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Yeah, w/o 1st-person narration, it'd be hard to indicate exactly what the deal was.
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Thursday, 29 March 2012 14:01 (five years ago) Permalink
The scene in the book is impressively hardcore, where they spend several hours trying not to slip off the cornucopia and being cold and hungry and pretty much near death, and after Cato falls there's, like, several more hours of him fighting and the dogs chewing him up. I think it's like next morning when they realise that they haven't heard the death-cannon and then Katniss fires a mercy arrow at the shambling hulk in the mouth of the cornucopia.
bela tarr's the hunger games
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:49 (five years ago) Permalink
Via Geeta:
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:57 (five years ago) Permalink
god, this sort of stuff is so precisely what lends itself so well to teenage obsession - the story doesn't just contain the story but all these rabbithole back stories which are unwritten (by collins) but fascinating to think about
i actually thought the opposite while reading it, at least in comparison to JK Rowling (who of course wrote hundreds of pages of backstory that were never used). Collins didn't seem to immerse herself in her own universe as much; half the tributes were never given names or characteristics and the world itself isn't terrifically defined. honestly, the Careers are better characterized in the film. some of this is the difference between fantasy and dystopian sci-fi i guess, but some of it just doesn't reflect well on the author.
otoh, the book is very good at creating implications without having katniss outright say them. i was split on her character -- half the time she's either unconvincingly poor (ie written by someone who didn't really work very hard at making her life of hunger very convincing) or she's quite convincing as typical member of an oppressed society, in that she isn't some magical figure who sees through all the bullshit when everyone else doesn't. one of the best things that happens towards the end is katniss thinking about how, if she wins, she'll be doomed to taking up Haymitch's mantle and mentoring kids every year; at that point, you have to realize how good of a mentor she would be and how far she's come since the initial train ride to the capitol. she's clearly come to understand the game and how to win it. and then you realize how arbitrary it is, that all of her character development has happened within the arena (literally and figuratively) of this arbitrary game that has no real value to anyone outside the capitol. sort of a brilliant move on Collins' part imo
anyway i'll stop the armchair book critic stuff now
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:58 (five years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, March 29, 2012 1:57 PM (13 minutes ago)
this is awesome. plus she's gonna make out pretty good on performance royalties.
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 29 March 2012 18:13 (five years ago) Permalink
between that and the steve reich it's definitely one of the cooler soundtracks ive heard in years
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 30 March 2012 15:37 (five years ago) Permalink
i thought this was pretty okay. it had some good themes and jlaw has star quality. seems like a good thing for kids to be into
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 30 March 2012 15:38 (five years ago) Permalink
also good training for apocalpyse scenarios, zombie or otherwise
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 15:41 (five years ago) Permalink
Further on Laurie Spiegel and "Sediment" (and royalties):
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 March 2012 21:03 (five years ago) Permalink
And if you (like me) haven't seen the film but would like to see the scene and hear how the music was used...
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 March 2012 21:11 (five years ago) Permalink
Funny review from bassist extraordinaire Tony Levin (!):
The Hunger Games: (and Catching Fire, Mockingjay) by Suzanne Collins *** Not bad... why is it that young adult books are sometimes the most fun reads? And I had to check out the movie, of course, in case it was as good as the book. Not bad, but not great at all. Jiggly camera technique made me want to walk out. Will books someday include jiggly camera elements? "She ran through the forest, clutching her bow, while she and the whole forest jiggled up and down, making you the reader a bit nauseous. Then she stopped to rest, but everything continued to jiggle and twitch."
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― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 30 April 2012 20:17 (five years ago) Permalink
assume you have a 5 year old daughter with one hit point left whose life depends on your selection.
― Mordy, Monday, 30 April 2012 20:43 (five years ago) Permalink
And the reason why showing off-- or, as the movie ever so subtly puts it, "showing them up"-- is so important is that women still secretly believe they are inferior to men. I know most of you aren't going to want to hear that, and, indeed, the vast majority of you will woefully willfully misquote me as having said, "women are inferior to men," but that's because your brain is broken. I read the book. You need to read with a highlighter.
yeah idk this is pretty terrible
― Mordy, Monday, 30 April 2012 20:45 (five years ago) Permalink
did this person read the followup books as well as The Hunger Games, because the overriding theme of the story has absolutely nothing to do with patriarchal oppresion and everything to do with power being a corrupting force
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 30 April 2012 20:50 (five years ago) Permalink
hey ladies, u only think katniss is a badass bc u secretly believe u are inferior to men, u know who is a real badass? this character:
― Mordy, Monday, 30 April 2012 20:52 (five years ago) Permalink
I mean, in the context of the story, Katniss's blatant impotence is pretty much the point; she's a 16-year-old girl who has been pulled into a meat grinder, much like the other kids.
Also the whole thing about Thresh being retarded is some hardcore "look into a mirror" shit
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 30 April 2012 20:53 (five years ago) Permalink
"Do you know why Thresh doesn't kill Katniss but instead lets her go? Because Thresh is black."
what the fucking fuck
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 30 April 2012 20:55 (five years ago) Permalink
Really any post that throws in a passive-aggressive "Sorry" at the end is going to be terrible.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Monday, 30 April 2012 21:09 (five years ago) Permalink
it's one thing to have a point of view but I don't think I've ever seen escalating "I see through the veil" rhetoric (including my own) that didn't culminate in the author proving the efficacy of his/her argument by lovingly his/her head up his/her own ass
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 30 April 2012 21:12 (five years ago) Permalink
I have a hard time believing that blogger isn't actually a 15-year-old.
― Meanwhile, on some cars... (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:04 (five years ago) Permalink
ugh these books are SO ANNOYING
― max, Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:12 (five years ago) Permalink
i sort of agree but my sister loves them and is like the hunger games-whisperer and has a real point of view about them and is so eloquent in their defense that she's kind of worn me down.
the movie was horrible, though.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:16 (five years ago) Permalink
yeah the more distance i get from the movie, the worse it seems to me. and from what i understand the rest of the books are all much worse than the first one??
― Hungry4Ass, Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:19 (five years ago) Permalink
i thought the second book was terrible, third book is absolutely bizarre and actually kind of redeemed the trilogy for me in some weird way, just by being so stubbornly weird
― max, Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:21 (five years ago) Permalink
i'm not sure what max's beef is. none of them are particularly well-written. the first and the last ones do the thing my sister likes the best, which is basically testify to the truth that all social order is founded on violence. earlier in this thread i said i liked the last book because it's the political one but truthfully this series is kind of apolitical, which is baffling to me. my sister and i get in arguments about this, and she's always like, look, susan collins is an army brat, if you want a revolutionary dystopian young adult novel you have to write it yourself. but still, it seems like a missed opportunity.
the second one is probably the weakest.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:22 (five years ago) Permalink
my sister likes how katniss is a battered shell at the end of the third one because that's what war does. she resents that rape is not depicted as a war crime in the books, though, which might give you some sense of the intensity of the perspective she brings to these books.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:26 (five years ago) Permalink
i should just invite my sister to this thread; she has a lot of thoughts4u
― horseshoe, Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:27 (five years ago) Permalink
the third book i think is hamstrung by that goddamned first-person present-tense narration. important events and potentially interesting character moments are just narrated-past willy-nilly, when otherwise they might be good opportunities for world-building and character shading. and while i can see the validity of saying "catatonic katniss works because it reflects the realities of war," it annoys me because collins isn't very good at reflecting other "realities" -- like the relationship between katniss and her family. imo it becomes an amateurish scribble after the first book, there is no nuance to how prim/the mom deal with their sudden wealth/change in status or how everything that happens changes the way katniss relates to them.
― the minister of RAILWAYS (reddening), Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:47 (five years ago) Permalink
yeah, collins really drops the ball on primm as a character after the first novel
― horseshoe, Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:48 (five years ago) Permalink
my sister says the books should be adapted in a band of bros-style miniseries, btw, not three movies.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:49 (five years ago) Permalink
all three are brought way down by first-person present tense
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:52 (five years ago) Permalink
xp i doubt 1/3 of a miniseries would've made anyone $400 million
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:54 (five years ago) Permalink
yeah i mean it's an impractical suggestion for sure. she was really mad after we saw the movie. i just feel like all opinions i had on these books have been replaced by her very strong feelings.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:56 (five years ago) Permalink
I keep getting asked at work if I have read these books.
I guess that's better than family members telling me I should read Twilight.
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 21 May 2012 00:06 (five years ago) Permalink
let's throw fifty shades of grey into the matrix too
― remy bean, Monday, 21 May 2012 02:08 (five years ago) Permalink
i mean http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/fifty-shades-of-grey-wayback-machine_b49124
― remy bean, Monday, 21 May 2012 02:12 (five years ago) Permalink
i want to read horseshoe's sister's thoughts4u!
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Monday, 21 May 2012 10:45 (five years ago) Permalink
not bovd about the books but the film disappointed, chris nolan kinda thing of good premise and strong exposition thwarted and retrospectively diminished by lack of basic action film competence - series of set pieces but no sense of rising tension, like at the finale where its abruptly down to three and you had little idea, and then drably petering out ahead of the doubtless already-in production sequel
guess if they'd called it "hunger games part i" some of that would have been ameliorated but even still its no less unacceptable to overlook the satisfactions of a standalone film imo. old man shaking his fist @ cloud at this point though i know
― r|t|c, Monday, 21 May 2012 11:32 (five years ago) Permalink
it's not even action film competence tbh, i mean these are basic film values in whatever
― r|t|c, Monday, 21 May 2012 11:35 (five years ago) Permalink
i guess i found the books partic. annoying because there are all these flashes of good and interesting ideas that get completely lost in collins terrible writing and characterization.
― max, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:23 (five years ago) Permalink
thomp otm upthread about her exposition, christ
It's strange to me that this series is held up as being well written or more quality than Twilight when it's not. I mean, some of the ideas in the series might be more interesting than a girl mooning over a virgin vampire but what's the point when they're not executed in a satisfying or thoughtful way?
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:29 (five years ago) Permalink
I didn't think these books were terribly written, or at the very least the concept was interesting enough that the writing style didn't get in my way.
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:31 (five years ago) Permalink
i mean dont get me wrong, i finished them, but collins needs to stop telling and start showing
― max, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:35 (five years ago) Permalink
Eh, not really.
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:39 (five years ago) Permalink
haha ok
― max, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:43 (five years ago) Permalink
nah max otm, even some minor changes would've strengthened the books considerably while retaining the cool parts of the plot. like when katniss and peeta toured all the districts at the start of catching fire, it would've been greatly improved if it had been like 30% more showing what the different districts were like, and 30% less katniss talking about all the different outfits cinna made for her and having night terrors unless she sleeps in peeta's arms.
― producer / dj / humanitarian (reddening), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:55 (five years ago) Permalink
The main point, though, is that Katniss isn't paying attention to the various districts because she's so preoccupied with appeasing the mayor to protect her family, plus she kind of didn't give a shit about any of the other tributes besides Rue so why should she she give a shit about their districts?
I mean, what you're talking about would be an interesting story, possibly even a more interesting one, but it's not actually the story being told, which is how Katniss is massively self-involved and mostly non-observant to the forces pushing her around like a chess piece until late into the third book.
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 17:00 (five years ago) Permalink


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Randy Engel is making a name for himself by teaching older folks how to juggle.
The retired professor of organic chemistry is a regular instructor at Edmonds Senior Center.
Engel, 68, was faced years ago with the possibility of falling victim to a debilitating disease. The prospect prompted him to start exercising.
It worked. He got better.
A teacher by nature, Engel was then inspired to earn his certification as a personal trainer with the American Council on Exercise.
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On Tuesday, Windgate had a great time.
"I have to overcome my fear of letting go of the ball," Windgate said with a laugh.
Her partner for the morning, John Williams, 73, also of Edmonds, said he had tried juggling when he was young.
"This is great. I really have to concentrate," said Williams, a retired data processor. "The key is to latch onto the rhythm."
"It doesn't look like much, but juggling is actually a pretty good aerobic exercise, too."
Christina Horst drove up from Seattle on her 89th birthday Tuesday to participate.
"I'll try just about anything," Horst said.
That's what Engel likes to hear.
"I know I will be juggling for the rest of my life," he said.
Learn to juggle
The current juggling class meets at 10 a.m. Thursdays, through July 3 at the Edmonds Senior Center, 220 Railroad Ave. Cost is $5 a class. Drop-ins are welcome.
For more information, call 425-774-5555 or go to www.edmondssc.org.
To learn more about Randy Engel and juggling, go to www.jugglingdogfitness.com.


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by Genea L. Webb
Pain, love and violence are just some of the themes in Kyle Abraham's latest choreographed work, "Pavement."
The work is told from the point of view of three friends who are working hard to stay together while the community they love and live in is ripping them apart.
Abraham, who hails from Pittsburgh's Lincoln-Lemington area and now resides in New York City, said his inspiration for the piece came from John Singleton's 1991 coming-of-age movie "Boyz-n-the Hood."
"When I first saw the movie in 1991 in Monroeville I noticed the genocide," Abraham said. "At that time I was entering Schenley High School and living in the Lincoln-Lemington area. It was like the bloods and crips here in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh has a vibrant history with our jazz legends and buildings like the Crawford Grill. That added vibrancy in the 1990's. I was home in November and now those buildings are boarded up and I asked people how they felt about that and how they were represented by the boarded-up buildings. When I think about those buildings, there's so much history in Pittsburgh and all that has changed."
The final stop on a five-week tour, Abraham will be bringing the gripping spectacle of dance to the Byham Theater stage for one night only on February 16 at 8 p.m. The performance is being presented by the Pittsburgh Dance Council, a division of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.
"I'm really excited about being on that stage showing my work. I'm really going to have to keep it together. 'Pavement' has hit the pavement," Abraham said.
The self-proclaimed music freak came to dance late, seeing his first performance, the Joffery Ballet's "Billboards" at age 16.
"I was hyped and after the show we went back to my friend's house and she was auditioning for school and she showed me her solo piece. I was in love with movement," Abraham said.


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I like the idea of including Rosalie's back story. I think that the development of her character is an important lead-in to BD. We all know what happens there.
I really hope they put the scene in where Jacob assaults Bella. This was a highly emotional part of the book, at least for me. This shows the other, no longer so sweet, side of Jacob. I felt that, from this point on, Jacob was now in Edward's shoes. In that he loves her, but is able to loose control and hurt (even kill) her. Edward and Alice are constantly warning Bella that the wolves are dangerous to her and this allows us to see that. That was the big reason why Edward tried to stop her from going to the res. and seeing Jacob. Plus, if they show this it will help the non book reading audience understand why Edward did some of the things he did. He had a reason. Just like Jacob had a reason to try to stop Bella from seeing Edward.


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problem statement
Many real-world problems can be reduced to handling queues of messages. The messages are often ordered; it's not enough to define a single handler for all messages, since one message can dictate how future messages are handled. These messages also often represent future side effects; once they are modified, filtered, and accumulated, they will generally be sent over the network, printed to the screen, or written to disk.
It's this last fact that points to a crucial difference between these message queues and Clojure sequences: adding a message to the queue is not always transactionally safe. However, this doesn't mean that messages can never be transactionally enqueued. If enqueuing the message doesn't directly result in a side effect, transactions are perfectly fine.
In other words, transactions can safely encompass the modification, filtering, and accumulation of messages, as long as there's a clear separation between that process and using the end result to create side effects. A good solution should maximize the extent to which this is possible, and minimize the potential for mistakes.
some possible approaches
pure functions (a la Ring)
- Leverages existing operators for composing and applying functions
- Easy to understand and reason about, hides away side effects entirely
- Assumes simple call and response model for communication
- Works best when messages are unordered; one message cannot effect the handling of another without the introduction of state
- Works best when response is immediate
blocking lazy-seqs
- Leverages existing operators for sequences
- Widely understood abstraction
- Immutability doesn't make it safe: neither LinkedBlockingQueues or queues of promises are transactionally safe to enqueue into (if deliver is used in a transaction that retries, it will throw an exception the second time around)
- Must manually allocate one thread per consumer
- No concept of timeout, consumer threads can starve forever
- Somewhat leaky abstraction; (next seq) takes a predictable amount of time pretty much everywhere else, and holding onto the head of the seq is a non-obvious trap to avoid
pub-sub events
- node.js does it, so can we
- Simplest asynchronous mechanism there is
- If no one's listening, the data disappears
- node.js imposes order on events by using a single thread, to do the same Clojure must either:
- Make events per-thread (a la Erlang actors), which doesn't play nicely with Clojure's existing concurrency primitives
- Impose an ordering using state, which is arguably something that should be abstracted away
the proposed approach
Channels are described here, and a method of using them to compose asynchronous workflows is described here.


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Need advice.
Have a i7 920 (LGA1366) + EVGA x58 132-BL-E758-A1 3way SLI that's not booting w/ a memory error. Narrowed down to CPU or MB. Unable to test farther since I don't have another LGA1366 rig.
Should I buy another 9xx (~$200) to test or just upgrade to a LGA1155 or LGA2011 combo? Are the new i7 much better than the first gen i7?
Ah, primary use is compiling, and testing w/ virtual box.
Out of warranty?
Probably. I bought my i7 950 and Asus board 3 years ago. But I would like to know this too because I plan to get a Haswell setup next Summer/Fall.
In your boat, I'd upgrade. My 18 month old i5-2500K is much faster than my i7-920.
I'd go S2011 not S1155 with 3-way SLI, and for the memory bandwidth.
overclocking or no? that matters alot. If your runing that 920 at 4 Ghz, it might be worth fixing it, if you don't o/c may as well upgrade.
Depends, the Ivy Bridge are of course faster, and they use much less power too.
I'll say that my i5-2500 isn't THAT much faster than my i7 920 for 3D rendering - like maybe 8% faster. Hyperthreading makes a difference in rendering, so the pure MHz and architectural difference doesn't play as big a role as it would for other, less HT-sensitive applications.
Still, I wouldn't spend more money on the 1366 platform, if you for not much less could go with a newer architecture. The powersavings alone might make it worth the upgrade, and you WILL gain performance, it just won't be night-and-day. (Like C2D->i7 was).
Given that the CPU is the largest cost, I'd feel a bit silly spending that much on a new, out-dated architecture, CPU.


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I am going to debunk all of the claims here about him playing against "low level competition" and "lower than NCAA" and all this nonsense that he has not proven anything against good competition.
I am going to blow up that argument. I have a clip of Giannis Adetokoubo playing against one of the biggest Greek clubs, Aris, a FIRST DIVISION GREEK LEAGUE CLUB.
This is at age 17. He scored 17 points in a Greek Cup elimination game. This is at age 17, against better competition than NCAA Division I.
So please no more of this nonsense about playing against competition lower than NCAA. He played just fine against one of the probably top 30 best clubs in Europe over the last 6-7 years.
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13 points, not 17.
Aris gave a lot of rest to their best players during the game.
Aris hasn't been a top team for a few years, not even in Greece. They aren't even a top 100 team in Europe right now.
No sources for you as everything can be easily googled...
I am actually pretty interested/high on the kid. I'd love to see the Raptors draft him and stash him for a couple of years as he matures. He is a physical freak and as his body matures and his game develops I think he is going to have a very bright future especially considering the guard skills he possesses combined with a late growth spurt.
Workouts could be very important to him. If in workouts, he is handling his competition, even just defensively, and very obviously the freak he seems to be physically, I could see him creeping into the lottery in this draft class.
Aris hahaha, do you really think you can troll us with that? That team is 8th in Greece leage, where only two teams could be considered elite and other two good enough.
I'm done. The forum is full of trolls and people that know zero about basketball.
For you to suggest top Greek League is "low level basketball" is truly beyond the pale of ignorance and insults. Aris would crush any NCAA team. Absolutely crush them.
I am going to be praying that Giannis is NOT drafted by the Raptors and never plays for them. He does not deserve to be stuck with such a horrible fan base. I've never seen such awful fans as this.
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Damn, that's nice.
And unlike some similar dunks he doesn't push off the obstacle's head, but he seems to give him a friendly pet on the head.
I wonder if his younger brothers show a lot of promise too. He's got at least 4 brothers, 2 older and 2 younger.
.Aran Smith: No official word from the family but an inside source has confirmed that Giannis Adetokoubo will enter NBA draft along w brother Athanasios. Twitter @nbadraftnet
Anyone know how good Giannis's brother is compared to him?
.Adetokoubo a blooming point forward?
If Saric is an unfinished product, 18-year-old Giannis (pronounced Yawnis) Adetokoubo, a Nigerian-born Greek, is little more than a few sketches on a pad. But they are very interesting, intriguing strokes, that have some comparing him to a young Nicolas Batum. This is a young prospect who knows how to play.
NBA types have been flying over to Europe in increasing numbers over the last month, to see what the big deal is with Adetokoubo, who is playing for Fliathlitikos, a team in Greece's second-tier league, not the one with traditional Greek powers like Olympiacos and Panthiakos. Adetokoubo (there are other spellings of his name out there; this is the one I'm going with) has wowed people with his passing ability, to the point where some teams think he could play some point guard in the pros.
"I walked out of there saying/ 'Holy cow, this kid's a freak,'" one general manager said. "He has no body. He's got pipe fitter legs. But he's got Magic Johnson kind of handle and court vision ... what I saw was a guy who can handle it, who can make plays. People are going to want to make him a point guard. He might be a point forward at the end of the day."
Adetokoubo's wingspan and hands alone are making some people giddy. But others aren't as convinced.
"There's a little bit of a hype behind it," a Southeast Division executive said. "He's not [Portland's Nicolas] Batum, my friend. A lot of conflicting reports, but the guys who've seen him have told me not to get too excited."
The likely scenario is that Adetokoubo (whose brother, Thanasis, also plays for Filatlhlitikos, and is also an NBA small forward prospect) will be a long-term project for anyone that takes him.
"I can't imagine how he plays in the league for a couple of years, maybe longer," another executive said. "Especially the way the rules are. You have to absorb the cap hit over the summer so you really lessen your ability to spend money."
Said yet another executive: "it's going to take a while. You know how that goes. How many times have we seen that with European players? And you've got to be careful in this draft, because it's a perceived weak Draft. It's easy to hype somebody and shoot them up the board."
Taking a first-round gamble on such an unproven yet promising European talent is nothing new. But Adetokoubo has so little in the way of a proven body of work at his age, it is reminiscent of when the Nuggets took Nikoloz Tskitishvili No. 5 overall in the 2002 Draft, even though he played very little in actual games for his team, Benetton Treviso.
"In my opinion, he needs to stay," one Western Conference birddog said. "Very long, thin body. Big ol' hands. He needs to come in a year later. He played in a low division. He's not ready yet. Very, very skilled, very talented. Somebody's gonna pick him. If he does stay in, I would say second round. But I think he should go back."
Others echoed that sentiment.
"I try to follow these guys from a certain age," one general manager said. "So you watch them in the Under 17s, the Under 19s, the world championships. The guys that don't do that, the guys that I've noticed, they seem to have a way of not making it, failing. Even if they don't [fail], it just takes them such a while. Their talent springs up. Guys like Skita, [Mouhamed] Sene [taken 10th overall by Seattle in the 2006 Draft], [Bismack] Biyombo [acquired via trade by Charlotte in 2011] to an extent. He played that last year [before the '11 Draft] in Spain but the year before that he played in Qatar."
Adetokoubo still does not have a visa to travel abroad, and sources indicated his parents also have issues with the requisite papers. Initially, he was scheduled to be part of the Nike Hoop Summit in Portland last week, but the document issues kept him abroad. He is expected to have everything in order by the end of the month.
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Grand jury wanted Ramsey's parents indicted in daughter's death
On a brilliantly clear autumn day more than 13 years ago, Boulder District Attorney Alex Hunter stepped to the podium before an anxious media horde to announce that the grand jury investigation into the death of JonBenet Ramsey had come to an end.
"I and my prosecution task force believe we do not have sufficient evidence to warrant a filing of charges against anyone who has been investigated at this time," Hunter told the reporters assembled outside the Boulder County Justice Center on Oct. 13, 1999.
Yet multiple sources, including members of the grand jury, have now confirmed to the Boulder Daily Camera what Hunter did not say that day: The grand jury voted to indict both John and Patsy Ramsey on charges of child abuse resulting in death in connection with the events of Christmas night 1996 -- but Hunter refused to sign the indictment, believing he could not prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.
One legal expert, however, believes Colorado law may have obligated Hunter to at least sign the indictment, even if he elected not to prosecute the case.
"We didn't know who did what," one juror told the Camera, "but we felt the adults in the house may have done something that they certainly could have prevented, or they could have helped her, and they didn't."
Boulder attorney Bryan Morgan, who represented John Ramsey through the conclusion of the grand jury process, said Saturday, "If what you report actually happened, then there were some very professional and brave people in Alex's office and perhaps elsewhere whose discipline and training prevented a gross miscarriage of justice."
Former Boulder First Assistant District Attorney Bill Wise was among those confirming the jury's vote.
"It names both of them," [John and Patsy Ramsey,] said Wise, who was Hunter's top assistant for 28 years but did not participate in the grand jury process.
Child abuse resulting in death, when charged as "knowingly or recklessly," is a Class II felony that carries a potential sentence of four to 48 years in prison. The statute of limitations on that charge in Colorado is three years from the date of the crime.
Legal experts are unsure whether Hunter's decision not to sign the indictment agrees with Colorado grand jury law.
In an email, University of Colorado Law School professor Mimi Wesson, who followed the Ramsey case, "The Colorado statute governing grand jury practice says ... that '[e]very indictment shall be signed' by the foreman of the grand jury and the prosecuting attorney."
In the event that the grand jury voted to indict on charges that Hunter did not believe he could prove at trial, Wesson said it is her opinion that proper legal procedure would have been to sign the document, file it with the court and then move in open court to dismiss the charges.
"That would be the more transparent and responsible course, in my opinion," Wesson wrote.
Hunter, who left office in 2001 after 28 years as Boulder County's district attorney, declined to discuss the grand jury's actions, but he did issue the following statement last week via email:
"Colorado statutes, the ethical canons which govern the practice of law, and the Boulder District Court's oaths, instructions and orders in the JonBenet Ramsey grand jury proceedings, are well established and absolutely clear with respect to the various participants' legal obligations, duties and responsibilities, including the inviolate secrecy of the proceedings and the differing burdens of proof applicable to jurors and prosecutors.
"As the duly elected district attorney at the time and as an officer of the court then and now, I must respectfully decline further comment."
Boulder police Chief Mark Beckner also would not discuss the Ramsey grand jury.
Denver criminal defense lawyer and legal analyst Dan Recht pointed out that the standard of proof for a grand jury to indict, which is probable cause, is a far lower threshold than what Hunter would have had to meet at trial.
"It couldn't be more different in a jury trial," Recht added. "So what Alex Hunter was thinking about was, 'But can I prove this beyond a reasonable doubt?' Because that's the burden that the prosecution has at a trial. So he seemingly decided, 'I am not going to be able to prove this child abuse resulting in death beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury.' "
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Live at The Underworld
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Live review and pics by HannTu
Atheist and Cynic in 2006. Pestilence in 2008. I can see a pattern starting to emerge…In all seriousness though, unless there's cloning technology that will bring us back Chuck Schuldiner and resurrect Death, fans of old school progressive death metal have pretty much been in heaven over the last year or so. Cynic playing Wacken and releasing a new album, Pestilence releasing a new album and returning to the touring circuit, and a new Atheist album on the cards…incredible.
The resurrection of Pestilence probably raised the most eyebrows though, and frontman/guitarist Patrick Mameli moved quickly to quell any rumours that him and Martin van Drunen had made up and reunited under Pestilence's banner. In fact, Tony Choy is the only person in the current line-up to have played in Pestilence before. But no matter, their recently released album RESURRECTION MACABRE promises much for the future of these Dutch guys.
Thanks to the dedication of Paul and Felicity at Arcane Promotions (the people who bring the excellent Deathfest annually to London), we had the chance to see Pestilence right here on our doorstep, instead of traipsing over half of Europe to catch them at festivals – although no doubt we'll be doing that in the summer anyway!


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When trying to install the ZoneAlarm Free Firewall it wants to installe it in a "Checkpoint" Directory inside your "Program Files" Directory.
I do NOT want it installed in those Directories or even the same drive (C:) where those Directories would normally reside.
The installation screen does NOT allow me to type over or modify this default Drive or Directory structure in any way.
The only thing is does allow me to do is Browse and Pick another existing Drive letter or Directory structure, If I select the root Directory of another drive it then creates an Invalid Directory structure (D:\\Checkpoint) which causes the installation process to fail.
I would actually like to install the program in D:\ZoneAlarm Free Firewall. I used ZoneAlarm Internet Suite 7 for years and it allowed me to use whatever Drive letter and Directory structure I want for installation.
Not everyone installs their programs into Microsoft's default Directory structure or wants to use the default vendor Directory structure either.


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Hello everyone,
Here is my question : How can i disable the right click menu, but still keep the desktop icons. ( xfce 4.8 / centos 6.3 )
Why ?
I am assigned a project to replace our old recipe : Centos 5.8 / KDE 3.4 / KDEKioskMode , for my company.
The main issue we have : we need to create desktop icons with variables when the user login, in order to launch our business systems. The only for me to do that right now is through the .bash_profile. Now, i need to remove the user ability to right click in the desktop and have a menu popping up.
I cannot use the option to ./configure --disable-desktop-menu , since some users, like admins / root, need this right click.
In other words, i need to deactivate the "right click" action for some users only, and still keep the desktop icons.
Is there anyway for me to do that ?
That would be greatly appreciated, as xfce seems to be a lot lighter than kde.
PS : we have customers that use VNC sessions, with more than 150 users, using xfce is a huge gain in ram usage. The right click issue is the only thing standing in my way...
Thanks !
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http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=25805#p25805 tells to configure xfdesktop with the --disable-desktop-menu flag before building it.
Yes i have seen this one, but it will disable it for all users, which is not what i need to have.
" I cannot use the option to ./configure --disable-desktop-menu , since some users, like admins / root, need this right click."
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Quick Bump... No solution ? Anyone ?
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1. Re: Performance in exadatadamorgan Dec 26, 2011 8:21 PM (in response to Mrshah-Oracle)If your company spent the money required to purchase an Exadata then they've likely got a few thousand dollars they can apply to providing you, or a member of your team, with training.
When you write, as you did, "l please suggest what all database features/ exadata tuning we can use in our applications" you are asking for someone to teach you a class. Which is something unsuited to a forum where Q&A consists of a few paragraphs.
2. Re: Performance in exadataMrshah-Oracle Dec 27, 2011 4:52 AM (in response to damorgan)Thanks Damorgan for your suggestion. I truly agree with you.
But, we are not here expecting any tutorials or lessons. Just wanted name of some features/db level modifications that we could do before we get machines. If anyone who has already did something like this, there learning could just help us.
Warm regards!
3. Re: Performance in exadata603349 Dec 27, 2011 5:22 AM (in response to Mrshah-Oracle)To be honest, your request is too broad and vague. It's like asking, "what are the best methods and materials to build a house with?"
The answer to that question starts with "It depends". Truly more information is needed to give a meaningful response -- information specific to this application.
For example:
- what does "batch" mean?
- what does "batch" do?
- how does "batch" do its work? row by row processing or set-based?
- does "batch" use parallel execution or not?
- etc., etc., etc.
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4. Re: Performance in exadatadamorgan Dec 27, 2011 5:32 AM (in response to Mrshah-Oracle)As i said, and as Greg has reinforced, the question you have asked, as you have asked it, can only be answered with taking a class.
I could give you a very long list that would include both proper indexing and dropping unnecessary indexes, TKPROF, explain plan, DBMS_XPLAN, OEM Grid Control, hybrid columnar compression, partitioning, native compilation, direct load, avoiding single-row processing, and literally hundreds of other topics ... even reading the excellent books by Jonathan Lewis, Christian Antognini, Cary Millsap, and others ... and perhaps none of it would be relevant and perhaps all of it would be relevant.
There are not short cuts ... go to your manager, show him or her this thread, and ask for support in taking a class.
5. Re: Performance in exadataMrshah-Oracle Dec 27, 2011 5:41 AM (in response to damorgan)Ops!! that was a quite huge list Damorgan.
Now I understand it's too broad request. Will check few things and get back!
6. Re: Performance in exadatadamorgan Dec 27, 2011 6:03 AM (in response to Mrshah-Oracle)The list I have you was the first few that came to mind. I could spend an hour adding to it with ease.
7. Re: Performance in exadata712814 Dec 31, 2011 1:17 PM (in response to Mrshah-Oracle)Definitely I recommend attending the OU class.
You need to know many things about the Exadata cell to know things you need to focus on.
8. Re: Performance in exadataUwehesse-Oracle Jan 1, 2012 2:47 PM (in response to 712814)Thank you for recommending Oracle University :-)
Let me add the link to our Exadata course:
Kind regards
Uwe Hesse
9. Re: Performance in exadataMarcus Rangel Feb 15, 2012 9:36 PM (in response to Mrshah-Oracle)Everything the guys above said, plus this: http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Oracle-Exadata-Kerry-Osborne/dp/1430233923
I bought it last December and read it from cover to cover. Great book.
10. Re: Performance in exadata428027 Jun 21, 2012 2:32 PM (in response to Mrshah-Oracle)Some step that may increase the performance of your applications are:
Stop forcing your queries toward index path, Smart scan makes full table scan usually fly.
Start checking which queries might benefit from smart scan, and check out if you really do need all indexes attached to your tables (Exadata still have some issues to realize that full scan (smart scan) now it´s SOMETIMES better than index access.)
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EPA's New Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards Now Open for Public Comment
Politically contentious as ever, climate change is back in the headlines, as a brutal, deep and prolonged southward shift in the polar vortex has put much of the continental U.S. in a deep freeze. In stark contrast, people living in the Southern Hemisphere – in Australia, Argentina and Brazil, for example – are trying to cope with heat waves, the threat of drought and power outages in major cities. While many are scrambling with the immediacy of such problems, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving forward with longer term, structural fixes to address climate change conceived by the Obama Administration. On Jan. 8, the EPA issued proposed new performance standards that would put an upper limit, or cap, on carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from new, stationary power plants under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act.
Published in the Federal Register and open for public comment for 60 days, the proposed caps on GHG emissions would establish separate, "new standards of performance for new affected fossil fuel-fired electric utility steam generating units and stationary combustion turbines."
Another standard would apply to "fossil fuel-fired electric utility steam generating units and integrated gasification combined cycle units that burn coal, petroleum, coke and other fossil fuels that is based on partial implementation of carbon capture and storage as the best system of emission reduction."
It has taken the EPA more than three months to publish the new performance standards in the Federal Register, a delay that prompted speculation "that the EPA was having second thoughts about its justification for CCS (carbon capture and storage) as the 'best system of emission reduction' for coal plants," environmental attorneys in Ballard, Spahr's Energy and Project Finance and Environment and Natural Resources groups noted in a news alert.
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How do you intend to get all that sand out of your vagina?
The **** kind of attention whore **** is this?
I should have kept this more private... to the rest of you... you really are true jackals, yikes
How would you feel if someone registered as JStokes1 and had a SU avatar and started posting ****?
if your answer is "i dont give a ****" then i can test that factor easily
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on further review
checked the members list and there are NO other posters with a user ID remotely similar to ASG0531
so after 3 pages, there appears to still be NO CLUE as to what this clown is muttering about
I don't get the outrage.
I don't get this thread.
I don't like this place during the offseason.
Bottom line is that someone used my username and altered it to a new user name to make fun, and a mod owned up to it and i'm kinda pissed. He used that fake name to troll a previous thread. We have privately made amends.
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whatever, Shakin has already admitted to trolling me in that thread.


text: There is only 3 or 4 rugby fans here so instead of having separate threads for the comps and internationals it makes sense to just have a one super thread to cover it all. The RC started this weekend for four of the Australian teams due to the Lions tour. We had the Force vs Rebels on Friday with a close win to the Rebels, but the one I'm interested in was the Brumbies vs Reds tonight. Glad to say the Brumbies won 24 - 6. Only two tries, both to the Brumbies, one right near the start and one at the death, the last one an intercept of a Cooper pass. A bit scrappy in places, but it's good to see the team I support come away with a win...especially against the Reds (the only win I'd value more is against the Crusaders due to the competitiveness between the two sides in the Brumbies glory years). Edit: Oh, and Rathbone made his return. He played around 65 minutes and was not bad for a guy who has been out for a couple of years.


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The Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly is the country's oldest law journal devoted exclusively to constitutional law. Our primary goal is to produce an innovative and scholarly review of current constitutional issues.
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In his recent concurrence in Maryland v. Shatzer, Justice Stevens referred to Marcy Strauss's essay in Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, titled Reinterrogation, for the proposition that reapprehension after being released from custody may heighten the inherent compulsion of police interrogation. Shatzer restricted the holding of Edwards v. Arizona, 451 U.S. 477 (1981), which established the rule that a suspect who has invoked his or her right to the presence of counsel during custodial interrogation is not subject to further interrogation until either counsel has been made available or the suspect initiates exchanges with the police. Shatzer held that Edwards does not apply if a break in custody lasting 14 days has occurred and that a suspect's return to the general prison population after invoking the right to counsel constitutes a break in custody. See Maryland v. Shatzer, 130 S.Ct. 1213, 1231 n.9 (2010) (J. Stevens concurring) (citing Marcy Strauss, Reinterrogation, 22 Hastings Const. L.Q. 359, 390 (1995)).
Justice Stevens also cited Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly in his opinion, dissenting in part and concurring in part, in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which held, in part, that federal campaign financing statutes that restricted independent corporate expenditures for electioneering communications violated the First Amendment. Justice Stevens, dissenting to that holding, cited Autonomy, Debate, and Corporate Speech, by David Shelledy, for the proposition that at the time the First Amendment was ratified, all corporate activities were regarded as resting "entirely in a concession of the sovereign." See Citizens United v. Federal Election Com'n, 130 S.Ct. 876, 950 (2010) (J. Stevens dissenting in part and concurring in part) (citing David Shelledy, Autonomy, Debate, and Corporate Speech, 18 Hastings Const. L.Q. 541, 578 (1991)).


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We'll be getting some new B.O.A.T.S. 2: ME Time visuals very, very soon. Tity 2 Necklace flew down to New Orleans to film the video to the Mannie Fresh-produced "Used 2." 2 Chainz was joined in NOLA's 7th Ward by members of the Hot Boys to pay homage to the famed Cash Money Records group. A shorter-locked Lil' Wayne, Juvenile and Turk (a jailed B.G. was still represented by his "Free B.G." t-shirt) joined Mannie Fresh and a large crowd on set. Flip through for flicks of the occasion and scroll down for behind the scenes footage of 2 Chainz's NOLA clap.
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On Saturday, December 1 at 7:06 p.m. at the Cornelius Henderson Student Center the Clark Atlanta University Philharmonic Society will host "Songs for the Season," its annual Christmas concert.
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Howdie folks, time to start this daily thread.
How did the you enjoy the Super Bowl game last night? Which commercial did you like the best?
No run here, but I can't wait to read and celebrate your runs!
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I had no dog in the fight last night so the Super Bowl was just for watching. I found myself rooting for the 49ers only due to a general dislike of Ray Lewis. The Dodge (God created the Farmer) commercial was easily the best for me. Didn't care for the Beyonce half time. It was all "Show" and Hips, with little regard for actual Music.
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I had no dog in the fight last night so the Super Bowl was just for watching. I found myself rooting for the 49ers only due to a general dislike of Ray Lewis. The Dodge (God created the Farmer) commercial was easily the best for me. Didn't care for the Beyonce half time. It was all "Show" and Hips, with little regard for actual Music.
I fully agree with your rooting reasons. and also for the tear-jerker commercial catogory. I liked the Oreo library and and the baby wolf ones for entertainment purposes. Halftime show. meh.
Need a fast half for late fall. Then I need to actually train for it.
I was at a Super Bowl shindig but didn't pay attention to the game, nor the commercials. Was tired from my race so I left before halftime. I heard the highlight of the airing was the 35 minute power outage....
Planks done, now I just have to get out to do my 9 miles today. Inertia's taking a strong hold on me today...
who says life doesn't have a soundtrack?
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That is amazing! Had I not seen Breger's post I bet I would have written the exact same thing! I always loved Paul Harvey, that twangy voice and those heart-felt images of the hard-working farmer. It was a tear-jerker, or maybe I'm just sentimental. And at the same time, is it me, or are we just getting trashier and cheesier as Americans that we demand this other sort of junk to amuse us?
3.3 recovery miles on the dirt today with RP.
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I'll spare you my Superbowl rant. (But am I the only one who thinks that power outage sounds suspiciously like a cyberattack?)
This morning's scheduled intervals kept a lid on my over-indulging too much. Out for 10 miles with 6x800's, all of which went well.
Didn't really care who won the Superbowl, but DH is from the Bay area and a diehard 49er fan - even in the bad years he's never wavered on his loyalty, so of course he was excited about this game. And DS, a diehard Hawks fan, wanted the 49ers to get pummeled since his Hawks weren't in the game. So he was cheering for the Ravens. It made for a loud game at our house because no matter who was scoring, there was ALWAYS cheering going on. The dogs even went upstairs to bed to get away from the noise. And I made ravioli and bread. I like the Clydesdale commercial, and the baby wolf one. I thought the Minnesota guy talking with a Jamaican accent was pretty good too. GoDaddy has reached an even newer level of raunch. Halftime show. blech. that's when I got online for awhile. When they book Tower of Power to do a halftime show, that's when I'll watch it.
Will RAL today. no excuses, even though it's cold and foggy. but it's going to be cold and rainy the next couple days and I already missed one training run last week (a 3 miler).
If anyone is suffering from PF, please see this as I'm offering a pair of socks for runners to test and report on:
Hey Ribs--I would love to test out a pair of those socks and give you a report back. I don't think I have PF but I've been wearing some other compression type socks for a few months that seem to be helping my Achille's...does that count?
In agreement with the half time bleah show. Turned on Downton Abbey, so never saw anything after the power outage - a boom for cbs cause it made the game more excitiing. Ran 9 mostly into WIND with no sproink - but it's done. A few more hours of splurging before i have to think of work tomorrow - not working Mondays is wonderful!
I ate too much, drank too much, and stayed up too late for a game I didn't really care about and was only partially watching. Aristotle would say that was definitely a failure in life's striving toward living a good life. A wasted evening that could have been spent in the pursuit of better things.
Today is a transition day back into the world of the living. I slept in, have a lot of work to do, and my throat is sore so I decided not to run today.
I am one of the weird ones who doesn't care about the commercials or the halftime show. I do remember seeing the farmer commercial and it was good. Seemed like a lot was inappropriately raunchy. Makes me glad I don't have younger kids.
I was pulling ever so slightly for the Ravens. My reason was I was tired of hearing the word "Kaepernick".
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DW and I quit at half time when it appeared to be a blow out and watched a DVRed episode of the Walking Dead. We are all the way up to the third show in this season! At this rate we should catch up just in time for when next season ends. Oh yes, the Super Bowl, neither my DW nor I cared who won which is why we were so willing to turn it off. Then this morning I read about all the real action: blackout followed by SF's ultimately futile comeback.
As to running. This morning I got up early. But on my night time running gear and headed off for 9 miles. One thing I miss when I cannot run is seeing the sun come up over the horizon. As the miles wore on it was just wonderful to see the day break and the sun up in sky when I turned for home.
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All of you remember my BIL's son Joey. Each year he helps his friend with the confetti machine at the Super Bowl. Some gig huh? Here he is, having a great time:
I'm with you Bill. I actually watched a rerun of a soccer match (Tottenham v West Brom) that I watched earlier in the day. Much more entertaining. I liked the Audi Prom commercial and the Huyndai commercial where the kids get a stacked football team. I have no idea what GoDaddy is thinking but they must want to loose business as a tax write-off or something.
Didn't care who won. Glad there was some entertainment on the field.
Got 6.2 today at recovery pace after yesterday's race. It was a 7 miler with lots of snow making it really slippery. I ran 7:15s on the snow and 6:45s when I got clear pavement. Oh and the 22 degrees and 10mph wind made it fun too. Actually had a great time.
Not sure about the cyber attack Tramps but I thought it looked like a breaker trip from the incoming feed to protect the T&D system since they went on back-up emergency mode. Thought they might have single phased (loss of a transformer in an old school set-up). My guess is that the system pulled more than design and no one really checked it. After working the SB here last year, I was amazed at the sheer volume and size of it all. And it all needs electricity. It did change the game momentum.
Back at it. Cheers.
"He conquers who endures" - Persius "Every workout should have a purpose. Every purpose should link back to achieving a training objective." - Spaniel
Ran 9 mostly into WIND with no sproink - but it's done.
Marj, you had the same run as me today! Though I finished my prescribed 9 miles and was still three-quarters of a mile from home... too cold and windy to walk, so I jogged (all uphill, of course) a bit more. But yes, it's done.
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me too tammy but, since the Ravens had the second best defense in the NFL this year, I was glad they won since it couldn't be the other bird team with the best defense David and I would have liked to win. The only good music I heard was from the God-Bless-America kids. However, I wish each of them could have held a name/picture of their fallen friends for us to see. I liked all of the SF quarterback's tattoos though. .
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Gwynn sent 'home' in stirring service at SDSU
Teammates, Aztecs family among those gathering on campus to celebrate icon
By Barry M. Bloom / MLB.com
SAN DIEGO -- Tony Gwynn was sent "home" on Saturday during a poignant memorial service staged in the student union building on the campus of San Diego State, the university that provided neat bookends to the Hall of Famer's life.
Anthony Keith Gwynn started as a star Aztecs baseball and basketball player, and he spent his last 12 years as their head baseball coach. In between, he played 20 years for the Padres, batting .338 and collecting 3,141 hits.
Gwynn died in the early-morning hours on Monday from the complications of a long battle with salivary gland cancer at nearby Pomerado Hospital in Poway, Calif. He was 54.
"Toward the end [of his career], the tributes always ended with Tony saying thank you to all of us for letting him do all his stuff," former Padres teammate Trevor Hoffman said in his prepared remarks. "It's my opportunity now for me to say thank you to you, 'T.'"
Hoffman, who played with Gwynn from 1993 to the right fielder's retirement in 2001, couldn't stem the tears. Nor did he even try.
There was a veritable Major League Baseball who's who at the service, which is to be followed on Thursday with a public memorial at Petco Park, the ballpark where Gwynn never played, but is nestled on a street named after him.
The memorial is slated to begin at 7:19 p.m. PT, or 19:19 military time, after Gwynn's famous and retired No. 19, which is now etched into the right-field grass at the yard that opened in 2004.
Four fellow Hall of Famers were there Saturday to honor Gwynn: Dave Winfield and Ozzie Smith, whose careers also began with the Padres; Rod Carew, an early admirer and longtime friend of Gwynn; and Cal Ripken, Jr., who was inducted along with Gwynn in 2007, nearly seven years ago.
Joining Hoffman from different eras of Gwynn's career, were former Padres Steve Finley, John Kruk, Garry Templeton, Joe Carter, Jerry Royster, Bip Roberts, club TV analyst Mark Grant, plus coaches Bobby Tolan and Rob Picciolo. Steve Garvey's wife, Candace, represented the first baseman, who played with Gwynn and Templeton on the 1984 team that won the National League pennant, the first in club history.
Giants star and all-time home run leader Barry Bonds was there, as was Tony Clark, the former Major Leaguer who is now the executive director of the MLB Players Association, Jeff Idelson, the president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and Dodgers first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, who played for the Padres from 2006-10, long after Gwynn retired.
Manager Bud Black represented the current team. Black and Clark -- like Gwynn -- played college ball at San Diego State.
The list goes on and on. From the club's hierarchy were owners Peter and Tom Seidler, executive chairman Ron Fowler and club president Mike Dee. In the crowd were former team presidents Dick Freeman and Ballard Smith. Smith ran the club for the late Ray and Joan Kroc when the Padres selected Gwynn in the third round of the 1981 First-Year Player Draft. Gwynn signed with the Padres on June 16 of that year, exactly 33 years to date of his death on Monday.
Kruk, now an analyst for ESPN, recalled his time rooming with Gwynn in the Minor Leagues, tooling around Walla Walla, Wash., where they played Class A ball in 1981, on bicycles, Gwynn's suggested mode of transportation.
"The one thing you knew about Tony was that he was on a fast pace to the big leagues," said Kruk, who played with Gwynn in San Diego from 1986 until he was traded to the Phillies in '89. "He wasn't going to be long in the Minor Leagues. You knew that from the start. The one thing I loved and respected about him was he never forgot me. That would have been so easy when he went off to play in the big leagues.
"But he'd come over to the Minor League camp almost every day just to see how I was, to make sure everything was all right. But I learned more from Tony than about baseball. I learned about life."
Kruk, like Hoffman, didn't pretend to hide the tears. And that was the tone of the one-hour service.
There was a video of Gwynn's on-field prowess from his strokes at home plate where he won eight NL batting titles to his great catches in right field as a five-time Gold Glove Award winner. The clips were set against the rhapsodic tones of Frank Sinatra's classic, "My Way."
Gwynn had his nicknames and they were present on Saturday in all their glory. Mr. Padre to the fans, "T" to many of his teammates, "Pops" to his son Tony Gwynn Jr., who only this year began wearing No. 19 with the Phillies to honor his dad as his health deteriorated. Add another one.
"We at San Diego State know him as 'Coach,'" said Mark Martinez, Gwynn's longtime assistant who replaced him when Gwynn had to take a leave of absence as the situation became dire in late March. "Every player, everybody on the coaching staff, every person in our athletic department knows Tony as Coach."
And of course, his whole team was in the crowd, prompted by Martinez to sing the Aztecs' fight song, which they did in resounding fashion. University president Elliot Hirshman and basketball coach Steve Fisher were also there, Fisher sitting next to John Boggs, who represented Gwynn as his agent and business manager for 30 years. Hirshman and Boggs gave short eulogies. So did Idelson.
Shirley Weber, a member of the California State Assembly representing the 79th District, which includes San Diego State, had some words of affection for the audience.
The last word, though, was saved for a member of Gwynn's family, Clarence Cureton, the brother of his wife, Alicia. Gwynn and Alicia met as kids, growing up in Long Beach, Calif. She was an athlete in her own right, a track star in high school who also ran at San Diego State.
Cureton lauded Gwynn as a friend, brother-in-law and family member who far exceeded the impact he had as a player.
"This is the greatness of Tony, as we send him home," he said. "Please remember to be good to each other. Be good to each other as he would want us to be. Love each other as he would want us to love each other. Take care of your families. Men, be better fathers, love your wives. I hate to sound like a preacher, but if you knew him like I knew him, that was him in a nutshell.
"If he were here today, he'd probably be uncomfortable. He wasn't about accolades. He wasn't about praise. He was just about people being people and loving each other. So on this day as we send him home, for Tony's sake, love each other, be good to each other."
Barry M. Bloom is a national reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Boomskie on Baseball. Follow @boomskie on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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"The greatest among you will be your servant," Jesus assured his listeners (Matt. 32:11). He subsequently exemplified service by washing his disciples feet. "Do you understand what I have done for you?" he inquired. "You call me 'Teacher' and 'Lord,' and rightly so, for that is what I am. Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you" (John 13:12-15). No further explanation was deemed necessary.
"You, my brothers, were called to be free," Paul allows. "But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love" (Gal. 5:13). One who is in bondage to sin is not genuinely free. But only as he or she is free to serve God and one another. Not from compulsion but motivated by love.
"Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the great street of the city," John recalls. "The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him" (Rev. 22:1, 3). As an idyllic picture that accents the theme of service.
It remains to explore some of the ways in which we serve. Giving rise to one of my more recent books: Service Is As Service Does, and brought to mind by a recent call from the publisher (iUniverse). As the following examples will serve to illustrate. "The news concerning Jesus continued to spread, and crowds came to hear him and to be healed from their infirmities. 'But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places to pray' (Luke 5:16). Both verbs, withdrew and pray, suggest continuing action. It bears repeating, he was too busy not to pray" (p. 24). And in this manner, to make the most of one's opportunities.
"Qualifications aside, falsehood does us a disservice. Justice is perverted. Needs go unmet. Truth is eroded. Commitment is lacking. Chaos dogs our footsteps" (p. 31). Conversely, one study reports that only 31% of Americans polled believe that honesty is the best policy.
"We render a significant service by helping persons recover the ability to celebrate God's gracious gift of life" (p. 41). In Biblical tradition, life is essentially good. Given the provision that it is lived according to divine guidelines. Otherwise, it tends to unravel, and chaos sets in.
"The key to any healing process is forgiveness" (Robert Enroth, Recovery From Churches That Abuse, p. 85). "While forgiveness is not the only factor, it is critical for the rest. Not only is it tragically lacking in fellowships that abuse, but life in general. Consequently, those who foster forgiveness render a substantial service" (p. 49).
"For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God' (1 Cor. 1:8). It is likewise the wisdom of God. All things considered, one would get the impression that the apostle thought it a great privilege to serve as a herald of the gospel" (p. 64).
"Civility is best learned at home. Both by respect and example. Other social agencies are encouraged to cooperate with but not displace the family. So it would seem given the premise of civility as service" (p. 72). For greater detail, see P. M. Forth's insightful exploration in Choosing Civility.
In conclusion, "Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do" (James 2:18). Accordingly, to confirm the conviction that service is as service does.