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Color options: Oil Rubbed Bronze and Electro Polish Stainless Steel
Linear Shower Channel Drains Provide Improved Function and Good Looks
Material finish Electro-polished Channels and gratings are electropolished. This process creates a shiny defect-free surface which minimizes cleaning and maintenance for a high class finish. The textured appearance of the grate is still visible after electro-polishing and helps reduce the appearance of finger prints and soap residue.
Oil-rubbed bronze
In order to complement the latest trend in bathroom fixtures, the channel and grate are also available in oil-rubbed bronze. This finish is applied over the same stainless steel base to ensure a long serving and quality product.
A linear shower channel drain, such as QuARTz by ACO, provide a number of advantages over circular point drains. First of all, flexibility in positioning allows you to place the shower channel drain in the center of a shower or other wet area, against the walls, or let it act as the threshold. As a threshold, it becomes the water barrier that keeps dry zones dry. This allows for more of an open floor plan and traffic flow because it allows the shower or other wet area to be open, without the need of a door.
Quality The shower channel components are all grade 304 stainless steel. Bodies are fully welded and leak tested prior to dispatch.
QuARTz linear shower channel drains come in standard tile widths which mean all those tricky, complicated tile cuts around radii to make something fit are eliminated. The innovation of a flat, shower channel adds to the aesthetic beauty of your bathroom area. The layout can be more open and uncluttered by doors and doorway thresholds that were in place to be water barriers. Now that your floor has its own water barrier in the form of a QuARTz linear shower channel drain, that shower door is no longer needed.
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Hlk'yah GawGa (Windy Bay)
Hlk'yah GawGa (Windy Bay)
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Hlk'yah GawGa was an important site during Haida protests against logging on Lyell Island. During 1985, the Haida took a stand on the logging road at Sedgwick Bay. Their protest ultimately led to the protection of the area and the creation of Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site. In addition to the cabin at Sedgwick Bay, a longhouse called "Looking Around and Blinking House" was built at Windy Bay to house people during the logging blockade.
It was also once the site of a major village and later of a summer fishing village called Hlk'yah Llnagaay (Peregrine Falcon Town).
A trail at Hlk'yah GawGa runs along Windy Bay Creek and winds through old-growth western hemlock, red cedar and Sitka spruce. This is the last intact watershed on Lyell Island. Watchmen will, if requested, accompany visitors to the giant Sitka spruce, estimated to be between 800 and 900 years old, and past several culturally modified trees.
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I find myself mentioning Chrome flags frequently in articles, blog posts, and presentations, so I decided to put together a video and detailed description as a central reference. Here's everything you need to know about Chrome flags (with Chrome Canary and command line flags thrown in for good measure):
Chrome Flags
Chrome flags are a way to enable or disable functionality in Chrome that may not be fully implemented, standardized, or that might still be a little buggy. Rather than wait until a feature is fully ready to be released, Google can just disable the functionality by default using a Chrome flag. That means developers and particularly curious end users can opt into experimenting with the cutting edge of the web without everyone else's browsing experience potentially being negatively affected.
To turn experimental features on or off in Chrome, follow these steps:
- Open a new tab or window in Chrome.
- Type chrome://flags (or about://flags) in the location bar.
- Find the feature or functionality you want to toggle on or off. Note that you can use find in page (control/command + f) to quickly locate a particular feature.
- Click on the Enable or Disable link.
- Click on the Relaunch Now button at the bottom of the page.
Once your browser has relaunched, you can start experimenting with whatever feature or new piece of functionality you just enabled.
Chrome Canary
Another way to experiment with the cutting edge of the web is to use Chrome Canary (as in a canary in a coal mine, but more humane). Chrome Canary has the latest and greatest browser features and functionality that haven't made it into the main release of Chrome yet. It's intended for developers and early adopters who are willing to trade a little stability for the chance to play with the most recent web technologies.
One of the things I really like about Chrome Canary is that you don't have to choose between the stable version of Chrome or Chrome Canary since you can run them both side-by-side (as I often do).
Command Line Flags
If you're comfortable with the command line, you can also change Chrome's behavior by launching it with command line flags. For example, the command below launches Chromium (the open-source version of Chrome) and tells it to cycle through the list of URLs in the specified text file, then exit:
/Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium --visit-urls=/Users/cantrell/tmp/urls.txt
You can find a comprehensive list of command line flags (sometimes called switches) on Peter Beverloo's blog, and an explanation of how to use them in the Chromium documentation.
Other Chrome URLs
For a list of other special Chrome URLs which expose various functionality and information about Chrome, type chrome://about in your location bar.


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Adobe InDesign is the industry-standard publishing application for print publications, interactive PDF documents, digital magazines, and EPUBs. A new version of InDesign CC (9.2) is available now. It comes with several enhancements, bug fixes, and a brand new feature.
To install InDesign CC
- Go to http://creative.adobe.com and sign in with your Adobe ID.
- Click Download Center in the top navigation bar.
- Click Download icon next to the InDesign icon.
- On the InDesign product page, click Download. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
What's new and changed in InDesign CC 9.2
Typekit Desktop Font Integration
Typekit desktop fonts are now fully integrated with InDesign. With this seamless integration, Creative Cloud customers can now easily:
- Find missing Typekit fonts in your documents and sync those fonts from Typekit.
- Browse and add new fonts from the Typekit Website.
- Find your synced Typekit fonts quicker in the Font menu with the new Typekit font filter.
Hyperlinks Simplification
The major pain points around creating, editing, and managing hyperlinks have been addressed in this release of InDesign:
- Creating a hyperlink in InDesign is now incredibly simple. You can create a hyperlink with just a right-click gesture.
- Hyperlinks now have a separate Hyperlink character style – blue and underlined.
- Edit hyperlinks from right-click menu.
- Quickly identify errors in your hyperlinks with traffic light indicators.
- Quickly navigate to the hyperlinks within your document from the hyperlinks panel.
EPUB enhancements
- You can now create footnotes that popup over the page you're reading.
- InDesign now provides more accurate representation of exported text color, tables, and nested styles in the exported doc and the CSS.
- The CSS handling of native InDesign objects, images and groups has also been improved.
- New support for additional list types and text align last within CSS properties.
- Create books for the Japanese market with improved support for Ruby, J Vertical Composition which includes TCY and Auto TCY.
- Create books for the Arabic market with more complete handling of right to left direction languages.
Critical bug fixes
- Marked improvement in cross-references performance.
- Text selection or highlight behavior is restored (similar to CS6).
- Active preflight profile appears in the document status bar.
- The Color Theme setting now does not automatically get reset to Medium Dark on updating InDesign.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The Jacksonville Fairgrounds will be bustling with more than 1,200 dogs and cats this weekend for the Home for the Holidays Pet Adoption Event.
This will be the biggest adoption event ever in Jacksonville, put on by Animal Care and Protective Services, First Coast No More Homeless Pets, the Jacksonville Humane Society and other local pet partners.
"Everyone is wearing multiple hats as we prepare for the big event at the fairgrounds while still caring for about 500 animals at the shelter," said ACPS Division Chief Scott Trebatoski. "Setting up temporary housing, putting together adoption packets, transporting animals and welcoming fostered animals back are some of the extra duties we are taking on with excitement this week."
ACPS will have a special adoption rate of $20, which includes spaying or neutering, rabies vaccinations and a microchip. Animals will range from kittens to full-grown cats, as well as puppies to adult dogs.
"Unfortunately we have had a longer birthing season this year for cats, and there has been a recent influx of dogs into the shelter as well. We would like to find homes for at least 1,000 pets this upcoming weekend," Trebatoski said. "What a great time to add a new member to the family before the holidays. We will even have gift certificates for those people who want to give the gift of unconditional love."
The Home for the Holidays Pet Adoption Event will be held at the Jacksonville Fairgrounds Friday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. There is no fee for parking or admission.
To stay up to date on adoptions this weekend, connect with ACPS on Facebook.
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OTTAWA – Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry are not above criticism and that was proved Thursday night when Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau split up the linemates and pointed out their poor play in a loss to Montreal.
A night later, Getzlaf and Perry got back to doing what they do best.
They were effective from the first puck drop and it translated into a 2-1 win over the Ottawa Senators on Friday night at Canadian Tire Centre. Perry and Getzlaf factored directly in both first-period goals to help the Ducks stop a two-game skid.
Frederik Andersen's first NHL start in goal was a huge success as he stopped 26 shots to outduel Ottawa's Craig Anderson. But Getzlaf and Perry usually pave the way for the Ducks (8-3-0) and they did so after being invisible to start this long trip.
"We had two pretty poor games on our part," Getzlaf said. "Our guys did a great job responding tonight and getting back to the hockey that we like to play."
Pat Maroon got a chance to be on the top line and the three big forwards did their damage early. Getzlaf led a rush that finished with Perry feeding Maroon and the winger beating Anderson for his second goal in two games.
Later in the first, Maroon applied enough pressure on the forecheck to force Senators star Erik Karlsson to cough up the puck behind his net. It skittered into the crease, where Perry whacked at it and Getzlaf added the finishing blow for a 2-0 lead.
"It wasn't a great showing the last two games," Perry said. "We knew we had to just get back to basics and start playing hockey again. We were trying to do a little too much, trying to be too cute or whatever it was.
"Just start skating, start playing the body and being the big men that we are."
Andersen played big in net to give Jonas Hiller a night off. After relieving Hiller and getting his first NHL win Sunday, the Danish netminder was sharp throughout and only allowed Mika Zibanejad's power-play goal in the second.
His biggest stop was a pad save on former Ducks winger Bobby Ryan midway through the third.
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I like Anne's musings on jean shorts much more than I liked her defense of Jennifer Lawrence. There is no shame in gaining weight during pregnancy (or ever). There is no shame if it takes longer than you think it will to lose the weight (if you want to lose it at all). There is no shame in finally breaking down and making your own jean shorts because last summer's are just too dang short for this summer's thighs. Bodies change. Bodies grow. Bodies shrink. It's all love (don't let anyone tell you otherwise.) Peace xx #noshame #lovewhatyouhavebeengiven Full Story
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THIS! No more weak ass Instagram retreats, THIS is the Anne Hathaway I will defend to the end! Annie was on The Late Late Show with James Corden last night and accepted the challenge to rap battle. Full Story
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Justin and Taylor are forging a tenuous peace treaty over Instagram (she "liked" this post). A video posted by Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) Full Story
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Defining D-MER:
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Dysphoric Milk Ejection Reflex is a condition affecting lactating women that is characterized by an abrupt dysphoria, or negative emotions, that
occur just before milk release and continuing not more than a few minutes.
Preliminary testing shows that
D-MER is treatable
if severe and
preliminary investigation shows that
inappropriate dopamine activity
at the time of the milk ejection reflex is the cause of D-MER.
Dysphoria is defined as an unpleasant or uncomfortable mood, such as sadness, depressed mood, anxiety, irritability, or restlessness. Etymologically, it is the opposite of euphoria.
Clarifying D-MER:
What It Is Not
D-MER is
not a psychological response
to breastfeeding.
D-MER is
not nausea with letdown
or any other isolated physical manifestation.
D-MER is
not postpartum depression
or a postpartum mood disorder.
D-MER is not
a general dislike
of breastfeeding.
D-MER is not the "
breastfeeding aversion
" that can happen to some mothers when nursing while pregnant or when nursing older toddlers.
Summing-Up D-MER:
What It Does
The dysphoria a mother feels comes on suddenly before letdown and leaves within 30 seconds to 2 minutes.
She feels the dysphoria before she feels the letdown sensation in her breasts (though not all mothers feel a physical letdown sensation).
Often by the end of the first letdown she feels fine again, the dysphoria is gone.
It can happen for the first letdown of a feeding or for all letdowns in a feeding, depending on the
intensity of her D-MER.
She may or may not have dysphoria with letdowns when pumping and before spontaneous letdowns, this also is dependent of the intensity of her D-MER.
D-MER is like a reflex. It is controlled by hormones and can not be controlled by the mother. She can not talk herself out of the dysphoria.
D-MER has nothing to do with nipple contact or with irritation with the sensation of nipple tugging. The mother does not even have to be thinking about breastfeeding (for example with spontaneous letdowns) for the dysphoria to happen when a milk release is triggered.
To understand the reflex you must know that when a milk release is triggered prolactin levels begin to rise even before milk has begun to flow through the breasts. Dopamine helps control the secretion of prolactin and so dopamine levels must lower briefly for prolactin to rise. Once prolactin has begun it's slow climb, dopamine stabilizes. This happens to every lactating mother.
Dopamine is known for having an effect on moods and in a mother with D-MER dopamine is behaving somehow inappropriately in its drop. It is in this very quick and immediate drop that a mother with D-MER feels her dysphoria. As dopamine levels restabilized, the dysphoria is gone.
The experience of D-MER is variable and a mother will have either despondency D-MER, anxiety D-MER or agitation D-MER. Her dysphoria will fall on it's own place on the
emotional spectrum
, ranging from homesickness to anger.
There are
three intensities
of D-MER that included mild, moderate and severe. These intensities are determined by the mother's interpretation of intensity, how long the D-MER takes to self correct, how many letdowns per feeding she feels the dysphoria and other criteria.
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American Public TV, December 25, 2009
Adnan Oktar: I told (about) the Turkish Islamic Union two years ago. Since i told, visas have been started to cancel with the Turkic states such as Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan and Islamic countries. What does it mean the "visa cancellation" ? This means that the people of these countries and Turkish people can easily meet, trade and be in easy social relationships. Passports will be cancelled after the visas are cancelled. What does it mean the "passport cancellation" ? Turkish Islamic Union will be established like the Islamic common market, Turkish common market.The aim of this union is not bureaucratic, it is not only based on benefits, it is the union in which feelings of love, compassion, friendship and brotherhood dominate. Therefore above all, love of Allah, fear of Allah and the enthusiasm arise from the love of Allah will be essential. Then, life becomes meaningful. Otherwise, people can not be happy by just eating, drinking or trading. You can see the economies are collapsing. The main reason of the economical crises is lovelessness, egoism, selfishness, but above all Darwinism. But with the collapse of Darwinism, dissappearing of lovelessness, compassion and love will dominates the world quickly. Therefore within a specific time, in 10-20 years Turkish Islamic Union will completely come true.
Hilal TV, December 27, 2008
Adnan Oktar: I haven't seen any country which doesn't accept Turkey's leadership till now. I also haven't seen any Turkic state which doesn't accept Turkey's leadership. Kazakhstan has just stated again that Turkey should be the leader. All of the Turkic states want Turkey to be the leader. Azerbaijan strongly desires this, even Armenia wants to unite with Turkey. They say "let's open our doors and unite." They found this courage after our articles and explanations and they started to think that way. Armenia, Georgia, even Lithuania and Russia will be in the Turkish Islamic Union insha'Allah.
Moral Haber, July 04, 2010
Flags of 7 brother states wave under Turkey's largest Turkish flag. Kazakhstan Embassy Cultural Attaché Nişangül Nazarayev made a speech in the ceremony where the flags of Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkey were raised. Nazarayev told about the independence of Kazakhstan, said that he is really proud of being a Turk and very happy to be in a unity with the Rebuplic of Turkey.


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Crucial Releases RealSSD C300 Firmware Fix, Bricks More Drives?by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/4/2010 1:47 PM EST
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turbodreams - Tuesday, May 04, 2010 - linkI bricked my C300 even though I exactly followed the instructions.
There are more reports on the Crucical Forum:
So, I would recommend everyone to NOT UPDATE THE FIRMWARE until there is a respone from Crucial! Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, May 04, 2010 - linkWow. That's horrible, updated! Reply
Lothsahn - Tuesday, May 04, 2010 - linkAnand--the "appears to be bricking drives" link doesn't actually link to the comment. In fact, if you're on the main anandtech page, it just reloads that page, giving no indication of where the link should go.
Using Firefox 3.6.3, in case that matters. Reply
The0ne - Tuesday, May 04, 2010 - linkJust simply WOW...was this even robustly tested prior to release? Reply
nsx241 - Tuesday, May 04, 2010 - linkIntel did this twice in the past with their updates, so this pretty much par for the course in terms of ssd firmware updates.. Reply
Chloiber - Tuesday, May 04, 2010 - linkAllthough I do not agree with you and think that intel's problems were less severe (HDD password - who uses that?), I do agree that other controller manufacturers faced similar problems (Indilinx...). Reply
B3an - Tuesday, May 04, 2010 - linkI dont remember intel doing anything like this. As far as i remember a firmware update caused a problem only if you had a password set for the motherboards BIOS. Reply
B3an - Tuesday, May 04, 2010 - linkOk it may have been a HDD password, not a motherboard password.
And i have two C300's, never bothered to updated firmware, and they are working fine 24/7.
Also had two intel X25-M's, again no problems.
Had some problems with some OCZ Vertex's though but nothing severe. Reply
nsx241 - Tuesday, May 04, 2010 - linkOh, it was pretty bad ...
http://communities.intel.com/thread/7693?tstart=0 Reply
IanJamesTi - Tuesday, May 04, 2010 - linkThank you Anand!!!!
I just posted on the older thread asking about this, few hours later you posted!!!!
I just received my C300s in the Mail yesterday, downloaded the firmware, burned the ISO... and was going to install this tonight.
HUGE THANK YOU for saving me from bricking my new drives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In retrospect, I think I may send these two back and opt for a pair of more tried and tested drives. Reply
nubie - Tuesday, May 04, 2010 - linkIn Crucial update, Drive TRIMS You!!
Bummers, too bad for crucial, but I don't think it will be a huge problem for SSD uptake in general. Reply
gigahertz20 - Tuesday, May 04, 2010 - linkIt seems like these companies botch firmware quite frequently on SSD drives, I've never heard of so many problems with firmware updates before SSD drives came out. Even Intel managed to screw it up, they should really extend their testing time before releasing the updates to the general public. Reply
Axbattler - Tuesday, May 04, 2010 - linkWhile on the subject of the C300, I do have a question on performance. Anandtech's benchmark place place the C300 at around half that of Intel's for 4k (unaligned) random write.
Whereas a different test here (http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=24173&a... shows the C300 ahead of Intel in that particular test.
While I do not expect the result from two different sets of benchmark to be identical (or even nearly), I do not expect the relative position of the drives to be move unless they were very close to start with. Is it still possible there are no mistakes on either side? Reply
vol7ron - Tuesday, May 04, 2010 - linkIt's a good thing you'll be away when I'm out on travel.
It's reassuring to know I won't be missing much. Reply
TheWhoDat - Wednesday, May 05, 2010 - linkAnand,
I was going to purchase the C300, since I have an Asus x58 MB that has SATA 3.0 6GB onboard.
Seeing that you and others are having problems, what drive would you recommend now?
I was hoping for a 200-256GB drive, to replace my 2x VelociRaptor RAID 0 setup, but everyone seems to love their Intel G2.
Thank you for any recommendations. Reply
Lazlo Panaflex - Wednesday, May 05, 2010 - linkThe quality of Crucial products has certainly taken a turn for the worst. Don't see many enthusiasts running Crucial memory in their systems these days. For shame, Crucial. Reply
Golgatha - Wednesday, May 05, 2010 - linkThank you very much for posting this on the front page along with the timely correction. I just purchased this drive and it's my main boot disc now. I'd have been a bit mad to have a $680 brick to send back to Crucial if you hadn't posted the warnings in such a timely manner. Reply
Golgatha - Thursday, May 06, 2010 - linkLooks like the firmware update has been pulled from Crucial's website for the C300 drives. Reply
assassin37 - Thursday, May 06, 2010 - linki updated to the 002 fw and my pc vantage score went up ,happy happy joy joy Reply
guffy - Thursday, May 06, 2010 - linkGlad i checked here before using.
Checked both the link above and browsing directly on Crucials website and in both cases the C300 firmware update is gone.
Going to hold fire for now i think.
thx Reply
SpeedyJDK - Friday, November 26, 2010 - linkI just bought 2 of these drives. Both was bricked when i received em. So they are on their way back for RMA now. Reply


text: Norman Barrows 7179 Report post Posted March 1, 2013 I'm working on a caveman fps / rpg / simulator game. because its a simulator, you can accelerate time, like in a flight simulator, or a submarine simulator, to skip past the dull stuff. the game currently supports real time, 2x, 900x, and 5400x game speeds. Unlike waiting in Oblivion, you can do this with potential hostiles nearby. It automatically drops out of accelerated time if anything tries to attack you. in the game, you can interact with the environment and perform actions (like in The SIMs) such as gathering resources and making weapons. when performing an action such as making a wood spear, which takes 4 game hours, it runs fast with no active targets, and slow with a herd of 20 antelope mulling about. with no active targets, at 900x normal speed, making a spear takes 4 seconds (in real world time). with 20 active targets, at 900x normal speed, it takes 22 seconds (in real world time). so i'm looking for ways to speedup the AI so it still does (or approximates) what it does in real time combat, but runs faster at 900x and 5400x normal speed. so far i've gone to selecting target (which requires a range check to every active target) once every 5 seconds, and made the animals steer based on a desired heading calculated every 5 seconds (which requires a call to atan). these calculations are performed on every 15th target in succession over 15 frames. IE: if ( target_number % 15 == frame_number ) do_AI_stuff. i'm using a fast RISC style 2d bounding box distance calculation for the range check when selecting target. i tried an atan lookup function, but the math coprocessor is faster. the amount of time between target selections is the amount of lag in response the targets exhibit. if an antelope is programmed to run when you get within 50 feet, it can take up to 5 seconds for it to target you, decide you're too close, and start running. So selecting targets even less frequently doesn't seem to be an option. everything else in the AI except the range check to all targets and the atan call is fast simple code, mostly ADDs and COMPs. however it does do a check once per second for being "cornered", which requires moving 4 points in 2d (4 sins and 4 cos's) and 4 collision checks (point vs axis aligned bounding boxes). i can spread out the target and heading calculations so i'm only doing it for one target per frame, but i'd still be doing it for all targets over 5 seconds of game time. this would reduce per frame overhead to a maximum of one set of target calculations per frame, but not overall overhead. i can do the "cornered" check every 5 or 10 seconds, that will get me a little something, but other than that, I'm not sure what to try next. faking it? is that the answer? when all else fails, fake it? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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My first career path was teaching high school science, which eventually morphed into my second career as the IT coordinator for our one-campus school district, which when I began had just purchased about 100 computers and distributed them throughout six buildings.
The job kept me busy because there were a large number of requests that could not be handled remotely. I spent a great deal of time traveling between buildings every day. The tech issues were varied, and encounters with end users ranged from the frustrating to the humorous. But some of the more memorable ones included hearing a student's viewpoint about technology, which could be very different from an adult's. Here are a few that I think of time to time that exemplify those generational differences.
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One day I was at a far end of campus busily doing a repair of some kind when I got an urgent call from the unit office. An auditor was visiting, and she needed to use her laptop -- immediately. I asked what the problem was and was only told that she couldn't get power. They wouldn't tell me anything more, just that I needed to come help.
I stopped what I was doing and hurried across campus. When I arrived on the scene, the laptop was just sitting on a table. I asked what they needed.
"She wants to plug it in," was the reply.
"Does she need to connect to the network?" I asked.
"No, she needs to plug it in, and we didn't know where an outlet is," I was told.
There were exposed outlets all around the room, but apparently nobody bothered to take a look. Instead, they called me. A computer was involved, after all.
The child's view 1: 'I think I can!'
One of my favorite experiences happened when I was called to a third-grade classroom to fix a frozen computer.
I entered the somewhat chaotic room -- three adults were standing around chatting while the students worked on projects or visited. As I approached the troublesome computer, a third-grader came up to me and said, "I fixed the computer for you."
"Really? What did you do?" I asked.
The "IT helper" said proudly, "I turned it off and back on again."
The child's view 2: It was always thus
I was working on a computer in one of the campus' computer labs. I'd noticed that a student sitting at the next computer had been watching what I'd been doing.
Finally, he asked me a simple question: "So were you good with computers when you were in high school?"
The truth was, we weren't granted much computer access when I graduated in 1967!
It can be interesting to see the ways some people from different generations view things. And, like the third grade "IT helper," it can be nice to talk with someone who has not yet developed the "not my job" attitude some adults seem to practice.
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ZOTAC Goes For Iris Pro in Their New ZBOX E-Series Gaming Mini-PCsby Ian Cutress on 3/10/2014 1:33 PM EST
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DanNeely - Monday, March 10, 2014 - linkIf these have 2 antennas as stated in the table, where is the second located? I only see a single external antenna. Reply
jobo11 - Tuesday, March 11, 2014 - linkZotac's site only says 1 antenna:
Unless it has a special connector and antenna where there are 2 antenna wires instead. I can't find out which WiFi chip they use on Zotac's page. I wonder if AnandTech was told what chip they use directly by Zotac. Reply
Telithos - Monday, March 10, 2014 - link65W TDP processor in a case that size? I predict abundant thermal throttling or neat aircraft levels of sound (probably both). Reply
DanNeely - Monday, March 10, 2014 - linkThe second shows what looks a laptop style heatsink (the sort typically combined with a blower). The box is 7.4x2" in size, so I'd estimate the heatsink size as 3x1", vs 2x0.5" for the ones in the old 35W mainstream laptops I've dismantled before. That's 3x as large for 2x the heat dissipated, so as long as it's airflow isn't obstructed I'd think normal to below normal mainstream laptop fan noise levels are plausible. Reply
jaydee - Monday, March 10, 2014 - linkExactly. Get back to me when someone does full-load testing and see how gimped a CPU you end up with... Reply
Daniel Egger - Monday, March 10, 2014 - linkI LOLed at "Gaming"... Reply
Guspaz - Monday, March 10, 2014 - linkThe system is substantially more powerful than a PS3 or 360 in every way, including memory, CPU, GPU, and connectivity. Do you also LOL at gaming on those consoles? Reply
bj_murphy - Monday, March 10, 2014 - linkA gaming system in 2014 is obviously worlds more powerful than anything from 2005/2006. Why even compare the two? The PS3 and 360 are almost done their life cycles at this point, the PS4 or Xbone would have been a better comparison. Reply
A5 - Monday, March 10, 2014 - linkYeah, but that doesn't make his point look as good... Reply
Guspaz - Monday, March 10, 2014 - linkSure, but Anandtech has done enough benchmarks to illustrate that the 4770R is perfectly capable of 720p gaming at medium quality settings. You're looking at 40 to 60 FPS in most games there. Reply
Flunk - Monday, March 10, 2014 - linkWho buys a "gaming pc" to play current games in medium at low res?
I mean, it's just as useful to say it's much more powerful than the Nintendo Entertainment System. Reply
Hrel - Tuesday, March 11, 2014 - linkPoor people Reply
Daniel Egger - Monday, March 10, 2014 - linkEvery time I tell people (here) that I occasionally play games on my 6750M I get laughed at. The HD Iris Pro 5200 is only marginally faster than that and yet this 3.5 year newer GPU is for a "gaming machine"? Does not make a whole lot of sense to me. If you look at the review here that thing is not capable of even running a single current game in FHD with more than 25fps and that's supposedly without the throttling that's certainly about to occur in that small housing...
As it happens I'm currently checking out my options for a small living room PC capable of some casual gaming. Neither AMD nor Intel IGP solutions seem to be a good fit for that. I'll probably get one of the smallest desktop PCs I can get and will fit a R260 or similar into that. That should result in plenty of FHD gaming power... at the same price I might add. Reply
anandreader106 - Monday, March 10, 2014 - linkYou get laughed at by superior master PC gaming race.
You game at med/low res. You are not master. You are amateur.
I laugh at you. Reply
zodiacsoulmate - Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - link6750m is hardly a mbile gaming graphic card, it falls far behind desktop buddies, AMD name it quite high but it doesn't do a good job.
There are a lot development goes into GPU optimization to make it run fluent on AMD/NV gpus, for intel it's still quite new to the gpu match, but intel is very mature at their chip designs, Iris Pro is good.
Most of people play games on weak graphic cards, this doesn't make them amateur, a lot of esports player starts from very low end pc/notebook.
R260 is not going to give you anything better than 720p medium, if youwant single slot, grab a gtx750ti(although i doubt anyone make a single slot one), if yôu want a short one, grab gtx670 or 760 short edition(MSI/Asus have those), it will give you suffice power to play 1080p 40+fps Reply
mobutu - Monday, March 10, 2014 - linkWhen will these dumb manufacturers realize that at this small scale the only way to decently cool a 65W chip is to use the whole damn enclosure as a heatsink (as www.streacom.com does it)?
Obviously, this zotac cannot cool it, the noise is to the roof and therefore the chip throttles thus not reaching its potential:
http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/systems/67173-zotac-... Reply
Qwertilot - Monday, March 10, 2014 - linkNot cheap doing a full body, passive cooling, case heat sink though. Much the best solution I agree :) Give it a couple more generations and I might be tempted that way. Reply
jup68 - Monday, March 10, 2014 - linkhttp://www.hd-plex.com/ Reply
8steve8 - Tuesday, March 11, 2014 - linkwe want iris pro in a little desktop, and are willing to accept a bit more volume to get a good cooling solution. this and the gigabyte pro should not have made it to the market...
give me a gigabyte pro with an extra 6 inches of height with a vent with a decent cooler.. Reply
Hrel - Tuesday, March 11, 2014 - linkLooks like a pretty intriguing system. I was gonna put together a little NUC system for my bedroom (to hook up to the tv, combined with a NAS) but if I can just buy one that performs reasonably well I'll probably just do that. I look forward to a full review, preferably with a focus on durability and media playback functionality. Reply
jrs77 - Tuesday, March 11, 2014 - linkI'm waiting for a small box of 5x5x5" with a 4770R, a slot for a 2.5" and space for a somewhat decent and silent cooler. And bring the price down to under €500. Reply
fteoath64 - Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - linkIf Zotac could just make the side cover (one with yellow circle) about 8mm thicker with hexagonal grill and a 120mm slim mounted fan, then it will solve the heat issue. This fan will push air over 80% the surface of the board beneath ejecting hot air off the side vents. This means the huge slim finned heatsink with heatpipes will cool the CPU better without the noise factor. That slight thickness do not affect Vesa mounting but does a whole lot for thermals and noise. Reply
headloser - Sunday, March 16, 2014 - linkThe only way i buying this if it is equipped with a AMD R7 250 card or nvidia version of it. Plus it must have the able to be equipped with a SSD drive.If not, not going to be bother. Reply
melk - Sunday, March 16, 2014 - linkNo HDMI? Why dual Ethernet ports? Reply


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Mark Yarbrough: Welcome to DTS Dialogue: Issues of God in Culture. I'm your host, Mark Yarbrough, Executive Director of Communications at Dallas Theological Seminary and today our discussion topic is "The Missing Gospels."
I am happy to be joined in the studio by Dr. Darrell Bock sitting to my immediate right, Research Professor of New Testament Studies, Professor of Spiritual Development in Culture. Across the table from Dr. Bock is Dr. Dan Wallace, Professor of New Testament Studies. Sitting directly in front of me is Dr. Hall Harris, Professor of New Testament Studies. Gentlemen, thank you so much for your time today on a busy Friday afternoon here at the end of the semester, greatly appreciate it.
Missing gospels. We've got several questions that we're going to walk through and looking forward to some good discussion. missing gospels is an interesting topic. It's all over the place. It is in a variety of books, some books that you all have been writing, as a matter of fact, shown up in a variety of articles in periodicals and things like that. So let's just jump right into the discussion and ask the question, missing gospels, what are the missing gospels? Who wants to field that?
Dr. Darrell Bock: Well, the missing gospels are texts that have, of course, now been found that formerly missing, that we actually knew quite a lot about. Irenaeus, among others, wrote about such works, particularly those tied to the Gnostics. In 1945 there was a find in the deserts of Egypt called Nag Hammadi which dug up 52 texts, many of which contained various gospels or works that dealt with the life and ministry of Jesus in one way or another.
Now, these weren't historical works primarily, but they did purport to tell the story of Jesus and created quite a sensation once they were published and starting in the late 1970's, 1979, Elaine Pagels published a book called The Gnostic Gospels. Information about this material began to saturate the public square and there was a lot attention drawn to these texts.
Mark: Let me get you to define "Gnosticism." You used that a minute ago and you said, "These Gnostic texts." A lot of people do not know what Gnosticism is. Give me a good definition of "Gnosticism."
Darrell: It's good to know what Gnosticism is because it comes from the word "gnosis", which means "knowledge." And so Gnostic Christianity was a kind of combination of Greek philosophy and Christian symbolism trying to make Christianity more palatable in a Greek philosophical kind of way. It emphasized a dualism, and that dualism was that ideas and the Spirit were good and all matter was corrupt.
It had a creation story that underling gods were responsible for the creation and basically botched the job. Some versions of that creation story involved the divine feminine, so if you're going to ask for the divine feminine you might think of the kind of divine feminine you're going to get.
But this material also didn't believe in a physical resurrection. It posited that Jesus, who was not completely human, in many cases, and so there were a variety of distinctions from what we know today as orthodox Christianity that made these works operate on the fringe of Christianity. They claimed the name to be Christian, and claimed to be Christian, but they really didn't hold to a Christian theology.
Mark: OK. When would you date Gnosticism, if you had to put a date, a time frame with it?
Dr. Hall Harris: Well, it's actually a very big problem because it's debated what the date actually should be and it revolves some time around the middle of the first century A.D. into the middle of the second century A.D., and that's where the debate is.
Generally speaking, some of the best experts in the field, like Dr. Ed Yamaguchi don't really want to talk about Gnosticism per se in the first century. They'll go so far as to refer to things like "proto-Gnosticism" that is incipient Gnosticism, that is, it's the beginnings or traces of it. But as a full-blown doctrine most, I think the majority of scholars would say it's early second to mid-second century A.D.
The other problem you have to remember is that Gnosticism is not an organized system of religion like Christianity or Judaism; it's a whole collection of beliefs, different brands, and different strands.
There is a pagan Gnosticism that has virtually no Christian elements in it that's just dualistic pagan philosophy in religion. There's Christian Gnosticism which Darrell mentioned a second ago where it's a kind of derivative heterodox, or non-orthodox Christianity or derived secondarily from Christianity.
So it's very difficult to put your finger on it, but the reason we have this discussion over missing gospels is that some of these Gnostic materials, including some of the Gnostic gospels are being presented in the media and by some scholars as being almost as old as, or even in a few cases, slightly older than the Christian Gospels in the New Testament, and that makes them an issue that has to be thought through because if they're that old, well, why would we think that they aren't giving us as good or better a take on who Jesus is than the canonical four Gospels in the New Testament? That's one of the issues.
Darrell: Or at least that there's an alternative form of Christianity out there who's dates are equal to anything that we know is Christianity and so that becomes a rationale for saying, "Well, there wasn't a Christianity, there's actually a variety of Christianities out there from the very beginning, and these alternatives that we've now become aware of deserve to have an equal kind of hearing to what we now call orthodox Christianity. So it's a form of historical revisionism.
There's debate about whether Gnosticism was its own independently produced view, or whether it was a reaction to Judaism, whether it was a reaction to Christianity. All those become possibilities because of the philosophical element of neo-Platonism, this dualism that we talked about that feeds it and is so prominent in it.
Mark: OK, so what I'm hearing you say is that one of the key issues is even a time discussion.
Darrell: Correct.
Mark: Is that correct?
Darrell: Yes.
Mark: Between when the Gospels, New Testament Gospels that we have, versus these missing gospels because of the fact that they are Gnostic, that the material is embedded in Gnostic teaching, that it is already further down the road from when we have our New Testament Gospels.
Darrell: That's correct and the other key feature here is whereas our Gospels either come directly from apostolic witnesses or from people who worked very closely with the Apostles, this material is generally regarded to not have that kind of pedigree. And so the question becomes who is really in touch with the tradition that is really associated with Jesus.
Some people are trying to push this material back into the early church tradition but there really is no good clean route back to this earliest layer of tradition which is very different from the case what we have with our four biblical Gospels.
Mark: OK, you hit on this a minute ago. I want you to bring some clarity to this. Why are people trying to push it back? Why are they trying to get back into the first century?
Darrell: Well, the main reason this is happening is because I think it allows a development of a kind of a revised understanding of Christianity in which the unique claims of orthodox Christianity end up being if not completely done away with at least weakened by the idea that there is another form of Christianity out there that isn't quite as exclusively orientated to the uniqueness of Jesus.
And so it feeds into our culture in the sense that our culture really wants a pluralistic and diverse approach to religion as opposed to an exclusivist approach to religion and so if we can soften the exclusive edges of Christianity and do away with that. We have done away with one of the great features about religion that makes it so competitive and so emotional and in the view of people who are going in this direction so potentially destructive to world culture. Of course, it doesn't have anything to do with claims about whether or not this is actually a true reading of Christianity but it is very much motivated I think in that kind of a direction.
Dr. Daniel Wallace: It fits in too with the design of spirituality that we have today where things don't need to be linked to history at all. The Christianity that we have in the New Testament is a Christianity that is firmly grounded in the history of how God invaded time, space and history as a human being. We don't have that in Gnostic gospels.
Darrell: By designer Christianity you mean the idea that each person can kind of design their own spirituality and their own faith.
Dan: And that they can divorce it from any kind of historical roots. That's how they can design it.
Mark: That really kind of leans goes back into our discussion of reliability of what we have in regards to the New Testament manuscripts. Let's talk about that for a minute because if you push back into the first century and we talk about the origin of our New Testament, it opens up that door and have a discussion now, OK? How reliable is what we have?
Dan: That's a great question. We have a number of manuscripts of the New Testament and we have very, very few manuscripts of these Gnostic gospels. In fact, the disparity is absolutely vast. For the New Testament just the Greek manuscripts alone we have 5,700 of them and still counting. Our earliest come from the second century. We have between 10 and 15 manuscripts from that century. They are all fragmentary. They are all partial but we have over 48 manuscripts through the first four centuries which is really remarkable and that covers the entire New Testament.
Over the 1400-year-period of handwritten copies up onto the time we have the printing press, the New Testament manuscripts grew in terms of the content by only about two percent. That's a pretty slow growth and the process that scholars have of trying to get back to the original text today is basically not that we have too little of the New Testament but we have too much. We are trying to burn off the dross to get to the gold, kind of thing. So as we look at these manuscripts we say maybe this guy added this word here, this guy added this here. Let's get back to the original text on the basis of comparison of these texts.
When we look at the manuscripts and we also look at ancient patristic writers, church fathers, scholars of the church who make commentaries on the text and we also look at versions of translations of the New Testament and other languages, what we discovered by this kind of triangulation is here's what the original text almost surely said and we can be sure of that in over 99 percent of the places.
In the other one percent, we still don't have to come up with conjecture. We don't have to guess at what the original said without any having the manuscript's testimony. We have the original reading either in this manuscript or in this one. There is nothing for conjecture when it comes to that. Ultimately, what that means is we can test to see whether these manuscripts got it right or not and I think the bottom line is even though we don't have exactly the original wording in our hands today and we are not sure in every place what the original said, what we are sure of is no essential doctrine is impacted by any of these plausible variants that could go back to the original.
Darrell: Of course that deals with just the trustworthiness of the text that we possess. Can we be sure that we actually go back to what was actually written?
A whole other question with regard to reliability is whether the actual contents that is written there is reliable or not. That gets into the whole issue of how our teaching abut Jesus comes to us and what kind of highway did it go down? Where did it come from this is where the role of the tradition of the church and the oral tradition of the church in a positive sense works. And also the role of eye witnesses who oversaw this transmission of the Jesus tradition. That's coming to be a new element of emphasis in New Testament studies when it comes to Jesus, the whole role of the morality of the texts that are coming down and the role of the eyewitnesses.
Interesting enough there has just been a book being published by Richard Balcom of St. Andrews called Jesus and the Eyewitnesses that is putting our old eyewitnesses and their testimony pretty much back on the table for New Testament discussion. It is a feature that has been largely ignored in the last 150-200 years and so this is an interesting time and an interesting development to see this emphasis on morality and the overseeing this tradition by people who were around and near Jesus becoming a part of the discussion.
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With the Mets and Yankees battling this weekend, I decided to check in with Chad Jennings, intrepid beat reporter for the New York Yankees for this publication. Chad had some interesting insights into the strengths and weaknesses of that team in The Bronx, which is no surprise if you read his work regularly. I've also answered questions for Chad about the Mets, which you can check out below.
1. Curtis Granderson, after a career of remarkable futility against lefties, has a 1.176 OPS against them this season, with seven home runs in 40 at-bats. Has he figured something out, do you think, or is this just a small sample size issue?
CHAD JENNINGS: He started to figure something out late last season when he and hitting coach Kevin Long made a series of mechanical changes to his swing. At this point, I think the sample size is large enough to suggest a legitimate change, not a mere coincidence. He hasn't been hitting these home runs off junkball lefties, either. In the past week he's taken David Price and Jon Lester deep.
2. What exactly is wrong with Phil Hughes, and what can the Yankees expect from him this season?
CHAD JENNINGS: Right now the Yankees are hoping the whole saga can be explained by a bit of inflammation (and possibly last year's workload). The Yankees seem to be hoping for a mid-June return. He's in the early stages of a throwing program right now and still needs to get off a mound and into a few rehab appearances before being activated. At this point, it's too early to know whether the time off has actually done any good.
3. How much patience will the Yankees show with Nick Swisher?
CHAD JENNINGS: Quite a bit, I think. He's hit lefties pretty well, but right-handers have been a disaster for him. Last season was too much of a step forward to ignore, and the Yankees don't have a everyday-type outfielder in the upper levels of their minor league system. Andruw Jones and Chris Dickerson can get some platoon-type at-bats, but ultimately the Yankees need Swisher to get going. Even if his average doesn't reach last year's level, his patience and power should make him an impact hitter.
4. Will the Yankees promote any of the Killer Bs this season if there's a need at the major league level? How about David Phelps?
CHAD JENNINGS: Right now the rotation is actually a strength. Andrew Brackman has struggled in Triple-A, while Manny Banuelos and Dellin Betances are still in Double-A and almost certainly won't skip a level. One or more could step into a big league role much later this season, but it's hard to see them playing a significant role in the near future. David Phelps and D.J. Mitchell — and even Carlos Silva — seem like more likely options right now.
5. Bigger problem for the Yankees: rotation issues, or the relative strength of the division?
CHAD JENNINGS: Strength of the division, no doubt. The rotation has held it together, and if things start to fall apart now, the Yankees will have Phil Hughes working his way back, plus a Triple-A rotation full of talented young pitchers who now have enough experience to play a big league role if necessary. The rotation might not be able to keep this pace all season, but the Rays and Red Sox are still a greater concern.
And on the Mets:
1. The Mets are playing without David Wright and Ike Davis. Having a DH will let them use Fernando Martinez, but is that enough to make this a dangerous lineup?
HOWARD MEGDAL: Well, yes and no. Keep in mind that both Carlos Beltran and Jose Reyes have been remarkably productive so far this year. And Justin Turner has 10 RBI in the past five games. So if Jason Bay's strong Thursday was anything like a breakthrough, they should have no problem scoring runs this weekend. But long term, If Bay and Davis are out for long periods of time? Color me skeptical that Turner continues at a Hack Wilson pace.
2. Last year R.A. Dickey seemed to take a significant step and become a viable big league starter. Was that a one-year-only experience? What's not working for him this year?
HOWARD MEGDAL: So far, everything. He's lost confidence in the knuckleball several times this season, to the point that he's gone away completely from the pitch, mid-game, that he threw overwhelmingly last season. If Dickey isn't throwing his knuckleball for strikes- and his low walk rate while throwing the pitch last season was the source of his success- it hurts his effectiveness. But if he stops throwing the knuckleball generally, he doesn't have big league stuff. That cannot be an option for him.
3. The Yankees defense has stumbled lately, and the Mets have enough speed to be aggressive. Could they use their speed to force the issue and make the Yankees sink or swim with their defense?
HOWARD MEGDAL: They can to an extent, though keep in mind that other than Reyes, the Mets are missing their two best base stealers in Wright and Angel Pagan right now. Jason Bay has been known to sneak a steal here and there. Carlos Beltran doesn't have a stolen base this season. His stolen bases are in the same place Alex Rodriguez's are at this point- in the past.
4. Obviously the Mets rotation is a bit of a mess and their lineup is missing two key pieces, but the bullpen actually seems fairly reliable. Are the first five or six innings the key to this series?
HOWARD MEGDAL: Consider that the Mets have had a lockdown bullpen since April 16, and are scoring runs at a reasonably decent clip (at seventh in the NL entering Thursday, but fourth as recently as Tuesday). The starting rotation didn't have a pitcher with an ERA+ over 84 entering Thursday, though Dillon Gee, of all people, broke through that dubious barrier with his shutout Thursday. It's not just the key to the series, for the Mets-assuming they get Davis, Wright and Pagan back reasonably soon- it is the key to the whole season.
5. Will Jose Reyes still be with the Mets on August 1? On June 1?
HOWARD MEGDAL: Well, you know, besides this. On June 1, yes. On August 1, I just don't think they'll have the financial flexibility to do it. I think the idea that Sandy Alderson somehow doesn't know the value of Reyes because he doesn't walk as much as Rickey Henderson is ludicrous. Alderson knows that a shortstop hitting as well as any in baseball, about to turn 28, is immensely valuable. It is simply the poor fortune of Mets fans that Reyes is hitting free agency this year, rather than 2012 or 2013, when the team is likely to have a lot more financial clarity.


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British Prime Minister David Cameron is promising Afghanistan a surge in aid money even as British troops begin to withdraw from the war.
At a news conference on Tuesday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Cameron said he will confirm to Parliament on Wednesday that about 500 of the 9,500 British forces in Afghanistan will leave next year. He says all foreign troops would stick to a 2014 deadline to end their combat role.
Cameron says an additional 450 personnel, who were deployed on a temporary mission to Afghanistan, are also set to be pulled back by February.
But he pledged an enduring partnership with Afghanistan and vowed to increase Britain's aid and help build an elite military academy modeled after England's famous Sandhurst.


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Religion in the PNW: Alaska Airlines' Prayer Cards
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- Charles Richter at: February 13, 2013 at 7:12 PM said...
When I was at UW, we would often run an informal religious identification survey of students in religion courses. Although only about 1/3 of the students identified as Christian when asked an open-ended question about their religious affiliation, around half of those qualified "Christian" with a modifier such as "strong" or "committed." They recognized both the "none" culture of the PNW (at least urban/west of the mountains PNW) and the fact that they stood out, especially on the UW campus. This is one of the reasons that Driscoll has so much success where he does. People like to feel they are taking a stand against something--in this case, secular Seattle culture.
Enjoy the Northwest! I miss it!
- Tom Van Dyke at: February 15, 2013 at 12:11 AM said...
Alaska stopped serving scripture last February, in response to customer complaints.
Humbugs. They would never douchebag the Qur'an so. And if the Xtian fundies did, they'd be directed---and rightfully---to another airline, good riddance.
Probably by the exactly the same humbugs.
Shaddup and eat your John 3:16 burger or your Sura 47:24 beanpie already.


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This is a bit overdue: I want to weigh in on the reticence from the New York Mets to install Bobby Parnell as closer.
The reasons that have been given for keeping him out of the role have been twofold:
1. Parnell struggled in the role last year.
2. Parnell has a history of pitching poorly in high-leverage situations.
Both of these are absolutely true. Parnell's strikeout rate fell from more than 10 per nine to less than 9 per nine last year in save situations, while he walked 14 in 21 1/3 innings. And a look at his career OPS against in low-leverage (.618), medium-leverage (.713) and high-leverage (.857) situations suggests a guy who struggles in the most important spots.
The problem with both of these diagnoses is a simple one: the Bobby Parnell who pitched prior to 2012 is a totally different pitcher than the one pitching now. And the difference is a really important one.
Parnell, through 2011, had an incredible fastball. His velocity averaged 96.5 MPH in 2010, 97.2 in 2011.
But that was his only weapon. He threw a slider that came in above 87 MPH, and the occasional change at around 91 MPH. But he didn't command either, leading to inflated walk rates, frequently falling behind in the count, allowing hitters to wait for, and time, that fastball.
Would it surprise you to know that Parnell isn't throwing either the slider or the change this year? Not if you've watched him.
Instead, he's throwing around 75 percent fastballs, with a still-healthy velocity of 94.9 MPH. And around a quarter of the time, he's throwing a curveball that he is commanding extremely well, and comes in at an average of 82.1 MPH.
Not surprisingly, the results are far better. Parnell averaged 3.7 walks per nine in his career, and 4.1 per nine last season. He's at 1.4 per nine this year. The strikeouts are as high as ever, 9.6 per nine, and the ERA, a career-low 2.75, might actually be inflated by a high batting average on balls in play.
So would this Parnell struggle in the closer role? It's hard to say. But it feels odd to assume that when he's fundamentally changed the pitcher he is, from arsenal to velocity differential to command.
By the way, in high-leverage situations so far this year? He's allowing a strong .667 OPS. He's at .444 in medium-leverage situations, and most of the damage against him this year is an .818 OPS in low-leverage situations.
Now, small sample size applies, of course. This is in 19 2/3 innings. But in what evidence we do have, Parnell has been having unprecedented success, and the underlying factors make that success easily explainable.
Frank Francisco appears to have righted the ship, so there's no current closer crisis. But using Bobby Parnell in the most important situations-which often come in non-closer moments anyway-makes a lot of sense.
Because it sure looks like Bobby Parnell is the team's best reliever.


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Noble County Chapter of Right to Life, 7 p.m., First Baptist Church, 518 North St., Caldwell.
Soakum Festival committee, 7 p.m., Caldwell Public Library.
Brookfield Township trustees, 8 p.m., Brookfield Township Hall, Hiramsburg.
Fibromyalagia Movement class, noon to 1 p.m., Tout Partout Gallery, 1427 Maple Ave., Zanesville. For information call (740) 450-0306.
Bible Study based on lectionary texts, noon to about 1 p.m., porch of Muskingum College Presidents Manse, New Concord. Bring a bag lunch.
Norwich Village Council, 7:30 p.m., Neighborhood Center, Norwich. For information call Mary Lee, (740) 872-3904.
Internet orientations, 6, 6:30, 7 and 7:30 p.m., John McIntire Library, Zanesville. Call 453-0391 for information.
Barnesville Garden Club, 7:30 p.m., members homes.
Ohio Pumpkin Festival Committee, 7 p.m., Barnesville Senior Center.
Belmont Farm Bureau womens committee, 1 p.m., farm bureau office, Belmont.
Pre-school storytime, 11:30 a.m. to noon, West Lafayette Library.
Bingo, 7 p.m., David Barber Civic Center, Newcomerstown.
Port Washington council, 7 p.m., town hall.
Lone Star Lodge 175 F&AM, 7:30 p.m., Masonic Temple, Newcomerstown.
Pre-school story hour, 1 p.m., Newcomerstown Public Library.
Business Women's Club, Newcomerstown.