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Dir. Steve McQueen, UK, 2011, 101 mins
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale
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Brandon (Fassbender) is a thirty-something corporate drone living comfortably inNew York, balancing his busy job and a very active sex life. When his self-harming, wayward sister Sissy (Mulligan) turns up at his apartment unannounced,Brandon's carefully managed lifestyle spirals out of control. Both give utterly convincing, disturbing, and mesmerising performances. "We're not bad people," Sissy assuresBrandon, "We just come from a bad place."
McQueen uses a number of extended shots, held for just too long to be comfortable. Sissy's singing-for-her-supper in an upmarket bar to an audience, which includes Brandon and his boss David (Dale), is one of them. She sings a desperate, almost painfully slow, melancholic version of Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York". The prolonged close-up on Sissy's face for the duration of the song borders on unbearable. Brandoncries. It's emotional: one of a deliberately small handful of honest and intimate segments of the entire film: The polar opposite of both Brandon and Sissy in their daily behaviour. We've witnessed Brandonin a variety of bedroom poses with prostitutes, watched him viewing a lot of pornography; we've even see him use the toilet. Thus far there has been more screen time dedicated to his buttocks than his cheekbones; but Sissy singing and Brandoncrying is differently intimate. Shame is a movie about being unfulfilled, in a time and age where anything is possible. Her song is an innocent, timeless metaphor for the extremes to which Brandon and Sissy will take this. They are damaged, but why? It doesn't matter. Speculation about their background is allowed to run concurrently without a need to dilute the plot with it.
It's important to understand that, despite dubious morals,Brandonisn't a figure of disgust. To Fassbender's credit, he's a very likeable character: From time to time, he even comes very close to making tangible connections and we are cheering him on to succeed. But his sex addiction and obsessive compulsive disorder are too conscious a weight. His computer hard drive at work has been taken away, he masturbates in the office toilets, he is even on the prowl during his commute. A pretty young woman on his subway train returns his glances, coquettishly at first. It is one of a pair of scenes forming narrative bookends. She eventually flashes her wedding ring to ward him off. It's a red rag to a bull though, andBrandonstampedes through the station to try and find her.
Sissy is an emotional and physical mess throughout. It is intimated in a single line of dialogue that they shared a rough childhood. Despite acting as a significant catalyst that knocks Brandondeeper into chaos, Sissy is equally fascinating and fully realised, although her troubled "cutter" character, as well as her effect on Brandon, sometimes borders on cliché. Brandon's boss, whom she sleeps with in Brandon's bed, neglects his own family in order to hit on passing women. Disgusted and perhaps excited, certainly frustrated, by the noise, Brandonescapes for a run through the nocturnal streets: a beautiful tracking shot which shows a city filled with characters trapped behind glass, just out of Brandon's reach.
These central characters and their inability to find some lasting solution to what ails them is the crux of the film. Shame is a difficult watch, and some sceptics might suggest it is a gratuitous film that glorifies promiscuity. But despite a relentless abundance of sexual content, it's hard to argue that any of these encounters should have been taken out or toned down. McQueen is a provocateur and his characters' woes will stay with you.
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Hello, everyone! New here. Trying to start with the right foot. Some character sketches to say hi ^^
Hope you like and more gonna be posted. Looking forward to your thoughts.
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Hide this ad by registering as a memberJanuary 29th, 2014 #2MOre sketching...
February 1st, 2014 #3Nice start. My first tought is that it Seems like your avoiding to do faces I could be wrong ofcoarse. If not just trouw them in and dont be affraid. Practise faces and with your skill I think you would improve fast. Step out of your comfort zones that way you will improve and learn the most. Keep it up. And again Nice start!
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February 1st, 2014 #4Great start. Think about lighting. In your head, imagine exactly where the light is coming from and apply that to your entire figure. Right now, shoulders have different light sources from heads, heads have different light sources from bodies.
It's clear that you're imaginative, and willing to put in the time.
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February 8th, 2014 #6Some of the Practice: Faces And lighting! (30 mins to 1 hour.)
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February 8th, 2014 #7hello and welcome to CA
I like your textures\overall mood but without faces\anatomy they are incomplete
do faces, lots of em'; preferably thinking about how they are constructed (that is, skin over muscles over bones).
also construct simple human mannequins (Andrew Loomis has nice examples of those) and doing gesture studies.
April 13th, 2014 #8Some updates
May 2nd, 2014 #9Some updates. Hope you dig.
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Those last landscapes are beautiful! The mix of photo textures and painting is so cool! Keep posting!
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Do not listen to the cloaked faces, rather stay on this path.
Nice work. keep going.
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Sweet man, only thing that kinda stands out to me. Is that it seems like you're photo bashing, a lot. That's fine, because from what I've heard at least. It's common practice in the industry. But post #6 kinda tells the story, I think that you should focus more on the main part which is painting, drawing and fundamentals. There's no shortcut. And I am not trying to be mean or anything, I hope that you don't take it that way.
But post #6 showed a very gigantic gap in quality. You need to get out of your comfort zones and do things the hard way, everything else is just icing on the cake.
The reason why I say this is because people often shower each other with nice words and all, but that doesn't really help. If anything, being overly positive can be more harmful than good.
Work on your fundamentals and I am sure you'll see humongous leaps Soon™ ^^...
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the 2 before the last 2 are really awsome. cool background story can eveolve from it and the compositions are really nicely done
May 10th, 2014 #15Ow! Sorry for that! Didn't realized I didn't write that the post #6 are 30 to 1 hr pictures...
But yes, I'm totally in agree with your opinion. Reasons because I had a lot of Photobash is because my past jobs asked for it and until some point you tend to become what you do the most. Working on fixing that, tho
Thanks a lot! You're so kind
Thank you vey much!
Also, something I just finished.
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May 13th, 2014 #16Some more.
May 13th, 2014 #17Dude your images have a really amazing sense of mood and drama achieved primarily through you're lighting.
I recommend doing some studies of human faces though, at the moment it feels like they're definitely your weakest area.
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June 4th, 2014 #19Yes keep up the good work. Your ability to create atmosphere is really good.
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June 27th, 2014 #20enviros are awesome, more of those please
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Chico Marxism
Freedom isn't just another word for winning elections.
There is a scene in the Marx Brothers' film Duck Soup in which Mrs. Teasdale (the redoubtable Margaret Dumont), believing she is alone, begins undressing. When Chicolini (Chico Marx) emerges from under her bed, the following exchange ensues:
Mrs. Teasdale: I thought you left.
Chicolini: Oh no. I don't leave.
Mrs. Teasdale: But I saw you leave with my own eyes.
Chicolini: Well, who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?
George Lakoff is on Chico's side. To the Berkeley linguist-cum-Democratic guru, what matters are not the facts, but the frames through which the facts are viewed. As he assures us in his new book, Whose Freedom?, "frames trump facts"–that, if facts are inconsistent with frames, they will be ignored. In his view, what ails progressives is that conservatives are far more aware of their guiding assumptions and more self-conscious about using language to "frame" issues to their advantage–regardless of the facts. To regain effectiveness, then, progressives must fight fire with fire. Instead of arguing the facts, Lakoff says, they must substitute their frame for that of the conservatives and reclaim the concept of freedom–in his words, "America's most important idea."
Lakoff is entirely correct in placing freedom at the center of American identity and politics, yet like Chico, he ignores reality and only endorses as facts the assertions that are consistent with his worldview. Whose Freedom? could have been a provocative book from one of the few members of academia with real influence on Democratic leaders; instead, it is a jerry-rigged polemic built to fit Lakoff's political agenda. And that's a shame, because progressives can–and should–enter the debate about what freedom means in America today.
Lakoff's analysis–as previously laid out in his best-selling Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate–has proved appealing to many Democrats. Its underlying message is reassuring: Forget about rethinking anything except your rhetoric; there's nothing wrong with the party that a more self-conscious and aggressive articulation of the progressive frame can't cure. Indeed, Lakoff dominated the post-2004-election post-mortems and was showered with invitations to brief Democratic lawmakers and strategists.
Yet, as critics pointed out in reviewing his first book, there is a limit to how much analysis can fit into a frame; facts do matter. Lakoff is blind to this truth. For example, here's my favorite of Lakoff's assertions masquerading as facts: He blithely assures us that the percentage of "strongly progressive Democrats" equals that of "strongly conservative Republicans"–roughly 35 to 40 percent. Alas, surveys consistently show that conservatives outnumber liberals by a margin of at least three to two and have done so for the past three decades. According to the National Election Survey, liberals hover around 20 percent of the population, while conservatives typically score in the low 30s. The remainder (45 to 50 percent) describe themselves as moderate. This asymmetry, a basic structural feature of contemporary politics, helps define the arithmetic of party competition at the national level. Because the Democrats' base is so much smaller than that of the Republicans, they must win not just a majority, but a supermajority, of the voters in between. John Kerry received almost all the liberal vote and about 55 percent of the moderates; it wasn't enough. Unless conservatives are so demoralized that they don't turn out, Democrats need upward of 60 percent of the moderate vote. And a Berkeley-style "progressive" agenda is unlikely to get them there.
In addition to ignoring facts, Lakoff underestimates their power; facts can–and do–trump frames. Take Iraq. No war has ever been more deliberately framed than the 2003 U.S. invasion, and it initially enjoyed strong public support. But facts on the ground proved inconsistent with the expectations the Bush Administration's frames had engendered. Weapons of mass destruction were nowhere to be found; our troops were not greeted as liberators; and Iraqis seemed more interested in settling ethno-religious scores that in embracing the democracy we so earnestly proffered. And, famously, the "mission" turned out to be anything but "accomplished." As the months went by and reality sank in, Americans turned against the war in droves.
Lakoff believes that Chico-style politicians can get away with their misdeeds indefinitely, if only they frame them correctly. But they can't; they can deny reality for only so long before citizens begin trusting the evidence of their own senses.
While his approach in answering the question "Whose Freedom?" is deeply flawed, Lakoff's point of departure–that freedom "defines what America is"–is one with which I agree. It was no accident that Franklin D. Roosevelt described the Allies' war aims as the "four freedoms." It was to ensure the survival and success of liberty that John F. Kennedy declared that we were prepared to "pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe." Yet during the past generation, as liberals and progressives have abandoned the language of freedom in favor of justice, equality, and diversity, conservatives have appropriated it. Freedom, at home and abroad, was the theme of George W. Bush's second inaugural address, which Lakoff rightly regards as a document meriting close analysis. In response, thinkers who cannot accept the conservative interpretation of freedom, such as University of Arizona political scientist John Schwarz, are trying to take back the term. Lakoff argues (and again I agree) that the definition of freedom has become a matter of political contestation and is now "up for grabs."
This tug of war is no accident, Lakoff argues. Decades ago, the British scholar W. B. Gallie posited that many concepts are "essentially contested"–that is, they can be fleshed out in many different ways. Philosophers distinguish between abstract "concepts" and concrete "conceptions": Equality is a concept; equality of moral worth or of opportunity are conceptions. And so for freedom: While individuals agree on the core concept, they disagree on how to specify it. In a public culture like ours, in which freedom occupies an honored central place, winning the conceptual battle is a matter of practical political significance.
Despite this complexity, however, Lakoff offers only the crudest of dichotomies. For him, there is conservative freedom, part of the "strict father" metaphor, and progressive freedom, embedded in the "nurturant parent" metaphor. And then there are "biconceptuals," who mix the two in different parts of their lives. That's it–a political periodic table with only two elements. But Lakoff barely even tries to show how conservative and progressive freedom, or their associated policy agendas, flow from these two elements and their combination. Instead, he asserts these connections over and over again on every page, as though repetition were a substitute for argument. The result is conceptual hypertrophy: Conservative freedom becomes a summary of everything he dislikes about conservativism, while progressive freedom expands to encompass everything he thinks is good about human beings and the world. And thus we learn that when nurturant values are identity-defining, freedom is (among many other things) "security and health." Disregarding Isaiah Berlin's dictum that "everything is what it is: liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice," Lakoff merges these and many other values into a conceptual blob. While freedom, so conceived, promises to illuminate the political landscape, it is in fact an example of Hegel's night in which all cows are black.
Among its other faults, this structuralist reductionism reflects a deep indifference to history. Well into the twentieth century, for example, many Americans continued to embrace a civic conception of freedom that emphasized participation in self-government and that differed fundamentally both from the rights-based conception that dominates today's progressive thought and the market-based conception of modern conservatism. Lakoff's assertion that his version of progressive freedom is "traditional" and has "always dominated American life" is breathtakingly wrong.
Inevitably, Lakoff's two-valued structuralism leads to a political outlook that can only be described as Manichean. Goodness and virtue are all on one side, evil and vice all on the other. The wicked conservatives understand causation as "direct," virtuous progressives as "systemic." Accordingly, conservatives endorse individual responsibility (bad) while progressives invoke social responsibility (good). And thus we learn that the conservatives' "economic liberty myth" about "individual initiative, individual responsibility, and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" is "nonsense."
If Lakoff thinks that reframing the economic debate will persuade a majority of Americans to abandon the ideas of individual initiative and responsibility, he and I are living in different countries. There are even some (dare I say it?) facts that bear on this question. By are margin of two to one, according to the Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project, Americans reject the proposition that success in life is determined by forces outside our control; by a margin of nearly seven to one, they endorse the proposition that lack of success is due more to individual than to societal factors. Sensible public policy, of course, recognizes the importance of both factors; achieving a sustainable new balance between individual and social responsibility was at the heart of, for instance, President Clinton's approach to welfare reform.
Lakoff's Manichean outlook also leads to outright distortion of the choices we face. For example, he quotes a line from President Bush's second inaugural, "Self-government relies, in the end, on the government of the self," a thought he characterizes as an "alien worldview" that is not only "radically different" from traditional views of freedom but also "frightening" and "extremist." Not so. The President was invoking a debate that goes all the way back to the founding of the American republic: Can liberty be preserved through the artful arrangement of individual and institutional self-interest, or does free government depend as well on certain traits of character–virtues–among its citizens? A traditional view is that some internalized restraint on the pursuit of self-interest and the expression of our passions–if you will, government of the self–is among those necessary traits. Far from being "alien," this is a position that many progressives–such as Louis D. Brandeis and Theodore Roosevelt–have espoused in the past, and one that today's progressives would do well to take more seriously than Lakoff does.
Despite Whose Freedom?'s deep flaws, the premise animating Lakoff's enterprise is valid and important: Because freedom is central to what defines us as Americans, a continuing political struggle to seize the high ground of freedom is inevitable.
At the heart of the conservative understanding of liberty is the presumption that government and individual freedom are fundamentally at odds. At the heart of the liberal vision must be a subtler but more realistic proposition: Public power can promote as well as threaten liberty.
Recall FDR's famous four freedoms: freedom of speech and worship; freedom from want and fear. Liberals need to understand that "freedom of" and "freedom from" have distinctly different structures and implications. "Freedom of" points toward spheres of action in which individuals make choices–for example, which faith to embrace or whether to endorse any faith at all. The task of government is to secure those spheres against interference by individuals, groups, or government itself. By contrast, "freedom from" points toward circumstances that (it is presumed) all wish to avoid. In such instances, the task of government is to immunize individuals against undesired circumstances, so far as possible. Here government acts to protect, not individual agency and choice, but rather individuals' life circumstances against outcomes that no one would choose or willingly endure. During the New Deal, for example, we made a collective decision that no senior would willingly live in poverty and that no senior should have to, and, in response, created Social Security.
The point is that any society that takes freedom from want and fear seriously has made a collective decision: Certain conditions are objectively bad; its citizens should not have to endure them if the means of their abatement are in hand; and individual choice is not a necessary component of, and may be a hindrance to attaining, these freedoms.
Not only can "freedom from" clash with "freedom to," but also A's "freedom to" may clash with B's. So when government protects the weak against the depredations of the powerful and acts to ward off, or break up, excessive concentrations of private power, it does not diminish, but rather enhances, liberty rightly understood.
Consider also that specific freedoms have conditions for their effective exercise, and liberal democratic government must act to ensure broad access to those conditions. As Stephen Holmes and Cass Sunstein argued in The Cost of Rights, our system of rights is a public good secured by government and administered by tax-funded courts. The rule of law is central to safeguarding liberty, and a central aspect of the rule of law is the guarantee of fair trials, including the right to "assistance of counsel" as provided in the Sixth Amendment. But many Americans are too poor to afford adequate defense, and pro bono work doesn't fill in the gap. So the government taxes the better-off to provide that legal defense. Such taxes restrict the freedom of those taxed, but does anyone seriously doubt that this use of government's taxing power enhances the sum of freedom in our country?
Unfortunately, few liberals are willing to make this case–but we must. To regain the initiative, in short, today's liberals must return to their historic mission of modernizing and promoting freedom. In this effort, they should be guided by three principles.
First, liberals must recognize that many of their traditional policy instruments hold the promise of advancing freedom as well as other goals. Social Security not only undergirds a decent retirement for the elderly, it expands their choices. If cold winters restrict their mobility as they age, they can consider leaving for warmer parts of the country. If seniors do not want to move in with their children, they can live independently as long as they are physically able.
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I basically agree with Lakoff, as well as apparently the author, on the importance of freedom in American political discourse. Despite his scorn of "armies of framing consultants," though, he could use some of his own.
For instance, somewhere in the middle of the piece, he started arguing for internalized restraint, which best I can tell is the diametric opposite of freedom. Eventually it became clear that he was talking about one person's interest vs another (a poor defendent vs a rich person,) but not before I got a little bit confused. In fact, that would be more of an example of external restraint than internal restraint. Maybe I'm nitpicking, but as long as we are talking about rhetoric we do have to sort these things out.
Iraq is the other main area where the author seems to doubt this argument on freedom. Despite his claims of being center-left, he seems to be trying to actually move to the right of the center-right architects of the war when he says that Bush thinks that "freedom is free." Being more hawkish on Iraq is basically the opposite of the progressive agenda lauded in the rest of the piece, and that's why he's having trouble fitting it in with this freedom concept.
Galston's opening spar against Lakoff's argument is the fact that the country is tilted to the right, despite the facts. But the author seems to agree with him that conservatives have been able to frame issues more effectively. I'm not sure what citing the country's political leanings is supposed to prove - as far as I can tell, it just proves, rather than refutes, this argument that the conservatives' framing has paid off.
I haven't read the book, so I can't evaluate the criticism that Lakoff doesn't follow his arguments all the way to their conclusion. But if Lakoff is deficient in that regard, that author of the review also doubts his own reasoning at certain points. A lot of the conservative criticism that the left lacks moral values can be addressed not by rolling back various kinds of freedom, but by holding firm to your beliefs, no matter what they are.
While I too found Whose Freedom to be overlong for its thesis and that Lakoff had a tendency to put everything in terms of "freedom", I think you misunderstand or distort his views about framing.
When you summarize Lakoff's view as "forget about rethinking anything except your rhetoric", you do a disservice. Lakoff is quite clear, that in order to develop frames for progressive ideas that are more effective than what we've been using, that you have to rethink the issues: back to basics of what are the motivating values and principles that lead to that policy you are promoting? what larger frame that is built on those values and principles helps frame the debate about your policy. The entire book is rumination of reframing many issues in terms of freedom.
And Lakoff certainly doesn't dismiss facts, when he points out that people tend to be convinced more by percieved values, principles and character than by facts. Facts help, but "frames trump" as he would say. To doubters, ask yourself why, then, do negative attacks on candidates character seem to be more effective at framing elections than facts? Swift-boating John Kerry vs Army records and medals awarded and actions taken on and off the battlefield.
It is true that, on occassion, facts on the ground are so overwhelming that no amount of framing will counter it, but let's be honest about the situation, such as Iraq -- it takes a long, long time to counter them. People are still running around with the conservative free-market fundamentalist economic frame from Ronald Reagan as their primary view of the economy ... from over 25 years ago! The fact that "trickle down" doesn't work have been known for years but only now are the consequences of income inequality becoming so overwhelming and of Iraq's costs becoming so obvious and the failures so enormous that, like any war, they can't be hidden forever.
Lakoff's point is that progressives can be more successful by adding to their arsenal instead of just waiting for the other guys to failures to be so extreme even the partisans admit there are problems.
The polling on conservative vs liberal identification has never been persuasive to me: most of these polls are "self-identification" polls ... and many people who hold "liberal" positions have been shamed into not liking to be called a liberal, depressing the self-identification label (see for example, http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=10438). Never-the-less, my belief is that the extreme "left" is smaller than the extreme right, but the reality is that most people are in middle/biconceptuals that hold some of both views.
Ironically, you make Lakoff's point perfectly about framing by pointing out that "liberals and progressives have abandoned the language of freedom in favor of justice, equality, and diversity" -- in other words, they have chosen weaker frames and need a better one.
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Series starts 12/29
Game 1: Thursday, December 29th | ||
Bulls | 108 | Final |
Kings | 98 | |
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Game 2: Tuesday, February 14th | ||
Kings | 115 | Final |
Bulls | 121 | |
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Coverage: WCIU
8:00 PM ET, February 14, 2012
United Center, Chicago, IL
Top Performers
Sac: D. Cousins 28 Pts, 17 Reb, 2 Ast, 3 Stl, 2 Blk
Chi: J. Noah 22 Pts, 11 Reb, 3 Ast, 1 Stl, 4 Blk
CHICAGO -- Luol Deng figures the Chicago Bulls will have to find creative ways to win as long as Derrick Rose is sidelined.
This wasn't what he had in mind. The Bulls will take it, though.
Deng came through with 23 points and a career-high 11 assists, and the Bulls escaped with a 121-115 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday night after a 19-point, fourth-quarter lead dwindled to two.
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"Missing Derrick, even though we're winning games, it's huge," Deng said. "He makes the game so much easier. When he's not there, you've got to work extra."
Joakim Noah added 22 points and 11 rebounds. Kyle Korver scored 18, hitting four free throws in the final 17.6 seconds. Carlos Boozer scored 16, Taj Gibson added 15 points, and the Bulls came away with the win -- barely -- even though Rose missed his third straight game with lower back spasms.
The victory clinched the Eastern Conference coaching spot at the All-Star Game for the Bulls' Tom Thibodeau.
DeMarcus Cousins led Sacramento with 28 points and 17 rebounds. Tyreke Evans scored 27, and Marcus Thornton added 23 points for the Kings, who made things extremely interesting down the stretch.
Two free throws by Evans with 19 seconds left made it 115-112. Korver answered with two of his own, but the drama wasn't over.
Thornton nailed a 3 to make it a two-point game with 14.8 seconds left, but Korver immediately hit two more foul shots to boost the lead to 119-115. Deng then hit two free throws with 8.8 seconds left to seal the win.
"I've yet to fear this team being down," Kings coach Keith Smart said. "This team has shown throughout the year that they have the ability to get back in games."
Winning them is a different story. Sacramento is last in the Pacific Division at 10-18 and is just 3-13 on the road.
This seemed like a mismatch despite Rose's absence, but the Kings hung with the Eastern Conference leaders even when it looked like Chicago had put this one away.
Sacramento was within eight in late in the third when Deng buried a corner 3 with just under a minute left. That started a 12-1 run that bumped Chicago's lead to 97-78, but the Bulls couldn't breathe too easily.
They did, however, let out a big sigh of relief in the end.
"They're a tough team," Evans said. "They play together. They run that high pick-and-roll good with the bigs. They ran it all night on us and got a lot of fouls. That's what killed us."
The dramatic win came on the heels of a 6-3 trip that matched their longest since the 1992-93 season, and they did it without their superstar point guard.
"I think our team has gotten used to guys being out," Thibodeau said. "It happened last year with our big guys and this year, it is more perimeter guys, so we have that all covered. We feel very good about our depth, and when we are down a man, the next guy steps up and does the job."
The question is: Will the injuries take a toll eventually?
Rose didn't have a target date for his return. Boston visits Thursday, and he wasn't sure if he'd be ready to play against Rajon Rondo and the Celtics. One thing was clear, though. Rose was certainly breathing a little easier.
A specialist confirmed Monday that there was no structural damage, and that was a big relief for him and a team eyeing a championship. This hasn't been an easy season for Rose even though he's averaging 22.0 points and 7.8 assists. Between the bad back and a problem with his left big toe, he's missed eight games this season after sitting out six over his first three years.
"I think the best thing you can do is try to get better from it," Deng said. "If we had a choice, we wouldn't want him to be hurt, but that's the situation. We really think that it will help us. Guys are stepping up. Guys are getting playing time. We'd rather have this problem now than later in the year."
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Veteran G Rip Hamilton, who remains sidelined by a right thigh injury, rejoined the Bulls after tending to a family issue. He posted on Twitter that his grandmother died. ... G Mike James signed a 10-day contract. He appeared in three games for Chicago before being waived on Jan. 28. ... Kings rookie Jimmer Fredette, nursing an upset stomach, did not play.
Team Stat Comparison
Points | 115 | 121 |
Rebounds (Offensive-Total) | 17-46 | 9-40 |
Assists | 21 | 33 |
Turnovers | 14 | 13 |
Steals | 7 | 6 |
Blocks | 4 | 8 |
Fast Break Points | 17 | 17 |
Fouls (Tech/Flagrant) | 21 (0/0) | 22 (0/0) |
Largest Lead | 5 | 19 |
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Game Leaders
Points | D. Cousins 28 | L. Deng 23 |
Rebounds | D. Cousins 17 | J. Noah 11 |
Assists | T. Evans 8 | L. Deng 11 |
Steals | D. Cousins 3 | L. Deng 1 |
Blocks | D. Cousins 2 | J. Noah 4 |
Team rosters: Sacramento | Chicago |
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Sacramento | Chicago |
02/15 @NY 7:30pm 02/17 @DET 7:30pm 02/19 @CLE 6:00pm 02/21 @MIA 7:30pm 02/22 @WSH 7:00pm |
02/16 BOS 8:00pm 02/18 NJ 4:00pm 02/20 ATL 4:00pm 02/22 MIL 8:00pm 02/28 NO 8:00pm |
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Another Rich Gang compilation leak, this one featuring Birdman, Tip and Lil Wayne. The album drops on July 23rd.
Stream Have It Your Way , the newest drop from Birdman which features T.I. & Lil Wayne . The cut was released on Friday, July 19th, 2013. Things are looking better for Birdman with each new release, which Have It Your Way has proven yet again. It's worthy addition to the impressive body of work Birdman has been developing over the years. We're looking forward to hearing what's next.
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"You know what it is, pimpin' king in the building
All about the millions, no time to play with children
Call me when you grown up, nigga, I'm an owner
Them Ferraris doin' doughnuts on the corner
I went for mine, nickels, dimes, choppers, .9s, .45s
Went to prison, did my time, got back out and still I shine
This year is mine, nigga, give it up, step aside


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Gettysburg is America's most famous battle. Fought on the first three days of July 1863, it was one of the largest and by far the bloodiest of the Civil War.
Yet the importance of this great conflagration cannot be measured in numbers alone, for Gettysburg also represented a pivotal moment in the war. The battle ended General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of Union soil, and never again did a Confederate army reach that far north.
The fierce action between the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac (at such places as McPherson's Ridge, the Railroad Cut, the Wheatfield, the Peach Orchard, Devil's Den, Little Round Top and on Culp's and Cemetery Hills) will be depicted with two competing commemorations projected to draw big crowds on this year's anniversary.
The Blue Gray Alliance will host its event on June 27-30, 2013. The Gettysburg Anniversary National Civil War Battle Reenactment takes place on July 4-7.
Gettysburg has been preparing to celebrate this milestone for a while, and many respected historians are getting ready to lend their voices to the remembrances.
In honor of the 150, we've put together an infographic. Without further ado, we present: The Battle of Gettysburg: A Civil War Sesquicentennial Infographic.


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- Project Promise Seniors Attend First Summer Camp This summer, Project Promise seniors participated in the Academy's first Project Promise Summer Camp.
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Looks like a bunch of new stuff has been tossed in to SolForge today.
Tournaments will allow players to compete with each other at their own convenience ("no waiting on other players to finish"), as well as guarantee prizes for all participants whether they win or lose. Draft Mode mixes things up a bit by pitting players against each other as they buildup their decks with randomly selected cards, with the incentive being that they get to keep all the drafted cards. New cards are also available, naturally, as well as a new Daily Rewards system. Lastly, SolForge has been made Universal, so it's no longer restricted to iPads and PCs. And of course it features cross-platform support, so you can access your game and account from any of your devices.
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The Stirling Food & Drink iPhone App has been developed by Stirling Council in association with local businesses from the Stirling Food & Drink Forum.
This App is a great resource and makes planning a bite to eat so much easier
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I've had writer's block for a year or two now, but I am pleased to say: it has gone with the wind! I've been able to write songs and poetry during this time, but no stories. Now, I've gotten back the ability to write a book I was working on before. I know I'm probably kind of young to be writing a book, but oh well. I've just been finishing the characters' biographies, and I'm planning on rewriting the chapters I had written before I came down with writer's block.
She patronizes me
Torments me
Pretends that she is so much better
Than I can ever be
She bruises me
Fighting me and trying to take control
My time living with this girl
Is taking its toll
She says
That I'm wrong
And she will always be right
She claims that she's strong
And all I can ever be is weak
According to her
I am the lowest of the low
If she could get rid of me, she would do so
(Note: I didn't write this poem myself; I've just found it on a lot of people's journals and thought I'd post it here.)
Have you ever loved someone
But knew they didn't care?
Have you ever felt like crying
But knew you'd get nowhere?
Have you ever looked into their eyes
And said a little prayer?
Have you looked into their hearts
And wished that you were there?
Have you ever felt their heartbeat
Okay, I have just decided that I am absolutely sick of pining over my crush from afar and I want to come out to her, or at least find out her opinion about gay people. But considering we're both in middle school and she probably doesn't know what to think about queers, I need some advice on whether or not to do it. And some advice on HOW to do it would be good, too. (I'd actually prefer the second one.)
For a while I've been convinced that my crush on this girl is completely unrequited and that she'll never like me back, but lately I've been hit with the Hammer of Happiness (or something equally cheesy) and I've seen some hints that show she just might have some sort of feelings for me. It may just be wishful thinking, BUT WHO CARES?? I've been in such a depressed funk over this girl lately that I could use some happy thoughts, no matter whether they're actually true assumptions or not.
I just got an email from a school social worker I was talking about starting a Gay-Straight Alliance with. I'm still in middle school, and she wants to know how I feel about starting one of these in this environment. Could I get your thoughts/opinions about this matter, please? I'd appreciate some feedback, since I'm having some difficulty in finding out what to say, or actually forming any opinions about this.
A song I wrote a while ago that basically sums up the greatest fears of a closeted LGBT person...
You live a good life
You're a popular kid
You're the ruler of the school society
Loved and respected by all
But one day
You fall victim to an old-fashioned
Slip of the tongue
You say the wrong thing
Your secret is revealed
That kid who dressed like you
Is following someone else's style
If you've read a journal entry I've posted that said I had a crush on three people, I have recently discerned that this is not true. I still have a full-fledged crush on my best friend, and it is NOT. GOING. AWAY.
I guess I was trying to ignore my feelings for her or whatever, but whether you look at it from a psychologist's point of view or not, the fact is, I STILL HAVE A CRUSH ON HER, AND I WANT IT TO STOP. It's crazy. I feel like a wuss every time I'm around her. I've liked her for two years now, and the feelings are still going strong. In fact, they're stronger than ever before, if that's even possible. The only other thing I'm saying about what I wrote in that last sentence is: puberty does wonders. That's it; I am most definitely NOT saying any more.
I've been requesting a bunch of books on my on-line library account. Now Annie on my Mind, Geography Club, Rainbow Boys, Keeping You a Secret, and Am I Blue? are all on my request list. This ROCKS!!
I've had a library account for a while, but as soon as I had it created, I forgot my PIN number. I've finally had it changed to something I can remember, and now I can order oodles of GLBT literature! Woo-hoo!
Yesterday, in my theater class, I set off the building's fire alarm. It was a complete accident, and I certainly did NOT mean to do it, and it turned out fine anyways. My instructor made a few calls and got everything fixed up, but good golly Miss Molly, I screwed up SO badly here. Plus, before class started and we were supposed to be studying our lines, I started goofing around and making a total fool of myself. I on-purpose-fully (how the heck do you say this?) kicked myself in the car when my mom was driving me home, just to make up for being an idiot. Argh.
I hate you
Your laugh
Your smile
The way you make me feel
When you look at me
The way it gets me high
The way it brings me down
I want
my sanity
(Well, this is one of the first poems I've written in a while. Most of the things I write are unfinished songs.
So...did you like?)
I have red highlights in my hair now. My hair is dark, so they look fantastically cool, in my opinion. I love my hair now. :) There was nothing wrong with it before, but now it just utterly rocks! *jumps up and down*
I have just discovered that my natural hair color is black. I thought it was dark brown before, but now, for some reason, my hair color has transformed into black. Or maybe it was black all along, and I just didn't notice? Aargh, confusing. My brain hurts. I can't believe I haven't noticed it before. I'm so weird.
*pretends to be TV announcer*
And now, we have the latest events in Utter Insanity's life! Blah blah blah blah, blah blah blah.
Okay, here's the actual entry:
I auditioned for a play this evening, and when my dad picked me up, he was reading the Calvin and Hobbes comic I had brought. When I got back into the car, I saw that this paper, which I had made sure was buried under my books and notebook and stuff, was facing up.
When I saw my crush outside of school today, I did an incredibly immature thing.
I teased her and said, "Stand up straight!"
Well, it's not like I kept badgering her with mean comments; I just said the previous one. And besides, her shoulders were bent over, and while her posture was okay, it wasn't exactly great. Aargh, I can't believe I did this. Only idiot second grade boys are supposed to do this kind of thing.
I hate crushes. Hatehatehatehatehate. My most recent one has been making me miserable.
I want to stop crushing on this girl. NOW. She is NEVER going to like me back, she is perfectly straight, she's a Christian, and she thought that the Gay-Straight Alliance I'm trying to start at my school sounded weird. And yet I get this fluttery, light-headed, soaring-up-into-the-clouds feeling whenever she WAVES at me in the cafeteria! Just one little motion of the hand makes me a sappy, drooling idiot. And here's the thing: I HAVE TO HIDE IT. I am NOT ready to come out yet, especially not at my stupid homophobic school. I hear jokes about gay, bisexual, and transgendered people EVERY DAY. It makes me feel like crap.


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