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In the world chess championship match that ended Friday in India, Norway's Magnus Carlsen, the cool, charismatic 22-year-old challenger and the highest-rated player in chess history, defeated local hero Viswanathan Anand, the 43-year-old champion. Mr. Carlsen's winning score of three wins and seven draws will cement his place among the game's all-time greats. But his success also illustrates a paradoxical development: Chess-playing computers, far from revealing the limits of human ability, have actually pushed it to new heights.
The last chess match to get as much publicity as Mr. Carlsen's triumph was the 1997 contest between then-champion Garry Kasparov and International Business Machines Corp.'s Deep Blue computer in New York City. Some observers saw that battle as a historic test for human intelligence. The outcome could be seen as an "early indication of how well our species might maintain its identity, let alone its superiority, in the years and centuries to come, " wrote Steven Levy in a Newsweek cover story titled "The Brain's Last Stand."
But after Mr. Kasparov lost to Deep Blue in dramatic fashion, a funny thing happened: nothing. Amateurs didn't throw away their sets, and professionals didn't switch careers. In fact, just about the only people who quit chess after the match were the IBM IBM 1.53 % computer scientists, who moved on to other challenges. Chess went back to the way it was before—with one big difference.
Before the Deep Blue match, top players were using databases of games to prepare for tournaments. Computers could display games at high speed while the players searched for the patterns and weaknesses of their opponents. The programs could spot blunders, but they didn't understand chess well enough to offer much more than that.
Once laptops could routinely dispatch grandmasters, however, it became possible to integrate their analysis fully into other aspects of the game. Commentators at major tournaments now consult computers to check their judgment. Online, fans get excited when their own "engines" discover moves the players miss. And elite grandmasters use computers to test their opening plans and generate new ideas.
This wouldn't be very interesting if computers, with their ability to calculate millions of moves per second, were just correcting human blunders. But they are doing much more than that. When engines suggest surprising moves, or arrangements of pieces that look "ugly" to human sensibilities, they are often seeing more deeply into the game than their users. They are not perfect; sometimes long-term strategy still eludes them. But players have learned from computers that some kinds of chess positions are playable, or even advantageous, even though they might violate general principles. Having seen how machines go about attacking and especially defending, humans have become emboldened to try the same ideas.
Computers have gone so far that the top human players are now those who most often play the moves that would be chosen by the best engines (which sport names like Houdini, HIARCS and Rybka). Magnus Carlsen's biographers dub him the "hero of the computer era." Indeed, a study published on ChessBase.com earlier this year showed that in the tournament Mr. Carlsen won to qualify for the world championship match, he played more like a computer than any of his opponents.
The net effect of the gain in computer skill is thus, ironically, a gain in human skill. Humans—at least the best ones—are getting better at playing chess. And there are far more top players than ever before. Today there are about 1, 500 grandmasters, more than twice as many as in 1997, and they come from over 80 countries. Twenty-two of them earned the title before reaching the age of 15.
When the first international rating list was published in 1971, the only player rated over 2, 700 was Bobby Fischer. (In chess ratings, a 100-point advantage corresponds to an almost two-thirds chance of winning a match.) Fischer went on to beat Boris Spassky in their celebrated 1972 world championship match. In 1974 there were two players with 2, 700 ratings: Fischer and his successor Anatoly Karpov. Even by 1997 there were just eight.
Nowadays an entire website is dedicated to tracking the 50 or so players who on any given day are rated 2, 700 or higher. On the eve of the current match, Mr. Carlsen was No. 1 with a rating of 2, 870, the highest of all time. (Garry Kasparov, who retired in 2006, is the second-highest-rated ever; he was No. 1 in the world for nearly 20 straight years.)
Many chess fans and experts believe that ratings are higher today because of "inflation"—a generally higher drift caused by statistical quirks. Fischer is only No. 13 on the all-time ranking list, but he dominated his opposition more than Messrs. Kasparov or Carlsen. During his own qualifying matches, Fischer destroyed two of the world's top players by unheard of 6–0 scores. But the moves Fischer played may not have been any better than those of Messrs. Carlsen or Kasparov. Indeed, according to computer analysis, his moves were probably a bit worse. This doesn't diminish his achievements in any way; perhaps if Fischer had continued to play after 1972, or had the help of today's computers, his play would have become even stronger.
There is another reason today's elite chess players are probably better than their predecessors: Hardly a week goes by now without a top-level tournament. There is a World Cup of 128 players, a Grand Prix series of six tournaments and a number of independent events in traditional chess meccas like London, Moscow and the Netherlands, and in new ones like Beijing and St. Louis. More top-level experience means that there are more opportunities to learn from one's mistakes.
Chess is also more popular than ever before among children. The extravaganza known as the SuperNationals, which combines the kindergarten through high school championships of the U.S. into one quadrennial event held in Nashville, features over 5, 300 competitors. The variety of chess apps for computers and mobile devices is tremendous, and schools increasingly include chess in the curriculum or as an enrichment program.
After Mr. Kasparov lost to Deep Blue, the Boston Herald's front page screamed "You Lose, Man!" But the game of chess didn't lose a thing. As in other fields, human chess skill has been complemented and augmented, not replaced, by machines. The result has been new levels of understanding and popularity for one of the oldest human pastimes. The championship reign of Magnus Carlsen will bring to fruition this new era in chess.
—Mr. Chabris is a chess master, a psychology professor at Union College and the co-author of "The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us." Mr. Goodman is an international chess master, a chess teacher in New York City and the co-author of "Man Versus Machine: Kasparov Versus Deep Blue."
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When was chess computer first used?
A chess computer is a machine that can play chess without human input.
The first stand alone chess computer was the Chess Challenger which was first used in 1977.


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Fernando Apesteguía: Álvaro, tell us about your background, your work, what do you do in your free time.
Álvaro: I'm currently working for a software development company , but I'm not very happy, I'm searching for better opportunities :). In my little free time, I'm still developing and learning with my computer. These days, apart from AMSN, I'm developing some webs for mobile devices and dealing with a Nokia 770 that has been just given to me. Other of my hobbies are the motor world and karting.
FA: How did AMSN begin?
A: 5 years ago, in my second year at university, I already used Linux for all my tasks, but I needed to communicate with my partners with MSN Messenger to develop a project. In those days Gaim was the instant messaging tool par excellence, but I wasn't completely sure about it.
Making a search, I found a tcl/tk based program named ccmsn (Compu's Messenger), which was an MSN Messenger clone for Windows , rather simple, and I started to use it. While I used it I learnt a bit of tcl/tk and I worked to fix bugs and to add new features.
I sent the modifications to the program's author to be included on it, but he never answered and we have no news about him from then. So I published the modified program in a web site (I included the source code, of course, that in this case it is the program itself since it is interpreted). I renamed it "Alvaro's Messenger" (AMSN), a tribute to the original Compu's Messenger (Compu is the nick name of the author).
The program collected quite success, and soon other people that had written modifications for ccmsn got in contact with me to join our efforts. We registered the project at SourceForge, and we continued the development from there.
FA: How many people is involved in the project?
A: Officially, there are 19 registered developers in the project, at Sourceforge. The fact is that some of them are inactive (nowadays I spend not much time on it), but several others help us by means of mail lists, forums, patches, etc. And all this not counting the translators for more than 40 available languages.
FA: Which development model do you use and how long do you take for a new release?
A: We don't use any specific model. We can say that everything is based on reliability and merits. Developers have full access to CVS (version control) to modify code at their own. Changes are viewed by others in the mail list to verify that everything is ok.
Some veteran developers perform organization and task assignment functions, but it is not mandatory. Nobody pays for our work, so we do it to learn and to fulfill. If it is not funny, it makes no sense to do it :).
We also provide a Wiki to document some parts of the project, trackers for bugs, tasks, etc and an automatic bug delivery system when an error occurs while running the application.
About versions, we have no fixed periods. When we start a new version, we add new features. There is a moment when this creative brainstorming comes to a standstill. Then it is the moment to fix unresolved bugs. When we estimate the new version is stable enough, we prepare it and it is released.
We have suggested several times to keep a "stable" branch to release versions more often to fix bugs or to add little features, and other "unstable" branch to make the major changes. However it is a complication. In general, we recommend to use the CVS version (development version updated every day) because this is the version that developers use day by day. So it is rather stable and it incorporates the latest features. If an important problem happens it is usually fixed very fast.
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Jake Kazdal (left) and Paul Acevedo
At E3 this year we interviewed Ben Vance and Borut Pfeifer, two members of 17-BIT about their upcoming Xbox Live game Skulls of the Shogun. Yet we still had much to learn about the unique multiplatform strategy title, and so 17-BIT kindly invited us to visit their studio during the week of Casual Connect Seattle. One of the highlights of the visit was our interview with Jake Kazdal, studio founder and Skulls' creative director/lead artist. Check it out after the break!
As you'll learn in the interview, Jake is a big fan of both classic 2D games and Japanese culture. Those two influences have imbued Skulls of the Shogun with a brilliant old-school vibe that we don't see much in modern games. And yet, the team has worked hard to streamline Skulls' gameplay into something far more intuitive and efficient than contemporary strategy titles.
Besides getting to see and hear much more about Skulls of the Shogun, we also enjoyed gazing around the studio itself. Located within a rather interesting neighborhood (complete with live entertainment next door), the 17-BIT studio occupies a vast concrete warehouse. It's rather spacious for a relatively small team, but I'm sure everyone enjoys not being crammed into small cubicles. Interestingly, the studio plans to relocate to Japan if all goes well following their first game's release.
Skulls of the Shogun is due out later this year for Windows Phone, Xbox Live Arcade, and Windows 8. We've got more to share, including new hands-on footage. Stay tuned!


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Saturday, October 4, 2008
Not Dead
In December, I met the man of my dreams. In March I moved in with him, and in April I was offered a job that required we pack our crap and move. In June we moved and started our new jobs, and in August we were married!
My job is a good, but very stressful one (at times - I'm hoping that improves). With all that has been going on, I haven't done any blogging - here, or any of the other 5 blogs I run!
I have, however, been doing plenty of cooking. And now that cool weather is upon us again, I've been doing a bit more baking as well. I hope to catch up here, and maybe I will try to re-join Daring Bakers.
Hope all has been good in your lives!
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I hope everything is going well! Notice you haven't posted anything new in a while, but your molasses oatmeal cookies are great!
- October 10, 2011 at 10:37 AM
hi there! i like your blog. i found it a half a year ago and i was fascinated of the joe froggers recipe. today i tried it and i guess i absolutely failed. i live in austria and it took some time to find 'molasses' here and also i am still not sure what is meant by 'shortening'. my dough looked, to be honest, like elephants crap. i had to add all the other ingredients except of the molasses and.. what should i say.. they went out quite fine. i still call it a fail because mine just do not look like yours and i guess the taste also isnt the same.
but please, dont stop blogging here. i am one of your fans, ok? ;)
all the best,
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CHICAGO — A Cerberus Capital Management LP-led investor group agreed to acquire Supervalu Inc.'s Albertsons, Acme, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's and Star Market grocery stores in a transaction valued at about $3.3 billion.
CHICAGO — A Cerberus Capital Management LP-led investor group agreed to acquire Supervalu Inc.'s Albertsons, Acme, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's and Star Market grocery stores in a transaction valued at about $3.3 billion.
Cerberus also will lead a group to conduct a tender offer to buy as much as 30 percent of Supervalu's common stock for $4 a share in cash, the companies said today in a statement. After the transactions are completed, Sam Duncan, the former chairman and chief executive officer of OfficeMax Inc., will become CEO of Supervalu, replacing Wayne Sales, the companies said.
The third-largest U.S. grocery chain has eliminated jobs and accelerated price cuts at stores as it struggles to keep pace with discounters including Wal-Mart Stores and Target. Supervalu sales have fallen for three straight years and are forecast to drop 4.5 percent to $34.5 billion in fiscal 2013, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The company's holdings include six Shaw's and Star Market locations on the Cape. Last year, the chain cut 700 jobs at Shaw's and Star.
"For Supervalu, especially the remaining business, there's no signs at all of stabilization," Scott Mushkin, an analyst at Jefferies & Co. in New York, said. "Save-A-Lot has deteriorated" and margin is narrowing in the company's distribution business, he said.
A positive from the deal is that the remaining business will be less capital intensive to run because some Save-A-Lot locations are operated by licensees, Mushkin said.
The company reported Thursday that revenue fell 5 percent to $7.91 billion in the three months ended Dec. 1, according to a separate Supervalu statement. Sales dropped at its traditional retail food banners and at Save-A-Lot locations, it said.
Supervalu rose 12 percent to $3.40 at 12:50 p.m. in New York. The Eden Prairie, Minn.-based company's shares tumbled 70 percent last year.
The sale leaves Supervalu with the Save-A-Lot chain, the company's largest with about 1,300 stores across the country, as well as the Cub, Farm Fresh, Shoppers, Shop 'n Save and Hornbacher's regional chains. It also has a wholesale business that distributes groceries to food retailers.
Cerberus already owns some Albertsons stores. In 2006, the New York-based private-equity firm had led an investment group that bought more than 600 Albertsons — including in Dallas, Florida and Northern California — as part of Supervalu's acquisition of the chain, a deal valued at $17.4 billion at the time.
The group buying the five grocery chains, and their related Osco and Sav-on pharmacies, also includes Kimco Realty Corp., Klaff Realty LP, Lubert-Adler Partners and Schottenstein Real Estate Group.
Kimco, the largest owner of U.S. neighborhood shopping centers, already owned a 13 percent interest in the joint venture that owns a portion of Albertsons, according to New Hyde Park, New York-based Kimco's latest quarterly regulatory filing. It is investing $76.5 million in the venture, the company said Thursday in a statement.
Kimco invested $51 million in 2006 in the investment group for the part of Albertson's and that investment has returned $245 million, Rich Moore, an analyst with RBC Capital Markets in Solon, Ohio, said.
"What you have here now is an opportunity to maximize the value of the real estate," Moore said. "There's no one who knows it better."
Investors buy grocery-anchored shopping centers because they are seen as less vulnerable to slumps in the economy. Centers that have the best grocery store in the market attract other tenants, such as sandwich shops and dry cleaners, helping boost landlords.
"Everybody goes to the grocery store," Moore said. "There will be no time where grocery stores don't work."
Supervalu announced in July that Goldman Sachs and Greenhill were advising it on strategic alternatives and that it would suspend its dividend and reduce near-term capital spending. Later that month, Supervalu named Sales, a board member at the time, to replace Craig Herkert as chief executive officer.
During the review of alternatives, the company attracted interest from billionaire Ronald Burkle, as well as private-equity firms KKR and TPG Capital, people with knowledge of the matter have said. Supervalu had asked potential buyers to bid for the entire business while suitors inquired about individual parts of the company, people familiar with the matter said in August.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 210 diseños de 71 diseñadores freelance.
Gifts On Time
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We are an online startup delivering gifts sent on behalf of businesses/professionals to their clients on their most important dates (Birthdays, Anniversaries, etc). Our service is a tool businesses can use to forge stronger relationships with their client base and thereby generate referrals for their business as well as increase retention rates. Gifts are shipped directly from suppliers that we have relationships with and arrive precisely in time for the target person's special day. Great quality premium products, great service, reliable delivery.
We aim to be the Amazon.com for business to consumer gifting.
Our target market for this service are businesses with 1-10,000 staff. They are predominantly white collar workers engaged in professional services (accountants, lawyers, salesmen of all stripes) as are the decision makers who buy our products. This logo should appeal to the busy professional who is looking for a business development tool. It must communicate the value of our service as something of value to growing their businesses.
We are looking for a modern logo using image and text. The text is "Gifts On Time" along with a byline "Presents of mind. Delivered". We are willing to see designs both with and without the byline included although the preference is with the byline. The imaging is up to you.
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Chieftains sweep Redskins, 3-0, in season opener
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After a see-saw first game, the Wapakoneta Redskins could not topple the Bellefontaine Chieftains on Tuesday in varsity volleyball action in the season opener at home.
The two teams battled throughout the first game until the Chieftains put it away 25-21. The second game followed the first until Bellefontaine took control and pulled away with a 25-17 win. They then dominated the third game, 25-14, to sweep the match 3-0 in Redskins varsity volleyball coach Amy Ruppert's first game directing the program.
The Wapak offense struggled to click most of the match, which made it more difficult to mount any rallies to challenge the Chieftains.
"The disappointment for me is we are running a 6-2 which means our setter is coming from the back row, which is supposed to give us three hitting options in the front row, however I didn't get any middle production out of our middle hitters," Ruppert said. "I had two kills out of the middle all night so our 6-2 is really struggling.
"I would like to think that is the good old case of the nerves," she said.
Senior Erin Schnell and junior Josie Miller led the Redskins with four kills apiece, while senior Lyndsi Whitmore, junior Sarah Horman and sophomore Addy Gray each had two kills.
"I felt like Josie had a good game," Ruppert said. "She had a total of four kills but we have some plays and while the play is not always coming to her she was playing solid and right where she needed to be."
Bellefontaine varsity volleyball coach Tara Zedeker said she liked her squad's progression through the games.
"Dominating the court is something we actually have been working for toward the preseason having the confidence we need because we have the talent so now we just have to pull it together as a team," Zedeker said. "This was our first game, first day of school so I think we were up against some nerves at first, but I knew we could do it. I guess the important thing is they did, they accomplished what they wanted and they just took it from there. They really started to build on that and that is all a coach can ask for."
Despite the opening loss, Ruppert picked up some areas of strength.
"I think some of the positives are service was pretty strong and we are an aggressive serving team," Ruppert said, mentioning the play of sophomore libero Jadyn Nuss. "We run a running float serve which is hard for the defense to pick up on and because of the way we serve I expect some of the balls to go long on us."
The junior varsity Wapakoneta Redskins won in exciting fashion by scoring the last four points in the third game to win 26-24 and win the match 2-1 over Bellefontaine.
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STROUDSBURG — With a little more than two years on the job as Stroudsburg's football coach, Joe Bernard has submitted his resignation.
The Mounties' coach was hired in February 2011 but furloughed as a junior high school math teacher after the 2011-12 school year. He has not worked in the classroom since.
"There's no question, I am sad," said Bernard, who next year is taking an assistant coaching job and teaching job at Carolina Forest High School in Myrtle Beach, S.C. "It's something that I didn't want to do. I planned on being here when I took the job two years ago."
Bernard, 49, said he planned to teach and coach at Stroudsburg until he retired but he lost his teaching job after one year.
During the 2012-13 school year, Bernard said he collected unemployment while continuing to coach football. He said he plans to leave for Myrtle Beach on Wednesday.
"I understand his decision to leave, I fully understand that," Stroudsburg Superintendent John Toleno said. "We wrestle with the staffing side and asking someone like Joe to stay on a football salary, I hold no ill feelings at all."
Bernard made less than $5,000 coaching football.
On the field, Bernard led Stroudsburg to its second straight Mountain Valley Conference title in 2012, and over two seasons accumulated a 19-5 record.
His only loss in two years of MVC play came at the hands of Pocono Mountain East, a 7-3 loss on Sept. 23, 2011.
All the success on the field didn't parlay into a teaching position for Bernard. He had hoped to be the high school's next athletic director as longtime AD Beth Ross has announced her retirement at the end of the 2013 school year. In the job description, the school board didn't want a coach to serve as AD as well.
Bernard realized at that time his future at Stroudsburg was in jeopardy.
"I think at times I was misled," Bernard said. "I was always hopeful that something could work out. Obviously the furlough at the end of the (2012) year caught me way off guard. That's something no one can control.
"Some of the discussions we did have it became apparent over the last month that it wasn't going to work out."
Bernard was hired prior to the 2011 season to take over for longtime football coach Fred Ross. Bernard led the Mounties to a 9-3 record that year and the MVC title.
In 2012, Stroudsburg won 10 games for the first time since 1995. In both seasons, Bernard was the Pocono Record's Coach of the Year.
"He's done a great job here," Toleno said. "He's a driven person who has done an outstanding job for our kids."
But the district couldn't keep one of its most successful coaches because it didn't have a job in the school.
"You go through being sad, being mad, being frustrated," Bernard said. "The one thing at the end of the day, it's about the kids. They have to be resilient and move on."
Bernard met with the team Monday morning and told them he was resigning. He also told them they had the pieces in place to win a third straight title.
"It's unfortunate I'm not going to be here to see it through," Bernard said. "I have all the confidence. My fingerprints are all over this program now. They know what to do, they just have to carry it out."
Toleno said the school will evaluate its options and go forward.
"Our goal is to have someone in place as quickly as possible so there's no question who is leading the program," Toleno said.
Stroudsburg football coach Joe Bernard resigns to take job in Myrtle Beach
STROUDSBURG — With a little more than two years on the job as Stroudsburg's football coach, Joe Bernard has submitted his resignation.


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Your heart is a pump that moves blood through your body. Heart failure occurs when blood does not move well and fluid builds up in places in your body that it shouldnt. Most often, fluid collects in your lungs and legs. Heart failure usually occurs because the muscles of your heart are weak.
Below are some questions you may want to ask your doctor or nurse to help you take care of your heart failure.
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What kinds of heath checks do I need to do at home and how do I do them?
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- When should I do these checks?
- What supplies do I need?
- How should I keep track of my blood pressure, weight, and pulse?
What are the signs and symptoms that my heart failure is getting worse? Will I always have the same symptoms?
- What should I do if my weight goes up? If my legs swell up? If I feel more short of breath? If my clothes feel tight?
- What are the signs and symptoms that I am having angina or a heart attack?
- When should I call the doctor? When should I call 911?
What medicines am I taking to treat heart failure?
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How much activity or exercise can I do?
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Do I need to go to a cardiac rehabilitation program?
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October 1, 1950 - March 26, 2013
Lagrangeville, NY
Charles Hunter "Chip" Hoagland, a Dutchess County resident since 1984, died on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, from a rare progressive-degenerative neurological disease. He was 62.
Son of Elizabeth Jo Hunter and Charles B. Hoagland, he was born on October 1, 1950, and grew up in Bath, NY.
He is survived by his wife, Vicky Pittman; his mother, three daughters, two sons, five grandchildren, two sisters, nephews, and many loving family and friends.
Chip was a carpenter. He specialized in historical restoration and restored quality homes in the Hudson Valley. He was a community activist and advocate. He participated in politics for the greatest good. He walked his talk and left his mark on the environment, education, equality, constitutional rights, and the aesthetic beauty of the community for its citizens.
Calling hours are from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday, April 1st at McHoul Funeral Home, 1089 Main St., Fishkill, NY. A memorial service is at 5 p.m., Tuesday, April 2nd at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, you may make a donation in memory of Chip Hoagland to Tick Born Disease Alliance (TBDA) 244 5th Avenue, Suite 1450, New York, NY 10001 OR Union Vale Democratic Committee, P.O. Box 8, Verbank, NY 12585.
For directions, online condolences and memorial donations, please visit Chip's Book of Memories at www.mchoulfuneralhome.com.


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The Seattle SuperSonics announced today that the team has assigned guard Mickael Gelabale to the Idaho Stampede of the NBA Development League.
Under the affiliation system with the D-League, NBA teams can assign up to two players who are rookies or in their second season to their D-League affiliate. Players can stay with the D-League team for as long as the team wishes, and be recalled back to the NBA at any time. A player can only be sent to the D-League a maximum of three times during the season.
The Stampede, the D-League affiliate for the Sonics and the Portland Trail Blazers, are coached by Bryan Gates, who worked as an assistant for the Sonics during summer league play in Las Vegas and Salt Lake City this past July. Idaho will play host to Bakersfield on Dec. 26 and Anaheim on Dec. 28.


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May 2011
When I looked at the Drupal statistics in Wikipedia, the first Drupal conference at Antwerp on Feb 2005 had fewer than 50 people attending. The last conference at Chicago this March, over 3000 attendees. What a huge growth. The upcoming Drupal Con in London happens this August. The tickets just started to be sold but I already feel the heat: 350 proposed sessions are submitted.
I have never been at a Drupal conference. I hope this is a chance to attend a Drupal conference, and it would be wonderful to be there as a speaker. My proposed session is "How to make out of the box Drupal products". I also quote the proposal here:
How to make out-of-the-box Drupal products?
What is out-of-the-box
A Drupal out-of-the-box package, also called "install profile", consists of collections of Drupal core, modules, themes and associated configuration settings for a specific usage. The best part of it is that you can use right after installation. Some popular Drupal install profles are OpenPublish, Drupal Commons, Open Atrium, Managing Ne...


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FY11 Access to Artistic Excellence (part 2)
Announced May 17, 2011
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, $100,000
To support a national tour of concerts and educational activities. Works to be performed will include composer Arthur Honegger's opera (semi-staged) Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher (Joan of Arc at the Stake), Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, Joan Tower's Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, and Jennifer Higdon's Percussion Concerto, all conducted by Music Director Marin Alsop.
Berkeley Symphony Orchestra (consortium), $15,000
To support music instruction for school students and Family Concerts. In partnership with the Berkeley Unified School District, plans include music lessons for students that will perform with the symphony in Family Concerts.
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, $25,000
To support recordings of works by American composers. The world premiere releases of orchestral works by composers Stephen Hartke, Leon Kirchner, and Scott Wheeler will be recorded on three separate discs.
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, $35,000
To support a touring program. Concerts and educational programs will take place in rural communities in Texas such as Glen Rose, Waxahachie, Killeen, Mesquite, Stephenville, Graham, and Southlake.
Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support Sound Discovery, a music education program. The project involves open rehearsals with Lido©, an illustrated conductor's baton, that will be presented to students and adults; Friday Nights for Generation X, Y and Next performances; Music Discovery Experience; and Symphonic Concerts for Children, designed for students in the third through fifth grades.
Louisville Orchestra, $20,000
To support education and community outreach programs. Plans include the Heuser Hearing & Language Academy Residency for pre-schoolers with hearing impairments, the MakingMUSIC Partnership for fourth- and fifth-grade students, and the High School Residency Partnership with an area high school.
Madison Symphony Orchestra, $12,500
To support HeartStrings, a community outreach project by an ensemble of the orchestra's professional string musicians that will provide residency programs and perform interactive recitals for underserved and special-needs communities. Through 90 residency programs reaching 20 to 25 participants during each session, more than 2,800 children and adults with special needs will participate in the project.
Mercury Baroque Ensemble, $12,000
To support Mozart Under the Stars, a free outdoor concert in Houston's Hermann Park. The 16-member orchestra, under the direction of Artistic Director Antoine Plante, will perform a concert program that will include Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade No. 13 for Strings in G major, K. 525).
Minnesota Orchestra (consortium), $50,000
To support free outdoor community concerts. A partnership with the Plymouth Civic League, the project will feature performances in Plymouth, Excelsior, and Winona, Minnesota, and in Hudson, Wisconsin.
Nashville Symphony, $32,500
To support a recording project featuring works by composer Roberto Sierra. Conducted by Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero, the orchestra's live performances of Sierra's Sinfonia No. 4, Carnaval, Fandangos, and Alegria will be recorded in the Schermerhorn Symphony Center and the compact disc will be released on the Naxos label.
New Haven Symphony Orchestra, $25,000
To support a recording project featuring works by composer Augusta Read Thomas. The orchestral works to be recorded will be Radiant Circles (2010); Absolute Ocean (2008), for soprano, harp, and chamber orchestra; Prayer and Celebration (2006); and Daylight Divine (2001) for soprano, children's chorus, and orchestra.
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, $20,000
To support community outreach concerts for young audiences and families. Venues will include the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, Elizabeth High School, Sussex County Technical School in Sparta, and the Roberto Clemente School in Paterson.
New York Youth Symphony, $40,000
To support Growing Music, a comprehensive new music educational performance project with concerts in several venues in New York City. The orchestra will perform premieres of new works as a way to educate young musicians through works by emerging composers.
Orchestra Nova San Diego, $15,000
To support a webcast recording project by Orchestra Nova San Diego. Concert performances, conducted by Artistic Director and Conductor Jung-Ho-Pak, will be held at the Irwin M. Jacobs Qualcomm Hall, recorded and broadcast for free viewing on the Internet.
The Philadelphia Orchestra (consortium), $50,000
To support Neighborhood Concerts. In partnership with the City of Philadelphia, the orchestra will perform free concerts and ancillary activities in several Philadelphia locations, including City Hall and the Capitolo Park and Playground, reaching underserved and non-traditional audiences.
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (consortium), $45,000
To support an archival project in partnership with WQED Multimedia. More than 3,000 recordings of performances, rehearsals, and radio broadcasts by the orchestra in Heinz Hall since 1971 will be preserved, including commissions and premieres, such as the 1984 world premiere of John Harbison's Ulysses' Bow, conducted by André Previn.
Rhode Island Philharmonic (consortium), $30,000
To support Philharmonic on Fire, a free festival concert on the riverfront with bonfires on the water, where the Providence, Moshassuck, and Woonasquatucket Rivers meet. In partnership with WaterFire Providence, the orchestra's live performance will replace the 90-minute recorded soundtrack used during previous festivals.
Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra (consortium), $20,000
To support an educational outreach program featuring Carnegie Hall's LinkUP! for Music Orchestra Rocks program. The orchestra, in partnership with the Sacramento City Unified School District, will present the performance and education program in 16 schools.
Saint Louis Symphony, $27,500
To support the expansion of Music Without Boundaries, a community outreach program. The project will result in deeper partnerships with the diverse communities of immigrants living in the St. Louis metropolitan area.
San Diego Symphony, $35,000
To support a touring performance project in Southern California. The project will be led by Music Director Jahja Ling and will be the orchestra's first tour in Southern California outside of San Diego.
San Diego Youth Symphony & Conservatory, $15,000
To support Community Opus Project, a music education and outreach program. The project will provide beginning strings instruction to Latino students, incorporating their families into the music making experience.
San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, $15,000
To support the premiere of a new work by composer-in-residence Gabriela Lena Frank, in collaboration with playwright Nilo Cruz. Based on a Peruvian folk tale, Isicha and the Pistago will be developed for youth audiences and their families and performed as part of the orchestra's free-admission Family Concert Series.
San Francisco Symphony (consortium), $100,000
To support The American Orchestra Series, the orchestra's 100th anniversary celebration, which will feature six orchestral residencies at Davies Symphony Hall. In partnership with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the project will feature the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, and Philadelphia Orchestra in performances and related educational activities.
Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, $10,000
To support Stories in Music, a performance outreach project for children and families. The project will feature storyteller Joe Hayes as narrator in a bilingual (English and Spanish) presentation of Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and the traditional Latin American tale La Llorona with music by Antonín DvoÅák (Water Goblin) and Engelbert Humperdinck (The Witch's Ride from Hänsel und Gretel).
Seattle Symphony (consortium), $50,000
To support ACCESS, an outreach performance and education program for underserved communities. In partnership with Seattle School District No. 1, the orchestra will engage children and families in diverse neighborhoods of Seattle.
South Bend Symphony Orchestra, $13,000
To support the Dake Summer Chamber Music Academy, a music educational program for high school youth. The non-residential program will offer participants daily master classes, ensemble coaching, classes, and performances with orchestra musicians.
Spokane Symphony, $15,000
To support Bestfest, a two-day community music festival which will be presented in the Fox Theater Spokane. Programming will range from orchestral and chamber concerts to jazz and folk music.
Tucson Symphony Orchestra (consortium), $10,000
To support the Southern Arizona Residency. In collaboration with the Bisbee Community Chorus, the project will consist of a public concert with an accompanying educational component and in rural communities in southern Arizona.
Vermont Symphony Orchestra, $15,000
To support the Made in Vermont Music Festival Tour of performances in underserved rural communities. The project will present orchestral programs and educational outreach activities and include a premiere of a commissioned work by native Vermont composer Robert Paterson.
Arkansas Repertory Theatre Company, $10,000
To support a production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The production will be staged on the grounds of the 105-acre Wildwood Park botanical garden with incidental music performed live by the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra.
ArtsMemphis, $30,000
To support the production of a series of arts events featuring Memphis arts organizations and artists for the benefit of identified underserved communities. In addition to selected individual artists, among the several arts organizations participating in the series are Ballet Memphis, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Opera Memphis, and Playhouse on the Square.
Carnegie Hall (consortium), $100,000
To support performances and educational activities by Ensemble ACJW, the performance arm of The Academy, a competitive professional development program for young musicians. In partnership with the Juilliard School, plans include performances at Carnegie Hall, Juilliard, and Skidmore College, and educational activities in 20 public elementary, middle, and high school auditoriums.
Center City Opera Theater, $22,000
To support the East Coast premiere of Il Postino by composer Daniel Catán. The opera will feature newly commissioned reduced orchestration to be performed by players from Orchestra2001, a new music ensemble based in Philadelphia, and will be presented in Spanish in Camden's Gordon Theater and Philadelphia's Perelman Theater.
Eastern Music Festival, $15,000
To support artists fees for the 50th Anniversary Eastern Music Festival. The five-week summer festival of more than 100 performances of orchestral, chamber, and jazz will feature artists including soprano Susan Graham; violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg; pianists Andre Watts, Mischa Dichter, and Jon Nakamatsu; cellist Robert Vernon; and NEA Jazz Master Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.
From the Top, $35,000
To support educational outreach activities. Musicians that appear on From the Top, the weekly classical radio program, will take part in Cultural Leadership workshops as well as perform concerts in school classrooms and community venues.
Lawrence Children's Choir (consortium), $17,500
To support a multi-generational outreach project for pre-school and elementary students and senior citizens. In partnership with the Lawrence Chamber Orchestra, student choirs will join a senior citizen's choir for two performances at a retirement facility.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools (consortium), $30,000
To support the educational outreach program Passport to Music: Porous Borders, using music and storytelling to explore the roots and range of Cuban music. A partnership with the Cleveland Orchestra, the project will include activities for teachers and students from elementary to high school grade levels.
Oregon Bach Festival (consortium), $15,000
To support a touring performance project by the Oregon Bach Festival musicians in Ashland, Bend, Eugene, and Portland. In partnership with the Portland Baroque Orchestra, programming will feature period performances of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas under the direction of the orchestra's Artistic Director Monica Huggett.
Ravinia Festival, $12,000
To support Reach*Teach* Play, community outreach and education programs for children and adults. The Ravinia Festival Association will continue its partnership with the Lawndale community to bring music performances and education to Chicago's West Side through free lawn-passes for underserved residents; One Score, One Chicago, an initiative that introduces new audiences to classical masterworks; and Words and Music, which involves pre-concert lectures at public libraries throughout the city.
Rush Hour Concerts at St. James Cathedral, $10,000
To support a free chamber music festival of summer concert performances at the historic St. James Cathedral in downtown Chicago. Early-evening chamber concerts will be presented every Tuesday during the summer months with artists selected from a roster of musicians from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Chamber Musicians, and Fulcrum Point New Music Project, as well as artists from across the country.
Seattle Theatre Group, $40,000
To support Art in the Community. Mark Morris Dance Group, with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, will perform The Hard Nut; Intiman Theatre will perform Black Nativity; and artists will also participate in master classes, discussions, and school residencies.
Sphinx Organization (consortium), $10,000
To support Sphinx Journeys, a weekly local radio broadcast. In partnership with the Detroit Educational Television Foundation (WRCJ 90.9 FM), approximately ten one-hour episodes, hosted by Sphinx founder and President Aaron Dworkin, will explore the musical works of American composers of color through discussions with conductors, musicians, and composers, as well as through a variety of studio and live performance recordings.
University Musical Society, $70,000
To support Changing the Game: Mavericks and Innovators in the Arts. The project will consist of a series of residencies and performances in dance, music, and opera with artists including director Robert Wilson, choreographer Lucinda Childs, NEA Opera Honoree Philip Glass, and the San Francisco Symphony.


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A BlankTV Premiere Presentation:
SVETLANAS - "Tales From The Alpha Brigade"
Artist Bio:
The Svetlanas were a punk band active in 1977. Their real identity was revealed only in 2008 on a tabloid. This is their story.
In the seventies,the Svetlanas worked for KGB: the main police organization in the Soviet Union. They were spies,informers,fighting agents to whom was assigned the task of stealing the military secrets of the most powerful nations in the world. In 1977,during their last cover show in the United States, a flawed amplifier triggered a 3000V discharge: the four members of the band,hit by the violent electric shock,went into a coma. The hospitalization was immediate, such as the decision of KGB to steal their bodies and hibernate them, in order to preserve the secrecy of the mission. The Svetlanas were transported inside cryogenic rooms, on a merchant ship bound for URSS, but, during the navigation, the ship mysteriously sank in the ocean. Nobody knows what really happened to Olga, Kirill, Jurij and Stanislav for the following thirty years………until an english tabloid revealed, by a scoop, the real story of the band. After the fall of the Soviet Union and the disappearance of KGB,the Svetlanas decided to clean break with the past and created their new identities, trying to integrate themselves in the society with their new lifestyles. They moved to Milan, had some plastic surgery operations and attended some intensive italian language courses. At the moment the Svetlanas, with their new names of Angela, Sporte, Diste and Steve, have recreated the band, dedicating themselves full time to what before was just a cover.
"They could have changed their aspect and accent but I swear on God that their approach to music is still gross and strong like a Vodka shot" -Malcom McLaren
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New Tea... New Year, Open for business!
Hello all, been a while since I've posted, we've been quite busy on our local market here in Miami. We just wanted to share that we are also open for business :)
We are a local, Miami based, tea company that just launched in October. We have around 30 blends many of which we are proud to say are developed by ourselves (more my wife). We also have a 'traditional' tea line that is non-blended, traditional tea we are proud of (my favorites).
Take 15% off your order using this code at the end of the check out process through February 28, 2013. "steepsterdeal"
David & Gaby
Very nice lineup! Thanks for the coupon code, very tempting! I'm eyeing that Coconut Grove blend
Will have an order from me soon. I need a 20oz gravity infuser and some of your teas look delicious such as the Blushing Geisha and Coconut Grove.
Congratulations! Very happy for you looking forward to trying your teas!
Gaby and David, you've won me over! I grew up in South FL and love the names for your teas (i.e. Coconut Grove, Miami Mango, and Citrus Sunshine). They sound incredible.
Expect an order from me in February. I have some teas in my (teeny tiny) cabinet that I need to sip through first…if I can manage to wait that long!
I may have overlooked it, but how large are the tea tins? I just adore your logo!
The tea comes bags but the tins hold up to 2-3oz I believe depending on the type of tea..
Does your company accept Gift Credit cards? It's a long story but I am limited to just that as a means to purchase stuff online.
Hi Lynxiegrl, I'm not sure how we would do it. We could totally have you send us the card before we send the tea, no real way to verify, then we could ship you the tea. You can also try putting that in as a credit card, not sure if that works.
I think I will give that a try sometime this spring, after my self imposed ban against buying tea til March/April lifts and that I have drunk down a significant amount, and after I make a few other orders that I promised myself. When you send you the card…do you mean send the card information thru email? As for setting it up like a credit card, that could also work.
LOL…Maybe, but both my wallet and cupboard are thanking me at the moment:) Actually breaking my promise to go buy some, (Not saying where :p)today but only because there are alot that I want to try.
Lynxiegrl, lots of good tea out there to try – thats part of the beauty of tea, just hope you try ours one day as well!
David, if your store has a presence on Amazon Lynxiegrl can try going that route.
we currently don't have our product on Amazon, we may look into it though. Thanks Denise.
Exciting news! Salivating over Cha Cha Chai already…
Somehow I was not able to locate a place where you enter the coupon code?
Your tea is on the way! Let us know what you think :)
US only at the moment correct?
not a problem, just wanted to check. I have a friend who may be coming to visit at some point this year so i'm sure i can convince him to transport tea for me haha


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OAK BAY — Hugh and Janice Finlayson have a long history with the Oak Bay Beach Hotel, so when the Vancouverites decided to buy a pied-a-terre in Victoria, it was a no-brainer where they would want it to be.
Plenty of condominiums in the downtown core beckoned, but the couple decided their weekend getaway should be in a less urban setting, especially as their Vancouver home is located near the hurly-burly of Granville Island.
"I lived here for a year and a half in the mid 1980s and always liked Victoria," said Hugh, who often stayed at the Oak Bay Beach Hotel when he returned here on business. "So when I met Janice, we continued that tradition and got married here, too.
"We have a long attachment here and love the location. It's almost a sanctuary — and when the hotel announced it was going to redevelop and have condos, we were immediately interested."
He and Janice, both high-level human resources professionals from Saskatchewan, enjoy the environment and jog almost every morning along the waterfront. "Being on the water is so serene, yet we are close to a great community, so it feels homey," said Janice.
They were the first to buy into the project in 2007, and were able to make some major changes to their unit.
Although the hotel had a designer who created the overall vision, the Finlaysons hired Andrew Barker, from Vancouver, to be their personal designer and do additional customization. His ideas included vaulting the ceiling, adding beams in the living room, contemporary cabinetry and counters in the kitchen and bathrooms, changing all the light fixtures, adding millwork in the library and master bedroom, creating a new fireplace surround and commissioning a custom live-edge dining table, that he designed.
"The living-room ceiling was not vaulted in the original plans. It was flat and we asked if we could open it up, as we were on the top floor of this part of the building," said Hugh.
"We wanted a unique West Coast feel but also something that paid tribute to the historic nature of an old English manor. So the beams are in keeping with the history of the building while the table is very contemporary West Coast. It came from a tulip wood tree that fell down in Kitsilano. My uncle, since (deceased), was a tremendous craftsman, so this table is our homage to Jim, too."
"Andrew really helped us mix and match, and gave us those unique features we wanted, such as the library."
Both the owners are big readers, and one of Hugh's Scottish ancestors had a degree in classics and collected many rare books. Hugh has added to the library and also collects fine antique maps. "Andrew designed a library and the craftsmen at Swiftsure did a tremendous job."
An unusual feature in their library is the foldaway bed. The owners originally thought of a typical wall bed, but learned of an Italian pivot design that is used in high-end European and New York apartments. The Italian LGM wall bed is made by Clei and the design allows it to rotate out from the wall. It also incorporates a flip-out desk. The mechanism and mattress were imported, but the woodwork was done by Swiftsure.
All the hotel's residences come with designer kitchens and bathrooms in colour schemes of either mocha (darker) or chai (lighter), but this couple wanted a personalized look. They choose Caesarstone (crushed quartz) countertops like the ones they have at home in Vancouver.
They finished their home with an eclectic mix of artwork, including a sentimental piece that used to hang on the hotel's second-floor landing. They bought it when the old hotel was being demolished and many pieces were being auctioned off. "We used to laugh every time we saw it, because one of the cows looked like it was floating and smiling at us," Janice explained.
It was a great project to work on and an interesting space, said Barker, who was intrigued when the owners said they wanted a contemporary take on a traditional British manor.
"Janice likes clean lines, not a lot of clutter, and Hugh responds to a more traditional look, so we had an interesting tension. We created a very contemporary kitchen and bathrooms and a more traditional bedroom and library. The living room has both aspects: a Tudoresque ceiling and West Coast modern dining table."
Barker removed a door in the hall to allow laundry access from the second bathroom instead, and allow more wall space for a mini gallery and also tweaked the bathroom. "I used more contemporary cabinets and floated them, so there was space underneath to add strip lighting for a soft glow. We didn't lose space because we now build drawers in a U-shape to fit around a sink trap," he said.
Because the 1,180-square-foot, corner unit is used as a vacation home, it has a less formal look. "The owners don't require as much clothes storage, and don't plan to do a lot of entertaining here. It's a place to kick back, relax, read books."
The library is a tiny room he packed with functionality.
"Everyone was quite amazed at what we got in, and a rolling library ladder was added to elevate the whole room."
Janice said they feel blessed to live in this part of the world. "We have friends with places in Palm Desert, but I'm not so sure about that. We feel we are part of a community here, and after all the cities we've visited, this is truly spectacular."
The hotel aspect, with all its amenities, is an added bonus after a long day of meetings. They include a concierge, spa, fitness centre with mineral pools and steam room, maid and butler service.
The hotel also has a dinner theatre for live performances and movies, a restaurant, pub and rooftop viewing area with summer food and beverage service, called the Widow's Walk.
"The old hotel always had long-term guests," said Brad Neufeld, director of real estate and club sales. "So we thought, let's formalize that and create the opportunity for an exclusive lifestyle within a five-star hotel setting.
"We even have a chef who can come up and cook for the owners, present a meal and clean everything away."
All units have high-end appliances, such as Wolf Stoves and Subzero fridges, as well as solid wood floors and granite countertops. Three floors of underground parking provide owners with individual, oversized garages, for complete security and extra storage, and monthly strata fees are about 50 cents a square foot.
The 20 residences vary in size from 900 to 2,300 square feet.
The hotel also has managed residences — full-title suites that produce year-round rental income, and can be used by owners for up to four months per year.
"Operating costs are paid by the hotel and it's a great way to own a getaway property to enjoy on your own terms," said Neufeld.


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text: We told you last week that we'd be seeing more of the Nokia N9, and sure enough, a short little video overview of the device was published today. We're not exactly sure how much there is to be learned from the video considering we know that the N9 will never ship with S60 (the OS it is seen running in the film), but at least we have video evidence that Nokia still knows how to make a solid piece of hardware. Hit the jump to check out the N9 in action.


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Recently I've found that jacking up my STi has been a lot easier when doing so from the pinch weld of the car. However, I quickly realized that using a standard floor jack could cause possible damage to the pinch weld. Therefore, I've created a pinch weld adapter for my floor jack using a hockey […]
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Writing macros, a series of lessons (2 of…)
So I ended the last lesson by having you discover the frustration of making your own list of commands. It is to laugh, how it doesn't cycle in alphabetical order, but instead bounces back and forth intolerably, isn't it? Much like trying to tab-target through a multi-mob, actually. Fortunately, I misled you when I said there is no definitive list. You know this if you read Cogwheel's guide already. See, he (and a bunch of volunteers) have a fairly comprehensive list (though it is incomplete, and we'll get to that in a bit) of commands.
Now, before we dig deep, you need to know a few minor things so you can put it all together – basically, we're doing a bit of terminology. To begin, a minimum macro is a command. For example:
You may not have used this one, so I'll tell you it send both voice and chat-window message. Oh, and a visual gesture, but it's too similar to a bunch of other emotes to be of any use. And heck, you could tie that to a key (we'll get there in a later lesson) to help build a clue-by-four for the fast-moving tank. (As another aside – it announces you're low on mana, not out of mana. Truth in advertising…) That said, there is a lot more to a macro. There's a structure to a macro. That structure is:
Now, I need to digress a moment to explain computers and programming. Yes, programming – a macro is a program. But anyway… when you write a program for a computer, it helps to keep in mind a simple analogy. Your computer is, in many ways, like a precocious three year old toddler. You do not tell your child "Go wash your hands," and expect it done right – especially not right away. Instead, "Go to the bathroom and turn on the hot AND cold water. Get your hands wet, front and back up and over the wrists. Put some soap on your hands and rub them together, then rub those soapy hands over the wet parts of your hands so they're all soapy. Then put your hands back under the water to rinse off all the soap. Turn off both the hot and the cold water. Pick up the towel and dry your hands. If you splashed water on the counter, use the towel to dry that, too. Put the towel BACK on the rack, and come back to me." Or to be redundant – They will do exactly what you tell them, all of what you tell them, and nothing that you don't tell them. Now part of telling them what to do is knowing the syntax – the sequence and pattern of words and symbols the computer comprehends. Again an analogy – If someone asks you for a coke, you can use context to know if they want a carbonated sweet drink or a Coca-Cola (or … let's not go there, ok?) If the computer has ONE definition for coke and it's Coca-Cola and you're a Pepsi drinker… sorry, you didn't get what you expected. Thank you for your patience with that digression.
Now, some commands aren't allowed any options – the example above being one. Some commands have a VERY limited set. Some are… a lot more flexible. We'll get there, but let's start by splitting our syntax just little further. We're going to divide our options into two subcategories: conditionals and parameters.
We'll get into conditionals more deeply later – they're the part that really gets to making brains explode in macros – but I think you need a handle. So, a conditional is a portion that says, basically, "If this is true, do the command." Go back up to the 'washing the hands' example above. "If you splashed water on the counter…" is a conditional. The idea is simple, the details are what make it complex. So, complexity later.
Parameters are, basically, limiters. They constrain and explain the command. /sigh, I see that confused some of you. OK, constrain. Constraints include the target of the command. Explaining the command… if you give the command /say and nothing else, then you get silence. If it's
/say Well this is another fine mess you've gotten us into.
Then you get, well, you get the same as though you'd opened the chat window and typed the "well this…" into it.
Now, for MOST commands, the only target parameter you're allowed is target – either your current target, or a target you specify at the time of command. No wildcards, no 'that target I'm keeping in reserve', none of that. Note that in some cases the target can only be a player. And in some cases the target is an oddity – for example, many chat commands can have channel as a target. Most, however, is not all. And in essentially every case, the exceptions are in the "secure command" list.
Secure commands are the ONLY commands Blizzard allows you to use to:
- cast a spell
- use an item
- change your action bar page
- affect your target in ANY way
And, secure commands are the only ones that allow conditionals in their parameters. Needless to say, most of the macros you make to be more effective in play are going to use secure commands.
Unlike the complete list, we know the whole lists of both secure commands and conditional options. Copying from Cogwheel, the current list of secure commands is:
- #show
- #showtooltip
- /assist
- /cancelaura
- /cancelform
- /cast
- /castrandom
- /castsequence
- /changeactionbar
- /clearfocus
- /cleartarget
- /click
- /dismount
- /equip
- /equipslot
- /focus
- /petagressive
- /petattack
- /petautocastoff
- /petautocaston
- /petdefensive
- /petfollow
- /petpassive
- /petstay
- /startattack
- /stopattack
- /stopcasting
- /stopmacro
- /swapactionbar
- /target
- /targetenemy
- /targetfriend
- /targetlasttarget
- /targetparty
- /targetraid
- /use
- /userandom
Yes, there are a couple of oddities in there, but I'm going to save that brain expansion for later – I want to expand your mind at a controlled rate, not so fast it's an explosion. With that said, here's the currently complete list of conditionals, again courtesy of Cogwheel:
- help – Can cast helpful spells on the target
- harm – Can cast harmful spells on the target
- exists – Target exists
- dead – Target is dead
- stance:0/1/2/…/n – In a stance
- stealth – Stealthed
- modifier:shift/ctrl/alt – Holding the given key
- button:1/…/5/<virtual click> – Macro activated with the given mouse button
- equipped:<item type> – item type is equipped (item type can be an inventory slot, item type, or item subtype)
- channeling:<spell name> – Channeling the given spell
- actionbar:1/…/6 – Given action bar page is selected
- pet:<pet name or type> – The given pet is out
- combat – In combat
- mounted – Self explanatory
- swimming – Self explanatory
- flying – Mounted or in flight form AND in the air
- flyable – In a zone where flying is allowed
- indoors – Self explanatory
- outdoors – Self explanatory
- party – Target is in your party
- raid – Target is in your raid/party
- group:party/raid – You are in the given type of group
And now I'm going to leave you hanging. You're welcome – in fact, encouraged – to go seek info on your own. But here's today's stop. See, the next step is actually building the macros, and while the first macros will be fairly simple there are some simple but necessary things involved… Basically, I have to explain what I mean when I tell you to wash your hands (grin). It'll include using the /macro command, and using key bindings. But that's for the next time. For now,
Go have fun.
=== added later ===
Parameter, option, and conditional are not blizzard's terms (as far as I know). They're the handle Cogwheel stuck on them. And sometimes he flips what part is parameter and option, though not very often. I'm sticking to his majority use to attempt to reduce confusion over the long run during this series. You are not required to use these terms when conversing with macro experts, much less when you're talking to yourself about 'why doesn't this work'? Just a point of info.
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wonderfull OHdung button:-) Is there an icon that looks like a pile of dung? I can't wait for lesson 3or4;-)
1. what is the reason for leaving out the /targetlasttarget?
2.a To cast these 2 spells, would I have to click on the ohdung button twice?
2.b if yes to 2a, if I click on the ohdung once, then again after 31seconds, will I fade again?
3. lets assume that I want to add fear as spell3 BUT…I want to keep the reset=30 for the PW:S, but change to reset=10 for fade i.e. I want 30seconds between fade and PW:S, but only 10s between PW:S and fear.
great series of posts! thanks
Well now that I have a basic understanding and know where the (secured commands) are and what they are..I'm going to /get a beer/get a penciel/get paper/do homework.. I forgot the command for popping the top of the beer, but thats not a command I really need to hear.


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Jury nears deliberations in NYC cannibal-plot case
NEW YORK (AP) — A jury that's been bombarded with ghoulish online talk and images of women being cooked alive, sex with dead people and human-flesh feasts will now have to decide the kidnapping conspiracy case against a New York City police officer without hearing testimony from him.
Gilberto Valle opted Tuesday not to take the witness stand in federal court in Manhattan, cutting short the defense case and making it likely that jurors will get the case before the end of the week.
"It is my desire not to testify, that's correct," Valle responded when asked by the judge about the decision.
The defense rested on Tuesday in the trial's second week also without calling experts that had been expected to testify about Valle's mental state when he engaged in a cannibalism fetish.
The evidence already showed that "this is all fantasy role play," defense attorney Robert Baum said outside court. "Gil had nothing to add to that really ... except to say 'I didn't do it.'"
Lawyers are due back in court on Wednesday to discuss jury instructions before closing arguments set for Thursday in a case that's made Valle a tabloid sensation. Valle faces a possible life term if convicted on the kidnapping count.
Valle, 28, was arrested in October after his wife discovered the chats on his computer and fled their home, turning a computer over to the FBI in Reno, Nev.
The government has conceded that Valle never met the purported Internet co-conspirators and that no women were harmed. But they argue he took concrete steps to carry out abductions of his wife and former college and high school classmates, including researching potential victims on a restricted law enforcement database.
During the government's weeklong case, jurors viewed a staged video of a screaming naked woman being tortured with a blow torch. They also heard about how Valle and another man discussed how best to cook and eat a woman, with the man suggesting a meal eaten with a severed head as a centerpiece.
The defense relied on only three witnesses, all on Tuesday. Most of the testimony came from Sergey Merenkov, the Russian founder of a fetish website used by Valle.
The testimony by Merenkov, 34, was recorded using Skype from Moscow after he refused to travel to New York for the trial. Sitting in a leather chair, wearing a black T-shirt and speaking in Russian, he frequently leaned back in and put his hands behind his head, and sipped from a coffee cup as explained how he and partners started a website in 2010 to create a Facebook-like environment for people with kinky fantasies.
"We saw a niche in the market. So we decided to jump in and create the website for these people that have similar interests," he said. Merenkov called sexual asphyxiation the "main fetish" but said cannibalism and sex with dead people also were popular on the website, which is "oriented to people with fetishes that are not considered to be standard."
He testified that of the 38,000 members, about 4,500 are active users who commonly engage in role-play on the site, such as when a woman poses as a witch and a mob of 10 or more angry villagers prepare to hang her.
"The girl could write, 'I'm shivering from fright. They're pulling me to the noose. I can feel the rope already on my neck,'" he testified.
On cross examination by Assistant U.S. Attorney Randall Jackson, Merenkov said he did not know anything about Valle when the FBI contacted him last fall. He said he tried to find communications involving Valle but they apparently were lost when Valle quit the website in September.
"Who was it that actually deleted Mr. Valle's account? Was it you or was it Mr. Valle?" Jackson asked.
"It was not me for sure," Merenkov answered. "I think it was him."
The prosecutor asked him if some subjects discussed on the website would be illegal if they were carried out, such as sex with dead bodies.
"Yes, but reality is one thing and fantasy is completely a different thing," he responded.
Another defense witness was a paralegal who offered examples of profiles from Merenkov's website. A woman called herself "Vicious-Vixen" said she fantasized about "being executed with a gun and eaten as a meat girl," but added, "I will never meet you in real life."


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Based on these recommendations and with the guidance of an educational specialist the task force reviewed each of the requirements to make sure they aligned with our curriculum objectives, educational practices and Pathfinder ministry goals. During this process there was special focus given to age appropriate requirements and to creating a series of requirements that was sequenced from year to year, allowing the Pathfinder to build on the skills they had previously learned.
The Investiture Achievement requirements are divided into eight sections. Requirements can be met in a variety of ways based on the way the individual Pathfinder learns best. Each year that a Pathfinder is Invested and advances to the next level the sections remain the same as the previous year. However, the activities to fulfill the requirements change, in order to allow each Pathfinder the opportunities to participate in new experiences and challenges and to practice skills and information previously learned.
This Investiture Achievement curriculum moves from a focus on completing requirements (although Pathfinders will complete requirements) to creating a learning environment. For successful implementation directors, instructors and all Pathfinder staff must:
In 2009 the Pathfinder Committee voted to accept the requirements presented as the framework for a new curriculum. Over the next 12 months clubs from across the North American Division piloted the curriculum and gave their feedback to the task force. Based on the feedback received final changes were made and the Pathfinder Committee voted in March, 2011 to implement this Investiture Achievement curriculum Division-wide in the Fall of 2011.


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My teachers say I read very good but not excellent though. I was wondering: what exactly is advanced tajweed? Most of the..
Assalaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuhu
Alhamdulillah I am well versed with the rules etc. you have for Hafs 'an 'Aasim except al-ikhtilaas and ar-raum. My teachers say I read very good but not excellent though. I was wondering: what exactly is advanced tajweed? Most of the books I have read (English) claim to cover basic tajweed and it's more or less what you have on this site - although you have some tips and special points/details that the books don't mention. What more is there to tajweed?
Also I have heard on a programme on tv and also the imam in taraaweeh - that if reading and shortening all the madd munfassil then sakt in the four places is omitted. I believe husary and other qurra read like this. Any input?
May Allah bless you and your families for providing this website. I love tajweed and this website is really appreciated. A suggestion - if you could do a similar thing for the other ways of reading that would be really brilliant!
Jazaakallahu khairan kathiran kathira. Wassalaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuhu
Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
Jazakum Allahu khairan for you nice comments. We do intend on adding the other ways of reading, but it is taking much longer than we anticipated.
The lessons on stopping on the ends of words, special words for Hafs, separated and connected words, and female ' written as are considered advanced tajweed (all on this website). There is not much more than what this site contains for Hafs 'an 'Aasim by the way of Ash-Shatibiyyah .
We encourage you to perfect your application of tajweed before trying to learn more of the advanced areas of tajweed, for the correct application of tajweed should be the ultimate goal of all students of the Qur'an. We ask Allah to make easy for you excellence in recitation.
Your second question addresses other ways of Hafs 'an 'Aasmin than the way of Ash-Shatibiyyah and is more advanced tajweed. There are 52 authentic ways for Hafs 'an 'Aasim in Tareeq Tayyibah an-Nashr, which were outlined by Imam Ibn Al-Jazaree. The ways outlined his book are the mutawaatir ways we have left today. Some of the ways have the four (breathless pause) and some ways are read without the some or all of the four . There are different rules and different applications for the special words of Hafs for each authentic way and different lengths of both and for most of the ways. One needs to learn all the rules for each way before attempting to read in one of these ways.
Wa iyyaaakum wa-l-muslimeen.
Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.


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Daddy Bear Gives Us The Twerk Of A Lifetime
Christopher Jones | December 31, 2013
Just when we thought twerking was on its way out... THIS. THIS!!!
Not sure if this video is set-up or if this daddy bear was truly caught by his wife twerking when he was supposed to be getting ready for their Christmas dinner party, but either way, we're completely cool with it.
Twerk away daddy, twerk away...
But seriously though, does this dude not have some rhythm, Instincters?
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Tartine Country Bread 2.0
Recently, I'm reading Chad Robertson's Tartine Bread before sleep. His concept and method in bread baking are unique. I tried the Tartine Country loaf before reading his book, while I decide to try it again sticking to his procedure.
Here's the recipe(I can't get good whole wheat flour here, so I replace it with whole rye flour).
1.Make the leaven. I fed my starter(4g) with 25g bread flour, 25g whole rye flour, 50g water. At 26C, it takes about five hours to pass the floating test.
2.Mix the dough. Mix all the ingredient except salt and 25g water. It's shaggy. Don't worry. Gluten will develop in later procedures. Autolyse for 30 minute. Incorporate salt and the rest of water with the dough by hand. Transfer the dough into a plastic container.
3. Bulk fermentation. At 26C, it takes about four hour and the dough increases 20~30% in volume. Do stretch and fold every half an hour. I did 5 S&Fs. The dough is no longer shaggy but cohesive, which means good gluten development.
4. Shaping. Dough cutter is an useful tool in shaping this kind of wet dough. There's an useful shaping video on youtube, which inspired me a lot.
Initial shaping:In this procedure, we want to incorporated as little flour as possible into the dough. Fold the side of dough onto itself so that the flour one the surface of the dough is sealed on the outside of the dough.The outer surface of the dough will be the crust, so we can use more flour to avoid sticking.
Bench rest: 30min.
Final shaping: Flip the dough so that the floured side is resting on the surface. Shape the dough like folding the envelope. Round the dough on the surface to achieve surface tension. The dough is soft and jiggling, so every movement needs to be gentle. Transfer it to the proofing basket.
5.Final proof. At 26C, it takes about 3~4 hours. At the end of this stage, I was too sleepy, so I popped it into the oven after only 3 hours. However, I think 4 hours might be better.
6.Baking. Preheat the dutch oven 40min before baking. It proves that dutch oven is the perfect device in baking this bread. It can restore heat and trap the moisture, and it's like a auto steam generator. Transfer the dough into the dutch oven and score the dough.(My scoring turns out to be awful.) Remember to wear oven mitts, otherwise it can burn your fingers. Pop it into the oven. Bake with the lid on for the first 15 minute. Take the lid out for the rest 25 minute.
There's a hugh oven spring inside the oven. And the cracking sound is the loudest I've ever heard, which owes to the dutch oven. This time, my loaf is no longer a flat bread. The volume increased a lot, comparing my last trial. The crumb is open, but still has room for improvement. I'm going to make them into some delicious sandwiches for my New Year's brunch.


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As it turns out, this week has one of the few days each year that gets the designation Friday the 13th.
As it turns out, this week has one of the few days each year that gets the designation Friday the 13th.
If I am not mistaken (which I could easily be, but I am not going to do further research) there are three Friday the 13ths in the course of a year.
That's not an exceptional amount of bad luck when you consider there are 52 weeks a year and, if my math is correct, 52 Fridays. That's about the same as the number of Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturday. So why Friday gets the short straw for notoriety, I have no idea.
It probably goes back to the Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Reason or the first run of games in PlayStation, the Age of Two. At any rate, Fridays are given the title and it probably isn't going to go away any time soon.
So how can we get something set up for going the other way? Like, say, Tuesday the 21st for good luck. Maybe it would be better to go on a Wednesday, as in Wednesday the 27th. Then again, Wednesday does already have its own designation as hump day. (It has its own insurance commercial these days, too).
So, Tuesday the 21st it is.
That gets me thinking, how does a person get this done on a national scale? It could conceivably take generations, or even scores of years, using only word-of-mouth. We could probably cut that down to a few decades if we were to get it out by word-of-tweet. I understand that gets things churning quickly.
But back to the subject at hand which was…hmm, seems I never got around to a topic at the beginning of this. That's what one is customarily supposed to do at the beginning of any writing assignment: Begin it. That generally starts with the beginning, but many writers like to start in the middle and jump around driving their editor — and readers — crazy wondering what the topic actually is.
Oh yeah, topic. That magical thing every column needs. Seems that this week, we're out of luck.
If you're still reading this, you just might have the worst luck About the House.
Rob Kinsey has been a licensed builder for 30 years and is a home inspector with nearly 20 years of experience.


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Mar 06, 2018
Frisco ISD is excited to introduce new and unique learning opportunities at select campuses.
FISD plans to implement the International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Programme at Bright Academy, the District's first School of Choice.
The campus will also offer Spanish language enrichment and Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Launch, a pre-career and technical education program focused on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Other features include increased technology, small class sizes and new learning spaces.
The campus will enroll students who live in the Bright attendance zone, as well as interested elementary students from across FISD, starting in the 2018-19 school year. The District will utilize a random lottery to select interested students based on the number of seats available. The admissions form is available now through April 20 for students entering grades 1-5 in 2018-19.
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Coastal towns and villages
Get a map of Spain and pick a spot at random on its nearly 8,000 kilometres of coastline. Wherever it is, it will be close to an attractive coastal town or village that can offer you a unique experience beside the sea. Ports and fishing towns, lush Mediterranean scenery, beaches next to mountains… If you like fresh seafood, go to Galician villages like O Grove, Sanxenxo and Ribadeo. Stroll around elegant towns such as Llanes and Ribadesella in Asturias, or Comillas in Cantabria, with outstanding buildings like "El Capricho", an early work by Gaudí. The Basque Country and Catalonia offer plenty of museums, art and architecture to explore: Bermeo (Bizkaia), Zarautz (Gipuzkoa), Cadaqués (Girona) and Castelldefels (Barcelona) are just a few highlights. Further down the Mediterranean coast, you can discover Peñíscola (Castellón), Mazarrón (Murcia), Nerja (Málaga) and Motril (Granada). Over the water in the Balearic Islands, you can visit the medieval setting of Pollença (Mallorca), or choose the Atlantic Ocean and volcanic landscapes of Teguise (Lanzarote), in the Canaries. Spain offers so many destinations for fun at the seaside, unforgettable scenery and culture, and delicious cuisine.
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…Cotillo, El. Oliva, La. Fuerteventura. (Canary Islands) To the north of the town is an extensive stretch of sand which has attracted tourism and discrete housing developments. El Cotillo, in the northwest of the island o…
Tourist destinations
Corralejo. Oliva, La. Fuerteventura. (Canary Islands) Corralejo is a town situated in the northernmost part of the island of Fuerteventura, in the municipality of La Oliva. Surrounded by an unusual landscape of dunes, th…


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Football time! Another energetic song from me.This time I recorded and bunch of "Hey! vocals and some claps in verses. You can use it for various types of commercials,sport promo videos and advertisements.
- Main file as preview (2:00)
- Version with no claps (2:00)
- Instrumental (no vocals) (2:00)
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Wild on Sports
Detroit Red Wings:
Bury or Buyout? That is the Question
By Wild on Sports Analyst Brian Pierce
I started to look into it, because I was thinking that they could bury the contracts in the AHL with better results. I was right about that, but found something which surprised me and made the Mlive article moot.
Cap hits of a compliance buyout MUST be 3 million or more! This means Bertuzzi and Tootoo would not be eligible for it. In fact only Zetter, Pavel, Franzen, Quincey, Ericsson, Kronner, Sammuelson, and Howard would be eligible for it. The others could go through normal buyout procedure but they would count against the cap.
Obviously Zetter, Pavel, Franzen, Kronner, and Howard aren't going to be bought out. Only Sammy is realistic in my mind. Doing this research I think they definitely will buy him out with a compliance. They have to because I went through and put together a cap roster that has what I consider to be high end realistic cap numbers for the RFA players. Some of these players could realistically get more, including Brunner who might go to another team for bigger money. I also used the cheapest methods to clear the older parts that might not contriubte to the team. This gave me a 22-man roster that doesn't Include Val or Cleary.
My Best Guess
Justin Abdelkader ($1.800m) / Pavel Datsyuk ($6.700m) / Johan Franzen ($3.955m)
Gustav Nyquist ($3.000m) / Henrik Zetterberg ($6.083m) / Damien Brunner ($4.000m)
Tomas Tatar ($0.840m) / Darren Helm ($2.125m) / Patrick Eaves ($1.200m)
Cory Emmerton ($0.533m) / Joakim Andersson ($1.200m) / Drew Miller ($1.200m)
Niklas Kronwall ($4.750m) / Danny DeKeyser ($1.350m)
Jakub Kindl ($3.250m) / Jonathan Ericsson ($3.250m)
Kyle Quincey ($3.775m) / Brendan Smith ($3.000m)
Brian Lashoff ($0.725m) / Carlo Colaiacovo ($2.500m)
Jimmy Howard ($5.292m)
Jonas Gustavsson ($1.500m)
Buyout: Mikael Samuelsson ($0.000m)
Buried: Todd Bertuzzi ($1.150m)
Buyout: Jordin Tootoo ($0.567m)
CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter)
(these totals are compiled with the bonus cushion)
CAP SPACE (22-man roster): $1,565,455
The most notable thing is that this only leaves 1.565 Million in cap space... with Pavel due a massive raise the following year along with others. I cannot see how to keep Tootoo (not that I want to keep him, I hate him) or Val. There could be trades to thin out the Defense in exchange for more cap space, but I do not think the Wings are going to bail on Quincey after the first round pick, Smith is too young to decide on, and you need all the rest of the guys just to be okay.
I also considered buying out Gustavsson, which would still count against the cap... so burying the contract is a better option as he is over 26 and by rule 1/3 of his contract would count against the cap this year and 1/3 would count next year. Sending him down to back up Mrazek would save 925k of cap space which would up the cap to 2.49 Million but then you would either need to bring Mrazek up, which I don't see them doing yet, or sign someone else. They might possibly even sign McCollum to a 1 year deal at minimum which is 550k or more for a vet, and not play him often. This would deduct the cap space spent on a backup from 1.5 million to 1.05 million, saving only 450k. A buyout would cost the Wings 500k this year and 500k next year, which could be crucial. Clearly if they are going to get rid of him, it will be via sending him down... which could create troubles if they need to call someone up. Will the Wings be that desperate for money?
The funny thing is there was a Freep list of potential targets in free agency. Even if all the players listed were signed for much less, I still don't see it possible for them to go and add people. At the very best I could see them adding someone for 2 million or upwards of 5 million if they short others SEVERELY. I do not see anyone that could help the team enough to be had in that range. They will likely sit on the money, add just one depth guy, or maybe bring back Cleary for depth on the cheap. They might short the RFAs 400k collectively and keep Tootoo, but I hope not. If they do, it will be extremely tight and they might even lose Pavel the following year. Though they would likely lose someone else.
Here is the current cap situation without any signings or buyouts.
Before any moves.
Johan Franzen ($3.955m) / Pavel Datsyuk ($6.700m) / Mikael Samuelsson ($3.000m)
Henrik Zetterberg ($6.083m) / Todd Bertuzzi ($2.075m)
Darren Helm ($2.125m) / Jordin Tootoo ($1.900m)
Cory Emmerton ($0.533m) / Justin Abdelkader ($1.800m)
Patrick Eaves ($1.200m)
Tomas Tatar ($0.840m)
Niklas Kronwall ($4.750m) / Kyle Quincey ($3.775m)
Jonathan Ericsson ($3.250m) / Carlo Colaiacovo ($2.500m)
Danny DeKeyser ($1.350m) / Brian Lashoff ($0.725m)
Jimmy Howard ($5.292m)
Jonas Gustavsson ($1.500m)
CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter)
(these totals are compiled with the bonus cushion)
CAP SPACE (19-man roster): $11,957,121
I wrote this whole thing for one reason, to illustrate that with a weak market and the cap restriction, the Wings might have to make tough choices and not add anyone for two years minimum without clearing much more space.
I do not pretend to know what they are going to do but it seems very likely that they are going to have to buyout Sammy.
Finally, it might be the Wings MO to do right by the players and not bury them in the AHL. If that is the case, then Bertuzzi will most likely be bought out and cost 1 million against the cap this year and next, out of principle. Tootoo might cost them 950k over the next four years. The Monster, who was awful, could cost them 750k over the next two years against the cap. This is why I screamed my head off when they signed these contracts. This is why I am worried our progress will be 100% farm based for the next few years. Not that this is a bad thing, just wanted to make this established in our minds, as I haven't seen any journalists who cover the Wings properly paint this picture.
At least they didn't give up a 6th rounder and 4 million for Sergei Gonchar... Maybe there is more reason to keep trusting in Holland.


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Five-star Fuller talks Clemson
Olney (Md.) Good Counsel cornerback Kendall Fuller has been to Virginia Tech, where all his brothers play or played their college ball, many times. But he hasn't been too many other places. That's why his visit this weekend to Clemson was crucial for the Tigers. What was his first impression?
"I liked the visit a lot," said the 6-foot, 185-pounder. "I saw everything, we got there early Saturday and didn't leave until Sunday so I saw the facilities, the stadium, the dorms, all the way down to where the tutors work with players. It was a really good visit, it was my first time there but I will be back."
Fuller, the nation's No. 1 cornerback and a top 5 player overall, took his first visit to a school that wasn't Virginia Tech or Maryland.
"I've been to Tech so many times, it's time to start comparing," he said. "The good thing about Clemson for me was that there wasn't much of a difference between them and Tech. It's in the middle of nowhere, a true college town and it allows you to focus on football and school and stay out of trouble."
Fuller met with all the coaches as well as a few players.
"Coach Scott is my recruiting coach and I met with coach Swinney and coach Harbison the d-backs coach," he said. "They were all down-to-earth and I liked all of them. We also got to meet Sammy Watkins and Travis Blanks and a few other players and there were a bunch of top recruits there as well."
Fuller said he will certainly be back at Clemson again.
"I will take an official there for sure and I might get back once before then," he said. "It impressed me enough to know I'll be back."
So what's next?
"I think we are taking a visit to Tennessee sometime soon, then I have the Rivals/VTO Camp in April and the weekend after that I go to Michigan. I still want to see Alabama, Florida, Florida State, South Carolina and maybe a few others."
Fuller's oldest brother played at Virginia Tech and two of his brothers are currently at Tech, so many assume the Hokies are his leader. How did Clemson stack up?
"I'm keeping an open mind," he said. "I've never said Virginia Tech is my leader, everyone else says it. I have a comfort level there, but I am comparing everything."