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Parks Furniture has been serving Toronto, Brampton, Mississauga, Oakville, Burlington, Hamilton, Guelph, Kitchener, Brantford and St. Catharine's since 1948. We recently opened a store in Niagara Falls, NY and now service Niagara Falls, Orchard Park, Buffalo and Amherst. We offer quality furniture at the lowest price and we are in Canada and the United States. Once you spend $1200 in our store as a non-member you become a member and now receive 40% off your furniture and 50% off your mattresses for life. Your friends and family can also take advantage of your member pricing too, as long as they come down with you.
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Heat center Shaquille O'Neal is no fan of the new basketballs to be used by the NBA this season, and isn't afraid to say so.
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Heat center Shaquille O'Neal is no fan of the new basketballs to be used by the NBA this season, and isn't afraid to say so.
either way he still wont make free throws
[/center]If you havin' depth problems, I feel bad for you son; I got 99 problems but a bench ain't one! - Hicks
Shaq: 'Whoever [changed ball] needs to be fired'
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MIAMI -- Heat center Shaquille O'Neal is no fan of the new basketballs to be used by the NBA this season, and isn't afraid to say so.
"I think the new ball is terrible," O'Neal said Monday. "It's the worst decision some expert, whoever did it, made. ... The NBA's been around how long? A hundred years? Fifty years? So to change it now, whoever that person is needs his college degree revoked. It's a terrible decision."
It's only the second time in 60 seasons the NBA has changed its game balls, and the first time in 35 years.
The new model, the league said in a release, "is a microfiber composite with moisture management that provides superior grip and feel throughout the course of a game."
O'Neal, along with many of his Heat teammates, strongly disagree.
"Feels like one of those cheap balls that you buy at the toy store, indoor-outdoor balls," O'Neal said. "I look for shooting percentages to be way down and turnovers to be way up, because when the ball gets wet you can't really control it. Whoever did that needs to be fired. It was terrible, a terrible decision. Awful. I might get fined for saying that, but so what?"
Other factors cited by the league in changing the ball is so that ones used in games will be uniform throughout the league, and that the leather models needed a breaking-in period that won't be necessary with the composite.
"I don't like it, because it's different," Heat backup center Michael Doleac said. "You get used to something, you don't want to change it. ... But in three years, we'll probably all look back and not be able to imagine playing with anything else."
The new composite will be the third type of ball Heat guard Dwyane Wade will use in four months.
Last season's finals were played with the traditional leather ball, then the FIBA world championships used a ball that was slightly smaller than the NBA model -- something Wade spent most of the summer getting familiar with.
"Now I've got to make another adjustment with a ball that I haven't shot with at all and it's going to be a challenge," Wade said. "That means it's going to take a lot of late nights for me, I'll tell you that, to get really adjusted to the ball because I have no choice."
Wade said the biggest complaint players have with the new ball is the slippage factor, as in how much grip will be lost when players' hands sweat and that moisture gets on the ball.
"Hopefully over time, you'll hear nothing about it and we'll all stop complaining," Wade said. "But I think rebounds are going to go up this year. All around the league, I think there's going to be a lot of bricks thrown up there early on."
I must say, I have to agree with the Diesel here. I haven't actually used one, but, I don't like the look of it, or the simple fact that they changed it.
It's a new day for Pacers Basketball.
"I don't like it, because it's different," Heat backup center Michael Doleac said. "You get used to something, you don't want to change it. ... But in three years, we'll probably all look back and not be able to imagine playing with anything else."
Doleac should pray he'll still be in the league three years from now to imagine anything along those lines
They started selling the new ball at the beginning of the summer. Did Shaq not try a free throw in the past 3 months? Or was he practicing with a ball that he knew would never again be used in a game?
Either way, he's the moron here.
EDIT: That's not to say I agree with the NBA decision... I just think the time to whine was 3 months ago.
Wait a minute....FIBA uses a smaller ball? Really?
They make it sound like it's a pretty small difference, but, Wow....I didn't know that at all. How come no one ever mentions that when they talk about Team USA's poor shooting? Closer line and smaller ball would obviously have a pretty big effect.
I think it would take awhile to adjust to a smaller ball. I was really supprised when I read that.
I have to say, the maturity in this thread is more than I expected.
I've got like 4 jokes ready to fly, and that was before we got into the "small balls" conversation.
I'm a depraved person.
It's a new day for Pacers Basketball.
i don't know if this has been mentioned on the forum yet but Steve Kerr, Reggie Miller and Mark Jackson approve of the new ball.
What do you think of the new basketball coming out? It appears to have gold on it. How does it feel in your hand?
Eddie, when the league designed the new ball last year, I was invited along with Reggie Miller and Mark Jackson to shoot around and dribble with it at Madison Square Garden. All three of us really liked the ball. It's a new design and it is made of composite leather rather than true leather. The result is a much more consistent feel to each ball. The old NBA ball was subject to a lot of variances because the leather was a little different on each one. Some balls broke in well, and others didn't. Some were a little lopsided. All of them took a week or so to get a feel for. The new ball is ready to play with right away because it has a broken-in feel to it. It is also more durable. In short, I think the ball will be great for the league and it's going to be a good seller in sporting goods stores, too unlike the old ball.
Too easy.
Maybe his argument would be legit if he actually shot the ball as opposed to heaving it at the basket...
Doesn't matter when people complained. The league wasn't going to change its mind anyway.
Shaq sweats A LOT.
This board is WAAAAy too serious
I was wondering if anyone would pick that up.
It's a new day for Pacers Basketball.
PARIS -- David Stern has flown across the Atlantic on an NBA Europe Live tour that will have taken him to five countries by the middle of next week, but the league's commissioner has been unable to escape the raging controversy about the new basketball introduced this season.
Speaking to reporters in Paris before Sunday's exhibition game between the San Antonio Spurs and Maccabi Tel-Aviv, Stern conceded for the first time that reverting to the old leather ball is a possibility if the rigorous testing he has just ordered validates the widespread complaints about the ball -- particularly its tendency to become slippery when wet.
"We have sent out the most stringent testing crew to see what there is to the issue," Stern said when asked if returning to leather was under consideration.
"Right now our plans are to stay the course, but we will monitor it and if we find there is something to it and it is a serious issue, we will take the appropriate steps because the most important thing to us is the game.
"We have gone out and done tests. We have wet both balls. When the [old] leather ball is wet at the end of the game, it is very slippery.
"But with the new ball, all you have got to do is put in a new ball because they [Spalding's new microfiber composite balls] are all the same, all the time. One of the benefits Spalding stressed to us is that it is a better ball, it has a more modern approach to the grip that would endure.
"But the game is uppermost in our mind."
Stern went on to insist that the technology behind the new synthetic ball is sound.
"Spalding came to us and said they had a technology that will improve the ball," he said. "They said that we are the only sport, professional or college, the last sport using leather and that they had a way to improve it.
"They came to us several years ago and we said we would have to see the technology working they wanted to launch it one year ago, but we said no. We used it in the D-League, used it in the summer league, had players test it individually and, a year later, they said they had improved it even more.
"We said, 'OK, let's go.' So that's what we did."
The change from traditional leather to a synthetic ball, the first such change made by the NBA in 35 years, has been greeted with almost universal criticism by players after a week of training camp.
Complaints have centered not only upon the ball becoming slippery, but also a "sticky" texture when dry and its tendency to wear out more quickly than the old-style ball, making it likely that more than one ball will have to be used in many games.
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When the muscles and ligaments supporting a woman's pelvic organs weaken, the pelvic organs can slip out of place and create a bulge in the vagina (prolapse). Women most commonly develop pelvic organ prolapse years after childbirth, after a hysterectomy or after menopause. This bulge can worsen over time. If you have symptoms, see your health care provider.
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., ranks No. 1 for gynecology in the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings. Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., is ranked among the Best Hospitals for gynecology by U.S. News & World Report.
Diagnosis of pelvic organ prolapse begins with your history and a physical exam of your pelvic organs to help your health care provider determine the type of prolapse.
Beyond this office visit, some additional tests might be necessary in some situations. Ask your health care provider why each test is being done so that you can understand the different decisions you and your provider can make about your management options.
Tests for pelvic organ prolapse might include:
Your treatment will depend on the severity of your symptoms. If your prolapse does not bother you, your health care provider might recommend treating your prolapse without surgery. If symptoms get worse and significantly affect your quality of life, surgery might be needed.
Weakness of the pelvic floor often affects more than one area. For example, if you develop symptoms of one type of prolapse, you're more likely to develop other types. Mayo Clinic pelvic floor specialists try to correct all prolapse-related problems at one time.
Many women with prolapse are also in menopause. Menopause results in lower estrogen levels, which can lead to vaginal dryness. If vaginal dryness is a problem for you, you might want to discuss estrogen therapy with your health care provider.
Some women might be treated with estrogens before a surgical procedure. However, some people shouldn't use estrogen, so discuss the risks and benefits with your health care provider.
Physical therapy might be recommended, with pelvic floor exercises using biofeedback to strengthen specific muscles of the pelvic floor. Biofeedback involves the use of monitoring devices with sensors that are placed in your vagina, rectum or on your skin.
As you perform an exercise, a computer screen shows whether you're using the right muscles and the strength of each squeeze (contraction) so you learn how to do the exercises properly. Long-term strengthening of these muscles is the most important factor in reducing your symptoms. Biofeedback teaches you how to use your own muscles to keep them strong.
Some women might prefer a nonsurgical option for prolapsed organs. Pessaries are silicone devices that come in a variety of shapes and sizes. They're placed vaginally to hold the pelvic organs in place.
Mayo Clinic doctors might use vaginal approaches or other minimally invasive (laparoscopic) surgery, including robot-assisted surgery, to treat some types of pelvic organ prolapse. Minimally invasive surgery allows your surgeon to make smaller incisions and can shorten your hospital stay.
Talk to your surgeon about why one procedure might be better for you than another, what the surgical approach will be and what materials will be used. Also ask your surgeon about the long-term success for your planned procedure.
Depending on the location of your prolapse, there are different surgical strategies for various types of prolapse:
Anterior prolapse. An anterior prolapse often involves the bladder and is called a cystocele. Your surgeon pushes your bladder up and secures the connective tissue between your bladder and vagina to keep the bladder in its proper position.
The surgeon also removes excess tissue. If you have urinary incontinence, your doctor might recommend a bladder neck suspension or sling to support your urethra.
Vaginal vault prolapse. In women who have had a hysterectomy, the prolapse is at the apex, or an apical prolapse. Also known as a vaginal vault prolapse, this type of prolapse might involve the bladder, rectum and, commonly, the small bowel, where the bulge is called an enterocele. Your surgeon might perform corrective surgery through the vagina or abdomen.
In a vaginal approach, your surgeon will use the ligaments that support the uterus to correct the problem. In an abdominal approach — which might be performed laparoscopically, robotically or as an open procedure — your surgeon attaches the vagina to the tailbone, and small portions of synthetic mesh might be used to help support vaginal tissues. This particular type of surgery is called sacrospinous fixation.
Other vaginal vault suspensions might also be recommended. Talk to your doctor about the use of mesh materials if you have concerns.
Remember that prolapse surgery only repairs the tissue bulge. If the bulge doesn't bother you, surgery isn't needed. Recurrent prolapse is common, as surgery does not repair the underlying weakened tissues.
Prolapse is the result of weakened pelvic floor tissues that create a bulge, like a hernia. Anything you do to stop weakening these tissues is protective against your bulge getting worse or returning after a surgical repair, including:
Mayo Clinic works with hundreds of insurance companies and is an in-network provider for millions of people. In most cases, Mayo Clinic doesn't require a physician referral. Some insurers require referrals or may have additional requirements for certain medical care. All appointments are prioritized on the basis of medical need.
At Mayo Clinic's campus in Arizona, doctors trained in gynecology, urology and urogynecology diagnose and treat women who have pelvic organ prolapse.
For appointments or more information, call the Central Appointment Office at 800-446-2279 (toll-free) 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mountain Standard Time, Monday through Friday or complete an online appointment request form.
At Mayo Clinic's campus in Florida, doctors trained in gynecology, urology and urogynecology provide evaluation and treatment for women who have pelvic organ prolapse.
For appointments or more information, call the Central Appointment Office at 904-953-0853 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time, Monday through Friday or complete an online appointment request form.
At Mayo Clinic's campus in Minnesota, doctors trained in gynecology, urology and gynecologic surgery diagnose and treat women who have pelvic organ prolapse.
For appointments or more information, call the Central Appointment Office at 507-538-3270 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Central time, Monday through Friday or complete an online appointment request form.
See information on patient services at the three Mayo Clinic locations, including transportation options and lodging.
Mayo Clinic doctors contribute to the understanding and treatment of pelvic organ prolapse through research and clinical practice. Researchers at Mayo Clinic focus on improving the diagnostic procedures and treatments used for all types of pelvic organ prolapse.
See a list of publications by Mayo Clinic doctors on pelvic organ prolapse on PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine.
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ROMULUS, Mich. - The Romulus mayor's chief of staff was not saying much on Monday, but still more than the mayor himself has said. He refused to step out of his office.
"If you want a comment about the police chief, I will tell you that we are very sad and disappointed, and that would be the comment that I have," said the chief of staff.
Perhaps Mayor Alan Lambert thought Local 4 wanted to question him about the Michigan State Police investigation focused on him. Instead, as the chief of staff may have realized, Local 4 wanted to know the real deal about now-former Romulus Police Chief Robert Dickerson.
Read more: Romulus mayor responds to police searching home
Dickerson handed in his letter of resignation on Friday. He said he was disappointed the mayor has not stepped down given his legal issues.
However, the day before the chief resigned he was dealing with his own legal issues. The Local 4 Defenders have obtained the legal documents.
It all involves an explosive whistleblower lawsuit brought against the police chief by a former police officer. The case centers on an Aug. 12 incident. A Romulus police officer was caught by surveillance cameras allegedly punching an inmate who was handcuffed.
When an attorney submitted a request for the tape, it was denied. The officer who has brought forth the whistleblower case says the chief told him to get rid of the video. Instead, he filed a complaint with the Attorney General, and now this case.
The investigation is ongoing. The officer accused of beating the inmate was discharged and has since resigned. As for the tape of the incident, it likely never will be released.
"Judge (Robert) Colombo in the 3rd Circuit Court made a ruling that it was in the best interest of the person involved in the video, that his interest outweighed the public's interest in viewing that," said Romulus Police Cpt. John Leacher.
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You Bet Your Life
Groucho Marx knew the secret word was enjoyment.
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Because my father was Groucho, I learned to appreciate the aroma of a good Havana cigar when I was still in a crib. I got my first whiff of cigar smoke when Groucho leaned over the crib railing one evening to kiss me good night. Between his thumb and forefinger was a long, smoldering stogie from which was wafting a large, bluish-white cloud of smoke. Seeing this, my mother bawled out father for not being more considerate of his only son. She felt the smoke would hurt my tender lungs. But of course it didn't. Like Bill Clinton, I did not inhale.
When I was seven, and old enough to sit at the dinner table with my parents, Groucho would turn to me when he was on his dessert and coffee course and say, "Trot upstairs to my humidor, Big Feet (he always called me Big Feet because he claimed my footsteps on the stairs outside his bedroom woke him up early in the morning), and bring me a Dunhill 410." In a large humidor in his upstairs study he kept a trove of the most expensive cigars money could buy--mostly Dunhills. There were light cigars for after lunch, and heavier, more pungent ones for after dinner. The latter were his favorites--especially the 410s. He also kept on hand a box of extra-sized cigars called Belindas. These, I believe, were the kind Winston Churchill smoked. They were long and fat and looked like a miniature Scud missile. These he kept for special occasions, to be given to important guests--cigar aficionados who'd appreciate them--or when he wanted to show off.
Even though I had no desire to start smoking when I was still in grammar school, the rich, fragrant aroma of a Havana cigar always whetted my olfactory senses as I opened the humidor, selected a 410 and carried it downstairs to my father at the dinner table. And I would watch with childish fascination as father clipped off the tip of the cigar with his mother-of-pearl cigar cutter, and then stuck it in his mouth and torched the large end of it with his silver cigarette lighter. As he took a deep, satisfying drag of his 410, and then exhaled a large cloud of smoke in my direction, it didn't seem possible to me that anyone could get so much enjoyment out of putting just smoke in his mouth and then blowing it out. At that age, I would have much preferred a chocolate cigar. But for Groucho, no dinner was complete without his 410, nor a day without at least two of them.
Of course, it hadn't always been that way with him, because he hadn't always been able to lead such a well-ordered existence.
Born in 1890 on the East Side of Manhattan, Julius Marx was the fourth of five sons born to my grandparents, Samuel and Minnie Marx. From the beginning (partially because his father was awkward as a tailor--nicknamed "misfit Sam"--and partially because Minnie had a paternally inherited love for show business) the Marx family lived off the inconsistent profits of the vaudeville stage.
Money was never plentiful. Even when Groucho and his brothers were in small-time vaudeville prior to The First World War, he was lucky to be able to afford an after-dinner cigar at all, much less an expensive Dunhill. As a matter of fact, with the tendency of many theater owners to run off with the weekly take without paying the actors, he was lucky sometimes to have the money to buy a dinner at a cheap Greek restaurant.
When he became a success in vaudeville and on Broadway's legitimate stage, he didn't have the time after dinner to enjoy a leisurely smoke. In order to make the curtain he usually had to gulp down his meal and rush right over to the theater and start putting on his makeup. When he first made it in big-time vaudeville, he wore an
ersatz mustache that had to be glued on under his nose very carefully before every performance. This took time. Once, however, Groucho lingered over his dinner coffee in the restaurant across the street from the theater too long. As a result he was too late getting to the theater to glue on the phony mustache. Instead, he grabbed a stick of black greasepaint from the dressing table and painted on a black mustache under his nose and heavy eyebrows over his eyes, then dashed out on the stage doing his inimitable crouched walk in a sketch called, "Fun in Hi Skule."
"To my amazement I found it didn't hurt my audience acceptance one bit," Groucho told me. "If anything the laughs were even bigger."
But the theater manager was outraged when he saw the painted mustache and confronted Groucho about it backstage after the performance.
"What's with the greasepaint mustache?" he asked Groucho. "I don't like it."
"You don't like it?"
"No. It looks phony."
"Who cares?" Groucho retorted. "It didn't hurt the laughs any."
"I don't care, Groucho. I paid for a real mustache, and I expect to get one."
But Groucho refused to back down, and from that moment on, he painted on the mustaches and eyebrows that soon became his trademark.
The painted mustache stayed with him through big time vaudeville, three Broadway hit shows--I'll Say She Is (1924), Cocoanuts (1926), and Animal Crackers (1928)--and 13 Marx Brothers films, which included The Cocoanuts (1929), Animal Crackers (1930) (both reproductions of the aforementioned Broadway shows), and the classic, A Night at the Opera (1935).
The Marx Brothers films of the '30s and early '40s left Groucho financially comfortable--which was terribly important to a man who lost nearly every cent on Black Monday in 1929. After that shock, Groucho was forever insecure about money--he would have preferred to keep the greasepaint under his nose in case he needed to sell it as oil someday.
It took the Second World War and an incident in the train station in Washington, D.C., to make him give up the greasepaint mustache.
While with a group of other stars who arrived in the nation's capital to sell war bonds in 1942, Groucho was shocked to discover that none of the fans waiting at the Union Station train platform recognized him without his makeup. All the other stars, including Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Cary Grant, were besieged by autograph hunters, but Groucho was left standing there with egg on his face. Without his mustache he was a "nobody."
That settled it. As soon as he returned to his home in Beverly Hills he started to grow a real mustache. Never again would he be upstaged by such low-lifes as Hope, Crosby and Grant. And never again would he have to paint on a mustache in order to be recognized. "I can be a real person and they'll still know me," he boasted. "And I won't have to put on makeup to work."
Which is why he looked the way he did when he became America's most successful quizmaster in the '50s and '60s, and the star of You Bet Your Life. The hugely successful ABC radio quiz show was, like most of Groucho's career, the product of serendipity. During what was supposed to be a five-minute radio spot with Bob Hope, Groucho tossed out the script and manufactured his own lines for almost a half hour.
This improvised comedy session eventually spawned You Bet Your Life. The show provided Groucho with the perfect medium for his brand of sardonic wit--his guests playing helpless straight men, suffering under an endless barrage of puns and double entendres.
The show ran for four years on radio and 11 years on TV, and made Groucho Marx a household name.
Contrary to popular belief, Groucho was not a heavy smoker, like, say, George Burns, who until recently smoked at least ten cigars a day. Groucho never smoked before noon and normally, but not always, had one cigar after lunch and one after dinner. If he had to stay up past his usual bedtime--with dinner guests who refused to go home or to attend some function on the town, he might, if he felt especially daring, smoke a third cigar around midnight.
The cigar that movie fans saw in his hands or in his mouth when he was acting was generally unlit. He just used the unlit cigar as a prop, something to stick in his mouth, or to keep his hands busy when he wasn't talking. He did this for two reasons: one, he didn't want to smoke all day when he was shooting a film, and two, it would have been too difficult for the director to match the length the cigar had burned down between shots when it was time for another take. But if Groucho kept his cigar unlit, it was always the same length.
Groucho didn't have many vices, if you can call smoking cigars a vice. He wasn't much of a drinker--one Old Fashioned before dinner and a glass of beer with his meal would generally take him through the evening, unless he was having difficulty sleeping, in which case he'd take a straight shot of Ovaltine before putting on his sleep mask and inserting his ear plugs.
The only time I ever saw him even slightly tipsy was at Chasen's the night he had dinner there after his brother Chico's funeral. He had two Old Fashioneds instead of his customary one. But that was understandable since Chico was the first of the Marx Brothers to go, and Groucho was suddenly feeling his mortality.
Groucho wasn't much of a womanizer, either, or an especially good lover. Though he fancied himself a romantic, it wasn't easy for him to act romantic. When his third wife, Eden, once complained to him that she didn't like the smell of his "stinky old cigar" and ordered him to put it out or else get another wife, he threw Rudyard Kipling's line back at her: "... a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke!"
No fan of Kipling, Eden refused to sleep with Groucho for six months. "If you love your cigar so much, then sleep with it," were her parting words. "But in another room."
But as long as he could have his cigar fix after dinner, he didn't need a charming woman. He was happy. And God help any of us kids who insisted on going to a movie theater where smoking wasn't allowed.
Friday night was usually the night he liked to take my sister and me to the movies. The routine would always be the same. if I, for example, suggested going to the Warner Brothers Beverly Theater because I wanted to see the Jimmy Cagney gangster film that was playing there, Groucho would shake his head and reply, "How can we go there? They don't allow smoking. What's playing at the Marquis?"
The Marquis was a fifth-run movie house in a bad section of town, just outside the Beverly Hills city limits. Generally we would have already seen the movie that was playing there. But that wasn't important to Groucho. What was important was that you were allowed to smoke in the balcony of the Marquis because it wasn't in Beverly Hills, which had an ordinance against cigar smoking.
If we complained about going to the Marquis, Groucho would spend the next 30 minutes looking through the movie section of the paper, trying to find a theater that we all wanted to see and where something was playing where you could also smoke. Trying to please both us and him was virtually impossible. So, in the end, if we wanted to go to the movies we'd either have to sit through some turkey we didn't want to see or stay home and listen to him play Gilbert & Sullivan recordings on the hi-fi. Given the choice of listening to Groucho sing along with the Doyle Carter Company's renditions of "The Mikado" and "H.M.S. Pinafore," or seeing a bad movie we'd already seen or never wanted to see, we'd usually, out of sheer desperation, opt for the latter.
Groucho had been an inveterate cigar smoker since he was a 15-year-old adolescent playing in small-time vaudeville. He'd picked up the habit from an old vaudevillian who had tipped him off that a cigar was the most useful prop an actor could carry with him on the stage. "If you forget a line," my father once confessed to me, "all you have to do is stick the cigar in your mouth and puff on it until you can think of what you've forgotten." In his youth, Groucho was too poor to smoke anything but nickel cigars. Only once before he came into big money did he loosen up enough to spend a dime for one. This was the result of an advertisement he had seen for a brand of ten cent pure Havanas called La Preferencias. The ad fascinated him, for it promised the smoker "Thirty glorious minutes in Havana."
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Hernandez's great start foiled by nemesis Rangers
Mariners ace allows a run in ninth inning to fall to 8-2 on the season
SEATTLE -- Felix Hernandez continued the best start of his career by allowing just four hits over 8 1/3 innings on Friday at Safeco Field, but it wasn't enough to top his longtime Texas nemesis as the Rangers rallied for a 1-0 win in the ninth.
Hernandez took the tough-luck loss on a night his team managed just two hits and dropped its fourth straight game at home to even its season record at 34-33.
"Obviously when we get a start like that from Felix, we want to score some runs to help him out," said Mariners catcher Mike Zunino, who had both Seattle's hits. "But they threw nine great innings and we only threw 8 2/3."
Hernandez allowed just four singles and two walks with six strikeouts, but a ninth-inning single by Elvis Andrus, two stolen bases and a walk to Shin-Soo Choo led manager Lloyd McClendon to summon closer Fernando Rodney with one out after his starter had reached 114 pitches.
Adrian Beltre then drove in the game's only run with a fielder's-choice grounder to short, with Andrus scoring as second baseman Robinson Cano's relay throw to first went wide of Logan Morrison.
Cano was charged with an error for allowing Beltre to advance to second on the throw, but the run was earned as a double play can't be assumed. Replays appeared to show Beltre would have been safe even if Cano's throw was on the money.
"The guy was on him pretty good," McClendon said of Choo's slide into Cano at second. "I thought he hung in there pretty darn good. It was a tough play all the way around, it was a tough turn all the way around. With Brad [Miller] going in the hole [to field the grounder], everything just developed very slowly for us on that one."
Beltre got the game-winning RBI against his longtime friend and former teammate Hernandez on a night he went 0-for-4 and never got the ball out of the infield.
"I was trying to look for a pitch I could hit in the air," Beltre said of facing Rodney. "He threw me a sinker that 90 percent of the time I'm going to hit, and he threw me a changeup away I hit foul. At that point I was just trying to survive. I put it in play, and when I saw the ball, I thought I had a chance to beat it out to get that run in."
Hernandez fell to 8-2 with a 2.29 ERA in 15 games, which remains his best start yet in his 10-year career. Hernandez's best previous-best record through 15 starts was 8-4 with a 2.32 ERA last year.
After eight scoreless innings and a career-high 15 strikeouts in a no-decision against the Rays in his last outing, Hernandez extended his shutout streak to 18 frames before the Rangers eked out their lone tally.
"I felt really good," Hernandez said. "I made a mistake to Andrus and then he stole those two bases and that was the difference in the game."
It was the 58th time in Hernandez's career that he's allowed one run or less in eight-plus innings. He's wound up with 12 no-decisions and two losses in those situations. But none of that changes the fact the four-time All-Star is on a tremendous roll.
Over his last six starts, Hernandez has posted a 1.34 ERA with 52 strikeouts and six walks.
"His stuff was awesome today," said Zunino. "They were swinging the bat pretty early in the count and he wasn't able to get as many strikeouts as he had in Tampa, but he did a great job keeping the ball down, got a lot of ground balls and I thought he threw the ball really, really well."
Hernandez is now 12-21 with a 4.01 ERA in 42 career starts against the Rangers, including 0-5 in his last eight outings against the AL West rivals.
"They're tough. Real tough," Hernandez said. "I did good, but still it was a lousy game."
Rangers right-hander Nick Tepesch matched zeroes with Hernandez and allowed just Zunino's two hits over 6 1/3 innings before turning the game over to his bullpen, which proceeded to finish the job with 2 2/3 perfect innings.
"You don't win ballgames when you get two hits," said McClendon. "We're going through a little funk right now. But this team has got to fight and stay together and we'll come out of this."
Zunino hit a leadoff double in the sixth, but the Mariners couldn't take advantage, and Seattle also stranded runners at second and third in the seventh when reliever Jason Frasor came on to strike out Endy Chavez and Dustin Ackley.
Zunino has caught all of Hernandez's starts this year and has hit .370 (20-for-54) with five of his seven home runs and 13 of his 22 RBIs for the season in those 15 games. But the youngster's hits were all the support Hernandez got on Friday and it wasn't enough to reward his latest gem.
"We're disappointed," McClendon said. "Anytime you come home and lose four in a row, particularly off the road trip that we had you're disappointed, but it's not the end of the world. This too will pass. It's a tough season. This is a grind. A Major League season is tough.
"In a 162-game schedule you're gonna have your ups and downs and you've go to be able to manage them and keep those valleys from being too low. We'll come out tomorrow and we'll try to win a ballgame."
Greg Johns is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregJohnsMLB as well as his Mariners Musings blog. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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TPWD Increases Pheasant Bag Limit
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission has approved increasing the daily bag limit for ring-necked pheasant in Texas Panhandle counties from two cocks to three.
The additional bird in the bag is not expected to significantly impact overall harvest based on a long term comparison of hunter effort.
From 1995 to 2002, the pheasant season in the Panhandle began on the second Saturday in December and ran for 16 consecutive days. In 2002, the department increased the length of the pheasant season in the Texas Panhandle from 16 to 30 days, and began the season one week earlier. Accordingly, as a precautionary measure, when the department lengthened the season and opened it a week earlier, the bag limit was reduced from three cock pheasant to two.
The ring-necked pheasant is a polygamous species (the male mates with multiple females) and harvest is restricted to males which will not affect the overall population, according to TPWD wildlife biologists.
"An analysis of harvest data during the last 11 years (eight years at a three-bird bag limit and three years at the two-bird bag limit) indicates that the long-term average of total harvest has remained essentially unchanged," said Vernon Bevill, TPWD upland game bird program director.
From 1995 to 2003 (three-bird limit, 16-day season), the average total harvest was about 26,000 cocks per year. From 2003 to 2005 (two-bird bag limit, 30-day season), the total harvest averaged 24,000 cocks per year.
Hunter success during the period from 1995 to 2003 was about 1.25 birds per day, while from 2003 to 2005, it was about one bird per day. The estimated number of hunters from 1995 to 2003 averaged 25,900; from 2003 to 2005 it was 24,170.
"If harvest pressure remains stable at the long-term average, increasing the bag limit by one cock should result in a total increase of between 1,730 and 2,160 birds, which is still less than the total harvest under the three-bird/16-day season structure that was in effect from 1995 to 2003," Bevill explained. "The department therefore believes that increasing the bag limit by one cock will not result in depletion of the resource, and we will continue monitoring harvest and hunter activity to assure our assessments are correct."
Counties affected by the change include: Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Collingsworth, Cottle, Crosby, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley, Floyd, Gray, Hale, Hall, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill, Hockley, Hutchinson, Lamb, Lipscomb, Lubbock, Moore, Motley, Ochiltree, Oldham, Parmer, Potter, Randall, Roberts, Sherman, Swisher, Wheeler, and Wilbarger.
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Posted December 13, 2012
Unusually cold weather blasted Houston, Texas early this week, promting calls to not just a few Houston heating contractors. Temperatures are expected to rise on Thursday to somewhere around the 50's, according to The Houston Chronicle. Weather Underground (a site you should read if you don't already) predicts predicts that the temperature in Houston will rise to 75 degrees F. on Saturday. Rare Texas snow was reported in the Texas panhandle, though it melted quickly.View original post.


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Mariachi Vargas show joyous, youthful
Updated 2:59 am, Sunday, December 2, 2012
First-place winners of last week's elementary and middle school mariachi competitions illustrated the joyous and hopeful spirit of the 18th annual Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza at Lila Cockrell Theatre on Saturday.
A sold-out house of 2,400 witnessed it. The exuberant student performances were the warm-up at the grand finale concert with Mexico's legendary Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan, a group celebrating its 115th anniversary.
The fresh-faced teen and preteen Mariachi Juvenil de America from Rio Grande City opened the show with an original composition, "Mi Mexico."
Eloy Garza is the group's musical director. For six years, he's guided the musical studies of such young student musicians.
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"They have lots of pride, lots of pride for their culture," said Garza, 30.
They also have extraordinary talents. Many of the musicians are orchestra-level, especially the high school and college players, according to their instructors.
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"Mariachi is a family," Rodriguez said backstage as youngster fingered their instruments, exchanging flourishes on nylon string instruments, plucking violins or firing off a few notes on their trumpets.
"They dream, they aspire to become professional mariachis," Rodriguez explained. And they don't get nervous. "They got rid of that in seventh grade," Rodriguez added.
Living the dream is Karen Zavala, 21, a Texas State University student who won the prestigious vocal competition, the event's top prize.
Backstage before the show began, producer Cynthia Muñoz checked her cellphone for status updates about traffic congestion on Market Street. She started the show about 15 minutes later than planned in case any of her hardcore audience was stuck in the heavy holiday traffic downtown.
Actor-comedian Steven Michael Quezada hosted the show, adding some edge. Quezada is one of the stars of the acclaimed AMC series "Breaking Bad."
"I play a cop. I can't go to no more parties in the barrio," joked Quezada, continuing the theme with his next riff.
"When you watch 'COPS,' doesn't it make you want to clean up your house? Just in case?"
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Kotchman embraces chance with newest team
Signed by Miami to provide depth at first, veteran is on sixth different squad since '09
JUPITER, Fla. -- Moving from team to team can have its advantages.
Casey Kotchman, the newest member of the Marlins, certainly is experiencing some.
"I've been privileged just to have the opportunity to put on different uniforms and meet a bunch of different players that I wouldn't have met if I'd stayed in one place," Kotchman said. "Typically, if you draw it up in your mind, you want to stay in one place. But looking back on it, you have a chance to meet a bunch of new players and teammates and build relationships with everybody."
Kotchman, who turns 30 on Friday, signed a Minor League contract with a Spring Training invitation last Friday. The left-handed-hitting first baseman was on the field with his new team on Saturday morning.
For Kotchman, this is his sixth different team since 2009. In that span, he's also been with the Braves, Red Sox, Mariners, Rays and Indians.
Wherever he's been, Kotchman pretty much has anchored first base. With Miami, the veteran provides insurance at first base because Logan Morrison has yet to be cleared to start running. Chances are Morrison won't be ready for Opening Day.
"It gives us a proven Major League first baseman," manager Mike Redmond said. "With LoMo out, we figured we needed some depth. He's going to have to earn it and go out there. But it's nice to have him in camp, a guy who has proven he can be in the big leagues for a considerable amount of time."
Morrison is recovering from right knee surgery. More on his status will be known on Tuesday after he travels to Vail, Colo., for a medical update from Dr. Richard Steadman, who performed the surgery last September.
Morrison has been rehabbing in Jupiter since the start of Spring Training.
"It feels good, but it feels weak, compared to my other leg," Morrison said.
Unlike last year, Morrison said his knee is pain free.
"No pain, nothing like that," he said. "I think if I get cleared to run, it will do a lot to help strengthen it. But the doctor knows more than me."
Morrison understands the decision to sign Kotchman.
"They have to cover themselves, that's fine with me," Morrison said.
A St. Petersburg native, Kotchman broke in with the Angels in '04, and he is happy about playing in his home state.
"The opportunity here, and the proximity to home, in Pinellas County, is good," Kotchman said. "This training staff, and just what they've got going here, with the young talent and a good cast. We all want that chance to put on the big league uniform. Now, I have that opportunity."
Kotchman batted .229 with 12 homers and 55 RBIs with the Indians a year ago. In the field, he again was a standout, posting a .995 fielding percentage (six errors).
Kotchman is known for his glove, and he holds an impressive MLB record for first baseman. He had a streak of 2,379 fielding chances without an error. He set the mark at 2,003 on June 3, 2010, passing Kevin Youkilis' mark. The streak was snapped on Aug. 21, 2010, when he mishandled a Curtis Granderson ground ball. It was his first error since July 20, 2008.
"I really wasn't aware or conscious of it for the most part of it, but it was fun," Kotchman said. "To be able to break it on Father's Day, back when I was with Seattle, that was special to me. Any time you can help your team out on defense, it's a privilege, save your pitcher pitches on his pitch count, infielders' errors. Any time you can pick them up, it's good."


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RIO VISTA — Shawna Caley narrowly averted a wedding day disaster recently, and she has her congressman to thank for it.
The Rio Vista resident was facing the real possibility of tying the knot while her dress was still stuck on the other side of the country when the office of U.S. Rep. John Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove, staged an 11th-hour intervention.
"I was freaking out," said Caley, 38.
But staffers for the 3rd District congressman saved the day by prodding U.S. Customs to resolve the holdup at New York's JFK International Airport, where the gown had been languishing.
Caley finally had found The Dress after an approximately two-year search for a gown in keeping with her camping-theme wedding, which took place May 1 at the base of a waterfall in Yosemite National Park followed by a weekend celebrating the man of her dreams and the beauty of nature with guests at the Wawona Campground.
"It was just kind of one of those things I wanted to be perfect. I really, really wanted this to be me," Caley said of the spaghetti-strap creation of vintage lace, cotton and rayon that she spotted online. "This dress just spoke to me."
And so on Dec. 30, she had commissioned the designer — a woman in Poland — to sew a similar gown fitted to her measurements with the understanding that the project would take about two months.
But that timetable came and went, and Caley became increasingly nervous as the weeks slipped by.
The woman finally mailed the dress the evening of April 18, just 12 days before the wedding.
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The package arrived in New York City three days later — and was promptly, inexplicably waylaid by U.S. Customs.
By the time Caley found out that the federal government was holding her prized possession hostage, the wedding was five days away.
She began shopping for a backup but couldn't find anything she liked or that fit, and postponing the ceremony wasn't an option because of the difficulty getting campground reservations.
So Caley resigned herself to getting married in cargo pants with a matching jacket and making the best of it.
"I didn't turn all bridezilla — I just tried to pretend that it wasn't important," she said.
But Caley still held out hope that her luck might change.
When U.S. Customs didn't return her calls, she turned to Capitol Hill in desperation.
Caley emailed Garamendi's office on April 26, and two days later received word that it would get involved.
The following day her phone rang: Garamendi's staff had found the dress and would have it shipped to her overnight.
And at 12:20 p.m. on April 30, a scant 24 hours before the nuptials, a mail carrier delivered it to her workplace.
"I just started crying — I couldn't believe it was going to come," Caley said, recalling her doubts and emotional exhaustion. "I finally could breathe again."
And there was one other mishap that she might be able to laugh about in time: The wedding rings Caley and her fiancé had ordered from an artisan in Washington didn't arrive until the day after the wedding.
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Investors understand the value of stocks and bonds. But Lego bricks?
Those ubiquitous interlocking bricks, usually stuffed in closets, tucked under toy boxes and scattered across playrooms, aren't what most people think of as an investment.
But to some, like David Schooley, Lego bricks are serious money, and buying and selling them, just as some investors trade stocks, is becoming a way to turn a profit, brick by brick.
Schooley, a 49-year-old information technology professional in Memphis and father of six, is one of a growing niche of people who buy and hold Lego bricks not as toys but investments.
Just as stock investors have portfolios of all different sorts of stocks, Lego investors hold massive collections of Lego sets. Schooley has more than 3000 sets piled high in a climate-controlled storage facility. He bought most of them years ago, planning to sell them a year later for a profit. Doing this again and again generates a tidy 10 to 15 per cent annual profit, he says, topping even the 10 per cent long-term average return of stocks.
"You start to realise these are worth a lot of money," he says.
Investing in Lego bricks may sound ludicrous to those who see them just as kids' toys but savvy investors can reap rewards if they know how to buy the toys from stores, hold them and then sell them online.
It's not just a theory. Let's say two investors had $10,000 to invest at the end of 2011. One investor bought 174 shares of the Vanguard S&P 500 index exchange traded fund for $57.45 apiece, while the other bought 100 boxes of the Emerald Night Lego train set for $99.99 each. The Emerald Night is a 1085-piece Lego set that, when built, looks like a classic steam engine with a tender and a passenger car.
Fast forward to today. The stock investors would have done pretty well, with a 15 per cent gain, including dividends paid. But the Lego investor would be able to sell the Lego Emerald Night trains for $203 each, a 103 per cent profit. In other words, the Lego train would have outperformed the sharemarket by 587 per cent.
And that's not an anomaly. Lego bricks, have become lucrative investments due to a confluence of bullish factors. Driving the market is the strong underlying demand for Lego bricks and sets. The toys are craved by older people, who now have their own money to spend on the sets rather than waiting for a birthday gift.
Building toy sets are also a fast-growing corner of the toy business for young kids. Americans spent $US1.6 billion on building-set toys last year, up 23 per cent on 2010, according to the latest data available from industry tracker The NPD Group.
Building-set toys account for nearly 10 per cent of all toys sold. And while Lego does have some competition, the rivals are bit players, coming nowhere near Lego's dominance.
Possibilities galore
Meanwhile, there's a new cadre of Lego consumers growing up.
The Lego universe is reinforced not just by the hundreds of building sets on the shelves at major retailers, but by a multimedia push. There are several lines of Lego sets that are tied to popular movies and TV shows, including Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and soon, even the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. There are sets that look like haunted houses, ninja battlegrounds and there's even a line designed for girls with pastel-coloured bricks and female figurines.
Such product tie-ins are just the start. Cartoon Network runs Lego-themed shows all day, with characters made out of Lego bricks, or so-called minifigs, or mini-figures. There's also a line of Lego-themed video games that allow players to traverse digital terrains made out of Lego bricks and tied to popular characters such as Batman and Harry Potter.
But what makes Lego bricks a potential bonanza for investors is how the Lego Group controls the supply of sets.
The company often produces sets, say a new Star Wars spaceship, for a year or two, and then will stop producing it. Once popular sets are "retired", consumers who want one have no other choice than to hit eBay or other online marketplaces to buy it, often for prices way above the original price.
Huge gains for Millennium Falcon
One example still considered a pinnacle success story of Lego investing is a set released in 2007 for $500, called the Ultimate Collector's Millennium Falcon.
The 5195-piece re-creation of Han Solo's battered noble star fighter from Star Wars now sells, new, for $2165, according to data collected by BrickPicker.com, a site dedicated to Lego investors. That's a staggering 34 per cent compound average annual gain over five years. "It keeps ticking up. I wonder where it will stop," says Ed Maciorowski, co-founder of BrickPicker.com, and a Lego investor himself.
Maciorowski says he has more than 3000 sets, with an estimated value of more than $100,000. He plans to sell them in a few years to pay for his son's college tuition. They are stuffed in his house, closets and in his office.
After seeing the value of a few of his sets skyrocket, Maciorowski approached his brother Jeff, a computer whiz, to design a website that would help Lego investors increase their returns. BrickPicker keeps a "portfolio" of all the sets owned by an investor and fetches market prices by seeing how the sets are selling on online marketplaces such as eBay and Amazon. "These things are gold," Jeff says.
To Ed Maciorowski, investing in Lego bricks is much more prudent that most mainstream investments, especially stocks, which he isn't fond of. He sold many of his stocks and other investments just before the tech bubble burst, and watched as other investors lost fortunes in paper wealth.
The tangibility and global appeal of Lego bricks makes them a worthwhile investment for him. "Even if the price of the set tanks, I still have the set."
BrickPicker, though, does borrow a page from traditional investing. The site presents Lego set prices much like an online broker would spotlight stocks by providing price charts that look much like stock price charts. There are more than 9000 Lego sets on the BrickPicker database, which is actually a bigger universe of stocks than most investors consider.
For some investors, the stakes are lower. Joshua Hanlon, 16, is a high school sophomore in Osceloa, Indiana. He has 50 sets, ranging in value from $10 to $400. He started investing a year ago, mainly after realising he could use profit from selling sets to buy more.
After making a tidy profit selling the Lego Emerald Night and a large Star Wars Republic Dropship set, Hanlon first saw the potential. Now his parents and siblings give him money to invest in Lego bricks too.
While investors report making money, there are perils. One of the biggest problems is storage.
Lego sets come in large boxes filled with hundreds of tiny bricks and an instruction manual. Lego investors need to keep the boxes in pristine condition to get top dollar.
Storage can be especially problematic if a set is large. The Lego Death Star set, which sells for $400, is an example. Investors keep accumulating the set, which comes in a 58-centimetre by 50-centimetre box. Investors are stockpiling the large boxes, thinking the set will be worth twice the $400 list price once production is discontinued. But the Lego Group keeps making it, even though it was introduced in 2008.
Water damage, theft and fire are also big risks, Ed Maciorowski says. Most investors must get special insurance that covers collectables, because the value of most Lego portfolios exceeds the limits offered on most home-owner policies.
There's also a risk that an investor won't buy the right sets. Some themes of Lego sets don't resonate with buyers, so the resale value can be below the price the investors paid. One theme, Atlantis, which featured underwater themes and vehicles, "didn't pan out", Maciorowski says. Neither did sets based on the an Egyptian theme, called Pharaoh's Quest, nor sets based on the movie Prince of Persia.
There's also the risk that the Lego market might fade if consumers lose interest in the plastic bricks, Maciorowski says. And there's a constant fear by investors, who are making money, that the run will end if the Lego Group produced more sets than the market can bear or if too many speculators buy sets and dump them at the same time in the future. Other collectible markets, such as baseball cards, have crashed due to oversupply, he says.
And commissions to sell the sets can be high, with Amazon and eBay taking 15 per cent of the selling price.
So far, the Lego Group doesn't appear to have much interest in controlling the buying and selling of sets by investors, Maciorowski says. The company is primarily focused on kids, and does produce some more advanced sets that appeal to collectors.
"We are very fortunate to have fans of all ages, all of whom have different passions and interests related to the Lego brand, but we don't closely follow after market activity," Michael McNally, brand relations director of Lego, says in an e-mailed response.
But as long as the money keeps rolling in, investors are willing to take the bet. "I'm looking to grow and go larger scale," Hanlon says. "I've never thought about investing in anything else."
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Ethernet makes no guarantees on the fate of a packet. All the sender can do is place them on the wire and all the receiver can do is listen for them. A series of packets might arrive at the destination in a different order, some packets might be missing, some might be corrupt, and some might even arrive in duplicate.
TCP adds additional information to the packet header that guarantees a reliable two way communication. It is connection based, meaning that before data is ever exchanged, a connection is established by a threeway handshake of the two participants. The client initiates a connection with a SYN packet and only if the server agrees to communicate, it responds with a SYN-ACK packet which is acnowledged by an ACK. At this point a "connection" is established: both sides have agreed to talk to each other. You cannot have a one-way TCP connection, even if all data flows in one direction there will at least be connection management related packets in the other direction. The TCP header contains enough information that the original datastream can be correctly assembled at the receiving end. duplicate packets are discarded, missing packets retransmitted, and out of order packets correctly sorted. At the end, the connection is broken down by mutual agreement with another exchange of packets containing special TCP flags in the header.
With UDP, the packet is placed on the wire with a certain destination IP and destination port (or even with a broadcast or multicast address) and that's it. The sender cannot know if the packet ever made it to the destination. Each UDP transmission is stricly one-way and unrelated to any other transmission. Of course you can construct a more reliable connection in software, for example if the sever sends back an acknowledment with another UDP packet. Again there is no guarantee that this packet ever makes it back, but the client could add information to the next packet that it actually received it. and so on. As Saverio said, you could add a sequential number to successive packets so the server can arrange them in order and know if one is missing, at which time it could request a retransmission with another specially formed UDP packet. You can add a checksum, so the other side knows if the data arrived intact, you can add a connection ID so the other side knows where the data belongs if multiple conversations occur at the same time, for example if several clients talk to the server at the same time. Implemented this way, there are many UDP based protocols (such as tftp) that have a similar reliability like TCP, except that everything needs to be done in software and you have to build your own house of cards, defining all connection management commands, data structures, timeouts etc. such that both sides are aware of the state of the current virtual connection. For very simple needs, this can be relatively primitive.
Many very smart people have done that, but it will be much more complicated than you think. Why reinvent the wheel? All this has been already implemented on the protocol level for exactly this purpose with TCP. I don't understand why you insist on UDP. Do a google search for "TCP state diagram" to get an idea what would need to be done if it should be done right.
As I said, UDP is used for example streaming protocols where lost packets are ignored and the connection is mostly one-way. If you listen to internet radio, the sender does not expect acknowledment from all the clients listening and if the first word of the weather report got lost, it does not make sense to retransmit it later. Other uses for UDP are stricly one-way, for example a syslog sever passively sits on the network and waits for UDP packets on port 514. no incoming packet is ever acknowledged and they are simply appended to an existing log. If a packet got lost, nobody will ever know about it. (Over 10 years ago, I once wrote a simple syslog server in LabVIEW, all you need is follow the RFCs )
There is a reason we have both TCP and UDP, they have a very fundamentally different purpose so use the right tool for the job.
I am with you i the choice of TCP/IP instead of UDP, but unfortunately, my teacher doesn't do so, he insists on using UDP!!, so here is my new question: I have a 600Mb file and i want to devide into packets of 65Kb each, then send them using UDP. Some people told me to wire the file directly to the UDP write VI, but it didn't work, and the same error message appears. so shall i use a loop with this configuration? or there are other VIs that can be used in creating packets
So this is a homework problem? Perhaps your teacher is trying to test your capability to deal with this issue when it comes to big files, and to come up with a system that can handle it. In that case, we would be remiss in providing you the answer.
There are no subVIs to create these packets. You have to program it yourself by reading the file in smaller chunks and transmitting those smaller chunks. That's your homework assignment. Now, how do you intend to solve the problem?
omar21 wrote:
I have a 600Mb file and i want to devide into packets of 65Kb each, then send them using UDP.
How do you come up with such random numbers? Can you describe ther reasoning behind your decision?
I agree that this will be a great learning experience: designing a communication protocol that uses UDP. Draw a state chart with all possible states (idle, read to receive, reday to send, transmitting the desired file name, transmitting the file data, file sent complete, receving, missed parts, no response from the other end in in xx seconds, etc.etc.) and all possible transitions between them. Design a data structure with useful fields (structure size, connection ID, sequence number, data payload, state, etc.). Simply start programming, try a few things and use what works best. Start simple and add more states as the need arises to handle specific scenarios. Do an internet search to see how tftp does it. All these protocols are very well documented and everything can be found online. It won't be trivial.
omar21 wrote:
Some people told me to wire the file directly to the UDP write VI, but it didn't work, and the same error message appears.
Whay do you listen to "some people". What are their qualifications?
omar21 wrote:
... so shall i use a loop with this configuration?
Anything in LabVIEW (and any other programming environment) that requires repetitive action needs a loop, why is this even a question? Since you don't know the final number of iterations needed at the time the loop starts, you need a while loop.
omar21 wrote:
... or there are other VIs that can be used in creating packets
All you need to do is portion succesive small parts of the file in a suitable data structure that also contains connection information so both sides are aware of the state. All you can transmit is a linear sequence of bytes (a string!), so you need to flatten your data structure to a string and unflatten it back to the data structure on the other end to recover the information. You don't "create packets", that's done automatically by the network stack based on the MTU of the connection. Packet might even get further fragmented by other network devices depending on the needs. LabVIEW only has access to the higher level function, you send and receive strings, that's it. You don't need to worry about the details under the hood.
Actually, it is not a homework, but it is rather a research. I am working on power substations automation using modern IEDs and IEC61850 standard. I am not that expert in data communication and i have just some basics. As i mentioned earlier, one part in our work consists of writing the data into a TDMS file then sending it to a server via ethernet, the transmission should be done as fast as possible, this is why we have chosen UDP. I have downloaded a file transfer application built in LABVIEW 8.5 that uses TCP/IP, and it worked perfectly with my 600Mb file, so i just replaced the TCP VIs with UDP VIs and i ended up with this error message. I understood that the maximum file size that can be sent at once is 65Kb, so i am faced with two solutions: either i increase the size of the buffer up to 600Mb so that it can send my TDMS file at once, or i must devide my file into multiple 65Kb packets and send them directly. so this is the whole story. everybody is invited to contribute in our research
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omar21 wrote:
... the transmission should be done as fast as possible, this is why we have chosen UDP.
The TCP overhead will be negligible and UDP will not be faster. What makes you think otherwise? What is the speed and latency of your network? How much other traffic is present? Did you measure the transfer speed of the TCP?
As i told you, I just want to start by sending successfully my TDMS file using UDP, and then we can go for further improvments. i don't wanna see this error message again don't forget, i'm not that expert in data communication, i'm just an automatic control systems engineer
omar21 wrote:
i'm just an automatic control systems engineer
At this point you simply sound stubborn.
All you need is to transfer a file from point A to point B and there are plenty of tools to do that and many have been mentioned. This problem has been solved numerous times since the invention of the internet, and there is a collective experience from very smart network programmers that don't do anything else. You will never achieve these skills unless you focus for years on this particular problem.
Insisting on UDP is just silly, it is NOT the right tool.
for GOD sake, this is my VI, i know TCP is better, but i just wanna see it working with UDP, so tell me how shall i modify it to not see this error message anymore
You've also been told that you can't send an entire file at once if it is too big. You need to break your file into smaller pieces and send those.


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