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Phoronix: Unigine Engine Gets Into Physical Destruction
While the Linux community is still waiting on the native Linux release of the OpenGL3-using Unigine Heaven tech demo with its heavenly graphics (it's being held off by a bugged ATI Catalyst driver), the core developers working on this advanced game engine continue adding in new features. One of the latest features added into this proprietary engine is physical destruction with a destructible body type currently offering three destruction patterns...
Are any games licensing their technology yet? Their stuff looks absolutely amazing.
AFAIK, yes.
Will the open-source ATi driver ever support OpenGL 3?
Arrg, is that why I can;t get it to run? I am using the latest development Ubuntu packages (for Ubuntu 10.04), and 3D certainly works in many cases, but the Unigine test in the PTS just crashes ...
I am using all the official repository packages, except for the kernel, which is the latest from the mainline kernel ppa.
Also, while we are at it, I am seeing performance for 3D to be about 1/3 rd or 1/4th of the performance with Catalyst. Is that expected? Or is there any good howto for performance tweaks? (I may be something obvious, though I did play around with xorg.conf options)
Here's the radeon feature matrix. You will note that support level is OGL2.0.
Remember that this driver is in heavy development. Reduced performance and features are expected.
Thanks. You missed the link
I was actually wondering whether Unigine uses OGL3.0, but I guess the answer is Yes.
The other point, I understand and I can't tell you how happy i am to be able to run my machine with no binary blobs. It's the latest vanilla kernel and open source drivers now. Well, this is just a test partition I'll move to whenever Kubuntu 10.04 stabilizes. So, THANK YOU ALL wonderful people working on this, including our beloved Awesome Dude.
Really what I am thinking is that there maybe some simple ways to make performance better, perhaps with some configuration parameters, or switching to a PPA, etc., I'd like to test this before committing to switch. My family seems to believe that breaking all their desktops is unacceptable, go figure
Nice feature... but hard-coded. Count me out :P
AFAIK it doesn't require 3.0, but only some extensions. Mesa doesn't implement all of them yet. You can follow progress here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23884
sounds nice... but are any of those clients going to release for linux ? probably not.


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The constant temperature of the Earth creates underground sources of heat, hot water and steam which become fuel to produce geothermal energy. People have used various forms of geothermal energy for hundreds of years; modern technology accesses these underground reservoirs, steam deposits and hot air by drilling, and then using the heat or hot water directly or using it to create power. Geothermal energy represents an enormous, underused power source that provides clean, renewable energy in virtually unlimited supply.
Geothermal energy can be broken into three major categories:
Power Generation: Geothermal power plants tap deep deposits of steam or water to drive turbines that produce electricity. Electricity derived from these types of geothermal resources are common in the western United States and Hawaii, but not in New England.
Direct Use: Direct use applications involve tapping hot water in a geothermal reservoir close to the surface for applications from space heating to melting ice and snow on sidewalks and parking lots. Similar to power plants, most of the geothermal resources for this application are located in the western United States and Hawaii.
Ground Source Heating and Cooling: Ground source heating and cooling can be done almost anywhere in the United States using a geothermal heat pump, a highly efficient renewable energy technology that takes advantage of the constant temperature of the earth beneath the surface. The heat pump transfers heat stored in the Earth or in ground water into a building during the winter, and transfers it out of the building and back into the ground during the summer. In other words, the ground acts as a heat source in winter and a heat sink in summer. Applications of this technology are for space heating and cooling, and hot water.
Many residential and commercial organizations in New England operate with ground source heating and cooling systems, including Trinity Church and the Massachusetts Audubon Nature Center in Boston, MA, and the City Hall Annex in Cambridge, MA.
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For decades, Paul Sandoval has been a mentor, friend, and adviser to virtually every Denver Democrat (and more than a few Republicans). Here, an oral history of his rise from local activist to political kingmaker.
The Young Entrepreneur
In 1944, Paul Sandoval was born in northwest Denver to Camilla and Jerry Sandoval. The ninth of 11 children, Sandoval earned a reputation early on as a cunning deal-maker.
Joe Sandoval, Paul's brother: Times were tough when we were growing up. My mom was a stay-at-home mom who'd clean houses to make extra money. My dad worked at the meatpacking house scalding hogs. They taught us about work ethic, and everyone pitched in. Paul and I started selling papers with our older brothers when we were six and seven. Paul was always outgoing and gregarious—always trying to make that extra nickel. If you didn't sell all your newspapers in a day, when you turned them in they'd charge you for how many you didn't sell. Every night, he'd say, "We have to sell every newspaper." After people would leave downtown at 5:30 or 6, we would go hustle the bars until we sold out.
Ken Salazar, U.S. Secretary of the Interior: When you grow up on the streets selling newspapers to make a living, it gives you wisdom from the school of hard knocks.
Paul Sandoval: I had the New Customs House on my route. President Eisenhower had a heart attack and was recovering near Fitzsimons, so when he got better, he went to the Customs House to thank his Secret Service. I knew all the back entrances and found him there at the desk, so I asked him, "Would you like to buy a paper?" A staff member said, "What are you doing here? Do you know who this is?" I just said, "Do you want to buy a paper?" He said, "Sure, how much?" I said, "Five cents." He said, "Well, I only have five dollars." I said, "That's OK, I'll get you change." He said, "No. Here, kid. Just keep it." I asked him to sign the money, and he said sure, so he signed the five dollars. I took that five dollars and sold it for $10 and doubled my money.
Joe: He was always studying. Our parents were strict about us getting our homework done. Paul was always doing something extra, for the debate team or the clubs he belonged to. His interests were always in the political arena. He and my dad used to stay up late when television came out to watch election results.
Paul: My dad was the president of the meat-packers union, and they used to have rallies, fund-raisers, and campaigns, and they'd back candidates. I would go to the meetings and help them pass out literature for campaigns and listen to the candidates. I usually support Democrats, but I supported Richard Batterton in the '50s when he ran for mayor and won. He used to buy my papers, and one day he says to me, "Do you know some friends who will help pass out some literature of mine?" I had a lot of friends. We took about 20 kids downtown one day. When he became mayor, he invited me into the office and showed me around.
I always thought I wanted to be a priest, and I got the opportunity to go to a seminary in California. I stayed half a semester. One Friday afternoon, there was a discussion in religion class about free will, and I raised my hand and said, "If we have a free will, then what makes us do things if God knows what we're going to do?" The teacher says, "That's your free will, and you have a right to do it and God basically lets you do it." I said, "Well, God's all-good, right?" And the teacher says, "Oh yeah, he's all-knowing, all-forgiving." I said, "If he's all-loving, why did he let things happen in the Holocaust? Why would he let millions of people perish without helping them? If he gave you a free will, if he knows everything from the beginning of time to the end of time, why would he put you here on Earth knowing that you might go to hell?" There was a vivid discussion that day. That Sunday, I was asked to leave.
The Activist
Sandoval attended college at Louisiana State University-New Orleans and studied Russian and international studies. He returned to Colorado in 1963, at the dawn of the civil rights movement, and finished his degree at the University of Colorado Denver.
Morgan Smith, former state representative: Paul was a wonderful guy to work with because he always had a sense of humor.
Dennis Gallagher, Denver auditor: Paul loves to play tricks. A senator was up at the microphone one day and said there were black helicopters flying around his house. He was convinced it was some form of conspiracy. So one day, Paul arranged for two little helicopters to go down on a wire from the ceiling while this guy was speaking.
Ruben Valdez, former speaker of the House: Paul established a good reputation almost immediately as someone who was skilled in negotiation, who was able to get a lot for programs he wanted and worked well with other people. He was very idealistic but very pragmatic about how to get things done.
Paul: Reapportionment emerged in the early 1970s. That's when I met Ruben Valdez. There was a group of minorities back then who were very vocal and started questioning the system itself. I guess you could call me a young Turk—I would go down there and sit behind galleries and watch what was going on, and I made friends with these people. Mike Strang, a Republican, ran the committee to arrange reapportionment based on the Supreme Court rule of "one man, one vote." And they asked me to get involved.
Valdez: When the Supreme Court decision came down, it gave us the chance to run for seats that were drawn to help minorities get elected. Strang was very fair with us and allowed us to draw districts in areas where he thought there was no way Republicans would get elected. So Paul and I drew the districts after '71, in Denver in particular. We drew a Senate district that we thought could elect a Latino to the Senate. Four years later, when the election came up for that seat, Paul got elected.
Wellington Webb, former Denver mayor: We'd known each other since we were very young, and we'd both begun our public-service careers in grocery stores—his at 30th and Downing, mine at 34th and Williams. I was elected to the Colorado Legislature in '72, and he came into the state Senate in '74. We worked on a lot of issues together. He had the ability to get along well with Republicans and Democrats, and later, when we held a walkout during Governor Lamm's inauguration—because he initially didn't have any African-Americans in his cabinet—Paul was one of the first to step up and join us.
Smith: That term, starting in 1975, was the first time in years Democrats had a majority in the House. Paul got appointed to the Joint Budget Committee, which had three Republicans and three Democrats, so the potential for deadlock was always there. Joe Shoemaker, the Republican chair of the committee, asked for Paul's support on a labor bill, and Paul said he would. The labor movement became concerned and went to Paul and said, "You're a Democrat; you have to change your vote." He said, "The only thing you have in Legislature is your word, and I gave my word to Joe. Maybe if we started afresh, I wouldn't have done it. But that's what I did, and I'm going to stick with it." And it created a bond between Joe and Paul.
Joe Shoemaker, former state senator: He was a good man. He took budgeting just the way I liked to: study the presentations of the agency heads and determine whether they actually needed the money.
Maria Garcia Berry, lobbyist: They put ideology aside and got things done for the state. Paul has the unique ability to get to "yes" and convince people that there can be wins for everyone. He has an inherent knack for reading people, understanding what they want, and getting things done. He's a great poker player.
John Salazar, Colorado agriculture commissioner and former U.S. congressman: The first big story I remembered about Paul was from Arnold Salazar, who is not a cousin of mine but has been a supporter. He was a student at Adams State College, and they staged a sit-in protesting Hispanic causes.
Arnold Salazar, executive director of Colorado Health Partnerships: It was a time of a lot of turmoil. The students had been expelled for organizing demonstrations. Someone told us to talk to Paul, who was on the JBC. He told the college they had a choice: reinstate the students or take a million-dollar cut in its budget. The students were back in college in a matter of days. As Paul says: "Why bother having political power if you're not going to use it?"
Paul: The biggest bill I ever worked on was the Bilingual Bicultural Act in '74 or '75. It was a K-3 program for helping a child learn to read and write the English language, and at the same time be taught biculturally and bilingually.
Garcia Berry: So many kids were being left behind, growing up in a monolingual home and then going to a different monolingual school. They needed a bridge. The goal was to make a Latino child competent and fluent in English. Everyone got hung up on the cultural piece, but it was a language thing.
Smith: Paul was carefully building his relationship with Joe Shoemaker because his highest priority was getting the bilingual education bill passed. We passed it in the House immediately, but the Senate, being Republican, was tougher. He knew he had to have a strong relationship with Joe to have it pass.
Paul: Joe Shoemaker took a liking to me. Since I worked closely with him on many bills, he eventually says, "I'll help you pass it." We didn't have all the Democrats, but a couple Republicans backed it, so we were able to get bipartisan support for a very controversial bill.
Tom Tancredo, former U.S. congressman: I was in the Legislature at the time and introduced legislation to eliminate bilingual education, and that started a big fight. Every Hispanic member in the Legislature was lined up to debate me on it. But I always thought Paul was the most gentlemanly. We could discuss issues. There was no personal agenda, no ad hominem attacks. We argued on the issues themselves.
Webb: You left the politics under the gold dome, and people became friends across the aisle. They weren't quite as self-righteous as they seem to be now.
Paul: [There was an attempt to] repeal the bill some years later, and it's still controversial. At the time, Governor Lamm said he would veto any attempt to repeal the bill. He promised it to us, and he broke his word.


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Friday - 2/15/2013, 10:10am EST
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new plan by Senate Democrats to head off severe spending cuts in two weeks met an icy reception from Republicans on Thursday as administration officials stepped forward to lay out the biting consequences that could come if no deal is reached soon: thousands of air traffic controllers sidelined, the on and off idling of meat plants nationwide, slashed food aid and nutrition education for low-income women and children, locked gates at wildlife refuges, 10,000 laid-off teachers, and much more.
As part of their solution to the impasse, Democrats are proposing a minimum tax on the wealthy, a non-starter with the GOP, as well as cuts to much-criticized farm subsidies and more gradual reductions in the Pentagon budget than will happen if the automatic cuts, known as sequester, kick in. Republicans vowed to kill the Democratic legislation encompassing the plan when a vote is called the week of Feb. 25 -- just days before the across-the-board cuts would start to slam government operations and the economy.
Release of the plan set off a predictable round of bickering in a capital that remains at a loss over how to prevent the sequester, even as more and more details on the impact of the cuts are being released by panicked agency heads.
"Their whole goal here isn't to solve the problem, it's to have a show vote that's designed to fail, call it a day, and wait for someone else to pick up the pieces," Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said of Democrats. "Well, my message this morning is simple: There won't be any easy off-ramps on this one."
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray, D-Wash., called the Democratic measure, with its 50-50 mix of new tax revenue and spending cuts, a "fair and balanced approach" that "protects our country from moving into a very, very fragile position."
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"Now, Republicans in Congress face a simple choice," said Jay Carney, President Barack Obama's spokesman. "Do they protect investments in education, health care and national defense or do they continue to prioritize and protect tax loopholes that benefit the very few at the expense of middle and working class Americans?"
The automatic sequester cuts that the Democratic bill is trying to avoid would drain $85 billion from the government's budget over the coming seven months, imposing cuts of at least 8 percent cut on the Pentagon and 5 percent on domestic agencies. Medicare payments to doctors would be cut by 2 percent. Actual cuts may be in the order of 13 percent for defense and 9 percent for other programs because lawmakers delayed the impact of the sequester, requiring savings to be achieved in a shorter time.
Administration officials, in testimony to the Senate Appropriations Committee or letters to the panel, gave more shape to what they say is likely to happen absent a breakthrough.
Lawmakers were told 15,000 air traffic controllers would be laid off for more than two weeks, the furloughing of inspectors for up to 15 days would force intermittent closures of meat and poultry plants, a relief fund for disaster victims would lose $1 billion, 70,000 pupils would be removed from the Head Start pre-kindergarten program, and mental health treatment could be denied to more than 373,000 people who need it. More than 3.8 million people out of work six months or longer could see their unemployment benefits reduced by close to 10 percent, and up to 600,000 women would be dropped from the Women, Infants and Children program that gives aid and nutrition education to pregnant and postpartum mothers.
As well, security at U.S. diplomatic installations, incredibly sensitive since the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi, Libya, would be hampered, as would international peacekeeping operations in Mali and elsewhere and programs combatting terrorism, weapons proliferation and drug trafficking, lawmakers were told as part of a long list detailing the predicted fallout.
To be sure, officials were casting the likely consequences in dire terms, as is always the case when agency budgets are threatened. The sequester law exempts Social Security, Medicaid, food stamps and Medicare recipients' benefits from cuts, and the White House has instructed agencies to give priority to avoiding cuts that "present risks to life, safety or health." But there is no question the cuts would bite deep, and most programs are vulnerable.
The across-the-board cuts would result from the failure of a 2011 deficit "supercommittee" to reach agreement on a deficit reduction plan. The original idea was to make the prospect of sweeping, automatic cuts so severe that Democrats and Republicans would be motivated to strike a budget bargain to head it off.


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I noticed something I missed in March. We've all been waiting on BP 3.0 for OSS OpenCL supported physics under linux. I noticed that ver 2.8 already has GPU support for its rigid body pipeline. They include some precompiled demonstration binaries which may be a nice addition to the Phoronix Test Suite.
Take a peek
I think the JavaScript build of BB is more impressive ;-)
I really meant Bullet Physics :-)
There was a Phoronix article about this a while ago. Now if OpenCL in JavaScript was possible, that would even be more aweome.
(The project that allows for building to JS is this: https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki. I almost crapped my pants when I first the BB engine running in a browser with WebGL...)


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Following PETA's undercover investigation and an intense year-long campaign, the University of Utah (also known as "the U") has announced that it will no longer purchase dogs and cats from North Utah Valley Animal Shelter (NUVAS)—or any other animal shelter—to be used in invasive and deadly experiments. Since the U was the last Utah purchaser of homeless animals for use in experiments, this victory means the complete end of "pound seizure" in the state of Utah!
PETA's shocking investigation at the U in 2009 has prompted a sea change in the treatment of animals in Utah. Until then, public shelters were forced by law to sell animals to the U. Soon after we broke our case, the U was cited for nine violations of federal animal welfare laws, Utah legislators amended the state's pound-seizure law so that government-run animal shelters could choose not to sell animals for experimentation, and the shelter that was then selling the most animals to the school ended the practice. A PETA lawsuit compelled a city to turn over records of the animals it sold to the U so that the public would know who these betrayed animals were. And who can forget Sheena, the loveable mutt whom PETA helped rescue from the U, where she would have gone under the knife, just in time for Christmas.
The U's decision appears to have already pushed it to find more humane research methods. Instead of repeatedly forcing tubes down shelter cats' throats in a cruel and crude intubation training course, the scheduled animal laboratory was recently canceled after PETA protests, and modern human-infant simulators were used instead.
Now, animals entering the state's animal shelters will no longer be betrayed by those who should help them, and Utah residents with missing dogs or cats can at least know that if their beloved animal companions make it to a shelter, they won't be sold to laboratories, where they would experience lives filled with suffering and grisly deaths.
A huge thank-you to all of you who asked the U and NUVAS to do the right thing by animals. This is a major victory, but there are still too many animals suffering in university laboratories—in Michigan, South Carolina, and Ohio and in both Dallas and Galveston, Texas, just to name a few. So please keep speaking up until every cage is empty.
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Thank the LORD!!! Thank Peta for a job well done. May all these animals now have the life they so rightly deseve.
People who are cruel to animals have no place on this earth. I wish I could have the opportunity to hand out some the evil behaviour they have bestowed on these beautiful creatures. I love to see them squirm.
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Thank you God. Not all of us humans are cruel and vicious.
I am curious if those 'researchers' from the 'U' go home at night and at bedtime tell their children how many poor, helpless animals they slaughtered that day to help them with their 'humane' research. No wonder so many children have nightmares. Why don't those researchers have those nightmares? Or have they closed their minds to the horrible things they are doing to God's other children. Hell has a special level just for these people, And when they get there, the first thing they'll say is "Why am I being tortured? What harm did I do in my life?"
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Unfortunately for other animals there, they are still doing lethal research. I recently interviewed for a position that does lethal experiments on pigs and sheep. Needless to say I am not taking that position. There are experiments on lower campus with rats. There are experiments on upper campus on horses, cows, sheep, pigs, dogs, cats, rats, mice, fish, frogs, newts, and many others. I don't think this has slowed them down. I am disgusted with my alma mater.


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Bob,About 9 oz. but I figure for a 13-in pie when using the 12-inch cutter pan.
Just for grins you might like to try 7oz sometime. easy on the toppings.
Ah, that'd be the famous Chicago Paper-Thin Crust Pizza?
OK, 7.5 but that's it! You jus never know my friend......might be to your liking.
Jay, one additional suggestion that I thought of and if I can make . . . on the edge of the pizza dough in the cutter pan is to follow my "press, pinch and crimp" procedure and do so on the edge of the pizza dough in the pan before baking. This may not sound like much, but I dare others to try it and tell me it doesn't do something good to really help in the total tasting experience of Chicago style thin crust (or even deep dish) pizza eating. The partial pizza pictured below was from Villa Nova's pizzeria in Chicago, but kind of gets to what I strive for, which is a rough, irregular, "moonscape", pinched appearing edges. May sound screwy, but it is very helpful in the total taste experience (at least the treasured "outside pizza pieces). In any event, suggest to others to at least just try this seemingly minor step and see if it delights and pleases your and your's taste buds more than others. --BTB
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I've been watching the LTV7 stream, but it went down just as they were about to show Penny and Nicholas' highlights. Grrrr!!!
I wasn't using your link for Спорт-2 Simona5 because it is saying that it needs to install plug-ins. But, out of desperation there now, I clicked the install link, and it turned out that the plug-in was VLC media player, which I already have installed. So, I downloaded the new version, but it is still coming up with the same message.
Any ideas, anybody? I'm using Firefox. Would it be different on Internet Explorer?
Because I've made a mistake - first post with a link - and I was banned for a few hours, I want to tell you to look at the page number 2 where I have posted a link to Romanian Television TVR HD, and the schedule of the live Euro. I hope it'll work for you!
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other stream, freezing sometimes, but better than nothing
Don't worry, I made the same mistake with my first post. The worst of it was that it was not me that had posted the offending link - the link was in the comment that I was quoting! But, I was lucky that one of the Admins was online at the same time as me, so it got sorted out quite quickly!
But thank you so much for being so thoughtful as to tell us the TVR HD link. It's just a pity that it turned out to be geo-blocked.
Just wanted to let everybody know that the link for LTV7 that we were watching yesterday for the Short Dance is working for the Mens Short
Gotta go - just about to start
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thanx a lot!!! it does really work, here: http://www.ltv7.lv/files/player-lice...autostart=true
SVT is good, if you can find a VPN, to get past the geoblocking, that can handle the bandwidth. The stream usually uses a lot of bandwidth that some VPN services cannot handle. Mine has a hard time handling it. The only reason I stick with them is because they have a VPN server in China, which I use at times to watch the few CCTV5 streams left, all geoblocked to China.
I am watching Euros on SVT today, becuase CnopT2 has chosen to pre-empt nearly everything today for soccer and basketball, though they will still have the final groups of the pairs free live, starting at 12:45 PM US Eastern Time.
If you choose to go this route, one solution for VPNs that have trouble with the bandwidth is to set the player to be about a minute behind. SVT has a pause and restart feature, much similar to what TiVo or Dish's Hopper DVRs have. I just simply adjust the player so that I am seeing the video by about a minute's delay, and the problems with the VPN keeping up with the stream seems to go away.
Part of the problem with some VPNs keeping up with the stream is that SVT uses a very high definittion stream that runs at about 3 megabits.
Does anyone know if SVT will have any of the GP series next season? I like the high-definition picture they have, much like what I used to get on NTV+ and WebTV when they had the GP series.
Sorry I didnt get a chance to post before the Pairs Free competition started.
Firstly, the link for LTV7 is still working.
Secondly, I wanted to remind everybody who wants English commentary that Eurosport will be joining the Pairs Free straight after the football is over (approx 19:55 GMT)
I usually use www.day.to for my Eurosport streams.
The first Europort link on the list is for Eurosport International 1
ONLY International, Deutschland and France are showing the Pairs Free LIVE on Eurosport 1 (British 1 is showing Tennis).
The Figure Skating will instead be LIVE on British Eurosport 2, which is the second Eurosport 2 link on the list.
However, as they will both be joining half-way through Yuko and Alexanders FP, I suspect they will show highlights until the end of the final warm-up.
Hope this helps
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Well made but small and lacks warmth
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There are two themes consistently shared in the reviews and I agree with both. The gloves are pretty snug -- I've never had a pair of large gloves fit so snugly -- so I'd definitely go a size up if you buy these. Second, despite the wind stopper barrier, reasonable insulation and the last two fingers sharing a space, they just don't keep my hands warm. I've used these on my commutes for the last two weeks and if the weather is 40 or below, my hands get cold. I've had better luck with much lighter gloves in similar weather. The are comfortable and dextrous -- good riding gloves and I want to wear them - but 40+ degree weather is not where I expected to use these gloves and I have much lighter options for such temperatures.
Not recommended
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Sadly, I will have to agree with the other reviewers. I wanted to take a chance on these, but the gloves were a disappointment. While they look great, aesthetics and craftsmanship are where my positive comments end. My hands were, uncomfortably, cold in 40-something F weather.
I cannot add anything to this review that has not previously been stated. Save yourself the trouble (and a few dollars) by purchasing another pair of gloves.
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Expected so much more from these, especially considering the pinky/ring finger combo. Gives the impression that they are for cold weather. I wouldn't use these on the road below 42(F). The back of the glove has Windstopper, but if you blow between the fingers you'll see that the sides of the fingers let's the cold breeze right through. I still like the feel and construction though, and make a good cool weather mountain bike glove. Generous terry cloth area for whiping the snot away.
As much as I like Gore apparel (love my Gore Fusion gloves for extreme temps) there are just too many better winter road glove offerings for the price.
Like most, I had to one size up
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I've had these gloves about a month now and I love them. The first major ride I took in them was an 86 mile, 25 degree hill climb two weeks ago. They not only kept me warm, but they were comfortable to boot! Like everyone else has said, buy them a size big. I normally wear mediums, bought large, and they fit, well, like a glove.
Cold day perfection
Nice. They run a bit small, but the construction is well done. Lovely gloves for those real, real cold days. Sub 30, wind from the west. No worries. These gloves rock the cold. In fact not sure it could be cold enough that they won't keep your fingers warm. I like the 4 finger set up. Better by far than the lobster 3 finger option.
more than a bit small. I usually wear XL gloves...needed to order XXXL in these.
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Great quality, comfort and feel. This gloves doesn't cause your hands to over heat and they are laden with reflective features that are so very important to any low light and evening riding. The gel pads are simply priceless. I love the idea of making one compartment for the ring and pinky fingers (awesome). I would not hesitate to buy a pair of these gloves if I were you.
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Made winter commuting hurt less
This winter was phenomenally cold, and my hands (particularly my pinkie fingers) were starting to get numb and painful before I got to work. These gloves kept my hands warm all the way down to sub-zero Fahrenheit temps, but still let you retain pretty good dexterity. With a liner, you'd be fine to probably -20 or so.
Right on. Hard to imagine it too cold for these, and with a thin liner, -20 is not a reach.
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Liner slips when gripping
Warm and comfy but the liner inside slips enough to where control on your grip is affected. Otherwise great gloves. I di return them because I like a tactical firm feel on my grip and not any movement.
The gloves did a fair job in keeping my fingers warm at 35 to 45 degrees. The problem with these is that they have an inner liner that is attached but causes your fingers to shift about a 1/2 an inch within the glove while the outer part grips the handlebar. Therefore causing a false sense of control. SO if you are a hard mountain biker that likes control, then this is not your option.


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Sr. Fellow Bruce Benson, author of To Serve and Protect appeared on the nationally syndicated Katherine Albrecht Radio Show. Benson discusses his writing on the criminal justice system, the war on drugs, and the founding principles of freedom in society.
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Sr. Fellow Bruce Benson, author of The Enterprise of Law appeared on the Tom Woods radio show to speak about the increasing frequency of private police in areas of our society. In an upcoming article in The Independent Review, Benson will update some ideas about private, market-based justice processes and less government police abuse.
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Anthony Gregory, Research Fellow and author of The Power of Habeas Corpus in America: From the Kings Prerogative to the War on Terror, appeared on America's Radio News Network on Thursday, May 2 with host Ernie Brown. They talk about Anthony's new book, the history of the writ of Habeas Corpus, and how it is still relevant today.
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Independent Institute Research Fellow Edward Lopéz, Associate Professor of Law and Economics at San Jose State University and editor of the new Institute book The Pursuit of Justice, talks with Institute President David Theroux about the faulty incentives at the heart of government legal failures and whether market-based alternatives can provide viable solutions to the serious problems caused by the bureaucratization and politicization of the law.
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David Theroux on the Arizona Immigration Law Recorded: Thursday, July 15, 2010
David Theroux discusses the Arizona immigration law on The Neil Asbury Show.
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William Watkins on NPRs Talk of the Nation Discussing Supreme Court Nominations Recorded: Tuesday, June 29, 2010
With the hearings on the nomination of Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court, Research Fellow William J. Watkins, Jr., was interviewed on NPRs Talk of the Nation to discuss how to revise the nomination and selection process of Supreme Court Justices, based on his recent article in the Washington Examiner, A role for the people in judicial selection.
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The numero-uno question on most girl's minds when it comes to down there is, "Am I normal?" Rest assured that, no matter how foreign your V may seem to you these days, most itches, odd smells and different-looking discharges are indeed typical. But pay attention to any abrupt changes down there and definitely see a doctor if you're ever in major pain or you sense that something's just not right. (Keep reading for more deets on other warning signs.)
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No, that huge red, zit-looking bump isn't cancer. Phew! Mostly likely, it's an ingrown hair. After your shower, treat it once a day with Tend Skin. Have a rash-like irritation? You could have an allergic reaction, inflamed oil glands or some other skin condition that may need treatment. "Don't pick at it or scratch!" says Dr. Melissa Holmes, a gynecologist in South Carolina and co-founder of Girlology.com. A doc can help you ditch that itch.
Cramps are a pain, literally. There are three different times in a cycle when chicas may get those aches. Right before your period starts, your hormones can go haywire and your uterus can clench up a lil' bit. Then during your period, blood clots might hurt you when they squeeze through your cervix. And two weeks into your cycle, you might get achy when your ovary releases an egg. "This is all normal pain, and an anti-inflammatory like Advil or Ibuprofen should help," says Dr. Kelly Kasper, a gynecologist in Indiana. Stretching your abs and working out are other great ways to conquer cramps.
Every chica gets discharge when she goes through puberty. It's your body's way of cleaning itself out, and it usually starts six month to a year before you get your first period. The amount varies based on your hormone levels and where you are in your cycle. Some girlies like to wear pantyliners on heavy days. A healthy discharge white, clear, or sometimes light yellow when dried. "If it has a bad odor, if it is green or bubbly grey, if itching doesn't go away, or pain and burning, you should see your doc," says Dr. Kasper.
Eau de you
Reality check: No one's vagina smells like roses. A little body odor is totally normal, but pay attention is something smells a bit fishy or otherwise foul down there. "Most likely, the smell comes from sweat," says Dr. Randi Protter, medical director at the Center for Women's Health in New Jersey. If ya notice that you smell more after working out, you can use a little bit of deodorant in the area where your leg meets your outer lips (just avoid feminine deodorant sprays, which can irritate your vagina). Leaving in a tampon for too long or an infection can also cause a stink. If he smell is really bed, or if your discharge has a funky odor, book an appointment with your doc.
Funky folds
Ever sneak a peek down there? Then you probably noticed that your vagina isn't quite the tidy little package it's often portrayed to be (thanks airbrushed nudie mags). That's because no one vag is the same. There are folds of skin—also known as your labia or lips—that can have lots of different shapes, colors and sizes. "A lot of girls' labia minoras aren't symmetrical on the left and the right, and it's not a medical problem at all," says Dr. Alyssa Dweck, a gynecologist in New York and author of V is for Vagina. So whether your lips are tan, grey, flesh-colored, light pink or bright pink, you're A-OK. Just keep an eye out for any dark freckles, which should be checked to rule out melanoma.
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It's 3 p.m. And you're gassy…again. Yep, gas is embarrassing. But it's also pretty normal—and there are ways to temper those toots. "The type of food you eat makes a big difference," says Dr. Protter. Foods like beans or cabbage are especially gas-inducing, as is chewing gum and drinking soda since they increase the amount of air you swallow. Eliminating this stuff from your diet may help, as does trying a chewable tablet called Beano can help you digest beans, and Lactaid can help you digest milk. If you are suddenly having a lot of gas, diarrhea or losing weight, speak with your doc.
Hair 411
What's the point of pubic hair, you ask? The coarse, dark, and often curly hair that appears during puberty serves a very important purpose: To block bacteria from entering your vagina. Everyone's hair down there is different, in color, length, texture and even location. Whether you want to trim it up or keep things au naturel is up to you. (If you choose to prune your pubes, see "Keeping it Clean").
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Thinking something's a little off down there? We can't stress it enough: Do not ignore any pain, funky smells, or oddly colored discharge (see sidebar for a breakdown of three major ailments most girls suffer from). Doctors see this stuff all the time, so there's no need to feel ashamed or embarrassed. And besides, nipping these probs in the bud early on may save you from a boatload of issues down the road. Your va-jay-jay will thank you for it.
Keepin' things under control
From shaving to waxing, you've got lots of options when it comes to cleaning up the hair down there. "It's totally normal to want to remove hair. Most girls don't want any out-of-bounds hair when wearing a bathing suit," says Dr. Holmes. If you opt to shave? Wash the area gently with soap and water then grab a clean razor, lather up with shaving cream, and go with the grain of the hair. Don't shave everything, because your hair protects your skin from irritation from sweat and oil.
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The only one of your friends who hasn't gotten her period? We promise, it's on the way! The timetable for your first period is different for everyone, and usually reflects the age when your mom or older sisters started theirs. "The age where we start to get concerned if you don't have your period is 16," says Dr. Dweck. If Aunt Flo hasn't visited by then, go in for a check up. Having a very lean body due to sports like gymnastics (or issues like an eating disorder) can be a possible cause for the delay.
Majora what?
Someone a while back came up with some funny-sounding labels for our girly parts. If ya need a quick cheat sheet for your V's exterior, here goes: First, there's the labia majora (outer lips), the labia minora (inner lips), which are there to block icky bacteria from entering the vagina. Beyond that is the clitoris (a small, super sensitive organ), the urethral opening (where your pee comes out) and, finally, your vaginal opening. Got it? Good!
Non-Stop Flow
Aunt Flo's come to town and she just won't leave ya alone? Heavy periods can be common, but if yours last longer than seven days, or are so heavy that you're switching your tampons and pads like crazy, see a doc. You may just be genetically inclined to have heavy periods (thanks, mom!), but a medical pro can make sure that your hormone levels are OK—and that all of that bleeding isn't sapping your iron levels.
Off schedule
So ya finished your period at the end of the month. But two weeks later, a little blood is showing up on your undies. What's up with that? While it's prob not anything serious at your age, you should still see a doc to find out for sure. "Some people may have a little bit of staining when they ovulate, but it's not usual to have bleeding in the middle of the cycle," says Dr. Dweck.
Painful pees
Peeing should not hurt. Period. So if you're in pain while you pee (or just after), if you have to go more often than usual, or if you see blood in your urine, you may have a bladder infection, also called a urinary tract infection (or UTI). "This kind of infection requires treatment with antibiotics," says Dr. Protter. Treat this sitch quickly or it can get super painful, super fast. A doc will have you pee in a cup and give you antibiotics that will help ya out in one or two days.
Rear reactions
Your vagina's not the only mystery down there. You may be having some issues on the other side, too. The number one concern for girls? Pain while pooping, and blood on the toilet paper after you wipe. If this is happening to you, don't freak. Chances are, you have a tiny tear inside your bum, usually a result of straining while you poop (amping up the fiber in your diet and sitting in a warm tub for 15 minutes a day can ease your pain). Hemorrhoids—swollen veins in the anal canal—are also a possibility. But before you reach for over the counter solutions, sched some time to see your doc.
Snow way
You can get dry skin allover your body—including around your vagina. As a result, you may notice dandruff-like flakes down there (which may also be caused by irritation from shaving, dried discharge, a yeast infection or even a skin condition called psoriasis). If you've got a flaky situation, "try switching to a gentle soap and keep the area clean and dry," suggests Tamara Walker, a nurse in Oklahoma who hosts the Ask MomRN Show. (Whatever you do, definitely avoid anti-dandruff shampoo, which is way harsh). Switching to laundry detergent made for sensitive skin may help, too.
Tampon troubles
Feelin' some pain is common when you're learning how to use a tampon, but continuous discomfort probably means you've inserted it at a weird angle or not far in enough. "You shouldn't be able to feel it at all when it is up there," says Dr. Kasper. It may help to use handheld mirror as you're inserting in the right place—and to get familiar with your V. If you're still in pain, see a doc to make sure an infection isn't making your tissue more sensitive.
Uh oh, camel toe!
We've probably all been a victim of this oh-so-awkward front wedgie. Wearing too-tight clothes hugs the fatty tissue around your vagina, causing camel toe. The good news? You're probably more aware of it than anyone else. But if you see a noticeable bulge on the inside of your vagina, it could be a glandular issue that a doc can take care of.
(The Other) V-Word
That would be virgin, natch. And contrary to common belief, you will remain one until you have sex—regardless of whether your hymen breaks another way. The hymen, a thin membrane that partially covers your vaginal opening, is easily ruptured by anything to riding a bike to inserting a tampon. And chances are, you won't even realize it ever happened. "Yes, [you can break your hymen] from sex, sports or any sort of trauma to the area, but you don't always bleed when it breaks," said Dr. Dweck.
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Usually when belligerently drunk, one tackles a fat bitch and breaks a coffee table, while violently molesting sed fat bitch.
O snap, he just gobbled that bitch!
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When you make a gobbling noise like a turkey and jokingly fondle someones junk.
Similar to a sack tap.
Similar to a sack tap.
Jim: Man he just gobbled me...what kind of faggot does that?
Sam: Shit i thought it was kinda funny.
Sam: Shit i thought it was kinda funny.
2009년 03월 31일 (화)
A man recieving oral sex.
A variation on it is "gobbled up."
A variation on it is "gobbled up."
I got gobbled at that party last night!
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2005년 03월 22일 (화)
To stuff your face with food with out chewing or taking a breath, just inhaling it.
Amy: I think I'm going to get some left-over pie."
Daniel: "Woop, to late. Payton gobbled that that whole thing down an hour ago."
Amy: "...Danmm"
Daniel: "Woop, to late. Payton gobbled that that whole thing down an hour ago."
Amy: "...Danmm"
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This is when you are manipulated via a phishing scam that asks you to give away your private World of Warcraft account data, the intention being to rob you of your gold coins and change your character to a goblin (or other less savory creatures).
They stole my information and changed my character. I've been gobbled!
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While much of the rest of the country got walloped by a massive winter storm this week, the Sierra remained stuck in a stubborn dry pattern that shows no signs of breaking anytime soon.
Even the groundhog in Punxsutawney didn't see his shadow meaning, if groundhogs can be believed, that winter will end soon.
But the huge snows that hit the Sierra back in December were enough to, so far at least, protect the state of California, which gets 30 percent of its water from the Sierra Nevada mountains.
How do we know?
Every month from December through March, the state sends out backcountry skiers to check the snow depth and snow moisture in the Sierra snowpack.
The skiers come back with measurements from passes and basins across the Sierra and feed that information into data crunching computers.
The second of these snow surveys was completed last Friday and it paints a still hopeful, though by no means certain, picture for the coming year.
The epic December storms left behind enough snow to compensate for essentially none in January, leaving Mammoth Pass still above normal for the end of January.
The southern Sierra did even better. The wet winter storms that turned Southern California into a disaster area included huge dumps in the southern end of the Sierra, with as much as 307 percent of normal snowfall (in Independence) for this date.
The prognosis is good enough for the state to assure all its water users, from Imperial Valley farmers to managers of endangered salmon on the Sacramento Delta that at least 60 percent of the needs of the state's users can be met by the water already stored in California reservoirs – unlike last year when only 50 percent of those needs could be met.
But we aren't out of the woods, either.
"January was effectively a non-event. That is unfortunately the pattern of La Niña," said Frank Gehrke, the state of California coordinator for snow surveys.
"The real issue is whether or not February will come through."
With no major storms on the horizon, that possibility is getting a little uncomfortable, he said, although it's still too soon to truly worry.
If the "non-event" of this past January had been any later in the year, say in February or March, the consequences could have been more serious.
That's because the later in the year a dry spell occurs, the more direct the sun's rays are on the existing snow pack.
"As we move into the spring, there is a lot more sun angle and increased snowmelt," Gehrke said.
Runoff created by the warm days in January has already put many of the major reservoirs into flood control release mode, Gehrke said.
"Snow melting right now could mean we're not going to have water come spring and summer when it's most needed."
The end result of both the big storms and the dry spell of the past month is that snowpack totals for the entire state are at 134 percent of normal and 78 percent of the April 1 seasonal average, meaning there is still reason for hope — and not enough surplus not to worry.
But, on the bright side, what does Punxustawney Phil know anyway?
We don't even have groundhogs in Mammoth.
In Mammoth, it's about something else altogether.
"Mammoth Marmot saw his shadow this morning," said Howard Sheckter, Mammoth's own weather forecaster. "He braved the cold, modified Arctic Air to do his job.
"Six more weeks of winter……Hope he's right!"


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Mariners, Angels jostle for position in AL West
The Mariners return home from their Texas road stretch to confront one of the league's most interesting teams.
Seattle will host the American League West-rival Angels for a four-game series starting Thursday, a chance for both teams to steady their footing in the turbulent division. The Mariners have won just six of their last 21 games after beginning the season 2-0, and they will have rookie Brandon Maurer on the mound against Garrett Richards in the opener.
Maurer has just four big league starts under his belt, and he has been a bit mercurial. The right-hander allowed six earned runs in each of his first two starts -- one against Oakland and the other against Houston -- but settled down to allow four total earned runs in back-to-back starts against Texas. Maurer, 22, has impressed manager Eric Wedge.
"I've been really happy with his last two starts," Wedge said. "I think he sees the game differently now than when he first came up, which is very common for a young starting pitcher. Which gives him an ability to focus and keep his mind in the moment and do what he needs to do. All those things are working in his favor. And of course, he has the stuff."
Maurer, a 23rd-round selection in the 2008 First-Year Player Draft, has had the stuff to progress quickly through Seattle's farm system. He struggled a bit at High A Desert in 2011 -- when he posted a 6.38 ERA in nine appearances -- but served notice last year with a 9-2 record and a 3.20 ERA for Double-A Jackson. Now, Maurer is just starting to relax.
"I'm staying over the rubber and just being smooth with my delivery," he said. "Not trying to overthrow anything."
Richards began the season in the Angels' bullpen and moved into the rotation after an injury to staff ace Jered Weaver. The 24-year-old made three scoreless relief appearances in four outings before his first start, and he has completed at least six innings in each of his rotation turns. Richards threw seven innings and gave up just two hits in his last start, so he could be making a case to stay in the five-man set even once Weaver returns.
When asked what has been the key to taking advantage of the opportunity, Richards said, "Just attacking guys and believing in your stuff."
The same, he said, goes for the rest of the team.
"I know we started off rough in the beginning of the year, but we're talented [in roster positions] 1 through 25," Richards said. "I wasn't worried about it. Once we started clicking as far as the pitching and the offense goes, we'll be fine.
"We're going to feed off of one another. The offense isn't going to be there every night and the pitching isn't going to be there every night, but the more times we are on the same page, the more ballgames we are going to win."
Angels: Hamilton heating up
Josh Hamilton is off to a slow start for the Angels, but he has shown signs of coming around. The five-time All-Star had four hits in a loss Monday night, and he came back to hit safely in Tuesday's 5-4 victory over the Rangers. On Wednesday, he went 1-for-3. Prior to that three-game stretch, Hamilton had gone more than a week without getting hits in consecutive games.
• Manager Mike Scioscia is pleased that the core starters have picked it up of late, although Wednesday against the Rangers was a slight setback for rookie left-hander Michael Roth. "Some of these guys are good pitchers that really just took a while to get into their game," Scioscia said. "Garrett's throwing the ball really well, he threw a terrific game, Joe Blanton threw better the other day. You know Jason Vargas was going to bounce back his track record is too strong. C.J. [Wilson], after a rough couple innings, threw a strong game."
Mariners: Shortstop shuffle
Robert Andino is going to start getting some more playing time at shortstop for the Mariners, who also have an interesting time-sharing arrangement in left field. Raul Ibanez is hitting just .148 but has gotten the majority of playing time out in left field recently, but Jason Bay -- who has started just one of the last six games -- will get some more time soon.
The Mariners have played against several right-handed starters recently, which is why Ibanez has been the choice. The Angels are scheduled to start lefty Wilson on Friday night and southpaw Vargas in Sunday's finale.
"When we have these right-handers, I want to give our left-handers a chance," said Wedge of the developing platoon and how he would handle playing the two veterans moving forward. "I like Jason. That's why he made this team. I'm not saying he's just going to play strictly against left-handers, but I'm trying to give Raul every chance to get on line."
Worth noting
• The Angels are in the middle of a 10-game stretch against AL West foes.
•The Angels went 11-8 against Seattle last season.
• Kyle Seager has a 13-game hitting streak for the Mariners.
Spencer Fordin is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Marlins call on Flynn in rubber game vs. Bucs
Filling in for Cosart, prospect faces Volquez, who's never lost to Fish
At the big league level, nothing is set in stone. Brian Flynn, whom the Marlins will send to the mound on Thursday in the series finale against the Pirates, certainly has seen that in his first few days back with the Marlins.
On Tuesday, the lefty was recalled from Triple-A New Orleans after Jacob Turner was designated for assignment. Flynn, ranked No. 10 among Marlins prospects according to MLB.com, was supposed to start on Tuesday night for the Zephyrs, with whom he was 7-8 with a 4.00 ERA in 21 starts, but the Marlins called on him to pitch out of the bullpen in long relief instead.
That changed on Wednesday when it was announced he would be making his first start of the season in a Miami uniform, getting the nod after Jarred Cosart was scratched due to a sore left oblique. Flynn appeared in one game for the Marlins on June 27 against the A's, when he threw three innings of relief, allowing two runs on four hits. A year ago, he made four starts for Miami, going 0-2 with an 8.50 ERA.
"It's a crazy game," Flynn said of the whirlwind of activity the past few days. "I never saw that [Cosart's ailment] coming. I hope Jarred heals up quickly. I look at this as an opportunity to impress."
Edinson Volquez is in desperate need of impressing his opponents, too. The Pirates' starter has been shaky since the All-Star break, posting a 5.74 ERA in his last three starts. Opponents have a .343 average and .973 OPS against him.
What tanked Volquez's most recent outing was a three-run shot by Arizona's Ender Inciarte. Volquez gave up four runs (three earned), struck out five and allowed seven hits in 5 2/3 innings. He got a no-decision as the Pirates rallied late for a win.
The good news for Volquez is that he's never lost to the Marlins, going 5-0 with a 1.95 ERA in six starts against them. He's pitched at least six innings and allowed two runs or fewer in five of those starts.
Marlins: Trying to make hitting contagious
Grinding out at-bats can sometimes be a group activity. The Marlins are starting to get production throughout the lineup, from more sources than just Giancarlo Stanton and Casey McGehee. Adeiny Hechavarria has picked things up, and Jeff Baker -- against lefty pitching -- is making contributions.
Drawing walks also is part of the process.
"There's more than one way to win ballgames," manager Mike Redmond said. "Grinding out at-bats and taking advantage of a mistake, that becomes huge. It seems like our offense is based on momentum. They seem to feed off each other. That's something we really hadn't had over the last five or six days. We're looking to get that back."
Pirates: Walker's absence felt in lineup
Neil Walker wasn't in the lineup again on Wednesday night, and the second baseman didn't make a pinch-hit appearance. In three of the Pirates' last four games, Walker has sat out with nagging back tightness.
It's an unfortunate time for Walker to be sidelined, especially since his team is already without a few key pieces. Plus, he's had one of the hottest bats on the team in the second half. His .319 average since the All-Star break is second to only Josh Harrison among players with at least 20 plate appearances.
Worth noting
• By scoring three runs off Jeff Locke on Wednesday night, the Marlins snapped a streak of seven games in which they had scored exactly one run against opposing starters. The last team to record a stretch of seven games scoring one run off opposing starters was the Cleveland Indians, from April 28-May 6, 1966. No team in Major League history has gone past the seven-game mark.
• Twelve of Harrison's last 20 hits since July 27 have gone for extra bases. He has at least one extra-base hit in nine of his last 10 games, and entering Wednesday's game, led all Major League players with 12 extra-base hits (five homers, six doubles and one triple) in that span.
Maria Torres is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924)
Melodramma in 3 acts; Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica based on the drama "La Tosca" by Victorien Sardou; First performed on 14th January 1900 in Rome; Premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 13th April 1969
In Italian with German and English surtitles
Conductor | Donald Runnicles |
Director | Boleslaw Barlog |
Stage-design, Costume-design | Filippo Sanjust |
Chorus master | Thomas Richter |
Children's Chorus | Christian Lindhorst |
Tosca | Anja Harteros |
Mario Cavaradossi | Marcelo Álvarez |
Scarpia | Ivan Inverardi |
Angelotti | Noel Bouley |
Sacristan | Seth Carico |
Spoletta | Álvaro Zambrano |
Sciarrone | Andrew Harris |
Turnkey | Tobias Kehrer |
Chorus | Kinderchor der Deutschen Oper Berlin |
Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin | |
Orchestra | Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin |
Puccini's "Torture Opera", as Oskar Bie dubbed it, was based on LA TOSCA, the well received play by Victorien Sardou [1831–1908], which premiered in Paris in 1887 with Sarah Bernhardt in the title role. Puccini attended a performance of the play in Milan during an 1889 tour and found the subject matter interesting, although the Tosca project was to remain dormant for another six years. Puccini's interest in the work grew, doubtless prompted by another viewing of the Sardou play in Florence and by Luigi Illica's work on a TOSCA libretto for composer Alberto Franchetti [1860–1942]. Following a "conspiracy" between Puccini, Illica and Ricordi, the publisher successfully persuaded Franchetti to abandon his TOSCA project and to surrender the scoring rights to Puccini.
As in all other Puccini operas TOSCA amply demonstrates the mutual causality between humane attentiveness and culinary pleasure when the composer's artistic intention becomes the benchmark for interpretations. The outcry and resignation are the two fundamental prerequisites for the human attention paid by Puccini: The empathy reflected in his composition, far from contenting itself with abstract gestures, aims to disturb and transform. The "small things" - Puccini refers to them with modern understatement as his preferred focus of attention – become "large issues", provided that we want this to happen.
In view of the connection between Puccini's choice of subject matter (directly and indirectly inspired by Zola, Hauptmann and Gorki) and his method of composition it is natural that we crown him Verdi's successor and confer on him the badge of "verismo". He is known to have been a great admirer of Wagner and anything but a second-rate imitator. He created a very personal bond with Verdi and Wagner by taking his inspiration from both masters. He took all their harmony refinements and subtleties of instrumentation and managed to detach the voice somewhat from the orchestra, all the while giving it a far more fragmented and melodically sensitive accompagnato in the orchestra than the radical and laconic Verdi ever had. This is also mirrored in the aesthetic theme of Tosca. Puccini's musical statement is as brutal as it is tender, as intelligent as it is sentimental, as precise as it is dreamy. Puccini's watchwords are authenticity, precision of musical detail, social awareness, the poetic sound of the ostensibly mundane, heroism coupled with shrewdness, the contrast between passionate commitment and cold remoteness.
The Chief of Police Scarpia, the singer Floria Tosca and the artist Cavaradossi in their different ways, all insist on their personal freedom to act as they please - Scarpia as a condition of his claim to power, Cavaradossi in his rebellious urge to bring about change and Tosca as an expression of a plain, unlimited love.
At a time of momentous change such attitudes take on an exemplary significance. Depending on how we view Puccini and ourselves today, we can approach TOSCA as a romantic schlocker or as a bad omen for freedom. Whatever our attitude, each of these very different individuals in the triangular relationship pays the ultimate price for his or her actions. Their deaths are not accompanied by a glorious halo marked Redemption; they are bitter, horrific, definitive.
Götz Friedrich's 1987 reappraisal of Boleslaw Barlog's straightforward and unadulterated interpretation in 1969 takes Puccini's intentions literally: the mutual causality between humane attentiveness and culinary pleasure is nourished by the music and feeds, in turn, into the scenic interpretation
Accompanying Programme
Accompanying Programme
Pre-performance lecture (in German): 45 minutes prior to each performance


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Unseen Agency
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Exciting Agency with cracking illustrators.
Pictured is the visually stimulating work of Colin Henderson.
Originally guest posted by Matthew Green
Exciting Agency with cracking illustrators.
Pictured is the visually stimulating work of Colin Henderson.
Alex is one of the directors of It's Nice That who now oversees our sister creative agency INT Works. For several years he oversaw the Monday Morning Music Video feature until it came to an end in 2014.
Excuse the pun, but I'm a sucker for penis drawings. Birthday cards, desks, walls, Post-Its, other people's books, car windscreens: to me the world is but a canvas for penile artwork. Judging by his startlingly extensive back catalogue of sexually charged, penis-infused illustrations, it seems Belgrade-based artist Bernharda Xilko is on the same page. His style is in the same camp as people like Patrick Kyle and Paul Paetzel but comes with a side order of terror, penetration and science fiction. For me, I like the depth of his one-panel cartoons, and how you can stare at it for a while like a saucy magic eye painting, and keep finding things you had missed first time around.
Giving us proof if it were needed that humour and style are in no way mutually exclusive, Wilfrid Wood has created a sweet, strange series of his signature plasticine caricatures for The New Yorker. The illustration spots feature throughout the mag's style issue, aiming to sum up a variety of different New Yorkers "with hats and scarves and various accessories," Wilfrid helpfully points out. As is typical of Wilfrid's work, they're very odd, sometimes ugly, and very brilliant, and rudimentary as they are we're sure there'll be a few folk in the Big Apple who see a little bit of themselves in these lumpy visages.
Alison Dubois is a San Francisco-based illustrator who channels all of the vitamin D from her native temperate climate into her work. Take After, for example, a collection of re-creations of works by great masters, including Henri Matisse, Peter Doig and a handful of Paul Gauguins. Her drawings are rendered in felt tip and dominated by primary colours, and looking at them for too long feels something like consuming a bottle of Sunny D via an IV drip.
It's a good job "Thomas Slater, Illustrator" has such a nice ring to it, as we seem to be spending a lot of time on his website of late. His newest undertaking is for Mosaic, the science-led strand of the Wellcome Trust which is using commissioned illustration and photography to make even the most opaque of articles on their journal absorbing. For a piece entitled Do You Need to Go to Parent School? Thomas has created a series of drawings depicting kids both being encouraged by, and outsmarting, their ambitious parents – putting them on school buses, playing at being doctors from their buggies, or having their brains measured while diligently sipping on juice cartons. It's the kind of commission which shows editorial illustration at its most challenging, but somehow Thomas manages to convey broad ideas about parenting and education with a simple and bold colour palette, outsmarting us all in the process.
Illustrator S.Y. Gold is one of growing number of young illustrators making a virtue of the limitations of digital software. His imagery makes clear its origins – Illustrator line tools and Photoshop's airbrush can – in its exuberant final results. What's the purpose of his unusual images? Hard to say but they display the beginnings of some great character design as well as the potential for interesting editorial applications.
Friends aren't really friends until they've gotten together with a bundle of felt tips to draw a bunch of pornographic illustrations; which is precisely what makes graphic design student Margot Fabre and her mate Frederik Stender such good ones. The pair have combined their creative skills in the purest of ways, doodling a collection of wildly imaginative and not altogether innocent sketches of a couple – and occasionally an extra character or two – having a really, really nice time. It's filthy and hilarious and completely unafraid to have a giggle at itself, and we bloody love it.
I'm always slightly concerned about the dwindling amount of observational cartoons and "funnies" in the newspapers, but whenever you think the niche, historic skill is waning you come across another gem in a corner of a broadsheet. Places like The New Yorker are still very much championing this craft, and have recently been commissioning New York cartoonist Emily Flake to make dry comments on her city for their magazine.
At risk of sounding like the formulaic hipsters that we almost certainly are, the Venn diagram of indie magazines and cycling is one in which we're pleased to revel in the overlap. The Ride Journal is a fabulous celebration of bikes and all who ride on them, and so we were interested to hear that a show featuring some of the best illustration to feature in the past nine issues is about to open in London.
Matthew Houston or "Doctor Butters" as his web address proclaims, is an young illustrator working in a truly old-school way. The Ohio-based artist designs characters and worlds in a style he's honed after years of studying drawing, which he took up after sacking in his job a few years back. I love how he's embraced a fundamental branch of illustration in character design, and has strayed away from trendier styles in his quest to become an illustrator. The creatures and people he creates are a bunch of people seemingly inspired by video games, sci-fi, comic books, The Hobbit and anything to do with castles, folklore and legend. In an interview with Questioning Creatives Matthew says "I would recommend going to art school. It gives you time to focus on art. It gives you an excuse to create every day. Make sure to work on personal projects while in school, don't just do homework." Wise words.
Paweł Mildner's style keeps changing. He jumps between crisp renders, oil pastels, Riso prints, paintings and drawings like there's no tomorrow, and has a particularly interesting portfolio because of it. He lives in Wrocław, Poland where I can only imagine he spends his days in a well-lit, affordable studio creating zines and books that appear to be for children, but are actually cynical and witty enough to appeal to your discerning comic book-loving adult as well. I sometimes find myself lurking on his Flickr page, not really up to much, just loitering about, dragging his images on to my desktop, hoping one day he'll notice me.
Adjectives we've used to describe Oscar Bolton Green over the years include: delightful, super-talented, pretty accomplished, punchy, great, wonderful, wicked, vibrant and… different. He is all of these things and more. A consummate illustrator who never ceases to impress us with his experimentation and flair. Witness his latest set of personal still-life drawings. All he's done is assemble a few bits and pieces from his house and then sketched, but holy hell they look fantastic! When you've become accustomed to seeing someone work digitally it's a pleasure to be reminded they've got innate abilities as a draughtsman and can use pencil and paper at will – even better when the results are this good.
Idyllic mountainous landscapes are fine and funny domestic settings are good too, but it's not often we see illustrators tackle the subject of intricately designed custom weaponry. We appreciate Joe Melhuish's new project all the more for its originality. He first started drawing bizarre pockets knives that look more like the jumbo Super Soakers while researching for a commission for "quite a big pop musician," and soon became fascinated in the way weapons might grow to become an accessory to one's identity.
For a small country with a small creative scene, we've covered Lithuanian artists and designers more times than you might expect. There's clearly something in the water over there and one of our absolute favourite finds in Vilnius-based illustrator Karolis Strautniekas. It's been more than a year since we last sung his praises so it seems right and proper to check back in with him.