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This team are well backed funding wise arent they so might not be a bad move, im wondering if PTR couldnt match what they are offering and yamaha 600 isnt a bad bike to be on in wss. interesting though as buckmaster was not only his team boss but is his personal manager
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Each year, the Razzie Awards celebrate the worst cinema of the year, as a kind of snarky counter-programming to the Oscars. Think of them as a kind of Puppy Bowl to the Oscars' Super Bowl, if the Puppy Bowl were about mocking football players.
The big "winner" of 2010 is M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender, which earned itself Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Supporting Actor, Worst Screenplay and Worst Most Eye-Gouging Mis-Use Of 3D.
Here's a complete list of the lucky winners:
WORST PICTUREThe Last Airbender
WORST DIRECTOR M. Night Shyamalan, The Last Airbender
WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR Jackson Rathbone, The Last Airbender
WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Jessica Alba, The Killer Inside Me, Little Fockers, Machete & Valentine's Day
WORST ACTRESS (tie) Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristen Davis, Sex And The City 2
WORST ACTOR Ashton Kutcher, The Killers & Valentine's Day
WORST SCREENPLAY The Last Airbender
WORST EYE-GOUGING MIS-USE OF 3-D The Last Airbender
WORST SEQUEL Sex And The City 2
WORST ENSEMBLE Sex And The City 2
My only objection to this line-up is the inclusion of good movies like The Killer Inside Me and Machete, although I guess I could blame Jessica Alba for this and not the Razzies. (via The Playlist)
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I don't think the Ashton Kutcher and Jessica Alba ones are fair i saw them both in Valentines Day which was not the greatest but they did what the roles called for.Also i saw Machete which i loved and i don't really understand why it is included.
I was highly disappointed in Machete. I expected more from Troublemaker Studios. Instead, all we got was a pro-illegal immigration propaganda film.


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Teague Finding Success In Coach Bud's Offense
"I think the pace with which we're playing pick-and-roll and the pace the game is happening and screens are coming, I think it will be a really natural evolution for Jeff to become really efficient and really good in pick-and-roll. I think the system, the opportunity, the pace, the way that we're setting screens, and the environment we're putting him in, I think it will be a really natural evolution for him. I think he's pretty good already to be honest with you, and I think he's going to get better." – Mike Budenholzer
Coach Budenholzer said this to me before the start of the season, when I asked about how Jeff Teague would fit in his system, especially as a pick-and-roll ball-handler. So far, through 10 games this season, Bud's quote rings true, as Teague is tearing up defenses and posting career-high numbers.
Despite operating in a new system with all new players, save for Al Horford and Kyle Korver, Teague is off to a blistering start on the offensive end. He has six double-doubles in his first 10 games, and his nine assists per game are 1.8 assists per game more than he has ever averaged in a season (last year he averaged 7.2 assists per game).
The main reason for Jeff's uptick in assists is that in Coach Budenholzer's system he has a much bigger role. In previous seasons, Teague was not the orchestrator of the offense, despite being the starting point guard the past two years. For his first three seasons, he often deferred to Joe Johnson or Jamal Crawford, and last season, Josh Smith.
This is the first time Teague has been handed the reins to an offense and told to run it. Through the first ten games Teague has a usage rate of 27.4%. His career-high came last season when he had a 23% usage rate and prior to that, during the Joe Johnson era, his highest usage rate was 20.3%.
Per the new SportVU tracking statistics, Teague is 10th in the NBA in total touches per game with 84 and 5th in front-court touches (touches on the Hawks' offense half of the court) with 75.6 touches per game. Being among the top of the touches list (which is essentially the list of NBA point guards as LeBron James and Gordon Hayward are the only non-PGs that are in the top 25) shows his expanded role as the primary ball-handler (SportVU stats are not available for previous seasons as this is the first season all 29 arenas have been outfitted with the cameras). Teague's usage rate and his touches per game shows the involvement he has in the offense and the increase in responsibility he's been given by Bud, and it is impressive how he has played so well this quickly with that added responsibility in a new system.
Teague has quickly grasped the concepts of Coach Bud's system and is making good, quick decisions with the ball. Teague's assist-to-turnover ratio this season has been excellent at 2.72-to-1. As we've detailed at length before, Bud's system is predicated on ball movement and pace. Teague has embraced those aspects of the offense and is running the Hawks offense, both in the half-court and transition, efficiently and with pace, while keeping the turnovers to a minimum.
After his career-high 33 point performance against the Sixers on Friday, Bud said the message to Teague since preseason was being aggressive.
"We just keep hammering that to him. We want him to be more aggressive. Sometimes that's going to mean a lot of assists, sometimes it will mean a lot of points. When he's putting pressure on the defense, good things happen for us."
Teague's aggression on offense has been pretty consistent through the Hawks' first 10 games. He is taking 14.4 shot attempts per game, his previous career-high was 12.2 last season, and he is getting 52.8% of his shot attempts (76 of 144) within eight feet of the basket. Teague is converting 50% of those opportunities near the rim, which is below the league average, but his persistence in attacking the rim opens up opportunities for dump-off passes to bigs and has gotten him to the free throw line at a very high rate.
Teague's free throw rate (number of free throw attempts per field goal attempt) is 0.556, which is a massive jump from his career-high rate of 0.319 in his second season. Getting to the free throw line was never one of Teague's strong suits, but this season he is getting to the line eight times per game and his 80 total free throw attempts are fifth in the NBA. For reference, Jeff Teague went to the free throw line eight times in only two games last season. He has gone to the stripe eight or more times in seven of the ten games so far this season and has four games with double-digit free throw attempts. Even though Teague is converting shots at the rim at only 50% (which figures to improve), it is getting him a lot of chances at the free throw line where he is shooting 76.3% (also down from 88.1% last year).
Teague's shooting percentages across the board are down this season at 43.8% overall, 76.3% at the free throw line, and just 25% from three-point range.
Despite these early shooting troubles, Teague is averaging 19.4 points per game, thanks to his ability to get to the free throw line. Coach Bud said after the Magic game that Teague's play is encouraging but what excited him the most was the opportunity for it to get better, because the shooting numbers should improve.
"Jeff's in a good place. I think he's starting to really understand that he's got a lot of opportunities and responsibility the way we play, and he's done a lot of good things. I think he's going to get better and better. You look at the stats, and it's impressive, but I think he can do even more. So, that's the exciting part thinking about Jeff."
Teague reiterated that point prior to the Knicks game.
"It's just getting a rhythm, it's early. I'm just trying to do other things on the floor right now. Hopefully my shot will start falling and when that happens, it will be pretty good for us."
Playing with that aggressive style, particularly in pick-and-roll/pop play, has also been a reason for his success distributing the ball to his teammates. Teague and Horford's chemistry has shined early in the season, as Teague has assisted on 37 of Horford's 81 made field goals this season.
The pick-and-pop play between Horford and Teague has become a go-to for the Hawks when they've needed buckets. As the above charts shows, 18 of Teague's 37 assists to Horford have come off of mid-range jumpers, and a vast majority of those have been in pick-and-pop. 16 more assists to Horford have been in the restricted area off pick-and-rolls and the aforementioned dump-off passes when defenders collapse on Teague's forays to the rim.
While the chemistry between Horford and Teague comes as no surprise, Jeff has also built quite a rapport with Paul Millsap early this season. Millsap provides another pick-and-roll partner for Teague, and he has assisted on 22 of Millsap's 61 made baskets this season.
Millsap's shooting range is a bit deeper than Horford's, and he has the ability to stretch out beyond the three-point line on pick-and-pop plays, shown by the two above-the-break threes, and step out to the corner to space the floor when Teague drives to the rim. He has also, like Horford, been effective rolling to the basket and has learned quickly how to make himself available for drop-off passes.
Coach Bud's system has created opportunities for Teague to flourish through the pick-and-roll game and the constant motion of the offense, and Jeff has done well to take advantage of those chances. Playing with pace and giving Teague the green light to push the ball up the court in transition and after made baskets and the heavy dose of pick-and-roll play has been the perfect combination for Teague.
The Hawks pick-and-roll offense has accounted for 20.9% of their offense this season for possessions ending in shot attempts, turnovers, or fouls (those pick-and-roll numbers don't include kick-outs to shooters like Kyle Korver, Cartier Martin, or DeMarre Carroll). In those possessions the Hawks are fourth in the NBA in pick-and-roll ball-handler scoring at 0.83 PPP (points per possession) and are second in roll-man scoring at 1.19 PPP (per Synergy Sports). Teague has been responsible for 63.1% (94 of 149) of the Hawks' pick-and-roll ball-handler possessions this season and is at 0.83 PPP himself, good for 21st in the NBA.
Off-ball screens are also a big part of the Hawks' offense. Creating confusion on the defense and forcing extra switches of screens to create mismatches or creating more separation from the defender is a big part of setting up the pick-and-roll game and also setting up shot attempts.
Korver has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of these off-ball screens, getting 34% of his offensive looks off screens. Flare screens (setting up shots at the elbow and from three-point range) have been very effective for Korver as he's shot 60% from the field (50% from three) coming off screens for 1.28 PPP, best in the NBA. On spot-ups, Korver is 2nd in the NBA with 1.57 PPP and is shooting 58.3% on spot-up three-point attempts. Teague spoke about how those looks for Korver help open up other opportunities for him and the rest of the offense.
"When we get Kyle going and we get guys making the outside shots, we're tough to guard. I'm a penetrator, Dennis gets in the lane and penetrates, it opens up the lanes for us. When you have knock-down shooters on the outside you really can't help, so it's like pick your poison. You're either going to give us open layups or open threes. We just have to knock down shots."
Transition has accounted for 20.1% of Teague's offensive possessions this season, and he is shooting 62.5% (14-for-23) in transition and he is drawing a shooting foul 18.6% of his transition possessions. He's turned it over nine times in transition (20.9% of his possesions), but as Bud's said before, he is comfortable with turnovers so long as Teague is being aggressive and pushing the ball up the court.
Bud's encouragement of Teague and the trust and freedom he has given Jeff has helped him become a more confident player and play more freely.
"We just play faster," said Teague. "We get more possessions and I got a little more freedom [than in previous years]. Coach just wants me to play. He doesn't really call too many plays on offense, he just lets us go off. We have our set places we need to run on the offensive end, wide and out and stuff like that, but for the most part he just lets us play off feel."
Part of that freedom, Jeff says, is diagnosing what is working best and sticking with it until the defense adjusts.
"I think one game Paul was just unstoppable and we went to him down the stretch for the rest of the game. It's just like that. Playing basketball. He doesn't have any sort of way that we need to play, he just wants us to play fast and with pace. We do that, he's perfectly fine doing whatever we're doing on the offensive end."
So far, Teague and the Hawks' offense are working incredibly well. The Hawks' are first in the NBA with 0.98 PPP and Teague is creating 0.53 points per game per half-court touch (20.7 points via assist + 19.4 points/75.6 half-court touches per game). His assist percentage is at a career-high as he is assisting on 41.3% of the shots made when he is on the court, and he is also leading the NBA in free throw assists per game at 1.1 (passes leading to a foul and the player makes at least one free throw). He has quickly found ways to balance creating his own scoring chances as well as involving his teammates, something he did not do consistently prior to this season, shown by his six double-doubles in 10 games this season compared to 15 double-doubles in 80 games last year.
Despite the small sample size that we are examining, Teague's success seems more like it will be a trend than an outlier. There are plenty of fundamental differences in the offense he is running this year compared to previous seasons that account for the increases in his points and assists. Having the ball in his hands a more substantial amount in the offense and being asked to be the play-maker on the team, along with the constant encouragement to be aggressive and play quickly, have all been major factors in Teague's early success and should be sustainable.
Being assertive and aggressive on the offensive end have always been keys in Teague's success, but it has been a lack of consistency in those areas that have held him back. This season, he is been given more responsibility but also more freedom in the offense and it is paying off as he's taken that responsibility on and asserted himself well. Since there is still room for him to improve on his shooting efficiency, particularly around the rim, there is no reason to believe Teague cannot sustain this kind of offensive output. Teague is embracing the new system and it is paying major dividends for himself and the entire Hawks team.
[Statistics courtesy of NBA.com/Stats, Synergy Sports, and Basketball-Reference.com]
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Christmas cards and festive jumpers have a lot in common: you only buy them once a year, you often receive them as gifts and they give people a lovely warm feeling on Christmas Day. However, cards - even beautiful cards with a Christmas jumper design - are far easier to wrap, don't require a lot of storage space and cost much less to post.
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O2 Wireless: Day Three
Fatboy Slim gets the party started
Daniel Fahey on 11 July 2008
They turn out to be the latter and Hyde Park suddenly feels like it might just explode into a festival jamboree and (costumes
aside) it sort of does, in the way Lorraine from accounts may allow herself to have one gin too many at the Christmas bash.
Swells of fans have turned up early for the first of the festival's weekend days and the site, which is already packed with advertising profanities, expensive food stalls and bar queues that are only out sprawled by those for the ladies, is rammed. Fans are laid on the grass as if the festival's fences had never been erected while others are checking out the acts in tents, sheltering from the heat.
The Tuborg Tent simply isn't big enough for the crowds trying to catch a glimpse of punk-dance combo Audio Bullys. Many are trying and turning away, unable to get in, but those sticking around to at least listen, are enjoying brutal cockney knees up. The duo's lesser known tracks outshine their big hit 'Shot You Down' with lead MC Simon Franks working the stage like a true professional. New single 'Gimmie That Punk' a ravenous clout of dance music, while their earliest work 'We Don't Care' seems to mirror the feeling of the tent.
On the main stage Bootsy Collins, a man that tonight's headliner Fatboy Slim is a documented admirer of, is going back to his roots as James Brown's bassist. Performing tracks that Collins and the other 'Original' JBs recorded for Brown in the early 70s like '(Get Up I Feel Like A) Sex Machine' and the illustrious 'Soul Power' the group show just how prolific the Godfather of Soul truly was. Donned in a red pimp's hat and accompanying suit, Collins is joined by a James Brown look-alike and an afro-wielding dancer in platform heels for nearly the entire set. Aretha Franklin's 'Respect' is the act's standout track and the number that gets people off of the grass and onto their feet, a place their likely to stay until Norman Cook takes to the stage.
But first, many try their chances in the Sandisk Tent to try and catch Underworld, but the stage is too small to accommodate such a large act. The seminal dance troupe, famed for 1996 single 'Born Slippy NUXX', aren't even on stage yet, but nobody else is allowed into the tent. Employing a one-way entry and exit system, the guarded stage is impossible to get enter. Simple solution – put big acts on big stages.
Instead it's down to Deadmau5 to warm up for Fatboy Slim. The Canadian DJ is currently the man to call on for remixes with Daft Punk and Mickey Slim both on the receiving end of a re-edit recently. His progressive house is as empty as the epic tracks from the days of prog rock, but his massive blue mouse mask makes up for his music. The mask is the size of his shoulders and twice the height of his head and it's large eyes and wide smiles mirror most of the crowd in front of him.
As always with DJs, it's not a long change over and Fatboy Slim takes to the stage to drops his own 'Praise You' to woops and cheers from the massive crowd. After a rather dark set at Glastonbury, the superstar DJ is obviously in more of a party mode. The hot remix of Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' by Herve sweeps in for a while before the Mickey Slim Vs Deadmau5 re-working of House Of Pain's 'Jump Around' makes the crowd explode. At larger events Norman Cook's mixing is usually suspect, but this evening it has rather hit form again, even throwing in an accapella cut of Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip's 'Thou Shall Always Kill' that's had it's lyrics changed to "Fatboy Slim…just a band."
The crowd also get to see that rare angle of a DJ – the legs – as Cook comes from behind the decks to dance along and sit on the edge of the stage clapping to the beat. A 1999 mash-up of The Rolling Stones' '(I Can't Get No) Satifaction' with Fatboy's 'The Rockerfeller Skank' gets a rare outing and big beat buddies The Chemical Brothers are thrown in the mix with 'Block Rocking Beats'. Cook's new project Brighton Port Authority also gets some shameless self-promotion with the DJ playing a funk infused track that features Iggy Pop on vocals - the BPA are also all over the site with naked playing cards emblazoned with the band logo currently being stamped into the ground.
Cream's 'Sunshine Of My Love' and an epic cut of 'No Cars Go' by Arcade Fire round the set off nicely before Slim plays an old Chems trick of finishing with a remix of the song he started with. 'Praise You''s female vocals echo out across Hyde park before they are squashed by the horns from The Chi-Lites' 'Are You My Woman (Tell Me So)' – they're not as squashed as the tubes on the way home though.


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Ambassador Rides in Tour de Tohoku
Ambassador Kennedy joined 3,000 cyclists in the Tour de Tohoku to assist the recovery of the region devastated by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. After telling the assembled riders in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture, before the start that "this is my third trip to the region, and I've been so inspired by the strength and courage of the people here," she pedaled 60 kilometers through many devastated areas, stopping along the way to talk to local volunteers and some of the 90,000 people still living in temporary housing three and a half years after the disaster.
America-Japan Society Symposium Promotes Bilateral Ties
DCM Jason Hyland joined a distinguished list of presenters, including former Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. Ichiro Fujisaki, who highlighted the importance of strong public support for U.S.-Japan bilateral relations at the 9th America-Japan Societies Symposium in Sapporo September 5-7. Members from the 40 independent Japan-America Societies in the United States and 27 regional America-Japan Societies throughout Japan come together once every two years to discuss the state of the alliance and how these groups can better promote mutual understanding. This year, to generate greater interest among American and Japanese youth, the organizers invited 100 local high school and university students and teachers, who led small group discussions and shared ideas and best practices about how to strengthen grassroots ties through cultural exchange and English language learning. In a video message, Ambassador Kennedy encouraged members to focus on the next generation of Japanese and American youth, whose commitment is vital to the long-term success of the alliance.


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Head scratcher of the day
To summarize: Bruce Kluger writing at USA Today, says that bloggers helped Lamont defeat Lieberman in the Democratic primary, but they should be sad because Snakes on a Plane isn't make much money, which seems to somhow relate to a revival of Joe-mentum? (Joes on a Plane, perhaps)?
Newspapers want to refer to bloggers as this monolithic entity, so I guess the next dumb thing I read in People I can take to mean USA Today has lost it's edge, too.
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Millie is our "Foster Fail." She is an extreme affection eater. I must get down on the floor on my hands and knees by the food dish, make "nom-nom" sounds and sing silly songs. Millie will nuzzle up against me and hop on my back until she gets her purr up – then she will eat… as long as I stay there and continue this encouragement. If I omit some steps or rush the process she will ignore the food and just go back playing with her toys or the other cat. She tells me loudly when she is hungry but will not eat until we do the affection ritual. Hugging her before feeding also helps. She is also a burrower – blankets, rugs, and when she was a kitten, my pajama sleeves. By the way, did I tell you that I love all this silliness?
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The Ice House (1969)
A serial killer who works in an ice house murders women, then brings their bodies back to the ice house and stores them there. He also murders his brother, who is a policeman, and takes his place in the investigation.
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IN order to appreciate what was accomplished by the French Revolution, we must consider it under two aspects,—the one simply preparatory, the other entirely characteristic, under the respective conduct of the two great National Assemblies.
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THIS historical appreciation, which completes our brief examination of the Past, leads us to consider the present time as the epoch in which the grand philosophical renovation projected by Bacon and Descartes is to determine the spiritual reorganization of modern society, destined afterwards to preside over the political regeneration of mankind.
Science - Conclusion
WE have now passed rapidly through the sciences of which Comte has given the philosophy in the six volumes of his Cours de Philosophie Positive. This is the real and lasting service he has done to Humanity. Respecting his attempts to reorganize society on the basis he lays down, I, for one, deem them premature but this is not the place to enter upon so vast a subject.
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EARLY in the season of 1898-99 there was a performance of Traviata in the Metropolitan Opera-House which might be described as an occasion of superlatives - including the largest auditorium, the biggest audience, the finest singers. Grand opera in itself is a culmination and combination of the greatest efforts of the greatest minds.
ALL great prima donnas have in theďr repertoire the majority of famous operas, but through fitness of physique or temperament or quality of voice they become associated with certain roles more than others. Sometimes it is merely a caprice of the public that holds them to a particular line of operas.
A Call On Emma Eames
A CALL at the Hotel Marie Antoinette is a veritable eighteenth-century dream. A powdered footman in satin knee-breeches and the full court costume of that period flings open the great glass doors as you enter, and another one escorts you around some columns, and through some curtains, and down some steps to the main reception-room, where you wait while your name is announced.
FAUST is the opera in which Madame Eames has appeared most often in this country. No less than sixteen composers have used Goethe's poem as a libretto. Many of these works are excellent, and frequently we hear excerpts from them in our concerts.
MADAME EAMES is the only prima donna whom America has heard in Werther - a work which in Paris ranks as Massenet's best. But she does not sing it often, because, as she says, - It all lies in such a low key; and to sing always in one place is hard on the voice.
Calve And Carmen
HEAR Calve in Carmen - and die, is the motto which heralded this singer's first visit to America. Our curiosity was greatly aroused, for we thought we knew all about Carmen. We clung to the traditions of our own Minnie Hauk who had created the role, and could imagine nothing better than a trim, dainty Carmen with high-heeled slippers, short skirts, and a Spanish mantilla.
EVERY ONE likes Carmen. Its popularity has been ascribed to the fact that the action explains itself to the eye. One might also add that the music explains itself to the ear, for the themes are all unfurled and displayed like so many banners.
OF all Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet is the most difficult to surround with music and adapt for the lyric stage. It is more scholastic than dramatic, and for this reason composers have passed it by with the single exception of Ambroise Thomas.
A Talk With Lillian Nordica
IT was during one of Patti's farewell seasons at the old Academy of Music that a young American girl, by the name of Lillian Norton, first appeared as a prima donna. She made a success, but not a sensation, for she had not then the halo of a European glory, and people were in those days too intent on the passing star to note any rising one.
THERE seems a very magic about the name of Lohengrin - a mythical strength and beauty that at once characterize the whole opera. The fault is occasionally found that Wagner's operas are long and at times tedious; but this term is never applied to Lohengrin. One is disarmed of this suspicion in the very first prelude.
MADAME NORDICA'S Aida is an unsurpassed performance and always draws crowded houses, for the strange pathos of the music displays her wonderful voice to its fullest beauty. As in Carmen every measure scintillates with the sunshine of Spain, so in Aida every phrase seems shadowed by the mysteries of Egypt.
The Huguenots
IT is not surprising that the massacre of St. Bartholomew should have attracted such a composer as Giacomo Meyerbeer. The terrible scene immediately suggests a blaze of orchestral chords, seething strings, and shrieking brass, a style in which Meyer-beer delighted.
An Hour With Lilli Lehmann
IN Berlin, fourteen years ago, the foreigner was at once impressed with two faces, new to him, but conspicuous in every show-window. One picture represented an imposing, middle - aged man, which you were told was unser Kronprinz, and the other, a handsome, fine-figured woman, was unsere Lilli Lehmann.
The Flying Dutchman
The Flying Dutchman is one of the most melodious of Wagner's operas, and also one of the most popular in Germany. Its soprano rôle is well beloved by all Wagnerian singers, but for some reason the work is seldom given in this country.
Melba, The Australian Nightingale
A memorahle performance of Aida was given in London, at Covent Garden, a number of years ago. The Ethiopian slave-girl, dark-tinted and slight of figure, attracted no particular attention with her first unimportant recitative notes. The audience was diverted by the fine tenor singing, the excellent contralto, and the well-drilled work of the chorus.
LAKME was one of Patti's most successful rôles, and very few other singers have ventured to attempt it. But Madame Melba includes it in her repertoire, and a great treat is in store for New Yorkers when the managerial difficulties in the way of its production are sufficiently overcome for her to present it.
I Pagliacci
Pagliacci is the Italian word for clowns, a decidedly unique subject for grand opera. Novelty is one of the characteristics of this work. t has already achieved fame, altho but a child in age and size, being only a few years old and two acts long.
Orpheus And Eurydice
Classic myth and classic music are in this opera happily united. The beautiful legend belongs to the past, but Gluck the composer, like Orpheus the musician, has brought the departed to life. With gentle harmonies he pacified those surrounding Furies, the critics, and his creation has attained a lasting place in the musical world.
Genius Of Geraldine Farrar
Some half-dozen years ago rumors, vague as perfume from an unfolding flower, began to reach America about a new prima-donna; a Boston girl, very young and very beautiful; singing at the Berlin Royal Opera-house.
Madame Butterfly
Beauty of plot and great music are to an opera what fair features and a noble soul are to woman. Madame Butterfly possesses these attributes, and has consequently won that instant success which only true beauty, in either art or nature, calls forth.
Biology - The Science Of Life
LIFE, that strange, mysterious, unknown something which flies through the viewless air, flashes through the ocean's depths, blushes in the petals of a rose and manifests itself in a thousand marvelous forms can science grasp, define or explain it?
Nature Of Life
MORE puzzling than the riddle propounded by the fabled Sphynx is the problem suggested by the title of this chapter. What is life? is a question which has been asked by the scholars of all ages and man today is no nearer a final answer than were the philosophers in the earliest centuries of the historic era.
Physiological Idea Of Life
ACCEPTING the complicated processes of metabolism and reproduction as distinguishing characteristics of life, the force back of these distinctive powers or properties of living matter becomes a fruitful topic for investigation.
Origin Of Life
THE discussion of the origin of life is introduced by J. Arthur Thomson, of Aberdeen University, in 'The Science of Life' with the following words: If it were the object of this book to give a statement of the established facts of biology, our discussion of the origin of life might be condensed into a single sentence: We do not know anything in regard to the origin of life.
Cell Life
IN the two preceding chapters living substance has been spoken of as existing in separate organic individuals, plants and animals. It is not known to exist in a mass not organized as an individual plant or animal. Many early philosophers did conceive of living matter as existing without individualization.
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The announcement by Mayor Archibald last week that the city of Abilene's Water Rights Application for the Cedar Ridge Reservoir has been declared "administratively complete" by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is exciting news. As a local businessman, former member of the Brazos River Authority Board of Directors, and current member of the West Central Texas Municipal Water District Board of Directors, I have been closely following issues related to Texas' water needs for many years.
It has long been apparent that our state, and especially our region, must actively seek solutions to our long-term water supply needs.
Our future depends on having a safe, reliable and adequate water supply for generations to come. We cannot wait until that need becomes critical; rather, we must act now to plan for our water needs 50 to 100 years from now.
The city of Abilene has done so and has taken a bold step toward ensuring that water resources will not limit our ability to thrive and continue to be a premier city in this great state.
By being declared "administratively complete," the Cedar Ridge Reservoir Water Rights Application now has been firmly established as "senior" to any other water rights application that may be filed in the future.
The road ahead is long and difficult. Looking at the State Water Plan, it's clear that without a future water supply solution, our region is facing a deficit of water. As the TCEQ evaluates the City's application, it will do so with careful and deliberate consideration.
Further, the TCEQ will study the potential impacts of the new reservoir on water rights currently in place downstream of the proposed reservoir as well as the need to maintain minimum environmental flows to ensure that ecosystems impacted by the new reservoir are not harmed. It is expected that this evaluation will take a number of years to complete and that a draft permit will be issued sometime in the next three to five years.
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Toy Fair 2013 is in full swing today. We'll be bringing you some of the more interesting things we find, but the clear winner so far are these two Batman figures from NECA. We get a double Bam! Pow! of Batman with our first look (via Toy Ark) at the 1989 and 1966 1/4th scale Batman figures due out later this year. The first one is Tim Burton's Batman as portrayed by Michael Keaton and the second is the classic Adam West Batman. The little plagues you see under the toys say "Not Final" and "Pending Licensor Approval" There may be a few tweaks, but these are what we'll be seeing around July. Stitch Kingdom also gives us another glimpse at the Classic Batman line of toys unveiling a Robin figure, a Batman with surfboard, and the other toys for Riddler, Penguin, Batman, and the Batmobile we've already glimpsed. There's also a look at the Catwoman and Batman Barbie dolls. What do you think?
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Always on the lookout for novel new concepts, Sam Raimi has been brought on to executive produce another weekly action series for Starz (the first one being the surprise hit "Spartacus: Blood and Sand"), this one based on the anime series "Noir." Here's a not-particularly-noirish plot synopsis:
luck would have it, I actually saw an episode or two of "Noir" when I was a teenager. I remember it being very visually stylish and violent, which makes it perfect for Sam Raimi, so it's too bad this is just an executive producer job for him. Maybe he'll direct an episode or two as well? (Deadline)
"[T]wo female assassins … team up to fight against a secret society. After discovering they're mysteriously linked, the two, under the Noir moniker, have to work together until they get answers about why and how they are connected — or until one of them kills the other."
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Connecting to your Linux system from a smartphone
Whose Display?
And now for the biggest problem: How do I tell x11vnc to use a separate display server and not the one the other logged-in user has spawned? In this case, my girlfriend has a normal user account without administrative privileges. Because I have administrative rights on my Ubuntu laptop and my girlfriend's user has limited access, my session is the one that logs in first. That would be display 0:0. Her user account loads the desktop in the next available display, which is 2:0 on my machine. X11vnc already starts with display :0 automatically if launched without arguments or with the x11vnc -many -rfbauth /home/user/.vnc/passwd command. The issue is that if I connect through Jaadu VNC (or any other VNC client for that matter), when she changes to her account, the VNC client also changes the display, showing me her user desktop. I need to tell x11vnc to search for the display associated with the remote user and keep that display. The -find argument tells xllvnc to find the appropriate desktop for the user account.
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Back on the client side, enter the password in Jaadu VNC. The server will check the password against the /home/user/.vnc/passwd file and authenticate the session.
Whenever I need to get up from my laptop and leave running processes while my girlfriend switches to her account, I can check on the progress on those ongoing processes from the palm of my hand. Besides a brief flickering of the screen when a desktop user changes back to my account in the exact same moment I'm viewing the iPod Touch, the method works perfectly. X11vnc will autostart on port 5900 and I can make a preset in the client application to remember that 192.168.1.10:5900 is the address for the remote connection.
If you don't want to use the default 5900 and would prefer to change the port that x11vnc starts on to 5933, for example, you can do it easily with the -rfbport 5933 option. Also, you can tell x11vnc to scan automatically for a free port (assuming the 5900-5999 range is accessible by the device on which the client runs) by attaching -autoport 1234 to the command string, where 1234 is an open port on your router.
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Virtual gearheads have been patiently waiting for the next GRID. Finally, Codemasters could be very close to releasing some information on when GRID 2 will hit the pavement and possibly what will be in it when it takes to the streets.
Codemasters released a very short teaser trailer for the sequel to their popular touring car race series on a YouTube page called "TheRaceReturns".
And when we say "teaser," we mean it in its most literal sense of the word's definition. It just shows a very hot looking ride peeling off the line with a cloud of smoke slowly building as the tires dig into the hot tar pavement. If I had to make a very rough guess, I'd say it looks like a Koenigsegg CCXR based on the shape of the body and the headlights but I wouldn't put any pink slips on that bet.
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The British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA) (formerly the Federation of Zoological Gardens of Great Britain and Ireland)is the professional body representing over 100 of the best zoos and aquariums in Britain and Ireland.[1] [2] [3] [4]
BIAZA members must do more than simply comply with zoo legislation, they must also comply with more stringent BIAZA codes of practice, as well as undertaking significant work in the field of animal welfare, conservation, education and research.
BIAZA Conservation
BIAZA members make significant contributions to field conservation. Together they support over 700 field conservation projects contributing over £11 million per year. Members supply skills, staff and equipment for wildlife conservation, and essential materials for education and awareness programmes in developing countries. They also play an important role in conservation awareness-raising in the UK, support conservation campaigns and facilitate career development of young conservationists.
BIAZA Education
More than 22 million people visit BIAZA collections every year including 1.5 million children on organized education trips. BIAZA strongly encourages its members in developing an effective education system aiming to conserve the natural world in a number of ways by:
• Motivating people to change their habits.
• Inspiring people to get involved with conservation.
• Encouraging people to donate to particular conservation programmes.
BIAZA collections complete over 800 research projects per year, aiming to provide unique lifelong learning opportunities, to raise awareness, to increase respect and knowledge about wildlife and global issues, and thus to engage and connect people of all ages with the natural world.
BIAZA Research
Research in BIAZA zoos and aquariums is driven and governed by one main goal; to gather knowledge that benefits the conservation of threatened species through welfare, education and a good day out. Modern zoos and aquariums offer scientists unique opportunities to study the biology of animals housed there. Often these animals are extremely elusive and threatened in the wild. Therefore, undertaking research in a zoo can take advantage of a significant opportunity to study factors important to conservation, which cannot be undertaken effectively in the wild.
A significant number of zoo animals housed within the UK are part of European breeding programmes (EEPs) which aim to preserve threatened species for the future by pairing compatible individuals. This creates self-sustaining populations, meaning that there is no need to bring in animals from the wild. Because of the importance of these programmes a great number of scientific studies are dedicated to understanding the reproductive biology and needs of our animals.
BIAZA are members of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA).
- ^ "British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums". biaza.org.uk. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
- ^ "Members : WAZA : World Association of Zoos and Aquariums". waza.org. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
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A youth curfew has not only proven ineffective, it targets a group that commits less than 7% of Oakland's crime. Why not a curfew that targets the demographic responsible for 80% of the city's crime?
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POLL: David Moulton: Urban Meyer finally convinced me he's not going to Notre Dame
NAPLES - I've written two stories in three seasons connecting Urban Meyer to Notre Dame. Two. Yet Gator fans think I'm campaigning for Meyer to go to Notre Dame. They couldn't be more wrong. Many Gator fans think I don't like Florida. Also false.
I just had the audacity to connect these dots. Notre Dame is struggling mightily in football. Urban Meyer is the best coach in the country today. He has called Notre Dame his dream job on a few occasions. Notre Dame is going to be hiring a new football coach.
What was I thinking?
I'll tell you what I was thinking. I was thinking "where there's smoke there's fire" until he puts it out. Because it never takes much to put the flames out. Five years ago, Meyer let the fire smolder. Two years ago, he let the fire smolder. Last year he did interviews and stated in a book his thoughts about Notre Dame, which did not throw water on the flames. On Monday, Urban Meyer doused everything within reach and much more.
And I couldn't be happier.
Because now Meyer can be to the University of Florida the Tiger Woods to Steve Spurrier's Jack Nicklaus. Heck, he can now legitimately challenge, if not surpass, Bear Bryant as the greatest coach in SEC history. He has a chance to end up on the Mount Rushmore of coaching.
Think about it. He will have begun the non-BCS school movement, while going undefeated at Utah in 2004. Two national titles (for starters) while bringing the spread to the SEC. And beginning next year, he can try to slay the dragons with a pure drop-back passer. This 45-year-old coach is doing what Rick Pitino was beginning to do with Kentucky basketball. But he left. What Jerry Jones should have let Jimmy Johnson do with the Cowboys. Before he was fired. What Jimmie Johnson is doing in NASCAR.
Urban Meyer is creating a dynasty. At Notre Dame he just would have been his generation's Holtz or Parseghian. A great coach who, over time, was seen as merely bringing Notre Dame back to its rightful place. At Florida, he can be seen as taking the Gators to a higher place.
But I needed to see Monday afternoon. I needed to see that he had changed. I needed to see that he was more than just a great coach. I needed to see a bit of the man. He had only gone off script once in five years, crying a bit after a loss at LSU. But that was Meyer, the coach. Meyer had gone to great lengths to keep us at arms length of showing us a bit of his soul. Buddy Martin, who wrote his autobiography, told me Meyer had softened. That Tebow and this team had changed him. I told him I hope so but wondered, what happens when Tebow and Co. are gone?
Monday showed me that Urban realizes staying at Florida makes him family. And that Florida is now truly a part of his family. Leaving would have simply made him a hired gun who was leased for five years. Monday showed me that to Urban and his family, it's no longer a job. It's a part of him and them. And he likes how it feels. Remember, the longer it was just a job, the more likely that one day he would leave for the "dream" job.
On Sunday I wrote that if Notre Dame came calling, I didn't think Urban could say "no" again. On Monday, Meyer told me and the rest of the media to stop it. As for Notre Dame he said, don't come calling. I'm not interested. Doubt I ever will be.
Sometimes being wrong feels so right.
David Moulton is co-host of "Miller and Moulton in the Afternoon." The show airs weekdays from 2-7 p.m. on WWCN/AM 770 ESPN. His column runs every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday.
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The unchained chefs want to liberate your appetite.
For Watertown-area diners, the pull of chain restaurants is getting harder to avoid as franchises continue to pop up, especially along Arsenal Street. They are different, but they are the same: From the low-cost pizza place to beer and burgers served up by girls in low-cut tops, they dish out what they are corporately told, assembly-line style.
But at Ives Hill Country Club, 435 Flower Ave. W., the chef invites you to take a seat, relax, and consider the special of the day, which could be whatever you're craving.
"I like to focus on what the customer actually wants to eat that day," said chef Henry Fischer. "So I ask them, 'What are you in the mood for?' As long as I have the stuff — no problem. I like to accommodate the customer, rather than accommodating myself."
The Times interviewed a half dozen chefs who thrive on such creativity and work extremely hard to cater to diners with a taste for something outside the chain experience.
"Sometimes I dream recipes," said Lori Wells.
Ms. Wells was sitting in front of a fireplace in an overstuffed chair late one rainy spring afternoon before the night's rush at Cafe Mira in Adams. The chef and co-owner of the restaurant at 14 Main St. was asked about her inspiration. Cafe Mira is described on its website as "being just a little different but not over the top."
Ms. Wells said she never follows a recipe at the Main Street restaurant she owns with her partner, Lisa Reed.
"It all just kind of comes to me; intuitive cooking I like to call it," she said.
But she enjoys doing special requests.
"That's what is nice about a small restaurant like this as opposed to a chain," she said. "You can call up and get whatever you want."
Cooking, Ms. Wells said, is "an expression of love."
"I think when people go into a restaurant and someone is just there working and they don't care, it's going to reflect on the plate. We send our plates out looking as good as they taste," she said. "We care. There's just a passion behind it."
She believes such individual attention is hard to duplicate at a chain.
"I don't care how good they are, because they got five cooks back there making whatever they pay them and they're there because they need a job. We're here because this is what we do."
The life of a chef is one of long hours on the feet with lots of pressure. But the chefs said the creativity involved makes it worth it.
"There's not many professions in the world where you can express yourself creatively every day," said Mr. Fischer, the Ives Hill Country Club chef. "If you're stuck at a desk every day at a 9 to 5 job, there's only so much creativity you can have."
Changing a menu on the fly is something at least one local chef says provides an advantage over national competitors.
"I update my menu due to seasons and what's fresh," said Brenda T. Cavallario of Cavallario's Cucina, 133 N. Massey St.
She also has a small garden and works with local gardeners to add the freshest ingredients to her dishes.
Her fish, Mrs. Cavallario said, from Pacific waters, is flown in daily from Hawaii, and she is in constant contact with her supplier.
"You find out what the fish is about, then I just start to think, what would taste good with that?" she said.
Finding the right recipe is often a matter of trial and error, explained Michael L. Simpson, chef and owner of the Clipper Inn, 126 State St., Clayton.
"You just pick up things that make sense to you and that you like, keep them and throw away the ideas that don't make sense in your operation," he said.
Chef Sarah R. Brown of the Sackets Harbor Brew Pub, 212 W. Main St., credits her active imagination.
"Before I create something, I know what it's going to taste like in my mind before it comes out on a plate," she said.
For Miss Brown, a magazine article could act as a springboard for an idea.
"But I'm not the type of person who will take a recipe and follow it step by step, ingredient by ingredient," she said.
Matthew J. Hudson, chef at the Great American Grill at the Hilton Garden Inn, 1290 Arsenal St., wrote its menu with owners Patrick and James Donegan.
"We're trying to do things that nobody else is doing," Mr. Hudson said. "We want to step ourselves out a little bit from all the other restaurants in the area."
For example, he noted the inn's deep-fried lobster tails and homemade funnel cake bites.
The restaurant Mr. Hudson oversees belongs to a chain hotel, but he said he has the freedom to be independent in the kitchen.
"I like being the guy who is a little bit out of the box," he said.
Reasons to return
Food may be the main element in getting customers to return, but the chefs said the dining experience has to involve more than that.
For Mr. Simpson, the key to successful casual dining, besides the food, is a staff with an at-ease attitude. At the Clipper Inn, a close-knit work crew makes that happen.
"There's more than one way to run a business, but for me, it's to have a pleasant work environment for everybody involved," Mr. Simpson said. "I don't see too many reasons why my blood pressure should be elevated. It's just not worth it. And the people who work here kind of have that feeling. It's better for everybody, including staff and customers."
The Sackets Harbor Brew Pub has an obvious attraction in its craft beer brewed on site. But Miss Brown said the little things add a distinctive atmosphere, such as live entertainment and fresh flowers placed year-round on tables.
"That's something that when you go into a chain restaurant, you're not going to always see," she said over coffee in the restaurant's dining room, which overlooks the harbor. "And you're not going to get this view — anywhere."
At Cafe Mira, making guests feel at home is key.
"I've heard more times than I can count that this is the kind of place you walk into and you don't want to leave," Ms. Wells said. "You walk in from off the street and you feel like you're somewhere far away. It's very relaxing and laid back."
At the Hilton Garden Inn, Mr. Hudson has to fight a stigma about hotel food generally not being up to snuff.
"At most hotels in general, the food is good, but not spectacular," he said. "But we get a lot of repeat guests that constantly come for dinner instead of trying anywhere else."
When hotel guests ask front desk workers if they know a good place to eat, there's an obvious answer.
"We let the front desk people try all the food," Mr. Hudson said. "We want them to be as proud to sell our restaurant as we are."
Repeat diners, said Mrs. Cavallario, don't like unpleasant surprises.
"Meals with us are consistent because we are hands-on owners/operators," she said of herself and husband Peter, who manages the front end of the restaurant.
And once people are seated, they must feel relaxed, Mrs. Cavallario said, without a "get them in and get them out" attitude.
"Competition arises," Mr. Cavallario said. "But you can't deviate from plan."
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Research Project: Uganda Development Bank and its contribution towards the Industrial Development of Uganda, and a Master of Statistics specializing in Agricultural Statistics Makerere University, She is doing her PhD and currently she is the Director Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics.
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DR. BETTY KWAGALA( Head of Department)
She is a lecturer and holds PhD in Sociology from the University of Vienna (with distinction), a Masters Degree in Development Studies (Women and Development) from the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, and a Bachelors Degree in Social Sciences (Sociology and Social Administration) Makerere University. She is training is trained in a diversity of research methods, and research ethics. She has extensive basic and operations research experience (over twelve years) focusing on health, poverty, environment, urban and rural development, environment and gender issues. Her current research interests include equity issues in health, economic and the environment and ethical issues in health and development. She has been a member of the task force that reviewed the National Research Ethics Guidelines. She is currently part of a team that is conducting a WHO study titled "Assessing the conditions and quality of counseling related to sexuality and sexual health in Uganda, Kenya, Brazil and India" and Inter-university Council/SIDA-SAREC funded study titled "Linkages between Land Tenure, Land Use and Food Security and Their Implications on Gender Land Resource Management in the Lake Victoria Basin". Kwagala is a member of Member to the Association of Women in Development (AWID) and Member, Pan African Anthropological Association (PAAA). more
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DR. OCAYA BRUNO (Head of Department)
Ocaya Bruno holds a PhD in economics, majoring in econometrics from Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill, USA; a Masters' degree from Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia; and a First Class Bachelors' degree in economics (3.1.1. Speciality) from Makerere University, Uganda. He has a diverse and long teaching carrier in various fields of economics at different levels in the respective universities he graduated from. Africa's most reputed economics programme [The Joint Facility for Electives (JFE) being carried out by the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) based in Nairobi] rated Dr. Ocaya one of Africa's top-notch econometrician and mathematical economist. He has constantly been engaged in the teaching and supervision of graduate students in the programme.
Currently, Dr. Ocaya teaches and supervises mainly graduate students pursuing masters and PhD in statistics and quantitative economics at Makerere University. In addition to his broad teaching and research experience, Dr. Ocaya also offers consultancy services with diverse experience of working with national governments, NGOs and International Organisations as contained in his current curriculum vitae.
To his credit, Dr. Ocaya has successfully supervised well over thirty masters' and two PhD students since joining the Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics in 2000. He has published a book entitled: "Basic Mathematics and Statistics for Econometricians". He also has two additional manuscripts ready for publication namely, (1) "Simplified Practical Econometrics" and (2) "Applied Time Series Econometrics" which are widely used in Uganda as teaching materials in universities for capacity building of young professional economists and statisticians.


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The science is settled! Because I said so...
11:56 AM, Aug 6, 2010 • By JOHN MCCORMACK
When Judge Vaughn Walker struck down California's constitutional amendment banning gay marriage on the grounds that it violated the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause, some argued that what really mattered in the decision were Walkers findings of fact--which supposedly prove there is no rational basis for keeping marriage a union between a man and a woman.
At Ricochet, John Yoo explains the trouble with Walker's "factual" findings:
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So we're just over two weeks into the new year and many people are probably struggling with their resolutions. It's very common, and we all do it. We make big plans and then a few days later ask ourselves, "What was I thinking?!" in sheer disappointment. Well, maybe it's not quite as dramatic as that but you get the idea. To help with these resolutions, I want to share a simple acronym that will hopefully enable you to revise (if necessary) and refine your goals for 2012 so that you maximize your ability to...read more


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The OSU/Sports Illustrated saga has reached a merciful end, which thrills at least three parties.
OSU. SI. Me.
Probably you, too, but I don't claim to speak for anyone else.
The OSU/Sports Illustrated saga has reached a merciful end, which thrills at least three parties.
OSU. SI. Me.
Probably you, too, but I don't claim to speak for anyone else.
But now that all five installments have been posted for posterity's sake, with black eyes abundant on both sides, we can start to figure out the exact fallout.
Sports Illustrated, which seemed to have less and less stomach for its own series the longer it lasted, retreated and declared victory.
Now it's time for OSU to do the same. And the Cowboys have some ammunition to do just that.
The SI project was not so much about truth as it was perception. Looking at a long list of allegations and deciding what to make of the mess.
Sports Illustrated looked and saw "Dirty Game." Saw a corrupt culture.
OSU can look and see a transformation. Saw a changed culture.
And that's using Sports Illustrated's own evidence. The vast majority of SI's allegations occurred during the Les Miles years, 2001-04. And the majority of the Mike Gundy-era allegations, both NCAA violations and general morality situations, occurred during the early Gundy years.
Counting just the last five years, 2008 and since, here are the specific accusations:
* Tailback Dexter Pratt says marijuana ruined his life and OSU didn't provide adequate counseling;
* Spiritual adviser/drug counselor Joel Tudman, hired in 2006, was not credentialed to help with substance abuse and falsified his résumé;
* Assistant coach Joe DeForest, who left for West Virginia in 2012, paid players for performance, though no examples were given since 2007;
* Gundy allowed receiver Bo Bowling back on the team after a drug conviction;
* Tutors did academic work for star receiver Dez Bryant;
* LeRon Furr said recruits had sex with Orange Pride hostesses;
* Gerron Anthony said players in 2012 sold drugs;
* Herschel Sims said 15-20 players on the Fiesta Bowl team in 2011 would have failed a drug test.
That's it. Few allegations, all vague. No specific names. No specific incidents. Just generalizations. Go back 10 years, and you get way more than generalizations. Dozens of specific examples of players saying they got paid a certain amount by a certain person, or were helped by specific tutors for specific classes.
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"One of the keys to the quarter is how strong we are financially," Ward said. "This is the strongest financial position the company has ever been in."
Ward declined to comment on the ongoing proxy fight SandRidge is in with one of its largest shareholders.
Hedge fund TPG-Axon Capital, which owns about 7 percent of SandRidge's outstanding stock, is pushing fellow shareholders to oust Ward and the current board, arguing the market has lost confidence in them. TPG-Axon has nominated its own candidates to replace SandRidge's board.
Shareholders have until March 15 to decide whether to side with TPG-Axon or retain the company's current leadership.
Also on Thursday, SandRidge lowered its 2013 production guidance, largely because of the Permian sale.
The company said it now expects to produce 15.9 million barrels of oil and 110 billion cubic feet of natural gas on the year, down from its previous guidance of 19.5 million barrels of oil and 118 billion cubic feet of natural gas.
Increased drilling in the Mississippi Lime, however, should allow SandRidge to raise its production in 2014, Ward said.
Edmond investment adviser Greg Womack said he is pleased by SandRidge's announcement Thursday.
"It seems like we're seeing some fundamental improvements along with production improvements. That's encouraging," Womack said. "They're focused going forward on the Mississippi Lime. That's where they're going to have more oil. Based on that, their fundamentals should continue to improve."


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Reasons to Hope: Haiti
This video is a brief update on the current activity the PC(USA) is involved in as it pertains to relief and recovery in earthquake torn Haiti. The video is well suited as a minute for mission.
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Mil Mascaras vs. the Aztec Mummy
Action/Adventure, Horror, SciFi/Fantasy
Mil Mascaras is a renaissance man of international repute. He is a connoisseur of the arts, a scholar of science and humanity, and a masked wrestler. Like his fellow luchadores, El Santo and Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras is often called upon to assist the authorities in combating threats to mankind, whether they are seductive vampire women, lycanthropic madmen, or invaders from other worlds. However, no threat has ever been greater than that posed by the Aztec mummy. In this story, the Aztec mummy is resurrected by the power of the gem of Tonauac. Using its power, the Aztec mummy is able to control the minds of men, even those of strong pedigree and erudition. Determined to lead the ascendancy of the Aztec nation over the descendants of its past conquerors, the Aztec mummy conspires to manipulate men of power for his own ends. Whether Mil Mascaras can be corrupted by the influence of his undead adversary is not clear, but the answer hinges upon the secret of his mask -- a mask which has been passed down to him from his ancestors since time in memoriam.
Cast: Willard E. Pugh, PJ Soles, Jeffrey Uhlman, Gary Ambrosia, Mil Mascaras
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LINCOLN --- Officials with the William M. Davies Jr. Career & Technical High School are looking for volunteers to donate their hair to the "Locks of Love" event scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 17.
Free haircuts will be given to all individuals who have a minimum of 10 inches of hair to donate, and those haircuts will be given in the Cosmetology Salon at Davies between 8:30 a.m.-noon.
CENTRAL FALLS --- Jim Bourgault sat at his kitchen table on Wednesday night and swore the best part of his recent trip to England wasn't being crowned a world master's bench press champion but instead "reconnecting" with his wife, Jeannie.
When Jeannie, playing with her two grandchildren in the living room, heard the comment, she immediately spun around and replied, "Suck-up!"
Naturally, the Hunt Street home – which houses the couple's three adult children and little Amiaya, 3, and Antonio, 18 months – erupted in laughter.
PAWTUCKET – Sure, his eyes and feet played a part in guiding Joselito Knapp to the end zone. To the Tolman quarterback, that only begins to cover what transpired with under six minutes remaining in Friday's Division II quarterfinal matchup with Westerly at Pariseau Field.
PROVIDENCE --- Jeff Craven tormented Shea High again on Friday night, but this time, the Barrington High senior standout victimized the Raiders on the biggest stage of the season -- the Division I championshp game.
Craven netted a pair of first-half goals and the Eagles' superb defense did its part to fend off the high-scoring Raiders' assault the rest of the way en route to a 2-1 win and the team's record 11th state title at Rhode Island College.
CENTRAL FALLS --- It was of North Smithfield High head coach Wes Pugh-Pennington's volition to treat his Division IV showdown against Central Falls High on Friday night as a road playoff game.
"Our plan was to keep it simple," he stated. "We knew it was their Homecoming, so we wanted to use this as preparation for the playoffs. We knew we'd see a tough C.F. Team come in and play hard, so we wanted to run the ball, mix it up and gain some yardage. But we also wanted to prove that we're North Smithfield, we're no fluke, and that we come to play football."
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CUMBERLAND - Fernando Lourenco Sr., 90, passed away peacefully on Thursday. Fernando was born in the Valley Falls section of Cumberland on June 26, 1920. He is survived by his wife of 68 years Piedade (Freitas) Lourenco. He was the son of the late Jose and Maria (daPatrocino) Lourenco of Lamegal, Portugal.
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LINCOLN - Joseph E. Ryan, 73, of Lincoln, died Thursday at Miriam Hospital. He was the husband of Jennifer M. (Schabowski) Ryan. They had been married 50 years. Born in Woonsocket, a son of the late William J. and Gertrude C.(Garrett) Ryan, he had lived in Lincoln most of his life. Mr. Ryan had been employed by the State of RI Dept. of Labor. He was an Army veteran of the Viet Nam War. His brother Kenneth F. Ryan of Seekonk and numerous nieces and nephews survive him. He was the brother of the late William J. Ryan Jr. and Edwin Ryan.