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KIEV: Smarting from Ukraine's U-turn towards Europe, Russia is likely to employ every weapon in its economic arsenal to ensure its neighbour's road to financial recovery is as painful as possible, even when paved with billions of dollars in Western aid.
After months of anti-government protests and the overthrow of a government blighted by corruption and economic mismanagement, Ukraine is on the brink of bankruptcy, running wide external deficits and a current account shortfall of over 9 percent of gross domestic product.
On Thursday, the International Monetary Fund threw a financial lifeline, agreeing to stump up $14-18 billion as part of a two-year bailout package in exchange for tough economic reforms.
The deal, combined with Kiev's signing of a cooperation pact linked to closer trade ties with the European Union, represents a serious blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin's dream of Ukraine joining a Eurasian Union of former Soviet states.
"The better off Ukraine is under the new government, the more likely it will integrate into the West," said Nicu Popescu, senior analyst at the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS).
"So disrupting the Ukrainian transition in political and economic terms is probably Russia's primary foreign policy goal in the foreseeable future."
Putin's annexation of Crimea, which Kiev and the West say is illegitimate, is likely to push Ukraine's gross domestic product (GDP) down by 5 percent in 2014, according to Simon Mandel, Vice President for Emerging Europe at New York-based brokerage Auerbach Grayson.
While the tens of thousands of Russian troops thought to be massed on the border show no immediate sign of entering other parts of Ukraine, Russia has already flexed its trade muscles to upset the Western-backed Ukrainian recovery plan. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Wednesday the price the country would pay for Russian gas, which accounts for over half of Ukrainian gas imports, would soar by almost 80 percent from April 1 as the seizure of Crimea had rendered a cheaper gas deal obsolete.
Russia's Gazprom has suggested a new conflict over gas payments and supplies - like disputes in 2006 and 2009 that halted supplies to Ukraine and onward to Europe - could break out, though it added it had no interest in a resumption of such disputes.
Last year Putin showed he was prepared to wield restrictions or bans on Ukrainian exports as punishment for attempts by the country of 46 million to move out of Moscow's orbit.
With exports to Russia accounting for nearly a quarter of Ukrainian external trade and contributing around 8 percent of GDP, further moves could significantly inhibit the country's bid for economic renaissance.
It would take a lot of "blood and sweat" for many Ukrainian companies to withstand any Russian trade ban, Vice President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Andras Simor told Reuters. "They will need to be flexible if circumstances create a need for adjustment," he said. "We will be there to try and help them as much as possible."
Cementing Kiev's historic shift away from Russia, a bilateral free-trade agreement between Ukraine and the European Union is due to come into force later this year, and Russian trade officials have expressed concerns over closer Ukrainian association with the European bloc.
Russia's milk union has asked for a ban on Ukrainian dairy products, and while no bans are in the works, imports from Ukraine are being monitored closely, according to the assistant to the head of Russia's veterinary oversight agency Rosselkhoznadzor.
"There are no plans to impose restrictions on trade, but we must be prepared for the fact that we will impose restrictions if ... Ukraine is not able to fulfil its obligations due to the political situation in the country," Rosselkhoznadzor's Alex Alexeenko told Reuters.
Dairy products account for only a fraction of Ukraine's sales to Russia, but all Ukrainian exporters will be anxiously eyeing Russia's trade stance, particularly industrial producers in the east.
Russia accounts for 13 percent of Ukraine's iron and steel exports, and the political crisis has already hit shipments from Ukrainian steelmakers this year.
Sales of rebar - a steel bar or mesh of steel wires used in reinforced concrete - to the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), a bloc of former Soviet states, fell 70 percent to 45,000 tonnes in January compared with the average monthly export figure in the first half of 2013.
Russian steelmakers have aggressively lobbied their government to implement measures to defend domestic producers from Ukrainian imports.
A spokesman for Ukraine's largest steelmaker, Metinvest, which controls about half of the country's steel industry, said expanding its sales markets was a priority.
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2013 Graduates Complete "Today's Students Tomorrow's Teachers" Program
Dr. Mike Wischnowski, Dean, Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. School of Education, and Dr. Bill Stroud, Assistant Professor and Co-Program Director, M.S. Educational Leadership, attended the "Today's Students Tomorrow's Teachers (TSTT)" ceremony at Monroe I BOCES on May 24.
The TSTT program is based upon an 8-year, full circle, collaborative model. The mission of the program is to recruit, mentor, and train culturally diverse and economically challenged students from high school through college and place them as effective teachers and committed leaders who strengthen schools and communities. The College is one of 23 schools that provide a program scholarship.
Two of Fisher's 2013 graduates, Allison Marciano and Samantha Davis, were also recognized as graduates at the TSTT ceremony. Marciano, a Childhood/Special Education graduate, attended Churchville Chili High School, and Davis, an Adolescent Education/English graduate, attended Rush Henrietta High School.
Synthia Green '07, '09 (MS), an English Teacher at Rochester Early College International High School, served as the keynote speaker.
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I am going to make some shelves on my UDS today out of expanded metal and angle iron. I plan on making it a hinge type system with a couple pins that I can put into it and remove the shelf entirely or just lower it..
Another idea I have thought of instead of a ash basket why doesnt someone just cut a hole in the bottom and put a pipe nipple on the bottom base of the drum and push the ashes through that into a bucket or pan. I already have my uds off of the ground with the foot I welded onto it and I can just cover it with a pipe nipple when the UDS is in use. It also would allow water to drain out of it when I wash it.
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As far as ash goes I had a similar concern when I built mine so I went this route. A little more work to build but clean up is a snap...
I would imagine the ash/clean-out hole mod at the bottom of the drum would work as intended, as well as running the drum without a coal basket. Burning the fuel bare at the bottom of the drum would also create more distance between the coals and the grates as the coals are not elevated in a basket. All you need is perhaps an expanded metal ring (with or without bottom) to keep the coals confined, to keep clear of the intake vents.
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Poor draft, the fire will snuff its self out like an ECB. Fire is a bottom feeder it draws air in at the bottom and releases heat out the top: no air= no fire.
You won't be able to snuff out the fire on a short cook and save fuel for the next cook. Charcoal, ashes and drippings all mixed together will draw damp ruining any remaining fuel and also rust out the bottom of the cooker
Once the grease is mixed with the ash good luck pushing that sludge out of a pipe nipple
I won't be using the drain hole as an intake hole. I will look and see if I have any drill bits for 1.5 inch pipe or 2 inch.
I will keep my basket and I don't think the charcoal will snuff out fire if I don't have a ash catcher
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Got done with the shelf today. I need to paint it or put a different type of top shelf on it. But I am pleased with the brackets
I set it up so it is pinned in two places and then you can swing it up and down for storage when you remove the back pin or in my case a bolt
Looks good!! You'll definitely enjoy having a shelf close to the pit. Cheers!!!
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Shawnee police searched along westbound Interstate 70 in Kansas City, KS, Tuesday afternoon, looking for a gun used in a murder that occurred three years ago.
Capt. Bill Hisle with the Shawnee Police Department said detectives received information recently that a gun used in the murder of Gerry Grovenburg at his business, Mr. G.'s Liquor, in 2010 might have been dumped along the highway.
Hisle said police initially believed the gun was thrown away to the west of the Turner Diagonal, but recently they got new information that it may have been dumped on the east side. This led to their search at the 57th Street exit in the westbound lanes, or north side of I-70.
Hisle was not overly optimistic about finding the gun, but said hardly a week goes by that detectives aren't following up on clues in the high-profile case.
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Officials denounce ban, crackdown on Moscow Pride
by Rex Wockner
Originally printed 6/9/2011 (Issue 1923 - Between The Lines News)
European and U.S. officials have denounced the Moscow government for banning gay pride for the sixth year in a row and violently arresting people who defied the ban.
France's Foreign Ministry said Russia has an obligation to protect freedom of speech and assembly and is violating a European Court of Human Rights ruling.
Council of Europe Secretary-General Thorbjorn Jagland said, "The right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, as enshrined in Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights, belongs to all people without any discrimination."
The U.S. State Department said: "We note with concern that in Moscow on Saturday, May 28, a peaceable demonstration of Russians advocating for the rights of gays and lesbians, joined by international supporters, was forcefully disrupted by counter-protesters, and that Russian security forces then detained people from both groups, including American citizens. Some protestors were seriously injured according to media reports. Freedom of assembly is a fundamental right all members of the OSCE committed to, including in the Moscow declaration and as recently as the Astana summit. As nationwide legislative elections approach, constraints on the ability of Russian citizens peacefully to gather and express their views will be closely watched in evaluating the integrity of the electoral process. We call on Russian authorities to work with municipal officials to find better ways to safeguard these fundamental freedoms."
Undeterred by the April ruling from the European Court of Human Rights that banning Moscow Pride is illegal in multiple ways, the city blocked the May 28 gay pride parade for the sixth time. Activists responded by trying to rally near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and City Hall. They were violently arrested.
Activists said the Council of Europe, of which the court is a part, must respond by terminating Russia's voting rights within the association.
In ruling against the Moscow government, the Euro Court said that previous years' gay-pride bans by then-Mayor Yuri Luzhkov violated the European Convention on Human Rights in the areas of freedom of assembly and association, the right to an effective remedy and prohibition of discrimination.


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User Delay Costs and Internal Pricing for a Service Facility
AbstractThis paper studies optimal pricing and capacity decisions for a service facility in an environment where users' delay cost is important. The model assumes a general nonlinear delay cost structure and incorporates the tradeoff between the delay cost and capacity cost. We find necessary and sufficient conditions for the optimality of a pricing rule that charges out service resources at their marginal capacity cost. We examine the issue of budgetary balance and find that net-value maximization entails a budget deficit for the service facility; that is, the service facility should be evaluated as a "deficit center." The results provide guidelines under which the optimal magnitude of the deficit can be determined.
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Volume (Year): 36 (1990)
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Listen to the new Cherrry Ghost single, taken from forthcoming LP 'Herd Runners'
Last month we brought news of the third LP from Cherry Ghost, and we're now pleased to share with you the brand new single taken from the record, as premiered by Marc Riley on BBC 6 music. It's such a beautiful track and is available to download on iTunes now over here.
Stealing Sheep to play David Lynch event at London's Barbican
We're really excited to say that Stealing Sheep have announced a special London date in June, playing the world premiere of a new live homage to the songs and music from David Lynch's films. Find all the info below plus ticket link…
'In Dreams: David Lynch Revisited' is a project led by musical director David Coulter, the man also behind Beck's Song Reader show at the same venue last year. The event, taking place on 20 June, will see the performance of select music from Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart, Lost Highway and cult TV surrealist drama Twin Peaks.
The likes of Villagers' Conor O'Brien, Jehnny Beth from Savages, Stealing Sheep, long-term Nick Cave collaborator Mick Harvey and more are among those performing live.
This stellar cast of singers will be reinterpreting classic songs from Lynch's songbook. With the original versions performed by Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley and David Bowie amongst others, In Dreams focuses on the beauty of reinterpretation from newer acts.
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Record Store Day 2014: Temples/Jagwar Ma, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and TOY
We're really excited to announce that we're putting out three excellent 12″ releases for this year's Record Store Day (19th April).
On 12″ picture discs we have a remix swap between Temples (James's first ever remix!) and our friends Jagwar Ma, plus a track from Australia's King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard which is just genius and previously only available on their sold-out 2013 album 'Float Along — Fill Your Lungs'. We're releasing it because we love it. Plus on 12″ we have TOY's 'Join The Dubs', previously only released as a limited bonus CD. Find more details on each release below, plus scroll right to the bottom to stream the full soundcloud set!
HVN282 Temples / Jagwar Ma 'Shelter Song/ Man I Need' — 12" picture disc (1000 pressings)
A. Shelter Song (Jagwar Ma Jono's Wrong Mix)
AA. Man I Need (Temples remix)
Following on from last year's Heavenly remix trade between TOY and The Horrors for Record Store Day, this year Heavenly releases another dream remix swap: Jagwar Ma's Jono Ma reworks Temples' debut single 'Shelter Song' and Temples' James Bagshaw takes on Jagwar Ma single 'Man I Need' for his first ever remix. Picture disc artwork by Oliver Hibert.
HVN281 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard 'Head On/Pill' — 12″ picture disc (300 pressings)
A. Head On / Pill
Hailing from Australia, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are a seven strong collective who, by their own admission are 'absolutely fried theremin wielding psychopaths'. 'Head On/Pill' is lifted from the band's third album 'Float Along – Fill Your Lungs' out on Flightless records in Australia, but such is the thrilling slacker genius of this 16 minute epic we had to ask if we could put it out as a Heavenly Release for Record Store Day. Picture disc artwork by Oliver Hibert.
HVN273 TOY 'Join The Dubs' — 12″ vinyl (1000 pressings)
1. Join The Dots (dub)
2. As We Turn (dub)
1. You Won't Be The Same (dub)
2. Left To Wander (dub)
3. Conductor (dub)
Previously only released as a limited bonus CD, 'Join The Dubs' presents five tracks from TOY's second album 'Join The Dots' that have been playfully and knowingly re-worked by Dan Carey, exploring the darker and dubbier depths of his desk. Dan has also produced both of TOY's albums to date.
Record Store Day 2014 takes place on 19th April. All Heavenly releases will be available from participating UK stores. See here for details
OUT NOW: Jimi Goodwin releases debut solo record 'Odludek' to critical acclaim
The wait is over! Jimi Goodwin's debut solo album 'Odludek' has officially dropped and is available to buy today from all good music retailers, as well as our own Heavenly emporium HERE. Plus there are limited signed CD copies available from Recordstore.co.uk.
To celebrate the release, Jimi plays a free instore at London's Rough Trade East on the 1st April, before setting off to support Elbow on their UK arena tour.
Following these shows, Jimi will be taking 'Odludek' on the road with a string of headline dates around the UK in May. Beginning at Sheffield's Leadmill, the tour will conclude with a celebratory hometown show at Manchester's Gorilla. Tickets are selling fast so book now to avoid disappointment!
LISTEN BACK TO JIMI GOODWIN's 6MUSIC SESSION WITH MARC RILEY >
"Ideas spring from every corner" — Mail On Sunday ★★★★
"Eclectic, eccentric, engaging" — The Times and The Sunday Times
"Full of urgent, abrasive songs on which Goodwin sounds creatively invigorated" — The Observer
"An album that is startling as it is likeable" — Uncut Magazine 8/10
PHOTOS + VIDEO: Temples and The Wytches represent Heavenly at SXSW Festival
Above: Temples at Stubb's BBQ (from Rolling Stone's Best Live Photos)
Above: Temples at The Fader Fort presented by Converse (from AltSounds SXSW Recap)
Above: Temples at The Fader Fort presented by Converse (from AltSounds SXSW Recap)
Above: Temples at The Fader Fort presented by Converse (from AltSounds SXSW Recap)
Above: Temples at The Fader Fort presented by Converse (from AltSounds SXSW Recap)
Above: James and Tom Temples play an acoustic rendition of 'Keep In The Dark' in the back of a Mazda!
Above: The Wytches sit for a portrait before their set at Cheer Up Charlie's (from Rolling Stone's Best Live Photos)
Above: The Wytches at British Music @ SXSW (from AltSounds SXSW Recap)
Above: The Wytches at British Music @ SXSW (from AltSounds SXSW Recap)
Above: The Wytches at British Music @ SXSW (from AltSounds SXSW Recap)
"Temples, from England, had crisp British Invasion riffs amid their guitar swirl. The Wytches, from England, added punky aggression amid the fuzztone" New York Times
VIDEO: Watch Temples' on French TV show Album De La Semaine
Temples recently appeared on French TV programme Album De La Semaine — watch their interview and performance below!
Temples and The Wytches at SXSW! Details of their shows here
We're excited to be heading out to Austin for this year's SXSW to catch loads of bands including our very own Temples and The Wytches! Here's the lowdown on their schedules…
VIDEO: Temples live at their Rough Trade album launch
Temples have had a brilliant run of shows on their headline UK tour — we're still buzzing after witnessing the closing night on Saturday at the O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire (see photos). The band are now headed out to Austin, Texas for SXSW but in the meantime — relive their Rough Trade East album launch with this lovely bit of footage just in:
Temples 'Sun Structures' + 'Move With The Season' from Rough Trade Shops on Vimeo.
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I'm very interested in all your replies - I live by a fast flowing river, and always blamed it for all the bites I get. But - I do have some containers with standing water in them, and those I use to stand plants in are shallow - they are cat litter trays which are just the size for my purpose, and are frequently topped up by rain water. However, perhaps I should treat them - any advice would be very gratefully received - thank you.
Apologies if someone has already told you - but there is nothing - nothing that slugs and snails enjoy more than lupin seedlings. I have lost mine every year - this year I'm adopting a different strategy. I am planting seedlings on my allotment and encircling them with a combination of slug pellets and wool pellets. In my garden I am trying copper tape round the pots until they get big and brave enough to plant out - then I may still employ some other deterrents.
Perhaps this year I shall at least see one or two plants survive!
Good luck with yours.
Agree about the climbing rose - good choice, and would plant with a clematis Montana which are vigorous and need no pruning so the clematis would start off in May and the rose should follow a month later.


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Get on e-bay, buy yourself a second hand server, get a cheap workstation - install Server 2008 / Nix / Samba or whatever, break it, then fix it, then learn.
Hi, I am I have just completed my graduation and want to try my luck in the field of IT. Can some body tell me whether Microsoft or Cisco certificates will be beneficial for a beginner like me in todays Job scenario?
Get on e-bay, buy yourself a second hand server, get a cheap workstation - install Server 2008 / Nix / Samba or whatever, break it, then fix it, then learn.
Last edited by mattx; 28th July 2010 at 08:28 AM.
bossman (28th July 2010), mac_shinobi (28th July 2010)
Again this is why you need the knowledge to back up your qualifications, not a list of exam answers stuck in your head. If you do have both the knowledge, and the qualification, you will be well-placed.Problem is 'managers' tend to like CVs of people with these bits of paper as they themselves are normally failed ex IT workers of some sort.
Dos_Box (29th July 2010)
I'm off for some physiotherapy then into the school for bleeding boring ICT work...... /Rant Over
Last edited by mattx; 28th July 2010 at 08:34 AM.
From the other side of the fence- I'm the manager, and I'm not a failed IT guy, and I'm a highly qualified IT guy and trainer. When I'm interveiwing candidates I'm looking for experience and some qualifications.
I want the guy/girl who has the drive to get some qualifications of his/her own and some experience. They're the ones that are keen to learn, are also the easiest to train.
I would prefer the guy with a CCENT, or Network+, or the equivalent from Juniper or HP or something from M$ than the guy who believes he's good enough with any further learning.
In this game if you're not prepared to update your skills you might as well get out and go and direct traffic.
My advice, find something you're interested in learning about, it doesn't really matter if it's Cisco, Microsoft, HP, VMware or CompTIA, show your prospective employer you're keen to learn. Get some old hardware and pull it apart/rebuild it and learn some practical skills. Find someone to give you work experience and get some references from them.
Show any prospective employer you have the basic knowledge to start a job, and you know where to look for more info. That's the sort of candidate employers are looking for.
On your journey collect more skills and move up the ladder.
Over the years I've collected qualifications from Dell, Apple, Microsoft, VMWare and Cisco. I have also studied and received qualifications that were not a job requirement in Education and Training, Business Management, Project Management, as well as my original qualifications in Electrical Engineering/Industrial Computing and Telecommunication.
I'm not an exam junkie, I simply took each opportunity to learn a new skill when a job situation required it.
Today I'm well paid, and run a department with a team of 3.5 and a budget of over $1m, and the responsibility for the design, installation and management of all the IT infrastruture in the school, and also all the teacher IT training. Anybody with a bit of go in them could do it too.
Last edited by garrya100; 28th July 2010 at 01:15 PM.
Sounds like you have taken some management 'buzzword / phrases' exams too !!On your journey collect more skills and move up the ladder.
Like alot of people have already said experiance should come first and then qulifications.
Schools are a great place to start out (IMO) as they usaly use a wide variety of hardware/software so you can get familiar with as much as possible as fast as possible.
Once you are happy and settled in start thinking about personal development along the lines of certifications (make sure however there is provision for this in your contract) - start with something like a MCTS in Windows 7 and then move into whatever intrests you in servers.
As mattx said - build your own testing server, something with a AMD Dual Core (Athlon with Hardware Virtulisation) a low cost case/motherboard and 8GB of RAM should be more than enough to run pretty much any server application - this will help you immensley in learning how servers truely work.
I agree with the above you need practical experience, as already stated schools are a great place to start as you'll get a crack at everything.
I would say though from experience if you're applying for jobs in larger companies NOT having certs can mean that you miss out in the paper sift, I've been told on many occasions that if HR are shortlisting and they've been told MCSA/Cisco etc and you don't have it they'll put you in the bin without reading on. I'll be honest I've had more luck getting interviews sice having an MCSA, before that my 9 years practical networking skills on a range of systems didn't seem to get me a look in. Getting a couple of MCP exams desktop etc really isn't difficult, I'd aim for a low level job for experience then get a couple of them under your belt.
I also agree that one needs to have both. Hands-on experience and a CV with certifications on them. In the netherlands you will not get interview if you do not have any certifications. I participated on a IT certification board for many years now. I normally suggest to following path for newly trainees : A+ , Network+, ITIL, MSCA, CCNA, MCITP, PRINCE2....
Its a long path that might take you a year or 2 but you'll have a solid base to start of (with good knowledge) in IT business.
Find out if your university has any affiliation with a testing centre. I was lucky while I was at uni as mine had an MS testing centre and a Cisco academy so students and graduates could take the tests at a discounted price. Yes, experience is more important, but having a few certs definately can't hurt!
Definitely you need the hands-on experience as problem solving, designing a system to fit a need and the other "soft" skills don't come through certificates. I've gone through a lot of applications for IT Technicians and interviewed quite a few at work and the amount of highly qualified people on paper doesn't always match up to their results on a technical test or basic practical task
Doesn't hurt to do the cert in the background (self study and pay £80 for the exam won't cost the earth either) once you're getting the day-to-day experience or if you need to learn a particular product for a project e.g. updating your knowledge for a new version of Exchange etc but to do it as the sole method of getting a job probably isn't the best way imo
I'm 50 this year and just passed my first MS cert and thoroughly enjoyed it, it's not really that expensive, £30 for the book and £88 for the test and you get a 15% off voucher. But to answer the post I have to agree that experience far outweighs the paper quals, it has been known for people to do these certs simply on memory and will be exposed if employed only on the basis of those certs. They are very handy to have on your CV though.I'm too old for them now anyway and generally hate anything IT wise out of work
Experience + certifications + knowledge to use certifications = ideal.
Experience should come first though.
With regards to certs, most are useless. I did the comptia a+ and don't bother putting it on my cv. The ccna on the other hand was much much harder, and the ccnp even more so. The great thing about the Cisco stuff is that it teaches a lot of general networking concepts and not just Cisco specific stuff. Some of the terminology is slightly different but that's about it. The exams are very hard. For example, they give you a network simulator and will ask you to find x amount of faults without any clues. It could be an interface with a broadcast address set or a mismatched duplex/speed setting etc. They will also disable certain commands to make it harder.
If I had to back to the beginning of my career I would start with the CCNA and then possibly the CCNP. This will help get your foot in the door. For everything else I just read the docs/buy a book or do a short training course.
If you can pass the CCNA then the microsoft exams seem easy compared.
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THE Bathurst race club has been stripped of its licence pending an investigation into over watering of the track that caused yesterday race meeting to be abandoned.
Surface water on the track made the prospect of racing unsafe.
Racing NSW chief executive Peter V'landys said investigations were continuing into why the sprinklers were left on, causing the track to deteriorate to the point it was unraceable.
The problem was discovered when stewards arrived at the course for their routine race morning inspection.
"We have suspended the Bathurst licence until they can satisfy Racing NSW that they can conduct all aspects of a race meeting," V'landys said.
"This is not the first incident that has brought racing into disrepute. They also had the farcical situation when the sprinklers were turned on when horses were in the straight.
"But to lose a race meeting because there's water on the track on a 35 degree day ... we take this very seriously.
"Most of the participants were already there.
"They were totally inconvenienced and deprived of an income through Bathurst's mismanagement of the situation.
"They have got to pay a penalty. They're suspended pending them showing they can run a race meeting."
Central Districts Racing Association chief steward Todd Smith will present a report after interviewing relevant club officials and Racing NSW Racecourse maintenance manager Dave Hodgson has been called in to oversee the track problems.
Smith and his panel inspected the track alongside a delegation of senior riders and the decision was made that sections of the track were unsafe.
Horses which were acceptors at Bathurst can be added to the Wyong nominations for next Thursday while races at Parkes two days later will be divided if required.
Almost 80 per cent of horses at the meeting were from metropolitan and provincial stables.
In November, the sprinklers came on during a race meeting as the horses were turning for home, drenching horses and jockeys.
The electronic sprinkler system can be operated remotely and in the case of Bathurst, it was activated in Brisbane.
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C.A. Clark bids fond farewell as he steps down as manager of Silver Screen and Roll

I never meant to be here. I never meant to do this. It seems important to me as I say goodbye to inform you all of this. I never meant to be here, and I never meant to do this. Because I never knew I could.

Today is my last day as manager of and contributor to Silver Screen and Roll. Thus ends a journey nearly five years in the making, a journey that mystifies me every time I reflect upon it. The sequence of events that led me from being just another Lakers fan in a city filled with them to a guy with his arms raised to the Staples Center rafters in celebration of a Game 7 NBA Finals win against the Boston Celtics, that sequence was so fraught with obstacles, you might never believe it possible for someone to get from there to here.

I stumbled onto Silver Screen and Roll in its infancy, two days after the site launched. Already, you can see how hard the fates worked to bring me here. You see, I'm not really a big internet guy. When SSR first launched, I barely even knew what a blog was. All I knew was that I liked reading Kelly Dwyer's daily recaps of the night's basketball action on Ball Don't Lie (RIP Behind the Box Score). One day he linked to Hardwood Paroxysm, and I found the link amusing. A few weeks later, he did it again, and so I found myself perusing HP for the second time in my life, and that just so happened to be the day that he plugged a brand new Lakers blog run by a friend of his, the imitable blog founder Josh Tucker. And so I found Silver Screen and Roll.

I read Josh's introductory post, and I liked what I read, but I could easily have walked away and never visited the site again. Like I said, I'm not a big internet guy. I don't like talking to other people over a computer, and would much rather do it in person. I haven't looked at my Facebook page in two years, haven't posted to it in five. And every time I read the commenters in articles on Yahoo or ESPN, I found myself ashamed to be a part of the same species. I could easily have decided that this new site would be no different than all the others I had seen in the past and quickly fled. Instead, I decided that if I wanted an internet community I didn't hate, here was my chance to make one. Josh was asking for people to help with the blog, and so I reached out to him to ask if I could take on the most important task of all: making the rules.

He agreed, and here we come to the next obstacle - the rules had to be written. I was not a writer. To that point in my life, I don't think I had ever written a single solitary word for the purpose of public consumption that was not an assignment of some kind. I wrote various papers and essays in school, memos and guides at work, emails and the occasional letter to my friends and family, but that's it. No poetry contests in high school. No essay contests in middle school. No journal, no diary. Writing for fun and enjoyment, writing for the thrill of having other people read and pass judgment on what you wrote, was a concept as foreign to me as passing up a game winning shot is to Kobe Bryant. But the rules had to be written, and I was the fool who had volunteered to write them. And so I did. And so I enjoyed it. And so a new door was opened that I had never even considered before; writing for the pleasure of writing.

It took me 26 years to realize that I loved to write, and so I think it only fair that I had to wait just four weeks for the next life-changing discovery - that you all enjoyed my writing, too. Frustrated and angry after the Lakers' disappointing Game 4 defeat to the Yao Ming-less Houston Rockets in the 2nd round of 2009, I penned a rant that summed up my conflicted feelings about the team. I didn't think much of it at all, so little that I didn't even think to make it a real post - I put it up as a Fanpost. This wasn't analysis or a breakdown of the action. It was just my opinion - who could possibly care about that? A lot of people, as it turns out. By the end of the day, the Fanpost was on the front page, and had a link to it on TrueHoop.

The rest of the story is actually pretty boring. Once I put two and two together - that I enjoyed writing and that there was an audience for my thoughts - it didn't take long before I was asking Josh leading questions about how to make a business out of things. And when he decided he wasn't up to the commitment of running the site, I was happy to take over the mantle. The ride has included some truly memorable experiences (Seriously, Game 7 of the 2010 NBA Finals ... I WAS FREAKING THERE) and some truly awesome people, and every once in a while, this site blessed me with the rare opportunity to reach beyond basketball and discuss life's larger themes. But now, the ride is coming to an end, at least for me.

I've learned a ton about myself over the last four years. I've learned what I am, what I'm capable of, but I've also learned what I'm not, and that is why my ride is ending. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a manager. I'm not a basketball junkie. I don't spend my waking hours scouring the internet for basketball news and analysis. Heck, even though I've been doing it for going on four years now, I'm not even really a blogger. You deserve to have the leader of this site be, or aspire, to all of those things. I am a writer, and I don't want to be anything else anymore. Silver Screen and Roll needs more than that.

So I leave you in the capable hands of Mr. Andrew Garrison. I can't speak for his aspirations, but I can speak for his talents, and they are extraordinary. I expect that he will take Silver Screen and Roll to as yet unforeseen heights. That he is around to take the reins is a great comfort to me, and one of the reasons I was willing to step down. With him at the lead, and a stable of some of the finest contributors SB Nation has to offer, SSR will be stronger than ever.

I'd like to express my overwhelming gratitude to everyone who has helped me along the way to this point: To the SSR originals like Josh Tucker and Dexter Fishmore, to the folks who work so hard to get you your Lakers information every morning in The Credits, and to all of our excellent contributors, past and present. Most of all, I'd like to thank you, the members of the blog, for coming to this site and spending your time with us and with each other. Thanks for reading, thanks for your praise and participation, and thanks especially for those of you brave enough to challenge ideas that you did not agree with, for you are the ones who have made me get better at what I do.

I am a writer; I have an art. Five years ago, I was unaware of either of these facts, and if it were not for this place, this wonderful place with its wonderful people, I might never have found out. This may not be the right place for me to pursue my art anymore, but I will feel forever blessed because of the role this site has played in helping me discover who I am and what I want to be. Here's to hoping that other people will get as much out of Silver Screen and Roll as I have.

-C.A. Clark, signing off

[Author's Note: I'll be taking the site's Twitter feed for one final spin tomorrow night as the Lakers host the Indiana Pacers. After that, you'll have to follow my new personal Twitter account @hoopenthusiast. Also, anybody wanting to email me for whatever reason should catch me at email@example.com]
 http://www.silverscreenandroll.com/2014/1/27/5349262/swan-song-c-a-clark-bids-adieu Christopher Clark 2014-01-11T13:43:55-05:00 2014-01-11T13:43:55-05:00 No rest for the Lakers, no matter how terrible they are
There is no one reason why the Lakers were destroyed by the Clippers last night, but a look at the two teams' lineups at the end of the game reveals a great deal about the hopelessness the Lakers currently face.

There are a great many reasons why the Los Angeles Lakers were taken out behind the barn and shot by their cross-town foes, the Los Angeles Clippers, last night. In the best of circumstances, the Lakers are not a very talented team, and these are not the best of circumstances. The Clippers, however, are a very good team in their best state, and even without Chris Paul, they have far more top end NBA talent than do the Lakers right now. The Lakers were also playing their 3rd game in four nights. Throw in the added motivation of having lost to this motley crew on opening night, and the Clippers were ready to pounce from the start of the game, and the Lakers were not prepared for it.

But these explanations require a working knowledge of the Lakers, and of basketball. You need to follow along to know just how many Lakers are out injured, how many times the Lakers played this week, how much different the expectations were for the Lakers and the Clippers at the start of the year. There is a much simpler way to illustrate the current plight of the Los Angeles Lakers. All you need to do is take a look at who they had playing at the end of last night's travesty of a basketball game.

The result of last night's contest had already been determined by the end of the 3rd quarter. In truth, the result wasn't much in doubt after 8 or so minutes of game time, but with 5:13 remaining in the 3rd quarter, the Clippers scored the game-winning points, hitting a total of 89 that the Lakers would be unable to surpass despite the 17 minutes remaining in the contest. By the end of the 3rd, the lead was over 40 points, and garbage time was officially on. At the end of a huge blow out like this, both teams will empty the end of their benches and give some playing time to guys who otherwise wouldn't normally see the court. Of the five players the Clippers had on the court at the end of the game, only two of them even played in the contest prior to the fourth quarter, a combined 8 minutes between Darius Morris and Ryan Hollins.

Of the five players the Lakers had on the court at the end of the game, three of them were starters, and a fourth was their 6th man, Nick Young. Every single one of the five players the Lakers played in the final minutes of the game played more minutes in the first 3 quarters than the entire Clippers garbage time lineup played combined.

This was not a fluke. It wasn't an accident. And it wasn't a message. Coach D'Antoni wasn't playing these guys because he wanted to punish them for not bringing the requisite effort earlier in the game. He didn't play them because he wanted to give them more time to figure out how to play together, to help them build up team chemistry. He didn't play them to drive up their trade value. He played them because there was nobody else to play. The Lakers have nine active players right now, and four of them are centers. Unless Mike D'Antoni wants to enact my dream of an all 7-footer lineup, the guys who ended the game on the court had to end the game on the court. There were no other options.

It is perhaps further telling what actually happened in the fourth quarter. As the Clippers ran out the end of their bench and the Lakers ran out three of their four wing players capable of running, the Lakers managed to win the quarter ... by five points. It is risky to read too much into what happens in garbage time, but when you consider the players that both teams had on the court, a five point Laker victory seems about right. Now think about what that means ... it means that something close to the best lineup the Lakers can put on the court right now is only capable of narrowly edging out the five worst players the Clippers have to offer. The lineup that the Lakers had on the court at game's end is the garbage time lineup, and it is also something close to the current crunch time lineup. One of those roles is the one that group holds full time, the other a role it is moonlighting out of necessity. And the garbage time part isn't what is moonlighting.

The Los Angeles Lakers aren't the first team to be down to nine active players in NBA history, and they won't be the last. But their current injury run is both severe and severely targeted. It has targeted almost all of the Lakers' best players (of the five guys out, I'd say at least four of them are among the Lakers top 7 players, and the 5th is (God rest his soul) Steve Nash. More importantly, however, the injury run has targeted perimeter players, and it has even more severely targeted Lakers' ball handlers; all five of the players missing are the Lakers' five best ball-handling options on the roster.

In that context, what has happened to the Lakers over the past few weeks can hardly be called surprising. Expecting anything more than the occasional victory from the team in its current state is utter foolishness. Blowout losses should be (and, in fact, are) the norm. There's a reason why garbage time players are garbage time players. That reason doesn't just disappear when your garbage time players are suddenly forced to start.
 http://www.silverscreenandroll.com/2014/1/11/5298518/no-rest-for-the-lakers-no-matter-how-terrible-they-are Christopher Clark 2014-01-09T12:28:51-05:00 2014-01-09T12:28:51-05:00 The Lakers have all the (tanking) luck
Some of the league's teams have worked hard to be very bad this season, purposefully tanking so that they can get a high draft pick in a very good draft. The Lakers are not one of those teams, but bad luck (or is it good?) has them poised to compete with the worst teams in the league.

There are many words which help to define the Los Angeles Lakers: Success, glamour, winning, championships, winning championships ... but, if you are looking to describe how the Lakers have maintained such an authoritative grip on relevancy and success in the NBA, one of the chief descriptors is luck.

The Lakers have always been a lucky team. They were lucky to have the league's first dominant big man, George Mikan. They were lucky that a draft pick traded for years in advance turned into the first overall pick in 1980, and even luckier that 1980 was the year Magic Johnson was available to be drafted. They were lucky to be purchased by a visionary owner who never failed to pursue greatness. They were lucky Shaq wanted to make movies, lucky that twelve teams passed on Kobe Bryant before a thirteenth selected him at their bidding, and lucky to trade a bunch of garbage for Pau Gasol. That there are elements of skill involved in all of these situations, that the Lakers have done their business better than any other team in the league's history, is assured. But that doesn't make the Lakers less lucky. Hell, the Los Angeles Lakers are even lucky to be the Los Angeles Lakers. This city, with all of its glitz and glamour and money and fame and culture, has allowed the Lakers to be a prime time destination for big name players since the dawn of the league. It has allowed the Lakers to offer more money to their stars, or if not, certainly more prestige. Just another element of that luck that constantly seems to be going the Lakers way.

Until last season, of course. Last season, in just 86 demoralizing and depressing games, the luck of the Los Angeles Lakers didn't fall apart so much as get professionally demolished so as to implode on itself. The Lakers made the moves necessary to appear a stacked team, with four capable star players, but you know what happened. One guy crashed out in the 2nd game of the year and likely will never recover, another played the entire season like it was a chore he didn't have much interest in before bouncing out of town, and the one player who gave everything he could to the team ... well, he gave more than perhaps even he bargained for. All while nearly every important player on the team suffered at least one major injury. It was like 60 years worth of good luck were being paid back in a single season.

Thank God that was a blip. This year, the Lakers have gone right back to their lucky ways.

This year, the Lakers are going through a spate of injuries which is somehow far worse than anything they suffered last year. They are missing five of their top seven guards, all five of whom are the Lakers' first five choices for ball-handling. They've been forced into giving significant starters minutes to a guy that didn't even have a team two weeks ago. They currently have 9 active players, and four of them are centers. It is one of the worst injury runs I have ever seen. And it could not have come at a better time.

Last year, the Lakers' bad luck ruined whatever chance they had to formulate a contending team out of their excellent (if ill-fitting) selection of parts. This year, all the luck in the world wouldn't have gotten the Lakers into contention. They might, might have been able to make the playoffs if everything went well, and early in the season, everything was going well. The Lakers played .500 ball in Kobe Bryant's absence, and their role players were providing everything we could hope for them to. The Lakers were on their best possible trajectory, looking to barely make the playoffs, or to just fall short. Problem is, that's a terrible trajectory to have. If you just make the playoffs, chances are that you are nowhere near good enough to actually compete with the teams at the top of the league. And your chances for improving the team are not very good with the mid round draft pick a trip to the bottom of the playoffs entails.

It is for that reason, and a draft class that is being hailed as one of the best and deepest drafts in history, that many teams have chosen to tank the season. Certain teams have worked hard to be very bad this season. The Utah Jazz accepted two of the worst contracts in the NBA (Andres Biedrins and Richard Jefferson) for nothing more than a bunch of draft picks that will all probably end up being bad. Philly traded away its best player for a young big man that may not even play this season due to injury. These teams are two of the league's worst, and that is not an accident. They have chosen to tank.

The Lakers did not choose to tank. Once Dwight Howard left, they knew they were in a tight spot, with a team that didn't have any hope of contending. They could have tanked. Lots of people, myself included, wanted them to. They could have traded Pau Gasol, encouraged Kobe to take a long, long time coming back, and watched the losses pile up. Instead, they did the best they could with their budget limitations (the Lakers could offer only one $3 Million contract and a bunch of veteran's minimum contracts, because they were over the salary cap) to fill out the roster with effective players. It was working, too. The Lakers were OK. The Lakers did not choose to tank. And that's why they are lucky, because they didn't have to choose.

Instead, the tank chose them. Despite the Lakers' best intentions, they are one of the worst teams in the league right now. And with one of the league's hardest schedules over the next month (ten of their next thirteen games are on the road), the Lakers could easily be in the bottom five, record wise, by the All-Star break. Strategically, there can be no arguing that this is the best position for them to be in. For some, that's enough to approve of tanking as a strategy. For others, tanking is a dirty word, because it is cheating the system, challenging the integrity of the game. And the Lakers are too proud to choose tanking. "We don't do that", the Lakers say. And they haven't. They've tried their absolute best to put an entertaining and competitive product on the court, and considering the limitations they were dealing with, they've done a great job. Only, none of it matters, because the team is being absolutely decimated by injuries. So the Lakers now get to shrug their shoulders and say "Well, we tried" all the way to the bottom of the standings. They get to have their cake, and draft it too.

Some teams really do have all the luck.
 http://www.silverscreenandroll.com/2014/1/9/5291812/los-angeles-lakers-have-all-the-tanking-luck Christopher Clark 2014-01-07T23:16:54-05:00 2014-01-07T23:16:54-05:00 Lakers try, but don't have enough against Mavs 110-97
The Lakers never gave up, but they were easily downed by a Dallas Mavericks team that just has more to offer at this point in time.

The Los Angeles Lakers played an OK game of basketball tonight, at least by the standards against which the team can currently be measured. They shot close to their season average from the floor, and made an OK percentage of their three point shots. They even managed to win the battle on the glass, out rebounding their opponent, the Dallas Mavericks 46-40. They tried hard, insomuch as a team that gives up a steady dose of layups in half court sets can be said to try hard. They didn't play great, but they played OK.

Trouble is, right now an OK game means getting beat by double digits against even a mediocre opponent. With five of their best play-makers still out injured, the Lakers just don't have a lot to offer, and an OK game will end up being a defeat nine times out of ten, especially when the other team has Dirk Nowitzki on it.

Tonight's death knell came in the form of turnovers, 19 in all. Six of them came from recent addition Kendall Marshall, and you have to think that number will continue to be high as teams start to learn more about his game. Specifically, his predilection for skip passes is already starting to lead to a high number of turnovers as opponents begin to expect it, because it is always a risk to throw passes the length of the court. Still, even with his turnovers, Marshall was one of the team's bright spots, showing that his outside shooting touch and general effectiveness from the field were not were not one game flukes. His 18 points on 10 shots were easily the most efficient performance of the night.

He wasn't the only bright spot, but there weren't many more. Wes Johnson shot the ball pretty well, and Jodie Meeks scored 24 points, though it was a bit of a weird vintage performance for Jodie, as he looked a lot less under control in his forays to the rim than he has been this season, reminding us of how awful he was as a finisher last year. Still, he tried really hard, and despite shooting just 6-16 from the field, his nine free throws helped make his scoreline respectable. Pau Gasol and Robert Sacre both struggled from the field, although both managed double digit rebounding.

But, with Shawne Williams waived and so many people out, the Lakers bench is just an empty shell right now. If Nick Young is awful, as he most certainly was tonight, the bench that was so integral to the early season success has zero spark to give to the team. That's why an OK effort and an OK performance will get them beat just about every time.
 http://www.silverscreenandroll.com/2014/1/7/5286790/los-angeles-lakers-try-but-dont-have-enough-against-dallas-mavs-110-97 Christopher Clark 2014-01-06T00:22:34-05:00 2014-01-06T00:22:34-05:00 Everybody wins as Nuggets down Lakers 137-115
Denver scored 111 points in the final three quarters to blow out the Lakers on their home floor, but who cares, because TANKING!!

A wise woman once said about basketball:

Sometimes when you win, you really lose. Sometimes when you lose, you really win. And sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie.

Or maybe it was about life. I'm not really sure, because I was pretty young at the time, and the whole thing confused me so I didn't think what she was saying made a whole lot of sense. Now, I get it. She was talking about this Los Angeles Lakers season.

Tonight, the Los Angeles Lakers lost. They lost baaaaaaad. They lost by 22 points, at home, to a team that isn't even playing .500 ball, a team that quite recently lost 8 straight games themselves. The Denver Nuggets are not a good team. And yet, the Nuggets scored 111 points IN THE FINAL 3 QUARTERS of tonight's blowout. In seasons past, a loss like this would have been an embarrassment, a travesty, a crime against the people who paid good money to see the Lakers play basketball. Tonight? This loss is a win all the way.

Tonight, the Lakers lost a game they could have won. This was a "winnable" contest, against a mediocre team at home. This is the kind of game the Lakers might even be expected to win. The kind of game where the Lakers just needed some kind of spark to get the crowd rocking, build up a big lead and either hold on or coast to victory. Instead of getting a spark, the Lakers couldn't hit a shot to save their lives, going 3-21 from 3 point range. They refused to prevent the Nuggets from getting offensive rebounds, giving up 17 in total (and that's no small feat, considering Denver shot 54% from the floor). Pau Gasol led the charge, simultaneously playing well enough to drive up his trade value and poorly enough to help the Lakers lose by a large margin. That's an impressive feat.

For these reasons, this loss was far more valuable than the ones that will inevitably come against the San Antonios and Oklahoma Citys of the world. There will be many more losses in this Lakers season, and those losses will flow freely like wine in the fountains of Mount Olympus. But losing a game like this? As badly as the Lakers did? That's hard damn work, right there, and its exactly the kind of work that will benefit the Lakers the most in this awful, God-forsaken season.

Sometimes, when you lose, you really do win. Lakers fans would be wise to embrace the philosophy whole-heartedly. Otherwise, you're in for a rough year.
 http://www.silverscreenandroll.com/2014/1/5/5278764/everybody-wins-as-nuggets-down-lakers-137-115 Christopher Clark 2014-01-04T01:12:43-05:00 2014-01-04T01:12:43-05:00 Lakers hold off Jazz to snap streak 110-99
After a quick start, the Los Angeles Lakers slowly let the Utah Jazz creep back into the game before Kendall Marshall slammed the door in the final minute for a 110-99 victory.

When a team is in a rut, sometimes it takes something special for them to dig themselves out. When that rut is a horrific injury spell that has left 5 of the teams' seven best guards on the bench and a six game losing streak to some of the league's worst teams, that something special might need to be all the more miraculous. Well, fear not, Lakers fans, Kendall Marshall is on the scene.

Kendall Marshall is the Los Angeles Lakers' 4th string point guard. Teams don't normally have a 4th string point guard, or a 4th string anything (There are 15 roster spots and 5 positions on the team. Do the math). Marshall is the Lakers' 6th option at the position, because Kobe Bryant and (apparently) Xavier Henry can also play the role when needed. Except, they can't right now because, along with Jordan Farmar, Steve Blake and Steve Nash, they too are out injured. So what did this 4th string, 6th option point guard do when all the other options were gone? Played 40 minutes, scored 20 points, dished out 15 dimes with only one turnover, and pulled down six boards. He shot 8-12 from the field (including a 30 footer to beat the shot clock late in the 4th quarter), 15 dimes. He played, statistically, one of the best games a Laker point guard has played in a decade. He's the 6th option.

There's your miracle. There's your victory.

Pau Gasol also played fantastically (23, 17 and 8), Wes Johnson looked great for the first time in a month and the Lakers had just enough of the energy that made them such an entertaining team to watch through the first 20 games of the season to ride out the game. That, and the Utah Jazz are really, really bad at basketball. They closed late, primarily because Gordan Hayword found his outside shot, but this was a game between two of the worst teams in the NBA, and it showed. For that reason, tonight's victory will probably end up doing the Lakers more harm than good, but it's hard to be mad when your formerly D-league point guard is hitting 30 footers with the game on the line.

Enjoy the night, Kendall. Enjoy the night, Lakers fans. That's what basketball is all about.
 http://www.silverscreenandroll.com/2014/1/3/5272528/lakers-hold-off-jazz-to-snap-streak-110-99 Christopher Clark 2013-12-12T17:54:53-05:00 2013-12-12T17:54:53-05:00 The magic is quickly fading away for the Lakers
After a stronger than expected start, a confluence of circumstances has put Kobe Bryant and the Lakers in a very difficult position with which to deal with the rest of this season.

The first 20 games of the 2013-2014 NBA season sure have provided us fans of the Los Angeles Lakers some happy memories. Remember when the Los Angeles Lakers won on opening night against the cross-arena Los Angeles Clippers, with the bench unit destroying the Clippers starters down the stretch? Remember when the Lakers went into Houston like the little engine that could, and slew Goliath er Dwight Howard's Rockets with a game winning three pointer? Remember when they provided us with fun and entertainment and joy as much in defeat as they did in victory, like when they rallied against the Portland Trailblazers? Remember how much fun it was to watch Lakers games and wonder which bizarre and random Laker was going to have an amazing night?

Well, that was nice while it lasted, wasn't it?

Whatever magic the Lakers tapped into seems to be quickly slipping away now, with a sequence of events putting the Lakers right back into whatever hell they found themselves in all of last season. First off, the injury bug is once again rearing its ugly head like a hydra. The team has once again managed to lose two point guards to serious injury in a ten day span, losing Jordan Farmar on Dec. 2nd for at least a month with a torn hamstring and finding out today that Steve Blake will miss six weeks due to his ailing elbow. This comes on the back of Steve Nash's undefinable injury and its indefinite timetable, meaning the Lakers have now plunged to further depth chart depths than they managed even in last season's debacle. Add in an ankle injury to Pau Gasol that has seen his production falter in the past few games (from an already mediocre baseline), and you've got a recipe for an all-too-familiar health disaster the Lakers simply could not afford with their already dwindled stock of talent.

All these injuries are bad, but their timing is, if possible, even worse. For all this to happen right as Kobe Bryant returns to the fold is unfortunate to the point of intolerable cruelty. The team was already in for a struggle in learning how to re-incorporate such an important piece of their puzzle, especially one that changes the entire scheme as much as Kobe Bryant does. But now, without any of the point guards responsible for successfully running the Lakers offense before Kobe, the Lakers will be plunged head-first into a Kobe-centric offensive game plan without a net of any kind. There is no backup plan now. It will be sink or swim for the Lakers, and with a large number of difficult road games in the team's future, it will most likely be the former.

But even that isn't the biggest misfortune of all. The problem with this confluence of unfortunate circumstances is that all of it will fit into a comfortable and easy to write narrative about Kobe Bryant returning to the team. Because the Lakers were playing well in Kobe's absence. They were playing with a strong team chemistry and high team spirit. They were outperforming the low expectations that existed in Kobe's absence. Now, Kobe comes back and the Lakers are no longer playing well. Even in their second game, you could see signs of a diminished energy and team spirit. Their expectations are no longer quite so low, and so far, those not quite so low expectations are not being met.

So you see, Kobe Bryant is the reason the Lakers are likely to struggle. If the Lakers falter now, it will be Kobe Bryant's fault. If the Lakers no longer look like the same free-wheeling, fun-loving, never-say-die team they did a couple weeks ago, there can be only one explanation. Kobe Bryant is to blame. Nevermind that teams who lose three separate point guards to injury rarely do well. Nevermind that teams who have players dropping like flies rarely have fun. Nevermind that the Lakers might never have been that good and might have been due to regress anyway. There is a story to write, and an easy one at that, one that connects the dots ever so cleanly.

As the Lakers learned last season, once a narrative is written, it is much, much harder to un-write, especially when there are elements of truth to the narrative in the first place. And there are elements of truth to the narrative. The Lakers have most certainly looked different, and not in positive ways, in the two games since Kobe Bryant has returned. The offense has been less crisp and the defense less spirited. Kobe and the team deserve way more than a two game sample with which to make definitive judgments, but you could hardly watch those two games and come away thinking there definitely isn't anything to be concerned about. Unless the Lakers can somehow get things turned around and get back to the fun brand of basketball that, win or lose, made the beginning of this season so enjoyable, this will be what the rest of the season boils down to - arguing about whether the Lakers would be better off with or without Kobe Bryant.

And there's nothing magical about that.
 http://www.silverscreenandroll.com/2013/12/12/5205050/the-magic-is-quickly-fading-away-for-the-los-angeles-lakers Christopher Clark 2013-12-11T01:44:28-05:00 2013-12-11T01:44:28-05:00 Struggle continues as Lakers fall to Suns 114-108
Kobe Bryant looked miles better in his second game back from injury, but the Lakers continued to struggle figuring out how to play with him on and off the court.

In his second game back from injury, Kobe Bryant looked much, much better as a basketball player. He moved better. He attacked more. He turned the ball over less. He shot the ball well. He even threw down a dunk. In terms of individual performance, it was everything you could have hoped for from Kobe this early, this soon along his road to recovery. But it didn't make a difference. The Los Angeles Lakers were still flat with Kobe around, the ball movement wasn't as crisp as it has been, the shots did not fall at the same rate, and the defense was as poor as it ever was without Kobe around. Thus, the team fell to 0-2 with Mamba on the court, falling 114-108 to the upstart Phoenix Suns.

Tonight, the culprits were a poor shooting performance from the outside (if LA had hit closer to their average from three point range, the game would have been well in play) and another terrible interior defense performance, allowing 56 points in the paint to the Suns. Pau Gasol was much better on the offensive end tonight (hitting for 19 points on 11 shots) but was annihilated by a variety of Suns players defensively, from Miles Plumlee to the brothers Morris (Markeiff and Marcus). The Lakers were also killed on the glass, getting out-rebounded 43-33, perhaps because the Lakers only played Pau Gasol and Jordan Hill a combined 48 minutes, with no other PF or C (unless you count Shawne Williams) seeing the court. No Lakers player came close to double digit rebounds, and Hill led the team with 7 despite playing just 19 minutes.

So, another winnable game at home against an opponent the Lakers would desperately want to beat. Whether Kobe is to blame for it or not, his return to the team is off to an inauspicious start. With a tough "four games in five nights" road trip coming up against four teams with records equal to or better than LA, things might get worse before they get any better.
 http://www.silverscreenandroll.com/2013/12/10/5199028/struggle-continues-as-lakers-fall-to-suns-114-108 Christopher Clark