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Volvo Trucks names Göran Nyberg president of North American sales and marketing
Posted By Equipment World Staff On September 10, 2012 @ 11:12 am In Industry Briefs | No Comments
Volvo Trucks appointed Göran Nyberg as president of North American sales and marketing, effective Oct. 1, 2012.
Nyberg will be responsible Volvo brand's commercial truck activities in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Nyberg has more than 20 years of industry experience and has been with the Volvo Group since 2003. He has served in several senior management, distribution and sales positions around the world, and was most recently the managing director for Volvo Group UK Limited, the Volvo Trucks sales & marketing division in the United Kingdom.
Nyberg will be based at the company's North American headquarters in Greensboro, N.C.
Nyberg will report to Dennis Slagle, Volvo Group executive vice president for Trucks Sales & Marketing Americas. He succeeds Ron Huibers, who was recently appointed president of Volvo Penta Americas.
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At a certain point, tree's had auras. I thought it might be due to the fasting, but then I noticed some tree's that had cancerous knots, or the dead tree's, did not have aura's to them, which makes me wonder if it was legit.
I have seen this too! I have seen it a few times. It always seemed to happen several days into a backpacking expedition. I brought it up to the group a couple of times and one time another person could see it too. I had just put it in the back of my mind cuz most people thought I was nuts. It was a beautiful sight to see.edit on 27-12-2012 by Twilightgem because: sorry badly formated
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Originally posted by murphy22
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So your a weenie and Jesus was not? That's all I get from This. Jesus was more than a man than we'd ever be.
What does this mean? Jesus was a man like the rest of us, just as perfect in the eyes of God.
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
I wish you'd kept a journal the whole time, recording the experience as it unfolded, that would have been interesting.
Originally posted by TheToastmanCometh
I hate to be picky, but North WI doesn't have deserts. But all in all, great post 0. P. Glad you had Fun in our forests! In fact, now is a goodtime for a good winter hike
maginary beings.
Can I use the tooth fairy as a scapegoat for my faults?
Happiness only exists when shared

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Kwaku Alston has photographed some of the most famous faces in the world—from Hollywood luminaries like Brad Pitt and Robert Downey Jr. to President Barack Obama. After graduating from the RIT School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, Alston moved to NYC, and began shooting for major magazines and ad agencies while still in his early 20s. His editorial and advertising clients include Crate & Barrel, Coca-Cola, Target, Verizon, Real Simple, and Time. He now splits his time between New York and Venice Beach, California, and finds that his passion for photography burns more brightly than ever.
In addition to his ongoing 'everyday people' portrait series On White, Alston captures the life and culture that surround him in Venice Beach.
What Matters Most
How did you get started in photography?
My high school photo class is where my passion for photography flourished.
Aside from your camera and lighting, what item could you not work without?
My iPhone and iPad Mini. The iPad Mini is like holding a large-format camera in your hands...with the Internet! I've found that I shoot differently when using mobile devices.
What is the weirdest thing that happened on a shoot and how did you handle it?
I was driving with my assistants through Pennsylvania late at night on my way to DC to photograph First Lady Michelle Obama. At 1 a.m., I was pulled over by the police outside Harrisburg and we were forced to sit on the side of the road while they searched our car. Since my crew and I were from California, the officer decided to inspect our car for weed—and it did not help that my license photo was ten years old and pictured me as a rebellious youth with a head full of dreadlocks.
Apparently, the police officers did not believe that tattooed photo assistants dressed in casual attire would be invited to the White House to photograph America's First Lady. Amongst all of the drama, all I could think about was how exhausted I was and how this would affect me for the 7 a.m. call time. After sitting on the curb for over two hours with no illegal substances found, they let us go. After we settled back into the car for the long drive, I realized that if I had not risen to the occasion and been respectful during the shakedown, I would have missed the opportunity of a lifetime.
Is there anybody or anything you would love to photograph? Why?
There is an endless list, but off the top of my head: The Dalai Lama, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, African presidents and sacred places. At this point in my career, I feel it's more important to do projects that matter to me and complement my personal beliefs. If I can use photography to help change the way people view themselves and their relation to the world, then I've done my job. Now that I am a father, it is important to me for my son to see me passionate about doing what I love and making a difference through my art.
What is your biggest challenge as a photographer?
Although the digital age reduces certain costs compared to days of analog, the cost of storing images never stops. One must always upgrade and stay on top of the technology.
How do you stay inspired?
It's an amazing gift to be able to live a life where you are happy creating something from nothing. Life, and my family, inspires me.
What's your favorite quote?
"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without." —Buddha
Do you have creative pursuits other than photography?
Besides photography, I also love filmmaking, interior design, archery, horseback riding, and am always inspired by traveling.
What's on your horizon?
Among other creative photography-based projects, I have branched out to create an online store and am intent on taking that to the next level. It's an exciting project because it provides the platform to share my creative passion directly with the masses. Every sale, big or small, feels wonderful. While getting paid is nice, the true gift is the affirmation that your hard work and passion are appreciated by people—whether it is complete strangers, co-workers, clients or friends and family. To know these people share your creative interests and passions is priceless and incredibly rewarding.
I am also developing a new charity-based portrait series called Take Two, opening a combination gallery and creative workspace on Abbot Kinney called KwakuShop, continuing the 9 Months pregnancy and fatherhood project, and working on small fine-art films.
Which photographer/s do you most admire and why?
You can't go wrong with Richard Avedon and Irving Penn's classic iconic images. I also deeply admire Gordon Parks and the barriers he broke photographically and culturally. Fine-art photographers inspire me by the way they document individuals and communities, like Catherine Opie and Carrie Mae Weems.
What excites you about photography right now?
I love how images are being shared over the web, especially through social platforms like Instagram, Vine, Facebook, etc. There is a major shift in how images are perceived and interacted with—photography has been democratized like never before and everyone has the ability to share what excites them visually. Social media is a strong force that affects everyone, from individuals to corporations. Now we can directly engage with each other via various social media platforms being the link that connects us all. Moreover, artists have the power to begin their careers and show their work on a global level without ever having to leave their studio or home. By utilizing the Internet to democratize the image-making process, almost anyone can be a player in this new era of art making.
What do you think of the photography industry at the moment and where do you see it headed five years from now?
The photo industry is in a constant flux, especially with the convergence of stills and motion being incorporated into photography shoots. Now, clients want photographers to work with stills and motion on the same assignment. While I welcome this creative challenge, it's like doing two jobs as one—but with very different approaches to the workflow. Another big shift is the way that new technology allows anyone to pick up a camera (whether a mobile device or traditional system) and make photographs. If an image is "good enough," then Photoshop and post-processing can make it incredible. In this new market, strong concepts and ideas are key in creating fantastic images. Creatives have a lot to offer, and it is important to realize the full potential of that, along with building relationships and experience over the years.
Do you have any advice for people just entering the profession?
Take your time and build a career by making images you care about. If you take every job that comes your way, you may end up diluting your creative well—and we all have to refill our well when empty. You run the risk of draining your energy and hurting your career by overworking yourself for money or being driven by ego. At the end of each year, evaluate what projects inspired you and allowed you the creative freedom you need—and then seek more like them.
What's one thing you wish you knew when you started your career?
I wish I had pursued a law degree or some kind of financial education when I was younger. To keep your career moving forward, it's important to understand the technical business side. Many creatives have a hard time dealing with this aspect of the business and it is vital to understand. The best piece of advice I have is to save your money when things are good and use that money to rebuild yourself when things get slow. The photo industry is like a roller coaster; you will have highs and lows. If you accept that fact, then you will be okay.


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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Tearful testimony by widows and children of coal miners killed on the job wasn't enough to persuade a key lawmaker to allow a vote on legislation intended to take some of the dangers out of working underground.
"I'm just hoping that our voices will be heard, so that no other families go through what we've went through," said a weeping Claudia Cole, who testified before the House Natural Resources and Environment Committee on Thursday. "They're not doing enough. We're still here fighting to try to get some of these laws passed."
Committee chairman state Rep. Jim Gooch, D-Providence, said at the close of a hearing Thursday that he still hasn't decided whether to bring the legislation up for a vote in the natural resources committee, which he chairs.
Cole's husband, Russell Cole, was killed when the roof caved in inside a Harlan County coal mine in 2005. She and her two teenage daughters were among a group Appalachian residents who came to the Capitol to lobby in favor of tougher laws.
Paul Ledford of Dayhoit, who survived of an explosion that killed five miners in Harlan County last year, said he was discouraged that lawmakers listened more closely to coal industry lobbyists than to miners and their widows.
"They don't care about the common man," he said.
The legislation that's pending in Kentucky would increase the number of mandatory state inspections done at underground mines each year from three to six, require additional oxygen supplies along escape ways, provide methane detectors to every miner, put trained medics at each mine, and give grieving families direct access to information and testimony about deadly accidents.
"It has very commonsense things in it that are designed to protect safety," said state Rep. Brent Yonts, D-Greenville, who is sponsoring the legislation.
However, Gooch has refused to allow a vote on the measure. Even after the testimony by Cole and others that had some lawmakers and members of the gallery in tears, Gooch would not commit to bringing the matter up for a vote in the current legislative session.
Gooch said the committee would hear testimony from representatives of the Kentucky Department of Natural Resources and the Office of Mine Safety and Licensing next week to determine whether new laws enacted last year were sufficient to protect miners.
"We wanted to see how what we did last year was working before I brought something else new," he said.
The legislation follows one of the deadliest years in recent history for coal miners in Kentucky. In all, 16 miners were killed on the job in 2006. Five of the deaths were from a single Harlan County underground mine explosion in May.
Yonts said he believes the spike in workplace fatalities shows state law needs to be modified.
State law now requires more oxygen supplies to be stored along underground escape routes in case of emergency, better communications between the surface and underground work areas, and a directional cord or lifeline to make it easier for miners to find
their way to exits.
Yonts' measure also requires the lifeline to be made of fireproof material so that it wouldn't be destroyed in an explosion.
State Rep. Tim Couch, R-Hyden, a former coal miner, said he has concerns about level of regulation that the state is putting on the mining industry.
"You can regulate the business out of business," said Couch, a member of Gooch's committee.
Bill Londrigan, head of the Kentucky AFL-CIO labor group, said it appears the coal industry has been able to pressure certain lawmakers into not taking action on the legislation.
"It looks like it's being held victim to politics," Londrigan said. "We think that's unconscionable."
Steve Earle, a lobbyist for the United Mine Workers of America, said he had been assured that leading Democratic lawmakers would support the mine safety bill.
"If we don't get mine safety legislation through this session," Earle said, "we're going to hold people accountable."
If the legislation proposed by Yonts had been in effect last year, it would have done nothing to save any of the miners who died on the job, said Bill Caylor, president of the Kentucky Coal Association. He said the legislation isn't needed.
"It's the rush to pass legislation that creates unintended consequences and loopholes," Caylor said.
However, Stella Morris, whose husband David Morris Jr. bled to death after being struck by a machine in an underground mine in 2005, said a provision in the legislation that would require two trained medics to be on duty at each mine would indeed save lives.
Morris said her husband wouldn't have died if someone had known how to properly apply a tourniquet to stop bleeding after his legs were severed in the accident.
"Common sense is common sense," Morris said. "Why not fix the problem to see that it doesn't happen again?"


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2011 William Larue Weller
While I'm happy folks appreciate the SB ORVW 15/107 that I have (thanks to a posting here), several of us tasted several ORVW 15's side-by-side and Wade had a Lawrenceburg that I think most of rated the hands down winner.
I've had 2010, 11 & 12 Lot B, 10/107, 2012 WLW, Weller 12 and one glass of PVW 23. The best I've had is 2011 PVW 20.
Can't believe I'm the first to post this, but Louisville bottled Weller Centennial is at the top of my list. I'd trade all my Parker's 10 for a couple more bottles of Centennial!
I would probably have to say some ORVW 15's, and some Pappy 15's and dusty OWA's.
It might just be nostalgia, but the best bottle of wheated bourbon I can recall drinking was a Weller 19. WLW 2009 and PHC 10 yr wheated twanged my buds the right way, too. The best wheated bourbon I've tasted recently was thiefed from a 20+ year old barrel of Stitzel-Weller in a rackhouse in Nelson county.
Today the best wheated bourbon I've had is the PHC 10.
When I think about it longer it would be high on the list of all time wheated bourbons that I've had with WLW 117.9 and PVW 15 in the running for top spot.


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They Backed Boris
On the hustings with Boris Johnson, London's unlikely mayor.
May 19, 2008, Vol. 13, No. 34 • By JAMES KIRCHICK
The tension between Boris Johnson the man who must restrain himself to meet expectations of what constitutes a "serious" political leader, and Boris Johnson the man who has a witty take on the world and can't help himself from sharing it with others, is visible this rainy morning. When a television producer asks if she can attach a lapel mic to his suit for the duration of his tour, he pointedly brushes her hand away with a "No thanks." Yet minutes later, he gets laughs from the supervisor showing him around the facility when he remarks aloud, "I've never seen so much tripe in my life, other than in the Livingstone press office," a reference to his opponent, the incumbent London mayor Ken Livingstone. The night before, visiting an East London mosque, he made light of the Livingstone administration's token contribution to the European Space Agency. Borrowing a line from Mike Huckabee, Johnson said that the only justification for such funding would be to send Livingstone into the cosmos.
Boris Johnson is one of the most recognizable figures in British politics, second perhaps only to Prime Minister Gordon Brown. A recent poll conducted for the Conservatives found that, aside from the party's current leadership, the two figures most commonly associated with the Tories are Margaret Thatcher and Johnson. His "shock" of blond hair is but the most superficial reason for his celebrity. A professional journalist, he first entered the British public consciousness a decade ago as a regular panelist on the television quiz show Have I Got News for You? Johnson went into Parliament as a conservative in 2001--though he decided to relinquish his seat after winning the mayoralty on May 1. The enduring image of Johnson, an avid cyclist, involves him sloppily dressed in a suit, riding a bike with one hand on the handlebar with the other pressing a cellphone to his ear.
He is a man known more for his sense of humor--and propensity to commit the sort of gaffes that would have ruined even the most resilient of American politicians--than for any legislation or policies he has proposed (his contention that accusations of his carrying on an interoffice affair while editor of the Spectator magazine were an "inverted pyramid of piffle" has achieved "I did not sleep with that woman" status in the British political lexicon). A week with him on the campaign trail made it evident how he was--in the words of one bystander in posh Kensington--"cheering up London."
Though he's given up journalism for politics, Johnson will always have the writer's desire to narrate what he sees in the world around him. He has an internal monologue that can't be shut off. Out campaigning one afternoon, a red doubledecker bus passes by. "Wave to the bus, Boris!" one of his supporters said. He waves and smiles. And then in a voice just faintly above a whisper, that only I can hear standing right next to him, he mutters, "London commuters. Doleful. Angry."
On the trail, Johnson was a bursting ball of energy, so exuberant that he doesn't pay attention to where he is going, evidenced by his campaign aides telling him, at least half a dozen times in the course of a half hour on the streets of Kensington, to slow down or that he was going in the wrong direction. "Forward, forward, forward!" belts Johnson as he marched down the main drag. Everything with Boris is larger than life. He promises to build "loads of housing." Is he qualified to be mayor? "Supremely." When a smiling passerby clasps his hand and tells him "it's a pleasure to have a candidate with personality!" he responds, "We have gobs of that!"
One of the complaints that many fans of Boris made during the electoral campaign was that the "old Boris"--the one who made jokes, was a bit of a rogue, and got himself into trouble with authority--had disappeared. "I hope you get your sense of humor back," one supporter told him on the trail. "There is no distinction between the old Boris and the new Boris," he said, with the passion of a statesman, in response to a journalist asking where the "old Boris" had wandered. "They are indivisible, co-eternal, consubstantial." If he wasn't being funny enough on that particular morning, it's because "You're talking to me before I've had a cup of coffee."


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Katsuhiro Otomo/Nobrow for Comme des GarconsJuxtapoz // Friday, 03 Oct 2014
Back really long ago, 2013 that is, famed international fashion house Comme des Garcons (who have probably the best store designs of anyone in fashion) teamed up with Nobrow and manga star Katsuhiro Otomo, author of "Akira." Even better, CDG asked Nobrow to mash Otomo's work with other Nobrow artists, creating a comic/manga collage effect that existed on the CDG site. Basically, it looked rad, and we want to show you.
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Partial season passes for Red Butte Garden go on sale this coming Monday, April 23
As a reminder, be sure to know that partial season packages for Red Butte Garden go on sale this coming Monday, April 23.
it will be interesting to see if any of the packages sell so well that certain shows will be sold out by the time individual tickets go on sale to Members on April 30, and then the general public on May 7.
To buy a partial package, you need a Garden membership. Garden memberships start at $35 and include a year of benefits.
Tickets and memberships are available at http://www.redbuttegarden.org or by calling 801-585-0556.
TICKET ON SALE DATESPackages: April 23 at 9 a.m.Individual ticket sales to Garden Members: April 30 at 9 a.m.General Public: May 7 at 9 a.m.Get a membership today and save $5 per concert ticket.
This year's Red Butte Garden concert series includes 26 shows from Memorial Day (May 28) to Labor Day (the last show is Sept. 2) and a new way to acquire tickets with partial season packages.There are four packages and each has six concerts, grouped to match music genres. Pick your package, take advantage of the early purchase period, and then add individual tickets for other shows you want to see. 1. Monday, May 28: The Shins w/ The Head and the Heart and Blind Pilot 2. Tuesday, May 29: Bon Iver w/ The Staves 3. Sunday, June 3: Sheryl Crow 4. Sunday, June 10: American Legacies: The Preservation Hall Jazz Band and The Del McCoury Band 5. Wednesday, June 13: Melissa Etheridge 6. Monday, June 25: Wilco w/ Blitzen Trapper 7. Tuesday, June 26: Jimmy Cliff 8. Monday, July 2: The B-52s and Squeeze 9. Sunday, July 15: Brandi Carlile 10. Tuesday, July 17: Josh Ritter 11. Thursday, July 19: Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers 12. Friday, July 20: Grace Potter & The Nocturnals 13. Friday, July 27: Al Green 14. Sunday, July 29: Los Lobos and Steve Earle 15. Wednesday, Aug. 8: Diana Krall 16. Friday, Aug. 10: Colbie Caillat & Gavin DeGraw 17. Sunday, Aug. 12: Michael Franti & Spearhead 18. Monday. Aug. 13: Gipsy Kings 19. Tuesday, Aug. 14: Andrew Bird w/ Amadou & Mariam 20. Friday, Aug. 17: Dead Can Dance 21. Tuesday, Aug. 21: Norah Jones 22. Thursday, Aug. 23: Crosby, Stills & Nash 23. Sunday, Aug. 26: Huey Lewis & The News 24. Tuesday, Aug. 28: Bonnie Raitt w/ special guest Mavis Staples 25. Wednesday, Aug. 29: Bonnie Raitt w/ special guest Mavis Staples 26. Sunday, Sept. 2: Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue Packages include one general admission ticket to six concerts as outlined in each package. There are four packages. No substitutions. Once individual tickets go on sale and a show sells out, the package containing that concert will no longer be available. Package price is based on Garden Membership. Add $30 to each package for General Public pricing.
Package A 3-Jun Sheryl Crow $66 13-Jun Melissa Etheridge $57 2-Jul B-52s and Squeeze $47 10-Aug Colbie Caillat & Gavin DeGraw $40 17-Aug Dead Can Dance $36 28-Aug Bonnie Raitt $58 GARDEN MEMBER PRICE $304 Package B 26-Jun Jimmy Cliff $35 17-Jul Josh Ritter $32 27-Jul Al Green $53 8-Aug Diana Krall $55 13-Aug Gipsy Kings $55 21-Aug Norah Jones $65 GARDEN MEMBER PRICE $295 Package C 10-Jun Del McCoury and Pres Hall Jazz Band $35 19-Jul Steve Martin $55 29-Jul Los Lobos and Steve Earle $37 23-Aug Crosby, Stills and Nash $70 26-Aug Huey Lewis $52 2-Sep Trombone Shorty $30 GARDEN MEMBER PRICE $321 Package D 29-May Bon Iver $40 25-Jun Wilco w/ Blitzen Trapper $46 15-Jul Brandi Carlile $33 20-Jul Grace Potter $35 12-Aug Michael Franti $43 14-Aug Andrew Bird $39 GARDEN MEMBER PRICE $236


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Hattiesburg Police Department's Fleet Maintenance Supervisor and Mechanic Darryl Ford repairs an electrical system in a vehicle. Air conditioners and rack-and-pinion systems are two things that department officials say they spend a great deal of money on for repairs.
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Hattiesburg Police Capt. Tim Jackson wants to get the department's fleet in order - and purchasing new cars is key to reaching that goal.
Jackson says buying 15 new police cars could be a cost-savings measure for the city. The department asked City Council to purchase the new cars during a meeting earlier this month.
They would replace a slew of front-wheel-drive Chevrolet Impalas and Dodge Intrepids that Jackson said aren't holding up to police duty anymore. ...


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Getting Ready For Thursday's Games: NEW ORLEANS
When the NCAA Tournament kicks off Thursday in New Orleans, the feel will certainly be festive. And by festive, I mean hungover, because for reasons that only the brilliant minds behind the proposed NCAA Tournament expansion to 96 could likely understand, the first round is taking place in New Orleans the night after St Patricks Day. So in a city where public drunkedness is not only accepted, it is actively encouraged and at times, mandatory, the NCAA is going to place basketball games after the nation's drunkest collective holiday. Its for the kids ladies and gentlemen.
When the games do actually get started however, there will be a lot to see in James Carville's hometown. One of the top two teams in the country, an #8 seed that was ranked #1 overall this season, a certain NIT team that played its way into a #6 seed and quite possibly the most athletic team in America are all setting up shop in New Orleans as they hope to advance on in the South and West regions. Each game has some intrigue, some wackiness and a whole lot of Harangody. An overview:
NOTRE DAME vs OLD DOMINION 12:25
Most people would claim that the iconic figure in college basketball this year was John Wall, the uber-talented UK point guard who dazzled the country with athleticism, wild dunks and game-winning shots. They are wrong. The real icon of college basketball is the man with the worst hair and body in sports, Luke Harangody. If Harangody were a car, he would be a Kia Rondo, tall and boxy, prone to slow, awkward movements and proportionated in such a way as to seem to make success impossible. But like the Kia Rondo, Harangody finds a way to get the job done. When you watch this game today, take a few possessions and simply follow the 'Gody. Like the fat guy who sweats a lot but still finds a way to get garbage buckets in your church league game, the 'Gody will win no beauty points as he looks to the naked eye as the most unathletic basketball players since the cast of "Hang Time" left the court (still Reggie Theus's best coaching job). But he will score, rebound and even defend, all without seemingly being able to make one impressive movement. He is the basketball equivalent to an episode of "Friends," unlikely to leave you feeling the least bit impressed, but garnering solid ratings.
The 'Gody is playing against Old Dominion, a team I actually saw on our Road Trip across America and one that can cause some problems. ODU is as athletic a small school as you will see in the Tournament. They are long at every position and their goal is to get every rebound and outwork you, while playing a brand of basketball that can best be labeled as "boring." Their coach will try to counter the 'Gody's boxcut with his own moustache, a full feathered beauty that is both dark and bushy, a veritable forest under his lip. With his facial hair mesmerizing, it is easy to forget just how talented this team is and it isnt an exaggeration to say that they will be the more athletic team on the floor.
Notre Dame is full of Irish Catholics and the noon start on the day after St Patrick's Day will ensure a small crowd at the opening tip. ODU has the players to get out on the Irish three point shooters and Harangody will not be able to impose his will down low. However the Irish are deeper, have the best player on the floor and by the second half, Johnny O'Malley and the rest of the Irish faithful will stagger into the gym just in time to see the Irish win by 7.
BAYLOR vs SAM HOUSTON STATE 3:00
Every year the NCAA Tournament sees one team develop into a trendy pick to make noise and allows announcers on the Worldwide Leader to get on television and make proclamations that have no real substance but sound important like "I tell you who I like Digger, I like "TEAM X". The way they shoot the ball, play defense and their great Coach _____, this is a team that can really make some noise. I am not saying I will pick them over (INSERT #1 seed), but it wouldnt shock me if they get hot and cut down the nets to the Final Four. While the announcer says this, all of the other blow-dryed hairpieces on set shake their head and proclaim that they too like this team and have been on board with them all year. Inevitably this team is never as good as these paid airbags say they are and often the disappointment starts in game one.
This season that team is most certainly Baylor. You cant throw a stick without running into someone who has Baylor as their "sleeper team into the Final Four." The Bears are coached by Scott Drew and have found a way to turn around a basketball program that was long thought to be dead. However considering the fact tha tmost fans couldn't name one player on the Bears' roster, annoitment as a Final Four team seems a bit premature. As for Sam Houston State, they are fun to watch. They bring it up and down quickly, like to shoot a lot of three pointers and try to win by managing the game pace. Earlier this season they gave Kentucky a run for its money in Rupp Arena and since then, have put up great shooting performances week after week. Baylor isnt the greatest draw for Sam Houston, because they can match the athleticism that Sam Houston uses to dominate its opponents. But if they hit threes, then who knows what can happen.
Did you like how I got you excited right there....made you think that I was going to pick the upset upstarts? Not going to happen. Had SHS gotten a slow, methodical team, I might pull the shocker. As is, Baylor moves on and makes pundits shake their head and nod that they are the team to watch in the games ahead.
You know all about Kentucky, Calipari, Wall, Cousins, etc. They are really good and no group of players since Shane Battier was smiling and going to class every day at Duke have received the consistent national publicity of this group of Kentucky players. They have been visited by Lebron, Magic, Ashley Judd, Drake, Ben Roethlisberger (pre-college town romp), Mike Tomlin, Charles Barkley and even the biggest star of them all, World Wide Wes. They have raised over a million bucks for Haiti, talked to the President over the phone and even got to rub on Seth Davis's rosy cheeks. It has been such a strange, magical journey. But now it gets real and the games mean more. All the goodwill of the 32-2 campaign that has won the hearts of Kentuckians is at stake in one three-week period where anything can happen.
Well almost anything. What can't happen is losing to ETSU in the first round on Thursday night. ETSU famously was once led by a player that makes the NCAA all "hey I remember that guy but I have no idea where he went to school" list, Keith "Mr." Jennings. For it was 21 years ago that Jennings took a #16 seeded ETSU team and very nearly pulled the shocker over #1 seeded Oklahoma. They hope to bring that kind of magic back to light again, but this time against a much bigger fish and a much more talented group of players. Win partor lose, they will probably take solace in the fact that they will head back to Johnson City, Tennessee after the game and be greeted by the hottest group of mountain coeds this side of a very special episode of Hee-Haw.
Kentucky wins by a lot and moves on, much to the delight of the Big Blue nation. But when ETSU's most famous alum Kenny Chesney sneaks into the building, Jay Bilas becomes so enamored with his soft, beach sounds that he takes off his announcing headset, mumbles something about Baylor being a sleeper to get to the Final Fourand goes on tour with Buffett.
TEXAS vs WAKE FOREST 9:35 PM
What do you get when the two most underperforming participants in a particular endeavor get together to see which can muster up just enough to even showcase a flash of their former brilliance? No, its not every Pacino/Deniro move of the past ten years, but rather is the Underachievement HEavyweight Championship Title Match when Texas plays Wake Forest. Over the course of this past season, no two teams have been more baffling and neither has made its fans groan and search out for signs of life from its coach than the Longhorns and Demon Deacons. Both teams have loads of talent, but both have played so terribly at times that even Mike Dunleavy has asked from afar, "dont you coaches do anything?"
The most egregious offender has been Texas, where Rick Barnes has definitely proven that he is the worst Top 12 program coach in America. While there is no doubt that Barnes has assembled talent by the boatload in Austin, his team has played as poorly in the last two months as any team in the Tournament and has produced an historically unprecedented waste of talent from one program in one season. There may be as many as six guys on the Texas roster who could play in the NBA and players one through eleven, they could be the most talented team in America. But they are stuck floundering around, getting blown out by mediocre teams and backing their way into the tournament on the back of a win against NIT contender North Carolina in December. Remember, Texas was ONCE #1. Now they are hideous and absent a miracle turnaround, will finish a season of disappointment like none other.
There are those that say March forgives all sins. If either of these teams can win this game and then upset Kentucky, a season of disappointment can quickly be forgotten. Both teams have been awful, but in Texas's case there has been the occasional show of life. Wake Forest has been tuned out for months. Texas wins a close one in a game that simply frustrates all who watch.
So there you have it, Notre Dame, Baylor, Kentucky and Texas. Chalk from this guy. But hey, its New Orleans and the fun will be on the streets anyway. Enjoy the games and watch out for Harry Connick on the street trying to sing you a song...he does it to all the tourists.
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Posted on: March 13, 2010 12:54 am
Edited on: March 13, 2010 1:00 am
Friday Night Drama
Thomas Beisner
Friday's afternoon and early evening sessions had their fair share of excitement with Evan Turner's buzzer-beater, John Wall's heroics, Lehigh's berth-clinching win and San Diego's upset of New Mexico. The madness didn't end at sundown, though, and three of the major conferences packed in the drama in their late games. Here's what you missed:
Minnesota upsets Michigan State - It took an extra period, but Tubby Smith's team was finally able to put away Michigan State in the Big 10 tournament semifinals on Friday, keeping their NCAA tourney hopes alive.
For the Golden Gophers, taking the lead wasn't the problem. It was holding on to it and closing out the Spartans that seemed to be difficult. Minnesota took a 13-12 lead with just under 10 minutes to go in the first half and wouldn't trail again until Michigan State scored the first points of the overtime period. When Raymar Morgan's bucket fell through the net with a whistle on the play, it seemed as if the Gophers' opportunity was gone. After all, they were up seven with 3:30 to go and wouldn't score again, missing five shots and committing one turnover in their six possessions down the stretch. They had their shot and now Michigan State was finally ready to take this game.
But, to their credit, Tubby's troops did not fold and countered Morgan's "And One" and Michigan State's three-point lead with a 10-0 run. By the time the dust settled, all the Spartans could do was foul and, all of a sudden, Tubby Smith's team looked to have new post-season life.
The Gophers will now take their shot at a Robbie Hummel-less Purdue squad Saturday - the same one they lost to by just one point a couple of weeks ago. As of now, the Gophers could be in or they could be out. A win over Purdue would likely lock up an at-large berth for them.
West Virginia holds off Notre Dame - Just 24 hours removed from Da'Sean Butler's buzzer beater saving them from the early tourney exit of their fellow Big East top seeds, West Virginia was almost victimized by a similar shot.
But, when Tory Jackson's three caught rim and bounced around, running out the final four seconds of clock, what is shaping up to be a fairly magical run for Bob Huggins' team stood intact. The Mountaineers, the only one of the top four seeds to win their first game Thursday, now have only Georgetown, a team they blew out two weeks ago, standing between them and a Big East tournament title.
Saturday's matchup at the Garden will have more at stake than a conference title for the Mountaineers, though. If WVU beats the Hoyas again and Duke falters in an ACC tournament that's even more pathetic than we thought, they will likely be staring a #1 seed in the face. Even if the Blue Devils win the ACC, the Mountaineers still have the opportunity to jump them for that top seed. They just need to make sure they bring their "A" game to the Garden Saturday. Winning because a buzzer beater catches rim isn't a good way to show it.
Kansas State puts away Baylor - The Big 12 semifinal between Kansas and Baylor didn't have any last possession or overtime drama, but it had the feel for 38 minutes that it would be decided by whoever had the ball last. But, with two minutes left, Jacobham Pullen eliminated all doubt with a clutch three-pointer.
Baylor looked like they were going to snatch one from the Wildcats after Ekpe Udoh's dunk cut the lead to two with just under four minutes to go. On Kansas State's next possession, a blocked shot by Quincy Acy got the ball back to Baylor who drew a foul. Senior leader Tweety Carter, who had an awful game, stepped to the line, down two, and clanked both free throws. Kansas State came down and Pullen hit the three that sucked the life from the Bears and put them away for good.
The Wildcats will now advance to their first Big XII title game and face off against rival Kansas, who they've both pushed to overtime and been blown out by this year. Their seedings might already be set for the most part, but you can expect emotions to be very, very high in Kansas City tomorrow.
Category: NCAAB
Tags: Baylor, Big 10, Big 12, Big East, Kansas State, Michigan State, Minnesota, Notre Dame, West Virginia
Posted on: March 12, 2010 10:58 am
Edited on: March 12, 2010 11:09 am
Big East Day 3 Recap
A tremendous day of basketball capped by the first major buzzer-beater of Championship Week. Three of the four double-bye top seeds go down, including No. 1 Syracuse and No. 2 Pitt, and 11th-seeded Cincinnati nearly causes bubble teams across the country to lose control of their bowels.
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8) Georgetown 91, 1) Syracuse 84
Since this is going to be posted on the website of CBS Sports, home of the Jim Nantz, I'm contractually obligated to start this blurb with "The Butler did it." I'd rather not do it, but I seriously have no choice. This is just a precursor to the blurb, not the actual blurb itself. The blurb starts now.
The Butler did it.
Da'Sean Butler banked home a deep and heavily contested three-pointer at the buzzer to lift third-seeded West Virginia into the Big East Tournament semifinals and end the improbable run of No. 11 Cincinnati.
"When I got the ball, (UC freshman Lance Stephenson) kind of pressed up on me. So I kind of lost my balance, and by the time I squared up, I only had time to take one dribble instead of two or three. And when I took the one dribble, I put it up," said Butler.
Cincinnati, which trailed for the vast majority of the night, had a shot to win it with 6.4 seconds to play and the length of the court to go, but Dion Dixon, who had just been brought into the game by UC head coach Mick Cronin, mishandled the ball and lost it out-of-bounds. That set the stage for Butler, who finished the night with 15 points.
The Mountaineers, the only one of the Big East's top four seeds still alive in the tournament, will face No. 7 Notre Dame in tonight's second semifinal.
Since the team of the day is Georgetown, I'm contractually obligated by CBS to start this blurb with a mention of the old saying about beating the same team three times in one season. I actually don't believe in the validity of the adage at all, but what can you do? I also prefer other car rental services to Enterprise. Blurb starts now.
You know what they say about beating a team three times in one season.
Georgetown avenged a pair of regular season losses to arch-rival Syracuse by stunning the top-seeded Orange, 91-84 in Thursday's first Big East Tournament quarterfinal.
Adding injury to insult for 'Cuse was senior center Arizne Onuaku hitting the floor and clutching his knee late in the game. His status for the NCAA Tournament is still unknown.
Chris Wright led the Hoyas with 27 points, while sophomore center Greg Monroe added 15 more to go with ten rebounds and seven assists.
"It's definitely a confidence boost," Wright said. "I don't think this team lacks confidence. I just think we're ready to play."
The loss was the second straight for regular season champion Syracuse, which entered the postseason coming off a loss at Louisville. The Orange still appear to be in good shape to capture a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, if only because they didn't have much competition for the spot heading into this week.
Pitt could only muster a season-low 45 points against the 1986 Chicago Bears Notre Dame in a 50-45 loss. The Panthers, who could have made a move to rename this thing the P.I.T. (Pittsburgh Invitational Tournament) after advancing to the title game in four straight seasons, lost in their tourney opener for the second straight year.
"Right now we don't feel good," said Panthers head coach Jamie Dixon. "I think this will be a good learning lesson for us."
Luke Harangody and Tory Jackson each scored 12 point for Notre Dame, which has come out-of-nowhere to win six straight.
--Chris Wright (Goergetown) - 27 points
--Da'Sean Butler (West Virginia) - 15 points, game-winning three-pointer at the buzzer
--Greg Monroe (Georgetown) - 15 points, 10 rebounds, seven assists
--Wesley Johnson (Syracuse) - 24 points, seven rebounds
--Darius Johnson-Odom (Marquette) - 24 points, five assists
--Corey Stokes (Villanova) - 22 points
--Lance Stephenson (Cincinnati) - 19 points, seven rebounds
"I think that's what is great about tournaments. You don't have to worry when they say you have to prepare one day after, it's not a big deal. We've all played each other.We know each other. I think that's what makes these games great. It's been great games throughout the tournament. Our familiarity with each other is, it makes it tough beating any team." --Jay Wright
Semifinal time...
#5 Marquette vs. #8 Georgetown (7 p.m.)
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Posted on: March 12, 2010 12:16 am
Edited on: March 12, 2010 1:17 am
Thursday Night Wrap-up
Thomas Beisner
12:00 pm
After what already seems to be four to five weeks of conference tournaments in our rear view mirror, Selection Sunday is now coming up on the horizon and things are starting to sort themselves out a bit. On Thursday, some teams were relegated to the bubble and prayers (Memphis) while some teams continued their post-season hoops hopes (Notre Dame). With 27 games on the docket for Friday, including the Patriot League Championship, answers are certain to be headed the way of all college basketball fans. Before we get started, though, let's look back at what turned out to be a big-time Thursday in the world of college basktball.
Will the Onuaku injury affect seeding? - Perhaps the biggest story on Thursday (besides Syracuse's loss) was the injury suffered by Syracuse big man Arinze Onuaku which, depending on who you talk to, is either major or minor. Onuaku will have an MRI on Friday and the results will be available….probably after the seeding is announced. Especially if it's serious. Regardless of what the injury turns out to be, you'd have to assume the Orange is fairly safe with their #1 seed. What they need to be more concerned about, however, is how a team that is now essentially only six-deep is going to respond in a two games in three days tournament setting.
The Big Names are Done - It was really only a matter of time until they all bid adieu to this year's college basketball season, but a trio of big name programs finally had the final nail placed in their post-season coffin on Thursday. North Carolina jumped out to a double-digit lead against Georgia Tech and then came out in the second half looking all North Carolina-like and gave the game away. Tom Crean's Indiana Revival, still sputtering along in year two, took a thumping at the hands of mighty Northwestern while Arizona's run of 25 straight NCAA tourney appearances came to an end (after two years of undeserved bids) against another traditional power on life support, UCLA. They say things are going to get better. I say at least they didn't give up like UConn. I am worried about Sean Miller, though. The losses seem to be taking their toll and he's gone from looking like a sober Billy Gillispie to Texas A&M Billy Gillispie. That's not a good trend.
If a tree falls in the Staples Center, does it make a sound? - The national media wrote the Pac-10 off a long, long time ago. Surprisingly, the Pac-10 fans apparently have done the same. Outside of the Salt Lake City's Megaplex 12 during the premiere of I Got the Hookup, it's possible that no venue has ever been so empty for such a fan-friendly event. I watched Oregon and Washington's overtime affair Wednesday night (a great game) while feeding my son and the Staples Center appeared to have about only 7-8 people more than my couch. When UCLA plays in their home city and can't get fans, you know it's bad. However, the Pac-10 tournament did introduce me to Rebecca Haarlow, so it can't be all bad, right?
Coaching redemption in C-USA - With John Calipari gone from Memphis, the national spotlight has dimmed significantly on the only official conference of the United States. UTEP seized the opportunity and grabbed the regular season title with a 15-1 record, but it's a couple of underdog coaches that are making the most of their chances. Seventh-seeded Houston coach Tom Penders is being reported as a dead man walking whose employment only lasts as long as his team's season. After an upset of second-seeded Memphis, it lasts another day. His semifinal opponent, Southern Miss, is coached by another recognizable name trying to make the most of his situation. Larry Eustachy, the disgraced former Iowa State coach, has made steady improvements in his sixth season in Hattiesberg and brought home his 20th win in an upset of UAB (and their former big name coach Mike Davis). By Friday evening, one of these two maligned coaches will be one win away from going dancing.
Jimmer! - Obviously wanting to prove that Montana's Anthony Johnson isn't the only guy out west who can fill it up, BYU junior Jimmer Fredette poured in a Mountain West tournament record 45 points in a win over TCU. Fredette, who had been battling strep throat, mono, a stomach virus, typhoid fever, the mumps, pink eye, an ingrown toenail and Osgood Schlatter's disease, returned to the lineup with a bang, though I feel his 45 points are cheapened a bit by 23 made free throws. Anthony Johnson wouldn't do that. But, I do respect The Jimmer for his honesty displayed in this interview, perhaps the most honest in college basketball history (fast forward to 3:45).
The Almosts - Oh, how close they came. Air Force and LSU, winners of a combined three conference games, pushed a pair of highly ranked teams to the brink. LSU gave Bruce Pearl and Tennessee all they could handle before fading down the stretch and Air Force lost a heartbreaker to New Mexico, 75-69. I wish we could say some inspiring things to both teams but there's nothing left to say. Except maybe to just clean out their lockers. You don't want this season lingering any longer than it has to.
The other #1 seeds take the floor Friday - On Thursday, Syracuse fell to Georgetown and Kansas got a good little push from Texas Tech. On Friday, the presumed other two top seeds, Kentucky and Duke, take the floor and try to get used to their dancing shoes. Duke will square off with Virginia, a team that once lead the conference and snapped a nine-game losing streak Thursday, in a game where they'll be heavily favored. With West Virginia still in contention for a Big East title, the Dukies might have to win the ACC tournament to keep their top seed. Meanwhile, John Calipari will lead his troops against Alabama in his first ever SEC tournament game. The Cats beat the Tide on February 9 and shouldn't encounter much trouble. However, they then will likely face Tennessee and Vanderbilt in loseable games. Their #1 footing is more solid than Duke's, but it's important that the young Cats get comfortable in the post-season tournament setting before embarking on the what is shaping up to be a journey full of very high expectations.
Illinois vs. Wisconsin 2:00 pm
* denotes championship game
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Posted on: March 11, 2010 9:47 pm
Edited on: March 11, 2010 9:48 pm
Bizarro Day in the Big East Continues
Upset Thursday continued in the Big East as No. 7 Notre Dame eliminated second-seeded Pittsburgh, 50-45. Tory Jackson hit 4-of-6 threes to score 12 points and Luke Harangody came off the bench to add 12 more as the Fighting Irish won back-to-back games in the Big East Tournament for the first time in program history.
The loss dropped teams which had earned double-byes into the quarterfinals to 0-3, with only third-seeded West Virginia left to take the court.
After advancing to the championship game in four straight seasons, the loss marked the second straight one-and-done tournament for the Panthers, who were also the No. 2 seed in 2009.
Notre Dame's newfound commitment to defense was on full display again, as they held Pitt to their lowest point total of the season. The Irish have now held five of their past six opponents to 54 points or fewer. They've won all six games over that span and leapt from NIT-bound to single-digit NCAA Tournament seed.
Georgia Tech went ahead and put the bullet in the head of the gravely injured animal that was North Carolina's 2009-2010 season, knocking the Tar Heels out of the ACC Tournament by a final score of 62-58.
The Yellow Jackets, playing with their season on the line, trailed by ten at the break but a monster second half by star freshman Derrick Favors helped keep them (most likely) in the dance for the time being. Favors finished with a game-high 18 points.
Kansas State began its three-day case for a one seed by completely humiliating Oklahoma State, 83-64 in a game they led by as many as 33. Jamar Samuels scored 21 of his career-high 27 points in the first half.
The Cowboys are still almost certainly in the field of 65, but the loss - which came just a day after an impressive rout of rival Oklahoma - may have knocked them down a seeding row or two.
Elsewhere, Minnesota beat Penn State by 21 in a game I thank every possible religious deity that I wasn't forced to watch, and Florida at least momentarily speared itself from the knowledge of having a stressful Sunday on the horizon by knocking off Auburn, 76-55.
Posted on: March 11, 2010 9:42 am
Edited on: March 11, 2010 1:38 pm
Big East Day 2 Recap
5) Marquette 57, 13) St. John's 55
We probably should just go ahead and hand this award to whichever game Marquette is playing in for the rest of the tournament.
An amazing 12 of the Golden Eagles' 19 games against Big East opponents have been decided by three points or less. Twelve one-possession games out of 19. That's unreal.
After suffering close defeat after close defeat in the early part of the season, Marquette has now won six of the last seven games decided by a possession, including yesterday's second round Big East Tournament triumph over de facto host St. John's.
"We were 2-5, and since that time we've been in one- and two-possession games," Marquette coach Buzz Williams said. "... Everything has changed. The whole deal is this, our margin of error has never changed. The games that we lost, the lessons we learned, are just as important as the games we won by one or two possessions as well."
Spurred on by the New York crowd, the Red Storm, ahem, stormed back from a 14-point first half deficit to take a 53-52 lead with a little over two minutes to play. But David "Call Me Daveed" Cubillan's three-pointer with 1:11 to play gave Marquette a 55-53 lead they wouldn't relinquish.
The Golden Eagles move on to face No. 4 Villanova, a squad that twice beat them by two points in early January. St. John's, conversely, moves into an offseason that will - at least early on - be dominated by talk of head coach Norm Roberts' future.
In one performance Notre Dame silenced both those who feel they don't belong in the NCAA Tournament and those who feel they're better off without Luke Harangody.
Behind 'Gody's 20 points and 10 rebounds, the Irish dominated a desperate Seton Hall team from start-to-finish. Though Notre Dame's teams in the Mike Brey era have been mostly defined by their offense, this squad has played its way into the field of 65 with its defense. The latest evidence of the shift in philosophy came last night as the Pirates, who had dropped 109 in their tournament opener, managed just 56 points.
"We prided ourselves on being one of the leading scoring teams - a real fun team to watch when we're running and firing," Brey said of his old Notre Dame teams. "Those days are over. We had to do something different. We couldn't run it up and down the floor anymore."
The Fighting Irish will play second-seeded Pitt at 7 p.m. on Thursday night.
Louisville continued its quest to refuse any and all possible momentum by following its emotional victory over No. 1 Syracuse up with a lackluster loss to 11-seed Cincinnati.
The Cardinals led by nine at the half but were outhustled, out-scrapped and out-rebounded in the second 20 minutes and fell in their tournament opener for the third time in five years. U of L was outrebounded 28-9 on the offensive glass and 54-33 overall.
--Luke Harangody (Notre Dame) - 20 points, 10 rebounds
--Edgar Sosa (Louisville) - 28 points
--Lazar Hawyward (Marquette) - 20 points, 9 rebounds
--Dominique Jones (South Florida) - 21 points
"We didn't rebound the ball, so we go home early and waste a lot of boosters' money." --Rick Pitino
Ladies and gentlemen, your top seeds:
#1 Syracuse vs. #8 Georgetown (Noon)
Category: NCAAB
Posted on: March 10, 2010 9:21 pm
'Gody returns and breaks hearts
Seton Hall became the second Big East team to see its bubble popped today (literally...Gonzalez was so pissed...threw his skip-it) as the Pirates were handled by Notre Dame, 68-56, in a game that all but crushed their hopes of gaining an at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament. A night after scoring 109 points in a victory over Providence, the Hall was held to just a point more than half that total.
The other big story of the night was the return of Fighting Irish superstar Luke Harangody, who had missed Notre Dame's last five games with a bone bruise. 'Gody quickly silenced those who had claimed his team is better without him on the floor - the Irish won 4 of 5 games without him - by coming off the bench four minutes into the game and recording 15 points and nine rebounds...at halftime. He finished with 20 points and 10 boards to lead all players in both categories.
Notre Dame moves on to face second-seeded Pitt tomorrow night at 7 p.m.
Over in the Big 12, Oklahoma gave credence to the belief that they had already shut it down for the 2009-2010 season by showing up in body only to be throttled by rival and No. 7 seed Oklahoma State, 81-67. OSU's Keiton Page hit 5-of-8 threes and led all scorers with 24 points.
The Cowboys get No. 2 Kansas State next.
In the only other game of semi-importance(?), Tulsa knocked off Rice 73-62 in a C-USA quarterfinal. The tournament might not be off to a rousing start, but I hear cocky freshman Darius Washington misses 2-of-3 free-throws with zero seconds on the clock and his team down two in the championship game. So that'll probably be worth tuning into.
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1. Re: Calc Script in Essbase StudioJohnGoodwin Dec 10, 2012 4:08 AM (in response to sa1218)Create calc scripts in EAS or Calc Manager.
2. Re: Calc Script in Essbase Studiosa1218 Dec 10, 2012 6:37 AM (in response to JohnGoodwin)Thanks John thanks for the response can you please confirm, if there's no way we can do the same in Essbase Studio. Just want to make if i am missing out any probability.
Thanks Saleem.
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3. Re: Calc Script in Essbase StudioDan V Dec 10, 2012 6:59 AM (in response to sa1218)John is correct; you cannot create calc scripts in Essbase Studio.
You can create member formulas in Essbase Studio, but calc scripts are meant to be created in EAS. Studio is for building outlines and loading data.
4. Re: Calc Script in Essbase Studiosa1218 Dec 10, 2012 7:30 AM (in response to Dan V)Thanks John /Dave
we still have a formula tab in the Essbase properties of Studio. Can you please let me know how this tab is helpful.
For an ASO cube can we use this formula tab to write functions or measure calculations as we do in EAS.
Formula tab does say about Calc scripts to be carried on Dynamic hierarchies, i was just curious to use this but never succeed.
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5. Re: Calc Script in Essbase StudioGlennS_3 Dec 10, 2012 9:08 AM (in response to sa1218)The formula tab allows you to create formulas on specific members within the outline not calc scripts. For the Formula tab to be helpful it is really used on user defined members of a hierarchy (like a scenario varaince) or from an external source associated with specific members.


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E-commerce titan Alibaba forked out $294 million to take a 28 percent stake in Autonavi (NASDAQ:AMAP) in May last year. Today, in a letter to Autonavi executives, Alibaba offered to buy the remaining 72 percent of AutoNavi in an all-cash bid, according to the NYTimes Dealbook blog.
Alibaba is offering a tempting premium. The e-shopping company has tendered a bid of $21 per American depositary receipt, which is above the $16.54 value of Autonavi's shares prior to the start of trading on Monday. An Alibaba representative directed us to the letter here (PDF file).
That bid effectively values Autonavi – which runs China's top smartphone map app and is the official Apple Maps source in China – at about $1.58 billion, which is just over double its current market cap of $767.33 million. The letter, signed by Alibaba director Joseph Tsai, says the proposed deal is "an attractive opportunity" for Autonavi to "realize superior value that is otherwise difficult for Autonavi to achieve as a stand-alone company" in an "increasingly challenging" sector. That's because, Chai goes on, some "well-capitalized internet players in China have become major competitors" to Autonavi. That's a reference to Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), whose mobile map app is poised to overtake Autonavi's as China's top online mapping service.
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Baidu's maps app – which has been aggressive in offering turn-by-turn driving navigation for free, undercutting a part of Autonavi's cash-making business – is central to the search engine giant's mobile strategy that encompasses locally relevant search results, local directories, and daily deal offers. Alibaba wants to counter Baidu's own maps app in these and other areas.
The same goes for arch-rival Tencent (HKG:0700), which is investing strongly in its Tencent Maps, including the impressive 'street view' coverage across major cities in China. Tencent Maps may prove to be a secret weapon in the mobile commerce capabilities of Tencent's messaging app, WeChat. Needless to say, Alibaba doesn't want WeChat to grow in strength in e-commerce, which is an area where it's already heading. Alibaba has its own messaging app, Laiwang, which is struggling to grow in the face of WeChat going mainstream with close to 300 million active users.
And so Autonavi can play a part in helping Alibaba fend off both Baidu and Tencent in a number of key areas.
Autonavi is unlikely to respond to Alibaba's offer immediately as trading is about to begin in New York's markets.
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David Gerber: InFORMation & InNOVAtion
Dr. David Jason Gerber has worked as an architect in the US, Europe and Asia, for the Steinberg Group, Moshe Safdie, Gehry Technologies, and as a project architect for Zaha Hadid, among other firms. He has held appointments at MIT's Media Lab as a research fellow, as well as numerous teaching and research fellowships at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and as Harvard University's Frederick Sheldon Fellow. He has been an instructor at the Architectural Association's Design Research Laboratory in London, Innsbruck University, the EPFL Switzerland and has been a guest speaker and critic at Harvard and MIT. At SCI-Arc, he instructs courses in the Applied Sciences and studios in design, design computation, AEC technologies, and fabrication, emphasizing associative parametric design strategies and Building Information Modeling as a means of design exploration and realization.
Dr. Gerber holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of California Berkeley (1996), a Master of Architecture from the Architectural Association DRL in London (2000) Master of Design Studies (2003) and Doctor of Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2007).


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Democrats React to 'Violence Against Women' Act Passage on Twitter
Sen Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY): "We need to protect all women"
Disappointed House GOP passed watered down version of #VAWA. We need to protect all women, regardless of sexual orientation or background.— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) May 17, 2012
Rep. Jim Langevin (D-RI): "Fails to stop discrimination"
Voted NO on GOP #VAWA. Despite small changes, fails to stop discrimination of #LGBT community & reduces help for legal immigrants— Jim Langevin (@jimlangevin) May 16, 2012
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA): "Who you love should not determine if your assailant is brought to justice."
Disappointed in House #GOP #VAWA passage. Where you live & who you love should not determine if your assailant is brought to justice. -PM— Senator Patty Murray (@PattyMurray) May 16, 2012
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA): "WAWA: the GOP's War on Women Act."
House GOP claims it just passed VAWA -- really, it passed WAWA, the GOP'sWar on Women Act.— Rep. Hank Johnson (@RepHankJohnson) May 16, 2012
Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY): "Shameful" doesn't begin to describe.
"Shameful" doesn't even begin to describe today's politicization of #VAWA. 1.usa.gov/LcylHC— Louise Slaughter (@louiseslaughter) May 16, 2012
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA): "Regardless of what the makeup of that relationship."
#VAWA We need to make sure there's no violence in the home, regardless of what the makeup of that relationship is. tinyurl.com/7h76e9q— Jackie Speier (@RepSpeier) May 16, 2012
Rep. David Price (D-NC): "House GOP is actually picking a partisan fight."
House GOP is actually picking a partisan fight over #VAWA protections for women who are victims of domestic violence & sexual assault.— David E. Price (@RepDavidEPrice) May 16, 2012
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ): "A new low."
It's clear #GOP has #WrongPriorities by looking @ their proposed budgets but voting 4 #VAWA bill that doesn't protect ALL women is a new low— Sen. Robert Menendez (@SenatorMenendez) May 16, 2012
Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY): "Never been a partisan bill until the Tea Party Congress."
Protecting victims from abusers has never been a partisan issue and #VAWA has never been a partisan bill until the Tea Party Congress.— Steve Israel (@RepSteveIsrael) May 16, 2012
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN): "Sad" for Sheila Wellstone.
Sheila Wellstone was a leader in the passage of #VAWA. Sad that Republicans are trying to reverse many of her accomplishments.— Rep. Keith Ellison (@keithellison) May 16, 2012
Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY): "We shouldn't single out people."
For 20 yrs, #VAWA has been bipartisan, why change it now? We shouldn't single out people and make them more vulnerable to violence. #ny17— Eliot Engel (@RepEliotEngel) May 16, 2012
Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-PA): "We can do better."
I voted against the House #VAWA bill because I believe we can do better. Read my full statement here: bit.ly/KzsFEQ— Patrick Meehan (@RepMeehan) May 16, 2012
Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA): "Women's lives are at stake."
House Republicans just voted in favor of HR 4970. This is a MAJOR step backward for our country. Women's lives are at stake. #unacceptable— Rep Cedric Richmond (@RepRichmond) May 16, 2012
Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY): "Destructive and dangerous."
#GOP 's partisan & so-called #VAWA bill is destructive and dangerous. ALL victims should be protected from domestic violence #RealVAWA— Rep. Joe Crowley (@repjoecrowley) May 16, 2012
Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY): "Need a bi-partisan" bill.
We need a bi-partisan #ViolenceAgainstWomenAct that protects all women from violence. #VAWA— Yvette D. Clarke (@YvetteClarke) May 16, 2012
Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA): "Count me as a strong no."
House #GOP #VAWA bill is the #waronwomen – rolling back existing law & empowering abusers. Count me as a strong no. nyti.ms/KmYyxR— Judy Chu (@RepJudyChu) May 16, 2012
Rep. Niki Tsongas (D-MA): "I will not support this flawed version of such historic legislation."
House voting on #VAWA today, I will not support this flawed version of such historic legislation 1.usa.gov/Lc91RP— Niki Tsongas (@nikiinthehouse) May 16, 2012
Rep. John Olver (D-MA): "We cannot afford to go backwards on domestic violence."
Now voting against the House's severely compromised Violence Against Women Act. We cannot afford to go backwards on domestic violence. #VAWA— John W. Olver (@RepJohnOlver) May 16, 2012
Rep. Joe Baca (D-CA): "Need to protect Native American women."
The GOP VAWA bill fails to include many of the key provisions in the Senate bill to protect Native American women— Congressman Joe Baca (@RepJoeBaca) May 16, 2012
Rep. Mark Udall (D-CO): "All women deserve protection from domestic violence."
All women deserve protection from #domesticviolence. Help urge the House to pass the bipartisan Senate #VAWA bill: 1.usa.gov/JdSRpP— Mark Udall (@MarkUdall) May 16, 2012


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Dried, crushed red pepper flakes and a touch of brown sugar add a spark of sweet heat to these tasty greens.
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WCCC's Latrobe plan proceeds
Westmoreland County Community College officials are nearing the purchase of six privately owned properties on which it will build an education center in Latrobe that eventually will be part of the school's new satellite campus system.
WCCC President Daniel Obara said on Thursday that purchases of two of the parcels needed to build the 26,000-square-foot facility have been finalized, while deals for four additional properties are close to completion.
Last month, the college agreed to lease three parcels owned by Latrobe, including two parking lots, needed for the project.
"There will be a few businesses and private residences that will be demolished. Our plan is to have about 500 students at the Laurel Center, in the downtown Latrobe area, contribute to the economic development of the downtown area," Obara said.
The college also might seek to purchase the three public properties from Latrobe. To accomplish that, county commissioners yesterday appointed five members of the college's board of trustees to a reconstituted Westmoreland County Community College Redevelopment Authority.
Obara said the authority, which was created four decades ago when the county purchased property for its main campus near Youngwood, is needed should the college opt to eventually purchase land from Latrobe.
Last year, county commissioners agreed to pay about half of the project's $7 million cost. School officials said construction of the school building is estimated at $6 million, while the property purchases account for the remaining $1 million price tag.
The new school building will replace the outdated Laurel Education Center, which is located in a former Kennametal facility near Latrobe. Obara said the new facility should be open for students by fall 2013.
The Latrobe facility will be similar to the educational center the college opened in 2009 in New Kensington. The Latrobe and New Kensington sites, along with education centers in Waynesburg and Indiana, will be part of a shift in WCCC's operations.
"They could be reclassified as campuses in the next several years. That means students will be able to complete their degrees there instead of having to come to the Youngwood campus," Obara said.
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A holiday brunch begins at 11 a.m. by reservation only at 859-572-0667. The cost for the meal is $15 per person, children 12 and under $6. The day's holiday festivities will include carriage rides, hot cocoa and seasonal treats. There is no cost for carriage rides and shopping.
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(1) Vancouver Canucks vs. (3) Boston Bruins
Seeds: No. 1 (West) vs. No 3 (East); Canucks beat the Blackhawks in seven games in the first round, beat the Predators in six games in the second round and beat the Sharks in five games in the Western Conference Finals. Bruins beat the Canadiens in seven games in the first round, swept the Flyers in the second round and beat the Lightning in seven games in the Eastern Conference Finals.
One of these teams is going to end an epic streak of championship futility. In their 40th season, the Canucks are going for their first Stanley Cup, while the Bruins have gone 39 years since winning their last Stanley Cup in 1972.
Right here, right now: Boston won the only regular-season meeting when Vancouver native Milan Lucic broke a 1-1 tie with a goal with 4:38 left in regulation. He also had a pair of assists in the Bruins' 3-1 victory at Rogers Arena on Feb. 26. Tim Thomas stopped 27 of 28 Canucks shots, allowing only Manny Malhotra's first-period goal to get past him. Roberto Luongo made 22 saves for the Canucks.
Coulda Woulda: Both teams are looking to make history -- no team has won the Stanley Cup after going seven games in the first round since the 1992 Pittsburgh Penguins. The Canucks needed seven games to beat the Blackhawks, while the Bruins needed a Game 7 to get past the Canadiens. The Bruins needed to win a pair of Game 7s to get to their first Final since 1990 – they beat the Lightning 1-0 in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Friday.
How important to win first game: The Canucks have won seven straight Game 1s and have gone on to win five of those series. The Bruins lost Game 1 against Montreal in the first round -- they actually were down 0-2 in that series -- but rallied to win. They won Game 1 against Philadelphia and lost it against Tampa Bay, but the resilience shown in all three rounds has proven to them that win or lose, they're never out of a series.
The Great Unknown: Can Malhotra play? The Canucks' third-line center played a huge role in the team's success this season, but it was assumed the eye injury he suffered in March could be season-ending (if not career-ending). But he's been cleared to practice, with contact. If he gets in the lineup, how big a contribution will he bring? And if Malhotra does play, how will the Bruins' top line of David Krejci, Nathan Horton and Milan Lucic fare Vancouver top checking center? The trio has 20 of Boston's 57 goals this postseason, and while their offense runs three lines deep, Boston depends on its top line to set the tone offensively.
Finish line: Vancouver enters its first Stanley Cup Final since 1994 a well-rested, confident bunch after a week off following its five-game elimination of the Sharks in the Western Conference Final. The Bruins, after surviving Game 7 against the Lightning on Friday, have to fly across the continent to play two games in a hostile, raucous Rogers Arena.
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Friday, September 20, 2013
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LAKE CITY — A prolonged zoning battle over a mobile home park in Lake City is likely headed to Clayton County Superior Court.
A city hearing ended Thursday with a panel of mostly city council members voting to uphold the denial of SL Royal Oak LLC's petition for an occupational tax certificate, which would allow it to do business in the city, on zoning grounds.
Strayer Investments LLC principal Atticus LeBlanc said he wasn't surprised by the decision to uphold the denial, though. Strayer Investments is the parent company of SL Royal Oak.
"I think it would have been silly to expect anything else," said LeBlanc. "We knew coming in here that the city was going to turn us down because we're appealing to the same entity that had denied it from the get-go."
Mobile home parks are forbidden under city zoning laws passed in 2000 to generate economic growth in the city. However, the Royal Oak Mobile Home Park predated that law and could be grandfathered in as long as its new owners obtained an operating license within six months of buying it from the previous licensed owner.
City officials argue the property had been abandoned for a prolonged period of time before SL Royal Oak bought the property. Therefore, they have argued, a grandfather clause protecting the trailer park's noncomforming-use zoning status had lapsed.
The previous operating license expired when the company who obtained it lost the mobile home park to foreclosure and it was bought by Global Commerce Bank in 2011. It wasn't purchased by SL Royal Oak until February.
"It had not been operating for more than six months," said City Clerk Eric Beckman.
Representatives from SL Royal Oak have argued that even when the property went into foreclosure in 2011 — owned first by a bank and later by the FDIC — residents still paid rent on occassion and therefore the special zoning exception still stood.
John Woodham, attorney for SL Royal Oak, also said bills for utilities, such as water and electricity, were being paid throughout that time.
"Those are all indicative of the operation of a business, whether or not they may have been in violation in the city," said Woodham.
Both sides said Thursday they had expected for awhile that this case was destined to go to court. LeBlanc said SL Royal Oak had to go through the due process steps of applying for a license and then appealing the denial of that application.
"We're obviously going to be in a protracted court battle," said LeBlanc.
A secondary but key issue in this fight is whether the mobile home park is a blight on the community because some of the mobile homes are in dilapidated conditions. The walls are gone on at least one trailer and trees have grown up through the hitches in a few others.
There are 53 trailers in the park, but only three of them are occupied.
"This property has been abandoned, left unkempt and in disrepair," said assistant City Attorney Emilia Walker. "It is a blight to this council and to this entire community."
But LeBlanc said he sent surveys to residents living in the neighborhoods surrounding the park. Thirty-eight percent of those residents responded to the surveys, he said.
According to a spreadsheet of survey results, 30 percent of respondents said they were "in favor" of the trailer park being allowed to remain, while 36 percent said marked "Not Opposed (No Conditions) and another 15 percent said they were "Not Opposed With Conditions." Six percent said they were opposed to the trailer park and 12 percent abstained.
LeBlanc also said removing the empty trailers, for which a total of $13,000 in back taxes are owed by the trailers respective owners, could be done. However, he said it would cost SL Royal Oak more than $100,000 for removal and paying the taxes for the absentee trailer owners. Because of their age, many of the trailers would have to be demolished at the park.
He said he's already invested $70,000 into the property. If he were to have the trailers demolished, he doesn't expect to get much money for the trailers.
"That's probably $10,000," said LeBlanc.
Therein lies the risk LeBlanc could face if he has the empty trailers torn down without any sign that the city would suddenly let him have a license to operate a mobile home park with the remaining, occupied trailers.
"Right now, the most I can stand to lose is $70,000," he said. "So, why would I increase the amount at risk without any prospect of a reward farther down the line."
More like this story
- Trailer park at center of fight in Lake City ( May 31, 2013 )
- Florida real estate investors rehab Lovejoy mobile home park ( June 20, 2014 )
- Lake City residents back trailer park opposition ( June 27, 2013 )
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Cottonwood is a census-designated place (CDP) in Shasta County, California, United States. The population was 3,316 at the 2010 census, up from 2,960 at the 2000 census. Cottonwood is a stagecoach town founded in 1882. Cottonwood is equidistant between Redding and Red Bluff , 15 mi in both directions. It is 4 mi south of Anderson. In spring of 1997 Hollywood came to this small quiet town to film "Almost Heroes" starring Matthew Perry and Chris Farley. It was Farley's last film. (more on Wikipedia)