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Text: John 8:1-59, 1 John 1:5-7, Romans 2:25-29
I used to be a morning person, when mornings used to be quiet, solitary, slow. This year they've been abrupt, noisy, shoving—everything mornings should not be. I am disgruntled while I tie my shoes. It's barely past 5am. I know mothers and wives and fathers and farmers and workers all over the world wake up this early, but I am self-employed and childless and have convinced myself I'm owed uninterrupted sleep until at least 6am. Our dog does not agree, and in fact, seems to think the fastest way to my heart right now is through her leash. She noses me until I relent and meet her at the front door.
Outside, the moon is a pregnant belly, super and bright, shining the whole still-dark neighborhood over. How strange, I think, that the Son of God would call Himself the "light of the world," when the most constant earthly source of light disappears every night, then reemerges as varying sizes and shapes, a mere reflection of the original source.
But this morning I remember the pillar of fire by night and the cloud by day (Exodus 13:21-22); I remember the star shining in the east (Matthew 2:1-2), the day the sun stood still (Joshua 10:12-13), and the day the earth went dark (Matthew 27:45-54). I think about how the God of the universe created the orbs and commands them even now. He is the One who sets clouds the size of a man's fist in the sky and makes it rain for forty days and forty nights (Genesis 7:11-12). Storms cease at the sound of His voice (Mark 4:35-41).
Jesus tells us, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life" (John 8:12). But the kind of of light He offers, is not of the natural, earthly sort. His light is supernatural and He freely offers it to whomever would follow Him.
Yes, Jesus is the light of the world, but when our hope is in anything or anyone other than Him, the world can go grow terribly dark in a hurry. I tend to believe Jesus is near and present when I can clearly see His hand at work in my life. But when I cannot see Jesus at work in my life, He seems absent, distant and busy, too tied up with more important things—more important people—than me.
But this morning, the supermoon shines a deceptive light on my path, blue, dim, shadowed. Not sunlight, but still of the sun—whether I can see it or not. Walking with the light of the world is like that, too, I think to myself. I am still walking in darkness but I know the light exists.
I come back home to a still, dark, quiet house, with a somewhat less rambunctious pup. She snores beside me on the floor and I drink my coffee slowly, quietly. I have the light of life, I think to myself, even today, in this season that feels dark in many ways. I have the light of life because I follow Jesus, and He never fails to shine, even when His light feels hidden by this world and the brokenness within it.
He is the One, true light of this world—the sun pales in comparison to the light of His presence. Even darkness is not dark to Him (Psalm 139:11-12).
I light a candle and the room, once dark, is light again.
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The St. Marys Area Flying Dutch football team used a strong second half along with the rushing of Alex Feldbauer to defeat the Clarion-Limestone Lions by a 48-28 score. Feldbauer finished the night with 308 net yards on 24 carries and four touchdowns.St. Marys scored 26 unanswered points in the second half to take charge of the contest.
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Celebrating the New Year is one of the most universal holidays. All cultures have some sort of New Year celebration. The year may start at different times for different people, but the point of the holiday is the same. Celebrating the New Year puts our lives in perspective. It's easy to get caught up in the mundane aspects of everyday life, and even easier to forget there is anything else. The New Year forces us to look back to where we have come from, and reminds us that we won't always be in the same place we are now.
The New Year makes us think about the future, which makes it a time of opportunity. Who knows what success and fortune might come along in the next 365 days? However, the funny thing about opportunity is that while it can lead to achievement, it can also result in terrible disappointment.
When facing these types of risk/reward situations it is popular for a person to say they are "steeling themselves" for the coming trials. Of course, this phrase refers to the solidity of steel. A steel blade can smash against all kinds of things and not lose its shape. In the same way, when we steel ourselves we are preparing to face disappointment without falling apart. More important than its toughness, though, the phrase refers to how steel is made. It doesn't start out invincible. It has to go through a process in order to get that way first.
When making steel, the alloy is often heated up to extreme temperatures, then immediately submerged in water to cool it down. In a nutshell, this allows carbon atoms to move around more easily and mix with the iron when the steel is warm, then locks the atoms in place when it is cooled down, making the steel stronger. This process is called tempering. Without tempering, or when tempering is done incorrectly, the steel cannot achieve its potential. It will become brittle and easily broken - countless hours of work rendered useless.
Like steel, human beings can also be tempered. No, this does not involve dropping people in boiling water and then throwing them in the freezer in order to develop bulletproof skin, although I think the Defense Department might be working on something like that. Rather, humans are capable of tempering their emotions, which can be more brittle and easily broken than even the most poorly forged tool. I know that when I am facing an opportunity that can really pay off, but could also end in miserable failure, I go through a process of emotional tempering.
In this process, I go from really excited to more subdued, to really excited again, and so on. Like carbon atoms in steel, this tempering allows little bits of confidence to spread through me, and then solidifies them in place. Not even the meanest comment or most disheartening failure can shake the confidence particles from their new position, allowing my emotional state to remain intact through a tough situation.
A well-tempered sword, like a well-tempered person, might not be able to break through absolutely everything, but it can stand resistance without being broken itself.
Of course, if I had the option, I would rather be a light saber than even the most solid steel sword. A light saber can simply slice right through anything, and it doesn't need any tempering at all.


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Tribe overcomes scary ninth to stay in control
MINNEAPOLIS -- The last thing the Indians need right now is controversy. Cleveland closer Chris Perez knows this as much as anyone inside the clubhouse, considering what is at stake and the fact that only three games remain guaranteed on the schedule.
In the aftermath of Thursday's 6-5 victory over the Twins -- a win nearly derailed by a disastrous ninth inning from Perez -- the embattled closer stopped by the office of manager Terry Francona. With one of the American League's two Wild Cards within reach for Cleveland, Francona might be forced to make a change with the closer's role.View Full Game Coverage
MINNEAPOLIS -- The last thing the Indians need right now is controversy. Cleveland closer Chris Perez knows this as much as anyone inside the clubhouse, considering what is at stake and the fact that only three games remain guaranteed on the schedule.
In the aftermath of Thursday's 6-5 victory over the Twins -- a win nearly derailed by a disastrous ninth inning from Perez -- the embattled closer stopped by the office of manager Terry Francona. With one of the American League's two Wild Cards within reach for Cleveland, Francona might be forced to make a change with the closer's role.View Full Game Coverage
Perez let his manager know ahead of time that he understands.
"You never make decisions five minutes after a game," Francona said. "He popped his head in here after the game and was actually really good about it. He was like, 'Hey, I don't want to cost us games, because I'm not locating.' We'll figure it out."
Thursday's appearance for Perez was supposed to be a confidence builder.
The Indians had a 6-1 lead and Perez's most recent appearance was a blown save on Tuesday night against the White Sox. Veteran slugger Jason Giambi bailed out the two-time All-Star closer with a pinch-hit, walk-off home run in the ninth inning, sending Progressive Field into bedlam and delaying the noise surrounding the closer's job.
Minnesota churned out four hits in a six-batter span againt Perez, who surrendered a run-scoring triple to Alex Presley and a two-run home run to Josmil Pinto during the onslaught. Sidearmer Joe Smith entered with two outs and, following some trouble of his own, struck out pinch-hitter Oswaldo Arcia to seal Cleveland's seventh straight win.
"We stayed in the game," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said, "and got some excitement there in the ninth."
It was a little too much excitement for the Tribe's liking.
Even so, the Indians remain one-game back of the Rays for the top Wild Card and one game ahead of the Rangers for the second.
That was Francona's focus in the moments immediately following the game.
"The good news is we won, and that's what we set out to do," Francona said. "That got a little closer than we wanted, but we won. Any time you hear music playing, especially this time of year, [it's good]. But that was a little nerve-wracking."
The Indians (89-70) have now won 12 of 14 to improve to 18-6 in September. Cleveland also has posted a 21-win improvement from a season ago, marking the second-largest year-to-year jump in victories in franchise history. Excluding strike-shortened seasons, the club record is a 24-win jump from 1985 to '86.
The problem is that Perez has been creating drama on the field for the better part of two months.
Dating back to Aug. 1, Perez has posted a 7.52 ERA with a .345 opponents' batting average and a 1.87 WHIP over 20 1/3 innings, during which he has surrendered 30 hits, including seven home runs. That is in stark contrast to the first four months, when the closer had a 2.41 ERA to go with a .206 opponents' average across 33 appearances.
Perez, who has not talked on the record with reporters in several months, was absent from the clubhouse after the game.
"It's tough," Indians starter Zach McAllister said. "Any time your closer is struggling a little bit it's tough. He's a great pitcher, and he's been great for his whole career. You don't become All-Stars for no reason. He knows how to pitch and he'll be ready."
Francona insists that Perez, who dealt with right shoulder woes earlier this season, is not hurt.
"No. He's making mistakes," Francona said. "Balls are running over the plate."
The near meltdown in the ninth inning overshadowed what had been a relatively drama-free evening for the Tribe.
McAllister gave Cleveland 4 1/3 shutout innings, bowing out due to minor left side soreness in the fifth inning. Reliever Bryan Shaw entered in his place and needed just one pitch to escape a two-on, one-out jam to keep the Twins off the board. Minnesota was blanked until the seventh inning, when Ryan Doumit delivered an RBI single against Cody Allen.
Against Twins lefty Andrew Albers, Indians catcher Yan Gomes launched a two-run homer to give his team a 3-0 lead. Carlos Santana also chipped in an RBI double, but the Tribe's offense was led by another three-hit showing by left fielder Michael Brantley. In the process, he became the first Cleveland batter since Minnie Minoso (1959) to turn in four straight games with at least three hits and an RBI.
"He's staying on the ball," Francona said of Brantley. "He's staying through the ball. He's using the whole ballpark, and it couldn't come at a better time."
Perez's struggles, however, could not have come at a worse time.
It is a situation reminiscent of Detroit's troubles a year ago. The Tigers ran to the AL Central crown, but entered the postseason with closer Jose Valverde struggling. That forced Detroit to make a change to that critical role while trying to balance a postseason run.
"We're not a team made of one person," Francona said. "We'll figure it out."
Indians general manager Chris Antonetti is in Minnesota with the team, so he will undoubtedly meet with Francona to consider their options for the ninth inning. Cleveland's setup men include Smith and Allen, and its hottest hand is Shaw. There is also an intriguing option in sinkerballer Justin Masterson, who is the team's No. 1 starter but is currently filling a relief role in his comeback from an oblique injury.
With fans still exiting the ballpark, Francona was not about to announce any decisions.
"We need to settle down and kind of think it through," he said. "Five or 10 minutes after the game is not the time."
Jordan Bastian is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Major League Bastian, and follow him on Twitter @MLBastian.


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Vint Cerf Calmly Explains Why You Should Stop Freaking Out About NTIA Handover Of ICANN
from the it-doesn't-mean-crap dept
If anything, the NTIA's paper link to ICANN only served to undermine the goals of good internet governance, because it allowed other countries to falsely imply that the US government "owned" or "controlled" the internet -- opening up dangerous attempts for foreign governments to try to really take control of the internet, wiping out the multistakeholder process and replacing it entirely by governments. That would be dangerous.
Unfortunately, as we expected when we wrote our original "this means absolutely nothing" post, some people decided to freak out about it. They've insisted that NTIA's move is the US handing over the internet, potentially to foreign governments. That those same individuals have previously insisted that things like "net neutrality" are the "government taking over the internet" -- and the inherent contradiction therein -- is never really mentioned. Unfortunately, some in Congress are trying to make a big deal out of this by totally misrepresenting what's been going on.
In response, the NTIA has told everyone to calm down, but the absolute best response has to be from the "father of the internet," Vint Cerf, the guy who set up ICANN in the first place, giving his best "knowing uncle storytime" explanation of why everyone should calm down about all of this, and how, if anything, it should lead to better oversight of the ICANN IANA process. Oh, and if you watch all the way through, you might just see Vint Cerf riding a grumpy cat under a double rainbow. Because this is the internet.


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Frolic, 2011, oil on canvas, 30x36"
Kris Knight is a Canadian painter whose work examines androgyny, psychotropic alterations, and the post-modern gaze. Knight paints characters that are lost between youth and adulthood. His mythical and ambiguous portraits are a blend of fantasy and real-world memory. Knight's works strides between a contradicting palette of sensual primaries and ghostly pastels, reflecting his interest in 18th Century French portraiture.


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Cautious Companies Stockpile Cash
U.S. companies were sitting atop a record pile of cash at the end of September, but have slowed their saving as the economy has emerged from recession.
American nonfinancial corporations held $1.74 trillion in cash and other liquid assets at the end of the third quarter, the Federal Reserve said Thursday. That is $44 billion more than three months earlier and more than erases the prior quarter's slight decline.


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|2004-10-28, 11:01
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But isn't is "pan o tabete imasu"? Or is it "wo" when it's present tense?
|2004-10-28, 12:31
|Link #142
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: San Francisco
Age: 36
Just realized something:
General Chat forumの中にあったほうがいい?
wo/o are pronounced essentially the same, but are different kana:
wo= を = particle.
o = お = not a particle.
In roma-ji, "o" is often put instead of "wo" and the meaning is still understood.
|2004-11-07, 00:10
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Apprentice ANBU
Great Thread!
This discussion kicks ass! I am currently studying Japanese by myself using books & videos, and have only had a few Nihon-jin penpals to answer these exact same questions for me. =)
I would like to point out a few more words in Nihongo that may be helpful.
The thing that most annoys me is about the English word "Japan" or "Japanese." The word for Japan is really "Nihon" and Japanese language is "Nihongo" and Japanese people are "Nihonjin." What annoys me is that these words are EASY to say in English, and yet we make total asses of ourselves by using the word Japan, which I believe is from Dutch.
Yo よ is similar to an exclamation point in english. It is demanding attention. And as you know, Naruto is very demanding & begging for attention... so I think that is why he says yo at the end of everything. ba ば is emphatic... very similar to the word "indeed" in english. And as was previously mentioned "datte" だって is a form of the word "desu" which is similar to the word "is" or "am" in english. So Naruto's "datte ba yo!" is saying "is indeed!" or just trying to make his words sound as important as possible.
Another important thing in Nihongo is "particle words." Particle words are really hard to undertand in English, and I've only understand the most common particle words myself, as there are about a hundred various combinations. Common particle words are:
"wa" - follows the topic of the sentence,
as in "watashi wa otaku desu" (I am an otaku)
"no" - connects adjectives to nouns & adverbs to verbs. I commonly use the phrase "anime no nihon" to specify when I'm talking to penpals, as they use the word "anime" for cartoons from any country.
"ga" & "o" both connect the subject that is acted upon to the noun. The particle you use is dependent on the specific verb you use. I personally try to memorize the verb with the particle. As in "watashi wa pan o tabemasu" (I eat bread) and "watashi wa Eigo ga wakarimasu." (I understand English)
"to" - means "and" but for some reason is also used in front of certain verbs, like "Ookee" to iimasu (I say okay)
"ni" - is similar to "in" or "to" in English
"no tame ni" is a common string of particles which basically means "from" in English
"ka" - as discussed, it's equal to a question mark
"yo" (masculine) "wa"(feminine) - as discussed, it's equal to an exclamation point
"na" (masculine) "ne" (feminine) - at the end of a sentence to say "okay?" or "isn't it?" It replaces "ka." Kakeshi likes to say "ja na" before he leaves, which kind of means "well then... later!" although the literal translation is "well then okay?" I have no idea how that works though.
Sorry to write such a long post. Just excited to have someone to rant to. Now can someone explain to ME the word endings better? My undestanding is that -masu is polite, -ru/-u is plain (kind of rude), -e/-ro means you're doing it right now, -oo means "lets do it", -da/-ta is past tense & -te is used to connect a verb to a verb?? I have have asked a lot of people about this & am still a bit confused.
I also have some links on my website that may help.
じゃな! (later)
|2004-11-07, 00:12
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Try UrbanDictionary. I looked a lot of the japanese terms up today. ^_^
|2004-11-07, 02:55
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Location: San Francisco
Age: 36
I can try to help (with my limited knowledge).
~masu is teineigo, and is the polite form used among equals/to those above you.
~ru/u is plain form, and is generally used between friends/people closer to you.
~e/ro is the command form, used to TELL somebody to do something.
An alternate form of this is using 'nasai'.
Ex: 薬を飲みなさい。
da and ~ta: You seem to have this one right on.
~te. Hmm...how best to explain it...I guess I can't. The only uses off the top of my head are ~te kudasai and ~te(i)ru/~te imasu.
Then there's ~tara, ~ba, and probably another hundred conjugations that I don't know/can't recall at the moment.
There is at least one more use of "ka".
|2004-11-09, 06:10
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Junior Member
Dattebayo ???
Hyia :-)
i've been watching Naruto fot a while now, but among other mysteries of the japanese langage, i can't really find out what "dattebayo"definitely means... if anyone has more than a clue about it (i already have a clue lol), thanx for sharing the answer
|2004-11-09, 08:07
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Its usually reserved for situations in which the speaker assumes the listener already should know something, but Naruto just overuses it. (its his kutiguse)
|2004-11-09, 08:22
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: China
Some info on the forms of verbs can be found on this page as well.
|2006-06-14, 22:16
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Enigma of Nothing
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Seattle WA, USA
Naruto Name Meanings
I've been meaning to get this out there, just for a laugh or two. I've done a little research on the names of Naruto characters and what they mean. Here's my list so far.
Ikura means: Dolphin
Kakashi means: Scare crow
Sakura means: Cherry Blossom
Ino means: Boar
How well do you think the names match the character's personallities? If you have anymore to add to the list, and want to talk about it, here's the thread for you!
|2006-06-21, 22:20
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neji-screw hyuuga-towards the sun
shino-shinobi aburame-oil woman
chou-butterfly ji-child or love akimichi-autumn road
ebisu-barbarian or god of wealth
gaara-self love
sakura haruno-cherry blossom or spring field
kakashi hatake- dry field or scarecrow
hinata-sunny place
kiba-fang inu-dog zuka-a small hill
jiraiya-young thunder
kankurou-a famous kibuki player
maito gai-dynamite guy or mighty guy
temari-a traditional japanese handball game
tenten-moving around,spot
tsunade-mooring rope
itachi-weasel uchiha-wa/ha character switch to make "fan"
sasuke-name of a legendary ninja
iruka-dolphin- umino-ocean
naruto-steamed fishcake or maelstom uzumaki-whirlpool
kabuto-helmet yakushi-buddhist healing god
ino-boar yamanaka-among the mountains
thats some of them. if u want a lot more than go to leafninja.com
thats where i got all this
|2007-02-02, 22:40
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Why do some of the characters in Naruto not have a last name?
You know, like Gaara, Temari, Baki, Jiraiya etc. I know it's not just because their name hasn't ever been said, because even when it's written down there's no last name (or first name, I guess, seeing as it's Japanese). Am I missing something obvious here?
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hime = princess
as in Mai-Hime
also, Hime can be used as an ending to the name or the full name. Like you could call a princess just 'hime' or 'hime-sama' but you couldn't call a boy just 'kun'.
and orochi in Orochimaru means snake. Kind of stupid, when you think about it.
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Don't look to far for Naruto ^^
There's a city named Naruto. A bridge named Naruto and it's the first name of a ninja originating from the Iga provinice: Naruto Hattori, from the branch as Hanzo Hattori, the ninja who saved Ieyasu Tokugawa's life by taking him safely to Mikawa after Oda Nobunaga got attacked in Kyoto by Akechi Mitsuhide.
Uzumaki too is an existing name. (Google is your friend )
|2007-02-14, 07:57
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Kiba's name doesnt mean horse, it means fang. When translated, thats what i literally says 'fang'
Gaara's name means Death, the symbol on his head symbolizes his love for death.
Neji's name means spiral or helix or spin, explaining his heavenly spin technique when he spins like a top to deflect all enemy attacks.
Zabuza means to cut or to slash which is why he as a longass sword
|2007-02-15, 00:44
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I think it (naruto the "steamed fish-paste cake") had been also shown as a topping for Naruto's ramen in the anime several times.
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sutz wrote:Wherever we finish ratings-wise, I expect a similar pattern next season: "slow start" on offense, opening up in November and really pouring it on in December for the stretch run.
Erebus wrote:Crizilla wrote: I'm seriously expecting at least 12 wins next year.
You say that like its a big improvement. We won 11 this year. Improving by one win with a full season of Wilson with full control of the offense should result in more than one additional win. I'm expecting 14 wins.
Hamhawk wrote:the number of wins aren't really as important than focusing on winning our division first and formost
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Backup goaltender Mike Gabel put forth one of the finest performances of his seven-year professional career to anchor a strong defensive effort as the Rochester Rattlers knocked the Chesapeake Bayhawks from the unbeaten ranks with a 12-8 victory in front of an announced 7,853 on Saturday night at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.
Gabel, a backup appearing in just his fourth game for Rochester, recorded 27 saves to stymie a Chesapeake offense that scored 23 goals against the Ohio Machine the previous Saturday night. The Bayhawks unleashed 54 shots, but 21 were not on goal while many others were right at Gabel.
"I thought the goalie beat us. He was outstanding. He was the best player on the field tonight and was definitely the difference," Chesapeake coach Dave Cottle said.
Adam Rand dominated the faceoffs for Chesapeake (2-1), winning 16 of 20. However, the offense wasn't able to take advantage of that possession advantage and was held eight goals below its season average.
"Obviously, we struggled to score goals tonight. Gabel played great so nothing came easy," Chesapeake attackman Drew Westervelt said. "We were off kilter for some reason. We got a lot of opportunities and just could not capitalize. The defense played well tonight, but the offensive never got going."
Midfielder Steven Brooks scored two goals, one of which was a 2-pointer, to lead Chesapeake. Rand and attackman Ben Rubeor both contributed a goal and an assist for the Bayhawks, who hurt themselves by committing a considerable number of turnovers.
"We played from behind and maybe we pressed a little bit. We certainly should score more than eight goals," Cottle said. "I thought we picked it up and played much better on offense in the second half."
Chesapeake was without two starting close defensemen as Michael Evans and Barney Ehrmann were both unavailable because of illness. Defensive coordinator Tony Resch was forced to move long-stick midfielders Dan Hostetler and Bray Malphrus down to the close unit and replace them with Jake Deane and Tim Kaiser.
"We got off to a slow start defensively. We had a tough matchup with Crotty and he put us back on our heels early on," Cottle said.
Joey Kemp started in goal and made seven saves for Chesapeake. Kip Turner, acquired through the supplemental draft during the offseason, made his Bayhawks debut in the second half and stopped four shots.
Attackman Ned Crotty, who did not play in Rochester's 15-3 season-opening loss to the Boston Cannons, scored three goals to lead the offense. Midfielder Matt Striebel scored two goals, one of which was a 2-pointer. Short-stick defensive midfielder Steve DeNapoli, a former Bayhawk, scored two goals in transition for the Rattlers (1-1).
Rochester took its largest lead at 10-4 on a 2-point goal by midfielder Tom Montelli with 6:25 elapsed in the third quarter. However, the Bayhawks battled back and got within 11-8 on a 2-pointer by midfielder Kyle Dixon with 5:41 left in the game.
Chesapeake could get no closer and rookie Roy Lang scored his first career goal with one minute remaining to seal the victory for Rochester.
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Sea Dogs' All-Star third baseman finishing with a flourish
By David Driver / Special to MLB.com | August 16, 2011 7:29 AM
Portland's All-Star third baseman has hit .375 with an OPS of .980 and 14 RBIs over his last 10 games, lifting his average to .304 with 16 homers, 25 doubles and 77 RBIs for the teams.
"I'm happy with it," said Middlebrooks, a fifth-round pick in 2007 out of Texarkana (Texas) High School. "But I'm not satisfied. I want to push through and finish strong."
Middlebrooks, who turns 23 next month, has played at one level each of his first four seasons in the Red Sox system. He hit .254 with Lowell of the New York-Penn League in 2008, then batted .265 with seven homers and 57 RBIs for Greenville in the South Atlantic League in 2009.
Last year he hit .276 with 12 homers and 70 RBIs in 435 at-bats with Salem in the Class A Advanced Carolina League. A football prospect in high school, Middlebrooks had the best arm at third base in the Carolina League last year, according to managers.
"I have no complaints. The guys in the front office, I trust their judgment," he said of not being promoted to Triple-A during the season.
Middlebrooks began the year by hitting .347 in April, and his only month below .300 came in May when he hit .237. He hit .371 in June and .302 in July as he continues to make solid progress.
"He's very professional," said Portland manager Kevin Boles. "He's very aggressive at the plate. He has a lot of offensive potential."
"He has produced -- no one can argue that," added Ben Crockett, Boston's assistant director of player development. "He uses the entire field."
The Sea Dogs are out of postseason contention, and the roster took a hit in late July when Chih-Hisen Chiang, Tim Federowicz and Stephen Fife were traded in a three-team swap with Mariners and Dodgers.
"It's bittersweet," Middlebrooks said. "At the same time, you are happy for them. They're three really good players and were three really good teammates."
Middlebrooks is ranked as the No. 4 prospect in the Boston system by MLB.com, and, at the rate he is going, could be in Fenway Park in the near future.
"I'm not going to get ahead of myself," Middlebrooks told The Portland Press Herald after picking up three hits Saturday against Erie. "One day at a time."
It was the third time in 10 games he collected three hits in a game.
The 6-foot-4 Middlebrooks has lost most of his Texas accent, he said, mainly since he is around players from all over the world. And he has enjoyed being part of Red Sox nation this summer in New England.
"It's awesome. We get huge crowds," he said.
Hello, Canada: Right-hander Henderson Alvarez was promoted from New Hampshire to make his Major League debut Wednesday for the Blue Jays in Toronto against Oakland. The 21-year-old went 5 2/3 innings but did not get the win in the Blue Jays' 8-4 victory. "It's exciting. You bring young, talented guys to this roster, regardless of position, but when you have the talent to go with youthfulness, yeah, it's exciting," Toronto manager John Farrell told The Standard. Alvarez began the year at Class A Advanced Dunedin in the Florida State League before heading to New Hampshire, where he was 8-4 with a 2.86 ERA.
Playoff push: The battle for postseason play is a capital idea in the Western Division. Bowie, just 10 miles east of Washington, D.C., is battling with Harrisburg and Richmond, which play in the capitals of Pennsylvania and Virginia, respectively. Harrisburg is one game ahead of Bowie and 3 1/2 ahead of Richmond. First-place New Hampshire is seven games ahead of Reading and Trenton in the Eastern Division.
Home, sweet home: Bowie outfielder L.J. Hoes has been on a tear for his local team, earning Orioles Player of the Month honors for July. Hoes grew up in Mitchellville, Md., less than 10 minutes from Prince George's Stadium. He is hitting .314 with six homers and 46 RBIs since his promotion from Class A Advanced Frederick.
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Gabe checks out Keanu Reeves' martial arts-heavy directorial debut...
Donaka Mark (Keanu Reeves) is the wealthy owner of a Beijing underground fight club who recruits a humble Tai Chi student, Tiger Chen (…Tiger Chen), to his closed-circuit battles. But, when the young man is seduced by money and power, it triggers a war between the Hong Kong police, the world's deadliest combatants, and a peaceful spiritual discipline turned lethal new fighting style. (From RADiUS-TWC's official synopsis)
After approximately five years of pre-production preparation, Keanu Reeves has made his directorial debut. I'm not sure anyone was clamoring for such a thing, but here it. Like many debut pictures, Man of Tai Chi is something of a proof of concept/talent experiment. It's less of a passion project and more of a well-executed independent production that allows Reeves to practice the lessons he has been learning as an actor since he was a child. I suppose one could even call it a student film. The most obvious influence would be his work with the Wachowski siblings on the Matrix trilogy, specifically its martial arts choreography and Eastern philosophy. With the Wachowski's in mind, it's easy to compare Man of Tai Chi to Bound. Both films pay homage to genre filmmaking with limited locations, a smaller cast, and stylish camera work. The major difference is Bound's success depended on the quality of its screenplay as much as its performances and polished imagery, whereas Man of Tai Chi is an unmistakable practice in style over substance. And that's okay.
The screenplay is built almost exclusively around finding excuses for Tiger Chen to demonstrate his considerable skill. It was penned by Michael G. Cooney, whose other credits include the English-language adaptations of video games, like Resident Evil 6 and Devil May Cry 4. With a distinction like that, Cooney's streamlined, video game-like narrative – complete with expositional 'cut-scenes' and broad, declarative dialogue – is completely expected and, in its way, sort of perfect for the project. Chen is basically moving through an increasingly difficult series of fights; fights that are broken down like levels in Street Fighter (there are even 'training levels'). In fact, the movie is best when its narrative is at its most basic. Chen's increasing brutality and loss of self is eloquently told via the martial arts scenes and the archetypal characters help Reeves tell his story at an efficient pace. Almost everything involving Karen Mok and the other police/detectives feels like purposeless filler and stretches the runtime at least 15 minutes too far.
Because the script serves the action, Man of Tai Chi's value is measured by its wu xia sequences. Reeves made his best and most important choice when he hired Yuen Woo-Ping – the best of the best – as his action director. Yuen brought along his long-standing cadre of choreographers and stunt coordinators, basically ensuring that Man of Tai Chi is just as much his film as Reeves', at least whenever there's action on screen. This is not a slight on Reeves at all, since only an idiot would hire Yuen without employing his full skills as a wu xia movie master. Yuen and Reeves make sure the fights are diverse in terms of fighting styles, sequence themes, and location types. The video game aesthetic (arguably, video games themselves already stole this pattern from Bruce Lee's Game of Death) dictates that the stakes are heightened with each battle, which keeps things from growing stale. The camera is occasionally positioned too closely to the performers to truly appreciate their physical prowess, but Reeves avoids over-cutting the fisticuffs and the operators find ways to keep the camera mobile without resorting to random, eye-jarring shakycam.
Chen is not the most skilled or charismatic actor and neither are most of the characters hired to battle him onscreen, but he has a sweet nature that is vital to the drama that occurs as he turns into a bad person. Reeves cast himself against type very well as the film's villain. I suppose there's a joke in there somewhere about it taking a cast of stunt doubles and non-actor martial artists to make Reeves look like a dynamic performer. Simon Yam also does a typically fine job, but is barely on camera, while Karen Mok, the other major cop character, is left to make disapproving faces at everyone.
Some readers may know that, around the time Reeves was making Man of Tai Chi (and 47 Ronin, which he did not direct), he also produced and starred in a documentary that compared traditional film to digital entitled Side by Side. It's a very good primer on the subject and ends without any specific revelation that one process is definitively better than the other. But Side by Side is sure to tout the advantages of digital, so it's not a surprise that Man of Tai Chi was shot using Arri Alexa digital HD cameras. The film is presented here in crisp 2.40:1, 1080p HD video. Reeves and cinematographer Elliot Davis utilize the Alexa's subtle colour ranges to create a delicate level of detail. The darker environments feature some higher contrast edges, but there's a slightly fluorescent tint to most scenes that isn't very supportive of super-sharp textures. I'm assuming that a standard definition transfer would appear flat, but this HD version has tightly separated shapes and patterns that create depth. The film's palette is relatively eclectic – the city streets are cool and soft during the day, rich and yellowed (occasionally with neon highlights), the countryside temple is warm and brown (with more expressive textures), and a lot of film takes place in monochromatic 'battle cubes' where only the flare of the costumes stand out. The centerpiece battle where Chen unleashes his brutality on two fighters is the most opulent sequence and the most overwhelming in terms of vibrancy. There are some banding effects, especially throughout the more softly blended backgrounds, and minor digital noise issues in the low-lit (but not entirely dark) sequences, but no major macro-blocking or halo problems to report.
Like many other modestly budgeted films, Man of Tai Chi covers its monetary limitations with aggressive and dynamic sound design. This DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack is very big and very loud. The fight sequences are the standouts, naturally, featuring swishing limbs and LFE-cracking impact noises. The cop subplot also allows for some punchy, directionally-enhanced gunshots and a crunchy, swirling car crash. Reeves appears to prefer dry environments, so ambience is often represented by music, but there are plenty of immersive entities, like (mostly unspecified) crowd and vehicle noise. The dialogue track is natural and normalized (perhaps with a little too much bass), except Reeves, who occasionally sounds omnipotent and echoy, seemingly to make his character seem larger than life. Chan Kwong Wing, who is rapidly becoming one of China's most prolific film composers, utilizes just about every musical genre in the playbook, mixing traditional Asian instrumentations with pop sensibilities, rock guitars, jazzy horns, and techno drum beats. The best entries reminded me of the Chemical Brothers' Hanna score. Wing's music is, quite often, the most aggressive aural element, especially in transitional sequences.
The extras begin with a commentary featuring Reeves and Chen. This is an incredibly low-energy track with long, broad bits of silence and a lot of awkward stumbling for something to say. Reeves is good at crediting his cast/crew and Chen is always happy to back up his statements with a 'yeah,' but that's really about it. It gets so bad that they just start echoing each other's words. I skipped around in a desperate search for something interesting to no avail. Almost everything said can be found on the film's imdb.com page. This is followed by an EPK (7:50, HD) made up of footage from behind the scenes, sequences from the film, and awkward interviews with Reeves, Chen, and cinematographer Elliot Davis.
Man of Tai Chi isn't quite a movie – it's more like Keanu Reeves' entertaining, action-packed, and occasionally beautiful show-reel. It's proof he can tell a visual story and shoot a series of dynamic martial arts sequences. It also gives choreographer extraordinaire Yuen Woo-Ping and his stunt team a chance to shine. I just hope that the next time Reeves and Yuen work together they have a more involving script to work from. This Blu-ray has some minor banding issues and a terrible commentary track, but otherwise looks and sounds good enough to make most viewers happy.
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray and have been resized for the page. Full-resolution captures are available by clicking the individual images, but due to .jpg compression, they are not necessarily representative of the quality of the transfer.
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David Blackwell Senior Member Join Date: February 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2,831
so skip the audio commentary. I liked the martial arts stuff and agree the script could have been better. I think Keanu could direct movies if he ever gave up on acting
richyrich101 Member Join Date: September 2011 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 51
David Blackwell wrote: so skip the audio commentary. I liked the martial arts stuff and agree the script could have been better. I think Keanu could direct movies if he ever gave up on acting
Keanu Reeves can act?! When did this happen?
Keanu Reeves can act?! When did this happen?
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Disc Details
Release Date: 10th December 2013
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English/Cantonese/Mandarin
Subtitles: English, English SDH, Spanish
Extras: Director/Star Commentary, The Making of Man of Tai Chi, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Keanu Reeves
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Tiger Hu Chen, Simon Yam, Michael Chan, Karen Mok
Genre: Action and Crime
Length: 105 minutes
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When you call Home Depot's customer service number, an electronic prompt tells you the call may be recorded for quality assurance.
But those recordings, which amount to roughly 6.5 million each year for the home improvement giant, can do more than just maintain happy customers. They contain a wealth of information about the people who shop at Home Depot — their critiques, their wants and their expectations from the company.
The ability to harness that information has made Home Depot millions.
Home Depot doesn't do it alone. The company hired the American arm of the global data analysis corporation NICE Systems, which recently moved from Rutherford to Paramus. Using NICE's suite of programs — which collected and scrutinized information locked in those phone conversations — the company was able to improve sales effectiveness, customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.
Home Depot said those improvements increased its revenue by $10.8 million — in four months.
Barak Eilam, president of NICE Americas, is reluctant to talk about specific clients, in the interest of privacy, but the Home Depot example has been fully documented by the company and written up into a case study highlighting the power of big data.
"The interaction that you, as a consumer, have with this enterprise is becoming very critical to the success of their business," said Eilam, who moved from Israel, where the parent company is based, to Closter four years ago. "By analyzing those interactions, we have the ability to provide those businesses a lot of insight."
That insight is valuable, Eilam said. NICE Systems pulls in about $1 billion in revenue every year. And multiple analysts rank NICE first among its competition.
NICE has been in business for more than 25 years, with divisions specializing in security and financial crime — but the bulk of its work lies in analyzing customer interactions for companies.
Over the years, as they worked with their clients, NICE began to realize how valuable those interactions could be. Technology eventually caught up, making such advanced data analysis possible.
Now, NICE holds about 125 patents for the systems they have developed, with more pending. And it's no longer just about recorded phone calls. The company's programming can correlate the information from a phone interaction with what is happening on Facebook and Twitter and the emails sent to an organization, Eilam said.
But with that capability comes a different challenge for NICE: capturing and analyzing the data as fast as it is coming in.
In the past, Eilam said, if a customer had a bad experience with an airline, for example, that customer would vent to friends and neighbors, maybe even their coworkers — possibly 20 people in total.
Now, angry customers air their grievances on Facebook and Twitter, where friends and followers can number in the thousands, if not the tens of thousands.
"Think about the power you have. You put something on Twitter, good or bad, and it gets to thousands of people in seconds," Eilam said. "That's, I think, the biggest challenge: How do we do it fast enough? It is complex, but I think we are moving in the right direction."
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This is a very particular blog post I'm writing today. As I'm having a bit of trouble starting, as you might guess, I'm going to be direct: So, in just a few words, I'm not going four ways, I'm going straight to the end, I will speak to you frankly, and frankly, I'm going to take a while to speak to you frankly1.
At first, I had the idea to name this article "If you seek me, you will get me." But it was a bit too easy. And, after all, not that funny (and I wanted a funny title). I looked at something else and found "Seek me, get me". But… removing a couple of words doesn't make it any more funny. That's why I finally decided upon a title that is not funny. It was a painful decision, but somebody had to make it and I was alone in my head at this time. So, "Query and Find" came up to my mind. Hmm. No. Still not working. Even worse: One could think I'm going to talk about the database engine, while I'm actually talking about the "Find in Design" functionality.
We've been in San Jose since last week. Just in case you didn't read the last blog post, I'll summarize: Last week, Jérôme and I travelled to San Jose, California, to work with the US team on 4D Summit 2011(1).
New transatlantic travel: I'm flying to the US. San Jose, California, to be exact. I will work with the US team to prepare the 4D Summit and Wakanday! This happens from October 12 to 15 in Boston, and we are going to finish what needs to be done: Tune the keynote demos, the keynote slides, the keynote announcements. In short, we'll be working on the keynotes.
Last week, 4D developers from the Netherlands gathered for the Dutch Devcon, hosted in... Paris! Well, more precisely in Clichy, at our office. 4D and Inventive (our Dutch distributor) organized the trip for developers.
A new flavor of 4D Server has shipped with version 4D v12.1: 4D Server v12 64-bit for Windows. Able to allocate more than 4 GB of RAM (the limit for 32-bit applications), 4D Server is more scalable (that is, "able to support the required quality of service as the system load increases" - per Wiktionnary). It supports more simultaneous connections, allocates a much bigger cache, and can handle more pictures, BLOBs, etc.
You know 4D Pop.
Today, we will talk about a new 4D Pop module, shipped with 4D v12.1: KeepIt.
Please note the first sentence has no question mark: "You know 4D Pop – period". This is on purpose: All 4D developers know what 4D Pop is. I am aware that writing this could be inappropriate: If a reader does not know 4D Pop, he/she could then feel a bit uncomfortable. But this can't happen: All 4D developers know what 4D Pop is. QED.
After the other day's country stroll in the Method Editor, let's spend a few minutes on the ListBoxes. Because among other new major (1) features of 4D v12, ListBox improvements are definitely major-major (1 too).
Let's start with a short reminder, kind of A ListBox History.
This morning, as on most days, I was taking a stroll through my code. A little walk, cool, restful – kind of a country walk. The fact is: I'm back from vacation and during the week off, I successfully managed to not launch 4D for three straight days. After such a big break, any doctor will agree: You must go back into work slowly. Very slooooooooowly.
While modifying the code for a method, I was thinking that, after all, 4D v12's new Method Edtior really rocks.
Over several posts, I am spending some time on major new features of 4D v12 (released last June). Today, I'll focus on a new major major-new-feature: The PHP Execute command, which allows the execution of PHP code.
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THR Session
Remove The Guitar Or Bass From A SongUse the cancel function to remove the guitar or bass from a track in your iOS library. Take Slash off November Rain, turn on your favourite lead setting from the amps memory and wail away on the solo.
Isolate The Guitar Or Bass In A SongSingle out the guitar or bass sound in a track, maybe even to help you learn the bass parts from Metallica's '...And Justice For All'?
PresetsTHR Session comes supplied with presets to help you automatically get the balance right, whether you want to listen and learn or play along.
A-B RepeatTap and select to single out the section of the song you want to play on. Ideal for singling out that tricky bridge section and going round until you get it right.
TransposeChange the pitch of the song up and down by a half or whole step.
Slow DownYou can also slow down the track by as much as half without affecting the pitch.
So say you need to get your head around a fast picked solo in the bridge of song to cover later, first hone in on section you need with A-B Repeat, Isolate the lead guitar to hear the part (slowing down if needed), then switch on the guitar remove preset to play along until you've got it down.
All this is possible on the move, backstage or on the bus, because the THR is battery powered. Play it back in the practice room or back stage to your band mates, transposing for any fixed key instruments.
When you've all got it down then you can use the provided copy of Cubase AI to record and mix with, creating a professional product.
Which THR amp is best for me?
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The guitarist who loves to tinker, with a range of professional effects from Yamaha's SPX range and simulations of classic studio mic setups. Get a rich valve condenser sound with plate reverb or ballsy nylon strumming with rich chorusing.
Absolutely ideal for the guitar student looking to take their playing further. From the critically acclaimed Pacifica family the 112VM gets you the Alnico pickups, slim neck and tonal options of a guitar several times it's price. Then the THR10C brings frighteningly accurate emulations of every rockers favourite amps, whether it's pure Class A, EL84 crunch or 6V6 cleans.
THR10X With Yamaha Pacifica 112V Electric Guitar
Much like the THR10C bundle you get an electric finished to stage ready standard, with humbucking power and single coil twang. The THR10X brings the noise with a deluxe amp, raging gain and classic rock brown sound.
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These medium to large wasps may be light brown, reddish brown, or black with yellow markings, especially around the face and on the abdomen. At rest, their wings appear pleated. These wasps exhibit varying degrees of sociality. The Polistes spp. (Paper Wasps) construct only small clusters of brood cells from paper (chewed plant material), while Vespula and Dolichovespula spp. (Yellow Jackets and Hornets) construct large spheroid nests from the same kind of material. These wasps bring back a variety of insects back to the nest (with hornets providing regurgitated food to their larvae). They have a reputation of being aggressive around their hives. There is a subfamily of the Vespidae that consists of solitary wasps, which will be discussed next. Eumeninae (Eumenine Wasps): Eumenine wasps are rather stout, medium-sized, brown with cream or yellow markings. They make mud-lined nests in the ground, or make pot-shaped nests from mud on the twigs of shrubs and small trees, or construct nests in wood cavities. Eumenine wasps attack caterpillars of moths, and carry them back to their nests as a food source for their larvae. Some species also prey on beetle grubs in the ground. Eumenine wasps are also frequent visitors of wildflowers.


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Olivia Riley has signed of at the age of 108, I have still good 60 years to blog, that if I am lucky enough to live as long as Olivia. Imagine the evolution she has witnessed and taken a active role in. This Australian woman posted some 70 blog posts over a period of a year or so, she started blogging in 2007.
I am not sure how long her blog will be kept running but try going to All About Olive and see if it still there.
I never met her, I never talked to her, I never read her blog and I just heard o Olivia yesterday but her efforts are something that needs to saluted, My grandmother never understood what I did for a living, dying thinking that I was a phone repairer (the phone was as close as I could explain the computer).
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There's a vocal minority of folks expressing the opinion that the Bruins overpaid for Patrice Bergeron and gave Zdeno Chara too many years last week when they re-signed both veterans last week.
While you could argue these points until you're blue (or is it black and gold?) in the face, the best justification for Boston's decision to commit to their best two-way center and one of the league's premier blueliners for the long haul resides in next summer's unrestricted free agent class.
Or rather, it doesn't reside there — as in, there are no quick fixes to be found among potential UFAs. As Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Sun pointed out today, with Joe Thornton re-upping this weekend with San Jose on the heels of Bergeron and Chara re-signing in Boston, "GMs looking to remake their teams will be shopping in a shallow pool of talent" next summer.
Imagine a world where the Bruins lose lucrative bidding wars for Bergeron and Chara on the open market. If they don't win the Bergeron bidding, they probably don't get the job done with Brad Richards, who's truly the only would-be UFA center comparable to Bergeron. Would you want to see the Bruins spend their freed-up money on Tim Connolly or Michal Handzus?
Then you look at the back end, where Chara is 100 percent irreplaceable. Tomas Kaberle, Andrei Markov and Ed Jovanovski could be available. Good luck maintaining one of the league's stingiest defenses with one of those guys plugged in as a No. 1 at the top of Boston's depth chart filled with third and fourth Ds.
This is the trend that has become more prominent every year since the second summer after the lockout. Teams keep retaining their home-grown stars and even agreeing to long-term extensions with their acquired veterans. In their minds, they're willing to risk some major cash and give a player the security of multiple guaranteed years in order to avoid the uncertainty of importing talent from other organizations.
The free agent classes of 2012 and beyond should be even thinner than 2011, as this trend intensifies and pretty soon the only way for a major name to change teams will be via trade. A trade, of course, requires giving up assets to add some. That can be a tough way to build up an organization.
If I've written it once, I've written it 100 times (or at least 50 times) — in order to maintain the legitimacy of the franchise and guarantee its position as a top-tier team for the better part of this decade, the Bruins had to get those deals done with two of their most valuable all-around players. You cannot blame the Bruins for being proactive and generous with Bergeron and Chara, you can only pity teams that are hoping to land a big fish or two next summer and beyond.


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Code reviews/critiques are welcomed and requested.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2002
Fetch a random web page from a list of URLs. Waits a random length of time between fetches.
Written with two purposes in mind:
* log internet connectivity
* nail up analog dial connection
Mostly the latter, so my ISP won't drop my connection during looong downloads.
There are a number of commandline options+arguments. Perhaps the more interesting are
From a Perlish perspective, this has been an exercise in rand, IO::Tee and Proc::Daemon, plus Getopt::Long bobs that I ended up not using. I started out "use"ing Proc::Daemon, but had to copy+tweak subs from it to allow logging-to-file while daemonized.
Thanks to tye, fletch, tachyon, lemming, chmrr and others for tips and suggestions. And as always, constructive criticism is welcome and invited.
This script is derived from one of the examples I developed for the chapter of my book that introduces the SOAP::Lite module.
It posts a journal entry to the journal system at use.perl.org, without using the browser interface, and without faking a POST to the CGI interface. It uses instead the still-alpha SOAP interface that use.perl currently offers.
All elements of the SOAP request may be specified on the command-line, including entry subject, whether to enable comments, uid and passwd, and the option of reading the entry from a file (the default is to read from STDIN, filter-like). It also will attempt to set the authentication credentials from your Netscape cookie file. But as I said, those can be set by the command-line (and the cmd-line switch overrides the Netscape cookie).
In a first-response to this code posting, I will post a XEmacs defun (which should also work under GNU/Emacs) that I use to post from within XEmacs by selecting the text I want to upload into the region. More on that in the follow-up node.
The use Perl; site is starting to
provide SOAP interface support to the journal system there.
Much of the interface is still alpha, and I'm trying to help
out pudge by testing what he has, and offering suggestions
here and there as I run into things.
This is a simple demonstration/proof-of-concept script that
uses SOAP::Lite and XML::RSS to turn the last
15 journal entries from a given user into a RSS 1.0 syndication
Caveats: There is not yet an interface for turning a nickname
into a user-ID, so you have to provide the user ID as the first
(and only required) parameter to the script. You may provide
the nickname as the second parameter. The titles and such are
very simple, as this goes for minimal network traffice over
feature-bloat. But it's mostly for illustrative purposes. As
the interface fleshes out and becomes more stable, I expect
to have a more functional version of this. Oh, and it writes
to STDOUT, making it suitable as a filter to other XML/RSS
processing apps.
A lot of web applications rely on this
non-standard behavior in browsers so I
think it would
be a good idea to integrate this to LWP.
See Redirect after POST behavior in
LWP::UserAgent differs from Netscape for reference.
Look for the XXX marker in the code to see where this code
differs from the one in LWP::UserAgent.
Kudos to dws for his help when I became inevitably entagled. Sadly, I have yet to attain CGI-zen.
Use of this module is very simple with the replacement of the use base qw/CGI::Application/; pragma with use base qw/CGI::Application::Session/;. All data to be stored and retrieved should be placed within the $self->{'__SESSION_OBJ'} hash. Additional new method parameters include SESSIONS_EXPIRY, SESSIONS_NAME and SESSIONS_PATH to set the respective parameters of the client-side ID cookie.
This code can be expanded and improved upon greatly, but it demonstrates a proof-of-concept for session utilisation within a state-based CGI engine.
Replacement for the WWW::Search::Google module. I apologise for the scrappiness of the code, but at least it works.
Thanks crazyinsomniac and hacker.
Update 06/03/2002: Surprisingly, this module still works . After all the changes that Google has gone through since the time I first released it, I would expect it to have broken a long time ago, considering it parses HTML rather than some stable format. There's an interesting story at slashdot about googling via SOAP - maybe this is the future direction this module could take?
The following act can act as a HTML script filter, stripping Javascript, VBScript, JScript, PerlScript, etc. from the HTML code.
This weeds out all the "scriptable" events from the HTML 4.01 specifications and all the


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On Trust and Users
Andrew Dillon is dean, GSLIS, University of Texas at Austin, and can be reached by e-mail at email@example.com
I've found myself thinking a lot about trust recently: trust in computers, trust in users and trust in information architects. At first these were just vague rumblings, a concern that all was not quite right, provoked in part by the comments and responses I noted on various lists where otherwise bright people seemed to lose their balance over certain topics (such as "who can call themselves an IA?"). But it came to a head when I read a blog by Kevin Marks (http://epeus.blogspot.com/) entitled "Trust people, not computers." Apparently The Economist ran a report on a study from IBM that shows Internet adoption in a culture has less to do with the classic indices of number of telephone lines or years of education and more to do with the cultural norms related to trust in dealing with others. While the notion of trust has received most attention in work on e-commerce, or academic writing on authenticity and authority, such work is highly localized. Here was a broad sweeping idea about dispositions towards information technology that transcended narrow contexts.
As I write this column I am teaching a class on user cognition and behavior that explores high-level principles governing how users act in information environments. You might think this field has established more than a few such principles over the years. However the process of teaching, as so often happens, has caused me to question many of the assumptions I have made about the trust we can place in users and the information professionals who claim to design for and serve them. It seems to me that the basic ideas of user-centeredness, that we gain reliable and valid design guidance by asking users what they need and which design options they prefer, are difficult to support on the basis of evidence.
Case in point: my students and I have gathered data indicating that early perceptions of usability seem to be heavily influenced by visual appeal or aesthetics and are not accurate indicators of how well people will be able to use an application. We have data showing that early dislike and poor performance with a system can give way, over time, to mastery and even a preference for the poor system over a better-designed alternative. And did you know that a recent German study of user-centered design processes revealed that greater user participation was related to less satisfaction with the resulting design? Add these up and you begin to see that unquestioning acceptance of users' views as the primary basis for designing information systems is simply naïve.
Does this mean we should exclude users? Of course not! They remain our best source of information on what needs to be built and how well a resource works for its intended audience. But much depends on what we ask of users and our abilities to interpret their responses. We must move beyond the unquestioning acceptance of all user data as a true and accurate representation of what needs to be built. User responses are subject to many forces, not all of them clearly recognized by the users themselves or the designers and evaluators who study them. User-centered design advocates have concentrated to date on gaining acceptance of their methods, and while progress has been made, this has been at the cost of strong research into the value and trust we can place in certain types of user data. How many claims for usability, for example, are based on initial reactions to a system? Far too many, from my reading of the literature, and it now appears that in many circumstances, such initial reactions are poor indicators of actual use.
When we design our information spaces and invoke user-centered methods to test and evaluate them, how much consideration is given to the forces that drive the user response at that specific time? A quick usability test is certainly a good basis for gaining impressions but it can hardly tell us more. The most popular usability evaluation method in industry, the Heuristic evaluation method popularized by web guru Jakob Nielsen, is itself a limited, dare I say flawed, method that does not even employ users but rests on an evaluator inferring what a user would do and think (as if these were facts any evaluator really could infer). For me, this raises a whole other question of trust that of trusting professionals who claim to serve the interests of users. It would be a good idea for us to take a critical look at the assumptions and analyses underlying the process of user-centered design.
Practicing user-centeredness requires more than asking users for their opinions or their time. It requires us to truly understand the complexities of user behavior and the forces that shape human actions and responses. William Horton remarked at IA 2000 that our designs often reflect our unconscious mistrust of users. It is about time that we raised the basis for such trust or mistrust to the conscious level. I suspect such an examination would cast doubt on many of the assumptions we have made about user-centeredness in this and related fields. Is the field of information architecture up to that challenge?
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One of the most rewarding gift options at Nyack College and Alliance Theological Seminary is scholarship funds. Investors who donate to our Student Support Fund contribute to education, as well as leadership development. You will be able to follow the progress of recipient students as they learn and grow. It is an unforgettable way of giving and when you hear from students, you'll be fully persuaded that your gift is a personal victory you share with scholarship recipients.
Our goal is to provide opportunities—within and outside of the classroom setting—that will help make a student's dreams become realities. Scholarship awards, based on financial need and outstanding academic performance, are an integral part of this goal. Our scholarships are not handouts, but a means of rewarding deserving students who demonstrate strong academic and leadership qualities. Students who qualify, based on need, can become the first generation college graduates in their families. Together these qualifiers build our population of students from diverse backgrounds and experiences who have a common goal of a Christian education.
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While the revolution in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and other North African countries may seem like an "Arab revolt", it's actually worldwide.
Protests involving thousands of protesters have recently been held in:
- Halabja, Kut, Sulaimaniya and other Iraqi towns
- And elsewhere
Predicted Years Ago
The worldwide riots are not mysterious or unforeseeable. They've been predicted for years, and are a direct result of the bad policy choices made by most nations worldwide.
The Bank for International Settlements – the world's most prestigious financial agency, nicknamed the "central banks' central bank" – warned in December 2008 that the bailouts and other bank rescue programs were putting nations were transferring risks from private companies to nations.
As I noted at the time:
BIS points out in a new report that the bank rescue packages have transferred significant risks onto government balance sheets, which is reflected in the corresponding widening of sovereign credit default swaps:
The scope and magnitude of the bank rescue packages also meant that significant risks had been transferred onto government balance sheets. This was particularly apparent in the market for CDS referencing sovereigns involved either in large individual bank rescues or in broad-based support packages for the financial sector, including the United States. While such CDS were thinly traded prior to the announced rescue packages, spreads widened suddenly on increased demand for credit protection, while corresponding financial sector spreads tightened.
In other words, by assuming huge portions of the risk from banks trading in toxic derivatives, and by spending trillions that they don't have, central banks have put their countries at risk ….
Specifically, nations around the world decided to bail out their big banks instead of taking the necessary steps to stabilize their economies (see this, this and this). As such, they all transferred massive debts (from fraudulent and stupid gambling activities) from the balanced sheets of the banks to the balance sheets of the country.
The nations have then run their printing presses nonstop in an effort to inflate their way out of their debt crises, even though that effort is doomed to failure from the get-go.
Quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve is obviously causing food prices to skyrocket worldwide
(and see this, this and this).
But the fact is that every country in the world that can print money – i.e. which is not locked into a multi-country currency agreement like the Euro – has been printing massive quantities of money.
By way of example only, the Economic Collapse Blog provides the following charts:
The U.S. is printing lots of money…..
The Bank of England is printing lots of money…..
The EU is printing lots of money….
Source: The ECB
Japan is printing lots of money…..
China is printing lots of money…..
Source: The People's Bank of China
India is printing lots of money…..
Moreover, the austerity measures which governments worldwide are imposing to try to plug their gaping deficits (created by throwing trillions at their banks) are causing people world-wide to push back.
As I warned in February 2009 and again in December of that year:
Numerous high-level officials and experts warn that the economic crisis could lead to unrest world-wide – even in developed countries:
- Today, Moody's warned that future tax rises and spending cuts could trigger social unrest in a range of countries from the developing to the developed world, that in the coming years, evidence of social unrest and public tension may become just as important signs of whether a country will be able to adapt as traditional economic metrics, that a fiscal crisis remains a possibility for a leading economy, and that 2010 would be a "tumultuous year for sovereign debt issuers".
- The U.S. Army War College warned in 2008 November warned in a monograph [click on Policypointers' pdf link to see the report] titled "Known Unknowns: Unconventional 'Strategic Shocks' in Defense Strategy Development" of crash-induced unrest:
The military must be prepared, the document warned, for a "violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States," which could be provoked by "unforeseen economic collapse," "purposeful domestic resistance," "pervasive public health emergencies" or "loss of functioning political and legal order." The "widespread civil violence," the document said, "would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security." "An American government and defense establishment lulled into complacency by a long-secure domestic order would be forced to rapidly divest some or most external security commitments in order to address rapidly expanding human insecurity at home," it went on. "Under the most extreme circumstances, this might include use of military force against hostile groups inside the United States. Further, DoD [the Department of Defense] would be, by necessity, an essential enabling hub for the continuity of political authority in a multi-state or nationwide civil conflict or disturbance," the document read.
- Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair said:
"The global economic crisis … already looms as the most serious one in decades, if not in centuries … Economic crises increase the risk of regime-threatening instability if they are prolonged for a one- or two-year period," said Blair. "And instability can loosen the fragile hold that many developing countries have on law and order, which can spill out in dangerous ways into the international community."***
"Statistical modeling shows that economic crises increase the risk of regime-threatening instability if they persist over a one-to-two-year period."***
"The crisis has been ongoing for over a year, and economists are divided over whether and when we could hit bottom. Some even fear that the recession could further deepen and reach the level of the Great Depression. Of course, all of us recall the dramatic political consequences wrought by the economic turmoil of the 1920s and 1930s in Europe, the instability, and high levels of violent extremism."
Blair made it clear that – while unrest was currently only happening in Europe – he was worried this could happen within the United States.
[See also this].
- Former national security director Zbigniew Brzezinski warned "there's going to be growing conflict between the classes and if people are unemployed and really hurting, hell, there could be even riots."
- The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff warned the the financial crisis is the highest national security concern for the U.S., and warned that the fallout from the crisis could lead to of "greater instability".
Others warning of crash-induced unrest include:
- The head of the World Trade Organization
- The head of the International Monetary Fund (and see this)
- The head of the World Bank
- Senator Christopher Dodd
- Congressman Ron Paul (radio interview on March 6, 2009)
- Britian's MI5 security agency
- Leading economic historian Niall Ferguson
- Leading economist Marc Faber and billionaire investor Jim Rogers
- Leading economist Nouriel Roubini
- Leading economist John Williams
- Top trend researcher Gerald Calente
- European think tank Leap2020
Unemployment is soaring globally – especially among youth.
And the sense of outrage at the injustice of the rich getting richer while the poor get poorer is also a growing global trend.
Countries worldwide told their people that bailout out the giant banks was necessary to save the economy. But they haven't delivered, and the "Main Streets" of the world have suffered.
As former American senator (and consummate insider) Chris Dodd said in 2008:
If it turns out that [the banks] are hoarding, you'll have a revolution on your hands. People will be so livid and furious that their tax money is going to line their pockets instead of doing the right thing. There will be hell to pay.
Of course, the big banks are hoarding, and refusing to lend to Main Street. In fact, they admitted back in 2008 that they would. And the same is playing out globally.
As I noted earlier this month:
Agence France-Press reports today:
The International Monetary Fund stands ready to help riot-torn Egypt rebuild its economy, the IMF chief said Tuesday as he warned governments to tackle unemployment and income inequality or risk war.
No wonder former U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski … warned the elites that:
For the first time in human history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive. There are only a few pockets of humanity left in the remotest corners of the world that are not politically alert and engaged with the political turmoil and stirrings that are so widespread today around the world.
America needs to face squarely a centrally important new global reality: that the world's population is experiencing a political awakening unprecedented in scope and intensity, with the result that the politics of populism are transforming the politics of power. The need to respond to that massive phenomenon poses to the uniquely sovereign America an historic dilemma: What should be the central definition of America's global role?
[T]he central challenge of our time is posed not by global terrorism, but rather by the intensifying turbulence caused by the phenomenon of global political awakening. That awakening is socially massive and politically radicalizing.
It is no overstatement to assert that now in the 21st century the population of much of the developing world is politically stirring and in many places seething with unrest. It is a population acutely conscious of social injustice to an unprecedented degree, and often resentful of its perceived lack of political dignity. The nearly universal access to radio, television and increasingly the Internet is creating a community of shared perceptions and envy that can be galvanized and channeled by demagogic political or religious passions. These energies transcend sovereign borders and pose a challenge both to existing states as well as to the existing global hierarchy, on top of which America still perches.
That turmoil is the product of the political awakening, the fact that today vast masses of the world are not politically neutered, as they have been throughout history. They have political consciousness.
Politically awakened mankind craves political dignity, which democracy can enhance, but political dignity also encompasses ethnic or national self-determination, religious self-definition, and human and social rights, all in a world now acutely aware of economic, racial and ethnic inequities. The quest for political dignity, especially through national self-determination and social transformation, is part of the pulse of self-assertion by the world's underprivileged
We live in an age in which mankind writ large is becoming politically conscious and politically activated to an unprecedented degree, and it is this condition which is producing a great deal of international turmoil.
That turmoil is the product of the political awakening, the fact that today vast masses of the world are not politically neutered, as they have been throughout history. They have political consciousness.
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