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Oddly, we have not heard from our son Sean. He graduated from NYU, moved to France
and obtained his dual citizenship, moved back to NY, brought over a young Portuguese fiancée,
went back to France and married her, moved back to NYC, then to France, then to... - and then sort
of drifted out of daily, weekly, monthly communications with us. He has an apartment in Jersey
City, just outside NYC, and has been studying to prepare for the law boards. He lives on about
fifteen hundred a month, which places his living standard slightly above a migrant farm worker in
Jersey City, but would provide a comfortable life in Portugal or Paris. If he is in Jersey City, it is
odd he has not called us. If he is in Portugal or France, it might be understandable. If he is in
Europe, I would not know who or where to call. If I call his grandmother in Paris even hinting I am
concerned I would instantly turn her into a Whirling Dervish. My brothers and I have sent express
mail packages to the Jersey City address containing postage paid self-addressed return envelopes,
but have not received any response. He turned 25 on Sept 2 and did not contact us for his birthday.
I turned 39+ yesterday, and he did not contact me. Given the distractions provided by his new wife,
I can imagine we are on his back burner.
Monday morning, six days after the day, my wife and 16 year old left for work and school
at 7AM. I took Tracy, 11, to the A train subway uptown to 59th where we transferred to the uptown
2. Normally the 2 is an express and bypasses 59th, but Monday it was an uptown local. Tracy was
quite upset about taking the express 2 when she always normally takes the local 1 train. Before she
asked, I told her I would come to the school to pick her up.
After dropping her off, I returned the 72nd subway stop only to find the station jam packed
with people highly trained in alternate side parking extending their skills to master alternate side (of
the platform) boarding as they shuffle back and forth from the local and the express sides of the
platform, all in vain attempts to get into overloaded downtown trains. I gave up and started walking
down Broadway, wondering a bit about whether I was contributing to inflation or deflation by
paying for a subway ride I did not take. I think that is inflationary, but I may be wrong. If I had
borrowed the money for the token, that would certainly have been inflationary. Many stores and
businesses had small memorials strewn with flowers and pictures of the missing. Every so often,
there was a street blocked off, I do not know why. Some blocked streets seemed to have a firehouse
memorial full of pictures of the fallen city workers. Many local people had brought flowers, cards,
letters, and posters. Classrooms of children have made posters and murals to express thanks and
Some firehouses lost all their firemen. One on the upper East Side, I believe, lost six. Given
that hundreds of police(wo)men, fire(wo)men, and volunteers were lost, every community has lost
some local friends. My children visited the local fire station in happier days several times with their
schools as little kids. I remember our son sliding down the pole fifteen years ago. At school, Tracy
told me after I got her back, that her class made signs and cards for the local firemen and policemen
lost and then walked to the stations to deliver them. That was the main focus of her day.
I decided to walk all the way home (72 blocks) to see what path Tracy would take if she
ever did walk home. Avenues go North/South and streets go East/West except for Broadway, which
follows an original Indian trail at least that is what they told us in the jury duty handout. Tracy
would not be able to follow Broadway across 6th or 5th avenues. She would end up walking down
6th Avenue. Nice to know for future reference. I studied the things that she would notice if she
were on 6th avenue and had lost her (Broad)way.
About 60th Street, while I was wandering around looking like a tourist in my new city, a
blind woman was trying to get her bearings. The sidewalks and crossings had a lot of things on
them that are not usually there, such as police cars garbage trucks, police barricades, flower
memorials, huddles of people looking at missing persons pictures, puddles of water from hydrants
that had been tested, and so on. There also seemed to be more people than normal on the street,
perhaps because, like me, they gave up on the subway. She was tapping a large empty cardboard
box with her white cane. I asked her if I could help. She wanted to get to the uptown bus stop to get
to 71st Street. Deciding to reverse my direction and wander North, I told her that I was on my way
to visit the school at 70th street, and perhaps to the pastry shop at 72nd - which makes my older
daughter's favorite apple turnovers. Too oily, sour, and mushy for my taste, but they do use fresh
apples. I prefer the apple turnover from the bakery at 2nd avenue and 8th street, a tad sweet for
most perhaps, but full of slightly crisp cinnamony apples, probably mutsus, and distinctly
She gave me tips about the local blintzes and layer cakes she knows of. I am much more
into fruit tarts than she is, although being from North Carolina, I think she must like sweet potato
pie and the like. We discussed the Gorilla exhibit at the Bronx zoo and the touching aquarium at the
aquarium where kids can hold a horseshoe crab - two places our family had recently visited. I
talked about reading machines, a main focus of my attention for the past two years. I have cheap,
cheap, cheap gizmo's to help me. I scan in everything (pdf, 600dpi) and enlarge it on my computer
screens. Apparently a device (ccd camera) and a converter/modulator to project the image on a TV
screen costs 300 dollars for the sight impaired I would like to work with people to design and build
a simple camera device to connect to a TV to project images. We touched on the WTC disaster, but
had no time to talk about it since we arrived at the church where she was attending a funeral.
Turning South, I walked down Bway to Sixth, and then down to 14th Street, where I
crossed over to Union Square Park. A large memorial to the missing. Letter size posters bear
pictures of people singly and in family type situations. 'Missing father, 45 years old, tattoo of lion
on back, pierced ears and jade earrings, gold wedding band says: Forever True.' Some, more in tune
with recent radio requests for DNA samples and dental records, give similar descriptions, but add:
'missing two lower right molars' or 'broke right forearm in two places as a child.' Almost all
descriptions are in English, although from the names, pictures, and overall look, one might guess
that they were bilingual or their native language did not have Anglo Saxon roots. It is difficult to
describe your loved one to the missing person's people if all that might be recognizable is a forearm
or a lower jaw. I have never thought of myself as 'has chipped bone in knuckle joint of left middle
finger' or 'broke second toe on left foot at age 50.' I never envied people with stainless steel hip
joints, but in some situations, they have a leg up on others. I suppose I should start of think of my
family, myself, and anyone, in terms of their bite and deformations of their skeletal structure.
At home, I unpacked the closet that I had hurriedly filled before learning NYC. My usual
way of cleaning up the living room is to throw everything into the closet in a sort of hash file.
Although my years of scientific and engineering training taught me to respect scientific
instruments, I had abused my telescope badly. I disassembled the telescope and repacked it
immediately after the second WTC tower collapsed. I do not know why I did that. Probably
because I did not want my children to look through it if they came home. I do not even remember
putting it away, but in my cleaning up and repacking the telescope, I had pushed it into the carrying
case so hard that I broke off the sighting scope. The telescope was not repacked, it was jammed into
the box with such force that it crushed and crumbled all of the white styrofoam. I do not even
remember carrying out the trash, but I threw away the terrestrial and celestial mountings, all my
moon filters, a handful of my eyepieces, and one leg of the tripod. I do not even know why I carried
out the garbage in the middle of the afternoon. I have no memory of any of it. I no longer have a
useable telescope. Mine was destroyed by the WTC collapse.
Emailers have asked why I have a powerful telescope that only sees things upside down.
Several reasons. Decades ago, my brother, who works at Lockheed-Martin on guidance systems,
gyroscopes, and celestial navigation systems that orient satellites, once came to my apartment and
informed me that those lights in the sky that I thought were helicopters hovering over Brooklyn and
Staten Island were in fact the gods Mercury, Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn on their chariot rides across
the night sky. I much prefer classical explanations of the starry vault to modern lifeless descriptions
of orbiting planets. Originally the scope had a prism that made things right side up. But observing
birds in NJ with children fighting over whose turn it was to look, this device was gobbled up by the
Jersey swamps. The main thing I have used it for in the past years is observing the Peregrin falcons
that live on the ledges of high buildings and eat the pigeons. Yes, after a while you get used to
seeing everything upside down. Yes, it does see in people's windows, but in New York City, people
do on the roof and in the parks along the Hudson River anything they do in their apartments, so
there is no reason to look in windows. Also, Alfred Hitchcock provides strong arguments against
looking into windows. No, it was not expensive. I found it in the garbage room years ago.
After working at home on my NYU course readings, I started back on the subway at 2:40 to
get to the 72nd St school by 3 or so. Tracy likes to hang out a bit a talk to chums and to eat the
candy we deny her at home. The subway had a delay. The normally downtown track, that was
exceptionally an uptown track because of bridge repairs, was temporarily handling an overload and
taking normal downtown trains that that should have been exceptionally on the uptown track. As
clear as mud, as my mother often said. I asked the conductor riding on the train. He did not know
the details because he was usually on another line. I got on the correct uptown S (the S means
special or shuttle, depending who you ask, and the time of the day). I waited a long time in the
subway, I think while downtown express trains went downtown on the uptown local track, and so
on. At 4:15 got to the locked school, entered through the rear cafeteria entrance, climbed the stairs
and picked up Tracy. She was not worried and knew I would get there, but she was getting hungry.
I had brought her sliced cucumbers.
We walked to 59th Street, past a large hospital whose 35 foot long 6 foot high front wall
was covered with missing person's pictures, flowers, and religious looking things. The biggest
displays I have seen are at the Lexington Armory, which I understand is a morgue, and Union
Square Park. The radio reported that people run up to the morgue delivery trucks with pictures and
ask the drivers and workers if they have seen this person.
The A train express zipped us to West Fourth in minutes.
Odd thoughts cross my mind. Wave, a Sioux Indian who grew up on the South Dakota
reservation, designs beautiful jewelry that sends my sixteen year old daughter and her friends into a
swoon. We visited his show at a gallery on Third Avenue just off 2nd street about two weeks ago.
He is making me silver inlaid cufflinks, as a present for having invited him to Christmas dinner.
After some thought, I realized that I have not owned a shirt that has cufflinks in fifteen years. So
we decided that he will make me a crucifix from tubular silver, sort of a Sioux interpretation of the
Salvador Dali crucifix that I like. I asked him how much such a work would cost if he made it in
platinum. He did not know, and it made no difference, because he said platinum melts at a very
high temperature, and it impossible to work with without special furnaces and torches. I settled for
silver, but now I am thinking of a ring in platinum with my name and social security number in it. I
would wear a fraction of my 401k plan on my finger as a hedge against inflation or deflation, I
forget which, and just in case. Apparently such a ring would have rolled out of the WTC fire
A friend who has a Labrador Retriever said that there is great concern over dogs and cats
that have lost their owners. Many of the victims were unmarried single people who lived alone.
They left in the morning intending to come home and feed their pet by suppertime. These animals
may last a couple of weeks without food, but they cannot last without water after they have drunk
the little bit in the bottom of the toilet. Christine, my son's wife, has two cats I think.
Someone mentioned that there cannot possibly be any records of the tourists who were
visiting the observation tower and restaurant at the top of the WTC. Many tourists flying or out of
the airports often go there on their first or last day in the city. Tess' high school friend said that a
German couple visiting her family went to the WTC that morning to buy souvenirs and they were
two blocks from the WTC when it collapsed. They ran and escaped the dust cloud. They had
intended to go at least an hour earlier, but had overslept.
If you want to capture the spirit of NYC, take the whole family to the next funeral in your
town, perhaps of a young person killed in an auto accident, and bring a picnic lunch. Hang back,
since you are not part of the funeral, and just watch the grief. After the ceremony, go off and spread
out your blanket and have your wine and cheese. Take off your shoes and dig your toes into the
grass and think of how nice it is to be alive. While the kids examine gravestones to find the ages of
the people under them, mom and dad can taking turns reading Spoon River Anthology. Try to guess
what occupation matches each poem: janitor, bond trader, elevator dispatcher, fire(wo)man,
window washer... When your kids ask, why did we do this? You figure out a response, but be sure
too mention that the family will go on such picnics again, and again, as the workers gradually
unearth the thousands of victims over the next month or so, and more people post placards detailing
the bone structures of relatives and friends as hope turns to desperation.
Tracy made me a birthday card: "Dear Daddy, You mean so much to me, you mean the
galaxy to me. I also love to be with you. Now you are a big 61 years old and the best father in the
world. I love you so much and have a great year. Happy birthday. Love, Tracy" Her homemade
card looks like many of the posters, except Tracy has drawn my picture (emphasizing my rather
thick magnifying eyeglasses), while all posters have a genuine photograph and more physical
Makeshift memorials have sprouted on the windows of pizza pie shops, delicatessens,
Starbucks, and supermarkets everywhere. Six Avenue had three memorials covering the windows
of three supermarket size stores on one block. Some are handmade posters with prints glued on.
Some are clearly made by children, and signed with a child's scrawl, and these are often illustrated
with flowers, stars, and stick figures. Others are color Xerox pages with pictures printed. Typical:
Missing Person. Manuel Rodriguez, delicatessen delivery man delivering to 98th floor of WTC2.
Age 23. Tattoo of bird on left arm, large hoop gold earring on right ear. Few are dated, but one can
estimate the date. I judge this to be an early announcement when hopes existed since it only
mentions properties of the flesh and not the bones. Tooth and bone descriptions are more typical of
the latter announcements, as the true dimension of the tragedy sinks in to those who compose these
Missing Person announcements, who now presumably, are assembling bags of hair samples, dirty
underwear, and dental records of their husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, and
children to bring to the morgues.
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January 3rd-5th Christchurch
It was easy to stay put for a few days in Horotane Valley at the home of our friends Chris McGill and Mark Scambury. Their house perches on the side of this beautiful valley with views out to the ocean on the north. To the south, the rugged summit of Castle Rock is a thirty-minute scramble up a steep sheep pasture.
Chris has a passion for gardening and her gardens flow all over her large property. She plants many native plants, but isn't averse to Australian, Asian, European and American plants if they catch her fancy. She is constructing a paper birch garden now and had several Australian shrubs that looked very exotic to me.
I was assigned the task of weeding a large garden that had been taken over by a variety of morning glory. Even though the white flowers are pretty I was told to pull out every vine. They are a weed here and were strangling the plants underneath. Ripping out the vines was therapeutic-such a rugged way to garden-until I came to the area where large, rambly rose bushes were hidden. I had to slow down and wear gloves.
Tom climbed a tall ladder to the top of the macrocarpa hedge, carrying sharp clippers and an axe. Hedges are very popular in New Zealand and require an incredible amount of maintenance. Macrocarpa is an Australian plant, evergreen and rather like a cedar. It has a pungent smell, a mix of cedar and spruce, and a proper macracarpa hedge is kept carefully pruned to a wall-like standard. Tom's job was to cut the top down where errant branches had grown upward. Within minutes he had two big rips in his pants from the sharp dead branches of previous prunings.
Chris never stopped moving while we were there. Her plum trees and apricot trees were ripe and she picked baskets of fruit that she made into chutneys and jam. She also baked luscious fruit desserts for us to gobble up.
One afternoon we biked into Christchurch, which was less hair-raising than I'd feared because of well-marked bicycle lanes. The most difficult part of the ride was remembering that all traffic occupied the left lane. This was especially difficult to remember when we circled the numerous round-abouts at road junctions.
Christchurch is the biggest city on the South Island, about 350,000 people. Its biggest industry in the summer seems to be tourism. Many restaurants and gift shops advertise in Japanese, hoping to attract a few of the many Japanese tourists who flock to New Zealand. One area of downtown is full of outdoor gear stores and sushi restaurants. We stopped in at the Scorpio, a well-known bookstore. The shelves were filled with English, American and New Zealand authors but the prices were at least double what we'd pay for books in the US. The cause: high importing costs and high costs for small print runs in country. We decided to browse and not buy, although Jay talked me into getting him Howl's Moving Castle, an fantasy book first and now a well-reviewed movie. The medium-sized children's paperback, printed in England, cost $19.99 NZ, or about $15.00 US. We'll all read it to get our money's worth out of it.
In one of our stops, Jay lost his sunglasses, a critical safety item in sunny, windy New Zealand. We stopped at a little pharmacy on the way back to Horotane Valley to pick up a cheap pair of new ones. The shop also doubled as a post office and across the street was a bike store and an organic food shop. We parked our bikes and did all of our errands, by-passing the fish and chips take-away shop, though Jay thought that should also be on our list of places to go. Chris made us a delicious tea (supper) instead.
January 6, 2006 Christchurch to Glentunnel
Bike panniers, the small nylon bags that hang off the front and rear racks of a touring bicycle, have enough space to hold a picnic lunch and a rain jacket. Unfortunately we need to carry far more than that. By the time we'd packed up our bikes the panniers were bulging and our small bike trailer was puffed up with a large dry bag containing three sleeping bags, a tent, emergency food, and bags of clothes. Admittedly, we have a few frill items--my laptop computer being the heaviest one. We each have a small waterproof bag for books and a journal and Tom carries a camera, a pocket-sized radio, a small pair of binoculars and a satellite phone.
As we tucked in the last of our gear, Chris ran out with a little jar of just-made apricot chutney. Yes, I could find a place for it.
We wobbled out of the driveway after Chris took photos of our three-person bike touring team. I don't think I took a full breath until after we'd ridden fifteen kilometers and gotten clear of the busy streets of the city and suburbs.
With all our preparations, we hadn't put in any lunch food so we stopped at a dairy (mini-mart) in Prebbleton and bought crackers, peanut butter, hummus and a long sleeve of "fruit digestive biscuits", basically graham crackers with bits of raisin in them. A cemetery across the road seemed ideal for a lunch stop.
Just as we'd settled in, a man rode up on a bicycle. "Are you bicycling far?" he asked, in what seemed to us a Jamaican accent. Perhaps it was a Maori accent, or South African? We couldn't tell.
He invited us to his home next to the church to have a cup of tea and we met his wife, a Kiwi (New Zealander), and their two sons, ages 6 and 8. He was originally from Zanzibar and had met his wife, a sculptor, when she was apprenticing with an African artist. We shared lunch and tea and addresses and then we were on our way.
An hour later when we were standing by a corner looking at road maps, a truck stopped and the driver helped us figure out how to go southwest. We smiled and thanked him and he invited us to his house up the road for tea. It was tempting, but we declined. Two invitations to tea in two hours. We felt lucky to be so welcomed on our first day on the road.
The next few hours were glorious-flat, paved roads with very little traffic through farmland edged by sharp mountains. The sun was shining, the wind was at our backs and nothing could be finer. Most of the pastures contained sheep, though we also saw cows and once a muddy plot of happy pigs. When I smelled broccoli I realized that the brassica crop in many fields was for sheep food. Lambs were chewing away on the rich food, perhaps to fatten them up before being sent to the packing house, the same way the witch in Hansel and Gretel fed the children candy before she planned to eat them.
Our map showed towns along our route-Shady Knolls and Charing Cross-- and we thought we might stop in a country store for an ice cream cone. The "towns" however were merely crossroads, no stores or houses to be seen. Our emergency food would come in handy earlier than I had thought it would. We did have a few digestive biscuits left and after hours of riding they tasted better than they had at lunch.
Our map, free from the Automobile Association of New Zealand showed a symbol for a motor camp (campground) but when we got to the place on the road where we thought it should be we found nothing. I did see a long driveway that said "Absolutely no trespassing. Dogs will be shot." We decided not to ask for directions there.
And it wasn't. The Glentunnel Holiday Park hummed with life, most young families with kids, all on their summer vacation. Kiwi motor camps usually have cabins to rent as well as tent sites, and a kitchen with boiling water on tap for tea. We found a site away from the center of activity, near a pair fellow bike tourists, and soon had a tent up. Our mileage for the first day-72 kilometers, almost 50 miles-an excellent beginning.
January 7, 2006 Glentunnel to Mount Somers
Wind, lots of it. Wind so strong it pushed us off our bikes. Wind so strong that the Scottish couple we had camped next to biked ten kilometers and turned around. We met them on their way back when we were stopped at a roadside rest. Tom pointed out the lenticular clouds, shaped like flying saucers, that indicate high winds. The Scottish couple wondered how long the winds would last. They'd been fighting them now for five days and were tired of it.
We couldn't offer an answer but we weren't ready to turn around. It was our second day out and we at least needed to see for ourselves how bad the wind was.
For a couple of hours we drove into the wind, pedaling our bikes slowly along as if we were riding up a steep hill. I fought to keep my front wheel straight and hung on whenever a particularly strong blast tore at us. Occasionally we'd drop down behind a slight hill and the wind would cease, a rare quiet moment, but then we'd be out in the gale again. I kept glancing at my road map, displayed on the top of my front bag and saw how slowly we gained ground.
Finally we made it to the curve where the road plunged down to Rakaia Gorge. The new road direction and the steep downhill were lovely. The road dipped and turned and dipped again. I felt like a marble going down one of those curly plastic mountains. I didn't let myself think about what it would be like going back up the other side.
We stopped for lunch at a windy, somewhat desolate rest stop. The concrete picnic table stood out in the wind so we put on our raingear for wind protection and found a large Pinus Radiata (a California species that grows spectacularly quickly in New Zealand) to hide behind. Jay ate his sandwich quickly so he could return to Howl's Moving Castle. In two days he'd devoured it and was on the last chapter.
The wind in the bottom of the gorge was so high it was tossing water from the river into clouds of spray. We pedaled across the bridge, bracing against the wind.
We soon discovered the only thing worse than bicycling into gale force winds is going steeply uphill against gale force winds. We walked and pushed the bikes. It took huge effort to get my bike uphill, the drag of the bike cart holding it back. Tom and I switched off on that job, leaning into the bike like oxen pulling a heavy wagon.
Even big hills have a top and we made it to ours. The wind was still strong but we were distracted by a bicyclist going the other way. A blonde woman pedaled happily by with the wind at her back. She pulled a child's bike cart, padded with blankets and occupied by a large german shepherd. I wondered if she made the dog get out and walk on the uphills.
In a few more kilometers, after we'd been blown off the road twice more, our road angled sharply left and suddenly we were in heaven, with the wind at our backs and the mountains on our right and the miles rolling by so quickly I felt like I was on the Japanese Bullet train. I spun along in tenth gear, the hardest gear on a bike, and Tom said his bike odometer indicated we were cruising along at over twenty miles per hour, up considerably from our less than five miles per hour pace into the wind.
We did still have one slight difficulty. This section of the road had a number of one-lane bridges, common in New Zealand, that we raced across, hoping the oncoming cars would notice the bridge was already occupied. The longest of the bridges, over the wide, braided Ashburton River, had a turnout halfway across, reassuring if we needed it.
In the two days we'd been riding, we'd seen one small store in Prebbleton and another small store in Glentunnel, at the beginning of our second day. The countryside was sparsely inhabited by farmers on large stations, what we might call ranches. Usually the farmhouses were invisible at the end of long driveways and hidden more by the living hedge fences. One place advertised fruit and vegetables for sale but it was closed. When we looked ahead late in the afternoon of our second day and saw a roof with a teacup painted on it, we picked up speed, happy to find an oasis.
The little store sold pots of tea, served in white china cups with a pot of cream and a jar of sugar. Jay checked out the ice cream, six flavors, and chose chocolate caramel swirl for his ice cream cone. We sat outside at a round picnic table and listened to the other customers talk about their tramping trip. They were sipping iced coffees piles high with whipped cream.
Refreshed, we hopped back on our bikes and rode the last kilometers to Mt. Somers. The small motor camp here is surrounded by gardens and inhabited by a few quiet, adult campers. When we signed in, the woman at the desk found out the Jay was a Tolkein fan. She told us her husband had been an extra in the scenes filmed near Mt. Somers and she let Jay look at their scrapbook of photos and newspaper articles about the filming. In the motor camp kitchen we met a Kiwi couple from the coastal city of Dunedin. They are here for the weekend to look for rocks and fossils. We soon had out our maps as they told us the best routes to bicycle and they invited us to visit their home when we got that far south.
The wind is still howling as I write this, sitting at the table in the clean motor camp kitchen. I noticed the cupboard has a good-sized frying pan. Tomorrow morning we'll walk down to the dairy here to buy eggs and jam to put with pancakes for breakfast. No maple syrup here. The cost to us of this luxurious place? About eighteen US dollars.
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This is an attempt to deal with something I've mentioned previously, and is JRA-5705:
The problem I have with conditions, is that when a condition is failed, the transition is not displayed. This can lead to confusion for users – "I'm sure I saw that action the last issue I looked at, and I think I'm supposed to resolve this, but the link isn't there"… followed by a support call.
Ideally if a condition is failed the link should be present but disabled… when you mouse over it it could you give you some explanatory text, eg "Cannot resolve because this issue depends on issues that are not resolved". You could provide that message as a parameter in the condition.
I had a bit of a monkey around with the code and came up with this:
I compare the results of getAvailableActions with WorkFlowDescriptor.getStep(…).getActions(). The unavailable actions are displayed in a separate area, when you mouse over each action you get a reason why you can't do this.
The error message is supplied by the workflow designer in the form of a property, error.message:
You don't need to be as ungrammatical as me though. At first I attempted to do this programatically, by looking at the conditions on the action, then creating a semi-meaningful error message, which would probably just be the class name – a "computer says no" type of thing. Then I remembered that conditions can be ANDed and ORed and nested and so on, and working out which one failed would involve firing them all which I didn't want to do.
Also as Anton mentioned in the bug report, you don't necessarily want to show ones that are forbidden because of permissions. This method won't show unavailable actions unless you have provided this property on the transition.
Like I say I was just playing around here, unfortunately implementing this was rather intrusive. What I mean by that is I didn't see how to easily use the plugin system, so I just modified the code and velocity template directly.
I wouldn't consider this unless you're comfortable building jira from source, and you have it all squared away in your source code control system. While I'm on that subject, I check all the source code as it's delivered from Atlassian in to a vendor branch, unadulterated. This is then branched to a main branch where we put our site-specific changes, and experimental stuff. So when we put in a new version from Atlassian, we check it in to vendor, then merge to main. That way it's easy to keep track of our own edits and changes to the property files, without missing new stuff. Because we can easily see the changes with each version it's easy to see in which files new features are implemented, if we want to have a nosey.
- Download showavailableactions.jar. The interesting stuff is a new method in IssueUtilsBean, and an addition to the velocity template.
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Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said that ChinaÆs ambassador to Manila, Ma Keqing, had returned ManilaÆs formal notification of the move to a Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs official. Hong said the proposal was historically and legally incorrect and contained unacceptable accusations against China.
The Philippines informed China last month of its plans to take the countriesÆ conflicting claims to a tribunal operating under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. It wants the panel to declare BeijingÆs moves in the potentially oil-rich waters unlawful.
The PhilippinesÆ foreign affairs department said in a statement Tuesday that ChinaÆs rejection will not interfere with the arbitration process that the Philippines has started.
ōThe Philippines remains committed to arbitration, which is a friendly, peaceful and durable form of dispute settlement that should be welcomed by all,ö the statement said.
Even if a tribunal ruled against China, Beijing could choose to ignore the ruling.
Six governments have overlapping claims in the South China Sea. China claims sovereignty over virtually all of it.
Chinese paramilitary ships confronted Philippine vessels last year in a monthslong standoff over a disputed shoal. China has effectively controlled the shoal since June, when Manila withdrew its ships as a typhoon approached.
There are fears that territorial conflicts in the region, including a dispute between Japan and China in the East China Sea, could spark AsiaÆs next armed conflict.


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There's a lot of love for the Capitals in the latest issue of The Hockey News. It's their playoff preview issue, and the editorial staff picks Washington as their Stanley Cup prediction. A poll was also taken of players around the league—they picked the Caps as well. I thought there might be some interest in reading what THN has to say about our team and a few others, even if most of it is stuff we already know.
The main story in the issue is titled "The Year of the Cap", and it's written by Ken Campbell. The bulk of the piece is devoted to what Campbell calls "10 Reasons Why We Like the Washington Capitals and Why You Should, Too". Here are their ten reasons, with some snippets from their explanation for each (everything is s ic'd, and I cut out some of the statistical-type stuff that we already know or other things that were especially dry):
1. Goals, goals, goals.
If there were ever a team that could win the Stanley Cup on the sheer tour de force of offense, it's the Capitals. And wouldn't that be nice for a change?
[…] Boudreau maintains that because the Capitals are so explosive offensively, they are maligned for their lack of defensive play, but why should you lock teams down and play the trap when you can put four or five past them?
"People look at some of our games this season and they see we won 6-4 and they say, 'Ooh, they gave up four goals,'" Boudreau said. "But what they don't realize is that we were up 5-1 and we let up."
Conventional wisdom suggests a team can't win the Stanley Cup by sheer power of offense, but the Capitals might prove everyone wrong.
2. More is less… and we're talkin' about Ovechkin here.
Let's get this out of the way. Alex Ovechkin may or may not be the best player in the world, but he's on a short list of two guys. He is the most explosive and mercurial talent in the world and if he falters in the playoffs, the Capitals' chances of winning will falter as well.
But how many times in the past have we seen the Capitals down a goal, only to have Ovechkin scream down the left wing and blast a low-percentage shot out of desperation. How many times have we seen him spin around and drill the puck at the net without any regard for his teammates?
And how often are we seeing it now? A lot less and there's a reason for that. Ovechkin has become far more selective with his shots and he has come to realize that in Nicklas Backstrom and Mike Knuble, he has a couple of linemates who can score as well.
[…] "I've seen that with a few Russian players—they never gave the puck up because they never got it back," said Hockey Night in Canada analyst Glenn Healy. "Once they learned to manage the puck better, they found they were getting it more. He's learning that, too."
Ovechkin is averaging about 90 seconds less per game in ice time this season because the Capitals have built up comfortable leads and haven't had t use him in an effort to get back in the game. Instead of chasing individual awards down the stretch, Ovechkin is pacing himself for the playoffs.
3. More is more… and we're talking about everybody else.
Largely because they have eight regulars who make a million dollars or less, the Capitals have been able to construct a supporting cast that doesn't have to rely solely on Ovechkin.
[…] Let's start with Nicklas Backstrom, a player TSN analyst Pierre McGuire calls "the most underrated superstar in the league." […] They've got the size, speed, depth and an abundance of natural talent at every position.
4. …And they have the hunger.
We're talking about the hunger that comes with failure. It sounds cliche, but teams really do learn to win by losing and you can look at almost every Cup champion the past generation for proof of that. For the Caps, the lesson came last season when they watched a team they had on the ropes go on to win it all.
"We're another year older, but we're not too old," Boudreau said. "It's not like we're a bunch of 40-year-olds who are now 41. It's 23-year-old guys who are now 24. Hopefully, we learned a lot about ourselves in the playoffs."
It turned out to be a painful, but vital lesson for the Capitals.
"I would imagine the internal talk is not, 'Wow, we'd better not let that happen to us again'," Healy said. "I would imagine the talk is, 'That should have been us lifting that Cup. We let it slip away. They didn't take it from us, we let it slip away. That won't happen again.'"
5. The Mike Green factor.
Green came back from a shoulder injury in last year's playoffs and that, in itself, wasn't a bad thing. The fact he ballooned by about 20 pounds while injured turned out to be a major factor in his poor playoff performance.
You get the sense Green has matured. He didn't sulk when he was left off the Canadian Olympic team and he's not wearing the junior hockey issued faux-Hawk anymore. On the ice, he's as dangerous offensively as ever and while he still has his moments, he is much more responsible without the puck.
McGuire thinks the reason for Green's all-round game is his defense partner.
"The biggest improvement they've had is Jeff Schultz," McGuire said. "He and Mike Green are a tremendous tandem. They're the best plus-minus tandem in the league and some of that is because of the offense, but a lot of that is because Schultz's improvement."
6. Jose Theodore. Yeah, you read that right, Jose Theodore.
[…] It's difficult to erase the memory of last year's disastrous playoff when it comes to Theodore. But the thing with Washington goaltending is it doesn't have to be great and it doesn't have to steal games. It just has to be good and not lose them.
And Theodore was showing signs he was up to the task [during his win streak]. A large part of the reason is he seems to have realized that in today's NHL, a strictly butterfly goalie gets beaten high and that an ability to move from side to side is just as important as any other attribute.
"I think Jose Theodore, with (goaltending coach) Arturs Irbe, has really improved and I don't think he's getting enough credit," McGuire said. "I really like what Arturs Irbe has done. He has Theodore standing up more, so he's on the angle.'
7. They'll feast on the East.
[…] Many times, the key to winning the Cup is in getting out of the first two rounds with as few games as possible and an easy first round will help in that process.
8. The power play is scary good.
[…] Ovechkin is doing a better job of dishing it off or finding a hole rather than drilling it into a penalty-killer's chest and Green might have the most accurate wrist shot in the league among defensemen.
Backstrom, Semin and Brooks Laich make up the forward ranks with the man advantage. Backstrom is a sublime setup man, Semin a pure sniper and the gritty Laich can take care of everything else.
Most of the successful penalty kills in the league are so because they pressure the power play into making the wrong move, but doing so against the Capitals is a deadly proposition.
"Too many weapons," McGuire said. "When you try to put pressure points on them, it's hard to do that because they can move the puck so well, especially Backstrom."
9. By George, he's done a good job.
Long gone are the days when poor George McPhee would be keeping his low-budget team together with tape and string, only to sell off its best parts at the trade deadline.
[…] Corvo gives the Capitals another thrust on the power play and Belanger gives them a reliable faceoff man who is responsible defensively and who can provide secondary scoring.
10. Bruce Almighty
Like his team, Boudreau has matured as an NHL bench boss. After winning championships in the ECHL and AHL as a coach, he's primed to lead his team to a Stanley Cup.
He may play the part of star-struck bumpkin well, but make no mistake—Boudreau is one of the hardest working, most astute coaches in the league. He will not make the Capitals something they're not, but he does appreciate they need to play a decent game without the puck in order to be successful.
And he has the unconditional support of his players, which is huge.
"They respect him and they like him," Healy said. "He's not rubbing anyone the wrong way and if the ship runs into any adversity, they're more likely to follow his commands than decide to jump off the bridge. I've seen guys who say, 'OK, I've had enough of this guy and we're one loss away from never having to listen to him again.' That's not the case with this guy."
A sidebar also gives THN's Stanley Cup odds for "teams that were playoff contenders as of late March." Some teams have since been eliminated so I won't list them.
Washington 4:1
Chicago 5:1
Pittsburgh 6:1
Vancouver 9:1
San Jose 10:1
New Jersey 12:1
Detroit 15:1
Buffalo 20:1
Phoenix 25:1
Los Angeles 25:1
Nashville 35:1
Montreal 45:1
Colorado 50:1
Philadelphia 60:1
Ottawa 75:1
Boston 100:1
NY Rangers 250:1
Now, for the player poll. 91 players were polled and no one was allowed to pick their own team. Ten teams received votes—four from the East and six from the West. The overall results:
Washington 36%
Chicago 19%
Pittsburgh 18%
San Jose 12%
Other 15%
Results amongst players from the Eastern Conference:
Washington 31%
San Jose 21%
Chicago 17%
Pittsburgh 13%
Other 18%
And from the West:
Washington 44%
Pittsburgh 2 3%
Chicago 21%
Other 12%
There were quotes from a few players, though no names were given.
"It's Washington," said one Eastern Conference forward. "If they get the goaltending."
"They made a couple of moves at the deadline, picking up some players that will help their defense," said a player from a Western Conference playoff team. "They'll be a tough team to handle in a seven-game series."
Now, for some quotes on Pittsburgh.
"Obviously they had a short summer, but they're coming around and starting to play some of their best hockey now," said a Western Conference foe.
Reasoned a forward from the East rather matter-of-factly: "Why? Crosby. And they helped themselves at the deadline."
The article goes on to mention that Phoenix received three votes, Los Angeles had two, Detroit had four, New Jersey had two, Vancouver had two, and Buffalo had one.


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As we reported here in March, wrestler turned Ring Of Honor (ROH) announcer Nigel McGuinness initiated that month a Kickstarter funding campaign in order to self produce and distribute a documentary on his pro wrestling career, which would focus largely upon his retirement tour on the independent scene late last year. Comfortably getting the $32,000 he required, the project is now nearing its completion and he has released the very professional looking trailer that can be seen above.
The film will tell the story of how he finally obtained his dream of being a nationally televised American wrestling superstar called Desmond Wolfe, only for that heaven to quickly turn to a living hell when TNA abruptly stopped using him as an in ring performer for reasons that have yet to be explained. In the trailer, McGuinness jokes that "a lot of people on the Internet have read that I've got Hepatitis C and everyone else thinks I've just got brain damage". Those rumours had credibility because McGuinness failed a WWE physical in the autumn of 2009 before joining TNA, who rather shortsightedly immediately signed him thinking they had got one over on their rival's. Moreover, in an interview with Alex Marvez in January 2009, he had already admitted to suffering several concussions during his career, including one at ROH's Rising Above pay-per-view where he couldn't walk without stumbling for a week afterwards. Hepatitis C being another possibility stemmed from Devon Nicholson being refused a WWE developmental contract when they found out he had the disease, which Nicholson claims he suffered from double juice matches with WWE Hall Of Famer Abdullah The Butcher. Nicholson is currently taking a new innovative treatment to try to be cured of the serious illness. We at Cageside Seats would like to wish him well and hope he makes a full recovery, especially as the drugs come with major side affects.
We also hope that McGuinness get the desired feeling of resolution from making his documentary and we will have further coverage of the movie when it comes out.


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Henrico's Top Teachers – Karen Bowles
Hermitage Tech Center, veterinary science
As a licensed veterinary technician who worked in animal hospitals for 17 years, Karen Bowles became increasingly frustrated with the lack of qualified, trained technicians in the field.
"I wished for a class that would teach people how to do the job, so that we wouldn't have to train them on the job," she recalls.
In 2003, Bowles got her wish when Hermitage Technical Center started a veterinary science program for juniors and seniors. She was, however surprised by the teacher hired to run the program: herself.
"I had no intention of teaching it," she says with a laugh. "I just wanted it to exist."
Nine years later, the 44-student program is flourishing under Bowles' leadership and has done exactly what she originally hoped it would – and then some. A number of current and former students hold jobs as veterinary technicians locally and elsewhere, while others have gone on to veterinary school. The program has been so successful that center officials recently added a second section because of high demand.
"It's so cool when I call a veterinary hospital and one of my former students will answer the phone," Bowles says. "That's such a great reward."
Bowles was a natural choice for the program because she had a teaching demeanor about her and had often been the one performing on-the-job training at the veterinary hospitals where she worked. She was encouraged to apply for the position and did so, thinking she'd be able to teach part time and remain in the working world part time.
That didn't happen – the program's demands are too rigorous – but Bowles doesn't seem to mind.
"I can help these students who had that same dream that I had to become a reality," she says. "The common thread is the love of animals. Every applicant lists that on their application. I always wanted to work with animals since I was 5, and most of these kids are the same way."
In addition to her teaching role, Bowles also heads up the newly formed Tech Ethics Society at the center, through which about 80 students perform fundraising and community service projects.
"When observing her, one notices how organized and structured her class is and how the students function as a unified team when completing assigned tasks such as animal grooming, project presentations and surgical preparation," a colleague wrote of Bowles in a nomination letter. "Her demeanor inside the classroom is the same as outside the classroom and the same with students and adults."
More than a dozen animals – a cat, a rabbit, two gerbils, three ferrets, three rats, a hamster, a guinea pig, a bearded dragon and a chinchilla – live in the center, and Bowles brings her dog each day, giving students a wide range of real-world experience interacting with them. It's not uncommon to see a student working on her laptop with a cat curled up in her lap, Bowles says.
The presence of the animals also serves as a calming influence for others in the center at the high school.
"Teachers will come visit the animals if they need the stress relief," Bowles says. "Special needs students can come too, or sometimes we visit them and let them feed the animals. Sometimes a student will be having a bad day, and being around the animals can help ease the tension."
One of the most tense moments Bowles herself experienced was during her first year of teaching, when the school was locked down because of a reported gunman in the building.
"I had 22 hysterical students that I had to pack into a small, dark room," she recalls. "One was hyperventilating. One was claustrophobic. Several were crying. We had been trained in how to handle a situation like that, so I kept talking to them in a calm voice, telling them what we were going to do, and that everything was going to be alright."
The scare turned out to be a false alarm, but it was an eye-opener for Bowles.
"That gave me the self-assurance that I could handle this, but it also made me realize that I'm a mom to 44 kids, besides my two at home. I probably see more of them most days than their parents do. It helped me to understand teenagers a little better."
Rotary donates to 'Bright Beginnings'
The Sandston Rotary Club recently donated $1,000 to the Sandston YMCA for its Bright Beginnings program, which helps provide children in need with school supplies for the new school year. > Read more.
Author, child abuse survivor to speak at Henrico event
To help celebrate twenty years of service to advocating for abused and neglected children in Henrico County, Henrico Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (CASA) will host an evening with bestselling author K.L. Randis on Tuesday, Aug. 26, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Belmont Recreation Center in Lakeside.
Randis is best known for her bestselling novel, Spilled Milk, which tells her painful – but ultimately triumphant – personal story of abuse and of child abuse prevention. The book is her first novel.
Philippines ambassador to the US visits Filipino Festival in Henrico
The Ambassador of the Philippines to the United States Jose L. Cuisia, Jr. attended the Ninth Annual Filipino Festival at Our Lady of Lourdes Church earlier this month. Cuisia (pictured above with festival performers) was welcomed by County Manager John Vithoulkas and Brookland District Supervisor Dick Glover (below) at the church, which is located in Lakeside.
While enjoying some of the cultural performances at the festival, the ambassador and his wife had a private lunch with Vithoulkas, Glover, Eldon Burton (an outreach representative from U.S. Senator Mark R. Warner's Office) and Father James Begley, the pastor of OLL. > Read more.
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Short Pump brewery offers more than just beer
I am still (happily) thinking about my entire experience at Rock Bottom Restaurant and Brewery last week. Knowing nothing about this new brewery out of Denver, I was leery of brew-pub in the heart of Short Pump Town Center – this is not what I'd usually think of as a perfect fit, and yet, it was.
The restaurant and craft brewery opened in early June and features 10 beers made by female brewmaster Becky Hammond (pictured). This is the restaurant's second location in Virginia; the first is in Arlington. Behind glass walls, customers watched the beer brewing in massive steel barrels. For our up-and-coming beer region, it makes sense that Short Pump would jump on board.
As I walked up to the back of the mall near the comedy club, I was taken aback by what I saw: at the top of the stairs was an overflowing restaurant with outdoor seating, large umbrellas and dangling outdoor lights. > Read more.
Cultural Arts Center announces 2014 fall class schedule
The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen is now registering participants for its fall 2014 schedule of classes.
The center will offer more than 100 classes for children and adults, covering topicssuch as culinary arts, fiber arts, visual and performance arts and more. Instruction is structured to appeal to a wide range of abilities, from beginners to experts of all ages. Class sizes are kept small to ensure maximum benefit for participants with generally no more than 15 students. > Read more.
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I have some fraps videos from counter-strike that I made. I want to convert them from the fraps codec to some other video format, so I can put them on the web. I have tried serveral programs, and none of them can open the video files. I need to find a way to either open them with a video editing program, or convert them to another format then open them with an editing program. please help me if you know how to do this.
In my experience, the most easiest way to cut viedoclips u recorded with Fraps is the following:
Organize yourself VirtualDub (www.virtualdub.org)
Then load the huge fraps clip into VD, choose Options -> Compression and select DivX codec or whatever codec u want.
After that, go File -> Save as avi and VD will compress the file into a small .avi with DivX Codec.
NOTE: If VD doesn't work, install the newest DivX codec, then VD should work properly.
I can easily load the output .avi from VD into any viedo/audio editing program (From Windows Movie MAker 2 to Adobe Premiere ....it works :P
Hey could someone help me with some compressing I really need some help.
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Thanks for any help.
yeah sure,
I have found that the easiest way to compress/convert fraps videos was to use windows media encoder which can be found at:
Hope this helps
oops wrong URL. I meant:
i wish i would have done this before i made my WoW video, now i have to convert and then remake it. I'm using windows movie maker and when i go to save, the estimated time keeps increasing and nothing gets saved
Cannot convert and Fraps videos to DivX!!! I used to be able to, and now for some reason every time I try it comes up with
A Source File Error (-2)... I use the newest DivX Pro Codec, and VirtualDub!!!
Any help?
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how can i use videos i make on fraps in windows movie maker coz evrytime i try convertin them and using them the movie maker just shuts itself down
im new 2 dis stuf lol
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seems like everyone is having the same problem. ive tried converting my fraps files down and i just get really bad resolution. and i mean bad. tried VD and it doesnt even load the video up.
Yeah, I'm getting the same problems. I've been trying all different DivX codecs and it always comes out low quality. The people at FRAPS should at least try to do something about their compression.
by the way thanks for help. but what should i do to get the best format quality to ues to convert the fraps file without loos it's quality(smooth & clean pixel without blurred) . i mean the format after it be convreted looklike the origin look on the fraps but with a small size
please help !!!!!
I too, am having problems converting the files. The best is the "STOIK" video converter, but you can also try Visifly, Visicrop, and I think "Magic Video Converter". The "magic" one doesn't work that well with large files, though.
You do realize that FRAPS has nothing to do with compression. These files are captured in real time with zero compression. They are exact frame copies of what you've been capturing. Real time capture does not have time to compress without special hardware.
If you want high quality you have live with larger file sizes.
snakefactory = dum dum
we dont have to live with larger files.
there are SOFTWARE we can use to compress the files AFTER we finish recording.


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Wes Parker?
I admit, I had never knowingly heard the name Wes Parker. And as some of you may have heard, he is the greatest defensive first baseman of all time. According to the Rawlings "All Time Gold Glove" team at least. Which is not definitive or a completely accurate measurement of defensive ability. The "Gold Glove" winners are not always deserving of the award. See: Jeter, Palmeiro. But the majority of the time, I would say that a good player wins the award. And we should not expect anything less as these are so called "Experts" making these decisions. So they must have at least some knowledge about this game if we appoint them with this stature. But defensive statistics are not what their offensive counterparts are. And let's just say that the defensive stats in past decades are not even close to as reliable as the ones used to evaluate range, etc, in the modern decade. So I really have little idea of how good Wes Parker was back in the 60's. I notice that he won six "Gold Gloves." And that he was fairly sure handed with his glove. But what I don't have access to, is his "Zone Rating" or John Dewan's "Plus/Minus" system, or even "The Hardball Times" statistical tools. But we did not have those back then. So I have to base some of the viewing on what the awards and the "experts" are saying.
But am in no way am I saying that Parker should not have won. All the other choices seem logical enough. Maybe they weren't the absolute best ever at their respective positions, but they all seem to be in the top tier at whichever "zone' they covered. Some of the comments below the Associated press article on ESPN, have arguments/comments by viewers. Like; Ryne Sandberg should have won. Don mattingly should have won. But like usual they mostly seem to be subjective. And why not, the stats weren't reliable, and nowadays no one wants to seem to admit that defensive statistics actually matter somewhat. So their reasoning is built around who they saw perform, and "Fielding Percentage" of course. Which are not the right ways to evaluate this sort of thing. And it is harder to figure out who is the greatest defender of all time than it is to figure out who the greatest player of all time is. And no, I don't have the answers for either, but can and will dish out my opinions on them. But will be much, much more confident in the greatest player of all time discussion.
Anyway: Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan, Ozzie Smith, Willie Mays. Is anyone going to be able to give a valid argument as to why any of these players should not be on this list? Griffey could very much be argued. Especially since Andruw Jones didn't make the cut. But they are all good defensive players. So it seems to be accurate enough to interest me. But having Derek Jeter on the ballot was absolutely indefensible.
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i wondered where you had been. i don't know what article you're writing about. was in on ESPN.com?
is it about all great defenders of all time or just 1st basemen?
Rawlings released its all time Gold Glove team. It was an AP article, but I read it on ESPN. Here is the link.
thanks buddy
hey joe, i went to the phil hughes game on monday which was a truly exciting game with the lead going back and forth. got to see hughes pitch for the first time ( of hopefully many) got to see homers by a-rod (his 40th) and a huge one from jorge to tie the game. of course the ending was not the one i was looking for :)
there were some yankee fans around us that we made friends with and had amazing seats right behind 3rd base about 7 rows back.
since the yanks lost that one i wanted to go to another one , but knew better than to go to see moose. which as you know was a good decision. ended up finding 2 tickets for andy last night on stubhub WAAAAY in the upper deck, but the game was tons of fun…also lots of LOUD yankee fans up there with us. the angel fans started pouring out of the stands after the 7th inning .
seriously on a few occasions the "lets go yankees" cheers were deafening as well as a few choruses of "hip hip jorge"
thanks for the link to the article, to be honest i had never heard of wes parker
can you BELIEVE that rangers/orioles game?
Yes, that Rangers/Orioles game was pretty awesome. At least for the Rangers, especially since in the past 4 games or whatever, they have been completely dominated by both Santana and Bedard.
hey i heard lester got sent down to AA. why would they send him there instead of AAA?
My Dad texted me earlier and told me that it had happened. The reason it happened, I just read, was so Javier Lopez could come up (lefty specialist) against Thome, the yankees, etc. but then lester will return. They chose to send him to AA because it lined up better with our rotation so he would not have to miss a start.
ahhh…well i knew you'd know….thanks. i thought they weren't happy with lopez. to be honest i only vaguely remember him from earlier this year
Wes Parker's claim to fame was he appeared on the Brady Bunch. Never thought he would have made the list.
Wes Parker's significance is much more than appearing in the Brady Bunch (he also starred in a Billy Graham movie many years ago). I've been a baseball fan for lots of years and saw him play many times. I voted for him as best all-time defensive first baseman (as did many others, obviously) because he was so exceptional. Everyone else on that list was there at lease in part because of their overall accomplishment; Wes was there because he was a GREAT defensive first baseman. (He also finished fifth in MVP balloting one year.)


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Wizards called about a tradeup with Jazz?
@davidjsmith1232 @jazzhoops @scrantonicity33 @dianaallen @WashWizards have called about a trade up to 3 for Kanter. The Jazz have options.— Probasketballdraft (@Probballdraft) June 20, 2011
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I will admit, going into the 2010 Draft I wasn't a fan of Tebow. I didnt think his skills would translate into McDaniels spread offense. After watching him during the preseason, my perception has changed. He has mobility and could extend plays. I was extremely impressed by his arm strength. And while his mechanics (and throwing to his right) need some work, he can throw a very good deep ball. I truly believe after spending a couple of seasons on the bench, watching Orton shred opposing defenses through the air, Tebow can be the face of the Broncos for years to come.
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