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Reader Blog: Cubs v Cardinals
Outside of the Cardinals, the NL Central does appear winnable this year. If the Cubs can string a few wins together, they might be able to finagle 85 this year and take the division. Is there any reason to think the Cardinals are going to fail? Probably not, but it is possible.
Right now, the Cardinals are greatly outperforming their statistical indicators while the Cubs are slightly underperforming there's. This has more to do with St. Louis' 4 game lead over the Cubs than any major difference in quality.
St. L GP-13 RS-59 RA-40
Chi GP-13 RS-54 RA-64
So the Cardinals have outscored the Cubs by a small amount while crushing them in the ability to stop the other team from scoring. Makes sense, but consider this:
Cubs wOBA- .328
Cardinals wOBA-.325
So the Cubs have more run potential than the Cardinals on offense. It's early, but at worst these teams should be about tied in runs scored.
Cubs xFIP-3.83
Cardinals xFIP-3.77
The actual ERA's are hugely different but the fielding independent team ERA's are almost identical so far. The Cubs have seriously underperformed their xFIP.
These things have a tendency to work themselves out but as of right now, without looking at the glove work where I am sure the Cardinals have a slight advantage, there is no reason to believe the Cardinals are that much better than the Cubs.
It's a long season everyone. I predict that at some point this year, the Cubs will pass the Cardinals for first place if even for just a short time. It's too early to abadon hope.
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Reader Blog: Hendry's Free Agent Signings
Lets start with the positives. Hendry signed two of our three best starting pitchers through free agency, and both have wildly exceeded our expectations. Terrible Ted Lilly has been worth 10 WAR since he began his Cubs career in 2007. For comparison's sake, Yovani Gallardo has only been worth 5.5 WAR over the same period of time. Ted has been very, very good.
Ryan Dempster has been even better. In the two seasons since he returned to the rotation, Dempster has been an ace. He's put up 8.7 WAR in that time period, and was able to accumulate 3.6 WAR last season even though he missed a month of the season with a broken toe. Since he joined the rotation, Ryan Dempster has been the Cubs best pitcher.
That's about the extent of the positives. Here are the negatives, in lazy list form: Alfonso Soriano @ 8 years, $136 million with a no trade clause. Kosuke Fukudome @ 4 years, $48 million with a no trade clause. Milton Bradley @ 3 years, $30 million. Jacque Jones @ 3 years, $15 million. Jason Marquis @ 3 years, $21 million. Bob Howry @ 3 years, $12 million. Aaron Miles @ 2 years, $5 million. John Grabow @ 2 years, $7 million. Etc.... These players have a ton in common. Most were coming off a career year. (Jones is a notable exception.) Most did not contribute enough WAR to justify their salaries. All were seemingly signed for too many years. The Cubs roster has been an elephant's graveyard of declining players being paid a ton of money for their past contributions to other teams.
This shouldn't come as much of a surprise. Most MLB team's have gotten smarter about keeping their young, high WAR players away from free agency. The majority of players who reach free agency are players that their original teams didn't deem worth extending, because their likely salaries would exceed their likely contributions. In short, free agency isn't a smart way to try and build a ballclub. Jim Hendry has spent a lot of money in free agency and usually hasn't gotten his money worth. The bad, long term contracts on this Cubs squad have hamstrung him in his efforts to improve the team going forward. The Cubs are older, maddeningly mediocre, and expensive. This team won't contend in 2010, and it won't contend in 2011 either. Because of his nasty habit of making it rain on every flavor of the week free agent who comes a knockin, Hendry should be fired.
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Reader Blog: Fire Jim Hendry
I've made no secret of my desire to see Cruller Jim Hendry given his walking papers. I've heard all the arguments in favor of his retention, and they don't hold water for me. Jim Hendry is a liability to the 2010 Chicago Cubs, and the Cubs should remove him. Hendry should be replaced with a general manager who has a better understanding of the market and of those player skills that more accurately correlate with wins.
Because this is my first blog post, I should share a little about myself. I'm a saber admirer, although I can't do the math myself. I believe a few basic concepts that originated with sabermetrics are so well established as to be taken as fact, and that MLB front offices are negligent if they ignore them. The high correlation between OBP and runs scored is one example.
I will regularly refer to WAR in my posts. WAR stands for "wins above replacement." It's a handy tool for summarizing the total wins any single player contributes above a hypothetical 'replacement level' player. It's important to note that a replacement level player would be a well below average major leaguer. The replacement level player is basically any interchangeable AAA ballplayer. For any math masochists who are reading this, here's an excellent explanation of how a hitter's WAR is calculated: http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2009/6/12/906943/war-lords-of-the-diamond-position. WAR is also a handy stat because it can be used to compare a player's individual contributions with his salary.We can then determine whether that player is providing surplus value relative to his salary, or if he is being paid more than he is worth.
I hope that you will agree that Jim Hendry has to go. He is not a good general manager and the roster he has assembled is not a contender, either this season or in the future. Thanks for reading.
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Reader Blog: Playing Nostradamus: Derrek Lee
I do not believe that the Cubs should give up on 2010 but I do think they need a contingency plan in case it looks like they are falling well behind in both the division and wildcard races. Looking forward to 2011 and beyond needs to be a priority for this team.
The first player they need to look at is Derrek Lee. Now at the moment, Lee is in the 5th year of a $65 million deal. He's done a pretty good job of earning that $13 million per year and is currently having a very nice season for the Cubs.
I like Lee and I suspect the Cubs' brass does also. So here is my take on what needs to be done:
1) Approach him about waiving his No Trade Clause
2) Insist a potential trading partner give up at least 2 Grade B or better prospects who are currently residing at the Double A level or higher.
3) If no trading partner exists, let Lee finish the season with the Cubs and offer him arbitration after the season.
4) When he struggles to find a taker at the price tage he has come to expect, offer him $8 Million(per year) for 2 years.
Derrek Lee is going to be 35 in September and even though he is a good hitter. Good hitters who can play first base adequately are a dime a dozen in the current major league environment. Adam LaRoche got a 1 year, 6 Mill contract this past offseason. I don't believe that as good a player as Lee is, he is that much better than LaRoche, especially when one considers that Lee is 5 years older. He is simply not going to find the free agent market amenible to what he may expect.
OTOH, if Lee leaves, he leaves, the Cubs need to have a backup plan and while one doesn't appear to exist on the team. There are always players like, well, like LaRoche who are available every year for around the same price we would offer Lee. such a player might not perform quite as well as Lee has but would probably cost half as much and could be let go at the end of the season. Lee would net the Cubs 2 draft picks if he is a Type A Free Agent and that would be almost the same as trading him.
All salary data is courtesy of Cot's Baseball Contracts
Reader Blog: Notes after a Frustrating Loss
Some notes after today's frustrating game:
1)Cubs are now 2-4 in 1 run games and 3-6 in games decided by 1 or 2 runs this year. It's frustrating but with a little luck, the Cubs would have a much better record.
2) Aramis' K rate is alarmingly high in the early going this year. Coming into today's game, He was striking out close to 35% of the time. His career K rate is only 15%. I'm hoping this isn't something that continues.
3)Geovany Soto is fine. I think the Cubs are hurting themselves by keeping him in the 8 hole. This is where you should place your worst hitter in the lineup (usually the pitcher). If you don't put the pitcher there, I can think of at least 2 or 3 players who would better suited for that spot over Soto.
4) Despite today's blown save, I am very happy about Marmol's control this year. After today's game, Marmol has walked just 2 betters in 6.2 innings. It's early but if he can keep his walk rate significantly below 4, he is likely to make the All Star team.
Reader Blog: Fontenot
It's early yet but Mike Fontenot seems to be doing fine at the plate. His batting average in the early going is .333. This is much closer to his 2008 batting average (.305) than his 2009 batting average (.236). That being said, there is reason for concern. You see, coming into the season, Fontenot's return to form was somewhat foretold by his still solid peripheral stats in 2009.
So far in 2010, his secondary skills have been much worse than they were in 2008 or 2009:
2008: 12.0
2009: 8.4
2010: 6.9
ISO(Isolated Power):
2008: .210
2009: .141
2010: .037
2008: .353
2009: .276
2010: .360
Fontenot's production thus far this season is almost totally a Batting average on balls in play myth. He needs to increase his walk rate and power or else his overall production is going to tank once he goes through his inevetable unlucky streak.
Reader Blog: Patience with Geovany
I have been reading all over the internet the frustration that Cub fans are having with Geo Soto. People have actually been suggesting releasing him and trading for a catcher (who????) or benching him in favor Koyie Hill.
I am a member of the Koyie Hill fan club but the fans need to show Soto some patience, for chrissakes! I mean, sure the guy had a low batting average last year but there are several reasons not to worry about that.
1) He was famously injured and fat for the whole season.
2) He hit into awful bad luck.
Soto's.246 BABIP in 2009 was inordinately low. If he simply lifted that number to a more ordinary .300, he would have hit much closer to his 2008 levels. His walk rate was actually *higher* in 2009 than it was in 2008. Every projection system thinks he'll get his batting average back to the .260 level or higher. So if he can stay healthy, he's going to be one of the top 5 or so offensive catchers in the NL this year. Given that he's being paid the minimum, it is ridiculously stupid beyond belief to release or bench him. My God people. Wait until the end of May to make a further judgment on Geo. He will hit.
Reader Blog: Piling on John Grabow
I wasn't here to express this at the time but I thought the signing of John Grabow to a 2 year contact for around 3 million per year was a complete waste of resources. You never give a multi-year contract of this amount to a mediocre middle reliever.
The problem with Grabow is that Hendry apparently didn't believe he was mediocre. This is because of Hendry's reliance on ERA as a main indicator. Here are Grabow's ERA's the last 4 years:
Looks like Grabow magically got better. But did he?
There are only 3 things a pitcher can do to keep runs off the board. He can strike out hitters, he can keep his walks low, or he can keep the ball in the ballpark.
Judging by those stats above, Grabow must have gotten better in one of those skills.
Was it strikeouts?
K rate last four years:
Nope. Grabow has missed fewer bats over time not more. He must have developed better control:
BB rate last four years:
Wow, he has become more wild, not less. This is amazing, he's striking out fewer batters without seeing his walk rate drop and still his ERA goes down?? How could that be. Oh, right what about the HR?
HR rate last four years:
Oh, so the HR rate DID go down in 2009. How'd that happen? Luck. It is almost a fact that all pitchers will allow around 10% of their flyballs for HR's. Grabow is not very much of a ground ball pitcher so he allows his share of flyballs but allowed just 5 HR of 87 flyballs in 2009.
On top of this, hitters only hit .279 on batted balls in play and only .251 in 2008, btw. He is not going to allow 2 run HR in the 8th every time out but really what we are looking at is the right handed version of Aaron Heilman. I hope I am wrong about Grabow but when you have a limited budget, you don't spend it on mediocrities who got lucky the last two years.
Reader Blog: Jair Jurrjens is overrated
Much the same as the rest of the Braves' pitching staff, Jair Jurrjens is overrated. The reason for this stems from a decent ERA in 2008 and an awesome ERA in 2009. But there isn't anything special here and there is no good reason why he should repeat his 2.60 ERA from 2009. Basically Jurrjens is a fastball/curve ball pitcher who mixes in a slider from time to time. He throws his heater about 91 MPH. Nothing special.
His K/BB ratio for his career in the majors is an unimpressive 1.97/1 and he K's just over the acceptable rate of 6 per 9 IP while having OK but not astouding control. He is a slight ground ball pitcher but whereas Tim Hudson posted a better than 3:1 Ground ball rate in 2009, Jurrjens was 1:1. But what Jurrjens really has going for him is luck.
In 2009, Jurrjens allowed a .273 BABIP (Batting Average on Balls in Play). Most pitchers allow around .300 or so and while some do better than that consistently, you will not be able to see it as a "skill" until they are in the league for several years. Jurrjens also has seen his HR/FB rate be under 10% every year of his major league career. Once again, most pitchers have that number flatten out at the 10% rate. Last year, Jurrjens only allowed 6% of his flyballs to go for HR.
A normal HR rate and BABIP would have led Jurrjens to an ERA of 4.34 which is nearly a run and three quarters higher than his actual ERA.
All of this would be bad news enough for Jurrjens but to make matters worse, he was slowed in the Spring by a balky shoulder which is a huge red flag for a 24 year old pitcher coming off of his first 200+ inning season of his career.
What Jurrjens is, right now, IMO is an OK #3 or a very good #4. The Braves are starting him in their second game. After seeing Derek Lowe get ripped in the opener. Aren't the Braves supposed to have awesome pitching?
All stats courtesy of fangraphs , my favorite non Cubs baseball website.
Reader Blog: Trade Ryan Theriot
Much has been made this offseason and during spring training about the future of Ryan Theriot and Starlin Castro. I believe the answer of what to do about these players is obvious.
Ryan Theriot has been a very valuable player. He is average to above average defensively at an important position according to all fielding metrics. He also hits fairyly well for a shortstop. Tack onto that his salary which is now 2.6 Million. According to fangraphs, Theriot has been worth over 10 Million in real dollars each of the last two years. Even with another solid year, he's probably looking at a raise into the 4-6 Million range for 2011. That makes him a decent bargain for any team.
If the Cubs did not have a potential stud shortstup prospect, I'd call Theriot one of the best values on the team. However, with Starlin Castro breathing down his neck, Theriot is going to need to be moved. I don't like moving him to second base because of the presence of another decent below market player with a nice glove named Mike Fontenot.
Fontenot is making 1 million in 2010 and will probably see a raise bringing his salary to just under what Theriot is making now in 2011. Fontenot is a better hitter than Theriot, in my opinion, and is also 6 months younger. I think it would be bad idea to replace Fontenot with a worse hitting, more expensive Theriot in 2011.
That leaves the Cubs with one choice. Trade Ryan Theriot. This is not something they should do during the 2010 season. This year, the Cubs do not have any room for developmental players like Castro. But the 2011 team will and Castro will be that much better. The Castro of 2011 and 2012 will be paid next to nothing and will probably put up numbers not too dissimilar to what Theriot provides now. On top of that, Theriot, now 30, will be entering his decline years.
The fairly cheap, but productive Theriot should net the Cubs a Grade B hitting prospect sitting at Double A or higher plus a decent middle reliever. The Cubs save 2+ million and move on to their next move. They can do this without weakening the team.


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honest knave: Sounds a bit like Mozart, who was another "prodigy" with lots of help from Dad.Uh... what's with the airquotes around the word 'prodigy'?! Mozart was quite possibly the greatest prodigy in history, regardless of the obvious impact having a highly musical and ambitious father had on his development. It's not like Mozart was writing "abstract" music, or having his music ghost authored; he was crafting musically coherent works with an inherent understanding of music theory from an extremely early age, and his adult output pretty clearly shows he was no trumped up "prodigy" that didn't pan out when the marvel of his youth had faded. I suspect we will not even be noticing the adult output of Marla.
nzero: In fact it has been said that his music was being "ghost authored" by his dad. That's exactly what honest knave was referring to.See, that's news to me. Every biography I've read mentions that obviously Mozart's father was a rigorous teacher, and made sure Mozart was constantly playing and studying music and theory, possibly to the detriment of his overall emotional development and health. However, I've never heard it said that even his earliest compositions were "ghost authored", and they are quite juvenile in their style (but showing a good grasp of fundamental theory).
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Introduced in 1982
"It's berry delicious." This cereal was described on the box as an "artificial strawberry flavor frosted corn cereal." It was based on the the character Strawberry Shortcake who was originally designed in 1977 to appear on greeting cards for the American Greetings Corporation.
The following text is from the back of a box of Strawberry Shortcake cereal:
Meet Strawberry Shortcake and all her friends! They live in a "berry" special place called Strawberryland. All the kids enjoy a simple country life. They make delicious things to eat from all the good things that grow around them. Now, Strawberry Shortcake has her own strawberry flavored cereal. So won't you join her for a bowl? As she would say... it's "berry" good!
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What do you think of Strawberry Shortcake?
Overall Average Rating = 5 (out of 5)
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By pixie
This was my favorite childhood cereal. I would LOVE to see it return! I would buy it every week, and I don't even have children!
Comment submitted: 8/30/2014 (#17584)
By strawberry30
Make a come back in Canada! I've been telling my kids about this cereal and wanting to share the amazing good taste with them.
Comment submitted: 8/23/2014 (#17544)
By freakshowmonkey (Team Breakfast Member)
I remember this cereal being amazing. I think my parents thought I was a little off, being a boy demanding STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE cereal, but it was great stuff. If it can be brought back in its original recipe, I'd be all for it. Recent re-issues of vintage cereal brands have been a little disappointing to date.
Comment submitted: 6/13/2014 (#17182)
By Fantana
Please bring Strawberry Shortcake. There hasn't been a decent strawberry cereal since it disappeared and that includes Frankenberry which used to be good but isn't anymore.
Comment submitted: 6/8/2014 (#17152)
By Summerside
I loved Strawberry Shortcake cereal. I wish it would come back to Canada.
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PLEASE bring this back! BEST cereal of all time! I'm 30 years old and I never stopped craving it my entire life! My mouth is watering right now! And looking at the comments, it is very clear that I'm not the only person feeling this way! Everybody rated it to be the Number #1 BEST Cereal of all time! That is quite huge! 5 stars across the board! I would give my right arm to be able to taste this again! PLEASE General Mills... Bring this back to Canada and make thousands of peoples dream come true! Sincerely - 30yr old girl who would eat this every single day if she had the opportunity to do so. (Ottawa, Canada)
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Adorable and delicious - one of the best cereal I remember from being little.
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I wish so much that my daughter could try this. When I was little, it was my favorite, special cereal. Beautiful memories.
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Is it just me getting on a bit and maybe stuck in the rather gloomy past but do we really need yet another film about bouldering in Fontainebleau ? About 10 years ago or maybe more there was a great film called "bleau" which unsurprisingly was about bouldering in font and featured top climbers going about their business in the forest. Marc la menestrel, jo mont, jackie godoffe, (spelling!!) some cool French dude with mad hair who looked like Einstein , Phillip le denmat and others on classic problems and first accents of cutting edge problems at that time, all very inspiring stuff. Not long after that and in a very different format there was a film called http:bloc with strong young French climbers doing there thing in font and a bit in the peak as well which again was inspiring , entertaining and informative. None of the films I have seen since seem to have captured this in the same way and appear to me as just another film about some strong person doing something hard but ultimately soulless and dull. Is there to many now or am I just getting old and missing the point?
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NZ: the infographic - Wiki New Zealand launches
Wiki New Zealand launched today, a new site chock full of infographics and data about Godzone and how we compare to other countries.
It's brainchild of Lillian Grace, who used to work for a think tank (the New Zealand Institute) but seems pretty talented regardless.
The site is under a Creative Commons license too, so anyone can pick up on its work (if they properly credit it).
Wiki NZ is a non-profit with charitable status pending.
Trustees include Kylie Pellett, daughter of the more famous Selwyn.
Check it out here.
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Ah wikipedia - founded on the idea that 10,000 idiots know more than one expert who has spent their own life devoted to a subject. And then those 10,000 idiots are defended by a moderator appointed by one of their own who will carefully remove anything that disagrees with said idiots.
And this is why Wiki is not permitted as a source for anything.
This isn't Wikipedia. It's a place where data from places such as statistics NZ is made easier to interpret by being in a visual form.
You should go and look, all of the graphs state where the raw data was derived.
A really great initiative, Lillian. Thank you.
Cheque in the post, really.
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As we mentioned in the last newsletter, due to a lovely mistake in our favor we are the only retailer in the United States to carry this beer. Mark Gerlach of Uplifter Spirits brought only 80 cases of this beer into the country destined for beer freaks on the west coast. Brewmaster Eric Toft has made a pale colored Bock beer from a single strain of Hallertau hops called "Saphir".
So, this brewery was founded in 1780 and used to be a resting stop of travellers going between Munich and Salzburg. After tasting this beer and declaring our enduring love, we decided to look up some info. It's all in German so Google translator to the rescue:
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"This is a wake-up call," says P.K. Shah, MD, director of cardiology at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles. He reviewed the findings but was not involved in the study.
The decline in stroke deaths is among the best news, he says. That is due, he says, to better management of stroke patients. The drop in overall death from heart disease and other vascular disorders is also good news.
''The bad news is we still have a September 11th-type tragedy occurring every 24 hours," he says. Heart disease and stroke claims 2,200 Americans each day -- one death every 39 seconds.
The lifestyle issues -- overeating, not exercising, and not maintaining a healthy weight -- threaten the advances, Shah agrees. He worries that our bad habits could wipe out the potential benefits of medical advances within 15 or 20 years.
"The key here is, we aren't doing enough on the front of lifestyle modification," Shah says.
Robert Michler, MD, surgeon-in-chief and co-director of the Montefiore Einstein Center for Heart and Vascular Care at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, agrees. "What needs to be learned from this is: very simply, that lifestyle cannot be eliminated from one's heart health. It has an enormous impact on one's health."
The economic climate results in great pressure on people and their ability to follow healthy habits, he says. People are also bombarded with offers to ''supersize'' their meal, he says. "People have lost perspective on what is appropriate body size and meal size," Michler says.
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Some 7.7 million meals – each containing a dairy product as part of the serving -- are rolling out to children across rural Georgia this summer.
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The summer program, "Feeding for a Promising Future – No Kid Hungry Campaign," kicked off June 26 in three Georgia counties. The program provides free breakfasts and lunches to children in need. The summer food sites are located in low-income communities where at least half of the children are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals.
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This was not the act of a fringe contingent. The letter—which, until now, has never been published in its entirety—is signed by 154 staffers, including J.D. Salinger, Calvin Trillin, John McPhee, Jamaica Kincaid, Saul Steinberg and Janet Malcolm. There are a few notable abstentions, including John Updike and Charles McGrath, who would soon be named Gottlieb's deputy. At the bottom, it reads "cc: S. I. Newhouse."The Letter: Robert Gottlieb's Tenure as the New Yorker's Managing Editor, Elon Green, The Awl (SLTheAwl)
Perhaps the only people with the right to look at images of suffering of this extreme order [i.e., gruesome combat horrors] are those who could do something to alleviate it – say, the surgeons at the military hospital where the photograph was taken – or those who could learn from it. The rest of us are voyeurs, whether we like it or not.The essay is not online but there is an excellent introduction with links to other galleries of the imagery discussed. With a new war likely on the way, her essay provides a timely set of insights into wartime suffering and how it is usually depicted, often manipulated, and never understood.


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In these blogs I'd like to share my thoughts on my approach to looking for an 'original' historical Arthur. This I have mainly been doing for an idea for a screenplay I'm working on. I have written three already but haven't been totally happy with any of them, so I'm going back to basics and doing more research. This has certainly come out as a much longer piece than I intended, which is why it's another multi-part blog.
King Arthur was Irish!?
No, I don't think he was Irish, but I wanted to start, not with his mention in the 9th century Historia Britonnum, but with the known Arthurs (yes, plural) of the 6th and 7th centuries (all Hiberno-British (British/Gael mix) or in Hiberno-Brittanian or Cambro-Irish areas) and try to work forward and back from them.
What, I questioned myself, might have given rise to the kings of these areas giving their sons the name,whilst the Britons and even later Welsh wouldn't. as well as the mention of Arthur in the northern British 7th century (plus later additions) collection of poems, Y Gododdin? I realise there can only be possibilities and probabilities in the argument, but I'm attempting, though I may not succeed, to find an hypothesis that is a probable one, or certainly a believable one. Of course, just because something is more probable and believable, doesn't make it the truth.
Assuming, just for the moment, that one of these Arthurs/Artúrs wasn't the 'original', which some argue one was, I'm starting with Occam's Razor, whilst keeping in mind that such a device might well be blunted by the stubble of time. This 'razor' would probably first say that he has to be one of these known figures, but it could also say (if it was a double bladed affair) that they were given the name because, if there was an 'original' Arthur before them, they were of the same ethnic origins as he, or there was some identification with him by them. This is not to say he was Irish (Hibernian/Scotti) per se, but possibly of mixed race in an Hiberno-British region, or a region of such descent. Such a person, of course, could have been born at one of several locations on the western seaboard from Cornwall to Clydesdale or Kintyre. We know through inscribed stones that there were Hibernians or Hiberno-Britons on the islands of Britain, especially in what is now southwest Wales, and there are two 5th and 6th century 'Irishmen' known as far east as Roman Wroxeter (Viriconium Cornoviorum) in modern day Shropshire, and Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum) in Wiltshire:
- Wroxeter: CVNORIX | MACVSM/A | QVICO[L]I[N]E, 'Cunorix son of Maqui Coline' (c.460-475, Wright/Jackson/1968)
- Silchester – EBICATO[S]/[MAQ]I MUCO[I--], 'of Ebicatus, son of the tribe of … ' (c. 500-700, Fulford/Clarke/1999 or 350-425, Fulford et al 2000).
We've no idea who these gentlemen were or what they were doing there, but they were there. They could be warriors, they could be monks.
There is very little to go on when searching for Arthur before the Historia Brittonum – 'History of the Britons' (H.B.) ca 828. and the Annales Cambriae – 'Annals of Wales' (A.C.) ca 970, but there are some clues. Let's start with a reminder of (or an introduction to) who these 'other' HIberno-British Arthur's were and, firstly, where the Hiberno-Britannian/Cambro-Irish regions lay.
Arthur (Artur/Artúr/Artuir) names of the Hiberno-British regions
The main regions where early Hiberno-Britannians, Hiberno-Britons or Cambro-Irish were resident were:
The Western Isles and western Scotland.
Northwest Wales
Southwest Wales
South central Wales
Southwest Devon
Northwest Cornwall
Only one of these regions would see their language remain: those of western Scotland. Those in Wales left the most traces through inscribed stones (especially in the southwest) and some place names. Cornwall has a number of Irish saints. Cumbria and Lancashire seem to be Hibernian free and this could simply be because the Isle of Man lay between, which they did colonise, or because of the strength of the kingdoms there. The same could be true for what is now Dumfries and Galloway in southwest Scotland.
The map right shows only roughly where these Gaels might have been in the Late-5th/Early-6th centuries. They may not have extended so far we in the north at the time. The difference in pink to red it the extend of settlement or, in the case of southwest Wales, the extent of Latin/ogham inscribed stones.The map also shows where the old British provinces might have been.
There are, of course, different theories to the existence of Goidelic (Early Gaelic) [1]speakers in Britain and these range from settlers/raiders from Ireland to there having 'always' been Goidelic speakers in these regions. The jury's still out, but most favour an influx.
Why the Hiberno-Britannians (descendants thereof or inhabitants of these areas) of the 6th and 7th centuries might give their princes the (generally accepted) Insular Latin derived British name Arthur (Gaelic Artur/Artúr/Artuir) two or three generations after Arthur of Badon's supposed death, whilst the British/Welsh did not until the 15th century (Henry (Tudor) VII's son) has been debated many times. I am of the opinion, based on the evidence as I see it, which I'll show in the coming chapters, that if they were named after an 'original' Arthur, who wasn't one of these, it was for a very good reason and a reason that was more than just taking a fashionable name or that of a mythical god [2] or folkloric figure [3], or because the Brittonic/Brythonic speaking Britons wouldn't take the name out of respect or awe for Arthur of Badon. It didn't stop them using the names Constantine or Caradoc (or variants thereof) on numerous occasions as well as mythical names such as Brân.
However, why those who were once his (or elements of the Britons') supposed enemy would take the name is the main question, whether Arthur was also an Hiberno-Briton or Hiberno-Britannian himself or not. But we don't think with a 6th century warrior's mind and perhaps his unsurpassed martial prowess was enough; or, they were not his enemy at the time, or not all the time, but allies against other Scotti or the Picts. After all, we actually have no evidence that those of the west of Scotland were the enemy in the late 5th century, or, at least, not to the Britannians below the Wall. (Bede says they didn't arrive in western Scotland until 500 AD, but the archæological evidence disagrees).
It may be odd for all the Hiberno-Britannias to have been the enemy at the time with regards to Arthur, considering they may have named their princes after him, yet those of the Cambro-Irish regions of southwest and northwest Wales seem to have been the enemy, or some of them, if the stories of (St.) Tewdric (c.Early-6th century) expelling Irish from southwest Wales and Cornwall are true[4] and if Cunedda (c.Early-5th century) from Manau Gododdin (southwest Fife, Scotland) did indeed fight against those of northwest and southwest Wales[5]. Even if he didn't, a later 'Welsh' king called Catguolaun Lauhir (Cadwallon Long Hand) of Venedos/Venedota/Venedotia (Gwynedd) supposedly did[6] … not that Venedotia existed in the 5th century.[7]
But there were Hibernians and there were Hibernians: raiders and settlers … and, possibly, Goidelic speaking Britannians. What we are not told is if these figures fought against Scotti raiders with the aid of settled Cambro-Irish, who were either laeti (warriors with family, settled in the area) or feoderati (federates fighting under their own leaders, not necessarily here to stay).
The Hibernian Dalriadians (of Dál Riata) of the Western Isles of Scotland did become the enemy of their British 'cousins' yet they still continued to take the name … and still the 'royal' Britons weren't using it as far as we can tell.
A simple answer, and one Richard Barber (The Figure of Arthur, 1972) came to, is that the legendary Arthur is based on one of these. (Barber obviously had a very sharp Occam's Razor!). This certainly makes more sense than Arthur being Ambrosius Aurelianus (Reno, 1994), Riothamus (Alcock, 1975), Vortigern, or even Catellus = Cattigern = Vortigern = Riothamus=Arthur (Pace, 2009). However, he can only be one of these other Arthurs, who we are exploring, if he was not of the 5th century but of the 6th or 7th and did not fight at Badon.
(I doubt the above alternatives for many reasons but mainly because there is neither evidence that the name 'Arthur' was an epithet[8], or that Riothamus[9] or Vortigern[10]weren't personal names).
Why the name Arthur?
First a cautionary note from Juliette Wood:
"Too often a priori [11] considerations of the importance of Arthur distort such considerations [of why other princes were given the name] (Bromwich 1963, 1975/6: 178–9; Padel 1994: 24; Green 2007) but the quest for a historical Arthur surfaces still in popular writing." (A companion to Arthurian literature, 2009, p.123)
There may indeed be a priori elements when it comes to this, but I'll try not to do so.
The use of the name Arthur by the Hiberno-Britannians/Cambro-Irish is explained as follows in Bart Jaski's paper, ''Early Irish examples of the name 'Arthur' (Journal of Celtic Philology, 2008):
"That a British name is found among members of an originally Irish dynasty can be explained by ties of marriage. The sources suggest that Áedán had a British grandmother, mother and wife, and such connections may have been common among other members of the ruling families of Dál Riata. In this way, British names could be adopted by dynasties with Irish roots." (p.94)
This may, of course, explain the giving of the name, but not why the Britons don't appear to have used it. (It may also not be a British name per se, but a British version of a Latin name). However, there could be other reasons behind the name being used, which I'll explore in the coming blogs, starting with Artúr (Arturius) mac Áedán of Dál Riata (Argyle, Scotland). Born ca 570.
(There is a Post Script to all these blogs about the pronunciation of the name Arthur, but it's worth reading it first. Click HERE).
Thanks for reading, and I look forward to your thoughts, comments and corrections,
[1] There was much less of a difference between Goidelic and Brittonic in the Late-5th century to what there is now between Gaelic and Welsh.
[2] Green, 2007. Thomas Green doesn't just argue for a mythical god figure in his book 'Concepts of Arthur'.
[3] Higham, 2002
[4] They may not be since they seem to come form the famous 18th century forger Iolo Morganwg.
[5] If this isn't an origin myth
[6] Cadwallon supposedly defeated the Irish on the Isle of Anglesey in 517AD.
[7] No one's certain when Venedota came into being but an inscribed stone at Penbryn still refers to it being the land off the Ordovices in the 6th century. Later it is called Venedos in a stone from Penmachno. The change may have happened when its focus changed from the mainland to Anglesey. (Dark, 2000, p.178)
[8] As you'll see later, there's no known etymology in Brittonic or Goidelic to make the name Arthur or any evidence the used animals as epithets.
[9] We know there was the very similar personal name Riocatus.
[10] The Goidelic version of the name Vortigern is well attested in Ireland.
[11] A priori: Latin for "from the former" or "from before", and in this instance refers to knowledge that is justified by arguments of a certain kind.


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Like many other parts of the new plan, it can be hard to understand. Even some pharmacists are confused.
"The bottom line is that the patient that's on the medication is the one that ends up suffering when things don't go right if they don't get their medication," said Jathan Payne, a pharmacist at Medicap Pharmacy.
He has been trying to help seniors make sense of their plans this week, but it hasn't been easy.
"It shouldn't be confusing to us, but it's very confusing to us, too. So, I don't really expect the general public to get it without any complications either," he explained.
Payne is doing exactly what he's been told to do: Call for help. But that's been a challenge, too.
"For one person yesterday, we were on hold 45 minutes on the phone for the first one and 35 minutes for the second half of the call because the number we were given the first time was wrong," he said.
Many people quickly signed up at the last minute.
"They told them that if you signed up by 11:59 PM on [December 31st], then you're active on January 1st. That's kind of a joke."
So now people are stuck with plans they may or may not need. With all this confusion, those who need the coverage the most may not see a difference.
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Figure 52 shows how the layers of TCP/IP and other popular network protocols relate differently to the OSI model.
In figure 52, each NOS manufacturer has implemented its own networking protocols to provide the required networking functions. These protocols operate as distinct programs or processes that the NOS use to transport data between the network nodes. Each set of programs is commonly referred as a protocol stack. It is important to note that although the underlying functionality of each of these protocol stacks is similar, the implementation within each NOS is unique.
A client application sends data down its protocol stack, passing through each of the protocols and interfaces. Information necessary to forward the application data to its destination is added by the programs operating at each level. At the receiving side, the data packets traverse a similar stack of protocols and programs, this time in reverse. Starting at the physical layer, the packet passed through each successive layer until it reaches the top of the stack at the relevant application process. At each layer, the information appended by the different protocols is examined so that the host can forward the packet to its final destination. For the host to accomplish this, both the client and the host need to run the same program at each level. If the server received a data packet that contained protocol information generated from a program not in its protocol stack, it would obviously not be able to understand the contained information.
Figure 53 provides a generic illustration of a data packet moving through the different protocol layers of the OSI model.
Each subsequent layer, additional protocol information is appended to the original data packet. At the host side, the protocol information is stripped away layer by layer to finally leave the application data.
Figure 54 shows a more specific example of an application packet moving through a TCP/IP network.
Operating Dual Protocol Stacks:
The biggest problems in providing multiprotocol support to network clients relate to the operation of the interface at both the top and the bottom of the protocol stack.
At the top of the stack, applications are generally written to function through the use of a specific network protocol. The application developer then needs to write different version of the application for it to operate using different network protocols. It is possible, however, for developers to overcome these issues by writing applications based on a common or standard interface such as NetBIOS, WinSock, or BSD sockets. It then becomes the problem of the implemented networking protocol to offer support for these interfaces.
Similar interpretability problems are found at the protocol stack, the use of a standard interface offers a possible solution. Each distinct networking solution offers its own protocol drivers to communicate with the installed network interface card. For example, this means, that if you loaded a separate NIC driver for both your NetWare stack and your TCP/IP stack, each driver program would assume that it had complete control over the installed NIC. The result would be that as either driver attempted to access the NIC it could corrupt any communication being carried out by the other program.
The solution to this problem requires that you load a single device driver to interface directly with the NIC and that this driver provides simultaneous support to all the installed protocol stacks. Two possible solutions have been developed to provide this support. The first is known as the Network Driver Interface Specification, and the second is the Open Datalink Interface. The implementation of either of these standards enables you to effectively provide multiprotocol support, enabling you to load more than one network protocol on a single workstation.
Network Driver Interface Standard (NDIS):
The NDIS specification was written to provide an NIC with the capability to simultaneously support multiple protocol stacks through the use of a single NIC device driver.
The specification defines three main components:
Media Access Control (MAC) driver: This is a device driver written by the vendors of the NIC that directly interfaces with the NIC hardware.
Upper-Level Protocol driver: This is a device driver written by the NOS vendor that provides the required functionality and interface support for the upper-layer protocols.
Protocol manager program: This is a manager or control program that co-ordinates the joining or binding of the preceding two programs to provide the completed protocol stack support. This program is called PROTMAN.DOS or PROTMAN.OS2, depending on the client operating system employed.
The initialisation of the NDIS environment starts with the protocol manager, which reads a configuration file, called PROTOCOL.INI, and stores the contained configuration in a predefined structure in an area of memory known as configuration memory.
As each of the other device drivers are loaded, they issue requests to the protocol manager for their specific configuration details. The protocol manager provides this information by indicating to each driver where it can find the configuration memory. The drivers then access this area of memory, which provides them with the details they need in order to initialise.
After the MAC driver and all the required protocol drivers have been loaded, the protocol manager must connect all the drivers together. This process is known as binding and is initiated by a program called NETBIND. The principal function of NETBIND is to issue the BindAndStart directive to the protocol manager. This indicates that all the drivers and protocols to form the necessary protocol stacks. The protocol manager should initiates communication with the MAC driver by issuing the IniatiateBind directive to each of the protocols that was loaded. Each of the protocols binds to the MAC driver with an indicated vector value. The MAC driver can then multiplexed between each of the loaded protocols based on this vector value.
Figure 55 shows the protocol structure resulting from the binding initiated by the NETBIND program.
Open Datalink Interface (ODI):
The ODI specification is similar in structure and functionality to NDIS. The ODI specification was developed as a means of providing client and server support for network protocols alongside its native networking protocol, IPX.
The ODI specification references the following components:
Multiple Link Interface Drivers (MLID): These drivers are similar in functionality to the MAC drivers specified by NDIS. They provide a device interface to the installed NIC within the client or the server.
Link Support Layer (LSL) interface: This interface manages the interaction between the installed MLID and the various installed upper-layer protocols. References within the LSL are made to redirect traffic from the MLID to the specified upper-layer protocol.
Upper-Level Protocol driver: This is a device driver that allows for the integration of other network protocols and their support within the NetWare environment.
Configuration and protocol loading within an ODI environment are controlled via the net.cfg file on the workstation. The first program to load is the LSL driver, which provides a basis for the binding of upper-layer protocols and for the loading of the NIC drivers. The file net.cfg contains information relating to the installed NIC driver, or MLID, and the LAN frame type support that is required. After the MLID has been installed, the upper-layer protocol drivers can be loaded to interface individually onto the LSL.
Listing 1 shows an example ODI dual protocol stack configuration. It indicates the loading of both the IPXODI driver, for IPX support, and the TCP/IP driver to provide a TCP/IP protocol stack.
REM Load LSL driver
REM Load MLID driver, which reference NET.CFG for its configuration
REM Load IPX upper layer ODI compliant driver
REM Load TCP/IP upper layer ODI compliant driver
REM Load redirector program
REM TCP/IP and IPX stacks loaded, continue with login routines
link driver 3c509
frame ethernet_803.2
frame ethernet_snap
frame ethernet_II
frame ethernet_803.3
It is also possible to provide for NDIS-compatible environments within the ODI specification. This is provided through inclusion of a program called ODINSUP.COM. This program provides support for upper-layer protocol drivers written to the NDIS specification to interface directly with the installed ODI MLID. In other words, the NDIS protocols bind to the ODI MLID, via ODINSUP.COM, bypassing the installed LSL module. You might undertake this method if the TCP/IP stack you wanted to load supplied only an NDIS-compliant driver.
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Bowling Green, OH (Sports Network) - Spencer Keith rushed for the go-ahead touchdown in the fourth quarter, as 25th-ranked Kent State escaped with a 31-24 victory over Bowling Green on Saturday at Doyt L. Perry Field.
Keith threw for 92 yards, one touchdown and one interception on 9-of-17 passing while Dri Archer had a huge day on the ground for the Golden Flashes, running for 242 yards and two scores on 18 carries.
Eric Adeyemi caught a touchdown pass in the triumph for Kent State (10-1, 7-0 MAC), which has won nine straight since a loss to Kentucky in September.
Matt Schilz threw for 355 yards and three scores on 22-of-44 passing but was picked off three times for the Falcons (7-4, 5-2). Chris Gallon caught 10 passes for 213 yards and two touchdowns, while Shaun Joplin caught five balls for 74 yards and a touchdown in the setback.


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New Delhi: Expressing concern over the reported beating-up of non-local students, mostly from Bihar, at National Institute of Technology in Manipur, LJP leader Chirag Paswan has sought Home
Shillong: The Centre will sign a peace accord with two rebel outfits operating in the five districts of Garo Hills in Meghalaya next week, a union home ministry official said Wednesday.
Agartala: The Tripura government has decided to bring onion and potato under the Essential Commodities Act (ECA), 1955, to check price rise, state Information Minister Bhanu Lal Saha said on
Gangtok: Independent candidate RN Chamling won Rangang-Yangang Assembly seat by 708 votes defeating his nearest Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) nominee Kumari Mangar in Sikkim.
Agartala: CPI-M candidate Prabhat Chowdhury trounced his nearest INC candidate Mailafru Mog by 15,971 votes in the Manu (ST) Assembly constituency of Tripura.
While CPI-M candidate
New Delhi: Former army chief and now union minister Gen VK Singh (retd) Monday said Mizoram was not a "dumping ground" for governors and those who resigned did so on their own.
Itanagar: Expressing concern over the deteriorating law and order situation in Arunachal Pradesh, particularly capital Itanagar, the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) on Monday organised a
Kohima: The interim order by Kohima bench of Gauhati High Court had neither revoked the disqualification of the three defecting MLAs by Nagaland Assembly Speaker Chotisuh Sazo nor allowed them
Imphal: The Union Home Ministry has proposed raising of two battalions of Border Security Force (BSF) and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) comprising surrendered militants of Assam and Manipur, an
Shillong: A militant was killed Sunday in Meghalaya in a gunbattle with security forces, police said.
The hour-long gunfight between Garo militants and Special Weapons and Tactics (
Imphal: Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel would be deployed "immediately" at the complex of National Institute of Technology (NIT) at Langol area in Manipur's Imphal West district
Agartala: Two school girls allegedly committed suicide by hanging from a tree after they were scolded by their guardians and hostel superintendent for using mobile phones in school premises
Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki and Home Minister Tanga Byaling have assured visible actions to improve the deteriorating law and order in the Itanagar capital complex.
Agartala: An employee of Tripura education department was arrested from West Bengal Saturday for embezzling over Rs.4 crore from a central education scheme, police said.
"We have arrested
Agartala: Two teenaged girls committed suicide after their hostel superintendent and parents rebuked them for using mobile phones, police said here Saturday.
Three class 10 girls of the
Gangtok: The Rangang-Yangang Aassembly constituency in Sikkim saw heavy balloting Saturday.
Election officials said nearly 73 percent of the 11,700 electors had cast their votes till 3
Agartala: By-election for Manu (ST) assembly seat in Tripura passed off peacefully on Saturday with record heavy turnout.
Joint Chief Electoral Officer(JCEO) Debasish Modak said "
Shillong: A chilling video has come to the fore in Meghalaya, which shows alleged militants of the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) mercilessly thrashing suspected "police informers".
Kohima: The Kohima Bench of Gauhati High Court on Friday granted interim stay on the disqualification of three Nagaland MLAs by the Speaker.
The court passed the stay order after
Aizawl: Meghalaya Governor Krishan Kant Paul, who was appointed to take additional gubernatorial charge of Mizoram and Manipur, would be sworn-in as the Governor of Mizoram on September 16 at
Imphal: The Manipur government has asked all educational institutes to close for an indefinite period until further orders in view of widespread protests by various social organisations
Agartala: A tribal-based political party has stepped up its agitation for a separate state to be carved out of Tripura.
The Indigenous People`s Front of Tripura (IPFT), which
New Delhi: Meghalaya Governor KK Paul was on Thursday given the additional charge of Manipur and Mizoram following the resignation of VK Duggal.
President Pranab
President Pranab Mukherjee, according
Agartala: Insurgents of banned National Liberation Front of Tripura have allegedly kidnapped two tribal youths from a remote hamlet near the Indo-Bangla border in Gomati district, the police
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Reece off to a good start; Allen impressed
Marcel Reece still won't come out and say he wants some of since-departed Michael Bush's rushing attempts. But the versatile fullback made a trio of impressive catches Tuesday and was showing a nice burst whenever he had the ball. He seems poised to earn some more carries, especially in short-yardage situations. "I have been impressed […] [Read More]
Bartell, Curry and Lechler miss first practice
Starting cornerback Ron Bartell (hamstring), starting linebacker Aaron Curry (knee) and punter Shane Lechler (knee) watched the first training camp practice of the Reggie McKenzie/Dennis Allen era Monday morning at the Napa Marriott. Coach Allen said all three were day-to-day injuries but Curry was the only one put on the Preseason Physically Unable to Perform […] [Read More]
Branch checks in for his meal, culture change
Safety Tyvon Branch stopped by after his dinner, and said there is a lot of change blowing in the wind at training camp already. And the Raiders only got here at the Napa Marriott Saturday. "With the new GM and the whole new regime, they've come in with a new mindset," Branch said. "The coaching […] [Read More]
Wisniewski and Moore expected to practice Monday
Raiders coach Dennis Allen said Sunday that he expected center Stefen Wisniewski to practice for the first time since offseason shoulder surgery and receiver Denarius Moore (hamstring) to also be back on the field Monday. Moore missed the last two days of a minicamp last month. Allen won't have the rest of the injury updates […] [Read More]
Sunday sitdown with coach Dennis Allen
The beat writers sat down with coach Dennis Allen Sunday afternoon for a chat, the day before the team's first training camp practice in Napa. Here is a complete transcript. We'll have a separate post coming up with the highlights, for those who have something better to do than read this whole thing: Q: Do […] [Read More]
Criner signs, two rookies added
As we reported Friday, rookie wide receiver Juron Criner showed up today and signed his contract, in plenty of time to make meetings and Monday's first practice. The fifth-round pick was the last Raiders player to sign and the last non-first-round pick to sign in the NFL. There were reports of a $14,000 difference in […] [Read More]
Bergstrom signed, sealed and ready for camp
Third-round pick Tony Bergstrom signed Friday and showed up with the rest of the team in Napa on Saturday "It was hashed out a long time ago," he told reporters. "I'm an old school guy. I like to do things in person, and I think that kind of fits in well with our organization. It […] [Read More]
Bergstrom signs and Criner about to (updated)
Raiders third-round pick Tony Bergstrom agreed to terms Friday and fifth-round pick Juron Criner will soon, and "will definitely be in by Sunday," according to a person in the know. Bergstrom and Criner were two of only five rookies still unsigned in the NFL — and the other three are all first-rounders (Justin Blackmon, Ryan […] [Read More]
Assistant OL coach Wisniewski resigns due to personal reasons
Assistant offensive line coach Steve Wisniewski has resigned his position due to personal reasons, the Raiders announced Thursday. Wisniewski will continue to assist the Raiders as an ambassador. He joined the coaching staff last season, and his nephew, Stefen, is the team's starting center. The move leaves running back coach Kelly Skipper and senior offensive assistant […] [Read More]
Louis Murphy traded to Carolina Panthers (updated)
The Raiders traded receiver Louis Murphy to the Carolina Panthers this morning for a conditional seventh-round draft pick, in what looks more and more like a salary dump. He caught just 15 passes last year and was due to make $1.26 million this season. The emergence of rookies Juron Criner and Rod Streater, along with the […] [Read More]
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10 cancelled games we wish had been released
We take a look through the vaults of games that never saw the light of day.
With the recent reappearance of a character we thought was lost forever (let's face it - Duke Nukem Forever had become the butt of a long-running joke)... MSN Games counts down a number of potentially brilliant moments of gaming magic that are to be forever lost in the ravages of space and time.
Eyes down to learn the whys and wherefores of some of the more interesting games forever destined to rot in gaming limbo.
If developers Sierra Online were to be believed it was to feature graphics to rival the TV show, space battles more epic than any seen during the show's five season run and finally and most importantly a proper and easy to control 'Newtonian Gravity'. For us fans of titles such as Freespace II, Independence War & the awesome X-Wing series; surely the greatest game never made?
Check out a fresh five minutes of gameplay from id Software's upcoming shooter, RAGE.
- Sea Legends: Phantasmal Light
Help Jane figure out the mysteries of an eerie island and reunite with Mike after a terrible yacht accident!
- Solitaire Mystery: Stolen Power
The oldest deck of cards in the world has been stolen! Find all of the cards and save the world!
- Dark Tales - Premature Burial
Step into Dark Tales - Edgar Allan Poe's The Premature Burial , where Julien has hired the world famous Detective Dupin to investigate the sudden death of his beloved Victorine. After her passing, Victorine's husband, who she has no love for, has her buried incredibly quickly, making Julien uneasy.
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Student of BBA in United International University.Mar 4th, 2013


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It can't just be that all the good ones are taken
It's pretty common knowledge that we've lost, gained, and then lost again more than a few souls recently. What's not so widely known? What one of the lost souls was doing last night. Funny, you'd think you wouldn't go off making out with a girl when you just gave up your soul to save a different one. Especially not one who's boyfriend helped make it possible for you to get her back in the first place. Mmm, the drama is simply delightful. It's been such a long time since I've seen such a tangled storyline!
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