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Posted 10 December 2004 - 02:59 AM
Now let me give a little disclaimer here:
There are many factors that will lead to my decision of what is going to be in the room, so I am not going to be able to make ALL of you 100% happy by putting every game ever created in the room, but I would like to make you as happy as I can by providing what the majority of people want.
So go ahead and request away here, because I will be ignoring requests in any other thread, pm, or e-mail. Both arcade and console requests are welcome.
( BTW, no need to request DDR, that is a staple of any conventions Video Game Room )
Posted 10 December 2004 - 01:35 PM
Guitar freak's 11th mix linked with Drummania 10th edition so we can do sessions.
If you have those, i gaurntee i'll spend at least 100$ on them.
Donkey Konga, if they have an arcade variant, would be sweet.
Taiko drumaster....
Those are the only things on my wish list.
Posted 11 December 2004 - 02:12 AM
My suggestions:
Tekken 5
Soul Calibur 2
guilty gear xx (since reload machines are like, impossible to find in the US)
Errr...you're gonna have tournies for all these like last year, right?
I rememeber you saying wadaiko would be there last year, but then Namco said it wasn't allowed or something otherwise i would suggest that, too.
Posted 11 December 2004 - 10:47 AM
My suggestions:
Tekken 5
Soul Calibur 2
guilty gear xx (since reload machines are like, impossible to find in the US)
Errr...you're gonna have tournies for all these like last year, right?
I rememeber you saying wadaiko would be there last year, but then Namco said it wasn't allowed or something otherwise i would suggest that, too.
Of course I remember you Rob.
Tekken 5 should be a go, if not on the arcade, the console since it should be released by then.
Same with SC2 and GGXX.
Tournies will be BIGGER and BETTER this year.
As for Wadaiko.... I don't know what Namco did with the machine, last i heard it was rotting in a warehouse or in hell (Ohio).
Posted 11 December 2004 - 11:34 AM
zaps00 said:
I know what you mean. i've been looking to buy a machine for a while now. Instead of the cheap one for playstation. that you have to import.
But there woule be much appreciation if u got a hold of them. And it would be sweet, if you raffled them off. (yeah i know i'm dreaming).
Keep it copacetic.
And you learn to accept it.
You know, your so pathetic."
It's never been clearer
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and the party will get twice as big
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Posted 12 December 2004 - 02:03 AM
Boon said:
But there woule be much appreciation if u got a hold of them. And it would be sweet, if you raffled them off. (yeah i know i'm dreaming).
You are MOST DEFINATELY dreaming
Posted 12 December 2004 - 02:25 AM
Posted 12 December 2004 - 02:39 AM
Nurichiri said:
Will defiantely being trying to get this, and if we do get it there WILL be a tournament on it guaranteed.
Posted 12 December 2004 - 05:54 PM
Assuming that you're only asking about arcade machines...here's my votes, thoughts, and, in some cases, dreams:
Fighters (although any of these on console would be great if not better as well):
Tekken 5
Tekken Tag (better on console, though)
Soul Calibur II
Capcom vs. SNK 2
SFIII: Third Strike
Either Super Street Fighter II Turbo or Hyper Street Fighter II (or whatever the collection one is called).
Guilty Gear XX
Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution (although this might not make much money)
Marvel vs. Capcom 2, if for no other reason than that it somehow banks.
DDR, possibly two machines, one of them not being 8th? (3rd K2, 4th Plus, or 5th would be amazing, though unlikely)
Pump It Up (heh, if it doesn't break)
Para Para Paradise
Taiko no Tatsujin (if possible, considering the trouble beforehand...but it IS quite popular now with a US release)
Beatmania (5-key mix of some sort)
Drummania (if not Taiko)
Initial D (I don't like it, but it banks.)
Wangan Midnight (I can't believe how good of reviews that got...BETTER than Initial D?)
8-player Crusin' USA....kidding. Kinda. ^_~
Mr. Driller
Puzzle Bobble
Some Namco collection with Bosconian.
Raiden Fighters Jet
Uh...air hockey or pool?
I don't expect most of those (Wangan, Crusin', Bosconian, Pump It Up, CvS2, SFIII, SFII, VF4 Evo, Taiko, Para Para, air hockey/pool), but I figured I'd throw out both some staples AND some oddballs.
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Posted 18 December 2004 - 05:15 AM
Guilty Gear XX
Initial D
And now for ones That I'd just like to see there.
SF: Third Strike (preferably arcade version sense I hate playing it on a controller.)
Pump It Up
Para Para Paradise
IIDX (arcade machine) - doubt this one will happen simply because of how massive the machine is.
Posted 20 December 2004 - 11:58 AM
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Posted 11 January 2005 - 12:28 PM
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Posted 18 January 2005 - 04:42 PM
In my opinion:
Best Games: Frogs n Flies, Samurai Shodown 5, Pac-Man Vs.
Worst Games: Soul Calibur 2, SvC Chaos, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
Posted 20 January 2005 - 11:28 PM
Robotech: BattleCry (I'll bring the game)
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Posted 26 January 2005 - 11:17 PM
DDR (duh)
Oooh ooh...what about Karaoke Revolution? that might be fun to set up
I would like to see a Para Para Paradise game there; I know it's older, but I've never played it and I'd love to try :sweatdrop
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SNMP Monitoring with Nagios
Because I did not have a spare Dell Power Edge server sitting around to test the modified script, I had to test it another way. Reading the man page for snmpd.conf, I found that you could have external programs answer certain OIDs using "pass-through" scripts. The bash script (dell_open_manager_test.sh) below serves as my pass-through script for testing. With this script, I can simulate all of the states that the Dell server could be in:
#!/bin/bash # # bash script to replicate a working Dell OpenManage SNMP agent # works with Net-SNMP daemon. email@example.com # REQUEST_OID="$2" echo "$REQUEST_OID"; case "$REQUEST_OID" in .126.96.36.199.4.1.674.10818.104.22.168.1.4.1) echo "integer"; echo "3"; exit 0 ;; .18.104.22.168.4.1.674.10822.214.171.124.1.9.1) echo "integer"; echo "5"; exit 0 ;; .188.8.131.52.4.1.674.108126.96.36.199.1.12.1) echo "integer"; echo "3"; exit 0 ;; .126.96.36.199.4.1.674.108184.108.40.206.1.21.1) echo "integer"; echo "4"; exit 0 ;; .220.127.116.11.4.1.674.10822.214.171.124.1.24.1) echo "integer"; echo "3"; exit 0 ;; .188.8.131.52.4.1.674.10818.104.22.168.1.27.1) echo "integer"; echo "3"; exit 0 ;; .18.104.22.168.4.1.674.10818.104.22.168.1.30.1) echo "integer"; echo "3"; exit 0 ;; .184.108.40.206.4.1.674.10818.104.22.168.1.41.1) echo "integer"; echo "3"; exit 0 ;; .188.8.131.52.4.1.674.10818.104.22.168.13.0) echo "integer"; echo "3"; exit 0 ;; *) echo "string"; echo "$@"; exit 0 ;; esac exit
To use the script, I added the following lines to the end of ./etc/snmp/snmpd.conf:
### dell open manager test view systemview included .220.127.116.11.4.1.674 pass .22.214.171.124.4.1.674 /bin/bash \ /usr/local/bin/dell_open_manager_test.sh
To make the changes in the configuration file take effect, restart the snmpd dæmon. On Slackware, this is done via the following:
# /etc/rc.d/rc.snmpd restart Shutting down snmpd: . DONE Starting snmpd: /usr/sbin/snmpd -A -p \ /var/run/snmpd -a -c /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf
To query the SNMP server, we use Net-SNMP's command-line snmpget utility:
# snmpget -v 1 -c public 127.0.0.1 \ .22.214.171.124.4.1.674.10818.104.22.168.1.9.1 SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.674.108220.127.116.11.1.9.1 = INTEGER: 3
The response is an integer value of 3. The value 3 in the DellStatus (see above) maps to "ok(3) The object's status is OK". This tells us that the pass-through script is working. Now, we test the /check_dell_openmanager.pl Perl script:
# ./check_dell_openmanager.pl -H 127.0.0.1 -C public -T pe2950 OK
To test other values, simply modify the dell_open_manager_test.sh shell script. For example, to simulate an error in the Cooling Device OID (.188.8.131.52.4.1.674.108220.127.116.11.1.21), modify that OID's line in the script to return a code of 4 for nonCritical:
.18.104.22.168.4.1.674.108188.8.131.52.1.21.1) echo "integer"; echo "4"; exit 0 ;;
Now, running the Perl script produces a warning:
# ./check_dell_openmanager.pl -H 127.0.0.1 -C public -T pe2950 WARNING:Cooling Device Status=Non-Critical
To simulate a critical error, let's modify the Power Supply OID to reply with a 5:
.126.96.36.199.4.1.674.108220.127.116.11.1.9.1) echo "integer"; echo "5"; exit 0 ;; # ./check_dell_openmanager.pl -H 127.0.0.1 -C public -T pe2950 CRITICAL:Cooling Device Status=Non-Critical, \ Power Supply Status=Critical
To test the script on the live production systems, we added the check_dell_openmanager.pl command to a working Nagios server. We opened the case cover on a live system to generate a Chassis Intrusion Status error to test the plugin. Within a few seconds, we had an SMS message on the IT administrator's phone letting us know that there was a problem with the chassis subsystem on the server we just opened.
After writing this plugin, I uploaded it to a Web site that hosts third-party addons for Nagios named Nagios Exchange. In short order, I was getting e-mail messages from all over the world concerning the Nagios plugin I had written. Some were suggestions, and some were from people in need of help. It was not an overwhelming number of messages. At most, two a week and sometimes none. It was just enough to let me know that people other than me actually were using this thing.
I would like to make a few improvements to the module. For one, I think there may be a way to reduce the SNMP queries to only one query to obtain the overall global status of the machine. Then, only if the state is not "ok(3)", move to query the other OIDs so that a more specific error can be reported.
It also would be nice to be able to evaluate the existence of the various subsystems, that way, for example, if a machine has a RAID array, it is monitored, and if not, the script skips it.
One of the most common e-mail messages I get is about missing the Net::SNMP Perl module. I would like to test for these common-case scenarios. If the test fails, I would like to print the problem with a solution. In the case of "Net::SNMP", it should print:
You are missing the Net::SNMP perl module. Please install it using: perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan> install "Net::SNMP"
This would improve end-user experience significantly, especially for users new to Linux.
why reinvent the wheel :-)
check_openmanage does all you need and is (at this point) a better solution for nagios.
Wheel wasn't reinvented
I feel the need to comment on this. I am the author of the check_openmanage plugin. I know for a fact that Jason's plugin existed long before check_openmanage, so to be precise it was I who reinvented the wheel. Also, our two plugins are different in their focus, and I believe that both are needed. Users can choose whichever plugin they want, among these two and many others. Isn't open source great :)
Besides that, I really enjoyed Jason's article. It explains in a detailed and concise manner how one goes about to monitor something with SNMP, and how to integrate this with Nagios. This is universally useful to many out there.
Thanks for a great article, Jason!
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The New York Times published an article last week looking at the reaction to the film "Dogani" ("The Crucible"):
At an appeals court in the southwestern city of Gwangju in 2006, a school official was convicted of raping a 13-year-old deaf girl and sentenced to one year in prison. When the verdict came, an outraged middle-aged man, also deaf, let out an incomprehensible cry from the galley, signaling frantically with sign language.
"It was clear that the man was shouting, 'This is wrong! This is wrong!"' Lee Ji-won, a newspaper intern, wrote in her blog later that day under the subject line, "I saw the foul underside of our society."
The man was forcibly removed for disrupting the courtroom. And that might have been the end of it. Except that the intern's blog inspired a best-selling author, Gong Ji-young, to write a novel based on the sexual assaults at the Inhwa School for the hearing impaired, the school's attempts to conceal the abuses and the victims' struggle for justice.
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Her royal Madge-sty Madonna lead the charge at The Weinstein Company with The Cinema Society & Forevermark premiere of 'W.E.' held at the Ziegfeld Theater on Monday, January 23rd, 2012 in New York City. Just because there was snow on the sidewalks doesn't mean Hollywood's finest would be bundling up for such a star-studded event!
Spotted on the red carpet were lead actors from the film Andrea Riseborough and James D'Arcy alongside co-star Oscar Isaac. Andrea has become the Material Girls' new BFF, the two were inseparable at the Golden Globe Awards earlier this month!
Much to my delight, four of my favorite designers stepped out on this chilly evening to toast the romantic drama focusing on the affair between King Edward VIII and American divorcée Wallis Simpson. They include Diane Von Furstenberg, Rachel Roy, Donna Karan, and Zac Posen who had the beautiful Crystal Renn on his arm.
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Canada returns to the championship of the Women's International 7s Invitational and will look to defend their title against the USA. But the defending champions aren't satisfied with their performance against France. "I wasn't really pleased with the way we played," Canada coach John Tait said. "We made a lot of mental errors and poor decisions. We didn't look like we were playing the same game the whole way." Even though Canada walked away with a 21-12 win, the team was not the polished, connected squad that had put 80 points between themselves and their three pool play opponents yesterday. "We've identified a couple of areas where our decision-making needs work," Tait said. "We're learning from it but it's frustrating. We've played better than that." Canada has a very experienced roster, if you're considering international experience; many played in the 2010 Rugby World Cup. But they don't have a ton of 7s experience. "Even our most experienced athletes are inexperienced," Tait said. "The most experienced girls on the team have played a couple of years of 7s sporadically, but that's only seven or eight international tournament in their lives." There were some highlights during the game, most notably Canada's lineout defense, but Tait had trouble identifying many high points other than that. "WE played like individuals," Tait said. "WE took a couple of their turnovers in for points, but we weren't creating many opportunities. … We're not going to keep winning tough games like that with mental errors; we got off the hook a couple of times there." The positive angle of a subpar performance is the desire to fulfill potential in the subsequent outing – not that Canada would need any more motivation in playing the USA. "We're lucky to have an opportunity to play in the final," Tait said. "I'm happy to get another chance to play the USA. They've improved a lot since we played them in Dubai. They've been doing a lot of work and Ric [Suggitt] is really buying into the whole program." Canada won comfortably in the teams' Dubai match, but Tait said the team got some lucky bounces and the USA hurt themselves with some turnovers that went Canada's way. "I know it's going to be tough out there," Tait said. "Hopefully we'll get some good IRB officiating for the game. We need the top refs in order to get better." The final will occur tomorrow inside Sam Boyd Stadium. |


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Tweenage girls often emit high-frequency sounds when they meet Debby Ryan.
Some of them start to hyperventilate as well. A few just break down altogether and start to cry.
It's something that Ryan, the 19-year-old star of Jessie, a popular Disney Channel sitcom, hasn't quite gotten used to yet. Frankly, she's not sure she ever will.
"I don't spend much time thinking about the fact that people know who I am," says Ryan, an actress who used to call North Texas home. "When I get that kind of reaction, it's very disarming."
But her young fans adore her so much that they get so excited and can't control themselves.
"You know what I've found helps when they start to cry?" Ryan says. "I give them a big hug. That seems to do the trick. Massive hugs all around. Hugs seem to make everything better."
If Jessie gets any more popular, Ryan's arms are going to be sore from so much hugging.
The show, which begins its second season at 7:30 p.m. Friday, is consistently among the most-watched on cable, averaging 3.5 million viewers for every first-run episode. It's TV's No. 2-ranked show among kids ages 2 to 11 and No. 3 among kids ages 9 to 14.
"That's amazing and incredibly gratifying," Ryan says. "More than anything else, I'm really liking it when the fans come up and say, 'This thing that you did inspired me,' or 'That story that you told made me realize something about myself,' or 'That episode made me feel better about me and my family situation.'"
Jessie is about a small-town girl who leaves Texas for the bright lights of New York City, where she winds up working as a nanny to four rambunctious kids. In Season 2, Jessie will explore her passion for acting and writing, while juggling a budding romance with Tony, the building's handsome young doorman.
It's the kind of high-energy sitcom that often has Ryan, a redhead with a flair for physical comedy, displaying her best Lucille Ball-Carol Burnett-Debra Messing moves.
A gift for zany
"I'm just a massive goofball," Ryan says. "I've always been that way. So I love doing pratfalls and spit-takes and getting the laugh. If the script calls for me to be doing stunts, like being strapped into a harness and hanging upside-down with something dripping on my face, that's just so fun for me.
"The best compliment that anybody can ever give me is when they say, 'Wow, that was such a Lucy moment.'"
Ryan lived in Keller until 2008. At 15, she moved to California to pursue a showbiz career. She quickly landed a role as Bailey Pickett in Disney Channel's The Suite Life on Deck.
When Suite Life ended its three-season run, executive producer Pamela Eells O'Connell developed Jessie to showcase the many things that Ryan can do.
"The first season fulfilled all of my expectations in every way," Ryan says. "I knew I was going to work really hard. I knew that I was going to make a funny show. I knew it was going to be a very comfortable set and that every single person working on the show would feel valued.
"Now, heading into the second season, having created a family that viewers like and can relate to, we have the opportunity to take this family into new situations and do even better work. That's exciting."
Singing on hold
Still, it's worth noting that we haven't really seen everything that Ryan can do. She's also an aspiring singer, songwriter and music producer.
Ryan has performed a few numbers in Disney Channel projects. That includes singing the Hey, Jessie theme song that opens every episode. But for the most part, she has resisted launching a full-on second career, because she doesn't want her music to seem "manufactured."
"I hold myself to a higher standard than that," Ryan says. "I have too much love for music and too much respect for the industry. It's been about four years that I've had opportunities, and I've turned most of them down. People say to me, 'What's taking so long? Just cut a record already.'
"But I want it to be genuine and completely personal and to have my absolute mark on it."
Her first step in that direction is her cover of Taylor Swift's We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, which was released this week on YouTube.
Given her big, bubbly on-screen personality, some fans might be surprised to learn that Ryan is actually rather introverted by nature.
"I can turn it on and off, but performing really shouldn't have happened for me," she says. "Growing up, I was incredibly shy and terrified. I was the girl who would hide behind her mom's skirt.
"Even now, I prefer small groups. I'm not really into the big party scene and whatnot. I need to be a little bit reserved. I unwind and refuel alone."
Yet there's something about performing that fulfills Ryan like nothing else can.
"When I go onstage and I act or sing, I never feel more alive," she says. "That's when I feel like everything makes sense. It's terrifying and invigorating at the same time."
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Vienna Moderne 1898—1918The first major exhibition of Viennese work from this period to be installed anywhere in the United States. Objects on view include furniture, glassware, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, graphic design, and photographs of interiors. Organized by Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery of the University of Houston. Made possible by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation of Houston and the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research. vienna, furniture, glassware, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, graphic design, interiors, exhibitions, ch:exhibition=35349901 |
The Dream King: Ludwig II of BavariaA selection of drawings and gouache designs for Ludwig II's castles and their contents, in addition to articles of furniture, metalwork, and ceramics. Organized jointly by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. 19th century, architectural drawings, interiors, metalwork, ceramics, furniture, exhibitions |
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The power at two substations, one at Stadium-Armory and another at Deanwood, lost power early Wednesday morning. Those substations provide power to the third rail in each of those Metro stations.
As a result, Orange Line trains are moving at a reduced speed between Minnesota Avenue and Cheverly. Metro also did not run any 8-car trains on the Orange Line during the power failures.
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The fate of the joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and the world�s largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores, would be decided by the end of October. There has been no clarity on the future of the joint venture with Wal-Mart yet to make a firm commitment on whether to start front-end retail stores in partnership with Bharti despite the Indian government coming out with clarifications and changing the foreign direct investment policy for multi-brand retail, making it more investor friendly.
�It is now up to Wal-Mart to decide on the direction of the partnership,� said a person in the know of the development. �By Diwali this year, Wal-Mart should be finalising on whether to continue the partnership with Bharti in wholesale retail, whether they want to expand it to front-end retail or exit the partnership altogether. They are now preparing to approach their board for a decision on these issues,� the executive added.
When contacted, a Wal-Mart spokeswoman did not offer any comments saying the company does not comment on market rumours and speculations.
Bharti and Wal-Mart have a 50:50 joint venture for wholesale retail while the Easyday front-end stores are wholly-owned by Bharti Retail.
Since the government allowed foreign retailers to take up to 51% equity in Indian front-end stores, there have been talks that the two firms would form a JV for running the front-end stores also. However, irritants on back-end investment and sourcing norms had held back global retailers from deciding their Indian entry plans. Recently, though the government has sweetened the regulations paving way for the entry of global firms into the Indian market.
The joint venture between the two has also faced a number of controversies in the recent past. The enforcement directorate is probing into Wal-Mart�s $100-million March 2010 investment in buying compulsory convertible debentures in Cedar Support Services, a company owned by Bharti Enterprises and the holding company for Bharti Retail, the company operating front-end retail stores.
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Braves to place Chipper Jones on 15-day DL
ATLANTA — The Atlanta Braves are placing Chipper Jones on the 15-day disabled list with a bruised left leg.
Manager Fredi Gonzalez says the team has to make the move because it needs the roster spot to call up a catcher. Backup catcher David Ross left Friday night's 7-4 loss to Washington with a right groin strain.
Ross grimaced when he avoided ball four from Washington's Ross Detwiler in the second inning. Gonzalez says Ross will not need to be placed on the disabled list.
Brian McCann, who missed his fourth straight start with flulike symptoms, took over for Ross.
Jones missed his seventh straight start with swelling and discoloration in his left foot, ankle and calf. He was hit by a grounder May 18 at Tampa Bay.
ATLANTA — Davey Johnson was frustrated Ross Detwiler wasn't attacking Atlanta's hitters when given a four-run lead in the first inning.
Now the Washington Nationals manager has to decide if Detwiler will keep his spot in the rotation or it will be time to give Chien-Ming Wang a chance.
Rick Ankiel hit a two-run triple in Washington's four-run first inning, Ryan Zimmerman padded the lead with a three-run double in the seventh and the first-place Nationals beat the slumping Atlanta Braves 7-4 on Friday night.
Wang (1-0) won in his season debut. He gave up one run in three innings after taking over for Detwiler, who gave up three runs, five hits and four walks in 4 1-3 innings.
"I was a little disappointed in Detwiler that he didn't take charge and go after them," Johnson said.
Asked if Detwiler's inability to last five innings and Wang's strong showing could lead to consider a change in the rotation, Johnson said "Yes and no."
Johnson said he doesn't make those decisions "in the heat of the moment."
Johnson said Detwiler "has been outstanding all year long." He said the decision to take Detwiler out of the game with one out in the fifth "was especially difficult for me."
The Nationals moved two games ahead of Atlanta in the NL East.
After the game, Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said Chipper Jones will be placed on the 15-day disabled list with a bruised left leg.
"It's not getting better and we're starting to play a little short- handed," Gonzalez said, adding he has been told Jones will need the full two weeks before he can play.
Jones walked in one pinch-hit appearance on Wednesday in Cincinnati.
Detwiler threw 100 pitches while giving up three runs. He said Wang's return from the disabled list did not add pressure to his start.
"There's no pressure on me," Detwiler said. "I have to go out there and do my job. There's no added pressure."
Detwiler said his problem was his command of his pitches but he said they were close to the strike zone.
"It wasn't terrible," he said. "It's an easy fix."
Ian Desmond had a two-run single in the Nationals' first inning. The Braves cut the lead to 4-3 before Zimmerman's bases-loaded double off Tim Hudson in the seventh.
Jason Heyward homered in the eighth, Martin Prado had two doubles and a triple and Matt Diaz drove in three runs with two hits for the Braves. Atlanta has lost five straight, its longest streak of the season.
"I just didn't hold up my end of the bargain," Hudson said. "We should have won the ball game. Four runs, we should win."
Tyler Clippard pitched a perfect ninth with two strikeouts for his second save.
Wang entered the game after Prado doubled and Detwiler walked Dan Uggla with one out. Wang gave up a two-run double to Diaz, who was thrown out going for a triple.
Wang allowed three hits and one run, Heyward's homer, in three innings.
A left hamstring injury in spring training kept Wang out this season before he came off the disabled list on Tuesday.
The Nationals took a 4-0 lead off Hudson (3-2) in the first. Desmond's bouncing single up the middle drove in Bryce Harper, who singled, and Zimmerman, who doubled. Hudson hit Danny Espinosa with a pitch before giving up Ankiel's two-run triple to left-center.
Hudson recovered with five scoreless innings. He retired the first two batters in the seventh before walking Wang, giving up a double to Steve Lombardozzi and a walk to Harper. Zimmerman's three-run double to center field gave the Nationals a 7-3 lead and knocked Hudson out of the game.
Hudson gave up a season-high seven earned runs, eight hits and two walks in 6 2-3 innings. The four runs he allowed in the first inning topped the three he gave up in his previous three starts.
NOTES: OF Michael Morse, who has missed the first two months with an injured back muscle, is playing in extended spring training and is expected to begin a rehab stint at Class A Potomac on Monday. … 1B Freddie Freeman, wearing new contact lenses, was back in the lineup. He missed Thursday's game at Cincinnati due to vision problems caused by dryness in his eyes while wearing contacts. He also was fitted for new sports glasses on Friday. … Nationals ace RHP Stephen Strasburg will face Braves struggling LHP Mike Minor when the series continues on Saturday. Scotty McCreery, the 2011 American Idol winner, will have a postgame concert.
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ROFLROFL: The "Is It Steampunk?" Flowchart
I guess some people don't like steampunk. Well I do, provided it doesn't look cheap -- like your date! Hoho -- burn. Oh God please tell me that's not my sister. Suzy? DAMMIT GIRL GET IN THE CAR!
"Is It Steampunk?" Flowchart [buzzfeed]
Thanks to spazhands, who can't type to save his life. Then you better stay away from Jigsaw, bro!
I didn't even know what a Steampunk Overlord was until I saw these pictures. I guess it's kind of like a steampunk Genghis Khan/Iron Man mashup. Yes, exactly like that. The suit is a collaborative piece between deviantARTists Skinz-n-Hydez and SteampunkOverlord and looks lik... / Continue →
This is the $30 Rollie Eggmaster. You just crack an egg into it, and then a cylindrically cooked egg rises from the middle in a couple minutes. Add chopped vegetables and sausage and a stick while it's cooking to make it an omelet on a stick! The possibilities are practicall... / Continue →
This is a flowchart to determine what kind of drunk you are. Well -- which one are you? Truthfully, I don't really touch the stuff myself so I guess that makes me a lying drunk. An awesome, well-endowed one! Did I ever tell you about the time I fought off a plane full of te... / Continue →