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Numbers not reflecting De Aza's quality ABs
By Scott Merkin / MLB.com
"You don't notice it," said White Sox manager Robin Ventura of De Aza's statistical struggles against left-handers. "You look at the numbers and you can scratch your head, but he's had a lot of good at-bats against lefties, getting on base and kind of starting innings against lefties. I don't look at it like he needs a day off against lefties."
De Aza tries not to change much at the plate, regardless of the pitcher being right-handed or left-handed.
"It's the same approach," De Aza said. "I just let the ball come a little deeper because most of the lefties, their [pitches] run away from me. So, that's pretty much it."
Konerko an example for young hitters
CHICAGO -- There is no hotter hitter in the American League, and possibly all of baseball, than Paul Konerko.
The White Sox first baseman finished 1-for-4 in Friday's series-opening 9-3 victory over Cleveland and now has a .526 average over his current 11-game hitting streak while knocking out 17 hits in 28 at-bats over his last eight games. His 20 multi-hit games leave him tied with Miguel Cabrera for second in all of baseball, trailing only Melky Cabrera's 22, while his .381 average and .458 on-base percentage top the AL and trail only the Mets' David Wright (.405 and .500) overall.
Yet, conversation concerning the 36-year-old's accomplishments will have to come from someone other than the White Sox captain, who doesn't believe studying his own stats has any bearing on individual or team success.
"Sometimes nowadays it's tough not to [look at statistics], but it's not by choice," Konerko said. "There's no benefit for it. It doesn't change what I have to do when I come every day. It should have no effect on what's happening tonight."
While some other accomplished veterans seem to slow down as they hit the back end of their careers, Konerko has gotten better with age. He has hit at least .300 with at least 31 homers and 105 RBIs in each of his last two seasons, and is well on his way to those totals with 10 homers and 27 RBIs in 2012.
Hitting coach Jeff Manto believes Konerko's particular style of preparation will allow him to become even stronger at the plate as his career continues.
"He's a cerebral guy. He studies these guys. He knows these guys," said Manto of Konerko's work to conquer opposing pitchers. "He's getting better because of the knowledge he has not only of himself but of the league. With that, it's just phenomenal what he's doing.
"His work ethic and his past definitely are evident when he goes to the plate. He has done some great things the past seven or eight years. He has done some great things this year. I'm not surprised at all. How he talks, how he studies other pitchers, his preparation is second to none. It's a really good thing for a really good guy."
Konerko also serves as a great role model for young hitters, even if they have different styles. When Dayan Viciedo was asked about Konerko on Friday, he laughed and called Konerko's hitting streak "a work of art." He also acknowledged there's much to be taken from what Konerko does.
"Anybody and everybody should be able to learn from him and one of the biggest things is just the way he goes about the game," said Viciedo through translator and White Sox director of cultural development Jackson Miranda. "His fundamentals, those are the things ...
"You can't exactly bat like him. But if you do the things in preparing yourself and have the fundamentals, you can definitely learn about them."
Viciedo overcoming early offensive slump
CHICAGO -- As recently as May 13, Dayan Viciedo was hitting .196. But the left fielder never lost his confidence or belief that his bat would come around and he has been rewarded with a .390 stretch over his last 11 games including six homers and 13 RBIs after adding a mammoth two-run shot in the seventh during Friday's 9-3 victory over the Indians.
Viciedo admitted Friday that the recent stretch of warm weather provides more of a personal comfort zone, since he grew up in Cuba. He added that the mental part of his five-week slump was tougher than the physical part.
"It's definitely more mental," said Viciedo through translator and White Sox director of cultural development Jackson Miranda. "The reason it's more mental is because you have 1,000 things running through your head at one time. When you do that, it just too jumbled. Once you kind of get out of that, everything kind of slows down.
"I wasn't too down on myself because I knew the potential I had. I knew I needed to do some things to kind of get out of it. It's just all about putting in the work. It's just a matter of time for me to get out of it."
That dedication and extra work is all Viciedo believes he would need to move from left field back to third base. For now, he's not taking any pregame grounders at third and focused totally on the outfield.
Pitching the key to White Sox success
CHICAGO -- Over the last 11 games, the White Sox are hitting .286 with 24 homers and 67 runs scored. But manager Robin Ventura still believes it's the men on the mound who will set the tone for this team's success.
"Everything revolves around pitching," Ventura said. "If you don't have good pitching, you're not going to go very far, you're not going to win many games.
"It starts with them and we kind of feed off of them. And they are the ones that really set the tone early in the year the way they're pitching, not just the starters but the bullpen, too."
Third to first
Former U.S. Olympic gymnast and gold medalist Shannon Miller threw out one of the ceremonial first pitches Friday.
A Robin Ventura bobblehead will be given to the first 20,000 fans in attendance at Saturday afternoon's game. Paul Konerko passed Frank Thomas to move into sole possession of third place on the White Sox all-time games played list with 1,960, following Friday's 9-3 win over the Indians. Hector Santiago has made six consecutive scoreless appearances, covering seven innings. The White Sox are 6-4 against the Indians this season and 23-12 over the last 35 games between the two division foes.
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Merk's Works, and follow him on Twitter @scottmerkin. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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South Early Winters Spire Climber's Log
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|Beautiful route, perhaps too popular
Date Climbed: Jul 11, 2007
|Terrific easy rock route, but ridiculous number of people climbing; and it was Wednesday. The approach is almost totally free of snow but the mosquitoes in the morning are extremely hungry.
|Posted Jul 14, 2007 8:09 pm
Date Climbed: May 19, 2007
|climbed the SW couloir, was a fun route, wasnt in the greatest condition.
|Posted May 19, 2007 9:23 pm
Date Climbed: May 6, 2007
|Great weather and great partners. High snow year and early season, no chockstone! Used pickets, stoppers and a couple cams.
|Posted May 10, 2007 2:17 am
|South Arete
Date Climbed: Sep 4, 2004
|Nice fun and easy climb. Snow spit at the start, but weather held on enough for enjoyable afternoon.
|Posted Mar 13, 2007 8:22 pm
|3 routes
|Route Climbed: SW Rib. Date Climbed: 9/9/07
An OK route. As Martin mentions, ledgy with good climbing consisting of "short bursts" here and there. Also, Martin's suggestion of linking works well - did it in about 5 pitches (could've cut down one more I think). Nice day & hence 2 parties ahead of us (& more on descent).
Route Climbed: DEB. Date Climbed: 9/30/06
Shirley & I wanted to do LC but couldn't quite crawl out of sleeping bags pre-dawn (again). Nice line. Did it at about 5.9 A0 (yarded bolt ladders). Nice cracks on lower 4 pitches. Nice exposure & OK climbing on upper part (probably nicer if you free the bolt ladders). As always, transitioning from aid to free mid-pitch is a bitch. Cold when in shade. I liked East Face of Lex and even East FAce of Minuteman better than this one.
Route Climbed: South Arete. Date Climbed: 10/12/02
My wife, our friend J. and I did the climb together. Perfect weather on this sunny side of the mountain. Very easy rock - the only interesting part was at the very beginning and even that was not harder than 5.5. Ran into only one more climber (soloing) from Methow. Saw a party rapping off the Liberty Bell.
|Posted Oct 2, 2006 9:04 pm
|South Arete
|Probably the most fun multi-pitch rock route I've done. My OSAT rock-jock buddies took me up this, and let me lead the slab crossing on the descent.
|Posted Aug 25, 2006 6:33 am
|South Arete
Date Climbed: Jun 28, 2006
|My first time in the Eastern Cascades and first time alpine rock climbing. Will be back for more!
|Posted Jul 31, 2006 5:53 pm
Date Climbed: Jul 29, 2006
|My son and I returned this year to complete the Fall attempt last year. We had excellent weather. No one else climbing the South Arete this day.
|Posted Jul 31, 2006 3:32 am
|Route Climbed: South Arete Date Climbed: july 9 2001
|what a sweet climb!
|Posted Feb 10, 2006 12:26 am
|Route Climbed: South Arete Date Climbed: August 12 2004
|Fun route, not too hard but it was perfect for my technical alpine climb.
|Posted Jan 18, 2006 9:03 pm
|Route Climbed: Southwest Rib Date Climbed: 16 Aug, 2004
|A great climb in Washington Pass. Needed the two #4 Camalots. Would make the direct start next time.
|Posted Dec 26, 2005 10:07 pm
|Route Climbed: South Arete Date Climbed: 10/1/05
|Hoping to get in a Fall climb, but only started the route. Snow, some ice made us back off. Rock was very cold and our hands got numb quickly. Hope to do the whole route in better weather. There was no one else around. Beautiful place.
|Posted Oct 2, 2005 8:19 pm
|Route Climbed: South Arete Date Climbed: July 2005
|excellent 360 degree views at the top, mountain goats fought over my urine
|Posted Jul 19, 2005 7:45 pm
|Route Climbed: South Arete Date Climbed: July 10, 2005
|My first climb in the North Cascades! Great sticky rock, fun moves (especially the traverse on the whaleback), and gorgeous scenery added up to a great day. We got to the summit just before it started sprinkling, but then dried up 'til just before we got back to our cars. 5-star climb!
|Posted Jul 11, 2005 11:43 am
|Route Climbed: Southwest Buttress Date Climbed: 11 June 2005
|Very fun route. A bit cold - climbed through the clouds with wet snow falling and then hail, but it gave the experience a nice mountain ambiance. Recommend it!
|Posted Jun 13, 2005 1:16 pm
|Route Climbed: Southwest Buttress Date Climbed: May 28 2005
|Warm and beautiful weather. Bring a couple big cams for the offwidths. Start just to the left of the two-topped Larch.
|Posted May 31, 2005 3:27 am
|Route Climbed: SW Couloir Date Climbed: 4/25/05
|Climbed with Gunner below. Second time on this route this year. Made for great outing (except for post holing) with short approach and fun route.
Had the entire route to ourselves.
|Posted Apr 29, 2005 1:37 am
|Route Climbed: SW Couloir Date Climbed: 4/25/05
|We desperately needed snowshoes, as we punched through hip deep most of the way to the route. Once there, the route was quite nice. Crampons were necessary. There was plenty of snow in the couloir, but is is melting fast. Be careful of the cornice once you exit the couloir and begin the scramble. I loved this climb.
|Posted Apr 26, 2005 10:28 pm
|Route Climbed: Southwest Couloir Date Climbed: 4/23/05
|Great climb! We left Blue Lake Trailhead 8:00AM, summit by noon. Warm and sunny, with fantastic views. Only one other group ahead of us, so no line ups in the Couloir. Snow was soft and deep enough for us to use snowshoes on the approach. Couloir had snow almost to the summit , but melting fast. Some of us used crampons in the Couloir, optional on this day. Thanks to Summitpost for good beta on this route.
|Posted Apr 25, 2005 12:22 am
|Dan Winter
|Route Climbed: South Arete Date Climbed: 6/15/02
|I loved this climb. Approached via the hairpin turn parking area. Saw lots of goats that tried to kick rocks down on us! Glissaded back down almost all the way to the car.
|Posted Mar 25, 2005 2:42 am

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Gallardo, Estrada discuss Classic in return to Brewers
Team Mexico starters lament early exit but appreciate chance to represent country
By Jose M. Romero / Special to MLB.com
PHOENIX -- The talk of the baseball universe into Sunday was the benches-clearing brawl between Canada and Mexico in the ninth inning of their World Baseball Classic game Saturday afternoon, which the Canadians won, 10-3.
Brewers right-handers Yovani Gallardo and Marco Estrada were part of Team Mexico and joined their teammates in the fracas, if only for a moment. But the two didn't want to let a bad thing like the brawl ruin their overall experience of playing for their country.
They talked about that experience Sunday morning after rejoining their Brewers teammates -- a couple who offered some good-natured ribbing over Mexico's quick exit from the Classic -- over a game of cards in the clubhouse.
Estrada was the starting pitcher for Mexico on Saturday and allowed four runs on seven hits in three innings. While clearly dissatisfied with his own performance, he found some positives in his brief time with the team.
"It was awesome. I got to meet a lot of guys, a lot of people I never knew before," Estrada said. "There's a lot of good players on our team, and just getting a chance to meet some of those guys ... I only played with them for a week, but you become friends with a lot of them. That's the one thing I'm going to take from this, that I got to meet a lot of nice people."
Estrada, a member of the Brewers' starting rotation, said he wished for more time on the mound. He was in a rhythm when Mexico's coaches took him out of the game 12 pitches short of the mandated limit.
"The thing [that's bad] about the Classic is that you get one opportunity to show what you've got, and like in my case, it didn't go so well. So that was it for me," Estrada said. "The first thing, honestly I felt pretty good. I thought I was locating well. Wasn't getting a couple of calls and then I started elevating.
"I think I started trying way too hard and that's when I got knocked around. Once I got out of that first inning, I settled in and it was fine after that. But it was too late by that time."
Gallardo's performance on Friday kept Team Mexico alive in the Classic, as the Milwaukee ace pitched 3 1/3 innings and allowed a run on two hits with four strikeouts in a win over Team USA. He said he felt the energy of the largely pro-Mexico crowd, which was a welcome change from the less-intense spring training game environment.
"That's the way baseball should be," Gallardo said. "The fans locked into the game just as much as the players, rooting for their country. There were a lot of fans of Mexico from all over the place who might have come in for it, and we wanted to have a good game. Show them what they came for."
Gallardo and Estrada need to pass exit physicals administered by World Baseball Classic medical staff before they can take part in Brewers workouts, according to Milwaukee manager Ron Roenicke.
"Definitely good to have them back," Roenicke said. "We can get our starting rotation more in line now. We know where 'Yo' [Gallardo] is going to be, and so we want to set him up to be that guy that when we get to start this thing, that he's in line."
Estrada told teammates he was on the ground at one point in the brawl. Gallardo, in whom the Brewers have invested $6 million a year in average salary, remained on the edge of the main activity trying to calm players down.
"It just goes to show you how close we were," Estrada said. "Everybody was backing everybody up. It [stinks] that that had to happen but it did."
Gallardo was aware that Brewers teammates John Axford, Jim Henderson and Taylor Green were on the other side of the brawl for Team Canada.
"You play with these guys during the season, and that's the only time you're on different teams," Gallardo said. "So it was a little different. Yet again, that's another reason why you should just keep it calm to the point where everybody's cooled off and then get back to the game."
Estrada took exception to the rough play of Team Canada catcher Chris Robinson, who slid aggressively into second base twice and bunted for a hit with Canada in control on the scoreboard late in the game. He also said that if asked to play for Team Mexico again in the Classic, he would gladly accept because he didn't get to show his capability this time around.
"We should still be playing right now. We were the better team," Estrada said. "We were the first ones knocked out. It shouldn't have been this way. But that's how baseball works.
"Being around the fans that we had was really cool. It felt like we were at home every game; we were the home team. That was by far the best thing about it, and just getting the opportunity to play with some of those players and getting to meet them."
Jose M. Romero is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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[Ham-80211] Why? (was Handoff between access point? )Walt DuBose dubose at texas.net
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I have to make one word of caution about using WiFi under Part 97 in lieu of using an ISP...see §97.113 Prohibited transmissions (a)(5) Communications, on a regular basis, which could reasonably be furnished alternatively through other radio services. If using the WLAN as you only Internet Connection and frequently used or only used to obtain certain types of material, they this would in in violation of the regulation. For Example, if E-Mail for an account dubose at satx.rr.com could only be accessed through this link and was a "family" E-mail account, they it would be prohibited. However, if its k5yfw at satx.rr.com and only used for ham radio "business" then I would assume its Ok. I believe that its the same if you only telephone capability was a phone patch and you used it for all your calls. Walt/K5YFW Alex Fraser wrote: > I also do this stuff for PNJ (Pure Nurd Joy). > We are in total agreement, I just wanted to clear up why we are here. > > Daron J. Wilson wrote: > >>> Daron, >>> The key phrase was >>> >>> "Possible technically, but not doable at this time by hams." >>> >> >> >> What, specifically, is preventing Hams from doing this and where do you >> get the 'fact' that this is NOT doable by hams? >> >> >> >>> I also have some paid networking experience. Rollouts! Upgrades! Rah >>> >> >> rah rah! >> >> Uh....ok. >> >> >> >>> How do you build and maintain a WAN with $0 funding and NO paid staff? >>> >> >> >> "No paid staff". I must assume by your question that you are implying >> that every WAN must have paid staff in order to exist, also that you >> must have 'funding' from somewhere for a WAN to exist. That's just >> hogwash. There are many free WiFi services here on the west coast here >> is one as an example http://www.personaltelco.net/static/ where people >> volunteer their time for the project. That's right, volunteer. No Pay. >> >> >> I'm not sure where you got the $0 funding idea, obviously this hardware >> costs someone money, all hardware does. In the example above, a >> majority of the 'hardware' is provided by people participating in the >> model by sharing their existing equipment and bandwidth. This involved >> personal and business participation to share the bandwidth. Am I saying >> this can be done for $0? Probably not, most other ham projects are done >> 'with $0 funding', someone buys equipment, donates equipment and labor, >> and they make it work. >> >> Could 20 hams in a small town enable wireless at their homes and build a >> WAN for other Hams? Yup, sure could. Even Hams could do that :) >> >> >> >>> How have you done this? >>> >> >> >> I know at least three other hams in my little town that have wireless >> access points that are deliberately left open like mine to share, the >> start of a WAN if you will, for our community. >> >> I've not build the model of an entire town, yet, but have done campuses >> for commercial use. It goes together well, allows travel between nodes, >> and works. >> >> >> >>> Could you give an example? >>> >> >> >> I just did. >> >> >>> Most important, if you did create and maintain this free network, then >>> >> >> I must >> >> >>> ask why? What made you do it? >>> >> >> >> At the risk of making this even more of a philosophical study, I suppose >> I share mine for the same reason I put up voice repeaters, and APRS >> digi's, and remote camera systems, and everything else I do for free. >> Simply because I enjoy it. >> >> >>> Is the need to experiment enough? >>> >> >> >> The need to experiment is one reason, it's strong, it did get me through >> high school :) >> >> On a more practical note, we often get our bandwidth donated to avoid >> the monthly charges, and we donate the equipment to make it work. >> Currently at one site we have a 2.4ghz microwave shot 18 miles to get >> broadband up there. On that broadband, we pump out pictures from our >> cameras and soon an ATV receiver to our web site. On the sea level end >> we are sharing a T1 with a ham owned business in town who 'donated' some >> bandwidth to our effort. Free. No paid staff. Our next step is an >> access point on the mountain top and see how far away we can connect >> people up. >> >> You sounded a bit like a 'glass half empty' kinda guy, all this stuff is >> possible if you have some ambition and desire to see it work. It is >> what Ham radio used to be about, and some of us still perceive it that >> way. >> >> 73 >> >> Daron >> >> www.ocrg.org >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ham-80211 mailing list >> ham-80211 at lists.tapr.org >> https://lists.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ham-80211 >> >> >> >> > >
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Vernon appoints sheriff as interim chief
VERNON -- Windham County Sheriff Keith Clark now has an additional job title -- interim police chief in Vernon.
Selectboard Chairwoman Patty O'Donnell said the move was necessary and temporary: Clark will fill in on a part-time schedule and only until Chief Mary Beth Hebert, who is out on medical leave, returns to duty in perhaps a few months.
"We felt we really needed to get somebody in there," O'Donnell said.
But Hebert protested, saying the department has been running smoothly under the leadership of her second-in-command, Sgt. Bruce Gauld.
"This is so unnecessary," Hebert said. "I'm just at a loss as to what it is they're trying to accomplish."
Clark, who is in his sixth year as sheriff and formerly served as Bellows Falls police chief and as a state trooper, said his job is to "provide some management and administrative oversight" in Vernon.
Clark said he plans no major changes in Vernon, and he said his service there will not interfere with his full-time job as sheriff.
"I just feel as though I can, in the very short term, manage this in a way that benefits the town of Vernon and the police department," Clark said.
He will be paid on an hourly basis. O'Donnell on Wednesday said details of Clark's contract still were being finalized.
He actually was the Vernon Selectboard's second chief appointment this week.
The board on Monday had named Richard Guthrie, a longtime local police officer who served a stint as Brattleboro's chief, to run the town's department during Hebert's absence.
But officials learned on Tuesday that Guthrie, in order to update his state certification, likely would need to attend a training session that was not available until December.
"That wasn't going to help us," O'Donnell said.
So Vernon officials on Tuesday afternoon contacted Clark, who said he was "caught completely by surprise" by the inquiry.
"I was not aware that Chief Hebert had been out," he said.
The Selectboard met with Clark Tuesday evening during what officials termed an emergency meeting. O'Donnell said the board had legal authority to conduct such a session to address the chief appointment.
"The statutes do provide for an emergency meeting," O'Donnell said.
Christiane Howe, the Selectboard's vice chairwoman, sent out an e-mail notification of the emergency meeting a few hours before it started. She cited a Selectboard handbook rule allowing those sessions without normal public notification provided that "some sort of notice must be made as soon as possible before an emergency meeting."
In response to a request for clarification from the Reformer, Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos cited a similarly worded rule. The statute also says such meetings "may be held only when necessary to respond to an unforeseen occurrence or condition requiring immediate attention by the public body."
Condos added that, in his interpretation, "there is very little reason for an 'emergency' meeting short of an act of God."
But O'Donnell said Selectboard members thought it was important to quickly address the police matter.
"It was either that or wait another two weeks" until the next regular board meeting, she said.
Those issues aside, Hebert said she was frustrated that she was given no indication that the board was going to address the matter at all this week. Hebert said she first learned of Guthrie's appointment via e-mail after it had happened Monday evening.
"I wasn't asked about any of this," she said.
She also does not understand why Gauld's leadership is not sufficient.
"He is always in charge of the department when I'm out," Hebert said. "Suddenly, they've decided that's not going to happen."
O'Donnell, however, said Gauld's status as a police union leader means he should not also serve as a department head.
"You can't wear two hats," she said. "You can't be a union member in the process of negotiations and also lead the police department."
She said Clark was recommended by Guthrie and is the right choice to provide short-term leadership in the department.
"We've had the sheriff's department fill in from time to time when we've needed it in Vernon," O'Donnell said. "So it seemed like a perfect fit."
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Jancee Dunn knew there was something wrong she realized that she knew more about the lives of celebrities than her own family and friends. It wasn't just because of her job as a former Rolling Stone writer and MTV2 veejay; we live in a world that can't get enough of the endless minutiae of the Britneys, Brads and Mileys. So Dunn decided to change that, and writes about her experiences in her refreshingly candid, funny new book, "Why Is My Mother Getting a Tattoo? And Other Questions I Wish I Never Had to Ask."
For an author who's written so lovingly about her quirky family, it seems somewhat odd that Dunn herself was ambivalent about being a mom for the longest time. As fate would have it, at age 43, believing a baby was not to be despite not using any birth control for years, Jancee Dunn became a mother.
The author and Huffington Post blogger lives with husband Tom Vanderbilt, author of "Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)," and their baby daughter in Brooklyn, New York.
You said you were fearful that having a child would mean the loss of your freedom, identity and the joy you took in your work. In what ways were you wrong and right about that?
Well, it has definitely curtailed my freedom. I still blithely say yes to invitations to things and then realize that I have a baby at home and I can never just sail out of the house again. And I love to travel, it's my favorite thing to do, and I just can't see myself traveling for a while, so I wistfully look up travel sites sometimes when the baby is napping … And also, with a 3-month-old, I am just starting to regain my marbles, so my writing is more like "typing."
So I've lost some freedom, yes, but I find that I don't mind. When I have been out to meet an editor for lunch, I find I can hardly wait to race back and squeeze that baby. As for my identity, adding the title "mother" to it has enriched and enhanced my life. And I take just as much joy in my work, but I don't obsess about my Amazon numbers as much. The baby has reset my priorities in the nicest way.
After being a couple for so long, you're now experiencing your husband as Dad. How has that changed him, and what have you learned about him because of it?
I was a little apprehensive, frankly. Because my husband likes things the way he likes things. He won't eat ice cream from an ice cream truck, which he calls "Mr. Soft E. Coli." Nor will he eat ice cream on the street. Nor will he walk and eat anything.
So he's set in his ways. But he surprised me. He is so patient with that baby. He dotes on her. When he takes her out in the stroller, he's the annoying dad on the sidewalk that you run right into because he stops every few feet and fusses with her blanket. I find that incredibly appealing. I was so afraid that we would snap at each other all the time, but I think the advantage of being older — I'm 43 — is that you are more patient with both the baby and your mate. Or maybe you're just worn out.
What's funny is that he confessed that he was apprehensive about me, too.


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There are many who think that the Avalokiteshvara practice and the mani mantra are just for simple folks and children and old people, not for real practitioners and scholars. This attitude is based on ignorance; it is absolutely mistaken. In fact, of all deities, Avalokiteshvara is the principal deity and the most important. This is true today and it was true in the past, during the time of the great pandits and mahasiddhas of India, almost all of whom achieved their realization through their practice of Avalokiteshvara. Each and every one of them had visions of Avalokiteshvara, and it was through those visions that they received their spiritual attainments and realizations. And in Tibet, especially, all the greatest masters had the strongest connection with Avalokiteshvara. They had visions of Avalokiteshvara, they were given prophetic indications from Avalokiteshvara directly, and it was through Avalokiteshvara that they achieved spiritual realizations.
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Avalokiteshvara is truly unlike any other deity. Many people are attracted to the wrathful deities, like Vajrakilaya, Hayagriva, Guru Dragpo, and so forth, and want to accomplish them, but unless one knows very well and exactly how to practice the generation and completion stage inner tantric practices of the wrathful deities, it is very difficult to accomplish them. Avalokiteshvara, however, is very simple to accomplish, and the mani mantra is very easy to recite. So keep these things in mind.
The blessings of accomplishing Avalokiteshvara are extremely great. Have no doubt about this. To recite even just one round of the mani mantra is of tremendous benefit, inconceivable benefit. To pray to Avalokiteshvara from the depths of ones heart and recite the mantra is truly a very profound practice in itself. If you pray to Avalokiteshvara regularly, and recite the six-syllable mantra as much as you can, it is absolutely certain that when you pass from this life you will not take rebirth in the lower realms. So, consider this and incorporate the practice into your life.
You should see all appearances as the form of Avalokiteshvara, you should hear all sound as the speech of Avalokiteshvara, which is the six-syllable mantra, and you should consider that all arising thoughts are the mind of Avalokiteshvara. You should have compassion and loving kindness for all living beings without exception, from the tiniest insect to the largest being, because all of them, just as you do, wish to be happy and have a desire to experience bliss. Not a single one of them wishes to suffer. So, it is important to always have loving kindness for all sentient beings, maintain the threefold state of pure awareness, and recite "OM MANI PEME HUNG" as much as possible.
When you recite "OM MANI PEME HUNG," the six syllables of Avalokiteshvara, it is important to understand that they have the power to subjugate and eliminate the ordinary samsaric six syllables, thus obstructing or closing the doors to rebirth in the six classes. That is one specific power of the mani mantra. Also, in this very lifetime, simply reciting "OM MANI PEME HUNG" will eliminate illness, disease, and demonic force possession. One will become happy and peaceful and fully endowed. Reciting it will enhance ones power to meditate and one will develop deeper levels of meditative absorption in this lifetime that will carry over into future lifetimes. At the time of death one will not have to take rebirth in the three lower realms and will instead be reborn in Dewachen, the Western Pure Land of Great Bliss, or in Avalokiteshvara's own pure realm of Riwo Potala, and there one will gradually achieve the status of buddhahood. Until that time, the blessing and the power of ones practice will not be exhausted; it will continue to produce the result of enlightenment.
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Cuddyer adjusting to Coors Field
By Thomas Harding / MLB.com
DENVER -- Right fielder Michael Cuddyer said Monday one of the challenges of coming to the Rockies after 11 seasons with the Twins is learning Coors Field. "There's a lot of ground that you have to cover, and I got the smaller part of the park," Cuddyer said. "One thing for me, even though the wall is out there and I'm used to playing with the wall behind me, the wall [in Minnesota] is closer. I could play a ball off the wall, and try to throw the batter out at second. Here, because it's so deep, that doesn't present itself all that often unless it's a line drive and a perfect bounce. "Where I would get in trouble is if there's a man on first. In Minnesota, I could play the ball off the wall and try to get the out at second, knowing the other man is not going to score from first. Here, I can't do that. It's so deep, the guy could score. It doesn't take too long to learn it. I haven't seen every bounce that can possibly happen out there, but you can't prepare for everything." Cuddyer said playing hitters has come quicker, mainly because the Twins faced National League West teams last year, so he has some fresh information. He also saw quite a bit of the division in Spring Training. On Monday, however, Cuddyer could learn by watching. He was not in the Rockies' starting lineup for just the second time in 22 games this season. Last time, however, he came off the bench for a pinch-hit, game-winning RBI single on April 20 against the Brewers. Cuddyer went 2-for-10 with an RBI and five walks in three games against the Mets. For much of the season, he was the Rockies' hottest hitter. Cuddyer will be back in the lineup for Tuesday and Wednesday, against Dodgers left-handed starters Ted Lilly and Clayton Kershaw. "His challenge here, playing at altitude, and the way he goes about his business, it's starting to waver a little bit," manager Jim Tracy said. "Rather than wait until he gets totally exhausted and really waste a day off, be proactive and do it right now." Tyler Colvin started in right field. Jonathan Herrera also started at third base instead of Chris Nelson, who doubled in Sunday's 7-6 loss to the Mets but missed the previous three games to nurse a sore left wrist. Tracy also said Herrera will start a game at second during the series with the Dodgers to rest Marco Scutaro.
Betancourt breaks trend of rough Aprils
DENVER -- Rockies closer Rafael Betancourt appears to have put his slow-starting ways in the past.Heading into Monday against the Dodgers, the final game of April, Betancourt had a 1.00 ERA in nine appearances, and was 6-for-6 on save opportunities. Betancourt had struggled in the first halves of the last three seasons, and in 2009 and '10 he had twin 5.40 ERAs. The good news is each of those seasons, starting with 2009 when he joined the Rockies in a trade with the Indians, he finished as one of the most productive relievers in the Majors. A good April could be a positive sign. But Betancourt, who celebrated his 37th birthday on Sunday by pitching a scoreless ninth inning and keeping the score tied in the Rockies' 6-5, 11-inning loss to the Mets, isn't much for looking for omens. "What I'm trying not to do right now is think about it," Betancourt said. "April, May or June, I don't want to think about it. I'm going day by day, doing my job when I'm pitching. If I start thinking about it, it's just too much stuff in my head. There's no reason for that. "And you want to get to the next level. Come in every day, work. It's a long season. There are going to be ups and downs, but you want to be on the same line all the time." For the most part, Betancourt has lived up to his trademark pinpoint location, with seven strikeouts to two walks and a .182 batting average against. From the 2011 All-Star break until the end of last season, Betancourt walked just one batter, and from the 2011 break through Sunday's appearance, the average against him was .107. Before taking over as closer in August, Betancourt had struggled when asked to close games. But he went 8-for-9 after Huston Street (now with the Padres) was injured last season, and has picked up with the same effectiveness. "Rafael Betancourt thrives on responsibility, and he understands the responsibility we've given him," Rockies manager Jim Tracy said. "If he can continue to put together a solid first half and follow it up with some of the second halves we've seen, this has a chance of being something special."
Outman solid in another rehab outing
DENVER -- Rockies left-handed relief pitcher Josh Outman, on a rehab assignment for a right oblique strain, threw a perfect inning and struck out one for Triple-A Colorado Springs in its 5-2 victory at Sacramento on Monday night. He had a similarly successful outing Saturday for Class A Modesto.Outman suffered the injury late in Spring Training, after finding out he had made the team. He came down with food poisoning, but suffered the injury vomiting. Outman had stopped at Denny's for a late breakfast the morning he made the team. "I don't know what I could have done to prevent this other than not eating at Denny's," Outman told the Sacramento Bee newspaper. "I hadn't broken camp with a Major League club since 2009, and I found out four hours before I went to the hospital that I had made the big club," Outman said in the article. "The reality is that this story was going to stay hush-hush, but [Rockies manager] Jim Tracy is an honest man and he gave the details when the reporters asked him. I'm sure Denny's won't be calling me anytime soon to do an ad." Tracy said Outman would have to pitch on consecutive days, and would need "some length" since the Rockies want to be able to use him as a specialist or to pitch multiple innings.
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Hardball in the Rockies, and follow him on Twitter @harding_at_mlb. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Getting a members green jacket at Augusta National Golf Club? That was easy.
Pioneering Transformational Diplomacy as U.S. Secretary of State? She did it in her sleep.
Hitting a golf ball in front of thousands at Pebble Beach? Now that is something that makes Condoleezza Rice pine for a tense meeting between world leaders.
"Somebody asked me, 'How did it compare to diplomacy?' a smiling Rice was saying Thursday afternoon. "Well, I know how to do diplomacy. I'm not sure about the golf course."
Good-natured, but also looking at times as if she was playing golf in the Situation Room because she's so serious about the game, Rice got her first taste of big-time golf in the opening round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.
She's taken her 17-handicap skills into pro-ams before, but not anything of this magnitude, and not with a chance to bean someone with nearly every shot. As chance would have it, that's exactly what happened. Rice hooked her fairway shot from the rough on the par-5 sixth hole and the ball drilled a woman in the center of the forehead.
The woman was bleeding but conscious, and Rice went over to her to check on her condition and quietly apologize.
"It's really scary when that happens," Rice said after the round.
Rice, 58, wasn't in the celebrity rotation with the likes of Andy Roddick and Bill Murray playing at Monterey Peninsula Country Club on a crisp, mostly sunny day, but she has become one of the country's most famous women golfers. In August, Augusta National — the world's most famous private club — announced it was accepting its first two female members — Rice and business executive Darla Moore.
Rice, who didn't begin golfing until midway through her tenure as Secretary of State from 2005-09, was thrilled.
"Thank goodness they made me a women's green jacket," Rice told a gathering last week in San Diego as the keynote speaker of a TD Ameritrade national conference.
Rice insists she isn't trying to be a golf trailblazer, but her membership résumé would say otherwise. She belongs to Cypress Point Club and Shoal Creek Golf Club in her native Alabama — both of which have faced negative publicity in the past as facilities that previously didn't allow African-American members.
"They're great places and I'm honored to be a member of all of them," Rice said with not-surprising diplomacy.
It isn't often that a PGA Tour pro gets excited to play with a relative hack, but Jason Bohn joked that this was one pro-am group photo that was going to go on the mantle.
"It was unbelievable," Bohn said. "What I love more about it is she was intense … loves the game of golf. That's what we talked about. I tried to ask a few questions and realized golf was a better topic. All I asked was if she's enjoying not being involved in politics, and so then I realized we'll change the subject and we'll go down a different avenue."
Bohn added that Rice was "a lot different than what I might have expected, to be honest; in the sense that she's real. What you see maybe from a political side you might not see as much of the realness that you want to. On the golf course you see the real person."
Rice was dressed in Stanford gear to honor the university at which she now teaches political science. She's been taking golf lessons there from the assistant coach of the Cardinal women's golf team, Kathryn Imrie, for about 18 months.
"She's serious about it," said Imrie, a Scot. "That why she is who she is."
Rice played solidly early, including draining a 30-foot putt on the par-5 second. But the beaning of the spectator seemed to rattle her, and she contributed only one red number to her 2-under team score with Bohn. That put them nine shots behind the 11-under posted by Scott Langley and his partner.
"I had some good holes and some bad holes," Rice said. "I'll just forget the bad ones and remember the good ones."


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The Phillies go to Pittsburgh to play four games with the worst team in the National League…the Pirates.
Tonight the Phils (41-35, 3rd NL East) will begin a four-game series with the worst team in the National League, the Pirates (27-51, 6th NL Central). Tonight's game will be played at PNC Park and will start at 7:05 pm Eastern. The Phils, who ended June with a 13-13 record, and are coming off a losing series with the Cincinnati Reds in Cincinnati (1-2), will be trying to feast on the Bucos' pitching, in spite of having a few of their major players on the disabled list, especially Chase Utley, who will sometime today have his broken right thumb operated on, and will be out for the next four to six weeks, at least according to the rumor mill. (Whether he actually will have an operation we will all know by the end of the day). The Phils' starter will be Cole Hamels (6-6, 4.08), who is coming off a lost against the Twins on June 26, where he went only four innings, giving up five runs on seven hits and three walks, while striking out three, in the Phils' 5-1 lost. All of the Blue Jays' runs came off of three home runs, two two-run shots and a solo home run. In his last three starts, Hamels is 1-1 with a no-decision, having given up ten runs, nine of which were earned, on seventeen hits and seven walks, while striking out eighteen. Against the Pirates, Hamels is 1-0 with a 3.79 ERA. The Pirates, meanwhile, who had ended June with a record of six wins and twenty loses, and are coming off a winning series against the Chicago Cubs in Chicago (2-1), will be trying to see if they can win their second straight series. The Pirates will send to the mound Daniel McCutchen (0-3, 11.00), who is coming off a lost against the A's on June 26, as he pitched six innings, giving up four runs on seven hits and two walks, while he struck out two, in the Pirates' 5-0 lost. In his last three games, two starts and a relief appearance, his record is 0-2, as he has given up ten runs on sixteen hits and three walks, while striking out four. This will be the first time that he has faced the Phils, who have a tendency to not hit well against pitchers who they are seeing for the first time.
The Phils will be trying to continue their recent offense revival against the Pirates, hoping to win at least three of the four games, while hoping that the recent loses of such high-caliber starters as Chase Utley and Placido Polanco will not be detrimental to the ball club, as they try to stay close to both the Braves and the Mets before the former come to Philadelphia for three games, starting on the fifth.
The Phils are presently three and a half games behind the first-place Atlanta Braves, who are off today, before they start a three-game weekend series with the fourth place Florida Marlins in Atlanta. There are two games back of the second-place New York Mets, who will be starting a four-game series of their own with the last-place Washington Nationals in the Nation's Capitol. They are presently five games ahead of the Marlins, who are off today before the face they Braves for three-games in Atlanta. They are eight and a half games ahead of the Nationals, who will start a four-game set against the Mets tonight in Washington, D.C. They hope to win tonight to gain half of game against both the Braves, and the Mets, and adding a half game against the Marlins, while hoping that the Nats will be able to handle the Mets tonight.


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Anderson Cooper Takes Break from War Reporting to Get Sassy with Some Nobody on Twitter
Sure, Anderson Cooper may have bombs falling all around him threatening his very existence — but that doesn't mean he's about to let some random person get away with saying something bad about him on the Internet.
The intrepid CNN reporter, who is currently on assignment in Gaza — the heart of Middle East hostilities — tweeted yesterday about an Israeli airstrike on the media center building in Gaza City — the second such strike in just a few hours.
Considering Cooper's wide renown, he likely receives all sorts of responses to each of his status updates. But, in this case, one particular reply caught his attention — a knock on his credibility from one Pamela Weiss, a self-proclaimed "social media junkie" and "chocoholic" from Los Angeles.
"Report a fair story. Report facts," Weiss admonished Cooper. "Ummmm.... I just did that and have been doing that repeatedly on twitter and on tv," Cooper shot back. "Do you actually think before you tweet?"
You'd think the exchange would end there, what with Cooper being in the middle of a war zone and all, but you'd be happily wrong.
After skimming through Weiss's Twitter timeline, Cooper tacked on a personal dig: "perhaps spend less time tweeting about coconut flan and more time actually following the news."
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Now i'm on the multi-core computer and the problem remain as before at this point i think is present some bug on the:
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since my only multi-core pc is an old amd dual-core i don't known if that problem is present only on dual-core pc or on every multi-core pc, the difference is important for any attempt to report a similar tricky bug ...
On the multi-core Pc use only:
$ make test-forum1
the file with extension .o isn't generated (patience) but at least the executable is built.
And if the worst is to come on the single core set the program using two threads although this would not allow me to do any tests to the level of performance improvement obtained after the addition of openmp.
It was important for me the help for the makefile because I would like to make changes to a program built using makefiles.
Thanks for the help.


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Woman Bitten on Breast By Snake Says Snake Lived, Incident Was "Cute"
[There was a video here]
You may remember 34-year-old Israeli model Orit Fox from a viral video that circulated a few years ago, in which she openly flirted with a snake and the snake proceeded to bite her on her clearly fake breast and then some guy off camera frantically said a string of non-English words ending on "titty," and everyone laughed despite the horrific snake bite that just occurred because "titty" is universal.
Fox appeared on a special called 200 Nips & Tucks and I Want More!, which ran earlier this week on the U.K.'s Channel 5. She clarified a rumor that circulated with the video that suggested the snake died of silicone poisoning. Animal lovers out there will be pleased to know that Fox's breast did not kill the snake, and Orit Fox lovers out there will be pleased to know that she was not particularly injured from the attack. She likened the bite to a cat scratch and called the incident "cute." She seems to have enjoyed being bitten on the breast by a snake:
It was so funny and amazing because the snake, it bit me on my breast. All the countries talk about my breast all the time and it bit me on this part of my body, exactly in my breast, on my breast.
This woman is a hoot. In the mini-profile that aired on 200 Nips & Tucks, she confessed to an unhealthy obsession with plastic surgery, though her breakdown of what exactly she's gotten done was sort of unclear (I think she said, "I got 10 skin," at one point?). You'll know if Orit Fox is worth getting to know within 10 seconds of the clip above, which opens with her casually raising her hands above her head and saying (in voiceover), "Mens very love my body, it's like a fantasy, it's like a dream."
She ends the segment with some words on preserving her appearance that I think many of us can relate to: "I'm high maintenance like a Ferrari, Lamborghini. I have to take care of myself if I'm gonna be pretty on the road." Feel free to make that your new motto.


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Have you met Billy, the Chihuahua who was plucked from a puppy mill by Adam, a loving Humane Society worker? Good news! Adam and Billy are going to be LIVE at 1 p.m. Friday on the Humane Society's "Billy Cam," answering your questions! (Well, Adam will answer your questions. Billy will just look adorable.)
There's still time to submit your questions via Twitter or through the HSUS website, and be sure to visit here at 1 p.m. ET for the live stream. If you can't join live, you can still watch the video afterward! After all, any time with Billy is time well-spent.


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Sasuke getting healed by karin
So even without Ka, sasuke might of died of his wounds.
Danzo's Eye started working Here
Yet he chose to Grab karin instead of instantly using Ka.
Read what Tobi Says: "He can't decide to use it as a Genjutsu (KA), or Throw it away like izanagi. ALso Danzo states "i should use shisui's genjutsu on Madara".
Aswell as stalling, he gave sasuke a little speach while he was holding Karin, he could of easily used KA if he really wanted to.


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Allowances-row peer suspended
Peers have suspended former Conservative council leader Lord Hanningfield from the House of Lords for the rest of the current Parliament over his claims for allowances.
The recommendation from the Lords Privileges and Conduct Committee to give the peer the maximum sanction after he was found to have claimed a £300 allowance for 11 days on which he did no parliamentary work was agreed without a vote.
Lord Hanningfield - who was jailed in 2011 for a separate abuse of his expenses - has also been ordered to repay the £3,300 which he had wrongly claimed.


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ARMY BOWL: All-Americans | Tour home | The Ride
MORE ON MICHIGAN: TheWolverine.com
The U.S. Army All-American Bowl is the longest running and most tradition rich of the national high school all-star games. For Lakewood (Ohio) St. Edward offensive tackle Kyle Kalis, though, the connection with the U.S. Army adds special meaning to the game.
"When I got the invitation from the Army Bowl, I just thought it was a no-brainer to try and give back as much as I can," Kalis said. "My grandfathers on both sides of my family have served… but it's not only that. Me, as an individual, I have so much respect for the guys over there doing what they do and protecting our country."
A five-star prospect and the nation's No. 4-ranked offensive tackle, Kalis is looking forward to the experience as well as the opportunity to improve his game.
"My main goal is to pretty much have fun, but when game time comes around I'll turn it on and go 100 percent," Kalis said. "I'd say my goal going into the game is pretty much to try and compete with the best. I think being out there and practicing with all those good guys, it's not going to do anything but make me better and make everyone else better."
One of the players Kalis will be competing against in East team practices is Cincinnati Taft defensive end Adolphus Washington. Kalis and Washington are ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in the state of Ohio, but making the matchup even more intriguing is that Kalis has committed to Michigan and Washington is headed to Ohio State.
"I'm definitely looking forward to it, not only because he is a great player, but because it is a precursor to the years to come," Kalis said of the matchup. "The one game I saw him, I think it was Taft vs. Friendship, he was tearing it up. I'm just excited to get out there and compete with him."
Kalis is the son of former NFL offensive lineman Todd Kalis, who played nine seasons in the League, including six with the Minnesota Vikings. The younger Kalis certainly benefited from those genes being passed down, and he is considered one of the most technically sound offensive tackle recruits in the country, but father does not overwhelm son with football-related advice.
"One of the big things he always told me is when I get to college, then he'll start to give me some of his advice," Kalis said. "But the thing he has made sure I always listen to my coaches and apply their advice to my abilities. He has given me advice as far as life, but technique-wise he hasn't really done that."
Click Here to view this Link.Besides the guidance he has received from his coaches, Kalis credits his superior skill set to being an "attention to detail freak."
It is that attention to detail in fundamentals as well as his college offensive lineman-ready physical build that could have 6-5, 302-pound Kalis contending for early playing time in his career at Michigan.
"The offensive line coach, Coach [Darrell] Funk, is expecting me to come in right around 305 and he told me I will definitely come in on the two-deep and compete for the job as a freshman," Kalis said.
Kalis originally committed to Ohio State early in his junior year, but switched that commitment to Michigan in the wake of Jim Tressel's resignation. In the five months since that switch Kalis' commitment has been firm, and even the hiring of Urban Meyer at Ohio State has not changed his mind that Michigan is where he needs to be.
"The two things that stick out in my mind is, No. 1, Coach [Brady] Hoke. He just got Big Ten coach of the year and I think the sky is the limit for him," Kalis said. "The second thing is the guys in my class. A lot of us will have a chance to play early and possibly start next year."
St. Edward faced a gauntlet of top teams this fall, including three top programs from out-of-state and the other nine all against top teams in the state of Ohio. They finished the season with an 8-4 record, coming up short of their goal of a state title, but Kalis will get a chance to close out his high school career on Jan. 7, 2012 in front of a national audience at the U.S. Army All-American Bowl.


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Sorry about the lateness. Work and other things interrupted me from completing this double header edition of Take - 5.
After the win against the Clippers this video seems long ago.
I was experimenting on another video editing methods for this video as well, which took me a while to edit.
This covers both games on the losses to Milwaukee and San Antonio
I have to veto the Blazers and Clippers game because I will be very behind if I covered those games. Sorry to disappoint.
Unless anything personal comes up, I will be ready for the Heat game for Bosh's return.
In case I did not mention, "Breaking It Down" (please read Arse's Breaking It Down on Ed Davis's good defense) and "Seven Seconds or Mess" inspired me to make these videos.
Prepared to be entertained and educated!


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On a trading day that saw the S&P 500 gain 0.1%, the Technology sector (XLK) showed little change.
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The ETF, as a proxy for the sector, tracked closer to the overall market today than over the past month. Entering today's trading, XLK was up 6.4% over the last thirty trading days. The S&P 500, in comparison, went up 3.4%.
Brightcove (BCOV) was a major loser in the sector. Its price dropped 9.9% (-$1.29) to close at $11.69, as two million shares moved. The stock traded in a range of $11.43 to $12.50.
Pegasystems (PEGA) was a significant gainer in the sector, rising 6.6%. The stock closed at $27.57 with 303,280 shares moving. The stock traded in a range of $25.90 to $27.69. Over the last three months, the stock has lost $4.52 (-14.1%) from a price of $32.09 on May 18, 2012.
Sourcefire (FIRE) rose 5.6% to close at $49.45, cross its 50-day moving average of $47.39 and 200-day moving average of $46.82. SINA Corporation (SINA) declined 1.3% to close at $50.90, moving below its 50-day moving average of $48.93 and 200-day moving average of $56.54.
Hill-Rom Holdings (HRC) rose 5.4% to close at $27.70, approaching its 50-day moving average of $28.82. It has also moved closer to its 200-day moving average of $31.23.
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Ellie Mae (ELLI) hit a new 52-week high today, reaching $27.05 to top the previous high of $26.15.


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Sensible Separation: Dalai Lama Calls For Division Between Spiritual And Temporal Roles
The Dalai Lama really gets it.
The Tibetan spiritual leader is in Washington, D.C., to lead a 10-day peace festival at a venue just a few blocks from Americans United's national office.
The Washington Post has been reporting on the event. Yesterday the newspaper mentioned the Dalai Lama's longtime support of the separation of church and state.


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San Francisco State University News Release
The Great Sunflower Project is moving beyond the backyard this summer
Professor of Biology Gretchen LeBuhn.
The popular project is encouraging its corps of more than 100,000 volunteers to observe bees and any other pollinators they see, on all kinds of plants and in all kinds of places. Participants can now report their bee counts from a walk on a nature trail, a thorough search of a local park or even a casual encounter with a bumblebee flying by.
"We've opened up the project to new ways of sampling pollination," said San Francisco State Professor of Biology Gretchen LeBuhn, who started the project six years ago. She said the new sampling methods were driven in part by the data already collected, and in part by requests from the citizen scientists.
The project's data are beginning to reveal how pollination happens in gardens, and people can check to see how well backyards in their state stack up against others, when it comes to bee visits per hour. "But one of the things we realized as we've been analyzing our data is that we can't speak to what's happening in natural areas," LeBuhn said. The new sampling can help fill in the blanks, she explained, in wild environments such as desert, chaparral and coastal habitats.
"If people can tell us where they were when they observed the bees, we can convert that into latitude and longitude information and start to build up some information about which natural habitats are doing well and poorly" in terms of pollination, LeBuhn said.
The new sampling also moves beyond sunflower observations to help the scientists determine how well certain plants do at supporting pollinators. LeBuhn says there is a lot of anecdotal evidence about this, but surprisingly little research.
"A lot of people came to us and said, 'now I know that I have three bees per hour in my garden, so what should I do next?'" LeBuhn said. To answer this question, her team began a habitat assessment project this year to discover what kinds of plants and other garden features—from water to mulching—could improve the habitat for pollinators. "Once we started doing this," she explained, "we realized how little data we have on what the key plants are."
LeBuhn hopes to have a set of habitat assessment tools online next year, but she suggests that people collect data on their backyard pollinators and plants now, so that they can be ready to make changes that bring in more bees.
The Great Sunflower Project will hold its annual Great Bee Count on August 17 to encourage users to upload their observations. The project's data has been requested by federal agencies, classrooms, and the Weather Underground forecast website. "My biggest dream is to have the data used as many times and in as many ways as possible," LeBuhn said.
Through the participation of over 100,000 citizen scientists the Great Sunflower Project aims to collect information about the whereabouts and activities of pollinating bees, and to provide those bees with more pollen resources. To join The Great Sunflower Project, visit the website at http://www.greatsunflower.org or follow the project on Twitter or Facebook.


text: I just recieved a set of monkey nut for my 1985 K100 from a aftermarket vendor that I have used before. The nuts will only go into the driven pockets with considerable force and there is no room for the driving tangs. I have not tried lubrication with a lot of force. I just doesn't seem wise. I have checked with another aftermarket that says "Bosch OEM replacement" They have a very good picture that looks like what I recieved. The surviving nuts that I took out are smaller and have a difiernt shape. I have done this job before. Has something changed?


text: You're never not ready for advanced skills, at least to be introduced to the concepts. A good coach can discuss the concepts with you and still have you more focused on what actually needs to happen. Allot of track day schools dumb stuff down, you get told the wrong thing to prevent bad things from happening. Look at the prevalence of late apex's. The "school line" is almost always late apex _everything_ because the consequences of fucking up a late apex aren't nearly as bad as being early. This dumbing down is lowest common demoniator training. It keeps everything nice and safe and relatively slow, but holds back fast learners to an extent, because you learn the wrong way then learn the right way. The question always remains if you'd have survived learning the right way from the very beginning. As to blisters... Well there's another one of those track day lies no? All control inputs should be as _smooth_ as possible says the instructor to the n00bs. Well define smooth... I can turn so smoothly you'll never feel the G's building up, it's going to be slow around the track. Really when you say smooth you mean bring the tires to maximum traction without exceeding it as quickly as possible which is going to require a progressive application of brakes, throttle and steering (and most likely an overlap of all 3). But when done by a racer it would not feel smooth it's going to feel very abrubt because the brakes are going to come on to maximum very quickly, and then they're going to feather off as lateral acceleration replaces the decreasing brakes, but it won't feel in your classical sense "smooth" to anyone but the operator or the guy looking at the data acquisition that see's the G-force line shoot to 1g deceleration and then without ever coming back to the middle goes directly to 1g lateral acceleration and then with out ever coming back to the middle goes to .3g of acceleration. When you're doing it right on a fast bike you're defiantly hanging on as you move from side to side while hard on the throttle.


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Nicolas Cage's Foreclosed Las Vegas Crazy Castle
Hollywood's resident madman Nicolas Cage went on a property buying spree in the 2000s, only to find out that, oops, he couldn't afford all those houses. This is one of those places, an $8.9 million palace in America's grossest city.
The home is 14,000 square feet and features a 16-car garage and a sauna. It has views of the city (why would you want to look at that city, ever?) and marble for days. Plus it's haunted with the sound of Cage's maniacal laughter! That's what turns a house into a home, I think.


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I've never seen a team find a way to lose so many games like the Cubs have. The opponent doesn't matter either as they play every team tough, as illustrated by how many one-run ball games they are in. The one problem is they never win those games, not even every once in a while, its uncanny. If it's a one run game the Cubs will lose it, just like they have for the last 12 of them. Tonight the Cubs put up plenty of runs to win the game, but "kerosene" also known as Randy Wells couldn't make it through an inning of work with a lead so the Cubs had to fight back. Once again they did, taking a lead in the 8th inning, just like yesterday. This time it was Alfonso Soriano hitting one of the farthest home runs ever at Target Field, had to be up in Aisle 64 with the frames. But this is the Cubs we are talking about, and the Cubs have trouble doing many things, one is closing games out. Carlos Marmol was so bad at closing games that he has now been relegated to the 7th inning blower of leads.
Tonight it was up to Shawn Camp, who in all honesty has been a tremendous bright spot out of the Cubs pen this year, but he didn't have it tonight. He quickly gave up a single, and a triple to a guy that can't spell his name (This is only a joke, I really hope Morneau is healthy for good, concussions are no fun) to tie the game at seven. Somehow Camp was able to get out of that jam without losing the game in the ninth, only a tease though. After the Cubs went quietly in the top of the 10th the Twins jumped all over Camp in the bottom half and this time Josh Willingham ended it with a single through the five man infield. Camp was bound to have a bad one, he's only pitched infiniti-billion times this year. 12 straight one-run losses in a row, congrats Cubs, maybe they will fly a flag at Wrigley for this. Full box score and highlights after the jump.
Game Highlights:
Soriano's First Monster Shot
Soriano's Second Monster Shot – Watch This
DeJesus Shows Off the Arm
Castro Goes Deep
Ian Stewart Triple
Castro Triple
Thanks for reading,
– George


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I made a number of errors today on 3 different projects. I stopped for dinner then went to work on quilting the pieces of my new purse. The stack and whack was originally part of a project I began several years ago, but decided not to finish. All the other parts of that project have found their ways into other projects.
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Jailed Coulson 'takes major blame'
Disgraced No 10 spin doctor Andy Coulson was handed the "major share of the blame" for phone hacking at the News of the World as he was jailed for 18 months .
The 46-year-old father of three was found guilty last week of conspiring to intercept voicemails at the now-defunct Sunday tabloid following an eight-month trial at the Old Bailey.
The judge Mr Justice Saunders singled out the former editor for the heaviest punishment, describing the hacking of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler as "unforgiveable".
He said: "Mr Coulson, on the jury's verdict, has to take the major share of the blame for the phone hacking at the News of the World."
"On the jury's verdict he knew about it and encouraged it when he should have stopped it."
On the Milly voicemail interception in 2002 which suggested she may be alive in Telford, he said: "The NotW delayed telling the police the contents of the voicemail until they realised that they were not going to find Milly.
"That was unforgiveable and could only, in my judgment, have happened with the knowledge of the person editing the paper that week, Andy Coulson."
He said their "true motivation" in hacking Milly's phone was to sell the most newspapers and not the best interests of the child.
The judge went on to say ignorance of the law was no excuse for what Coulson had done.
Following the sentencing, Coulson's former boss David Cameron said the sentence showed no-one was "above the law".
On a visit to Scotland the Prime Minister, who last week apologised for hiring him in 2007, said: "Well, what it says is that it is right that justice should be done and no one is above the law, which is what I have always said."
There was no reaction from Coulson who arrived at court without his wife Eloise. He stood in the dock flanked by three former colleagues and private detective Glenn Mulcaire, who all admitted their part in hacking before the trial started last year.
NotW news editor Greg Miskiw, 64, from Leeds and chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck, 52, of Esher, Surrey were each jailed for six months.
News editor James Weatherup, 58, of Brentwood in Essex, was jailed for four months, suspended for 12 months, and ordered to do 200 hours unpaid community work.
The judge described Mulcaire, 43, of Sutton, south London, as "the lucky one", saying it would be wrong to jail him again after he already served a sentence in 2006 when he was first convicted of phone hacking.
The judge sentenced him to six months imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, plus 200 hours unpaid community work.
Mr Justice Saunders went on: "All the defendants that I have to sentence, save for Mr Mulcaire are distinguished journalists who had no need to behave as they did to be successful.
"They all achieved a great deal without resorting to the unlawful invasion of other people's privacy. Those achievements will now count for nothing.
"I accept that their reputations and their careers are irreparably damaged."
He criticised the former newsdesk staff for not exposing what went on.
"There is a certain irony in seeing men who pride themselves on being distinguished investigative journalists, who have shed light in dark corners and forced others to reveal the truth, being unprepared to do the same for their own profession.
"I accept that that would require great courage but the best investigative journalists have never been short of courage."
Weatherup and Mulcaire both declined to comment as they left the courtroom.
According to Mulcaire's notes, Miskiw tasked him 1,500 times, Thurlbeck 261 times and Weatherup 157 times, the court heard.
Mulcaire, who was paid around half a million pounds by the NotW, was first convicted of phone hacking with royal reporter Clive Goodman who was told during the trial he would not face any more hacking charges.
Following the renewed police investigation into the full extent of hacking, Mulcaire admitted three more counts of conspiring to hack phones plus a fourth count of hacking the voicemail of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler in 2002 - an act which eventually led to the closure of the NotW in 2011.
While Coulson was in charge, the NotW was hacking a host of royals, celebrities, politicians and ordinary members of the public on an industrial scale amid intense competition for exclusive stories, the trial heard.
Prosecutor Andrew Edis QC said the Sunday tabloid was "utterly corrupt" and "became a thoroughly criminal enterprise".
The list of victims whose private lives were invaded read like a "Who's Who of Britain in the first five years of the century", he said.
Coulson's co-defendants Rebekah Brooks and managing editor Stuart Kuttner denied any wrongdoing and were cleared of all charges last week.
The prosecution has applied for £750,000 costs to be paid following the 139-day trial.
However the issue of costs was delayed until a hearing, due to start on July 24.


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Those last few Driver games weren't so hot—I think this is something we can all agree on. Still, you have to appreciate a studio that sticks to their guns, and Ubisoft Reflections (formerly Reflections Interactive) is doing just that. Their upcoming game, Driver: San Francisco, is the sixth game in the series, and it's been in development for over five years.
A protracted development, a seemingly tired series, and little press coverage all seem to indicate disaster, but I'm not so sure about that. Driver: San Francisco not only looks fun, but it's got some fresh and crazy ideas to boot. I'm excited for it, and here are a few reasons why you should be excited too.
The Original Driver was Really Cool
Before Grand Theft Auto III rewrote the game design rulebook, the original Driver had some really exciting things going for it. The open world was still a novelty back then, and Driver's city was quite immersive, even if you couldn't walk around in it. More than anything, though, Driver had amazing car handling for the time.
Driver carried a reverence for old chase films, with chunky, intentionally sluggish handling of iconic American muscle cars. This resulted in cinematic chase sequences with wide power slides and neck-destroying collisions. You could even record them and edit them into short chase films.
The biggest mistake Reflections ever made was letting their hero out of the car. However, Driver: San Francisco seems to be a return to form, keeping the action behind the wheel. They're even bringing back the ability to record chase sequences, and while I haven't tried it myself, the cars appear to have that heft that made the series so exciting.
How do you give someone an open world in 2011 and tell them they can't get out of the car? Well…
The Story is Insane
So I guess in Driv3r (affectionately known as Drive-Three-Er), our hero, Tanner, is caught in a rivalry with a man named Jericho. Apparently, Jericho is pissed because Tanner stole his Legos in Driver 2, or something like that. Anyways, Driver: San Francisco picks up from there, with the rivalry turning sour for Tanner, who ends up hospitalized and in a coma.
Here's where things get crazy—the rest of the game takes place within Tanner's comatose mind, where he has the ability to possess other drivers on the road at will. Other than that little quirk, everything else about the world in his mind is business is usual. So you'll be driving real cars in a realistic San Francisco, except you'll also have ghost powers.
It sounds really, really stupid, except that…
The Story Makes the Gameplay Unique
If you're interested in Driver: San Francisco, chances are you've played a fair share of open-world driving games. If you're like me, you've probably had your fill of the same textbook list of missions that most of these games feature. That's why being a crazy ghost driver might end up being really fun.
What your powers of possession allow you to do is jump from car to car, manipulating the progression of a mission on the fly. Tired of being hounded by those maniacal cops? Possess a nearby 18-wheeler and send it careening towards them, and then jump back into your own car and take off.
The whole thing is presented in a sort of Google Maps interface that lets you quickly zip from car to car, even leaping into a vehicle on the other side of the city. One mission type requires you to get two cars to your destination, forcing you to leap between them, or protect them with other possessed vehicles.
Maybe that's one step too crazy to be considered a "return to form" for the series, but the mechanics sounds like a ton of fun. Fun that will be even better if…
You've Been to San Francisco
Just like any game that features a real city, Driver: San Francisco will be enhanced if you've been to SF before. Not only that, but the San Francisco layout is prime real estate for epic car chases. It's the original setting of the Driver series, and the only city that could handle Steve McQueen.
While the game doesn't appear to be a graphical powerhouse, the tech that allows you to zip around the city instantly (and at 60 frames per second, no less), is no slouch. I'd imagine that the constant overhead map navigation and open-world nature will make it one of the most memorable game worlds this side of Liberty City.
All that said, Driver: San Francisco still has a lot to prove. We won't know if it's truly good until the game is in our hands and the reviews start rolling in. Still, I've got a hunch, a very hopeful hunch, that this will be one to look out for before its release on September 6.


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