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TERENCE N. CLARK, then a student at University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, was awarded a grant in April 2006 to aid research on 'Rewriting Marpole: The Path to Cultural Complexity in the Gulf of Georgia,' supervised by Dr. Gary Coupland. This grant funded museum based research at the Royal British Columbia Museum, the Burke Museum, the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser Museum of Archaeology as well as several smaller institutions. Original analysis of over 22000 artifacts from 48 site components was coupled with data acquisition of published and unpublished site reports and field notes of faunal, mortuary, household, language and art style. These data streams were then examined using Integrated Distance Analysis (IDA) which was successful in delineating prehistoric group identity within the milieu of the mobile hunter gatherer societies of the Northwest Coast.
JEFFREY J. SCHIFFER, while a student at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York, was awarded a grant in December of 2010 to support ethnographic research on 'The Everyday Work of Achieving and Reproducing Indigeneity: Cases from the Northwest Coast,' supervised by Dr. Hervé Varenne. The one-year period of research comprised the primary phase of the grantee's dissertation research conducted in a large Aboriginal organization for child and family services in Vancouver, British Columbia -- the largest of its kind in Canada. In the midst of an organization providing child welfare and family support services to Aboriginal peoples from more than 100 communities across Canada, the grantee queried the process by which particular discourses, concepts, and practices are achieved and reproduced as indigenous in the diverse urban setting of Vancouver. Primarily by means of interviews, focus groups, and participation in ceremonies, feasts, special events, and daily activities within the organization, the grantee engaged his research participants in a collaborative exploration of the manner by which contemporary Aboriginal organizations for Aboriginal child and family have been and continue to be shaped by inherited colonial structures, histories of residential schooling, policies banning indigenous cultural practices, and attempted cultural genocide.
Preliminary abstract: This project aims to further understanding of climate science through an ethnographic investigation of the development of a regional forecast model. I will conduct one year of fieldwork among an interdisciplinary network of climate scientists who are working to strengthen the validity of simulation models using high-resolution paleoecological data. This fieldwork will allow me to follow the process of developing a model, including both the material practices and the experiential and embodied knowledge that are necessary for successfully translating a landscape into computer code. This research will be attentive to political concerns as a part of the knowledge making process, rather than assume they are corruptive. The resulting ethnography will strengthen the claims of mainstream climate science by showing how it works to produce robust information through the interface of scientific objects, models, and political concern.
DINA W. MAKRAM-EBEID, then a student at London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom, was awarded a grant in April 2009 to aid research on 'Steel Lives Under Neo-liberalism: Everyday Politics of Labor in Helwan, Egypt,' supervised by Dr. Jonathan P. Parry. This grant supported the second half of a research project focusing on steel workers in one of Egypt's oldest public-owned plants in Helwan governorate. The researcher conducted ethnographic fieldwork on two shop-floors inside the steel plant and among workers' community in the neighboring 'Company Town.' The ethnographic investigation highlighted how workers and their households incorporate the drastic changes in industrial policies, which occurred over the past two decades, into their everyday lives. The research findings suggest that the new work conditions in the plant and living conditions in the Company Town are creating new relations among various groups of workers and between workers and management. These new relations, for example, between young workers employed casually and old workers with stable contracts; production and maintenance workers, and workers and engineers, in turn, influence the work culture of the plant and the values that are (re-) produced among the community of workers. This research thus, encourages linking the analysis of wider changes in community relations and values to the shifting conditions of work worldwide.
Preliminary abstract: To Shed the Mark: A Critical Examination of Employers, Job Seekers and Advocates seeks to contribute to efforts to increase the number of employers who are willing to hire workers with criminal convictions. It does so by asking a question unanswered in the literature: what differentiates employers who are willing to hire people with past convictions from those who are not? Despite broad consensus that employment is essential to reentry success, we know very little about what drives or informs employer behavior. While a significant body of literature documents the scope of employer aversion, few accounts have analyzed how or why employers make their decisions and none explain shifts from reluctance to willingness. This study is premised on the idea that in order to transform the status quo, we need more nuanced and precise analyses of employer perspectives and behavior, as well as those of job seekers and the advocates who assist them. How do the analytic and practical strategies of job seekers and advocates speak to, or speak past, employers concerns and motivations? With these questions in mind, I will undertake a longterm ethnographic study of employers, job seekers and advocates, using the qualitative methods of participant observation, interviews and focus groups. My belief is that through social scientific attention to the perspectives and behaviors of all three actors--what informs them and how they shift--this research will strategize new theoretical and practical pathways to increase access to employment and reduce the stigma associated with a criminal record.
JESSICA C. ROBBINS, then a student at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, received funding in October 2007 to aid research on 'Making and Unnmaking Polish Persons: Aging and Memory in Postsocialist Poland,' supervised by Dr. Gillian Feeley-Harnik. This research investigated how experiences and ideals of aging relate to changing formations of nation and state through the study of contemporary practices of memory in Wroc?aw and Pozna?, Poland. This research sought to understand how older persons become transformed through practices of memory in personal, familial, and national contexts (e.g., telling life histories, creating photo albums and other material evidence, or following public debates on pension reform). To understand how current interpretations and ramifications of the last century's large-scale changes matter in the lives of aging Poles, and how the oldest generations matter to the Polish nation and state, this research consisted of an ethnographic study of aging Poles' gendered practices of reminiscence in a variety of social, political, religious, and economic contexts (e.g.,a church-run rehabilitation hospital, a state-run home for the chronically ill, a day care center for people with Alzheimer's disease, and Universities of the Third Age). This research demonstrated that experiences and ideals of aging are deeply gendered, and that older people's practices of memory are intimately bound up with transformations of persons, collective memory, and nationalisms, and tied to national practices of remembering Poland's past and creating the proper future path of state and nation.
ALISON D. GOEBEL, then a student at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, received funding in October 2007 to assist research on 'Reconfiguring Middle Class Whiteness: Global Capitalism, Race, and US Small Cities,' supervised by Dr. Alejandro Lugo. This ethnographic research investigated how middle class dominance and white racial privilege are being altered under global capitalism and the significance of urban space in these changes. The grantee conducted twelve months of fieldwork in Mansfield, Ohio -- a small, deindustrializing, multiracial, city in the United States -- and utilized discourse analysis to interpret data gathered through participant observation, fieldnotes of everyday talk, unstructured and semi-structured recorded interviews, mapping exercises, and archival research. This case study indicates that small city space brings inhabitants of a range of economic and racial backgrounds together in close residential, occupational, and social proximity. Residents' racial and class worldviews derive from this familiarity. However, ethnography analysis indicates that despite city-wide anxiety over constrained economic opportunities, middle class white Mansfielders are relatively insulated from the debilitating effects of economic restructuring. The grantee concluded that although structures of racial and class advantages have not significantly diminished in Mansfield, middle class whiteness constantly adjusts and recalibrates to changing economic political processes and social formations.
Preliminary abstract: The Affordable Care Act is predicted to spur a decentralization of hospitals in the United States, stimulating the growth of localized community health centers and services to accommodate 32 million formerly uninsured people. In the absence of universal health care, how is the responsibility to care for vulnerable populations directed and organized? How has the connection between structural inequality and suffering in vulnerable populations been elided and reconstrued as incidental, blameless and random? How does an ethical commitment to compassion undermine or support the 'right' to access care? My research will address these questions by studying the work of community health nurses in Massachusetts, the state that has served as the model for national reform, to map expanding and increasingly localized networks of care that explicitly target vulnerable populations. I will investigate (1) how the increasing authority, autonomy, and scope of practice of community health nurses enable them to redefine the administration and justification of care; and (2) how nurses use new health information technologies to legitimize an expanded notion of care and to redefine their obligations and responsibilities as care providers. I will collect data through a combination of participant observation in three community health sites, an analysis of bureaucratic document production in the use of health information technologies and materials, and oral history with nurses who have worked in multiple clinical paradigms through generations of reform. I hypothesize that increasing the influence of community health nurses will enable an activation of professional caring ethics to reimagine the role of medicine to shape the quality of life of vulnerable populations in an unstable neoliberal moment.
TIMM LAU, while a student at Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom, was awarded funding in March 2004 to aid research on 'The Development of Moral Knowledge and Identity Formation in a Tibetan Community in Baijnath, India,' supervised by Dr. James A. Laidlaw. This research, undertaken for the duration of 15 months from March 2004 until July 2005, set out to investigate the development of moral knowledge in a Tibetan settlement in North India, and its relationship to the formation of identity in this exile community. Ethnographically, it contributes to existing research in providing an in-depth description of Tibetan exiles in India, which includes interaction with the Indian host population. The most notable of these outside the Tibetan settlements is widespread itinerant trading in the Indian marketplace. Descriptions of Tibetan refugees' evaluations of Indians sheds light on issues of morality and identity: negative moral evaluations are often constructive of Tibetan identity through ascription of difference. They are also shown to be instrumental in dealing with contradictions in the lives of Tibetan refugees, which are largely shaped by Tibetan cultural preservation, but to some extent influenced by the pop-cultural sensibilities of their Indian host nation. Furthermore, the ethnography of the Tibetan emotional notions of harmony and shame establishes them as effective in moral development, through the construction of moral emotions, and also as instrumental in the construction of relationships within the family and the wider community.
CAROLINA BELMAR PANTELIS, then a student at University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, received a grant in May 2010 to aid research on 'Plant Exploitation among Steppe Hunter Gatherers: An Approach from Plant Microfossils, Baño Nuevo 1 Cave Site,' supervised by Dr. Cristian Favier Dubois. This project was oriented to study the plant remains at a Patagonian steppe hunter-gatherer site, Baño Nuevo (11,480-3000 AP, Aisén, Chile), which is a type of evidence not commonly used in hunter-gatherer investigations. In order to determine what plants are being exploited at Baño Nuevo, our studies focused on plant microfossils present in stone tool residues and fruits and seeds recovered from the Early, Middle and Late Holocene Occupations defined for the site. The archaeological seeds and fruits demonstrate the exploitation of local plants -- shrubs with edible fruits and herbaceaous plants -- that are recurrent during the three periods of occupation. Residue analysis show the use of a diverse set of stone tools for the procurement and/or processing of plant resources, indicating the multifunctionality of these instruments. There is also a constant in the plants that were identified for each occupation, which corresponds to local herbaceaous plants. Tus we were able to identify plant remains for th


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Microsoft is expected to reveal the first details of its next major Windows release this week at Build 2014, ZDNet reports. Windows 9 – codenamed "Threshold" – will supposedly launch in the spring of 2015, but the company is already eager to share its vision of the future of its desktop operating system.
While Microsoft will not actually reveal the full feature list of Windows 9 or mention a target launch date for the new OS, officials are expected to "discuss at a high level the company's goal to create a new Windows 9 SKU that would run on Windows Phones, ARM-based Windows tablets/PCs, phablets and other kinds of devices."
Interestingly, Windows 9 might not include a "Desktop for running legacy Win32 apps," according to "previous tips," and will be updated "frequently and regularly" via the Windows Store.
At Build, Microsoft is also expected to unveil its first "touch-first" versions of Word Excel and PowerPoint for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. These apps, similar to what Microsoft has done with Office for iPad, will be more friendly towards touch-based interface than regular Office for Windows apps. This new Office version should be released later this year, in time for the "modern" Windows 9 release. Earlier this year, a hacker claimed that the Windows 9 RTM build will actually be released in October this year, instead of spring 2015 as previous rumors have suggested.
The company will also share more details about bringing the Windows and Windows Phone platforms closer for developers, so apps will work across devices.
In the past, Microsoft has been criticized for choosing to merge tablet and PC experiences in Windows 8, confusing many Windows fans with its new user interface choices – dropping the Start menu was one of the major unwelcomed changes – and resulting app mix between traditional and mobile apps.
In addition to Windows 9 details, Microsoft is expected to announce Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1 Update 1 features, alongside release plans for these software updates.
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Agatha Christie, the ivory statues and our own Indiana Jones
The British Museum has paid £1.2m for a set of ancient carvings discovered by the writer and her husband
Tuesday 08 March 2011
It is hard to believe that some of these delicate ivory carvings, excavated from the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, are almost 3,000 years old. Yet perhaps more remarkable is the fact their lustre was first restored, at a dusty archaeological site in Iraq, by the novelist Agatha Christie through the patient application of face cream.
The British Museum has paid £1.2m for the Nimrud Ivories, the finest collection of decorative ivories ever excavated in the Middle East. They were discovered by the British School of Archaeology between 1949 and 1963, on a dig led by Sir Max Mallowan, Christie's second husband and head of an excavation team of which his wife was also a member.
Now bound up in the items' extraordinary history is the love story of their discoverers (which began with an unlikely journey on the Orient Express), and the novels they inspired.
"Oh what a beautiful spot it was... The Tigris was just a mile away, and on the great mound of the Acropolis, big stone Assyrian heads poked out of the soil. In one place there was the enormous wing of a great genie," wrote Christie in her autobiography, which was published in 1977, the year after her death.
"I had my own favourite tools... an orange stick, possibly a very fine knitting needle... and a jar of cosmetic face cream... for gently coaxing the dirt out of the crevices without harming the friable ivory," she wrote.
Christie and her husband were digging at the site of Nimrud in northern Iraq, just south of Mosul. It was built by Assyrian king Shalmaneser I in the 13th century BC. Five hundred years later, it was made the capital of the Assyrian Empire, which then covered modern-day Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Kuwait and Jordan, as well as about half of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iran.
The collection comprises almost 1,000 numbered items, as well 5,000 fragments or unnumbered pieces. These carved ivories, dating from the 9th-7th centuries BC, were mostly made in Syrian and Phoenician cities near the Mediterranean coast and were brought to Assyria as loot.
The most significant pieces were found buried in sludge at the bottom of several wells in the city's north-west palace. They had been thrown there at the time of Nimrud's destruction by the Medes and Babylonians in 612BC.
Their life story became entwined with Christie's when, in 1928, after the collapse of her first marriage and a peculiar 11-day disappearance – after which she was found safe at a hotel in Harrogate checked in under a pseudonym – she boarded the Orient Express for the first time.
In Istanbul, the railway's southern terminus, she wrote one of her most celebrated works, Murder on the Orient Express, from her room at the Hotel Pera Palace. She also met and married Sir Max Mallowan, the apprentice archaeologist 15 years her junior. She accompanied him on his digs throughout the Middle East, as his star rose almost to match that of her own. At Nimrud the team slept in tents, although Christie had her own private mud-brick room, labelled "Agatha's House", to allow her to write undisturbed. She also spent much of her time working on and photographing the objects turned up by the dig.
Her experiences in Iraq soon began to influence her novels. In They Came to Baghdad, published in 1951, she wrote of the experiences of an enthusiastic young tourist: "Unexpectedly, she found the life quite enchanting... Helping with camera work. Piecing together and sticking up pottery. Watching the men at work, appreciating the skill and delicacy of the pick men – enjoying the songs and laughter of the little boys who ran to empty their baskets of earth on the dump."
Christie died in 1976, an event most memorably described in the postscript of Sir Max Mallowan's autobiography: peacefully and gently, and leaving him with a feeling of emptiness after 45 years. He died two years later.
The best of the near 6,000 pieces go on display in the British Museum's Middle East section from next week.
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Though, this bill would be far less controversial than Scott's plan to drug test all welfare recipients, and it's not clear if he's on board. Scott has said time and time again he wants to drug test all recipients, though it's not clear how all of the tests would be paid for or how the government would account for the fact drug tests are not 100 percent accurate.
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- Family members were worried about falling ash and encouraged her to quit
Birthday girl Clara Cowell has shown it's never too late to change your lifestyle - after giving up smoking two weeks ago aged 102.
And Mrs Cowell, who lives independently in Ainscough Brook House in Ribbleton, Preston, is celebrating her milestone birthday today with five generations of family at one of her favourite places - the pub.
Her daughter, Valerie Houghton, 73, said: 'We wanted to take her to the Continental because they've built a little snug, and it will be a nice reminder of the pubs she used to go to in Lancaster Road like The Painters.
Valerie Houghton (left) with her mother Clara Cowell as she celebrates her 102nd birthday
Mrs Cowell, a former tailoress, lit her first cigarette in 1931, and has puffed her way through two or three a day since - a total of almost 60,000.
But now, on the advice of her family, who were concerned about the falling ash, she has given up.
Daughter Lynda Fowler, 69, who lives in Ontario, Canada, said: 'The secret to mum's long life is a cigarette and a cup of tea with whisky. That and hard work and poverty. She's an inspiration.'
Mrs Cowell, who survived TB as a small child, said she 'doesn't believe in medication', and is so sprightly that for her 101st birthday, she wowed crowds at Blackpool Tower ballroom by taking to the dance floor for a waltz.
Clara Cowell started smoking in 1931 but quit two weeks before her 102nd birthday
Mrs Cowell said: 'I used to love dancing, particularly waltzing and the foxtrot.
'We all used to walk home from Blackpool to Preston and the police guided us. There would be boys and girls arm-in-arm, singing.
Mrs Cowell spent most of her life living in the Plungington and Deepdale areas, and brought up four children - Bryan, Ken, Valerie and Lynda - with her late coal man husband George.
During the war, when George was called to fight, she raised the children alone while working in a local ammunition factory.
Mrs Houghton said: 'She used to walk us to the childminder's every day between 5am and 6am and then she'd go to work making parachutes.
'All of the girls used to take a little material and they made themselves silk knickers.'
Mrs Cowell added: 'It was hard during the war and we never had enough sleep or enough to eat, but we didn't take any harm from it. I've just tried to make the most of things.'
As well as having four children, Mrs Cowell also has nine grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.
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Where was Hillary? Speculation over Clinton's 2016 plans rages as she disappears from public view during election
Hillary Clinton is not usually one to keep a low profile - but as the eyes of the world turned on American politics this week, the Secretary of State was nowhere to be seen.
Her mysterious absence - she was not even pictured in public from last Thursday until today - led to speculation she is busy preparing for her own run at the White House in 2016.
Clinton has previously announced that she is to step down from State early next year, and this week her spokesman confirmed that she was set to leave office within months.
She's back: Hillary Clinton was pictured in Washington DC on Thursday after a week out of the spotlight
Last week, she embarked on a tour of the Balkans, meeting officials in Serbia, Albania, Croatia and Kosovo - far away from the electoral fray as Barack Obama faced off with Mitt Romney in a successful attempt to win four more years as President.
And next week Clinton is expected to visit Australia for an international summit, though even this has not been officially confirmed.
During election day itself, however, the Secretary of State did not help Obama by campaigning, nor did she make any public appearances at all.
Bill Clinton, who was one of the President's most important surrogates throughout the campaign, spoke at a number of events over the weekend, but was not joined by his wife.
Last time: Clinton was pictured last Thursday with Albania's president Bujar Nishani in Tirana
Rivals? Clinton could have been distancing herself from Obama to prepare the ground for a 2016 run
The couple apparently voted together near their home in Chappaqua, New York on Tuesday evening, but their trip to the polls was not publicised or photographed.
Hillary finally resurfaced on Thursday, when she presided over a ceremony to grant U.S. citizenship to children born abroad and adopted by American parents.
She has repeatedly claimed that she will not run for President again after her failed bid in 2008, and has added that she will not seek any public office after leaving State.
However, many pundits are sceptical of her protestations, and the main article this morning on Politico, a news website popular with insiders, anointed her the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016.
Close: Bill Clinton has been one of Obama's most important surrogates during this election
Campaign: The former President spent a lot of time on the trail boosting his successor's chances
Clinton's decision to stay out of the limelight could, therefore, have been a hedging strategy designed to distance her from Obama in the event that he lost.
Strangely, given her pivotal role in the Obama administration, Hillary seems to have ended up being less important to the President than Bill is.
The 42nd President, rather than his wife, was the first person Obama phoned after Romney conceded defeat.
Now that Obama has been re-elected, some expect Mrs Clinton to grow closer to him in an attempt to portray herself as part of a winning team - although she may calculate that by 2016, Americans will be so tired of him that she will have to present herself as the face of change if she is to make it to the White House.
Her movements over the next weeks, months and years will doubtless be carefully monitored to work out whether or not she is indeed manoeuvring for a 2016 power grab.
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I went there expecting to see some exotic animals. What I got was mostly ordinary aquariums with grey fishes that swim in the saint laurent river right next to the aquarium du Quebec. Enterance was not cheap and I was disappointed. There are some seal in a tiny outside pool. Aquariums inside of the building are just boring and plain.
I highly recommend this aquarium for anyone traveling with youngsters. The aquarium is more like a campus with tons of outdoor wildlife, as well as indoor animal exhibits. Additionally, there is a playground with obstacle course and play/splash fountains. If you go in the summer, your little ones can bring their bathing suits to play in the fountains. They'll have...
The aquarium is laid out 60% inside and 40% inside. The exhibits are generally well kept with the exception of the polar bears, walruses and seals pools. Those pools were rusted and extremely cramped. They have a decent variety of aquatic animals but there is not much to do if you're not a family with small children.
What a fun place to spend 1/2 your day near Quebec City. We started off with the seal show and had such a blast watching the presentation. They are such super smart animals. It was all in french but you could understand what was going on and the connection between the trainer and the animals was so cool to see....
We were at the gate at 9am and had time to do the main aquarium building before the seal show. A quick break and check out the polar bears and it was time for the walrus show. We all loved it and learned a lot.
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Mike D'Antoni Needs To Adjust Offense To Fit Player's Strengths
One of the most controversial moves that the Los Angeles Lakers made this season, and perhaps ever, was their hiring of head coach Mike D'Antoni. The last time D'Antoni was on the NBA scene both he and the New York Knicks had decided to "mutually part ways." The last image Laker fans had in their heads was basically their new head coach getting fired. Nobody believes that bogus mutually parting ways story. The last image Laker fans had for their alternative candidate for the vacant head coaching position was a disappointing playoff loss to the Dallas Mavericks.
Still though, Laker fans wanted the alternative. However, I guess when you've won 11 championships, your name is Phil Jackson, and you've cemented yourself in Laker lore. It doesn't matter what the last image fans had of you is. I personally think hiring Jackson would not have made that much of a difference. I think the game had finally passed him by, but that's just my opinion.
What Phil would have done though, probably better than anyone currently coaching in the NBA and certainly better than D'Antoni, is adjust his system to fit the players on the roster. Whether that would have equated to another Lakers championship is unknown. What will be known by the time the playoffs come around, if the Lakers even make it that far, is if D'Antoni can swallow his pride and abandon his ideology that there is no need for a center to clog up the lane.
In case D'Antoni doesn't know, the Lakers second biggest weapon is the guy who is cloggin the lane, Dwight Howard. When Kobe is having off nights it seems that instead of letting the only other guy on the team capable of taking over a game offensively take over. The Lakers continue to go to what isn't working, Kobe Bryant. An Eastern Conference scout recently said that Dwight Howard is, "not totally committed to being there and playing that system."
He continues by saying, "Under Mike Brown, he was going to be a focal point. When you make the coaching change and move to the style of play D'Antoni prefers, it doesn't include making sure the ball goes through Dwight and back out in order to get the offense going. His effort has been comical at times. He wants the ball but has no intention of working for it."
If that is not evidence for you that D'Antoni needs to change his offense, adjusting it to a style more suitable for the player who holds the Lakers future in his hands, here's what one Western Conference executive said, "If you listed the 10 best offenses to run for the Lakers' personnel, the two they've tried to run — the Princeton offense and D'Antoni's offense — would be near the bottom. That's their biggest problem."
So why hasn't D'Antoni made the transition to another offense? Well it mostly has to do with the fact that it is probably too late to do so. Additionally, D'Antoni's offense is built around the idea that you don't need a center in the lane. It has no alternative options for a center in the low post. It's like trying to press the play button on an Ipod, except the play button has been ripped out, it isn't an option. If D'Antoni continues to ignore the importance of Howard in the low post he will be exiting from the playoffs early. Worse for D'Antoni though, his tenure as Lakers head coach would probably end soon after that.
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Bodo: Can Nadal parlay German Open win into hard-court success?
In some respects, we can't help but think of Rafael Nadal as a lost cause this season, but his German Open win might be the beginning of a dramatic turnaround.
In some respects, we can't help but think of Rafael Nadal as a lost cause this season, but his German Open win might be the beginning of a dramatic turnaround.
Top-seeded Rafael Nadal overcame some sloppy play on his beloved clay to beat Fabio Fognini 7-5, 7-5 and win the Hamburg Open for the second time on Sunday.
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Top-seeded David Goffin of Belgium eased to a 6-4, 6-2 win against two-time champion Thomaz Bellucci of Brazil in the Swiss Open semifinals on Saturday.
Top-seeded Rafael Nadal dismissed Andreas Seppi 6-1, 6-2 to set up a Hamburg Open final against Fabio Fognini.
World No. 1 Serena Williams has withdrawn from the upcoming Bank of the West Classic because of an elbow injury she says must get "back to 100 percent."
Top-seeded Rafael Nadal advanced to the semifinals of the Hamburg Open by beating fifth-seeded Pablo Cuevas 6-3, 6-2 Friday.
Former No. 1 and two-time major champion Victoria Azarenka has pulled out of next week's Citi Open hard-court tournament because of an injured right shoulder.
The German Open might be a 500-level event, but this seems awfully bogus given the weak field.
Top-seeded Rafael Nadal toiled to beat Jiri Vesely 6-4, 7-6 (2) to reach the Hamburg Open quarterfinals on Thursday.
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Justin Verlander does Justin Verlander things as Tigers defeat A's in Game 1 of ALDS
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It didn't look good for the Tigers when A's speedster Coco Crisp hit a leadoff home run in the top of the first inning of Saturday night's ALDS Game 1 in Detroit. But that feeling changed pretty quickly.
Verlander settled in after Crisp's shot to right field, yielding just two hits over the rest of his outing while fanning 11 total batters in an eventual 3-1 victory.
The right-hander was hitting 98 mph with his fastball in the seventh inning, even with temperatures hovering just above 40 degrees at Comerica Park.
According to ESPN's Stats & Info, Verlander is the first American League pitcher to rack up 11 or more strikeouts over seven innings or fewer in a postseason game since Pedro Martinez in 1999. At one point, the Tigers' ace punched out five Oakland hitters in a row.
Things should get a little easier for the A's in Game 2 against Doug Fister, but it's safe to say they have their backs against the wall in this five-game divisional series. With one more game to play in the Motor City.
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Kennedy pitched seven innings against the Marlins after watching the birth of his daughter.
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Dickerson has already been on the disabled list twice this season due to nagging plantar fasciitis in his left foot.
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The Orioles designated struggling Orioles pitcher Bud Norris for assignment to make room for new outfielder Gerardo Parra on Friday.
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The Angels lose C.J. Wilson to an injury but are expected to get Jered Weaver back.
Mark Teixeira homers from both sides of the plate, breaks Nick Swisher's MLB record
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It don't matter if he's left or right.
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Madison Bumgarner was upset Delino DeShields was upset.
Giants place Tim Hudson on the disabled list with a shoulder strain
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The Giants placed Tim Hudson on the disabled list, which created room on the roster for incoming pitcher Mike Leake.
Pirates place A.J. Burnett on the disabled list with elbow inflammation
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A.J. Burnett hits the DL with an elbow issue. Recently-acquired pitcher J.A. Happ will take his spot in the rotation.
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