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Turning points don't come very often. But iPad 3, still unannounced and as-yet-unglimpsed and un-picked-up-in-a-beerhouse, is going to be one for sure and the iOSsphere is getting ready for it.
This week, the monumental iPad 3, lawsuits in translation, dismissing calls for an Apple boycott, and why iPad 3 will have a high-def display.
You read it here second.
"[T]here has long been no doubt in the minds of any tech-enthusiasts or even casual observers that the iPad was indeed the primary passion of Jobs ... therefore the upcoming launch of the third-generation model could not be more significant." ~ Kay Coleman, NewsSizzle.com, demonstrating the freeform "If A, then D" logic of the iOSsphere
iPad 3 will be "turning point in history of Apple" not to mention the world
The Most Embarrassing Surfeit of Apple Superlatives Award this week goes to Kay Coleman, contributing writer at a website called News Sizzle ("What's Hot").
The surfeit begins with the headline: "iPad 3 Release Date Press Event to Signal Turning Point in History of Apple."
And it continues with the opening sentence: "As if the upcoming press event likely to signal the announcement of the iPad 3 release date will not be monumental enough in its own right, the fact that Tim Cook will be taking the stage for the first time since the tragic passing of Steve Jobs will undoubtedly make it a truly pivotal point in the history of Apple."
Perhaps she's hoping to find a slot on the iPad ad copywriting team: "iPad 3. Magical. Monumental." Or perhaps she's channeling Shakespeare. [See "If William Shakespeare wrote an Apple rumor blog"] If only she was writing for The Onion, which in 2009 definitively covered the introduction of Apple's latest must-have gadget, the MacBook Wheel.
But in case you missed the point about iPad 3 being monumental in its own right, Coleman continues, with only a semblance of logic: "there has long been no doubt in the minds of any tech-enthusiasts or even casual observers that the iPad was indeed the primary passion of Jobs, even above and beyond the iPhone, therefore the upcoming launch of the third-generation model could not be more significant."
The motto of the iOSsphere is: I have no doubt, therefore it exists.
"As of now, the iPad 2 is still by far the most revered and popular tablet PC the market has ever seen, with Apple as a whole being the only true dominating presence in the field as a whole." The use of "revered" strikes just the right tone when talking about Anything Apple. "The vision of Jobs was a world where tablet PCs would eventually replace laptops and desktops, which seemed entirely implausible at the time though seems to be gathering momentum as a true possibility with each passing day."
For some of us, with each passing hour, so wondrous is it to live in the looming presence of the third-generation monumentality of the iPad 3.
And what can we expect? Coleman is a bit vague on this, but we can be sure it will be an historic, pivotal turning point that could not be more significant. "All in all, a thinner, lighter, more powerful and endlessly more functional device is expected, though exactly how such upgrades will manifest remains privileged information we will only be privy to when Tim Cook is good and ready to share."
Given Moore's Law and All That, we usually expect thinner, lighter, more powerful devices as time goes by, so that doesn't seem like much of a monumental turning point that's gathering momentum with every passing day. But an "endlessly more functional device" is something only Apple could give us. If that Tim Cook guy wasn't such a tease.
iPad 3 sparks lawsuit against blogger by Apple supplier
A Taiwanese blog, Apple.pro, is being sued by a parts supplier to Apple, for having published in 2011 images of "purported" internal iPad 3 components, specifically the dock connector and ribbon cable.
At least, that's what is claimed by Shaun Campbell, at Tapscape, a "Technorati Top 100 Gaming Blog ... a trusted source for up-to-date iPhone and iPad news."
His brief post on this shocking development, "Supplier Sues Over Leaked iPad 3 Component Images," doesn't go into much detail but, in keeping with Internet courtesies, he links to the original Apple.pro blog post.
Alas, the post is in Chinese. But with the help of Google Translate we learn from Apple.pro's Anthony that:
"Many friends will be surprised On how big such a long time I did not write the article If you have an impression on the recall last year I broke off this 'iPad3 parts reported exposure ??!!!' Did not think that a certain company broke the news report was the first person But of course we all know the Internet for so long that we just broke the news quoted"
We're not 100% certain, but Anthony's legal defense seems to be "I didn't write anything really, I just repeated what somebody else on the Internet had posted."
The apparent threat of legal action clearly has had a chilling effect. "I do not want to detail more about the process," Anthony writes, according to Google Translate. "Free fruit company's day to send someone to see what I did not write the article (the Commissioner that the work really easy)."
"Fruit company" is clearly a reference to Apple, but for the rest, we'll just have to take Campbell's word for it.
The lawsuit can only mean one thing, as Lory, posting at PadGadget, astutely recognizes. "Apparently, the supplier who made the leaked part was none too happy and is suing the website. Why would someone be so upset about it unless the images were real?"
Exactly. Instead of being upset, they should be happy. "The iPad maker should be happy that the world is so interested in what is to come. It is free advertisement and feeds the hype." The Bloggers Code: free advertising and feeding the hype.
Don't worry: a boycott of iPad 3 is unlikely
A "number of media" have called for a boycott of Apple products because the Chinese companies where they're built treat their workers harshly, writes Douglas McIntyre, at 24/7 Wall Street.
"While a boycott may be put into place, it will not change the demand for Apple's products one bit," McIntyre reassures his readers. "They are too popular and U.S. consumers do not care much about working conditions as far away as China."
It would probably be more accurate to say that the Red Chinese government does not care much about working conditions inside the Great Wall.
One of the boycott boosters, linked to by McIntyre, is The Daily Beast's Dan Lyons, who posted a column Jan. 23 ripping Apple's "deal with the devil" -- its cozy relationship with the "fascists" in Beijing.
"Would we accept the idea of a plant where people are packed into barracks and can be roused in the middle of the night, given a biscuit, and sent to work for 12 hours?" Lyons asks, rhetorically. "Where workers have no right to complain? We would not accept this in the United States because, quite simply, it's barbaric. ... But we go along with it happening in China, and have turned a blind eye to it, because we want our gadgets and we don't want to pay fair prices for them."
Lyons, by his own admission, draws much of his post from the material of anti-capitalist monologist Mike Daisey, creator of, among other one-man shows, "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," a critique of globalization.
As a Forbes story noted last November, "It's safe to say that Mike Daisey has gotten over his enthrallment with Apple. 'Do you think Apple doesn't know that there are 13-year-olds making their products?' he asks."
Lyons can't quite make up his mind about who's to blame: Apple, other electronics companies, the ChiCom regime, but finally he settles on the obvious. "Ultimately the blame lies not with Apple and other electronics companies -- but with us, the consumers. And ultimately we are the ones who must demand change."
Presumably, he means demanding change from Apple because demanding change from the People's Republic of China isn't good for one's health, as the Uighur people of western China learned as recently as 2009.
iPad 3 will have a high-def display because Acer just announced one
While logic boards are an essential part of the Mac architecture, they're not required in the iOSsphere.
Thus, at ITProPortal.com, Desire Athow found a tidbit on a German website, about Acer unveiling a new tablet, the Iconia A700, with a high resolution screen. In his own post, he made the connection that the unenlightened would have missed:
"The Acer Iconia A700 is the first tablet on the market to come with a full HD display, a 10.1-inch IPS model with a 1920x1200 pixel resolution, which may well mean that the Apple iPad 3 will indeed have a retina display in order to catch up with the A700."
Because that's what Apple does: It catches up to competitors. It's an ironclad logic: If Company X introduces the first table with a feature better than what's on iPad 2, then it "may well mean" that iPad 3 will have it in order to catch up.
Rollup noted earlier this month that another rumor insists the iPad 3 will have a 2048 x 1536 resolution. But that would yield a pixels-per-inch of 263, or quite a bit less than what Apple currently labels as its Retina Display, which for the iPhone 4S is 326 PPI (960 x 640 pixels).
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Witness his supposed compromise on the HHS regulations on insurance companies having to supply free contraceptive and sterilization care to all women even if their employers are religious institutions with religious objections to such policies. The Obama administration is pretending that the employers won't have to pay for these policies, just the insurance companies. This is mendacious sophistry. Someone has to pay for those policies. Insurance companies don't offer policies for free. That someone will be have to be the religious institution. Somehow, they'll end up paying for Obama's free contraceptive mandate.
Gregory Mankiw explains this.
Consider these two policies:It's all of a piece with Obama's magic money. He is about to deliver a budget that will purportedly cut billions in spending even though about $800 billion comes from supposed spending cuts of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was never going to spend that money anyway, but now he gets to count not spending the money he was never going to spend somehow saves hundreds of billions of dollars. Why stop there? Why not count money he was not going to spend on all sorts of programs such as a manned colony on Mars and then trumpet those savings?
A. An employer is required to provide its employees health insurance that covers birth control.
B. An employer is required to provide its employees health insurance. The health insurance company is required to cover birth control.
I can understand someone endorsing both A and B, and I can understand someone rejecting both A and B. But I cannot understand someone rejecting A and embracing B, because they are effectively the same policy. Ultimately, all insurance costs are passed on to the purchaser, so I cannot see how policy B is different in any way from policy A, other than using slightly different words to describe it.
Yet it seems that the White House yesterday switched from A to B, and that change is being viewed by some as a significant accommodation to those who objected to policy A. The whole thing leaves me scratching my head.
But it's all magic money that Obama somehow conjures out of nowhere.
The real problem with this whole contraceptive mandate is that Obama has revealed what so many suspected at the time the bill was crammed through. Obama thinks he has the power to establish that people must buy insurance and that he can mandate what that insurance must cover. All that power is concentrated in the executive branch. If he could make this rule now and then change it when there are objections from a powerful voting bloc, he can certainly change the policy if he were to be reelected. All it takes is another rule change by his HHS Secretary. As J.E. Dyer chides the media for mis-reporting the Obama supposed rule change as if it were really a change,
If the federal government can step in and arbitrarily require a company to provide things for "free" that were previously elective, premium-based services, then it is no longer an insurance company. We are not buying insurance from it; we are simply participating in a mandatory government program whose features can be changed at any time, regardless of what we or the "insurers" want. There is no contract. There are only the one-sided decisions of bureaucrats and future presidents.The Republicans have to make the larger point. This goes beyond the whole question of religious institutions having to provide free contraceptives. The real issue is whether the president should have such concentrated power without any check. And once we give him that power what else can he mandate when he doesn't have to worry about trying to maintain a pretense of reasonableness before an election?
This Obama move is the opposite of a retreat. It's a decision to reveal the future to us, and to insist on remaining on course for it.
Yet on their news pages (as opposed to the opinion pages), the mainstream media are stuck in the old mode of interpreting political events in a single dimension, as if all other things remain equal, and a rhetorical "retreat" from a president means the same thing it usually has in the past. We see this in numerous aspects of their coverage. They keep putting out stories in the same old narrative ruts, as if we have a business-as-usual political situation. The president's people say he has changed his mind on the contraception mandate; in the shallowest of political terms, that can be seen as a "retreat"; and no care is taken to frame the overriding reality that Catholic employers will be required to pay for "insurance" programs that distribute contraception to their employees.
That is not a change of heart, it's a significant broadening of the state's control, undertaken at the drop of a hat – and we have a huge mainstream media apparatus that simply does not frame what's going on in realistic terms. The clear implications of the Obama decision were widely discussed across the conservative blogosphere yesterday, and even on some MSM opinion pages. But in their news reporting, the MSM characterized what had happened – falsely – as a retreat by the president.


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Warm-ups...some practice, maybe a 3 setter. Anytime today. AM any other day. Let me know. Thanks, Frank
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Hey Frank,
Do you have Monday/Tuesday evenings that you can hit? Thats usually when I find openings, but other times can work as well.
you got time to go and hit to tomorrow in berkeley?
hey john, where and what time?
do you have time today?
yea man. im ready after 3 pm. in berkeley
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These tips will help you work with your members to keep the weight off.
Although this is the last installment in our War on Obesity series, you can keep the fight alive by following this proven program strategy.
By the time this article is published, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will have released statistics indicating that obesity rates have increased 6 percent in 1999, compared to 1998.
While this increase may come as no surprise to fitness professionals, an important question remains unanswered: What can our industry do to help more Americans successfully manage their weight?
Program Awareness
Making members aware of the weight-management program is an important and often overlooked issue for clubs that already have weight-management programs in place.
Ongoing staff training is essential if a club owner or manager expects member enrollment into an existing weight-management programto grow. All of your staff - including front-desk personnel, fitness instructors, childcare staff, group fitness leaders, personal trainers, supervisors and general managers - must be well versed in your program.
At Wolff Health & Fitness Center, we utilize an ongoing staff-training program that involves a three-part training program. All staff must attend three two-hour sessions that educate them on everything we do in the program and why we do it.
After this training, our staff is better able to answer questions about our program and direct members to our free program orientation. Considering that we have more than 50 part-time staff interacting with members seven days a week, it becomes absolutely vital that they not only understand the program, but realize its value.
No Offense
Promoting your program is certainly important if you expect it to grow and be viable over time. However, promoting a weight-management program can present some problems. How do you tell someone that he needs to lose weight? This can be a very delicate conversation to have - even when dealing with members who may benefit from your program.
My experience over the past 13 years has taught me one very important thing when it comes to enrolling people into a weight-management program: You can't tell people that they should be in your program. People need to decide for themselves whether they are ready to enroll.
Rather than tell prospects how many pounds they should lose, I approach members by suggesting that they consider attending one of our free, no-obligation weight-management orientations - just to see how our program can support them with their health and weight-management efforts.
In addition, we offer free educational seminars that show people how we are capable of helping. We also get them interested in the weight-management program. For example, I recently conducted a free seminar called "How to Eat Right and Exercise Even When You're Not Motivated." Now this is a topic that appeals to everyone.
Once people come to the lecture, they see and hear that we really have something of value to offer them. Afterwards, we provide attendees with a brochure about the weight-management program and mention when the next free program orientation is.
Not only does speaking teach people about your program, it allows people to connect to the club more easily. Once they trust you as a skilled professional, the communication channel is open, and they feel more comfortable having more serious conversations about weight management.
Use these conversations to tell people about your program. For example, we guarantee our clients results. In fact, we have a guarantee that allows members to try our program for two weeks, no risk.
What to Avoid
Just as there are things that will enhance your ability to enroll members into your program, there are some things you should avoid when marketing your program. One of the more damaging things I see clubs do is overstate the benefits of their program while understating the effort required. Spectacular-sounding results may work to attract clients; however, not being able to deliver these results will ultimately interfere with the consistent growth of your program.
When prospects attend our free orientation, we let them know what weight-loss results they can expect (based on the data we track on our clients), and let them know exactly what they will need to do to achieve those results.
Getting the Message
Most people recognize that sensible eating and physical activity lead to better health and weight management. The reason more Americans aren't acting on this information has to do with our culture. In our program we call this cultural influence "the Gap."
The Gap is the difference between what health professionals recommend vs. what Americans do. Oversized portions of low-nutrition foods are everywhere, and energy-saving devices (garage-door openers, riding lawn mowers, etc.) are commonplace.
These cultural influences make a healthy lifestyle difficult to sustain. In fact, our food environment has become so harmful that some obesity experts are speaking out against it. Recently, Kelly Brownell, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Yale University, referred to our food environment as toxic.
The best way to combat the Gap is to make your members aware of it and then work with them to make changes in their own food environment. Participating in a highly structured program that provides weekly accountability and support for physical activity and lower-calorie eating is the best way to insulate your members from the Gap.
Help for Nonmembers
Many fitness centers offer their weight-management services to their members, while overlooking other people in the community who could benefit from the same services.
At Wolff Health & Fitness Center, we treat our weight-management program as a separate business. The program is open to all members of the community. We promote and advertise the program as a full-service, weight-management center vs. a fitness center that runs a few weight-loss classes on the side.
Many of our weight-management clients are not members of our fitness center. If we did not open the program to nonmembers, we would be missing a large percent of the community that could benefit from our services.
The full name of our program is "The HMR Program for Weight Management at Wolff Health & Fitness Center." When we get inquiries about the program, we immediately tell the prospects that they do not have to be a club member to join our weight-management program.
Of course, we always discuss the benefits of using the fitness center while they participate in our weight-management program. In an average weight-management class of about 12, we get roughly 25 percent to join the fitness center.
Program Partners
Fitness centers that do not offer weight-management services are in an ideal position to promote their expertise and services to existing weight-management programs (e.g., Weight Watchers) in the community.
The best way for clubs to market their services to these organizations is to give away some of their expertise. These weight-management programs are usually very receptive to having exercise professionals come in and speak to their members, discussing topics such as how successful weight management requires regular exercise. This is a great way to get exposure for your club.
When giving educational lectures to weight-management programs, be sure to include enough useful information and free educational handouts so that the group sees your presentation as more than just a commercial for your fitness center. Over the last 10 years, I have given several hundred free lectures to a wide variety of groups. These lectures have always been a good way to generate qualified leads for my fitness center.
Health Professionals
Clubs that do not have health professionals on staff should consider contacting allied health professionals to provide services at their facilities. Bringing in licensed nutritionists or registered dietitians can be as easy as contacting them and letting them know that you would like them to speak to their members.
These lectures are a value-added service for members, and can even draw nonmembers to your fitness center. To locate a nutrition professional in your area, contact the National Center for Nutrition and Dietetics at (800) 366-1655.
Client Referrals
There are many methods for marketing your weight-management program. One of the greatest methods is through client referrals. Referrals work because they cost you nothing (unless you decide to offer referral incentives), and clients pleased with their results speak highly of the effectiveness of your program.
At Wolff Health & Fitness Center, we offer referral incentives in order to motivate our program participants to make even more referrals. For every referral clients make, they receive a coupon for $30 that can be redeemed for products or services.
Don't underestimate the impact of this simple concept. When your clients get meaningful results, they will make referrals. If you want to grow your program, make absolutely certain that you are running a high-quality service that delivers lasting results. This means you must pay careful attention to every one of your clients. Make sure your clients aren't slipping through the cracks and not getting the results they came to you for.
Committed for Life
In January, clubs will experience the normal increase in numbers that occurs every year. By the end of February, some of those new members will begin to lose interest in their exercise and weight-management plan. This usually means they stop coming to the fitness center and begin to lose momentum with their weight-management goals.
Club owners and managers can prevent some of this by taking a serious approach to health and weight management. I would encourage clubs to put more emphasis on behaviors and the support of those behaviors (e.g., daily physical activity) and less emphasis on trendy yet unproven weight-loss products (e.g., fat blockers, appetite suppressants, muscle builders, etc.).
In our program, we don't experience the decrease in participation during the first quarter of the year like most clubs and programs. This is because we realize how difficult it is to sustain these behaviors without weekly support and accountability. Don't forget the Gap and how it can make even the most simple behaviors very difficult to engage in.
Getting your members involved in a specific program (a weight-management program, if you have one, or exercise program), having them keep a record of their physical activity, and reporting back on a weekly basis will help them maintain these new yet fragile behaviors. Another strategy that we use at Wolff Health & Fitness Center is to acknowledge up front the fact that it is harder to keep weight off than it is to lose weight. By entering this conversation early with your members, you can position them to begin thinking about the support and changes they need to make to sustain these new behaviors.


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Tuesday, 17 August 2010
Cocktail Hour
19 = Ambitious
20 = Happy
21 = Drunk
22 = Devastated
23 = Defeated
It shows clearly how my mood has changed. But now I am (very nearly) 24, I would describe myself as Optimistic. I have gotten over the devastation and defeat the past couple of years have thrown at me and I look to a brighter future, even if I am nearing a quarter of a century whilst being unemployed and living with my parents. It's not really that bad is it? I still have time to turn things around and I am positive this time next year I will still be on the road to recovery but with some life experience, a fabulous job and home and a God like boyfriend under my belt. (Its not asking for too much is it?) So, here's' to me at cocktail hour. Happy twenty fourth, Rheuma Girl.
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firstly I love your blog & facebook :) hope you had a lovely birthday & that all your wishes come true :)
I was 32 when diagnosed & feel so sad that you were 10 years younger :(
You do have to almost grieve the life you wanted or hoped for so you can then accept how you are and carry on in another direction. You sound like you are positive now & that is so important.
Am following you on FB, well done you for being so proactive!!
I wish you every success.


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The inaugural Delaware Out of the Darkness Community Walk to raise awareness for suicide prevention in the First State is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10. Registration begins at noon. A Center for Mental Wellness in downtown Dover and the Downtown Dover Partnership have collaborated to make this event happen.
A Center for Mental Wellness off West Loockerman Street has collaborated with the Downtown Dover Partnership to the hold the inaugural Delaware Out of the Darkness Community Walk to raise awareness for suicide prevention in the First State.
The Out of the Darkness Community Walk in Dover is scheduled for Nov. 10 downtown, said Ed Perez, project coordinator for the Downtown Dover Partnership and the Dover Economic Development Office. These walks take place in communities across America on various dates, but A Center for Mental Wellness is bringing the walk to Delaware for the first time.
The Downtown Dover Partnership has assisted A Center for Mental Wellness with logistics for the event, such as planning the race route, providing permits, and providing opportunities for promoting the event, said Jenna Mahoney, a counselor and training coordinator at A Center for Mental Wellness.
In addition, most of the downtown merchants were supporting the walk organized in part to combat the rash of suicides that occurred in Kent and Sussex counties in early 2012, Mahoney said.
"Most of our downtown merchants are from Dover and proud to be part of the community," she said. "They are our neighbors; their kids go to our schools. They realize that this event doesn't just impact their business, but also their own personal lives. We have had a great response from several businesses in helping to promote [the walk]."
WHAT Out of the Darkness Downtown Dover Community Walk
WHEN 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10 (Registration starts at noon.)
WHERE The newly developed Loockerman Way Plaza, West Loockerman Street, Dover
INFO www.outofthedarkness.org, Call, (302) 674-1397, email email@example.com,
Federal officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducted a study during the spring and summer of the 11 young people who committed suicide in Kent and Sussex counties earlier this year. The cluster of suicides included four alone at Polytech High School in Woodside.
The CDC concluded in a repot released last August that the young people had experienced a combination of mental health issues and social problems that adults must look out for in the future.
Mahoney said "a fantastic community" of mental health professionals and counselors all pitched in to help with much-needed services during those unfortunate circumstances in lower Delaware.
"After these events we became even more aware that there is a greater need for awareness, advocacy, and education regarding suicide," said Mahoney, chairwoman of the Out of the Darkness event in Dover. "Many think that 'suicide' is bad word. It is actually just the opposite. "The more people who join our walk, the better chance we have of promoting awareness, advocacy and education."


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A wrestling promoter turns his back on the company's aging champion, and instead puts all of his promotional power behind a young up-and-comer. Sound likes a storyline that one might see on Raw or Smackdown, doesn't it? But it's also the plot of The Wrestler, a movie that some historians call one of the best movies ever made about the sport. SLAM! Wrestling talked with two of the movie's stars -- wrestling legend Verne Gagne and TV icon Ed (Lou Grant) Asner, to discuss this one-of-a-kind film.
Released in 1974, and currently available on video and DVD, The Wrestler tells the story of wrestling promoter Frank Bass and the struggle he has in trying to wrest the title away from the company's champion Mike Bullard, played by Gagne. Bass, portrayed by Asner, would prefer that Billy Taylor (real-life British wrestler Billy Robinson) wear the belt and represent his company in the upcoming "Superbowl of Wrestling", a tournament pitting the champions of the various regional promotions against one another.
Of course, this wouldn't be a problem in real life -- after all, the promoter could simply write an angle where Bullard drops the belt to the youngster. However, the movie was made during the time when the industry was still very protective of its scripted nature. So rather than expose the secret world behind the scenes, the movie depicts the "kayfabe" world of wrestling. In other words: the events going on are real. So when Bullard ducks the match against Taylor by claiming he's injured, there's little that Bass can initially do about it. Ultimately, he makes the match, but only after pulling a power play on Bullard; he embarrasses him on TV by calling him a cowardly champion, and threatening to strip him of the title. Bullard agrees to go through with the match, even though everyone doubts he can beat Taylor.
The climax of the film comes when the two finally square off in the ring. The match goes on for a little while before Bullard goes for his big finishing move, the flying dropkick, which should put Taylor away for good. The camera zooms in for a close-up on the bottom of Bullard's boot, which is heading straight for Taylor's face... and then the film comes to an abrupt stop, making it one of the most open-ended movies since Butch and Sundance jumped off the cliff. The viewer has to guess what happens next. Does Bullard land the kick and go on to win the match? Or does the young lion Taylor retire the wily veteran and bring some new blood to the "Superbowl"? Though neither Asner nor Gagne had the answer to that question, both of them had other memories about the making of the film.
For Gagne, the experience was both positive and negative. As executive producer, he took on a lot of the risks associated with making the film, despite not necessarily understanding the intricacies of the Hollywood machine.
"Nobody had (done a movie) on wrestling in quite a while," Gagne recalls. "So I thought it might be a good idea. We had enough TV exposure around the country that we could plug it. I put the most money (into the movie) than anybody -- I had a little over 50% of it. Financially, it wasn't my biggest success ... I never saw any money out of the thing."
Still, despite the financial results, Gagne did achieve one of his goals -- raising awareness and appreciation of the sport generally. Throughout the movie, wrestling and wrestlers are held in the highest esteem. In one scene, a newspaper reporter dismisses the in-ring death of a wrestler as unimportant, telling Bass that wrestling belongs in the theatre pages and not the sports section. Bass passionately defends wrestling, detailing the history of the sport, and lists the names of real-life wrestlers who died in the ring, arguing that they deserve tribute as well. "You don't want to write about the sport," Bass tells him, "because you don't understand it."
Asner himself left the movie with a new-found understanding and respect for wrestling -- and the wrestlers he got to work with.
"They were wonderful guys," he recalls. "Kind and considerate, very professional. And what struck me is that they were such superb athletes. I had some muscle back then, but I was around all these guys who could swat me around like a fly."
The movie was filmed in Gagne's stomping grounds of Minnesota, and includes cameo appearances by several Hall of Famers who were in the territory at the time. Historians will be interested in seeing Dusty Rhodes and Dick Murdoch (the two get into a bar brawl in one of the movie's more funny moments), Larry "Pretty Boy" Hennig, Wahoo McDaniel, and Jim Brunzell during their younger years. It was a hectic time for all of the wrestlers involved, Gagne remembers.
"During the filming, we were also wrestling and jumping all around the country, coming back the same night to Minnesota, and going to work on the movie the next morning. It was a lot of hard work, doing the movie and trying to keep the wrestling business going at the same time. We were really juggling things in the air."
Gagne credits Asner a lot in helping him keep things on track on the set, often working with the wrestlers on honing their acting skills, and generally helping them adapt to life on a movie set.
Not that Asner had a great deal of experience himself in that arena. Though he was one of TV's most recognized stars, starring in The Mary Tyler Moore show, The Wrestler was one of Asner's first movie roles. Not really a wrestling fan -- though, as a kid, he did go to some matches with his father -- his interest in making the movie was more for building his resume.
"I was relatively new to TV, and was eager to make a name for myself in the movies. The offer came around, it seemed like a decent enough role, a decent enough script, so I went for it," Anser says.
He is quick to return Gagne's compliments, maintaining that it was the talent and professionalism of the wrestlers that made the shoot go smoothly.
"The wrestlers didn't have Hollywood experience, but they still held their own. They played roles they were comfortable in. They did stuff they knew, and stuff they could do, and they did it well."
Of course, it wasn't all routine for the wrestlers. The filming sometimes required them to "break kayfabe" during a match -- again, something that was not normally done in that era.
George Schire, long-time Minnesota superfan, was lucky enough to be in attendance to witness some of that occur. "I was at the match tapings at the old St. Paul Auditorium in 1973," he reminisces. "They would fill the auditorium with artificial smoke, to make it look like a typical smoke-filled wrestling arena. When they were filming the Gagne vs. Nick Bockwinkel match, Verne hit Nick with a dropkick that really connected, and just about knocked his head off. They had to stop filming for a bit until Nick was okay. Then, when it was time for Verne to put his sleeper hold on Nick, Bockwinkel told the crowd that that would be the only time he would ever sit down for Gagne. It was also fun to see what they did with the death scene match, when Ray Stevens killed Jack Cutter (played by Joe Scarpello) with his 'Bombs Away' jump off the top rope. They had to re-do the scene about three times to finally get it the way they liked it.
Although this experience gave Schire, and the other fans in attendance that night, a small peek through the veil of wrestling, Gagne didn't really "smarten up" Asner about the business, nor did any of the wrestlers. Asner confirms this, noting that the wrestlers were overall very good about protecting the industry.
"It was unbelievable," he says. "It's like a secret world, a very closed society. They have their own code, a language like carny speak, and they would resort to using that at times. I found it very intriguing. It really was a fascinating world to be in."
It's a world that Asner won't rule out visiting again if, he says, the script and the role are interesting. But it's safe to assume that if he does, it won't be in the Frank Bass role. Indeed, we may never know what happened to Bass and Bullard after the cameras stopped rolling -- since, according to Gagne, there are no plans to do a sequel.
For some people, this news may not be too disappointing; for example,
Marc Thibideau, who panned the movie in a 1975 issue of Wrestling
Monthly. "Anyone wishing to see it," he wrote at the time, "should not
expect a cinematic gem. The plot lacks in excitement and imagination (and)
often lags, hindered by an inane script."
However, other critics like Andy Bator, whose review appeared alongside
Thibideau's, were able to appreciate the film regardless of some of those
flaws. "There is a little bit for everyone here," according to Bator. "(The
movie is) some good clean fun."
Where both writers did agree was in their praise of the performances put
on by the wrestlers in the movie. Thibideau was particularly impressed by
Billy Robinson. "Not only does (Robinson) provide spectacular action in the
ring, he shows excellent acting talents," according to Thibideau. "(He)
really shines and brings out much of what wrestling is all about."
And both writers did acknowledge that the movie was useful in introducing
wrestling to a brand new, mainstream audience. Bator credited the film with
"(depicting a) side of wrestling no one knows about." Thibideau himself
expressed hope that the movie would be only the first step in that
direction. "Perhaps now the Hollywood moguls will realize the vast potential
inherent to the oldest and most exciting sports spectacle."
Thirty years later, it's difficult to say what impact, if any, The
Wrestler really did make on the professional wrestling industry. But for
Gagne and Asner, it doesn't really matter; for them, their memories are what
More details: The Wrestler was directed by Jim Westman and runs 95 minutes long. The DVD edition (full-screen) includes limited extra material -- a biography on Verne Gagne and Ed Asner, and a short interactive quiz about the events in the movie.
"Bloodthirsty" Bob Kapur has been writing for SLAM! Wrestling since the late 1990s. He reminds you to check out Ed Asner's new show, Centre of the Universe, which debuts later this month on CBS.


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The case for Nick Foles
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The case for Nick Foles: This is why the Chiefs should make the trade
Why Nick Foles and not Alex Smith?
Foles makes sense for the Chiefs for a number of reasons. First and foremost is that there is a need -- the Chiefs need two new quarterbacks. The idea of drafting two new quarterbacks this off-season sounds great because we saw the Washington Redskins do that last year with Robert Griffin III and Kirk Cousins. But they knew that Griffin was going to start and they knew what kind of prospect they had on their hands. Cousins was/is an insurance policy (and a smart one).
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The other option that's been discussed quite a bit is to go after Alex Smith. Whether it's through a trade or waiting to see if he's released by San Francisco it really depends on what the Chiefs have budgeted for their quarterbacks next season. The cap is set to be somewhere in the neighborhood of $122 million next season. The Chiefs have roughly $14 million in space. Tyson Jackson is a $17.47 million cap hit as of today but only $2.5 million in dead money if he's cut.
The Chiefs would be saving $14.97 million on the cap by cutting Tyson Jackson. Matt Cassel is a $9.825 million cap hit if he's on the team next season without a restructure of his contract. But he's also $3.95 million of 'dead money' in 2013 if he's cut.
The issue with cutting Cassel and then going after Alex Smith is the money.
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Smith's current contract (which would be accompanying him if traded) shows him having a cap hit of $9.75 million next season. Add that to Cassel's 'dead money' hit of $3.95 million if cut and there's a cap hit of $13.7 million for one quarterback on your roster. The Chiefs can afford it but you don't want to be careless with your cap space or your contracts. Teams set budgets and I'd be surprised if the Chiefs want to expand their cap space that much for Alex Smith.
You'd have two young, developing QBs. I like those odds.
This is the reason I believe trading for Nick Foles is a very good plan. It wouldn't hurt you to cut Cassel and take the $3.95 million hit because Foles' is under contract through 2015 and his cap number never exceeds $816,000. Foles could be one of the two new quarterbacks that you bring in AND he has experience. You KNOW he could start right away if the other quarterback you drafted, whether it's No. 1 overall or somewhere down the line, isn't ready to play. You'd have two young, developing quarterbacks. I like those odds.
That's the longterm reasoning behind why I'd support a trade for Nick Foles. It opens up competition for two young quarterbacks and protects the Chiefs by knowing they have a guy who Reid believes in who could start right away.
Strengths: He can make all the throws
Foles has a very live arm and natural throwing ability. He can make all of the throws needed but I wouldn't call his arm-strength 'elite'. He excels on crossing patterns like slants and square-ins, plays that receivers are moving horizontally. He has the arm strength to get the ball firmly outside the numbers on out-routes. He's probably best on slant and post routes. The GIF above shows one of his slants in the Sunday Night Football game against the Cowboys. This is the first drive and first third down of the game.
I wouldn't call Foles a superb athlete at quarterback but he moves well enough to get out and around the pocket. With the Eagles offensive line as bad as it was Foles had to show an ability to maneuver around the pocket quite a bit last season. He tucks it and runs when he has to but whenever he gets outside the pocket he's still looking to throw the ball.
I wouldn't call Foles a superb athlete at QB but he moves well enough.
Foles likes to throw on the run and it's something he's very good at doing. He was very good at moving up in the pocket and delivering accurate passes across the middle of the field. Some of Foles' best plays last season were ones where initial read broke down and he had to throw on the run. He has some of that school-yard, run-around-and-make-a-play in him and it's something Chiefs fans didn't see with Matt Cassel and Brady Quinn last season.
Foles natural throwing ability is on display with the different arm angles he uses when throwing passes. He will drop-down and go almost side-arm or three quarters at times when throwing screens or in traffic under pressure. He improvises a lot when under pressure and on several cases would just flip or push it to a running back. He's very good at throwing passes to backs out of the backfield. It would seem like an obvious trait or skill that all quarterbacks should have but I never saw him once not lead a running back on a swing pass out of the backfield. Andy Reid likes to get his running backs involved in the passing game and Foles excels on those 'touch' throws. Getting the ball 'on-time and in-stride' would be beneficial to a player like Dexter McCluster for the Chiefs.
In this next clip you'll see Foles go through his first two progressions and then check to his outlet. Brent Celek across the middle is his first read, Jeremy Maclin running the post is his second and then he would automatically throw to his check down. But right after the snap you can see the outside linebacker quickly took that check down pass to LeSean McCoy away from him. Rather than just throwing the ball without looking (Cough...Cassel), which would have been an interception, Foles tucks and moves outside the pocket, keeps his eyes down field and Maclin makes a great decision to turn and get up-field. He then makes a fantastic catch on a nice ball down field on the run.
The game never looked too big or too fast for Foles. There were times he looked a little timid or that he was trying to avoid making mistakes. He was sacked 20 times in seven games and consistently had drives halted due to holding penalties on the offensive line. All of these things can pile up and affect your play but that didn't seem to be the case for Foles last season.
Weaknesses: Deep-ball accuracy, decision-making under pressure needs work
The biggest weakness I saw from Foles was on his deep-ball accuracy. Anytime he threw a Fly or Hitch-n-Go route it always seem to give him trouble. More often than not he actually overthrew his receiver on these vertical passes. The odd thing is that he actually threw Flag and Deep Post routes pretty well. It seems like he needs an angle on the routes to create some sort of depth for him when placing these balls down field.
This clip above shows an example of that deep ball accuracy that I'm talking about. Foles actually does a pretty good job of stepping around in the pocket to give him a clear lane to throw the football down the field. Jackson has a step on his defender and Foles leads him out of bounds. Saying someone isn't accurate down the field doesn't mean they're 7-8 yards off in their throw. The margin of error is so small on most plays that when you have an advantage like a receiver getting behind the defense you have to give him a chance to make a play. This is the kind of throw I consistently saw from Foles down the field on these fly routes. Just off one way or another.
Another weakness that I saw from Foles had to do with his footwork. He saw a lot of pressure in these seven games and so there were a number of plays to evaluate how he handled pressure in regards to his moving around the pocket. Foles would tend to drift while going through his progressions and manipulating the pocket at times. He would never reset his feet and that led to inaccurate passes like you see here above.
This isn't something that you'd see from Foles every time he saw pressure. This was the first game against the Washington Redskins where they came after him all game long. It was actually his first start. I can count on one hand how many times they sent less than five people after him during that game. This was on 3rd and 21.
Foles also needs to get better at going through his play-fakes. It got frustrating to watch after I noticed it the first time but he seems to just go through the motions on a running play when he'd carry out his fake. It's easy for a defender to tell when you don't have the ball and it's a little thing that could be very obvious to a defense.
Development: Consistently getting better
The most promising sign I saw from Foles was his maturation and development during the season. His first game against the Cowboys was a learning experience. The Cowboys defenders were hopping routes, jumping the snap count, showing multiple looks pre-snap. They were putting the pressure on Foles and he wasn't prepared for it. But even as Vick went down early in this game Foles showed some promise.
This game was tied 17-17 heading into the 4th quarter when the Cowboys returned a punt for a touchdown. On the very next drive an interception on a bobbled pass intended for DeSean Jackson. Brandon Carr took the tipped pass back for a touchdown. Just like that it was 31-17. Carr's interception came on a pass thrown behind Jackson and while he did have both hands on it while reaching back, it wasn't a good pass and kicked up into the air when Jackson couldn't secure it.
This is where you learn about a player's intestinal fortitude. On Foles next two drives he went 8-11 for 91 yards and one drive ended with a short rushing TD. The other drive stalled due to a 'illegal use of hands' penalty on the offensive line after having already picked up a couple of first downs.
Things were collapsing around the rookie quarterback in his first ever NFL game and he had enough fight to bounce back after a rough two minutes for the Eagles in crunch time.
The first game against Washington was about handling the blitz. The Redskins constantly sent pressure and got to Foles with four sacks in the game. He finished this game with no touchdowns and two interceptions while completing just 45 percent of his passes.
His next game against Carolina was interesting because he became very timid in throwing the ball down field. It was on Monday Night Football and his first of two primetime games in a row. I think he was expecting Carolina to blitz more often because that's what Washington had done and were successful the week before against him. He looked indecisive and would throw late to his second and third options. He completed 16-of-21 passes for just 119 yards and an interception.
By his third start, his second game against Dallas, he started to turn the corner. It was another primetime game against the Cowboys on Sunday Night Football. When Foles gets into a rhythm he's fun to watch and he got into a rhythm against the Cowboys on this night. He was calmly going through progressions in the pocket and moving around and making plays all over the field. There was a presence in the pocket that we hadn't consistently seen yet from Foles.
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His next game, his fourth start, against the Buccaneers I noticed it was the first time he'd react to defenses showing blitz by changing the play and communicating with his offensive lineman. This was at the beginning of the game and you could tell he was more comfortable with what he was doing. It was night and day different than what we had seen in that first game against the Cowboys. He was in control and 'looked the part'.
Predicting the future
I had a lot of people on twitter ask me about whether or not I feel as though Foles could be a 'Franchise QB' after having watched all of his games. It's a tough question to answer because everyone's definition of what that means is completely different. Same with the phrase 'elite QB'.
He's far from a perfect prospect right now.
Nick Foles showed development through seven games last season that was easily visible to where you'd think this guy has a chance. The game never looked too big for him and he looked very much in control of what he was doing the last three games of the season. But he's far from a perfect prospect right now. He needs to work on his footwork and accuracy on the deep ball for starters. But if you're looking for something to build on and to see enough to know someone has the opportunity to improve then you'd be happy with what you saw from Foles.
In Foles last four games he completed 61.4 percent of his passes for 1,157 yards with five touchdowns and two interceptions.
He can move around the pocket while keeping his eyes down field. Something I like about that WVU QB as well. He actually throws as accurate on the run on short/intermediate routes as he does when his feet get set. Quarterbacks must be able to throw shorter, dump-off, check-down routes from all different body angles accurately because a lot of times you're throwing those passes when you're getting blitzed with a guy in your face.
Foles will stand in the pocket and deliver a throw when it's needed. In this clip above it was 3rd and seven early in the 4th quarter against the Redskins with the Eagles trailing 27-13. They scored a touchdown two plays later to get them to within seven at 27-20. Foles next drive went 80 yards and stalled at the five yard line when time ran out. He got them in position to tie the game.
Foles can move around the pocket when a play starts to break down and make something happen. He did it several times at the most important times and gave the Eagles a chance to win in three different games they couldn't pull out.
Much has been made of his W/L record as a starter last year in Philadelphia. The Eagles had 4th quarter leads against Carolina and Dallas, were tied with Dallas in their other game and came within five yards of tying the Redskins to end their second game. Simply looking at the final score doesn't give you the whole story and context of what happened.
He bounced back and made plays.
From watching these games I can tell you that Foles did make some mistakes and those mistakes hurt the Eagles. But he also bounced back and made plays in those games to get the Eagles back into it. Many of which were on 3rd down. Those mistakes didn't define that game for him and that's a trait you can't see unless you sit down and watch the entire game. The situation never seemed to get the best of him or be too much for him and he played in some pretty big games for Philadelphia last season.
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The Chiefs need two new quarterbacks and if both of them are young, developing quarterbacks that Reid and company like then the Chiefs will be in a pretty good spot. Foles knows this offense and he knows the offensive coaching staff. That can't be understated.
I like that Foles struggled to start and then developed throughout the season. It shows coachability and you could see the maturation of a quarterback.
I'd be happy if he was in Kansas City next season to compete with a draft pick for the starting position.
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If we do a Foles trade, I'd actually rather eat the value at the top than miss out on some of the quality starters that can be had in the middle rounds this year. In particular, that's where the Packers excelled at drafting the past several years, so I'm only to assume that Dorsey's got this shit under control when it comes to that department.
Give Philly the #1 overall. Take their #4 overall, Foles, a middle round this year, and next year's 1st.
That would be the ONLY fair trade in terms of value, but there's no effing way Philly goes for that deal just so they can get an OT or a DE. If they're interested in Geno, then maybe they would go for it. Likely, we would have to leave out one of the parameters of that trade, which would mean we're taking it up the ass pretty hard. And even THEN, the Eagles still wouldn't do that trade if they like Foles as much as they say they do.
So we're back to square one. No option we take is "good value" unless it's a QB with the first pick.
Y'know what, it's easier to just say "**** Foles" and move on with Geno.
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Completely tangential point arising from my argument against 2 high picks on QBs - if Matt Barkley fell to the 2nd, I'd take him there even if we took Geno at 1.
I know it's half crazy, but if Barkley really did have a shoulder injury in 2012 that sapped him of the authority on his throws, you could give him some rest as Geno's backup and get one hell of a quarterback for your efforts. At worst he nets you a first rounder or a nice young roster player.
By the end of the 2011 season, he was a lock as a top 10 pick and his arm looked solid. I do think there may be some truth to the idea that his arm was hurting him in 2012.
That said, I can't see any way that Jax lets him get by them at 2.1.
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I wouldn't risk a 1st getting him here because that shoulder may never be right again. But at the cost of a 2nd, he really could be a steal. And I'll admit, this comes mostly from the time I spent last season selling myself on him as a worthy consolation after not sucking badly enough for Luck. When all was said and done, I really did like the guy...until he stayed in.
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If Barkley fell to 34, I'd have no problem using that pick on him. I'd probably hesitate depending on what other players fell but he'd definitely be near or at the top of my list, as crazy as it sounds taking a QB at 1.1 and at 2.2.
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lol at the Eagles fan that would do a 4th + Jalil Brown for Foles
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I know a lot of people are shitting on Foles, but what he did the last month with no DeSean Jackson, Jason Peters and a beat up LeSean McCoy is actually impressive.
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my biggest thing about Foles is I just dont have the patience thanks to the prior regime to watch a guy like Foles go through a season and stare down his first read and not check off the safeties or go through progressions
yes hes young with a high ceiling and a good NFL body and has all the tangibles to improve, and is better than Castle/Quinn, I just dont want to watch all the errors that will come with "First Read Covered/To Checkdown/Punt"
I'm just sick of that lol
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Discussion in 'iPad 2 Forum' started by iDan, Mar 11, 2011.
The title says it all, let us know if your a proud new owner of the Apple iPad 2!
I know everyone is soaking the paws after waiting in line for so long. But hey while your sitting there how about some Real Life Reviews of the 2. We want to know your impressions, how does it feel? Is it fast as they claim? What's the first thing you did (other than sync) ? What accessories did you get? Hows the camera? What have you taken pictures of? Can you post? Did you create a YouTube? Can anyone compare the old vs the new? Any bugs so far?
I'm anxious!!
just got my 16gb black at the best buy, and canceled my online order.
got in line at 3:30, got my ticket at 4:30, then out the door by 5:30.
i was 30-something in line and total at 5 was probably 100-120 people. this best buy was well stocked.
Got my 16gb Black from Target, they had 6 64gb and 10 16gb, I was number 7 for the 16 gb ipad...They were all sold by the time I left
Just got it:
Waited in line for 5 hours at the Columbia MD Apple Store and was out of the store with my iPad2 by 5:30.
First reaction is that it definitely feels alot thinner than the old one.
Syncing now and will be messing around with it over the weekend.
Noooooooo, I'm so jealous of y'all...lmao. I could go n buy one now if I wish but my ipad1 doesn't want me to cheat on her. She done so much 4 me ;-)
Definitely post ur first impressions on it. Quality, performance and versatility!
Got in line at 2:45 was out about 5:50. However they were out of the 64 wi fi so I had to get 3g. Wasn't too happy about the extra money but there was no way I was waiting any longer!
I got to my local Best Buy store just before 3:30 and was about 15th in line. They had to turn away quite a bit of people as the store only had 20 iPads, and no 3G versions. Glad I got the one I wanted lol


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3412?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12613540#action_12613540 ] Matei Zaharia commented on HADOOP-3412: --------------------------------------- This is a good idea, but there needs to be a way to tell the scheduler "load and start this job" and to get a JobInProgress from the JobDescription if the job has been loaded. Otherwise there will be no way to find a Task to return in assignTask(). Other useful fields in the JobInProgress include number of maps/reduces desired, number of maps/reduces running, and the list of running tasks in the job (which can be used for deciding when to do speculative execution). > Refactor the scheduler out of the JobTracker > -------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-3412 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3412 > Project: Hadoop Core > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: mapred > Reporter: Brice Arnould > Assignee: Brice Arnould > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 0.19.0 > > Attachments: JobScheduler-v10.patch, JobScheduler-v9.1.patch, JobScheduler-v9.2.patch, JobScheduler-v9.patch, JobScheduler.patch, JobScheduler_v2.patch, JobScheduler_v3.patch, JobScheduler_v3b.patch, JobScheduler_v4.patch, JobScheduler_v5.patch, JobScheduler_v6.1.patch, JobScheduler_v6.2.patch, JobScheduler_v6.3.patch, JobScheduler_v6.4.patch, JobScheduler_v6.patch, JobScheduler_v7.1.patch, JobScheduler_v7.patch, JobScheduler_v8.patch, RackAwareJobScheduler.java, SimpleResourceAwareJobScheduler.java > > > First I would like warn you that my proposition is assumed to be very naive. I just hope that reading it won't make you lose time. > h4. The aim > It seems to me that improving Hadoop scheduling could be very profitable. But, it is hard to implement and compare schedulers, because the scheduling logic is mixed within the rest of the JobTracker. > This bug is the first step of an attempt to improve the Hadoop scheduler. It re-implements the current scheduling algorithm in a separate class called JobScheduler. This new class is instantiated in the JobTracker. > h4. Bug fixed as a side effects > This patch probably cannot be submited as it is. > A first difficulty is that it does not have exactly the same behaviour than the current JobTracker. More precisely, it doesn't re-implement things like code that seems to be never called or concurency problems. > I wrote TOCONFIRM where my proposition differ from the current implementation, so you can find them easily. > I know that fixing bugs silently is bad. So, independently of what you decide about this patch, I will open issues for bugs that you confirm. > h4. Other side effects > Another side effect of this patch is to add documentation about each step of the scheduling. I hope that it will help future improvement by lowering the level required to contribute to the scheduler. > It also reduces the complexity and the granularity of the JobTracker (making it more parallel). > h4. The future > If you feel that this is a step the right direction, I will try to propose a JobSchedulerInterface that many JobSchedulers could implement and to propose alternatives to the current « FifoJobScheduler ». If some of you have ideas about that please tell ^^ I will also open issues for things marked as FIXME in the patch. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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Marlins rally to finish sweep of Braves, reach .500
MIAMI -- The Marlins didn't need Giancarlo Stanton's power, instead capitalizing on his placement of a crucial RBI single that helped pull off a 5-4 comeback win over the Braves on Thursday night at Marlins Park.
Stanton and Casey McGehee both slapped run-scoring singles in the seventh inning that proved the difference on a night the Marlins completed their first sweep at home over the Braves since June 13-15, 2006. They also reached .500 for the first time this season since they were 5-5, while improving to 12-4 at home.View Full Game Coverage
MIAMI -- The Marlins didn't need Giancarlo Stanton's power, instead capitalizing on his placement of a crucial RBI single that helped pull off a 5-4 comeback win over the Braves on Thursday night at Marlins Park.
Stanton and Casey McGehee both slapped run-scoring singles in the seventh inning that proved the difference on a night the Marlins completed their first sweep at home over the Braves since June 13-15, 2006. They also reached .500 for the first time this season since they were 5-5, while improving to 12-4 at home.View Full Game Coverage
"It's huge for us," manager Mike Redmond said. "We've had a few rough times on the road where we've lost some eight-inning games. This is a special group. These guys keep battling and keep pushing forward and moving on and really picking each other up, playing with a lot of energy out there."
After pulling off two blowout wins to open the series, Miami turned to Steve Cishek for his first four-out save since Aug. 26, 2012, at Dodger Stadium.
"We're back at .500, and it's a division sweep and they're at the top of our division," said Cishek, who threw 20 pitches and closed out his sixth save in seven attempts. "Even when we played them at their place, it was one-run games for the most part."
A week after dropping two of three at Atlanta, scoring four runs in the series, Miami's offense hammered out 23 runs in three games. The Marlins' hitting was so on the mark, it had Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez checking television camera areas to see if the Marlins were stealing signs.
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The drama picked up in the later innings of the series finale, and unlike at Atlanta a week ago, Miami's bullpen was able to execute the necessary pitches. Mike Dunn, who threw a perfect seventh inning, collected the win.
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Santana got the third inning rolling for Atlanta with a single to left. A misplay by Miami, which led to a replay challenge, allowed Jason Heyward to reach on an infield single. Heyward chopped a grounder to Jones at first. Jones flipped to Alvarez, who was racing to cover first base. Alvarez ended up sliding toward first as Heyward made a head-first slide. Initially, first-base umpire Jim Reynolds ruled out.
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Favorite Tour de France moment would have to have been Thor Hushovd defending his jersey like the giant that he is.
7/24/04-Stage 19: TT @ Besancon. @ the finish 100s of Germans booing Lance. 100s of Americans cheering. Lance wins. Crowd erupts: USA USA
My moment would have to be watching Lance Armstrong win for the first time after beating cancer. I was only 10 or so & it was mind-blowing.
Eddy Merckx soldiering on after having been attacked by a spectator
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My favorite part of the tour was just watching the progression of Lance Armstrong as he overcame hardships and became the best!
2007 when Marcus Burghardt hit the yellow lab (both were okay) and how all of the cyclists after that only asked if the dog was okay!
Levi Leipheimer winning the ITT in the 2007 Tour de France. Spectacular.
Greg LeMond getting Bernard Hinault back by beating him a year after team orders stopped him from winning
It was a pleasure to see the true workhorse George Hincapie win a TDF stage a couple of years ago, after working his heart out for others!
Stage 16 1995 Armstrong raised both index fingers upward acknowledging Casartelli as team finished together to acknowledge teammates death
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