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After completing a successful four-year career on Miami's track & field team, Layne Baggett will serve as Miami's Director of Track & Field Operations for the women's program in 2013-14. While on staff, she will coordinate travel plans for the team, work on recruiting materials and help around the office. She will handle the filming of practices and meets, as well. Baggett will also work towards her master's degree in kinesiology and health while working with the Miami track & field and cross country program.
2012-13: NCAA Regional Qualifier ... named Most Outstanding Track Performer at MAC Outdoor Championships ... First-Team All-MAC (outdoors) ... two-time MAC Track Athlete of the Week (outdoors) ... Indoors, set the school record in the 60m hurdles, clocking 8.45 at the GVSU Big Meet to earn second ... placed fourth in the 60m hurdles at the MAC Indoor Championships (8.50) ... clocked a personal-best 60m dash time of 7.69 at the MAC meet, placing ninth, while the time ranks her sixth in school history ... owns nine of Miami's all-time top-10 60m hurdles times ... won the 60m hurdles at the IPFW Mastodon Opener. Outdoors, won the 100m hurdles for the third straight year at the MAC Outdoor Championships in 13.32 ... placed fourth in the 100m dash at the MAC Championships and also helped Miami win the 4x100m relay MAC title as the team clocked a school-record 45.29 ... posted a personal-best 100m dash time of 11.68 in the MAC prelims, which ranks her second in school history ... at the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds, advanced to the quarterfinals, placing 14th in the first round in a school-record time of 13.28 ... finished 17th in the NCAA quarterfinals of the 100m hurdles (13.42) ... finished second in the 100m hurdles at the famed Drake Relays (13.47) ... was first or second in every 100m hurdles race she ran during the regular season, including winning at the Sea Ray Relays (13.31) when she also ran on Miami's winning 4x400m relay team that clocked a then-school record time of 3:39.82 ... posted six of the eight fastest 100m hurdles times in school history during the year.
2011-12: NCAA Regional Qualifier ... First-Team All-MAC (outdoors) ... Second-Team All-MAC (indoors) ... Indoors, competed in the 60m dash and the 60 hurdles ... won the 60h at the Mastodon Opener in a time of 8.71 ... won the 60h at the MAC Indoor Championships with a career best time of 8.49 ... set a personal record with a 60m time of 7.71 at the MAC Indoor Championships. Outdoors, won the 100h at the Billy Hayes Invitational in a time of 13.87 ... posted a career fast 200m time of 24.73 at the All Ohio Championships (3rd place) ... set career bests at the MAC Outdoor Championships in the 100 hurdles with a time of 13.56 (1st place) and the 100m dash in a time of 11.70 (6th place).
2010-11: First-Team All-MAC (outdoors) ... Second-Team All-MAC (indoors) ... indoors, was the runner-up in the 60m hurdles at the MAC Indoor Championships in 8.59 after qualifying first in the prelims with a personal-best time of 8.54 ... took second in the 60m hurdles at the Ball State Quadrangular (8.71) and the Bowling Green Challenge (8.93) ... posted a personal-best 60m dash time of 7.79 at the Findlay Oiler Opener, giving her fourth place ... clocked a personal-best 200m dash time of 25.83 at the All-Ohio Indoor Championships to take 13th. Outdoors, won the 100m hurdles at the MAC Outdoor Championships in a wind-aided personal-best 13.77, which was a Miami season best as well ... also ran on Miami's 4x100m relay team at the MAC meet, placing fifth in 46.54 ... won the 100m hurdles at the Billy Hayes Invitational in a wind-aided 14.26 and was on the winning 4x100m relay team at the meet that clocked 46.58 ... also won the 100m hurdles in 14.31 at the Vanderbilt Black & Gold Invite ... clocked a non-wind-aided personal-best 100m hurdles time of 14.25 to take third at the Miami Invitational ... recorded a season-best 100m dash time of 12.50 at the Black & Gold Invite, placing sixth ... ran on Miami's season-best 4x100m relay team that clocked 46.32 at the Mississippi Open to claim sixth.
2009-10: Indoors, recorded a career-best time of 8.67 (also a RedHawk season best) in the 60m hurdles at the MAC Championships (2/26/10) where she took fourth place ... her time ranks her fifth in school history ... ran a time of 8.88 in the 60m hurdles to take second place in the All-Ohio Championships (2/13/10) ... also competed in the 200m at the BGSU Challenge (1/16/10). Outdoors, posted a Miami season-best 100m hurdles time of 13.95 at the MAC Championships, giving her a third-place finish (5/15/10) and ranking her sixth in school history ... took runner-up honors at the Vanderbilt Black & Gold (3/27/10) in the 100m hurdles and was third in the Billy Hayes Invitational (5/7/10) and the All-Ohio Championships (4/17/10) in the 100m hurdles ... recorded a season-best 100m dash time of 12.35 at the Miami Invitational (4/10/10), where she was fourth ... ran on Miami's winning 4x100m relay team at the Miami Invitational in 46.93 ... also helped Miami take fourth in the 4x100 at the MAC Championships.
High School: Lettered four years in track under coach Nick Bulat ... top 100m hurdles time was 14.44 and best 300m hurdles time was 45.01 ... won the PIAA state championship in the 100m hurdles for class AAA in 2008 ... was the 100m hurdles district champion all four years in high school ... also won the 100m hurdles WPIAL conference crown multiple years ... earned four letters as an outside hitter in volleyball as well ... helped lead volleyball team to a league title in 2006 ... was a member of National Honor Society and earned Honor Roll.
Personal: Born in October of 1990 ... daughter of Cheryl and Michael Baggett ... dad, Michael, played basketball at Duquesne.


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Thanks gentlemen.
Sadly, this gem won't be on the radio but is a perfect example of what makes TP&HB timeless.
Looking forward to the new album and I love every bit of how Anthology was put together.
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Jerry Buss wrote:One of the biggest reasons I bought the Lakers was to beat the Celtics …..you just got it into your soul that you couldn't stand the Celtics anymore
karacha wrote:Pau, I am almost speechless. But I'll make an effort and post something.
Next time when a reporter asks you about being on the bench -- especially in crunch time -- feel free to tell them you deserve it. You are almost as slow as big Z was in his last years in the league. You have absolutely no lift. You have showed a 1-inch vertical last night when you tried to take it to the basket. You started shooting hooks with your feet planted to the ground.
You defensive efforts are almost non-existant. You can't protect the rim and are allowing easy layups. Without Dwight, our interior defense looks pathetic and guess whose responsibility that is? It's not just that you can't do it physically anymore, you are not even showing the effort. At least that's how it looks like. It's sad.
Please do not complain about the bench thing ever again. You should've stopped some layups there. You got 37 minutes and got 5 rebounds, and you played without Dwight late in the game. In comparison, Dwight got 14 with a bad back and a busted shoulder BTW. 5 of which were offensive.
You're 7-1 and you shot under 50% from the field. Your FT shooting is beyond horrible right now.
That's all for now, but I'll be back with more later.
TIME wrote:(time to bust out the old Tin-Pau avvy)
khmrP wrote:TIME wrote:(time to bust out the old Tin-Pau avvy)
can someone make one of Artest as Scarecrow cause he's need a brain
MINNEAPOLIS -- Ricky Rubio is standing up for his fellow Spaniard Pau Gasol, saying he doesn't think it's fair that the Los Angeles Lakers are bringing Gasol off the bench this season.
Rubio was asked about his close friend Gasol on Thursday, one day before his Minnesota Timberwolves were scheduled to host the Lakers. The two talk often during the season and seek each other out during tough stretches.
It's been a difficult season for Gasol, who was coming off a dominant performance for Spain at the London Olympics. He's missed big chunks of time with tendinitis in his knees and a concussion and hasn't seemed to find a role in Mike D'Antoni's offense. D'Antoni has been starting journeyman Earl Clark in Gasol's place, something that Gasol and Rubio don't like.
"He proved to the league he is one of the best," Rubio said. "He can pass. He can shoot. He can rebound. He can do a lot of things. I think if you use him in the right way he is a top player in this league. If they don't want him, we are more than welcome to get him."
Gasol has been the subject of trade rumors for the last few seasons now, much to the chagrin of Kobe Bryant, who has openly campaigned not just to keep one of the league's most gifted post players, but to continue featuring him on offense.
"It's been the last two years that it seems like they don't want him, but actually they need him," Rubio said. "He's a great player. He can do a lot of things and he had some issues with the knees, too. It's been a lot of years without resting for him. But he's a veteran. He knows how to play."
The Timberwolves have often been mentioned as a potential landing spot for Gasol. Wolves coach Rick Adelman has long been intrigued by the possibilities of a Gasol-Kevin Love pairing in the frontcourt, seeing similarities to the Chris Webber-Vlade Divac tandem that he employed to great success with the Sacramento Kings.
But the Wolves have been decimated by injuries this season and are 17-25, a distant 12th in the Western Conference, so making a trade for a highly paid veteran like Gasol seems like a stretch. The 32-year-old Gasol is making $19 million both this season and next, a big salary that makes it difficult to trade him.
"It's hard, when you are hearing things with the rumors that you are going to be traded, to be focused," Rubio said. "Like he says, he's a professional and he's been playing for a long time and he's going to keep doing what he doing."
Gasol is averaging a career-worst 12.8 points per game and is shooting a career-low 44.8 percent during this messy Lakers season. Not normally one to vent publicly, Gasol has complained about his role, most recently when he was benched for the entire fourth quarter of a win over the Hornets.
"Well, you know, `all for one' didn't last (very) long, did it?" D'Antoni quipped to reporters before the loss to Phoenix. "Forty-eight-hour shelf life. That's not bad. We'll take what we can get."
It's been one thing after another for D'Antoni and the Lakers, who were considered one of the favorites for the title after acquiring Dwight Howard in a trade in the offseason. Mike Brown was fired five games into the season, with D'Antoni getting the job over Phil Jackson. Howard hasn't been his usual dominant self for much of the year while recovering from a back injury last season and also has been bothered by a right shoulder injury over the last month.
Howard aggravated his shoulder injury in a loss to Phoenix on Wednesday night. The Lakers announced that he was evaluated on Thursday and is considered day-to-day.
The Lakers have shown signs of life in the last week, with consecutive victories over the Jazz, Thunder and Hornets. But they're still just 20-26 and in 10th place in the West, four games behind Houston for the eighth and final playoff spot.
noobiew wrote:Did Minny offer Derrick Williams and Nikola Pekovic still on the table ?
Pau Gasol for Shawn Marion, Chris Kaman, Dahntay Jones
A possible spark for two of the most disappointing teams in the NBA. The Los Angeles Lakers and the Mavericks have shown signs of life in recent weeks, but they're going to need a lot more than that to dig themselves out of the holes they're currently in. This could be a game-changer for both.
For the Lakers, it satisfies their two main priorities: adding speed and shooting around Dwight Howard while not taking on any more additional long-term salary. Marion is signed for only one more season, while Kaman and Jones are on expiring contracts. Marion is 34, but his game has aged well. He's been the Mavericks best player this season and he's the ideal small-ball 4 for Mike D'Antoni's system. Marion and Jones would dramatically improve the Lakers team speed (kind of a sad when you can say that about two 10+ year NBA veterans in their 30's), while Kaman could be useful in limited minutes as Howard's backup.
For Dallas, it's a belated acknowledgement of reality. Dwight Howard isn't coming and Chris Paul isn't either. You think "Cliff Paul", State Farm spokesman, is happening in Dallas? You think Adidas wants Howard to leave the most high-profile franchise in the NBA? Gasol has had a tough season, but he's still only 32, and he has the size and skill to age as well as Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett have, if he can play center. The Mavericks would need to add some speed around them in the offseason, but the Gasol/Dirk tandem is their best chance of throwing together one more elite team around Nowitzki before it's too late.
Kit wrote:Let's sign Kmart. At least he is tough.
If they don't want him we will gladly take him
Chillbongo wrote:There is probably a thread on this somewhere, but Ricky Rubio openly commented on Pau's frustrations and said something to the effect ofIf they don't want him we will gladly take him
All right Mr. GM Rubio, Just throw in K-Love and first rounder. You get Ebanks.
Jerry Buss wrote:One of the biggest reasons I bought the Lakers was to beat the Celtics …..you just got it into your soul that you couldn't stand the Celtics anymore
easyguy wrote:Kit wrote:Let's sign Kmart. At least he is tough.
Stop with trading for older dudes, look at our younger guys, Clark and Hill, they have a lot more potentials than Kmart.
phoenixrisingla wrote:I've been a Gasol supporter almost the entire time, but there's something wrong. Not sure if it's motivation or his body starting to break down, but what limited mobility he had in his prime looks even worse.
It's a layup drill on us any time he's out there by himself and the worst part is I dont think he realizes it.
borri wrote: It's been 3 str8 years now that his D has gone from barely acceptable to now....total turnstyle.
GoldenKnight wrote:Today is the 5th anniversary of the Pau for Kwame trade. Crazy how its been 5 years & 2 championships later.
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Next weekend hundreds of mountainbikers from all across the UK will descend on the town of Machynlleth, nestled in the beautiful Dyfi valley, to participate in one of the highlights of the Welsh MTB calendar - The howies Dyfi Enduro, which after more than a decade has become the fastest selling and arguably most loved MTB event in the country.
Come rain or shine the course promises 60km of the best trails around and a fantastic atmosphere the whole weekend. Some long, long climbs are more than made up for by the stunning views and fast, whooping, white knuckle descents, mixed up with miles of fantastic singletrack and entertaining trailside shenanigans to take your mind off your tired legs.
In previous years the course has featured a brass band, a group of cheerleaders, a Welsh rock band, Darth Vader and a Star Wars ensemble reenacting battles from the movies, a wizard, a man playing a banjo and a wind and hailswept mountaintop rugby match. And every year there's a bar serving pints of beer just before the finish.
All in all, this adds up to our very favourite mountain bike event of the year and the excitement is starting to build in the office.
Ade, Hazel and I are starting to fine-tune our bikes. Bleeding brakes, oiling chains, choosing tyres. This year we're joined by our resident trail runner Chris, who manages the shop in Cardigan. He has borrowed a bike from a friend to see what all the fuss is about, although with a couple of 100 mile trail running races on his calendar we're half expecting him to shoulder the bike at the start and run the course.
This year the howies Dyfi Enduro is proud to be raising money for Aberdyfi Search & Rescue Team who will also be fundraising at the event on the day.
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Brilliant and entertaining, Outliers is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.
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Unusual take on a topic that is taken for granted. The author's voice enhances the message-highly recommended audiobook-perhaps my best book of the year!
"Captivating (if not an outlier)"
Regardless of what you ultimately think of the author's analysis, Gladwell is a masterful storyteller, weaving together interesting anecdotes from such diverse sources as plane crash research to hillbilly feuds to standardized math tests. That Gladwell narrates the audio book himself adds greatly to the listening experience. Critics will complain that his thesis is obvious (that opportunity, cultural inheritence and hard work play key roles in success), or that his examples are selective and ignore in turn outliers that don't illustrate his points -- or, somewhat inconsistently, both. But Gladwell's books are successful because he examines phenomena and topics of importance in an accessible and entertaining way. No one should mistake Malcolm Gladwell for a big thinker like, say, Stephen J. Gould, but Gladwell would be the first one to tell you that he's no outlier. Don't accept everything the author says as truth revealed, but do listen to this book -- it's one of the best non-fiction offerings available through Audible.
"Engaging, but overrated"
Outliers has many interesting statistical anecdotes sprinkled throughout, to be sure. My interest was held. But at its core, the book's central theme is simply "successful people are aided in their success by their families, culture, education and other chance factors. They could not have done it alone." This is not exactly a particularly profound revelation. Gladwell repeatedly asserts that most people think Bill Gates-type successes are simply due to that person's raw talent and little else. But is that really the case? Does anybody really think Bill Gates could have achieved what he did had he been born in Botswana, for example? What's more, while crediting these outside factors with making these "outliers" possible, he fails to note that in almost every case, hundreds if not thousands or even more other people had virtually identical birth situations, yet failed to achieve greatness. Gladwell's goal seems to be an attempt to take the shine off of society's great success stories by, in effect, claiming they just got lucky. But I think the formula for producing an outlier is more complex than that. Too often in this book, Gladwell seems to be profoundly stating the obvious.
Gladwell's narration of his own work is generally skillful and an easy listen.
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After many rave reviews, I expected to enjoy the book but I didn't. I thought the point that success is factored upon opportunity and having the support of influential ppl was obvious. And you don't need a scientific research to figure that out or there is a need to proof it. However, I think he forgot that opportunities can be pursued and not brought to you and that's one major factor of successful ppl. In some cases, opportunities is a greater factor while in some cases the personal drive plays a greater role. I still feel it cannot be generalized.
The 10,000 hrs rule is another ridiculous generalization and I am not convinced by his reasoning and neither do I see any meaning in such a finding.
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The content was entertaining and fascinating. A lot of "oh wow" moments. What was really good was Malcolm's read. He is an excellent reader--right on point with his inflection and cadence. I thought it had to be a professional reader.
Gladwell is a fine writer and this book, in the same style as Blink, explores the real factors that contribute to the success of those we think are so above and beyond us (Bill Gates, the Beatles, etc.). Gladwell makes it clear that their talent, drive, energy, and intelligence WERE key to their success but that these, alone, would not have done it for them. They needed unusual opportunities. In fact, the opportunities given them that were not given others were as important to their achievements as their personal qualities. This book helps reduce the "superstars" down to human level. If you had been given the opportunities these were, you might have achieved what they did or more!
"Riveting - enjoyed it much more than the paperback"
Malcolm Gladwell is a terrific writer; he's also an experienced and effective presenter. So when he's reading his own material it's a compelling package and I was totally hooked.
He's dug up some fascinating statistics to back up his overall hypothesis: when someone is exceptional at something it's not just a case of luck or hard work.
IT millionaires all born in the same 3-year period; high performers who all put in more than 10,000 hours of practice; entrepreneurs whose experience of being immigrants influenced who they knew and what they did - and many more fascinating examples.
I'll definitely be listening to this again.
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Mr Gladwell has a nice voice and is a natural storyteller, but unfortunately he cannot think straight for an extended period (such as a book). He contradicts himself: at one point, to succeed you need the 'right', well connected, parents (high IQ elementary kids) at another point the key to success (for New York lawyers in the 1970s) is to be born on the wrong side of the tracks (jewish immigrant). He has extraordinarily low standards of 'proof': having demonstrated that certain successes (Steve Jobs, Bill Gates etc.) got lucky breaks, he then breezily states, 'Now we have shown that circumstances are actually more important than raw talent'. I find this very irritating. The main thesis seems to be 'you need luck as well as talent'. Duh?? Is that a thesis or a statement of the bloody obvious? The three stars is because, despite all this, Outliers is quite listenable. It is so low powered and well read that you never need to hit the repeat button, which is handy if your hands are muddy (as mine usually are when I'm audioing).
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As a teacher I have spent years praising kids for being smart, then, however,they rely on that to wing the exams. now I praise them for the amount of hard work they do to achieve their goals and they do better.
Inspiring book, well read, and it has application outside its covers.
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If you've read Freakonomics, then you'll love this. Malcolm Gladwell delves deep into the reasons and circumstances around what makes some people more successful than others. The people and groups he highlights will surprise you - but more so you'll be amazed at what things had to align for them to reach that point of success. Easy to listen to, simply stated but very engaging it was hard to pause while listening on my commute to work.
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Fascinating book with lovely insights into the development of so-called Outliers. Well read by the author. If the subject matter piques your interest, it is worth the time listening.
"Essential reading."
A fascinating and thought-provoking book, with some excellent insights into human nature, and what goes into making great people great.
The narrator and the quality of the recording were very good.
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Its right up there in top 10
This is my first book related to the nature vs nurture debate and therefore I have no recommendations to make.
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I am really pleased I read this book. My mindset is changing & my vision has no limits.
Thanks to Sam Adeyemi (I hope to meet one day soon) for recommending this book.
"round in circle"
Never seem to get to the real point of the book in any concise way.
Never seem to get to the real point and title of the book in any concise way.
no it would not work.. good documentary thou
seem like self centred philosophy for his life rather than a completely thought through work. Some very interesting sections about how chance plays so much of a role in life, and why some people do better in certain fields, but can't real say that as well rounded Englishman I feel any way enlightened by this book. If I lived in a bubble, may be...
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So far the best Audiobook I have read. As an entreprenuer myself, I was interested to hear this take on success. Very interesting but doesn't recognise that successful people "don't let opportunities pass" and that this is just as important as his other points. Read it though, it is good.
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The only pro I see about using Iroquois would be that the course is closer. The Fun Farm is much more challenging. Last year Feldberg said that the Fun Farm was almost too easy to be used for an A-tier so I can only imagine what he would say about using Iroquois. Its MUCH easier than the Fun Farm.
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Oh God. Comparing himself to Bynum and Granger. Not good.
Glass half full:
Glass half empty... with a crack in the bottom:"I've talked to him already, just reacquainting and talking about his rehab and things of that nature. He said it's going really well. He was pretty upbeat about it.
http://www.nola.com/hornets/index.ss..._river_defaultGordon said: "It's almost like a disorder. There was a little bit of a bone bruise, and, you know, kind of like some of these other guys like (Andrew) Bynum and (Danny) Granger. Luckily my process will be shorter than that."
Oh God. Comparing himself to Bynum and Granger. Not good.
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Anybody else think that it is a little weird that Monty is just catching up with him now? I mean, this is supposed to be your star and every time Dell and Monty talk they act like they never speak with the guy and they are blindsided by what is going on with him.
I know they will say "We are just focused on the guys who are here", yada, yada, yada, but we have seen such poor communication on several occassions with these three. It's just incredibly frustrating on so many levels.
Speaking of frustrating, the game is about to start!
Monty doesn't surprise me, and you're off about Dell. He just mentioned like a week or two ago that they were monitoring it. And yeah, you know it's bad when you are fearing a game starting lol
In regards to Dell, I am referring to the offseason when he said that he hadn't been in contact with Gordon during that moretorium period and therefore hadn't talked to him about the Hornets plans with him
Biggest free agent decision of your career, you are going to dedicate 58 million to the guy, and you don't call him and let him know your plans? Just odd and it wasn't how they worked with CP3. They talked to him about everything, sometimes multiple times a day
"I don't know if people know I dislocated my pinkie finger. And [Tyreke] told me, 'You wanna go home or you wanna be here?' I want to be here. And he said, 'All right, then go tape it up and let's play. Let's go. We not stoppin' at no stores. Straight gas. That's what we do, just keep going.'"
Im still in disbelief that we gave this dude money.
I keep waiting to wake up and see that this didn't "Really" happen.
I think some of that was posturing and I also remember that after the fact we were told Gordon's agent asked them not to talk to Gordon. But to your main point, I can't imagine the same lack of communication happening with any other star player around the league short of the crazy ones like Cousins.In regards to Dell, I am referring to the offseason when he said that he hadn't been in contact with Gordon during that moretorium period and therefore hadn't talked to him about the Hornets plans with him
The comments on there.... lol
Honestly i was shocked to see him standing and CHEERING for his "teammates" last night. He gained a couple points with me for that fact alone.
Seriously, it was the 1st time since we traded for him he actually looked engaged on the bench.
I know it doesn't mean much but we'll see. It's the little things
He was actually paying attention?!?! HOORAY!.....
Don't get me wrong i don't think it means much but I gave him a few points for it. That's all.
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Gordon's meniscus (fibrocartilage) is fine, so he's clearly having problems with his hyaline cartilage (or articular cartilage), which is what covers the tips of your bones and provides that smooth glide in the knee joint. What hasn't been said is if it's the articular cartilage covering the tip of his femur, tibia or behind his patella (knee cap).
A lot of you fans are uneducated. The cartilage is a tricky material. It's totally avascular, which means it has no blood supply like other organs, which means it takes longer to heal. This is a crucial time for Gordon. IF he does further damage, he could need micro-fracture surgery to create new articular cartilage (the newly created articular cartilage isn't as good as the original though). IF his condition is anything like Andrew Bynum's, it means his articular cartilage is a little soft or in a "weakened state". That's probably where the bruising and swelling came from.
Gordon is doing the right thing. He's strengthening the quad, which is major to the health of his knee joint. He's also giving his knee rest, which is clearly what it needs. I think it's good that he hasn't played on this, making it worse.
It sucks, but it is what it is. People will just have to be patient. He'll come back 100% and avoid any future problems if he stays patient.
Now I feel all jerky for blowing up on him.
Eh. I'll remain vindicative though.
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I don't know how you can't get excited about playing for Monty - he is Old School and I think the players respect that more than anything. He might drive some people nuts with his player combos, but who cares, IF Monty told me to walk in a tub of lava for a halftime show I would it and say "thank you for asking me".
Gordon can earn the fans back easy as pie. Get on the court when fully healthy and ball. Say the right things, and the rest will come.
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The initial version of the government's cybersecurity workforce framework is only a couple months old. But it's already having an influence on how agencies and academia think about how their training and education programs will respond to the nationwide shortage of cyber professionals.
The Cybersecurity Workforce Framework, developed by 20 different agencies, is based on the idea that the nation has to define exactly what a cybersecurity professional is before organizations can start to effectively bolster the quality and quantity of employees who design and defend critical technology systems.
The draft version of the document, developed a year ago, already has been used by agencies and universities to refine job descriptions, revamp training and education programs and help industry, academia and government to begin to reach consensus on the makeup of a modern-day cybersecurity workforce, said Peggy Maxon, the director for cyber education strategy at the Department of Homeland Security.
"Within the government alone, there were over 20 different standards or descriptions," she said during a panel discussion at a recent event in Washington sponsored by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance. "In order to stimulate and build a cybersecurity workforce that's going to protect our nation in this time of technology, we need to have a common understanding of what a cybersecurity professional is."
The framework tries to create a common lexicon to describe various job positions in the cybersecurity workforce, much of which is made up of job titles that don't contain the word "cyber." Systems administrators, lawyers, forensic analysts, requirements planners and training experts are among a few dozen specialty areas the framework lays out along with general knowledge, skill and ability requirements for each group.
Maxon said the main goal was to set up a system that's flexible enough to apply to any organization's existing organizational structure, but still allows the people who hire, train and educate cyber professionals to all speak the same language.
"This becomes a very, very powerful tool for everyone to use," she said. "It allows a common baseline so that everyone can say, 'Ok, that's the kind of skills I want.'"
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology published the final 1.0 version of the framework in late August as part of the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE). Agencies have been consulting with industry and academia for the past year to refine the 31 separate functional areas that currently make up the framework, but the government has been implementing it at the same time based on its draft form.
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The Office of Personnel Management already has made changes to personnel systems so that job descriptions map to the framework, and the plan also already has had in impact on cyber education at colleges and universities across the country, Maxon said.
"An education program co-led by the National Security Agency and DHS now has 166 two-year and four-year universities across the country that have been designated as centers for academic excellence in information assurance or cybersecurity, and they're linking their curriculum to this," she said. "So we're honing not just a definition, but we're driving education programs throughout the nation."
One of those centers of excellence is at Virginia Tech, where Dr. Charles Clancy, the director of the university's Hume Center for National Security and Technology, said the school is trying to build a cyber curriculum based on strong partnerships with both the tech industry and with federal agencies.
"A good example of that is our partnerships with a variety of federal agencies that allow us to get students security clearances while they're grad students working on projects," he said. "I think we've gotten 63 people cleared through that program in the past two years. What we've found is that if students get that mission sense and understand what's going on behind the curtain, they're much, much more likely to go into federal service as opposed to going to work in Silicon Valley."
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Maxon said cyber challenges across the country also are using the framework to define the parameters of their competitions.
In the Defense Department, the Defense Information Systems Agency is using the NICE framework to create common, joint cyber training across all of the military services.
"As we look at the various roles an individual would play, we're making the determination of what's the appropriate training, skills and knowledge for each of those people as we work toward the development of more modularized training," Roger Greenwell, DISA's field security operations director said in a recent interview with Federal News Radio.
Now that version 1.0 of the framework is out, Maxon said agencies will discuss it further at a three-day public workshop beginning Oct. 30 on the NIST campus in Gaithersburg, Md. That forum will help define the next version of the framework, which agencies expect to continue updating to match continuing changes in technology and workforce capability. The functional areas reflected in current version of the document will be updated each year, she said.
In December, NICE will go live with a new website that will serve as an implementation tool for the entire national cybersecurity education initiative.
Additionally, Maxon said the government intends to launch a database to help serve and integrate the training needs of the cyber workforce in industry.
"So that if somebody's out in California supporting the health sector, or in the middle of the country supporting the transportation sector, they can all go into this and find out where they can get training," she said. "For example, they can type in a specialty area like digital forensics, and we'll take them to educational and training curriculum that will help them grow in their career. We're very excited about all of this, and it will succeed if we can connect it to industry."
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An itemized list / cost breakdown, more often than not is used against the contractor when it is shared with other builders who will then beat it.
Good contractors use good people, and good people cost more. Just the cost of having the appropriate insurance / bond can be the difference between winning a job or losing it ot a 'lower bid'.
It is the rule of three; there is Good, Cheap and Fast. You can have any two: Good and Cheap, won't be Fast; Good and Fast, won't be Cheap; Cheap and Fast, won't be Good!
When comparing bids, it isn't the cheapest or the 'nicest' person you should select. You should understand why there is a large price difference (it shows there are gaps in your design program or what you have asked for specifically, which means there may be arguments later). If most of the bids are in line, and one is way high or way low, you want to know why before dismissing or selecting them.
A price-only decision almost always costs more in the long run.
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No. Heck no. Here's a good example. We very recently needed to find someone to install about 500 square feet of exotic wood flooring (we already have the materials). We contacted about 12-15 top-rated Angieslist contractors. Out of the few who did get back to us, we got 5 quotes, 2 of them were literally just over the phone. They "didn't feel it would be necessary to even see the space".
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We didn't "share our budget for this". Why would we? We asked them to bid the job. That's it. All of them should be well-qualified and they are all highly rated. We were interested in how THEY value their time/resources - for an apples/apples job.
Do you still think that you should tell them about your budget? Your choice. From my standpoint it isn't their business. I'm asking them to bid on a project. Invariably I'll get some very high bids, medium bids and a few more reasonable ones - ALL from "highly rated contractors".
Herlonginc's answer stated that it is not the contractor's job to pay for materials and labor to do the job. I say baloney - a reputable, established contractor has the funds (or a business operations line of credit) to "carry" the job between interim or partial payments, each of which should be keyed to completion of distinct easily measured mileposts in the job, and for a homeowner I would say should be in not more than 20% increments for jobs exceeding a week or so. For shorter jobs, then an initial payment, 50% completion, and completion would be normal. His cost of carry funds is part of his cost of doing business, and is figured as part of his overhead.Bear in mind when he is buying materials and paying labor, his materials he typically pays for on a 10-30 day invoice, and his labor typically a week or two after they work, so he is not really "fronting" that much money if you are giving him weekly or biweekly interim payments, on a typical residential job.
If he does not have the funds to buy materials (excepting possibly deposit on special-order or luxury items, which still typically are 10-30 day invoiceable to him) and hire personnel then he is a fly-by-night operation, and he should not be bidding that size job. You should never (other than MAYBE an earnest deposit of not more than the LESSER of 10% or $5000) let the payments get ahead of the approved/inspected work progress - typically payment should be 10-20% BEHIND the progress, with at least 10% retained at the effective end of work until final inspections and completion of the final "punchlist".
That promotes rapid continuation of the work, discourages the all-too common nightmare of contractors taking on more work than they can handle so they leave your job for weeks or months to go work on someone else's job (frequently to start that someone else's new job so he can get the job), and does not leave you out a tremendous amount of cash if he does not finish and you have to hire another contractor to finish the job. Remember, if you have to hire a new contractor to finish the job, he will charge you a lot more than the original bid to finish someone else's unfinished mess.
This may seem cynical, but having started in the construction business about 50 years ago and seeing the shenanigans that a lot of contractors pull you cannot be too safe. You have to remember contractors are like any other people - I would say maybe 10% are outright crooks, another 25% or so will pull a fast one or overcharge if the opportunity presents itself, maybe 30% will do the work but not any better than they are forced to, about 25% are good conscientious reputable workmen, and the last 10% or so are really spectacular - conscientious, fair, and efficient craftsmen. This top 35% are the only ones you should have bidding in the first place. Therefore, only get bids from long-term reputable firms (so you shake out the marginal short-timers with less experience and also generally less ability to finish the job on budget and schedule), only those that have good RECENT references, and preferably with excellent word-of-mouth recommendation from people you know and trust. That way, you are starting right off with the cream of the crop, so hopefully whichever one bids low should be a good choice.
NEVER start with bids, then check the references of the low bidder - why even consider a vendor or contractor who you do not have faith in from the start ? Get references and short-list you possibles BEFORE you ask for bids.
Low bids - that is another matter - commonly the low bidder is NOT who you want, especially if he is significantly lower than several others, which might mean he is desperate for work, made a math error, or did not correctly figure the entire scope of work. You want a reasonable bid with someone you connect with and trust - that is worth a lot more in the success of the job than the absolute lowest bid.
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I should have done more research about three season rooms. This room came with single pane windows and the room is too hot in the afternoons without air conditioning and a fan. It is too cold to use past Thanksgiving, but I expected this. I should have asked for double paned gas filled windows.
The salesman will assure you that he will be with you all the way but he means by phone. Get a price on any changes, no matter how small, you make after signing the contract. Get specifics on the dimensions of the interior of the finished room. My room is 5 inches shorter than I was expecting.
The electrical was sub-contracted but the electricians were easy to deal with.
If you ask a lot of questions and get it all in writing and get a second estimate, you will be fine with this company. The salesman over sells the customer service though. It's good but not beyond the norm--from my experience. And I'm not sure they are the cheapest either if that is a consideration.
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Province: Toulon, France (since 2013), previously Western Province (2010-2013), Golden Lions (2004) and Blue Bulls (2005-2009)
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Test debut: 20 November 2004 vs England in London, aged 21
Total tests : 106
Tour matches: 2
Total Springbok matches: 108
Win ratio: 71-32-3
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Vasectomy is currently one of the most common methods of sterilization in the United States. After your vasectomy, if you change your mind about having children, there are two procedures that can help you have a child with your partner. The two options are: a vasectomy reversal or sperm aspiration prior to in vitro fertilization (IVF). Your doctor can help you choose which procedure is better for you and your partner based on:
The first thing to do is see a urologist. A urologist is a doctor who specializes in medical care of a man's reproductive organs. Your urologist will take your medical history and do a physical examination to make sure you have no other health issues that would affect your fertility. Your partner should also see her doctor to make sure she has no fertility issues.
There are two types of vasectomy reversal procedures. The procedure used depends on the area of the male reproductive tract that was blocked during your original vasectomy procedure.
Your doctor will decide which procedure is better for you during the operation. Both types of vasectomy reversal may let you and your partner have a baby naturally through sexual intercourse.
During this procedure, your doctor aspirates (gently suctions) sperm from your testicles. This procedure is usually performed under local anesthesia (with the use of numbing medication) in the office. It can also be done under general anesthesia (when you are put to sleep). A tiny needle is used to remove sperm directly from each vas deferens close to the testicle, or even directly from each testicle. Most men have some minor pain complaints after this procedure is completed.
The sperm is then used to fertilize your partner's eggs in a laboratory by using IVF. The sperm can either be aspirated the day of the IVF procedure or it can be removed in advance and frozen for a future IVF procedure. Because the quantity of sperm is small, its use for artificial insemination is not recommended.
When this method is used along with IVF, it is highly successful, especially if your partner is under 35 years old. There are several other advantages to this method. It may mean that it will take less time for your partner to get pregnant and you won't have to use birth control after a successful pregnancy. It is also a less invasive procedure for the male partner. There are some disadvantages as well. It is more expensive. If more than a single embryo is transferred, your partner may have more than one child at the same time. It is also a more invasive procedure for the female partner, and the procedure may have to be repeated if you want to have more children.
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