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Latest On The Market For James Shields
With Max Scherzer off the market following a historic seven-year agreement with the Nationals, all eyes will be on top remaining free agent James Shields and agent Page Odle leading up to Spring Training. ESPN's Jayson Stark has spoken to a number of industry sources for his most recent look at Shields' market, and he lists various reasons that the industry doesn't expect Shields to end up with the Marlins, D-Backs, Blue Jays, Red Sox, Yankees, Cubs, Dodgers, Giants, Royals, Tigers, Rangers, Astros, Cardinals and Brewers (the Padres, at least, are listed as "possible, but not likely").
Of particular note from Stark is that the D-Backs are actively trying to trim their payroll, rather than add salary; the Cubs are likely to look for another big-name starter, but not until next offseason; and the chances of the Marlins signing Shields are precisely "zero," the latter of which meshes with a recent report from Grantland's Jonah Keri.
Nonetheless, one executive to whom Stark spoke said he sees jumping back into the mix for Shields. However, one of the reasons, per that exec, is that teams believe Shields will have to settle for less than the $110MM that he reportedly was offered earlier this month and are revisiting the situation with the assumption that the price has dropped. Said Stark's source, "But the problem is, now everyone is bottom-feeding. And when you're someone like him, that's the last thing you want, is a lot of teams bottom-feeding on you in late January."
Regardless of the imperfect fits that litter the market for Shields, most executives tell Stark they can't see Shields signing for anything less than $80MM over a four-year term, and nearly everyone to whom he spoke thinks that Shields could sign at virtually any time.
One club that won't be signing Shields is the Giants, it seems, based on comments made by GM Brian Sabean earlier today on KNBR radio. As KNBR scribe Dieter Kurtenbach writes, Sabean plainly stated that while his club has wiggle room to add another piece, "it's not going to be a high ticket item." Sabean explained that while the team made a run at a pair of "high ticket" items in the form of Pablo Sandoval and Jon Lester, the team made the decision to spread the money throughout the roster. As such, the club acquired Casey McGehee and Nori Aoki to fill respective holes at third base and in left field, and Jake Peavy was re-signed to add some stability to the rotation. (Of interest to Astros fans may be Sabean's statement of the fact that he believes Ryan Vogelsong is "going elsewhere as we speak," as Vogelsong is said to be nearing a deal with Houston.)
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Rangers Acquire Gonzalez Germen From Yankees
Rangers executive vice president of communication John Blake announced, on Twitter, that Texas has acquired righty Gonzalez Germen from the Yankees in exchange for cash considerations.
Germen, 27, has spent the past two seasons in the Mets' bullpen, totaling 64 2/3 innings of 4.31 ERA ball to go along with 8.9 K/9, 4.2 BB/9 and a 36.8 percent ground-ball rate. Germen throws reasonably hard — he's averaged 92.9 mph on his fastball in his big league career — but his changeup is his best pitch. As Eno Sarris of Fangraphs noted (on Twitter) shortly after the DFA, Germen posted the best swinging strike rate on his change of any pitcher in baseball last season.
The Yankees originally acquired Germen from the Mets in December in exchange for cash considerations but designated him for assignment last week after acquiring Chris Martin from the Rockies (also for cash considerations).
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Max Scherzer Close To Deal With Nationals
9:08pm: The deal is "close" but will not be completed tonight, Barry Svrluga of the Washington Post tweets.
6:54pm: Scherzer is "very close" to signing with the Nationals, although the deal is not yet done, a source tells Adam Kilgore of the Washington Post (via Twitter).
6:10pm: Max Scherzer is talking with the Nationals and one other team about a seven-year contract, reports Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com. FOX Sports' Ken Rosenthal, on Twitter, categorizes the negotiations as "close." Chris Cotillo of SB Nation tweeted earlier the impression around baseball is the Nationals will sign Scherzer, but it was unclear whether a deal was imminent. Tigers President/CEO/GM Dave Dombrowski denies Detroit is the other team, telling Anthony Fenech of the Detroit Free Press their pursuit of Scherzer is still inactive (Twitter). The New York Post's Joel Sherman tweets the Yankees are not the other team and Rosenthal reports the Red Sox, Astros, and Dodgers are also not in on Scherzer (Twitter links). The Angels aren't the mystery team, either, MLB.com's Alden Gonzalez tweets, and neither are the Giants or Cardinals, according to ESPN's Jerry Crasnick (Twitter links).
Agent Scott Boras has said it would be an ownership-level decision on whether a team will sign Scherzer and that it could be a "two-step process" – ink Scherzer and then trade another member of their rotation. Barry Svlurga of the Washington Post sees Boras pitching Nationals owner Ted Lerner the notion of signing Scherzer to win the World Series in 2015 knowing the salaries of impending free agents Ian Desmond, Jordan Zimmermann, Doug Fister, and Denard Span will be coming off the books for 2016 (Twitter links).
The Nationals have engaged multiple teams over the past few weeks in trade talks for Zimmermann, tweets FOX Sports' Jon Paul Morosi. If Scherzer signs, Zimmermann is the most likely trade candidate; but, if an acceptable offer for Zimmermann does not materialize, sources tell Morosi the Nationals will look to move Stephen Strasburg (Twitter links).
Washington, amidst reports the club has not had significant extension talks with Desmond, has discussed its All-Star shortstop with other teams, most notably the failed three-way trade involving the Mets and Rays. The Nationals also have not re-engaged Fister in extension talks since last spring and are said to be willing to listen to any trade proposals for the right-hander.
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East Notes: Rays, Yankees, Mets, Blue Jays
The Rays have made seven trades this offseason with an eye towards cutting payroll and retooling the franchise, writes Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times. "It's a little bit of a threading of the needle," said GM Matt Silverman. The trades were designed to give the 2015 product a chance to contend while improving the future of the franchise with players like Steven Souza and Daniel Robertson. The team cut payroll by about $10MM and escaped $12.5MM of future commitments. A possible trade of David DeJesus could trim costs by another $5MM. Here's more from the eastern divisions.
- With so many bad contracts on the books, it's hard for the Yankees to swallow a big ticket purchase like Max Scherzer, writes Ken Davidoff of the New York Post. The Bombers have about $210MM committed to the 2015 product. More importantly, there are few roster spots for available for expensive free agents. Every big contract takes away from the roster's flexibility. Based on the argument, my own conclusion is that the Yankees have to develop at least some young, cost-controlled stars.
- Across town, the Mets have a payroll less than half that of the Yankees, yet they've done nothing to solve their supposed problem at shortstop. Wilmer Flores is the expected starter, although the club also has Ruben Tejada under contract. Of the major free agents, Hanley Ramirez signed to play outfield for the Red Sox while Jed Lowrie, Asdrubal Cabrera, and Stephen Drew don't project to be much better than Flores. Flores will play on a league minimum contract and possesses growth potential. And as Davidoff notes, Flores is projected to be roughly league average by FanGraphs. For what it's worth, I haven't understood the fascination with bringing in a replacement for Flores and Tejada. The club appears to be better off at the position than half the league.
- The Blue Jays are expected to feature three Canadian born players in the everyday lineup, writes Gregor Chisholm of MLB.com. While that doesn't really affect the 2015 product in any obvious way, it could have long reaching ripple effects. Russell Martin noted how fellow Canadian Larry Walker inspired him when he was younger. With players like Martin, Michael Saunders, and Dalton Pompey now in the fold, Canadian youngsters have more talented ballplayers to emulate.
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Players Avoiding Arbitration: Friday
With the deadline to exchange arbitration figures set for noon CT, there figure to be a large number of agreements to avoid arb today, as there were yesterday. All arbitration agreements can be followed using MLBTR's Arbitration Tracker, and we'll keep track of today's smaller agreements in this post, with all projections coming courtesy of MLBTR contributor Matt Swartz…
- Righty Henderson Alvarez agreed to a $4MM deal with the Marlins, Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com reported earlier today on Twitter. Alvarez had been projected to earn $4.5MM after putting up a huge 187-inning, 2.65 ERA campaign entering his first season of arb eligibility.
- The Athletics have agreed to a $1.4MM deal with righty Ryan Cook that includes, MLB.com's Jane Lee reports on Twitter. Cook gets a slight increase over the $1.3MM he had been projected to earn. Oakland has also inked outfielder Sam Fuld to a $1.75MM deal, per Mike Perchik of WAPT (via Twitter). He too lands just above his projection, which was for $1.6MM.
- Outfielder Collin Cowgill avoided arbitration with the Angels for $995K, MLB.com's Alden Gonzalez tweets. He was projected to earn $900K.
- Righties David Carpenter and Nathan Eovaldi both have deals with the Yankees, Andy Martino of the New York Daily News reports on Twitter. Carpenter will earn about $1.3MM while Eovaldi will take home $3.3MM
- The Rockies have a deal in place with lefty Rex Brothers, tweets MLB.com's Thomas Harding. Brothers was projected to earn $1.3MM but will take home $1.4MM, Harding adds via Twitter.
- ESPN Chicago's Jesse Rogers reports that the Cubs have settled with both Travis Wood and Luis Valbuena (Twitter links). Wood will receive $5.686MM — a bit north of his $5.5MM projection, while Valbuena will earn $4.2MM, per Bruce Miles of the Daily Herald (on Twitter). Valbuena was projected to earn $3.1MM.
- Mike Perchick of WAPT in New Jersey has a wave of arbitration agreements, starting with the Astros and Hank Conger settling on a $1.075MM, which is just $25K behind Swartz's projection (Twitter link).
- Also via Perchick, the Athletics and Brett Lawrie settled on a $1.925MM contract (Twitter links). Lawrie, who had been projected at $1.8MM, was acquired by Oakland in the Josh Donaldson blockbuster.
- Rockies backstop Michael McKenry will earn $1.0876MM in 2015, via Perchick. McKenry was projected by Swartz to earn $1.5MM.
- Michael Pineda and the Yankees settled on a $2.1MM salary for the upcoming season, Perchick tweets, which is a direct match with Swartz's projection.
- Domonic Brown and the Phillies settled on a one-year pact worth $2.6MM, via Perchick, which represents a difference of just $100K between Swartz's projection and the actual figure. Jim Salisbury of CSNPhilly.com tweets that Ben Revere has avoided arbitration as well, and the club now announces that he'll earn $4.1MM — $100K north of his $4MM projection.
- Red Sox setup man Junichi Tazawa agreed to a $2.25MM payday, according to Perchick. Swartz had pegged him for a $2MM contract.
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Yankees Designate Eury Perez For Assignment
The Yankees announced that they have designated outfielder Eury Perez for assignment in order to clear a 40-man roster spot for infielder Stephen Drew, whose one-year deal is now official.
The Yankees claimed Perez off waivers from the Nationals in late September, and the 24-year-old went 2-for-10 with a pair of singles in a brief cameo with the Bombers late in the season. Perez has just 23 big league plate appearances and a .174/.174/.174 batting line to show for it, but he possesses a well-regarded glove and blistering speed in center field. In 844 PAs at the Triple-A level, he's a career .310/.354/.411 hitter with eight homers and 63 steals (in 79 attempts).
Free Agent Notes: Scherzer, Aoki, Giants, Olivera, Everth
The free agent market for Max Scherzer has been anything but traditional, writes MLB.com's Mike Bauman. As Bauman notes, the dearth of clubs that have acknowledged interest in Scherzer is particularly peculiar, as is the fact that there have been little to no leaks of serious interest. Meanwhile, ESPN's Jim Bowden (Insider required) spoke to a number of GMs, assistant GMs, managers, players and agents trying to pin down Scherzer's market. As Bowden writes, while he often came up empty, that doesn't necessarily mean much, as Scherzer is an ownership-level decision, and not all owners don't always keep the front office in the loop. Beyond that, many owners consider Scherzer's exorbitant price tag a final option of sorts and will only relent once it becomes clear that a potentially more affordable alternative — e.g. a trade for Cole Hamels, Jordan Zimmermann or Johnny Cueto — is not possible. Bowden lists the Tigers, Red Sox, Dodgers, Yankees, Nationals, Marlins, Giants and Blue Jays as theoretical fits, noting that he doesn't expect the latter two would make an offer. The Tigers are still the favorites in Bowden's eyes, while multiple Yankees officials would "love" to have Scherzer (despite the club's public and private denials). He adds that the Nationals could conceivably sign Scherzer if they move Zimmermann and/or Ian Desmond for younger pieces, knowing each has just one remaining year on his contract and has rebuffed the team's previous efforts at working out a long-term deal.
Some more free agent notes from around the league…
- In addition to the Braves and Orioles, the Giants are also a potential fit for outfielder Nori Aoki, tweets Jon Heyman of CBS Sports. To this point, the Giants have yet to address their left field hole and have had a largely quiet offseason — though not for lack of trying. The Giants made serious pursuits of both Pablo Sandoval and Jon Lester, but after missing out on each have acquired Casey McGehee via trade and re-signed Jake Peavy.
- Speaking of the Giants' quiet offseason, MLB.com's Chris Haft points out that history has shown the team is capable of adding help even as late in the offseason as mid-January. As Haft points out, both Aubrey Huff and Bengie Molina were mid-January signs back in 2010. He opines that a reunion with Ryan Vogelsong — whom Haft notes very much wants to return to San Francisco — makes so much sense that it's surprising it hasn't happened at this point. Though there's some understandable frustration from Giants fans, Haft notes, there's plenty of time for an addition or two.
- The Athletics will be among the clubs to watch Hector Olivera's upcoming showcase in the Dominican Republic, writes Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports, who finds a matchup between the two sides very plausible. Adding Olivera to the fold would allow the team to play Ben Zobrist in the outfield, with Marcus Semien manning shortstop and Olivera at second. Olivera, 29, still needs clearance from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control and Major League Baseball before he can sign.
- Everth Cabrera was scheduled for a readiness hearing Wednesday of this week, but his attorney has requested a continuance until March 23 due to pending trial matters in another case, reports Dennis Lin of the San Diego Union-Tribune. As such, Cabrera's jury trial is now set for April 13 (depending on the outcome of the readiness hearing). Cabrera faces up to a year in jail time if he is convicted with a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest. The delay in the hearing is particularly poor news for Cabrera, who had hoped to ink a big league deal at some point this offseason.
- Lastly, a pair of minor free agent notes: Mike Berardino of the St. Paul Pioneer Press tweets that the Twins never made an effort to re-sign Anthony Swarzak before he signed with Cleveland today, while MLB.com's Jason Beck tweets that the Tigers did make Andy Dirks an offer after he was non-tendered by Toronto. However, Detroit's acquisition of Yoenis Cespedes led Dirks to return to the Blue Jays, where he felt he had a better opportunity to make the team and pick up more at-bats.
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East Notes: Yankees, Rays, Moore, DeJesus, Duquette, Desmond, Kimbrel, Braves
The Yankees may not have stowed away their checkbook, as MLB.com's Barry Bloom reports. Owner Hal Steinbrenner told reporters yesterday that time remained for moves. "It's not over until it's over," he said. "We still have a full month before Spring Training. … [W]e're still the New York Yankees, all you guys know that. We know what the fans expect. We know what the town expects. We're not going to be afraid to spend money."
- If the Yankees are still the Yankees, then so too are the Rays still the Rays. As Andrew Astleford of FOX Sports Florida writes, trading away Ben Zobrist is just the latest reminder of the team's continued strategies. "These trades are difficult, but they're a necessary part of how we operate," said president of baseball operations Matthew Silverman.
- One other hallmark of the Rays method is early-career extensions, and one area of risk in such deals is injury, especially for pitchers. Lefty Matt Moore, who is controllable through 2019 under just such a contract, lost virtually all of last season due to Tommy John surgery. He is in a good physical and mental state, tweets Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times, and hopes to return to the mound soon while building toward a return to the roster this coming June.
- Topkin also wonders (via Twitter) whether the Braves and Rays could be a match on outfielder David DeJesus. The veteran is owed $5MM this year and a $1MM buyout on a 2016 option, which makes him a reasonably priced target but also does not leave him with a ton of trade value.
- Though Orioles owner Peter Angelos threw cold water yesterday on the idea that momentum was building toward a deal that would result in executive VP Dan Duquette taking over the Blue Jays' front office, Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports says that the possibility still remains. If nothing else, Duquette wants the job in Toronto, per the report, which chalks up the Angelos statement to negotiating tactics.
- The Mets should make a hard push to acquire shortstop Ian Desmond from the Nationals, Rosenthal argues in the same piece. The recently-acquired Yunel Escobar provides an alternative to Desmond in D.C., and Rosenthal suggests that including Daniel Murphy and adding prospect value could make the trade palatable for the Nats. While I would not write off the idea entirely, it would seem likely that the Nationals would demand a particularly significant return to move Desmond to a rising division rival.
- Staying in the division, Rosenthal says that the Braves should deal away closer Craig Kimbrel. The righty is an expensive luxury for a non-contending team, says Rosenthal, who does note that the club might get better value for him at the trade deadline. That may well be, but it would be interesting to see what teams would give up now for one of the game's most dominant arms; I'm guessing quite a bit. For its part, Atlanta is "optimistic about the coming season" and has no interest in dealing away Kimbrel, MLB.com's Mark Bowman tweets.
- The ship has sailed at this point, of course, but Mark Bradley of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution opines that the Braves may not have been in need of such a dramatic renovation. While the plan to re-build around young pitching obviously makes sense directionally, Bradley argues that the team now looks destined to be rather dreadful for the next season or two and wonders whether a less drastic plan could have been pursued.
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Players Avoiding Arbitration: Wednesday
We'll keep track of the day's smaller arbitration deals in this post, with all projections mentioned referring to those of MLBTR contributor Matt Swartz. Here's the latest…
- Kristie Rieken of the Associated Press tweets that the Astros have avoided arbitration with Chris Carter, settling on a one-year, $4.175MM pact. Carter, 28, cut back on his strikeout rate to an extent in 2014 (it still checked in at 31.8 percent), but the real improvement came in terms of his power production. The slugger finished with 37 home runs, trailing only Nelson Cruz and tying him with Giancarlo Stanton for second in the Majors in long balls. His elite power served him well, as Swartz's projection model had him ticketed for $3.5MM.
- In addition to avoiding arb with Drew Stubbs (link) and Tyler Chatwood (who inked a two-year deal), the Rockies have also avoided arb with right-hander Jordan Lyles, tweets Jon Heyman of CBS Sports. Lyles will earn a salary of $2.475MM in 2015, per Heyman. A client of Palmetto Sports Group, Lyles enjoyed a nice season with the Rockies that was shortened, to an extent, by a fractured broken left hand (his non-throwing hand). Still, the 24-year-old worked 126 1/3 innings, posting a career-best 4.33 ERA with 6.4 K/9, 3.3 BB/9 and an excellent 51.7 percent ground-ball rate. Lyles' performance prior to the injury — 3.52 ERA, 3.76 xFIP — was markedly better than his post-injury performance, though the discrepancy between his post-injury ERA (5.31) and xFIP (4.23) indicates that there could be further improvement. He had been projected to receive $2.5MM.
- The Yankees have announced a deal to avoid arbitration with righty Ivan Nova. He will earn $3.3MM, per a tweet from the New York Post's Joel Sherman. That sum also matches Nova's salary from 2014, unsurprisingly, as he missed most of the season due to Tommy John surgery after struggling out of the gate. Nova, who just turned 28, had a highly productive 2013 campaign (3.10 ERA in 139 1/3 frames). Though he posted significant innings totals in prior years, he had never put together a season like that in terms of both results and peripherals (3.47 FIP). All said, it was an easy call for New York to roll the dice on Nova's rehabilitation.
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A intimate account of dad's quest to know his special-needs son
Buzz Bissinger's "Father's Day: A Journey into the Mind & Heart of My Extraordinary Son" presents a classic story archetype: a father and son set off on a cross-country trip, where they begin to know and understand one another for the first time. The father in this case is Bissinger himself, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of "Friday Night Lights," an account of Texas high school football that became the basis of both a film and a popular television drama. The son is Zach Bissinger, a cognitively disabled man in his mid-20s who speaks in nonstop non sequiturs, can name and give the birthday of every person he has ever met, and memorizes maps to a degree that his family refers to him as a "human GPS." Their 10-day road trip across America in 2007 is the backdrop for a brutally honest account of Bissinger's attempt to understand the adult his special-needs child has become.
As a divorced father and an increasingly busy, successful journalist, Bissinger felt himself growing distant from Zach, even as he bonded with his other two sons through ball games and special trips to Europe. Bissinger found himself ill-equipped to accept Zach's likely future, where the best he might hope for was bagging groceries or working in a mail room. Watching Zach sleep as a child, Bissinger wished that he "could crawl inside him without ever waking him and reach into the marbled matter of the brain to reattach a wire here and a wire there, a couple of broken strands that just needed splicing, red to red, yellow to yellow, blue to blue." He kept hoping his son would reach an "island of normalcy," at the same time knowing it would be impossible.
Against this backdrop father and son set out in a rented minivan on what Bissinger has called in a recent interview "the worst route ever taken in America." Since Zach displays no response to natural wonders or tourist attractions but remembers every person he has met, and literally every street of every city in which he has lived, Bissinger chooses a route that intersects the various places they have lived, together and separately, with time left over for an amusement park and Las Vegas.
In the process of explaining Zach and his condition, Bissinger provides a fascinating history of the effects of premature birth. He also recounts the history of the savant and the 19th century discovery that premature babies can develop into adults who, though otherwise incapable of complicated thought, become accomplished artists and pianists. With a style and journalistic skill reminiscent of Oliver Sacks in his chronicles of the human brain, Bissinger explains how the most interesting aspect of savant behavior is that it defies clinical explanation — the savant brain is different, but no one can say quite how.
Because Zach speaks without inflection or pause, and because Bissinger recorded the entire trip on tape, his exchanges with his son are richly portrayed, alternatively humorous and heartbreaking. Ultimately, what Bissinger comes to realize through a series of mishaps — and through his own and Zach's responses to them — is that Zach has adjusted to his world and accepted it in a way that many people, especially Bissinger himself, would envy. "We assume people like Zach have no interior, that they're embalmed in concrete, working rudimentary jobs," he writes. "They just exist in the tiny Gaza Strip that is given over to the different and the disabled, shunted away behind the psychic fence that we Normals have erected out of unease or disdain." Instead, he learns that Zach's interior is rich indeed, if not in the way that most parents would expect or understand. For the first time Bissinger seems truly to accept his son.
"Father's Day" is likely to become a must-read for any parent of a child with special needs, and may well become a heartwarming film shelved next to "Rain Man." More than all of that, however, Bissinger has written a book that will speak to all parents and children who hope to understand one another, who wish to break the barriers placed between families by unrealized expectations and unfulfilled dreams.
Who: Buzz Bissinger will discuss 'Father's Day'
Where: Southern Festival of Books, War Memorial Auditorium, Nashville
When: 1:30 p.m. Oct. 13
Admission: Free
To read an uncut version of this interview—and more local book coverage—visit http://chapter16.org/, an online publication of Humanities Tennessee.

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I am writing some code and I am getting a strange error: my for loop does not seem to exit when the condition statement becomes false. The code is as follows:
static void wstrcpy_from_Py_UNICODE(Py_UNICODE *inBuf, Py_ssize_t strLength, wchar_t **outBuf)
if (strLength == 0) *outBuf = NULL;
Py_ssize_t i;
wprintf(L"String Length: %d\n", strLength);
*outBuf = (wchar_t *)malloc (sizeof (wchar_t) * (strLength +1));
for (i=0; i < strLength; i++)
wprintf("i:%d, strLength:%d\n", i, strLength);
(*outBuf)[i] = (wchar_t)(inBuf[i]);
wprintf(L"i < strLength: %d\n\n", i < strLength);
/* Make sure new string is zero terminated */
(*outBuf)[i] = L'\0';
When running this code with an example input, (The Py_UNICODE * buffer points to the internal unicode python object made with u"example") I get the following output:
String Length: 7
i:0, strLength: 7
i < strLength: 1
i:1, strLength: 7
i < strLength: 1
i:2, strLength: 7
i < strLength: 1
i:3, strLength: 7
i < strLength: 1
i:4, strLength: 7
i < strLength: 1
i:5, strLength: 7
i < strLength: 1
i:6, strLength: 7
i < strLength: 1
i:7, strLength: 7
i < strLength: 1
i:8, strLength: 7
i < strLength: 1
The loop doesn't exit until the python interpreter the code is running from (I am wrapping a c module for python) crashes.
The printf's were put in for debugging.
I am compiling this on Mac OSX 10.6, here are the commands I am using to compile:
gcc -c source.c -I/usr/include/python2.6 -I/usr/lib/python2.6
ld -bundle -flat_namespace -undefined suppress -o out.so source.o -F./ -framework some_framework -macosx_version_min 10.6 -rpath ./
As you can see I am linking in the framework that I am making the python wrapper for. This is not a problem as I can call the functions just fine that use the linked framework, just when I call the function that uses the helper function shown above do I get the problem.
Am I being stupid here and doing something very basic wrong or is something wrong with the compiler? Any help would be much appreciated!


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Somebody's thinking mighty highly of himself:
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) took a shot at Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) during an interview published Friday by The Weekly Standard, saying the younger lawmaker is "not quite ready" to be President.
Graham did, however, offer an alternative: himself.
Graham told the magazine he began questioning Rubio's ability as a candidate after working with him on a Senate immigration bill.
"He's a good guy, but after doing immigration with him — we don't need another young guy not quite ready," Graham said. "He's no [President Barack] Obama by any means, but he's so afraid of the right, and I've let that go."
Don't you just hate it when these tired old queens get all prissy and catty? It's so tacky.
HT to Luke Yankee for the title.
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Bob and my mom conspired to add to the orchid collection for my birthday.
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A Little Night Music
I spent the afternoon seeing the sights of Cincinnati from the front seat of my sister's car. It's really become a nice place since I last saw it, which was about the time WKRP in Cincinnati was on the air.
I did not know until now that there was a full-length version of the immortal theme song.
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Of course this was what they played as the recessional at graduation forty years ago today… but not with as much fun and flag-waving.
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A Little Night Music
If music be the food of love…
Thursday, April 17, 2014
First Drive
To commemorate the 50th anniversary today of the introduction of the Ford Mustang, I thought I'd share with you a little bit from the epic novel-in-progress Bobby Cramer.
In a previous post I told you how he got his father's 1966 Mustang GT convertible as a graduation present. Now he's taking it out for its first drive.
The scene is Perrysburg, Ohio. The time is May 1980. Bobby is 18.
He only stalled the car once while turning around in the parking area in front of the house. He looked to see if his father was still watching, but he'd already gone back into the house. He slowly went up the driveway and made it out onto River Road without another stall.
The Mustang felt nothing like driving the Cadillac. The growl of the engine and the whistle of the wind through the car made it feel like he was actually driving instead of floating on a cloud. He turned on the radio, found a rock station, and cranked it up.
He heard the rustle of paper from the back seat and glanced back to see a white envelope fluttering around. He reached back, grabbed it, and stuffed it under his leg. When he got to the stoplight on West Boundary Street, he pulled it out. It was addressed to "Mustang Bobby." He chuckled and stuffed it in his back pocket.
He pulled into the Marathon station on the corner of Indiana Avenue and Elm Street. Filling the tank took cost almost fifteen dollars and Bobby wondered what the gas mileage was on a car like his.
At the next pump, a middle-aged woman was filling her Pontiac Le Mans. It was red with a black vinyl top. The lady smiled at Bobby and said, "That's a beautiful car." Bobby grinned. "Thanks!"
He drove out Louisiana Avenue, across the I-75 overpass, and out into the country. He was now on McCutcheonville Road and it led straight southeast as if it had been drawn by a huge ruler, past fields and houses, the wind carrying the scent of fresh earth, cut grass, and the occasional whiff of exhaust from the tractors chugging through the rows. Corn had been planted in a lot of the fields and the green stalks were already up in their rows that flashed by with dizzying precision.
There was very little traffic, and when the road was clear and he was sure there were no Wood County sheriffs cars to be seen, he pressed the accelerator, moving the needle past 55, then 65, then 75 before letting up and coasting back to the limit. The car felt solid, handling the bumps in the pavement with ease.
He drove ten miles, turning west on Sugar Ridge Road, then proceeded at a leisurely pace to the tiny town of Sugar Ridge, passing a tractor towing a hay wagon, waving at the teenager standing on the wagon. Bobby caught a glimpse of the boy in t-shirt, jeans, and a baseball cap, and remembered the kid he'd seen last Christmas selling Christmas trees in the parking lot. The boy waved back.
He made his way along the back roads, cutting back west until he came out to Haskins Road, which he knew led back home, and less than an hour after he left he parked the Mustang in the driveway in front of the house.
He read Jill's letter sitting on the porch. Her handwriting was firm but graceful on the lined notebook paper, and she started out right away.
Mustang Bobby –
If you're reading this for the first time, you've probably already taken the Mustang out for a joyride and cruised through your burg like the total badass I know you're not. I hope you had a good time anyway.
Damn if I don't miss you already. The place isn't the same without you and G hanging out here and lowering the class rating on Sully's by a notch. Josh is busy as hell with finals even though they don't mean anything and I don't care because unless a miracle happens I'm not getting into Smith… as if I'd go there anyway. Graduation next week will be a total waste and I plan to get wasted to go along with it. Not really… seen enough of that in dear old dad and don't need to carry on that family tradition.
I meant what I said about you meeting someone. Don't wait for him to find you. Find your kindred spirit and make the first move. I want a full report when you do.
Thanks again for everything, Bobby. And thanks for introducing me to Garrett. Now it's your turn.
Hugs – JM
My real first drive in my first Mustang was in April 1969 with my dad coming home from Brondes Ford where we'd bought it. That was a fun drive, too.
Friday, April 4, 2014
A Little Night Music
"Let's try one more once…."


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My Green American Dream. ~ Kelly Brichta
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How can Americans disregard the rest of the world when we┬Ālive┬Āin such a globalized society?
The American Dream? Let's take it┬Āglobal.
Everyone is impacting the environment worldwide, one way or anotherŌĆöit is all interconnected. I use the term ŌĆ£environmentŌĆØ to include all people and to avoid separation that humans give between ourselves and the term.
Many people concern themselves with themselves. However, with the world becoming considerably smaller through this interconnectedness, one's actions can now influence the globe more easily.
To begin, the American Dream changes with each individual, most often deriving from the ideas of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The stereotypical image that pops into many peopleŌĆÖs minds is the big house with a white picket fence and a generous, steady income.
Should we be considering a Global Dream? What would such a dream even look like? Of course, it would vary with such drastic diversity among countries, but what would be the role of an American in such a case?
Our role is to take responsibility and be aware.
Awareness is a key factor in our decision-making and for the possibility towards positive change. With positive change, we will make significant change. We will rely less on fossil fuels and other factors contributing to climate change. Therefore, we will prevent refugees from deserting their homelands and relocating their livelihood.
How does this even relate to the American Dream? I can only speak for myself.
My┬ĀGreen American Dream┬Ādoes not consist of a large house filled with unnecessary material wants because I am aware that most of it will end up in a landfill that will take┬Āgenerations┬Āto decompose.
My┬ĀGreen American Dream┬Ādoes not equate success to income because success, to me, is achieved through my impacts on the environment and interpersonal relations.
My┬ĀGreen American Dream┬Ādoes, however, consist of education. Although, I do hope to receive a formal education, it more importantly, includes the┬Āeducation┬ĀI receive through experiences and other people. It also includes the education I┬Ācan provide┬Āothers┬Āthrough conversation.
My┬ĀGreen American Dream┬Ādoes consist of spreading awareness and bringing important global issues, such as┬Āclimate change, to people's attention so they change their behaviors and make environmentally sound decisions.
My┬ĀGreen American Dream┬Āconsiders life, liberty and the pursuit of┬Āhappiness, but with the consciousness of my influence on the global scale.
What can you change within your own dream to make it a little bit greener?
┬ĀKelly Brichta is a freshman attending the University of Colorado at Boulder, majoring in Environmental Studies. Also an artist, she spreads awareness through her work. Her desire to reach a broader audience is what currently drives her to reach the ultimate goal of environmental documentary filmmaking. Kelly is an avid learner whose curiosity will hopefully lead her to many surmounted discoveries. If you wish to do so, follow her on twitter or view some of her art.
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Saudi Arabia and Qatar funding Syrian rebels
Saudi Arabia and Qatar are paying salaries to rebel forces fighting in the Syrian revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, an Arab diplomat said on Saturday.
June 24, 2012 9:53 by Reuters
Saudi Arabia and Qatar are paying salaries to rebel forces fighting in the Syrian revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, an Arab diplomat said on Saturday.
"The payment has been going on for months and the agreement was made on April 2 by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, with logistical organisation from Turkey where some Free Syrian Army factions are based," said the source, who requested anonymity.
"The point of this is to encourage as many factions of the Syrian army to defect and to organize the FSA, control it and prevent any extremist organizations from joining it."
A spokesman for Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry said on Saturday he was not aware of reports that the kingdom was funding Syrian rebels.
The United Nations says more than 10,000 people have been killed since violence broke out after Syrian government forces began a crackdown on pro-democracy protesters over a year ago.
Syria says at least 2,600 members of its military and security forces have been killed by what it calls foreign-backed "Islamist terrorists".
Western and Arab states, meeting on April 1, called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to adopt a peace plan brokered by special envoy Kofi Annan, withdraw his troops from Syrian cities and allow access for humanitarian aid.
They made no mention of arming the FSA but said they would "continue to work on additional appropriate measures with a view to the protection of the Syrian people".
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said her government was supplying "communications equipment that will help activists organize, evade attacks by the regime and connect to the outside world" and was "discussing with other nations how best to expand this support".
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350,000 students are still out of school in Chicago. The Teachers Union called what the Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel referred to as a "strike of choice". The Mayor did not stop there, he added "And it's the wrong choice for children." The Mayor is correct. However, the right choice is school choice. Continue Reading
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I agree with practically everything you said, the one thing that would still concern me if everything went the way you stated. That concern would be the Church taking taxpayer money for the parents choice of a Parochial school over the "public school" since it would be paid by taxpayers contributions, which would then allow the Government to have a say in the schools overall rules and regulations. It would give the government to much say in the way we run the schools and I think the government needs to stay out of the Religious institutions/schools. That's been the problem between the Churches and the State. You have the State controlling social issues or social charities you give them the power to rule against them. Those who feed from the troth will be forced to take what is given. Time to wake up!
2 years ago
Where are all the "compassionate and tolerant" liberals who believe in "choice?" Their problem is not that school choice is a threat to good governance, but it is a threat to government control over the minds of our impressionable children.
2 years ago
Kasoy, I agree, I do believe that if parents would like to send their children elsewhere, then their taxes should be cut accordingly so no tax credit etc has to given in the first place. I just wish there was a way to accomplish this without hurting the kids who remain. I think a strong public education system, if done properly, could be a huge asset to this country. Today that is very questionable.
2 years ago
This is the same comment I wrote in another article here on the same topic: The Fed is spending $10,540/student when some parents pay lower tuition to send their kids to Catholic schools. Isn't it time to wean the Fed out of public school funding? Either it could give vouchers or tax credit to parents who opt to place their kids in private school or home schooling. Our grandkids can get better education and moral values in Catholic schools. Deacon, you hit it right on the head!
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Prep Basketball: NIC-10: Titans move into first after win over East
By Matt Nestor
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With several key players joining the team after the start of the season because of football, the Rockford Boylan Titans are still trying to find their identity as a team.
That is scary news for the rest of the NIC-10. Boylan jumped out to a 19-point first-quarter lead and cruised in for a 76-63 victory at Rockford East Dec. 16.
"We're incredibly inexperienced," Boylan Head Coach Mike Winters said. "But the good news is we're finding ways to win with that inexperience, which is positive."
The Titans got out to a quick start in the first. A combination of two quick fouls by East's Steve McNease and great early execution allowed Ben Grygiel to score 8 of his 14 points and Dean Lowry to score 6 of his 10 points in the first quarter.
"I couldn't be more proud of our first-quarter effort and, really, the first 10 minutes," Winters said. "We really took them out of their game offensively with our defense and created a lot of easy baskets as a result."
From there, East settled in and started attacking on defense. The E-Rabs tried to use their depth and speed to their advantage, and it worked at times, allowing them to cut the deficit to 10 several times.
But as the game increased in speed, the Titans' Adonis Brown stepped up his game. The senior scored 27 points to lead all scorers, including 6 in the second quarter and 16 in the second half.
"When Adonis decides to make the simple play in the lane and get strong and finish, he's a heck of an athlete and can put the ball in the basket," Winters said. "He maybe understands those situations a little bit more having more time in varsity games, and we really need to lean on him to make those great decisions in the open floor."
As the game wore on, it did look like East may finally be wearing the Titans down. The lead was cut down to 11 again in the fourth as the E-Rabs created a lot of turnovers.
Darshawn Pumphrey-King put in 7 of his 24 points in the fourth quarter to keep it close. But East, which shot 35 percent on the night, could not take advantage of the turnovers to cut the lead down any more.
"Our hardest opponent is us," East Head Coach Roy Sackmaster said. "We can't make a shot to save our lives right now. Even though (Boylan) had some trouble turning the ball over, they are going to make their layups."
Things weren't all rosy for the Titans. They did struggle with turnovers and made only 13 of 31 free throws. But all things considered at this point, the Titans will take the wins how they can get them.
"Some of the free throws is still a little bit of legs," Winters said. "We can't keep using that excuse. But the fact of the matter is we are three weeks behind, and it shows offensively at times."
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• The NIC-10 race is suddenly wide open after the Rockton Hononegah Indians knocked off the Rockford Auburn Knights 39-36. Jarred Morris knocked down four threes, and Carlos Hendrix hit a late 3-pointer to tie the game. The win moves Hononegah into a four-way tie with Auburn and Boylan. For the Knights, it was their first conference loss since February of 2010. Fred Van Vleet scored 13, but LaMark Foote struggled with only 3 points.
• Freeport is the fourth member of the tie at the top after they outlasted Rockford Jefferson in a 48-37 slugfest. Luke Norman led all scorers with 16 points and Devin Best chipped in 12 points for the Pretzels. Jefferson was able to bounce back with a 58-47 non-conference win over Algonquin Jacobs the following night.
• Maurice Jackson scored 18, and Kane Steger had 12 as Belvidere stayed a game out of first with a 70-68 upset over Machesney Park Harlem. Jordan Baxter scored 20 for Harlem, but the Bucs were able to limit Michael Proscia to only 10 points.
• Belvidere North could not follow up their big win over Harlem as Juwan Hubbard and the Rockford Guilford Vikings picked up their first conference win of the season, knocking off the Blue Thunder 79-64.
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The Giants' No. 9 prospect went 4-for-4 with a homer, a double, two RBIs and two runs scored Monday as Double-A Richmond defeated Bowie, 5-4.
Dominguez, who batted .266 with 18 homers between Class A Advanced and Double-A last year, is hitting .556 through five games this season.
"I think that it has a lot to do with going to big league camp," he said. "I got started a bit earlier than normal. Watching those guys work and being able to work with them really helped me out this year."
Dominguez started his day with a single in the first inning that plated Tommy Joseph, then led off the fourth with a solo home run. He followed with a one-out double in the sixth, leaving him a triple shy of the cycle with one more plate appearance guaranteed.
He did get a hit in his fourth and final at-bat, but it wasn't a three-bagger. Instead, he concluded his day with a single to lead off the eighth.
"Our manager [Dave Machemer] had said something about that. He said, 'Hit a triple,' but it's hard to go up looking for a triple," Dominguez said. "The ballpark is not relatively big and I'm not the fastest guy in the world, but it was definitely going through my head."
A third-round selection in 2009, Dominguez wasn't just working on his hitting Monday. Though he has played third base throughout his Minor League career, he made his third start of the year in left field as the organization looks to increase his versatility.
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PHILADELPHIA — Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin are taking their rivalry to the Beijing Olympics, where it will have golden overtones.
Johnson and Liukin earned guaranteed spots on the U.S. women's gymnastics team Sunday night after finishing 1-2 at the Olympic trials — the same places they had at the national championships two weeks ago.
"We looked at each other for the longest time," Liukin said. "Shawn said to me, 'Can you believe it?' She's like, 'We made it.' I don't know. It's so crazy. Everything's gone by so fast. Sitting here being an Olympian, it's just amazing. I don't even have the words. It's a dream come true."
The remaining four members of the team and three alternates will be named after a July 20 selection camp at the Karolyi ranch in Houston. The training squad for the final selection camp is Chellsie Memmel, Samantha Peszek, Jana Bieger, Chelsea Davis, Ivana Hong, Mattie Larson, Corrie Lothrop, Alicia Sacramone, Bridget Sloan and Shayla Worley.
Memmel continues to make her case, finishing second in the all-around Sunday night and third overall — just as she did at nationals two weeks ago.
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The American team: returnees Paul and Morgan Hamm, as well as first-timers Joe Hagerty, Jonathan Horton, Justin Spring, and Kevin Tan.
The three alternates are Raj Bhavsar — who missed automatically qualifying on Saturday by 0.09 of a point — Alexander Artemev, and David Durante.
Even now, however, at least one major question remains: Will Paul Hamm's broken hand be healthy enough by July 22, when he must prove to the selection committee he can compete in Beijing on Aug. 9?
"Paul's hand is still up in the air," said Bhavsar, who also was an alternate in 2004 and who likely would replace Hamm should America's top male gymnast be unable to go. "My job is to stay ready."
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"It's tremendous," Kemper said. "This is what we live for. I'm a very blessed boy."
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You may remember last month we discussed the best opening title sequences from TV shows. That was fun! There are so many good ones, so many more than ten! So I thought it would be fun to do that again, but with opening MOVIE credits. These have to be even more special, I think, because it's not like you see them every week. Unless you watch the movie every week, which I assume you do not. Generally you see them once or twice or however many times you watch the movie, and then they either stick with you because they are the besssssst or they don't because they are the woooooorst. I'm basically a film/art critic first and then a blog writer/youtube clip gatherer second, is what I'm trying to say. So let's talk about some of them that are THE BEST! I can hardly wait.
Blue Valentine
I love this title sequence! I thought Blue Valentine was a very good movie, not the best movie I've ever seen in my life but very good nonetheless, but something that really stuck out about it was how beautiful it LOOKED. Including and starring this title sequence. Great. Great job.
Dr. Strangelove
This is one that I know about mostly due to popular opinion. There are going to be a few like that on this list. Not that I'm not a Dr. Strangelove fan (which I'm not, really, but not that I dislike it in any way), but I'm aware that this title sequence exists and is very cool because lots of people are aware that it exists and is very cool. And it is very cool!
Catch Me If You Can
Catch Me If You Can is a great movie, I don't care what you say. And this title sequence is perfect!
The Shining
The Shining is one of my all time favorite movies. I might be biased because of that. But, this is perfect so it probably doesn't matter.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a movie that, to be honest, I haven't even seen all of. I had a roommate once who owned it on DVD and we watched some of it once but, I don't know, either we didn't finish or I just don't remember. Not to knock this movie at all, it could be the greatest movie of all time for all I know. I just DON'T know. But what I DO know is that this title sequence is amazing and done by Danny Yount, who we talked about last time, and who also did the title sequences for Six Feet Under, Pushing Daisies, Iron Man, etc. He's great!
This is another popular opinion one for me. People talk about it when you bring up movie title sequences at every party, and they bring it up with good reason.
Flight Club
Hahah, YES! I feel slightly foolish including Fight Club but then on the other hand no I do not. It absolutely rules. How much are you ever going to know about yourself if you don't love the opening credits to Fight Club, right? Classic quote.
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
I know this isn't like the rest of the choices. It's just words. But also. THE MUSIC! And also, just the plain words! And also THE BREAKFAST MACHINE THAT COMES AFTER THEM! I will not back down from this choice, this is a very good choice.
I saw this movie in college and I have never seen it again, but I did remember the credits because LOOK AT THEM!
And with this we've met our mandatory weekly quota of Seven references, thank you and goodnight!
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Bruce Willis stars in a movie called "Hostage." It had an opening title sequence that kinda overwhelmed the rest of the movie.
What was that one Muppets movie? I can't remember, one of the good ones anyway, but the whole opening title sequence, the Muppets were providing commentary. That was great!
Yes! The Great Muppet Caper! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru8mxxVcPFg
Still haven't seen the movie, but I remember hearing a lot about Gasper Noe's "Enter the Void" opening credits.
Looks like Kanye straight up ripped off this concept for "All of the Lights"
Spider-Man 2′s were pretty great: http://youtu.be/iSDU2tu7rpk
Enter The Void. http://youtu.be/dL0lNGXoP8E
The Player feels kind of artless looking at it right now (I hate Altman's zooms, but they probably do what they're supposed to do: remind everyone it's a movie), but the dialogue is great and from a technical standpoint it's superfun.
Zac Snyder's Dawn of the Dead Remake's titles on their own were better than any full length feature that year – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G2YAtFeVOM Johnny CASH!!!
Thank You For Smoking
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Enter The Void should DEFINITELY be here. I also enjoy the title sequence to the following movies. Luckily every one of the movies I thought of had been compiled on this excellent site dedicated specifically to credits sequences. They also do TV show credits. Here's my selections:
American Splendor
http://www.artofthetitle.com/2008/03/31/american-splendor/Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (includes opening scene, but I'm specifically talking about the credits)
http://www.artofthetitle.com/2011/01/03/scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world/Edward Scissorhands (better than Pee-Wee, but that's obvious)
http://www.artofthetitle.com/2008/12/26/edward-scissorhands/Monty Python & The Holy Grail
http://www.artofthetitle.com/2009/09/14/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail/Up In The Air
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Harold and Maude: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3taMrJZ6p8&feature=fvst
Often imitated, never duplicated, Reservoir Dogs:
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No James Bond or Pink Panther movies? Those films have the epitome of title sequences I think. Of recent movies, I really like Panic Room's titles. It was the first time I had seen the giant words hanging in the air thing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqIclb4qsJI
David Lynch's Dune has a fantastic opening sequence.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show? Admittedly things go downhill pretty fast after the Timewarp, but the intro is stellar.
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I always try to get it off in one piece, or in the case of cellophane, not tearing the paper underneath and stuff... (OCD much?)
YUME WA BUDOKAN LAIVU! Requesting an avatar of Yui eating (when holding the guitar in the clubroom).
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2009-04-09, 20:38 | Link #1326 |
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Portugal, Lisbon
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I just learned to make .gifs *only now after years of photoshopping, yes x)* because I really really wanted to do this:
Spoiler for I had way too much fun with this xD:
it's from the 2nd episode x)
2009-04-09, 21:01 | Link #1328 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Shitty old London. They must've been on drugs when they built this place, WTF were they smoking!!!
Age: 31
Just finished ep2.
lol is Mio the only sane one out of the four... but then again, that usually is the case with the tsukkomi. Off-topic: I'm kinda imagining what SaiMoe2009 is gonna be like. Wonder if K-On! will end up having its own faction/legion Even then, I'd still vote for the teacher
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Looking happier than he has all year, Tiger Woods slipped into the gallery for high fives and back slaps while wearing a green cap that he borrowed from the "Fanatics," the famous cheer squad that shows up at Australia's biggest sporting events.
22 Nov 2011 - 12:06am - 0 Comments
Greg Norman is hoping that Tiger Woods is on his way back to his best following his impressive finish at the Presidents Cup.
21 Nov 2011 - 11:56pm - 0 Comments
Tiger Woods hasn't looked this good on the golf course in back-to-back weeks since he left Australia two years ago with his 82nd title and the indisputable No. 1 ranking.
OK, it's a small sample.
21 Nov 2011 - 11:52pm - 2 Comments
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- The U.S. team returned Down Under and this time wound up on top in the Presidents Cup.
19 Nov 2011 - 11:56pm - 0 Comments
Update: Singles play is now under way, with the United States team needing only 4 1/2 points to retain or 5 points to win another Presidents Cup against the International Team.
19 Nov 2011 - 6:53am - 0 Comments
The United States team used a dominant foursomes session early Saturday and then held on during the four-balls session to enter the Sunday singles with a 13-9 lead.
It will take 17.5 points from either team to win.
Full update to come.
19 Nov 2011 - 2:37am - 0 Comments
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Two perfect teams and a point for Tiger Woods.
18 Nov 2011 - 9:17pm - 0 Comments
Update: Day three play has begun where both foursomes and four-balls sessions will take place. The United States team leads 7-5 going into the day. Full update to come after play ends.
Day two recap below.
18 Nov 2011 - 8:01am - 0 Comments
Update: Day two action at The Presidents Cup is over and the United States team will take a 7-5 lead into weekend play. Full recap coming shortly.
17 Nov 2011 - 7:49am - 0 Comments
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- South Korea will host golf's Presidents Cup in 2015, highlighting the sport's continuing growth and popularity in Asia and marking the event's first appearance in the region.
16 Nov 2011 - 8:52am - 0 Comments
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Tiger Woods is moving from Dubai's showcase tournament to make his debut in Abu Dhabi.
16 Nov 2011 - 8:39am - 0 Comments
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- The motto for Tiger Woods these days is to move forward, and that covers a lot of territory.
15 Nov 2011 - 1:13pm - 0 Comments
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- Ernie Els knows what Royal Melbourne can do to a golfer probably more than anyone.
15 Nov 2011 - 9:20am - 0 Comments
Luke Donald has been No. 1 in the world since the end of May. He has won four times around the world, and he likely will be voted PGA Tour Player of the Year.
Apparently, that's still not enough to get on Greg Norman's radar screen.
12 Nov 2011 - 1:13pm - 0 Comments
The PGA Tour awards ballot are now in the mail, though they might be shorter than previous years. Tour officials have decided not to submit any candidates as comeback player of the year.
12 Nov 2011 - 1:08pm - 0 Comments
The No. 1 golfer in the world is now a father of two.
11 Nov 2011 - 7:21pm - 0 Comments
The only two continents where the Presidents Cup has not been played are Asia and South America, which is likely to change when the next one goes overseas in 2015. And while Asia appears to have more appeal, South America might be more critical.
8 Nov 2011 - 7:26pm - 0 Comments
Rory McIlroy's final-hole birdie at the WGC-HSBC Champions on Sunday has elevated him to a career-high second in the Official World Golf Ranking. Now only England's Luke Donald is ahead of the 22-year-old U.S. Open champion thanks to his fourth-place finish in Shanghai.
7 Nov 2011 - 1:01pm - 2 Comments
The PGA Tour no longer is looking for new tournaments in Asia as it considers revamping the schedule so that a new season would start in the fall after the FedExCup is over.
6 Nov 2011 - 6:23pm - 0 Comments
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