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Thread: People who abuse French names
August 22nd, 2012 02:46 PM #1Junior Member
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People who abuse French names
There are some people who name their child "Soleil'... For your information, the french think it's like the weirdest and one of the dumbest names ever. You wouldn't call your daughter Sun or Moon either. It doesn't work, it is ridiculous. I think those people are dumb, they probably want their daughter's name to sound elegant or classy.. Instead, it sounds childish and stupid to me. That's what most French people think anyway, so I'm certainly not the only one who feels that way.
Mireille, Fréderique, Océane, Adrienne, Amandine, Clarisse and Claudine are all fine. Why would someone name their child Soleil? Stick to your own language, please. Personally, I LOVE French names, but they gotta be REALISTIC.
Seriously, stop trying to be so yooneek, what's wrong with classic names anyway.
August 22nd, 2012 03:19 PM #3
I wouldn't say someone naming their child Soleil is "abusing French names." You have a right to your opinion, but it's coming off as rude. The people here in the US who name their children Soleil aren't thinking about how it's going to be percieved in France, they're thinking that they found a pretty name that sounds nice. Parents don't always research a name before they use it. And even if they did, "sun" isn't the worst meaning to have. People name thier children Moon and Luna, it's not a huge deal.
Soleil has been used for years, and so has Moon, River, Pheonix, ect. They've managed thorugh life just fine. The fact that you find it stupid and childish doesn't mean that all should stop using it. And the people who use Soleil aren't dumb, they liked a name (maybe they knew the meaning, and liked it.) Even if you live and France or speak flunet French, you can't tell people not to use it, or to stick to their own language.
I find more issue with using Fréderique or Océane in the USA, since the accents over the e's are sure to not to be percieved well.
I'm sorry if I'm too blunt, but I think that your post came off as rude and a bit childish. Accusing people who name their daughters Soleil of abusing a language is ridiculous.
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I wouldn't say naming your daughter Soleil is stupid or trying to be unique. I think it's a beautiful name and if your not in France I really don't see the problem. I'd actually like that my name meant "sun". Tia is a name commonly used in America but it means "aunt" in spanish. If I met someone named Sun I'd think it was cool and really, really pretty!
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Well, I do know a girl named Moon and it's far from the craziest name I've ever heard.
If classic names are your thing, that's awesome that you know your style, but I don't think using a word name in another language is stupid. I love Fern, but since it's such a humble plant am I stupid for not sticking with a flower name? Is someone who uses Naveah dumber than you? Are you better than them cause you prefer Caroline? Or cause you speak French?
Names are a personal thing and none of us are right or wrong.

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I need the older right-handed threaded ejector rod. S&W "reworked" a newer left-handed threaded one and did a miserable job, as any of you who are familiar with machining would have predicted. Yes they actuall swaged out the threaded section,turned it down and recut opposite hand threads and the workmanship was worse than mine in my freshman engineering labs. I don't want to get into returning it, calling them, so please, my question is where can I get authentic S&W parts for older revolvers. Finally, Gun Parts Corp also can not help so you needn't bother suggesting them.
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ADHD Mindfulness: A Surprising Place To Meditate
It's Friday. Two Fridays ago I kinda went on a rant. Last week was Black Friday so we had to pay some attention to that. This week I'm heading in a different direction. Today I want to talk about meditation. I may get in trouble for this, but I'm gonna suggest you go to church.
Okay, you got me, I'm not exactly a church going kind of guy. In fact, my beliefs are not really in line with churches as we know them. But I want to tell you about my recent experiences.
Don't worry
I'm not taking up a collection, I'm not asking you to pray with me, and I won't be knocking on your door. But I'd like to ask you to imagine going to a place where you resign yourself to letting go for an hour or so. Imagine a place where you will be occupied with someone talking and others singing. You'll be welcome to participate at times, you'll be told when. People will be going through a ritual process of gathering together, comforting each other, accepting each other, offering experience and interpretation. You don't have to accept what they say as gospel (ha!), but you can accept they are trying to share what they think, feel, believe. It's not a bad way to spend an hour.
Do I believe?
My personal faith allows me to accept other faiths as perfectly valid ways of viewing the world. I believe that being a decent human being has its own benefits, I don't look for future, eternal rewards. But I'm okay if your faith does. It's just that if there is a heaven, I want to experience as much of it as I can, share as much of it as I can, here on earth. Call it practicing if you want.
But here on earth I have a problem focusing on the now. I'm always lamenting time wasted in the past and looking at the future to figure out how best to approach it. I'm never living in the moment. Therein lies the issue behind my inability to meditate. But I can do that meditation thing … in church.
Okay, we know that it's difficult for us to sit still for any length of time, but I've found a trick. I take a notepad and a pen with me. As the hymns and choral offerings are sung, as the minister offers her thoughts on her faith and her interpretations of scripture, I let my mind relax. I do not ignore her. But I cannot sit quietly and keep my mind focused on her words only. They come too slowly to occupy all my conscious mind.
But that's okay …
I let my mind wander. I'm expected to be there, to sit and contemplate, so that's what I do. My mind goes far beyond the content of the sermon, but no one has told me I have to restrict myself to one line of thought. So, I expand on what I'm hearing; I take notes on the thoughts the service stirs up in me.
Maybe it has to do with my past
I readily admit to having been raised in a church community, the same denomination as the one I sometimes attend now. So I pretty much know what to expect when I'm there. But part of a ministers weekly task is to make the congregation think. The minister in question does an excellent job of that, I'd be gone like a wisp of smoke in the wind if she didn't make it interesting.
Churches must serve their communities, and though I'm not a true member of this church's congregation, I am a member of this church's community. So I think I'll keep dropping in on Sundays. I'll give them a chance to lead me in the right path and they can help me meditate. I think that's a fair trade, don't you?
Babcock, K. (2012). ADHD Mindfulness: A Surprising Place To Meditate. Psych Central. Retrieved on September 20, 2017, from https://blogs.psychcentral.com/adhd-man/2012/11/adhd-mindfulness-a-surprising-place-to-meditate/


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Industry Update - Q4-2004: AMD adds SSE3 Support, Intel's 925/915 not selling and moreby Anand Lal Shimpi on November 3, 2004 1:00 AM EST
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Every year I make at least one trip to Taipei, Taiwan, usually for the annual Computex show. The flight itself is usually grueling, traveling from the East Coast you're generally in the air for around 20 hours. Then there's getting used to the time difference, which is a full 12 hours from EST. But it's all worth it, because a trip to Taipei is like a hardware-guy's dreamland. Tons of manufacturers spread out all over the northern tip of the island all working on bringing the latest technology and performance to your PCs. It's through these manufacturers that you can get a very interesting perspective on the industry as well as get a good idea for the truth behind a lot of the issues we see.
The Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers are the first hand recipients of roadmaps and future product information from companies like AMD, Intel, ATI and NVIDIA. The manufacturers are also privy to information that usually doesn't flow through a PR group before reaching them, so tapping our sources in Taiwan often gives us a much more honest (and bleak) view of the PC industry as a whole.
The other type of information we get from Taiwan is good updates on what types of products are actually selling. It's one thing to hear AMD and Intel talk about market share, but when the motherboard manufacturers tell us that a product isn't shipping, we usually know the truth.
I met with manufacturers for three days straight, usually from 8AM until as late as 11PM every night. And while I'm not able to share all of the information discussed in the meetings, I'll do my best to put forth a summary of some of the hot topics we talked about. But before I get to what the motherboard manufacturers told me, I'd like to touch on some of the questions they had for me and thus, for all of you. Just as we are at the mercy of the PR teams at AMD, Intel, ATI and NVIDIA, the motherboard manufacturers are at the mercy of the same folks when it comes to understanding what you all, the end users want.
The biggest question I was asked in Taiwan was about why I felt the 915 chipset wasn't selling well. I'll touch on this more in the chipset section of this article, but with Taiwan coming to us for answers you get an impression of the current situation.
The next question, or worry, on the minds of the manufacturers in Taiwan is the future of dual core technology on the desktop. This is another issue that I'll discuss later in the article, but you can understand the sense of caution if dual core is the number two question on their list.
A surprisingly popular question also revolved around ATI's upcoming chipsets. Next week we'll see the launch of ATI's latest AMD and Intel chipsets, but for the first time we're seeing an unusually large amount of interest from the motherboard manufacturers. This is yet another area I'll be touching on later in the article.
There are many other interesting tidbits of information I picked up while in Taiwan, ranging from Intel's 1066MHz FSB plans to AMD's first Athlon 64 chips with SSE3 support, so without further ado, let's talk about what's going on today.
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ThePlagiarmaster - Thursday, November 04, 2004 - linkWould definitely like more of these articles.
I'd have to disagree with the statements on the Pentium M beating an athlon64 though (in any benchmark). You're forgetting that it was running against a SINGLE channel system that had it's memory running on a 266mhz bus if memory serves. It should get soundly trounced by a REAL desktop A64/FX. A faster FSB (800mhz?) won't help the Pentium M much either (It's not bandwidth starved like a P4), so unless they can ratchet up the clock quite a bit it won't be a top performer (which it's not designed to do BTW. It was meant to use low power not ramp up in mhz).
Great chip for low power laptops but you just can't shove it into a desktop and expect it to change it's spots. This is akin to Intel trying to shove the P4 into a dualcore. Which of course, it wasn't designed for. Can you say shared bandwidth? Moral of the story is, don't expect anything special from a desktop Pentium M except a decent SFF system.
I'd also have to wonder about the FX57 in 2H05. One chip in 8-9 months or more? I know there is no need for more, but I'd hope AMD would release an FX59 and just stack the price on top of the current chip at that time (the 57). Even if Intel isn't keeping up. Who cares, just charge more, some of us would want it anyway. Why stop at domination? Why not completely obliterate Intel and gain the all important MINDSHARE along the way? We saw just a feature or two of strained silicon make 2.9 on air do-able on OLD .13 tech (fx55). Clearly this process on .09 with SOI should easily do 3.2ghz or so. I hope they release some and just jack up the price. Vendors like voodoo/falcon would surely like to sell them. Hope the roadmaps you guys saw were OLD :) Reply
jonp - Thursday, November 04, 2004 - linkAnand. Yes, it was a great article. Well written and packed with valuable information. I, for one, would vote for more trips and more reports. Thanks for going and writing so well. Jon Reply
newfc12 - Thursday, November 04, 2004 - linkVery intersesting article, its very hard to find this kind on info through the normal media channels.Keep up the good work. Reply
KrazyDawg - Thursday, November 04, 2004 - link#31
I forgot to add one more thing. You might not have the need for 4+ USB ports but other people might. I personally have 6 USB ports in use. I can have 7 with my MP3 player. They're not used 24/7 but I rather not deal with swapping devices and purchasing a USB hub. Reply
KrazyDawg - Thursday, November 04, 2004 - link#31
"To answer the MB maker's question about what would make me get off the dime and purshase a new motherboard...
One that has 5.1 digital out in either Dolby or DTS so I could set it up with other audio equipment. Without that feature they can put most anything they want on a board and I won't upgrade.
A digital out that just does stereo PCM does not cut it.
And any more than 4 USB ports is overkill. Firewire IS required."
If you're idea of upgrading to a new motherboard is based solely on sound you can always purchase a soundcard such as the SoundBlaster Audigy2. I don't think it's reasonable for companies and consumers to pay a "premium" cost for "better" sound. The integrated sound on most motherboards are fine for most users and if you want better you can always install a card. Integrated anything is for cutting down costs which means it won't be offering the best performance most of the time.
"What competes with Microsoft's Windows XP? Linux?? pfft....have u ever tried using that crap? You need a doctorate in 'command line' editing just to get the bloody thing to install."
I hope you're not that ignorant and your comment was an attempt at a joke because these type of comments seem to be everywhere. I've successfully installed Mandrake Linux and RedHat Linux without any problems at all. In fact, it uses a GUI based installation. There's an option for using the command line but there's one for GUI as well. I hope more people do their research instead of basing all their research on one person's opinons. That's one reason everyone is "misinformed" about a product nowadays. Reply
Pete - Thursday, November 04, 2004 - linkFantastic article, Anand. More, please. :) Reply
GeekGee - Thursday, November 04, 2004 - linkGreat article... keep 'em coming. Reply
Wesleyrpg - Thursday, November 04, 2004 - linkYou'd think intel would of learnt from their mistakes (aka the i850 fiasco), and not try to shove SO much 'new' technology down our throats at the same time.
DDR2 has no real performance gains, well not yet anyway and plus it's a hell of a lot more expensive, and do be honest why do we need PCI express when AGP cards are just as fast.
Maybe they should of released a 'migration' chipset first where it supported both DDR, DDR2, and both AGP and PCI Express. You just can't release a chipset these days where you HAVE to replace RAM, CPU, motherboard AND video card in one hit.
Intel the Microsoft of hardware? yeah right, with so many other good chipsets out there, i don't think that they have the monopoly that you guys think they have, (well maybe for the intel platform) At least there are other chipsets out there competing. What competes with Microsoft's Windows XP? Linux?? pfft....have u ever tried using that crap? You need a doctorate in 'command line' editing just to get the bloody thing to install.
Whoops i have gotten off the track here.....great article by the way! Reply
K money - Wednesday, November 03, 2004 - linkI, like #40, registered just to comment on this wonderful article (and I'll probably be visiting the forums now often). Anand - you are very informative and insightful, keep up the good work even if that means flying out to Taiwan every other week! Reply
AussieGamer - Wednesday, November 03, 2004 - link#4 "Intel thinks they are the microsoft of the chipset market... "
They are. Reply


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During our trials the other day, Eirini & I also tested out a recipe for a cake that the Bride & Groom (for one of the three events) had requested.
I'm not going to lie… it was completely disastrous, & nothing like what they had specified.
What they had told us they wanted was something that wasn't actually a cake. At least not in the traditional sense. They didn't want chocolate. In fact, they wanted it light, fruity with strawberry, not too sweet, and a layer of almond nougat somewhere in the middle.
What we ended up was this very dense layer of vanilla-caramel custard which was quite sweet, a layer of almond meringue which didn't really stand up against the other flavors, and a very sticky layer of strawberry. It was miles off.
I assure you, we were not discouraged.
We decided to divide & conquer! Eirini undertook the task of pulling apart & reassembling the recipe to achieve exactly what they asked for. I on the other hand decided that maybe they didn't actually know what they wanted (sometimes we have an idea, but don't know how to visualize it). With that in mind, I decided to take the specifications & flavors that they had outlined for us & give them a new edge.
In my mind, the roulade was the perfect way to go. Technically it's a cake, but the majority of it is whipped egg whites & yolks which gives it this wonderfully spongy & light texture. I also did half the dry ingredients with almond flour & added a touch of bitter almond to really bring out the flavor. Not overly sweet, not too cakey, kind of perfect. Then there's the chantilly cream filling, light, fluffy, very little sugar, perfect to add a hint of vanilla too. & lets not forget the light layer of strawberry to add some intensity to those more subtly flavors & textures.
It took me three attempts to get it exactly the way I wanted it, but overall I think I hit the nail on the head. Eirini & I will be presenting both options to them on Wednesday at the tasting along with the rest of the menu. Wish us luck!
Ingredients, roulade:
– 80g gluten-free all purpose flour
– 65g almond flour
– 1/2 tsp xanthan gum
– 4 egg whites
– 1/4 tsp salt
– 50g sugar
– 4 egg yolks
– 50g sugar
– 1/2 tsp almond extract
Directions, roulade:
1. grease a with butter & line with parchment paper, set aside. Preheat oven to 175C
2. place the flour, almond flour & xanthan in a food processor & process until it is a fine powder.
3. place the egg whites, salt & sugar in a bowl & beat until still peaks form.
4. in a separate bowl, place the egg yolks, sugar & almond extract. Beat on high speed until the yolks become very light & creamy in texture, this should take about 5 minutes or more.
5. sift in half of the dry ingredients into the egg yolks & fold in gently. Add in half of the egg white meringue & fold in gently. Sift in the rest of the dry ingredients & add the rest of the meringue to the yolks. Fold the mixture together until everything has been evenly distributed.
6. spread the mixture onto your lined tin in an even layer, bake for 15 minutes.
7. remove from the oven, whilst the cake is still hot, transfer it onto a dish towel that has been dusted with sugar. Roll the cake up into a log & allow it to cool completely.
Ingredients, cream filling:
– 30ml milk, cold
– 3/4 tsp powdered gelatin
– 250ml heavy cream
– 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
– 30g icing sugar
Directions, cream filling:
1. place the milk & the gelatin in a glass & allow the gelatin to bloom for 10 minutes.
2. combine the cream, vanilla & sugar into a bowl & beat until stiff.
3. once the gelatin has bloomed, microwave the mixture in short bursts, stirring between each burst until the gelatin has completely dissolved. Add the gelatin to the whipped cream & gently fold the two together. Place the cream in the fridge until it's time to spread it on the cake. Make sure to give it a stir every 10 minutes so as it doesn't set.
Ingredients, strawberry filling:
– 550g fresh strawberries
– 2 tbs sugar
– 1 tbs lemon juice
– 40ml water, cold
– 2 tsp gelatin
Directions, strawberry filling:
1. combine the strawberries, sugar & lemon in a food processor & process until smooth. Transfer the berries to a pot & cook over medium heat for 20 minutes.
2. 10 minutes into the cooking process, place the gelatin in the water & put that in the fridge to bloom for 10 minutes. Once bloomed, add it to the strawberry mixture that is cooking & stir in until all the gelatin has dissolved. Remove the strawberries from the heat & transfer to a bowl. Place in the fridge & allow it to cool for 10 minutes.
3. now that the cake is cool & the cream & strawberry fillings are ready, gently unroll the cake. Spread the strawberry filling onto the cake first making sure to do it in a nice even coating over the entire surface. Next, spread the cream mixture on top of that, again doing it in a nice even coating across the entire surface. Now, gently roll the cake back up & put it in the fridge for three hours to allow the gelatin to set.
4. if you wish to decorate the cake, melt some dark chocolate & drizzle it over the top.
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Former San Marino High School baseball coach Mickey McNamee, who had a career that spanned 44 years and won five CIF championships, passed away Friday morning after a long battle with cancer. He was 74.
McNamee coached and taught at San Marino beginning in the 1960s. He resigned in 2007 after a wildly successful career that peaked in the 1990s when the Titans won CIF championships in 1990, 1992 and 1995 to go along with six consecutive Rio Hondo League championships.
"It's just sad because he did so much and meant so much to so many people," said current San Marino baseball coach Mack Paciorek, who played for McNamee along with two of his brothers. "I've been already hearing from alumni who talk about how they incorporate things they picked up from him and teach their own kids. And remember, these guys aren't baseball coaches, they are big-time businessmen and they still take what they learned from him and use it.
"There's a constant memory of him and you have to attribute it to how he coached the game."
McNamee coached four CIF Players of the Year. The most notable player he coached was Jim Gott, who pitched in the majors for 14 seasons. McNamee's teams won 14 league championships.
Despite his on-the-field success, Paciorek said that wins weren't really what drove McNamee and that making sure his players got enjoyment out of the game was probably the secret to his success as he built San Marino into a Southland power for several years.
"He kept the game fun and coached the game the way it was really supposed to be coached," Paciorek said. "He used to say, 'Make the routine play routinely.' He wanted you to work at it and have fun. The guy who played for him will remember being out there at practice with their shirts off, sunglasses on and acting like 15- and 16-year-olds who would then go out and kick your butt in a game."
A memorial service for McNamee will be held Saturday, Jan. 11 at 2 p.m. at San Marino Congregational Church.


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House finds a home in Boston
Eddie House decided yesterday against free agency and will remain with the Celtics next season, according to his agent, Mark Bartelstein. House, who could have exercised a player option and declared for free agency today, has one year remaining on a contract worth $2.86 million.
''Eddie is staying in the contract,'' Bartelstein said. ''It was a tough decision. We went back and forth the last couple of weeks. But, when it was all said and done, Eddie loved his time in Boston, he feels like he is on a championship contender, he really enjoys playing with his teammates and playing for Doc [Rivers], and the fans have been great to him.
''There is no question there would have been a tremendous amount of interest in Eddie. Who wouldn't want him? But there is the unknown, not knowing where you are going to end up, and he really enjoys going to work every day with the Celtics.
''He'll stay at least one more year and he can go into free agency next year, if he wants. But he has a comfort zone there; he's enjoyed the experience, and he didn't want to walk away from it.
''He can play a lot more years. He takes good care of himself and he's an absolute pro. There are not a lot of times in life where you find a place that feels like home and you have a chance to win the championship, and he's got that.''
House, 31, averaged 8.5 points off the bench in 81 games last season.
The Celtics' other unrestricted free agents are guard Stephon Marbury and center Mikki Moore and president of basketball operations Danny Ainge said the team will make a qualifying offer to Glen Davis, a restricted free agent.
''We're excited to have Eddie back,'' Ainge said. ''We hope we have Glen back — we are confident we can bring him back. The market will dictate what he gets. We have interest in Steph. We like who he was and what he did for us. We have some interest in him.''
Ainge confirmed the Celtics will attempt to use their mid-level exception. ''It just has to be for the right player,'' he said.The Celtics are concentrating on power forwards and backup centers.
Possible free agents on their list include: forwards Grant Hill (Phoenix), Antonio McDyess and Rasheed Wallace (Detroit), Jamario Moon (Miami), Lamar Odom (Lakers), Zaza Pachulia (Atlanta), Anthony Parker (Toronto); center Chris Wilcox (New York); and guard Marquis Daniels (Indiana).
Hill, 36, who was coached by Rivers in Orlando, played all 82 games for the Suns last season, the first time in his career he has not missed a game. The Celtics pursued McDyess last February before signing Moore. Odom (who earned $11 million last season) and Wallace ($13.68 million) likely would have to take major pay reductions to join the Celtics. Pachulia or Wilcox could serve as reserves behind center Kendrick Perkins.
The Celtics are also considering a backup for Paul Pierce, but they could go with last year's draft choices, J.R. Giddens and Bill Walker, whose development will be gauged next week in the Orlando Summer League.
Parker, a starter for the Raptors, Daniels, and Moon are perimeter threats who could fill in behind Pierce.
Frank Dell'Apa can be reached at email@example.com.


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Check out the fiberglassflyrodders forum and thefiberglassmanifesto blog that Cletus mentioned for everything to do with glass. Anyways, back to the question at hand. I do have experience with both rods you mentioned. First off, this is not your grandpas slow, heavy, glass. I think you are talking about the Scott F2 6' 2wt (orange-ish blank), not the previous F series (blank blank)? I found the Hardy 7' 3wt "Brook" to have a very soft tip, and almost "noodley" action most suited to small dries and short casts. Not to say that it cant do light nymph work, but there are much better options out there in my opinion. The Scott F2 6' 2wt on the other hand is quicker with a more progressive taper. It also has a relatively soft tip, but not as soft as the Hardy Brook. It will cast medium size dries and light nymph rigs with absolutely deadly precision. It can cast a nice loop with less than a foot of line out of the tip. This is a game changer on small, brush-choked streams. The Scott F2 6'6" 3wt is my favorite small stream rod. I chose to keep the 6'6" 3wt F2 over its little brother because I found it to be a little more versatile in what it can cast. Another glass maker to check out would be Steffen. He makes some of the best modern glass on the market right now. Steffen has a HUGE selection of rod lengths and weights to choose from and his price is hard to beat. Last time I checked they ran around $400 with a 2-3 month wait time. There are lots of modern makers to check out in addition to Steffen including, but not limited to, Kabuto, McFarland, Epic, James Green, and Larry Kenney.
In my opinion, glass is the ultimate material for a short small stream rod. Glass is not dead.
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Jon Huntsman's withdrawal from the Republican primary raises lots of important questions, including this one: What are his daughters going to do now?
The Huntsman daughters (the popular @jon2012girls, if you didn't know) self-branded themselves as puckish surrogates for their father's campaign, racking up YouTube hits for a parody of a Herman Cain ad in which they wore moustaches a la Cain chief of staff Mark Block, and posing for a spread in GQ.
"We are shamelessly promoting our dad like no other candidate's family ever has," Mary Anne Huntsman says in the parody ad. "But then again, no one's ever seen a trio like the Jon 2012 girls."
Huntsman's campaign has ended, but could his daughters just be getting started? After all, the daughters of John McCain, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are working in TV now. After Huntsman's resignation speech today, his daughters wrote on Twitter: "flames burn out in politics, our Dad's has just been ignited. What an incredible journey for our family. Thanks for all the support!"
Indeed, Huntsman's daughters, who're in their early- to mid-20s, owe a special thanks to the media that have paid such attention to them: The daughters have been interviewed by nearly every major news outlet that covers politics.
The daughters sat down for an ABC "Top Line" segment in November to talk about their presence in Huntsman's campaign (one of them, Abigail Huntsman Livingston, had worked for "Good Morning America."). They acknowledged "becoming so viral" and memorably advised their dad to "blow bubbles" at the presidential debates, a nod to their performance in the Cain knockoff ad that parodies Block smoking a cigarette at the end.
"There seem to be so many of these sort of insta-personalities, which are generated on offshoots of quasi-celebrities themselves," said Stephen Duncombe, a New York University professor who studies the cross of mass media and politics. "It's simply name recognition. There's nothing that any of them say that couldn't be said by someone else, probably more intelligently."
ABC News's Amy Walter emailed the girls to see what their plans are; Abigail responded: "Good question! For now it's looking like a week off to breathe and catch up on some much needed sleep. Not sure what's in store after that. Was an incredible experience for all of us."


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While very little fat is actually melted, any fat...
While very little fat is actually melted, any fat affected by the Cool Lipo laser is removed with tumescent liposculpture that is perfomed at the same time.
It is sucked out
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Today marks the end of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," a discriminatory policy that barred thousands of capable men and women from military service because of their sexual orientation.
For nearly two decades,"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" threatened American values of liberty and equality for all, and prevented the Armed Forces from including the best and brightest service members.
The U.S. Military discharged more than 13,000 troops — who were qualified and dedicated to serving our country — because of the law.
Senate Democrats led the way on repealing DADT, with Senators Harry Reid, Joe Lieberman, Carl Levin, Mark Udall and Kristen Gillibrand helping to push through legislation ending the policy.
Marking the importance of the law's end, Nevada Senator Harry Reid told his Senate colleagues this morning: "There is no place for intolerance in this great nation, nor in the Armed Forces tasked with protecting it."
He continued: "I am glad to say that today our military policies and our national values are at last in line."
From today forward, no qualified man or woman willing to fight for a nation founded on the principles of tolerance and equality "will ever again be denied the right to do so," Reid said.
The repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" continues a pattern of our military reflecting American social progress. Equality of race, gender, religion and now sexual orientation have been integrated into the Armed Forces to show that America is a country where all men and women are treated fairly under the law.


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|Written by Peter J. Leithart
|Wednesday, 11 November 2009 11:04
Dean Koontz's Relentless (Bantam, 2009) is refreshingly anti-PC. The protagonist's in-laws (the Booms) are demolition experts and survivalists with food and guns stored away in an underground shelter, and the villain, Shearman Waxx, is a hoity book reviewer who terrorizes the novelist hero, "Cubby" Greenwich, his wife Penny, their astonishingly precocious son Milo, and the family dog, Lassie. Waxx is as scary as the double "x" of his surname suggests.
As the book progresses, it dawns on you that Relentless doesn't just happen to be anti-PC. It's about political correctness, and the danger that bullying intellectual elites pose to civilization and humanity. Alongside their stock of assault rifles, the Boom's place is lined with shelves full of classics of Western literature. The nuts, the home schoolers, the gun owners, the religious wackos, Koontz tells us, are the ones who are going to save civilization. Like they did last time civilization collapsed, and the time before that.
Koontz's plot disintegrates in the final chapters, but until then it's the kind of book that keeps you up and night and wakes you up early in the morning. Mix that with nods to O'Connor and Chesterton, and the product is several cuts about the typical bestseller.
Painter Makoto Fujimura was born in the
In the aftermath of September 11, he and another artist organized their studio – three blocks from Ground Zero – into TriBeCa Temporary, an "oasis of collaboration by Ground Zero artists." Many of the beautifully written pieces in the collection reflect on the role of artists, and specifically of Christian artists, in times of national crisis: How does a Christian artist provide glimpses of the city of
Filled with reproductions of Fujimura's own work, as well as that of fellow artists, refractions is lovely to look at. It's a book to read slowly, to savor.
Pacifists and just warriors have been going at it for centuries, and whatever the balance of the debate, it seems that the pacifists have scored an important PR victory: They look more like Jesus.
That's partly the fault of just war theorists, argues Daniel M. Bell, Jr., in Just War and Christian Discipleship (
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Unlike rock and hip-hop stars, dance music's biggest names aren't shy about mixing it up with the fans. Perhaps because of the ego-free nature of dance music, DJs are often unrecognized and able to mingle without being mobbed. This remains one of the dance scene's most endearing qualities, along with an innocent lack of concern or social awareness (but serious issues and house music don't mix well anyway). During the kickoff party for Winter Music Conference week, Party 93.1 (WPYM-FM) sponsored a contest whose winners -- fifteen listeners and their friends -- got to shoot the shit, up close and personal, with Paul Oakenfold. But according to Oakenfold, it was really a chance for him "to hang out and talk to people without any formalities. Distance from fans never helps artists."
So table by table, the U.K.'s Minister of Trance chatted up storms with regular Joes about things like breakbeats and the essence of a healthy diet (sprouts).
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Ron D. Lim, a vivacious Swiss DJ of Caribbean descent and one of South Beach's house music pioneers, was his typical smiling self. Like many house DJs, he hopes WMC inspires locals to keep coming back to his weekly parties at B.E.D. and Flute. While DJ Romain spun an eclectic house set, I had a chance to cozy up to Dr. Love a.k.a. Richard Vasquez, a Manhattan club scene legend who couldn't keep from spinning that night despite a bad flu. I guess that means there are some consequences to the accessibility of DJs, proven by the fact that a young lady reportedly caught a rash from brushing up against Tommy Lee, who, like many other rock and pop stars (Perry Farrell, Boy George), has picked up spinning records at WMC. There goes the neighborhood.


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Intel Readying 15-core Xeon E7 v2by Ian Cutress on February 11, 2014 1:32 PM EST
Reports from ISSCC are coming out that Intel is preparing to launch a 15-core Xeon CPU. The 15-core model was postulated before Ivy Bridge-E launch, along with 12-core and 10-core models – the latter two are currently on the market but Intel was rather silent on the 15-core SKU, presumably because it harder to manufacturer one with the right voltage characteristics.
Releasing a 15-core SKU is a little odd, and one would assume is most likely a 16-core model with one of the cores disabled – based on Intel's history I doubt this core will be able to be re-enabled should the silicon still work. I just received the official documents and the 15 core SKU is natively 15-core.
Information from the original source on the top end CPU is as follows:
- 4.31 billion transistors
- Will be in the Xeon E7 line-up, suited for 4P/8P systems (8 * 15 * 2 = 240 threads potential)
- 2.8 GHz Turbo Frequency (though the design will scale to 3.8 GHz)
- 40 PCIe lanes
Judging by the available information, it would seem that Intel are preparing a stack of 'Ivytown' processors along this design, and thus a range of Xeon E7 processors, from 1.4 GHz to 3.8 GHz, drawing between 40W and 150W, similar to the Xeon E5 v2 range.
Predictions have Ivytown to be announced next week, with these details being part of the ISSCC conference talks. In comparison to some of the other Xeon CPUs available, as well as the last generation:
|Intel Xeon Comparison
|Xeon E3-1280 v3
|Xeon E5-2687W
|Xeon E5-2697 v2
|Xeon E7-8870
|Xeon E7-8890 v2
|Sandy Bridge-EP
|Ivy Bridge-EP
|Ivy Bridge-EX
|Cores / Threads
|4 / 8
|8 / 16
|12 / 24
|10 / 20
|15 / 30
|CPU Speed
|3.6 GHz
|3.1 GHz
|2.7 GHz
|2.4 GHz
|2.8 GHz
|CPU Turbo
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|3.8 GHz
|3.5 GHz
|2.8 GHz
|2.8 GHz
|L3 Cache
|DIMMs per Channel
|3 ?
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According to CPU-World, there are 8 members of the Xeon E7-8xxx v2 range planned, from 6 to 15 cores and 105W to 155W, along with some E7-4xxx v2 also featuring 15 core models, with 2.8 GHz being the top 15-core model speed at 155W.
All this is tentative until Intel makes a formal announcement, but there is clearly room at the high end. The tradeoff is always between core density and frequency, with the higher frequency models having lower core counts in order to offset power usage. If we get more information from ISSCC we will let you know.
Original Source: PCWorld
Update: Now I have time to study the document supplied by Intel for ISSCC, we can confirm the 15-core model with 37.5 MB L3 cache, using 22nm Hi-K metal-gate tri-gate 22nm CMOS with 9 metal layers. All the Ivytown processors will be harvested from a single die:
Ivytown Die Shot
The design itself is capable of 40W to 150W, with 1.4 GHz to 3.8 GHz speeds capable. The L3 cache has 15x 2.5MB slices, and data arrays use 0.108µm2 cells with in-line double-error-correction and triple-error-detection (DECTED) with variable latency. The CPU uses three clock domains as well as five voltage domains:
Level shifters are placed between the voltage domains, and the design uses lower-leakage transistors in non-timing-critical paths, acheving 63% use in the cors and 90% in non-core area. Overall, leakage is ~22% of the total power.
The CPUs are indeed LGA2011 (the shift from Westmere-EX, skipping over Sandy Bridge, should make it seem more plausible), and come in a 52.5x51.0mm package with four DDR3 channels. That would make the package 2677 mm2, similar to known Ivy Bridge-E Xeon CPUs.
CPU-World's list of Xeon E7 v2 processors come from, inter alia, this non-Intel document, listing the 105W+ models.
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IUU - Sunday, February 16, 2014 - linkEveryone is sick of the 6 and 8 cores, or the 4 cores as mainstream. They seem to be in the market for an eternity. You can't exactly blame fully Intel for this as really multithreaded programs are still a scarcity.You can't exactly blame programmers as well because their compensation is ridiculous and their job inhumanly demanding.
About this "power user" thing; it is dumb to self hallucinate that there is the average joe as opposed to "high performance" computing, the"big data" or "science apps". Remember that people in these fields readily salivate for gamer's gpus and be frank to recognize that supercomputing would have much less progress if it weren't for the poor average joe that you seem to scorn.
The fact that 12-15 cores are available for " businesses" but not for the average joe is a travesty that stinks of decadence, waiting for the next paradigm of innovation. Reply
twtech - Thursday, February 20, 2014 - linkThis is a bit of a chicken and egg problem, both for the hardware, and for the fact that the threading support in C++ is still relatively poor - it doesn't really have much in the way of features designed to help deal with the data-access control problem that is big issue in multithreaded programs (and C++ is still the language of choice for performance-critical apps, the likes of which would have a potential benefit from better usage of threading in the first place). Reply
sanaris - Monday, February 17, 2014 - linkVirtualization and cloud - nah.
Production - yes.
I need as much as possible power inside single motherboard to run quantum predictions. Reply
Jaybus - Wednesday, April 08, 2015 - linkThen go for more PCIe lanes for GPUs and OpenCL, rather than more SMP cores. Reply
psyq321 - Wednesday, February 12, 2014 - linkIt is not the same LGA 2011 socket as Xeon E5 / Core i7 49xx unfortunately.
This is due to different memory controller, so the pin layout is different and, thus, not compatible. Reply
Kevin G - Tuesday, February 11, 2014 - linkI'm rather surprised if they go with the same socket 2011 as SandyBridge-E/Ivy Bridge-E. One of the hallmarks of the EX line has been its good socket scalablity by having 4 QPI links. This enables 8 socket systems with minimal hops between sockets. Similarly the EX has used memory buffers to enable more bandwidth and higher memory capacities than the EP line.
If the included picture hasn't been modified by Photoshop, then we're looking at a different physical key for the socket. Reply
Ian Cutress - Tuesday, February 11, 2014 - linkTo quote Intel's paper at ISSCC: "The processor supports two 2011-land, 40-mil pitch organic flip-chip LGA package options", which I would interpret as LGA-2011. Reply
Kevin G - Tuesday, February 11, 2014 - linkYes, it has 2011 pads on the package. Rather are they configured the same as SandyBridge-E/Ivy Bridge-E. In other words, does it have two QPI links, four DDR3 channels and 40 PCI-e lanes as the main IO features?
Also worth pointing out is that the rumors of Haswell-E have it using a 2011 pad package as well but supporting DDR4 memory. This variant has been tagged as 2011v3. (Presumably Ivy Bridge-EX would be 2011v2.) Reply
Kevin G - Tuesday, February 11, 2014 - linkActually looking at the block diagram, something is really weird. What is VSME and why are there seven of the links? Could these be a new serial memory bus technology? I'd fathom it'd be useful for a spare memory channel in a RAID5-like array (See the Alpha EV7). However, everything else points to two independent memory controllers which complicate such a function.
Further more, the block diagram indicates 3 QPI links which would allow this chip to scale to 8 sockets. The current Sandy Bridge-E/Ivy Bridge-E only go upto quad socket.
I wonder if Intel has some something rather crazy: enabled this die to be used in both the original LGA 2011 and a new EX variant. All the 12 core Ivy Bridge-E's were rumored to be using this die. Reply
psyq321 - Wednesday, February 12, 2014 - linkIt is probably the same die shared between HCC EP and EX lines, but with different modules being enabled in EX line (extra QPI, etc.)
It could also be that Intel originally planned 15 core Ivy Bridge EP but decided to keep 15 core SKU only for the EX generation.
In any case, we are now stuck with 3 different LGA2011 configurations:
- LGA2011 - for Sandy Bridge EP / Ivy Bridge EP
- LGA2011-1 - for Ivy Bridge EX and Haswell EX
- LGA2011-3 - for Haswell EP (and maybe Broadwell EP)
Last two can support DDR4, but the memory configuration in EX line is totally different, and goes through a scalable memory buffer.
Way to keep things simple :) Reply


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By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Published: April 13, 1987
HOW I GREW. By Mary McCarthy. Illustrated. 278 pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. $16.95.
''HOW I FORMED'' might have been a more accurate title for this autobiographical work by Mary McCarthy, which picks up, more or less, where her earlier volume, ''Memories of a Catholic Girlhood'' (1957), left off, and anticipates the two or three books it will take to complete her life story at the rate the present memoir moves along. ''How I Grew'' suggests something too organic - dare one say too wholesome? - for the process Ms. McCarthy describes here.
Early in her story - speaking of the beatings she suffered at the hands of ''those incredible'' Minneapolis relatives who raised her after her parents died in 1916, when she was 4 - she remarks how laughter became her tool for ''turning pain into pleasure.'' She writes: ''Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady. Yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings out a little, as if by exposing them to a vigorous wind.''
The trouble is, when the feelings dry, we are left mostly with facts. True, the facts are often beguiling in ''How I Grew,'' registered as they are by the author's basilisk vision and recorded in her supple, symmetrical prose. Her portrait of Seattle, to which she was rescued by benevolent grandparents when she reached high-school age, is both instructive and entertaining as a guide to provincial society in the Pacific Northwest.
The accounts of her high-school years at Annie Wright Seminary in Tacoma, Wash., and her education at Vassar College remind us how radically school curriculums have changed in the past half century and illustrate in specific ways what those changes have meant. And her evocation of transcontinental railway travel in the 1920's and 30's, though it is not intended to be nostalgic, inevitably raises the question whether faster is really better.
Indeed, the thought kept occurring to this reader that if ''How I Grew'' had been written by someone unknown instead of by the person Norman Mailer once called ''our First Lady of Letters,'' it would probably have been celebrated as a historical ''find,'' published with much fanfare by some university press, and showered with prizes for bringing out-of-the-way corners of America's past to life on the page.
But as a work by someone as familiar as Mary McCarthy, one can't help noting the absence of those feelings that, according to her own ripe metaphor, get dried out when exposed to the ''vigorous wind'' of laughter. ''There is no dampness in my emotions,'' she admits, ''and some moisture, I think, is needed to produce the deeper, the tragic, notes.''
These deeper notes are missing, and without them there is little to mediate between the more wrenching experiences she undergoes, from the loss of her virginity at the age of 14 (to which she willingly but lovelessly consented), to a histrionic gesture at suicide a few years later, to her marriage at the age of 21 to a man she did not care for.
It is hard not to believe that something emotionally a little more damp wasn't flowing beneath the surface of these events, something like the victim's quest for self-punishment. But lacking a psychoanalytic bent, Ms. McCarthy prefers merely to rub her nose in the facts. In a remarkable passage on certain sexual practices she committed in her youth, she describes how she learned to deal with shame and guilt:
''When you have committed an action that you cannot bear to think about, that causes you to writhe in retrospect, do not seek to evade the memory: make yourself relive it, confront it repeatedly over and over, till finally, you will discover, through sheer repetition it loses its power to pain you. It works, I guarantee you, this sure-fire guilt-eradicator, like a homeopathic medicine - like in small doses applied to like. It works, but I am not sure that it is a good thing.''
Something similar might be said about the way she confronts the facts of her life. We learn plenty about them, but it's not clear that they explain anything.
For instance, part of how she ''grew'' is traced by the books she read in her first 21 years. Lists of books appear in a dozen places or so, yet almost never does she pause to comment on a given work. At one particularly frustrating point, she writes of the library at Annie Wright Seminary: ''But the great thing was to find the complete Tolstoy. I raced straight through it, and the volume that really struck me was not War and Peace or even Anna Karenina but The Death of Ivan Ilyich.'' She concludes, ''I think I had fallen in love with the title.'' But that is all she has to say on that provocative topic.
One major exception to this reticence is her reaction to a production of Ibsen's ''Wild Duck,'' which prompts her to digress on the play's ''evil genius,'' Gregers Werle, ''often thought to be based on Kierkegaard, with his thirst for the absolute, but why not on Ibsen himself, the Ibsen of The Enemy of the People and Pillars of Society''? At this point, it occurs to the reader that there's something of Gregers in Ms. McCarthy too, with her quest for the surface truth at any price.
In contrast, Tolstoy's ''Death of Ivan Ilyich'' - the story that Ms. McCarthy chooses not to discuss - is about a man dying of a mysterious pain, a pain whose source is never identified or explained but serves at last to give meaning to the protagonist's life. A similar if milder form of that pain shadows ''How I Grew.'' But the author never even tries to look at it.
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EE have announced that they've signed two new MVNO partners to their network, which are the first new additions since the operator launched in October.
The two new MVNOs are Talk Home and White Mobile who are both calling card companies aimed at ethnic markets in the UK. Both will now be able to use EE's amazing 2G and 3G networks and could even get access to 4G sometime in 2013.
EE now have the largest 2G and 3G network in the UK after they combined T-Mobile and Orange's network together. They are also the only UK operator currently able to offer 4G to consumers in the UK and that isn't likely to change for at least 6 months.
Everything Everywhere has also confirmed that they are investing £1.5 billion into their 2G and 3G networks over the next 3 years. The end result will be even better coverage for customers, including those accessing the network through an MVNO.
The 4G network will continue to roll-out to more and more cities in the next year which will enable more and more people to enjoy super-fast browsing on their smartphone or tablet. As always 3G will keep you up to date with all the latest news regarding UK mobile operators.
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This is a recipe I have prepared a few weeks ago. Although I was planning to cook something vegetarian for Joan's event A Culinary Tour around the world, unfortunately I did not manage to cook something, for personal reasons.
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Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Serves: 4
- 1 boiled chicken breast
- 2 onions, finely chopped
- 2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
- 4 peppers cut julienne
- 150 grams boiled corn
- 5 fresh button mushrooms finely cut
- ½ cup of dry white wine
- ½ cup of evaporated milk
- ½ tsp. ginger powder
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ tsp. cardamom
- 1 tsp. turmeric
- 1 tsp. garam massala
- ½ tsp. paprika
- ½ tsp. crushed black pepper (more or less to taste)
- Salt to taste
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In a skillet sauté onion and garlic until translucent. Add mushrooms and peppers and sauté for a few minutes and then add the corn.
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Technology Neutral Public Support: An Important Pillar of East German Industrial Research
Industrial research in East Germany mostly takes place in small and medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and non-profit external industrial research institutions, whereas in West Germany industrial research mainly takes place in large companies. The German Federal government, along with Länder governments, subsidize industrial research in East Germany-within the framework of technology neutral public support programmes-spending about half a billion EUR annually. This approach, which subsidizes a broad spectrum of product and process innovations through project grants, has been proven, by and large, successful. Publicly supported industrial SMEs increased employment, gained access to new markets, as well as improved their productivity and profit situation. This is the finding of a study for the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology conducted by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). In order to promote the growth of East German businesses, priority should be placed on research and development (R&D) and innovation. For this reason, the German government-which has expanded SMEs support to West Germany-needs to continue preference to East Germany.
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New York Mets @ Philadelphia Phillies, 6/22/05
Mets RF Cameron SS Reyes CF Beltran LF Floyd C Piazza 3B Wright 1B Mientkiewicz 2B Woodward P ZambranoMets announcers Ted Robinson and Fran Healy note that Mike Cameron isn't a typical leadoff hitter, given his power and high strikeout totals. Healy neglects to mention Cameron's .426 OBP heading into Wednesday night's game, or his annual high walk totals. He's a far sight better choice for the leadoff spot than Jose Reyes, who spent most of the season batting there before being moved to #2 for this game. Reyes was getting on base at a .286 clip heading into the game, which should make Mets fans wonder why he would ever hit higher than seventh. By contrast, franchise third baseman David Wright came into the game hitting .297/.390/.513. Managers' obsessions with having bigger bats in "RBI positions" rather than getting them as many times at the plate as possible costs teams handfuls of runs through the season. It's a common refrain here at GotW, but one we'll continue to harp on as long as managers continue to bat stiffs at or near the top of the lineup.
Neither Cameron nor Reyes reaches base against rookie starter Robinson Tejeda in the first. Carlos Beltran's hit-by-pitch accounts for the only baserunner of the inning as Tejeda extends his scoreless streak to 12 frames. Filling in for the injured Randy Wolf June 8 vs. Texas, Tejeda tossed five shutout frames in his first big-league start. When Wolf's injury was diagnosed as more serious--he's now headed for Tommy John surgery--the Phillies kept Tejeda in the rotation, despite the 23-year-old having just 28 1/3 innings above Double-A to his name. After watching Tejeda spin 5 2/3 more shutout innings against the A's June 17, the Phils have started to build up hope that they've found a capable replacement for the duration of the season. Starting pitching was already the team's biggest weakness before Wolf's injury, so there's no doubt that Tejeda needs to produce, or else the Phillies will be forced to make a move.
Phillies SS Rollins CF Lofton RF Abreu 1B Thome LF Burrell 2B Utley 3B Bell C Lieberthal P TejedaTejeda came into the game with 17 walks vs. 14 strikeouts in 20 2/3 IP. He's nearly matched by Victor Zambrano, with 41 walks against 46 strikeouts over 71 innings going into the game. Still, thanks largely to a low home-run rate (just four allowed in his first 12 starts), Rick Peterson and the Mets have started getting decent mileage out of Zambrano. That doesn't excuse the Mets jettisoning their best pitching prospect to get him, but it's a start.
Newly minted kajillionaire Jimmy Rollins--one of the richest .315 OBP hitters on the planet--starts the game by...getting on base! It's on an error by third-string second baseman Chris Woodward, though. (The play was clearly an error, with Woodward unable to field a very playable ball to his left, but the oft-complaining Healy wonders aloud why Rollins wasn't given a hit.) Kenny Lofton, who apparently thinks it's 1994 again judging by his .386 batting average and .456 OBP, lays down a perfect bunt single, smack between a charging Wright and a chasing Mike Piazza. Bobby Abreu works the count to 3-0...turn him loose!...no such luck, Abreu takes ball four. I turn to my viewing comrade, friend o' BP Mike Rice, and set an over/under on the length of Zambrano's outing. "He doesn't make it past the third and gives up at least four here," I nod confidently. Mike says he expects at least five innings, and the Mets get out of this giving up just one run after a double play.
Jim Thome then shows off his 20/20 vision, laying off every ball out of the zone and spoiling a series of darting Zambrano fastballs. Having thrown his entire arsenal of zigzagging pitches--Zambrano may have more natural movement on his pitches than any pitcher in baseball, a big reason for his perennially high walk rates--he gets Thome looking at a nasty curve. When Pat Burrell rolls over on a change-up, the Houdini act is complete--the Mets escape with no runs allowed. Swami Mike nods with satisfaction.
Meanwhile, Tejeda is making it look much easier. At 6'3", 188, Tejeda's long frame generates a free-and-easy motion, yet still delivers consistent mid-90s fastballs. He goes 93, 94, 97 to Piazza, then strikes him out on a 96-mph heater on the outside corner. Wright quietly grounds out to short. Mientkiewicz flies out to center after Tejeda baffles him with a 95-mph sinker...yikes.
Tejeda is also fascinating to watch because of his unusual pre-pitch routine. He holds his glove way out in front of him and over his head, making it easy for the center-field camera to pick up his pitch grips as he gets the catcher's sign. Healy and Robinson claim he'll have to change his motion to avoid giving away his deliveries. It's an interesting debate: Could a team spot the pitch from a faraway camera, radio it into the dugout, then inform the hitter in time for him to know what's coming? Would the hitter even want to know? What if the signal is for a slider away and the pitch is a fastball high and tight? Though it's hush-hush for now, a friend of mine is writing a book that covers this and other forms of baseball gamesmanship in great detail. Keep an eye out--the book drops in 2006, and it's a good one.
Bottom of the second and we get this doozy. Lowest NL starting pitcher ERAs in June (through June 21):
Pitcher ERA Chris Carpenter 1.16 Roy Oswalt 1.47 Victor Zambrano 2.49 Roger Clemens 2.50 Dontrelle Willis 2.51Natch, Chase Utley quickly smokes a double to right on a high fastball. Utley is an emerging front-line player, already sporting a .310/.381/.535 line for the year. The Phillies did well to make room for him to play every day--they just chucked the wrong guy to do it (more on that later). David Bell does what he does best, making an out; that Utley advances to third on the weak grounder to short no doubt still warms Buster Olney's heart.
The Mets make a strange choice, opting to bring the infield in in the bottom of the second in a scoreless game in a hitters' park in a year that doesn't read 190x. Amazingly, the tactic appears to work, as Mike Lieberthal stings a one-hopper to Wright at third, setting up an easy out at home with Utley breaking to the plate. Only Wright holds up his glove to the ump to say that he caught the ball. After a few moments standing there frozen, everyone's safe, the run is in and Wright has made a bizarre and costly mistake. And the slow-mo replay...only makes him look worse.
The inning features more kooky plays. Tejeda bunts back to the mound. Zambrano charges and fires to Jose Reyes covering at second--only Zambrano's throw sails two feet left of second base, forcing an acrobatic force play at the bag by Reyes. Even when trying to cut down a baserunner Zambrano can't help but throw frisbee sliders. If he's not ahead of a batter with a chance to strike him out or induce a grounder, Zambrano is in big trouble with that kind of unpredictable movement. Tejeda then times Zambrano and his huge leg kick perfectly, taking off for second; he'd have taken the bag easily if not for Rollins' foul ball. A single moves Tejeda up, but the Phils settle for just one run when Lofton flies out.
Tejeda's top of the third: Woodward flyout to left, Zambrano flyout to left, Cameron strikeout looking at one of Tejeda's many terrific change-ups (which have some of that Pedro Martinez screwball action on them). Man, do the Phillies need this.
After the Phils go scoreless in the bottom of the third, though, the Mets strike back with a run in the fourth, on a Cliff Floyd opposite-field homer to left. It's one thing to see the park effect and other numbers on Citizens Bank Park. It's another altogether to see the way the ball carries to the short walls in left and left-center, as Floyd's homer and several other balls hit in this game show. Meanwhile Floyd is on pace to shatter his 2001 career high of 31 homers--if he can stay healthy. This is a bit like saying Ben Affleck's on his way to a distinguished acting career--if he can stop making films like Gigli and Reindeer Games.
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The game gets decided in the bottom of the seventh. Sidearming lefty Royce Ring gets called in to face Abreu and Thome. After mixing sidearm curves in the 70s with 89-mph fastballs that suddenly look much faster to Abreu and to Thome early in the count, Thome reaches on a walk. Even with the walk, Ring looked good in hitting his spots. But Willie Randolph had already decided to play the percentages and have Aaron Heilman face Burrell. Another hidden downside to adhering to matchups is the need to pull pitchers from the game who've just fared well against live batters; in their stead you're calling in new blood, not knowing what the replacement may have facing live pitching that day.
Heilman doesn't have control, at least not on this day, as he plunks Burrell on a first-pitch curve that got away. The sizzling Utley quickly knocks in the go-ahead run, a Lieberthal single expanding the lead to 4-2. A third pitcher, Dae-Sung Koo, can't stem the tide, as Lofton's three-run double down the left-field line blows the game open. The Phils go on to win 8-4.
After the Mets return the favor Thursday afternoon, they sit seven games out of first, still in last place. It's hard to picture Omar Minaya standing pat, given his history. A deal for a veteran reliever seems a slam dunk given the erratic, if promising performances of the team's young, no-name relievers. Whether the Mets make a big splash and sell off top prospects for a big gun in an effort to climb back into the race remains to be seen.
The Phillies find themselves in second after their recent blazing homestand, 3 1/2 games out. There's not much here that's needed to be done. Having Thome naturally pull himself back up from his .220/.370/.382 (5.1 VORP) would go a long way toward minting the Phillies as legit contenders. If Thome rebounds as expected, the race could fall to Philly's young starting duo of Brett Myers and Tejeda to make or break the season. With only Ryan Howard left as likely trade bait that would attract value, either Myers needs to keep his ace-like season going, or Tejeda has continue his recent string of success--maybe both. The Nationals aren't playing .583 ball all year. This could get very interesting, very soon.
Set Your TiVos and VCRs: The next Prospectus Game of the Week will be Sunday, June 26, 3 p.m. ET as the White Sox and Cubs stage the latest chapter in the Windy City War. Mark Prior is slated to come off the DL to face 12-game winner Jon Garland. Hit channel 741 on DirecTV to tune in.
Jonah Keri is an author of Baseball Prospectus.
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TAMPA - The film doesn't lie. In examining the losses against Rutgers and Ball State, which have the University of South Florida Bulls reeling heading into tonight's mega-game against No. 4-ranked Florida State at jam-packed Raymond James Stadium, USF junior defensive end Julius Forte had a clear assessment. "I think (it's) what we don't see,'' Forte said. "We don't see USF front seven. Years on end, we've been known for being physical, fast and pressuring offenses. We haven't been doing that to the best of our ability.'' Now there's an understatement. The 17-point underdog Bulls (2-2) better be prepared to bring something extra if they hope to compete against FSU (4-0), which last week thrashed Clemson 49-37 and rolled up 667 total yards.Meanwhile, in 71 plays against Ball State, a middle-of-the-pack Mid-American Conference team, the Bulls had no sacks, no tackles for a loss and one quarterback pressure. With the looming presence of FSU senior quarterback EJ Manuel (6-foot-5, 240 pounds), a speed/power backfield combination and an arsenal of fleet and physical receivers, the Bulls can't afford to be tentative. "We're not attacking,'' Bulls junior defensive end Ryne Giddins said. "We've got to keep our motor running.'' "We're really tight,'' Bulls senior middle linebacker Mike Lanaris said. "It's serious stuff and we have a business demeanor, but you need to have fun with your teammates and enjoy playing the game. I think we lost that somewhere along the line.'' Excluding the 151 yards given up in the opener against the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, a Football Championship Subdivision opponent, the USF defense has surrendered an eye-popping average of 462 yards in the last three games. That includes 10 touchdowns and a 44.7 percent (21 of 47) conversion rate on third-down plays. "That's just unacceptable,'' Lanaris said. Senior linebacker Sam Barrington had a harsher word this week during a radio interview – "incompetent.'' First-year defensive coordinator Chris Cosh, who was at Kansas State last season, insists attacking is part of USF's philosophy. "In some calls you make, you're making them attack, too, but we've got to do that a little bit better,'' Cosh said. "You've got to put your hand down in the dirt, get your pads out and go forth. That's what we coach. That's what we want to get done. We've got to instill that better. We've got to do a better job of coaching it and executing it.'' Against Manuel, though, the challenge will be heightened. "I don't know if what we do schematically will make a huge difference,'' USF defensive ends coach Vernon Hargreaves said. "Manuel is a Cam Newton-type guy. We can't just run around and say we'll keep him in the pocket. He'll kill you from there. You almost have to pick your poison because he does it all well. I do know we've got to play much faster and try to swarm him.'' The Bulls must create pressure, force turnovers and get off the field in third-down situations – all things they've been unable to accomplish most of this season. "Defensively, we've lost our aggressiveness up front,'' USF coach Skip Holtz said. "We've got to get back to playing downhill and applying pressure. We've started playing sideways more, instead of north and south. We've got to raise our standards. "We've got a huge challenge ahead. There were times last week when Florida State made Clemson defenders look foolish in open space. If we play like we've been playing, we're going to get embarrassed. They're good enough to do that to you.'' The film doesn't lie.
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Sen. Foley Introduces Legislation to Significantly Reduce MTA Payroll Tax on Long Island
Senator Brian X. Foley (D – Blue Point) and Assemblyman Fred Thiele (I – Sag Harbor) announced the introduction of major legislation that will significantly reduce the MTA payroll tax in Suffolk and Nassau as well as five other counties outside New York City that are currently served by the MTA.
The legislation (S. 6312) will reduce Suffolk County's payroll tax by 66%, bringing it down to just 11 cents per every $100 in payroll. Nassau County's share of the payroll tax will be reduced to 23 cents per every $100 in payroll. Currently, businesses in all counties served by the MTA are required to pay 34 cents per $100 in payroll.
The new MTA payroll tax structure, as outlined by the legislation, will call for the following payroll tax levels:
- Suffolk County - 11 cents per $100 in payroll (down from 34 cents per $100)
- Rockland County – 11 cents per $100 in payroll (down from 34 cents per $100)
- Dutchess County – 11 cents per $100 in payroll (down from 34 cents per $100)
- Orange County – 11 cents per $100 in payroll (down from 34 cents per $100)
- Putnam County – 11 cents per $100 in payroll (down from 34 cents per $100)
- Nassau County – 23 cents per $100 in payroll (down from 34 cents per $100)
- Westchester County – 23 cents per $100 in payroll (down from 34 cents per $100)
*New York City will continue to pay the original 34 cents per $100 in payroll
In addition to Foley, the legislation is sponsored in the Senate by Senator Thomas Morahan (R – Rockland County) and Senator Suzi Oppenheimer (D – Mamaroneck).
"This legislation will be welcomed relief for businesses throughout Long Island as they will see their share of the payroll tax reduced significantly," said Foley. "The MTA is a critical component of our transportation infrastructure and Suffolk and Nassau counties will continue to contribute to it. Thanks to this legislation, they will now do so in a more efficient and fair manner," said Foley, pointing to the fact that New York City, which is served much more comprehensively by the MTA than the suburbs, will continue to pay 34 cents per $100 in payroll taxes.
The payroll tax was instituted as part of the MTA restoration package enacted earlier this year, following years of mismanagement and dysfunction within the Authority. Revenue from the tax was to go towards addressing the MTA's most critical needs, including capital projects that would generate well-paying jobs on projects such as a new track in Suffolk County. At the time of the MTA restoration plan's adoption, Senator Foley and others committed to revisit payroll tax; a commitment that has been realized in the form of this legislation.
"By adjusting the amount of the MTA payroll tax in the counties outside New York City," said Senator Oppenheimer, "this legislation more equitably reflects the services provided by the MTA for taxpayers in those counties."
"I have vigorously opposed and voted against the MTA payroll tax," said Assemblyman Fred Thiele. "This tax should be repealed. I will support whatever measures are available, either an outright repeal which I have already introduced, or the dismantling of this tax bit by bit. I support the reduction of the rate for Suffolk County proposed today as well as exemptions for schools. libraries, and not-for profit corporations as a means to eliminate this tax."
Vision Long Island, a smart growth planning organization hailed the legislation: "As an advocate for public transportation Vision Long Island supports Senator Foley's legislation to reduce the impact of the MTA payroll tax on Suffolk County small businesses and other institutions. The limited nature of MTA services to Suffolk County necessitates a more equitable distribution of funding and cost burdens," said Executive Director Eric Alexander.
Representing chambers of commerce across Suffolk County was Rick Ammirati, President of the Holbrook Chamber of Commerce. "We are here to support this important legislation because it will reduce the tax burden on Long Island's businesses," said Ammirati, who is the owner of a local pharmacy in Holbrook and has served as President of the Holbrook Chamber of Commerce since 2000.
The Hauppauge Industrial Association (HIA), which represents approximately 1,000 companies on Long Island commended the legislation in a statement: "The HIA prefers to have the MTA payroll tax repealed in its entirety yet in light of the present economic situation of the state and the MTA we realize this is highly unlikely. The HIA supports Senator Foley's effort to reduce the MTA payroll tax by 66% commensurate with services provided to and utilized by the citizens of Suffolk County."
"Even with the reduction in Long Island's share of the payroll tax, the MTA will still have billions of dollars in recurring revenue it never had before," said Foley. "It's now up to the MTA to do its part and end the inefficiencies and dysfunction that has plagued the MTA for years," said Foley, referring to numerous independent analyses that have exposed waste, fraud, and abuse within the MTA.
In 2007, a thorough review by the New York State Comptroller pointed out over 2,700 positions within the MTA that could be streamlined through shared services. According to the review, the MTA has not taken the steps necessary to streamline these redundant positions; a fact that has led to the further weakening of the Authority's fiscal health.
In addition, years of irresponsible borrowing have saddled the MTA with billions of dollars in debt. From 1996 to 2008, the MTA's debt was allowed to triple; from $8.6 billion in 1996 to $24 billion in 2008. By 2008, the MTA was paying $125 million in debt service fees each month; a total of $1.5 billion per year.
"Despite inheriting an MTA that was laden with inefficiencies and debt, we have provided the support necessary for the Authority to stay on its feet long enough to clean up its act," said Foley, who was voted into office last November. "Now, the MTA must finally take up the reforms necessary to restore trust in New York State infrastructure."


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