:30 p.m. Friday.
The northern building on the egg farm was engulfed in flames when crews arrived, Duerst said. Water to fight the fire had to be hauled to the rural farm from miles away, which is why about 60 fire agencies totaling between 150 and 200 firefighters assisted.
Duerst said all the chickens housed in the building where the fire began were killed. The 280,000 to 300,000 birds that were killed likely died within the first 15 minutes, he said. Hundreds of thousands of chickens kept in the buildings nearby survived.
After about 15 hours of fighting the fire, it was out at about 10 a.m. Saturday, according to the fire department.
The cause of the fire is undetermined, Duerst said.
"We know where roughly in the building it may have started," Duerst said. But finding the source of the blaze was made difficult because "we had to destroy so much of the building, the contents of it. There (were) cages and conveyors and feeders that are stacked up three stories tall."
The fire chief said the building where the fire started was a total loss, but an estimate of damage cost was not available.
Duerst said fighting a blaze for hours can be a challenge for crews, but the many agencies that responded Friday night made the challenge easier.
"In such a long, drawn out affair, you just have to rotate guys off the line, so you bring in fresh guys," he said. "We appreciate all the help we got from all the surrounding departments.
Fire doors between buildings helped contain the flames and heat from reaching two other chicken barns and a production building near to the blazing structure.
In a statement Saturday, S&R Egg Farm said its 13 other barns remain in full production. The company said there should be no disruption of service to its customers and it plans to rebuild the burned-down barn.
S&R also said no chemicals or other explosives were involved in the fire.
The 800-acre farm has been in operation for nearly six decades. It housed 2.4 million hens that produce about 2 million eggs a day.


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That laughter you heard last night was the sound of the funniest people in show business all in one room. At the first annual Comedy Awards held at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, Comedy Central gave its highest honors to David Letterman, Eddie Murphy, and Tina Fey.
And to rising star Zach Galifianakis, whose name doesn't fit in a headline. Sorry, Zach.
Letterman received the Johnny Carson award for comedic excellence, a testament to his long career. Legendary comedian Bill Murray presented the long-time king of late night with the award.
U.S. & World
Eddie Murphy also receeived a lifetime achievement award of sorts, taking the Comedy Icon prize. Tina Fey and Zach Galifianakis received best actress and actor in a movie, while the buddy cop spoof "The Other Guys," featuring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, took best movie.
The award for best television comedy went to Modern Family while 30 Rock's Alec Baldwin and SNL's Kristen Wiig were named best television actor and actress.
Comedy Central honored a few of their own as well: South Park, consistently funny since 1997, took best animated series while "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" won for late-night comedy series.
The Examiner reported that the show, unsurprisingly, was full of funny moments. It will air at 9 PM, Sunday April 10, on Comedy Central.


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We didn't pay as much attention to the new proposals in the EU to ratchet up penalties for "cybercrime" in part because they came out just about the same time that the NSA surveillance information started leaking. However, someone who shall remain anonymous passed along to us a "group briefing" document from the EU Parliament team that came up with the latest cybercrime directive, which highlights a bit of the approach and some of the problems. The document is actually from a year ago, but it's definitely reflected in the final product. The entire focus of the document is on harsher penalties, even though there's no evidence that such penalties do any good or act as a deterrent. And, while the document does note that protecting "white hat hackers" is important for achieving "cybersecurity," apparently they had a lot of trouble agreeing on what to do to protect them:
As regards protecting "white hat hackers" as integral part of the internet's immune system we managed to achieve a very weak recital (6a bis) compared to the initial LIBE orientation vote. It is made clear that reporting of threats, risks, and vulnerabilities is crucial and needs incentives. The crucial last sentence, however, is not clear enough and far away from creating obligations for member states... Therefore there is no serious protection for white hat hackers who find vulnerabilities in other peoples' information systems and report them. we did howeveR start a debate at all and getting the whole EP united behind this.From the details of the directive that came out, it appears that not many of these flaws have been fixed. Jan Philipp Albrecht, who was a part of the effort, clearly is not at all happy with how it came out:
[....] We managed to get a number of important safeguards in, and the fundamental debate on better IT security is opened. However the direct is in many ways worse than the old framework decision. Higher penalties and the criminalisation of more practices and even tools not only mainly symbolic, but even risks criminalising well-intended "white hat hackers" and curious teenagers. The problem was Council and a too weak negotiation strategy of the rapporteur at the very end.
But Albrecht attacked the directive, saying, "The legislation confirms the trend towards ever stronger criminal sanctions despite evidence, confirmed by Europol and IT security experts, that these sanctions have had no real effect in reducing malicious cyber attacks.The equation here is pretty simple. Simply ratcheting up punishment does little to stop malicious hacking, as hackers rarely expect to get caught. So it does little to nothing to actually helping to stop online crime. What does help is having security researchers and others exposing and fixing vulnerabilities. But, if you create massive new penalties for "cybercrime" and make the rules amorphous enough that those security researchers may get charged under them for trying to help, you do create fewer incentives for them to actually help.
"Top cyber criminals will be able to hide their tracks, whilst criminal law and sanctions are a wholly ineffective way of dealing with cyber attacks from individuals in non-EU countries or with state-sponsored attacks.
"Significantly, the legislation fails to recognise the important role played by 'white hat hackers' in identifying weaknesses in the internet's immune system, with a view to strengthening security.
This will result in cases against these individuals, who pose no real security threat and play an important role in strengthening the internet, whilst failing to properly deal with real cyber criminals.
"The result will leave hardware and software manufacturers wholly responsible for product defects and security threats, with no incentive to invest in safer systems."
End result: more malicious hacking, and fewer people willing to actually help protect and fix vulnerabilities.
That's not good for anyone. But, it fits with the technically clueless "law enforcement above all else" mentality we see too often in government these days, which seems to think that "great enforcement" and "greater punishment" is the answer to any wrong, no matter how much evidence suggests that's untrue.
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Years before the phrase "clever girl" even entered the pop cultural lexicon, the Cuban government conscripted inmates to build over 200 weirdo concrete dinosaur sculptures at the Baconao Park outside of Santiago de Cuba.
On Valle de la Prehistoria's 11-hectare terrain, entire geological time periods compete for space. Drunk-looking ankylosauruses share the field with a woolly mammoth hunt and a rather forlorn tyrannosaurus, whose anatomy is tremendously outdated.
It is somewhat like if a deranged millionaire devoted an empty nature preserve to an oversized recreation of a child's grade-school diorama. The giant, open-loinclothed caveman at the gate does not add to the overall sense of normalcy.
And for more low-budget saurian insanity, see these roadside dinosaurs, this abandoned Michigan park, the kissing dinos of Mongolia, this Arizona creepshow, and the Civil War dinosaur park of Virginia.
Spotted on Remezcla and Atlas Obscura. Via Maar345, RDMazo, Johan Van Moorhem, Eduiturri, Sjaak van Duivenvoor, Havana Times, Sven Marrisen, Edilberto Lopez.


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SNY to broadcast Bisons
Today's news basically proves you'll have to live under a rock not to see, hear or have a chance to witness any Bisons game this season.
The Buffalo Bisons, Triple-A affiliate of the New York Mets, announced that SNY, the television home of the New York Mets, will broadcast five Buffalo Bisons games LIVE during the 2009 season.
The five-game schedule will begin on Thursday, May 28 with the Bisons' 1:05 p.m. game against the Lehigh Valley IronPigs (Phillies) at Coca-Cola Field. The schedule also includes a Bisons road game, July 6 against the Rochester Red Wings at Frontier Field.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana coach Kevin Wilson set up the schedule as a stepping stone to success.
He wanted the Hoosiers to take center stage last Thursday, he wanted two extra days to prepare for Navy's vaunted ground game and he figured it would help Indiana make that natural progression between Games 1 and 2.
But after blowing out Indiana State 73-35 last week, the Hoosiers now face an even tougher task — satisfying Wilson.
"It's a good start. I thought we played hard. I want to build on that because I think you gain physicalness and effort and momentum as you go through the year," Wilson said. "It's a big week for us. We need to step up and we need everything around here to step up, whether it be in our building or as coaches."
What didn't Wilson like?
He counted missed tackles, was upset about some defensive miscommunications and certainly didn't approve of three turnovers.
If the Hoosiers are going to avenge last season's 31-30 loss to Navy (0-0), Wilson knows those miscues must be corrected Saturday.
Here are five things to watch in Saturday's game.
HOLDING UP: Indiana's defense was the biggest question coming into this season, and last week, the Hoosiers played well despite giving up more than 100 yards to Indiana State's Shakir Bell in the first half. They'll face a tougher challenge against Navy. In an era dominated by aerial displays and basketball-type scores, the Midshipmen are a throwback with their power-running option tactic. A year ago, Navy ran for 257 yards and three TDs and averaged 4.5 yards per carry. They also had a seven-minute advantage in possession time. Though the Hoosiers don't care much about possession time, they know the defense must tighten up.
ANCHORS AWAY: While Indiana spent last week piling up points, Navy continued preparing for this week's season-opener. It could give Navy a tactical advantage Saturday. The Midshipmen return two of their top three runners — fullback Noah Copeland and quarterback Keenan Reynolds — from the nation's No. 6 rushing team. Plus, they now have tape of Indiana to game plan against. And shouldn't a military academy always have the advantage in strategy and in-game adjustments? The Hoosiers, meanwhile, will be studying last season's tape. Though it is unlikely Navy will change much in terms of philosophy, a fresh look is always a better gauge of what to expect.
QB DERBY: Indiana's most entertaining battle might be the debate over who the starting quarterback. For the second straight week, Wilson isn't hinting at who will be behind center this weekend. Or whether he'll cast the deciding vote after being outvoted on last week's starter. In the meantime, the Hoosiers have turned the quarterback carousel into their own version of Home Run Derby. A week ago, Tre Roberson started and threw two TD passes before leaving with what Wilson described as a bruised rib. Nate Sudfeld took over in the second quarter and threw four more TD passes. Cam Coffman played too but did not account for a score. Together, the three combined to go 17 of 30 for 319 yards with the six TDs and two interceptions.
OH BROTHER: Forgive Indiana's players if they think they're seeing double Saturday. Navy has five pairs of brothers on its roster. Yes, you read that right. The full list is: Kendrick and Kenneth Mouton, Blaze and Wave Ryder, Myles and Chris Swain, Nnamdi and Obi Uzoma and Will and Joe Worth. Even worse for the Hoosiers, this won't be the only time they face such a dilemma. Navy is tied with rival Army, which plays about two hours away at Ball State on Saturday, and Wisconsin for the most brotherly tandems on a Football Bowl Subdivision roster this season. The Hoosiers and Badgers meet Nov. 16.
PROVING A POINT: Nobody doubted Indiana would score points this season. And nobody expects the Hoosiers to match or exceed last week's point total, either. But Hoosiers fans are curious to see whether Indiana's fast-break offense can be as efficient against FBS foes as it was against a Football Championship Subdivision opponent. A week ago, Indiana's fast-paced offense repeatedly used less than two minutes to finish scoring drives. They scored on 11 of 20 possessions, too. If the Hoosiers are that proficient against Navy, it won't be a close game — and it would bode well for how the rest of the season, too.
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Foiled last-second shot helps Railers take win over Southeast
By Jeff Benjamin
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[December 15, 2012]
SPRINGFIELD -- For the second
week in a row, the fate of the Lincoln Railers hinged on a
last-second shot by their opponents. Last week, a buzzer-beater
resulted in a heartbreaking overtime loss to Jacksonville. Friday
night, another last-second shot. However, tough defense kept
Southeast's Herman Senor from getting a good look at a game-winning
3, and the Railers muscled their way to a 52-50 win at Scheffler
Gymnasium in Springfield.
victory pushes the Lincoln record to 6-2, 2-1 in conference play,
while the Spartans drop to 5-2 on the year, suffering their first
CS8 loss, falling to 1-1.
When this one started, you might have been hard-pressed to find
anyone who could have seen Lincoln getting out with the win.
Southeast used their speed and hot outside shooting from Senor and
Jagger Anderson to storm to a quick 10-0 lead. It was at the halfway
mark of the first quarter before Cook drained a 3 to get the Railers
on the board. Another 3 from Senor, who scored 14 points in the
first half, put Southeast back up by double figures, but Lincoln
continued to hang tough, getting a steal and layup from Cook and a
15-footer from Will Podbelsek to climb to within 13-7. All the work
seemed to be erased as Anderson hit a 3 to close out the first and
send Lincoln into the second quarter down nine at 16-7.
In what would be a big understatement to refer to the game as
physical, the Railers continued to fight. In fact, Lincoln coach
Neil Alexander referred to the first half as "brutal." Going away
from what has traditionally been the game plan of Lincoln, the
Railers took the physical play to the Spartans and slowly began
getting back into the game. "Our kids didn't quit," said Alexander.
"They got down 10, but they kept fighting out there." After another
quick five-point burst gave Southeast their largest advantage of the
evening at 11, a basket from Edward Bowlby and a 3 from Tyler
Horchem brought the Railers to within six.
After trading baskets, and then another 3 from the Spartans,
another 3 from Horchem began an 11-2 run the Railers would use to
tie the game going into halftime. Down 28-24, after Gavin Block was
fouled on a layup, the rest of the Railer points in the quarter came
from the free-throw line. The key play occurred with 51 seconds
left, when Southeast's 6-foot-8 Jalen Henry fouled Horchem and
picked up his third foul. The foul trouble would prove costly for
the Spartans at the end of the game.
Unfortunately, all the momentum the Railers had going into
halftime was left there as Southeast quickly bolted out to a
four-point lead. Unlike the first quarter when the run reached 10,
Lincoln went on their own 10-0 run, including Block's 3-pointer at
the 3:52 mark to give the Railers their first lead of the night at
33-32. Another basket from Block, a free throw from Cook and a
basket from Horchem stretched the Railer lead to 38-32.
Southeast answered with four of their own, and after Bowlby
scored, the Spartans took the lead back before the third ended at
The fourth quarter was simply all-out war. It was an eight-minute
example of just how physical and tough Central State Eight
basketball can be, especially when the uniforms read Lincoln and
Southeast. Horchem's basket put Lincoln back up 42-41, but that was
followed by a Deangelo Hughes' 3 that gave the hosts a two-point
spread. Two free throws from Block tied the game at 44. Although
there was not much substituting by coach Alexander, the Railers got
very important minutes from Bobby Dunovsky, Austin Krusz and Payton
Ebelherr. With Bowlby and Podbelsek hampered by foul trouble, the
bench was called on to keep Lincoln in the game while allowing their
teammates to get rest while avoiding a fifth foul.
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At the 5:11 mark, both Podbelsek and Bowlby returned to the game.
It also marked the point where Cook took over. The junior, who has
been handling a lot of the responsibilities of the point guard, had
not yet found his scoring form. "We asked Max to give us some
scoring," Alexander said. "He does so many other things for us, but
this was the type of game that Max really could do some things."
Cook's layup on the left side put Lincoln back up 46-44. After a
floater in the lane from DeAndre Crawford, inserted into the game
after both Henry and Luke Jackson fouled out, tied the game at 46,
Cook was fouled and split a pair of free throws to give Lincoln the
47-46 lead.
After Southeast pulled back in front at 48-47, Podbelsek's layup
gave the lead back to Lincoln. The Spartans got their final points
of the night when Crawford's jumper in the lane swung the game back
to the Spartans at 50-49. Cook then made a move on the right
baseline and was fouled by Anderson while making the layup. His free
throw with 40 seconds to go put the Railers up by two, setting the
stage for another Lincoln-Southeast nail-biter.
The Spartans ran the clock down to 8.8 seconds and took a timeout
to set up their final shot. Most everyone in the building knew that
Senor wanted to take the shot, especially since he had not yet
scored in the fourth quarter. Alexander knew they would look to
Senor. "We knew they would run some type of high pick, so we wanted
to bring a wing up and double-team," Alexander explained. "There was
a handoff that wasn't handled well. Our defense played very well."
Senor grabbed the ball, dribbled to the right and fired off a
shot that hit the back of the rim and bounced away, sending Railer
Nation home happy. It made a certain coach happy as well. "As
disappointed and down as I felt last week," Alexander stated, "I
feel just that good this week. We didn't give up, kept in the game,
and did not panic."
The Railers were led by the night's emotional leader, Cook, with
17 points. Horchem and Block each added 11, while Podbelsek scored
seven and Bowlby scored six. Cook also led the team with seven
rebounds and six assists. Cook's ability to drive to the basket not
only opened up options for him, but for his teammates. Lincoln
finished hitting 19 of 36 shots on the night, including a
net-burning 14 of 18 (78 percent) inside the 3-point line.
It was a big win for the Railers, a team looking for confidence
after the Jacksonville game. Will they be able to carry momentum
from this one to next week? Well, Lincoln is back in action on
Friday night as they are back home to take on Glenwood, a team
coming off an overtime loss to Jacksonville. The varsity will tip
around 7:30, with the JV startng things off at 6. The JV got the
night off to a good start on Friday with a 51-39 win.
If you have yet to finish shopping for that Railer fan in your
life, might I suggest some Tums, maybe an economy size. With six of
their eight games so far being decided by five points or less, don't
be surprised if games like Friday night are the rule and not the
exception. I think I've been through one bottle already, but, yeah
it's worth it.
Cook 6 3-5 17, Block 3 4-5 11, Horchem 4 1-2 11, Podbelsek 3 1-2
7, Bowlby 3 0-0 6, Ebelherr 0 0-0 0, Dunovsky 0 0-0 0, Krusz 0 0-0
0. Team 19 9-14 52. 3-point field goals 5 (Cook 2, Horchem 2,
Senor 19, Anderson 7, Hill 6, Hughes 6, Henry 6, Crawford 4,
Jackson 2. Team 20 2-4 50. 3-point field goals 8 (Senor 5, Hughes 2,
Scoring by quarters:
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You can't plant a lemon seed to grow a lemon tree. Sure, that seed will grow, but it probably won't produce fruit. Yet day after day I see these ideas online, presented as though they were viable options. Perhaps it's just young folks with little gardening under their belts hoping to find a trendy new way to grow things.
Fruit seed is the result of sexual reproduction in plants, which, like human children, are each a unique creation. Asexual propagation of a fruit tree is making a copy of the original that is genetically identical, just like a clone. Here's why you need to understand the difference:
Let's say that seed came from a Meyer lemon, which was discovered by Frank Meyer around 1908. Plants were brought from China to the U.S., where they were grown to yield lots of cuttings for identical copies of the original plant. Often these are grafted onto a rootstock to create marketable plants using less plant material.
While this lemon plant produces consistently good fruit, the seed inside that fruit should be considered a whole new variety that is yet unknown. Each seed will contain an unpredictable collection of genetic traits gleaned from a much larger gene pool. These characteristics may include wickedly barbed branches, bitter citronlike flesh and marble-sized fruit. Every seed from that Meyer lemon will yield a different tree altogether.
So growing a fruit tree from fruit seed is unlikely to produce a plant that will yield edible fruit. Fruit varieties grown today are the results of years, even decades, of breeding to create that supersweet apricot or seedless grape.
Nearly every fruit tree sold today is grafted, including Meyer lemons. This begins with a rootstock, which growers like for its vigor and rooting strength as well as its resistance to certain diseases. If left to grow, it would be rank, lanky, thorny and may not produce any fruit. But whack off the top of that rootstock and insert a piece, or "scion," of Meyer into the cleft and they'll grow together.
Everything above this graft point is going to produce Meyer lemons. Everything that grows below it will be rootstock and should be cut off promptly so it does not draw off energy that should be going to the Meyer part of the tree. If left to siphon away the life from the Meyer portion, this scion will die and the rootstock takes over.
Many new gardeners who think they can grow a lemon from seed also wonder why their older trees aren't producing. The truth is the trees are often the thriving rootstock that survived while the scion died out long ago; they will never yield edible fruit.
With so much gardening information floating around on the Internet, be careful what you believe. Strive to obtain your knowledge from local experts who have a life of experience in your microclimate. Otherwise you may wait many years for that lemon tree to produce fruit, only to discover that it never will.
Maureen Gilmer is an author, horticulturist and landscape designer. Learn more at www.MoPlants.com. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com or P.O. Box 891, Morongo Valley, CA 92256.
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The Wednesday, September 15th Library and Information Technology Forum features Rick Anderson and Ian Godfrey speaking about the Espresso Book Machine and On Demand Books at the Marriott Library. Please join us in the Spencer F. and Cleone P. Eccles Health Sciences Education Building, Room 2110 at 12:05-1:00 p.m.
Program Description: As a Time Magazine Best Invention of 2007, the Espresso Book Machine (the EBM), provides a revolutionary direct-to-consumer distribution and print model for books. Described as the ATM of books, the EBM Version 2.0 is a fully integrated patented book-making machine that can automatically print, bind, and trim on demand at point of sale perfect-bound library-quality paperback books with full-color covers (indistinguishable from a book on a bookstore shelf) in minutes for a production cost of a penny a page.
Rick Anderson is Associate Director for Scholarly Resources & Collections in the J. Willard Marriott Library. He has worked previously at the University of Nevada, the University of North Carolina Greensboro, and as a bibliographer for YBP, Inc.
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Magento: Apply SUPEE-5344 patch
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Parmacologist or Pharmaceutical experts are experts in the science of drugs, including their composition, uses and effects - how drugs interact with living organisms to produce a change in function. If substances have medicinal properties, they are considered pharmaceuticals. The field encompasses drug composition and properties, interactions, adverse drug reactions (ADR), FDA compliance, toxicology, therapy, medical applications and antipathogenic capabilities. The science of pharmacology includes pharmacognosy, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacotherapeutics, and toxicology. Pharmacology & Pharmaceutical experts serve as expert witnesses and forensic consultants in New Brunswick legal matters, and provide expert reports and testimony for judges, attorneys, lawyers, law firms, insurance companies and government agencies in Federal and state court trials and arbitrations in New Brunswick.
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Steve Slovick is a leading global authority on pricing and market access in the biotech and pharmaceutical industry. He has over 28 years of pharmaceutical experience about half in commercial roles at large pharma and half as an Executive level commercial consultant completing over 600 projects. His expert testimony and consulting expertise can be used in cases involving pricing strategy and tactics and marketing/commercial strategy. On a recent engagement a Partner stated, "You guys are great".
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Dr. Sosis is a Board-certified Physician/Anesthesiologist who was Ivy-league trained and is well-published. He has over 33 years academic, teaching and clinical experience. He offers prompt turn-around. Dr. Sosis been a pioneer regarding the prevention of operating room fires and also has expertise and training in pharmacology.
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Over 30 years experience in clinical practice and clinical research. Triple board certified in toxicology/internal medicine/clinical pharmacology. Former medical school pharmacology/toxicology instructor, ICU physician and expert witness (drugs, toxins, alcohol, patent) in the greater Philadelphia region, New Jersey and Delaware for 25 years.
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Elite Medical Experts specializes in medical litigation. From Stanford to Yale, and from all places in between, Elite secures top-tier Pharmacology experts from the nation's leading universities. Each is recognized Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) with a busy clinical practice. Please call today for a case analysis by an in-house physician or nurse. Elite Medical Experts works directly with legal teams and does not accept inquiries from private parties.
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Dr. Adhia is triple Board-Certified in Forensic Psychiatry, Brain Injury Medicine and Psychiatry consulting in civil, criminal and probate cases and testifying as needed. Recent cases include competency complicated by alcoholism with liver failure, transplant ineligibility and delusions in the question of competency; date rape (DFSA) drugs; malpractice regarding medication; matricide; medical malpractice between treater and patient; PTSD in victims of human trafficking. Dr. Adhia is skilled in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment plans for anxiety and depression disorders, PTSD, medication, drug, and alcohol addiction.
Dr. Adhia is one of about ten Forensic Psychiatrists who is also board-certified in Brain Injury Medicine.
Dr. Adhia currently provides psychiatric treatment to those with Brain Injury, Stroke and Spinal Cord Injury at a renowned neurological rehabilitation center. Previously, he served as the Medical Director of a clinic that provided treatment to psychiatric and Substance Use Disorder patients. Dr. Adhia has conducted evaluations and treatment in a maximum-security correctional facility requiring his skill in diagnosing and treating addiction, severe psychotic disorders, mood disorders and Impulse disorders; he treated psychosis with hallucination and delusional disorders, schizophrenia. Psychiatric conditions among offenders were often combined with drug and/or alcohol addiction.
Dr. Adhia serves on the faculties of University of Texas Health and Science Center. In the past he was on the faculty of the University of Texas Medical Branch Department of Psychiatry.
In 2019, Dr. Adhia was appointed by the Governor of Texas to the Governor's Advisory Committee to the Texas Board of Criminal Justice on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments.
Dr. Adhia conducts forensic evaluations with Physicians for Human Rights Asylum Network assessing victims of human trafficking, kidnapping, false imprisonment and undue influence. His skill in diagnosing PTSD is an asset in this setting.
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Dr. Burgoon is an award-winning pharmacologist, toxicologist and biostatistician with a focus on mathematical and pharmacological/toxicological causal analysis. He has spent over 10 years as a government expert focused on providing scientific advice on human health impacts of environmental and military chemical exposures.
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Licensed pharmacist - over 30 years experience. EXPERTISE: chronic and cancer pain; opioids / narcotics / illicit substances; mental health psychopharmacology; drug testing, monitoring and assessment; adverse drug reactions; medication interactions; medication errors, dietary / herbal supplements.
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Statogen Consulting, North Carolina, is multi-disciplinary team experienced in Biostatistics, Statistical Programming, Data Management, specializing in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
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1. Have a Proper AttitudeYour attitude is one of the most important aspects of the entire weight loss process, and deserves first placement on this list! It encompasses your mental fortitude to create a plan and strategy, and set things in motion in a way that the result is inevitable. How do you determine which result is ideal for you? Look within your thoughts and see what it is you feel you cannot accomplish and then challenge that - envision yourself as the epitome of that which you seek. That which you can conceptualize you can achieve! Do you want to align to that healthier, stronger, happier version of yourself? It's already there! This is the attitude - let's go.
2. Exercise with a StrategySome people reading the heading of 'exercise' may immediately want to scroll past and continue reading to the next recommendations, however, those people would be missing out on the true potential exercise has in store for not just losing weight but fortifying your mental attitude. The best way exercise can support your weight loss efforts is by utilizing Intermittent Fasting or Time Restricted Eating (which we'll get into under the heading eating) in conjunction with workouts. The exercise strategy should be in the direction of cardiovascular workouts before and after weight lifting training. A general example of a 60-minute session could look like this:
- Warm-up cardio workout 10-15 min Exercises: quick pace walk, jog, run, bike, elliptical, stairs etc.
- HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) where not only do you burn more calories, but the effect of all that intense exertion kicks your body's repair cycle into hyperdrive. Meaning you burn more fat and calories within 24 hours after a HIIT workout compared to a steady-pace run. Exercises: sprints, speed bike, sped elliptical, running stairs/hill sprints, plyometrics, burpees etc.
- Weight lifting training 30-45 min Exercises: squats, deadlifts, bent over rows, dumbbell press, bench press, leg press, cable work etc.
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You can have a healthy day all day long by making good choices about diet, exercise and activities through out the day. The following plan is part of my healthy lifestyle which I try to follow as often as possible. Keep in mind I am retired and can adjust my daily schedule anyway I please. You may have to fit in work! Yikes, what a thought! More…
7:00 AM… Begin your day with a few stretches or exercises when you climb out of bed. This puts oxygen into your muscles and gives you energy to start your morning. Stretches and exercise in the morning gets your metabolism going.
8:00AM… Have a heart healthy breakfast of oatmeal,nuts and an apple. "An apple a day away keeps the doctor away". Apples are low in calories and increase your longevity. Top it off with a cup of green tea to boost your bodies defenses against toxins. Toxins can contribute to heart attack, stroke and many other illnesses. Don't skip breakfast it revs up your motor for the entire day. Remember to take your vitamins and or supplements before starting your day. You can brighten your mood with happy colors when you get dressed. Yellow is a happy color, red is for energy.
9:00AM… Take a walk, run or ride your bike for an hour. I ride my bike to the gym for a great warm up before hitting the treadmill. A little sunlight provides the vitamin D needed to slow down the process of aging. Be sure to protect your skin and wear sunscreen to keep those wrinkles and skin cancer at bay. Drink plenty of water all day. Fill your water bottle and carry it with you.
10:00AM… I hit the gym about 3 times a week for a good hour or 2 hour workout. On the off days and weather permitting I will ride my bike for an hour. Be sure to take lots of water with you to hydrate your system.
11:30AM… Take time to refresh yourself in a nice warm shower after your workout. What is really invigorating is to run a little cold water over your body right at the end of your shower to stimulate your body and mood.
12:30… Be sure to eat a healthy lunch and drink a glass of iced tea or water. I love a good salad. There is lots of vitamin K in lettuce and spinach. Vitamin K helps boost the elasticity in the skin. Another great antiaging remedy. Add a some chicken to your salad for protein to build muscle and help you stay alert.
1:00-3:00…This is a good time to run errands, clean house or just read. Reading is my favorite past time and a great way to keep the mind alert and healthy. Give your brain a boost and master something new. Do a puzzle or play a game. Journal writing is also great for your mind and spirit.
3:00PM… You should always have a snack, maybe 2 during the day, so your body does not store up fat. The body will do that if you wait too long between meals or skip a meal. Nibble lightly but do have a snack. A handful of nuts, a piece of fruit or a small piece of dark chocolate are great choices. An orange has vitamin C, fights wrinkles, helps defy age related dry skin and is only 70 calories. Strawberries, kiwi papaya and cantaloupe also contain vitamin C.
3 :30PM…In the summer I like to spend this time outdoors, in the pool, on the patio, or working around the yard. Unwind, bond with a friend or play with your pet. This will decrease depression and boost your immune system.
6:30-7:30PM…Dinner is around this time, I try not to eat any later than 7:30 to be sure I have digested my dinner well enough to ensure a good nights sleep. It is important to keep the immune system healthy with lots of omega 3's that regulate your metabolism, reduce inflammation and balance your blood sugar. Fish, salmon especially, and vegetables like broccoli are favorites of mine both have omega 3's. A cup of herb tea or a nice glass of wine makes dinner special.
7:30PM…This is a good time to relax and enjoy the evening. Watching TV, listening to music, working on the computer or curling up with a good book are some of my favorite things to do. When it is warm weather just sitting on the patio or taking a short walk is most pleasant. All of these activities reduce stress and prepare you for pleasant dreams.
11:00PM…Early to bed and early to rise makes a man (or woman) healthy, wealthy and wise. An old proverb, but true, especially the healthy part. I'm not so sure on the wealthy! Go to sleep at the same time each night with something pleasant on your mind. This will help you get a good nights sleep so you can wake up refreshed and ready to start another healthy day!
Taking care of yourself physically, mentally and spiritually will help you maintain your youth and add years to your life. Plan one perfect healthy day that includes good nutrition, exercise and a way to relieve stress. One will lead to two or three and soon all your days will be healthy ones.


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Today is the National Day of Prayer in the U.S., and I want to share with you the importance of prayer in our ministry.
I felt wildly unworthy to write on this topic, so I sought wisdom from Eleanor. She is our Prayer Ministry Manager.
At first I thought I would share with you some of her insights, but I think I will keep it simple and share with you an example of the power of prayer.
Every day in our contact center, we speak with sponsors who are going through difficult times. When we receive a prayer request, we send it to Eleanor and she compiles a weekly brochure.
This brochure is passed out to every employee at chapel on Wednesdays and we take time to pray through the prayer requests listed.
On May 2, 2001, we prayed for Cindy's* 16-year-old daughter, who had run away from home. We asked for God to protect her and lead her back to her family.
Ten years later, Eleanor received this letter from Cindy:
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Dear Brothers and Sisters in the Lord,
It's been many years since I received this amazing letter from you. It so overwhelmed me to know there were others out there praying for my daughter when all I was able to put before Him were tears and an occasional 'Jesus, help us. Jesus, be with her.'
From that I have a framed verse on my desk: Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who built it; unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman keeps awake in vain. In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat — for He gives to His beloved even in his sleep (Psalm 127:1-2)."
The letter continues:
I know it was such a small thing compared to the parents whose child had bone cancer and needed to have his leg amputated, or the lady whose husband had died, but the moment we discovered our child was gone is a realization I'll never forget.
We must live with the fact that she so badly wanted to get away from her life here. Once, the police called to let us know she'd been picked up for hitchhiking and scolded us for being bad parents. We also had to listen to what other 'Christians' said to us. Ouch."
But God is good, and He answers our prayers.
My daughter and her husband now live in California and she made me a first-time Gramma last year. Although her husband told her to 'get rid of it' when he heard she was pregnant, she kept the baby.
She told me that she loves God and is through making mistakes. She is now taking very difficult university classes and is excelling with a 95 percent average. More importantly, we are a family again. Thank you and love to you for your prayers."
How has the power of prayer changed your life?
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We see it so often one wonders whether American youth coaches are getting their soccer advice from Garry Kasparov.
"Kids come up to the halfway line," says Sam Snow, U.S. Youth Soccer's Director of Coaching Education, "and actually balance themselves not to go past it, because they suddenly realize, 'Oh my god, there's the line that I'm not supposed to go past.' Their arms are swinging, it's almost like they're on a balance beam or something."
It's a prime example of overcoaching - prevalent even though it's generally agreed that pickup games or street soccer spawned the world's greatest players.
And because it's widely lamented that American children don't play enough soccer in unsupervised games, where they're allowed to experiment and enjoy the freedom of the sport, the sensible response is that organized soccer for young children replicate a pickup-game environment.
One of pickup soccer's main characteristics is that players explore the field as they wish and decide on their own how to position themselves. I am constantly impressed with how even very young children begin to comprehend positioning without being instructed.
Snow recommends that coaches not worry much about talking to children about positions at the U-6 and U-8 levels.
"We're saying, from U-10 on up, begin to tell them the names of the positions, show them where they are, but don't screw them into the ground," Snow says. "Don't say, 'You play here and you're not allowed to go beyond a certain part of the field.'"
At the higher levels, teams interchange positions. Making players rely on instructions in their early years isn't likely to prepare them to read the game on their own. Besides, the children's instincts often make more sense than the sideline instructions. Manny Schellscheidt is the head of the U.S. Soccer Federation's U-14 boys national development program and Seton Hall University coach. He sees older players he calls "position stuck."
"When they don't know exactly what to do," Schellscheidt says, "they go to the spot they're most familiar with regardless of what the game is asking for."
The easy answer to the question of when to assign positions is to make it moot by using a small-sided format, as recommended by U.S. Youth Soccer (U6: 3v3; U8: 4v4; U10: 6v6; U12: 8v8).
"The small-sided game environment for preteen players aids the players in learning concepts of play, for example positioning as opposed to positions," says Snow.
Schellscheidt says, "It needs to be small enough so positions don't matter. That's the best solution. If coaches would have the patience to graduate their kids from really small numbers, one step at a time, that would be the most natural and the most potent education the players could possibly get.
"They would learn to deal with time and space, and how to move around and have some shape. The problem is we go to the bigger numbers too early."
Even if the league doesn't use a small-sided format for its games, Schellscheidt recommends that approach in practice. Above all, don't scream orders from the sidelines and shackle players to areas of the field.
"It destroys the children's natural instinct of being part of the game," he says.
Bob Jenkins, U.S. Soccer's Director of Coaching Education and Youth Development, says youth coaches are "skipping steps" when they try to organize and discipline young teams to play within a formation at a stage when they should be focused on the 2-on-1 situations.
Overemphasizing positions, Schellscheidt says, demonstrates the difference between team development and player development.
"There's such a difference," he says. "You can divvy up the field, make players rehearse what they're supposed to do in their small areas, and as far as team development it works fine because they can find a quick way to get results. It's a short cut to success, but the kids don't become good players."
U.S. Soccer's "Best Practices for Coaching Soccer in the United States" is pretty clear on the subject of allowing young players to make their own decisions on the field:
"A team of 9-year-olds who hold their positions and maintains a steady group of defenders who rarely, if ever venture into the attack, looks like a well-disciplined and well-organized team."
But U.S. Soccer does not recommend this approach, clearly stating it isn't how to develop good players:
"This approach hinders the player's ability to experience and enjoy the natural spontaneity of the game. It does not allow players to have an equal opportunity to go and 'find' the game based on what they see from the game or to handle the ball and develop instincts for the game.
"These are skills that they will need at the older ages and that are often lacking in the older players."
(This article originally appeared in the January 2008 issue of Soccer America magazine.)


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Hi guys, been an owner of my egg for 3 years, now I have a few family and friends who own a treager and are trash talking on the egg. Even though I go through the checklist of what makes the egg better than the treager (I call the yuppie's smoker) they still want to challange. I am all for it, any ideas for cooks or has anyone else ran into treager smack? Thanks, Kevin
They have had my brisket, and pulled pork, and prime rib, I won and 2years later they both bought a BGE, and both already built tables and I have had to walk them throught some cooks but they love it and rave about it.
Sold my Traeger less than a year after getting my egg. As noted here, pellet is good for intermediate length cooks, but IMO (and experience) it tends to dry stuff out on long cooks. I would lean toward calling it a convection smoker. Tried one brisket on it, turned it into charcoal. Also as mentioned here, it doesn't do well at searing. I have heard of some people using GrillGrates on them to sear, that may help. Either way, mine is long gone.
I have both and like them both. I have had a Traeger for nearly 10 years and an Egg for ~6 weeks. So far, I prefer the Egg but the are clearly different machines.
I would not do baked potatoes if you want to win. My Traeger makes consistently excellent potatoes that I could not beat on my egg.
Pizza is a pitched battle in favor of the egg. The Traeger does not get hot enough for pizza. For other baking at lower temps, the Traeger is too smokey and it overpowers the flavor.
Low and slow like ribs or pork shoulder goes to the egg. More moist and better bark. Need to mind the smoke.
Searing goes to the Egg. Maybe Tuna steaks or a ribeye. But the best steak I ever had was on my Traeger. Hard to overcook a good medium rare on the Traeger.
Cooking multiple things in one cook in a reasonable period of time goes to the Egg.
Cooking in a wok goes to the egg. I just did fired potatoes and onions in the wok, then plopped on the cooking grate and flames up two porterhouse steaks which I could never do on the Traeger.
I would not want a "neutral" taster. I would want to taste it myself and be my own judge. I don't care if I cooked it or not if it truly tastes good. Another thought would be to use the same meat and seasoning, i.e. a steak with the same rub so that the only variable is the cook.
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text: THR Actor Roundtable: George Clooney's Worst Job, Nick Nolte's Thoughts On Death, and Who Has 'Rage' Issues 12:37 PM PST 12/1/2011 by Matthew Belloni , Stephen Galloway FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME YOUTUBE George Clooney's career that involved hammertoes, Christopher Plummer's "awful" "Sound of Music" role, Christoph Waltz never likes his own work: No topic was off-limits as six of the season's big talents loosened up to talk role models, fame and fear of failure. Reinvention is a hallmark of great actors, so it's fitting that several of the talents invited to participate in The Hollywood Reporter's annual Actor Roundtable have distinguished themselves in 2011 by playing against type. Famed comic Albert Brooks, 64, embodies a ruthless criminal in Drive; regal screen presence Christopher Plummer, 81, lets loose as a flamboyant gay man exploring his sexuality at age 75 in Beginners; and Christoph Waltz, 55, so effective as a Nazi commander in Quentin Tarantino's 2009 hit Inglourious Basterds, plays a suburban American father in Carnage. They joined George Clooney, 50 (The Descendants, The Ides of March), Nick Nolte, 70 (Warrior), and Gary Oldman, 53 (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), at Smashbox Studios in West Hollywood on Oct. 24 for an hourlong discussion that touched on Nolte's personal struggles, what Oldman said when asked to play Charles Manson and why Clooney prefers acting to selling women's shoes. THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: Do you have a pet peeve about scripts that will make you stop reading immediately? Nick Nolte: By page two, you know. George Clooney: Pretty much by page four or five, it's got to get you. Albert Brooks: The first speech that's over two sentences, where you actually have to see writing, if those start to sound false, then it's over. Christopher Plummer: Do you have a habit of going right through to the end to make sure you're in the last scene? Clooney: You're just looking for the sequel. (Laughter.) Brooks: The computer tells you everything now. What part are you playing? Larry. The computer says you're on six pages. Well, Jesus, I'll just read Larry. PHOTOS: 'The Descendants' Premiere Red Carpet Arrivals THR: Is there any role you would not play? Clooney: Larry. (Laughter.) Gary Oldman: Ten or 15 years ago, someone approached me to play Charles Manson. I just felt, out of respect to the family, I'm not interested. Nolte: There's too much karma around that. It's way too heavy. You know, I used to cut off the top of my trucks, and that's the same thing [Manson] did. So the police used to stop me a lot. They called him Chuck. Clooney: Chuck, to his friends. Nolte: Then they'd stop me and say, "Are you related to Chuck?" I always pled the Fifth. Brooks: Nick, you got stopped for a lot of things. I never knew about that. Nolte: Yeah. I didn't tell you everything, Albert. PHOTOS: Gotham Awards 2011: The Red Carpet THR: Is there a role you've played where the character has really stayed with you? Christopher, you've played King Lear. Plummer: Yes, that haunts you. Clooney: Literally. Plummer: The first part's all right. But the second act, once he's on the heath, forget it. Then it becomes an entirely other play. It's a play about Gloucester and Edmund, and you're sitting in your dressing room getting stoned, waiting to come on again. Then you come on, finally. The audience says, "Hey, that looks like King Lear. Forgotten all about him." It's not the magisterial play they all say it is -- not the second act, anyway. THR: What's the toughest role you've played? Plummer: The part in The Sound of Music. It was so awful and sentimental and gooey. I had to work terribly hard to try to infuse some minuscule bit of humor into it. Brooks: You mean you didn't believe everything you said? Plummer: Oh, shut up. Nolte: Albert's actually got some experience in that territory. Brooks: What? Escaping from Nazis? [pagebreak] PHOTOS: Behind the Scenes of THR's Actress Roundtable 2011 THR: Was shifting from the stage to film difficult? Plummer: Not really. As a young actor on the screen, I was very bad. One is always thinking of how you look when you're young. You're always conscious of the profile; you're so conceited. I thought that was all that movies were about. It wasn't until I hit the drunk stage of my life, in my 40s, that I suddenly had fun on film playing character roles. Brooks: Drinking is the key? Plummer: Yeah. John Huston's [1975 film] The Man Who Would Be King. I thought that was terrific. Clooney: Drunk through the whole thing, were you? Plummer: Poor John Huston. He had emphysema very badly by that time. But he was such a marvelous character. He had an oxygen tent on the set, but he always had his cigar with him. Clooney: That always works well. STORY: THR's Writer Roundtable: 6 Top Scribes Talk Standing Up to Clint Eastwood, Dealing with Rewrites and Being Fired by Your Wife THR: George, is acting fun, or is it hard work? Clooney: I cut tobacco for a living in Kentucky -- that was hard work. I sold insurance door to door -- that's hard work. Acting is not hard work. If you're lucky enough to be sitting at a table like this, you've been very lucky in your life. You caught the brass ring somewhere along the way. I've known a tremendous number of talented actors who didn't get opportunities. Is it hard work? It's long hours, but nobody wants to hear you complain. I remember I was selling women's shoes at a department store, which is a lousy job. It sounds like it'd be great, but it wasn't elegant shoes. It was 80-year-old women [saying], "That's a hammertoe!" You're like, "I don't want to see that!" I remember I would hear of famous stars complaining in Hollywood about how hard their life was -- I didn't want to hear that. So I don't find it difficult. I find it challenging, and sometimes I'm very bad at it, but I don't find it hard. THR: Do you think you were bad and have become better? Clooney: I think scripts make people better. Direction makes people better. You can find a lot of projects where actors were tremendously good in one project, but you'll see them not work necessarily well in others. I think scripts make a huge difference in that department. THR: Did you always know you wanted to act? Clooney: I figured it out right after I finished cutting tobacco. My uncle was an actor named Jose Ferrer. He came to Kentucky to do a movie when I was 20 with his son Miguel Ferrer, also a wonderful actor. I was an extra for about two months on the set -- they got me a gig. Then Jose said, "You ought to go to Hollywood and be an actor." STORY: THR's Directors Roundtable: How to Fire People, Who to Steal From, and Amy Pascal's Secret Advice [pagebreak] THR: Nick, you did big Hollywood films, then walked away. Why? Nolte: Well, it was obvious I wasn't going to get any more roles. I could see it coming. The scripts weren't getting any better. In fact, the bigger the budget, the worse the script -- it seemed to follow hand in hand. The better work was in the independents, while the independent studios were still operating. When I was working with Paul Schrader, we were in the bar across the street from where we were shooting. We were having a glass of wine, and Schrader said, "Boy, I want to do one of those $100 million films." I said: "Paul, you're just full of it! You'll never have more control than you have right here. Yet you want to get on one of those nightmarish $100 million collaborative efforts?" THR: Was there a film you did where you thought: "This is it. I want to change"? Nolte: I actually didn't want to do 48 Hrs. [Someone] kept saying the black kid [Eddie Murphy] wasn't funny. To this day, [Jeffrey] Katzenberg is afraid I'll blurt out who it was. I won't. I wouldn't get my Christmas bonus. What has been the low moment in your career or life? Nolte: That's kind of daily. THR: Really? Why? Nolte: I don't know. I live with death lately because I'm 70. After 70, you don't think about sex much anymore. You think about death. Plummer: Wait until you're 80. (Laughter.) Nolte: Don't go into it. Plummer: I won't. THR: Does getting older change your perspective on the roles you choose or the work you do? Plummer: No. I'm working more than I've ever worked in my life. It's unbelievable. Either there's only me left in their 80s -- but I think there are other people who must be 80 who act. I'm having an absolute ball. I've never been happier. Christoph, you've found global success relatively late in your career. Were things hard for you before that? Christoph Waltz: Relatively? (Laughter.) In all cultures, the actor has ups and downs. That's the nature of the beast. So I've had ups and downs on a smaller level. In the German-speaking arena, you can be a member of a theater company and do that forever. My grandparents did it in one theater for their whole careers. But a certain degree of consistency brings a certain degree of mediocrity. THR: When you participated in this roundtable two years ago for Inglourious Basterds, you said you were looking forward to the opportunities arising from the success of that film. Have you been satisfied by those opportunities? Waltz: It made life certainly more exciting, and certain parts more enjoyable and more interesting. But that's where success late in a career comes in very handy. Clooney: For me, it was relatively late. I'd been on so many failed television series for such a long time. By comparison, my aunt was a really talented singer, Rosemary Clooney. In 1950, she was on the cover of every magazine. She was a big hit. Then rock and roll came in and women singers were all gone. It became a male-dominated thing. She was on the road and people started saying, "What happened to you? Where'd you go?" She's like: "I'm here. I'm singing. I'm doing my thing. What the f-- are you talking about?" She was gone for 20 years. Because she was so young -- she was 19 when [success] first happened -- she sort of believed all that shit that you believe when you are 19. People tell you how brilliant you are, all those things. So that meant now she clearly wasn't. Of course, she didn't become less of a singer along the way. The elements changed. Nolte: I never thought she went away. Clooney: She did. But later on, she came back. She had an unbelievably great renaissance. Nolte: She was one of my favorites. Clooney: She was one of the greats. But she was gone for 20 years. She couldn't get a job. Bing Crosby gave her a job 20 years later. She had some drug issues, prescription-drug things. [pagebreak] THR: Are you afraid of failure? Clooney: All of us are afraid of failure. Nolte: I don't think the downside is about failure. The downside is about not working. I do one European film a year. I just did one in Spain, but I was the only person who spoke English. The rest could only speak Spanish. I can't remember who was in it, but you would recognize the people. It was a great experience. Now if I had stayed home with no work, then I would have been in the shitter. Brooks: But the truth is, and without turning this into a men's group … Plummer: Tell us [your secret]. You can feel comfortable. Brooks: It was only once, and I was drunk! I was doing King Lear. (Laughter.) Clooney: You had too much time off! Brooks: You are who you are, no matter what happens to you. My father was a famous radio comedian [Harry "Parkyakarkus" Einstein]. He was very ill, and he died when I was young, I think before I really comprehended anything, I saw that this [fame] stuff had no meaning. He was paralyzed. He didn't care about people going, "Oh, I love your radio show." He could barely get out of a chair. People think that success changes you, but your demons are your demons. They're only magnified. THR: Has any great role model influenced you? Brooks: Jack Benny did something when I was very young that showed me more about how to live a life in this business. I was on The Tonight Show early in my career. When they went away for the last break, Jack Benny leaned over to Johnny Carson and said, "When we come back, ask me where I'm going to be performing, will you?" Johnny said, "Sure." So they came back, and they were saying good night, and Johnny said to Jack, "Jack, where are you going to be performing?" Jack said: "Never mind about me. That's the funniest kid I've ever seen." He set that up to make a compliment. I was like: "Oh, so you can be brilliant and gracious. They go together." Oldman: My mother is a hero. She's 92 and still gets around. She lives here; I moved her out. Still takes the bus. Brooks: Get her a car, man. (Laughter.) Oldman: I've never heard my mother say, "Poor me." She used to do big tapestries and then met my father when he was in the Royal Navy and became a housewife. Then when I was about six or seven, he ran off with his best friend's wife. It happens. I have older sisters who had flown the coop. I was essentially an only child. She's a great inspiration. Nolte: You're very lucky to have a mom of 92. I lost mine at 86. That was the last parent. When the last parent dies you call your sister or brother and say, "How old are you?" Whichever one's the oldest, that's the next to go. My sister's two years older than me, but it's not going to work out that way, I don't think. Brooks: You're getting the most calls? Nolte: Yeah. THR: What's the best or worst career advice somebody has given you? Nolte: The best advice is to do theater. Clooney: Sometimes when you work with younger actors who haven't done theater -- because most of them haven't now; they've gotten famous quickly -- when you're directing them, they will try to "win" every scene. But you have to lose some scenes because you're going to win in the end. If you had done theater, you would go, "No, I'm not going to cry in these next two scenes because I'm going to really lay it on at the end and have earned it." THR: Has directing changed your acting? Brooks: I started as an actor before I became a director. I went to Carnegie Tech, which was a theater school. You were taking mime with this man Jewel Walker and dance with Paul Draper. You did everything. Clooney: You took mime? Brooks: Shh! Anything you do helps you as an actor. A trip you take to Spain will help you as an actor. As a director, I work with actors from an actor's point of view. I think there are some directors who like the picture more than the person. Clooney: You are more direct. You simplify a lot of things. There's this weird dance that directors and actors have to play. The director is basically trying to manipulate the actor into doing what he wants … Oldman: Yes, but the actor likes to think that it was his idea! Clooney: Right. So the actor is trying to manipulate the director into doing what he always thought. There's this weird dance … Waltz: I read this really interesting article written by a cognitive behavioral psychologist, Daniel Kahneman. The "illusion of validity," he calls it. Everybody is so convinced about the validity of their actions, their opinion, and so confident about their decisions. It's complete illusion. It's really a confidence of communicating your point, rather than being right or wrong. THR: Do you like your work when you see it? Waltz: I don't see it. Not regularly. Clooney: Do you go back and see old things you've done? Waltz: No. Never. Oldman: I think it's healthy sometimes. It's just, it's old work. Some of it's good, some of it stinks, and what does tomorrow bring? [pagebreak] THR: What makes a great actor? Plummer: The great rage. Someone who can lose their temper suddenly, very quickly, and frighten the shit not just out of the person he's playing with but the audience as well. That's the rage. Mr. Oldman has that. Then, the ability to make classic roles seem so modern and fresh. Oldman: He does that. (Points at Clooney.) Gary, do you agree you have the great rage? Oldman: I think a few ex-wives would agree. Brooks: Fifteen minutes before we started, he was yelling at the hairdresser. (Laughter.) Clooney: There's an element of that even in comedy. You'll see that kind of rage. It doesn't have to be angry. Watch Joel McCrea in [Preston Sturges' 1941 film] Sullivan's Travels, and there is this sort of throbbing undercurrent that's always going around. Oldman: Albert has that, too. I've certainly seen it in Mr. Nolte. Brooks: I think it's an additional thing also, especially in movies. The actors who have always been the most affecting to me are the ones that allow me to interpret on my own. There are some actors that give you 100 percent, but they don't let you get in. They're working; you see them working. There are other actors that are instinctively laid-back. It's really like a painting. I mean, why should any work from a modern artist sell for millions of dollars? It's only because people are standing there and they're thinking what this means to them. The same thing happens with a good actor. Clooney: Good singers will do that. I used to say to Rosemary: "You're 70 years old and can't hit any of the notes you used to hit. Why are you a better singer?" She goes: "I don't have to prove I can sing anymore. I just serve the material." THR: Do you have any regrets? Plummer: There are a couple of parts I think I'd like to have played that I didn't get. I made a little success in London in Becket, the play about [Thomas] Becket and King Henry II. I was furious when Peter O'Toole, my friend, got [the lead role in the movie, 1964's Becket]. Son of a bitch. THR: Have you ever thought of doing something other than acting or directing? Brooks: I wanted to be an eye doctor for a few years. Plummer: I started studying the classics as a pianist. Brooks: Do you still play? Plummer: When drunk, yes. Clooney: I'm going to his house. Brooks: Can I go home with you? You have more fun than me. Plummer: I'll think about it and let you know. Nolte: A lot of what we discussed is the decision of whether to live in real life or not. I certainly prefer not to be in real life. It's horrifying. The Cold War and the bunkers and all that shit that was laid on us as kids, it's just not anyplace I wanted to be. So I felt at home when I hit the stage. I prefer it to the horror of real life. Brooks: Nick, that's a good title for your autobiography. Nolte: What, Whore of Real Life? I think it was my fifth wife … Clooney: No, no -- Horror. Nolte: Oh, the horror! ♦♦♦♦♦ About THR's Roundtable Series: The Hollywood Reporter continues its annual series of exclusive discussions among the year's most compelling film talents. As awards season unfolds, look for upcoming roundtables with producers and animation filmmakers, and go to The Reporter's website to watch videos of the full discussions. ♦♦♦♦♦ THE PERFORMANCES Albert Brooks, Drive: Brooks takes a 180 from his comedic persona to play a brutal crime boss opposite Ryan Gosling in the violent thriller. George Clooney, The Decendants, The Ides of March: Clooney directs himself as an ambitious presidential candidate in Ides and stars as a lawyer forced to deal with his comatose wife in Descendants. Nick Nolte, Warrior: After a career spanning five decades, the gravel-voiced Nolte co-stars in the mixed martial arts drama as an alcoholic father seeking redemption from his two sons. Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Oldman, who came to prominence in 1986's Sid and Nancy, leads an ensemble cast as a veteran spy in the adaptation of the John Le Carré novel. Christopher Plummer, Beginners, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Plummer steals scenes as a terminally ill man exploring his homosexuality in director Mike Mills' drama Beginners and appears in David Fincher's adaptation of the Stieg Larson novel. Christoph Waltz, Carnage: The Austrian uses a convincing American accent in Roman Polanski's adaptation of the play God of Carnage. 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