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John Garvey on Education and Freedom in the University
The new president of Catholic University of America, John Garvey, gave the keynote speech at the New York Encounter cultural festival, which opened last night at the Manhattan Center in New York. After a thirty-five year career as a lawyer, last year he took up reins at the Catholic university founded in 1887 by all the bishops of the U.S. to offer graduate degrees in the pontifical faculties of theology, philosophy and canon law.
One year after President Obama was offered an honorary degree at Notre Dame, Garvey dissected the issue which created a firestorm in the Church and the university community. To the accusation of the hierarchy limiting academic freedom in this case, Garvey drew the distinction between allowing debate and dialogue on one hand, and on the other conferring an honor or award as happened at Notre Dame. The U.S. bishops had offered clear guidelines that politicians who did not support the moral principle of life could not be offered a platform or an award. Because of the magnitude and seriousness of abortion, it could not be put on a par with other favorable stands such as on universal health care or ending the war in Iraq. The problem arises from the symbolic meaning of conferring the honorary degree which creates scandal. In any case, Garvey suggested that both sides still needed to "tone it down a bit".
Garvey also discussed lawsuits involving student groups in both public and private universities. In Gay Rights Coalition vs. Georgetown, the D.C. Court of Appeals decided that while not required to offer official recognition, the school did need to give the student group a variety of services. In Christian Legal Society vs. Hastings, the students lost official status due to a required statement of faith and morals for its officers. While claiming to be neutral, these decisions favor a particular dominant opinion, restricting the freedom of both colleges and student groups to offer a distinct intellectual and moral view.
As opposed to the modernist theory that the best way to find truth is through many voices, Garvey emphasized that academic freedom must offer the possibility of carving out a distinct culture. For examples, he gave institutions like the New York Times or Fox News, or movements like the Chicago School of Economics or the Oxford Movement. Universities can foster such intellectual ferment only through the freedom to selectively hire faculty, admit students and offer lectures and courses. For Garvey, this is the "essence of intellectual construction." Although it is little appreciated, in fact, universities are "first amendment actors creating public culture".
"A faith … at war with no one" – New York Encounter
The New York Encounter is indeed unlike any other cultural event in the United States in its approach and content, totally transcending the cultural divisions that threaten the future of our society. It also escapes the search for a "common ground" that maintains and feeds the relativism that is paralyzing us. The purpose of its discussions, exhibits, concerts and theatrical performances is to build new friendships, to learn, and to celebrate life's beauty. All of its events are open to the public and are free, with the exception of the theatrical performance (this year it will be Paul Claudel's play The Tidings Brought to Mary on Saturday night).
"The New York Encounter: a Different Cultural Event", Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete
The New York Encounter festival runs from Friday, January 14 - Monday, January 17, 2011
Manhattan Center - Hammerstein Ballroom 311 West 34th Street at 8th Avenue - New York, NY 10001
Letter to the Christians of the West: Josef Zvěřina, 1971
You have the presumption of being useful to the Kingdom of God assuming as far as possible the saeculum, its life, its words, its slogans, its way of thinking. But reflect, I beg you, what it means to accept this world. Perhaps it means that you have gradually lost yourselves in it? Sadly, it seems you are doing just that. It [is] difficult these days to find you and recognize you in this strange world of yours. Probably we still recognize you because in this process you are taking your time, because you are being assimilated by the world, whether quickly or slowly, but late all the same. We thank you for many things, or rather for almost everything, but we must distinguish ourselves from you in one thing. We have much to admire in you, so we can and must send you this warning.
"Do not conform to this world, but transform yourselves by the renewal of your minds, so that you will be able to recognize the will of God, what is good, what is pleasing to him, what is perfect" (Rom. 12:2). Do not conform! Me syschematizesthe! How well this expression reveals the perennial root of the verb: schema. In a nutshell, all schemas, all exterior models are empty. We have to want more, the apostle makes it our duty, "change your way of thinking, reshape your minds" metamorfoùsthe tè anakainósei toù noós. Paul's Greek is so expressive and concrete! He opposes schèma or morphé – permanent form, to metamorphé – change in the creature. One is not to change according to any model that in any case is always out of fashion, but it is a total newness with all its wealth (anakainósei). [It's] not the vocabulary that changes but the meaning (noùs).
So not contestation, desacralization, secularization, because this is so little compared with Christian anakainósis. Reflect on these words and your naïve admiration for revolution, Maoism, and violence (of which, in any case you are incapable) will abandon you.
Your critical and prophetic enthusiasm has already borne fruit, and we cannot indiscriminately condemn you for this. We simply realize, and tell you sincerely, that we have more esteem for St. Paul's calm and discriminating invitation, "Examine yourselves, to see whether you are holding to your faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?" (2 Cor. 13:5).
We cannot imitate the world precisely because we have to judge it, not with pride and superiority, but with love, just as the Father loved the world (Jn. 3:16) and for this reason pronounced judgment on it.
Do not phroneîn – think, and in conclusion hyperphroneîn- but sophroneîn, think with wisdom (Cf. Rom. 12:13). Be wise, so that we can discern the signs of the will and the time of God. Not the fashion of the moment, but what is good, honest, and perfect.
We write as unwise to you who are wise, as weak men to you who are strong, as wretched men to you who are even more wretched! And this is stupid of us because there are certainly among you some excellent men and women. But precisely for this reason we need to write foolishly, as the Apostle Paul taught us when he took repeated Christ's words that the Father has hidden wisdom from those who know a lot about these things (Lk. 10:21).
This translation of Fr. Zvěřina's letter is taken from pages 110-112 of the book Generating Traces in the History of the World: New Traces of the Christian Experience, by Luigi Giussani, Stefano Alberto, Javier Prades.
A New Christendom, Not an Old One
In an article collected in What Counts is the Wonder, Gianni Valente makes this comment about Péguy: "He has nothing to do with the restoration-minded lobby who propose that the way out of the modern disaster is to go back to a utopian regime of Christianity" ("Péguy on the Threshold"). Valente says in another article that "it was this experience, real and physical, of the action of grace as the sole source of the Christian life [...] that made Péguy a Christian who would be foreign to the Christendom constituted by his time and ours ("Péguy, Poet of Wonder").
A Christian foreign to the Christendom of our time – this is an extraordinary position for a modern Catholic. For Protestants, however, wariness toward Christendom is more common. For example, here's a response from Peter Leithart to John Nugent, a defender of John Howard Yoder's anti-Constantinism. Christopher Dawson, in his concise book, The Historical Reality of Christian Culture quotes one of the great Protestant voices against Christendom, Kierkegaard: "Christendom has mocked God and continues to mock Him — just as if to a man who is a lover of nuts, instead of bringing him one nut with a kernel, we were to bring him tons and millions of empty nut-shells." Dawson comments that "what Kierkegard attacked with such passion, however, was not Christendom but the secularization of Christendom, and especially that particular form of secularization which he found in the Danish State Church of the mid-nineteenth century" (p 69-70). For Dawson, the student of history, Christendom was not a single historical synthesis brokered by Constantine, but instead "a historical reality which had actually come into the world and had transformed the societies with which it had come into contact" (70). In short, Christendom is not a historic relic, but in fact a dynamism of Christian existence. And it happened not only once, but as Dawson delineates it six times so far (being, as he reckons it, in the sixth age of the Church).
Christendom, as Dawson defines it, is the impact of the unique event of Jesus Christ on the totality of human culture. Such a Christendom, such a new humanity, is not satisfied with family values, Christian values, tradition, cultural victories, or brightening the patina of Christianity on once-Christian institutions. Such a Christendom looks to renew the person, the human being, and from that point the rest will follow – in whatever form it may take. For the ages of the Church demonstrate differences with regard to particular challenges, strengths, weaknesses, accomplishments.
Christopher Dawson knows the formative influence that education has on society, so he does indicate some ways forward in confronting "the Leviathan" of secularism:
"The modern Leviathan is such a formidable monster that it can swallow the religious school system whole without suffering from indigestion.
But this is not the case with higher education. The only part of Leviathan that is vulnerable is its brain, which is small in comparison with its vast and armored bulk. If we could develop Christian higher education to a point at which it meets the attention of the average educated man in every field of thought and life, the situation would be radically changed" (88-89).
Well, almost. Dawson underestimated the Leviathan's ability to even swallow up higher education. The university has abandoned its pretense of forming persons toward totality. The humanities are no longer even of much scientific interest to the university, which is now concerned with driving revenue and 'vocational' training. Dawson is essentially right however, in seeing in the sleeping intelligence of modern man a chink in the scales of the secularist beast. The new humanity, the new Christendom, has no universities of its own, almost no schools of its own. For now, the new Christendom is a diaspora which can be found in any of the institutions of the old Christendom, or the aging and tired secularism. What forms it will take is not so much our concern. It could be a salesman who attends a play and judges it afterward, gets up in the dead of night to see the moon turn red, or spends his lunch studying more diligently than most college students. Or it could be an entrepreneur, a college professor, a biologist, a parent, who knows? What's essential to authentic Christendom is not power, not institutions, not formal education — but humanity, an affection generated by the gaze of One who loved us so much He came to share our condition. He's still here. Look for the green buds on the leafless trees. Or come to New York City in January.
Jesus: A Memory Who Abides
"While Jonas watched, the people began one by one to untie the ribbons on the packages, to unwrap the bright papers, open the boxes and reveal toys and clothing and books. There were cries of delight. They hugged one another.
The small child went and sat on the lap of the old woman, and she rocked him and rubbed her cheek against his" (The Giver, Lois Lowrey, 123).
"The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why" ( G.K. Chesterton in Generally Speaking, via Quaerere Deum via gkchestertonquote).
"there is a way of being together that is not Christian communion. And what is the clearest indication of this? That it does not liberate us, that there is no liberation; that is, it is not Communion and Liberation. Fr. Giussani told us that this happens due to a lack of memory, due to a lack of existential depth in the awareness of belonging. [...] When St. Paul says, 'Yet I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me,' he defines exactly the content of the new self-awareness. Without this new awareness, there is no Christian communion, because we are not letting into our life the gaze that made us become part of this communion." (Living is The Memory of Me, 54).
May you live Christmas and the Christmas season filled with the memory of Christ!


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Went past the bookstore only to notice a grand display for this and then casually proceeded to stand there for five minutes. Then stupidly I went in store and discovered that there was a signed copy hiding in the pile of books and there was no way I was letting my hands go of that book. Even when I tried to place another book back on the shelf single handedly. You are all mine! MINE!
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The Emgrand EC8 has only just been launched in 2.0L and 2.4L specification but Geely are planning to kill off the Mitsubishi engines used in the EC8 in favor of something from their own line up. Mitsubishi has long provided engines to Chinese auto makers that lacked their own self developed engines, although many Chinese companies have successfully developed their own engine line up in the past couple of years.
At the 2009 Shanghai Auto Show Geely aired its self developed 2.4Lengine, codenamed JLδ-4G24, which produces 162bhp and 225Nm of torque. Whilst obviously low in the BHP department, the self developed engine is producing a good amount of torque for an engine of its size.


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Yes, and I HAD experimented earlier with 32 MB, I guess that I had noticed that
it was more stable, but had shut my eyes to that realization and plowed ahead
with the full 128 MB. I suppose my rationale was that if I had paid for the
RAM, I had better damn well use it all.. :P Then, this frantic afternoon, I
realized that I had read about an Alphastation with 128MB, an eb164 with 256MB
and another with 128 MB -- and your UDB with 64, and tried 63... it really does
seem to work so far. virtual console #7 is not filled with bogus memory
addresses, AND, fsck didn't crash while validating my old /usr partition.
fsck crashed consistently with 128 MB, milo 2.0.22, and kernel 2.0.18.
> > Also, of course, / and /usr must be on the same partition. (4.0 bug)
> Move all of the libnss_* files from /usr/lib to /lib. This will cure the
> problem with rebooting when /usr is on its own partition.
Oops, I suppose I should have thought of that, but too late now. I suppose
that having the two together isn't THAT bad.
> > I am reinstalling now with no apparent problems with milo configured to 63 MB.
> > Just moments ago, with 128 MB set as MEMORY_SIZE (in milo..) mkswap crashed,
> > then later, (with swap ignored for the meanwhile) the installer crashed while
> > unpacking the xf86 package.
> Ya know I never tried this with my problem. I will try putting my memory
> back in and rebooting as a 63 MB machine and see what happens.
> > Well, I'll run like this for a while, hopefully I can build a kernel that will
> > support 128 MB -- PLEASE, though, if anybody knows anything about this
> > disturbing aspect of Linux, let me (us?) know.
> I'm investigating the cause of the problem on my system as I write this
> (plowing through kernel source to be exact). I'll let you know what I
> find.
this is the most exciting part, as I definitely would rather have 128 MB,
if I can test a kernel for you please let me know.
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With one out in the 7th inning, runner on first, down by 7 runs. Do you hold the runner?
That was the situation on Wednesday night and Torre chose not to hold Dellucci. The ESPN crew, mainly Hershiser, was talking about unwritten rules of baseball and the etiquette of the situation. Dellucci stayed at first and in the end it didn't make much difference. But in today's game where runs can really be scored in bunches a 7 run comeback in the 7th doesn't seem impossible (especially if you can chip one more run of the lead with a free base and a bloop single).
So I ask, whose decision is it not to take the conceded base? And whether it was Dellucci's or Wedge's decision, isn't the Tribe conceding the game by not taking advantage of the gift? Either way, I believe this is a lack of leadership from either our veteran and/or our manager. The message is clear; we've lost, so we're not going to try. This is never a message that should be conveyed in baseball where time can never run out.
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(WFLX) - Teens want to be 'idolized'. Kids, as young as 13, are willing to go under the knife to look good. "Before you walk out the door, you've gotta look good," said Kaley Shanks.
Kaley is happy with what she sees when she looks in the mirror. "I'm a full C now."
But that hasn't always been the case. "I always said that if I didn't have boobs by the time I was 18, that I'd get them. And, three months later, I did."
And why not? She had her parents' support. "My dad was like, 'Get them as big as you want.'"
She came up with the finances. "I actually borrowed it from somebody and paid them back within the next year."
And she didn't do it for a boyfriend or anyone else. She did it for herself. "I wouldn't care what people think anyway."
But many teens long for acceptance among their peers experts say. And numbers speak volumes. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, nearly 210,000 cosmetic plastic surgery procedures were performed on people age 13 to 19 in 2009.
"I don't think they judged me, to my face anyway," said Kaley.
Speaking of faces: Nose Jobs are actually teen favorites.
In fact, 35,000 U.S. teenagers had their noses surgically reshaped in 2009 while male breast reductions, breast augmentations, and ear surgeries were popular, but comparatively fell far behind in demand.
"Sometimes folks have ears that stick out. Even when you go swimming and all that you can't hide it with long hair," explained Dr. Walter Erhardt, a Plastic Surgeon and Former President of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
Dr. Erhardt has performed countless surgeries on teenagers over the years. "The younger folks have a tendency to try and fit in, so they try and do procedures that make them fit in a little better."
Dr. Erhardt says teens contemplating a little nip tuck need a strong support system and the right motivation.
Do it for you, he says. "Not for a boyfriend, a spouse or anyone else or so you can get a job or a better job."
And the obsession with looking "picture perfect" begins at a young age. "Magazines, movies definitely put on the pressure to look good," Kaley admitted.
Either way, Kaley is pleased with her transformation. "I love them. I'd do it all over again, perfect size!"
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She walks into the weekly support group meeting. A young girl. I assume she's a girl, or female identified, since this is a male to female transgender support group. Her long shoulder length, unkempt brown hair, dark, dark glasses obscuring what must be pretty eyes, and rumpled corduroy jacket set her apart from those who make a studied effort to establish a female persona. She wears a black man's fedora, stylish, very Madonna-esgue in its fashion sense. Pulled down low to the eyebrows and meeting the top frame of the dark sunglasses, it shields her face, making her as much a hidden icon as she can manage. She comes in late, forcing her to grab a chair in the center of the room. She does this often I am told, a hidden object in plain sight. She says nothing, gesturing occasionally.
At the end of session wrap-up, a time during which members take their turn talking about impressions from the evening, what strikes them at the moment, and what's on the agenda for the week, she waves on to the next person, declining to speak. Yet, at the end of the meeting, when some of the more social members gather in the lobby for informal chat and make their way out, she hangs around, listening in on others' conversations, occasionally making a one or two word comment. You can tell she's listening. She's reacting. Things are getting in there.
I join some of the group members and move out of the building and on to a local diner to expand on the evening discussion and get to know one another more; she follows. Saying nothing, she tags along, and being the kind of group it is, she is welcomed. We cross the busy Avenues of New York City, reassembling on the corner having been briefly separated by the ever rushing City traffic. Her absence is noted. She's no longer with us.
I inquire as to whether or not she ever joined the after meeting social, this being my first time with them. I am told, no, she tries, but never quite makes it all the way to the restaurant, peeling off some blocks before.
I ask who she is, what her name is.
No one knows. She never tells anyone.
She's just The Fedora Kid.
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[Journal of the Simplified Spelling Society, J26, 1999/2 pp25-26]
[See other journal articles and Personal View by Zé do Rock.]
An Excursion into Icelandic Orthography
Zé do RockIceland was one of the few countries Zé do Rock did not visit on the 11-year hitchhike that inspired his orthographic travelogue fom winde ferfeelt (written in German, reviewed in Cut Spelng in JSSS J23, pp24-27). Now active in the SSS, he here gives his orthographic impressions from a recent trip to that island. His text combines the cutting elements of his own simplified version of English spelling with some of the idiosyncrasies of written Icelandic.
A headline sample of printed Icelandic:
Háværar kröfur gerðar um afsögn Jeltsíns forseta.Icelandic is quite a famus language, especially considering it is only spoken by 270,000 people, wich is less than some districts in big citis. It's famus because of its conservativ features, wich explain wy icelanders say they can read thousand-year-old texts without any problems. It's to preserv that quality that it bans the import of foreign words into the language - they hav an Academy wich at the site of a foren word imediatly invents or composes a new icelandic word.
I didnt go to Iceland to study the language, i just went there to enjoy the wether, the wind and the cold. But i tried to get a grasp of the language and found an ancient book translated into english as The First Grammarian. This faild to change the "bad orthografic manners" of the emergent new language icelandic, but it became one of the most important books for the study of old nors. I dont no too much about the history of spelling reform projects, but thats certainly one of the oldest, being ritten around the year 1200. The author is anonimous and he not only complains that icelandic is getting away from the alfabetic principle, but he also laments that icelandic and english ar drifting apart.
Wel, i personally dont lament it, i wouldnt be very happy if we had to speak something like icelandic as the international language. Altho i hav to say, at least they hav fewer silent letters, and u can lern the rules where these silent letters ar. Thats something english could lern from icelandic.
Altho the icelandic alfabet came from old english, it has no C, Q, W or Z. The C can be spelt with K (eg, kaffi) or S (eg, sentimetri), the Q with K (kvikasilfur 'quicksilver'), and they dont need W or Z. Two letters survive from old english wich modern english has lost, representing the (for many non-nativ speakers) difficult TH sounds: Ð (lower case ð) representng voiced TH, and Þ (lower case þ representing voiceless TH.
The pronunciation also has a kind of funny burp sound: to pronounce höfn 'haven', try to say hurpen with silent R; u hav alredy pronounced the hur-, and then u hav to burp and close yor mouth, so that the /pn/ comes thru the nose. For a word like steinn 'stone' u hav to say stedden, but the DN is pronounced with this burp-efect. One advantage of icelandic is that it doesnt hav (for foreners) funny vowels as english does, like short A, short U, ER, etc.
Stil, it has one thing in common with english: in other germanic languages, long vowels ar just the same as short vowels, but pronounced long, wile icelandic and english hav long vowels that ar pronounced quite differently from the short ones. Long A corresponds to english OW in how, long E is actually like YE in english yet, long O is a difthong as in english RP clothe, long U is 'continental', ie, as in english include, but the short U is something between shwa and german Ö.
Let us use U for shwa in this text, as the icelanders do, eg, there ar lots of endings with U in icelandic, such as vegur 'way', fullur 'full'. And to shó long vowels in ícelandic, ú just put an acút accent on the vowel. Quít ésy, as só meni reformurs shó. If inglish had priservd the accents it sumtíms úsed in óld english to shó long vowels, probably ther wud bé no problems kéing them in on compúturs and uthur ríting divíces today. But it hasnt, and now it séms to bé too lát.
Ícelandic speling is quít far from the pronunciátion. Móst leturs hav 3, 4 or évun 6 valús. But ther ar strict rúles, so eny ícelandur nós how tu pronounce an unnón wurd. A forenur has quít a fú dificultis, as wé can sé in the varius valús of the letur G:
1. at the bigining of a sylabul bifor A, Á, O, Ó, U, Ú, Ö, AU, L, N, R: 'normul' /g/, as in gata 'street' (not 'gate').
2. sylabul-initialy bifor E, I, Í, Y, Ý, OE, EI, EY, J: palatized G, a bit lík soft G in english, as in gefa 'giv'.
3. Bitwén vowels or bitwén vowel and R and ð: /j/ (ie, like english Y in yes), as in dagur 'day'.
4. Wurd-end aftur vowel: /j/, as in sög 'saw' (noun).
5. Bitwén vowel and I, J: /j/, as in bogi 'bow' (for arrows)
6. Bitwén vowel and L, N: /g/, as in gagn 'usefulness'
7. Bitwén F, G, L, R and vowel: /gv/, as in öfgar 'exageration'.
8. In guð /gv/, as in Guðni (proper nám).
9. Bitwén L and D, G, T, N, S and bitwén R and Ð, T, N: sílunt, as in margt.
Thats ól rathur complicáted. It's the prís pépul hav tu pá for béing ábul tu réd thousund-yér-old texts. Úsualy wot hapuns is not that the language as a hól stopd its évolútion, ónly the ritun language did - in ícelandic sum centuris bifor inglish.
Thá dónt hav PH, bikos thá dónt hav grék wurds; and insted of SH, thá rít SK, like SC in old inglisk.
All in all, íslandisk sounds lík grék béing spóken by fins. The vokabulari is not as púr as the íslandurs klám: í hafa hurd thaþ a hundrað (íslandurs luv ð and þ) yérs agó ther vur much mor 'internasional' ords, but sins thá founded an akademi vich has bén 'kléning' the language, such ords bikám much rerur. Meny tíms thá had tu kombín nú ords from old íslansk ones, and í vil giv hér sum exampuls:
|'living pictur'
|'persons power'
|'pépls power'
|'worlds wisdom'
|'moov maker'
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In a núspápur it is rély harð tu finna non-germanisk ords. Biscuit is a 'small cake', in islandsk smákaka. Stil, if ú gó tu a kafé, ú'l find ords lík kaffi, sykur, súkkulaði 'chocolat', café au lait, etc. And a pizza is a pizza, évun if ðe íslandurs sá ðat ðis is no islansk ord. Thá sá ðat ðe rít ord is flat baka, but í'v nevur sén ðis ord, evryvair ðá ofur pizzur. Ðe ord is ólsó purfektli diklínabul in islansk: pizza 'a pizza', um pizzu 'about pizza', etc, ðe plúrul pizzur 'pizzas', pizzur 'about pizzas', pizzum 'from pizzas', etc. Ðer ar 8 kás endings, but ðe artikul is at ðe end of ðe ord, so vé hav tu lurn 16 endings: pizzan 'ðe pizzas', pizzurnar 'about ðe pizza', pizzunum, pizzanna, etc. Pizza is a kvít regulur ord, but an ord lík maður 'man' is a bit hardur: maður, mann, manni, manns, menn, menn, mönnum, manna, etc. Ólsó ðe konjugátions arnt veri simpul, and ðer ar évun 3 ords for inglish they: ðe plurul for he (ðeir, ðe plurul for she (ðær) and ðe plurul for it (ðau).
And ðe náms: ðá dont hafa family náms, ónli a kristian nám and ðen ðe faðirs first nám + son. Só if yor nám is Mikael and yor faðirs nám is Jon, yor nám vil bé Mikael Jonsson. If ú er a vuman, ú vil get ðe fyrst nám + ðe faðirs (or sumtíms muðirs) nám + dóttir. If ú vont tu bikum an íslandur, ú hafa tu ajust tu ðat system. Vladimir Ashkenazy, ðe fámus pianist and konduktur, vonted tu bekum an íslandur, but he didnt vont tu chánge his nám. In his kás, ðá sed, vé kan mák an ekseption: ðe nám Vladimir Ashkenazy var aloued. Sumtím látur anuthur gý hú vonted tu bikum an íslandur aplíd tu get ðe nám Vladimir Ashkenazy. Aftur ól, Ðessi var aloued, vosnt it?
Ðe temperutur var ólveis around 10°C. In ðe sumer. Hou ðe vinter is, ú kan imagin ven ú nó ðe language: ðe ord for 'weather' is veður vich ólsó méns vind, ðe ord for 'winter' is vetur, and ðe ord for 'wet' is votur. Ol ðés ords ar kvít similur, arnt ðá? Í mén, wether-winter-wet arnt exactly far from éch oður, but in islansk ðá ar olmóst ðe sám.
Tu kompensát for Ðéssi problums, ðe landskáp is grát and fasináting: desurts and béches in ól kolurs, volkánós, and Ísland is surtunly ðe ónly kuntri in ðe verld við mor ðan 3 vaterfalls per inhabitunt. Bikos ðer ar not meny pépul and bikos ðer ar réali lots of vatenfalls. And í'm just tauking about ðe vatnfalls ðat kum from ðe mountins, not about ðe vuns ðat kum from ðe ský. Of kors ðer ar meni geysirs, and nou í nó ðat néiðer ðe britisk nor ðe amerikansk pronunsiásion of ðe ord is rít: ðe rít speling vud bé gaser in inglisk, pronounsed lík ðe kvestion "gay, sir?"
Ðá ét fisk, pizza and hamburgurs, but sumtíms it gets a bit wérd. Ðeir móst fámus dish is kald hákarl. Ðessi is a shark. Ðá fisk it and bery it for 3 manþs, then ðá ét it. Hraw! Or hrotten, as sum pépul mít sá.
And ðe íslandurs, ðe folk? Vel, ðe íslandur ar frendly, but it is veri difikult tu fínna vun. And the konklusion: í vud by ðeir fisk, but vudnt import éiðer ðeir veður or ðeir speling...
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A fire truck on its way to the scene of a house fire in Bridgeport collided with another car early Wednesday afternoon, according to Bridgeport police.
The truck was heading to 97 White Street, where a fire had broken out in the walls of a home, when it got into an accident at the intersection of Barnum and Central avenues, police said.
One firefighter was taken to a nearby health clinic for an evaluation and the driver of the other car declined medical treatment.
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Nineteen lives will forever be linked to a memorial in Harrisburg.
A new garden pathway in Harrisburg honors area victims of domestic violence.
Crisp autumn air mirrored sharp emotions Thursday morning as several dozen people gathered at the Camp Curtain Memorial Garden to unveil a new pathway.
Although pink dominates October for breast cancer awareness, the color purple is just as important this month, which is also dedicated to domestic violence awareness and prevention.
Jen Storm with Dauphin County's Victim Witness and Services program was instrumental in making sure victims like Tarina Fields-Price are not forgotten. Her godmother, Angela Parker-Quarles, emotionally recounted a cold day in December 2011.
"Murdered by her husband, the father of her two youngest boys, the man who claimed he loved her," she said choking back tears. "Again, love does not hurt."
Parker-Quarles was one of 19 families who came out to the dedication ceremony.
Storm lifted a painting of a purple ribbon and revealed 19 separate bricks. One-by-one, she read the names out loud. Families began to grab paper and etch their loved one's name with a charcoal pencil.
Guadalupe Peach and her daughter Isabelle traveled to Harrisburg from Seattle. The Peach family was stunned in 2007 when Marisa Peach was killed by her fiancé. Peach said it was too painful to etch her daughter's name, but she felt her daughter's presence.
"She is here," Peach said. "You feel that spirit continues with you. It's emotional, very emotional."
Peach said she hopes her loss will be a lesson to those battling abusive relationships. She said her daughter's death already has encouraged three women in the Seattle area to seek help.
Dauphin County Commissioner George Hartwick III said it's important for people in abusive relationships to immediately seek help.
"Abusers often promise it won't happen again, but it does," he said, "again, again, again, again."
The day of reflection doubled as a day of warning. The hope is that the 19 lives lost are not only tales of tragedy, but tales of prevention.
"If you see, hear, know or suspect, reach out and speak up," Parker-Quarles said.
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Bowe nearly out of chances in K.C.
During their year and a half in Kansas City, GM Scott Pioli and head coach Todd Haley haven't exactly been known for their patience. But maybe the most egregious offender is that time span, WR Dwayne Bowe, has mostly ...
Page's status in K.C. could affect Berry
Although a deal still appears likely, S Jarrad Page is certainly playing hard to get with the Chiefs.
K.C.'s McCluster will be more than runner
One of the more questioned picks of the Chiefs' draft was their early second-round selection of Ole Miss RB Dexter McCluster, especially given the club's apparent strength at the position. However, the coaching staff has plans for the rookie ...
2010 draft choices by team: Chiefs
Here are the players who were chosen by the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2010 NFL draft.
Pioli has speed, versatility on the mind in Round Two
Chiefs GM Scott Pioli used his two second-round picks to add speed to the Chiefs' roster in Ole Miss RB Dexter McCluster and Alabama CB Javier Arenas.
Chiefs' choice of McCluster shocks Eagles
The Eagles were poised to draft Dexter McCluster, writes Eric Edholm, but K.C. beat them to the punch. In "Around the NFL," Edholm will be posting blog entries throughout the draft.
Chiefs realize Berry is can't-miss safety
Teams are typically hesitant to draft a safety in the top five, but the Chiefs saw that Eric Berry was a special player worth taking that high.
Chiefs re-sign RFAs Croyle, Niswanger, O'Callaghan
The Chiefs announced Thursday that restricted free agents QB Brodie Croyle, C Rudy Niswanger and OT Ryan O'Callaghan have signed their one-year tenders.
Chiefs ILB Johnson entering 'monumental' season
Understandably, Chiefs ILB Derrick Johnson was not thrilled with his role during the 2009 season. A former defensive leader, he rubbed the Chiefs' new regime the wrong way in training camp and was relegated to the bench for much of ...
Chiefs weighing pros, cons of drafting Berry at No. 5
Word around Kansas City is that the Chiefs are struggling with the decision of whether or not to use their fifth overall draft pick on Tennessee S Eric Berry.
Chiefs LB Johnson, OL Ndukwe sign RFA tenders
The Chiefs announced Thursday that ILB Derrick Johnson and OL Ikechuku Ndukwe have signed their restricted free agent tenders.
New Chief Jones not expected to knock Charles from starting perch
The Chiefs made an early splash in free agency by signing RB Thomas Jones, cut by the Jets as a cost-cutting maneuver, to bolster their shallow backfield. But contrary to its appearance, the move does not signal the end of ...
Chiefs sign ex-Colts OG Lilja
The Chiefs bolstered their offensive line on Tuesday by signing free-agent OG Ryan Lilja. The deal is reportedly for three years.
Chiefs sign C Wiegmann
The Chiefs announced they signed C Casey Wiegmann late Friday.
Chiefs sign ex-Cardinals WR Urban
The Chiefs announced Thursday that they have signed free-agent WR Jerheme Urban. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Avery agreed to terms on a three-year deal with Kansas City, a person familiar with the terms told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because the transaction had not been announced.||||||| The speedy wide receiver showed promise after the Rams selected him in the second round in 2008, but he missed the entire 2010 season with a knee injury. Avery spent last year with Indianapolis, where he caught a career-best 60 passes for 781 yards and three touchdowns in helping the Colts reach the playoffs.
Avery caught five passes for 91 yards and two touchdowns on Sunday, including the game-winner as time expired against Detroit.||||||| Avery is a respect No. 3 option for owners who are thin at WR, particularly in PPR formats.
Avery caught nine passes for 111 yards in Sunday's 23-20 win over the Vikings.||||||| Avery tied his career high in receptions
The Indianapolis Colts have signed Avery.||||||| The move completes a frantic day of change for the Colts, who lost center Jeff Saturday to Green Bay and tight end Jacob Tamme to Denver, traded for quarterback Drew Stanton and lost offensive lineman Ryan Diem, who retired.
The Tennessee Titans have placed receiver Kenny Britt on injured reserve and signed Donnie Avery to fill his spot on the roster. The Titans announced the moves Wednesday just before practice.||||||| Britt tore both his ACL and MCL in his right knee during last week's 17-14 win over Denver. He will need surgery within the next two weeks to repair the damage, but the injury left Tennessee (2-1) with only four receivers on the roster. The 5-foot-11 Avery was a second-round pick in 2008 out of Houston by St. Louis. He had 100 catches for 1,263 yards and eight touchdowns but missed the 2010 season after tearing his right ACL in an exhibition game.


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Arizona is trying to take the high, righteous road in making very public their decision to withhold Jason Grimsley's remaining pay, while calling Grimsley every name in the book. (Mostly, because he has been ineffective this year.)
Grimsley intends to file a grievance with the union, which in its turn will mow down the Dbacks on this one. Grimsley has been released, but isn't charged with any crime.
The DBack ownership probably expects to lose, but they chose this moment for some Holier-Than-Thou posturing.
"In my mind, he (Grimsley) probably owes us as opposed to us owing him," AZ Managing General Partner Ken Kendrick said.
"What he is really asking us to do, if he files a grievance, he's asking us to pay him for not performing, when the reason that he isn't performing is because he was a cheater ..."
(Uh...Kenny...You don't want to see Grimsley's stuff without the juice.)
Moreover, Ken, My Man, many steroid users perform just fine, as you will probably find out when other members of your team are exposed.
What will you do then, Kenny? Ask the crummy-result cheaters to give their salaries back, while the good-for-you cheaters get a pat on the butt?
Here's a For-Instance: What if LuGo ends up on Grimsley's rat-out list?


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Lia Markey specializes in Italian Renaissance art with particular concentrations on artistic and cultural exchange between Italy and the Americas, Medici patronage, prints and drawings, and collecting history. She has been the recipient of a Kress Foundation Fellowship at the Kunsthistorisches Institute in Florence, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship and a Renaissance Society of America Research Grant. Prior to teaching at Princeton, Dr. Markey taught courses at Fordham University, The New School, Yeshiva University and the University of Pennsylvania as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities. She has worked at the Smart Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Morgan Library and the Princeton University Art Museum where she is contributing to the research and writing of a forthcoming catalogue of Italian drawings. Dr. Markey recently completed a book manuscript entitled, Imagining the New World in Medici Florence: Art, Collecting, and Cultural Conquest and is currently engaged in researching two different book projects that each investigate novelty and cross-cultural relations in the sixteenth century: one project explores Giovanni Stradano's Nova Reperta print series while the other examines the life and work of three Italian artists who painted in the Andes of present-day Peru.
"The Riches of the Indies: Francesco and Ferdinando de' Medici and the Americas," in Medici Power and Representation in Early Modern Florence, eds. Alessio Assonitis and Brian Sandberg (Rome: Viella Libreria Editrice, forthcoming 2013).
"Stradano's Allegorical Invention of the Americas in Sixteenth-Century Florence" Renaissance Quarterly 65, 2 (Summer 2012): 385-442.
"Istoria della terra chiamata la nuova spagna: The History and Reception of Sahagún's Codex at the Medici Court," in Colors Between Two Worlds: The Florentine Codex of Bernardino de Sahagún, ed. Gerhard Wolf and Joseph Connors with Louis Waldman (Florence: Villa I Tatti The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 2011): 199-220.
Captured Objects: Inventories of Early Modern Collections, special edition of the Journal of the History of Collections, 23, 2 (2011), co-edited with Jessica Keating. Includes co-authored article with Keating, "Indian Objects in Medici and Austrian-Habsburg Inventories: A Case Study of the Sixteenth-Century Term" (283-300) and a co-authored introduction, "Captured Objects: Inventories of Early Modern Collections" (209-213)
"Medici Statecraft and the Building and Use of Ammannati's Ponte Santa Trinita" in Italian Art, Society and Politics: A Festschrift in Honor of Rab Hatfield, eds. Barbara Deimling, Jonathan K. Nelson and Gary M. Radke (Syracuse University Press, 2007): 178-193.
"The Female Printmaker and the Culture of the Reproductive Print Workshop," in The Paper Museum: The Reproductive Print in Europe, 1500-1800, eds. Rebecca Zorach and Elizabeth Rodini, exh. cat. Smart Museum of Art, February 3-May 25, 2005 (The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, 2005): 51-73.


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Made in Heaven, a new and savagely beautiful dance theatre production, is coming to the Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre in Taunton.
The Mark Bruce Company, merging ancient themes with the dystopia of contemporary life, creates a surreal world ruled by a blinded cop and a malicious virgin, where a prairie girl dreams of other lives and a chain-gang dances on the edge of an inferno.
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If nothing else, the Firing Of Cam (FOC) and the two game losing streak is creating a ton of uncertainty, and to me excitement, about the future of our beloved franchise. From my point of view the FOC has put the whole team on notice: coaches and players alike. If the team crashes and burns and either squeaks into the playoffs only to quickly lose or even misses the playoffs entirely then a large chuck of the team is vulnerable to being replaced, from Harbs to Alex Silvestro (he's on the practice squad). Of course if the FOC and the plugging in of Caldwell turns the ship around and we go deep into the playoffs again, even if we don;t make the Super Bowl, the question will be how to keep the team together given how tight we will be against next year's salary cap.
And tight against the cap we will be. Just like that team 4 hours drive away to the northwest, years of being successful combined with years of low first round draft choices makes us veteran heavy when it comes to salaries and leadership. Regardless of how we get through this year we are in a multi-year transition from the Ray-Ed teams of the last decade to....what? Part of the answer to that question wil come via veteran cuts and free agency signings while the rest will come via the draft. It's that aspect that I want to look at today.
A couple things to know before we delve into a few mock drafts. A case could be made that any postion could use a high draft pick directed at it this year-and you will see below that almost every position gets targeted by one mocker or another. To me the biggest positions of need are : ILB, DL, S, and OL, not in that or any particular order. I would go with best player available at those positions. Also no mock has us taking a QB in case you are wondering. None will unless we lose Flacco to free agency.
Most mocks are just one round but I think you will find enough of a variety of picks that you will get a sense of who might be available when we pick. I will also list the next 5 picks in the mocks just to get a sense of what that mocker is choosing from when making our pick.
Of course the mocks will get more accurate after the combine and all-star games and workouts but with the college season over now except for the bowls we have a good idea which players have blossomed and which have farted out. To the mocks!
Oops! For a guide to these mocks, check out their scores from last year at The Huddle Report. I am trying to pick mocks with a good track record.
1. CBS. Rob Rang and Dane Brugler have been around awhile and at this point they might be the closest to what the NFL scouts are seeing.
Rang: Pick #27 Ravens pick Tavon Austin WR. Next 5: Dion Jordan OLB, Barrett Jones G, CJ Moseley ILB/OLB, Sam Montgomery DE, and Terrance Williams WR
Brugler: Pick #27 Ravens pick Matt Elam SS. Next 5: Jonathon Cooper G, Tavon Austin WR, Tyler Eifert TE, Ezekiel Ansah DE, Kevin Minter ILB.
Analysis: Rang: wowsers! This guy clearly does not like the young WR's in our depth chart. I honestly can;t imagine us picking Austin with the talent that's left on the table with those next 5 picks. If ANY of Jordan, Moseley and Barrett are left when we pick I'll be jumping up and down on my couch. But back to the Austin pick: Rang does have a point that we do need to see if Caldwell plays our scrub WR's at all the last few weeks. Part of Cameron's many problems was overly relying on his starters. Let's see if Caldwell also agrees that the scrubs also suck. I think they actually don't and they just need better plays called for them.
Brugler: Elam. I think this will be too high for Elam. though I would be happy to pick him in round 2. Cooper and Ansah are probably the two here I'd choose from. You'll see Cooper picked a lot right after we pick in round 1.
2. Mocking the Draft- Matthew Fairburn: Ravens Pick #30: Tank Carradine DE/OLB. Next 2: DeAndre Hopkins WR, Ezekiel Ansah DE
Analysis: First I want to say that I like Dan Kadar's mocks on this site more than Fairburn's. But Kadar hasn't mocked in a good month-I'll get him next time. Fairburn's mock is kinda old too- Nov 21st and it shows since Carradine promptly tore his ACL right after this. No first round for you!. But notice Ansah lurking again. My advice is if you have time do some research on this kid. I think that by the draft he will be picked before the Ravens pick but otherwise there's a whole lot of potential there.
3. Ricky Dimon- Fantasy Football Toolbox: Ricky has a 2 round mock. Ravens pick #30- Alec Olgetree ILB Next 5: Tyler Eifert TE, Tavon Austin WR, Terrance Williams WR, Jackson Jeffcoat DE, DeAndre Hopkins WR.
Ravens pick #60: Shariff Floyd DT. Next 2 picks: Ezekiel Ansah (!) DE, Alex Hurst OT
Analysis: Hey I could sleep happily with these two guys picked in the first two rounds. Olgletree I am VERY high on. I think he could be our anchor at ILB for the next decade. Good run stopping skills. Good pass rush. Decent at coverage. And looking at the next five, all receivers. Definitely Ogletree. And Floyd, while not exciting to me, is a solid pick. That Ansah is lucking at 61 reminds me of the saying from our recently completed elections and the polls: if you see a poll which is way different than all the other polls then it is almost guaranteed wrong. The Gallup poll was wrong then and Ansah will go in round 1.
4. NE Patriots draft: Scott Christiensen, Ravens pick #27-Tony Jefferson S. Next 5: Eric Fisher OT, Kenny Vaccaro S, Tavin Austin WR, Jonothan Cooper OL, Tyler Eifert TE
Analysis: The safety class is thought to be particularly deep this year. That said I am not convinced that there is much value in picking one of them in the 1st round-and you wil see below that both Jefferson and Elam are thought by other mockers as round 2 picks. Rounds 2-5 look great for the safeties. I can even imagine taking two safeties in the mid rounds like we did with TE's a couple years ago.That said I think (but don't take my word for it obviously lol) that Jefferson is more of a free safety than Vaccaro or even Elam are and we need a safety that can cover given that we have Pollard who can hammer. If not Jefferson then take the tackle, Fisher.
Round 2, pick #57: Datone Jones DE, Next 5L Da'Rick Rogers WR, Travis Frederick G/C, DJ Swearinger CB/S, Matt Elam S,
Analysis: Datone from UCLA could play 5 or 3 technique I think. Had a good year and is versatile. I'd take Elam over him though and maybe Swearinger or even Rogers too. (Don't know Frederick yet but he's a Wisconsin OL guy and they got a good rep.)
5. Steven Lourie-Football Fan Spot Ravens pick #26 Eric Fisher OT. Next 5: Sheldon Richardson DT, Eric Reid S, Alec Ogletree ILB, Jonathan Cooper OL, Jesse Williams DT
Analysis: Jesus Christ! The bottom of this guy's round 1 mock is loaded! 2nd mock here that has Fisher at or below the Revens pick. Many mocks have him going before us though. He's probably a RT kind of guy in case you are wondering. Good pick IMO. Richardson? He's gonna go higher but if he lasts then I'd take him or my man Ogletree. Really three quality choices here. 4 with Cooper. Williams right now is getting some backlash and most mocks would have him in round 1.
6. Walter Chirpinski, Walter Football-a 3 round mock. Ravens pick #27 CJ Mosley ILB. Next 5: Jonathan Cooper OL, Matt Elam S, Tavon Austin WR, Barrett Jones OL, Justin Hunter WR.
Analysis: SCORE! I'd be very happy if Mosley falls to us. The think that stands out with Mosley is that he can cover-and have you noticed any Ravens LB's in the middle of the field this year? No? Then your eyesight is good!
Round 2, pick #56- Da'Rick Rogers WR. Next 5: Eddie Lacy RB, Tony Jefferson S, Chase Thomas OLB, Margus Hunt DL, John Simon DE.
Analysis. meh. Would much prefer Jefferson here. Hell I would LOVE Thomas but he wil not last this long. But back to Jefferson: and in the last mock above, Elam: see how there's no consensus when the top safeties will go?
Round 3: pick #89 Tyrann Mathieu CB. Next 5: Akeem Spence DT, EJ manuel QB, Shawn Williams S, Monte Ball RB, Andre Ellington RB.
Analysis: We get the Honey Badger! At this point, and in looking at other mocks, round 3 is where people are initially pegging this guy-with the proviso that if he cleans himself up he would be a steal here. So, yeah, I'd take him here. With Webb making a career of torn ACLs, sure I'll take a flyer here, especially since I think we'll have another 3rd rounder as a compensatory pick.
Okay. I'm done for tonight. Obviously these mocks wil change all sorts of ways and some of the better mockers have yet to set their initial mock. I am also too cheap/smart to not pay for ESPN Insider so I won't be doing Kiper (who is quite good) and McShay. But I will revisit the mocks around the time of the college all-star games and the combine and before the real draft so see how things are developing. G'night all!


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I just wanted to go through teams and look at players who are on the trade block and see what they could do for our Wolves.
Atlanta Hawks: The Hawks have a big payroll and are not in title contention, and they need to change either one or both of those things. Hawks want a true center so that Horford can play more PF.
Jeff Teague - He is a young unproven turnover prone guy, but is still better than Jonny Flynn. He would probably still back up Ridnour.
Jamal Crawford - Crawford is in the final year of his contract and probably wouldn't resign here, but he is much better than any guard on our team. He might be available because his high price tag for the Hawks to resign him and their addition of Hinrich.
Charlotte Bobcats: It has been rumored the Bobcats are looking for a salary dump, and that is pretty much the only reason why these guys are available. Wolves would be a good partner to trade with because we have lots of young guys with potential on cheap contracts.
Steven Jackson - Captain Jack would be a big upgrade to our SG position. He is a veteran who can get the job done. If they are giving him away in a salary dump I would be glad to take him. Say what you want about him not wanting to play here, he plays in Charlotte right now and Minnesota can't be that much worse. Also, I think we have a really good locker room (except for Rambis), and the players all find ways to get along and have fun.
Gerald Wallace - Wallace is another guy who could be available in a salary dump. He would give this team some of the defense that it so sorely needs. I don't know how he would fit in the lineup, probably would trade Beas for him or move Beas to the bench.
Tyrus Thomas - Thomas is currently injured but is a big athletic shot blocker. To me he is like a more developed Anthony Randolph. He plays good D at multiple spots and would be a good compliment to KLove. If he could be had for anybody not named Love or Beasley I'd probably do it.
Orlando Magic: The Magic are still searching for an end of the bench big to help out their front line.
Gilbert Arenas - No.
J.J. Redick - Redick has been improving ever since he came into the league. He is a young, knockdown shooter who doesn't have great handles but is very good at playing off ball and moving off screens. He hustles on D and is a solid defender.
Philadelphia 76er's: All the preseason dreams of the 76er's blowing it up this year have seemingly come to an end.
Andre Iguodala - With the 76er's winning games trading with them gets more and more unlikely. Iguodala is a good ball handler with good court vision and capable of playing a point forward position. He plays great defense and fills up the stat sheet night in and night out. He would be a great fit in the wolves backcourt because of his ability to handle the ball.
Toronto Raptors: The Raptors are in the cellar too and looking for change is always better than being content at being terrible.
Jerryd Bayless - Bayless isn't an established player. He is more of a shuffling the deck move, but if shuffling the deck sends Jonny Flynn somewhere, then start shuffling.
Denver Nuggets: The Nuggets just got their ransom for Melo, and I just don't see them keeping everybody that they have right now.
Raymond Felton - Ray has slowed down since his All-Star pace start in New York. If the Nuggets want to move him and gather more young talent the Wolves could use Felton.
Arron Afflalo - Solid player, plays within his limits. Is young, improving, and better than the any Wolves SG (not hard to do). Also on the last year of his contract.
J.R. Smith - Young gunslinging shooting guard who does not play within his limits. Very inconsistent. Plays gritty defense. Headcase. I still have no problem with the TWolves starting him.
Golden State Warriors: If the Warriors decide the Curry/Ellis combo will not work, I want one of them on the Twolves. I would give them Beasley, Wes, and a pick or two or use Eddy Curry to take on Biedrins' contract or something.
Monta Ellis - Monta Ellis is a baller. He would give the Wolves a high usage guard who fits perfectly with Kevin Love. Ellis is in phenomenal shape, and can play tons of minutes at both the 1 and 2. He is also underrated as a distributor. Working with catch and shoot players that can play good defense and letting Kevin Love be Kevin Love with rebounds, putbacks, and pick-n-pops would put the Wolves well on their way to winning. Probably my favorite fit to join the Wolves.
Steph Curry - Curry would be Kahn admitting his mistake of taking Flynn and justifying it. That is one of the main reasons I don't see this happening. Curry is a great passer and shooter who can handle the ball well and fit the triangle perfectly.
Houston Rockets: The Rockets are rumored to have many intriguing guys on the trade block who are worth taking a look at for the right price. They need help down low with big bodies and could use AT, Pek, or Darko immediately.
Terrence Williams - Kahn is probably drooling. A guy pigeon holed on the bench who is oozing potential. I would like to see TWill get time on the court anywhere. The guy can play basketball, he averaged a triple-double in his D-League stint, but he can't seem to put everything together at one time in the NBA. Good thing Minnesota is a league leader in young player development and can transform him into a superstar.
Aaron Brooks - Aaron Brooks is a scorer first, and a passer second. He is lightning fast and can take most players off the dribble. He is a guy who the Wolves already had rumored interest in when the "dangled" Jonny Flynn for him earlier in the season.
Courtney Lee - Courtney Lee can look great one day and disappear the next. He plays a pretty solid all around game and if given more minutes, could grow into a good shooting guard.
Chase Budinger - I don't know much about Budinger except that he had a sweet dunk last time we played the Rockets.
Memphis Grizzlies: The Grizz have some locker room trouble with Mayo and are ready to give up on Thabeet. They need some depth all around.
O.J. Mayo - Mayo is a 2 guard with good handles and can create for himself. He is in desperate need of a fresh start. I think playing in Minny would eliminate the locker room trouble because he would be with a group of guys he knows and is friends with from AAU ball.
Hasheem Thabeet - Thabeet just looks like a basketball player. He is super tall with long arms and should be able to be a defensive minded center. I see his ceiling as being what we all want Darko to be, a defensive minded center who plays efficient offensive and makes the easy baskets.
Oklahoma City Thunder: The Thunder are getting close to title contention. They just need help down low and defensively to get them over the top.
James Harden - There was tons of excitement about James Harden coming out of college. He plays a smart polished game of hoops and is a hardnosed defender. He is another guy who just can't seem to keep it all together on a night to night basis.
Phoenix Suns: The Suns have to be getting close to blowing it all up soon. they need help offensively in the post soon because Nash is not going to be able to continue to create offensive for the entire team forever.
Vince Carter - Too old, gets paid too much, barely a shell of what he used to be.
Steve Nash - Nash is an All NBA player. He is not the biggest, fastest, strongest, or quickest, but he is one of, if not the smartest basketball player in the league. He has uncanny court vision and passing ability and he can set his teammates up better than any other PG in the league. Oh and he can shoot.
Josh Childress - Doesn't really do all that much except have cool hair.
Portland TrailBlazers: It's rumored the Blazers are shopping Andre Miller so maybe he could be had cheap. %Also, they realize that Lamarcus Aldridge is overrated, not a superstar, can't even make an All-Star game, and doesn't understand the concept of grabbing the ball after a missed shot. Aldridge is the most overrated player in the league and their front office is looking to sell high before he is exposed for being a fraud or his knees evaporate. They have been rumored to be offering him for Kevin Love.%
Andre Miller - Is good at pretty much everything, but not really great in any area. Good all around player, good BBIQ, plays stiff defense.
Utah Jazz: The Jazz are crashing fast. No Jerry Sloan, No Deron Williams. Maybe we could get Al Jefferson back for Eddie Curry's expiring and the draft picks they gave us.
Raja Bell - getting old. Like Tim Allen says, probably pays royalty checks to Steve Nash for getting him his contracts, but if he helps us trade Flynn he would be one of my new favorite players.
What do you guys think about the Wolves making another move before the deadline?


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A Lemoyne man has been jailed for assaulting and endangering a 5-month-old boy who suffered a fractured skull and brain injuries, according to police.
Robert Kelley Jr., 19, was arrested Monday and charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, and endangering the welfare of a child, West Shore Regional police said.
According to the criminal complaint, Kelley and his girlfriend on the night of Oct. 10 took the baby to Holy Spirit Hospital, where doctors found the child had suffered two skull fractures, severe brain injuries, bruising to both wrists, and aged bruising to his buttocks and genital area.
Kelley told police he had been watching the baby at his home in the 200 block of Herman Avenue. He said his dog jumped up and scratched the child's face in the morning, and he stated that the infant rolled from the couch to the carpeted floor that afternoon, the complaint states.
During an interview Oct. 11, Kelley told investigators that he took the boy with him when he went to Harrisburg to buy and use heroin. He also changed his story and said that when they returned home, the baby was in an infant seat on the edge of the kitchen table while he was folding laundry, police said in the complaint.
Doctors at Penn State Hershey Medical Center, where the child was transferred for treatment, said the baby's injuries would not have occurred from either of the described scenarios, the complaint states.
Kelley also admitted he caused the bruising to the baby's buttocks when he spanked the child a week earlier, the complaint states.
Police said during a search warrant at Kelley's house, he provided officers with multiple items used for drug use, and he admitted he took a small blue tourniquet from the hospital, the document states.
He was additionally charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and theft.
Kelly was being held in the Cumberland County Prison on $100,000 cash bail. A preliminary hearing was set for Oct. 23.
The infant remained in the intensive care unit at Penn State Hershey on Tuesday. According to the complaint, one doctor told police that victims with such injuries typically suffer long-term disabling side effects.
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A PUPPY called Marlow returned to the town bearing his name last week as he visited members of the club which raised money for his guide dog training.
The black Labrador made the trip from his current home in Reading to the Rotary Club of Marlow Thames, which helped raise £6000 towards his year-long training.
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Grammy-winning rapper Lil Wayne has finally linked up with teenage pop star Justin Bieber months after recording in the studio for a new track called "Backpack."
The Biebs revealed their new collabo and said it would likely get re-packaged on his new Believe album.
Justin Bieber and Lil Wayne have their first collaboration in the bag. The pop sensation and Young Money rapper have teamed up on a new record called "Backpack." While the song does not appear on Bieber's new album Believe, he plans to include it on a future re-release. "I did a song with Lil Wayne and it's called 'Backpack,'" the teen heartthrob told Fuse. "It's probably gonna be coming out on the repackage. It's dope." (Rap-Up)
In February, Bieber and Weezy F. Baby clocked in some studio time together.
Lil Wayne has been going hard at his skateboard game recently (even launching his new Trukfit clothing line) and this week the Young Money rapper paid a visit to Justin Bieber in the studio and even took some time for a skateboarding session with him. "Good time in the studio last night. back at it tonight. oh yeah...and big bro came thru...," Bieber tweeted, linking to a photo of him and Wayne with their skateboards. "and when i say big bro i mean @LilTunechi. #BELIEVE IT #family." While it's unknown whether Wayne will appear on Bieber's album, a certain super-producer is definitely in the mix, according to another tweet: "in the studio with @timbaland and the crew. #creating... got a lot of things i want to write about. ready to make music." (RapFix)
In summer 2011, Weezy said, despite his admiration for Bieber, he could not work with him at that stage of his career.
While fans can expect to hear both Heartbreak Drake and Ms. Minaj on Tha Carter IV, it's the two Justin's that Weezy F. also talks about. "That's my little homie now," Wayne says of The Biebs. "He texts me every night asking me to do [his] d*mn song. That's my n*gga, but I can't do it. Like I said, I don't want to f*ck his sh*t up. But like I said, I want to work with Justin Timberlake. That boy got a voice; that boy can sing. He needs to come back right there on Tha Carter IV." (XXL Mag)
Last year, the Canadian-bred pop star covered Wayne's "How to Love" Tha Carter IV single.
If you, like Vulture, forgot to send a really awesome present, don't worry; Justin Bieber was on top of it. Young Biebs tweeted out a remix of Wayne's oft-maligned hit single "How to Love" late last night, with an obligatory birthday greeting. Okay, hear us out: Even if you weren't a fan of the slightly dull original, you might enjoy this cover. In fact, this cover might explain why many Wayne devotees weren't particularly jazzed on the single. This is actually a Justin Bieber song! Granted, Biebs tries a lot harder in his version: We're talking harmonies, a meandering guitar riff, and even a brief appearance by Shawty Mane (that would be Bieber's rapping alter ego, though this breathy verse maybe only counts as half-rap). (New York Mag)
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"You need to find a husband," my stylist announced, briskly clipping my curls.
Ignoring my silence, Janet (not her real name) bubbled about an eligible male customer of hers who was "just right" for me. There was a time when such comments about my single state would rub me raw.
To Janet and the others who meddled in my personal life, a woman my age should be in the happily-ever-after set—not still searching for Mr. Right. If a 30something woman hadn't tied the knot, folks thought something was wrong with her.
For many years, I agreed with them. The word single sounded like a disease to be avoided at all costs. Sometimes, the Bible's support for the single life helped me feel less weird. But if being single was so great, as the apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 7, then why did most of my friends constantly date in an effort to head toward the altar? And why did the few single women I knew seem like miserable misfits? I concluded marriage and motherhood equaled "success" for a female; singleness branded her a failure.
Thankfully, as I got older, I got wiser. God challenged my notion that a woman's worth is based solely on her marital status. Over the years he's opened my eyes to the many ways he considers me a success—even as a single woman. God can help change your definition of success, too. Here's how.
Holding Fast to God's Standards
Oddly enough, God began teaching me my best lessons as a single through a few forgettable dates. First there was "Richard," a college classmate, who took me to dinner and a movie, then cheerfully suggested we spend some time at his apartment since his roommate was gone. When I refused, Richard's easygoing manner switched to anger. He mashed down on the accelerator and abruptly drove me home. After I had a good cry, God pointed out that I'd protected my virginity, a counter-cultural move he considers a huge success.
Next was a blind date with a handsome, well-dressed guy named Hans. Unfortunately, the best part of our evening together was the movie we watched—two blessed hours in which I didn't have to hear Hans talk about himself. Our time together taught me how deceiving looks can be. Jesus' words in Matthew 12:34 proved true: "Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks." Preferring inner beauty in a guy more than outer, God showed me, is success.
Influencing Little Ones
With the birth of my first nephew, Ryan, God began correcting another of my misconceptions. A successful woman isn't solely one who raises godly sons or daughters, but rather one who also positively influences the children he places in her life.
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It's not always easy to be single in a world that seems to view marriage as a form of social mobility. Thank you for this article and the reminder that God calls us by our name, not whatever courtesy title the world attaches to it.
thank you for reminding me that God made each of us unique, and that true fulfillment comes from walking in the plan He designed for just me. Your story also reminded me that the relationship that is of eternal significance is the one we cultivate with HIM...


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Businesses back new program
The first session of the weekly course began in January with 20 students.
"It filled before we got the brochures in the mail," said Jocelyn Thornton, assistant director of noncredit programs. "We really knew then we had hit on something the community needed."
Participants in the program will assess, develop and apply leadership skills, learn oral presentation skills, develop personal communication strategies, focus on problemsolving and decision-making techniques, discuss business ethics and social responsibility, gain long- and short-term planning skills and expand their networking abilities.
The academic elements of the program are complemented by four site visits that will take the students to Maines Paper and Food Service Inc., BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin Systems Integration and Raymond Corp.
Students include employees of BAE, Raymond, Binghamton University and a variety of other area businesses. They include salespeople, engineers, project managers and even someone who's already vice president of a company.
"These people would not ordinarily cross paths," Thornton said.
That's one of the unusual aspects of this program. Because participants are drawn from Southern Tier companies, the network they build during the course will be local. And, unlike many two-week, intensive programs offered outside the area, this option allows students to continue their regular work schedules.
"It strengthens the community," Thornton said. "They immediately can identify with what they see."
She noted that several Tier businesses need to develop a new cadre of leaders to keep pace with rapid grow
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"We really are seeing people who will be groomed so they are more highly evolved." ~ Jocelyn Thornton, assistantdirector of noncredit programs
"We really are seeing people who will be groomed so they are more highly evolved." ~ Jocelyn Thornton, assistantdirector of noncredit programs
For the most part, the participants' employers are paying the $1,995 tuition for the institute. Promotions are on the horizon for some students; others may take on new responsibilities after their training is complete.
"We really are seeing people who will be groomed so they are more highly evolved," Thornton said.
Mark Meier signed up for the class because he recently became sales manager for the family-run Meier Supply Co. He had done outside sales for 15 years and now manages about 35 people.
"I never had a team of people to lead or manage," Meier said. "Any advice or tips I can get on how to lead or manage people smarter, I'll take it."
He said he was especially impressed with the introduction the class received to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, a personality test used by many businesses.
Instructors include corporate trainers, Binghamton University faculty members and leaders from area businesses. Classes meet each Wednesday evening in the Public Service Programs Center.
Bob Stezzi of Binghamtonbased Stezzi Training and Consulting leads the portions of the course focused on communication.
"It's a pretty eclectic group," he said. "But we find the leadership challenges that they have are pretty similar."
He said it's gratifying and encouraging to work with the students. Stezzi said he focuses on the influence that leaders have over their employees because he feels many managers underestimate that power.
"It's all about the relationships that you develop and nurture with your people," he said. "That's where loyalty, commitment and hard work come from."