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Its a clever idea, jumping into bed with the environmentalists, because the very people that hate big corporationsMark The Skint firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-57363308330661078922015-12-14T10:08:00.001+00:002015-12-14T10:09:34.467+00:00The Legal Baby TradeIts been announced today that the number of babies being taken off mothers at birth has dramatically increased. There are calls that the mothers need more support, but it will never happen. It doesn't surprise me at all that babies are being taken off mothers, because they are easily sold for adoption. And its all about money these days. Looking at it in the cold light of day, supporting a Mark The Skint email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-26521159204243642122015-11-25T11:55:00.000+00:002015-11-25T11:55:05.256+00:00Immigration and the Terrorist IssueEarlier in the year I had a bit of a Facebook spat with a student friend of my son about the whole EU immigration issue. Basically he was labelling me a racist for saying that the EU shouldn't be letting the huge numbers of people into the EU without proper checks. He was all for letting every single person into the country that wanted to come, irrespective of their actual status. I countered Mark The Skint email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-51958375383919226882015-11-24T14:59:00.000+00:002015-11-24T14:59:35.054+00:00The Impossibility of Dealing with ISISSince the dawn of the Islamic fundamentalist problem in it's many forms, such as the Taliban, Al-Queda and now Islamic State as the BBC like to so-call it, most westerners have been perplexed at the lack of actual definitive action against what most see as a threat to Western society. The problem is the issue is very complex and cannot be resolved without pain... a lot of pain. Both literally inMark The Skint email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-16763594276800830142015-10-17T21:37:00.002+01:002015-10-17T21:37:32.428+01:00More than DangerousWell, my opinion of Jeremy Corbyn seems to have been bang on the money. The Nuclear Deterrent issue that has sprung up has shown what a dangerous man he is. He says he's principled, I say he's a person that will put his so-called principles before the security of the country and the population at large. Just think.... Russian bombers could be on their way, Putin could make it absolutely clear Mark The Skint email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-33124918232656902652015-09-14T00:53:00.002+01:002015-09-14T00:53:47.124+01:00Circling the Plughole...Is what I feel Britain is doing at the moment. The election of Jeremy Corbyn to Labour leader casts me back to the time when Labour were idealistic but had policies as mad as a box of frogs. My real concern is that after decades of plastic politicians, people may actually vote Labour into power. Ideologues are the very worst of people. Margaret Thatcher was one, so was Tony Blair. They were soMark The Skint email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-37994076138504141012015-07-26T12:21:00.000+01:002015-07-26T23:42:40.290+01:00Labour About to Cast themselves Back to the Eighties.I admire the Labour party: When they fuck up, they don't mess about. The past few weeks have been spectacular. So the parliamentary group stuck Jeremy Corbyn on the leadership list mainly to placate the lefties in the party and look what's happened: he's winning in the polls. I'm pretty sure alarm bells and cries of "Oh Fuck!" are resounding round the labour MPs at the moment as they face Mark The Skint firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-15546291457438849012015-05-09T12:27:00.002+01:002015-05-09T15:31:36.906+01:00Like Lazarus, I have Risen...Well, that was interesting... The election, that is. And I just have to comment on it. The Conservatives are handed a majority and are now able to run amok with whatever plans they have for reducing government spending. Brilliant. I may just have to resurrect this blog for good to comment on what a shit option that is. The real story is that voters are wary of a coalition they can't control. IfMark The Skint firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-77460083383668992602014-07-07T20:38:00.000+01:002014-07-07T21:08:08.493+01:00I'm Offski.... Taters!Well, the time has come to stop blogging. I've been thinking about it and really, there isn't much to say any more: politics has gone past parody into the realms of the unbelievable. The wheels keep turning, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The welfare state swells with an ever growing swath of victims, such that one day there will be a cry to eradicate them and no one will shed a Mark The Skint firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-46376554093093789942014-06-09T23:56:00.000+01:002014-06-09T23:56:19.888+01:00Blind Panic on all side over "Trojan Horse" Schools.It was interesting to hear the radio debates on all sides of the so called trojan horse scandal schools. Everyone seems to have an opinion about it. What seems to be clear is there have been moves at the schools to target staff members and make them uncomfortable enough to leave. Whether that's down to them being useless or something more sinister, its hard to say. Forget for a moment that Mark The Skint firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-67952643635414973242014-05-31T15:39:00.000+01:002014-05-31T15:39:35.582+01:00Interesting Moment during This Week's Question Time.There was a fleeting moment during this weeks BBC "Question Time". If you didn't understand the Labour party's disconnect with the voting public, you'd have missed it. But it is important to analyse it. On the panel there was Labour MP Margaret Curran. During the debate, there was an Afro-Carribean guy, who made some salient points. As an obvious immigrant, he stated he'd voted UKIP because of Mark The Skint email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-16737288159973296862014-05-27T01:55:00.002+01:002014-05-27T01:55:53.390+01:00UKIP Voting: More than a Protest.Its pretty clear that the UKIP landslide in recent elections proves that the main three parties are completely disconnected from the wishes of the voting public. Its been interesting to listen to the various party leader's responses. First is the Prime Minister, David Cameron. His response is summarised as "We've promised an referendum on Europe and if you're all good and vote for me, you'll Mark The Skint firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-64751940636372918132014-04-22T23:56:00.002+01:002014-04-22T23:57:33.762+01:00UKIP: Smelling a Rat?Nigel Farage seems to be leading a rather charmed life recently. He's shrugged off various gaffes, rumours of affairs and now the fact he employs his German wife as a secretary. He did OK in the debate with Nick Clegg, but failed to nail home the point that the EU as an institution is expensive, unnecessary, devisive, dangerous and empire-building. So why is he so feigned by the media? I'm Mark The Skint email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-25029115383681305642014-04-14T21:03:00.002+01:002014-04-14T21:04:41.682+01:00Testing the Water...It seems the Ukrainian situation refuses to die down, with more Eastern states falling prey to armed groups taking control of government buildings. It may well be that Russia is looking to mop up all of the Ukrainian states East of the Dneiper river. In fact I said this my to friends when Russian irregular forces started to do the same thing in Crimea. The thing is, Crimea isn't directly linkedMark The Skint firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-47106158085030381482014-04-09T22:51:00.001+01:002014-04-10T00:01:03.740+01:00Maria Miller HAD to Quit.She had to quit, because she's a classic example of the gulf between those in Westminster and those outside. Those of us outside know the seriousness with which stiffing our employer for tens of thousands of pounds in expenses will be taken. We know that most likely the Police will be involved and we also know the judge prosecuting the case will not let us walk free by paying back only 5 grand Mark The Skint email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-61918006037717134402014-04-02T20:35:00.003+01:002014-04-02T21:12:32.658+01:00Thoughts on the Nick Clegg Vs Nigel Farage Debate this evening.I was interested this evening to see Nick Clegg basically badmouthing the EU, in an attempt to prop up the status quo. He lied about the amount of EU legislation implemented in the UK, using the weasel-wordy qualification "Primary" Legislation in order to reduce the amount of EU-derived legislation to 7 percent. I'm afraid Farage failed sucessfully to pull him up on that specific qualification Mark The Skint firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-76224302408126095632014-03-14T22:42:00.000+00:002014-03-14T22:42:05.570+00:00Dark Times Ahead.Not sure why, but I get the feeling that the world is going to get really interesting soon. Something is afoot and I'm not sure what part all the pieces play. Mark The Skint email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-34647070643650568952014-03-05T19:00:00.001+00:002014-03-05T19:00:17.113+00:00Terrorists in UkraineIts funny: all the supposed "Russian" soldiers that have annexed the Crimea are wearing full battle dress but no insignia. Therefore they belong to no recognised regiment which means they can be deemed armed insurgents or terrorists. Its about time Ukraine treated them as such. Russia says they are "self-defence" forces. Well the Ukraine forces are the only legitimate forces that can defend Mark The Skint firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-32972684256538115482014-02-24T19:32:00.000+00:002014-02-24T19:32:28.255+00:00Tanks on Wednesday?So the new polititical reality dawned in Ukraine at the exact same time the Russian leadership were distracted, enjoying a Vodka or two wrapping up the Sochi Winter Olympics. Now the chill wind is blowing from the East in that Russia is seeing more and more of it's buffer zone turn Westwards. Not to mention a huge swathe of endless flat land. Perfect for the tank battles of WW2 and prime for Mark The Skint email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-7954912315470503682014-02-23T23:17:00.002+00:002014-02-23T23:17:57.764+00:00Ukraine: Like a Moth to a Flame.I pity the people of Ukraine: They currently have a choice. But instead of doing their own thing, being independent, they're running headlong towards an autocratic regime, the only difference is which point of the compass they prefer. Maybe after decades of being part of the USSR its wired into their psyche. But if they join Russia, they're hostage to a regime that they haven't elected. If Mark The Skint firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-38810309170304206532014-02-15T22:07:00.001+00:002014-02-15T22:07:24.009+00:00Flood Fiasco Shines Spotlight on Political Failings.Well it seems that more and more people are sharing my viewpoint that the Environment Agency's agenda of protecting wildlife at the expense of buildings and people needs to change. Still no spotlight on the amount of influence that EU directives have had on the way the Environment Agency work, but then no-one in the media has the balls to pull up the curtain and look behind the facade of Mark The Skint firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-51915824896388529582014-02-07T23:18:00.000+00:002014-02-08T00:06:35.063+00:00More Flood Misery Exposes Enviroment Agency AgendaThanks to amounts of rain you only see every 50 years or so, we have massive floods in the South and South-West. Cue much gnashing and wailing as to why this not particularly unique weather event has caused so much devastation. The people on the Somerset levels expressed an opinion that the lack of dredging in their respective rivers was the cause and they may be right. But I mean, they sound Mark The Skint email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-57416430697345218332014-01-16T23:11:00.001+00:002014-01-16T23:11:05.425+00:00Who the Fuck is Michael Fallon?Its been announced today that Michael Fallon is now the Minister for Portsmouth. Obviously living in the area and working in Portsmouth (not at the dockyard I might add) as well as having links to the yachting fraternity I'm a bit concerned at his appointment. He seem s to be put into "difficult" political situations in order to calm stormy waters and keep a lid on unpalatable political Mark The Skint firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-39659448096498686792014-01-12T00:16:00.000+00:002014-01-12T00:16:04.518+00:00A "Scandal" That Links Between Climate Change and Floods Isn't Researched?I don't think so. This BBC report asserts that Professor Myles Allen from Oxford University says that more should be done to pay him to generate bunkum computer programs which he admits can't assess all the variables, to link climate change to flooding. Basically, yes, he wants us to pay him money to link flooding to climate change. The admission is there and he'll work damn hard to prove thereMark The Skint email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-22593182321896582062013-12-29T19:05:00.000+00:002013-12-29T20:05:52.946+00:00Government Size Nines and Runaway Inflation.I did blog a few years back that thanks to quantative easing that when the recovery came, we'd be staring at runaway inflation. Well, it looks like my fears are now gaining traction in the mainstream and that with even a slight (hundredths of a percent) improvement in the economy, the debate instantly flips to keeping a lid on inflation. Well sorry, it won't happen. 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Colton is a supply chain business intelligence and data analytics executive leading a successful consulting practice and software start-up based in Atlanta, GA. He co-founded Agillitics to develop technology solutions and provide consulting services to empower people to make data driven decisions, be more innovate, and continuously improve and enable operations. The firm is especially focused on applying best practices and innovative tools to the supply chain, including procurement and sourcing, inventory optimization, distribution center operations, order fulfillment, transportation management and planning, logistics planning, network design, and reverse logistics.
Colton worked as a supply chain consultant with Manhattan for several years. In this capacity, he implemented Manhattan's IBM Cognos-based business intelligence solution (SCI) for clients around the United States, including AAA Cooper Transportation, FEMA, Nike, Petco, and The Container Store. He implemented the reporting solution alongside almost all of Manhattan's other software offerings (e.g., WMOS, WMi, LM, IO, and TMS) to deliver robust reporting capabilities to his clients. Additionally, Colton was part of the first implementation of Total Cost to Serve, which is a new "big data" product. Manhattan awarded Colton with the 2012 Manhattan Choice Award for Outstanding Innovation in recognition of his customer focus and abilities both to solve challenging problems and to offer creative solutions to help clients meet their business needs.
After working at Manhattan, Colton joined Genuine Parts Company to manage its supply chain intelligence application, which serves multiple GPC subsidiaries. At GPC, Colton built a consolidated reporting environment to service multiple distribution centers for four subsidiaries, the corporate inventory optimization solution for GPC's auto parts group, and inventory optimization for two other lines of business. He was responsible for working with business users to gather requirements, and he then develops reports, alerts, dashboards, and analytical cubes to improve business processes and to meet supply chain objectives. Within the first few months of starting at GPC, Colton upgraded the existing environments, eliminated obsolete content, actualized critical BI needs, and implemented a heavily customized ETL and data warehouse. Colton worked with business users to develop innovative content and to roll on new users to use supply chain data, which empowers decision makers with the knowledge they need to make effective decisions.
Colton graduated magna cum laude from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, with a B.S. in industrial engineering and a minor in reliability and maintainability engineering. At UT, Colton was a part of the university's Chancellor's Honors Program and was a recipient of the Tennessee Scholars Scholarship. As a young professional, Colton served as the conference chair for the 2011 Institute of Industrial Engineers Mid-Atlantic Student Conference held at UT. He also gained valuable work experience through several part time jobs and internships, such as a summer internship at Schlumberger.
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A different prospective
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che scatto! sei spledida.
really nice angle and pose here.
no pantieessss LOLL
no pantieessss LOLL
My My Mai....
Cool angle! The sun makes a neat effect here!
You are really really perfect T_T So beautiful.
wow, qualcuno si sentirà male prima o poi
Damn that Fan...
Love the photo
but damn that fan
Love the photo
but damn that fan
Nippon Ichi!
nice cosplay! i love it
Awesome ^^
Nice photo
Fantastic as always.
Such a gorgeous Mai <3
very nice.
Could you please move that fan a bit lower please?
wow you look hot as always. but i have to ask, cause its right there, your wearing underwear right? can't see any waistbands.
This pic looks new (or in I haven't seen it before), have you been holding out on your fans/admirers bella? What does she see in Andy Bogard? In the anime he seemed annoyed by her affections....WTF?!
Because in anime guys are not governed by hormone, they are governed by "I must revenge XYZ" or "I must protect my bro" etc. LOL
Not so in real life...
Not so in real life...
YAY good to see my favorite cosplayer again
wow....bwlla tu e la foto
you are more beautiful than you can imagine
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all these pictures of this set (with these 2 girls) are just AMAZING ... so romantic and artistic and stylish .... awesome work!!
This one is so unbelievably cute!
This is so cuuuuuuuuuuuuuute !!!
MAAAWWWW!!!! I missed your Traynshep pieces!!! Lovely pose and pants!!
Love it.
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Three people were injured Friday night by a speeding sports utility vehicle that hit their car after they stopped to let a man cross the street.
The Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department apprehended a murder suspect leaving a Turlock store on Wednesday night after a woman recognized him from Crime Stoppers.
The Turlock man believed to have been behind the wheel in a collision that claimed the lives of three people from one family, has officially been charged with murder.
A downtown Turlock bank was robbed by a lone suspect Tuesday morning.
A Turlock man stopped for shoplifting arrow tips from Walmart on Monday was found in possession of Shuriken knives, also known as ninja throwing stars, the Turlock Police Department reported.
A 75-year-old Turlock woman was critically injured Friday night when she was struck by a car while crossing W. Main Street.
A family out for an evening stroll around their Turlock neighborhood was struck by a suspected drunken driver who lost control of his speeding vehicle, resulting in three fatalities Saturday night.
Three are dead tonight after a car jumped a sidewalk and hit a family walking in a Turlock neighborhood.
The Stanislaus County Sheriff's Office has joined many other law enforcement agencies nationwide by partnering with The Omega Group and implementing CrimeMapping.
Two California Highway Patrol enforcement periods cracking down on distracted driving resulted in more than 600 tickets been issued in the Central Valley.
A woman who went for a skinny dip in an apartment complex pool found herself donning handcuffs after residents complained to police.
The Merced County Sheriff's Department has released video footage of a vehicle believed to have been used in a fatal drive-by shooting in Delhi earlier this year.
A 44-year-old man was taken into custody for public intoxication after he was found walking naked along a Turlock street.
A teenager tried to steal a cart full of alcohol from a Turlock store wearing a stolen Halloween mask Monday afternoon.
A quick-thinking witness aided police officers in the capture of three teen burglary suspects.
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A Hilmar man accused of bilking thousands of dollars from Foster Farms while working as a maintenance manager pled guilty Monday to mail fraud.
The Turlock man who was behind the wheel in a fatal collision that struck two people out for a walk, claiming the life of one ...
The Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department is reminding residents to have a game plan in place for Super Bowl Sunday if their plans involve alcohol.
The Turlock Police Department is investigating a carjacking that occurred in downtown Turlock Thursday night.
A Turlock father was arrested Wednesday when he was caught allegedly using his son to shoplift a bottle of cologne.
A Turlock man working as a high school teacher in Los Banos was taken into custody Wednesday on allegations he had sexual relations with two ...
The Turlock Irrigation District is warning consumers that scammers are attempting to collect money or access people's personal information by posing as TID representatives.
The Turlock Police department is seeking the public's help in identifying a suspect who stole more than a thousand dollars worth of merchandise from ...
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So, what do you guys think of Tuesday's new shows? Is Cane sweet enough? What the devil do you think about Reaper? Do you love the latter as much as I do?
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I don't know about you, but I'm starting to think that Orange County is becoming a hot bed of hot dog huts.
A few weeks ago, Berkeley Dog opened a second Orange County hot dog eatery in Brea. The first one opened in Mission Viejo in May -- causing a stir among Bay Area natives.� Berkeley Dog is Orange County's only seller of the popular sausages served at the iconic Top Dog in Northern California.
On Saturday (Aug. 21), the Brea location will celebrate its "grand opening" with a free "all beef frankfurter" to the first 1,000 customers.
The restaurant opens at 11:30 a.m.
Address: 215 W. Birch Street
Note: Every Wednesday, Berkeley Dog sells a $1.99 frankfurter.
Other recent hot dog invaders to Orange County: Pink's at Knott's Berry Farm, Carm's Coneys at Irvine Spectrum Center, Just Hot Dogs in Westminster and Pee Wee's Famous Hot Dogs and Hamburgers in Huntington Beach.
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OSHA News Release - (Archived) Table of Contents
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited AEPCo in Osceola, Ark., with proposed penalties of $137,250 for alleged safety and health violations resulting from a complaint inspection, announced the U.S. Department of Labor.
AEPCo, whose controlling corporate office Commodore Medical Services of Tennessee is located in Nashville, employs about six employees at its warehouse facility at 100 Industrial Road in Osceola.
Employees pick up medical waste from hospitals, medical clinics, research facilities, funeral homes and veterinary clinics then transport the waste to the company's warehouse utilizing an adjacent city-owned incinerator.
According to Paul J. Hansen, Jr., OSHA's Little Rock area director, the alleged violations were discovered during a complaint inspection conducted between Aug. 4, 1999 and Jan. 21, 2000. OSHA investigators determined that the company failed to protect employees from potentially fatal bloodborne pathogens. Bloodborne pathogens can be contracted through contact with blood or other potentially infectious human tissues.
OSHA's bloodborne pathogen standard requires that employees be protected from potential disease by a comprehensive program that includes safe work practices, personal protective equipment, training, and medical care following an exposure.
The company was cited for 15 serious violations, three willful violations, and five other than serious violations.
A serious violation is one in which there is a substantial probability that death or serious physical harm could result. The 15 serious violations consisted of the following:
- Failure to provide adequate toilet facilities
- Failure to provide suitable emergency eyewash/shower facilities
- Failure to properly store material to prevent sliding or collapse of the material
- Failure to adequately guard belts and pulleys
- Failure to properly ground electrical equipment
- Failure to adequately guard openings in electrical boxes
- Failure to provide covers for electrical junction boxes
- Failure provide adequate hand washing facilities for employees exposed tobiohazardous waste.
- Failure to prohibit employees from ingesting food and drink in areas where there was likelihood of exposure to biohazardous wastes
- Failure to provide personal protective equipment and ensure its use
- Failure to ensure the worksite was maintained in a clean or sanitary condition
- Failure to ensure that the health care professional evaluating employees after exposure to biohazardous wastes was provided with appropriate information and records
- Failure to adequately monitor and train employee exposed to formaldehyde
- Failure to develop, implement, and maintain an adequate written hazard communication program
A willful violation exists under the OSH Act where the evidence shows either an intentional violation of the OSH Act or plain indifference to its requirements. The three willful violations consisted of the following:
- Failure to ensure regulated biohazardous waste was placed in proper containers for handling, transport, shipping or storage
- Failure make Hepatitis B vaccination available to employees
- Failure to ensure that employees with occupational exposure participated in a training program
The five other-than-serious violations consisted of the following:
- Failure to provide adequate information to employees wearing respirators
- Failure to institute a continuing and effective vermin extermination program
- Failure to implement and maintain an adequate written exposure control plan
- Failure to ensure regulated waste was placed in appropriately labeled containers
- Failure to provide employee with a copy of the evaluating health care professional's written opinion
Hansen stated that it is "incumbent upon employers to develop, implement and maintain safety and health programs that will provide protection to employees from the hazards that may be present in their workplace." Employers or workers who have questions concrning safety and health may contact the Little Rock Area Office at (501) 324-6291. They may also take advantage of the free consultation services offered by the Arkansas Department of Labor Consultation Service at (501) 682-4520.
AEPCo has 15 working days from receipt of the citations to comply with the citations, request an informal conference with the area director or contest the citations before the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission.
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The president has encouraged mental health professionals to alert authorities to high-risk individuals who should not have access to guns. "He will clarify that doing so is not in violation of patient privacy laws. He also wants to dispel the idea that Obamacare prevents doctors from talking to patients about guns," says Strasser.
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First let's look at some of the elements that are going to seriously affect the endgame this week.
First let's look at some of the elements that are going to seriously affect the endgame this week.
The new endgame
I talked not so long ago about the game's current endgame state, which consists of two instances and three fights followed by one big instance. (I am hesitant to call it a "raid" in the traditional sense, even if it's large enough to qualify.) Patch 2.1 will change that pretty significantly, so much that we don't yet know how thoroughly things will be shaken up.
We know that there will be four new endgame instances: one new four-person instance, two "hard modes" of existing instances, and the Crystal Tower. The Tower clocks in south of Coil in terms of progression, but Yoshida's mentioned possibly requiring a relic, which would mean it's not much south. The other three instances could fit in literally anywhere, especially as there's currently a dearth of content that's harder than Garuda but easier than Titan.
And then there are the new Primal battles, which raise all sorts of further questions. Case in point: the resurrection of the King Moggle Mog battle. The Good King dropped several weapons that are still floating around now in 2.0, some of which look pretty darn nifty, so I'm happy to have the chance to acquire them again. But the question is... if they're level 70, is there going to be much point? The Morbid Mogblade is arguably a bit better than Garuda's Gaze, but if the encounters are equally difficult, there's not nearly as much point to having both, and if one is more difficult...
Well, look at how many people farm Garuda for weapons compared to Titan and the point is pretty much made.
Furthermore, we have even harder Primal fights coming, and they have to occupy another spot within the hierarchy, still lower than Coil, which is supposed to serve as the apex. Aside from imagining the inherent horror of a harder Titan fight, I'm wondering about the rewards. Yes, they could be the existing hard mode fights with a lick of paint, but what would they reward players with? If it's just a matter of more weapons at once, that is both great and not terribly enticing, since it means the fights can't be that much harder. They have to drop something, but what?
Of course, we know there are gaps in the curve right now. Right now there are dropped sets for level 60 and then level 90 with nothing in between. (You can buy Darklight to ease the gap, obviously.) Weapons are much harder to acquire than they need to be. All of this will ultimately ease out the gap between the level 50 gear you start off with at the cap and the gear requirements of Coil; it's the where that's still ambiguous. If I had to bet, I'd guess 80 armor from Crystal Tower, 80 weapons from extreme primals, 65 armor from the new dungeons, and possibly some 65 weapons in one of the hard modes.
Punch your friends in the face
I am excited about PvP for one reason and one reason only: that armor. I want that armor for vanity purposes so badly. Even if I can never put it on when vanity slots are introduced, I want it just to wear when roleplaying around. It is so important to me.
All right. Deep breath. I'm excited about it for more reasons than that, actually, because PvP is important to the long-term health of a game. It's the first step toward creating a really healthy endgame through breadth rather than purely ascension. If it's the last step, we might have a problem, but I don't think that's the case for reasons I will elaborate on in a moment.
Right now, once you hit the level cap there's a pretty clear path for what to do. You can weave in other things if you want, but it all boils down to "kill primals and get myth." Once you've got the armor you want for the jobs you want, what more is there to do? Level another job or two? There's one progression track.
PvP gives you a chance to do something different. PvP makes it clear that you could focus on getting another job in full Darklight, or you could start working on getting your primary job's PvP set. Or perhaps you have a job that you only want to use in PvP and another that you use in PvE. I kind of suspect that Warriors are going to be beasts in PvP, so you could easily trick yourself out in high-end Warrior PvP gear while your Gladiator is in full AF+1.
We're starting off with a pretty boring PvP mode -- four-on-four arena deathmatch -- but in some ways I think that's actually better for the game. One of the big problems that crops up is that arena combat comes in later, when people have already spent a lot of time dealing with different maps and areas and specific PvP modes. A flat arena allows people to learn how the various classes pair off against one another in the closest thing there is to a neutral setting. No gimmicks for now, and you can learn all of the gimmicks in settings that actually require them.
Next week we'll cover, housing, treasure hunting, and dailies in one go. Wish me luck. Until then, you can leave feedback in the comments down below or via mail to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Funny, I saw this in the newspaper in a bathroom stall and thought "cool, illustration in a newspaper. wonder who did it?" And then I see it in my Devwatch... Haha. Nice job.
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Accounts Receivable Financing Pros and Cons
Are you a small business owner thinking about using accounts receivable funding for your business? As a small business owner, you likely know first-hand the struggle of acquiring capital to finance the growth of your business or meet those cash flow shortages. There may come a time that traditional small business financing such as loans and credit will be limited or not within reach. At times like these, some business owners will turn to accounts receivable financing. Is accounts receivable financing right for your business?
It is not without reason that accounts receivable financing has been consistently gaining in popularity. The benefits of this type of financing for small businesses are sometimes too good to resist. Is your company ready to join the increasing number of companies resorting to accounts receivable financing to meet the immediate requirement of funds for the further growth of their businesses? This article will help you determine the answer.
First of all, to understand if this type of financing is right for your business, you will need to spend some time to fully understand what it is. Factoring is one of the oldest forms of commercial finance. Accounts receivable financing is a process that involves the selling of outstanding invoices or receivable at a discount to a specialized finance or factoring company (usually called "the factor") that will assume the risk on the receivables and in return will provide a quick influx of cash into your business.
The amount of value assigned to the account will depend on the "age" of a receivable. An invoice that is current will pay more than one that is a month or two old. Accounts receivable that are more than 90 days old are typically not financed. Why not? These invoices present too high of a risk. They are already "late" and may not be paid. Accounts receivable financing has also been referred to as accounts receivable factoring or accounts receivable funding.
To better understand factoring, let's put some numbers in an example. Suppose for a moment that your small business has $100,000 in receivables. A factor will advance funds to you at a certain percentage of the total amount. This amount often ranging from 75 to 80 percent is based on a variety of factors including the age of a receivable as discussed earlier and the quality of the receivables. If you have customers like Costco or Walmart, then the percentage will be much higher. Once the receivables are paid off, you will get the difference between the face amount and the reserve.
While accounts receivable funding may be a new concept to you, it has been a viable funding source for a long time. It has both pros and cons, and once you clearly understand what it is, it's time to think about the good and bad for your business. These are still pretty tough economic times for many small and medium sized businesses. Just having the option of accounts receivable funding may be music to your ears, especially when traditional lenders have been feeding you a chorus of no's. This type of financing can seem like a very easy and logical way to finance operations, particularly in an environment where financing is difficult to secure. And when your back is against the wall and there are few alternatives available, it may be an appropriate choice for some.
Pros of Accounts Receivable Financing
First let's look at the pros, sometimes it's best to look at the bright side! There are both pros and cons for every business financing option, and accounts receivable funding is no exception. It is important to weigh out all of your funding options before you make your decision and evaluate any and all flaws. Some businesses may benefit more than others by choosing to use a factor while others may benefit by seeking help from alternative funding options. There are indeed many benefits of this type of financing for businesses of all sizes in a variety of financial situations.
Fast Cash
Your company may need immediate cash for a variety of reasons such as buying raw materials, renovations, or payroll. Of course, cash usually comes from clients and customers who pay for your goods and services. However, if these payments are delayed, your business needs to look for other ways to cover these expenses. So if raising cash is an immediate need and you are having a tough time borrowing through banks or raising funds by issuing debt or equity, accounts receivable factoring can be an effective alternative resource. Believe it or not, it is possible that you can receive cash in about five to 10 days. In some cases, it could be within one to two days.
Free Up Working Capital
Like most businesses, your business likely has the majority of its capital tied up in your inventory. Accounts receivable funding can quickly free up some working capital, so you can use it to grow your business. That great deal on inventory won't pass you by if you have the cash ready and waiting. You can use the instant cash to generate growth by hiring another salesperson who will bring in more business. Or buying an advertisement that will reach new customers. Or buying a piece of equipment that will accelerate production.
Time Savings
Accounts receivable factoring can save you time and effort that would otherwise be spent on collecting money due from customers. Since most factoring arrangements will include the process of obtaining the money from customers, it's one less thing you will have to worry about. Outsourcing your accounts receivable management to another company frees up your resources to focus on other more productive (and lucrative) activities such as selling. The factor will take care of getting the money they definitely want to get paid. And you can use the time and money normally spent on collections and redirect it to making money and building your business! Sales, marketing, and client development can all use your excess time and money.
No Collateral Required
Factoring is a type of unsecured financing. It won't require collateral from your personal or business assets. You really don't want to put up your house, car, inventory, or place of business up as collateral for a loan. Those are the things that matter most to you, and you really don't want to jeopardize having them taken away. While most traditional lending options will require some sort of collateral from you, accounts receivable funding will not. So keep the things that matter most, and get your much needed infusion of cash from a funding source that doesn't require them!
Retain Ownership
The last thing that you want to give up is a part of your business. You have worked hard to start it, run it, and keep it solvent your way. Often small businesses and start-ups have to rely heavily on outside investors in order to keep running and growing. While this might seem like a good idea, it does force you to give up a percentage of your company each time you go back for more funding. With accounts receivable factoring, though, you will retain sole control of your company while still getting the capital you need to operate.
Cons of Accounts Receivable Financing
While there are a large number of benefits to factoring your accounts receivable, there are just as many potential drawbacks to using this method to finance your small business. Make sure that you educate yourself about the cons of accounts receivable financing before committing your business to this type of financing. Just knowing what could go wrong will help you make the right choice.
There is a certain "stigma" that goes along with factoring. The stigma is not that it is fair or just; instead, factoring is a viable and legal financing option. Unfortunately, many people think it's a business's last resort before failure. One of the most common thing small business owners don't know about factoring is that their customers are notified when a factor takes the receivables over. The customers will no longer be paying you, but rather paying the factoring company. And it may unjustly make them think that you are having cash flow problems.
Loss of Control
While factoring will allow you to keep your interest share in your business, you may lose some control of certain processes. Unfortunately, what happens once you accept cash for your receivables is that you do give up a measure of control. As an example, the factoring company could deny your ability to do business with a particular customer or group of customers because of a poor credit history or rating.
As the old adage says, nothing in life is free. And as a savvy business owner, you know that financing of any type is never free! While it may be necessary to have immediate access to cash, obtaining cash using factoring may come at higher price than loans. Factoring companies usually keep between one and four percent of a receivable as their fee. Additionally, they can (and will) charge interest on the cash advance, typically at least the prime rate plus a percentage or two. While month to month it may not seem like all that much, it all can add up to more than 30% in annual interest.
Contract Length
If you decide that accounts receivable funding is for you, you will enter into a contract with a factor. Unfortunately, the length of your contract may not be as short as you would like. Some of the agreements can be quite lengthy—up to two or three years in some cases—and that's not always the best thing for businesses. But the market has been changing and shorter contracts are now becoming available and acceptable. Make sure you negotiate the contract length with your factor!
Rate is Based on Your Clients
Like any business, you have your share of good and bad clients. Not all of your clients can be like Walmart. If your business has an unfortunate number of slow-paying clients or has some clients with less than stellar credit, keep in mind that these factors can affect the discount rate that you pay to the factoring company. If your clients are determined to be unreliable or do not meet a factor's standards, you may also receive a lower percentage up front. It may even cause you and your business to be ineligible for funding through this method.
Factors are Not Collection Agencies
Remember that factors do not act as collection agencies, so if a client does not pay their outstanding balance by a predetermined date or they fail to pay altogether, this will likely increase the total cost you owe a factor in addition to adding to your current workload. Before you consider factoring as an option for a cash advance, make sure you are aware of your clients' payment history. Although factoring services can be beneficial for various businesses, it may not be the best decision for you if you cannot rely on your clients.
All companies—big and small—need access to credit in order to support their inventory, meet payroll and pay their day to day operating expenses. And all companies will have times where they need money quickly. Unfortunately, given the current economic downturn, credit has become so tight that many small companies find that have but few financing options remaining. However, accounts receivable funding is one option that has allowed companies to weather this current economic storm. Educating yourself about the pros and cons of this type of financing will help you decide whether this is the right choice for your business to pursue.
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Often when we look at the news, the world just seems so random and chaotic and full of meanness and terrible things. But sometimes, we come across something wonderful, like the fact that nineties superstars Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, of Sonic Youth, sit at home on Monday nights in their house in Northampton watching Gossip Girl.
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In a forum post today, Sony Online has laid out a plan for the first major patch to PlanetSide 2. The 22-point outline includes changes to how XP is earned in PS2, weapon and UI adjustments, the addition of SMGs as a weapon type, and a promise to improve game performance, "particularly for lower end GPUs."
Returning from vacation, PlanetSide 2 Creative Director Matt Higby writes that the January update is meant to "address some of the biggest issues we're seeing come up over and over again." "While 2012 was the year that Planetside 2 launched, 2013 is the year when we're opening up the afterburners and aiming for the stars," says Higby.
The patch won't address all of the critiques of PS2's passionate community, whose concerns range from an under-emphasis on teamplay to an " overabundance of vehicles ," as one player put it. But news of the patch does seem to be received extremely well so far, based on the reaction on the PlanetSide Subreddit . 'They. Fixed. EVERYTHING," one commenter writes .
Our biggest hope at PCG, I think, is that PlanetSide 2 will find a way to make fighting in losing or heavily-contested battles more attractive and eliminate the creeping feeling that you're ruining your kill/death ratio by being where your faction needs you most. Changes to the spawn system seem to address this: the January 30 patch will make newly-spawned players temporarily invulnerable, make newly-spawned players worth less XP to kill, and add new, "less campable" spawn buildings.
Higby's mention of "tunnel systems" being added as a level design element on Amp and Tech facilities is particularly interesting, too. Here's the outline provided by SOE:
Honestly, I'm surprised that they intend to deploy all of these changes by the end of the month. Mighty encouraging.


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According to some screenshots sent to BGR from an Apple source, it looks like Apple is internally testing iOS 4.3 multitouch gestures on iPhone 4 as well as iPad. From the screenshots, it looks like 4 or 5 fingers gestures are the same as the iPad in the first beta of iOS 4.3. Apple's willing to remove home button from next generation devices, Engadget thinks that the iPhone 4 could have a bigger screen or it could just be placeholder text from iPad and less fingers will be required if it goes prime time.


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Arguably the most memorable image of the trip was Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeting Mr. Obama with a long, deep embrace. This wasn't done only for the cameras. These men—despite having met in September, and despite Mr. Obama's notorious aloofness—appear to have struck up a warm bond. We can expect, at least during the two years left in Mr. Obama's presidency, that they will try to capitalize on this personal chemistry to help better the bilateral relationship. Read More »
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While in India this month, I was struck by the poor air quality. Walking around New Delhi sometimes felt like being in a smoky house. The air seemed much worse than what I remembered experiencing in China last year.
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How it Appearsby Jarrett Earnest
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!
—Dolly Parton
The question of making or talking about art is really one of how to engage with the world, to deal with everything from watching sunlight move across a lawn to having sex on the kitchen floor. Given this expansive definition I find it is most useful to understand art as a form of playing: a special kind of social behavior. Art historian Johan Huizinga wrote about play as a foundational cultural force, or a "significant form" (using Clive Bell's term for art) that "stands outside the immediate satisfaction of wants and appetites."Most importantly, playing relies upon an agreement within a group in order for its action to have meaning. There is no game or fun if we refuse to play along; everyone involved has to be wholly invested, just as a painting must be looked at in order for it to have a purpose. When we become pessimistic about the art world it is helpful to think of it as a playground: nothing more or less than a number of people who care about art, and, on some level, want to be there. That fact alone should give everyone some feeling of generosity.
When Huizinga says play "adorns" life, he is calling on metaphors like those used to discuss "style"—elements that embellish. Sontag famously wrote, "Practically all metaphors for style amount to placing matter on the inside, style on the outside," but "it would be more to the point to reverse the metaphor." Far from being superfluous, she shows there is no outside of the appearance of things. When Dolly Parton, for instance, performs the iconic version of herself with wigs and big fake breasts, the way she looks is not trivial decoration, not separate from her "meaning," but the very joyous medium through which she communicates her artistry. To this extent, making or writing about art is similarly an aesthetic performance unto itself, the totality of which is style, i.e. how the object or the text reveals itself to you. A particularly beautiful example of this intersection, where artwork and criticism work together, attending to the disclosures of "object to viewer" and then "writer to reader," is Frank O'Hara on David Smith's sculptures: "They present a total attention and they are telling you that that is the way to be. On guard. In a sense they are benign, because they offer themselves for your pleasure. But beneath that kindness is a warning: don't be bored, don't be lazy, don't be trivial and don't be proud. The slightest loss of attention leads to death."
The advice O'Hara gets from these sculptures is something everyone should listen to now, paying close attention to how he gets it and then shares it with us. Huizinga describes play as "outside the range of good and bad," subject to judgment only according to its own logic, a principle I think would move art criticism along quite a bit.
"Evaluations" of art filled with fiery declarations are very fun at parties but are always provisional and not nearly as meaningful to the ongoing conversation as saying something that tries to open up fresh understanding.
What is thoroughly uninteresting about the majority of writing happening right now, both scholarship and criticism, is its predictability and artlessness: CAA papers and magazine reviews are both written in the generic language of the press release, an easy style born of commerce. Overwhelmingly, this approach to making, showing, and discussing art is NO FUN, which really comes out of the problem of people making a living. Imagine if everyone who wrote art criticism had the goal of playfully disturbing and delighting their smartest and most interesting friends: the art world would be in much better shape. We might all actually want to read what was being said about art, and relish its delivery, instead of slogging through the requisite magazines as a kind of professional duty. "Play to order," Huizenga tells us "is no longer play"; this is precisely the art world's transition from intellectual and aesthetic playground to routine work space. The postmodern generation got everything it asked for but nothing it wanted.
One of the nicest things about our present moment is seeing everyone nervous because they don't know what's coming next. Artists and writers should obviously be able to make a living (which we all hope to do) but not at the loss of freedom or joy or real looking and thinking that an atmosphere of commercial machinery demands. For me and my friends the future of art lay in delighting and disturbing each other, and in using that as a way to actively—playfully—make sense of being in the world. Whether these conversations will happen within the institutions that have erected themselves around "art" for the last half century is another matter—perhaps art and its interesting discourses will have to slip out the back doors, exist someplace else for a while, letting the corporate leviathans consume themselves.
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JARRETT EARNEST is an artist and writer living in New York. He is a co-director of the art space 1:1 located in the Lower East Side, and is presently at work on a book of images and text about the aesthetics of intimacy.
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where did you get the im killing it stickers? reminds me of todd richards in mountain lab.
glad this threads going on still... havent been around much. lets play nice now kids.
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tricks are for kids.
heh, na jk, i like trying new stuff, foolin around on the flat land. theres nothing wrong with it.
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love the two tone! sick paint!
thats cause sperry's and no socks are trendy ftw. :eek:
love the coil through the firewall. looks sick! any shots of the rest of the body?
they are Simple. they have them in other colors too. I just got a pair of the hemp ones. they are comfy. snow tire soles, bike tire sidewall's, hemp uppers, PET footbeds and PET laces. not only are...
sad day today... said goodbye to the gti. hardest time ive ever had letting go of a car ill tell ya that much. on a lighter note however, i learned to skid tonight. whoop!
i was in portland last week, and while i didnt see many fix riders, the young crowd that walks around and smokes cig's sure is hip.
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The league is trying different ways to save wear and tear on players without losing any revenue. One such idea is to shorten the game. Yet, there is more bad than good with that idea.
Members of the Phoenix Suns staff, at varying levels of the organization, are skeptical about the NBA's experiment with a 44-minute game. The NBA has sanctioned the Brooklyn Nets - Boston Celtics preseason game next week to run 11-minute quarters for a total of 44 minutes.
"I don't like the 44 minute game," coach Jeff Hornacek said before the San Antonio game. "I know that was discussed at the [coaches] meetings. I don't why you would shorten it. You have rosters up to 15 players, you dress thirteen of them, you have plenty of guys to play."
Indeed. One former Suns player said recently that "minutes are a player's most important commodity".
Players like Gerald Green and Isaiah Thomas, who combined for 102 starts last season, project to come off the bench for the Phoenix Suns this season. They already must face the likelihood of getting fewer minutes this season than last (28.4 and 34.7, respectively). If you shorten the game, the guys who will get fewer minutes are more likely the bench players, not the stars.
"The rest of the game is going to be more important," Hornacek said. "You're probably going to lean on the stars even more now because you don't have the time to make it up."
Suns President of Basketball Operations Lon Babby echoed the same sentiment in an exclusive interview with Bright Side.
"I think if you have fewer minutes," he said, "The star players may play a greater percentage of those minutes because there's more at stake. I'm not sure it's the right solution."
A shorter game could squeeze out the middle class of the NBA.
Why would the NBA even consider shortening the game in the first place? The total dollars spent on salaries is predetermined in the CBA, so fewer minutes won't diminish those expenses.
The NBA, for their part, has not put a lot of messaging into the reasoning for the experiment. They mention improving the flow of the game and being forward-thinking, but the Suns' Babby applied a different possible benefit.
"Part of what we need to be focusing in is the health of the players," Babby said. "Whether the season is too long, or the games are too long, we've got to try to find ways to keep players healthier. And to that extent I support it. What I like about it is the willingness of the league to experiment and get ahead of the issues."
Babby expounded on the need for player health.
"For us, a related point is getting our players enough rest over the summer," he said. "We were vigilant in making sure the guys, young and old, were taking time off and that we were not working them too hard and they were not working themselves too hard.
"They have to get better over the summer, and we put an emphasis on player development, but they have to get some rest because the long term health of the players is the most important thing."
There is still no clear reasoning provided for the shorter game. Players don't like it. Coaches don't like it. And even front office folks are skeptical.
But if the desire of the players is to shorten the season to maintain their health, you can bet the owners would be much more amenable to shorter games than fewer games. Fewer games means fewer dollars.
"Let's be candid about it," Babby told Bright Side. "All of it's about the revenues that are generated from the games and whether or not there would have to be a diminution of the revenues in order to shorten the season.
"That's the balance. We now have 41 home games. If we had 30 we'd have less opportunities to create revenue and that's what drives everything in the business in terms of player salaries and everything else. Theoretically it's a good idea, but in practicality smarter people than me would have to figure out the math."
Ahh, the salaries. Fewer games means less revenues. Less revenues means lower salaries. Ergo, players won't ultimately push for fewer games if it impacts their bank accounts. Who would?
In fact, I'll float my own idea out there that would result in the owners and players making even more money rather than less. By cutting out 4 minutes per game, to get closer to college and international game length, a team would save three games worth of wear and tear on the players' bodies by the end of the season.
So why not lengthen the season by those three games, to an 85-game season? That way, players would end of with the same total minutes over the course of the season and the league could increase revenues at the same time.
It's all about the money, right?
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It's preseason, but Phoenix Suns managing partner Robert Sarver was sufficiently miffed at the San Antonio Spurs organization to take the microphone during a fourth quarter timeout to address the fans and offer a gift for their trouble.
The Spurs announced earlier this week that coach Gregg Popovich and stars Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili were too tired to travel for the NBA-sanctioned event, and that starters Kawhi Leonard and Tiago Splitter would be out due to nagging injuries as well.
"This isn't the game you paid your hard-earned money to see," he said to the crowd with about four minutes left in the game.
Sarver went on to tell the fans mail him back their ticket stub and he would send them a gift. Surely, the Suns will follow up with a public announcement of the exact details of the offer in the coming days.
But it's only a preseason game! Who cares, right?
Remember this is the Spurs franchise that beat the Suns in the playoffs in 2005, 2007 and 2008 to stop what might otherwise have been the greatest era of Suns basketball if not for the guys from the Alamo.
When the Suns finally swept the Spurs in 2010, the catharsis appeared to be each team's swan song as they faded into that good night. The Suns were about to be broken up by free agency and age, while the Spurs were just getting old. Tell me if you're heard that one before.
All the while, as the maddeningly consistent Spurs have been to the playoffs for 6,232 straight seasons and won five championships with Tim Duncan (1999, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2014), the Spurs have rested their stars when they damn well felt like it.
Last season, in one of his final acts as commissioner, David Stern fined the Spurs $250,000 for keeping their stars out of a nationally televised game.
"The result here is dictated by the totality of the facts in this case. The Spurs decided to make four of their top players unavailable for an early-season game that was the team's only regular-season visit to Miami. The team also did this without informing the Heat, the media, or the league office in a timely way. Under these circumstances, I have concluded that the Spurs did a disservice to the league and our fans."
--David Stern
As far back as 2005, Suns owner Robert Sarver has been frustrated with the Spurs for resting their stars in what many considered a big game. The Suns were the young upstart while the Spurs were the proven leaders. (sound familiar?). Sarver famously walked down the sideline making flapping his arms like chicken wings at coach Gregg Popovich.
"Our fans pay a lot of money," he said at the time. "Everyone was expecting a big-time game. I was disappointed."
That didn't stop Popovich from strategically resting his starters against the Suns, and other teams, in subsequent years. But it's been nine years since Sarver reacted so publicly.
Be on the lookout for details of the gift promotion for fans who attended the Thursday game, as compensation for putting up with the Spurs failing to bring their A team.
Here's (That's me sitting in the row right behind him as he grabs the mic. Not in the freeze frame. Once you start the video.)
And here's the mailing address: US Airways Center, 201 E. Jefferson St., Phoenix, AZ, 85004.
Sarver's gift for #Suns fans who attended game vs. depleted Spurs: $25 or $50 credit toward tix, merchandise & food. http://t.co/nsLG5HP6kA
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