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'Tale of Two Summers'
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'Tale of Two Summers'
Teen Book Review
So, what are your plans for the summer? Are you getting a job? Going to camp? Stuck in summer school? Are your friends heading out of town and leaving you behind? Why not keep in touch by blogging? That's what local boys and best friends Hal and Chuck do when they are separated for the first time since they became friends. With this premise, A Tale of Two Summers by Brian Sloan presents an interesting out-of-school experience.
Hal and Chuck have been friends for more than 10 years, and they have spent very little of that time apart. The biggest test their friendship comes in the summer of 2006, as Chuck heads off to theater camp at the University of Maryland, and Hal spends his summer at home in Wheaton. To keep in touch, Chuck suggests they start a blog, to which Hal reluctantly agrees.
At first, their summers seem very ho-hum, until both boys end up falling in love; Chuck with his fellow lead at theater camp and Hal with a sexy French exchange student. The blog also gives the boys the freedom to discuss things they would not discuss in real life, especially how Hal ended up coming out to Chuck as gay at New Year's of the past year, and how Chuck wants to pursue theater as a career but his parents want him to be a lawyer.
This is a great book for modern teenage suburban guys, but it may lose its core audience as time goes on when new methods of communication replace blogging. (Twitter, anyone?) The unique format of blog entries and other Internet communications as the text of the story make for an interesting experience, but it also shows how unreliable the narrators can be (Hal makes several entries while high on pot).
Each of the characters is very distinct. Chuck is the grounded one in their friendship, but he keeps on falling for theater divas and has trouble seeing when a truly great girl is interested in him. Hal is friendly and flamboyant, but has issues opening up to people. The distance between the two characters gives them the chance to work through their problems and support each other in ways they could not if they were spending the summer together.
Entries referencing events happening in their lives gives the story depth. The dialogue of the two teens, laced with just the right amount of sarcasm and profanity, will resonate with its core audience of male teenage readers. The time and place of the story is very grounded, both due to the dated entries and due to the real places in and around Washington, D.C. and its suburbs, where the story takes place.
A Tale of Two Summers is recommended for mid- to late-teen readers and is available at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library Teen Space and other locations in the DC Public Library system. Check it out along with other books by Brian Sloan today!
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When Soldiers Say No
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A decade of conflict not clearly aligned to vital national interests combined with recent acts of selective conscientious objection by members of the military have led some to reappraise the distinction between absolute and selective conscious objection, and argue that selective conscientious objection ought to be legally recognised and permitted. Political, social and philosophical factors lie behind this new interest which together mean that the time is ripe for a fresh and thorough evaluation of the topic. This book brings together arguments for and against selective conscientious objection, as well as case studies examining how different countries deal with those who claim the status of selective conscientious objectors.

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Have you ever dreamed of living in your very own haunted house? And in this dream, is your house the scene of some grisly murders that were allegedly committed while under demonic possession? If it is, you can be the proud owner of the Amityville House for only $1.15 million.
The five bedroom Dutch Colonial in Suffolk County, NY was the scene of the murders of the DeFeo family in 1974. The Lutz family moved in a year later and began reports of paranormal activity and moved out within a month. The house was the subject matter of the book by Jay Anson and several films. The house has undergone remodeling and an address change to deter gawkers.
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Current Trends Premature Mortality from Diabetes Mellitus - - Use of Sentinel Health Event Surveillance to Assess Causes
According to national death certificate data (Table V), diabetes was the 12th leading cause of years of potential life lost in the United States in 1984. Actually diabetes contributes to a much larger proportion of mortality, since it is reported on only about half of the death certificates for persons who die with the disease and is listed as the underlying cause on only one-quarter of the certificates on which it appears (1). The most frequent causes of death among persons with diabetes are ischemic and other forms of heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, and other forms of atherosclerosis; renal disease, including nephritis/nephrosis and uremia; respiratory disease; and infection.
Optimal diabetes control depends on access to health care and the application of modern health care practices by both providers and patients. A method recently suggested for ascertaining the causes of premature mortality among persons with diabetes is the enumeration and investigation of deaths among young persons with diabetes (2). For the purpose of this investigation, each death is considered a "sentinel health event" worthy of detailed evaluation (3). The frequency of and factors contributing to these events may serve as a measure of the quality of health care in the community.
During 1985, Diabetes Control Programs (DCP) in Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, and Washington participated in a pilot project to test a surveillance system for sentinel health events for persons with diabetes. An event was defined as the death of a person who was 45 years of age and whose death certificate made any reference to diabetes. A DCP investigator gathered basic demographic data from the death certificate and interviewed a family member and a physician associated with the case. The information collected included demographic, clinical, and health care related data.
The cause of death for each event was coded into one of the following three categories: 1) acute complications of diabetes (diabetic ketoacidosis or coma, infection, and hypoglycemia), 2) chronic complications (heart disease, end-stage renal disease, and cerebrovascular disease), and 3) other (diabetes only, non-diabetes-related, and unknown). Coding was based on the most contributory cause as indicated on the death certificate and by the DCP investigation.
Two hundred and thirty-three events were identified. The mean observed mortality rate (adjusting for variable observation times among sites) was 32.7/10,000 persons who were 45 years of age and had diabetes. Based on 1983 national death certificate data, the expected rate is 36.3/10,000 persons 45 years of age with diabetes.
The cohort of events included 146 males and 87 females. The median age at death was 38 years for males and 36 years for females. The distribution of causes of death did not differ between males and females. However, the cause of death differed significantly by age (Chi-square=14.5, p0.01); younger persons tended to die from acute complications, and older persons, from chronic complications (Table 1).
Several conditions were incidentally reported with notable frequency. They include alcohol abuse (13 events), suicide (5 events), and cardiomyopathy or congestive heart failure in the absence of ischemic heart disease (7 events). Eight of the persons with a history of alcohol abuse were male. Five of the 13 persons with a history of alcohol abuse died from acute complications; three, from chronic complications; and five, from other causes. All of the suicide events involved males.
The care practices of the cohort are shown by sex in Table 2. Such practices as blood pressure measurement and urinalysis were reported to have been conducted within the last year of life for virtually every person in the cohort. Other care practices, including glycohemoglobin measurement and funduscopic examination in the last year of life, were reported less commonly. Only half (48%) of the funduscopic examinations were performed by ophthalmologists. Among those persons using insulin (84%), 46% had had a glycohemoglobin test in the last year of life, and 61% had used self-monitoring of blood glucose. Although virtually all persons with hypertension had been under treatment for it, the condition had not been controlled for 57% of them ( greater than or equal to 140/90 mm Hg at the last examination). Forty-one percent were smokers at the time of death.
Individual differences in care practices between those who died from acute complications and those who died from chronic complications were not statistically significant. However, those who died from acute complications were reported to have had fewer average yearly physician visits than those who died from chronic complications (Wilcoxon rank sum test, p0.05).
There were more males than expected in the cohort. The ratio of males to females was 1.6, whereas the ratio of males to females in the living diabetic population 45 years of age is 0.7. Differences in individual care practices between males and females were not statistically significant. However, within the last year of life, females had consistently higher rates of beneficial health care practices such as blood pressure check, urinalysis and glycohemoglobin testing, self-monitoring of blood glucose, and funduscopic examination. Fewer females had been current smokers, and females had seen physicians more frequently than had males, though the difference was not significant (median frequency 9 visits per year for females as compared with 6.5 visits per year for males). Reported by B Gabella, S Michael, Colorado Dept of Health; B Hudspeth, R Shubert, Illinois Dept of Public Health; C Gollmar, Kentucky Dept of Health Svcs; D Kaplan, Louisiana Dept of Health and Human Resources; J Beasley, M Halpern, S Longabaugh, Michigan Dept of Public Health; J Will, Washington Dept of Social and Health Svcs; Div of Diabetes Control, Center for Prevention Svcs, CDC.
Editorial Note
Editorial Note: Despite the heavy toll of chronic diseases on the health of persons in the United States, there are relatively few surveillance systems for them. The model surveillance system employed for infectious diseases, which includes reporting and compiling cases at a central source and rapidly disseminating results, is not currently a feasible approach for chronic disease surveillance. Infectious disease control--the investigation of causes and development of control strategies--is relatively straightforward. Chronic disease surveillance and control are comparatively more difficult because 1) chronic diseases are more complicated to diagnose, 2) there are often multiple and poorly defined etiologic factors for disease, and 3) there are long latency periods between these factors and the onset of disease. In addition, the factors responsible may be behaviors or practices (or neglect thereof) of affected persons or health care providers.
Between 50% and 85% of the acute and chronic complications that are associated with diabetes and contribute to mortality are preventable or treatable (4). Previous studies on premature mortality among persons with diabetes have found that a significant proportion of deaths were due to preventable factors. The mortality rate for persons with diabetes who are 45 years of age has been reported to be 8 times that of the same age group in the general population (2). A detailed review of Washington State death certificates revealed that almost one-third of the deaths of persons 45 years of age with diabetes were due to acute complications for which there is definitive therapy (2). In a study in Great Britain, "neglect of diabetes" was considered a contributing factor in 27% of 447 deaths involving persons with diabetes who died at 50 years of age (5).
The rates of routine care practices of blood pressure check and urinalysis testing in this reported cohort were high. However, all persons with diabetes would be expected to have such basic examinations, especially in the last year of life when manifest complications of diabetes cause many to seek more health care. The rates of utilization of state-of-the-art care technologies, such as glycohemoglobin measurement or self-monitoring of blood glucose, were considerably lower and might be a more sensitive reflection of the quality of care. Finally, considering that this group is already at high risk for vascular disease, the rate of smoking was high.
With advancing age, the frequency of complications among persons with diabetes increases, and the potential to prevent complications and attendant mortality decreases. The greatest potential to prevent mortality and years of potential life lost from diabetes exists among the youngest age groups. Problems that can be remedied by improved health care for this age group could also be expected to be remediable for the rest of the diabetic population. Thus, recommendations for preventing future deaths among persons 45 years of age should benefit the entire diabetic population.
The combination of alcohol and diabetes appears to be of particular concern. Alcohol has well-observed adverse effects on the health of persons with diabetes. Metabolic disturbances and compromise
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Martha MacBride Wise-Spaulding (nee Wilkin), 80, of Avon, since 1990, formerly of Elyria, died Tuesday, July 22, 2014 at Ames Family Center/Hospice of the Western Reserve/ Westlake Campus, after a short illness. She was born July 28, 1933, as a ward of Summit County until her adoption in 1934. She came to Elyria upon her marriage to Wayne C. Wise, Jr., whom she met at Ohio Wesleyan University. They lived in Elyria 32 years, before moving to Avon. She graduated from the Andrews School, Willoughby, Ohio in 1952.
Martha was a 28-year elected member of the State Board of Education of Ohio and was the second longest serving member of the Board Since it began in 1957. She was a two-time President of the State Board in 1979-80 and 1999-2000 and served as chair of many committees. She made numerous contributions to education at local, state and national levels. She was president of both the Eastgate PTA and later the Elyria PTA Council.
Martha was a member of the Avon United Methodist Church. She enjoyed playing bridge, reading, knitting and loved to travel. The Elyria League of Women Voters piqued her interest early-on in civic involvement along with her PTA activities.
Survivors include her husband since April 2010, Gerry Spaulding; son, W. Christopher Wise of Olmsted Falls; six grandchildren, Amy MacBride Schneck of North Ridgeville, Philip Anthony Walker of Lorain, Jennifer Lynn Walker of Elyria, Lindsay Nichole Gilchrist of Grafton, Megan Elizabeth Wise and Ryan Christopher Wise of Columbia Station and two great-grandchildren, Jacob and Aubrey.
Preceding her in death were her father, John Nugen Wilkin; adoptive mother, Mildred Elizabeth Wilkin; second adoptive mother, Kathryn Williams Wilkin; husband, Wayne C. Wise, Jr.; brother, John MacBride Wilkin; and daughter, Julia Lynn Gilchrist.
Memorial services will be held at Avon United Methodist Church on Saturday, July 26, 2014 at 10:30 A.M., with Pastor Liz officiating. Graveside services will be at Crown Hill Cemetery in Twinsburg, Ohio, Friday, July 25, 2014 at 11 A.M. for family and immediate friends.
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Oh don't get me wrong me Ted, I've had good days on the salmonfly. When I moved here 14 years ago I was still a pretty novice fly fisherman, I had a couple years under my belt in Michigan but didn't know squat about fishing the West. Salmonfly hatch obviously became a big deal fast. The first great hatch was 2003, the beginning of the drought so the bugs were there but the Blackfoot was so low in June it was wadeable. I had a broken wrist that spring and had lots of time on my hand(s) and it was really frustrating. I'd cast left handed, hook a big rainbow and be completely lost. There was the summer when I was a student and had the summer off without a job...damn those were the days!...and I fished the hatch about as well as anyone could. I went every other day from pre-hatch till the bugs were crawling all over everything, moving upstream with the hatch, or so I thought, and couldn't do anything! Then another year I'd just go up to Rock Creek once and have a frenzy. It's just so hit and miss, day by day. Which is fine, but the reason I get down on it isn't because sometimes the fish don't respond. It's that I don't like fishing with people all around everywhere AND not be able to move fish. The salmonfly hatch on Rock Creek was super this year and when I was there there were wade fisherman everywhere (on a stretch of a couple miles without public access) and boats flying by every 15 minutes. Rock Creek isn't very big. The whole thing is kind of a circus.
But by next June I'm sure I'll be tying new patterns and chomping at the bit to try it again, against my better judgement!
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Saturday's Games to Watch
Matchup: Reds (34-41) at Yankees (40-34), 1:05 p.m. ET
Thompson was originally drafted by the Nationals, but was shipped to the Reds along with Bill Bray, Royce Clayton, Brendan Harris, and Gary Majewski in the July 2006 trade that sent Austin Kearns, Felipe Lopez, and Ryan Wagner to Washington. Then-Reds GM Wayne Krivsky was derided at the time, but nearly two years later, it appears that the Reds may have actually gotten the better of that deal--and Thompson's a big part of the reason why. Thompson had to undergo labrum surgery and missed most of 2006, but he has come back strong and is now one of the fastest risers in the minors. He was in the running for Kevin Goldstein's Pitcher of the Month award for the Southern League in April, and kept dealing after a promotion to Triple-A Louisville. Thompson just missed the cut for Goldstein's list of the Reds Top 11 Prospects, but you can bet that he'll be featured prominently next season--that is, unless he pitches well enough in The Show to lose his rookie status.
Matchup: Cardinals (43-32) at Red Sox (46-30), 3:55 p.m. ET, FOX
Last night an unusual sight was witnessed at Fenway Park: a two-inning save by Cardinals closer Ryan Franklin. Multi-inning saves by closers have been virtually eliminated from today's game; not taking into account games in which a pitcher entered in a non-save situation and pitched the final three or more innings, there have been seven saves in which the pitcher threw two or more innings this year. Four of those were recorded by middle relievers who came on in a save situation in the eighth and then stayed on to finish off the game after their team scored enough insurance runs to eliminate the save chance for the closer. Just three times, therefore, has a manager sent his closer out for the start of the eighth inning in a save situation with the intent of having him finish out a tight win. One of those was last night, one came on May 31 as Joakim Soria pitched the eighth and ninth in a 4-2 Royals victory against Cleveland, and the other on April 24, when Manny Acosta did the same in Atlanta's 7-4 win over the Marlins. Franklin also threw 44 pitches in the process, the second most any pitcher has thrown in recording a multi-inning save this season. Franklin's workload serves as a reminder of just how careful the Red Sox are by comparison with Jonathan Papelbon. Papelbon went two or more innings in six appearances in 2006, his first year as closer, but the Red Sox realized that such outings were not worth the risk to his fragile shoulder, and he has not gone that far in any game since the start of 2007.
Matchup: Orioles (38-34) at Brewers (39-34), 7:05 p.m. ET
Cabrera's wildness this season has filtered into his statistics beyond walks totals, for he has thrown an AL-leading seven wild pitches, and also has already nailed a major league-leading 11 men at the plate in 97 innings. Cabrera is on pace to pitch around 215 innings this season, which if he continues brushing them back at his current rate would lead to a total of 24 hit batsmen for the full year. That would be the highest total since the integration of baseball, breaking the record of 21 set by Kerry Wood in 2003 and the California Angels' Tom Murphy in 1969. Six players have plunked as many as 20 in that span, including the Zambranos (Carlos in 2004 and Victor in '03) and Don Drysdale in 1961. The overall single-season record since 1900 is well out of reach--Joe McGinnity of the turn-of-the-century Brooklyn Superbas nailed 41 in his 343 innings of work. There's a good chance Cabrera could add to his total tonight, for the Brewers lead the National League with 37 hit batsmen, although the team leader in that department, Rickie Weeks, is currently on the DL.
Matchup: Blue Jays (35-40) at Pirates (35-39), 7:05 p.m. ET
Gaston has already provided an interesting quotation in his short time back in the saddle, saying, "I get goose bumps when I look at that lineup." Presumably Gaston meant that as a compliment, although it wouldn't be hard to construe an alternate meaning given the offensive issues Toronto has been dealing with, especially after the team was just shut down for 12 innings by the National League's worst pitching staff. While Gaston is saying the right things in public, secretly he might be wishing he could just bring back his old roster from the early-'90s Jays--the team that led the AL in slugging in three out of four seasons from 1990-1993. Toronto ranks last in the junior circuit in slugging percentage (.374) this year, is the only American League team without a single player who has hit double-digits in home runs, and is currently being led in slugging percentage and OPS by 32-year-old journeyman catcher Rod Barajas.
Matchup: Mets (36-36) at Rockies (31-43), 5:05 p.m. MST
Jimenez has been the opposite this season, as he has generally held teams down in the early going before getting hurt later on. In his last start versus Atlanta, Jimenez shut out the Braves over the first four innings but gave up three runs in the fifth, and on the season has limited opponents to a .259/.335/.342 line in 255 plate appearances over the first four innings, as opposed to .298/.417/.447 in 116 PA thereafter. Jimenez is a bit like a younger, National League version of Cabrera, as he has the same control issues, right down to the wild pitches--a major league-leading 10 this year.
Willy Taveras stole two more bases in Colorado's 7-2 loss last night, and now has nabbed 10 in his past seven games, and 14 straight without getting caught. He got the better of the best team in baseball at throwing runners out in the series opener. The Mets have been the anti-Padres this season, as they have gunned down 19 of 43 would-be thieves, good for the best caught stealing percentage (44) and the lowest stolen bases against (24) in the majors. Brian Schneider has caught 14 out of 31 attempting to steal against him this season, while backup Ramon Castro has gunned down three of six.
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Palmar Abduction: Reliability of 6 Measurement Methods in Healthy Adults
Purpose: The aim of the current study was to assess reliability of 6 palmar thumb abduction measurement methods: conventional goniometry, the Inter Metacarpal Distance, the method described by the American Medical Association, the method described by the American Society of Hand Therapists, and 2 new methods: the Pollexograph-thumb and the Pollexograph-metacarpal. Methods: An experienced hand therapist and a less-experienced examiner (trainee in plastic surgery) measured the right hands of 25 healthy subjects. Palmar abduction was measured both passively and actively. Means and ranges for palmar abduction were calculated, and intrarater and interrater reliability was expressed in intraclass correlation coefficients, standard errors of measurement, and smallest detectable differences. Results: Mean active and passive angles measured with goniometry resembled values measured with the Pollexograph-thumb method (approximately 60°). Mean angles found with the Pollexograph-metacarpal method were approximately 48°. Mean active and passive distances for the Inter Metacarpal Distance were 64 mm. Mean active and passive distances found with the American Society of Hand Therapists method were 97 to 101 mm, and mean distances found with the American Medical Association method were 67 to 70 mm for active and passive measurements. Intraclass correlation coefficients for the Pollexograph-thumb, Pollexograph-metacarpal, and the Inter Metacarpal Distance indicated good and significantly higher intrarater agreement for active and passive measurements than intraclass correlation coefficients of conventional goniometry, the American Society of Hand Therapists method, and the American Medical Association method, which showed only moderate agreement. For interrater reliability, the same measurement methods were found to be most reliable: the Pollexograph-thumb, Pollexograph-metacarpal, and the Inter Metacarpal Distance. Conclusions: We found that the Pollexograph-thumb, Pollexograph-metacarpal, and the Inter Metacarpal Distance are the most reliable measurement methods for palmar abduction.
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|Assessment, abduction, adult, article, clinical assessment, correlation coefficient, goniometry, hand, hand function, hand palm, human, human experiment, interrater reliability, intrarater reliability, measurement, medical personnel, normal human, palmar abduction, passive movement, priority journal, range of motion, reliability, thumb
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de Kraker, M, Selles, R.W, Schreuders, A.R, Stam, H.J, & Hovius, S.E.R. (2009). Palmar Abduction: Reliability of 6 Measurement Methods in Healthy Adults. Journal of Hand Surgery, 34(3), 523–530. doi:10.1016/j.jhsa.2008.10.028


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Upstream Stable Cadence
We track upstreams, what they consider stable, we consider stable, we ship in rolling release under *conditions.
Upstream Beta Cadence
We track upstreams beta/rc repo, what they consider "almost stable", we consider worth getting extremely easy user testing. We try to ship in Rolling Release archive, but with different package names. This will not work for everything. Some upstreams don't really have RC/beta releases, others might be too complicated to keep in repo.
For example, meta-packages for: firefox-beta, linux-rcs, etc.
Goal would be to evaluate doing this with packages in main only. Others, like all of Gnome, might need a different plan.
Data. Lots of data.
We need data that we can get an idea of how stable a product is. Some combination of reported bugs, automatic bugs, weighted in different ways.
The data should be generated from both the beta and stable releases.
We also need to better connect users of the beta releases to upstream, faster, when they have a problem.
"Limited Delta Buffer" (*conditions)
First – Big changes to stable release separated by 3 weeks initially. New Kernel and new Xorg both want to get in? Only 1 get's in every 3 weeks. In this case I would suggest letting the kernel go first, then three weeks later Xorg get's in. This limits the volatility of the rolling release by limiting updates from all coming at the same time.
Second – Data driven modifications to buffering time, who get's in first, and what blocks what. For a new kernel the data would come from that exact kernel in the beta package, If we find that the kernel never breaks anything and is super stable, move it to just a one week buffer.
Third – refine if we consider upstream to be "wrong". Maybe Linux kernel rc3 and above is all we ship in beta package, etc.
Rationale: We need a new concept of a stable system for a Rolling Release. It should take advantage of and contribute to upstreams own stabilization procedures (their "beta cadence") while limiting the rate of change (delta) users of the rolling release need to deal with. As for using 'Months', they are way to arbitrary. Some months there will be nothing interesting, others we could have a new kernel, Xorg, Unity, and Gnome.
Obviously, this isn't perfect and needs a bunch more refinement, I just wanted to get this out there before March 18th (the deadline for proposals). Thanks for reading and please let me know what you think.


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Out with the Young, In with the Old
Acquired 1B-L Aaron Baker from the Pirates for 1B-R Derrek Lee. [7/30]
The Orioles were not going to get much in return for the aging veteran, but at least Baker brings some power into a system that is desperate for it. An 11th-round pick in 2009 out of Oklahoma, Baker has plus raw power, and maybe a bit more—15 home runs in the Florida State League are nothing to sneeze at—and a decent approach. That's also the sum of his skills, and as good as Baker's raw power is, he's a 23-year-old playing at High-A. Like many fringy first-base prospects, Baker is big and slow, and lefties with breaking balls give him troubles. He's an organizational player who could be hitting 25-plus home runs for some random Triple-A team five years from now, or maybe in Japan.—Kevin Goldstein
Acquired 1B-R Derrek Lee from the Orioles for 1B-L Aaron Baker. [7/30]
Sing it loud, sing it proud: the Pirates are officially buyers, acquiring another team's aging veteran at the deadline instead of offloading their own. As I wrote last Tuesday, "It's difficult to board the Pirates' bandwagon with any expectation of arriving at a desirable destination when one of the horses expected to pull the load at a premium offensive position is Lyle Overbay, who only twice in his career—most recently five seasons ago—could be said to be something more than a league-average player and now appears to have left even that modest distinction far behind." Steven Pearce wasn't the answer, either, so with first place in the NL Central just a game and a half away, the Pirates have plundered the Orioles' roster for Derrek Lee.
On the surface, Lee hasn't been much better with the bat than Overbay this season, but he is a better bet going forward. Not only does he have the superior track record, but he's come alive of late, hitting six homers in July and amassing a .366/.422/.707 line over the last two weeks after a miserable start to the season marked by offensive inadequacy and a merciful oblique strain. It's still not safe to board the Pirates' bandwagon—before the trade, Pittsburgh had a 2.5 percent chance to reach the playoffs, and replacing a first baseman projected for a .259 rest-of-season TAv with one expected to reach .283 won't move that needle much—but in this case, it's the name recognition that counts. The negligible impact on the Pirates' playoff odds is almost immaterial.
By making a move for a veteran, however unlikely to open the gates to October, the Pirates kept the faith with their fans, rewarding them for appearing at PNC Park in greater numbers in the wake of the team's return to contention. As Rob Neyer observed in a BP guest piece last week, Pittsburgh's brass was faced with a choice between defensible penny-pinching and gaining goodwill. They went with the latter, and while that goodwill comes at the cost of the remainder of Lee's $7.25 million salary for this season, the Pirates could recoup their investment and then some if their fans remember the gesture when the organization finally fields a team capable of making good on its mid-season promise.—Ben Lindbergh
Kevin Goldstein is an author of Baseball Prospectus.
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Maybe now teams will realize that winning, even just a little, puts butts in the seats and bucks in their pockets. Can you imagine what the pirates would be like if they had been in a position to play like his when the new ballpark opened?
Jul 31, 2011 05:55 AM
typo in Kevin's paragraph - I wish Baker was playing in triple-A.
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Brees set for a day in Dallas to savor
Published 10:56 pm, Saturday, December 22, 2012
Drew Brees hasn't had his coach this season, and he hasn't had a defense. At times, he also hasn't had his trademark accuracy.
The losses have been as frustrating to him as Roger Goodell's logic. And no matter what his 6-8 Saints do today, Brees' path to the playoffs is likely blocked.
All of that is why the Cowboys should be nervous.
Brees will not only be aiming at a patchwork Dallas secondary, but also at some redemption.
If not for shoulder surgery in 2005, maybe Brees would be throwing for Jerry Jones instead of against him. At the time, the Cowboys had Drew Bledsoe as the starter, with an unknown named Tony Romo waiting on the bench. Jones had little interest in a damaged project, and the media concurred.
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"Brees does not make them better," a Fort Worth columnist wrote about the Cowboys in the winter of 2006. "Not next season. Not long term."
Miami gave Brees a serious look then, and a Dolphins assistant at the time was Jason Garrett. The Miami doctors saw issues with the shoulder, however, and the same Nick Saban who is considering a return to the NFL opted to sign Daunte Culpepper instead.
Maybe that's why Garrett said what he said this week about Brees. "To say he would go on to have the kind of career he's had in New Orleans," Garrett said, "I don't know anybody would've said that."
But the Saints clearly saw something. And over the years, as Brees earned passing records and a Super Bowl ring, the Saints saw another quality emerge, too.
This season doesn't rank with his best; Brees has already thrown 18 interceptions. But with so many suspended — with interim coaches replacing interim coaches — Brees became the moral voice of the franchise.
His stance against Goodell was most notable, since he took on the commissioner before and after the player suspensions were reversed. Brees announced Goodell has "very little to no credibility with us," and Brees had more credibility than ever.
This past week was no different. With reports again suggesting Sean Payton will be in play for Dallas, especially if Garrett loses today, Brees was the one who stood up to answer.
Sounding more like a general manager, Brees said: "Listen, I'm not worried. I'd be shocked if he weren't here next year. Right now, there's plenty of other things to think about, worry about. Once the season ends, then we'll get back to that."
A story out of New Orleans in September said Brees "has long been treated as a de facto coach," with a level of input "that is perhaps unparalleled in the league." Little wonder that last summer, when he signed his $100 million contract extension in July with the bounty crisis going on, Saints players relaxed.
"It was like," said one then, "'OK, our leader's here — let's roll.'"
The Saints didn't. They lost their first four by a total of 20 points. Two of them were to Carolina and Kansas City.
"We were just trying to find our identity a little bit," Brees said.
They have since, even with a defense that is still ranked last in the league. The Times-Picayune quoted one Vegas oddsmaker last week saying the Saints won't make the playoffs but, if they somehow could, "it would not surprise me if they made it to the Super Bowl."
His analysis began with: "They have Drew Brees ..."
The Saints have him today, and, if he doesn't have much of a chance at the playoffs, he has a chance to make everything right for just a day. Great leaders do this, especially against not-so-great defenses, and Brees' value will be on display.
As will about, oh, 370 yards and four touchdowns.
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Hi Kathy -
I like the term the "dontwannas." I (fortunately) don't feel like I"m depressed much, but sometimes a little sad, jealous, down, and defintiely dontwanna do some things or be around people. I don't think it's a bad thing every once in a while. I seem to recoup energy by spending some time alone, which allows me to be able to have energy when I need it.
I'll be thinking of you, Kathy. It's nice to have help taking care of things, but hard when you have to feel like you need to take care of (to some extent) that same person. I'm sure that's how everyone with children feels all the time!


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Report: Braves OF Jason Heyward's thumb X-rays come back negative
Braves right fielder Jason Heyward exited with an apparent thumb injury in the eighth inning of Wednesday's win over the Nationals.
Bowman added that X-rays on his thumb were negative.
The 25-year-old was pinch-hit for in the eighth inning in a two-run game the Braves ended up winning. He had made an early exit in a game in July due to lower back soreness but it's not immediately clear the extent of the thumb injury on Wednesday and whether it will cause him to miss time.
Good chance that Heyward's thumb started to swell over the past few innings.
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X-rays on Heyward's left thumb were negative. But he knows that thumb ailments can prove to be a lingering problem. #Braves
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Washington, DC – Today, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid released the following statement on the allegations that oil company executives may have lied to Congress in testimony last week:
"It's no surprise that big oil was involved in writing the Bush administration's energy policy. However, when the big oil companies came to Congress to testify about their record profits, we expected that they would tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Today, we learned that this was a standard they were not prepared to meet. This is unacceptable. I join my Democratic colleagues in demanding that these oil executives by brought back to the Congress, sworn in, and forced to testify again about their involvement with Vice President Cheney's secretive energy task force and all of the issues covered in the hearing.
"This policy written by the energy companies for the energy companies is hurting American consumers with record prices this year. We need to get to the truth so that we can get relief to American families. We can do better."
[The text of a letter sent by Senate Democrats to Chairmen Stevens and Domenici below]
November 16, 2005
Honorable Ted Stevens
Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
United States Senate
Dirksen Building, Room 364
Washington, DC 20510-6125
Honorable Pete Domenici
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
United States Senate
Hart Building, Room 522
Washington, DC 20510-6125
Dear Chairmen Stevens and Domenici:
We were troubled to read allegations detailed in this morning's Washington Post that cast doubt on the truthfulness of testimony offered by oil company CEOs at last week's joint hearing of the Senate Commerce and Energy Committees. Prior to the hearing, many of us officially requested that the witnesses–and in particular, the oil company CEOs–be sworn in to testify under oath. That request was denied. But in light of today's revelations, we respectfully request that you reconvene hearings as soon as possible to take these witnesses' sworn testimony about their roles in the Cheney energy task force and the recent run-up in American fuel prices.
Recalling these witnesses is crucial for at least two reasons. First, the integrity of this institution demands that false statements before Senate Committees must not be tolerated. As such, the implications of these witnesses' testimony regarding the Vice President's energy task force must be more fully explored.
Second, when one element of a witness' testimony is called into question, it raises additional concerns about other statements offered during the course of a hearing. Many of us asked questions of these witnesses designed to help us understand the factors contributing to record-setting and tremendously volatile fuel prices, which are harming consumers, businesses and the American economy as a whole. But just as Majority Leader Frist has stated, the oil company executives who testified "did not… adequately answer the question of whether the sky-high gas prices we saw earlier this fall were entirely justified, and whether their companies' profit margins are appropriate given the hardships energy consumers are facing and will continue to face this winter." Recalling these witnesses to testify under oath will help us answer many of these lingering questions, and bolster the American people's confidence in the integrity of the Senate's investigation into this matter.
We believe the American people deserve real answers about the causes of the recent run-up in fuel prices. Given the complexities of national and international fuel markets, getting these answers will require more than a single hearing–and further requires that we demand the truth from witnesses who come before the United States Senate.
Thank you for your attention to this request.
Maria Cantwell – United States Senator
Frank Lautenberg – United States Senator
Barbara Boxer – United States Senator
Diane Feinstein – United States Senator
Tim Johnson – United States Senator
John Kerry – United States Senator
Ron Wyden – United States Senator
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Living in the Shadows
I grew up in the deep South in the 70's and 80's. We grew up going to church where ordained ministers would hold services on Sundays. Perhaps it was only me, but I saw this as holy men performing holy services on holy days in holy places.
As I've continued to study Scripture, I see that my understanding while I was growing up is much closer to the Old Testament than to the New Testament. But, what's the problem with that? The Old Testament is Scripture too, right?
Yes, but when it comes to things like the temple, the priesthood, the sacrifices, the Sabbath, and other aspects of life as the people of God in the New Testament, the New Testament tells us that these things are shadows of reality, and not reality themselves.
In other words, these things were all intended to point to something else, something bigger, something better. In fact, all of these things point forward to Christ, who fulfilled the whole law and became the better temple, high priest, sacrifice, and Sabbath.
Given my background, it is easy to switch back to thinking that there are holy days on which holy men do holy things in holy places. But, when this begins to cloud my understanding, I live in the shadows and not the reality of Christ. In Christ, all of God's children are holy people; every day is a holy day; all opportunities to serve are holy offerings; and any place we are is a holy place, because we are the temple in which God dwells.
When do we live in the shadows? When we find ourselves asking questions like these: Should you do that on Sunday? Is there an ordained minister available to do that? Should they be doing that in the church [building]? Why is that person preaching [or teaching, or baptizing, or serving the Lord's Supper]?
These questions indicate a shift back into the shadowy thinking of the Old Testament. Today, in Christ, we have the realities available to us; we do not need the shadows.
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Excellent thoughts Alan, you might have earned a coveted "Best of the week" entry.
As a side note, I was at a traditional service this weekend and someone used the Levitcal priesthood as a justification for supporting pastors financially.
This is an excellent post. Thank you so much for putting this so clearly. It's amazing how quickly we fall back into the OT way of thinking and doing things.
I also grew up in a world where Sunday was the Christian version of Sabbath, where any kind of "ministry" was done inside the confines of the church building, and where not forsaking assembling together meant being in that building every time the doors were open. If you wanted to "get right with God," you did it at the "altar."
Even though I've left that behind, I still find myself stepping back into those shadows from time to time. The thing is, it's so much more freeing and graceful to live in the light of the reality.
Wonderful post! There is in grace, the ability to participate with those who are still in the OT understanding without causing problems. So the "fight" can end as folk embrace Christ as the end of the law – regardless of what form the worship seems to take.
Although much of my teaching is to help us all see what the Bible really says and interpret it in light of the truth of Jesus Christ, I find when I slip over into "fight" mode (if you will), I have eliminated grace and begun to hold others to what I think is right – wait a minute isn't that what we are working to correct. Oops!
Doesn't this all go in somewhat of a circle where what is really important is faith working through love?!
So right! We're so busy listening to Moses that we cannot hear Jesus!
Thanks for teaching me on this issue this past week. I think I forget the magnitude and glory of Christ, who is the fulfillment of these you mentioned, all to often. My view of Christ needs to be bigger and better like the author of Hebrews stated.
So do not let anyone make rules for you about…
10 You have a full and true life in Christ, who is ruler over all rulers and powers. 11 Also in Christ you had a different kind of circumcision, a circumcision not done by hands. It was through Christ's circumcision, that is, his death, that you were made free from the power of your sinful self.12 When you were baptized, you were buried with Christ, and you were raised up with him through your faith in God's power that was shown when he raised Christ from the dead.13 When you were spiritually dead because of your sins and because you were not free from the power of your sinful self, God made you alive with Christ, and he forgave all our sins.14 He canceled the debt, which listed all the rules we failed to follow. He took away that record with its rules and nailed it to the cross.15 God stripped the spiritual rulers and powers of their authority. With the cross, he won the victory and showed the world that they were powerless.16 So do not let anyone make rules for you about eating and drinking or about a religious feast, a New Moon Festival, or a Sabbath day.17 These things were like a shadow of what was to come. But what is true and real has come and is found in Christ.-Colossians 2:10-16
they are only part of a human religion…
20 Since you died with Christ and were made free from the ruling spirits of the world, why do you act as if you still belong to this world by following rules like these: 21 "Don't handle this," "Don't taste that," "Don't even touch that thing"? 22 These rules refer to earthly things that are gone as soon as they are used. They are only human commands and teachings. 23 They seem to be wise, but they are only part of a human religion. They make people pretend not to be proud and make them punish their bodies, but they do not really control the evil desires of the sinful self.-Colossians 2:20-23
16 So do not let anyone make rules for you about eating and drinking or about a religious feast, a New Moon Festival, or a Sabbath day.
I read your comments with a keen interst of two points, one a bit of comedy to make a point. If a light bulb was called a dark sucker instead as it draws out all darkness, and when it burns out, it is because it is full of all the darkness it can hold, is that why we should call light bulbs "darksuckers". The shadows of any light candle or light bulb truly does illuminates around all corners with a similar light, reflecting us to our path.
We as Christians are all ordained into the faith of sharing are we not? The process of ordaining is a religious conventions by the higher authority that often attempt to set up rules of who is to be chosen. I came to the realization as I went through Seminary for four years that the essential component is how you bring others to faith, not the who can bring a person to faith? The real gift is where you can sit any any location and share the faith of scripture in both the entire Bible and make someone feel they are learning and growing in belief, like a wine maker, who tends the vine with the same care and attention to ensure the yield of the vine is at full capability.
My role in my life is to be that tendering soul, who is willing and ready to enhance the vine as It grows naturally, not the wine maker who often discards the branch beacuse they want the vine to go in a certain direction only for their own purpose or intent.
Come to me all who are heavy labour, and I will refresh you,is much more appropriate in our calling to share the works of Christ in daily living.
Well said.
So, what is your take on the idea of Messianic Synagogues? I know a guy (interestingly, he is a Puerto Rican born black man) who wears the prayer tassels, celebrates the holidays, eats kosher (which is really not a bad way to eat, honestly) and the whole nine yards. He is a good man and loves the Lord and I mean no disrespect. However, is this not a life of "living in the shadows"?
Alan. Ive known a mennonite fellowship that lived very much
under the OT shadow, and they were happy, spiritually minded
& fruit producing believers. And we all know many that
live unfruitful & unspiritual lives on churches enlightened
by further revelation. Jesus weighs our maturity based on what
we do with the truth we know, and not what we don't know.
I think we need to qualify this lest we be found finger
So you're okay with "healthy" and "vital" Judaizers?
Speaking of OT shadows:
What is Messianic Christianity but a glorification of the Jewish race by pseudo-Christian Judaizers who have made the Christ a partner in racist hatred, terrorism, murder, ethnic cleansing, and decades of war crimes, even soiling the Gospel with the blood of fellow Christians. Is this what we should expect to find in those who put no confidence in the flesh? Who claim to be in Him in Whom there is neither Jew nor Greek?
Why are we even speaking of Messianics? How does this differ in meaning from Christian? Do we get some special credit by Jew-ing up the language? The Medium stayed in tune with the Message of Christianity by moving from the dialect of a small knot of Middle Eastern hillbillies to an international lingua franca. Is that something we are now trying to *correct*?
Jesus stood up to the pretensions of the Jews. If they're not, they're not standing with Him.
Claude, a brother
Paul called them false brethren.
Not all Jewish Christians are Judaiziers. Paul comes to mind. But he was willing to criticize – and openly confront – Peter for far less than the overt racism of many modern Judaizers. Paul was right to recognize the danger of tolerating the leaven of Hebrew racism. But sin hardens and half a century of carrying water for war criminals has left America's Evangelicals with a false gospel that is at odds with the Gospel of God Who shows no partiality.
Again, what is the point of Messianic? Why call themselves rabbi and jabber in Hebrish? Why Hebrew names and not Serbian names or Korean names? Is there a point here other than racism? Looks like they're trying to rebuild the wall of separation destroyed in the Christ. Could there be anything more fleshly than such racist self-love?
Claude, a brother
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Do you live in Outlook? Are you a Skype addict? If you answered "yes" to both questions, Peter Kalmstrom has the product for you! Last year Peter brought us the Outlook Skype application; this year, he was commissioned by Skype to expand the functionality and bring true Outlook and Skype integration.
"I have been commissioned by Skype to build an Outlook add-on that makes the most of both these powerful platforms. I am very happy with the results. The finished result will soon be published on the Skype website for free!"
Peter was gracious enough to provide me the opportunity to help in the private beta for the past month or so. I have to say, I was impressed with the application right off the bat. Aside from a few early version issues, the app runs fine for me although I have a limited number of contacts in Outlook. I'll be adding plenty more as I migrate Contacts from my work computer to my home computer.
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Fifty years ago this week, President Eisenhower changed the way we live, signing the bill that created the interstate highway system. The interstates gave Americans unprecedented mobility, more choices in where to live and work, significantly increased highway safety, and made possible today's huge trucking industry (which now hauls 80-90 percent of all goods, by value — a massive portion of our economy).
Today we view the interstate system as completed. And insofar as the original 41,000 miles have all been built (the actual total today is nearly 47,000 miles), in a sense it's true that the original plan has been fulfilled. Yet a highway system that was planned for a country of 170 million people, mostly east of the Mississippi, is not necessarily what we would design today for a country of 300 million with a burgeoning Sunbelt and massive international trade.
Consider how much America has changed in the past 50 years. In the early 1950s there were no container ships disgorging millions of intermodal containers onto trucks. Amazon.com and eBay entrepreneurs weren't shipping orders to every nook in the country. There was no Federal Express, and UPS was a shadow of what it was to become. In 1956 there were only 54 million cars on the road, compared with over 136 million today.
The backbone of our transportation system — the interstates — was planned for a 1950s America. Since cars and trucks aren't going away, we must now turn it into a system that meets the needs of 21st century America.
Compare the top 20 cities (by population) in 1950 with the top 20 in 2000, and you'll see that nearly half have dropped off the list (places like Buffalo, Cleveland and St. Louis), to be replaced by huge, dynamic places like Phoenix, San Diego, San Antonio and Memphis.
A quick glance at the map reveals some obvious missing links — there is no interstate from Phoenix to nearby Las Vegas — two of the nation's fastest growing cities. And with globalization here to stay, there is grossly inadequate north-south trucking capacity from major border crossings with Mexico (places like Laredo and McAllen, Texas).
Buoyed by the advent of real-time inventories and Internet commerce, truck traffic grew by over 45 percent in the last decade and is projected to grow another 39 percent in the next 10 years. Trucks need their own lanes. There are over 5,000 deaths a year in car-truck collisions. And most trucking companies would gladly pay tolls to drive in truck-only lanes that allowed them to carry more goods — by using larger rigs than are currently allowed in most of the country — and kept them separated from cars. Los Angeles, home to both the nation's worst traffic and busiest shipping ports, has plans for truck-only lanes to reduce congestion and keep goods, and the economy, moving.
As it stands, the plague of urban traffic congestion already costs drivers $63 billion a year in wasted time and fuel. Our urban interstates and other freeways worked pretty well until about 20 years ago, when we "completed" building the system. Between 1993 and 2002, vehicle miles traveled on the already congested urban interstates grew 29 percent. But we added only 8.5 percent more lane-miles to that system as the average hours of traffic delay per traveler soared from a modest 16 per year in 1982 to 47 — more than a full work week — today.
Most cash-strapped governments can't afford the multi-billion projects we need to cope with these traffic jams. So a growing number of cities are adding networks of variably-priced toll lanes. By increasing the price of tolls during peak times, transportation officials can keep traffic flowing smoothly and moving at the speed limit — even during rush hour, as we've seen on several California projects over the past decade.
By all means, let's celebrate the 50th anniversary of our interstate highways. But we must not rest on our laurels. This 1950s system has made a huge difference to Americans' mobility, comfort and safety. Our challenge now is to supplement it with a second-generation system.
Robert Poole is director of transportation studies at Reason Foundation and has advised the last four presidential administrations on transportation issues. An archive of his work is here and Reason's transportation and tolls research and commentary is here.


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Throughout his extensive career, theoretical physicist and New York Times best-selling author Michio Kaku has brought physics into the mainstream. From his TV specials to his bestsellers — Physics of the Impossible and Physics of the Future — Kaku explains string field theory (which he helped develop) and other advances in science by captivating our sci-fi imaginations.
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Kaku will discuss this brave new world at a reading and book signing tonight at the Tattered Cover, 2526 East Colfax Avenue, at 7:30 p.m. Free numbered tickets will be available at 6:30 p.m. For more information, visit tatteredcover.com and mkaku.org.
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GP2 Series
The STORY SO FAR
One week after the second round of the 2012 GP2 Series™ season, the thirteen teams are back at the Bahrain International Circuit for the third round of the season, and for a standalone race weekend. One man has clearly become everyone's target: new Series leader Davide Valsecchi dominated in a crucifying manner the rest of the field in free practice, qualifying, Feature and Sprint Race at the Bahraini track. The Italian had an almost perfect race weekend missing only the two bonus points for fastest laptime on Sunday to complete an otherwise faultless performance. He stole the lead in the Drivers' Standings from Luiz Razia, and lies thirteen points ahead of the Brazilian.
This week's event will all be about who can match Valsecchi's pace and there are a handful of contenders to do just that, starting with Esteban Gutiérrez who pocketed two podium finishes last weekend. The mighty Mexican has scored points every race this season so far along with Razia, teammate James Calado and Max Chilton. Two other drivers will surely be strong this week: Fabio Leimer and Felipe Nasr. The Swiss who was leading the Sprint Race was handed a drive though penalty for ignoring yellow flags, but has clearly the pace and skills to challenge Valsecchi. As for Nasr, the rookie did not fail to impress last week especially during the sprint race when he started from the pitlane and fought his way back through the field to take sixth place.
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First Time reloaders final buy decision, Lyman turret press or RCBS turret press.
I have been snooping around these forums for a while but this is my first post. I am tired of paying so much money for factory ammunition. I have decided that I do not require anything more complicated than a turret press because I will only go shootingtwo to three times a month and will only be using up about 4-500 rounds at a time. So I have settled on the Lyman turret press reloading kit or the RCBS turret press reloading kit as a decent quality first time buy. Which of these presses gives you the least hassle to operate smoothly. I do not want to be constantly fiddling with stuff (Which I understand is the bane of Lee presses).
Oh yeah I want to start out by reloading for .45 and .223 but I will eventually get the dies for all my guns which are 9mm, 32.s&w,.38spc,.38s&w,.44russian,.357 mag,7.62x39and54 and 7.62X25 but as I understand it
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Can't print to second cups printer
Thanks to all for the help
The problem: Can't get a second networked printer to print via cups.
The system:
System Manufacturer Compaq Presario 061
System Model DK214A-ABA S4020WM NA210
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 1 AuthenticAMD ~1998 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 3.07, 5/5/2003
SMBIOS Version 2.2
Debian Linux Etch (not released to stable at the time of writing) upgraded from Sarge.
Cups 1.2.5 and supporting packages. Currently making a HP laserjet 4si function correctly.
Cups is NOT acting as a print server.
HP laserjet is set as default printer, and connected via Ethernet.
BEH is installed to handle printer off line situations.
The second printer is a Brother MFC5440CN. It is connected via Ethernet. I installed it some months ago and it printed a test page fine at that time, but I didn't use till the other day when I tried to print a page on it because I needed it to be color but couldn't get it to print.
I downloaded the lprdriver file and cupswraper file for this printer from the Brother site. I have uninstalled the drivers and redownloaded and reinstalled them with no change. I did install the lprdriver before the cupswraper as per the instructions. I did have to create a symlink to get the cupswraper to install. I did notice that the deb packages are made via alien, and I know that some packages made that way are not usable. A possible cause?
Cups reports that the print jobs are successful. I have looked at the error-log file but I must not be able to see what the problem is. I have played with the URL and am using socket://192.168.x.x:9100 I have tried a couple of others that I thought might work from reading different web pages. I suspect that my trouble lies along this line somewhere. The HP uses the socket url that is why I am trying that one. I tried a url for a somba setup (which I do have installed but don't use) and one for a Ubuntu distro but they didn't work either. The somba setup exited with a a 404 error for the pdd file but still claimed that the file printed.
Brother dosen't give much help if you are connecting via a network. I haven't been able to find much info for connecting via a network either unless you are setting up a print server which I don't need. I already have one printer accessed this way but can't seam to access the second one. I can ping the static IP I assigned to it, and It prints just fine from winduz. That only leaves something in my setup in cups or with my driver setup.
Like I said I set the url for the Brother just like the one for the HP except for the static ip which is different for each printer. Both printers are connected via Ethernet. Both work from winduz. Do I need to use a different port? Haven't seen that as an instruction anywhere, but?
At this point I am at a loss. I have spent most of the day trying to solve this problem. I have looked through the cups docs and manpages and this site and didn't find anything that seamed relevent to my problem. Your help is appreciated.
Google up a copy of 'Linuxprinting+CUPS Mini Tutorial'. Read chapter 2, Ethernet-connected printers. Something about running 'ifconfig eth0' may be what you need to do.
Or, use whatever tools Debian provides to check the ethernet setup for the printer. You've tried everything else but checking the ethernet config.
still broke
bigrigdriver Thanks
I did look at that info but not from that page. I don't believe it's an ip problem. I checked the ip from the control panel on the printer and it is set to the static ip assigned by the router and I can ping it. I have questioned Brother about the proper url to use in my case but have not herd back from them. I did notice on their site that some of the dirvers are reported to not work with debian 3.0, I don't know what version number Etch may have, it wasn't readially stated on their site. My printer was not listed with those but it does cause me to wonder.
I have just cleaned out my system. Ramoved 90 odd residual config files and a whole bunch of orphan files, and dummy/transitional packages. I am going to uninstall cups and the drivers next. Then fully update the system (hope it don't break) then reinstall the packages.
How long do you figure befor they finally release Etch to stable? I might wait a wile because there may be a few fixes to some things that might solve my problems. I supect I have a system problem because I compiled wine the other day and got a corrupt package. I may have a stray memory problem (at least my wife says so) too. Memtest86 dosen't report any bad memory though. Let it run about 9 hours.
anyway thanks
There is some good information at http://openprinting.org/show_printer...her-MFC-5440CN.
possible solution
Instructions from Brother in response to my post to them.
Regarding the issue, *would you try the following instractions?
This problem is caused by the differences of lpadmin functions between
To solve the problem, please uninstall, edit and re-install the package.
1. Uninstall cupswrapper
1-1. Comment out lines which include "lpadmin" from
1-2. Uninstall cupswrapper
dpkg -r cuprwrapperXXXX
dpkg --purge cupswrapperXXXX
2. Modify the package
2-1.Unpack the package
dpkg --unpack cupswrapperXXXX.x.x.x-x.dpkg
2-2.Open /usr/local/Brother/cupswrapper/cupswrapperXXXXX to edit.
2-3.Look for the line with "lpadmin -p XXXXXX -E -v .......".
2-4.Change "-m" to "-P" in the line
2-5.Add the file-path of the PPD file written in the line.
the file path = "/usr/share/cups/model/"
BEFORE(no wrap):
lpadmin -p MFC9420CN -E -v usb:/dev/usb/lp0 -m brmfc9420cn.ppd
AFTER(no wrap):
lpadmin -p MFC9420CN -E -v usb:/dev/usb/lp0 -P
*** if you use Debian and it doesn't have lpadmin, please delete the whole
line about lpadmin.
3.Run the install script
3-1.dpkg --configure cupswrapperXXXX.x.x.x-x.dpkg
*** if you deleted the line about lpadmin, access
click "Add printer" and follow the instructions to install.
End of the procedure.
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Haven't tried this yet. will post back with results.
Thanks guys
First issue:
How do I make the brscan2 package fully install? When I try to uninstall it in kpackage I get an error 100 with several files that it cant find. How do I make kpackage and synaptic stop reporting it as installed or broken when it is not there?
After I updated my system as much as I could (can't get the Etch lines in my sources.list to work only the ones that point to testing) brscan2 seamed to be full of files again so I tried to uninstall again with the same results. In order to be able to use kpackage or synaptic I have to reinstall brscan2 fro the downloaded deb package. Why can't I uninstall it?
Second issue:
Electro I looked at that page some time ago. I did check and I can't find any trace of the script they talk about on my system. of course I may not be looking in the right place. I am running Etch. Also I am not familiar with how to change a deb package.
Third issue:
I don't have any such file as /var/lib/dpkg/info/cupswrapperXXXX.prerm or /var/lib/dpkg/info/cupswrepperXXXX.postinst as Brother says I should have. No I have not unistalled again yet. I do have both a cupsys.prerm and a cupsys. postinst in that directory though. The .prerm doesn't have any reference to lpadmin in it. The .postinst has several references to lpadmin in it. I am not sure that I should mess with this file though.
How do I determine that I do in fact have lpadmin on this box? I have looked for a package but kpackage can't find any such package. Is it buried in some other package? The references to lpadmin in cupsys.postinst (some not commented out) tell me I do have it. How can I be sure?
Thanks again
Starting over
Many thanks to everyone who has or will read this thread, those who have helped me and those that have been helped by my problem. There is no greater honor.:twocents: :twocents:
To give you an update:
I was having trouble getting part of the scanner driver to complete the uninstall which is in another post. To quickly relate the solution the uninstall script was trying to delete a couple of folders twice. to work around that problem I just put a couple of dummy files in the folders so the script would return a warning about nonempty folders and not try to delete them. Then after the script finished all I had to do was manually remove the folders and files.
So now that I have all the remnants of the driver gone it is time to start the install process again. I have discovered two thing that I think I need to address.
When looking at Brother's driver download page, which has some instruction on it, and reading through them more carefully than the first time :tisk: I noticed line 4, the last one, which states
I already have too many things that are broke, or at least not working the way I know they can. I don't want to create more problems for myself by installing this, especially if it is going to make it so I can't print at all. The HP prints duplex and is laser, so it saves paper and is cheaper. And it was free.
Thanks Electro, although I had looked at the link you posted I looked once again... well you know the proverbially snake. At the bottom of their page is
I don't get this either: "Try to change in deb/rpm to "#! /bin/sh"" Am I missing something? What good is a deb or rpm if you have to tear it open and change things to get it to install? Why not just give the source?
Any way your help is very much appreciated.
Try installing rpm2tgz and extract the script. The script will make a ppd file for you and it will place the ppd file in cups model directory. Read through the script before running the script to find out where it places and executes files.
deb and rpm files are just install/upgrade/uninstall package files. Gentoo has such files named tbz2 files, but I rarely use or make these files. Normally, I tell emerge to configure, compile, install, and uninstall the desire programs. For my printer, Brother HL-5140, there was a ppd pre-made on linuxprinting.org site, so I just use that file with CUPS and GIMP.
I agree that using Laser printers are cheaper than ink-jet printers. Other people disagree.
Well Ladies and Gentlemen I do believe I have finally found something.
After carefully reading the Brother install pages I came to the conclusion that LPD didn't need to be installed if you are going to use cups. They say to ignore the errors for some printers and to put in a symlink for others. I also had to install the cupswrapper by the instructions they emailed me or the install script wouldn't install the pdd file.
I decided to ignore the stuff at the bottom of the other page described in my last post . I think the language needs to be clarified by someone who really understands what they are trying to say.
Anyway I finished the install and tried to print with the same results. So I renamed the error log file and restarted cups and I found this in the new error log (29 pages) after telling cups to print a testpage.
D [09/Jan/2007:19:58:49 -0500] [CGI] Starting at file position 0...
D [09/Jan/2007:19:59:00 -0500] cupsdAuthorize: username="root"
Anyway thanks to all
I have the same problem here. MFC5840CN (almost the same printer).
Trying to tamper with the filter file to see if there was anything wrong.
Both gs-esp and gs-gnu (changing the symlink of /usr/bin/gs) barfed with the same invalid pointer.
On ubuntu 6.06 I had no problem printing.(libc6 2.3.x; cups 1.2.2)
After upgrading to 6.10 it stopped working.(libc6 2.4.x; cups 1.2.4; no invalid pointer in debug log of cups error_log)
On my debian machines it gave the same invalid pointer error. (libc6 2.3.6; cups 1.2.7)
Sorry that i'm not of any real help; just thought I'd let you know you're not alone.
By the way to give you some assurance:
It worked for me for a while on ubuntu 6.06 with setting:
So no socket there... well... I think.
Otherwise I have no clue on how this should be taken on.
kind regards,
Thanks Snotty69
I dont think it is a problem with the filters or postscript like brother is telling me. I have not been able to get the printer to print even from the command line.
List of thing I have tried.
# lpr -P MFC5440CN /etc/fstab gives no results
It didn't do me any good.
Have been considering uninstalling the whole printing system and starting from scratch. Not sure what all I need to remove to get everything out of the system though. Now the HP laserjet 4si is not working right in that it will only print one page at a time.:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: I have had to start booting to that other os just to get thing printed. I am beginning to feal like Aunt Tillie http://catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html If that other os didn't crash all the time on this machine I would put Etch on the shelf.
A week or a week and a half ago, I did use Brother's ppd file for my printer (HL-5140) just for fun. I first had to edit the script because the script was meant to be used for Redhat, Redhat like distributions, and Suse although I could just create a symbolic link in /etc/init.d that points from cupsys to cupsd. The wrapper file (brlpdwrapperHL5140) copied itself to /usr/lib/cups/filter and the ppd file (brhl5140_cups.ppd) got copied to /usr/share/cups/model/. I added a printer through the web interface that CUPS provided and used brhl5140_cups.ppd as the ppd file. It almost worked because it produced errors that it can not find the wrapper file in /usr/libexec/cups/filter/. Dah! there was not a wrapper in there, so I created a symbolic link that points to /usr/lib/cups/filter/brlpdwrapperHL5140. After I made the symbolic link, it printed just fine. The quality is worst than using hl1250 ppd file from linuxprinting.org. I deleted the printer and used hl1250 instead.
I do not use lpd to print. I just use CUPS. Though lpd is harder to setup than CUPS.
I also shared the printer too using IPP or through http. I used CUPS to shared the printer and SAMBA to share the drivers from a directory, but I do not have Point 'n Click setup in SAMBA. I tried setting up Point 'n Click but it was too stubborn to add the driver to its database even though I typed the syntax correctly.
It does help to set the default printer when using two or more printers.
Conclusion, CUPS is very easy to setup through its web interface. Also it provides status to any computer on the network and these computers can print to http://[IP_address_to_CUPS_Server]:631/printers/[printer_name] with out any trouble, but only if they have the postscript drivers from CUPS, Windows, or Adobe. Some manufactures likes to throw curve balls such as Brother that makes setting up CUPS a chore even though it was fun to test my Linux skills. I recommend searching linuxprinting.org to find out what printer works best with their own ppd version. The ppd file from linuxprinting.org or CUPS produces equal or better quality print outs than Windows or Mac drivers have provided.
BTW, I am using Gentoo. CUPS version is 1.26 and I installed the ESP drivers.
Hit some button I guess. See below
Took a look and yes, it seems to work.
But our problem isn't with setting it up.
I had it working on ubuntu 6.06. I'm not to good with names so I'm not sure what its name is.
I upgraded to 6.10 and cannot get it to work.
Cups error messages are not the same as on Debian testing/unstable.
This excerpt is the key in our problem:
[Job 99] Error: error occurred at print phase !!
Cups goes on to process the job to the printer. You can see it lighting up "receiving" and settling down as the printjob has finished and no data is comming while there is none because of the above error.
I'm not able to pinpoint the origin of this problem. That is why I'm not able to give you a solution.
I hope I have a ubuntu 6.06 install on my pc and retry to have some comparison in installed versions.
Hoping to hear soon from Brother support in order to get this worked out.
If I know you will know;)
Some little comments:
I found this hint in some printer howto.
try to use nmap:
nmap -v -A <ip-address-of-printer>
Interesting ports on 192.168.123.109:
my printer-url is: lpd://<ipaddress>
Kind regards.
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