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Super Rugby
Quirk fills Higginbotham void at Reds
February 25, 2013
Video news report from Queensland Reds' victory over New South Wales Waratahs in Brisbane.%]
Queensland Reds have shown the loss of Wallabies back-rower Scott Higginbotham is the least of their problems in 2013.
In fact, Reds director of coaching Ewen McKenzie doesn't even see Higginbotham's move south to the Melbourne Rebels as an issue as raw-boned youngster Ed Quirk filled the void with aplomb in Saturday night's 25-17 success over NSW.
Quirk was Queensland's unexpected hero, running through Kane Douglas and three more Waratah defenders to set up a sparkling match-winning try to Ben Tapuai at Suncorp Stadium for a fourth straight interstate derby success.
The 21-year-old flanker has taken Higginbotham's place and teamed superbly with fellow young back-rowers Liam Gill and Jake Schatz to win the breakdown battle against NSW's Test-quality forward pack.
"Everyone asks what life is like without Higgers but I've said `we're not worried about it, we're really pleased with the guys coming through'," McKenzie said. "Quirky showed exactly why we think he's a good footballer."
Gill was just as influential, outperforming Wallabies teammate Michael Hooper after also standing up well against David Pocock in the opening round loss to the Brumbies. "All of his teammates have a massive respect for what he does," McKenzie said. "He's just a pest - he's there at every ruck in attack and defence doing something."
Where the problems do begin for the Reds is with preparations for Friday night's third-round clash against the hungry Hurricanes outfit, upset 34-20 by the Blues on Saturday, at home.
Queensland will again be without captain James Horwill as his ankle injury continues to plague the Wallabies lock longer than expected, while halfback general Will Genia (knee) is still another two to three weeks away from returning.
In a short turnaround, McKenzie will only have his full team available to train together on Tuesday due to a Wallabies logistics and promotions camp in Sydney.
But he's set to have defensive linchpin Anthony Faingaa (hand) fit and available, making for a major selection dilemma following an exceptional first game at centre by teenager Chris Feauai-Sautia, as well as Luke Morahan's impact off the bench at fullback.
"That's a good problem to have," McKenzie said.
The Reds adopted the same run-and-gun strategy they use against South African opponents to tire out the big Waratahs pack on Saturday night but a lack of precision in finishing attacking forays allowed NSW to stage a second-half comeback.
McKenzie lamented his side only led 17-3 at halftime due to their poor option-taking in space but praised Queensland's aggression and intent to retain the Bob Templeton Cup.
"I thought some of our tackling was of the highest order - the best I've seen," McKenzie said.
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July 11, 2011 by Bob Livingston
The point is that Americans don't know the difference. They don't know that their savings and their retirement are being destroyed, and they are being systematically impoverished by depreciating or debased nominal dollars. If this is not all important, I don't know what is.
Nominal dollars, or depreciating currency, are destroying America. America is a giant Ponzi scheme, no different from Enron. As with Enron, we are locked into an economic death spiral.
The U.S. national debt will never be paid off.
Nominal depreciating paper money dollars are by default headed for the same trash heap of the rest of the unfunded paper money.
The few who wake up to the real world begin exchanging their depreciating paper money for gold and silver and Swiss annuities (Swiss francs). They also buy value gold stocks and other stocks that go up as un-backed paper money depreciates.
Most people think that a dollar is a dollar. Not so. Today's dollars (nominal dollars) are quicksand money that financially destroys all who trust it.
Those unaware of the inflating debasing nature of nominal dollars live in a fickle and imaginary world. They believe all is well and all is safe. They are further deceived by rising stock prices in nominal dollars. One can be up 100 percent in a stock portfolio but still be losing in real dollars — very deceptive! How many investors in Warren Buffet's famous Berkshire Hathaway realize they have been losing in real dollars for years? I don't believe they mention this in their sensational annual reports.
Look at the nominal dollars in your pocket. They are nowhere near the value of the dollars you had as a child or that you have under your mattress.
We have had paper money since 1913, and most of that time it was being debased (inflated). Now it's at a 92 percent loss. We are only as rich or as poor as the purchasing power of our money.
Have you ever wondered why banks and politicians love paper money? Because they profit from it!
All modern money is nominal dollars. Look at the money in your pocket or your savings account or your retirement. You are being deceptively impoverished, and the fact that you are unaware of it makes your eventual impoverishment certain.
What can we do? Until there is a change in the monetary regime of the United States, we must get out of U.S. dollars as much as we can. Buy farmland, buy food to store, buy gold and silver!
Since we expect inflation (now visible), we also buy fertilizer and pesticides ahead. We fix things that need repair.
We predicted that the money printers would pull us out of the 2008 financial collapse at least one more time. Well, the indicators tell us they are doing it, at great cost to the value of your dollars.
In this inflating economy we could have a skyrocketing Dow Jones, but that will create deceptive losses in nominal dollars.
Take caution for a possible deflationary shock. Nothing goes straight up or straight down; and sometime in the near future, we could have a bone-crushing deflationary shock for a short while. I expect it.
Therefore, keep some cash (you be the judge of how much) to tide you through. You will need it.
If we understand nominal dollars vs. real dollars, it will absolutely change the way we think. They are not the same.

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Super Bowl goes into overtime for first time in history
Super Bowl goes into overtime for first time in history
Before Super Bowl LI, there had never been an overtime in Super Bowl history.
2017 changed that. The New England Patriots tied the game 28-28 with about a minute left in the game. Atlanta had a chance to drive down the field, but went 3 and out and the game went into OT.
Overtime rules in the Super Bowl are the same as during the regular season. If the first team kicks a field goal, the second team gets a chance on offense. If the first team scores a touchdown, though, the game is over.


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This is a collections of old (and maybe obsolete by now) FAQ items. We still keep them, as they might still be useful for some people.
- 1 How do I fix __stack_chk_fail errors?
- 2 How do I fix the "section overlaps" error in v2?
- 3 How do I set up testbios?
- 4 How do I burn a DoC?
- 5 How do I put a filesystem on DoC?
- 6 How do I turn off embedded sis630 devices?
How do I fix __stack_chk_fail errors?
If compilation fails with errors like
vtxprintf.c:(.text+0x4eb2): undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail'
you will need to disable the stack protector that is now enabled by default in the version of GCC shipped with some distros (e.g. Ubuntu).
This should not be necessary anymore for coreboot v4 and payloads (such as FILO) as our Makefiles already handle this. Should you still encounter such an error message, please report a bug on the mailing list. Basically you can fix this error by adding the -fno-stack-protector compiler option.
How do I fix the "section overlaps" error in v2?
The problem:
Section overlaps happen when a part of the v2 image has become too big. Usually, the error message looks like the example shown below:
/usr/bin/ld: section .id [00000000ffffef64 -> 00000000ffffef7f] overlaps section .rom [00000000ffff5d33 -> 00000000fffff0cf] /usr/bin/ld: coreboot: section .id lma 0xffffef64 overlaps previous sections
The fix, #1:
To understand the fix, you have to know that .rom sections have a start address you can set indirectly by setting ROM_IMAGE_SIZE. Since the overlap happens at the end of section .rom, you want to move the start of section .rom to a lower address, preferably only so much that the image fits exactly.
Take the address of the end of section .rom and subtract the address of the beginning of section .id, round it up a bit and increase ROM_IMAGE_SIZE by that amount. That should fix the problem in almost every case.
The fix, #2:
In case you want to take a different angle, calculate the size of section .rom and set ROM_IMAGE_SIZE to that size. This should work as well. Thanks to Harald Gutmann for that pointer.
How do I set up testbios?
From firstname.lastname@example.com Wed Oct 6 10:23:10 2004 Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:19:24 -0400 From: Dave Aubin To: firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: RE: Testbios help with nvidia 6800Gt and simple how to I've taken the time to put together a simple testbios faq. I hope it is helpful. Feedback and additions are welcome. Thanks, Dave
Testbios (vgabios) Faq
Date: 10/5/2004 Author(s): David Aubin email@example.com
Purpose: Testbios is an i386 emulator that sits on top of userspace linux. It's primary purpose is to provide program video rom's in to the cached memory area.
Where to obtain testbios
Testbios(vgabios) can be retrieved from the linuxbios/freebios source tree: [1]
You must have installed pci-utils
How to build testbios
- cd freebios/util/vgabios
- Edit ./Makefile and fill in the correct values for your environment (I build on a 64 AMD so my makefile looks like this)
Begin ./Makefile for x64:
CC = gcc ARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s,i[3456789]86,i386,) INCLUDE = -I ../pciutils-2.1.11 CFLAGS = -Wall -Ix86emu/include -O2 -g $(INCLUDE) INTOBJS = int10.o int15.o int16.o int1a.o inte6.o OBJECTS = testbios.o helper_exec.o helper_mem.o $(INTOBJS) LDFLAGS = -static-libgcc -static LIBS = x86emu/src/x86emu/libx86emu.a ../pciutils-2.1.11/lib/libpci.a # user space pci is the only option right now. OBJECTS += pci-userspace.o ifeq ($(shell if test "$(ARCH)" == "x86_64" ; then echo 1; fi), 1) CFLAGS +=-m32 -march=i386 endif all: testbios testbios: $(OBJECTS) $(LIBS) $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o testbios $(OBJECTS) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) helper_exec.o: helper_exec.c test.h x86emu/src/x86emu/libx86emu.a: $(MAKE) -C x86emu/src/x86emu/ -f makefile.linux clean: $(MAKE) -C x86emu/src/x86emu/ -f makefile.linux clean rm -f *.o *~ testbios distclean: clean $(MAKE) -C x86emu/src/x86emu/ -f makefile.linux clean
End ./Makefile
- Edit ~vgabios/x86emu/src/x86emu/makefile.linux and fill in the correct values for your environment (I build on a 64 AMD so my makefile looks like this)
Begin ~vgabios/x86emu/src/x86emu/makefile.linux:
############################################################################# # # Realmode X86 Emulator Library # # Copyright (C) 1996-1999 SciTech Software, Inc. # # ======================================================================== # # Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and # its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, # provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that # both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in # supporting documentation, and that the name of the authors not be used # in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software # without specific, written prior permission. The authors makes no # representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. # It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. # # THE AUTHORS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, # INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO # EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR # CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF # USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR # OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR # PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. # # ======================================================================== # # Descripton: Linux specific makefile for the x86emu library. # ############################################################################# TARGETLIB = libx86emu.a OBJS=\ debug.o \ decode.o \ fpu.o \ ops.o \ ops2.o \ prim_ops.o \ sys.o $(TARGETLIB): $(OBJS) ar rv $(TARGETLIB) $(OBJS) INCS = -I. -Ix86emu -I../../include CFLAGS += -D__DRIVER__ -DFORCE_POST -D_CEXPORT= -DNO_LONG_LONG -DDEBUG ARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s,i[3456789]86,i386,) ifeq ($(shell if test "$(ARCH)" == "x86_64" ; then echo 1; fi), 1) CFLAGS +=-m32 -march=i386 endif .c.o: # gcc -m32 -march=i386 -g -O -Wall -c $(CFLAGS) $(INCS) $*.c gcc -g -O -Wall -c $(CFLAGS) $(INCS) $*.c .cpp.o: # gcc -m32 -march=i386 -c $(CFLAGS) $(INCS) $*.cpp gcc -c $(CFLAGS) $(INCS) $*.cpp clean: rm -f *.a *.o validate: validate.o libx86emu.a gcc -o validate validate.o -lx86emu -L.
End ~vgabios/x86emu/src/x86emu/makefile.linux
- Once built you could have a 32bit testbios executable made. Depending on your embedded environment you might want to have it built shared as the above example makes it static. Just remove -static-libgcc -static from the LDFLAGS on ./Makefile if you wish to have it built shared.
How to retrieve a good video bios
Note: if you are following these instructions to build LinuxBIOS for your motherboard, this is only necessary if you have a motherboard with an embedded VGA card. If your VGA is an add-on card, LinuxBIOS will find and run the ROM by itself.
Anton Borisov has released a number of tools under the GPL (v2) to extract the VGA BIOS from the BIOS ROM images provided by the supplier of your motherboard.
You can download them here:
Award BIOS: http://kaos.ru/biosgfx/download/awardeco-0.2.src.tar.gz AMI BIOS: http://www.kaos.ru/biosgfx/download/AmiDeco_0.31e.src.tar.gz Insyde BIOS: http://www.kaos.ru/biosgfx/download/InsyDeco_0.3.src.tar.gz Phoenix BIOS: http://www.kaos.ru/biosgfx/download/PhoenixDeco_0.33.src.tar.gz
See the Tyan S2881 Build Tutorial for more information on how to use these tools.
Alternatively, there are sites that have video bios roms on their website. Google is your friend, as always.
In some cases, you should also be able to retrieve your own video bios while running linux. Note however that this does NOT always work. In the case of the Tyan s2881, for instance, this method will generate a 32KB VGA ROM image that is invalid - the real VGA ROM image is 36K long, but the last 4K is not available in RAM, and thus can not be extracted with the following method.
- Boot up a machine with a commercial bios (not linux bios) with the video card you wish to work under linux bios.
You can see where your vga bios starts and how much space it takes by issuing
cat /proc/iomem | grep "Video ROM"
- To extract the bios, enter this command on the command line:
dd if=/dev/mem of=vgabios.bin skip=1536 count=128
Alternatively, you could use:
dd if=/dev/mem of=vgabios.bin bs=1k skip=768 count=64
This assumes you card's bios is cached in 0xc0000, and is 64K long. If your bios starts at 0xc0000 and ends at 0xc7fff it is only 32K long, and you need this command:
dd if=/dev/mem of=vgabios.bin bs=1k skip=768 count=32
- dd Explained (man dd to learn more):
- if is the location to retrieve from.
- of is the output file (your rom image)
- bs is the block size (the default is 512 bytes)
- skip jumps n blocks in the source data
- count is how many blocks you wish to read
- dd Explained (man dd to learn more):
- You now have a video bios image
How to use testbios
- Currently testbios only works from user space linux (10/4/04)
- Example from a linux command line or script enter the following to get your video bios programmed:
./testbios -d 0x90 -s 65536 --abseg /dev/mem ./vgabios.bin
- Testbios explained
- -s how much of the video bios is there
- --abseg where would you like to write this (/dev/mem default)
- -d device busdevfun in packed from
- How to get pci busdevfn in packed notation
- lspci
- look for your video card
- Example:
2 (00 << 3) | 00 = 0x200
- Example:
0 (12 << 3) | 0 = 0x90
- Example:
- -t dump
- -c codesegment Where do you want to start, default is 0xc0000
- -b base Where do you want base to be default is 0xc000
- -i instruction pointer usually left off as the default
- filename of video bios
- Testbios explained
Followup to Testbios FAQ
How do I burn a DoC?
A DoC (Disk on Chip) is a storage device aiming at serving as both boot-ROM and background storage (CF disk) to save circuit board space and pin-count, e.g. in a digital camera.
Currently, only the DoC Millennium is supported. See the documentation.
How do I put a filesystem on DoC?
OK, here is a little HOWTO on how to set up MTD with a file system.
This is a m810lmr, booting out of DoC. I am going to reserve the first 2M for kernel. So the layout will be the first 2M for linuxbios and kernel, and 6M for a file system. Kernel is 2.4.17, with linux-2.4.17-sis.patch from linuxbios source tree, and config-2.4.17-sis from the linuxbios source tree. Mainboard is the pcchips m810lmr.
So I:
modprobe doc2001 modprobe docprobe dmesg
which shows:
DiskOnChip Millennium found at address 0xFFFC8000 Flash chip found: Manufacturer ID: 98, Chip ID: E6 (Toshiba TC58V64AFT/DC) 1 flash chips found. Total DiskOnChip size: 8 MiB mtd: Giving out device 0 to DiskOnChip Millennium Ignoring DiskOnChip Millennium at 0xFFFCA000 - already configured Ignoring DiskOnChip Millennium at 0xFFFCC000 - already configured Ignoring DiskOnChip Millennium at 0xFFFCE000 - already configured Ignoring DiskOnChip Millennium at 0xFFFD0000 - already configured Ignoring DiskOnChip Millennium at 0xFFFD2000 - already configured Ignoring DiskOnChip Millennium at 0xFFFD4000 - already configured Ignoring DiskOnChip Millennium at 0xFFFD6000 - already configured (etc..) Now I need MTD utilities. So I: cvs -d :pserver:email@example.com:/home/cvs login CVS password: (password is anoncvs) Then: cvs -d :pserver:firstname.lastname@example.com:/home/cvs co mtd
Forget the drivers and such, you don't need them. What you need is the tools.
cd mtd/tools make
Go ahead and copy the executables somewhere handy, you'll need them.
Now we need to make the last 6M into a "disk". We need to format it. The tool is nftl_format, so:
[root@carly util]# ./nftl_format $Id: nftl_format.c,v 1.17 2001/08/29 14:28:48 dwmw2 Exp $ Usage: ./nftl_format [ []] [root@carly util]# expr 2048 \* 1024 2097152 [root@carly util]# expr 6 \* 1024 \* 1024 6291456 [root@carly util]# ./nftl_format /dev/mtd0 2097152 6291456 $Id: nftl_format.c,v 1.17 2001/08/29 14:28:48 dwmw2 Exp $ Phase 1. Checking and erasing Erase Zones from 0x00200000 to 0x00800000 Phase 2.a Writing NFTL Media Header and Bad Unit Table Phase 2.b Writing Spare NFTL Media Header and Spare Bad Unit Table Phase 3. Writing Unit Control Information to each Erase Unit
we now have a formatted disk in there. We can now partition it.
[root@carly util]# modprobe nftl
dmesg shows LOTS of errors, since this was never partitioned ...
Also, if you don't have /dev/nftla,
[root@carly util]# mknod /dev/nftla b 93 0
Don't use the script just yet, it makes /dev/nftla as b 93 16, which is the wrong unit #.
now fdisk /dev/nftla
[root@carly util]# fdisk /dev/nftlA Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 1 First cylinder (1-1, default 1): Using default value 1 Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/nftlA: 1 heads, 12224 sectors, 1 cylinders Units = cylinders of 12224 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/nftlA1 1 1 6111+ 83 Linux Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(768, 0, 0) logical=(0, 0, 12224) Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(768, 0, 0) should be (768, 0, 12224) Command (m for help): w The partition table has been altered! Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. WARNING: If you have created or modified any DOS 6.x partitions, please see the fdisk manual page for additional information. Syncing disks. [root@carly util]# mknod /dev/nftlA1 b 93 1 [root@carly util]# mke2fs /dev/nftlA1 mke2fs 1.23, 15-Aug-2001 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=1024 (log=0) Fragment size=1024 (log=0) 1528 inodes, 6111 blocks 305 blocks (4.99%) reserved for the super user First data block=1 1 block group 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group 1528 inodes per group Writing inode tables: done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
This filesystem will be automatically checked every 37 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
[root@carly util]# mount /dev/nftlA1 /mnt [root@carly util]# cd /mnt [root@carly mnt]# df . Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/nftlA1 5915 13 5597 1% /mnt [root@carly mnt]#
and so you now have an ext2 file system on the DoC.
(Above is from Ron Minnich)
How do I turn off embedded sis630 devices?
From firstname.lastname@example.com Mon Mar 25 08:54:07 2002 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:07:54 +0800 From: Andrew Ip To: Kei Furuuchi Cc: firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: Re: How to turn off unused pci device. Hi, > I have pcchips m758lmr which has audio chip besides sis630. > those functions in sis630 are not used in the motherboard. > But, the functions keep coming up. How do I turn off those? The following is from Nikolai Valdych previous message. Hope this help. -Andrew -- Andrew Ip Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Actualy, it was pretty simple 0x7c00 - All devices enabled, You play with first 4 bits only. Cos there are 4 devices, so you have any combination of 4 bits. Set bit to 1 to turn off the device, bit 0 to enable it. This is the device list: Multimedia Audio controler Modem controler Ethernet sis930 controler USB controler. For example, to turn off Ethernet + USB it would be: 0x7c0c -> 1100 in binary (first 4 bits) To turn off Multimedia audio : 0x7c01 -> 0001 in binary and so on... maybe there are more detail, but this is enogh for me, Ollie, again thanks! nikolai p.s. though my modem is not yet working..... damn driver......


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Keith Urban, LoCash Cowboys Celebrate Success of 'You Gonna Fly' in Nashville
On Wednesday (April 11), Keith Urban hosted yet another No. 1 party — his favorite one yet — at Chappy's restaurant in Nashville celebrating his latest chart-topping hit, 'You Gonna Fly.' Joining Urban for the upbeat celebration were the songwriters, Preston Brust and Chris Lucas of the LoCash Cowboys, as well as country rocker Jaren Johnston.
The tune marked the very first time the three writers have had an outside cut, an outside single and a No. 1 hit by another artist, giving Urban his 14th chart-topper. Urban says he always knew the song would be a single, but wanted to wait until the time was right. Obviously the timing worked out for everyone involved, especially the writers whose lives have been forever changed.
"When we found out it was going to be a single, that's when I flipped out," Lucas told Taste of Country at the party. "I will never forget sitting in my apartment at the time, thinking I don't know how I'm going to make ends meet or how I was going to get by this year. Then two minutes later, I got the call that Keith was putting it out as a single."
"I just might be a little nervous right now, but instead of butterflies being in my stomach, I have blackbirds in my stomach," Brust added with a laugh, referencing the line in the song about a blackbird. "Everything just started to happen. The song got recorded, [Keith] sang it on the Super Bowl, it became a single and it went to No. 1. I think when all those things started happening — and then today — it just starts to hit you more and more and more that this is really something special."
The success of 'You Gonna Fly' is extra sweet for Johnston, who was looking for a way to break into the country music scene after fronting the rock band American Bang for years. "I've been trying to work that angle for a long time, but I didn't think it would happen like this," he said. "I thought I might get a cut or two, but this is pretty exciting."
As partygoers made their way into the upscale Nashville restaurant, they were given white "1″ keychains with a blackbird on the front — a token to remember the very special day. While waiting for the party to be underway, everyone enjoyed an amazing spread of Creole-style food that included yellow fin tuna and chicken sliders, deviled eggs, meatballs, fried chicken and cheesecakes.
The party, put on by both BMI and ASCAP publishing companies, was filled with many laughs once Urban and the writers took the stage. Following passing out the awards, each star had the opportunity to take the microphone for a few words, which included comical stories from Brust, Lucas and Johnston about their first encounters with Urban after the song topped the charts.
"He called me up on the phone, and said, 'This is Keith Urban!'" Brust told the crowd, as Urban stood behind him on the stage laughing at the reenactment of their conversation. "I said, 'Get out of here! You gotta sing a song or something! I don't know about this … I got a lot of friends with Australian accents!' I got so nervous because it was Keith Urban on my phone! I said, 'How are you, Keith?' And he says, 'I'm good, how are you?' I said, 'I'm good, how are you?' [laughs] I said 'How are you?' like three times in a row!"
Brust went on to share another story about the genuine kindness Urban showed following the song topping the chart for two consecutive weeks. He sent all three writers a bottle of 2004 Cristal champagne along with personalized thank you cards, which the LoCash Cowboys received while in the studio recording new songs.
"We were [two] redneck kids holding these bottles of Cristal!" Brust said, laughing. "We were like, 'What do we do with this? Do you save it, like in the movies, or do you open it and drink it?' All we had in the kitchen were these little paper dixie cups. We were like, 'Well, let's Google it and make sure [we know] how to open it.' We Google Cristal, and it says: 'Don't open — it's too expensive!' But I was like, 'Oh, we're gonna open this!'"
As the crowd's laughter got louder and louder, Brust continued his story, admitting the bottle "exploded" when opened, showering them with the high-dollar bubbly. "It was like the World Series Championship Game," he said. "It was going all over all of us, just pumping! We were like, 'This is a celebration! Keith knew what he was doing when he sent this!' It's a party in a bottle … we didn't mean to waste $200 worth of it, but it was an amazing moment."
Johnston took the podium next, sharing his personal stories, followed by Lucas. Lucas closed out his speech by presenting a special gift to Urban on behalf of the LoCash Cowboys and Johnston — a 24-karat gold whistle in a special engraved box that read "Best Use of a Whistle in a Song Award."
Urban, amazed, said "That's crazy … it's a real gold whistle." He returned the kind gesture by presenting the three writers with custom and personalized Fender Telecaster guitars with gold-plated pickguards.
"I'm either going to write with you guys and/or just get a song from you, just in hopes that we'll have another No. 1 party," Urban said when it was his turn to thank those who made the song possible. "Hands down, [this is] the best No. 1 party I have ever been to. Thank you for trusting me with the song. It's in the repertoire now, so for me, I get to play it, and I really love you guys for that."
The evening came to a close after Urban and took the stage with Brust, Lucas and Johnston for a rockin' performance of the song that brought them all together — and yes, Urban's brand new whistle was used!
Also in attendance at the special celebration was Urban's actress wife Nicole Kidman and award-winning songwriter Jeffrey Steele.


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GREEN BAY, Wis.—The Brown County medical examiner says the frigid weather is to blame for the death a 38-year-old man whose body was found on the driveway outside his home this week.
Medical examiner Al Klimek (KLIM'-ik) says an examination allowed authorities to rule out trauma or foul play in the death of Brian L. Hicks.
Authorities say temperatures were in the single digits about the time Hicks was found Monday morning. Klimek says he died as a result of hypothermia due to prolonged exposure with inadequate clothing.
Klimek says preliminary tests suggest alcohol was a factor. Further tests have been ordered, and the results are expected in about two weeks.
Authorities in Wisconsin and Illinois suspect the cold played a role in two other deaths.


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How it could have happened in SA
As long as Joe, Gavin and the rest of the Maloof clan is involved, there's still a chance this could all blow up.
But for now, it seems as if
the Sacramento Kings are headed north to Seattle
, abandoning a market that, despite its flaws, loved and supported them far better than they deserved.
It's times like this when San Antonio, if it doesn't already, should give heartfelt thanks for the wild success its only major-league team has enjoyed. Four championships and the NBA's best winning percentage over the past 15 years, in a small, blue-collar market you typically need a connecting flight to reach?
What has happened here is nothing short of remarkable, an achievement never more apparent than times like this, with a sister city on the verge a losing a franchise through no real fault of its own.
It's telling that two straight coaches, Brooklyn's P.J. Carlesimo and Philadelphia's Doug Collins, spoke with equal measures of envy and respect about just how unique the Spurs' success has been during their recent visits to San Antonio. They ticked though the requirements to replicate what the Spurs have accomplished:
Draft a couple of all-time Hall of Famers within a close enough span that their careers overlap.
Have an owner who hires good people and stays out of the way. Have one of the best coaches in the game. Have a general manager whose patience and foresight matches that of the head coach. Do it in a town with no other competition, so your team can soak up all the attention and resources.
As Carlesimo finished his summation: Good luck with that.
Compare this with the woeful Kings. They figured out the last bit. But with the exception of their success in the early 00s, everything else has been a debacle.
Instead of David Robinson and Tim Duncan, they got Pervis Ellison and DeMarcus Cousins.
Instead of Gregg Popovich, they got 13 different coaches in 28 years.
Instead of a dignified, hands-off owner, they got a pack of debt-ridden carpet baggers.
Instead of a Memorial Day Miracle and four championships, they got a Game 7 meltdown and zero Finals appearances.
With so many factors that had to go just right for the Spurs to do what they've done during the Duncan era, it's not hard to imagine a scenario where they, and not the Kings, could be relocating. Especially considering
the Maloofs were a finalist to buy the Spurs in 1996
, when they were edged by Peter Holt. An alternate history if they would have won:
* The Maloofs sack Popovich after the 6-8 start in 1998-99. The Spurs never recover in the resulting turmoil, and a potential dynasty is thwarted before it ever happens.
* With no championship to galvanize the city, a bond measure to build a new arena fails, leaving the Spurs stranded in the cavernous, inadequate Alamodome.
* Duncan bolts to join Grant Hill and Mickey Mouse in Orlando.
* The Maloofs hold out through a decade of mediocrity, flirting with multiple cities while fan discontent mounts. They finally sell out to Seattle in 2013, and just like that, San Antonio's 40-year love affair with pro basketball is over.
This is how thin the line between success and failure can be in professional sports, particularly one as market-driven as the NBA. The Spurs, with an abundance of good fortune along the way, have skirted it masterfully.
That feat should never be taken for granted. Especially not while another town, comparable for so many ways, is about to pay the ultimate price for the gross mismanagement of its prize.
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URGENT: Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans has aligned itself with Norwegian-owned fish farm companies Cermaq and Marine Harvest, against biologist Alexandra Morton's legal efforts to stop the transfer of farmed salmon not tested for piscine reovirus (PRV – a highly infectious virus now linked with a deadly disease in farmed Atlantic salmon) into open-net fish farms. Recent footage by Tavish Campbell showed the world in vivid detail that raw infected blood carrying PRV is being discharged into British Columbia's wild salmon migration corridors. Cermaq claims that it is treating its product to a higher standard than is legally required—that's because the law currently doesn't protect wild salmon from PRV. It's time to tell Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier John Horgan that Canadians will no longer accept open-net salmon pens in our waters. The many risks they pose to our critical wild salmon populations are too great.
Thousands of non-native Atlantic salmon escaped August 19th into the Salish Sea in a fish farm accident near Cypress Island in Washington State, located about 50 kilometres east of Victoria in the San Juan Islands. The pen itself held 305,000 individual non-native fish, yet reports say only a few thousand are accounted for. Simultaneously, disturbing new footage was released of diseased and disfigured salmon in B.C. fish farms. Ernest Alfred and Awahawoo Hereditary Chief George Quocksister Jr. shot the footage at two salmon farms owned by Grieg Seafood and located near Broughton Island, B.C., in the traditional territory of the Musgmagw Dzawada'enuwx Nation. Several First Nations chiefs are now occupying the farms, supported by wild salmon activist Dr. Alexandra Morton and Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, demanding that their license of occupation be rescinded. There are over 100 open-net cage salmon farms along on the B.C. coast, 98% owned by Norwegian companies, representing highly concentrated sources of waste, disease, and parasites that threaten other species.
Wild salmon are in decline in B.C. Sockeye stocks have been in overall decline since at least the 1950s, while chinook and coho stocks in particular have been in severe decline since 1990. Wild salmon in this province face a number of threats throughout their lifecycle, including:
Widespread destruction of upstream habitat caused by logging, roadbuilding, pipelines and other land use changes;
Reduced food supply caused by over-exploitation of forage fish species;
Warming waters due to climate change;
Pathogens and parasites spread by fish farms;
Aquatic pollution from agriculture, cities and industry;
Competition with and loss of genetic diversity among hatchery-raised fish;
Destructive fishing practices and overfishing.
Several pieces of legislation, government-issued reports, commissions, policies and court rulings including the Species at Risk Act, Canada's Wild Salmon Policy and the Cohen Commission Report have spelled out the threats to wild salmon and the changes that need to be made to protect them. For the past several years, the federal government has moved in the other direction, cutting DFO's budget by $100 million and habitat staff by one third from 2012-2016. They gutted the Fisheries Act, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, and the Navigable Waters Protection Act of legal protections for wild salmon and other wildlife habitat and have failed to act on the recommendations of taxpayer-funded research into salmon declines. The new Liberal Federal government has committed to review and restore these lost protections. While this is great news, wild salmon biologists warned in August 2017 that half of B.C.'s managed salmon runs aren't monitored, while commercial fisheries remain open, meaning that overfishing may be pushing salmon stocks to collapse.
The federal and B.C. provincial governments are also actively promoting salmon aquaculture, despite the fact that open net-cage fish farms (there are over 100 of them along on the B.C. coast, 98% owned by Norwegian companies) generate a small fraction of the income and employment brought by wild fisheries. Open net-cage salmon farms come with a host of environmental problems, from imported diseases and escapes of alien species to waste dumping. Many of these salmon feedlots are sited along the migration routes of wild salmon.
Proper protection of wild salmon and their habitat benefits many species and ecosystems as well as drinking water, air quality, soil conservation and human health. However, their protection is in conflict with the kind of destructive industrial resource extraction the federal and provincial governments are pinning our economy on. In short, wild salmon are under direct threat from current government policies.
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I often go back and remake some of my old recipes, and when the original photo is really bad (as are most of my early ones), I take a new photo. Sometimes, however, I go a little bit further and change up the recipe so that it fits my current tastes. That's what happened to this coleslaw.
The longer I'm vegan–and it's been 19 years now–the more I try to improve the nutritional quality of the food I eat. I started out by cutting out animal products, then I reduced my use of refined fat, then I increased the amount of vegetables I eat, then I all but eliminated flour and sugar. And now, finally, I'm working on decreasing salt. (Don't ask me about my coffee consumption. Some things just aren't negotiable.)
For my lunch today, I wanted to have this Sesame Orange Coleslaw that I created during my second month of blogging. But as I was preparing to make it, I noticed that the recipe contained more salt, sugar, and sesame oil than I would use today. So I remade the recipe according to my current tastes, reducing the sesame oil, changing the seasoned rice vinegar (which contains added sugar and salt) to regular rice vinegar, using stevia instead of sugar, and omitting the mirin (which contains both sugar and salt). And though I left the soy sauce in the ingredients marked as optional, I left that out of my coleslaw, too.
And I loved it! I did spice up my bowl with some red pepper, and I turned it into a meal-in-a-bowl by adding chickpeas. The orange juice and sesame oil give the salad a subdued sweet and nutty flavor, but the orange slices are like bursts of edible sunshine.
You can adapt this recipe in any number of ways to fit your tastes. Like it spicy? Add cayenne or sriracha. Want to serve it as a one-dish meal? Double the serving size and add shelled cooked edamame or chickpeas. Need it lower in sodium? Skip the soy sauce.
- 1 bag (16 ounces) prepared coleslaw or 15 ounces cabbage plus one carrot, grated
- 1/2 cup thinly sliced red bell pepper
- 3 small seedless oranges, broken into sections (or 2 navel oranges, peeled and sliced)
- 1/4 cup orange juice
- 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 1 tablespoon low-sodium tamari or soy sauce (optional)
- 1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds
- 1 tablespoon grated peeled fresh ginger root
- 1 teaspoon lime or lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon dark sesame oil (or to taste)
- sweetener to taste (see Notes)
- Combine the coleslaw, bell pepper, and orange slices in a large salad bowl. Mix together the remaining ingredients and pour over the vegetables. Allow the flavors to combine for at least half an hour in the refrigerator before serving.
I used 6 drops of NuNaturals Alcohol-Free Liquid Stevia, but you can use any sweetener you like. Just start small and add it to taste. If you're using real sugar or syrup, count on about 2 teaspoons.
Preparation time: 15 minute(s) | Cooking (refrigeration) time: 30 minute(s)
Number of servings (yield): 8 1-cup servings
Nutrition (per 1-cup serving): 46 calories, 7 calories from fat,


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We read about the Parshah every week, simply because Little Einstein loves loves loves it- and will throw in a Parshah project here and there, but here are some all round fun Jewish ideas:
My 5 Senses do Mitzvos!
- make a book of the 5 senses, one sense per page and make or find pictures of different mitzvos you do with each of the senses
- make a cutout person out of large construction paper and attach a mitzvah to each part of the body that that part performs
- using a mirror, help your cutie make a self portrait and discuss each part of the face and how each part does different mitzvos
- using glue and beans, have your cutie write their name on paper with the glue then glue the beans to make "braille" explaining what braille is and how it helps blind people see
- Using half water, half white vinegar, and YOUR supervision! clean pennies- your cutie will be amazed at how shiny and clean the copper gets
- Use an empty container (coffee, chocolate powder, matzah meal- any container with a lid) and decorate it with paint, tissue paper, markers etc. to make their own tzedakah box. Fill it through out the summer and at the end of the summer, go with your cutie to give the money to a place that needs it so they can see that all the money they collected is actually going to help someone
- show the cuties a real mezuzah and whats written on the parchment
- get feathers and paint and let cuties write with feathers on paper just like a sofer writes mezuzos
- out of clay, make a mezuzah case then paint it
- Collect old wrappers from kosher products and make a collage with all the different kosher signs
- cut out pictures of dairy and meat products from magazines and stick them in 2 different sections (one red, one blue)
- "Magnet Fishing" make fishing rods out of a stick, yarn and a magnet at the end. Make kosher fish with fins and scales and unkosher fish (octopus, eel, crab etc) and attach paper clips to them. Let the cuties go "fishing" and divide whatever they catch into kosher and unkosher piles
- Make copies from The Very Hungry Caterpillar (by Eric Carle) of all the foods he ate. Then make a book or chart with the different brachot and cut and paste each food into the various columns or pages
I hope to post some photos as we do each project~ Happy summer to all!


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5 Sinfully Satisfying Desserts For Your Lunchbox
There are some folks out there who are OK with calling a granola bar a dessert, but not me. I want something slightly sinful with more than a little satisfaction. Here are five quick recipes that pack well, are easy to whip up, and will cure any craving.
1. Easy Dessert Recipe: Dark Chocolate & Hazelnut Skillet Blondies: These blondies can be made ahead of time and pre-wrapped for easy grab and go lunch packing each morning.
2. Sweet No-Bake Recipe: Classic Southern Pralines: These cookie-shaped candies are easy to whip up on a weekend and packaged up for during the week eating. We won't just say lunch, because they're a snack that's hard to stay away from!
3. Sweet Treat Recipe: Fluffy Vanilla Marshmallows: Have you ever had a homemade marshmallow? If you have you know how creamy and satisfying they are. They make their own perfect little dessert that will whisk you away from your office for a moment and make you think about the better things in life… like eating a second marshmallow.
4. The Best Chewy Chocolate Cookies Ever (& Low-Fat Too): A chocolate cookie usually needs no introduction, but today it does. This cookie is the right kind of chewy and loaded with flavor — one or two will suffice to end your meal on a high note!
5. Apricots with Candied Rosemary Walnuts and Cream: Although you might need an ice pack in your lunchbox, this herb-studded fruit treat is well worth the extra effort. With cream or without, the combination of nuts, rosemary and fresh fruit and a perfect pick me up without feeling too guilty about more traditional desserts like cookies and cake.
What's your favorite lunchbox sweet treat?
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday called on the U.N. General Assembly to move swiftly to approve a U.S.-Russia deal to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons, saying there is no time to argue with those who remain unconvinced that the Syrian regime carried out a chemical attack last month that killed hundreds.
Kerry didn't mention Russian President Vladimir Putin, but his remarks were a clear attempt to rebut Putin's statement that Russia has strong grounds to believe that Syrian rebels — not President Bashar Assad's regime — were responsible for the Aug. 21 attack.
Speaking at a conference, Putin said, "We have every reason to believe that it was a provocation, a sly and ingenious one." He said those who perpetrated the attack relied on "primitive" technology, using old Soviet-made ammunition no longer in the Syrian army's inventory.
While the U.N. report did not ascribe blame, the U.S., Britain, France and others believe that the report's findings offer conclusive evidence that the attack was conducted by the Syrian military. Assad, in an interview this week with Fox News Channel, denied that his regime was responsible for the attack.
The U.S., Britain and France pointed to evidence in the report — especially the type of rockets, the composition of the sarin agent and trajectory of the missiles — to declare that Assad's government was responsible. Moreover, they argue that there is no evidence that opposition forces possess sarin gas.
"So there you have it. Sarin was used. Sarin killed," Kerry said. "The world can decide whether it was used by the regime, which has used chemical weapons before — the regime which had the rockets and the weapons — or whether the opposition secretly went unnoticed into territory they don't control to fire rockets they don't have, containing sarin that they don't possess to kill their own people.
"And then, without even being noticed, they just disassembled it all and packed up and got out of the center of Damascus controlled by Assad. Please. This isn't complicated."
The U.S. wants a new U.N. resolution now under discussion to make the U.S.-Russia agreement reached last week in Geneva legally binding in a way that is verifiable and enforceable. The U.S. and Russia are arguing over putting the resolution under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter. Chapter 7 deals with threats to international peace and security and has provisions for enforcement by military or nonmilitary means, such as sanctions.
"We really don't have time today to pretend that anyone can have their own set of facts approaching the issue of chemical weapons in Syria," Kerry said. "This fight about Syria's chemical weapons is not a game. It's real. It's important. It's important to the lives of people in Syria, it's important to the region, it's important to the world that this be enforced — this agreement that we came out of Geneva with."


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Gifted adults often face unique career career challenges. They're often described with words that seem negative in the context of most corporate jobs. For instance, gifted adults can seem restless and undirected. They juggle several projects at the same time. They come across as intense and supremely focused.
When children are gifted, they often get into trouble at school because they are bored. They are not always the "A" students because their minds don't work in conventional ways. Teachers often don't know what to do with them.
However, being a gifted child can bring rewards because children are praised and rewarded for learning and scoring high on tests. Adults are rewarded for broader forms of success, which require social skills and personality traits that often conflict with the gifted adult's nature.
Many gifted adults have felt "different" since childhood. Some understand that they don't fit in because their mind works differently. But others think there's something wrong with them.
When gifted children become adults, they face unique career challenges, especially if they don't recognize themselves as gifted. They might try to fit into corporate life, only to get frustrated. Corporate life rewards qualities like frustration tolerance and conformity. Gifted adults tend to get bored easily and have trouble conforming, even when they want to.
Gifted adults tend to be rewarded when they find themselves in careers and environments that support their abilities. Examples include scientists, professors in research-oriented universities, authors, and many professionals. Some gifted adults know how to "play the game," moving beyond unrewarding entry level jobs to reach positions where they can use their gifts.
Unfortunately, other gifted adults remain stuck in jobs where they are guaranteed to remain misfits. A manager who conceptualizes the company's problems easily can get repressed by bosses who don't encourage her to explore these directions. A worker in a dead-end job who lacked the education and social skills that would let him move to a more congenial environment can't use his mind.
If you relate to these descriptions, you may encounter difficulties not only with career choice but with career guidance. Career counselors can be intimidated by gifted clients. They are trained to discourage career changers from moving in too many directions at once. They see gifted clients who seem to grasp ideas really quickly but sometimes have trouble translating these ideas into action.
In particular, gifted adults tend to catch on to things so quickly they face two dilemmas in choosing a new course. First, they seem to be good at so many things, they say it's hard to choose. Second, they (and their advisors) often say, "You're really good at this. Maybe it should be your career." Aptitude turns out to be a small part of career satisfaction, so it is important to look at the total picture, including personality and style.
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Chez Panisse reopening after fire
A famous gourmet restaurant in Berkeley that was heavily damaged by a fire in March is reopening its doors Monday after a lengthy repair project.
Chez Panisse, owned by renowned chef Alice Waters, will serve meals to the public again after a March 8 fire. The blaze caused an estimated $200,000 in damage when electrical equipment malfunctioned under the porch of the building at 1517 Shattuck Ave.
A statement on the Chez Panisse website says that the upstairs cafe could have opened earlier, but the decision was made to keep the entire building closed to expedite the completion of the repairs.
"We feel very fortunate to have such a passionate and motivated community behind us, and extend our thanks to the many individuals and businesses who have so generously offered their support in the cleanup and restoration process," the statement said.
Reservations can be made up to a month in advance at Chez Panisse, which opens its upstairs cafe for lunch at 11:30 a.m. Mondays through Saturdays and the downstairs restaurant at 6 p.m. on the same days.
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One of the most stylish people I know is now blogging at Rue de Emily. Emily's home is brimming with inspiration and beauty, and I always leave her home with an overwhelming urge to throw away everything I own. Emily is celebrating the color blue this month, and she has already posted some fabulous photos. Please give her a warm welcome.
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Last week, during the increasingly gruesome Tigers-Yankees ALCS, TBS analyst John Smoltz got a burr in his bonnet. I'm not sure precisely what was going on in the game, but something came up that got Smoltz thinking about sabermetrics. At least I think it was sabermetrics; he could barely stand to even mouth the word.
It went something like: "So … [audible snort] … there's all these people with their … [choked-off inhale, as if he had entered the Cardinals clubhouse bathroom right after Lance Lynn had left it] … mathematics, trying to understand … [grasping of the microphone as if it is the neck of Bill James] … the game. It's … it's just …" I don't have the exact quote right, mostly because it was hard to hear Smoltz through the blood vessels bursting and his teeth grinding. As the immortal Twitter account @oldhossradbourn succinctly summarized, "'Sabermetrics? What's next? Marrying an animal?' - J. Smoltz."
The disconnect between the way advanced statistics are used in baseball front offices -- the Philadelphia Phillies perhaps being the lone, stubborn exception -- and the way they are used in media coverage of baseball is so vast that you'd almost think television is covering a different sport entirely. Inside the world of baseball, WAR and OPS+ and so on are simply the way general managers and team staff talk about their jobs, the way CPAs talk about spreadsheets and financial advisors discuss Roth IRAs, the way any profession talks about anything.
But outside, on our televisions, they're treated as some wonky dork sorcery, pencil pushers trying to pretend they understand baseball more than those who have far more experience (and who may currently be wearing protective cups). Baseball broadcasters treat advanced statistics like Billy Bush and other red-carpet Oscar idiots would treat an experimental short film about lesbian sects in Uganda. They act like they don't matter, when, in many cases, they're almost all that does. It would be as if political reporters said, "Who cares about all those math nerds in their mother's basements with their 'electoral college' charts? I want to know what's in these candidates' hearts."
There are exceptions -- Jon Sciambi tries to fit in what he can, David Cone has professed an interest in the subject and Steve Berthiaume is about to make Arizona Diamondbacks fans a lot smarter -- but by a dramatically large majority, those who describe sports to us on television have mindsets a lot closer to Smoltz's, and sometimes they sound just as disgusted by it. (Joe Morgan was the most famous practitioner of this.)
Baseball is being described by people who are actively hostile to how baseball is being practiced at its highest levels. We have flat-earthers making all the maps.
The main reason for this is, of course, because most of the people who describe baseball games are former players, or loyalist company men unlikely to challenge an athlete hero. (Or perhaps baby boomers who are still angry that baseball isn't like it was when they were 12 anymore.) Understandably, I suppose, former baseball players tend to not like theories that -- to them -- seem to be saying players are statistics-generated robots whose inherent skillset has a thousand times more to do with their success than their grit, heart, determination or "clutchiness." They are a clubbish, cliquish, part of The Baseball Fraternity. Outsiders, the ones who best have the ability to step back and see the bigger picture (like sabermetricians, baseball bloggers and, you know, people who work in baseball front offices) can't possibly understand what it's like between those lines, out in the dirt. TV stations hire former athletes to comment on games because people know who they are. Needless to say, this is not an inherent qualification to discuss baseball. In many ways, it's like asking the subjects of a science experiment to write the report.
There is obviously value in some guy-who-has-done-it analysis, most recently displayed by MLB Network's Harold Reynolds, who made a terrific case as to why the infield fly call in the Cardinals-Braves wild-card game was, in fact, the correct call. But even Reynolds, whose enthusiasm for the game is so evident that it's inevitably contagious, has his blind spot in this area. And the times when a former player illuminates the audience on a confusing play like that, when they truly bring us behind the dugout, are few and far between. It's too often just backslapping, ex-athletes pretending to laugh at other ex-athletes' jokes.
This is how a show like "Clubhouse Confidential," one of the smartest shows on MLB Network (and a very promising development, simply on a professional television level), ends up being reduced to a "recurring segment" during the season but Kevin Millar is still screaming catchphrases in my face for an hour every day.
And look: This is not simply just some nerd complaining that the people on the TV aren't using his nerd states. (It is that; it's just not simply that.) This is how baseball is being played and discussed and assessed in the year 2012. By the front offices, by the arbitrators, by the people making all the decisions … heck, increasingly, by the players themselves. This is simply television doing a poor job of describing what we are watching. It's the trading of reality for John Kruk and Mitch Williams to hang out with their friends and be paid for it.
This is going to take time. Four years ago, you'd never see a player's slash-line and a starter's pitch count shown on broadcasts; they're regular features now. Pitch-f/x data and Hit-f/x data are too impressive technological breakthroughs not to be used on broadcasts. Many younger broadcasters are embracing the data as a way of breaking through to an audience that's hungry for something more than the old broadcasting tropes.
But we're not there yet.
Maybe someday we'll have a broadcaster describe the way baseball is being played, managed and evaluated without, you know, spitting the words at us as if they were venom. A fan can dream.
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I know: Nerd writer, nerd stats. Got it. Thoughts, concerns, grousing, future column ideas? Remember, this column is meant as a valve, a release, for when you're yelling at your television during games, or, after reading a particular column, you're pounding your fists into your computer. Obviously, I'll need your help to do that. Anything you want me to write about, let me know, through email or Twitter. I am at your beck and call.


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At Lagrange point 2 of Kwandrivia there are thousands of asteroids, they are mostly leftover from the creation of the Ghilandus and have come to rest in that Lagrangian point. The entire asteroid field is owned and claimed by the Titaus Giants of Vaughn Braughn City.
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Just off the west coast of the Dominion Federation and across a long bridge connecting the surface city to the Foundation Colony is a massive elevator that connects the Dominion Federation to the Foundation Space Colony. The Foundation Space Colony is large cylindrical rotating space habitat 8 km in diameter and 32 km long that is located in Kwandrivia's Lagrange 3. The Colony has six equal-area stripes that run the length of the cylinder; three are transparent windows, three are habitable "land" surfaces. Furthermore, an outer agricultural ring, 16 km in radius, rotates at a different speed to support farming. The habitat's industrial manufacturing block is located in the middle, to allow for minimized gravity for some manufacturing processes. Along each of the habitable land strips are artificial lands built to mimic the world which the people of the Foundation Colony Come from. Thick forest's of maple trees, towering pine trees, lush farmers fields and many more Earth-like environments can be found here. Sunlight is directed into the colony using massive wing-like mirrors. These mirrors are closed when the colony is moving or it is under attack.
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After almost a year of fighting with bureaucrats in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, Hu Cheng was ready to die.
After almost a year of fighting with bureaucrats in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, Hu Cheng was ready to die.
He paused for a moment in front of the No. 1 Intermediate People's Court and doused himself with gasoline. He then climbed a set of stairs, sat down and clutched a lighter in each hand. Before police tackled him to the ground on Nov. 7, 2011, he thought over the question of how life works in China.
"It seemed to me that officials could trample on the human rights of the Chinese people however they wanted," Hu, a glum-faced 40-year-old in black-framed glasses, recalled during a recent interview.
In the 13 months since Hu's aborted suicide protest, the fog-shrouded metropolis of Chongqing has been the epicenter of political intrigue that's shaken the Chinese Communist Party.
The party boss who oversaw Chongqing when Hu nearly self-immolated, Bo Xilai, now sits in disgrace and awaits formal indictment on a range of alleged crimes. The fallout emanating from Bo's undoing has included a murder trial and allegations of corruption gone wild. Even the district party chief whom Hu accused of taking part in a real estate scam, Lei Zhengfu, was brought down amid scandal.
China's new leadership is calling for a crackdown on rampant corruption. Yet nothing has changed in Hu's case. His experience, and that of the city around him, is a reminder that the nation still runs on the interests of the party and not the rule of law.
Hu's complaint centers on the assertion that officials in Chongqing's Beibei District, including Lei, were running a kickback scheme. After tearing down buildings in the area, including one that held the Hu family apartment, officials allegedly stuffed their pockets with payoffs when the property was flipped from a construction firm to developers. In the meantime, Hu said, the compensation offered to him was far below market price.
After his home was razed in December 2010, Hu looked to higher-level leadership for help. He filed petitions with court and government offices in Chongqing and got nowhere. He then traveled to Beijing to do the same — he was turned away and detained.
A district court had given the go-ahead to tear down the property, a judgment that Hu maintains was the result of a crooked series of events.
"The government carried out administrative interference of the court's investigation in the case. That's the reality of things," said a lawyer who's advised Hu since last year. The lawyer asked that neither his name nor that of his firm be used, because "they can do whatever they want to crack down on people."
Hu, who ran a restaurant with his older sister, tried lodging a lawsuit in July 2011. Chongqing's No. 1 Intermediate People's Court declined to accept the case. He returned to Beijing that September and, he said, was pushed into a car, driven to the train station and sent back to Chongqing.
A couple of months later, Hu was at the courthouse carrying gasoline.
Chongqing police were reluctant to confirm Hu's account of his attempt to light himself on fire. After calling eight police stations and a detention center in the city, McClatchy Newspapers found an officer who agreed to read a summary from Hu's case file over the phone. It corroborated his details of the event.
There are many others in Chongqing, however, who are unavailable for comment these days.
The Communist Party secretary of Beibei District, Lei Zhengfu, couldn't be reached. Authorities sacked him last month after a video emerged of him having sex with a woman identified as an 18-year-old mistress.
The film came from a Chongqing police official with the explanation that it was made in 2007 after the head of a construction company "gave" the woman to Lei as a bribe and then tried using their sexual relations to blackmail him, according to Zhu Ruifeng, an online activist and former journalist who released the recording.
Lei reported the blackmail effort to then-Chongqing Party Secretary Bo Xilai, who in turn ordered his police chief to handle the situation, Zhu said, citing the account of his police source. The woman in the video was detained for 30 days and the developer jailed for a year, according to Zhu, who said he had records to back up the claim. No action apparently was taken against Lei.
It wasn't possible to interview the former police chief, Wang Lijun. A court sentenced him in September to 15 years of prison on charges involving bribe taking, abuse of power and defection. During his time at a U.S. consulate in February, Wang is said to have told American officials that Bo's wife was involved in the killing of a British businessman.
The wife, Gu Kailai, was similarly unreachable. After being found guilty of murder in August, she received a verdict of death with a two-year reprieve.
Bo disappeared from public in March. He's almost certain to be tried and convicted, with state media accusing him of involvement in everything from corruption to having "maintained improper sexual relationships with a number of women."
Beijing cites the punishments meted out after the lurid chain of events in Chongqing as proof that officials are made to answer for their misdeeds. But some analysts see the campaign as nothing more than political score-settling dressed in the language of a court system tightly controlled by the Communist Party. Bo, the charismatic son of a late party elder, was widely considered overly ambitious for the comfort of the status quo.
"They always claim they are fighting corruption ... but the truth is they are fighting the corruption of outsiders" — those in other factions — said Pu Zhiqiang, a rights lawyer in Beijing. "If they punished everyone, no matter who they are, then the Communist Party would have collapsed a long time ago."
Pu represents Ren Jianyu, a former village official who recently was granted early release from a Chongqing re-education-through-labor camp. He'd been sent there last year for posting online items that were critical of Bo Xilai's administration. Although official media described that turn of events as an opportunity to re-examine the nation's labor camp system, Pu scoffed at the prospects of serious reform.
"The sex tape and Ren Jianyu being put under re-education through labor, these sorts of things didn't happen only in Chongqing; they are very common all over the country," Pu said in a telephone interview.
The fact that the party allowed the Lei tape to linger without disrupting Zhu Ruifeng's website raised eyebrows. So too did Zhu's freedom to give interviews to foreign and domestic journalists in which he said he possessed more sex videos featuring Chongqing leadership.
As with the Ren case, state-controlled news outlets gave broad attention to the Lei story.
Zhu said in an interview that he was encouraged by senior leadership talk about moving against corrupt officials. The newly appointed general secretary of the Communist Party, Xi Jinping, in the past month has signaled a fierce campaign to come against official corruption, warning that it could threaten the existence of the party and the state.
Zhu hinted at doubts.
"Corruption in China is created by the system," said Zhu, who favors black suits during interviews and keeps his laptop in reach.
When Hu spoke with McClatchy at the end of November, he was back in Beijing looking to submit more petitions, meet with reporters and do anything else he could think of to try to get assistance.
"The higher authorities have their policies, but the lower authorities have ways of getting around them," Hu said, staring into his empty coffee cup at a downtown McDonald's.
He added: "The local governments do not care about the common people. They rob them at will."
Twelve days later, Hu sent a text message to follow up the conversation. He'd been detained for "illegal petitioning" in Beijing and sent back to Chongqing.


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One of my inventions, that I designed years ago, is the NeoThruster.I designed it for use
for space travel but it works in Earths atmosphere also.
The simplified description of my NeoThruster is:
Put electricity in get thrust out. But, not like the "IonEngine". The thrust of the NeoThruster
is measured in Pounds.
The direction of thrust can be changed quite rapidly and, if implemented properly, it can
provide thrust in any direction in 3 dimensional space.
I've tried to get in contact with Lockheed - Martin, to no avail, to tell them about my
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Sempiternal Drive
This invention is going to be hard to believe but, it's true. Everyone knows that
Perpetual Motion is impossible. Impossible in that no usable energy can be produced
by it.
Many inventors have claims of tapping power from Gyroscopic Electrons(?), a force
no one knows about yet, etc and etc. They are trying to make the devices to
complicated. Simplicity is the answer. Reality helps also.
My Sempiternal Drive is as close to Perpetual Motion as you can get. But, as with all
machines, it needs energy to run. That energy is all around us. Everyone feels it's effect.
And, possibly killing 1 person daily. That energy is called ................
I feel that I have sucessfully harnessed Gravity.
I have invented the "Continuously Out Of Balance Wheel" and it works.
Many inventors have attempted to build Continuously Out Of Balance Wheels but none
worked properly.
To build a workable Continuously Out Of Balance Wheel inventors need to know the
secrets. 2 secrets to be exact. And these 2 secrets are what makes it work.
My Sempiternal Drive produces energy in the form of torque. From oz/in to 100's foot
pounds and more. This torque is normally constant but, can depend on the utilization
of the torque.
I don't know who to approach with my Sempiternal Drive. It would definitely solve
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If Electric companies would utilize the Sempiternal Drive, they would never need to
build a Hydroelectric Dam, a coal burning power plant and absolutely no Nuclear
Power Plants. Also people could build the Sempiternal Drive in there back yard
and supply, 24/7, electrical power to their home.
Also, I did a search on the InterNet to find the cost of a Nuclear Facility and basically
it's about $100,000,000,000.00 (100 Billion dollars).
What I'm about to say is purely speculative but at least I'm figuring the cost of a
Sempiternal Drive facility high.
Figuring that the cost to build a Sempiternal Drive facility at $2,000,000,000.00.
(2 Billion dollars)
This facility would produce the same amount of Power that a Nuclear Plant would.
The Sempiternal Drive facility is 1/50 of the cost of a Nuclear Plant.
So.......50 Sempiternal Drive facilities could be built for the price of 1 Nuclear Plant.
Probably, the thing that makes a Sempiternal Drive facility so cheap is its Simplicity.
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One final note........The Sempiternal Drive would run till the earth was destroyed by
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No, I assumed sempiternal was coined by you. Now I know.
I was playing along with your prior blogassertation. (my coined silver) That is to say knowledge once having emerged is sempiternal, megatrillion eons later or next moment.
Glen Rosenberg......Did you look up the defination "Sempiternal"? (lol) Took me awhile to find a word that could fit my machine....Not quite sure what you mean by "Semptiternal drive would outlive any cataclysmic event in "consciousness"".
Larry, the Semptiternal drive would outlive any cataclysmic event in consciousness.
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Nearly 100 students in four programs at the Lenawee Intermediate School District Tech Center had the chance Friday to interact with potential employers through a "reverse" job fair.
The students in the advanced manufacturing, alternative energy and robotics, engineering design and CAD, and welding technology programs set up tables and displayed their talents and abilities through computerized presentations and hardware items, while employers examined their wares and asked for resumes.
Tommy Cameron, assistant principal of curriculum and instruction at the Tech Center, said the four programs represented during the reverse job fair are deemed a "high need" in the current job market.
"It is important to put the students in an interview situation with an employer who really is looking for employees," he said.
Given the success of Friday's job fair, the event may be expanded to include additional programs from the Tech Center.
Eli Megale, a junior at Sand Creek High School and a first-year student in the advance manufacturing program at the Tech Center, said his education goal is to attend a trade school with an eventual career in tool-and-die and special trades.
"The employers were asking us how we're liking the trade, how our school year's going," Megale said. He said the job fair also prepared him to interact positively with potential employers.
Teaghan Hess, a senior at Sand Creek and a second-year student in advanced manufacturing, said he hopes to become a machinist after graduating from high school.
Hess spoke to four company representatives in the first half-hour of the reverse job fair. He said he has spoken before with potential employers, but was a little nervous as they came to him.
Despite that, Hess said, "I am looking forward to hearing (again) from one of them."
Ryan Penterics, plant engineer at Ervin Technologies in Tecumseh — a facility that manufactures metal powders and steel shot — said the reverse job fair showcased "quite a bit of talent."
"It's beneficial to get students in front of employers and potentially get them jobs, particularly for the summer," he said.
Ervin Technologies office services supervisor Tim Bakewell said a good number of the students were well-prepared for the event.
"A lot of them have the right idea," he said. "They seem to have a goal in mind. Most have a well-put-together resume, which is important."
Bob Toffoli, plant manager at ididit Inc. in Tecumseh, called the reserve job fair "a great concept."
"It's great the students get to display what they're doing," he said. "They're very mature for their ages."
His colleague, human resources coordinator Maggie Seagraves, said she agreed.
"From an employers' standpoint, we see what the future will be for the market," she said. These are very great students who we may be able to hire."
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This is an activity about how the Sun can affect the Earth's atmosphere, specifically the ionosphere. Learners will use real data from a Sudden Ionosphere Disturbance Monitor, or SID Monitor, to identify the signatures in the graphed data that can... (View More) be used to determine the times of sunrise and sunset. Although the SID monitors are designed to detect SIDs caused by solar flares, they also detect the normal influence of solar X-rays and UV light during the day as well as cosmic rays at nighttime. There is a distinct shape to a 24-hour SID data graph, with unique shapes, or signatures, of the graph appearing at sunrise and sunset.This activity is part of the Research with Space Weather Monitor Data educators guide. Use of and access to a Stanford Solar Center SID monitor and the internet is encouraged but not required. Locations without a SID monitor can use sample data provided in the educators guide. (View Less)
This is an activity about auroras and the scientific terminology used to describe them. Learners will read an article that provides an introduction to specific terms and concepts related to auroras and auroral substorms and examine photographs of a... (View More) 2003 aurora and descriptions of an 1859 aurora to identify the various phases of auroral substorms. This is activity 11 from Exploring Magnetism: Magnetic Mysteries of the Aurora. (View Less)
This is a lesson plan for an activity to introduce several terms scientists use to discuss Earth's magnetic field. Learners will explore a website, read about the main features and regions of the Earth's magnetosphere and its functioning within the... (View More) Sun-Earth system, and compile a lab book in which to keep notes about Earth's magnetosphere, space weather, and magnetometer data. This resource is Activity 12 of Exploring Magnetism: Magnetic Mysteries of the Aurora. (View Less)


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By Jaclyn Kreifels
In today's fast paced society, it's easy to indulge in high sodium foods. However, there are easy ways to reduce our sodium intake. First, always read the label. Begin with the "Serving Size" most containers have more than one serving. If the serving size is two, and you plan to consume the entire product, you must double the milligrams of sodium listed (and calories too of course).
For example, a prepackaged lunch indicates two servings per container, and the sodium listed is 720mg. Therefore, when consuming the entire package, you actually consume 1440mg of sodium.
The average person should try and limit sodium to 2300mg per day. Other ways to watch our sodium consumption is to purchase reduced sodium or salt free items in the grocery store, omit salt from recipes and always try your food before salting it.