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Not a lot of good news, I'm afraid.
Sandy Alderson spoke with reporters and said the following:
Lefty reliever Tim Byrdak will have surgery on his torn meniscus, missing six weeks.
David Wright's rib cage injury has not improved, and he'll have ultrasound-guided injection to try and help it. No timetable has been given for Wright today, which is just as well, since all the previous timetables, which had him back by now, were wrong.
The Mets have yet to sign Suffern's own C.J. Nitkowski, though he certainly seems like a good fit, given the injury to Byrdak. It could happen this week.
Scott Hairston, the team's only real backup outfielder, is likely to start the year on the disabled list with a strained oblique muscle.
Anything I am missing?
Look, I don't take any pleasure from saying this. But a team that desperately needed everything to go right just to avoid dipping into a massive lack of depth– well, that isn't happening. And if everything went right, they weren't going to be a good bet to stay close to the other teams in the National League East.
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>Look What I Can Do!>Just went over 77,000 miles run. Log began 4/22/76.
What an inspiration you are! I started a bit late to have any chance of matching you. I'll have to see how my running is going when I'm 100.
Well at least someone here is making relevance to the subject. - S.J.
Awesome achievementYou are a legend mate!
"If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to."Emil Zatopek
Keep on runnin' man!
I have been telling my wife for many, many years that I am a legend. Her comment is "you are a legend in your own mind."
Thanks for the nice replies. Nick
Excellent! I too, was once a smoker. I've now been a non-smoker for more years than I smoked. Way to go!
Lisa Boyles
Don't call me Buttercup!
Can I be you when I grow up? So awesome. Thanks for sharing!
Slow and steady wins the.... wait a second! I've been lied to!
Bad Ass
That is great. Congratulations!
"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."
It's always fucking hot in Miami!
Congrats on your sustained awesomeness!
Running my way to being a little less fat.
No more marathons
Nick, did you stop smoking and then start running, or did you start running and then stop smoking.
I was a smoker like you (two to three packs a day) back in the late 70's. I was making fun of a friend of mine about running (how boring I said - any one can do that - it's not a skill sport like tennis or golf) and he challenged me to compete in a 5K that he was training for. I ran a mile or so a couple of times a week for a few weeks before the race. Ran the 5K (something like 21:30) and was hooked. Stopped smoking so I could run better.
Unlike you, I did not continue for too long - about 6 years. Then I joined the club of which you speak. Then at age 55 I started back. See how long I last this time. Thanks for the inspiration.
Boston 2014 - a 33 year journey
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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - The party is on in St. Augustine as the Gentlemen of the Road tour fans have taken over the city.
After months of anticipation and preparation, thousands flooded into St. Augustine's Francis Field on Friday afternoon for the first of two days of concerts.
"It's like the icing on the cupcake," said Brandi Henderson, who traveled from Indiana. "The cupcake is St. Augustine, and the icing's the concert."
With 25,000 people expected this weekend, there's a lot you need to know before you head to the show.
The St. Augustine Police Department says it is on high alert. On Friday night, 60 officers from six agencies were scattered throughout the area. Police want everyone to be safe this weekend and not become a victim of crime. They also wants to make sure people who live there and people visiting are aware of all the changes this weekend.
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The stages are set up and ready to go for the two-day concert event that kicked off in downtown St. Augustine at 6 p.m. with Willy Mason. The main concert will be at Francis Field, but other stages are set up across the city with dozens of other bands playing through Saturday night.
"Absolutely amazing and the city has been doing a fantastic job getting all the nuts and bolts and organizing insanely moving parts to make this happen," said Marshall Peters.
The band fun. canceled its performance because the lead singer said he needed to rest his voice to avoid further cancellations. There are still 11 other bands that will be taking the stage this weekend, including Mumford and Sons, which are scheduled to take the stage at 8 p.m. Saturday.
"Everyone is different. I think what's unique about this one is our location. This destination of St Augustine makes it a true experience," said Jeff Cuellar, of AC Entertainment.
"There's something special here, from the castle to the downtown streets, to the people, businesses, everything," Cuellar said. And I think what people are really going to enjoy across the board is the location. It's something to be celebrated."
If you'll be coming anywhere close to the Old City this weekend, police say you need to be well aware of the amount of traffic that will be there and the roads that will be closed.
"On U.S. 1, behind the venue, Ponce Boulevard we've coned all that off all the way from Old Mission Avenue North of town to the bridge over by the city fire department," St. Augustine police spokesman Mark Samson says. "We just don't want people parking on either side of U.S. 1 and trying to cross those four lanes of traffic to get here."
Samson said about 60 charter buses will work as shuttles, bringing people from several satellite parking areas to downtown for the music festival, or on to the beaches, the outlet mall, and other destinations in St. Johns County.
"The goal is to keep the cars in place and put a system in place that really works for the patron and works for the people who live here, as far as protecting their quality of life and making this a successful event," City Comptroller Mark Litzinger said.
There are three neighborhoods around Francis Field. Officers will be at the front of them, and people who live there have been given colored parking passes so they can get in and out of their homes.
The festival-like concert has come with some roadblocks for people who already had events planned in downtown St. Augustine this weekend. One couple, now Lisa and Trey Gillette, who were married in St. Augustine on Friday night, originally said the concert could ruin their planned wedding.
"I was worried, I was panicking, but everybody made it here and started on time," Lisa said.
The event is also a great opportunity for local businesses and vendors set up all over the field.
A local nonprofit group for kids and teens called Rhinos is in need of a new 15-passenger van for its K-8 after-school program. It has a tent set up to the left of the stage, where it will be selling beverages all weekend. Its goal is to make about $10,000 so it can afford that new van.
"I can kind of see the craziness with the music venue, then also the same time help out Rhinos, which indirectly helps out kids," said Mark Hiers, who heads the nonprofit.
He said it's a win-win situation by getting to enjoy a music festival while also raising money for his organization.
"Well, with 25,000 people and most of them being very thirsty, I think the odds are in our favor," Hiers said of reaching the nonprofit's goal.
Another non-profit ready to help music fans enjoy the event while helping their organization is Young Life, which is opening up their parking lot less than two blocks from Francis Field. A spot costs $30, but there lot is patrolled by an officer and the money goes to support their program. (Reserve parking spot online.)
Another vendor ready for a big weekend is Bruce Jackson, of Brucci's Pizza. The Jacksonville-based pizzeria got a food truck two years ago, and Jackson said weekends like this are prime time for business.
"I know there's not a lot of vendors out here, not a lot of food vendors, and there's quite a lot of people, so it should be good. That's what were projecting," Jackson said. "We can do as much as we can do. We brought as much possible product as we can get out of this thing, and we have a lot of practice with it."
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Since we have crazy tall ceilings in our place, we went with the 42″ cabinets on top. Man those things are TALL! We're going to have to keep a footstool around so I can reach the top shelf…
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While Mrs. G was working a show in Vegas recently, she picked up a few bottles of seasoning. All from a line called Super Sh!t. They had Chicken Sh!t, Reel Sh!t, plain Sh!t and a whole bunch more. I thought we give Super Chicken Sh!t a try last night.
Got the Chicken liberally dusted with the Sh!t
Stabilized the Egg at 400 and tossed in the AR with the grate on the top level, didn't use any wood for smoke as I wanted the flavor of the Sh!t to shine through.
Really like this picture of the sunlight coming down through the upper vent.
All done after 45 minutes
As much as I really wanted to like this seasoning, I was disappointed. Granted, it was chicken seasoning, not a bbq rub, but I was underwhelmed. It just seemed weak and flat. Not a whole lot of flavor going on, it just seemed to get lost. Maybe it would have been better on something cooked in the box on the oven, not that the chicken was really smoky, or maybe it should be used in conjunction with some kind of sauce, but by itself, I found that it was lacking. Ended up busting out a bottle of Stubbs BBQ sauce as I refused to eat bland chicken. And now I have two more bottles of the stuff...yay!


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I hope GH shoulder or Elbow is OK and doesn't keep him out of too many games.
Pacers win!
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TROY, Mich. - The Troy School District was honored by the College Board with placement on the 3rd Annual AP District Honor Roll.
Schools that increased advance placement course work and the percentage of students who scored a three or higher on AP exams were added to the honor roll.
Troy was one of 539 districts across in the U.S. and Canada to make the cut.
Since 2010, the district says the number of students participating in AP classes has increased by 168 students.
In all, 87 percent of Troy students earned the higher score of 3 on tests.
"We are very pleased to see that more students are taking AP courses and proud that so many are earning high scores on their exams," said Troy School District Superintendent Barbara A. Fowler. "Over the past several years, our high schools have worked hard to encourage students to take advantage of the opportunity to participate in the many AP courses we offer-and it's clear our efforts are paying off. This distinction is a testament to the strength of our students and staff."
More than 90 percent of colleges and universities offer college credit, advanced placement or both for a score of 3 or above on AP Exams.
Many of the districts honored are experimenting with a variety of strategies to determine how to best help students learn at a higher level and earn the higher AP score.
"We applaud the extraordinary efforts of the devoted teachers and administrators in this district, who are fostering rigorous work worth doing. These educators have not only expanded student access to AP course work, but they have enabled more of their students to achieve on a college level-which is helping to create a strong college-going culture," said College Board President, David Coleman.
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STEUBENVILLE - Crews involved with the demolition of the Fort Steuben Bridge pulled the last piece of the span from the Ohio River Friday afternoon, but there's still more work ahead, said an official with the contractor for the $2.3 million project.
"Everything is going according to plan," said Clint Filges, project manager with the Joseph B. Fay Co. of Russellton, Pa.
The company was ordered to clear the river of the large sections of the span that fell during Tuesday morning's explosive blast. Crews with the River Salvage Co. of Pittsburgh have been using cranes mounted on barges to remove the pieces, some weighing as much as 120,000 pounds, since.
Many other sections, including much of the span's deck, were removed before the blast.
Filges said crews were able to clear a channel for river traffic Tuesday night, 12 hours before the deadline ordered by the U.S. Coast Guard, and the railroad tracks on the Ohio side of the span were reopened within four hours after the blast.
The tracks had been covered with a 4-foot-wide timber crane mat, he said.
"Everything was executed just perfect," Filges said of the blast, which also involved Controlled Demolitions Inc. of Phoenix, Md.
Filges said there's still more work to be done, however. In the days ahead an excavator equipped with a hydraulic hammer and positioned on a barge will be used to break the remaining piers above the water, he said.
And in mid-March crews will use explosives to remove sections of the piers extending 3 feet below the river bed, he said.
Once the Ohio abutment is removed, crews will be removing installing drainage structures and removing the ramps, Filges said.
The ramps have served as a temporary detour around the bridge site in recent weeks and that will continue while crews continue to load debris from the bridge onto barges for transport to Strauss Industries, he said.
Filges said permanent barriers will be established at the span's former approaches.
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The purpose of GPU computing in MATLAB® is to speed up your
applications. This topic discusses fundamental concepts and practices
that can help you achieve better performance on the GPU, such as the
configuration of the GPU hardware and best practices within your code.
It discusses the trade-off between implementation difficulty and performance,
and describes the criteria you might use to choose between using gpuArray
arrayfun, MEX-files, or CUDA kernels.
Finally, it describes how to accurately measure performance on the
When converting MATLAB code to run on the GPU, it is best to start with MATLAB code that already performs well. While the GPU and CPU have different performance characteristics, the general guidelines for writing good MATLAB code also help you write good MATLAB code for the GPU. The first step is almost always to profile your CPU code. The lines of code that the profiler shows taking the most time on the CPU will likely be ones that you must concentrate on when you code for the GPU.
It is easiest to start converting your code using MATLAB built-in
functions that support gpuArray data. These functions take gpuArray
inputs, perform calculations on the GPU, and return gpuArray outputs.
A list of the MATLAB functions that support gpuArray data is found
in Run Built-In Functions on a GPU.
In general these functions support the same arguments and data types
as standard MATLAB functions that are calculated in the CPU. Any limitations
in these functions for gpuArrays are described in their command-line
help (e.g.,
help gpuArray/qr).
If all the functions that you want to use are supported on the
GPU, running code on the GPU may be as simple as calling
gpuArray to
transfer input data to the GPU, and calling
gather to
retrieve the output data from the GPU when finished. In many cases,
you might need to vectorize your code, replacing looped scalar operations
with MATLAB matrix and vector operations. While vectorizing is generally
a good practice on the CPU, it is usually critical for achieving high
performance on the GPU. For more information, see Vectorize for Improved GPU Performance.
It is possible that even after converting inputs to gpuArrays
and vectorizing your code, there are operations in your algorithm
that are either not built-in functions, or that are not fast enough
to meet your application's requirements. In such situations
you have three main options: use
arrayfun to precompile
element-wise parts of your application, make use of GPU library functions,
or write a custom CUDA kernel.
If you have a purely element-wise function, you can improve
its performance by calling it with
arrayfun. The
arrayfun function
on the GPU turns an element-wise MATLAB function into a custom CUDA
kernel, thus reducing the overhead of performing the operation. Often,
there is a subset of your application that can be used with
arrayfun even
if the entire application cannot be. The example Improve
Performance of Element-wise MATLAB Functions on the GPU using ARRAYFUN shows
the basic concepts of this approach; and the example Using
ARRAYFUN for Monte-Carlo Simulations shows how this can be
done in simulations for a finance application.
MATLAB provides an extensive library of GPU-enabled functions in Parallel Computing Toolbox™, Image Processing Toolbox™, Signal Processing Toolbox™, and other products. However, there are many libraries of additional functions that do not have direct built-in analogs in MATLAB's GPU support. Examples include the NVIDIA Performance Primitives library and the CURAND library, which are included in the CUDA toolkit that ships with MATLAB. If you need to call a function in one of these libraries, you can do so using the GPU MEX interface. This interface allows you to extract the pointers to the device data from MATLAB gpuArrays so that you can pass these pointers to GPU functions. You can convert the returned values into gpuArrays for return to MATLAB. For more information see Run MEX-Functions Containing CUDA Code.
Finally, you have the option of writing a custom CUDA kernel for the operation that you need. Such kernels can be directly integrated into MATLAB using the CUDAKernel object.
The example Illustrating
Three Approaches to GPU Computing: The Mandelbrot Set shows
how to implement a simple calculation using three of the approaches
mentioned in this section. This example begins with MATLAB code that
is easily converted to run on the GPU, rewrites the code to use
arrayfun for
element-wise operations, and finally shows how to integrate a custom
CUDA kernel for the same operation.
Alternately, you can write a CUDA kernel as part of a MEX-file and call it using the CUDA Runtime API inside the MEX-file. Either of these approaches might let you work with low-level features of the GPU, such as shared memory and texture memory, that are not directly available in MATLAB code. For more details, see the example Accessing Advanced CUDA Features Using MEX.
In general you can achieve the best performance when your GPU is dedicated to computing. It is usually not practical to use the same GPU device for both computations and graphics, because of the amount of memory taken up for problems of reasonable size and the constant use of the device by the system for graphics. If possible, obtain a separate device for graphics. Details of configuring your device for compute or graphics depend on the operating system and driver version.
On Windows® systems, a GPU device can be in one of two modes: Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) or Tesla Compute Cluster (TCC) mode. For best performance, any devices used for computing should be in TCC mode. Consult NVIDIA® documentation for more details.
NVIDIA's highest-performance compute devices, the Tesla line, support error correcting codes (ECC) when reading and writing GPU memory. The purpose of ECC is to correct for occasional bit-errors that occur normally when reading or writing dynamic memory. One technique to improve performance is to turn off ECC to increase the achievable memory bandwidth. While the hardware can be configured this way, MathWorks does not recommend this practice. The potential loss of accuracy due to silent errors can be more harmful than the performance benefit.
This topic describes general techniques that help you achieve better performance on the GPU. Some of these tips apply when writing MATLAB code for the CPU as well.
Data in MATLAB arrays is stored in column-major order. Therefore, it is beneficial to operate along the first or column dimension of your array. If one dimension of your data is significantly longer than others, you might achieve better performance if you make that the first dimension. Similarly, if you frequently operate along a particular dimension, it is usually best to have it as the first dimension. In some cases, if consecutive operations target different dimensions of an array, it might be beneficial to transpose or permute the array between these operations.
GPUs achieve high performance by calculating many results in parallel. Thus, matrix and higher-dimensional array operations typically perform much better than operations on vectors or scalars. You can achieve better performance by rewriting your loops to make use of higher-dimensional operations. The process of revising loop-based, scalar-oriented code to use MATLAB matrix and vector operations is called vectorization. For more details, see Using Vectorization (MATLAB).
By default, all operations in MATLAB are performed in double-precision floating-point arithmetic. However, most operations support a variety of data types, including integer and single-precision floating-point. Today's GPUs and CPUs typically have much higher throughput when performing single-precision operations, and single-precision floating-point data occupies less memory. If your application's accuracy requirements allow the use of single-precision floating-point, it can greatly improve the performance of your MATLAB code.
The GPU sits at the end of a data transfer mechanism known as
the PCI bus. While this bus is an efficient, high-bandwidth way to
transfer data from the PC host memory to various extension cards,
it is still much slower than the overall bandwidth to the global memory
of the GPU device or of the CPU (for more details, see the example Measuring
GPU Performance). In addition, transfers from the GPU device
to MATLAB host memory cause MATLAB to wait for all pending operations
on the device to complete before executing any other statements. This
can significantly hurt the performance of your application. In general,
you should limit the number of times you transfer data between the
MATLAB workspace and the GPU. If you can transfer data to the GPU
once at the start of your application, perform all the calculations
you can on the GPU, and then transfer the results back into MATLAB
at the end, that generally results in the best performance. Similarly,
when possible it helps to create arrays directly on the GPU, using
either the
'gpuArray' or the
'like' option
for functions such as
zeros (e.g.,
= zeros(___,'gpuArray') or
Z = zeros(N,'like',g) for
existing gpuArray
The best way to measure performance on the GPU is to use
gputimeit. This function takes as input
a function handle with no input arguments, and returns the measured
execution time of that function. It takes care of such benchmarking
considerations as repeating the timed operation to get better resolution,
executing the function before measurement to avoid initialization
overhead, and subtracting out the overhead of the timing function.
gputimeit ensures that all operations on
the GPU have completed before the final timing.
For example, consider measuring the time taken to compute the
lu factorization
of a random matrix
A of size
You can do this by defining a function that does the
lu factorization
and passing the function handle to
A = rand(N,'gpuArray'); fh = @() lu(A); gputimeit(fh,2); % 2nd arg indicates number of outputs
You can also measure performance with
tic and
toc. However, to get accurate timing
on the GPU, you must wait for operations to complete before calling
There are two ways to do this. You can call
gather on
the final GPU output before calling
toc: this
forces all computations to complete before the time measurement is
taken. Alternately, you can use the
wait function with a GPUDevice object as its input.
For example, if you wanted to measure the time taken to compute the
lu factorization
of matrix
A using
wait, you can do it as follows:
gd = gpuDevice(); tic(); [l,u] = lu(A); wait(gd); tLU = toc();
You can also use the MATLAB profiler to show how computation
time is distributed in your GPU code. Note, that to accomplish timing
measurements, the profiler runs each line of code independently, so
it cannot account for overlapping (asynchronous) execution such as
might occur during normal operation. For timing whole algorithms,
you should use
tic and
gputimeit, as described above. Also, the profile
might not yield correct results for user-defined MEX functions if
they run asynchronously.
This example shows you how to improve performance by running a function on the GPU instead of the CPU, and by vectorizing the calculations.
Consider a function that performs fast convolution on the columns of a matrix. Fast convolution, which is a common operation in signal processing applications, transforms each column of data from the time domain to the frequency domain, multiplies it by the transform of a filter vector, transforms back to the time domain, and stores the result in an output matrix.
function y = fastConvolution(data,filter) [m,n] = size(data); % Zero-pad filter to the column length of data, and transform filter_f = fft(filter,m); % Create an array of zeros of the same size and class as data y = zeros(m,n,'like',data); % Transform each column of data for ix = 1:n af = fft(data(:,ix)); y(:,ix) = ifft(af .* filter_f); end end
Execute this function in the CPU on data of a particular size,
and measure the execution time using the MATLAB
timeit function. The
timeit function
takes care of common benchmarking considerations, such as accounting
for startup and overhead.
a = complex(randn(4096,100),randn(4096,100)); % Data input b = randn(16,1); % Filter input c = fastConvolution(a,b); % Calculate output ctime = timeit(@()fastConvolution(a,b)); % Measure CPU time disp(['Execution time on CPU = ',num2str(ctime)]);
On a sample machine, this code displays the output:
Execution time on CPU = 0.019335
Now execute this function on the GPU. You can do this easily
by changing the input data to be gpuArrays rather than normal MATLAB
arrays. The
'like' syntax used when creating the
output inside the function ensures that
y will
be a gpuArray if
data is a gpuArray.
ga = gpuArray(a); % Move array to GPU gb = gpuArray(b); % Move filter to GPU gc = fastConvolution(ga,gb); % Calculate on GPU gtime = gputimeit(@()fastConvolution(ga,gb)); % Measure GPU time gerr = max(max(abs(gather(gc)-c))); % Calculate error disp(['Execution time on GPU = ',num2str(gtime)]); disp(['Maximum absolute error = ',num2str(gerr)]);
On the same machine, this code displays the output:
Execution time on CPU = 0.019335 Execution time on GPU = 0.027235 Maximum absolute error = 1.1374e-14
Unfortunately, the GPU is slower than the CPU for this problem.
The reason is that the
for-loop is executing the
FFT, multiplication, and inverse FFT operations on individual columns
of length 4096. The best way to increase the performance is to vectorize
the code, so that a single MATLAB function call performs more calculation.
The FFT and IFFT operations are easy to vectorize:
fft(A) computes
the FFT of each column of a matrix
A. You can perform
a multiply of the filter with every column in a matrix at once using
the MATLAB binary scalar expansion function
The vectorized function looks like this:
function y = fastConvolution_v2(data,filter) m = size(data,1); % Zero-pad filter to the length of data, and transform filter_f = fft(filter,m); % Transform each column of the input af = fft(data); % Multiply each column by filter and compute inverse transform y = ifft(bsxfun(@times,af,filter_f)); end
Perform the same experiment using the vectorized function:
a = complex(randn(4096,100),randn(4096,100)); % Data input b = randn(16,1); % Filter input c = fastConvolution_v2(a,b); % Calculate output ctime = timeit(@()fastConvolution_v2(a,b)); % Measure CPU time disp(['Execution time on CPU = ',num2str(ctime)]); ga = gpuArray(a); % Move data to GPU gb = gpuArray(b); % Move filter to GPU gc = fastConvolution_v2(ga, gb); % Calculate on GPU gtime = gputimeit(@()fastConvolution_v2(ga,gb));% Measure GPU time gerr = max(max(abs(gather(gc)-c))); % Calculate error disp(['Execution time on GPU = ',num2str(gtime)]); disp(['Maximum absolute error = ',num2str(gerr)]);
Execution time on CPU = 0.010393 Execution time on GPU = 0.0020537 Maximum absolute error = 1.1374e-14
In conclusion, vectorizing the code helps both the CPU and GPU versions to run faster. However, vectorization helps the GPU version much more than the CPU. The improved CPU version is nearly twice as fast as the original; the improved GPU version is 13 times faster than the original. The GPU code went from being 40% slower than the CPU in the original version, to about five times faster in the revised version.
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Interesting Info -> Body Language -> Reading Eyes
Reading Eyes
Body Language of the Human Eye
guest author: Ariel Lehrer
Is it possible to read someone's thoughts by gazing into their eyes? What body language cues can we gather just from observing eye movement?
If only you would have known that the funny little emoticons you were drawing when you were a kid would become the big business they are today. Certainly you would have cashed in. Nobody had to tell you that eyebrows angled down meant angry, angled up was sad, arched was surprised. You knew instinctively that eyes have a lot to say about what a person is thinking and feeling.
That's because the ability to read a person's intentions based on eye movement develops at about the age of four. But there's a whole lot more to know about what the eyes have to say than what simple face images can tell.
Right Brained or Left?
The direction of a person's gaze alone reveals a whole world of what is going on behind the forehead. Conjugate lateral eye movements, or CLEMS, are involuntary eye movements to the left or right and can indicate whether a person is engaged in symbolic or visual thinking. A 1999 study showed that people are predominantly left or right lookers and that 75% of their eye movements will be in one direction or the other. This is a good indication of whether you are dealing with a more analytical left brain person who will mostly look to the right or a creative right brain person who is probably looking to the left.
Lying Eyes
The story changes a little when you are not trying to assess the person's thought patterns but posing a question directly to them. Blifaloo's article "Eye Direction and Lying" discusses at greater length determining a person's truthfulness based on the direction of their gaze. You can tell whether a person is constructing or remembering information by the direction in which they are looking. Meaning, if you ask them to describe an experience and they look up and to the left from your viewpoint, in the direction of visual construction, they are probably making it up rather than remembering. A gaze downward can also indicate guilt or shame because the person knows their statements to be false.
Be careful with these cues. They are indications but they are not foolproof. Dr. Bella DePaulo, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, reported in 1986 that people think that they are much better than they actually are at reading body language. Most people inaccurately believed that "shifty eyes" meant a person was lying. A person's body language response when defending themselves against the accusation that they have lied is identical to the body language used during lying. Neuro linguistic programming experts (NLP) would caution that the rule of thumb is to use a minimum of four body language cues to make judgments about a person's thoughts.
The Eyes Link to the Senses
The gaze of a person's eyes can also tell you whether they are in a visual, auditory, or kinesthetic mode of thinking.
The visual mode means that the person is supporting their thoughts with images. The eyes will be looking either upward or forward and unfocused.
In the auditory mode, thoughts are described as sounds. At these times, the person will be looking to the sides, in the directions of their ears.
And kinesthetic thinking means that the person is describing feelings to you. The eyes will generally gaze downward. Coupling this knowledge with what you have already learned, you will now have to rely on several additional cues to decide whether this is guilt or deep introspection.
The Eyes in Flirting & Interpersonal Relationships
If a person is looking you directly in the eye, you would likely believe that they are more dominant than submissive. According to Dr. Robert Gifford reporting in 1991 in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, most people mistakenly believed that a direct gaze meant that a person was dominant. It's actually the reverse: the more submissive partner has to attend to the more dominant one and will be looking to the other person's eyes to gauge reactions more often. Eye movement along with other body language is a better indicator, such as dominant people fiddle with objects less than submissive people.
Another downward eye movement is the momentary eye contact and then downward gaze that women unconsciously use while flirting. This gaze probably could also be categorized as submissive. But like the other eye movements already mentioned, Susan Rabin, communications consultant and author of "101 Ways to Flirt" advises that eye contact plus other body language are important for flirting. The eye contact used during flirting & other interpersonal exchanges can take many forms.
This article from the BBC relationships web page describes how eye movement indicates the level of relationship a person has with someone and whether they have reached the level of flirting. They call it the flirting triangle. Eyes move from one side of a triangle across to the other and down to the point of the triangle. In a flirtatious situation it opens up much more broadly to include the entire body. Gazing at the mouth is considered quite sensual. A person who is interested in the other will probably blink faster and their pupils will dilate. Probably trying to get a better look. Unconsciously the other person will mimic the blinking.
Apparently when we see someone to whom we are attracted, our eyebrows rise and fall slightly. If the person feels likewise they usually unconsciously return the gesture. I think I remember a cartoon wolf from my childhood doing that with his eyebrows when he saw red riding hood. Or maybe I'm getting confused with Groucho Marx. Hard to tell the difference.
Check out our article about the Body Language of Flirting to learn more about eye contact and other flirting cues.
In a business relationship, the eye contact will remain at eye level with the bottom of the triangle being the bridge of the nose. Between friends, the bottom of the triangle will extend to the mouth.
With all this information, you should be able to read minds solely through eye contact...or at least draw much more effective emoticons than you ever thought possible.
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Thread: WFRP The Enemy Within
I'd like to see the WFRP campaign through to the end. However, I do like the "you live in a lawful evil city" idea.
I'll be there tomorrow.
Minotaur got swag.Unacosamedarisa: Egg, kiss me, you're beautiful.
Unusccessfully trying to pretend the above never happened, let's talk about how we depose the merchants' guild blokey.
- murder?
- libel? We could get handbills printed up by printing presses, then hire those urchins to distribute them
- talking to the Dukey Barony guy, maybe with a representative or a letter from the boss of the wizards and the King of the Dorfs?
- erm?
I reckon the whole "sneak into his house and brutally murder him to death" thing, while appealing, is likely to be problematic, at least in the aftermath. I doubt we'd get away clean, and it would still leave the city weakened by divisive taxes. (Is it our job as self-appointed adventurers to do something about that? Thwarting the opening of a portal to the demon realms, that's definitely something we should do, but addressing political instability in the Northern bulwark of the Empire, against a fairly nebulous potential threat of the city being invaded again? Do we have a responsibility to the Empire, or is it just a case of Ludo would really like to kill 'Gottfried' because he's meddling with chaos and Wittgensteins are in the "baddies" column in his mildly psychotic list?
What do you think? Do we need to "fix" the town, or just "fix" Gottfried and leg it out of the Empire until the heat cools down?
If we need to fix the town, how do we do it?
Also do we need to investigate this doctor and this "cure" for the son? Is the son "cured" because he is actually a doppleganger?
Gotthard, not Gottfried.
Tracking Gottfried down would be quite a lot easier, but in general less productive in re completing the Witch Hunters' task.
Bit of a freudian slip there!
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Just had a thought, a WFRP campaign where you play as the crew of a boat. And every week its just like a star trek away team as you explore some random new place. Dont bother with the time inbetween places.
That would require work gorm as most of the warhammer world doesnt have a lot of background info, WORK GORM
Also i just found out there is a source book for playing evil characters during a black crusade in 40k, where your goal is to maximise your corruption to become a demon prince, i want to play it!
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Well you could just go to Ulthauan or what ever, Skeggi, Lustria, Mousillon, Marienburg. ETC. Would just be a good way to have small one or two shot adventures like the shadowrun game we play at the moment.
that was fun! We packed a lot in to one evening, despite a bit of a slow start. We met a larger than life italian fellow, we saw some opera, we got a guy dehypnotised, and I got an old west gunfight while you guys got an old east swordfight, and Harlander got drunk.
I particularly enjoyed mine and Xkots differing approaches to the old fight-opening conversational gambit:
"what the f*** do you pricks want? / piss off now or I'll shoot you in the face with this pistol before you can say 'what pistol'" contrasted with "we're on our way home gentlemen, if you wouldn't mind parting to let us through".
Oh, and I had an exciting moment where I used an fp to avoid a chamberpot attack (newly cleaned clothes and I'd just bathed, I'd have had to viciously murder the guy if he'd besmirched me) and then implied a tavern wench was a lady of negotiable virtue and accidentally found out about some kind of hypno-singer. We packed a lot into one session.
I even made earplugs specially, in case of unexpected hypno-singery at the opera, and was slightly disappointed not to need them. Bah.
What was that stuff about the little dog, by the way? Was it just supposed to lead the party to the tavern wench or did I miss some important plot point?
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That Tilean dude seems like a great guy to have on our side, if only because whatever happens he'll turn up with some entertaining if dubiously plausible tale about how this reminds him of the time he tricked a pack of naked mole rat men into giving him their tribal regalia or whatever
Perhaps it is the foreshadowing of events that could lead to the destruction of the empire itself, or i just thought it was funny
Seriously, that last session reminded me why I turn up on Sundays, it was great fun. I got a big kick out of Lowkey's acting the Flamboyant Italian Guy character, and keeping track of about 4 different threads that the party had split up into as well. It was some proper GMing.
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I can't say that I entirely trust the Tilean, but there's no denying that he's a great character. However, my favorite part was the unfolding drama around the poor champion, Dieter, whose home life will be a little rough after this.
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I cant wait until we move onto a new page
Its a triple update! I will try not to waffle but you know I am lying.
Our heroes discover the true meaning of Ulricmas, become all the champions, learn that dogs cannot in fact fly, that WFRP has ridiculously named NPCs and drink all the drinks.
Festag, 33 Kaldezeit
While team Holmes are busy making friends with horrible immaterial monsters Gottfried [Harlander] is busy reacquainting himself with the simple comforts of civilised drinking establishments. While getting another round the nobleman is rudely knocked by a rich if seedy looking individual wait just a minute! Although he has attempted a disguise there can be no doubt that this man is a Gottard von Wittgenstein, the last member of that terrible family, all the bars in all the city etc.
Gottfried tracks the man from bar to bar for sometime but eventually loses him and returns to the Templars Arms to update the rest of the party. The description of Gottards disguise, as well as a large and gaudy medallion confirms for Pieter [X_Kot] that this man is non other than Gotthard Goebbells, head of the merchants guild and Kommission on Commerce.
With this troubling news the party make their way down to the warehouse district and quickly find the strip of coldhouses with one prominently displaying the insignia of the merchants guild, coincidence? Of course not! The Egg [Egg] scales the building and lets down a rope, allowing the party to enter ninja like through a vent (except for Christoph [Gorm] who couldnt make it in his plate).
Descending into the coldhouse the party can see that a wide space has been cleared and a sickening throbbing circle has been made, with a red and white striped obelisk in its centre. A number of people wearing very little are reciting chants, led by a robed individual. Having done this sort of thing before Egg and Ludo [President Weasel] open up with bow and pistol and cut down the mage.
As the violent death of their leader sinks in the cultist shuffle into action and the party descends into the fray, one cultist makes a run for it and Ludo, being a psycho, hunts him down. Unfortunately one of the cultists has a bad case of impaling themselves on the obelisk and, wait is that can you hear slay bells?
While the party make relatively short work of the cultists a slightly inconvenient intervention of the terrible Jolly One does put a spanner in the works as the demon and the Egg face off in a clash of the rotund Cages.
Ludo on the other hand is having a great time hunting the now fully naked cultist down in the alley behind the coldhouse, loosing two arrows into his poor unarmoured hide. He staggers on while bleeding heavily, the Halfling has him now! But wait its a patrol of the watch, those staunch protectors of the law will wait hes not being arrested, they look concerned gah its that bastard Gottard!
Ludo arrives back to the coldhouse with the bad news just as the Jolly One starts kicking over braziers, the building goes up and its all the party can do to whisk the children out of there before they are eaten by the flames.
The party are promptly arrested for cult activities but were able to convince the watch that they were in fact heroes sirs, unfortunately they are less successful in convincing them that Gotthard was behind it (the poor innocent merchant kidnapped out of his bed ). Still they saved the children and thats pretty heroic, although you know what they say, you better watch out .
Wellentag, 1 Ulriczeit
The party awake to the sounds of merrymaking and the inn is full of people already slugging back the ale, the lads get some grub while Christoph chats up some Tileans and they head out to seize the day.
First up the Egg manages to put the Grafs Champion on his arse to win the honorary title of champion of the carnival for about five minutes before Christoph shows him how its done and put him on his arse (it is closer to the ground to be fair). Still he got a nice medallion out of it.
Ludo manages to boss the archery competition - unsurprisingly and humbles the Grafs Master of the Hunt, whose a good sport about it despite being an elf.
The party then make their way to the Bernabau Stadium to watch the Egg get splattered by a minotaur. He has agreed to no armour on the condition that he could bring his pick, he also manages to sneak a bolas in through his unmentionables, his objective survive (or kill the minotaur but come on).
As the dwarf steps into the stadium and takes in the roar of the crowd he is greeted by (of course) the mighty labyrinth. However the dwarf is no fool and instead of wandering around it he camps out on the first exit manhole he finds and waits. And waits. And wa wait a minute can you hear snuffling? And BAM the minotaur comes crashing through a wall and its all the dwarf can do to avoid being spitted.
Fortunately the beast is not armed but with its razor claws and powerful horns surely it is the dwarfs end? The two powerhouses exchange a number of blows and the dwarf is looking a bit ragged but wait, the minotaur breaks off to deliver a satisfying gore with its horns and for its hubris suffers a huge puncture to the chest. With a bellow to his ancestors and the bated breath of the crowd the Egg launches into the air and crashes his pick into the beasts head crushing it utterly. The crowd is quiet and then erupts into cheers as the dwarf goes to collect his well-earned prize money and the halfling loses a bet.
After a bit of improtu medical attention from the Fair Herr Dokterr [HA] the party go out on the lash, with the sophisticatos of the group heading to a play and ending up having a few too many cocktails with Deputy-High Wizard Janna and the Court Minstrel Rallane Lafarel, while the simpler members popping to the pub with the Grafs champion and masters of the hunt, who liked the cut of their collective gibs. In general a pleasant night hobnobbing with the cities betters and not paying for drinks, although the champion did seem a bit off when talking about the taxes
Aubentag, 2 Ulriczeit
Slightly less fresh faced this morning our heroes descend to much more quiet inn for a sausage n ale, the Egg and Christoph have received invitations to the royal garden party for becoming honorary champions and Pieter has received a tip off from his boss that Gottard is attending the opera tonight, conveniently so is the party.
Christoph heads off to defend his title, Gottfried pops to the Guild of Wizards and Alchemists to discuss the champions strange behaviour with Janna, Pieter goes to check out the sweet elven gymnasts and Ludo spots an help wanted poster for a missing dog, a fitting quest for our dour hero.
Gottfried discusses Dieters behaviour with Janna, a Gold Wizard and as such quite knowledgeable about the human mind [Geek Facts children Gold wizards, or alchemists, mould materials ala lead to gold, this includes the mind and as such are one of the few good sources for mental cures in WFRP, they do not do mind magic so cannot shield against something like terror PW, you want a priest of sigmar or something for that], she agrees that the behaviour sounds odd but not like a magical compulsion, perhaps hypnosis?
Ludo arrives at the inn to inquire about the job, along with over 50 vagrants carrying a variety of dogs the innkeeper is less than happy and using a chamber pot encourages them to go away, to a barrage of abuse and small dogs. A preacher takes this opportunity to berate the crowd for their corruption singling out Ludo and a young girl who flees into the opposing inn. The crowd, already angry, are not too happy to be told the error of their ways, by a sigmarite no less, and again open up with the dogs, Ludo exits stage left just as the watch arrive to crack some skulls.
Christoph faces some stiff opponents in the form of a drunk farmer and a fat blacksmith, somehow managing to defeat them. While the crowd make a big deal of him being a softy southerner they love his show boating and cheer his victories.
Gottfried arrives at the Middenplatz, the Grafs residence, to visit the champion and with Jannas assurance for this unknown Nobel the Knights Panther escort them in. Dieter is pleased to see them and introduces his fiancée to Gottfried while Janna examines him. After a short amount of time she becomes convinced he has been hypnotised, Katrina is dismayed but notes that, now that you mention it, the court physician was bragging the other day that he could make a man squawk like a monkey. They arrange to have a pre-opera drink at the Soprano and Dieter agrees to invite the physician, Luigi Pavarotti [ ].
While waiting for the mêlée outside to die down Ludo approaches the embarrassed young woman, a waitress from this inn and through a combination of bribery and intimidation gets her to spill. She seems to think hes someone that hes not as she explains about accepting a bribe from that Tilean songstress who somehow managed enrapture a full inn to such a degree that she could rob its occupants of their jewellery uncontested.
The party gathers back at the Templars Arms and after a few stiff drinks and donning their finest clothes are ready for their most challenging opponent yet, The Barbarian of Seville.
Arriving at the Soprano, the party are herded into a private room where they come face to face with Luigi, who promptly welcomes them like long lost friends and gets the round in. After some questioning it seems that the Tilean, while lewd, is on the level. When asked where he learnt hypnotism he dives into a tale of how, while travelling Ind, he saved the Maharajas son from a horde of Tigermen, he was invited to court as a reward and learnt many secrets from the Maharajas slavemage, including hypnotism.
They convince Luigi to help Dieter and he is successful, the party learn he was approached by a beautiful Bretonian (much to Kirstens distaste), who convinced him on the benefits of the tax.
The party then attend the opera and spy on Goebbels, who doesnt do anything too exciting, drink too many cocktails and have a magical evening. As is the way these things go on their way home the party is attacked by thugs and as is the way these things go even more the party demolish them, with Pieter successfully detaining one, oh my!
Phew! Intrigue in the city of the white wolf, who are all these characters, how will we remember their names, are they red herrings, are they poorly delivered plot hooks, who knows!?
Side note, anyone can learn hypnotism from Luigi if they would like for 200XP.
Side side note, I am playing a long board game on Sunday (Twilight Imperium you guys!) which may run into our allotted time, if so would you be happy to run a shadow run X_Kot? Otherwise it might start late depending, Ill keep you informed.
I love how everything two is Electric Boogaloo. It's one of my favourite memes.
We played Twilight Imperium once - took 12(!) hours.
The fourth in any series is usually "... IN SPACE!" as well.
Quite tempted to get hypnotism, even though it'd probably be utterly useless
You've got blather anyway, so it should be possible for you to cunningly segue from one into the other (or fail the roll, cause suspicion, and then I have to garotte them to death - either way, something entertaining happens. Just try to always hypnotise people near footstools, stepladders, or low walls).


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andrewsdw - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkI am still on my old 3gs...I cannot wait until I am able to switch to either a Exynos 4212 or a S4 based phone! Tegra 3 looks to be to much of a hog for me. I think the 4 cores will be less useful than a higher speed dual core with proper video decoding and lower power usage. Reply
B3an - Friday, November 18, 2011 - linkJust because a SoC has less cores dont mean it has lower power usage. The Tegra 3 has a 5th core that only runs when the phone is locked / not in use. And that core uses less power than any dual core SoC's that i know of. Reply
bjacobson - Friday, November 18, 2011 - link4 cores though. Who needs that? We need 2. One for everything except for the foreground application, and one for the foreground application. I don't see this changing in 2012. The higher clock dual core will have sufficiently low power usage. Yes, during idle T3 may be lower, but it won't matter. Reply
eddman - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkIsn't APQ8060 an S3 snapdragon? HP TouchPad, T-Mobile Galaxy S II and Galaxy S II Skyrocket already have it.
So I guess you meant that APQ8064 won't be out until the latter part of 2012, right? I thought it'd come in 1H 2012.
Also, where is MSM8974? Reply
RBurman - Wednesday, April 05, 2017 - linkMSM8974 Registers Description details or APQ 8074 Registers Description details(for d/l pl.) Reply


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The fourth annual Faculty Art Exhibition at Blue Ridge Community College will give students — and the public — an up-close-and-personal look at the works that instructors pour their artistic hearts into when they're not teaching.
The exhibition "allows the instructor to have a conversation as an artist and a person," said Adjunct Instructor Aaron Bernard, who will have four charcoal and pastel on paper works on exhibit.
The exhibition opens Friday and runs through Dec. 5 at the Blue Ridge Conference Hall in the Technology Educational and Development Center. An opening reception, which is free to the public, is set for 7 p.m. Friday.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday-Friday.
Media represented in the exhibit include drawing, painting, sculpture, video, sound art and installation art, created by curriculum and adjunct instructors in the following departments: art, film and video, and simulation and gaming.
Participating faculty are Aaron Bernard, Barbara Nussdorfer-Eblen, Brian Glaze, Peter Goldsmith, Jennine Hough, David Sheldon, Richard Sykes, Charlotte Taylor and Robert Wallace.
Lead Art Faculty Glaze, who is organizing the exhibition, currently teaches sculpture, digital photography and computer art, and has a 3-D design class scheduled for the spring semester.
He said BRCC does a good job of promoting the arts as part of a well-rounded education and added that it is important for students to learn "forms of thinking related to art, which also enriches your life as a person and your community." He explained that the exhibition is meant to show students and the community the faculty members' "ongoing practices of art-making in their discipline," which helps boost enrollment and enhance the credibility of the school's art programs.
Glaze submitted an interactive piece titled "House" for the exhibition. It took him about a year to create in 2009 "and I'm still refining it," he said.
"The artwork is an interactive audio installation incorporating microprocessors, sensors, laptop, audio amplifier and software that creates the entire experience. The viewer — participant — enters the space and triggers sensors in the rug, foot stool, chairs and coffee table. From the sensors being activated, the software in the computer then plays a random sound for each sensor. … The goal is to have the viewers create an electro-acoustic audio composition (in) real-time that is ever-changing" as each person interacts with the artwork.
He chose to create that particular work "to show my students other forms of art" and to illustrate how "the viewer can take part in shaping the way an artwork is seen or perceived."
View from front porch
Adjunct Instructor Nussdorfer-Eblen has been painting since she was in grade school and has taught at BRCC for more than 20 years. She currently teaches art appreciation, printmaking and figure drawing. For the exhibition, she painted a piece titled "Druid Hills Summer." The painting depicts the view from her front porch in Hendersonville.
"I have painted landscapes in many places, and the sense of place is really a mysterious alchemy between the artist and the scene," she said.
"I would describe where we are in the Southern Appalachians as resilient and sleepy, at least in my neighborhood."
In the painting, "The plants just keep growing till they fuse with the next tree, and soon it is this gigantic mass of growth with a house peeking through."
Nussdorfer-Eblen said she became interested in painting at an early age.
"My mother dabbled in it, and our family regularly visited museums. We also camped in some beautiful national parks when I was young. These influences inspired me to make art."
She started the painting "Druid Hills Summer" in July and finished in mid-August, working on Saturdays when she had the day off from teaching art at Camp Greystone in Zirconia.
"My thought was to work with the particular light and color from 10 a.m. to 12 noon; gradually it shifted to a little later as the summer went on.
"It is so important for students to be exposed to art," Nussdorfer-Eblen added.
Computer-aided artwork
Bernard has been an adjunct art instructor at BRCC for six years and currently teaches introduction to drawing, advanced drawing, two-dimensional design and art appreciation.
There is no substitute for students seeing their instructors' artwork in person, he said.
"Students can gain an understanding of an artists' process, color, scale, etc. I have been an art instructor for a number of years, and I've noticed students inevitably have a sense of curiosity about an instructor. I believe it is very important to develop a mutual respect and appreciation between students and faculty. Having artwork at the faculty art show allows students to have an opportunity for informal dialogue with the instructor. It's this type of conversation that tends to create stronger bonds between students and faculty."
The Hendersonville area contains a great deal of artistic talent, Bernard said.
"I've seen a lot of student artwork all over the country, and I have discovered many of our current and former students could compete with any art institution or department of art in the country. Basically, I've learned that Hendersonville should not be taken for granted, and I believe that there are going to be more and more students who go on to become very successful, due in large part from their experience at BRCC. The faculty art show provides exposure and access to the faculty that are responsible for this potential experience."
For more information, call Glaze at 828-694-1688.
BRCC exhibit displays faculty's talents
The fourth annual Faculty Art Exhibition at Blue Ridge Community College will give students — and the public — an up-close-and-personal look at the works that instructors pour their artistic hearts into when they're not teaching.


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Look, if I have to experience it, why not pass it along?
Whether via trade or free agency, the Boston Red Sox have always struck me as a likely destination for Jose Reyes. Jed Lowrie is a nice player, but he isn't in Reyes' class (and is less than a year younger). Marco Scutaro is no one' long-term solution. And the Sox already locked in Carl Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez long-term- Reyes gives them another star in the same age group to peak together, at an extremely hard-to-fill position.
But an item in this Jon Heyman piece really has me worried. It talks about "Boston people" saying that, in essence, the presence of Jose Iglesias will keep the Red Sox from going after Jose Reyes.
Really? This Jose Iglesias? With the .526 OPS at Triple-A after a .672 OPS at Double-A last year?
Don't get me wrong, he's considered a decent prospect- 52nd overall in Baseball America's Top 100 this year- but he hardly seems ready for the big leagues. Far likelier, he's several years from being a star- you know, around the time Crawford and Gonzalez are exiting their primes.
It's precisely the opposite of properly leveraging those two long-term deals. And Theo Epstein is too smart not to know it. I'm concerned that a statement like that to Heyman wasn't a denial, but a negotiating stance.
Now this is a lot to get from a statement to a reporter that asserts the opposite of what I fear. I know. But that's my take, and why. Here's hoping I am insane.


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SAN FRANCISCO – Dodgers manager Don Mattingly has been asked about it hypothetically countless times over the past three months. But he's only had to deal with it in reality twice.
That's how often the Dodgers have actually had Yasiel Puig, Matt Kemp, Carl Crawford and Andre Ethier available for the same game – July 5 and July 21 – and both times Kemp was injured by the end of the game.
"It keeps getting worked out for me," Mattingly said with a sad smile before Wednesday's game. "Hopefully, I have that problem. I'd like to have that problem."
It's possible he might not have it for the playoffs either.
The Dodgers sent Ethier back to Los Angeles for further examination of his injured left ankle Wednesday. Accompanied by Dodgers director of medical services Stan Conte, Ethier met with Dr. Neal El Attrache then flew back to San Francisco and rejoined the team during their game against the Giants.
Ethier underwent an MRI and a CT scan on his ankle, which showed the damaged soft tissue on the outside of his leg has improved over the past 11 days but is still not healed, resulting in the pain Ethier continues to feel when he pivots on the ankle while running.
Wednesday's quick trip south was prompted by the poor results when Ethier ran the bases during an early workout Tuesday afternoon. While Ethier has been able to hit in the batting cages, do straight-line running and even shag fly balls for a while Tuesday, he is still experiencing discomfort in the outside of his ankle when he runs the bases and has to change direction.
Wednesday's exam resulted in a nebulous announcement that Ethier would continue the workouts and won't play until he can run the bases without pain. Given that 11 days off have only gotten him this far, Mattingly admitted that there is a level of concern about Ethier's availability for the first round of the playoffs.
"We'll cross that bridge when we get there," he said. "We'll see when we get there, about the roster part of it. The main thing now is just to find out if he's going to be able to go or not. We may get enough information that that's not even a question – or one way or the other."
With 14 wins in 19 games after Wednesday, the St. Louis Cardinals moved two games ahead of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the NL Central with three games to play – and a half-game up on the Atlanta Braves for the best record in the National League. The Braves were shut out by the Milwaukee Brewers for their 12th loss in the past 20 games.
As it stands now, the Dodgers would open the playoffs next week against the Braves with the Braves holding home-field advantage. Of the three most likely playoff opponents the Dodgers have been tracking down the stretch, the Braves are the only one to win the season series. They beat the Dodgers 5 of 7, including a three-game sweep in Atlanta in May.
But Mattingly said he has not been fretting over who the Dodgers will face in the first round.
"We've played all these guys," he said. "I think the Braves have done a little better against us. We held our own against St. Louis. Cincinnati, it was pretty close. Pittsburgh, it was pretty close.
"I look at it more about us – we need to go out and play well. If we play up to our capability and our guys do what they're supposed to do then we think we're capable of beating anybody. So that's not that much of a concern."
The Cardinals have been the hottest team among the NL's six playoff teams. But Mattingly expects all of that to be wiped away when the playoffs start.
"For me, it really comes down to how we play," he said. "I really believe the best team is going to win your division or get into the playoffs over the course of 162. When you get into the playoffs, it's going to be who's playing good right then.
"A short series, to me, it's kind of a crapshoot because everyone's confident. Every team just won. Every team just celebrated. Every team is going to feel like they've got a chance. It's going to be a matter of who goes out and plays better."
Left-hander Chris Capuano went through some fielding drills, the final test of his injured groin muscle. The workout went well and Capuano is likely to pitch out of the bullpen at least once during the season-ending series against the Colorado Rockies.
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TUSTIN, Calif. • A shooting spree early Tuesday left three people dead and two others injured in Orange County, and the search for the gunman ended when he shot himself to death in a stolen car as police closed in, authorities said.
There were multiple crime scenes in Tustin and Orange and many more victims who were shot at but unhurt, said Tustin Lt. Paul Garaven.
The shootings began at 4:45 a.m. when deputies responding to a call found a female shot multiple times in a house in Ladera Ranch, said Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino. The city is in the southern part of the suburban county about 30 miles south of Los Angeles.


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DELTONA, Fla. - Volusia County deputies are searching for the driver who they say hit a 5-year-old boy after losing control of his vehicle in a road rage incident with another driver.
Deputies said that two vehicles were in a road rage confrontation just after noon on Wednesday on E. Normandy Boulevard, throwing things out of the window at the other cars and weaving in and out of traffic.
The driver of one car then lost control of his vehicle, striking a bench near the intersection of Normandy Drive and East Hancock Drive where the 5-year-old boy was waiting with his father, sister and another man for a bus. The driver then drove away.
The injured 5-year-old boy was flown to Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach to be treated for a broken femur and several abrasions.
No one else was injured.
The suspected car was described as a late 1990s or early 200s gold, four-door Chrysler Sebring with heavy damage to the passenger side. The driver is described as a light-skinned Hispanic man in his early 20s with a shaved head, according to deputies.
Deputies are also looking for the other car involved to get information on the incident, described as a green pickup truck with a camper top and several veterans stickers on the back and a memorial sticker on it that says "Cody Kuffner, 1988 – 2008."
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Bushmans Kloof Wilderness Reserve & Wellness Retreat is about three hours away from Cape Town, and one can feel the stress reducing kilometre by kilometre as you head towards the spectacular Cederberg mountains.
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From Cape Town, you follow the N1, then the N7 on your way to Clanwilliam. Take the R364 to Calvinia and Wupperthal and head off through the Cederberg Wilderness Area over the Pakhuis Pass. Bushmans Kloof Wilderness Reserve & Retreat is 270 kilometres from Cape Town and will take approximately three hours of driving time.
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The Bushmans Kloof Wilderness Reserve and Retreat is extremely popular during peak season, so make sure you book long in advance.
Around the area
There's lots to enjoy in the area: take a sunset nature drive, go on a rock art excursion, swim in the crystal rock pools, paint, read, write or book yourself on a culinary weekend (watch the website for details). Wupperthal and it's Monrovian mission station is also nearby.
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CiteSeer was a public search engine and digital library for scientific and academic papers. It is often considered to be the first automated citation indexing system and was considered a predecessor of academic search tools such as Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search. It was replaced by CiteSeerx and all queries to CiteSeer are redirected to it. It was created by researchers Steve Lawrence, Kurt Bollacker and Lee Giles while they were at the NEC Research Institute (now NEC Labs), Princeton, New Jersey, USA. CiteSeer's goal was to actively crawl and harvest academic and scientific documents on the web and use autonomous citation indexing to permit querying by citation or by document, ranking them by citation impact. After NEC, it was hosted as CiteSeer.IST on the World Wide Web at the College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, and had over 700,000 documents, primarily in the fields of computer and information science and engineering.
CiteSeer freely provided Open Archives Initiative metadata of all indexed documents and links indexed documents when possible to other sources of metadata such as DBLP and the ACM Portal.
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The name can be construed to have at least two explanations. As a pun, a 'sightseer' is a tourist who looks at the sights, so a 'cite seer' would be a researcher who looks at cited papers. Another is a 'seer' is a prophet and a 'cite seer' is a prophet of citations.
CiteSeer had not been comprehensively updated since 2005 due to limitations in its architecture design. It had a representative sampling of research documents in computer and information science but was limited in coverage because it only has access to papers that are publicly available, usually at an author's homepage, or those are submitted by an author. To overcome these limitations, an modular and open source architecture of CiteSeer was designed.
The new version and design of CiteSeer can be found at the Next Generation CiteSeer, CiteSeerx, website. CiteSeer-like engines and archives usually only harvest documents from publicly available websites and do not crawl publisher websites. As such authors whose documents are freely available are more likely to be represented in the index.
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CiteSeerX (stylized as CiteSeerx[1]) is a public search engine and digital library and repository for scientific and academic papers with a focus on computer and information science.[1] It is loosely based on the previous CiteSeer search engine and digital library and is built with a new open source infrastructure, SeerSuite, and new algorithms and their implementations. It was developed by researchers Dr. Isaac Councill and Dr. C. Lee Giles at the College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University. It continues to support the goals outlined by CiteSeer to actively crawl and harvest academic and scientific documents on the public web and to use a citation index to permit query by citations and ranking of documents by the impact of citations. Currently, Lee Giles, Prasenjit Mitra, Susan Gauch, Min-Yen Kan, Pradeep Teregowda, Juan Pablo Fernández Ramírez, Pucktada Treeratpituk, and Shuyi Zheng are or have been actively involved in its development. Recently, a table search feature was introduced.[2] It was funded by the National Science Foundation and Microsoft Research
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