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Lohse frustrates Padres' bid to take series
MILWAUKEE -- When you get right down to it, there were a scant few things for Padres pitcher Sean O'Sullivan to really nitpick over in terms of his start Wednesday against the Brewers.
In his second start for his hometown team, O'Sullivan allowed two earned runs over 6 1/3 innings, but a walk early in the game came into play during the Brewers' 3-1 victory over the Padres in front of a crowd of 25,551 at Miller Park.Full Game Coverage
MILWAUKEE -- When you get right down to it, there were a scant few things for Padres pitcher Sean O'Sullivan to really nitpick over in terms of his start Wednesday against the Brewers.
In his second start for his hometown team, O'Sullivan allowed two earned runs over 6 1/3 innings, but a walk early in the game came into play during the Brewers' 3-1 victory over the Padres in front of a crowd of 25,551 at Miller Park.Full Game Coverage
"I think I was too careful with a few guys," said O'Sullivan, who walked three.
The fact is, though, it might not have mattered much with the way Brewers starter Kyle Lohse was pitching.
Lohse (7-7) allowed one run on five hits in seven innings with six strikeouts and set down 14 of 15 hitters in one stretch as the Brewers (42-58) won after dropping the first two games of his four-game series that concludes Thursday.
"He was good; he had a really good slider," said Padres second baseman Jedd Gyorko, who had a second-inning single before Lohse settled into a groove.
"We got a hit here and there, but when you have the command like he had tonight ... it's going to be tough."
One of those hits Wednesday was a big one, as Nick Hundley started the third inning with a home run to left field, his eighth of the season. It was also his second home run in as many days.
"It's good to see some of his swings result in damage," manager Bud Black said.
The rest of the damage, though, was inflicted by Lohse with an assist to center fielder Carlos Gomez, who had four hits in the game, including a two-run rocket of a double off O'Sullivan in the bottom of the third inning.
"He did a good job working both sides of the plate and did a great job of changing speed," Black said of Lohse. "He's been pitching well. We battled him."
O'Sullivan, who is in the rotation for the foreseeable future after Jason Marquis was lost for the rest of the season with a serious elbow injury, got in trouble with walks.
"I have been so good all year with balls in the strike zone," O'Sullivan said. "It's [walks] been very uncharacteristic of me. I'm not a big strikeout guy. Putting guys on base is not part of my game."
O'Sullivan (0-2) walked Jonathan Lucroy to start the second inning. Lucroy then raced to third base when Gomez doubled. But O'Sullivan pitched out of the jam by getting the next three hitters out.
He was not as fortunate in the third inning.
O'Sullivan allowed singles to Rickie Weeks and Norichika Aoki to begin the inning. He was able to strike out Jean Segura, but then issued another walk to Lucroy. That was when Gomez lined a double to straight away center field for a 2-1 lead.
"He's got a little bit of a bulldog in him," Black said of O'Sullivan. "He changed speeds, and he kept the ball down. We just couldn't get any runs for him."
All told, O'Sullivan allowed the two earned runs on seven hits and four strikeouts.
Despite their offensive struggles, the Padres (45-57) kept the game close. The Brewers got an unearned run in the seventh inning when, with runners on the corners, reliever Dale Thayer fired the ball to the third baseman, Chase Headley, who then threw the ball toward second base with the hope of getting the trailing runner.
But the ball hit second-base umpire Bob Davidson in the lower back as the ball trickled into shallow center field. Aoki, who was hit by a pitch to start the inning, raced home.
"We executed the play, but unfortunately for us, Bob was in the way of a thrown ball," Black said, adding "that's the last thing he wanted. He just didn't get out of the way. That's a unique play."
But the story of the game was the way Lohse handcuffed the Padres.
"I thought early on his command was better," Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said. "Usually it takes him an inning to kind of get the command going. I thought it was good from the get-go. I know he threw a lot of pitches to a couple guys. He could have easily got to the eighth inning, but they kept battling, and the pitch count got up there."
Corey Brock is a reporter for MLB.com. Keep track of @FollowThePadres on Twitter.


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Publication Acceptance Date: 7/26/2005
Publication Date: 4/2/2005
Citation: Andrews, K., Zhao, C., Holden, J.M., Perry, C., Schweitzer, A., Wolf, W.R., Harnly, J.M., Dwyer, J., Picciano, M., Saldanha, L., Fisher, K., Betz, J., Yetley, E., Radimer, K., Bindewald, B. Selection of representative multivitamin products based on % daily value levels for specific nutrients. Experimental Biology Conference, April 2-6, 2005. Interpretive Summary:
Technical Abstract: A process for identifying representative multivitamin products based on specific ingredient levels has been developed using the dietary supplement files from the National Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey (NHANES) 1999-2000 data set. Six high priority (Tier 1) nutrients (folic acid, vitamins C, A and E, calcium and iron) were evaluated. The nutrient levels in all multivitamins (containing 3 or more vitamins) that contained at least one of the Tier 1 nutrients were converted to their % Daily Value (% DV), which are the recommended daily amounts based on a 2000 calorie diet. For each of the six nutrients, a distribution of %DV levels vs. weighted frequency of use showed 3-4 major % DV levels in the products. The 3 top % DV levels for folic acid were 75%, 100%, and 250%. For Vitamins A, E and C, the range for the most frequently used % DV was 50-400%. The most common % DV levels for iron in multivitamins were 100%, 50%, and 150%. In contrast, for calcium containing multivitamins, the most common calcium level consisted of 16% DV, with 20% DV and 10% DV being the next most common. Five products representing each of these % DV levels were chosen for analysis in order to test for any systematic relationship between label values and actual values. This project was funded by ODS/NIH Y4-HV-0051-05.


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Donna Karan's Home in the Turks and Caicos is a Showroom for her Urban Zen Collection
Donna Karan's Home in the Turks and Caicos is a Showroom for her Urban Zen Collection
Donna Karan is on the December cover of Architectural Digest discussing her Balinese health resort-inspired vacation home in the Turks and Caicos—a gift to her late husband, Stephan Weiss.
Karan uses the Parrot Cay retreat (equipped with a yoga pavilion and a spa villa) as a personal sanctuary and a place to feature the organic home furnishings sold to benefit her Urban Zen Foundation. Karan started the foundation in her husband's memory to promote the integration of Eastern healing with Western medicine. Her three Urban Zen store locations—in New York City, Sag Harbor, and Ketchum, Idaho—offer everything from clothing and accessories to coffee and photography, and a percentage of all sales is donated to the charity.
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text: V/M's problem is their Carmen FD. They just don't seem to have a concerted vision of what the program should be. There are ugly parts of it----Scott grabbing at Tessa's crotch, Tessa lunging at Scott's groin---which are controversial, to say the least. IMO, some of the older judges on the panel might find those moves distasteful, which can tend to dampen PCS scores. V/M are continually making changes but the program still seems to lack cohesiveness. The program doesn't build up well to the climax where Tessa rejects Scott; instead, the climax is abrupt and makes one feel "Huh?".


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While it seems Donald Cerrone (19-4-1 MMA, 6-1 UFC), Anthony Pettis (15-2 MMA, 2-1 UFC) and MMA fans everywhere are excited for a potential "Cowboy" vs. "Showtime" fight, UFC officials said preliminary reports about the two fighting on FOX are premature.
"So [expletive] far from being the truth," UFC President Dana White told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).
White declined to reveal when the promotion is targeting the much-discussed lightweight matchup but made it clear that an initial report released earlier today tying the two to UFC on FOX 5 is completely untrue.
Cerrone has been openly lobbying for a matchup with the former WEC champ and recently accused Pettis of ducking him.
"I've been trying to fight Anthony for a while now, and every time I suggest it, his manager comes back and says, 'Well, maybe 'Cowboy' could fight somebody else right now,' and it's just this excuse to not fight," Cerrone told MMAjunkie.com.
Pettis' manager, Mike Roberts, subsequently defended his client's decisions up to that point and said if Cerrone could get through Melvin Guillard at this past week's UFC 150 event, they would be interested in booking the matchup.
"I've never suggested 'Cowboy' fight anybody," Roberts said. "He's definitely not running from 'Cowboy.' Anthony is running for whoever has got the belt, and unfortunately for 'Cowboy,' it's never been him.
"But having said that, if 'Cowboy' wins his fight, and (UFC matchmaker) Joe Silva tells us beating him is going to get us a title shot, Anthony would gladly accept that fight."
Cerrone took care of his end of the bargain by downing Guillard in a thrilling 76-second affair and securing the evening's "Fight of the Night" and "Knockout of the Night" bonuses. After the win, Cerrone reconfirmed his interest in fighting Pettis.
"That is a fight I would definitely love to do," Cerrone said.
White also admitted he loved a potential matchup between the two vaunted strikers but declined to share the organization's current plans for the pair.
"I like it," White said. "It sounds like a great idea."
As USA TODAY Sports and MMAjunkie.com first reported, current lightweight champion Benson Henderson (17-2 MMA, 5-0 UFC) meets Nate Diaz (16-7, 11-5) in the headliner of UFC on FOX 5, which takes place Dec. 8 at a host site yet to be announced.
For more on UFC on FOX 5, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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Opera Software did great work lobbying against software patents in the campaigns on the EU software patents directive. Thanks Opera!.
Here's what I have already on them:
swpat.org is a publicly editable wiki, help welcome.
While verifying my sources just now, I found that Tim is, since February 2010, against software patents. Glad to hear it.
I've updated the wiki.
Tim's critical of software patents, but his position is that there's just an implimentation problem - with good tweaking it could work. Kinda disappointing that he's not pushing for abolition. Surprising too given his experience in web dev and XML. Related info:
swpat.org is a publicly-editable wiki - help in expanding this info would be very welcome and useful.
Multi-touch has been invented many times. It was even publicly documented in 1985:Multi-touch prior art.
Here's what I've gathered so far about these:
swpat.org is a publicly editable wiki, help welcome.
Sorry to criticise people who are clearly on our side. The Wikileaks folk are great, and the job they were doing was great, and it will be great again when they start back up...
...but it was not a good idea for them to take all the leaked documents offline without notice in order to show their value so that people will donate. It was last year, probably December, and everything's still offline
For one example, they published the only (at the time) big ACTA leak. (There's since been a bigger one, hosted elsewhere) Everyone was pointing to them, and they took their copy offline. To my amazement, no one had a back up, so us anti-ACTA campaigners simply lost the only leaked draft.
At the implementation level, it was a bad idea to simply cause all pages to give error 404. A page of "We need donations, we'll be back up when we get them" would have been better.
Lesson: take backups of important docs, even ones published by groups of good people.
> To say the ruling class owns the politicians is a circular statement.
You're assuming the politicians aren't puppets.
Look at ACTA. There's nothing in there for the citizenry.
And what do our representatives think is worth debatin? A: Whether instruments of infringement should be destroyed "promptly" (US/EU/Mex), or "without delay" (Canada), or whether a time shouldn't be specified (Aus). Wow, thanks guys.
This sort of thing will not be considered in Europe or North America, and us residents of those places will pat ourselves on the back for our love of liberty...
The difference between Venezuela and our countries is that in our countries, the ruling class own both the media and politicians. In Venezuela, they just own the media.
Chavez has some bad policies, and we're right to criticise those policies, but the context is important for forming an accurate opinion rather than a knee-jerk chauvinist one.
If they do that, then any student can disable it, and every student can then use that one student's non-spying version.
The perfect solution would be to have no spying in the first place, but since you haven't offered any way to do this, having software freedom is indeed the next best solution.
There's no proposal that can solve everything. Of the proposals that exist today, free software is just far and away the best situation life's offering.
It's not about *you* being free to read and change the source or distribute modified versions, it's about *all users* being able to do this. "freedom 3" makes this clear:
"The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this."
It's about allowing people to help each other, building an empowered community. If the situation is serious enough, anyone can take a look, or find/pay someone else to take a look. And even if the situation doesn't seem serious, there's still the possibility that someone will be taking a look at the code anyway. And once one person does this, then all users can benefit from that person's exercise of their freedoms.
The possibility of these things happening is usually enough to dissuade software publishers from putting nastyware into free software in the first place.
So, you're theory just predicts a problem that's possible but which is non-existant or practically non-existant in reality.
Hopefully this situation will be a stepping stone to help the public understand the role that computers play in our personal lives.
I switched to GNU/Linux in 1998 because lights on my external modem flickered each time I used RealPlayer to play files that were on my own computer.
> it's not a practical concern.
According to the references linked from that en.swpat.org page, it seems the developers of the free software Mesa project think it's indeed a practical concern.
There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. -- Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923


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Twitter is a possibly the best place on the Internet to post your most random thoughts. This week we've got a few randomized slices of life from Katy Perry, Ke$ha, Calvin Harris, Gotye, Chris Brown, Justin Bieber, Louis of One Direction, Carly Rae Jepsen and Justin Timberlake. Now how heavy is that?
When on the set of Forrest Gump, Katy Perry says: chocolates please.
Life is like a box of chocolates, eat them all. twitpic.com/9yf3sv
— Katy Perry (@katyperry) June 20, 2012
Gotye has a problem.
Somebody stole my van. Gonna be hard to replace that honky horn i found in an antique shop
— gotye (@gotye) June 20, 2012
Chris Brown has an obsession.
Michael Jackson dropped Human Nature on July 3,1983 and Liberian Girl July 3, 1989.. #FORTUNEJULY3RD
— Chris Brown(@chrisbrown) June 21, 2012
Justin Bieber has a secret band with Adam Levine?
@adamlevine i always have our supergroup to fall back on. #WhirlingDervishes
— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) June 20, 2012
Calvin Harris has a stalker?
ARE YOU IN MY HOUSE RT @philmiller11 Pretty sure @CalvinHarris just walked past me not 100 per cent sure though…
— Calvin Harris (@CalvinHarris) June 20, 2012
Louis Tomlin needs a new song to cover in the One Direction set.
Just listening to Christina Aguilera's song 'Hurt' what an amazing voice !
— Louis Tomlinson (@Louis_Tomlinson) June 20, 2012
Carly Rae Jepsen needs your help.
Morning lovelies. Writing today. Inspire me! Tell me your favourite word:_______
— Carly Rae Jepsen (@carlyraejepsen) June 20, 2012
Justin Timberlake needs a DJ gig.
#ThingsToNeverAskADJ"You got any Backstreet Boys??" Bam.
— Justin Timberlake(@jtimberlake) June 20, 2012
Ke$ha got bored. Needs a glitter fix.
5 mins. i'll answer anything. go.
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I stopped using outlook express because the hyperlinks NEVER worked, (no matter what i tried). Thunderbird is so much better. It would be great if you could enable spam filtering for Thunderbird through Zonealarm.
I see this has been suggested already but i couldn't add to it because it was closed.


text: On 4/9/07, John Hearns <john.hearns at streamline-computing.com> wrote: > Peter St. John wrote: > > > > > > MS contributed marketing. That's it. That's enough. > > > I disagree, strangely enough. Actually Visual Basic is very very good at what it does; my generalization is certainly not absolutely fair. However, I don't see which of your points below credits to MS. > Bob Brown has mentioned in this thread that the 'tipping point' for him > came with the PII or PIV when code ran faster than big RISC machines. MS marketing + IBM Open Architecture + competition in hardware, commoditized the intel/clone platform, and that was great, sure. But I think MS's main contribution to that was the marketing. > I'll throw into the mix that nearly all 'big science' applications at > the time ran on VMS or mainframe OSes, or supercomputers (Cray or CDC). > At the time, Unix was seen by scientists as an OS for longhairs and > computer science types. Unix wasn't designed for data processing (as VMS was, I'd say) but for development. For example, it was weak in the early development of OLTP and real-time processing generally, but ended up into embedded processing because it could be made so small. > Along comes the Intel i386 architecture, and just as importantly for > scientific computing, the DEC Alpha. Scientists see a big > price/performance gain with the Alpha architecture. > But what did they both run - Windows NT. And remember that NT was > developed by the man hired by Microsoft from DEC. Yeah NT can be considered an offshoot of VMS, but spoiled somewhat with the integration into the OS of the UI, the way VMS integrates the Thick FS into the OS (sorta, thru a Record Management System layer that really you could skip if you wanted). But unix was ported to the intel/clone platform much earlier. I ran System V on my 286 when DOS was level 3.2. Before Windows 3.11; which was a good design because the UI was an application running on DOS, unlike later 98 which intergrated the UI with the OS. > So at one point in history there was a prospect of having a unified OS > running on everything from the desktop (i386) through to the Alpha > powered job farms to the MIPS powered big SMP machines. > Purely personal opinion, but I believe that Microsoft missed a big trick > by dropping Alpha support for NT. We did have one OS running on most everything then: unix. Unix ran on DEC, HP, intel/clone, etc, before NT, and with few meaningful exceptions (brief foray with Alpha), NT only runs on the one hardware line to this day. Which btw makes it harder to design a chip for anything other than compatibility with old chips. One thing I thought was very cool about DEC is that they supported your choice of VMS or Unix on the PDP11 (predecessor to VAX alpha). This was about the time Casette Basic was starting to look primitive :-) > The other tipping point came with SunOS/Solaris. > A C compiler came bundled with SunOS (I'm not sure of my facts here, but > as I recall free for academic use). With the switch to Solaris the > compiler became a paid-for extra. In my experience, it caused the group > I Was working with to look seriously at the Gnu C compiler for the first > time, and with it the rest of the GNU tools. When I borrowed my brother-in-law's Sun workstation (he was at Sun then) I typed "cc whatever.c -o whatever" and got a license-permissions error. I was flabbergasted. I asked him about it and his face dropped like a rock. He said he'd opposed it, but they wanted to track who needed C enough to ask, vs Java. So I learned to make a java object, and invoke an "interpreter" to compile it into a program. Which said "hello world" and then I went to bed, exhausted :-) I guess I just don't see which of these things you consider MS contributions? Peter > -- > John Hearns > Senior HPC Engineer > Streamline Computing, > The Innovation Centre, Warwick Technology Park, > Gallows Hill, Warwick CV34 6UW > Office: 01926 623130 Mobile: 07841 231235 > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/attachments/20070409/13c1d45c/attachment.html>


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Please remove Sam mitchell from that list, i'm still a fan of his as an analyst but when i first saw this video i understood why he hasnt coached since he got fired from here.
Please remove Sam mitchell from that list, i'm still a fan of his as an analyst but when i first saw this video i understood why he hasnt coached since he got fired from here.
1. Nate McMillan
2. Larry Drew
3. Scott Skiles
3 guys known for defense, can actually coach an offense (not sure about Skiles, more so freedom than anything), and aren't guys who hide behind their words.
Twitter: @ReubenJRD NBA, Raptors writer for Daily Hive Vancouver, Toronto.
I voted no. Casey has been learning his job. Last year, for whatever reason, the players seemed to buy into what he wanted and defensive intensity picked up. This year he started with bad bargs, and bad offensive schemes. It was like he worked all summer with his assistants to find an offensive plan that could use his players, and it all went off the rails. Lowry didn't fit, Bargs went down, the offense didn't work like they planned it, or the players couldn't follow instructions. Then the Gay and Calderon trade. Then Ross didn't turn out to be the three point shooting help they hoped for.
Casey seems to be making better use of his players, his rotations seem better, and he seems to be coaching better. But the big thing for me is that it looks like the players still have his back. The mood on the bench is good. The guys sitting cheer on and celebrate good plays by the guys who are on the floor.
If Casey has the summer to work with this team (minus Bargs with something coming back maybe) watch the tape, listen to the analytics guys, get back a fields who is more of what they thought, and a stronger JV (who he will have confidence in) he will be a much improved coach.
Maybe I'm just a stupid optimist, but I say he should get that second year.
Yeah it's not time to throw Casey under the bus. I could go either way on Coangelo (who probably should be gone, but probably won't be gone). The only way you fire Casey is if you've already got a handshake agreement with Sloan; otherwise you're just spinning your wheels.
"They're going to have to rename the whole conference after us: Toronto Raptors 2014-2015 Northern Conference Champions" ~ ezzbee Dec. 2014
"I guess I got a little carried away there" ~ ezzbee Apr. 2015
"We only have one rule on this team. What is that rule? E.L.E. That's right's, E.L.E, and what does E.L.E. stand for? EVERYBODY LOVE EVERYBODY. Right there up on the wall, because this isn't just a basketball team, this is a lifestyle. ~ Jackie Moon
I still don't think Casey deserves to be fired, but I want Colangelo fired and if that means a changing of the guard then Casey will have to go too.
Here's what I think will happen -- Colangelo will get extended, Casey will be fired.
As to who will replace him, I predict Colangelo will go after yet another inexperienced coach. I'm guessing since the last two didn't work out he'll probably go with someone with a bigger name but no experience. Like a Patrick Ewing type of guy.
your pal,
I voted not to fire Casey. I still think he is a good coach to ingrain sound, fundamental defensive principles into our young/veteran players. He is a building block that will get the team ready for the next stage which will be to compete for more than the 8th seed, at which time I would love for them to get SVG. I actually think SVG would coach us because Stern is probably putting a lot of pressure on other teams to not bring him back into the NBA. The Rapors should take the chance. If not SVG then I'd like to see Nate MacMillan as the Raptors head coach.
Avery or Nate Mcmillan. I dont think Casey should be fired for only one reason is that he still has the respect of the team (it seems.) When i see that start to fade or the work ethic fade then its time for a change. If we were able to get avery johnson or Mcmillian i wouldnt care how good hes doing those guys are great coaches.
I've said it on here several times before. Look at. The roster look at the coaches strengths and ask yourself what kind if team do you want out there. Mike brown. He is the best choice for our roster. So barring any major roster moves he is the best choice because :
Defence first
Creative offensively and can showcase our players strengths
Player type of coach who can motivate stars and develop younger players
Winning perigee
Think about is folks.
The only way to bag a classy lady is to give her two tickets to the gun show... and see if she likes the goods.
good god yes get rid of casey i can't handle his bullshit anymore
as far as replacements go i have a few ideas, SVG, Mcmillen, Cheeks, but i'd kind of like a young creative guy.
From wiki to further my point:
Assistant coach
In 2000, Brown was hired by Gregg Popovich as an assistant coach with the San Antonio Spurs. While with the Spurs, Brown's teams won at least 58 games each season. He also was the head coach for the Spurs' summer league teams in Boston and Salt Lake City. After winning a championship with San Antonio in 2003, Brown was hired as assistant coach to Rick Carlisle with the Indiana Pacers. He helped lead Indiana to consecutive playoff appearances including a trip to the Eastern Conference Finals in 2004.
Brown's record as an assistant coach is 341201 (.629).[1]
Cleveland Cavaliers
In June 2005, Brown got his first head coaching job with the Cleveland Cavaliers, replacing Brendan Malone, becoming the second youngest coach in the league, with only Lawrence Frank of the New Jersey Nets younger.[1]
On June 2, 2007, Brown's Cavaliers defeated the Detroit Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals and advanced to the NBA Finals for the first time in the history of the franchise. However, they were swept in four games to his former team, San Antonio Spurs.
On February 1, 2008, Brown was named the Eastern Conference Coach of the Month for January 2008.[2]
In 2009, Brown was named coach of the Eastern Conference All-Star team,[3] making him the second coach in Cavaliers history to coach the All-Star team, joining Lenny Wilkens who coached the East team in 1989.
On April 20, 2009, Brown was named NBA Coach of the Year after guiding the Cavaliers to a franchise best 6616 record.[3]
On May 13, 2010, Brown and the Cleveland Cavaliers were eliminated by the Boston Celtics in the Conference Semifinals of the 2010 NBA Playoffs. With this loss, the Cavaliers became the first team in NBA history to accomplish back-to-back 60+ win seasons and not advance to the NBA Finals.[4]
Brown was fired on May 24, 2010.[5][6] In December 2010, he began working with ESPN as a studio analyst.[7]
After leaving Cleveland Cavaliers, Brown was the assistant coach on his son's middle school team. He was the coach for the Westlake Lee Burneson Middle School team in Ohio. He turned down an offer to serve as an assistant at St. Marys College in California. Im a glorified equipment guy who gets to chest bump and high-five the players, Brown said. The kids still call me coach. [8]
Los Angeles Lakers
On May 25, 2011, Brown agreed to be Phil Jackson's successor and become the new head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. He reportedly agreed to a 4-year deal, with a team option to keep him under contract for the fourth year.[9] On May 31, 2011, he was officially named the Lakers' new head coach.[10] The 201112 season was shortened to 66 games by the lockout that season, and the Lakers were eliminated in the second round of the playoffs.[11]
Before the 201213 season, Brown decided the Lakers would use the Princeton offense.[12] The Lakers then acquired All-Stars Steve Nash and Dwight Howard, giving them a starting lineup of five All-Stars with a combined 33 All-Star game appearances.[13] The Lakers were winless in eight games in the preseason.[14] On November 9, 2012, Brown was fired after the Lakers started the regular season with a 14 record.[15] Nash had played just 1 1⁄2 games due to injury, Howard was playing but recovering from back surgery, and Kobe Bryant had been playing with an injured foot and was unable to practice.[16] The team was still adjusting to the new offense and committing a high number of turnovers; the defense, a specialty of Brown's, was also vulnerable.[17][11] The Lakers, however, had an urgency to win and were not compelled to wait given their aging stars, Howard's pending free agency the coming summer, and owner Jerry Buss' deteriorating health.[16][18] Brown's dismissal after five games was the third-fastest coaching change in NBA history.[19] Assistant coach Bernie Bickerstaff served as the Lakers' interim head coach until Mike D'Antoni took over.[20]
I voted NO simply because I DO NOT want BC to fire yet another coach (assuming BC gets his option picked up for one more year). Come on guys...... How many times are we going to go through this?? The ONLY person that needs to be FIRED is Bryan Collangelo. PERIOD.
I personally don't care either way if DC is fired. BUT I would rather a NEW GM make that decision.
If BC gets a chance to fire DC and then brings in another coach, the next GM (there will be a new GM because BC sucks) will want to bring in his own coach. We need some stability here! For the sake of JV, Ross, Demar, etc. we need to let DC finish out his contract (last year anyways) and let the new GM evaluate the roster and make the decision.
Now, if he DC is fired I think we should give Brian Shaw a shot.
Brian Shaw won 3 championships as a player for the Lakers and won 2 championships as an Assistant Coach with the lakers. He has been an assistant with the Indiana pacers for the past few years. I think he deserves a shot AND he spent a lot of time as a player and an assistant coach to Phil "I have 11 more rings than you" Jackson.
Beggers can't be choosers people! You don't get much better than this.....Brian Shaw can call up Phil and get coaching advice!
Yes he should be fired. SVG, Larry Brown or if they want to go cheap Terry Porter, are my preferred choices.
Attitude Is A Choice.
Keep him. We need some continuity for once.
But if we were making changes, SVG would be epic (I can only imagine what he'd say about this team in post-games), but realy our best choices are likely to be Mike Brown, Brian Shaw (triangle might work since Lowry is more of a SG anyway), then Scott Skiles.
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I cannot stress enough how overrated Mike Brown is. If Casey's offensive ineptitude frustrates you, Brown will put you in a coma.
Fire BC, keep Casey for another year, let him actually run the team without having his hand forced to "run n gun" or give AB (or anyone else) undeserved minutes.
If he really has lost the team then:
SVG — he could be had for the right price
Shaw — Give him a chance, he got screwed by Baby Buss
Malone — Best Raptors coach, IMO, and has always been praised by players and staff
All the coaches who've been fired this past year deserved it and their teams really did quit on them. In most cases these guys should've been fired a long time ago. Gentry, Hollins, Skiles etc.
I voted yes, but the only time you fire Casey is if BC is let go. It makes no sense to have BC get another coach. BC is the problem. If he gets another coach, it will be another "yes" man and he'll only pick an unestablished coach in the league.
Also if BC hires another guy who's to say that the next GM (assuming there will be one) will want to keep that coach in place?
If BC is gone, then I'm all for a new coach. My preference is Larry Brown. He'd be a short term option but he'd be able to turn this franchise into a some what respectable one until they can get someone more permanent in.
I do realize he can be a bit of a douche, but he's had success - and lots of it. The team needs someone that knows how to win.
...if not available, then Shaka Smart.
I do like Casey, though.
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I currently have one 2311H and am looking for a second monitor. It has to be IPS. This is my primary computer for general tasks including photo editing. I currently do not make enough from that one task to justify a real professional monitor. Oh how I wish... I sold my aging 19"TN to make space for this new purchase, and it cant come soon enough. It is so cramped on one screen!
I do however have a spyder 3 elite color calibrator. So whatever monitor I get will be calibrated to the best it can be.
Dell has stopped selling the old version, but there are still new units floating around. Should I pick up a new/refurb/used H version? Or go with the newer HM?
Miss-match in housing won't bother me, but if I am really unable to get the monitors to match well it will bother me!
*Edit* I should add that my primary work involves reading innumerable pages of scientific literature.
*Edit* Maybe I asked my question incorrectly. Lets try this. Is there any reason to buy the old over the new considering, that they are basically identical in price? Is there any reason that I wouldn't be able to satisfactorily color match the displays?
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ES and Active combined forces on November 1st and 2nd at the Longbeach Convention Center for their first Annual Active/eS Best Trick contest. The $5000 dollar prize money brought out some of the top. From the Flip team you had Geoff Rowley, Tom Penny, Bastien Salabanzi, Mark Appleyard, and I heard PJ Ladd was there, but I didn't see him skating. From Girl Skateboards you had Eric Koston, Mike Carroll, and Jereme Rogers. Other top hitters included Jon Allie, Leo Romero, Spanky, and Neal Mims.
The contest was a one-hour jam! Yeah, A one hour jam. Neal Mims and I both looked at each other thinking one hour was a hell of a long time. The centerpiece included a rail, multiple ledges, and a manual pad thing. There were quarter pipes and wedge ramps on either side, which seemed to give everyone enough speed. Well, everyone except Neal. He needed to push off the deck (through everyone) and roll in. It was the only way to get enough speed for the gap ollie to Smith grind that he pulled. He didn't win though, too bad.
Eric Koston, Mike Carroll, Jereme Rogers, Tom Penny, and Kevin Long all skated, but not really for the best trick contest. They were on the outskirts of the event skating benches, picnic tables, and other fun stuff that was set up for everyone. I guess some kid asked Koston to do the pizza? I didn't know it at the time, but it's a trick from Tony Hawk Pro Skater. Eric proceeded to pick up his board and spin it on his finger as though he was making a pizza. I missed it, but it sounded entertaining. A nice move, but it didn't win him the best trick, too bad.
Leo Romero flipped in and out of sight landing an arsenal of tricks that included a kickflip front feeble, heelflip front noseslide, kickflip salad grind, and many more flip to grinds or slides. I noticed that Leo doesn't get too distracted when he skates. Sometimes five people dropped in at once and it didn't faze Leo at all. He'd go for it no matter what and if someone did get in his way he'd just smile. Its too bad smiles and politeness don't win best trick contests; otherwise Leo might have taken it.
Damn! I missed one of the best tricks of the contest. Jon Allie landed a perfect kickflip frontside noseblunt slide. I decided to try to get a photo, and it turned it out that it was the one that he pulled. It's weird how that works sometimes. I had everything else on film, but the one trick I filmed every time (except the one he landed) eluded me, sorry I missed it Jon. I got the kickflip back lipslide, the kickflip front tail, and kickflip backtail. I thought he had a shot at first place, but he didn't win either. He got second place and $1000 dollars, too bad.
Geoff Rowley and Appleyard had some good flow going on. Styling back and forth across the centerpiece pulling some smooth moves. They didn't win either, but their teammate Bastien Salabanzi did. Taking it once again to another level, Bastien landed a switch 270 lipslide, a bigspin flip to frontside boardslide, and a caballerial flip to frontboard? Check out the video link below and watch how solid he landed all three tricks. It's impressive. It's too bad he only won $4000 dollars for 30 minutes worth of work. I think that averages out to almost $134 dollars a minute. Damn, I think that one-minute is more than I make in a day.


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Can't wait to meet my fellow pet collectors. Especially those who collected them well before pet battles! #warcraftpets
Finally got one after weeks of searching. Just was sitting right there waiting for me around noon. Rare on top of that :)
Killed a few eggs and got one to spawn within mins. Sadly a common but at least he is part of my collection. Might use a stone on this one if i don't have time to farm a rare.
Found in dread waste on the coast. Came as 2nd was a rare thankfully. Fiesty little thing to catch tho.
Caught as second on the coast
Came as third pet. Easy enough, only took 2 wild pets to go thru to find one.
Found at Garrosh'ar Point on an island near the ship following a regular otter. Was a poor but not complaining.
3-4 in a group none else where around 5 st
Uncommon captured around noon server time tons of them all over the place.
Also a neat note that all the other pets were able to be battled at that time as well.
Lots of snow!
Foundas 2nd with a fire proof roach, uncommon
Found him all alone in the AQ fallen area no other battle pet with him. Level 16 poor tho, but at least he added to the collection till I find a rare xD
Confirmed: Sable Ridge both twilight pets took 3-4 tries for rares of each


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Mark van Bommel was sent off in what turned out to be the final match of his playing career as he announced his retirement following PSV's 3-1 defeat to Twente.
The Eindhoven side, bringing an end to a disappointing season in which they failed to win the league title and lost in Thursday's KNVB Beker final to AZ, were second best throughout the match against the Enschede outfit.
Luc Castaignos opened the scoring just three minutes in with a fantastic run down the right before cutting in and smashing past Boy Waterman from a very tight angle.
Twente went 2-0 up 25 minutes later when Nacer Chadli took on a Leroy Fer pass and drove towards goal unchallenged before smashing it into the net.
Five minutes before half-time, Dries Mertens stepped up to bring PSV back into the game by converting a penalty.
Twente's two-goal lead was restored, however, just nine minutes into the match when Chadli tore down the left wing and squared to Willem Janssen who was able to tap it in at the back post.
It was a poor performance to bring an end to a poor campaign for PSV and it got worse when Van Bommel was shown his second yellow card of the match for a stamp on Dusan Tadic. It was the PSV captain's 10th and 11th yellow cards of the season and his first red and he revealed after the game that it would be his last as a professional footballer.
Eredivisie champions Ajax ended the season on a high with a 2-0 win over Groningen at the Euroborg.
Sporting their brand new away jersey, Ajax took the lead in the early stages of the match through a delightful goal from Kolbeinn Sigthorsson. The Iceland international ran onto a perfect diagonal pass from Daley Blind and slotted past Marco Bizot with his first touch to make it 1-0 just eight minutes in.
Both sides created chances from there on in but it was Ajax who scored the next goal and subsequently killed the game off. Danny Hoesen took on a Stefano Denswil pass and skipped past one defender before slamming it into the bottom corner with less than 20 minutes to go.
VVV ended their season on a high with a 1-0 win over Vitesse in the Gelredome on Sunday.
Vitesse dominated possession, but were kept at arm's length by the visitors who sat deep, remained organised and hit them on the counterattack.
The hosts created more chances throughout the game and should have taken the lead through Wilfried Bony. The Ivorian, possibly playing his last game for the club, had some chances in the first-half, the clearest of which was a header from a Marco van Ginkel cross that was saved by goalkeeper Niki Maenpaa.
VVV did have their chances as they broke forward, seeing two shots cleared off the line by Vitesse left-back Patrick van Aanholt before an effort from distance was palmed away by Piet Velthuizen.
The opening goal came as a bit of a surprise, as Bryan Linssen collected an Oguzhan Turk pass and held off Tomas Kalas before firing past Velthuizen.
Vitesse dominated possession throughout the second period but couldn't breach the resilient VVV defence as the game faded out and ended 1-0.
Graziano Pelle's second-half goal made the difference for Feyenoord as they beat NAC 1-0 to hold onto third place.
With NAC safe from relegation and Feyenoord rooted in a Europa League spot, this was a battle between two teams with nothing to play for except pride.
Anthony Lurling almost put NAC in the lead in the first-half when he took on a Rick ten Voorde pass and went one-on-one with Erwin Mulder but the Feyenoord goalkeeper proved one hurdle too much for the 36-year-old and saw out the danger.
The opening goal came just before the hour mark amidst some uncertainty. Pelle rose to meet a John Goossens corner and headed it towards goal. The Italian frontman's effort was headed off the line by Tim Gilissen but struck the bar and bounced out before it was cleared. Play was stopped, however, as the linesman called the referee over and he awarded the goal, ruling that Gillessen was standing behind the line and the ball had crossed it before it was headed out and Feyenoord secured the three points.
Roda will be high in confidence when they approach their first relegation playoff after they beat Heerenveen 1-0 in Kerkrade.
Despite the defeat, Heerenveen remain in eighth place and will take part in the playoffs as they look to secure a place in the Europa League qualifying round next season.
Roda were the better team throughout the match as they created more chances and took the lead after 31 minutes through a Krisztian Nemeth strike.
Heerenveen began to see more of the ball after going behind but the chances they created were few and far between and they failed to beat Filip Kurto and his defence.
Marco van Basten's side will now go on to face Utrecht in their first playoff as they look to earn a place in Europe, while Roda prepare for their clash against De Graafschap in an attempt to ensure they remain in the Dutch top flight.
Willem II bow out of the Eredivisie with some pride after they defeated newly-crowned KNVB Beker winners AZ 2-0.
The Alkmaar side, fresh from Thursday's KNVB Beker victory over PSV, had very little to play for, just like their opponents who were already relegated.
Both teams created chances throughout the opening 45 minutes but failed to convert their opportunities. After a goalless first-half, Virgil Misidjan opened the scoring two minutes after the restart when he took the ball from AZ defender Etienne Reijnen and ran towards goal before knocking it home.
Less than 20 minutes later, Willem II's lead was doubled as AZ left-back Giliano Wijnaldum headed awkwardly into his own net.
The victory is Willem II's fifth of the season, they collected just 23 points over the campaign.
Utrecht held onto fifth place as they took all three points from the final Eredivisie fixture of the season, beating Heracles 3-0.
The home side were the better team throughout the game but didn't open the scoring until ten minutes into the second-half. Jacob Mulenga galloped forward before squaring to Cedric van der Gun to tap into an open goal.
Mulenga then converted from the penalty spot to make it 2-0 after 71 minutes and just three minutes later, Jens Toornstra capped off a fine performance from his team with a delightful finish after some lovely work from Nana Asare.
Utrecht now enter the playoffs for the Europa League qualifying spot, with their first game coming against Heerenveen on Thursday.
ADO Den Haag blew the opportunity to leapfrog Heerenveen and book a place in the Europa League playoff spot when they lost 4-2 to Zwolle.
Art Langeler's side dominated straight from kick-off and created opportunities before they took the lead through Fred Benson who pounced on the rebound of a Mustafa Saymak shot to divert it in after 19 minutes.
Benson netted his second ten minutes after the restart but Santi Kolk soon fired ADO back into the match with a goal a further ten minutes later.
The teams exchanged goals once again with Saymak restoring a comfortable lead for Zwolle after 67 minutes but, with five minutes remaining, Rydell Poepon scored to give ADO a fighting chance.
The visitors' hopes were soon dashed, however, as Youness Mokhtar scored a minute later when Jesper Drost passed to him on the edge of the box and he set himself up for a shot and smashed it into the bottom corner.
It was a thoroughly entertaining and convincing performance from Zwolle, a fitting farewell for Langeler who departs to become head of youth at PSV next season, with Ron Jans replacing him at Zwolle.
NEC have endured a dismal end to the season and have finished fourth bottom in the league after a 2-1 defeat to RKC.
The Nijmegen club picked up just one point from their last 10 Eredivisie matches, going from a team occupying a Europa League playoff place to sitting just outside the relegation zone.
Their final match of the season was a poor one by their standards as they fell behind just seven minutes into the game when Kenny Anderson finished from a Florian Jozefzoon pass.
Jozefzoon then got on the scoresheet himself when he brought down a Jeroen Zoet long ball and drove towards goal. He shook off one defender and blasted it past Gabor Babos to make it 2-0 on the hour mark.
Kevin Conboy scored in injury time to halve the deficit for NEC but it was the only bright spark to a poor end to the season for Alex Pastoor's men.


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Love is in the air at ScrapbookSteals.com and I love that we have our February guest sketcher that will make anyone fall in love with today's steal, Love Me collection by My Mind's Eye. Today Becci Manies shows how versatile the Love Me collection is by not only creating love-themed crafts or Valentine's crafts, but a layout about New Year's Eve!
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With the day of love right around the corner, I could hardly wait for "Love Me" to arrive on my doorstep. I knew that I wanted to scrap photos from New Year's Eve with the collection, to show that these papers were gorgeous for not only the Valentine's day scrapbooking layouts. The embellishment sheet is packed with adorable accents from the banner to the colored doilies.
Before I used each embellishment, I popped it off the sheet and lightly sanded the edges to make them nice and smooth. I personalized the embellishments by inking the edges, or adding glossy accents, Stickles or sanding them more for a worn look.
I find that I have a lot of iPhone photos that are already cropped to square shape, so I wanted to create a layout that I could use these types of photos or others could easily trim them down to fit the layout.
Ever since we put the Christmas decorations away, the girls have been asking what the next holiday is that we could decorate for. They were beyond excited to wake up one morning to see this banner hanging over our fireplace. I cut eight heart shapes out of the assorted Love Me papers and decorated each heart with the Love Me embellishments. I strung them up to a few long strands of twine and attached them with washi tape to make a beautiful Valentine's Day garland.
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NORWALK, Ohio – A story about the life of 15-time Funny Car World Champion John Force on the John Force Racing Website shows roots of his determination and hard work as well as results.
While living his dream, he's made memories for many: autographing pictures for a long line of kids; riding his pit bike up to the stands to shake hands: or pausing with fans for "The National Anthem."
Perhaps a fabulous moment at the track comes to mind: A whoosh up the lane in a smokey burnout, the backup, a starting line hush in the crowd, the launch, the flames, the win light, the winner's circle.
And you were there.
Even though John Force logged 134 wins in his career, the 2013 Mello Yello Drag Racing Season
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For an article showing the view from where John Force sits in the Castrol GTX Ford Mustang Funny Car, click on John Force likes a challenge, then on NEWS, and read, "Force looking back to move forward."
The next suggestion is for the very best John Force fans: Go to the John Force Racing page on Facebook.com, and write a sentence or two telling John Force why you appreciate him as a driver. To go there, click on "Thought you might like to know..."
You just might add some nitrous to his comeback.
John Force Racing sizzles the track twice in 2013 at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio:
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Five candidates announced for Reds Hall of Fame ballotFan voting runs August 1-31 to help choose the next Modern Player to be inducted into the Reds Hall of Fame in 2014
The Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame & Museum has announced that five former Reds players will appear on the Modern Player Ballot presented by Clark Schaefer Hackett for induction into the Reds Hall of Fame in 2014.
The Modern Player Candidates are:
- Jeff Brantley, P (1994 - 1997)
- John Franco, P (1984 - 1989)
- Danny Graves, P (1997 - 2005)
- Ken Griffey, Jr., OF (2000 - 2008)
- Reggie Sanders, OF (1991 - 1998)
To be eligible for consideration, players have to meet the following requirements:
- Appeared in at least three seasons with the Reds
- Played within the last 13 seasons in a Major League game
- Be in at least their third year since last appearing in a Major League game
The five players were nominated by the Hall of Fame's Election Governance Committee.
Fans may cast ballots August 1-31 online at www.RedsMuseum.org or at ballot boxes located at:
- Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame & Museum
- Over 20 locations at Great American Ball Park
- Reds Hall of Fame Grille at Kings Island
- Local establishments (see redsmuseum.org for full list)
The Modern Player inductee will be selected by votes from fans, media and alumni and will be honored as part of the Reds Hall of Fame's Class of 2014.
The Modern Player ballot is presented by Clark Schaefer Hackett, the official accounting firm of the Reds Hall of Fame Induction Ballot.
"We are pleased to have the fans continue to play a significant role in determining the next Cincinnati Reds Hall of Famer," said Rick Walls, Reds Hall of Fame Executive Director. "We look forward to honoring one of these five worthy candidates next year with Induction at the ballpark and at the prestigious Induction Gala."
Complete voting rules and procedures may be found at www.RedsMuseum.org.
The Reds Hall of Fame Veterans Committee will consider eligible candidates from before 2001 as part of the Veterans Ballot. Together, the Modern Player Ballot and Veterans Ballot results will comprise the 2014 Induction Class to be announced later this year.
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Bob Santelli, Neil Portnow and Michele Sofisti at the new preservation program launch in Basel, Switzerland
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The Recording Academy, Gucci Announce Historical Discovery
In light of the three-year partnership between Gucci and The Recording Academy — and the successful launch of the Gucci GRAMMY timepiece and jewelry collection — the two partners have teamed to help preserve one of the most important musical finds in recent years.
The GRAMMY Museum at L.A. Live is leading the effort in assessing a Muzak archive that was recently discovered in a warehouse in South Carolina. The archives included more than 20,000 never-released master recordings of American music dating back to 1934, from jazz to early spiritual. Gucci Timepieces & Jewelry is the first partner to help the GRAMMY Museum support the preservation of this historical musical discovery. The effort will focus on determining the best way to house, digitize and ultimately release the collection to the public.
"It's remarkable that an entire chapter of never-released American music has been discovered in this way," said GRAMMY Museum Executive Director Bob Santelli. "To have the opportunity to release these recordings and help tell their story is an honor. Gucci's preservation efforts in other domains, such as film restoration, fit perfectly with the GRAMMY Museum's commitment to celebrate the legacy of recorded music. We are thrilled to be working with the Gucci team on this important project."
Gucci Timepieces & Jewelry and The Recording Academy presented the exciting new project today in Basel, Switzerland, in addition to announcing a Gucci GRAMMY traveling exhibit with interactive features and items from the GRAMMY Museum, including information on the preservation program. Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy, and Santelli joined Gucci CEO Patrizio Di Marco and Gucci Timepieces & Jewelry President Michele Sofisti in announcing the new collaboration.


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Hello, I'm new in this forum so I hope i'm within the rules :P
Anyways... about the part of the code that I don't understand. It comes from gtkmozembed and many other open sourced ... source.
They would define something like :
and above it, they would have a macro:Code:
GTKMOZEMBED_API(void) gtk_moz_embed_close_stream (GtkMozEmbed *embed);
Now... I understand the macros...Code:
#define GTKMOZEMBED_API(type) type
But... Where's the rest of the function??
How does it know what to do if we type:
I have scanned & used the search on all of the source files, and I can't seems to find a link for it...
Another source file that I can relate to is the source of salamander:
in main.h, there's a definition for a function
But I can't find the rest of the function, not in main.c, not in the included files, not in anything.Code:
void create_menu(geckobrowser *mozzie);
Is it a type of overloading?
if so, where's the original function?


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This is my first post at the forums. And also my first problem with C++. I've programmed in a quite simple programming language called GML, short for GameMakerLanguage. It's a language for a program called GameMaker hence the name GML. (www.gamemaker.nl)
In GM you were able to make scripts and objects. Objects could execute these scripts, you could make your own functions using these scripts. There were events, a draw event used for drawing text and images, create events, mouse click events and many more. At each event, a piece of code or script could be executed.
In the draw event for example, I was able to draw some text using a for loop.
The first two arguments were the x, y position on the screen, and the last the text to be drawn at that position. It's really easy.Code:for(i=0; i < 10; i+=1){ draw_text(0,0 + (i*20), i) }
However, GameMaker's speed is far from that of C++. GM is a tool for beginner game makers, learn a bit about programming and used for easy mainly 2D game developing. I decided it was time to move on to a much more advanced programming language.
So I was reading all of the lessons from 'C++ made easy' and got to the functions part. I figured it'd be a bit similar to GM's scripts loops, variables, conditional statements were all similar to GM. But I'm having problems with C++'s functions.
I learned that a function in C++ execute some code and return a function. Like
But I was hoping to be able to do more. Like using a function to print various text using a loop.Code:return a * b
A bit like this:
Also, GM had arguments. You could write:Code:for(i=0;i < Times; i++){cout << Number << " Times " << i " = " << i*Number;}
And in the script MultiplyScript:Code:MultiplyScript(5, 2)
And it would return 10.Code:return (argument0 * argument1)
I hope I'm making sence, not making too many mistakes or breaking any rules. Sorry, I'm really new to C++ and these boards, bear with me!
Thanks in advanced! I'm also looking for somebody who could teach me a few basics, get me started. The tuts are great, but sometimes don't cover every single thing. I'd love to have a buddy on preferably MSN who could help me with some problems.
- Tarik Abbara


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NEWPORT BEACH – In his more than two decades as a urologist, Dr. Ronald Gilbert treated countless patients who were aging and ailing – some with prostate cancer, some suffering from male sexual disorders; some of whom he got to know personally.
A close childhood friend recalls Gilbert describing this facet of his demanding and often high-stress job:
"You know, I deal with all kinds of patients," Ehren Jacobs recalls Gilbert telling him on more than one occasion. "Some unusual ones."
On Monday, around 2:45 p.m., Gilbert was shot to death at his medical practice in Newport Beach . A 75-year-old man who a neighbor said was suffering from prostate problems has been arrested in the shooting, and might have been a former patient. Police aren't confirming whether Stanwood Fred Elkus was a patient as they continue their investigation of the killing.
Elkus, of Lake Elsinore, was taken into custody without incident after the shooting at Gilbert's second-floor office at 520 Superior Ave. Police say Gilbert was shot multiple times in the chest and was pronounced dead at the scene in an office filled with staff and patients, none of whom was injured.
Gilbert would have turned 53 Wednesday.
Friends, colleagues and a longtime patient described Gilbert, a married father of two, as a devoted family man and a devout adherent to a strict sect of his Jewish faith, which he celebrated weekly at a tight-knit place of worship in Huntington Beach.
"We're talking about a great student, a great friend and a solid citizen," said Jacobs, 52, who met Gilbert in the fourth grade at Murphy Ranch Elementary School in Whittier and shared many milestone experiences growing up with the future urologist, whose company, Absorption Pharmaceuticals Inc., specializes in male sexual disorders.
Relatives and friends at Gilbert's home in Huntington Harbour declined to speak to reporters Tuesday afternoon.
Gilbert was married to Elizabeth "Ellie" Gilbert, who owns an interior design business. The couple have a son in his early 20s, Stephan, who lives in New York and is studying at a yeshiva (a Jewish academy for higher learning), and another son, Jake, in his midteens, according to Jacobs, a real estate agent who lives in Rancho Palos Verdes.
Gilbert was affiliated with Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian for more than 20 years. He also was a partner in a private practice, Orange Coast Urology. Dr. Richard Afable, Hoag's chief executive and president, said Tuesday that grief counselors were working with Gilbert's co-workers.
"Our primary mission today is to ensure the well-being of all members of the Hoag family," Afable said. "Those individuals who thought so highly of him are grieving today."
Afable called Gilbert a "quite prominent and well-respected" member of Hoag's medical staff. From October 1998 to September 2002 Gilbert was chairman of Hoag's urology department.
"He was well-liked and loved by the nurses and staff who he worked with," Afable said. "There's never been anything but the highest (regard) for the type of care he provided."
Gilbert founded Absorption Pharmaceuticals, which makes Promescent, a topical spray to treat premature ejaculation. A call to a spokeswoman for the company, whose motto is "Make Love Longer," was not returned Tuesday.
Gilbert was smart, witty, athletic and well-liked at La Serna High School in Whittier. Jacobs said Gilbert had a knack for making friends quickly and mixing with all kinds of kids.
"He was funny and interesting, and people were drawn to him because of that."
Gilbert earned a bachelor's degree in biological science from UC Santa Barbara and graduated from UCI's College of Medicine in 1987. He completed his residency in general surgery there in 1989 and his urology residency in 1993.
Gilbert served as a volunteer faculty member at UCI from 2000 to 2008, said Tom Vasich, a university spokesman.
While vacationing in Argentina as a medical student, Gilbert – known to friends as "Rone" – met "Ellie" at a swimming pool.
Not realizing it at the time, Gilbert asked Ellie's married twin sister on a date. But Ellie showed up for it. Jacobs said, laughing, that Ellie, who is from Buenos Aires, didn't admit to the story until the couple had been married for about 10 years.
Gilbert grew up as a Conservative Jew but became an Orthodox Jew to reflect the religious practices of his wife, Jacobs said. He was a member of Chabad of West Orange County in Huntington Beach. A call to Gilbert's place of worship Tuesday was not immediately returned.
Robert Polk, 53, a longtime patient from Huntington Beach interviewed Tuesday, praised Gilbert as "not just a talented doctor."
"He had the best personality, and the most wonderful bedside manner, of any doctor I've ever dealt with.
"As a patient, you always felt that you got 100 percent of his attention for as long as you needed," Polk added. "He never rushed you."
Jacobs said that Gilbert, who achieved great financial success in life, wasn't driven by money.
"I remember him telling me one time: 'I'd rather sit on a bench and watch my two boys play sports.'"
–Register staff writers Salvador Hernandez, Deepa Bharath and Register contributor Eva Kilgore contributed to this report.
Contact the writer: 714-796-6704 or ghardesty@ocregistercom


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The file-hosting site MediaFire has asked Mozilla to remove its link to a Firefox plugin that automates the process of downloading files from it and other sites—and in the process allowing users to skip blissfully past ads.
Read the whole story
I hadn't heard of this plugin before. Now I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the tip Mediafire!
I second the above comment...
This seems pretty shady, it looks like there actually are reasonable grounds for Mozilla to pull the link to this.
I anticipate this is something we're going to see more of in the future.
With Web 2.0 and cloud computing, service integration is becoming more and more common. The problem is a lot of application integration doesn't expose you to the ads the fund the service in the background, which is ultimately a losing strategy.
Facebook isn't getting any ad impressions when you use your IM client. Nor is Twitter getting any revenue when you post and read twits entirely from your handheld.
Mediafire could just re-code their site to invalidate the exploit. Just like every other website that deals with this sort of thing.
This add on rocks! Been using it for awhile, ads are lame though.
All that this will result in is file sharing sites like this shutting down due to lack of revenue. They'll be swollowed up by services from larger companies that can both afford the bandwidth and taking losses for awhile, and bigger law firms on retainer who can take care of bypasses like this with prejudice.
In the end, the plug-in will just shift the marketplace away from smaller companies. Anything you do that reduces or removes the profit from a service will result in that service going away. No one provides bandwidth out of the goodness of their heart, after all...
QFT. I didn't even know about this add-on until I read this article, an article which would not have been written were it not for the "exchange of lawyer-generated, threatening letters"...
I wonder if it only works with MediaFire.. I'll have to go check it out
QFT. Amazing how the legal avenue was how they chose to go about this, instead of handling it the same damn way that Rapidshare, Megashare, Zshare, etcetc handle it.
Kinda stupid, if you ask me.
Yea they are stupid in the way they handled it and ultimately will just drive more users to it but they do have a point. They offer a free service and can only offer that server based on those ads and this completely blows past it. I am not huge on dealing with ads, especially those ones that pop up when you hover over a link in the damn article text(nothing will drive me away from a site quicker then that, nothing) but I do tolerate them when services are free. Every once in a while they are useful too.
TY Media Fire
Maybe these file sharing sites should come up with a revenue model that doesn't rely heavily on ads?
Per EFF's description http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...auto-click-if-i-want
...SkipScreen only performs a task users perform in the normal course of activity, being, click past the ads. When the ads show up, I don't read them. Not a glance but to find the click-past link. They serve no purpose. I click past by habit. MediaFire is losing nothing on my account.
MediaFire rocks. If they need users to at least look at advertisements to make their service profitable then I understand why they'd want this add-on pulled.
Lemurs, I just want to make sure you ALWAYS watch EVERY tv commercial. Those shows don't pay for themselves. So don't go make a sandwich, don't go to the bathroom, don't go fold some laundry...otherwise you are STEALING TV!!!1!1!
Wow, thanks MediaFire, I had no idea this existed before this story on Ars! Streisand Effect strikes again!
Of course, I already have ads blocked via a HOSTS file. If this gets rid of those minute-long waits, I'll be quite pleased.
The prevalence of music piracy has really changed the way people think about stuff. When I was growing up we downloaded music off napster but we knew it was wrong.
Nowadays it seems like people feel it's their moral right to take whatever they want if the provider of that good/service doesn't deliver it to them exactly on the terms they desire.
What does SkipScreen gets out of this ? Kudos ?
I'm not sure this is cool. Clever, yes. We dig the net all the time for shortcuts and tricks but the consequence (I was thinking "intent" at first) is to deprive the creator/host of its main revenue source. This is very much akin to to the P2P "sharing" conundrum in my mind.
I can see the need to make some profit, so I don't mind a nonintrusive ad or two, but these companies think they see a cash cow and find every opportunity to stick these ads in our face.
What it'll boil down too in the end, is who needs who more. I use ClickToFlash and Safari Cookies to get a handle on some of the abuse. If a site uses moderation with ads, I do my best to watch them, otherwise I'll always find a way to click through.
If you wanted to make a valid analogy why don't you bring up actual devices that automate the commercial skipping process. Automating the process of skipping ads is a completely different thing than casually missing ads. By your lofty standards forgetting to pay a bill is on the same level as the mass defrauding of a company.
You realize the bandwidth costs of these companies is exponentially higher than those of a typical site and by extension the amount of ads needed to support the site is also higher.
You make it seem as if their costs are no greater than those of the random blogger therefore their heavy use of ads is a greedy cash grab.
Why doesn't it ever occur to these greedy litigous types that ANYONE who would consider using a tool like SkipScreen is NOT a receptive audience for their annoying advertising anyway? Even if they succeed via legal hook and crook to prevent use of such tools, they will never get a single click-though from these people. They're beating an already decomposed horse.
Geoken, I just want to make sure you NEVER use your DVR or NEVER used your VCR to skip or fast-forward through any recorded TV show...otherwise you STOLE TV!!!1!1!
I think all this "you have to allow the ads to allow revenue for the hoster" is nonsense. Ads are useless if the audience does not want them. There's nothing lost here. And it would be interesting to know how many users of this service actually use the extension. I bet it's a really small minority. This is at least the case with AdBlock: Here and elsewhere everyone seems to use it, but "normal" users don't, so the lost ads just vanish in the noise. And, as I said: Trying to force users to stare at the ads is useless. If you want to make money with ads focus on the users who like them or at least don't care and not on those who hate them. Everything else is just silly, you'll win exactly nothing.
1) MediaFire has no wait times, download limits, or any other delays. Downloads are already instantly available. The discussion about skipping these non-existant limits is moot.
2) What Skipscreen does is clicks the a link and then shows you a full page advertisement for SkipScreen including their own ad. Its pretty misleading to users who think it does something magical for them with MediaFire when in reality it does very little but generate ad revenue for SkipScreen.
I welcome anything that makes my life easier (let's face it, in the end it's all about "me", and I'm referring to the end user). Hence, I've been using SS since the beginning. They keep improving and some big companies are adapting (change how they handle the timer, captcha, etc). MF will just have to adjust. As an end user, I don't give a fart about their wants. I hate all adds (no, I don't watch TV, so don't give me ur commercials excuse).
Having a choice is what technology has allowed us. Just because the wheel may have been square before doesn't mean that we should resist the change toward a wheel that rides better, the circular one.
This is what you are seeing with the music/movie industry and P2P. People KNOW that technology lets them get things NOW, so why not adapt to the wants of the end user and modify ur outdated strategy.
Like in evolution, some companies will HAVE to go extinct. These are usually the ones that resist the huge forces of nature (or in this case the wants of the users). If ur current model allows for such adaptations as SS, then modify, change, adapt. If you can't afford it, tough luck. It was just ur time to die.
MF: adapt or perish (like the dodo bird).
Thanks SS for providing one of my fav plugins.
So it's better to do something you believe is wrong than something you believe is right and some others believe is wrong?
Mediafire is one of the best file hosting sites. Its free no download limits or speed limits or wait limits like rapidshare, megaupload, megashare, depositfiles, hotfiles, etc. It takes you to the site, you press download, and ad pops up and you download. I had skipscreen and uninstalled it because I found it annoying on some sites.
In the future, everyone will have IPv6 (no NAT) and 100Mbps connections (up and down) for $20/month, so this debate about revenue stream will just be a bizarre historical footnote!
right? ...
If someone was going to do something wrong, I'd rather they accept it's wrong but rationalize it than believe they had a right to do it.
1) I know downloading songs is wrong but I'm 13 and have no money to buy anything anyway.
2) Downloading songs isn't wrong because the owners didn't present me with a business model that I approved of therefore I took the songs.
I'd rather someone hold the first position than the second.
I don't own either.
Even if I had a DVR, it, and by extension it's use, is obviously within the TOS since the cable provider is giving it to me.
The failure of your business model is not my problem. Really.
*installs SkipScreen
You're the reason we can't have nice things.
And the loss of these kinds of services to the community at large is who's problem then? It's nice to think of ourselves now and then, but once in awhile one has to look at the big picture and say, "I have responsibilities".
LOL Hugs all around.
Seriously though, you realize services like this wouldn't exist if everyone thought like you?
Thanks for letting me know about the plugin ... appreciate it.
It is a cash grab! The Internet with it's bandwidth usage had been around for quite a few years WITHOUT these abundant ads. But that was before the commercialization of the Internet. I stand by what I said. Google's ad sense is everywhere and most DO NOT opposed these ads, including me. I do oppose Flash-based ads that take up 25% of a web page and keep flashing (pun intended) like the HTML blink command of old. Nor do I care for advertising that I'm force to watch at sites I actually paid to use.


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Doctors also noted an increase—though not statistically significant—in BMC of the lumbar spine and concluded that magnesium safely improved BMC of the hip without side effects.


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I hate writing class methods. Anyway, I'd really appreciate any help I could get with this, as the program's due tomorrow. -_- I wrote a nice little reverse_string function, now I have to put it in a class called apstring. So I prototyped this function with a return type of apstring, and basically it creates an string called ReversedString which essentially is myCstring reversed, and then returns ReversedString. Problem is, I keep getting this error (I'm using Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0):
index out of range: 0 string:
Assertion failed: 0 <= k && k < myLength, file D:\Program Files\DevStudio\SharedIDE\bin\APSTRING.CPP, line 139
This is where the error is:
And here's the method I wrote:Code:char& apstring::operator[](int k) // precondition: 0 <= k < length() // postcondition: returns copy of the kth character { if (k < 0 || myLength <= k) { cerr << "index out of range: " << k << " string: " << myCstring << endl; assert(0 <= k && k < myLength); // line 139 } return myCstring[k]; }
And finally, this is the prototype in the header file:Code:apstring apstring::reverse_string() const // description: returns the string reversed // precondition: the string must contain at least one printable character // postcondition: returns the string reversed or returns a blank string (just \0) if the precondition is not met { // declares variables int Subscript1, Subscript2 = myLength - 1; apstring ReversedString1; // reverses string for(Subscript1 = 0; Subscript1 <= myLength; Subscript1++) { if(Subscript1 == myLength) { ReversedString1[Subscript1] = '\0'; break; } ReversedString1[Subscript1] = myCstring[Subscript2]; Subscript2--; } return ReversedString1; }// end Reverse_string
apstring reverse_string() const;
I attached the class in a zip file should anyone decide to give me some help. Again, I would really appreciate any help!
I'm thinking that the problem lies within the subscript operator overload, but if Subscript1 stores an int value, then why won't it work correctly? : |


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Date: Jun 10, 2009 5:09 PM Author: LBoogie Subject: Re: What should be a simple task.... On Jun 10, 5:35 am, "Nelson-Patel, Kristin" <k...@ll.mit.edu> wrote:
> Hi :)
> I am an analyst (applied physics and math) who has to present all
> of my work in Power Point briefings, sometimes on paper, sometimes
> electronically. I vastly prefer working in Mathematica to another system;
> however, I'm currently ham strung by my inability to transfer simple
> plots from Mathematica 7 to Power Point 2007 in a way that looks decent.
> In previous versions of both, I was able to Copy As: Metafile by right
> clicking on the plot in Mathematica and Paste Special: Metafile in
> Power Point, and all would be well (Ok, I had to tweak line thickness
> settings and fonts in my plots to make them survive the transfer, but
> that was fine). Now, I have select the whole cell rather than just
> the plot to get the Copy As: metafile option, and I have to go all the
> way to the menu bar to do it (no longer an option on the right click).
> Fine, I can deal with that, but I can't deal with the fact that my simple
> plots look completely ratty now upon pasting into Power Point.
> There's all this stair stepping in curves which should be smooth.
> I've played with the PlotPoints option-no effect. I've exported into
> different form ats with varying ImageResolution and imported; Either the
> fonts get screwed up or it looks even worse or there's ugly aliasing or
> no effect on the stair stepping. I've exported to PDF and snapshot-cop=
> from there; The curves look good, but now the whole image is just a littl=
> bit blurry/soft, a little too much to pass muster with my supervisors
> and sponsors.
> I'm really getting frustrated now, have spent way too much time on what
> *was* a solved problem before my "upgrades", and beginning to suspect
> that the problem is some import or paste/display setting in Power Point
> that I can't reach. I really don't want to have two different briefing=
> for electronic vs. paper presentation, but I'm a little concerned that's
> where this is heading, or I'm going to have to use the other system to
> make my plots. Which would bea shame.
> Has anyone figured this one out yet? Help, please-I'm crying uncle.
> This is one of those stupid simple problems that also happens to be
> quite fundamental to the ability to make good use of Mathematica.
> -Kristin
I confirmed some quality problems Kristin is talking about. I tried
copying and pasting the Plot[x,{x,0,1}] graphic from Mathematica 7 to
Powerpoint 2003.
Experiment #1: First I selected the graphic (not cell) then right-
clicked to Copy Graphic. Next, I pasted to a slide and noticed some
poor quality in the pasted graphic.
Experiment #2: First I selected the cell of the graphic -- converted
it to Metafile. I noticed that the converted graphic in Mathematica
looks the same as the pasted Powerpoint graphic from Experiment #1.
Experiment #3: Repeated Experiment #2 except that I converted the
graphic to Bitmap. Much better quality in the pasted graphic except
for some clipping at margins of the graphic.
I think the Metafile conversion utility (Powerpoint/Mathematica) has
some quality issues.
Can someone recommend a command to extend the margins of the graphics
to avoid clipping something important when the graphic is pasted?


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I think she'd be open to the idea of more children, though she wouldn't necessarily want a Weasley-sized horde.Originally Posted by OliveOil_Med
According to JKR, Luna travels the world with her husband, Rolf Scamander, looking for Crumple-Horned Snorkacks and other magical beings. I think that as soon as the boys are old enough (which for her, might mean before they're even out of diapers...), she'd be taking them with her. They'd get to see fantastic beasts, travel all over the world, and live adventurous lives most wizarding children could only dream of. On the downside, I think that and Luna's own social ineptitude would give them not a lot of experience at relating to other kids, so when (if) they wind up going to Hogwarts, they might find that like their mother, they are regarded as "odd" and have trouble making friends.Also, how do think the boys would have been effected having Luna for a mother? Do think they spent a lot of time with the Weasleys? What would you believe Molly Weasley's (a more tradition mother) would think of Luna's likely ecsentric parenting style?
They'd probably visit the Weasleys now and then, but I don't think they'd really be growing up with them.
Molly would probably not pass judgment on Luna, but inwardly she'd be wincing about "those poor boys."


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Smartphones are a huge business and many computer makers have jumped into the segment as a way to grab more revenue at a time when PC shipments are at their lowest point in years. The smartphone market is continuing to grow along with the netbook market despite the global economy.
According to a slide deck that turned up at an Intel Investors conference, the chipmaker is looking to get into the smartphone market itself starting in 2011. This move makes a lot of sense and is really to be expected considering that many of Intel's partners are getting into the smartphone market giving Intel an easy in for a new smartphone product line.
The slides show where the smartphone product called Medfield fits into Intel's current product roadmap. Today Intel's Menlow and Moorestown platforms are aimed at a similar market including UMPCs, MIDs, and netbooks. Starting in the second half of 2009/2010, the slides have Intel releasing a 45nm Moorestown platform that will reduce idle power consumption figures by 50% compared to Menlow and target MIDs more aggressively. In 2011, the Medfield 32nm platform is going to debut. The platform will specifically target the smartphone market where Intel points out the total addressable market is as high as 400 million units.
With any smartphone or MID, idle power is an important metric that directly relates to how long the device can be used between charges. The current Menlow platform consumes 1.6W in standby according to the slides and Moorestown will need about half that amount and will reduce the board size by two times. In 2011, Medfield will reduce the board size and standby power needs even further, however, the slides don't offer any details on exactly how significant the reductions will be.
DailyTech reported in late 2008 that Medfield was expected to debut in 2010.


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The National Mastitis Council announces the release of its commemorative book. The commemorative book is a collection of the past 50 years of mastitis control, milk quality, the history of the National Mastitis Council, personal recollections from current and past members as well as a look at what the future of milk quality holds.
"Through the years NMC has grown from humble beginnings into an organization of internationally recognized experts in the field of milk quality," says Sheila Andrew, president of NMC. "As you read this historical tribute, we hope it reminds you of the great strides in mastitis research, the importance of the original five-point plan and how NMC has been successful in providing current, science-based educational information to generations of dairy producers and their consultants for more than 50 years."
Special thanks are given to everyone who contributed to this book, including past presidents, members, staff, sponsors and industry publications. Sponsors include: A&L Laboratories, Inc., Alltech, Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc., BouMatic, DairyBusiness Communications, Dairy Farmers of America, Inc., Dairy Herd Management, Dairy Today, DeLaval, Inc., Ecolab Inc., Elanco Animal Health, Filament Marketing, GEA Farm Technologies, Inc., Hoard's Dairyman, IDEXX Laboratories, Land O'Lakes, Inc., Lauren AgriSystems, Pfizer Animal Health and Progressive Dairyman.
To view a copy of the commemorative booklet visit: http://bit.ly/MXkO46.
NMC is a professional organization devoted to reducing mastitis and enhancing milk quality. NMC promotes research and provides information to the dairy industry on udder health, milking management, milk quality and milk safety. Founded in 1961, NMC has close to 1,500 members in more than 40 countries throughout the world.