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October 16, 2001
UCSD Regional Burn Center Releases 2000 Burn Statistics
The UCSD Regional Burn Center released its annual statistical report today on people from San Diego and Imperial counties admitted to the Burn Center from January through December 2000. The 440 pediatric and adult patients reflected in the 2000 Burn Center census annual report, ranging in age from four months to 93, were admitted to the Burn Center for burn injuries and smoke inhalation. The 2000 statistics show a 5% increase in burn patients from the previous year, but the lowest mortality rate, since 1996, with only eight deaths.
accounted for 72.5% of admissions, compared to 27.5% for females. The majority of burns occurred in adults, with 285 admissions
of individuals between ages 18-65, an increase of 24 patients from 2000. Twenty patients over age 65 were admitted.
Infants to three-year-olds constituted 75 admissions, an increase of 18 patients from 1999. Children between 4 and 12 accounted for 33 admissions. The teen population ages 12 to 18 had 27 admissions, an increase of 15 patients from 1999. For each group, injuries primarily involved home accidents, with most of those in the two youngest groups involving cooking and scalding accidents. Contact with hot objects such as curling irons and clothing irons, hot coals, "popper" fireworks, gasoline, gunpowder and barbecues are also common causes of burn accidents in young children. These accidents frequently result in third-degree burns, the most serious form of burn, often requiring skin grafting.
"This is an opportunity to remind people that most of the burn injuries to young children occur in the home and involve hot liquids or accidents during cooking," said Daniel D. Lozano, M.D., Director of Clinical Care, UCSD Regional Burn Center. "To prevent these accidents, which happen quickly and are often quite serious, younger children in particular should not be in the kitchen during cooking, and hot liquids should be kept out of reach."
The frequency of burn injuries to children as a result of direct contact with fire and flames declined again this year, to 21.3%. In 1997, 14 patients injured were by fire, representing 46% of the injuries. Six of them were playing with fireworks in the form of "poppers." This year only two injuries were the result of firecrackers, with one child suffering a 3rd degree burn which required skin grafting.
Fire and flame produced the highest percent of injuries in the adolescent age group, including careless behavior with dangerous materials, such as gasoline, lighters and rocket fuel. Four resulted from fireworks/explosives. Contact with hot objects, including fire pits and hot coals, was the second highest cause of injury. There were no injuries related to fireworks in 1999.
The largest percentage of injuries in adults ages 18 to 35 was from direct fire and flames, with contact-related injuries being the next most common cause of burns. Nearly 60% of the 17 contact injuries occurred from fire pits. The majority of adults ages 30 to 65 were burned in the home (52%), but 26% of injuries occurred in the work place, in addition to injuries incurred during recreational activities, including burn injuries occurring in the home related to propane or natural gas explosions. Most common causes of injury were fire-related, scalding and contact injuries.
The 20 patients over 65 were nearly all injured at home and for the most part were injured while doing routine household activities and cooking. Three were related to fires caused by smoking.
Hispanic patients are disproportionately represented in younger age groups, accounting for 50% of admissions under age 18. Caucasians represent the largest group of adult admissions.
The UCSD Regional Burn Center was established in 1973 to provide specialized medical care and rehabilitation for severely burned patients. In the past 28 years, the Burn Center has treated thousands of patients. The Center, with its eighteen-bed inpatient facility, outpatient clinic and additional research and patient care resources, is the only comprehensive burn program in San Diego and Imperial counties.
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Tropical root and tuber crops (cassava, yam and cocoyam) are major staples in large parts of humid and subhumid sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). For example, SSA produces over 50% of the cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) and over 90% of the yam (Dioscorea spp.) in the world. These crops are largely produced by smallholders who rely on traditional, labor-intensive, practices that do not allow for optimal exploitation of the crops' productive potential. Although constraints differ with agroecology and specific crops, all the crops suffer severe yield losses due to a wide range of pests and diseases (fungal and bacterial root and tuber rots, viruses, insects, mites, nematodes and rodents), low nutrient availability, inappropriate germplasm and postharvest technologies. Production and postharvest practices still lack appropriate levels of mechanization to reduce the labor for land preparation, planting, weeding, harvesting, processing and storage. Innovations geared towards increased productivity in root and tuber systems are necessary. Cassava provides affordable food for rapidly growing urban populations in addition to which new market opportunities in the starch and livestock feed industries are opening up. However, production costs are comparatively high in SSA. Yam is a traditional African crop of increasing importance. Due to consumer preference for yam over other roots and tubers there will be greater demand for it with increasing incomes in West and Central African (WCA) countries. However, the high labor and high soil fertility requirement of yam are threatening its future. Cocoyam and taro are important traditional crops, playing a vital role for women in family food supply and income generation. Similar to yam, these crops are preferred staples but they have not received sufficient research attention. Expanding the scale of production, mainly of cassava, spurred by increasing demand and conducive policies, requires postharvest technologies capable of processing larger quantities into quality products. The entire sector then experiences a shift from small-scale household processing to large-scale agroenterprises. This requires good knowledge of the commodity chain and the technical equipment to move processing up to an industrial scale. New food and nonfood products are being developed to expand the market and create future income-generating opportunities. Significant germplasm improvements for greater yield and disease resistance have been made, and major breakthrough biological control measures have secured future production, especially of cassava. Root and tuber crops export substantial proportions of soil nutrients with the harvested products. Greater yield will thus lead to soil nutrient depletion if not accompanied by appropriate and sustainable soil nutrient management strategies. Poor crop husbandry in "no or low input" smallholder systems aggravates yield losses due to late or insufficient weeding, low planting densities, inappropriate intercrops, untimely planting and harvesting and poor processing techniques. The low yields, high production costs, and thus, low productivity of many root and tuber systems are in stark contrast with the economic opportunities. A framework to guide the activities of the Root and Tuber Systems Program has been developed from meetings of members and selected partners of the Program in November 2006 and October and November 2007. The identification and prioritization of strategic and tactical objectives was based on such factors as past achievements, analysis of the opportunities and challenges in the target environment, and suggestions in the report of the recent EPMR. For instance, the EPMR panel rightly pointed out that "breeding programs for both crops (cassava and yam) appear ready to meet short-term challenges from pests and diseases. …However the programs appear less well prepared to meet the challenges of intensification that will surely occur in the next decade." The report went on to state, "The Panel strongly suggests that breeding procedures be modified to ensure that fertilizer responsiveness is determined at the progeny level during selection by routine evaluation under at least two diverse fertility regimes, following an assessment of historic data for the presence of genotype × fertility level interactions." In terms of program structure the Panel commented, "While the new Project structure should work well for varietal improvement, it is less clear if this grouping will result in integrated sustainable farming systems in which both crops play important parts. This research is allocated to Output 4: integration of improved component technologies, where it attracts one activity. To the Panel, this appears to be an inadequate attempt to exploit the characteristics of improved germplasm through better crop management, and it strongly encourages further agronomic research on these two crops."
Allocation of Member, Non-Member Grants and other sources to projects, 2007-2009in $millions
Allocation of Project Costs to CGIAR Priorities, 2007-2011in $millions
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May 31, 2006
This evening, I broke the old rule of only eating oysters in months with "r" in the name. I had half-a-dozen Penn Cove Pacificas at Seastar. They were fresh, clean, and nicely presented as you'd expect at Seastar. I even had my now-standard glass of Lagavulin 16 (and then a yummy glass of Talisker) to wash them down.
Alas, they were they were only good. I forgot about the love life of the average oyster. Starting in September, they start storing fat -- creamy, delicious fat. They also firm up during this time. Come May, they start dedicating all that stored energy (and flavor) into reproducing, and like many humans (although not my lovely wife) they get flabby after having babies.
Since I believe in eating stuff when it's in season, I'll pass on oysters until this autumn again. Then again, it's autumn in New Zealand. Yummy oysters there. Hm...
May 29, 2006
The Arbeg I picked up in the Auckland duty free is tasty. It's a drinkable Islay whisky. The nose is iodiney -- it smells like a band-aid. The taste is sweetly smokey. I love it. It's a nice change from all the lighter, sweet whiskies I seem to have fallen into (and the bad whisky I had in New Zealand bars). It may be that as my taste for whisky matures, I'm more interested in the the more "challenging" whiskies like Arbeg and Lagavulin (see my post on Lagavulin and oysters for more info).
What a great dram! This may be my new favorite whisky. I may need to go have another drink right now to make sure.
I really like New Zealand. I thought it was a beautiful place with great sailing, super nice people, good wine, and good food -- all the things a man could want. Here are a few observations and learnings, some big, some trivial, in no particular order:
I really can't wait to get back to NZ and see more of the country, hopefully with the family. It really is a special place.
I'm on the ground and home again after 24+ hours of travelling. The trip home had a few more bumps than normal.
My flight from Wellington to Auckland was delayed by an hour due to fog in South Island delaying flights. (All of you who watched Saturday's Super 14 rugby final between the Christchurch Crusaders and the Wellington Hurricanes saw the horrible fog in Christchurch.) Anyway, this resulted in a tight connection in Auckland for my Auckland-LA leg. I literally ran the half mile between the domestic and international terminal, trying to find the blue and white line I was told to follow (it starts about halfway to the int'l terminal). Once I got to the international terminal, I had to pay the exit tax (why isn't this built into the airfare?) After two tries on the machine failed, I had to wait in line. I used my last New Zealand dollars to pay. Sweating, I made it to my flight and had a nice icy glass of orange juice to cool down.
Lest anyone worry that I didn't take care of business, I did manage to run through the Duty Free to buy a bottle of Arbeg 10yo single malt (a bottle I've been wanting to try for a while.) A man has to have his priorities straight after all...
I hate LAX. Just let me say that up front. The signage is terrible. The staff is terrible. The flow is terrible. The services are terrible. I don't ever want to fly through there again. The only thing half decent was the United Red Carpet Club. There were a lot of people there who couldn't work it out (staff and passengers.)
In any case, I did manage to sleep at the appropriate times, scratched my Lord of the Rings itch on the flight, and got a little work done. All that said, I'm glad to be home. More later.
May 27, 2006
I'm leaving windy Wellington for the airport in a few minutes. It's been a great trip; New Zealand is really wonderful. Lots more to come in the next few days about my trip.
See you on the other side.
May 25, 2006
I just finished my talk at Webstock here in Wellington. I'm currently going through my typical post-talk adrenaline crash. I enjoyed the talk and am gratified that people laughed at my jokes and that the demo machine behaved well - never a sure thing when running beta software, projecting to a strange monitor, and running on a live internet connection. I understand the talk will be made available online soon. I'll post it when it does, and I'll write more about my Webstock experiences later.
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May 23, 2006
Today is my last day in Auckland. Grandhi and I have a few meetings with customers, partners, and the MS New Zealand guys before we head down to Wellington this afternoon. It'll be a bit of a hectic day I think.
Yesterday was pretty calm by comparison. We didn't have much in the way of meetings, so we checked out the New Zealand National Maritime Museum. I love maritime museums (surprise, surprise) and Grandhi was nice enough to indulge me. The museum was quite good and much larger that outward appearances might suggest.
Afterwards, we had a nice lunch at the Loaded Hog by the Viaduct Basin (where the Americas Cup boats sortied out from). I didn't love the beers they brewed onsite, but the food was good. the local mussels are well-known and tasty, although I still think Penn Cove mussels in Seattle are better. Too bad it was raining all day; otherwise sitting out on the sidewalk would have been great.
We worked all afternoon trying to get ready for our upcoming talks and keep up with work at home. We then headed out to Parnell, a cute neighborhood in Auckland full of art galleries and shops, all of which close early to spite us. Fortunately, we found a nice restaurant called Igaucu for dinner. Pretty cool place. I finally got some lamb here in New Zealand. Everything you've heard about lamb in NZ is true -- fantastic. The one thing I've noticed is that every restaurant we've eaten in so far has under salted the food relative to my tastes. Grandhi and I both have been adding copious amounts of salt to everything. Given that Grandhi lives in India, I don't think this is just an American taste thing. Anyway, just an observation.
OK, time to pack up and head out. Talk to you from Wellington...
Hurray! We finally shipped Windows Vista beta 2! We have a lot of work to do before final release, but this is a big step. Too bad I'll miss the beta 2 party in Redmond today.
May 22, 2006
Yesterday, I kicked off my working time in Auckland with an IE7 demo in the keynote at Microsoft Connect, a Microsoft-sponsored conference for IT Pros and Developers. Despite my normal pre-show jitters, the demo went fine with people even giggling at my jokes and applauding for features (the new printing stuff always brings down the house, even though it's just a bug fix really.) The guys from MS New Zealand did a great job with the conference. They really have to cover a lot of ground since Microsoft has so many products; as a result, in many ways, I think they have a better view of our entire line than we do in Redmond.
I also had an interview with Juha Saarinen, a writer for ComputerWorld and PC World. Fortunately, I had some advanced warning of what he was going to ask (ain't blogs great?) He seemed like a good guy with fair questions. We'll see how the reports turn out.
Grandhi and I hung out with partners and the guys from the Microsoft New Zealand sub later in the day and had a surprisingly good Mexican dinner at Mexican Cafe (clever name...). Gotta watch out for the Agavero (tequilla liqueur) though. It goes down pretty smoothly. (Sean, you're evil.)
My colleague Grandhi and I had a great first day (Sunday) in Auckland (click for map). It was sunny and breezy, apparently uncharacteristically nice for this time of year.
We first walked around the clean and compact downtown area including the Viaduct Basin in the Americas Cup Village. The Emirates Team New Zealand Americas Cup team headquarters is here now; their big black building overlooks the basin. Lots of incredible boats here, although I didn't see any Americas Cup boats.
We then had lunch at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron. This is a lovely building with a friendly staff. We watched a bunch of sail fleets race by as we ate in the members bar. I added to my burgee collection while we were there. RNZYS hosted the last Americas Cup and is the sponsoring yacht club for the Team New Zealand boats.
The highlight of my day was a two hour sail with SailNZ aboard an Americas Cup boat. The boat was formerly JPN 41, the Nippon Challenge boat that raced in San Diego in 1995. (SailNZ also has NZ40, the New Zealand boat from San Diego.) We had 15-16 knots of wind with calm seas, so we were flying, holding around 8.5 knots per hour throughout the ride. Everyone got a chance to grind and drive. It was Grandhi's first time sailing; I think he loved it. I certainly did.
A nice dinner at Sails Restaurant overlooking Westhaven Harbor capped off a great sail themed day.
May 20, 2006
I've arrived in Auckland safely and am online (obviously).
The flight was comfortable and on time. Air New Zealand's business class has pretty slick pod system where each person gets their own private space. The seat converts into a bed - 180 degrees flat - with sheets and a comforter (of sorts). The food was reasonabel and the in flight entertainment system was sincere. I was a little embarassed to see the WinCE bootloader running (slowly) when we first arrived; the system was slow but it got the job done.
Unfortunately, I'm disappointed with the hotel room I'm in. It's actually quite nice, but the sinks and toilet are such that the water doesn't swirl one way or another, so I can't see the Southern Hemisphere swirl. I'll have to find another way to see it.
It's 7:00am here now. I have to stay up all day. I think I'll go for a run now to get out and get my blood going.
May 19, 2006
I'm off to New Zealand today. I'll be speaking at WebStock, a web conference in Wellington, as well as doing some Microsoft internal events and meeting with press. I've never been to New Zealand or even the Southern Hemisphere. I plan to flush a toilet as soon as I get there just to watch the water go down the other way.
See you on the other side!
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May 17, 2006
Apparently, I've been wrong all these years. I'm evil. I guess all the people who say that I'm evil for working at Microsoft on Internet Explorer were right. The funny thing is, I'm the nice guy on the team. You should meet the others. The exception might be Chris Wilson who has managed to stay neutral, despite having worked on the browser way longer than I have.
Oh well. Guess I'll have to embrace the Dark Side and accept who I am.
(There is a potential bias in this test. The first question they ask is what browser you're running. I'm guessing that using IE didn't give me any nice points.)
May 15, 2006
I took the kids to see the Science Fiction Museum today. This is Paul Allen's museum in the Experience Music Project building. This was the first time any of us had been to the museum.
The collections are pretty impressive for the genre. They have some cool costumes and props from movies and shows like the Twiki costume from Buck Rogers and a great collection of Star Trek weapons and even Kirk's command chair from the original Enterprise. The best part for all of us was the Spacedock, a super well done exhibit of famous spacecraft from different sci fi shows and movies. It really felt like we were looking out on a spacedock; the displays they used for more information were super well done too with these slick dual layered displays. Hard to describe; worth seeing.
As a family, it was only OK. As I've mentioned before, the boys are crazy about Star Wars. There was just enough Star Wars stuff in the museum to keep them from totally rebelling against the visit, but much of the place was dedicated to science fiction from my generation and earlier. What's more, there are very few interactive displays, so kids who can't read much yet (e.g. Michael) or have short attention spans (e.g. Andrew) will not find the place very interesting. The whole place is unnecessarily dark and a little spooky too. I think it would have been more fun to be there by myself, frankly, but even then.
While we were at SFM, Michelle went to check out the DoubleTake show at EMP. (I had taken Andrew to see this with his class a few weeks ago.) This is a showing of some of Paul Allen's private art collection (doesn't everyone have Monet, Lichtenstein, Degas, Rothko, Picasso, van Gogh, etc. hanging around their home?) While the pieces themselves were great, the interesting part of this exhibit is how they have the art arranged. They've paired (in some cases tripled) art together to illustrate some theme, either contrasting treatment of simliar themes or showing similarities across eras and artists. I've never been good at viewing art, but this was a great way to get me to think harder about what I was seeing. (Loved Richter's Candle.)
Neither the SFM or DoubleTake exhibits were very large, so you could easily to do both in a morning or afternoon. In both cases I felt that while there was some amazing/interesting stuff and the exhibits were well done, these weren't great values. They're definitely not great for families with little kids. That said, if you like art at all, go see paintings at DoubleTake. You're unlikely to see so many paintings from such prominent artists in Seattle again.
May 13, 2006
This video is absolutely rofl hysterical, at least if you're a Star Wars geek.
Thanks, Craig.
May 8, 2006
While the Seattle area doesn't seem to have any great formal, fancy, banquet-worthy Chinese places, there are quite a few damn good places for more every day Chinese food. As an ABC (American Born Chinese) my fondness for homestyle Chinese food outstrips my ability to cook it, so these places are important to me.
Around the Bellevue area (near my home and Microsoft), there are a few good haunts.
15015 Main Street Suite 107 (near the old KMart)
Hands down, my favorite item on the menu is the spicy beef noodles with extra veggies. Damn, this is good eats. The crispy onion cakes are super here too (see a trend?) We also like the veggie potstickers (which come out in real Chinese fashion, the whole dozen or so potstickers upside down with a sheet of crispy floury stuff attaching them all -- hard to explain, but it's yummy.) Lee and Joe are simply great too. They are our extended family. A few warnings -- it's cash only and the facilities are not at all charming. The food and the owners are what make this place great.
2245 140th Ave. N.E. (near Skate King, next to the Enterprise Rent-a-Car)
14625 NE 24th St. (behind The Warehouse near Fred Meyer)
14339 NE 20th St Ste I (near the Ross and Video Only)
503 - 156th Ave S.E. (Lake Hills Shopping Center, near Stamos Cafe)
There are a few other decent places -- Jeem for dim sum (the owner was the former chef at Wild Ginger), Noble Court for roast duck and seafood and dim sum, and Regent Bakery for roast duck noodles and their killer mango pudding (only in season!).
Hm, I'm hungry now just thinking about it. Lunch anyone?
(This post was inspired by L who wrote about Seven Stars in Cookbook 411. The old owners of Seven Stars now own Szechuan Chef.)
May 7, 2006
I realize that I haven't actually identified who I am anywhere on this blog except contextually, so I thought I should finally do so after 2.5 years of blogging.
Name: Tony Chor
Locations: Bellevue, Washington, USA. Grew up in Woodbury, Minnesota. Born in Bozeman, Montana.
Professional stuff: Group Program Manager, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corporation (This means I lead the set of people who design future versions of IE, take care of existing customers, and run the process of shipping all this goodness to the world.)
Prior to IE, I've been the Product Unit Manager (aka Management Overhead) or some form of Program Manager on Works (Mac and Windows), Golf 1.0 for Windows, Bookshelf, Encarta Online, Picture It! and Home Publishing, children's titles like Magic School Bus, media and devices stuff for Windows, and an ill fated attempt to put 16-bit Windows into telephones. I came to Microsoft straight out of college in 1990.
Education: BS Computer Science, Stanford University
Family (and characters in this blog from time to time): Michelle (wife - the one with the taste and sense in the family), Andrew (8 - sweet boy), Michael (5 - evil genius)
Other interests: It seems my hobby is collecting hobbies. I'm a good geek who loves all manner of food and drink (especially whisky and anything that's crunchy, salty, or rich), photography, golf, sailing, shooting, reading, travel, and electronic gadgetry. I've also started exercising -- running, cycling, and swimming mostly. Oh, I guess I blog too.
I wish I could play an instrument well, speak other languages really fluently, and get through all my email each day. I figure the first two are possible with a little discipline and hard work...
So, that's me in a nutshell. Back to the regularly scheduled program.
Slashfood reported that USA Today has named the top 10 barbeque joints in America. I'm not sure USA Today is really the definitive source for all things food, but based on the one place on the list I've been (Goode Company Bar. B.Q. in Houston, TX) I'm sure the places are at least great.
I would have added Bullocks in Raleigh, NC, although I think I was swayed by the amazing baskets of hush puppies that came out first. I used to like Luther's in Houston a lot too (the reviews lately haven't been good). Then, there's always the County Line in Austin, home of all-you-can-eat q -- just the thing for hungry college boys. Of course, Seattle is not well known for good q, but near work, we love our Dixie's. You haven't lived until you've met The Man -- a crazy hot sauce that Gene, the proprietor, dishes out from a little sauce pan as he heckles you.
I love barbeque of all types and would love to hit this list. Even better, I want to go on a tour of the great bbq cookoffs and contests around the country to judge for myself. Anyone want to come? How can we pass up the "Superbowl of Swine" at the Memphis in May World Barbeque Championships?
(Maybe I should start with the list of Seattle's best q first though.
[Updated 5/10/2006 to fix the link to the Seattle's best q list]
This week Michelle and I had a great Ethiopean dinner at Meskel, in Seattle. We used to go to Kokeb for Ethiopean fairly regularly, but they closed several years ago, and we hadn't really found (or looked for a replacement.) But, when we came across a recommendation for Meskel in this month's issue of Seattle Metropolitan. we figured it had been too long since we scratched our Ethiopean itch.
We were right. I'd forgotten how good Ethiopean food is. The slow cooked veggies and stews eaten with the spongey injera bread were fantastic. The Ethiopean beer and wine were reasonable matches with the food. Of course, the best part was the injera that was under the food on the communal plate, soaking up all the great flavors. Soggy with spice, it's always my favorite part of an Ethiopean meal.
The restaurant itself is in a house in the Central District; it is bright and airy as was the service. A good place; I'm sure we'll be back again.
2605 E. Cherry Street
May 6, 2006
I just came across this new sailboat called the Flying Tiger 10. It's a 10m raceboat built in China for $44,000 -- about half of what a comparable boat built in America would cost. It fits in a single container, and the steel cradle can be turned into a trailer. Perhaps the most interesting thing though, is that this boat was designed by a set of folks collaborating via blog and wiki. Boat designer Robert Perry and Bill Stevens posted about the idea on Sailing Anarchy. Pretty soon people started showing interest, making suggestions, and putting down money for the boats, sight unseen. Over fifty boats have been sold so far, all over the Internet as far as I can tell; there are no dealers (unusual for boats). You can read more about this in article from Sailing World.
It's neat to see how these web collaboration principles are moving out of purely electronic products into the "real world". The boat looks good too. I'm really boaty these days after we sold our Tartan 3500 Trinket. Looks like there have been ten sold to the Washington area. Wonder if we'll have enough for a class start? $44K sounds like a good price...


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Magic commentator: Dwight Howard better than Bill Russell
Blasphemy. Blasphemy to the nth degree. And then blasphemy some more.
Matt Guokas, Orlando Magic commentator, says Dwight Howard is better than Bill Russell. (Orlando Sentinel via Ball Don't Lie)
"As good a rebounder as Bill Russell was, Dwight is better," Guokas says. "And as a shot-blocker and shot-changer, Dwight has all of the same instincts Russell had, but Dwight is better out on the perimeter defending pick and rolls."
In addition, Guokas rightfully points out that players today are much tougher to defend because of their size, speed and athletic ability. The average size of all NBA players today is close to 6-foot-8. In 1960, when Russell was in his heyday, there were only four players taller than 6-8 in the entire league.
Says Guokas: "Even though the league is watered down to some degree now because we have more teams, there are still more great players today—players who have athletic ability and explosiveness to drive to the basket."
I don't have the time or energy to respond to this right now, but you can be absolutely certain there will be a post tomorrow about the absurdity of this statement.
Next thing you know, people are going to be saying Jon Scheyer is better than Larry Bird.
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Best of Craigslist http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/ Best postings from craigslist.org, selected by readers en-us © 2014 craigslistCL email@example.com email@example.com http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/ Best of Craigslist Collection 2014-05-22T16:55:55-07:00 2 daily Seeking collaborators for Mark Zuckerberg based start-up religion http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/4483705889.html Hey everyone, so I'm working on creating a new start-up religion which features Mark Zuckerberg as God and looking for collaborators who would be interested in working on such a project.

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 If the religion were to become profitable then the people who worked on it will get a share of it like with any start-up although personally I don't care about money so that's not my motivation in doing this.

 2. The exact nature of Mark Zuckerberg in this religion is that he is the Avatar of Jehova, the creator of our universe. In this religion our universe is a simulated matrix world almost like a computer game and humans are all like computer game characters compared to God. The Biblical Jehova is the creator of this simulatrix and while the actual Jehova is a white guy with a big beard just like Michaelangelo painted him, he controls Mark Zuckerberg as his "Avatar" or "character" in our world like you might control a video game character in a video game you were playing.

 3. The religion has many different Gods and Goddesses, so while the main God is Zuckerberg who is identified as being the Avatar of Biblical creator God Jehova there are Goddesses in his life such as Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO, who in this religion is Minerva, the Goddess of Skill and Strategy. Then another Goddess is Ashley Arenson who is this girl that Mark Zuckerberg had a crush on in high school who rejected him because she thought he was too nerdy for her, and she is Venus, the Goddess of Love and Beauty. This is an actual real girl that Zuckerberg really had an unrequited crush on in high school, I found out about her because I know some people who went to Zuckerberg's high school and they told me this girl was his unrequited high school crush and I figured she'd be a great Goddess to put in the religion for a good storyline about how even though Zuck is God he still gets turned by his high school crush who turns out to be The Goddess Venus herself.

 4. I'm looking to take an approach similar to that of Ancient Greek mythology and Japanese anime where they used to write epic stories and poems about the Gods and Goddesses but with a modern flair like the way the Japanese will create stories based on Judeo-Christian mythology that are actually entertaining like anime shows like "Oh, My Goddess!" where the main character is dating this goddess who becomes his girlfriend or just how in the end of Neon Genesis Evangelion Shinji Ikari becomes God or like they have in games like Xenogears where the final boss is God or The Guided Fate Paradox where the main character is God and his mission is to defeat Satan but it's a dungeon crawler where you play God but God still has to level up by fighting random monsters to gain enough levels to defeat Satan. So we want to create entertaining myths like all the stories the Ancient Greeks had about their Gods and divine heroes and we could make these into novels or comic books or even movies and video games one day in the future.

 5. So in this religion's mythology I was looking to create a setting that was like a school for Gods and Goddesses and divine saviors which I based on Zuckerberg's high school Phillips Exeter which in the religion is kind of like a mystical school like Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from Harry Potter. So there are all these other divine figures from Zuckerberg's high school, like the rock singer Win Butler is the Maitreya, the Fifth Buddha, since he came from this school too. And then there's other divine figures that have the similar origin of coming from Zuckerberg's high school like a crazy former mental patient who thinks he's Jesus who actually turns out to be Jesus and a Muslim guy from Afghanistan who is the Imam Mahdi and another guy who is this Pick-Up Artist coach who turns out to be Mars, the God of War but instead of being a great physical warrior he's just a master of war-based video games. Then even though he's God, Zuckerberg was trained in Divine Powers by his high school math teacher Zuming Feng who turns out to secretly be The Dragon King who's this ancient deity from Chinese mythology whose powers rival or even surpass those of God Himself kind of like Master Roshi from Dragonball. And then the school's current Principal Thomas Hassan is actually Archangel Gabriel disguised as a human so he's in the mythology too.

 So there's a lot of divine figures in this religion and with the idea of Zuckerberg's high school Phillips Exeter being a mystical school for Gods and Goddesses and divine saviors like Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Harry Potter it gives us a lot of material to work with for creating epic myths like those of the Ancient Greeks.

 5. You don't have to believe in this to get involved, but I have the rare ability to make things up and then believe them, so I can write a fictional story about Zuckerberg being God and then suddenly believe it's true even though I just made it up. I can also change my beliefs in an instant, so I can switch from being a Jew to being a Christian to being a Muslim to being a Scientologist to being an Atheist just by snapping my fingers. I don't know many other people who can just change their beliefs in an instant or believe in something they just made up, I think it's a special ability I have. But I just believe in anything I think it's fun to believe in, so one day I thought it would be fun to believe that Star Wars was a true story of an ancient war that took place amongst real aliens that was revealed to George Lucas by the Force Spirit of the real Mace Windu so now I believe Star Wars is based on a true story just because I feel like believing it was. Then one day I just thought it would be interesting if Batman was based on a real historical figure from the 1920's who was a real rich guy who fought crime dressed as a giant bat so now I believe Batman is based on a real historical figure, and this is all stuff I made up out of thin air then decided to believe was true.

 So when it comes to my personal beliefs, I just believe in anything it makes me feel good to believe in or which I find it fun to believe in, I have no concern for whether there's any proof or scientific evidence at all, I just believe anything I want to regardless of whether any proof exists for it being true or not.

 6. The way I got the idea from this project was I was watching an interview with Joseph Campbell who was a scholar of mythology and Professor Campbell was talking about the world's myths were all broken or outdated and no longer functioning for our modern society. And he said that the world needed people to create new myths that united the beliefs of different cultures and traditions together as one and it seemed like a good idea Professor Campbell had so that's how I got interested in this.

 So then I got the idea of uniting saviors of different traditions like the Second Coming of Christ and the Muslim Imam Mahdi and the Buddhist Maitreya by giving them this common origin of being from a mystical school of divine saviors like Hogwarts from Harry Potter and decided to base it on Zuckerberg's high school when I figured he'd be a good choice for the Avatar of God in the religion.

 Anyways, that sums up the basic idea of what I'm interested in working on with this, if anyone is interested write in and tell about what your skills and interests are. I guess I would like to find some artists and designers to work on concept art and some web design and writers to help write some of the stories and myths of the religion which we can do as eBooks or comics, or even filmmakers to make films when we have developed our initial myths.

 Really though I'm just doing this for fun because I don't even know if something like this is possible to do on a big level or if it could be popular, so it's just something I am interested in doing and looking for people who would like to take part without worrying about whether it goes anywhere or not.

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I adore this scent. This is like a sexier, warmer version of the fruity, vanilla based fragrances I usually go for. The staying power is not good but since it was so cheap I didn't really expect it to be. The bottle could be more creative but I'm happy with it.
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My husband brought home a sample of this from a department store. I like to receive perfume for my birthday, so he was looking for something new. I tried the sample and was NOT impressed, but . . . my husband absolutely loved it. He thought it smelled sexy for some reason he couldn't figure out. So, as a test, I let both of my 14-year-old sons smell it. They also thought it smelled awesome. Hm. The next guinea pig was my uncle, who is 44. Yup, he loved it, too. Apparently, this perfume smells awesome to men. Guess what I received for my birthday?
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I had a sample of this with my Seventeen Magazine. This smells sweet like peaches and my friends agreed it smells great.
The only downside is it doesn't last long at all.
I am probably BEYONCE's biggest fan, however, I have over 30 bottles of HEAT (gifted from my client) And I love it! Not only because it has subtle hints of "AMBER" (thats my name) but because its so sweet and alluring it practically grabs MEN's attention. Ive received more compliments from MEN about my smell than women. My ex boyfriend said that the smell is MESMERIZING... and the body glitter lotion adds that EXTRA.. "UMPH"! Its feminine, soft, sweet and HEY... you smell like you just won 6 grammys all day!! ;) Go B!
This scent has staying power just like BEYONCE!
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Anyone out there who likes Beyonce Heat fragrance but find that it does not last; I have the solution. The CommonScents, LLC has a knockoff oil that is a dead-ringer for Heat and lasts a good 10-12 hours on me. Their products vary somewhat in quality of scent and lasting ability but many work very well. The Strawberry scent was a loser but Vanilla Bean is wonderful and lasts well. Although it will be hit or miss, their products are very cheap and worth trying. Heat is not my favorite but it does last forever. EDIT: Heat turned out to be a bit too heavy but has fantastic staying power.
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The smell is beautiful, very summery however it does not last very long. I would have liked a more lingering perfume.
When I first brought this, I was a little confused by the smell of it from seeing adverts and commercials. The way they advertised this made me assume it was going to be spicy, warm and slightly woodsy. I was wrong. It smells fruity and very feminine. I smell strong notes of peach followed by florals. As this scent wears on my skin, the warmer notes of amber/vanilla kick in which is rather typical of an oriental fruity scent like this. Even though it smells very good, it doesn't stand out to me and after awhile it starts to smell very generic. It's not a bad scent though, but it's unlikely I will repurchase this one.
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But it is not very expensive so you can try it out. =)
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What bad reviews! I've been wearing Heat for about a year now and I still love it. (I'm not a big Beyonce fan, for the record.) The most obvious scent in this fragrance, after the initial notes dry down a bit, is a sort of musky, spicy amber. The top notes are fruity, but not obtrusively so. I've found that the scent is very complex and develops during the course of the day. It also smells different on everyone I've tried it on. The lasting power of the top notes is brief, but the middle and base notes stay all day for me. I like to spray it on my clothes and in my hair. Days later I do the laundry and I can still smell it on my shirts. Besides the scent itself I like how it doesn't give off that super strong 'hey everybody i just doused myself with perfume' smell, even if I just put it on. Very subtle and sexy. My only critique is the bottle design: uninspired and run-of-the-mill. But I'm not buying it for the bottle, so who cares?
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Ocean and Coastal Law Journal: Volume 16, No.2 (2011)
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Charles H. Norchi
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Melissa Trosclair Daigle
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Andrew Hartsig
- Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Assessment: Where Does the Money Go?
Nicholas J. Lund and Niki Pace
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I support Israel. I am willing to have a rational discussion all day long about historical rights to the land, who got short-changed in the formation of Israel and as well as a variety of different issues. However, Israel has been a staunch ally to America and embodies many of the qualities a nation would want in an ally.
It has served as a bastion of stability in a region fraught with tremendous instability and Israeli citizens have a battle-hardened toughness noticeably absent in much of America. They wake up each day, surrounded by people who swear it is their duty to wipe them off the map, and yet, Israel proceeds with their existence.
The very nature of their survival has been one of unrelenting assertiveness in a world preaching more and more passivity and I, for one, applaud it and stand in firm support of Israel.
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I'm off to Vietnam with my girlfriend in September on the Discover Vietnam tour. Does anyone have any recommendations of any Vietnamese dishes or specialities we should try? Or perhaps ones we should definately avoid?
My...where shall I start. There are many dishes you should try when in Vietnam.
Pho Bo - This is the national dish. It's rice noodle in thin beef broth with beef. The meat can be well done or just cooked. If you would like to try the later, then ask for "pho bo tai." In the south you will get a side dish of vegetables. The locals will have this dish at anytime of the day as it's cheap anf filling. (it was about 50p in 2004)
Bun Cha- BBQ marinaded pork with a side dish of derivative of rice noodle with salads and dipping sauce.
Cha Ca - As bun cha but with fish
Banh Cuon - Hard to explain this one. It's a kind of soft savoury roll with dipping sauce. The roll's skin consist of a water and rice flour mixture, which are thinly spread over a steamerto cook. The fillings is mostly a mixture pork with spring onion dried mushrooms. The north make the best banh cuon because most of the time, it's done fresh. The south tends to pre-prepared them then heat it up in microwave.
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Wow thanks for the reply Alec, very informative.
They all sound great to me. I think i may come back a few pounds heavier lol
Also nice to know that they have some guiness there aswell, as it's the one thing i miss when i'm away!
Thanks again
I'm looking to go to Vietnam but really want to cross over to Cambodia! Anyone know what the official line is on this or the best way to do it?
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Not sure if anyone is keeping up on these forums but thought I'd see if anyone in the Vancouver Area was playing. I have played this game once with a friend back east and am looking to pick up the base game with the DoF or Normandy expansion. I would like to have someone to play with though. I have been playing Dust with some friends but am looking to step up the difficulty a notch or two. Dust is all right for a risk style game. I can put my brain in neutral and slam back the beer and pretzels without worrying about the consequences too much. Get back to me here or my email through my profile. Thanks.
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EAU CLAIRE The fifth annual Symposium on East Europe will be held April 9-10 in room 101 of the Haas Fine Arts Center at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
The free conference, titled "From the Baltics to the Balkans: National Minorities Past and Present," will bring together experts to explain the East European dilemma.
The vicissitudes of history have made East Europe a land of ethnic, national and religious minorities. The majority populations and the minorities now face issues of identity and cultural or even physical survival.
Friday's Symposium schedule includes:
1:30 p.m., introductory remarks by Paulis Lazda, professor of history at UW-Eau Claire and co-chair of the Symposium. A welcome by William Nielsen, president of the Eau Claire City Council, and Thomas Miller, interim provost at UW-Eau Claire.
1:45 p.m., "Ethnopluralism in East Central Europe," by Rasma Karklins, professor of political science at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Karklins is past president of the Association of the Advancement of Baltic Studies and has published widely on ethnic problems in the Soviet Union.
2:35 p.m., "Identity, Ethnicity and Minorities in Estonia," by Toivo Raun, professor of history and chair of Central Euroasian Studies at Indiana University at Bloomington. He has traveled often to Estonia and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Tartu. He has written on post-Soviet Estonia and Baltic history.
4 p.m., "Pariahs and Politic: Gypsies and the State in East Europe," by Zoltan Barany, professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin. Barany, a native of Hungary, has written extensively on East Europe, ethnic relations, politics and military affairs. He is the author of books, articles, ethnic and racial studies.
7 p.m., keynote address, "Redefinition of Ethnicity in the Post-Communist Countries," by Paul Goble, director of the Communications Division at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and publisher of RFE/RL Newsline. He was the special adviser for Soviet nationality problems and Baltic affairs at the State Department and was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace. He is the author of volumes on ethnic problems in the former Soviet Union and articles on nationality questions. Goble is a frequent commentator on post-Soviet affairs for the national news media.
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10:35 a.m., "The Dayton Accords, The International Community and Conflict Resolution in Bosnia," by Sarah Kent, professor of history at UW-Stevens Point. Her most recent publication is on the war in Bosnia, "Reading about the Yugoslav War in English." In 1996, she was a member of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe monitoring team for the Bosnian elections.
2 p.m., panel discussion, "Perspectives and Prospects." Panelists include Barany, Elinor Murray Despalatovic, Goble, Jelavich, Karklins, Kent and Raun. Mildred Larson, co-chair of the Symposium, will moderate the discussion. Despalatovic is a professor of history at Connecticut College. She is an authority on the history and culture of the former Yugoslavia, where she has lived and traveled.
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Summary: A wonderful hike passing Chicken Point
Challenge Level: Moderate
Hiking Distance: About 2 miles each way to Chicken Point (4 miles round trip); 4 miles one way to the north end of the Broken Arrow Trail
Trailhead Directions: From the "Y" roundabout (the intersection of State Route 89A and State Route 179), drive south on SR 179 for 3.5 miles. Once you pass the Back 'O Beyond roundabout, the northbound and southbound lanes of SR 179 split. Shortly you'll see a "Scenic View" sign. Turn left here and proceed across the northbound SR 179 to the parking area.
Description: You start by hiking along the Bell Rock Pathway Trail heading south. At 0.3 miles you'll turn left on the Little Horse Trail. We did this 4 mile one way hike as a two car hike, parking one car at the Broken Arrow Trail Head off of Morgan Road and parking the other at the Little Horse Trailhead noted above. Excellent red rock views as you hike past Chicken Point, Submarine Rock and the Devil's Dining Room. At Chicken Point and Submarine Rock you'll likely encounter some Pink Jeeps as these are stops on their Broken Arrow Tour. There isn't much shade on this hike so if you hike in the Summer, take extra water.
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In February 2008, we hiked the Little Horse Trail to Chicken Point, a hike of about 2 miles each way. Here are photos taken by Julia Iveson.
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Belmokhtar's unit participated in Niger suicide attacks
Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the leader of the al Qaeda-linked al Mua'qi'oon Biddam, or the Those Who Sign in Blood Brigade, said that its fighters participated in yesterday's double suicide attack in Niger along with the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO). The attack was launched to avenge the death of a senior al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb commander who was killed while fighting in Mali earlier this year, he claimed. The statement also put to rest rumors that Belmokhtar was killed in Mali by French and Chadian forces in early March.
Belmokhtar's statement was posted on jihadist forums on May 23; it was obtained and translated by the SITE Intelligence Group. The statement was signed by Khalid Abu al Abbas, which is one of Belmokhtar's aliases.
The May 23 suicide attacks, the first of their kind in Niger, targeted a military barracks in Agadez and a uranium mine in Arlit that supplies French reactors. The Agadez attack was executed by a five-man suicide assault team; 18 Nigerien soldiers and a civilian were killed. A MUJAO spokesman claimed credit for the attack.
Belmokhtar said the attacks in Niger were executed to avenge Abdel Hamid Abou Zeid, an AQIM commander who was killed by French and Chadian forces during a military operation to root out the terror group in northern Mali.
"We send to our dear Ummah a glad tiding of one of the epics of Islam that took place in the heart of the enemy land, and one of the invasions of al Mua'qi'oon Biddam under the name of the martyred commander, as we consider him, Abdel Hamid Abou Zeid," Belmokhtar stated.
Belmokhtar said that "a battalion from our commandos who gave a pledge of allegiance to die rose to retaliate for him [Abou Zeid], coming from different countries to sign with their blood inside the fortresses of an enemy whose army was one of the foundations of the Crusader campaign on our Muslim land."
The attack was also launched as "the first of our response to the statement of the President of Niger - from his masters in Paris - that he eliminated jihad and the mujahideen militarily."
Warning that "more operations" are being prepared, Belmokhtar said, "We will move the battle to the inside of his country [Niger] if he doesn't withdraw his mercenary army" from Mali. Belmokhtar also warned other countries who plan to provide "peacekeepers" in Mali that they will "taste the heat of death and wounds in [their] homelands and among [their] soldiers."
"The convoys of martyrdom-seekers and commandos are ready and waiting for their targets and permission," Belmokhtar concluded.
The al Mua'qi'oon Biddam fights throughout West Africa. In January, just after French forces invaded Mali to eject AQIM, MUJAO, and Ansar Dine from the north, Belmokhtar launched a large-scale suicide assault against the In Amenas gas facility in southeastern Algeria. More than 40 fighters carried out the attack. One of the assault teams was led by a Nigerien known as Abdul Rahman al Nigeri, who had led another assault on a military barracks in Mauritania in 2005. Belmokhtar claimed the attack in the name of al Qaeda.
Although Belmokhtar was reported to have been killed at the same time Abou Zeid was killed, the reports were never confirmed. The president of Chad and the military insisted that Belmokhtar was dead, but the French, who were adamant that Abu Zeid was killed, refused to speculate about the status of Belmokhtar. In early April, Hamad el Khairy, the head of MUJAO, claimed that Belmokhtar was alive.
Although Belmokhtar split with AQIM in December 2012, he still conducts joint operations with the group as well as with MUJAO. Belmokhtar reports directly to al Qaeda's central leadership, according to his spokesman. Al Qaeda central tightened its control over AQIM's hostage operations in late 2010.
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Posted by mike merlo at May 24, 2013 11:57 AM ET:
a Dark Omen to say the least
Posted by M.H at May 24, 2013 4:55 PM ET:
Is the newly created group called '' Sons of the Sahara for Islamic justice" under the control of Belmokhtar? From the name it seems like this group is going to target specifically foreigners, this also coincide with last week AQIM leader Abu Obeida Youcef el- Annabi release of a video to attack French interests everywhere.
Posted by Dingo Dan Dan at May 24, 2013 7:19 PM ET:
why isnt this group sanctioned anywhere yet??? Come on, what do they have to do kill 2,000 peeps?


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Last year we got only a handful.....huge disappointment. This year we got almost 50.....I didn't keep track but that's how many glow bracelets went out the door! So many cute costumes and I'll bet 1/3 were homemade! THAT is cool, too. Usually it's the plastic stuff from the store or just a commercial mask (I MUCH prefer makeup or domino type masks with more visibility!). We had little princesses followed by army men who were just ahead of a pack of Disney characters, etc. Not too many ghoulish types and more than a few babies being carried to trick or treat that didn't have the teeth for the candy! Guess mom and dad are kids at heart or have sweet teeth?????????
Loads of comments and thanks from parents for the bracelets. I think I'll do it again next year!
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No power = No Trick-or-Treating = No Trick-or-Treaters. Town Fire Department may still hold their party this weekend, though.
|Fri, 11-02-2012 - 2:51pm
What a great idea to give out glow bracelets!! I was driving through our little town and there were lots of kids out and I noticed quite a few had something glowing or reflecting on them, which is really smart because it's very hard to see them when you're driving, especially when it's dark and raining, which it was.
I feel bad for all the kids who couldn't go trick or treating this year.