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Breakfast Topic: Terrible things {WoW}
Feb 2nd 2010 9:00AM Even more shocking, the person you kill is someone your toon knew well before s/he turned DK. A very close friend or or significant other. It's actually a very powerful moment from a character perspective. I like to imagine it as the moment that shocked my DK free from her bonds to the Litch King and started her personal vendetta against the scourge.
Breakfast Topic: Terrible things {WoW}
Feb 2nd 2010 8:49AM I always find it funny to when I see a Pally doing these dailies, though.
Breakfast Topic: Terrible things {WoW}
Feb 2nd 2010 8:30AM Either the Torture quest in borean tundra, or the Ebon Blade dailies in Icecrown where you engage in what amounts to terrorist attacks on the Vrykul settlement. Especially the daily where you use the protodrake to set fire to the village.
Granted, the inhabitants of the village are threatening to overrun the Ebon Blade base in Icecrown, but is it really strategically necessary to repeatedly burn down the village when your toon can take on three of their warriors at once and win without breaking a sweat? And Baron Sliver does explicitly state that his goal with the dailies is to instill terror in the hearts of the vrykul.
Not that any of this bothers my toon. She's a Death Knight, and will quite happily use torture and terror to further her goals.
Breakfast Topic: With great power... {WoW}
Oct 12th 2009 11:38AM Depends on the server type. On the non-PVP servers I've been on, most of the griefers are lvl 50-60 and geared in either greens or DK Starter zone gear. They hang around low level zones like Auberdine and Elwynn, killing questgivers and guards until they either get bored, or someone's main comes by and camps their corpse.
Lichborne: The future of Death Knight lore in Cataclysm {WoW}
Sep 9th 2009 1:52PM Bearing in mind that after the Wrathgate, we never find Bolvar's body, and Arthas saps away Saurfang's soul after killing him in the cinematic.
Lichborne: The future of Death Knight lore in Cataclysm {WoW}
Sep 9th 2009 1:41PM Just found a little piece of info that supports your theory (or alternately, the theory of Bolvar and saufang coming back as one being and possibly taking over The Knights of the Ebon Blade: http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12499#comments.
Completing this quest will display a rather impressive cutscene, and awards the Veteran of the Wrath Gate achievement.
On completion:
Korialstrasz says: My Queen, do they know?
Alexstrasza the Life-Binder says: No, my beloved.
Alexstrasza the Life-Binder says: [Draconic] Ashj zila gul kirasath lok ante il lok buras danashj Gul gul
Korialstrasz nods.
Korialstrasz says: They will not.
Alexstrasza whispers: Come to me, .
In Draconic "Ashj zila gul kirasath lok ante il lok buras danashj Gul gul" means "They must not discover the fate of the young paladin. Not yet." when run through the in-game translator. Implying that Bolvar may have survived...one way or another.
This is from wowwiki, apparently due to bug revolving around the AQ gates, some people could gain the "Draconic" language. Does this mean we will see Fordragon as a death knight? Yet, the dragons burned the whole place down and Alexstrasza cannot see through time, that's Nozdormu's thing... or maybe she can?


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I've beem coming across a lot of great best practices ever since I've started my first Haskell gig. I'm going to try to post more generally useful things I learn them.
99% of the time when I'm creating a library, I'm going to have the test suite in the same cabal file. Recent versions of cabal are smart and will resolve dependencies within the file first. This is much better than the alternative, which is to copy and maintain the dependencies for the library in the test suite. That becomes a huge maintenance liability for no reason.
Say you have a directory structure like
├── src
│ └── MyPkg.hs
└── test
└── src
└── MyPkgTests.hs
where your library source is in src
and your test source is in test/src
. You would then create a cabal file that looked something like:
name: mypkg
-- snip
hs-source-dirs: src
specific-package >= 1.1 && < 1.2
-- snip
test-suite test
type: exitcode-stdio-1.0
main-is: Main.hs
, specific-package
-- snip
A few things to note:
and is not explicit about dependencies that will be dragged in by mypkg
. You actually don't even need to include these unless you directly use code from these dependencies in your testsFor the longest time I couldn't figure out how to do this and ended up with really verbose and hard to maintain cabal files. I knew other people did it this way but I never picked up on the hs-source-dirs
clause being the deciding factor until someone on #haskell
pointed it out to me.
Just a quick announcement. This weekend I did my first FFI project in any language. It was a learning experience. I initially tried to distribute the C code for pHash but oh my god do things get ugly that way. So you'll need to have the phash shared library installed for this to work.
pHash is a perceptual hashing library, which you can use to identify images that are similar. It can also be used to hash audio and video files but I had trouble getting the bindings working there and most people seem to use it mostly for images. Check it out on HackageDB or grab the source on Github.
Not too long ago at work we made the big painful switch of our largest legacy apps from Rails 2 to Rails 3. While there is no shortage of documentation on the pitfalls one may face when doing this, I wanted to bring up one that was particularly insidious.
Some may remember that in Rails 2, eager loading was typically done by passing a :include
option to a finder, specifying the graph of records you'd like to eager load, e.g. Post.all(:include => [:author, {:comment => :commenter}])
. In most cases, this would issue a query to each table involved, first finding authors
whose id
corresponded to the author_id
on the post, then comments, and so-on. The important thing to note is that it would not do a join.
When upgrading and converting from options-in-finder style to the class method chaining style of ActiveRecord 3, it seemed obvious that .includes()
was analogous to :include
. It is not.
As this wonderful article points out, there are actually 4 related methods in rails to eager load: preload
, includes
, eager_load
, and joins
. includes
will do separate queries unless your query is specifying tables and columns explicitly in it, in which case it uses a left outer join. I believe I read in a Rails github issue which I have now lost track of that in Rails 3, this behavior scans your conditions for a '.' character, even if it is against your primary table. We have to be explicit in some of our scopes because they may or may not be used while joining with other tables that have the same column names.
always does separate queries, joins
always does inner joins, and eager_load
always does outer joins. Nothing against the Rails team but the tradeoffs and semantics inherant in these different strategies are in no way communicated via their method names. They sound like aliases.
In our particular case, our wholesale conversion from :include
to includes()
, especially when applied to rather lengthy scope chains via search caused a huge hit in query performance. Many of these cases could be returned to their previous speed by preferring to use preload
instead of includes
. This will obviously vary case by case but if your usage of ActiveRecord scopes is not well optimized for left outer joins (which can have pretty poor performance characteristics), be aware of your options and note that while it seems like includes()
is equivalent to :include
, that is not quite the case.
Vigilance is a dead man's switch system written in Haskell. The idea is that you register periodical tasks that you've configured elsewhere such as:
You tell vigilance an upper bound of how often the task should run via a config file. You tell vigilance how to contact you if this doesn't happen (currently HTTP POST and emails). The task can check in to vigilance with either the vigilance
executable or via a REST API. If it doesn't, check in, you will be notified and vigilance will hold off on other notifications until your task is back online, checking in again.
I created vigilance after a couple of incidents in which I discovered that backups on my production systems or my development box had not been running. I wanted a way to set a failsafe so that I could at least be alerted when something like this happens.
Check it out on github for the full documentation. Download vigilance via cabal install vigilance
or via hackage.
Say I have daily backups that run on my server. I want to be notified if the server goes more than 36 hours without completing a backup.
First, I install vigilance from cabal:
cabal update && cabal install vigilance
This provides 2 executables, vigilance
and vigilance-server
. You can configure the build ot not include the server on client boxes for a faster install with fewer dependencies. vigilance-server
will handle the state of your watches, notifications, etc. vigilance
is what you will use to manage your watches and do check-ins.
Let's write a config file to ~/.vigilance/server.conf
(the default location):
# ~/.vigilance/server.conf
vigilance {
port = 9999
watches {
backups {
interval = [36, "hours"]
notifications = [
["email", "firstname.lastname@example.com"],
["email", "firstname.lastname@example.com"],
["http", "http://example.com/in-case-of-emergency"]
Vigilance tries its best to have reasonable defaults for its configuration. All state data and logs will be stored in a .vigilance
directory in your user's home directory. Fire up your server by running:
Since we're using a non-standard port for our client, let's write a config at ~/.vigilance/client.conf
vigilance {
host = "localhost"
port = 9999
Your crontab would look something like this:
@daily run_backups.sh && vigilance checkin backups.
If run_backups.sh blows up, 2 emails will be fired off and an HTTP post of the failure will be posted to your callback URL.
Adding or removing watches is as simple as editing the server.conf
file and sending a HUP signal to the vigilance-server
kill -HUP pid_of_vigilance_server
If you have any ideas on more notifiers you'd like to see added, please file an issue on the github issue tracker.
I stumbled across something quite nice the other day working with list comprehensions in Haskell. I don't typically pull out the list comprehension hammer very often. That's not because I dislike them, but more that I seem to forget they exist. I found a pretty killer feature of them: If your pattern match fails in a list comprehension, rather than causing some sort of horrendous error, that element simply won't make it past the guard in your list comprehension.
For example: in a project I'm working on called vigilance I need to select watches and then from those, pull email addresses associated from those watches to notify them.
data NotificationPreference = EmailNotification EmailAddress |
HTTPNotification URL
extractEmails :: [Watch] -> [(Watch, EmailAddress)]
extractEmails ws = [ (w, addr) | w <- ws, (EmailNotification addr) <- notifications w]
There's a couple cool things going on here. First, we're extracting an element from the watch list and then from that extracting notifications from each email. I didn't realize you could do that. The really cool part is that the pattern match failure didn't cause an error. Instead, it rejected any elements that didn't match the pattern. I like this because it concisely expresses the algorithm while still being perfectly readable.


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The Raptors Point Guard Dilemma
Posted on November 18, 2010 | 13 Comments
So the Raptors get a win against Philadelphia and, this time, Jose Calderon becomes the PG of the hour for the Raptors, making up for the poor game he had in the loss against Washington. This time it was Jack who had the horrible game, in fact in the last 3 games he's had 2 bad ones. Not surprisingly, some people are now questioning whether Calderon should be starting and Jack coming off the bench.
The Raptors wouldn't be the Raptors if there wasn't some questions surrounding the PG position. I think the last time the Raptors were truly at peace with their point guard situation for an extended period was when Damon Stoudemire was playing in the Skydome. After him, Alvin Williams who, while a gritty player, was not nearly as good as fans seem to remember him (and wasn't healthy for very long), which is why the Raptors tried a couple of times to replace him, once with Mark Jackson for 54 games. Then a parade of guys like Jalen Rose, Rafer Alston and Mike James came through, all not nearly as talented as they thought themselves to be.
When Charlie Villaneuva was traded for T.J. Ford, it looked like the long drought was over. Ford was a lightening quick, 23 year old PG that was locked in a battle for the starting position in Milwaukee with Mo Williams. He was a pass-first, feisty jet quick player and the type of PG that seemed to possess leadership qualities you want in your lead guard. He seemed to be exactly what the Raptors needed and looked like the long term solution for the Raptors at PG.
And then Jose Calderon came out of nowhere to become a legitimate NBA player who pushed Ford for the starting position, eventually winning out the next season. Of course, Jose's reign didn't last long before he started to struggle and Jarrett Jack was brought in and eventually replaced him as the starter.
So now, the Raptors have two PGs who are pretty good, but neither is really an above average starting PG at this point. At least not consistently.
Now, I have been a big believer from the beginning that Calderon should start ahead of Jack. In my opinion, you want your starting PG to be able to make other players better, and Calderon simply does that better than Jack.
I have to be clear that I was a big fan of the Raptors signing Jack and I still am. I just think he is being asked to do more than he should. Ideally, Jack is a backup PG who can also play some SG if needed. Right now, he's a character actor being asked to carry a movie, and he can't do it.
A lot has been talked about Calderon's contract. I don't think anyone would argue against the fact that Calderon is being overpaid. When he was offered the contract, he was coming off a stellar last few months and looked like he might have the ability to become an All-Star. Pat Riley and Miami were interested in signing him but the Raptors made the decision to trade TJ Ford and hand the reigns over to him. Unfortunately, he hasn't been able to live up to the promise he had when he signed the contract. But I digress…
During the summer, and it got a lot louder during the preseason, there were a lot of calls for Calderon to get traded and he almost was, at one point. While I didn't have a problem with the almost-trade, I never felt that moving him should have been a big priority.
And while Calderon's contract is rather onerous, it's not exactly a big problem for the Raptors. They aren't in a position where they need to clear salaries, and even with his contract, will have plenty of cap room next summer. Besides, I never like trying to trade a player when his value is down, and Calderon's value wasn't very high during the summer. If Calderon can put together a good season, his value should be much higher, especially with one year less on his contract.
It's not that I think Calderon is the long term solution at point guard for the Raptors, but when a team loses it's best scorer and doesn't really have anyone on the roster that has been known to create his own shots, having a PG that can pass the ball and run an offense is probably a plus.
If you're going to trade one of the PGs, it seems to me that Jack would be the more sensible choice. He's got more value, due to the fact that he's younger, has a manageable contract, is more durable that Calderon and can play two positions. Plus, as I mentioned above, I'd rather have a true PG leading this team than a combo guard who doesn't make his teammates better, especially when you've got so many young players who are still developing their game.
The big problem with the Raptors, though, is that neither PG is who you want ultimately leading the team. There have been numerous calls for Colangelo to trade one of them and get a long term solution at PG. There are two problems with that solution. The first is that there aren't exactly a whole lot of good, young PGs on the market. And the last thing the Raptors need to do is be in a hurry to do anything right now. No trade is going to "save the season" for the Raptors. Any realistic Raptor fan should have known before the season started what lay ahead for the team. This was not a playoff bound team and the big goal at the finish line this year was going to be a high draft pick. If the Raptors were able to somehow secure a good, young PG, what happens if they end up with the best player available being a PG, like Kyrie Irving?
While the Raptors PG position might be a weakness, in some ways, it's also a strength. The whole idea of having two PGs so close in talent is that they can cover for one another. If Jack has a bad game, Calderon can pick up the slack and visa versa. If Calderon had been traded, who would have covered for Jack against Philadelphia? Marcus Banks, despite what a few fans seem to think, is not the answer.
What the Raptors need to do with their PGs is simply let them play out the season. If they draft a PG in the draft, THEN they can make a trade, but there's no point in doing it until then.
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I have no problem with who is the starter, while the best of them is finishing the game it's all right for me.
Agree with you that it's a strength. Also, it's nice that both of them can accept it without drama in spite of they don't like it.
It's going to be interesting this offseason for the Raptors.
Calderon has been playing better. Jack is clearly no leader but I don't think we should trade either.
As long as the better player in the game is on the floor at the right time I'm fine with both og them playing. Who starts isn't even important.
I think Calderon has been playing better, and as I said in the summer in my first ever thread on RR, I thought Calderon playing more than Jack would help this team. Many think Calderon isn't good because he is overshadowed by his contract. But as he already HAS that contract, the best thing to do is act as if Jack and Jose earn the same amount and chose who you think is better. And I think overall Jose is far better. Especially as a guy who needs to distribute to our many offensive assets. Jack doesn't really find the player that often leaving hot players without the ball in many situations. I've seen Bargnani, Weems and DeRozan left out of the offense when they were the only ones creating (different games btw)
Also he has been a big reason for Bargnani on some nights, and other players as well not getting the ball in situations in which they should have.
Anyways, no comment on Bargnani's game? What did I tell you, Bargnani with great offense will win us far more games than Bargnani with decent offense and "okay" defense. His defense was once again less than decent, but his offense with Weems clearly won us this one.
Oh, and I was also right about how when Bargnani plays well nearly no one praises him, or anything, yet when he gets 2 boards and 12 points he gets 5 threads about it….
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One of Bryan Colangelo's many personnel mistakes was the signing of Jarrett Jack, two summers ago, to a contract which paid him in excess of $4.0 M per year, to be the Raptors "back-up" PG, in arrears of Jose Calderon.
This was money poorly spent by the Raptors' President/GM.
How come?
Because what a top notch NBA GM would have done instead is sign a solid, relatively inexpensive veteran player, in this specific role, e.g. like an Earl Watson [who was also available at the time], not a player with the skill-set of Jarrett Jack.
The reason the Raptors are now in the situation which they find themselves is because of a compilation of poor personnel moves similar to this one, concerning the back-up PG position.
Khandor, Raptors paid for Jack that much so the Pacers couldn't afford it. And when José had to play injured (harmstring) almost all the season we learnt the need for a valid back up.
I just don't get those poor personel moves:
Jermaine O'Neal: You was trading TJ (neck issues)for him. After that, O'Neal was easily traded, TJ not.
Turkoglu: the first option was Ariza but the guy didn't accept our offer (it was said it was near the 8 Millions). Turkoglu was traded after one season for Barbosa.
Do you realize that there are some franchises that people don't wanna go to? Do you think other GM would have got better things?
IMO, BC is doing all what it's possible.
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When the Raptors signed Jack away from Indiana, for a pricey contract, the Pacers turned around and signed Earl Watson, for a very reasonable contract.
If a GM truly believes that Jose Calderon is the starting PG for his team … which is what signing him to a $8.0 M/year contract actually represents … then, what that GM should not do is push the panic button and sign a $4.0 M/year player as his "back-up", when there is a much more affordable and viable option available at the exact same time.
For a prime example, please what the Utah Jazz are doing so far this season with the following 3 players on their roster at this same position:
i. Deron Williams [$15.0 M/yr]
ii. Ronnie Price [$1.4 M/yr]
iii. Earl Watson [$0.9 M/yr]When you compare the production that the Raptors are getting from their 3 players at this same position:
i. Jarrett Jack [$4.6 M/yr]
ii. Jose Calderon [$9.0 M/yr, who SHOULD really be the starter]
iii. Marcus Banks [$4.8 M/yr]it should then be painfully obvious just how inept Bryan Colangelo is as a top flight GM in the NBA, in comparison with his counterpart in Salt Lake City.
One thing that Bryan Colangelo has consistently shown with the Raptors is that he does not use his money wisely … in terms of being able to gradually construct a team that is capable of making steady progress towards the upper echelon of the Eastern Conference.
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That's definitely true about who finishes. I think far too much attention is being paid to who is starting when it doesn't really matter.
I just wanted to write the post and go to bed. I didn't talk much about the game at all, but Bargnani did have a good game- for him. He was still horrible on defense. The fact is that he pretty much has to score 30 ppg in order to make up for him being a liability elsewhere. What's funny, though, is I was going to mention that Bargnani would probably end up going 30 and 6, which would make everyone forget about the bad games. Then he went 30 and 7. Quite frankly, unless Bargnani becomes a completely different player, I'm never going to want him as a part of my team.
There were several reasons I liked the signing of Jack.
a) His contract isn't bad at all. He's not making the veteran's minimum, but his contract is not so much that a team is going to think twice about taking it on.
b) Deron Williams has proven he can play heavy minutes and stay healthy. Calderon has not. If anything came of the season before Jack was signed, it's that the Raptors needed much better backup PG play, and a backup PG that could play 20-30 minutes, if needed.
c) Most importantly, Jack gives the Raptors an asset that can be used later. Earl Watson is a nice, veteran PG, but he's not an asset, and certainly not one that might increase in value. The important thing right now is to acquire as many assets as possible. That's the reason I liked the signing of Kleiza, too. He's a young asset.
And while I like Utah, I don't agree with everything they've done. I thought getting Al Jefferson was a bad move. Right now, they're paying nearly $30 million for the PF and C positions, and there isn't one perennial All-Star among them. That's why they can't afford to pay much for their backup PG position.
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The Jazz are "choosing" not to pay very much for their back-up PG … which is very different than saying that they "cannot afford to pay too much" for a better player at this crucial position.
IMO, Utah has the proper balance at the PG spot, aying big money for their starter and not very much money to their primary back-up [i.e. Ronnie Price] or his veteran emergency replacement [i.e. Earl Watson].
The problem for the Raptors wasn't just the existence of Calderon on the payroll already but, also, the acquisition of an albatross like Marcus Banks.
i.e. if the Raptors didn't already have Banks on the roster, as well, then, it might have been considered an okay thing for Colangelo to have added a 2nd PG, at a cost of $4.0+ M/yr to the team's payroll, but with a dud like Barnks on-board already it was simply overkill on the GM's part, in an effort to cover up for the mistake that was the trading of Jermaine O'Neal and Jamario Moon to Miami in exchange for the short-lived career of Shawn Marion as a Raptor.
If you recall … I was someone who said, in advance, that:
* The deal to bring O'Neal to Toronto was a bad move
* The deal to bring Marion * Banks to Toronto was a bad move
* The deal to bring Jack to Toront was a bad deal, if the team was also going to hold onto Calderon AND Banks
* The deal to bring Turkoglu to Toronto was a bad dealAs it's turned out, I was right on each account, much to my my chagrin.
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Well, I'm pretty sure if Calderon was as good as Deron Williams, the Raptors wouldn't need Jack. I think we can both agree he's not.
As for having Banks, Jack and Calderon on the roster, I don't think it's really much of a hindrance. Banks is gone after this season, and if the Raptors draft a PG, it's likely Calderon or Jack will be, too. If the Raptors draft a PG and keep Jack, that suddenly cuts their salary at the PG position down to $6 or 7 million.
As for your conclusions on trades, I don't entirely agree. I think getting O'Neal was a gamble, but not necessarily a bad move. It didn't work but that's not really due to the trade.
I wasn't a fan of the Marion deal, but I don't think it was a bad move. It cleared enough cap room for Colangelo to be able to sign a big name free agent. Unfortunately that free agent was Turkgolu. Turkoglu certainly wasn't Colangelo's first or even second choice, but it was the one he was able to get.
You can't look at decisions in a bell jar. There is a reality around decisions that are made, and things are not black and white. And whether you like to believe it or not, things like luck, location and other things do come into play. If San Antonio drafted second when Tim Duncan came out, San Antonio's future would have been different. If Len Bias hadn't died, Boston's future would have been different. If Portland decided that Clyde Drexler and Michael Jordan could have played together both Portland and Chicago's future would have been different.
Miami hit it big this offseason, but if Wade had decided to sign elsewhere, it would have ended up being a disaster. You can't predict the future, you can only make an educated guess.
I really like reading arguments between Khandor and Tim.
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re: "Well, I'm pretty sure if Calderon was as good as Deron Williams, the Raptors wouldn't need Jack. I think we can both agree he's not."
——————-Although "if" is a small two-letter word, it's ramifications can be gigantic for the way one's life actually develops.
If Jose Calderon had the opportunity to play for the Utah Jazz and Jerry Sloan, and Deron Williams had the misfortune of being drafted by the Toronto Raptors, and Bryan Colangelo, who is to say that the latter would be perceived by most NBA observers today to have developed into one of the very best PG's in the NBA and the former into one of the most efficient offensive players but a liability at the defensive end of the floor.
Contrary to a popular belief …
Who a player has the chance to play for does have a tremendous role to play in the way said player gets to develop as a basketball player over the course of his career.
re: "As for having Banks, Jack and Calderon on the roster, I don't think it's really much of a hindrance. Banks is gone after this season, and if the Raptors draft a PG, it's likely Calderon or Jack will be, too. If the Raptors draft a PG and keep Jack, that suddenly cuts their salary at the PG position down to $6 or 7 million."
——————-Nothing in this life is ever "too much" of a hinderance that it cannot ever be overcome with a combination of hard work, considerable skill, and a healthy dose of good fortune.
This fact does not preclude it also being reality that the Raptors may have been able to hold onto Chris Bosh … i.e. their franchise player … if they would have developed differently over the last 2 seasons … e.g. into a Top 4 team in the East … which would have been a stronger possibility if Toronto did not have Jarrett Jack [i.e. and over-priced "back-up" PG, and a decent value "starting" PG] and Marcus Banks [i.e. a financial "albatross" as a 3rd-string PG] needlessly weighing down their roster at the #1 position in arrears of a good but-far-from-great PG making $8.0+ M/yr.
re: "As for your conclusions on trades, I don't entirely agree."
——————-As it is with most things concerning the Raptors …
You and I do tend to agree with one another more than we actually disagree; it's usually only to a matter of what degree.
re: "I think getting O'Neal was a gamble, but not necessarily a bad move. It didn't work but that's not really due to the trade."
——————-That's like saying you would still be in love with your wife today if, when you met her for the first time she was actually a blond rather than a brunette, which is not the case at all, since the unfortunate reality is, you have no clue about this because – the simple fact of the matter is that – she was a brunette at the time.
The trade for Jermaine O'Neal was a bad trade for the Toronto Raptors, pure and simple.
- Roy Hibbert is the Starting Center for the Pacers and Nathan Jawai is no longer an active player in the NBA
- TJ Ford is still a productive NBA PG
- Jermaine O'Neal was a productive member of the Miami Heat last season; and is a productive member of the best team in the East, so far this season
- While The Raptors were unable to re-sign Chris Bosh this past summer
That's the definition of a failed trade in the NBA which has calamitous ramifications for one struggling franchise and puts the other participant back into a state of semi-relevance, as a non-laughing stock entity across the league, in general.
re: "I wasn't a fan of the Marion deal, but I don't think it was a bad move. It cleared enough cap room for Colangelo to be able to sign a big name free agent. Unfortunately that free agent was Turkgolu. Turkoglu certainly wasn't Colangelo's first or even second choice, but it was the one he was able to get."
——————-The same holds true for this disasterous acquisition of 2 summers ago … which was bad from the beginning and doomed to be a failure.
[i.e. any top flight NBA analyst truly worth their salt sh/would have been able to tell Bryan Colangelo from the outset that a line-up of Calderon/PG + DeRozan/OG + Turkoglu/SF + Bosh/PF + Bargnani/C was going to be a defensive disaster.]
To paraphrase an imfamous quote from the likes of Sean Avery: "Making do with 'sloppy seconds' is no way to live one's own life in the best fashion imaginable."
re: "You can't look at decisions in a bell jar.
——————-Good … because that is not the way in which I am looking at them.
It's the compilation of these separate moves which, when you combine them together with one another, has put this franchise into its current state of delapidation.
That type of analysis does not involve looking at each of them in a "bell jar" but, rather, in a way which is consistent with "string theory."
I think you can see the difference between these two divergent ways of thinking about the world in which we live everyday.
re: "There is a reality around decisions that are made, and things are not black and white. And whether you like to believe it or not, things like luck, location and other things do come into play. If San Antonio drafted second when Tim Duncan came out, San Antonio's future would have been different. If Len Bias hadn't died, Boston's future would have been different. If Portland decided that Clyde Drexler and Michael Jordan could have played together both Portland and Chicago's future would have been different."
——————-There is an old saying that, in this world: "Luck is the residue of design."
As we've discussed before … you don't happen to believe that this is the case, while I do.
We can just agree to disagree about it.
re: Miami hit it big this offseason, but if Wade had decided to sign elsewhere, it would have ended up being a disaster. You can't predict the future, you can only make an educated guess.
——————-Maybe you, and others, cannot predict the future, in the NBA; but, please, do not put me into the same category as you, in this specific regard … when it comes to assessing certain things accurately, in advance, related to this wonderful game of basketball … since part of my everyday reality involves doing precisely that for my livelihood.
Cheers, as always.
Sorry for the delay.
I agree with Tim in his answers, I'd just like to show my point of view on these points (sorry if I'm wrong in any fact, my memory can fail):
* The deal to bring O'Neal to Toronto was a bad move"
No, the deal to trade TJ out of Toronto was very good, guy was becoming a problem with his attitude (me first) and had serious problems with his neck, besides the team performance was better with Calderon.
Jermaine was a bet on a big man star with a lot of injuries behind him. It didn't work, but his huge contract was still tradeable cause it only last one more season. Look at Indiana, they cannot trade TJ now.
"* The deal to bring Marion * Banks to Toronto was a bad move"
It was clear that O'Neal didn't work well with Bosh, so we had to move him. You can say the same with Marion and Wade in Miami (that's what I'm remembering, could be wrong) so was the same kind of trade for both teams: trading players past his prime time that didn't work with their stars and getting some help in their weakest areas, Toronto needed some defense at the perimeter and Miami some scoring from their frontcourt.
Marion was the best player of both and had a cheaper contract, so Miami put Banks in the trade. That was the price we had to pay, plain and simple.
"* The deal to bring Jack to Toront was a bad deal, if the team was also going to hold onto Calderon AND Banks"
"If Jose Calderon had the opportunity to play for the Utah Jazz and Jerry Sloan, and Deron Williams had the misfortune of being drafted by the Toronto Raptors, and Bryan Colangelo, who is to say that the latter would be perceived by most NBA observers today to have developed into one of the very best PG's in the NBA and the former into one of the most efficient offensive players but a liability at the defensive end of the floor."First, I'm Spaniard, your not going to meet any Raptors fan who thinks higher on José. José isn't your worst defender, trust me, I would like to know who PG stops other PGs, it's imposible, you just direct them where your frontcourt can stop them. José could go the hoop a lot of more times and his defender could not stop him, the problem are the big guys who are well placed on his way to the hoop. That works too for the PGs that play against us.
And it's curious, but you don't need that "if": Jazz had one of the best Spanish PGs in his team, Raul Lopez (at that time he was as good as Calde, both were in the National Team at the same time). Two knee surgeries after, Deron arrived and that was the end of the story.
Harmstrings aren't knee surgeries, but they need a lot of time to health and can come back, so after having to play with and injured Calderon on the court because your next best PG was Parker (love the guy, but he isn't a PG), it was clear we needed a quality backup PG.
Banks isn't that guy, so Jack was the chosen one (the one we could get at the market). Also, you don't hold onto Banks, you just cannot trade his contract (4 or 5 millions for a 3rd string, a very good one and not a bad 2nd for some minutes, but still a bad contract)
And you don't trade a player when his value is down (José).
* The deal to bring Turkoglu to Toronto was a bad deal
Ok, you remember that guy, Bosh, whose contract was finishing and wanted to win: BC has never stopped trying to put a good team around him.
It's said that Raptors offered 8 millions for Ariza and the guy said no (in LA Barnes contract is 2 or 3 times cheaper than it would have been here), so the next wing they could get was Turkoglu. BC pulled a big trade, 4 teams I think. That year we were stuck with our cap space and that trade was almost magic.
Turkoglu, well, it was a fraud, no more words needed on him. But still BC could trade him for a good SG, Barbosa.
And now let me add some more:
"Anthony Parker and Garbajosa signing"
Cheap and they worked, it was a pity that Jorge injuried his leg, we could have got to the 2nd round IMO and build around it.
"Drafting Bargnani"
Lamarcus Aldrigde it's the same kind of big man without the 3 point range, and Brandon Roy knees are bone to bone right now. It looks that it wasnt that bad drafting after all.
It isn't just what you get, it's also what you give, and the difference was always positive for the Raptors. Also, GMs make trades or not and the players play or not. Don't judge a GM for what the players don't do when they are done it before.
The other option would be a GM as Larry Bird, that don't make any bets … look at the Pacers …
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Its only instruction for the pallets and orange truck..? Not the cargotruck itself.
Anyway, on the last page you can see alot of the new CITY 2014 sets?
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...and a 16x32 roadplate...?
And there's also a logging truck (60059) on the left.
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@chilis - Yes, it looks they have the same colour-scheme, perhaps the same transport-company?
I'm afraid I'm going to be broke next year, they all look very good, especially the wrecker.
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Ah... the irony. Today I went to new market with my sister (Oh Yay! Family Bonding!) because she needs to fix her laptop. We were waiting at bus stop and I started talking to her what people are like.
I told her all people are actually nice, once we get to know them. Everyone wants the same things, to be loved, and to belong. And it's actually possible to strike up a conversation with most people - as long as you keep talking and find common ground to talk about. I told her being talkative is a good trait of being confident.
Then we went to new market and although her laptop can't be fixed (woo for milk on keyboard), I learnt a lot of things.
This is what happened first. I was speaking to her in mandarin in the malls, and I was telling her how good it is to know a different language. Like we can say anything and most other people cannot understand. I proved it to her by intentionally mocking a 'white' father in front of us (only to prove my point). The father only continued talking to his son.
Then we got on the bus. When we were about to sit down, a blonde lady to the left of us was shouting at someone (we didn't hear what she said as she stopped after we sat down). Her hair was a bit messy and it looked like she was paranoid. She seemed a bit crazy then we just started talking about our encounters with crazy people (in mandarin again). We talked about how there are incidents where people in Taiwan stab people on the streets and spray acids on people's faces (it's true). There was a dark haired caucassion woman in front of us. Then I said you never know, if this was Taiwan anyone could spray acid on your office - possibly even that dark-haired lady in front of us (in mandarin).
Then we kept talking. Then suddenly that grey haired caucassion lady turned around and begun speaking to us in mandarin. I like froze there. 'Cause you know, you don't usually expect a white person to speak chinese. (Luckily she never heard the acid bit quite well...). She just asked us some questions. In fact we clicked quite well and we begun talking and she was really nice. I felt really bad about saying the spraying acid thing about her, then I realised what I said to the father at the mall wasn't really too nice either.
Then she asked where this bus went, we weren't exactly too sure... but to our surprise that 'crazy' blonde lady joined in our conversation. She gave that dark-haired lady directions very clearly and we all talked like we knew each other. She even stood up to point to the direction the dark-haired lady was meant to go when shey was getting off the bus.
The irony struck me. That morning I was still going on about how everyone was nice - yet I was the only one speaking degradatorily to people. Then a nice caucassion lady knowing mandarin and a 'crazy' lady ending up being nice and engaging to people. It proves my statement that everyone is nice, when you get to know them. It shows that we should never, never judge people. I should've known that ages ago.
On a lesser note, I ate curry today. It was nice.


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One of the first places to start looking for volunteer opportunities is UVU's Volunteer and Service Learning Center. This office maintains information on volunteer needs in the community in many different areas. There is a very good chance you will find something here that interests you.
There is always a great deal of need in our cities and counties. Check the following websites for volunteer opportunities.
A good way to gain experience in a health professions field is through volunteering. Check the following websites and/or locations for volunteer opportunities at local hospitals and clinics. Most places prefer that you begin by completing a volunteer application online, but do not be afraid to follow up with the organization.
There are many more volunteer opportunities available if you take the time to look, but this list should give you a few ideas and a great place to start. It is important that you find something you can be dedicated to and passionate about. You will find the experience that much more rewarding. And remember, you are not just checking off boxes to get into a health professions school. You are making a difference in your community and learning valuable lessons about yourself and the world around you. Enjoy it!


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Democratic embezzlement may have tipped legislative control
Did a high-ranking Democratic Party official's gambling and drinking cost his side control of the state Senate — squashing the legislative Dems' overall agenda?
No one can really know for sure. But the possibility is definitely there.
The King County Prosecutor's Office on Tuesday filed eight charges of theft against Michael W. King, former executive director of the Washington State Senate Democratic Campaign Committee. He confessed to embezzling $250,000 to $300,000 in Democratic campaign money, according to court records. No bail was requested.
In December, a recount gave the Vancouver-area 17th District's Senate seat to conservative incumbent Don Benton. He won with 71 votes over Democratic challenger Tim Probst out of roughly 55,000 votes cast. That set up a Senate spit of 26 Democrats and 23 Republicans, setting up the math that prompted disenchanted Democratic Sens. Rodney Tom of Medina and Tim Sheldon of Potlatch to switch sides to create the 25-member Majority Coalition Caucus. The coalition was the dominant force in the 2013 legislative session.
"We had a race where 71 votes won. ... I think everything makes a difference," said Sen. David Frockt, D-Seattle.
Sen. Sharon Nelson, D-Vashon Island, said: "If we had those funds, we probably could have had (extra) ads on TV, and could've helped Tim Probst."
Those two plus Senate Minority Leader and Seattle mayoral candidate Ed Murray, D-Seattle, discussed the charges and the political situation with the press Wednesday in a teleconference. The trio has co-chaired the Senate election committee since mid-2012, although Murray took his slot in the spring 2012.
The Democratic senators said the embezzled money probably would have paid for some polls —in order to cover up his thefts, King allegedly faked results of polls for which he had supposedly paid — and for television advertisements in tight races. The Benton-Probst face-off was the tightest and most critical in the 2012 state legislative elections.
Frockt said the party's six or seven biggest polls were properly conducted, but questions exist on how many auto-dialed daily tracking polls were actually conducted in last year's elections. "It's clear some of these didn't take place. We're not clear on which ones," Frockt said.
"We were intentionally given bad data," Nelson said.
King admitted to a Seattle police detective interviewing on June 5 that he stole the money, according to court records. "I did these things and I have to accept (the) consequences and I do," King told detective Keith Savas in that interview. Savas said in the records that King told him the stolen money is "probably north of $200,000, maybe you know up to $300,000."
King allegedly told Savas that he stole the money because he had gambling and drinking problems. Court records said much of the embezzled money went to Goldie's Casino in Shoreline, the Tulalip casino at Marysville and the Silver Dollar Casino in SeaTac. Murray, Frockt and Nelson said King showed no indication of any gambling and drinking problems when they dealt with him. "Michael was a trusted employee," Nelson said.
The committee's three previous co-chairpersons — Sens. Lisa Brown, D-Spokane and now retired; Derek Kilmer, D-Gig Harbor and now a U.S. Congressman; and Scott White, D-Seattle, who died in late 2011 — hired King as executive director in early 2011. His job included processing donations and reallocating that money to various campaign efforts. The police investigation covered the time from March 2011 to January 2013.
The committee's executive director traditionally did not have check-signing powers. But King asked for and received check-signing powers in February 2012, court records said. Nelson, Murray and Frockt were not consulted on that decision, said Paul Lawrence, an outside attorney that the committee hired to look into the matter.
"Suspicions of financial irregularities came to light after a review of expenditures revealed what appeared to be significant payments made by King from SDCC accounts to online polling and auto-dialing campaigns made after the November 2012 elections. ... Those payments however were made for services performed well after the November 2012 elections where the need for such services is limited," Savas wrote in the court records.
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When my cat licked his balls this morning, did that cause global warming? No one can really know for sure. But the possibility is definitely there.
Posted Fri, Sep 27, 1:18 p.m.
A neutered cat licking his balls is more sustainable than a non-neutered ball licking unfixed tomcat. Is your kitty neutered-and-therefore-sustainable, or is he a free-spirited tomcat, out proselytizing his cat manhood across the cat kingdom?
Posted Thu, Sep 26, 6:21 p.m.
Obviously, George W Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Tom Delay, Scott Walker, Dino Rossi, Rob McKenna, Tim Eyman,and the Koch Brothers conspired together and somehow got to Mr. King and made him embezzle the money.
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MKT 1033: Essentials of Marketing in the 21st Century
Books in the Main Stacks
For books you can borrow, try the following subject headings. Most of these will be on the second floor of the Library. If it's an e-book, just follow the link.
Marketing Strategies
Global Marketing
Reference Books
All reference books in Oakdale are on the first floor of the Library. Look for the start of your call number on the end of each row of shelves.
Imber, J. (2000). Dictionary of marketing terms. Hauppauge, NY : Barron's. More than 4,000 definitions cover all aspects of the advertising industry. Ref. HF5803 .T56
Jorgensen, J. (1994). Encyclopedia of consumer brands . Detroit: St. James Press. Brand origin, development, growth of manufacturing and distribution, marketing and advertising strategies, further reading. Three volumes: Consumable Products, Personal Products, Durable Goods. Ref. HF5415.3 .E527
Lewis, B.R., & Littler, D. (Eds.). (1997). Blackwell encyclopedia of management. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Pubs. This is a 12 volume set, volume 4 is a good source for explanations of marketing terms. Ref. HD30.15 .B463
Riggs, T. (Ed.). (2000). Encyclopedia of major marketing campaigns. Detroit, MI: Gale Group. "Profiles 500 of the most notable advertising and marketing initiatives of the twentieth century." Ref. HF5837 .E53 Directories, Handbooks, Industry & Product Information
Antelman, G. (Ed.). International directory of company histories. Chicago: St. James Press. A multi-volume set with two to three page histories for medium to large companies. Use the index in the last volume and choose the pages in bold for the main report. An index by industry is also included. Updated as new volumes are added. Ref. HD2721 .D36
Haig, M. (2001). E-marketing handbook: an indispensable guide to marketing your products and services on the internet. London: Kogan Page. A guide to creating a successful e-marketing plan. Ref. HF5415.1265 .H35 ''' Standard and Poor�s industry surveys'''. (2010). New York: Standard and Poor�s Corp. By broad industry, discusses current environment, industry profile (trends, how industry operates, key ratios and statistics, and how to analyze a company in the industry), comparative company analysis, industry references (Web sites, trade associations, periodicals, and market research firms). Ref. HC106.6 .H74 (Kept at the Reference Desk)
Standard directory of advertising agencies. (2002). Skokie, IL.: National Register Publishing. Listing of agencies and the products they represent. Ref. HF5805 .S781
Standard directory of advertisers. (2002). New Providence, NJ: National Register Publishers. Listing of companies and their products/brand names. Ref. HF5805 .S7714 Statistics
Market share reporter. (2006). Detroit: Gale Research. Statistics on market shares for top products and industries. Ref. HF5410 .H35
Statistical abstract of the United States. (2010). Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce. Compilation of various statistical tables from a variety of bureaus and departments of the U.S. government.
Citing Your Resources
Doing ethical research means citing sources. It is critical to credit writers for their work and their contributions to your research. To not do so is unethical and leads to plagiarism - unintentionally or not. Here are some sources to help you cite properly and to avoid the problem of plagiarism.
- Citation of Sources
This lists citation engines which help you create proper citations as well as providing information on different citation styles. - Tips on avoiding plagiarism
- Turnitin
Turnitin is a service that faculty and students use to detect and avoid plagiarism in their writing. - NoodleBib
NoodleBib is an online resource that will help you format MLA and APA bibliographies, exporting them directly to your word processing program.
Researching Online
The following databases are all available through the Library. If you're off campus, you'll need your Dowling ID to access them.
Researching a Company or an Industry
- Company Dossier from Lexis Nexis. This search will pull together an in-depth report on the company, including their financials and chief competitors.
- Hoover's will give you a history of the company, a list of their products and competitors, news and more.
- Business Source Premier Use the right-hand menu to browse through market research reports, industry profiles, country reports and more. Many of these will have an international scope.
- Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys The print Surveys were discontinued as of July 2010. For the moment (through October 24, 2010) we have online access to the Surveys as well as company information through S&P's NetAdvantage.
- Business & Company Resource Center Includes content from the International Directory of Company Histories, Market Share Reporter, and Business Rankings Annual.
- Sports Business Research Network If you're doing anything sports related, take a look at this database. Use the middle column to pick a sport and get detailed research statistics on fan participation, consumers, imports and more.
Researching newspapers, journals, magazines
- ABI Inform
- ABI Inform Trade & Industry
- Regional Business News
- Business Source Premier
- ProQuest Research Business
Use these links to search for articles in these specific magazines, journals and newspapers.
- Bloomberg BusinessWeek
- Fortune
- Harvard Business Review
- The Wall Street Journal (Eastern and Online editions)
- The New York Times
- Journal of Marketing
Web Sites
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One attractive site was where Lefthand Creek and the St. Vrain River met a dozen miles east of the foothills. Burlington had been established near there in 1862, but it wasn't much more than a way station on the stagecoach line, subject to periodic flooding by the St. Vrain. Newspapers back east began running ads urging interested parties to go to Chicago to hear about the benefits of settling in this spot. In Chicago, they learned that for only $150 they would receive a business and home lot in the new town or farmland on the outskirts.
The venture was called the Chicago-Colorado Colony, and it was an immediate success. In 1873 the settlement took the name Longmont, in honor of the explorer who'd once deemed the area "unfit for the habitation of civilized man."
The town, platted to cover one square mile, was everything its founders had envisioned: self-sufficient, prosperous, enjoying a symbiotic relationship with the area's farmers, many of whom actually lived in town and traveled to their fields. And although the town would attract other businesses and industry, that relationship between the town and its surrounding farms would continue for well over a century -- albeit to an ever-shrinking degree.
The changing relationship is reflected in two massive buildings that stand on former farmland off a main road between Hygiene and Longmont. One houses a computer disk storage manufacturing plant, the other is the new Amgen Inc. facility. The California-based drug company recently made headlines in the Longmont paper for violating its water-discharge permit.
Still, Boulder County fights to retain the agricultural heritage of the Chicago-Colorado Colony.
One goal inspiring the county's open space policy was to provide buffers, or physical separations, between communities, helping to preserve their identities. Another was aesthetic, as Boulder County residents have repeatedly voiced their approval of maintaining the agricultural feel of the region through conservation easements and buyout-to-lease policies. They've done so putting their money where their mouths are -- last year voting 70 percent in favor of extending the sales tax that funds open-space programs for another ten years.
And still another reason for the preservation of agricultural lands is the growing recognition that farmlands -- long criticized as environmental menaces -- are actually instrumental in cleaning up the effluence of cities and towns, particularly their water discharges. Municipalities put far more nitrogen into the water than farmers, for example, although farmers often take the heat for it; the only effective way to remove nitrogen from water is to let plants, which love the stuff as a fertilizer, do it. And before they were given the name "wetlands" by environmentalists, farmers recognized the importance of these uncultivated areas in both conserving and filtering the water they used to irrigate their fields. They also saw them as a "canary in a coalmine" indicator of the health of their land: If wildlife in the wetlands was healthy, then their animals and children would be, too.
Longmont officials have long understood the value of water, aggressively buying historic water rights as well as 5,000 shares of CBT water in the beginning, when shares sold for $1.50 each. In the 1960s, Longmont bought the rights to build Button Rock Reservoir on the north fork of the St. Vrain from the town of Lyons, which in turn received the right to 300 acre feet per year when the reservoir went online in 1967. And in 1986, Longmont obtained controlling interest in Union Reservoir east of town, which had previously been used as a supplemental water supply for farmers near Greeley.
Also in the 1960s, Longmont instituted a subsequently much-copied policy of requiring developers to deed over to the city any historic water rights of land they wished to have annexed; the requirement was for the right to three acre feet per year for every acre of land. Because most farmland does not come with such a large amount, it meant developers had to add non-historic water, usually CBT shares.
But despite Longmont's aggressive water policy -- designed to protect the city from a more extensive drought than in the 1930s, as well as meet future growth demands -- city officials have also been conscious of the public's concern that the agricultural heritage of the area be preserved. "We won't dry up farms," says Dale Rademacher, son of a local farm family and manager of Longmont's water department.
Some Colorado cities, particularly those surrounding Denver, in the past have purchased water rights from farms outside of their boundaries. In one 1986 case, Thornton, using a third party, secretly purchased 103 farms covering 21,000 acres in the Fort Collins-Greeley area -- where residents then worried that the land would be rendered useless for farming. After a public outcry, Thornton smoothed things over by leasing some of the land back to the farmers.
The purchase made Thornton, which is located in Adams County, the largest landowner in Weld County, where most of the purchased farms were located. "In some ways, it woke up the community to what could happen," says the water district's Werner. A resident of Fort Collins, he belonged to a committee formed by the Fort Collins Chamber of Commerce to look at ways of protecting area water suppliers from interlopers.


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9 Get you up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good news; lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Judah, "Behold your God!" | 9 You who bring good tidings to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who bring good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with a shout, lift it up, do not be afraid; say to the towns of Judah, "Here is your God!" |
10 Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might, and his arm rules for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. | 10 See, the Sovereign LORD comes with power, and his arm rules for him. See, his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him. |
11 He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms; he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young. | 11 He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young. |
12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance? | 12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance? |
13 Who has measured the Spirit of the LORD, or what man shows him his counsel? | 13 Who has understood the mind of the LORD, or instructed him as his counselor? |
14 Whom did he consult, and who made him understand? Who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding? | 14 Whom did the LORD consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught him knowledge or showed him the path of understanding? |
15 Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust. | 15 Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales; he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust. |
16 Lebanon would not suffice for fuel, nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering. | 16 Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires, nor its animals enough for burnt offerings. |
17 All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness. | 17 Before him all the nations are as nothing; they are regarded by him as worthless and less than nothing. |
18 To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him? | 18 To whom, then, will you compare God? What image will you compare him to? |
19 An idol! A craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts for it silver chains. | 19 As for an idol, a craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it. |
20 He who is too impoverished for an offering chooses wood that will not rot; he seeks out a skillful craftsman to set up an idol that will not move. | 20 A man too poor to present such an offering selects wood that will not rot. He looks for a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple. |
21 Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? | 21 Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the earth was founded? |
22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in; | 22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in. |
23 who brings princes to nothing, and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness. | 23 He brings princes to naught and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing. |
24 Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows on them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble. | 24 No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than he blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff. |
25 To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One. | 25 "To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?" says the Holy One. |
26 Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name, by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power not one is missing. | 26 Lift your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing. |
27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God"? | 27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and complain, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD; my cause is disregarded by my God"? |
28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. | 28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. |
29 He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. | 29 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. |
30 Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; | 30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; |
31 but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. | 31 but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. |
The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers. (English Standard Version - The Holy Bible Online) | Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |


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