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AUGUSTA, SC - Friday featured the second day of U17 action, as well as the U16 semifinals at the Nike Peach Jam. With Malik Newman leading the field on Thursday, the days top performances belonged to Stanley Johnson in the morning and Tyler Ulis in the nightcap. With the action heating up and college coaches all over, the intensity and asmosphere on day four at Peach Jam could not be topped.
Johnson Dominates the Day
Coming off of two losses the day before, the Oakland Soldiers (CA) needed to rebound and win. Led by star 2014 small forward Stanley Johnson, they did just that on Friday.
An explosive outburst came out of Johnson, who went off for 33 points and 14 rebounds. Johnson shot the ball well, attacked the rim and took over the game in front of every school recruiting him.
The five-star talent's recruitment remains the same following his decision to take five official visits: Kansas, Florida, Arizona, Kentucky and Oregon, to go along with unofficial visits to UCLA and USC. The Wildcats offered last week and will have him fly out from California for Big Blue Madness in October.
"That's supposed to be the biggest show ever," he told Rivals.com.
With the plan of deciding on a college sometime in the winter, Johnson hopes to take fall visits, pick a school in the fall and sign during the late period.
Alexander Sets Visits
It appears that Cliff Alexander continues to get better and better. As he is in the best shape of his life with Mac Irvin Fire (IL), and is already one of the more physically dominating big men in the class, adding a high motor was his coach's priority for Alexander this year. That has paid major dividends.
With a toned body, his play on the court has looked phenomenal as he is getting a double double every time out on the court.
Alexander has set four official visits with one last visit lingering. Kansas, Louisville, Arizona and Memphis will receive official visits in the fall, and Kentucky, Michigan State and others could get the final visit. While Alexander remains persistent that he does not have his eyes set on the Spartans and Wildcats, a new team has emerged as a contender.
The hire of Jerrance Howard at Kansas helped in a big way as Howard was the first to recruit Alexander out of high school while at Illinois. He also got him on campus in June, a visit that the top big man enjoyed.
Going forward, no timetable has been set for a decision, but it is clear just how good he will be at the next level.
Travis Taking Advantage of Exposure
Since Reid Travis has had the opportunity to play against the best talent this spring and summer, his stock has acclimated and everyone is beginning to realize how skilled he is.
A stretch four at the next level, the 2014 power forward works hard in the paint, plays physical at all times and stretches his game out by doing so much more than the typical four-man. While Tyus Jones has had the spotlight on him for years, it is now Travis who is receiving some attention.
Right now, he is being carted hard by Minnesota, Stanford, UCLA, Michigan State, Georgetown and Iowa State. He visited Gonzaga in June, and hopes to visit UCLA in late August.
Travis states there isn't much pressure to stay home and play in Minnesota, even with new coach Richard Pitino pursuing him. Stanford is also making a run, but took a hit when Mark Madsen - the lead recruiter for Travis - left in the spring for a D-League head coaching gig.
Despite the fact that he plays football, Travis still wants to take visits during the fall, which could get tricky scheduling wise. However, if he is visiting local schools such as Michigan State or Minnesota, that could work for a one or two day trip.
Coaches Liking Lawson Brothers
The brotherly duo of Keelon Lawson and Dedric Lawson is a talented one for Team Penny (TN) as both are long forwards who can do a lot on the court. They rebound, post up, shoot the ball well, use a jump hook and create mismatches with their length. Their versatility is second to none on the circuit.
As they are being recruited by the similar schools, despite Keelon being in the class of 2015 and Dedric in the class of 2016, they have thought about a potential package deal depending on the circumstances going forward.
Memphis, Arkansas, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Missouri and others have been the primary schools down south to offer both, while a number of west coast schools such as Stanford and UCLA are really pursuing older brother Keelon.
The likes of Notre Dame, North Carolina and Gonzaga, among others, are showing a lot of interest. It will be fascinating to see how good these two turn out with how well they have already developed.
Recruiting Rundown
2014 Chicago Meanstreets (IL) point guard Tyler Ulis had the opportunity to face the top point guard on the EYBL circuit in Tyus Jones. While his squad lost by 3 in overtime, Ulis accounted for 22 points and 17 assists in one heck of a performance. Despite his size, Ulis is pound for pound one of the most efficient and smartest lead guards in the class of 2014, and he showed it out there, as well as in the stat book. Michigan State and Northwestern recently received visits from Ulis, who has yet to set any official visits. Northwestern is creeping up on him, though, with the recent addition of teammate Vic Law. Law has promised to make Ulis a priority at Northwestern, even though Michigan State is really making a strong push at him.
2014 New York Lightning guard Khadeen Carrington played his best game at Peach Jam by tallying 24 points and 7 assists on Friday. Playing the lead guard on and off the ball, he will likely keep this role going to the next level. Carrington did a good job of attacking the basket fearlessly and constantly, which was appealing because of his effort and ferociousness on the court. Wake Forest offered right before the Live Period began, but Cincinnati, SMU, UConn, Hofstra, St. John's and others are involved. Carrington has a great relationship with UConn coach Kevin Ollie and won't be impacted by the commitment of Daniel Hamilton there. At the same time, St. John's could be the sleeper in this recruitment.
2014 Cali Supreme shooting guard Julian Richardson only holds one scholarship offer, but played well enough to the point that he is bound to receive many more. Time after time, Richardson created space and found an opening to receive the ball and shoot it from behind the arc. He was very accurate as a shooter, but did a good job of spacing the floor out and creating mismatches. Fresno State is the only school to offer him thus far, but the likes of Oregon, Minnesota and Villanova are involved. He plans to wait it out and see how this summer goes, but more than likely the scholarships will come his way.
2014 St. Louis Eagles (MO) small forward Jordan Barnett has been playing hard at Peach Jam as the do-it-all small forward rebounds, passes, shoots, and really everything a small forward should be involved in. His handle is holding him back at this very moment, however, as he could be a much better slasher with some better ball handling skills. If the Missouri native had to set five official visits today, which he is not ready to, it would be Florida, Texas, Michigan State, Michigan and Stanford. The Spartans are constantly calling and texting Barnett, and Iowa, Florida, Stanford and Texas do, too. He could decide at the end of the summer at the earliest but at this point visits will be set for the fall.
2015 Team Final (PA) shooting guard Malachi Richardson continues to wow coaches and scouts with his stature, shooting and, now, his passing in the open court. Richardson is becoming a multi-dimensional player and is setting his teammates up to succeed. Indiana, Ohio State, Arizona, Georgetown, North Carolina, Cincinnati and Villanova have been calling him the most at this point.
2014 Texas Titans point guard Alex Robinson has nearly gone for a triple-double several times this year. He didn't get one in Friday's action, but came up close in the process. He did a good job of setting himself up, along with teammates. A natural leader on the court, Robinson executed on both ends by getting into the lane, playing hard nose defense and executing. Right before the July Live Period began, Robinson spent his 4th of July out of Texas and in Pittsburgh for his first official visit. This is due in part to Robinson's mother going to TCU with Pittsburgh coach Jamie Dixon, where both played basketball and established a friendship. The Panthers have made it clear that he would play alongside James Robinson if he joined, and this peeks his interest. Along with that, the point guard is being carted hard by Texas A&M, Miami, SMU, Minnesota and Vanderbilt with a likely list cut after July.
2016 CIA Bounce point guard Jamal Murray came on to the scene when he won co-MVP of the Jordan Brand Classic International game back in April. Since then, people have started to find out about him as one of the next great Canadian basketball players. A floor general who can really score the ball and facilitate the offense, Murray has a chance to be very good. A year after Syracuse recruited Tyler Ennis to be their point guard, they did the very same on Friday as they, along with tons of other coaches, watched the floor general in action with the plan to get him on their squad in a few years.
2014 Team Final (PA) point guard Ja'Quan Newton continues to do a great job of playing the role of the scoring point guard. His jumper has improved, along with his already impressive floater. Recently, Newton expressed interest in a package deal with New York guard Isaiah Whitehead, in which they would consider USC, Miami or Minnesota. The guard is interested in those options, along with SMU, Cincinnati, Villanova, Oregon and Seton Hall, who continue to stay present in his recruitment. Newton doesn't have any plans for visits going into the future, but his stock will continue to rise as he keeps cruising through the summer with big scoring performances.
2014 All-Ohio Red small forward Vince Edwards didn't see his shot fall to much today, however, he played hard and aggressive on both ends of the floor. With his versatility a major factor on the court, college coaches see Edwards as a wing but are recruiting him to play the guard position, on the wing and in the post. For the time being, Purdue and Michigan continue to lead for his services because of their facilities, as well as the atmosphere. The Ohio native will head to Purdue for an official visit during the middle of October. As it looks now, everything should remain the same with the Wolverines and Boilermakers fighting to the very end to acquire him.
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Saleforce.com will announce it's going into the online, database-as-a-service business Tuesday morning at its Dreamforce user group meeting in San Francisco. The move puts it on a collision course with another large applications and database vendor, Oracle, whose CEO, Larry Ellison, seemed to go out of his way to criticize Salesforce at his own user group meeting earlier this year.
Ironically, the cloud-based, elastic, highly available and multi-tenant Database.com service that Salesforce.com launches will be based on the Oracle database engine. Saleforce.com for 12 years has supplied its customer relationship management (CRM) application customers with database services powered by an underlying Oracle engine.
Salesforce chairman and CEO Marc Benioff said he would make the announcement during his Tuesday morning keynote address to the conference. About 20,000 attendees have registered for the largest Dreamforce user group staged to date.
"It's not like Database.com is going to be just Oracle," said Eric Stahl, senior director of product marketing, in an interview before the announcement. Oracle offers its database system as an individual or single company application through Amazon Web Services' EC2. But Stahl said a great deal of engineering effort was needed to build a set of multi-user database services on top of Oracle for it to become an online service, he said.
For example, Database.com will scale up or down as needed by its customers without human intervention. Hundreds or thousands of users will be concurrently making use of one Database.com set of services as opposed to Salesforce launching hundreds of instances of Oracle to meet demand. Such services would include database elasticity, replication, load balancing, backup, disaster recovery, high availability and automatic system upgrades.
"Our Database.com service is far more than just Oracle. All of our engineering is focused on our own multi-tenant system," he said.
Ellison explicitly challenged the reliability and security of multi-tenant systems when he urged 40,000 Oracle OpenWorld attendees Sept. 19 to adopt Oracle's applications and run them on Oracle's Exalogic Elastic Cloud hardware appliance, while dissing Salesforce's alternative. The Salesforce.com multi-tenant application was inherently vulnerable, he claimed. It has "a weak security model" and allows "the co-mingling of GE's data with Siemens' data" on the same server.
At the time, Salesforce.com spokesmen responded that Salesforce maintained the privacy and security of its customers' data on its own architecture. Stahl picked up the theme again: "Our database system supports two million users. We've supported 87,200 businesses" over the past 12 years, with high-level auditors from telecommunications, financial services and healthcare companies inspecting Salesforce.com's operations, Stahl reported.


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Itchy wrote:Sounds like I'll have to pick it up then.
You ever listen to Sparta? It's the other 1/2 of ATDI that didn't go to Mars Volta.. pick up Wiretap Scars if you haven't checked them out yet.
I've listened to Sparta before. They're good, but I think they don't have the same complexity of ATDI (mostly because of the departure of Rodrigez).
Enjoy the new album. It's weird, but if you're a Volta fan you're used to that by now.


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Winsted Diner reopens with ribbon cutting and warm wishes
Published 12:00 am, Tuesday, December 11, 2012
WINSTED >> Tuesday afternoon marked the reopening of a Main Street institution, and the stalls and stools were shortly stuffed.
The Winsted Diner officially reopened on Tuesday, following a ribbon-cutting ceremony sponsored by the Friends of Main Street. The diner's new owner, Salisbury resident Asa Flint, said the new opening was the result, in part, of peer pressure.
"A lot of people asked me to open the place up," said Flint.
As had been the case in its previous iterations, the Winsted Diner will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner. The diner was originally open for more than 80 years before closing in February 2011, and upon learning of the diner's closure, the Economic Development Commission took up the cause of the diner. Then-owner Jean Renkowsky, who bought the diner from its previous owners after a fire forced the Winsted Diner to close, had reopened the diner, keeping it open several months after she decided to close the business due to mounting costs and competition. Renkowsky subsequently took a job at Flip n' Grill.
"It means a lot to a lot of people, so I feel a lot of public pressure," Renkowsky said after the April 5, 2011 Economic Development Commission meeting. "Plus, there's not a lot of those train car diners left in the country."
The diner reopened on an intermittent basis as a result of Winsted building codes, which require businesses which are closed for over one continuous year, but which later reopen, to meet current building codes. The former dining car could not support current requirements, such as handicapped-accessible restrooms, even before Renkowsky closed the business.
However, the diner's place in Winsted was evident on Tuesday afternoon. Friends and family bellied up to the counter, while town officials such as Winchester mayor Maryann Welcome, town manager Dale Martin and Friends of Main Street president Fran Delaney held the ribbon.
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Percutaneous nephrolothotomy
I had this procedure done 5 years ago and may have to have it again for a large kidney stone. I had very severe pain starting as soon as I woke up from surgery and required stong IV pain meds for 2 days. I had a C-section with spinal anesthesia and had very tolerable pain afterwards and was able to take just pain pills with very few side effects. I was wondering if this surgery could be done with spinal anesthesia and if so would this reduce the amount of pain. I would really like to avoid the severe pain I had the last time and avoid the IV medicines if possible. Thank you.
A spinal anesthetic wears off within minutes to hours of the termination of the procedure. I don't think the difference in the degree and duration of pain you experienced with your C-section and the kidney procedure have much to do with the anesthetic technique. It is much more likely to do with the different nature of the two surgical procedures. A spinal anesthetic is feasible for most abdominal surgeries, however for kidney surgery the block has to be pretty high and spinal anesthesia is therefore not a common choice for this type of procedure. Be sure to discuss your concerns with your anesthesiologist so there can be a plan to treat, or even prevent, your pain. Multimodal analgesia is the concept of attacking the pain at various points in the pain "pathway" - combinations of regional anesthesia (nerve blocks, spinal, epidural), with opioids (strong pain killers like morphine and fentanyl), anti-inflammatory medications, and other drugs and non-drug therapies can be very effective.
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THE Fire Brigades Union is urging the public in Devon and Somerset to protest against 'the most savage cuts ever' to the fire and rescue service, after preliminary budget figures were announced yesterday (January 10).
The government has reduced its grant to the service by 10.3% for the year 2013/14 and 7.3% for the year 2014/15. This equates to a loss of £3.4 million in the next financial year and £2.1 million in 2014/15.
On January 18, the fire authority and senior managers will put forward proposals for public consultation, to include a set of cuts that would likely see fire appliances removed from communities.
Trevor French, Devon and Somerset FBU secretary said: "Rather than just accept these enormous cuts forced upon us by central government, the fire authority should tell the coalition government that this scale of cuts is unacceptable, risks destroying the fabric of this important service, and ultimately puts more lives at risk."
As a rural service and one of the biggest in the country, Devon and Somerset have long argued that a 'sparsity' factor should be included in any grant settlement received. This would take into account the lack of neighbouring services for support and the sheer scale of area that has to be covered by one fire and rescue service.
Bob Walker, FBU brigade chair said: "If the cuts proposed go through, there will be fewer firefighters, fewer fire stations and fewer fire engines. After the recent floods and fires firefighters have dealt with so professionally, the cuts would be a real kick in the teeth for both the public and the service. The FBU is asking people in our communities to stand up against damaging proposals for the fire and rescue service before it is too late."


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All around him, Santa Cruz surfer Nat Young was hearing that he offically made the Association of Surfing Professionals' World Tour on Friday, joining the ranks to the top 34 surfers in the world.
But Young, 21, likely isn't celebrating. And he won't until an ASP official delivers the news to him directly.
Young, ranked No. 20 in the world, can be forgiven for his skepticism. Last year he thought he had done everything necessary to claim a World Tour spot, only to see it yanked away.
He was the highest-ranked non-World Tour surfer competing in the Van's Triple Crown. As such, Young saw himself as a shoo-in wild card for the Pipeline Masters, which served as both the World Tour and Triple Crown finale. But changes to the tour structure and questionable distribution of wild cards led to Young's ommission from Pipeline and, as a matter of course, the World Tour.
This time around, Young put himself in even better position. And when he won his Round of 96 heat Friday at the Reef Hawaiian Pro in Haleiwa, the webcast commentators declared him in.
"We have been told that Nat Young has qualified for the tour for next year," said Heath Walker during the broadcast. "Coming into Hawaii, that's going to make him ooze a lot of confidence."
With the win, Young moves to the round of 64, where he will surf Saturday against World Tour surfer Travis Logie of South Africa, Tiago Pires of Puerto Rico and Alain Riou of French Polynesia.
Young might not have even had to do that much. According to a Surfline article, the ASP's numbers guru Al Hunt said Young and two others are guaranteed a spot on the 2013 World Tour regardless of how they fare at Haleiwa and the Vans World Cup of Surfing at Sunset Beach, the first and second legs of the triple crown.
"Glen Hall and Filipe Toledo are in for sure," Hunt told Surfline. "But I can't see why Nat Young will miss out either."
If Young does reach the World Tour, he will be just the third Santa Cruz County surfer to do so and the first since Adam Replogle made the Dream Tour in 1997.


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Contract Negotiations Continue Over Danville Bus Attendant Contracts
Talks will resume Friday morning between Teamsters Local 226 and representatives of the First Student bus company, which runs transportation services in the Danville School District.
The two sides have been mulling over a new three-year contract for the district's 70 bus drivers and 22 bus monitors who respond to 56 routes. The union wants those employees to get higher wages and benefits.
After more than four months of contract negations, Maureen Richmond, a spokeswoman for the bus company, said she had hoped to reach a resolution by now.
"We do believe that the compensation and benefits package that we've offered to the union representatives is a fair market value, especially given the current economic conditions," Richmond said.
Richmond would not release details of the proposed contract.
Union members have not formally announced plans to walk off the job and strike, even though its members have been without a contract since August 1.
A representative from the Teamsters Union could not be reached for comment.


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They require CFIA approval and some commodities are under quota and require an Import Permit. Perhaps the goods are listed on the Import Control List and require an Import Permit, such as some steel items. Meat shipments and those requirements are also extensive.
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In a recent survey of college and university faculty, Physlets were one of the most recognized research-based instructional strategies, second only to Peer Instruction, and one of the most used instructional strategies. Over the past two years, we have been working with the ComPADRE staff to get Physlet-based materials onto the ComPADRE digital library. To this end, we have recently published the second edition of Physlet Physics and Physlet Quantum Physics as stand-alone collections on ComPADRE. These collections contain over 1,200 interactive exercises for the teaching of introductory physics, introductory and intermediate modern physics, and intermediate and advanced quantum mechanics. In this talk we describe the new collections and how we are using ComPADRE features to make Physlet-based materials even more useful for teachers.


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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- The way coach Randy Bennett and the Saint Mary's College men's basketball team see it, having to play an extra game to reach the NCAA tournament's round of 64 could give them an edge going forward.
The eleventh-seeded Gaels feel like they've already shaken off the rust and eliminated the jitters as they prepare to face No. 6 Memphis on Thursday. Tipoff is approximately 11:45 a.m. at The Palace of Auburn Hills in Michigan.
While just about every other team, including the Tigers (30-4), will play their tournament openers over the next two days, the Gaels (28-6) got a warmup for the big stage when they beat Middle Tennessee State 67-54 in a "First Four" play-in game on Tuesday night in Dayton, Ohio.
"Our win against Middle Tennessee was definitely a confidence booster," junior Stephen Holt said. "We're just going to use that to our advantage as best we can."
Saint Mary's draw of Middle Tennessee State in the "First Four" game could pay off in another way -- the Tigers and Blue Raiders share a similar playing style. Both teams thrive on creating turnovers, then getting out in transition. Saint Mary's also notes Memphis' athleticism and physicality.
"They're a little like Middle Tennessee but bigger," Bennett said. "A little bigger, a little deeper and they have really good guards. You have to take care of the ball against their pressure."
Junior guard Joe Jackson, the Conference USA Player of the Year, averages a team-high 13.6 points along with 4.8 assists. He is one of three Memphis players with over 100 assists on the season.
Saint Mary's will need another superb game from senior guard Matthew Dellavedova, their floor general and emotional leader who also broke out of a shooting slump against Middle Tennessee.
"His experience, leadership and basketball IQ are about as high as you're going to get in college basketball," Bennett said.
The Aussie Olympian's advanced game also has the attention of Memphis coach Josh Pastner and the Tigers.
"He's a pro basketball player that's playing college," Pastner said.
Said Jackson: "He's the master of the hockey assist... He's not the fastest guy, but he's one of the smarter guys in the country."
Dellavedova briefly left Tuesday's game to have his knee tended to, but Bennett said he was just experiencing cramps. Dellavedova didn't look limited when he returned to the game or in practice Wednesday.
The Gaels will again be without injured starting guard Jorden Page, but his replacement -- redshirt freshman Jordan Giusti -- didn't show any nerves Tuesday in his first career start.
The San Ramon Valley High graduate barely registered on the stat sheet (zero points, three rebounds, two assists, one steal in 37 minutes), but made few mistakes and provided tough defense.
"It's hard for me to take him off the court because of how good a defender he is," Bennett said.
* Saint Mary's has won two games in the same NCAA tournament only once before -- in 2010 when it defeated Richmond and Villanova to reach the Sweet Sixteen.
The Gaels will be facing a Memphis team with a little extra pressure to win its tournament opener. After four straight years of reaching at least the Sweet Sixteen, the Tigers have yet to win a NCAA tournament game under Pastner, who is in his fourth year.


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Fast food has a few major benefits: it's cheap, convenient, and for the most part, easily accessible. But, with so many chains vying for your burger dollar, how loyal are you to your favorite fast food burger chain? Do you always make a point to go to your first pick, or do factors like special promotions or just being closer to another option come into play? Take this week's poll and let us know.
Results from Last Week's Poll
Last week, we asked your thoughts about fries as a burger topping. Here's what a few AHT'ers had to say:
No way, no how, never under any circumstances. That goes for potato chips too.
Well it depends on the burger. A fast food joint, sure. A really good, well-designed and brilliantly balanced burger prepared by someone who actually cares and made from good ingredients? Probably not.
It works for the California burrito, so why not? I'm not saying it's going to work for every burger, but there's nothing inherently wrong with the concept.
Poll Results
The majority of AHT'ers (58 percent) said they think fries should stick to being a side dish, while 42 percent of AHT'ers are open to the idea of fries as a topping for burgers.
Note: the poll remains open, so these numbers may shift slightly in the future.
About the author: Erin Jackson is a food writer and photographer who is obsessed with discovering the best eats in San Diego. You can find all of her discoveries on her San Diego food blog EJeats.com. On Twitter, she's @ErinJax
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nobody on Tue, 04/28/2015
thank you for doing this.
Forum topic: Release 57
Since people were complaining about large download sizes, I went ahead and made a Release 56 -> Release 57 patch.
It is 7.3MB and can be applied with xdelta3. Patches any further back are considerably larger, but if someone really needs one I have versions back to release 54.
Forum topic: Outdated screenshots
Feel free to upload new ones :)
Forum topic: KUB 3d Game with cubes
I'm trying to run KUB by "startKubLinux.sh" but i get "Segmentation fault (core dumped)"... I'm new with Linux, so i need some help with it.
i'm using "ZorinOS 9 Lite" (it's Ubuntu distro), netbook with intel atom 1.6, Intel GMA 3150, 2GB RAM
Forum topic: ChaosEsque Release 54
For anyone that wants an update between versions, a contributor has uploaded the files you need.
Here is a latest code update where the bots now know about grenades etc: they will throw grenades, flashbangs, smokegrenades, place landmines and ATmines, and also bury mines (if they can (if a mine in on ground, grass, snow, sand, dirt, etc it can be buried with the bury command))
Makes the game more fun :D
And hard to assault a base.
Flashbangs really blind you blanca for awhile.
These files go in the directory:
340MB http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmodchaosesque/files/zzzzzz999999_xmod-c...
34MB http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmodchaosesque/files/z9_buildable_buildi...
(You may also wish to get these small files which are seldom updated aswell:)
94MB http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmodchaosesque/files/zz99-xmod-chaos-esq...
300KB: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmodchaosesque/files/zz99-xmod-chaos-esq...
Forum topic: Cool updates
The next version will include a xp and level system.
I hope you'll enjoy it :)
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Note: If you have a recent version (53 etc) and just want to update the code
a contributor has uploaded those files, additionally, seperatly.
You can place the following files in the directory XonoticChaosEsque/data/
replacing the older versions of these 2 files:
(There are also git repos available)
Forum topic: ChaosEsque Relelease 52
One of the contributors did you a little favor.
You can put these in you XonoticEtc/data/ directory you have from downloading a previous ChaosEsque ISO:
This won't have map updates but it is today's code, this one time.
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"Winning teams have winning ways," Painter said. "And losing teams have losing ways."
What Painter was alluding to was the fact that the 2012-13 Purdue squad doesn't act in the proper manner all of the time.
Following a humiliating 37-point demolition by its arch-nemesis (Indiana) recently, the Boilermakers responded in the following way. Freshman center A.J. Hammons overslept and was late to the team bus prior to leaving for a road game at Northwestern. Then Purdue failed to be ready to play hard from the opening tip against the Wildcats and allowed Northwestern to open the game with a 12-0 start.
"A winning team is on time," Painter explained. "They pay attention to a scouting report and they trust the coaches. A losing team will slip in those areas."
Throughout the majority of Painter's time in West Lafayette, there has been no slippage of focus and responsibility. That is precisely why the Boilermakers have won at least 22 games in each of the six prior seasons.
However, there is just something different about this current group that shows that they don't grasp the importance of details.
"We've had a very good basketball culture here," Painter said. "And it has slipped."
Little problems accumulate into bigger issues over time and that has happened with the Boilermakers.
A year ago, it was the lack of discipline by both (current senior) D.J. Byrd and then junior Kelsey Barlow (who has since been kicked out of the program).
This past summer it was freshman Jay Simpson reporting to campus so out of shape that his first season has essentially been a waste of a year.
And throughout this season, Purdue fans have had to sit and endure moments of immaturity and even a lack of effort at times from their team.
"When you talk of your basketball culture, it starts with your discipline off of the court," Painter said. "Then it goes to your discipline on the court. We have to be better in both areas."
Painter is hoping for signs of progress in his team's ability to work, focus, and be disciplined and tough against the Spartans today. Michigan State has owned those areas – and this series – over the past few seasons. The Spartans have won four consecutive games between the two teams, as well as 5 of the past 7 meetings.
However, even if the Boilermaker players do demonstrate growth in the eyes of their coach, it'll take more than just a solid two-plus hours to make a believer of Painter.
"If you can take care of everything off of the court, then it'll help you on the court," Painter said. "If you don't, then it'll really hurt you. It doesn't happen on one day or doing something the right way for two or three days. That is a habit that you have to build over time."


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This post is rather random, but I was doing some thinking a couple of days ago about Daniel Webster Hill, my maternal grandfather, who abandoned his wife and two children when my mother was only FOUR years old, never to be seen or heard from again. As I pondered this (as I often do) I realized that both of my parents had "lost" their fathers when they were FOUR, since that was my dad's age when he lost his father (Calvin Yarborough, Sr.). It occurred to me that this similarity may have even been a connector for my parents when they met and began dating (perhaps along with the fact that they were both single parents of sons just a year apart)!
As I continued along this line of contemplation, it occurred to me that perhaps the omen of my own marital experience had been passed down to me by my ancestors. You see, my husband also left our home, abandoning our daughter when she was only FOUR. Suddenly, I began to consciously realize how much my own experience as a single parent seemed to mimic that of so many of my female ancestors, a thought I've had before, but never had I seen/thought/acknowledged the FOUR factor.
From here, I began to think about how many of the women in my family line have ended up parenting and then growing old alone. I've realized this before, and often think of how fortunate some of my cousins are who do not descend from the exact same line as I. Those cousins have grown up in two-parent homes, with stable extended families whose members have lived long, healthy lives. They've not known what it is to lose a parent, grandparent, or sibling in their younger years, as I have, and this vastly differentiates the way they and their families view and experience life from the way I do. I won't expound upon this right now, but will in a future post. But anyway, as my reflections went in this direction, I began to realize that many of the the events that have shaped my life occurred with relation to the number FOUR.
Check this out.
My mother's father left her when she was FOUR.
My father's father died when he was FOUR.
My husband abandoned our family when our daughter was FOUR.
My father died on October FOURTH.
My brother (Arthur Yarborough, Jr.) died in the FOURTH month (April) in 1984.
I moved my oldest daughter away from her father (we were not married) when she was FOUR.
My maternal grandmother was married FOUR times.
There were FOUR children in our family, and just to add a smile - we grew up in a FOUR bedroom house! :)
There were a few more that I thought of that day, but of course I didn't write them down and now they aren't coming to me. But, anyway, such has been the power of "FOUR" in my life! What do you think?
Formerly, "Just Thinking", this blog presents the thoughts and experiences of a family historian working to demystify the past and uncover the stories of an elusive ancestry. NC surnames are YARBOROUGH, GREEN, HAWKINS, DUNSTON, DAVIS, BROWN, ROSS, HILL, BRYANT, and DAVENPORT in Franklin, Warren, Halifax, and Tyrrell Counties. With so much of my family's history shrouded in darkness, is my personal mission to uncover the hidden details of my ancestry and bring them INTO THE LIGHT.
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MAC, You Had Me at Hello!I recently read an article about MAC cosmetics and how it began as a humble venture. Now available in more than 70 countries and worn by virtually every runway model and celebrity, the company is huge (it was snatched up by Estee Lauder in 1998). MAC accounts for more cosmetic sales than any other non-drugstore brand. Why? MAC tries to be "all things for all women," a brand that is not intimid...read moreating, non-judgmental, and makes using makeup as much fun as possible. The company doesn't want to be stereotyped as preppy, sophisticated, or outrageous. It wants to defy description--and it does! With its mind-blowing number of eye shadow colors, there are certainly several to fit anybody. More overwhelming? MAC shadows are available in a enticing range of finishes--frost, lustre, matte, satin, veluxe pearl, and velvet. How can a woman NOT fall in love? Choosing MAC shadows is very much like visiting a Sherwin-Williams paint store, where you stand with your mouth agape at what is available. The hues have such subtle gradations that you may find yourself comparing two for half an hour. With my addiction to eye shadows, I practice the ultimate in self-control when I visit a MAC counter and make sure I research their online site thoroughly beforehand so that I know what I want. If I don't, I may be late on our mortgage payment! How does one not fall in love with the deep, true pigmentation, the plush, deluxe texture, or the all-day wear? My only problem is that I want to work with many of these shadows at once. I want to combine "Vapour" (velvety peach-pink with a violet pearl undertone) with "Steamy" (bluish-green) or possibly "Handwritten" (a chocolate so deep and inviting that you don't know whether to bite into it or wear it!). The price of $15.00 per shade is reasonable for the quality you get, but it's too much to buy all that I want. That sounds hedonistic, and perhaps it is. One trick I've learned with these wondrous gems: You can use brushes to work with them, but you can also simply employ your finger to press the outstanding tones onto your eyes for a gentle, ethereal look. However you choose to use it, just do it! (Whoops, I'm stealing your thunder, Nike!) — 4 years, 6 months agoGigiSD | 1102 reviews
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If one piece of chocolate on the factory's assembly line gets past Lucy and Ethel, the women will be fired. "We're fighting a losing game!" Lucy cries as the conveyor belt speeds up. So they stuff candy into their mouths, hats, and shirts. Now that's called multitasking!
TV producer Mary lays down an ultimatum to her gruff boss: "Mr. Grant, I've come to a very important decision, and I think you should know that I'm not asking — I'm demanding a raise." She gets it.
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Dr. Ralston received his Doctorate of Medicine at the University of Utah. He then served his general and plastic surgery residency in Detroit, Michigan. He returned to Ogden, Utah in 1980 to establish his practice in Plastic Surgery. Dr. Ralston is a board certified plastic surgeon, a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, which is the most prestigious cosmetic surgery association in the world, hosting carefully screened members. He has bee in practice in the Ogden, Utah area for 30 years where he is currently Chief of Plastic Surgery in the greater Ogden area.
His practice is exclusively cosmetic surgery from breast enhancement, breast lift (mastopexy), abdominoplasty and liposuction along with other cosmetic surgery procedures that he is qualified to perform.
As a plastic surgeon, Dr. Ralston has an outstanding reputation in the community with a track record of having performed numerous surgeries for patients throughout the Rocky Mountain region and beyond.
Today, he performs cosmetic surgery in his state of the art office based surgical facility that is certified by AAAASF accreditation.
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- General Surgery Residency - Providence Hospital, 1975 - 1978
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1919 - 2013
Dorothy Brown ("Nana") passed away on July 30, 2013, three weeks shy of her 94th birthday. She was born on August 19, 1919 at the Palo Alto hospital to Charles W. and Josephine D. Wright.
Her one sibling, Arthur Wright, preceded her in death. Dorothy was a loving mother to her daughter Dyan Hubb (Gary), grandmother to Lori (Jim) and David (Jamie), and great grandmother to David, Kelly, Molly and Stephen Rowse and Madelyn Hubb.
Dorothy was a lifetime resident of Palo Alto and Los Altos Hills. As a child, she grew up on the family's apricot ranch in Los Altos Hills, riding her pony to and from the one room Purissima grammar school. She attended Palo High School where she met and married her high school sweetheart, Alan Brown. They were married over 50 years when Alan passed away in July 1990.
Shortly after they were married, Alan enlisted in the Navy and Dorothy and Dyan moved to San Jose to live with relatives. Dorothy immediately found work at the P.M. Mill to support her family and the war effort while Alan was away. Alan's return to San Francisco on a dilapidated navy frigate was a story Dorothy loved to share with close friends and always brought tears to her eyes. After the war, Alan and Dorothy owned Brown's gift stores in Palo Alto and Los Altos for 12 years and then Dorothy worked in the food service departments at both De Anza and Foothill Junior Colleges before retiring in 1980.
Throughout her life Dorothy's passions included her family, her friends, and her animals. While living at her family ranch in Los Altos Hills, she surrounded herself with them all. She had a love of life that was infectious to all those around her, always up for an adventure, whether it be a late night ride on her horse, a weekend road trip to Tahoe or Fort Jones, or a 6 week journey around the US. And, though confined to a wheelchair in her later years, she always was ready to go wherever the road and her family and friends took her. Her unwavering love, kindness and enthusiasm are dearly missed.
Many thanks to the caring staff at Emeritus at Harden Ranch who cared so dearly for Dorothy in her final years.
Dorothy was interned next to her husband Alan at Alta Mesa Cemetery in Palo Alto. A celebration and remembrance of her life will take place at a later time.


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A new tool for investigating Delaware 'cancer clusters'
Delaware's Division of Public Health is trying out a new tool for investigating cancer clusters. The pilot project uses blood, urine and hair samples from a few dozen people in and around the town of Millsboro in Sussex County. It's the fist time the state has done such testing, but some locals say the study is too little, too late.
"Significantly elevated"
Coal power causes cancer — in a nutshell, that's the concern of Bill Zak, co-founder of Citizens for Clean Power.
"We thought it was high time that the state look into this," said Zak. "So we petitioned the department of public health to do just that."
The agency ultimately took up the case, and found that Zak's group was right: The incidence of lung cancer near Indian River Power Plant was higher than normal.
"There was an enormous difference between the national average, and even an enormous difference between the lung cancer incidence around the plant and the cancer incidence in the entire county of Sussex," Zak said.
But that does not mean the coal-fired power power plant is the culprit.
The 2008 study conducted by the health department found that tobacco was likely the driving force behind the local cluster. You can read the full 2008 study here.
Now the Division of Public Health is following up.
New approach
"[We are] taking a look to see what was showing up acutely in people's bodies," said Lisa Henry, the public health adminstrator leading up the current study. The goal, she says, is "to refine our methods and our processes for doing a larger ... body burden study."
In many ways Indian River is the epicenter of cancer cluster research across the state. Henry says 'body burden testing' is a new tool that gives health officials a snapshot of the chemicals floating around a person's system.
Last fall, the Division of Public Health got samples from 32 volunteer participants. The agency is currently undertaking round two with the same group. An interim report was issued this summer. You can read it here.
"We may be able to make certain conclusions that help steer us in certain directions," says Paul Silverman, the agency's associate deputy director, "but that's not the same as saying, definitively, 'What we're finding in their bodies was related to the power plant and that's causing cancer.'"
Public outcry after his agency's 2008 findings in Millsboro led to the preliminary identification of seven other cancer clusters across Delaware. You can see which areas are being monitored here.
If funding permits, Slverman would like to expand the body burden testing statewide.
To what end?
Still, Silverman says it's not the point of such studies to draw a clear link between industrial pollutants and higher cancer rates.
"A cluster is defined as just an unusual occurrence of a lot of cancer," Silverman said. "So yes, we see that in Delaware. The real issue is, 'Why are they occurring? Is there anything that we can practically do about it?' And that's a much more difficult question to answer."
With things like poor exercise, aging and smoking causing 3 out of every 5 cancer cases, Silverman says lifestyle factors are the low hanging fruit that health officials should focus on.
"The [Millsboro] community, however, was still concerned about the excess risk that may be caused by the power plant," said Silverman.
Zak, of Citizen's for Clean Power, thinks the power plant is to blame.
"No way is the smoking incidence the likely cause [of higher cancer rates]," Zak said. "The low hanging fruit here is this plant."
Despite initial pushback, Zak says the Division of Public Health has become much more responsive to the issue of cancer clusters. The current round of biological sampling is proof of that, he says.
"There were smoking guns here — and nothing was happening to study the issue," Zak said. "So we said, 'We don't have another five or ten years to wait, so let's get on this and at least get this as a pilot project.'"
Zak thinks the study is taking the state in the right direction. But he believes more needs to be done to rein in industrial emissions.
"Kids are going to be living, breathing this air," Zak said. "It's too late for adults, but children shouldn't have this. When adults know that it's there, there should be action."
Next steps
Health officials will present the findings of the Indian River study this spring.
NRG Energy, the power plant's owner, has recently invested more than $400 million in pollution controls, according to spokesman David Gaier. The company fully supports the state's efforts to improve air quality, Gaier said.
All parties agree the current round of body burden testing will likely raise more questions than it will answer. Health officials say determining, either way, if the local power plant is linked to local cancer rates is outside the scope of the current study. The goal, they say, is to add to Delaware's growing pool of cancer research.
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The Broward Sheriff's Office is partnering with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) to help raise money for the organization at its NAMIWalks fundraising event Saturday at Tradewinds Park in Coconut Creek. NAMI of Broward County is dedicated to empowering people affected by mental illness and their family members to achieve a better quality of life by providing mutual support, practical information, referral, advocacy and educational resources.
Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013
Tradewinds Park
3500 W. Sample Road, Coconut Creek
sign-in at 8 a.m.
walk begins at 9 a.m.
In addition to a 5k walk, the family-friendly, pet-friendly event will include a D.J., a morning warm-up, doggie treats and pet water station, chair massages, arts and crafts, line dancing, face-painting, games, vendors and more. There will be a team poster-making station and a Meaningful Messages Wall for photos, inspirational quotes or words of encouragement for walkers. There will be a pet parade with awards for best pet costume, best in show and for the pet and owner who look most alike. There will be a mental health therapy dog exhibition, a Coconut Creek Fire Department fire truck demonstration and BSO display cars. The entrance fee to the park will be waived for attendees who mention the NAMIWalks event.
"Please join me in this positive, healthy and fun event," Sheriff Israel said. "Together we will make a difference for this worthy cause."
The goal of the walk is to raise both money and awareness of the need for Broward County to support a world-class treatment and recovery system for people with mental illness. All of the proceeds will be used locally by NAMI to provide support to people with serious brain disorders and to their families, to advocate for improved opportunities for housing, rehabilitation and meaningful jobs and to support public education programs designed to help eliminate the pervasive stigma surrounding severe mental illness. For more information, visit www.namiwalks.org/browardcounty online.
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My mother would make baking powder biscuits when I was younger and my whole family loved them. They were buttery and fluffy, like baking powder biscuits should be. Until recently, they became a thing of the past when my family and I changed our diets to be gluten-free and casein free (and then followed the Specific Carbohydrate Diet – "SCD") as a part of helping my brother recover from autism. Now that I've made them gluten-free, these biscuits have once again become a staple and all-time favourite. My brother also loves helping make the biscuit dough.
A non-dairy butter alternative such Earth Balance (I use the soy-free version) works in place of the traditional butter without any compromise in flavour or quality. If you're gluten-free but not casein-free or dairy-free, use unsalted butter.
While the instructions are written for bringing the dough together with one's hands, you can also use a whisk to blend the flours, a fork or pastry cutter to work the butter substitute into the dry ingredients, and a spatula or wooden spoon to stir in the milk, if you prefer.
Gluten-Free Baking Powder Biscuits
Makes 12 to 14 biscuits
Dry ingredients:
- 120 grams (1 scant cup) cornstarch
- 112 grams (1 scant cup) millet flour
- 60 grams (1/2 scant cup) brown rice flour
- 1 to 1 ½ tsp. baking powder
- ¼ to ½ tsp. salt
- 1 ½ tsp. xanthan gum
Wet ingredients:
- 65 grams Earth Balance or other non-dairy butter substitute, room temperature and cut into pieces
- ½ to 1 cup unsweetened almond milk or rice milk, or other non-dairy milk alternative
Preheat oven to 425°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Mix the cornstarch, millet flour, brown rice flour, xanthum gum, baking powder, and salt with your hands. Add butter and work the butter into the dry ingredients with your fingers, until crumbly and resembles the appearance of small peas. Pour in the milk and use your hands to stir it in the flour and butter until dough forms. Form dough into a ball.
Place the ball of dough on a flat surface lined with plastic wrap or wax paper and cover with another sheet of plastic wrap or wax paper.
Roll out the dough to 1/2-inch thickness and cut into 2-inch rounds with an overturned glass or biscuit cutter. Place biscuit rounds on prepared sheet and bake for 15 minutes. Remove from oven and cool.


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10 Nine-letter WordsLanguage brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
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Bay Area high schools have produced seven current starting quarterbacks at FBS colleges:
Austyn Carta-Samuels, Vanderbilt: The senior from Bellarmine College Prep-San Jose is completing 66.1 percent of his attempts for 260.2 yards per game.
David Fales, San Jose State: The senior from Palma-Salinas has thrown for 1,502 yards in his last four games.
Jared Goff, Cal: The freshman from Marin Catholic-Kentfield has had three games of 450 yards or more.
Quinn Kaehler, San Diego State: The junior from California-San Ramon walked on after transferring from Diablo Valley College and won the starting job after an impressive relief performance against Ohio State.
Sean Mannion, Oregon State: The junior from Foothill-Pleasanton has thrown for at least three touchdowns in every game this season.
Joe Southwick, Boise State: The senior from San Ramon Valley-Danville is completing 72.3 percent of his attempts and has a 203.9 passer rating in home games.
Ikaika Woolsey, Hawaii: The redshirt freshman from Salesian-Richmond has started the last two games for the Rainbow Warriors.


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Most pain associated with the heel can be tied to plantar fasciitis. The plantar fascia is a long, wide, thin ligament in the bottom of your foot that connects the heel to the front of your foot and helps support your arch.
Forces acting on the foot from excess pressure or repetitive activity cause the arch to flatten out. At the same time, the plantar fascia is trying to keep this from happening. These opposing forces put tremendous stress on the tissue, causing microtears in the ligament. When enough continuing stress exceeds the body's ability to heal itself, the tissue under the heel becomes injured and painful.
The symptoms of plantar fasciitis include severe heel pain, especially first thing in the morning. Most people say that it hurts from "the instant their heel touches the ground." Some even feel pain and stiffness when starting to walk after sitting for a while. It gets worse after prolonged weight-bearing, walking, or standing. Pain can also radiate into the arch or sole of the foot.
Plantar fasciitis is often seen in persons over 40 years old or in those who are overweight. There is also an increase in visits to doctors during the spring and summer months as people resume activities involving walking or running. Among runners and other athletes, shoes that do not support the foot properly commonly lead to plantar fasciitis.
Diagnosis is most often made by assessing the place (middle of the bottom of the heel) and timing of the pain. The doctor will also question you on your activity levels and history of pain.
While fractures, infection, and arthritis can also occur, the place and timing of the pain is usually different. Sometimes an x-ray or other imaging test is needed to exclude these other causes.
Some treatment options include:
If home remedies are not working, your doctor may try more aggressive treatments. These treatments may include:
Be aware that it may take several months for your injury to heal completely. Do not return to sports or normal activity until your doctor says it is okay to do so.
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
American Podiatric Medical Association
Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation
Canadian Podiatric Medical Association
Heel and arch pain. Foot and Ankle Center website. Available at: http://www.footankle.com/heel-arch-pain2.htm. Accessed January 4, 2016.
Plantar fasciitis. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed. Updated September 14, 2015. Accessed January 4, 2016.
Plantar fasciitis and bone spurs. Ortho Info—American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons website. Available at: http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=a00149. Updated June 2010. Accessed January 4, 2016.
Last reviewed December 2015 by Michael Woods, MD
Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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The driver pronounced dead after a rollover crash Friday in Tiburon was identified as Kurt Sears of Chewelah, Wash.
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October 12, 2012
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NLDS Recap: Giants Defeat the Reds
If you put enough gas in your spaceship and just keep flying, you'll eventually get to a planet that looks just like this one. There's a guy just like you and one just like me, and every letter the guy like you is reading was written exactly like the letters that I am actually writing. The only difference is that, on the other planet, Hideki Matsui was looking for a changeup, but Pedro Martinez threw him a fastball, and Matsui took it for a called strike three. The Red Sox kept their three-run lead. And it took eight years before Grady Little was ultimately scapegoated for a Boston loss and pushed out.
On Thursday, Bruce Bochy had a Grady Little situation. It wasn't perfectly comparable, because Cain wasn't throwing his 125th pitch or anything, but he was presiding over the quick destruction of a six-run lead. He had allowed two runs in the fifth, then a solo homer to lead off the sixth, then a single, then a walk. Before the walk, he got a visit from the dugout, and you'd have thought he was on a short leash, but Bochy left him in for one more batter after the walk. Cain fell behind 2-0, but on the eighth pitch to Ryan Hanigan...
For good measure, Dusty Baker had sent both runners, and just like that the Giants' odds of winning the game went from around 73 percent to around 86 percent. Maybe this planet is the "other" planet, the alternative planet where Cain gets out of it instead of allowing a two-run double to Hanigan. Maybe Bochy's process was wrong. Maybe he was nuts to put his season to the test on Matt Cain's fastball. Cain had no command of the pitch in the inning; he had thrown 23 pitches in the inning, just nine of them fastballs, and by the time Hanigan came up he started the Reds' catcher with five sliders and a curve. Strike three was, for that matter, not even in the strike zone.
But process only matters when we're trying to predict the future. As far as it goes for Bochy, there is only one planet, we only play that inning out once, and he got it right.
The Giants won the series despite arguably none of their pitchers being sharp. Cain failed to register a quality start in either of his outings; Bumgarner didn't make it through five; Zito was lousy. Vogelsong was fine, I suppose, but you don't expect to win a postseason series without a single starter making it through six innings. On the other hand, you don't expect to win a postseason series when your ace, your Game One starter, pitches only one-third of an inning. Ultimately, that's the inevitable what-if for the Reds. Pre-game press conference:
Q. Is there anybody you would rather have on the mound?
Bless Dusty Baker's heart for answering that question honestly. You expect an immediate "no way, Mat's my guy." You expect something like "I wouldn't take the regenerated arm of Sandy Koufax if I can have Mat Latos, Giant killer." But that's just not true. You do wish you had Johnny Cueto. Injuries happen, but they don't even feel fair.
Still, it's not like Mat Latos had to pitch to Buster Posey with the bases loaded. That's just second-guessing, though. Second-guessing is so tempting when it's Dusty Baker, who is now 3-9 in his career when he has had a chance to eliminate an opponent. That's a meaningless statistic, except to the Reds and the Giants right now.
It is important to watch this foul ball knock Jeremy Affeldt down some stairs so that you will now forever be worried about a foul ball knocking a player down the stairs. The world is just a scary place.
*You think a closer can't be the Braves' best pitcher? Maybe not. But Wagner that year, his last year before he retired, had a 1.48 ERA, struck out 13.5 batters per nine, and struck out 4.78 batters per walk, in 69 innings. Aroldis Chapman, the Reds' closer, had a 1.51 ERA this year, struck out 15.3 batters per nine, and struck out 5.30 batters per walk. That was the year before Wagner retired.
And then watch Ryan Ludwick, also walking away at the same angle.
Perhaps some sort of collective protest, or a total misunderstanding of the rules.
Reviewing the longest home runs that Reds pitchers allowed this year, that response from Hanigan is a bit more exaggerated than you can normally expect. More often, he does one of these moves: The powered-down robot and the limp puppet.
Q. Do you draw any comparisons between tomorrow and the last day of 2010?
So can the Giants win the NLCS? Obviously, the answer is yes, but this wasn't a real encouraging series for them. Before the series we thought they had a good offense and a high-upside rotation that could also be terrible. The high-upside rotation was, basically, kind of terrible. The Giants were outscored in the series. If you want to find a hero, well, I guess Gregor Blanco? They don't vote for MVPs in these series, but I wouldn't have been mad at all if the winner had been Brandon Phillips,
or Bronson Arroyo, or Ryan Ludwick, or Sean Marshall, all of whom probably played/pitched better than anybody on the Giants. It's a good team. It really is a very good team, just as the Reds were a very good team. But the most important factor in any game is the starting pitcher. Right now, the Giants just don't know what sort of starting pitcher they're going to send out each game.
As for the Reds, it's a good team that returns next year, and a healthy Johnny Cueto and a fully healthy Joey Votto might have been enough to win this series. They probably won't get 161 starts from their rotation next year, and Ryan Ludwick won't necessarily be back. But the Reds, disappointed I'm sure, have nothing to be ashamed of.
Sam Miller is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @SamMillerBB
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I was really quite stunned when Dusty sent the runners in the 6th. They had very little chance of actually stealing the bag, and I did not see much gained from a succesful theft anyways. If you watch the play, Posey double-clutched and still hosed the runner. Just foolish.
Oct 12, 2012 07:05 AM
Kimberl didn't blow the save, it was Mike Dunn.
Oct 12, 2012 07:23 AM
If if if...Brian Wilson had been playing for the Giants? Melky hadn't been suspended? What's your point?
Oct 12, 2012 07:26 AM
I fail to see how people can view a suspension as hurting a team.
Oct 13, 2012 06:26 AM
Josh A
Are you sure that's Ryan Ludwick in that gif, and not just some Reds fan strolling across the outfield?
Oct 12, 2012 07:55 AM
FWIW, judging from the pitch quadrant shown on gameday, the balls and strike calling was atrocious in this series. A few years back, MLB gave lip service to trying to get the umpires to call a rule book strike zone. I'd suggest some remedial instruction is in order.
Oct 12, 2012 08:31 AM
One more thing; the Giants did get some excellent pitching from one of their starters besides Vogelsong except the it came from Lincecum pitching in relief. I have to agree that the Giants starting rotation has been underwhelming to say the least, and that's been true for the last couple of weeks.
Oct 12, 2012 08:34 AM
This seems like somewhat of a pattern with Dusty where he sticks with his starters a little too long in the playoffs. Prior and Wood in '03 and now again with Latos.
Oct 12, 2012 09:49 AM
I think most of the criticism Dusty Baker gets is simply no longer valid, it is rampant because of the manager he once was, not the manager he is today. Without Cueto and with Bailey having pitched Tuesday who else do you want facing Posey in the 5th? Broxton, Sam LeCure? And when would you have gotten him up? Latos pitched brilliantly and then fell apart with little warning.
Oct 12, 2012 11:01 AM
I agree that Baker gets too much hate from many bitter Cubs fans but I wonder if he could have learned anything about start hook in elimination games. Obviously hindsight is 20/20 but would it have been outrageous to bring in Chapman at that point? I was thinking at the time of Posey's at bat I would've gone to Broxton. In elimination games I don't think you can afford to let your starter try to pitch through trouble. Cincinnati has 3 pretty good relievers in Marshall, Chapman, and Broxton. Maybe the 5th is too early to bring one of them in but it was a critical point in the game.
Oct 12, 2012 12:34 PM
If Baker was going to bring anybody in to replace Latos in that situation, it should have been Chapman, but Baker subscribes to the theory that your best relief pitcher should be saved for the 9th inning. You would think that the success of the 2012 Giants and A's would help put a nail in the coffin of the dedicated 'closer' since neither team had a relief pitcher with 30 saves, but it won't make a dent. Dollars to donuts that if Brian Wilson comes back next year 'good as new' he will be pitching almost exclusively in the 9th inning.
Oct 12, 2012 15:03 PM
Beau Giles
The Reds are still going to win, even if Walt Jocketty has to get in his time machine to change the past.
Oct 12, 2012 10:10 AM
Sam, these have been really great, entertaining, and insightful write-ups for the entire series. Thank you!
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