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Progress Metrics, Personal Bests with Age Group Comparisons and Training Insights in Suunto Movescount help athletes train smarter.
Suunto continues its quest to help athletes train smarter by introducing Community Powered Progress Tools – a new online toolbox that delivers hard facts about how athletes around the globe are training. With the toolbox, athletes can monitor their progress, compare their individual performance against their age group, see how others are training, and understand what it takes to reach a certain goal.
"This is one of the world's first solutions where big data is used to provide answers and facts for athletes – in an easy-to-access format. To go after the most important questions that endurance athletes have by using big data is an ambitious goal. Generally, experts have sought these answers with research and algorithms. The results we have found with our big data solution have surprised even us. The solution itself is getting better day by day as millions of training sessions continue to flow into the system," says Janne Kallio, Digital Lead, Suunto Performance Business explains.
Data based on over 100 million training sessions
To create the training toolbox, Suunto analyzed over 100 million training sessions, tracked with Suunto watches since 2010 and saved to Suunto Movescount. The analysis covers the most popular endurance sports such as running, cycling, swimming, triathlon, trail running and mountain biking, yielding more than one billion metrics.
The toolbox consists of three separate analysis tools: Progress Metrics, Personal Bests with Age Group Comparison and Training Insights – each contributing to the following key questions athletes often debate.
Am I progressing?
Every time you upload a workout, Suunto Movescount automatically analyses your performance and spots possible personal best results, such as your fastest 1 km running time. With Progress Metrics, you can filter workouts with comparable intensity level and evaluate your actual improvement in fitness, for example, during your spring training season or over the past three years.
How good am I really?
To answer this question, Suunto grouped the training data of over 1.5 million Suunto Movescount users based on standard age groups. The comparison of your personal bests against those of your own age group offers you a better understanding on how you perform:
- If you are a 40-year-old male and you can run 5 km in just under 20 minutes, you belong to the top 20% in your age group. Data shows that to reach the top 10%, you need to run 5 km in 0:18'24.
How should I train to get better?
Our big data analysis results have been converted into practical Training Insights to reveal how others are training towards a specific goal, such as a marathon under three hours. This is how athletes who have reached their goal train during the last 16 weeks prior their marathon:
- They train on average 6.5 hours a week, with 40 km of running split between 3.1 weekly running sessions, averaging 12.8 km per run.
- When looking at their running performance on shorter distances, we see that in order to run a sub-3-hour marathon, you need to be able to run a half marathon in about 1 hour and 24 minutes. Your 10 km time should be around 37 minutes and your 5 km time around 18 minutes.
The training toolbox is now available free of charge for both new and existing Suunto customers as part of the Suunto Movescount service.
For more detailed information about the community powered progress tools, go to: www.suunto.com/communitypowered or sign in to Suunto Movescount to test them yourself.


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Just gazing up the dimly lit passage was daunting.
A narrow wooden ramp angled up into the granite-lined channel at a 35- or 40-degree incline. Strips of lath were pounded in every foot or so to keep intrepid travelers — folded nearly in half to protect their heads from the stone overhead — from sliding as they ascend.
The atmosphere was hot, thick and increasingly airless as I counted my steps, whispering reassurances to myself: "You're not claustrophobic, 34, 35, 36. Imagine a not-claustrophobic person and be her, 55, 56, 57. There is sufficient oxygen here, 77, 78."
I am claustrophobic, though. Seriously so. Or I was a month ago. But when the first passage ended and narrow stairs led upward, the ceiling suddenly soaring to the full height of Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza, there was no need to breathe anymore. Awe has that effect.
There are no glorious, golden ornaments in the burial chamber of Cheops, no ocher- and lapis-painted scenes — just a stark, stone chamber and a giant sarcophagus, suitable for holding the body of the pharaoh.
In the summer months of years gone by, the chamber also would have held a sweltering mass of humanity, of sweaty tourists pressed cheek by jowl to gawk, shriek and express disappointment over the lack of treasure. Tourism has plummeted in the past two years, a descent hastened by last year's Arab Spring and the protests of recent months, as Egyptians struggle with the new regime they elected and Western headline hyperbole blurs Algeria, Egypt, Giza and Gaza.
But this is a magnificent time to visit Egypt, to revel in the glories of millennia past, meet new and wonderful people and fulfill the dreams of childhood. There are no lines in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, and no crush of tourists in Cairo eager to see Tutankhamun's treasures and the blueprints for tombs, etched in clay by the pharaohs' engineers.
Prices are low, the sights spectacular and the welcome so warm it moved us nearly to tears as strangers gathered to hold our hands, thank us for coming to visit their country — and discuss politics, ours and theirs.
Still, even our oldest daughter thought we'd veered from impetuous into recklessness when we suddenly announced that some things on a bucket list shouldn't wait. This part of the world may have hot spots, but we were going to Egypt to delve into tombs and temples, soar in hot-air balloons and sail the Nile in a 19th-century vessel.
We were going to hang out with Egyptians and taste everything that life has to offer, from foul — a cumin-scented fava bean stew served for breakfast — to strawberry juice, stuffed pigeon and long-simmered chicken tajin. And we were going now.
Which is how we came to be standing in the center of the Great Pyramid, hands pressed to the sand-polished stone and feeling, for a moment, a bridge across time. When we were joined presently by two or three other travelers, they emerged from the dark, their voices hushed as they took it all in. It was magic.
The nine days that followed unspooled in a dream, a series of gloriously, vividly exuberant adventures that make it impossible to name a favorite experience. We did the classic things, rode camels — named Michael Jackson and Michael Douglas — across the Giza plateau, plunged into subterranean tombs (now claustrophobia-cured) and traipsed through the Temples of Karnak, Horus, Kom Ombo and Philae. We soared above Luxor in a giant hot-air balloon — and discovered that it is possible to get balloon-sick.
But we also saw a side of Egypt that most tourists will never see — thanks to the efforts of Eric Monkaba, who runs Backpacker Concierge, the eco-conscious bespoke travel company we stumbled upon that arranges guides, drivers and immersive experiences and adventures for independent travelers (it sounds luxurious — and certainly can be — but costs less than your last trip to Hawaii). It is no accident that nearly all of our guides in Egypt were women. Monkaba says most tourists never interact with Egyptian women at all.
We talked pharaohs, dynasties, artifacts and teens with our Cairo guide, an extremely well-educated Egyptologist and mother of a music-loving 16-year-old. We discussed Kushite history, women's rights and the plight of Nubian villages displaced by the High Dam with our guide in Aswan, an articulate and ferociously intellectual Nubian woman.
As the fiery sun lit the sands of the Sahara along Aswan's western shore, we sipped hibiscus tea, listened to Bob Marley and Sudanese hip-hop — and talked about marriage, dating and relationships with felucca sailors, Islamic young men in their 20s, who were eager to converse, explain and connect.
But the most memorable moment may have come on the banks of an island in the middle of the river. We were sailing between Aswan and Luxor aboard a dahabeeyah, a four-cabin, 19th-century-style houseboat with two sails — and a tugboat for the hours when the wind slackened. We had dined on the shore, reclining on pillows and carpets — and wondered where the peeled grapes were — then danced on the shore to the sound of Egyptian drums, when we felt like we were being watched.
It was a water buffalo, reclining in the grass 20 feet away, its brown eyes blinking in the moonlight.
Contact Jackie Burrell at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Egyptian travel tips
Egypt can be a challenging country if you don't read or speak Arabic. Your math teacher may say we use Arabic numerals, but their zero is a dot, a 7 a V and the 2 looks like an eighth-note rest. Driving involves a high-speed disregard for lane lines, with traffic that resembles the chaotic flow of corpuscles through arteries, mixed with tractors, wandering goats and vans that disgorge commuters in the middle of the freeway — while the vehicle is still moving.
Hire a driver and a guide. Most tourists opt for the big tour-group package, but if you are an independent traveler — like us — a private driver, translator and guide are essential in Egypt. Your hotel or travel agent can arrange this for you. We made our arrangements through Backpacker Concierge, an online bespoke travel company that specializes in adventures, immersion experiences and insider access for people with a backpacker philosophy, but a yearning for a little — or a lot — more comfort. Figure on a minimum of $125 per person per night, not including international flights. Find it online at www.backpackerconcierge.com.
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|(Nanowerk News) A more sensitive, more selective and easily deployable radiation detection material is necessary to meet complex 21st century challenges. In the AAAS symposium "Radiation Detectors for Global Security: The Need for Science-Driven Discovery," researchers addressed some of the technical challenges and gaps and proposed a science-driven approach to uncovering novel materials that will benefit national security and medicine.
|"Until now, it can be argued that we've approached the challenge in an Edisonian-style; I think it's time to make a drastic change in how we pursue solutions to radiation detection," said Anthony Peurrung, director of the Physical and Chemical Sciences division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. "In order for us to make new discoveries, we need to improve our understanding of radiation physics so that we make educated choices about which materials will and will not perform as we need them to, thus working more efficiently toward a solution."
|Five primary materials are used for radiation detection, but they all have limitations, such as small size, challenges in manufacturing, poor discrimination of radionuclides and poor sensitivity. For example, single crystalline materials, used as semiconductors or scintillators, generally provide the highest sensitivity and best energy resolution. But, it can take a decade or more to develop high-quality, single crystals that are of sufficient size for use as radiation detectors, and there are a limited number of manufacturing facilities to produce the crystals.
|A graphic timeline of key radiation detection material discoveries. (Image: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
|Peurrung leads PNNL's Radiation Detection and Material Discovery Initiative, which is a three-year, $4.5 million research effort aimed at discovering new materials for radionuclide identification, accelerating discovery processes and improving our fundamental understanding of radiation detection.
|Bill Weber, a Laboratory Fellow, organized the symposium. He is a AAAS fellow and is internationally recognized for his seminal scientific contributions on the interaction of radiation with solids and radiation effects in materials.
|The symposium was held at the 2008 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston, Mass., on Saturday, February 16, 2008, at 10:30 a.m. Other speakers included Bill Moses, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Kanai Shah, Radiation Monitoring Services, Inc. and Lynn Boatner, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
|PNNL is a DOE Office of Science national laboratory that solves complex problems in energy, national security and the environment, and advances scientific frontiers in the chemical, biological, materials, environmental and computational sciences. PNNL employs 4,200 staff, has a $750 million annual budget, and has been managed by Ohio-based Battelle since the lab's inception in 1965.
|Source: DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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August 5, 2016Dockerizing my first app by Alexandra White
Join me, a front-end dev and new Docs Editor for Joyent, while I dockerize my first app and then run it in production on Triton Cloud.
August 2, 2016Consul and etcd in the Autopilot Pattern by Tim Gross
Applications developed with the Autopilot Pattern have containers acting as autonomous actors using an external service catalog like Consul or etcd for coordination. Both services bring assumptions that bring challenges to serverless environments.
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Something that got a little lost in the excitement of Samsung's recent acquisition of Joyent was dtrace.conf(16), our quadrennial (!) unconference on DTrace. The videos are up, and in the spirit of Adam Leventhal's excellent wrap-ups from dtrace.conf(08) and dtrace.conf(12), I wanted to provide a survey of the one-day conference and its content.
July 19, 2016Persistent storage patterns for Docker in production by Casey Bisson
Persistent storage in Docker is a stumbling block for many production deployments, but the problem is easier to solve than you might imagine, and we can do it with the infrastructure and apps we already use and depend on.
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Tim Gross introduces the Autopilot Pattern with illustrated examples and a walkthrough of our Autopilot Pattern example application
June 29, 2016Joyent and Samsung: Thoughts after the close by Bryan Cantrill, CTO
You may have seen that Samsung is acquiring Joyent. One of the quirks about acquisition announcements is that for any company with even a modest number of shareholders (be it private or public), there is a lag between when the acquisition is announced and when the acquisition actually closes — creating a peculiar time in which everything has changed and yet nothing has.
June 15, 2016Samsung acquires Joyent: A CTO's perspective by Bryan Cantrill, CTO
Let me not bury the lede: Samsung is acquiring Joyent, and Scott's blog entry explains why we feel that this is such a good fit. As Joyent's CTO, I wanted to offer my perspective and couch this acquisition in its broader historical context: the world's largest consumer electronics company is acquiring a cloud computing pioneer; what's going on here?
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Since its inception, just over ten years ago, Joyent has lived on the leading edge of technical innovation. The Joyent team pioneered public cloud computing (and hybrid cloud), nurtured and grew Node.js into a de facto standard for web, mobile and IoT architectures, and was among the first to embrace and industrialize containers, compute-centric object storage, and what is now coming to be known as serverless computing.
June 9, 2016Summer '16 documentation updates by Casey Bisson
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The Lipscomb Lady Bisons opened the fall golf season at the Murray State Drake Creek Invitational.
Nine teams played 36 holes Tuesday.
Katie Pursell was the only Lady Bisons player to finish in the top 20. Pursell fired a two-round score of 155 (83, 72) to tie for 19th place.
Mary Leigh Baker tied for 41st place with a 164 (81, 83).
Lindsey Beard finished 50th with a score of 168 (87, 81). Allie Pancake was close behind in 52nd place with a 171 (87, 84). Maggie Siddons, playing in her first collegiate tournament, was 53rd with a score of 172 (86, 86).
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Have you ever wanted to have your own hand writing (or printing) turned into a font? Say for scrapbooking, letters to family, etc., but just hadn't parted with the money, yet? (I sure have)
When the Legacy News e-mail newsletter came from the Legacy Family Tree Software folks a few days ago there was a link to a website that turns your handwriting into a font for free.
Woo hoo! Now I could type something up and have it look like I'd hand printed it.
Install your new font in under 30 minutes….
If you've always wanted your very own font, all you need is a computer, internet access, printer, and scanner, but given all that, you can pretty much have your new font installed in under 30 minutes.
So, go read the Legacy Blog post here, where you can see more examples of fonts and read reviews. And when you get to www.fontcapture.com, print out an extra form or two so you can practice lining up the letters within the graph before uploading your own handwriting. This is important.
Don't like what you get?
Don't like what you get? Print out another form, and try again! You can have a lot of fun with different and funky styles of printing!
That's my everyday hand printing below, and yes, it's that bad!
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Here's another big dick daddy dicking down his boy twink update! Xavier and Ryan both share more in common than just a name. They both have a Big fan base that supports them and follows them from BrokeStraightBoys. And, naturally, both deserve that because they love to please their fans.
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Axel Kane Pounds Out Drake Tyler
by admin on Aug.11, 2018, under Broke Straight Boys
Two of the hottest, real deal straight-gay for pay guys on the planet! The chemistry between these two is a given, because the straight boys are all about that paper.
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Bobby Owens Fucking John Henry
by admin on Jul.28, 2018, under Broke Straight Boys
Many of you are so glad Bobby Owens has made his return to us, and so are we! As a genuine straight boy, he's also a genuine sweetheart. During filming he's all about that money, and the comfort of his scene partner. That works great for John Henry's naturally alpha bedroom personality. But, he's going to have to submit this time around.
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by admin on Jul.27, 2018, under Broke Straight Boys
Both of these hunks are tall. Grey may be new, but he's definitely not shy. The result of his profession as a male model, no doubt. In this video we push Grey's experience and boundaries a little more.
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John Henry and Justin Dean
by admin on Jul.12, 2018, under Broke Straight Boys
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These two were already getting along and hanging out in the house during film week. And they both aim to please their fans with each scene. So naturally, this is a hot scene, and ended up being one of both models most enjoyable scenes.
Justin starts going down on John's cock. The grower and shower. Justin shows his appreciation for an uncut cock. Then it's his turn. John Henry gags and drools all over his grower, before flipping him over and slurping and spitting all over and in Justin's asshole.
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Benjamin Jos and Ari
by admin on Jul.09, 2018, under Broke Straight Boys
Benjamin Dover, Jos Alvarez, and Ari Nucci! The three solo are three of your All Time favorites at BrokeStraightBoys. And we put ALL THREE together in one of the most anticipated threesomes we've filmed yet! And it does Not dissapoint!
Ben and Air have a naturally playful personality, as you know. And Jos is very much a savvy-go with the flow-kinda guy. So the chemistry, is a given. Ari and Ben also not only are usually the two biggest guys in the house, but they also usually that the two biggest cocks! It's not just a Jos daddy-boy sandwich though, this is a hot equal dick opportunity scene. Everyone gets equal attention, and the finish features huge cum rocket loads from all three!
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by admin on Jun.28, 2018, under Broke Straight Boys
Richie and Ari just may be the most polar opposite personalities in the house. Richie is still new to doing porn and not quite as confident as you'd think. And Ari, well,.. Nucci loves to pound straight boy booty, like it's his duty! Sorry..lol
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In this update, lean and toned daddy Justin Dean fucks lean and toned bod Brad Steele!
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by admin on Jun.19, 2018, under Broke Straight Boys
Another Daddy Collision in this update for you. Two of the most masculine guys in the house. One very macho-dom type in Aron Kronos, and the other, big, loveable, teddy bear, veteran favorite, Benjamin Dover!
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Rockford finished 2-2-0-1 against Peoria in November
Rockford, Ill.- No need for a comeback on Saturday. The Rockford IceHogs put four unanswered goals on the board to start the game en route to a 5-2 win over the Peoria Rivermen at the Rockford MetroCentre.
A night after needing two two-goal comebacks to snag a point in the shootout, the Hogs came out gunning and put up four goals in the back end of the home-at-home against Peoria in front of 4,435.
Rookie recall Mike Radja led the way with two goals, pushing him to three goals and an assist in his last three games.
"I'm just trying to stay focused and try to do what the coaches say," said Radja. "I try to work hard when I have to and it seems to be working out well for me right now."
The red-hot Pascal Pelletier extended his goal streak to four games (6g-1a-7pts), a season long for the IceHogs and ties Kris Versteeg for the AHL IceHogs record. The Hogs finish the week with five points on the back of 15 goals in the last three games.
"Everyone seems to be clicking," Radja said. "Pelts (Pelletier) is on fire and the lines are clicking. Mac (MacArthur), Kontiola and I seem to be clicking. Everyone is working hard and trusting in each other."
The scoring started with an Evan Brophey marker at 15:57. The winger found the back of the net after a pretty give-and-go sequence set up by Jake Dowell and Rob Klinkhammer.
Skille sent the puck past Peoria goaltender Ben Bishop later in the second to give the Hogs a two-goal lead. Skille's seventh goal of the season came at 3:13 in the second period and was helped by Pelletier and Brent.
Radja then solved Bishop for his first goal at 6:50 in the second frame to put the Hogs up 3-0. Niklas Hjalmarsson has the assist.
"We were starving for five-on-five scoring for the longest time," Rockford coach Bill Peters said. "So we're trying different guys on different lines. We were searching for it. Radja has done a good job with his call up and so had MacArthur. Pro sports are played on an interim basis, so if you continue to produce you continue to get opportunities."
Pelletier recorded his 13th goal of the season at 9:53 in the second. Danny Groulx and Brent helped.
"Our five-on-five offense is coming around," Peters said. "It's a good thing to see because we needed it. We're scoring the right way -- we're going to the net and have guys driving to the middle and finally putting pucks on net."
The Rivermen were finally able to figure out Rockford netminder Antti Niemi at 15:14 in the second period while on the power play. Peoria forward Josh Soares chipped in the loose puck with helpers from Jeff Cowan and Julian Talbot.
Radja responded just minutes later with his second goal of the night. Pete MacArthur and Petri Kontiola recorded the assists at 17:28 in the second frame.
In the intermission, Bishop was replaced by Marek Schwarz. Bishop finished with 24 saves, while Schwarz had five. Niemi rebounded from a difficult night on Friday to stop 23 shots and get the win.
"He's a proud guy and it was important for him to bounce back," Peters said. "I knew he would. We didn't have any concerns about that at all."
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Wizards Report Card: Darius Songaila
In many ways, Songaila's season perfectly illustrates where the Wizards are as a team. The veteran forward is a solid NBA player, the kind of guy who could be a valuable 8th or 9th man on a good team. Instead, he's being asked to play more minutes and fill a role he should not have to fill.
Specifically, Songaila has no business being a starting center in this league but injuries to Brendan Haywood and Etan Thomas combined with an injury to and then the inconsistency of Andray Blatche led interim coach Ed Tapscott to make him one.
Songaila's strengths are his fundamental basketball skills. He's the team's most accurate shooter and best screener. He hedges in the pick-and-roll in textbook fashion and he's a pure professional.
The vision that always comes to my mind when I think about Songaila is walking into that locker room before a game and seeing him sitting at his stall calmly watching a tape of that night's opponent while reading over a scouting report. Meantime, some of the team's young guys are usually bouncing off the walls goofing off. (It's Romper Room folks, pure and simple.)
I've always maintained that if Blatche and JaVale McGee really wanted to learn how to play the game, they'd study Songaila. Another thing that I respect about Songaila is that losing still hurts the guy. I can't say that about many of the players on this team. In fact, if you walk in that room after most games, you wouldn't know whether they won or lost.
On the flip side, Songaila, as Eddie Jordan once said "can't jump over the morning newspaper," his lack of length and athleticism makes him a below-average rebounder for a big man and he struggles to create his own shot. The back injury he had two years ago robbed him of whatever lift he once had.
As for Songaila's future with the team, he's on the books for $4.5 million next season and holds a player option worth $4.8 million for the 2010-2011 season (hard to imagine him not picking that up). He's a guy who can help this team in his designated role next season.
I'll give Darius a B- for the season.
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March 13, 2009; 2:14 PM ET
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I agree. If he was playing the four, backing up Antawn, he would be at least a B+. Knocks down shots, tough D, smart, and a veteran. Keep Him but make, MJ, ET, NY, Pech, all available for trades
Posted by: BurgwithaU | March 13, 2009 2:24 PM
No warning/update about leaving the Wizards beat?
I'm shocked.
Posted by: mkremnitzer0 | March 13, 2009 2:33 PM
Me or Ivan?
Posted by: BurgwithaU | March 13, 2009 2:45 PM
"In fact, if you walk in that room after most games, you wouldn't know whether they won or lost."
And the losing culture begins. Well done Taps. I'm sure his constant insinuations to the youngsters (read: Nick Young and McGee) that they simply aren't good enough really helps the cause.
Posted by: psps23 | March 13, 2009 3:00 PM
I couldn't agree more about song's evaluation. But starting him at center is absolutely bad for the team's present and future. Blatche and Mcgee should play all but maybe 5-8 minutes at center a night. He should be used at pf along with blatche, sliding aj to the 3 for some extended time. He is simply over-matched and being asked to do too much. both mcgee and blatche are drastically better at the kind of work you need out of a center, protecting the rim, rebounding, blocking shots, finishing at the rim. Songaila should play about 20-25 with almost all at the four. As far as Blatche's inconsistency, I think he has done well in the minutes he has been given considering ideally he shouldn't be playing center either. As currently assembled we put three small forwards, a power forward and mike james on the floor to start. I'd like to see any combination of players other than the one we start. At least Crit should be given the chance to start.
Posted by: bford1kb | March 13, 2009 3:05 PM
Awesome post Ivan. This is exactly why I cant stand when people rip on Songalia and claim guys like Young and Blatche arent given a chance.
I hope Grunfeld ships these young guys out this summer. They arent the future, and this team will never contend with them as the core. We can package them with the larger contracts, so we can get some of those big deals off the books. Problem is, Grunfeld is probably loyal to a fault with these guys. We need a new GM who isnt so loyal, and wont have a problem blowing this team up.
Posted by: Roman5 | March 13, 2009 3:12 PM
Also, good luck Ivan in your new job. Will you have a blog post talking about your move? This really hurts us die-hard fans. You are a great beat writer, and arent afraid to give us the scoop behind the scenes.
I know many on here rip on Ivan at times, but you should be grateful. Writers in other cities never update the blogs, and never give any info. They are just terrible. I live in suburban Detroit, and the Pistons have the worst beat guys ever. Ivan is by far one of the top 5 guys in the NBA, with others like Doug Smith up in Toronto, Windhorst in Cleveland, Ira Winderman in Miami, and Quick in Portland.
Posted by: Roman5 | March 13, 2009 3:16 PM
whats the new gig?
Posted by: bford1kb | March 13, 2009 3:26 PM
dSong: F-
Posted by: cj658 | March 13, 2009 3:27 PM
"I always thought it was a possibility," he said. (Yes, I just quoted Ivan Carter.) "You see a lot of that cross-over, and that's kind of where the media business is going, people doing multiple things. I've always thought of myself as a reporter, and I've always thought of myself as a newspaper guy, but I've always looked at TV and thought that was something I could do. Why not?"
Translation: TV is where the money is at.
Good move, smart one too.
Posted by: cj658 | March 13, 2009 3:28 PM
No, the losing culture begins when you reward those players with mins when they are behaving like that as most in these threads have been advocating for a long time now!
Who said these guys are the "core"? I think we're talking about NY, McGee, maybe Blatche. The core of this team is AJ, GA, CB, and BH.
Posted by: rphilli721 | March 13, 2009 3:31 PM
Good luck in the new position, Ivan.
Michael Lee, get ready for the abuse, because we're ready for you.
Posted by: disgruntledfan | March 13, 2009 3:33 PM
"After following around the history-chasing Wizards for two more weeks, Ivan--who joined The Post in Jan., 2005--will leave print and join CSN full-time. Michael Lee will fill in on the Wizards beat through the end of this season, and no decision has been made about who will cover the team next year."
Word on the street is kalo_rama is already standing outside of WashingtonPost headquarters with his resume in hand. Security made him go home and change clothes when they saw urine running down his pants leg. My, the excitement.
Posted by: cj658 | March 13, 2009 3:36 PM
he's quitting right now? jeez, it makes sense though, he never seemed happy once ej got canned, seemed to be going through the motions
Posted by: bford1kb | March 13, 2009 3:43 PM
"No, the losing culture begins when you reward those players with mins when they are behaving like that as most in these threads have been advocating for a long time now!"
The losing culture is already instilled. That's what created the locker room atmosphere he wrote about.
Earlier in the season, there was one or two distinct posts after a win about how it was good to see the players in a vibrant mood, bouncing around, joking like we always remembered from years past. That implies that in the beginning of the season when the team was losing, there was a very somber attitude in the locker room.
Now, it's "if you walk in that room after most games, you wouldn't know whether they won or lost."
Huge shift in description. Sorry Rob, the losing culture is already here.
Posted by: psps23 | March 13, 2009 3:45 PM
Very good report about Songalia. It drives me crazy that guys jump over him for rebounds and that he is athletically challenged, I appreciate that he is actually in the right spot and trying hard. He should be an 8th or 9th man -- 2d or 3d string PF at best. And Ivan hit it right on the hea about Songalia's screening -- watch the game tonight -- when Blatche or ESPECIALLY McGee go to set a screen, they don't even make contact and the defender sticks right with the ball handler. Compare that to teams that set screens on the Wiz and we are forced into switching which is one of the main purposes of the screening. The Wiz are probably the worst at screening and defending the screen.
I would give Songaila a solid "B" because he has done what he is capable of doing and has been asked to do much more than he is capable.He is definitely a full letter grade better than Juan Dixon's performance this year -- you cannot have everyone jumbled between a B and a C or else your grading system makes no sense.
Posted by: Chad32 | March 13, 2009 4:23 PM
Agreed on Darius.
I've always liked his game but felt his skills were being misapplied, either because of injuries to Haywood/Thomas or poor coaching.
The guy is solid and deserves a spot on this team as a role player if and when they ever get their act together.
Also, as to yesterday's Lee post: spot on.
I don't know what the coaches are thinking. I can see giving CB and AJ some minutes alongside the young guys for tutoring and stability purposes, but 40+ minutes/game is inexcusable at this point in a losing season.
And if all of these young guys are such chuckleheads, maybe we should be looking into the scouting crew, too. They're obviously not looking hard enough at these kids' attitude and work ethic when scouting.
Posted by: Washago | March 13, 2009 4:25 PM
"Huge shift in description. Sorry Rob, the losing culture is already here. "
Can't really say that without knowing specifically who he was talking about. He specifically cited "some of the young guys"as behaving like it was "Romper Room" and Songaila as being hurt by losing. But he didn't say anything about the other players. If they're ALL laughing and joking and brushing it off after losses, then you're right. But nothing we've seen from the demeanor of Jamison or Butler would suggest that would be the case. I think it's pretty clear that the losses still hurt them. And given how he carries himself and what's been said and written about him, I doubt McGuire falls into that category either. There was a piece in today's paper that specifically cited Pecherov as carrying himself like a professional. Dixon's gone after the season, so who cares what he thinks; there won't be any carryover. Mike James is also a rental (plus, he's spent most of his career playing on bad teams, so he's probably used to it). Arenas, Haywood, and Thomas aren't playing so they're not part of the equation right now.
So, really, the only ones who have been indicted for this are Young, Blatche, and McGee, otherwise known as the usual suspects.
Posted by: kalo_rama | March 13, 2009 4:27 PM
Good Luck.
Remember us as you make your way up the ladder. If you ever have any tuff questions you can always get some interesting answers here.
The guy that will really need luck is Mike Lee.
Hope he is thick skinned. His posts have been very good that I've read.
Posted by: VBFan | March 13, 2009 4:32 PM
Who care? Can we just skip to the part where Tapscott and Grunfield both get an F for the season??
Posted by: Gary22 | March 13, 2009 4:35 PM
"As for Songaila's future with the team, he's on the books for $4.5 million next season and holds a player option worth $4.8 million for the 2010-2011 season (hard to imagine him not picking that up). He's a guy who can help this team in his designated role next season."
What is that designate role, though? If everyone is healthy next year, at center the Wizards will have Haywood, McGee and Thomas, in that order, and at power forward, Jamison, Blatche and Songalia, in that order (in my opinion).
Will Jamison play some small forward? If not, can the Wizards afford $4.5 million for a third string power forward? Or if the Wizards can dump Thomas, is Songalia considered the second or third string center? Or are the Wizards going to cut ties with Blatche or McGee?
It makes you wonder if Songalia might not be moved this summer. I really like the sound fundamental basketball Songalia plays, and his +/- speak to his contribution on the court. But there is no question that Blatche and McGee have eons more potential and will be much better players in two or three years. If one of them has to go, it should be Songalia. If the Wizards can dump Thomas, however, keeping Songalia as a 3rd string center and power forward would be fantastic.
I wonder whether Songalia retained his starting job when Blatche returned from injury so that he might be a more attractive trade candidate this summer.
Posted by: disgruntledfan | March 13, 2009 4:37 PM
Kal, when he says:
"I can't say that about many of the players on this team."
then follows it up with:
"In fact, if you walk in that room after most games, you wouldn't know whether they won or lost."
...that implies much more than 3 players on the team. Being injured does not eliminate a player from contributing to the culture of the team. I'll give you Jamison and Songaila, but to me, everyone else seems to hit that "indifferent" phase with regards to results of the game, and many times it shows on the court (including Butler). McGuire doesn't show it on the court, but being that he's young and he's far surpassed expectations, I wouldn't put it past him to be satisfied simply with his playing time and contributions (as in I wouldn't put it past him to be indifferent after games regardless of a loss).
Basically, I don't see how Ivan would write "I can't say that about many of the players on this team" if he's only talking about 3 players.
The "Romper Room" was a reference to pre-game, not post-game reactions. You can be professional and diligent pre-game, but still have the attributes of a losing culture (which in my mind points specifically to how a team reacts to adverse situations).
Posted by: psps23 | March 13, 2009 4:55 PM
This isn't the military where everybody dresses the same and shaves their heads.
Even in business, managers accommodate 20 year olds (e.g., in customer service) very differently than 50 year olds. Purple hair for people on the phone is okay.
Basketball is a game. It requires entertainment to draw fans, in addition to winning. The players should be having fun. For example, LeBron sings off-key before games.
Antawn needs to get over the locker room blues if somebody (other than Gil) doesn't follow his rules.
The coaching staff needs to invest time, effort and minutes into players with large upside potential - recognizing each one needs to be treated differently.
And those with the highest upside potential in order of priority are McGee, Blatche, Young, McGuire, Crit (hard to know given limited playing time) and Pech.
I wonder what this ranking looks like to EG and ET. Even the former rookie-hater (EJ) had McGee starting.
Garnett asked after last season, what can they say now? Think about that for the Wiz after this season.
Posted by: Izman | March 13, 2009 4:55 PM
Read through the comments and saw that Ivan was heading off to a new spot on Comcast. Just wanted to say good luck.
I really appreciated the coverage, especially the blog. Appreciated it even more after I moved out of the area. Haven't always agreed with the perspective on the team 100% (who does?), but he got it more right than wrong.
Thanks. Good work. Good luck.
Posted by: manifested | March 13, 2009 5:12 PM
"Being injured does not eliminate a player from contributing to the culture of the team. "
Yeah, it really does. Whatever emotions are stirred up by a games outcome are going to be felt and projected most strongly by guys who actually play. Guys who sit on the sidelines and watch are spectators. They can't feel or project as strongly as the guys who play, and their feelings aren't going to be felt as strongly by the guys who play. That's something that I've heard pro athletes talk about frequently in interviews when they're out injured or just coming back, that being out with an injury, esp. for the whole season, sets you apart from the team, even when you're there every day rehabbing or observing.
"I'll give you Jamison and Songaila, but to me, everyone else seems to hit that "indifferent" phase with regards to results of the game"
But, again, we can't really know that without (A) being in the locker room ourselves after the game or (B) being told specifically who he's referring to.
On-court, it's pretty clear to me that Jamison, Butler, Songaila, McGuire give a damn. We've basically been told that McGee, Young, and Blatche are the knuckleheads. That's basically most of the active roster. That leaves Dixon (everything we've learned about Dixon over the years suggests that he's a pro), James (who knows?) and Pech (who was specifically mentioned in today's post article as being apart from the other youngsters in terms of attitude and professionalism). So that's three confirmed offenders and 1 or 2 more possible suspects. And since most off the guilty parties are young guys who don't set the agenda and most of the others are vets who do, I think their attitudes would set more of a prevalent tone. If that weren't the case, there'd be no reason for both the players and the media to be calling Blatche, et all out on their attitudes. After all, you can't really blame them if they're just following the vets' lead.
"You can be professional and diligent pre-game, but still have the attributes of a losing culture (which in my mind points specifically to how a team reacts to adverse situations)."
Couldn't disagree more. If someone is a professional at work, then they're a professional at work all day. They don't act like a professional when they get there in the morning, then become a no-caring slacker after lunch.
Posted by: kalo_rama | March 13, 2009 5:30 PM
Forgot Crittenton. Don't really know, but the quotes we heard from him about spending the all-star break studying film and trying to get better (rather than going to the beach) suggest he gets it, and he seems to be all business on the court.
Posted by: kalo_rama | March 13, 2009 5:33 PM
Who cares? Can we just skip to the part where Tapscott and Grunfield both get an F for the season??
Posted by: Gary22 | March 13, 2009 4:35 PM
Amen. None of the guys (the leaders) doing the critiquing on this team have ever owned up to this years performance. The reality is 15-50 is a reflection of your 40 minute a game guys (Jamison and Butler), their cadre of fellow veterans who have played the bulk of the minutes (with impunity) the inexperienced and incompetent coach and a highly overrated GM who has made some of the dumbest, most fatal, basketball moves a franchise could ever make.
Jamsion and Butler need to shut up, play some defense, pass the ball, stop throwing the ball away so much, protect the rim (part of a PF job) and take a rest 10-15 minutes a game. Win some games and make your teammates better.
Tapscott has been given free rein, so I just pray that in a month I never have to see his non-coaching butt again.
Anyone who has watched this season transpire realizes that Tapscott had no intention from jumpstreet of making McGee and Young significant players on this team. He slowly weeded McGee out of the starting lineup and his play deteriorated exponentially as the season wore on. Nick Young was the teams third leading scorer early on and was averaging about 16.5 points per game (and getting his shots in the flow of the offense).
There is a direct correlation between each of these guys level of play and Tapscott's tenure as coach. Anyone who plays or coaches any game realizes that confidence is as equal or sometimes more important than ability or talent. The organization has not put these young players in a posttion to succeed. They have been called out in the media, chastised on the court, victims of the one mistake rule and not goven defined roles or consistent playing time. Hell I am a 50 year pold man and I could not thrive under those condition. And while seniority has its privi;eges and veterans are given leeway, it can't be so out of line that the team has no standard of on court behavior. Jamison, James and Byutler periodically have terrible shot selection and go one on one a significant amount of possesions (but never at the rim).
With regard to youthful behavior, part of that has tp be the culture of the team. You got to be more specific than Romper Room because 20 year olds have different personalities than 30 year olds, does not always mean it is irresponsibl, incommitted or immature (could be just a age difference). I see vetrans all of the time joking, doing the low crouch multipe hand slap, doing the latest dap or whatever.
Posted by: NewManagement | March 13, 2009 6:32 PM
Ivan, best wishes in your new work. I've appreciated your coverage.
Posted by: 7snider7 | March 13, 2009 6:44 PM
"Couldn't disagree more. If someone is a professional at work, then they're a professional at work all day. They don't act like a professional when they get there in the morning, then become a no-caring slacker after lunch."
A losing culture does not mean being a "no-caring slacker". A losing culture refers to coming into a game and not expecting a win, and it refers to the reaction of near-inevitability following adverse events during a game. It refers to being desensitized to a loss. It refers to accepting the fact that your team is bad, despite seemingly anything you try to do.
You can be professional and diligent in film study, pre-game rituals, and practice sessions while still maintaining a culture of losing. They are not mutually exclusive. The Celtics had a horrible losing culture prior to last season. That doesn't mean that Paul Pierce, Rajon Rondo, Kendrick Perkins, Delonte West, or Al Jefferson were unprofessional. It goes beyond a player's actions and work ethic.
Early in the season, the players truly believed they were a playoff caliber team. They were mystified as to why they were losing so bad. Judging by Ivan's posts, they were genuinely upset at how their games were unfolding.
Now, it seems as if those feelings have disappeared for the most part. Only Jamison publicly voices his frustrations. Songaila is the only other player Ivan has singled out as feeling the pain of a loss, and according to him, he "can't say that about many of the players on this team." That directly refers to being desensitized to the results. Their play on the court certainly suggests they hit the point of inevitability, where if the opposition makes a run, the Wizards rarely respond strong. And I highly doubt this team walks into games expecting to beat a majority of teams in the league, unlike in the beginning of the season.
To me, it all points to a losing culture.
Posted by: psps23 | March 13, 2009 7:11 PM
A minus for Songaila.
In all these cases, I think a player's performance should be measured against his percentage of the salary cap. The greater a players share of the cap, the more a team is counting on that player.
Songaila's put up so-so numbers, and has played up to his ability level; he doesn't make a lot of stupid mistakes. He picks his shots well.
He doesn't win games, but he doesn't turn the ball over.
If Songaila was providing the same contribution as an 7th or 8th guy off the bench, most would be happy with what he brings to the floor. He's a solid NBA role player. If he wasn't on the Wizards roster, he'd still find 15-20 minutes on a number of other NBA teams.
Posted by: JPRS | March 13, 2009 7:21 PM
As far as the losing goes, I think a big part of this is that the Wiz have $30+ mill. that's basically been IR'd this year.
That's enough money to get two NBA All-Stars, or one Superstar, and a solid reserve.
As far as these grades go too, I think the rest of the roster is being dragged down by the four "F's" at key positions on the IR.
Amongst the active players the only real disappointment has been Mike James. He was brought in to help with the perimeter game and ball-handling. Yet, Caron leads the team in assists; and MJ's shooting percentage has been below the league average from 3-point land. He's hit some nights, but he's gone on some pretty nasty cold streaks. I'd give him a D+. Everyone else on the active roster I'd give a C or better. Pech gets an Incomplete.
Posted by: JPRS | March 13, 2009 7:35 PM
Good luck Ivan.
It seems the veteranson this team spend a great deal of time pointing fingers and placing blame. If you are a veteran, play the most, and can take as many bad shots as you want without repercussions, why isn't it your lockerroom? Why don't you simply say I don't want any horseplay in here? Could it be you are protecting your minutes?
Posted by: bozomoeman | March 13, 2009 7:40 PM
I like CRITTENTON also. As I've said numerous times, I think he the answer at PG in three years with or without ARENAS.
As much as I admire SONGAILA for his approach to the game, I think he's gone in two when his contract's up.
Posted by: glawrence007 | March 13, 2009 10:09 PM
If the kids are immature, don't study or fail to work hard, ship them out. Or one of them, which might make the others fall in line. Given Mcguire's steady improvement in many facets this year, I doubt he is the problem. That leaves Mcgee, Young and Blatche. Mcgee has too much potential, pedigree and plays too hard on both ends to trade. That leaves Blatche and Young. While Blatche has shown some improvement, dude hasn't done anything to better his conditioning or physique. He's gone from a skinny, underfed, underconditioned kid to a... skinny, underfed, underconditioned adult. A classic underachiever. Meanwhile, Young, despite that killer fade-away and the occasional (& more often than not, forced & ill-conceived) dunk, has also been a disappointment. Rather than enter the ebb and flow of team play, he still, almost two years in, seems entirely self-obsessed. He is overly demonstrative with his facial expressions when he's fouled, misses or makes a shot, like s performer who believes all eyes are on him. Anyone who has ever played a pick-up game has played with guys like him: the guy who hovers on the outside, plays no D, never mixes it up, but shoots every time he touches the ball. He has made no real progress in his passing game or defense after nearly 150 games at professional level. Moreover, he is immature in interviews and doesn't seem to have mastery of the intricacies of team ball. Maybe one of he two should be shipped, if for nothing else than to keep the other rookies / 2-yearers nervous. Whoever we draft this year, I hope fire, character and dedication are part of the criteria.
Posted by: SammyT1 | March 14, 2009 12:04 AM
It's the coach's job to make sure the Youngins are prepared for games. Tap cannot be retained.
Posted by: BulletsFan1 | March 14, 2009 4:02 AM
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ROME � Italy emerged from elections Tuesday with no clear winner, driving markets around the world markedly lower as investors worried that one of Europe's biggest economies would be unable to build a governing coalition that can stay the course on unpopular austerity measures.
ROME � Italy emerged from elections Tuesday with no clear winner, driving markets around the world markedly lower as investors worried that one of Europe�s biggest economies would be unable to build a governing coalition that can stay the course on unpopular austerity measures.
A day after polling ended, a few seats in Parliament based on Italians� voting abroad still remained to be decided, but their numbers won�t ease the gridlock. European leaders pleaded with politicians in Italy to quickly form a government to continue to enact reforms to lower Italy�s critically high debt and spare Europe another spike in its four-year financial crisis.
If Italian parties fail to form a governing coalition, new elections would be required, causing more uncertainty and a leadership vacuum.
�What is now decisive for Italy � but, because Italy is such an important country for Europe, also for the whole of Europe � is that a stable government that is capable of acting can be formed as quickly as possible,� German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle told reporters in Berlin.
The results of the election are a rejection of the tough austerity approach of the previous technocratic government led by Mario Monti. A center-left coalition led by Pier Luigi Bersani appears to have won a narrow victory in the lower house of parliament, while the Senate looks split with no party in control.
Italy�s FTSE MIB index closed trading Tuesday 4.89 percent lower at 15,731, having earlier been nearly 5 percent down at one point Tuesday. Some of its banking stocks were briefly suspended after precipitous falls at the bell.
The interest rate on the country�s benchmark 10-year bond � an important gauge of investor sentiment � rose by 0.38 percentage points to 4.83 percent. Investors sought protection in the bonds of more stable and prosperous economies, such as German government bonds.
Whether Tuesday�s negative market reaction extends further into the week may hinge on how quickly a solution is reached in Italy. Despite the uncertainty, Italy�s Treasury managed to sell �8.75 billion ($11.75 billion) of short-term debt though at a higher cost.
Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian premier whose center-right coalition did better than expected, insisted that a government can be formed and called on Italians to ignore the �crazy markets.� Berlusconi is a key player as his coalition is now the second-biggest bloc in the upper chamber.
�Markets go their own way. They are independent and also a little crazy,� he said, adding that a government can be cobbled together if rival politicians are willing to �make some sacrifices.�
Stinging from a loss of some 4 million votes compared to the last election in 2008, Bersani hasn�t yet identified potential coalition partners. But top officials in his Democratic Left (PD) party were quick to rule out any deal with Berlusconi.
�As far as I go, absolutely not,� Stefano Fassina, a PD official said of a possible Bersani-Berlusconi alliance.
A big surprise in the election was the strong showing by comic-turned-political leader Beppe Grillo, whose 5 Star Movement capitalized on a wave of voter disgust with the ruling political class. Grillo�s bloc of seats in Parliament could prove crucial in making any coalition government viable.
But Grillo, swarmed by reporters outside his villa in Genoa, said his forces would seek to thwart any Bersani-Berlusconi deal. Raising the specter of early elections, he predicted any such coalition will �last seven, eight months. The economy won�t let them escape.�
Investors around the world appeared skeptical over the prospects of a deal.
�Clearly markets are taking fright from the messy and chaotic Italian election result,� said Louise Cooper, financial analyst at CooperCity.
In Europe, Germany�s DAX was down 2.27 percent at 7,597 while the CAC-40 in France fell 2.67 percent to 3,621. The FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was 1.3 percent lower at 6,270.
Italy is hugely important for the future of the euro, and its apparent stability over the past six months has been one of the reasons that concerns over the currency have eased. Of the 17 European Union countries that use the euro, Italy has the second-highest debt burden as a proportion of its gross domestic product, at 127 percent. Only Greece�s is higher. Italy has to spend around �80 billion a year just to service its debt.
The worry across in financial markets is that Italy�s appetite for reform may wane and its debt situation may deteriorate. Though Italy�s annual borrowing � its budget deficit � is relatively small compared with other euro countries at 3 percent of its annual gross domestic product, its overall debt stands at a colossal �2 trillion.
The Monti government enacted wide-ranging reforms to the budget and the economy. Though its borrowing rates have fallen in financial markets, the cost to Italians has been high, with the country mired in recession and unemployment on the rise.
Monti was a big loser in the election and Berlusconi ruled out an alliance with his predecessor, whom he blamed for driving Italy deeper into recession.
On Tuesday, Monti huddled with his ministers for the economy and European affairs, as well as Italy�s central bank governor over the market developments, his office said.
Last July, concerns over the country�s ability to pay down its debt � despite the Monti reforms � and the stability of the wider eurozone sent the interest rate on its 10-year bonds back up to a near-unsustainable 6.36 percent. This prompted European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi to offer to buy up unlimited quantities of short-term debt in countries struggling with high borrowing costs.
In Spain, another country struggling with austerity, ministers expressed concern over the Italian election results but were confident they won�t upset plans to lift Europe out of the crisis.
Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said the result was �a jump to nowhere with positive consequences for nobody.�
The EU�s economic and monetary affairs commissioner, Olli Rehn, told reporters in Copenhagen Tuesday that it was important �Italy pursues reform for the sake of sustainable growth and job creation.�
The euro was hit hard late Monday on the initial fallout of the election results, nearly dropping below $1.30 for the first time since early 2013. However, it recovered Tuesday before some positive U.S. economic data gave the dollar a fillip. It was trading 0.1 percent lower at $1.3038.
U.S. stocks rebounded too, a day after the main U.S. indexes had their worst session since last November amid the positive consumer confidence and housing data as well as an indication from Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke that the central bank was not going to abandon its super-easy monetary policy just yet � the Dow Jones industrial average was 0.36 percent higher at 13,868 while the broader S&P 500 index rose 0.2 percent to 1,491.
Earlier in Asia, Japan�s Nikkei slid 2.3 percent to 11,398.81 as the yen appreciated to the potential detriment of the country�s exporters. The dollar was 0.4 percent lower at $92.23 yen. Hong Kong�s Hang Seng dropped 1.3 percent to 22,519.69 while South Korea�s Kospi fell 0.5 percent to 2,000.01.


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Sally Wheat's Famous Gray Kitchen
Today, we have another kitchen to show that was inspired by Sally Wheat's gray kitchen. When I first posted about Sally's house a few years ago HERE, I had NO idea how popular she and her house would become with readers. I also had no clue how many people would actually be inspired into action by Sally! I will say that most questions and comments about Sally are regarding her kitchen with it's gray painted cabinets, Shaw's sink, and marble countertops. She certainly inspired my own kitchen redo. After seeing Sally's kitchen, I was spurned on to finally remodel my own outdated one HERE. And, remember this: a few months I showed a kitchen/house remodel HERE whose owner told me she was directly inspired by Sally Wheat's kitchen.
The latest Sally Wheat inspired kitchen comes from Sara of the August Fields blog. Sara's blog is all about building her new house and when she recently featured her kitchen, she gave credit to Sally Wheat. To read Sara's kitchen story go HERE. I must say that nothing gives me greater pleasure as a blogger than to read about these inspiring kitchen designs. That these design inspirations would ever even occur certainly never crossed my mind when I started this endeavor over three years ago. But, it has been a very rewarding aspect of this solitary sport. So, a huge thank you to all of the readers who have sent in pictures of your kitchens and homes. Keep them coming!
Sally Wheat's gray kitchen. The color, Benjamin Moore Fieldstone seems to be a favorite with so many readers. I get asked over and over again – what color did Sally use on her cabinets? Also – many people love her open upper cabinets with their carved brackets. In both kitchens directly inspired by Sally, they each copied these cabinets. Also, many people love her pendant lighting which she purchased at BROWN.
When it came to remodeling my own kitchen, I used gray on the cabinets – but a much lighter gray which was custom mixed so I don't know the name of it!!! Also, I used Calacutta Ora marble instead of Carrara. I copied Sally's Shaw's sink and I used a polished nickel bridge faucet. I was also inspired by Sally's window and so I replaced mine with this beautiful casement window, which much made a huge difference.
The First Sally Wheat Inspired Kitchen:
BEFORE: This is a before picture of a kitchen in Houston that was inspired by Sally Wheat's.
AFTER: This homeowner chose black granite instead of white marble, but she modeled her upper cabinets after Sally's. Also, she used a farm sink and the same type of bin hardware as Sally. Notice the brackets on the bar mimic Sally's own overhead cabinets. The subway tile backsplash is also like Sally's as is the style of cabinetry. The pendant lighting was another Wheat inspiration. I've heard through the grapevine that this house is going to be featured in a magazine!!!! To read all about this redo, go HERE.
The Second Sally Wheat Inspired Kitchen:
The August Fields Kitchen, inspired by Sally Wheat
Here is Sara's new kitchen. As you can see, she chose white marble – not Carrara, which Sara explains is now really a gray marble. I agree! That's why I used Calacutta Ora. Sara used White Italian marble with walnut on her island. In this picture – one of the pendant lights is missing as you can tell. These pictures were taken right after they moved in. On her blog, Sara says that originally she wanted black soapstone countertops with white cabinets. That was until she read the blog about Sally Wheat's kitchen – that's when she totally changed her design plans for her kitchen.
Sara used a beveled white subway tile for her backsplash, which I just love. And she used the exact same gray on her countertops that Sally Wheat did: Benjamin Moore Fieldstone. The gray on the walls is Benjamin Moore Vapor Trails. Be sure to notice the ceiling!! I love the beams. NOTE: Under the microwave is a little pass-through door to Sara's schoolroom. As the mother of 5 young children – she home schools them. The schoolroom is adorable – with black and white vinyl tile floor.
Here is a picture of her upper cabinets – with the extra thick shelves. These really look exactly like Sally's cabinets because Sara took a picture of them to her carpenter so he could copy them.
Another view of her upper cabinets. I love her cabinets and I love the pendant lighting.
I really like her island with the columns on the corners. And, there is another sink here too.
A close up of Sara's farm sink – it has such a pretty apron. I love her bridge faucet too. I think the bridge faucets are my favorites.
Sara added a cute wood hood for her cooktop. The hardware is from Restoration Hardware. I wish I had used this hardware myself.
Sara used the Kenmore pro refrigerator and freezer pair and then pushed them next to each other. By using a stock trim kit, it looks like it is all one unit!
Looking from the family room and breakfast room into the kitchen. There is a brick veneer on this side of the countertop. This large table was custom made and it seats 12 – new chairs are coming.
Looking past the breakfast room into the family room.
Sara has five little ones and she home schools them all (except the baby!) Look what she put into her house – a drinking fountain!!! Isn't this the best idea? She said she has already saved a bundle on paper cups. The schoolroom is right behind the kitchen – across from where the fountain is.
Thank you Sara so much for sharing your beautiful new house with us. To read all about her kitchen, go HERE. Remember, Cote de Texas welcomes pictures of all redos, renos, remodels, and even new houses!!


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Electricity is a safe and convenient source of energy for heat, light and power in your home and on your farm, provided it is distributed in correctly sized and properly protected conductors. Good wiring systems are safe and energy-efficient.
Because of their convenience, households have accumulated many electrical appliances. While these labor-saving devices are helpful in the home, property owners often fail to give proper attention to the wiring system that serves them. In our desire to reduce human work loads, we very often overwork the electrical home wiring system and its control devices. Energy-efficient appliances should always be served by good wiring systems.
Many older homes and service buildings are not adequately wired to serve today's electrical loads. Some new homes fall into this category, too. The safety of the system depends first on how well you have maintained the safety valves...
your electrical fuses and/or your circuit breakers. It also depends upon the care taken by the home builder or electrician in the placement of electric cables. All cables in attics should be placed on top of attic insulation materials. It is especially important that circuit conductors that carry near-capacity current are on top of attic insulation so that heat generated within cable jackets will not be trapped. Where a circuit carries near-full load (90 to 100 percent of rated capacity) for long periods of time and heat is trapped by attic insulation, the conductor insulation could deteriorate.
Solutions are:
Every safe home wiring system should equal or exceed the requirements of the National Electrical Code. But more than that, every system should be designed for economy of installation, operation, expandability and maintenance. The code itself is chiefly concerned with safety. Thus, it is usually desirable to install systems that exceed code standards. It is more economical to plan an adequate and easily expandable system than it is to rewire after your home has been built.
Any system should avoid excessive voltage drop, wasted energy and overheated wires. You need not have a fire or an appliance failure to discover overloaded circuits, and you need not be an expert to determine whether your home wiring system needs attention. Look for symptoms of poor wiring:
Fuses or circuit breakers of greater amperage will not correct too-small wiring or low-voltage problems, but proper circuit protection will ensure safe use of what you have. If you don't have enough circuits to serve all of your electrical equipment, consult an electrician or power supplier; you will probably need a larger service entrance. If rewiring becomes necessary, develop a wiring layout with help from local electrical specialists.
In new home construction, the electrical contractor should identify each circuit and the size of conductors used should correspond with fuse size. The contractor should attach this record to the inside of the service entrance panel with each circuit numbered, identified and described. No one should accept a new wiring system without such a record. If your home wiring circuits are not so identified, the time required to make up such a record will be saved many times over as fuse replacements, fixture alterations and other repairs become necessary. Consult an electrician, if necessary, to determine the exact size of circuit wiring to be sure that all circuits are properly protected against overloads.
When you "overfuse" or remove all protection, as with a penny behind a fuse, heavily loaded wires overheat. Insulation hardens and flakes off, with current-carrying conductors becoming bare in spots. Wires may then heat enough to burn dust, wood, paint, etc., causing a serious home fire. Proper fusing protects against such hazards. For 115-volt circuits, the Type-S plug, tamper-resistant fuse is a logical, economical protective device. It is recommended by the latest edition of the National Electrical Code as a replacement; it is required in new homes where fuse panels are used.
Three types of plug fuses are commonly available: (1) the ordinary fuse; (2) the regular, Edison-base, time-delay, dual-element fuse; (3) the tamper-resistant, time-delay, dual-element, Type-S fuse with adapter.
The ordinary fuse is recommended only as a replacement in existing installations. It is satisfactory for circuits that serve incandescent lighting and heating loads if the correct size is used. All fuses have their ampere rating clearly marked on top and bottom. With little time lag built into ordinary fuses, they become less satisfactory on general purpose circuits that serve portable appliance motors. If the circuit is partially loaded, the additional momentary current drawn by a motor while starting may blow this kind of fuse. This is especially true when the motor-starting current is high, as with many vacuum cleaners.
The time-delay, dual-element, Edison-base fuse was developed to meet the need for circuit protection, yet permit normal momentary motor overloads without blowing the fuse. But when a short circuit develops, the flat metallic fuse link will blow. If a motor overloads the circuit, the special alloy "glob" in the fuse will melt. The attached spring will then disconnect the electrical circuit. Regardless of their ampere rating, these fuses screw into any regular Edison-base fuse receptacle without an adapter. One disadvantage in its use, then, is that an unknowing person might replace the correct size of time-delay Edison-base fuse with one that is too large to provide proper circuit protection.
The tamper-resistant, time-delay, dual-element Type-S fuse was designed to protect circuits more adequately than either of the above. The latest code requires this type in all new construction that has fused service entrance panels. It makes overfusing by an unknowing person much more difficult. Each Type-S fuse must be equipped with a matched adapter that is first turned into each circuit fuse receptacle.
Three common sizes of adapters are available for home wiring circuits... these are for 15-ampere circuits, 20-ampere circuits and 30-ampere circuits. Each of these adapters differs in length and in thread type, making it impossible to insert a fuse of higher amperage into an adapter, once that adapter has been locked into place. Such fuses are also available in smaller sizes to protect individual fractional horsepower motors from needless burnout. Burned-out motor replacements are expensive in terms of dollars and energy for manufacturing.
Circuit breakers provide the same type of time-delay features that equal-size time-delay fuses provide. Either type of protection is permitted by the National Electrical Code. Because of a circuit breaker's time-delay feature, it may not need to trip for months, even years on circuits with light loads. Therefore, it is good practice to switch each breaker in your main panel off and on at least once every six months to keep them in good operating condition.
If your circuits are not now identified on your entrance panel, you can make up your own identification record by following this procedure:
Follow a similar procedure if you have the circuit breaker type of service entrance panel. Since manufacturers use different designs for this equipment, check resetting instructions inside the breaker panel. If you follow procedures given, the trigger mechanism will reset properly. Some breakers must be moved to an extreme off position before they will reset.
Looking for the cause of a blown fuse or tripped breaker need not be time-consuming if you investigate it in a systematic manner. If you know the cause of trouble, correct it; then replace the fuse or reset the breaker. If you do you do not know the cause of the trouble:
In the average home, cartridge fuses are often used on the special 3-wire, 120/240 volt circuits for ranges, clothes dryers and for 240-volt water heaters. They are available in two types: the ordinary, single-link type and the time-delay, dual-element type. All cartridge fuses for household use should have a voltage rating of not more than 300 volts. Cartridge fuses with higher voltage ratings will not fit the normal pullout fuse holders found in homes. Where motors make up the main load on a special circuit, use the time-delay, dual-element fuse.
Circuit breakers are commonly used for protecting wiring and for safety. A simple bi-metal heating mechanism in each unit trips the breaker when the circuit is overloaded. Individual units for home circuit protection are usually rated at 15 or 20 amperes. From 30 to 50 ampere breakers are sometimes used for protection of special circuits.
It is possible to increase the number of circuits in an existing service panel by using dual circuit breakers. When adding circuits, be very careful to avoid overloading established service equipment. Hire a competent electrician or other qualified person to plan and install new circuits.
The number and kind of major appliances and the method of heating in a home will determine the size of service entrance conductors needed. For the modern home with a fuel-fired heating system, the entrance wires and service equipment must have a rated amperage of at least 100 amperes. In addition to the range circuit, from 16 to 24 branch circuit positions should be provided.
New or remodeled homes that are heated with electricity need service conductors and service entrance equipment that have at least a 150 to 200 amperes capacity. In addition to the above 16- to 24-circuit positions, at least another 10 120-volt circuit positions (five 240-volt circuits) will be needed.
Where electric power suppliers offer a combination heating/air conditioning electric rate, place both heat and air conditioning circuits in the separate 100-amp panel. This will help maintain load balance.
Where electric home heating equipment is not separately metered, one large service entrance panel will suffice. A word of caution is in order, however. Don't preclude easy expansion of your wiring system by installing a panel that is too small or completely loaded now. Remember, the difference in cost of a 200-amp and a 150-amp service entrance panel is small, and the labor-installation cost difference is also low.
While each new home should have its own wiring plan that conforms to family living patterns, the minimum wiring system for a non-electrically heated home should accommodate those appliances and circuits shown in Table 1.
Table 1. Appliance-circuit schedule for modern home (minimum).
As indicated, each 240-volt major appliance requires two circuit positions; each 120-volt appliance only one. Table 2 shows the relative physical size of No. 14 through No. 0 copper conductors. The maximum load that each conductor should carry and the fuse or breaker size is shown at 115/230 volt levels, which are often used in the National Electrical Code. Power suppliers attempt to maintain 120/240 volts at the electric meter, however.
Table 2. Relationship between wire size, electrical load and fuse size.
As indicated earlier, electricity is one of the safest sources of energy if your wiring system is properly designed and installed with the proper control valves. Adequate wiring comes first, then proper selection and maintenance of protective equipment. Don't accept substitutes when purchasing fuses.
Many businesses do not always carry a complete stock of time-delay fuses of either type. Thus, you must guard against the possibility of uninformed sales personnel trying to sell you a much-too-large, potentially dangerous, 25- or 30-amp ordinary fuse, when a time-delay fuse of much smaller size is what you want and need for adequate protection. Remember, too, that for many of the individual appliance circuits, especially motor-operated appliances, you will need time-delay fuses 15 amperes in size. If your local dealers cannot provide what you need for your safety and protection, consult your local electric power supplier or insurance company. They will help you find the right equipment. Many will also provide valuable tips and plans on energy-conserving home or farmstead wiring systems.
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G7 Preparing Statement To Support Dollar, EU, In Fact Everything That Would Otherwise Collapse Tomorrow, Before Asia Open
by Tyler Durden
Just out from Bloomberg: Finance ministers and central bankers are preparing a statement to release before the open of Asian markets, the Nikkei newspaper reported, without citing anyone. Japan may intervene in currency market if dollar falls. G-7 finance ministers, central bankers expected to express confidence in dollar, pledge liquidity. U.S. to explain fiscal rebuilding efforts." [so no more sniping at S&P and actually doing its job eh?] "Japan to express intention to maintain Treasury holdings. G-7 expected to show support for EU fiscal efforts." And while the G7 is about to realize that when faced with a $100 trillion (equities plus debt) market onslaught its printing powers are next to laughable, Dow Jones reports that the "ECB is weighing Italian, Spanish bond buying on a massive scale." Two take homes: i) the Fed has just lost its competitive advantage of doing idiotic things on a massive scale as the world wake up to tits trickery (unless of course the Fed resumes said thing on a massiver scale, which it will), and ii) tomorrow is the day when the infinite force of central planning meets the immovable object of capital markets. We will find out who blinks first in a few hours.