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trackpick points out a recent ACLU initiative to publicize a recent expansion of authority claimed by the Border Patrol to stop and search individuals up to 100 miles from any US border. They have created a map of what they call the US Constitution-Free Zone. "Using data provided by the US Census Bureau, the ACLU has determined that nearly 2/3 of the entire US population (197.4 million people) live within 100 miles of the US land and coastal borders. The government is assuming extraordinary powers to stop and search individuals within this zone. This is not just about the border: This 'Constitution-Free Zone' includes most of the nation's largest metropolitan areas.'"


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Hi, my site allows donators (members) to make donations to charity competitions. The donators can also vote in a poll for each charity competition.
When a user makes a donation to a charity competition, they also have the right to submit one vote.
QUESTIONI want to change the system, so that the donators can make as many donations as they like to a charity competition but still only have one vote.
My current database looks like this:
idcharity_comp_idmember_iddonation_amountvote_status (submitted / not submitted)vote_answer
How should i setting this up so that users can submit as many donation as they like per competition but they are still only limited to one vote? Thanks in advance for your help...
Two tables, one for the donations and one for the votes.
Ok cool, then just check to see if a record exists in the 'vote' table where the member_id and charity_comp_id and votes status exitst
You could probably just make member_id and charity_comp_id unique by enforcing a UNIQUE index on that table, any attempt to add another row then throws a particular mysql error message upon whose appearance you can fork your code, generate a warning or log it etc.
That'll save the extra query to see if a record exists every time you get a bone fide vote (ie the vast majority of the time, no?)
You could also do an INSERT IGNORE if you're not concerned about showing an error to the user or logging it.
Yeah, nice one.
As far as votes go, at least in this situation, I would probably go with the insert ignore option. What would be the point of showing an error? If they've already voted on that one, just let them move on. I wouldn't want to stop the flow of what they're doing (for usability reasons) just to tell them something as simple as "You've already voted for this". I'm sure they won't care enough about that to justify the interruption in their workflow.
As far as resources go... there wouldn't be much difference in performance. You're hitting the DB either way. Either to check if the vote is already there, or to perform an insert that never actually happens.
Another option would be to check if they've voted for that charity already when the user loads the page. Then you could grey-out/disable the voting option so they can't vote. Then they'd already know that they've voted on it before they try to vote again. You can combine that with the insert ignore option on the back end to prevent them from manually going to vote.php?charity_id=1 (or whatever your URL scheme is) and voting again when you've disabled the vote link.
Excellent, thanks for your detailed input into this...

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I have the same error messages for line 10.
line 10 is: client.output(cout);
for client the input is MailingLabel client("Joe Smith", "Newark, DE", 19711);
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I am looking at. 2013 R1200R
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Ferrari launched its racing version of the 458 Italia in December last year, and life was good.
The idea is that GTC racer would be sold to vetted and Ferrari-approved privateer teams, and Houston-based Risi Competizione is one race outfit given the big tick by Maranello. It's readying the 458 GT for this weekend's 12 Hours of Sebring race, and life is still rather good.
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Discussion in 'Former Pro Player Talk' started by slowfox, Feb 11, 2013.
Share your thoughts on The Big Cat.
Terrific talent, great timing,touch,power and anticipation
Able to beat anybody as he did
With a good serve and better atittude and motivation here we have an all time great
Poor record for so much talent, won Dallas but lost all major finals he reached
Although different, reminds me of Mandlikova
Great doubs player due to a sensational ROS and great court sense
His tactical sense was exceptional
In a word: when playing well, one of the best pros to enjoy
he´s on my topten list for most enjoyable to watch
@kiki: i can´t seem to remember. did he have a regular doubles partner outside of daviscup?
could he be the last pro to ever play with a wooden racquet on the tour?
if we don´t count Borgs comeback
One of my favorite players ever. Didn't know much about him until I saw him play Boris Becker in the 1986 US Open semi? I looked at him and he just didn't seem like a typical top tennis player to me. I think he was the 16th seed but my assumption was that he was cannon fodder to be destroyed by Becker. My initial thought was that I wanted US Open semi matches to have marquee matchup and this one looked in my mind to be an awful match. I was wrong.
So I'm watching the match and this guy is going toe to toe with Becker. Actually he was doing better than toe to toe. I thought Becker was just barely holding on. To paraphrase "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" I was thinking to myself "Who is this guy!?" in amazement.
I remember watching Becker hit what I thought was a volley out of Mecir's reach for a winner, Mecir just seemed to get to the shot in a blink and hit an incredible crosscourt angle passed the stunned Becker. At this point I was beginning to think this guy was a tennis genius. Mecir went on to beat Becker in five sets to reach the final against Lendl.
Mecir was one of the greatest talents I've ever seen in tennis. His return was unbelievable. It's up there with anyone's. His groundstrokes were superb but it was his subtle changes of pace, angles, combined with almost lazy looking power that was shocking. He could volley well and his movement was unreal. Unfortunately back problems hurt his game and he never totally fulfilled his great potential.
Before Sampras, Andre Agassi once said Mecir was the player who give him the most problems.
Perhaps of all the players I've seen that didn't fulfilled what I thought was great ability, Mecir was the one which saddened me the most.
He had to have one of the laziest looking "take backs" on a forehand ever to grace court. Probably made use of his opponent's power as well as anyone ever has.
pc1, thanks for posting those clips, he was fun to watch and those clips demonstrated his ability to hit those short angles extremely well, remember he didn't have poly strings or hit with extreme top brought about by extreme racquet head speed that players today have available in order to achieve the same effect.
I agree with what everyone is saying..I remember him out pulling McEnroe shots back on McEnroe himself..Unless you're going to be a top pro, Mecir demonstrates to all of us all an alternative and very often better way to play below the pro level (without heavy topspin, window washer blah blah). Someone should start a Mecir forehand thread instead of the usual Federer/Nadal stuff
With all the power baseliners today you wonder if we can ever have a Mecir type player again. Mecir today probably would play differently although I'm sure his speed would be still be unreal.
Who's knows? According to Carillo he was self taught so maybe he would be similar today but with the current equipment.
I think it could be done, Stepenak plays like Mecir but i think Mecir would kill him
Love the movement.
Great thread! Loved The Cat. One of those players that only true hardcore fans know about. A supreme talent that should have won a GS. I think his daughter plays...
zpeed7, His son, Miloslav, plays but without success.
Remember him played at Wimbledon 1988 semi-final against future champion Edberg. Mecir leaded 6-4,6-2, but then lost 4-6,3-6,4-6.
First two sets Edberg was nothing, i think Mecir lost mentally 3 rd set, get nervous (thinking of possible winning), then it was difficult to come back.
Had this match somewhere on VHS (actually only half of it).
i remember that as well. wasn´t that the year he beat Wilander rather comfortably?
Swedes fearedhim
Great doubs team with underrated but solid and complete Tomas Smid
Smid was a joy to watch. lots of s&v
i remember him more as a doubles partner to Pavel Slozil.
wasn´t Mecir about 10 years younger?
Is this Becker semifinal on video anywhere? Some say it was the best match of the USO that year.
Yes, in 1/4 - 6/3 6/1 6/3.
It was first Edberg and Graf Wimbledon titles that year.
I remember Milo Mecir too. Talented player, Murray reminds me a bit of Mecir.
Mecir came to my notice first in reaching the Philadelphia f in 1985 beating Connors and losing to Mac. Beat Becker in the USO 86, then lost to Lendl in the final. Mecir beat McEnroe indoors in the Dallas final 87, I was thinking Mac was going to win that. Wrong!
Milo was known as the Swede-killer, I think, had a pretty good record against them at the time, had Edberg down 2 sets in the Wimbledon sf 88 before Stefan came through in five.
Milo won the Olympic gold in 1988 too. Lendl had his number in the Slams though.
His posture on court was quite unusual - he holded his back very vertical, was, probably, the only top player w/beard at that period. And his wood Snauwaert... His hobby was fishing.
Yes, saw Smid many times singles&doubs and was tough to beat in both seldom losing to a lesser guy
Key factor in the DC win in 1980
Good serve and great forehand, moved well at net and had strong body
didn´t he coach Becker for some time?
True, Smid spoke several languAged
I recall a story about Tony Roche, Lendl's coach, telling him to just hit down the middle so Mecir won't have any angles to hit.
Roche has coached some good ones.
He was tall and very upright and had a beard.They used to say a hobby of his was fishing, yeah.
Very good player for a few years, had a good touch for the ball.
He was even a hipster before it was hip.
It was at Australian Open 1989 final where Lendl won 6-2 6-2 6-2 and get back to №1 in the world.
Yeah, he was like a poet or a jazz cat. Just needed the shades
i think that if he were playing today as a 25 year old, he would hold his own very nicely. mecir had serious game because he was a true minimalist.
Agreed. Talent is talent, no matter what era.
(Don't tell certain persons, who don't believe that anyone before the present era was ever any good, and if you're under 6' tall you cannot have any talent.)
Today is the best of all possible times.
There is something about Tomic that reminds me of Mecir. Not the movement though. Mecir was superior at that for sure.
He wore those ugly Reebok tops
Mecir's signature shot was inside out on opponents deep shots down the middle. He could hit it off both wings. Often he would short-hop this shot to take time away.
This is the shot that devastated the Swedes. They were all taught to play safe shots deep the the middle, and the Big Cat would casually smoke the inside-out winner. They just never saw it coming. Epic battles with Wilander.
Robby C
Best Thomas Smid memory.
Davis Cup Dbls in Hawaii with Petr Korda vs. John McEnroe-Ric Leach.
Smid didn't miss a 1st serve until the middle of the 2nd Set.
Korda poached like crazy. Mac and Leach just couldn't find an answer.
If anyone has a link, I'd sure like to see it again.
Robby C
Could it be argued Torben Ulrich was the original tennis hipster? Or was he just the first hippy?
Kucera played just like Mecir in the 90s.
You could argue both and have a good case.
Just on a minor tennis note, I understand Torben had his service toss so perfected that he could practice his serve in the dark. I wish my service toss was so good.
Back to topic, yes Mecir seemed very relaxed but I guess it wasn't so since his serve (unlike Torben's) could really be off. Didn't he serve underhanded in one match?
Serve was definitely Mecir's weaker stroke. I don't know for sure, but I think the underhand serve was at the USO final (??).
Can you imagine if he had Lendl's serve? Mecir would have been a monster!
Mecir was an enigma, but a genius of a player on his day. My favourite match of his is the 1987 Miami final, when he beat Lendl 7-5, 6-2, 7-5, and drove Lendl crazy for good measure. Another excellent Mecir performance was beating McEnroe 6-0, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 in the 1987 WCT Dallas final. There's Mecir's 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 win over Becker in the 1986 US Open semi finals as well.
Wilander hated playing against Mecir. Mecir gave Wilander a lot of one-sided beatings. If Wilander didn't start well and dictate the match early, Wilander would soon be chasing shadows as Mecir weaved his magic.
Yes, Mecir coached Kucera as well. Mecir's nickname was "The Big Cat", while Kucera was known as "The Little Cat".
Maybe he was also the first exponent of Zen Tennis and was well practised in the art of letting go and just hitting...
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Mecir showed to public eye, I think around 1985.He beat Connors at Philadelphia, where he´d lose the final to mighty Mac.He also reached the IO final ( lost to Noah) after beating all the swede squad, one after the other.
I think he defeated, at least once, all the big players of the 80´s, from Jimmy Connors to Ivan Lendl, John mc Enroe,Boris Becker,Stefan Edberg and Mats Wilander.
He also looked like it was the easiest thing in the world.
Which makes his achievement all the more impressive. Just how did he do it...??
Boris Becker had his own theory. He said, that Mecir put him to sleep, especially with his sissy serve. I thought that Mecir looked always half asleep, walking and acting very slowly in between points. But, when the point was on, he could glide into his shots and hit very cleanly and deceptively, especially on his backhand. He was the one, who could outplay McEnroe, not only overpower him.
He looked like he'd rather be fishing...
tomic reminds me of a modern day mecir with more power. has very laid back strokes imo
Mecir with a better serve and bigger will to win is an all timer
But then, it is not Mecir
^^ I guess it would be odd if Mecir had a monster serve paired with those sleepy groundies. So yeah, you're right. It wouldn't be Mecir.
Best non-slam winner of the Open Era
It's pretty much between Mecir, Rios and Okker as the greatest open era non-slam winner. I like Mecir.
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During this year's Super Bowl, Google ran an ad telling a search story of a man finding love in Paris. They've now created a tool where you can create your own search story and upload it to YouTube.
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Create your own Brian Burke or Ron Wilson search story and link it in the comments section.
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I just downloaded that lastest version of ForceField and installed the license key for ForceField and I am having problems with OS FireWall Alerts popping up even though I set my Trust Level to Super (3 green bars) in the Program Control tab. The program that gives me the most alerts is ISWMGR.exe which pops up like 9 times when I start up FireFox or Internet Explorer.
I thought setting a program for Trust Level of SUPER is supposed to get rid of these OS Firewall alerts? What am I doing wrong??
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grepurl looks a lot like my urifind [cpan.org]
For the first few weeks after I put this on CPAN, I kept waiting for the same message you just got, and it never came, which leads me to believe that there are now exactly two things that do this.
We should start a club.
urifind uses URI::Find, which, in my benchmarks, is slower that HTML::SimpleLinkExtor, and relies on regexes rather than document structure. Which means grepurl will most likely be faster and more accurate (urifind cannot do relative URIs, for example). Then again, I wrote urifind s


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Fight over woman eyed in sword death
Updated 10:08 pm, Tuesday, February 26, 2013
A man is accused of stabbing his friend to death with a sword as they fought over a woman early Tuesday.
Police said Christopher Shows, 33, was drinking with his girlfriend and the victim at an apartment in the 300 block of Grove Avenue when the men began to argue over the woman, an incident report states.
Shows told police the victim, 30, had been dancing with Shows' girlfriend when the argument began about 1 a.m. Shows said he eventually went to bed with the woman and told the victim to leave and go to sleep, but the man began banging on the door and threatened to hurt the couple.
Shows said the victim kicked the door in, so Shows picked up a large sword and lunged forward, stabbing the victim in the right side of the chest.
Police said Shows later changed his story and declined to say he had struck the victim in the genital area when he saw the pair dancing together.
When police arrived, the victim was bleeding heavily on the floor of the apartment. Shows appeared hysterical, the incident report says.
Though Shows claimed self-defense, police said evidence at the scene disproved that.
He was arrested and charged with murder, and remained behind bars Tuesday afternoon in lieu of posting $200,000 bail.


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I just started building a website and since I'm new to all this, I'm using wordpress. As a theme I chose Zenon lite, a theme with a slider and underneath it are 4 boxes. I would really like my homepage to be 'scrollfree', the problem now is that there's still about 1 cm left to scroll down. Since the text I'm using in the blocks is really short, I would like to make the blocks smaller. Is there any way to make the blocks about 1-2 cm shorter? And where should I be looking to change it? Sorry if its all a bit abstract, but like I mentioned, I'm new to all of this.
Hi and welcome to SitePoint.
Are you using the default implementation as shown here: http://zenonlite.towfiqi.com/ ?
If so you can alter the height of the box by editing the file style.css.On line 90 there is the declaration:
.midrow_blocks{ width:970px; height:190px; padding: 0 15px; background:#fff; border:1px solid #ececec; float:left; margin-top:50px; position:relative;}
You can change the height to whatever you need here.
Thank you so much for the quick reply! Have been looking for some time now, just couldn't find it myself.
No problem, if you use Chrome then it has some built in developer tools that you can use. If you right click on the element you want to look at and go to 'Inspect Element' it gives you a load of useful information that you can play about with.
Sorry to bother you again, but I'm having another problem. I finally were able, thanks to your help, to change the size of the blocks, but now I don't know how to make the 'extra' room disappear. At the place where formerly the boxes were, is now some open space. This meaning there is stil room to scroll on the homepage. Perhaps you could help me again?
Have a look around the midrow_ definitions and see which ones alter the height. Some of them have height:xxxpx defined which sets it to a specific height, others are reliant on the content to give them height.
Tweak some of them and see what happens.
If that doesn't help, feel free to post a link to your site so we can take a look.
I've tried nearly al the values, couldn't find it unfortunately. You can find the link here, if you could help that would be great!.
Around line 97 in your style sheet, you have this:
.mid_block_content {
border-right: 1px solid rgb(236, 236, 236);
height: 185px;
margin-top: -35px;
padding: 25px 10px 0;
Just remove or edit that height.
However, beware of setting heights on content at all, especially elements that contain text. It can easily makes your pages break, such as when people increase text sizes.
I would suggest you remove all these heights:
.midrow_blocks {
width: 970px;
height: 100px;
padding: 0 15px;
background: white;
border: 1px solid rgb(236, 236, 236);
float: left;
margin-top: 50px;
position: relative;
.midrow_block {
float: left;
width: 220px;
height: 175px;
padding-top: 15px;
overflow: hidden;
Then I'd remove the right border from each midrow_block_content and instead put it on midrow_block:
.midrow_block {
width: 220px;
padding-top: 15px;
overflow: hidden;
display: table-cell;
border-right: 1px solid rgb(236, 236, 236);
I'd also remove float left from the above and instead use display: table-cell (in blue).
Then, add display: table to midrow_blocks_wrap:
.midrow_blocks_wrap {
width: 970px;
display: table;
and remove the float: left from there.
That will make the layout work a lot better.
That looks way better indeed, thanks you. Only problem now is that the colors has changed?
Never mind, found the problem. Thanks so much for all the help!
Just one last question, a forum told me to add this the stylesheet to make the letters bigger: body #topmenu ul li a{font-size:18px!important;}Problem now is that some of the letters are smaller than others, is that just the style or is a wrong edit?
Make sure to place display: table on .midrow_blocks_wrap rather than display: table-cell.
What colors have changed? It looks the same to me. You haven't added in the right borders to .midrow_block. Is that what you mean?
No the colors were different but found out what I did wrong, so changed it back. Just 2 last questions, a forum told me to add this the stylesheet to make the letters bigger: body #topmenu ul li a{font-size:18px!important;}Problem now is that some of the letters are smaller than others, is that just the style or is a wrong edit?
They all look the same to me. Could you post a screen shot of what you are seeing?
Haven't been able to get it scrollfree aswell, is it even usefull to keep trying?
Here's what is looks like on a proper computer (Mac):
Maybe it's just a quirk of how the font displays on a PC.
Not sure what you mean, but you should let content scroll if it doesn't fit in the browser window.
The person I'm helping with this site is hammering on and on about him wanting a homepage without the possibility to scroll down, he wants the entire homepage to be seen without the need to scroll.
He's an e-jit. As web designers, we have to educate clients. What does he want people to see on a mobile phone? A title and nothing else?
If you use
body {overflow:hidden;}
any content that is not visible on the screen won't be accessible.
I agree with Ralph, it is practically impossible as screen sizes differ so much. I have a 27" Mac with a 22" LG attached to it but I also have a 15" screen attached to my laptop which I use for browsing!
Then as Ralph says, you have to factor in mobile devices and tablets!Its all good fun......!


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Coach Rex Ryan said Wednesday that Turner will have surgery later this week to determine how long the versatile lineman will be sidelined. Turner was hurt during New York's 20-16 preseason-opening loss to the Texans on Monday night.
McKnight, also injured in the game, won't participate in team drills while he's being evaluated.
Meanwhile, wide receiver Plaxico Burress is expected to practice after resting his sprained left ankle since Friday.
Linebacker Bart Scott (lower leg) will not practice, and will be monitored during the week. Center Nick Mangold (stinger) could play Sunday against Cincinnati, while guard Brandon Moore (hip) is doubtful.


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Arctic sea ice melting one warm river at a time
A new NASA study finds that warmer than normal waters from rivers draining into the Arctic Ocean each summer are eating away at the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. Led by Son Nghiem of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., the research team used satellite data to measure the surface temperature of the waters discharging from Canada's McKenzie River into the Beaufort Sea during the summer of 2012 and noticed surface waters being warmed suddenly due to the sudden influx of warm river water This warmed the surface layers of the ocean, which in turn increased the melting of sea ice.
This Arctic process contrasts starkly with those that occur in Antarctica, a frozen continent without any large rivers. The sea ice cover in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica has been relatively stable, while Arctic sea ice has been declining rapidly over the past decade.
"River discharge is a key factor contributing to the high sensitivity of Arctic sea ice to climate change," said Nghiem. "We found that rivers are effective conveyers of heat across immense watersheds in the Northern Hemisphere. These watersheds undergo continental warming in summertime, unleashing an enormous amount of energy into the Arctic Ocean, and enhancing sea ice melt. You don't have this in Antarctica."
The team said the impacts of these warm river waters are increasing due to three factors. First, the overall volume of water discharged from rivers into the Arctic Ocean has increased. Second, rivers are getting warmer as their watersheds (drainage basins) heat up. And third, Arctic sea ice cover is becoming thinner and more fragmented, making it more vulnerable to rapid melt. In addition, as river heating contributes to earlier and greater loss of the Arctic's reflective sea ice cover in summer, the amount of solar heat absorbed into the ocean increases, causing even more sea ice to melt.
To demonstrate the extensive intrusion of warm Arctic river waters onto the Arctic sea surface, the team selected the Mackenzie River in western Canada. They chose the summer of 2012 because that year holds the record for the smallest total extent of sea ice measured across the Arctic in the more than 30 years that satellites have been making observations.
The researchers used data from satellite microwave sensors to examine the extent of sea ice in the study area from 1979 to 2012 and compared it to reports of Mackenzie River discharge. "Within this period, we found the record largest extent of open water in the Beaufort Sea occurred in 1998, which corresponds to the year of record high discharge from the river," noted co-author Ignatius Rigor of the University of Washington in Seattle.
Read more at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.
Aerial view of mouth of McKenzie River into Beaufort Sea image via Shutterstock.


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Also keep in mind the TPE is set to expire in a couple of months. They'd have to have a team that would be willing to trade for it, just to let it expire.
Also keep in mind the TPE is set to expire in a couple of months. They'd have to have a team that would be willing to trade for it, just to let it expire.
I'm sure this most recent article might spark some more debate on the most controversial Raptor...
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His role? Is he complaining about his 18 shots per game he's been allowed to take while not being held accountable for his lack of defense and rebounding? Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.Asked in a feature interview where he'd like to play if he could rub a magic lamp and transport himself to another NBA city, Bargnani told Italy's Sky Sports: "I want to stay in Toronto, at least this is the politically correct answer. If (I am) to go somewhere else, I'd like a warm climate city and a team where I can actually play in my role."
Ouch.Asked on the Sky Sports broadcast about Raptors GM Bryan Colangelo's post-season assessment of his work, Bargnani replied: "(Colangelo) had some unfortunate and not very courageous comments about me ... The facts are there for everybody to see and judge."
There've been other recent reports in the Italian press in which Bargnani has called Colangelo's words "uncourageous" — if the 25-year-old was any kind of broadcast analyst, he might have leaned toward "dead-on" or "about time."
This seems like more evidence that Bargnani's days in Toronto are numbered.Bargnani, who is currently on vacation, was unavailable for comment (although a photo of the centre currently making the rounds on Twitter, in which he lacks both a shirt and evidence of abdominal muscles, suggests a return to the gym should surely be imminent).
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So, I don't get this. He's on vacation. Are guys not allowed to go on vacation? He says if he wasn't in Toronto he'd want to be in a warm climate? Jebus, I say that everyday to the president here and anyone else who will listen - without the disclaimer that I'd like to stay. Who cares? He didn't like what BC said? Really? He didn't like his boss calling him out public for being lazy and not improving? I find that hard to believe. Most people love when that happens. I'm sure Feschuk would be all s--ts and giggles if the sports editor at the Star wrote a piece about how Feschuk is a hack.
I also love how Feschuk goes to the guy who did the interview for context and then buries his quotes at the bottom of the story after whipping up some nonsense for 200 words.
But, as you note TimW, it does seem like his days in Toronto are numbered. This is same stuff that happened to Bosh mere months ago. By the time he is gone, Bargnani will be a pedophile who eats live puppies.
So he doesn't look like much of an athelte right there but guys, he's on vacation in some tropical location. I can tell you, being a man who just graduated from P90X a month ago and just got back from a week long Cuban vacation, that when you hit those places you're bombarded with so much booze, food and ungodly service that you're going to add a few pounds around the mid section... [Heads to the gym]
Seriously though, it wouldn't take him long to ditch that little amount of belly fat. Not that we'll have to worry about it as Raptors fans for long anyway.
I don't care about him saying he'd like a warmed climate. I agree, everyone would like that (well in Canada), and Feschuk is not a reported I generally think much of, but it's simply the article doesn't indicate Bargnani's got much of a future in Toronto.
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I think this is the money quote and it comes at the end:
While I would like to see him move on, I do not believe it to be a sure thing. My own personal opinion would be 60/40 trade/stay i.e. more likely to stay.The way the Italian media portrayed my comments, I think, was completely out of context ... That's what I call unfortunate," Colangelo said Tuesday. "I didn't say anything derogatory. I said in order for Andrea to get to the next level, he needs to focus on certain things and he needs to improve in certain areas."
Indeed, there are signs that message appears to be getting through. Mamoli said Bargnani spent some of the Sky Sports interview offering a humble and honest examination of his game.
"(Bargnani) said, 'I understand what Bryan Colangelo said.' He said, 'I need to improve. I know that I have to improve.' He wasn't happy about Colangelo's comments, but he understands these comments, because he knows he's a young player and he knows he has to improve in his game," Mamoli said in a phone interview.
"I spent 25 minutes with him and he does not have any problem with Toronto or with Bryan's comments. He didn't seem angry. He understands and he accepts what his general manager had to say."
Bargnani and the Raptors now have some very public friction. Colangelo came out and finally voiced all the grief the fans and media have been venting all season and for some, for years. Bargnani has since bounced back with his own carefully worded indirect criticisms. He doesn't appreciate the criticism sent his way via the media and Colangelo. He doesn't appreciate not being allowed to play the game in the way he wants to play it. He doesn't really like cold weather and would rather play in a warm weather location. Even the way he said Toronto is his desired location sounded empty and so everything just keeps pointing to him being gone really soon. I wonder would Cleveland be a taker? We need to disregard the warm weather comments. Bargnani doesn't seem like the type to no report to a team for something like that, not to mention he probably wants to keep getting those fat checks to keep feeding that growing stomach.
Ship his ass to Detroit or Indiana, better yet New Jersey. Forget it he wants to go to California or Florida don't let him go there.
Poor Bargnani, the Raptors are such assholes for giving him a guaranteed 35 minutes a night regardless of productivity. Hopefully he gets shipped to a warmer city, like something near the equator, preferably in Africa. Near lions.
I think the comments are being misinterpreted here. He could easily have just been saying that if he were to be traded, he would like to go to a city where he can actually play his role (as opposed to somewhere he can't). It is not necessarily implying that he didn't get to play "his" role in Toronto as everyone seems to have taken it. I'm not saying that's what it is, but it could be.
I hope it's just language lost in translation, but that part where Bargs said "I want to stay in Toronto, at least this is the politically correct answer." really pisses me off. You either wanna stay or you don't, same as his defense and rebounding.
Bosh never once said he wanted to play somewhere else, not even hypothetically, so I hope all you Bosh bashers are taking note of this guys words.
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Damn, 8 years of pro experience and that is all he has to show for it?
His role, according to him, is to shoot 3s and let others do the rebounding. He is not happy about being asked to do things that do not fit HIS role.
(Colangelo has been told)
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Meh, All I take from this is Bargs is upset about being called out in the media by his GM. I don't think it has anything to do with whether or not he will be traded. He was asked by the Italian media where do you want to play and he said Toronto. Then he was asked if he were traded where would you want to go and he said somewhere warm where I can play my role, which he has said in past interviews is the 4. Nothing groundbreaking there. I still don't get the impression people have that BC has any intention of moving him, he may be finally voicing some criticism but I have yet to see anything resembling a trade rumor or an actual statement which says that Bargs is on the chopping block. We just keep getting more of the same "everyone is available". Maybe Bargs is someone they'd be willing to part with but I have a feeling Colangelo is not yet actively shopping him. No source for this, but I'd say the odds are high Bargs will still be a Raptor next year, and if he isn't it will be for a very good deal.
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If Bargnani remains a Raptor come training camp, I will be shocked. Shocked.
Yeah he pretty much signed his own death warrant. Its going to be weird not having him and Calderon around.
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Kimye wedding postponement denied
Reports that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's wedding plans have been put on hold have been dismissed by sources close to the pair.
It had been claimed that the couple's marriage plan is in "crisis" because French law requires one of them to live in the country for 40 days before they tie the knot in the country.
According to Radar Online, their plans to marry on May 24 were now in question, with a source telling the site: "Kim and Kanye were unaware until recently that France required a residency requirement prior to the marriage.
"Kanye has an apartment in Paris, but he doesn't live there full-time."
But a Kardashian source told E! News there's no truth to the rumours, claiming that the reports are "completely false".
Kanye recently postponed his tour of Australia, saying it was so he can concentrate on new music.
The rapper is rumoured to be marrying Kim, mother of his baby daughter North, in Paris at the end of May.
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text: I make no bones anywhere that Federer didn't have a lot of soft draws at majors in terms of the rankings of players he had to face on the journey... I have no problem with that at all. What I have an issue with is people inferring long term class from a body of evidence which is based on short term form. That is what Murray has shown - short term form. He was, without any doubt, been the biggest a beneficiary of the draws being made easier by Nadal's absence and of his other peers not quite firing in all cylinders. But that's how majors have been won since forever by many players - it's nothing new. The tell-tale sign of greatness - long term class - is the ability to maintain some continuity in form. Murry is the sole player in the top four who has not ever been able to maintain any true top form for more than a few weeks at a time. His peak ability is no doubt as good as it's ever been and as good as anyone on the right day - he has just relied on others slipping up much more than the other three have to earn his biggest achievements. No matter how you try to bake it as some straw-clutching argument it is what it is regardless.


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State files plans for new state police barracks in Westminster
The state has filed an Act 250 permit application for the project and also will go before the Westminster Development Review Board to seek local permits for the new building.
The Vermont State Police wants to shut down the outdated and inefficient barracks in Brattleboro and Rockingham and consolidate all the troopers in the single Westminster station.
Technology, officials say, allows troopers to do all their work from their vehicles and it is less important where their office is located. The plan goes back to 2007 when state officials began to look for alternate sites along the I-91 corridor and a location near Exit 5 was determined to be the most likely candidate for the new barracks.
Capt. Ray Keefe, D-Troop Commander, oversees the Brattleboro and Rockingham barracks, as well as the Royalton barracks, and has been involved with the Westminster project from the start. Keefe said projects in Brattleboro and Rockingham have been put off for years while the state tried to move the Westminster project forward.
"We are absolutely ready," Keefe said. "This has been a very long process, and we have needed new barracks for a long time. I'll feel much better when the first shovel goes in the ground."
The state wants to build a 16,000-square-foot public safety facility with a detached 3,400-square-foot garage. There are also plans to erect a 100-foot-tall monopole with two-way radio antennas and a microwave dish.
A 2008 feasibility study found that the Rockingham and Brattleboro barracks were "both substandard and in need of total replacement to overcome severe deficiencies in building size, physical condition, code and ADA requirements, inadequate building and site security, deficient evidence custody, aged technology and overcrowding due to personnel growth."
The Rockingham building was constructed in 1965 while the Brattleboro facility opened in 1970.
That feasibility study also found that the "most efficient and cost effective way to address all of these public safety needs is to consolidate the two substandard field stations and to construct one, state-of-the-art facility in a central location."
"The Rockingham and Brattleboro barracks are both way past their prime," Keefe said. "The troopers are going to feel better about their work, and it will help their morale and professionalism. The new building will improve the safety of the troopers and of prisoners."
Keefe said the new building will also save the state money. The new facility will be much more energy efficient than the two older buildings and the police will probably eliminate one commander position and other staff when the two barracks consolidate.
"This project means a lot to me," said Department of Buildings and General Services Commissioner, and former Windham County resident, Michael Obuchowski. "It is one of the large projects in the state that will touch my former county. It is quite close to home."
Even by state standards, Obuchowski acknowledged that the Westminster barracks plan has taken a long time to move forward.
At one point the state even began looking for alternate sites, but Obuchowski said state officials always believed the Westminster Heights land was the best location for the new facility.
"We wish it would have happened quicker, but our persistence has won out," Obuchowski said. "The Department of Public Safety never gave up on this site. They knew this was where they wanted to be."
While the state will not pay full taxes on the land, Westminster will receive a payment in lieu of taxes. This year the state paid
Westminster about 16 percent of the value of the land it owns in town. The state identified the Westminster Heights Road land as its primary choice back in 2010 but a complicated land swap between the town of Westminster and the former land owner, Westminister Realty, prevented the deal from going through. Westminister Realty, which is owned by Todd and Larry Enright, needed the town to grant a right of way when Green Mountain Power was building its new facility on Westminster Heights Road.
In exchange, Westminister Realty was supposed to give the town two acres of land for a recycling center. The town granted the right of way and GMP constructed its new building but the Enrights never granted the town of Westminster the two acres of land.
Gordon Bristol purchased the 13-acre parcel from the Enrights in January 2013 for $83,000 and Bristol was able to complete the land swap with Westminster. The state then purchased 8.6 acres of the land from Bristol for $260,000 earlier this year.
Bristol said he got involved when he found out the project was stalled due to the encumbrances on the land between the Enrights and the town. Bristol said it took him about a year to settle those obligations.
"I kept seeing this project on hold, on hold, on hold and I thought it was absolutely the wrong thing to be happening. I though I might be able to solve this problem that had been going on for five years," Bristol said. "I believe in the State Police and everything they do. They deserve to have this facility."
Joe Aja, the project manager with the Vermont Department of Buildings and General Services, said the state could not get any permits while that land deal was incomplete. Aja said the state hopes to get its permit and do some preliminary work in the fall, though most of the construction will probably take place in 2015. He said it will take about 18 months to complete the facility.
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The state's only medical school said Thursday the unit will have 10 beds and will open on March 8.
UAMS started a women's mental health program last year and has treated patients from across the state and nation.
A federal study shows that women are nearly twice as likely as men to suffer depression and three times as likely to attempt suicide.
Dr. G. Richard Smith directs the UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute. He says the women's mental health program has helped women overcome "overwhelming" problems and the new unit will allow more specialized treatment.


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If any of you are fútbol fans, I just wanted to let you know that during the World Cup, I will also be blogging twice a week over at Café Media. They have a special World Cup blog called Copa Café, and a ton of other great content about everything imaginable which is updated daily.
My first post is All Paths Lead to Fútbol which originally appeared here on Latina-ish, but starting next Monday, I will be submitting all new material.
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I was waiting for one of the guys who made it out with Joe Miller to post something, until then, I got this message from one of the guys: " All in all it was good. Joe did his usual and put us on the fish. We limited out on the grouper and caught a bunch of nice mangrove's and lane's. I hooked and fought about a 5 - 6 foot spinner shark off the back on a free line that jumped twice completely out of the water before breaking me off about 3 min later. . Saw some barracuda and caught 3 bonita as well. Almost got into a storm of fish hitting top that Joe was very excited about but we were anchored and someone was fighting a big aj at the time so we couldnt leave to go over to them.
Here is a pic of the fish. The mangroves and lanes had already been cleaned."


text: I know Sodom Yat is a Green Lantern, but he's not Kryptonian, he's a Daxamite. So has there been any mention of a full time Kryptonian Green Lantern, or one shown? And just how powerful a Green Lantern would he/she be? Or would the Guardians, or the Power Ring reject a Kryptonian because of all the additional powers the combination would incur? I really need to go out on Friday nights. Like I did in my 20's. Those were fun times. Hmmm. My midlife crisis seems to be coming a bit early. 42 is early for a midlife crisis? Right?