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Thara John Memory, trumpeter, conductor, educator and composer, was born in 1948 in Tampa, Florida. There his early exposure to Cuban, African and European music formed his musical palette.Thara began playing the trumpet professionally at age 11. Since moving to the Northwest in 1970, Portland has served as home base for his notable and widely recognized career as a jazz performer. The Willamette Week said, "In each jazz community – and Portland has a sizeable one – there are stars. Memory is one that shines brightest." Thara has performed with many jazz and rhythm and blues legends including Eddie Harris, Arturo Sandoval, Charlie Rouse, Dizzy Gillespie, Chuck Israel, Lou Rawls, Benny Maupin, Eddie Henderson, Natalie Cole, Fred Wesley and the Master Sounds, The Four Tops, Pleasure, The Leroy Vinegar Quartet, The Depriest Project, Ravi Best, Urban Agnas, Brian Lynch, Scotty Barnhart, Javon Jackson, John Handy, Dennis Springer, Bernard Purdy, Ben Wolfe, Obo Addy, George Shaw… and the list continues. Currently, he leads his own outstanding band, the Thara Memory Superband, and performs regularly with the Mel Brown Septet.
Thara is sought after as a studio musician, arranger and composer. His first personal CD, Juke Music is an original Southern blend of jazz, funk and world music. A long awaited second project, which promises an intermingling of jazz, soul and classical elements, is currently in progress. Examples of his musical range and versatility can be found in his many guest performances on the CDs of other artists. His sound can be heard on recent releases by Stan Bock and Bernard Purdy, Patricia Demarest and Dennis Springer.
Although best known for his contributions to the Northwest jazz scene, Thara is a respected classical conductor and composer. He earned his B.A. in conducting and composition from Marylhurst University. His conducting talents have been showcased as associate conductor of the Marylhurst Symphony, as guest conductor of the Portland Festival Symphony and as guest conductor of the Grande Ronde Youth Symphony. In 2001, Thara conducted the Marylhurst Symphony in the premier performance of his original composition, Middle Passage, which was reviewed and acclaimed by The Oregonian. He currently conducts the Pacific Crest Sinfonietta, which performs several concerts annually in NE Portland.
Thara has been awarded NEA, OAC and RACC grants for his involvement in community arts projects. In 2005, he was the awarded the prestigious RACC Fellowship for the Performing Arts. He founded Portland's Accelerated Music Program, which promotes opportunities for talented minority and at-risk youth to achieve excellence in music. In 1999 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Arts Foundation for his community service in music.
Thara holds a well-deserved reputation for excellence as a music educator. He has taught at Portland State University, Marylhurst University, Mt. Hood Community College, and Portland Community College. In 2003, Thara began as director of the jazz orchestra program for Portland's Metropolitan Youth Symphony under music director Lajos Balogh. He directed the jazz program there for more than a year. Thara chaired the music program at Beaverton's Arts and Communication Magnet Academy for four years. In 2005, his ACMA Jazz Orchestra won top honors at numerous regional and national events. In 2005, Thara founded the American Music Program.
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If you have considered a SharePoint extranet, one of the most difficult components is generally Authentication. Providing an authentication source becomes very difficult, especially if you have to manage it yourself, provisioning user accounts and providing assistance to reset passwords. The best possible solution would be to use an external identity provider, enter Azure Access Control Services. In this session Mark will introduce Azure ACS and show you how to configure SharePoint 2010 or 2013 to connect into Azure ACS, allowing your users to authentication with either their Windows Live, Open Authentication or Facebook user accounts and access your SharePoint environment, taking away all the hassle of having to provide an authentication source.
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EMMYS: Basic Cable Dramas' Basic Problem Is A Lack Of Academy Love
Adam Buckman is a contributor to AwardsLine
The Emmy Awards is a game of winners and losers — in most categories, one winner, four losers. But for a whole swath of contenders in the highly competitive drama categories — hour-long dramas on basic cable channels — the challenge is as simple as just being allowed in the final competition. Because while some of TV's most compelling one-hour dramas are now found on channels that lay between the broadcast and premium networks, these shows are consistently left out in the cold come Emmy time.
The attention in the drama categories still consistently goes to drama series on pay cable channels or broadcast networks. Never mind the actual awards — actual nominations for dramatic series on basic cable, though not unheard of, are still few and far between even as the ranks of quality dramas on basic cable have swelled in recent seasons.
Related: EMMYS: Drama Series Overview
This lack of love from the Emmys doesn't go unnoticed by producers of some of basic cable's most critically acclaimed shows. "I'm a little bit rankled at the Television Academy and the Emmys because Rescue Me received so little recognition," says Peter Tolan, executive producer of the drama series about a group of New York City firefighters that he co-created with comedian Denis Leary. Rescue Me ended its seven-season run on FX last September. Over the years, it received eight Emmy nominations, winning one — a guest-actor Emmy for Michael J. Fox. Leary was nominated once in the best dramatic actor category and lost.
Rescue Me is one of several hour-long series on FX being pushed for Emmys this spring, along with Justified and Sons Of Anarchy. Another series, American Horror Story, which consisted of fewer episodes, is being entered as a miniseries.
Even with just four titles up for Emmy consideration, the FX stable of one-hour series would be impressive on any network. And basic cable these days seems awash with quality hours reflecting a wide variety of subjects and tastes. For example, USA Network has so many popular one-hour series that executives there made a conscious effort to boil down their Emmy hopes to a small group of shows and stars they felt would benefit most from Emmy consideration (if not actual awards): The lawyer series Suits and its two male co-stars, Gabriel Macht and Patrick J. Adams; Callie Thorne of Necessary Roughness; and Matt Bomer, handsome leading man of White Collar.
Over at Turner, TNT is entering seven shows: three very different cop shows in The Closer, Southland and Rizzoli & Isles; the sci-fi series Falling Skies; the lighthearted lawyer-buddy dramedy Franklin & Bash; the Timothy Hutton con-artist drama Leverage; and comedian Ray Romano's well-regarded but ultimately low-rated drama about men at 50, Men Of A Certain Age.
That show also ended its run last summer, after just two seasons. In fact, a portion of the show's second season was already put up for Emmy consideration in 2011; the second and final half of the second season is what's eligible this time around. Although Rescue Me lasted longer and enjoyed a healthier viewership, both shows combined drama and humor, making them difficult to categorize and therefore a tough sell to the TV Academy members who vote on drama nominations, their creators concede. In addition, both shows were headlined by well-established comedians — Leary and Romano — trying their hands at dramatic acting, a concept the average Emmy voter may have had a tough time accepting, the show's principals say.
"I will never be nominated" for a best dramatic actor Emmy," Romano told Awardsline. "I get it, that [to the average Emmy voter] I'm the TV funny guy, the sitcom guy. Me and drama … you have to beat it over their head. You have to beat the sitcom perception off of yourself and that takes more [seasons than Men Of A Certain Age had]." For the record, Men Of A Certain Age, which won a prestigious Peabody Award in 2010, has been nominated for just two Emmys previously — both times for co-star Andre Braugher in the best supporting actor category. He didn't win.
So who is garnering nominations and winning Emmys in the drama category in recent seasons? Pay cable's HBO and Showtime — with shows such as Boardwalk Empire and Dexter, respectively — and a handful of shows on the broadcast networks like House on Fox, The Good Wife on CBS and Lost on ABC. Notable exceptions to the basic cable drought include two series on AMC: the critically lauded Mad Men, winner of the best drama Emmy for the last four years, and Breaking Bad, for which star Bryan Cranston has won three best actor Emmys. And Kyra Sedgwick finally won a best actress Emmy in 2010 on her fifth nomination for the lead role in TNT's The Closer.
But for most of basic cable's drama shows and their overseers, a winning strategy for getting Emmy voters to pay more attention and watch their shows more closely remains elusive. Part of the problem, producers and execs say, is that some of basic cable's one-hour shows don't fit the mold of the dramas that have received multiple nominations and awards in recent years. Mad Men, for example, and, in the years before that show's dominance, The Sopranos on HBO.
It's a problem of perception that not only afflicts the cable dramas with comedians in starring roles, but some of the dramas on USA and TNT that traffic in lighter subjects and themes than the decidedly darker dramas typified by a show like Breaking Bad.
"I think there is a perception perhaps that we are a very escapist kind of channel and therefore everything's happy and sunny and that sort of cuts against what I think people think of when they think of awards," said Bill McGoldrick, EVP Scripted Original Programming at USA. "When it comes to awards, sometimes the first place you go is dark. And I think that's a little bit unfair. I think that our balance of humor and drama is similar to the balance of humor and drama in some of the shows that have won, be it The Sopranos or Mad Men."
Of course, the underlying reason why it's been so difficult for some basic cable series to break through the pack and gain recognition is because drama on TV happens to be flourishing these days. "It's an impossible category, drama," concedes Mike Royce, co-creator, with Romano, of Men Of A Certain Age. "The talent is crazy. I mean, between cable and the networks, every year in that best actor category you can't even believe the people who aren't in it. That's how good it is."
How could the writer forget about Damages? Along Mad Men it was the first basic cable show to go all the way for a Drama Series nomination, it won Glenn Close 2 Emmys and 1 for character actor Zeljko Ivanek and was nominated in Writing, Directing, Sup. Actress and Actor Drama, Guest Actor and Actress Drama, multiple times.
The Emmy wins for basic cable shows MAD MEN, BREAKING BAD, and THE CLOSER are not just "notable exceptions." I think they are proof that this isn't much of a drought in the first place.
Exactly. And apart from the Good Wife, how many Broadcast Dramas are going to get any nominations?
I too am baffled by the lack of Emmy support for most of the shows on basic cable. Shows like Southland and American Horror Story are produced (both in front and behind the camera) with such perfection, that I have no idea why they aren't nominated for Emmys as an overall show.
Yes, the few, and I mean VERY few, lead actor/actress nominations for shows like this, are something to cheer about, but simply not enough.
And USA is seriously overlooked when it comes to its work. I agree with the USA exec, where just because the industry has given that network this "happy/fun" tag line, shouldn't shadow the work of the network.
Gabriel Macht's performance on Suits is completely worthy of any nomination! That show is wonderfully produced.
I think the problem for USA it that it programs a lot of shows that people like but don't love. Shows like BURN NOTICE and WHITE COLLAR are filled with good acting, decent dialogue, and handsome production values, but over the arc of a season or more, many of them end up as the thing you watch while folding laundry instead of the thing that inspires you to tweet around the water cooler. USA makes TV that people don't care deeply about. (That said, I'm stoked about the new season of SUITS.)
USA's shows skirt the comedy/drama line so that puts them at a disadvantage when the Emmys separate everything into comedy and drama.
Willie Garson, for example, gives a nomination-worthy comedic performance on White Collar, but since that show is probably submitted in the drama categories, he's not able to compete.
There are too many decent shows scattered amongst all the celebrity reality tv shows for them all to get nominations. The Academy Awards expanded some of their categories to 8 or 10 nominations, does the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences do the same?
Men of a Certain Age was just getting better and better. One fixable concern I had was the sound mix of some of the dialogue scenes was just too low. Suddenly 60's and 70's music would come in at three times the level of some of the dialogue scenes, not a good idea on a show that doesn't use a laugh track.
If a viewer has to raise and lower the volume with their remote during the show, the mix is not quite right. Something as arcane as that could affect the attention of span of today's viewer.
I wouldn't necessarily say it is a bias against basic cable. These type of things will happen when you only nominate a handful of shows. You certainly can't nominate ALL the good ones. That isn't to say that I disagree with the nominations per se, or the quality of the shows not nominated, or even how many shows get nominated. Just pointing out that it is a numbers game. If more shows from basic cable get nominated, we would have an article about how, pay cable, or broadcast was getting left out. There isn't a conspiracy going on here.
I agree suits is one of the best shows on T.V, but why no mention of The Walkig Dead. That is a very well done show, much better than American Horror Story. Also Burn Notice didn't get a mention another favorite of mine, butto put Franklin and Bash in there is just blasphemy. Mad Men for sure and Breaking Bad. Next I think we will see Longmire on A&E in this list of good dramas. That show is looking like it might become something not yet seen.
One has to consider that when the Emmys were begun there were only 3 networks to consider for nominations (and maybe a syndicated show or two). There were once Cable Ace awards to make up for the lack of Emmy love. That wouldn't work today as it would seem like a 2nd tier award.
Rather than expand nominees to 10 per category, how about splitting the major awards into Broadcast and Cable? 5 nominees for Best Cable Comedy/Drama and 5 for Broadcast? Not ideal, but it would double the nominations and make more shows eligible for attention.
Then the Broadcast Award would seem like the second tier award. All the good contenders would still be competing with each other on cable.
What chance does a very good show like Sons of Anarchy have, when there are at least four perennial nominees – Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones and Justified – plus Boardwalk Empire or Dexter, if they're having a good year?
This is such a baffling article because Mad Men continues to win best drama — the article should be more about how broadcast tv doesn't get nominations — how the good wife really was so excellent the year before that it should have won best series. Perhaps Cable shows should have their own category because shows such as Revenge should be nominated — and it's rather unfair that cable shows can produce as little as 6-13 episodes a season, whereas a broadcast show has to produce 22-24.
They need to establish a Dramedy category which many cables should fall, separated from pure drama like a Damages. Stars like Matt Bomer really deserve some sort of nomination but hard to compete with pure dramas.
Leverage is one of the best shows on TV now but it's problem is that it isn't quite a drama and its not a comedy either. Same seems true of shows on USA, TNT, and other cable stations. There needs to be a dramedy category. Because frankly I prefer a little bit of comedy mixed with my drama but its because of this mix these shows get ignored. They also need to add a Sci-Fi/Supernatural category. Shows like Supernatural, Walking Dead, American Horror Story, Once Upon a Time, etc shouldn't be competing against The Good Wife or Breaking Bad. Apples to oranges. Maybe these 'dramas' are the best on TV but there are more shows that people watch that don't fit into the pigeon hole of drama.
There's no reason sci fi/fantasy can't compete with "regular" dramas. Case in point: Game of Thrones. Maybe the Emmys are unfairly prejudiced against the genre, but then GoT will get shut out of nominations (other than technical), and somehow I don't see that happening.
The Walking Dead is very good, but it's like Sons of Anarchy, it's competing against some extremely good shows for a limited number of slots. American Horror Story is nonsense and Once Upon a Time is a cute show, but hardly nominations worthy, except maybe for a couple of the actors.
Is the inclusion of Franklin and Bash meant as comic relief?
Couldn't disagree more. White Collar and Psych are the only shows I make a point to sit & watch at air time. Anything else I DVR and watch while doing other things or just watch if it happens to be on.
The Emmys are not about popular. They need to be about quality, the best of the best. But they also cannot be obscure for obscurity sake nor recognized simply because the rate. With all due respect, to BillMcGoldrick who is one of the good guys, USA shows are fun and escapist, but rarely if ever move the cultural dial. They make a tton of money, but they never imprint the culture in ways that are defining, Kyra Sedgwick finally wins because her show has been cancelled, but was there anything about her performance, or the sensibility of that show thT you couldn't find on CBS? And there's the rub. Programming a network is hard to do, ask Bob Greenblatt, finding a series that breaks through the clutter is even harder and when a Network manages its programming so intently, they kill any essence of what could have been defining about that show. The old HBO, FX, AMC and the new Showtime release writers and directors from the shackles of "Act break" notes and "the half-hour story turn", instead opting for creators who know what they want to write about and why. This is a very important story but not for injustices, but rather for the need to even more strenuously steward the quality of the Emmys. There are enough awards shows for popularity. The Emmys should be for artistic achievement in the art form. To spend any time in this story on Men of a Certain Age is foolish, there was nothing Emmy worthy about the show, frankly it wasn't even a good miss. The big issue facing the academy in this golden age of drama programming, is not to be lazy and keep giving awards to Mad Men or Boardwalk Empire because it's easy. When Michael Chiklis won the Emmy, it sent shock waves through cable and defined FX's journey as a channel. In truth, it opened the floodgates of creativity on cable. I'm not sure he ever received another nomination, but he didn't need to. The Emmy stood for the quality of The Shield over the course of its run. Bold choices like that are what the academy needs to keep doing, not allowing 3 or even 4 of the writing nominations to be given to one show. The Emms, like the Oscars, still have the ability to validate cultural shifts and those privileged to vote should take their jobs more seriously than they do.
Fantastic post.
Everything about your post I agree with except for your dismissal of Men of a Certain Age.
I may be wrong but I have to think you , like many other people, saw very little of the show.
I think people who stayed with it would be surprised at how emmy worthy it was.
It won a peabody award after its second season, and last month a Television Academy honor for Quality Television.
If you have seen it enough for your liking, that's fine, but don't let the ex-sitcom star or the subject matter fool you. This show was worth much more attention than it got.
Check the critic meter site score for the show.
They seem to be the only one's who watched it and all of them, (yes all of them) gave it positive reviews.
Game of Thrones should win it all this year.
Suits and Southland absolutely deserve Emmy recognition. I understand why USA is often overlooked but I am hoping that will change with Suits. Southland has been snubbed for years but I hope that the incredible arcs this year portrayed by the likes of Regina King, Michael Cudlitz, and others will finally be recognized for what they are: phenomenal.
Of the shows mentioned in this article, few actually deserve more Emmy attention than the likes of Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones and Justified – perennial nominees.
It's hard to break through that level of quality. Sons of Anarchy could stand some more Emmy luuuuv but American Horror Story and Falling Skies? The former, maybe for some of the actors, but certainly not for the writing!
Drama shows on broadcast networks are available to just about every TV set owner.
Drama shows on premium cable networks (like HBO and Showtime) have a certain cachet about them because they are seen on those networks.
Drama shows on basic cable networks do not have the availability to almost every home or the cachet of the networks they're on.
With Mad Men and Bryan Cranston dominating their respective categories I don't accept the underlying premise of this article. It is not like network dramas are eating up a bunch of drama nominations. Pay and basic cable get almost all the drama noms. There are just so many good dramas on tv right now and only a few Emmy nominations. Tv dramas have taken over as the premiere place for adult storytelling. It is almost completely non existent in movies and network tv is fairly hollow. Cable though, is an embarssement of riches. Cable dramas are getting snubbed because there are so many good cable dramas on and while I love the USA lineup those shows and performances can't stand up to the competition. Those kinds of shows and roles used to have a good shot at Emmys but it is silly to promote them now. The drama landscape is hardcore and as good as it has ever been. The storytelling writing and acting on tv now far surpass in quality and quantity quality what the movie industry puts out.
I do think there is still a potential bias in Emmy noms and we may see some network dramas get some noms that probably should go to basic cable shows. Good Wife has been the only drama on the networks on a level with cable. Some new shows started last year and i see them being a step below.
All this is moot though as game of thrones should really win every single award.
Insightful but must disagree on Men of a Certain Age, it was way different than TNT's other stuff and very well done.
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So if you would like to create your own MatCap material, you want to start with a photograph, because that's where the colors and the material qualities are sampled from. To start with I'm going to get photograph here in ZBrush and show you the basic workflow for creating your own MatCap material. So, I'm going to turn Edit mode off, press Ctrl+N to remove my greenMan model from the canvas. Let's go to the Texture palette and choose Import, and I'm going to choose the tomatoes image here. And once I open it, it loads in the Texture palette, and I'm going to use Crop and Fill to basically replace the entire canvas with the image.
When I do this, I want to make sure to choose the Flat Color material, otherwise this material color will affect the way the photograph looks. It's something that I almost always forget, so just remember, when you want to put a photograph onto the canvas, choose Flag Color first, then go to the Texture palette and choose Crop and Fill, and this replaces the entire canvas with my photograph. So the canvas will be of the same size of the original photograph. So I'm going to say Yes, zoomed in very close, so I'll just drag the Zoom button here to zoom out of the canvas. There we have our tomatoes. And we are going to create the material by sampling colors from the photograph. When I do this, I like to have a 3D object on the canvas so that I can see the material update as I'm working.
So for a starter material I'm going to go to the Materials palette and I'm going to choose MatCap White01. So this is my starting basic capture material. Once I have it, I'm going to choose Sphere3D from the Tool palette. Draw this onto the canvas, switch to Edit mode and maybe just reposition it a little bit. Now I'm ready to start making my material. Since I have the MatCap White01 already applied to the object, as I start to adjust the material you will see it update right there on the canvas. So I'm going to switch out of the Edit mode, go to the Tool palette and choose the special MatCap tool here at the bottom of the Tool palette.
I'm going to start the material off by selecting just a basic red color from the center of the tomato. When I do this I get a little arrow. What this arrow is doing is, it's helping me decide which direction this color will be applied to. Now, this is hard to visualize until you have a few samples already, so I'm going select the first one and then I have got basically red applied to the material. Now take a look at this again to see how it works. I have this dark area right here on the tomato, I want to sample this color so I click in the dark area, and now I position the arrow, and the arrow is basically telling ZBrush, all the parts of the 3D model that face the same direction as this arrow, make those parts this dark red color, there we go. Once again I'm going to sample some of this lighter red area up here, so click on this area, reposition the arrow. So just imagine the arrow was a pin coming out from the center of the tomato, and now it's applied to similar areas on the sphere. Do a couple more, let's get some of this pink color here. So I going to select that pink color, and position the arrow and there we can see it's sort of coming out here. We notice that ZBrush has a little preview here, but I find that it doesn't always update precisely, so that's why I'd like to have a 3D object on the canvas already so I can see it update.
Usually spend some time making a bunch of different samples. Let's get something that looks right. I do have some shadowing here, this is part of the material already. Once I have got a basic red color going, looks similar to the tomato, I can start sampling the specular highlights. Specular Highlights are the reflection of the light source. In this case it's a sunlight coming through some trees and being reflected on the surface of the tomato. So to do this I start in the same way, I select my highlight by clicking on it, and then I change my arrow, so it faces about where I think that it should be coming from, and then I hold the Ctrl key and drag, and you can see that I'm creating the tightness of that highlight on the surface, depending on how far I drag. So right about there looks good, and now we see it right on the surface there. Let's do a couple more. Select the highlight, position the arrow, hold the Ctrl key and drag. I'm going to make this one a broader highlight, there we go, another one right here, it looks very broad but I actually kind of like it, it's sort of to look at the reflected light in this scene, so let's do another selection right there.
As I go through sampling the image, I can sample from any part of the image, I can sample the plate, the wooden table, the green wine, any one of the tomatoes. But the whole point of this is, if I want to integrate a 3D object into the image and make it look like its part of the image, that takes a fair amount of work and a lot of tweaking, but that's the eventual goal of this exercise. If I decide that I need to change one of the sample points, you'll see as I'm hovering over the photograph here, you see these little points, these are the sample points I made. Once I've hovered over exactly that point that arrow will appear, I can now click on it and drag, and make it change to how I sampled the image.
This is true for the color samples as well as the specular highlights, I decided to want to make that highlight, broad, I can just hold the Ctrl key and change it. I made it a little tighter there, but that's the basic idea. Where the highlights coming from, maybe I decided I don't like it, so I'm changing it over here. And that's a basic for getting started and creating your own MatCap materials. Once you have something that you like, you will probably want to save the material. To do that go to the Material palette and choose Save. I'm going to save this into the C/Program Files/ Pixologic/Zbrush3/Zstartup/ Materials folder. So that's Program Files/Pixologic/Zbrush3/ZStartup/Materials.
When I do this every time I load ZBrush I'll see the material there in the library. So I'm going to call it tomato. I'm also going to make this material available for download for premium users. There are some modifiers for MatCap materials. Opacity blends between the material and the color applied to the object. So if I change this to green color, you can see it in the Material Sample here, so it's kind of like a blend between the currently selected color, and the material itself.
The color is already a part of this material I prefer to keep that at 100%, but sometimes you can sort of change the quality of the object just by lowering this. These other sliders here are some of the more advanced controls, you can use them with some caution. Making slight adjustments to these controls can affect your material and some interesting and sometimes unexpected ways. I like to start making material just by relying on the way that I've sampled the photograph and see how far I can get with that before playing with any of the modifiers.
So let's quickly take a look at how this tomato material looks on a 3D object. So I'm going to clear the canvas by pressing Ctrl+N, my Document Size right now is fairly large, so let's make it Half, so I'm just pressing the Half button, and say, Yes and we're zoomed up and it actually did make the document it's now half the size just to make it faster when I render the object in best quality. So I'm going to choose my greenMan_v2 model, draw it onto the canvas and we can see our tomato is applied to the object already, and I press F to center the object.
In this case so tomatoes are looking a little bit more like a red paint, but with some extra time spent on the material, I think I can get a very convincing tomato guide. So let's render this in best quality, see how looks. It already looks pretty interesting. I'm a sculpture who works in tomato, that's my medium. There we go, I already have an interesting material going, and once again the lighting, all this lighting is baked into the material itself, it's not dependent on the lighting in this scene. Some of the shadowing will change when you reposition the light, but you will see the direction of the Specular Highlights does not change.
You can share these materials with other users, go to zbrushcentral.com and see what other users have created using their own photographs to make your own MatCap materials.
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At One New Change, you'll find more than 30 cafes, bars and restaurants including plenty of grab and go options. As well as our two anchor restaurants from famed celebrity chefs; Jamie Oliver's Barbecoa and Gordon Ramsay's Bread Street Kitchen. Make sure to stop by our newly opened Wahaca and Burrito Mama for a truly authentic Mexican dining experience.


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"No," the actress, 26, tells Moviefone.com, shooting down any rumblings of an O.C. movie. "I had somebody else ask me that because of Sex and the City the movie, but I was like, 'No.' I'd watch Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Movie, though."
Concerning her former TV colleagues, Bilson, who played Summer Roberts, says, "Mischa [Barton] I actually ran into. But I don't keep in touch with anyone. I'd like to get together with Melinda Clarke and Kelly Rowan. We were all really close."
As for sending a congratulatory message to new mom Rowan, "I haven't even spoken to her!" says Bilson. "I need to send her an e-mail."
Debuting in 2003, The O.C. wrapped up last year. Not that Bilson has slowed down. She's looking forward to movie projects, including an anthology flick titled New York, I Love You, about pick-pocketing.
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Emory Voice Center and MusiCares®
The Emory Voice Center has partnered with MusiCares®, the nonprofit foundation established by the Recording Academy® (the organization responsible for the GRAMMY Awards), to provide vocal health services for musicians in need. MusiCares® provides a safety net for music people in times of financial, medical and personal need though its emergency financial assistance and addiction recovery programs.
The Emory Voice Center will offer consultations and treatments to MusiCares® clients with vocal problems. Emory is the first and only voice center to provide specialized vocal medical care for the music assistance program.
"We are very enthusiastic to partner with MusiCares," says Michael M. Johns, III, MD, director of The Emory Voice Center. "This endeavor will create a unique opportunity for struggling artists with vocal difficulties to have access to the highest-level voice care. Hopefully, this specialized care will help these artists return to their high-level performance. This partnership holds the promise to be a model that could grow to other areas of the U.S. with other voice centers."
Patients are seen by a laryngology physician specialist for diagnosis, then treatment follows, if needed. Speech language pathologists and singing voice specialists work closely with the physicians on each case to assist patients in returning to their livelihood.
"MusiCares is well known in the music community for its resources for individuals facing dire personal or medical situations or those who are in the unrelenting grip of addiction," says Debbie Carroll, LCSW, executive director of MusiCares. "While we have offered vocal health workshops in regions throughout the country in past years, this innovative partnership with The Emory Voice Center will bring much-needed healthcare to our clients and truly extend our ability to help musicians get back to the business of making a living."
Established in 1989 by The Recording Academy, MusiCares provides a safety net of critical assistance for music people in times of need. MusiCares' services and resources cover a wide range of financial, medical and personal emergencies, and each case is treated with integrity and confidentiality. MusiCares also focuses the resources and attention of the music industry on human service issues that directly impact the health and welfare of the music community. For more information, please visit www.musicares.com.
A Voice for Hope
The Emory Voice Center partners with A Voice for Hope (formerly the Oral Head and Neck Cancer Advocacy Foundation of Georgia), a non-profit 501 c(3). The partnership reflects the hard work and dedication from several members of the Emory Voice Center team in collaboration with community healthcare workers, survivors, and others. A Voice for Hope's mission is fourfold: education about the risks of head and neck cancer, large scale community based screenings for early detection of head and neck cancer, training healthcare professional to detect concerning signs of head and neck cancer, and collaboration with other head and neck cancer groups.
Since 2006, we have provided free head and neck cancer screenings to over 500 people every race weekend at the Atlanta Motor Speedway. We trademarked our Screening PITSTOP, developed a training manual to allow other venues to replicate our efforts, and have been invited to other tracks and sporting venues around the country to provide education and screenings. We have published our results and presented them at national and international meetings. In 2010 we began our collaboration with Emory Healthcare to provide screenings during the Emory Healthcare 500. Through the work of the Georgia chapter, A Voice for Hope has become a national movement and has seated a national board. For more information about the group or to volunteer to be part of our efforts, visit mouthandthroatcancer.org or email email@example.com


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NEW PROVIDENCE — Police solved four crimes in two towns on Aug. 25 by tracking a stolen iPhone to the car of the alleged thief.
Charges stem from an investigation that began with a report from a Community Pool member that her driver's side window was smashed and her purse — containing cash, credit cards, gift cards and an iPhone — were stolen.
Patrolman Andrew Diamond tracked the stolen phone to a Springfield Avenue business parking lot in Berkeley Heights, where there was only one person: A man was sitting in a parked vehicle. The officer pulled behind the vehicle and, when the man tried to back out of the spot, stopped him.
With assistance from New Providence and Berkeley Heights police, the stolen iPhone was sent an alert and began beeping from the car's front seat. Police then took the man, identified as Kevin Ritchie, into custody.
Ritchie, 31, of Bernardsville, with two counts of burglary, theft and more.
While this arrest was being made, a woman approached the officers and told them she had just followed Ritchie from the New Providence Methodist Church during Sunday Service where he had been seen walking around the church and day care. She told police she then followed him to the parking lot as officers made contact with him.
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Mixing for FFV2 Complete!
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Flew from Newcastle (UK) to Rome on the day of departure , arranged through RCI. Had driven from down from Scotland the day before. Any worries I had about flying on the day of departure were soon set aside by the wonderful efficient way RCI handled every thing. Were met as soon as we got off the plane and told exactly which carousel to get our luggage from and where to then go meet the rep who would tell us about our transfer bus to the ship.
Once on the bus our rep helped every one fill in the health forms and make sure they knew exactly what to do when they got to the port. Check in was quick and efficient as we followed her past lines of people into the terminal building and direct to the check in desks. Were on board in next to no time and heading for our cabin.
We had an inside cabin on deck 7 (7439 ) just behind the library. Cabin was bigger than I expected with a sofa and coffee table. We had the double bed split and a Pullman bed from the ceiling as there were 3 of us traveling. Wardrobe could have done with being a bit bigger for all our clothes and was glad didnt have any more cases to store but it met our needs. Beds were really comfortable and the whole cabin was spotless and clean. Bath room was small as they always are but had good storage space behind one of the mirrors.
Had read a lot about the Navigator before the cruise and while yes could see a few signs of wear and tear in some areas like the mini golf area on the sports deck etc was amazed people found things to complain about. No the carpets are not 100 % new looking but still in excellent condition. The public areas are kept very clean and well looked after.
The Royal Promenade was not as big as I thought it would be, not to say its not huge lol but images I got from online just made me imagine it being bigger. The cafe there served food 24/7 and was a great place to go get that extra sandwich or cake / cookie in between lunch and dinner.
We had second sitting which was advertised to be 8.30 pm but was however at 9pm. First we knew of this change was our sea pass card which has the seating details printed on it. I did feel this was too late and if I sailed with RCI in the future would do my time dining. We did not get out of the dining room some nights until 10 30 pm and after a long day the though of then going on to do a full show in the theater followed by drinks was just too much.
Food in the dining room was good but not excellent. Every thing was hot and served quickly and our waitress Marichris was great. But despite the fancy write up on the menu the food was not overly inspiring. Every thing was "nice" but nothing blew my socks off. Maybe though I expected too much after all they are catering for 3500 people !
The bars on the ship all seemed to have their own personalities and this was great as there was something for every one. I loved the Champagne bar for pre dinner drinks and my daughter found a second home in the Dungeon disco til 3 am or later many nights. There was always some where to get a seat and a drink some where and the staff at the bars were all very helpful and friendly.
We ate at the WJ on two evenings and the food in there although missing the waitress service was very good. In some ways i preferred it to the main dining room because of the huge choice of meals and options available. The freshly prepared crepes with a choice of fillings were very very yummy :)
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Messina we stayed in town and did our own thing that day , the clock tower and its musical story at 12 noon is very interesting too see , but make sure you visit the church too as its beautiful inside. Found the street sellers just out side the dock a little pushy a firm no seemed to work fine.
Athens , did own thing again and walked to metro station from the ships docking point on dock B. Its a LONG way! We are fit and healthy but by the time we got off the metro and walked up through the Plaka to the main sights we were dreading the walk back.Found Athens to be a very big and sprawling city , the views are amazing but if was to go again would take an organised tour as just took too long and to tiring to get between areas on our own.
Kusadasi , took the ships tour to Ephesus , we chose the one which took in the Roman terraced houses too. Excellent tour with lots of interesting information. The ancient site is amazing and well worth the visit.
Kusadasi itself is very busy but their market i found quite intimidating. Unlike Messina saying no to the traders does not stop them and its impossible to "window shop" as they dont seem to leave you alone.
However if you can get your head around all that the market sells every thing you can think of and is very popular :)
Chania, Crete I think was the best port stop of the trip , however had to back on board by 2.30 so this did not leave much time to do anything. Local bus from port to town takes about 30 mins and is 3 euros return. Excellent service and deff no need to book the shops transport. Chania itself is a charming place and the harbour lovely. Could have sat in the pavement cafe and drunk tea and eaten cake all day and watched the people go by.
Sea days were spent swimming and sun bathing, never got around to going ice skating etc. Daughter did do the rock climbing on the second day and enjoyed it. Entertainment on the ship was very good from what we saw of it, only made the one show in the theatre. The Quest adult game show was the best fun had had in ages :)
Enjoyed our holiday very much and was very sad to leave the ship when we got back to Rome. RCI transfer back to the airport was equally as efficient as arrival, with the reps letting us know exactly which check in desk to go to once we got off the bus etc. Departure from the ship was also well organised and we found our luggage etc all very easily.
Rome airport itself is a bit of a Zoo and security checks are long and very thorough so be prepared to wait but it is a huge airport so to be expected.
Would deff cruise with RCI again and would go back on the Navigator any time.


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The role of the public works director has been a topic of much discussion over the past 10 years, and is certainly a key issue among the members of APWA.
Why? Because in many communities, the role of the public works director is changing dramatically. At one time, all of the decisions regarding a municipality's public works operations were made internally-the public works director would decide what work needed to be performed, and his or her decision was often final.
Now we have become far more customer oriented and community focused. Modern public works directors spend far more time out in the community building consensus, and the city council or board of supervisors often make what many people in the past considered pure engineering decisions. Because of this, public speaking and facilitating skills, along with the ability to build consensus among diverse areas of the community, have become more important to the public works director than ever before.
In my mind, the main responsibilities of the public works director are to provide the basic services to the citizens and maintain the basic infrastructure. The infrastructure may change from city to city or county to county, but essentially it all comes down to looking after the infrastructure and providing the day-to-day services to the people we serve.
In dealing with these responsibilities, the modern public works director obviously faces a number of challenges. Unfunded mandates is one such challenge-due to Stormwater Phase II, many communities needing to devote more attention and perform a higher level of maintenance to water quality than ever before are not seeing a funding source. Also, many public works directors are challenged by aging infrastructure and the need to invest major capital dollars to repair and maintain the existing infrastructure. Others are dealing with the massive problems of growth, and having to provide the infrastructure that is needed for their rapidly growing communities.
One way for the public works director to deal with these challenges is to network with his or her peers. Certainly, being able to physically visit other communities and talk with peers to see what they are doing is important. Being able to attend Congress-to network and see what is new in the world of public works-is equally important. Finally, being able to post questions and responses on APWA's infoNOW Communities is a wonderful opportunity for public works directors to share the knowledge they have gained through experience and education.
The role of the public works director is also being changed due to the computer. In fact, computers will be the biggest change that we will face in the next 10 years and, while it will be a very positive change, it will be a very expensive change as well. To be realistic, the computer is going to change the way we work. We are already seeing it happen-the instant demand for information by our citizens and customers is requiring us to examine how we do everything each day. Through the use of web sites, the ability to make real-time information available to all of our customers is something that is going to be demanded by our citizens in the very near future. In many cases, it already is.
There will always be a certain level of manual labor in public works, but the computer and computerized equipment are going to make us much more efficient than we have ever been, and will allow us to do more with less. As we watch the evolving products, services, and information coming to us via APWA InfoLink and the Internet, 2001 will be a year of dramatic change of what is available to us as public works professionals.


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Another Smokin Superpark thread
I'm aware there's already a ton of threads about the Superpark, I just wanted to make sure and ask one last time before I pull the trigger. I read all the reviews I could find, here's what it comes down to the way I see it:
It's a park board that'll keep you standing all over the mountain.
It'd cost me considerably less than a Mervin or other brand board with identical or similar technology/profile. Also, it's fugly, but that's nothing a bunch of stickers can't fix:)
Does that sound about right? I guess there's always gonna be some sort of compromise when you're shopping for an allmountain board that's supposed to be able to handle absolutely everything you throw at it.
429Euro incl shipping for a 2012/13 Smokin Superpark (152).
Height/weight: 172cm/68kg. Skills/experience: Over ten weeks, but I thought myself everything, and I guess it shows. I'm still a noob in the park, just started to get interested in rails and small jumps two seasons ago. It took a while to grow the balls I guess:)
I'm addicted to pow, but I very very rarely get the chance to ride anything but hardpack/ice/groomers.
For obvious reasons I'm particularly interested to hear from the UK/EU guys here, though I guess the EU crowd isn't the big around here.
What do you guys think? Safe choice for an intermediate rider? Decent price?
You won't find many of us UK folk around, guess it's the lack of resorts has put our boarder population pretty low. As for EU, I find the Alps tends to be pretty good for pow, so you might get a chance if you head over to Frogland.
As for the board, I've never tried it so I can't comment. I was in a similar boat to you, as in I wanted a park board that would hold up all-mountain, but I settled for an Arbor Westmark (; Offers a lot more than the Draft, and you can't complain at rocker when it comes to pow.
- Despite the name the Superpark is not really primarily a park board. I would describe it as a super playful all-mountain board or maybe a park-all-mountain crossover board. Basically a better version of the Lib-Tech TRS.
- 152 a bit on the short side, unless the vast majority of your riding is park. Going up one size will help with stability at speed and float in pow.
It's just that the deal I'm talking about is for that one 152 board, it's a clearout sale or something, and they don't have any other sizes available. Other places I found that have the same deck in bigger sizes (or a 153 Lib Tech TRS for that matter) are all asking 550Euro or more:s
Note: All of the above (including my previous post) assumes you are looking at the CTX/Clash Rocker version of the Superpark. If it is the traditional camber option then you should almost definitely go bigger.
You may be right about the rager size, but for someone who's used to riding a 152 board and still is a noob in the park, the diea of riding a 156 deck is kinda terriffying:s
My pow dilemma: I wouldn't ride anything else if I could, but the sad truth is that I hardy ever get the chance to ride any pow at all:s
I may just have had bad luck the last couple of seasons, the mountains I been to are normally overlown with powder, but I'm still not sure it's a good idea to blow my heard earned money on a slighlty clumsy and park-unfriendly board:s
I'd go with the 152 to keep it playful in the park.
The majority of your pow floatation is gonna come from the board's hybrid profile than the overall surface area.
I have quite the lineup for smokin in my family. We get stupid deals from the company. I have 2 kt-22 boards, 1 best buds. My son has 2 hooligans, 1 buck ferton, 1 super park. My wife has a vixen.
The ctx is a great all around base profile. Magnatrac works great in all conditions. The newer boards(2011/12/13) are all pretty light weight. The 156 seems like the board you should get.... The hooligan is also a great all around board with their dirt rocker geared more to park. Buck ferton is a awesome all mountain board and a little less stiff than the super park. Super park I would put in the all mountain that works in the park category for sure.....
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Series Preview: Western Semifinals, SAS vs LAC
This preview will be segmented into three parts — first the overall statistical comparison, three matchups the series may ride on, and closing thoughts (along with my pick, as well as the picks of all our writers). Should be a good time. Let's get to it.
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Extremely convoluted table, here. This summarizes the statistical performance of four separate teams, assessed on a per-possession basis through the four factors statistics. A primer on the stats: POSS is the number of possessions, Off/Def Eff is the offensive and defensive efficiency of the team, EFG% is the effective field goal percentage of the team (a derivative of FG% incorporating the added value of threes), TOR is the turnover rate of a team (lower is better!), ORR is the offensive rebound rate of a team, and FTR is the free throw rate of a team. For the four teams, I've chosen to show three variations on the San Antonio statistics (the whole-season stats, the last-third stats, and the vs LAC stats) as well as the statistics for the Los Angeles Clippers (which is placed with a red background to differentiate it). To provide an easier-to-digest way to analyze this monstrous table, here are two graphs. We'll start by looking at San Antonio, from a high level view.
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First, the Spurs offense against the Clipper defense.
A few items of note. The offensive attack the Spurs relied on was primarily rooted in shooting the ball really, really well. The Clippers hardly had a fantastic defense, finishing 10th in the league in EFG% allowed. Despite that, each incarnation of the Spurs absolutely blew the average shooting percentage of a Clipper opponent out of the water, and this led to the Spurs' incredible offensive numbers against the Clippers in the regular season — their mark of 114 points per 100 possessions is absolutely incredible, and if the Spurs maintain that clip in this series, the Clippers may be done for. In the regular season, the Clippers were generally very good at cutting off the opposing attack by forcing turnovers, ranking 9th in the league at forcing opposing turnovers. Unfortunately for the Clippers, the Spurs happen to be the 3rd best team in the league at taking care of the ball. In a contest between the Clippers' excellent turnover production and the Spurs' excellent ball control, the Clippers lost out — in 3 games this season, they forced turnovers on 5% fewer possessions than their season average. On the other hand, the Clippers ended up with a notable upper hand in their defensive rebounding — Blake, DeAndre, and Evans absolutely shut down the offensive boards for the Spurs, forcing the Spurs well below their season average. The Clippers also were able to avoid fouling as much as they do against the average team against the Spurs, with San Antonio shooting almost 7% fewer free throws per minute than the average Clipper opponent. Keeping the Spurs away from free points will be a major key to the Clippers' chances of staying competitive in this series. Now, let's look at the Clipper offense versus the San Antonio defense.
This is where Spurs fans may be entitled to concern. While the Spurs were hardly a wonderful defensive team in the early going this season, the Clippers consistently picked apart the Spurs defense like few other teams did this season. They were overall relatively competitive in their three game gauntlet against the Silver and Black this year, losing by only 3 points on a fluke overtime-forcing miscue by Chris Paul in Los Angeles and serving the Spurs one of their five home losses on the year in a rout right before Jackson arrived. These numbers would tend to show why. The Spurs hardly held the Clippers to anything, as they allowed the Clips to shoot less than 1% under their season average. That would be fine, if the Spurs were forcing turnovers or keeping the Clippers off the line — unfortunately, they weren't. The Clippers foul rate against the Spurs in this season's three game series would have rated out as the #1 rate in the league, a smidgen ahead of the Oklahoma City Thunder. The only thing the Spurs did notably well against the Clippers on the defensive end was eliminate second shot opportunities, taking the Clippers from their 4th-in-the-league offensive rebounding rate to a more paletable number that (over a full season) would rank decidedly middle-of-the-pack.
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Having looked at the macro-matchup from a high level, we turn to three key player matchups.
MATCHUP #1: EVERYONE BUT DUNCAN vs BLAKE GRIFFIN
All things considered, I'd assess this to be the most important matchup of the series. This isn't because I'm any fan of Griffin, mind you — I outlined before the season that offhandedly outlined why I don't particularly like him, and followed that up with a midseason post affirming my preseason suspicions. Blake is a preening half-star, an Amar'e-style big man whose defensive contributions are often less than zero. He's not at all a good defender, he's an outright terrible one. And he spends far too many possessions isolating in the midrange despite his dominant at-rim power game that he can employ on virtually every big man in the league. A player like Blake should not be shooting almost 5 shots a game outside of 10 feet. He simply shouldn't. It's insane that he does, and a mark of a player that isn't paying attention to how he can really take his game to the next level.
All that said? Griffin is a player that can absolutely kill you if you don't cut off his path to the rim. Like Amar'e in his Nash-fueled heyday, Griffin gets buckets on an insane 74% of his attempts at the rim. I'd love to tell you that the Spurs did an excellent job shutting him down, but that wouldn't be true. Blake shot 24-39 on painted area shots against the Spurs this season. The biggest problem is not (as some might expect) Tim Duncan's defense — when Duncan and Griffin shared the court, Griffin shot just 10-20 at the rim, indicating that Duncan's savvy was able to push Griffin out of position and keep him from getting the easy baskets he feasted on in the regular season. Duncan's poor shooting against Griffin may have been a fluke — to these eyes, the poor shooting from Duncan seemed more rooted in fatigue. (Though I'll get into a darker possibility in my closing comments.) The real issue when it comes to defending Griffin? Everyone other than Duncan.
With Duncan on the bench, Griffin made 7 of 9 shots at the rim, taking special care to destroy DeJuan Blair — with Blake and Blair sharing the court, Griffin scored on 9 of 15 shots in the restricted area, and an absurd 6 of 7 shots in the painted area. Tiago Splitter did an even worse job in fewer minutes, allowing Blake to go 4-6 from the painted area altogether. In a paragraph sure to set the comments page aflame, it's worth noting that Matt Bonner did better in the regular season at defending Blake than all but Tim, forcing Griffin into an 8-15 performance from that area. The problem with Bonner isn't the defense, which he does adequately — it's the rebounding, which he emphatically doesn't. With Bonner on the court, Blake averaged a pedestrian 19.3 points on 43% shooting per 36 minutes. Certainly a solid defensive performance, if you ignore the fact that he also averaged 17.6 rebounds per 36 minutes. THAT'S painful. And endemic of the problem facing the Spurs. Other than Duncan, absolutely no one on this roster has shown an aptitude for countering Blake Griffin. At best, Bonner turns him into a 20-18 player who kills us on the glass but doesn't kill us on the block. For every minute Duncan isn't on Blake, the Clippers will have a run available to them. Barring a miracle of rotation science from Professor Popovich, the Spurs are going to have far more trouble keeping Blake under wraps than they had in the first round with the Utah rotation.
MATCHUP #2: TONY PARKER vs BLAKE GRIFFIN
This is where the Spurs can — potentially — turn a close series into a blowout. The Clippers are a poor defensive team, but they're especially poor at helping on penetrating guards, and ESPECIALLY poor at it when Griffin is on the court. To wit? See these numbers. When Blake was on the floor, Tony Parker averaged an insane 25-3-10 per 36 minutes, on 60% shooting that included 9-12 from the painted area, 6-11 from midrange, and two missed threes. The only true blowout the Clippers' enacted on the Spurs this season came with Parker absent. If Tony Parker can produce consistently dominant play in this series against what may be the absolute weakest penetration defense the Spurs can possibly face in the playoffs, the Spurs will win this series. Rather handily.
MATCHUP #3: THE PAUL FACTOR vs THE GINOBILI FACTOR
Chris Paul — when healthy — is one of the 3 best basketball players on earth. Manu Ginobili — when healthy — is one of the 3 best shooting guards on the planet. The problem for both teams? Neither of these players is 100% healthy right now. Manu spent the first round looking like he needed an IV half the time, and Chris Paul looked like he made his team actively worse in the last two games of the first round. Both of these players are about as far off the reservation as they've ever been, entering a playoff series. Neither team knows quite what they're going to get from their erstwhile star and overall best player. The real question — and the one that can swing a series — is what they can do when they're hobbled. And in this case, I don't like saying it, but I do think the Clippers have a pretty strong advantage here. Chris Paul flops like a baby seal when healthy — if you take his health to darker places, do you really think the referees aren't going to toss him a bone? He's Chris Paul, playing for a Los Angeles team. Of course he's going to get the calls. I don't think it would be altogether unexpected if Paul averages 10 free throw attempts a game in this series. Regardless of how poorly he plays otherwise, if he stays injured, the free throw / foul factor are those that can make blowouts close and close games lean their way. And it's the advantage the Clippers will — if Vinny Del Negro does anything right — look to use.
• • •
I waffled on my pick for quite some time. Originally, believe it or not, it was Spurs in 7. I realize that this could be portrayed as a lack of confidence in the Spurs — I wouldn't quite call it that, myself. I think the Spurs are the best team in the playoffs this year, and I think that — all things equal — they can beat any team in the NBA in a 7 game series right now. They're playing incredibly well right now. They sport the best defense in the western conference, the best offense of any team still playing for keeps, and they're rested. So, you might ask, why would I have this series as anything other than a gentleman's sweep? Three core reasons.
- Chris Paul. Even if you assume he's in a state of disrepair for games 1 and 2 (an assumption I'm not 100% on board with), the Chris Paul of today is in a better place to slice the Spurs to pieces than the Chris Paul of 2008 — his step-back jumper is better than ever, and if you think back, the main strategy Pop used to contain him in 2008 was to limit his repertoire to his step-back and not much else. If Pop does that again, the Spurs are in trouble. And in a close game, there's not a single player in the league other than a healthy Manu I'd rather have in my corner than a seething Chris Paul. And don't lie to yourself. That man is ALWAYS seething.
- Reggie Evans is the dirtiest player in the league, and although it may be blasphemy to say so, I'm worried about Duncan. If there's any cadre of players in the league that I wouldn't trust in a 7 game series, I'd take Andrew Bynum's feckless rage over the calculated antics of Evans, Paul, and Butler over the course of a series. Evans virtually never gets called for takedowns, punches, and the strikings of a generally lower-tier big man's ruthless impotent rage. He's not as big as Bynum, but he hits just about as hard. And Paul (for all his positives) absolutely loves the special kind of flop where you flail your arms into your defender's face and "hope" they don't get the "incidental" contact. I'm worried about what Evans does to Duncan's knees, and what Paul does to Manu's nose, and what the rest of the Clippers' do on the dead-ball fouls and out-of-line contact that rarely gets called for that Clipper team.
- The Clippers showed in the Memphis series that they can play a physical, knock-down style of ball. In last year's attempt to conquer that style, various members of the Spurs did a poor job reacting to that — Tony Parker stopped producing, Duncan's shot left him, and the bench laid down. This Clippers team is in no way as good a defensive team as that Memphis team, but keeping with point two, it's certainly possible they choose to play dirty defense instead of good defense. And in the end, it's certainly possible that has the same effect, and shuts down the Spurs offense. Thus turning what should be a hilariously easy series to the Spurs into a battle.
In the end, I cut down my prediction to Spurs in 6. Because despite all this, the Spurs are the better team. We've been playing incredible defense as of late, and our offense has been even better. Telling Gregg Popovich to outsmart Vinny Del Negro is like using your Buick as a flyswatter. And even though Blake Griffin performed well against our bench big men and the Clippers have Chris Paul, the Spurs have an unpredictable team concept and are without question a better team than the team that went 2-1 against the Clippers earlier in the year, with our only loss coming without Tony Parker. In the statistical sense, the best bet for this series (accounting for a banged up Paul and a busted up Griffin) would be a five game Spurs win. I'll give them another game, because while I'm not altogether afraid of the Clippers, I'm afraid of Reggie Evans and I think Chris Paul's twenty six thousand free throw attempts per game will probably swing a game or two. But even though I get ill tidings from this series, I can't possibly pick the Clippers for more. Spurs in 6.
(And between you and me? I really hope I'm overestimating the buggers. I do not like the Clippers, sam I am.)
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