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We Shall Rumor On...
- Ricky Nolasco got shelled versus the Padres last night, one of the teams rumored to be in on him in trade talks...whether that will stunt his value or not remains to be seen, but it certainly didn't help it in any way. After Garza got himself injured before the Cubs could deal him last season, you kind of hope a deal could be had before Garza's next start on Wednesday versus the A's.
- Buster says the Dbacks and Cubs did talk Jeff Samardzija and the Cubs asked for Archie Bradley and/or Tyler Skaggs and then the talking was done. I presume it must have been both, as he then tweets that the "perception" is that the DBacks would move Tyler Skaggs in the right deal.
- The Cubs were among many teams scouting Cuban pitcher Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez...rumors be it'll cost upwards of 4/40M (or more) to sign the 26-year old Cuban lefty. The Red Sox and Dodgers seem to be the main competition.
- Speaking of international signings, Baseball America has been big on suggesting the Cubs will look to add some international pool money in some of these trades. Theo said it's something that could happen, but the Cubs' international signing "plan" doesn't require it.
- Nick Cafardo says 3 teams are showing interest in Carlos Marmol. There's always the possibility the Cubs may get someone else's cast off while still paying Marmol the rest of his salary minus the pro-rated version of the minimum.
- Last and certainly least, the Giants are looking for a RH outfield bat...someone like Alfonso Soriano circa 2012.
Jon [email protected]
Jon [email protected]
#orioles are interested in garza now after being lukewarm earlier, but so far they believe price is 2 high. #cubs
Orioles not interested in including anything of real value. So no surprise.
I think the O's are nuts to
I think the O's are nuts to not take Garza and, say, Russell for Bundy, another decent prospect (maybe Josh Hader, maybe someone a little lower) and a few mid-level prospects. Bundy is now undergoing TJ surgery, there is never a guarantee he will be the same.
Personally if the Cubs could deal Garza, one (or more if needed) of Feldman/Wood/Gregg, Samardzija and Russell and end up with Bundy and Bradley (assuming AZ backed out because we asked for both), the upside would be amazing. Obviously teams don't give up Bundy and Bradley easily, but Samardzija is relatively young and performing well (and has some club control) relative to normal prospects traded and Bundy is undergoing TJ surgery. I don't actually think this is impossible and, if it were possible, our potential upside if Bradley hits his potential and Vizcaino and Bundy came back at full strength from surgery would be a mighty top 3 staff.
F the O's. Garza is a
F the O's. Garza is a difference-maker and needs to go to a team that has actual prospects to trade back - someone like Texas, Arizona, Tampa, Boston, San Diego.
I'm still waiting for that
I'm still waiting for that Brian Roberts deal to get wrapped up
Not sure the Cubs should make
Not sure the Cubs should make that trade. Pie is going to be a star!
The Orioles are shopping for
The Orioles are shopping for Garza with a Shawn Camp budget.
I still hate Saturday
I still hate Saturday blackouts. I'm still happy this is the last season for Saturday blackouts.
Anyone know why Sweeney came
Anyone know why Sweeney came out?
Sounds like he hit the wall
Sounds like he hit the wall making a catch. Cubs CF is a dangerous job.
Didn't look too bad.
Didn't look too bad.
per Roto...
per Roto...
Ryan Sweeney left Saturday's game against the Mariners with rib soreness.
Sweeney hurt his ribs when he crashed into the outfield wall in the third inning of Saturday's game. The Cubs say he's day-to-day, so it likely won't require a DL stint.
It really didn't look that
It really didn't look that rough.
Video for those who missed it: http://wapc.mlb.com/chc/play/?content_id=28461725&...
The Giants are looking around
The Giants are looking around for a RHed hitting outfielder.
when I first read the above I thought it meant red-headed hitting outfielder and immediately thought...
Matt Murton is available.
348/397/504 this season.
if DFA's Marmol for Francoeur
if DFA's Marmol for Francoeur happens, Jedstein will be criticized for collecting OFs. Collect em all!
Bogey throws out the ancient Mariner at the plate. On to the 9th.
Walk to Hank White? Extra
Walk to Hank White? Extra innings. At least they have to bat the pitcher and have no one left on the bench. What could go wrong?
I dunno who the Fox color guy
I dunno who the Fox color guy but he kept reaming Parker for not going after the hitters more. "Throw the fastball, throw the fastball!!!"
Hey, maybe Soriano is playing
Hey, maybe Soriano is playing his way into tradeable. Nice work.
A short section on Rizzo's
A short section on Rizzo's bad luck hitting balls at people later in the story here:
I also feel like his slump
I also feel like his slump started after his contract signing though haven't looked at #s to back it up.
He says all the right stuff
He says all the right stuff but you can't help but feel some added pressure -it's just human nature. I feel pretty confident he'll sort it out. I'm much more concerned about Castro than Rizzo. Having said that, Castro still is young, and his current metamorphosis into Neifi Perez is hopefully just a result of him trying a little too much night life.
Maybe Starlin needs a sitdown
Maybe Starlin needs a sitdown with Kane about growing up.
Nick Cafardo/Boston Globe,
Nick Cafardo/Boston Globe, Sunday baseball column...Quite a Large Cub related portion:
Epstein has the pieces to make things happen
Theo Epstein's Cubs may be in the best position to make deals at the deadline, but it appears he is ready to strike with Matt Garza sooner rather than later.
Given the way Garza has pitched lately (two earned runs in his last 22 innings over three starts), it appears he will be dealt well ahead of the deadline, according to major league sources. The Orioles seem to be a very good fit, given that Garza is battle-tested in the AL East.
The Cubs were hoping to trade Garza by spring training, but then he suffered an oblique injury and couldn't start the season on time. He had to go through rehab starts, and then go out and show he was healthy.
He's shown that, and it might behoove the Cubs to deal him before there's another setback.
One NL GM said, "There's a lot of competition for him. I think Theo is getting inundated with calls for him, so he's probably the hot name."
Garza should bring the Cubs three players, including two top prospects.
Besides Garza, there's been a lot of interest in Nate Schierholtz, who entered Saturday with a .284 average, 11 homers, 33 RBIs, and 19 doubles. Schierholtz also has played an excellent outfield. The Cubs signed Schierholtz to a one-year, $2.25 million deal last offseason, and it appears the flip price is going to work in their favor.
The Cubs also have veteran righthander Scott Feldman, whom they also plan to trade after signing him to a one-year, $6 million deal. Feldman is 7-6 with a 3.46 ERA. Look for the Orioles to be a bidder for his services. And there's always Alfonso Soriano and David DeJesus, and out of the bullpen, Kevin Gregg and James Russell.
You don't hear much about Soriano anymore, but he's in the mix if someone wants him. The Cubs are hoping to get pitching prospects in these deals. While they appear to be set for good positional players in the minors, they lack pitching depth, and that's where Epstein would like to score a bonanza with his veteran players.
Apropos of nothing
1. Ryan Sweeney has hit four homers for the Cubs.
Update on 9
2. Carlos Marmol, RHP, Cubs — The Cubs had received a few nibbles on Marmol after designating him for assignment. According to one National League GM, "A change of scenery would do him good. He was being booed quite a bit in Chicago and he had to get out of that environment. He still has very good shutdown stuff that could play well in another environment."
R.Sweeney fractured ribs...15
R.Sweeney fractured ribs...15 day DL...expected out 4-8 weeks.
borbon and bogus manning CF until dejesus/sweeney gets back...wonder who's gonna get called up...probably sappy.
Brittle bone disease.
Brittle bone disease.
Where is contract status info
Where is contract status info being stored now? I'm having trouble finding a link above...
Navarro is DH today. Any idea
Navarro is DH today. Any idea who backup catcher is? I vote for Borbon - maybe we can discover something he's good at.
it's all about doubles today.
it's all about doubles today.
cubs up 3-0, top 2nd.
Oh, I was thinking Phil had a
Oh, I was thinking Phil had a list somewhere. Specifically looking for years left (not some much money owed). Thanks.
this bullpen is dildos.
this bullpen is dildos.
7-6 game...bottom 8th, 0 outs.
s.camp is still a cub...c.marmol gets DFA'd because some drunk assholes won't quit boo'ing every time they see him.
they just brought on h.rondon
they just brought on h.rondon to put out this fire with a man on 1st, 1 out...fun times.
wild pitch, walk, popout, groundout...and the cubs escape the 8th.
...and gregg nails down the
...and gregg nails down the save.
c.marmol gets DFA'd because
c.marmol gets DFA'd because some drunk assholes won't quit boo'ing every time they see him.
And that was in the clubhouse.
Shawn Camp. Meet DFA.
Shawn Camp. Go DFA Go.
(lyrics by Steve Goodman)
m.bowden's last 6 AAA
m.bowden's last 6 AAA appearances...
8ip 3h 1bb 9k, 0er
overall... 14.2ip 12h 3bb 21k, 5er
...just saying.
Who want them?
Who want them?
Sale, Crain , Reed & Thornton
Anything with a bat? Keep it
From a Sullivan article:
From a Sullivan article:
The Cubs figure to keep right fielder Nate Schierholtz, who will be eligible for arbitration in 2014
I'd bet on them rethinking that, if the right offer came along.
Always good for a non
Always good for a non-contending team to hang onto a player having the best year of his career whose performance never indicated he will ever have these numbers or trade value ever again because he is eligible for arbitration next year.
Perhaps Sully got this from a source and is trying to justify it, but truly this makes no sense to me. If someone is willing to pay decent value for Schierholtz, I would hope that his arbitration in 2014 would not be a factor, at any level, as to whether we keep him or trade him; I would much rather see a decent prospect we get for Nate (perhaps a set-up man to fill Camp's role) and Brett Jackson/Junior Lake/anyone else playing Nate's OF role in August than Schierholtz putting up a fine season to drive the Cubs into a strong 4th place finish.
Wait, are you trying to say
Wait, are you trying to say that Todd Hollandsworth did not repeat his .939 OPS 2004 season in 2005?!?!? WHAAAAT?!?!?
That being said, I like Schierholtz. He won't repeat this performance next year, but he seems to play decent baseball without doing anything stupid on a daily basis. In other words, he feels like anti-Cubbery, and he is cheap, and it might be good to have that around next year as the Cubs continue to develop some of these young guys.
But if they trade him and get something, I have no problem with that either.
I just assume that it's all
I just assume that it's all posturing to try to get the most value they can for him.
I'd consider Sullivan's body
I'd consider Sullivan's body of work in evaluating his evaluation. Schierholtz seems like a great guy for a contending team to have around. He's the type of guy who might be one of those unknown playoff heroes that seems to pop up every year. If I had a contending team and I needed an outfielder, I'd definitely roll the dice on this guy.
Chris [email protected]
Chris [email protected]
Hearing from #Cubs source that they are talking to two teams about Carlos Marmol, trying to get a deal done.
Cubs pay all of Marmol's contract and get Internation Free Agent cap space in return?
Q-MAN: Yes. The Cubs could
Q-MAN: Yes. The Cubs could trade Carlos Marmol for another club's ISBP Signing Bonus Value (SBV) and agree to pay all of Marmol's remaining salary as part of the deal.
An SBV can only be traded for a player or players. It cannot be sold or exchanged for cash or other considerations. However, cash can be exchanged if it is used to offset the salary or salaries of players acquired in return for the SBV.
Tomorrow (Tuesday) is the first day that a 2013-14 SBV can be traded because July 2nd is the beginning of the new International Signing Period, and an SBV can be traded only during the International Signing Period (July 2nd through June 15th of the following season) to which it has been assigned.
BTW, the 2013-14 International Signing Period is the first one where SBVs can be traded, which is why there have not been any trades involving ISBP SBVs yet.
Remember, when a club acquires an ISBP SBV and increases its ISBP for that Intenational Signing Period, it only acquires the right to spend that money (the value of the SBV) without penalty, not the money itself.
Thanks Phil. I hope you're
Thanks Phil. I hope you're doing okay in all the heat down there.
Heyman saying the same thing as the kid reporter's tweet.
Jon [email protected]
heard there are "three or four" teams showing some interest in carlos marmol. actually wasn't terrible in non-closer role
Q-MAN: The biggest obstacle
Q-MAN: The biggest obstacle in trading Carlos Marmol is that he has a limited NTC that allows him to name (in advance) five MLB clubs to which he will accept a trade. So even if the Cubs find a trading partner, that club would have to either be one of the clubs to which he will accept a trade, or he would have to waive his NTC.
And there really is no reason for Marmol to waive the NTC, because having been Designated for Assignment, he knows (as a player with at least five years of MLB Service Time) that he can't be sent to the minors without giving his permission in advance (so outrighting him and hoping he will elect free-agency and give up what remains of his contract isn't an option), which means either he gets traded or he gets released (and if he is released, the Cubs are on the hook for what remains of his 2013 salary minus the prorated portion of the MLB minimum salary if and when he signs with a new club).
Also, if he gets released he can take his time and shop around and then eventualy choose which team to sign with (instead of the Cubs making the decision for him), and maybe even score a 2014 contract (not very likely but still theoretically possible) as part of the deal.
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Even from an on-field perspective, Torres is a 19-year-old beating up High-A pitching who also plays a great SS. Even if he never develops a legit MLB power stroke, he's still an obvious 4-tool guy with a very high floor. Sucks to trade away his next 6-8 years for a closer, albeit a great one.
"Like the Chapman deal for Cubs from on-field POV, wish I didn't now have to feel lousy following an otherwise likable Cubs team." @jonahkeri
pretty much sums up my feelings
You mean Yankees?
Cards lose!
You do have a point. The TheoJed certainly would need to address this in a transparent way. Milton Bradley was no help to the team.
FWIW, the Cubs would get a compensation draft pick between the 1st & 2nd rounds (around #35) if they extend a Qualifying Offer to Chapman post-2016 (probably about $17M), Chapman declines, and then he signs with another MLB club before next year's draft.
This all assumes Chapman doesn't want to be a free agent and possibly sign a $20MM+/year deal. We all know free agents get overpaid, sometimes dramatically (Hello, JayHey!). Not sure why Chapman would agree to the extension. If i'm is agent, I would tell him I could get I'm a $100M deal as a FA.
I'll root for the uniform and imagine it's left-handed Rod Beck or Randy Myers out there I suppose.
Amen to this. I guess it's gonna happen and I'm gonna have to suck it up but I really despise domestic abusers with every bone in my body and cannot stand them on any team I root for.
I just prefer they don't acquire players that choke their wives/girlfriends.
So you'd rather go with Blown Save guy, when you can trade a prospect who is blocked for one piece that could get you over the top to the Big Dance? That is pretty old thinking. This is not a move that they cannot recover from if it goes south. But the upside is potentially historic.
I'd prefer it not happen too.
it's a hell of a blockbuster, but it's for a guy who pitches 1/3rd of a season at an extreme premium considering the guy being traded and if the early extension $$$ rumors are true.
it's one of those things that is bringing a guy at the top his game, but something is nagging me that this trade piece could have been put to better use.
a huge part of me is all "hell yeah, top of the line producer"...another part of me is "hmm, that for that?"
Still don't want. Kinda hope they can't work out the extension.
obviously not, and I'm sure they did their homework...just hope they have some better answers than the Yankees
Chapman 12+ Career WAR. Currently 4.7:1 k-BB. With Rondon/Chapman/Strop/Nathan/Montgomery/Wood...Its the best pen I can recall other than Sutter or Lee Smith handling things themselves.
Its gonna suck if he gets injured, and it appears he's not the greatest of characters.
But, he'll have another Cuban to hang out with on the team.


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I am not able to create a Selenium test case to automate clicking on Google Maps (specifically, creating markers by single-clicking on the map).
Record function in IDE
The "Record" function records my mouse click as

 click	 //div[@id='map_canvas']/div[3]/div/div/div[4]/div/div/div[5]

When executing the command, this not only places the marker way outside the visible map view, but it is also not reliable on page refresh because the GMap nested div structure changes every time.
Here it was suggested to use clickAt with the outside div's div, like so:

 clickAt	 //div[@id='map_canvas']/div/div[1]	 (400,300)

This does not work at all. I have tried every variation of click, clickAt, and mouseDown/mouseUp that I can think of, but nothing seems to register.
I do know that Google has released their Selenium test suites, but I cannot figure out how to use it to my advantage. Any help would be appreciated!
Edit: It seems to be that the reason Google's approach (and all the other approaches that I've found) don't work is because I am using v3 of Google's Maps API. Google's own Selenium tests seem to be using v2.

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Ś Gov. Tom Corbett is poised to receive a re-election endorsement from the Republican State Committee, but that doesnĺt necessary mean the party is united behind him.
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Corbett spoke at a Rotary Leadership dinner in Blue Bell this week.
Some conservatives resent Corbettĺs newly signed $2.3 billion transportation funding program because they say it violates his 2010 campaign pledge not to raise taxes or fees.
Business groups and others supporting Corbettĺs re-election bid say heĺs got plenty of major accomplishments to boast about.
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Discussion in 'OM Archive' started by verbatim, Jul 15, 2013.
I'll reveal it when the voting is done, wouldn't want my alternatives getting banned, right?
Alright. First and foremost, I think it's important that, for now at least, we only remove strategies that attempt to win outside the game. Double Chansey does not do this, and should not be banned.
Second of all, Leppa Berry has genuine competitive applications that do not involve IRL factors. They might not be fun, but they DO win inside the game (i.e. infinite PP for yourself). To my mind, banning Leppa Berry is off the table for this reason. (Protip: If you can't kill, phaze, perish song, knock off, or trick your opponent's Leppa Harvest Shuckle, just concede. This is different from the Dickrachi situation because you WILL actually lose in about 200 turns, regardless of how much time you have).
Rather than trying to anticipate every possible variation of infinite turn traps and then debating whether or not the components of those traps have legitimate applications (Heal Pulse might not, but Pain Split does), I propose that we simply treat all such tactics as timestalling. If someone creates a lock which prevents the battle from progressing, a staff member would be justified in warning the offending player to continue the battle. If he or she does not, ban them.
I agree. Treat it as timestalling. The strategy has a use in PP stalling which is a legitimate strategy. However, if they keep the game from progressing after the PP Stall, then simply treat it case-by-case. If this technique was being used on a larger scale and out of control, then a clause would be necessary.
Personally, I'm against banning Leppa Berry for the sole reason that strategies using Leppa Berry can be effective in winning you the game. Harvest Shuckle is a set geared towards very long games and is gimmicky/trolly, but unless you have Perish Song it effectively guarantees a win for the Shuckle player. This is the fundamental difference between Heal Pulse strategies and Harvest Shuckle strategies - the latter is a strategy built to win (at the cost of a big chunk of time), but the former is a strategy designed to draw out games indefinitely and allow neither player to win.
I would personally rather see all methods of trapping banned than anything on the poll, and not just because of these Heal Pulse strategies - even without Shadow Tag, trapping is still very much a strategy that allows a player to essentially win themselves the game while their opponent is helpless to stop it. Take the Jirachi-Spiritomb-Jirachi example Adrian Marin posted a while back. The user baits their opponent with a Simple Shell Smash Jirachi, then if/when the opponent brings in their Imposter to deal with it, Spiritomb comes in and traps Jirachi with Magnet Pull. The Imposter Jirachi meanwhile, with a moveset of Shell Smash / Aura Sphere / Psychic STAB / ineffective filler (possibly Plate Judgment) is absolutely helpless against Spiritomb while it uses Acupressure until Jirachi runs out of PP and begins to Struggle, at which point Spiritomb passes its boosts to a Prankster Jirachi with Stored Power / Aura Shere / Copycat / Substitute and sweeps through the opponent's team (Unaware? Not when Stored Power is essentially at 400+ BP.)
Our next example is with my old favorite: Magma Storm Deoxys-S. Sure, it's much more benign than Dickrachi and JSJ, but trapping via Magma Storm is still used for one specific reason - to give the user an inherent advantage over their opponent. Once the opponent is trapped, Deoxys can remove its ability and give it a much worse one in No Guard and switch out to a Pokemon that can take advantage of the opponent - whether it was a formerly Mold Breaker Deoxys getting a little hazard-happy or a Contrary Dialga trying to set up, it could be taken advantage of at little cost to the user.
One last example - I onced faced a nasty Hail stall team that revolved around a Truant Delibird using Block, Entrainment, some boosting move and Baton Pass to simultaneously set up and whittle away the opponent's HP with Hail damage. I can't say this is exactly prominent though. On the general subject of trapping, several users have also posted about trapping in the forums for official metagames - one of the biggest issues surrounding Landorus-I (good riddance) and Keldeo is that their counters are usually weak to either SR or Pursuit, and there is strong support for a Dugtrio ban in ADV OU as well.
Now with Pursuit I understand that it's only pseudo-trapping and it doesn't really have any good users in BH, and as a result it might not count, but I honestly believe that all forms of trapping - temprary or permanent - are inherently broken in Balanced Hackmons and should be banned. Regardless of how they are used, they give the user an unfair edge over the opponent to the point of auto-losing or resulting in a draw.
Also, I would like to add that Adrian explained one of his locks that does not require a Leppa Berry. I'm not going to post it, because I promised I wouldn't to get him to tell me. However, I am going to say that this further reinforces the idea that the tactic itself, rather than the component mechanics, should be banned.
Also, in response to Arctic's post, this simply isn't true. Trapping is not broken in Balanced Hackmons. Ways to deal with that Jirachi include Shedinja, another Spiritomb/Sableye, Chansey (assuming a sub wasn't passed), a magic guard focus sash heart swap user, etc. Some of these things aren't used (although Chansey is always good and Shedinja is extremely popular atm) but then again, neither is that strategy. If you truly believe it's broken, I'll be happy to run some test battles against you on the server with the team I used to top the ladder (i.e. not a team designed to beat it specifically).
Adrian's strategy simply means that it's a setup sweeper that you shouldn't count on Chansey for. Think of it this way: if Chansey didn't exist, would that set be broken? It's simply a creative team that packs a very hard counter for the biggest enemy of the average BH sweeper: Chansey
Honestly I see that Deoxys more as set-up fodder than anything else. You might be successful at getting a free turn the first, but a free turn is only really meaningful if you have a giant nuke such as specs Palkia or banded Darmanitan in their respective weathers. For the rest of the game that Deoxys is simply death fodder. The lack of effect a free turn has is also why volturn is almost unseen in BH.
Delibird is completely walled by magic bounce.
Trapping moves are hard countered by phazing, volt switch/u-turn, or simply being able to apply significant enough offensive pressure onto the opponent. Everything other than fire spin and friends can add magic bounce to that list.
Okay, it's clear that the options presented in the poll are insufficient.
Here are possibilities I'm considering:
- Ban Leppa+Harvest, Leppa+Recycle, and Harvest+Entrainment
This is my preferred solution.
As far as I am currently aware, this is enough to stop any infinite Struggle strategy from being possible against the majority of teams (I might be wrong but I'm pretty sure this covers it) (and yes, Fool's Mate is still possible but no common team should fall for it).
This also has a side effect of stopping most other infinite loops, which is desirable and I doubt anyone will object.
This also has a side effect of stopping most infinite PP stalling strategies, which is more controversial and I can understand someone objecting to. I personally would like to see infinite PP stalling out of the game anyway; I like most stall but PP stall is just so slow and boring and not fun for either player... this is a good application of the "turns newcomers off the game."
The other option to keep infinite PP stalling in the game is to ban all methods of infinitely healing the opponent:
- Ban Heal Pulse, Pain Split, and Harvest+Entrainment
I don't think anyone thinks this is a good idea, though, because it bans Pain Split, which is used in much more legit strategies than infinite PP stall.
- Clause it: 16 Struggles in a row is now an automatic draw
This is probably the simplest solution.
It works, but I wanted to take the opportunity to ban infinite PP stall anyway. :|
The other problem is, of course, that this strategy will result in a draw, which isn't a very strong punishment. It prevents people from using the strategy to infinite-stall-troll, but it doesn't strongly discourage the strategy from being used, and it can still turn newcomers off.
Which leads to the alternative clause:
- Clause it: 16 Struggles in a row is now an automatic win
This is pretty funny, and in practice if you can Struggle 16 times without fainting, your opponent's not playing very well anyway: without your opponent's help, the main strategy here is Sun+Harvest+Sitrus, but to KO you before you can Struggle 16 times, your opponent only needs to deal 50% maxhp in 15 turns. Which, if they can't... they deserve to lose anyway.
By the way, in case it wasn't clear, things we aren't considering:
- Treat it like timerstalling, call a mod to force a tie
The timerstalling rule is already somewhat controversial, and in general mods are instructed to err on the side of "not guilty of timerstalling".
Calling a mod should not be a game mechanic, because very few players are aware that it's even a possibility. So this has a side effect of giving an advantage to players who know that calling a mod is an option. I don't want that specific kind of meta-knowledge to be relevant in a game.
Also, since most players don't know calling a mod is an option (and it's not like the staller's going to suggest it), it doesn't solve the main problem, anyway. And if you think it's a good idea, you might as well automate it by clausing it.
Harvest also needs to be banned with skill swap, though otherwise this seems like it would work.
How about we just dont ban anything, save Zarel some time. So if you get caught in an endless stall war a mod can just come and force tie right away, boom done. Plain and simple, no extra work needs to be done. Make a list off all the ways that you could go into endless stall and if your in game scenario is on that list then force tie. So no one can get around anything with specific bans and stuff. I think that's pretty easy and we can agree is fair. No one can argue about it. If someone makes something new and weird not on the list the mod can just force tie and then that strategy will be added. So yeah think that about raps things up hah
And im aware Zarel doesnt like this idea, I just think that its best and easiest :p
PS I think banning trapping is completely unfair. I came to this meta to display creativity and see other creative sets. That is what I enjoy doing and that is what makes things fun for me. Just because you get swept by a gimmick dosent mean it should be banned. That is part of the fun of BH. Someone thought up that idea and brought it to life and that is the beauty of BH in the first place. This whole thread is actually kind of lame to be honest. Just because people want to think outside the box and make things that are different that needs to be punished? I know the infinite game strategy is extremely lame and not fun at all. I would never use it because thats not my style but if you get caught then you get caught, you say GG my friend and you move on. Then you adapt and you beat it the next time. I dont really see why people cant do that, everyone always likes to sit and complain about things being op and this and that rather then just adapting and beating it. Thats the whole damn point of the game in general hah if you lose then you change to better yourself. Just like in life. Like we cant knitpick and ban all this stuff. Its not broken because it can be avoided. So i know you are gunna ban whatever in the end. Im just trying to say that maybe everyone should just think about that
Sigh..... look at the uproar I have caused. Lol I never imagined it would turn into two different threads trying to resolve the matter... I feel special (infamous now). However, honestly I was using this set as a joke. I dont really care anymore though ban it if you want, it doesnt fancy my interests any longer.
-Shout outs to Adrain for being a co-developer
Don't forget to give me credit, I made the loopholes which caused this huge uproar, it made banning Leppa Berry and Heal Pulse useless.
Banning the combination of Leppa + Trapping Moves or requesting the assistance of a mod seem like the best solution(s) to me.
Though I feel like banning may be a bit much, like YoungKingPat said, if you get trapped, call it GG and better prepare your team for next time. So far I haven't been trapped, and I've beat gtfo's Rachi and a guy who had 6 trapping pokes, who ended up forfeiting because my team could handle all of his trapping attempts.
Also Zarel, I like the 16 turn Struggle Clause but there is at least one way around it, Fling + Leppa + Recycle allows you to replenish your opponent's PP while never running out of your own.
I would much rather prefer this than banning Leppa Berry + Harvest/Recycle. Same with banning Heal Pulse, I find that it's unnecessary, and that just saying that 16 Struggles in a row will end in a draw will decrease or even stop the usage of Heal Pulse.
Leppa Berry will replenish the first move's PP. In other words, if you have an offensive move in the first slot, a switching move, or Baton Pass, it will immediately restore that move's PP and allow that annoying Jirachi to die.
PP stall is a strategy. This infinite stuff that makes it so whoever has more time IRL wins the game is not a strategy. I'm for the 16 Struggles in a row causes a tie. Prevents anything from being banned because there are loopholes anyway according to the mad scientists behind the strategy and keeps competitively viable things like Leppa Berry in the game. This is better than considering it timer stalling because there's too much gray area there. By clausing it you prevent this, and 16 in a row seems like a good number to do it.
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Thanks for clarifying that, I've only seen the set used and was unfamiliar with the mechanics of it. Also I should have made it more clear but by getting to the point of struggle (say against a Jirachi) I assumed that any attacking move would inflict less than 50% hp to Jirachi and the struggling Pokemon wouldn't have escape moves like BP, otherwise they wouldn't have ran out of pp.
As it turns out, there are ways to unilaterally force an infinite loop that doesn't involve Struggle (namely, Fling+Leppa+Recycle).
That's a major reason I'd like for infinite Leppa (namely, Leppa+Recycle or Leppa+Harvest) to be banned: it's involved in many different kinds of infinite loops.
Banning infinite Leppa will force Pokémon to eventually Struggle, and force-drawing after 16 Struggles will ensure that the game will end unless both players do nothing but switch. We might change that to a force-draw after 16 Struggles or switches, if we want to enforce that the game will end even if neither player wants it to.
(Well, actually, there'd still be one possible infinite PP source left: Imposter. It shouldn't be exploitable, though.)
Zarel banning both Leppa+Recycle or Leppa+Harvest would not be the best idea. There are many uses of both those strategies that do not exploit the system. Leppa+Harvest is relatively equivalent to an Imposter Chansey when not abusing moves such as the listed jirachi set. As far as Leppa+Recycle there are many viable strategies surrounding that as well (for ex. putting it on a magic bouncer with low pp moves like heal bell, synthesis etc.) If you ban those you might as well ban imposter altogether. I think the best solution is just to ban the use of trapping moves in par with leppa+recycle or leppa+harvest.
Imposter is a much more effective ability than Harvest with Leppa. Imposter practically defines BH. Banning it isn't an option. Leppa is niche though and not that much is lost if it is banned in some situations. Still, I would like to give my support to banning Leppa Berry on Pokemon with Trapping moves or abilities. If you are capable of switching and still can't break through the wall then you have lost anyway. This way does mean that you can't trap then PP stall a wall to death which is a somewhat legit strategy but I would say that this isn't much of a loss.
Keep note that there are alternatives that do not even need Leppa Berry. Also, by that logic, Huge Power or Shadow Tag should have never been banned by that logic. Just like Imposter, they were metagame defining.
They were also rather broken (or, at least, deemed undesirable for the metagame). I see no need to get rid of Imposter over something so petty. Leppa Berry isn't important, though, so getting rid of it is on the table here. And what are these alternatives that don't need Leppa Berry? Unless you are talking about Imposter I doubt that these are strategies that can reasonably be expected to be pulled off.
Banning Heal Pulse would be the simplest approach towards stopping this particular set from being viable, but as other users have stated there are other methods of stalling. Leppa Berry + Recycle can be used in other sets which rely on heavy PP usage, and may not be strategies which rely on external factors. I'm leaning towards setting the struggle clause that Zarel has proposed, as it would negate the cheese, though we're still left with the problem of the various stall strategies themselves. As said by ntiller, treating any form of endlessstall or timestall which wouldn't allow the game to progress should warrant investigation by administration.
Ban Heal Pulse
Implement 16 turn Struggle stalemate
Implement penalties for perpetrating Endless Stall
Hope that this being my first post doesn't discredit the opinion, I'm intent on seeing this issue get a solid solution.
I also think that people who just use their whole team around this strategy, just to troll, should be banned because forcing tie only hurts the good players


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It is April 9th and both our girls had soccer games while it was flurrying! Crazy and insane weather! T2 and her team had a 1-1 tie and T1 and her team had a 3-1 win. They played at the same time in two different locations. Their schedules this season are the most overlapped in a long time and the Chief is at sea and my bestie is a single parent now. To top things off, T2 has three Tuesday night games, which is scout night. But my bestie and I WILL make this work. We always have, we always will.
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Spring, Spring!March 8, 2016
Is it here? I hope so. But then we had a 70 degree day on Leap Day and snow on Thursday night giving us a 2-hour school delay! And now we are expected to reach record highs this week, set back in 2000.
I am looking forward to Spring, even if it means we get crazy busy with soccer and T2's last year in middle school. She is currently in the process of applying to the same select advances program as T1. More nerve-wracking the second time around than I thought it would have been. She had her final middle school band concert the other night. The Chief had to ship out early due to a schedule change later this year. But he will be home for her awards night and her 8th grade semi-formal.
Here I go again..February 28, 2016
What do depression and anxiety look like? I just looked in a mirror and saw for myself.
That's where I've been. I think I am very fortunate that I saw the signs. I knew something was not right.
It is so hard to explain. And I was real, I mean REAL good at hiding it from the Chief. But not so good hiding it from my daughters, my best friend, or my SIL. Even now I struggle to find the words to describe it because it is almost indescribable–it just is.
I got the house decorated for Christmas in record time. The girls and I really enjoyed that. I enjoyed Black Friday shopping. I was listening to Christmas music since Thanksgiving. I enjoyed the candlelight tour of homes with my BIL and SIL. It wasn't the typical "has the person lost interest and enjoyment in the things they once loved to do?" No. It was an overwhelming sense of dread and confusion and inability to make a simple decision. On the days I had to sub, I could get right up and get going… but when I got home from school I'd still want to curl up in the fetal position. Actually, the first alarm bell was the day I didn't want to go to the gym. Not because it wasn't enjoyable but because I had a day's worth of activities following that I panicked over and worried about and couldn't make a decision on.
I didn't write my year-in-review letter. I had made a Christmas card with our beautiful family pictures we had taken in October. But I didn't see a point to the letter. If you were in my life you knew what a year it was–tonsillectomy, ruptured L4/L5, subbing, surgery, camp, personal relationships in turmoil, my dad's cancer… who wants to read all that and have a Merry Christmas?
And I didn't want to host New Year's Day. I just wasn't feeling it. I didn't know when the Chief was going to be home and I felt the world closing in.
One night the girls were fighting. T2 was pulling a stunt her sister had at that age, wanting something and not letting it drop–some absolutely annoying thing–right after I had shelled out $60+ to take us all to the movies. I will admit that as loud as I could reasonably do so in the theater lobby I called her a spoiled rotten brat. I drove them home and let them out and then drove away. I went less than a mile away and sat in my car at the park. I texted the Chief. He called the house to check on them. I played Sudoku for 2 hours. The oldest texted and I told her to tell her sister to go to bed; her too.
Then there was an incident over text messages with the Chief. Out of respect for him I won't air the dirty laundry–we've already talked about it. But I stopped functioning. I sat in my car so that I wouldn't curl into a ball on my bedroom floor. The girls were scared. A numb fog surrounded me. For days. Even the day he came home. I was ambivalent.
I described things to the Chief in these terms: anxious, fogged, as if every nerve in my body was on fire–I couldn't handle loud noises or touch beyond the gentlest of caresses, an inability to see beyond the next minute let alone the next hour or day and if I had to think about it the pain and anxiety came back in a vicious cycle.
I had already made the decision to ask my therapist and GP to start some kind of antidepressant. Now it was just a matter of making it through the holidays until my appointment. I didn't host New Year's… getting a nasty case of Strep throat and a sinus infection was the perfect excuse. I had hoped the Chief could have gone with me to my GP but he had to leave for a class. We decided to start on Cymbalta for a couple of reasons–it is used for pain management and doesn't seem to have a weight gain side-effect.
It took about 10-14 days for me to start to feel normal again.
The Chief has honestly said he doesn't know if it is making a difference–I was REALLY that GOOD at hiding it from him. I guess that's a hazard of this lifestyle. But he has been so supportive and understanding once we really had a heart to heart. I haven't had the courage to talk to the girls about it to see if they've noticed.
I've been on Cymbalta for 40 days now. The Chief has gone back to sea. I feel fortunate that I was that aware of something wrong. It was gradual … two years building up with one kick after another… but I think my dad's cancer scare left me so raw that the misunderstanding between the Chief and I just highlighted how broken, how out of balance I was.
Do I hope I'm only on Cymbalta for a short time, like when I had post-partum depression? Sure. But I also know it may be a long-term solution.
The day I didn't dread going to the gym was the day I knew I was turning a corner. I guess this is another corner in this journey.
Giving Thanks!December 2, 2015
So much to be thankful for. God is so good!
My father had surgery on Nov. 18 to remove part of his tongue and all the lymph nodes on the left side of his neck. The 6 hour surgery ended early and the doctor felt confident she got it all. I saw him the next day when it was my turn to take our mother in to the hospital. Say what you will about the lackluster reputation of VA hospitals but I have to say I felt my father received excellent care in the SICU unit. His nurse(s) only had two patients (that I could tell). Yes, it was probably a bit premature to give him shredded chicken but hey, hospital food is like that in any hospital. He came home on the 21st, sooner than we all realistically expected–but we did want him home before he had to give up his private room.
Over the course of the next week we got news that the lymph nodes were clear, followed by the determination that chemotherapy would NOT be necessary. He got his staples (at least a dozen along his neck to his ear) out on the 30th and the doctor was pleased with his wound. Eating can still be a chore but my mother reports he is becoming the master of the blender. Today he just passed along that the surgeon feels he does not need radiation either. He will have bimonthly check ups over the course of the next 12 months, but NO radiation!
The power of prayer. We are so thankful!
What an emotional roller coaster this has been!
The following are the various "give thanks" Bible verses that I used over this past month. As I stated, there are 57 passages but some are event or person specific. Plus I didn't want to post a "I give thanks to you, now destroy my enemies" verse. So I didn't post 30 verses but I think this is a pretty good list and during my times of distress over these past few weeks it was such a good reminder to give thanks to a God who has been so gracious.
Psalm 30:2-4; 11-12
Psalm 57:8-11
We give thanks to you, O God; we give thanks, for your name is near. Psalm 75:1
It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to your name, O Most High;
Psalm 92:1-8
…Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations. Psalm 100:1-5
O give thanks to the LORD; call upon His name; make known His deeds among the peoples. Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; tell of all His wondrous works! Psalm 105:1-5
… Whoever is wise, let him attend to these things; let them consider the steadfast love of the LORD.
Psalm 106:1; 107:1 & 43
Psalm 108:1-6
Psalm 111:1-10
Psalm 118:1-29
"Give thanks" is used 4 times in this Psalm.
Psalm 136:1-26
"It is He who remembered us in our low estate…"
Give thanks is used four times in this Psalm.
I give you thanks, o LORD, with all my heart; before the gods I sing your praise; I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word. On the day that I called, you answered me; my strength of soul you increased.
Psalm 138:1-3
On a completely separate topic, today's Give Thanks is so appropriate on so many levels. I love how scripture works that way.
Psalm 142:1-7 You are my Refuge. A Maskil of David when he was in the cave. A prayer.
A Song of Praise. Of David.
…The LORD is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made. All your work shall give thanks to you, o LORD, and all your saints shall bless you.
Psalm 145:9&10 but read the whole song!
You will say in that day (or this month!)
"I will give thanks to you, o LORD,…
Isaiah 12:1-6
I give thanks to my God always for you…
Thank You to those in my life who have embodied exactly what Paul is talking about.
Eph. 1:15-23
I Thes. 5:12-24
But we ought always to give thanks to God for you…
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I have had the sound go out on one or two NXTs. I was able to restore it by doing a factory reset. On the back of the NXT, there are 12 technic pin holes. In the one closest to USB port, you will see a metallic button. With everything unplugged from the NXT and with the NXT powered on, press the button with a paper clip or other instrument that will fit in ...
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You can remotely start and stop programs from the NXT software. So create a simple program that just has a few display blocks and an empty loop at the end to keep the program from stopping then run the program.
If you are missing a component of a set supplied by LEGO Education, you have the following options: Contact LEGO Education support (different support line than the regular LEGO service support line) at https://education.lego.com/en-us/support. Their US telephone number is 800-362-4308. Plead your case there - they might have a digital copy or remnant ...
I think you should buy a Bluetooth Card for your PC to connect the NXT with your PC. After that you should program your Bluetooth Card to send specific Bluetooth Signal to the NXT while you are pressing a key. Next you should program your NXT to "react" to the specific signal sent from PC... That's all, it's not too easy...
This looks like a state machine. Save the "state" of your program in a variable. The state will be which program to run, so 1, 2 or 3. You will also need some more variables to track the previous state and how many times a program has run. Code flow will be something like this: next_state = 1 prev_state = 0 run_count = 0 begin loop compute_next_state ...
Read the RobotC NXT Forum thread "Firmware Update & Arduino IDE Issues (Renamed)". The only post that count is the 31th post. Simply go to the Device Manager with the brick connected, choose the Bossa Device, choose property, pilot update and replace the Bossa device by the Lego Mindstorm device.
There is a great video on YouTube that shows how to repair this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCZNc7tPop0 Basically, there are some surface mount capacitors on the PCB board for the screen/buttons that need a little bit of soldering to make sure they are properly electrically connected. I have performed this repair myself with success.
One approach could be to install each parts manually: -go to th 'Parts' Folder in MINDSTORMS NXT (^^^^^) -Uninstall Flash Player if you don't have Flash Player 10 -Install Flash Player 10 from the 'PARTS' folder -Install the packages in the language you prefer -Install the packages that have no specified language -Go to launchpad and click MINDSTORMS ...
A speed in second makes no sense to me. Are there more information about this motor, like to maximum rpm/power ? If so, maybe that the scale from -100 to 100 is some sort of percentage of max rpm/power, with the positives being one rotation direction and the negatives the other ?
Most probably the problem is that the array is declared, but not initialized. The program does not know how much memory to allocate for this specific array and so there is no allocated storage in RAM for this array. To solve this, try initializing your array. You can either provide the starting dimensions during declaration, like in the last example here: ...
The error was caused because the file rw.txt was not uploaded to the nxt performing: t2n -v -put rw.txt Solved the problem.
See https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=33051 for latest instructions. I recently did some testing to get the EV3 software working on Linux using Wine, and actually got it to work! (The EV3 software can also be used to program the NXT) Here are the instructions: $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds $ sudo apt-get ...
I know this is 3 and a half years late, but I figured I'd throw in my two cents. Attach an NXT light sensor and an RCX light sensor facing into each other. You can communicate bi-directionally by flashing the built-in LEDs. On the RCX side, this can be accomplished by switching the sensor mode between touch sensor and light sensor to passivate or ...
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As a young woman of mixed race, Nellie Kincaid is about to encounter the strange, unsettling summer of her fifteenth year. Reeling from the recent separation of her parents, Nellie finds herself traveling to the family's lake house with/b>
"When I was seven I told my father that I wanted to grow up to be invisible." So begins this stunning debut novel.
As a young woman of mixed race, Nellie Kincaid is about to encounter the strange, unsettling summer of her fifteenth year. Reeling from the recent separation of her parents, Nellie finds herself traveling to the family's lake house with only her father and her estranged cousin, leaving behind the life and the mother she is trying to forget.
Now, as she navigates the twists and turns of first love and shifting family loyalties, what has always been a warm, carefree time is suddenly filled with new tensions. As the summer progresses, Nellie moves toward a definition of self that encompasses all the aspects of her paradoxical -- yet truly American -- identity, only to find her family growing more divided with each passing day. Does her newfound identity require her to distance herself from those she loves?
With depth and compassion, Rachel M. Harper charts the remarkable, captivating journey of a hero-ine's first encounters with our vast and sometimes dangerous country. Not only is Brass Ankle Blues a story of a young woman's search for autonomy, it is also about the things that keep family together: loyalty, forgiveness, and love.
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Brass Ankle BluesA Novel
By Rachel M. Harper
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Chapter 1
We are finally leaving Virginia. The sign that tells me this is small and has a picture of a hand waving. Strange, I think, I left Virginia about six hundred miles ago. I left her standing in the driveway of a two-story house I might never see again. Virginia is my mother, a woman I've never associated with this backward state until now. Thank god we aren't moving here. I wouldn't want to see my mother's name on the back of every car and at the bottom of every letter. Virginia. I don't think I'll ever come back.
West Virginia is not much better, but it's a smaller state, one we can cross in a few hours. At this rate we should make it to Cleveland by dinnertime. Tomorrow we'll drive through all those I states -- Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa -- and finally make it up to Minnesota by Friday. That is the plan. My father always has one, and unlike most people, he follows it. We've been doing this ride every summer for my entire life: Boston to St. Croix, fifteen hundred miles in three days. This summer is the first time we've altered the route, dropping down to Virginia to pick up my cousin. That added an extra five hundred miles on to the trip, but it won't slow us down. He'll make up for it after Cleveland, skimming through the Midwest like a book he's trying to finish. My father likes to drive, likes to sit behind the wheel. Even if my mother were here she wouldn't be driving. She drives too slow and stops at too many rest areas. My father likes to move fast, even when he isn't in a rush. I guess he's not comfortable with where he is; he's always focused on where he's going.
My cousin is not a good traveler. It's been two hours since the last stop and already she's begging to use the bathroom. I don't believe her. She lies the way some people clear their throat. If we were alone my father would tell me to hold it, but he's being nice to her because she doesn't have a father, and has grown up thinking that all vegetables have to be defrosted before you can eat them. Well, she has a father -- my mother's brother Renny -- but she knows him about as well as she knows us. (Three hours in the car, so far, and my grandfather's funeral when we were five.) Barely more than strangers.
When we get inside the gas station's bathroom she doesn't even go into a stall. Instead, she stands in front of the mirror and watches her reflection pull a cigarette out of her bra. I close my door on her face, a mischievous smile, and smell the smoke before it's even locked.
"Goddamn, that's good," Jess says slowly.
"You act like it's food or something."
"Nah, it's better than food." She pauses. "Except grits. Grits and smothered biscuits. Nothing's better than that."
Jess is from the South, the only one of my cousins, on either side, born below the Mason-Dixon Line. This isn't the only thing that separates us, but maybe it's the most important. So far, I pretty much hate the South. (Except for the food since I love anything fried.) I tried to have an open mind, but by the time we picked Jess up in Roanoke it was locked shut. And I'm not just talking about the rednecks. The black people bother me, too. Everybody stares too much, and they ask more questions than an English teacher. The accent also pisses me off; they talk all slow like you came all the way here just to listen to them. So far my favorite places have been the bathrooms. Cool and quiet like church. Even the old ladies leave you alone in here. Not Jess, though, she acts like the bathroom is her confessional, and she has to share everything that comes into her mind. Sometimes I think she's afraid of silence, maybe because she's an only child. Not me. When you grow up with older brothers you start to love solitude.
When I come out of the stall, she's sitting on the counter between the two sinks. She's so skinny that her ass isn't touching either sink. I haven't done that since I was six. I wash my hands in the cold water, using lots of pink powdered soap. It turns into a paste like one of my mother's facial scrubs, the kind with the grit that will take off a layer of skin. I'm afraid if I rub too hard it will wash away all my color.
"I'm gonna miss Virginia," Jess says. "I've never been gone so long."
"It's been three hours."
"No, I mean the whole summer." She taps her cigarette against the sink. When the ashes touch the water it looks like wet sand. I once read about a black-sand beach in Hawaii. I will swim there one day and remember this moment.
"Virginia summers are the best. They're sunny and real hot, and everyone just hangs out on their porches. The Virginia Players come for the Fourth of July, and then the Virginia music -- "
"Will you stop saying that?" I stare at the back of her head in the mirror. The ends are streaked blonde in a way that looks like she dyes it, but I know she doesn't. That would be too much work.
"What?" She looks at me, all innocent.
"How would you like it if I lived in a state called Shelley? If I was born in Shelley, went to school in Shelley, and just loved being from Shelley?"
Jess laughs, exhaling smoke. "My mother would never have a state named after her. She's way too crooked."
"Mine's no citizen of the year either." I dry my hands with a coarse paper towel. Jess puts her cigarette out in the sink and hops down.
"Did yours steal clothes from the Salvation Army Dumpsters? Did she pretend to be crazy to get into some study at the hospital? Did she borrow your neighbor's car to go to Atlantic City and end up gambling it away? Did she get kicked off welfare for pretending she had another kid?"
To my knowledge, my mother has only broken one law.
"No," I say.
"Trust me, the criminals are on my side of the family."
I know she includes herself on that list, probably at the top. Right before we picked her up my father told me she got expelled from her high school for trying to bribe a teacher. I decide not to mention it.
"Aren't you going to pee?" I ask, already knowing the answer.
"Nah, I'll wait till the next stop." She holds the door open for me. "After you," she says. Such Southern hospitality.
As we walk out she smells her T-shirt, checking for smoke. My father has a rule about sixteen-year-olds smoking, even if they're not his own. I stop at the counter to buy a pack of gum. Jess stands next to me, thumbing through the latest issue of Teen Beat, the one with Matt Dillon on the cover. When the cashier turns his back she tucks the magazine down the front of her cutoffs. The first of many laws she will break this summer.
I am reading Toni Morrison's Beloved from my school's summer reading list. When we cross into Ohio I am with Sethe and we are both running. I look down from the bridge as we drive over the Ohio River. All I can see are the waves of blue sky reflected in the water, thick white clouds breaking in the distance. How many people died in that river, drowning softly in the clouds and sky? I don't think I would have made it as a slave, even with the benefits of being a "house nigger." There are few lives I could imagine living other than my own.
I was five the first time I realized I was black. After watching Roots my brothers and I began to fantasize about slavery. Marcus, always defiant, claimed he would have run off just like Kunta Kinte.
"I wouldn't let anybody own me," he said with the unflinching confidence that only a ten-year-old can muster.
"I don't know..." Noah spoke slowly. "I don't think I'd want to be one of the black people." He was almost eight.
"You mean you'd pretend to be white?" Marcus looked shocked.
"But I am white." Noah held out his arm. In all fairness, he was a bit lighter than us.
"No." Marcus shook his head. "Mom's white. We're black, like Dad."
"But Dad's brown," Noah said. "Uncle Bobby's black."
"Aren't we both?" I asked.
"Yeah, but all that really means is we're black."
"I don't know if I want to be black." Noah was scratching a scab on his knee.
"You don't have a choice," Marcus said. "None of us do."
We were all quiet for a minute, sitting in a circle on the hardwood floors. I tried to focus on the planks of wood, sanded and stained a golden brown, not much lighter than the color of my skin.
"Reggie Jackson's black," I finally said.
The Yankees had just won the World Series. We'd spent the week marching around the block, celebrating each win like we lived in the Bronx instead of two miles from Fenway Park. We'd even taped the newspaper clippings to our walls, we were so proud.
"I love Reggie," Noah said. "He looks like Dad if he lost some weight."
We all laughed. Even my mother thought they looked alike. She'd called him Reggie all day when he took us to the park to play softball.
"He looks like us," Marcus said, so sure of himself that I had to believe him.
We didn't talk about race again.
"This magazine sucks," Jess says from the backseat. "No good pictures." She tosses the stolen Teen Beat into my lap. "You want it?"
"I've got a book," I say, letting the magazine fall to the floor.
"I don't like books."
"Oh really?" My father glances in the rearview mirror. He's an English professor, and he loves books almost more than he loves his children. I smile to myself, wondering how she'll get out of this.
"I don't like made-up stories. They're all a bunch of B.S. Give me something real, with pictures."
"I've got a New Yorker you can look at," my father says. "Lots of cartoons." He reaches up to adjust the mirror. I don't know if he included her in his view or cut her out.
"No thanks," Jess says.
I watch her in the side mirror as she puts her window all the way down. The wind pushes her hair back, completely off her face, and she closes her eyes. Suddenly, she looks like a Christiansen. Not like Renny, exactly, but like my grandfather and my aunt. Maybe my mother.
I lift my gaze to stare at the view out my window. The fields of grass and uncut wheat seem endless. I wonder if this is what it looked like a hundred years ago to the people migrating north. Is this what Sethe saw when she stumbled through the woods in bare feet with nothing but a torn dress and her pregnant belly? I wish I could stand at one end of America and look all the way across to the other side. I want to experience something that vast, to lose myself in the miles in between. I want to feel as small and insignificant as I am.
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Thermal conductivity and tribological properties of POM-Cu composites
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DOI: 10.1002/pen.21750
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Volume 50, Issue 11, pages 2153–2159, November 2010
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He, J., Zhang, L. and Li, C. (2010), Thermal conductivity and tribological properties of POM-Cu composites. Polym Eng Sci, 50: 2153–2159. doi: 10.1002/pen.21750
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- Issue online: 25 JUN 2010
- Version of Record online: 25 JUN 2010
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we are looking for a CTI application which will interact with Panasonic PBX over TAPI and provide us call related functions like make call , hold calll , call conference etc.
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We experience several minutes lags in our server. Probably they are triggered by "stop the world" garbage collections. But we use concurrent mark and sweep GC (-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepG) so, I think, these pauses are triggered by memory fragmentation of old generation.
How can memory fragmentation of old generation be analyzed? Are there any tools for it?
Lags happen every hour. Most time they are about 20 sec, but sometimes - several minutes.


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