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Each year a number of organizations and associations honor mystery writers for their outstanding work. Below are the major awards, presented in 2012 for works published in 2011. The winning titles are listed, along with their location at WPPL (MYS or FIC). For a complete list of awards, nominees, and winners, visit http://stopyourekillingme.com/.
The Agatha Awards, named in honor of Agatha Christie, are nominated and voted on by Malice Domestic fans. These awards honor the traditional mystery - books best typified by the works of Agatha Christie.
Best Novel - Three-Day Town by Margaret Maron (MYS).
Best First Novel - Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry (MYS).
The Anthony Awards are given annually at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention (Cleveland, 2012), with the winners selected by attendees. The award is named for the late Anthony Boucher, well-known writer and critic who helped found the Mystery Writers of America.
Best Mystery Novel - A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny (MYS).
Best First Mystery - Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry (MYS).
The Barry Awards, voted on by the readers of Deadly Pleasures, are also presented at Bouchercon. The awards are named in honor of Barry Gardner, well-known fan reviewer.
Best Novel - The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen (FIC).
Best First Novel - The Informationist by Taylor Stevens (FIC).
Best British Crime Novel - Dead Man's Grip by Peter James (MYS).
Best Paperback Original - The Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley (MYS).
Sad News
The mystery community remembers the following authors who passed away in 2012.
James D. Doss, age 72. He wrote the Charlie Moon/Scott Parris series, set among the Ute Tribe in Colorado.
Dorothy Gilman, age 88. Best known for creating Mrs. Pollifax, (a grandmother who becomes a CIA agent), Gilman wrote other humorous mysteries and children's books.
Reginald Hill, age 75. This award-winning British author wrote a series of 23 books about Yorkshire police detectives Andrew Dalziel and Peter Pascoe.
Donald J. Sobol, age 87. An American author of children's fiction, and recipient of a special "Edgar" award, he was the creator of the popular children's series featuring Encyclopedia Brown.
More from Bouchercon 2012, Cleveland
The author panel titled What Would Rockford Do? featured these authors of Private Eye mysteries: Cleveland's own Les Roberts (Milan Jacovich series), Jack Fredrickson (Dek Elstrom series), Howard Shrier (Jonah Geller series) and Jack Bludis (Brian Kane series). These very funny gentlemen offered insights into PIs in general, and their characters specifically. Here are some of their thoughts:
- As writers change, so do their characters.
- All PIs are lone wolves.
- PIs are flawed.
- PIs are not violent, but they respond to violent people.
- PIs solve crimes by going where police can't go (outside the law) - in dark places.
- Their characters are an "idealized version of the author".
- Their PIs step up and do what the authors (and readers) wish they could do (like throwing the bad guy off the bus).
Forthcoming Titles - a number of new additions to long-running series.
Daheim, Mary - Alpine Xanadu (Emma Lord #24)
Greenwood, Kerry - Unnatural Habits (Phryne Fisher #19)
Hall, Parnell - Arsenic and Old Puzzles (Puzzle Lady #14), and Stakeout (Stanley Hastings #18)
Meier, Leslie - Easter Bunny Murder (Lucy Stone #19)
Robinson, Peter - Watching the Dark (Inspector Banks #20)
Todd, Charles - Proof of Guilt (Inspector Rutledge #15)
Happy New Year and Happy Reading in 2013!


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Power-packed Angels and Reds to do battle in opener
It is both presumptuous and preposterous to say it, but let's just go ahead and say it:
Opening Day between the Reds and Angels -- which takes place at 4:10 p.m. ET Monday at Great American Ball Park -- could be a preview of the World Series.
Now, this is crazy for two reasons, the first being that, until 2013, such a statement wasn't even a possibility. An Interleague series on Opening Day was unnecessary and, therefore, uninvited. But with the balance of two, 15-team leagues comes both the inconvenience and the entertainment of an Interleague series sprinkled into schedules year-round.
"It's going to be a little bit different," said Angels starter Jered Weaver, "having to grab a bat and knowing when you're coming up in the lineup. It's going to be a different experience for everybody, but I'm sure it will be a fun experience."
The other reason it is crazy to make such a proclamation before the season's first pitch is that none of us is smart enough to know how the next six months play out and what injuries or oddities are on the horizon for these or the other 28 clubs.
But as we sit here today, there is little question that the Reds and Angels have assembled two of the Major Leagues' most talented rosters.
And so, the inherent strangeness of Interleague on Opening Day is accompanied by the inherent intrigue of two well-regarded clubs competing.
"[The Angels] have an outstanding team, especially on paper," Reds right fielder Jay Bruce said. "But you've got to go score the runs and make the outs. We'll see what happens. I'm as confident with our team as you could be. We expect a high level of execution and preparation out of ourselves, and then we just go play the games."
The 2012 Angels are a perfect example of expectations gone awry, as the first year of the Albert Pujols Era ended without an invitation to October.
So what did the Angels do when they fell short with two of the best hitters in baseball in Pujols and rookie sensation Mike Trout? Easy. They signed another one of the best hitters in baseball. Opening Day could give us our first real look at the Pujols-Josh Hamilton pairing in the middle of the Halos' order, but only if Pujols' body cooperates.
Pujols' Spring Training timetable was slowed by offseason knee surgery and plantar fasciitis, limiting his play in the field. Under ordinary circumstances, he'd probably take advantage of the designated hitter slot in these initial days of the season. Obviously, though, that won't be a possibility at Great American Ball Park.
Still, Angels manager Mike Scioscia said operating under NL rules for the first three games of the season doesn't bother him.
"Somebody has to do it," Scioscia said. "I was probably more irritated with our first Spring Training game being split-squad. Interleague is Interleague. It's going to be there. We have to play those games. A split-squad the first day of spring took us three to four days to rebound from."
The Reds are trying to rebound from their collapse in the NL Division Series last year. They were a win away from sweeping the Giants, only to lose three straight at home. The sting of that frustrating finish has given the Reds a greater appreciation for what it takes to go the distance.
"I think we did a lot of learning," said Joey Votto, who is back at full strength after knee surgery slowed him in September and October last year. "Ultimately, this game is a very humbling game, and if we don't turn the page on it and forget about it, we're going to find ourselves on the outside looking in when it comes to the playoffs."
Losing Johnny Cueto to an oblique injury just eight pitches into the postseason certainly didn't help the Reds, but having Cueto back at full strength for this Opening Day start is good for the soul.
The Reds also addressed their primary weakness -- a low on-base percentage from the leadoff spot -- by acquiring the Indians' Shin-Soo Choo in a three-team trade. Choo not only has the patience to draw a walk, but the power to ignite an inning with a single swing.
Of course, no leadoff hitter is as big a game-changer as Trout, whose sophomore effort is going to be one of the most intriguing storylines in the big leagues this year. Trout's 2012 accomplishments -- .326 average, .963 OPS, 49 stolen bases, 30 homers, 83 RBIs, second in the MVP voting -- made for perhaps the best rookie season in history. Monday marks the entry to his encore.
So subplots abound in 2013's opening act, which could very well prove to be a preview of bigger things to come. The Reds and Angels, though, are firmly focused on the present, and the present calls for an important Interleague matchup.
"I point out to my team every year that [Interleague] is at least 10 percent of your schedule," Reds manager Dusty Baker said. "That's huge. Those games can be the difference between going to the playoffs or not."
Angels: Hamilton back where it began
Much will be made of Hamilton's return to Arlington later in the week, when he faces the Rangers team he spurned in free agency, in the building where he became an MVP and in the uniform of Texas' biggest rival.
But first, it will be a different sort of homecoming for Hamilton in Cincinnati, where he'll face, for the first time, the Reds team that picked him up in the 2006 Rule 5 Draft, setting off one of baseball's greatest comeback stories.
Hamilton played one season with the Reds, batting .292 with a .922 OPS, 19 homers and 47 RBI in 90 games in 2007. He was then traded to Texas for Edinson Volquez (since flipped in the Mat Latos deal) and Danny Herrera.
"I'm a little anxious to see how Cincinnati responds," Hamilton said. "I mean everybody I've always talked to, as far as fans from Cincinnati, it's, 'We wish you were still there.' And then I say, 'You guys traded me.' I just think it's cool. It's a cool baseball city."
Hamilton had 11 homers and a .617 slugging percentage at hitter-friendly Great American Ball Park.
Reds: Chapman back where he began, too
After another spring flirtation with a rotation role, Aroldis Chapman is back in the closer role for Cincinnati, looking to build on a sensational 2012 in which he saved 38 games, allowed just 12 earned runs in 71 2/3 innings and struck out 15.3 batters per nine innings.
If Chapman faces the Angels, neither side has much familiarity to work with. In his big league career, Chapman has faced just one member of the Angels' regular lineup.
Of course, that's where it gets interesting. That one player is Albert Pujols, who is 1-for-2 off Chapman. And that one hit was a home run -- one of only six Chapman has allowed over the course of 534 plate appearances against. The home run came on July 15, 2011, in a game the Reds would go on to win on a Brandon Phillips homer in the bottom of the ninth.
Worth noting:
• The 94th Findlay Market Opening Day Parade will begin at noon, with Reds Hall of Famer George Foster serving as grand marshal.
• Joe Torre, fresh off his stint as manager of Team USA in the World Baseball Classic, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch, and Cincinnati firefighter John Winfrey will sing "The Star-Spangled Banner."
• The Angels and Reds have played each other in just two previous Interleague series, with the Angels winning four of the six games. Cueto has never faced the Angels, and Weaver has never faced the Reds.
Anthony Castrovince is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his columns and follow him on Twitter at @Castrovince. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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Previous | Sakura Blossoms! | ||
Episode | Naruto #33 | ||
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Arc | Chūnin Exam Arc | ||
Manga | Chapter #55, Chapter #56 | ||
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Battle Formation: Ino–Shika–Chō!! (無敵のフォーメーション!いのシカチョウ!!, Muteki no Fōmēshon! Ino–Shika–Chō!!) is episode 33 of the original Naruto anime.
Team 10 battles the Otogakure genin, and Ino Yamanaka possesses Kin Tsuchi, rendering both of them unable to fight. However, the Oto genin still manage to hold their own. Just as Rock Lee's team-mates appear to join the fight, Sasuke Uchiha awakens, the cursed seal given to him by Orochimaru engulfing him. Noticing Sakura Haruno's wounds, Sasuke begins attacking Zaku Abumi in retaliation, eventually breaking both of his arms. As Sasuke turns his attention to the final Oto genin, Dosu Kinuta, Sakura thinks to herself that this is not the real Sasuke and that he is somehow possessed. She then runs to him and embraces him while begging him to stop. Sasuke's curse marks disappear and he falls to the ground. Dosu admits Sasuke's strength, leaves their scroll and retreats while carrying his team-mates, vowing to not run away next time they meet.
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Wacha faces Cingrani as Cards play home opener
Raising of 2013 National League pennant among planned festivities
Monday brings the seventh game of the regular season for both the Reds and Cardinals, but it will be one loaded with pageantry, celebration and tradition. It will be the home opener at Busch Stadium and for St. Louis, the defending National League champions.
This will mark the Cardinals' first home game since Game 5 of the World Series against the Red Sox. The club will raise the 2013 NL championship banner, among other festivities that are planned.
"It's definitely an honor," said Cardinals starting pitcher Michael Wacha, who will get the ball on Monday against Reds lefty Tony Cingrani. "Just like all the other starts last year, I'll just try not to let the moment get too big."
This is the second year in a row that the Cardinals home opener has been played against Cincinnati. The Reds were 13-4 winners in that game.
Wacha, a second-year pitcher, has never given up a run to the Reds during his brief career -- a stretch of 16 2/3 innings. Cardinals manager Mike Matheny didn't think his right-hander would have any trouble tuning out the hoopla at the ballpark.
"[Distractions] can always be an issue, but he's had distractions and he's handled them well," Matheny said. "We've had distractions all season long, whether they're rain delays or Opening Days. It's just one thing after another. I think he's prepared for it, and I think he'll do just fine."
This will be a rematch from last Wednesday, when Wacha and Cingrani dueled before the game was decided in the ninth inning on Chris Heisey's RBI single for a 1-0 Reds win. Wacha gave up three hits and struck out seven over 6 2/3 innings, while Cingrani allowed two hits over seven innings with nine strikeouts.
"They were coming out swinging and weren't putting too many good swings on it. It helped me out a little bit," Cingrani said.
Reds: Trying to beat 'Arch' enemies
The Cardinals have been the Reds' closest NL Central rival in recent years, but it's been tough sledding for Cincinnati. In their last nine series vs. St. Louis, the Reds are 1-8, with the only winning series being a four-game set Sept. 2-5 last season.
Last week at Great American Ball Park, the Cardinals took two of three games, but all of the games were decided by one run.
In 30 series at St. Louis since 2003, the Reds have gone 3-25-2, with the last series win coming in September 2011.
Cardinals: Hall of Fame opening highlights home opener
Ballpark Village opened its doors for business late last month, but Monday will be the first opportunity for fans to wander the exhibits at the Cardinals' Hall of Fame and Museum. Housed inside Ballpark Village, the Hall of Fame and Museum will open following a 10 a.m. CT dedication ceremony. Outside, the Cardinals will host a free pep rally for fans from 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Gates to Busch Stadium will open at 1:15 pm, two hours before the scheduled first pitch. The franchise's Hall of Famers and 2014 Cardinals will be introduced via motorcade, and the famed Budweiser Clydesdales will also be circling the park pregame. Among those to be recognized will be Tony La Russa, recently elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
After the NL Championship banner is raised, the pregame ceremonies will conclude with Chris Carpenter throwing out the ceremonial first pitch. Carpenter is now a member of the Cardinals' front office, after injuries forced him to end his pitching career.
"I think any Opening Day is a big deal -- at home or on the road," Matheny said. "But the home opener is special because you have a different angle, you have a different fan base. You have a group that is very excited for us to get back there. With all the excitement and the tradition that goes along with how St. Louis has always done it makes it a little different. There's nothing like being at home for the first time."
Worth noting
• Billy Hamilton, who did not start any of the three Reds' games against the Mets, could return to the lineup on Monday. Hamilton missed the last two games because of jammed left middle finger.
The Reds could also be getting catcher Devin Mesoraco back from the disabled list on Monday. Mesoraco, who strained his left oblique during Spring Training, played three games on a rehab assignment for Double-A Pensacola.
• The Cardinals and Reds endured six hours and 22 minutes of rain delays during a three-game series in Cincinnati last week. They may be dealing with similar conditions again in St. Louis. As of Sunday afternoon, the forecast calls for an 80-percent chance of rain on Monday.
Mark Sheldon is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Mark My Word, and follow him on Twitter @m_sheldon. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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As long as you warm up, it probably doesn't matter how you do it. I sympathise with the initial climb, though at my place, I have to climb to get home. Fortunately, I'm getting stronger now and not noticing it as much but at the end of a long run, the last thing you need is to have any sort of impediment to getting home.
Richard I had a good bike ... so I fixed it
Couldn't agree more Richard. I only tackle the hills on the return if I'm feeling particularly strong (or masochistic) but usually opt for the walk down the embankment in the park.
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Cheers Mike,
It's funny, but I've been wanting to get back into riding for the obvious health benefits and the enjoyment for years, but kept putting it off over and over again. I think the secret was deciding to go in the BRisbane to Gold Coast ride in October. This actually gave me a reason to train (obviously my health isn't the best motivator for me). I'm now starting to think what ride I'll do after this one to keep the training going. Anthony
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Strangely enough, that's pretty common. Some weird twist in the human psyche. Keep giving yourself a reason for your rides and you'll run up the miles very quickly. Richard I had a good bike ... so I fixed it
Does that mean if I say I want to do the Etape de Tour,say I am dedicated,train to climb (laughing behind chubby hand)and wear a beret my wife will have no choice but to let me go and suffer like a dog?.
PS...has anyone ever done an etape?.
Probably not but seeing as I don't know what it is, I can't really say for sure So, what on earth is it? (something horrible I bet) Richard I had a good bike ... so I fixed it
The Etape du Tour translates into "Stage of the Tour".It is run over the hardest stage of the tour de france each year....awesum ride,hard to enter from here unless you have someone who can send you velo mag from france real quick as that is the only way to enter unless you want to get stung by organised tour.check it out..... http://www.letapedutour.com/2007/ETDT/p ... /index.htm
In theory .... yes, but you'd also want to throw a baguette in the handlebar basket, and bring on a bad french accent as well Anthony
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my french accent is pretty good although my 3 year old daughter often corrects me which is a tad embarrassing "no papa,your not saying it right!" (in french of course)...
as for the etape....would love to be at 2600 metersthinking of you sipping red richard
I'd love to ride some of those routes.
Has anyone read Tim Moore's 'French Revolutions' ? He's a comedy travel writer who decided to do the tour route just before the TdF. In typical style, he protrays himself as an utter incompetant with no idea and less fitness, but when you read what he actually achieves, the man knew something about bikes. The book does put some of those climbs into perspective though. And what does this have to do with our friend inaminit? Inspiration! Reading about other sort of normal people (any cyclist is only 'sort of normal') achieving fantastic things. It's a great motivation for leaping on the bike, just as watching the heros in the TdF or riding off to watch the local big name stage race such as the TdU or the Suntour. Richard I had a good bike ... so I fixed it
Sorry we have wandered a bit.Well done Anthony for keeping it going,I think a lot of people get into cycling,get a sore arse then park the bike and there it stays.You are obviously well past that stage,probably at that stage when you are starting to develop some power...it is a great feeling when you power of a hill that used to make you struggle,keep it up!.
I find that the hardest part is getting out the door,especially if you have had 4 or 5 days off,also personally I take 30minutes to warm up. I haven't read that book Richard but will look out for it,my plan last time in France was to do some big French climbs...the only known one I ended up doing was Galibier,wasn't hard or easy....just a long plod.It was 100k away from home to the base of Alpe dues huez.But I did spend a lot of time on a local climb which to the summit and back was 100k with 15k climb to the summit,like you know I cant climb but love it....and after a week of climbing your style really changes.But then I got really sick (2 weeks of explosive you know what)So ended up driving a lot of climbs to watch the tour instead of riding....was amazing but would have been so much better if I didn't have a fever,not a toilet or tree in sight,20,000 people around waiting for Rasmussen to come thru on the col de crois fer.So maybee next year...I agree it is good to set goals,some short term,some long term...and as I have now been healthy for 3 months (the first time since Oct 2005) I might actually acheive some!!!!
Cheers guys, one of the best inspirations I have comes from some of the old guys in their late 60's and 70's who i've got to know theough riding. They have the patience to put up with me, the knowledge to help me ride better, and the legs and lungs to blow me off the road if they wanted to I see them and know there is hope for me yet!
Toolong, those rides would be brilliant. I think I'll have to add that to my list of goals. bit out of my league at the moment, but who knows, maybe next year. My wife has always wanted a holiday in France...I wonder what she'd say if I booked a seat for the bike as well Anthony
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Hire a tandem and if she refuses to go on it with her, ask a young french lass to ride stoker Richard I had a good bike ... so I fixed it
I'd run it by her tonight, but I fear my training may become hampered with the onset of a totally unjustified case of sudden broken bones syndrome. Anthony
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A quick mid week update......I am totally and utterly smashed
Finally got to join a group of about 25 riders for my first bunch ride on the road. I've been doing some on a closed training circuit, but it sure is different when you have to worry about crap on the road, potholes, road works, cars etc. One of the guys I ride with occassionally invited me along and said they leave Burleigh out to the Currumbin Rock Pools and back for a coffee. Thought this would be brilliant as I could have a crack at fairly long climb, and by the time I rode to meet them and then home again it would be around the 50km I had scheduled for today. Was I in for a surprise. By my standard, these guys were fast. To my surprise, I managed to hang on to them up to the Rock Pools, which I thought was the turnaround, but the buggers kept going. I was hurting, but hung on anyway. About 3 or 4 more k's and I just couldn't keep up and I dropped off the back with a couple of others. We slogged it out for a few more k's and my body was screaming! My back hurt, my shoulders hurt, and my legs felt like they were going to explode. I had to give up and the other 2 also decided to turn around for what I thought was going to be a relaxing decent. WRONG....when we turned we were met with about a 22kph headwind with gusts up to 30kph. We copped this for about 85% of the return trip. I new it was going to be windy, but didn't think it would pick up so early. The main group passed us on the decent, we tried to catch their wheels but it was a fruitless exercise and we gave up pretty quick. We finally made it back to Burleigh for a choccy milk and a coffee, then a nice easy 6.5 Km plod home (with a howling tailwind ). Here's the route profile from bikely: The worse part of it all was when I mapped this after the ride, the end of the road (where the main group rode to) was only another 1.5km away! For all the pain and agony (which I'm sure will get worse tonight) this was one brilliant ride and I'll definitely be making this a regular Thankfully I've got a rest day tomorrow with a flat 50km on Saturday morning. Anthony
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DOH.... I keep forgetting.... "no more excuses" just have to pace myself a bit better next thursday! Anthony
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Only 2 weeks to go until the bris to gold coast ride.
Although I fell short on this weeks target distance, I felt it was a very productive week, with most of the rides at a much higher intensity than usual (particularly Thursday's). The target for week 6 was: 3 x 50km + 1 x 80km Rides: Tuesday: 53.1km in 2:02:52 avg speed of 25.9kph (damn traffic lights etc). A good ride following the beachfront up to Broadbeach, down to Coolangatta then back home. The first 40km I stuck to about 27kph actual riding speed, and at the turn around in Coolangatta decided to ramp it up a bit and managed to do the last 13.1km with an average riding speed of about 32kph (pretty good for me on my own). Thursday: My first group ride on a public road, and first crack at a reasonable climb. This ride up the Currumbin Valley almost killed me (see thursdays post) 62.2km in 2:18:38 avg speed of 27.0kph. Saturday: Did the group training ride at Luke Harrop Circuit in Runaway Bay again for about 19km or so, followed by a leisurely 2 or3 k's for a quick coffee, and finishing off with a fairly intense solo 27 or so k's up to Paradise Point, down to Southport and back. All up 50.0km in 1:52:05 avg speed 26.7kph. Yesterday: Although the numbers aren't too flash I'm fairly happy with it. Had a dinner with the mother in law in Brisbane Saturday night, got home about 12:30am and couldn't get to sleep until after 2:30am. Was going to do my ride before brunch with my parents at 10:30, but as I didn't get out of bed till 9ish, that didn't happen. got home about 1sh and thought bugger the ride. Too tired and it was blowing a gale. About 4ish the wind dropped ever so slightly (still a 28kph southerly with 42kph gusts) and I thought I might as well get some k's under the belt. Headed south and it was damn hard work. struggled to maintain 23kph and the gusts almost blew off the bike or into the traffic a few times. Got down to Coolangatta and decided enough was enough and headed back home, thankfully with the southerly behind me! Managed to do 30.9km in 1:11:55 avg speed of 25.7km. Total for the week: Target = 230km, Achieved = 196.6km Today's a rest day, although we start up dancing again tonight (yes, my wife and I have been doing Rock n roll dancing for about 2 years now) so it'll be interesting to see how this week goes with 2 nights dancing and 3 x 50km + 1 x 90km rides as the target. Anthony
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I hate headwinds as well.
Prior to the group ride that we do on the weekend, I did an extra 28km loop that I normally do before the ride to warm up. Bloody headwind was direct in my face for at least 10km of it, and slowed me down to 24 - 25 km/hr, and when I did get a bit of a tail wind, i was zooming along at 34 !! I normally average 29.8 - 31.0 for this loop, but that morning only did 28. Then we did the Clarendon loop ride Boy, did that bugger the legs, especially when we had the headwind going up the hill out of Clarendon !! You have done well to get to 196km in the week. I managed 152 this week. Next challenge for me is the Mini Slam covering 109km in October ....
Twas a windy weekend alright Michael, and worse to come for this weekend if you're silly enough to believe the weather forcasts. Was a lot more fun along the Torrens
Richard I had a good bike ... so I fixed it
It amases me how you guys ride those hills!!!!!!!!!!!
Guess I'll just have to get out there and climb, climb, climb, and then climb some more. Thankfully there are a heap of great rides here in the hinterland and Tweed Valley...just have to pluck up the courage to try them. Anthony
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This has the potential to be great. It also has the potential to be not so great. I don't think this is going to be guaranteed of being a slam dunk hit like a lot of people out there think. I just don't envision the stories of this series being as comic book oriented as what many people out there are thinking, but I could be wrong.
Needless to say, I'll be looking forward to this with much anticipation.
Let's wait until after the next few movies come out this year before we speculate as to how truly dead agent Coulson is. There has been tons of theories already proposed, but I think we may have our answer before this series hits the airwaves.
Character "killed" in a comic book universe movie...is anybody really dead?
This would be a great way to introduce some smaller characters that wouldn't quite translate well on the big screen. I can see this being great, but like millean said, it could be a flop too.
I get a vibe they had trouble with Shield title with old cop show Shield. Now it's Marvel's Shield.
This should be fun.
Plus Coulson didn't really "die", Fury said he was down. Never saw the body after. Easy explanation.
I sure hope it's not a prequel. I would love references to the Marvel movies. I would also love a guest appearance by one of the characters. Even if it's the lesser characters from the movies, at least we would get the sense being all tied together. They could get Dr Erik Selvig, Doc Samson (Ty Burrell?), Kat Dennings, etc...
I do want this to be set before the Marvel movies. It could be fun to have a season or 2 of crazy things happening before any of the big guns arrive on the scene. Build up to Fury needing to create the Avengers to deal with the stuff agents can't handle. I really think it would work well.
I thought they already said that this was going to be set after the events of The Avengers? Was I the only one to get the memo, or was that memo a fake?
Maybe you guys didn't see it because of the TPS report cover sheet that was attached. :)


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Hate to bump my own thread; but new information is here!
AM3+ Boards that support Unbuffered ECC
-AMD 900 Series chipsets (970/990)
Since you are new here - I suggest re-reading the first post of this topic.
Note: *SERVER* ram is typically 'Registered' which means electrically it works slightly differently then "regular" desktop system ram.
If I were you - check the model # from that ram to determine what kind it is, if its some kind of Unbuffered DDR2/3 - then you're OK.
The magic keywords here are UNBUFFERED - ECC or not.
Hate to bump my own thread; but new information is here!
AM3+ Boards that support Unbuffered ECC
-AMD 900 Series chipsets (970/990)
What is the recommend method for watching RAM for ECC errors?
Are they logged in /var/log/messages? Or do I have to watch /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/?
What do you use?
TIA, testerus
A single bit error will generate a Machine Check Event which is shown in dmesg and captured by your system logger. Some BIOSes have a log of them too.
A non-correctable error will cause a Machine Check Exception and lead to system halt by default (but this can be overridden).
This is relevant enough for me to finally register an account here.
Now where does that come from? I was planning to upgrade a couple of workstations with FX-8150 on ASUS M5A88-V EVO, which has an AM3+ socket and 880G chipset.
As expected, ECC support ist listed in the manual. Is there something I missed?
Btw., ECC support in "consumer" class hardware was my main motivation to buy AMD (and ASUS) hardware for the past five years and worked as advertised, kudos to AMD, although I'd wish FM1 had that capability, too. I just hope the FM2 platform fixes that issue.
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5
ECC is unofficially but fully supported with a lot of tweaks in BIOS - like memory scrubbing etc. I use it as a NAS platform (because of 10 Sata3 ports).
Evidently its something ASUS missed. This information is usually from a manual / BIOS - but ASUS distinctly listed the 800G as not supporting ECC on the board's webpage... probably a typo or mistake.
I've heard about other Gigabyte boards supporting ECC, good that the 990FX series is there - is this a modded BIOS or a later revision?
Two of our developers' workstations have ASUS mainboards with 880G chipsets (ASUS M5A88-M EVO), and they support ECC just fine. One curious difference is that with a Phenom X6, Linux' EDAC subsystem reports S4ECD4ED in /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc*/csrow*/edac_mode, and with an FX-4xxx CPU reports only SECDED instead. Does anyone happen to know why that is?
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Yes, I just ordered some ECC/unbuffered (ECC/UDIMM) for my Proliant Microserver.
I decided to test them in my GigaByte 970A-UD3 motherboard and they worked. They were still manually configured for my old 1600MHz desktop RAM, but I could see an ECC [enabled] option in dram configuration.
I loaded system defaults in the BIOS and rebooted so they would auto setup themselves and when I went into the BIOS it said ECC Support was disabled and about a half-dozen ECC options were all grayed out (set to [disabled].
After enabling the ECC option I was able to enable the top halve, while the bottom half wanted me to set timings that I have no idea what they should be. Hopefully somehere can explain what they are what they should be.
Here's a screen shot of BIOS:
If you know of any links for extra help/explanations that would be great
MCE sound like machine check exception
Chipkill set to off since it is iirc. only on very expensive IBMs, even better than pure ECC, but you need the expensive HW.
Dunno about redirection and all the single scrubbing options, would have to look that up on the net myself. I guess it is the part that goes regularly around and checks for errors and corrects them and stuff. Though I thought something like that would also be done by the kernel. Basically that is one core component of ECC so you might want to turn it on unless strange things happen afterwards.
All the bottom half is good old traditional stuff. Normally you just set it to SPD (that is a small chip on you RAM, the normal + 1 additional membanks - and then a tiny thing, which does the timing for you). So SPD will set it and you should be fine. These options are only meant in case there is no SPD or you want to manually speed up things but then you have to carefully try step by step to keep your system stable. And since stability is your main concern when using ECC anyway you should just leave it to the SPD.


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How would you consider that a programmer is bad at what he or she is doing?
If possible... How should he/she improve?
How would you consider that a programmer is bad at what he or she is doing? If possible... How should he/she improve? |
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When they fail to learn from their mistakes and from peer reviews. We are all green at some point; however, if you're not getting better or attempting to get better then you're a bad programmer. |
A programmer who doesn't know what he doesn't know and isn't interested at all to find out. |
A big warning sign is if they are a "cargo cult" programmer - meaning they do things but don't know why they do those things (it's just "magic"). Great post by Eric Lippert here. From the article: programmers who understand what the code does, but not how it does it. |
A big tip-off for me is when they ask you or the other programmers development questions that clearly show they have made absolutely zero effort to figure it out on their own. A corollary is when they ask the same programming question multiple times indicating they aren't internalizing the information. |
When it takes them a long time to solve the FizzBuzz problem. |
Programmers who refuse to learn new technologies/languages, and insist on sticking to what they already know. Addendum: (adding what dash said below in the comments) |
When a team member is the negative producing developer.
Meaning the rest of your team has to do more work because of the bad developer. NNPP |
When they produce things which belng on The Daily WTF on a regular basis. |
When they know there are better ways of doing things but still refuse to do them even when time permits. |
Personally I think that any programmer who can look at their own code that they wrote a while ago and not find something wrong with it is not a good one. "A while" can scale with experience... I'd say between a few weeks up to a year or so. |
Those who ignore warnings on their codes and cares only on errors. |
When I was a team leader in a smallish shop, there were several folks who I had to have reassigned (neither I or my direct supervisor had termination capability without a ton of Red Tape and a pile of documentation.) or to have no contract renewal at the end of the current engagement. Some of the types enumerated also worked for other team leaders, and they pretty much took the same view. Things which took folks into the "Bad Programmer" category in my book:
These are just some of the bad characters I have had to work with.... /s/ BezantSoft |
Unable to adapt themselves to upcoming technologies |
Apart from the obvious lack of knowledge/ability, a programmer is a bad one, if their code is harder to read and/or maintain than it should be. |
When nobody else can read his code. It doesn't matter how bright you are; no programmer is an island. |
Someone who does not pay attention to the details and is always in "it works, so I'm leaving it alone. All those exceptions in the logs don't matter" mode. |
There are two categories for programmers for me - solo and team. Bad solo programmers are
Bad team programmers are those who falls into bad solo programmers category, including
Not willing to admit they don't know the answer and/or unwilling to look things up. If you don't know it, don't give up - figure it out and get it done. |
A big warning sign in my experience is when they don't comment their hacks.... You know what I mean: when you're forced to do something very hacky because there is simply no better way to do it. Good programmers will hate having to do it and put in inline comments saying how much they hate putting in that kind of hack, but there is no choice. Bad programmers will just put in the hack and not comment it. |
Quiet obviously when a programmer writes A LOT of code. Very large functions, maybe copy/paste lines or code blocks, using way more ifs then necessary, etc. This could be because the programmer doesnt know a standard function to do what he wants but much of the time it isnt. |
Being repreategly shown the right way to do it, and repeatedly just doing it the easy way. |
I am moving my answer to here from a closed duplicate topic that asked Can you recognise if you are a bad programmer? The other topic was being closed as I was composing my response. My answer more directly addresses the question as it was phrased by the other asker and will read better if you understand that. Sigh! Part of me didn't want to add to this already busy topic, but the other part of me won! Why did it win; why am I bothering to add yet more words to this particular multilogue? Well, because, to some degree, I may have a slightly different take on this than the many previous commentators. Binary works great in computers: it's '1' or '0', "on" or "off." We can abstract and encode a lot of information using those famous two states. But, it doesn't tend to work so well for human matters: "good" or "bad," "sane" or "insane," "good" or "evil," "smart" or "stupid," "fat" or "thin," "alive" or "dead?" These kinds of polarized evaluations have always left the caring human being part of me terribly unsatisfied. By whatever measurement schemes I choose to apply, I usually find that the answers to such stark contrasts actually lie somewhere along a continuum between one such pole and the other, not at either end. I have fought with this tendency towards polarization for quite some time, now, and my personal solution is that I find it far more useful to apply three words to any such evaluation: "to what degree!" So, my answer to your question is to suggest that you rephrase it and to ask yourself this: "To what degree am I a bad programmer?" Or, even better, to ask it in the other direction: "To what degree am I a good programmer?" If you pursue truth, you will probably locate yourself somewhere along a continuum between being a "bad" programmer and a "good" one. Then, once you manage to locate approximately where you are along this path, you can probably identify a point somewhat closer to the "good" end—a point where you would like to find yourself in the near future. If you do not set that point too far away, you can probably get your hind end in gear and start moving it in that direction. If you manage to iterate this rather simple heuristic algorithm several times, you may soon find yourself too busy programming to need to ask this question again! Oh, and you'll probably make faster progress if you start pounding code on a keyboard as quickly and often as you can; and, if you take a little break now and then, read some high quality code written by your peers! In these days of dynamic Open Source development, you have no shortage of free and exquisite code to learn from! So, I strongly recommend to you that you try my three little words, "to what degree," and see how far in a good direction they can take you! |
Someone who says "It can't be done". In my opinion it's all about problem solving, the tool should be far less relevant than actually getting work done. If I've got to solve it using MS-Access or assembly language, it's a matter of time and money, not a matter of "It can't be done" A warning sign is too much focus on the academic and "proper" way of doing things, and not enough focus on getting work done. |
If he only knows the syntax of a language but don't know the basic concepts of algorithms. |
When they do a lot of pontificating but produce very little. |
!(smart and gets things done) |
Those who don't know principles such as SOLID, DRY, OOP and so on. It's important to have good understanding of programming principles and foundations rather than knowing specific technologies. Those with solid foundation will be able to learn new topics easily and will produce better code. |
An embedded programmer that doesn't understand interrupts very well or multitasking. Also programmers that need to work with bit fields but don't grasp logical operations on them and shifting. |
An immediate recognition signal is someone saying: "I don't understand why it doesn't work. I did everything right." |
One thing that distinguishes a bad programmer from a newbie programmers is stubborn insistence on implementing their favorite system in whatever language and API they are working in. I once inherited a system where the prior developer re-implemented (in Java) a large set of the Ashton Tate DBase III+ api layered on top of custom dbf access library. None of the Java collections framework was used. This was so he could write a Java/swing app that looked and acted like a DBase III+ (or possibly clipper) app. The Apps he wrote in this system had lite-bar menus and would open a full window form with a row of buttons on the bottom when you navigated the lite-bar to the option. It was like a little time machine back to the 1980s. The man was clearly a skilled developer. He knew enough that he was able to write that whole system himself in the time frame of that project. He was also able to re-use it on a few other internal systems. But he was an awful programmer in that his code misused the features of the systems he worked on. He was more willing to spend 3 months on a custom lib of dubious benefit than learn Java/Swing/SQL. |


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You're gonna run ALL of the tests or just part?
Even with part of the tests this seems to me like a gigant undertaking. Good luck, you're going to need it
Phoronix: A Big Operating System Benchmark Comparison
Next month at Phoronix we intend to conduct a large benchmarking comparison of a few different operating systems. Right now we are looking at Ubuntu, Mac OS X (we will be waiting for 10.6 "Snow Leopard"), NetBSD, PC-BSD, OpenSolaris, and FreeBSD...
You're gonna run ALL of the tests or just part?
Even with part of the tests this seems to me like a gigant undertaking. Good luck, you're going to need it
Sigh, still no Plan 9.....
Actually one thing I would kind of like to see is the wine benchmarks ran with the Linux Unified Kernel and see if there is any performance difference using it instead of wine.
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- Solaris 10
Sure it is "old" at this point, but it's commercially supported. The latest spin supports ZFS installs.
It would also be interesting to compare to OpenSolaris.
Again, interesting to compare "supported" to "latest"
Hopefully run RHEL on "supported" hardware? Supposedly their kernels are only patched for hardware on their supported list.
If you pull this off with interesting results I will subscribe for sure.
I'd like to see Debian Testing included in the comparison
Arch Linux.
(I appreciated your recent benchmarks)
Ideally you'd benchmark once Ubuntu 9.10 comes out too, as 9.04 is pretty old hat now
I wanna see
Ubuntu 9.10
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Debian Testing (updated)
Please don't use the shitty intel graphics which would skew results in favour of OS X again.
I know this is a crazy lot to ask, but could you do the latest two versions of both OS X and Ubuntu? (10.5, 10.6; 9.04, 9.10)
Startup times would also be good to know.