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Too Sweet and Juicy: Can There Really Be Too Much of a Good Thing with Tech?
Twenty-five years ago, I built my family home. I started the project in the summer of 1982, and my good friend Tim spent much of that summer working with me. The deal, loosely defined, was that I would supply all the food and other forms of sustenance in exchange for his help.
One day, at the grocery store, I bought some wonderful peaches, which I later brought to the job site. I offered one to Tim, and he declined. When I asked him why he didn't want this most succulent of fruits, he said, "Peaches are too sweet, too juicy."
"Too sweet? Too juicy?" I thought. "How can anyone consider sweetness and juiciness reasons not to eat something as perfect as a peach?"
It was funny back then, and I have since said many times -- at appropriate moments -- "What's the problem? Too sweet? Too juicy?" And just the other day, while sitting in a planning meeting about the deployment of laptops to high school teachers, I realized a similarity between the sweet, juicy peach and the use of technology in schools. It occurred to me that the challenge of using technology effectively in education is actually because of its assets -- current tools and resources are so abundant and allow us to do so many things, it can be overwhelming. Too sweet and too juicy.
I carry two wireless-enabled computers (an Apple and a PC) with me whenever I travel for work, along with video and still cameras, burnable CDs and DVDs, a remote microphone, a USB headset, a digital projector, a global-positioning-system device, a digital voice recorder, and a video iPod with recording capability, plus more. I can be in touch with anyone, at any time, and in any way. I can tell stories in written words, spoken words, still images, video, or any combination of the above. And when that story has been told, I can either keep it to myself or publish it via email, blog, Web page, wiki, podcast, or a burned CD or DVD. Oh, my goodness -- it really is too sweet and too juicy.
Now, let's think about a good teacher -- one who shows up at school each day wanting to do the best for each student. But the great challenge for such a teacher has forever been the difficulty of meeting the needs of every student because of circumstances beyond his or her control.
Then, along comes technology and the idea that needs can be met. For example, is there a student experiencing literacy issues? The computer can read text aloud and record spoken words to track comprehension and learning. (See the sidebar "Look What's Talking (and Listening): Computerized Speech Synthesis and Recording Software" below for more information.)
Is algebra a challenge? The Java applets found at the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives and Shodor's Project Interactivate allow students to see complex concepts in a new way, and screen-capture capabilities provide a way for students to record their efforts in a word-processing document.
Technology resources today resemble simple hand tools that have morphed into a combination of every tool -- handheld and power -- available at Sears, as well as every work vehicle Caterpillar manufactures, an audio recording John Lennon would have appreciated, and a video-production unit capable of contributing content for a National Geographic special. Sure, as a former carpenter, I will always believe the more tools, the better, but I'm certain you can see technology might be approaching the too-sweet, too-juicy territory.
I think in a best-case scenario, all these tools would come with a working crew and the teacher would serve as architect, clerk, and landscaper. But, far too often, the teacher remains a lone artisan, albeit with enough tools to rebuild the Colosseum and enough resources to manage manned spaceflight to Mars -- and fully document either process in multiple formats and languages.
I believe that as long as the traditional classroom model remains, the incredible power of technology now available in so many schools will not be fully utilized. In a traditional classroom, there just aren't enough carpenters on the job site. One teacher, two hands, two feet, twenty-five kids per period -- you do the math.
How are you dealing with this incredible power surge? Have you become that fully wired teacher who can use all this technology seamlessly and creatively to meet the diverse needs of your students? Or have you focused on a few technical tools and used them to do specific things? Are there times when the very richness of the technological possibilities cause you or others you know to feel overwhelmed and remain stagnated rather than advance in any direction?
Feel free to put your thoughts in text, audio, or video format. You could, in fact, do all three. You could even put your response in a wiki with a link here -- oh, never mind! Straight text will do just fine!
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All this technology can distract from teaching if the teacher is spending all his or her time trying to get things to work or if the teacher moves from building to building as I do it seems that there is often a glitch that stops the technology from running smoothly.
Another problem with so much technology is that the studnets get forgotten in all the flash. Simple teaching can often help a student to understand the concept. Students explaining, sharing and doing is often the best way to teach. Too much of any good thing is not good for us.
I agree. It is the relationship with the student and the environment of the room that allows learning to happen. If we focus too much on technology we could forget about the student and not allow them to learn.
One of the real problems is budget and keeping up with technology. We just get going with a type of technology and then another one comes along that is not compatible with the project we just finished. We keep starting over and over because the technology moves faster and faster. If only our time and money would keep up with the technology.
I am a student and future teacher. I thought this was a good post. In my opinion I think it is wonderful that we have all this technology available to us and can use it in the classroom. As teachers we get to decide what technology we should use in the classroom. We get to choose what will help students the most. I wish we had all these options when I was in school. It makes learning more fun and interesting. Smartboards are a great tool for students who learn by being 'hands on'. Podcasts are a great tool for teachers to use who might not have enough class time to get all the information across in a lecture. We should be thankful to have this technology at our fingertips. "Too sweet? Too juicy?" I say just right.
Technology has greatly enhanced the way students learn today. Using technology students are now able to complete tasks more efficiently and quickly. Students now have spell check and spreadsheets that do things for them that in the past, did not come from a machine.
We need to have a "medium ground" where students know how to use technology but more importantly know how the technology gets the answer.
I attended a very small private high school, which didn't have any of the technologies that a lot of other schools have. In fact there were only two computers in the whole school. Now I'm currently taking an education technology class in college and I can't help but wonder how different my education would have been if we had all these different technologies.
When it comes to technology, it can go both ways. In today's society anyone without a computer is considered lost in the Stone Age. We have become so addicted to being connected or "plugged in," and this is becoming evident in education as well. Don't get me wrong this isn't necessarily a bad thing. The Internet has revolutionized the way educators reach their students. However there is a huge potential for overkill when there are so many different kinds of technologies. Finding that happy medium while utilizing the amazing technology that is available to us is definitely the new challenge for educators.
When you were listing everything you carry with you I was already getting overwhelmed! I can't imagine how a teacher could make the choice on a day to day basis. It would almost be easier to give up and forgo it all.
My biggest problem is getting to that sweet and juicy peach before is gets soft and rotten. What I mean is by the time I personally can get my hands on some of the new technology it seems that is already out dated. As I get older I feel I become more and more a "digital immigrant" and students continue to be "digital natives."(Will Richardson: BLOGS, WIKIS, PODCASTS) The biggest challege that faces me is trying to keep up so properly use these tools in the classroom.
Currently, I teach kindergarten and I can see that most of my students can operate a computer just fine. Their biggest problem is their hand-eye coordination in getting the mouse to move where they want it and clicking at the same time. However, they do a good job. The problem is that the kids I see working so well with the computers are the same kids who can't hold a conversation. They don't look you in the eyes when they speak and they don't truly listen or comprehend what you are saying. So, with so much emphasis placed on "technology" it seems like a good thing that parents let their children play on the computer and become comfortable with it. But how much is too much? Yes, many child friendly games are entertaining, but let's not lose sight of the fact that people skills are so important too! We do not want a society of people that can only communicate via a screen and a keypad.
Like everything else in life, we have to have balance. Too much of anything isn't usually good. With respect to technology in the classroom, we need to decide what amount is appropriate. Teachers cannot escape the electronic gradebook, email, and websites. But shouldn't there be a balance for our kids? I have had a website for my students for three years now. Very few bother to write down their homework each day because they figure they will just look it up from home.
If students see powerpoints every period of the day, who is to say it won't become boring? Does anyone know of any studies that confirm better results for students taught with powerpoint? I'm interested because my department head thinks you can only be a good teacher if you use a smart board and powerpoint show. Yet my classes are so excited when they walk in and see dry erase graph boards on their desks and realize they will be actively participating and getting immediate feedback.
Hands on doesn't always have to be on the keyboard.


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Hockey players are famously boring. They respond to interview questions with rote, dead-eyed cliches. They appear at fan events clothed in loose jerseys and bland courtesy. In getting-to-know-you scoreboard bits, they come off as anything but knowable, a sequence of vaguely perplexed, monosyllabic answers that make it seem as though they've hardly heard of this notion of a 'favorite band' or what you Earthlings call "free time". With the exception of a few who have penthouse apartments in major urban centers, they seem to inhabit a succession of sprawling beige houses with barely used kitchens and well-dented couches. Their favorite food is chicken and/or pasta; their favorite pastime is video games. Their wives seem pretty and nice. Their kids seem cute and nice. Despite his fabulous wealth and the bloody drama of his profession, the standard hockey player is plain, polite and dull.
Part of this is the culture of the game. Hockey is the most intensely collaborative of the team sports, where even the biggest stars only play a fraction of the game and responsibility for victory or defeat is very much a shared burden. From a young age, players are encouraged to subsume their personal desires for the good of the whole. Grinders are asked to forsake ice time when trailing, scorers are asked to suppress their flashy impulses in favor of disciplined two-way play, fighters are expected to use their fists to defend or avenge others rather than to express their own anger. Hockey is skeptical of even the justified hubris of the gifted. It has no patience the unjustified hubris of a diva personality.
Part of it is also the training. Because hockey is so intensely complicated and the specialization begins so young, it requires a lot of psychological dicipline. Fans understand this superficially, insofar as it is a part of game preparation, but what they sometimes miss is that this kind of discipline, undertaken over a period of years running into decades, is going to result in a degree of personality-atrophy. For many players, the amount of dedication necessary to reach the NHL has meant a life consisting of 80% playing, practicing, thinking, recovering from and dreaming about hockey. They haven't had the time and space most of us get to cultivate varied other skills and interests. Such is the price of excellence in their field.
But I think there is something else behind the studied boringness of the average hockey player, something more than just Don Cherry values and Sidney Crosby obsessiveness. It's not just a matter of culture or training. It's rational self-interest. On the grand scale of all media-personality options that are available to the average player, 'boring' is by far the most sensible choice.
Consider how we develop our sense of other's personalities in regular life. Most of the time, when people interact with other people, the exchange is on a fairly balanced scale. When we talk, we usually talk to one other person at a time. Maybe a small group of three or four. Sometimes, in a professional context, we'll have to make a presentation to a group of a few dozen. But for the vast majority of people, the ratio of us-to-them in life is never more than, say, 1:100. Our notion of a human personality is based on such ratios, on the way we can act when we're comfortable with a relatively small group with whom we can have an interactive, see-and-be-seen dialogue.
Fame, however, is a radically, terrifyingly lopsided relationship. A famous person interacts with others at ratios of 1:1,000,000+. On the one side, there is still only one individual, but on the other there are no individuals anymore, but simply a wall of faces like pointillist specks, a wall of voices like white noise. Although this wall is made of people, it doesn't interact with the famous person in any identifiably human way. It is by turns wildly adoring and venomously hostile, obsessively interested and utterly indifferent. It throws out long sequences of repetitious questions at a player and then repeats his answers back in thousands of video clips, game recaps, radio shows, posts, and tweets. It takes whatever he says, slices it up, remixes it, critiques it, and throws it back in his face. Talking to the cameras isn't like talking to a person. It's like talking to a flock of insane parrots.
It is incredibly difficult to seem like even a normal human in this context, much less a fun, interesting, laid-back, friendly, sexy, cool human being. There is no question of simply 'being yourself'. You can't 'be yourself' in front of a wall of microphones and cameras that are only interested in fifteen-second bites of information. You can't 'be yourself' to a line of eight hundred fans seeking autographs. No matter what the famous person does, only a tiny sliver of who he is can possibly get through, but that tiny sliver will be magnified to epic proportions and splashed across screens for millions of eyes to see. We take it for granted that celebrities are good at this, but most celebrities are famous for having professions that involve deliberate self-construction for a mass audience. Professional actors and singers are actors and singers because they have an aptitude for performing on a huge stage with emotion and style. Athletes, though, are famous for abilities that have nothing to do with looking good on camera. Only a very small percentage of them, entirely coincidentally, also happen to have the talent for creating a good public image.
But is it worth it to them to even make the attempt? What, exactly, do they get out of being more interesting to us? The wall of people they interact with is uniformly terrible at actually recognizing and appreciating character. It has no interest in the depths of human personality. It is very good at extrapolating, essentializing, reducing, judging, and making shit up. It is very bad at understanding, forgiving, complicating, and nuancing. It doesn't want 'real people', it just wants more fun toys to play with, and the things that it finds most fun- sex, drugs, scandal, batshit craziness- are not necessarily the most fun things for a player to become famous for. We're not interested in celebrity athletes being real guys, we're interested in them being chattering cymbal-monkeys that we can make fun of, and I can easily understand why few professional hockey players are eager to take up that role.
Look at how the hockey world handles evidence of complexity. Once upon a time, Mike Richards said and did all the right things and was called leader, winner, future. Then he expressed a little too much of an interest in fun and got criticized as uncommitted. When he got angry about being criticized, he got called a cancer and a liability. Once upon a time, Tim Thomas was known for being a salt-of-the-earth, working-class, went-to-school, paid-his-dues goalie. Then he expressed some off-ice opinions and immediately came to be considered a complete whackjob. It is, of course, possible to be both. It is possible that Richards is both a man who competes fiercely in hockey games and a man who loves a good party. I have known such men. It is possible that Thomas is both a hard-working, genuine person and a holder of extreme political views. W have all known such people. But as much as every individual in the wall of people knows that human beings can be complex, the wall of people as a whole doesn't understand this. It routinely judges a player only by the most recent piece of damning information it has about him, forgetting any previous virtues, tuning out any evidence of depth.
Look at what happens to players who diverge from the scripts. We love Ilya Bryzgalov's improv philosophizing, but the wall of people treats him worse because of it- one goofy line and it screams humangous big over and over and over again, then condemns him as a bad teammate. Sean Avery gave us attitude and trash-talk, and even as we lapped it up, we also pilloried him as the World's Biggest Douche. Patrick Kane gets seen out and about, being young and having fun, and rather than appreciating the very natural humanity of being young and having fun, we call him an asshole, a distraction, and possibly an alcoholic. Dustin Penner had an unfortunate encounter with pancakes and has had a terrific sense of humor about it, but until his recent on-ice heroics redeemed him, his reward was a wall of voices droning fattyfattyfatfat.
All it takes to ruin an image is the mismanagement of one interview, one bad soundbite, one embarrassing iPhone pic. Every player has something in him, some opinion, some idea, some off-ice habit that could be that thing, for things that are in no way wrong by human standards- like going clubbing, or not understanding Chinese tiger-poaching laws, or disliking the Flyers- are heresy for hockey players. Cross any one of these arbitrary and often invisible lines and your life becomes a sea of the same stupid jokes and repetitive questions, people making fun of your habits and questioning your character, which (again) is difficult to handle gracefully and even more difficult not to be distracted by.
The path of icy courtesy may be uneventful, but it is safe and simple. It is easy to do in front of the cameras, it often guarantees positive if lukewarm coverage, and sometimes no coverage at all. It won't bug your wife, hurt your kids, or make you the subject of an image macro meme. It won't piss off your coach or your teammates. It won't hurt your future employment prospects or give the crowds on the road any further ammunition to hurl down from the upper tiers. It is the surest course by which a fairly average guy with no gift for public performance can navigate a treacherous media universe. Before we can have more interesting players, we- the millions-strong wall of people on the other side of the fame ratio- have to make it possible for players to enjoy being interesting to us. We have to make it more reward than punishment. Are we willing to do that? Can we?


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text: CHRISTIE, NED (1852-1892)Ned Christie, American Indian outlaw of Indian Territory (I.T.) and son of Watt Christie, was born on December 14, 1852, in the Cherokee Nation. Serving on the Cherokee National Council for one term, Ned Christie was a blacksmith and gunsmith. He was charged with the murder of Deputy U.S. Marshal Dan Maples, which occurred on May 5, 1887, in Tahlequah. While Maples was in Tahlequah to arrest Cherokee outlaw Bill Pigeon and to pursue whiskey peddlers, he was shot and killed. Christie was in Tahlequah when Maple's murder occurred but adamantly stated that he had not committed the crime. The Federal District Court of Western Arkansas at Fort Smith issued a warrant for Christie's arrest. Believing that he would not receive justice in a United States court, Christie refused to turn himself in to authorities. In the Going Snake District of the Cherokee Nation he built a log cabin on a cliff known as Ned's Fort Mountain. For five years he repulsed numerous attempts by deputy U.S. marshals, including Heck Thomas and Bass Reeves, to capture or kill him. Christie's family and friends alerted him when lawmen were in the vicinity of his home and supplied him with provisions. His ability to evade arrest became legendary in I.T., and a Cherokee folk tale emerged to claim that Christie had successfully eluded the law, because he was a shapeshifter who transformed into an owl or razorback hog. Ned Christie's resistance ended on November 1, 1892, when Deputy U.S. Marshal Paden Tolbert led a sixteen-man posse into the Going Snake District. Using a U.S. Army cannon procured from Fort Scott, Kansas, the posse forced Christie out into the open and killed him on November 3. The outlaw was exonerated in 1918 when a Cherokee freedman named Dick Humphrey came forward and told a newspaper reporter that he witnessed Maples's murder and that Christie was not the assailant. Humphrey stated that he had been afraid to speak earlier for fear of losing his life. Some researchers believe Christie was a victim of a conspiracy designed to punish him because, while serving on the Cherokee National Council, he had opposed railroad development in Indian Territory. SEE ALSO: LAW ENFORCEMENT, LYNCHING, OUTLAWS, TERRITORIAL ERA. BIBLIOGRAPHY: W. J. B. Bigby interview, "Indian-Pioneer History," 11: 363-369, Archives and Manuscripts Division, Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Art T. Burton, Black, Red, and Deadly: Black and Indian Gunfighters of the Indian Territory, 1870-1907 (Austin, Tex.: Eakin Press, 1991). "Ned Christie," Vertical File, Research Division, Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City), 9 June 1918. Indian Chieftain (Vinita, I.T.), 11 November 1892. Bonnie Speer, The Killing of Ned Christie: Cherokee Outlaw (Norman, Okla.: Reliance Press, 1990). Phillip W. Steele, The Last Cherokee Warriors: Zeke Proctor, Ned Christie (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Co., 1974). Art T. Burton © Oklahoma Historical Society |


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At least four major corporations have dropped funding commitments to the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative advocacy group that promotes ready-made bills for like-minded lawmakers around the country — a version of Florida's "stand your ground" law among them.
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A conservative advocacy group that promotes ready-made bills for like-minded lawmakers around the country — a version of Florida's "stand your ground" law among them — has come under fire since the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford.
At least four major corporations have dropped funding commitments to the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, which also promotes voter-registration laws that require photo identification.
The Seattle-based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said Tuesday it would not award another grant to ALEC once it pays the balance of a $376,000 education grant that it awarded to the conservative group last year. Gates Foundation spokesman Chris Williams told Reuters no single issue prompted the foundation's decision, but "the broader criticisms of ALEC have certainly contributed to our thinking about this."
A civil-rights advocacy group, ColorOfChange, has been pressuring corporations nationwide through online petitions to drop ties to ALEC and is claiming success, though those that leave have not attributed the departures to ALEC's political leanings.
"On one hand these companies have multimillion-dollar budgets geared towards black consumers," ColorOfChange campaign and media director Dani McClain said. "So our conversation with the companies has been, 'You can't on one hand reach out to us for our dollars and on the other hand be subsidizing and supporting legislation that targets our communities in very negative ways, whether it be the voter ID bills or the 'stand your ground' laws.' "
ALEC brings together state and federal lawmakers, who pay $100 for a two-year membership, and corporations, which pay between $2,500 and $25,000 for annual membership. The legislators and corporate representatives draft ready-made bills that can be used by lawmakers and lobbyists as models for state or federal legislation. Many Florida Republican lawmakers regularly attend the Washington-based organization's annual meetings.
Koch Industries, led by conservative political contributors Charles and David Koch, is one of ALEC's largest corporate members. The group's board of corporate advisers also includes executives from companies including Pfizer and Reynolds American, which, along with Procter & Gamble, are sticking with ALEC.
ALEC spokeswoman Kaitlyn Buss said the group's main focus is on job creation and economic growth.
"Our private members and legislators are independent thinkers and don't necessarily agree on all policy initiatives from ALEC," Buss said in an email. "ALEC's members are united by a common interest in free market enterprise and limited government."
Since Martin's killing, ColorOfChange has let the corporations know that ALEC was behind a push for states to adopt legislation modeled after Florida's "stand your ground" law. The law has come under criticism after the Feb. 26 shooting death of Martin.
Neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman claimed he shot the unarmed teenager in self-defense. The law allows people to use deadly force when they feel threatened and gives them immunity from prosecution.
Coca-Cola and Kraft Foods last week announced they were not renewing their memberships in the organization, and ColorOfChange is calling on AT&T to follow suit.
Coca-Cola made its announcement within hours of receiving up to 400 phone calls from ColorOfChange supporters. Kraft Foods said it was not renewing its membership, for financial and other reasons. Neither company cited the Martin killing.
Coca-Cola and other ALEC member companies, including PepsiCo and Kraft, were targeted last year by the group for their support of ALEC, which promotes voter-registration bills that ColorOfChange leaders call "voter suppression laws," which require registrants to show photo identification. PepsiCo pulled its funding in January.
AT&T has not yet responded the civil-rights group's request. Intuit, the maker of Quicken, this year did not renew its membership but was not a ColorOfChange target.
In 2005, Florida became the first state to approve a "stand your ground" law. The National Rifle Association's Florida lobbyist Marion Hammer, a former president of the NRA, the next year made a presentation about the law at ALEC's national meeting of lawmakers and business leaders, Hammer said. The group then used Florida's law as model legislation for other states, and at least 20 states have since passed similar laws.
Florida state Rep. Jimmy Patronis, ALEC's state chairman, sponsored Florida's controversial election law now being challenged in federal court by the Obama administration. Patronis, R-Panama City, said he values the conservative group because it allows him to share good ideas with other lawmakers from Southern states.


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If you missed Andrew Unterberger's look at which Eastern Conference jerseys might be retired in the future, check that out. Here are his picks for the Western Conference.
Already Retired: Brad Davis, Rolando Blackman
Definitely: Dirk Nowitzki
Possibly: Jason Kidd, Jason Terry, Michael Finley, Steve Nash
Maybe Someday: N/A
Analysis: Few organizations will have the number of tough decisions to make when it comes to jersey retiring in the near future than the Mavericks will. Dirk is the only clear-cut retiree — he's the greatest player in Mavericks history, and the second he decides to take off his Dallas jersey for good, he may as well hand it directly to Mark Cuban for hoisting preparation. After that though, you have a lot of guys who had success as a Maverick, but spent important portions of their career elsewhere, including Dirk's old Big Three buddies Michael Finley and Steve Nash, both of whom helped raise the franchise from laughing stock to contender, but went on to great success elsewhere, with Finley winning a championship in San Antonio and Nash becoming a two-time MVP in Phoenix.
Meanwhile, in Jasons Kidd and Terry, you have two guys who had their most prolific statistical seasons elsewhere — Kidd in NJ, Terry in Atlanta — but only won a championship in Dallas. Kidd has the benefit of being a two-time Mav, first helping to turn the team around in the mid-1990s and then providing one of the final pieces to the championship puzzle in the late-2000s, while Terry is the sentimental favorite for his fan-baiting antics and his consistently clutch play across eight seasons in Big D. Still, with only two numbers retired in 30-plus years of Maverick history, with such franchise leading lights as Derek Harper and Mark Aguirre being denied, none of these guys are necessarily shoo-ins.
If I had to guess, I'd say that Kidd and Terry do get immortalized for their role in the franchise's first championship, while Nash and Finley are unfortunately (and perhaps unfairly) forgotten about. Don't rule out the possibility of Deron Williams or Dwight Howard having their jerseys retired at the AAC before the end of this season, though. Mark Cuban is not above a couple shady recruiting tactics.
Already Retired: Alex English, David Thompson, Byron Beck, Dan Issel
Definitely: N/A
Possibly: Carmelo Anthony
Maybe Someday: Nene, Danillo Gallinari
Long Shot: Andre Miller
Analysis: It's hard to get a read on exactly what public sentiment towards Carmelo Anthony is now, or what it will be five years from now. He defined the last 10 years of basketball in Denver and is probably the best and most important Nugget since Alex English, but his Hall of Fame caliber Denver resume is overshadowed slightly by the Melodrama of 2010-11, which ended in Anthony forcing a trade to New York. I'd bet that Nuggets fans eventually remember the good times with 'Melo as he didn't burn his team as badly as LeBron did, and after his trade, the Nuggets were arguably better off for it for both the present and future. Still, his jersey retiring would not come without controversy, and thus might at least come a little later down the line than it otherwise might have.
As for the current Nuggs, there are a couple of players with a shot at one day getting canonized, starting with Nene and Danillo Gallinari, both of whom have signed deals to be in Less Big D long term, and might have some pretty impressive resumes by the time their stays in Denver are done. More intriguing to me, though, is the case of Andre Miller, a two-time Nugget who's been awesome in both his runs, even though you'd never think of him as one of the definitive Nuggs of recent years. Probably won't happen, but we'll see where we're at when the dust settles on 'Dre's time in Denver.
Already Retired: Wilt Chamberlain, Tom Meschery, Al Attles, Rick Barry, Nate Thurmond,
Definitely: N/A
Possibly: N/A
Maybe Someday: Monta Ellis, Stephen Curry
Long Shot: Baron Davis
Analysis: The Warriors simply haven't been in the jersey retiring business recently. It's hard to believe that none of the Run TMC Warriors (Hardaway, Mullin, Richmond) deserved to have their jersey in the Oracle rafters, but with none of the three having played for Golden State for a decade, it's hard to see what they'd be waiting for. In the meantime, with no jerseys going up in Oakland since Rick Barry was enshrined, it's hard to picture any of the modern day Warriors being so honored. You feel like somebody from the Mavericks-upsetting '08 team would have to get there, but the most likely guy of that bunch is probably Baron Davis, and since he only played for three-plus seasons before leaving for the Clippers, it's hard to imagine him being canonized before Mullin or Richmond.
Of course, Golden State does have a couple franchise-type guys now in Stephen Curry and Monta Ellis, either of whom might be able to put up numbers to rank with the Warrior greats if they stay there long enough. But again, are these guys really gonna be the first Warriors in four decades to get up there? They might have to bring the franchise its first championship since '75 to start that conversation, and, well…
Already Retired: Clyde Drexler, Calvin Murphy, Moses Malone, Hakeem Olajuwon, Rudy Tomjanovich
Definitely: Yao Ming
Possibly: Tracy McGrady
Maybe Someday: N/A
Analysis: Even with the paucity of prior retired jerseys — five in about 40 years, with all but one of them Hall of Famers — Yao seems like a relatively safe bet for retirement, having played the entirety of his too-short NBA career as a Rocket and being one of the most dangerous and well-liked players over the course of his near-decade in the league. Tracy McGrady, despite being just as dangerous a player during his Rockets tenure, faces more of an uphill battle, due to the memory of his on-court accomplishments arguably being weaker than the memory of T-Mac's playoff failures and his highly contentious final days in H-Town. He's one of the two best Rockets of the post-Hakeem era, but I doubt his No. 1 goes up at the Toyota Center anytime soon.
As for current Rockets, maybe Kyle Lowry has a shot? Doubtful, as most of today's Rockets are of the borderline All-Star variety, and so far only All-Star perennials have gotten raised in Houston.
Already Retired: N/A
Definitely: N/A
Possibly: N/A
Maybe Someday: Blake Griffin, Chris Paul
Long Shot: Elton Brand
Analysis: I can't believe it either. The Clippers don't have a SINGLE retired number? It's one thing for the Grizzlies or Bobcats, but the Clips have been around in some incarnation since 1970. It's absolutely stunning that they've yet to retire a player's jersey. Yeah, the Clips have been a historically shitty franchise, and they haven't had a lot of players pass through their locker room that scream "Franchise Legend," but c'mon. Danny Manning? World B. Free? At least get Bob McAdoo up there. The dude was an MVP for the Buffalo Braves back in the day and an eventual Hall of Famer. It's certainly better than nothing.
All that said, it wouldn't be shocking if the first Clipper to get his jersey retired was on their current roster. Blake Griffin and Chris Paul, the two guys that both give the Clips that headlining, franchise-defining player they've so badly lacked for most of their history, certainly would be likely candidates. The question is just if either will stick around long enough to merit it, since neither is locked up long term, and owner Donald Sterling isn't generally the kind of guy players have readily committed to in the past. And the slight X-factor here is Elton Brand, a top 10 guy for much of his seven-year tenure with L.A.'s Other Team, but one whose rep was hurt by his bolting to Philadelphia as a free agent. He has a case, but probably not a good enough one to make him the Clips' inaugural retiree.
Already Retired: Wilt Chamberlain, Elgin Baylor, Gail Goodrich, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Shaquille O'Neal (Pending), James Worthy, Jerry West, Jim Pollard, Vern Mikkelsen, Slater Martin, Clyde Lovelette, George Mikan
Definitely: Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol
Possibly: Lamar Odom, Derek Fisher
Maybe Someday: Andrew Bynum
Analysis: The only question with Kobe's enshrinement is whether it will be for his No. 8, No. 24 or both. (Personally, I'm hoping for both. It makes sense, doesn't it?) Seems that Pau Gasol, the second-best player on the three recent Finals teams and a likely Hall of Famer, should be something of a no-brainer himself.
It gets interesting, though, when discussing two other fixtures of recent years — Lamar Odom and Derek Fisher. Lamar was a devout Laker and fan favorite for seven seasons, and probably the third-most important player on those Finals teams, before being shipped away (twice!) last off-season, while Fisher has five rings to his credit and has made more big shots for the Lakers over the last 15 years than anyone not named Bryant. For most teams, these guys would be obvious retirees, but there's already a lotta jerseys up there for LA, and a good number of key role players on past championship teams — Rick Fox, Robert Horry, A.C. Green, Byron Scott, Kurt Rambis — were never so honored.
The odds might ultimately be better for Andrew Bynum, another member of those Finals teams that didn't necessarily contribute as much as Odom or (arguably) Fisher, but one whose story in L.A. still has a long way to go. Assuming he isn't replaced by Dwight Howard in the next few months, anyway.
Already Retired: N/A
Definitely: N/A
Possibly: Pau Gasol
Maybe Someday: Rudy Gay, Zach Randolph, Tony Allen
Long Shot: Shane Battier
Analysis: No retired numbers yet for the Grizz, and despite his being their first real franchise player, it's doubtful that Pau Gasol will be their first. Pau was never fully embraced by the Memphis fans the way some of their current guys are, never won a playoff series (or even a playoff game), and went on to such greater success in Los Angeles that sometimes you even forget he ever played for Memphis.
Rudy Gay fits the profile a little better, though he needs some playoff success to match his regular season stat-compiling, while Zach Randolph got the Grizz their first ever postseason series win, but needs some more years in Memphis to be a real franchise-defining player. And if Tony Allen plays for another half-decade in Memphis and helps them win some more in the playoffs, don't be surprised if he becomes one of the first so honored.
The deep possibility here is two-timer Shane Battier, the only man to play on all four Grizzlies playoff squads, a big shot maker and a fan favorite. To have Shane Battier as your first and only retired number, though … seems kinda unlikely.
Already Retired: Malik Sealy
Definitely: Kevin Garnett
Possibly: N/A
Maybe Someday: Kevin Love, Ricky Rubio
Analysis: It'll be a race between the Wolves and Celtics to see who gets to retire Kevin Garnett's jersey first once he retires — though he brought the Celtics their first championship in over 20 years, he played far longer and was probably more meaningful to the Timberwolves, for whom he easily ranks as the most important player in franchise history. He should become the first living player to have his number retired at the Target Center in just a couple years.
It's a testament of sorts to the Kevin McHale era that nobody else from the KG days of Minnesota ball even stands a chance of having their number retired, but luckily for Kevin and company, there are two players currently on the roster that already seemed fast-tracked to the rafters: Kevin Love, who might merit consideration even if he blew out both ACLs tomorrow, and Ricky Rubio, who only a force as powerful as Jeremy Lin could prevent from being the toast of the NBA season. Still, maybe we should see how long both players stay in Minnesota — David Kahn hasn't proven particularly adept at holding on to assets thus far in his Minnesota tenure — before prepping the honorary halftime ceremonies.
Already Retired: Pete Maravich (played for the New Orleans Jazz), Bobby Phills
Definitely: Chris Paul
Possibly: Baron Davis
Maybe Someday: N/A
Analysis: Is Chris Paul really a definite retiree, after forcing a trade out of New Orleans? Maybe not, but you don't get the sense that Hornets fans turned on CP3 after his departure. No one could really blame Paul for wanting a way out of the fucked up situation in the Big Easy, and if not for the way he revitalized the franchise in 2008, the Hornets would have been dead years ago anyway. The Hornets have never had a better player than Chris Paul, and it's hard to imagine that his No. 3 won't become their first non-posthumous jersey raising at some point.
Does Baron Davis, who made the playoffs in each of his five full seasons in Charlotte/New Orleans/Oklahoma City and was twice named an All-Star, stand a chance? Perhaps, but not a great one. It's been a long time since Baron was a Hornet, and it seems like there's a little too much water under the bridge now to make retirement likely. Beyond that? Well, I love Eric Gordon, but let's see him play a full week of games for New Orleans before we start talking about jersey retiring.
Already Retired: Gus Williams, Nate McMillan, Lenny Wilkens, Spencer Haywood, Fred Brown, Jack Sikma (all as Seattle SuperSonics)
Definitely: Kevin Durant
Possibly: N/A
Maybe Someday: Russell Westbrook, James Harden, Serge Ibaka
Long Shot: Gary Payton
Analysis: Durant is in that Derrick Rose camp of "fuck longevity, this guy's number is going up if he retires today," and it's similarly impossible to see him doing anything to destroy his relationship with the fans or franchise. Westbrook is almost there, and he has the contract extension to prove it, but his occasional contentiousness leaves the door open for him to have some in-franchise feud that mucks up the works for him retirement-wise. James Harden and Serge Ibaka are crowd pleasers that should see their numbers go to the rafters in OKC if they don't bolt in free agency, and produce consistently for a winning team, all decently likely (though by no means guaranteed) circumstances.
Of course, getting screwed here is Payton, whose decade-plus as a Seattle SuperSonic (including eight All-Star appearances and 10 trips to the playoffs) should make his jersey retirement a non-issue. Except that his retirement coincided almost directly with the relocation of the franchise to OKC, and they don't seem to like acknowledging the franchise's Northwest history any more than absolutely necessary. Chris Webber was lamenting during a Kings TNT broadcast the other day about how GP "doesn't have a home," worrying he might suffer the same fate if the Kings move, and it is indeed a sad side effect of an already sad Seattle situation.
Already Reitred: Dick Van Arsdale, Walter Davis, Kevin Johnson, Dan Majerle, Tom Chambers, Alvan Adams, Charles Barkley, Connie Hawkins, Paul Westphal
Definitely: Steve Nash, Amar'e Stoudemire
Possibly: Shawn Marion
Maybe Someday: N/A
Analysis: That's a pretty long list of retired numbers for a franchise that's never won a championship, so you have to think that both Steve Nash and Amar'e Stoudemire, the twin pillars of their half-decade-plus of Western Conference contention, will be shoo-ins for US Airways immortalization. Shawn Marion may have a trickier path there, despite playing just as long in Phoenix as Nash or Amar'e and arguably being just (err, nearly) as important to the team's success over that span, mostly due to his constant bellyaching about being perceived as a third option, leading to his trade to Miami in 2008. He's got a real shot, but I wouldn't be hugely surprised to see the Suns raise Nash and Amar'e (and possibly D'Antoni as well) and then call it a day. It'd be fitting for The Matrix, wouldn't it?
Already Retired: Dave Twardzik, Lionel Hollins, Larry Steele, Maurice Lucas, Clyde Drexler, Terry Porter, Bob Gross, Bill Walton, Lloyd Neal, Geoff Petrie
Definitely: Brandon Roy
Possibly: N/A
Maybe Someday: LaMarcus Aldridge
Analysis: No team has been more generous with the jersey-retiring than the Blazers, hanging the jerseys of just about everyone associated with the 1977 championship team from the Rose Garden rafters, down to the team waterboy and scoreboard operator. Brandon Roy never won a championship, but with injuries forcing his tragic retirement at the age of 27, it's hard to imagine the Blazers not paying proper homage to the player who brought Portland out of the Jail Blazers era by putting his No. 7 in the rafters. LaMarcus is most likely to be the next in line, though he might need to win at least one playoff series in his time as a Blazer to build on the success that Roy raised the possibility of.
And Greg Oden … well, maybe they should just retire that guy's jersey out of consolation. Something has to go right for this guy eventually.
Already Retired: Nate Archibald, Mitch Richmond, Chris Webber, Bob Davies, Maurice Stokes, Oscar Robertson, Vlade Divac, Jack Twyman, Sam Lacey
Definitely: N/A
Possibly: Peja Stojakovic, Mike Bibby
Maybe Someday: Who knows?
Analysis: Yeah, that's a surprisingly long list of names for a franchise without a great history of winning, but it might be a while before anyone adds to it. The retirement of Chris Webber and Vlade Divac's numbers from the Rick Adelman era of extended Sacramento success leaves the door open for Peja Stojakovic and Mike Bibby to join them one day in the ARCO rafters, but neither are shoo-ins, and frankly, we don't know how much longer the team is even gonna be in Sac-Town. Meanwhile, the Kings roster is littered with guys who could come to define the franchise in that eventual-jersey-retiring ways — Tyreke Evans, DeMarcus Cousins, Jimmer Fredette — but the team might have to win more than 25 games in a season before such honors can be considered for any of those guys.
Already Retired: Johnny Moore, Avery Johnson, Bruce Bowen, James Silas, Sean Elliott, George Gervin, David Robinson
Definitely: Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili, Tony Parker
Possibly: N/A
Maybe Someday: N/A
Analysis: Anyone wanna argue with Duncan, Ginobili or Parker, considering that Avery Johnson, Sean Elliott and Bruce Bowen are all already in there? Didn't think so. With those three in, though, that should close the books on the four-time champion Spurs. Helpful as Michael Finley, Stephen Jackson and Fabricio Oberto might have been to those title teams, Alamo immortality does not await any of them, and it's hard to see any of the other guys on their current roster getting there without four more championships coming to San Antonio. 10 retired numbers is still pretty damn good for a post-merger ABA team, though.
Already Retired: Adrian Dantley, Pete Maravich, Larry Miller, John Stockton, Jeff Hornacek, Karl Malone, Darrell Griffith, Mark Eaton
Definitely: N/A
Possibly: Deron Williams, Andrei Kirilenko
Maybe Someday: Paul Millsap
Analysis: Another team with a lot of hanged jerseys despite never having won a championship, which perhaps helps the chances of Deron Williams, who led the Jazz to the playoffs four straight years and was briefly considered the best point guard in the game, of getting up there, Still, his untimely exit from Salt Lake — he was traded halfway through 2010-11, after rumors of a feud with the just-fired Jerry Sloan and prognostication that D-Will would not resign in Utah — might mean that Andrei Kirilenko, a 10-year Jazzman without Deron's gaudy stats but with a less-checkered PR reputation, actually has a better chance of becoming a Utah NBA immortal.
I'd say AK-47 gets it for sure for being there through the good times and bad, and Deron probably eventually will too for bringing the Jazz back to relevance in the post-Malone/Stockton era. Beyond that, it's not impossible to see a route for gritty power forward Paul Millsap getting there, even ahead of the man he spent years understudying for, Carlos Boozer. Another five years of fine production in Utah, a little team success and the fan favorite should have a pretty compelling case.


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This might be the quickest-ever Saturday Morning Afternoon Tuneage – just a hastily-jotted note because a) I've been completely negligent in posting lately, and b) the electro-garage sounds from Martin Richmond's MRDC are just too good not to share:
After you're done listening to Timecode here (thanks to Magnatune's nifty little embeddable player), you can buy the album DRM-free, in MP3 or master-quality FLAC format.
I've got a few new posts waiting in "drafts" for a rainy day (hey, wait a minute, it's raining now) but with a living room remodel going on, a dining room remodel pending, and a lot of long days at work these past few weeks, they've had to wait. Hopefully I can get them cleaned up and published soon!
Update: Oops! Forgot to mention: Today (6/28/08) only, you can download a free copy of the title track from Timecode by pointing your browser over to http://magnatune.com/today/
Thanks for the promo Dave ! Just doing a search on Bing and found this. I'd like to invite to check out my site ( mrdc-music.com ) the only place you can get my new album " Infomusication"


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CCP Games will launch an open beta for its PS3 exclusive Dust 514 on Jan 22, the company has announced.
The Iceland based MMO specialist has been working on its ambitious free-to-play shooter for more than three years. The console game is designed to interact with PC-bound Eve Online customers, with both groups strategising battles and trading equipment.
Early this year, CCP Games managed to merge the server tech for both Dust 514 and Eve Online, paving the way for a new kind of cross-system communications.
"By uniting Dust 514 and Eve Online on the same single-shard server, CCP has accomplished something unprecedented in videogame history: a single persistent online universe of incredible depth and scale that bridges the PC and console platforms in real time," the company said.
CCP chief executive Hilmar Petursson added: "The launch of the Dust 514 open beta is another step towards our long-term vision for CCP and Eve.
The monetisation model for Dust 514 is to provide the game for free and offer customers various additional items at a cost. A new Mercenary Pack, worth $20, has appeared on Sony's PlayStation Store.
SCEA president Jack Tretton said in a recent video interview that the Dust 514 release date is in October, though this hasn't been officially confirmed.