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Be nice. It's a fscking gift
Liraz Siri - Tue, 2011/11/01 - 03:24 - 32 comments
Open source development is usually fun and rewarding. You get to work on whatever you like. No permission required. No "business justification". Here's this thing I've created, isn't it neat? There's a deep sense of satisfaction in making things. Especially when other people find them useful. It's also pretty awesome when people decide what you've made is interesting enough that they want to join in and help make it better. Successful projects often form into communities. Strangers from all over the world turned into enthusiastic users, co-developers. Friends.
The only parts that suck are that:
- It is a bit more difficult to make a living purely from open source software. Giving stuff away generally doesn't pay very well.
- Some people just don't get it.
For example, a while back someone who shall remained unnamed started e-mailing us privately with complaints that TKLBAM (TurnKey's Backup and Migration software) didn't work right for him. We eventually traced the problem back to a MySQL memory usage issue. It turns out that in some, thankfully rare situations MySQL consumes way too much memory when you restore a very particular kind of database from a mysqldump.
When the user complained this was "a fault of TKLBAM's design" I explained that it really didn't sound like a TKLBAM problem to me because:
- If you peeled off TKLBAM and just used mysqldump / mysql command directly to backup / restore that kind of database you would run into exactly the same memory usage issue.
- If Ubuntu issued a package update that fixed the bug, the issue would go away. Presto. No TKLBAM fix required.
Besides, even if this wasn't a rare edge case nobody else had run into there probably wasn't much I could do about it without debugging MySQL code - a daunting task.
The best I could do was add an item to my todo list to see if we could look for workarounds that would go into the next version. In the meantime I recommended that the user try using another solution.
Then I went on vacation. When I came back online I discovered an escalating series of e-mails from this user that eventually culminated in threats if we didn't drop everything to meet his demands. And this was no joke. This guy seemed to be dead serious!
Alon, who peaks into my TurnKey e-mail inbox when I'm not around tried calming the guy down:
Just so you know, Liraz has been working offline and on vacation for about a month, if not a little longer. He has not been ignoring you, he just hasn't read your emails.
I can understand your frustration, but even so keep in mind that TLKBAM is open source software, and released under the GPL!
I'm sure Liraz will reply to you once he returns online and finds the time, but even then understand that there is no obligation on his part to do so, except for common courtesy. Making threats is just disrespectful and wasteful.
Another demanding, entitled rant followed. When I finally came back I read through the whole series of e-mails, thought a little bit about what kind of confusion could lead to the (thankfully rare) behavior we were witnessing and put in my final response:
Sorry for the late reply and sorry for the bad experience you have had with TKLBAM.
As Alon said I've been offline for a while. As much as I'd like to help you in a friendly manner I'm getting the sneaking sensation from the demanding tone of your messages that you don't seem to understand how open source works.
The way I see it open source is basically a gift culture where people give the products of their labor away in a vague hope that some people (but probably not everyone) will find it useful. It's a gift, with everything that implies. There are no warranties, explicit or implied. There are no guarantees that it is fit for any purpose.
Even proprietary software you pay for is not guaranteed to fully satisfy you or to work flawlessly (it usually doesn't). The only way to really guarantee that technology works like you want is either to take pains to develop it yourself or pay someone else to develop it for you, in which case you can boss them around when they don't meet your expectations or schedule. For what it's worth I am prepared to offer you a full refund for the free software. :)
Seriously though I do appreciate the technical feedback but please remember that the open source license gives you permission to copy, distribute and improve TKLBAM yourself if you ever feel I am not responsive enough to your needs.
I don't know what I was expecting. A sudden moral epiphany? "Sorry I got carried away". I know I know, I probably shouldn't have bothered. Once a person gets so far out of whack it's unlikely they are interested in being sensible. But I'm a sucker for redemption. Anyhow, it certainly didn't help. A couple of additional e-mails with further demands and threats followed. Oh well, at least I tried.
The moral of the story: Come on, be nice. It's a fscking gift!
Completely agree with you
Miguel Barrero - Tue, 2011/11/01 - 04:54
And let me tell you I've been using Turnkey Linux and it have been wonderfull, I have saved hundreds of hours of work, Congratulations! and keep going!
At least you tried...
Marcos Peebles - Tue, 2011/11/01 - 17:27
And said you did, and shared your story! Thank you for that.
A lot -if not all- OSS developers will recognise themselves in this story.
A lot -if not all- tried and have this kind of story to tell, glad you posted yours.
Thank you for that Liraz, you're (we're) not alone.
It ain't just OS
Derek Anderson - Wed, 2011/11/02 - 08:21
Sadly, it is not just open source software that has these kinds of "customers". I have had pirates threaten, wheedle, and cajole for support when they haven't paid for the software either (and make various unrealistic threats when refuse). Some people have internalized the "customer is always right" message just a bit too effectively I guess...
It's complicated, as always
Manuel Strehl - Wed, 2011/11/02 - 10:17
This guy was obviously completely beyond the pale. There is no excuse for such a behaviour against people sharing their work for free. I don't know, if I could remain this calm, when such a douchebag targeted one of my OSS projects.
However, and this is the complicated part, there are situations, where it is not acceptible for an open source project to neglect certain bugs. This applies usually to larger projects, e.g., Ubuntu or LibreOffice. The point is, that other people base their work on promises these projects have made.
Example in place: If you advertise your distro as "Linux for Human Beings" and dead-simple, you are somewhat obliged to be true to your word. If then a distro upgrade leads to a situation, where I can't even log me in again, because the login manager dies all the time or worse, (and this on a Dell machine sold bundled with Ubuntu) it is good enough for tinkerers but certainly not for the usual employee or freelancer.
Of course, it is still free, and you're saving money in the first place and such. But it is not possible for you to fork the project and fix it yourself, even with your own medium-sized IT department, and the gift has just turned out to be a curse.
Welcome to the world of software support
Michaeel - Wed, 2011/11/02 - 10:36
I am surprised that you are surprised. This is daily business in support.
Especially, in computer software support. You won't believe how many hillbillies are capable of using a keyboard.
I'm intrigued about what the
golufs - Wed, 2011/11/02 - 12:19
I'm intrigued about what the threats were :D
I read fsck and git
iluciv - Wed, 2011/11/02 - 14:12
Was a little confused and then I was like OH!
yeah I know that's my joke lol
iluciv - Thu, 2011/11/03 - 10:57
I thought the article was going to be about fcsk and git lol
Just trying to keep it light; there is always one that's going to expect more than what should be expected.
I think you guys that develop maintain and provide all these open source systems are just unbelieveable people and I can't praise enough for all the great things that I use and implement in my life.
It ain't just software, even
saddude - Wed, 2011/11/02 - 18:00
I spend all my vacation each year working as a volunteer, providing a service for free to an organization to which I belong. It is astonishing to observe the people who have the same demanding, entitled attitude with volunteers, face to face, providing a free service. You might think that the "facelessness" of email or other electronic interaction brings this out in people, but for some people that is how their daily interactions with other humans go. They're not even "customers", but they do try to use that word for themselves instead of "fellow organization members".
Something almost off topic... but not quite!
Jeremy Davis - Wed, 2011/11/02 - 23:08
I've just been clearing out my inbox and came across something that I think is almost relevant. Thought I'd share before I deleted (I can't verify it's content it's just one of those emails that does the rounds):
Chutzpah is a Yiddish word meaning gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, sheer guts plus arrogance; it's Yiddish and, as Leo Rosten writes, "no other word and no other language" can do it justice. This example is better than 1,000 words. Read the story below and then you will understand.
An old lady sold pretzels on a street corner for 25 cents each. Every day a young man would leave his office building at lunch time, and as he passed the pretzel stand, he would leave her a quarter, but never take a pretzel.
This went on for more than 3 years. The two of them never spoke. One day, as the young man passed the old lady's stand and left his quarter as usual, the pretzel lady spoke to him. Without blinking an eye she said:
"They're 35 cents now."
expect the expected
Harry Pachty - Wed, 2011/11/02 - 21:28
time to rethink your "benefits" on first page?
all of them
Harry Pachty - Thu, 2011/11/03 - 11:20
If you praise your open source project like it was the best deal to buy, expect customers who expect services as if they bought it. You use marketing language of car dealers: "Save time and money", "It just works", etc. Don't use psychology if you can't handle it ..
Open source means so many different things
Profane - Thu, 2011/11/03 - 16:54
I certainly sympathize with your situation, and it sounds like a situation where the user had wildly unrealistic expectations and may just be an irrational person-- even if your open-source product was as altruistic as soup from the soup kitchen, some users will spit it back in your face and demand an explanation for "post-meal indigestion" (even if it turns out to be a side-effect of all the PCP they took before your dinner and not related to your dinner at all, to test the limits of this analogy). I speak from soup kitchen if not open-source experience.
That said, there are an awful lot of "open source" products out there which are launched as such for, say, licensing reasons, and promise all kinds of wonderful things to users, but then essentially try to milk those users like any corporation would. Is it really fair to tell those users, 'well it was free, so if it doesn't work too bad and by the way, you could buy our services and thereby get closer to our marketing promises.'
I'm really hoping this site doesn't turnout to be an example. I loved the concept and was eager to try one of the cloud deployments. I created an amazon free cloud account, through your links to do so, after seeing that your VMs were compatible with their free services. I actually thought, 'ah good, I'm winning them some referral money at least.' It took me most of the morning to learn the basics of AWS and get it setup. Then I came back to your hub to begin deploying and found that your service and amazon's free services are in fact incompatible. Amazon provides a micro server for free and your agreement with amazon specifically precludes using a microserver. So my options are either use a 'small' server instead of the free micro server and pay a massive annual cost, or use ec2 storage and pay $45 per month. So free here means, roughly $500 per year? I wish I would have known before I spent the morning setting it up.
I'm aware that you'll enable microservers if I refer a friend, but I'm not a corporate developer. I don't have developer friends. Whom would I refer? My mother? My mechanic? It takes a relatively high degree of interest in technology for someone to have any interest in a virtual LAMP stack deployed in the cloud. Is there some way that I can take advantage of your service with amazon's free service that I'm missing?
Not irate, just disappointed.
Personally I run most of my servers locally
Jeremy Davis - Thu, 2011/11/03 - 18:09
All virtualised, so then they are totally free.
But if you want to run a Micro server in the cloud then to get access them freely, you need only to refer a friend. By my understanding there is no obligation for them to take it up. Obviouly if you have friends/associates/etc that may be interested in having a play (similar to you) then they would be obvious choices, but failing that, why not your mechanic? Or your mother? :)
Is this a supposition or actually true?
Profane - Sat, 2011/11/05 - 02:10
I've seen many 'refer-a-friend' specials in my life, and never heard of one that actually means 'send your friend a reference to our offer.' If that's really true, that's great news. I can't afford $500 and I don't have friends who are likely to be interested in deploying anything to the cloud anytime soon, given I don't know anyone else who writes code. But, I can certainly send a friend an invite, if that's all that's required?
TBH I'm not 100% sure
Jeremy Davis - Sat, 2011/11/05 - 13:39
I was under the impression that you only had to refer a friend. But now you mention I thought I better hunt through the forums to get some clarity on that. So here's what I found...:
In this post Alon (one of the TKL core devs) says:
The TurnKey Hub provides a 14 day free trial for Micro servers. To get unlimited Micro access you have 2 options. Either invite a friend to the Hub and have him/her complete the invitation, or enable EBS backed instances.
Which seems pretty clear that the friend must actually sign up to the Hub. But then later (in the same thread) Maurice says:
I ultimately, did in fact decide to recommend your service to a friend/colleague. Upon my first read, it seemed as though it required that a person whom I recommended actually go through the process of registering for me to get the free service. (Which is not unreasonable.) I didn't want to put pressure on my friend to go all the way thru the Amazon process, so I wasn't sure if I would actually get the credit. This is why I didn't immediately do it. However, after making the recommendation, it appeared as though I now immediately got the free service, which puzzled me a bit.
But then he went on to say:
Not sure if it was this action or another of the previous actions I took yesterday. (Do you know?)
Unfortunately he isn't clear about what other actions he tool and it seems the devs may have missed that question and didn't answer it.
So just to muddy the waters completely, I found this comment (and response from Alon). Tom says:
You have to invite 5 friends...not just one...so go back to launch a new server, and click the invite button 5 times, each with a different email address in the box.
To which Alon replies:
Tom, your comment is correct - though we are working on streamlining this process.
So it's not completely clear to me... Worst case scenario, you may have to get someone to sign up to the Hub, but they are obviously under no obligation to use it (and you won'tget charged anything at all if it's not used).
Thank you for your continued kind gifts
flexbean - Thu, 2011/11/03 - 19:44
I just want to thank Liraz and this entire community for your regular attention to excellence. Perfection would seem to require an omni attribute beyond any of us. I've been writing software since 1980 (I feel old) and while I have yet to see perfection in code, I have grown in my appreciation for beautiful solutions to problems. The elegance demonstrated in the labors graciously presented in TKL, the HUB and TKLBAM are home runs from my perspective. I personally prefer to run things out of the hub. It all just seems to work and I like that :-) Would I prefer access to larger instances? Sure, I'd like to see everything AWS has and every other cloud provider has available. Does this mean the TKL team should make my preference priority? Absolutely not. What if it was real important to my particular needs? Still the answer would remain, no. Why? The choice to use TKL or any of its components was mine and is hence my responsibility. My choice is not the responsibility of the TKL team. Having authority without responsibility is dysfunction; as is, responsibility without authority. It matters not how flailing or loudly the dysfunction is demonstrated. To give in can lead to codependence and looks as silly as a parent giving into the ranting tantrum of a toddler.
Thank you for your transparent and mature response. Thank you also for your continually gracious and generous gifts to us. You are very much appreciated :-)
What a wonderful post! :)
Jeremy Davis - Fri, 2011/11/04 - 00:36
Makes me feel all warm and gooey inside! :)
But seriously, I really like your perspective and I think your point re authority without responsibility (and vise-versa) is great social commentary that applies very specifically to FOSS but much more broadly in general. I like it lots!
Hopefully once the TKL guys get everything back on track, and have their todo list whittled down significantly - possibly sometime next decade!? :) - another option I'd like to see clearly advertised is the oprion for users to sponsor requested features. While it's not a reliable source of income it could be an additional source of intermitent revenue for the project and clarify the fact that the responsibilty rests with the end-user.
And/or perhaps that too could be opened up? I've seen on some other open source projects an idea where bounties (provided by users) are offered for features (requested by users). Thus connecting members of the community with skills, to members of the community with needs/desires with a cash incentive - and the whole community benifits. That could be quite cool, although probably just more work for the TKL guys setting all that up and coordinating it! And perhaps it erodes some of the feel good stuff generated by the gift culture of open source? OTOH at least then it would bring the responsibilty for the project back to the community - not just the core dev team? I dunno...!? Just thinking aloud again...!
Many Thanks
Dan N - Mon, 2011/11/07 - 17:15
I just found Turnkey a month or so back. Its been tremendously helpful for me already, and will likely be my first stop when testing new toys from here on out. And as a near 20 year veteran of IT, I can truly say I feel your pain dealing with this guy. We all run into them occasionally, and they can just suck the life out of you. Thanks for not letting his a$$hattery cause you to just throw up your hands and stop doing good work that benefits the rest of us.
Glad someone's sticking up for providers of free things.
Jack - Mon, 2011/11/07 - 18:49
Completely agree with the spirit of this post. I'm not sure why it bothers me so much -- I've never created something open-source per se, but I understand what it's like to provide something for free and have people become, as Dan said above, "a$$hats" over the tiniest things.
It reminds me -- I find the same thing happens among the fans of free podcasts -- there are always a few people who just pick and complain, forgetting that they're being given a gift. It's annoying, but, I guess on the bright side (?) it's something just about everyone has to deal with at some point. Again, it's only a few people who seem to "ruin" the whole experience of providing something for free. People are also more likely to speak up when they don't like something, I suppose. But it's hard to imagine somebody saying such things to someone who had just physically handed them, say, a puppy as a gift -- "This springer spaniel's paws should really be brown" -- though I'm sure it happens.
Well, I like your post.
I can get some TKLBAM MySQL issues to you if you need them ;)...
L. Arnold - Thu, 2011/11/10 - 05:04
I have a few Backup sets that are very very difficult to Restore from. I have tried to document elsewhere, and yes, I can also understand the despiration felt by not being able to get ones data back.. (an experience that does pass, it really does). . I just got comfortable in thinking i had a good Cell phone back up this weekend... till i pushed the 'backup button" by mistake a second time on the teaser version which overwrote my paid backup of 5 miniutes before ---SAME DATE BASED fILENAME overwrote the first to my SD CARD and i proceeded to do a factory reset)...
Anyway, this is all great stuff and we really really appreciate it. It takes quite a bit to absorb all the intricacies and likely this is true for anyone. Thanks for helping us through the learning too!


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Grassy matcha meets up with fresh mint and citrus in this alcohol-free highball.
2 tsp. powdered matcha green tea
3 oz. hot water
6 mint leaves
5 tsp. fresh lime juice
2 tsp. simple syrup (1:1)
2 lime wedges
Soda water
Tools: heat source, mixing glass, muddler or long-handled spoon
Glass: collins
Garnish: mint sprig
Cover matcha with hot water (about 150 degrees F) and stir well. Pour into an ice-filled glass. In a separate mixing glass, muddle the mint and lime juice with simple syrup, then pour contents into the glass. Squeeze the lime wedges into the drink and top with soda water and additional ice if needed. Stir gently and garnish.
Tip: For a spiked matcha mojito, add 1 ½ oz. light rum, or replace the soda water with sparkling wine.
Anthony Arnold, Remedy Teas, Seattle

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Perhaps it will help the person to move on and to embrace life again. Hopefully, it will help. It is worth a try.


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Cheryl @ JoJo's Joys
CC Catherine @ Catherine de Thé Cups
Deb @ Drivin 55
Crystal @ Olive Rue
Sherri @ Design to Shine
Linda @ Nina's Nest
Joyce (no blog yet :-)
Denise (no blog yet :-)
Not pictured: Rose @ A Santamakers' Journey
Debbie, again, it was so neat meeting you! I hope we can all get together again soon too. I still need to do a post about it! I've been knee deep in cleaning and prep work for my kitchen make over. So I'm glad I had an actual 'vacation' day of fun!ReplyDelete
What an enjoyable get together, so exciting for sure for you all to meet each other. I'm jealous! Thanks for sharing the pics with us, Debbie!...ChristineReplyDelete
Wow, it looks like you had a wonderful time!!!! CHEERS! MicheleReplyDelete
Looks like you all had a great time. Glad the snow didn't ruin things for you. O, and could you please send some of that yummy food over here to So. California? O, and some of that snow would be good over here, too! lol
Hope you're having a wonderful week.
:) Brenda
Oh Debbie looks like a good time was had by all...Girl I am so glad you got to make it with the snow and the roads..Food looked Yummy seen at it Rue place..whata fun time...would't you have belive 6 months ago you would be doing ?? Blogging plus meeting these great friends?? Enjoyed seeing your day...Hugs and smiles Gl♥riaReplyDelete
Hi Debbie,
This looks like so much fun and you got some great photos there. I love your take on it and the food and atmosphere look delightful! Well, I wish I could have been there too, if I can talk my hubby into driving to Georgia this summer can you plan another one? LOL, Cindy
Debbie, this looks like so much fun! I love being able to put a face with the name. And what a perfect place to have the luncheon. Glad the weather didn't put a damper on things. I mean it, next time I just might get on the road and head over! Hugs, KathyReplyDelete
Debbie..what fun you girls must have had..if only the walls could talk..I had to laugh when you said you and Linda tried to check out the plates and they were glued to the wall..lol
hugs ~lynne~
How FUN! I thought about you that Monday. Living in western NC we had snow too- lots of it. Thank you thank you for showing us these images of your time together. What a rewarding day you had. I have no blog but love to browse them and support them. You do get familiar with the names and personalities. Thus it is great to see these shining faces!ReplyDelete
Oh, Debbie, what a fun day and everyone just looks like they're having so much fun. I am so glad you and CC went and the weather cooperated. I know you gals will plan another soon. Hugs, MartyReplyDelete
What a nice group we had!
That was so much fun.
So glad you had such a wonderful luncheon! It is nice to be able to share it you y'all through your blogs! :D JewelReplyDelete
Hi Debbie...I'll just bet they glued those plates to the wall when they heard you were coming...LOL...what a great day that was for all of you! Wish I could have been there too..
;-) Bo
Hi Debbie...I knew the minute I saw you walk in the door we were going to have fun!! And I knew you must have been eyeing those beautiful French plates that were behind you, but Linda didn't look the type to have "sticky fingers"...I guess she kept you in line..Can't wait to do it again...ReplyDelete
It looks like you girls had such a great time! La Mad is the perfect place to meet. It's so delicious and girly. :)ReplyDelete
Great pictures!! Looks like you had so much fun...besides getting lost of course. Thanks for sharing all the pictures.
Debbie - I was worried when I heard of the bad weather you were having, hoping it would not cancel your luncheon. Sounds like you had a wonderful time, and have the feeling it won't be your last get together! Great photos!ReplyDelete
What a fun day! Thank you for sharing it. Isn't the Internet remarkable?
Hey Sweet Debbie......Of course I'll still ride with you on any trip! The company is the great thing., not necessarily where we're going...and I had a BLAST getting to know you! Just like your blog, you are a warm, fun, and vivacious lady! You totally are worth anyone driving HOURS to get to meet you., and/or getting lost together finding our destination! You're a fascinating person! And ladies...Debbie's house is even MORE BEAUTIFUL than her pics... Very French & I LOVED IT! Hugs Debbie! ~CC Catherine PS: Meows go out to your Staff...I'm missin them already!ReplyDelete
Hi Debbie! Looks like everyone had a great time...wish I could have been there!
Oh Debbie how fun! So glad you had such a great time and got to meet so many fellow bloggers. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we all could get together? Well dear hope you have a great day. Love, CindyReplyDelete
Yes, we had a blast! I look forward to getting together again real soon.ReplyDelete
Debbie, I bet this was a hoot with all you ladies trying to talk at once! I wish I lived closer so I could have joined you, but between the plates & the desserts, you would have had to drag me to the table! ♥ DianeReplyDelete
I don't know what people in GA are going to think when there is a huge infux of bloggers moving to GA! Ya'll are just having way too much fun, and the rest of us are getting way to envious! I wanted to move to GA after seeing the Classy Flea. But that was just the tip of the iceburg! Now, I REALLY want to move to GA. Do you think my husband would pack up and move because I want to be having fun with my blogging buddies? Thanks for sharing all of this fun. I'm living vicariously through you and the other GA girls! laurieReplyDelete
Oh Debbie I saw the pics on Susan's porch! I'm so jealous! No really I'm glad ya'll had such a good time! I just befriended Linda @ nina's nest so it was good to put a face with the blog! I told Susan that next time ya'll meet I'm making Laurie come from Arkansas and pick me up then we'll stop and get Connie in Knoxville. If we leave at about 5 in the morning we could be there for a late lunch! God Bless! lauralu :)ReplyDelete
Oh Debbie,
It looks like y'all had such a wonderful time! I'm trying not to be jealous...not succeeding at it.
Looks like you had a wonderful time, Debbie!
Great photos!
Looks like you ladies had a load of fun, despite the heavy snowfall the night before! How wonderful that so many lovely bloggers and friends can get together and spend the afternoon.ReplyDelete
Hello Girlfriend...
Ohhh what fun ya'll must have had!!! I just adore getting to see your "Get-together" photos...what beautiful and lovely ladies ya'll are!!! Thank you for sharing your day with us!
Have a wonderful Wednesday, Sweetie!
Love ya,
Dear Debbie,
Looks like you all had a wonderful time! Thanks for sharing the pictures! Love, Paula
Oh, I'm sure you all had a marvelous time! YOu all look so cute and happy! Glad the snow wasn't a big hindrance!
Be a sweetie,
Shelia :)
Debbie, Oh I love the looks of this place! It looks like you had a great girl's day out!ReplyDelete
Debbie, I am so glad you all were able to get together for lunch. That was such a neat thing to do. And, the food looked wonderful!ReplyDelete
It looks like everyone had a great time! Wish I could have been there, but Illinois is a little far!ReplyDelete
Awwww just look at ya'll!!! How lucky you are to have so many wonderful bloggers as RL friends!! I am GREEN with envy!! And not just because you actually have a french bakery! *winks* You guys must have had a blast! And it's so nice to put a face to the blog! VannaReplyDelete
Looks like a blast! If only I lived in Georgia, but we would both be in serious trouble with two dish addicts shopping together! I've not met too many dishes I didn't like. ;-)
Sheila :-)
Thanks so much for stopping by and taking the time to comment! I appreciate my wonderful readers!... Debbie


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Sneak Peek: GoBox Invincible
Just as the weekend started, Pong Yen at Yellow Mountain Imports (YMI) shared with me photos of their latest Go accessory, GoBox Invincible.
Some of you might recall that I got a preview and later acquired the original GoBox. It was rather functional but one of the oft-heard criticisms of the original design was that it was unlikely to survive the brutal abuse of airport baggage handling. YMI took those into account with the development of GoBox Invincible.
There was some talk by collectors of using the GoBox to ferry valuable gear from Japan. This new version looks very much suitable for that job.
GoBox Invincible will fit a floor goban that is 7cm thick (13cm with legs). As you can see from these photos, it will also fit extra-tall bowls (I recognize those as the rosewood Super-Yunzi bowls), a timer and books.
This is a quantum-leap improvement over the old GoBox and I'm sure that it will appeal to a specific group of players and collectors who greatly prize their equipment. It is expected to retail for $255.
The case is manufactured in the USA by Storm Hardigg and is model iM2875. Storm Hardigg makes some of the best industrial-use cases on the planet. I suspect that no one is going to question their credentials or the robustness of their cases.


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The Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park on Germany's North Sea coast provides protection for the Wadden Sea, the coastal area of mudflats between the Ems and Elbe rivers, as well as to the offshore East Frisian islands.
Situated in Lower Saxony, in the top north-western corner of Germany, the national park invites visitors on a journey to explore the remarkable wetlands along the North Sea coast.
Visitors can experience magnificent natural spectacles and amazing landscapes, such as the region's characteristic salt marshes, the steep sandy dunes near Dangast and the 'floating bog' near Sehestedt, Germany's last remaining outer dyke bog.
A great diversity of flora and fauna flourishes in the temperate environment of the mudflats. The common shelduck, one of this coastal region's most attractive birds, is a particularly impressive resident. Between August and September, visitors can watch these magnificent seabirds flying in and settling on the mudflats. The Norddeich seal centre is also well worth a visit.
In addition to the many ways of experiencing nature and interacting with animals the region also offers a number of other attractions that represent its history and culture, for example the Wattenmeerhaus information centre in Wilhelmshaven, a lightship and the whalebone fence on Borkum, the fisherman's house museum on Norderney, House Dornumsiel with its moat, the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven and the old lighthouse on Wangerooge. A visit to the East Frisian islands is also worthwhile. From swimming in the sea and enjoying the wide expanses of beach, to horse-drawn carriage rides across the islands and walks through the salt marsh – the national park's leisure activities promise ample rest and relaxation.
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Kindergarten thru 3rd grade work
My class used sponges with warm or cool acrylic colors to create their backgrounds first. Chalk pastels or oil pastels were used to create their birds and flowers which were cut out and glued to their painted backgrounds. They had the option of using realistic or creative color choices.


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A while back I was in the break room of my former job and talking to my manager. He was from
I realized just how horrible American geography education is. When I was in high school the class was taught North America's countries and maybe something about the country's relations with the
I knew then Americans were bad at geography but I did not know how bad until recently. My good friends at National Geographic have released yet another study of Americans not knowing regional geography.
The horror highlights include:
- 90% thought knowing the locations of countries in the news was not important
- 75% could not locate Israel on a map of the Middle East
- 60% were not to find Iraq on a map of the Middle East
- 47% could not find India on a map of Asia
- 30% thought the most heavily fortified border was between the US and Mexico
Harm de Blij would be rolling in his grave if he was dead.
Other geographical subjects are important. Knowing urban planning can help one figure where the best housing prices will be. American cultural and social geography can aide those who wish to market products. Knowing soil geography can tell one if there house will fall in a sink hole or erode into the ocean. All geographical fields are important yet schools only teach World Regional and they fail at that. I think teachers should take a page out of the British school system and find out what Americans are doing wrong.


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Late quaternary history of the Waco Mammoth site: environmental reconstruction and interpreting the cause of death. (2007-12-03)The Waco Mammoth site is thought to be the largest single-herd, non-human related mammoth death site in the World. Previous research has failed to determine an undisputed age and cause of death of 22 Columbian mammoths ...


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1S) Keenyn Walker, OF, Central Arizona JC: With no first-round pick, the White Sox went a super-speedy junior college outfielder with a rapidly improving bat. He has some power potential too, and a good glove in center field. I like him.
2) Erik Johnson, RHP, California: Cal-Berkeley pitcher works at 90-94 and has an impressive slider. Curveball and changeup need work if he wants to remain a starter. Workhorse body.
3) Jeff Soptic, RHP, Johnson County Community College: Clocked as high as 100 MPH, but slider and changeup are inconsistent. Very high upside in his 6-6 frame but needs polish. …
Other AL Central Draft reviews: Cleveland, Detroit, Kansas City, Minnesota.
Detroit's Draft budget must be lower than even ours. KC's draft class is full with High School players.


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ASHTABULA, Ohio (AP) — Police in northeast Ohio are investigating a shooting outside a church that has left one man dead after an Easter service.
A member of the Hiawatha Church-God in Christ says the man was shot outside after Easter services, at about 1:15 p.m. Sunday. Joan Crockett says a suspect was taken into custody.
Media reports have identified the victim as 52-year-old Richard Riddle and say his son was the shooter.
Ashtabula Police Chief Robert Stell tells the Star Beacon in Ashtabula that a mass shooting was feared after dispatchers received multiple calls from inside the church. He says at least six other law enforcement agencies rushed in to assist local police.
There were no immediate reports of any other injuries.


text: Eyes that are alert and steady. Skin that's sensitive to the touch. Arms that bend and grasp. To an unknowing observer, troops in the next-generation military might look much like today's. But those eyes are veiled by self-assembling contact lenses that transmit text messages and take blood pressure readings. That skin is made up of nanowires laid onto flexible rubber. And the arm underneath? A prosthetic -- controlled by brain implant. The Pentagon wants troops to be faster, stronger and more resilient. And with help from robotics, nanotechnology and neuroscience, the military's cyborg army -- from human troops to rat-bot recruits -- is getting prepped for battle. Above: Neurally Controlled Prosthetics In less than 10 years, Darpa's Revolutionizing Prosthetics program has transformed artificial limbs. Prosthetic arms, like the DEKA model, are already wired to respond to toe movements. Next up? Arms that are fully integrated with a wearer's neural signals. A collaboration led by Johns Hopkins researchers will start human trials on their Modular Prosthetic Limb this year. Micro-arrays are implanted into the brain, allowing a user to operate the prosthetic -- which includes 22-degrees of motion, independent finger movement and weighs only 9 pounds -- with their thoughts alone. Photo: DEKATroop Telepathy Pentagon-backed efforts to create a computer-human mind meld have been ongoing for years. One major long-term goal? Troops who can communicate from a distance without saying a word, thanks to computer-mediated telepathy. Last year, Darpa, the Pentagon's blue-sky research arm, launched Silent Talk. The program will use EEG to read word-specific brain signals, then decipher the signals and create a brain wave dictionary that's generalizable across minds. Once that's done, Darpa wants a pre-prototype device that can read brain waves, translate them, then transmit them to the mind of one's fellow interlocutor. Photo: BoeingBrain-Controlled Rat Sleuths From shark stealth-spies to honeybee bomb detectors, the Pentagon's funded research into a menagerie of animal recruits. And with their ultra-sensitive noses and compact size, rats could one day replace dogs as the go-to for sniffing out bombs, biothreats and even disaster survivors. With the right brain implants, of course. Researchers at the University of Florida in Gainesville, funded by Darpa, inserted electrodes into rat's brains in three regions: scent, pleasure and movement. Stimulating rat reward centers trained the rodents to sniff out threats like TNT. Scientists could then detect and record the specific brain wave patterns triggered when the rats detected different targets. And in Japan, researchers this week unveiled RatCar. Neural brain implants allowed rats to control small motorized robots using their thoughts alone. Video: BoxVIDExoskeletons For Super-charged Troops Wearable robotic suits that amplify troop strength and endurance are well on their way to battle. The latest Raytheon Sarcos model -- likened to an "Iron Man suit" -- includes claw-like hand extensions and gives troops 20 times their natural strength and endurance. Not to be outdone, Lockheed Martin's HULC model uses robotic leg braces that allow wearers to carry 200-pound loads and expend less energy on grueling tasks. Right now, that exoskeleton is undergoing Army trials at the Natick Soldier System Center. Photo: RaytheonSelf-Assembling Contact Lenses Next-generation contact lenses, comprised of sensors, antennae, semiconductor circuits and LEDs, would display key visual data -- the view from a gun camera's scope, or even a text message -- right onto a user's eye. With funding from the National Science Foundation, Researchers at the University of Washington have already tested the lenses in rabbits, and in a presentation at an Institute for Defense and Government Advancement conference, they noted that they're working to boost pixel count and incorporate color. In a war-zone, the lenses would have a second application: Additional sensors could monitor health metrics like blood glucose levels and heart rate. Photo: University of WashingtonMonkey-Robot Mind Meld Sure, troops might one day communicate telepathically. But they might also control drones, computers -- and weapons -- using a brain-computer interface instead of a button or a trigger. Monkeys have been doing it for years. In a series of experiments funded by Darpa, Duke University neurologists implanted monkey brains with electrodes, then trained the simian cyborgs to feed themselves bananas from a robotic arm and direct a 200-pound "humanoid robot" walking on a treadmill. Photo: Duke UniversityLab-Grown Blood For Injured Troops Mega-doses of universal-donor red blood units might one day transform trauma care into a simple stop at the blood bank. With funding from Darpa, biotech firm Arteriocyte recently shipped off their first batch of lab-grown blood -- derived from umbilical cord-blood units -- to the FDA. The ultimate goal is a compact, self-contained system that pumps out endless units for quick and easy triage. Photo: Republic PolytechnicBrain Implants for Injured Minds Active-duty troops won't be the only ones getting the cyborg treatment. Vets suffering from traumatic brain injuries, which afflict 10 to 20 percent of those returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, could one day receive brain implants to repair their damaged gray matter. A team led by Stanford and Brown Universities, and funded by Darpa, is creating brain implants that can act as "replacement parts" for impaired areas. The implants would be specific enough to signal single neurons, substituting for circuits that are damaged and restoring normal brain function. Photo: PositiveneuroCyborg Critters From remote-controlled flying beetles to honeybees that sniff out land minds, insect hordes are now being programmed to do military bidding. Pentagon-backed researchers have made rapid strides with moths, after a team at Georgia Tech figured out how to keep them alive long enough to be useful. Micro-mechanical systems, or MEMS, along with microphones or sensors, are implanted during the larval stage, and fuse with the growing insect's tissue. The moths can then be operated via remote control, and act as stealthy spies or biothreat detectors in hard-to-reach locations. Illo: AFCEA InternationalSynthetic Skin Engineered skin tissue is already used in wound and burn repair. But earlier this year, scientists at Stanford and UC Berkeley both developed entirely synthetic skins that are sensitive enough to detect the touch of a butterfly. Both rely on a combination of flexible rubber with either nanowires or electrodes. And synthetic "skin" would do cyborg double-duty: ultra-sensitive human prosthetics or robot limbs. That sensitivity would give artificial limbs the ability to accomplish tasks that require a subtle touch rather than just a firm grasp. Photo: Cook Biotech Inc.


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Yeah, Ill-noise is a funny state. Almost as funny as Nazi-Jersey. In theory, federal law protects you if it is legal for you to possess your gun at both the origin and destination of you trip and you have it locked up in the trunk, unloaded, ammo separate. Unfortunately, that doesn't stop certain states (like PA's eastern neighbor) from arresting honest, peaceable people anyway. If you get an Ohio permit, it's good in IN, KY, MO, KS, but not in IL. USAcarry.com is another good resource.
The situation is this: neighbors (the LEO) decided to start raising chickens, wife decides "we" (translated: me) need to raise chickens too. Raccoons have discovered them lately. We had a couple close calls, but I thought our coop was holding. Raccoons did some creative tunneling while we were gone over Labor Day weekend and killed all four of ours. Neighbor's are still okay. I'm not sure if we're going to get more chickens, but I can tell you I'm getting all those fucking raccoons. Team Chicken is still down 4 to 2, but we have the momentum.
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AH makes senses....
Raccoons are such a nightmare, almost as bad as their two legged varmint cousins.
Sounds like you need a subscription to BHM - I read it cover to cover every issue.
2012 A8L 4.2 Oolong/Titanium. Premium, LED, Driver assist, Rear seat comfort, Dual pane, Alcantara, Panorama
The situation is this: neighbors (the LEO) decided to start raising racoon bait, wife decides "we" (translated: me) need to raise racoon bait too. Raccoons have discovered them lately [mysurprisedface] :-| [/mysurprisedface].
We had a couple close calls, but those fuckers will do anything to kill a chicken.
I'd suggest right behind the ear. Revolvers are fun to shoot. EOM
We can go shoot my SR22 either indoors or outdoors when you finally come visit us (got membership to both kinds of ranges). I also stock some toys (and reload) in 9mm and .223 . All have safeties, because unlike Jake, I like to have them. If that's not enough, RTHQ has a very wide selection, some without safeties, but no Glocks (though I'm not entierely excluding a 10mm with fully supported barrel in the future...)
(*) Besides the aforementioned weapons laws, you also need an explosives license to buy Estes model rocket engines in NJ, and they (and Oregon's) have a law preventing self-immolation by making self-service gas stations illegal.....
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GHOP students 2007-2008/Shantanu Bala
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Location/Region: Arizona (United States)
My interests and hobbies include coding and programming primarily, but I also participate in many other extracurricular activities. I take part in my school's speech and debate team; I also play baseball every summer. My proudest accomplishment is reaching my rank of Yonkyu (purple belt) in the 8 years that I have taken part in Aikido.
I joined GHOP to make some money over my winter break. I unintentionally got too interested in a task and went off on a tangent. Now, I'm enjoying my contribution to the open source community not as a GHOP contestant, but a FOSS enthusiast and coder. I chose Joomla! because I have prior experience with it - and the Mootools Javascript framework. Software that I had prior experience with seemed easier and more fitting to contribute to, rather than having to re-learn the core code.
My experiences with GHOP as well as the Joomla! community in general during the Doc Camp have been nothing but wonderful. The single task that I worked on (Making Joomla! more kid-friendly) was given a four-week time limit; however, I was given another month to work on the task after making additional extensions and additions in relation to the task's goal. The sheer amount of people eager and willing to help is outstanding for any Open Source community. The mentors were very responsive, even under the intense pressure and hundreds of tasks pushed upon them. The Joomla! GHOP experience was unforgettable, and has definitely been a grand introduction to contributing to Open Source Software.
The only thing possible to make the experience better is tighter integration with Google's GHOP pages. The claiming of tasks and separation between the GHOP page and the Joomla! forums seemed odd at first. However, it worked out rather smoothly as GHOP progressed. The only other issue would be the uploading and submitting of files for the GHOP contest. At times, contestants were forced to upload files elsewhere due to the lack of space in Google's GHOP page.


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May 15th, 2013
EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands, April 12, 2013 – Adimec (www.adimec.com), a world leader in application-specific, leading-edge industrial camera solutions, has joined the MVTec Image Acquisition Partner Program.
MVTec Software GmbH, a leading international supplier of standard software for machine vision used in all demanding areas of imaging, started this program in 2007 to provide the best possible integration of the image acquisition devices of its partners with MVTec software products like HALCON.
HALCON is the comprehensive standard software provided by MVTec for machine vision with an integrated development environment (IDE) that is used worldwide. It offers a large library of more than 1800 operators for low, medium, and high level image processing.
HALCON allows system designers to focus on the measurement algorithm and not on the operation of the camera. With CoaXPress, the GenICam standard allows for a direct connection between the software layer and the camera. This means the system designer can use any CoaXPress camera and frame grabber and have a standardized programming interface. Read more about the role of GenICam with CoaXPress in one of our latest blogs at www.adimec.com.
To facilitate a maximum degree of flexibility for customers to choose image acquisition devices that are best suited to their application, MVTec has created the Image Acquisition Partner Program, which strengthens the cooperation in development and maintenance of the particular image acquisition interfaces. The goal is to have a plug and play, smooth interfacing experience for the user.
To support the integration needs of its customers Adimec work closely with partners such as MVTec.
About Adimec
Adimec specializes in the development and manufacturing of high-performance cameras that meet the application-specific requirements of key market segments, including machine vision, medical imaging, and outdoor imaging. Founded in 1992, the company partners with major OEMs around the world to facilitate the creation of industry-leading cameras. Its products meet a wide range of performance, size, cost, interface and application requirements and its Adimec True Accurate Imaging® technology provides new levels of precision and accuracy to vision systems. Adimec has offices around the world focused on creating customer value and satisfaction through local, personalized support. For more information, go to www.adimec.com. For more information on imaging and vision topics, check our blog.
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European Accelerator Summit report by Segments Accelerator
Recently Ivo Radulovski, managing partner at trio-group attended the first Italian edition of the European Accelerator Summit, a conference where 32 among the main European accelerators (such as Beta-i, Tetuan Valley, StartupBootCamp and Wayra) and 12 special guests among partners, investment funds and professionals discussed the current status and future of acceleration through collaborative workshops and interactive talks.
The purpose of the EAS 16 was to identify the top trends and challenges facing the accelerator sector, as well as ideas and viable models to reinforce the future of acceleration.
"The European Accelerator Summit was an exceptional event – says Ivo Radulovski, Managing Partner at Trio Interactive and Segments Accelerator – and once again this summit helped us to understand this fast-changing sector and trace the guidelines for the future of acceleration".
The Host - H-Farm
At arrival, we were impressed by the setup of H-Farm.
One of our main questions was naturally what makes startups move to a rural area away from large city infrastructures. We asked several startups onsite and got the following answer:
Very positive is the atmosphere and the ability to focus on work. You have everything you need in one place. The quiet and peaceful setting allows you to relax and to clear your mind and to concentrate on what is important.
Probably the biggest downside is that being a few hours away from Milano makes it hard to meet clients and potential partners.
Back to the summit. We were welcomed with coffee and got ready for the first session while networking with representants of some of the leading European accelerators.
We were very impressed by the open space socializing and dining hall.
After a short introduction by Timothy O'Connell, H-FARM Accelerator Director and Global Accelerator Network Board Member, we were ready to start with the first topic.
We explored the 4 trends now shaping this sector the most:
Pre-Acceleration & Co-Work Programs
Accelerator Specialization (Verticals & Corporates)
Global Expansion & Exchanges
New Business Models
Pre-Acceleration & Co-Work Programs
Nuno Machado Lopes (Beta-i) introduced the theme of the first workshop, which was designed to foster the discussion about the opportunities and advantages of pre-acceleration and co-work programs;
Accelerator Specialisation (Verticals & Corporates)
The second workshop, introduced by Andy Shannon (Startup Bootcamp) had the goal to analyse the vertical accelerator model, focused on specific industries;
Global Expansion & Exchanges
Aviva Markowicz (Numa) introduced the theme how to set up a global accelerator through networking and startup exchange programs;
New Business Models
The fourth and last topic was set by Daniel Tomov (Eleven Accelerator) to discuss how to identify what features make an accelerator business model successful.
A tour through H-Farm


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Friday, October 25, 2013
Sports News
Mississippi St. holds on to beat Kentucky 28-22
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[October 25, 2013]
STARKVILLE, Miss.
(AP) -- Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen came to the postgame press conference, sat in his chair, adjusted the microphone and then let out a strange noise that was somewhere between a scream and sigh of relief.
The Bulldogs had picked up their first Southeastern Conference victory of the season.
But it wasn't easy at all.
Mississippi State beat Kentucky 28-22 on Thursday night at Davis Wade Stadium. The Bulldogs built a 21-7 lead in the first half, but couldn't secure the game until Kentucky's last drive fell short at Mississippi State's 29 with 21 seconds left.
"We did a lot of really good things tonight," Mullen said. "And we did a lot of sloppy things."
Dak Prescott threw for 268 yards and two touchdowns and also caught a 17-yard touchdown pass in another impressive all-around performance. He completed a career-high 23 of 34 passes and also rushed for 33 yards.
Jameon Lewis had a 19-yard touchdown run, caught a 17-yard scoring pass and also threw the 17-yard touchdown to Prescott on a trick play.
"He's a guy who makes people miss," Prescott said. "He's really good in space. He's a guy that we're going to get the ball to."
Mississippi State (4-3, 1-2 SEC) beat Kentucky (1-6, 0-4) for a fifth straight season.
"It was a must win," Lewis said. "A winning streak has to start somewhere."
It's the second time this season Lewis has had rushing, receiving and passing touchdowns in a game. The 5-foot-9, 195-pound senior was a quarterback in high school and Mullen relishes his diverse skill set.
Kentucky's Joe Mansour made a 44-yard field goal with 8:15 remaining to pull the Wildcats to 28-22.
Mississippi State chewed up 6 minutes of clock the ensuing next drive, but Kentucky had one final chance. The Wildcats methodically moved downfield until Maxwell Smith's fourth-down pass missed its target and Mississippi State escaped.
Mullen said the Bulldogs were fortunate to win considering there will several breakdowns on special teams -- including a missed field goal and botched punt that led to a Kentucky safety.
Kentucky pulled to 21-19 in the third quarter on Jojo Kemp's 14-yard touchdown run. Then in what proved to be a key moment, the Wildcats recovered an onside kick, only to have it disallowed because of an offsides penalty.
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Mississippi State took advantage. A 74-yard drive ended on the halfback pass from Lewis to Prescott, who handed the ball off before leaking into the open field for the catch, touchdown and 28-19 lead.
Prescott, a 6-foot-2, 230-pound sophomore, completed 11 of 18 passes for 160 yards and two touchdowns in the first half, helping Mississippi State to a 21-10 halftime lead.
Prescott's first touchdown pass -- a 60-yard fling to a wide open Malcolm Johnson -- came after he danced out of the pocket while avoiding a sack. Kentucky's defense shifted forward because of Prescott's ability to run, and it gave Johnson time to slip behind the secondary undetected.
"What I saw tonight is what I see every day in practice, whether it's in the weight room, in practice or in a game," Lewis said. "He's going to go all out."
The Bulldogs had 296 total yards in the first half. Mississippi State started the game with the intention of using two quarterbacks, but Tyler Russell suffered a sprained ankle on his first series and never returned.
Kentucky's offense had a few good early moments -- especially on a 51-yard screen pass from Smith to Timmons that tied the game at 7 -- but the Wildcats became predictable because of their inability to throw downfield. Smith has dealt with pain in his throwing shoulder all season and wasn't close on most of his attempts to complete long passes.
Mississippi State safety Nickoe Whitley was ejected in the second quarter after earning two personal foul penalties over a span of four plays. The extra 30 yards greatly aided Kentucky on a drive that ended on a 45-yard field goal by Mansour.
Kentucky's Smith completed 18 of 33 passes for 160 yards and one touchdown. Backup Jalen Whitlow led one touchdown drive, but was hampered because of a previous ankle injury. Raymond Sanders had 86 yards rushing.
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The Foreign Affairs Council adopted today a Strategic Framework on Human Rights and Democracy with an Action Plan for putting it into practice. This is the first time that the European Union has had a unified Strategic Framework for this vital policy area, with such a wide-ranging plan of action for its implementation.
"Human rights are one of my top priorities and a silver thread that runs through everything that we do in external relations. With this comprehensive package we want to enhance the effectiveness and visibility of EU human rights policy. In order to help put the Framework and the Action Plan into practice, I have also proposed the appointment of an EU Special Representative on Human Rights and I look forward to a swift appointment," said Catherine Ashton, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission, upon adoption of the package.
The Framework sets out principles, objectives and priorities, all designed to improve the effectiveness and consistency of EU policy as a whole in the next ten years. They provide an agreed basis for a truly collective effort, involving EU Member States as well as the EU Institutions. The Strategic Framework also anchors a commitment to genuine partnership with civil society. The Framework is also designed to be as readable as possible, so as to be accessible to all citizens.
The key messages of the Strategic Framework are:
– Human rights throughout EU policy
– Promoting universality of human rights
– Pursuing coherent objectives
– Human rights in all EU external policies
– Implementing EU priorities on human rights
– Working with bilateral partners
– Working through multilateral institutions
– The EU working together
The Strategic Framework builds on the joint Communication entitled 'Human rights and democracy at the heart of EU external action – towards a more effective approach'. This was adopted by the European Commission on 12 December 2011 following a proposal by Catherine Ashton. It was in turn the result of a lengthy process of consultations, dating back to the informal meeting of the EU foreign ministers (Gymnich) at Cordoba in March 2010.
The EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy brings together 97 actions under 36 headings, prepared on the basis of consultations by the European External Action Service, involving the European Commission and EU Member States, which are jointly responsible for implementation. Informal consultations have also been held with MEPs and NGOs. The Action Plan and covers the period until 31 December 2014.
One of the commitments of the Action Plan is that the EU should present its performance in meeting its objectives in its annual report on human rights and democracy in the world. This should give an opportunity to all stakeholders in EU policy, including civil society, to assess the impact of EU action and contribute to defining future priorities.
Adoption of the EU Strategic Framework on Human Rights and Democracy represents a watershed in EU policymaking. The EU has a long catalogue of statements on human rights and democracy, but these have tended to focus on particular issues or countries. Over time, the EU has also developed a range of 'guidelines' and other policy guidance, but it is the first time that a unified strategic document has been adopted. It shows the EU delivering on the promise of the Lisbon Treaty, which introduced the following commitment:
"The Union's action on the international scene shall be guided by the principles which have inspired its own creation, development and enlargement, and which it seeks to advance in the wider world: democracy, the rule of law, the universality and indivisibility of human rights and fundamental freedoms, respect for human dignity, the principles of equality and solidarity, and respect for the principles of the United Nations Charter and international law."
In order to contribute to implementation of the Strategic Framework and the Action Plan, the High Representative has proposed the appointment of an EU Special Representative on Human Rights. The aim of this is to enhance the effectiveness and visibility of EU human rights policy. For reasons of continuity, an initial appointment of 2 years has been proposed.
The EUSR should have a broad, flexible mandate, giving the ability to adapt to circumstances, and should also work closely with the EEAS, which will provide full support.
More information is available at http://eeas.europa.eu/human_rights/index_en.htm
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List of JavaServer Faces 2.2 features vs. NetBeans IDE support
Since JavaServer Faces specification in version 2.2 should be completed during NetBeans 7.3 development phase including its support from the GlassFish application server, we should be able to implement support for features of this JSF release.
In following section should be mentioned all known JSF features which should be "IDE support-able" and suggestions for them - like difficultness and feature suggestions.
Be aware that the JSF 2.2 specification is still changing and many of described features could work differently or some of features could be added/removed in addition. Also two the biggest features weren't specified yet, so especially multi-templating support is just guessed from the prototype application.
Time consumption and usefulness expectations
There is attempt to guess time consumption and usefulness of the proposed suggestions. Here are explanatory notes to them:
- EASY - should take 1/2 - 1 day
- MODERATE - should take 1 - 3 days
- COMPLEX - complicated feature which has to be designed detaily (time depends on the desing)
- UNKNOWN - can be estimated by the feature author
- OPTIONAL - looks not too much useful
- NICE_TO_HAVE - looks like great feature
- AUTO - it should work automatically - by updating the library or taglib definition files, etc.
Open Questions
- Which JSF libraries will we bundle with NetBeans IDE? 2.2, 2.1, 1.2?
- There are almost no information about JSF 2.2 and HTML5 support (what everything we could expect)
- Multi-templating was created just like prototype for now so hard to guess what everything will be needed to support
Mandatory IDE updates
- Update model of faces-config.xml for JSF2.2
- Bundle JavaServer Faces library 2.2
- Update NetBeans sources to be able to handle one-file JSF library .JAR (jsf-api.jar and jsf-impl.jar was merged into javax.faces.jar)
JSF 2.2 features which can be supported in IDE
Faces Flow
Description/Example: In web applications, and in applications in general actually, there is often the concept of a "flow" that takes the user through a series of screens. Such flows includes wizards, multi-screen subscriptions, bookings, etc.
- Base Support: @FlowScoped anntotaion, new tablib "xmlns:j="http://java.sun.com/jsf/flow"" should be working by deafult???, as well as new j:<coponents>???
- Suggestion #1: EL should have new implicit variable in CC: facesFlowScope (EASY & NEEDED)
- Suggestion #2: Wizard - Create new FacesFlow: It would help to create skeleton for new faces-flow: create FF folder (by convention), ask for steps pages, not sure how much would be possible to define whole faces-flow-definition, see http://jdevelopment.nl/jsf-22/#730 (COMPLEX & NICE_TO_HAVE)
- Suggestion #3: Hint - CDI not enabled (at @FlowScoped or j:<component> or taglib usage?) when the CDI is not enabled since JSF 2.2 is dependend on CDI here (MODERATE & NICE_TO_HAVE)
- Suggestion #4: EL Faces-Flow CC - i.e. #{facesFlowScope.someKey} someKey variable could be available across rest pages of the same flowScope (UNKNOWN & NICE_TO_HAVE)
More information: http://javaserverfaces-spec-public.java.net/nonav/proposals/JAVASERVERFACES_SPEC_PUBLIC-730/proposal.txt
DRAFT - not enough of information to design it preciselly
Description/Example: Give to a JSF application, the ability to change its look and feel with the use of several templates,
- Base Support: User is able to create folder for templates and define context-param in the web.xml DD by himself.
- Suggestion #1: Facelets Template wizard checkbox "Use multi-templating" - it would set required name of the page and parent folder (templates) and the user could choose just the name of the template (subfolder) (MODERATE & NICE_TO_HAVE)
- Suggestion #2: In addition to suggestion #1 the wizard would generate whole template skeleton, means: <template>/css, <template>/images, <template>/defaultPng.png, <template>/template.xhtml, <template>/template.xml (with generated base meta informations) (MODERATE & NICE_TO_HAVE)
- Suggestion #3: Layout style should be possible to turn off (using checkbox) - to be able to create only simple empty template skeleton (in combination with the checkbox from suggestion #1) (EASY & NICE_TO_HAVE)
- Suggestion #4: If multi-template chosen, we could enable checkbox "use as default" which would update web.xml DD and the appropriate context-param (EASY & NICE_TO_HAVE)
More information: http://java.net/jira/browse/JAVASERVERFACES_SPEC_PUBLIC-971
Facelets Component Tag can be declared via annotation
Description/Example: Facelets does not require an explicit tag handler and a component can be registered via its annotation.
- Base Support: new parameters of @FacesComponent will be offered by Java code completion
- Suggestion #1: JSF model should be able to load @FacesComponent and JSF Editor should offer these components in CC, including namespace handling (COMPLEX & NICE_TO_HAVE)
More information: http://java.net/jira/browse/JAVASERVERFACES_SPEC_PUBLIC-594
Facelets ResourceResolver can be declared via annotation
Description/Example: Instead of registering resource resolved in web.xml DD using javax.faces.FACELETS_RESOURCE_RESOLVER @FaceletsResourceResolver can be used.
Base Support: Provide annotation for declaring Facelets ResourceResolver (AUTO)
- Suggestion #1: Hint at the FaceletsResourceResolver if more annotation like this is used that just the first encountered one will be used (MODERATE & OPTIONAL)
More information: http://java.net/jira/browse/JAVASERVERFACES_SPEC_PUBLIC-1038
Component and validator annotations default to simple class name
Description/Example: @FacesComponent and @FacesValidator value attribute becomes optional.
Base Support: value is an optional attribute now - should be handled by java editor (AUTO)
- Suggestion #1: Hint at the annotation with value which correspond to the class simple name with decapitalized first letter that the value is optional now and can be removed (EASY & NICE_TO_HAVE)
More information: http://java.net/jira/browse/JAVASERVERFACES_SPEC_PUBLIC-703
JSF 2.2 features which are/will be supported automatically
The viewAction Component
<f:metadata> <f:viewAction action="#{someBean.someAction}" /> </f:metadata>
Base Support: new <f:viewAction> component (AUTO)
More information: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/jsf22-1377252.html
Queue control for AJAX requests
Description/Example: Delay attribute of the <f:ajax> tag can specify AJAX requests queue behavior.
Base Support: new delay attribute at <f:ajax> component (AUTO)
More information: http://java.net/jira/browse/JAVASERVERFACES_SPEC_PUBLIC-1050
AJAX + non-AJAX file upload component
Description/Example: New component for uploading files.
Base Support: new <f:fileInput> component (AUTO)
More information: http://java.net/jira/browse/JAVASERVERFACES_SPEC_PUBLIC-802, http://java.net/jira/browse/JAVASERVERFACES_SPEC_PUBLIC-1062
Injection in all JSF artifacts
Description/Example: Almost all JSF artifacts can be used as injection target.
Base Support: @EJB, @Inject, ... annotation can be added into Validators, Converters etc. already now, CallEJB actions works also in all java classes of web project (AUTO)
More information: http://java.net/jira/browse/JAVASERVERFACES_SPEC_PUBLIC-763
Other JSF 2.2 features
Here are lists of rest JavaServer Faces 2.2 features which are improvments in the JSF itself and doesn't require any support from the IDE or supports from NetBeans would be quite non-conceptual and such supports aren't available also in another areas (like i.e.: detecting faces-config created nodes programatically, support for beans CC by programatically building facelet etc). All features defining new annotations, new faces-config.xml tags, new objects, methods, properties, const will be supported by default by XML or Java editor as usually.
Java APIs
- Programmatic configuration
- FaceletFactory in the standard API
- FlashFactory and FlashWrapper
- Instantiating composite component in Java
- Support for the Collection interface in UIData
- Wrapper class for Lifecycle
- Identify client windows via a Window Id (ide does not provide completion for context-param names and values)
- Restoring view scope before view is build
- System events for The Flash
- Publish PostRestoreStateEvent
- Mandate tree visiting for partial state saving
- Component modification management
XML configuration
- Case insensitivity for state saving method (ide does not provide completion for context-param names and values)
Standards compliance
- Unique ids and fixed name attribute for view state field
- Allowing id attribute on all elements for HTML5 content (id can be specified for all components)


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Health & Medicine
Nobel laureate creates compound that halts growth of malaria parasite
03 April 2012
New research by a Yale University team headed by Nobel laureate Sidney Altman shows that a drug candidate, which has shown promise of neutralising dangerous bacteria also prevents growth of the parasite that causes malaria.
The compound created in the labs of Altman and co-senior author Choukri Ben Mamoun at the Yale School of Medicine penetrates red blood cells and targets molecular machinery that enables the parasite to grow within the cells, according to findings published the week of 2 April in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Malaria sickens more than 200 million people and kills more than a million people annually. The disease is caused by fives species of parasites of the genus Plasmodium, which is transmitted to humans by mosquitoes.
''While we primarily looked at one species of parasite, it is clear the compound also knocks out drug-resistant strains of malaria as well,'' Altman said. ''This compound can wipe out strains that are currently resistant to drugs such as chloroquine and pyrimethamine.''
The work is an outgrowth of the discovery by Yale immunobiology professor Alfred L M Bothwell of a basic peptide that the Yale team showed can penetrate cell walls and membranes. Altman and colleagues also added a piece of RNA to this peptide which then attaches to messenger RNA produced by parasites within the blood cells. The presence of this complex activates a molecular response that disables the parasite.
Altman's lab has already shown this compound can kill dangerous strains of bacteria and is currently investigating its efficacy in combating infections in skin wounds. The current paper illustrates the compound's effectiveness in red blood cell tissue culture. Altman stressed that more tests must be conducted to make sure the compound works in animals and people as well.
''It will be some time before this is commercially available,'' Altman said.
Altman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1989 along with Thomas R. Cech for their discoveries of the catalytic properties of RNA.
Other Yale authors of the study are Yoann Augagneur, Donna Wesolowski and Hyun Seop Tae.
The National Institutes of Health and Burroughs Wellcome Fund were the primary funding sources for the study.
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Last Saturday at Saratoga Race Course, it appeared as though Golden Ticket was going to shock the world at 33-1 in the Travers but post time favorite Alpha wanted to be part of the party as well and surged late to share in the spoils.
Golden Ticket saved all of the ground under David Cohen and needed every advantage to tie with my top ranked sophomore Alpha, who sat an outer stalking trip under Ramon Dominguez. Golden Ticket will have to prove that he is more than a one-hit wonder before he joins my top ten.
I began my Derby Top 10 list right after Del Mar/Saratoga in September in 2010 and 2011 and will do the same this year. In an interesting side note, my initial number one in 201o was Stay Thirsty and Alpha was the early juvenile boss this time around. Both Bernardini colts went on to capture the Jim Dandy and Travers during their sophomore campaigns. Maybe I should rename my future road to the Derby blogs for the Travers trail!
Dullahan traveled west and toppled salty older foes Game On Dude and Richard's Kid in the G1 Pacific Classic at Del Mar on Aug 26. He sure adores synthetic, specifically Polytrack, and is probably the best in the business on that footing. He crashes back to earth on conventional dirt so if he ends up in the Breeders' Cup it will likely be on turf.
Since my last report, Paynter resumed training at the Spa but got sick again and is fighting colitis at a clinic in New York. Bodemeister, Hansen, and Street Life have all been retired. It has been a tough year for the sophomore class with numerous injuries and premature retirements.
Checking in with former top ten members, B Shanny won a sprint at the Spa on 8-12. Consortium recently returned to the worktab for Kiaran McLaughlin, and Fire On Ice and O'Prado Again are getting close to a race.
Jarrod Horak's Top Ten Active 3-Year-olds
1. Alpha (Bernardini) – Controlled the pace in Jim Dandy and stalked/pounced his way to a share of the Travers (100 BSF) title on Aug 25. The Pennsylvania Derby at Parx on 9-22 could be next.
2. Paynter (Awesome Again) – Gave Union Rags a run for his money in the Test of Champions and looked great capturing his first graded stakes in the Haskell. He is currently battling colitis at a clinic in NY…get well soon.
3. Dullahan (Even The Score) – Ran his Polytrack record to a perfect 3-for-3 in the Pacific Classic (111 BSF). Let's see if Romans and company can avoid the temptation to try dirt again.
4. Gemologist (Tiznow) – He came out of the Derby with a foot bruise and spit the bit in his disappointing Haskell return. He breezed 4f in :48.15 (6/54) at Saratoga on 8-26 and could meet up with Alpha in the PA Derby.
5. Fed Biz (Giant's Causeway) – Baffert's highly regarded colt returned in the pink at Del Mar (El Cajon Stakes) on Aug 31. He could be a major player in the Strub Series this winter at Santa Anita.
6. Nonios (Pleasantly Perfect) – Haskell place finisher ended up 5th in the Travers. He handles dirt but might be better on synthetic.
7. Neck 'n Neck (Flower Alley) – Late bloomer gamely chased Alpha home in the Jim Dandy and finished 6th in the Travers. He does his best work at Churchill Downs.
8. Jimmy Creed (Distorted Humor) – Gave Fed Biz everything he could handle in El Cajon. Mandella's $900k purchase appears tailor-made for Santa Anita's G1 Malibu on Dec 26.
9. Summer Front (War Front) – Lost for first time on turf in G1 Secretariat but was hardly disgraced in show finish. Look for him to cut back in distance next time as ten panels is a bit beyond his range at this point.
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British Columbia has the second largest parks system in Canada, after our National Parks, boasting nearly 1,000 Provincial Parks, National Parks, Marine Parks, Regional Parks, Protected Areas, Conservancy Areas, and Ecological Reserves, covering approximately 12% of the land area of BC. Highlights include nearly 50 campgrounds that accept reservations, over 6,000 kilometres of hiking trails, the largest intact coastal temperate rainforest in the world in Kitlope Heritage Conservancy, Canada's only grizzly bear sanctuary in Khutzeymateen Park, and Tatshenshini-Alsek Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. No matter where you travel and which way you turn in British Columbia there will always be a fabulous park or recreation area nearby: a welcoming wilderness for those seeking the solitude and tranquility of the great outdoors.
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Born from volcanic rock and full of beauty and natural splendour, Vancouver Island and the Gulf and Discovery Islands offer magnificent rain forests, towering mountains, sparkling blue seas, remote shell beaches, and secluded bays. Rugged Central and North Vancouver Island feature a largely uninhabited wilderness of forests, lakes and snow-capped peaks. The Pacific Rim on the West coast delivers wild landscapes, Old-growth forest, and never-ending sandy beaches. Victoria and South Vancouver Island present a remarkable diversity of landscape and recreational opportunities. Vancouver Island is a unique, natural paradise awaiting exploration.
Parks in Vancouver, Coast & Mountains
Greater Vancouver teems with parks, beaches, and cycling and walking destinations. On every corner, it seems, there is a pocket of green space, and the North Shore boasts no fewer than six magnificent mountain peaks to play in. The evergreen Coast Mountains and the Sea to Sky Country offers quiet hikes through deep forests, wild trail rides, and the Mighty Fraser River to explore. Along these ancient pathways, generations of Coast Salish people traded with their relations in the Fraser Canyon. The Sunshine Coast offers a secluded world of beaches, bays, islands and fjords overlooked by the majestic Coast Mountains.
Parks in the Thompson Okanagan
The Thompson Okanagan is one of the world's most beautiful and pristine places. Travellers to the North Thompson share this part of British Columbia with relatively few people. Nothing is as arresting as the sight of snaggle-toothed Mount Robson, or the sinuous, green-hued surface of the North Thompson River. A series of gentle mountain ranges rolls between the Thompson Plateau in the west and the Shuswap Highlands to the east, then rises dramatically in the Selkirk and Monashee Mountains. The Shuswap offers over 1,000 kilometres of lake shoreline to explore, amidst spectacular scenery and a pristine environment.
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Dominated by mountains and water, the Kootenays region of British Columbia is cradled by the Monashee Mountains to the west, and the Selkirk and Purcell Mountains to the east. Between these ranges are the enormous Arrow and Kootenay Lakes, and the major wilderness parks of Valhalla and Kokanee Glacier. The BC Rockies region is a motherlode of serious adventure, with the mountainous parks presenting some truly extraordinary landscapes to explore. The Columbia Valley is surmounted by the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Bugaboos on the west, with the Columbia River rolling through the southern part of the valley.
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Cariboo gold prospectors have been replaced by adventurers in the wild canyons and thousands of pristine lakes, rivers and streams of the Cariboo, with rolling hills, deeply incised rivers, and many lakes providing an impressive landscape. The Bella Coola Valley is of historical significance as a trade corridor between coastal and interior Native groups. The Chilcotin Plateau east of the Bella Coola Valley can rightfully claim to be the true bastion of the range rider in BC, with vast expanses of the Chilcotin being worked by large ranching outfits. The Central Coast offers some of the province's most beautiful terrain.
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Neighbouring Parks in Alberta, Canada
Parks in neighbouring Alberta that border on British Columbia include Banff National park, the massive Jasper National park, and Willmore Wilderness Park. Rugged mountains, ancient glaciers, icefields, alpine meadows, beautiful blue cold-water lakes, mineral hot springs, deep canyons and fascinating hoodoos compose the natural landscape and habitat for a great variety of birds and mammals. Jasper's scenery is rugged, including deeply gouged Maligne Canyon and picturesque Maligne Lake, and Willmore Wilderness Park in the Rocky Mountains of central Alberta is a beautiful untouched wilderness area.


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Health E NC Projects to Improve Cancer Prevention, Outcomes
The projects focus on areas of the state where cancers, and in particular breast, lung and colorectal cancers, are common and place a burden on the health of North Carolinians.
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – How can stores help communities get healthier? How can we improve access to supportive care, pain management and other services for African Americans with advanced cancer? Can community colleges across North Carolina be hubs for learning about healthy behaviors that we know prevent cancer? Does providing a medical home for Medicaid patients improve cancer care? How can we increase rates of colorectal cancer screening among Medicaid beneficiaries? Where do African American and Latino citizens prefer to learn about cancer screening and prevention in their communities?
These are the types of public health questions that defy a quick fix and the answers being sought by the first six projects funded under the Health E NC (Health for Everyone in North Carolina) grants program. The program provides pilot funding in support of the University Cancer Research Fund's strategic goal of optimizing cancer outcomes in North Carolina.
Projects were selected through a competitive review process that included a national group of experts. Projects were prioritized for funding that emphasize breakthrough innovation and excellence in behavioral research; collaborative, cross-disciplinary approaches; potential for generating additional external funding from peer-reviewed sources; and real and tangible impact on the health of North Carolinians. The projects focus on areas of the state where cancers, and in particular breast, lung and colorectal cancers, are common and place a burden on the health of North Carolinians.
"We challenged UNC Lineberger members from both the Gillings School of Global Public Health and the School of Medicine to design forward-looking projects focused on the state's biggest needs. We then asked a group of national experts in the field to select the best. The result will be to put outstanding ideas to the test in North Carolina communities," said Shelley Earp, MD, UNC Lineberger's director.
Current projects include:
- Healthy Stores, Healthy Communities
- Circles of Care: Supporting African Americans with Cancer
- Partnering with N.C. Community Colleges to Prevent Cancer Among Students, Employees and Community Residents
- Meeting the Needs of Cancer Survivors in North Carolina: Assessing and Improving the Medicaid Medical Home Model Improving Colorectal Cancer Screening in N.C. Medicaid Beneficiaries
- Addressing Cancer Disparities by Studying Issues of Coverage, Convergence & Cost in Multiple Settings
About Health-E-NC
Health-E-NC is a statewide effort to improve cancer outcomes for the diseases that hit North Carolina's citizens the hardest. Sponsored by UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and the University Cancer Research fund, Health-E-NC is aimed at finding out what really works in the areas of cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment and survivorship and helping to spread the latest and best evidence-based cancer information to health care providers and advocacy groups as well as cancer patients, their families and survivors.
About the University Cancer Research Fund:
The University Cancer Research Fund was created by the N.C. General Assembly with the mission to ensure that future generations of North Carolinians will develop cancer less often and live longer and better when they do. Research creates new knowledge, turns that knowledge into innovative treatment, screening, and prevention, and then assures delivery of innovations across the state – that research is the key unlocking the doors to a new and better future. The UCRF is helping make that research possible.


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Beat the Streak Report: Wednesday, July 30
Picks of the day
- 9-for-12 (.750) vs. HOU LHP Wandy Rodriguez
- .333 AVG during 11-game hit streak
- 11-for-27 (.407) vs. DET LHP Nate Robertson
- Hit safely in 15 of last 16 G
Yesterday's picks, results
Manny Ramirez (BOS): 0-for-3, BB
Nick Markakis (BAL): 2-for-4, BB
Top 5 current leaders
(yesterday's pick)
1. soxwhite24, 29 games (Nick Markakis)
2. bgibbs14, 26 (Nick Markakis)
2. j.ves, 26 (Ichiro Suzuki)
4. trevislunsford, 25 (Jose Reyes)
5. jsbc27, 24 (Ichiro Suzuki)
5. kbharvey, 24 (Conor Jackson)
BTS season leader: Robert Paradise, 48
BTS all-time leader: Michael Karatzia, 49
MLB all-time leader: Joe DiMaggio, 56
Yesterday's results
BTS leader soxwhite24 extended his streak to 29 games on the strength of Nick Markakis' 2-for-4 night against Darrell Rasner and the Yankees. With a hit today, soxwhite24 will be the first competitor this week to reach the 30-game plateau.
Yesterday's third-place competitor btoh2003 fell off the leaderboard courtesy of Garrett Atkins' 0-for-3 night against Pittsburgh. His departure left the door open for contestants jsbc27 and kbharvey, who jumped into a fifth-place tie with streaks of 24 games. kbharvey rode the red-hot bat of Conor Jackson (1-for-4), while jsbc27 went with BTS stalwart Ichiro Suzuki (2-for-5).
Yesterday's most-picked player, Alex Rodriguez, rewarded fans for their faith by going 2-for-3 against the Orioles. Fans of Matt Holliday, the day's second-most-picked player, weren't so lucky. The Rocky Mountain mauler went 0-for-4 against the Pirates, snapping his eight-game hitting streak in the process.
Yesterday's Top 5 most selected players
1. Alex Rodriguez (NYY): 7.1%, 2-for-3
2. Matt Holliday (COL): 6.4%, 0-for-4
3. Ichiro Suzuki (SEA): 5.9%, 2-for-5
4. Jose Reyes (NYM): 3.3%, 3-for-5
5. Lance Berkman (HOU): 3.0%, 1-for-3
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I chose Aaron Miles yesterday and he got what would have been a sac bunt to move Brendan Ryan to 2nd, but there was an error on the play to 1st, so Miles got on base and Ryan to 3rd. But it wasn't recorded as a hit and my streak was set back to zero. The rules state:
"A hitting streak will also NOT end if all the selected player's plate appearances (one or more) result in a base on balls, hit batsman, defensive interference or a sacrifice bunt."
I'm confused as to why this wasn't counted as a hit and why my streak was reset. Can someone explain?
This play did not result in a sacrifice bunt. Miles was charged with an official at bat because he reached base on an error. The rule you stated is slightly ambiguous, it would read better if they stated that the streak would not end if the player does not have an official at bat.
Wow…this is freaking retarded…why does the streak end because of 1 sacrifice fly for the game and no hit.
I had Michael Young for the Rangers yesterday and was shocked to learn that my streak is over.
How often could a player have 3-5 sac flies in a game anyway!
What's even dumber is you can have 1 sac. bunt and no hits and STILL have your streak and sac. bunts are WAY more likely to occur!
a sac fly, last time i checked was not an official at bat.
and i just looked at the Rangers box score for the 30th,. the night of the sac fly. it shows young as being 0-for-0 so your streak should not have ended since there is NO official at bat
Thanks for the explanation. I learned something new. Though I'm not crazy about the wording of those rules. 🙂


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