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January 28th, 2005 #1
My so-called Art
Thanks for looking. I'm hoping to improve, so I welcome any crits, comments and advice.
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why no reply ?
Your stuff is very great, above all your first picture..
Your ink rules
Keep it..!
February 10th, 2005 #3
Welcome to the Sketchbook section !
before i scrolled down and saw your inc stuff i could bet alot that you were a inker, and i was right
you have a very polished style, the last one fits my taste the best, alittle rough and "wild"
cheers, and post on !
February 11th, 2005 #4
OMG I got some replies -- I'm in total shock!
Shylone_Breath: Thank you for your comments. I think the reason I never got any replies is because my art is probably a little "boring". I need to spice it up with some blood, gore and weirdness
hurricane: Thanks for the warm welcome. Yeah, I'm a little anal about keeping my lines neat and tidy. I definitely need to loosen up!
February 11th, 2005 #5
sure u will improve man.. just keep drawing ..we improve evryday but we are just not aware of it
w0w man.. sweet shading good linework.. nice studies... u improve for sure man.. no doubt !
u allready got lotsa talent ... the only thing u need to do is.. sharpen it ..like a blade and it becomes an awesome tool..
just draw *and draw and draw.. draw..draw *!
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February 22nd, 2005 #7
-sideshowbob- : Thanks for the encouragement. Wish I could work hard at it like you do!
Shylone_Breath : Here's more.
Icey : Thanks for the kind words. You're absolutely right -- blocking in and construction of the figure is a problem that I need to work on.
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March 1st, 2005 #8
amazing trees O_O very nice
nice volume !
ur gestures kick ma butt lovely nice motion...ref used ?
ur legs looking better then mine O_O why u can draw legs but i cant
post more
May 15th, 2005 #9
duudeee those inks are thi shit!!!
Ill be around, Im likeing the way you
handle your lines
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May 15th, 2005 #10
Hey I love the way you draw faces.. very solid features, post more soon
Help your fellow artists get better.. Post a critique today!!!
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May 19th, 2005 #11
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June 18th, 2005 #12
Hey there. Lots of strong work in here. Im diggin' them fullbods and tree studies. Give us more!
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June 18th, 2005 #13
so far so good. overall your work is pretty solid, it has that old comic style feel. keep posting!!! i particularly like your figure studies.
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June 18th, 2005 #14
your heads are often out of proportion and the cartoony quality is taking away from the feeling of life they should posess. the cartoony feeling/style you are getting does not stem from a strong understanding of the human figure but but instead not enough of a focus on life drawing. this kind of thing is perfected by years of life drawing and or observation as well as anatomy study in my opinion. perhaps working with reference might lead you down the same path or at least similar. you are missing the subtlety
your poses are stiff, lacking the weight and muscle stress/relaxation which is present in all great representational figure work. it looks to me like you spend too much time in the books of burne hogarthe and not enough time in front of a model.
honestly, you have a lot of work to do here. no one is without hope, however you are going to really have to put your nose to the grindstone because it isnt just a lack of focus on hands and feet that is keeping you from reaching greatness with your work. you are going to need years with the model to work out your issues with accuracy, mood, expression, and the like. there may be other paths. afterall some of the successful artists around here took little figure drawing and are self taught. but they draw dozens of drawings per week and folders of paintings too on a constant basis.
your understanding of light is minimal at best. you really need to bite down on that part of your art. I would say your weaknesses right now are light, subtle anatomy, life like gesture, and accuracy. not overworking your lines would be a nice step to take in the accuracy department.
and there you have it.
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June 19th, 2005 #15
the girl's face on the 3'rd sheet is the best in my opinion... The proportions are much better!
I have proportion problems too, but they go away with lot and lot of exerciceing
June 20th, 2005 #16
Hey, nice avatar!, funky.
Faces look very good, nice shading and form. AND about the legs, it does look good. I also can't draw legs. Those figure studies look very good, especially the one on the far right. The trees look awsome too.
hope to see more!!
June 21st, 2005 #17
so, where are all your hands?
June 22nd, 2005 #18
I haven't updated for a while, so apologies for the late replies.
-sideshowbob-, maxetormer, charcoalArtist, Ebookslist, n0fish : Thanks for the positive feedback, guys.
brkofdon : I'm honored that an artist of your calibre stopped by and looked at my crap. Thank you for the kind words.
Jason Manley : Very much appreciate the in-depth critique, Jason. You are right on all counts, of course. I'm gonna have to try harder.
Icey : Proportions -- I don't think I'll ever get 'em right!
bumskee : Thanks mate. The way you draw legs looks pretty good, from what I've seen of your work.
stalsby : Where are my hands? Attached to the ends of my arms the last time I looked.
June 22nd, 2005 #19
Well your art shows that you have been practicing portraiture, and you dont seem to have a problem with drawing faces.
Your landscapes though lack detail.
I'd like to see you draw some mechanical objects and machinery now since you are quite good with the human figure already.
January 19th, 2006 #20
The first four where really nice, I like the way how 'alive' the look on the second and third.
I've noticed your avatar, you play capoeira?? I do!
keep up to nice work
beware my avatar is cooler then my drawings
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Well you are great but it seems like we both have the same problem. Try controling your drawing not vice versa. I mean making sure bot eyes are equal I cant c you got trouble drawing two perfect eyes. That has nothing to do with beeing a good artist cuz you are good it has got to do with precision and concentration. Thats all ima say man. I think the rest is really great.
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The Cardinals try to snap their six-game losing streak when they face the Rams on Sunday at University of Phoenix Stadium. Rookie quarterback Ryan Lindley has had a full week to practice with the first team and game plan with the "ones" after head coach Ken Whisenhunt named him the starter on Wednesday.
Lindley saw action in his first ever regular season NFL game last week against the Falcons when he replaced John Skelton early in the game when the Cardinals had a 13-0 lead.
Whisenhunt said today that despite Lindley being a rookie, he doesn't plan on shrinking the playbook for the young quarterback.
"Not necessarily for him," Whisenhunt said. "I don't think he's uncomfortable with what we're doing from a schematic standpoint or the number of plays that we have."
Lindley was 9-of-20 for 64 yards against Atlanta, and he's trying to lead an offense that's ranked No. 31 overall and No. 30 in passing.
Whisenhunt says that if there are any changes to the play-calling or the playbook, it might be more about the offense and less about the quarterback.
"I think we're trying to do better at a lot of the things we do offensively." said Whisenhunt. "I don't necessarily think scaling back is the right thing. We're trying to do the things that we do well, better, and do more of those things."
The Cardinals remember their last matchup with the Rams this season very well. Arizona was 4-0 before getting beat by St. Louis 17-3 on October 4 -- a loss that started the current six-game slide. The Rams are also trying to end a rough stretch. They are winless in their last five games.
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Posted March 3, 2012 at 12:58PM
With the English NHS reforms and now the police, I certainly feel there's a lot of change being done in the south that I don't remember in any manifestos. Happy to be up here!
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Posted March 4, 2012 at 2:54PM
I see nothing to be worried about in outsourcing admin contracts - running prison services, forensic laboratories, parking, and security services. That can make economic sense without any loss of quality as far as the services are concerned.
My worry is - as I've already said, twice - the involvement of private companies in criminal investigations. I couldn't care less if the parking attendant who fines me works for a private company; it's meaningless as far as my liability for the fine is concerned.
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Posted March 4, 2012 at 3:35PM
Yes, FE, exactly the point I also tried to explain to fourm member at the start of this thread - but to little avail.
I do believe savings are possible in Police budgets - but to have crimes investigated or our street patrolled by private firms strikes me as steps too far.
The recruits at present have to be qualified and undergo pretty lengthy, rigorous training to become police officers - will private firms undertake the same exacting standards? I think we know the likely answer to that.
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Posted March 4, 2012 at 4:17PM
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But who are these 'anti-capitalists' that should not be listened to?
Doesn't everyone in a democracy have a right to be heard?
Of course, 'It doesn't always work that way but it is the way it should work.' - but when it doesn't work and you are in such a critical line of work as policing, there are likely to be far more serious repercussions than if you are privatising, say, refuse collection.
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Posted March 4, 2012 at 4:44PM
"will private firms undertake the same exacting standards"
And that is perhaps one point I am trying to make. Not sure about anywhere else, but my local constabulary haven't recruited police officer's for about two years now, but they have recruited PCSO's and are still doing so, and are training them up to 'exacting standards' at public expense. And that includes criminal investigations.
If and should the time arise, would it not be an easy administration task to transfer PCSO's to a private venture company, with all the implications and perhaps upsets behind that. What's the point of having a possible very similar and duplicated service, the same as what is perhaps already being suggested?.
Over the past two years or so, there as been rather a number of changes regarding civilian recruitment and deployment at my local constabulary. Some civilian staff have left, others have been made redundant, while others have renegotiated contracts, possibly short term at that. I know people who are now on 12 month contracts, living in fear that in a few months time, they might not be a member of a police force, serving the public, as they did previously or at all.
As I said earlier, the wedge as already been placed in the door!.
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Posted March 4, 2012 at 5:04PM
I'm certainly not an anti-capitalist, I firmly believe that a thriving private enterprise sector is the key to a thriving economy. On the other hand, I don't believe that private enterprise is a universal panacea - there must be areas of our lives in which the State takes a greater interest, and one of those is the establishment of a robustly empowered Police service.
I say 'robustly empowered' because I believe that police should be given the necessary freedom and authority to do what we need them to do - prevent and detect crimes,and prosecute the criminals they catch. They should do these things within a necessary and suitable regulative framework, but financial considerations shouldn't be the overriding consideration. If it costs a lot of money to bring serious criminals to justice, so be it.
Law and order must be one of a sophisticated society's prime concerns, and no compromises should be made along the way to achieving a safe and law-abiding environment - we certainly shouldn't be employing civilian staff to investigate crime. Those people, if we use them, should be involved in administration, and that can certainly include work on crime databases. It must not include face to face interviews with suspects,other case-work of an investigative nature, or decisions about who is or isn't arrested and/or charged.
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Posted March 4, 2012 at 5:29PM
The police no longer prosecute criminals, that is now the role of the CPS in England and Wales. The CPS consist of civilians, as I understand it. But I understand the point that you are making.
With regards to cost, then we only need to see some of the cases that the CPS have taken to court, and have lost the case. HMRC recently took a case to court, that as cost £millions, yet the actual prosecutions were based on £thousands, which the taxpayer as had to pay the final costs. Yet at the same time we are talking about cost saving and tendering out work and contracts as an economic solution for a under-funded police service.
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Posted March 4, 2012 at 5:44PM
"The police no longer prosecute criminals"
I know that - with two brothers in the Police I should. My mistake, and thank you for pointing it out. I should have made it clear that the Police send cases for prosecution to the CPS and they make the decision. In answer to your question they (CPS) are lawyers.
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Posted March 4, 2012 at 5:46PM
The CPS cannot be compared to the police in terms of 'civilian' employees. The job of the CPS is entirely 'law based', not the investigation, collection of evidence, interviewing suspects etc. They are generally qualified, and licensed, in law for their job and not the object of private companies seeking to take over their work.
There will always be cases 'lost' , otherwise it would suggest every case brought was cut and dried - eventually meaning juries were not needed??
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Posted March 4, 2012 at 5:55PM
The CPS and the Police are entirely independent of each other.
It's the job of the police to investigate crime and come up with evidence that points to a suspect or suspects. When they feel they have enough evidence to charge someone they send the file to the CPS.
The CPS uses a test to decide whether or not to proceed with a prosecution. There must be enough evidence against the defendant to provide a 'realistic prospect of conviction'.
A realistic prospect of conviction is an objective test. It means that a jury or bench of magistrates, or judge hearing a case alone, properly directed and acting in accordance with the law, is more likely than not to convict the defendant of the alleged charge. If the evidence passes that test it's considered worth putting to a jury, and the prosecution proceeds.
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In Scotland the role of the CPS is undertaken by the Procurator Fiscal Service who operate in much the same way as their English counterparts.
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Reinvigorating family planning is critical to the success of population stabilisation efforts
India's population has grown from 345 million in 1951 to around 1162 million by May 2009 and is still growing by around 16 to 17 million every year. By all accounts, population growth in India has been rapid and such a massive base and excessiv e growth have important implications for socio-economic development and quality of life. India's problem of excessive population growth is reflected in widespread hunger, poverty, unemployment, lack of physical and health infrastructure, increasing scarcity of basic resources like food, water and space in several parts of India despite concerted developmental efforts since independence.
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A recent "Global Economic Prospects" report projects that one-fourth of India's population would be below extreme poverty line, less than $1.25 a day, by 2015. Our official estimates provided by the National Sample Survey in 61st Round based on the Uniform Recall Period methodology yields a poverty ratio of 27.5 per cent for the country as a whole in 2004-05. Despite the declining trend in poverty ratio as per official statistics we still find that around 25 per cent of India's population (around 29 crore people) still don't have enough income or resources to afford even two square meals a day. Thus, the massive population base and its rapid growth still continue to be a major challenge to socio-economic progress and sustainable development.
We ought to have a national debate and political consensus and commitment to invigorate family planning efforts, which possibly has been put on the back burner as a population control measure. Possibly, the lack of political commitment to family planning efforts was a result of some excesses during the emergency period i.e. 1975-77; thus the official family planning programme was, dangerously, neglected afterwards. Possibly we have thrown out the baby along with the bath water. Still in India the unmet need for contraception — parents not desirous of having any more children or another child over coming two years, but not using any contraception methods — turned out to be 13 per cent in 2005. Thus, the unmet need for contraception is still substantial.
Coming to India's total fertility rate of 2.7, as per NFHS-2005, we find the unwanted fertility is around 0.8. Thus, still 40 percent of current fertility or 80 out of 270 children born are unwanted. Simply by accounting the unwanted component we can bring India's fertility to below replacement level, implying less than two children per couple, which ultimately results into population stabilisation. Obviously, unwanted fertility can primarily be eliminated by meeting the unmet need for family planning. Whereas, reduction in wanted fertility requires investments in human beings, especially in areas of education, child care and public health and thus improvements in quality of life.
Given the wide diversity in population and health transition as well as levels of social and economic development and cultural milieu across the states, strategic options for population stabilisation in India varying from state to state are suggested in India: The State of Population 2007. There is no universal prescription. Regional prescriptions are based on categorization of the constituent states and union territories of India into three categories based on current levels of fertility. The first category comprises five Hindi heartland states and five north-eastern states where fertility levels are well above the replacement level. In these states even the wanted fertility is high – well above the replacement level — and unwanted fertility is also substantial. These states are expected to account for 48 percent of the increase in India's population between 2001 and 2026.
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The second category states — Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi, Tripura, Assam, West Bengal, Orissa, Gujarat and Maharashtra — are about the reach the two-child goal. Here the wanted fertility is already below the replacement level, two child norms, but the unwanted component is still substantial resulting into higher than replacement level fertility. In these states concerted efforts are needed to provide affordable quality contraception services with informed choice to account for the unwanted component of fertility.
Finally, in the third category — Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Goa and Sikkim — the fertility is already below the replacement level. In these states, population will still continue to increase because of the demographic momentum built into the age structure of the populations. This category of states would contribute around 15 percent of increase in the country's population during 2001-26.
However, to minimise the impact of demographic momentum we need to increase the mean age of child bearing in these states. Mean age of child bearing can increase firstly because of increase in age at marriage or age at first birth and thereafter usage of spacing methods to increase birth interval between first and next birth. Surprisingly, teenage pregnancies and motherhood is still higher in low-fertility states like Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka compared to even high fertility states like U.P. and M.P. Obviously, physiological immaturity during teenage pregnancies and motherhood results into lot of health problems and also reduces educational and thus employment opportunities for women. Possibly, strict enforcement of the Child Marriage Restraint Act and advocacy of widespread utilization of spacing methods would facilitate minimizing the impact of demographic momentum and also reduce teenage pregnancies and motherhood which have serious social, economic, emotional and health implications.
Reinvigorating family planning is critical to the success of population stabilisation efforts in all the states, in whichever phases of socioeconomic and demographic transition it is. It is, however, important to note that the family planning programme must be adaptive to changing compositional needs of family planning methods in different states in different stages of demographic transition.
The writer is with the Population Research Centre, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi.
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One of Israel's most hotly contested pieces of legislation just got a lot hotter: Pamela Anderson, who as a judge and guest dancer on the forthcoming season of the Israeli version of Dancing With The Stars is a prominent figure (indeed!) over there, wrote a personal letter to Minister of Religious Affairs Ya'akov Margi, asking him to support a new bill that would ban the import of fur. (The former Baywatch star and Tommy Lee spouse is a prominent PETA spokesperson.)
It's a sensitive topic. Margi is a member of the Shas party, whose constituency is mainly Sephardic, but he has spoken out for the right of "our Ashkenazi brothers" to enjoy the fur hats and coats many ultra-Orthodox sects traditionally wear. As a result, Margi is holding up the proposed bill, which otherwise enjoyed wide support in the Knesset.
Margi himself appeared on Israeli radio yesterday and said that he hadn't yet read Anderson's letter, but will take it into consideration as he "solidified his understanding of the subject matter" (my translation). If Anderson's performance in Barb Wire is any indication, Margi should solidify his understanding before Pam gets angry.
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HHNE's production of "Suite Surrender," presented by the Student-Directed Drama Club played to a full house on May 21st at the Herbert Gilman Theater. Theatre-goers were impressed and entertained by the actors' portrayal of their humorous and iconic characters. The play written by Michael McKeever, proved to be a fantastic selection for graduating senior and show director Nathan Schachter.
Congratulations to the cast and crew for putting on an amazing show!
HHNE 5K Unity Color Run-June 4, 2015
Not just a fun run, HHNE is inviting area public and private high schools, churches and synagogues throughout the area to participate.This is going to be a fantastic event which will serve as a celebration of all of the things that bring us together as a community. Click here for more information, to register teams, individuals and volunteers or to make a donation.
Sophomore Runs Successful Donation Drive
Last summer Meira Goldfischer attended a JTConnect program bringing awareness to teens about hunger and human suffering. Attendees visited the House of Bread, a soup kitchen in Hartford and saw the impact of helping people truly in need. After completing the program, Meira decided to start collecting donations. As of May, 777 items, including clothing, shoes, food items and toiletries have been collected and donated to Big Brother Big Sister and Jewish Family Services in West Hartford.
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Anybody that has control of a nuclear weapon, or a few of'em, at least. The blog, In From The Cold, did a special investigation of the Minot AFB mishap in which a bomber flew over a few states loaded with nuclear bombs. Highly readable, it sounds like something straight out of Dr. Strangelove.
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This version has been released in conjunction with a new version of ctraj. The date calculator is now included in the makefile and installation and has been refined somewhat. It is needed in ctraj. The sparse matrix calculator has been vastly expanded and refined. It is extremely useful for working with output from the ctraj tracer simulation. The Gaspard-Rice simulator can also output sparse matrices representing the Laplace equation corresponding to the system.... read more
Numerous bug fixes with this latest revision. A bare-bones sparse calculator program is now working, though it needs a load of testing and many important features are missing.
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libpetey has been moved from the libagf distribution to msci. It has also been migrated to svn. To better support the ctraj project, it now includes libraries for sparse matrices and specialized datasets.


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Big Baby to Ticket Stub
|04.17.09 at 1:34 pm ET
WALTHAM – Glen Davis has just struck nickname gold.
On Friday, he was asked if he was ready to help assume the huge shoes of Kevin Garnett, who is out with a sore right knee.
"I thrive at situations like that, being the underdog," Davis began. "No, I'm not KG, I'm not at all. I'm Big Baby from LSU, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I'm not the Big Ticket, I'm the Ticket Stub."
And he was far from done there.
"Don't count the Ticket Stub out," he added. "You might need the ticket to get into the game but you leave with the ticket stub because you'll never forget this game. You'll need it as a souvenir."
Nicknames won't beat the Chicago Bulls. Good defense will. And Davis, the likely starting replacement for Garnett, said he's more than ready to accept the challenge of helping to contain the Bulls, especially in the paint, where Celtics coach Doc Rivers said Friday the series will be won.
"I am ready, I am excited, I am ready to embrace this opportunity," Davis said. "You don't get opportunities like this. This does not come. A second-year guy coming off the bench. Last year, coming off the bench, getting an opportunity to start and be a player in the playoffs, having a chance to go to The Finals and the Eastern Conference Finals, it's unbelievable."
Maybe it's time to believe in Big Baby. The Celtics do.
KG still supports playoffs
|04.17.09 at 1:19 pm ET
Even if he isn't on the court, Kevin Garnett is still supporting the Boston Celtics in the postseason. Garnett has made it his personal mission to unite Celtics fans by making sure every seat in the TD BankNorth Garden is covered with a green "Boston is a Brotherhood" t-shirt for Game 1 of the Boston Celtics-Chicago Bulls series. Watch the video here.
Ainge still resting comfortably
|04.17.09 at 11:35 am ET
WALTHAM – There has been no update so far today on the condition of Danny Ainge, who was reported to be resting comfortably after suffering a mild heart attack on Thursday morning. Celtics spokesman Jeff Twiss said the team had not heard anything new from his family on Friday.
WCVB-TV first reported that Ainge had 100 percent blockage in an artery, which was treated with the insertion of a stent at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Jeff Goodman of WEEI.com and Foxsports.com confirmed the report through Ainge's son Austin that the Celtics' Vice President of Basketball Operations suffered a heart attack and is resting comfortably after being taken to the hospital early Thursday morning.
The team issued this statement on Ainge's condition on Thursday evening: "Danny Ainge is recovering at Massachusetts General Hospital after having a minor heart attack. He is recovering nicely. Mr. Ainge is expected to remain in the hospital for a few days."
Meanwhile, the team began practice at 11 this morning in Waltham in a final preparation for Game 1 of their series with Chicago on Saturday afternoon at 12:30 at TD Banknorth Garden.
Sixers wanted no part of C's
|04.17.09 at 10:13 am ET
Interesting story in the Philadelphia Daily News by my old friend Marcus Hayes, in which Andre Miller and Thaddeus Young basically said they didn't want to play the Celtics in the first round.
Here's the quote from Miller:
"Boston is a team that people have in the conference finals. It's probably easier to go through Orlando than to try and match up with Boston, with Boston coming in with a lot of energy and trying to get through the first round as fast as they can."
And Young:
"I agree with 'Dre. Orlando's a great team, but we definitely want to play them. Boston is fresh off a championship. That's the worst thing you can do is go play a team that just won a championship. They're going to want to get back and be hungry."
It's surprising to see such candor, especially from a team that will be a decided underdog against the Magic, but if there's a lesson to be had there it's that the rest of the NBA still has great respect for the Celtics.
Ainge suffers heart attack
|04.16.09 at 6:23 pm ET
Austin Ainge, the son of Boston Celtics General Manager Danny Ainge, has confirmed to WEEI.com's Jeff Goodman that his father did suffer a heart attack early Thursday morning and was taken to the hospital. Austin Ainge says that his father is expected to be released from the hospital in the next couple of days. WCVB was the first to report this story, stating Ainge woke up Thursday morning with chest pains and taken to a hospital, where it was discovered that he had an artery which was 100 percent clogged, forcing a stent to be inserted. Ainge was originally scheduled to appear on WEEI's The Big Show Thursday afternoon, but was not available due to sickness.
Pierce: We're still capable of winning a championship
|04.16.09 at 4:37 pm ET
WALTHAM – So, the Celtics can move forward knowing that Kevin Garnett, last season's NBA Defensive Player of the Year, won't be with them on this playoff journey.
But to quote the man himself, "Anything is Possible!!!"
Paul Pierce has been prepping himself for this possibility all along, or at least since Garnett went down for a second time in mid-March with the right knee injury.
"Last 10 to 12 games, if Kevin comes back or if he doesn't, we have to be mentally prepared for it," Pierce said. "That's the way I approached these games coming down to (the end) of the season."
As a matter of fact, the Celtics finished 16-7 this season in the 23 games without their emotional leader. They even won 10 of 11 without him after losing to Orlando to capture the No. 2 seed in the East.
"You feel bad for a guy who wants to be out there, wants to help his teammates in the playoffs. I know it's hurting him more than it's hurting us," Pierce said.
Pierce believes the team, with shooters like himself, Ray Allen and Eddie House and inside players like Kendrick Perkins, Leon Powe and Glen 'Big Baby' Davis are more than capable of picking up enough slack.
"Now the guys know he's probably not going to play, we have to move forward with what we got," Pierce said. "Guys have to be ready to step up. That's about it. We've been playing without him for quite a while so we know we're still a pretty good team and capable of winning a championship."
As for those who doubt the Celtics have any chance at all of even reaching the NBA Finals to defend their title, Pierce hardly sounded like a man whose feelings have been hurt.
"There's always going to be doubters," Pierce said. "That's something we don't really worry about. We know what we have in this room and we know what we do when we play well and that's all that really matters right now. It's going to be an uphill battle of course not having Kevin but that's how we like it."
Remain calm, all is well
|04.16.09 at 3:20 pm ET
But let's take a deep breath and try to figure out what not having Kevin Garnett means for the Celtics. With him (as ESPN's John Hollinger points out), the Celtics were 44-11 and a +9.5 in scoring differential, making them one of the best teams in the league. Without him, they are 21-9 and +4.0, making them one of the better teams in the league, but not one of the elite.
Without Garnett, the Celtics have been getting by with a combination of Big Baby Davis and Mikki Moore. While Baby and Moore are decent jump-shooting big men, what was missing was a low-post presence on offense.
Enter Leon Powe, whose per-minute averages in scoring and rebounding are about equal to Garnett's contributions. Powe's concern, like that of Moore and Kendrick Perkins, is staying out of foul trouble and on the floor to make those numbers translate into per game averages.
What's really missing, though, is the captain of the defense and there's simply no way for the current Celtics to make up for Garnett on that end of the floor.
Before Doc Rivers declared KG essentially out for the playoffs, conventional wisdom had the Celtics reaching the Eastern Conference Finals. Without KG, but with homecourt in the first two rounds, the Celtics are still in decent position to reach that plateau, and a whole lot of things can happen between now and then.
There's no question the Celtics chances of repeating took a significant hit, but over? Nothing is over until… well, you know.
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John William 'Bill' Hustead
John William "Bill" Hustead, 85, passed away Friday, October 25, 201, in Electra, Texas. Private memorial services will be held at a later date. Services are under the direction of Dutton Funeral Home in Iowa Park.
Bill was born June 19, 1928 in Burkburnett, Texas to John and Vesta (Wilkinson) Hustead and had lived in the Electra area all of his life. He owned and operated Hustead Tank Trucks. He was a Mason and a Shriner, and was a member of the Electra Chuck Wagon Gang.
Bill is preceded in death by his parents and his wife, Mary Lou (Tigert) Hustead.
Surviving relatives include two sons, Terry Wayne Hustead and his wife, Cindy of Guffey, Idaho; and John Gill Hustead of Grandview, Idaho; one daughter, Connie Lynn Wood and husband, Steve of Hagerman, Idaho; two brothers, Ray Hustead and wife, Earlene of San Pablo, California, and Jerry Hustead and wife, Carole of Aloha, Oregon; one sister, Melba Dobson and husband, Sam of Electra, Texas; 3 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren.
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The ten-day long 'Qadir Ali Baig Theatre Festival' that treated the city's audience tales and productions as diverse as the Kashmiri legend of the 16 {+t} {+h} century Sufi mystic, 'Lal Ded', movingly portrayed by actress-director Meeta Vasisht, came to a close on Thursday. The festival was signed off by Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan who felicitated the curator and director of the fest Mohammed Ali Baig. It was graced by the who's who of the country's theatre industry.
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