Summarize this: australian swimmer nick d'arcy has accepted he will not compete at the beijing olympics after exhausting his last legal avenue to overturn his ejection from the australian games team.
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banned swimmer accepts olympics exclusionGiannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Philadelphia 76ers, 109-105, in overtime on Wednesday night. The Bucks made a big second-half comeback and Giannis scored seven points in 90 seconds during overtime to put the game away. Giannis celebrated by sitting down on the court.
If you think that move might have upset some people on Twitter, you would be correct. If you think someone on the losing team would have something to say about it, you would also be correct. Who couldn't see Giannis taking a seat become a thing that the Sixers will use for motivation when the teams next meet? It was a fun moment, but it also broke basketball's unwritten rule where you are supposed to sit in chairs I guess, because some people were upset by the unconventional celebration. Luckily, the Sixers have a championship-caliber veteran presence who can break down the situation with nuance so you know things don't escalate in future meetings.
""I wanted to go and Stone Cold Stunner him, but I had already got one tech." "
Howard is 35 years-old, in his 17th season in the NBA and his reaction to this was considering a professional wrestling move. This is easily the most Dwight Howard approach to being a veteran enforcer on a playoff team.
The best part is that he decided against because he had already earned a technical foul. Which means he's mature enough to understand the situation and not do something that might get him ejeted, but also still considers a Stone Cold Stunner a thing you could attempt during a basketball game otherwise.
The NBA should probably address this. A Stone Cold Stunner would not be a technical foul, but more likely a flagrant one. Maybe a flagrant two depending on whether or not the opponent ends up tapping. If anyone can find out for us, it's Dwight Howard. Though he probably should have tried it before PJ Tucker shows up in Milwaukee.Slackware current with Alien Bob's October updates for the Slackware Plasma 5 desktop.
*switched out the glaring white clock.
*The reason I've not been in Slackware in over a year.
A new desktop in celebration of my Heavy Chevys...
Well, I managed to stick with Ubuntu MATE 'till the release of 17.10. I was a bit late with the upgrade because the laptop was in the repair shop. (The screen issues I mentioned in a post here had gotten worse... turns out the LCD display itself was failing). Anyway, it's all fixed up, updated and upgraded now, and I've managed to surprise myself by liking the Unity-like panel layout.
In another thread, we were talking about books and Kindles. Found this wallpaper some time ago; using it here in Openbox in Debian Stretch.
Slackware-current / AlienBob's Plasma 5 / Plasma session on Wayland.
Gotta love Arch & Slackware.
Hmm... I haven't posted here for a while... Here's my current UbuntuMATE desktop with Guake terminal...
This is a temporary desktop as I am trying to rescue my Arch set up and have a few minor gremlins to hunt down.
As you can see I am using ICEWM with the "win95" theme. I quite like the look of the theme but am finding using ICEWM a tad difficult. There are no entries in the application menu and the only way I have found to open up programs is via a terminal, a separate one for each program. I guess that will have to do for now as am saving my energy for fixing up my original set up.
Not much of a difference there...
Arch and Window Maker. I really must get around to creating some permanent dock icon sets. At the moment I am just grabbing any icon image that grabs me fancy when I install a program.
Ubuntu MATE 18.04... This'll probably be my desktop for the foreseeable future...
I'm using the Vimix GTK theme from github, and the Deepin icon theme from the Ubuntu repos.
Problems problems, I have had to use icewm as I can not boot with windowmaker. The black background that came as standard with icewm was pretty depressing so I spent time figuring out how to change it to something more pleasing.
The picture is one I took last week when I visited the Welsh Botanical Gardens which are about 40 miles away from me. The bull is lifesize and from a distance does indeed look real.
And what's wrong with windowmaker?
Hmmm no idea. I use an alias "x" to replace startx and after I updated the system a couple of days ago "x" would not work. I rebooted the system several times and get slightly different messages about xorg.
I looked in the /home/bloodaxe/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log and can see nothing obvious relating to the fail. I tried to do "icewm" but it did not work I can not remeber the exact message. So I altered my.xinitrc file and I can boot to icewm.
I read around that there have been problems with xorg and nvidia lately and some folks have semi-solved their problems by downgrading these. I tried several different downgrades but none worked, possibly I did not downgrade the correct packages.
so I could try and roll back my whole system to last week. However I do not have a very recent backup so am wary of trying that as I have never used the tool before and do not wish to loose my almost perfectly running set up due to a wrong click.
Now that I have a decent background and have populated my main menu I guess I could live with this for a very short while.
Odd. I have not had any issues with xorg and nvidia.
The bull is lifesize and from a distance does indeed look real.
That's exactly what I thought until I enlarged your image!
I posted a couple more shots of the bull in the Flowers thread for you.
Hickup sorted now back in Window Maker. Luverly.
Hmm... too techy for this ol' man. I like 'em simple these days...
OK, but I'm only in techy mode at the library, I haven't a clue as to what I have going on.....reality is underneath.
Ah... Mahjong. Much easier to understand.&gt;Two days ago I swept lance’s entire team with a +6 dragon dance gyarados haha. 

Oh nice xD. I completely forgot about lance before I entered, otherwise would have also prepared a dragon dance pokemon or just buy a shit ton of X boosting items lol.


&gt;Glad you had that t-tar

No kidding...my friend who is doing the nuzlocke with me lost his level 51-52 Feraligatr from a critical outrage and a level 48-50 shiny ninetails from a critical dragon rush. He almost gave up on the spot xD. His  nidoqueen came in clutch with crunch though.Manufactured in cotton and available in a range of standard colours - embroidered with your design or logo.
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username_0: When using the start/stop scheduler the environment was repeatedly stuck in state'stopping'.

We use the scheduler plugin to restart a Tomcat/PostgrsSQL environment once a week (30 minutes between stop and start, early sunday morning).

At the scheduled time the environment is changing to state'stopping...' and hangs.
Nodes are unreachable and we are unable to change this state because start/stop buttons in the jelastic web console are disabled while stopping.
We then have to wait for our provider's jelastic support team to intervene.

This never happens when we stop/start the environment manually.

Environment:
Jelatic 6.0.6
Tomcat 9.0.36/OpenJDK 11 plus PostgreSQL 12.2
Public IPv4, Let's Encrypt pluginParenting two has been a wild ride–and I am only eleven days in! Most of our day goes smoothly, but around late afternoon mama starts to loose steam, the house is covered in toys and dog hair, dinner is too far off, and I pray that for some reason dad will get off work early and come to my rescue.
