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Since the launch of Linux Magazine TV (LMTV) in February of this year, my interest in video has increased beyond any reasonable limits. I'm obsessed with video and our efforts in this new area for us. For weeks I've tried to find a way to use my new Panasonic HM-TA1 pocket video camera for new LMTV entries and my own projects. Last week I discovered Cheese Webcam Booth (Cheese), which is the topic of this week's article. Using Cheese is intuitive and closely resembles the Apple iPad2 Photo Booth app. The difference in price between Cheese (free) and Photo Booth ($499+ for the iPad2) is significant, which definitely gives you something to smile about.
The current stable version of Cheese is 2.32.0 and was originally part of Google's Summer of Code 2007 and the Panasonic HM-TA1 is a pocket-sized, high-definition video camera. The Linux system is Ubuntu 10.10, 4GB RAM, AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+, and a 500GB SATA disk.
The Basics
The prerequisites for Cheese are: GNOME 2.28+, GStreamer 0.10, a camera with webcam capability, and according to the website, a brain. Optionally, you can install postr for Flickr support, f-spot for F-Spot support, and nautilus-sento for improved export functionality.
Download the source code from http://projects.gnome.org/cheese/download and compile it or use your distribution's package manager to grab the latest stable version and install. The Ubuntu package installs as Cheese Webcam Booth under Sound & Video.
Getting Cheesy
When you first open cheese, your webcam is a real time video monitor. Figure 1 demonstrates the initial screen with its minimalistic interface.
Figure 1: Cheese + Linux Nerd = Broken Camera?
As you can see from Cheese's options in Figure 1, the default mode is Photo. To take a photo, click the Take a Photo button. Your new photo displays in the temporary photo display area below the live video window as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Cheese, Ken, and Mini Ken.
Your new picture isn't saved yet. To decide its fate, right click the photo and click Open, Save As, or Move to Trash. Now that you know how to take a photo with Cheese, look at its options by clicking Cheese from the menu. As you can see from Figure 3, Cheese has few but powerful configuration options for photo, video, and burst mode.
Figure 3: Cheese Options and a Pensive Host.
The first two options, Countdown and Flash describe how Cheese takes your photo after you press the Take a Photo button. Countdown is exactly as described. You see a countdown from three before your photo is taken so that you can make those final tweaks to your hair. The Flash option flashes the screen in an attempt to emulate a camera flash. Cheesy, yes, but it's up to you to use it or not.
You can change to Fullscreen or Wide mode for viewing the Cheese application. Neither of these settings have anything to do with recording in fullscreen or wide (16:9) mode.
Click Edit->Preferences to find more configuration parameters as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4: Miscellaneous Cheese Preferences
Change resolution, brightness, contrast, saturation, and hue options in this window. Burst mode is for taking multiple photos one after the other at a specified interval. Four photos, one second apart, is the default. The effect of burst mode is that you capture a series of photos to create a sort of "choppy" movie effect similar to a stop motion video.
To switch between photo, video, and burst, use the icons on the main screen.
Cheesy Effects
This is the part of Cheese that reminds me of the iPad2 Photo Booth app. Click Effects on the main screen to see the available effects. Figure 5 shows the different photographic effects. Effects are stackable. That is to say, that you can select multiple effects for some eerie images and movies.
Figure 5: Cheese Optional Effects for Photos and Video
For fun, I've demonstrated my favorite effects. Figure 6 is the Dice effect in the main photo Window and Warp in the temporary queue window.
Figure 6: Dice, Dice, Baby and a Little Warp.
Figure 7 demonstrates the Saturation effect and my favorite, Hulk is happily shown in Figure 8.
Figure 7: Ken-L Faces His Home Planet's Red Sun.
Figure 8: You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry.
Cheese is one of those programs that can burn an entire Saturday, if you aren't careful. It's fun and simple to use. It also just "works," which makes users at any level happy. Have fun with Cheese and remember to post some of your own videos using it to LMTV as video responses. Yes, you can do that. Say, Cheese!
Four to six times a week I have to connect PolyCom from a WindowzeXP box to a big LCD monitor 300 miles away, at Little Big Horn College on the Crow Indian Reservation. Those PolyCom connections (and IE testing) are the only times I ever boot the dreaded OS.
Could I use Cheese to display myself (and occasionally my desktop) to a remotely-located Windows machine?
I think "motion" will do what you want. I use it to power my webcam as a surveillance camera for my home. It has a built-in webserver so you can monitor the camera using a browser from wherever you are.
Motion won't do remote desktop, though. When I'm helping my Windows colleagues from my Linux machine, I've been using "Teamviewer" which runs under Wine.
Cheese is a great software, it´s very simple to use. It cames by default on Ubuntu Netbook Remix.
Good software. I use it on Ubuntu
baughmankr: Teamviewer also runs under Linux. Yeah!
as: I recently started running Arch and didn't find it in the regular repositories but there it is in the AUR. This is great! Thanks for the prod!
I have used ekiga to successfully connect to a polycom video conferencing system. Unfortunately it does not support all the modes of operation.
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Faridah Malik Cosplay by HaganegirlWatch
©2012-2016 Haganegirl
My Malik cosplay
Wow! That is amazing!
Hi there fly girl, wanna fly out to somewhere?
This is Great! Malik is a great character and your cosplay is epic
Great cosplay! I was waiting for it since you informed me about your plan ^^
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nice one!!mine's in progress!!!
Weren't you at Otakon? And if you are the same Malik cosplayer I took pics of, then you are by far one of the best I've seen. >w<
Awesome awesome job and the first I have ever seen of a much underloved character !!

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'Major Crimes' season 3, episode 15 review: Sharon's party, Louie's mystery date
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Platform-releng/How to check integrity of downloads
Verifying integrity of downloads from the Eclipse Platform Project and Equinox
Downloads can be verified using
sha512sum or
shasum, a Unix command line tool provided in the GNU Coreutils package. Windows versions are available such as from Cygwin or other packages that can be found by searching the internet.
- Most downloads from Eclipse or Equinox Project have an associated link, labeled such as "[SHA512]", to a *.sha512 file containing the file's SHA-2 512 checksum. It is a long checksum, 128 hexadecimal characters ... too long for "visual confirmation" but there are some easy ways to programmatically confirm your download matches the checksum. Download both the desired zip, jar, or tar.gz file and the corresponding .sha512 files to the same directory. Then use a tool such as those below to confirm the checksum computed on your machine, matches the value in the .sha512 file.
- Using the shasum tool, execute a command such as
shasum -c <zipfilename>.sha512The result "
<zipfilename>: OK" means the downloaded file is complete and intact. There's several options available that allow more or less checking and automation, so read the 'help' for the tool for details.
- Besides "command line" tools, Ant and other such "utility" languages usually provide similar ways to verify the integrity of a download. For an example from Ant, see the checksum task, or perhaps a better example is their "get-and-checksum" macro example (which, of course, would need modification to use for this case).
- Be sure that even if you get the large artifact from a nearby mirror (which is recommended), that you still get the checksum file directly from "download.eclipse.org" -- since, that is, after all, the whole point ... just to verify the file you get is the same as the one that is on "download.eclipse.org".
- Some technical details, if anyone ever needs to know: currently, as of May, 2014, we produce our SHA512 checksums with 'sha512sum' program on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64), which reports its --version is 8.12 (from GNU coreutils) and its --help says "The sums are computed as described in FIPS-180-2".
Deprecated methods for Eclipse Platform Project and Equinox
For the Luna release (June, 2014) the Eclipse Platform project and Equinox moved to provide SHA512 checksums for to check download integrity, since "md5" is known to be vulnerable, and sha1 is in theory vulnerable (see bug 420010#c1 for references). Hence the following methods should be considered "deprecated" and will eventually disappear (follow bug 423714 for details). For a transition period, the md5 and sha1 checksums are still available from same location that they used to be, namely '<buildURL>/checksums/<filname>(.md5|.sha1)' so those with automated scripts won't break suddenly, but only the SHA512 is displayed as a link on download page, and is the preferred method and that everyone should move to use that, in automated scripts. All that said, the following instructions may still apply to other downloads from other areas of the Eclipse Foundation, which have not yet moved to SHA-2 or to older builds from Eclipse or Equinox (there is currently no plan to retroactively change checksum files).
Downloads can be verified using md5sum or sha1sum, a Unix command line tool provided in the GNU Coreutils package. Windows binary versions are available such as from Cygwin or other packages that can be found by searching the internet.
- Most downloads have an associated link "(md5)" to a *.md5 file containing its MD5 checksum and another link "(sha1)" to a *.sha1 file containing its SHA1 checksum. Download these files, such as from the main Eclipse Foundation's packages downloads page (the checksums are available on the page where you select a mirror, but the checksums come directly from "eclipse.org", not the mirror). Put those checksum files into the same directory as the downloaded archive (zip or tar.gz) file.
- Using the tools described at beginning of this page, execute a command such as "md5sum -c <zipfilename>.md5" or "sha1sum -c <zipfilename>.sha1". The result "<zipfilename>: OK" means the downloaded file is complete and intact.


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the pistol fired directly in his face by the other cat, he had
gotten his "dander up" and, securing his razor, had come out
looking for blood. That is the way I sized the situation up.
He advanced very cautiously, without saying a word. I longed
for another firecracker. I waited until he got nearly to the
fence and, having nothing else to throw, I dropped my cigarette
down just behind him. Again the effect was magical. He did
not wait for the explosion of the bomb he thought the other
cat had thrown at him from an ambuscade. He saw the sparks
from the scattered burning tobacco and moved off like a rocket.
There was one leap of ten feet to the top of the fence and he
was gone.
Now, the remarkable thing about the whole circumstance was
that neither of those cats opened its mouth or said a word
after the first shock. All their energy was concentrated in
their efforts to get away from there in the quickest time possible.
I don't know how they ever settled the matter or what
explanations they made to each other, but I do know that from
that time on nothing on earth could induce either of those cats
to come in my yard either during the day or night. The mystery
of the affair *as too much for them. Had I thrown a
firecracker down on only one of them he would have known it
was I who did itand acted accordingly. But the introduction of
doubt and suspicion into the problem, which made each one
doubt and mistrust the other and suspect him of having attempted
to assassinate him, made the case of mystery complete. They
dodged me and they evidently dodged each other, for we heard
no more of their outrages..
IT has been my good fortune to have known several writers
of note, among them one or two poets. Strange to say
these latter have always been those whose friendship I
valued. I say strange, because it is really so, for aside from
their personality we have nothing in common. My taste is
so depraved that I think that the fellow who raves in verse
over a sunset, or a moon-lit night, is heading towards the nears
est asylum, and if he is not he should be pointed that way. I
confess that I enjoy the jingling verses, telling of breakfast
foods and fine, soaps, that one sees in the street cars, much
more than I do the poems that others rave over.
Now, among my poet friends is Sjolander, the sailor poet.
He and I have been intimate friends for about 80 years, and it
is a fact that I feel proud of. I have enjoyed his stories, skipped
his poetry and admired the man thoroughly and honetly. But
Young, Samuel Oliver. True stories of old Houston and Houstonians: historical and personal sketches / by S. O. Young.. Galveston, Texas. The Portal to Texas History. http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth24646/. Accessed April 29, 2016.


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Saturday, May 7, 2016, 9am ~ 15th Annual Allegro Run for the Arts
REGISTER HERE: Registration
(START) on West Main in front of CAC
East on West Main to South Broad (12)
South on Broad to Beebe West
on Beebe to Elm North
on Elm to West Main West
on West Main to Canasawacta
North on Canasawacta to Beach
West on Beach to Plymouth
South on Plymouth to Pleasant
East on Pleasant to North Broad
South on North Broad to West Main
West on West Main to (FINISH).
Thank you to everyone who helped make the 14th annual Allegro on May 2, 2015 a success!
Race Results: http://www.coolrunning.com/results/15/ny/May2_Allegr_set1.shtml
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Short-Range Weather forecast overview for the Southeast United States
SpaceX is preparing to launch another rocket into space, and as they do so, they will be monitoring the weather carefully to make sure that it does not interfere.
Residents of the southeastern United States may feel like the calendar has flipped ahead to Memorial Day with warm and muggy weather in place for the start of May.
Extended Weather forecast overview for the Southeast United States
The stage is for severe thunderstorms to target parts of the Ohio Valley as the weekend comes to an end.
Weather forecast overview for the United States
One of the largest severe weather outbreak so far this year occurred this week as powerful winds, large hail and heavy rains pummeled the Plains and parts of the Ohio Valley over the course of several days.
Heavy thunderstorms, a few of which will become severe and trigger flash flooding, will target the middle and lower Mississippi Valley into Saturday evening.
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This group contains a lot of stuff of the C&C community. Mod news, game screen shots and C&C humor(funny c&c moments). Join us if your a great fan of C&C!
Yes Sir, you got it!
..like a GDI fanatic would say... xD
that isnt General Shepard!!
This is!
Nope, this is the right one!
Yes hes only a commander but w/e
even better :P
I was bracing for both MW and Mass Effect jokes by the moment I read your post.
to my own comment "Please dont kill me!"
Kane: You can´t kill the messiah!
*Orca piloted by Shepard appears behind the Tample of Nod´s window, which is in front of Kane*
Shepard: BUT I CAN!
Kane: OH! =0
*Orca´s missile brakes the windown and destroy the Temple of Nod*
Any body remembers tiberian ecstacy?
Hell yeah, that was an epic parody :D
Lol yeah XD
Die motherf**ker! Die motherf**ker! DIE!!
you missed the kickass music that plays in the background
No here: Moddb.com Fast forward to 1:26! Sheppards greatest mission briefing ever!
I just loved how they really kept things simple in this one compared to C&C3 for example.
TD: I'm the boss here, I give your orders, go kill some enemies.
C&C3: Lots of conversation, Boyle being *******, traitors and backstabbers everywhere.
Yup, another underestimated actor :D
It is funny to think that until RA1 all cut scenes from C&C were made by Westwood's staff themselves instead of hired actors.
This guy, is the only GDI character I like more than some of the Nod Characters, he defiantly fits in my top 5.
I like this guy's acting, style, and overall awesomeness!
"It looks that Kane is throwing everything at us but the kitchen sink" or something like that
Not the kitchen sink!!!!!
i am commander shepard i am leading gdi destroy reapers in my favourite rts game on the citadel
''Destroy those Bastards'' ~ As spoken on the last GDI mission.
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Latest News
August 1, 2013
On August 1, 2013, NSPE, along with members of the STEM Education Coalition, urged the U.S. House of Representatives to restore a critical funding provision to HR 2131, the SKILLS Visa Act. One of the primary immigration bills in the House, this legislation initially included a provision that would direct fees paid by employers hiring foreign workers to support improvements in U.S. STEM education that will help improve American competitiveness. This provision was removed from the bill during the Judiciary Committee's June markup for procedural reasons. NSPE joins with other members in the science and engineering community to advocate for the restoration of the vital provision. Read the letter here.
July 31, 2013
On July 31, Manager of Government Relations Arielle Eiser attended the annual Washington Internship for Students of Engineering (WISE) public policy presentations. Top engineering students from universities across the country presented public policy solutions to some of our greatest challenges. Presentations included the potential of biodiesel use as a viable alternative fuel source, reshaping the nation's intelligent electrical infrastructure to maximize energy efficiency and storage capacity, and revamping data management strategies for the smart grid to improve reliability, security, and efficiency.
July 9, 2013
On July 9, NSPE urged the House Appropriations Committee to revise House Report 113-90 on the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2014 (HR 2216) to unequivocally identify that the two-phase, qualifications-based selection process be followed on all military construction projects. In a letter to House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) and Ranking Member Nita Lowey (D-NY), NSPE President Dan Wittliff, P.E., F.NSPE writes: "NSPE believes the two-step/two-phase selection process ensures that competent and qualified design professionals are initially involved in the procurement process so that quality-based design considerations are incorporated into the drawings, plans, and specifications consistent with the interests of the public health and safety." Read President Wittliff's letter.
June 19, 2013
On June 19, NSPE's Government Relations Manager Arielle Eiser attended a political action committee event for Speaker of the House John Boehner. Other U.S. representatives present were David Valadao (CA-21), David Joyce (OH-14), Mike Coffman (CO-6), Scott Tipton (CO-3), Jeff Denham (CA-10), and Rodney Davis (IL-13). NSPE's top legislative issues were discussed, including professional liability and tort reform, energy policy, infrastructure, and the need to strengthen the American engineering workforce. This was an excellent opportunity to cultivate and strengthen relationships with important members of Congress.
June 18, 2013
On June 18, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Congressman Paul Tonko (D-NY-20), and Congressman Joe Kennedy (D-MA-4) introduced the Educating Tomorrow's Engineers Act (S. 1178/H.R. 2426). This bill would integrate engineering education into the K-12 curriculum, provide instructors with tools and support to effectively teach engineering education, and promote research in engineering education. NSPE has sent a letter of support and is working closely with the sponsors to promote the bill and add new sponsors to this vital piece of legislation. NSPE has posted an Action Alert. Take action today!
June 12, 2013
On June 12, Manager of Government Relations Arielle Eiser attended a congressional briefing co-hosted by the National Science Foundation, ASME, and DISCOVER Magazine entitled "Harnessing the Power of Engineering to Improve STEM Education in K-12 Schools". Speakers from the NSF, the Museum of Science , and the University of Maryland School of Engineering all spoke about the critical importance of emphasizing engineering in education as early as elementary school. Studies clearly show that earlier engineering education improves student achievement, problem-solving skills, and increases the number of students interested in pursuing careers in engineering.
December 20, 2012
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Well this little fellow should be familiar to some. Vira815 www.furaffinity.net/view/12117… was cool enough to sell this character to me. Many many thanks! I named him Marven Garden because he reminded me of my favorite Let's play Monopoly done by youtuber Chilled Choas and the Derp Crew. Ze The Royal Viking fully built the yellow space Marven Gardens and no body wanted to go there. If you did you got bankrupt or pretty close to it. Everyone tried their best to go to jail. lol
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Long story short I'm 34 weeks pregnant and ever since 26 weeks I have been itching. It started on my feet and when I mentioned it to my Doc she said it was swelling but if I start itching all over let her know. My legs started itching 3 weeks ago so I mentioned it to her. She took a Bilirubin blood test to check for a liver issue. It came back normal. Now, my ENTIRE body is itching not just my feet and legs. I can't even bear to be in my own skin. I google itching all over during pregnancy and it came up with cholestasis of pregnancy. This is apparently serious and i've read that you have to take a liver bile test to test for it not just a bilirubin.Ā
I guess if you have cholestasis then it is very serious to the baby and they usually deliver at 36-37 weeks. Due to the itching I would LOVE to deliver early but don't want to if I dont' have to.Ā
WWYD would you trust the doctor and deal with the itching.. or would you insist on another test just to be sure? I don't like not trusting the professionals! I'm torn!
I can't sleep at night due to the itching. It could be the dry Utah weather! Maybe thats all it is! If it is what sort of remedies can I try? I have soft water, I use lotion twice a day, and I don't take hot showers. I'm going to head to target right now and get that special eczema soap for the shower maybe that will help.
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The Tigers are doing all of their buying early this year, huh? They're like your mom that one year she did all her Christmas shopping about two and a half months before everyone else. Then the presents sat in your basement until Christmas and, since presents aren't supposed to sit in a basement that long without being used, the PlayStation got mildew damage and Dad's cordless shaver batteries seeped. Then, when Christmas finally rolled around your mom's talking about how presents aren't why you celebrate baby Jesus' birthday and you say if that were true then why was she in such a hurry to buy presents in September? And she says to shut up and enjoy your starting pitcher with a falling K-rate and a raising xFIP. Well, if she were the Tigers' GM. To quote Gordon Gekko, Jordan Zimmermann is a dog with different fleas. Last year, he had a 7.3 K/9 after a 8.2 in 2014. He had a 3.82 xFIP last year, his highest since his rookie year. He's always impressed with his lack walks, but even those crept up from 1.3 in 2014 to 1.7 last year. Oh, and now he goes from the NL East to the AL. The Tigers should just go out and get Johnny Cueto and a pair of Zubaz to make it official that they just don't understand bad trends. For 2016, I'll give Zimmermann the projections of 14-11/3.89/1.24/155 and someone I won't go near next year. Anyway, here's what else I saw this offseason for 2016 fantasy baseball:Please, blog, may I have some more?
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Of course, the title is referring to Nelson Muntz, but Jimmy Nelson sounds like a sitcom character too. Like the kid who is sweet to the parents, but is really the devil incarnate when no one is looking. Eddie Haskell, if your references go back that far. Fun fact! Chad Billingsley's grandma starred in that show. So, Jimmy Nelson had a solid game last night (6 2/3 IP, 0 ER, 4 baserunners, 4 Ks, and his ERA is down to 3.57), but that's not THAT good (caps for emphasis, not aesthetics). No, but his month of July ERA was 1.64. THAT is THAT good (not for emphasis, but now my autocorrect 'learned' THAT and wants THAT capped and I can't shut THAT off). Where is all of this coming from? Great question, clunky expositional transition! I'd say it's not where it's coming from, but where has it been? Ooh, you like that switcheroo. Nelson had a 1.46 ERA in the PCL with a 9.2 K/9 last year, throws 93 MPH and has worked hard to add a curve that he never had before this year. He feels like a guy that will click at some point, and be a top 20 starter. This year could be rocky still, but I think he's worth trying for a few starts to see if he's already turned that corner. I've been rocking three starters in my RCL league since April, but after streaming Nelson yesterday, I kinda want to hold him. While an Air Supply song plays softly in the background. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:Please, blog, may I have some more?
Jonathan Papelbon has a contract that insures that he remains the closer if he's traded. He would likely be the closer in Washington even without that stipulation, but it's so like Papelbon to have that in his contract. Should just call that the douche clause. To fix him, the Nationals should bring him into games where they're up one run in the seventh and run him out there for three innings every night until his arm falls off. Sure, they'd cost themselves a closer and games, but isn't spite worth it? I know it is when Cougs says she has a headache and I say, "Fine, I'm gonna sleep in the bathtub!" Sure, I could stay in the bed, or even opt for a couch, but the spite wouldn't be driven home as well. Papelbon's trade obviously kills all value for Drew Storen. Shame, his career feels like the exact opposite of Fernando Rodney. No matter how well Storen pitches every year he seems to lose the job for some unforeseen reason. Maybe he can figure out a way to work into his contract, "Must pitch after any white guy that is a terrible dancer whether that is Mark Madsen, Grey Albright or Papelbon." Of course, in Philly, this means that Ken Giles gets his long-deserved chance to close for the Phils. All three games where they're leading. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:Please, blog, may I have some more?
Last week it was lefties beating up on Shane Greene, this week we have the Canadian lefty killers, the Toronto Blue Jays. If you read me at all this season you've noticed some themes. Mainly the pitching staffs I enjoy picking on most, Texas and Philadelphia. When one of those two waltzes into a home stadium of the highest scoring team in MLB, I get a little excited. The cherry on top is the first starter just so happens to give the platoon advantage to Toronto's three best hitters. Not only have the Blue Jays scored 70+ more runs than the next best team, but they own the best team OPS (.832) vs. lefties by over 50 points. This is almost too good to be true, a dream matchup that most likely everyone will be on. Do with that info what you will, but you won't catch me fading Josh Donaldson tonight, even at a lofty $5,800. Whether it be tournament or cash game, Dongaldson and his 1.051 OPS vs. LHP (or .441 wOBA if that's the language you prefer to speak) this season will find his way into my lineups to pheast on Adam Morgan. You can fade him if you like, but if he goes triple dong, don't say I didn't warn you. Let's see who else I'll be looking at on tonight's slate.
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Remember when Shane Greene was a thing? Those were the days, spring had just sprung and there was so much hope, so much optimism. Your team ERA was so pretty then. You had a shiny new toy fresh from the free agent pool and after his second of two 8 IP, 0 ER gems, you were feeling like the smartest guy your league. Then, April 24th happened. 4 IP, 8 ER vs. the lefty-heavy Indians lineup. Still you believed and then, 4.1 IP, 7 ER. You were wounded, beaten, bloodied and you team ERA was approaching the double digit mark. If this sounds familiar, it's OK, we've all been there. Now is the time to act and seek a little revenge against the one who hurt you. It became apparent fairly early that Greene had some trouble with southpaws. In fact, his season splits read like a hall of famer to be, lefties are slashing .349/.401/.592. There are a handful of pitchers I adore stacking against and when Greene was optioned to AAA, I was sad to lose one of the best. Aaron Harang and Bud Norris can only do so much here. Greene is back now though and in his first start back in the majors proceeded to go 4.2 IP and give up 7 ERs. There's the Shane we know and love. I really can't dream up a more nightmarish match-up for Shane besides maybe the Yankees in the house that Jeter built. Seattle can go lefty-heavy with the best of 'em and I could easily see another 3 IP, 8 ER outing here. There's not a Seattle lefty I won't be trying to squeeze into my lineup tonight and I'll mention one or two below so you don't forget. Just remember, left on Greene and you'll be on the road to sweet redemption.
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Chris Davis (1-for-4, 3 RBIs, hitting .268) hit his 5th homer, and the announcers said that it was all Davis since there was no breeze in the stadium. Could there have been no breeze because there were no one in attendance? Is that why they're called fans? Is the world devoid of wind without people? I feel like Mike Seaver on the Growing Pains episode when he figured out there was TV shows even if he was at school. This is mind blowing! I need to take a schvitz and clear my mind. Maybe Manny Machado (3-for-4, 3 runs and his 4th homer) plays better without a crowd, not taking after his uncle, Randy "Machado Manny" Savage. RIP, you raspy voiced lunatic! But, really, all of this offense was thanks largely to Jeff Samardzija (5 IP, 7 ER, 11 baserunners, 5 Ks, ERA up to 4.78). When I type Samardzija in my iPhone, it autocorrects to, "Inseam Arduous." No truer words were ever autocorrected. If Devon Travis and Arenado were sitting on either of my legs and I had Samardzija pitching for my team, it would still be arduous in my inseam. Way to kill my buzz, you impossible-to-spell, mullet-haired freak! Alphabet Soup's ERA is worse than his xFIP, that's the good news. The bad news is everything else. His xFIP is still 4.13 and his K/9 is 6.2. He's throwing next to no walks, but maybe he should throw some if it means not letting people single you to death. I wouldn't sell Samardzija low, but I'm also more concerned now than I was in the preseason. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:Please, blog, may I have some more?
Jake Lamb hit the DL with a stress reaction in his foot. Now the Diamondbacks' defense will go from Lamb to the slaughter with Yasmany Tomas taking over. Yasmany makes Sandoval look like a gazelle. Yasmany has the agility of an extra-wide trailer. Yasmany looks like the genie in Aladdin, which means the D-Backs's 3rd base shituation was Lamb-or-Genie, which is also a northern Italian farmer's lamb that he hung a car medallion around its neck and rides around to swap meets. I'd look at Yasmany in all leagues (yesterday, he went 2-for-3, 1 run with only one error!), because he does have power to spare — think 27-homer power — and he could surprise people with some regular playing time. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:Please, blog, may I have some more?
For the first time, there's Reasonable Doubt for you, the Jay Z owner. Asking yourself, on Growing Pains, am I, Boner? You're supposed to put up goose eggs, and be all zen. Now the Black Album is scrambled, got funky albumen. Grey told me don't draft a top starter, but I got Jordan Zimmermann not Shawn Carter. Jigga what…is with all the runs? His starts make me want to curse, hide your nuns. Pardon my question, but my H2H is on tilt and I need streamers from the SON, see. This is fantasy, where's my funzies!? Yesterday, Zimmermann went 2 1/3 IP and gave up seven, but at least I have Kershaw, Strasburg and Samardzija. Wait, then why is my team's ERA pushing five and I don't have anything that rhymes with Samardzija!? As for Zimmermann, he looks like he's hiding an injury so far this year. Velocity's down, Ks are down, pitches are up. I wouldn't panic trade him, but I wonder if something might be wrong and I would explore trade possibilities. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:Please, blog, may I have some more?
The Braves had the 5th best ERA last year in the major leagues. That's with a down year by Mike Minor, and injuries to Brandon Beachy and Kris Medlen. Their runs scored were second to last in the majors. Only the Padres' offense was worse. So, naturally, they trade away Jason Heyward and Jordan Walden for Shelby Miller and Tyrell Jenkins, who had a sub-5 K/9 in High-A last year. Oh…*pounds out a chicken cutlet, fills it with spinach and ricotta cheese, rolls it up, ties it with twine, bakes it on 450 for 18-22 minutes, pulls it out and breathes in the aroma* …kay. That's the Chicken Florentine pause. Practiced by many, only able to be pulled off by a few. I rarely pull out the Chicken Florentine pause, but trading a top hitting prospect that is only 25 years old, when your team is hurting for offense, is straight up baffling with a pickleback. Are the Braves trying to bring the entire organization down to Fredi's level of intelligence? Did Fredi tell management that they had too many top of the order hitters (they have none) and they needed another arm (they don't)? Are the Braves trying to get featured in the third sequel to Major League? I got questions, y'all! From a fantasy perspective, Heyward's value goes up simply because the Cardinals are a better offensive team. Like someone doing yoga, Heyward will now be surrounded by Matts, Carpenter and Holliday. What will Heyward produce? Go ask the Sphinx. One year he looks like a 30-homer hitter, another year he looks like a middle infielder with 20 steal speed. He could be anywhere from a 15-homer guy to a 30-homer guy. The 20 steals, now in two of five seasons, looks possible, until you see he has a year of only 2 steals. His .271 average last year is around his career average (.262), so that seems repeatable, until you see his .227 average in 2011. At some point, he could have a 30-homer, 20-steal top 20 fantasy season, but to say it's definitely coming is you lying to yourself. You already lie to yourself in other areas of your life, let's not start with Heyward too. For 2015, I'll give him the projections of 91/20/75/.274/15. Anyway, here's some more offseason moves for 2015 fantasy baseball:Please, blog, may I have some more?
Dot dot dot. Kicks an end table. Picks up the phone. Dial tone. No one there. Flips the TV channel. Not really watching. Picks up phone. No one there. Flips the TV channel. Stops on a special about Tony Conigliaro. Sobs uncontrollably. Picks up the phone, dials, "Hello, I don't want to be alone, please come over. This is Grey. Albright. Momma Stanton, I'm your son's stalker. Please, don't hang up. We need each other right now. Hello? Hello?" Guess it's just us right now. It's lonely without Giancarlo Stanton. And his mollywhoppers. God, how I loved those mollwhoppers. It's late, I need rest, hoping for good news tomorrow. Giancarlo, mi novio, we sip from the same mug, even if you don't know it. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:Please, blog, may I have some more?


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(ADCT) fell by $1.04, or 15.7%, to $5.60 in the premarket session a day after the network equipment company issued a disappointing first-quarter sales outlook on account of weak carrier spending. The 50-day average daily volume for ADC Telecommunications is 2.3 million, according to the Nasdaq.
Golden Green Enterprises
(CHOP) dropped by 56 cents, or 10.3%, to $4.89 in the premarket session a day after the cold-rolled steel company attributed sales that were 6% higher year-over-year at $59.3 million to lower prices on its products. The company anticipates fourth-quarter sales of $40 million to $50 million and net income of $8 million to $10 million, which doesn't include a non-recurring expense of $2.5 million related to its recent public offering. The three-month average daily volume for Golden Green Enterprises is 49,980, according to Yahoo! Finance.
-- Written by Melinda Peer in New York.
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BRILLIANT!! Really great pilot who kept us well informed of the things to be looking at. We were lucky to have a stunning sunset to see as well. If you cant stretch to the full on Canyon tour, do this its great fun. Limo collection and drop off made it special too. Thanks to all involved.
Kim P USA
It was so much better than I could have imagined!
Awesome helicopter ride! Pilot was great also. Will definitely use Viator again!
We took the twilight Hoover Dam + Las Vegas Strip helicopter tour on 07/10/2013.
An excellent trip all around.
Pickup by limo at our hotel was exactly at the scheduled time and the limo was comfortable and well appointed.
The Sundance ground facility was modern, attractive and check in was fast and efficient. You will be weighed, but the process is easy and the clerk discreet. A very professional video orientation follows check-in with all procedures and options clearly covered.
Our pilot, Mike, was expert in every aspect and was completely professional in his manr and approach. One note: the staff doesn't offer much help in getting into the helicopter, which entails a couple of high steps. I wouldn't recommend this trip for anyone with mobility issues.
The flight itself was incredibly smooth and passengers will feel secure at all times. (Of course, you DID listen when they told you NOT to touch the door handles and to keep your seat belts on at all times.)
Unfortunately, the haze of smoke from the Mt. Charleston fire made some of the visibility less than optimal, the trip over Lake Meade and Hoover Dam was really interesting. The return trip via Downtown Las Vegas and the Las Vegas Strip was truly enthralling. (We were able to see the fire on Mt. Charleston from the air as well.) The views of the hotels was really terrific. Why, even Circus Circus and The Riviera look magnificent from the air! Much more impressive than I imagined.
Well worth the price and highly recommended for a unique Las Vegas memory.
We had a great time. Well worth the money. The perfect start to a great evening!!!!!
My husband and I were in Las Vegas for my hubby's 50th in April 2013, I had booked the trip for helicopter to Hoover Dam for a surprise but received phone call to say there wasn't enough people to go on our trip so would upgrade to another trip to Grand Caynon free of charge. The trip was excellent the staff were so welcoming and friendly my hubby said best present ever. I would definitely recommend this company and trip.
I actually was upgraded as the helicopter couldn't fly then So was replaced by a morning flight to the grand cannon and breakfast which was amazing with a wonderful friendly pilot.
Everyone at the terminal was very friendly and helpful. The pilot was extremely nice and added humor to the conversations. The only drawback to the tour was that we were assigned to the right side of the helicopter. Because of the flight path over Fremont St. and LV BLVD. we had to look across.
Our tour was very enjoyable and our pilot was great!
Bert Netherlands
This was a great tour. Pick up and drop off with limo should be optional, especially if you're cremmed in with 9 in one limo on the way back, but apart from that: Professional en friendly organization, great trip and amazing views. Perfect timing to. Good view of Hoover Dam and beautiful sun set on the way back to Vegas.
After being totally torqued-off with the booking process (not real time, tried to move the date we booked) we got a most pleasant surprise in being upgraded to the dam and canyon trip! Our pilot was Bob; he was excellent, the flight was excellent, the music was great, and the views were spectacular! We took 100 more pictures in that hour and a half than the rest of the 5 day trip combined! Do not miss this on your next trip!
A 'must do' for Las Vegas travellers
Very well organised. Very enjoyable excursion.
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Great Service and Great Trip
All 4 of us really enjoyed Helicopter ride, want my wife and son go to with next time.
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What a fantastic trip! Our pilot, John, had a great sense of humor and entertained us the whole journey through with laughs. While I thought going on a helicopter would be scary, I found it to be quite safe! I thoroughly enjoyed the bird's eye view of the Hoover Dam, Lake Mead, and the Strip. What an incredible way to enjoy the natural beauty of the mountains and see the shiny lights of Vegas. Would highly recommend this tour for anyone visiting Vegas!
We had the most fantastic time. Bob, our pilot, was the best. We were so lucky, the sunset was the best of the week. This was the hightlight of our Las Vegas trip. Thank you so much for making it so memorable
I bought this helicopter tour for my wife for her birthday to hoover dam and las vegas strip and she said that it was VERY smooth and would do it again. Loved every minute of it. Pilot was great.
Mark USA
Awesome and smooth equipment. We had a super pilot. The views were more than I expected. I'll make a point to do this again the next time I'm in Vegas!!!!
The Twilight helicopter tour was a simply awsome experience. We weren't flying on a very windy evening and the pilot managed to make the ride smooth and enjoyable. Nothing like seeing the Vegas lights at sunset. For the price you wont be disappointed. The Limo transferes to and from out hotel were an added bonus .. A must do for your Vegas trip !
Best part about the trip was the pilot, he was great and funny and did an awesome job. Very smooth ride would have liked to seen the dam for a little longer but I would definitely recommend.
It was spectacular. It also happened to be one of the most beautiful sunsets EVER!
I was lucky enough to sit in the front, with a good 180 degree+ view. I would have hated to be stuck in one of the middle seats in the back, not next to a window. Great trip.


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In Ohio, Romney fights back against Obama's campaign of "anger and hate."
REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio -- Even while liberals were telling themselves that Mitt Romney had made a "risky" or even "disastrous" choice in picking Paul Ryan as his running mate, America got a rather startling reminder that President Obama's running mate isn't exactly a model of rhetorical responsibility. Romney spent Tuesday speaking to large and enthusiastic crowds in Ohio, on the same day Vice President Joe Biden was in Virginia committing one of the most remarkable blunders in campaign history. Speaking to a largely black audience of Democrats in Danville, Biden said that Romney's policies would "put y'all back in chains."
Biden's notorious history of gaffes -- he once asked a paraplegic Democrat to stand up at a campaign event -- immediately led most political observers to assume that this was another classic "There Goes Joe" moment. However, when the Obama campaign refused to disavow Biden's comment, the suspicion grew that the remark was a deliberate, officially-approved provocation. "A slavery metaphor aimed squarely at black listeners," as Hot Air blogger Allahpundit called it, intended to demonize the Romney-Ryan ticket and inflame racial hostility toward the Republicans.
A few hours after Biden's Virginia speech, Romney rolled into Zanesville, Ohio, for a brief campaign stop at an ice-cream parlor. Eric Fehrnstrom, one the Massachusetts governor's top strategists, shook his head in astonishment when asked about the "chains" accusation. "Outrageous," he said. "It just goes to show you when the Obama campaign gets in a scrape, they scrape the bottom."
Noting that a pro-Obama super-PAC ad recently accused Romney of causing a woman to die from cancer, Fehrnstrom said that "the more desperate" the Democrats get, the more they "ratchet up the rhetoric." Fehrnstrom said the Obama campaign had a reason to be desperate: Two national tracking polls -- from Gallup and Rasmussen -- released Tuesday showed Romney moving ahead, evidently boosted by the addition of Ryan to the GOP ticket. If Biden's remark was indeed evidence of the Obama campaign's "desperate" effort to boost black turnout, it might be because other traditionally Democratic constituencies may not be excited about re-electing Obama.
Romney began his Ohio tour Tuesday with a rally at a coal mine in Beallsville, highlighting the coal industry's importance to the local economy -- and the hostility of the president's policies toward that industry. Hundreds of muscular miners in hardhats, wearing stickers with the slogan "Stop Obama's War on Coal," cheered and applauded Romney as he asked a rhetorical question, "We have 250 years of coal, why the heck wouldn't we use it?" Near the West Virginia state line, Beallsville is in Monroe County, which Obama carried by nine points over Republican John McCain in 2008, but the Democratic administration's energy and environmental policies have estranged many miners and their families. Even the United Mine Workers, the union once bossed by current AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka, has hesitated to endorse Obama this year. Referring to the administration's plans to limit coal-fired electrical power plants, the UMW's spokesman told the Washington Times, "Our members aren't stupid… they see what this means,"
From Beallsville, the Romney bus rolled on to Zanesville for an event that highlighted the GOP candidate's support for small businesses like Tom's Ice Cream Bowl. It gave the Republican another chance to jab at Obama's derision of entrepreneurial independence. Romney's rebuttal -- "You did build that!" -- has become one of the biggest applause lines of his speeches in recent weeks.
Mitt may have been jabbing in Zanesville, but he saved his heaviest punches for the final stop of his Ohio trip. Apparently, Biden's "chains" remark had an unintended consequence: It offended Romney, producing a transformation that was somewhat like watching the mild-mannered scientist Bruce Banner turn into the Incredible Hulk. Romney arrived to a hero's welcome in Chillicothe, where he was greeted by a pumped-up Republican crowd estimated at 5,000 or more. He did not disappoint them, delivering a fiery speech that took direct aim at the Democrats' increasingly divisive campaign tactics.
"This is an election in which we should be talking about the path ahead," Romney told the crowd in front of the Ross County Courthouse, "but you don't hear any answers coming from President Obama's re-election campaign. That's because he's intellectually exhausted, out of ideas, and out of energy. And so his campaign has resorted to diversions and distractions, to demagoguing and defaming others. This is an old game in politics; what's different this year is that the president is taking things to a new low."
Romney accused the Obama campaign of making "wild and reckless accusations that disgrace the office of the Presidency," specifically referring to the "outrageous charge [that] came a few hours ago in Virginia.… This is what an angry and desperate Presidency looks like. President Obama knows better, he promised better and America deserves better."
The crowd erupted in cheers, and Romney continued: "Over the last four years, this President has pushed Republicans and Democrats as far apart as they can go. And now he and his allies are pushing us all even further apart by dividing us into groups. He demonizes some. He panders to others. His campaign strategy is to smash America apart and then cobble together 51 percent of the pieces.
"If an American president wins that way, we all lose," Romney said, pausing slightly before adding: "But he won't win that way."
That elicited another huge cheer from the Chillicothe crowd, and Romney then invoked the words of the Pledge of Allegiance -- "America is one nation under God" -- building up a patriotic call to unity that referred to "monuments that list those who have given their lives," and leading into the harshest rebuke of all: "Mr. President, take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago and let us get about rebuilding and reuniting America."
Romney continued from there outlining his own plans and policies, and ended by reminding his Ohio audience that there were just 84 days -- twelve weeks -- remaining until Election Day. He urged them to talk to their friends and neighbors, to help persuade them to vote Republican in November, in what is almost certain once more to be the decisive battleground state. "One more vote can make the difference in Ohio," Romney said. "And Ohio will make the difference for America."
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Bringing Discipline (and Scorecards) to Nursing Homes
By REED ABELSON
Published: July 7, 2002
FORT SMITH, Ark.— SITTING in a conference room at the headquarters here of Beverly Enterprises, the nation's largest nursing home chain, William R. Floyd, its chairman and chief executive, is arguing that providing nursing care to the elderly is not all that different from selling tacos at a fast-food chain.
''There really are an enormous number of similarities between this and the world I came from,'' said Mr. Floyd, 57, an intense but self-effacing executive who spent seven years at PepsiCo, most of them at Taco Bell. Recruited to Beverly in April 2000, he was appointed chief executive 10 months later and has spent the last year and a half working to turn around the beleaguered company.
Beverly, which had revenue of $2.71 billion last year, operates multiple units, just as a chain of restaurants does, he said. The company also relies heavily on low-wage employees -- nursing assistants -- to provide care. ''Taco Bell competes with Beverly for these people,'' Mr. Floyd said.
But there are obvious differences. To an industry known for lax, decentralized management of its facilities and little innovation, Mr. Floyd brings a keen emphasis on accountability and is experimenting with more than a dozen new, potentially more profitable health care services.
By setting clear financial goals for his managers and by linking their pay to the quality of care, he has already improved the company's profitability and says it is providing better care.
Before he can declare victory, however, Mr. Floyd faces many challenges, most recently a criminal investigation by the state of California into 46 citations for inadequate patient care at 20 facilities. While the incidents took place from 1998 to 2001, they are a stark reminder of Beverly's frequent run-ins with regulators over how it treats its residents and the prevailing image of a nursing home as a place where no one wants to be.
Last year, for example, a Beverly home in Santa Barbara, Calif., that accounted for 25 of the 46 citations, was fined by the state health department for failing ''to properly care for a resident who was fed through a stomach tube, resulting in severe infection and his death.'' That nursing home, which is also the subject of several private lawsuits, is part of the state's inquiry.
Beverly sold that home last year and is in discussions with regulators about the citations. A settlement could be reached as soon as this month, most likely including a substantial fine. The company also expects to be asked to plead guilty to a criminal charge, but has made no decision on that. In a case brought by California last year against another national chain, the Sun Healthcare Group, a unit of that company pleaded ''no contest'' to a felony charge and the whole company agreed to improve staffing and oversight.
Beyond the regulatory cases, Beverly and the entire industry, of course, face tremendous uncertainty about federal and state reimbursement policies. When Medicare changed how it paid for care a few years ago, many operators went through bankruptcy reorganizations, including public companies like Kindred Healthcare and Genesis Health Ventures.
Investors remain wary of the industry, and they are unlikely to warm to it. Cuts in state and federal budgets for nursing home care are a distinct possibility as states retrench because of falling tax receipts and as Congress debates funding for Medicare. While praising Beverly's management, Friess Associates, an investment management company that had been a large holder of the stock, recently sold its position over concerns about possible cuts in Medicare reimbursement rates.
Mr. Floyd refuses to adopt what he calls the industry's tendency to view itself as a victim, but he still faces the daunting task of convincing regulators, investors, the public and his own employees that Beverly can escape its past. Over the years, regulators have persistently raised questions about the quality of care that Beverly provides, and the new management team must somehow take what is essentially a low-growth and low-margin business and create something dynamic.
WHEN Mr. Floyd arrived two years ago, Beverly was close to bankruptcy. That February, it had agreed to pay the federal government $175 million to settle the industry's largest allegation of Medicare fraud. The company's stock, which traded as high as $17.50 in late 1997, had plummeted to a low of $2.50.
''He asked a lot of tough questions,'' said Marilyn R. Seymann, a Beverly director who spent several hours with Mr. Floyd before he began his new job. ''I sugar-coated nothing.''
In 1998, he left as chief executive of Choice Hotels International, which franchises the Comfort Inn, Econo Lodge and other brands, after finding that he did not have the support of the board or the previous chief executive. He spent the next year and a half, when not climbing mountains, considering his options.
Upon his arrival, Mr. Floyd saw an opportunity to make Beverly a leader in an industry badly in need of one. Despite its leading position, Beverly accounts for just 3 percent of the nation's 1.8 million nursing-home beds, with many of its homes in California, Pennsylvania and Arkansas. Most rivals are for-profit businesses, ranging from large public companies like Manor Care to scattered regional chains to small operators. Many facilities struggled or even failed after the Medicare cuts of the late 1990's and fierce competition from assisted-living centers -- residences that offer some services and appeal to people who shudder at the thought of being in a nursing home.