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I have a problem with using MouseListener.
I am working to make a simulator for some electronic devices. I have some buttons for each kind of component I want to draw on a Canvas area. And if I click one of them, a String will take value the name of that component. So, then when I click back on the Canvas, the component with the name of the String will be drawn at the location that is clicked, and after that my String will become null.
And I want to make those components to be selectable. When I click on one component it should become temporary to be blue(they are usually black). For that, then when my String is null, and if I click on the component, it will become blue.
But something bad happens. I use MouseListener interface so i can listen the click events.
I have tried both methonds of this interface:
public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) { System.out.println("~~~~"); }
and this
public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) { System.out.println("~~~~"); }
and that is how I noticed that each time i click both methods are run both each 2 times. So, after I add a component on my Canvas, it will become selected because after the first run of method, my String becomes null and it will do the selection thing. How can I avoid this?


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I bring this message from above. Heaven watches and waits and it knows your mouth holds a mirror that only reflects what you suggest. Liar. Deceiver of worlds. I bring this message signed in blood. Make it mine.Your touch is a plague. A gift you gave to me like the silhouette of a betrayer's kiss. Every knee shall bow in this life or the next. I've sold this body in poor taste to lungs driven by the power of your deceit. I bring this message signed in blood. Take my life if it brings Heaven home. Every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess in this life or the next.I know you're there. Liar.

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Conventional wisdom dictates that people, especially the younger ones, have ruined their appreciation for the deep, rich, crisp sound that previous generations of music fans saw as the holy grail. However, conventional wisdom isn't always wise. A new study indicates that the kids' ears are alright, in that they prefer the sound of lossless music to MP3s, and flat-response speakers to those that distort sound in favor of bass or other frequencies.
Apathy about sound quality is widespread to the point of ubiquity, to hear some tell it — or perhaps it's just a self-fulfilling prophecy that we've all aided by taking it for granted. One rapper I spoke with backstage at CES a couple of years ago (Akon) told me he mixes his albums for a single, tiny, mono cellphone speaker, a perfect demonstration of this cycle of sonic misery. People listen on shoddy headphones and speakers, the thinking goes, so producers might as well mix for them — the same way they used to take car stereos into account. The result then gets further degraded by lossy compression algorithms such as MP3 and nobody cares.
Not so fast.
First, a couple of caveats. This study (.pdf) was conducted by Harman, which, as a manufacturer of speakers, definitely has a horse in this race. Also, it only polled 18 Los Angeleno high school students: 13 boys and 5 girls. Still, the study appears to have been conducted with a fair degree of rigor — double-blind, randomized testing consisting of twelve 30-minute trials for the MP3 vs. lossless part of the study, and four trials for the speaker test.
Its findings are clear: These kids can not only distinguish between good and bad sound, but they prefer the good stuff — and when they do, they do so with more conviction than when they prefer the degraded stuff.
These results stand in stark contradiction to an eight-year study by Stanford University's Jonathan Berger cited by the New York Times and others, which found that younger listeners not only don't care about good sound quality — some actually prefer that it be degraded.
As the Harman study itself points out, music compressed at high bit rates using modern compression technology like AAC is often indistinguishable from the lossless CD-quality version. So its test compared 128 Kbps MP3s with the CD-quality version. These don't have to be physical CDs, of course; lossless digital files are also CD-quality, and 256 Kbps AACs sound like CDs to most people.
In other words, the point here isn't about CDs vs. digital files; it's about good sound vs. bad sound.
Across the board, these subjects appear to have preferred uncompressed sound and speakers with an even frequency response. However, there were "significant" differences in the ability of each individual to discern those differences, indicating that some people simply can't hear the difference, whereas it's much clearer for others (maybe the ones who take good care of their ears).
The test also looked at whether kids can tell the difference between speakers, using four trials. We'll leave out the details, especially because Harman Kardon found that people preferred its own Infinity speakers. Like all studies, this one seems to conform to the desires of the people who paid for it. But what's interesting is that all listeners preferred "the loudspeaker with the widest, flattest and smoothest frequency response curves," in addition to preferring uncompressed audio.
This idea that nobody cares about sound quality anymore looks like a case of false conventional wisdom, as far as this study is concerned.
Of course, the test didn't ask listeners whether they would be willing to pay real money or alter their behavior to access better sound quality, which is the test faced by high-end audio products in the real world. (We think it's worth spending over $100 on headphones, for instance… but do you?)
What about the idea that today's listeners prefer the "sizzling" sound of MP3s, which lack low and high frequencies and are missing other information, often resulting in shimmery-sounding cymbals? Or the notion that they prefer speakers with uneven frequency response, like the ones in my newish car that seem tilted unfairly towards the bass end?
This study found "no evidence" to support either of these bits of conventional wisdom.
(via productionadvice.co.uk)


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Here's the most intriguing policy idea of the new year, so far: let California governments sell "social impact bonds" to solve social problems.
The idea was raised recently by Patrick Atwater, the young author of A New California Dream. Atwater reports here on an experiment in the United Kingdom with selling bonds targeted to a specific social problem. Atwater argues that such bonds could be a replacement of sorts for redevelopment agencies, which are to be eliminated in California at the end of this month.
Say, for example, you wanted to reduce the number of people coming into an emergency room for treatment, or reduce the rate of convicted felons who re-offend after they're released from prison. You could sell a social bond to investors -- that would pay off if a particular outcome (a certain reduce in ER visits or crime) is reached.
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Why would this help? Budget cuts have left California governments starved for money for programs that prevent social problems. Social impact bonds provide private investment for solving these problems, and limit the risk of the public sector, which only pays if a particular goal is reached.
The idea is relatively new and unproven. But it represents the sort of thinking California needs if it's going to make progress in time of scarce resources.
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to join in the debate on Bill C-13 dealing with reproductive technology on which many people have waxed eloquently in this chamber on many occasions. I feel it is only appropriate that I add my voice to this very controversial and contentious yet extremely important debate.
It seems to me, when I take a look at the bill, that members of the government have not truly figured out where babies come from. Perhaps they still believe in the stork. They seem to differentiate between the way that we deal with embryos and life before birth and life after birth. I think that is totally wrong on the Liberals' part. I can understand their whole motivation because it seems to be the way that they do things.
Let us start with adults. Before adults, they were children. Before children, they were babies. Before they were babies, they were babies waiting to be born. Before they were fetuses, they were eggs and sperm. It is a fairly simple process of a continuum leading, hopefully once we reach old age, to death and the life hereafter, however we believe in that. The point is there is a continuum from inception all the way through gestation to birth and life.
We all know it has been the government's policy to leave a vacuum and to wait for the courts to fill that vacuum before it acts. Then the Liberals will say that society has moved in a certain direction and they just have to legitimize it through legislation. We have seen that on the same sex marriage issue that is currently being debated in the country.
We could go back a number of years to when the abortion agenda was fought at great length. The debate was heated. Finally the government of the day under Mr. Brian Mulroney said it did not know what to do as it could not come to a consensus, so it left a vacuum and the courts filled it. Today abortion is something that is just a normal occurrence. It happens hundreds of times across Canada each and every day.
Here we are again. The government wants to leave a vacuum in the legislation so that researchers can be allowed to use embryos as if they were just specimens cut from a piece of flesh and do their research and testing as if there were no consequences whatsoever. There are many Canadians who believe that human embryos are life in transition, life in the evolution to being a full born baby. As the previous speaker pointed out, we would never hand over our babies for research. We would never allow our babies to be slaughtered for research, although it did happen once before in history and many people died in order to put a stop to that.
Again here there is the notion that embryos, life in the womb, life before birth, are now going to be used by researchers just as another commodity. That debases all life and if it debases all life, it debases us, those who were elected to lead and make decisions on behalf of all Canadians. If we allow life to be debased, where does it stop? What do we stand on? Where do we stand? Do we believe in the right of every Canadian to freedom or only those who have been born?
The government has refused time after time to provide legislative protection for life before birth. It has always struck me as unexplainable that the day before a baby is born it can be aborted, and that is the end of that, yet if somebody kills it the day after it is born it is murder and subject to life in prison; 25 years and no parole. It is two days apart: the day before birth and the day after birth. What was different? Nothing was different in my opinion.
The government tends to leave human embryos before birth totally without legal protection of any kind whatsoever. The more the government allows this vacuum to remain, the more science starts to use these embryos for research and the more it becomes an everyday occurrence the more we just say "Well it is already here so let it happen".
What does this place stand for if it is not as the voice of the nation, speaking out not only for those who are alive today but those who are being born today.
It reminds me of something, more on abortion than on embryos. I listened to Cross Country Checkup a few years ago when there was a debate on abortion. I believe it was Rex Murphy who had a panel of young people. One young gentleman said on the radio that life had been tough for him. He had a single mother and he grew up with nothing to speak of, no affluence or prosperity. They struggled along but he said that he was really glad that his mother had decided not to abort him. Even though life had been tough, he said that he would rather have that than no life at all.
Now that abortion has become commonplace, if we do not stop this now, embryos for research will become commonplace.
Do they feel pain? I do not know. I am not in the medical science business. However if they do feel pain and we start taking knives to them and doing whatever else we do to them, I cannot imagine the horrors we would be inflicting upon these embryos. We leave it to science and to the scientists who are performing these research tests to tell us whether they believe that an embryo can feel pain. When it is still at the very early cell state, perhaps not, but I am sure later on the pain actually becomes something that they can feel. I would imagine that it is not something that switches on, on a particular day. I would think it is something that evolves over time during the gestation period, and the concept of pain becomes something that an embryo can deal with.
Where does this human research stop and where does it start? What is allowable and what is not?
Going way back to the dawn of history, I think we realized that life begins before birth and therefore I think it is more in line that we bring in protection for life before birth, rather than allow it to be on the researchers' tables so that they can examine these cells underneath the microscope.
We do not know what is going to happen. We should always err on the side of caution. We should always err on the side of Canadians born and unborn, potentially born. To allow this type of process to become a normal process would be debasing to our society.


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The day after Kansas City Chiefs' linebacker Jovan Belcher fatally shot his girlfriend and then killed himself, fans mourned a tragedy. NBC's Than Truong reports.
The relationship between Kansas Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher and his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, became strained after the birth of their daughter, family and friends say.
Belcher, 25, fatally shot Perkins, 22, Saturday and then drove to a stadium parking lot where he committed suicide in front of two coaches and the team's general manager, leading many to wonder what went wrong in Belcher's promising young life.
Perkins' friends and family described a fraught relationship, though Belcher's family said outsiders can't really know what was going on between them.
The night before she was killed, Perkins went to a Trey Songz concert with some friends "to take a break," Lynell Diggs, a friend who was with her told Newsday.
"He [Belcher] didn't want her going out with the baby at home," said Diggs.
PFT: Coach says he 'wasn't able to reach the young man'
According to police reports, Belcher and Perkins were arguing around 7 a.m. on Saturday. Also at their home was Belcher's mother, who was visiting to help care for their three-month-old daughter, Zoey Michelle.
Around 7:50 a.m., Belcher shot Perkins several times. She was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
Belcher drove 15 minutes to Arrowhead Stadium where he stood in the parking lot and thanked general manager Scott Pioli, head coach Romeo Crennel and linebackers coach Gary Gibbs, for what they had done for him, news reports said. Belcher had played three seasons for the Chiefs and had started in nearly every game.
Then he pulled the trigger.
Angela Perkins, 32, Perkins' cousin, told Newsday that Belcher and Perkins hadn't been getting along for some time. She had visited around the time the baby was born, she said.
She said having a baby and Belcher's busy schedule strained their relationship, according to Newsday.
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Kansas City Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli, left, and coach Romeo Crennel stand together before an NFL football game against the Carolina Panthers at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. on Sunday, the day after witnessing linebacker Jovan Belcher kill himself.
Perkins' Instagram profile suggested a different story. On Friday, fewer than 24 hours before she died, she posted photos of Belcher smiling and kissing their daughter.
Outside Belcher's mother's home Saturday in West Babylon, N.Y., where he grew up and attended high school, friends and family gathered. Jerseys and Letterman jackets had been hung up along the outside of the house. Trophies and photographs lined the ground beneath.
They raised plastic cups to toast Belcher, who was described as quiet, thoughtful, a role model.
Belcher played football in West Babylon but wasn't recruited to play college ball, according to the Boston Globe. Rather, he was a star wrestler who kept trim — 6-foot-2 and under 200 pounds.
In 2008, Belcher told the Globe: "I do like being the underdog because you can come up and surprise people."
At the University of Maine, Belcher became the team captain and was named national defensive player of the year.
"When he got to campus, he was a phenomenally impressive young man, in how he conducted himself in and around the young men in our program," Maine coach Jack Cosgrove told the Globe at the time. "We were fortunate nobody else recruited him."
Cosgrove described Belcher's "infectious smile" and said he was a great role model who worked well with children — the football player had been a child development and family relations major.
MSNBC's Alex Witt talks with The Nation's Dave Zirin about the Kansas City Chiefs playing on Sunday, a day after linebacker Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend and then himself.
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Yesterday, we posted a quicklink to The Faster Times's gallery of indie bros wearing NBA jerseys at the Pitchfork Festival. It's a fascinating phenomenon, a game even, as if they're actively trying to wear the most ridiculous NBA jersey imaginable.
I was discussing this last night—in Brooklyn, over PBRs, of course—when a friend rolled up wearing a Derek Harper Knicks jersey. Clearly, things are getting out of hand when even the NBA player most likely to be confused with Louis Gossett Jr. in Enemy Mine is involved.
So, we want you to find these jerseys in the wild. Head off to Williamsburg, Silver Lake, Bucktown or Pilsen, the Mission, anywhere in Austin, and other "hip" neighborhoods where this sort of behavior is occurring. Take pictures of these monsters and send them in so we can put up a (hopefully huge) gallery and you all can make pithy comments. The more ridiculous—Suns Jeff Hornacek, Nets P.J. Brown, anything Mark Eaton—the better. We'll vote on which one is the best—or worst—and send the winning tipster some variety of schwag. Capiche? And...go.
UPDATE: This project has been named "Look At This Fucking Hoopster." Carry on.


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Building on Fillyjonk's post below, I want to announce two new changes to the comments policy, probably making it the longest goddamn comments policy on the internet.
Tenth Rule: If you are tempted to begin an argument against something we've said here with, "God, stop being so PC!" just stop right there. We are proudly PC and have absolutely no intention of stopping. Racist, classist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, and sexist comments are as unwelcome here as sizeist ones. That goes equally for unintentionally offensive language. If someone gets pissy at you for using the word "retarded" for instance, that doesn't mean they think you're an evil person who hates developmentally disabled people OR that they're hysterical, overreacting thought police. It means there are people around here who find that word hurtful, and we're a lot more interested in protecting their feelings than your god-given right not to think of a better word.
Eleventh Rule: If you say something like "Fat is the last acceptable prejudice" or "You could never get away with saying X to a black person," expect to get smacked down. Occasionally, there are times when we believe that comparing the rhetoric of haters or particular expressions of bigotry is instructive, but comparing the systems of oppression themselves is always a losing proposition. (Not to mention, that is such a fine line to walk that even those of us who try to be extremely conscious of the nuanced distinctions there will fuck up and deserve to be called on it.) Every prejudice is still acceptable in some circles, and many of those deemed "unacceptable in polite society" are still woven deeply into the institutions of that society. That's the reality, and we won't be arguing about it around here.
While it is indeed more common to hear a vicious fat joke than a vicious racist joke on TV these days, for instance, that doesn't mean fat prejudice is more acceptable–it means certain manifestations of it are more acceptable in certain places. But to suggest that this somehow means fat people have it harder overall than any other oppressed/marginalized group is flat-out fucking wrong and insulting. We don't. We have it different. In many ways, we have it better. And those of us who belong to more than one oppressed/marginalized group have different forms of prejudice coming at them from all sides.
If you're still not getting it, think about the difference between these two people:
Skinny Person A: You know, I really respect what you're doing here, because people comment on my body and my eating habits all the time, and they assume I'm unhealthy just because of my weight. I don't know what it's like to be fat in this society, but I know what it's like to have my body treated as public property and be judged negatively because of my size. It fucking sucks, so the Fat Acceptance movement resonates with me, and I hope I can be an ally.
Skinny Person B: People make nasty comments to skinny people all the time, too, so we have it just as bad! All prejudice is the same! We need a Thin Acceptance Movement!
Both those types of people show up here all the time. A's get welcomed with open arms. B's get ridiculed and banned. There's a reason for that–and if you can understand that reason, you should damn well be able to understand why equating fat hatred to other forms of oppression with long and tragic histories is bullshit.
Besides, as The Rotund recently pointed out, if you believe fat is the last acceptable prejudice in "polite society"–if not our institutions–you really need to sit down and have coffee with a transperson.


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Dan Pallotta is a professional fundraiser and author of a new book, "Uncharitable," which argues that charities should be empowered to use market incentives to raise money and attract talented individuals to work for them. He founded Pallotta Team-Works, the company that invented the AIDS Rides and Breast Cancer 3-Day events, which raised over half a billion dollars and netted $305 million in nine years. The company had more than 350 full-time employees in sixteen U.S. offices and fundamentally reinvented the paradigm for special event fundraising in America. Pallotta graduated cum laude from Harvard University with a degree in development economics.


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The alleged White House party crashers reportedly are seeking big bucks for a TV interview to tell their tale of shameless self-promotion and stupidity. With a little patience, and justice, we should be hearing their story for free – in a courtroom.
It's inexplicable that the couple – we're not going to help sate their lust for fame by repeating their names – is free to seek bids for a possible TV appearance.
Nutcases who send the president poison-pen letters hundreds of miles away from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. get locked up first and asked questions later. These so-called "socialites" came face-to-face with the most powerful, ostensibly best-protected person in the country, allegedly uninvited. But instead of cooling their well-heeled heels in the slammer, they're reportedly seeking to extend their 15 minutes of infamy – and reap a six-figure payday, amid an investigation.
If the Balloon Boy saga offered a cautionary tale, wrought in floating Mylar, about parents using their own child as a pawn to get a reality show, last week's party-crashing incident is a giant, flapping, red flag atop the White House suggesting some people will brazenly breach our highest levels of security for a spot on TV.
It's worth checking out The Washington Post's in-depth portrait of shallowness: She tried to pass herself off as a former "supermodel" and ex-Washington Redskins cheerleader as she vied for a slot on "Real Housewives of D.C." He's spent his 40 years on earth playing polo and living off his family's money, though that sweet deal seemed to be ending in morass of feuds and lawsuits.
So the couple, in an age where Paris Hilton and the Kardashians gals are famous for nothing other than doing nothing in expensive settings, apparently set their sights on becoming reality TV stars. And what better way to get instant notice that hob-nobbing with the president?
The couple has yet to speak, other than through their lawyer, who chalks the whole mess up to misunderstanding. But reports that they want money to tell their side indicate a lack of chagrin.
"I'll be very sad if, when this is resolved, my daughter does any TV appearances, because I am counting on the Secret Service to clear this up with dignity," the woman's 82-year-old mother told the New York Post.
Dignity, sadly, doesn't seem to enter into the alleged party crashers' thought processes. Meanwhile, the Secret Service, which traditionally reacts quickly and bravely to immediate danger, is taking its time considering charges against the duo.
As the little drama plays out, let's for a moment imagine a world where the alleged White House party crashers share a cell with Balloon Boy's parents. Now that would make one heck of a reality show…
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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"It's alive!" Since Dr. Frankenstein spoke those famous words, we've been alternately enthralled and terrified by the idea of creating life in the lab. Now, a revolution in genetic engineering and thrilling innovations in synthetic biology are bringing that dream—or nightmare, as the case may be—closer to reality. New tools allow researchers to use cells to create their own DNA.
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Surf for traffic
A lot of people have a website up and running. Some are worthwhile, others aren't.
But what if you have a nice website up and running, but no visitors?
There you are with your nice and shiny new website... and the only visitor is you. You refresh your page several times an hour to raise your visitor stats.
There you are with a lot of "visitors" a day, but only one unique...
You tell your close friends about it, hoping that they'll visit your site so your unique visitor-stats will rise.
And by the end of the week, you've had 400 visits to your site. 395 were you.
If you have a simple counter on your site, unique visitors don't matter. Your counter shows 400 hits, and nobody will know
395 of those visitors was you.
If you're serious about your site, though, you might want to place some ads. Maybe even install a banner-rotator. Or a link-exchange.
Most advertizers will want to see some real visitor-stats. And most advertizers will ignore your site if 99% of your visitors is you.
Surf for traffic
There are a couple of options. Of course there are the search engines, and they definitely should not be ignored. My impression though is that unless
you have a truly unique product to offer, search engines are worthless (unless you spend a lot of money to buy your way up). And unless you're on one of the first 5 pages of any search engine, your site won't benefit from it.
The option I'm aiming at with this tutorial are "surf for traffic" or "click for traffic" websites (SFTs from now on).
The idea behind these websites is rather simple, but highly effective: for every site (or two or more sites) you visit, you are guaranteed one visitor in return.
How does this work, practically?
You sign up (for free) on one of those sites (or all of them if you're serious about this and have some spare time). Most of the time, you'll be asked to provide a username and password, along with your email-address. You'll receive a confirmation email. Once your subscription is confirmed, you submit your site. And then you're all set up to start surfing. You'll be presented with a website just like yours, usually every 20 or 30 seconds. To prevent cheating, you'll be asked to click some kind of code after every website (more on that later).
Are you beginning to see the potential of this approach?
Every 20 seconds, you earn yourself a new, unique visitor to your site. That means 180 unique visitors every hour you spend on that SFT.
If you take this seriously and run 20 of those sites at the same time, you'll find yourself with 3600 unique visitors, for every hour you spend.
No other method will give you these results. And best of all: it's all free!
Let's not make this more difficult on yourself than it is, and get the right tools.
First of all, you'll need a puter and an internet-connection (HAH). The more RAM the better (to be highly effective, we'll be running dozens of browser windows at the same time... don't even think about that with 56MB of RAM). A broadband internet connection is highly advised.
Next: a browser. Internet Explorer just won't do the job. The perfect browser for the job is Crazy Browser. Download it (for free) here. Crazy Browser is a tabbed browser, and comes with a built-in pop-up blocker. A tabbed browser is what we'll need for something that requires you to have an overview.
Your site will need to meet some requirements as well. Absolutely forbidden are frame-breaking sites (since the surf-for-traffic programs rely on frames to credit you). Most SFTs allow your site to have a maximum of one pop-up/pop-under. Generally, your site needs to be in English, and adult content is not allowed.
Also, make sure your site loads fast. Since most SFTs only display your site for 20 seconds and you need to capture your visitors attention within that timeframe, slow-loading Flash-sites are not done. And make sure your site is online. People don't like watching a 404-message, and some STFs will even cancel your subscription if your site is not actually up.
Off we go!
We're all set up and ready to start surfing. Most of the SFTs are set up the same way. I'll be using WebMasterQuest as an example, since it's got most of the functions you'll find on most SFTs.
Here's a screenshot.
You'll see that your screen is divided in two parts (marked as 1 and 2 on the screenshot). Part 1 is the WebMasterQuest frame. Part 2 is the actual "site-show".
The rest is easy: once the countdown timer hits 0, you are required to click the symbol in the bigger white frame that corresponds with the symbol at the "Click"-prompt (a question mark in this case). This guarantees that your site actually gets viewed.
In the WebMasterQuest-frame, you'll also see links to your account (where you can change your personal info, add sites to the rotator, and get an overview of your credits), and a Report Site-link. If your site doesn't comply with the terms set by the SFT, visitors will click that link, and your account will be terminated.
All of the sites mentioned in this tutorial have anti-cheating measures in place. This means a little more work on your side (you'll actually have to watch the side-show), but at the same time guarantees that your site gets seen as well.
Here are some of the most common anti-cheats measures:
- You'll be presented with a symbol you have to match to one of the symbols in a box. The box will sometimes appear at the top of your page, and sometimes at the bottom.
- You'll be presented with the name of a color, and you'll have to click the matching color-box.
- You are presented with a word, and have to click the matching word in a word-list.
The method described in this tutorial involves some work and time from your side (as opposed to the auto-hit sites - sites that just display a lot of pages without interference from the user), but guarantees you unique visitors that actually take a look at your site. If your site is worthwhile, it will get noticed.
Tabbed browsing
As mentioned before, Crazy Browser is the ideal tool for the job. The reasons are its tabbed features, plus the built-in pop-up blocker.
Here's how you set up your Crazy Browser:
Open a couple of SFTs (As much as possible. Just make sure your puter doesn't stall.) Once you have all the desired windows open, go to Groups and select "Save All Pages As Group". Select a Groupname and save the group. Now, next time you want to open this group, you just go to Groups, and select the Group you want to open.
Some terms
Ratio: displayed as "x:y". This stands for the surf-for-click rate. For every x sites you visit, you'll get y visitors in return. Most often, this is 1:1 or 2:1.
Credit: your credit simply is the number of page-views you've got.
Referral: a referral is someone you refer to an SFT. As a bonus for referring someone, you'll get a portion of however much credits your referral has.
The sites
Here's a list of sites:
By far the most effective and easiest.
2:1 Ratio
50 free credits for joining
No More Hits
2:1 Ratio
I Love Clicks
1:1 Ratio
30 seconds per site
Hit Harvester
1:1, 5:4 or 2:1 Ratio. Additionally, you can earn money with this thing.
1:1 Ratio
A somewhat different approach. You'll be asked to rate other sites. For every correct rate, you earn a ticket in their credits-lottery.
200 free credits for joining
20 second timer
Traffic Swarm
100 free credits for joining
You earn credits every time you open the startpage, plus for surfing in categories.
Add More Hits
4:3 Ratio
1:1 Ratio
Traffic Roundup
2:1 Ratio
Fast Freeway
2:1 Ratio
1:1 Ratio
100 free credits for joining
2:1 Ratio
Traffic Run
1:1 Ratio
100 free credits for joining
Up to 1:2.5 Ratio
20 free credits for joining
1:1 Ratio
1:1 Ratio.
Happy clicking!
Note: I average about 10,000 unique visitors each day using this system. When I started, it took me about 2 hours a day. Right now, it only takes me 1 hour a day. And it's all free!


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Publisher Desc. This collection of Scripture songs (KJV) by Glenn & Jan Christianson is a fun way to teach your children to memorize God's Word. Each of the 24 songs is a different passage set to music. Songs include: I Will Sing Unto The Lord (Ps. 104:33); Only Fear The Lord (I Samuel 12:24); A New Song (Ps. 40:3); Righteousness Exalteth A Nation (Prov. 14:34); Redeeming The Time (Eph. 5:15, 16); Children Obey Your Parents (Eph. 6:1, 2a); I Can Do All Things Through Christ (Phil. 4:13, 23); My God Shall Supply (Phil. 4:19); There Is None Righteous (Rom. 3:10); For All Have Sinned (Rom. 3:23); God Commendeth His Love (Rom. 5:8); Death Passed Upon All Men (Rom. 5:12); The Gift Of God Is Eternal Life (Rom. 6:23); Thou Shalt Be Saved (Rom. 10:9, 10, 13); But As Many As Received Him (John 1:12); God So Loved (John 3:16); By Grace Are Ye Saved (Eph. 2:8, 9); Eternal Life (I John 5:11, 12); Behold I Stand At The Door & Knock (Rev. 3:20); Make A Joyful Noise (Ps. 100:1, 4); Giving Thanks Always (Eph. 5:20, 21); For Unto Us A Child Is Born (Isaiah 9:6); Glory To God In The Highest (Luke 2:13, 14); He Is Risen As He Said (Matt. 28:6); and Now Is Christ Risen (I Cor. 15:17, 18, 20).
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Charge and sync any iPhone that features the Lightning connector using the iPhone Lightning Dock. Your iPhone sits upright in the dock as it syncs or charges, so it's perfect for a desk or benchtop. Even when your iPhone is in an Apple-designed case, it's easy to dock. And you can unlock your iPhone or use Touch ID without having to remove it from the dock. The iPhone Lightning Dock features an audio port so it can connect to 3.5-millimetre headphones that include a remote control, or to powered speakers. And it supports other Lightning accessories, such as the Lightning to USB Cable (included with your iPhone). You can even conduct speakerphone calls with your iPhone in the dock.
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Beautifull Night at ArnhemI visited the last of three concerts in The Netherlands this time at a new venue to U2 - the Gelredome in Arnhem. Originally the band would play in Utrecht but due to the size of the show they had to reschedule the shows to the venue in Arnhem. Amazing.
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Arnhem 3 august 2001This was my first U2 concert. It was great. We had Kelis as support act. In Gelredome still hangs a big picture with signatures from the band. We took our wedding pictures in Gelredome and we have a picture in front of U2. The songs they played: Elevation Beautiful Day Until The End Of The World Pride (In The Name Of Love) Kite Gone New York Out Of Control Sunday Bloody Sunday / Get Up Stand Up (snippet) When I Get Home (snippet) / Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of In A Little While Stay (Faraway, So Close!) Bad / Wild Horses (snippet) / 40 (snippet) Psalm 116 (snippet) / Where The Streets Have No Name Mysterious Ways The Fly Bullet The Blue Sky With Or Without You One Wake Up Dead Man Walk On


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Saint Motel, SWIMM
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Missoula, MT, 59802
Doors 9:00 PM / Show 10:00 PM
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A lot has been said about time spent in the woods in solitude. From classic Thoreau literature, to music from the Big Pink, or Bon Iver, all examine shutting out the world, losing, and perhaps finding yourself. In the fall of 2010, Hockey left behind the flowering fields of Oregon for the tiny town of Hillsdale, New York. The band toured almost non-stop in support of their debut album "Mind Chaos" (2009) and the desolate forests of upstate New York seemed an appropriate place to get away and work on developing new material.
Hockey started as a duo (Ben Keys, Jerm Bass) at The Johnston College in Redlands, California in 2002. After stints in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Spokane, the band eventually landed in Portland, OR. In the summer of 2008 they embarked on a quixotic tour of the West in a converted van running on vegetable oil. Despite serious car trouble, the tour was a success. On the road, the band caught the attention of influential BBC radio host, Zane Lowe. After a few spins and a spot as "Reaction Record of the Week" for song 'Song Away', the band signed to Capitol/Virgin/EMI and things began to soar. Over the next two years, the group toured worldwide, focusing heavily on their large influence in the UK. After appearances on 'Later with Jools Holland', 'Live from Abbey Road Studios', and 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon', Hockey booked gigs with Friendly Fires, Passion Pit and Phoenix, as well as headline tours in the US, UK, Europe and Japan. Festival spots for 2009 and 2010 included: Glastonbury, Reading, Leeds, Islie of White, Peace and Love, Hove, Eurocannes, Laneway, Bonaroo, Coachella and Lollapalooza. In Aug 2010, following the many tours and the subsequent breakup of their live band, Ben and Jerm decided to head east and start work on their next record.
Arriving upstate, the band set out on what was ostensibly a short time in the woods, to get away, write, and think. The result was twenty two months of creating and recording what eventually became the band's sophomore effort, "Wyeth IS". Using vintage keyboards and drum machines made famous by 80's hip hop, as well as a "half time" technique which resulted in a deeper, more lush sound, the band began to re-imagine themselves, to evolve, and mature. Under considerable pressure from Label and Management about "hits" (a la Song Away) the duo eventually parted ways with both, freeing them to follow a new path. During this time the band almost changed their name. But they ultimately stuck with Hockey, while Ben replaced his last name, Grubin, with his middle name Wyeth.
After months of breakthroughs and defeats, Ben and Jerm whittled the work down fromover fifty demos to a final eleven songs. From the broad, universal perspective of "Wild Style" to the self reflective triumph of "Thought I was Changing", Hockey created an album about change, resilience and authenticity. This is the record they found in the woods, after they took the time to look...
With a sound as blistering as a parking lot on the hottest day of summer and a tireless devotion to the gods of rock and roll, Saint Motel are an explosive, cinematic, indie-pop band, with an intriguing blend of mischief and sincerity. Breaking out with "Puzzle Pieces," brand new single "At Least I Have Nothing," and a boundary pushing, explosive live show, Saint Motel are moving full speed ahead with their light hearted melodies and roll around on the floor excitement.
After high school, A/J Jackson decided to study film to discover new ways of creative expression, at the same time knowing full well that music was the closest thing to his heart. At film school, he soon met guitarist A Sharp, and the two friends began discovering structural parallels between movies and songs and began to explore them. A Sharp, who had been classically trained both by pedigree—having a classical guitar mentor in both his father and grandfather—and by education, learning to play flamenco in the caves of Granada, Spain. He wanted to immerse himself in something besides notes and chords and training, and so the two met amid film screenings and lectures about light and sound.
The rest of the band came together easily, if not somewhat by chance. The two film students found bass player Dak, a former buddhist monk, working as the sushi chef at their local sushi bar, where he overheard them discussing their search for a bassist. They found out that he'd been in a rock and roll band back in Thailand, and enlisted immediately. Drummer Greg Erwin gave up a professional career in motorcycle racing, and moved to LA to pursue careers in music and stunt work. Having first learned about music from bagpipe sessions with his grandfather, he ended up meeting the band at one of their first Los Angeles shows.
Saint Motel is one of those bands so dedicated, they're willing to try everything—and anything-- once. Looking to transport listeners to the same sweaty, shaking, dangerous place they found at the punk shows of their adolescence, they do things like practice entirely in darkness and try and maintain eye contact with one another through entire sets. Their shows are filled with thrills for the senses including a video piano that is connected to various live cameras planted on stage and others wirelessly roaming around the venue.
As a songwriter, Jackson pulls from a variety of sources. When it came time to build "Puzzle Pieces" into a Saint Motel tune, Jackson recalled a conversation with a photographer friend, about a model with perfect features but an anything but perfect face. "She had the most beautiful lips and beautiful eyes and her nose was perfect but they didn't fit together on her face—I just thought that was magic." Reflecting this everyday magic in sweeping melodies and raucous performance is exactly what the band is all about. "Sometimes our shows are more ruthless than they need to be for the type of music that we play," Jackson says, "but that's exactly how we want it."
SWIMM is the music of Chris Hess, Adam Winn. They write, record, and play live with several friends including Zac Sullivan, Gavin Little, Jared Bowser, Jonathan Berlin, Spencer Petersen & Adrian Martinez. The music flows in different directions, dipping into indie rock, dance, and rock n roll all with a twinge of psychedelia as the common element.
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I am, with great reluctance, offering up my last TouchStream LP for sale, along with my last iGesture pad.
The LP is in near perfect condition, with the original wrist-rest pads and the aluminum stand. No scratches, no worn lettering or graphics on the the tablets or the stand. The USB cable is nearly perfect but there's a bit of rust on the connector. I'm going to try to clean that up with some very fine sandpaper and steel wool. It's been rarely used, I had, up until a couple three years ago, two others for day to day use and I hadn't used either of them much since moving from Hawaii to Seattle in 2009, mostly just to see that they still worked before I sold them. Just didn't have a desk where I could lay things out. I was saving this one for my retirement to play on but plans change and it looks like I'm going to be living on a boat. No room. Not a good environment for such a treasure. Plus, I've gotten so used to using the keyboard and trackpad on my laptops. Still love the LP, just playing with it now to make sure it's still working flawlessly brings back the 7 years I depended on them. I was partially handicapped and basically lived in a big leather comfy chair overlooking the ocean, Kaneohe Bay to be exact. I had two 24" monitors, each running off a heavy duty desktop, identical in every way and cross-connected via CAT5 LAN and both connected via LAN to an array of NAS drives. The monitors were on those floaty arms so I could swing them in and out, up and down as desired. Ditto with the two LPs, each on it's own platform mounted on a floaty arm. King size bed right next to the comfy chair, 210 degree view of paradise, Even had a herd of geckos to entertain me. Life was tough. Times change. And I desperately need to downsize. I'll be living with another person in what works out to about a 300 SF, 2 bedroom, 2 bath condo with a fairly large ocean view deck. Doesn't come with a foundation or any land whatsoever. Also, a goodly portion of the floor area is taken up with engines and other nautical stuff. These FingerWorks products are just in a box that I only touch when I have to move them. As much as I dearly love them, for just the amazing magic they represent, but also a lot of good time, I need to let them go to someone who will love them just as much or more and take better care of them than I can.
The iGesture is in perfect condition, I've only used it to make sure it works. It does, perfectly.
I also have all the original documentation, at least for the LP, some for the iGesture.
I'm listing this here first. If no takers, I'll go to eBay. My asking price is $1200 for the whole package. I'm basing this on the last sale of an LP on eBay, $765, and a current listing on eBay for 4 LPs for $5000, and last sale price for an iGesture on eBay, $300. If you don't want it all, the LP and it's documentation will be $900 and the iGesture $350. The prices do not include shipping or insurance.
I have the original box for the LP. Nothing for iGesture but it fits snuggly in the LPs box. Which I would be putting inside another, more heavy duty box for shipping.
I'll be checking this website for responses over the next couple of weeks. No luck here by the 15th of January, I'll list with eBay.
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Plugging away since 1999, The National finally hit mainstream success with the release of their 2010 album High Violet. Of course, this entailed their first world tour, but in the new documentary Mistaken For Strangers, it's only the backdrop for the relationship between lead singer Matt Berninger and his younger brother Tom, who had no idea that these short videos he was shooting would turn into a public document of their troubled, if still loving brotherhood.
We talk with Israeli rockers Vaadat Charigim about some of their favorite records.
We talk with Yvonne Ambree and Jesse Barnes of Take Berlin about some of the records which influenced the recording of their debut EP, Lionize.
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|Railay West, Railay East in back, Ton Sai out of sight on left.
Railay Beach Retro Trip Report.
What could be better than a long trip to the far side of the world with two of your best friends?
It was the epic road trip made possible by the floods of 1997. We were all working in Yosemite when unprecedented floods ravaged the tourist infrastructure and my job was permanently downsized. My job had been to hire those two friends as waiters, and their services wouldnt be required that winter either Freedom called.
We were all climbers but only I had been through Thailand before, and then just as a warm stopover while returning from Himalayan trekking. We were starting to hear talk of warm winter climbing in the tropical paradise of Railay and Ton Sai beaches in Thailand. We planned to check it out and then head from there to India and Nepal.
Ill spare you the travel adventure stories that took three low budget guys from our arrival in Bangkok to a longboat arriving in Railay Bay, but when we hit the beach, we had way more luggage than anyone had ever seen. Yes, we had climbing gear. Yeah, we also were prepared to trek the Himalaya in winter, but we also had a guitar and two big drums. Im not talking about bongos either, we had a Djembe and a Yashiko.
We managed to find scarce accommodations at Railay Bay Bungalows. I agreed to pay extra to have my own bed as my compatriots were forced to sleep together on the other bed. Their cohabitation was fodder for endless humor at their expense. It was money well spent.
The moment we had our wits about us, we took stock of our situation, and we kicked ourselves that we hadnt allowed more time in this paradise on the way to more austere destinations. The climbing was wild beyond imagination, the food was delicious, exotic, and beyond cheap, and the ocean was so warm you could hardly cool off in it. We would go on midnight swims with bioluminescent plankton outlining our bodies in ethereal auras.
Out of politeness, I wont dwell too long on the bonus factor. Ive never, ever, seen so many beautiful women in one place. Not even in my dreams. For me it was a curse, as I had just agreed to tie a string around the finger of a love that agreed to wait for me at home. She was a keeper, but for a lover of beauty such as myself, it required plenty of restraint.
I was lamenting about it, waist deep in warm ocean, surveying a beach filled with the women of many continents, and my friend Jeff, the crow-faced wizard boy, assured me. Sure, there are women everywhere but everybody is busy traveling. Nothing could really happen. You couldnt meet somebody like this. Today Jeff is married to a Swedish woman he met later on the trip on a pass in Nepal. He proposed to her on that very trip!!! Isnt that a trip? Quite an accomplishment for the true romantic!
Jeff is a complicated enough character that youll just have to take my word for it when I say that somehow Crow-Faced Wizard Boy is an apt nickname. He has endless boyish energy and enthusiasm, while at the same time, possesses the wisdom of an old man. Hes a fabulous player on many stringed instruments, and has an astounding ability to make up amazing and often humorous songs off the top of his head in real time.
My other buddy, Mark, the Great and Powerful Lummox, is at least 64. He learned the word for Tall in at least three languages on our trip. Hes also an amazing drummer who has since appeared on Cds of music ranging from Folk Rock to Brazilian. I like making music but God gave me other talents instead. Fortunately, I could keep up on the other drum just enough to add to the party.
I was also expected to be the rope gun. I had brought Jeff into climbing and taken Mark on his first multi-pitch. I knew trad climbing from decades of climbing; so many decades of climbing, in fact, that both of these young bucks were much stronger. Jeff was a wiry monkey and could have been left among his brethren in the Thai Jungle if he had enough fur. Lummox was also lean and had the stretch to go for those buckets that ended the crux sections. We called the giant holds Those Lummox Jugs and Jeff composed a rousing song about Lummox Jugs. In the end, we all shared the leads equally depending on our moods and the need for heroism/shame avoidance. Its sport climbing; you run out of excuses; we all had spankings.
At night, after a sunset dip, we would head off for a feast of Thai Food and a walk down to an undeveloped stretch of the beach to start our own special party. A couple candles in the sand and we would have a tropical campfire. Jeff would start making up songs, Lummox and I would play drums, and all kinds of folks would come hang out: Thai folks, climber folks, folks from around the world. Jeff, fortunately, has a heart of gold and was a great front man. It wasnt too many days before we become minor celebrities around the area and played in a bar or two, not to mention a major fire show on the beach.
The music was a great way to share space with the Thais, as often it was the main language we shared.
We would wake up early to climb if the sun and guidebook demanded, or just wake up when the sun made it impossible to do otherwise. We made the rounds to many climbing venues that seemed like pure fantasy. One time, to approach a climb, we had to walk through a monkey infested jungle to traverse a white sand beach, to then tunnel through a limestone cave all the way through an entire mountain, to climb a few pitches on the wall on its far side. We would find ourselves clinging to stalactites. Lummox and I did one fantastic multi-pitch climb that started with a 5.9 tree climb and continued upwards and overhanging from there. When we got to the crux, the wall seemed blank and perplexing. The saving Lummox Jugs were far beyond dyno territory. Only after the most desperate hunt for a solution did the key reveal itself. A huge stalactite, so far behind us that we didnt even notice it being within reach, was suddenly in stemming distance. Only in Thailand.
We had to improvise other solutions as well. On a rest day snorkeling trip to some tiny islands, a traveler girl stepped an urchin. Nobody was sure for certain, but word had it that urine had an enzyme that neutralized the urchin toxin. I was volunteered to be the hero. I supplied the antidote discreetly in a paper cup so that no local sensibilities would be offended. The young lady was cured!
We made friends too numerous to list in this brief account. You are not forgotten. I remember one Dutch guy, Roald, who attained a minor enlightenment from the lyrics of one of Jeffs classic songs. The hook of the song was Why dont you just, shut up and accept! Roald had been traveling in Asia just long enough to be ripe for that wisdom. He sang it over and over with sometimes maniacal laughter. I managed to find out through a web of email contacts that Roald died not long afterwards in a tragic motorcycle accident. Climb High Roald!
There is no climatic moment to conclude my story with. They were all climactic moments. The epic continues.
Lummox is in demand as a drummer and custom house builder.
Jeff, the crow-faced wizard boy, married Petronella from Sweden (who was pronounced a troll owing to short stature, dread locks, and other troll like eccentricities) who he met later in Nepal. They just had a baby girl Elva, who, you guessed it, will inevitably be called an elf. Between a wizard boy, a Swedish troll and an elf, you have a typical alternative California family.
As for me, Im living my long repressed dream of photographer, climber, and writer. The string remained tied. Susan and I have been together through thick and thin ever since I returned. For years, we talked about visiting Thailand. After finally surmounting every obstacle to visiting paradise together, we booked our tickets. Two days later, a tsunami hit.
Thats not the end of the story. Its just the beginning. Stay tuned, or. better yet, come along yourselves. The epic continues
|Jeff and Mark in Bangkok
|Mark and Karl in Bangkok
|Long Boats entering Railay
|Jeff after a Dip
|Lummox Rapping off the Steep Stuff
|Karl Leading Something He can Barely Pull
|Fire Show on Beach
|Lummox Leading Tarzan
|Karl Sport Climbing
|Paying Respects at Cave Temple Near Krabi
|Mark on Lead
|Longboat on the Sunset Side


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Don't you just hate it when you get a phone call from a number you don't recognize but no one says anything when you answer? You say "Hello" a couple times more but still no response so you hang up.
Of course then you start thinking that maybe it was someone from the past…maybe a lost love…someone who couldn't live another minute, draw another breath, without hearing your voice…someone too afraid to speak your name so they say nothing…choosing only to listen to your voice.
Then a day, maybe two later, the phone rings again and the call is coming from the same number. You answer, heart thumping, afraid.
You are not interested in refinancing your house. You hang up.
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Been away from the forum for a while, but here I am . Trying to get a feeling of all you guys' opinions a little bit.
For some reason, Woody's been going with Kurt at the 4, Melo at the 3 without Kidd. Kurt's still only playing ~7-8 minutes per, though.
IMO, Novak should get the starts at the small forward, and Melo should be running the 4 again. If you look at the breakdown by position, he's one of the most dominant power forward's in basketball right now.
At the 4, the offense is less stagnant. Melo uses primarily post-ups, whereas at the 3 he tends to run iso.
Also, Melo's defensive struggles are more on display when he's at the three. It's not a matter of effort (like last year), but at small forward he's chasing guys around the perimeter, switching, etc. He's looked vulnerable to back-door cuts. At the 4, he's better suited in the short term to body guys down low and D up that way.
As far as Novak goes, it looks like his slump is over. At the very least, he stretches the floor for the rest of the guys. I view it as a better option over Kurt who hasn't looked all that deserving of any burn. What's confusing to me is that Woody starts KT, takes him out 5 mins later, and that's usually the last we see of him. Just puzzling to me.
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With plenty of Felton-Pablo-together minutes. We saw that combo together for the first time against Milwaukee, and it looked great. Why not try again?
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It was one of those nights. Never mind the 12-0 drubbing at the hands of the Orioles, or the season-low attendance of 13,556, or even the gradual realization that the Jays aren't going to sniff .500, a figure they always tend to be within a couple games of on either side. It was poor judgment and a mechanical failure teaming up to provide the only appropriate meteorological backdrop for a lost season, crystallized: rain, inside the dome.
It rained most of the day in Toronto. But as the skies cleared around game time, the Rogers Centre made the curious decision to retract the roof in the second inning, despite the radar showing more mess on the horizon. Sure enough the rains came again in the fourth, and the switch was thrown and the gears clanked and the roof rolled, a race to seal the raindrops out and the bad vibes in. Then the closing roof slowed—it never completely stopped, but a process that's only supposed to take 20 minutes was mercilessly extended beyond an hour.
The infield turned unplayable. The red clay of the pitcher's mound isn't designed to get wet, and quickly became mud. The Rogers Centre, never expecting a quagmire, doesn't have a cleat scraper on hand for pitchers to clean out their spikes. Blue Jays starter Carlos Villanueva was visibly upset as he tried to kick the mud out of his shoes, but to his credit, noted that his Oriole counterpart had to deal with the same conditions.
There was a brief delay in the middle of the sixth inning as the grounds crew tended to the infield, though not long enough to officially become the seventh rain relay in SkyDome/Rogers Centre history.
Soon after, the fire alarm went off. It was one of those nights.


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Video of pit bull shooting draws wrath
"I was horrified this evening by a clip on CBS 4 in Denver at 10 that showed a dog being shot," a reader emailed.
"This was unbelievably cruel and insensitive to the dog's owner as well as to anyone who cares about animals. Not to mention, it shows horrific news judgment. What on earth was possibly gained by showing an animal suffering and writhing in pain on the news?"
The video, shot by Commerce City neighbor Ken Collins, showed two police officers and an animal control officer surrounding a 3 1/2-year-old pit bull. After attempting to control it using a taser and a neck harness, an officer fired once and then, with the dog secured, the officer shot four more rounds, killing the dog.