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Berkshires After Dark: Holidays heating up
PITTSFIELD -- Happy December and happy holiday time, dear readers!
It's been a while and we have a lot of catching up to do before the year and/or world ends.
Though, on the matter of the latter, you need not worry according to my interviewee, Jennifer Daley
Daley is currently working with the Peace Corps in a town steeped in Mayan history. She writes, "13 Baktun or Dec. 21, 2012, IS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD! I know everyone thinks that the Mayans have predicted the end of the world, but it is really just a shift in consciousness and an opportunity for a new beginning. None of my indigenous friends are worried about it!"
So there you have it.
If you're a devotee of "The 413," you read last week's interview with Pittsfield native-turned-comedian Jesse Adams. In the article, he refers to the Berkshires as having a limited stand-up and live comedy scene.
But, reader Ron Werth, the director of ticketing and food services at Shakespeare & Company and self-proclaimed "occasional stand up comic" informed me of the "Happy Fun Time Comedy Show."
What is this, you might ask? Werth and Facebook tell me it's a free, age 21-and-up evening of comedy which takes place every Sunday night at 8 at Rumpy's Tavern on Church Street in Lenox. It's hosted by Thomas Attilla Lewis and features a revolving cast of comics each week.
"We often have comedians come from Albany/Boston/NYC and Los Angeles who perform," writes Werth.
There's a tavern menu available from 5 to 9 p.m., and free food after each show. Just remember, seating is limited in this intimate night spot.
And of course, there's Royal Berkshire Improv Troupe (RBIT), which is currently planning its 2013 season, so I'm told. Their next gig is Jan. 18 at Spectrum Playhouse in Lee. Prepare to laugh, snort and giggle.
To riff on Johnny Marks' "A Holly Jolly Christmas" lyrics, "I don't know if there'll be snow, but have a cup of cheer." After all, there are plenty of holiday-themed parties happening in the Shires.
Tonight, from 5 to 11 p.m., there will be an all-ages holiday party at the Itam Lodge in Pittsfield to benefit Moments House. Tickets are $12 at the door and include music by Terry a la Berry and Whiskey City, and a buffet dinner by Unico.
Also tonight at 7:30, the MCLA Presents! series brings the Canadian duo Dala on stage at the Church Street Center in North Adams to present songs of the season, in a folky kind of way. Tickets are $10 general admission.
One of my favorite annual holiday events takes place this weekend, that being the annual Rebel Sound Records Eagle Toy Fund shows. Now in its seventh year, RSR rallies bands behind the fund to help bring toys and joy to local girls and boys.
On Friday, RSR presents Pandora's Toybox, V.I., Happy Hour Burlesque and Forever Autumn, beginning at 8 p.m. Saturday's lineup includes Dead Aces, The Damaged, Pruf, Fool Everyone and Brook Pridemore, all starting at 7 p.m. Both shows are 18 and up and will be held at Chameleons nightclub on East Street in Pittsfield. Admission is a $10 charitable donation each night.
Also on Friday, the band Adverse Effect will rock you like a lump of coal during a holiday celebration at Casey's Billiards in Pittsfield. There's a $5 cover for this 21-up event, which includes giveaways, free pool, music and more. The party starts at 9 p.m.
Saturday is the Gypsy Joynt Holiday Extravaganza, kicking off at 9 p.m., and featuring music by Chris Merenda & The Wheel. Local musician Donny Sawyer will also be playing and hosting a Christmas party at Michael's of Stockbridge, starting at 9:30 p.m.
If you're looking for a little peace this holiday season, give The Guthrie Center in Great Barrington a chance. It's hosting a Winter Solstice Circle of Sound on Dec. 20 at 6 p.m. Bring a drum, a singing bowl, or your voice, so long as it is with good intention.
And for those of you who are interested in attending an "end of the world party" (if you're not planning your own) on Friday, Dec. 21, Casey's Billiards in Pittsfield will host one. The band Smartass will host one at the Itam Lodge. Even Chef Brian Alberg is banking in on the theme by hosting a $150 per person "End of Days Feast." With duck liver, roasted lamb, wild boar, and lots of wine on the menu, it may be a meal to die for.
The hopeful group B.A. Dario and Boston-based band, People with Instruments, will be hosting a Post-Apocalypse Party on Sat. Dec. 22 at the Underground Pub in Pittsfield, beginning at 9 p.m. If you still live to have a wallet, you'll have to shell out $7 cover for this age 21-plus rock event.
If we're around after Dec. 21, then we'll all have New Year's Eve to look forward too, and a resolution to not believe everything we here.
If the fates do not allow for auld lang syne, I'll just say it's been great reporting to you for these past seven years. Cheers!
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text: Welcome to the start of the 2013 season of the ATP Sudden Death League: Australian Open! Rules of the game: 1. Every day of the tournament that day's matches will be posted. You pick one player who you think is going to win. It's a knock out-system: if the player you picked wins, you're through to the next round. If he loses, you're out. 2. Till the Round of 32, you have to pick one player per day. In the R16, quarters, semis and finals you pick one player per round. 3. During a tournament, you can pick a player only ONCE. Obviously it's important to make smart choices in order to get far. If you somehow have no players left to pick, you're out as well. 4. You can't pick a player from a match that has started already. 5a. If the player you picked retires during the match, you're out. If he retires before the match, you're allowed to change your pick. 5b. If the opponent of the player you picked retires, it counts like a win. However, you can't pick a player whose opponent had already retired from the tournament. 6. If you want to change you pick, make a new post quoting the old pick. Edited posts containing picks will not be taken into account. SCORE FOR THIS TOURNAMENT 1 correct pick: 50 2 correct picks: 100 3 correct picks: 150 4 correct picks: 200 5 correct picks: 250 6 correct picks: 300 7 correct picks: 360 8 correct picks: 720 9 correct picks: 1200 Winner: 2000 2013 TOP 10 ATP League File (HTML) 2012 Results ATP SUDDEN DEATH LEAGUE STAFF JayChu | kishnabe | CDNguy87 | TopDawg

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By Kevin Hill
Well, here we are again. It's officially the end of the spring sports, and summer's on the way.
It's all over - again.
High school sports are at season's end, the NBA is essentially over, the NFL draft is over and, even worse, spring football has come to a close.
I got the luxury of attending a few local high school spring games this week, and I saw a lot of talent on the field.
Dardanelle hosted its annual Red-White game on Thursday, and things are looking up for the Sand Lizards. A season removed from being a botched snap away from the playoffs, head coach Josh Price has a few spots to fill, but is optimistic they can get things on the right track.
Like Russellville of two years ago, Dardanelle's best player will be a kicker in the form of Randy Valasquez. The senior has already made field goals of 52 and 51 yards in his career, and Price is going to utilize his cannon leg even more this year.
The Pottsville Apaches took the field Friday and looked like they haven't missed a beat after a quarterfinal run in last year's Class 4A state playoffs. The Apaches will have to replace Jay Wright - last season's Tri-County offensive player of the year, who rushed for 1,331 yards and 11 touchdowns - but Pottsville will be able to find another fullback to run behind a strong offensive line that includes Arkansas Razorbacks signee Jeremy Ward, who has already been selected to play in the Army All-America Game.
The Russellville Cyclones have the most to overcome after losing three starting offensive linemen - two of those will play college football next season - and three starting defensive linemen. But head coach Jeff Holt is confident he'll find some tough guys to step in and protect the quarterback and open holes for a deep and talented group of running backs.
The quarterback position will be a tough call for Holt. Returning starters Mitchell Mullen and Lane Reves, along with incoming sophomore Cody Jones, will battle it out for the top spot.
Reves, a senior, is very athletic and knows the offense inside and out, but he has problems with his accuracy - a must in Holt's quick-strike passing attack. Mullen can hit open targets and has mobility, but he made questionable throws and threw too many interceptions last season.
Jones is, by far, the most accurate of the three quarterbacks and can hit receivers on both the short and long passes. But he's still a sophomore and can get flustered if he's under too much pressure.
If the line holds up well, I think Jones will become the starter. If they can't keep defenders out of the backfield, look for Reves to get the most snaps because of his ability to scramble with the football.
n Let's talk about a little NBA.
Sorry, but the season was over for me as soon as the Oklahoma City Thunder and Chicago Bulls were eliminated. I'm in the nation's minority: someone who isn't really interested at all about the "Big Three," and I can't stand Marc Cuban or the Dallas Mavericks.
I've never been a professional team fan, just a fan of certain players. I've come to like the Thunder because of the way they've put together a championship contender in just three years. The fact that they are the youngest team in the NBA bodes well for general manager Sam Presti and head coach Scott Brooks.
Chicago isn't quite as young, but Gar Forman did a wonderful job of putting talent around MVP Derrick Rose. Luol Deng and Joakim Noah are solid at the forward positions, but they have a rotation at the guard position with Keith Bogans, Kyle Korver and Ronnie Brewer of Arkansas.
I've always been a Carlos Boozer fan, for no other reason than he's from Juneau, Alaska.
After the Miami Heat beat Chicago in Game Five of the Eastern Conference Finals, LeBron James told Reggie Rose, Derrick's brother, that the Bulls are one player away from the title. I paraphrased.
I agree with the two-time MVP, whole-heartedly. Chicago needs another scorer. Deng isn't a big enough threat. Bogans and Korver have too many weaknesses, and Brewer is a defensive stopper, not a scorer, as is Noah.
Unfortunately, there's not a lot of top-level free agents becoming available this summer and while the Bulls have two first-round picks, they have picks No. 28 and No. 30.
Forman may have to find another complimentary player via trade, but to do that would compromise one to the team's strengths, their deep bench.
Since we're talking about the Bulls, I need to address an almost idiotic statement uttered by six-time NBA champion Scottie Pippen. The former UCA Bear said he thinks LeBron James is a better all-around player than Michael Jordan, because he makes everyone around him so much better. Pippen added he thought Jordan was the best scorer in the game, but LeBron's defense and ability to utilize his teammates' strengths make him a better player.
Funny thing to say coming from a guy who rode Jordan's ability all the way into the NBA Hall of Fame.
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Via CNN: Protection for vaccine makers debated
I think this is completely correct:
Legislation would require proof of willful misconduct
WASHINGTON (AP) — People injured by a vaccine against bird flu or anthrax would have to prove willful misconduct to bring a claim for damages against drug manufacturers or distributors, according to legislation being drafted behind the scenes by Republicans.
A 10-page draft of the legislation obtained by The Associated Press says it would be up to the Health and Human Services secretary to declare that such misconduct occurred. If that declaration is made, the case must be heard in federal court.
The measure, which would be included in a spending bill, would bar any punitive damages and limit awards for physical and emotional pain and suffering and other noneconomic damages to a maximum of $250,000.
The government has done this before, with the Swine Flu scare (which ended pretty badly for all concerned), and the vaccine manufacturers were very happy they had the legal protection they did.
The draft legislation was provided to the AP separately by two parties opposed to its provisions, who did not want to be identified.
The courage of their convictions is remarkable. It must be incredibly frustrating to work in an environment where trust is just a word on your money.
An aide to Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tennessee, confirmed the majority leader was looking to add the liability protections to a spending bill.
Amy Call said the legislation is important because "it would be a pity to appropriate $7.1 billion to purchase vaccines and antivirals but have no capacity to produce them."
She said Frist is seeking clearly defined standards for an industry that is already heavily regulated.
"We would only provide liability protection in a serious situation and for a set period of time and for a specific purpose," Call said. "The protection would only go into effect if the secretary makes a declaration that we are grave danger and the public is advised to take the product."
President Bush's plan for dealing with a flu pandemic called on Congress to give drug manufacturers sweeping immunity against lawsuits. "In the past three decades, the number of vaccine manufacturers in America has plummeted, as the industry has been flooded with lawsuits," Bush said last month. "Today, there is only one manufacturer in the United States that can produce influenza vaccine."
Let's repeat that: there's only one influenza vaccine manufacturer in the US. Hug a plaintiff's lawyer if that makes you feel all warm inside.
Lawmakers from both political parties also have cited a need to grant the industry some protections. However, the protections described in the draft are quite broad, and some say they would make it extremely difficult for those harmed by a medicine to get any financial compensation.
Nice little editorialization thrown in pretending to be news, and who is 'some'? The same 'some' who leaked a draft, 'some' already defined by their opposition to this legislation? Or the reporter and the mouse in his pocket?
"The Republican leadership in Congress is trying to do another special favor for the drug companies by slipping a provision into a massive spending bill to absolve the pharmaceutical industry of any responsibility to patients injured by dangerous drugs or vaccines, with no compensation for those who are harmed," Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, said in a statement.
He called for an open debate on the issue.
Dang Republicans, wanting to "do a special favor for the drug companies" like not see them sued out of existence for making a life-saving vaccine at government request. I am all for an open debate on the subject, and a roll-call vote. In two years if there isn't vaccine and there is a pandemic, let's have a full record so the survivors know who was responsible.
And, the vultures are unhappy:
Trial lawyers said they oppose having to prove "willful misconduct" to get financial compensation from an injury.
Yeah, shouldn't emotion be the determining factor? It doesn't matter that the vaccine company worked their tails off to produce a vaccine for a deadly disease on a tight deadline, if there is an adverse event, let's sue!
"Basically, as an average person, I would have to prove some scientist at Merck or some CEO somewhere had made a determination to hurt me," said Chris Mather, a spokeswoman for the Association of Trial Lawyers for America.
Willful misconduct, according to the draft legislation, would occur if manufacturers or distributors of a particular product knew that it presented "a significant or unreasonable risk to human health" and there was a "conscious failure to act" to avoid that risk.
If the HHS secretary rules against the petition, then those claiming to be harmed could seek judicial review from the U.S. Court of Appeals.
Unless there are legal protections, there won't be a product to worry about, so all that is moot.
Rep. Dave Weldon, R-Florida, a doctor who said he is involved peripherally in the talks, said he doesn't want protections so broad that people might be unwilling to take medicine in the event of a flu pandemic.
"The way it's being discussed is lacking," Weldon said.
I have to assume the reporter nodded off there, and didn't write down the rest of Dr. Weldon's sentence, as what is there doesn't make much sense.
Unfortunately, this is the wave of the future, getting legislation passed to protect us from the legal wolves who would gladly devour us all.


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When producers look to reduce costs, one of the most common questions asked is: What if I mix my own starter or grower on-farm? The nutrients are the same. Land O'Lakes Purina Feed calf and heifer specialist, Christy Stanley suggests producers study the following before considering mixing their own calf starter or grower.
- Performance demonstrates that these on-farm mixes do not typically perform as well. The physical form of a feed affects palatability. If there are too many fines or small particles the calves will go off feed. Also, calves may sort and leave behind some of the ingredients that have essential roles in supporting growth and development.
- On-farm total mixed rations may be too bulky for young ruminants. The nutrients may be similar to the commercial product but the intake will not be as high. Choosing to mix a feed on-farm limits the use of technology in the feed which has been shown to optimize calf intake and performance.
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Northwestern travels to the Big House on Saturday to take on Michigan in a game with big Legends division implications.
Neither Michigan nor Northwestern controls its own destiny because of losses to Nebraska, so a win won't guarantee anything. But the loser is certain to be out of the race for a spot in the Big Ten championship game.
While the Wildcats have won just six times in 41 tries in Ann Arbor, they are going for their second straight victory there. What are their chances this time around? Our intrepid staff weighs in.
George "The Glad Hungarian" Stoichev
Northwestern wins if… They stuff the Michigan pro-style run and force Devin Gardner to use his arm more, and the offense shows a little bit more clock control than earlier in the season, taking the crowd out of the game for long stretches.
Northwestern loses if… Denard Robinson is 100 percent and proceeds to run circles around the defense, like he did last year.
The bottom line… I don't know that the Cats have what it takes to win this one. NU might be a year away from being able to walk out of the Big House with a win against a solid Michigan team. Then again, last year's Nebraska game wasn't supposed to happen either.
Prediction Michigan 27 Northwestern 24
Danny "Less Is" Moran
Northwestern wins if… The Wolverines play Robinson. As crazy as it might sound about the one-time Heisman candidate, Robinson was a below-average passer before his elbow injury and Northwestern's defensive weakness clearly lies in its secondary.
Northwestern loses if… Kain Colter and Venric Mark cannot combine for at least 150 yards on the ground. Michigan's aggressive corners will shut down any passing game NU has so it will be up to the backfield to take up the offensive workload.
The bottom line: As big a win as this would be for Northwestern, the Wildcats have shown time after time they haven't been ready to take the next step. They've had a week off to prepare but it's been negated by the fact that they could be facing two different offenses. Like against Nebraska, turnovers keep the Northwestern in the game -- but fourth quarter defense plays them out of it.
Prediction: Michigan 20 Northwestern 13
Larry "J.J." Watts
Northwestern wins if… The offense can put pressure on the Big Ten's top pass defense, in turn opening holes for the running game while its own pass defense (worst in the league) can finally play up to Big Ten standards.
Northwestern loses if… Robinson or Gardner are allowed to freely roam in the Michigan backfield.
The bottom line… Contain. Contain. Contain. The Cats' front seven on defense has been stellar, but this will be the most mobile quarterback they will face in Big Ten play this year. And the offense has to move the ball and finish drives.
Prediction: After much back and forth deliberation, Northwestern 34 Michigan 31.
Louie "C.K." Vaccher
Northwestern wins if… The Wildcats' zone-read and option running games work against the best defense they've faced all year, enabling them to move the chains and control the clock.
Northwestern loses if… The running game stalls and the offense has to rely on the passing game (dead-last in the Big Ten for a reason), while the defense doesn't come up with any turnovers.
The bottom line: Northwestern's seven wins this season have come against teams with a combined winning percentage of .397. This Michigan team has a guy that rolled up 454 yards and four TDs against them last year (Robinson) and a defense that ranks seventh in the country. Oh, and the game is on the road, too.
Prediction: Michigan 27 Northwestern 21


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now that the results of my openMP augmented program are correct I have another issue:
When running the code below on a 24 core node (one node of the Cray XC30 system) the runtime of program.run() increases with the number of used threads. One single-thread run() takes 17s where 24 threads need 33(!)s each (each thread executes run() one time). The runtime does not decrease when re-entering run() so this is not just initialization overhead.
I know that there is some overhead using omp but since all threads work completely independently I think there is something wrong. When just starting 24 processes on one node instead of the omp program they all take only 19s which confirms that there is something wrong with my usage of omp.
The whole code does not contain any other omp statements. There also no global variables left.
I am stuck here and cannot find out why the omp version runs so much slower. I could just use the process approach mentioned above but I am very curious about any misuse and/or bug which could cause these bad runtimes.
By profiling the execution one can see that with more threads a function "lock_wait_private" takes more and more runtime. I cannot imagine where these locks could come from though (assuming the loop scheduling is not too expensive).
This work is a part of my master thesis and I would be very happy if this could be cleared up. Feel free to ask for further information!
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class Program {
Mat image;
void run( string inputFileName ) {
someFunctionInAnotherFile( image, ... ); // call by reference, image gets manipulated
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The New York Knicks had three first round picks in the 2005 NBA Draft and they used one on Nate Robinson, an exciting, undersized point guard. The 5-9, 180-pound high-flyer is built like Spud Webb with an extra 20 pounds of muscle. InsideHoops.com editor Jeff Lenchiner met with Nate the Great early in preseason for an exclusive interview.
InsideHoops.com: When did you develop those crazy hops? I want them.
Nate Robinson: Ah, man, I was born with them. God blessed me with them.
InsideHoops.com: So when you were a little kid, you were already getting up higher in the air than little kids are supossed to?
Nate Robinson: Honestly, yeah. It just came natural. Something that came natural. I was born with it.
InsideHoops.com: What was your greatest experience in high school?
Nate Robinson: State championship. We played against this team called Mercer Island. We just jumped on them early and put them away. We went 28-1 (that season) and finished fifth in the nation.
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Maybe this list will get them work a bit more on their end so we will have a better list.
I wasn't aware that the name was manually supplied by the debian folks.
If this turns into a terminal problem I'll probably kill this list.
They are in the long and slow process of converting more to group maintenance.


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The following report is courtesy of D.J. and ProWrestling.net …
Good crowd. Pretty much sold out tonight. Much better than the abysmal 1,000 or so who attended the post-Labor Day Smackdown taping. 1/2 of the arena was tarped off for that one.
Michael Cole, Booker T and Josh Matthews on commentary. Lilian Garcia is the ring announcer.
Lilian introduced World Heavyweight Champion Sheamus, who cut a brief promo to start the show. Sheamus said he loves to fight (a promo straight out of Finlay's playbook) so when Daniel Bryan asked for a rematch he simply answered "YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!" [Cue loud "YES!" chants from the Toledo crowd.] Out came Daniel Bryan. Sheamus continued "YESing" through Bryan's entrance. Doesn't look like we're getting the main event that was advertised last night.
1. Sheamus and Daniel Bryan fought to an apparent no-contest. Alberto Del Rio and Ricardo Rodriguez interfered to cause the finish. Ricardo hit a (from my vantage-point) picture-perfect cross body on Sheamus followed by a kick from ADR. Bryan then locked Sheamus in the Yes! Lock before being pulled off by Scott Armstrong and Chad Patton. Daniel Bryan then argued with ADR and Rich Rod, almost coming to blows.
Backstage, the WWE medical staff evaluated Sheamus.
2. WWE Tag Team Champions Kofi Kingston and R-Truth defeated Hunico and Canacho. Primo, Epico and Rosa (accompanied by AW) were out before the bell to watch the match. They "scouted" from chairs that were set up on the ramp.
3. Brodus Clay defeated Jack Swagger (w/Dolph Ziggler and Vickie Guerrero) via DQ when Ziggler interfered. Ziggler took what looked like a hellacious bump from Brodus's running headbutt on the outside apron by the announce table. Dolph, again, sells like a champ. I'm interested to see how that looks on TV. Clay cleared the ring of Ziggler/Swagger following the interference and danced w/five kids in the ring (JYD-style) after the match. Nice touch.
The advertised main event for the night was now Randy Orton and Big Show vs. Kane and Cody Rhodes.
The same Extreme Rules video package from last night was shown, modified slightly to include the final segment from last night's Raw with John Cena and John Laurinaitis.
Eve was involved in a backstage segment with Daniel Bryan and Alberto Del Rio. Nothing notable here.
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This is part of the web site of Shakespeare's sonnets
|Sonnets 1 - 50
|Sonnets 51 - 100
|Sonnets 101 - 154
|A Lover's Complaint.
|Sonnet no. 1
|First line index
|Title page and Thorpe's Dedication
|Some Introductory Notes to the Sonnets
|Sonnets as plain text 1-154
|Text facsimiles
|Other related texts of the period
| Picture
|Thomas Wyatt Poems
|Other Authors
|General notes for background details, general policies etc.
|Map of the site
|Valentine Poems
|London Bridge as it was in Shakespeare's day, circa 1600.
|Views of London as it was in 1616.
|Views of Cheapside London, from a print of 1639.
|The Carrier's Cosmography. A guide to all the Carriers in London. As given by John Taylor in 1637.
|Oxquarry Books Ltd
1. Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not,
2. When I against myself with thee partake?
3. Do I not think on thee, when I forgot
4. Am of my self, all tyrant, for thy sake?
5. Who hateth thee that I do call my friend,
6. On whom frown'st thou that I do fawn upon,
7. Nay, if thou lour'st on me, do I not spend
8. Revenge upon myself with present moan?
9. What merit do I in my self respect,
10. That is so proud thy service to despise,
11. When all my best doth worship thy defect,
12. Commanded by the motion of thine eyes?
13. But, love, hate on, for now I know thy mind,
14. Those that can see thou lov'st, and I am blind.
|A sonnet that is one of the 'frenzied' group that starts with 147, My love is as a fever longing still, and continues up to150, possibly also including the last two of the series, 151 and 152. What is striking about this one is the number of echoes it brings back from the earlier sonnets to the youth, perhaps because it is seeking deliberately to contrast the pure love of that period with the tainted love he has for his dark lady, possibly because the language of love, as it was then defined, forced upon the sonneteer a certain number of conventional ideas which were used and re-used, many re-appearing frequently in slightly different clothing, like a play which is performed by too few actors. Here the poet protests his devotion to his cruel beloved, detailing the many ways in which he has shown willingness to serve her. Nevertheless she is unresponsive, and does not repay love with love. His conclusion is framed in the conventional terms of the blindness of love, and the deduction that his mistress does not love those who cannot see what is before their eyes. It is probably not necessary to interpret the conclusion in any real psychological sense, for one suspects it has little or no bearing on what the woman herself was thinking. Its importance is more that it shows the poet casting round desperately for a solution, trying to come to terms with his rejection, and in the end only succeeding in explaining it in terms of rather worn out sonneteering conventions, which leave him as blind as ever.
Am of my ſelfe, all tirant for thy ſake?
Who hateth thee that I doe call my friend,
On whom froun'ſt thou that I doe faune vpon,
Nay if thou lowrſt on me doe I not ſpend
Reuenge vpon my ſelfe with preſent mone?
What merrit do I in my ſelfe reſpect,
That is ſo proude thy ſeruice to diſpiſe,
When all my beſt doth worſhip thy defect,
Commanded by the motion of thine eyes.
But loue hate on for now I know thy minde,
Thoſe that can ſee thou lou'ſt,and I am blind.
1. Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not,
1. Canst
thou = are you really capable
of (saying).
The poet here seems
to be responding to an antecedent
complaint of the beloved, namely, that he did not love her, but was
making a show of it. This corresponds to various other 'reply' sonnets,
such as
2. When I against myself with thee partake?
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= since, if. I.e. You are not
justified in saying I do not love you when it is obvious that etc. when
here does not have a temporal significance, for he is not so much
occasions on which he takes her part against himself, but rather
attention to the general disposition that he has to behave in that way.
The following when in line 3 does however refer
more to specific
against myself with thee partake - the use of partake meaning to take part in some sort of action against someone or something in conjunction with another, either legally or militarily, is not a common usage. OED gives only this example, presumably seeing it as a nonce usage (OED.5). However it is close in thought to a sonnet written to the beloved youth:
Thy adverse party is thy advocate--
And 'gainst myself a lawful plea commence: 35
Note that part(y), part(ake) and against myself is common to both sonnets, and the meaning is similar. It may be significant that sonnet 35 excuses the youth's unfaithfulness perhaps with this same woman, so the verbal relation between the two poems creates an additional tension between them.
3. Do I not think on thee, when I forgot
| 3. Do
I not think on thee = (Can you
not see that) I think about you, think of you. Compare:
..............Think on me,
That am with Phoebus amorous pinches black,
And wrinkled deep in time. A&C.I.4.27-9.
When I forgot / Am of myself = when I am neglectful of myself, when I am bewildered, when I ignore my own interests. The bold construction, with an unexpected inversion of words split by a line ending, gives the sense of having lost one's way, a physical demonstration of the state of mind he is in. The sophistication and density of meaning in these two lines suggests that this is not an early poem.
4. Am of my self, all tyrant, for thy sake?
4. Am
of myself - see the note above.
And rather more harshly in the fifth song:
I lay then
to thy charge unjustest tyranny,
|5. Who hateth thee that I do call my friend,
| 5. I.e. I
hate all those whom you hate, I frown
on all those whom you frown upon, and I lour upon those etc. Probably
echo of the Psalms:
Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? 139.121.
friend - this could apply to male or female friends.
6. On whom frown'st thou that I do fawn upon,
| 6. frown'st
thou = do you frown? Also,
as line 2, reminiscent of a sonnet to the beloved youth:
Bring me within the level of your frown,
But shoot not at me in your wakened hate; 117.
fawn = To affect a servile fondness; to court favour or notice by an abject demeanour. (OED.3.).
7. Nay, if thou lour'st on me, do I not spend
| 7.Nay
- an interjection which intensifies
what follows, as in 71
Nay, if you read this line, remember not
The hand that writ it; for I love you so 71
lour'st = look threateningly upon. The word lour is still current, but nowadays not often used, except perhaps in connection with skies and clouds. It is not common even in Shakespeare, but this instance from Richard III shows it also being used in the same breath as 'frown':
The sun will not be seen to-day;
The sky doth frown and lour upon our army. R3.V.3.282-3.
8. Revenge upon myself with present moan?
| 8. spend
/ Revenge upon myself = take
revengeful action against myself. As SB points out, the phrase is
and odd, but perhaps the word spend helps partly to
suggest wasteful
and useless prodigality, as in
Why so large cost, having so short a lease,
Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend? 136
present = immediate.
moan = sorrow, suffering, lamentation. As in the well known song from Cymbeline:
Fear no more the lightning flash,
Nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone;
Fear not slander, censure rash;
Thou hast finished joy and moan:
All lovers young, all lovers must
Consign to thee, and come to dust. Cym.IV.2.271-6.
Besides its general sense, moaning was also a particular affectation of the courtly lover. Sidney uses 'to (be)moan' to describe the lover's condition half a dozen times, the following example being typical:
Because I breathe not love to every one,
Nor do not use set colors for to wear,
Nor nourish special locks of vowed hair,
Nor give each speech the full point of a groan,
The courtly nymphs, acquainted with the moan
Of them, who in their lips Love's standard bear;
"What he?" say they of me. "Now I dare swear,
He cannot love. No, no, let him alone." A&S.54.
9. What merit do I in my self respect,
9. What
merit = what desert, what
worthwhile qualities. This also recalls an earlier sonnet:
When as thy
love hath cast his utmost sum,
Then others
for the breath of words respect,
10. That is so proud thy service to despise,
| 10. thy
service = service and duty to
you. The lover considered himself bound to serve his mistress. Compare
the youth:
Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit, 26.
Sidney also speaks of service to his mistress, as do other sonnet writers.
to despise - see the note above. In sonnet 129, the meditation against lust, he speaks of the object of passion being very rapidly despised:
Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, 129
It may be that he is hinting here that the service he offers is something innately to be despised. Service could have a bawdy meaning, (i.e. fulfilling the service of sexual demands) as also do potentially many of the words in this sonnet - partake, lour'st (lowerest), spend, proud, defect, motion.
11. When all my best doth worship thy defect,
| 11. all
my best - the best part of me,
my best talents. An echo here of
So all my best is dressing old words new,
Spending again what is already spent: 76.
and also perhaps of :
All these I better in one general best.
Thy love is better than high birth to me, 91.
and also
And worse essays proved thee my best of love.
Now all is done, have what shall have no end: 110.
Note the use of spend in this sonnet also (line 7), echoed in the extract from 76 above.
defect = faults. The use of the singular noun perhaps suggests that the whole of the woman is a defect of nature. However it is parallelled in
That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, 70
and there is also an echo in
Against that time, if ever that time come,
When I shall see thee frown on my defects, 49
defect is possibly a reference to the female pudenda, based on the understanding that a woman was a defective man, lacking various parts. Partridge does not document it, but there may be a hint of the meaning in
....................................I saw her once
Hop forty paces through the public street;
And having lost her breath, she spoke, and panted,
That she did make defect perfection,
And, breathless, power breathe forth. AC.II.2.232-6.
and also in Midsummer Night's Dream, when Snout mixes up words:
Nay, you must name his name, and half his face must
be seen through the lion's neck: and he himself
must speak through, saying thus, or to the same
defect,--'Ladies,'--or 'Fair-ladies--I would wish
You,'--or 'I would request you,'--or 'I would
entreat you,--not to fear, not to tremble: my life
for yours. MND.III.1.33-9.
|12. Commanded by the motion of thine eyes?
| 12. Told
by you what to do, by your eyes imperious
movements. Eyes and motion seem to be linked in sonneteers minds:
Those looks, whose beams be joy, whose motion is delight,
That face, whose lecture shows what perfect beauty is: A&S.77.
|13. But, love, hate on, for now I know thy mind,
| 13. love
= my beloved (the dark lady).
hate on = continue to hate me, go on hating me.
for now I know thy mind = for now I understand how your mind works, for now I know what your true intentions are.
14. Those that can see thou lov'st, and I am blind.
14. Those that can see thou lov'st = you love only those who have sight, who are not blind.
13-14. There does not
seem to be an obvious connection
between the thought of the couplet and what has preceded it. The
that the poet now invokes is not evident in his behaviour, described in
the rest of the sonnet, so one is forced to conclude that he imagines
to be symptomatic of his general debility, servitude, failure and
to wrench himself away from the woman whom he thinks he should despise.
One has to add mentally some additional explanation as to why the
loves those who can see in preference to those who can't. The hatred
he enjoins her to continue in line 13 is conventional, (see for example
the commentary to Sonnet 145.)
It was expected of a mistress, and therefore not difficult to find. The
poet therefore concludes that, since he is hated, others must be loved,
and since he has blinded himself with his adoring vassalage, and still
secured her favours, she must love those who behave differently and are
perhaps less devoted to her, because they see her clearly and know how
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TIME BEHIND the wheel can be a therapeutic escape from modern life's 24/7 connectivity, but that's about to change. At the 2012 CES, automakers, car-electronics suppliers, and wireless carriers announced alliances and initiatives that will make the fully connected car a reality. Drivers will soon have access to the same info and services they're used to getting on their computers, smartphones, and tablets.
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Connectivity also has the potential to reverse a perennial disadvantage for automakers. Vehicle-production cycles stretch over a minimum of 2 years. This lag time means that even new cars are typically behind the tech curve. Wireless connectivity could ensure that automotive infotainment systems stay current via easy and frequent software and firmware updates.
Hybrid Infotainment
The emergence of the connected car began before the recent Las Vegas gadget extravaganza. Pandora Internet Radio has made a huge push into the car over the past couple of years. Mini announced a partnership with the MOG music-streaming service early last year, while big-brother brand BMW brought Facebook and Twitter status updates into the car using a connected iPhone.
Automakers have largely leveraged smartphone connectivity and apps - and the device's data plan - to pipe content into the car. Now automakers are employing a hybrid approach. An embedded cellular modem that's part of an existing "telematics" system a la GM's OnStar provides a connection for mission-critical functions such as automatic crash notification and emergency assistance, whereas the driver's connected smartphone contains apps for infotainment.
Per usual, the aftermarket has also stepped in to offer existing car owners the ability to access apps and cloud connectivity in the dash. Last year, Pioneer introduced its AppRadio in-dash head unit, which uses an iPhone to deliver Internet radio, connected navigation, and other features to a driver's fingertips. At the 2012 CES, Pioneer debuted its next-gen AppRadio 2, which adds Android compatibility and a wider variety of apps. JVC also unveiled a line of App Link radios that use apps such as MOG to stream music and Cobra's iRadar to sniff out speed traps and cameras.


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Ok, time to kick it up a notch...
It is illegal to transmit outside the band of your license. Your radio comes from the store with your legality in mind, that's why it says "error" should you key up on the wrong band.
Here's the mod for your 8800 that allows you to override this: http://forum.ih8mud.com/electronic-t...nsmit-mod.html
I think this is a good idea, and I will probably do this some day. In my opinion the benefits of being able to talk to police, fire, flight for life, etc. in an absolute emergency far outweigh the costs of running around with an "illegal" ham radio. I never have been much of a conformist anyway.
discuss... :D :beer:
This comes up all the time. You know the rules and that it's illegal.
Something to think about is that public service communication is moving to a state-wide trunked 800MHz system. So if you were going to attempt to break in, you'd first need an 800MHz trunking radio and would have to know the right talk group to be on to get the fire or police dispatch and not the parks and recreation or snow plows. There could be dozens of talk groups and unless you know the right talk group, the appropriate people will never hear you. Denver PD alone has about 200 talk groups, from robbery to homicide to narcotics and traffic. Trunked systems only have one set frequency, the control channel. That channel tells all the radios on the system which frequency to use with which talk group and the frequency distribution changes all the time, at least daily and sometimes several times a day.
For the places that still use simple VHF 2-way radios, it might be more likely to work. But there is probably better coverage by ham repeaters than public service repeaters in the backcountry. Think about it, why would there be police communications in the middle of nowhere if there's no cops? If there's a fire or police department, there's /very/ likely a cell tower not far away. Then how do you KNOW it will work? That you in fact have the right frequency and DCS or PL tone. You don't without trying it...
Just my $0.02.
Why bother ?? :confused: Take a look in the ARRL repeater guide in the Colorado section. Over in the right hand column you'll see the notation "LiTZ" for several machines. By transmitting a LiTZ on these repeaters, you'll activate a connection directly to a CHP dispatcher.
Finding out what a LiTZ is, would be a lot easier than mucking with and possibly FUBARing your rig:thumb:
Groucho and Brian will cover this, but what he's talking about is if a repeater is 'LiTZ' capable, that just means that holding down the zero key for a long time (I think it's 3 seconds) will automatically dial an emergency contact. 'LiTZ' (the 'i' is just a place holder) means Long Tone Zero and has been around for as long as DTMF dialing has been around. Essentially most all auto patchable repeaters will do this as a public service to hams without needing to know the code to open the regular auto patch.
Cool stuff, thanks! see I knew I'd learn something..
Transmitting outside the HAM bands...
...has been around forever. The need to modify a radio to transmit in these portions of the band would only seem necessary if the radio owner wanted to use their radio on a commercial freq at work. For instance, both of the railroads I worked for(Cumbres & Toltec Scenic and the Georgetown Loop)both use VHF radios to communicate. I could modify my HT to be able to transmit outside the HAM band while working for these companies(I already can receive) in order to use my own radio. Is it legal? No. The radios are not type accepted compatable, according to the FCC. Is it ever really necessary? Not likely. Like Dave said there is more often better coverage with the HAM bands than with the services outside the HAM bands, so getting emergency assistance is closer within the HAM band than outside it.
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LOL baron and lin on the floor, I just jizzed my pants can i get that halftime gift early??
Lin= bad jump shooter- When you're getting SOOOO easily to the basket .. your team i mean, why are you taking long 2s? if carmelo takes that shot im ok with it..
I know they're making shots right now but I'd like to see them give more of an effort to getting amare some touches near the paint.
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Lin is playing defense I know he can play consistently.
All I'm saying is, he hasn't taken the high-quality shots that you should take. Instead of setting it up again, he just goes for the jump shot as if all hope is lost on the possession. It's not ideal at all.
When beasts like Novak on the floor, early in the shot clock, fast break, You're telling me Jeremy Lin has any business taking a long 2 pointer? LOL


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Windows Phone 8 coming with microSD card support
0. phoneArena posted on 03 Feb 2012, 07:19
Windows Phone 8 - yes, that's what Windows Phone will evolve into after the Apollo update - is expected to come with plenty of new features, but probably one of the biggest novelties…
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1. mambocream (Posts: 29; Member since: 10 Jun 2011)
I love my Samsung Focus, but this has got to be one of the only things that is a downside to using WP7. It looks like MS is going to make a great OS even better.
18. snowgator (Posts: 3609; Member since: 19 Jan 2011)
And it is a surprise for sure, mambocream. (Fun screen name, by the way!!) I had heard not a hint of memory card support. Matter of a fact, I believe a site called Windows Sauce had a very good explanation on why WP would never allow it, as it introduced all kinds of freezes and problems if you needed to remove the card. If I were to take a shot in the dark, I bet the use of the same kernal as the Windows 8 version on the PC may have solved some of those problems. I think this is all shades of great!!!
2. ChrisTheTechGuy (Posts: 85; Member since: 04 Nov 2010)
or you could just set up the wireless sync to your computer once...or use the skydrive and windows live accounts to not depend on Zune....WP7 doesn't really depend on the software, except for updates.
6. Victor.H (Posts: 902; Member since: 27 May 2011)
So what happens if you use Mac or - God forbid - Linux?
15. Cwebb (Posts: 501; Member since: 05 Oct 2011)
Microsoft will laugh at you, then ask why you didn't get Windows
3. MickDM (Posts: 63; Member since: 29 Nov 2011)
so...basically, android & wp8 will have expandable memory and iOS will not... nice downplay on that one... ijs :)
21. Uzzelien (Posts: 131; Member since: 22 Feb 2011)
Wrong Android is killing their removable SD cards.
4. Bluesky02 (Posts: 1439; Member since: 05 Dec 2011)
That's an amazingly great news. Now i know when there will be a true WP to buy.
Next year!
Gotta wait so long...
5. PAPINYC (banned) (Posts: 2315; Member since: 30 Jul 2011)
Those balding, middle-aged, beer-bellied bozos at Microsoft should all be fired.
I had the FIRST Windows Mobile smartphones in the earlier part of the last decade starting with the Audiovox Thera 2032; then, the Audiovox XV6600; and, just for fun I bought a Samsung i700. The latter one I successfully upgraded from Windows Mobile 2002 to Windows Mobile 2003. The former already had Windows Mobile 2003. Ironically, my old Audiovox Thera 2032 had a full HTML browser and both the XV6800 and XV6850 (as well as the XV6900) had watered down mobile browsers. So many other features were removed from Windows Mobile with WM6.5 and WM7 (yes, I insist it is still 'Windows Mobile 7' that the OS completely devolved from it's earlier efficient version. Microsoft engineers (and, CEO's too) progressively peeled away the capabilities and funtionality of its' own OS. And, finally, they took away external memory functionality. Now they're crying we want users back. I say, if you want to improve the performance of your stock then go buy your own phones and self-invest; I'm not giving you one more dollar (for that pathetic attempt at a mobile OS).
And, YES, "drag and drop" is way better than "looney toonz"; external and swappable memory gets my American dollars!
10. aphrophyre (Posts: 24; Member since: 02 Feb 2012)
The reason why drag & drop is not the ideal method for transferring files is because it then puts a strain on the device itself for deliniating and sorting metadata that is needed for files to be recognizable on the device.
Having a desktop client like Zune or iTunes takes care of this for you, so that when you push files to the device, they are there, sorted, and it doesn't have a negative impact on the operation of the device as it has to manually crunch this data after transfer. You see a lot of complaints from android users about lag or long boot times, because all of this is done while the OS boots and launches. That "preparing SD Card" message is in direct link to having a lack of Synced data transfer.
The overhead becomes a problem when you constantly move files back & forth, and thats why devices are moving to cloud storage instead of SD cards or desktop clients, because this data arrangement can be done in the cloud on very powerful machines.
11. PAPINYC (banned) (Posts: 2315; Member since: 30 Jul 2011)
How much did MiCroslush and Apple pay you for that nonsense. And, more importantly, you're gullible enough to believe it. All OS's have boot time; it's part of the, GUESS WHAT, boot process. I've had iPhones that have taken longer to boot than my RAZR™ or any of my old Windows phones.
You're basic flip phone (with or without external memory) has a delayed boot process. So, EiNsteiN, what happens when you want to retrieve content from your cloud and you have NO network connection? Do you use iWiFi; what if there's no iWiFi (guess you can't Cloud connect or FaceChat™)....?
13. aphrophyre (Posts: 24; Member since: 02 Feb 2012)
I think your missing the some of the point. Cloud storage isn't a be all end all solution obviously because cellular/wireless connectivity isn't garuanteed.
And sure there are other reasons for the disparity of length of boot time, but my point wasnt about the boot time, its about the preparation of the file system after boot where their system is bogged down and perceived "laggy" which you dont incur on the iPhone or on Windows Phone.
16. SemperFiV12 (Posts: 948; Member since: 09 Nov 2010)
LOL someone is really butt hurt... probably screwed up his stocks portfolio, and now that MSFT is on the rise he is kicking himself.
7. mercorp (Posts: 1045; Member since: 28 Jan 2012)
YES!!!!!!now if only there is flash....:(
8. fervid (Posts: 183; Member since: 22 Nov 2011)
I had a Quantum Windows Phone for almost a month. Loved having a keyboard (although it needed a few improvements) and it was a very durable phone that didn't crash or freeze. The IMAP email actually worked on it where it did not on previous Android phones...especially the Atrix 2. ATT never let it get the HSDPA it was capable of and even on fast WiFi the Netflix videos still looked blocky. I loved how it read text messages over my vehicle bluetooth and let me reply by talking. No true file system really killed it for me though. It wouldn't even do something simple like let me upload a picture through a web form! Zune being required for everything was really annoying too. It was almost 400MB of junk to download...half of which was useless and just downloaded the 2nd half. It also only worked on XP SP3 and Vista+, so all my systems with Win XP 64 bit and Linux were useless for it. Hopefully they make something cloud based and not tied to Win8 only like it is sounding so it will work on any platform.
9. Victor.H (Posts: 902; Member since: 27 May 2011)
I obviously second that, but what really puzzles me is how non-techie users interact with all that software. Somehow, I feel they just don't, but maybe it's just me.
12. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
Wait... so all this time WP has gone without microSD cards? Holy s**t. That's a huge omission.
19. RazaAsad (Posts: 100; Member since: 24 Nov 2011)
and it does not support BT file transfer like iOS.
22. jbash (Posts: 345; Member since: 07 Feb 2011)
not entirely. i believe the focus had a memory card. it had to be a windows approved micro sd card. plus once it was used it couldn't be used with any other device.
14. DontHateOnS60 (Posts: 872; Member since: 20 Apr 2009)
The Zune software, once set up makes syncing your music, photos and videos so easy it's ridiculous. Did I mention it's lightning fast too? It's nothing compared to trying to use Moto's software to sync music to my XT860 or using Nokia Suite to sync music, photos and videos to/from my N8.
It sucks however for trying to sync a movie file over to it. I can drag and drop faster than it takes to do it through Zune.
If WP8 is designed in such a way that the microSD card will become one with the memory on the phone, as is the case with the Focus, and still keep syncing as flawless as it is, and still be removable and usable after that, it would be amazing.
17. SemperFiV12 (Posts: 948; Member since: 09 Nov 2010)
Windows Phone platform is moving higher and higher up. All I know is somewhere in Redmond, Charlie Sheen is running around yelling "WINNING!!!"
20. 7thspaceman (Posts: 1587; Member since: 14 Feb 2011)
wow it looks like by the end of the year the Windows metro interface smart phone will be up to par at last with Android and Iphone smart phones this great news because dispite what Android and Iphone fans say there is a need for more choice in the smart phone market place and before the year is out microsoft smart phones will be good enough to buy with confidence because they have all the bells and whistles. Microsoft OEMs could sell 8 gig models by the end of 2012 that can be upgraded with a 32 gig micro sd card.an upgraded HTC radar or Nokia 710 with a front facing camera and Micro sd expansion capability would be an affordable way to get a smart phone


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No TV broadcast for Saturday's Mariners game
By Greg Johns / MLB.com
SEATTLE -- Saturday's 1:10 p.m. PT game against the Twins at Safeco Field will be the only Mariners game not televised this season by either ROOT or FOX.
The game will be played in the normal FOX window for Saturday games, but is not being picked up by the network.
Non-FOX games are normally played at 6:10 p.m. PT on Saturdays so that ROOT can pick up the broadcast, but in this case the team agreed to the earlier start time in cooperation with the City of Seattle because of the Seafair Torchlight Parade in downtown Seattle on Saturday night.
The game will be available on MLB.TV to its subscribers and will be broadcast on ESPN 710 radio in Seattle and the normal Mariners Radio Network.
The Mariners won eight games in a row entering Wednesday's game against the Indians.
Franklin, Miller go back a long way
SEATTLE -- If young Mariners shortstop Brad Miller and second baseman Nick Franklin seem to have a natural comfort level together, there's a reason. The rookies have known each other since their high school days in Orlando, Fla., where they grew up about 20 minutes apart.
Miller, 23, was a year ahead of Franklin, 22, in school, but the two played together on a traveling all-star team when Miller was a sophomore in high school, and then for another four or five games together on the Diamond Club area all-star team in Miller's senior year.
"We have a lot of mutual friends and things, so just having those connections and talking about back home is pretty cool," Miller said. "For sure, I think it has to have helped. It's been easy for us, because we're both learning and helping each other out with all the ins and outs. It's been good."
Despite their inexperience, the duo has benefited from communicating well and leaning on each other in their first weeks in the big leagues.
"It's absolutely better than anything," Franklin said. "If you've played or known or played against somebody, it's kind of cool. If you've got a guy you've never played with before, which is usually the case, you have to get used to them. It's to our advantage to have that and know what we can do. We trust each other and don't have to worry about getting a perfect feed or whatever. We have that trust."
Acting manager Robby Thompson said the two have benefited from the help of veteran shortstop Brendan Ryan.
"Brendan has actually helped them pregame," Thompson said. "Brendan is one of those guys who likes to pass on his knowledge, whether it be fielding or thinking through the game. He's done a really good job with the young guys. Would he like to be playing? Of course he would. But he's not sulking. He's helping out the best he can, and he's ready to play at any point in time.
"But the two of those guys [Miller and Franklin] communicate very well and they're playing at a higher level right now. They've been impressive what they've done so far, not only offensively, but defensively as well."
The pair combined on two of Seattle's three double plays in Wednesday's 10-1 loss to the Indians.
Worth noting
• Right fielder Michael Morse went 1-for-2 with a double in his second rehab game with Triple-A Tacoma on Tuesday as he continues rehabbing a strained right hamstring. Morse is 2-for-6 with a home run, double, two runs and two RBIs in his first two games with the Rainiers.
• First-round Draft pick DJ Peterson was promoted from Class A Everett to Class A Advanced Clinton on Tuesday after batting .312 with six home runs and 27 RBIs in 29 games.
Greg Johns is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregJohnsMLB as well as his Mariners Musings blog. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Local high school mountain bikers ran into frozen rain, sleet and below-freezing temperatures in Elbert over the weekend.
But no winter-like weather could cool down Durangos red-hot riders.
India Waller ignored the frigid air to take first place in Race 3 and the overall leaders jersey in the girls varsity field for Animas High School, which held onto first place in Division II in the Colorado High School League.
After bundling in down jackets, jeans and gloves, the riders rode the course and finished with a layer of ice on the front of their jackets and pants, Waller said of Saturdays preride in a news release to The Durango Herald.
They had to pour warm water onto their bikes to get them working again, AHS cycling coach Sarah Tescher said in the release.
For Sundays race, temperatures hovered around 25 degrees, Waller said.
But in a one-two punch as Waller put it Kaylee Blevins finished second and helped Durango High School move up to third in the 37-school league.
Robin Austin of AHS finished ninth for the varsity girls.
The weather, however, did take its toll on some of the boys.
Durangos Sepp Kuss, who came into the race with the leaders jersey, had some mechanical problems with his brakes badly rubbing midway through the 5.3-mile course. He had to get a tool from the feed/technical support area, which cost him a 5-minute penalty since the league likes to grow independent athletes, Tescher said.
Once an athlete is on course, they are on their own, she said.
Kuss finished 18th in the varsity field and dropped to fourth overall in the standings, but the league will drop one race in the case of illness or a mechanical problem, so a strong finish at the state championships Oct. 21 in Fruita would move him back into first place, Tescher said.
Stephan Davoust was the top local finisher, coming in fourth for AHS in the varsity boys field. He is second overall in the league.
Levi Kurlander of DHS was eighth for third place overall in the standings.
In the junior varsity field, Sierra Trout of DHS took third for the girls, and Eli Kopp-Devol took 15th in his first race in the boys field.
DHS freshman Charlie Greenberg, who wears the leaders jersey in his division, finished first in the freshman field.


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Leaf-peepers flock to fall foliage
Though summer is still sizzling away, fall in the Berk shires can provide a colorful explosion of reds, yellows, and oranges that could leave any Fourth of July fireworks celebration green with envy.
Every fall, city-dwellers come to the more open-spaced, foliage-friendly Berkshires to marvel at the array of colorful leaves still clinging to the branches of trees -- hence their nickname, leaf-peepers.
"We definitely get a lot of calls from leaf-peepers when it's peak season," said Rob Weis berger, the front-desk manager of the Hampton Inn and Suites in Lenox, 445 Pittsfield Road. "The first two weekends are filling up very steadily, most with people from the metropolitan area or Long Island."
The website Massvacation.com shows a foliage timetable for Massachusets, separating the state based on the leaves' peak colors. The Berkshires' is from Oct. 1-14, the earliest of the entire state.
In the two foliage seasons that Weisberger has worked the hotel, he said that calls from leaf-peepers begin as early as late August.
"October is definitely booming here on the weekends," Weisberger said.
Yearly, more than two million visitors generate about $327 million in revenue for the Berkshires, according to Lauri Klefos, president of the Berkshire Visitors Bureau.
"Fall is our second-biggest season behind summer," Klefos said. "It's a huge attraction because he have those beautiful, natural rural area. We have exactly want people want during the fall."
The website Berkshire.org lists six ideal scenic drives for leaf-peepers coming to the Berkshires.
Weather patterns can indicate how colorful, or dull, a fall season will be, according to Henry Art, a professor of environmental studies and biology at Williams College.
Sunny, warm days, followed by chillier nights are ideal for the leaves to produce anthocyanin, giving leaves their red pigments, Art said.
"If we have sunny days and cold nights like we've had this week, then the leaves get brighter colors being produced than if you have a lot of dull weather where it's warm and cloudy," he said. "But it is the last three weeks in September that are the key time for those biological processes to occur."
But one area beaming with fall colors doesn't necessarily indicate that the town over will be just as festive, thus making it hard to pick out one ideal leaf-peeping spot.
"Not all places have the same environmental conditions," Art said. "You may have better foliage in Stockbridge than you do it Pittsfield. It can vary that much depending on how cloudy, or warm, it is."
Still, the ideal pattern of warm, sunny days and cold, clear nights have already given a bit of a tease of the impending fall colors.
"Usually by the end of August, you can see little bits of it happening. By mid-October, that's when you get the full monty, so to speak," professor of botany Donald Roeder said from his office at Bard's College at Simon Rock. "You can see it happening now. The tops of the maple trees are starting to look orange. I'm looking at one right now."
A pigment called caro tenoids gives the leaves their yellow-orange tint. A much higher caretonoid is also found in carrots.
"Maples are the best in giving out colors," Roeder said. "Red oaks turn red, poplars will turn yellows, and oaks don't really show pigments -- you can actually identify species of trees by their colors in the fall."
Leaf science
Leaf-peepers may be too preoccupied to take in the gorgeous colors around them in the fall to realize that they're actually just looking at an act of science.
It's not so much that leaves are changing color as it is that they show different shades at different times of the year.
The leaves get their green tint from chlorophyll, which masks the orange or red tint given from the pigments carotenoid or anthocyanin, respectively. Carotenoids are used for photosynthesis, the process where plants synthesize their food from simple molecules.
It's that lack of sunlight that makes it challenging for leaves to keep up producing enough chlorophyll to keep the leaves green, giving way to the hidden colors that people associate with fall.
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JOE McGinniss, the adventurous and news-making author and reporter who skewered the marketing of Richard Nixon in The Selling of the President 1968 and tracked his personal journey from sympathiser to scourge of convicted killer Jeffrey MacDonald in the blockbuster Fatal Vision, has died aged 71.
McGinniss, who announced in 2013 that he had been diagnosed with inoperable prostate cancer, died on Monday from complications related to his disease.
His lawyer and longtime friend Dennis Holahan said he died at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Few journalists of his time so intrepidly pursued a story, burned so many bridges or more memorably placed themselves in the narrative, whether insisting on the guilt of MacDonald after seemingly befriending him or moving next door to Sarah Palin's house for a most unauthorised biography of the former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate.
The tall, talkative McGinniss had early dreams of becoming a sports reporter and wrote books about soccer, horse racing and travel. But he was best known for two works that became touchstones in their respective genres - campaign books (The Selling of the President 1968) and true crime (Fatal Vision). In both cases, he had become fascinated by the difference between public image and private reality.
McGinniss was a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1968 when an advertising man told him he was joining Hubert Humphrey's presidential campaign. Intrigued that candidates had advertising teams, McGinniss was inspired to write a book and tried to get access to Humphrey. The Democrat turned him down, but, according to McGinniss, Nixon aide Leonard Garment allowed him in, one of the last times the ever-suspicious Nixon would permit a journalist so much time around him.
Garment and other Nixon aides were apparently unaware, or unconcerned, that McGinniss' heart was very much with the anti-war agitators the candidate so despised.
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"I am super stoked to be a part of J7," says Virs. "Jason makes some of the best boards around and it was an easy decision for me since guys like Keoni Cuccia, Pascal Stansfield and my good friend Tarik Khashoggi have sworn by his shapes for a long time. I am excited to be on board knowing that the J7 Brand has a bright future!"
Virs, born and bred in Ventura, Ca. is a seasoned pro and certainly no stranger to winning heats. He holds long list of surfing and competitive accomplishments which includes the 2007 Macy's Trifecta title.
Over the past few months, Virs and J7 Surfboards shaper Jason Feist have been collaborating to create an arsenal for the 2011 contest season. " We are excited to be working with Adam!" says Feist. "He is motivated and in-tune with his equipment. That is exactly what we appreciate most in a team rider and I feel it is a great fit!"
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cost of justice in the face of this discontent and the high rates of recidivism that exist.
Over the past decades, there has been growing interest in new approaches to justice, which involve the community and focus
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OCEAN CITY – Local residents and visitors are invited this weekend to the 20th Annual Greek Festival, sponsored by the St. George Greek Orthodox Church in Ocean City.
Beginning today through Sunday, the Roland E. Powell Convention Center will be transformed into a Greek paradise, featuring delicious Greek food and pastries, imports, gifts, arts and crafts, live folk dancing performances by the Hellenic Dancers of New Jersey and live music by Apollina beginning at 5 p.m. daily.
Although the live dancing is a treat, the highlight of the festival would have to be the food, particularly the Greek desserts and pastries homemade by members of the local church. All items may be packaged to go.
Hours for the weekend celebration are Friday and Saturday, noon-11 p.m., and Sunday, noon-9 p.m.
Admission from noon-5 p.m. is $2 and after 5 p.m. is $3. Children under 13 accompanied by an adult will be admitted free at all times.
Starting a week from today, July 27, through Wednesday, July 29, the 15th Annual Jesus at the Beach Music and Ministry Festival will be held, beginning each day at 10 a.m. at the Roland E. Powell Convention Center with praise, worship, dance, drama, testimony, preaching, prayer and ministry.
Organizers plan free afternoons so participants can enjoy fellowship together. Each night from 7-10 p.m. on the beach at N. Division Street, praise, music, dance, drama, testimony and one-on-one sharing will be held.
One of the week's highlights is a baptism service in the ocean near the convention center planned for Wednesday, following the meeting at approximately 1 p.m.
There is no charge to participate in any of the ministry events.
For all the week's news, see The Dispatch on Friday morning.


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