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The first party of 2013 is upon us and you better make sure you start that fake cough this Thursday so you can call in sick on Monday after your Super Bowl festivities. We all know the game is not the important part of Super Bowl Sunday, how many people could actually name a single player in the big game? Not many so you have to realize it is all about the event and where you are for it so Splash Magazines Worldwide has put together some of the places where you can watch the game, or not. Regardless if you know what a pistol offense is, and you probably don't, you will have an amazing time at any of these Big Game venues.
Rock n' Roll Mexican restaurant Harry Morton's Pink Taco Sunset Strip will host the wildest Super Bowl party on Sunset Boulevard. Pink Taco's 3rd floor will be transformed into the ultimate VIP Lounge, with an all you can eat buffet and open bar from 2:00pm until the end of the game. Watch as the teams battle for the rights to be named NFL Super Bowl Champions on three 10 foot projection screens. VIP tables and booths are also available.
Platinum Package: Booth Seating, 6 Entries, All You Can Eat Buffet, Open Bar Top Shelf ($125 per person, minimum 6 people). Gold Package: Table Seating, 4 Entries, All You Can Eat Buffet, Open Bar Top Shelf ($100 per person). Silver Package: Table Seating, 4 entries, All You Can Eat Buffet, Open Bar Well and Draft ($75 per person). General Admission: One Entry, All You Can Eat Buffet, Open Bar Well and Draft ($40) or Open Bar Top Shelf ($70). Make sure to purchase early as these are the pre-sale prices and the day of the big game the prices will be higher.
Pink Taco Sunset Strip is located at 8225 Sunset Blvd. in West Hollywood, CA. For tickets, please call 323.380.5269 or email [email protected].
Football fans can head over to Manhattan Beach and the Shade Hotel and enjoy the big game while enjoying the weekend brunch menu until 5 p.m., or enjoy artisan pizzas, appetizers and more from the craft kitchen's small plates menu . For the weight-conscious, Chef Devin Alexander's Devinly Decadent menu will still be in place, offering delectable guilt-free under-500 calorie dishes and under 200 calorie cocktails.
Shade Hotel is located at 1221 N. Valley Dr. in Manhattan Beach. For reservations or more information, please call 310-546-4995.
On Super Bowl Sunday, Irish whiskey pub Rock & Reilly's will host a "Stuper Bowl" party. The pre-game party starts at 11:30 a.m. with party platter and bucket of beer specials. Rock & Reilly's will kick off the game at 3:30 p.m., where each guest will receive a free Stuper Bowl Drinking Bingo card with a chance to win free drinks and gift cards. Guests can watch the game inside or out on patio on the 17 antique-framed flatscreen TVs and can enjoy Skybox Packages featuring Beer-Filled Mini Fridges.
Rock & Reilly's Game Day platters include:
Players Platter ($22): Wee Burgers (2), Corned Beef Sliders (2), Bingo Wings with Whiskey Or Buffalo Sauce (6), Pub Chips. Cheerleaders Platter ($22): Grilled Artichoke, Veggie Sliders (2), Stabbed Chicken (4) Bingo Wings with Whiskey or Buffalo Sauce (6)
Rock & Reilly's is located at 8911 West Sunset Blvd. in West Hollywood, CA. For Skybox Packages and table reservations, please call 310.360.1400 or email [email protected]
Pelican Hill Super Bowl Sunday Team Specials
Chef Derek and Chef Marc present game day specials representing the two NFL teams playing in the Super Bowl. Newport Coast's Sports Center brings the national championship to you on two nine-foot screens at the Pelican Grill Lounge. Along with game day menu specials, enjoy chilled beers, California wines and specialty cocktails. At Coliseum Pool & Grill cheer on your team in the Lounge or from your own private cabana, complete with a flat-screen TV.
If you are looking for that memorable burger to enjoy at kickoff while throwing back some Sake on Super Bowl Sunday, Asian-fusion burger joint Fuku Burger LA in Hollywood has All-American burgers with a Japanese twist. Guests can enjoy burgers and Sake Cocktails or order Fuku Burger's signature Fuku Bomb and Sumo Size any burger on the menu for the table to share for $40 with your friends.
Some of the favorites on the Fuku Burger menu include; Fuku "Lucky Burger, " Tamago "Egg Burger," and once you have had one you will realize there is nothing quite like a burger with a fried egg on the top of it, Turkey Burger, Falafel Burger with a tasty avocado cream
The Parish and Chef Casey Lane will be offering a Gridiron Special ($40) which includes: 20 Stout-Glazed Chicken Wings, a Growler (half gallon jug) of ESP Noble Ale, Housemade Pork Rinds and Fried Olives
Football fans can countdown to SUPER BOWL XLVII on the restaurant's 80-inch flat screen TV, while enjoying Lane's selection of specially-created tailgate sandwiches ($8-11) alongside The Parish Burger ($14): Buttermilk Fried Chicken with Heirloom Tomatoes and Arugula, Parish Burger with Caramelized Onions and Stichelton Cheese, Sausage and Pepper Sandwich, BLT – Nueske's Bacon, Oven Dried Tomato, Avocado, Arugula, Roasted Tomato and Grilled Cheese Sandwich. Doors open at 3pm


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(CNN) -- More than 20% of patients who received an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator -- a high-tech device that produces electrical impulses to regulate heartbeats and prevent life-threatening arrhythmias -- in recent years were not good candidates to receive the device, a new study suggests.
Researchers at Duke University looked at more than 111,000 patients who received ICD implants between 2006 and 2009. More than 25,000 of those patients did not meet evidence-based criteria for receiving the device, according to the study.
The risk of dying in the hospital was significantly higher for patients who received the ICD but did not meet the criteria, and 1 out of 121 patients in this category experienced complications following the implant, the study found.
According to Dr. Sana Al-Khatib, lead researcher of the study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, ICDs often are recommended as a primary prevention tactic for patients who are at high risk for a cardiac arrest or life-threatening arrhythmia, but who have not yet suffered from these symptoms.
However, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has issued a "decision memo" stating that only people having certain serious heart conditions or cardiac histories are suitable candidates for ICDs. The memo further states that patients must meet numerous other qualifications relating to clinical trials and not have certain serious diseases or conditions that would lower the implant's efficacy or the patient's likelihood of long-term survival.
Dr. Ralph Brindis, president of the American College of Cardiology, said in a statement that the Duke University findings will have "major implications."
"The study indicates that there are substantial variations among hospital ICD implantation strategies," Brindis said. "This variation clearly demonstrates an opportunity for improvement in care."
Dr. Robert Michler, chairman of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at Montefiore-Einstein Heart Center, said the data should act as a "wake-up call" for physicians, surgeons and patients.
"Doctors are well-intentioned, but not all doctors should be determining the use of what is a very sophisticated therapy," Michler says. He says that in this case electophysiologists should be making the final determination if the patient needs the device.
Even with the current guidelines, Al-Khatib said, some patients may fall into a gray zone and that each physician needs to use clinical judgment to make recommendations.
"Deviating from the guideline are acceptable in various circumstances," she said. "But 20% is a significant amount of deviation."
Al-Khatib found that many patients who were being implanted with the ICDs had recently experienced arrhythmias or cardiac arrests. She said the time factor might explain the study's finding of an increase in deaths among implant patients who did not meet CMS criteria.
"These patients were sicker to begin with. They were in a period where they were more prone to complications," Al-Khatib said. "The physicians haven't had the time to optimize the patients' medical therapy before subjecting them to this surgery."
Another possible explanation for the higher incidence of death might have been be whether the cardiologists who performed the implant were electrophysiologists. These specialists have additional training in the diagnosis and treatment of abnormal heart rhythms and were less likely to implant an ICD in a patient who did not meet evidence-based criteria, the study found.

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It took three actors just 12 days of shooting and a handful of story guidelines to turn director Lynn Shelton's latest - and largely improvised - drama into a charming, moving and witty comedy.
Shelton didn't set out to make her drama about human relationships a funny film. What she did do was put her faith in a small cast who where encouraged to improvise around three-quarters of the film's scenes. This approach and the situations she created for the characters to respond to allow the humour to bubble to the surface through some very real and natural performances.
At the beginning of My Sister's Sister we meet Jack (Duplass) at a memorial for his brother, who died a year earlier. It's clear Jack isn't dealing well with the loss of his brother; and that night he accepts the offer from his best friend, and brother's ex-girlfriend, Iris (Blunt) to go to her father's remote cabin for some time alone.
Arriving at the cabin Jack is surprised to find Iris' sister Hannah (DeWitt) is already there, also nursing a broken heart after breaking up with her girlfriend. A drinking session later Jack and Hannah end up in bed together, and the real fun begins when Iris unexpectedly turns up at the cabin the next morning.
The set-up for the sibling rivalry is a little forced, mostly when Hannah and Jack first meet, but Shelton keeps the story moving at a pace which forgives any off-pitch moments. What could have been an indulgent talk-fest is tightly reined, and all the conversations that made it to screen really matter.
What's achieved is a real sense of these characters and their motivations. It's amazing how a casual and seemingly innocent conversation around the kitchen table can reveal information that turns everything you previously thought on its head. As the films ends you realise how cleverly Shelton has misdirected your interpretation of the trio's behaviour - Hannah's in particular.
Shelton might not have intended to make a funny film, but she has and Your Sister's Sister is the better for it. The story unfolds subtly and without apparent effort, but it's the humour that provides the warmth and, combined with fabulous and endearing performances, makes this a joy.
Stars: 4/5
Cast: Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt, Mark Duplass
Director: Lynn Shelton
Running time: 90 mins
Rating: M (Sex scenes & offensive language)
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John Grotzinger, the principal investigator for the mission, said his team has found something really cool.
NASA's Curiosity rover has another, even bigger, apparently history-making discovery that might just change everything about the universe as we know it — but they aren't telling anyone what it is, exactly, until scientists can be absolutely sure it's not a dud. Thanksgiving nerd speculation, of course, is go for launch.
John Grotzinger, the principal investigator for the mission, tells NPR's Joe Palca in an interview that aired today that his team has found something really, really cool on Mars with Curiosity's SAM soil-collecting device: "This data is gonna be one for the history books. It's looking really good," Grotzinger exclaimed. Unfortunately, NASA won't be telling us what said cool secret is until they run a bunch of tests to make sure what they found is authentic.
The scientists thought they had made an exciting breakthrough earlier, when a tool picked up some methane in the Mars atmosphere, which would have been a first — and could indicate that life previously existed on Mars. They had to test to make sure the methane didn't travel with the Rover from earth, though, and once they did their due diligence it turned out the methane piggy-backed from earth. The team was predictably deflated.


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A blow at self-righteousness
"If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me; if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse." Job 9:20
Suggested Further Reading: 1 Corinthians 15:1-4
Let me just utter a solemn sentence which you may consider at your leisure. If you trust to your faith and to your repentance, you will be as much lost as if you trusted to your good works or trusted to your sins. The ground of your salvation is not faith, but Christ; it is not repentance, but Christ. If I trust my trust of Christ, I am lost. My business is to trust Christ; to rest on him; to depend, not on what the Spirit has done in me, but on what Christ did for me, when he hung upon the tree. Now be it known unto you, that when Christ died, he took the sins of all his people upon his head, and there and then they all ceased to be. At the moment when Christ died, the sins of all his redeemed were blotted out. He did then suffer all that they ought to have suffered; he paid all their debts; and their sins were actually and positively lifted that day from their shoulders to his shoulders, for "the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." And now, if you believe in Jesus, there is not a sin remaining upon you, for your sin was laid on Christ; Christ was punished for your sins before they were committed, and as Kent says:
"Here's pardon full for sin that's past,
It matters not how black their cast;
And oh! my soul with wonder view,
For sins to come here's pardon too."
Blessed privilege of the believer! But if you live and die unbelievers, know this, that all your sins lie on your own shoulders.
For meditation: To boast of the sincerest faith and the most thoroughgoing repentance is to exhibit the most sophisticated form of self-righteousness. Repentance and faith are both gifts from God so that sinners can receive his greatest gift, the Lord Jesus Christ (John 1:12).
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text: At a cultural moment of animal art ubiquity, with naturalists' drawings practically a uniform hipster accessory, George Boorujy's paintings hit like a jolt of electricity. The animals he draws -- often larger-than-life, in hyperrealistic detail -- don't rest on the page in idealized repose. They stare back at viewers as if in confrontation, demanding to be recognized as more than anonymous species ideals. Sometimes they seem majestic. At other times they look damaged. Often they're both. Though Boorujy's thematic tradition dates to the natural compendia of past centuries, his vision is shaped by the state of nature in the 21st century: intertwined with human landscapes, insulted but resilient, gloriously alive and often overlooked. "You don't need to go to Borneo or Papua New Guinea to see an amazing bird," said Boorujy. "Go here. This is an environment. This is an ecosystem. This is something. Let's look at what's here, at the things we've seen already a thousand times, but really look at them." Boorujy's new exhibition, Blood Memory, opened March 15 at the PPOW gallery in New York City. It runs through April 14. For readers who can't visit the exhibition in person, Wired takes a digital tour on the following pages. Above: Babble 2011, ink on paper, 38 x 50 inches "It's a very centralized composition. I wanted that in all these pieces. I want you to be able to get lost in the detail, and zone out into this meditative space," said Boorujy. "That's one reason I do them so detailed. If someone looks at a huge photograph of something, they think, 'That's cool,' and move on to something else. We're so visually sophisticated at this point that we recognize 'photograph' immediately. We process it so much quicker, because we're bombarded by photographs. If you see something that's photographic, but made by hand, you slow down. I want people to slow down."Thunder, Perfect Mind 2011, ink on paper, 38 x 50 inches "I wanted her to be strong but beautiful, but not just a picture of a doe. I wanted viewers to pause for a second," said Boorujy of how he conceived this work. "Is she going to have a radio collar on, or a tattoo on on her ear? Is this animal husbandry, or is she a pet, or something? That seemed too straightforward, too specific. But some white-tailed deer are melanistic. We're so used to seeing a deer look like an idealized version that when you see one like this, it's not your expectation. You're not used to seeing color variation, but it does exist."Anting 2011, ink on paper, 55 1/2 x 108 inches "People have such strong feelings about blue jays. People love to hate them. They shouldn't be so maligned," Boorujy said. "They're brash and they have power. If you saw one for the first time, you'd be like, 'What the hell!' They're so beautiful." The title refers to a behavior in which birds spread their wings on the ground, allowing ants to climb into their feathers and eat parasites.Fugue 2010, ink on paper, 38 x 50 inches "If you make eye contact with an animal, it's intense. If it's not behind glass or something, they have a concept of what you are. You get a jolt," Boorujy said. "Almost everything I draw is usually making eye contact. I'm interested in the gaze, in not observing something as if it was part of a diorama. I want the viewer to be part of it."Florida II (Hurricane Andrew) 2010, ink on paper, 51 1/2 x 107 inches Boorujy attended college in Florida, arriving shortly before Hurricane Andrew hit in 1992. "The next day it was devastation. Every tree down, every stoplight down. I walked out onto campus and found a dead owl," he said. "There were all these human dramas, and I thought there must be so many weird animal dramas being enacted that we didn't know about." The image of a doe nursing a full-grown buck is a reference to "the end of The Grapes of Wrath, when Rosa Sharon is in the barn with the old man who's dying, and nurses him," Boorujy said.Initiate 2011, ink on paper, 48 x 53 inches As with the pronghorn antelope in Fugue, yellow pollen speckles the coat of this bighorn ram. "Whether it is by human hands as part of a ritual or by chance is not clear," reads Boorujy's artist statement from PPOW.Frigate Bird 2011, ink on paper, 38 x 50 inches "Male frigate birds have this spectacular adaptation: Their skin can be inflated enormously to attract mates," said Boorujy. "Of course, they wouldn't ever be on their back, lying down and making bedroom eyes. But I liked the idea of reorienting it. He's not dead, but is he oppressed by his overdeveloped sexuality? Is it come-hither? It's weird for him to be on his back. I just like how disorienting that is."When Was It That I Knew You 2012, ink on paper, 72 x 132 inches At 6 feet high and more than 10 feet long, this colossal image is the largest in the exhibition. It magnifies the precision of Boorujy's craftsmanship: In keeping with naturalist art tradition, he works with ink, which makes it difficult to correct or cover mistakes. Each brushstroke must be the right one.Father 2011, ink on paper, 38 x 50 inches A cormorant feeding his child -- with partially digested fish, retrieved from deep in his gullet -- appears almost to be consuming it.And Then We Heard the Voice 2012, ink on paper, 28 x 40 inches Almost all the paintings in Blood Exhibition involve animals. Voice is a rare landscape exception, a mountain with two yellow-painted stripes hinting at a human influence of epic but unknown purpose.Moraine 2009, ink on paper, 38 x 50 inches Moraine hails from Boorujy's previous PPOW exhibition, Migratory Drift. "I don't depict people all that often," he said. "It's so loaded. 'What's his deal? Where's she from?' You start reading into it so much when you see a person." When people do appear in his paintings, they're usually naked and devoid of historical or cultural signifiers. Boorujy wants the scenes "to look as though they could be taking place a thousand years in the future or ten thousand years in the past," he said in an interview with Bibliokept.Glacier 2008, ink on paper, 38 x 50 inches Also from Migratory Drift, this landscape proves on close examination to be a hybrid of natural and human-directed. The glacier is artificial, adorned with doorways and scaffolding, and occupies the space where a real glacier would once have been. "How do we see the environment? How do we interact with it? How do we view our landscape and our wildlife? How do we fit in?" asks Boorujy.All images: George Boorujy


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State Supreme Court court: Parents must be notified of teens' abortions
SPRINGFIELD -- The Illinois Supreme Court ended a lengthy and emotionally charged legal appeal over an abortion notification law Thursday, clearing the way for the state to begin enforcing a 1995 measure that requires doctors to notify a girl's parents 48 hours before the procedure.
The court ruled unanimously to uphold a circuit court's earlier dismissal of a challenge to the law that was filed by a Granite City women's health clinic and a doctor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
After court battles that lasted nearly two decades, Illinois now joins 38 other states in requiring some level of parental notification. The law goes into effect in 35 days unless it's appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which has found such laws to be constitutional elsewhere.
Opponents of the notification law had argued that it violated privacy and gender equality rights because young women should be able to make their own decisions about their bodies and pregnancies. Supporters of the law, which was defended by the Illinois attorney general's office, argued that parents would be deprived of basic rights if they were not notified of a daughter's decision to have an abortion.
Anti-abortion activists have long said Illinois was a haven for teens from states with stricter laws on the books seeking abortions.
"If you look at the map, from Canada to Mexico, we were the only state (in the Midwest) that did not have parental notification," said Peter Breen, a lawyer for the Thomas More Society, which defended the law in court.
In its opinion, the state's high court found that the law did not violate principles of due process or equal protection and noted how the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld such laws.
"We find that, while a minor clearly has an expectation of privacy in her medical information, which includes the fact of her pregnancy, the intrusion on the minor's privacy occasioned by the Act is not unreasonable," wrote Justice Anne Burke. "The state has an interest in ensuring that a minor is sufficiently mature and well-informed to make the difficult decision whether to have an abortion."
The Parental Notice of Abortion Act requires doctors of girls 17 and younger to notify a parent 48 hours before an abortion. Parents must sign a form acknowledging they've been notified, and the form becomes a permanent part of the girl's medical record. A young woman can get a waiver if a judge says notification is against her best interest, including in cases of sexual abuse.
Lawyers for the ACLU, who argued the clinic's case, said they are discussing any possibility of further challenges to the law. Abortion providers, though, said they would begin focusing on how to comply with the law within the next five weeks.
"That's pretty fast," said Pam Sutherland, vice president of Planned Parenthood in Illinois. "It is going to take us some time to make sure we have all the documentation prepared and ready, to indicate that we are following the law."
Enforcement of the law will fall to the state medical licensing board and the clerks of the court.
In 2011, the most recent year for which data is available, 37,922 Illinois residents had abortions, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. Slightly more than 16 percent of those women were 17 or under.
The ACLU pledged to keep the battle alive even if the notification law goes into effect.
"We will never stop looking for ways to keep this law from being enforced," said Lori Chaiten, the ACLU's director of reproductive rights, who argued the case. "(But) our immediate goal is preparing providers and teen health clinics to deal with compliance and help young women who need to go to court with a (waiver) to get to us so we can get them in touch with a pro-bono lawyer that can help."
A woman who answered the phone at The Hope Clinic for Women in Granite City said Thursday that the staff was "disappointed," but referred all other comment to ACLU's lawyers.
Anti-abortion activists celebrated the decision, saying parents have the right to know and be involved when children get abortions. The Catholic Conference of Illinois, which is the lobbying arm for the Archdiocese of Chicago, noted in a statement that parents could now "breathe a sigh of relief."
Natalie Bauer, spokeswoman for Attorney General Lisa Madigan, said Madigan's office was not surprised with the court's ruling as a vast majority of states have some form of parental involvement law. Officials at Madigan's office also said that the life span of this litigation has far surpassed most of the other cases they handle.
The law was a key part of Republicans' legislative agenda when they briefly controlled state government in the mid-1990s.
But it was never enforced in Illinois because of a long string of court challenges. A 10-year federal injunction between 1996 and 2006 took up most of that stretch.
The law left it up to the state Supreme Court to draft rules about how teens could get waivers from a judge and appeal rulings, and the court didn't set those rules until 2006,
Additional lawsuits held up the law's implementation again. The ACLU sued on behalf of the clinic in 2009 to block the law's implementation after a decision by the U.S. Appeals Court permitted it to take effect earlier that year.


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The book may finally be closed on "Jersey Shore's" reign of terror on South Beach.
The Miami-Dade State Attorney has decided that no charges will be filed against Sammi "the Sweetheart" Giancola, who was accused of beating up a Miami woman in a South Beach, Florida night club.
Prosecutors said they do have enough evidence to file a misdemeanor battery charge, but the policy of the office is to not pursue them if the person has traveled outside of Miami-Dade's jurisdiction.
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"Sammi Giancola, has since returned to New York and is therefore beyond our jurisdiction. Consequently, this case is closed," SAO spokesperson Ed Griffith wrote. "This case could be revisited if and when the accused returns to this jurisdiction."
So Sammi and the rest of the Jersey Shore cast getting the boot from Miami Beach after filiming part of Season 2 might have saved her a night or two in jail. And maybe this ensures they will never come back again.
On May 8, Kristen DeMinco had the unfortunate pleasure of becoming the target of a reality TV moment when she and her friends decided to party with the Jersey Shore at Club Dream.
DeMinco, a 24-year-old student, started talking to a man who she claims she didn't know was Sammi's boy toy. Sammi and DeMinco exchanged words before it escalated to a one-sided cat fight with Sammi allegedly punching the woman in the face twice.
The prosecutor's evidence was probably the shiner DeMinco sported for several days before bringing the fight to the attention of the press.
DeMinco has decided to file a civil lawsuit against Sammi and MTV.


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Gamespot score:n/a
my score:7.5
(+)Pros:-Smooth cursor movement on controllers,-plenty of "jump and scare" moments,- smart use of different weapons in first person mode,-quite a blast when played with another player,-little but fun boss battles.
(-)Cons:-Unskippable conversations sometimes chop up the pace and action,-annoying zero gravity,-ends far too soon.
Gameplay time:5-10 hours
Alright, this will probably be the last of the dead space related reviews for PS3. Extraction is a nice little bonus that came along witht he dead space 2 game for the PS3, and its free of charge too. Extraction for the PS3 is a port of the Wii original, which was pretty good from what I heard. How does it fair on the PS3? Well, for my little review here, I played the whole game on controller with my brother, nothing was done on the move, although this was meant for the move itself. I dont have a move right now, and probably never will (them motion sensor games look pretty damn stupid to me).
Extraction's story takes place before that of dead space 1. It tells the tale of different individual characters and soon the story brings all of them together in an all star cast to go for a full run as a party. There are several characters, I will just point out a few of the main ones. Mcneil (not sure about spelling), a police officer , lexine (female lead) and gabe weller (friends with mcneil). These three are just some of the characters who are the first victims of the outbreak with the marker, causing the necromorphs to appear. Together they live through these living terrors and meet others who share thier fate, as they shoot and dismember all necromorphs that stand in thier way.
|If you've done dismembering before, you should know how this works.
Extraction is a first person real time shooter game, someting like time crisis. You dont control your character at all, he/she moves on his/her own, and all you have to do is swing that axe or aim your guns. That being said, the altough its supposed to be a move game, the controller movements for the cursor are pretty smooth, and you can move the cursor freely as you want with no lags or slowdowns. The concept is as simple as any shooter in the world, you aim and shoot, as necromorphs appear on your screen coming from places you would never expect.
Unlike the orignal dead space and dead space 2, where you could move and pace yourself among creepy hallways to avoid unneeded trouble, extraction moves you on its own, and thus you cant control it when the character walks towards a vent like an idiot and suddenly a necromorphs jumps out, scares the shit out of you before proceeding to claw your face. The game has plenty of moments like these, and you will be finding yourself being scared quite a few times. Of course, the areas you visit themselves already reek of creepiness, if the necromorphs didnt do thier part, then there would be no point to it.
|Its like they were born solely just to jump out and scare
the living daylights out of you.
Now then, onto the guns. All of the original dead space weapons can be found in extraction (not the dead space 2 exclusive ones though), meaning that theres quite some variety to play around. Theres also a standard rivet gun, with unlimited ammo. The rivet gun is the only new gun and its the game's basic weapon, meaning that you will be carrying that thing around for the entire game. Weapons are not bought, they are found. As you proceed through levels, you will find these weapons laying around, if you can spot them and react fast enough, you can use the kinesis to grab the weapons and swap them in with one your own. Its a simple process, really, and these weapons function just as the way you remember.
Using the 1st person aiming system, the weapons work slightly different though, since you dont really get to see them in person. It provides a new perspective as you work through the necromorphs. Present in this game are also melee and stasis, the latter which you have seen before. Melee attacks are just pickaxe swings that do minor damage, but work well for getting necromorphs away when they get too close to you. Combine all these and you get a kickass arsenal, plus, while the game lacks new original necromorph types, there are bosses exclusive to extraction that mix things up. These guys take more than just random blasts to take down, and while the strategy needed to bring these critters down aint much, its always a blast to finally take down a big baddie.
|Much of the game's conversations are unskippable and they
provide unneccesary breaks for the action.
Extraction is a nice free bonus, so even if it sucked, it wouldnt matter. But as a seperate game, its still pretty fun, and is even better when played with a 2nd player. This is included in dead space 2 for the PS3, so theres no need for me to recommend this. Have fun dismembering necromorphs in first person, be it with a controller or the move.
Happy gaming.


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The image of God has not been entirely destroyed in fallen humanity, but our sense of what it means to function as we were originally designed has been severely warped. Consequently, we must learn what it means to be human, ...Read More
Epaphras and Luke
We should never despise the work of our pastors and elders in prayer, for it is this task to which they are called (Acts 6:1–7), and it is necessary for the building up of our churches. Ordained elders in the ...Read More
Greetings from the Brethren
As believers in the gospel of Jesus Christ, we must always speak the truth, but we must always speak it in love (Eph. 4:15). Our default position should be to build networks with other believers and churches who are passionate ...Read More
The Love and Peace of Christ
When church elders, committees, and other bodies need to make a decision, their choice should in large measure be based upon what will bring peace to the church in the matter without compromising the gospel of Jesus Christ. Similarly, as ...Read More
A New Humanity
One commentator has aptly said that "no one is joined to Christ except together with a neighbor." We cannot therefore be "lone ranger Christians," and we cannot survive without the local church. It is incumbent upon all believers to become ...Read More
Creation Ordinances
In this day and age, there is a great temptation for the church in the United States to think that its mission is coextensive with the platform of one or more of the political parties in this country. Yet while ...Read More
Love and Assurance
Like concern, love is not a mere emotional feeling but must also involve action. We can love other believers in our churches through encouraging them and pointing them to Christ. Contributing regularly to the deacons' fund or other collections taken ...Read More
The Gentiles' Full Inclusion
We receive individuals as full communing members in the local church based not on their ethnic background, income, social status, or any other category. Instead, all those who put their faith in Christ become full heirs of all the promises ...Read More
Jerusalem Receives the Nations
The incredible contribution of Gentiles to the building and restoration of the church of God demonstrates the accuracy of Isaiah's passage. Since the first coming of Christ, Gentiles have been streaming into the Lord's Holy City, using their gifts and ...Read More
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Jesus certainly loves us individually and justifies us via our personal faith in Him. However, the relationship between Christ and His bride is a relationship between the sovereign Lord and a corporate body. Jesus loves a people as His bride, ...Read More


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Graduate Council Meeting
November 8, 2010
I. The meeting was called to order at 2:30 p.m.
Voting members and alternates present were: G. Alter, L. Caron, A. Chamberlain, D. Cipollini, R. Dodge, K. Engisch, B. Fowler, A. Goshtasby, C. Harris, L. Hong, A. Hsu (chair), L. James, J. Lieh, M. Mamrack, P. Martin, L. Ream, C. Ryan, J. Runkle, E. Self, C. Taylor, T. Tarpey, L. VandeCreek, S. Watamaniuk, R. Williams, E. Wolf
Non-voting members, alternates and other attendees were: B. Ayres, C. Brun, R. Carlsen, L. Douglas, E. Gilles (scribe), J. Lindsey, J. Petrick, J. Tomlin
II. Approval of Minutes
It was moved and seconded that the minutes of the October 18, 2010 meeting be approved as written. Motion carried unanimously.
III. Report of the Dean (A. Hsu)
a. Format of the meeting – Will follow Robert's Rules. Some changes are taking place now even though the original plan was to wait one year before enacting changes, i.e., transfer of responsibilities from the Administration to the Committees and from the Committees to the Graduate Council.
b. Parliamentarian – According to Robert's Rule, the Chair can appoint a consultant to the Chair and to the Body known as the Parliamentarian. Dr. Hsu appointed Dr. Bill Ayres.
c. Graduate Council Meeting Dates - Regular meetings: Oct. 18, 2010, Feb. 28, 2011, and April 18, 2010. Additional meetings dates (to be used as needed): Nov. 8, 2010, March 14, 2011, and May 23, 2011.
d. Graduate Open House – Took place on Wed. Nov. 3, 2010. 327 attended, 187 applied. This is a 26% drop in attendance from the record high of 443 last year. The same amount of advertising was used and the weather was good; the economy may be partly to blame for the lower attendance. Regardless, the event is a good investment. On average, about 70 applicants become students which leads to $792,000/year
e. Faculty Constitution – The Quadrennial Review Committee approved the changes to the portion of the Constitution involving the Graduate Council. It will be presented to the Faculty Senate on Nov. 15 as new business and will be voted upon in January. It will then go to the Provost and on to the Board of Trustees.
IV. Policies and Procedures (B. Ayres)
a. Graduate Council Policies and Procedures Manual – Core Principle 1: Faculty control over curriculum. Core Principle 2: Graduate Council holds the legislative power, Graduate School holds executive power. Major Change 1: Adding curriculum committees. (Currently, curriculum matters go through Policies Committee; now those issues would go through two curriculum committees.) Major Change 2: Electing Grad Council members from colleges and clarifying Grad Council membership. (Additions to the manual include a process for elections with Full or Associate Graduate Faculty members voting for new members and the identification of ex-officio non-voting members.) Major Change 3: Clarifying authority of Grad Council and Graduate School. (In the past, the Policies Committee approved new policies and would bring the change before the Grad Council as information only. Now, the Policies Committee would make a recommendation to the Graduate Council for proposed policy changes and the Grad Council would take action.)
Discussion: Several Graduate Council members expressed their disapproval of some of these changes. One concern is the move of the Deans and Ph.D. Directors to ex-officio non-voting members. Why? This change is related to the Faculty Senate's concern that the Graduate Council is composed of too many administrative figures. The Senate wants more faculty representation. The suggested changes are the alternative solution to the Faculty Senate's proposal of a Graduate Curriculum Committee that would make all curriculum decisions. Dr. Mamrack motioned that the Graduate Council ask the Quadrennial Review Committee to hold/delay the presentation of the new Faculty Constitution to the Faculty Senate and send the proposal back to the Graduate Council for further revisions. Dr. Goshtasby seconded. Vote: All in favor. The motion passed unanimously.
b. School of Graduate Studies Policies and Procedures Manual - Core Principle: Policies determined by Grad Council, Procedures to implement policies written by Grad Council. Change 1: Quarters to semesters conversion. Change 2: Bringing procedures up to date with what we actually do. Change 3: Putting decisions in the hands of programs for issues that are internal.
Discussion: Need to include academic dismissal policy (currently, <3.0 gpa) and change to Graduate Tuition Scholarships (enacted last year).
Dr. Taylor motioned that the Graduate Council refer these two documents (Policies and Procedures for Graduate Council and for School of Graduate Studies) and the new Faculty Constitution back to the Policies Committee for revision. Input should be provided to the Policies Committee chairman, Dr. Larry Ream, to Dean Hsu, or to the Dean's assistant, Erika Gilles. The Policies Committee could then bring these three documents back to the Graduate Council as Old Business. Dr. Alter seconded. Vote: All in favor. Motion passed unanimously.
V.Committee Reports
a. Policies Committee (L. Ream)
1. Consistency of name usage for the School of Graduate Studies
i. Name recognition, internet search by prospective students, effectiveness and efficiency in marketing. Currently, the name of "Graduate School" and "School of Graduate Studies" are used interchangeably in documents and communications.
ii. Comparison with Big Ten Graduate Schools (all use "Graduate School" or "Graduate College"), Ivy League (all use "Graduate School"), and several other Ohio schools use "Graduate School/College."
iii. Google search volume index and news reference volume – "Graduate School" clearly used more
On behalf of the Policies Committee, Dr. Ream motioned that the Graduate Council support an official name change of Graduate School in place of School of Graduate Studies. Dr. VandeCreek seconded.
Discussion: What is the extent of change? Would it include changing all internal documents, letterhead, signs, telephone directory? Just for advertising purposes?
Dr. Mamrack motioned that the motion of the Policies Committee be tabled and brought back as Old Business after members obtain feedback from their colleges. Dr. Caron seconded. Vote: 10 in favor, 7 opposed. Motion passed.
2. Approval of Master of Arts in Social Work Program Development Plan – Dr. Ream reported that additions were made to the PDP as requested by the Policies Committee. On behalf of the Policies Committee, Dr. Ream motioned to approve the Program Development Plan for a Master of Arts in Social Work. Dr. VandeCreek seconded.
Discussion revealed one concern – Has a study been done to determine if this program will negatively impact the CEHS MS Counseling program? Dr. C. Brun said that there has not been a study done. The past 5 years' experience indicates that there is interest for both programs. Vote: All in favor but one. Motion passed.
3. Approval of Doctor of Education in Organizational Studies Program Development Plan – Dr. Ream reported that the Policies Committee reviewed this PDP earlier in the week and made some recommendations. The modifications were made. On behalf of the Policies Committee, Dr. Larry Ream motioned to approve the Program Development Plan for the Doctor of Education in Organizational Studies.
Discussion: Dr. C. Ryan gave an overview of the PDP process and review by 15 other State universities. This PDP has been in development for 4 years and at this point he would like to have the Graduate Council's general support. Vote: All in favor. Motion passed unanimously.
b. Membership Committee (J. Petrick) - The Membership Committee recommended three (3) new nominees who met the standards for full graduate faculty status and two (2) who met the standards for adjunct full graduate faculty membership.
The full graduate faculty nominees are:
Saber Hussain Pharmacology & Toxicology / BSoM
Bradley Jacobs Internal Medicine / BSoM
Noeleen McIlvenna History / CoLA
The adjunct full graduate faculty nominees are:
Dan Abrahamowicz Educational Leadership / CEHS
Yao Ma Electrical Engineering / CECS
On behalf of the Membership Committee, Dr. Petrick motioned that the nominees for both full and adjunct full graduate faculty status be approved. The motion passed unanimously.
VI. Graduate Student Advisory Board (L. Douglas)
Lisa Douglas introduced herself as the co-chair of the Graduate Student Advisory Board. The Advisory Board is in the process of creating a graduate student organization: a Graduate Student Assembly. Their goal is to improve the graduate community on campus.
VII. Old Business
No old business was brought forward.
VIII. New Business
IX. There being no further business to discuss, the meeting was adjourned at 4:15 p.m.


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Pat Williams' Quest to Understand the Winning CombinationLast year, I spoke with Orlando Magic Senior Vice President Pat Williams about a variety of subjects, including his book Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inside Basketball. I published that interview in two parts:
Interview with Orlando Magic Senior Vice President and Co-Founder Pat Williams, Part I
Interview with Orlando Magic Senior Vice President and Co-Founder Pat Williams, Part II
You can find out more about Williams here and you can follow him on Twitter here.
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Williams about his current writing projects, Dwight Howard's post game, the resurgent Boston Celtics and comparisons of LeBron James with great players from previous eras.
Friedman: "When we spoke last year, you mentioned that you were working on a couple books, one of which was titled Chicken Soup for the Soul: Athletes of Faith, and the other one being a second Chicken Soup book for basketball, though you weren't sure if they wanted to do a second basketball volume. What is the status of those two projects?"
Williams: "Quick update, the basketball version came out in February 2009. They are not doing a second version. The manuscript for the other Chicken Soup book has been submitted to the editorial people and it is called Chicken Soup for the Soul: Athletes of Faith. It is due to be published this September. We just finished putting the major pieces of it together earlier this week."
Friedman: "You had told me that you were gathering some material together--some more basketball stories--so do you think that you might publish those stories in a different format since the Chicken Soup people will not use them?"
Williams: "I can use some of them in different formats along the way, if they're applicable. My latest book, David, is coming out this week. It's called The Winning Combination: 21 Keys to Coaching and Leadership Greatness. That book is coming out even as we speak and that is my latest writing project. My son Bobby has had a career in professional baseball. He spent five years as a coach in the Cincinnati Reds farm system. In January 2005, the Washington Nationals hired him to manage in their farm system. He was 27 years old at the time, the youngest manager in organized baseball. I remember Bobby calling me with the news. His voice was up about three octaves and he said, 'Dad, what do I do now?' I remember thinking, 'I want to help my son.' So, I then began to ask coaches and managers, 'What are the four keys to being a good coach or a good manager?' That process has now gone on for about five years and I have asked that question to about 1500 coaches--current, future, past, I've tracked down everybody I could get to. I noticed in this process that there were repeated themes that kept coming up, there were principles that were repeated more often than others. After all that (information) came in, I noticed that there were 21 themes that were really predominant. I thought to myself that this is far more than just a coaching book; this is far more than help for my son as a baseball manager. This is a leadership manual from the greatest coaching minds of all time. So, that is the meat of the book, David. There are 21 chapters built around these 21 themes and I've had a marvelous time putting it together and I think that it can impact leaders at every level from the White House on down. We're excited that the book is ready."
Friedman: "You mentioned that there are 21 different keys or themes. Did you find one or two keys or themes that really recurred among the majority of the coaches you spoke with?"
Williams: "Yes, there was one that came up more than any other and in fact that is why it is featured in chapter one in the book. It is simply this: be yourself. I heard that more than anything else: be who you are. If you've got a personality like Billy Martin as a baseball manager, then be Billy Martin. If you've got a personality like Walter Alston, the great Dodger championship leader, then be Walter Alston--but don't try to be somebody you are not. The second one that came up more than any other is the importance of strong character, specifically honesty: tell your players the truth, never lie to them--if they catch you in a lie then you are in deep trouble, you are doomed. The third one that we wrote about is the amount of work that it takes; you cannot succeed in the coaching business unless you have an incredibly strong work ethic. Those are three that came up very often."
Friedman: "I am always interested to read about leaders and to read about coaches. One of the things that I find very interesting is a quote from Red Auerbach. I don't know if you've heard this quote or if it is mentioned in your book. Someone asked Red Auerbach about how he 'handled' Bill Russell and some of the other players when Auerbach was the coach of the Boston Celtics. Auerbach kind of took umbrage at the question and he said, 'You handle animals but you deal with people.' Auerbach felt that it was wrong for coaches to treat players like animals. You have to treat them like people and they are each individuals: you treat everyone fairly but you don't treat everyone the same way. Did that specific story come up in your research?"
Williams: "That is a great story. It fits in with the tenth chapter, 'Care for your players as people.' If you want them to play well for you, play hard for you, perform well then they have to know that you are interested in them and that you take time with them. They have to feel you every day, even if it is just for a few seconds, that you are a human being and not just a machine out there to help them be successful as a coach. That dovetails with what you are talking about with Coach Auerbach and I do vividly remember him talking about that: 'You handle animals, you don't handle people.'"
Friedman: "Right."
Williams: "That definitely is a key principle."
Friedman: "If you remember our last conversation, I asked you a lot of questions about your time with the Philadelphia 76ers. I was a big 76ers fan growing up and I think that I am the biggest Dr. J fan of all-time, though I am sure that there are a lot of people who also think that they are his biggest fan. Did you talk to Billy Cunningham for this project and, if so, can you summarize one or two points that he made?"
Williams: "Yes, I talked to Billy, Billy was certainly included. I think the thing that is so interesting about Billy is that as a player for the 76ers he was not a good practice player. Practice to him was more of a nuisance than anything. After he became a coach, practice became very important to Billy Cunningham--very important. One of the principles that came from him is make sure you are organized and prepared and have every practice planned out. Don't wing it. The players will know and that will absolutely unravel things. So Billy, as a coach, took a whole new view about the importance of practice."
Friedman: "The coach who is the Red Auerbach of this generation in terms of winning NBA championships is Phil Jackson. Did you have an opportunity to speak with him and, if so, what contribution did he make to the book?"
Williams: "Yeah, I talked to Phil. Phil is interesting, always fascinating to me. I am a huge admirer of Phil Jackson and he told me the story of his college coach Bill Fitch--the long-time NBA coach--and how Bill Fitch had to discipline Phil Jackson when Jackson was a college player--captain of the team--and had broken some rules. That, to this day, has left a deep imprint on Phil Jackson, so talked about the importance of having discipline on a team. He also talked about the importance of knowing each player individually because they are all different people and that you can't treat them all the same: you've got to work with them individually and study them and know them as human beings. That is very important to Phil Jackson."
Friedman: "That is interesting, because what you are saying about Phil Jackson is very similar to what we were just talking about concerning Red Auerbach, that you have to deal with each player individually--you don't treat them like animals and you don't treat them all the same, either. You can treat two different people fairly and yet you treat them differently based on what their personalities are, what their needs are, their roles on the team and so forth. It is interesting that Jackson's approach, in some ways, mirrors Red Auerbach's approach because they have been the two most successful NBA coaches in terms of winning championships."
Williams: "It has become very evident to me as I am working on all of this--I wrote a book last year about Chuck Daly called Daly Wisdom and my next writing project later this fall is Bear Bryant on Leadership--and really studying the lives of all of these coaches that at the end of the day it comes down to people skills and (taking) interest in other people. They may have done it in different fashions and had different personalities but they absolutely cared about people and they were interested in their people and they were loyal to their people--maybe even to a fault. That was a huge part of their success as coaches."
Friedman: "I'd like to shift gears a little bit and ask you some questions about the current NBA season. You know that this question is coming, we all saw the (first two) games (of the Eastern Conference Finals) and I know that it is not very pleasant for you but overall what are your impressions of the first two games of the series between the Orlando Magic and the Boston Celtics? What stuck out to you watching those games?"
Williams: "I am impressed with Boston. They have kind of been below the radar screen all year. They have not had a dominant season. People have not really taken them seriously as title contenders but I am impressed with how focused they are, how tough-minded they are, how determined they are. They came into our building--and it's a cauldron, believe me, I mean it's a hot box down here--and they weathered it and came out of here with two wins, which is almost unheard of. So, that's my immediate reaction. Secondly, we have not played well at all. We struggled in both games but, even with that, down the stretch of both games we had a chance to pluck two victories with a play here or a play there. So, after shooting 41% and 39% in these two games we still had a chance to win both games. So, I think that should be encouraging; at some point, I've got to think that we're going to play well--really play well: hopefully, it will be Saturday night in Boston. That would sure help."
Friedman: "I'm sure you remember--although the home/road situation was different--that your 76ers built a 2-0 lead versus Portland in 1977 and then Portland came back to win the series. It is not common in NBA history but from that unpleasant personal experience you know that it is possible for a team to do that."
Williams: "I remember it vividly. We beat Portland in those first two games in 1977 and it looked like we had that series under control and then we proceeded to lose four in a row. I remember in 1984, the year after (the 76ers won) the championship, we played the Nets in the first round and lost the first two games in our building, the Spectrum. Then we went to New Jersey, in the Meadowlands, and beat New Jersey twice on their court, so now it's 2-2. Then we turn around and come home for game five in the Spectrum. Guess what happened?"
Friedman: "You lost. Unfortunately, as a Dr. J fan I remember that well."
Williams: "We lose...Some weird things can happen in the playoffs but the bottom line is that we have to play better, we have to defend better and above all we have to shoot the ball better. A lot of the shooting woes, however, are because of the Celtics' defense. They have done a very good job with us defensively and made it very difficult to score."
Friedman: "Speaking of Boston's rise, I don't think that anybody--maybe even in their own locker room--saw this coming based on the fact that they were essentially a .500 team for the last two thirds of the regular season. I am interested to hear your impressions of the Boston-Cleveland series. How surprised are you that Boston won? I also want to hear your opinion on a much discussed topic: how LeBron James performed in that series, particularly in the home losses for Cleveland in game two and game five. How surprised were you by that series and what did you think, as a long-time NBA talent evaluator, of LeBron James' performance?"
Williams: "Like so many basketball fans, as it was all unfolding I think everybody thought that Cleveland would win but now, from this perspective at the back end of it, Cleveland had no business winning and they shouldn't have won. The series ended exactly as it should have. Boston is a better team. Boston is deeper. Boston has more weapons. Boston has more versatility. Boston deserved to win and they would probably win if they played that series five more times. That is my reaction. Secondly, LeBron was forced to--let me put it this way: the Celtics' defense had a lot to do with why LeBron did not play great in every game. Watching their defensive schemes, they're good. They have made life miserable for every one of our players--every one of them. So, there is a reason why Cleveland struggled in that series and why LeBron struggled. Defensively, the Celtics gave them fits and that is why they won the series. That is my capsulation of it."
Friedman: "The Cleveland Cavaliers have had the best regular season record in the NBA the past two years. This year, they could have probably matched their win total (66) from 2009 if they had not shut things down for the last several games. They dominated the Lakers and they played well against you guys and against Boston. How could it be true that they are at such a talent deficit or depth deficit if they can go through a long regular season and be the best team? How could it be that all of a sudden in the playoffs they don't have enough talent? How is that possible?"
Williams: "David, if you could have been in our building last night (for game two of the Eastern Conference Finals) then you would not have asked that question. It was actually a cauldron here last night, so intense, so much noise, so much pressure you could hardly breathe--you could hardly breathe, let alone dribble or shoot a basketball. The difference between the regular season and playing this deep in the playoffs is the difference between grade school and college. That's my reaction. To play at this level at this time of year--not everybody can do it. Only the special players can survive at this level at this time of year and Boston has a bunch of grizzled old veterans who have enough left in their legs that they are rallying for one last shot (at winning a championship) and they're good. The regular season and this level of the playoffs--two different worlds. Cleveland, as it turns out, was structured beautifully for a long term pull--I mean, they really dominated the league--but they were not capable, their structure would not allow them, to function fully at this level. They were not good enough."
Friedman: "Following up specifically on what I asked you about LeBron, I was at Cleveland's home games in that series, so I had an up close and personal view and I agree with everything you said about how exceptional Boston's defense is but if you watched game five--if you really had a chance to see that game in particular--LeBron was very passive in that game; he spent most of the game not just behind the three point line but so far behind it that he wasn't even a threat if the ball had somehow been reversed back to him: he was too far behind the line to even shoot. He had a very, very passive approach--particularly offensively--and a lot of people have commented about that, particularly people who have frequently seen him play. Were you surprised by how passive he was? I don't know anyone who watched that game who was not struck by the obvious difference--LeBron played so much more passively than he played in other games throughout the year. He just did not look like himself and no one can figure out why he did that."
Williams: "David, I don't know if we'll ever know the answer to that. Obviously, with this elbow issue we don't know what the status of his health was or how he felt. Maybe that will just be a mystery but I think that in the long run it didn't matter because Boston was the better team. Maybe the Cavaliers sensed that. The players are not dumb; they know what's going on. Maybe they just sensed that Boston had too much for them. I don't know. We're struggling to figure out the psyche of our team as opposed to trying to figure out what's going through their heads right now."
Friedman: "I understand."
Williams: "I'm not privy to anything on the inside with Cleveland. You know, we expect LeBron to go get 40 every night with 15 rebounds and 10 assists. Anything other than that, he had a bad day. The same thing with Dwight Howard: he's got to get 30 points every night, 20 rebounds, five blocked shots or (people say) he didn't have a good game. When you are at that level of accomplishment that is a heavy burden, because nobody is happy unless you produce those gigantic numbers."
Friedman: "Speaking of Dwight Howard and in line with what you said about the difference between the regular season and the playoffs, how important do you think it is for him to develop the kind of low post offensive repertoire that would compel the top defensive teams to double team him? If you didn't double team Hakeem Olajuwon in the 1990s, he was going to score 35 or 40 points--and sometimes he would put up those kinds of numbers even if you did double team him. How important is it for Howard to develop that kind of repertoire or at least a more diverse repertoire than he has now?"
Williams: "He's working on it, David. He's 24 years old and he just finished his sixth year in the league so there is still a lot of growth left for him. He is primarily a defensive player, when you think about it: he was the Defensive Player of the Year, he made the All-Defensive First Team and Matt Guokas--who has been around the NBA (since the late 1960s)--would tell you, he's made the statement publicly, that he feels that Howard is a better defensive force than Bill Russell."
Friedman: "Yeah, I saw that quote."
Williams: "That's a pretty powerful statement from a guy who has been around the NBA (for decades) as a player, as a coach and as a broadcaster. Matty has seen it all. So the offense of Dwight has got some catching up to do but he's getting there and he's working on it. He works hard every day and he is adding a little more diversity to his game. Is he ever going to be an 80% free throw shooter? Probably not. Will he ever develop a deadly 15 foot jump shot from the baseline? Doesn't look like it--maybe he could but it doesn't look like it. But around the basket, he's getting a bit more clever and his footwork is improving. Each year he gets a little bit better and we probably will not see the best of Dwight Howard until his late twenties. I think that is when most big men mature. It is probably going to be another five years until we really know who he is."
Friedman: "I don't think that the issue is for him to develop a jump shot, though it would be nice for him to improve his free throw percentage, but what I meant specifically with my question is for him to have even an abridged version of the Kevin McHale low post repertoire--maybe no one else is ever going to have the full version of what McHale called 'the torture chamber'--something that he could really rely on in terms of, say, the jump hook is his move and then if that is stopped then he has a counter move with a spin (to the baseline) that he is confident in doing. During the game two broadcast Jeff Van Gundy said that Dwight is working on different moves but he doesn't have the confidence to use those moves at certain moments. Obviously, if you don't have confidence to use those moves versus the Celtics or at certain moments then that is a problem. It's fine to be able to do it in February or against the Clippers but in order for that to work against elite teams he would have to have confidence in those moves at that stage of the season. When I watch him, it seems like the top teams--the Lakers in the 2009 Finals and Boston now--feel like they can guard Howard by putting one big guy on him and then if he gets in foul trouble they'll just bring in another big guy but they don't feel like they have to double team him and that gums up the works for your three point shooters because they are not getting free now."
Williams: "There is no question that Boston is defending him the right way and they have the people to do it. (Kendrick) Perkins is a very good low post defender. He is big enough to muscle Dwight. Rasheed Wallace comes in and does his thing. 'Big Baby' (Glen Davis) is overmatched but yet he is strong enough physically. So they have some good pieces who can come in and duke it out with Dwight and I don't blame them. I'd single cover him, too, and put pressure on our three point shooters. Boston has the pieces right now to combat our offense, so we'll see what the coaches can come up with and hopefully we can overcome this."
Friedman: "The makeup of your team is interesting. Historically, teams that have won championships with dominant centers, most of them have been able to pair that dominant center with a rebounding power forward. If you look at the teams that your 76ers played (in the late 1970s and early 1980s), Portland's Bill Walton had Maurice Lucas, Washington had Wes Unseld and Elvin Hayes, Boston had (Robert) Parish and (Kevin) McHale, the Lakers had Kareem (Abdul-Jabbar) and A.C. Green. More recently, fans would remember Tim Duncan and David Robinson. There are more teams in the NBA now and it seems like there are fewer back to the basket big men than there were in previous eras. Is that model somewhat obsolete--that you have to have that kind of power forward alongside the great center--or would you say that your team is built in a little bit of an unorthodox manner compared to the traditional manner?"
Williams: "Obviously, we would love to have the true prototype power forward, the kind of guy who gives you double figure rebounds and double figure points. There are not a whole lot of them out there. I'd be grateful to find one. That is kind of a dying breed as well. The Paul Silas-type, the Bill Bridges from another era, I remember them well--Dave DeBusschere. They are great guys to have but they are hard to find. So, yes, we are a little bit unorthodox; (Hedo) Turkoglu and Rashard Lewis would probably not be your ideal (power) forward rotation (on last year's Magic team) and we probably don't have it now but you take what you've got, run with it and adjust from there."
Friedman: "What you are saying is that it is basically a matter of trying to maximize the personnel that you have; it's not necessarily that someone at some point had the idea of breaking the mold and doing things differently but rather you looked at the personnel that you have and the personnel that are potentially available to acquire (via the draft, trades and free agency) and decided that this makes the most sense."
Williams: "This was not us sitting down and saying that we are going to be absolutely off the charts here. When Rashard Lewis became available as a free agent we got him and after you get talent you slot people in from there. There are certain pieces that are hard to get and power forward seems to be a very dying breed. I don't know where they are. Where are the Maurice Lucases of another day? I guess they are Carlos Boozer or Pau Gasol. They are very difficult to find, just as centers are. Where are all the great big men? I'm looking at this draft coming up; there are no big men in this draft."
Friedman: "You're right, absolutely."
Williams: "Where have they gone? What's happened to the gene pool?"
Friedman: "I think that there are still players of that size but their mentality is different. They all want to shoot jumpers, they all want to do crossover dribbles. They don't want to be the somewhat anonymous guy on the weak side getting 10 rebounds like A.C. Green."
Williams: "Good concept; I guess we'll never really know. Those guys are awfully valuable and hard to find."
Friedman: "I don't know if you saw or heard about this, but there is a prominent writer who, after the Boston-Cleveland series, compared LeBron James to Julius Erving--not entirely in a favorable or, in my opinion, even an accurate way. His message was that people have been trying to compare LeBron to Magic or to Jordan but maybe LeBron is Dr. J--maybe LeBron is too nice or too deferential to be the lead guy on a championship team. One flaw that I find in his argument is that to buy his premise you have to ignore the first part of Dr. J's career when he led two ABA teams to championships; Dr. J also led the 76ers to three NBA Finals before you added Moses (Malone) and the problem that Dr. J had (in the NBA) is not that he was being deferential but that he ran into teams that had Hall of Fame centers and he did not have a Hall of Fame center (before playing with Malone). However, disregarding for a moment the obvious flaws in what this writer is suggesting, I am interested if you even agree with his basic premise that you cannot win a championship with a quote unquote nice guy as a leader--a LeBron or a Dr. J--and that you have to have a guy who is a quote unquote killer the way that Jordan was and the way that Kobe is. Do you buy that premise, do you agree with that or not? What is your overall take on that whole idea?"
Williams: "Listen, you get those guys, you get Michael Jordan, you get Kobe, you get Larry Bird--they were killers: they wanted to embarrass you, they wanted to step on your throat, carve your heart out. Bill Russell, the same way. Those are wonderful attributes of the winners--they actually are--but I don't think you can implant that or transplant that into somebody else. It's a great quality, if you want to win ball games you take those kinds of talented people who want to carve you to pieces as well--whoa, you'd give anything to find them, that kind of mentality. So, Bill Simmons' piece, he's great at trying to figure out who slots where and who belongs in what category, so he linked LeBron and Julius with one word: 'amaze.' The word that captured them is 'amaze,' that every day they want to do something that would amaze people--which they did. I spent a decade with Julius in Philadelphia and there was no finer person, no better teammate, no better ambassador for the league--but to say that he didn't have a Michael Jordan personality or a Kobe personality: probably not. We are who we are as people and what you see with LeBron at this point, that's who he is."
Friedman: "Do you agree with Simmons' premise that a player with that personality cannot be the best player on a championship team? Do you agree with his premise or do you disagree?"
Williams: "Well, I'm not sure I'd say that. If you want to have a dynasty, you try to find the best players that you can. What are you going to say, 'We're not going to take LeBron because he doesn't have a Michael Jordan killer instinct'? No, you get a franchise player and then you try to surround him with the best supporting cast you can. That's why we went out and got Moses Malone in the summer of 1982. We always needed somebody to do the dirty work inside. They've done that in Cleveland. They've done everything they can to surround him with the best pieces they can. I don't fault Cleveland management at all but, David, it is hard to find good players. There is a limited pool of them. It is very hard to find them."
Friedman: "You brought up the point with Moses and I think that the piece of analysis that is missing from what Simmons wrote is that the time period when you were the General Manager of the 76ers was really a different era. At that time, unlike now, you could not win a championship if you did not have a Hall of Fame caliber center who was an all-around player. Recently, we have seen teams like the (2004) Pistons and different teams in recent years win championships or get to the Finals without necessarily having the best big man in the league or a Hall of Fame center; you can win the way that the Bulls did (in the 1990s) with Jordan or the way that the Lakers did (in 2009) with Kobe. The 'flaw' with Julius Erving had less to do with him and more to do with the fact that he was going against teams that had Hall of Fame centers--the Blazers, Bullets, Celtics and Lakers--and he didn't have one. I think that Simmons missed the larger picture--it's not a matter so much of Dr. J's personality being like LeBron's personality but rather that Dr. J played in a different era in terms of the pieces that you need to win a championship.
I'm sure that you have heard the rumors of what might be going on with LeBron and John Calipari and I am not going to ask you to address that specifically but I want to ask you a hypothetical, generalized question about when you were involved in player personnel decisions as a General Manager. If you had been in a situation where you had the opportunity to get an MVP caliber player and that player came to your team saying 'If I'm going to sign with you, you have to hire this coach and/or bring in that player,' what kind of reaction would you have to that kind of scenario?"
Williams: "Oh, I don't know. It's happened, I guess, obsessionally. Let me just say this, David, this whole free agency thing is so tender and the league has made it very clear that they don't want NBA people to comment on it and there is such risk involved. The only thing I can say to you is that the summer of 2010 is almost upon us. For this much-anticipated summer, teams have been rearranging contracts, they've been trading players, they've been clearing cap room, they've been getting ready for this tumultuous summer of 2010--and here it is on our doorstep! The most gigantic game of musical chairs in NBA history will start to be played--or, will it?"
Friedman: "Right, or will those players stay with their original teams?"
Williams: "We have no idea. Nobody has any idea, other than it's going to be a very, very intense summer and when the game of musical chairs ends the question is, 'Who will be sitting in which chair?' You guys will have plenty to cover this summer, that's for sure."
Friedman: "I just want to say that I wasn't trying to get you fined or get you in trouble; I phrased the question as a hypothetical one dating back to when you had been a General Manager and it also obviously does not apply to your current team in terms of cap space or in terms of coaching. I wasn't trying to back door a LeBron question but I just wanted your perspective on a larger issue because, since you were a General Manager and a player personnel executive for so many years, you are one of the few people who actually could have been in that kind of hypothetical discussion. For all we know, that story that was reported may not even be happening at the moment--"
Williams: "That is a rumor right now."
Friedman: "Right."
Williams: "I think that right now the teams that are coach-less, as I am following it, are having intense interviewing sessions with many kinds of coaches and they seem to be on top of everything. I think that they want to hire a new coach as soon as possible, across the board. That's my sense. They don't want to wait. Free agency doesn't start for another seven weeks and I don't think that they would want to be coach-less all the way through June."
Friedman: "I agree. That's a risk."
Williams: "I think that you are going to see a lot of coaches get hired pretty quickly."
Labels: Boston Celtics, Cleveland Cavaliers, Dwight Howard, Julius Erving, LeBron James, Orlando Magic, Pat Williams
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Wall Street has extended last week's slide on worries that the quarterly results companies begin releasing this week will signal the economy is in worse shape than feared.
Oil prices have tumbled 8 percent Monday to a new low for the year as investors have bet economic weakness will curb demand. That assessment is reinforcing fears that a slowing economy will further erode corporate profits.
The Dow Jones industrial average is ending down 125, or 1.5 percent, at the 8,474 level. Broader indexes fell more than 2 percent.
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The Color Teal
Friday's schedule included meeting Brian and his co-workers for their annual Christmas luncheon at Outback Steakhouse. Shortly after arriving, I noticed the teal shirt Brian's 4th grade partner was wearing and asked why he didn't have that color. And then I spotted more and more teal . . . it is the official Ovarian Cancer color, after all. Teal manages to stand out on its own, much less when nearly everyone present is wearing it.
And then I noticed that some of them said "Love for Lewis" on them, and I started to think this gathering might be a little more than a Christmas lunch.
Turns out one of Brian's co-workers was diagnosed with breast cancer last year and the subsequent treatment was fresh on her mind. When she heard about our family and started reading the blog, she organized the teal, collected money, gift cards (totally almost the exact amount we unexpectedly had to spend on Tamiflu and van repairs last week, by the way) and notes of encouragement. Even Brian's former school got in on the action. They were all so sweet, and I feel so undeserving.
Thank you isn't really enough, but it's what I have to offer.
Thank you isn't really enough, but it's what I have to offer.
One especially poignant note was from a teacher whose grandmother died as a result of ovarian cancer recently, and their family had decided to spend their Christmas money on an ovarian cancer-related cause.
To be honest, the teal show of support was enough. Everything else was just an incredible blessing for our family. Once again, we have been loved on in a special way during a difficult time, and I can only hope that our children especially will learn from this and pass on the love to others.


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Solar Flare-Up Could Fry Satellites, Reroute Planes, Make Pretty Lights
Feb 17, 2011 12:10 PM PT
Three solar flares will hit the Earth Thursday and Friday, according to scientists, possibly triggering a bigger show of the Aurora Borealis, also known as the northern lights.
They may also impact the Earth's magnetic field to some degree, depending on the direction of the magnetic field accompanying them.
The flares have increased the density and velocity of the solar wind, Bernard Jackson of the University of California at San Diego, told TechNewsWorld.
Further, they have led some airlines to reroute some of their so-called great circle flights, which normally go over the North Pole, said Joe Kunches, a space scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s space weather prediction center.
Although the flares are the largest seen since 2006, they will be accompanied by only a "minor to moderate magnetic storm at G1 to G2 level," Kunches told TechNewsWorld.
Pieces of Flare
The sun gave off flares Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, with the largest, an X2.2 flare, released on Tuesday. They were all released from Sunspot 1158, which has expanded rapidly in recent days.
The NOAA's space weather prediction center expects more M-class flares from the sunspot.
The effects of the flares will be seen Thursday through Saturday, when the space weather prediction center forecasts they'll die down.
Tuesday's X2.2 flare is traveling faster than the smaller flares released earlier, and the mass it ejected is expected to catch up with that from the earlier flares, Jackson said.
Still, it's not as if the mass is racing particularly rapidly. "It's not moving as fast as ejector from some flares in the past," Jackson remarked. "It's going at about 800 kilometers [497 miles] a second, which means it gets to Earth in about two days."
The ejector mass from Tuesday's flare is slowing down, Jackson stated. He helped design the Solar Mass Ejection Imager, which has been orbiting the Earth since 2003.
Flaring Out on Earth
The flares may cause outages in shortwave radio high frequency communications, which are used by the military, NOAA's Kunches said.
Some such outages have already been reported in southern China.
Further, satellites and communications for great circle flights may be impacted.
"Some of the carriers are flying a more southerly route so they have a line of sight to the satellites," Kunches said. "That gives them the most options for communications as they go about their flight," he added.
Satellites could be impacted by the plasma included in the ejector, Jackson said. That plasma creates different charge levels in different parts of a satellite it hits, leading to what effectively is a short-circuit between them, Jackson said. This might fry some of the electronics in the satellites.
"In the past, a couple of satellites have died when a large ejection of mass has hit them," Jackson stated. "One of them was a Japanese spacecraft."
The bigger issue, however, could be the direction of the magnetic field that was pushed outward from the sun during the flares.
"Depending on its direction, it could couple with the Earth's magnetic field, which could have a large effect," Jackson remarked. However, the effect can't be predicted because "you can't observe that or even extrapolate it out from the sun very well," Jackson said.
That magnetic field could change the magnetic field of the Earth. It could also affect global positioning systems.
Not That Big?
While this is "probably the first true geomagnetic storm of this solar cycle," it's not a particularly large one, the NOAA's Kunches said.
Solar flares are classified as A, B, C, M or X in ascending order, according to the peak flux in watts per square meter of 100 to 800 picometer X-rays near earth as measured on the GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites) spacecraft.
Each class has a peak flux 10 times greater than the preceding one, and is subdivided into nine sub-classes on a linear basis. That means an X2 flare is twice as powerful as an X1.
X-class flares are large. They can trigger planet-wide radio blackouts and long-lasting radio storms.
Solar flares cause geomagnetic storms here on Earth, and the NOAA has listed five classes of geomagnetic storms, ranging from G1, which is the lowest, to G5.
The geomagnetic storms that will accompany this latest group of solar flares are expected to be in the G1 or G2 range, NOAA's Kunches said.
G1 geomagnetic storms are minor. They can cause weak power grid fluctuations, may have a minor impact on satellite operations, and make the aurora visible at high latitudes.
G2 storms are moderate. They may cause voltage alarms in power systems at high latitudes, and extended storms may damage transformers. Spacecraft may need course corrections from ground control, and their orbits may be impacted.
Further, high frequency radio communications can fade at higher latitudes with G2 storms.