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PORTLAND, OR -- (Marketwire) -- 11/14/12 -- Puppet Labs, the leading provider of IT automation software for system administrators, today announced that it has been selected as a candidate for Red Herring's 2012 Top 100 Global award, a prestigious recognition honoring the year's most audacious and far-reaching private technology companies and entrepreneurs from across the globe.
The Red Herring editorial team selected the companies demonstrating the most innovative technologies and business models originating from over 1000 companies from over 40 nations. These companies are judged on a range of qualitative and quantitative metrics, including, but not limited to, technology innovation, financial performance, growth criterion, management's execution standards, potential globalization of the strategy and market share improvement.
"Technology companies are becoming the bright spot in the economic outlook based on their increasing role within macro-economic environments," stated Alex Vieux, Chairman of Red Herring. "2012 has confirmed the sector's vibrant activity and its resilience to widespread economic problems. An unprecedented number of entrepreneurs are attempting to jump ahead of the competition and aspire to make a difference. Breakthroughs obsolete each other faster than ever before. Puppet Labs has performed exceptionally in its field and strongly deserves to be singled out as one of the Red Herring Global Finalists. At this stage, we are left with the daunting task to select the best qualified companies for the 2012 Top 100 Global Award."
"Puppet Labs is honored to be amongst some of the most promising and innovative global startups," said Luke Kanies, Puppet Labs CEO. "Our selection is further confirmation that as more organizations move to the cloud or a virtualized environment, sysadmins need better automation tools in order to be successful, and we fulfill this need."
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The assumption by many in Brewer Nation is that general manager Doug Melvin will follow the signing of closer Trevor Hoffman by landing one of the higher profile starting pitchers remaining on the free-agent market.
Don't count on it.
First, forget the rumors that the Brewers are in the hunt for Derek Lowe. He doesn't fit into the team's budget for next season and beyond, and Melvin isn't going to forfeit a first-round draft pick in June by signing a Class A free agent.
"I haven't even talked to Scott Boras," said Melvin, referring to Lowe's agent.
Melvin wouldn't reveal his exact budget for 2009, but including projections of the team's six looming arbitration cases, the signing of Hoffman ($6 million) pushed the Brewers close to the $80 million payroll level at which they began last season. Thus, they'd have to stretch their finances to sign a starting pitcher of any note.
"I do like to keep some (payroll) flexibility in the case of injuries," said Melvin. "And teams are going to move players at some point.
"Right now, I don't anticipate (a major signing of a pitcher)."
Considering the money they're seeking, Melvin isn't exactly bowled over by the established starting pitchers remaining on the free-agent market. Left-hander Randy Wolf was 12-12 with a 4.30 ERA last year and has a career ERA of 4.26.
Left-hander Oliver Perez, a Class A free agent who would require the forfeiture of a first-round pick to sign, led the National League with 105 walks last year, has a 1.42 career WHIP (walks and hits per inning) and never has pitched 200 innings in one season.
Braden Looper, whom the Brewers flirted with briefly, is 24-26 with a 4.52 ERA in two seasons as a starting pitcher in the NL. Jon Garland was 14-8 for the Angels last season but had a 4.90 ERA and 1.51 WHIP.
Melvin would rather wait to see how the market shakes out before signing any of those pitchers at this time. He'll also monitor trading opportunities for a pitcher.
The one exception could be Ben Sheets, who might have made a mistake by turning down the Brewers' offer of arbitration, which would have guaranteed a salary of at least $12 million in 2009. There have been no reports of a team making the multi-year offer that Sheets figured he'd get on the market.
If the injury-prone right-hander comes back to the Brewers and proposes a reasonable deal to return, what would be their response?
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Before signing Hoffman, the Brewers had shown interest in reliever Juan Cruz. But Cruz is a Class A free agent and the Brewers would have to surrender a first-round draft pick to Arizona to sign him.
Melvin was willing to sacrifice a first-rounder when he thought he'd be getting one in return from New York as compensation for losing CC Sabathia. But when the Yankees signed a higher-ranked Class A free agent, Mark Teixeira, the Brewers were bumped back to receiving a second-round pick from New York.
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The Brewers still get a sandwich pick between the first and second rounds for losing Sabathia. It remains to be seen what they'll get if Sheets signs elsewhere. If it's a team ranked in the bottom half of the 30 clubs in terms of won-loss record in 2008 - such as Texas - the Brewers will get a second-rounder.
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"I'm not motivated to move him," said Melvin, who promised Cameron he would only trade him to a contender. "Having a good defensive centerfielder is valuable."
Cameron, who turned 36 on Thursday, said he took the trade talk with New York in stride and is looking forward to another season in Milwaukee.
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Cameron said he got lots of chuckles out of reports that the Brewers only kept him to see if it would convince Sabathia, a good friend, to stay in Milwaukee, and that the Yankees wanted him to help lure Sabathia to New York.
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Detroit Bad Boys - All Posts A community of Detroit Pistons fans since 2005 https://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/48119/detroitbadboys-fave.png 2016-08-29T09:16:33-04:00 http://www.detroitbadboys.com/rss/current/ This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. 2016-08-29T09:16:33-04:00 2016-08-29T09:16:33-04:00 Pistons Links: A little bit of everything one could realistically ask for in late August
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 Detroit Pistons: A team forced to grow into Stan Van Gundy's image -- Give Me Sport

Unfortunately, there have been two key problems with the Van Gundy offense in Detroit. There haven't been enough good floor spacers to hit shots off of good looks, and there haven't been enough good looks to be hit.

As evidence of this, Detroit finished 29th in the league in assists last season, not so much indicative of a selfish team as it is of a flawed make-up. All too often, the lone creator off of the dribble has been Reggie Jackson. And when Reggie Jackson creates off of the dribble, it is normally for Reggie Jackson. In pick-and-roll action, Jackson seeks to either drive to the basket or pull-up -€" rarely does he seek to hit the roll man, nor go back to the screen-setting big for the jump shot. Scoring is what he is good at, and he knows it.

Drummond on Course to Take Game to Another Level -- Basketball Insiders

"Look, he's the guy -€" probably he and Stanley Johnson are the guys who can, I think, based on their age and what they've done and what they're capable of doing, who have the potential to make the biggest jumps," Van Gundy said to Keith Langlois of NBA.com recently.

When you look at the Pistons' roster, there are more than a handful of young players the team should be excited about developing and building around. But Van Gundy is right -€" the future of the franchise right now is most dependent on the development of Johnson and Drummond in particular.

Duke's Grayson Allen? Here come the 2017 NBA mock drafts -- MLive

MLive's Aaron McMann gives us a look at Chad Ford's 'Insider' (subscription required -- generally deemed not worth it) 2017 NBA mock draft. Ford predicts the Pistons pick at 23rd overall. Duke's Grayson Allen is the lucky player chosen. Based on my assessment of Allen's talent, I'd be content with him at 23rd overall. No hesitation.

What do you guys think?

NBA Eastern Conference 2017 Playoff Prediction: Pistons will get the 4th seed -- Sports Blog

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Offseason Report -- The Four Point Play

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My comments: if you are going to say that a six-foot-ten NBA player would fit right in working at Walmart, then at least spell his name correctly. It's Jon.

John Leuer. Looks like he could be working check-out at a Walmart, but he showed 3 point range and the beginnings of a show-and-go game.

Hey, maybe Jon Leuer's nickname here in the D can be Jonny Walmart?

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And you tore those khakis off really well too, Steve. Oh, and your work in HOTLINEBLAKE wasn't poor either.

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Only three more days until August ends. I don't know exactly what I'm trying to say. Whatever, it just means the NBA season is not too far off!

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Bullock says he learned how to raise his family and be himself from his older sibling.

Detroit Pistons forward Reggie Bullock opened up publicly about the death of his transgender sister Friday on the Colin Cowherd show.

Bullock said he learned a lot about being yourself and staying strong from his brother, Kevin Long, who eventually transitioned into Mia Henderson. The comments about Mia begin at the 7:42 mark of the interview.

"He just lived his self, taught me how to be myself, taught me how to take care of the family and just be yourself," Bullock said. "He was happy being who he was. He wasn't worried about how others felt about him, and a person that can isolate the whole world out and not care about other people's feelings is a strong person."

Henderson was killed in July 2014 after recently moving from North Carolina to Baltimore. Bullock, then a member of the Los Angeles Clippers, was leaving the locker room when he noticed missed calls from his sister and a text from a Baltimore district attorney.

The hardest part, Bullock said, was that the police couldn't identify the body because it had been so badly beaten.

Bullock has referenced the death of his sister and thanked well-wishers and the police who eventually solved the murder, but he's never talked about the incident in detail before the interview on The Herd.

Watching the interview, you can tell it's a painful story for Bullock to tell, but throughout he reiterates the strength he learned from his older sister. He said that while he's heard all kinds of jokes during his time in locker rooms, it is not something he would ever laugh at.

"It touches me," he said. "Never would I laugh, never would I do any of those types of things about people who go different ways in life."

The entire interview is definitely worth a watch as Bullock talks about bouncing around the NBA, the struggle providing for his family, being coached by Stan Van Gundy and his "team-first" approach as he approaches free agency.

Finally, a brief reminder. This is a tragedy that we try and learn the best lessons from, and not get weighed down by anything negative or combative or political. It's not partisan and it's not about what pronouns anyone is supposed to use. It's about a member of the Pistons losing the person closest to him in his life.

No, this incident and others like it do not happen in a vacuum. But let's not lose sight of our best selves when discussing issues such as this, no matter where you fall on the political spectrum.

 http://www.detroitbadboys.com/2016/8/26/12663522/detroit-pistons-reggie-bullock-murder-transgender-sister-mia-henderson Sean Corp http://www.detroitbadboys.com/2016/8/26/12663522/detroit-pistons-reggie-bullock-murder-transgender-sister-mia-henderson 2016-08-26T14:03:51-04:00 2016-08-26T14:03:51-04:00 ESPN's RPM predicts Pistons finish 4th in the East
Cleveland, Boston and Toronto are predicted top three but RPM has the Pistons in striking distance to make a push to the top.

For those who aren't familiar, ESPN developed a statistical prediction system called RPM (real plus-minus) a little while back. From Kevin Pelton and ESPN Insider:

RPM was developed by Jeremias Engelmann and Steve Ilardi to estimate a player's on-court impact on team performance, measured in net point differential per 100 offensive and defensive possessions. RPM takes into account teammates, opponents and additional factors. When used along with playing time projections, it's proved to be a very accurate predictive tool overall.

This very system was just used to predict this year's win totals in the Eastern and Western Conferences, and the Pistons came out looking pretty good, fourth in the East in fact, and just barely trailing both the second and third spots and in striking distance of the number one spot.

Here's what they came up with in projected wins.

1. Cleveland: 52.1

2. Boston: 49.8

3. Toronto: 48.8

4. Detroit: 47.5

5. Washington: 41.4

6. Charlotte: 41

7. Milwaukee: 40.9

8. Indiana: 38.9

9. Atlanta: 38.6

10. Miami: 38.3

11. Chicago: 37.8

12. Orlando. 36.2

13. New York: 34.7

14. Brooklyn: 28.8

15. Philadelphia: 24.5

There are some real eye openers there besides Detroit in fourth: Washington and Milwaukee making the playoffs, Atlanta, Miami, Chicago and New York not.

What are your thoughts? Which team's placement on this list surprised you the most? Could the Pistons dare to challenge the Cavs for the #1 spot? Discuss in the comments below.

 http://www.detroitbadboys.com/2016/8/26/12640976/espn-nba-predictions-2016-2017-pistons-rpm Christopher Daniels http://www.detroitbadboys.com/2016/8/26/12640976/espn-nba-predictions-2016-2017-pistons-rpm 2016-08-26T13:30:54-04:00 2016-08-26T13:30:54-04:00 Happy Birthday Stan Van Gundy!
57 years ago today, Stan was brought into this world to lead the Pistons to glory.

We here at DBB want to wish Stan Van Gundy a Happy Birthday, and a sincere thanks for the work he's put into to improve this franchise. DBB loves SVG, whether we're trying to get inside his head, listening to him tell it like it is, or just imagining him as President of the United States of America during the dog days of the offseason.

Whether he's forming a ****ing wall (something that's a little less fun to say in public than it used to be) or the best pro scouting department in basketball, Stan has already left an indelible mark on Pistons history.

The team and Tobias Harris reached out on Twitter to wish SVG a happy birthday:

Happy Birthday SVG! #DetroitBasketball pic.twitter.com/u4mbljqkcS
 — Detroit Pistons (@DetroitPistons) August 26, 2016

Happy Birthday Coach!! Flyest pic on the web pic.twitter.com/ptxMCOxVZS
 — Tobias Harris (@tobias31) August 26, 2016

Share the love in the comments below.

 http://www.detroitbadboys.com/2016/8/26/12658956/Stan-Van-Gundy-Birthday-2016-Detroit-Pistons Christopher Daniels http://www.detroitbadboys.com/2016/8/26/12658956/Stan-Van-Gundy-Birthday-2016-Detroit-Pistons 2016-08-22T21:40:41-04:00 2016-08-22T21:40:41-04:00 Pistons have long odds in 2016-2017, but that's OK
Nobody is counting on the Pistons to build off their positive 2015-2016 season. Detroit vs. Everybody.

Detroit vs. Everybody.

If you're getting tired of hearing that mantra, well, sorry. You should get used to hearing it a lot again, and then more and more, this upcoming season.

As the Pistons prep to shed the doggy doldrums of summer and head into September for another training camp, the team's largely being underestimated by just about everybody who doesn't bleed the team's colors.

For whatever reason, the Pistons can't seem to shake the negative reviews and poor prospectives, all after they put up a plucky nationally televised effort in getting swept by the Ohio team that went on to take the Eastern Conference in much easier fashion and beat the almost-unbeatable Golden State Warriors to win the NBA championship.

The Pistons' core will return this next season more experienced and one year closer to their collective prime, and the team seems to have addressed at least some of its depth issues. And yet there are some outfits downgrading the organization — like Vegas, for instance.

According to NBA sportsbook TopBet, the Pistons have the 10th worst odds to win the NBA championship in 2016-2017 at 125 to 1. Those are worse odds than what they had in June 2015 (100 to 1). Yes, the league was a bit more balanced before Kevin Durant decided to take his talents to Golden State this summer. But still, that's kind of nuts in a vacuum. Other books have the same 100 to 1 odds for the Pistons.

On Monday, SI posted its grades for each NBA team's offseason and gave the Pistons a C, like C for calamity or costive. In the write up, they called the Boban Marjanovic signing "excessive" because the "overpaid former Spurs backup center" quota was already full with Baynes, who you know, will almost certainly opt out of his deal next summer and could cost a whole lot more to re-sign.

But screw prescience — and productivity.

You don't have to love what the Pistons did this offseason, but you can fairly call it for what it really is: A handful of meh moves that could actually help improve the team by a lot. It would be difficult to make the team's bench worse than it was last year — and almost foolish to call it a grade below the curve. It was a low risk summer with the potential of plenty of high rewards. It's wait-and-see with little downside.

Even Andre Drummond is getting a lack of love heading into the new season. The NBA's 10th most productive player in 2015-2016 by Box Score Geeks standards is 28th on the list of 2016-2017 NBA MVP odds, tied with Bradley Beal and Andrew Wiggins (click on page 4 in the link above if you want to find their names):

Russell Westbrook is now the sole favorite to win the 2016-2017 NBA MVP Award via @BovadaLV. pic.twitter.com/upRNmRGgOG
— Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) August 15, 2016

So, yeah, the Pistons are up against the odds in 2016-2017, but as the title of this post says, that's OK. That's how we should like it. That's how I like it. That's how I liked it in the 80s (before I knew what I liked) and early 2000s, and that's how I will happily take it now. The Pistons probably won't win the 2017 NBA championship, but they'll be better and they'll go farther in the playoffs and they'll likely make every "pundit" who's been pessimistic or down on the Pistons this offseason feel kind of silly and want to go back and Chad Ford their predictions.

Let's see...

I'll re-visit this post in 10 months.

 http://www.detroitbadboys.com/2016/8/22/12596272/pistons-odds-nba-finals-championship-mvp-detroit-vs-everybody Packey http://www.detroitbadboys.com/2016/8/22/12596272/pistons-odds-nba-finals-championship-mvp-detroit-vs-everybody 2016-08-22T11:30:02-04:00 2016-08-22T11:30:02-04:00 Rio Olympics 2016 recap: Aron Baynes and Australia crash the party before heartbreak
The 2016 Olympics was a coming out party of sorts for the Australian men's basketball team.

If you had offered me a bronze medal before the tournament, I'd have bitten your hand off, which makes what happened in the last couple of games so heartbreaking. But let's go from the start.

***

Australian basketball has been in a funny place for a number of years now. Always consistently solid performers with a decent level of raw talent to worry the bigger teams. Did you know that Melbourne is tied for first with Chicago for No. 1 NBA draft picks born in the one city (Andrew Bogut, Kyrie Irving, Ben Simmons)? The main problem has been that, outside of a particularly hardcore NBA and basketball following, the sport just wasn't that popular in Australia. Coverage was (and largely still is) weak, with 2-3 live NBA games being broadcast per week to a national audience (if you have pay TV and ESPN Australia/NZ). To many Australians, basketball was just another funny sport the Americans invented so they could be good at something.

It wasn't always like that, though. The 1990s were widely considered to be the golden generation of basketball this country has ever seen, with the rise of legends like Andrew Gaze, the booming popularity of the NBL and a rising fan base. But poor investment and management meant that the interest dwindled away until only the hardcore dregs remained.

Until 2 years ago.

***

When Dante Exum was drafted into the NBA with the 5th overall pick in 2014, basketball in Australia was back. Here was the first of the new golden age, with a glamorous pipeline to follow him. Sure, Andrew Bogut going No. 1, the rise of Patty Mills and Aron Baynes with the Spurs, and Matthew Dellavedova with the Cavaliers, had piqued interest, but here was someone projected to be a genuine star.

Dante Exum is just one of a number of Australian players who is the by-product of the NBL's (Australia's national league) booming period in the 1990s, born to an American plying his trade in Australia, who eventually decided to settle in the land down under. Ben Simmons and Jonah Bolden are also cut from this cloth, while Kyrie Irving's father Drederick decided to return home to New Jersey.

But Simmons, Exum and Bolden (who just recently left UCLA to sign in Europe before probably declaring for the 2017 draft) are a different type of player to the prototypical Australian player (think Matthew Dellavedova). They combine the Australian tenets of hard play, teamwork and unselfishness with American athleticism and talent, creating a tidal wave of new momentum for the sport as people get interested again.

The Olympics was supposed to be the crowning glory of it all.

***

Australia, before the Olympics, was ranked 11th in the world in men's basketball, and had never medaled at the Olympic Games, going 0-3 in bronze medal games (1 loss vs. USA, 2 vs. Lithuania). Despite Ben Simmons understandably committing to the Sixers over the Olympics at the young age of 20, and Dante Exum blowing out his knee playing for Australia 12 months ago, this team had large expectations of themselves.

They didn't just want to medal, they were hunting gold.

Despite key absences like Simmons and Exum, this team was still brimming with established stars. Besides the NBA representation of Dellavedova, Mills, Bogut, Joe Ingles, Aron Baynes and Cameron Bairstow (now signed with the Brisbane Bullets), there were European stars Ryan Broekhoff (summer league with Denver), Brock Motum (summer league with Utah), David Anderson (spent time in NBA with New Orleans and Toronto) and American-turned-Aussie Kevin Lisch (naturalized through playing in NBL since 2009).

This team expected to medal.

And they started excellently, putting France to the sword quite easily in their first group game before outlasting Serbia by 15 points in a closer contest than the final score appeared. Momentum was building, excitement palpable, as not only were the wins strong, the style of play was borderline sexual to watch. Andrew Bogut functioning as a high-post playmaker, fizzing backdoor passes to cutting Patty Mills and Joe Ingles. Matthew Dellavedova leading the tournament in assists. Patty Mills scoring ridiculous threes.

Then the test they wanted came, a showdown with the USA.

And boy did they show up. It only took the efforts of Olympic Melo, a god among mere mortals, for the USA to hold on to an unconvincing 10 point victory, after Australia made life exceptionally difficult for them by being physical, utilizing swift ball and player movement, and hitting open shots.

Two irrelevant wins over pool minnows China and Venezuela meant Australia would finish 4-1 in group play, 2nd in Pool A, and set up a showdown with the Olympic nemesis, No. 3 world-ranked Lithuania, owners of NBAers Jonas Valanciunas and Mindaugas Kuzminskas.

Turns out it wouldn't matter. The Boomers would go on to trounce Lithuania 90-64 and set up a rematch with Pool A foe Serbia, who had outlasted Croatia in a tight quarter final.

Now before I go any further, I'll just highlight the fact that there is no Baynes analysis thus far because he was largely awful in the Olympics. He was asked to play the power forward spot next to Bogut, and largely be a space eater inside, which he did quite well. But the return of the lobster claws was apparent and painful, and poor Viking Aron couldn't catch or finish anything inside.

But anyway, back to the tournament... Serbia had an advantage here that the other teams hadn't gotten. Sure, you can do all the film analysis you want, but Serbia had previously been killed by the Aussies' backdoor cuts and rapid movement, and therefore could prepare.

And prepare they did. A stifling defensive performance limited scoring savant Patty Mills to 13 points on 6-16 shooting, while Matthew Dellavedova faltered with 3 points and 2 assists. It was worse for Andrew Bogut, who grabbed all of one single rebound in his 22 minutes on the court. Milos Teodosic proved a wizard for Serbia as they cruised to a 26-point rout, with the point guard, largely acknowledged as one of the best players not in the NBA, scoring 22 points on 9-14 shooting with a mid-range barrage on top of five assists.

That relegated Australia to the bronze medal game, a matchup against No. 2 ranked Spain, brimming with NBA talent in the form of Nikola Mirotic, Pau Gasol, Ricky Rubio and Sergio Rodriguez. And the game didn't start all that well, with the Boomers falling to as much as a 12-point deficit in the first half before a 10-0 run saw them close the half down 40-38.

The second half was absolutely ridiculous.

From memory, the lead didn't stretch beyond about 3-4 points either way for the whole half, with the lead changing hands 12 times in the final quarter alone. Patty Mills and Pau Gasol were putting on a scoring show, the two San Antonio Spurs scoring 30 and 31 points respectively as the game entered the final minute with Australia up 86-85.

Then the heartbreak began.

Our man Aron was called for a fairly soft pushing foul on Pau Gasol, allowing the 36-year-old Spaniard, who had struggled with his free throws all game, to calmly sink two to put Spain up 87-86.

THEN ARON BAYNES HIT A HOOK SHOT!!!

It was bedlam in the Quagliata household at 2:15am when Aron Baynes caught the ball in his clay hands, gyrated on gelatinous hips and chunked the ball over his shoulder, calling bank on every possible part of the rim before the ball fell, putting Australia up 88-87.

Cue plunging knife into chest cavity.

Sergio Rodriguez, bound for Philadelphia this coming season, drove the lane. He was confronted by his primary defender, a back-pedaling Patty Mills, arms raised. Rodriguez stumbles, falls, and tosses up a lame flip shot that rolls off the front of the rim before being batted away.

*CHIRRRRRRRRPP

A foul is called on Patty Mills for blocking, and the entire Australian team wheels around in amazement and disbelief. Head coach Andrej Lemanis is perplexed, the bench dumbfounded, a certain Pistons writer fuming. Sergio Rodriguez had just been bailed out by a referee looking to make his mark on the game.

The decisive foul on Sergio Rodriguez in Spain vs Australia, foul or not foul? https://t.co/2HVJo343C7
 — Sportando (@Sportando) August 21, 2016

You can make up your own opinion on this one, but to me it seems pretty obvious. Spaniards, understandably, will point to the fact that Rodriguez appears to hit Mills' right leg. I call bullshit to the highest power. A man already off balance does not deserve this call. Contact is minimal, Spain is bailed out, Rodriguez hits two clutch free throws, Australia can't get a shot off in the ensuing five seconds and are robbed of their first ever Olympic medal, crashing to 0-4 in bronze medal games.

FWIW, the majority of talking heads and neutral observers seem to observe the call as weak and wrong, so, small comforts.

***

But all is not lost for Australian basketball. The team themselves had high expectations, but they were still only 11th in the world. It can be said that the best is yet to come. When you can add in Ben Simmons, Dante Exum and Thon Maker to this program, along with a host of promising young players like Jonah Bolden, Dejan Vasiljevic (University of Miami), Harry Froling (SMU), Deng Adel (Louisville), Isaac Humphries (Kentucky) and Tom Wilson (SMU), and a medal is surely in the country's near future.

***

Aron Baynes finished Olympic play averaging 9.6 points, 5.8 rebounds and 1.6 assists.

 http://www.detroitbadboys.com/2016/8/22/12583322/rio-olympics-2016-recap-aron-baynes-australia-heartbreak Ben Quagliata http://www.detroitbadboys.com/2016/8/22/12583322/rio-olympics-2016-recap-aron-baynes-australia-heartbreak 2016-08-22T10:27:11-04:00 2016-08-22T10:27:11-04:00 Andre Drummond, Tom Gores and Pistons do the 22-pushup challenge
Watch the Pistons complete the 22-pushup challenge.

The 22-pushup challenge is the new viral social media campaign for good, a challenge of simply doing 22 pushups to honor those who have served our country and raise awareness for veteran suicide prevention.

On the Pistons' team trip to California last week, Andre Drummond posted a video of himself, Tom Gores and the rest of the Pistons completing the challenge and then challenging all of the fans to do the same with their friends.

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 #22pushupchallenge I challenge all of my fans! Make a video with friends and hashtag #andredrummond and I'll repost and like your clips @detroitpistons

A video posted by Andre Drummond (@andredrummondd) on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2016-08-16T20:32:04+00:00">Aug 16, 2016 at 1:32pm PDT</time>

Good job, Pistons. Chest to the floor, though, Boban!

 http://www.detroitbadboys.com/2016/8/22/12583170/pistons-22-pushup-challenge-andre-drummond-tom-gores Packey http://www.detroitbadboys.com/2016/8/22/12583170/pistons-22-pushup-challenge-andre-drummond-tom-gores 2016-08-22T08:56:52-04:00 2016-08-22T08:56:52-04:00 Pistons offseason spent doing yoga, lifting each other, and meeting Rocky
For the second straight summer, the Pistons are building team chemistry doing things together.

Last summer around this time, most of the Pistons spent a week in Vegas doing UFC training, focusing on "player development". This summer, at first, appeared to be more laid back, with Instagram posts popping up last week suggesting the team was vacationing on the beach with owner Tom Gores.

But that is not entirely true, MLIVE. The team is still working and team building by doing yoga on the beach, work outs in the field, and of course, playing basketball together. Here are some screenshots from Andre Drummond's Instagram story last week:

Yoga's a great work out, but I never thought I'd actually see Marcus Morris or Andre Drummond doing yoga. Good for them. Hey, who is that back there?

Human centipushups.

These guys are at work right now. What did you do today? I just lifted my brother.

Other stories showed some intrasquad run, which gave followers their first look at 7-foot-3 Boban "Bobie" Marjanovic. Marjanovic often made Drummond look small on the floor and scored easily even more often. Drummond held his own, though, putting on display some strong moves and swishing some half hooks. He also nearly posterized Bobie with a vicious dunk, but Drummond slammed it off the back iron to some oohs. One other observation: Reggie Jackson and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope looked dominant — I don't recall them missing once, which easily could've been by design of the person posting the stories.

It wasn't all work and no play, though. Drummond gave fans a glimpse into some of the fun stuff they were doing, like playing football on the beach with Gores, going to clubs, and meeting Rocky, Sylvester Stallone.

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 A couple of very tiny Detroit piston players that I met. … Confidentially, I believe I have the reach them..#DetroitPistons

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By my count, all Pistons who were not participating in the Olympics were there. This is a good lead in to the season.

Now your thoughts, DBB.

 http://www.detroitbadboys.com/2016/8/22/12567930/pistons-offseason-yoga-rocky-beach-tom-gores-home Packey http://www.detroitbadboys.com/2016/8/22/12567930/pistons-offseason-yoga-rocky-beach-tom-gores-home


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Physicists from the University of York have carried out new research into how the heating effect of an experimental cancer treatment works.
Physicists from the University of York have carried out new research into how the heating effect of an experimental cancer treatment works.
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Ok, I couldn't get this thing to center no matter what I did :)
So, the fix is this -
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Now, this depends on the width of your content div as well as how many columns you display BUT all you have to do is fiddle with the margin value. For me, I upped my columns to 4 and set it to 20px. When it was 3, it was closer to 90px. You get the idea.
Anyway, this plugin is resistant to actual centering so there's your workaround.
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Someone bought 109,000 shares on the close today at 3.58. The first time I have seen a buyer emerge in several months.
Interesting volume today
stock is showing as "hard to borrow" today. I haven't seen this in a while. It is hard to believe someone would put a large short position on at this price. I think they will get burned on it.
Pretty quiet around here. It was positive to see the partnership news with Get Auto – seems like a great fit for both parties. A good fit for a large real estate company as well?


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Dr. James Gordon recently touched on the tendency of hurricanes to "shake things up." Katrina shook things up but it also had a way of sorting things out and exposing the edges of our community—the ugly and corrupt as well as the beauty, the heroic, and the resilient. Lines between the have and have not, black and white, those who would reach out and those who would withdraw, the outspoken and the silent, the exploited and the exploiters. All was revealed—out in the open for us to see. And from this came and opportunity to grow, to heal, and to begin a monumental dialogue about the issues which had been beneath the surface.
For me, Katrina forced me out of a safe and comfortable lifestyle and into the unknown. The world became larger the day I walked into the Louis Armstrong airport and realized the magnitude of the devastation. Something was forever changed. The facade was gone. Being a witness changes you that way. And while it's scary to stretch yourself, to take those risks, it is here where we are most alive.
So today, I'm grateful for the chance to fully live and for the healing out of destruction and the despair of a painful time. I'm glad I stayed home here in Louisiana when I wasn't sure that I could. And I honor all of those we lost, those who continue to struggle, and those who transformed from trauma. And most of all, I am grateful for neighbors here at home, across the country, and around the world who came to our aid, especially The Center for Mind-Body Medicine, which gave us a gift that would sustain us through tough times and beyond.


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Artist Victoria Lucas steps into the Grizzly Grizzly space from England this month for her solo show, "Interruptions." The focus of her camera's lens are the many empty staircases in subways – areas typically viewed while brimming with travelers – which seem to lose something of themselves in the interludes between commutes.
A pair of empty staircase photos by Victoria Lucas. Photo by Jaime Alvarez
One easy initial way to describe the scenes shot by Lucas is eerie. Depopulated stairs and escalators carrying nobody call to mind what could be and what was. Clearly these structures are created by and for people, so in their silence, they evoke an uneasiness as well as a certain degree of introspection. These existential concerns are laid out before the viewer in polished metal surfaces, glossy tiles, boxy, uniform steps and cylindrical railings. These fixtures come together to form scenes that many of us rush through on a regular basis, intent mostly on reaching our destination.
Signs and orange tiles in two images by Victoria Lucas. Photo by Jaime Alvarez
Lucas began her project by photographing the subways of Berlin but has since moved onto the nether regions of Philadelphia's SEPTA transportation system to capture her images of halls without faces and stairs without feet. It could easily be a post-apocalyptic world that the artist portrays if not for the hints that maintenance and use are still occurring: the light bulbs are still glowing, and so are the exit signs, and occasionally pieces of trash sit in the far corners of the frames, as if freshly discarded by some thoughtless commuter.
Another install shot of "Interruptions" by Victoria Lucas. Photo by Jaime Alvarez
While in some ways these examples of underground passage seem mundane in their simplicity, they manage also to counter the ennui of the daily grind by presenting pictures of settings we rarely pause to study. The straight lines, the orderly placement of paint and ceramic squares, the parts and pieces built by the hands of strangers – all so we can quickly get from one side of the city to another. In a way, Lucas opens our eyes to a certain degree of gratefulness for these facilities that we never had before. In Philly this is particularly useful since, despite it all, SEPTA is often (perhaps sometimes rightfully) the brunt of jokes and criticisms... but it still gets us where we need to go.
The Grizzly show will be up through April 27 and is supplemented by a publication of the Berlin and Philadelphia series, accompanied by an essay by Dr. Mat Gregory and an introduction by Jacque Liu.
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On October 29, 2012, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of ADA-ES, Inc. (the "Company"), approved an increase by one in the size of the Board from nine to ten directors and appointed Alan Bradley Gabbard as a director of the Company to fill such vacancy and as a member of the Audit and Compensation Committees of the Board. Mr. Gabbard's term will run until the next annual meeting of our shareholders at which directors are elected. Mr. Gabbard has not served in any capacity for the Company prior to this appointment and there are no arrangements or understandings between him and any other person pursuant to which he was selected to serve as a director.
Mr. Gabbard, age 57, has 35 years of experience in the management and operations of oil and gas and energy companies and a background in financial accounting. The Company concluded Mr. Gabbard should serve as a director of the Company based on the Board's determination that he qualifies as an "independent director" as such term is defined for purposes of the federal securities laws and the Nasdaq Stock Market, has the ability to read and understand fundamental financial statements, meets the financial sophistication standard required by the Nasdaq Stock Market and is an "audit committee financial expert" as defined for purposes of the federal securities laws.
Mr. Gabbard is currently the Chief Financial Officer ("CFO") and a director of Recovery Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: RECV); he was appointed as CFO in July 2011 and as a director in August 2012. Recovery Energy is not a parent, subsidiary or other affiliate of the Company. Prior to Recovery Energy, Mr. Gabbard served as an officer of Applied Natural Gas Fuels, Inc., serving from September 2009 to May 2010 as Vice President-Special Projects and from May 2010 through June 2011 as its CFO. From April 2007 through September 2009, he co-owned and managed MG Advisors, LLC with the Company's current Chairman of the Board, Mr. W. Phillip Marcum, providing management and financial consulting services to companies involved in oil and gas and energy related businesses. From 1991 to April 2007, Mr. Gabbard co-founded and served as CFO, Executive Vice President and a director of PowerSecure International, Inc. (Nasdaq: POWR; f/k/a Metretek Technologies, Inc.), an energy service company and developer of energy efficient solutions for utilities and their commercial, institutional, and industrial customers. He received a bachelor of accountancy degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1977 and is a CPA.
No transactions between the Company and Mr. Gabbard have occurred or are contemplated that would require disclosure pursuant to Regulation S-K, Item 404(a). Mr. Gabbard does not have any family relationship with any of the Company's directors or executive officers or any persons nominated or chosen by the Company to be a director or executive officer.
Mr. Gabbard is entitled to standard compensation for service as a non-management director, which includes $95,000 a year, payable as a combination of cash (up to a maximum of $47,500) and/or common stock (valued at fair market value as of the day of grant), plus standard committee membership fees. Mr. Gabbard was also granted an option to purchase 5,000 shares of the Company's common stock under the Company's 2005 Directors' Compensation Plan, which is exercisable at $19.54 per share and will vest evenly over a three year period, with one third of the option vesting at the end of each year of service.


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I am having an issue with the titles on every page showing up twice .. I have looked at a variety of other posts on this and can't find a solution. I am using a static front page and the Squirrel theme. If anyone has any ideas I would really appreciate it!
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After receiving the bumper on November 9, I started to install it on the truck, The paint looked like it matched.....
after having it installed my wife came out and said, why are you putting that on your truck, its not the same color.
I never really paid any attention to the color, paying very close attention to the installation, it was not the same color, way too much blue.
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Heard nothing Monday, called Auto Body Fit Tuesday around 4:00 talked with a girl there, no help said she would call me back before they closed...she didn't. Funny that nobody has a name there.
This went on until the 16th when I get an email that says that they cannot proceed with any action on the order. Signed by....you guessed it... NOONE.. DO NOT ORDER FROM THEM
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Shining the spotlight on a hundred men and women who really made a difference to the worlds most powerful nation, this book features the lives and achievements of extraordinary Americans presidents and sports figures, film stars and physicists, generals and Internet mavericks from the age of the Founding Fathers to the present. Telling the stories of lives of men and women over the last 300 years, the book celebrates their achievements and presents a revealing history of the United States. Selected by the editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, the book contains surprises and insights into the personalities that created America and is bound to cause debate.
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We now offer Byki, a rapid online language learning system employing spaced interval repetition. The Byki learning method takes users through a series of simple steps to memorize words and phrases in a new language, including their meanings and proper pronunciation, in the shortest possible time.
Available for learning over 70 languages, Wallingford Library patrons are able to access Byki from inside or outside of the library, via the web browser on Windows and Mac computers.
First-time users must create an account using the Sign Up Now button in the Byki interface. You will find a permanent link to Byki in the Language Instruction section of our Online Resources page.
Thursday Night Book Club: The Places In Between by Rory Stewart
Thursday, July 15th at 7:00 p.m. in the Collins Room
In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan—surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. Read his account of his experiences and join us for a discussion. Copies of the book are available from the Information Desk on a first-come-first-served basis. All are welcome for conversation and refreshments. Our informal book discussion group meets on the third Thursday of each month with the exception of August when there is no meeting. No registration is necessary.
Dessert With a Doc: A New Weigh of Life
Wednesday, July 21st at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Room
Presented by Aziz Benbrahim, MD
Join us for an interactive discussion on how obesity truly affects our health and learn successful strategies to keep the pounds off!
A healthy dessert will be provided. This program is co-sponsored by MidState Medical Center. Please register in person, online, or by phone at (203)265-6754.
Breaking Through the Fear of Writing a Poem: A Writing Workshop
Tuesday, July 20th at 6:00 p.m. in the Collins Room
What is writer's block? Is it that we don't have a poem in our heads or that we do, but can't translate it into words? Or is it bigger than that? Are we actually afraid of writing a poem? If so, why?
In this workshop we will explore many of the reasons why we stop short from writing that great poem locked inside us. We will break through those barriers allowing us to write without fear. Then we will start from the beginning, from how to come up with an idea, or how to work with an existing idea to create that inspirational poem you will be proud to have others read. We will explore how to convert those abstract emotions into palpable images and how to use poetic devices such as metaphor and alliteration to enhance the poetic experience.
Don't let the fear of writing keep you from creating that masterpiece inside you. Join award-winning author and former NPR journalist Eileen Albrizio for this free workshop.
Please register in person, online, or by phone at (203)265-6754.
Friday Night Flicks Presents: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Friday, July 9th at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Room
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, ruthless computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from almost forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history. But the Vanger's are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is based on the trilogy of books by Stieg Larsson and has sold over 7 million copies worldwide. Rated: R
Cinema Club Presents: A Single Man
Tuesday, July 5th at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Room
Colin Firth gives the performance of a lifetime in A Single Man, a drama based on a novel by Christopher Isherwood. Firth may be best known as a dashing romantic-comedy hero (Pride and Prejudice, the Bridget Jones films), but in A Single Man he demonstrates nuance and depth that will stay with the viewer long after the film is over. Firth plays George, a gay British professor, living a life of true, if closeted, bliss with his partner, Jim (Matthew Goode), in the straitlaced early '60s. When Jim dies suddenly at the beginning of the film, George wrestles with how to go on without his true love--and with never being able ever to express his grief openly. Whilst the whole production is marvelous, it is Firth who triumphs in the film, and who drives the complex emotions--all true, all rewarding--that hold A Single Man aloft and give it its impact. A Single Man can hold its own against Brokeback Mountain as a story of love and loss that transcends any single genre. Rated: R
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Cheesy Ham 'n' rice Soup
Welcome to soup week! For the next three nights I will be featuring a "new to me" soup recipe. I'm just in that mode... I find it very comforting and seems to fill me up quicker (now I just need to stay away from the open bag of chocolate chips in the cupboard!)
First up is a recipe I found and tweaked a bit from Taste of Home. The person who submitted the recipe said it similar to a popular restaurant in the Twin Cities... any ideas out there who makes this?
Recipe Source: Taste of Home Heartwarming Soups 2008
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I love wild rice with its nutty type flavor and heartier texture. Me and the DIY guy really enjoyed this and had a lot of leftovers.... so I think unless you are feeding a large crowd, I would halve it. You will still have some leftovers but it will be more manageable... enjoy!
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Roach: Mayweather is a Little Shot, Better For Pacquiao
By Edward Chaykovsky
Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach is convinced that WBC/WBA welterweight and junior middleweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (46-0, 26KOs) is well past his best. Roach, who trains WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao, says their chances to win have increased based on Mayweather's claimed decline.
Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum, who promotes Pacquiao, wants to make the mega-match in 2015. They have been unable to make the fight for the last few years.
"Everyone would have liked to see the fight have happened earlier," Roach said to The San Francisco Chronicle. "But it's still the biggest fight out there, and there is still a huge audience that wants to see it. I think Mayweather is a little shot, and we have a better shot now."
Pacquiao defends his title against undefeated Chris Algieri on November 22nd in Macau. After that fight, he would love to face Mayweather.
"Of course, I want this fight," Pacquiao said. "People have always been bothering me, 'When is this fight going to happen?' … 'When is this fight going to happen?' I am ready to fight Floyd anytime."
[QUOTE=El_Purepecha;14895263]Great post. Roach is the team PAC circus ring leader under Arum the circus ring master . LMAO![/QUOTE] Wow...from that analogy, you just implicated & confirmed who truly is the KING OF THE CLOWNS, as evidenced by the entourage that…Comment by Elroy1 on 08-30-2014
Haha yep good on ya Roach. How ironic! All the Floyd fan garbage about MAnny being shot and Floyd would thrash him now. And look what happened. Pac is back in force, And Floyd is fast on the slide, ripe…Comment by LAPete on 08-30-2014
Fact is both fighters are past their prime but my instincts tell me we all need to chill because this fight is going to happen in 2015.Comment by hectari on 08-29-2014
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Garrett Fort
Garrett Elsden Fort (June 5, 1900 - October 26, 1945) was an American short story writer, playwright, and Hollywood screenwriter. He was also a close follower of Meher Baba.
Fort made his screenwriting debut with the silent film, One of the Finest (1917). Early in his career, Fort co-wrote the Broadway play Jarnegan (1928), based on the novel by Jim Tully. Fort's first talkie effort was... more »
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Bradley discusses the 1960 Democratic National Convention, John F. Kennedy's 1960 campaign visits to California, and contacts that Bradley had with Kennedy during the presidency, among other issues.
Brennan discusses the 1960 primary campaign in Wisconsin, John F. Kennedy's (JFK) campaign visits to Wisconsin, and the reasons why JFK lost Wisconsin to Richard Milhous Nixon in the general election, among other issues.
Church discusses the 1960 presidential campaign and John F. Kennedy's (JFK) campaign visit to Idaho in 1960, legislation during the Kennedy Administration, and various foreign policy issues during the Kennedy Administration, among other issues.
Culley discusses Ohio County, West Virginia's 1960 Citizens for Kennedy group, John F. Kennedy's 1960 campaign visit to Wheeling, West Virginia, and the religious issue in the West Virginia primary, among other issues.
In this interview Fitzgerald discusses his first time meeting John F. Kennedy [JFK]; JFK's campaign visit to South Dakota in September 1960; the importance of agriculture in JFK's Administration; the reaction to JFK's death in agricultural fields; and the role of agricultural committees in civil defense, among other issues.
In this interview Nolan discusses working with Jesse M. Unruh on putting together the California delegation for Robert F. Kennedy [RFK], 1968; raising funds for RFK's presidential campaign; Carmine S. Bellino as campaign treasurer; treating California like two different states, north and south; campaign staffing issues; RFK's first campaign visit t...
This interview focuses on John F. Kennedy's campaign visit to Arizona, Udall's appointment and role as Secretary of the Interior, Indian Affairs, and Appointments of Department of Interior staff, among other issues.
This folder contains memoranda, speech drafts, newspaper articles, and correspondence between Senator John F. Kennedy, members of Senator Kennedy's staff, and various individuals regarding Senator Kennedy's presidential campaign visits to Hartford and Bloomfield, Connecticut.
This folder contains letters concerning the political climate in Pennsylvania and lists of individuals to receive thank you letters for their work during Senator Kennedy's campaign visit to Pennsylvania.
President John F. Kennedy boards Air Force One to travel to Wheeling, West Virginia, for a congressional campaign visit. Following behind President Kennedy: Special Assistant to the President, Kenneth P. O'Donnell; White House Secret Service agent, Gerald A. "Jerry" Behn. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Andrews Air Force Base, Maryl...
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