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Runners from across the country and globe are arriving in Duluth for the 37th annual Grandma's Marathon. It was a rocky start to the day as high winds took out power and event tents, but runners say they are ready for any weather.
The spaghetti is ready and it's officially Grandma's weekend and runners from all over, including Chicago, New Orleans, and Mexico City, are zeroing in on Duluth.
They are picking up their race packets with a little extra security this year. All of them have trained for weeks to finish, to break a personal record, or hit a special milestone.
"We're back this ear to run together for my 50th marathon," said Ryan Yoch of O'Fallon, Illinois. "I challenged myself to run 50 marathons by 50 years old and I turn 50 July 30th."
Yoch ran his first marathon 14 years. It was Grandma's Marathon. Now he's back to run his 50th marathon with his son, Jon. The last marathon they ran together was Boston.
"Two hours after we finished we were close to the hotel and we hear the news and it was devastating," said Jon Yoch.
They said they are running Saturday in honor of those that were killed or injured during the Boston Marathon bombings.
Others are hoping to qualify for another race, such as wheelchair marathon participant from Mexico, Alicia Ibarra.
"If I do this, I can go to France so I can participate in the World Championships 2013," said Ibarra.
But one thing on every runner's mind, race day weather.
"Compared to Louisiana, this is wonderful!" said Mark Berger from New Orleans.
It could be a soggy Grandma's, but runners are prepared, some with garbage bags.
"I went and bought some at the grocery store just the other day," said Sarah Merhar of Hibbing. "One year we had them on head to toe, even taped on our feet!"
Rain or shine, they say they'll run.
"The rain I'm not so sure about," said Krishna Keelapatla. "I've done marathons in all kinds of weather, so bring it on."


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MasterCard 1Q profit rises 14 percentBy ALEX VEIGA
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Master card Inc. has reported a 14-percent gain in the first quarter.MasterCards net income climbed 14 percent in the first quarter, as increased spending by cardholders worldwide helped boost revenue.
The results beat Wall Street estimates, sending the Purchase, New Yorkcompanys shares higher in afternoon trading Thursday.
The company also flagged that it sees potentially serious complications from a proposed payments law that Russia is considering.
Lawmakers in Russia are eyeing enacting changes to the structure of the domestic payments market in response to the impact of sanctions by the West amid rising tensions in the Ukraine.
Although Russia accounts for roughly 2 percent of MasterCards revenue, the company is worried about the impact a new payments market law would have on MasterCards business.
There are provisions there that I believe would create serious complications for the way that we can operate in that market, MasterCard President and CEO Ajay Banga said during a conference call with Wall Street analysts.
Banga noted that the situation is fluid, which makes it difficult to gauge the potential impact of any new payments laws beyond this year.
Overall, we expect a small impact from this current Russian situation on our results for 2014, Banga said.
Despite its concerns, the company did not update its 2014 earnings guidance.
MasterCard is the worlds second-largest processor of debit and credit card payments. Like its bigger rival, Visa Inc., it benefits from heightened consumer spending.
An unusually bitter winter sent factories, hiring and consumer spending into hibernation earlier this year, but spending rebounded last month. U.S. consumer spending jumped 0.9 percent in March, the largest monthly gain since April 2009, the Commerce Department said Thursday. The department also raised its estimate of the spending increase in February to 0.5 percent from 0.3 percent.
Worldwide purchase volume during the January-March quarter vaulted 12.7 percent to $759 billion versus a year earlier. Spending on purchases rose nearly 9 percent in the U.S. to $268 billion.
All told, MasterCard handled 9.8 billion transactions during the quarter, a 14 percent increase over the same period last year.
The growth in purchase transactions helped boost MasterCards revenue in the quarter by 14 percent to $2.18 billion, up from $1.91 billion a year earlier. But some of that revenue was partly offset by a rise in rebates and incentives that the company offered.
MasterCard said net income rose to $870 million, or 73 cents per share, in the three months ending March 31, the company said Thursday. That compares with net income of $766 million, or 62 cents per share, in the same three months of last year.
Analysts, on average, expected earnings of 72 cents per share on $2.14 billion in revenue in the latest quarter, according to the data provider FactSet.
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Ryan Cox has been paying for the order behind him in the drive-thru line at Starbucks for some time now. Each time to secretly make someone's day a little bit better.
This time he came out of hiding to pay it forward for children at a local elementary school whose parents were delinquent on their lunch payments.
Inspired by a friend, Ryan went to Lakeside Elementary with a plan to pay off overdue lunch accounts for families who'd fallen on hard times — not just a few, but for the entire school. He reached out on social media asking people to join him to cover the full amount of $1200. Through his donation site, he received nearly $1,000 in five days.
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First of all, thanks very much to everybody who's been helping out with this problem.
I'm also having the same error, and have tried literally everything.
I'm using a .dol file, and only getting the "Failed to read boot.elf (-1)" after a series of read errors makes it default to trying to find a .elf file.
I've used the files downloaded from the official homebrew channel web site. Checksum verified.
I've used the files supplied in the recommended thread [ http://www.wiihacks.com/recommended-...atutorial.html ] and I'm still having the exact same error.
The only thing that changes is each time I try this the read error happens at a different sector of the SD card. I format the card and copy the files over each time to make sure... must have tried this seven or eight times by now.
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In this series we will be reviewing the last week of games for the Celtics. This season is all about the Process so that will be evaluated here. How did they perform as a team? Who was good individually? All of that answered in Truth On Causeway's Monday Report.
Team Record: 1-3
Opponents: Orlando (15 pt W), Charlotte (6 pt L), Portland (13 pt L), Minnesota (18 pt L).
Best Player: Jared Sullinger (25.1 MIN, 14.3 PTS, 57.6 FG%, 5.7 REB, 2.0 AST). He earns this spot in large part because of his incredible night against Portland, when he scored a career high 26 points. Indeed, Jared has been playing very well, especially considering that he's coming off back surgery. When he's on the court, the Celtics get a boost. Honorable mention goes to Jordan Crawford – what he is doing just really does not compute.
Worst Player: Jeff Green (30.3 MIN, 12.8 PTS, 15.4 3FG%, 4.0 REB, 0.8 AST, 2.0 TO). You know, it's a disservice to Jeff to put him here, and PakkAttackk will murder me for it, but hear me out. Green is capable of A LOT. The question so far has been whether his performance last year after the All-Star break was a flash in the pan or the real deal. I thought it was the real deal, so, right now, Jeff's play is underwhelming, which is why I'm putting him here. Similarly to how Jared won Best Player with a good performance, Green made Worst Player with his utter stinker against the T-Wolves. Check this line: 2 points (both off free throws), 1 assist, 4 turnovers. He did have 7 rebounds, but YUCK. Also, his +/- was truly catastrophic (check below). Just because I expect a lot more from James Worthy, he lands this spot for the past week.
+/- God: Vitor Faverani +24. Last week's unsurprising winner Sullinger has surprisingly fallen below positive +/- numbers, even (largely because of the Minny game, where he was a -27 (!)). So, without a doubt, it is El Hombre Indestructible taking that spot. Raise your hand if you had predicted this would happen before the season.
+/- Catastrophe: Jeff Green -35. Oof. It's never nice to see your best player in this category, and Green's really been on the bad end of the +/- roulette this week. There was not one game where he was not a negative +/-. To paraphrase his words, his +/- "was sh*t".
Rookie Report: First of all, Faverani returned to being a respectable basketball player again, posting a solid line of 7.3 points, 7.8 rebounds and 1.8 blocks a game. Interestingly enough, the Celtics were winning while he was not playing much and vice versa. It doesn't really seem that he plays for his stats or the like, so it's odd to see such a pattern. Kelly Olynyk keeps chuggin' along. It would be nice to see him get in there for more rebounds, but all in due time, I assume. Phil Pressey has carved out a nice, solid and consistent part on the roster for himself, appearing in all 4 games last week. His numbers won't blow you away, but that's not why he's on the team.
How's the process?: A reverse effect of last week's report. The Celtics went only downward, winning a good one against the Magic but then dropping three straight. Effort has been a question. One wonders if the guys let the winning streak get to themselves a little bit. That's also something that coach Stevens and the team is going to have to learn to adjust to.
Story of the week: It only became a story near the end of the week, but we have our first rumors of the season. In this episode, we have Rajon Rondo getting shipped to either New York or Houston. The Rockets at least offered Asik and Lin, but the Knicks, however, decided that Felton, Shumpert and Amare Stoudemire is a legitimate package for a star like Rondo. Obviously, Ainge will not accept these deals, but the underlying thing here is that Rondo once again DOES appear in trade rumors. We'll see what that means further down the road.
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The snare and "floor"tom are 8" and the two "ride" toms are 6".
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Well, one of the things i really wish itunes would do is go subscription ... now i know that is a mixed bag with the apple crowd. Many of them I think defend itunes simply because its an apple product. Honestly however, Apple would make a lot more money on just 15% margins through a subscription service (assuming you could get a couple 10 million people to sign up for it ... which i think is very well possible).
Now if Sky and Universal are doing a DRM free service ... what exactly is there to stop me from importing that music into itunes?
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If you want a subscription service then continue on using what you use, but if you want to buy your music use iTunes.
It's difficult to argue a subscription service should be in place for iTunes when iTunes is making so much money.
For me personally, the music I like now will be music i'll like in five years. Reason why? Because I don't like redundant music. I'm a huge fan of music and will dig in to the past to get classic records and i'll just as easily spot artists who are making quality non-redundant music now.
If I wanted to hear the top 40 i'd put on the radio.
But again personally, this is the same reason I will always own albums physically as I like to collate a collection.
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LIVE-TOOLS(1) Live Systems Project LIVE-TOOLS(1)
NAMElive-uptime - Tell how long the system has been running (works with LXC).
DESCRIPTIONlive-uptime is a wrapper replacing the uptime command provided by the procps package. live-uptime displays the correct uptime when a system is being used in a Linux Container (LXC), where the original uptime command shows the host uptime for all containers. live-uptime passes through all command- line arguments to the original uptime command; see uptime.orig.procps(1) for more information about the options of the original uptime command.
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Cavalier wrestlers working for regionals, beyond
Last week's snow days likely were easy excuses for high school students to relax or be out-and-out lazy.
For the wrestlers who were looking ahead to the Cape Fear Valley Conference Championships on Saturday, no school couldn't be a reason for taking it easy. That certainly wasn't the case for Southern Lee's Anthony Brown.
"The entire week, I worked out twice a day just to stay in shape," Brown said.
The effort helped Brown to a second-place finish in his 113-pound weight class at Union Pines on Saturday and teammate Jonathan McCullen, at 182 pounds, completed an undefeated, 8-0, conference season for his second straight conference championship.
"We were having to work out on our own," McCullen said.
"It was more difficult than usual, than if we'd been here the whole week," he said before practice at Southern Lee Monday afternoon.
Success at the conference level is just the first step of the postseason, so there's a lot of tough practice going on for the Cavaliers. Southern Lee, with a very young team said McCullen and head coach Nick Lippert, didn't make this week's dual team state tournament. McCullen, Brown, Andrew Stamper - who has a standout record at 138 pounds but missed the CFVC championships because of injury - and potentially a few more Cavs will learn if they've qualified for the 3A Mideast regionals in the next few days.
Caleb Barrow, filling in for Stamper at 138, finished second of three competitors. Ben Long finished third in 220 pounds.
Doing well at regionals, and continuing to the state championships, means more to Stamper because of having to sit out the conference meet.
"It means a lot because having been out this past week," he said.
"At this time (of the season), you've put in a lot of hard work which wasn't always a lot fun," Stamper said.
"I'm proud of all the guys because, for the team as a whole, we knew this year we were prepping for the year after, and the year after that," Lippert said.
McCullen and Brown, still as juniors, were two of the few returning Cavs Lippert, in his first year as head coach, had to work with. Lippert hopes seeing their work pay off in postseason places and honors are team-wide lessons for the offseason and season to come.
Intensity at practice, with workouts and even with correct diets only picks up for the Cavs who still have this season going.
"I still have to work hard on my technique and strength," Brown said, "and my diet. Right now, I have to be smart about everything I do and hopefully that'll give me a shot to go to states."
"For me, wrestling never stops," said McCullen, who started the sport as a freshman.
"Now it's what I want to do every day. It's all about achieving goals, about winning at states, then wrestling in college, and after college if the opportunity presents itself."
McCullen is 23-3 this season. Brown and Stamper have 19 wins apiece.
McCullen will wrestle beyond the North Carolina high school season. He's qualified for a national junior-class-only tournament, with about 700 of the best juniors in the country, in Virginia Beach, Va. in March.
More immediately, the NCHSAA regional tournaments are set for Feb. 14-15 with the 3A Mideast Regional to be hosted at Morehead. Greensboro Coliseum will welcome the individual state championships Feb. 20-22.


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Tanner EDA and TowerJazz Announce Qualified Process Design Kit and Reference Flow for 0.18um Power Management Process
MONROVIA and NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. – January 19, 2011 – Tanner EDA, the catalyst for innovation for the design, layout and verification of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs), and TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, have completed qualification of Tanner EDA's process design kit (PDK) for TowerJazz's 0.18um Power Management process. This design kit includes symbol libraries for Tanner EDA's S-Edit schematic capture software as well as parameterized layout generators for its widely installed layout editor, L-Edit.
To complement this PDK, the companies have released TowerJazz's Power Management AMS Reference Flow, which includes a comprehensive design flow and a Band Gap Reference design that together provide mutual customers with a productive and open custom design solution. The combination of TowerJazz's advanced power management process with detailed steps and layout tools from Tanner EDA provides analog and mixed-signal IC designers the ability to quickly and accurately create power management chips, including driver ICs, battery and portable power management, and power control for PCs for consumer, communications, and computing applications.
The TowerJazz AMS PM Reference Flow includes a reference design that is based on the TowerJazz 180-nm iPDK. Complete documentation covering the overall flow as well as the detailed reference flow steps is also included. Mutual customers can quickly utilize the complete power management design flow from schematic capture to simulation, layout, physical verification, and parasitic extraction. The comprehensive reference flow also includes valuable productivity features to help designers achieve an on-time and on-budget tape-out.
"Our relationship with Tanner EDA has been based on offering effective, affordable, and all-encompassing solutions to the analog and mixed-signal community,†said Ori Galzur, vice president of design center and PDK development at TowerJazz "By extending our collaboration to an open iPDK solution for power management at each process node, we continue to allow engineering teams to reduce resource utilization and design cycles.â€
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Thanks for taking pity on my attempt at the long run. You guys are right- 6 miles are still awesome. But I wanted that 7th and 8th so bad! I really had a hard time deciding to stop. But it was either that or start taking walk breaks every quarter-mile. And that thought was just miserable.
But that's behind us now. Today is a new day. And I'm about to give it another go. After I post this and give myself a pep talk. In the bathroom mirror.
"… and gosh darnit people like you…"
Wait… let's get back on track.
After a recovery period that included Waiting for Superman and a few SNL reruns, I woke up on Sunday feeling awesome. Or at least ordinary. Seriously guys- Friday night's shenanigans left me hurting. Even my friend let out an "aaaawwwww" as he walked in on Saturday night when usually he just points and laughs. Could have been the fact that I was buried under multiple blankets with no makeup on and a massive glass of water on the coffee table. If that doesn't say "pity me", I don't know what does.
Either way, Sunday morning brought promise. Until I had a sip of coffee. Bleh.
My coffee maker had been on the fritz for quite some time. But enough is enough. I sipped the rest of it slowly while browsing the Sunday ads for kitchen appliance sales.
Coincidently, Mon texted me about her plans to hit Target at some point before we go to dinner later. I invited myself along. All that was on the list was a coffee maker and face wash.
As we entered the aisle, Mon goes "oh! I still have the old one I had before my Keurig. Just take that one."
Score! But of course Target sucks you in. We found the clearance aisle…Gift bags for 50 cents? What? A box of chocolates for $1? Bags of peanut butter M&M's 90% off???
Went in for 2 things. Left with 15.
You got me again, Target. You got me again…
Later on, after a quick Shred and elliptical workout, Mon and I had an early dinner at Salsa 17 to use another one of our Groupon purchases. Sure, the first time we used it, there was a bad taste left in our mouths with the crowds and lackluster service. But we still had another Groupon that needed to be used. Why not go at on off time? Like 3:00 in the afternoon?
We even beat the senior citizens there.Excuse my teary eyes. This was just after I was trying to re-enact the lastest episode of Community.
Donald Glover leaves me in hysterics every week.
Anyway, after a lovely dinner that was exactly like the last time we went (those enchiladas are freakin' delish), we retreated back home to watch Red and break into the chocolates.Sorry about the mess. I love that you can see the sweat pants I wear over my gym clothes. They were drying out because I had to walk through a down pour… stupid rain.
But anyways, waiting even 6 hours from when I bought the chocolate was a big deal.Aaaahhhh…. I love discount holiday candy. We took down all the caramels. The truffles were pretty much left behind. Not that I don't like truffles (because I do!), I just prefer the caramels more… :)
I also love sleeping in. Until 7:30. Weeeeee!
And that coffee maker Mon mentioned? Put to use right away.Because I named my crock pot, it only seemed fair the coffee maker gets a name. This is Sophie. She's french. And is quite the barista.
So cheers! And happy Monday!
Off I go…
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ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI)– Temperatures are still frigid and it's affecting the number of people braving the weather at the zoo.
It's no doubt that Mother Nature has been a bear.
Many area businesses have been feeling Mother Nature's cold wrath and the St. Louis Zoo is no different.
But with Dave saying the temperatures will be changing. The zoo hopes the outdoor area will be buzzing once again.
The flamingos, African antelope and other species have been moved indoors because of these cold temperatures.
The sea lions like to stay underwater where it's a balmy 45 degrees and they're not alone.
Most of the water fowl such as geese and pelicans have "hay beds" to help keep them warm and if the water is not frozen.
They'll keep their feet in the water because the water is warmer than the air outside.
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re: #Apple Event ""Our notebooks now rank #1 in the US in Market share in the last three months." 2012-09-12
Right on. I just won a Best Buy drawing worth $1000. Either that or I won a shiny new virus by clicking the link. Hmm...what to do. 2012-08-29
The #osgi alliance response (http://t.co/KrN8XNWg) to the @mreinhold #jigsaw announcement (http://t.co/9YvcDdqC). 2012-08-29
Good Q&A with @mreinhold on project #jigsaw. http://t.co/9YvcDdqC. Modularity will change the way we design and run apps! 2012-08-28
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35 calculation procedure. However, this thermal gradient bound- from the daily maximum temperature to the daily minimum ary condition is not accurate if extrapolated to too great a in about 15 hours. A more accurate air temperature prediction depth. method would incorporate this non-sinusoidal pattern. In order to obtain a more representative pattern of daily air temperatures, data over an entire year were obtained from the Numerical Solution of the Model Automatic Weather Station (AWS) in the LTPP database and This model was solved numerically using a finite difference analyzed using a seasonal trend decomposition time series approximation method, together with required input data analysis. The trend trace is a moving average of the measured (i.e., hourly solar radiation, air temperature, wind speed, and data, which represents the daily average temperature through- model parameter values). In the numerical solution, the out the year. The "seasonal" trace is obtained by subtracting pavement thickness was divided into cells, which are thinner the trend line from the measured data and finding a local poly- near the surface and thicker at deeper levels. Each cell is given nomial which best fits the result. This trace represents the reg- a temperature (equal to air temperature) at the start of the ular pattern of daily air temperature, which is used instead calculation as an initial condition. The model then calculates of a sinusoidal function. a new temperature for each cell (several times for each simu- With a known daily pattern of air temperature, the hourly lated hour) at each time step. air temperatures can be reconstructed from daily maximum and minimum measured data. First, the daily average air tem- perature data are taken from the trend trace. Then, the trend Obtaining Hourly Climatic Input Data and the seasonal traces obtained from the time series analysis For any pavement site, model calculation requires accurate are added together. Finally, the result is linearly transformed site-specific hourly climatic data and model parameters, to fit the measured data, day by day. The non-sinusoidal pre- including hourly solar radiation, hourly air temperature, and dicted daily temperature patterns at six different sites are daily average wind speed data in an hourly format. shown in Figure 32. Hourly solar radiation can be collected from the National More details on this temperature model are presented in Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB). Hourly solar radiation Appendix B, including comparisons of the predicted pave- data are modeled using State University of New York at Albany ment temperatures at different depths with the measured (SUNY) or Meteorological-Statistical (METSTAT) models temperatures. Also presented are maps of the geographic dis- based on satellite images, covering nearly all parts of the coun- tributions of the temperature variables of albedo, emissivity, try from 1990 to 2005. and absorptivity, all of which were shown by a sensitivity Daily average wind speed can be collected directly from the analysis to be important input variables. Virtual Weather Station program in the LTPP. Additionally, daily wind speed can be obtained directly from the National Stiffness, Tensile Strength, Climatic Data Center (NCDC) or the meteorological network Compliance, and Fracture in each state. Hourly wind speed is preferred, but such data Properties of Mixtures are difficult to obtain and more vulnerable to environmental conditions, adding difficulty in the interpolation. However, The properties of a HMA mixture in an overlay must be the model is not overly sensitive to the wind speed such that estimated both accurately and with computational efficiency daily values are adequate. to achieve an overlay design resistant to reflection cracking. Hourly air temperature data are not commonly available, The stiffness and compliance of the mixture must be calcu- yet reasonable estimates of these hourly temperatures are lated at widely different temperatures and loading rates (ther- needed for accurate temperature calculations. In order to mal and traffic). The tensile strength must also be calculated estimate hourly wind speed data, a method was developed to over the same wide ranges of temperature and loading rates. estimate hourly air temperatures from daily maximum and The fracture properties (i.e., Paris and Erdogan's Law coeffi- minimum air temperatures. Recorded daily maximum and cients) must be calculated. 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I think we only owe them the 3rd round pick this year. It was going to go to a 2nd if Saints re-signed Vilma before free agency. Then the 2nd to the Giants from the Shockey trade would have been our 1st round pick. Now we keep our 1st and lose our 2nd and 3rd. Don't know about any picks from the Jets coming our way though. Hope that helps.
Perhaps not all of your fans are hardcore. It takes time. It took time for the Mavs to emerge from the doldrums of the '90's. It took the win against the Jazz in Game 5 of the 2000-01 playoffs for everyone to take stock of our Mavs. I was specifically referring to you, hornetspoets, Riverwater, and whomever else I may be missing. I was also referring to your fans at the N.O. Arena. Watching the games from here in Big D reminded me of the Saints/Falcons Monday night football game. I wish I could have attended the triumphant return of the Saints that night. But the N.O. Arena seemed to have that level of every game there. Your fans care about the product on the court and give it their all the whole game.
I will say beware of the fairweather fan. Now that the Hornets are on the upswing, it may price out the casual fan. That's our main problem at the AAC. We can't get everyone to wear the same shirt (too cheesy for the high rollers) or wave towels or anything else because the corporate stiffs have priced the real fans out. That is what I meant by hardcore. I would have defended you earlier, but I was too consumed with the Mavs. Hopefully that makes sense.
As a native of good ol' Louisiana, I must root for the Hornets. My roots with Tigers and Saints run deep. If Hornets had made it to Louisiana before I left, I would be high as a kite this morning instead of wondering about my team's future. The Hornets have the sky as the limit and this Mavs fan is in their corner! Geaux Hornets!!! Un-bee-leaveable!!
From this Mavs fan, kick the Spurs A$$!!!!!!
Great series guys! The city of New Orleans deserves it. Your team is young. Your team has great character guys (unlike ours). But most of all, you fans deserve it. You have ben classy, knowledgable, and hard core. It was an honor to debate some of you (hornetspoets and kennasouljah come to mind). I can't think of a classier fan base that I would rather eat crow from than yours.
So in conclusion, CP3 for MVP. Congrats to a class act in Coach Scott and good luck the duration of the playoffs! Geaux Hornets!
From this Mavs fan, kick the Spurs A$$!!!!!!
Great series guys! The city of New Orleans deserves it. Your team is young. Your team has great character guys (unlike ours). But most of all, you fans deserve it. You have ben classy, knowledgable, and hard core. It was an honor to debate some of you (hornetspoets and kennasouljah come to mind). I can't think of a classier fan base that I would rather eat crow from than yours.
So in conclusion, CP3 for MVP. Congrats to a class act in Coach Scott and good luck the duration of the playoffs! Geaux Hornets!
Thanks for your condolences Kennasouljah, but I have never believed the Mavs to be mighty since last year's collapse to the GSW's. My Louisiana roots dictate that I must pull for the Hornets since my Mavs will be defeated. There is NO CHANCE this series comes back here to Big D. Hopefully this will be the ammo needed to blow this thing up and start over. Problem is the Kidd trade won't allow us to do so. We'll be stuck with mediocrity next season with a possible push for a final playoff spot. That most likely won't be the case as Portland will be a much better team and the Warriors won 49 games and still missed the playoffs. Good luck against the classless Spurs. I hope you'll allow me to jump on the bandwagon (only for the rest of the playoffs). I have nothing to look forward to until football. WHO DAT!!!! GEAUX TIGERS AND SAINTS!!!
Sorry Kennasouljah,
Spurs have no class. They are the dirtiest team in the league. They never think they commit any fouls. Watch if Duncan, Ginobli, or Bowen gets a foul called on them. They are in such disbelief. Horry is a thug. I won't forget what he did to Nash in last year's playoffs. Hornets have more class in their pinky toenail than the entire Spurs organization has. Anyway, enough about the Spurs.
Mavs came out the way I expected. I wish they would have just put the Hornets away, but I never felt safe until the final buzzer sounded.
Nice to see AJ keep that loudmouth Stack glued to the bench for the 2nd half. I think he's still injured plus he's getting over the hill. Dirk has come to play every game so far and it was nice to have some teammates step up and help him out. They say a series doesn't begin until a road team wins a game. Let's see what happens Sunday night. We all know CP3 and West won't be bringing the same game. Should be awesome!
I would roll over in my grave if Dirk went to San Antonio. There is no team, and I mean no team, that I hate more than the Spurs. If they hold on to beat the Suns (which if there is a God, they won't. No one should be subjected to Spurs games) and the Hornets hold on to beat the Mavs (which I hope not), please please please please defeat them. Spurs basketball is boring and thuggish. As to the rest of the spares you listed above (with the exception of Bass), I would love to start over and see what happens, but we're stuck with J-Kidd's cancerous monster contract with no help on the horizon.
Oh well, at least I still have my Saints and my Tigers. Cowgirls suck. Rangers are horrible.
I hate to break it to you hornetpoets, but Avery has been feeling heat since the 0-2 collapse in the NBA Finals. Why do you think he put the pedal to the metal and won 67 games in the regular season last year? He wanted everyone to think that despite the collapse, he still could coach.
This year, after the GSW embarrassment, he "took it easy" in the regular season. Avery wanted to "take the pressure off his players" by letting them coast into the playoffs and "relish in the underdog role".
Newsflash Avery. IT'S NOT WORKING! We don't buy what you're selling anymore. Do I think that Avery is a good coach? Hell yeah I do. His winning percentage is among the best in league history and he's been faster to every coaching milestone than even the great Red Auerbach (fastest to 100 wins, 150 wins, etc.) He is an upstanding citizen and a man of great character. But I think he and Mark are too much alike in one area. They both have a short fuse. Think about this if you're a player. You have a mettlesome owner who thinks he's a coach, but he's more like a fan and all he does is yell and scream and get into trouble with the officials. I think you would need a coach with a level head who won't fall into the owner's pit traps of arguing and yelling. Instead, you have Avery, who is as strong minded and short fused as they come.
I think if Avery left, there is absolutely no question he would succeed at coaching any team. IMO Avery has lost this team. We need a coach who doesn't talk defense, but delivers defense. We need a coach who can accept responsibility for the bad times as well as the good times. Do the players share the blame? Yep, no question, but the coach has blame too.
In regards to the Kidd trade, I had mixed emotions from the beginning. Some Mavs fans felt it's the worst trade ever. Some liked it. I waited to pass judgment. I never felt like Devin Harris would be worthy of the #5 pick in the draft. He's a good player, but he will never be great. Too fragile. CP3 is #4 pick in his respective draft. Not to compart Harris to CP3, but if you get a #5 pick, as a fan you would expect more. The Mavs shouldn't have given up so many other players and draft picks. The lack of depth is showing right now. The lack of draft picks for the future hurts our team.
As to J-Ho, he was a great all-around player until he got paid. He got his and now all he does is stand around and take jump shots from 20 feet. I want the slashing, take it to the hoop, lock down defender J-Ho. If you can find him, please return him to the Mavs. Otherwise you can have this other J-Ho.
Cubes will always be Cubes. I can't hate him ever. I remember the '90's. No team should ever have to go through what the Mavs did in the '90's (except maybe the Knicks or Lakers since I have deep hatred for both). He made us a respectable franchise. Love him or hate him, you have to give him the most credit for resurrecting this franchise. However, I don't have to like him. His constant complaining hurts this team's image and his constant tinkering in the every day affairs doesn't help either. But until a new solution exists, we as Mavs fans have to deal with it. I just don't ever want to return to the way we were and I think Mark, despite all his flaws, won't allow that to happen.
Sorry I am so longwinded and sorry it took a day to get back to you, but I had to let you know where a majority of Mavs fans are coming from. And as for Dirk, he's our German and we won't let him go.
Consider the white flag thrown up by this Mavs fan. The series may indeed come back to New Orleans for a game 5, but that seems about it. I, along with a lot of other people, have vastly underrated the Hornets all season long. I thought this series would be closer than what it has appeared to be so far. Not the case.
Dirk has actually brought his game to the first 2 games of the series. Bass has turned out to be a diamond in the rough. However, the rest of our team is a bunch of turds. Avery has proved he can't make any adjustments in a series (look at Wade, Davis, and now CP3 have done the last 3 postseasons). Dampier is stealing Cubes' money that should have gone to re-sign Nash. Josh Howard went from an all-around player to a jump-shooting machine once he got paid. Stack is over the hill. Jet can't do anything. We mortgaged the future for J-Kidd. Not looking like a wise investment. Keep Dirk and Bass and everyone else can go.
I think this is the offseason of great change for the Mavs and the future is looking bright down there in the Big Easy. I know there is a lot of series left and as a Mavs fan, I hope I am wrong. I just see too many flaws in our team. It is not championship caliber, but your Hornets can be if CP3 and the boys keep up their play. I thought I would take losing easier this year after last year's debacle against the GSW's, but as a true Mavs fan I'm too invested. Anyway, enough of my rambling. Hell of a game last night and we'll see the Hornets at the AAC.
For the record Hornetspoets your comment is on the blog. It wasn't censored.
It's the Dallas Morning News and not the Morning Herald. I'm sorry that they deleted your post when we have to put up with the idiot Rocket and Spur fans all the time. However, I don't feel like Dirk is loud-mouthed. He seems to be quite the opposite. That's why he took the weak route the other day when the altercation with West went down.
You won't get any venom spewed by me and it's not because the Mavs are losing now. I grew up in North Louisiana. Raised on Tigers and Saints, but moved to Big D after college and before Hornets arrived on the scene. I hate that the first round matchup had to be with the Hornets because I know you're not supposed to have more than one team (which I don't), but if I did I would have to root for my home state Hornets. The Mavs just happen to be the only team from my town that I love. I hate Cowboys and Rangers and Stars don't mean anything to me.
So in conclusion boys,
No hate from me. I will be here for the duration of this series and the playoffs (hopefully in my Mavs favor) for some good spirited conversation.
Sup Kennasouljah,
We've been having the same problem on our Mavs blog. All these Houstonites inviting us to join them for a championship parade this June. It's really quite amusing.
Now on to our series at hand. I wouldn't go counting all your chickens before they hatch. I know that the Mavs have the very unenviable task of trying to win a game on the road sometime during this series. I don't know why the Mavs suck so bad on the road this year compared to season's past. However, when you take away the Golden State series from last year, the Mavs have always managed to nut up for at least one road playoff game on the road (ex. Game 7 against the Spurs, Clinching the WCF in Phoenix during the run to the Finals).
I expect a better game this evening. I expect Dirk to be huge tonight. But to be completely honest, I don't know what to expect. This season has been CRAZY! Only a 7 game difference from #1 thru #8. Geaux MAVS!!!
On a side note, I heard a rumor the Saints are thinking about trading up in the draft to try to get Dorsey. Anyone else heard that? It's hard to get good Saints news up here in Big D. They are too concerned with Tony Romo/Jessica Simpson news than the Cowgirls.
I grew up in North Louisiana raised on LSU and Saints. I moved to Big D before the Hornets came to LA and became a Mavs fan since Louisiana didn't have basketball at the time. I hope the Mavs win, but I won't be disappointed if they lose. Just like the Saints did in '06, the Hornets are doing the same thing for the city in '08. My prediction is Mavs in 6, but whatever team wins the series is who I want to win the Finals. GEAUX TIGERS! GEAUX SAINTS! GEAUX MAVS!
Miles has been to an SEC championship game, just not a national championship game. I understand your hatred must run deep, but get your facts straight. Don't go jumping off that Saban bandwagon after Saturday though. They need all the bandwagon hoppers they can get.


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I asked My 8 year old daughter what the third graders were talking about Monday in school. Victor Cruz and his salsa touchdown dance was the topic.... Obviously the litmus test to fame
It's a good old fashioned old-timers brawl! Sank vs misterg97. Where's my popcorn
meant for earlier post regarding Schaino making excuses for having a young (RU) football team
Ironically the Bucs are actually the youngest team in the NFL
When RU wins the big east Coach Flood's contract will be re-negotiated to be on par with Charlie Strong the current highest paid big east coach
Don't want rain on our parade but...Top 20 class? Scout has us ranked #49 - right in the middle of the big east between #23 Cincy and #69 USF. I hope we do get a few more 4+ star signings. I hope we do crack the top 20. I hope I figure out the rankings math...
Boycott watching the game!! The country is under the spell of the SEC...propogated by the college football media, ESPN, etc
When are we going to get an interim commissioner?
Time to join the ACC? I would love it and we would be reunited with PITT, SU and BC; however an invite seems unlikely. According to Peter Thamel our fate lies in Notre Dame decision. Uconn next in line (with one BCS appearance and multiple basketball championships)...no room for a 17th school
Defect now and get a head start on the 27 month waiting period. We lose the AQ status of the big least but we haven't taken advantage anyway. This spread out league has no vision and makes no geographic sense. I just can't get excited for teams being mentioned. The roots of this league are in northeast and it is slowly losing it's soul
Where's the pass rush? I don't think there was a sack in the last 2 games
It's gotta be the 5 million dollar recruiting lounge. Thanks Motorola guy
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i miss the I-formation smash mouth football of '06 and '07. Long drives to wear out the opposing team in the 4 quarter. I missed it when I saw carolina run it against us and syracuse too. Didn't we used to do that to other teams? Then our defense doesn't have to be on the field so long. There is a reason we are down to second and third stringers...the more the D is on the field the more likely someone is going to get worn out and eventually hurt.
i said a prayer on the way to work this morning. I keep reading these articles in the hopes of reading any positive news. it is a waiting game now and i will say a prayer each day
Dodd missed a wide open Sanu uo the sideline and a wide open Harrision on a post pattern...both could been touchdowns
You are all delusional if you think Chas Dodd is going to come in and save the day. Were those 2 plays he was on the filed that impressive??
Savage has the tools... and with a better game plan (stop leaving him in 2nd/3rd down and 11), improved OL play and running game he will overcome and regain the form of last year.
Having Sanu get stuffed on 1st down wildcat and then giving Savage a 2nd and 11 to work with isn't going to help the kid
So when does the program get to the point where true freshman are not starting and instead are developed. Brian Kelly last year was asked in his pregame interview about losing 10 starters on defense and his reply was that while it was true he also did not have any freshman starting (granted the defense was not the teams strong suit).


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driver problems? AA problems? or other typical ATi problems?
What case you got? fan setup? room temp? pics?
The 5870 is just not boosting my frames at all in most games... GTA4 actually runs significantly worse. The only game I tested last night and today that gave me a significant increase in performance was Bad Company 2, which somehow got a 20fps boost. Nothing else came at all close to that, and $420 to run one game better is insane.
On top of that the profiles on ATI are annoying and both Metro 2033 and Borderlands would suddenly not load up at all, which googling tells me is an issue with their Physx needs and some ATI drivers.
It's just a cluster-f**k all around really, and exactly what I feared when I was thinking of going ATI because of all the good reviews.
So I am planning to return it tomorrow and either get a second GTX 275 and join the world of SLI, or spend too much money and get a 480. Or neither and get a PS3 or Wii... hahaha.
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A little story. I was taking the family dog for a walk in the large college grounds nearby. This mainly consists of two things - playing fetch and sniffing tours (where I give my arm a break).
Sometimes she gets caught up and I have to call her to come. On this occasion she was rolling on the ground. Then she'd get up and hurl herself back on to the ground for another roll. She was so absorbed I couldn't get her to come to me.
So I walked to her. I realised to my disgust that she had found a dead bird and she was rolling on it over and over. I said "Zara, get up! Rolling on a bird! What sort of damn fool thing is that to do!".
That got me thinking - what got into her? The pat answer would be "to mask her scent for hunting" but she never hunts. It's not a big deal to her. Then it struck me - this was about dog gossip!
Here's how I think it goes ....
She found a dead bird, no doubt a pretty cool thing in the dog world, given that dogs are both hunters and scavengers. So she gets a good dose of the scent on her. Then, when she next comes across another dog that scent is like her saying "I saw dead bird!". Then the dog would sniff and go "Wow! You saw dead bird! You cool dog!". I expect a few more sniffs would establish the rough location of the bird.
I'm pretty confident of this. Her next interaction with a dog (and wasn't she keen to show off her special smell) definitely focused on the smell on her back.
Yep, they have conscious thought, probably roughly on the level of humans before their second birthday. Since dad's dementia has increased I find that dealing with him and the dog to be strikingly similar. It's all about basic needs with a few quirky little wants.
I agree with ionthetable that many humans don't seem too flash at conscious thought but are competent at parroting what they read in the tabloids and hear on talkback radio.
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