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In early November, students from Chapman Middle School got the chance to go behind the arsenal gates to learn more about potential career paths. For a 7th or 8th grade student, the future may seem far off, but Major Jaime Santiago knows it will come sooner than they think. That's why the Precision Fires Rocket and Missile Systems Project Office decided to open their doors to the kids.
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The greatest deterrent to world war
August is the month when we reflect on the world's greatest deterrent, the atomic bomb, which has been developed into a contemporary weapon of mass destruction and whose explosive force is produced by thermonuclear reactions, with the incalculable power to destroy mankind.
It was on August 6, 1945 that the awesome power of the atomic bomb was first revealed when it was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, by the USA. A second bomb devastated Nagasaki three days later on August 9, 1945, killing an estimated number of between 210,000 and 340,000 people that established the Atomic Age in a world destined to live in fear and respect for nuclear power forevermore. The development of the hydrogen bomb, indisputably the most devastating weapon of mass destruction ever invented, heralded the advent of the Thermonuclear Age.
The foregoing recollection of the events in Hiroshima and Nagasaki is by way of a caution to the world today, again on the brink of hostilities in the Middle East that could possibly ignite yet another nuclear conflict. The eight members of today's Nuclear Club include the US, Britain, China, France, Russia, Israel, Pakistan and India, with North Korea and Iran both aspiring to join the club when they succeed in building a nuclear weapon; an aspiration which causes deep concern to North America, Europe and Israel.
Each day the tension between Teheran on one side, and Tel Aviv and the West on the other, becomes stronger with the refusal of the Iranian regime to discontinue their uranium enrichment programme, while threatening to blockade the Strait of Hormuz that is considered a "Red Line" by the USA which, if crossed, would be to Iran's peril. Various American naval battle groups have been stationed in proximity to the Strait of Hormuz to deal with any offensive action by Iran. Israel views Iran's enrichment programme as a potential source of aggression and reserves the right to neutralise the process should Israel be threatened, a move that would likely be supported by the US.
Greater damage to world unity is occasioned by Syria pitting its sympathetic supporters, Russia and China, against the West led by the US, France and Britain, splitting the UN Security Council into opposing sides, thereby preventing any unified remedial action to stop the bloodletting Syrian civil war, now aggravated by the reported involvement of Hezbollah, the Iranian terrorist militia in support of President Assad's regime.
President Assad's recent threat to use chemical weapons against the rebel army in the event of any foreign intervention, has again prompted the US to declare any such action to be a "Red Line" that, if crossed, could trigger dire consequences for the Assad regime. With such an occurrence, would the support by Russia and China for the Assad regime continue?
The view is generally held that nuclear surgical strikes would be necessary to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment sites, housed in heavily fortified underground centres with hardened bunkers possibly to be penetrated by Israel. US support is nearby with its Triad response force consisting of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs), and nuclear-capable heavy bombers, and with strategically located multi-disciplined ground forces stationed around the world, that constitutes the most powerful nation on earth! So far, there is no mention of thermonuclear advancement. Universally, there is a palpable fear that existing nuclear weapons might fall into terrorist hands or certain rogue states. The security of such weapons is now and always has been of paramount importance together with the prevention of Iran and North Korea from acquiring nuclear capability.
With the end of WWII, "heroes of the 20th century" was the term applied to Paul Tibbets who flew the "Enola Gay" B29 Super Fortress that dropped the atomic bomb called "Little Boy", his co-pilot Robert Lewis and bombardier Tom Ferebee, who said they were astounded at the sight of the explosion which occurred at 1800 feet above the Aoioi Bridge in Hiroshima. On seeing the mushroom cloud, Robert Lewis exclaimed: "My God, what have we done?" Tibbets said: "We turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud ... boiling up, mushrooming".
Earlier, the "Enola Gay", named after Tibbets' mother, flew from the Pacific island of Tinian at 2:00 am, stripped down to accommodate the 4.5 tonnes of "Little Boy", that was 10'4" long and 2'.4" in diameter, with the explosive power of 20,000 tonnes of TNT. The crew carried cyanide capsules in case they had to parachute into enemy territory, as their aircraft had just sufficient fuel to reach the Chinese mainland after completing the mission.
As might be expected, there is still controversy about the use of the atomic bomb, a powerful but inhumane weapon of mass destruction that saved the anticipated carnage of 20,000 dead and 75,000 wounded in the first 90 days, which would have been sustained by invading American forces. Japanese civilians and armed forces would have been devastated and the Pacific war would have continued for an untold time.
Today, already burdened with the war in Afghanistan, the unstable situation in Iraq, the continued anarchy in Libya, Yemen and Bahrain to mention other trouble-spots, the world waits with trepidation, hoping for a peaceful resolution to the burgeoning Middle East crisis involving Syria and Iran with the West. This crisis is brewing in the shadow of the mushroom clouds that blanketed Hiroshima and Nagasaki 67 years ago.
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text: If you have children in school, chances are you have heard how teachers often have to buy supplies for their classrooms due to funding cuts.On Tuesday, you can lend our educators a helping hand.Starting Tuesday, Kiii-TV and the Corpus Christi Education Foundation will host an online fundraising event. That money will be used to provide grants to teachers within the CCISD.The Foundation awards grants to fund materials for creative teaching ideas that are not otherwise able to be funded by the school district. Money used to buy new technology, like Dr. Nancy Vera from Carroll High School did."Each of these frames, for example, that we used to interview the participants cost over $100 each. Plus the digital cameras. Plus these little thumb drives that we use, in order to manipulate the software" Vera said. "So all of that costs money, and that's money we don't have in public schools right now."The money raised throughout the Day of Caring event also provides scholarships for CCISD students and recognizes outstanding teachers each year. If it weren't for the help of the Foundation grants, teachers would have to fund these programs out of their own pockets, or more likely, not provide the programs at all.If you would like to help, you can donate tomorrow. Just visit the Education Foundation's website at www.ccef-ccisd.org/donations.


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By Joe Kreger
He sits there on the front porch--
and gazes down the street,
looking for a friendly face
or someone just to greet.
Faded eyes and silver stubble
decorate a furrowed face--
weather-beaten old survivor,
now just occupying space.
A mind so full of wisdom
that he can't articulate,
feeble body cased in shabby clothes,
so worn and out of date.
A builder of this nation,
a soldier of her wars
now dozes in the sunlight,
labored breathing, raspy snores.
A husband and a father,
who always did his part,
now rouses from his slumber
and wakes up with a start.
He resumes again his vigil,
this intermittent sleeper.
Fearlessly, he watches
for the coming of the Reaper.
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We are very pleased to announce that we will be holding a free Shambhala Training Level I: The Art of Being Human, with childcare and geared for parents, taught by Shastri Stephen Clarke. The program will take place 9:00 am-6:30 pm on Saturday, January 26. Although it is oriented towards parents with free childcare, all are invited to participate. If you have taken Level I before, you are also invited to come back for a refresher. (Of course, program participants are welcome to make a contribution during the program if they wish.)
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If you do not have an end identified when you go out and seek to innovate, then you will not be doing your cause any favors. Now I know many people are thinking - what about those innovators that just tinkered around until one day they invented Post-it Notes (that is the famous one from 3M).
Let me make a distinction. If you are a scientist looking to further your field then that is your end. At that point you might not have a specific cause you are focused on - instead you are wanting to see knowledge increased and new ideas/resources be brought to market. That may look like meandering but most of those people did have an end in mind.
In the case of this blog and of innovation within mission, we have "ends" that are a bit more focused. For some of you it is church planting in Africa. For others it is Internet evangelism, and still others it is new discipleship tools. Whatever the cause that God has put you on, beginning with the end in mind is critical to innovating for the Kingdom.
Let me share a few things that you are more able to do when you begin with the end in mind:
- Identify the key players: If you know where you are going, it is easier to identify the key individuals that you need to build relationships with, network with and partner with.
- Stay focused: By defining what you believe God wants you to be reaching for, you can avoid the many other "nice but not necessary" things that will pop up all around you. We all know brilliant people who can't focus on their main objective and keep getting taken down side paths to the detriment of their main project.
- Spot Opportunities: When you have a clear goal in mind, the "windows of opportunity" that God brings along will be very evident to you. They will jump off the page and you will be ready to engage with the opportunity that God puts in front of you. Many other people who do not have a clear focus let these opportunities pass by just because they are not sharp and focused.
- Learn Strategically: With focus comes intentionality. When you are focused you then look for the things you need to learn and grow in so that you can better accomplish your goal.
- Be Spiritually Alert: Those who are intentional about mission innovation will be spiritually alert. You will be praying about the thing God has put on your heart. You will know what sacrifices He is asking you to make. You will also be more aware of changes in the direction that God has you going. You will be able to flex and modify your focus based on how God changes the ends He has given you.
I hope this is an encouragement in the disciplines of focus, intentionality, and learning. Now here is the question: What End has God put on your heart that He would have you be focused in achieving for Him?


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Our Return Q&A With DawgSports for This Weekend's Vanderbilt - Georgia Showdown
Interested in what we had to say about this week's matchup with Georgia? I exchanged e-mails with Dawg Sports' Mr. Sanchez and answered his questions about the Commodores. If you want to get a look at what UGA fans are anticipating on Saturday, check out Dawg Sports' questions and my responses over in their neck of the SB Nation woods.


text: In focus: The amazing cars and crowds of Bonneville Speed Week Wired Aperture 17 August 12 by Nate Lanxon Tweet Bonneville Speed WeekPA Photos Today's photography from the Wired Aperture -- beautiful daily images of the Wired world around us, curated every day by Wired.co.uk. Subscribe to the Wired Aperture RSS feed or follow the @WiredAperture Twitter account to make sure you never miss a picture.The annual Bonneville Speed Week, held on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, USA, sees hundreds of car builders and drivers gather to try and break land speed records in various different categories of vehicle. Wired Aperture presents some highlights from this year's event. View at high-resolution and full-screen in our gallery. Comments Read more on Wired Aperture Photographs from the Wired Aperture -- stunning daily photography of the Wired world around us Wired Aperture In focus: European Southern Observatory celebrates 50-year anniversary Wired Aperture In focus: A photographic tour of a Mexican ghoul mask factory Wired Aperture Double Pillar Wired Aperture 35-foot camera Wired Aperture In focus: Bestival lovers Wired Aperture In focus: The giant calligraphy pen Latest on wired.co.uk


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Takeo Spikes - #51 - LB
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Chargers release veteran LB Spikes
The Chargers announced the release of LB Takeo Spikes on Thursday
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A Philadelphia writer thinks anything short of a Super Bowl appearance could get Eagles coach Andy Reid fired.
Niners rocked by early free-agent departures
The Niners have been knocked back on their heels a bit in the early stages of free agency with the losses of ILB Takeo Spikes and C David Baas.
Chargers show they won't wait
By signing players like Eric Weddle, Takeo Spikes and Bob Sanders, the Chargers showed on early on in free agency that they aren't looking to the future — they want to win in 2011.
Chargers agree to terms with LB Spikes, S Sanders
The Chargers agreed to a three-year deal with LB Takeo Spikes, the team announced Tuesday evening. He will sign his contract Friday.
Spikes has been Niners' best LB so far this season
Most daily observers of the 49ers believe veteran Takeo Spikes has been the team's best overall linebacker — even better than perennial Pro Bowler Patrick Willis, whose numbers are down.
The San Diego Chargers have released Spikes in their first major move under new general manager Tom Telesco.||||||| The 36-year-old Spikes has played 15 NFL seasons, including the last two with San Diego. He has started 215 of his 219 career games played, including all 32 with the Chargers. He has 1,737 career tackles, including 218 with the Chargers. Spikes has never been on a playoff team. He earlier played with Cincinnati, Buffalo, Philadelphia and San Francisco. The Chargers missed the playoffs the last three seasons.
Spikes and Oakland running back Mike Goodson have been ejected after a skirmish in the second quarter of Sunday's game.||||||| Spikes had to be restrained by field judge Scott Edwards from going after referee John Parry. As he was leaving the field, Spikes took off his helmet and flung it. Teammate Melvin Ingram caught it.
The San Diego Chargers agreed to terms with Spikes, tackle Jeromey Clary and tight end Randy McMichael on Tuesday.||||||| "I think defensively you want to be as strong as you can be down the middle and with Spikes and then (Bob) Sanders, you've got two strong personalities that bring a real aggressive presence to the defense," coach Norv Turner said.
Spikes is active for the San Francisco 49ers' game with the Jacksonville Jaguars after recovering from a hamstring injury.||||||| Spikes missed last week's 30-24 loss at Green Bay and was replaced by Matt Wilhelm. Spikes strained his left hamstring just before halftime of a win over the Chicago Bears on Nov. 12 and hadn't played since.
The 49ers waived veteran linebacker Brandon Moore on Sunday, opening a roster spot that could go to Spikes. Spikes was due at 49ers headquarters Sunday afternoon for a physical.||||||| Spikes spent 10 seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals, Buffalo Bills and Philadelphia Eagles. His season with the Eagles last year ended with a torn rotator cuff in the 14th game. He finished with 85 tackles, including 63 solo stops, and one sack. If Spikes signs with the 49ers, he's likely to start alongside the NFL's reigning defensive rookie of the year Patrick Willis at inside linebacker in the team's 3-4 defense.


text: Im happy UL came out on top and I would love to say I dont have very much to say about the win against Seton Hall. First of all I'd like to say a wins a wins but to be completely honest this team and the way they played really made me upset and there lack luster finish was very disheartening. Whats it going to take to get this team to be serious and maintain a lead and just play hard and with piose. This UL team brick free throws and failed to recognize the importamce of closing a game out. Our guard play and decision making was again poor during a critical point of the game. Our players need to understand we cannot continue to perform like we did late in the game and expect to come out on top. lt wont happen, not in March, we will find our selves sitting at home with an early exit from the tournament. We lost games against Notre Dame, South Florida, Cincinatti, and Syracuse. In every one of those games, we lacked piose and execution . We should have won those games, and the attitude UL players showed late in the Seton Hall game was scarely similar to those games. Its impairative UL step their game up and be solid perform with confidence show piose when its clutch time, we cant continue to play ugly and under perform at the end of the game. The results of the game against Seton Hall was W in the win column but a similar effort could easily give UL a L in the lose column. I know we played a good game and We came out on top but it shouldnt have been that close. Its March and every team wants to win badly, a last second shot could decide a game. UL cant allow teams to hang around close, if we have an opportunity to put them away. Im just saying allowing a team to hang around because of mental mistakes will likely bite us in the ass. Im a die hard UL fan and Id hate to see us lose another game we should have won. I know our team isnt perfect and Im just saying to lose is one thing but to give the game away is another.


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Women Who Have Had a Child in the Last Year, by Age and Labor Force Status:1980 to 2006
The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the US Census Department as Microsoft Excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and, worst of all, the table headers are not easily matched to their rows and columns.
A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were corrected to be consistent. A few files have a sheet of crufty gibberish in the first slot. The sheet order was shuffled but no data were changed.
The tables that were changed (this is table 90):
0166 0257 0362 0429 0445 0446 0459 0461 0462 0464 0465 0466 0467 0469 0479 0480 0481 0482 0483 0484 0485 0486 0487 0559 0628 0629 1144 1227 1231
This dataset consists of a table of 29 rows and 10 columns.
As of June. Covers civilian noninstitutional population. Since the number of women who had a birth during the 12-month period was tabulated and not the actual numbers of births, some small underestimation of fertility for this period may exist due to the omission of: (1) Multiple births, (2) Two or more live births spaced within the 12-month period (the woman is counted only once), (3) Women who had births in the period and who did not survive to the survey date, (4) Women who were in institutions and therefore not in the survey universe. These losses may be somewhat offset by the inclusion in the Current Population Survey of births to immigrants who did not have their children born in the United States and births to nonresident women. These births would not have been recorded in the vital registration system. Based on Current Population Survey (CPS); see text, section 1 and Appendix III
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Comparison of all the latest Flagships. (Believe it or not, the One/GS4 are not the only existing phones)
Instead of giving a list of all the positives and negatives of each phone, I'll name each phone, followed by a list of anything where it tops every other flagship device and things it has that the others don't. So;
Sony Xperia Z:
- IP57 Protection, not only does that top the others, the others have nothing to even compete with that.
- Full Glass Body
- Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine 2 (Not quite sure what that is, but the others don't have it so it counts for something.)
HTC One:
- Front mounted dual stereo speakers, with Beats Audio enhancement.
- 469PPI Pixel Density, better Pixel Density due to smaller 4.7" screen.
- Full Metal Unibody
- Ultra Pixel Camera (Yes only 4MP, but I'm naming things the others don't have as well.)
- Zoe, Blinkfeed yada yada..
- HTC Sense UI v5
Samsung Galaxy S4:
- Screen works with gloves and air gestures.
- Multi-window multitasking.
- Additional Sensors (barometer, thermometer, hygroscope)
- Smallest and lightest. (Hopefully not the Galaxy SII kind of small and thin though. I've never held a GS4, but the GSII feels so empty for a phone of it's size. If the phone is too light it might feel weird like the SII did in my opinion.)
- Android 4.2 on launch. The One at least will get an upgrade soon, but does not launch with 4.2
LG Optimus G Pro:
- Largest Screen (5.5")
- Dolby Mobile sound enhancement.
- Largest battery (3,140MAh, although with it's larger screen it probably doesn't make for more usage of the phone.)
- True Full HD IPS Plus LCD Screen which apparently has more accurate colours than even Super AMOLED.
Nokia Lumia 920:
- Windows Phone 8 OS
- PureMotionHD+ IPS Display with ClearBlack.
- Xbox Live integration
- Nokia Music (Never used it, can't tell you if that's even a good point.)
- First available.
Basically, if you tend to drop your phone a lot or get it dirty a lot, buy the Xperia Z. If you want an attractive phone, are a fan of music, tend to take pictures in low light more often than not, or like to keep up to date with news, buy the HTC One. If you like to multitask, want the latest version of Android, or like additional features, get the Galaxy S4. If you like big screens, and want accurate colours, get the Optimus G Pro. Or if you like Windows Phone, and all the other features Nokia give you, buy the Lumia 920.


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By FOX 2 News StaffSOUTHFIELD, Mich. (WJBK) -- Welcome winter in Gaylord, Mich. during Treetops Resort's Ski Free Getaway this Dec. 14-16.Early season getaways include lodging and free skiing at participating Gaylord Area lodging properties. The Ski Free packages start at just $58 per room, per night at Gaylord Area properties, and just $79 per room, per night at Treetops Resort.Each overnight guest will receive a free lift ticket voucher. Each overnight voucher is valid for one day of skiing. Free skiing begins on Dec. 14 at 4 p.m., and continues throughout the day on both Saturday and Sunday.
Online: www.gaylordmichigan.net or www.treetops.com.
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text: Brainiac: Science Abuse Series 4 - Episode 1 Share: About this programme 1/10. Jon Tickle and Richard Hammond present more laboratory antics, as former MP Neil Hamilton is strapped into the electric chair to test his own pain threshold. Plus, an investigation into which foods provide the best substitute for shaving cream and a look at Britain's fizziest drink. Cast and crew Cast Presenter Jon Tickle Presenter Richard Hammond Guest Neil Hamilton Categories Entertainment Share:


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we are doing a community mock draft and are in need of representation for the Chargers!
if you are interested, signup is here:
on a side note, my team is the Falcons; and we would be interested in trading
our 1st round pick #27 (worth 680 "points"), and our 5th round pick #155 (30pts) = 710
for both of SD's 2nd round picks #50 (400) and #61 (292) = 692
you would be ahead on "points" and the Chargers would be armed with 2 x 1st
round picks, we are allowed only 3 (non-player) trades per draft.
NFL draft-pick value chart:
2011 draft order: http://walterfootball.com/nfldraftorder2011.php


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News: Diddy Can't Shake The Rumors, Rep Addresses Cassie Engagement Gossip
Monday, Feb 3, 2014 6:14PM
Bad Boy Records CEO Diddy can't catch a break in 2014 as new engagement speculation has forced one of his representatives to come forward and clear the air.
Widespread rumors and buzz about Puffy and longtime Bad Boy Records artist Cassie getting engaged surfaced over the weekend.
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ROCK HILL — The split personality of this young Coastal Carolina basketball team revealed itself again Wednesday night – right on cue.
For much of the first half, the Chanticleers looked determined to debunk the notion that they are a different team on the road, unable to play 40 effective minutes and put opponents away outside of their own gym. And taking on a middling Winthrop team, all was going just fine as they seized control quickly and built a nice early lead.
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The offense began sputtering before halftime and stalled soon thereafter as Winthrop pulled ahead early in the second half and never relinquished control on the way to a 61-48 win before a sparse announced crowd of 1,819 inside Winthrop Coliseum.
The same Chants team that has posted lopsided wins over a couple of the Big South's better teams in its last two home games is now just 1-8 on the road after this latest setback.
"It's obvious to the naked eye," CCU coach Cliff Ellis said. "When it's going well, fine. When it's not, how am I going to respond? And that's what they've got to learn to do. And at home, they've got a crowd to pick them up. Here, they don't have it. So they've got to get through that themselves. They've got to learn to get through that."
Senior guard Anthony Raffa scored a game-high 16 points for Coastal, but 14 of those came in the first half and the Chants (9-10, 4-4 Big South) were too reliant on his offense as the supporting cast struggled. Senior point guard Kierre Greenwood finished with 11 points and five turnovers and sophomore guard Warren Gillis added 10 points. The six first-year players who saw time on the court for Coastal, meanwhile, combined for 11 points.
"We've got a young crew," Raffa said. "They're young, they don't understand. Some of them do, some of them don't, but maybe they're too young to comprehend – when you go on the road in conference, you're going to get a battle. You can see, when we're at home, we play great. But when we're on the road, we don't know which team is going to come out. Is it going to be the team that plays at home, or is it going to be the team that [plays] good for the first 12 minutes of the first half and we don't do so good in the second half?"
Coastal held several eight-point leads in the first half as Raffa scored 12 points in the first 11 minutes to put his team up 20-12. But Greenwood got into foul trouble late in the half and Ellis thought his absence on the floor took the Chants out of their rhythm.
Sophomore Andre Smith hit two quick 3s after halftime to put Winthrop ahead, and leading 42-38 later in the second half, the Eagles (9-11, 3-5) reeled off nine straight points and a couple momentum-boosting sequences to effectively put the game out of reach. They capped that run when sophomore Derrick Henry drained a 3-pointer right as Raffa was called for a foul on sophomore Larry Brown. Brown followed with a free throw to make it 51-38 with 5:29 remaining.
Coastal then got a 3-pointer from freshman Michel Enanga, but Winthrop followed a couple possessions later with another crowd-pleasing play as Brown soared to the rim for a one-handed dunk. He missed while being fouled, but his two ensuing free throws bumped the lead back to 12 points nonetheless and kept the hosts in control.
"I thought the first 12 minutes of the game, we played about as well as we could play," Ellis said. "When Kierre got in foul trouble at the end of the first half, it really turned things around. We lost continuity on offense, but at the same point in time ... they started really getting us on the boards. We limped into halftime with a lead, and in the second half we talked about the fact the physicality cannot go their way. And the physicality did go their way. This is the first time we have just been beaten on the boards like this."
Henry led Winthrop with 15 points while Smith added 14 – 12 in the second half. The Eagles finished with a 39-27 rebounding advantage.
In their last two home games, the Chants showed their potential with a 23-point win over VMI and a 14-point win over Campbell, but the results just haven't been there away from Conway. Not yet at least.
"I'm a winner. I want to win. It's frustrating being 1-8 on the road," Greenwood said. "But like I said, we've still got games ahead of us. All we can do is put this game behind us and focus on what we've got coming up."
COASTAL CAROLINA (9-10) – Ndieguene 1-2 0-0 2, Diagne 1-3 0-0 3, Gillis 4-8 0-0 10, Raffa 6-14 2-4 16, Greenwood 4-16 3-4 11, Ashford 0-0 0-0 0, Enanga 2-2 0-0 5, Ljeskovic 0-1 0-1 0, Daniel 0-0 0-0 0, Curtis 0-0 1-2 1. Totals 18-46 6-11 48.
WINTHROP (9-11) – Jerome 2-8 5-5 9, Bourne 1-2 2-2 4, Brown 0-4 3-4 3, Smith 5-8 0-2 14, Henry 4-10 5-6 15, Gamble 3-8 0-0 7, King 0-0 0-0 0, Diop 2-4 3-4 7, Carter 0-0 0-0 0, Johnson 1-2 0-0 2, Prescott 0-0 0-0 0, Farmer 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 18-49 18-23 61.
Halftime–Coastal Carolina 26-25. 3-Point Goals–Coastal Carolina 6-14 (Gillis 2-2, Raffa 2-8, Diagne 1-1, Enanga 1-1, Greenwood 0-2), Winthrop 7-19 (Smith 4-6, Henry 2-5, Gamble 1-4, Jerome 0-1, Farmer 0-3). Fouled Out–None. Rebounds–Coastal Carolina 27 (Ndieguene 7), Winthrop 39 (Jerome 8). Assists–Coastal Carolina 7 (Greenwood, Ndieguene 2), Winthrop 10 (Henry 3). Total Fouls–Coastal Carolina 21, Winthrop 21. A–1,819.
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The tax poll is seriously messed up
Chuck Nevius, who doesn't seem to like any taxes, weighed in this morning on a poll paid for by the city's Transportation Authority that, the way Nevius puts it, "[cast] doubt on whether it would be wise to put some tax issues on the ballot in November." His analysis of the numbers:
[W]hen it comes to the hotel, parking, business and real estate transfer tax, the voters had four responses: no, no, no and hell no.
His ideological soulmate over at the Ex, Ken Garcia, had a similar report. "San Francisco," he wrote, "is not in a tax-supporting mood."
But that's not how I read the poll at all.
You can see the actual document here. The first thing I'll note is that 67 percent of the people who responded were over 40. That's not a surprise; telephone polls skew older these days. (How many young people have land lines, which are the numbers primarily called by pollsters?) The second is that some of the questions are pretty close to incomprehensible. Imagine someone reading this to you over the phone and asking for a quick answer:
To provide loans to pay for seismic retrofits of certain multi-story wood structures at significant
risk of substantial damage and collapse during a major earthquake and funded by a qualified
governmental housing finance agency for permanent or long-term affordability, or single room
occupancy buildings owned by private parties, and pay related costs, shall the City and County
of San Francisco issue up to thirty nine million one hundred forty thousand dollars of general
obligation bonded indebtedness, subject to citizen oversight and regular audits?
But the most important thing is that the tax questions were more than misleading; they're phrased in a way that almost begs for a No. Here's the real-estate transfer tax question:
Shall the City and County of San Francisco increase the real property transfer tax on certain
properties by between $3.75 and $10.00 per $500.00 of value, depending on the overall
property value and exempting rent-restricted affordable housing units from the increased tax rate?
That sounds like the average person trying to buy or sell a house is going to get hit with more taxes. Actually, nobody's proposing a tax on low-end sales. If you asked the real question -- should people or businesses that sell property worth more than $5 million pay a slightly higher transfer tax -- you'd get a very different answer.
Here's another one:
Shall the City and County of San Francisco establish a progressive payroll expense tax rate
structure and impose a gross receipts tax on the rental of commercial real property?
My immediate response: What the hell does that mean? It sounds like higher taxes on payrolls and a new tax on rents. Sounds like it's bad for small business. Actually, that's an utterly inaccurate representation of the tax the Sup. David Chiu is proposing. How avbout an honest question: Should the city cut taxes on small businesses and make banks and insurance companies pay their fair share? I suspect that would poll a little higher.
You want a real snapshot of how a conservative, older groups of voters, the ones represented in this poll, feel about taxes? Check out question 13, which asks people if they agree or disagree with this statement:
It is crucial to have high quality streets, roads and public transit, even if it means raising taxes.
Voters know that increased taxes will just go to support increasing pension and benefit costs for city workers, not "high quality streets, roads and public transit." No one is interested in feeding that unsustainable pension system anymore.
Also, Nevius had another article today saying that Mirkarimi saw drafts of the poll questions and had the opportunity to correct them. If the questions were so bad, why didn't he fix them?
Thanks, Meg.
Why is it so hard to believe San Franciscans don't want to pay more taxes?
We already pay more for:
Residential parking permits
Parking meters (and more meters)
Higher parking tickets (from ever more aggressive meter maids)
Many feel $6 Billion is plenty of money for a city of 800k people.
Being gouged by meter maids and the like is regressive -- everyone pays, from the CEO to the lowly City employee. A progressive tax would only take revenue from the higher earners, such as a household making over $250k a year. Oregon voters passed such a tax in January. San Francisco could benefit from something along these lines.
Are you proposing a City income tax? Cal. Rev. & Tax Code 17401.5 bars cities and counties from imposing income taxes. Are you proposing a flat "occupations tax" like that in Weekes v. City of Oakland? How would you make it progressive and not fall within 17401.5?
Oregon has different laws than California does. Best, Meg
Hey, try to park two yachts – we're talking $. San Franciscans & reasonable facsimiles speak with one voice and agree we hatius some taxes, (i.e., meters, maids included). My poll says raise the bus fare to $5. Nenius is a gevius.
They poll older people because old people are more likely to vote. The median age of those who actually cast their vote is 50. So if anything this poll is biased TOWARDS younger people.
And most people know from personal experience that taxes aimed at the rich eventually cost everyone. Eventually all properties in SF will be worth a million but I guarantee you that the limit on this tax will not be raised.
And taxes on business get passed onto the humble consumer through the inevitable price hieks that follow.
Hey Commish: We could legally impose an occupatinal license fee (similar to a city income tax) and exempt, say, the first $50,000 in income. No conflict with state law.
And no, Folly, taxes on the rich don't eventually hit everyone. My heirs, for example, will never have to pay an estate tax (unless I hit lotto or something.) There is no proposal for a transfer tax at $1 million, and even if there were such a plan, most San Franciscans are renters and don't buy or sell property at all, much less property worth more than $1 million.
The Guardian wants to "close the loop hole" on prop 13, but is always looking for ways to extort more money from the citizens by calling a tax a fee.
The credibility gab rears its ugly head again. The credibility gap never went away realy, we get it from establishment politicians like Avalos and Nixon, and their apologists in the media like Pat Buchanan and Tim Redmond.
Tim: thank you for your reply, but I disagree with your analysis. As I read Weakes, the court only allowed the "license fee" because it didn't have the conventional attributes of an income tax. For example, it was non-graduated (i.e., it was flat) and generally didn't allow for deductions/exemptions. I think that a "license fee" that was progressive or had an exemption level would be too similar to the traditional notion of a tax and thus fall within the prohibition of Rev. & Tax Code 17041.5. Also, these sorts of taxes/license fees are rare and my guess is that one of the reasons they're rare is that it's tough to craft them so they don't discriminate against non-residents (and thus run afoul of Government Code 50026).
We have one of these on the ballot every single election in San Francisco. Does the seismic retrofitting never end? Once a retrofit ends new technology finds it's incomplete and a new one begins.
These seismic retrofits are a racket. And San Franciscans, the majority of which are not property owners, happily vote for them again and again and again thinking they'll never have to pay the bill.
Mr. Matlock: I have never tried to disguise anything. I think we should have a city income tax. Unfortunately, the only thing the state allows is a tax on income earned in the city, which is called an employment license fee or some such shit. It's a tax; I'm in favor of it.
Commish, there might be legal trouble if you made it too progressive, but I don't see why you can't exempt the first $50,000 of income. Then it's already pretty progressive, since the lower-income folks don't pay at all. The advice I've heard from lawyers familiar with the Weekes case is that we could go pretty far on that level.
Tim, thanks. Reasonable minds can differ and your perspective/idea is interesting. I still think a system with an exemption would invite challenges. The dissent in Weakes pointed out the standard features of a municipal tax and noted that even a flat tax with an exemption was such a feature. I think that once you start including carve-outs (whether they be deductions, exemptions, exclusions, or credits) you can drift over the line from "license fee" to "tax" because you get into the territory of how the internal revenue code and California code defines tax.
I could also see a class of non-residents who commute into work in the city challenging it as discriminatory if they made more than the exemption (subjecting them to the tax) if a similar class of resident workers made below the exemption amount (so they'd pay no tax). Also, if the evidence showed that a large percentage of commuter workers were paying tax after the exemption while a large percentage of resident workers were paying no tax, it might raise discrimination challenges. Non-residents would cry foul that it's a discriminatory commuter tax.
I realize this is tricky; people who work in the city but live elsewhere might challenge it. But New York City has had a commuter tax for years; the argument that commuters use city services but don't pay for them seems to work in the courts.
Of course, the Weekes court was different from the Cal Supreme Court today, but since an income tax is far better than sales taxes or most of the other ways cities raise revenue, it's worth looking at.
For every person who uses city services we find out where they come from and send a bill there.
When another city sends their hobo's on greyhound here to use up services we send that city a bill. If they don't pay we will threaten a boycott of that city.
There has to be some way to satiate progressive greed and monumental entitlement other than harassing people who work or vacation here. These moon bat schemes always seem to to involve harassing people who are not part of the problem.
The interesting thing is progressive note the European's as an example of how to run a country, in the case of San Francisco and the monumentally entitled progressives they should note Greece as an example. A huge fiscal wreck.
Go back to reading your archive of Katzenjammer Kids, Matlock. Also, maybe we should just add a fee for uneducated commenters who don't know when to apostrophize. "Apostrophe" is from the Greek apostrophos. God, you people suck up all OUR public money for education, Internet maintenance, and availability of cheap wireless connections -- and then you just expect us to sit around while you do nothing, literally flaunting your ignorance in our faces? I'm sending a bill to your school for your laziness and refusal to contribute to societal discourse in a way that I deem proper.
I just got off the phone with Ruth Bernstein, who works for the research firm that did the poll, and she shared some of the methodology with me. The pollsters started with a list of SF registered voters, then used data from a private vendor to match those voters with phone numbers. Since a lot of people put their phone numbers on their voter reg cards (although it's not required) that's relatively easy. And some of those numbers are cell phones. Then they adjust for the demographics of likely voters. So if the poll skews old, that's because the polling company thinks older people are more likely to vote. Still, she did say "it's gotten harder to reach young people" since they use cell phones that aren't listed, and if they don't put that phone number on the card when they register to vote, there's no easy way to get the digits.
Fair enough. I still think the questions were utterly one-sided.
And Matlock: "hobo's" (sic)? That's a word with a credible derivation that actually meant something once, but does not refer to the population of homeless that you are trying to demonize. From Wikipedia, which has a fairly accurate historical piece:
"A Hobo is a migratory worker or homeless vagabond, often penniles.1] The term originated in the western -- probably northwestern -- United States during the last decade of the 19th century. Unlike tramps, who worked only when they were forced to, and bums, who didn't work at all, hobos were workers who wandered."
Why do only some groups have to pay for the services they use?
If people who come into the city to work need to pay for the services they use; other than through the myriad of taxes and fees they already pay, then why doesn't everyone else have too?
Why do the progressives encourage the underground drug and labor economy and yet not find a way to harass them out of their cash? Why do some identifiable groups need to have a fee and some don't?
It's hard to think like the entitled progressive but why isn't there a fee for people walk on the cities sidewalk, ride their bikes on the cities street or breath air created by city trees? The city should license drug dealers to pay for OD's at general, incorporate gang's to pay for paramedics, etc... The progressive don't mind ignoring laws so whats the big deal with licensing and taxing and feeing crime?
Just find out where our hobos come from and send a bill to that city, then threaten to boycott them if they don't pay. That should really add to our cities laughingstock quality.
It's all obviously about progressive greed, entitlement and the political agenda not about paying for services used. Finding hew ways to tax and fee and loophole the citizens is just about getting over and not any real sense of fairness.
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A federal judge has refused to grant Vermont Yankee an injunction allowing it to operate past March of next year when its license expires. Entergy's lawyers wanted the injunction so it could keep operating while it fights Vermont in a separate case, to begin in September, that will determine whether the state has the right to shutter the nuclear power plant.
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[The Intel® Atom™ processor is the brains behind the recently released Google TV and the core of the popular netbook market. Since its launch in 2008, over 40 million Intel Atom processor-based devices have shipped, and the momentum shows no signs of slowing. With so many of these rice-sized powerhouses already out there, the opportunities and possibilities are lining up from here to the horizon. In this Intel-sponsored Gamasutra article, Orion Granatir explores ways to unlock its potential.]
The Intel Atom processor is unique. It was designed from the ground up with power efficiency in mind. However, unlike other low-power solutions, this processor is fully x86-compatible. So, if you already know how to program for a standard x86 machine, you are ready for the Intel Atom processor. It's just a lot smaller.
Since the Intel Atom processor is a fully compatible x86 core, it can run all the existing x86 programs, including Microsoft Windows and Linux. However, developers need to understand a few things about the design of the processor to maximize performance. First and foremost, the Intel Atom processor is an "in-order" processor. Unlike other x86 CPUs, the Intel Atom processor doesn't have a large "out-of-order" execution unit. This means that it will not examine the stream of instructions and actively reorder them to improve instruction level parallelism.
For example:
a = b 7;
c = d 7;
In assembly, this could be written:
movl %eax, b
imull %eax, $7 ; Stall - memory load dependency
movl a, %eax
movl %edx, d
imull %edx, $7 ; Stall - memory load dependency
movl c, %edx
An out-of-order engine will notice that the load of b and d could be done first and decrease the memory load dependencies. However, with the Intel Atom processor these stalls will hang around. In some cases, your compiler will fix this. The Intel C++ Compiler (ICC) has several flags to optimize for Intel Atom processor-based devices: /QxL /QxSSE3_ATOM. These two flags will optimize for the in-order instruction scheduler and automatically use Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (SSE3) instructions where possible.
The Intel Atom processor supports SSE3. In fact, it supports Supplemental SSE3, which is a super set of SSE3. All modern PC games should take advantage of SSE3; it's in 97 percent of all machines according to Valve's Steam Hardware & Software Survey (under the Windows and Mac section, expand Other Settings).
To really gain an understanding of the in-and-outs of the Intel Atom processor, check out the Intel software developer manuals. For optimizations, you should start with the "Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Optimization Reference Manual."
In addition to SSE3, all Atom processors support Intel Hyper-Threading Technology. This allows multiple threads to run simultaneously on the same processor core. Hyper-threading can benefit performance and power efficiency, but it also creates some avoidable pitfalls for game performance.
One such pitfall is silent oversubscription because of graphics driver threading. It's common for games to take advantage of multiple threads. A game might use threads for the main game loop, audio playback, and the graphics driver. It's the graphics driver that's key for most Intel Atom processor platforms.
Since the processor is packaged with various graphic solutions, the software sometimes handles the vertex processing. This means that a scene with heavy vertex processing will generate a lot of work in the graphics drivers. So, while it's important to properly thread a game, oversubscription can quickly become a bottleneck on single core systems. The Intel VTune Amplifier XE 2011 is a useful tool to help you identify areas of oversubscription or underutilization within your application.
In any case, it's worthwhile to write code that will adapt to the number of available cores on a platform. A year ago, most Intel Atom processors were single core, but now dual-core SKUs are becoming more common. With hyper-threading, a dual-core Intel Atom processor can support four simultaneous threads. On these dual core SKUs, it's paramount to use all cores to achieve maximum performance.
It's also important to understand the various graphics solutions packaged with the Intel Atom processor. The Intel Atom processor ships with three integrated graphic solutions: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 945, GMA 3150, and GMA 500.
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator
Microsoft DirectX
OpenGL (on Microsoft Windows)
Vertex Shader
Pixel Shader
Support for Intel Graphics Performance Analyzers
For maximum compatibility across Intel Atom processor-based devices, verify acceptable performance of your app on a GMA 945/3150 and a GMA 500. Performance of these parts are very similar but different enough to warrant independent validation.
Across all the Intel Atom processor's graphics hardware, there are a few key things to keep in mind. Remember, vertex processing might be done in software, so it's best to minimize vertex processing as much as possible.
Effects that touch a lot of memory, such as post processing, can be expensive on integrated graphics processors because there is not enough local cache on the GPU to hold the whole frame buffer. So tasks like post-processing effects often involve rounds trips to main memory. It's also important to properly compress textures because of the lack of on-GPU memory for texture storage. And remember to check device caps in DX9. For example, GMA 945 and GMA 3150 don't support multisample anti-aliasing (MSAA).
On Linux-based platforms the drivers support OpenGL 2.0 for all three graphic solutions (GMA 945, 3150, and 500). Developers targeting Linux-based platforms can safely target OpenGL 2.0 for all devices.
For more information about Intel's integrated graphics solutions, check out the Intel Graphics Developer's Guides.
Numerous Linux distros support the Intel Atom processor and its associated chipsets: Android and MeeGo are of particular interest. MeeGo is an open source version of Linux championed by Intel and Nokia. It's the combination of Intel's original mobile Linux project Moblin and Nokia's Maemo. MeeGo is being built to run on netbooks, phones, tablets, and other consumer devices. If you are interested in downloading MeeGo, the associated IDE, and emulator, check out Meego.com.
Intel provides several tools to help build, optimize, and debug applications targeting the Intel Atom processor. Check out the Intel Application Software Development Tool Suite for Intel Atom Processor. Most of the Intel tools, including the Intel C++ Compiler and Intel VTune Amplifier XE 2011, offer Windows and Linux versions.
The story of the Intel Atom processor has just begun, chapter one being the processor's popularity in netbooks. As the next chapters unfold, we will see the processor venture into a large array of devices. While the uses for the Intel Atom processor might change, between the covers it's just the same x86-based processor with which we're already familiar.
If you want to learn more about optimizing for the Intel Atom processor and netbooks, check out the article Omar Rodriguez and I wrote in the latest issue of Visual Adrenaline magazine. This article is based on a presentation we delivered at GDC 2010.
Refer to http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/optimization-notice for more information regarding performance and optimization choices in Intel software products.
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|Jaroslaw Szpilewski
tl;dr - use SS3, don't spawn too many threads.
|Kassim Adewale
I will agree with you on the graphic performance, not in DX only, even normal Win32 GDI.
During the development of Elewenjewe we maintained development on Pentium HT with Win XP and testing on one CORE 2 Duo PC with Win 7, but maintain virtual OS testing for Vista. When we distributed our game to testers, everything was fine on graphic rendering, on the Desktops and Laptops that was used for testing, until someone tested it on Atom based Netbook, and they noticed extreme frame rate dropping as well as some ridiculous glitch on the screen.
Upon getting the news from our tester, we were deliberating on buying a netbook (which is not in the scope of our little budget) and a friend came to the rescue by borrowing us one to test.
I must confess we dont have Atom in mind during the development of our game, but as Atom Netbooks are now ubiquitous in Nigeria we believed its worth the while to include Atom.
After replicating the errors, in the office, we sent mail out to the entire tester to try our game on any Atom they can find; everybody confirmed the errors on all Atom based Netbook.
After lots of baffled (Intel says Atom is fully x86-compatible) debugging, the good thing was that the code we used in optimising the frame rate and eliminating the screen glitch had no effect on all previous non Atom based PC, when we tested latter. For the screen glitch, I was compelled to put:
case WM_LBUTTONDOWN:
//Code To Fix Error On Atom NetBooks Only
if((Game_Play == ON) && (Player.Card_Mode == DEAD) &&(Computer.Card_Mode == DEAD) && (Image_Block == ON))
Image_Block = OFF;
if(Game_SP_Button_Switch == ON)
Game_ 2DRender_Engine();
if(End_Of_Deck == TRUE)
if(End_End_Of_Game() == TRUE)
Image_Block = ON;
All the Atom bug fix code were the only codes where the render Game_ 2DRender_Engine() was called explicitly, it was left solo under the loop of while(msg.message != WM_QUIT). I guess your comment on expensive graphic post processing; explain the reason as the glitch happened only when game play was on.
Our testers confirmed that the entire tested Atom runs on XP. What weve not been able to do is to confirm if all the Atom Netbooks tested with our game fell into the category that can give us the opportunity to verify acceptable performance across GMA 945, 3150 and a GMA 500, with the little time that we have, I hope we will be able to do that and also visit the Intel Graphic Developers Guide before final release.
Thanks for sharing these Orion, my regards to Intel.


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"Miniature Aircraft would like to welcome Phillip Frank to our Field Rep Team."
Now let's get to know Philip a little bit . . . .
If you recall from our previous posts here on RCHR, Philip owns SkEye-Ball Productions, producing vids of many pilots at various events and at his home flying field of the 114th RC Aero Squadron. In his spare time Philip is the pilot of a Rotomotion SR20 for a group working on a University/DARPA project.
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I decided to come up with my best and worse moments in Kings History.
Best momements
Kings make playoffs 1st year in Sacramento- The original Arco was rockin as the new team in town got into the playoffs 10,330 people screaming their heads off. The Kings started things off right.
Mitch Rimond comes to Sacramento- Though we did not have a ton of success as a team, Mitch brought the franchise at least someone who was noticeable and put the Kings on the map, he even led us to a playoff birth in 1995 including an upsett on road in Seattle.
Vlade Divac signs with Kings- He was the glue that held everything together allowed us to play an exciting style of ball, without a guy like him wanting to sign none of the success we had would of happend.
Webber traded to Kings- Mitch was on the downslide of his career, Webber was a young big athletic franchise player. Getting him sent us on our way to the top.
Kings draft Jason Williams- Unlike many of our previous draft picks that hadn't worked out. Jason came in with his flashy ball skills and got bored fans excited to watch the Kings for once.
Kings give Utah a scare- It started with Webber laying out John Stockton in game one. The Kings set the tone that they were not afraid of the two time Western Conference champs. Had we been able to defend the pick and roll in game 4 better or Vlade's short hook shot in game 5 fell, we would of knocked the Jazz out of the playoffs.
Kings push Lakers to 5 games- After getting beat two games in LA we came home and won back to back games vs the LA Lakers and pushed the first round series back to LA. While they won easy it showed that we could play with the best teams and were on our way.
Kings trade Williamson for Doug Christie- Williamson as good of a guy could not spread the floor, Peja had developed to be good enough to start at SF and was deadly from downtown. Vernon Maxwell, Nick Anderson were fill in guys we got a great leader and defensive stopper in the long armed athletic Christie.
Kings win a playoff series- For the first time since the Kings were in KC they won a first round playoff series over the Phoenix suns. While we got swept the defending & eventual champs the Lakers showing that we could move past the first round was a big step for the Kings.
Kings trade for Mike Bibby- As exciting as Jason Williams was, he was immature not consistent. We needed a more stable PG. Bibby was the answer to take us to the next level.
Kings win 61 games a franchise best-All the peices were in place for a championship run, we had a great starting 5 Bibby, Christie, Peja, Webber, Divac, and a great bench, BJax, Hedo, Pollard were our main guys off the bench we also had a young athletic rookie named Wallace, Fudderburk and Mateen Cleaves who were spot guys.
Kings make conference finals a Date with LA- The Kings blew through Utah, and Dallas and made it to the Western Conference finals it was time to go toe to toe with our hated rivarly LA Lakers.
Kings blow out Lakers in game 3- After splitting the first two at home we went down to LA and dominated them in game 3.
Mike Bibby big game five shot-Bibby gave us the biggest win in franchise history, had it not been for the leauge and refs hatting us I have no doubt we would of closed the series out in game 6, and been the champs.
Kings win back to back Pacific division champs- After a dissapointing 7 game series loss to LA we added depth to our bench and despite injuries to Peja, Webber, Bibby we won 59 games and our 2nd straight Pacific division championship.
Return of Webber- After losing in the 2nd round to Dallas and missing the first 61 games recovering from blowing out his Knee, Webber would return at times he showed flashes of his old self includding two highlight dunks in an Easter Sunday showdown with LA he would struggle but by playoff time was prob still our best player.
Kings push Spurs to 6 games- After a couple seasons of change with players we would trade for Ron Artest. He renewed the teams energy and bad defense and led us to the playoffs. After getting blown out in game one we were a Brent Barry miss away from possibly taking a comanding 3-1 lead and probably could of upsett them.
Worse Moments
Bobby Hurley car accident-He was an exciting PG for us and could of changed the Franchise for the better, a series car acciedent derailed his careeer and our franchise for the rest of the 90's
Kings get blown out by LA- The Kings were playing the showtime Lakers and scored 4pts in the first qrt, though they would shoot better and play solid defense the remaining 3 qrts the game was too far out of reach it led to a coaches firing and turmoil with a struggling franchise.
Horry wins game 4 Lakers even series- I don't even want to talk about this we all know what happend.
Stockton rips our heart out- It was game 4 1999 We could not stop the pick and roll Stockton drains a shot and keeps Utah alive.
Webber blows out his knee- We were the favorites to win it all, Webber goes down in game two vs Dallas we lose him and any hope of a championship we lose the series.
Addleman fired- Say what you want about the guy, but how many coaches could go into one year lose Vlade Divac to start the year have to replace him Greg Ostertag, trade Doug Christie for Cutino Mobley, lose your franchise guy in Webber for 3 role players, be hit with injuries to Brad Miller, Bobby Jaxson, Mobley Peja etc and still get a team to win 50 games and the playoffs? The next yr, make another major trade Peja for Ron Artest still get to 44 wins, and give the defending Spurs a competetive 6 game series? I don't even think the Zen Master could of done that if a simular situation happend to LA Imagine LA losing 3 of their top players Kobe being one of them for some role bench players. Rick was the best coach Sacramento ever had the Maloofs just cut him lose.
Mussleman DUI- Young Eric Mussleman set the tone for a bad yr with a preason DUI the Kings never recovered from it. Ron Ron got into leagal trouble and we only won 33 games.
Kings set all time low 17 wins- The Kings had lost all five remaining players from our championship run days. We were a team filled with a mix of young guys and a few veterans that were average bench/role players all that equaled a dissmal 17 win season.


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A WEST Dorset businesswoman is warning others not to fall for a scam which could have cost her thousands of pounds.
And after being the subject of an attempt to get her to part with her own cash after being paid for a booking with what was either a stolen or fraudulent cheque, B&B owner Hazel Ryan says she has decided never to accept any more bookings from overseas.
Police and trading standards officers are asking traders to have nothing to do with unusual requests which involve transferring money between countries.
Dubbed "money muling" the scam relies on an innocent victim transferring their "clean" money to a third party in another country, often after having received an overpayment for a booking or for goods being sold via the internet.
Mrs Ryan, who runs the picturesque Courtyard B and B in Beaminster Square, received a booking from a man in the Ukraine for himself and his wife. A cheque arrived drawn from a French bank for vastly more than the amount to pay for the break in Beaminster.
The "guest" then contacted Mrs Ryan and said that there had been a mistake and that the cheque was not only for her charges, but also for travelling costs which should have been paid to a travel agent.
He asked Mrs Ryan to pay the money into her own bank account, take what she needed and pay the remainder, more than £2,000 to the so-called agent. Highly suspicious, Mrs Ryan did an internet search on the name and address she had been given and it came up as being connected to a scam.
PC Tim Poole of Beamin-ster Safer Neighbourhood Team said: "Treat any proposition outside usual business dealings with suspicion.
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Is the AFC West the NFL's strongest division?
When looking at the AFC West from a distance, this is almost a laughable question to most NFL fans. But if you look at it in terms
of competition, the AFC West is very deep, and there are no pushovers.
Three AFC West teams ( Oak,SD, And Den finished 8-8, and KC at 7-9.
Also all four teams went (3-3) in the division.
With a recent slew of free agency pick ups, and good drafting, the AFC West is possibly the strongest division in the NFL.
It is also equally balanced with great players making up all four teams. There is no clear cut winner, and we've seen
three different AFC West leaders in the past three years.
With nothing else to do before the season starts in regards to football, I opened up the 2012 NFL review, and composed a list
of the All AFC West team. And , It looks like they could compete with anyone in the league.
So here's my look, feel free to have your say:
Philip Rivers (starter)
Peyton Manning (2nd)
Carson Palmer ( 3rd)
Highly debatable , I know, but I give Rivers the edge, because he hasn't taken time off from injury, not learning a new system, team, etc..
Running backs:
Darren McFadden (Oak)(1)
Jamaal Charles (KC) (2)
Ryan Mathews (SD) (3)
Tight Ends
Antonio Gates (SD) ( starter)
Tony Moeaki ( KC) (reserve)
Gates is losing ground, but still above the rest in the West currently.
Le'Ron McClain (SD)
1. Dwayne Bowe (KC)
2. Malcom Floyd (SD)
3. Robert Meacham (SD)
4. DeMaryius Thomas (Den)
5. Eddie Royal ( SD)
Offensive Line:
Ryan Clady (Den)
Jared Gaither (SD)
Nick Hardwick (SD ) Center
Jared Veldheer (Oak)
Eric Winston (KC)
Defensive Line:
Richard Seymour (Oak)
Elvis Dumerville (Den)
Antonio Garay (SD)
Tommy Kelly (Oak)
Glenn Dorsey ( KC)
This is a rough list to make basically due to the difference in defensive and linebacker responsibilities .
But purely in terms of talent in the LB position, the AFC West is stacked.
1. Tamba Hali ( KC)
2. Von Miller ( Den)
3. Shaun Philips ( SD)
4. Aaron Curry (Oak)
5. Jarret Johnson (SD)
Brandon Flowers ( KC)
Tracy Porter (Den)
Eric Weddle (SD)
Eric Berry ( KC)
Special Teams-
Kicker- Sebastian Janikowski (Oak)
Punter - Shane Lechler (Oak)
Returner- Dexter McCluster (KC)
Long Snapper - Lonnie Paxton (Den)
Thats my All AFC West team, and there is only 1 glaring weakness. That is injuries.
Of the 37 listed players, (EIGHTEEN) have spent significant time in the past two seasons injured. I am fully aware that
the NFL has a high rate of injury, but no division has been hit as hard as the AFC West.


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