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During my nighttime travels, I have come across more than my fair share of bouncers. Some were cool, while others were most definitely not. It's just so hard to tell these days.
Even before Sony's new system was released, The Bouncer was on the lips of many gamers. Screenshots aplenty showcased brilliant graphics and promised plenty of action. The only thing left to question was the game's most vital aspect: gameplay.
So when the game finally made it past the GR security team and bomb sniffing dogs, it was rushed straight into the secret testing lounge for evaluation. The next few days were spent solely with Square's latest uberkind and boy, was it disappointing.
It's easy to tell what the developers focused on, because The Bouncer is obviously one of the best-looking games on a console to date. Near flawless animations and picture perfect visuals make it a great choice to show off the sleek Sony super machine to your friends. Once the game begins, though, the Bouncer sheds it's pretty boy image and gets down and dirty.
In typical video game fashion, you play a hero trying to save a girl. A local sweetheart named Dominique has been kidnapped by a bunch of strange looking ninja guys and naturally you, along with a pair of other bouncers, must run off to save her. Somehow, this all ties into a mission to save the world, but I bet you knew that already.
To get started, you'll choose from one of three bouncers: Sion, Kou, and Volt. Each has his own story and only by playing through with all of them will you get the full picture. The Bouncer also throws some RPG aspects into the mix with experience points going toward stat increases as well as fresh new moves. Only after playing the game several times will you be able to max out all the characters and realize their full potential. Three cheers for replay value!
The control is a bit on the loose side, but after a little while it shouldn't be very bothersome...unlike the attack scheme. High, medium, low, and jump attacks make up your arsenal, but exactly what happens when you press the buttons is almost random. Players are not able to control punches and kicks separately and must rely on the iffy pressure-sensitive PS2 controller buttons to determine different attacks. For example, pressing high attack three times for Kou unleashes the "triple jab," but a firm press the first time will change it to a "triple roundhouse kick." The pressure-sensitive buttons take a lot of getting used to and even a few hours of play won't guarantee mastery over it.
One cool move that's easy to execute is the Trinity Rush. When one of your buddies gives the signal, the single press of a button will prompt a cool cut scene showing our heroes performing some lethal moves. The downside is that a paper cut would do more damage to these guys than the Trinity Rush. An enemy that can survive a kick to the throat and two neck breaks is not one to be trifled with. Talk about disappointing.
The ability to choose your target is strangely absent. Characters will automatically aim for the closest enemy, which can sometimes throw combos off. Not a huge problem, but annoying nonetheless.
One definite problem is the camera. While The Bouncer cam puts on a good show, it chooses fashion over function every time. Dramatic camera angles produce awesome screen shots, but as a result you'll spend half the time wondering what's sitting right in front of your face. I guess our cameraman has spent one too many nights staggering home from work.
Yet another bummer is the stop-and-go progression. With a scant few exceptions, you'll never fight more than six opponents before reaching a cut scene. Furthermore, your two other computer controlled buddies do their fair share of work, leaving too few bodies for you to punish.
Part of the problem here is that the bad guys aren't too bright. Generally speaking, they just walk right up to you, asking to be force-fed a knuckle sandwich. Smack a few guys around and it's back to a cut scene. No difficulty option can be found, so you'll be walking down Easy Street for the majority of the game.
The Bouncer will also show you that Easy Street only goes one way. The story truly branches only once and is character-based rather than situation-based. There is one instance of a situation-based branch, but the differences between the two are extremely minimal. It would have been amazing to see multiple paths in the story, but I guess it just wasn't meant to be.
Even with all of its faults, playing the The Bouncer a few times through will shine some light on what seems to be a dreary game. Gaining the entire move set for each character definitely makes the fights more entertaining. New throws, combos, and other instruments of pain make the slaughter more fun than it was the first time through. Playing several times through also allows players to unlock more characters for the standard Versus and Survival mode.
Lastly, you'll be able to see each member's perspective on things. It seems a bit strange to me that the lead character, Sion, does not have the most interesting gameplay branch. I would hate to spoil it for you, but you need to play through the game as Kou. His branch is the most interesting and includes a cool variation of play that is absent from the other characters.
Though many will undoubtedly be disappointed by The Bouncer's inability to live up to the hype, others will find a fancy beat 'em up to pass a few hours. Its flashy graphics are at least worth taking a look at, but its many problems just might keep it from a place in the collection.


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There's one thing to remember as the state and federal governments continue their fight over Medicaid funding for Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta: There are still patients there.
Health and safety concerns about the patients at Riverview were what led to the federal government to threaten to pull the hospital's Medicaid funding in March; ever since, the state has been scrambling to fix the deficiencies found in a federal audit, including by rushing a bill through the Legislature in a special session. State officials filed an improvement plan that was accepted by the federal government, pending a follow-up audit. But after last month's audit, Medicaid officials concluded that Riverview had failed to live up to its promises and would lose $20 million in federal funding.
Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew promises to appeal the decision, and she should: Losing more than half of the financing for the state mental health facility is not something that will improve care for people with mental illness. But if all that happens is that state and federal regulators battle over money, the patients at Riverview – and the ones who are waiting for a place there – will suffer.
There is ample evidence that regardless of the outcome of the Medicaid dispute, people with mental illness – both inside the criminal justice system and without – are not getting the treatment they need. State officials should not lose sight of them if the legal battle with the federal government drags on.
Problems at Riverview emerged in March after a forensic patient punched and stabbed a mental health worker, seriously injuring her. A federal audit found the hospital was understaffed and overcrowded and did not sufficiently separate the operation of the forensic unit from the general psychiatric ones. The hospital's administration took steps to fix the problems last spring, but then hurried to the Legislature in August, saying they were in danger of losing federal support unless lawmakers passed an emergency bill that, among other things, moved forensic patients to the Maine State Prison in Warren.
Whether or not the state is found to be in technical compliance with the federal requirements, though, there are still substantive questions about the quality of care the hospital provides.
Patient advocacy groups have complained that staffing is inadequate. Sheriff's deputies brought in to keep the peace ended up as functional replacements for mental health workers.
In July, a report by the court-appointed monitor of the state's compliance with a consent decree from a 1989 class-action lawsuit also found deficiencies at the hospital that go beyond the scope of the federal audit. The so-called special master reported a growing waiting list for beds at Riverview, a lack of services for children and teens and insufficient resources for veterans who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The state could win its fight with the federal government, but if these underlying problems are not addressed, Mainers with mental illness will still lose. As the appeal goes forward, the DHHS and the Legislature should be taking a broader look at the serious problems with mental health services in Maine.
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LADY VOL HOOPS CENTRAL: Baylor
Dec. 17, 2012
Dec. 18, 2012 | 8:00 p.m. ET
Ferrell Center | Waco, Texas
- No. 10/12 Tennessee will wrap up a two-game road trip to the Lone Star State on Tuesday, Dec. 18. The Lady Vols, now 7-1 on the season, take on No. 3/3 Baylor in a 7 p.m. Central time (8 p.m. ET) match-up with the Lady Bears (8-1).
- Tennessee enters the contest on a seven-game winning streak after dropping the opener to Chattanooga, 80-71, on Nov. 9.
- Baylor has strung together six straight victories since falling to Stanford, 71-69, at the Rainbow Wahine Classic in Honolulu on Nov. 16.
- While Baylor has all five starters back from its 2011-12 NCAA Championship squad, Tennessee lost its entire starting five.
- Holly Warlick faces off vs. a top-five-ranked squad for the first time as head coach.
- ESPN will televise the contest live to a national audience.


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Statement From Jason Blake Regarding Condition
by Staff Writer / Toronto Maple LeafsJason Blake of the Toronto Maple Leafs issued the following statement following the team's practice Monday at Air Canada Centre:
"This morning I shared with my teammates news that I was diagnosed with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia. It is highly-treatable, and I have begun taking a pill on a daily basis that has proven to be very effective in controlling this cancer. The prognosis, and certainly the expectations of my physician, myself and my family, is that I will live a long, full and normal life.
"This situation will not impact my ability to live my life as I otherwise would, and will not affect my ability to perform at my highest level for the Toronto Maple Leafs. I'm looking forward to my first season with the Leafs and helping our club compete for the Stanley Cup."
Statement from Maple Leafs team doctor Noah Forman regarding Jason Blake's medical condition:
"Jason Blake has very recently been diagnosed with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML). This is a form of leukemia (blood cancer) which is a slow growing cancer of the white blood cells. It has an incidence of 500 new cases diagnosed each year in Canada.
"It is caused by an abnormal chromosome of cells in the body's bone marrow.
Jason is in no immediate danger, as he is in the chronic phase of the disease and has been assessed by a leading authority on CML at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto.
He has already started treatment which consists of an oral medication taken daily with low side effects.
"We have secured opinions from numerous CML specialists confirming that with this oral medication, most patients are well controlled and lead normal lives, doing all their normal activities. Jason will be able to continue to play fully with the team and will be monitored closely by both the team's physician and his CML specialist."


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Must-see TV: A-Rod joining FOX Sports as in-studio analyst tonight • 10.19.15
Alex Rodriguez will join the FOX Sports crew for pregame coverage of ALCS Game 3 on FS1 tonight at 7 p.m. ET. He will be in-studio with Raúl Ibañez, Pete Rose and Frank Thomas, and he's scheduled to be on-site for the World Series.
From the press release announcing Rodriguez's addition to the group:
"Alex has always impressed us from afar with his ability to articulate the game extraordinarily well," said John Entz, President of Production, FOX Sports. "In meeting with him, it was obvious he has strong recall when it comes to information, a great familiarity with the remaining teams in the field and we have no doubt that he'll be an excellent fit with our guys."
"I am honored to be a member of the FOX Sports team and excited to have this opportunity," Rodriguez said. "When I'm not playing baseball, I'm either talking baseball or watching baseball, and I love watching the guys on FOX cover the biggest games in our sport."
I actually think Rodriguez might be pretty good at this. He's a smart baseball mind, and he can be engaging when he wants to be. In my experience, the best conversations with him are always those that get in-depth on a specific topic. I talked to him this summer about sliding head-first — not exactly his usual area of expertise — but he was great and insightful. He can be that way about the nuances of defense, or hitting a specific pitch, or strategy within the game.
He can be good at this, and obviously FOX isn't afraid of putting controversial personalities in the mix. They've been using Rose as an analyst for a while now. Just have to make sure he doesn't break stuff like he did on the FOX NFL show yesterday.
.@AROD over-throws @JayGlazer & breaks a monitor!
What a first day at FOX! http://t.co/h3kvSVTUan
— FOX Sports (@FOXSports) October 18, 2015
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What to do with Alex Rodriguez? • 10.19.15
Still looking into some of the Yankees who have uncertain roles for next season, we'll next look at the team's oldest player whose job might be more defined than the Yankees would like it to be. The question is how much can the Yankees get out of him going forward, and how should they prepare for his obvious limitations. In many ways he's become the face of the franchise, for better and for worse.
Alex Rodriguez
Designated hitter
40 years old
Signed through 2017; in his second year back from a season-long suspension
This year: A sideshow from the very moment he arrived in spring training, the only predictable thing about Rodriguez's season was the attention it received. Remarkably, A-Rod very quickly became one of the Yankees' most productive hitters. Even more surprising, he became a fan-favorite. Limited to DH duty for most of the season, Rodriguez's offense lagged in the second half, but he still finished with numbers on par with his 2010 season (with fewer RBI and a lot more strikeouts). Even when his numbers declined, he was still the Yankees' biggest home run hitter of the second half.
A few possibilities for next season:
1. Ask for the exact same while hoping for more durability
Essentially, the Yankees could take the 2015 season as a road map for 2016. Assuming Rodriguez's days an infielder are finished and pencil him back into the lineup as the everyday designated hitter. Sit him in every National League park, perhaps rest him a little more often in hopes of keeping him strong to the very end, and bank on another 30-homer season with guys like Gary Sanchez, Greg Bird and Aaron Judge waiting in the wings as potential injury replacements one way or another. Basically, don't overthink it. Rodriguez is who he is at this point. He can be a helpful power hitter in the middle of the order, but he's limited in many ways. Stick with him as an everyday designated hitter until he proves he just can't do it anymore, then figure out a Plan B.
2. More time off (but also a little more time in the field)
The Yankees aren't in a position to carry a full-time designated hitter, so they'll have to put Rodriguez into some sort of rotation with Mark Teixeira, Carlos Beltran, Chase Headley and perhaps Greg Bird. Rodriguez can be the regular DH, but Beltran and Teixeira are going to need DH at-bats as well. To keep the bench from becoming too short-handed, Rodriguez will have to at least occasionally give Headley a day off at third base and maybe make occasional starts at first base against lefties. The Yankees can't have the necessary defensive flexibility while carrying a full-time — or part-time — designated hitter, and if Rodriguez can only be counted on for 130 games or so, some of those are going to have to be at the infield corners.
3. Build the roster around Rodriguez's limitations
Have to acknowledge that there's simply no way the Yankees are going to trade or release Rodriguez. His contract is too large and comes with too much baggage to find a willing partner on the trade market, and no owner is going to walk away from this sort of investment (especially when Rodriguez has proven he still has something left). Rodriguez is the Yankees' problem for better and for worse. The better is that he can still hit. The worse is that he can't do much more than that. The Yankees have to recognize that Rodriguez can't play the field at all, and he shouldn't DH every single game either. To have a roster spot for him, they're going to have to find a ton of versatility elsewhere. Maybe sign a guy like Ben Zobrist, plan to have Dustin Ackley play all over, and carry a right-handed fourth outfielder who can also handle the infield corners. Maybe even bring back that idea of John Ryan Murphy getting some time at first base. Carrying a player as limited as Rodriguez means putting together a roster otherwise loaded with versatility.
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By the numbers: A break is (almost) always good for A-Rod • 09.18.15
Last week, when he hit his fourth home run in five days, Alex Rodriguez talked about perspective.
As a younger player, he'd never liked days off. He played all 162 games three times in his 20s, but Rodriguez's late 30s taught him the value of rest and recuperation. Durability is no longer be taken for granted, and strength in September is no longer a given.
Four home runs in five days? Rodriguez pointed to the week before when he'd more or less taken four days off in a National League park.
"I've felt much better," Rodriguez said. "One of the good things about getting old is you have some perspective. I talked about that in Atlanta, and the days off for me have been good."
In almost every case, taking at least two days off has paid immediate dividends for Rodriguez. An extended break has been helpful for the 40-year-old, and he should get one more break this weekend when the Yankees play at Citi Field. An off day Thursday followed by three games in a National League park should leave Rodriguez with an extended break leading into the final 14 games of the season.
And those final 14 games start with three against Toronto, so this would be a fine time to continue the pattern of being productive right after a few days off.
"I think one thing is, Joe (Girardi) deserves a lot of credit," Rodriguez said. "He's been very disciplined. He's rested me. I took a day off after the three homers in Minnesota, and I think that has been good. Obviously I'll have a break against the Mets. I'm in a position now where I can find the strength."
Here's every example of Rodriguez being kept out of the lineup at least two days in a row this season.
April 30-May 1
Off day, at Red Sox
One pinch-hit appearance
Ten games before: .135/.319/.270
Ten games after: .286/.341/.657
This was A-Rod's first extended break of the season. He was kept out of the lineup April 28, took an 0-for-6 April 29, April 30 was an off day, and he was back on the bench May 1. On that May 1 game, Rodriguez hit a pinch-hit home run in the eighth inning, which would be the start of another hot streak.
May 19-20
at Nationals
Two pinch-hit appearances; one inning in the field
Ten games before: .297/.364/.730
Ten games after: .405/.452/.514
This was early in the season, at a time when it seemed the Yankees had to find a way to get Rodriguez into these National League games. He came back from the short break to have a hit in his next 11 games in a row, including five multi-hit games. Didn't necessarily need the break, but the time off didn't seem to hurt him.
June 15-16
at Marlins
One pinch-hit appearance
Ten games before: .205/.367/.333
Ten games after: .400/.500/.686
Had eight hits in his previous 10 games, and half of those came in one game, so his slump was perhaps a little worse than the slash line suggests. He was cheered at home in Miami, got into only one of those two games, then returned to hit a home run in three of his next seven games.
July 13-16
All-Star break
Four days off
Ten games before: .231/.333/.487
Ten games after: .282/.356/.769
Rodriguez homered in three of six games immediately before the break, so he had a little momentum going. After the break, he immediately homered in his first game back and went on to hit six home runs in his first nine second-half games. Rodriguez got his longest break of the year in the middle of July, and his slugging percentage happened to be higher that month than in any other month. Might not be coincidence.
August 22-23
vs. Indians
One pinch-hit at-bat
Ten games before: .143/.234/.310
Ten games after: .167/.265/.267
Rodriguez had been playing a lot when Joe Girardi tried to refresh him with a couple of games off against the Indians. But it didn't seem to work. A-Rod sat out a Saturday game and got a pinch-hit at-bat on Sunday, then went 0-for-10 in the next three games. But more rest was coming soon.
August 27-30
at Braves
Two pinch-hit appearances
Ten games before: .118/.211/.294
Ten games after: .225/.262/.525
Low batting average but tremendous power numbers immediately after getting a break during the Atlanta series. Rodriguez had four home runs in his first eight games after getting some time off, and he kept hitting homers even after this 10-game window. In his first 14 games after the Atlanta series, Rodriguez hit .264/.328/.642 with six homers.
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A-Rod: "Big, signature Yankee moment" • 09.15.15
From our old friend Mark Didtler, here's the Associated Press game story from tonight's remarkable Yankees win.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Alex Rodriguez enjoyed being overshadowed by a rookie.
Rodriguez had a tying, two-out RBI double in the ninth and Slade Heathcott followed with a three-run homer, leading the New York Yankees to a 4-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday night.
The 24-year old Heathcott's second career homer came on his first at-bat in the major's since May 27. He was called up from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Saturday.
"Just tremendous," Rodriguez said. "You get caught up and I become a fan when you're watching a young kid with so much talent. Big, signature Yankee moment."
The victory moved the Yankees within three-games of AL East-leading Toronto.
"To be able to do it with two outs in the ninth, it was special," New York manager Joe Girardi said.
Erasmo Ramirez held the Yankees hitless until Carlos Beltran led off the eighth with a hot shot that took a short-hop off first baseman Richie Shaffer and went into right field.
In the bottom half Tampa Bay snapped a scoreless tie, ending its 21-inning run drought on Logan Forsythe's RBI double.
The Yankees, though, rallied in the ninth. Down to their last out, Brett Gardner was walked by Brad Boxberger (4-10) on four pitches and stole second. Then Rodriguez tied Craig Biggio for 21st place all-time with his 3,060th hit.
Heathcott homered after Brian McCann was intentionally walked, setting off a raucous celebration in the New York dugout, A-Rod leading the way.
"It was awesome," Heathcott said.
Caleb Cotham (1-0) got the final out in the eighth for his first big league win before Andrew Miller pitched the ninth to pick up his 33rd save.
Ramirez allowed just the one hit, walked two and had six strikeouts in 7 2-3 innings.
"I definitely checked it (the no-hitter) out in the fifth and sixth, but I tried to stay away from that and stay focused on the next hitter and what pitch I'm going to use," Ramirez said.
CC Sabathia had a strong start for the Yankees, giving up three hits over 6 2-3 scoreless innings. He worked out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the second.
"You just look at our dugout, the way they reacted, it's the biggest hit of the season," Sabathia said of Heathcott's blast.
New York is 3-54 when trailing after eight innings.
The Yankees had two baserunners through the seventh. Rodriguez walked with two outs in the fourth and Gardner drew another walk to start the seventh.
Gardner was doubled off second after Mikie Mahtook made a leaping catch into the right-field wall on Brian McCann's drive.
Girardi said CF Jacoby Ellsbury, in a 1 for 29 slide, is physically fine. "He feels pretty good," Girardi said.
Girardi said RHP Adam Warren (6-6, 3.29) will be able to throw around 65 pitches in a spot start Tuesday night.
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Pregame notes: "I just don't think Alex is ready to do it" • 09.02.15
Even after Brian Cashman said he was against it, Joe Girardi said yesterday that he was still considering the possibility of Alex Rodriguez getting a little bit of time at first base against left-handed starters.
Today, Girardi changed his tune.
"I just don't think Alex is ready to do it," Girardi told reporters in Boston.
Against a left-handed starter this afternoon, the Yankees are sticking with left-handed rookie Greg Bird at first base. Red Sox starter Henry Owens has reverse splits this season, so that might have factored into the decision (though Girardi tabbed Dustin Ackley, another left-handed hitter as the backup first baseman).
Aside from a month of reverse splits at the end of 2014, Bird generally put up better numbers against right-handed pitchers in the minors. His numbers against lefties weren't awful, but he was significantly better against right-handers in both Double-A and Triple-A this season, so there's reason for the Yankees to want at least some sort of right-handed first base option. Girardi has previously mentioned Chase Headley, Brendan Ryan and Austin Romine as possibilities, but today he's sticking with Bird.
If the team is unwilling to let Rodriguez play first base for even a game against a lefty, it's hard to imagine they'll want him to play first or third during the three-game series at Citi Field later this month.
• CC Sabathia threw another bullpen this afternoon. Seems he could face hitters relatively soon. Brian Cashman has said the Yankees still see Sabathia as a starter, not a reliever, when he's healthy enough to come off the disabled list.
• Jacoby Ellsbury is out of the lineup against a left-handed starter. It's not unusual for one of the Yankees regular outfielders to sit against a lefty, but Ellsbury has been dealing with a hip issue, and Girardi acknowledged that there's still some swelling. Girardi called this a healthy day off for Ellsbury, but there could be some desire to give him back-to-back days off with the scheduled off day tomorrow.
• Stephen Drew has six hits and six RBI in his past eight at-bats. With Owens having reverse splits anyway, the Yankees are sticking with Drew at second base for today's game.
• Speaking of second base, Girardi said he's not sure when Rob Refsnyder will play. Refsnyder was called up yesterday, but the Yankees have been using Brendan Ryan as their platoon second baseman, they're clearly committed to Drew against right-handers, and they also have Jose Pirela as an additional right-handed second base option (plus Ackley as yet another second base option). A lot of possibilities at that position going forward.
• The Mariners announced today that they'd optioned Jesus Montero back to Triple-A. Even with expanded rosters. Ouch.
• Two days after the Yankees left Atlanta, the Braves' box score from yesterday included some familiar names. Manny Banuelos started the game (six hits in 2.2 innings for the loss) and Danny Burawa finished it with two hitless innings and four strikeouts. Banuelos was traded to the Braves this offseason and Burawa was claimed by the Braves off waivers mid-season. Speaking of familiar names in new places: Nick Noonan, who opened this season as the everyday shortstop in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, was one of the Giants' September call-ups. He signed with San Francisco after being released by the Yankees this summer.
• The Yankees have won five consecutive series at Fenway Park since the start of 2014, going 12-5 in that span. They?last won six or more consecutive series at Fenway from September 21, 1956 to June 1, 1958. With a win today, the Yankees will have six straight series wins in Boston.
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Pregame notes: Rodriguez could play first base this week in Boston • 08.30.15
A few quick notes before today's game gets started:
• With Mark Teixeira still hurting and the Red Sox planning to start a pair of lefties in the next three days, Joe Girardi said he will consider using Alex Rodriguez at first base for at least one of the upcoming games in Boston. Rodriguez hasn't played the field since May 23 when he was a late-inning replacement at first base. He hasn't started a game in the field since April.
• Not only would playing Rodriguez at first base let the Yankees avoid a left-on-left matchup for Greg Bird, it would also presumably let them start Carlos Beltran at designated hitter to keep all of the regular outfielders plus Chris Young in the lineup.
• At 13-2, Yankees starter Nathan Eovaldi is tied for first in the Majors (minimum 12 decisions) with a .867 winning percentage (Drew Hutchison is also 13-2). Eovaldi is one of two pitchers who has made at least 12 starts this season and taken two losses or fewer. Among Yankees pitchers with at least 12 decisions in a season in the expansion era (since 1969), Eovaldi's .867 winning percentage is the fourth-highest: Ron Guidry-1978 (25-3, .893); Ron Davis-1979 (14-2, .875); Roger Clemens-2001 (20-3, .870).
• Eovaldi has a career-best eight-game winning streak and 12-start unbeaten streak, going 8-0 with a 2.93 ERA (73.2IP, 24ER) in his past 12 starts since June 20. That's the longest winning streak by a Yankee this season and the longest single-season winning streak by a Yankee since Ivan Nova won 12 straight decisions in 2011. Opponents are hitting .235 during Eovaldi's 12-start unbeaten streak (they hit .329 in his first 13 starts).
• Dustin Ackley is making his fourth minor league rehab appearance today. Interestingly, he's starting at second base, a position he's hardly played this year (the Yankees have said they see him primarily as an outfielder for the time being). Last night, Ackley went 1-for-2 with a home run (his first minor league homer since June 6, 2013). On his rehab assignment, Ackley has gone 4-for-10, with a double, a home run, three runs and a stolen base.
• The fan who fell to his death during last night's game has been identified. His family says Gregory Murrey had been sitting in the upper deck for Braves games for 23 years.
• Sounds like there's a solid chance today's game will start on time despite rain all around Atlanta.
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Video: Yankees surprise son of Charleston shooting victim • 08.17.15
Here's video of Alex Rodriguez, Brett Gardner and Dellin Betances on the TODAY Show this morning to surprise tonight's HOPE Week honoree Chris Singleton. The introduction of Singleton is pretty emotion. Impressive kid.
Yankees to honor A-Rod's 3,000th with September pregame ceremony • 08.15.15
TORONTO (AP) — The New York Yankees will honor Alex Rodriguez's 3,000th hit with a pregame ceremony before hosting the Blue Jays on Sept. 13.
Rodriguez homered off Detroit's Justin Verlander on June 19, becoming the 29th player to reach the 3,000-hit plateau.
Rodriguez said he was "in disbelief" upon learning of the planned celebration.
Manager Joe Girardi said he was pleased to see the Yankees pay tribute to A-Rod's achievement.
"All relationships are going to have rocky moments and you like to see things get righted and repaired," Girardi said before Friday night's game in Toronto. "I think both sides have made a lot of gestures to do that."
Rodriguez missed all of last season while serving a drug suspension. Last month, Rodriguez and the Yankees settled a dispute over a marketing payment with a deal that gave $3.5 million to charitable groups. Rodriguez began Friday batting .264 with 24 homers and 63 RBIs in a resurgent season.
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Pregame notes: "Being a great baseball player was all that mattered" • 07.27.15
In almost any other setting, the question might have been too cliché to generate much of an answer. But on his 40th birthday, in the year after his season-long suspension, in the middle of a remarkable career resurgence, Alex Rodriguez seemed genuinely taken aback by the very notion.
What advice would 40-year-old A-Rod give to himself at 20 years old? At 30 years old? Rodriguez paused, then smiled.
"I'm in no position to give anyone advice, including myself," he said, with a laugh. "But I think there was a point in time for me when hitting home runs, being a great baseball player, was all that mattered. I figured that if I hit more home runs, it would justify for whatever behavior I had off the field.
"I realize today that it's not that way at all. Hitting home runs doesn't make you a good father, it doesn't make you a good friend, and it certainly doesn't make you a good teammate. To me they're both important."
Rodriguez turned 40 today, and there he is, back in the No. 3 spot in the Yankees lineup. He' healthy, playing his usual designated hitter role, and he's leading the team in OPS. Only four players in the entire American League have a higher OPS. Only six have more home runs.
"Forty is forty," manager Joe Giradri said. "But it's still just a number. You can still be extremely productive at that age and he's showing it. … It's rare, but guys can still do it."
For Rodriguez, though, the birthday is a different sort of milestone. It's notable not only because of how good he was a 20 years old, or for all he'd accomplished at 30, but because of where he was on the day he turned 39 while serving a season-long suspension for performance-enhancing drugs.
"I think someone asked me about 40 and evaluating where I am, and I think I did a lot of that last year," Rodriguez said. "I had a lot of time to think and evaluate. It was a dark time, that's for sure. To be able to come back this year and look back, hopefully I'm going to be a player, but more importantly, a better person, for the next 40 years."
Rodriguez noted that not many baseball players talk about turning 40 because so few last beyond their mid-30s. Did it feel more significant turning 40 or turning 30?
"Forty feels bigger just because of all the things that have transpired and where I am today," Rodriguez said.
Where he is today is among the most productive and consistent hitters in baseball. He's stayed healthy so far, and Girardi has tried to keep it that way by rarely playing him in the field. Perhaps most surprisingly, he's been cheered at home and seemingly accepted by opponents and some fans on the road.
"I'm going to continue to work hard," he said. "I thought April would be my most challenging month and as I started getting more repetition, hopefully I would get better. I think that's happened, and I hope that continues. I'm going to continue to work out and go through my regimen, but it's also a nice reminder that if you play clean and you play hard, that good things can happen."
• Still no announced starter for tomorrow. Girardi said it depends on who the Yankees have to use tonight. They prefer to have either Chris Capuano or Adam Warren start tomorrow's game — with the other basically piggybacking — but that plan will only work if those two aren't needed tonight. "We'll try to get three or four innings out of (one of them), use another guy and go from there," Girardi said. "We'll just have to wait and see what happens."
• The original plan was to use Bryan Mitchell to start tomorrow's game, but Mitchell's schedule was thrown off last week when he was doing band work. The band was attached to a door (pretty common), and the door opened. Mitchell fell, hit his head, and had to sit out a few days. That threw him off turn for tomorrow's game. "He's off track now," Girardi said. "We'll keep building him up. He's a guy we'll definitely look at the next time."
• Worth noting that Diego Moreno is tomorrow's scheduled Triple-A starter, so if the Yankees need someone who can give several innings, they could recall Moreno as either a fresh long man or as an emergency starter.
• Jacoby Ellsbury banged his shoulder into the wall making a catcher yesterday, so Girardi decided to keep Ellsbury out of the lineup tonight. The plan was to sit either Ellsbury or Carlos Beltran tonight, and Girardi decided to give Ellsbury the rest. "I think that's pretty much the plan for everybody to get one (day off) at some point on this road series," Ellsbury said. "So they decided to give it to me today."
• Ellsbury said he feels like he could play tonight, and he'll be ready to run or play defense late in the game. He fully expects to be in the lineup tomorrow. He got some ice on the shoulder last night, but he said he didn't do anything particularly out of the ordinary today. He can play if the Yankees need him.
• Girardi on Ellsbury: "If I have to use him, I would use him. He ran into the wall pretty hard. I was going to give him or Carlos one of the next two days off. I decided to do Jake today. We'll go look at tomorrow. You'd like to be able to win the game without using him but if we need him, we'll use him."
• It's really, really hot down here. "Stevie (Donohue) talks (to the players) about the importance of hydration," Girardi said. "And we continue to do that. It's hot, but it's hot for both teams and you've got to deal with it."
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Pregame notes: Rodriguez getting healthy day off after three-homer game • 07.26.15
A few quick notes heading into this afternoon's series finale in Minnesota:
• Biggest news of the early afternoon has been Ken Rosenthal's report that the Royals are trading for Johnny Cueto. News of the swap began to leak apparently before the Reds had even told Cueto that a deal was in place. The Yankees trading for Cueto never seemed particularly likely given their reluctance to trade one of their high-end, on-the-verge prospects.
• As for the Yankees, they have Alex Rodriguez on the bench for a day game after a night game. Of course, that night game happened to be a three-homer event for A-Rod. Rodriguez said he feels fine, just getting a day to rest. Days off for a DH seem to bother plenty of folks in the fan base — as does the unwillingness to use Rodriguez in the field from time to time — but at the end of July, Rodriguez has been consistently productive and incredibly healthy. If that's because of the way Joe Girardi has used him, then it's hard to argue with the approach.
• Right fielder Aaron Judge has returned to the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre lineup after missing basically a week with what seems to have been a minor injury. Could be nothing more than the Yankees being their usual, overly cautious selves. Even without providing details, Brian Cashman insisted several times that there was no serious issue.
• Speaking of Triple-A, Andrew Marchand reports that Bryan Mitchell was supposed to be lined up to start Tuesday's game in Texas, but a mild injury altered his turn in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre rotation. Mitchell was sent down rather suddenly to start last Saturday, which would have put him perfectly on turn to be on schedule and eligible to return on Tuesday, but he wound up not making his next start until yesterday (when he pitched pretty well). Now it seems either Adam Warren or Chris Capuano will probably make that spot start on Tuesday.
• Scranton/Wilkes-Barre activated Austin Romine from the disabled list today. Going to be interesting to see how they use Romine now that Gary Sanchez is on the roster. It's not like they have a ton of DH at-bats to give away. Those have been going mostly to Kyle Roller now that Greg Bird is on the roster, and the outfield is also suddenly overcrowded with Judge, Ben Gamel, Ramon Flores and Tyler Austin. There don't seem to be enough at-bats for everyone who needs regular playing time to actually get regular playing time.
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DETROIT — Brandon Saad had two goals and an assist and Dave Bolland scored twice in the Chicago Blackhawks 7-1 win over the Detroit Red Wings today.
Jonathan Toews added a goal and two assists and Jeremy Morin and Nick Leddy, also scored for Chicago. Cory Crawford made 33 saves.
Chicago Blackhawks left wing Brandon Saad, left, celebrates his first period goal with Chicago Blackhawks right wing Michael Frolik (67), of the Czech Republic, during an NHL hockey game against the Detroit Red Wings Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson)
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Cory Emmerton scored Detroit's goal. Jimmy Howard was pulled in favor of Jonas Gustavsson early in the second period. Gustavsson made nine saves.
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Get up, get out, and do something! Just about any day of the year, you can find something fun, informative, and healthy to enjoy at an area park. Feel free to browse the listings below, or use the search tools to find an event that matches your interests and location.
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Hallett Nature Sanctuary
at Hallett Nature Sanctuary (in Central Park), Manhattan
11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
During these limited hours, visitors can explore the normally-closed Hallett Sanctuary at their own pace along the rustic trail.
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Bicycling Basics
at Putnam Avenue and Van Cortlandt Park South (in Van Cortlandt Park), Bronx
11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
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Waterfront Walks: Guided Park Tours
at Pier 1 (in Brooklyn Bridge Park), Brooklyn
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Join our docents on a tour to learn about the history of the Brooklyn waterfront, Brooklyn Bridge Park's sustainable design, and how the park came to life!
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Pier Kids at Brooklyn Bridge Park: Shira & Friends
at Pier 6 (in Brooklyn Bridge Park), Brooklyn
11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
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Bike New York: Street Skills Ride
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Central Park Tour: Northern Forts
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11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
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at Ecology Building (in Wave Hill), Bronx
11:45 a.m.–12:45 p.m.
Classic sessions include instruction in simple techniques followed by 20 to 30 minutes of guided meditation led in partnership with Yoga for Bliss.
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Basic Canoeing
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12:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.
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Plein Air Paintings of the Bartow-Pell Gardens
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12:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Paintings created outdoors capture the changing light and atmospheric mood of the historical landmarks and hidden treasures of the Bartow-Pell gardens and grounds.
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Alleluia! The recent General Synod declared itself "A Global Mission Church" and invites you to do the same. This is not the promotion of one program of the church; it is an affirmation of a core identity that we share — it's in our DNA! In these days of globalization, when the world gets smaller, the imperative to reaffirm our identity as a global mission church is more urgent than ever. We couldn't be isolated from the rest of the world if we tried. And yet sometimes the global connections we are part of are ones that deny the sacred truth of our God-given unity with God's children around the world.
Our clothes may have been made in sweatshops. Our food may be mass produced for export at the expense of hungry children from small farm families. The coltan in our cell phones fuels a horribly violent war in the eastern part of the Congo. The world creates connections that may contradict our values. We are called to affirm and create connections that refl ect the love and justice of God.
Believing that God's global mission calls us to share life together, we've turned "doing to" and "doing for" others into "doing with" or simply "being with" in genuine global partnerships.
This "being with" is what we call critical presence at the point of deepest need, sharing the healing, teaching and reconciling love of God in Christ with those who live in desperate poverty or great danger.
Our critical presence today means sending, at our church partners' request, medical missionaries to Haiti, East Timor and India. Our critical presence supports HIV/AIDS educational programs and hospice care in South Africa. Critical presence means walking with those who work for peace between the two Koreas or in Israel/Palestine. It means responding to a special appeal of One Great Hour of Sharing for victims of a major earthquake in China, floods in Bangladesh, or hurricanes in the Caribbean and southern United States.
Critical presence means sending a theological educator to work with a new generation of pastors in the Peoples Republic of China. Sometimes the critical presence our partners ask for is our advocacy with our own government to change a U.S. policy that can make a huge difference for partners in another country. Sometimes our critical presence simply means holding hands with, or holding in prayer, courageous churches in Myanmar, Columbia or Zimbabwe.
Your support of Our Churches Wider Mission (OCWM) undergirds all this critical presence and much more. Your own engagement in God's global mission extends the presence of the UCC even farther. Being a Global Mission Church can challenge your members to stretch toward a new level of commitment to God's so-loved world. Whether your next step is to pray regularly for a missionary, study globalization, sponsor a child, or plan a People-to-People group mission or study trip, using the Be a Global Mission Church workbook www.globalministries.org/about-us/be-a-global-mission-church can deepen your church's participation in God's global mission. Alleluia!
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It's no secret that a large contingent of very vocal "The Vampire Diaries" fans are rooting for Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Elena (Nina Dobrev) to finally get together.
While Damon has admitted his feelings for Elena, she's not exactly his biggest fan at the moment. After all, in the season premiere, he snapped her little brother's neck – which can be kind of a mood killer for a girl.
I was on the scene at New York Comic-Con to chat with executive producers Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson about the future of the duo that a veritable army of Twitter fans refer to as "Delena."
They definitely hear you guys. Plec loves reading fans' tweets, recaps, and reviews about each episode. "One of the greatest things about this experience is that our fan base is very vocal," she says. "The community runs very deep, and they're very very supportive, and that's good."
She admits that occasionally, she has to force herself to take a step away from the computer. "All these girls are like 'Damon and Elena forever! Delena! Ahh! Oh, nothing on the show is working except for Damon and Elena!' and then you take a step back and you're like wait, no, stay off Twitter. "
Williamson finds the Delena fascination intriguing. "It's so interesting. Why? Do they really want them together? Or do they just want to want them together?" he says.
The neck-snapping incident that drove a wedge between the two former friends was arguably the most shocking moment we've seen yet in a series that surprises me in every act. Plec says that she and Williamson were having lunch when he pitched her the idea, and she gasped out loud. "My jaw fell on the floor," she recalls. "That is the most messed up, twisted, ridiculous, horrible thing, that is awesome. And if I'm having a reaction, as someone who's heard everything, and I lose my mind over it – it blew my mind."
It blew Elena's, too, and Damon won't have an easy time redeeming himself.
"He screwed up," Williamson says bluntly. "I'm sorry, everyone loves Damon, but he's not worthy of her, yet, in my opinion. Yet. And that's why we have a show! We can go episode to episode and build toward all sorts of romance and love, and we've got a long way to go."
Largely due to Ian Somerhalder's inherent charm and Damon's sharp one-liners that add edge and intrigue to every script, the fans are willing to forgive his character almost anything. "This is such an unpopular opinion," Plec says cautiously, "but I really feel strongly about everybody's willingness to love Damon no matter what he does. I love Damon. Who doesn't love Damon? But if everybody loves him no matter what he does, then how does what he does have impact? How is there anything profound about your anti-hero or your villain?"
The strong reaction to the season premiere from Damon's fans was exactly what the writers were looking for. "So for him to do something that seriously hardcore, I knew people were
going to be upset about it, and it's upsetting, but I felt like it was
really important for Damon's character, when all was said and done."
Don't get discouraged, Delena 'shippers. Damon's road to redemption is going to be long and rocky and probably littered with death and bloodshed — not to mention, there's that whole Stefan thing in the way — but it'll only make the payoff all the more epic.
"That's the journey," Williamson says. "I don't just want to throw them together tomorrow. I'd be sad. I want to see the kiss, I want to see the sweaty palms, I want to see it all go down."
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The 60-year-old, famous across the Arab world and beyond for bitingly satirical works ridiculing corruption, nepotism and narrow-mindedness, had always avoided identifying individuals in his art.
That was until a few months before the uprising against Assad began last year, at which point Farzat felt the president had gone too far in stifling freedom of expression and crushing dissent. That's when it got personal.
"I made that shift from using symbols to portraying actual figures, and little by little I began to see my cartoons being carried by protesters," Farzat said, surrounded by his works on display at the Mica Gallery in central London.
"They became a symbol for them."
One of his first cartoons portraying Assad — long a taboo in Syria — showed the president reluctantly ripping a page off a calendar on Thursday, knowing that Friday would bring another wave of popular protests to the streets of Syria.
In another, Assad tries to hitch a lift with outgoing Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. A third shows Assad beside a large armchair, unable to sit down because the springs have broken.
"Even the chair won't accept him any more," Farzat explained with a smile.
When the revolt against Assad kicked off, Farzat received threatening phone calls and messages, but not even that prepared him for the ferocity of the attack which came in the early hours of 25 August as he left his Damascus studio.
Three masked men he described as "thugs of Assad" dragged him from his car and beat him with batons before putting him in their own vehicle and continuing the assault.
"I could hear them saying 'break his hands so they never dare challenge his masters again'," he told Reuters, speaking through an interpreter.
"They hit me and hit me, on my head, on one hand and then the other and were trying to make sure they broke them.
"I had concussion and bruises over the whole of my body. My hands were broken so badly that the movement is still limited."
Dumped on the side of the street, possibly for dead, Farzat was picked up by a stranger and taken to hospital where he recovered. He later left for Kuwait where he has a "residency".
The attack triggered outrage in Syria, where it was taken as a sign that Assad's government would brook no dissent, even from a man who once knew the president personally.
Progress flowers, but briefly
Farzat recalled meeting Assad in the 1990s when he was the president's son, and enjoying a dialogue in which the future leader earnestly sought the views of the "man on the street".
Assad would visit his exhibitions and discuss political issues with Farzat and fellow artists and intellectuals, and Farzat established the satirical Al-Domari publication.
A brief period of openness in the early 2000s ended suddenly, Farzat said, forcing the closure of Al-Domari and prompting many like-minded thinkers to move abroad.
"I don't know what happened all of a sudden," Farzat said.
"It was as if he (Assad) was there and, when we looked again, he was gone. We couldn't communicate with him, we couldn't get through. We used to be able to talk to him. He completely vanished."
As long ago as 2007, Farzat warned of impending crisis in Syria if the government did not reform. Now that a full-scale revolt is underway, he believes there is no turning back.
"The real measure is not time, the real measure is that we have managed to break the barrier of fear," he said. "At that point the revolution became victorious. The question is always 'When will it end?' I don't know, but it has already triumphed."
"People are not going to go back to the way they used to live. There is no way you can go back to the way things were before this revolution started."
The cartoonist, who reportedly received a death threat from Saddam Hussein in the 1980s, has not given up on the idea of returning to Syria from self-imposed exile.
"Every day I say I will go back to Damascus. Every day people say to me 'Don't go back, it's too dangerous.'"
"One of these days I am just going to do it, because the reality is I can't stay away from my country for much longer."
He has returned to work after the attack, although the movement in his hands is restricted. One of his most recent cartoons shows a tiny flower lifting a tank into the air as it sprouts from the ground.


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The second sucker punch was the Jane Austen museum--set up solely to milk a few quid from touring Americans such as myself. The author never lived in the home that houses the museum and apparently she didnt even like the town in her later years. A fairly sparse exhibit filled with more 'artifacts' from the BBC series than the author's actual life.
What was a pleasant surprise is the architecture and settling of the town itself--easily the most scenic town that I have seen in England. From the Cathedral to the Crescent Houses the town is one photogenic building after another and I could see why its a popular destination.


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Patrick Bond is Professor of Political Economy at Wits University in South Africa. Bond is the author of the recent books, South Africa - The Present as History (with John Saul) and the 3rd edition of Elite Transition. He is also the co-editor of BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique.
PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Baltimore. And welcome to what is going to become a series of reports on environmental and climate change issues with Patrick Bond, who now joins us from South Africa. Patrick is the director of the Centre for Civil Society and a professor at the university of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. He's written many books. One of his latest is The Politics of Climate Justice and Durban's Climate Gamble.Thanks for joining us, Patrick.PATRICK BOND, GLOBAL ECON. PROJECT DIRECTOR, INST. FOR POLICY STUDIES: Great to be with you again, Paul.JAY: So, looking forward to 2013, what do you think are going to be the big issues in terms of environmental and climate change questions?BOND: A lot of ground was broken in 2012 at the Rio Earth Summitâthat was Rio+20âin June. And the phrases that your listeners, your audience would have heard are "green economy", "payment for ecosystem services", "natural capital". And these were theorized, well, for many years.And the idea is that if you value the environment, you should put a price tag on it so that its destruction is not just a [free] activityâso say the proponents. But critics say this is equivalent to neoliberalizing nature or privatizing the air in the case of climate and carbon trading. And what became even trickier was in Doha the idea called loss and damage, which is another way of saying that the North owes the South a climate debt for the huge destructive force. I mean, Barack Obama just asked for some $60 billion from Congress to clean up after Sandy. And so this is the sort of huge scale of loss and damage, and even more so in the Third World, the main victims of climate change here in Africa, maybe 200 million deaths anticipated this century.And the big question we'll all be asking in the coming months: can you put a price on it? And if you do so, in order for the North to pay up, does that mean that you endorse markets for the environment? And that's a tricky situation for many environmentalists not wanting to go too far towards neoliberal nature, but on the other hand, demanding a climate and an ecological debt be paid.JAY: Well, you've got toâI guess if you need something paid, you've got to put a price on it. But that is a separate question, then, isn't it, from whether it's going to be a privatized solution or not. They're two separate issues, aren't they?BOND: That's right. And one of the finest theorists, Larry Lohmann at Corner House group, explained it to me in Rio very simply, and I think we all should learn from Larry Lohmann. He said the difference between a fine on a big corporation, for example, TexacoâTexaco, now Chevron, polluted about $8 billion worth in the Ecuadoran Amazon, and a court found them guilty. Of course, they're refusing to pay. They're a big U.S. corporation. And the idea is they should be fined and then banned from doing that again. And that is an acceptable strategy for progressive environmentalists.The problem is if you allow that activity to be mandated through a fee, a fee for an ecosystem service. And it's in that very nuanced distinction between putting a price on something because you value it and making someone who destroys it pay for the damage on the one hand, which I think is reasonableâon the other hand, the danger would be if you try to create markets. And this is what's really running rampant. Here in southern Africa, natural capital will soon be actually calculated as a way to correct gross domestic product, something that's way overdue, because GDP, what economists like to do to measure growth, ignores environmental destruction, not to mention women's unpaid labor or community activism or crime or family breakdown. All of these important things are not measured. And the attempt to correct it, natural capital, if it's used properly, would give us a whole new dimension on whether we should be extracting at the rate, for example, here in our platinum mines we do which led to the Marikana Massacre in August. And that's the sort of question that I think environmentalists and community activists and labor movements, women's groups, will be asking more and more. Is it really worth it? And should we not be calculating into a cost-benefit analysis the destructive capacity of capital when it meets nature, and then trying to prevent that process from becoming something like a carbon market or offsets for biodiversity? And a green economy strategy of the World Bank of many big agencies leans towards markets. And this is going to be the struggle of 2013, I predict.JAY: Well, the argument I guess you would hear from Wall Street or others that support what I'm about to say, which is that without the financialization of these issues, you can't attract the kind of capital that's required to either have mitigation programs or various things to reduce carbon emission, and that you need to harness the power of international finance, and the only way to do that is make it attractive for themâ.BOND: Well, [indeed, that] for 15 years was the underlying assumption behind emissions trading. And to tell you how well that works, simply go to Chicago, where in 2010 they had to close the market. That was the one that former vice president Al Gore was involved in. And the European Union's emissions trading scheme, which is the largestâover $100 billion a year worth of tradingâit's really crashing and hasn't done well since here in Durban about a year ago we had the COP17, the climate summit. And as it was said by Bank of America, that summit, like the Doha, gave a little bit of confidence for traders that their system would still be in place. They said it was like a Viagra shotâbut that doesn't last very long, as many men know.I think the point is the carbon markets have demonstratively shown they cannot finance renewable energy. You really need about a $50 per ton price on carbon dioxide, and these markets are running at around $7 or $8, and so they just are unable to deliver the goods. And therefore there are NGOs out there who are calling for the European Union's emissions trading scheme to be shut down, and instead, a replacement system, a regulatory system, a cap system that would then ban, eventually, the fossil fuels that threaten to destroy our planet.And I think that's the way to go. Since markets have failed, we really have to turn to a regulatory approach. And the problem is, of course, there are still a lot of people, even in environmental groups, who still believe that the bankers can solve a problem this big, even after all the evidence of the last five years of destruction by bankers. I don't understand them, but they still believe that.JAY: Alright. Thanks very much for joining us, Patrick. And we're going to dig more into these issues withâI think we're going to do this every week or every other week with Patrick. So thanks again, Patrick. BOND: Great to be with you, Paul. Thanks.JAY: And thank you for joining us on The Real News Network.End
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Google File System (GFS or GoogleFS) is a proprietary distributed file system developed by Google to provide efficient, reliable access to data using large clusters of commodity hardware. A new version of Google File System code named Colossus was released in 2010.[1][2]
GFS is enhanced for Google's core data storage and usage needs (primarily the search engine), which can generate enormous amounts of data that must be retained; Google File System grew out of an earlier Google effort, "BigFiles", developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in the early days of Google, while it was still located in Stanford. Files are divided into fixed-size chunks of 64 megabytes, similar to clusters or sectors in regular file systems, which are only extremely rarely overwritten, or shrunk; files are usually appended to or read. It is also designed and optimized to run on Google's computing clusters, dense nodes which consist of cheap "commodity" computers, which means precautions must be taken against the high failure rate of individual nodes and the subsequent data loss. Other design decisions select for high data throughputs, even when it comes at the cost of latency.
A GFS cluster consists of multiple nodes. These nodes are divided into two types: one Master node and a large number of Chunkservers. Each file is divided into fixed-size chunks. Chunk servers store these chunks. Each chunk is assigned a unique 64-bit label by the master node at the time of creation, and logical mappings of files to constituent chunks are maintained. Each chunk is replicated several times throughout the network, with the minimum being three, but even more for files that have high end-in demand or need more redundancy.
The Master server does not usually store the actual chunks, but rather all the metadata associated with the chunks, such as the tables mapping the 64-bit labels to chunk locations and the files they make up, the locations of the copies of the chunks, what processes are reading or writing to a particular chunk, or taking a "snapshot" of the chunk pursuant to replicate it (usually at the instigation of the Master server, when, due to node failures, the number of copies of a chunk has fallen beneath the set number). All this metadata is kept current by the Master server periodically receiving updates from each chunk server ("Heart-beat messages").
Permissions for modifications are handled by a system of time-limited, expiring "leases", where the Master server grants permission to a process for a finite period of time during which no other process will be granted permission by the Master server to modify the chunk. The modifying chunkserver, which is always the primary chunk holder, then propagates the changes to the chunkservers with the backup copies. The changes are not saved until all chunkservers acknowledge, thus guaranteeing the completion and atomicity of the operation.
Programs access the chunks by first querying the Master server for the locations of the desired chunks; if the chunks are not being operated on (i.e. no outstanding leases exist), the Master replies with the locations, and the program then contacts and receives the data from the chunkserver directly (similar to Kazaa and its supernodes).
Unlike most other file systems, GFS is not implemented in the kernel of an operating system, but is instead provided as a userspace library.
Deciding from benchmarking results,[3] when used with relatively small number of servers (15), the file system achieves reading performance comparable to that of a single disk (80–100 MB/s), but has a reduced write performance (30 MB/s), and is relatively slow (5 MB/s) in appending data to existing files. (The authors present no results on random seek time.) As the master node is not directly involved in data reading (the data are passed from the chunk server directly to the reading client), the read rate increases significantly with the number of chunk servers, achieving 583 MB/s for 342 nodes. Aggregating a large number of servers also allows big capacity, while it is somewhat reduced by storing data in three independent locations (to provide redundancy).


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by Patrick Hooper / San Jose SharksSharks fans, are you traveling this offseason? Then make your destination Sharks Territory!
Every Wednesday between now and September 19, we will post the best 3-5 photos of the week on the Daily Chomp blog. Fans will vote on their favorite photo each week. The winner of the week's best photo will receive a mini Sharks Territory sign autographed by their favorite Sharks player. Then, the 19 weekly winners will square off for the best photo of the offseason and the Grand Prize - a team signed, full size Sharks Territory sign plus two tickets to a 2012-13 game!
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I really Love the Green Day line. You don't find alot of St. Patrick's Day stuff and this is so just right. You have the right color of Green which is so important. Thanks for the sneak peek and the Great Job. Jayne
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Like many other schools in the NCAA, Georgia now has several players who are facing investigation and possible suspension for receiving improper benefits.
The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer has reported that Jarvis Jones and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope allegedly received financial assistance from a local parks and recreation department, according to police documents obtained by the newspaper. Jones is a sophomore outside linebacker on the football team, while Caldwell-Pope is a basketball signee.
The report says that Tony Adams and Herman Porter, two officials in the parks department, paid for airline tickets for the two players to fly to Los Angeles for basketball games. They also may have paid a cell phone bill for Caldwell-Pope's mother. Because the NCAA prohibits accepting improper benefits from anyone marketing an athlete, these two players may have violated NCAA rules.
In my opinion, if the accusations are true as they are reported above, neither player should face any type of suspension or other punishment from the NCAA. The case shows many similarities to the Cam Newton case from last season, and Newton was not punished at all.
First, the accusations almost exclusively involve the players' parents. The cell phone bill was not paid for Caldwell-Pope, but for his mother. The other benefits involved plane tickets for the players' flights to Los Angeles. I find it most likely that transportation for the two players was handled by their parents. High school student-athletes who are flying across the country probably shouldn't arrange their own transportation, so their parents would do it for them.
If that is the case, Jones and Caldwell-Pope have not violated any NCAA rules. They did not accept transportation or other benefits because their parents would have accepted it without their knowledge. The same holds true for Cam Newton, who did not know that his father was asking for money for a commitment (unless the continuing investigation finds evidence to the contrary).
Even if they did know about the improper benefits, the two Georgia players could likely avoid NCAA suspension by repaying the money for the airplane tickets and cell phone bill before the NCAA decides on punishment. The NCAA usually requires athletes to repay improper benefits as a condition of reinstatement, and doing that without the NCAA's orders would likely reduce any suspensions.
Furthermore, if the report is correct, there would not be a problem with Jarvis Jones because Georgia was not the institution that benefited from the improper benefits. The airplane tickets were for a flight to Los Angeles, and Jones initially played one season with USC before transferring to Georgia. Under NCAA rules, because the benefits were paid before Jones transferred to UGA, Georgia could not face any discipline for the improper benefits. In that case, only Caldwell-Pope could face possible suspension.
However, because money did not change hands in the Newton case, a situation at Baylor may reflect Jones' and Caldwell-Pope's case more accurately. Perry Jones was declared ineligible for one tournament game, plus six regular season games, after the NCAA determined that a coach loaned money to his mother and paid for Perry Jones to travel to a preseason NFL game. However, there could also be one key difference between the two situations: in that case, it sounds more likely that the athlete actually knew about the benefits.
In reality, I'm looking at a two or three game suspension for Jones at most. The improper benefits did not total a ton of money ($828) and occurred while he was traveling to Los Angeles, after which he decided to play for USC. Jones is slated to start at outside linebacker if he is not suspended for the benefits.
Georgia has notified the NCAA and the SEC of these violations, but it is unclear if any official investigation has started.
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nothing like a deep fried belly bomber for the holidays!:happy:Originally posted by JediTricks
Oh, that reminds me, it's almost time for my grandma to make latkes (potato pancakes) - it's the one Jewish food my sister can't get enough of. I love those things, it almost makes Hannukah better than Xmas in my family!
what traditional jewish food lacks in spices, and added flavoring, is more than made up in grease and chicken fat! :happy: oh baby!


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Weaving, living a life of a weaver, and other unravelling thoughts
by the Goddess of Procrastination and Expert Forgetter
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I read that art/craft blogs should be eye-candies as well ad interesting/informative because a large part of the audience are also art/craft people who tend to be visual. So you don't have to be as near blind as I am to go all over the Internet just to gaze at other people's pics, I take it.
Anyway, the cotton scarves have been fairly photogenic and I've got a few good ones I can use in things like business and greeting cards if I so choose, but I've got too much of the ugly old carpet in some pics, too.
The worst part is, I knew I'd regret it, that I should have had something else under the scarves, but I didn't want to interrupt the flow. Live and learn, though I don't know how long I have to live to learn everything I need to learn...
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Sue, yes it is, but I try to get as good shots as I can au naturel.
Lynne, velvet? Really? I must try that. I would have thought it'd be too shiny, but interesting!
Thanks, Connie. Did you like my blue string? I must have seen it while shooting, and though I'd just crop or blend it out. I should know better by now.Peg, I'm amazed, when I think of it, what a white sheet of paper can do to lighting... I'm thinking of getting a nice clean big paper cards in white, black and maybe orange, (not sure if the last will do anything, but interesting to try?)
Desiree, yes, exactly. I've always loved reading biographies of artists, even those whose work I didn't know much about, and I find it's the same with blogs; I'm definitely interested in the weavers and artists and their lives, and their work start to have meanings for me.
Doni, if I was able to take photos like yours, I'm not sure if I'd need to write, but yes, what I said above works for me. Thanks re. the carpet and the ends!- Susan5/5/09, 3:26 AM
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Jhonathan Solano and Boomer Whiting each collected three hits in the game and the power came on a three-run shot by Francisco Plasencia and a grand slam by Michael Burgess.
Starter Luis Atilano made the most of the offensive explosion and pitched five innings before turning things over to the Potomac bullpen, which has been outstanding in the post-season. Cole Kimball and Dan Leatherman handled the final four innings without allowing a run. Atilano has now thrown 11 shutout innings in the playoffs and has allowed just eight hits. The Nats bullpen has allowed just one earned run in 21 playoff innings for a 0.43 ERA. The starters aren't too far behind, with a 0.82 ERA in the playoffs.
An impressive part of the shutout is that Myrtle Beach featured the Carolina League's top offense this season and came into the series opener hitting .318 in the post-season and scored 27 runs in their five playoff games.
The two teams play Game Two at Myrtle Beach Tuesday night (September 9) before the series takes a day off and heads back to Potomac for Game Three. Jeff Mandel (6-6, 3.68) goes for Potomac against lefty Carlos Rivas (6-4, 5.20) in Game Two.