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The Happiest Recap: 124-126
by Greg Prince on 26 August 2011 6:34 am
Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We've created a dream season that includes the "best" 124th game in any Mets season, the "best" 125th game in any Mets season, the "best" 126th game in any Mets season…and we keep going from there until we have a completed schedule worthy of Bob Murphy coming back with the Happy Recap after this word from our sponsor on the WFAN Mets Radio Network.
GAME 124: August 22, 2006 — METS 8 Cardinals 7
(Mets All-Time Game 124 Record: 27-21; Mets 2006 Record: 76-48)
It was a good game for fans of The Flintstones. You know: Bam! Bam! And then a few more well-chosen Bam!s, with the last of them absolutely resounding.
First Bam! Unassuming enough, but effective. It was Bam!'d by Carlos Delgado, leading off the bottom of the second versus the Cardinals' Jeff Weaver this Tuesday night at Shea, kick-starting a three-game showdown between potential playoff opponents. A simple, elegant line drive, Delgado's 30th homer of the season put the East-leading Mets up 1-0 over Central-leading St. Louis. Carlos D's powerful bat had immediately transformed the Mets' lineup into a veritable war club when it was slotted into the cleanup niche at the onset of 2006. He's a big man on this campus, serving not just as the slugger the Mets were missing but as the relatively extroverted Carlos. His buddy, Carlos Beltran, sort of shrank from the spotlight when asked to be The Man the year before. Carlos Delgado may not have overly embraced such a role, but he didn't quite so subtly reject it as Beltran had. However Delgado plays it, it's a good part for him to assume. And it's got him near a milestone, too: that shot off Weaver was the 399th home run of Delgado's career.
Second Bam! After Aaron Miles singles and Chris Duncan doubles, John Maine is tasked with facing Albert Pujols in the fourth. Maine struck him out in their first encounter. Unfortunately, Maine commits a rookie mistake thereafter: He faces him again. This meeting results in a three-run homer that gives St. Louis a 3-1 lead.
Third Bam! Maine failed to learn his lesson. With one on and two out in the fifth (the second out executed 7-6-2 — Michael Tucker to Jose Reyes to Paul Lo Duca — to nail Ronnie Belliard at the plate), the righthander walks Miles and Duncan, which brings up Prince Albert with the bases loaded. That's really not how or where you want to see His Royal Bam!ness, 'cause all that'll get you is a Grand Bam! Pujols matched his earlier home run to right-center with another to left-center. And this one brought home four runs. The Mets were down 7-1. Pujols had his 39th home run of 2006 and his 13th against the Mets in 128 at-bats dating to his first series against them in April 2001. This grandest of swings lifted Albert's lifetime average versus Mets pitching to .320. To call Albert Pujols a Met-killer would be to overlook that he put up numbers like that against everybody. But he surely didn't do the Mets any favors.
Fourth Bam! Easy sledding for Weaver from here, right? A six-run lead and a presumably demoralized opponent. Willie Randolph removed Maine for pinch-hitter Ricky Ledee to start the home fifth. He walked and took second on a passed ball. Reyes flied to Duncan in left…but Duncan didn't catch the darn ball, so the Mets had first and second. Lo Duca singled to right to load the bases, setting the stage for mighty Carlos Beltran to swing and…ground back to Weaver, who forced Ledee at home. But the Mets, per their one of their 2006 outdoor ads, took themselves up on their own offer. "Buy One Carlos, Get One Free." They indeed had another Carlos, and that one who had already homered, went for a twofer. And he got it. Carlos Delgado reached that 400th home run milestone with little wait and a lot of flair: a grand slam that Bam!'d the Mets back to within two of the Cards at 7-5. Who knew it would be so easy to neutralize the worst damage Albert Pujols could inflict?
Bam!less Interlude: The Mets opted to not leave the infield as they batted in the sixth. Endy Chavez bunted his way on. Chris Woodward walked. Jose Valentin sacrificed each of them up a base. Jose Reyes placed a friendly grounder to second. The Redbirds nailed Jose at first, but Endy zipped home. The Mets were within a run, at 7-6.
Who Gives A Bam!? Not Albert Pujols in the seventh, not even with his personal tablesetters Miles and Duncan each on via one-out walks from Pedro Feliciano. Submariner Chad Bradford is called on to keep Albert below the surface and he grounds the most dangerous hitter in captivity into a 6-4-3 DP.
I Bam! I Said: Mets still down 7-6 when their last chance rolls around in the ninth. Bradford and Aaron Heilman have kept the Cards off the board (and Pujols from another plate appearance). On the mound for St. Louis is their closer, ex-Met Jason Isringhausen. The Mets have the top of the order up to get something started. Reyes starts nothing except a routine groundout. But Lo Duca, the catcher who bats second because he hits .300, singles. And that first Carlos the Mets bought? Beltran? Let's tune into WFAN and listen to Howie Rose describe what happens the second Izzy takes him on:
"First pitch…fastball hit to deep right field! IT'S GONNA WIN THE BALLGAME! HOME RUN!"
It sounded remarkably similar on SNY, where Gary Cohen had this to say about that:
"One swing could win it for New York. He rips it to deep right! THAT BALL IS OUTTA HERE! OUTTA HERE! THE METS WIN THE BALLGAME!"
Indeed, Mets take it 8-7, or three BAM!s to two.
ALSO QUITE HAPPY: On August 22, 1999, one scoreboard bulb was destroyed while most of the others gleefully lit up. The literal destruction of Shea Stadium property came at the hands of Mark McGwire, whose first-inning bomb — and that's almost not hyperbole — slammed into the scoreboard so high and with such force that it did a number on 16 LF. Big Mac's monstrous shot, measured at 501 feet, blitzed teammate Ray Lankford's electronic listing in the Cardinal lineup in the first inning of the first game of this Sunday doubleheader. It was a crackling blow some Mets fans couldn't help but acknowledge with applause, even as it took out a bulb and put a crooked number up along the St. Louis half of the line score.
The Cardinals were lighting up the Shea scoreboard a little too vividly as the game moved on. McGwire added another dinger in the seventh — his 50th of the season —and ex-Met Bambi Castillo (the nickname, short for Bambino, was supposed to be ironic) connected in the eighth. By then, the Mets were trailing 6-1 and might have been looking forward to breaking even in the nightcap.
Or they might have been looking to get even right away. A double by Rey Ordoñez and one-out walks to Rickey Henderson and Edgardo Alfonzo presented a golden opportunity to John Olerud…and John Olerud cashed it in, swatting a grand slam to reduce the Mets' deficit to 6-5. Exactly two pitches later, Mike Piazza erased the Mets' disadvantage altogether by lining the tying home run.
Armando Benitez let all that good work go to waste in the top of the ninth, allowing the Cardinals the go-ahead run. But the Mets weren't in the mood for self-pity. They got right up off the mat and stuck it right back to the Cardinals in the bottom of the inning. With one out, Ordoñez walked, pinch-hitter Matt Franco walked, Henderson doubled to tie the game at seven, and Alfonzo found the narrowest of holes between short and third to bring home Franco. The Mets turned out the lights on the Cardinals, 8-7.
GAME 125: August 21, 2001 — METS 5 Rockies 2
"What have you done for us lately? would have been a fitting question this Tuesday night at Shea. Both of the co-aces of the 2000 National League Champions started, but only one, Al Leiter, was a Met anymore. The other made the mistake of seeking literally greener pastures following the last time he started a game in Queens.
It wasn't a mistake when you consider that the $123.8-million eight-year contract Mike Hampton signed with the Colorado Rockies no doubt represented a most pleasing shade of green for him and his family. And there's no doubting his earning potential was honed at Shea Stadium in the previous fall's playoffs. Yet if he thought his eventually lucrative accomplishments would earn him much goodwill from those on whose behalf he accomplished them…well, maybe he needed to back to school.
Don't worry — Mets fans didn't mind reminding him he had opted for a place that was supposedly ideal to do just that.
Hampton was a Met summer rental whose lease extended into October. Traded from Houston prior to his free agent walk year, he gave New York a solid, occasionally spectacular regular season in 2000 and an extraordinary National League Championship Series. He threw seven scoreless innings to take Game One from St. Louis and a complete-game three-hit shutout to clinch the pennant in the NLCS finale. As Shea went predictably berserk with glee, Mike Hampton was hoisted high above the mound in celebration.
Within a year's time, the Shea crowd would have just as soon hung him in effigy. Hampton indeed walked after his walk year, not just accepting the Rockies' staggering terms but framing it as a lifestyle choice. Denver — Coors Field's offensive equities notwithstanding — was simply more the pitcher's speed when it came to choosing a year-round home for his family. In explaining how the area jibed with his small-town background better than New York did (without disparaging New York in any tangible manner), he elaborated, "This was a place I could move my family to without having to take my kid out of school every three months…personally, I like the schools, the environment, the people."
Hampton could purchase his offspring the slickest batch of school supplies available, but it didn't mean anybody was buying what Mike was selling. Sandy Alderson, an executive vice president for Major League Baseball, was incredulous that the curriculum taught in the Denver suburbs was that much of a difference-maker: "The spin to which that deal was subjected, I think, was just an embarrassment. I don't want to hear about the Wheat Ridge school system." Mets GM Steve Phillips, who put forth a seven-year, $105 million package to convince Hampton to stay, echoed the sentiment: "I think it was made clear it wasn't about the money. Of course it's always about the money, especially when it's not about the money."
The money appeared reasonably well spent by the Rockies as Hampton raced to a 9-2 start, an All-Star berth (as bestowed by Bobby Valentine) and seven home runs. Yet as 2001 went on, and Colorado failed to contend, Mike, for all his Silver Slugging, wasn't looking like such a bargain. Then again, the team he left behind didn't seem to be going anywhere, either. The Mets spun their wheels for more than four months, bottoming out at 54-68 until winning the last two games of their just-completed trip to California. The pitchers signed to essentially replace Hampton — Kevin Appier and Steve Trachsel — weren't producing much. Really, he entire Zeitgeist surrounding Mike Hampton's departure left Mets fans in a grumpy mood when he returned to Shea to take on his erstwhile teammates.
It showed. Hampton was booed as if he were Chipper Jones going into a windup. He was booed when he batted. He was subject to homemade signs brandished behind the third base dugout that read "TRAITOR" and "LOOSER" (the latter perhaps justifying his concerns over the quality of education in New York). You would not have believed this was the same man at the center of that joyous pennant-clinching less than a year earlier.
"I was surprised at it," Leiter admitted. "As a Mets fan, I appreciate what he did to get us to the World Series. It was a personal decision, not a slight to the team or anyone in this room or the fans or the city."
Hampton took his unseasonable greeting in stride, at least for the record: "The fans were in the game. What more can you ask as a home team? I knew what to expect. I pretty much knew what I was going to get. That's up to them. I pitched the best I could for them last year and I'm doing the best I can for the Rockies this year."
His best wasn't good enough here, though. Much to the delight of the home fans, the Mets raked Hampton for four-first inning runs, with one coming in on a wild pitch and two via a Rey Ordoñez single. In the second, Hampton's former catcher, Mike Piazza (whose honor Hampton did not strenuously defend after Roger Clemens tossed a bat shard at him in Game Two of the 2000 World Series), deposited a 463-foot "welcome back" up onto the center field camera deck.
That nobody booed. Piazza received a curtain call, as it was his 300th home run as a catcher. "It was kind of early in the game," the Mets' Mike said in his typical attention-deflecting way. "I didn't want to celebrate it too early. It was flattering, definitely. The fans here have been awesome as far as the support."
As long as you kept wearing their favorite uniform, that is. And indeed, the guys in Mets black came out ahead, 5-2, versus the guy who used to be one of them. Hampton's troubles over six innings tickled most in attendance, which elicited more shrugging from one of the richest of the Rox: "I'm a Rockie now and I'm pretty happy about it."
You didn't need an extra period of study hall to figure out the 123.8 million reasons why.
ALSO QUITE HAPPY: On August 20, 1963, a star was born, even if it was destined to flame out almost immediately. The southpaw supernova that briefly brightened the Mets' sky — clad in No. 41, no less — was Grover Powell, 22 and arguably the first Mets' breakthrough pitcher. He broke through in style, all right. In his first start (following nine relief appearances), Pennsylvanian Powell held his home state Phillies scoreless for nine sublime innings at Connie Mack Stadium. Backed by two runs in the eighth and a Frank Thomas two-run dinger in the ninth, Powell came away the 4-0 winner of this Tuesday twinight opener.
After nearly two seasons of flailing and failing, maybe the Mets were finally on to something: they had a young pitcher who dazzled the opposition. Powell was an instant sensation. Between games of the doubleheader, he had each of his teammates autograph the game ball to commemorate his four-hitter. "I'm going to stick it in my front window," he promised. Later that night, he was the apple of the Mets' beat writers' collective eye who at last had something positive to chronicle (never mind the Mets losing the second game). Grover even drew the attention of a most unusual reporter.
Manager Casey Stengel, perhaps giddy from the Mets having matched their entire 1962 victory total when Powell raised the team's record to a sassy 40-85, picked up a pencil and notebook and joined the journalistic scrum. While other gentlemen of the press inquired after Grover's nerves (he had plenty) and sought predictions regarding his next start (he'd probably get bombed, he allowed lightheartedly), Ol' Case injected the perfect non sequitur for the interrogatory occasion:
"Wuz you born in Poland?"
It wasn't (or wuzn't) where Powell had come from, it was where he was going. Stengel thought the kid looked 14 ("just imagine what he'll be like when he's 16") but he had just pitched one of the young Mets' most mature games. He'd certainly done it quicker than anybody else in orange and blue. His future could only grow brighter.
Except there was no future to Grover Powell as a Met pitcher. His next start, against Pittsburgh, was derailed when a Donn Clendenon liner caught him in the face, and he didn't win another game in 1963. Grover had adjusted his pitching motion after the injury and it not only made him less successful, it led to tendonitis in his left elbow. He injured his moneymaker in winter ball and, despite pitching professionally through 1970, never returned to the majors. Leukemia would cut him down at the age of 44.
But oh, what a night, late August, back in '63.
GAME 126: August 24, 2005 — Mets 18 DIAMONDBACKS 4
One minute, your big league career is through before it's even started. The next minute, you're setting big league records. It was some kind of span of New York — or perhaps Arizona — minutes for the emergency catcher turned slugging first baseman named Mike Jacobs.
A seven-season minor leaguer whose largest claim to low-level fame was homering to win the Cyclones' first-ever game in Brooklyn in 2001, Jacobs was not exactly knocking on the door to the Mets' 25-man roster in 2005, at least not until Mike Piazza absorbed a foul tip that fractured a bone in his left hand. And even then, Jacobs showed up on the Mets' radar behind backup catchers Ramon Castro and Mike DiFelice as no more than a worst-case option on the Sunday Piazza was officially DL'd. The Mets were expecting to activate the previously injured Steve Trachsel soon thereafter, so Jacobs — who'd been honing his first base skills at Double-A all year, having drifted away from catching as his primary position — was being asked to simply be happy to be here for a spell…and only grab a chest protector if absolutely necessary.
With the Mets down 7-0 to the Nationals in the bottom of the fifth on getaway day at Shea, manager Willie Randolph threw the rookie a pinch-hitting bone. Jacobs came to the plate with two on and one out. He made the best of his cameo, blasting Esteban Loaiza's 0-1 changeup over the right field wall to bring the Mets to within 7-3 and earn himself a curtain call from a crowd that had had nothing to cheer about all day.
"I was just trying to get a base hit, maybe an RBI or something," the callow callup said. "But to hit the ball out of the park is an awesome feeling. I definitely floated around the bases."
Jacobs's reward for joining Benny Ayala (1974), Mike Fitzgerald (1983) and Kaz Matsui (2004) as the only Mets to homer their first time up in the majors? A trip back to the bushes from whence he came. And not even the Triple-A bushes. He'd gone down to Binghamton at the start of the season to recover from the torn labrum that had sidetracked his offensive progress the year before (he had been the Mets' minor league player of the year in 2003). Freak circumstances elevated him two levels, straight past Triple-A and then to a 1.000 batting average and 4.000 slugging percentage as a New York Met for a day. Now a numbers game — the 25-man limit versus that 3-run jack — was going to send him away again.
Not so fast, said the most important Met of 2005. Pedro Martinez lobbied for Jacobs's retention on the roster. His reasoning was as sound as his influence was tangible: The Mets were fighting to gain traction in a Wild Card race — how do you demote the only guy who did anything in an otherwise desultory loss to Washington? Thus, with Pedro on his side (and aided by a management decision that Trachsel wouldn't be needed until week's end), the Mets changed their minds and told Jacobs to forget about Binghamton and hop on the bus to LaGuardia.
You're flying to Phoenix with the rest of the team.
It had to be one of the best changes of travel plans in baseball lore. On Monday night at Bank One Ballpark, Randolph inserted the 24-year-old as his starting first baseman and the Mets won. On Tuesday night, despite his having been hitless Monday, Jacobs was back at first and he began to hit in earnest, singling in the midst of a two-run third-inning rally and belting a two-run home in the fifth before walking twice. With Jacobs getting in gear, the Mets romped 14-1.
Now that Mike was comfortable, he could really enjoy Arizona. On Wednesday night, Jacobs pounded Russ Ortiz for a two-run homer in the second and a run-scoring double in the third. After walking and scoring as part of a five-run pile-on in the fifth (when the Mets would take a 13-0 lead), Jacobs capped his wondrous night in the desert by singling and scoring in the sixth, then homering off Jose Valverde in the ninth. When he touched home plate following that second trip over the wall, it gave him five runs for the game.
The Mets pasted the Diamondbacks 18-4, while Mike pasted his name into the record books by becoming the first player in major league history to rack up four home runs in his first four games. His teammates found his fevered hitting contagious; their 13 extra-base hits and 44 total bases established franchise records. The Mets scored in seven of nine innings. David Wright, like Jacobs, had two homers and four hits. Jose Reyes, like Jacobs, had four RBI.
But in the midst of this unforeseen hot streak, nobody was like Jacobs — particularly when it came to finding himself dumbfounded by such sudden, smoldering success. "I was just kind of like, 'Wow, you know, that's pretty tight,'" the .538 hitter from Chula Vista, Calif., pronounced. "That's awesome."
So, yes, after barely avoiding seemingly inevitable demotion, you could definitely say Mike Jacobs was happy to be here.
ALSO QUITE HAPPY: On August 21, 1962, the Mets learned the most Marvelous way to break yet another mammoth losing streak was with more Marv Throneberry, not less.
The legend of Throneberry as avatar of laughable failure in the franchise's inaugural season is littered with everything that went wrong for his disaster of a team. Some of it was even true. Just as true, though, is that these fellows were human, and no human being likes to be laughed at…or provide anybody watching them a reason to snicker.
The Mets, however, were their own worst enemies in that regard. Their record wasn't making up that they'd just lost their 13th consecutive game (their third losing streak of ten or more games) to start a doubleheader versus the Pirates at the Polo Grounds. They really were bad enough to have entered this Tuesday twinighter 51 games out of first place. Maybe the stress of it all got to be too much for third base coach Solly Hemus, for Solly argued a call with umpire Frank Walsh and got tossed from the nightcap for his troubles. In those days, there weren't bench coaches and batting coaches filling the dugout, so Casey Stengel needed someone from the ranks of his players to fill in at first after he shifted first base coach Cookie Lavagetto to the third base box. His original choice was veteran Gene Woodling, but then he used Woodling to pinch-hit, so he needed somebody else to pat fannies and handle helmets.
Who else for such a delicate assignment but Marv Throneberry?
Well, why not? The Mets were a mere 65 games under .500 at the moment Stengel required a volunteer and Richie Ashburn volunteered Throneberry. The 4,184 who trekked to Coogan's Bluff in search of a full evening's entertainment were tickled to death. They cottoned quickly to the concept of Marv Throneberry, first base coach.
But not as much as they adored the notion of Marv Throneberry, pinch-hitting hero.
The Mets were three outs from their 14th consecutive loss when Ashburn led off the Mets' ninth with a single to right. After Buc starter Harvey Haddix walked Joe Christopher, Pittsburgh skipper Danny Murtaugh opted to bring in relief ace Roy Face. Face fanned Charlie Neal for the first out of the bottom of the ninth, but then allowed a run-scoring single to Felix Mantilla. After Frank Thomas flied to center and the Mets were down to their last out, Casey wanted a lefty batter to face the righty Face. Thus, to pinch-hit for the righthanded Jim Hickman, he chose the people's choice of 1962.
"We want Marvelous! We want Marvelous!" the fans cried, as remembered in The Amazing Mets by Jerry Mitchell. So Ol' Case gave 'em what they wanted.
So did Marvelous. Throneberry blasted a three-run homer to right. The Mets won 5-4 — the same score by which Bobby Thomson's three-run homer won the pennant for the Giants in the very same inning in the very same ballpark eleven years earlier.
Hard to decide which was the bigger miracle under Coogan's Bluff.
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Ken K. from NJ
(A seven-season minor leaguer whose largest claim to low-level fame was homering to win the Cyclones' first-ever game in Brooklyn in 2001)
Jeez, your attention to detail always amazes me. I watched that game on local cable, the Brooklyn fans acted like the team had just won the World Series. Yet, until this moment I did not recall that it was Mike Jacobs who hit that Home Run.
Now if only he hadn't injected or ingested whatever it is that got him suspended (I don't follow that sort of stuff very closely) he might have been inducted into the Cyclones Hall of Fame.
(We want Marvelous! We want Marvelous!" the fans cried)
My Dad worked in the Bohack HQ at that point in time (major sponsor in 62/63, as you probably know). There was no end to the amount of season ticket games they couldn't give away to clients. As a result he took me to a lot of games. So, I was there (OK, I wuz there). To be precise we yelled "We Want Marv!". All I can add is that is was very windy, by the last innings of the double header the wind was swirling debris all over the field and it added even more drama to the storybook ending.
Greg Prince
My source on "Marvelous" is the fine seminal history, The Amazing Mets by Jerry Mitchell, a book whose wonderfulness has come rushing back to me in the course of this project (I first read it when I was eleven), but I'll trust the memory of someone who was there…through Bohack connections no less.
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It's not often you see the words "win" and "Trump" in a headline on CNN's website. It's rarer still when those words are separated by the word "for" and not some variation of that "win" being against the president. Yet that happened on Monday because, despite the liberal narrative and CNN's seemingly expressed wishes, President Donald Trump scored a huge win for the American people in the battle to roll back the damage done to American lives during the opioid crisis.
I had to do a double-take, it was April 1st, after all. But the headline was a shock, considering the source. "China announces new crackdown on fentanyl in win for US President Trump," the CNN website read. A win for President Trump being touted on the network of Don Lemon and Brian Stelter? Had to be a joke, right? But it wasn't. And it wasn't just a win for the president, it's a win for everyone. Still, it had to kill them to write it.
"The Chinese government will add fentanyl-related substances to their list of controlled drugs from May 1, in a move aimed at curtailing the manufacturing and distribution of one of the world's most powerful opioids," CNN reported.
This is huge news for anyone with a friend or family member suffering with opioid addiction, and there are a lot of them. Opioid-related deaths now annually outpace the number of deaths during the entire Vietnam War – 58,220 to 70,237 in 2017 alone. And a major cause of those deaths is fentanyl, one of the deadliest substances on Earth.
Fentanyl is also cheap, and a tiny amount of it can deliver a high. For drug cartels, it makes for an effective way to "spice up" diluted or "stepped on" heroin. The problem is it doesn't require much fentanyl to kill. Administered outside of the supervision of a doctor in a controlled environment, it will kill.
The flow of fentanyl has been a major boost to the drug cartels, allowing them to stretch their heroin supply which adds to their profits. And that flow largely starts in China. With the Chinese government agreeing to the Trump administration's request to ban all "fentanyl-related substances," this closes a major loophole that allowed manufacturers to change their formulation slightly to avoid piecemeal bans that went after new classes of the narcotic.
Now any molecular configuration of fentanyl will be treated as the controlled substance it is. It won't stop the flow, but it should choke it down significantly as we scramble to get a handle on this epidemic.
Make no mistake about it, this is a big win for the president. Even The New York Times, the paper of record for "The Resistance," was forced to give him credit, even though they downplayed his role.
"China Bans All Types of Fentanyl, Cutting Supply of Deadly Drug to U.S. and Fulfilling Pledge to Trump," was the headline at the Times, but buried in the story was the important detail that this unprecedented action by China was a result of President Trump's sustained pressure on Beijing.
"In December, Mr. Trump announced a promise that Mr. Xi had made to him at the Group of 20 meeting in Buenos Aires, saying then that the step formalized on Monday could be a 'game changer.' He had previously taken to Twitter to excoriate China over the issue, accusing it of 'killing our children and destroying our country,'" the Times reported.
In typical fashion, the media is reluctant to give credit where it's due. The Times buried the pressure applied by the president that led to the change in paragraph 13 and the only time I saw the CNN.com story on television was when it was mentioned on Fox News because of the rarity of CNN running, even in print, a positive story about the president.
Breathless news packages about the opioid crisis are warranted, but so few about a win for the forces of good? It's not by accident that you'll only find one link on this on MSNBC.com, a short segment featuring clownish personalities Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle downplaying the significance of this ban.
It shouldn't matter where you fall on the political spectrum – whether you think Donald Trump can do no wrong or he is the root of all evil – this is a major victory for the country.
This is important, and great news for the United States. It also happens to be due to the actions of President Donald Trump. Because of the left's hatred of the latter, the former is being downplayed. Shame on them all.


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"We've written to the technical advisory group that's working on water allocation, and asking them to include in their considerations the issues around export water", Prime Minister Bill English said on Monday afternoon.
It comes amidst public and political pressure in recent weeks over the exporting of New Zealand water for sale overseas.
"There is real public concern about foreign companies access to water, there's also a long-held, deep seated view among New Zealanders that no one owns it and it's free," Mr English said.
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"The issues around this are issues they will be very familiar with. Long before there was this level of public interest in water or water quality, in fact six or seven years ago, the Government launched a collaborative process designed to try and get to grips with the wide range of interests, and the challenging policy around water."
Mr English said there isn't going to be a simple solution, and charging for water would lead to questions about ownership.
He said there are issues to consider about "Who gets to charge, who gets the revenue, what the charge might be, whether you can do that legally without establishing ownership of the water."
"New Zealand's long held position has been no one owns the water and no one actually pays for water they pay for consents, they pay for infrastructure, but water in itself is free."
Water New Zealand Chief Executive John Pfahlert said water charges would raise questions about water usage in all forms, not just for bottled water exports.
"It would be wrong to charge for the use of water for bottling while allowing other resource holders to continue to extract water without those same charges being applied.
"For instance if we charged water bottling companies, should we also be charging farmers, industrial users and residential homeowners?
"It would also raise the question of iwi rights and interests."


Here at Elinext, we often find ourselves in situations when we are asked to complete a project which was developed by another company. When analysing such proposals, a new team has to understand why such types of requests are considered being too risky. On the other hand, we are not living in a perfect IT world, and teams need to address such projects without prejudice. Besides, such requests could become an excellent opportunity to start a prospective relationship with a new client (if those requests are managed wisely for sure). In this short article, I will give a few tips on how not to fall into the trap of unpleasant surprises.
Fixed cost. Briefly speaking, we have to give a fixed time, fixed cost commitment for a fixed scope of work. Usually, clients consider this model as the safest model for them, so they insist on using specifically this model for completing an unfinished project. It's always the case if they were not lucky with the previous team using another model. The downside of this model for the development team is this: if they underestimate some features, they will either need to convince the client to extend the budget and time frame or will have to implement those features taking costs to themselves.
Time and materials. In short, the client needs to pay for actual efforts (in most cases, it's time spent on development) performed by the team. There are different variations of this model (i.e. time and materials model with guaranteed maximum price), but often the client is charged according to time reports.
1.As for any other development, one should not give commitment until one identifies discoverable risks, assess their significance and plan mitigation actions.
2. It makes sense to start with the investigation phase. Depending on the size of the project, put the revision of the source code on schedule and ask for any available documentation.
3. There is a good saying – "don't change horses in midstream". Carefully ask your client about the project origins. Apart from technical details, ask about communication with the previous team. After all, you should have a perfect understanding of what eventually went wrong. Changing the team during the phase of active development is a big stress for the product. You should be aware of the reasons why the team was changed.
4. When estimating such requests, it's good to find out beforehand if the previous team is available for questioning and if they can be of assistance during the very first steps of development. Most likely you will have questions on the chosen development approach or why they implemented a feature or two in this particular way. Besides, it always makes sense to hear the other side, so you can ask the previous team about problems they met during the development.
5. If you follow the fixed cost model, try to get acquainted with both functional and non-functional requirements. It would be a wise move to outline them in the contract along with limitations. Make sure it's clearly visible what has been already implemented in the system and what is required to be finished or fixed. And leave no place for interpretations: all the requirements should be written unambiguously.
6. If you are asked to deal with a short list of fixes following a fixed cost model (if you are interested in that, of course), it makes sense to take a snapshot of the current state of the system. If the client finds some new bugs it can be clearly visible that it's not the consequence of your changes in the code. There are several suggestions for that: all issues that are subject to a fix should be clearly described, all workable functionality should be shown during a web conference call and recorded. After all, this might be helpful to understand how the system works. In order to be sure that some hidden bugs will not pop-up as the result of the regression caused by your fixes, deploy one more instance of the system before you start making any changes. It will help you to compare the version with your fixes and the initial one.
7. If you have time, make certain that there are no core flaws in the system architecture and test the system under the heavy load (using JMeter, for instance). Try to avoid the temptation to rewrite everything. However, if there is a real issue in the fundamental parts of the system, an inappropriate architecture or too many hotfixes due to poor initial decisions, you have no other alternative than to rewrite the whole project. However, in this case, some previous components can still be used. It's not always the case when you have to throw all previous work into the trash bin.
8. One way or another, the time and materials model shouldn't be regarded as a magic bullet. Some teams tend to think that if the client agreed following these contract obligations they are safe. Later on they realize that some issues are not even fixable, and the client starts a lot of disputes about the results and performance. Then development team sadly realizes that they should have done the investigation phase first before signing the contract.
Taking over someone's else project may carry risks, but it's not necessary to decline such requests. We have many successful cases which started with the request to complete an existing project. An excellent way to proceed with such requests is to speak with a client clearly and transparently. Feel free to explain your concerns, while taking into account the tips described above. It's preferable to implement such projects using time and materials or dedicated team models but anyway, the investigation phase is useful before the development. It also makes sense to explain to your client that the new team will need time to get up to speed with the project. They will not generate value right away.
For instance, the new team may suggest to refactor the code first and update some libraries and components. Also, the client should be actively involved in the process. It's especially vital during the first phases of the development as the team needs an explanation behind business logic. Delegating a project to a new team may be very complicated for both parties, but proper communication, transparency, planning, risk awareness and common sense are the key factors to achieve mutual success.


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Apenas pode ser encontrada no seguinte país: México.

  World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996.  Notropis aulidion.   2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.   Dados de 10 de Julho de 2007.

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There's a video posted by Hollywood Pipeline of Joaquin Phoenix in full costume and make-up as the Joker; you can see it here and there's some photos here.
I am all for saying "let's wait and see" and I try not to go all raging internet fanboy but this . . .
. . . just looks like a little too close to this . . .
For the record, I have never liked the Adam West Batman series – if you think it's wonderfully ironic and delightfully camp in retrospect, you are wrong: the entire bloody thing was dreadful.
Watch the video, though – the protesters are holding signs referencing "clown town" and "clown makes me frown" and "clown mayor" . . not a mention (that I could see) of the Joker.
Is he going to be known as the Clown in this film?! I'd say surely not but then I would have said that neither Superman nor Batman ever kill anyone, either . . .


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Monica Valluri
By Mariana Carrasco-Teja |
Monica Valluri is an Associate Research Professor at the U-M Department of Astronomy. She studies galactic dynamics, including accurately measuring the masses of supermassive black holes in galaxies; non-linear dynamical processes involved in sculpting galaxies; the properties of "dark matter"; understanding the dynamical structure of the Milky Way Galaxy; predicting the observable properties of dark matter and the detectability of "dark stars"; and inferring the dynamical effects of cluster environments on spiral galaxies from the distributions of their atomic hydrogen gas and stars.
Lee Hartmann
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Professor Hartmann studies the processes by which cold clouds of gas and dust fragment and then collapse, forming stars and a surrounding rotating disk; and the evolution of disks which ultimately can form planets. Because protostellar clouds form in complex, highly structured and turbulent gas, time-dependent (magneto)hydrodynamics is required to follow fragmentation and collapse to stars and disks. Similarly, the evolution of planet-forming disks involves both gravitational and magnetic turbulence. Simulations of cloud and disk evolution over the necessary timescales (105 to 106 years) with reasonable resolution demands extensive parallel processing.
Christopher J. Miller is an Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Physics. Professor Miller is a leader in the field of astronomical data mining and computational astrostatistics. He co-founded the INternational Computational Astrostatistics (INCA) group, a collaboration of researchers from the University of Michigan, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Washington, Georgia Tech, the NOAO, and others. From 2008-2010, he led the NOAO Science Data Management group, where he was responsible for using and delivering science quality astronomical data from the US ground-based observatories. He was hired at the University of Michigan under a U-M Presidential initiative for advancing data mining research. His research interests include studies of large-scale structure and cosmology, galaxy clustering, galaxy formation and galaxy evolution.
Astro-informatics is an emerging discipline which matches the large, complex, and time-varying datasets generated by earth and space-based astronomical observatories, to modern unsolved challenges in computer science and statistics. In this example, we compare a semi-blind Fourier deconvolution of an astronomical image (left) to the forward modeling of a physically motivated but smooth galaxy light profile (right). Note that the data are sparse and that the underlying point-spread functions (PSF) are not well known. The technique on the left was developed by Se Un Park (a PhD graduate from EECS) and produces an estimate of the PSF from the data. The method on the right is a traditional astronomical technique. The goal is to obtain the best shape classification of the galaxies in the Universe. With our research, we hope to uncover some of Nature's astrophysical secrets through the interdisciplinary development and application of computer science algorithms and statistical methods on astronomical datasets.
August (Gus) Evrard
August (Gus) Evrard is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the departments of Physics and Astronomy, and the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics. He serves as Associate Director for Community Engagement with ARC. Professor Evrard is a computational cosmologist who models the formation and evolution of large-scale cosmic structure. He currently co-leads the Simulation Working Group for the US-led Dark Energy Survey and is a member of the XMM-XXL project and Virgo Consortium based in Europe. His research uses N-body and hydrodynamic methods to study the formation of galaxies and clusters of galaxies. The simulations also produce synthetic expectations for astronomical sky surveys, providing truth tables that are essential for verifying data handling and statistical processing methods applied to survey data to study the nature of dark matter and dark energy. Professor Evrard was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2011 and an ORCID Ambassador in 2013. He is active in instructional technology at Michigan, founding the Academic Reporting Tool service in use since 2006 and Problem Roulette, a cloud-based study service that offers random, topical access to old exam questions for students in introductory physics classes.
Synthetic sky image derived from N-body simulations of a universe dominated by vacuum energy.
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I am a theoretical astrophysicist studying the origins and structure of galaxies in the universe. My research focuses on developing more realistic gasdynamics simulations, starting with the initial conditions that are well constrained by observations, and advancing them in time with high spatial resolution using adaptive mesh refinement. I use machine-learning techniques to compare simulation predictions with observational data. Such comparison leads to insights about the underlying physics that governs the formation of stars and galaxies. I have developed a Computational Astrophysics course that teaches practical application of modern techniques for big-data analysis and model fitting.
Emergence of galaxies and star clusters in cosmological gasdynamics simulations. Left panel shows large-scale cosmic structure (density of dark matter particles), which formed by gravitational instability. In the middle panel we can resolve this structure into disk galaxies with complex morphology (density of molecular/red and atomic/blue gas). These galaxies should create massive star clusters, such as shown in the right panel (real image — to be reproduced by our future simulations!).

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A summary of today's show: On today's show, Supreme Knight Carl Anderson calls John F. Kennedy's inaugural address is one of the most eloquent expressions of human rights and dignity in history and reconciles it with his famous "Houston" speech on his Catholic faith. Also, the Catholic Leadership Institute is preparing a generation of laity to assist their pastors in leadership in the Church and the Massachusetts Catholic Conference has a new executive director.
1st segment: Scot and Fr. Chris welcome Carl A. Anderson via phone. On Thursday, 5:30pm at Fanueil Hall, he will be delivering an address called "Making God's Work our Own: The Continued Importance of President John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address 50 Years Later." Carl said the address was so inspiring for so many Americans, that "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country," became a byword. The Knights have always been proud that JFK was a 4th degree Knight of Columbus. They were surprised that so little was being done in general to mark the 50th anniversary of the speech and so they set out to properly mark the event.
Scot said one of the more powerful lines is "the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God." Carl said this is the main statement he will address in the speech he will deliver on Thursday. The Knights led the movement to have the words "under God" added to the Pledge of Allegiance because they hold to the truth that the rights and human dignity we possess is a gift not from the State, with discretion to give and take, but is ingrained in the human person by God, that it is intrinsic to us. These rights are superior and precede the State. There is a standard which government must measure itself by, not political power, but a moral standard. This is key to Kennedy's thinking, to his address, and to America.
Fr. Chris said much of the inaugural address sounds so much like Gaudium et Spes, the pastoral constitution on the modern world from Vatican II. You can see the relationship between the speech and Vatican II. Carl said it's not a coincidence that the speech opens with a recognition of God's authority and closes with a recognition of the duty of to provide for our fellow man under the authority of God. It's known that then-Cardinal Montini, who later became Pope Paul VI, heard and then studied the address and it may have informed his encyclicals on social justice including Populurum Progressio.
Carl said that while JFK famously said he would not let his Catholic faith impose itself on the government of the US, his inaugural also shows that he would let his Catholic faith and its fundamental principles about the nature of Man inform how he governed. A nation is a living organism, an expression of a people with a culture and history and roots. Kennedy's address is one of the most eloquent addresses in history because of the kind of human rights it articulated. Carl feels strongly that heritage is important to pass on to our children because the lesson of the last century is that freedom is only one generation from passing away.
Fr. Chris was struck by the hopefulness of the speech: "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich." He sees a masterful use of words to display optimism and hope. Carl said this is the fourth pillar of his own speech this Thursday. Catholics reading JFK's speech can see a resonance with their own worldview.
Scot asked how Catholics can reconcile this speech with the speech JFK gave weeks earlier in Houston in which some, including Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver, say he privatized the religious faith of public officials. Carl said in the context of the vicious anti-Catholic presidential campaign, JFK was addressing a different kind of audience before his election than those he was addressing after his election when he'd broken through that barrier. He also said both speeches should be read together to see JFK was not abandoning these fundamental issues. After all in Houston, JFK said he would not impose his religious belief on the country, but if there comes a time when his religious faith comes in conflict with the duties of his office, he would resign his office, not his Catholicism. Too many Catholics in public office today opt to resign their Catholicism.
On the subject of the Knights of Columbus, in 1981 they had 1.3 million members, and now Carl noted that today they have 1.8 million members with 40 years of consecutive annual membership growth and $80 billion of life insurance in force for KofC families. Last year, local councils gave $150 million to charity. The growth continues to produce more works of charity to make our parishes and communities better.
Fr. Chris said as a priest and as a seminary vice-rector he knows of the works of the Knights to support both parishes and seminarians. Carl said they are proud to support seminarians in so many countries. He said they are also proud that a fellow Knight, Sargent Shriver, started Special Olympics and they continue that support. They support the Wheelchair Foundation to provide wheelchairs to the poor worldwide. After the Haiti earthquake, they decided that every amputee child in Haiti would receive a prosthetic arm or leg. They are partnering with Project MediShare in Haiti.
They provide food and flood assistance in Mexico and the Philippines. At the local level, they are doing what people need. If a family is struck with tragedy they are there to help. They provided $11 million after Katrina to help the Gulf Coast.
There are also 70 million volunteer-hours of Knights of Columbus in parishes and communities. Men who aren't Knights already will become a better Catholic man, husband, father, citizen, and parishioner as Knights. It's a place they can increase their own spiritual life and devotional life, but also help their family and their community. Get involved and do yourself and your family a world of good.
2nd segment: Scot and Fr. Chris discuss their interview with Carl Anderson. Scot noted that the Kennedy family in recent years have been criticized for not putting Catholic teaching into practice in their public service, but the JFK inaugural speech is obviously Catholic faith being put into action. Fr. Chris said it shows that faith is not something we hide or keep in a back room, but use to bring us closer to the Lord and to our neighbor.
Carl Anderson's book "A Civilization of Love" (Link to purchase on Amazon.com) articulated a lot of Catholic social teaching as a very easy read. He was clear in stressing that human dignity is a gift from God, not a gift of the State. Fr. Chris was happy to see that he wasn't afraid to take on politicians today who would compartmentalize their faith.
Carl is often called the leading Catholic layman today. He has been appointed to many Vatican and Church organizations as a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life (1998) and the Pontifical Council for the Laity (2002), and as a consultor to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (2003). Pope Benedict XVI has appointed him as a consultor to the Pontifical Council for Social Communications (2007) and as a member of the Pontifical Council for the Family (2008). He is a member of the Board of Superintendence of the (I.O.R.) (Institute for the Works of Religion – Vatican Bank) (2009) and has served as a consultant to the Pro-Life Committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) since 2002.
The Knights offer monetary support to seminarians so the seminarians can stay focused on their formation and studies. Fr. Chris said we often see the Knights outside supermarkets selling Tootsie Rolls to raise funds to help the vulnerable, poor, and marginalized. They are also very active in pro-life work.
Scot said he plans to be at the speech on Thursday and Fr. Chris said St. John seminary is bringing its seminarians as well, not just to show support for the Knights, but also to educate and inform them on the intersection of faith and politics in the public square.
3rd segment: Fr. Chris and Scot welcome Karen Walters from the Catholic Leadership Institute and Linda DeCristoforo, Pastoral Associate at Our Lady of Grace Parish in Chelsea.
Linda and her 16 classmates are graduating today from the Tending the Talents program. Karen said the group has been learning to lead how to lead in five contexts: self, one-to-one, team, organization, and the overall Church.
Growing in self-knowledge is the first step. Linda said they used a DISC profile inventory to look at their own personality types and to see the variety of personality types of the people they work with, and to learn the tools to improve relationships with others.
Karen said the curriculum is based on the leadership in context model. We use certain practices when we lead and we use them differently depending on the context. We need to be aware of how we're leading and what context we're in.
Fr. Chris asked about conflict resolution in the training. Linda said they learned how to look at conflict pastorally, to be compassionate, and to be able to speak on what the Church teaches on whatever the conflict is about. Sometimes it means to move on.
Fr. Chris asked about the time commitment. Linda said they had two full days every other month and online homework in between those gatherings.
Leadership in the Church context is different from corporate leadership. The main difference is that CLI follows the model of Jesus' leadership of the apostles and that of the apostles leading the Church, plus they incorporate the teachings of saints. But they also include best practices from the corporate world. It's also not just about the outcome, but the process for how they get there, including caring for the dignity of all those involved.
Linda said her favorite topic was studying her key responsibility areas for her personal life and then within her ministry. From that they were able to set goals, which gave her a better sense of her ministry and in the context of leadership. She said it was helpful for her own self to be self-reflective and then to articulate to her co-workers so that everyone is on the same page.
Fr Chris said many of his brother priests rave about the Good Leaders Good Shepherds program for priests. Karen said it is the same model of leadership in context. The key difference is that in Tending the Talents there is more that takes place away from the classroom and instead takes place online. In the GLGS program there is more content about building fraternity among the priests.
Tending the Talents is now in 8 dioceses with about 200 people participating. This program in Boston was the first in the country. Boston is also the first diocese to take part in all the programs of the Catholic Leadership Institute.
Linda's pastor went through Good Leaders Good Shepherds and hearing him talk about it made her curious, and now that they've both been through the same process they are on the same page with the same vision for their parish.
Karen said they found it important for priests and lay leaders to have this sort of formation because the unfortunate reality in the Church is we're losing more priests than we're gaining every year. The average pastor becomes pastor with less experience and has a larger parish than ever. He also needs to rely more often on the laity to help him lead. Scot said his sense is that in the old days, the seminary formation assumed many years of apprenticeship with experienced pastors.
Karen said priests are formed to teach, sanctify, and govern. The first two happen very well in seminaries, but governing was often neglected. They work to cover that gap for priests and to give the skills to lay people to help them.
Scot said the Mass. Catholic Conference is the organized voice of the Catholic Church in Massachusetts on Beacon Hill. It applies Church teaching to the common good in public policy and speaks with one voice on behalf of all Catholics in the public square. Catholics look to the bishops for leadership on these social issues, including life issues, family issues, and more. They provide moral leadership and a definition of complex issues from a Catholic point of view. The four dioceses of Massachusetts are Boston, Worcester, Fall River, and Springfield. The Conference has existed since 1969. Each state has a conference of its own.
Fr. Chris said Catholic social teaching is not just for Catholics but serves the common human good and respects human dignity. It challenges the State and us as Catholics to recognize the common good.
Scot also wanted to mention Dan Avila, the associate director for policy and research, and Catherine Davis and Kathy Magno who also work at the Mass. Catholic Conference. They have continued all of the work of the conference during the change in leadership in the past year.
Fr. Chris said they have a strong moral theology program at St. John's to help the seminarians articulate the Church's teaching. They also bring in bioethics experts from around the country to help them articulate these very complex matters. The field changes so quickly that it's a constant work of learning.


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Everybody's Brother
Cee-Lo
CeeLo's story is untold and much of his life and rise to fame is a mystery to his fans. This book will tell all that readers want to know about the pop soul performer and will reveal insights from his childhood friend Big Gripp. CeeLo is known for his unique style and flamboyant performances, and the book's packaging will reflect his inimitable look and personality. His single "F--- You" was the number one in spins on all radio formats and has received over 57 million YouTube hits. In addition, CeeLo is one of four celebrity judges on NBC's hit reality television show The Voice.
Publisher: New York :, Grand Central Publishing,, 2013.
Characteristics: xv, 270 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :,illustrations (some coloured), portraits (some coloured) ;,24 cm.
Additional Contributors: Big Gipp - Author
Wild, David 1961-- Author
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Top Cloud Providers Made $11B on IaaS in 2015, but It's Only the Beginning – Bullish cloud market growth forecasts are good news for the largest wholesale data center service providers, who have been unable to build data center space in key markets quickly enough to keep up with demand for capacity from the top cloud providers.
Dell Designs Custom Liquid Cooling System for eBay Data Centers – A special unit within Dell that makes custom tech for operators of the world's largest data centers, has designed a water-based system for cooling custom server chips it developed together with Intel Corp. and eBay itself.
Why HPE Chose to Ship Docker in All Its Servers – We live and work in a very different world of data centers, where what we call our "hardware" is actually more of a liquid commodity, and it's the software that firmly bonds it all together.
Cold Storage in the Cloud: Comparing AWS, Google, Microsoft – Cold storage delivered as a cloud service is changing the way organizations store and deliver vast amounts of information. The big question is whether cold storage can provide for better backup economics.
How TierPoint Quietly Built a Data Center Empire in Secondary Markets – While the current cloud data center leasing frenzy involving the six publicly traded data center REITs in the biggest markets tends to command the headlines, it's easy to lose sight of other major trends in the data center industry. One of them is the amount of activity in secondary data center markets.
Yahoo Wants to Sell Its 'Chicken Coop' Data Center Designs – The innovations are part of the trove of thousands of patents and applications the troubled internet giant is hoping to sell.
Here's How Much Energy All US Data Centers Consume – It's no secret that data centers, the massive but bland, unremarkable-looking buildings housing the powerful engines that pump blood through the arteries of global economy, consume a huge amount of energy. But while our reliance on this infrastructure and its ability to scale capacity grows at a maddening pace, it turns out that on the whole, the data center industry's ability to improve energy efficiency as it scales is extraordinary.
Global Telia Outage Disrupts Popular Internet Services – Telia is one of the biggest global backbone operators. Its mesh of interconnected metro networks and PoPs is hosted in many data centers around the world, operated by a variety of data center providers, including Equinix, Digital Realty Trust and its subsidiary Telx, CyrusOne, Interxion.
Linux Foundation Backs HPE's Open Source Switch OS – The foundation provides infrastructure and management resources for open source projects it accepts, as well as the exposure to open source developers that may be more inclined to contribute because of the organization's pedigree.
After Microsoft Deal, What Happens to LinkedIn's Data Centers? – While Microsoft has pledged to let LinkedIn "retain its distinct brand, culture, and independence," after its $26.2 billion acquisition of the biggest social network for professionals is closed, it is likely that its new parent will eventually want LinkedIn to adopt its data center strategy to match its own.
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FDA seeks input on risk assessment regarding use of raw manure as produce fertilizer.
Among the issues addressed in FDA's final rule related to produce safety under the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) is the use of untreated biological soil amendments of animal origin (BSAAO). Untreated BSAAO are essentially raw manure from cattle and other farm animals (e.g., poultry litter, horse manure). Some produce farms use untreated BSAAO for a variety of reasons, including the fact that they are relatively cheap, readily available, and serve as rich nutrient sources for growing crops.
FDA is planning to conduct a risk assessment to determine the extent to which the use of raw manure as fertilizer in growing crops poses a risk to human health and to develop an approach to help prevent contamination that leads to foodborne illness. To kickstart this process, the Agency is seeking input from stakeholders in the produce industry, the animal agriculture industry, academia, and members of the public. FDA is specifically interested in receiving scientific data on pathogen detection and quantification, the prevalence and use of untreated BSAAO, and on-farm practices with respect to BSAAO.
In FDA's view, the use of untreated BSAAO is a food safety issue. Pathogens that live in animal intestines (e.g., E. coli O157:H7 and Salmonella) can be transmitted to manure and then to produce when untreated BSAAO are applied during cultivation. The final produce safety rule does not prohibit the use of untreated BSAAO on farms, and in fact, FDA has reserved a decision on the minimum interval between the application of untreated BSAAO and the crop harvest when certain application methods are used. FDA anticipates developing a quantitative application interval standard in the future, and the information derived from this risk assessment likely will play an integral role in standard development. A Q&A about FDA's current request for comments is available here, and comments may be submitted until May 3, 2016.
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It's official! Beloved metropolitan comedy-drama series, SATC, will commence filming (Samantha-less) in New York this spring with three of the original characters reprising their roles navigating life, love and friendships in their 50s.
After a year or so of lingering rumours regarding a reboot, Sarah Jessica Parker broke the news; "I couldn't help but wonder … where are they now?" she captioned under her 'Sex and the City' teaser trailer which had been posted Sunday evening. Parker is known for her role as writer and show narrator, Carrie Bradshaw.
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Cynthia Nixon who played feminist lawyer, Miranda Hobbes, followed suit with, "Me, you, New York … anything is possible." Kristin Davis, fondly remembered as sweet Charlotte York in the series, chirped in by writing "Anything is possible …. Meet you there!" on her Instagram account. The teaser trailer features footage of various New York City street scenes interrupted by clips of text on a computer screen, "and just like that, the story continues," with Parker's voice in the background reading the words typed out.
Nothing but crickets from Canadian Kim Cattrall as she will not be resurrecting scene-stealing, outspoken Samantha Jones for the revival slated for production in a couple of months. Cattrall has yet to comment on the show's return – and we shouldn't hold our breath due to the public friction and strained relationship between her and Sarah Jessica Parker displayed throughout the years. "You learn lessons in life and my lesson is to do work with good people and try and make it fun." Cattrall told the Daily Mail in 2019 after making it clear she will never return to the 'Sex and the City' franchise.
"Sex and the City" is buzzed to be returning to HBO Max starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon — but not Kim Cattrall. HBO
Sexless in the City. If there's no erotically brazen, seductive Samantha, will it be all city and no sex? It remains unclear how she'll be written out of the series. Perhaps they'll weave in how she landed a major gig as the PR representative for Biden and Harris therefore, prompting a move out of state, monopolizing all of her time. The most likely to be written is that she's stuck in another country visiting a boy toy and can't get back to the United States of America because of a strict COVID-19 travel ban. Whatever the show's creators decide, we will await on pins and needles until we find out.
Created by Darren Star and based on Candace Bushnell's book, 'Sex and the City' first aired on HBO in 1998 and ran for 6 seasons until 2004. This next chapter will air on HBO Max with 10 half hour long episodes and will be produced by Michael Patrick King in conjunction with Parker, Nixon and Davis. King was one of the original writers of SATC as well as director of film 'Sex and the City' in 2008 and 'Sex and the City 2' in 2010. HBO Max is exclusive to the US however, the new SATC will be available to Canadians on Crave.
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Fifa hires CAA Eleven's Petit as director of media rights
Fifa has appointed CAA Eleven's Jean-Christophe Petit as its new director of media rights, following Josh Smith's recent move to become global head of media sales at the Premier League.
Petit is swapping Nyon for Zurich after close to seven years at CAA Eleven selling media rights to Uefa national team competitions, latterly as senior vice-president, head of media. He will head up Fifa's media rights sales and broadcaster servicing operations.
Smith arrived as Fifa's director of TV services in May 2017 but this month took up his new role at the Premier League.
The addition of Petit at Fifa comes as Simon Thomas, the international federation's new chief commercial officer, undertakes a restructuring of operations.
As part of that restructure, SportBusiness understands that the commercial and digital departments are being combined. As a result, departures from the erstwhile standalone digital unit include Luis Vicente, who was appointed to the newly-created role of chief digital transformation and innovation officer just over a year ago.
Fifa is thought to view the merging of the two divisions as a logical development reflective of the evolving and converging nature of the digital marketplace.
The arrival of Thomas, who began his work at Fifa this month, came as incumbent chief commercial officer Philippe Le Floc'h headed for the exit.
Petit joined CAA Eleven at the end of 2012 after six years with Uefa in media rights positions. He began his career at Eurosport as a channels promotion manager before moving into rights acquisitions at the Paris-based broadcaster.
Le Floc'h was appointed as Fifa's chief commercial officer just under three years ago as then new president Gianni Infantino undertook an organisational overhaul. He has now returned to Malaysia to continue his career in the Asian region.
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The CAA Eleven agency is to offer broadcasters the opportunity to bid for rights to both the 2024 and 2028 editions of the Uefa European Championship tournaments, SportBusiness understands, as it goes…
Spring Media secures Women's Champions League international rights to seven clubs
The Spring Media agency has acquired the international media rights of seven high-profile European clubs to the Uefa Women's Champions League for this season, it said on Friday.
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Stéphane Lefray, head of media rights sales at Team Marketing, has left the Luzern-based agency that markets the broadcast, sponsorship and licensing rights to Uefa club competitions.
Promoted Merkel to replace Blask as DFL audiovisual rights director
The German Football League (DFL) has promoted Steffen Merkel to the role of director of audiovisual rights, replacing Holger Blask when he moves to the German Football Federation (DFB) this summer


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Paul Steven Gifford was born on April 28th 1965 in Birmingham, England. Paul from a remarkably early age discovered he was completely fascinated with the written word. By the age of nine he was devouring several books a week, and had begun to write.
In the early 1980's, he and his father relocated to the Californian coast, which he has cheerfully called home ever since.
While in college Paul wrote a few stories, but as he got older alas writing was relegated onto his hectic life's "back burner" and he barely wrote a word of fiction for over fifteen years. However in 2004 all this was about to abruptly and delightfully change, as that was the year when he realized that despite a serene contented existence an important aspect in his life was missing, the written word. So, once more he began churning out in abundance short stories, and his first book "The Curious Accounts of the Imaginary Friend," was released in 2007. And the rest, as they say, is history.
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Q: Xamarin.Forms 1.4.3-pre2 compilation error I upgraded Xamarin.Forms to the 1.4.3-pre2 version.
I didn't change anything in the code and I'm getting this compilation error:
Target XamlC:
: error : Error initializing task XamlCTask: Not registered task XamlCTask.
Any idea?

A: I have tried the first answer - it don't have solved the problem for me.
I had to:
- close the solution in VS
- open the files:
 - AppName.Android.csproj
 - AppName.iOS.csproj
 - AppName.Winphone.csproj
 in the sub-folders of the solution with editor.
Then I had to remove (just delete) two old references to .forms:
  <Import Project="..\..\packages\Xamarin.Forms.1.2.3.6257\build\portable-win+net45+wp80+MonoAndroid10+MonoTouch10\Xamarin.Forms.targets"

and
 Condition="Exists('..\..\packages\Xamarin.Forms.1.2.3.6257\build\portable-win+net45+wp80+MonoAndroid10+MonoTouch10\Xamarin.Forms.targets')" />

Where it seems, as the deletion of the import has done the job...
Note: there were also references to the new version stored in the .csproj-file.
Then reopen the solution in VS, clean and rebuild.
With these manual changes, I'm now able to further build for all platforms.

A: Try closing the solution, deleting your \packages, \bin and \obj folders. Then reopen the solution and wait for the packages to get restored (or restore them manually at the solution level), then rebuild your solution.
Some packages (XF included) bring along build scripts, such as Xamarin.Forms.targets and old libraries may interfere or new libraries may not be recognized on update. I've found the manual clean-up resolves them.

A: Here are some tips to follow:

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*Update Xamarin.forms to the last version on your solution

*Delete Xamarin.forms nugget package and install it again

*Check that there is only one xamarin.Forms package (only one version) in the package repository of your project. If you find two or more, delete them and keep only the last version associated to nuget pakcages insatlled to your project.

*Remove "packages" from project repository and rebuild project

*Get xamarin example project from here and try to build it. If you d'ont have error, try to find difference between your project and the working one.

*Check that there are no special characters in the path of your project (#, {, [, +, ...)

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Q: "Metadata driven" means what? I keep hearing this phrase in ETL context but could never figure it out Appologies if I am asking a inappropraite question but I have been hearing this phrase "Metadata driven" for years but could not ever understand.
Metadata as per my understanding is Data (iformation) about data! I understand this more or less!!
But when I hear "MetaData driven" (specaily in ETL world) could not figure it out exactly what it means.
I have good experience with one ETL tool SSIS, so example in it's context will be easy to unsersatnd.

A: Assume you are moving 5 rows from table A to table B and you would like to make sure that only the rows matching a particular criteria are affected. In this case your process depends on data and is, therefore, an example of a data-driven design.
Now, let's imagine you have a few "similar" source and/or target table schemas which are similar in the way you would like to process them but are different in their exact implementation (table name, column names, column data types, or even a DB type: Oracle, MS SQL, Sybase, even a flat file or an XML) so what you would like is to "plug-in" sources and targets, DB connections, etc for a particular ETL during the actual run of the ETL.
What you need is a clear separation of the "logical" ETL process from a "physical" implementation. In other words you would like to have an ETL being described in a generic logical units/terms which are substituted by actual physical ones during its run.
What you get then is a descrption of an ETL process that is generic enough for any situation and gets a proper customization to be run for specific source/target systems based on metadata of those sources and targets - a metada-driven design, which allows you to have a generic "logical" representation of your ETL process that becomes a "physical instantiation" at a run-time.


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import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentParser;

import java.io.IOException;

import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.instanceOf;

public class StupidBackoffModelTests extends SmoothingModelTestCase {

    @Override
    protected SmoothingModel createTestModel() {
        return createRandomModel();
    }

    static SmoothingModel createRandomModel() {
        return new StupidBackoff(randomDoubleBetween(0.0, 10.0, false));
    }

    /**
     * mutate the given model so the returned smoothing model is different
     */
    @Override
    protected StupidBackoff createMutation(SmoothingModel input) {
        StupidBackoff original = (StupidBackoff) input;
        return new StupidBackoff(original.getDiscount() + 0.1);
    }

    @Override
    void assertWordScorer(WordScorer wordScorer, SmoothingModel input) {
        assertThat(wordScorer, instanceOf(StupidBackoffScorer.class));
        StupidBackoff testModel = (StupidBackoff) input;
        assertEquals(testModel.getDiscount(), ((StupidBackoffScorer) wordScorer).discount(), Double.MIN_VALUE);
    }

    @Override
    protected SmoothingModel fromXContent(XContentParser parser) throws IOException {
        return StupidBackoff.fromXContent(parser);
    }
}


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