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December 11, 2012, 02:09 AM ET
Marcus Smart and the accuracy cliff
by John Gasaway
Yesterday Mike DeCourcy named Oklahoma State freshman Marcus Smart as one of the young college basketball season's "upside surprises." Here are Mike's comments on Smart, in full:
After watching Smart dominate yet another major opponent (South Florida) in yet another Cowboys victory, it felt like time to thumb through the Sporting News college basketball preview issue to double-check whether he'd been included on one of our three All-America teams. Alas, we missed on that, but he was one of the five players on our all-freshman team.
That still puts us far ahead of the person who, with a number of games passed, ranked Smart as the No. 14 freshman in the nation.
No. 14! Among freshmen!
People, Marcus Smart has been the best college player in the nation to this point.
We knew he was going to be great. We did not expect that. Smart ranks only third on the OK State team in scoring (13.4), but leads in rebounding (7.4) and assists (5.0). He's had a completely transformative effect on a team that last season finished 15-18. It's far too early to say who'll be your Sporting News player of the year — UNLV's Anthony Bennett is pushing for that, as well as freshman of the year — but Smart is in the conversation.
After watching Smart dominate yet another major opponent (South Florida) in yet another Cowboys victory, it felt like time to thumb through the Sporting News college basketball preview issue to double-check whether he'd been included on one of our three All-America teams. Alas, we missed on that, but he was one of the five players on our all-freshman team.
That still puts us far ahead of the person who, with a number of games passed, ranked Smart as the No. 14 freshman in the nation.
No. 14! Among freshmen!
People, Marcus Smart has been the best college player in the nation to this point.
We knew he was going to be great. We did not expect that. Smart ranks only third on the OK State team in scoring (13.4), but leads in rebounding (7.4) and assists (5.0). He's had a completely transformative effect on a team that last season finished 15-18. It's far too early to say who'll be your Sporting News player of the year — UNLV's Anthony Bennett is pushing for that, as well as freshman of the year — but Smart is in the conversation.
I'm pretty sure Mike was referring to me, for I did indeed name Smart the No. 14 freshman in the nation last week. Actually, I thought I was pretty effusive in my remarks:
After coaching the FIBA U-18 team for the United States last summer, Billy Donovan told anyone who would listen that Marcus Smart was a special player, and Smart has certainly lived up to Donovan's hype. The freshman's already asserted himself as the third Cowboy — along with Le'Bryan Nash and Markel Brown — who's on the floor more or less all game, every game. And continuing with our theme of big point guards, Smart is the biggest of the lot at 6-4 and 225 pounds. That size gives him the unique distinction of having not only a great assist rate but also a pretty decent (16.5) defensive rebound percentage. (Smart may also be the only point guard to rank among the nation's top 400 players in block percentage.) His best contributions on offense by far have come from the aforementioned assists and at the free throw line, for he's yet to show perimeter range and is shooting just 46 percent inside the arc.
If that sounds like I like Marcus Smart, I do. I've watched his games, I've marveled at his motor, I've shouted my praise from the rooftops in real time, and I was careful to get in on the ground floor of Oklahoma State fever.
But the funny thing about Smart is that his shots just have not gone in. That, in a narrow journalistic sense, is the really interesting story presented by Smart so far. I love him, you love him, Mike loves him, we all love him, and I'm convinced we're right to feel as we do. But his shots just have not gone in.
Ordinarily when a player's shots don't go in, we can cite any one of a number of exculpatory circumstances on his behalf. He has to carry the offense, say, and so he's attempting an insane number of shots. Or maybe he's a point guard who has to not only run the offense but also do a lot of scoring.
Alas, those alibis don't work so well with Smart.
Stats from KenPom, through Sunday, December 9.
Feast your eyes on 14 freshmen: Smart, plus the 13 players I ranked ahead of him, based on performance over a really short period of time. Compared to his peer freshmen, Smart is measurably horrible from the field, and his struggles can't be written off on account of workload. Other freshmen, including freshmen at the same position, have done much better with the same or even larger workloads.
That graph can be made to look even worse for Smart by including the 11 freshmen I ranked under him. I rated Smart quite highly anyway because I like him in real time when I watch him (see above), his defense is incredible (steals plus defensive boards), he draws nearly six fouls per 40 minutes, and he shoots 79 percent at the line.
In other words, Mike and I like a lot of the same things about Smart. The fact that Mike drew a vastly different conclusion ("Marcus Smart has been the best college player in the nation to this point") than I did (No. 14 freshman and all that) will be represented by dreary people as an eyes vs. numbers thing.
Oh, please. Mike watched Smart's games, and so did I. Mike used three stats in his blurb on Smart, and so did I.
What I like most about the accurate performance measures that Mike did not use in this instance is that they free up a person in his position to make supra-performance arguments. Instead of rehashing flawed numbers that merely reflect a player getting a lot of minutes and shots, Mike could have said this:
So Marcus Smart is shooting 21 percent on his threes. So what? Thanks for the brilliant insight, John Gasaway. What you have to understand is that Travis Ford needed Smart to at least try those threes. This is not a perimeter-oriented team, and what you see as a flaw in Smart's performance is actually statistical testimony in support of a ferocious competitor, one who was given an order and saluted smartly.
I could be won over by an argument like that, and I really do think No. 14 represents "the floor" with respect to where I'll be ranking Smart as the season progresses. I look forward to proclaiming Marcus Smart as a true upside surprise. Accurately.
Twitter: @JohnGasaway. Contact: here.
December 4, 2012, 02:24 AM ET
Orlando's Five Closers
by Kevin Pelton
Demonstrating that Sunday night's win at the Staples Center was no fluke, the Orlando Magic followed it up Monday by going to Golden State and beating the Warriors in the second half of a back-to-back set. The two wins followed a similar script. After hanging around for three and a half quarters, Orlando blew the game open with efficient scoring down the stretch.
It turns out this has quietly been going on for a while. The Magic's finishing lineup–starters Jameer Nelson, Arron Afflalo, Glen Davis and Nikola Vucevic and sixth man J.J. Redick–has been one of the league's most efficient fivesomes this season. Entering Monday night's game, this lineup had played 67 minutes together, per NBA.com/Stats, outscoring opponents by 41 points. Their 121.2 Offensive Rating ranks fourth among lineups with at least 50 minutes. Both figures went up Monday night, when Orlando finished the game on a 23-15 run after Nelson returned to the game, scoring at a rate of 153.3 points per 100 possessions.
This would all be less surprising if they did not play for a 7-10 team with the NBA's 28th-best offense. NBA.com/Stats shows two other Magic lineups that have outscored opponents by even 10 points on the season, and both are nothing more than Small Sample Size Theatre. For comparison's sake, Orlando's starting lineup–with rookie Maurice Harkless in place of Redick–is -12 in 62 minutes. The team's other two most common lineups have been outscored by at least 20 points.
The perimeter trio of Afflalo, Nelson and Redick makes this lineup click. All three players are dangerous outside shooters and can handle the basketball, keeping defenses off balance. Davis and Vucevic have enough range that opposing defenses must respect them, and the Magic doesn't give up much size at the other end of the court, making the lineup viable for extended minutes. Still, I wouldn't expect to see it starting games. Orlando also needs Redick as the anchor of a second unit otherwise lacking in shot creators, though a healthy Al Harrington might offer more scoring punch off the bench at some point. For now, the Magic's finishing lineup remains the NBA equivalent of a closer, to be deployed sparingly but to great effect.
You can contact Kevin at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @kpelton.
November 30, 2012, 12:42 PM ET
Losing Michael Dixon
In what was undoubtedly the most faithful and uncanny reenactment of a Keith Richards song title that I've ever seen, Missouri guard Michael Dixon announced his intention to transfer out of the program last night. Dixon had been serving a suspension of indefinite duration all season while (we only just learned this week) university authorities looked into allegations that he committed one sexual assault in 2010 before allegedly committing another one this summer.
Assuming the charges leveled against him have been investigated and substantiated, Dixon, of course, had to lose his basketball playing privileges. Indeed for my part I find it hard to envision that even the most ambitious win-at-all-costs coach imaginable would be in any great hurry to sign Dixon as a transfer after reading this. But in terms of the impact that Dixon's absence will have on an admittedly trivial and subsidiary front, Missouri's performance as a basketball team, I think one further word is in order.
Andy Katz wrote this morning that the Tigers "are still a legit threat to finish in the top three in the SEC," and that the team "will be fine on the court without [Dixon]." I'm ready to co-sign both statements: Missouri can absolutely finish in the top three in the SEC without Dixon, and that strikes me as a fair definition of doing "fine" in his absence.
But doing fine isn't the same thing as getting the same level of production out of Dixon's position as what was seen previously, and I think many observers have been prone to underestimate what Dixon accomplished last season. For example, his shooting from the floor (as captured by effective field goal percentage) placed him at No. 178 in Division I out of 3000 or so players who got on the floor often enough to have such things measured. Meaning, speaking purely in the abstract (and we'll rejoin our good friend reality in a sec here, don't you fret), Frank Haith could reach into a big bag labeled "D-I players" and have roughly a 47-in-50 probability of pulling out a player less accurate from the field than Dixon. Those are not very good odds.
So much for the abstract. Dixon had help in attaining those outstanding numbers, of course. He played alongside one of the nation's top featured scorers in the person of Marcus Denmon (who, incredibly, was even more accurate from the field than Dixon). He also had the good fortune to be teamed with Phil Pressey, a point guard who turned enough heads to be named preseason SEC Player of the Year in October. Each of these guys helped his teammates record exemplary individual stats, and Missouri's offense was superb as a result.
Yet even accounting for these atmospheric effects, Dixon's performance was still aberrantly good. True, Oregon transfer Jabari Brown will become eligible after the fall semester, and obviously the Tigers are fortunate to be able to turn to a player who was so highly ranked coming out of high school (much more highly rated, it need hardly be added, than was Dixon as a recruit). But let's be fair to Brown and peg his Dixon-level performance targets precisely. He'll need to use 24 percent of Missouri's possessions while playing 66 percent of the minutes. Brown will also need to hit 58 percent of his twos and 37 percent of his threes. Lastly he'll be expected to shoot 88 percent at the line while drawing five fouls per 40 minutes.
It's exceedingly likely that Brown will not hit those numbers. Maybe Dixon wouldn't have either, but losing the guy that did all that is no small matter.
November 29, 2012, 11:45 PM ET
A Restful Controversy
It says something about the tenure of David Stern as NBA commissioner that he makes me think of a Lyndon B. Johnson anecdote. When Johnson was president, the story–possibly apocryphal–goes that he was walking on an airport tarmac with a young Marine who told him, "Sir, your helicopter is over there." "Son," Johnson supposedly replied, "these are all my helicopters."
In the same way, I tend to suspect that Stern thinks of all 30 teams in the NBA as "his" teams. That surely informed his statement Thursday night that the San Antonio Spurs would face "significant sanctions" for Gregg Popovich's decision to send four key players (Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili, Daniel Green and Tony Parker) home in advance of the Spurs' game at Miami. Stern called the move "an unacceptable decision" in apologizing to fans expecting a battle of two of the league's top teams.
The public rebuke and possible punishment mark a change in tone from the league office. Popovich did something similar multiple times last season without any issue. In fact, Twitter quickly dug up comments from deputy commissioner Adam Silver to NBA.com last April condoning the practice. "The strategic resting of particular players on particular nights is within the discretion of the teams," Silver said. "And Gregg Popovich in particular is probably the last coach that I would second-guess."
Obviously, the difference here is that Popovich rested his players before a game that was a significant draw on TNT. But I see no reason the league should not be allowed to change its mind on the issue, especially in the wake of feedback–definitely from fans, and possibly from other teams. The criticism seems to stem mostly from a desire to discredit Stern, not unlike partisans accusing a politician from an opposing party of "flip-flopping." And there is a precedent, if you go far enough back. In 1990, for example, Pat Riley was fined for resting healthy players at the end of the regular season.
So we should spend less time considering how the league has treated players resting in the past and more on whether the strategy is acceptable on its own merits. First, let's be clear that what Popovich did is not tanking by the definition I established last season because the Spurs did not try to lose the game; they simply chose not to maximize their efforts to win. Of course, thanks to a terrific effort from their reserves, they almost pulled it out anyway.
Instead, Popovich is hoping to maximize his chances of winning a championship by getting players more rest, especially in advance of an in-division matchup with the Memphis Grizzlies on Saturday. It's easy to argue that should be his right. I tend to lean toward letting coaches do what they want, but besides the fan angle I could construct a counterargument based on how Popovich's decision also affects other teams. What if the win proves meaningful for the Miami Heat at the end of the season? What if it broke a tie for first in the East? While that seems unlikely in this particular case, such concerns have to be part of a full consideration of the issue.
Whatever the league decides, it should remain consistent going forward to be fair to the Spurs. To the extent the NBA can rethink the issue in the future, it ought to take place between seasons and be communicated accordingly to coaches ahead of time. That's the biggest issue I have with the possibility of sanctions here–Popovich didn't know he was doing anything wrong, which is why anything besides a warning seems excessive. Other coaches will know the rules before deciding whether to rest players heading into the playoffs. If that means players sit out due to "injuries," so be it.
Honestly, I'm not sure taking this option out of Popovich's playbook will hurt San Antonio much. I preface this by saying that Popovich knows far more about basketball than I ever will and understands his team and his players. Additional rest will surely help the Spurs on Saturday, but in the long run I don't think it matters. We're talking about a difference of about 30 minutes. That's the equivalent of playing less than a half-minute fewer per game over the rest of the season. The way Popovich uses depth to manage his stars' playing time on a nightly basis is a far bigger factor in how fresh the team will be come April and May.
November 29, 2012, 12:33 PM ET
Realignment's winners (plural) and loser (singular)
In the realm of college basketball as a topic for discussion, there are two prevailing varieties of categorical abhorrence that I not only don't share but frankly don't understand. My fellow participants in the discussion can usually be relied upon to categorically abhor the spectacle of borderline draft prospects leaving school early, and to be likewise appalled by conference realignment.
I've already had my say on the former. As to the latter, sure, realignment is messy and chaotic, but my goodness the ACC is going to be one sweet league for hoops.
The ACC's addition of Louisville is a particularly succinct declaration of difference. The oh so snooty Big Ten would never open its door to an institution at Louisville's level academically, but the ACC is wagering, no doubt correctly, that Keats will still be read and discussed with tolerable lucidity by freshmen in rarefied cloisters like Durham, Chapel Hill, and Charlottesville, even if Rick Pitino does come around once a year or so.
In the 439 days since the ACC announced that it was adding Syracuse and Pitt, an already strong basketball league has become ridiculously excellent. Conversely the Big East, to use a regionally appropriate metaphor, has done a pretty fair imitation of an MTA station in the path of Sandy.
Let's measure the wages of realignment according to the number of NCAA tournament games that realigning teams have won since 2000. "Realignment" here means this latest two-year-and-counting shuffle, starting with Nebraska joining the Big Ten, Colorado fleeing to the Pac-12, etc., right up through yesterday's news.
The Decline of the East
NCAA wins since 2000
(net gain/loss)
Big Ten +17
Pac-12 +5
Big 12 -4
Big East -49
To this point realignment's been powered by teams extracted from the Big East in more or less the same way that industrialization was fueled by coal extracted from Appalachia. And today the Big East looks about the way coal country looks.
Of course realignment isn't over, so I'll keep this tally current as further events unfold.
November 29, 2012, 12:29 PM ET
Mookie Blaylock Was (Probably) Quite Good
by Neil Paine
Randomly perusing the historical players in Daniel Myers' newest Advanced Statistical Plus/Minus spreadsheet, I came upon Mookie Blaylock's numbers and remembered just how much SPM-style stats have always adored him:
Year Age Team G MP OASPM DASPM ASPM
Career 889 31026 +0.9 +1.5 +2.4
The +4.1 in 1994 and +5.2 (!) in 1997 really jump off the page, as does that +2.4 career mark. But ASPM is only an estimate designed to emulate Regularized Adjusted Plus/Minus. How would he compare to modern players if we had real RAPM back in the 1990s?
One way to do this is to compute "Fake RAPM", as Jerry Engelmann has done for the 90s at his site. (There, Blaylock's fake RAPM is only +1.1.)
But another way to answer that question is to look at what kind of errors ASPM makes when predicting RAPM for current players.
Engelmann recently posted a 12-year, non-prior-informed RAPM dataset which can be used for that very purpose. I grabbed all players who played at least 11,900 minutes between 2001 and 2012, and looked at the distribution of the differences between their actual RAPM and the RAPM we'd predict from ASPM. It turns out that the distribution of the errors is approximately normal with a mean of 0.0 and a standard deviation of 1.7, meaning we can use a standard normal probability distribution to determine the odds that a given player's career RAPM would have been a certain number based on his career ASPM (as long as he met the same playing-time requirements as the sample of modern players I started with, which Blaylock does).
With a +2.4 career mark, there's a 91.7% probability that Blaylock's career RAPM, if we were able to calculate it, would have been above average. His career PER of 16.8 roughly translates to a +0.7 ASPM, so there's an 83.4% chance that PER is underselling Blaylock's true contributions. In fact, there's a 77.5% chance that Jerry's "fake RAPM" is underrating Blaylock.
But here's the real fun part. For players who started their careers since 2001, we know what their career RAPMs are (through last season). So let's pick out the best point guards of that era, and compute the odds that Blaylock's RAPM would have been better…
Chris Paul: +6.2 RAPM … 1.5% chance Blaylock was better
Russell Westbrook: +3.8 RAPM … 21.5% chance Blaylock was better
Mike Conley Jr.: +3.5 RAPM … 26.9% chance Blaylock was better
Kyle Lowry and Gilbert Arenas: +2.5 RAPM … 48.2% chance Blaylock was better
Devin Harris: +2.3 RAPM … 52.8% chance Blaylock was better
Deron Williams: +1.7 RAPM … 66.0% chance Blaylock was better
Raymond Felton: +1.5 RAPM … 70.1% chance Blaylock was better
Tony Parker: +1.4 RAPM … 72.1% chance Blaylock was better
Derrick Rose: +1.0 RAPM … 79.2% chance Blaylock was better
I'll stop there. As you can see, Blaylock may not have been on Chris Paul's level, but there's a pretty good chance his RAPM would have been better than such luminaries as Deron Williams, Tony Parker, and Derrick Rose! (And that's not even accounting for the fact that Blaylock's +2.4 ASPM spans his entire career, including his twilight years in Golden State, while the current players are still in their primes.)
These days Blaylock is practically remembered as much for being Pearl Jam's original namesake as for his playing career, but it bears mentioning just how good he (probably) would have been revealed to be in those days, if only we could have calculated the kinds of advanced plus/minus stats we keep now.
Email Neil at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @Neil_Paine.
November 28, 2012, 01:52 PM ET
SCHOENE In-Season Update
I had a couple of readers email me last week asking about an update to the SCHOENE fantasy projections, which is something our peers at Baseball Prospectus and Football Outsiders have historically done. The timing was ideal since I was already working on the in-season projections highlighted on the site this week. Updating SCHOENE was just a matter of copying those over and accounting for injuries, including players who have yet to play this season.
There are some quirks to these projections. Playing time is entirely based on the season so far, meaning that players at positions hit by injury (say Luke Ridnour) will have their future minutes per game overestimated. Still, the in-season projections can help you identify players who are undervalued or overvalued for trades, or give an idea of players who might be worth picking up from the waiver wire.
If you purchased the SCHOENE projections in October, you can download a new version by going to Manage Your Profile. If not, you can still purchase the SCHOENE spreadsheet for $7.95.
November 27, 2012, 01:02 PM ET
The reliably dominated Iowa Caucuses of hoops
A while back I started referring to the ACC-Big Ten Challenge as the Iowa Caucuses of hoops. It comes way too early, and its results are given far too much importance by analysts eager to analyze, but it is still a genuinely compelling competitive spectacle.
Like presidential elections and Major League Baseball's All-Star Game, the Challenge has proven itself to be remarkably susceptible to long multi-year reigns of domination by one side or the other. The ACC won the first one of these in 1999, and in the 13 Challenges since, "same winner as last year" repeated mindlessly and automatically would have been correct 92 percent of the time.
"Same winner as last year" looks good again this year. With three of its teams ranked in the top five in the country, the Big Ten enters the 2012 Challenge as the favorite. That being said, the Challenge is here not only for conference bragging rights (which, after all, ride just as heavily on Nebraska vs. Wake Forest as they do on Ohio State vs. Duke). It's also here to bring us interesting games.
Tonight's interesting game is North Carolina vs. Indiana, and my friend Ken gives the Tar Heels a 16 percent chance of winning on the home floor of the No. 1 team in the nation. That sounds like a small probability, but, to borrow a page from Ezra Klein, one can also see this glass as 16 percent full. If you tell me there's a 16 percent chance that I'll receive a check for a million dollars tomorrow, I'm not wrong to be somewhat excited today. With a shock-the-world win in Bloomington by the Tar Heels, this whole "same winner as last year" discussion could become much more interesting.
Still, it's easy to see why Ken's laptop is skeptical. With a UNC team that's shooting 58 percent at the line and has made just 47 percent of its twos against six opponents wherein resurgent but not yet mighty Butler is the clear standout, we're well within our rights to be on full 2009-10 alert. It could be the case that this group, like their predecessors three years ago, just don't score much.
Roy Williams' offense has fallen by default to James Michael McAdoo, and the consensus of smart people is that he's going to be one of the best players in the world before long. But we've seen cases where such players pass too quickly through the college ranks to help their team's actual performance in a way that's commensurate with their clear individual potential. In the here and now McAdoo appears to be on track this season to make 50 to 55 percent of his twos and draw fouls but also to commit a few too many turnovers and miss about one in three free throws. That, quite rightly, won't negate anything the NBA is already thinking about McAdoo, but the well-worn paradox here is that within the narrow and remorselessly present-tense provinces of college hoops a markedly less sexy plodder like Tyler Zeller would have a more beneficial impact on the Heels' offense.
BONUS "I am the Mayor of Lemmingville" note! I actually don't see much consequence in debating Indiana vs. Duke for the No. 1 ranking, but, for the record, the "best resume" argument does strike me as odd. Rankings are about teams, not resumes, and if the Miami Heat were a D-I team that had happened to play a meh schedule up to this point, I would still vote them as No. 1, meh resume and all. But, again, it's November, and who knows what we'll find to debate about in three months or so. On the other hand, if the Hoosiers and Blue Devils stay exactly where they are and finish the season with us still parsing their differences, they'll both be No. 1 seeds. Problem solved.
November 20, 2012, 12:16 PM ET
Shabazz's debut as normal as some but not all mega-star debuts
I was in Brooklyn last night for the debut of Shabazz Muhammad for UCLA (as well as an unexpectedly competitive game between No. 1 ranked Indiana and Georgia).
Speaking purely in terms of expectations, my heart goes out to any mega-star trying to make a splashy debut in the City That Doesn't Sleep who's not a point guard or a big guy in the post. Add in the fact that the other team (Georgetown, who by the way won the actual "game," 78-70) is playing zone, and you can see the difficulties here: Muhammad could be said to have spent a good chunk of time "floating on the perimeter," but that's exactly what a player in his position should be doing when Kyle Anderson is setting up in the high post for feeds from Larry Drew.
So, sure, Muhammad was merely mortal on a night when the Hoyas' Markel Starks, to take one example, was rather more feisty (23 points on 9-of-14 shooting along with four steals). But how important and/or unusual is it for a player projected to go at or very near the top of the draft to start his brief college career as merely mortal?
Kevin Durant vs. Alcorn State, Nov. 9, 2006
Durant 22 8-13 1-2 6 1 2 20 1.43
(PPWS stands for points per weighted shot. If you weren't reading along in 2004, you missed out on a national sensation, truly, but don't worry. It's a measure of efficiency, the higher the number the better.)
Day after: "Durant is the highest-rated recruit to come to the 40 Acres, but for Texas' two exhibition games he played second fiddle to teammates A.J. Abrams and Damion James. But in the first official game of the season, there was no mistaking whom the star of this year's Longhorn squad will be."
Derrick Rose vs. UT-Martin, Nov. 5, 2007
Rose 25 8-16 0-0 6 5 0 17 1.06
Day after: "Rose was 8-for-16 from the field and had four dunks, bringing the 16,555 fans at FedEx Forum to their feet cheering each time. He also had a block on a breakaway in the first half that sent Calipari out of his chair and invigorated the Tigers' bench. But how does the freshman rate his first performance? 'I'll give it a C,' Rose said. 'I can do a lot better.'"
Michael Beasley vs. Sacramento State, Nov. 9, 2007
Beasley 31 12-20 7-11 24 4 3 32 1.27
Day after: "There was Michael Beasley with the ball in his hands, at the free-throw line Friday, when a Kansas State student screamed through the silence, 'Take it easy on them, Beasley!' Beasley glanced at the students, sneer on his face. 'No, sir,' he said."
John Wall vs. Miami OH, Nov. 16, 2009
Wall 38 4-9 10-14 2 5 2 19 1.21
Day after: "Wall-elujah: Thanks to inside dominance and a clutch shot by John Wall, UK won 72-70. Wall, belatedly making his highly anticipated UK debut, hit a 12-footer from the left side inside the final second to win the game."
Kyrie Irving vs. Princeton, Nov. 14, 2010
Irving 25 4-10 6-6 4 9 1 17 1.32
Day after: "On Tuesday night, with freshman point guard Kyrie Irving reeled to the bench early with foul trouble, Duke turned to its dominant depth and defensive intensity to steamroll Miami."
Anthony Davis vs. Marist, Nov. 11, 2011
Davis 23 10-13 3-3 10 3 2 23 1.59
Day after: "Anthony Davis started swatting shots. Kentucky made steals, got out on the break, lobbed for dunks, and extended a comfortable lead to cruise control."
Shabazz Muhammad vs. Georgetown, Nov. 19, 2012
Muhammad 25 5-10 3-4 1 2 2 15 1.26
Day after: "The college basketball world was buzzing about UCLA star freshman Shabazz Muhammad, who was making his collegiate debut. But unranked Georgetown put on a clinic instead, and put the kibosh on a much-anticipated Indiana-UCLA matchup in the championship game."
BONUS Barclays Center review! The Garden will always be the Garden, but at least it now has some non-Newark-based competition. (Pound for pound the Prudential Center might actually be superior to the trendy newcomer in Brooklyn. But, again, Newark.) Barclays on the inside was correctly characterized by a colleague last night as "nondescript," but it curtains half of its upper deck more discreetly than any venue I've seen, and the noise of a college crowd bounces and builds instead of dissipating into the vastness as on 33rd Street. I also like how the press entrance is close to but clearly and emphatically separate from the "VIP" entrance. We get it, Barclays, we get it….I arrived well after tipoff for Georgia-Indiana, and literally the first person I ran into in the hallway outside the press room was Dick Vitale. He was on tap for the nightcap, he'd just completed a long rush-hour journey involving planes and a driver, and I'd just completed a long rush-hour journey involving the rolling stock maintained by NJ Transit and the MTA. He was hungry, I was hungry, but he was characteristically gracious, pulling aside a preoccupied producer (redundant) and telling him, "This guy's with Insider, I want you to meet John Gasaway." I may not have seen Dickie V's debut, but I can spot a mega-star.
November 19, 2012, 02:24 PM ET
Why realignment's here to stay
It's wrong to think of realignment as something that's going to "shake out" into, say, four 16-team super-conferences and then go away. The incentives to a team in one of those super-conferences will be exactly the same as they are now. Most teams in most years will stay put, but of course that's true now as well.
Granted, there was a time when realignment was sporadic and customarily traceable to a discrete occurrence. For example a decade ago the ACC decided it wanted to improve its football, and that had tremendous repercussions for the Big East (which was raided by the ACC) and Conference USA (subsequently raided by the Big East).
But it may turn out that realignment is now more systemic. Television dollars have been the mother's milk of college sports for decades, but the creation of the Big Ten Network in 2007 ushered in a new fear of and sensitivity to revenue disparities across the major conferences. It is now the case that a major-conference program can markedly improve their balance sheet through the simple expedient of switching to a different major conference. Once that happens in one instance, realignment exerts its own perpetual motion, just like the coaching carousel does. Every conference wants an even number of teams, and every conference wants enough football programs to sit at the grown-ups' table. One relocation made for reasons of revenue triggers other relocations made for reasons encompassing not only revenue but also simple housekeeping.
In terms of football and men's basketball, college sports at the top of Division I is simply pro sports without the revenue sharing. What we're seeing is exactly what we'd see if the NFC East could negotiate its own TV deal distinct from the AFC West. Denver would jump to the Giants' division, and maybe the Cowboys would head to the AFC Central.
One way to subdue realignment would be for the top 64 or so athletic programs to mimic the professional leagues more explicitly — and particularly the NFL — and engage in cross-conference revenue sharing. Ironically this would return college football programs to where they were in the early 1980s before the NCAA lost in court, only this time the schools themselves would be running the show and doling out the revenues.
Maybe I've spent too much time in calendar 2012 ruminating on the towering and amazing fact that the RPI still exists in calendar 2012, but before you yell at Maryland and/or the Big Ten for being a bunch of greedy hypocrites, keep in mind we know what venerating tradition and the status quo above all else looks like, and no one seems terribly pleased with that either.


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Patients with advanced kidney cancer are being sought to volunteer for a Phase I clinical trial at UCLA testing a novel kidney cancer vaccine that was developed based on pre-clinical laboratory and basic research done at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.
The vaccine targets a marker that is differentially expressed in kidney cancer cells, said study principal investigator Dr. Fairooz Kabbinavar, a Jonsson Cancer Center scientist and medical director of the Thoracic Oncology and Kidney Cancer programs at UCLA.
"Six new drugs have been approved for kidney cancer since 2005, and while they are very effective, they do not cure patients with advanced disease," Kabbinavar said. "This vaccine works in tandem with the patient's own immune system, and we hope to see improved efficacy with significantly less toxicity."
Researchers are seeking 20 volunteers with advanced disease to test the vaccine. Volunteers must have failed previous therapies to qualify for the study, which seeks to determine optimal dosage of the vaccine while monitoring for side effects. They'll also be looking for evidence of immune system stimulation.
Study volunteers will receive three injections of the vaccine over a period of two weeks. For more information on the study, patients can call (310) 206-5930.
For many years, kidney cancer was thought to be resistant to drug therapy. Until about 2005, the only therapy approved to treat the disease was Interleukin-2, a drug so toxic that patients are hospitalized in an intensive care unit just to receive the drug. Only 20 percent of patients responded to the drug, and only about 7 percent experienced long-term remissions.
Doctors today know that kidney cancer is not just one disease, but a variety of subtypes that require different treatment approaches, such as the targeted vaccine being studied, Kabbinavar said.
All previous pre-clinical and animal model testing of the kidney cancer vaccine was done starting in 2000 in UCLA laboratories, an example of the bench-to-beside translational medicine for which the Jonsson Cancer Center has become known. The vaccine is composed of the gene CA9 and GM-CSF, a growth factor first purified in a Jonsson Cancer Center laboratory that increases the speed of bone marrow cell reproduction and, in this case, aids in the activation of dendritic cells in the patient, providing a prolonged boost to the immune system.
"The goal here is to mobilize the patient's immune system to fight the cancer," Kabbinavar said. "Generally, the immune system doesn't recognize kidney cancer as a threat. With this vaccine, we hope to redirect the patient's own immune cells to attack the kidney cancer cells bearing the CA9 marker."
Side effects from the vaccine are not known, and neither is its efficacy in patients. However, in laboratory testing, mice with kidney cancer treated with the vaccine experienced tumor shrinkage.
Nearly 65,000 new cases of kidney cancer are expected to be diagnosed in the United States this year. Of those, more than 13,000 will result in death, according to the American Cancer Society.
UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has more than 240 researchers and clinicians engaged in disease research, prevention, detection, control, treatment and education. One of the nation's largest comprehensive cancer centers, the Jonsson center is dedicated to promoting research and translating basic science into leading-edge clinical studies. In July 2012, the Jonsson Cancer Center was once again named among the nation's top 10 cancer centers by U.S. News & World Report, a ranking it has held for 12 of the last 13 years. For more information on the Jonsson Cancer Center, visit our website at http://www.cancer.ucla.edu.
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NEWPORT–IT was a tough pill to swallow for the North Country girls basketball team Friday night as a tall, athletic, and quick group of Rice players over-powered the Falcons en-route to the 46-21 win.
"Their pressure clearly affect us," said coach Christiane Brown, "We just need to do a better job of how we react to any kind of pressure, because that is how they got their points tonight."
Rice's big bodies held the Falcons to just three points in the opening quarter, while they put up a twelve spot on the board.
6'1" center Cassidy Derda had half of the teams first quarter points, while Tomilayo Akinpetide had a three, Hailee Baron a two, and Ellen Boucher hit one from the line.
North Country got a free throw from Noelle Pinard and two on a nice end to end run by Anna Bingham, who was playing with what folks are describing as an upper hand/lower-arm injury.
The second quarter was in itself two different quarters. Pre-Kelsey O'Donnell and Post-Kelsey O'Donnell.
We will call the first four minutes the Pre era.
Rice put a tremendous amount of pressure on the Falcons, causing both forced and unforced turnovers that led to big points.
Akenpetide was everywhere, she hit her second and third of an eventual four three's, and added two more to boot. Boucher would also hit from downtown, and soon the score was a very lopsided 23-3.
Enter O'Donnell.
When the senior role player entered the game, she seemed to give the rest of the players on the court a boost, and they responded.
"Kelsey was a super spark for us off the bench. She made some nice back-court jumpers and was definitely a bright sport for us," said Brown.
The most important thing North Country did was halt the green and white's offensive onslaught. The team looked crisper on D, and started to find the basket. Pinard hit for two, then O'Donnell made a short jumper. Emma Joslin got her first points of the game on a three, and then it was another O'Donnell jumper to close out the scoring. The Falcons had taken a twenty point deficit, reduced it eleven, and in the process brought the crowd back into the game.
After the half, North Country struck first with a Joslin free throw, but Rice regained their form and to put it plainly, just ran over the Falcons, going on a fourteen point run before Joslin hit Bingham with a long bomb to set up the final two points of the the third.
Desiree Coffin and Jaime Kramer each had a three in the fourth to combine for the Falcons six points. Rice would add eleven more, bringing the score to 46-21.
O'Donnell, Joslin, and Bingham each had four for North Country, while Kramer, Coffin, and Pinard contributed three points apiece.
"We had some girls who were quite down (after the game), but they will be ready for the next game," said Joslin on how the locker room was feeling after the game.
The girls will regroup, as they usually do under coach Brown, and get focused for their next game, Tuesday night at 6:30 against St, Johnsbury at home.
Oh and one final note, if you see assistant coach Bob Joslin on the street, don't ask him about the officiating.
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(1) an adequate system for the efficient transient storage and movement of bulk agricultural commodities is essential to the overall success of the agricultural industry of the Nation, the development of rural areas of the Nation, and the economic stability of the Nation;
(2) the movement and storage of bulk agricultural commodities has been seriously and repeatedly impeded by shortages of transient storage facilities, adequate rail rolling stock, and the deterioration of many railroad track beds and rural highways throughout the United States;
(3) the efficient movement and storage of bulk agricultural commodities may be achieved and facilitated by the joint location at strategic points throughout the United States of transient storage facilities and multimodal terminal facilities constructed especially for the efficient shipment and receipt of agricultural commodities; and
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"We tell 'em we don't care if he comes, we just want his chicken," says Cousin Vera. But Roger got the dates mixed up and scheduled some sorry old hunting trip instead, so we all had to suffer.
Roger's chicken is so good that Vera and her sisters Barbara and Gloria always toss one of his chicken legs over the fence and onto the grave of their dear deceased brother Vance Mitchell, who died eight years ago. Before his death, Vance made it known that even after he was gone, he just might crave another bite of chicken. Every year his sisters make sure that he gets one. Always one to think ahead, Cousin Vance also carefully selected his future gravesite.
"Vance said, 'I want mine right here, near the barbecue pit, where all the food is going to be,'" recalls Vera.
I missed Roger's chicken so much last year that as soon as I got home from our reunion, I set about figuring out how to replicate it. I already had a few things to go on: He once told me he marinates his chicken in buttermilk. I'd also heard he's a devoted double-dipperdredging the chicken in flour twice with a dip in the buttermilk marinade in between. It makes the chicken super-crispy. I'm pleased with how my version turned out. If Uncle Roger doesn't show up next year, at least we won't be grumbling about missing his chicken.
YIELD: Makes 10 to 12 servings
- 4 cups buttermilk
- 1/2 tablespoon dried thyme
- 2 tablespoons Tabasco sauce
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tablespoons kosher salt
- 2 1/2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
- 2 frying chickens (about 3 pounds each), cut up
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon Cajun seasoning
- Olive oil or vegetable oil, for frying
Combine the buttermilk, thyme, Tabasco, Worcestershire, 1 tablespoon of the salt, and 1 1/2 teaspoons of the pepper in a nonreactive bowl large enough to contain all of the chicken pieces with at least 1 inch to spare. Add the chicken and turn to coat fully in the marinade. Cover with plastic wrap and marinate in the refrigerator for at least 6 hours or overnight. Remove the chicken from the refrigerator about 45 minutes before frying.
Line a large baking sheet with aluminum foil. In a large, shallow bowl, combine the flour, remaining 1 tablespoon salt, Cajun seasoning, and 1 teaspoon pepper. Remove the chicken from the buttermilk marinade and roll it around in the seasoned flour until completely covered. Set it on the prepared baking sheet; repeat with the remaining chicken. Dip the coated chicken pieces once more in the marinade, then again in flour. Return the pieces to the baking sheet (a few minutes' rest makes for a sturdier, crisper coating).
Have a wire cooling rack set over paper towels ready. In a large, heavy Dutch oven, heat 1 1/2 inches of oil over medium heat until it reaches 350°F on a deep-fat thermometer. Using kitchen tongs, add a few chicken pieces at a time to the hot oil (crowding will lower the temperature, making for greasy chicken). Fry the chicken until the internal temperature reaches 180°F, about 10 minutes per side (watch carefully, it can easily burn). Transfer the cooked chicken to the wire rack. Serve immediately or at room temperature (don't let the chicken sit more than 2 hours).
Do it Early
The chicken can be fried up to 2 days in advance, covered, and refrigerated. Serve it cold-a classic Texas picnic food-or reheat on wire racks set on baking sheets in a 375°F oven for 15 to 20 minutes.
If the chicken looks pretty dark before it is cooked through, transfer to wire racks set on baking sheets and bake in a 375°F oven until the meat reaches an internal temperature of 180°F on an instant-read thermometer. Keep fried chicken warm in a 200°F oven. Using a digital thermometer eliminates the need to stand over the chicken. When the alarm sounds, the meat is done.
Alison Oresman has worked as a journalist for more than twenty years. She has written and edited for newspapers in Wyoming, Florida, and Washington State. As an entertainment editor for the Miami Herald, she oversaw the paper's restaurant coverage and wrote a weekly column as a restaurant critic. After settling in Washington State, she also covered restaurants in the greater Seattle area as a critic with a weekly column. A dedicated home baker, Alison is often in the kitchen when she isn't writing. Alison lives in Bellevue, Washington, with her husband, Warren, and their children, Danny and Callie.
A pastry chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author, native Texan Rebecca Rather has been proprietor of the Rather Sweet Bakery and Café since 1999. Open for breakfast and lunch daily, Rather Sweet has a fiercely loyal cadre of regulars who populate the café's sunlit tables each day. In 2007, Rebecca opened her eponymous restaurant, serving dinner nightly, just a few blocks from the café. Rebecca is the author of THE PASTRY QUEEN, and has been featured in Texas Monthly, Gourmet, Ladies' Home Journal, Food & Wine, Southern Living, Chocolatier, Saveur, and O, The Oprah Magazine. When she isn't in the bakery or on horseback, Rebecca enjoys the sweet life in Fredericksburg, where she tends to her beloved backyard garden and menagerie, and eagerly awaits visits from her college-age daughter, Frances.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories1,322
- Carbohydrates35 g (12%)
- Fat105 g (162%)
- Protein58 g (116%)
- Saturated Fat17 g (85%)
- Sodium1,824 mg (76%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat27 g
- Fiber1 g (5%)
- Monounsaturated Fat57 g
- Cholesterol208 mg (69%)


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This is another one of my most favorite shots! My Uncle and I passed this guys garage on the way to a VW show in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The owner of the garage saw us drive by and hopped on a scooter to chase us! He caught up with us and invited us over to check out his garage of old signs, motor cycles and toys! I think he even had a 50's style soda booth in there!


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SOLON -- The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office has revealed the identity ofa police invovled shooting victim.
He isKevin M. Bailey, 22,of Sylvania Township.
Bailey was due in Toledo Municipal court March 27 on charges of drug abuse, possession and use of a controlled substance, having firearms in a motor vehicle, knowingly transporting a loading firearm, and obstructing official business, according to Toledo Municipal Court records.
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigationis investigating the fatal shooting involving police during a traffic stop Sunday night.
Just before 5 p.m. Monday, the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner released the official report on Bailey's cause of death: it was ruled a homicide and Bailey sustained four gunshot wounds to the head, torso and extremities.
The state agency took over the investigation overnight.
Just after noon Monday, the Solon Police Department released its preliminary report:
"On March 17, 2013, just after 9:45 p.m. in the intersection of Bainbridge Road and Sunnywood Drive, officers of the Solon Police Department attempted to stop a suspect vehicle that had fled the scene of a routine traffic stop just a quarter mile down the road."
"The suspect vehicle was disabled after driving over a curb. Before the police officers could exit their cruisers, they came under immediate gun fire from the suspect who shot rounds through both police cars."
"One officer took rounds to both the chest and left arm, but was wearing a bulletproof vest. The suspect succumbed to return fire and was deceased at the scene."
"Both involved officers were treated and released from the Cleveland Clinic Twinsburg Emergency Department early Sunday morning; they have been placed on administrative leave while the incident is under review."
"The incident is being investigated by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI). Releases of specific investigative information, including identities of involved parties, will be through their Public Information Officer. It is expected that after the investigation is completed, the results will be reviewed by the Department's Use of Force Investigation team, the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office and the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office."
"This process will take several weeks."
Mayor Susan A. Drucker expressed her concerns: "While a lost life is always tragic, and our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of the party involved, I am at the least very happy that both of our officers were able to be released from the hospital home to their families this morning. The welfare of all City employees is paramount to me, and I would like to publicly express my concern and support for the well-being of the officers."
"We are working very closely with BCI and the Medical Examiner," said Chief Christopher P. Viland, "we expect a full and complete investigation and await what we feel will be positive results. We will also be in the process of providing appropriate counseling for all involved employees. This is one of those events that no one thinks will ever happen in the suburbs. It is what we train for but hope won't come to pass."
Chief Viland also expressed his condolences for the family of the other party involved.
Witnesses reported hearing gunshots in the area of Sunnywood Drive and Bainbridge Road just before 10 p.m.
Officers stopped a car at at about 9:45 p.m. at Bainbridge Road and Sharondale Drive. During the stop, the driver sped away from police, turning onto Sunnywood Drive, where he crashed.
The man opened fire on police when they approached the area of the crash.
Channel 3 crews at the scene Sunday night said officers were surrounding what appeared to be a body covered by a white tarp.
Witnesses who contacted WKYC said ambulances did show up at the scene, but left a few minutes later.
Just before 4:30 a.m., the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office removedBailey from the scene.
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Part of the BRP in North Carolina, Visian?
Part of the BRP in North Carolina, Visian?
Motorcycling is my passion because golf is far too dangerous!
2004 R1150RS, forming a search committee to add another.
A really tight and twisty road w/no center line....
And more of the road...
'If life throws you a curve, lean into it!'
Bob Bryant
Go soothingly through the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon.
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Where in Utah would this road be located?
For more images to see the surrounding area.
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Nope, neither, not even in the area of Northern Utah.Visian -- Alpine Scenic Highway east of Salt Lake City?... or maybe US40?
Hint, Natural lake and reservoir just west of this pass. Pass is about 9000' Another reservoir west at the road junction.
From main marina to junction, only about 15 miles of a fabulous mountain valley, lakes and pass riding, then coming down into a nice tight river canyon road for about 15 miles to the ending reservoir. Most PPL miss this short run hidden in Utah but go near it in their travels.
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Larry S
Utah driven
Ok, that spot is east of Johnson Valley Reservoir, north of Fish Lake, Utah. On Road Utah 25 also named Fremont River Road or FS 036 depending on what map you might be looking at.
Google or Mapquest these coordinates:
Position: N38 35.133 W111 36.668 or +38?? 35' 8.10", -111?? 36' 39.90"
One end is on Utah 24 (near Fish Lake) and the other end is on Utah 72, near Mill Meadow Reservoir.
Utah 72 is a great road to take also, almost never see traffic and is in great condition and begs for speed or mellow scenic cruising. Just watch out for Deer, Elk , cows or other wildlife on all of these roads in Utah.
Larry S
Utah driven
True, only about 160 driving miles apartbutt... i was *sorta* close... same general area!
Lots of these very similar areas in Utah, an other neighboring states also.
Mainly I wanted to offer a nice run that some ppl coming through this area tend to bypass. It is well worth it to find this spot and the roads taken to get there.
History lesson. Old Spanish Trail. Just west of the area noted in the picture. There is a summer layover flat that ppl using the old Spanish trail tend to stay while letting the stock recover in the mid 1800's.
http://www.ecprogress.com/index.php?...ticle_id=10574 About the trail in this area.
http://www.oldspanishtrail.org/asset.../CedarCity.pdf Map for the Old Spanish Trail
Larry S
Utah driven
What town and state? The road then should be easy.
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[QUOTE=BACKROAD.ADV;672027]What town and state? The road then should be easy.
Should be Kemmerer, WY. My second job was working for JCP. That's where I got my first credit card.
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In 1967, Carl Paul and his wife Barbara founded Golfsmith in their Edison, N.J. home. Inspired by a custom club maker who had built him a tailor-made set, Carl recognized an unfilled niche in the golf industry: the design and distribution of custom golf clubs and their components, along with instruction about how best to assemble them. Beginning with a typewritten, hand illustrated catalog Golfsmith first became successful by helping transform club repair shops across the country into custom golf club makers.
In the early 1970s, Carl's brother Frank joined the family business, and it moved to Austin, Texas The first Golfsmith storefront was a components showroom housed in 6,000 square feet of unused army barracks. In 1975, the Pauls embarked on their first consumer retail expansion by creating The Golfsmith Store accessory catalog. In 1976, the company first grossed more than $1 million.
Golfsmith operated primarily as a catalog-based business until 1992. That year the company moved to its present headquarters location, a 40-acre campus that includes the corporate offices, a practice range, a 30,000-square-foot Golfsmith store, and 240,000 square feet of shipping and distribution facilities.
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CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. - The Buffalo Sabres left Western New York early on Friday in hopes of making it to Long Island for Saturday's game against the Islanders.
The Sabres re-scheduled a flight out of Prior Aviation in Cheektowaga. The team was originally supposed to leave at 3 p.m. Instead, they left around 11 a.m.
As of right now, Saturday's game on Long Island is still scheduled to take place at 7 p.m., despite the storm moving into the Long Island area.
The Sabres are scheduled to play the Boston Bruins on Sunday at 7 p.m. at First Niagara Center.
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The sailing vessel, the "Star of Siam", which departed from San Francisco Sept. 24th, and heading north to winter along the Columbia river near Portland, Or., entered the Port of Port Orford Oregon (Saturday, Sept. 28th) along the Oregon coast. The 'skipper', Roger, along with his brother, Mike, stopped for fuel. They soon realized that a huge Pacific Storm was upon them and they needed to take refuge. So they anchored in the turbulent waters next to the fishing port. The crew and boat survived the first night. The 2nd day, the storm intensified and the seas were boiling. The anchor ropes snapped and the vessel ended up on the rocks of the beach. right there, the "Star of Siam" ended its sailing days. May she rest in peace. story by Rockne Berge
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BUFFALO, NY-- A 14-year-old boy pleaded not guilty in connection to the death of a 16-year-old earlier this month.
The 14-year-old teen is accused of shooting Kelmyne Jawon Jones July 6th on Northland Avenue.
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By Bryan BoucherHelper
After all that has transpired in this year's legislative session, I am finally 100 percent convinced that the powers that be in the state of Utah are completely disillusional.
They want to take away the people's right to know what they are doing on our "behalf," further cut education funding, move the state prison (why?) and take tenure away from college professors. These are but a few of the bad ideas they have wasted our time and money dreaming up.
We as a state have one in eight children going to bed hungry because of the gutted economy, so let's raise the tax on groceries and lower it on luxury items that those children's parents can't even dream of buying. How many state legislator's kids went to bed hungry last night?
One of the few profitable government agencies is also under the budget knife: the state (read LDS church) controlled Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. They are going to close several liquor stores around the state under the premise of saving money. Why would anyone or any entity close profitable businesses unless it really is about one more step toward prohibiting the (legal) consumption of alcohol.
If we don't take serious steps to get the church out of the governing of our state, it will do as it pleases without any accountability to the citizens whatsoever.
The closing of the profitable liquor stores will put more people out of work, board up more commercial buildings and inconvenience people who can still afford to buy a drink.
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Celebrating New Orleans with Delfeayo Marsalis
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As part of the national celebrations for Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) in April, the Museum will honor jazz's birthplace on Saturday, April 28, with the day-long Global Weekends program New Orleans: Culture Remixed. Headlining the event is famed jazz trombonist and music producer Delfeayo Marsalis, whose family includes saxophonist Branford Marsalis, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, drummer Jason Marsalis, and pianist Ellis Marsalis. Delfeayo recently answered a few questions about his music.
A Day of Deep-Sea Cameras and Creatures in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life
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From fireflies to jellyfishes, an astonishing range of animals create their own light. On Sunday, April 22, kids can explore activity carts about glowing organisms while scientists David Gruber, Marc Branham, and Edith Widder share their research about these creatures and the deep-sea vehicles and cameras required to study them. David Gruber, an assistant professor at The City University of New York (CUNY) and a Museum research associate who consulted on the exhibition Creatures of Light: Nature's Bioluminescence, recently answered a few questions about his deep-sea photography and the Museum.
Cast Your Vote: Picturing Science Video Nominated for Webby Award
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The Museum's video featuring the exhibition Picturing Science: Museum Scientists and Imaging Technologies has been nominated for the 2012 Webby Awards, the coveted honors for Internet excellence, in the Technology category. Online voting for the Webby People's Voice Award is open now through April 26.
Picturing Science, currently on view in the Akeley Gallery, tells the story of Museum research through spectacular large-format images. Photographs range from multicolored meteorite montages to CT scans of shark skulls, showcasing the importance of visual tools in each of the Museum's research departments as well as the fusion of science and art.
The French Paradox with Mireille Guiliano
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The celebrated richness of France's cuisine makes the equally exalted slimness of its population that much more of a mystery. At the Adventures in the Global Kitchen program on Wednesday, April 25, Mireille Guiliano, author of the bestseller French Women Don't Get Fat, addresses the so-called French paradox and offers a selection of frittatas, tartines, and mousse for tasting—in the French style, of course. Guiliano recently answered a few questions.
The French eat some of the richest foods in the world but maintain slim physiques. What's the secret?
Mireille Guiliano: A different approach to food and eating. The key is to find pleasure in eating while maintaining one's weight. French women don't get fat because they eat with their heads and have learned to eat with pleasure while managing their relationship with food and gratifying their appetite. It's all about balance and knowing thyself.
Imaging Japan's Earthquake: Q&A with Miaki Ishii
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Miaki Ishii is an associate professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University who uses North American seismometers to understand how the magnitude 9 earthquake in Japan in March 2011 started and spread. On Tuesday, April 24, Dr. Ishii will visit the Museum to discuss what scientists know about this earthquake and what they have left to learn. She recently answered a few questions.
What geological forces caused the 2011 earthquake in Japan?
Miaki Ishii: At the site of this earthquake, the Pacific plate is colliding with the North American plate—that part of Japan, believe it or not, is considered part of the North American plate. When two things bump into one another, you have stress buildup, and to relieve it, there are earthquakes. In this case, a lot of stress had accumulated for over 1,000 years, and it was released all at once in a huge quake. Many faults failing at once also made this a large event.


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|Appreciation Day a Rousing Success
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The Lees-McRae College athletic department hosted Banner Elk Elementary School Appreciation Day this past Saturday in Williams Gymnasium, part of an
on-going series of special events taking place during home basketball games this season. The series has been a tremendous success, providing the College with the opportunity to strengthen the all-important relationship between itself, its student-athletes and the surrounding community.
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I love to draw anime, read manga, play with puppies and kittens, and I hate animal abuse!!!! DUH!!!!!!
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Mystery Jets official music video for 'Someone Purer'. 'Someone Purer' is a song performed by Mystery Jets. Mystery Jets release their brand new video for single 'Someone Purer', the first to be taken from their fifth album 'Radlands' which is set for release on April 30th. The official music video for 'Someone Purer' features a dysfunctional family, a long drive and a Karma Police-esque stand-off with a peppy cheerleader. The video follows the announcement that Mystery Jets bass-player Kai Fish has quit the band after 8 years. Speaking about his departure to NME, he said: "It was probably the hardest thing I've ever done. I sat down with the guys and said, 'I'm finding being in the band really hard, but I'll try my best to carry on.' And I did, but feelings just don't go away." It has been almost two years since Mystery Jets' last album Serotonin saw the band revisit the pop foundations they had laid in their sophomore album Twenty-One. Conjuring images similar to Radiohead's 'Karma Police' – car driving slowly in the dark with its headlights on, coming across people. It's a psycholanalyst's dream as very little of 'Something Purer' makes sense. The English four-piece indie band, formerly based on Eel Pie Island in Twickenham, London broke onto the scene with debut album 'Making Dens' in 2006 followed by US release 'Zootime' and 'Twenty one' with their own unique brand of indie-rock.
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I asked eight scouts -- all from opposing teams -- in the past week to order the Orioles' five, mid-20s starters who have been on the Norfolk-Baltimore shuttle from most coveted to least.
Of the eight, only one didn't name Arrieta first. He had Arrieta second and Zach Britton first.
Most everyone else listed Britton second and Tommy Hunter fifth.
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If I'm working hourly, I have every incentive to be as lazy as possible without getting fired so that I do less work for more money. However if I work in a situation where the amount of products I help create directly correlates with how much money I make, then I'll work harder because the work becomes a little more meaningful.
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Keldoclock wrote:EDIT: I never really understood why we shouldn't just use our modern techniques to set up a system where we're all self-sufficent people living in our EarthShips with our domestic manufacturing technology (C&C mills, 3D printers, highly space-efficient farms) and maybe sharing whatever systems can't be made small enough to keep in our homes (kind of like Hackerspaces, but applied to stuff like water treatment plants and so forth). As long as we could find a way to keep feeding new resources into the system, pretty much everyone could live a pretty high quality of life without things like the modern concept of labor and careers- most of our work would be in maintaining our homes and other life-support systems, as well as creating and sharing new ideas for getting more out of our limited resources ( as well as scheming up ways to get new resources) What sort of things could we do to have people stubbsidize this way of life? Would such an economy actually economize our limited resources? Would it be any better than what we have now?
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As always, I knit this scarf over 42 stitches and slipped the first stitch knitwise on every row. I think this makes the best looking edges for this pattern. The colorways of Noro Silk Garden are 8 and 358.
This is one of those patterns that is both super fun to knit (oh hai I am easily amused by yarn that automatically changes color) and a very useful finished knit. I have two of these scarves and they both get tons of wear. Silk + wool is warm and with two of these scarves one is always going to match whatever I'm wearing. Because matching is so important. Ha.
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- 1/4 teaspoon salt
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Preheat oven to 375°F with rack in middle.
Melt chocolate in a metal bowl set over barely simmering water, stirring. Remove from heat.
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Check out JR's preview and feel free to discuss!
Discussion for the preview for Seniors is located here, and the Juniors are here.
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Check Point Software Technologies closed the books on 2005 with a 17 percent year-over-year gain in fourth-quarter earnings. But company executives said Monday that a delay in closing the Sourcefire acquisition clouds Check Point&'s 2006 plans.
3Com To Launch SMB-Focused Security Onslaught3Com plans a security offensive over the next 12 months that will include new SMB-focused TippingPoint wares and the authorization of more than 1,000 3Com partners to sell them.
All-In-One Protection Born Of CA's Blend Of PestPatrol, eTrustA new version of CA&'s Integrated Threat Management suite blends its PestPatrol antispyware product into its eTrust line of antivirus tools.
System builders can develop a new customer base by installing speech technology, and training users to actually make it productive
Listen Up! Speech Recognition Comes of AgeSystem builders can develop a new customer base by installing speech technology, and training users to actually make it productive.
Visualizing Dashboards With Corda CenterViewCenterView's new toolset offers tremendous flexibility by removing most of the programming work necessary to develop HTML code, graphics files and security interfaces.
ShadowRAM: January 30, 2006Same song, next verse. Each year, IBM vows its Global Services arm will be more partner-friendly and will work more closely with business partners in approaching midmarket accounts.
Vendors, VARs Pushing Secure IM As NecessityHackers and cybercriminals have found a new playground: instant messaging. The worms and viruses they traditionally have unleashed through e-mail now are wiggling their way into enterprises through unsuspecting IM users. The increasing rate at which attackers are using IM to do their dirty work is alarming, solution providers said.
Sabio Gets Back To Basics With New Storage ArraySabio Storage is making a play for the small business and home-office storage market with a new array aimed at solution providers who prefer custom built over name-brand.
Credit Where It's DueLast week I heard a tale so shocking, it nauseated me. It was way worse than the creepy film trailers I sat through with my brother prior to the movie "Underworld: Evolution" (his choice, not mine). That&'s because this tale comes from real life.
Discussion Or DivorceSometimes making a channel breakthrough requires a no-holds-barred heart-to-heart about the pain and pressures faced by both partner and vendor. That is certainly the hope of Atrion Networking, a $26 million Warwick, R.I., solution provider focused squarely on the midmarket that recently held a channel thought leadership summit with some of its top vendors.
Software-Free EncryptionOne reasonable solution system builders can incorporate into their systems for securing sensitive data is Addonics&' Saturn Cipher Mobile Rack Kit.
3Com Names Claflin's Successor3Com named R. Scott Murray as its new president and CEO, taking over for Bruce Claflin, who is retiring.
Researcher Details New Oracle Zero-Day BugOracle has taken another hit as a long-time critic of the company's security practices outlines a new unpatched vulnerability.
Washington State, Microsoft File Antispyware SuitsThe Washington State Attorney General's Office has filed the first lawsuit under the state's new antispyware act, alleging that White Plains, N.Y.-based Secure Computer, its president and others associated with the company used deceptive spam, misleading advertising and misleading computer scan results to entice users into purchasing its Spyware Cleaner product.
SonicWALL Releases SSL VPN For SMBsSonicWALL unveiled a new addition to its Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) virtual private network (VPN) product line designed to meet the needs of small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs).
Kama Sutra Worm Flummoxes ExpertsSecurity vendors can't seem to reach agreement on how badly the Kama Sutra -- just one of the names tagged to the malicious code -- worm is affecting users.
Acer Aspire 5670Acer now shipping dual-core notebooks.
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Storage Security Holes Put VARs On GuardThe recent discoveries of security vulnerabilities in data backup software from three of the top vendors has solution providers keeping their eyes open for problems, but has yet to cause concern among their customers.
Solutions target threats such as spyware and instant messaging
Vendors Take Aim At SMB E-mail SecurityAs spammers, hackers and purveyors of spyware and adware go about their nefarious business, it figures that they're likely to go after the weakest link in their targeted networks. It also figures, in a Murphy's Law sort of way, that the weakest link for many SMB companies is the application they most often use.