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My offseason plan for getting the Miami Dolphins to the playoffs in 2013? I'm glad you asked.
First of all, you have to understand I come at this from a multiple-pronged approach. I don't just think the Dolphins are broken on the field. I think they need mending off the field -- as in with their fans. The truth is going to a Miami home game has no special meaning down here anymore.
Sure, the true believers and lifers do it out of loyalty and love for the sport or team. But I want more than that. I want Dolphins home games to be a must-attend events because the team has swag and plays with moxie and life and, yes, has a chance to do something exciting every week.
So if I were the general manager, I would approach this offseason in which the team can have approximately $46.8 in cap space as the Miami Heat approached the 2010 offseason -- the one in which they signed Chris Bosh, Dwyane Wade and LeBron James.
It's an all-in offseason, folks.
If I make the playoffs, I get a contract extension. If not, I'm fired.
That kind of offseason, if crafted properly, is going to create buzz about the team and make for a winning roster. That means the team will look improved before it even plays a game, causing fans to buy tickets. And the team will indeed be improved on the field, causing more ticket-buyers when they actually see the product on the field.
And do not scoff at the need for ticket-buyers. This year the Dolphins had their worst home attendance since 1989. There was no significant homefield advantage at Sun Life Stadium. I want that to change. I want that place to shake -- both literally and figuratively.
So the Dolphins need to be audacious to get people to the game and then need to prove their strategy successful to keep them excited and coming back and part of a home field advantage.
Having said that, my offseason plan would be an all-of-the-above approach. I would look at spending big on quality free agents, I would look at re-signing my own quality free agents and letting the mediocre ones walk, I would look at trades, I would approach the draft with the desire to add playmakers not grunts.
That stuff the Dolphins did last year when they have us sitting on the edge of our seats come final roster cutdown time because of the three or four players they're going to add when those players get cut from other teams?
That's a loser's approach.
That approach means you are relying on other teams' trash to be your treasure. That is going into a sewer and hoping to find a blossoming rose.
The Dolphins not only did that, they expected players such as Anthony Armstrong, Jabar Gaffney and others to be significant contributors. Are you kidding me? That's telling me there was no plan in place and you're making it up as you go.
I want my team to be together after the draft. I want them together most of the offseason. I want them to work and sweat together in the offseason conditioning program. I want them to come together as a team during training camp. I want them winning together in the preseason -- and yes, I said winning. To me, the team must win the first quarter in the preseason when my starters are playing their starters. I don't much care about the final outcome of any game except the third when my starters play into the third quarter. But if you're not winning the first quarter of the other games, something is wrong.
Anyway, I don't want to be adding guys a couple of days before the season opener and hoping they somehow fit the program. That means you don't have a clue about team chemistry. That means your plans went awry. That means you're flying by the seat of your pants.
Winning NFL teams are not constructed by the seat of the GM's pants. Poop is constructed by the seat of the GM's pants. Not great teams.
So what is my audacious plan?
Start with the offense. It has to start there because Miami's offense is terrible.
First thing I do is re-sign wide receiver Brian Hartline. The guy finished with 1,083 receiving yards and a 14.6 yard per catch average. The yardage was 16th best in the NFL. The average was 25th best but ahead of Andre Johnson, A.J. Green, Anquan Boldin, Malcom Floyd, and Pierre Garcon.
He had only one TD catch, but I can think of at least four plays in which he was wide open down the field and was either underthrown or overthrown, killing a handful of TDs. So I see value in this guy. And he stays on my team.
I also want to re-sign Randy Starks because Miami's defensive line is a strength that need not be dismantled. I want to re-sign TE Anthony Fasano at a cheap price to be my blocking tight end because he is not a downfield threat in my offense.
I also want to re-sign Jake Long but he would have to take a cheaper, incentive-laden deal that pays him more if he stays healthy. The truth about Long is not only has his play been declining, but he's not finished either of the past two seasons. My Dolphins will be in the playoffs and if a player is likely to be on injured reserve at the end of the season and not available for the postseason, he's worthless to me.
So Long has to undertand that I want committed players and in his case that means, he'll have to agree to a hometown discount. If he wants to get paid the most he can and be something of a mercenary go elsewhere. Here, he was treated like a king as the first overall pick. He earned more money than any offensive lineman for years and years and years. Here, he didn't quite play up to his salary the last two years.
So if he wants to build on the roots he's laid in South Florida and wants to be part of something special and is truly committed to the Dolphins, he's going to have to play for less here.
Remember the Heat analogy? Wade, Bosh and James took less money in Miami than they might have elsewhere. If it's good enough for them, it has to be good enough for a guy like Jake Long.
If, however, Long is all about the money. He walks. I keep Jonathan Martin at left tackle and I draft the best available tackle sometime in the second or third round to play the right side.
By the way, the free agent tackle business is a two-way street. Sebastian Vollmer is slated to be a free agent. So are Ryan Clady, Branden Albert and others. Maybe, if Vollmer is on the market, I sign him, improve my team and put a hole in the New England Patriots offensive line.
What about the other free agents?
Reggie Bush is a good guy in a tough spot. He's likely to go into a free agent class that includes Steven Jackson, Shonn Greene, Rashard Mendenhall and others. And he plays a position that Miami is already strong in (with Lamar Miller, Daniel Thomas, and Jonas Gray on the roster). So if he wants to come back, it has to be on the cheap.
He's a great leader. He's a great worker. But he's a luxury. And, in the case of Miller, he's something of a progress-stopper.
So I want him on my team. But other teams may want him more. And I'm okay with that.
Sean Smith? Very interesting to me. He was nails when asked to play man-press against big receivers such as Larry Fitzgerald and A.J. Green early in the season. But then he kind of fell off the table in November and wasn't that much better in December.
He struggles with smaller, quicker receivers. He doesn't seem totally comfortable with the Dolphins system.
One publication said the Dolphins are going to put the franchise tag on him. The Dolphins told me that's hogwash. He's solid but not a playmaker. My goal this offseason would be to upgrade at his position and that doesn't mean keeping Smith and paying him nearly 10 times more than he made in 2011 to do it.
I let him walk.
Chris Clemons? Solid but not spectacular. He can stay at a bargain. Jairus Byrd is a free agent and more of a playmaker than Clemons. The Bills are shaking things up so no idea if Byrd is in their plans or if he wants to get away from a team that hasn't made the playoffs in 12 years and is starting over. Just sayin'. Dashon Goldson is also scheduled for free agency but I doubt San Francisco lets him go.
Tony McDaniel? He can stay at the veteran minimum salary with no guaranteed money, otherwise, phfft.
Onto free agency outside the roster:
My goal, again, is improve the offense first and quickly. That means if Mike Wallace or Greg Jennings are available, I sign probably one of them. If all is wonderful and great and amazing and the dollars make sense and I have the opportunity to get both, then I get both.
A four-wide of Jennings, Hartline, Wallace and Davone Bess might be the best four-wide in the NFL.
A three-wide of Jennings, Hartline and Bess or Wallace, Hartline and Bess is pretty darn dangerous, too.
Wallace to me is the priority. The Dolphins need a deep threat. Yes, Wallace bascially only runs 9-routes. But he's the best in the NFL at it.
The reason I add at least one veteran wide receiver (in addition to Hartline) is because I need the offense to be immediately improved. Rookie wide receivers take a while to get it. I need a guy that already has gotten it and is ready to produce the second he hits the field.
GM Armando Salguero passes on Dwayne Bowe. He is not a deep threat. I don't love his target-to-catch ratio (almost 2-to-1) and I'm not sure he's a winner. Plus, the kid wants big, big, big money. No thank you.
I'm looking at cornerback Darius Butler in free agency. He's a former high-round draft pick. He's improving. He is very small. He's very young. He's an excellent person. I like him in nickel situations. He has something he wants to prove. He's from South Florida, so this is the place for him to do it. He also might come sort of cheaply.
Onto the draft:
Yes, yes, yes, the Dolphins should draft the best player available. They have the No. 12 overall selection. And, by the way, I do not trade down in the first round. Miami has enough picks already. I have five picks in the first 90 selections. That's more than enough.
This year is NOT about quantity. This draft has to be about quality.
So no trade down to acquire more picks. It's fools gold when you already have plenty of selections.
Miami's draft needs? It depends on how well I did in free agency. If I got the veteran star WR, then WR probably isn't the direction I'm going at No. 12 unless the quality of that WR is miles ahead of the CB or DE.
I'm going cornerback or defensive end in the first round. Let's face it, the Dolphins need to make more plays on offense and defense. Yes, they need to score more points. But they need to cause more turnovers and make more plays on defense against the opposing passing game.
The defense did a very poor job of giving the offense the football in opponent's territory after a turnover this year. That's one way to get more points, and I'm banking my defensive additions will help in that department.
That's why cornerback and defensive end is so important.
I want CBs that actually, you know, catch interceptions. I'm looking at Alabama's Dee Milliner ornMississippi State's Johnthan Banks (that's how he spells it) as cornerback possibilities.
I'm looking at Texas A&M's Demontre Moore as a pass-rusher, knowing Mike Sherman knows a thing or two about him. I'm looking at FSU's Bjoern Werner as a defensive end. I'm looking at LSU's Barkevious Mingo as a pass-rushing DE. I'm looking at Oregon's Dion Jordan, who at 6-6 and 239 is built like Jason Taylor, as a pass-rushing defensive end.
Look, Jared Odrick was drafted as a 3-4 DE. He's clearly not suited to be a 4-3 DE. He can move inside and the Dolphins can add a DE to compete with Olivier Vernon and probably beat out Vernon as a starting DE. More pressure is necessary from the side opposite Cameron Wake.
Moving Odrick inside might also help get more pressure from the inside.
By the way, New York defensive end Osi Umenyiora will be available in free agency. Pass. He's a 10-year veteran. He's slowing down. He wants to get paid. And the Giants pass rush let the team down significantly this year. Not the answer.
By draft's end, I want to have a couple of corners on my drafted board. I want an early-round wide receiver, assuming I landed a playmaker in free agency. If I sucked in free agency, I better have found a couple of wide receivers in the draft.
I need to find a couple of starting corners. I need a defensive end -- and there are plenty of options. And later on I want to add a tight end because Michael Egnew did zero to make me think he's the answer.
And, of course, I want to fill in later at right tackle (assuming Jake Long is gone and Jonathan Martin is my left tackle) because Nate Garner is a good backup, but I want to upgrade there.
By the way, I said previously that I'm for an all-of-the-above strategy. Well, that includes trades.
It has been reported that Jermichael Finley is on the outs in Green Bay. Apparently, he has maturity problems, his production is down and his work ethic isn't what it can be. So the Packers, according to the report, will either trade or release him this offseason.
Well, Salguero is open to trading for him because Salguero is sick and tired of mediocre tight end play by overachievers and perfers very good tight end play by an underachiever.
This year was a down year for Finley. He caught 61 passes for 667 yards. Fasano and Charles Clay caught 59 passes for 544 yards combined. So Finley has a bad year and he's still more productive than every tight end on the Miami roster because only Clay and Fasano caught passes for Miami.
And he's not worthy of getting? Are you kidding me?
The guy is 25 years old. He was more productive when Joe Philbin was the offensive coordinator -- with eight TDs in 2011. He is valuable in the red zone and he can work the middle of the field.
Give up one of Miami's third rounders for that guy? In a heartbeat.


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Also, re: Poco 4.1..... does it "really" support IMAP? --> I mean, can I create/delete IMAP folders that exist on the server and see the folder hierarchy from Poco's interface?
Last, as I know new potential users read this forum before they buy, I just wanted to post my main reason for being a poco user: color control of the windows. I tend to suffer from migrains, but if I can have low contrast colors that I can vary from time to time, it helps me keep the migrains away. (Yeah, yeah, it's not real "scientific" but my migrains are down to about 2 a year since I got poco, removed the flourescent lights from my office, and cut down on the orange juice). If I were on X Windows, I would not need poco, but since I am bound to evil MS-Windows, I have to have a program that I can cotrol colors individually.
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Gemstones bring a pop of color to any jewelry collection. The right gemstone can add the final touch of perfection to any great outfit. But did you know, according to legend, that certain gemstones and birthstones are said to have mystical healing powers?
Whether you believe in ancient myths and superstition, or you just want to learn more about a great piece of jewelry, you're in the right place. Helzberg Diamonds is proud to offer a large variety of gemstone jewelry, and knowing more about it - including knowing how to clean and care for it - will help you get the most value out of your collection.
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What's the difference between precious gemstones and semi-precious gemstones? It all comes down to rarity. Diamonds, rubies, sapphires, and emeralds are very rare, and are therefore considered precious stones. In general, all other gemstones are considered semi-precious stones.
Natural vs. Lab-Created Gemstones
Natural gemstones are found in nature, created deep in the Earth and mined out of it. Natural gemstones are sometimes enhanced, which means they were treated in some way to improve their color or clarity. This often involves heat or delicate chemical processes.
Lab-created gemstones, on the other hand, are formed in laboratories by human hands and machines. They are chemically, physically, and optically identical to gems found in nature, and there's no way to tell them apart. Of course, lab-created gemstones don't have the rarity of natural gemstones, which is why they're less valuable.
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Pot Bust at Roosevelt "High"
Apparently lunch breaks have changed since I was in school. There was trouble at this Sioux Falls high school yesterday. Here is the word from KSFY.COM:
Tuesday, Sioux Falls police arrested four Roosevelt high school students for allegedly smoking marijuana.
Three of the students are teenaged-boys and the fourth student is a sixteen year-old girl.
And police actually arrested the students for allegedly getting high while off-campus during lunch.
But when they came back, something didn't smell right. Police say the four students left Roosevelt High School for lunch but when they came back, they ran into someone on campus who thought something smelled suspicious.
Enough for them to take a trip straight to the school's office.
Sioux Falls Police officer Sam Clemens said police searched the students and found one student had some pipes with marijuana residue.
"Once they had them back in the office, they believed they were under the influence of marijuana and contacted the school resource officer," Ofc. Clemens said.
"If no marijuana is found, they end up being charged with ingesting but... one of them was charged who had the pipes and the other three were all charged with ingesting," Ofc. Clemens said.
A sixteen-year-old boy was charged with possession. The other three students, a sixteen-year-old girl and two fifteen-year-old boys were charged with ingesting.
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This is from The Dallas Morning News.
J.R. Ewing was a man you loved to hate.
I remember Larry Hagman as Major Nelson on I dream of Jeannie.
Larry Hagman, who played the conniving and mischievous J.R. Ewing on the TV show Dallas, died Friday at Medical City in Dallas, of complications from his recent battle with cancer, his family said.
He was 81.
"Larry was back in his beloved Dallas re-enacting the iconic role he loved most," his family said in a written statement. "Larry's family and close friends had joined him in Dallas for the Thanksgiving holiday. When he passed, he was surrounded by loved ones. It was a peaceful passing, just as he had wished for. The family requests privacy at this time."
The role of J.R. transformed Mr. Hagman's life. He rocketed from being a merely well-known TV actor on I Dream of Jeannie and the son of Broadway legend Mary Martin, to the kind of international fame known only by the likes the Beatles and Muhammad Ali.
Mr. Hagman made his home in California with his wife of 59 years, the former Maj Axelsson. Despite obvious physical frailty, he gamely returned to Dallas to film season one and part of season two of TNT's Dallas reboot.
Friends were in shock Friday, especially those who saw him only days ago. But those close to him say he knew the end was coming and he was glad to have his family in town for Thanksgiving.
For Dallasites, Mr. Hagman's recent return to film the TNT show was a pleasant reminiscence of the days when Dallas was the biggest TV program in the world, seen by an estimated 300 million people in 57 countries.
Mr. Hagman lived part of the year in a penthouse at the Mansion on Turtle Creek, now known as the J.R. Ewing Suite, and the actor became part of the fabric of the city — attending polo matches with restaurateur Norman Brinker, unwinding over cocktails with oilman Jake Hamon and his wife, Nancy, at their Bluffview home or dining with Mansion on Turtle Creek owner Caroline Rose Hunt, whose oil-rich family was the nonfiction version of the Ewings.
"Hagman in his role as J.R. was mythic, and as a human he was a hard-working ambassador for Dallas and the underdog," Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said Thursday night. "I had spent a couple of evenings with him recently … and he always pitched in to help the city."
Mr. Hagman lit the conniving J.R. with his own innate sense of fun and mischief.
"From the moment we met him, he started the entire ball rolling," said his TV ex-wife Linda Gray (a.k.a. Sue Ellen Ewing) last month at a fund-raiser in Preston Hollow for the Larry Hagman Foundation. "He came into a room in Burbank. He walked in with a saddlebag filled with ice and bottles of champagne. That is how we had our first read-through of the original script. That bonded us to this wonderful man."
In September, Ms. Gray played host to Mr. Hagman for an 81st birthday lunch at Café Pacific in Highland Park Village.
Throughout the summer of 1980, the world hung on the question "Who shot J.R.?" The ultimate TV cliffhanger aired on March 21, 1980, when an unseen assailant shot J.R. Ewing twice.
As everyone waited to find out who the shooter was, Mr. Hagman had an epiphany that would pave the way for TV giants such as Jerry Seinfeld and the cast of Friends to get a larger share of the profits from their shows.
In his memoir, Hello Darlin', Mr. Hagman said, "Ronald Reagan was campaigning against Jimmy Carter, American hostages were being held in Iran, Polish shipyard workers were on strike, and all anyone wanted to know was, who shot J.R.?"
The world was filled with J.R. T-shirts, coffee mugs and bumper stickers.
"Everyone was making a windfall from J.R. except me," he said.
He threatened to leave the show if his contract were not renegotiated.
After months of tense negotiations, he was finally given his $100,000 per episode asking price.
Originally from Weatherford, Mr. Hagman was born to 17-year-old Mary Martin and 21-year-old Benjamin Hagman, an attorney.
"How hillbilly can you get?" Ms. Martin later said.
The marriage lasted five years, and Mr. Hagman was raised largely by his maternal grandmother while his mother became a famous stage actress.
Mr. Hagman also worked as a stage actor before appearing in films such as Ensign Pulver and the Otto Preminger epic In Harm's Way.
But he first became a star when he was cast as an Air Force officer who falls for a genie in a bottle played by Barbara Eden in I Dream of Jeannie. It was a major hit that fizzled, according to Mr. Hagman, after he and Jeannie were wed on the show.
"Once they got married," he said, "nobody cared anymore."
When Dallas debuted as a five-part miniseries in April 1978, J.R. was merely a supporting character. But Mr. Hagman's dazzling portrayal soon earned him bigger and bigger pieces of the story line until he was the star of the show.
Despite the enormous cultural impact of the J.R. character, Mr. Hagman refused to be defined by the part. He continued to show his acting chops with role such as the H.L. Hunt/Clint Murchison composite character in Oliver Stone's Nixon and as Gov. Fred Picker in Primary Colors.
Michael Cain, founder of the Dallas International Film Festival, was a close friend of Mr. Hagman's. The Dallas star appeared at a festival event in 2011, handing out awards to up-and-coming high-school filmmakers.
"I was blessed to … witness his heart that was so full of passion and charity and mischievousness," Mr. Cain said. "His friendship will be missed by many, including me. Recently on a trip to Santa Monica, I was initiated into a celebration, a ritual that Larry performed with guests as the sun set over the ocean, where we shouted out to the sun as the final sliver passed over the hills. … I know he would want us to stand and shout and celebrate his life and the passion with which he loved and lived it."
In addition to his wife, Mr. Hagman is survived by a daughter, Kristina Hagman, a son, Preston Hagman, and five granddaughters.


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New Mexico Tech Researcher Ghosh Develops Bridge-Testing Laser, Nov. 12, 2007
by George Zamora
SOCORRO, N.M., Nov. 12, 2007 – A New Mexico Tech researcher has developed a patented laser-based system that can accurately measure extremely small vibrations along structures, which, among other applications, can be used by engineers to better determine the strength and safety of highway bridges.
"By using this new laser-based system for testing bridge superstructures, bridge maintenance engineers will be able perform dynamic tests — tests done while the normal flow of traffic is going over a bridge — at a very fast rate and at a relatively low-cost," says Ashok K. Ghosh, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at New Mexico Tech and principal inventor of the vibration analysis system.
"By placing small lasers along a structure and aiming the concentrated light at moveable target screens, it is possible to obtain large amounts of data in a short amount of time, which can then be used to quickly determine the dynamic characteristics of a bridge structure along its entire span," he adds.
Ghosh's new laser-based system has the potential to detect structural deficiencies in bridges before they result in catastrophic failures, such as occurred in this past summer's fatal highway bridge collapse in Minnesota.
"Currently, bridge inspections are still being carried out by workers performing only visual inspections as they look for cracks and crevices," Ghosh says. "By implementing this relatively simple and inexpensive testing method, you can essentially replace all the visual inspections, which is the beginning point of any thorough assessment of bridge structures."
According to a 2003 study conducted by the American Society of Civil Engineers, more than 160,000 bridges being used throughout the United States were found to be "structurally deficient or functionally obsolete." This figure represents 27 percent of the nation's bridges.
Ghosh currently is exploring possible applications of the new laser-based concept with the New Mexico Department of Transportation for conducting vibration analysis of bridges in New Mexico.
The newly patented technology marks Ghosh's second patent awarded this year.


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Tommy Lee Reveals Disturbing Incident that Led to His New Fan Photo Stance
When Tommy Lee posted an open letter to fans a couple of weeks ago griping about people always wanting to have their picture taken with him, some took it as petty complaining from a rock star who's lost touch with the people who helped make him famous. But in a recent interview, he revealed that his misgivings run a little deeper.
Talking to Fuse.tv, the Motley Crue drummer recounted the incident that he described as "the most disrespectful bulls— I've ever experienced in my life": A run-in with a mortuary employee who overstepped her bounds. "My mother passed away recently," he explained, "I'm at the mortuary, I've got my mom's ashes in my right hand, and my girlfriend, I'm holding her hand with my left hand, and we're walking out. And the f—ing lady, the receptionist, goes, 'Oh my god, can I take a picture with you?'"
Lee was understandably reluctant, as he explained: "I looked and her and went (deep breath), 'I'm sorry, but I'd rather not.'" But it didn't end there — Lee said the receptionist pressed the issue, asking "Are you sure?" "I'm f—ing standing there with my mom's ashes and it's not the f—ing happiest day on the planet for me. I couldn't believe it," recalled an incredulous Lee.
"I go, 'Okay, that's officially the most f—ed up thing that has ever happened to me.'"
After calling the mortuary manager, Lee said he left the building. "I sat in the car, and I'm shaking, and my girlfriend goes, 'I'm so sorry honey,' and I was speechless. I didn't even know what to say. I couldn't believe a human being just did that."


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That should be the ILM motto....
― leavethecapital, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 02:37 (eleven years ago) Permalink
(Oh, I guess your point is that he catches his parents and surprises them by blasting Kiss? I still think the parents were listening to his Kiss records. Eh.)
― Sundar, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 02:46 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Yeah, Sundar, that was the "point" (really more of a devil's advocate thing than a point. It wasn's until Steve mentioned Cheap Trick to me on chat today that I began thinking of their songs in detail.)
― ian, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 04:50 (eleven years ago) Permalink
semi-freudian plea for attention--his parents loving each other more than they love him, so he makes a point of rubbing their faces in his catching them.
― ian, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 04:51 (eleven years ago) Permalink
though in light of m coleman's point about crazy generation gaps, i think my whole reading might be bullshit.
― ian, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 04:53 (eleven years ago) Permalink
haha, OK, that's amusing enough to consider.
― Sundar, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 04:58 (eleven years ago) Permalink
I'm so glad this thread was started - for years, I've been too embarrassed to admit a similar lack of full comprehension wrt this song. "Don't give yourself away" = "Don't let your parents know how much you know"? (That they've been dipping into your stash, among other things.)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 21:34 (eleven years ago) Permalink
I always assumed "Don't give yourself away" was referring DIRECTLY to the notion of surrending, like, giving in but not letting yourself get taken advantage of.
― ian, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 21:55 (eleven years ago) Permalink
when i was like ten i thought junk was a boat too. love it.
― Emily Bjurnhjam, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 22:03 (eleven years ago) Permalink
also i sang this at karaoke last week. i've always been confused by this song, but also thought it was vaguely about growing up and drugs and sex and whatever. thanks for the interesting thread.
― Emily Bjurnhjam, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 22:06 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Steve Shasta never came back and did a recap.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 16 February 2008 02:37 (eleven years ago) Permalink
The part of this I love is the wondering what happens to young freaks and losers, and the horrified realization that some of them might have grown up to be your parents.
― nabisco, Saturday, 16 February 2008 02:45 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Like in that Delmore Schwartz short story?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 16 February 2008 03:24 (eleven years ago) Permalink
nabisco OTM!
(I never put that much thought into these lyrics before but this thread has made me realize that they're brilliant.)
― Sundar, Saturday, 16 February 2008 03:37 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Also it made me finally download Heaven Tonight, for which I'm thankful. (I still haven't quite shaken the suspicion that "Surrender" and "I Want You to Want Me" are the best Cheap Trick songs though. I probably need to hear the 1st album.)
― Sundar, Saturday, 16 February 2008 03:40 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Maybe I meant Robert Heinlein story?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 16 February 2008 03:43 (eleven years ago) Permalink
(No, that doesn't work quite right either)
I probably need to hear the 1st album.
Um, YES. Immediately.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 16 February 2008 03:46 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Downloading as we speak.
― Sundar, Saturday, 16 February 2008 03:59 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 16 February 2008 04:04 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Get "In Color" too. A lot of Rick Nielsen's early lyrics are off the wall brilliant.
― leavethecapital, Saturday, 16 February 2008 04:10 (eleven years ago) Permalink
(I have In Color already.)
― Sundar, Saturday, 16 February 2008 04:15 (eleven years ago) Permalink
(I'm listening to it now in fact.)
Cheap Trick = best American band ever, underrated even by fanatics
― Dimension 5ive, Saturday, 16 February 2008 04:18 (eleven years ago) Permalink
(Because I don't consider P.Funk a band, more like a collective with more than 50 members led by one guy.)
― Dimension 5ive, Saturday, 16 February 2008 04:40 (eleven years ago) Permalink
I too was inspired to finally download Heaven Tonight, and while Surrender is still one of the greatest songs ever, I'm really struck by 1. the similarity between this album and the 2nd Lee Harvey Oswald album (which also loves Brontosaurus) and 2. apparently I prefer Blastronaut, even if it doesn't have a single track as killer as Surrender.
― dlp9001, Monday, 19 May 2008 21:19 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Love the Lee Harvey Oswald Band (& Sims' songwriting in general), but it's hard for me to rate anything over Heaven Tonight.
― contenderizer, Monday, 19 May 2008 21:31 (eleven years ago) Permalink
OK, here we go. I used to be in the military in 1979, I also played guitar and did drugs back then and I went overseas to the Philippines. My father served in WWII like most people my age so I can somewhat relate to this song and I heard it quite a lot back then. So while I'm not Rick Neilson (The guitarist for Cheap Trick) I do think I get the meaning of this song and I did a little checkingon a couple of things.
"Mother told me yes she told me I'd meet girls like you She also told me stay away, you'll never know what you'll catch"
This was a very common thing that parents would tell their boys (my parents told it to me) "Stay away from loose women or you'll catch the clap". I'm surprised some don't know this, it seemed quite obvious to me.It was also echoed many times, much stronger, and even with old black & white movie projector films when I was in the military. "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?" was the name of one of them I think. STDs were quite rampant.
"Just the other day I heard a soldier falling off Some Indonesian junk that's going round."
That first line is wrong, it is actually "Just the other day I heard of soldiers falling out". To fall out is to fall out of muster. Muster is like roll call when all the soldiers form up in lines and rows and are counted.This happens on base every morning and when your company is reporting somewhere for duty. To fall out the way the song refers to means these soldiers were missing because they were sick. Why? because "Some Indonesian Junk was going round" Junk was a term used to describe heroin back then. So these soldiers were either high or suffering withdrawal symptoms from heroin. Indonesia was a big producer of cheap heroin back then. When you need a fix of heroin it makes you so physically sick you throw up so either way these guys were in no shape for duty and let me tell you, back then this was a big problem and in 1981 the military started a campaign to crack down on drug abuse. Many in the military were either sentenced to long prison terms and given dishonorable discharges if they were caught trafficking, or for lesser offenses they were given other than honorable discharges and lost all benefits.
"Mommy's alright, Daddy's alright, they just seem a little weird Surrender, surrender, but don't give yourself away"
Here is the chorus. The first line he is telling himself that mommy and daddy are all right because he's never seen therm like this before. They are acting weird and he's not used to seeing them this way. (because they are high)The second line is 2 parts - Surrender, Surrender, means give into the fact that they are not the perfect examples of parents and although they tell you not to use drugs, they are hypocrites and use them themselves. The second part "but don't give yourself away" means don't let on that you know this and don't let them know that you do drugs yourself because you know that it won't go good for you anyways.
Father says your mother's right, she's really up on things Before we married, Mommy served in the WACs in the Philippines Now, I had heard the WACs recruited old maids for the war* But mommy isn't one of those I've known her all these years
Thev WACs were the Womens Army Corp and the military would readily recruit people from the Philippines because they were a big help to the U.S. during WWII. The Philippine government allowed the U.S. to build a major naval baseallowing the U.S. to be within striking range of Japan. In the 70s when I was there in the Philippines there were hookers by the thousands because that was easy money and at the time 1 U.S. dollar was worth 8 pesos. That means our dollars were worth 8 of theirs. So getting a job in the military would mean striking it rich to their families without having to degrade yourself. The 3rd line was originally *"Now I had heard the WACS recruited old maids, dykes and whores." But it was censored and they took out dykes, and whores. Yes back then that was a big no no on the radio. So all you heard was "old maids" which really didn't make much sense because why would some guy want to start a family with an old maid or even a dyke for that matter? That leaves only a whore which again supports the first part of the song where "she also told me stay away you'll never know what you'll catch".
Whatever happened to all this season's losers of the year?** Everytime I got to thinking where'd they disappear? When I woke up, Mom and Dad are rolling on the couch Rolling numbers, rock and rolling, got my Kiss records out
The first line was again censored. The original was "Whatever happened to all this season's murderers and queers?". As you can see these lyrics were not LGBT friendly and it was really a good thing these lines were censored orthis entire song would have been pulled and Cheap Trick would have suffered some backlash for sure. Here I think the kid is looking for some kind of distraction from all of the stuff going on at home. Something in the news he canfocus on and point to and say how messed up that is so he doesn't have to face his own parents. The second line is all too familiar. I myself used the phrase "Let's roll some numbers and figure it out" as a way to let my buddies know I had some weed and we could go roll a joint to get stoned while in the presence of strait people so they wouldn't catch on. Rolling numbers is rolling a joint, a number is another word for joint or if you are that out of it, yes a marijuana cigarette. Coincidentally, my generation was far from the first to use this kind of nomenclature. The next part "Rocking and rolling" was from the preceding generation that referred to sex as Rocking and Rolling, HA! Yes that's right, old blues songs that had lines like "rocking all nite long" were not talking about just listening to music. Rocking and Rolling was dubbed from a ship's movement on the ocean, get the picture? Then we come to the part where his parents "got my kiss records out". Now most of you might think "So what"? Well let me tell you something, back then a record collection was quite personal and for your parents to pull out YOUR records and start playing them, well that was sacrilege. To wake up and find your parents stoned and playing your records (which were your symbol of teenage rebellion) it would have just blown your mind. So the chorus "Surrender..." he's basically trying not to freak out. Just give it up already because you can't rebel against these people, you can't do anything to come close to freaking them out. They are just too hardcore.
And that is my take on this song. Hope you enjoyed it and learned something along the way.
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"After bringing our Camster wind farm into operation this summer, we're very aware of the area's wind resources, infrastructure and connections to the local power network," said Emma Clark, senior project developer.
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10 Hour Sour and Doughometer
Having grown up in San Jose, CA, SF sourdough is what I think of when I think sourdough and thanks to many posts on this site, especially the ones concerning Larraburu, such as this one: http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/17730/divine-inspirationfor-me-it-way-larraburu-brother039s-sf-sd-what-was-it-you have given me a lot of inspiration and I feel like I'm getting closer to being able to get the sour I want without having it taste like whole wheat or rye. I've been keeping the mother starter at room temp and feeding it 1 part starter : 1 part water : 1 part AP : 1 part WW. I still don't have any clear flour, which seems to be what's providing the necessary ash content in the Larraburu formula, so I've been adding a portion of WW as a placeholder of sorts.
SFish Sourdough
50g stiff levain (refrigerated after refreshing the mother starter)
25 g whole wheat
275g KA all purpose
180g warm water (170g + 10g after 5-10 min. autolyze)
6g salt
I mixed everything but the salt and 10g of water and let it rest for 5-10 min. and then added the remaining ingredients and hand kneaded ( 5 minutes?) to combine. I let it rise in ther oven, aiming to keep temp around 86 F by alternating oven light on/off. After about 5 hours I did a few S&Fs, preshaped and rested for 5 minutes, and then shaped as a boule and proofed in a towel lined bowl back in the oven at the same temp for an additional 4.5 hours. Then I preheated oven and ceramic baking dish to 500 F. When I added the dough I dropped the oven to 425 F. Steamed for 20 minutes lid on and an additional 15-20 min. with the lid off.
The flavor was more or less spot on with what I was looking for, definitely sour without being too sour, and it still had good shape. I didn't use steam during proofing and the outside of the loaf got dry so that may have helped it keep the shape during the long proof.
Since there doesn't appear to be a poke test equivelant for pH or TTA, I'll confess I tried a tiny bit of the dough a few times as it was proofing. And I also tried out the method of putting a small piece of dough in water to see when it would be light enough to float. I also added some corn oil to try and gauge further change over a longer proofing time. For a while I thought it wouldn't work, but sure enough, soon after I had shaped the loaf the dough ball started to float. Strange dough blob in action photos below:
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WILKES-BARRE TWP. - Brian Gibbons is off to a sizzling start to the season for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins.
How hot? Even when he wipes out, it turns to gold.
Gibbons stole a puck while lying on his stomach, setting up a Jayson Megna goal less than two minutes into the game as the Penguins routed the Adirondack Phantoms 6-3 Friday night at the Mohegan Sun Arena.
A prone Gibbons knocked a puck away from a Phantoms defender in front of the visiting team bench, got up and moved in on a 2-on-1 break. He passed to Megna on the right wing for a goal at 1:08.
"I lost an edge or tripped over my own feet and kind of fell into the boards there," Gibbons said. "I don't know if the defenseman saw me or not because I was on the ice and he was looking up. I was able to kind of pick his pocket."
Gibbons finished with a goal and two assists and Megna scored twice. The speedy duo showed chemistry last season, but the scoring chances they created didn't lead to many goals. This year, Gibbons is third in the league with seven points and Megna has four points in four games.
"I wasn't burying them for him last year," Megna said. "He's still feeding me. Finally, they're starting to go in. I'm happy for him. I'm happy for me too."
Gibbons, Megna and the Penguins offense were faced with a challenge Friday night, as wingers Chris Conner and Harry Zolnierczyk, who scored six of the team's first 14 goals this season, had been called up to Pittsburgh since the team last played.
Paul Thompson slotted into Conner's spot with Gibbons and Megna, players like Dominik Uher and Adam Payerl took advantage of increased ice time and the Penguins didn't miss a beat.
"The way that Gibbons and Megna have played, they were driving the bus," coach John Hynes said. "It wasn't one guy creating offense and the other two were beneficiaries. They were all contributing to it."
Through their first three games, the Penguins used strong third periods to get off to an undefeated start. On Friday, they fired right out of the gate, hitting, skating and scoring twice in the first five minutes.
After Megna's goal at 1:08, Uher flew up the left wing and hit a rushing Tom Kuhnhackl for a goal at 4:52.
The Penguins also scored twice in the first 10 minutes of the second period. Payerl tipped in a Philip Samuelsson shot from the point at 5:12 and Gibbons fed Megna on a 2-on-1 shorthanded break at 9:12.
"It was the best 60-minute effort we've had," Gibbons said. "Second periods have kind of been a weakness for us, and I think we showed when we play a 60-minute effort like that, we're a tough team to play against."
The Phantoms did just enough to hang around for a while, getting a slap shot goal from Bruno Gervais to tie it 1-1 in the first and a Nick Cousins slam dunk of a Petr Straka centering pass to make it 4-2 in the second.
The comeback never really got going, though. Uher scored on a blast of a shot from the left wing with 5:32 left in the second to make it 5-2 and Gibbons tacked on a power-play goal in the third.
"We still had guys that hadn't been in the lineup that were coming in hungry," Hynes said. "It gave other guys an opportunity to step into roles and play well."


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Earlier articles about her can be accessed through the following links:
On September 23 in federal court, she was sentenced to 86 years in prison, though committed no crime. It's a gross miscarriage of justice, compounding what's she's already endured, following her March 30, 2003 abduction, imprisonment, torture, prosecution, and conviction on spurious charges.
Through sentencing she was in New York City solitary confinement and may still be there, pending transfer to Federal Medical Center (FMC) Carswell in Fort Worth, TX, a hellhole described as a facility "provid(ing) specialized medical and mental health services to female prisoners." If she's there long-term, it'll be a death sentence, its harshness precipitating it sooner, not later.
On November 4, Yvonne Ridley called it "CarsHELL," citing its past 10 year record, including:
Ridley quoted The Fort Worth Weekly saying Carswell imprisonment "can be a death sentence for women prisoners." Incarceration there will continue her torture, abuse and violation of international and US law, as well as Bureau of Prisons regulations that aren't enforced so, in fact, are worthless.
In several December 1 reports, the London Guardian discussed them, including its article headlined, "US embassy cables: Bagram officials deny detaining Aafia Siddiqui."
US deception and lies about her date from initial accusations, regarding a bogus plot to bomb New York landmarks, charges omitted from her indictment.
Though abducted while visiting family in Pakistan on March 30, 2003, the FBI, on April 4, denied she was captured and detained. On May 28, 2004, Pakistan's Interior Ministry confirmed she was turned over to US authorities in 2003 after no links with alleged terror groups were confirmed.
Later reports named her Bagram's "Prisoner 650." At the same time, US authorities denied holding any women there. It wasn't until July 31, 2008 that FBI officials told Siddiqui's brother that she was in US custody. Her family knew it years earlier.
The released cables contained no bombshell information. One dated July 31, 2008 said:
"Bagram officials have assured us that they have not been holding Siddiqui for the last four years, as has been alleged."
An October 29, 2008 cable denied knowledge of Siddiqui's children, even though her son was in US custody and two others at the time were missing. Pakistan's Acting Foreign Secretary, Khalid Babar, raised the issue with then ambassador Anne Patterson, who "made it clear that US authorities do not know the whereabouts of the children, who have never been in US custody, and noted that the Pakistani Embassy has been given full consular access to Siddiqui," a claim very much stretching the truth.
A November 13, 2008 cable said Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf "Gilani asked the US to release to GOP custody Dr. Aafia Siddiqui....argu(ing) that the needs of her family and reports of her being ill provided humanitarian grounds for such a transfer. He also argued that her case whipped up mass popular support, diverting his government's attention from the counterterrorism mission."
A February 12, 2010 cable said "a group of moderate Muslim religious leaders expressed very strong feelings about the Siddiqui case and the guilty verdict. The religious leaders were unified in their belief that Siddiqui did not receive a fair trial and called for mercy on the grounds that she was a women. They claimed that the verdict detracted from President Obama's efforts to reach out to the Muslim community and that he should step in and release Siddiqui as a show of good faith towards world Muslims."
The US Embassy said "Siddiqui had received a fair trial," when, in fact, it was rigged to convict.
A February 19, 2010 cable discussed a February 16 Gilani/Senator John Kerry meeting at which he:
"asked USG to consider repatriating Dr. Aafia Siddiqui on humanitarian grounds. He said that this was a very contentious issue in Pakistan, adding that by returning Dr. Siddiqui 'the US would be in the Pakistani people's good graces.' Both Gilani and Interior Minister Reham Malik assured Kerry that the GOP would honor the terms of Dr. Siddiqui's jail sentence, and suggested that she complete (it) under house arrest (in Pakistan). Kerry agreed to look into the prisoner transfer issue."
Likely not too hard as over nine months later, action didn't follow. Siddiqui is either in New York City isolation or at FMC "CarsHELL," perhaps there to die. If so, at least she'll have the peace she's been denied for over seven and a half years of brutal imprisonment, isolation and torture.
On December 1, Guardian writer Declan Walsh headlined, "WikiLeaks cables: Mystery deepens over Pakistan scientist Aafia Siddiqui," saying:
Her family insists she's innocent, "and that she spent the 'missing' five years between 2003 and 2008 in US detention at the Bagram base," US denials notwithstanding.
They've "been treated with skepticism by the Pakistani media, which has given credence to the family's account and dismissed US statements as part of a cover-up."
America's major media reacted otherwise, pronouncing guilt by accusation, biasing public opinion, branding her and other FBI targets "terrorists," as well all or most Muslims by implication.
In several articles, New York Times writers played along, including Benjamin Weiser in his September 23 account, headlined, "Pakistani Sentenced to 86 Years for Attack," saying:
She was convicted for "assault(ing) a team of American officers and agents who went to question her after her arrest that led to her conviction....on charges that included attempting to kill American officers and employees. She had been taken into custody in Ghazni, Afghanistan, after the local authorities became suspicious of her loitering outside the provincial governor's compound."
In fact, Weiser lied from top of paragraph to bottom.
Targeted for her faith, ethnicity, activism, passion for the oppressed, humble charity, and alleged connection to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed through marriage, she was home in Karachi visiting family. On March 30, 2003, en route to a flight to Rawalpindi, she was abducted by Pakistan's police or ISI at the behest of US officials, then turned over to them as requested.
Preposterous charges later accused her of the following:
In the presence of two FBI agents, two Army interpreters, and three US Army officers, this frail 110 pound woman allegedly assaulted three of them, seized one of their rifles, opened fire at point blank range, hit no one, yet she alone was severely wounded.
At trial, no credible evidence was presented. The accusations were concocted and spurious. None accused her of plotting to blow up New York or any other landmarks or facilities. Yet proceedings were carefully orchestrated. Witnesses were enlisted, pressured, coerced, and/or bribed to cooperate. Jurors were then intimidated to convict "based on fear, not fact," according to her attorney Elaine Whitfield Sharp.
Yet Weiser accepted the official account unskeptically, highlighting FBI director Robert Mueller calling her "an Al Qaeda operative and facilitator," carrying bomb-making instructions and a list of targets when arrested in 2008.
It was March 2003, five years earlier, unmentioned in Weiser's article, mostly presenting official distortions and lies, a New York Times speciality. This time he disparaged an innocent woman, condemned perhaps to perish in prison hell for being Muslim at the wrong time in America.
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Each week, we'll ask our stable of scribes across the globe to weigh in on the most important NBA topics of the day — and then give you a chance to step on the scale, too, in the comments below.
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> Give me a good one-two combo – a GM and a coach – who can turn things around in Brooklyn if given the chance.
David Aldridge, TNT analyst: I'd love to see Troy Weaver (the assistant GM in Oklahoma City) get a shot at running his own shop. He's smart and talented and knows everyone in basketball, and knows who can play. And if he got the job, you'd obviously think he'd look hard at bringing Scott Brooks in to coach. If he went another way, though, and went outside the list of the usual suspects (Tom Thibodeau, Jeff Van Gundy, etc.), someone like David Fizdale, the associate head coach in Miami, could do the job. Or, how about one Patrick Aloysius Ewing, once a basketball player of some accomplishment, but who is now an assistant coach in Charlotte — and an incredibly patient one — who's been an NBA assistant for more than a decade. He should have been given shot to be a coach, about, oh six or seven years ago. I have no idea if Ewing would be a good coach or not. I had no idea if Erik Spoelstra could do it when Pat Riley gave him a chance to do it. And that's what Ewing deserves–a chance, to succeed or fail on his talents and efforts. But none of those names/combos will work if owner Mikhail Prokhorov doesn't give them the time to build the Nets from the bottom up. And, make no mistake — they're at the bottom.
Steve Aschburner, NBA.com: My preferred package deal for this sort of intervention is Jeff Van Gundy as GM/POBO and buddy Tom Thibodeau as head coach. I doubt either would be interested in Brooklyn's toxic combination of flawed roster, hobbled draft future and impetuous, now-more-inclined-to-tinker ownership. But they have the basketball chops, the street cred and the know-how to stage an impressive turnaround. And if it's not in Brooklyn, maybe it ought to be in Minnesota, where both jobs are up for grabs this summer. My Plan B would be someone such as Jeff Weltman, currently working with Masai Ujiri in Toronto, getting hired and bringing in, say, Monty Williams (who should still be a coach in this league) or Luke Walton.
Fran Blinebury, NBA.com: My first thought was Jesus of Nazareth and his Father due to the near miracle it's going to take to dig out of that hole dug by Billy King. But of this earthly realm, I'll go with the no-nonsense pairing of Tom Thibodeau as coach and Jeff Van Gundy as G.M. Oooh, but they'd need time. Lots of it. And frankly, I don't think either would want the job.
Scott Howard-Cooper, NBA.com: There is a lot of heaving lifting ahead, with few trade assets and no 2016 lottery pick, so lets start with the clarification that "turn things around in Brooklyn" will be a wide, slow bend. The 76ers just beat the Nets to my choice, Jerry Colangelo, who would not have had a lot of years left with the necessary energy but could have provided the smart statesman the Nets desperately need. I would love to see John Calipari get the job as coach/GM. Not because it would be a good choice, but just imagine Cal in full power play in New York. I feel better about the coaching decision: Ettore Messina, with a long look at Tom Thibodeau as well.
Shaun Powell, NBA.com: Jeff Van Gundy and whomever he hand-picks to be his personnel guy. Van Gundy has been away from coaching long enough to miss it, and now that his daughter is in college, he's free to chase the dollars, and there will be plenty of that in Brooklyn. Plus, Van Gundy has experience in dealing with New York, where he's respected. Give him the same power that his brother has in Detroit, and it could happen.
John Schuhmann, NBA.com: There are more viable coaching candidates than GM candidates out there and success starts at the top, so I would open the vault for R.C. Buford and give him (and not Dmitry Razumov) final say on all basketball decisions, including the choice of who to coach this team. Scott Brooks, Mike D'Antoni and Tom Thibodeau are all fine picks in that regard. The one that can work best with my new GM should be the new coach.
Sekou Smith, NBA.com: I'm a firm believer in new blood when you're dealing with the situation the Nets are facing right now. No retread general managers or coaches. Scott Perry (assistant GM in Orlando) has paid his dues after holding the same position in Detroit during their glory days under Joe Dumars, and doing a similar job in Oklahoma City before landing in Orlando. Perry has earned the right to sit in the first chair. He's as well respected as any executive I can think of around the league, both by his peers, players, agents and anyone who moves and shakes in the world of basketball. He also has no ego, which I think is a prerequisite for the job today. As for the coach, who better than Cleveland assistant coach Tyronn Lue. He's learned from some of the very best (Phil Jackson, Doc Rivers) and has been an invaluable asset for David Blatt as he transitioned from coaching internationally to the NBA. His years as an apprentice are over. He's ready. And the Nets could use the infusion of new energy both would bring to their organization.
Ian Thomsen, NBA.com: They should hire John Calipari for both roles. I have done a full 180 on this in recent years. It's obvious now that his real strength is as a recruiter. He can bring recruiting in the NBA to an unprecedented level of sophistication. NBA teams tend to be amateurish when it comes to recruiting. Calipari understands that it is a science, and coaching in a market as big as Brooklyn will enable him to make the most of free agency. But it is only going to work if a team gives him total control – without the ability to reinvent the front office and change the entire point of view, Calipari will have little impact. Free agency is going to grow more important as NBA contracts are shortened and the cap is hardened. Someday someone is going to look like a genius for hiring Calipari.
Lang Whitaker, NBA.com's All Ball blog: Here's the thing: You could bring in Red Auerbach as GM and Phil Jackson as coach, and a Brooklyn rebuild isn't happening overnight. The Nets are really in dire straits, and there is no quick fix for this. So you need a GM who is patient and shrewd, with a track record for success. Thinking broadly and creatively, why not throw a lot of money at Jerry West, a former executive of the year now consulting with the champion Warriors? As for a coach, why not try a system that could be transformative, so how about getting Mike D'Antoni out of Philadelphia and let him turn his 7 seconds or less system loose to his heart's content?


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Imogen Thomas — Crush of the Day [PICTURES]
Imogen Thomas is a glamor model, former 'Big Brother' housemate and former Miss Wales. She has appeared in popular magazines like Zoo and Maxim. Im-o-gen her naked! CUE RIMSHOT! Actually, no need to imagine, just Google it. The Welsh beauty is our crush today for a much different reason than just her looks and assets.
Quick tale: The Sun newspaper broke a story that Thomas had a relationship with a married soccer player. The Sun didn't name the guy, a gag order was put on the owners of the paper to not name him, and it seemed like everything was honky dory in the UK. Nope. Other media outlets alluding to the fact it was Premier League star Ryan Giggs. GGGGGOOOOOAAAALLLLLL! It was Giggs but Thomas stayed quiet through it all, never named names, or attempted to make cash off the fact she juggled the soccer balls of a married man.
That is why we're crushing on Imogen. Sure, she was letting a married man slip one past her goalie, but in a world of "I did this guy/girl now pay me to talk," she took the high road and left all the gossip to the tabloids and talk shows. It's probably because she isn't an American. America. Land of the free. Home of the "pay me, I'm kind of a slut."


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X Implementation Notes: Note that game mode is not fully supported in the original GLUT for X, it is essentially the same as using fullScreen. The GLUT clone freeglut (see http://freeglut.sourceforge.net/) does not have this restriction.
Controls the game mode to be used when enterGameMode is called. It is described by a list of zero or more capability descriptions, which are translated into a set of criteria used to select the appropriate screen configuration. The criteria are matched in strict left to right order of precdence. That is, the first specified criterion (leftmost) takes precedence over the later criteria for non-exact criteria (Graphics.UI.GLUT.Initialization.IsGreaterThan, Graphics.UI.GLUT.Initialization.IsLessThan, etc.). Exact criteria (Graphics.UI.GLUT.Initialization.IsEqualTo, Graphics.UI.GLUT.Initialization.IsNotEqualTo) must match exactly so precedence is not relevant.
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Enter game mode, trying to change resolution, refresh rate, etc., as specified by the current value of gameModeCapabilities. An identifier for the game mode window and a flag, indicating if the display mode actually changed, are returned. The game mode window is made the current window.
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Apollo Suicide — Suicide Girl of the Day
Apollo is a 23-year-old Texan who says her current crush is "your girlfriend." Can't we all just get along?
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HOMETOWN: Detroit
OCCUPATION: Alternative art model
CURRENT CRUSH: Your girlfriend.
GETS ME HOT: Shy people.
SIGN: Yield
MOST HUMBLING MOMENT: Injuring my spinal cord, being paralyzed from the waist down for two and a half years. Straight kickin' butt and takin' names until I regained full use of my legs!
I LOST MY VIRGINITY: When I was 13. In the basement of my then boyfriend's parent's house. I was standing on a couch and it was all really awkward.
MY KINK FACTOR: I'll try anything once, especially if you beg for it.
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NOT INTO: Mean people.
MAKES ME HAPPY: Pretty girls.
MAKES ME SAD: Jerks.
5 THINGS I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT: Orgasms, love, ganja, ukulele, sunglasses
I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Playing music, smoking and just being awesome.
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Call it the ultimate space camp: for one week this summer, a group of middle school students will learn how to use the Museum's Digital Universe Atlas, a three-dimensional, scientifically accurate map of the cosmos, and discover how the atlas is built from data gathered by scientists around the world. Then, using gaming laptops, the students will create their very own digital tour to a favorite spot of the universe, which will be shown in a special evening program in the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater on Friday, July 13.
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The Brontë Sisters (Anne Brontë; Emily Brontë; Charlotte Brontë)
1 portrait of Emily Brontë
- Overview
- Extended Catalogue Entry
© National Portrait Gallery, London
The Brontë Sisters (Anne Brontë; Emily Brontë; Charlotte Brontë)
by Patrick Branwell Brontë
oil on canvas, circa 1834
35 1/2 in. x 29 3/8 in. (902 mm x 746 mm)
Purchased, 1914
Primary Collection
On display in Room 24 at the National Portrait Gallery
Sittersback to top
- Anne Brontë (1820-1849), Novelist. Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), Novelist. Sitter associated with 4 portraits.
- Emily Brontë (1818-1848), Novelist. Sitter in 3 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Patrick Branwell Brontë (1817-1848), Painter and poet; brother of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë. Artist associated with 3 portraits.
This portraitback to top
This is the only surviving group portrait of the three famous novelist sisters - from left to right: Anne, Emily and Charlotte Brontë. The portrait was known from a description of it by the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell who saw it in 1853. It was thought to have been lost until it was discovered folded up on top of a cupboard by the second wife of Charlotte Brontë's husband, the Reverend A.B. Nicholls, in 1914. In the centre of the group a male figure, previously concealed by a painted pillar, can now be discerned; it is almost certainly a self-portrait of the artist, their brother Branwell Brontë.
Related worksback to top
- NPG x47301: Vita Sackville-West (includes the portrait)
- NPG x126519: Vita Sackville-West (includes the portrait)
Linked publicationsback to top
- 100 Portraits, p. 68
- Audio Guide
- Smartify image discovery app
- Victorian Portraits Resource Pack, p. 10
- Alexander, Christine (Christine Anne), Celebrating Charlotte Brontë : transforming life into literature in Jane Eyre, 2016, p. 160
- Cooper, John, A Guide to the National Portrait Gallery, 2009, p. 41
- Cooper, John, Visitor's Guide, 2000, p. 77
- Eger, Elizabeth; Peltz, Lucy, Brilliant Women: 18th Century Bluestockings, 2008 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 13 March to 15 June 2008), p. 137
- Forster, Margaret, BP Portrait Award 2006, 2006 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 15 June to 17 September 2006), p. 11
- Funnell, Peter, Victorian Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery Collection, 1996, p. 10
- Funnell, Peter (introduction); Marsh, Jan, A Guide to Victorian and Edwardian Portraits, 2011, p. 37
- John Cooper, National Portrait Gallery Visitor's Guide, 2006, p. 77
- Ormond, Richard, Early Victorian Portraits, 1973, p. 57
- Piper, David, The English Face, 1992, p. 206
- Saumarez Smith, Charles, The National Portrait Gallery: An Illustrated Guide, 2000, p. 119
- Saumarez Smith, Charles, The National Portrait Gallery, 1997, p. 119
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 713
- Various contributors, National Portrait Gallery: A Portrait of Britain, 2014, p. 136
Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- Celebrating Charlotte Brontë (22 February 2016 - 14 August 2016)
Subjects & Themesback to top
Events of 1834back to top
Current affairsSir Robert Peel, Tory, replaces Whig Lord Melbourne as Prime Minister, promising measured reform in a shift from reactionary 'Tory' to more measured 'Conservative' politics (he had voted for the 1832 Reform Act).
Trial of Tolpuddle Martyrs, six labourers transported to Australia after trying to raise funds for workers in need by forming a Friendly Society.
Art and scienceCharles Babbage's invents the Analytic Machine. Considered to be the forerunner to the modern computer, the machine was able to make automatic mathematical calculations.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton publishes his hugely popular, but now largely neglected, novel Last Days of Pompeii, set in the Italian city at the time of Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79AD.
InternationalDom Miguel I, King of Portugal, is defeated by his brother Pedro IV, in the Portuguese civil war.
Slavery is abolished in the British dominions, although slaves still working are indentured to their former owners in an 'apprenticeship' system; the philanthropist Joseph Sturge was a prominent critic of the policy, which was abolished in 1838. Whilst slave owners received compensation, slaves received nothing.
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James Gorin von Grozny
05 March 2017, 13:42
Also this year 1834 Branwell and family visited the 'Royal Northern Festival for the Encouragement of Visual Arts', Leeds, to see Charlotte's 'Bolton Abbey' hanging alongside stars of the day (Turner, Nasmyth, Wilkie, Calvert and Linnell among many). Charlotte is the youngest, and only female exhibitor. Her shy, incremental drawing 'Bolton Abbey' commemorates the sibling's exclusive guided tour of Bolton Abbey the previous summer. The family likely met exhibitors William Robinson, subsequently Branwell's 2nd tutor at the gala event, and sculptor J B Leyland, Branwell's 'best friend'.
29 March 2016, 11:24
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