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BANGKOK, Thailand The polar oceans are not biological deserts after all.
A marine census released Monday documented 7,500 species living in the Antarctic and 5,500 in the Arctic, including several hundred that researchers believe could be new to science.
And, in one of the biggest surprises, researchers said they discovered dozens of species common to both polar seas – separated by nearly 7,000 miles (11,000 kilometers).
Most of the new discoveries were simpler life forms known as invertebrates, or animals without backbones.
Researchers, for example, doubled the number of jellyfish-like Arctic ctenophore known to science from five to 10. One of those was the size and color of an orange, had bungee cord-like tentacles streaming off it and was living at a depth of two kilometers (1.2 miles).
They also found scores of sea spider species that were as big as a human hand and tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans in the Arctic basin that live at a depth of 9,850 feet (3,000 meters).
"The textbooks have said there is less diversity at the poles than the tropics but we found astonishing richness of marine life in the Antarctic and Arctic oceans," said Victoria Wadley, a researcher from the Australian Antarctic Division who took part in the Antarctic survey. "We are rewriting the textbooks."
Gilly Llewellyn, leader of the oceans program for the environmental group WWF-Australia, said the numbers of species found shows just how little was known about these frigid regions.
"We probably know more about deep space than we do about the deep polar oceans in our own backyard," said Llewellyn, who did not take part in the survey. "This critical research is helping reveal the amazing biodiversity of the polar regions."
The survey – which included over 500 polar researchers from 25 countries – took place during International Polar Year which ran in 2007-2008.
Researchers braved up to 48-foot (16-meter) waves on their trip to the Antarctic while their colleagues in the Arctic worked under the watchful eye of a security guard hired to protect them from polar bears.
New technology also helped make the expeditions more efficient and productive than in the past. Researchers used cell-phone-like tracking devices, for example, to record the Arctic migration of narwhals, a whale with a long twisted tooth, and remotely operated submersibles to reach several miles (kilometers) down into the oceans to study delicate marine animals that are impossible to collect.
The survey is one of several projects of the Census of Marine Life, an international effort to catalog all life in the oceans. The 10-year census, scheduled for final publication in 2010, is supported by governments, divisions of the United Nations and private conservation organizations.
As many as 235 species were found in both polar seas, including five whale species, six sea birds and nearly 100 species of crustaceans.
"We think of the Arctic and Antarctic as similar habitats but they are separated by great distances," said University of Alaska Fairbanks plankton ecologist Russ Hopcroft, who took part in the Arctic survey.
"So finding species at both ends of the Earth – some of which don't have a known connection in between – raises a whole bunch of evolutionary questions," he said.


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Cabot launches new series of low PAH carbon black products
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Trinseo receives DKG product award for S-SBR
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Global carbon black market expected surpass $25 billion by 2020
Dow scientists receive prestigious Heroes of Chemistry award
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Monday, June 29, 2015
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USDOC releases tariff rates for China tire imports
ARPM released its new and revised ARPM Rubber Handbook.
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China angered by U.S. duties on tire imports
Continental scientists awarded 2015 Joseph von Fraunhofer Prize for dandelion rubber research
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Momentive inaugurates their MEA logistics center in Dubai
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
US imposed duties on Chinese car and light truck tires
New Dow Corning EI-1184 silicone encapsulant available from Ellsworth Adhesives Europe
Momentive starts operations at its expanded Leverkusen liquid silicone plant
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Saint-Gobain Seals to showcase high temperature sealing and polymer solutions at Paris Air Show
Superior Formulations announces line of instant slab dips
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Monprene CP Series compounds now available from Teknor Apex
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Omnova Solutions announces plans to reduce operating costs by $14-17 million
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Malaysian rubber glove manufacturers ask government to delay new tariffs
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Tuesday, June 09, 2015
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India looks to expand rubber plantings in northeast states
Giti Tire appoints product manager to develop GT Radial, Primewell TBR tires
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India's increased duty on rubber fails to slow imports
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What if you could draft a full roster of all time great professional baseball players? That was the question posed to 16 owners on the baseball forum over at footballsfuture.com. 16 users were invited to participate in this draft. They would select a full 25 man roster, along with 1 manager, and then be split up into two divisions. The two divisions would compete in a sweet 16 style tourney, and then the final 2 teams would compete in the World Series. So I was pretty excited about this at first, as you could imagine. I mean vie been thinking about doing a top 50 all time-players article for weeks so this was pretty great. I made a few comments on some picks, and eventually decided I wanted to get in on this. So I contacted the GM of the Braves to offer my statistical expertise and to ask for a job. I've was offer the job of co-gm, and as you can imagine I took it. So over this multy-part article I'm going to run down the activities of our front office in determining which players to pick in a "Moneyball" or "Fantasyland" style. I'm also going to use many sabermetric terms, including a few adjustments vie made myself, which I will explain when I present them.
When I joined the Atlanta front office, we already had our biggest star and cleanup hitter on board. Ted Williams. Now I love this pick for a few reasons. With Babe Ruth already off the board this was easily the best player available. This pick, an extremely intelligent decision, was probably the reason I chose to get involved with the Braves. So why Is Ted a great pick? Well, let's look at his numbers. He is the all-time leader in OBP, getting on base nearly half the time during his career. He also is second all-tome in OPS to Babe Ruth, and second all time wOBA also to Ruth (I'll explain this latter). Williams is the perfect first round pick, an offensive force that makes your lineup better from the second he joins your team. I obviously can't take any credit for this, and don't really have any info about the thought process that went into this pick, I can just say this is a great pick.
A few hours after the pick I joined the front office and began discussing the next pick. The first two names that came up I absolutely loved. Sandy Koufax and Albert Pujols. Two of my favorite players and easily one of the best hitters and pitchers of all time. Koufax was a dominate force for a few years, striking guys out and not walking to many batters either. He was just flat out the best pitcher of his era, and possibly all time. With Williams on the team already he appeared to be the best pick. I also love Albert Pujols. He's my perfect kind of player. Similar to Williams he is patient and feared. He gets on base and hits the ball really, really far. We wanted a pitcher a lot so Koufax seemed like the pick, however on the way back we did want to get Pujols.
We also discussed a few other bats. I suggested we take a look at Hank Greenberg, easily one of the top first basemen of all time. I liked his numbers, but I thought that Pujols bat was just a bit better. A team scout suggested Ernie Banks; however that idea was shot down pretty quickly. Yes, Banks was one of the top 5 shortstops of all time. However he was highly overrated when it came to his overall offensive contributions and would most likely be picked way to high. When looking at potential centerfield candidates, one name that came to mind was Ken Griffey Jr. He was easily one of the top centerfielders, and outfielders, however there were a few better options out there both offensively and defensively that we thought (and still think) were going to be available down the road. I'm not going to get into much detail as the draft is still going on, however I will tell you we decided we didn't really need junior.
Now we needed to come up with some backup options at the starting pitching spot. I didn't like the idea of going after Bob Gibson or Jim Palmer, 2 guys high on the wins list but relatively average in the defensive independent pitching statistics (or DIPS, see Voros McCracken). We did however really like Pedro Martinez. He has some pretty impressive strikeout and walk numbers, along with and dominant ERA during the steroid era giving him the best ERA plus is league history. He went on our pitching list right behind Koufax. What Martinez was to the AL for a few years, Randy Johnson was to the NL. He had some of the best strikeout numbers of all time and was pretty much unhittable in the early part of this decade. It was between him, and flamethrower Nolan Ryan for the next spot on the list. We chose RJ followed by Ryan.
With all of that settled we waited, and waited for our pick, confident that with Williams hitting in the middle of our lineup, and Koufax as the ace of our staff, we would be unbeatable. As it came up to our pick in the second round the Brave front office got thrown off guard. Mr. Sandy Koufax was taken, and then Pedro. We had no idea what to do. I quickly sent a PM to my co-gm. "What do we do?" We knew we needed some pitching but with Koufax and Pedro off the boar we weren't sure whether to go with pitching or wait it out and take the second guy overall on our board, Albert Pujols. The decision was quickly made, we were going with the BPA. It was actually quite a while before this pick came up. The GM in front of us was on the clock and had taken a while. He was online and not making a pick. So we PMed him. He responded:
"I don't think I'll be making it tonight, sorry if it's an inconvenience but it's 2AM here in the east and I have a dentist appointment at 7 AM, this was on short notice so I don't have a pick lined up. Sorry."
Since GM's have a 3 hour window in which to make their picks, and it was obvious he wasn't going to be able to, we asked the guy running the draft to let us make a pick and go to bed. The other GM would make one when he woke up in the morning. We got the ok, "just this once", and made our pick. Welcome to the team Phat Albert! My co-gm made the post and I posted the explanation, along with a picture, right below.
"Since he entered the league in 2001 Pujols has been one of the most feared hitters in the game (actually most feared in 08 according to MLB managers). Now that Barry Bonds is (seemingly) retired Pujols is easily the best hitter in baseball. He has the second highest OBP among active players and the highest SLG (even better than Bonds!) making him the active leader in OPS and OPS+. He's already fourth all-time in SLG and fifth in OPS. The Braves think that Pujols has already proven to be one of the greatest hitters in baseball history and will be considered the greatest first basemen sense Lou Gehrig when it's all said and done. Atlanta will add him to a lineup that already includes Ted Williams, with Pujols batting third and Williams in the cleanup spot."
So with Albert batting third and Williams cleaning up we felt very great about our lineup. Next stop – pitching. We talked about the top couple of guys on our board, Randy Johnson and Nolan Ryan. Both were pretty good, however we thought we could get similar options later on. A name came up that both of us really liked. Manny Ramirez. Again, continuing with patient and powerful theme, we thought our lineup would become indestructible. But there were still some questions. Do we really want to wait until round 4 for a pitcher? Should we take the offensively superior Ramirez over the gold glover Ken Griffey Jr.? When facing teams that are throwing out the likes of Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson you kind of have to have a great lineup and the idea of Pujols, Williams, and Ramirez batting 3-4-5 was just too good to pass up. Our pick came up and with my co-gm away I had to make my first official post! Here's what I wrote:
Manny is quite possibly the greatest right handed hitter since Joe DiMaggio and is without a doubt one of the most patient and feared hitters in the game. Ramirez currently has the 8 highest SLG and 10 highest OPS of all time and he's still got plenty left in the tank. Braves management feels they have compiled the greatest 3-4-5 of all time in Pujols, Williams, and Ramirez.
(This was written after initial drafting of this part of the article based on the reaction of fellow GM's) There was substantial pounding over this pick that I just found unjust. The Braves used a thoroughly objective sabermetric method to indentify players we wanted on our team. Manny Ramirez was a top 20 hitter in OPS, OPS+, and wOBA (A measure of value per plate appearance, Manny was 11th all-time). Other GM's have posted that Manny "kills our defense." My response: Prove it. Show me evidence that the difference between Manny Ramirez, and say Willie Mays, has a significant impact on a team throughout a year. There just isn't any. So we went with what there is evidence for. Offense. And offensively they don't get much better than Manny. So this serves as both a commentary on the draft and an argument for our team. Manny Ramirez was the steal of the draft.
Our lineup was just so good. That's where our hardcore statistical analysis had to start. The first thing we did was try to find a pitcher! We looked at each pitchers k/bb rate, versus the k/bb rate of all the players in his league the years he played and league adjusted it. So like for example someone who was league average would get a 100 (or 100% of the league average). Someone who was amazingly superior would come out with a 200 score. Most good pitchers were around 175. This worked well in indentifying good pitchers. Some famous names near the top were Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, and Cy Young. There were also some less famous names. Enter Dizzy Dean.
Dean is an extremely interesting pitcher. For a while Dean was one of the top pitchers in the league, just flat out dominating like no one else. Then in the 1937 all-star game Dean was struck in the foot by a batted ball by Earl Averill of the Cleveland Indians. His big toe was fractured. However determined to come back as soon as possible, he changed his delivery to keep weight off his big toe. He ended up hurting his arm, and losing his fastball. He was never the same. He officially retired 4 years latter at the age of 31. The reason he is so underappreciated is his lack of wins, something that is so frustrating to someone like me who considers them useless. If he had pitched another 10 years he would be up there with the likes of Mathewson and Johnson, easily the best pitcher of the 30's and 40's, however after 1937 he just wasn't good. He made a short comeback (and I mean really short) in 1947, then was inducted into the hall of fame in 1953. His broadcasting career with the Browns may be just as famous.
Either way, Dean was the highest ranked pitcher in adjusted K/BB rate to pitch a significant amount of time post 1900 (there was one guy higher, he pitched in the 19th century and his name will be revealed latter), making him an extremely attractive option sabermetricly. He became our main target for round 4. We knew we needed a pitcher, we also knew Dean was our guy.
Now of course we needed more than one pitcher. With Dean on or roster we started to look at other pitchers to draft in round 5. A name that came up in these discussions that both of us really liked was Juan Marichal. The Dominican righty with a well known high leg kick was also high on our list for adjusted K/BB ratio, landing in the top 20 of all modern pitchers.
Marichal was only the second Dominican pitcher to make it into the big leagues. In his first start he threw a one hit shutout while striking out 12 batters. He never looked back since posting a 2303/709 K/BB rate and 2.89 ERA. He was the perfect "second ace" on our team, a guy who could help to shut down. These were the 2 guys we wanted in the next two rounds. And we got them too. So were pretty comfertable with our team, and we have a good plan for the next few rounds. But your going to have to tune into parts 2, 3, 4, and however many there are going to be to find out how this turns.
Here's the draft: http://www.footballsfuture.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=247143&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Here's the draft discussion: http://www.footballsfuture.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=247025
Alex Geshwind is a sabermetric baseball analyst for fantasybullpen.com. He can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Shell Games in Nigeria
The oil companies' most controversial practice is their continued gas flaring. When petroleum is extracted, natural gas known as "associated gas" emerges along with it. In developed countries, companies capture associated gas for use or reinject it into the earth. In Nigeria, they burn most of it on the spot.
A 2007 report by Nigeria's Department of Petroleum Resources documented 117 flare sites in the Delta, some of them beside rural communities that no longer experience darkness at night because of continuous burning. According to the Canadian Public Health Association, flares contain more than 250 toxins, including benzene, mercury and arsenic. A 2005 study by Friends of the Earth Nigeria estimated that flaring in Bayelsa caused forty-nine premature deaths, 4,960 child respiratory illnesses, 120,000 asthma attacks and eight cases of cancer each year. Flares also contribute significantly to climate change: according to a 2002 World Bank memo, gas flares in Nigeria accounted for more greenhouse gas emissions than all other sources in sub-Saharan Africa combined.
Routine gas flaring has been illegal in Nigeria for twenty-five years, with exceptions for fields that are issued ministry-approved certificates. But Shell and the other oil majors have flouted deadline after deadline for ending the practice. The latest government cutoff date to come and go was 2008; the current target is 2011. In June Oil Change International reported that Shell's promised dates for ending flaring in Nigeria have shifted from 2005 to 2008, then to 2009, 2010 and most recently 2013.
A Shell spokesman stated that the company has reduced flaring by 30 percent since 2002, and that it has invested $3 billion toward stopping its flares. The company maintains that its efforts to end flaring have been unsuccessful because security in the Delta is so poor and because the Nigerian government has failed to pay its share of the costs for the infrastructure needed to capture or reinject associated gas. Both of these are genuine obstacles. But internal documents revealed in the Wiwa v. Shell case show that in the 1990s Shell modeled the effects of ending gas flares by the year 2000. The company's 1996 Country Business Plan for Nigeria found that "unconstrained flaring" would be more profitable, since abatement is costly and hampers production. While the report stated that the model with unconstrained flares was "solely for reference," the 2000 cutoff date was soon dropped. Michael Watts, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and an expert on the Niger Delta, says the government often issues public orders and reprimands to the oil majors but fails to hold them accountable even for outright disregard of its regulations. "No one believes for a moment that any of this stuff will be acted upon," says Watts.
The other critical source of contamination in the Delta is oil spills. In the half-century following the discovery of oil in Nigeria, the World Wildlife Foundation noted, the industry spilled 1.5 million tons of oil in the Delta, the equivalent of an Exxon Valdez spill each year. Government figures indicate that there are currently 2,472 oil spill sites in the region. These spills often generate protracted disputes over cleanup and compensation. Communities usually blame faulty equipment and demand repayment for damages; Shell claims that the vast majority are caused by sabotage, which does not require compensation by the company. Shell maintains that 85 percent of the oil it spilled in 2008 was a result of criminal activity; environmentalists claim the figure is significantly lower.
Companies are obligated to clean up all spills, a job they are often accused of performing inadequately, late or not at all. Four fishermen from the Delta are suing Shell in a Dutch court for its alleged failure to clean up or compensate for spills that killed all the fish in their ponds. Two of the plaintiffs claim that Shell's cleanup contractor set fire to the spilled crude. On December 30 The Hague Civil Court is expected to decide if it will accept the case, a ruling that will set a precedent on whether parent company Royal Dutch Shell can be held liable for its Nigerian subsidiary. Friends of the Earth Nigeria and local media have also reported five other cases of alleged major oil fires that occurred following spills by Shell. Shell's spokesman noted that "controlled burning of oily debris in appropriately lined pits is permitted by legislation" but said other cleanup methods are more common.
Many Ikarama residents say that the use of fire as a cleanup method is commonplace. Alagoa Morris says he has seen at least six burned oil spill sites in the vicinity. Shell's community relations officer for Ikarama, Tunde Joel, stated that accounts of fires being set to spilled oil, including reports of the March 1 blaze, are fabrications by townspeople angry at being passed over for cleanup contracts. "In Ikarama, no fires," said Joel. "Some few people will say there is fire. These are people who are angry at their brothers, so they are busy writing." Photographs taken by Morris show a massive blaze in Ikarama on March 1.
The costliest ruling Shell has faced was handed down by the Nigerian Parliament in 2000, which ordered the company to pay $1.5 billion to the Ijaw people of Bayelsa for decades of environmental degradation. Shell appealed the decision in Nigerian court, and in 2006 the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt affirmed the Parliament's judgment. Shell appealed again and has yet to pay any compensation. "They keep on using the strategy of avoidance and deliberate delay," says Oronto Douglas, one of Nigeria's leading environmental lawyers. "They don't respect the judicial system in Nigeria."
Years of frustration and poverty have repeatedly boiled over into violence. MEND launched a major offensive in June, blowing up oil facilities, sabotaging pipelines and kidnapping oil workers. Shell was temporarily forced to withdraw its personnel from the Western Niger Delta and saw its production plummet to 140,000 barrels per day from its 2008 average of more than 850,000. The offensive brought the cash-strapped government to the bargaining table to try to restore the flow of oil; it began its sixty-day amnesty initiative on August 6.
Opportunistic gangs are cashing in on the disorder as well. Abductions for profit have soared in the past year; in October Nigeria's thirty-six state governors issued a joint statement calling on the government to institute the death penalty for kidnappers. Even Henry Okah, MEND's most prominent leader, was waylaid in August by armed robbers, who pointed two AK-47s in his face, stole his car and left him and two traveling companions stranded alongside the expressway. The biggest money is in oil bunkering: a massive racket of stealing oil from pipelines and tankers that is believed to include militants, gangs and powerful politicians. A report by the federally appointed Niger Delta Technical Committee found that bunkering cost Nigeria $3 billion in the first seven months of 2008 alone.
Most leading MEND commanders have accepted the federal amnesty. By November 30 national oil production had rebounded to 2.4 million barrels per day, about 700,000 more than output during the summer's conflict. But some Delta activists believe that the cycle of poverty, pollution and conflict cannot be broken as long as the oil continues to flow. Of roughly $700 billion in Nigerian oil revenues since 1960, 85 percent has accrued to 1 percent of the country's population. Nigeria's Human Development Index, as of 2005, was on par with Haiti and the Congo. "Oil has not profited the people of the Niger Delta in any way," says Celestine AkpoBari of the Ogoni Solidarity Forum. AkpoBari believes that no compromise can be reached with Shell and the oil companies following what he describes as a record of continuous environmental and human rights abuses in the region. "They should go and leave our oil under the ground," he says.


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ST. LOUIS St. Louis Blues Executive Vice President and General Manager Doug Armstrong announced today the club has assigned 24 players to the Blues' American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Peoria Rivermen. In addition, the club has assigned three players to their junior or European teams. The players assigned to Peoria include goaltenders Jake Allen, Paul Karpowich and Mike McKenna; defensemen Taylor Chorney, Ian Cole, Mark Cundari, Cade Fairchild, Scott Ford, Brett Ponich and David Shields; and forwards Jay Barriball, Cody Beach, Adam Cracknell, Stefan Della Rovere, Evgeny Grachev, Philip McRae, Andrew Murray, Anthony Nigro, Anthony Peluso, Jaden Schwartz, Tyler Shattock, Brett Sonne, Vladimir Tarasenko and Sebastian Vannstrom. The players assigned to their junior or European teams include goaltender Jordan Binnington (Owen Sound Attack, Ontario Hockey League), defenseman Jani Hakanpaa (Espoo Blues, Finland) and forward Ty Rattie (Portland Winterhawks, Western Hockey League).
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In 1981, Ray Murphy bought a Reader's Digest book on home improvement. By 1993, he was buying a fixer-upper to turn into his wife's dream home. "When we saw the house in 1993, my kids and I were like, `Ray, this house is horrible,' " recalled his wife, Linda Murphy. "He said, `No, it will be beautiful.' And it is."
"Anything he latched on to he devoured intellectually or physically," said his brother Edward J. Murphy. "He didn't take to school as well as anybody else but he grew up to be the brightest person I ever met."
While he loved carpentry, his skills also helped him absorb the significant pay cut he took when he quit being a Perrier salesman and became a New York City firefighter. He rose to the rank of lieutenant. "We used to kid, `If you ever won the lottery, would you quit the Fire Department?' " his wife said. "He'd say, `Oh, no.' He loved it."
But for Firefighter Murphy, 46, and the father of two, it wasn't just about helping others while on the job, his brother said: "If anybody needed help, there he was in his truck, his ladder and tools in the back."


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Help with subscribe mechanism of yahoo.dataTable
I am using a the yahoo.dataTable. here is widget definition:
(please assume correct syntax in widget definition, etc.. I might have lost something while typing up this post)
in my glue.js I have this:
jmaki.subscribe("/table/results/accounts/onSelect", function(args) {
alert(args.widgetId + "\n" + args.type + "\n" + args.targetId);
in another js I have this:
function testMethod() {
var displayTableRows = ... // assume correct syntax for row info
jmaki.publish("/table/results/contacts/addRows", { value : displayTableRows} );
When I call the "testMethod" the rows are published to the widget. However, my onSelect function (in the glue.js code above) that I want the widget to subscribe to does not work. The debug window states that the onselect event is being published to:
Publish Match::Topic:/yahoo/yahoo/dataTable/onSelect listener:
So the question is. Since I can publish the addRow event to the widget topic of /table/results/accounts, why can't I subscribe an override function to the onSelect event? Why does the even get published to the default topic? What am I missing?
Thank you for your help.
Below is an entire test JSP. This will show what I am trying to accomplish. Just simply copy it and paste into a web project and test it out. The Add rows button/funciton shows that the publish method to add new rows works. However, when I subscribe a new function to the topic of /table/results/accounts/onSelect it does not work. The onSelect event is still published to the default topic. I don't know what else to provide. I am using jmaki 1.0.1 (which was loaded from the latest NBM found on ajax.dev.java.net in Netbeans).
<%@ taglib prefix="a" uri="http://jmaki/v1.0/jsp" %>
Yahoo Data Table Example Page
Subscribe message:
Add rows:
{ label : 'Title', id : 'title'},
{ label :'Author', id : 'author'},
{ label : 'ISBN', id : 'isbn'},
{ label : 'Description', id : 'description'}
rows : [
{ title : 'Book Title 1', author : 'Author 1', isbn: '4412', description : 'A Some long description'},
{ id : 'bar', title : 'Book Title 2', author : 'Author 2', isbn : '4412', description : 'A Some long description'}
on select info:
Thanks for the test code, I see the problem. There is a bug in the wrapper on line 73. Change 'topic' to 'publish' and it will work. So the code should look like:
if (wargs.publish ) {
-> publish = wargs.publish;
I did test it and see that it is working. If you could file a bug that would be great. I will update the wrapper so the fix will be there for the next release. I appreciate the work on finding this.
Thanks Carla. That seemed to have fixed my problem. I will file a report and reference this thread.
Hi bakarirum,
You changed the subscribers for the widget but which topic to publish to. It will publish to the default topic unless you tell it otherwise so you need to add publish="/table/results/accounts" to your tag if you want an onSelect event to be published to that topic.
Thanks for the response Carla. I added the publish="" tag to the widget and the onSelect event is still being published to "/yahoo/dataTable/onSelect". Here is the new widget definition
{ label : 'City, State Zip', id : 'city' , width : '300px'},
{ label : 'Address', id : 'address' , width : '300px'},
{ label : 'Name', id : 'name' , width : '250px'},
{ label : 'Account', id : 'account' , width : '150px'}
], rows : [
{city : 'city',
address : 'address',
name : 'name',
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WFISD aids expecting teens
Pregnant students offered learning program
Despite a threatened shutdown earlier this year of all the pregnancy-related services in the Wichita Falls ISD, pregnant students continue to receive the school district's assistance to stay in school.
Jan Banner, Wichita Falls Independent School District director of state and federal programs, requested board approval Tuesday to apply for a waiver that would continue the district's flexibility in serving the girls.
The district has requested a waiver in the past to help pay for its $106,000 program.
Board members unanimously agreed.
A state waiver would allow WFISD to continue teaching girls in small groups — no more than four — at Harrell Accelerated Learning Center, where they work on self-paced computer programs and also receive individual attention.
Without the waiver, program coordinator LouAnne Gossom would be restricted to helping the girls only at their homes or at the hospital bedside.
"If I have nine girls home at one time, at four hours a week ... that's 36 hours," Gossom said of the time-consuming proposition.
Instead, the Harrell facility allows students to use Harrell's math lab to improve their math skills and get better instruction in all their subjects, Gossom said.
"We can serve more girls in less time," Gossom said.
Board President Kevin Goldstein asked if community volunteers could help the school district with this population of teens, but Banner said the state program requires certified teachers.
The district might find volunteers through its Partners In Education program, according to Superintendent John Frossard, but any volunteer who makes contact with students is still subject to background checks.
The pregnancy program was on a list of 32 possible program cuts released by WFISD in July. The list was mostly dropped when Frossard arrived in August and began his term as the new WFISD superintendent.
The $106,000 program pays for Gossom as its one instructor ($48,000), a baby bus to transport the mothers to school and their babies to day care ($30,000), child care costs ($16,000), and parent education classes ($14,000).
The program served 78 girls in 2011-12, down from the 95 girls in 2010-11. It helped 85 percent of them stay in school and graduate while pregnant and/or caring for a baby, according to WFISD records.
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on 5/4/2010 11:29:00 AM
Age: 25-29
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Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Brown
OMG! I love this hand cream! It is a handsaver! In fact, I use it all over for all the scaly dry patches that randomly show up now and then. It smells amazing...like a delicious almond cookie.
I have my hands in and out of water all day and they were looking pretty bad. After one use, literally ONE USE, my hands were completely moisturized and looked & felt 100 times better. They used to be red, raw, flaky and scaly and now they are beautiful. I can't recommend this creme enough! The only downside is the packaging....the whole digging into a pot to get the stuff out... is no fun. For the ladies who have nails, it would be difficult to use without having it constantly stuck underneath your nails. I still would recommend and repurchase, though...because it is the best hand creme I have ever used in my entire life!
on 4/12/2010 12:42:00 AM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I really love the smell of this hand cream which reminds me of almond pudding desserts. This hand cream has a VERY greasy consitency but it is great for winter time and bedtime treatment. It works really well if you can wear cotton gloves right after you put the hand cream on. It helps to keep your hands really moisturized and soft. Without gloves on, I don't think you can touch anything (like keyboards) without making them oily.
I also found this cream to be fairly waterproof. Even after hand washing (not vigorously of course), my hands were still relatively moisturized. For people who worked in a place that require constant hand washing, this is a great product to have.
I highly recommend trying this hand cream if you like almond (yes it can be strong for some) and don't mind greasy hand cream. This product is useful for areas with dry and cold weather.
on 4/9/2010 6:48:00 PM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Cool
Hair: Brunette, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Blue
I bought this because I liked the natural ingredients and assumed that name meant this lotion would be soft, creamy and smell nice. I was wrong. This stuff is hard in texture and is really difficult to spread, even worse it doesn't absorb into the skin at all and left my hands greasy for nearly a half hour, and even then my skin was no different than before. The smell is very overpowering and smells like licorice and chalk-seriously! The packaging isn't great either, because of its hard texture and how greasy it makes your hands its hard to get any of the product out and its even harder to try to screw the lib back onto the jar.
I must say, this company is giving a bad rep to natural/organic skincare! There are lots of other brands which are still natural/organic and work better than any commercial and chemical company and DEFINITELY better than Burt's Bees, these include Juliet's Room, Jurlique Skincare, SanRe Organic Skinfood, A'kin Skincare, and the list goes on...so don't be discouraged if your new to trying natural skincare and this junk happened to be your first try.
on 3/31/2010 3:15:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Dry, Fair, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Relaxed, Medium
Eyes: Green
Pro's: Smells absolutely delicious. One of my favorite smells out there. It's extremely moisturizing too.
Con's: Oh, where to begin. It's almost 10$ for this little jar and if you have long fingernails, beware. Getting this stuff out is very annoying, I get it all under my fingernails. Like I said up there, it's very moisturizing, but it's EXTREMELY greasy and thick. Only put it on when you are going to sleep or going to be dormant for a long period of time cause you won't be able to do much else with it on your hands.
Bottom line, it smells great, but not worth the price tag.
on 3/16/2010 7:40:00 AM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Oily, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Other
This is a great treatment cream - something to put on your hands before bed.
A bit hard to use during the day as too little makes rubbing it feel like pulling skin - it's not emollient, while too much leaves you with that greasy feeling.
I have put it on on cold winter mornings when I knew I would be sitting in front of my monitor and wont need to wet my hands for a while - it is very very comforting.
But I don't think I can get past how rich and waxy it is and either feeling like i need to wash my hands soon if I put it on during the day or worrying about bed linen if i put it on before bed.
on 3/9/2010 9:56:00 PM
Age: 56 & Over
Skin: Dry, Fair, Warm
Hair: Grey, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Brown
I don't mind the strong almond smell of this cream. I like the texture and use it at night on my hands, elbows and feet.
on 2/22/2010 6:34:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Very Oily, Fair-Medium, Cool
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Blue
This is an excellent hand cream. I only use it at night though. It really sits on my hands and doesn't absorb well. It does do a great job of moisturizing. That is why I like it so much. My hands are dry year round because I wash them with harsh soap at work all day long.
on 2/4/2010 1:14:00 AM
Age: 44-55
Skin: Combination, Fair, Warm
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Brown
I am a hand lotion freak ~ I have lotion in every room of my house and I am constantly applying lotion to my hands. I received this hand creme in a mani-pedi kit and I have been using the creme on my hands and elbows before bedtime. It is very greasy, but I don't mind because it makes my hands so soft, and it moisturizers my skin.
Four lippies because I do not like the packaging ~ it's hard to get the product out of the glass jar. Others mentioned that they do not like the scent ~ it smells good to me, just like almonds. I bought two mani-pedi kits, and I am so glad because all of the products were full size, and a $7.00 hand creme is expensive for me...
on 2/2/2010 11:19:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Tan, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I got this as a gift and I'm pretty pleased with it. It is very thick and emollient so as another reviewer wrote, it's best for nighttime. I can see it feeling pretty sticky on for some, but it does the job! I personally enjoy the smell.
on 1/25/2010 3:58:00 PM
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Hair: Brown, Other, Fine
Eyes: Brown
Yes, this product is sticky (why I took off a lippie) and yes it smells like marzipan ( which I kinda like) but it is restorative. I use this as a hand treatment. I rub it into my hands before I go to bed and put on some manicure gloves...i'm not sure if that is their name but you probably know what I am talking about. Anyway in the morning my hands are refreshed and not as dry. SO not an everyday produce but I good little pampering too oh and 100% natural ingredients.
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The government of Himachal Pradesh is planning to ban leather shoes in schools. Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal is preparing to send an advisory to school principals. If the response is positive, the government would kickstart the programme soon. The idea has already found favour with Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) boards. Dhumal proposes to introduce canvas shoes instead of the commonly used leather shoes, which are an environmental hazard.
Besides the large number of cattle that are used as raw material by the leather industry, the manufacturing process itself leaves a huge impact on environment. It's processing employs fungicides, volatile organic solvents, various oils and cyanide based dyes and coal-tar derivatives. During the tanning process, a lot of salts, lime sludge and acids are released which also leave a murky trail.
Blackle is a search engine created by Toby Heap, owner of Heap Media Australia. Although Blackle looks more or less like Google, there is one feature which strikes out, and that is its pitch black back ground. It uses gray and white fonts. The idea behind the black display is that, darker colours on monitors consume less energy as compared to a colourful one like Google. It has saved over 2,000,000 Watt hours since its launch in 2007, claim its creators.
However, this is a highly debatable issue. Some say that a black background actually uses more energy. Others believe that only tube-based Cathode-ray Tube (CRT) monitors show significant difference between the energy consumption of Google and Blackle, the difference is miniscule in Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) monitors.
An Australian tech-journalist Darren Yates said, that even with a CRT monitor, the drop in power consumption through Blackle was a negligible seven watts. Some of the other 'green' search engines which claim low energy use are Ecocho, Green Maven, Eco-find and Searchgreener.
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is still dominating the headlines.While the beleagured British Petroleum is struggling to seal the leak, there is something else along with the oil that seems to be spreading – a dead zone.
When nitrogen and phosphorus from farm chemicals are washed into the sea, they boost algal growth. When these algae die, they sink to the ocean bed and use oxygen to decompose, – causing oxygen depletion. As a result, organisms that live at the bottom of the ocean die, creating what is known as the dead zone. Gulf of Mexico's dead zone is believed to be aggravated by the oil spill – as bacteria that break down the oil also consume oxygen.
Cycling uphill has always seemed like a daunting task, right? Not anymore! The 'Copenhagen Wheel' developed by researchers in the Massa chusetts Institute of Technology stores the peddler's energy every time he or she brakes, and then uses it to provide a boost while cycling uphill. According to Carlo Ratti, Project Director, the technology employed in the wheel is somewhat like the Kinetic Energy Recovery System, which performs this whole process of conversion.
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America's Got Talent Contestant Timothy Poe Says He May Have Been Mistaken About His Accident in Afghanistan
He auditioned for America's Got Talent with a stutter, a cowboy hat, and a sad story about getting injured in Afghanistan. Country singer Timothy Poe won over hearts with his rich voice and heroic tale, but now soldiers from his unit claim his story is inaccurate.
"I spent 14 years in the military," he said during his audition, and the crowd cheered. "But my career was ended in 2009. I had gotten hit by a grenade in Afghanistan and it broke my back and gave me a brain injury, so that's the reason why I stutter a little bit." With somber music playing in the background, Timothy's story continued in a pre-taped segment. He said he volunteered to clear buildings when a man with a rocket-propelled grenade appeared. "[.. B]y the time I went to jump on my guys, I yelled, 'Grenade,' and the blast had hit me."
But some of Poe's fellow soldiers began to dispute Poe's claims. Minnesota National Guard transportation specialist Jousting Doerfler tells E! Online that while he was in Afghanistan with Poe, the singer had an ear injury that forced him to stay behind in Kandahar. "Everyone on 114 can say it didn't happen, especially his squad and platoon," says Doerfler.
Amidst these allegations, Poe spoke to The New York Post, saying, "It may not have happened exactly like I said it did … I really do not remember a lot of things since the accident." According to what an Army spokesperson tells The Post, Poe remained in Afghanistan for less than a month and they have incomplete records regarding his injury.
At least two claims Poe made during his audition turned out to be false. Though he said he didn't know he could sing until his speech pathologist suggested he practice in the shower, Poe now admits he'd been in a band for several years before the incident in 2009. He now confesses he was never awarded the Purple Heart, despite what he said during his audition.
In the New York Post interview, Poe says, "I would like to take the time to tell the the American people how truly sorry I am that they had to endure the incomplete facts."
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Sarai started daycare a few weeks ago and I am not liking it so far. However, I'm not sure if my concerns are valid considering I haven't had a kid in daycare in over 11yrs. Here are my concerns:
I wasn't told that her teachers would both be out on vacation her first and second week there...and she would have to rotate going to different classrooms with different kids and teachers.
A few days I wasn't given her daily report.
While the teacher was changing another baby, a little boy was pulling Sarai's hair and scratching her in the face (I saw this as I was walking in to pick her up).
I pick her up yesterday and she has a deep scratch near her upper lip/nostril area and a scratch on her forehead.
I was too through! I mean I know kids will hit but dang it looks like she had been in a fight!
To me it seems like she's not being watched and I want to pull her out. The center has been around for over 30 years, have several centers throughout metro Atl and after researching the states child care centers website and seeing they had a good report, I was convinced this would be a great fit, but not anymore.
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YIELD: Makes 14 corn sticks or 1 (9-inch) loaf of corn bread
ACTIVE TIME: 15 minutes
TOTAL TIME: 35 minutes
Preheat oven to 425°F. Heat pans in middle of oven 10 minutes.
Whisk together cornmeal, sugar, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl. Whisk together buttermilk and egg in another bowl and add cornmeal mixture with Cheddar, scallion, jalapeños, and 2 tablespoons butter, stirring, until just combined.
Remove pans from oven and divide remaining 2 tablespoons butter among corn stick molds. Quickly divide batter among molds (about 3 tablespoons each) and bake until a tester comes out clean and tops are golden, 12 to 15 minutes.
Cool corn sticks in pans 3 to 5 minutes before removing from molds. Serve warm.
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In the past, we reported that NASA was unable to provide detailed support for the amounts obligated against the limits. Thus, we could not verify the amounts NASA reported to Congress in its fiscal year 2002 through 2004 budget requests. NASA did not report obligations to date against the space station and shuttle cost limits as part of its fiscal year 2005 budget request. As a result, we have no basis for verifying NASA's charges against the limits.
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TV Info
Episode PremiereSeptember 29, 2010
Show Period2010 - 2011
Production CompanyCBS Television Studios
Cast and Crew
DirectorJeff Melman
ScreenwriterPeter Noah
Main Cast
- Jerry O'Connell as Pete Kaczmarek
- James Belushi as Nick Morelli
- Gillian Vigman as Jessica Morelli
- Jurnee Smollett
- Tanya Fischer
Additional Cast
- Alyssa Shafer
- Teddy Sears
- Nealla Gordon
Nick works to free a single mother of a young girl from jail after she is accused of running down a jogger while on her cell phone. Pete tries to help a man down on his luck when he steals money from his boss in order to pay his mortgage. A young, single mother with a nine year old daughter accidentally runs down a jogger on a barely lit street. The state of Nevada and the relentless DA want to charge her with manslaughter. Nick steps in, even though this is not his case. He sees that a young girl might be sent to foster care if her mother goes to prison for six months. So he takes the girl back to his office and then into the hands of his ex wife to take care of her while he fights the case. In the mean time, the team races against the clock to prove that this really was an accident. In the end they prove it with evidence presented by a runner's app on a cell phone. The cell phone tracked the runner's course, disproving the DA's argument, and proving it to truly be an accident. Pete defends a down on his luck guy who stole from the jewelry store where he worked to cover his mortgage payment, only to pay it back the next day with money won in a bet. However the jewelry story owner discovers the money is gone before he can put it back in the safe. Peter helps him out of the kindness of his heart. He manages to get the DA to drop the charges.


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FS to meet Walt Disney officials
The Financial Secretary, John Tsang, will discuss the latest expansion plans of the Hong Kong Disneyland with Walt Disney management. The meeting will take place on Friday during his trip to Los Angeles. The company faced trouble in raising funds to finance the expansion amid a tight credit market. Visitor numbers of the theme park have failed to meet its target since its opening in 2005.


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Umetnost in zabava, znanost in inovacije na dosegu roke
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You can upload up to three photos on the European Commission Facebook app for a chance to win €1.000 to spend on digital camera equipment and a trip for two to Brussels in October 2013 during the European Week of Regions and Cities (7-10 October 2013).
The deadline to post your photos is 23 August 2013, 12:00pm CET. Don't forget that to participate you must be 18 and a resident of a EU country.
Four winners will be selected: one by popular vote and three by the jury. Voting begins on 26 August and ends on 6 September and any Facebook user can vote for your photo, so encourage your friends!
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Excalibur® Equinox Crossbow with "Lite Stuff" Package
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Excalibur® Equinox Crossbow with "Lite Stuff" Illuminated Multi - plex Sight & Accessories Package Raw power, exacting precision... a deadly crossbow combo!
Excalibur's 225 lb. Equinox Crossbow combines bone crushing power and blistering speeds of up to 350 f.p.s. with an ergonomic new thumbhole stock. Designed and built with a reduced overall length, making it easier to cock and steadier to hold without sacrificing the amazing downrange performance that has made Excalibur famous.
Dressed with the help of the "Kolorfusion" process for maximum detail and realism with the Realtree AP HD camouflage, the Equinox comes with fiber optic sight, and is drilled and tapped to accept Excalibur's scope and quiver mount included in the Lite Stuff Package.
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- Velocity: 350 F.P.S.
- Draw weight: 225 lbs.
- Power stroke: 16 1/ 2 "
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- Arrow length: 20"
- Arrow weight: 350 grain (min.)
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Nectarine and Macadamia Sundae
Nectarine and Macadamia Sundae
Serves: 4
1/3 cup raw macadamias
Vanilla ice cream, to serve
2 yellow nectarines, cut into wedges
2 white nectarines, cut into wedges
Ice cream topping, to serve
- Preheat oven to 200 C. Place the macadamias on an oven tray and cook for 5 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from oven, cool and chop roughly.
- To assemble the sundae, place a few scoops of ice cream in four serving bowls.
- Top with nectarine wedges and a drizzle of ice cream topping. Sprinkle with chopped macadamias and serve immediately.
Note: Raspberry topping was used in this recipe, however the sundae works just as well with caramel or strawberry topping.
Nectarine Facts
• Nectarines are in season from late November to March.
• The word 'nectarine' means sweet as nectar, and this is very likely the obvious origin of the name.
• To select a perfect nectarine, look for a fragrant, firm and richly coloured fruit, with glossy smooth skin. At the stem end, make sure that the nectarine is either yellow (for yellow varieties) or white (for white varieties), and make sure you handle the fruit with care to avoid bruising.
• Nectarines are best ripened in a bowl at room temperature or if you are planning to eat them quickly, store in the fridge for up to three days. To ripen quickly, place in a paper bag with a banana.
• Nectarines are best eaten with the skin on as it is the skin that holds a lot of the goodness and flavour.
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Cut up the goose into convenient pieces; trim off all fat and put aside for use later.
Mix the salt and saltpetre, and rub each piece of goose with the mixture.
Put the pieces of goose into an earthenware pot, cover with a cloth, and then with a piece of flat wood on top of which you put a fairly heavy weight.
Leave in a cool place to steep for 48 hours.
Now wipe the pieces of goose very thoroughly.
Melt the fat which you have previously put aside, adding, if necessary, a little lard, so that you have enough to immerse the bird completely.
Heat, bring to boiling point, and then simmer over a gentle heat until the meat is tender enough for a knitting needle to pierce a large piece of it quite easily.
Pieces of goose take about 1 1/2 hours to reach this stage.
When the pieces of goose are cooked and perfectly tender put them in a large jar, pour all the fat over them, straining it through a cloth.
The meat must be well covered by the fat.
Let it cool for 24 hours and solidify.
Then seal off the top with crushed rock salt.
Put a paper on top and a lid on the jar to seal it hermetically.
This preserve will keep in a cool place for several months.
Goose preserved in this way can eventually be served either just as it is or fried in its own fat, and sprinkled before serving with chopped parsley or a mixture of chopped parsley and garlic.
Serve potatoes with it, also fried in the goose-fat.
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A thoroughly refreshing vodka, lime juice, and ginger beer cocktail.
A refreshing summer classic starring rum, lime juice, and a splash of soda.
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Former Suns coach D'Antoni regrets leaving Phoenix
Mike D'Antoni regrets leaving the Phoenix Suns to coach the New York Knicks.
In an interview with ESPN.com, the new Los Angeles Lakers coach admitted he made a mistake.
"I shouldn't have gone to New York," he says, looking down at the sideline in Memphis, pacing on that unstable right leg.
"I should have stuck in there and battled. You don't get to coach somebody like him [Nash] too many times. It's pretty sacred and you need to take care of it. I didn't."
D'Antoni has never told Nash this.
Nash remained with the Suns until the summer of 2012, when a sign-and-trade deal was orchestrated to send the two-time league MVP to the Lakers.
At the time he left, D'Antoni and the Suns were coming off a rather tumultuous year in 2008. Steve Kerr had taken over as GM, the team traded Shawn Marion to the Miami Heat for Shaquille O'Neal, and Phoenix fell to the San Antonio Spurs in the first round of the playoffs.
In the article, D'Antoni admitted he was frustrated with how the season went and "probably irrationally made a decision" as soon as the season ended. Looking back, he says he probably should have waited a little bit before making any kind of move.
Interestingly enough, though, there were some who thought it was a mutual parting between the Suns and their coach. After all, Kerr wanted a greater emphasis on defense, and asked D'Antoni to hire a defensive assistant to help on that end of the court. It was believed the coach took offense to the idea that his way of doing things would not get the job done, and thus decided to bolt.
Turns out, the Suns were not really looking to replace their coach until they had to.
When the Knicks job came open in the spring of 2008, the Suns let him go.
"No. It was me," D'Antoni admits now. "I initiated it and I probably shouldn't have."
The Suns have gone through two coaches since then, as they hired Terry Porter to replace D'Antoni and then promoted Alvin Gentry to replace Porter. Phoenix reached the Western Conference Finals in 2010, but has landed in the lottery each of the last two seasons.
As for D'Antoni, he won just 121 games over more than three seasons in the Big Apple before resigning in March of 2012. The Lakers hired him to replace Mike Brown in early November.
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Worth my while??? Federal Couragia...
So I am looking for some tires to throw on the truck while I put some cash up for wheels/tires/lift...keep in mind I'm gonna need tires before summer for sure! Anyway I was thinking about going ahead and getting some Federal Couragia MT's on my stock rims, then throw the lift on, then getting the actual rim/tire combo that I really want...so my question is, is it worth my time bothering with them...I want to get them in 35's but when I get my wheel/tire combo I want 37's with maybe 22" wheels...all in all I would need them to get 15,000 miles estimated over the next 3-4 months till I have lift and wheel/tire combo...otherwise I will get the lift then save for the 37's and hope I get the money before my current ones run out...I think I'm favoring just getting them then upgrading this summer...THOUGHTS???
I have had several sets of Toyo M/T's and one set of of Nitto terra grapplers. With that I am currently running a set of Federal Couragia M/T's and have zero complaints after about 12K miles. Very comparable to the Toyo.. in all regards.
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The index revealed that 69 percent of Israelis want Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign immediately, regardless of whether he's indicted.
Why? Because they believe he lacks "moral stature."
One-quarter of those polled would settle for the present coalition with a new leader. Only 12 percent of responders think the present government is okay.
Regarding the status of Jerusalem, 61 percent are against ceding any part of the city to the Palestinians, even if that torpedoes a future peace deal.
Additionally, 51 percent of those polled are against ceding any of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) in any deal.
When asked about the US presidential race, only 18 percent believe Barack Obama would be favorable to Israel versus 42 percent who think John McCain would lead a government that would stand behind Israel.
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