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The Good, The Bad & The WTF: "The Bachelorette" Meets The Families
I have a random pet peeve when it comes to reality TV—when an element of a show becomes so routine that the contestants know it's coming and start referring to it by a single word. (See: "makeovers" on "America's Next Top Model" and "restaurant wars" on "Top Chef.") For weeks, we've been hearing about "hometowns" on "The Bachelorette." For those not in the know, that's when the title lady/guy has whittled the field down to their final four, and they travel to each contestant's home to see what their life is like and meet their family. This week, Ashley Hebert's long-awaited hometowns finally happened.
After the jump, the good, the bad, and the WTF of last night's episode. Spoilers ahead! The Good:
- Sure Constantine's family seemed a little straight out of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." But his dad Dmitri was so awesome, and I loved when his extended family came busting in the door. Opa!
- Speaking of Constantine, so far on the show, I hadn't really gotten his appeal. But seeing him in his Italian restaurant, I understood. If Ashley chooses him, free pizza for life!
- Double that for Ben. Why do I find it so sexy that he owns a winery? I also give Ben props for putting it all out on the table this week and telling Ashley that he'd only brought one woman home to meet his family before.
- Sigh. Ben's outpouring to his mom about how he felt after his dad died and how he carries a lot of guilt over not being a better son then was so emotional. You get the feeling this family had been wanting to have that convo for a long time.
- Ashley and JP rollerskating under the disco ball was totally adorable. "I'm on such a high when I'm with you," JP told her. He. Needs. To. Win.
- I really liked that this season, a lot of family members seemed skeptical about the whole "Bachelor" process. As they should be, considering the show's track record and the fact that their family member only has a 25 percent chance of ending up with Ashley. One sister said outright, "Ashley seems really sweet but I am skeptical." And JP's mom told Ashley, "He looks at you with love in his eyes, so I'm nervous." I appreciate them keeping it real, as they should.
- If you look below, you'll notice that most of my "bads" this week are about Ames. It was obvious to me from minute one of this episode that he was gonna be the one to get the boot. Why? Because all the compliments Ashley gave him were of the variety that aren't actually compliments. "You're like no other guy," just doesn't scream, "I'm falling in love with you." She made the right choice in letting him go.
The Bad:
- Of course Ashley has a yippy little dog. Of course.
- Did Ashley know anything about Ames before meeting his family? How was she shocked to hear that his father had died when he was young, as well as his stepfather? And that he was a geek student in boarding school? These are basic biographical details.
- Ames dropping the word "sprezzatura." Gross. Fancy foreignn words do not win you the girl.
- JP saying to his mom's cooking, "I haven't had this many carbs in six weeks." I love him too much to believe that he might be one of those guys who counts calories and fat grams.
The WTF:
- Is it just me, or do Ben and Constantine look a while lot alike? Constantine is just the taller, beefier version. How has no one pointed this out yet? [I have! To Lucca, every time we watch! — Editor]
- JP's family breaking out his bar mitzvah portrait. I loved it, but that is so crossing a line.
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Interesting... very interesting. I can't help but wonder whether they'd entertain trade offers for Redd.
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Firstly, for context, please read my most recent post to Dave.
I/O scheduler issues aside, the idea of the problem being, fundamentally, raw seek time is out the window.
Else how would it perform so well as it does with 16k records rather than 4k records? A 4x improvement might be expected. Not 60+ times.
Odd iozone results
Posted Jan 30, 2012 23:15 UTC (Mon) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]
Odd iozone results
Posted Jan 31, 2012 3:49 UTC (Tue) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]
I say 60x because vmstat was reporting 700k to 1000k per second. Real throughput may or may not have been far worse. It looked like it was going to take hours so I stopped it after 45 minutes.
The track to track seek on this drive is ~0.8ms. And /sys/block/sdX/queue/nr_requests is at the default 128. (Changing it to 200,000 doesn't help.) At 128 one would expect one pass over the drive platter surface, read/writing random requests, to take less than 0.1 seconds and read/write 1 MB for a read/write total of ~ 10,000KB/s. This assumes all requests to be on different cylinders.
Clearly, however, Dave is incorrect about Mixed Workload being a random read/write test. There is no way I would be seeing 60,000KB/s throughput with a 16k record size on a dataset 2x the size of ram on such a workload. And in the 4k record case I would expect to see a lot better than I do.
Clearly there is something odd going on. I'm curious what it might be.
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Posted Jan 31, 2012 4:56 UTC (Tue) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]
But I don't see where you get 60x. The second might be doing 4x more work completed per io leading to fewer iops, less expensive seeks needed to complete the test if the total data size it is re/writing is fixed
The track to track seek is 0.8 but that is the minimum for tracks which are adjacent, the latency goes up the farther away the seek distance. Average is probably closer to 6. Your estimates of a full seek across the disk are way off, that is probably closer to 15 or more and that's if you don't stop and write data 128 times along the way, like stopping at every bathroom on a road trip. That's what we mean when we say that the drive can probably only do that about 175 times a second which is the limiting factor, the time it actually takes to read/write a track is less (but of course not zero)
I haven't thought about why you are getting the specific numbers you see, I have mostly used sysbench and not iozone, but the vmstat numbers seem fine for a random io workout
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Posted Jan 31, 2012 5:43 UTC (Tue) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]
The elevator algorithm basically takes you from the worst case, totally random 8ms per request time, down closer to the 0.8ms track to track seek time. That's the whole purpose of the elevator algorithm, and it works no matter how large your dataset is in relation to system ram.
Each read/write total on the affected tracks is going to get you 4k of read and 4k of write, for a total of 8k per track. 128 seeks at, 0.8ms per seek works out to 0.1 seconds for a pass over the surface. And 128 requests at 8k r/w per request works out to ~10mb/s. Now, I might should have included an extra 1/120th second to account for an extra rotation of the platter between read and write. It really all depends upon exactly what the random r/w benchmark is doing. If we do that now, we get 5MB/s.
What vmstat is showing is 600k/s - 1000k/s read. And about 2k/s write. You don't think that's odd? And doesn't it seem odd that increasing the record size by 4x increases the throughput by 60+ times. (Again, I stopped the 4k test after 45 minutes and am basing that, optimistically, upon the vmstat numbers, so the reality is uncertain. The 16k record Mixed Workload test takes 2.5 minutes to complete.)
At any rate, the Mixed Workload test is *not* a random read/write benchmark. Somewhere Dave got the idea that it said it was when it started. But it does not. And that does not even make sense in light of the *name* of the benchmark. Unfortunately, the man page for iozone is of little help. It just says it's a "Mixed Workload".
I get similar results when running Mixed Workload with 4k records on the server rather than the desktop machine.
Are you beginning to appreciate the puzzle now? I've tried to make it as clear as possible. If I have not been clear enough on any particular point, please let me know and I will explain further.
Odd iozone results
Posted Jan 31, 2012 6:55 UTC (Tue) by jimparis (subscriber, #38647) [Link]
You're forgetting about rotational latency. After arriving at a particular track, you still need the platter to rotate to the angle at which your requested data is actually stored. For a 7200 RPM disk, that's an average of 4ms (half a rotation). I don't think you can expect to do better than that.
> 128 seeks at, 0.8ms per seek works out to 0.1 seconds for a pass over the surface. And 128 requests at 8k r/w per request works out to ~10mb/s.
With 4.8ms per seek, that same calculation gives ~1600kb/s. Which is only twice what you were seeing, and it was assuming that you're really hitting that 0.8ms track seek time. I'd really expect that the time for a seek over 0.1% of the disk surface is actually quite a bit higher than the time for seek between adjacent tracks (which is something like ~0.0001% of the disk surface, assuming 1000 KTPI and 1 inch usable space).
Odd iozone results
Posted Jan 31, 2012 7:59 UTC (Tue) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]
Doing a linear interpolation between for 0.8ms to seek over 0.8% of the platter, and 8ms to seek over 50% of the platter, yields ~0.9ms for the seek. (And then we can add the 4ms for 1/2 rotation.) Whether using a linear interpolation is justified here is another matter.
However, let's not forget that there is *no* reason to think that the "Mixed Workload" phase is pure random read/write. The whole random seek thing is a separate side-question WRT the actual benchmark numbers I get. If the numbers *are* purely random access time for the drive, why do 4k records get me such incredibly dismal results, and 16 records get me near the peak sequential read/write rate of the drive? One would expect the random seek read/write rate to scale linearly with the record size.
BTW, thanks for the post. This has been a very interesting exercise.
Odd iozone results
Posted Feb 2, 2012 20:52 UTC (Thu) by dgc (subscriber, #6611) [Link]
You should run strace on it and see what the test is really doing. That's what I did, and it's definitely doing random writes followed by random reads at the syscall level....
Odd iozone results
Posted Jan 31, 2012 7:36 UTC (Tue) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]
Odd iozone results
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Odd iozone results
Posted Jan 31, 2012 8:30 UTC (Tue) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]
I'm in Chrome now. And it caught "speeling" quite handily.
RickMoen mentioned something about a "sixty second window" for LWN.net posts. I've never noticed any sort of window at all. As soon as I hit "Publish comment" my mistakes are frozen for all eternity.
Sometimes it's a comfort to know that no one really cares about my posts. ;-)
Odd iozone results
Posted Jan 31, 2012 16:28 UTC (Tue) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]
Odd iozone results
Posted Jan 31, 2012 8:19 UTC (Tue) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]
If random i/o were the major factor in Mixed Workload, why does moving from a 4k block size take me from such a dismal data rate to nearly the peak sequential read/write data rate for the drive? It makes no sense.
That's the significant question. Why does increasing the record size by a factor of 4 result in such a dramatic increase in throughput?
And BTW, I have not yet explicitly congratulated the XFS team on fact that XFS is now nearly as fast as EXT4 on small system hardware. At least in this particular benchmark. So I will offer my congratulations now.
Odd iozone results
Posted Jan 31, 2012 10:59 UTC (Tue) by dlang (subscriber, #313) [Link]
If you do a sequential read test, readahead comes to your rescue, but if you are doing a mixed test, especially where the working set exceeds ram, you can end up with the application stalling waiting for a read and thus introducing additional delays between disk actions.
I don't know exactly what iozone is doing for it's mixed test, but this sort of drastic slowdown is not uncommon.
Also, if you are using a journaling filesystem, there are additional delays as the journal is updated (each write that touches the journal turns in to at least two writes, potentially with an expensive seek between them)
I would suggest running the same test on ext2 (or ext4 with the journal disabled) and see what you get.
Odd iozone results
Posted Jan 31, 2012 17:55 UTC (Tue) by jimparis (subscriber, #38647) [Link]
From what I can tell by reading the source code, it is a mix where half of the threads are doing random reads, and half of the threads are doing random writes.
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I'll be happy if they are even competitive.
You didn't mention Speez, who's boarding furiously 14 minutes a night, at a pace greater than any Sixer, and greater than Flint Tropic's elbow greaser Jackie Moon.
Grizz 12-2 at FedEx Forum. Fairly deep squad. Coming off a drubbing by Rockets. 3 days of rest. Coach Lionel, no B.S approach. Richardson out. Chemistry still evasive. Cards are stacked against Sixers; career game from someone might help.
Speez is complete garbage
In all fairness, Speights is a marginally better player than he was here, now in Memphis, maturing a bit, contributing very well in spurts.
As much as we whine about Hawes being flaccid and Lavoy being clueless. Maurice Speights is STILL not a better option than either.
And that's just the truth.
File this in the "grass looks greener" section along with Vucevic.
To gather your "truth", how many Memphis games have you watched this season?
yeah......actually only 3; vs. Miami, against the Lakers and in OKC, the last being the only one I watched to completion.
In my earlier post I was alluding to the fact that their starting lineup is physically intimidating and their defense is still very physical, together with Gay doing very well, I didnt think we have much of a chance.
WRT Sp8, some guys are only bench players for a reason. All of our bigs minus Thad should not be starting in the NBA. Same goes for Sp8s. He still looks like he needs a traffic light on D. So that puts him no better than any of ours IMO.
I was wrong.
I should correct 'the truth' to 'my novice opinion based on common sense'.
That's what I call an opinion.
I would like to hear Lionel Hollins' thoughts about it. We know Doug Collins agrees with you; and he likes Kwame, Spencer and Lavoy - - frontline finger food.
From the amount Lionel plays him, it looks like he's so fond of Speights, he plays him less than 10 minutes/game about a quarter of the time. Which seems about right.
Since he came into the league, scoring has been really his only ability, and that ability has gotten worse in each of his seasons in the league (including his time post-Collins in MEM). An scoring bit player who doesn't score very will is garbage, in my opinion.
Speights has a lot of raw talent and was always good at putting up numbers, unfortunately he's an idiot. If memory serves right, his offense consisted of chucking a jumper the second he touched the ball and his defense was mostly fouls.
On defense, when he was actually on the correct side of the floor, he always tried to draw charges. But at least he tried.
Beyond finding a way to make it appear you have anyone with a pulse on the inside, I'm going to say securing the ball on the perimeter is the big key. Conley and Allen both gamble for turns very effectively. Don't get lazy or sloppy and give them easy hoops in transition. Their offense hasn't been especially good recently, make them work for points.
No Rudy Gay. That should help greatly.
Aaaaand we're off Lavoy loses the tip.
Pretty much no way to stop Gasol if you let him get into the lane like that.
Thad to the hoop, avoids the contact and finishes :)
Three sixers vs. Zach, out of bounds off the Sixers. Come on. Clean the glass.
Gasol again.
Jrue lefty runner off the high s&r pulling randolph out. Conley answers the other way.
No pick needed that time, Jrue right to the cup for two.
Good D by Thad there. Jrue turnover.
Don't have the firepower to just keep trading hoops. Need to get some stops.
Nice feed, Jrue. Thought he might take the corner three.
1-2-2 zone, huh? They broke this out against the Nets, too.
back-to-back threes for MEM against the zone. Not perfect.
I'll be content if they play zone all game and Poindexter and Allen end up killing us with wide open 3s.
That's what we said against MIN :)
D. Wright having no problem w/ Tony Allen. Nice to see.
PHI 26, MEM 29 after one.
Need to find a way to get some stops, because they aren't going to score at this rate against Memphis. Lucky to be so close. 3/8 for 6 points for Jrue isn't going to cut it.
Jrich was kinda dogging it these last few weeks, I don't know, maybe he's just old and banged up. But yeah, like Wright out there more as of now. JRich can come off the bench when he gets back, maybe they were playing him too many minutes.
Feel like Richardson is better at slipping into his spots behind the three-point line than Wright is, working without the ball. But if he isn't hitting his shots, it's kind of a pointless skill. Really like what I've seen from Dorell since Jrue's injury.
old??? didnt he just log in career high is Mins last year playing alongside Iguodala.
yeah definitely agree about J-Rich, he's so key to our offense. so reliable from deep.
Huh? Did you think he said Jrue played too many minutes instead of Richardson?
my eyes.
...I must...be old.
Ivey sighting. How much would I love an insanely hot stretch by Nick Young right now?
Good foul, Speights. That's the guy I remember.
Speights 0/2 from the line.
Bench did a good job keeping it even at the start of the third. Wonder if Collins stretches them out a little bit here after the timeout, or gets the starters back in.
He sticks w/ the bench.
Speights draws a charge on Hawes. Nearly 600 pounds of wasted space involved in that action.
Jrue should've taken Bayless, had the entire lane open.
Grizz announcers have noticed our love for the perimeter offense.
One team lives in the paint.
the other lives outside of it.
Team fouls are upside down.
So far this game has been exhibit A in my "Turner is better on ball than Jrue" argument...he hasn't scored yet, but ET's passing has been tremendous while Jrue's has been nonexistent. One play early in the first sticks out, Turner was open under the basket for a few seconds for a gimme layup and Jrue seemingly did not even see him, instead choosing to execute a safe but useless pass to Thad for a midrange jumper which, needless to say, bricked.
The moment that sticks out for me for Turner thus far is one from the second quarter where he passed to Lavoy, who went tic tac toe to SPencer for an open layup...real, quality passing is contagious. Also a play in the `1st where Turner had the ball on the wing around the three pt line, started going into his iso moves as the shot clock ran down, drew the double team, and dished to Dorell for a wide open corner three that he buried as the shot clock expires.
Last two Sixers possessions...Turner gets Wright a wide open three which he bricks, Turner gets Lavoy a layup which he misses, gets o board, draws foul...
Funny how you ignore the wide open layups Jrue got Thad and Hawes, both of which were missed. And another where Spence was asleep under the hoop and barely got a hand on the ball.
I missed the last couple mins of the first and the first couple of the second, believe I missed those plays
Jrue is p[assing now, gets Spence for an open j...what percentage of Jrue's assists are on midrange jumpshots?
You can look it up. Last I checked, he had a higher percentage at the hoop and 3pt than your man crush.
Jrue to the line.
65 at the rim, 60 for three, 44 long twos. 22 other (from rim to 15 feet).
does eightytwo games have that?i don't have synergy...thanks for the info bout last year, am genuinely curious...my mancrush has done a lot more distributing this year than he did during last year's reg season
Aaand Jrue drive and kick to a wide-open D Wright for a three.
shoulda kept my mouth shut...ET promptly passes directly to a guy inb a white jersey...gets points for hustling back and blocking Randolph's initial shot...maybe
Jrue to Wright for a quick three, his first assist...hopefully the whole "I'm going to hold the ball ninety percent of the time we have possession and score six points on eight shots" thing from the first quarter is over
Wright with the weakside help. Not goaltending.
Thad is giving it his all right now trying to D up Randolph, wish he could bottle up that effort and give some to Hawes
Dorell Wright has done a great job getting to the line. Team looks better with him starting than Richardson in my opinion...Richardson is better used off the bench...see if he's hot from three and ride him if he is
Aaand, Jrue with the pretty penetration and drop off for Spence.
jrue with a beautiful bounce pass for the hawes layup...different player since he reentered
thad all over the place!
Think the refs are making amends to Collins tonight.
Malik Rose said early on that the Sixers had a chance to get a friendly whistle tonight because Memphis has a rep as a team that fouls incessantly...Dorell has capitalized big time
would love to see Turner try and take it to the effin hoop in the second half and possibly capitalize himself...he gets a lot of contact on drives generally but has not earned his stripes with the zebras and bitches at them relentlessly
his inability to buy a whistle and his improved midrange game have combined to make turner way too jumper happy of late...he needs to get into the lane, to score and to pass
Should've taken the three, Jrue.
PHI 49, MEM 47 at the half.
Very strong second quarter. Excellent finish to the half. Need a third like the end of the second, now.
That was the most enjoyable half in quite awhile...would love love love to steal this game
we're up, somehow.
DW3 running away with POTG honors.
Funny to see Memphis complaining about too much contact.
Thad hasnt gone off, Jrue not very efficient, Turner silenced. And we're still up.
I'm really impressed with Thad Young's defense of Randolph. He might not be as undersized at the 4 spot as I previously thought.
Hawes was +16 that half, and it's legit. Very good half for him.
he probably got some positive comments for his mullet walking around Memphis today, feeling good about himself
I liked Thad, Lavoy, and Spencer a lot in that half...Gasol was having his way early but our overmatched frontcourt guys have risen to the challenge
answered my own question...82games.com says 42% of Turner's assists are "close" buckets or dunks as opposed to 34 percent of Jrue's...but two pt jumpers were 39 percent of Turner's assists as opposed to 34% of Jrue's
Jrue's big advantage over Turner is this area is that he sets up a lot of threes, way more than Ev...makes tons of sense, Jrue's drive and kick game is superior...but my eyetest analysis that Turner sets up more easy buckets inside is accurate....
Alright, come out with a strong third. Let's go.
Ugh. Lavoy gave too much ground on Randolph. There goes the lead if he hits the freebie.
NICE jrue, to dorrell for the three
Jrue drive and kick, D Wright for three. Beauty.
Jrue is so much better when he thinks pass first
Turner to Thad for a 20-footer. Come on, keep executing, keep up the pressure on the other end.
Ugh, what a terrible shot by Tony Allen and we give them the second o-board of the possession. Come on.
Bleh. Jrue should've given it to Wright earlier, then Lavoy gets his pocket picked, then another foul by Lavoy on the other end. Clean it up.
love when you have the chance to post in the game threads, always good stuff
Yeah, it's too rare these days. I wind up talkin to myself when I watch on DVR.
+ 1
Another Jrue drive and kick to D Wright for three. Beauty again.
Jrue to DWright for three yet again!nineteen for Wright
Fucking nonsense.
Keep shooting, Tony.
Makeup call, it's Lavoy's 4th. Here come Hawes, hope he plays like he did in the second Q.
Bang! D Wright to Jrue43!
nice of him to return the favor...Jrue's chemistry with Wright and Hawes has been fun to watch
Come on, Clean up the glass. God damnit! This should be a 10-point game right now. O-boards are keeping them in it.
Tie fucking game. Damnit. That three didn't do it, either. It was three consecutive times down the floor giving them extra shots.
meh keep giving the those 3s.
get a body, or two on Randolph.
Should've kept going to the hole that time, Jrue. Clean it up.
Gets it back with a nice dig-down on Gasol for the steal and the dime to Thad in transition.
Finish this quarter strong, please.
Wonder if Collins goes w/ the same rotation, plays Jrue this entire quarter, then the start of the fourth, then gets him a couple of minutes rest and brings him back for the final 6 or 7 minutes.
nice take and finish by jrue
Atta boy, Jrue.
Ugh, liked Jrue's jumper better than a dump to Hawes there.
Bad shot by Nick one-on-four.
Nick+1. Heh.
Stop and a hoop. Come on. Finish it.
Why was Ivey casually bringing the ball up there? Time was running out.
Excellent question.
Doug has totally lost it with the end of Q execution without Lou, you had 7 fucking seconds to get a look, and that's what you get?
PHI 75, MEM 70 after three.
Won the third. Now take it right at them here to start the fourth.
Collins pulled Jrue for the final minute there, had Ivey in. Probably cost them a decent look on the final possession, too.
Lavoy come on
Does Turner have a shooting hand hurt or something? 2 shots?
Wish he would've stayed at 2 instead of taking that as his third.
Fuck. Ivey running the point. Recipe for disaster. I bet Jrue's back with about 10 minutes to go.
horrible evan
Fuck, get Jrue back in.
oops, spoke to soon on Turner, 2 bad shots in succession, one a charge
Turner drives and gets a whistle, heh...He was playing really well early outside of scoring...seems like his offensive struggles are impacting his whole game in the second half
When you were all over his jock he had 3 assists and 3 turns. That's not really good by my definition.
That's two possessions w/ o-boards in a row. That's fucking effort, man. Grow a god damned sack.
just got home, saw most of the first 3 quarters
ivey three!from turner...good ball movement from young to evan to ivey...swinging it around the perimeter, what a concept
Nick for three!!!
sissy jumper
more good ball movement, turner to young for three...turner to hawes for the baseline j...yeehaw
nice job facilitating there from ET after his crappiest sequence of the year(so far)
There we go, baby. 10-point lead. Man, that unit pulled it together after a shaky start.
Good help on the boards by Turner there. Randolph was about to get that o-board.
Lavoy. Bang.
ivey 3!!!!
Royal. Nice.
sissy jumper
Hawes, heh.
Turner would seem to be best served to use his teammates here. He's iso'ing a little too much.
Had Nick for a three on that last drive. Think he keeps looking up and seeing that goose egg.
Jrue and Thad back. Let's settle and execute. Put this game away.
yeah that was ugly and he was forcing it, trying to get rid of the goose egg...but on the whole he's done a good job of not forcing his offense, realizing he can contribute more tonight by passing than by shooting
he has taken four shots in the entire game and he has eight assists...
Shot clock violation wasn't what I had in mind. Jrue has to have that clock in his head, can't make that pass.
terrible turnover evan
let jrue initiate
Come on, Turner. Wake the fuck up.
This is going downhill quickly, Tony Allen with a gift.
Turner to the line. Phew.
had nick young in the corner
D Wright back in. Might've been in for Turner if he wasn't on the line after that sequence. Let's go. Get a stop.
back-to-back turns by Jrue. This is textbook what not to do to protect a lead.
sissy block
Settle down. Run a play going toward the hoop.
Spence w/ the o-board. Hit the freebies.
Allergic to closing tonight.
TGFTA. Thank God For Tony Allen.
Jrue to DWright for three!
Wright with the tough three.
Spencer Hawes got a heart for Christmas? Beastin'.
hmm, technically that'd be courage.
I think Richardson might've gotten Wally Pipped tonight.
sissy jumper
Spence. Layup (from 20)
ugh jrue
Road Big Macs at Memphis?
wtf jrue
wtf jrue part II
ha you beat me to the punch
Heh. Another turn. Jrue and Turner taking turns effing up.
wtf jrue part III
ugly game. tenacious defense.
Go 76ers.
Try and repeat the effort again.
Wright jammer!
nice win
HA! Turner w/ the capping turnover.
PHI 99, MEM 89 Final.
Sloppy finish to a double-digit win on the road? I'll take 6 more of those on this trip with a big smile (or even 3 more).
POTG: Spence, with a big nod to Wright.
huge win, wonderful to see. Nine assists each for Turner and Jrue...six and five turns for each respectively but I'll take it
Pretty impressive three-game stretch since Jrue came back. Keep it going on Friday night @ GSW.
Pretty bad game for Jrue, but I'm going to give him the nod over Mike Conley. Though I'm sure Dollar Bill will find something wonderful about Conley's 3/17, 2 assist/2 turnover effort.
Hawes with 5 blocks!! So rare to see him block anyone taller than Ty Lawson. Glad I watched it, else I never would believe it.
Great to be home for the holidays and watch a game with the local guys, Malik and Mark.
Very strange game. Jrue and Evan weren't spectacular but executed at the right times. Conley was awful and Evan used his strengths (rebounding + occasional assists) and massively leveraged that.
Hawes was most impressive I have seen him... Still has some sissy plays but I can't complains.
Jrue had 4 blocks?!
Dorrel obviously exceeded expectations... But how about Nick Young. He looked like quite the opportune chucked out there.
Very pumped with the win.
for the next game please put turner on barnes and wright on Thompson,
Not exactly a recipe for success, given the terrible scoring numbers for Jrue and ET coupled with an invisible Thad... But you get about 5 games a year were Hawes is a monster, and this was one of them. Couple that with a streaky Wright on fire and it is just enough to win.
I'll take it
Sixers - Bynum > Griz - Gay
sure is nice to see them somehow picking up wins over quality teams...
True. I didn't realize that Atlanta and Memphis are still in the single digit loss column. Golden State is 19-10 with a starting front court of David Lee and Carl Landri. I'm still waiting for NYK's collapse. Success follows Jason Kidd and Mike Woodson is my choice for COTY. I wonder how the Sixers would rank if they had a healthy Bynum. Probably 6th best in the NBA behind Miami, OKC, LAC, NYK, and SAN.
It's tough to say where they'd be. When one of their bigs plays like a legit NBA big, they're pretty tough to beat. Having that every night? I don't know. Probably would've been an adjustment period at the beginning of the season. Everyone's role would be a bit different, but having a big man in the middle, well, it should make everything easier for everyone.
They don't start Landry; they start Festus Ezeli.
Have you seen them at all? Any idea why they start that guy at the 4?
Actually, Ezeli is their starting C and Lee is the starting PF. They are only starting him, because they are waiting for their prized big man Andre Bogut themselves and their only other choice is Biedrins who has completely lost his confidence as a basketball player.
That being said they do rely heavily on a Lee/Landry frontcourt that has had surprisingly good success so far. I read somewhere (i think it was on Grantland), that they are a good defensive team, but a bad offensive team with Ezeli or Biedrins and completely the opposite (a great offensive team , and bad defensive team with the Lee/Landry frontcourt).
And here's the article:
It's a month old, but i think it describes the Warriors fairly well.
Nice, I'll give it a read on my way home tonight. Just from looking at their numbers, I think they're playing over their heads. It'll be an interesting matchup.


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Mesut Ozil was not only the best buy of the English summer. He was also the stupidest sell. Real Madrid must have again wept into the fountain at the Plaza de Cibeles, in the square where they celebrate their triumphs, as he dismantled Napoli in the first half here with his artistry.
Many a page will groan and countless blogs will glow this season with descriptions of Ozil's talent, which is most lethal when he is expending the least effort. Shaping his foot to finish, gliding into space or flicking a ball past bamboozled defenders, Ozil affirms that a cool mind causes the most destruction. Like all the best players, he operates on his own clock, and performs entertaining acts according to his own sense of how a ball should work as a weapon.
But Ozil's greatest virtue, in the Arsenal context, is that he is a proven winner who has reached the age of 24 not hoping but expecting to lay hands on trophies. His CV is full of conquests. A Spanish league winner with Real in 2011-2012, he is also a European Under-21 Championship winner with Germany and a German Cup holder with Bremen, where he also reached a Uefa Cup final.
The last thing Arsenal needed now, especially at 50 million Euros), was another floaty, decorative attacking midfielder who would value beauty more highly than outcomes. Ozil is the polar opposite of self-indulgent. He displays no interest in empty elaboration. Every move he makes, every pass he directs, is intended to cause a problem, or open up some possibility.
For the first couple of minutes of Arsenal's first home fixture in Group F, Ozil was pretty much motionless in the No. 10 position as he weighed up the positions of Napoli's defenders and central midfielders. He was computing the spaces around him. In fact Ozil is one of those footballers who hardly need to go looking for space. Space seems to come him, especially when markers fail to appreciate where he might twist or turn.
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"'I think Ozil has been a very important player for Madrid - a really top player, and they made a mistake in letting him go,' said Fabio Capello, the former England and Real Madrid manager, on the eve of this game. "I do not know what has happened there."
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"From the first day, everyone really welcomed me and put their trust in me," Ozil enthused before this game. The talismanic world-class talent was unlikely to be frozen out by players who could increasingly feel the heat of spectator wrath on their necks. Playing for Arsenal was losing its prestige. It was an exercise in maintaining the claim that all this youthful promise would one day emerge as a conquering force.
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Ozil will have his quiet spells in games. He is not a relentless orchestrator, a Zinedine Zidane. Nor does he always emerge the winner in 50-50 battles. But his bursts of activity are a delight, a reason alone to watch this Arsenal XI. You can study him all night to see how he moves, deceives opponents, changes the angle of an attack, doubles back and delivers the pass that the other team can do absolutely nothing about, except watch and suffer.
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Nissan's much-touted Leaf battery car got out just in time. A ship loaded with 600 of the cars headed for the U.S. left Mar. 10, a day before the quake and tsunami. Nissan expects that to suffice for now.
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electric challenge?(58 Posts)
I've decided to set myself a challenge to get my electric bill down from currently over £15 a week to £10 (less would be great) not a great amount but every little helps and this is more about me changing my habits although the extra £5 will be a help tbh.
currently I am really lax about leaving things switched on when not in use. the tv, modem, playstation and freeview box are all switched on from around 8am til I go to bed anywhere between 11pm and 1am. I can have the radio on in the kitchen and bedroom at the same time if i'm cleaning, putting laundry away etc. I also have a dehumidifier which is on 24/7 even if the clothes are already dry! I leave the washing machine, kettle, laptop and phone charger all switched on at the plug even when not in use. in short- i'm haemorrhaging money through electicity waste.
so I have decided to set myself some rules. there is ds1 (8), ds2 (4) and myself.
1) no electric (apart from fridge) between 9am and 4pm. this will mean all my cleaning and laundry will have to be done before we leave for school in the morning. also, I will boil the kettle at breakfast and fill a flask for my tea during the day and at lunch. dcs are at school until 2pm (from next week- 12 this week for ds2) so it's just me to make lunch for and that can be sandwiches, salads, fruit etc.
2) limiting myself to either being on the laptop OR watching tv- not both at the same time.
3) limiting dcs to 1 hour of tv/playstation time per day
4) setting a timer for charging my phone and heating the water so I only use the electric that I need
5) switching everything off as soon as I finish using it
6) radio only on whilst i'm in the room it's in
7) use the washing line as much as possible when dry and dehumidifier only when raining out. also use the heat from the airing cupboard to 'air' the clothes after the washing line rather than overnight with the dehumid on.
8) keep a daily record of electric used on the calendar.
that's all I can think that I need to do to reduce electric use. feel free to join me with your own challenge or give me any tips you might have although I don't mind if nobody does, i'm really just using this as a record of my challenge to see how i'm doing and keep me on track.
oh i'm going to start tomorrow morning. wish me luck!
ah brilliant Charles thank you. will head down to lidl today.
also forgot to say last night that I switched my electric provider this week to budget energy and unit price is now 15.68p down from 17.58p so that should make a difference too.
Lidl have occasional offers on LED bulbs too. I bought a 3w screw-in table lamp one for £4.99 a couple of weeks ago.
Just checked and they have another offer on this week - Phillips E27, E14 or GU10 @ 2 for £14 (or £7.99 each).
Thank you that is great fluffy.
There just like normal bulbs. Ledhut.co.uk do good deals plus you can get cashback from topcashback of 20% or so. Sometimes it's lower so I gt them to match quidco if they have a better offer.
Thanks fluffy. Do LED lights require new light fittings?(im renting) or are they just like normal bulbs?
If you get the chance to switch to led lights do it, they use very little energy and prices are falling fast. My kitchen lights used 550w when we moved in (the builders put 50w in each fitting ) now it runs on 44w.
You've done brilliantly though.
Havent updated this in over a fortnight so thought i would.
I have succeeded in getting my daily electric usage to between £7 and £8 per week!
Non laundry days im using around 80pence and laundry days around £1.50 ish
Laundry i have cut from 7/8 washes a week with dehumidifier on 24/7 to 3 washes a week all on the same day (unless uniforms really need done) so dehumidifier on only for 24 hours in a week. This has made the biggest difference i think.
Other things like switching stuff off i am more vigilant but still room for savings there. Water is on a timer of 45 minutes morning and 45 evening. This is the minimum time it can be set for but it actually works out as just about right for our needs. Although there are evenings the dcs dont get baths so i could cut out the evening timer for possibly 3/4 nights. Will try that this week coming. Actually might just switch timer off and heat water as needed. Will have to get up earlier to switch on but ah well.
And i can honestly say we havent noticed any negative impact on our comfort levels at home. We have lights when we need them, hot water when we need it, clean clothes and hot meals. Definitely glad ive tried this.
Thinking i could set a new target of £5 a week?
jellyjem get them to check the supply(and that you're only paying for your own property) - that can't be right. I suppose it might be a temporary repayment of debt but still ...I sort of assumed you were running electric heating or something
I suppose you could try turning everything off and see if the meter still whizzes round?
I phoned npower to give a meter reading today and on the positive side, I'm now at £200 over 3 months instead of £90 per month.
Also .... I didn't realise this, but if even if you're in arrears, they will switch you over to a better tariff if you ask them. I'm now on their fixed online tariff instead of the standard tariff and it's quite a bit cheaper. The price is fixed until 2014, but you can leave anytime, so OK for anyone renting I guess, not just homeowners.
Right .. I am getting our bills down, didnt realise how out of the ordinary our bills were until i read this. All our washes are done on the fast ecconomy wash on the machine which is 30 degrees and only takes around 45 minutes. Our heating is gas (which I think we will have to do without this year). I have brought 2 more airers to dry all the washing.
Our oven is electric with gas hobs.
We don't have economy light bulbs in all the fitting but I am very careful to turn them off when we leave a room. I never urn standby's off but it seems that should not contribute all that much to our huge bill.
When we have the meter fitted I am going to keep a very close eye on things. I need to ask Eon to check the meter too don't I, thing is we have been paying a lot for our usage for years and I just thought this was normal.
LED lightbulbs are the way to go, I get mine off ledhut.co.uk with cashback off topcashback.
When we moved in the kitchen lights alone used 500w, now they use 44w.
That was not supposed to be a grin it was supposed to be
I have a digital radio that I don't turn off, the internet stays on, what about my electric alarm clock??????
I wonder if Piglet John will read this and can give any advice?
Jemjelly - even with 3 loads a day, that really is a massive bill. I have a big, 4 storey, drafty old high ceilinged Victorian house, with 3 teens who all apparently need to be plugged in to at least 3 electrical devices each to survice, who all leave lights and things on all the time, and I tumble dry a lot, and our gas and electricity combined isn't anywhere near £270. I'd take some weekly (or daily) meter readings and see what you are actually using, as that's is high
Perhaps you need to switch supplier. Our electricity bill is £23 a month.
I have a dishwasher and tumble dryer. We have various computers/laptops/TVs, but they don't get left on. We switch everything off when not in use and don't use the standby option.
Wow jamjelly that bill is huge. I'd guess it is mostly your washing/tumble drying causing the problem, so I think you have to stop using the drier..
Could you buy another airer or two and stick them in the bath or shower?
Make sure the washes are the most energy efficient e.g. 30 deg (there's no way most stuff can be dirty enough for a hot wash)
Have you got low energy light bulbs?
Is your heating electric? Any chance of savings there?
Can EON/charities offer any help with your bill, given your DH's condition?
He is having treatment for his OCD but to be honest I don't hold much hope of our situation changing anytime soon, he has suffered from this for years.
I try and dry the washing outside when I can but often end up drying it in the tumble dryer as we run out of drying space in the house when the weather is bad.
Things need to change hugely as there is no way I can afford to carry on paying this.
my goodness! yes 3 washes a day will be having a massive effect on your bill! i'd try and tackle that first and foremost- is he having treatment for his compulsive behaviours?
I haven't been doing so well this last week or so- the horrible rain has meant dehumidifier on everyday but I have been very good about turning it off after 12 hours rather than leaving it on constantly. also- yesterday and new energy company came round with a cheaper rate so I registered an interest and they're going to ring me next week.
also I am getting new curtain poles put up (hopefully this weekend as I don't have any atm) and i'm going to try drying clothes on hangers from the poles instead of the dehumidifier on wet days so that should make a difference.
My electricity is currently £270 per month there are 3 of us, 2 adults and a child in a small and drafty 3 bed terrace house. I need to drastically reduce my bills as EON are making us have a meter from next week.
Problem is my DH has an OCD, he washes constantly and the washing machine is usually on at least three times a day but can this really be making our bills so high, I cant believe the difference from my bills to yours. Does anyone know what the average usage is? I am wondering if there is something wrong with our supply.
I think i'm going to try for £7 fluffy just because there are 7 days in a week and it would irritate me immensely that 8 doesn't divide nicely by 7 (I know £10 doesn't either but it was a nice round number so that's ok- yes I do have issues with numbers )
I remember when ds1 was a baby and it was just he and I ( 8 years ago) I put £30 in the meter a month and often had some left at the end of the month. and I wasn't at all careful about switching things off. although back then I had no internet, freeview, PS3 etc. and as he was a baby he wasn't switching anything on and then forgetting about it. I was also out of the house at work everyday aswell though.
anyway- i'll give it a fair go and report back to you all. thanks for encouragement.
You could try for £8 a week. Well done though.
Quick update as ive just realised that my electric ran out today after me topping up £10 last sunday! That was the target so im happy but ive seen how easy it is to reduce and i definitely have room for more as ive slacked a bit so i'm going to keep this thread going and see how low i can get it without feeling like life isnt pleasant anymore.
Been lurking!
Where can I get a good electricity monitor if I'm not with British Gas?
I recently got one of the free monitors from British gas. I found that my induction hob was costing 1p an hour on standby. By switching it off at the wall when I'm not using it I'm saving £1.75 a week.
Goodasitgets, I do that with the microwave clock... Ours would cost about £50/year. Fifty f£&king quid! There's a proper clock in the kitchen, which has been running on the same AA battery since we moved house 6 years ago.
Family gets a bit sick of me freaking out about the lights being left on, but I think they're gradually learning.
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Boys die in wreck blamed on icy roads
Icy roadways from light rain in Butler County surprised morning motorists on Wednesday, causing a crash that killed two children and resulted in dozens of other wrecks despite above-freezing temperatures.
Road crews were unprepared but tried to respond quickly to conditions forecasters said they could not recall occurring here in decades.
Liam Bintrim, 3, and Declan McCullough, who would have turned 1 on Friday, were crushed by the roof of their mother's car when it slid and rolled on an icy Connoquenessing Township road and slammed into a tree.
"By far this was the most tragic (accident) of the day," said state police Lt. Eric Hermick.
Hermick said he believes the boys, strapped into car seats, died instantly.
Their mother, Elisabeth McCullough, 32, of Harmony, suffered minor injuries in the crash on Lower Harmony Road, about five miles from the family's home.
Brad Rehak, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Moon, said he had not seen similar conditions in 24 years.
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Hermick said state police received 42 reported accidents in the county within a 15-minute period.
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Butler County's 911 center reported 39 wrecks between 10 a.m. and noon, handled by state troopers and municipal police departments.
Several people went to hospitals, dispatchers said, though their conditions were unavailable.
Local accidents
Several vehicles hit guardrails or cars along Bull Creek Road in Fawn. No one was injured in the crashes, which were caused by ice, according to Fawn police Chief Tim Mayberry said.
In West Deer, a car flipped over at Middle Road near Route 910 about 10 a.m., but no one was reported to have been injured.
Seven other West Deer crashes happened along Route 910 at Cedar Ridge, two at Oak Road and several at Bakerstown Road — all between 10 to 10:30 a.m.
"Fortunately, no one was hurt," Lape said. "It seemed to hit here all at once."
In Winfield, two tractor-trailer trailers were disabled and blocked part of Cornplanter Road, state police said.
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Robert Skrak, manager of PennDOT's office that covers Butler County, said the weather caught crews off guard.
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A construction truck carrying explosive materials along Route 422 in Butler Township slid off the road shortly after 10 a.m., police said.
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Report: Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake Engaged! (PHOTOS)
Insiders tell the magazine that Justin proposed in the mountains of Jackson, Wyoming and the pair became engaged in late December.
"Justin knows how much she loves snowboarding and the mountains, so it was the perfect place," the source claims.
Justin, 30, has "never been happier" since proposing to Jess, 29, as he knew it was the right time to take the next step after splitting back in March 2011.
In the lead-up to Christmas, jeweler Tayloe Piggot wrote on their Facebook page: "Word on the street is that Justin Timberlake proposed to Jessica Biel at the Amangani last night." After seeing the reaction their post caused in the media, they deleted the initial post and wrote a lengthy apology to Justin and Jessica, saying:
"Again – our most sincere apologies to Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel. We cannot believe where this rumor, which started out as (seemingly innocent) news that had been circulating in Jackson Hole, has been blown into a massive gossip event. We hope that Justin and Jessica enjoyed their visit to our town and are so sorry that it has ended up with this fiasco. We prefer to remain the sleepy art gallery and will be posting about pretty jewels from now on…"
Biel and Timberlake began dating in 2007. Throughout their relationship, they have made it a point to keep their relationship private, hardly ever attending events or premieres together.
Take a look back at Justin and Jessica through the years in our gallery above!