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Pot Magazines Like Pornography, Marijuana magazines are under scrutiny in Colorado, where lawmakers might require stores to put them behind the counter.
The unusual provision to treat pot magazines like pornography was considered Thursday in a Senate committee. If approved, the provision would make Colorado the first state to require stores that allow entry to shoppers under age 21 to place pot magazines behind the counter.
"It's analogous to the pornography example," said Republican Rep. Bob Gardner, sponsor of the magazine amendment.
The Senate committee, considering a marijuana regulation bill, delayed a vote on the magazine requirement. A decision was expected Friday on the proposal, which was added in a late-night amendment last week and caught Senate sponsors by surprise.
"I'm not really sure what that whole thing means," conceded the sponsor of the bill, Democratic Sen. Cheri Jahn.
The magazine restriction faces long odds in the Legislature, though. Gardner conceded Thursday that he wouldn't be surprised if his magazine idea fails to make the final marijuana regulation bill.
A lawyer for High Times magazine called the magazine restriction "patently unconstitutional" and said there's no legal precedent for treating pictures of a drug as obscene. Lawyer David Holland said the magazine would likely sue if the provision becomes law.
"It is a content-based restriction that violates freedom of speech," Holland said.
The magazine provision was among a long list of pot regulations awaiting a vote in the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday. The bill also includes labeling and packaging requirements, and limits retail sales to out-of-state customers to 0.25 ounce in a single transaction, though all adults would be allowed to possess a full ounce of the drug.
Colorado and Washington, the two states that voted last year to flout federal drug law and allow pot for recreational use by adults over 21, are still awaiting a federal response. In the meantime, the states are on their own regulating the drug. Colorado's Legislature is considering at least three separate bills to dictate how pot should be grown, packaged, sold and taxed.
Gardner insisted his magazine limit should be included in Colorado's final pot regulation. He said many marijuana magazines should be considered commercial speech, like advertisements for the drug, and therefore subject to increased state regulation.
"As we legalize marijuana, I think we can also control , in time place and manner , how it is advertised. I think that it's constitutionally defensible," Gardner said.
Friday, May 3, 2013
Pot Magazines Like Pornography, Marijuana magazines are under scrutiny in Colorado, where lawmakers might require stores to put them behind the counter.


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California 3-year-old died following dental procedure, family says
Child died Monday in hospital
Child died Monday in hospital
A 3-year-old's family said she died Monday morning at a California hospital shortly after undergoing surgery at local dental surgery center.
Daleyza Hernandez Avila, 3, was getting crowns and having work done on her molars and a tooth pulled at the Children's Dental Surgery Center. Daleyza's mother told KCRA 3 she was sedated and never woke up.
"When the ambulance got here, nobody knew why the ambulance was here until the nurse came out later and it was for her," Araceli Avila said through an interpreter. "All they told me was just that her heart stopped. And that's all they told me, but that she was stable. But they didn't let me see her. I told them I wanted to see her. And they took me inside. They already had her on a stretcher and the nurse stopped me and told me that she was fine and she was waking up."
Daleyza was taken to a local hospital, where she later died.
The girl's mother said that she wants justice.
"I'm looking for justice so what happened doesn't happen to other mothers. So they don't have to feel the same pain I feel after losing my daughter," Avila said.
David Thompson, the administrator for Children's Dental Surgery Center, told KCRA the center is a nonprofit ambulatory surgery center that treats 2,000 to 3,000 patients per year, all of whom are 9 years old or younger.
It's not uncommon to have a 3, 4 or 5-year-old sedated for treatment, Thomson said.
Thompson said the mother was aware of the risks associated with anesthesia. The anesthesiologist speaks Spanish and the consent forms are in Spanish.
"This is a terrible thing to deal with," he said. "This is not an outcome anybody ever, every wants … . This is a horrible, unfortunate situation."
The clinic was closed Friday due to online death threats, Thompson said.
Authorities are investigating Daleyza's death, but at this point, it's not a criminal investigation.
"We are conducting a child death investigation. At this time, it appears nothing criminal has happened, but this is still an active investigation," Officer Joe Silva said.
The Dental Board of California issued the following statement:
"The Dental Board of California is aware of the tragic situation. An investigation is underway so specific details of the case cannot be shared at this time. Consumer protection is the board's highest concern and we want to extend our deepest sympathy to the family."

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Edge question 2011
It is the annual Edge "question." This year, "What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit"? It looks like Edge finally updated their design a touch! (happy Chad?) Nothing too fancy, which is probably a good thing. I haven't read all the answers, but I would submit that everyone needs to digest John Ioannidis' insight, Why Most Published Research Findings Are False:
There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. The probability that a research claim is true may depend on study power and bias, the number of other studies on the same question, and, importantly, the ratio of true to no relationships among the relationships probed in each scientific field. In this framework, a research finding is less likely to be true when the studies conducted in a field are smaller; when effect sizes are smaller; when there is a greater number and lesser preselection of tested relationships; where there is greater flexibility in designs, definitions, outcomes, and analytical modes; when there is greater financial and other interest and prejudice; and when more teams are involved in a scientific field in chase of statistical significance. Simulations show that for most study designs and settings, it is more likely for a research claim to be false than true. Moreover, for many current scientific fields, claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias. In this essay, I discuss the implications of these problems for the conduct and interpretation of research.
This general issue has long been obvious to many researchers, but Ioannidis' brought a greater statistical clarity to the problem.


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Each day, The Heart Institute at The Medical Center diagnoses and treats individuals affected by heart disease and stroke. That is why The Medical Center participates in the Warren County Start! Heart Walk to support the American Heart Association in its efforts to fight heart disease and stroke. The Heart Walk promotes physical activity in a fun-filled environment and builds awareness of the nation's No. 1 and No. 3 killers.
Learn how you can get involved by calling (270) 842-5700 or visit www.heart.org.
Next event date: September 24, 2016


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The UFC's first event in Sweden will feature a local in the night's headliner.
UFC officials today announced that fast-rising light-heavyweight contender Alexander Gustafsson (13-1 MMA, 5-1 UFC) will meet veteran Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (20-5 MMA, 3-2 UFC) in April's UFC on FUEL TV 2 headliner.
Additionally, Brad Pickett (20-6 MMA, 0-1 UFC) will meet fellow bantamweight Damacio Page (12-6 MMA, 0-1 UFC) on the card.
UFC on FUEL TV 2 takes place April 14 at t Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm. The main card airs on FUEL TV (live on Saturday afternoon in the U.S.), and as MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) first reported, some prelims are expected to stream on Facebook.
Gustafsson recently scored a first-round TKO of notable Vladimir Matyushenko at UFC 141. It marked his fourth straight UFC win (all of which have come via stoppage), which followed his lone career loss. That defeat came via submission to current UFC contender Phil Davis, who now serves as one of the Swede's primary training partners in California.
He takes on Nogueira, a longtime PRIDE fighter who recently rebounded from back-to-back decision losses to Ryan Bader and Davis with a first-round TKO (due to body shots) of future UFC Hall of Famer Tito Ortiz. It was Nogueira's first knockout win since he bested Luiz Cane in fewer than two minutes in his 2009 UFC debut.
Pickett, meanwhile, fights for the first time since a UFC-debut loss to Renan Barao at UFC 138 in his native England. The former WEC fighter entered the bout off an 11-month layoff due to injuries. He was riding a solid 10-1 streak before the first-round submission loss, which earned both competitors a "Fight of the Night" bonus.
He now meets Page, a fellow WEC vet who's also in need of a win. Page recently made his UFC debut and suffered a decision loss to ex-champ Brian Bowles. Like his first loss to Bowles (in the WEC), which began his current 2-3 skid, Page suffered the defeat via guillotine choke at exactly the 3:30 mark of the first round. Page now has been submitted five times in his six career losses.
Tickets for UFC on FUEL TV 2 go on sale to the general public on Friday at 2 a.m. ET (8 a.m. CET local time). Pre-sales are slotted for UFC Fight Club members on Wednesday at 2 a.m. ET and UFC.com e-newsletter subscribers on Thursday at 2 a.m. ET.
The latest UFC on FUEL TV 2 card now includes:
- Alexander Gustafsson vs. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
- Alessio Sakara vs. Brian Stann
- Siyar Bahadurzada vs. Paulo Thiago
- Damacio Page vs. Brad Pickett
- DaMarques Johnson vs. John Maguire
- Cyrille Diabate vs. Jorgen Kruth
- Simeon Thoresen vs. Besam Yousef
- Francis Carmont vs. Magnus Cedenblad
- Papy Abedi vs. James Head
For more on UFC on FUEL TV 2, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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Isiah Young arrives in Eugene, Ore., as the top seed in the men's 100 meters and No. 2 seed in the 200. He is the back-to-back SEC 200 meter champ and is the only collegian to run sub-10 in the 100 this season (9.99 at the NCAA East prelims in Greensboro, N.C.).
Sam Kendricks is the top seed in the men's pole vault at 19-0.75. He is the only collegian to clear 19 feet this year and is fifth-best in NCAA history with that clearance.
With such good title hopes, I wanted to trek down memory lane and look at the Rebels' past NCAA champs, most recently in 2008 when Brittney Reese won the women's indoor and outdoor long jumps en route to being named USTFCCCA National Women's Field Athlete of the Year. She has since enjoyed a pretty decent pro career.
Here's the full list of Ole Miss' all-time NCAA champions:
1983 - Ralph Spry, outdoor long jump
1991 - George Kersh, indoor 800 meters
1991 - George Kersh, outdoor 800 meters
1994 - Greg Saddler, indoor 55 meters
2000 - Savante' Stringfellow, outdoor long jump
2001 - Savante' Stringfellow, indoor long jump
2001 - Savante' Stringfellow, outdoor long jump
2004 - Antwon Hicks, indoor 60-meter hurdles
2005 - Antwon Hicks, indoor 60-meter hurdles
2007 - Barnabas Kirui, outdoor 3000-meter steeplechase
2008 - Brittney Reese, indoor long jump
2008 - Brittney Reese, outdoor long jump


text: On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, George Georgalis wrote: > Also, I should clarify, I've not setup a site like this, by experience I > really meant exposure. I know the hot room and cold room setup does make > a difference though. Most of my experience has been inadvertent. AC's that fail. People that turn off the AC just for a silly reason like it is winter outside and cold (so why would you need air conditioning?). People who are trying to paint in the server room without supervision who helpfully cover the servers with plastic. Failing cooling fans. A purchase decision that (as it turned out) left us with a pile of some of the most temperature-temperamental boxes on the planet. One thing to make clear is that this isn't just about running ambient air a bit warmer than you should. It is about setting up your facility to remove heat. Remember, the nodes GENERATE heat. It can be cold outside, dead of winter, -20 C and with a cold wind blowing and a midsize room with 64 nodes in it will be burning between 6 and 15 kilowatts. That's enough heat to keep a small log cabin chinked with paper towels toasty warm in the middle of winter. We have at this point somewhere between 100-200 nodes in one medium sized, fairly well insulated, room. When the AC fails, we have a time measured in minutes (usually around 15-20) before the room temperature goes from maybe 15C to 30C (on its way through the roof), independent of the temperature outside. No matter WHAT your design, you'll have to have enough AC to be able to remove the heat you are releasing into the room as fast as you release it, and this is by far the bulk of your engineering requirement as far as AC is concerned. So I'm not certain what you are thinking about. You cannot really not have any AC at all, and whatever AC you have will still have to remove all that heat. What you're really comparing, then, is the MARGINAL cost of conditioning the air at a (too) high temperature vs conditioning the air to a safe operating temperature. In my estimation (which could be wrong) the amount you save keeping the room at 30C instead of the far safer 20C will be trivial, maybe $0.05-0.10/watt/year -- a small fraction of your total expenditure on power for the nodes (in the US, roughly $0.60/watt/year), the AC hardware itself (can be anywhere from tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars), and the power required to remove the heat you MUST remove just to keep the room temperature stable at ANY temperature (perhaps $0.20/watt/year). So you are risking all sorts of catastropic meltdown type situations to save maybe $5-20 per node operating cost per year against an inevitable budget for power for the nodes of $100-200 each per year. I don't even think you'll break even on the additional costs of the hardware that breaks from running things hot, let alone the human and downtime costs. To give you an idea of the magnitude of the problem, the ONE TIME our server room overheated for real, reaching 30-35C for an extended period of time (many hours -- the thermal warning system that was supposedly in place but never tested not, actually, working quite the way it was supposed to) we had node crashes galore, and a string (literally) of hardware failures over the next three months -- some immediate and "obviously" due to immediate overheating, some a week later, two weeks later, four weeks later. Nowadays if the room gets hot we respond immediately, typically getting nodes shut down within minutes of a reported failure and incipient temperature spike. When the overheating occurred I had 15 nodes racked that had run perfectly for a year. 3 blew during the event. 4 more failed over the next few months. 2 more failed after that. Power supplies, motherboards, memory chips -- that kind of heat "weakens" components so that forever afterward they are more susceptible to failure, not just during the event. The overheating can just occur one time, for a few minutes, and you'll be cursing and bitching for months and months later dealing with all the stuff that got almost-damaged, including the stuff that isn't actually broken, just bent out of spec so that it fails, sometimes, under load. Also to think about is that server room temperature is rarely uniform. EVEN if you are running it at 20C, there will be places in the room that are 15C (right in front of the output vents) and other places in the room that are 25-30C (right behind the nodes). Any unexpected mixing or circulation of the air in a room running at "30C" and you could have 35-40C ambient air entering some nodes some of the time, and at those temperatures I'd expect failure in a matter of days to weeks, not years. The warmest I'd ever run ambient air is 25C in a workstation environment, 22C in a server/cluster environment (where hot spots are more likely to occur). rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Source: Marathon bombing suspect admitted to authorities that he and brother detonated bombs
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev admitted to authorities Sunday that he and his brother were behind the Boston Marathon bombings, according to a senior law enforcement official.
Tsarnaev made his admissions to FBI agents who interviewed him at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he is being treated for multiple gunshot wounds. He had not yet been given a Miranda warning.
Tsarnaev's attorneys are certain to challenge the legal admissibility of those admissions, and other information he gave them, such as claiming that he and his brothers acted alone, and that his brother was radicalized in an extreme form of Islam in part because he opposed US actions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But in an interview with the Globe, a senior police official said authorities are not worried about the initial admission to authorities being thrown out, because they have a strong witness: the man who was abducted by the Tsarnaev brothers last Thursday night.
Police sources told the Globe that the carjack victim has told police that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan, pointed guns at him and, in an apparent effort to intimidate the victim and dissuade him from trying anything foolish, Tamerlan Tsarnaev told him, "We just killed a cop. We blew up the marathon. And now we're going to New York. Don't [expletive] with us.''
In other developments today, an official at a New Hampshire fireworks store said Tamerlan Tsarnaev had bought fireworks there in February. The official speculated that the brothers were interested in the explosives inside. Residents and businesses began to move back into the Boylston Street area where the bombs went off. And two of the brothers' victims, 8-year-old Martin Richard, who was killed in the blasts, and 27-year-old MIT Police Officer Sean Collier, who authorities say was assassinated by the brothers, were remembered at private funeral services.
The carjacking took place in Allston shortly after, police say, the Tsarnaevs ambushed Collier as he sat in his cruiser in Cambridge.
By the time Boston police, State Police, Watertown police, Transit Police and other officers confronted the Tsarnaevs early Friday morning after a Watertown officer spotted the stolen SUV, "we already knew these guys had admitted to killing three civilians and a police officer, and that they were prepared to kill many others,'' the senior official said.
According to the official, the bombers repeatedly told the carjack victim that they were going to New York, which is why they used his ATM card at various locations: they needed cash for the trip.
Investigators are trying to determine if the brothers had either friends or co-conspirators in New York. But the haphazard, ill-planned escape has many investigators skeptical that there were other radical Islamists involved in the brothers' attack.
"If they had accomplices in New York, you'd think they would have had an established contingency plan to get down there to them, and wouldn't be shooting cops and carjacking cars to steal ATM cards to finance their escape,'' the official said. "That said, we haven't ruled out anything in New York. We're looking into who they knew down there and was anyone in New York prepared to hide them.''


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Gail Simone: Rise of the Olympian, Fall of Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman #27After teases and promises and hype, "The Rise of the Olympian" storyline is rolling in earnest in Wonder Woman. As writer Gail Simone and DC Universe Executive Editor Dan DiDio have promised, the story of "Olympian" is a simple one – the gods of the Amazons feel that they have failed, and need replacing. Chief among those needing a pink slip: Wonder Woman, who has rejected the gods (well, technically, they did bail on earth and the Amazons, but gods are fickle…and fairly jerky as mythology teaches us) and sworn allegiance and devotion to Kane, a Polynesian god. Hey – at least he was there for her.
While the gods have just returned to earth from a sojourn in space, the Society has decided to take their battle against Wonder Woman to a new level – by creating a weapon that goes by the name of Genocide. Oh, and a little "oops" to the whole "Hey, let's create a biological, conscious weapon" thing – it may have worked too well. There's every indication that Genocide is a a man-made god.
Genocide handed Wonder Woman her tiara last issue (#26), and stole her golden lasso, leaving her to be found by Etta Candy and Tom Tresser – her best friend and…er, fiancé for lack of a better word. Yes, fiancé. Been a while since you've read Wonder Woman?
No worries – issue #27 is due in stores this week, and we sat down with Simone to get the inside story on "Ride of the Olympian," Genocide, the gods being pricks, Wonder Woman getting married, and, oh yeah…that question, too.Newsarama: Gail, unless I'm off in my counting, the start of "Rise of the Olympian" begins your second year on Wonder Woman. As you showed in our past conversations, you had a handle on the character before you even started, but what have you learned about her in your year-plus of writing her?
Gail Simone: I'd been fortunate enough to get to write Diana in some well-received roles in Birds of Prey and JLA: Classified, and I really began to see why she's so compelling, so it's not really a surprise that I'd enjoy writing her so much. I love that she tries diplomacy first, but when diplomacy fails, suddenly, she's Conan in the Pottery Barn. Get the hell out the way, Wonder Woman's here, you know? I enjoy that. There's a quality there that's like some of the great bruisers in comics, and to have that come from this endlessly dignified and strategically brilliant princess, that's just a great combination.
But the surprising thing has been how fun the cast is. Diana's supporting cast is always changing, but the key elements, Hippolyta, Donna, Cassie, and Etta, they just slay me with their awesomejuice. I realize I sound a bit fannish there, but it's because I am a fan. It's just a delight to write those women—the same kind of electrical jolt I used to get from writing Oracle and Black Canary, in fact. They don't preach about being strong women, they simply are strong women.
Seriously, if I had a top ten list of dream assignments, I would love to write a Hippolyta graphic novel. I'd love to unleash her on the DCU properly, in a way that made sense, because she's just one of those bigger than life characters that commands a certain awed response. She's amazing. And Etta is great fun as well. I had a notion about what's happened to her that's made her a bit more confident and pro-active, and I got some encouragement and input from Greg Rucka, and it's great fun. We'll be seeing that transition story soon.
And I can't help it, I love Nemesis. I, too, think of him as a super-competent espionage agent, as he was written by the great John Ostrander in Suicide Squad. But he had been portrayed quite differently in the Wonder Woman runs just before my own. So we're trying to reconcile that—why did he behave that way? What's he covering for?
There's a lot of good story there. It's a fantastic cast, probably my favorite since writing Action.
NRAMA: "The Rise of the Olympian" is a story that you've been building to since your start on the series, but what was the foundation that you wanted to, or needed to build before you got here with Diana? What pieces needed to be in place for the story to have its maximum effect for her as a character, and in your view, for the audience as well?
GS: The lasso, oddly enough, is a major player in this story. It's something that, well, we've sort of left unexplored…in fact it may be the great undiscovered artifact in the entire DCU. I think for some, it's been, gosh wow, it's a glowing rope. Who cares?
But it's not that—it's a weapon, a deadly weapon, that not only binds you, and follows its mistress' commands, the damned thing can see into your soul.
So if you re-read my previous arcs, you'll see some idea of what the lasso can actually do, and some idea of why only Diana can be entrusted to hold it. It's a nuclear bomb waiting to go off, which is part of why Diana is so demoralized when it's taken from her by force, and is left in the hands of a creature that actually wants to inflict as much damage and pain on the world as possible.
NRAMA: You began issue #26 with the Olympian Gods returning to Earth – they've been away since …hmm …prior to Infinite Crisis, right? And then they were held captive by Darkseid…
GS: Right, and they've come back disoriented and clearly not fully in command. They're acting a bit out of character … they feel a bit lost and hopeless, and on top of that, a few details don't quite match how they were prior to their abduction.
But they were rescued and brought home by a coalition of alien gods called the Ichor, and we'll learn more about that as the issues progress. Zeus in particular decides it's time to take an active hand in humanity's future again.
NRAMA: Speaking of Darkseid – was it he and the Apokaliptan New Gods that defiled Mount Olympus?
GS: Yeah, and you know, I did hear some grousing — people saying Darkseid wouldn't do this. But man, I've been reading the early Darkseid stories in the big DC collections, and oh, yes, he absolutely would. Darkseid wasn't created to be aloof…he was a despoiler. He creates despair. We get hung up sometimes in the 'noble' world-beating villains, but Darkseid is really all about breaking your spirit. He had a whole planet devoted to nothing else.
I think Darkseid would look at the Greek gods as reminders of a past that has no place in his universe any more.
NRAMA: Let's talk about the creation of Genocide. First off, this is something you've wanted to do for a while now, right – add to Wonder Woman's rogues in a substantial way, right?
GS: Absolutely. There's a myth that Diana doesn't have a great rogue's gallery and I couldn't disagree more. Dr. Psycho is one of the best sadists in comics, the Cheetah is wonderfully arch and sneering, I can't wait to get a Dr. Poison story going, and there are several more really good ones out there.Wonder Woman #28 But let's face it; we've seen Diana beat these people. If we want comics to live and breathe, I firmly believe we have to keep inventing; we have to avoid doing only the old reliable stories with the old reliable characters. And what Diana hasn't really had is a brute, a straight out monster. And above that, Genocide has an aura of sorts that creates shame and despair around it, very much Diana's opposite.
The heroes aren't any good unless they're challenged, unless they're tested. Genocide is kind of a living example of a problem that even the near-godly DCU heroes can't simply punch into oblivion. In that way, it reflects a bit of the real world …that strength alone doesn't stop evil from happening to innocent people. More is required … more sacrifice, more commitment, and probably, more pain.
NRAMA: What goes into creating a key enemy for a hero? That is, why is Genocide the perfect enemy for Wonder Woman, rather than Superman or Aquaman? Not saying that they won't ever fight, but it would feel as "right" as Wonder Woman fighting Doomsday…it would be interesting, but yet … off …
GS: Well, because if Diana's about hope, none of her enemies really are about the lack thereof, if that makes sense. You can say that Psycho is hate to counterpoint Diana's love, and Circe is ambition to Diana's charity, but none of her current rogues really counter her base characteristic, of hope and a desire for peace. Diana cares about everyone; Genocide really wants to pull the wings off of every last fly in the world.
NRAMA: On the story side of things – Morrow, Minerva, and the rest of the Society tasked with creating Genocide – does anyone other than Morrow realize what they've created?
GS: The rank and file of the Society doesn't know about Genocide, and most would object to its creation. Most of the Society doesn't want to destroy the world; they just want to plunder it. It's the freaks at the top who think grander thoughts, and have wilder ambitions. But someone, or two someones, at the very top of the Society, feels that it's worth the risk.
But it's like trying to keep a nuclear explosion in a bottle. Genocide won't be contained.
NRAMA: And how spot-on was Wonder Woman's assessment of Genocide? Did the Society accidentally create a god?
I can't answer that second bit yet, but Diana got it right. She's fighting a god.
NRAMA: Putting Genocide aside for a moment – you've taken things a step further than others have in regards to Wonder Woman's relationship. She and Tom – is betrothed the proper word to use here?
GS: It's a very interesting thing, because it's fun to see how people respond to the relationship. Both inside the story and in the real world, people seem to be interpreting what they think is going on, rather than just what's on the pages. Hippolyta, for example, seemed to assume a great deal that neither Diana nor Tom had actually said. And in fact, Hippolyta may be having some second thoughts, and not for the reasons you might think.
If you read carefully, read what Diana herself has said, I think you'll see a very interesting picture of what is not on the page. That's all I can say right now, but it's one of my favorite parts of the book.
There's a truism about Wonder Woman, that many of her most devoted readers have a gut-level dislike of any man she takes an interest in. No one is 'good enough,' for Diana, ever. But that's not taking Diana seriously, in my opinion. It's not really thinking about what kind of person she really is. Diana doesn't want to marry a god. She doesn't look at a normal, decent human male from some lofty throne. She looks at their merits, and anyone familiar with Nemesis knows the guy has a soul.
I've said it before, but in some ways, it's a very dynamic, almost fateful, relationship, because everything about Nemesis is about deception in the service of good, while Diana is a living avatar for larger truths. That's great, mythic stuff to me.
NRAMA: In a way, we feel as awkward as Tom did when Hippolyta asked him about it – but you've put the question about Wonder Woman and sex on the table. Assuming that you will eventually be handling it – why? Why chose to put Wonder Woman in what appears to be heading towards a fully realized relationship now? Fan-wise and icon-wise, it seems to be a dicey area that you're entering – while she's no Gwen Stacy, it could be argued that Wonder Woman is one of the last "virgin queens" of comics …
GS: I have to say I don't worry about that stuff. Wonder Woman should be treated with respect like any other great hero, not because she's female, but because she's an icon, and a fantastic creation. I don't spend any time whatsoever comparing her to other characters, that's just not interesting to me, and it sort of derails the point: that Wonder Woman is a great and original character on her own, not in contrast to Superman or Batman.
I like to write Diana as a woman, not in the sense that she needs to preach and make speeches, but that she responds as a woman, that she isn't simply a man with a woman's body, which is unfortunately an approach we've seen often in comics. Being strong doesn't mean simply acting like Conan.Wonder Woman #29 For a start, I don't like the idea of Wonder Woman as untouchable and unapproachable. I think that goes against what the great George Perez so clearly established - that Diana is tactile, that she's open, that she's loving and forgiving. I don't like the idea of her in a tower looking down on humanity, particularly normal human males. I find that idea kind of repugnant.
I've said it right in the book…Amazon blood runs hot. Wonder Woman is no exception.
NRAMA: Of course there are those readers who are seeing Tom and Diana's relationship as a clear signal that Tom's time on Earth is quite limited, and the bullet will be dodged…care to offer comment on that?
GS: It's hard to have a superhero girlfriend, I'll say that much, as we see again very soon. But yeah, it's easy to be cynical with all the shock value stories out there. But I don't find that very interesting, really. For me, the interesting question is, what does happen when these two people decide to go further?
NRAMA: Touching upon the gods one more time…it seems that you're heading towards the vicious circle that the gods of old have always had…they give up on humanity, their "human" (Amazon) champion gives up on them, and then they get mad at humanity for giving up on them…that's the foundation of the Olympian's rise, right?
GS: Not precisely. This is a story about good intentions, actually. The major events put in place here, they're not committed in service of evil — Zeus thinks he's doing the world and the Amazons a favor. He thinks they'll love him for it, and he's honoring the request of someone he didn't even realize he loved.
It makes it all the more tragic, in my mind.NRAMA: Before we get too far removed from it, can you talk a little bit about the art team for this book?
GS: Mark Waid teases me about this all the time, how I never seem to get saddled with a bad art team, but yeah, in this case, it's just ridiculous. Working with Aaron Lopresti on Wonder Woman, and Nicola Scott on Secret Six, that's about as fortunate as a comic writer gets.
What I love about Aaron is how he always manages to jazz up a page. He's incredibly thoughtful and committed to doing great work, and I love how he's redefining the look of the cast in subtle ways. I love how I can give him a monster to draw, or a city, or a new team of characters, and it'll always be better than I'd imagined.
And Matt Ryan and Brad Anderson make it all perfect. Great inking and some of the best coloring in mainstream comics, in my opinion.
It's gorgeous to look at. I keep wanting to throw monsters in the story because they always look so amazing.
NRAMA: Wonder Woman's defeat at the hands of Genocide…it took her lasso – which is a problem. Tell us how you view the lasso – what is it, exactly? Is it, as Grant suggested back in his JLA days, the manifestation of universal truth?
GS: I do see it as a weapon, even moreso than, say, a power ring. Diana can tame it, but making a person submit to it is a tricky, risky thing. When Diana uses it on a person, there is a bond there, however brief, between Diana and the subject. But what we're only now starting to see is that Diana can take that much, much farther…that the lasso is a dimension of its own, and in that place, Diana knows the soul of her captive, and more dangerously still, the captive sees into Diana.
I think it's a terrifying artifact. Take what Grant said, for example. Would you want your own universal truths exposed to anyone, including those you love? It's a dangerous, dangerous thing —I t puts you in a place where you can feel pity and sympathy for a Nazi, and yet, you might feel coldness and distance when you see directly into the soul of your best friend or ally.
Quite simply, having that lasso at her side every day, that's a huge responsibility for Diana, and having it in the hands of Genocide is almost too much for Diana to bear. If there's one thing I'm hoping last past my run on this book, it's an understanding of the power of the lasso.
NRAMA: What happens when it's taken from Diana, and worse yet, when someone like Genocide holds it?
GS: You'll have to wait and see, but a great many people suffer the consequences, including some long-time cast members.
NRAMA: So what can we expect to see in issue #27? How badly hurt is Diana? Is it a case of Band-Aids and back to the fight? And what does her beating at the hands of Genocide mean in regards to how Athena and the gods see her?
GS: Well, one problem is that the Purple Ray doesn't work on god-inflicted wounds, for a start. And she's badly beaten, she needs time to heal. But she may not get it. And we have a cool JLA appearance, which worries Diana all the more, because she knows the JLA haven't got a clue what damage the lasso can do.
There's a ton of action in this story, but I think it shows how precarious it is to run around with gifts made by capricious gods. It's like firing up a blowtorch on a dirigible. Sooner or later, there's going to be an explosion.
I hope people jump on board, as there are some defining moments for both Wonder Woman and her cast, and some really huge events, not the least of which is a war between two gods for Diana's loyalty.
Can't help it, I just love Wonder Woman.


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Austin Dillon passed Johnny Sauter with 23 laps to go and did not look back, winning Friday night's Lucas Deep Clean 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Nashville Superspeedway for his first trip to victory lane this season.
Dillon, who won two races in 2010, picked up his third career win and his first since Sept. 2010 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Trailing Dillon and Sauter across the finish line were Timothy Peters in third, Nelson Piquet Jr. in fourth and Parker Kligerman in fifth.
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Dillon and crew chief Danny Stockman agreed on the two-tire pit stop, saying tires weren't an issue during the race, but track position was.
"It was all about sticking with (Sauter) as long as I could, keep the pressure on," Dillon said. "I knew he was getting looser and looser and I finally had to get up in there with him and loosen him up a little more, and when it happened we just went on."
"I looked at all the tire wears all day and the tires weren't wearing, and I knew if we had track position and clean air, we were gonna go," Stockman said. "And we didn't even have clean air and we still win. Tires weren't an issue tonight."
Sauter, who leads Dillon by 18 points in the standings, was looking for his second win of the season but said at the end of the day the victor's truck was just better.
"He obviously knew that he had a fast truck, because before that pit stop he was dogging me lap after lap," Sauter said. "I knew it was just going to be a matter of time before he got around me."
With the win, Dillon claimed one of the most coveted trophies in the sport—a Sam Bass custom-painted Gibson Les Paul guitar.
"I've been talking about it all week," he said. "They said in the driver's meeting today that it was voted one of the 10 coolest trophies by Sports Illustrated. It's just a beautiful trophy."
Dillon also said the win boosted his confidence moving forward.
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text: I have found downsides to the Beowulf 1 and 2 model so I am doing something in between... The reliability/upgrade solution I have found is to have multiple single system images, mirrored disks and perhaps multiple boot image and file servers. I have found several benefits of a single system image (well almost single; I actually use a separate NFS mounted root fs, minus /usr which is shared, for each system. This ends up being ~70MB per node). In my environments we have the need to have several clusters (or a cluster of subclusters). Using netbooting I can easily maintain multiple subclusters of various types/arch from a single boot server. On one of my cluster of clusters I am booting 2 alpha subclusters and 5 intel subclusters from the same boot server. Each subcluster can be served different kernels and be running different versions of linux. The largest of these cluster of clusters is managing/booting 104 intel and alpha nodes booting from a single boot server. The solution I have found to upgrading the boot server is to have 2 boot servers. When it is time to upgrade, I reconfigure the new boot server with the new OS and get everything setup for the client images. Then it is just a case of swapping the boot server and rebooting all of the nodes on the cluster (if you have a cluster where it never can be all rebooted then having 2 or more active boot servers is the solution). I maintain the cluster consistency and configuration using a set of custom scripts. I have also found that in large clusters it is best to separate the boot server from the file server so that the load on the boot server does not get too high affecting it's ability to share root file systems. It is also very easy to setup multiple file servers for various subclusters. Another concern which people sometimes have is that netbooting will create too much traffic on the network. I have found that the traffic is very low once the nodes have booted, considerably less then 1% of the network is used for sending NFS messages from the boot server to the clients. I have not seen any measurable loss of system/network performance using this netboot model (compared to a Beowulf 1 model) over a single 100mbs switched network connection to each node. This model also easily supports the use of 3rd party drivers/modules on an individual node or subcluster basis. This is simply configured on the boot server via subcluster management scripts. In one of my subclusters I am running Myrinet on all of the nodes. The servers are connected via Gigabit to a hierarchy of subcluster switches. Here is my pro/con list for netbooting with a single system image: Pros: * All configuration and setup is maintained on the boot server * Client node setup is much faster * Client nodes can be run diskless or with just swap/scratch space. Node disk failures do not require OS reinstall. In a diskless environment reliability is greatly improved, especially with large clusters (100s of nodes), were disk failure becomes more common. * OS and configuration for all clients can be mirrored on the boot server. Cons: * The boot server is a single point of failure (one solution is multiple servers) * Setup is more technically complex (in the long run it is much easier to manage I have found) My $0.04 --JIM Josip Loncaric wrote: >~snip~ > > >> The Beo 2 model also provides single system >>image with regard to process space, and methods to manage remote processes >>from a central point of control. >> >> > >This is an attractive feature, but in my personal view, not essential. I'm >reasonably happy with separate process spaces and periodic central collection >of machine status data. We operate a heterogeneous cluster built in several >phases with different hardware and different networks, so it makes more sense >for me to consider each class of machines separately. On the other hand, a >central point of control and unified view of the entire cluster open the >possibility of rather sophisticated management. > > >In my experience, the most time consuming task in operating a Beowulf 1 >cluster is the initial node installation or reinstallation after suffering >disk damage. The Beowulf 2 model makes this much easier. The second most >annoying problem is loss of network connectivity (usually due to some hardware >glitch or network driver flakiness under heavy load). The Beowulf 2 model >depends on network connectivity more than the Beowulf 1 model, where one can >operate the problematic node in stand-alone mode and debug the problem. The >third issue on my list is specialized hardware with its own drivers and >daemons, which are usually designed for Beowulf 1 operation but may be >difficult to convert to the Beowulf 2 model. 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text: hi Joe, Thanks for your post. Very interesting to see all this. Especially the summary on what the hacker tried. Note i was quite amazed that you mentionned Rocks distribution getting used with you. A few weeks ago i grabbed latest Rocks with the idea to install it for my 1 node cluster. Both attempted with and without quadrics QM400 card. Node being a dual opteron dual core 2.4ghz, tyan S2881 motherboard. All i tried, it didn't help; the distribution crashed during somewhere always. Very weird. From all distributions i tried over a period of a few weeks install at that machine, it was the only distribution that crashed each time somewhere, usually after checking the NIC's (which were not connected to any network, let alone the internet). Sometimes also later on in the procedure; seemed to me the provided kernel in that distribution DVD to be not very good one at all. Now you post here a big story on how your Rocks got hacked. Do i conclude it correctly the problem is that you ran a default Rocks kernel? I'd say: Go take a stand on the Rocks :) Note in my case the only other problem it possibly could've been i guess is that a bunch of insecure encrypted drives are in the box. Vincent p.s. the hacker seems to me from your description some sort of guy with a criminal record. Criminal as in: the type that goes into jail regurarly, so not the Perry E Metzger type :) Note he wouldn't be able to do that anyway as he just runs a few mailing lists; but well, what the hell do i know there. On Oct 24, 2008, at 1:11 AM, Joe Landman wrote: > Hi folks: > > A customer with an [insert unnamed cluster distribution here] > cluster had a hack into it yesterday. We looked through it and > found some things out. I wrote a post on my blog about it (http:// > scalability.org/?p=909). No, this is not astro-turfing, we don't > derive income from the blog. No ads, no-nothing. We get enough > traffic as it is. I thought what I found would be useful to the > community. > > Since it is a long post, I thought it was more courteous to post > a link than post the whole thing. > > Hopefully it will show up on the [insert unnamed cluster > distribution here] but I doubt it, after a little exchange offline. > > Joe > > > -- > Joseph Landman, Ph.D > Founder and CEO > Scalable Informatics LLC, > email: landman at scalableinformatics.com > web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com > http://jackrabbit.scalableinformatics.com > phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 > fax : +1 866 888 3112 > cell : +1 734 612 4615 > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >


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Thursday, March 28, 2013
Finding Optimism in the Astros Starting Rotation
Thing is, though, you don't have to look very far back to get a much rosier view of this group. Here is this groups' ERA's in 2011.
Norris 3.77
Humber 3.75
Bedard 3.62
Harrell 2.63 (Triple A)
Peacock 3.19 (Triple A)
If the Astros were going into the 2012 season with this group of pitchers, I think our projections would be quite a bit more optimistic. Maybe some regression would be expected from Humber and Norris, and I don't think you could have expected much better from Harrell than what he actually produced, but overall, that is a solid, if unspectacular, group 1-5.
Now, we can't ignore what happened last year. Norris took a step back. Humber and Bedard took three or four. Peacock was awful in his repeat of Triple A. But, if you are looking for reasons for optimism, look no further than how this group performed 2011. And there is nothing wrong with a little optimism on March 28, even for Astros fans.
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There is reason to be optimistic with Peacock. Last year he was in the PCL, versus the IL before. The PCL is notoriously unfriendly to pitchers. Despite that, his rate stats last year were pretty similar to what he had done the year before.
ERA isn't everything, and can be a pretty terrible measure of a pitcher, truth be told. It relies on many factors that are outside of the pitchers control, such as the quality of the defense behind him and park factors. Looking at Fangraphs, his FIP in 2012 was a 4.26, and a 4.18 in AAA the year before, which was only 12 innings, so it is an almost worthless sample size.
I would expect that to increase a bit with the move to the majors, but I still would look for him to have a FIP less than 5, which in a perfect world would indicate an ERA of less than 5.
- March 28, 2013 at 11:40 AM
What ever happened to Kyle Weiland?
- March 28, 2013 at 12:10 PM
- Blinutne said...
I second anonymous' question. After Googling, I still can't figure it out. What happened to him following his surgery? It seems he totally fell off the map. Has the farm system just improved that much? Was he just that bad last April?
- March 28, 2013 at 11:32 PM
- (Not Hank) Aaron said...
What happened to Kyle Weiland seems to be the million dollar question. I saw a discussion on it on twitter yesterday, and no one seems to know. It was very interesting he was listed in the Triple A tandem starters group.
- March 29, 2013 at 8:36 AM
- (Not Hank) Aaron said...
sorry. Was NOT listed.
- March 29, 2013 at 1:40 PM


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I expect I'll be banned from their forum for "knowing about cheats at all" so I'm saving a copy of my post here:
Oh god damn it already, I just got ready to start playing this game and now it seems I'll get banned before I can even start to play.
I have CE always running in the background. I even thought about it as I was starting Ghost in the Shell but instead of closing it I only googled https://www.google.com/search?q=ghost+i ... eat+engine and voila, found this thread warning us not to have CE. Oops. I terminated the game quickly but it might have been too late.
It's NEXON... I should have known. Their strict anticheat guards even flag innocent admin stuff like process explorer/monitor. Which is also always running. I'm doubly screwed. :(
Edit: I seem to recall Maple Story (also a NEXON anticheat game) worked differently. That version simply refused to launch the game if it detected that process monitor's kernel mode drivers have been loaded in the system. Why couldn't have the same been done for CE? I don't mind exiting it if I'm asked. What I DO mind is getting banned over something so trivial. Though I remember it was pretty annoying, having to reboot my system over something so stupid. The only way to unload kernel mode drivers was to not load them in the first place. I soon stopped playing that game, I was simply not willing to sacrifice over 1 month long system uptime streaks just to reset my "possible cheater" flag. Not every kernel mode driver is for cheating, NEXON!
Edit 2: I expect I'll be banned from these forum for "knowing about cheats at all" so I'm saving a copy of my post here: viewtopic.php?f=34&t=961 Just look a few posts above, poor guy defending CE with legitimate examples: Mark F. Smith (Banned)
NEXON anticheat is stupid - forbidding CE I can understand, but process monitor too!? And why ban without warning first? (Warning temp bans don't count - I want a warning popup not a one day ban.)


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Remember San Diego? Plucky little bunch, won a playoff game and took the eventual AFC champs to the wire? Yeah, they're back and feeling all kinds of confident heading into 2014. Plus, notes on the playbook 'scandal' and more
From appearances, the Chargers' offseason seems rather tame. There were no expected starters signed in free agency. The draft was fairly status quo, with only a trade up in the second round (from No. 57 to 50) to draft Georgia Tech outside linebacker Jerry Attaochu. Ho-hum, plodding along.
But that's exactly the way general manager Tom Telesco envisioned and executed it. That might not be the greatest of signs for San Diego's AFC West rivals. The Chargers, who won their final four regular-season games after a 5-7 start and knocked off the Bengals on the road in the playoffs before losing by seven at Denver, appear to be very confident where they're headed.
"Your definition of 'not doing a whole lot' might be different than ours," said Telesco, who is in his second year of heading the Chargers. "I don't look at it like if you sign a big-name player that everyone knows from another team (then that) means you're doing a lot. If you re-sign some of your own guys or some other role players that you did sign in free agency, it doesn't means you didn't do any work. I don't look at it like that."
Most think it's a foregone conclusion that the AFC West is the territory of Peyton Manning and the Broncos. They forget the Chargers beat them at Denver in Week 15, 27-20, and then were one third-down stop from having a chance at tying the game in the divisional round.
Last season was the first for coach Mike McCoy, the former Broncos' offensive coordinator. After six years under Norv Turner, San Diego altered its usual course of starting well, fading and then coming up short in the end. The Chargers were up and down until they caught fire at the end. They think that was no fluke.
"Our guys worked extremely hard last year and luckily we started to see the results of that at the end of the year," Telesco said. "During the course of the year, some weeks we played really good football, other weeks we looked like a team that was still in transition and getting to know each other. As we got later in the year, things started to jell, people started to understand their roles and then all of a sudden we got on a roll. Part of getting better is developing what you have. That's what the offseason is for. Hopefully that all adds up into taking the next step this year."
Telesco had the golden touch, for the most part, in last year's free agency with key starters King Dunlap (left tackle) and Chad Rinehart (guard), a key contributor in Danny Woodhead (running back), and a valuable reserve in Rich Ohrnberger (offensive line). Cornerback Derek Cox was a mistake, and the Chargers are looking for big things with outside linebacker Dwight Freeney returning from a torn quad (two games played).
"Well, it will certainly help," said Telesco, who wanted to add some more team speed and playmaking ability to John Pagano's defense. "Before [Freeney] got hurt last year he was looking extremely good. Right now, his rehab is coming along very well, so he's right on target, he should be ready to go for camp."
Offensively, the Chargers return a lot of firepower. Antonio Gates, Woodhead and sensational rookie Keenan Allen all caught more than 70 passes, with receivers Eddie Royal and Vincent Brown at 40-plus apiece. They'll get Malcom Floyd back at receiver, and the team's almost giddy about the prospects for third-year tight end Ladarius Green. A backfield of Ryan Mathews, Woodhead and free agent Donald Brown (Colts) is well stocked. The offensive line, which battled numerous injuries, allowed the third fewest sacks. So, yeah, quarterback Philip Rivers should be a happy camper.
It's a little concerning that offensive coordinator Ken Whisenhunt departed to take over the Titans, but the Chargers thought that was a possibility. Frank Reich was promoted from quarterbacks coach to run the Chargers' offense. This isn't a case of Whisenhunt taking his system and leaving—he was running the Chargers' system, which is based in McCoy's teachings and nuanced by the coordinators. Few know Reich better than Telesco, who was around him when Reich was playing with the Bills and Panthers, and then as an assistant coach with the Colts.
"I've known Frank a long time and when he first started coaching with the Colts, you could tell at some point he was going to be a coordinator. You could see he had that in him," Telesco said. "We're going to run the same Charger system that we ran last year but Frank will be in control of it. I know Frank well enough that he's not looking to put his imprint on anything, he's running the Chargers' offense. Will we see some wrinkles? Sure, but that's between Mike and Frank and as a result of the offseason, what we think we have to work with, and self scouting."
The Broncos may be the current kings of the west, and the Chiefs were right there for much of the season, but keep an ear out for the quiet Chargers.
"I think we can compete with anybody, so that's our mindset, take that for whatever it's worth," Telesco said. "Last year was a good start, we built a foundation but we have to take the next step."
1. A few words on the playbook "controversy" that came from my profile of Browns coach Mike Pettine. (If you want to learn the inner workings of building a team and a defense, and how a man rose from being a high school head coach 13 years ago to Browns head coach—you know, 95 percent of the story—please go read it. I assure you, you will learn something about the game.) If Pettine said Pittsburgh instead of New England, people would laugh about a rivalry love tap and move along. But because it's the Patriots, some people (mostly in the New York-Boston corridor, and those with anti-Patriots bias) read way too much into an anecdote that I thought was entertaining and harmless because it's a bunch of rivals busting each other's chops. I'm sorry, I refuse to treat one team with kid gloves because of how a few may react related to something that may or may not have happened seven years ago (no one knows the truth except for commissioner Roger Goodell). When exactly is it okay for anybody to rib the Patriots about anything … do we have to wait until Bill Belichick retires? Can I get a statute of limitations ruling? I mean, it's ridiculous.
2. I should have explained to the general public that having playbooks means absolutely nothing—especially a defensive playbook (there are only so many ways to run an open fire zone blitz, and they're all on tape anyway). I am also in possession of a few Jets playbooks, along with many other NFL teams, including the Patriots. Funny thing is not one person on Twitter asked me to explain the significance of that small part of the story, until a story was posted some four hours after my story was out. If you cover the NFL and think that having another team's playbook (outside of an individual weekly game plan, which no one said anything about) has any relevance, either you're new on the beat, don't know the sport you cover very well, or just grab any appearance of controversy for clicks without regard of the actual facts. Coaches share playbooks and their philosophies all the time. Players go from team to team every offseason with real information—why teams use certain techniques against certain opponents, the weaknesses they were targeting a previous matchup, etc.—in their head. Rob Ryan, Rex's twin brother, coached under Belichick with the Patriots. Mike McCoy went from offensive coordinator of the Broncos to head coach of the Chargers. Chuck Pagano went from coordinating the Ravens' defense to facing them as Colts coach in one season. Think they had a few playbooks? Just about everybody runs the same plays. A game is determined by tendencies, matchups, timing, game-specific tactics, and about 50 other things. Sure, coaches don't love their information being out there without their approval, but any insinuation that anybody acted improperly is so ridiculous and irresponsible that it didn't even enter my mind that it could happen.
3. What an unbelievable stretch of bad luck that second-year running back Johnathan Franklin became at least the ninth Packers player since 2000 to suffer a significant neck injury (Franklin announced he's leaving football): Gary Berry, Terrence Murphy, Tony Palmer, Jeremy Thompson, Nick Collins, Sean Richardson, Jermichael Finley, Johnny Jolly and Franklin (credit to Jason Wilde and Rob Demovsky for those names). Only Richardson has returned to play.
4. Vikings running back Adrian Peterson told Tom Pelissero of USA Today that the team "would take a heavy hit—for real," from the fan base if the teams moves on from him at some point. That may be true, at least in the short term, but it won't matter if the Vikings are winning, something the Vikings haven't done a ton of since 2009. And once the Vikings get the personal seat license money for the opening of their new stadium in 2016, the economic ripples felt by Peterson's possible exit likely wouldn't be much of a problem.
5. This seems like a good time to take a vacation. See you in a month.


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Rocketmen: Axis of Evil is a kooky, top-down, RPG shooter for the Xbox LIVE Arcade and PlayStation Network. The game's use of dual analog sticks to move, strafe, and shoot is a tried and true scheme reminiscent of classic arcades such as Robotron: 2084 and Smash TV. The inane plot that slowly unfolds will have you button-mashing your way through the comic-like storyboards, but the simple pleasure of filling over-sized, green Martians with searing hot lasers is surprisingly satisfying. However, like most arcade games, there really is only a few hours of fun to be had before your shiny new purchase becomes tarnished by repetition.
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The NFL's best have been mingling with celebrities, signing autographs for adoring fans and enjoying all the festivities New Orleans has to offer during Super Bowl weekend. But make no mistake, they'd gladly give that all up.
They'd rather be on the field at the Superdome on Sunday.
Case in point, what New York Giants Eli Manning told Nekesa Mumbi Moody, AP's global lifestyles and entertainment editor, on Saturday:
``I'm not enjoying it as much,'' he said.
Manning spent Saturday with his dad Archie and brother Peyton, first watching a celebrity flag football game featuring A-listers including Lil Wayne, Snoop Dogg, Katharine McPhee, Deion Sanders, Neil Patrick Harris and more. The family then went to the ``2nd Annual NFL Honors'' awards Saturday night, where Peyton Manning won AP's NFL Comeback Player of the Year award during a show televised on CBS. The younger Manning said he likes being back in New Orleans, back where he grew up.
But this time last year, he was one night away from winning a Super Bowl and being crowned the game's MVP.
Where would you rather be?
``I'd rather be right now in the hotel room, looking at my playbook, trying to figure out how to win another championship,'' Eli Manning said.
- Oskar Garcia and Nekesa Mumbi Moody -http://twitter.com/oskargarcia andhttp://twitter.com/nekesamumbi
The Harbaugh family got an early win on Saturday night well before the Super Bowl.
Tom Crean, coach of the No. 3 Indiana men's basketball team, knocked off No. 1 Michigan 81-73 at home. Crean is married to Joani Harbaugh, sister of San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh and Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh.
It's the third time in school history the Hoosiers have beaten the No. 1 team at home. When the new AP Top 25 poll comes out Monday, Indiana will likely take back the No. 1 ranking it held for the first seven weeks this season.
The Harbaugh family will finish the weekend with a 2-1 record.
- Michael Marot -http://twitter.com/apmarot
We asked AP pro football writer Barry Wilner to pick five key players for each team in this Super Bowl. You'll want to pay attention to these guys on Sunday.
For the Baltimore Ravens, it's Joe Flacco, Ray Rice, Ray Lewis, Paul Kruger and Cary Williams. Now, for the San Francisco 49ers:
Kaepernick, Crabtree, Gore, Aldon Smith, Patrick Willis
-COLIN KAEPERNICK (QB, JERSEY NO. 7): Dynamic player who replaced injured Alex Smith in November and kept the job. Fast with long strides, strong arm, unafraid to throw into tight spots.
-MICHAEL CRABTREE (WR, JERSEY NO. 15): Matured this season and became a true No. 1 receiver. Led team with 85 catches, 1,105 yards and nine TDs. Good after catch, but needs to consider better ball security.
-FRANK GORE (RB, JERSEY NO. 21): Career rushing leader for franchise, as dependable as they come. Strong, can pound through line, but also has quick feet to cut to open space. Had 1,214 rushing yards and eight TDs during season.
-ALDON SMITH (OLB, JERSEY NO. 99): All-Pro sacks machine. Not as good as he needs to be in coverage, but is raw. Then again, why not rush him every play? Great burst off the line, big wingspan and maneuverability.
-PATRICK WILLIS (ILB, JERSEY NO. 52): With apologies to Ray Lewis, Willis is best linebacker in this Super Bowl - and probably best in entire league. Has been All-Pro in five of six seasons.
- Barry Wilner
Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh and San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh are hardly the only high-profile siblings who've squared off in their arena of expertise. The AP is asking some others who can relate how to handle going against a family member in the Super Bowl.
When NFL quarterbacks Eli and Peyton Manning squared off during a regular season game, at least one parent didn't have too hard a time deciding who to root for.
``I knew my mom was going to root for me - I'm the baby of the family, so that was an easy one,'' Eli Manning said.
But sibling battles can be tough on parents, the New York Giants quarterback said.
``It's hard to be excited for one child winning a game and also disappointed for the other one that didn't,'' he said.
As for the Harbaugh brothers: ``I think they're just both trying to figure out how to get a win.''
Eli's brother Peyton Manning says the Harbaughs have handled the week well, knowing one brother will be happy Sunday night while the other will be disappointed.
``Neither would be in this game if they weren't excellent coaches and no matter what happens tomorrow night, they're still excellent coaches. That's just a matter of fact,'' Peyton Manning said.
- Nekesa Mumbi Moody and Nancy Armour -http://twitter.com/nekesamumbi andhttp://twitter.com/nrarmour
Now that the NFL awards have ben doled out, it's time to bring on the celebrity-studded parties on Super Bowl eve.
Here are the headliners for Saturday night in New Orleans:
- Singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder headlines outdoor concert near Wyndham Riverfront Hotel that will also feature Texas guitarist Gary Clark Jr. Wonder's opening act: Grammy-nominated R&B and soul artist Janelle Monae. The closer: French electronic DJ Martin Solveig.
- Justin Timberlake takes stage for his first concert in more than four years during ``DIRECTV Super Saturday Night.'' It's invitation only.
- Chevel Johnson
Many of the millions of Americans who play fantasy football will be watching Sunday's Super Bowl with an eye toward next season's drafts.
But as one fantasy expert warns, don't put too much stock into what you see in the game - good or bad.
Matthew Berry, an ESPN fantasy analyst nicknamed ``The Talented Mr. Roto,'' said there will be some interesting players on the field from a fantasy perspective, including 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, Baltimore wide receiver Torrey Smith and San Francisco wide receiver Michael Crabtree.
But barring major injury, fantasy owners shouldn't get caught up in how they perform in New Orleans, Berry said.
``I think fantasy owners are smart enough and savvy enough to know that the postseason is something different and it's a very small sample size,'' Berry says.
Simply put, it takes more games than a Super Bowl to judge whether someone's fantasy worthy.
But if you thought you could be sneaky and nab Kaepernick or Crabtree with a late draft pick next season, think again. The duo's performance throughout the last half of the regular season and the postseason mean they'll go in higher rounds, Berry says.
- Oskar Garcia -http://twitter.com/oskargarcia
Minnesota running back Adrian Peterson thanked God, his parents, teammates and coaches for propelling him to the Associated Press 2012 NFL Most Valuable Player award.
And he wants to win the hardware again.
``God willing, next year I'll be accepting this award again. Trying to get two or three like Peyton (Manning). Trying to get to your level ... But I won't be there to accept it because I'll be winning with my coach, the most important award, the team award, the Super Bowl.''
- Nancy Armour -http://twitter.com/nrarmour
This Super Bowl stat of the day comes by way of Jennifer Agiesta, AP's director of polling: A Seton Hall poll shows 53 percent of Americans don't care who wins on Sunday.
The Seton Hall Sports Poll, conducted Jan. 28-30, shows 26 percent of people rooting for the San Francisco 49ers and 21 percent rooting for the Baltimore Ravens.
One-third of Americans plan to skip Sunday's game.
The poll of 894 randomly selected adults has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.
- Jennifer Agiesta -http://twitter.com/jennagiesta
Minnesota's Adrian Peterson is the NFL's Most Valuable Player as selected by an Associated Press vote.
The running back coming back from major knee surgery beat out Denver quarterback Peyton Manning on Saturday night.
It's Peterson's second award of the night after winning Offensive Player of the Year.
Peterson led the Vikings from a 3-13 mark to 10-6 and a wild-card playoff berth. He is the first running back to win MVP since LaDainian Tomlinson in 2006.
NFL fans everywhere wondered if Peyton Manning could come back from four neck surgeries after 13 years in Indianapolis without missing a game.
Now he's AP's 2012 NFL Comeback Player of the Year.
Manning sat out 2011, then made Denver one of the league's top teams, guiding the Broncos to the AFC's best record at 13-3.
Manning received 31 1/2 votes Saturday from a nationwide panel of 50 media members who regularly cover the league. He easily beat Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, who got 17 1/2 votes.
- Barry Wilner
One year in the NFL and Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III is already an award winner.
He took home AP's NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year honors on Saturday night and promptly warned the league he plans to improve.
``It's truly a blessing to be up there - to be able to stand, first and foremost,'' said Griffin, who underwent knee surgery last month.
Next season, ``you'll see a better Robert Griffin,'' he said.
- Barry Wilner
Minnesota running back Adrian Peterson went from major knee surgery to dominating voting in The Associated Press 2012 NFL Offensive Player of the Year award.
It helps that he rushed for 2,109 yards, 9 short of Eric Dickerson's record.
Peterson had 36 of 50 votes; Denver quarterback Peyton Manning had eight.
Peterson scored 12 touchdowns rushing and averaged 6.0 yards per carry.
- Barry Wilner
Houston end J.J. Watt just missed being a unanimous pick for AP's 2012 NFL Defensive Player of the Year.
The final vote tally with 50 voters:
Watt, 49. Denver linebacker Von Miller, 1.
Watt is the first Texans player to win the award.
- Barry Wilner
Bruce Arians is the first interim coach to win the top NFL award from The Associated Press.
He won 2012 Coach of the Year honors Saturday night for his work with the Indianapolis Colts. Arians now is head coach in Arizona.
Arians took charge of the Colts in late September after head coach Chuck Pagano was diagnosed with leukemia. The Colts, 2-14 the previous season, went 9-3 under Arians and made the playoffs.
Pagano coached the final game of the regular season and a wild-card playoff match.
Arians earned 36 1/2 votes from a nationwide panel of 50 media members who regularly cover the NFL. Pagano finished second with 5 1/2.
Linebacker Luke Kuechly of Carolina has won the Associated Press 2012 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year award.
Kuechly, a first-round pick from Boston College, led the league with 164 tackles.
He earned 28 votes from a nationwide panel of 50 media members who regularly cover the league. That easily outdistanced Seattle LB Bobby Wagner with 11.
- Barry Wilner
Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III has been voted the 2012 NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year.
Griffin beat out Indianapolis quarterback Andrew Luck and Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson. He was selected by The Associated Press in balloting by a nationwide panel of the media.
Here's one way to spend your 37th birthday: Flag burning.
That's how Mike Libber of Baltimore showed his loyalty to the Ravens during Friday night festivities on Bourbon Street in New Orleans' French Quarter.
Libber and his friends filled the long but thin balcony at the Voodoo Vibe bar, and asked bar employees to remove a San Francisco 49ers flag dangling next to a Ravens flag.
``Yeah, take that away,'' Libber said. ``Otherwise, I'll burn it. In fact, let me burn it.''
Libber eventually scrounged up $60 from his friends and bought the San Francisco flag from a bar manager.
He took it out onto Bourbon Street and began to set it on fire. It didn't quickly light up.
A crowd gathered, some 49ers fans booed. Moments later, with a small part of the flag burning, New Orleans police officers arrived and stopped the shenanigans.
- Julio Cortez -http://twitter.com/JulioCortez-AP
New Orleans is crawling with celebrities for the Super Bowl, but Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie don't appear to be among them.
The windows at the star couple's house in the French Quarter are all closed tight, and there's no sign of their omnipresent security. In fact, the only activity at the house is tourists stopping to take photos.
- Nancy Armour -http://www.twitter.com/nrarmour
The Pro Football Hall of Fame will have seven new members.
Coach Bill Parcells, Warren Sapp, Cris Carter, Jonathan Ogden and Larry Allen have all made it to the 2013 class. So have two senior selections, Curley Culp and Dave Robinson.
Five players were eliminated in the final vote: Jerome Bettis, Charles Haley, Andre Reed, Michael Strahan and Aeneas Williams.
Earlier Saturday, the selection committee eliminated Tim Brown, Kevin Greene, Will Shields and former owners Edward DeBartolo Jr. and Art Modell.
The next time the 49ers step onto the field at the Superdome, it'll be time for the Super Bowl.
San Francisco finished up on-field preparations on Saturday with a 15-minute walkthrough. The team has meetings Saturday night.
Coach Jim Harbaugh said the stadium lights are brighter than they were when the 49ers beat the New Orleans Saints here on Nov. 25, so getting his players adjusted to that was important.
Harbaugh invited family members and friends - 11 busloads of people - to attend the short session and come down to the field to pose for photographs.
One person hollered Harbaugh's signature chant from the stands: ``Who's got it better than us?''
The rest of the group replied: ``No-body!''
The coach smiled.
- Janie McCauley -http://twitter.com/JanieMcCAP
Baltimore is done practicing on the field for the Super Bowl.
Team officials, friends and family watched as the Ravens went through a short walkthrough at the Superdome on Saturday afternoon.
The 15-minute session was more of a pep rally than a workout.
Running back Ray Rice playfully tackled his mother on the sideline and guard Marshal Yanda had a video camera attached to the top of his Ravens cap.
John Harbaugh describes his team's work this week as ``effective.''
``We've gotten everything we've needed to get done, that's the No. 1 thing,'' Harbaugh said.
The Super Bowl isn't just about the glory - players for San Francisco and Baltimore both have decent paydays riding on the outcome.
The difference between winning and losing is $44,000, nearly $9,000 less than the median annual household income in the United States from 2007-2011, according to U.S. Census data.
Winning players get $88,000 each, losers get $44,000. That's just cash - it doesn't count the marketing clout gained by going from NFL player to Super Bowl champion.
Super Bowl paydays have gradually increased the last 30 years after doubling in 1983 to $36,000 for winners.
In the game's first 11 years, winners got $15,000 and losers got $7,500.
- Oskar Garcia -http://twitter.com/oskargarcia
Add Anthony Mackie to the list of people cold on next year's Super Bowl at the home stadium of New York's teams.
Though the ``Gangster Squad'' actor now lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., he's from New Orleans and thinks a city like his hometown should get the Super Bowl every year.
Mackie said Friday night at an ESPN Magazine party that he doesn't want to sit outside in 30 degree weather and watch the Super Bowl.
``I want to see the girls in their pretty dresses; I want to hang out with the players. I don't want to be outside in the cold in New Jersey,'' he continued, stressing that Met Life Stadium, where both the New York Giants and Jets play, is actually in East Rutherford, N.J. ``You're not in New York. I have to take a bus from Manhattan all the way to Jersey?''
Though Mackie's Saints didn't make it to the Super Bowl this year, Mackie is still passionate about who he wants to win - the Baltimore Ravens.
``I will do everything to not see San Francisco win another Super Bowl,'' he said, hoping for a bit of karma.
- Nekesa Mumbi Moody -http://twitter.com/nekesamumbi
If there are some dents in the Superdome roof, blame San Francisco 49ers punter Andy Lee.
Lee bonked several punts off the roof this week as the 49ers practiced for Sunday's Super Bowl against the Baltimore Ravens. Lee finally lowered the trajectory of his kicks to make sure he got the ball downfield.
``I'm glad he didn't hit those lights,'' 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh said.
- Nancy Armour -http://twitter.com/nrarmour
The NFL wants to return to Mexico, though Commissioner Roger Goodell won't say when.
Back in 2005, Azteca Stadium in Mexico City was the site of the league's first regular-season game outside the United States. But the league hasn't been back, despite playing in Toronto and - now regularly - in London.
Goodell says the league is perfecting things in England.
``We have to make sure that whenever we do come back to Mexico, and I expect we will, that we do it successfully, with the right kind of television support, fan support and sponsor involvement,'' Goodell said.
``I would expect if we are successful in the UK, where we thankfully are continuing to grow, that we'll have the opportunity to get back there,'' Goodell said. ``And the sooner, the better for me.''
- Nancy Armour -http://www.twitter.com/nrarmour
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