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On a recent classic mag semi to pump conversion, I put a eBay purchased single finger 45 frame to put on it and when to arrived I found that it did not come with a trigger so I scrounged up a stock trigger and pin. Now it seems that the trigger does not pull far enough to hit the on/of and release the sear. So my questions are do I need a different trigger for the frame or do I need to modify the frame in some manner to allow it to work with the stock trigger? I think I have the rod adjusted correctly but not 100% sure (checking that now). I am confident that it is something related to the frame as I swapped it out with a working frame from another mag and it worked fine.
Thanks in advance for your help!

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US Citizen? No Money for You!
I found this article at the Wall Street Journal site interesting. Apparently the latest private offering of shares in Facebook excludes U.S. Citizens (U.S. clients of Goldman Sachs Group). Now before you get upset with Goldman it seems that they needed to do this in order to properly comply with U.S. Securities laws. It has to do with advertising.
Don't Worry Your Lack of Profit is to Save You Against Yourself
According to the article there is an SEC rule dealing with private placements in part reads "cannot be the subject of advertising, general promotional seminars or public meetings in connection with the offering.", now that is a U.S. regulation and other countries are less strict. Therefore Goldman is only offering this placement to those outside the U.S. One might call this over-regulation, however others may say you are too dumb to know better so the U.S. is saving you from yourself as you cannot possibly know how to invest.
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What do Mitt Romney, John Kerry and Mike Dukakis have in common?
Well, all three are from Massachusetts, held high political positions, ran for president -- and lost. That is 0-for-three, as in three strikes and you're out, going back to Dukakis in 1988, then Kerry in 2004 and Romney last week.
Is the rest of the country trying to tell us something?
It has been 52 years since Massachusetts native son John F. Kennedy was elected to the White House. His youngest brother, the late Ted Kennedy, also a Massachusetts U.S. Senator, ran for president but was beaten in the primaries. He made it to the Democratic Party convention in 1980, but was soundly beaten by incumbent President Jimmy Carter.
And although there have been other Massachusetts political figures who have run for president in modern times, like the late U.S. Sen. Paul Tsongas of Lowell, outside of President Kennedy, only Romney, Kerry and Dukakis were able to become the official nominees of their party.
Here is what else they have in common. All three were defeated, in part, because they failed to adequately respond to early and nasty television campaigns that were launched against them.
And this failure, or failures, cost each of them dearly in the early goings of their campaigns. All three lost ground that they could never make up, scrambling at the end of their campaigns to make up for earlier bad decisions.
Negative campaigns, as practiced by both political parties, are here to stay because they work. People may object, as they are often slanderous and false, but they win elections, particularly if the negative attacks are not addressed in a timely manner.
Romney, for one reason or another, failed to respond to the millions of dollars in television ads Obama ran last summer in swing states attacking him. He was accused of being a cold, greedy capitalist from Bain Capital who took pleasure in taking over companies, shutting them down and throwing people out of work. And when Romney did create jobs, Obama alleged, he created them in China, and not the United States, getting rich in the process.
For weeks there was no response from Romney. Nor was there a response from Romney when the Obama campaign accused him of being a felon and a murderer in connection with his work at Bain Capital. Nor was there a quick answer to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's false but damaging claim that Romney had not paid any taxes in 10 years.
Romney finally did come alive during the first presidential debate, when many Americans got their first look at him. Romney clearly won that debate. But again it was too late, particularly as Romney left his aggressiveness at home during the next two debates. Nice guys don't win these things and Obama was able to smirk his way through.
What Romney needed around him were people who remembered how Dukakis and Kerry failed to respond to negative attacks on them until it was too late.
In Dukakis' case, George H.W. Bush pounded Dukakis in a race-baited television ad over Dukakis' work release program that let Willie Horton, who is black, out of prison. Horton subsequently raped a white woman and stabbed her husband.
Dukakis, thinking the attacks beneath the dignity of a presidential campaign, failed to respond, and he failed to answer false insinuations questioning his mental stability or that his wife burned the American flag at anti-war protests.
John Kerry, who served in Vietnam on the Swift Boats that patrolled the rivers, no sooner opened his 2004 campaign at the Democrat Party convention, with the statement, "I'm John Kerry and I'm reporting for duty," than he was attacked by fellow Vietnam veterans who had served with him.
They not only raised questions in a series of television ads about Kerry's war record during his four-month stay in Vietnam, but repeatedly brought up his testimony before Congress about war crimes allegedly committed by fellow soldiers.
Kerry, like Dukakis before him, and now Mitt Romney after him, failed to adequately counter the negative television attacks with answers and advertising of his own. They all lost.
Barack Obama did not have much of a record to run on, so he took Mitt Romney's fine record of accomplishments in the business world, and distorted it beyond all recognition. It worked.
Romney and his people should have seen it coming. They didn't, and they lost. Nice guys don't win these things in today's America.
Slash and burn, baby, slash and burn. It's the road to the White House.
Peter Lucas' political column appears Tuesday and Friday. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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President Jon Alger presented keys to the university to Harrisonburg Mayor Ted Byrd and Chairman of the Rockingham County Board of Supervisors Fred Eberly following a brisk walk from campus to the city's Court Square Thursday afternoon. The ceremony represented President Alger's desire for a new era of even stronger engagement between JMU and the community.
Approximately 200 students, faculty, staff and community members braved breezy spring weather to hike the half-mile to the cadence of drummers from Harrisonburg, Turner Ashby, Spotswood, East Rockingham and Broadway high school bands.
"This walk symbolizes solidarity between JMU and the community," said President Alger from the sundrenched steps of the courthouse. The presentation of keys was intended to "make everybody feel welcome to come to campus and be part of our university."
"Today marks an important day in the history of JMU and in the history of the community," said Eberly. "Our community benefits from JMU's success and we thank you."
"Doesn't purple and gold look good on Court House Square?" said Mayor Byrd. "This event represents the partnership we share that enables us to achieve our goals together. "
Local alumnus Scott Rogers emceed the ceremony, which was followed by a shift indoors to the Court Square Theater for an a cappella vocal performance by JMU singing group Note-Oriety and a lecture, "Beyond the Marble Man: Who Was James Madison?" by David Mattern, Associate Editor, The Papers of James Madison, University of Virginia.
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Warhead wrote:my head burns with War.
If your tracks are just made up of tires, then it's: ...
I like that as a middle ground, but it's hard to explain in-game. What would cause a gun to stop firing but still be usable when you fired again?
It misses the exact spot on the target you were aiming at (meaning it's no longer part of Combined Fire), but it can still hit some other part of the target if the target is bigger than the NearMiss. I need to add examples for this.
When a Ranged Attack misses, a shot is usually considered to have flown off into the sky or landed harmlessly on the ground next to the target. Any player may insist on tracking a Missed Shot more accurately, if he has a good reason to make the effort; for most shots it's not worth slowing down the game. He might think that the target is big enough that even a bad shot would have hit it, or that an Explosive landed close enough to the target to damage it anyway. On the other hand, he might be looking greedily towards other potential targets in the field of fire.
When an attacker misses a shot, and he or another player insists on tracking it, check to see how many points the Attack Roll missed by. (For instance, if the attacker rolled a 3 when he needed a 5, then the Attack Roll missed by 2.) The Missed Shot landed somewhere within this many inches of the target. The defending player may pick any spot within that range that he wishes. That's where the shot goes, provided that it's somewhere the weapon could theoretically have hit in the first place, no matter how ridiculous or unlikely. The weapon's Damage is then dished out as appropriate.
The only restriction to the defender's choice of accidental targets is that he cannot choose a victim owned by an unaffiliated player. Player-controlled targets are fair game if they belong to himself, his attacker, or the allies of either party. Anyone else's units are off-limits, unless hitting them can't possibly be avoided.
Warhead wrote:my head burns with War.
IVhorseman wrote:It's in the Combat chapter. ...
Warhead wrote:my head burns with War.
Natalya wrote:Wtf is going on in this thread?
stubby wrote:As it is, I'm wondering if I should get rid of the size bonus completely. You have to declare the specific spot you were aiming at and leave the rest up to nearmiss.
Warhead wrote:my head burns with War.
IVhorseman wrote:Dude, that what you just described there is an anorakish tactic.
Natalya wrote:Wtf is going on in this thread?
Zahru II wrote:'HEROIC MEAL TIME DRUNK OFF THAT YE OLDE JACK DAGNALS. HATER PREPARED TO BE MASHED LIKE TATERS, CUZ WE DON'T F*** AROUND. Ah whaddup, dwarf SAWSE.'
IVhorseman wrote:holy shit I'm actually walking to campus now. I mean it's been 15 months now
stubby wrote:There are a bunch of rules sections that are going to get simplified and edited down significantly once the main content is complete, Fire and crash rules among them. Anything related to field hazards and thrust rules also. I want to finish getting everything in place and playtested before I start the process of deciding what to delete.
Natalya wrote:Wtf is going on in this thread?
Apollyon wrote:Keldoclock wrote:stubby wrote:You know what else has been depicted as OP? Tanks. Let's imagine you were facing a tank in real life. I don't know if you're imagining that tanks are built out of 20 gauge (0.04") sheet metal like cars and washing machines, or what, but armor plating is serious business. The armor plating on an M1A2 Abrams tank is 4.72 inches thick. Can you name a hand weapon that can damage 4.72-inch-thick steel plating? How about a sidearm? Is it entirely outside the realm of possibility that maybe there are targets for which you need something a little heavier than 9mm rounds?
The only thing "outlandish" is that I let hand weapons damage Armored targets on a critical success. In real life there is a 0% chance that this would happen.
The only man-portable things I can think of that would damage an Abrams are the Javelin Missile system (requires 1.5 operators) and C4... both of which would be incredibly dangerous to use on your own against a crewed tank.
What we learned in infantry basic training: if you encounter a tank, HIDE!
MDT-Maikel wrote:Somehow large groups of infantery seem especially vulnerable once you play on rather open maps, with launchers or rockets.
BW2010, Chapter 7 wrote:There is no environment more dangerous to the fighting minifig than the flat open field presented by the typical player's dining room table or hardwood floor. [...] minifigs are tender, fragile, and slow compared to armored vehicles and other large units. Without cover to hide behind, they have a tendency to get ground up like plastic hamburger meat.
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Finally, Someone Acts Like An Adult: District Attorney Drops Charges Against Bullied Teen Who Recorded His Tormentors
from the and-to-think,-this-all-could-have-been-prevented dept
South Fayette School in Pennsylvania, along with a complicit criminal justice system, recently made headlines with its groundbreaking anti-bullying program, which apparently deters bullying by punishing bullied students.
Here's a short recap:
A bullied student used an iPad to make an audio recording of other students abusing him. He brought this to school administration who a) called in a police officer (after being advised by its legal team that this might be a violation of the state's wiretapping law) and b) deleted the recording.
The police officer, unable to actually bring a felony charge against the minor, settled for disorderly conduct. This charge brought him before a judge, who first stated her firm belief in the school's inability to do wrong before finding him guilty.
Throughout the entire debacle, not a single person involved even considered the possibility that the student had committed no crime or the fact that he had followed all of the school's prescribed steps for reporting bullying incidents. Instead, the desire to punish someone was obliged every step of the way.
Finally, someone within the justice system has chosen to act like an adult, rather than a bunch of clique-y, vindictive children.
Stanfield (the student) had announced that he and his attorney would file an appeal to that ruling but his fight may already be coming to an end. Today, Benswann.com has been told by Stanfield's attorney that the District Attorney will allow the appeal to go forward but will no longer pursue this case.More specifically, both the wiretapping charge (which was apparently still brought despite the involved officer's statement otherwise) and the disorderly conduct charge (which the judge found the student guilty of) were dropped.
A wiretapping charge against a South Fayette High School student who recorded two classmates bullying him has been dropped by the Allegheny County District Attorney's Office.Odd that a police officer wouldn't talk to a district attorney. Unless, of course, a little bit of hindsight made him realize his every move fell between vindictive and buffoonish. Lt. Murka, who apparently considered both wiretapping and disorderly conduct to be appropriate "remedies" for a bullied student recording his tormentors, seems to have recused himself from the public eye. Manko, speaking for the DA, hits the heart of the issue -- one simple sentence that any of those involved could have deployed to call an end to this ridiculous situation before it ended up in front of a judge: "We do not believe this behavior rises to the level of a citation."
Mike Manko, a spokesman for District Attorney Stephen Zappala, said Judge Robert Gallo signed an order Thursday to withdraw the citation against 15-year-old Christian Stanfield.
"No one in our office who is authorized to give advice on wiretap issues or school conduct issues was ever contacted in this matter. We have made multiple attempts to contact the officer who wrote the citation and (the) results have been unsuccessful," Manko said in a written statement. "We do not believe this behavior rises to the level of a citation."
The school has now gone on record to declare it's everyone else who's wrong:
The South Fayette Township School District wishes to address recent reports in the local and national media concerning a student of the South Fayette Township School District. It is to be noted that certain information being disseminated by the media is inaccurate and/or incomplete.Rather than clear up what exactly was "inaccurate and/or incomplete" about the reporting, it instead has chosen to hide behind "confidentiality."
The School District is legally precluded from commenting specifically in regard to these reports as the issue involves a confidential student matter.Considering the story has been all over the news, it seems a bit weak to claim the matter is still "confidential." It would seem it could comment on any of the specifics already in the public domain. The story has gone nationwide, so it's disingenuous to pretend it's still a "confidential" matter.
While it's nice that the DA has dropped the charges and allowed the student to proceed through school without criminal charges hanging over his head, one wonders if this same outcome would have forthcoming without the attendant public outcry. Any adult can start acting like one with enough public shaming. But the application of a little common sense would have averted this incident completely.
A bit more troubling is one of the suggestions that escaped the lips of a local politician who showed up to the teen's "not a criminal" celebration.
State lawmaker Jesse White joined the rally, telling Stanfield he wants to name a law after him. He said it would close the loophole in the wiretapping law and allow victims of bullying to record it as proof for police and school officials.His opportunistic heart's in the right place, but naming laws after people often indicates the new law is a bad one. This isn't an issue where a new law will fix things. This is an issue where no one in this chain of events showing the courage (and common sense) to stand up and ask why they were punishing a bullied kid for recording bullies.


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Gödöllő [1] is a city in Pest County, Hungary, about 30km east of Budapest. It is often visited as a daytrip from Budapest, or as a stop off while travelling to Eastern Hungary. It is among the most popular destinations for Austrians visiting Hungary, largely due to the royal palace, former home of Emperor Franz Josef and Queen Elizabeth.
Get in
By train
Gödöllő is located on the Budapest-Hatvan line and 2 to 3 trains leave the Keleti train station hourly. Riding a személy, or slow train, takes about 40 minutes. A gyors, or fast train won't stop before Gödöllő and takes roughly 30 minutes. A full price ticket costs 450 ft.
Note that Gödöllő has three train stations: Gödöllő-Állami telepek, Gödöllő, and Máriabesnyő. The Állami telepek stop is near the Arboreteum and Beekeeping museum, 3.5 kilometers outside of town. Gödöllő's main train station is located right outside the Alsó park (lower palace park) and is about a 15 minute walk away from the palace and downtown area. The Máriabesnyő stop is outside the pilgrimage temple. The személy trains will stop in all three, the gyors only at the main Gödöllő station. Make sure you get off at the right stop!
By HÉV
Gödöllő is also connected to Budapest by the HÉV commuter rail. The station is located at Örs Vezér tere, just outside the last stop of the red metro line. HÉV trains are less comfortable, cost slightly more, and take slightly longer to reach Gödöllő than the normal train, but as a plus you'll be dropped off closer to the downtown. Tickets can be bought at Örs Vezér tere or from the inspector on the train. Note: Budapest public transport tickets are only valid within the boundaries of Budapest and you will need to buy an additional ticket if travelling all the way to Gödöllő.
Gödöllő has four HÉV stops. The first is Erzsébet park, right in between the Felső Park (upper park) and the scenic Erzsébet park. The second is Szabadság tér, located in the heart of downtown and steps away from the royal palace and city museum. The third is Palotakert, which drops you off near the Palotakert housing development, and the last stop is the Gödöllő train station.
By bus
Buses leave from the Budapest Népstadion station daily. Typically there are several buses an hour, but the trip takes anywhere in between 40 minutes and an hour, depending on how many stops the driver makes. Buses stop at the city bus station, a few blocks east of Szabadság tér and the palace.
By car
Gödöllő is accesible by the M3 motorway and road 3 out of Budapest.
Get around
Most of the main sights are within walking distance of Szabadság tér. The HÉV can be used within Gödöllő, at a cost of 90 ft a ticket. If travelling to Máriabesnyő trains leave every hour from the main station, or take either bus 1 or 2 which leave frequently from the main bus station, a few blocks east of Szabadság tér. Tickets can be bought from the driver or at the main bus station. There is also a free bus that runs from the train station to downtown and then on to TESCO that runs roughly every hour. A complete local bus schedule can be found at Volánbusz's website [2].
Town Center
Grassalkovich Kastély (Grassalkovich Palace) [3], located across the street from the Szabadság tér HÉV stop, the royal palace is Gödöllő's main attraction. Built in the 1740s, the baroque mansion was later home to Emperor Franz Josef and Queen Elizabeth. Besides a tour of the royal apartments, there are also the Baroque theater and the royal chapel. Concerts are also frequently held here.
Gödöllői Városi Múzeum (Town Museum of Gödöllő) [4], is located on Szabadság tér, close to the HÉV station. The exhibit focuses primarily on the Gödöllő artists' colony from the early 1900s, and has several excellent examples of Hungarian Art Nouveau. There is also an ethnographic exhibit on Oceania, collected by Ferenc Ignácz, who worked at the university in Gödöllő. Another small room houses the private collection of Zoltán Mihály Csupor, a Catholic priest.
City Parks Gödöllő is considered a city of parks. The three main parks are all located around the palace: Alsó park (lower palace park), Felső park (upper palace park), and Erzsébet park, named after Queen Elizabeth.
Máriabesnyő Pilgrimage Temple [5] Máriabesnyő is mostly easily accessed by taking the train to the Máriabesnyő station. You'll be greated by a large Székely-style Transylvanian gate from 1942 as you walk toward the temple. The temple was commissioned by Grassalkovich when workers found a statue of the Virgin Mary on the site in 1759. It is the only two-storied baroque temple in the country, and you can also see the smallest Virgin Mary statue in the country, a museum about the Virgin, the Grassalkovich crypt, and do wine-tasting in the monastary.
Szent István Egyetem
Szent István Egyetem [6] is the largest agricultural university in Hungary. The university is located directly east of the main train station.
Állami telepek
Méhészeti Múzeum (Beekeeping Museum) is located on Isaszegi u. a few kilometers south of the downtown and is most easily reached from the Állami telepek train stop. The museum can only be visited by prior arrangement.
Arboretum is located on Isaszegi u., near the Beekeeping Museum and Állami telepek train stop. There are many old trees and buildings in the area, as this used to be part of the palace complex.
Gödöllői Repülőtér (Gödöllő Airport) [10] is located southwest of the city on Repülőtéri u. They offer sightseeing, hang gliding, and parachuting opportunities.
Petőfi Sándor Művelődési Központ (Sándor Petőfi Cultural Center) [11] is located in a large space-ship looking building near Szabadság tér. Local performances including theater, dance, puppets, and concerts are often held here.
Trafó Club [12] is the city's only true club or disco and it is located directly next to the Palotakert HÉV stop. Local DJs and tribute bands often perform here on the weekends.
Városi Filmszínház (City Movie Theater) [13] Located next to the Town Museum. It is a small movie theater that shows 2-5 different movies a day on one screen. There is never a line and the theater is never crowded. Prices are typically cheaper than in Budapest with discounts on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
In an around Szabadság tér are a few places to get gyros or hamburgers.
Gödöllő is close enough to Budapest you probably won't need to look for accomadation here. If you plan on staying, however, here are some options.
Panzió Sissi [16] Dózsa György út 36. A little bit north of downtown. The Pizza Max Cafe is on the first floor.
Galéria Restaurant and Pension Szabadság tér 8. Has a traditional Hungarian restaurant on the first floor.


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Up to two awards, in the amount of $500 each, will be given annually to Oberlin College students for outstanding papers or projects, in any subject, that demonstrate excellent research using library resources.
The four criteria considered are: creativity in the use of research tools, thoroughness in the research process, accuracy and attention to detail, and the use of a broad range of research tools.
Alison Ricker, Head, Science Library, Chair
Kathy Abromeit, Public Services Librarian, Conservatory Library
Ann Sherif, Associate Professor, East Asian Studies
Nominations for the awards will be made by Oberlin College faculty. Any student project completed for academic credit, with the exception of honors projects, is eligible to be nominated. We cannot recognize projects for which students received remuneration.
Students whose projects have been nominated will be asked to submit to the Friends of the Library Awards Committee a copy of the final project and a short essay discussing the research processes and strategies used in completing the project. The Committee will select the winners.Research Award Winners


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AMD FX Breaks World Record
AMD Bulldozer Press Day:
AMD sent an inquiry to see if OverclockersClub.com was interested in getting a firsthand look at the latest FX processors from AMD that are set to launch in the near future. Come August 31, we jumped at the chance and were on the plane to see what all the hype was about and just what part of the leaked screen shots and rumors were true right from the horse's mouth, per se. Before seeing what the AMD FX processors were capable of in head-to-head testing, we had the obligatory deep dive into the architecture with plenty of questions asked and answered. After lunch and the head-to-head tests, we were treated to an overclocking demonstration by Sami "Maki" Maekinen and Brian"chew" Mchlachlan, two of the best AMD overclockers, who put the AMD FX processor at the top of the world record heap at 8.429GHz using liquid helium as the cooling medium. This result broke the current world record by almost 119MHz and is recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the fastest computer processor in the world. Even on high-end air and a self-contained liquid cooling solution, 5GHz was possible from the FX line. You can see Senior Manager Simon Solotko's blog and video of the action and how it all shook out here. HWbot should have the results posted up here for all the justification. In the mean time, take look at a video and a few images from the event and know that a 5GHz beast could be coming your way.
Here we have a few images of the prep work, then the heat of the action where Sami and Brian are just peeling away the limits of the FX processor.
8.0GHz to start, then just a creep on upwards to 8.36GHz, and then the final push.
And there you have it, an 8.429GHz money shot followed up by the satisfaction of a job well done.
Congratulations to AMD and its hired guns to bring home the bacon with a new world record for CPU speed. Now let's see what it can do for those of us with less lofty ambitions...


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'Hundreds of lurid and dramatic covers stood on the racks before her, and there was, she felt, "nothing, not a thing, that I could imagine giving my daughter. It was all vampires and suicide and self-mutilation, this dark, dark stuff."'
Why not?
Because, as it turns out, YA writers and readers kind of agree. A quick Twitter poll revealed lots of common cover complaints, and a cursory glance at any writing forum will produce the same. So I thought-- why not count? I'm unsure how to quantify "lurid," but let's see just how dark (and pink, and girly, and white, and sparkly) YA covers really are. I gathered over 400 covers published by old school houses in 2010.* Then, using some highly scientific Photoshop magic, I discovered...
Surprise! Even if you split them down the middle, there are still more bright covers than dark.
Now. How much real estate each title gets, if it makes it to the shelf at all, is a different matter. But the fact remains: These covers are out there. The books are available. If you're not finding sufficiently cheery choices at your local store, try another. Ask for help. Heck, ask the internet! We can be very helpful, when we're not looking at funny cats or calling out trolls.
At any rate. Another common complaint/observation: YA covers like to cut people up. Half a head, a pair of legs, a decapitated body, or an extreme close up of a miraculously pore-less face are all popular designs-- if you get to see the model's face at all. So I counted, and...
There's nothing inherently light or dark about those stats. In fact, I intended for this post to be a silly look at cover trends. But when I crunched more numbers, I knew we'd have to get serious, because here's where YA covers are most definitely NOT dark: Race/ethnicity.
It is white girl city out there, folks.
A little explanation of the chart below:
- Girls and boys are not mutually exclusive. In other words, a cover with a couple on it would be counted twice, once under white girls and once under white boys.
- However, if a cover featured two models of the same gender and different races/ethnicities, I counted it under "multicultural." Those covers are not duplicated in the other categories.
- I'm guessing I could eliminate the "open to interpretation" category if I had read every single book represented, but obviously that's impossible. This is also the reason I didn't chart another common complaint: models and settings that don't match the book's story.
- My classifications are fairly subjective, since the only way to know a model's ancestry is to ask her and that is, obviously, also impossible.
- Even with my likely margin of error, these numbers are horrendous.
If you combine "other race," "open," and "multicultural," you still only come up with 38 models. That's only 17% of the girls, and if you assume one model per cover, 9% of all covers. Throw the non-white boys in too? That only gets you up to 11% overall.***
I mean, even dead white girls come close to outnumbering obviously black or Asian girls. That's ridiculous. And I like pretty dresses as much as the next person, but seriously? We can't put an Indian or Latina girl in a dress? Really?
Even Seventeen magazine is beating us at inclusion. Really.
The reasons for this are myriad (just search on "YA whitewashing" for more discussion). It's not the fault of any one publisher or author or marketing department, and posts in the search above have many ideas for changing the situation. But the first step to change is proving there's a problem, and I'd be remiss to exclude these results in the name of keeping this post light. (That's a pun. A bad one.)
The overall picture here is sobering. Speaking simply in terms of numbers: YA covers are definitely not all dark-- and they are most definitely white.
Too bad Gurdon didn't throw her weight behind a real issue like this instead.
Next week, I'll try to quantify the "girlyness" of YA covers, and see if some other trends (kissing, hands, blood) are really all that common. Do you want to help? There are a few things you could do:
- Help me count! "Girly" or "boy-y" is so subjective. Expand the first chart and tally how many you'd include in each category, then leave me your numbers and gender in the comments. (For simplicity's sake, I'm playing along with the idea of binary gender, but I'm aware of transgender issues.)
- See any other trends? Know any other stereotypes? Leave them in the comments and I'll see if they're chartable. Thanks!
* Nothing against e-books. There are just too many and 400+ cover images in one document was already crashing my computer.
** Thank you, people of Goodreads, for making handy lists of YA books by year.
*** Obviously this is slightly skewed when you count models vs covers, but the gap is big enough that the difference ends up negligible.
**** Disclosures: a) I am the whitest white girl who ever whited. b) I've written 2 books. Both female MCs are white. I'm aware this might make me a hypocrite.
***** I know there are all sorts of scientific ways to calculate brightness, lightness, darkness, and etc., but since Photoshop gives a handy brightness reading, I used that. The largest sample the eyedropper tool will read is 101x101px, so I cropped covers to 101px tall and took a sample from their center.
I'm likely to repeat this experiment with 2011 covers someday, so if you know a faster way (besides eyeballing it), I will love you forever.


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Friday, August 13, 2010
School Where Mom Taught For a Winter at Valley on South Fork Above Cody
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- Judy said...
It was indeed a valley. It got dark awfully early at the school level. Look at that sagebrush. Who needs landscaping and grounds keepers?
- August 14, 2010 at 1:01 AM
- Ann said...
When we walked into the little house where Mother was to stay during the week, there was such an interesting smell - forest, damp wood, etc., like the windows needed to be opened to let in some fresh air. That smell is still embedded in my memory, if a smell can be that.
I remember how it felt every Sunday afternoon when Mother would load up the car with a week's rations and clean clothes, and bravely head the car down the road. At first it was an adventure, but after the first couple of weeks I really wished for it to be over. Friday afternoons were the best, when the car would come back towards Penrose. The anticipation was wonderful, and Mother would pick up where she had left off on Sunday, with house cleaning, clothes washing, and talking like crazy about school - hers and ours - cows, farm, Dad - you know, all the important stuff. It was as though we were all refueling our minds and spirits for the next week. That was an amazing year.
- August 14, 2010 at 10:00 AM
- Louise Blood said...
Last summer when Cheryl and Lynn took me to Powell for my class reunion we drove up South Fork. It was the first time I had ever been up that road (can you believe it?) and I enjoyed the scenery. I was glad to actually see the little school. It's in a beautiful setting with that huge mountain for a backdrop. (Elizabeth had given me a picture of it.) What was amazing was to see the little cabin where Mother stayed. It is all boarded up and full of junk, so it was hard to imagine her living in it. The
other thing I wonderd about was how she drove that road in the winter. How old were you girls that year? You said it was an amazing year, Ann,, but at the time it was probably pretty tough. It goes with "you gotta to, what you gotta do" And somehow you make it. You deserve credit for making it. Thank you, Ann, for writing what you remember.
- August 14, 2010 at 10:39 AM
- Ann said...
I think the amazing part was we survived. There were two or three weekends when Mother didn't make it home. One weekend, to deal with the unpleasantness of it all, Dad took Judy, Steve and me to the Hyart Theater in Lovell to see a movie - (was it Lady and the Tramp? Judy/Steve, help out on that one). The snow was so bad on our way home, we got stuck on the hill outside of Lovell, where the road split just across the river bridge and going north led to Cowley and going west led towards home. I was absolutely petrified, but Dad finally persuaded the car up the slippery slope and we made it home. Remember the intermittent window wipers? Not good in a snowstorm, or any other time!
The weeks were long and lonesome. Judy tried really hard to keep things humming at home, I washed the milkers for Dad and Steve became Dad's right hand man in the barn. We all had things to do, which really helped, but Dad was lonely and we all felt a little lost. However, I think we all felt like pioneers. Mother had worked so hard to get her teaching degree and the fact she would get to put her efforts to work was important for all of us to give our support. Financially, that year was a turning point in my mind, where there were no longer the late night conversations between Mom and Dad, when we were supposed to be asleep, about survival. In the end, being able to breathe without a sense of financial panic must have been sweet indeed.
- August 14, 2010 at 11:53 AM


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A love triangle.
I'm not crazy! My reality is just different than yours!
Battles where they feel the need to explain what move they are about to do or yell it as they do it.
firebird380 wrote:
I hate seeing those small cartoon looking, short, pervy characters that are only used for perverted jokes.
A fine example would be this guy:
His name is Koma from Beelzebub. In the first few episodes he appeared in, he was a pervy annoying little shit that I despised. His involvement with the story is minimal. All he does is stick to Aoi and give her the ability to fight demons. Characters that serve little or no purpose to the plot and are only used to be perverted piss me off. Another example is Happosai in Ranma 1/2. He's a strong grand master but most of his antics are perverted: fondling underwear, chasing after women, trying to get the main character to get into women's clothing, etc. He's also super short and I find him annoying how he gets out of trouble by throwing bombs at the other characters.
It's funny you say that, because I laughed at him. Sure, he was a pointless character, but that entire anime is overall pointless when you really look at it. In that kind of scenario, I think he fit the bill. Now, if it was a more serious anime with a real plot and they just tossed in a pointless character like that, I'd probably be annoyed.
tl;dr My pet peeve in anime is when there is a perverted, small, and annoying minor character that has little or no purpose to the plot, only for pervy jokes.
hickey1992 wrote:
Battles where they feel the need to explain what move they are about to do or yell it as they do it.
Hah, yeah I agree actually. There's a series of anime shorts on here and in one episode the guy goes to unleash his ultimate attack and half way through the name of it his opponent just clobbers him which prompts another character to yell out, "He didn't let him finish his attack!"
Cheesy, but I laughed.
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
- Creating false drama by introducing (supposed) romantic interests for a character when there's obviously no chance that they won't end up with the already-established romantic interest. If it actually does create drama and makes the story more interesting, fine, but so many times it's just a time-killer or filler or whatever. Seems pointless when it's obviously not going anywhere.
- Female characters falling and spraining their ankle, or catching a cold after minimal time spent out in the rain.
- Goofball characters never being the one to get the girl/guy. Sense of humor's attractive, damn it.
- Ridiculously overprotective siblings. Usually brothers, but sometimes sisters.
- Female characters being so ridiculously insecure. "I had one hair out of place! I'm sure he hates me now!"
- Fighter type characters coming up with some incredible power just in the nick of time, then there's some bogus reason why they can't use it later, even though their friends and/or their cause are/is being severely harmed.
- The good or bad guys letting the other side have some major victory that they could've stolen away, but they didn't because (insert nonsensical reason here).
The main villain being a childhood friend/a relative of the MC
Female fighting characters who's purpose is solely to show off how heroic the MC is as he saves them
Unexplained power ups(i don't like it when they come out of no where but if there explained i don't mind as much)
Anime's that create a power system that is used only to break it to make a main character look awesome(looking at you hunterxhunter)
Fake drama
Showing a wound at end to create a cliffhanger then on next episode attack is parried/blocked/hits arm even though end of last ep shows blood going everywhere
Overly perverted chars with no plot purpose
Overly Emo MC's
tommythecat wrote:
Head tilt
Me, I honestly love the SHAFT head tilt in particular; it's like a signature. Can't say I take much notice of head tilts elsewhere.
I don't mind them.
crunchy i love you
Fights that drag on and on and on
The characters providing very detailed commentary on every aspect of the fight :;eyes Yu-Gi-Oh::
Unnecessary amount of crying that drags on for far to long. Worst case I've seen is Anohana's last episode, sure it's sad but I don't want to see nothing happen other than crying for 10 minutes.
How about this.
When people fight each other with swords and one guy get sliced, the other dude doesn't even look behind him, puts his sword away, and the dude who got sliced all of a sudden falls over.
Personally I would love to see a guy just get sliced in half instantly without that 30 seconds of moans and groans then falling dead.
The matsuri scene---everyone, whip out the kimonos!
The student transfer---it makes me wish I had cute student transfers coming into my school every month. Because that seems to be the average rate in an anime -_-''''
KillerZEK87 wrote:
How about this.
When people fight each other with swords and one guy get sliced, the other dude doesn't even look behind him, puts his sword away, and the dude who got sliced all of a sudden falls over.
Personally I would love to see a guy just get sliced in half instantly without that 30 seconds of moans and groans then falling dead.
I've never really been a fan of that in anime. I get the style and what they're going for - but it's still lazy, in my opinion. I'd rather just see the fight fully animated instead of it reduced to black screens and stills whenever they're fighting.
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
ravinia2112 wrote:
- Goofball characters never being the one to get the girl/guy. Sense of humor's attractive, damn it
I suppose it depends on how you define, "goofball", but Vash the Stampede and Captain Tylor could be cited as exceptions.
While one could argue Vash isn't really a goofball character, I think the jury is still out on Tylor. I have only seen the OVA and the first couple of episodes of the series, so I don't have enough info to know if he is secretly that good, or just darn lucky.
zulshin wrote:
Showing a wound at end to create a cliffhanger then on next episode attack is parried/blocked/hits arm even though end of last ep shows blood going everywhere
The end of episode 9 of Rosario + Vampire comes to mind. How do we go from Tsukune being stabbed through with a plant and Moka looking as if she is going to transform with the rosario still in place to the beginning of the next episode?
Yes, that's my real age
Typical harems or love triangles. They always have the obvious good choice and the annoying one the guy usually picks. Other one is the pedo drawn anime with super up close crotch shots ***stares at pedo-red operation***
If they're to place any incest into the plotline and then pulling out that quote "not related by blood" in an attempt to alleviate the theme; what would even be the point of even placing it in there? Otherwise it's time to grow some balls and not worry about opinions of mass media and follow the damn story or just don't use that theme at all.


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Like Google, Only Much, Much Worse
Wolfram Alpha is yet another pretender to the search giant's throne.
Wolfram Alpha, the latest alleged Google killer, is not a search engine. Rather, physicist and software entrepreneur Stephen Wolfram's long-awaited new Web project is a "computational knowledge engine." The difference is important. A search engine tells you where to find stuff on the Web. Type "box office goodfellas" into Google, and you get a list of links; it's up to you to figure out which page to click on to find how much money the Scorsese film made in theaters. Wolfram Alpha, which launched over the weekend, tries to give you a direct answer— ask it the same question, and you get the result without having to look on any other site: $46.84 million. The site's best trick is its sometime ability to make calculations on the fly. Type in "box office goodfellas + box office casino" and it'll tell you that the movies made a combined $89.35 million. Think of it as a calculator attached to a reference library—or your own personal HAL 9000.
If only it worked. Wolfram Alpha is a neat concept, and some of the posted sample queries—you can calculate the payment table for a mortgage or how many calories a 40-year-old male who's 5-foot-10 and weighs 160 pounds would burn if he ran at 4 miles per hour for 30 minutes (272)—are quite impressive-looking. But in my few days of using it, I've found Wolfram Alpha almost completely useless.
Sure, the engine can tell you the musical notation for D# minor and the life expectancy for a 65-year-old woman in Sweden. But there is so much more that Wolfram Alpha doesn't know. Once you start conjuring your own searches, it's clear that the samples offer a misleading impression of the site's depth. Ask how many calories that male runner would burn if he were swimming, cycling, playing tennis, cross-country skiing, or golfing—it's clueless. Say you wanted to know how life expectancy differed by state in the United States—what's the life expectancy of a male in California, and how does that compare to the life expectancy of a male in Kansas? "Wolfram Alpha doesn't know what to do with your input," the site tells me. And on and on it goes. Wolfram Alpha doesn't know the homicide rate in South Africa or Baltimore, it doesn't know how many copies M.I.A.'s last album sold, it can't tell you the per-capita GDP of the San Francisco Bay Area, and it's got nothing about the top speed of the Bugatti Veyron.
It may sound like I'm nitpicking, but I was careful to construct questions that emulated Wolfram's own examples. As it kept coming up empty, Wolfram Alpha came to seem less like HAL 9000 and more like a chatbot. It's been trained to respond to some kinds of queries, but any variations leave it stammering. It's an idiot savant, smart about a few things but profoundly ignorant about large swaths of human knowledge. *
Of course, Wolfram Alpha is just starting out, and you can expect it to improve over time. When you consider how it works, though, it seems unlikely that it will ever be as useful as an ordinary search engine. According to reports, the site gets its data from a huge list of reference works—Stephen Wolfram told Wired that the site's brain is built on things like the CIA World Factbook, U.S. Census reports, Wikipedia, and "about nine-tenths of what you'd see on the main shelves of a reference library." There's a lot of information in those works, and Wolfram has done a pretty good job of mashing all the data together to make them useful. But Wolfram's sources pale in comparison to the library that search engines rely on—the World Wide Web, the largest database of information known to man.
Wolfram has discouraged comparisons between his new site and Google, insisting each serves different purposes. But that doesn't make any sense; you'll use both sites to look up stuff you don't know, so it's irresistible to compare the two. On a side-by-side test, Google wipes the floor with Wolfram Alpha. Using the search engine, I found life expectancy information for California and Kansas, the murder rate in South Africa and Baltimore, M.I.A.'s album sales, economic data for San Francisco, and the top speed of a Veyron: 253 mph. When you ask Google how many calories you'd burn on various sports, you find this page on NutriStrategy.com, which lists caloric measures for all those activities and dozens more, including playing drums, horse grooming, and raking the lawn.
That example illustrates the difficulty Wolfram faces in trying to match Google. Much of the data that we look for online aren't found in formal, structured tables like the CIA Factbook. Even Wikipedia misses mountains of facts. But there are countless one-off pages, like the one at NutriStrategy, that collect information we don't know we need until we search for it in a moment of whimsy. Wolfram misses all of that stuff; Google catches it. Wolfram's other problem is speed—it clearly relies on some databases that aren't updated as quickly as stuff you'd find on the Web. When you ask it for the U.K.'s unemployment rate, it reports a 2008 estimate of 5.5 percent. Google makes a similar mistake—at the top of the page, it reports the World Factbook's 2007 estimate of 5.3 percent. Right below that, though, you get results from news reports for that same query, with a link to this BBC story with the accurate unemployment rate: 7.1 percent.
Wolfram Alpha will prove helpful to some people. Because it's based on Wolfram Mathematica, a software package that can do complex calculations, mathematicians, engineers, and scientists will find much to love in it. Wolfram Alpha solves difficult equations and makes nice graphs for lots of specialized inquiries. The query "NACA 4351 15 degrees" will tell you, among other things, the lift co-efficient, the critical Mach number, and the center of pressure for an airfoil with the described shape and angle of attack. It'll also draw a very pretty picture.
Plus, the site is kind of fun in the same way a chatbot is fun—it's a thrill to test the limits of Wolfram's intelligence, to see what it knows and where it fails. Geeks have been busy compiling its many Easter eggs. Ask it the average speed of an unladen swallow, and it indicates it knows the Monty Python reference. Or try, "How many roads must a man walk before you can call him a man?" There is also some evidence that Wolfram can save your life. Type in "frostbite 2 degrees f 25 mph," and it tells you that if you're stuck outside in 2-degree weather with a 25 mph wind, you'll get frostbite in 22 minutes.
Google can't do that. But it already matches some of Wolfram's best features. For many years, the search engine has been tweaking its results to give you immediate data for common queries—type in "nba scores" or "current time london," and it'll give you the information right at the top of the results page, without you having to click anywhere. And last month, Google announced that it would be adding more "structured data" to its results; now when you type in "population new york," Google returns a graph from the Census Bureau. The site even does math: Type in "2 + 2" or even something much harder—"speed of light/square root 3"—and the search engine solves it.
This is the eternal problem for any wannabe Google competitor. Wolfram Alpha doesn't revolutionize search; at best, it adds a marginally useful new layer on top of it. But Google can easily co-opt such improvements—and suddenly everyone's got a better Google. Maybe Google's the real HAL 9000, sending the same message to anyone who dares to take it on: I wouldn't do that, Dave.
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Rockets fall to Mavericks in McHale's return
Houston, TX – O.J. Mayo netted 16 of his game-high 40 points in the fourth quarter as the Dallas Mavericks rallied for a 116-109 win over the Houston Rockets on Saturday at Toyota Center.
Mayo buried six 3-pointers and pulled down eight rebounds, while Chris Kaman added 20 points and seven boards for the Mavericks, who have won eight straight against their intrastate rivals.
Darren Collison and Vince Carter donated 12 points apiece in the victory.
"I was just focused on time and scoring," Mayo said. "Trying to get to .500 was very important for us and we got there and we have keep continuing to build off of that."
Rockets head coach Kevin McHale returned to the sideline for the first time since taking a leave of absence on Nov. 10. It was later revealed that his 23- year-old daughter Alexandra, who had battled Lupus, unexpectedly passed away on Nov. 24.
The home side played inspired basketball for McHale as James Harden netted a team-high 39 points and Chandler Parsons added 18 points and 10 rebounds, but it all unraveled in the final quarter for Houston, which has lost three of its last five.
Dallas trailed 96-85 with 9:25 to play in the final quarter, but climbed out of that deficit with a 17-4 surge, capped by a Brandan Wright slam with 4:18 to play, which put the visitors ahead, 102-100.
Parsons sank a free throw to make it 102-101, but a pair of free throws and a triple by Mayo put Dallas up 107-101 with 2:49 to go.
Toney Douglas swished home a trey with 1:01 left to make it a two-point game, but on the next Mavs possession, defensive miscommunication by the Rockets left Mayo wide open at the top of the arc and he buried the trey to put Dallas up 112-107 with 38.4 seconds remaining.
Patrick Patterson again made it a one-possession game on the other end, but Mayo put the dagger in the hearts of the Rockets on the ensuing drive with a driving layup for a 114-109 edge.
"We've got to get more emotion and more thrust in our offense, especially down the stretch," McHale said. "We have to play with more pace in the fourth quarter."
Jeremy Lin drained a deep 3-ball early on to tie the game at 6-6, but the Mavericks responded with 13 consecutive points to grab a 19-6 lead with 5:55 left in the opening quarter.
A pair of free throws by Harden put an end to the run, but Dallas was in control for the rest of the frame as a 3-ball from the top of the arc gave the visitors a 39-20 lead. Dallas led 39-24 heading into the second quarter.
Jae Crowder netted a 20-footer with just over a minute gone in the second stanza to make it 43-26, but the Rockets answered with an incredible 26-9 surge to tie the game at 52.
Harden netted 11 points on his own during the run, which was capped by a corner 3-ball by Carlos Delfino with 4:49 to go before the break.
Omer Asik hit 1-of-2 from the line to give the Rockets a 55-54 advantage with 3:52 to go and the home side held a 66-63 lead at the intermission.
Kaman cut the deficit to one with a jumper on the Mavs first possession of the second half, but the Rockets pulled away a bit, using a 10-2 flurry to build the lead to 76-67 with 6:26 to go in the period.
Dallas sliced the deficit to three on several occasions during the quarter, but the Rockets held an 89-84 edge heading into the final quarter.
Game Notes
Dallas shot 48.6 percent overall and 12-of-35 from three-point range, while Houston hit 47.3 percent of its shots ... Lin finished with seven points, while Douglas added 13 points for Houston ... Houston turned the ball over 20 times, which led to 21 Dallas points.


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This method of divination was used in the Middle Ages primarily for illness, sickness and medicinal prognostications. It should be mentioned that lead is traditionally the metal of death, and also it is associated with the planet Saturn.
Witchfinders, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, also practiced Molybdomantia to learn whether or not an ailing individual was the victim of bewitchment.
One popular method of Molybdomantia was to get the omens from interpreting the noises and hisses of molten lead when dropped into a large cauldron filled with cold water.
Another system reads futurity in the shapes formed by the molten metal solidifying in the water. A bubbly water surface referred to money, a fragile or broken solidified shape meant misfortune. If a ship is formed, it means travel in the near future; a shape resembling a key, or keys, signifies career advancement; a horse, a new car, and so forth.
Yet another technique involved the observation of to which directions spilled liquid metal on a flat surface would flow.
Even though Molybdomantia practices initiated in Greece, today the method is widely used in Nordic countries, specially Finland and Germany. In a common New Year tradition, tin or lead is melted on a stove and poured into a container of cold water. The resulting hardened lump of metal is then rotated in a candlelight to create shadows, whose shapes and silhouettes are then prophetically interpreted. In Finland, small bullions in the shape of a horseshoe are sold for this express purpose. Originally made from tin, bullions are now made from cheaper low-melting alloys based on lead. The practice is known as Uudenvuodentina, and the world's largest one, weighting 41 kilograms, was cast by members of the Valko volunteer fire department in Loviisa, Finland, in New Year 2010.
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'Mad' Bum takes Dodgers to task in LA
LOS ANGELES -- Madison Bumgarner threw a log on the fire of the Giants-Dodgers rivalry Friday night while maintaining his Chavez Ravine mastery in San Francisco's 3-1 triumph.
The game cost San Francisco the services of first baseman Brandon Belt, who sustained a broken left thumb when he was struck on the hand on the first pitch by Dodgers starter Paul Maholm in the second inning.View Full Game Coverage
LOS ANGELES -- Madison Bumgarner threw a log on the fire of the Giants-Dodgers rivalry Friday night while maintaining his Chavez Ravine mastery in San Francisco's 3-1 triumph.
The game cost San Francisco the services of first baseman Brandon Belt, who sustained a broken left thumb when he was struck on the hand on the first pitch by Dodgers starter Paul Maholm in the second inning.View Full Game Coverage
"It's the old bittersweet thing," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said.
That misfortune alone guaranteed a tumultuous evening for the Giants. The intensity level rose in the sixth inning, when volatile Dodgers slugger Yasiel Puig mashed a one-out homer far beyond the center-field wall. Puig punctuated his plate appearance by flipping his bat, a gesture Bumgarner didn't appreciate. He approached the third-base line as Puig neared home plate and barked at his rival, prompting the umpiring crew to prevent tempers from escalating. Matt Kemp briefly emerged from the Dodgers' dugout, but neither team's bench came close to emptying.
Asked about his confrontation with Puig, Bumgarner said with a straight face, "I was congratulating him. It was a really good hit. It was impressive. Again, I don't know why everybody got so mad. It escalated quickly for no reason. I think he said, 'Thank you.' I'm not sure if he did. I don't speak Spanish very well."
Bochy wasn't fooled.
"I think we all know what caused it," he said. "Like any competitor, these guys get a little upset sometimes when they think they're getting shown up, just like any pitcher would. ... It's a heat-of-the-moment thing."
"It surprised me a little that he was there," Puig said, adding that he didn't know what Bumgarner said to him. "I may have done something he didn't like. From my perspective, it's part of the game."
Giants catcher Buster Posey also had a few words for Puig, though they didn't seem to be inflammatory.
"[He] said something like, let it go, go back to the bench," Puig said.
Bumgarner's ultimate revenge lay in improving to 10-4 with a 2.54 ERA lifetime against the Dodgers. He's also 7-2 at Dodger Stadium, where his 1.87 ERA is the lowest among all active pitchers (minimum 50 innings). The left-hander allowed Los Angeles' lone run on four hits and matched a season high by working eight innings.
Bumgarner explained his excellence at Dodger Stadium by citing the historic rivalry.
"I think it's just worked out that way. This is always a passionate series when we play the Dodgers," he said. "No matter what the records are, either team could be 30 games out and it's still going to be a big series just because it's the Giants and Dodgers. So it's always fun. You get up for it and usually everybody plays their best game in big situations like that."
One of Bumgarner's teammates who responded in this fashion was Angel Pagan. The center fielder recorded nine putouts, including a sliding grab of Puig's leadoff line drive in the ninth inning that propelled Sergio Romo to his 12th save in as many opportunities.
The Giants (23-13) broke a tie with Milwaukee to claim the National League's best record. With their seventh victory in their last eight games at Dodger Stadium, the Giants also improved to 6-2 on their three-city, 10-game trip -- all against 2013 postseason qualifiers -- and thus clinched a winning mark for the journey.
Bumgarner (4-3) and Maholm (1-3) were locked in a scoreless standoff until the fifth inning, when Brandon Hicks drew a one-out walk to set up Brandon Crawford's homer into the right-field pavilion. Crawford, a left-handed batter, improved his remarkable batting average against left-handed pitchers to .410 (16-for-39).
"It wasn't a good pitch," Maholm said. "I tried to go away and get a double play and ran the ball over the middle and up and he took advantage of it. It was really the only bad pitch I threw all night."
Joaquin Arias, who replaced Belt at first base, drove in a sixth-inning run with an infield single.
Chris Haft is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Haft-Baked Ideas, and follow him on Twitter at @sfgiantsbeat.


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DARTMOUTH, Mass. (AP) – A man suspected of sending a threatening email to faculty and staff at Rhode Island's Roger Williams University Law School has peacefully surrendered to police after a six-hour standoff at his Massachusetts home.
Dartmouth, Mass., police Chief Timothy Lee says the 36-year-old man surrendered Tuesday evening after police told him they were going to cut off power to the house.
The university says it received the email from a former law school student Tuesday morning. Police say the email included threats to "shoot up" campuses in Bristol and Providence, R.I.
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There is another design for Delora, from the Ladybird books, I'll try and scan it in!
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All the trees are red
No one ever dies there
No one has a headThe B-52's
The first custom there is beautiful. Is it a real custom or just Photoshop of Starfire & Stratos?
I'm loving the steampunk goggles in the bottom pic too. I'd love to see Stratos done in a total steampunk style!
Now that Filmation rights are here, would you want to see Hawke looking more Filmation, MYP or maybe combination of the two??
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Planet Claire has pink air
All the trees are red
No one ever dies there
No one has a headThe B-52's
would really like a 200x Hawke. if Delora is possible now would like her to be filmation look.
are the girls fuzzy like the men?
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i'd like her grey skinned like stratos. in myp she was grey furry skinned.
Avions like their women furry.
lol cool i was just thinking if they are fuzzy then they would have a buck for cat girls and beast man girls
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I really hope that they give us Hawk and Delora and either give us both heads with one body OR make their designs different and give us two figures.
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I would definitely buy Hawke if she were released. I'd prefer her look from the MYP cartoon though. Throw in the Staff of Avion as a bonus item too!
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I'm down for Hawke, absolutely. Pretty much the last real motu female left who has been in multiple canons (that I can think of, anyway).
Hawke would be awesome. I'm a big Stratos fan, so I'd like to see more of his people. I think I prefer her 2002 look with the gray skin, but I like the MOTUC Stratos style wings over the 2002 stratos wings, so I would prefer a hybrid of some kind. Hmmm...
I hope Mattel releases Hawke pretty soon - hopefully the next 200X figure?
So many looks for Delora....
Comics/mini-comics dark hair
Ladybird books
They should throw all three into the "Classicising Machine" to see what comes out.
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was hawke apart of the council or was stratos? was hawke going to be one of the the masters eventually?
does hawke have fur-less face like stratos? or did she have a gray skinned face. i thought it was white skinned like stratos face.
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thanks for the clarification.
I would be all for getting her. It would be cool to have more of Stratos' people and Buzz Off's people. Perhpas some two packs are in order.
in the .Org fan choice list ranking, she was the only one of my top 5 choices to be in the top 5 so far.
So yeah, I would really like to have a female Avion in my collection.
She wasnt my top choice, but based on who is in the top running, I guess I'm rooting for her.
I'd buy Hawke in MOTUC.
Story wise I'd prefer them to go the 200x route with here being Stratos sister. I've never liked the Filmation betrayal story.
Look wise I'd to see more of a classic design with hints of 200x.
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I would take both Hawke and Delora.
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Now I'm probably grasping at straws here, but this is the only connection I can make: I was looking at Shield Maiden Sherrilyn and noticing that they went out of thier way to remold Battle Ground Teela's loincloth.
Why bother making a new one when you've already got one? They don't mold new things unless they need to. Perhaps this loincloth looks a bit more...windblown?
On top of that, Sherrilyn's armor...
...has a leaf motif that could be painted to look like Stratos' feather motif.
Now like I said: Graspin' at straws here. Especially since this armor doesn't look much like either Delora's or Hawke's. Still...why such specific designs unless they plan to use it elsewhere? The loincloth especially.
Just throwing this out there. Might be other places to apply this than just the Hawke thread.
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