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Today, it seems that virtualization some how makes its way into just about every discussion surrounding the datacenter. This really shouldn't be a surprise given the down economy, shrinking IT budgets and requirements for greener initiatives. Naturally, administrators whom are tasked with cutting IT cost, choose to adopt server consolidation as a way of addressing all these requirements and this can be done easily using virtualization. Virtualization is more affordable then ever with Microsoft finally releasing an enterprise class hypervisor(Hyper-V) that even the small to mid-sized business can afford to implement.
In the large enterprise, we find ourselves adding virtual guest at an exponential rate in order to meet business continuity requirements, while minimizing hardware cost and physical footprint. However, many of the servers today are not providing the resources anywhere near the capabilities that Microsoft Hyper-V R2 can support and this limits the VM density we can achieve. This forces administrator to scale clusters out to many as 16 VM Host to meet business requirements and in some cases many clusters are required. This leads to greater TCO and higher than anticipated physical footprints. But, this could change with the new Dell PowerEdge R910.
The Dell PowerEdge R910 features availability of up to Four Intel Nahalem EX Processors with Eight-Cores each, providing a total of 32 logical processors. It also provides scalability of up to 64 DDR3 DIMM slots for a total 1TB of RAM, which just happens to be the max memory that a Hyper-V R2 host can support. But, it doesn't stop there. On-board you will find 10 PCI-e slots, configuration options for up to 16-2.5" Hot-plug hard drives in both SAS and SSD options and four on-board NIC interfaces available in both 1GBe and 10GBe. The R910 also features Hot-plug, redundant fans for cooling and four 1100 watt power supplies to provide all the power needed on demand. Finally, the R910 is complemented with an excellent Embedded Systems Management Controller and interactive LCD for easy access to monitoring and diagnostic data. All this power and scalability is nicely compacted into a small 4U form-factor.
The Dell PowerEdge R910 is finally that server that we have been waiting for. It provides the power and resource scalability that enterprises require, while still maintaining a smaller host footprint. With all this functionality in a compact configuration it's easy to see why the R910 could very well be the Ultimate Virtual Host.
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Lemongrass Cilantro Chicken
This lemongrass cilantro chicken is marinated with lemongrass and cilantro leaves and serve with a sweet and savory honey dipping sauce.
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4 boneless chicken breast halves with skin
2 stalks lemongrass, white part only, cut into 1-inch pieces, pounded and bruised
1 cup packed chopped cilantro
4 large shallots, coarsely chopped
8 tablespoons (~120ml) vegetable oil
Honey Dipping Sauce:
5 tablespoons (~75ml) water
1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
2 teaspoons honey
1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
1 tablespoon white vinegar
1 tablespoon fish sauce
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
1 cup small mint leaves for garnishing
1 lime, sliced for garnishing
Prepare the Honey Dipping Sauce by combining the water, sugar and honey in a small saucepan and heat it over medium heat. Stir until sugar dissolved. Pour the mixture into a bowl and add the crushed red pepper. Let it cool to room temperature before adding the white vinegar and fish sauce. Add salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste. Refrigerate until use.
To grill the chicken, scrape the marinade off the chicken breast. Season the chicken with salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste. Grill the chicken with skin side down for about 3-4 minutes, until the skin is lightly burned and crisp. Reduce the heat or move the chicken to another part of the grill with lower heat. Let it cook for another 2 minutes. Turn the chicken over and cook until desire tenderness, about 4-5 minutes.
Let it rest for 3-5 minutes before slicing the chicken. Serve with warm steamed rice.
I have never been to Laos but I have a Laotian friend when I lived in the Bay Area. I remember one of the potluck parties at the office, she prepared a delicious grilled chicken that got me hooked. The chicken was marinated with lemongrass and the fish-sauce dipping sauce was so delicious I got a second helping of the chicken. I never asked her for the recipe.
A few months ago, when my copy of Food & Wine Annual Cookbook 2012 arrived, the lemongrass cilantro chicken immediately caught my eyes. The recipe headnote states that the chicken is called pings, or simple grilled dishes that are very popular all over Laos, and that the lemongrass cilantro chicken is a great example of pings.
I immediately earmarked the recipe and made it over this past weekend. While I can't say that the recipe is exactly what my Laotian friend made, but it was pretty close. The taste and flavors are what I remember: the aroma of lemongrass, the fragrance of cilantro leaves, and the sweet, savory, sour, and pungent dipping sauce. I just love it.
I styled the photos almost identical to the magazine. Serving on a sheet of banana leaf, drizzling some of the dipping sauce on top of the chicken pieces, and top them off with some mint leaves and cilantro leaves. The dish is as pleasing to the eyes as it is to the stomach.

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Chris Hemsworth
|Chris Hemsworth
Hemsworth at the 2014 San Diego Comic Con International
11 August 1983
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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|Craig Hemsworth
Leonie Hemsworth
Chris Hemsworth (born 11 August 1983)[1][2] is an Australian actor. He is best known for his roles as Kim Hyde in the Australian TV series Home and Away (2004) and as Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Thor (2011), The Avengers (2012), Thor: The Dark World (2013) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). He has also appeared in the science fiction action film Star Trek (2009), the thriller adventure A Perfect Getaway (2009), the horror comedy The Cabin in the Woods (2012), the dark fantasy action film Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), the war film Red Dawn (2012) and the biographical sports drama film Rush (2013).
Also in 2015, Hemsworth starred in the action thriller film Blackhat, had a comedic role in the fifth installment of National Lampoon's Vacation series, Vacation, and headlined the biographical thriller film In the Heart of the Sea.[3]
Early life[edit]
Hemsworth was born in Melbourne,[4] to Leonie, an English teacher, and Craig Hemsworth, a social-services counsellor.[5][6] He was raised both in Melbourne and in the Australian Outback in Bulman, Northern Territory. He has stated, "My earliest memories were on the cattle stations up in the Outback, and then we moved back to Melbourne and then back out there and then back again. Certainly most of my childhood was in Melbourne but probably my most vivid memories were up there in Bulman with crocodiles and buffalo. Very different walks of life."[4] He attended high school at Heathmont College[4] before his family again returned to the Northern Territory, and then moved a few years later to Phillip Island.[7] He is the middle of three boys; his brothers Luke (older) and Liam (younger) are also actors.
2002–10: Beginnings[edit]
In 2002, Hemsworth starred in two episodes of fantasy television series, Guinevere Jones as King Arthur. He also made an appearance in soap opera series Neighbours and one episode of Marshall Law.
In 2004, Hemsworth auditioned for the Australian soap opera Home and Away role of Robbie Hunter (played by Jason Smith), but did not receive the part. He was subsequently recalled for the part of Kim Hyde and moved to Sydney to join the cast, appearing in 171 episodes of the series.[8] He left the cast of Home and Away on 3 July 2007.
Hemsworth was a contestant on the fifth season of Dancing with the Stars Australia, partnered with professional dancer Abbey Ross. The season premiered on 26 September 2006, and after six weeks, Hemsworth was eliminated (7 November 2006).
In 2009, Hemsworth portrayed James T. Kirk's father, George Kirk, in the opening scenes of J. J. Abrams' film Star Trek. He played the character Kale in the thriller A Perfect Getaway the same year. He went on to play Sam in 2010's Ca$h, which was the first film he shot when he arrived in the United States. The film's director, Stephen Milburn Anderson, said Hemsworth had only been in the United States for six weeks when he had auditioned for the role, recalling, "Here's a guy who is young, has the right look, is a very good actor and, let's face it, he's beautiful. So I say, we need to get this guy in. I was very impressed".[9] In November 2010, The Hollywood Reporter named Hemsworth as one of the young male actors who are "pushing – or being pushed" onto the Hollywood "A-List".[10] Sony Pictures announced in 2011 that Hemsworth would star in the thriller Shadow Runner,[11] which did not subsequently go into production as of 2014.
2011–present: Thor and success[edit]
He is best known for his role as the Marvel Comics superhero Thor in the 2011 Marvel Studios film Thor. He and castmate Tom Hiddleston, who ultimately played Loki, had each auditioned for the role, for which Hemsworth said he put on 20 pounds of muscle.[12] Hemsworth reprised the role in the 2012 film The Avengers as one of the six superheroes sent to defend Earth from his adopted brother, Loki.[13]
He starred in the horror film The Cabin in the Woods, which was shot shortly after the release of Star Trek but went unreleased until 2012. It led Hemsworth to audition for the role of Thor at Joss Whedon's insistence.[14] Also that year, Hemsworth starred opposite Kristen Stewart in the film Snow White and the Huntsman as the Huntsman. He also played Jed Eckert in the 2012 Red Dawn remake, a role he was cast in after MGM saw dailies footage of a scene from Cabin in the Woods.[14] Hemsworth received the part of Thor two days after being hired for Red Dawn.[14]
In 2013, Hemsworth starred in Ron Howard's sports drama film Rush, alongside Daniel Brühl as 1976 Formula 1 World Champion James Hunt, and reprised his role as Thor, in the sequel Thor: The Dark World.[15][16] People magazine, in an annual feature, named him its 2014 "Sexiest Man Alive."[17]
In 2015, Hemsworth starred in director Michael Mann's action thriller Blackhat, opposite Viola Davis,[18] and reprised his role of Thor for the fourth time in the sequel to The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron.[19] Hemsworth returned to the set of Home and Away in November 2014 to film a scene as an extra and not as his character Kim Hyde.[20][21] He appeared in the episode broadcast on 19 May 2015.[21] Also in 2015, he co-starred in the comedy film Vacation, along with Ed Helms, a revival of the film series that originally starred Chevy Chase.[22] His last 2015 film was In the Heart of the Sea, based on the book of the same name by Nathaniel Philbrick, with Hemsworth playing first mate Owen Chase. In an interview with Jimmy Kimmel, he revealed that to prepare for the role of starving sailors, the cast was put on a diet of 500–600 calories a day to lose weight.[23]
Hemsworth is also set to reprise his role as Thor in Thor: Ragnarok, scheduled for a 2017 release,[24] and Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 (2018), and 2 (2019).[25]
In the media[edit]
An Australian rules football fan, Hemsworth was the star of the Australian Football League's 2014 Everything's Possible campaign. He donated fees for his involvement to the Australian Children Foundation.[26] Hemsworth supports the Western Bulldogs.[27]
Personal life[edit]
Hemsworth began dating Spanish actress Elsa Pataky in early 2010 after meeting through their mutual representatives,[28] and they wed in December 2010.[29] They have three children: daughter India Rose (b. May 2012)[30] and twin sons, Tristan and Sasha (b. March 2014).[31] In 2015 he and his family moved from Los Angeles to Byron Bay in his native Australia, as he no longer needs to be in the United States in order to secure film work.[32][33]
|Star Trek
|George Kirk
|Perfect Getaway, AA Perfect Getaway
|Sam Phelan
|Ollie Klublershturf vs the Nazis
|The Cabin in the Woods
|Curt Vaughan
|The Avengers
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|Red Dawn
|Jed Eckert
|Star Trek Into Darkness
|George Kirk
|Voice only
|James Hunt
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|Nicholas Hathaway
|Avengers: Age of Ultron
|Stone Crandall
|In the Heart of the Sea
|Owen Chase
|The Huntsman: Winter's War
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|Guinevere Jones
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|2 episodes
|Jamie Kane
|Episode 4,069
|Marshall Law
|The Kid
|Episode: "Domestic Bliss"
|Saddle Club, TheThe Saddle Club
|The New Vet
|Episode: "Tenderfoot"
|Fergus McPhail
|Episode: "In a Jam"
|Home and Away
|Kim Hyde
|185 episodes
|Dancing with the Stars
|5th place
|Saturday Night Live
|"Chris Hemsworth/Zac Brown Band"
"Chris Hemsworth/Chance The Rapper"
|Voice role
|Thor: God of Thunder
Awards and nominations[edit]
- ^ "Chris Hemsworth Bio". UsMagazine.com. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
- ^ "Thor's Chris Hemsworth Turns a Year Older". People.com (video). 11 August 2011.
...celebrates his 28th
- ^ Fleming, Mike, Jr. (12 June 2012). "Chris Hemsworth Boards Whale of a Tale 'In The Heart of the Sea'; Will DreamWorks Bite?". Deadline.com. Archived from the original on 17 November 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
- ^ a b c Lovece, Frank (29 September 2011). "Chris Hemsworth: Not a Thor Loser". FilmFestivalTraveler.com. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
- ^ "Cyrus 'saw in new year on Phillip Island' ". Herald Sun. Australia. 4 January 2010. Archived from the original on 14 June 2011. Retrieved 27 February 2010.
- ^ Rapkin, Mickey (March 2012). "The Hunger Games' Liam Hemsworth Has No Idea What's About to Hit Him". Details. Archived from the original on 17 November 2012.
- ^ "Chris Hemsworth on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Part 1". Jimmy Kimmel Live! via YouTube. 5 May 2011.
- ^ Finke, Nikki (18 May 2009). "More 'Thor': Marvel Studios Casts UK Actor Tom Hiddleston as Villain Loki". Deadline.com. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011.
- ^ "". "The Movie Cash Podcast Series: Casting Chris Hemsworth". Youtube. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
- ^ Blank, Emily; Schutte, Lauren (15 November 2010). "Hollywood's A-List Redefined". (slide 4 of 10 in slideshow) The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
- ^ Kit, Borys (29 June 2011). "Chris Hemsworth to Star in Sony's 'Shadow Runner'". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 3 July 2011. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
- ^ Rosenbaum, Lara. "Chris Hemsworth's Workout". Men's Health. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
- ^ McDaniel, Matt (2 May 2012). "'Avengers' star Tom Hiddleston told Chris Hemsworth to really hit him". Yahoo! Movies. Archived from the original on 15 May 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
- ^ a b c Kirk, Jeremy; Whedon, Joss (20 September 2012). "34 Things We Learned From 'The Cabin in the Woods' Commentary". FilmSchoolRejects.com. Archived from the original on 17 November 2012. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
- ^ Flemming, Mike (30 June 2011). "Marvel And Disney Setting 'Thor 2' For Winter 2013; Chris Hemsworth's Back but Kenneth Branagh Won't Return". Deadline.com. Archived from the original on 1 July 2011. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
- ^ Chitwood, Adam (11 July 2011). "Chris Hemsworth in Talks to Play Formula 1 Driver James Hunt in Ron Howard's 'Rush'". Collider.com. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
- ^ Fowler, Tara (19 November 2014). "Sexiest Man Alive 2014: Chris Hemsworth: I Learned to Be Sexy from Matt Damon". People. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
- ^ Travis Reilly (26 July 2014). "Chris Hemsworth First Look on Set of Michael Mann Hacker Thriller 'Blackhat' Revealed". The Wrap. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
- ^ Vejvoda, Jim (29 August 2013). "James Spader to Play Ultron in the Avengers Sequel". IGN. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
- ^ "Chris Hemsworth returns to Summer Bay!". TV Week. 26 November 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
- ^ a b Moran, Jonathon (18 May 2015). "Chris Hemsworth returns to Summer Bay with Home and Away cameo". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
- ^ "Chris Hemsworth & Charlie Day Taking a 'Vacation' with Ed Helms". FirstShowing.net.
- ^ "Chris Hemsworth/Jane's Addiction; Episode #11.69". Jimmy Kimmel Live!. 4 November 2013. ABC.
Jimmy: You're on some crazy diet right now I heard because of this movie you're shooting. Chris: ...and we have to get rather skinny, we're on about 500 or 600 calories a day
- ^ Strom, Marc (28 October 2014). "Thor Brings Ragnarok to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2017". Marvel.com. Archived from the original on 28 October 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
- ^ Chitwood, Adam (April 14, 2015). "Chris Hemsworth Reveals the 3 Marvel Movies Left on His Contract". Collider.
- ^ Whiting, Michael (1 March 2014). "Stars on show for AFL's new marketing campaign", Australian Football League. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
- ^ Beveridge, Riley. "Your AFL club's most famous supporters, from Barack Obama to Cam Newton". Fox Sports. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
- ^ Macaluso, Beth Anne (12 June 2012). "Chris Hemsworth's Wife Elsa Pataky Gives Birth to Daughter India!". Us Weekly. Archived from the original on 17 November 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
- ^ Jordan, Julie (28 December 2010). "Thor Star Chris Hemsworth Gets Married". People. Archived from the original on 28 March 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
- ^ Fleeman, Mike (12 May 2012). "Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky Welcome Daughter India Rose". People. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
- ^ Mandell, Andrea (21 March 2014). "It's twin boys for Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky!". USA Today.
- ^ "Still calls Australia home! Chris Hemsworth moves his family Down Under permanently as he no longer needs to be based in Los Angeles to secure work". Daily Mail. 13 January 2015. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
- ^ Kehagias, Melissa (27 September 2014). "Chris Hemsworth has bought himself a $7 million Byron Bay home". The Sunday Telegraph (Australia). Retrieved 23 November 2015.
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The UAA volleyball team served up more drama while running its winning streak to six Saturday night at the Wells Fargo Sports Complex.
The Seawolves missed a chance to score match point in the fourth set and had to go to a fifth set before claiming a 25-13, 23-25, 25-22, 27-29, 15-6 victory over Northwest Nazarene.
It was the second time in as many Great Northwest Athletic Conference matches that UAA (7-3 overall, 2-0 GNAC) needed five sets.
Freshman Sarah Johnson had a monster match, racking up 18 kills, 17 digs and assisting on a pair of blocks.
The Seawolves dominated at the net, getting three solo blocks from freshman Katelynn Zanders and one solo bloack and six block assists from sophomore Maureen Sabado. UAA blocked the Crusaders 13 times without a single blocking error while holding Northwest to a .065 attack percentage.
Both teams played tenaciously, with UAA piling up 73 digs (including 18 from junior Siobhan Johansen and 15 from senior Nikkie Viotto) and Northwest getting 74 (including 25 from Linnea Phillips).
UAA dominated the first and fifth sets while the middle three were filled with lead changes. In the fourth set, the Crusaders served for set point four times before finally pulling out the 29-27 win to force a fifth set.
The match was the 11th straight on the road for Northwest Nazarene (7-4, 1-1), which will finally play a home match next weekend in Nampa, Idaho.
The Seawolves shined in their first set, hitting .393 as a team and making only one attack error.
They finished with four players in double figures for kills -- Johnson, who had one error on 44 attempts for a .341 attack percentage; junior Jodi Huddleston (14), freshman Julia Mackey (11) and Zanders (10).
Kimya Jafroudi, the team's senior setter, put up 51 assists, served five aces, had three block assists and came up with nine digs. She was a force at the service line, getting three aces in the first set and getting another while the first six points of the final set to help UAA race to a 6-0 lead.
UAA hits the road this week for GNAC matches against Western Oregon and Saint Martin's.
Bingham in record book
Sabrina Bingham, a former player for UAA and Chugiak, became the winningest volleyball coach in the Hardin-Simmons University earlier this season.
Bingham surpassed Kim Vinson's 116 victories by guiding the Cowgirls to a 4-0 record in a season-opening tournament earlier this month to raise her win total to 118. Hardin-Simmons is now 8-4 this season, giving Bingham 122 wins.
Bingham remains one of the deadliest hitters in UAA history, piling up 1,012 kills for the Seawolves from 1996-99.
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You will only be able to defeat the criminal minds which have conceived the greatest conspiracy of all times only if you are worthy of James Bond. But to be successful, you must prove you have the distinctive qualities of the legendary "007" secret agent!
Further to the special James Bond dice, the game also includes 110 illustraded cards with pictures taken from famous James Bond movies.
A real collection for all fans of the adventures Her Majesty's sevret agent has been through!
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150 punched cardboard tokens
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Custom view creation on SuperArtifact
I've defined a custom view on a given artifact in order to show less attributes to a given "position".
I then linked the new view to the position using the "Admin / Positions ..." menu.
Actually, the view seems to be added (as the display of the artifact changed. However, the new view is not listed among the position views (Admin / Positions ...).
As such, I could add several time the relation ... and the artifact view now appears several time in the browsing view (see attachments).
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South Carolina (34-11, 12-9) stayed at No. 17 in the Baseball America rankings released today after sweeping Missouri over the weekend and defeating Wofford to go 4-0 on the week.
In the Perfect Game USA poll, the Gamecocks are ranked No. 15. Collegiate Baseball has USC at No. 17.
Previous Gamecock opponents who are ranked in the Baseball America poll include No. 8 Florida, No. 11 Ole Miss and No. 19 Alabama.
South Carolina hosts The Citadel tomorrow (Tuesday) at 7 p.m. before traveling to Nashville, Tennessee, to play No. 18 Vanderbilt beginning Friday.
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Have your say on government plans to redefine marriage
The government wants to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples and is holding a consultation to find out people's views.
The consultation from the Government Equalities Office was originally supposed to be about 'how to implement equal civil marriage for same-sex couples' rather then whether or not to do so.
But in response to pressure from the Coalition for Marriage petition, which is approaching half a million signatures, the government is asking the public whether they agree or disagree with the plan.
It's an important part of the democratic process that the government hears the views of as large a number of people as possible, which is why the Alliance is encouraging all of our members to have their say.
We know that filling out consultations can be difficult, so we have come up with a guide for you, which can be read here. We have also provided some background to the consultation, which can be viewed here.
We have included some suggested points to make in your consultation response, but if you don't have the time, we would urge you at the very least to indicate that you 'disagree' in Question 1.
Remember to be selective in what you say, stick to the word limit and try as far as possible to express your views in your own words.
Please do take the time to respond online, via email or by post, and show the government how much people value the current definition of marriage.
The closing date for you to respond is Thursday, 14 June, but we would urge you to have your say sooner rather than later.
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Resume review.Posted: December 20, 2011 Filed under: firefox, mozilla 2 Comments
A friend recently asked me to take a look at his resume. After reading countless resumes and doing hundreds of interviews for Mozilla over the last 5+ years (whoa, almost 6 now!), a bunch of stuff came jumbling out. With his permission, I've copied the feedback here. Maybe it'll be of use to someone looking for a manager's eye on their resume. Most of the comments make sense on their own, so I didn't copy the resume itself here.
Hey! Overall, looks good – you look like a solid candidate for a Java programming gig, with some potential for leadership, but not interested in it. Probably a senior coding member on a team (given the # of years experience) or a lone-wolf programmer that a manager could hand a project off to and expect you to run with it.
A couple of thoughts below with my critical hat on, ranging from grammar to technical. Please take with many grains of salt – obviously I'm not representative of all hiring managers. Also, I didn't have the context about whether this is tailored for a specific position, or if you are just getting ready to hit the market. Is the resume tailored for your ideal job, or the job you'd settle for? Hard to evaluate without that context.
- My biggest criticism is that your personality doesn't come through, only your technical skills. Everyone has a list of current/former employers, a list of acronyms, and *some* have a list of side projects (you get points for that in my book). The summary is your first chance to personalize what is otherwise an abstract description of a skill set, so take advantage of it. For example, you could start with "I am a lead developer" instead of "Lead developer". Honestly, do you really talk in robot language like that in real life? No. Would you want to work with someone that did? Probably not. So, look for any opportunity to be more than just a developer of code.
- Clarify if you're looking to lead or not, or even open to it. For me, this will contextualize my technical assessment of a candidate. Are you interested in project management? Are you interested in people management? Your resume currently says no, that you only want to code, but can work with non-programmers as necessary.
- "My main focuses are…" – is both redundant (focus implies main-ness) and misapplied (focus shouldn't ever be used in the plural, by definition, IMO). Could say something like "My core responsibilities are…", etc. You use focus later in a similar way in the Objective section: "expand professional focus" to include some other languages. That's the opposite of focusing :D
- I'd take "SOAP/RESTful" out of the summary, is overly specific, not necessary.
- "often responsible" – Nah, you *are* responsible for that stuff. No need to lessen your impact with qualifying adjectives, especially in your resume of all places.
- The Objective section seems to say that you want more variety in your work than you currently have, and that you'd like to learn a few specific programming languages. Is that about right? It sounds like you're bored. That isn't bad, but that's the impression I get. Again, what to put here really depends on what your actual objective is. Is it to get a job writing re-usable Java libs for web front-ends? Or a job writing Python scripts against big data-sets? You should decide that up front, and be as clear as possible about it. If you need two resumes, so be it.
- The bits about the actual work you did are great. Instead of just listing the thing, you explain the impact that the thing had, the long term result for the business, etc.
- If you have degrees from those college years, note them. The multiple year sequences you were at Acme College don't provide value, could just pick one or aggregate into one period where it makes sense.
- Needs a spell-check and grammar pass (eg: devloping, importanly, colloborating)
Final thought: What questions would I ask you after reading this resume, when we did a phone screen? What are things not called out explicitly in a resume, but are part of an experienced developer's toolbox… IOW, the stuff that shows you know not only how to write code, but to *ship* software.
- I'd probably ask a couple of technical questions of medium difficulty, just to confirm that you can talk comfortably at the level of technical knowledge described in the resume.
- I'd dig into problem scenarios like the hardest problem you had to solve, both architectural and bug-wise. What tools/patterns you used, etc.
- I'd ask about performance problems – triaging them, debugging them, what tools for profiling, potential bottlenecks, etc.
- I'd ask about your testing and validation approaches, what unit test toolkits you've used, what automation you've written.
- Would ask you to describe your launch processes – things like staging servers, failover scenarios, backups, etc.
Building Firefox in the Post-Browser AgePosted: October 25, 2011 Filed under: firefox, mozilla | Tags: firefox, jetpack, mozilla 12 Comments
Ok, so maybe we aren't in the post-browser age *yet*. But we're getting there, and quickly. Most of the "apps" I use on my phone are useless without an always-on data connection, and they communicate with their respective motherships via HTTP. We're staring down a near-future with multiple Web-stack operating systems for both desktop and portable devices. We have server-side application platforms that look startlingly like pieces of a traditional Web client.
All of those places are the Web, so that's where Mozilla has got to be, when and if it's possible to do so. And between desktop Firefox, mobile Firefox, Chromeless, B2G, Pancake, Open Web Apps and the various Firefox features developed by the Labs and the Services groups, we've got a lot of application logic that needs to exist in various forms across those disparate environments.
Up until recently, even including most of the mobile efforts to date, we've had a pretty narrow idea of what constitutes Firefox: Mozilla's browser application with a front-end built in XUL, and rendering content using Gecko, stored entirely in a single source repository.
This narrow view is insufficient given the needs of internet users and the plans we have to serve those needs in the immediate future. This has been starkly illustrated by the recent move to a native UI for mobile Firefox, projects like Pancake, and the expansion of the development of Firefox features by groups outside of the core team.
A few months ago I dumped a couple of thoughts into a thread on the mozilla.dev.planning newsgroup about these things. More than anything, that thread showed me that the broad spectrum of activity in Mozilla today makes our narrow view of Firefox a huge barrier to future success. Some people didn't agree that there was a problem at all. Some people railed against Jetpack or Github, while admitting they'd never used either. Some people agreed that developing Firefox is slow and fragile, and pointed at the relative historical success of that approach. Disturbingly, I got a bunch of private emails thanking me for starting the conversation… what does *that* mean?! Overall though, there was a lot of agreement on this point: We need more people to be able to work on Firefox faster, and in a more heterogeneous environment.
There's a bunch of work towards that end going on right now, both in Firefox team itself and in Mozilla generally, around lowering the barriers to contribution. Specific to Firefox core development though, one experiment in alternate approaches is the attempt to ship the BrowserID feature as a Jetpack-based add-on that is developed on Github and bundled with Firefox. There are a lot of moving parts, but the exercise is helping us figure out the up- and downsides to building features as add-ons, as well as providing performance data about the Add-on SDK. Maybe it'll work, maybe we'll have to re-route and patch it against the core. Maybe we'll land somewhere in-between.
Regardless of that experiment's outcome, I think we need to be experimenting hard with how we develop Firefox, and asking questions about the longer-term development landscape:
- Code changes currently have non-deterministic effects in the Firefox ecosystem. We have a jumble of services that stagger into existence at startup, and then race for the exit at shutdown, beating up the file-system at both ends of the application lifecycle. "Async" is a pattern, not a system – without a system, making a bunch of things asynchronous means that the application's behavior as a whole is generally less predictable. Is there a more systematic way that we can manage the loading and unloading of core browser services?
- Calcification: Check out the "cleanup page". There are long-despised-and-untouched pieces of our core infrastructure, such as URL classifier, importers, autocomplete, and parts of Places. Why is it so hard to change these? What are the barriers to making them better?
- Modularity: Cu.import is great in that it provides some of the benefits that we used XPCOM JS services for, but without the XPCOM. But are we using it enough? Jetpack development puts much more emphasis on modularity via a core built on CommonJS, and I've found it to make browser features written in Jetpack far easier to follow, debug, and contribute to. Maybe we should be putting code into modules where we'd normally add it to browser.js, or XBL widgets moreso than we are now? This could reduce our dependence on the XUL window mega-scope that we get in browser.js, which I'd argue leads to code that is easier to developer, debug, test and maintain.
- Abstracting the application logic away from XUL/XPCOM where possible, allowing for more portable code. This doesn't make sense in a lot of places in the front-end, but in others such as sync or expiration policies or tab grouping algorithms or frecency generation, it might. These are things which could be useful across a number of different application contexts.
So where from here? There's general agreement that the Add-on SDK needs to ship in the browser. This might help address some of the questions above. However, it won't immediately help us share code with other Firefoxes or Mozilla projects, or make core development inherently less-fragile or our application behavior any more deterministic. And there are tools like Cu.import, which we have now, and Harmony modules, which we might have soon (can we use those in chrome?!) that could help with the modularity part.
But only some of this is about the technology – other parts are social. As I said above, some people do not agree that developing Firefox is slow and fraught with peril. Is that plain ol' resistance to change, or just the lack of a clear alternative? And maybe we code reviewers should be more forward-looking, demanding larger refactorings instead of non-invasive surgeries. But that's challenging when you're constrained for time, or the regression cost of refactoring is so high that you become risk averse.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on the future of Firefox application development – especially the core Firefox team, and the people working on Firefox features in other groups or via add-ons. Myk Melez has been corralling a group to talk about feature development with the Add-on SDK specifically, but it quickly spreads into these broader issues. He's starting a list for it, but until then there are regular meetings, details available in his dev.planning post.
The Mozilla Open Data ProjectPosted: October 12, 2011 Filed under: firefox, mozilla | Tags: firefox, mozilla 4 Comments
The Mozilla Open Data Project is an index of all of the open APIs and data-sources available in the Mozilla project.
It's also something that does not exist yet!
Or maybe it does, but I couldn't find it…
Anyways, we've got massive amounts of data available throughout the project, from check-in logs to performance data to bugzilla APIs. However, there's no central location that lists all of the sources that currently exist. This also means that's it's not easy to scan and see what's not available that should be.
Maybe this is something we should list on a public index that already exists, like Programmable Web.
For now, I started a list here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modp
Please add any sources of data or public APIs that you know of to that list, or here in the comments and I'll add them for you.
UPDATE: To clarify, this is different than the community metrics work being done by the Metrics team. But we're talking about having this information available in the metrics portal at some point in the future, likely driven off a publicly editable source.
Visualizing web page memory use in FirefoxPosted: September 9, 2011 Filed under: firefox, mozilla | Tags: firefox, jetpack, mozilla, Performance 4 Comments
I remixed about:memory using D3 to make a treemap visualization of how loaded URLs are using memory in Firefox.
Load it by clicking the widget on the add-on bar, or Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Y
This visualization focuses on which web pages are using large amounts of memory – this is not a complete accounting of all memory being used. This doesn't yet show how much is being used by some of the Firefox internals.
Add-on installation does not require a restart. Only tested on Nightly builds.
Dormancy: Freeing up memory from unused tabsPosted: September 2, 2011 Filed under: firefox, mozilla | Tags: Add-ons, firefox, jetpack, Memory, mozilla, Performance 8 Comments
Dormancy 'retires' tabs that have gone unused for a while, freeing up that memory. It then restores the tabs to life when accessed.
While Firefox 9 adds restore-on-demand for users that restore their session by default, many users will never benefit from it. This add-on targets users who don't restore session, but do have long-running instances of Firefox and many tabs. This might land as a core feature in Firefox 9 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675539).
NOTE: This is highly experimental, has only been tested on the Nightly builds, and probably will destroy your session. You've been warned.
Tabs are considered inactive when they haven't been selected in longer than 5 minutes. To change that, set this pref to a value in milliseconds:
* extensions.dormancy.TabDormancyAgeMs
Tabs are checked for inactivity every 5 minutes. To change this, set this pref to a value in milliseconds:
* extensions.dormancy.TabCheckIntervalMs
Known bugs:
- Awesomebar entry for dormant tabs shows data URI
- Sometimes dormant tabs have no title and no favicon
Wallflower: Un-Socializing Your WebPosted: August 23, 2011 Filed under: firefox, mozilla | Tags: firefox, jetpack, mozilla 50 Comments
I was looking at about:memory and noticed entries for Facebook and Google+ URLs, even though I didn't have either open. I figured they were probably from the social buttonry that decorates the web these days. No big deal… except they were taking up a bunch of memory! The Facebook button was using over 20mb and the Google+ button was taking over 40mb!
I have never clicked either of these buttons.
So I wrote Wallflower, a simple Firefox add-on (restartless of course) that removes these buttons from any page your browse to, saving your precious memory, CPU and battery life for the content you actually want.
View the source code on Github.
Peek: Apps, App Tabs, and Context.Posted: August 19, 2011 Filed under: firefox, mozilla | Tags: firefox, jetpack, mozilla 4 Comments
The new app tab feature in Firefox is great. I use it a lot… which has starkly illustrated how apps and tabs have very different use-cases and usage patterns. Often I will check my Gmail app tab because I see the glowing notification that a new email has arrived, do something (or nothing), and then pop back to where I was browsing… in one of those 78 tabs I have open?!
The windowing model in operating systems allows me switch back and forth between contexts with ease. But app tabs do not:
- If I'm using my Gmail app tab and I didn't open any links while there, I can still see the last tab I was at, and click on it. But I have to use the mouse if I want to get directly back there.
- Out of sheer muscle memory and mouse-averseness, sometimes I can traverse tabs via the next/previous-tab keyboard shortcuts to get back to where I was. Sometimes it's a *lot* of tabs, so either I'll hold the arrow key down, speeding past the tab I wanted (and back and forth a few times), or I'll just hit the arrow key a bunch of times in quick succession. Both options are frustrating, slow and RSI-inducing.
- Or I could expend mental energy to search in the awesomebar and switch to that tab, which often looks like this: "hm, type 'bug' and then try to remember some words in the bug summary, but those words match a bunch of other bugs, and i don't know the bug number, and also I'm on an attachment page because I'm reviewing a patch on the bug, so the summary won't be in the page title…" and on and on. Now add the fact that switch-to-tab rarely even shows up in the awesomebar for me, and well, a generally high level of fail with this option.
Then there's link opening:
- Links opened in app tabs are put at the beginning of your tabs, and the tab strip is animatedly scrolled there. Boom, instantly lost where I was before checking my email.
- We tried an experiment where they open at the end of the set of open tabs. I found that to have serious "out of sight, out of mind" problems. That experiment was rolled back. And it doesn't necessarily solve the context problem anyway.
- Both approaches cause excess amounts of whizzing animations, either when you want to "go around the horn" to get to the tabs you just opened from app tabs, or when you want to go to them and then get back to where you were.
- There's no right answer! Sometimes I see a link to a recipe in my Seesmic app tab that I'd like to open in that series of tabs related to food that I have open somewhere in the middle of my open tabs. The user is not in control of *where* these links are opened. I can't choose whether to open them at the beginning or end of the tab strip, or in a new tab group, or new window, etc. Part of me thinks that I actually might work best in a world where each app tab is bound to a single tab group, so that tab growth is bound to the source… but that's a vision for another day (and blog post and add-on).
So I've made Peek, an add-on that's a hybrid solution: Instead of making you go to your app tabs, your app tabs will come to you. Peek allows you to open your app tabs in a floating panel that opens on top of wherever you are in your tabs. Links open to the right of whatever your current active tab is, and in the background, so that when you're finished peeking, you are exactly where you left off.
To use Peek, first create some app tabs. Then you can peek at them using the keyboard shortcut ALT+SHIFT+1-9 where the number corresponds with the order your app tabs are in. To stop peeking, hit escape (or switch apps or anything else that takes focus away from the panel).
INSTALL. Peek is a Jetpack add-on that does not require a restart of the browser. User beware: This is an experimental add-on – I've been using it on Nightly builds, but haven't done much testing elsewhere.
- Interact with your apps, and when you're done, be exactly where you left off browsing.
- Links are opened in the context of wherever you're peeking.


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If you run a web directory, feel free to post your experience here.
I am much more intrigued that the sites which no longer appear anywhere in the serps still have upto date cache. Anyone familiar with the banning process know if this is normal.
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But I have been in contact with a couple of webmasters and have seen some very high quality sites that have been dropped, mine included.
I don't think anybody is disputing that. (I acknowledged that possibility in my post, when I talked about collateral damage.)
For what it's worth, my own site lost 75-90% of its Google referrals for two months this spring, so I sympathize with owners of human-edited sites who have been whacked by the latest filter or mini-update.
[edited by: europeforvisitors at 5:11 pm (utc) on July 30, 2005]
"For the rest of you that had directories hit, do you still rank well on these ips 220.127.116.11/99"
I bet those 2 data centers will efect all the other data centers by next week ,that's why Google keeps them one week now without any change.
Don't put your hope too high because those seems like old data. It was before google went mad, decide to index pages on my site that have not been touched for half a year, choke on it and impose a penalty on my site.
Does anyone know what it means when I cannot get pass the first twenty results using site: command?
What happened to my directory is exactly what happened to bluefind, when it was hit. I don't know what bluefind has done to get nuked from google index but the symptoms of being nuked were the same; PR0, no where for its company name, still cached in google, site: does not return any results.
If bluefind was nuked for duplication content or being involved in buying/selling links according to PR, why sevenseek (bluefind's clone in my openion and many other webmasters openion) wasnt nuked?
Could also be just a problem google is having. One persons site was nuked a couple days ago and is now back.
Many of the sites affected seem to have automated link exchange directories. These are often used to deliberately boost link popularity and rank.
Bluefind has been back in google index but some symptoms of banning still exist. It's PR0, ranked 50~60 for "bluefind", has low number of indexed, etc..
If it's back though the obvious guilt of being involved in selling links according to PR, and duplication content, then hopefully mine will be back :)
[edit] oh, in an ideal world of course! [/edit]
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See message #6:
"Because we have done some massive advertising, including buying links and banners from Internet.com and various other high PageRank, webmaster related sites, bluefind now boasts a very strong PR8."
"....and now we have a very weak & penalized site. Glad we could milk all those webmasters for a few months. We still made our money back from all the RX and gambling, and affiliate sites who fell all over themselves to hand us $40 a pop."
You watch, these guys will be at it again. If you think about it, they probably made a killing. Spend $40k or so buying links from high PR sites....get a few shills to rant about how they love your directory at this forum or that....and make $200-$300k before the PageRank rug gets pulled out from under you. Heck, they only needed 5000 or so suckers to fall for it....I'm sure they got at least that.
A lot of the people here who have been reporting that they have a site that has recently been delisted are also mentioning that they have multiple sites, and some that are on a separate sub domain (my site does this too).
We know that GoogleGuy said that they were about to implement something that would help alleviate the scraper site problems.
When I was at the WW conference in New Orleans, I overheard one of the engineers talking about how hard of a time they were having in correctly identifying scraper sites without mis-labeling legit sites. One of the webmasters spoke up and recommended that they check each page for any hyper links that are labeled "Home" and that point to a domain other than the domain that the pages was found on. Apparently this guy had one of his sites copied, and the person that copied the site never bothered to change the link to the legitimate home page. The engineer quickly pulled out his notepad and wrote down this idea.
Some of my sites have a "Home" link on a sub-domain that points to the SLD, in other words dir.domain.com has a link that says "Home" and points to domain.com. The one site of mine that was delisted has a graphic with alt text of "Home", and points to the main domain name. The top domain and the sub-domain are also hosted on two separate servers, using 2 differeint IP addresses. Is it possible that this is a heavily-weighted factor in determining which sites get delisted?
Can anyone else verify that they do or do not have similar linking on a site that was delisted?
I'm running this directory from 1998 and my content is all human edited, I personally review sites and links are not direct by redirected by a cgi I use to track numbers of hits.
Since 22 July referrals from google decreased causing lost of 40% of incoming traffic.
I'm also running adsense. I joined adwards for a couple of months, last winter.
My domain is always on G, and googlebot is still crawling my site in these days. My PR is unchanged 5/10.
Is so sad to see all the hard work of the last years be destroyed in a sigle day.
Dont think Bluefind was ever totally removed from the serps. Bluefind IMO is suffering from a Canonical url problem more than anything.
They are in the SERPs, but the homepage has PR0 which indicates a penalty, not just a filter. Another problem they have--which may also be the case for many directories that were banned at 28/7--is that many of their categories just show empty pages, only linking back to the homepage. Google might have interpreted this as an artifical way to boost PR.
Did any of the directories that were banned three days ago have a large number of empty pages, to be filled in the future?
I'm newbbie in this forum, I own about 25 directories in different languages PR7 to PR5. Just one, the one with more traffic (about 8000 in alexa) has been penalized.
Day after day i'm less afraid about what Google do. Traffic on my websites is 95% from other Search Engines and from users coming back to my websites. I see Google giving every day worst results at searches, more and more spam websites or websites with very old and obsolete content at first positions there.
Why webmasters still looking at Google as the internet God?
Webmasters did place Google where it is and webmasters can remove when we want.
It is not the standard: [google.com...]
You might be thinking of the URL remove console and the Add URL page. I have never seen a re-inclusion automation as I believe you must use google support or email Google's webmaster addy with 'reinclusion request' in the subject.
Day after day i'm less afraid about what Google do. Traffic on my websites is 95% from other Search Engines and from users coming back to my websites. I see Google giving every day worst results at searches, more and more spam websites or websites with very old and obsolete content at first positions there.
Why webmasters still looking at Google as the internet God?
Webmasters did place Google where it is and webmasters can remove when we want.
you're a special case. Most of the webmasters receive 60~80% of their searching engine traffic from google, and that's normal as 60~80% of internet searches are being done using google.
also mentioning that they have multiple sites
Yep, seeing more and more of that whether the people first admit to it or not. Multiple sites/network using same or similar content or sites using other duplicate content such as feeds, dmoz content, or have "link" directories. The link directories could be unimportant except for the quality issues could identify them as scraper sites. I have yet to see one that does not fit into one of the above (not saying they are not out there).
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The best and most loyal return users are the forum participants and the community which has grown around that. But real content pageviews come from search engines, and as Google being the natural search engine for most Internet users, it's hard to discount them.
Return visitors are not necessarily where the money is, as they are here for one thing and eventually become blind to advertisements.
Scanning through logs since this whole thing occured, most are Yahoo! referrals and I have found that there are a lot more Yahoo! users with the Alexa toolbar installed that Google users. Just an observation.
Google is still THE defacto search engine. I've read that Google has 52% of the US search market, but the US is so very small compared to other countries where I would believe it's much higher.
This loss of Google traffic is going to kill a lot of us. Let's just put it that way.
I don't hink that Google manages more than 50%. In fact some competitors working with Google only have not better Alexa positions as I have in similar websites not working with Google.
I believe you would be wrong. Last believable estimated numbers I read, Google is serving 68% of all searches through it's domains and partners. I guess it may depend on what part of the world you live in. I'm sure certain areas could be 40% while others could be 80%.
Alexa, you're joking right? Alexa's numbers can be manipulated so easily it's a joke.
I still thinking that work for Google is a big mistake.
Arent we all?
But still you cannot ignore the largest source of free traffic. I optimise for google, I care about google, I panic when google bans me (as the case here).. But when there will be another empire who would care for google? got the idea?


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We hit the time machine button a little with this one. Going back almost three years exactly, here is our Celtics 24/7 exclusive interview with Dee Brown conducted on July 2nd, 2007.
First off, thank you very much for giving us some of your time and being part of this interview. As a blog, we get a lot of fans reading our articles and giving their thoughts in our forums, but we don't often get to speak with people working (or previous employees in your case) for the Celtics. There are a lot of Celtics blogs on the internet right now. Do you ever find yourself reading and checking up on them?
I always keep up with the Celtics. Being an ex-Celtic captain you always want to know how the team is doing. Also working for ESPN and being an NBA Analyst keeps me in tune with them on every move.
2. What did you think of the Ray Allen trade? If you were GM would you have gone at things differently on draft night (like keeping the pick for instance)?
Well I like the Allen trade because you have a change to get a proven scorer to go along with Pierce and not have to give up all your young pieces except for West. You keep Big Al, Green, Rondo, etc. No one at that pick was a better player than Allen. Plus you got rid of Wally's contract.
3. With a full, and healthy roster do you think this years Celtics make the playoffs, and what changes do you expect them to make between now and the start of the season?
This team healthy is a good team, the young players got a chance to experience on court development even though they took their bruises along the way. Remember, when the Celticss were healthy at the beginning of the season they were right at the top of the division. So they should make the playoffs. I hate to say it but it's still the Eastern Conference. I don't expect too many other changes. Maybe another inside scorer if you can find one.
4. You were part of the beginning of a new era which went really poorly for the C's (you were one of the few bright spots) in comparison to the previous years because of a mix of bad management and tragedies. What strikes you as the biggest difference between the up and coming 07-08 Celtics and the Celtics teams you were a part of?
I think the biggest difference is that they have great young talent. We had NO talent except for a few players like Rick Fox, Greg Minor, Dana Barrros. We had players on that team that had no value and no one wanted. Steve Hamer, Brett Szabo, Nate Driggers, Marty Colon, Tony Harris. None of those guys even got invited to an NBA training camp the next year. The 07-08 Celtics have valuable assets and all their young guys can play on any team in the league.
5. You supported Sam Mitchell for coach of the year on your blog. Optimistic Celtic fans hope that Doc Rivers will end up coaching the C's into a situation like Toronto's after having a terrible previous season. Do you think Doc can really turn it around in a Mitchell-esque way, and do you think he's a good fit still with this team?
I think Doc can turn it around. I played for Doc in Orlando and he did a great job with veterans and the younger players. Again, health will be the big difference and now he doesn't have to re-teach everything with a new team. Practically all the core players are back with a few key additions. The hard part has been done and that was losing tons of games. Now it's time to put all the pieces together and move forward.
6. You have had a successful broadcasting career and seem to be very knowledgeable when it comes to the game of basketball. Would you ever consider coming back as a coach?
No. I enjoy being a GM for 30 teams all year long. Thats what being an analyst does. It's my opinion based on the facts and my experience as a player, WNBA Coach and front office exec. It's a safer job than coaching. Plus I enjoy teaching more than coaching and that is why I have my basketball training facility in Orlando for elementary to Pro Players like Chucky Atkins, Brandon Hunter, Corey Brewer, Tamika Catchings, etc.
7. Which player in the NBA do you think represents the game you played during your time in the league the best?
Tim Duncan. It's all about the fundamentals and winning the big prize at the end. He doesn't care if it's boring but it gets the ring.
8. How did it feel to seeing Gerald putting the throwback on and imitating your dunk? Did you guys talk about it beforehand?
First, it makes you feel old when now your jersey is considered a throwback. Second, it was great to see someone finally try to do it and it was awesome that it was a Celtic who added a new twist to it. Gerald wanted me to come to Vegas and be a part but I was in studio at ESPN during all-star weekend so I couldn't join him. But he said he had something special and him being a Reebok guy just made it more special with the old school Dee Brown pumps.
9. We hear that you and Gerald have a new shoe coming out. Could you give us any details?
Well we have a new line coming out called the RF(Royal Flush) Edition shoes. There several types of Reeboks from the pumps that I wore to cross trainers to casual shoes. Each shoe has a card letter or number on the back representing a Royal Flush. The pumps are K of Spades, etc. also there will be something very special coming out next year from Reebok for Dee Brown, so keep your eyes open.
Once again, thank you very much for being a part of the constantly growing world of Celtics blogging!
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This is one of the BIG dogs of airgunning! The Evanix Hunting Master AR6 is purpose-built for game hunting. This precharged pneumatic (PCP) will help you clear the fields and forests of medium-sized game out to 75 yds. and beyond. Depending on the weight of your pellet, you could get almost 60 foot-pounds of energy!
The reservoir is filled with high-pressure air from either a hand pump, scuba tank or electric compressor. A built-in manometer (air pressure gauge) tells you how much air remains in the gun, so you'll always know when it's time to refill it. It's a repeater, and you load pellets into the 6-shot, auto-indexing cylinder.
The well-balanced, sculpted, sepatia hardwood stock has a raised cheekpiece and is checkered on the grip and forearm to make sure you have a firm grasp under any condition. The stock is available in a variety of woods and configurations. If you choose the ambidextrous stock, keep in mind that the cocking bolt is on the right side of the gun and cannot be changed for left-handed shooters. The ventilated rubber buttpad is height-adjustable. It doesn't come with sights, so you must scope it. You can buy the airgun with a Leapers 3-12x44 30mm scope already mounted, or you can buy it without a scope and mount your own. If you hunt, this rifle is made for you!
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Things I liked: I love the power, look, and feel of this gun. I have a Bushnell trophy 6-18 x50mm scope on it and it looks sick. Have the adjustable cheeckstock. Never use double action, single action is enough. The power is great. It isn't that loud like people say, the supersonic crack makes the most noise.
Things I would have changed: The indonesian hardwood stock cracked. Bad. I will take it to a gunsmith and hope he can fix it. It is an expensive rifle, shame if it can't be fixed. Lighter double action would be good.
What others should know: I have taken a few squirrels and couple quail with it. I think anything less than 28 grain Eujin's go super sonic (in cold 20 degree winter hunting temps), and accuracy suffers. I will only shoot 28 grain + from now on in cold weather.
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Things I liked: High power. Good trigger ON SINGLE ACTION ONLY (FORGET about the Double action pull its way too heavy). Good craftsmanship, not too heavy, but solid construction. One of the most affordable "high power" PCPs on the market.
Things I would have changed: Make a bolt action/ magazine fed rifle with power like this, at this price.... I'd be all over it!! Have online parts support for this rifle.
What others should know: This rifle is one of the most powerful PCP's you can get at this price range next to the Air Force Condor. Theoben/ Daystate/ BSA/ FX/ etc all START at the $1000 and up price range and some are not as powerful as the AR6, but offer more than 40 shots with less than a 10FPS deviation due to their regulated valves. With the AR6 you can get up to 10 full power (1000 FPS w/ 28gr Eun Jin) with the others dropping off gradually to about 900 FPS which is still very hard hitting with the 28 grainers. When the pressure drops to about 140 BAR you can load lighter pellets if you want more velocity. Some pellets dont fit well in the magazine (they have a loose fit). If youre using a hand pump and dont weigh more than 150lbs or so.... you're not gonna be able to pump the 200BAR, maybe 180 BAR which is good enough. Gun is about as loud as a firecracker.
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Things I liked: This was my introduction to a PCP rifle. The power is unreal! I thought my Beeman R1 was powerful but it can't compare to the Evanix. The gun has very beautiful wood with excellent finish and fine checkering. The six shot rotary magazine is very easy to load and having six shots is very handy in the field. It is easier and quicker to cock the hammer for follow-up shots than other types of cocking mechanisms I've tried. I have a target set up at 35 yd. and it is easy to get 1 in. and tighter groups from this distance. I have a 3-9 Leapers scope with an illuminated reticle. This makes an excellent combo and looks great. There are at least 30 very powerful shots per fill.
Things I would have changed: I wish the power was adjustable. The trigger is a bit too heavy. The instruction manual isn't all that great. I think a little bit heavier barrel would look better. The rifle is very loud. It sounds like a fire arm. I like the sound but it would be neat with a silencer.
What others should know: Stick with the heavier .22 pellets. I have had good luck with Eun Jin, Beeman Kodiak, Beeman Crow Magnum and a few others. Lighter pellets go supersonic, good for shooting tin cans and general plinking but trying to get tight groups on your target will be a bit frustrating with light pellets. The owners manual says you can charge the rifle to 200 bar (3000psi) but that takes you well into the red zone on the rifle's pressure gage. Since the rifle does not have adjustable power, I think that it is way to powerful for .177cal.
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See now I recently read something that said we are not really evolving these days, because there aren't many selection pressures and with a gene pool of over 6.5 billion organizums any useful traits just get swamped in the ocean of ordinary humanity. (this is a very rough and probably inaccurate paraphrase.)Jiva wrote:dr.placebo wrote:Other recent evidence suggests that human evolution has increased its rate in the relatively recent past. There is no evidence that we have reached a dead end.
Perhaps not surprising, given the enormous population and diversity of humanity these days.