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@DatDudeBP Giveaway Week 2
Last week's Counting Baseballs blog giveaway was a success. Joey Orr won this Matt Wieters shirt for his comments and tweets.
For week two, I've decided to give away a Brandon Phillips jersey shirt. Phillips is a gold glove winning, home run hitting second baseman for the Cincinnati Reds, my favorite NL team after the Pittsburgh Pirates. Brandon is also active on twitter with 206,000+ followers and almost 5,000 tweets. If you're not following him yet, what are you waiting for?
The rules to win the shirt are simple.
I post blog entries every day. All you have to do is leave a comment or retweet my blog link on twitter.
So, again, to enter:
1) Leave a comment.
You can enter up to seven times per week simply by leaving a comment. Non-pertinent, spam, or inappropriate comments will not be accepted. If you comment multiple times on the same blog entry, it still counts as one entry. For example, if you commented on three different blog posts from this week, you'd have three entries. If you'd comment three times on the same blog posting, it would could as one.
2) Retweet (RT) my posts on Twitter
You can find me on twitter under 333greystreet. Simply retweet my daily posts and I'll count that as an entry. My blog is connected to my twitter so that I automatically tweet once I post a new entry. Each day, I'll search who's retweeted me and enter those users into a hat along with the commenters.
At the end of the week on Sunday, I'll have Olivia, Amy or I will choose a name from a hat and announce the winner.
So let's show you the Brandon Phillips shirt:
(by the way the winner can choose a SMALL, LARGE, or 2XL shirt)
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Let's finish this post with some Brandon Phillips talk.
Personally, I love Brandon Phillips. Any time he comes up in batting practice, I anticipate him hitting a bomb in my direction. Altogether, I have caught 7 of his home runs in batting practices since 2009. His batting stance is unmistakeable when he steps into the cage. He's one of those guys whose stances I would've mimicked playing wiffle ball in the back yard. Additionally, I loved how he publicly stated how he hated the Cardinals in 2010 and also said the Cardinals are 'Little B*tches.' If you're a Cardinals fan sorry, but the Cards are one of my three least favorite teams.
How about Brandon Phillips on the field? Where does he rank among second basemen for you in the National League? Chase Utley has been bitten by the injury bug recently, Dan Uggla is streaky as heck, Danny Espinosa has power but struggles to hit his weight, and Rickie Weeks declined from his 2010 career year. If I had to choose, I'm taking Phillips. He hit .315 with 10 home runs after the All Star break last year, gives you 20 SB potential, and is as solid fielding second baseman as anyone in the game.
What are your thoughts?
Good luck in this week's giveaway. Maybe Brandon can RT a link and give some more Reds fans a chance to win this shirt?
There's only 59 more days until Opening Day, 12 days until pitchers and catchers report to spring training!
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Huge fan of Dat Dude. He had a great year offensively and defensively. He is a gold glover and got that .300 average he wanted. He is a solid all-around player and one of my favorite non-Pirates. I still love that you are doing these giveaways.
Brandon Phillips in my opinion is the best second basemen at fielding in the mlb.
Nice shirt
Hey Erik! I hope that I can win! Good luck to everyone else!
I agree, I think Brandon Phillips is the best 2B in the National League and I think he gets overlooked because he's in Cincy. Uggla is WAY too streaky. I'd give it to Utley as well but he was hurt. I think a good @B is the hardest fielding position to come by with a productive fielder and hitter.
I still remember when Phillips paid for a fan to come see the Reds on the road, all expenses paid trip and everything. That's an awesome thing about players connecting with fans on Twitter


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Written by Milena on 02.01.2012 at 12:51
Interesting, your opinion on some albums collides with the general opinions of people here
Written by !J.O.O.E.! on 02.01.2012 at 12:54
Is that an extremely polite way of saying he has crap tastes? ;]
Written by DeathMetalKnight on 02.01.2012 at 14:32
Well... it's not interesting if all people like the same
Written by Susan on 20.01.2012 at 07:16
for Ghost Brigade. Really beautiful yet ass-kicking album. Also, Arkan. Not enough people heard that one. Quality stuff.
Despite your love of death metal, you and I agree on several! Suidakra, always good, and of course Omnium Gatherum. Though, I'm surprised you didn't refer to Suidakra as folk? Anyway, there are a few power metal titles on here also, and some I haven't heard. I'll be sure to! Thanks in advance for the suggestions.
Yet... Divinefire. One of the worth albums I heard this year.
All in all, it's nice to meet someone else with eclectic tastes


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3 Companies Who May Pay the Next Special Dividend
Having just visited my local Costco (COST) the evening before, I decided to check the opening price. COST had opened the morning of the 27th at $96.30. Talking to myself as I sometimes do, I said, "if it pulls back to $95 I'm going to buy some shares". Famous last words!
Shares of COST never dipped below $95.77 that fateful day. By the time I checked my trading account the next morning, shares had opened at $100.44 and by the end of Wednesday's trading session the stock closed at $102.58, up $6.07 from Tuesday's closing price of $96.51.
I swallowed hard and resisted the urge to kick myself. After all how could I have known what was to be announced after I went to sleep Tuesday evening? The proclamation from on high was that COST was going to give its shareholders a special cash dividend of $7 per share. Those fortunate enough to own shares at $96 were suddenly getting a 7.29% unexpected holiday bonus.
Payment will be made to shareholders of record as of the close of business on December 10 and will cost the company approximately $3 billion. It will be in addition to the company's regular quarterly dividend of $0.275 per share, which gets paid out Nov. 30.
The CFO of COST told the financial world why they were being so generous. He characterized it as their "latest effort in returning capital to our shareholders while maintaining our conservative capital structure." Mr. Galanti went on to say that the company's "strong balance sheet," which includes total cash (most recent quarter) of $4.85 billion, allowed Costco to be so good to their shareholders.
Although I was happy for all those lucky folks who were not only getting this incredible bonus but were also going to receive the company's regular quarterly dividend of $0.275 per share, which will be paid on November 30, I started wondering which companies might be the next surprising benefactors.
After all, any dividend paid out by December 31 will benefit from the current, low, 15% tax rate on qualified dividends. After the dawning of 2013, however, the maximum tax rate on dividends may increase to as high as 43.4% for top income earners.
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Of course that would only happen if Congress decided, with the president's approval, to begin taxing dividends at ordinary income tax rates and applies a 3.8% surtax to pay for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. A compromise may be reached before midnight on December 31, but no one seems certain one way or another.


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Four choreographic collaborations comprise this iteration of OSU Dance Department's Dance Uptown series, a study of the continued development of modern dance.
A deconstructed baroque ballet, "Radiant Paths," fuses contemporary ideas with Baroque movement that evolved from activities like fencing and that era's social dancing.
Another piece, "Commonplace," is a graceful nod to the complicated lives of women set to music from "Forgotten Peoples," by Veljo Tormis and performed by the Estonian Chamber Choir.
A four-section dance called "Gone's Goings" using contemporary movement to journey through the work of children's book authors and illustrators Virginia Hamilton, Verna Aardema, and Leo and Diane Dillon.
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I ended my previous article (Linux on the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet) by saying that the release of the OS 2006 prepared the way for some serious VOIP work. The 770 can now make SIP-based VOIP phone calls and is more like what you'd expect from Nokia--a phone!
What does it take to upgrade the machine, and how difficult is it? As it happens, not much and not very, but when you're at risk of bricking the machine, there's always a certain level of anxiety.
The first step in the upgrade is to visit the Nokia 770 support site for a Windows download or Maemo's 770 download page for Linux and Mac OS X. Download the new OS. You need to provide the machine number of your 770; the download pages provide instructions on how to find it.
The next step is to do it! On Linux and Mac OS X, connect the 770 to the host machine with the USB cable and run a script while holding down the home button (and possibly your breath, as well). I flubbed my first attempt by letting go of the button too soon. The good news was that the only result was a failure notice on the host machine console:
SW version in image: SU-18_2006SE_1.2006.26-8_PR_MR0
Image '2nd', size 8704 bytes
Image 'secondary', size 87040 bytes
Image 'xloader', size 13824 bytes
Image 'initfs', size 1890304 bytes
Image 'kernel', size 1266560 bytes
Image 'rootfs', size 60030976 bytes
Suitable USB device not found, waiting
USB device found at bus 002, device address 002-0421-0105-02-00
Sending request 0x01 failed: Unknown error: 0
NOLO_REQ_GET_STATUS: Invalid argument
Device status query failed
Holding down the button for the whole operation was the way forward. Here is my success:
SW version in image: SU-18_2006SE_1.2006.26-8_PR_MR0
Image '2nd', size 8704 bytes
Image 'secondary', size 87040 bytes
Image 'xloader', size 13824 bytes
Image 'initfs', size 1890304 bytes
Image 'kernel', size 1266560 bytes
Image 'rootfs', size 60030976 bytes
Suitable USB device not found, waiting
USB device found at bus 002, device address 002-0421-0105-02-00
Found board Nokia 770 (F5)
NOLO version 0.9.0
Sending xloader image (13 kB)...
100% (13 of 13 kB, avg. 385 kB/s)
Sending secondary image (85 kB)...
100% (85 of 85 kB, avg. 765 kB/s)
Flashing bootloader... done.
Sending kernel image (1236 kB)...
100% (1236 of 1236 kB, avg. 796 kB/s)
Flashing kernel... done.
Sending initfs image (1846 kB)...
100% (1846 of 1846 kB, avg. 795 kB/s)
Flashing initfs... done.
Sending and flashing rootfs image (58624 kB)...
100% (58624 of 58624 kB, avg. 598 kB/s)
Finishing flashing... done
What you get is an updated interface with more operations available from the desktop.
This is the same process I demonstrated in my previous article if you want to add to the basic Linux install by importing more apps such as the terminal. I'm using it and Joe to write this report (Emacs keystrokes just didn't work out for me on this machine, and I didn't get the hang of the double escapes with Vi either). There is a version of Vim that works quite well, though.
The catalog of apps is fairly similar, except there are some that haven't made it across yet, and some new ones as well.
I should put in a warning here about a theme called LCARS. It's a Star Trek thing, which looks pretty cool. The minus side starts with hard-to-see fonts in daylight. From there, it grew significantly worse on my configuration, with corrupted data files and various apps refusing to start. The problem, I think, is that this theme is very weighty for this machine, and the OS doesn't so far degrade very nicely when it runs out of memory. This only affected runtime files, so an uninstall followed by a couple of reboots seemed to fix everything.
At least, that was true for me on release 1 of OS 2006. The recently released update cured all those problems on my machine. LCARS now runs like a charm and looks pretty good as well.
Another tangent is email. The bundled client is quite OK for dealing with a few emails but it gets old very quickly if you get lots. For example, you can't tag emails so deleting quite a few is a major pain. It won't handle groups at all and GMail isn't all that great, either.
Pine to the rescue! I used to prefer Mutt but it isn't available for this platform, and I'm on the road and don't have a suitable machine to do it myself. Anyway, running Pine on the 770 is way cool. The easiest way to get it is to add
http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/nokia770 mistral user to your repositories list, update available packages, and get Pine.
If you're new to Pine, the best way to edit the config file .pinerc is through the internal setup within the program. Be sure to enable the mouse in
xterm, as this allows you to tap options on the screen rather than having to drop down the menu item in the improved Xterm that will send a Ctrl signal. Another note: as initially configured, the emails you send will come from User. This is easy to fix. See Jimc's Nokia 770 page for details.
Without importing any apps, the limit of your VOIP calling is to fellow Gmailers. You're not a Gmailer, you say? Well, as a 770 owner, you already have an account. It's just a pity that the Opera browser shipped with OS 2006 can't fully cope with Gmail. Opera tells me that the next version is better.
Another alternative is to download a client from the Gizmo Project. Once you open the app, you receive 25 cents of free calls if you register. At 1 cent per minute to quite a few places, the rates are quite competitive. Calls to fellow Gizmo users are free. You can also register a normal phone number for your device at Gizmo for $12 for three months. Calling is very straightforward. You put in the number, put the 770 up to your ear, and talk away. Top up your minutes by clicking on "add credit" in the "home" section.
There's also Tapioca, which is "a GoogleTalk client with VoIP and instant messaging capabilities, with a simple user interface. It can be installed on the device without any conflict with the product's built-in Gtalk client."
Another project called Minisip comes from the postgrad students at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. It's quite advanced, but there are no downloads at the moment due to code rewrites.
Finally there's a port of the well-known Asterisk that will do VOIP as well as PABX duties. Getting this on a 770 isn't, at the moment, for the faint of heart though...but if you're a long-term Asterisk user, you won't be faint of heart.
This is what you want, I'm sure. Here's what I did to get a working (as in "non-crashing") version of Asterisk 1.2.1 (the latest release from Digium) on the Nokia 770.
If you're in a hurry or you don't want to mess with compiling and Scratchbox (or you simply don't know what those are), just skip to the binaries.
wget http://ftp.digium.com/pub/asterisk/asterisk-1.2.1.tar.gz to download the latest Asterisk sources.
tar xvfz asterisk-1.2.1.tar.gz. This will give you an asterisk-1.2.1 folder. Change to that folder (
cd asterisk-1.2.1).
wget http://www.cayennegraphics.com/asterisk770/Makefile.diff and
wget http://www.cayennegraphics.com/asterisk770/Makefile-gsm.diff.
patch Makefile Makefile.diff.
There are eight steps to go; read more at Installing Asterisk on the Nokia 770.
Note: A point of interest here is that the linked Asterisk Nokia 770 binary includes a SIP client for OS 2005, which might be useful if you don't want to upgrade for other reasons.
The Scratchbox reference means that you first need to install the Maemo SDK. Otherwise, you can pick up toward the end of the instructions and get a ready-made binary, which needs some work to install...
You're ready to move the binaries to your Nokia 770. Go to /tmp/ast121/ and type
tar cvfz asterisk-1.2.1-nokia770-arm-binary.tar.gz *. You can also download the Nokia 770 Asterisk binary directly. Drop the files on your memory card or
scp them from your machine--your choice.
Another note: As I write this, the binary for OS2006 does not work due to missing libraries. I imagine the fix is on its way, though.
Go to the folder where you dropped the asterisk-1.2.1-nokia770-arm-binary.tar.gz file and (as root) type
tar -zvx -C / -f asterisk-1.2.1-nokia770-arm-binary.tar.gz.
Note: The easiest way to become root is to get Becomeroot from the Maemo.org's application list. With that on board,
sudo su gives you a passwordless root.
asterisk -vvvvvc to start the program and get a console prompt.
There is some interesting stuff coming up with handwriting recognition. At a recent Symbian Smartphone show, I saw both Symbian and 770 demos of vastly improved systems. The one from MyScript recognized whole lines of cursive linked writing rather than just one letter at a time. XT9 also showed an improved version of the current system.
Some people call the 770 "the new Zaurus" but really the only comparison is Linux and the degree of enthusiasm around. Nokia seems fully aware of what it has, which is more than Sharp ever demonstrated, at least in markets other than Japan. Nokia also has the advantage of having much wider distribution channels.
Very special thanks to Gala's fourth-year computer science students at Simferopol University for showing me where to get a WLAN connection for this article. Special thanks as well to Ciaron Linstead in Berlin for extensive use of his network, which allowed me to get Pine working, among other things.
John Littler is chief gopher for Mstation.org.
Return to the Linux DevCenter.
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By Mitchell Anderson • Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 17:18
To understand just how complex, scary and immediate climate change is, look no further than the case of the tiny mountain pine beetle.
Populations of this tree-eating insect have exploded over the last ten years due to warmer winters, devastating the majestic forests of western Canada and destroying over $20 billion in timber.
Now comes a frightening study published in the prestigious journal Nature that that the huge swaths of dead trees killed by the beetles are themselves emitting enormous quantities of carbon into the atmosphere as they decompose – further exacerbating our climate problems.
How much carbon? By altering the climate in western Canada, we have un-leased a chain of events that will release of close to one billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by 2020. This is more than five times as much as the annual emissions from all forms of transportation in Canada.
Dr. Werner Kurz of Natural Resources Canada has been researching the devastating impacts of the mountain pine beetle for many years. He says BC infestation is "unprecedented in scale and severity" and at least ten times as large as any outbreak on record.
This rice-sized insect is endemic to western Canadian evergreen forests and makes its living by burrowing into pine trees and eating the soft tissue beneath the bark. Too many beetles can overwhelm a healthy tree and kill it.
For thousands of years none of this was a particular problem. Beetle populations were kept in check by Canadian winter frosts that reliably plummeted below minus 40. Trees and forests lived in chilly equilibrium .
Enter climate change. It has been over a decade since winters have been cold enough to significantly knock back the beetles and their numbers have exploded. Over 130,000 square kilometers of pine forests have been devastated – an area the size of Greece
This epidemic has clobbered the economy of the province, which remains highly dependent on the forest industry. More than 25,000 forest dependant families will be impacted for the next 80 years. Over $100 million of public money has been spent trying to control the spread of the beetle, but all experts agree that the only hope is colder winters.
Instead, it appears that the only thing that will end the beetle epidemic in BC is that they will have no more live trees to eat - something Dr. Kurz believes will come to pass within the next few years.
That will not be the end of our beetle woes however. Having almost exhausted their indigenous food supply, they have already crossed the Rocky Mountains into new habitat and now threaten Canada's entire boreal forest - one of the most important carbon storehouses on the planet.
"I don't want to be alarmist but it is certainly feasible that a future outbreak later this century could go right across the the boreal", said Kurz. If the same cycle of devastation and carbon release occurs, we will be looking at much bigger eventual release of carbon dioxide than one billion tonnes.
Dr.. Kurz's research demonstrates the dangerous complexities of playing with the thermostat of the planet. This new source of atmospheric carbon from by decomposing trees is an excellent example of what scientists pedantically call "positive feedback loops ".
The rest of us might better describe these unplanned accelerations of climate change as the "holy crap factor ". Besides pine beetles killing forests that later decompose, here are some other "holy crap" scenarios we can expect from global warming in the near future:
- Melting sea ice causes less sunlight to be reflected into space, further heating artic oceans.
- Melting permafrost in the artic releases massive quantities of CO2 from decomposing muskeg.
- Melting tundra also releases large amounts of methane – twenty-five times as powerful a greenhouse gas as CO2.
It's becoming clear that we really don't have a good handle on how this planet works. Before we twist any more dials, maybe we should sit down and read the owner's manual. If we did, I suspect we would find a warning in the first few pages that read: "DANGER – DO NOT OVERLOAD THE ATMOSPHERE WITH CARBON DIOXIDE!"
Many more nasty surprises like the pine beetle lie in store for us as we continue our uncontrolled experiment with the plant's atmosphere, and we ignore these milestones at our peril.
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It's hilarious to watch you try to disown Gore now, and do your little tap dance, trying to pass the buck.
What a bunch of weasels.
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"What do you think a combine
"What do you think a combine does when harvests a field of wheat? It sure doesn't leave the grain attached to the straw!"
Your ignorance is beyond belief. When a field is combined, the small valuable fraction (that's spelled g-r-a-i-n) is taken away, the stubble is left as tall as is practicle, and the straw is left to rot, replenish the soil and prevent wind erosion. In years when animal feed is hard to come by, the straw will be bailed as low quality feed but that's not good farming and is done only when there is real necessity. STUPID, IGNORANT, URBAN warmists want to see the straw removed year after year to feed their ethanol fantasy. That's "land mining".
No, I'm not a farmer but I used to be and, yes, I have run a combine. Regular posters here know that in my present life I am a retired engineer and geologist.
"You don't know much about switchgrass either. You don't have to plough the land to plant it."
And your point, if any, is?
"Boreal forest? Gee…I just happen to know where there's a dead one…."
Great, we don't yet have an economically viable way to make large volumes of alcohol from green wood but you, brilliant scientist that you are, are going to make it out of dry wood.
I have no personal quarrel with faithful warmists who think that they can save the world by "f***ing" society, but who don't pretend to be experts in everything. On the other hand, milk-lipped, know-it-all diletantes like you set my teeth on edge.
Zog replied on Permalink
Oops, "baled". When I'm
Oops, "baled". When I'm flaming angry my spelling goes to hell.
Zog replied on Permalink
And by the way, switch grass
And by the way, switch grass is one tough weed but, if you want to get a good enough initial catch for commercial production, you'll have to seed it on cultivated land.
Stick to engineering
I can't speak for the farming practices in your neck of the woods, but around here we cut the straw as short as possible. As low as the grain head will go without picking up rocks. The straw is raked, baled and guess what? We use it for cattle bedding. As feed it's poor stuff. That's what hay is for.
But most farms around here don't have cattle anymore, so most straw is sold. To hobby-horse farms, the local horse track when the trotters are in town, local construction firms to protect freshly seeded construction sites and a big thing is mushroom farms.
Leave the straw in the field? Yeah you can, but you better disc it in otherwise you're asking for mould, slugs, low soil temperature and you're providing cover for rodents. Working it in does help the soil and will help fertilizer costs but it doesn't break down right away.
But by working it in means you just threw low-till out the window. Low-till and you can plant the next crop right in the stubble.
You were the one who seems to think one has to plough up the land to plant switchgrass, not me and that point seems to sailed right over your head. And the whole idea about using switchgrass is to avoid using cultivated land in the first place. Missed that too.
Dry wood is cellulose, as is dry straw. Who said it had to be green? BioEthanol Japan has a 1.4 million litre/yr cellulosic ethanol plant in Osaka Japan and it uses wood construction waste. You're an engineer, would you use green wood to build a house?
And be careful who you call a diletante. That's an assumption you shouldn't make…ever.
Zog replied on Permalink
"As low as the grain head
"As low as the grain head will go without picking up rocks."
"so most straw is sold."
That's land mining, NOT farming. Sounds like Manitoba, where some people think that nice thick soil can be abused forever. They still burn stubble there too.
It took the PFRA a generation to teach people that "farming black" wasn't something to be proud of. I guess that it's a lesson that has to be learned all over again.
Have you ever actually been near a farm? I doubt it. You seem to have done a bit of reading though.
Keep on doubting if you like...
But I've been more than near a farm. My career has been in the transportation industry for over 30 years but when I was a kid, up to my early twenties, summers would find me on my uncles farm if there wasn't any work with my dad's equipment. I know what it's like to work hard clay. Gasoline engine tractors without cabs. Start at first light, hour for lunch, and work through to darn near dusk. Never ploughed that tough clay, nobody but my uncle dropped a bottom in that soil….his rules. Didn't trust me with a planter either, but everything else I did. He also had cattle and hogs, so I quickly learned which end of a pitchfork to use. That I didn't mind, but slugging bales was no fun for scrawy kid.
My uncle did something unique. He had a bad year once and out of desperation baled corn stalks for use as bedding. He had a corn picker so the stalks were left standing in the field. The cattle would sometimes ignore the hay in front of them, turn and eat those corn stalks from their stalls. It was hard on that baler, but he baled corn stalks from then on…
My dad had a bit of sand land and it was a joy to work in comparison. Mind you, it really started to annoy my old man when I started turning straighter furrows than he could…
You might call it land mining, but every nickel counts and if selling the straw helps put in the next crop…so be it.
But you are right about the abuse of the soil, since grain farmers dominate around here there are more and more chemicals used to make up for the lack cattle manure and hardly anyone seems to fallow land anymore. Most of the line ditches are gone so bigger and bigger tractors and combines can work. Larger fields mean greater a risk of wind erosion…
I'd do it differently, but I have no say…
Zog replied on Permalink
O.K., I guess that you've
O.K., I guess that you've "been there" so I retract the "diletante". It sounds like you must have been raised in the U.S. Midwest (home of the biggest ethanol scams) which is terra incognita to me. I was farm-raised and, for the first 12 years of my retirement I had a cow-calf operation on some of the little virgin grassland still remaining. (River breaks and clay buttes -no wheeled vehicles or machinery used there.)
Big fields are becoming a menace in western Canada too. People will eventually pay for their short memories. Across the line, in Montana, they still do strips (really narrow strips!) and the border stands out like a sore thumb when you fly over it.
"…in the transportation industry for 30 years…"
Not really relevant I suppose but - dirty hands or clean?
I'm curious about that Japanese plant using scrap wood as feed. Since cellulose to alcohol is still a money-loser under even the best conditions, there must be a massive subsidy in there somewhere.
Dan replied on Permalink
"puke" etc.
Sounds like it hit a nerve. Ethanol competes a little too much with full-speed oil sales, I guess.
But for once, he is right, whoever 'zog' is. The statement below is not based on historical facts. At first it seemed like a great idea, and then later the problems were noted. But, so what?
" 'Greenies' have been against biofuel from the very start."
exusian replied on Permalink
Tom wrote:
"The only idiot here is you.
"Greenies" have been against biofuel from the very start.
They have been sounding the alarm from day one about the danger of diverting food into fuel production."
Tom, this fact has been pointed out to troll many, many times, but he ignores the correction because it is inconvenient.
So, instead he lies, and repeats the lie again and again and again.
Zog replied on Permalink
And the wimpy warmists
And the wimpy warmists scurry around desperately trying to cover their own shit. You'd get a lot more respect if you stiffened your spines, stood erect and said, "Yes, it was a bad mistake, we promoted a really dumb idea for a couple of decades, but that doesn't mean that we don't still believe that a solution must be found for a the AGW problem."
Dan replied on Permalink
And posters like this would get more respect if they washed their mouths out with soap. The discussion has gone downhill.
exusian replied on Permalink
Really zog?
Somehow I doubt 'warmists' would get any respect from you no matter what they did.
The test of that is right here and now.
Far from promoting them, most of us have been saying that biofuels are a really dumb idea and a serious mistake from the get go. And what do we get for it from you?
Scorn, derision, and outright lies blaming us for the boondoggle perpetrated by big agribusiness and government corporate subsidies.
Leo Strauss would be proud of your noble lies.
Troll replied on Permalink
I ignore Most obvious BS
It saves time.
Hugh Campbell replied on Permalink
Bait-and-switch The Ottawa
The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Sunday, April 27, 2008
Re: How the green movement backfired, April 21.
Biofuel did not backfire. It was high-jacked. A massive bait-and-switch has been foisted upon many well-meaning people in the name of clean, green biofuels, but environmentalists or greens were not the primary fraudsters, nor the sole victims. Biofuel is only as green as its feedstock and the practices which produce it.
Garbage in, garbage out. Greens have been experimenting with using garbage, used cooking oil and other byproducts for years – ironically waste is a genuine green feedstock, anything produced by petroleum- based fertilizers and fossil or diverted water is "black" biofuel.
There's a tragedy of unintended consequences here but the big tragedy remains the unsustainable and destructive way that governments and corporations do business. Oh, George W. Bush talked bravely, and perhaps sincerely, of switch grasses – a native plant that could be grown over large areas with little irrigation or fossil fuel-based fertilizer. But when it came down to brass tacks, it was corn that got the money. Corn, sugar and palm oil are not merely nutritional wastelands – they are poster children for unsustainable, monoculture, oil-sucking agro-industry and deforestation. No green advocated the illegal logging and farming of rainforest in Indonesia. No green, nor any nutritionist, has ever called for the planting of more corn, sugar cane, palm oil, for food or fuel. These were choices made by the corporations and their government toadies. You can't blame greens for this fiasco. It was done in the name of greenbacks.
Where's your private sector saviour now? What comes of all the talk about "oil independence." The right wing has been deceived by the lure of greenbacks, while the left wing has been deceived by green-washed fossil fuels.
It is unsustainable agriculture based on fossil fuels and diverted or fossil water that is the real villain in this little morality play – and big agro-industrialists have got fat government cheques to prove it. Follow the money to the culprits.
Brant Boucher, Ottawa
Zog replied on Permalink
"No green advocated the
"No green advocated the illegal logging and farming of rainforest in Indonesia."
Of course not - it's the old law of unintended consequences at work. Useful idiots (aka warmists) with their ceaseless yapping for biofuel, set the table for the Indonesian land rapists, as well as for U.S. pork-barreling politicians and corn to ethanol promoters. The promoters couldn't care less that grain-based alcohol is an energy transfer and economic disaster, as long as the good old taxpayer foots the bill.
Food riots in Mexico are a gift from the warmists - especially Al Gore who enthusiastically backed the corn scam when he was still a powerful U.S. politician.
Oh well, the riches accruing to speculators from the ethanol scam are small beer (no pun intended) compared to the billions that will be reaped in the carbon credits racket.
It's really ironic that the same breed of anti-social chin waggers that virtually destroyed the U.S. nuclear industry 30 years ago (to the delight of the coal industry and Middle Eastern Sheiks) is now out to get BIG OIL. As Dr. Beckmann so presciently said in 1975, "Environmentalists will continue to advocate any form of energy - as long as it is uneconomic and unavailable." Now, thanks to the ethanol cockup, we can add the adjective, "destructive."
Happy with gasoline at $1.20/litre? Send a thank-you card to an environmentalist.
exusian replied on Permalink
As if George the Idiot's
noble little adventure in the sand had nothing to do with it. Revisionism at its best.
Zog replied on Permalink
A warmist shouldn't use the
A warmist shouldn't use the word "revisionism" when his ass-covering buddies are desperately trying to deny their dippy crusade for "sunbeams in your tank".
And no, I don't believe that the Iraq clusterfuck is causing a rise in oil prices. Iraq is still exporting at not far below capacity, and if the U.S. presence in the Middle East is exerting pressure on the Saudis and the Gulf States, (Kuwait, Qatar etc.) it would be to lower prices, not to raise them. The old rules of Imperialism still function in the digital age.
Gerard Voon replied on Permalink
I believe: First we need to
I believe:
First we need to get a good price for the dead wood…whichever final product (eg. sawmill, pulp and paper Mill, particle Board, Log Homes, Aboriginal Art, Furniture…), with a caveat the the infested wood won't spread to the buyer's region.
Second we need to make the best use of the land…Replanting the forest maybe a foolish idea because the left over pine beetle population my spread back or come from Alberta or the USA again. Furthermore to get old growth trees in terms of narture's precious old growth forests would take maybe 80 years…And also by the time the trees grow back enough to support the rare species of flora and fauna, the local population would have left the the PIne Beetle massacre land footprint for 30 years and might even have succumb to extinction.
Therefore I propose that 1. I believe the best idea grow corn, wheat, rice and any and all agriculture based on the huge supply shortage and growing demand - seeming to be long term drivers; 2. we could also use the land for alternative energies, from wind mills to gravity to energy; 2. develop thriving cities depending on our ability to attract business, financial institutions and headquarters enterprises (with sustainable competitive advantages - eg. patented products) as well as manufacturing and technological products and know how… perhaps if we build the infrastructures (airports, roads, sewage, skyscrapers - offices - condos - apartments, wireless backbone, hotels, housing highend as well as affordable for Canadian workers and we (BC) gave rich and skilled new immigrants shortened passport waiting times to settle in the former Pien Beetle Land surrounding central business districts (assuming the immigrants have no crimminal backgrounds). We could actually do a strategic mixture of all these options so that the BC economy is diversified and stable. Allocating based on a long term view eg. the next ten years supply and demand for the various land usages and the prices (especially the ROI to tax payers of BC) they will yield.
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A failure of unimaginable proportions is bound up in the the willful blindness, hysterical deafness and elective mutism of so many opinion leaders, economic powerbrokers, politicians and business tycoons who do not speak out openly, loudly and clearly about the world we inhabit as bounded and limited in space with finite resources. Their idolatry of the endless expansion of the global political economy is not only selfish, arrogant and unrealistic; they are also perversely choosing to espouse a "primrose path" to our children, a path to the future that a relatively small planet with the size and make-up of Earth cannot possibly sustain much longer, much less to the year 2050.
At least to me, this failure by my not-so-great generation of leading elders is a "sin of omission" that is tantamount to a passive criminal act against the family of humanity, life as we know it and the Earth God blesses us to inhabit….and not ruin, I suppose.
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'Tis the season to be worried: Central bankers warn of crash
When TS Eliot called April the cruellest month he worked at a bank – perhaps he might have called August the most fragile.
World wars have a habit of starting at about this time of year and seven years ago this month the banking crisis hit.
So when two of the world's top central bankers warn – in that usually most staid of magazines, the Central Banking Journal – that we are heading for another crash it is time to put on the flak jackets.
Raghuram Rajan, the governor of the Reserve Bank of India, warns that global markets risk another almighty crash if investors start bailing out of risky assets created by the loose monetary polices of the more developed countries. He said: "The kind of language we hear is akin to gaming."
The former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund ads that most economists have not learnt the lessons of the most recent financial crisis and are not spotting the build-up in risk.
As Rajan was one of the few economists who did predict the last crash, as early as 2005, we should sit up. He told the CBJ: "Financial sector crises are not as predictable. The risks build up until, wham!, it hits you. "The concern is that central banks may be exhausting room on the financial side and creating a situation where there will be a discontinuous movement in the financial sector. That is my worry. We are taking a greater chance of having another crash at a time when the world is less capable of bearing the cost."
Rajan suggests that the risks are likely to be in "shadow banking", rather than the formal banking sector to which the authorities have devoted much more regulatory effort since the crisis. "We haven't done a lot on the shadow-banking system," he said. "But ordinary pension funds and mutual funds could be taking on some of these risks. So I worry about that."
If you think Rajan is being scary, listen to Andy Haldane, chief economist at the Bank of England and its former executive director of financial stability, who warns that the massive build-up of risky assets on the balance sheets of financial institutions like insurance companies and pension funds that lie outside the banking sector could be the cause of the next crash.
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For those away on the beaches, it is worth reporting what Haldane says at length as it is so pertinent: "Risk, like energy, tends to be conserved not dissipated ... So it is possible the financial system may exhibit a new strain of systemic risk – a greater number of higher-frequency, higher-amplitude cyclical fluctuations in asset prices and financial activity, now originating on the balance sheets of mutual funds, insurance companies and pension funds.
"These cyclical fluctuations could in turn be transmitted to, and mirrored, in greater cyclical instabilities in the wider economy."
Let's hope Rajan and Haldane are right that the banking system is stronger than it was. It should be: banks are spending around $70 billion a year on better regulation, compliance and risk management. The chairman of HSBC, Douglas Flint, disclosed last week that the bank spent around $800 million on regulatory and compliance costs last year, including the recruitment of around 1,750 staff, up from $200 million the year before.
No wonder: HSBC had to pay a $1.9 billion fine in the US for handling drug money from Mexico, was caught transmitting funds from Iran and was involved in the mis-selling of PPI and interest-rate swaps. It faces investigations on Libor and the foreign exchange market. Yet Flint had the gall to complain about the costs of regulation.
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It is too early to know whether the banking system has toughened up enough. What is clear is that the regulators and politicians must pay heed to Rajan and Haldane and start peering more closely into the shadows of the financial sector if we want to avoid a repeat of the Queen's memorable question about the crash: "Why did nobody see it coming?" At least two very well placed people do now.
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THAT'S More Like It!
We Won! 1 More And Then Off To The WS!
Before I begin, I feel that I must apologize to my fellow blogger Hyunyoung. Hyunyoung, I am very sorry that I offended you by bad-mouthing your Angels on my last post. I know they are a great team, and I like the way they play the game (I love the running game!). It's just that when the Yankees lose, I get mad. My actions are inexcusable. I know the Angels beat them yesterday and they played well. I just got carried away. I hope you understand🙂
But that is way back now. Last night, the Yankees beat the Angels 10-1, and it was fun for me to watch. Girardi didn't do anything stupid, and the whole team played well.
Pitching Analysis: C "Cy" was fabulous again. So much for him not pitching well in the postseason. Sabathia pitched 8 innings of 1-run ball, and he did this on 3 days rest! HE'S A BEAST!!!
CC had the right to smile last night. And so did I🙂
Chad Gaudin pitched a scoreless 9th inning. I'm glad Girardi didn't do anything stupid last night. I guess I'm a bit hard on Joe. All kidding aside, he is a great manager. It just so happened that the decision he made the other night led to the loss. Wait, this is behind me now, so why am I bringing it up again? It has now been erased from my mind. It's gone.
Offensive Analysis: I love it when the offense explodes. It's about time. The Yankees were worrying me with their lack of hitting with runners in scoring position. But last night was different. 10 runs off the solid Angel pitchers. Not too shabby.
The offense started in the 4th. Cano's RBI single drove in Arod, and my man Melky singled in 2 runs. Nice to see him do something clutch. In the 5th, Alex hit a no-doubter 2-run homer to give the Yanks a 5-0 lead. Also in the 5th, something crazy happened. Posada stole a base! I could not believe what I saw. There was a lot of weird baserunning that inning. That play with Cano and Jorge at third base was hysterical.
I dont'e even know…it was weird.
The Yanks scored 5 more times before winning. I went to bed before it ended (blasphemy, I know) but I was tired. I shall not do that anymore. What I should do is take a nap when I get home, and then watch the whole game. I won't miss anyore of my Yankees.
The heroes for the victory are CC Sabathia, for just doing his thing out there on the mound, Alex Rodriguez for another postseason homer, and Melky, just because I love him ♥. My boys are off tonight, I guess I now have no excuse to not study calculus….darn. Wish me luck with that….I don't really know what I'm doing….let's see….the slope of the tangent line is the general derivative….formula is: lim h-0 of f (x+h) – f (x) / h……then when you find the derivative, you find the equation of the tangent line by using the point-slope formula….and no one cares about this so I will just shut up and go study….
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You just made me so glad my days of calculus are well behind me! Good luck with that.:) How great was CC last night? I kept wondering if he'd get tired, but he only got better as the game went on. A-Rod was amazing and Melky finally got his offense going, and the night was magical.
First of all, I completely understand now that you mentioned it. It was an ugly game for the Angels because CC Sabathia was just too darn good. It was nice to see Chad Guadin just because he played for the Padres. He was just terrible for us. You guys played great last night. No kiddin'. I don't even want to touch calculus for now🙂
//Before I begin, I feel that I must apologize to my fellow blogger Hyunyoung. Hyunyoung, I am very sorry that I offended you by bad-mouthing your Angels on my last post. I know they are a great team, and I like the way they play the game (I love the running game!). It's just that when the Yankees lose, I get mad. My actions are inexcusable. I know the Angels beat them yesterday and they played well. I just got carried away. I hope you understand :)//
I'm sorry Virginia, but no one should make you feel as though you should apologize for being true to your emotions. Defend your writing. I always do. I've bad-mouthed teams on my blog and when people complain, I tell them tough cookies. I'm a Yankees fan, I write primarily for *other* Yankees fans, and if you can't handle that I'm going to talk a little trash about your team, that's not my problem. That's yours. I've been blogging here for 4 seasons now [06, 07, 08, and 09] and it's happened more times than I care to count.
No offense, Hyunyoung……but you went too far in my book. I'm defending what she wrote on the principle of the thing. It's one thing to say you didn't like it because you're a fan of the other team, it's another entirely to expect her to apologize for it when she said nothing that warranted an apology. I would never allow someone to do that to me.
talk trash…talk Yankees…talk algabra, formulas, calculus…talk what ever you want…it's your blog…
back home to the safe environment of Yankee stadium… a win at home is better for the celebrations that follow… just enjoy this one cause its the last one this year…LOL
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uh oh.. that was a tough loss kid… History sez you got nothin to worry about though.
Game 4 = A+, Game 5 = FAIL. =l But I won't worry, about a thing, 'cause every little thing, is gonna be alriiight. Thank you for being a genius, Bob Marley. =) LET'S GO YANKEES!
Sorry if I offended you (and Beth) but I'm sticking to what I said and believed in.
Congrats. Your team made it to the World Series and may the best win. Thanks for the wild and fun seires.http://hyunyoung.mlblogs.com
the best team did win? The Yankees are anything but a team. they are a group of individuals bought out to wear the same uniform and win games. The series was handed to the Yankees. congratulations the Yankees have the biggest wallet in the league! woohoo.
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What else do the Padres need?
As some of you know, I sent one of my entries (Why Trevor?) about Trevor Hoffman to the Padres' front office last week. Well, I got a reply on Saturday. I was actually pretty impressed because it got there on Thursday, and a reply was written that day. I got it by Saturday. Basically, the reply said that we are all going to miss Trevor, but with him only signing a one-year deal with the Brewers, maybe a deal could be reached next year so Trevor could finish his career here. The letter also said that they hope to see me at PETCO several times this year (you want me out there? How 'bout you send me some tickets!). I don't know if my letter got into the hands of a guy working in the front office, but I did the best I could. I expressed my opinion to my team.
OK, moving on to the other business I would like to discuss: what else do the Padres need for the team next year? We have at least five starting pitchers, with a few open spots and enough guys to compete for it. Do we need another starting pitcher? I think not. Not unless he's a minor league guy who would be in the minors for a while.
How 'bout catching? This is one of our biggest needs right now, I think. We have Nick Hundley, who will be doing the majority of the time behind the plate, but I still think we need a veteran who's been around the majors a bit. Say, a Brad Ausmus. We did pick up a catcher a few weeks back, but I think we should keep him in the minors as a backup.
Infield? Well, we have a lot of guys in the middle infield right now. I think some guys that really proved themselves last season aren't going to get much of a chance this year. Yeah, I'm thinking about Edgar Gonzalez. With David Eckstein moving into second, Edgar is out of a job. Luis Rodriguez and Chris Burke are supposed to take over shortstop. That leaves quite a few guys without a job. I hope Edgar doesn't have to go back down, but it looks likely. On our corners though, we're covered. Adrian Gonzalez and Kevin Kouzmanoff. Wow, I haven't heard much about Kouz lately. But I did hear that his shoulder isn't doing the best. He's been struggling with back problems for a long time, but hopefully he will be ready for Spring Training with that shoulder. Get better, Kooooooz!!! But if Kouz is injured, we could move Chase Headley to third and make more room in the outfield.
Which brings us to…the outfield! We have the guys who are pretty much guaranteed a job-Jody Gerut, Brian Giles, and Chase Headley. We also have a guy who is going to get $1 million this year-Scott Hairston. We have a few rookies who want to be on the team and deserve to be-Will Venable and Drew Macias. We have enough guys, but the question is where they will go. I don't think we need any more outfielders.
And now, the bullpen. We have a lot of pitchers. We have a LOT. We have a closer (Heath Bell), and set-up guy (Chris Britton), a 7th-inning guy (Cla Meredith), and 15 other pitchers who have a chance for the bullpen. But the Padres' front office lives on pitching, so I wouldn't be too suprised if we got a few MORE pitchers this offseason.
Bench, maybe. We have guys who could play from the bench. But the Padres might want to get a few guys who are proved to hit well late in the game. Say, a Tony Clark. I don't know if the Padres would be able to find one, but that would be a great asset for manager Bud Black.
So, in review, I think the Padres need another catcher, and some bench players. We really do have a lot of players who can do well for us, and hopefully they can help over the course of the season. Let's see how this goes…
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At least someone in the Padres organization took the time to read your letter. That's better than nothing! And they should have sent you tickets. Having a good catcher can make or break a team, I think. Since the catcher basically controls the game (telling the pitcher what pitch to throw, when to try a pickoff, etc.), you've gotta have a good catcher. I don't know much about Hundley, but if he's good, then you should be ok. If you're kinda iffy on him, the Padres should look for a veteran. I think you're set on the outfield. The two games I went to in September, Venable was playing. He's pretty good, so you're lucky to have him. As for your bench players, if some of the infielders and outfielders you mentioned are good offensively as well, you might be set. I'm hoping you guys have a better season this year so I have some good baseball to watch! Rephrase since all baseball is good baseball: I'm hoping you guys have a better season this year so I have some WINNING baseball to watch! Much better. 🙂
Is Nick Hundley related to Todd Hundley?
People in baseball offices are so much nicer than in other corporations…I wonder why that is?
It'll be a bit strange having Burke not in a D-Backs uniform this year. He's a good player, though, and I'm sure he'll do well for you guys.
I'm impressed! You actually got a letter back! And it wasn't a form letter. Good work Kaybee!
Wow. Way to go!
Since David Eckstein came, our infield problem is starting to be answered. I'm pretty sure Edgar can't play shortstop but he might be a back up for Luis Rodriguez. I have a question for you: Do you think Luis Rodriguez is going to be our starting shortstop in the opening day? My answer is maybe, but not quite. He proved to us that he is a solid shortstop when Khalil was injured, but Rodriguez is not quite there. In the other side, Adrian and Kevin are good to go!I agree with you for the catching problem. Nick Hundley is great but we really need a vetran to be a starter. But outfield is pretty good, and bullpen is also pretty good.
Kaybee, let's just wait for the results. I'm sure our Padres are going to be solid by the opening day of 2009!http://hyunyoung.mlblogs.com
JEN, I agree! We will hopefully get a better catcher, I think Nick really does need a mentor. He's a young guy, and he needs veteran leadership. Everything else seems to be set, and I really hope we can be winning more often!!
XCICIX, no, Nick is not related to Todd, but he gets that question all the time! I hope Burke will do well too!
JULIA, thanks! It was pretty cool!
HYUN YOUNG, I really think Luis will be the starting shortstop, unless something happens in Spring Training that would prevent him. He is pretty good, but not the best. Hopefully he will do really well with Chris Burke. And yeah, I think we're going to be pretty good this year!
Wow! That's so cool you got a letter from the Padres. The Padres need a closer. I've watched Heath Bell and I don't think he is that good.
Great analysis on all the areas of your team. And HOW COOL that the Padres front office sent you a reply! Congrats on getting your stuff out there, that's really great! I hope you guys can find some good people to fill your holes. But other than that, it seems like you guys have a lot of potential young talent.
That's great you mailed off a letter and had the courage to do so and pretty cool too you got a letter in response! Maybe Trevor sends you a personal reply from Brew town?
BIG PAPI, we'll have to see how well Heath does in the closer role. He's been pretty good in the 8th, but I don't know if he will be able to do well in the 9th.
ELIZABETH, thanks! I really hope that we will be a better team this year. I just can't wait for Spring Training!!
TOM, thanks! I actually haven't found the Brewers' fanmail address yet, but when I do, it would be pretty amazing if he replied!!


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Offense Still Missing
After the amazing perfect game by Roy Halladay yesterday, today's game against the Marlins was bound to be disappointing. But for the Phillies to fall 0-1 to the Fish with their 5th shut-out in the last 8 games is not what anyone expected.
Every player is struggling to hit the ball right now. Charlie Manuel may want to give Dr. House a call to either diagnose the problem or provide some sort of magic pill, because no one seems to have an explanation for this awful offensive output. Jayson Werth wore the Golden Sombrero, striking out 4 times today and looked very, very bad doing it. Ben Francisco played left in place of Raul Ibanez and went 0 for 4 and also missed a fly ball he should have caught, which bounced off his glove. Francisco is batting .194. Juan Castro, who is doing a fine job in the field, cannot seem to buy a hit. He went 0 for 4 as well today and is hitting .253.
Placido Polanco had an MRI on his sore elbow which showed a "contusion," basically a bruise. He is flying back to Philly to see the team doctor. So, Polanco has been out of the line-up for 2 games now with no word on when he may return. This also does not help.
But mainly, the Phillies are just swinging at bad pitches. They look befuddled at the plate. And Jamie Moyer did a great job pitching today, making the lack of offense even more glaring. Moyer gave up just 1 run over 6 innings and again, the bullpen held the opposition right there. Watching Moyer and all Phillies pitchers getting no support, Halladay is probably counting his blessings right that the team scored him a run yesterday.
The Phillies have 3 games in Atlanta next. The Braves have some really good pitching and if the Phils do not bust out of this slump immediately, the Braves are going to pounce right into first place, as they are only 1 game behind. Game time tomorrow is 1:05pm on Memorial Day.
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What? No feel-good left overs from yesterday? Jamie Moyer is the biggest reason why my shares in Ben-Gay stock are going through the roof. LOL Can some one remind him how old he is and that he's not supposed to be doing this?


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Posted 21 September 2013 - 03:55 AM
I do not believe much in the copyright thing.
Everyone should get sued for their borrowed music. It's not their own.
does anyone else notice this dude's posts are starting to contradict each other?
Posted 21 September 2013 - 08:02 AM
The second post speaks for itself.
Posted 21 September 2013 - 01:36 PM
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Posted 22 September 2013 - 09:25 AM
Anyway, what do you guys think of some samples? I recall using a Stevie Wonder sample once from "Superstitious" and there is some stupid beer commercial that utilizes the exact sample, it is hauntingly terrible and unimaginative. For some reason it makes me ill at how thoughtless and "on the nose" that it is. I wonder how much it to to license the sample. That is a case where music is purely destroyed by its use in a commercial. Is anyone else bothered by music, tv the radio or at a sporting event?
Posted 23 September 2013 - 11:56 AM
We recently sampled Henry Rollins and he emailed "Isn't it a drag you can't come up with your own stuff?"
I don't know all the "rules", but one of them should be respect the artist you're exploiting.
Posted 23 September 2013 - 01:09 PM
Posted 23 September 2013 - 02:44 PM
We recently sampled Henry Rollins and he emailed "Isn't it a drag you can't come up with your own stuff?"
you actually had Henry Rollins email you? that's kinda cool actually, i wish i was under people's radars like that...means you're doing something right.
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Posted 30 September 2013 - 11:49 AM
that was his response after we emailed him first
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Posted 30 September 2013 - 01:30 PM
I like to go dig since i have a nice store near my pad,, other than that ill find old cartoons or download sample off these battles !
so you sample like the theme songs or score from old cartoons? or just vocal snippets a lá DOOM? i do the same, but my samples are a little bit more contemporary being that they're a reflection of my childhood growing up in the '90s just like DOOM samples shit from the '60s + '70s because that's when he was growing up...
Posted 02 October 2013 - 09:07 AM
@James Frank
that was his response after we emailed him first
so did he okay your use of his sample?
Posted 29 October 2013 - 09:10 AM
That's a good rule.
I usually don't touch, James Brown, Marvin Gaye and Al Green.
No particular reason.
But above that, i'll flip anything.
Posted 29 October 2013 - 09:23 AM
Well said Hungryman. In this day an age it is going to be hard to keep things a secret. It was not hard for me to find out where some of the spoken word stuff came from on Advance Jazz. I just Googled phrases and up came the Lord Buckley website. Reminds me of when auto focus came into photography. A lot of pros said it was cheating and making it too easy, but obviously it was here to stay and I would guess 98% of pros use it. If you got game, you can adapt. Music samples would be harder to find, but the internet is full of people who want to help and share... the clearances issues make sense though.
I was just opening up general conversation about tastes and opinions, not necessarily secrets. But as far as secrets go...
Yes sir. I can understand why someone would want to keep a sample source secret for clearances or if they did something really clever with it. I feel though, people benefit from free knowledge tenfold. Originality seems like a hard-to-define, vague creature nowadays, in terms of how most ideas are built upon ideas that came from someone else, and they continue on and on and so forth. Especially in the realm of sample-based music. Of course there is originality in style, but it's not necessarily original with what exactly you take from someone else's music, as much as it is with what you do with it. I don't really feel that someone is gonna be "keeping it real" by not sharing sources or techniques, but more in how they use their creative imagination. So, I'm all for sharing free knowledge and ideas.
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Posted 29 October 2013 - 09:39 AM
I like Henry, but I'm not crazy about that quote. I don't know how you used his sample, but the way Madlib uses Lord Buckley to start Advance Jazz shows that sometimes the whole is more than the parts. Plus everything Henry has done was built on what came before.
De La Soul were sued for sampling "The Turtles". One of the members of The Turtles teaches a college nearby and told a friend of mine, "If they (De La Soul) would have asked us for permission we would have let them do it (sample) for free".
We recently sampled Henry Rollins and he emailed "Isn't it a drag you can't come up with your own stuff?"
I don't know all the "rules", but one of them should be respect the artist you're exploiting.
How much trouble can you get in if you sample a bunch of stuff and then just post it for free on the web? I got to think it is only when you start moving units that the lawyers start to care.
EDIT: Annie Hall Records, That mask for Elegant Mess is great!
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Written by yanivush147 on 06.11.2012 at 07:16
How come there isn't a comments here. This album is so pioneer and important for the history of rock n' roll.
Perfect album, Dio approve who is and will be forever the best vocalist in all history of rock 'n' roll.
As long i'm a fan of this music, the album will go with me to the grave.
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My least favourite of the Rainbow albums with Dio on vocals. Still good, but not exceptional like the other two.


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Jeremy's achievement is fantastic, and even more impressive when you consider that students from all over Canada were in attendance, including PhD students from many top-flight, research-intensive universities, said Obhi. This result helps put Laurier on the map for cognitive neuroscience research, and demonstrates that we can compete with the very best in the country.
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Shump will likely not start this year if Brewer and Smith are healthy and you can take that to the bank. He will be out of rhythm and will likely be used as more defense off the bench.
STAT will be starting, Woodson has stated as much.
as of now were seeing felton kidd brewer anthony chandler. thought we could make a thread speculating what it'll be like when we eventually get shump and STAT back.
PG Kidd
SG Shumpert
SF Brewer
PF Anthony
C Chandler
2nd unit of
PG Felton/Prigioni
SG Smith
SF Novak
PF Stoudemire
C Camby/Wallace
felton's obviously doing awesome starting right now, but when those two come back there is going to be a shakeup. I like the balance of this lineup-- I don't know if i'd trust the defense in the 2nd unit, but i do like putting felton and stat together.
also wallace is playing well, but i think camby really should be the one to get more minutes.
what do yall think we're going to see?
Shump will likely not start this year if Brewer and Smith are healthy and you can take that to the bank. He will be out of rhythm and will likely be used as more defense off the bench.
STAT will be starting, Woodson has stated as much.
Shump best games in his rookie season prove he is not a starter in the NBA yet. Shump need a season of playingtime experience off the bench before committed to being a starter.
JR.Smith career best is that of a 24 minute bench player as a 3rd to 4th scoring option in a lineup.
Brewer is our best IQ starter at SG.
NBA commentators who keep mentioning Amare would be best coming off the bench as a 2nd unit player when Amare comes back.
These same commentators refuse to mention the reason why "Amare & Melo" does not fit into the same lineup on offense or defense.
The same commentators been praising Melo as the Knicks PF, were quiet as a mouse when the Memphis Grizz big frontcourt of Gasol, Zach, and Gay outscored the Knicks in every quarter of the game for a Knicks loss.
Who is the better PF on the Knicks?
Amare? Rasheed? Thomas? Camby? Novak? or Melo
Starters-Kidd, Brewer, Melo, Rasheed, Chandler
Starters-Felton, Shump, Novak, Amare, Camby
2nd Unit-Prig, JR.Smith, Copeland, K.Thomas, Amare
What idiot signed White over Thompson????
when the trio lineup of PG-Prig, SG-Thompson, and SF-Copeland showed great promise...
deep deep team. Really excited
Orange and blue, yesterday, today, and tomorrow...
We HAVE to be the deepest team in the league when those 2 return.
When these guys first come back from their injuries we'll look like:
Unless Amar'e comes in and completely messes our chemistry he is not coming off the bench. Just not happening. Shump won't start right away but can work himself in there if his offense has improved. We already know what he brings on D. And Felton is our starting PG no matter how much we like Kidd's steady hand. Felton gives us that attacking PG who gets inside and draws players. Kidd can't do it as much and doesn't play as physical.
2nd Unit:
Kidd/ Pablo
Jr/ Shump
Only other realistic possibility I see is just to keep Kidd in the starting lineup and move Brewer to the bench.
Amare will definitely get his spot back when he returns. The minutes he'll get is questionable though. Shumpert, being in only his 2nd year would probably have to work his way in off the bench. I think Woodson likes Brewer's energy to start the game.
The messed up part of all this is someone will lose most or all of their minutes. I can see Novak losing minutes since he's the only one dimensional player on the team.
Real Talk
When both Amare & Shump return, Amare will be put in the starting lineup .. Shump will be coming off the bench with Felton.
Coach Woody have to give the Gellin-Job of "Amare & Melo" to our postseason starting PG-Jason Kidd ....
I got my money on Kidd doing the impossible, getting chemistry from Amare & Melo in a 8 minute lineup.
"Rook" is a Woodson favorite as well as Knick favorite!
No way Shump losses his spot when he's back to 100%
Look Brewer has been great and so has JR but Shump is essentially a combination of both of those players skill sets.
I think Woody will take his time with bringing Shump along (he has the luxury of doing so) but when Shump is back to form he's our starting Shooting Guard.
Now who sits is anyone's guess. But it won't be Iman Shumpert
"I'd Rather Melo shoot with 3 men on him than Jefferies shotting wide open"
-Jeff Van Gundy
My biggest concern is the front court. Sheed is looking good on the low post and the Tyson/Camby dynamic is going to be solid for us once Camby gets more time in (looks like Woody is bringing him along similar to what he did with Rasheed) but when Stat returns then what?
I mean just like Shump what this affords us is the opportunity to let Stat completely heal...I mean he can actually practice for weeks before actually playing in a game, but then who do you sit? I mean Novak can just become a very expensive bench warmer or maybe we can trade him (see my proposed trade in the trade thread) but Novak being out is kinda hard to imagine.
"I'd Rather Melo shoot with 3 men on him than Jefferies shotting wide open"
-Jeff Van Gundy
shumpert i dont think will get starters minutes 20-23 minutes in the beginning
i think woodson should start chandler, sheed, melo, kidd or brewer, and felton to help establish what the rotation will be when stat comes back. just a thought.
I think come playoff time Novak and Pablo might fall out the rotation if everyone's healthy. You can't win in the playoffs with a 12 man rotation, it's just not realistic.
I think the rotation is gonna be
If STAT comes off the bench, it will be similar to what SF is doing with Lincecum in the Bullpen. We will be unstoppable and have a dude on a mission dominate the others teams second unit.


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The Grand Valley women's rowing teams won two gold medals and captured the Women's Points Trophy at the 75th Aberdeen Dad Vail Regatta in Philadelphia May 10-11.
The regatta is the largest collegiate regatta in North America with more than 125 participating colleges and universities from the U.S. and Canada.
The varsity women's team took first place in Division I Varsity Eight and Women's Novice Eight. The second varsity women's team finished fourth in Division II Varsity Eight.
The varsity men's team finished fourth in Division I Varsity Heavyweight Eight and the second varsity men's team placed sixth in Division II Heavyweight Eight. The men's teams finished with their highest score ever and placed second for the Overall Team Points Trophy.
Grand Valley Rowing will compete at the American Collegiate Rowing Association National Championship Regatta in Atlanta at the end of May, and at the Royal Henley and Henley Women's Regattas at Henley-on-Thames, England at the end of June.
Learn more about Grand Valley Rowing at www.grandvalleyrowing.com.