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A streetlight. it seems a simple proposition–a pole and a light source. But ask any of the entrants who tackled this challenge in the two-stage City Lights Design Competition, and they will tell you otherwise.
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If 20 years from now you picked up "Colored Emotions," the debut by the Minneapolis trio Night Moves, you'd be hard-pressed to guess its release date. The album, which spins in an orbit of twangy guitars, dreamy strings, trippy vocals, and lush harmonies, sounds both old and new. It could have been a long-lost classic of the late 1960s or just another album you missed in 2012.
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The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia, the encyclopedic compendium that documents the epic series in full, just hit the New York Times bestsellers list. That just goes to show how much cultural power Zelda has, even to this day—the franchise is over 25 years old, yet a book about its characters, settings and lore can still be one of the country's best-sellers. It's pretty incredible.
Hyrule Historia has everything from item descriptions to the full, official timeline, which documents the various events of the Zelda series in chronological order, including the branching paths created in Ocarina of Time. It was a revelation when it came out.
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* Oct 31, 2013: This time, congratulations to Francesco, Andrew! Their papers came out (online) on the same day in Cell Reports and Cell. These are results of collaborations with the Mitzi Kuroda and Steve Elledge labs.
* May 9, 2013: Congratulations to Lixing and Francesco! Their papers came out on the same day in Cell and Cell Stem Cell.
* April, 2013: A "Technical comment" in Science by Ferrari & Jung et al, points out a problem with a Science article.
Jan, 2013: Congratulations to Joshua Ho, who will begin his position as a faculty member at the Victor Chang Research Institute back at home in Sydney in the fall.
* July, 2012: Congratulations to Michael for his new faculty position in the Department of Molecular Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Well done! His lab page is here.
* June 2012: We welcome two visitors to the lab: Guidantonio Malagoli Tagliazucchi, a graduate student from Modena, Italy (May-Nov), and Dr. Marc Streit from Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria (Aug-Oct).
*June 2012: Congratulations to Alice and Michael for their forthcoming papers in Science and Molecular Cell, respectively.
*June 2012: Peter is a recipient of an HMS Young Mentor Award. (Seventeen in three categories were chosen from 481 nominees)
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*June 2012: Congratulations to Ruibin Xi, who will start a faculty position in the Center for Statistical Science at Peking University in the fall.
*Nov 2011: Students interested in a bioinformatics PhD should consider The Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics PhD program at Harvard Medical School, co-directed by Isaac Kohane and Peter Park.
*Oct 2011: The Park lab team, led by Nils Gehlenborg, wins one of the two Integrated Biology Research Grants from Agilent Technologies. Press release from Agilent
*Jul 2011: Congratulations to Peter Kharchenko, who was offered an assistant professorship at Harvard! He will be starting his own lab at CBMI in the fall.
*Jun 2011: Richard Park is a finalist in the Illumina iDEA Challenge for his structural variation viewer for whole-genome sequenicng data.
* Dec 2010: The modENCODE papers are out! Congrats to Peter Khachenko and the team for the chromatin paper in Nature and the integrative paper in Science. For additional information, see the press release from NIH, Genome 'census' reveals hidden riches at NatureNews and Early Reports From the 'Dark Matter' of the Genome from wired.com. The figure on the right shows a snapshot from the chromatin state browser that Richard Park in the group implemented.
* Feb 2010: Peter wins the Sloan Research Fellowship.
Molecular Cell, volume 47, issue 4 (August 24, 2012). From the journal website: Composition and organization of chromatin greatly affects genome function. Histones--the major protein component of chromatin--undergo modifications and replacement with nonallelic variants in various biological processes. Incorporation of histone variants represents a significant change in local chromatin structure and therefore is likely to have important regulatory consequences. While histone variants were the focus of intensive research in recent years, their biology is still not completely understood, and their functions continue to emerge. In this issue, Tolstorukov et al. (pp. 596-607) characterize a rapidly evolving histone variant, H2A.Bbd. They demonstrate that in human cells H2A.Bbd nucleosomes form unconventional chromatin structures enriched within actively transcribed genes. Analysis of the transcriptome of the cells depleted for H2A.Bbd revealed widespread changes in transcriptional output and disruption of normal mRNA splicing patterns, revealing the role of this variant in diverse gene-expression pathways. Colored "gumballs" on the cover represent the nucleosomes bearing histone variants. Such nucleosomes constitute only a fraction of all nucleosomes in a cell, but play important roles in gene regulation. Cover design by Frank Hegyi with input from P.J.P. and M.Y.T.
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Football watch list season has begun and the names for the 2013 Maxwell and Bednarik Awards are beginning to surface. The announcements show that the Alabama Crimson Tide will represent more players than any other school in the NCAA.
The Maxwell Award is presented by the Maxwell Football Club to college football's most outstanding player of the year. Since 1937, this award has recognized some of the best players who have ever played the game. This year's list shows four players from Alabama's offense – Senior AJ McCarron, Sophomore T.J. Yeldon, Sophomore Amari Cooper and Senior C.J. Mosley -- on watch for the award.
In the recent season, Quarterback AJ McCarron completed 67.2% passing for 2,933 yards and 30 touchdowns. Running Back T.J. Yeldon rushed a total of 1,131 yards on 175 attempts and completed 12 touchdowns. Wide Receiver Amari Cooper reeled in 59 passes for a total of 1,000 yards and 11 touchdowns and Linebacker C.J. Mosley led the Tide in defense with 107 tackles, including 4 sacks and 2 interceptions.
Notre Dame Linebacker Manti Te'o won the Maxwell Award for last year's 2012 season.
The Crimson Tide will also represent three players on the watch list for the 2013 Bednarik Award. This award, also presented by the Maxwell Football Club, was first given in 1995 and recognizes the collegiate defensive player of the year. In addition to the Maxwell Award, C.J. Mosely is listed as a watch for the Bednarik Award as well. The list also includes Tide Defensive Backs Ha Ha Clinton-Dix and Deion Belue.
In the 2012 season, Junior H. Clinton-Dix racked up 37 tackles and led the defense with 5 interceptions for 91 yards. Senior Deion Belue completed 40 tackles and two interceptions.
Auburn Senior Dee Ford, also made the cut for the Bednarik Award. As a defensive end, Ford led the Tigers with six sacks and 31 tackles last year.
The Maxwell and Bednarik Award semifinalists will be announced on Oct. 29. The semifinalist voting will open Oct. 30 and will close Nov. 17. Three finalists will be named Nov. 25 and the winner will be recognized and honored Dec. 12 at the Home Depot College Football Awards Show.
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A Trooper with South Carolina Highway Patrol was killed Sunday night in an off-duty incident, according to the South Carolina Department of Public Safety.
Lieutenant Corporal Frank Murphy, 58, killed in an accident while making household repairs. Officials haven't released much information about the accident, but say that it is under investigation by the Chester County Sheriff's Office and Coroner's Office.
Murphy was a member of Troop Four, which covers the Chester/Fairfield area. He originally joined the Highway Patrol in 1977, officials said.
He retired in 2001, but returned to the Patrol in 2005.
"This is a very sad day for the Department of Public Safety family," said SCDPS Director Leroy Smith. "Frank Murphy had dedicated his life to the South Carolina Highway Patrol and truly loved his job. He was well-respected in his community and with his fellow troopers."
"Our troopers are very saddened by the loss of one of their own," said Col. Mike Oliver, SCHP Commander. "The Highway Patrol is a family and when we lose someone within our ranks, it takes a tremendous toll on us all. We will do all that we can to support Frank's family during this difficult time."
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The Jim Thorpe School District will need to borrow more money for its high school expansion project to cover the estimated $1.8 million cost of a new football field. The field was added to the project after construction began.
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Hi, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab...
I'm wondering how similar this one is to the Dreamworks film RED EYE, also due out this year. This is the first real report we've had on this film, and keep in mind, this is a very early peek at a film that's still in progress. It's been a while since Foster's starred in anything, so I'm curious to see what she's up to:
Hey guys. Long-time reader, first-time contributor, all that jazz. Just got back from a screening in Burbank for Flightplan, starring Jodie Foster, held at the Frank Wells Theatre at Walt Disney Studios. I've been to screenings before, but this was the smallest, most "intimate" theatre I've been in for one. We were told that it was the first screening of the movie, and given the state of it, I believe them. It's not like it felt thrown-together or anything, but it's certainly a work print.
I'm not even sure how many people knew this movie was being made, as for many of the audience members, this seemed to be their first time hearing about it. I personally heard about it, gosh, probably a good year ago or more, so I'd been looking forward to it, even though I hadn't heard anything about its status in a while.
For those who need a brief synopsis, Flightplan is a suspense thriller starring Jodie Foster as Kyle, a woman who boards a plane in Germany bound for America, with her six year old daughter in tow. Only a few hours into the flight, Foster awakes to find that her daughter has disappeared, and we follow her as she becomes increasingly more desperate and frantic trying to find her little girl. Peter Sarsgaard and Sean Bean costar as an air marshal and the plane's captain, respectively. The plane is probably just as much of an important character to the movie, and it was kinda cool/unique on that it was that new Airbus plane.
To review this movie properly would be to reveal many spoilers in it's various twists and turns, regarding both events and characters. And I'm not gonna do that, because half the fun of this movie is trying to figure out what's really going on, and the movie gives you several red herrings to play around with in your head. Luckily, the payoff is pretty decent and interesting, though our particular audience was left wanting a bit more from the ending, and I don't disagree completely. For what we get right now, though, it's good. It just needs a little more help to be great, and from the questioning session afterwards, it seems that the studio's equally concerned about that, as they steered the conversation back to the movie's resolution and our thoughts/suggestions about it several times.
I'll elaborate a little here on the work print state of what we saw, 'cause as a moviegoer interested in all aspects of the creation process, I found it interesting. Moreover, the screenings I've attended previously have had prints that look indistinguishable from the final film, with completed effects, sound, coloring, etc. So here, it was nice to see things a bit rough. Specifically, very little, if any, color timing had been done to the images we saw, with lighting and color saturation being all over the place. There were green screens of various sizes throughout the film, including many out the windows of the airplane, as well as the tv screens at each seat. It varied from shot to shot, as some shots featured fully animated screens for some rows, and still green screen for others. Of more interest was the fact that rough animatic shots popped up a few times throughout the movie, which was interesting, including a shot of people walking through the aisles of the cabin that they apparently intend to insert, as well as animatics of the exterior of the plane flying through the air, sitting at the loading gate, etc. One big visual effect near the end also used an animatic for the plane, but again I won't say much 'cause it'd be considered spoiler material. Some members of the audience, unfamiliar with animatics, found them quite hilarious, and even remarked out loud that "you guys should work on that shot some more." I'm pretty sure they were dead-serious. They don't get out much. Oh well. Funny stuff.
Anywho, the movie's pretty damned good, overall, leaving me with similar feelings to Panic Room, so let that be a judge for you. Jodie Foster has certainly played this type of character before, but ya know what? She's damned good at it in my opinion, and is able to hold the believabilty of the character for the entire film. Importantly, her progression from mild concern to full-on panic is believable, and the rest of the cast is solid as well. Once everything's polished up, it should be a pretty solid movie that I'd easily recommend to people who liked Panic Room and movies of a similar vein. On a final note, the music was actually in place and sounding pretty good for the whole thing, but I'm not completely sure it was original. Many cues sounded VERY Unbreakable-ish, though they might just be similar scores. Either way, good stuff. I know I've rambled on a bit, so sorry about that. Hope this is an interesting read.
One more note: the theatre we went in for the screening contains the original multi-plane camera used by Disney for such classics as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Bambi, giving those movies previously impossible depth of field. As an animation fan, that was a cool little bonus when walking to the screening room, as I didn't know about it.
Thanks, "Zombie Leader." I'm not the biggest fan of PANIC ROOM, but I like Foster, and I'll always give her the benefit of the doubt. This next guy didn't think much of the film at all. Check this out:
This evening I attended what was touted as the first test screening of Jodie Foster's new film, Flightplan. With non-stop, minor spoilers throughout and turbulent spoilers (I'll warn you) toward the end, this advance review is now boarding…buckle up:
Set aboard a jetliner en route from Berlin to New York, Flightplan follows a bereaved Jodie Foster as an aviation engineer traveling with her daughter and the body of her late husband (in a high-tech coffin in the plane's cargo hold) on a somber flight back to the States on a fictional airline aboard a fictional plane known as the A-474. About three hours into the flight Foster nods off and when she awakes, her daughter is missing and nobody onboard has any memory of ever seeing the child in the first place. Was the child ever there to begin with or is something sinister happening at 30,000 feet? The inflight cast of suspects include the captain, Sean Bean, a few flight attendants, several shifty-looking Arabic passengers and an air-marshal played by Peter Sarsgaard. The story unfolds as Foster tries to make sense of who's who and what's what as the plane crosses the Atlantic.
Though the film wasn't fully timed, had a temp score and was missing key effects sequences throughout, no amount of polishing will change the fact that the movie is plagued by several enormous problems, not the least of which is that the revealed mystery is patently ridiculous and that there isn't a shred of logic to the entire story. But let's start small:
One of the major difficulties with this film lies in the fact that it's really shy on character development. We meet Foster in Berlin before the flight and a choppy series of scenes introduce us to her late husband and her daughter but we learn nothing of substance about any of them. It's mentioned that Foster works on plane engines but other than that, the writers aren't too concerned with selling the idea that this woman is an engineer. The husband is dead when the film begins, the daughter is given all of three lines of dialogue before her vanishing act and the film never really invests us in a connection between any of them.
Sean Bean does his best as "Captain Rich" but, much like his turn in National Treasure, you can't shake the feeling that even he can't believe he's taken this part. With almost nothing to do and very little in the way of a character arc, we long for him to get back to Middle-Earth where he seems much more at home or at the very least in a more convincing costume. Erika Christensen looks to have inherited Julia Stiles' role from The Bourne Supremacy as the known young blonde actress who aaalmost has a real part to play. The other flight attendants are serviceable at best and the manipulation of the Arabic passengers seems cheap and in questionable taste. Peter Sarsgaard is also problematic since his droopy-eyed demeanor makes him an extremely unlikely casting choice for a convincing law-enforcement officer.
Although maybe that's the point.
You see, everyone on this plane seems to have been directed to raise an eyebrow in every scene, act a little strange and play the macguffin in this at altitude episode of Murder She Wrote. The characters interactions are so fishy and their dialogue so left of logical that we begin to lose our grip on what might otherwise be a really smart idea for a thriller.
Our grip is further loosened by the plane itself which is by far the most conspicuous character in the film. Looking suspiciously like Airbus' new dreadnaught of the skies, the soon to be airborne A-380, the plane in this movie is, in a word, enormous. Two full decks of passenger seating with large spiral staircases, massive galleys, a cockpit with bunks for the crew and a full bar, this is no ordinary aircraft. And while the interior is striking and beautiful and the film gets high marks for production design, nobody on board seems to notice. As a matter of fact the passengers act like they're on a cramped Southwest Airlines flight to Phoenix. The film never really clues us in on whether or not this plane is commonplace in the world of these characters or whether these people just don't seem to notice that they're flying onboard the Starship Enterprise but the aircraft is never really given it's due and we keep waiting for someone, anyone, to say: "holy shit this plane is frigging huge, isn't it?"
For a time though it seems that Foster's magnetic presence might have wings enough to get this spruce-goose and these underdone characters off the ground. The idea, an expounding of the Richard Matheson Nightmare at 20,000 Feet scenario of one passenger seeing something that the others do not is unnerving and clever and if it weren't for the lame-brain payoff, it might even be a lot of fun. But it all comes apart and in the end this lumbering beast just sort of craps out without much of a third act or any real resolution. Major spoilers to follow and a personal invitation to the writers. The captain has just turned on the no-logic sign so consider yourself warned that you should return to your seats:
After an exhaustive search of the plane and the revelation that nobody onboard remembers the daughter, Foster has a breakdown and is informed by the flight crew that a fax from Berlin confirms that her daughter died along with her husband and therefore she must be coming apart at the seams from post-traumatic stress and the enormity of her loss. The problem is, this happens an hour into the movie so we know it's just misdirection.
Without ruining the entire sad affair, I'll tell you that it's an elaborate (and retarded) hijacking plot. If the writers, Peter Dowling and Billy Ray are reading this, or if their assistants could be kind enough to pass this along to them, I'd love to take you both to lunch and have you clear a few thousand things up for me and the rest of the flummoxed audience at this screening. Drop Knowles a line, he knows how to reach me. Ok. Boys. Let me make sure I have this straight: The hijacker's plan is to somehow (unexplained) plant plastique explosives in the coffin of Jodie Foster's dead husband and then wait for Foster and her daughter to fall asleep onboard a transatlantic flight and to then physically pick up and kidnap the child in plain view of 425 passengers, shuffle her into a service elevator without waking her or her mother, steal her bags from the overhead bin and hope that nobody else notices and that none of the flight crew or area passengers remember seeing the girl for the first three hours of the flight. Then, the hijacker will hope that Foster initiates a search of the plane, somehow gains access to the cargo area and enters an electronic code into the coffin which grants access to the aforementioned explosives. Then the hijacker will go to the captain and pretend that Foster is hijacking the plane, hope beyond hope that nobody bothers to ask Foster if she's hijacking the plane and then get the captain to wire 50 million dollars into a private bank account before deplaning everyone in Newfoundland and then blow the plane up with Foster onboard. Is that right? My next question is this: How high were you when you wrote this? Seriously.
Each and every reveal (and I'm only giving you a smattering of the horse-shit these writers try to get away with) is less and less logical and by the end we're reeling so much from the insult of these repeated blows to the head that we almost don't notice the final schmaltzy kick to the nuts of the Arabic passenger handing Jodie Foster her purse in the spirit of healing and forgiveness. It's all too much to bear and I can't help but feel as though watching this flight is more traumatic than being onboard…and that's really saying something considering the plane ends up in pieces on a frozen tarmac in Newfoundland.
Early in the film, one of the passengers leans over to a flight attendant and asks what the inflight movie is going to be. I spent the last 45 minutes of this movie hoping, praying that we could all watch it too. Anything but this.
Call me J.
Ouch. Harsh words, indeed. I guess we'll all see later this year when FLIGHT PLAN is released.
"Moriarty" out.
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April 15, 2005, 4:02 a.m. CST
by phanboi
What is with all these movies usin planes as a "major plot point" lately. Were they all written by the same screenwriter OR WHAT?
April 15, 2005, 4:05 a.m. CST
by TheDarkKnight
She's in it, I'm there.....
April 15, 2005, 5:35 a.m. CST
Bring on Sam jackson's SNAKES ON A PLANE!!!
by Spacesheik
'nuff said
April 15, 2005, 5:40 a.m. CST
Same shit, different movie..
by TheBoyFromUlster
Did the first reviewer even see the film! Some of us want all the spoilers we can get cause sure as shit I ain't going to pay to see this film. Some funny shit in the second review, more like it. Foster seems to be playing exactly the same character she did in Panic Room, a film which the script could of been written on the back of Fosters pay cheque...
April 15, 2005, 8:06 a.m. CST
and to top it all off the daughter is diabetic and needs her ins
by Serious Black
Man oh man. Can we expect another outstanding performance from master thespian Dwight Yoakum?
April 15, 2005, 9:31 a.m. CST
This is a total rip-off of the 1938 Hitchcock thriller The Lady
by Osmosis Jones
Just swap a train for a plane and it's the SAME MOVIE.
April 15, 2005, 9:34 a.m. CST
Oooh, is this going to be another one of those movies where the
by ExcaliburFfolkes
I'm always amused when they do that in movies. Of course, if they showed planes as the crowded, cramped, and tiny things they actually are then the whole premise of her daughter dissapearing mid-flight would pretty much fall apart since there simply aren't that many places on a real plane that a potential kidnapper could hide the child.
April 15, 2005, 9:54 a.m. CST
What is Colour timing?
by Barney Hood
I don't understand - can anyone explain? What is it and how does it get done? cheers
April 15, 2005, 10:01 a.m. CST
"this advance review is now boarding
by TV CASUALTY
Seriously... kill yourself.
April 15, 2005, 10:27 a.m. CST
great review
by stvnhthr
Second reviewer-Thank You, that is exactly the type of review I expect from AICN- funny and concise, lets me know this bird don't fly and without some reshooting/reediting I should rent the dvd instead of visit the theatre
April 15, 2005, 11:04 a.m. CST
How about a spoiler alert on that second review?
by jimmy_009
I was just scrolling down to get the jist of it basically read the whole reason for the disappearance in one sentence. Damn it.
April 15, 2005, 11:12 a.m. CST
by Cory849
This is how it should be done. First the plant, then the weed whacker!
April 15, 2005, 11:18 a.m. CST
Where are the aliens?
by GrandoCarIissian
everyone knows that when a mom suddenly finds that her child has disappeared and nobody remembers the child but her, that aliens are behind it.
April 15, 2005, 1:26 p.m. CST
Speaking of sources
by Gislef_crow
It actually sounds like they're ripping off the origin of the 40's pulp hero The Avenger. Richard Benson was a rich guy on a flight with his wife and child, dozes off, and wakes up to find they've disappeared and everybody on the flight claims he came on alone. Sound familiar? Of course, in this case the shock makes his face go dead-white and inert, and he vows to fight crime as...The Avenger! Kind of a second-run Doc Savage, and also done by "Kenneth Robeson." http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m.hodder/justiceinc.html
April 15, 2005, 3:52 p.m. CST
Mystery Solved
by Syd Mead
If it was Air Quantus I'd blame a dingo. A dingo took me baby!
April 15, 2005, 4:06 p.m. CST
by matrix69
April 15, 2005, 4:20 p.m. CST
Maybe the plane
by Itchy
is flight 815 and will crash on the Lost island ? No ? Anyway, I'll catch it on video. I can't explain why, but I just love Jodie Foster. Anything she's in, I watch. Maybe it's because I find her sneaky hot (yes - I know I don't have a shot) ... maybe it's residual affection from Taxi Driver. Whatever ... she's one of the few female actors who I categorize as "must see".
April 15, 2005, 5:53 p.m. CST
Count Jerkula knocked it out of the park...
by splbrg75
That is all.
April 15, 2005, 9:15 p.m. CST
Dammit jodie, you know I have to watch ya...
by Anlashok
But must it be so painful? Yikes.
April 16, 2005, 9:40 a.m. CST
My thanks to the 2nd reviewer. The 1st one actually had me thin
by FrankDrebin
JF seems to have developed some kind of dyslexia when it comes to picking films. She lucked into Panic Room (Nicole Kidman was supposed to star, but got injured). Her last film to have any kind of success was Maverick in '94 (which was really Mel's film). As an actress, she's looking for an interesting character to play, but why can't it be in a movie with a solid story?
April 17, 2005, 9:23 a.m. CST
by radio1_mike
You're right. Foster is sneaky how, and onw the last few female actors left.
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OK, first and foremost I would like to make it perfectly clear that the NBA lockout is happening for allot of reasons, but the main reason why it is happening is the fact that the 1999 NBA CBA created to establish roughly a 30 game season was a huge mistake on David Stern's part. As a result for the past 12 years the NBA who's players union currently has less members then the NFL, MLS, NHL, and MLB organizations has had more over priced veteran players like Stephen "Just Shoot Me" Jackson, Mike Dunleavy Jr., Gilbert Arenas, TJ Ford, and Jamaal Tinsley then the MLS, NFL, NHL, and MLB along with attendance at an all time low and recently being surpassed by the NHL. As a result to the 1999 CBA 22 of the 30 NBA teams are losing money and believed by many to be in tremendous debt, 4 teams have been inked to re-locate in the NBA which is more then any other organization in professional sports from 1999-2011, and the majority of the 22 teams losing money (one of those teams being the Pacers) may have looked at possibly re-locating. Re-location of teams does not look good on the resume of a professional sports organization, I understand it's just business for the team, but it's still business that happens because a team is losing money and not doing well. The clear problem with the current CBA of the NBA is the fact that again 22 teams are losing money and believed to be in debt which is why I have created a fair CBA with terms scheduled to end as soon as the 22 NBA teams losing money have payed off their debt (assuming all 22 of those teams are in debt). Meaning the time period of this CBA is indefinite. Now here are the rules of what at least allot of the new CBA should be that is fair to all franchises in the NBA and the players union.
1.Revenue Sharing for all 30 NBA Teams-NBA teams like the Lakers who are making money must share 50% of their revenue from home games with their opposing team if that team is in debt to help them payoff their debts. Teams breaking even in profits and teams losing money who aren't in debt do not have to apply to any revenue sharing with other teams. Only the teams in debt can collect revenue sharing money during their away games from teams like the Lakers who are making a profit.
2.ABA Revenue Sharing Plan-The ABA revenue sharing plan for the 4 ABA teams who merged with the NBA in 1976 will be placed on hold indefinitely for each team till they have their debts payed off (assuming all 4 of those teams are in debt (like we know the Pacers are). Once an ABA merger team has their debts payed off the ABA revenue sharing plan will apply to them with no late penalties or fees.
3.Salary Cap-According to SB Nation's NBA web page a Salary cap for the NBA makes allot of sense and has a very very good chance of happening once a new CBA for the NBA is in place. How much the salary cap will be is a mystery to everyone. 50 million is a fair number, the only NBA team according to last season's payroll numbers on the ESPN trade machine under 50 million in payroll was the Sacramento Kings who will likely re-locate regardless of rather or not they are in debt in the near future unless the city of Sacramento agrees to build them a new stadium. However to make things fair to the teams making a profit, 50 million will be a restricted number once teams hit the 50 million mark in spending more then league minimum on players, they can go over the cap but only if it is to sign players to their roster for minimum wage or less to fill roster spots. And all NBA teams must have at least 6 players on their roster making more then league minimum at their positions. However it was recently reported on the Boston Globe that the idea of a flex fit 62 million dollar cap set at 45 mill would be reasonable for the NBA which means a restricted 50 million dollar cap under these rules on a 62 million dollar flex fit salary cap would give NBA teams on average an extra 4 million to spend on their 6 players making more then minimum since the average NBA minimum wage salary is about a million dollars and 6 + 8 (the most amount of min wage players a team can sign under this CBA)=14 which is the current number of players all NBA teams are required to dress for games. So basically a 64 million dollar flex fit salary cap under this CBA would give the average NBA team 54 million to spend on 6 players for more then minimum wage, since most rookie contracts last 4 years and are restricted to first refusal on the 5th year.
4.Veterans Contracts-If a salary cap is in place for the next CBA, not all veterans contracts can be honored. Hints the key words here are NOT ALL as in some veterans contracts can be honored in a new CBA with a salary cap to make the players union happy. And I think it's safe to say that it's doubtful the players union will sign any CBA stating that ALL veterans contracts no longer have to be honored. So with a 50 million dollar salary cap in place I think it's safe to make a rule stating that only the highest priced veteran contract on each of the 30 NBA teams needs to be honored allowing players like Gilbert Arenas to be happy and have enough money to pay their NRA dues, feed their man eating sharks, and please their children. The veteran contracts in this new CBA that would have to be honored will be as follows with cap numbers based on the ESPN trade machine SF-Danny Granger (12 mill-Pacers), SG-Kobe Bryant (25 mill-Lakers), G-Gilbert Arenas (19 mill-Magic), PF-Kevin "KG" Gernett (21 mill-Celtics), SG-Joe Johnson (18 mill-ATL), SG/SF-Richard "Rip" Hamilton (12.5 mill-Stolen Pistons who turned all their fans into convicts), SF-Cory Maggette (10 mill-Bobcats), PF-Carlos Boozer (13.5 mill-Bulls), PF-Antwan Jamison (15 mill-Cavaliers), Miami Heat-team decision F's-Lebron James or Chris Bosh both make 16 mill one contract must be honored, C-Andrew Boget (12 mill-Bucks), PG-Deron Williams (16 mill-NJ/Brooklyn Nets/what ever the team is re-named when they move), SF-Carmello Anthony (18.5 mill-Knicks), PF-Elton Brand (17 Mill-76ers), PG-Jose Calderon (9.7 Mill-Raptors), PF-Rashard Lewis (21 Mill-Wizards), C-Dirk Nowitzki (19 Mill-Mavericks), SG-Andre Miller (7.8 Mill-Den), C-Ekpe Udoh (assuming his contract numbers are accurate according to the trade machine) (32 Mill-Warriors (other wise C-David Lee 11.6 mill), SG-Kevin Martin (11.5 Mill-Rockets), C-Chris Kaman (12 Mill-Clippers), PF-Zach Randolph (15.2 Mill Grizzlies), F-Michael Beasley (6 Mill Timber Wolves), PG-Chris "CP3" Paul (16 Mill-Hornets), G/F-Kevin Durant (13.6 Mill-Thunder), SF-Vince Carter (18 Mill-Suns), SG-Brandon Roy (15 Mill-Trail Blazers), G-John Salmons (8.5 Mill-Kings), PG-Tony Parker (12.5 Mill-Spurs), C/PF-Al Jefferson (14 Mill-Jazz). The players mentioned above will also be allowed to take pay cuts from their contracts in order for their team to sign free agents for higher pay then league minimum.
5.ETO's-Due to the New CBA rule of teams being allowed to release their veteran players without honoring their contracts unless they have the largest contract on the team ETO's will now become a team option only. However player ETO's can be opted out of, but not retained if the team doesn't want the player who has an ETO player option on their contract from the last NBA CBA.
6.Rookie Contracts-Right now the rookie contract system is pretty fair 4 year contracts to players and players become RFA's after 4 years with teams only being allowed to match offers from other teams to get players back. That needs to stay in place with a 2 million dollar rookie cap number for first round picks and 800,000 for second round picks which can include signing bonuses for both first and second round picks.
7.Transition Tag-In this new CBA to avoid people like Lebron James raping cities like Cleveland a transition tag will be in place for the new CBA. Basically all the transition tag is, is a tag that can be placed on a free agent player such as Dwight Howard allowing that player to test the free agent market with the intent that the team that player previously played for can match any offer from another team with in a weeks time to get that player back. Under this CBA one transition tag per team will be awarded. Transition tags also cannot be used on players who's rookie contracts are expiring.
8.Compensatory Picks-In the next NBA draft under the new CBA additional second round compensatory picks (61-63) will be awarded to the 3 NBA teams who have lost the most talent in free agency for the previous season.
9.Draft Order-Under the New NBA CBA, the draft lottery will be terminated and the draft order will be as follows picks 1-14 teams that did not make the playoffs with draft order being based on record with common opponents being the tie breaker and strength of schedule being the tie breaker if common opponents cannot break the tie, picks 15-22 awarded to the teams that were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs based on how many games the teams that were eliminated took their opponents to with the highest pick of the 8 going to the team who took their opponent to the fewest amount of games in a 7 game series to get eliminated. Tie breakers will be decided based on record and if the record can't determine the tie breaker then the tie breaker will be decided by common opponents and if that can't break the tie then the tie breaker will be determined by strength of schedule. Picks 23-26 will be awarded to the 4 teams eliminated in the playoffs during the divisional round with order of picks based on the rules for picks 15-22. Picks 27 & 28 will be awarded to the two teams losing in the Eastern and Western Conference finals with the order being determined the same way as the other picks for the teams who made the playoffs then pick 29 will go to the loser of the NBA finals, and pick 30 will go to the NBA champion. In the second round the NBA draft order will be the same. So summarizing things up on rule 9 picks 1-14 will be awarded to the NBA teams who do not make the playoffs based on record, then common opponents, then strength of schedule and picks 15-30 will be determined by how far teams go in the playoffs with tie breakers being amount games played in a 7 games series, then regular season record, then common opponents, then strength of schedule and the second round will have the same order as the first.
10.Cheating-Personally I've never heard of anyone in the NBA using performance enhancing drugs or a coach cheating by taping another team. This is a good thing that needs to keep happening. However sadly I have heard of a certain NBA referee named Tim Donaghy fixing a few games for the San Antonio Spurs so they could win an NBA title. Under rule 10 of this CBA any referee caught cheating will be banned for life from refereeing both men and women's professional and college basketball world wide and if the team that referee fixed a game or a few games for wins an NBA title, that team will be stripped of their title and everyone associated with that team will be striped of their championship rings. Players and coaches caught cheating rather it be with performance enhancing drugs or cameras will be kicked out of the NBA for life and their team will have to go one season without being eligible for the NBA playoffs.
11.Salary Cap Violations & Revenue Sharing Violations-Any NBA team caught violating the 50 million dollar cap or it's restrictions will have to forfeit all their draft picks for one year and go a year with no eligibility for the NBA playoffs. These same punishments will apply to any team not following the revenue sharing rules.
12.Team Moves & New Ownership-Same rules as before, owners can only be granted permission to move their team by the NBA board of owners. Owners also cannot purchase any type of team with out the approval of the NBA board of owners.
13.Personal conduct-Suspensions for personal conduct in the NBA will be more serous and if someone commits a crime as bad as the one Gilbert Arenas committed a few years ago with the Wizards, that person will be banned from the NBA for one season.
14.TV Revenue-Teams will now have the ability to locally black out NBA games based on ticket sales. However if a team is going to black out games a certain percentage of tickets for that game must be sold in order to avoid a black out. Also the players will now be getting 50% of TV revenue from the NBA.
So there you have it what the NBA teams in debt like the Pacers officially need to present to everyone associated with the NBA and not back down on one bit for any bribes or negotiations for at least most of the rules.
So Under the new rules the Pacers roster would look like this:
PG-Darren "DC" Collison- keep, A.J. Price-Keep, TJ Ford-Walk
SG-Paul George-keep, George Hill-keep, Brandon Rush-cut, Dahntay Jones-cut, Lance "Staircase" Stephenson-D-league.
SF-Danny Granger-Trading block could be kept depending on offers (keeper if offers aren't right), Mike Dunleavy-walk, James Posey-cut
PF-Tyler "Psycho T" Hansbrough-keep, Josh "McRob" McRoberts-contract negotiations depending on who the team can sign at that position and how long McRob wants his contract to be
C-Roy Hibbert-keep, Jeff Foster-Contract negotiations depending on who the team can sign at the C-position, Solomon Jones-walk
So there you have it under the new CBA the Pacers will have $30,160,510 to spend on free agents for more than league minimum and possibly keeping Jeff Foster a few more years for less money and Josh McRoberts a few more years for more money. And next season that number will be enough to out bid the Magic for Dwight Howard in 2 seasons making him the highest paid man in the NBA.
Also keep in mind that no NBA season next year, worst case scenario ESPN terminates their contract with the NBA which likely will happen (who cares the Pacers are never on ESPN anyways unless it's the playoffs). Pacers are still on FSN Indiana during the regular season other NBA teams on TNT during the regular season, and TNT, ABC, and CBS handle the NBA playoffs and weekend games.


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Another great video.
The Suns have reason to hope that Dragic will get the job done this year. A few more weeks and we'll start to see what's real about this team.
I am very excited about Goran Dragic's return to the Suns. He is a talented player who will help the team immensely. Likeable guy too!
Nash never did manage to slay the Spurs without the help of… a DRAGON!!!
Passion Pit, M83, and I WISH I knew where that first beat came from…. Greatest VOTS video ever!
The Twitter box on VotS doesn't seem to be working right now, but ESPN has a tweet from Dudley showing that Scola has arrived and has played in his first practice with the Suns. Dudley sounds impressed.
ESPN's player rankings are down to the top 100 now and Dragic ranked at #83. Scola, Gortat and – surprisingly to me – O'Neal have yet to be ranked. Scola is a super bargain for the Suns. Reading elsewhere that Dragic actually wanted to come back to Phoenix is very encouraging. If Gentry can figure out the lineups and rotations quickly, this team will surprise a lot of people.
Dragic at 83 is way too low. Bet you he'll be ranked in the top 40 or 50, at least, after this year! And if you're not sure how happy Dragic was to come back to Phoenix, you should watch his introductory news conference. Talk about a kid in a candy store! It's great to have such a likeable guy who is a very good, exciting player want to be on your team! Sky's the limit!
Don't get too attached to Scola, Dudley and Frye. Keepers are Dragic, Morris, Gortat, Marshall. We need either Michael Beasley or Wesley Johnson to pan out. Odds are one flops and one shines.
Then we get a lottery pick and go after a couple STAR free agents in 2013-2014. We aren't done by a long shot!
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Wynonna Judd's Drummer-Husband Loses Leg in Motorcycle Accident
Wynonna Judd's husband and drummer Cactus Moser, was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident last Saturday. The two were out riding their motorcycles just prior to Wynonna's concert in Deadwood, South Dakota. Although not life threatening, Moser had his left leg amputated just above the knee and extensive surgery to his hand. Wynonna said that she loves her husband dearly and will not leave his bedside.


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When state Audi-tor Tim Berry was tapped last week to run the Indiana Republican Party, the public rejoicing among party leaders may have been as much about his popularity as it was about Gov. Mike Pence's answers to some key political questions.
In Berry, Pence made a safe, cautious choice that will leave few party leaders grumbling.
More than Gov. Mitch Daniels, who stood as a unifying leader for a previously diminished party, Pence was faced with bridging divides: splits between pro-business Republicans and social and religious conservatives and a gulf between Marion County leaders and Republicans from Indiana's outlying counties.
By the time those and many other considerations are taken up, Berry looks like a clear choice, said Craig Dunn, 4th District chairman and a member of the party executive committee who will ultimately vote on Berry July 22.
"I think what you do is you pick Tim Berry, who is well-liked by every wing of the party," said Dunn, who is also the Howard County Republican Party chairman.
Dunn said he didn't see geography playing as much a factor in the decision as it might have in previous years — Berry hails from Fort Wayne — and tabbed him a consensus pick for the party based on his broad popularity and recognition in Republican circles statewide.
Berry, a two-term state auditor, also spent eight years as Indiana treasurer. Along the way, he won broad support in GOP convention halls among party activists and bigwigs to score nominations that ultimately have secured him a statewide office every year since 1998. But Berry has never been strongly identified with either the pro-business party members who worked closely with Daniels, tea partiers aligned more with Treasurer Richard Mourdock or the religious conservatives who built Pence into a national player.


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The average CPJ-coached Georgia Tech football team distributes carries across a slew of historically talented backs. Per season, the average starting A-Back has received 55 carries, the average starting B-Back has received 225 carries, the Quarterback has received 234 carries, and starting wideouts receive 3 reverses per season. A breakdown of all the carries since 2008 is shown below:
The other major topic for CPJ's offense is scoring per play. The more plays it takes to get down the field and score a touchdown, the more likely a team is to throw a pick or lose a fumble. Our offense loves eating up the clock but as Winfield showed us, running down the minutes doesn't necessarily equate to victory. Since 2008, it has taken Tech about 20 rushing plays to get a rushing touchdown. The same games for pass plays. Every 20 passing attempts = a passing touchdown. Fans of Hawai'i and Texas Tech should cringe at that stat considering Tech has only passed the ball 12.5 times per game since 2008...
Now, here is the logic behind CPJ's passing:rushing inequality. Tech scores a passing TD every 20 pass plays but we also throw a pick every 20 passing plays. The average opposing drive since 2008 has netted 2.2 points. So all of the work put into every passing touchdown actually only netted us around 4.8 points. This is opposed to our ability to score a rushing TD every 20 plays yet only fumbling every 40 rush attempts. That means for every 14 points we've racked up running the football, we've only given the opponent 2.2 points off of turnovers. Winning by 12 points is much more significant in football than winning by 5.
The average Tech fan probably doesn't want to know how big a difference Tech's rushing attack performs in wins versus losses. It only takes Tech 17 rushing attempts to score a TD in victory. However, in losses Tech needs 36 rushing attempts. Considering we only run 54 times per game, this is fairly paltry. Fumbling is not quite as indicative of a victory. Tech fans don't gasp quite as hard when they see the ball pop out in a CPJ offense. In victory Tech fumbles every 46 rushing attempts as opposed to every 35 rushing attempts in a loss.
If you have any comments or questions, let me know. Any ideas for future posts would be wondrous. 24 days 'til kickoff and 124 days 'til Army-Navy weekend. I hope you're all ready.


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Source: Getty / Denise Truscello 1 / 11 What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kim wasn't believing the hype from other expecting mothers when she spoke to ET Online in January: "When people say that pregnancy is fun and they love it, I would have to disagree." Source: Getty / Jason Kempin 2 / 11 What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kim spoke to E! Online about her pregnancy cravings back in January: "I'm craving sushi, but I know I can't really have it, so I'm eating a lot of carrots and celery with lots of ranch." Source: Getty / Gary Miller 3 / 11 What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kim addressed the constant probing of her pregnancy weight gain with Extra in March: "There are maybe two or three [magazine] covers just this week that say I am 200 pounds. It wouldn't even bother me if I gained all the weight. . . . I have the biggest sweet tooth, and I love junk food. Being pregnant, I don't like any of it." 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ARLINGTON -- Rob Maiden and his 15-year-old son were in the national spotlight Monday night while Maiden's wife Ladonna watched from home on the couple's wedding anniversary.
"This is an opportunity they just need to take and enjoy themselves. And he'll make good on it, he always does," she said.
The father-son bonding trip to the Final Four championship game took a turn no one expected.
"I got some incredible news for you, man," Rob Maiden said to his son on Tuesday. "Because we did that dance last night, it went viral. Not only do we have WFAA here filming us, we are headed to New York for a national TV show."
It was a surprise neither of them expected.
"Never in my wildest dreams did I think, 12 hours later, I'd be talking to you all," Maiden said.
The elder Maiden's dance moves are legendary in Dallas. As captain of the Mavs ManiAACs, Maiden and the other ManiAACs entertain crowds regularly. For 15-year-old Trey, dancing for the Final Four crowd was a bit overwhelming.
"At first it was kind a nervous. My stomach was hurting and stuff, but after we did it I was feeling much better," Trey said.
The father-son duo decided to choreograph the dance over the weekend, just for fun.
"Sunday night, he and my other son and one of their buddies, we stood around and danced and played music, and I said, 'Let's put this together, let's make this funny, I think people will like it,'" Maiden said.
And like it they did.
The crowd went wild -- and the video went viral -- over moves that thousands agree were pure magic.
"They love them like I love them. I'm just overwhelmed right now. I'm excited, I'm happy for them," Ladonna said.
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A WOMAN and her pet dog escaped a fire in her kitchen last night.
Firefighters were called to the fire in Ironside Close, Bewdley, at about 11pm last night and used breathing apparatus and two hose reels to put out the flames.
They also used ventilation equipment to clear smoke from the detached house.
The kitchen was damaged and there was minor smoke damage throughout the whole house.
Station Commander Phil Berry said: "A woman was asleep upstairs when she heard the smoke alarm operating.
"As she came downstairs to investigate she noticed flames in the kitchen and thick black smoke.
"Luckily she and her pet dog managed to get out of the property using the front door.
"This is a timely reminder to check smoke alarms are in working order.
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Michael Rupert's Broadway career got off to an auspicious start with such major credits as the original Kander & Ebb musical The Happy Time, a replacement run in Bob Fosse's original production of Pippin and, most notably, originating the role of Marvin in the watershed Falsettos. He also won a Tony for the 1986 revival of Sweet Charity and has starred in recent successes like Legally Blonde and Ragtime. Rupert is a gifted actor with a uniquely beautiful and expressive singing voice that has made all his forays memorable.Continued...


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Score one for Connecticut bike geeks, rail-trail dudes and nature freaks, who appear to have foiled an attempt to roll back lawsuit protections for cities, towns and quasi-public recreational land owners.
"For at least this session, it appears to be dead," was the comment this week from state Rep. David Baram, D-Bloomfield. He was talking about legislation designed to gut a new law intended to prevent people who get injured on public recreation land from suing except in extreme-negligence situations.
The law was passed last year as a response to a recent $2.9 million personal injury award involving a 2002 mountain-bike mishap on some water company recreational land in West Hartford.
Municipal officials and open-space advocates were afraid cities, towns, water companies and other groups might start closing off public recreation areas to avoid similar lawsuits from people hurt while in parks, wildlife preserves, rail trails and beaches.
So there were lots of celebrations by outdoorsy folks when that law took effect last October.
But then a New London lawyer named Robert Reardon got a bill introduced in this year's General Assembly, according to Baram. The proposal would have "emasculated" the new law, says Charles Beristain, a member of BikeWalk Connecticut and the Connecticut Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board.
Baram, who's a lawyer himself as well as a sponsor of the recreational land law, did a little checking. He says what he found was that Reardon's law firm had at least one pending case involving a personal injury matter against "a beach town."
Kelly Reardon, a lawyer with her father's firm, said the case involves the town of Waterford and she testified to that at a public hearing. She also denies that her father or the firm were responsible for the introduction of the bill.
But that little bill would have specifically exempted beaches, paved sidewalks and boardwalks from the protections against lawsuits.
The legislature's Judiciary Committee was supposed to take up this gem on Monday, but Baram says he convinced the panel's co-chairs that it would be a waste of time because of the huge amount of opposition to the proposal. So the bill died without a whimper when the committee's Monday deadline for action passed.
Baram said the protective legislation approved by the General Assembly in 2010 was a compromise he worked out between the Connecticut Trial Lawyers' Association and open space advocates.
"The trial lawyers, to their credit, didn't support this" roll back that Reardon wanted, Baram says.
Kelly Reardon still thinks the protections against lawsuits involving public land injuries went way too far. She argues the law "creates a disparity between those who can file lawsuits when they are injured on municipal land and those who cannot."
Beristain takes the opposite view that the proposal to roll back those protections was extreme. "Any rail trail is a paved sidewalk," he argues, and warns that "beaches" could cover everything from the Connecticut shoreline to riverbanks, ponds and lakes. "Anything that has water near it is a 'beach,'"
The trigger for all this worry, debate and legislative action was an 2010 jury award of $2.9 million to a woman who broke her neck while riding a mountain bike on Metropolitan District Commission property in West Hartford.
Maribeth Blonski was coming down an trail near the West Hartford Reservoir one day in 2002 when she came up fast on a big yellow gate. The water company had put up the gate to block cars from going onto the property, which was only open to walkers and bikers. Blonski looked up too late, tried to stop, but slid into the big metal pipes and busted her neck in four places.
The judge and jury decided the MDC wasn't immune from a negligence lawsuit. Jurors awarded Blonski the money, even though they felt she was partially responsible. Her lawyer, Michael Stratton of New Haven, says Blonski is still suffering pain and "still can't sleep at night."
The MDC is appealing the verdict and the state Supreme Court is expected to issue a final in 2013.
Stratton says the MDC screwed up by not notifying its insurance company of the lawsuit and thus became directly responsible for paying out any damages. He also argued in court that the water company was negligent because of the way the trail and gate were designed, and because there were no warning signs.
The MDC's response was to threaten to shut down public access to all its properties, and municipalities across Connecticut began to get nervous about their open space lands and the potential for lawsuits. Bicyclists and trail enthusiasts insisted people involved in things like mountain biking and hiking should know and accept the risks.
"People need to take responsibility for their actions," says Philip Keyes, executive director of the New England Mountain Bike Association. "Things can always go wrong," says Keyes. "Brakes fail, trees fall down, things happen."
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This glass is perfectly contoured to fit in your hand. Since cold drinks often perspire, the bell shape allows you to hold the glass without it slipping through your fingers. The base of the glass is think, increasingly thinning as you reach the top, creating a much more pleasant experience when it come in contact with your lips.
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