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HYPE: *AMMO*Posted by Harvey Soto | AMMO, Manny Santiago, Spanish Mike | No Comments
Check out this *AMMO* edit from The Berrics
Check out this *AMMO* edit from The Berrics
The *AMMO* Troop took a trip to Mexico to premiere Diego Najera's video part. Get a little street skating in, & do a demo. Zarape Distribution took us around Mexico City, & here is a recap of our couple days worth of fun. Special thanks to Flat Fitty & Famous for co sponsoring our trip… Viva Mexico!
Diego Najera recently just dropped his welcome to *AMMO* skateboards part a couple weeks back. He had some leftover clips that he wanted to donate our way for a Slay Sunday. He rips & is the future of skateboarding.
Follow him on Instagram @sdiegonajera
FTV jumped on tour with Famous Family members Manny Santiago & Felix to check out their *AMMO* skateboards demo in Mexico City DF. Everywhere we go, the Family shows up & Mexico was no different. Shout out to all the kids repping Famous in Mexico City. Javier Nunez & Deigo Najera for the guest tricks, Mexico we will see you soon FAMILIA! Follow @Mannyslaysall, @Onefelix, & @IwantMyFTV for more daily action!
In just a few months, 18 year old Diego Najera has produced a video part that will go down in the history books as one of the best parts of 2013. Born in El Centro, east of San Deigo, he has been skateboarding most of his life & it shows through his effortless style & dominance of his skateboard. *AMMO* proudly introduces SDiego to the *TROOP* on this #CINCODEMAYO… VIVA MEXICO! Make sure to send him a message to @SDiegoNajera on Twitter or Instagram!
Setting up some new BLISS wheels & ANDALE bearings before the session!
Showed up to the Zarape Shop and there was so many kids waiting for the signing/video premier.
These two kids showed up at 6am to wait in line for the signing, so wild!
Everyone was super hyped on Diego's welcome to *AMMO* "Cinco De Mayo" part.
Jonny rolled his ankle jumping down some big ass stairs today, he's out for the rest of the trip. :-/
yupp Javier Nuñez getting switch on this Hubba, *AMMO* In Mexico video coming soon…
All new *AMMO* Spring 2013 stuff out now at www.ammousa.com at the "Surplus Store"
I still can't believe it has been three years since I turned pro & started skating for *AMMO*. This was my welcome commercial. Share!
Here's my new music video for "Actin' Up" from my upcoming "Oh Hey What's Up Man II" mixtape. A share would be greatly appreciated. Produced by Table 22 Productions! – Harvey Soto
Harvey Soto (Music Page)
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Head over to Http://mannyslaysall.bigcartel.com/ for any MSA product. They ship world wide!
Head over to the @MIAskateshop in Miami where they have two *AMMO* boards left for only $40!


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THE EFFICACY of various dextrans as plasma-volume expanders has been well established. Commercial dextran solutions have proved to be safe and effective plasma-volume expanders, but the many chemical procedures required in producing dextran of proper molecular weight for clinical use makes the product rather expensive.
A single bacterial strain (Streptococcous sp., Strain DS-50) has been found which has the unique property of converting sucrose directly into a dextran of the appropriate clinical molecular weight. Clinical evaluation of this new dextran as a plasma expander was undertaken in 25 subjects. Immediate volume expansion, expansion maintenance, disappearance from the circulation, renal excretion, and efficacy in clinical shock were determined. In addition, patients were monitored for any allergic, anaphylactic, or other toxic manifestations.
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A batch of Streptococcus-50 dextran was produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It was then processed and bottled as a 5.8% solution by a private laboratory,
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You must do a reclaimiad commercials.
You can have the dad with a glass of it says "mmm, goes good with Soylent Green'. Then the wife says "Goes good with Soylent anything, honey.' The the both laugh in a slightly manic way.
Hey! Only one reused pose in the whole comic!
(I'd eat there, by the way)
Can I preorder tickets?
Panel 4 took it into searing social critique.
That said, I'd love to attend a futuristic dinner evening. As long as it didn't involve societal divisions- but I'm just a romantic, I guess.
Fantastic! I wager ten quatloos on the newcomers. Question is, do the Thralls get a trainer with teased blonde hair and a skimpy silver outfit? I'd be on that team if it weren't for those pesky pain collars. . .
George Lucas will now open a Star Wars-themed Futuristic Times thanks to this. (I'd go)
Still can't believe of the 100,000,000 web pages blocked by the Australian Defence Force network...after all these years I'm still reading BI on my lunch breaks.
Hey Scott, if you and your programming hand ever have a spare moment, how about a 'random comic' button? They're great for sifting through for entertainment without going through the inevitable patches of comics that are really famililar.
Overlords and Thralls... how is that futuristic compared to today's society?
Who exactly are these two guys that Scott repeatedly gets to listen to his schemes?
Note from Scott: Their looks are based on the founders of Jet City Improv. Missy used to be a member, ant as such they were subjected to my ideas. They both showed great patience.
The only Thrall I know is from Warcraft. Do you play Warcraft?
Bread and circuses. Nope, the thralls will never fall for that.
My favorite part is your pained expression when you deliver the punchline. And that it sounds like something I would say in everyday conversation. Brilliant as always.
Reminds me of the political trading game Starpower.
How about a futuristic version of 'The Holy Land Experience' complete with a Space Pope, Xeno-Cardinals and tentacle nuns?
The Chosen One: Overlords and Thralls... how is that futuristic compared to today's society?
Their names are accurate.
Liz: As long as it didn't involve societal divisions- but I'm just a romantic, I guess.
But think how spicy it'd be for an Overlord to canoodle with a Thrall! Of course the Thrall would be executed immediately if they were found out, but that just adds to the spice. And probably to the Reclaimaid.
Every B.I. comic is the best, but this one is the most best.
I think I'm getting a little too out of touch with current society to follow BI much of the time. Had no idea what you were alluding to, so I googled "medieval times dinner" and came up with this claim:
"Over the years, Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament has become an iconic part of American culture..."
Wow. Iconic already, but not until BI mentions it do I hear of it.
On second thought, this is one reason for me to keep reading BI. How else will I keep up on the pop culture things I'm expected to know?
It's the first comic with a 2012 watermark!
My excitement. It cannot be contained.
From the Wikipedia "Thrall (Old Norse þræll) was the term for a serf or unfree servant in Scandinavian culture during the Viking Age. Thralls were the lowest in the social order and usually provided unskilled labor during the Viking era."
So actually around a little bit before World of Warcraft.
I also wish to pre-order tickets.
The Chosen One- Yeah, it's not totally futuristic. It's pretty old-fashioned in fact- positively Viking! Literally!
A truely brilliant idea. One question - How will you divide the teams? Will it be random? Will overlord tickets cost more? This needs to be considered.
Don't be sipping coffee when you read the comment about tentacle-nuns. That was almost a spit-take!
mmm....pain collars. Forgot about the pain collars.
Tickets, please?
It's not the first comic with a 2012 copyright. If you were a true copyright connoisseur you would know that, Krills. :p We've visited 2012 before and returned to 2011 and now we're in 2012 again, but will it last? The suspense is suspenseful!
-Cougar :{)
According to Ira Glass, jousting at a Medieval Times restaurant is more popular than public radio in the U.S.
Hm. Let me try again: In the world of today, if you make over a million dollars a year, you're an overlord. If you do not, congratulations, your life is the definition of the word "thrall".
There is an episode of Lexx with a extremely similar premise. Only the "Reclaimed" was called "Pattern". It was also green.


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Dairy farmers and their products offer the greatest potential
in the livestock industry. This group is responsible for the
orderly development of the Dairy Industry in Jamaica. In
addition, it concerns itself with the scientific production of
milk, through careful and planned selection of dairy cows to
constantly improve output in both volume and quality.
The development of Beef Herds through selective breeding
programmes and other scientific measures has always been
a main function of this group. By working closely with
government- sponsored projects over the years, they have
achieved success in establishing a quality Beef Herd in
Jamaica that measures up to the highest level of
international standards.
The quality of Jamaican Herds has been such that there
was actually a lucrative market for breeding animals to
such markets as;
Trinidad and Tobago,
And other Central and South American countries.
However, like many other third- world countries, these
importers have been faced with the scarcity of foreign
exchange, leading to a fall-off in this trade. Nevertheless,
this group continued by artistically aligning their prices, and
by offering superior commercial arrangements for the local
The formation of this group within the Association several
years ago, marked the start of an organized pig industry,
and JLA is continually working towards the orderly
development of this industry. Feeding and Breeding
programmes are constantly being streamlined in programmes
planned to increase yield and quality.
Today, the Pig Industry has expanded sufficiently to support
the activities of several commercial pork product processors,
such as sausages, bacon and ham.
The Jamaica Livestock Association, through its Hatchery
(The JLA Hatchery Limited), is the prime supplier of day-old
chicks to independent poultry farmers who produce an estimated 30%- 40% of Jamaica poultry meat requirements. The JLA safeguards the interest of their poultry farmers by guarding against unnecessary importation of poultry products and regulating importation in times of shortages; such as that which occurred immediately after Hurricane Gilbert in1988 and again in 2004 after the devastating events of Hurricanes Charley and Ivan.
During those economically challenging periods, The
Jamaica Livestock Association, imported eggs for distribution through the farmers to retail outlets, until production returned to normal.
Through its commercial operations, the JLA supplies at
competitive prices, all the requirements of these independent
poultry farmers; from day-old chicks and feeds to feeders,
waterers, laying boxes, mesh wire, health care products and
The Association's Field Representatives are in constant
touch with these farmers, giving them the advice they need to make their business profitable.
Farmers raising goats, sheep and rabbits receive guidance and assistance in every area. The Association has a continuing programme to popularize rabbit farming, and improve the breed of goats now raised by farmers islandwide.
On a continuing basis, the JLA encourages farmers to improve their stock through the introduction of breeds that have proven to be high producers of meat and milk, and are suitable to the tropical climate and feeds available.
The local agricultural sector has been the mainstay of the
Jamaican economy, since time immemorial. Jamaican farmers
have played a major role in helping to feed the nation and save vital foreign exchange through the production of import
substitutions. It stands to reason then, that our farmers should be duly recognized and their wellbeing and interests protected. This is the mission of the Jamaica Livestock Association – keep watch on the farmer's behalf.
Many hurdles have been overcome since the days when decontrol in the sector was being negotiated with government. Today with decontrol of beef, poultry and more recently milk, farmers are able to set more realistic profit margins in the often times unpredictable circumstances of the agro-business sector.
The JLA monitors the importation of foreign produce like
meats and other food stuff that might unfairly compete with and jeopardize the interests of local farmers.
Custom duties on farming supplies and motor vehicles are also important areas which are negotiated at governmental levels to ensure and safeguard profitability. High lending rates and the availability of loans impact greatly on agriculture and farming projects. Wherever possible the JLA intercedes in the interest of farmers.
The Jamaica Livestock Association is also instrumental in assisting government to formulate agricultural policies from time to time. As a representative body, the JLA has earned the respect of its members, the wider community and successive governments as it continues to carry on the task of developing agriculture and representing the welfare of the farming community.


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Riding In High 50's Weather
Hitting the local hill tomorrow. No terrain park, no advanced terrain at all actually but any chance to plank down a mountain and I'm down. My buddy is bringing his girl so I'll prolly be riding greens and some blues all day. Good chance to practice my ground tricks if you ask me! :D Anyways, Last time I rode it was like 64 and I was just wearing my water proof outer layer and still sweat like a hooker in church. What would you guys suggest so I'm not miserably hot but still not uncomfortably wet. I was considering a Zippy I wear on cold mornings or just a layer of UA cold gear with a double layered T-Shirt.
Just dont crash and then you can ride in a speedo if you want :laugh:
But seriously T shirt and shorts and dont crash and your fine
prolly still wear my board pants but t shirt sounds like the plan.
Yeah Ive also seen people wear really thin long sleeves or like button up long sleeves
Where you headed?
Dude if your riding the icecoast and its spring conditions, long sleeve, or short sleev if ya dont crash. I got some narly road rash from icecoast conditions. It was in the 60's !
Anyways, we're just gonna hit ober one last time before they close sunday. They have this really nice bank that acts as a 1/4 pipe, so it's a good spot to practice handplants(season goal).
I would have rather hit sugar, but he didn't want to have his girl up there if it turned to a sheet of ice like last week. I'm sure it was above freezing that night, but something about when the groomer runs and the sun goes down, I swear there is no soft snow to be found. At least that was the case last thursday night. Plus ober does free college passes on wednesday.
Snowshoe is doing $149 for two nights stay and passes this weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who's in?!?!?!?!?!?!??????????????
Snowshoe Mountain - Hot Deals
Oh, and temps will be freezing starting tonight and into the weekend!
^^^^ That's tempting! Too bad I gotta finish paying my tuition this weekend.
So today was a bust! There are rocks all over the place, like some little kid just picked up handfulls of rocks and threw them all over the slopes. I took one ride down and decided it wasn't worth wrecking my base forever. I've never seen anything like it. Probably try to get a couple days in next week(spring break) anybody personally seen sugar, cat, or beech lately?
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Use a combination of wood distressing and decoupage techniques to make this trinket box, perfect for storing small adornments, such as earrings or rings. This cute wooden box also makes a great gift box for a small piece of jewelry for moms, friends, or sisters.
- Square wooden trinket box
- Napkin with suitable flowers printed on them
- Mod Podge
- Water-based varnish
- Acrylic paint in the following colors: white, flesh, sweet memories (bright pink) and pale gold
- Grey felt
- One natural wooden bead
- Fine paint brush
- Hairdryer
- Pair of standard scissors
- Fine sanding paper
- Old dry cloth
- Few sheets of old newspapers to protect the working area
- Strong bonding glue
- Sandpaper the whole box thoroughly, and dust well with a dry cloth.
Add a distressed, rustic look to the wood:
- Apply single coats of the white, flesh, sweet memories and pale gold acrylic paint in random areas, one at a time, allowing each layer to dry before adding the next color. Use the sandpaper again to rough up and partially remove some of the paint.
Cover the inside of the box with felt. Make sure that the felt is glued thoroughly into all the edges and corners.
- To protect the paint from wear and tear, add a layer of water-based varnish to the box and dry with the hairdryer.
Making the Lid
Sandpaper the whole lid thoroughly, and dust well with a dry cloth.
Add a distressed, rustic look to the wood, using the same technique and paints as for the bottom of the box. Allow to dry thoroughly before continuing with step 3.
Cut out the flowers from the napkin and decide how they will be arranged on the lid.
Remove the bottom layers from all the napkin cutouts.
Put the first cutout in place and paint a substantial amount of Mod Podge over the top of the cutout, so that it will stick to the lid.
Use the hairdryer to dry the cutout.
Repeat steps 5-6 with the other cutout.
With the brush, paint a thin layer of Mod Podge over the top of the lid. The Mod Podge will protect the flower cutouts and give the product a smoother finish.
Dry the lid with the hairdryer.
Repeat steps 8-9 ~ you need to apply at least 5 coats of Modge Podge, but remember that with every layer, the direction in which the Modge Podge is applied, must be changed from horizontal to vertical to horizontal, etc. Also, remember that after every layer of Mod Podge, the lid must first be dried thoroughly with the hairdryer.
Add a layer of water-based varnish to the top of the lid and dry thoroughly with the hairdryer. Now do the same with the bottom of the lid.
Paint the wooden bead with the sweet memories paint. Allow to dry, and then add some detail with the pale gold acrylic paint.
Paint the wooden bead with water-based varnish and allow to dry.
Glue the wooden bead to the top of the lid, using strong bonding glue.
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text: Eugene Obello is an insufferable boor, an overeducated pedant whose every turn of phrase is condescending enough to curdle milk. But that doesn't stop the unnamed protagonist of Marx's hilarious first novel from loving him dearly, obsessing over him for a decade and allowing him to ruin her life. Eugene is fond of sentences like "Apollinaire said sickness is the vacation of the poor"—typical of his elitism, and, in context, very funny. Surely, only a woman blinded—or deafened—by love could lust for a creature who spoke like that. The novel follows Marx's protagonist from her days as a Ph.D. candidate at Cambridge, where she meets Eugene, to her stint as a New York writer on Taped But Proud, a Saturday Night Live-esque show, where she continues to pine. Eventually, the one-sided love story leads to a dead-end of an affair that helps the (still-single) heroine realize that Eugene might make a sorry husband after all. Marx, a former SNL writer herself, has a wonderfully understated sense of comic timing; her humor is dry, self-effacing and cynical without being bitter. Anyone who's ever listened to someone else complain about the unreciprocated love of their life will read Marx's debut with an appreciative eye—and undoubtedly laugh out loud.


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January Deadline
National Science Foundation - Summer Undergraduate Research. This site posts information about programs around the country. Interested students can access a list of institutions around the country as well as information on the area of research at the institution and how to contact each institution.
Search by major - all sciences including social, behavioral and economic sciences - Deadlines Vary - December - April. Most deadlines fall between January and March 15th.
McLaughlin Research Institute in Great Falls - Check out opportunities for Undergraduates
Applications for the summer are usually due in late march to early April
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AMGEN Scholars - . See each university's summer research program website for more information.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Our program gives undergraduates an opportunity to spend 10 weeks during the summer doing research as an intern in the lab of a mentor at Janelia Farm.
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Beyond Pasta: 10 Delicious Polenta and Risotto Dishes
Italian cuisine all week, here at The Kitchn, but we admit that it's been a little pasta-heavy so far. So let's turn our attention to the other two starchy dishes that Italians have perfected, and that we love exceedingly: Polenta and risotto. Polenta, of course, is a simple dish made with fine or coarse cornmeal (you can make it with pretty much any cornmeal in your kitchen) and as such it's the European cousin of grits. It's cooked in boiling water, milk, or stock, and it makes a wonderful base for toppings of spicy greens, pulled meats, or sauces. Risotto is the stirred rice dish that has a reputation for being quite finicky — but honestly, we've never had a truly awful risotto. Almost any rice, cooked gradually in boiling chicken or vegetable stock and finished with cheese, is going to be great. Here are a few favorite polenta and risotto dishes from our archives — we're looking forward to revisiting these even more frequently as the weather cools.


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The Power of Blogs to Circumvent Virtual Fire Walls
The independent Burmese media outlet Irrawaddy has yesterday reported 450,000 page views on its blog during the period of one month after its launch, although the number of unique visitors can be expected to be much lower. According to its creators, the blog was found to be "more user-friendly" than the main site and therefore used as easily accessible news source.
Notably, a high number of page views is explained by visits from Burmese authorities who are said to be using Russian proxies. This group, I may add, presumably includes also Burmese individuals who were sent to Russia for training.
While the data would probably require deeper research to reinforce these conclusions about the origin of visitors, it does not sound too absurd that people who are working for the Burmese regime use blogs as sources of critical information in order to avoid the well-known sites of Burmese exile media. Going there would make it quite easy to track down the visitor.
It has often been noted that closed societies share experiences in many aspects. I remember a story that a Czech language teacher has told us students: During the Cold War time it was almost impossible to get hold of forbidden literature in Communist Czechoslovakia. It is therefore not hard to imagine the surprise of Czech and Slovak exchange students who came to Moscow – considered the center and the showpiece of the Communist world – and found in official Russian libraries, neatly sorted in the shelves, all the authors who were banned at home. The reason for this being either that Czech and Slovak languages were not understood, or not being monitored by the Russian library personnel or that the lists of banned authors were not shared between the authorities of Communist countries.
So there is one more thing that Burmese blogs can do: They can make critical information available in an unsuspicious way to people who are working for the regime.
Not only politics has proven that proxies tend to be difficult to control. It is a bizarre side-effect of the regime's cooperation with Russia that while the Burmese junta his hiding behind Russian Internet routers, also their use of Russian education for their experts constitutes some kind of "informational proxy" through which news can flow without being traced from Naypyidaw.
This is a lesson that Moscow should be able to share with Naypyidaw: Never underestimate unexpected dynamics and the subversive use of your own infrastructure.


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That tattooing has moved into the mainstream is hardly news, nor is the fact that tattoo artists can enjoy concurrent careers as fine artists (local inkers Dan Gilsdorf and Peter Archer spring to mind). That tattooing has ascended into the august halls of the Portland Art Museum this summer, however, is a more unexpected development. Marking Portland: The Art of Tattoo succeeds as an object lesson in cultural anthropology: namely, the irony-free collision of the blue-rinse set that bankrolls the museum and the blue-mohawk set who were paraded through the show's main event like exotic animals.
The first of Marking Portland's three parts is a site that lets you upload your own tattoo pics for the world to see (flickr.com/groups/markingportland)—it boasts nearly 600 photos. Secondly, there are info kiosks and art objects peppering the museum's galleries, illustrating the ways in which tattoo traditions have enriched Asian, Native American, modern and contemporary art. This is an art form, one realizes, that has evolved technically but devolved spiritually.
The third part of the show consisted of performances given July 25 in the museum's cavernous ballroom. With its fog machines and colored lights, Skinvisible was more high camp than high art, a procession of nearly naked trapeze artists and contortionists, all amply inked 'n' pierced, walking down a catwalk, swinging from bars and getting familiar with stripper poles. Think Cirque du Soleil meets Union Jacks. Between numbers, a documentary played on the big screen, lionizing local tattoo artist Don Deaton. Afterward, patrons who purchased the $10 program were invited to pose for photos with the troupe of tattooed freaks. This provided a moment of mutually opportunistic cultural imperialism as the mostly over-40 patrons mugged like tourists with the mostly twentysomething performers. The freaks seemed every bit as eager to be objectified as the establishment types were to objectify them. For the tattooed, the museum folk represent aspiration and legitimacy; for the monied interlopers, the freaks offer a chance at edginess by proximity. Attending Marking Portland is like attending a John Cage concert: The performance itself isn't that interesting, but watching the audience—and one's own reactions—is endlessly revelatory.
at the Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-2811. Closes Sept. 7. $12 ($9 students and seniors).


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Seating systems have always been a critical balance between safety, vehicle dynamics and cost.
The Automotive Seating Systems report from IHS SupplierBusiness takes an in-depth look at the global seating market including the key changes currently underway in the industry and what the future holds for this key sector. The report considers in-house seat manufacture and supply chain developments along with advances in safety, comfort and convenience.
Fitment rates for various seat features such as powered and memory functions, lumbar support and massage have been increasing and will continue to do so as vehicle interiors become "smarter". Much of the technology in today's seats is electric or electronically driven and can be remotely controlled via links on the dashboard or controllers located throughout the vehicle.
The market is opening up to New Tier 1 suppliers as well as Tier 2 and specialist niche technology players all of whom will intensify the competition for supplying the world's leading seating companies.
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Seats show an increase in value-added features
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Comfort and safety remain the most important features for the consumer.
Light weight materials are the focus of much of the innovation in today's seat systems
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How do you help guide your child's fashion choices?
Hi ladies,
Do your children ever choose clothes that you feel may not be fitting for the day? Whether it's mismatched or not weather-appropriate? Do you celebrate their uniqueness, let it go, or encourage a change?
I make sure they have weather appropriate stuff in their dressers then they can pick what they want. I do sometimes make them change if they keep wearing the same stuff over and over after I wash it.
As long as its weather appropriate I don't care what he wears
It depends on where they are going. Church clothes/special events, school clothes (we had uniforms), and other such things had to meet my approval. Play clothes, hanging out with friends, etc. were their choice as long as they were modest. My daughter liked to wear the same one or two outfits all the time, so I just quit wasting money on getting extra clothes. They were clean there was no reason why she couldn't come home from school and put on the favorite outfit each day.
I usually let them wear what the want. I ask them to change if we are going out and they are wearing ripped jeans, or if they picked something that doesn't suit the weather. I do pick my DD's clothes out for school though.
For the most part I let them wear what they want unless we're going somewhere special where certain attire is needed. I have gotten tired of talking to the wall when asking the kids if they have their jacket, sweater, etc....so if they forget it, oh well!! Today for example, my 10 yr old forgot his jacket....yeah, it's 40 something outside and he wore a t-shirt. I didn't go back to get it.
i always make sure it weather appropriate if we arwe going somewhere but if she wants to wear a tank top and shorts with snow boots and gloves in the house then im all for letting her wear it....its fun to see their uniqueness and style
it kind of depends on what exactly they pick out....if its 30' outside and my 5 yr old thinks its the perfect day for her spring dress then she changes lol but as long as it's weather appropriate and at least almost matches i'll let her pick out her clothes. ( i really dont have that problem with my son 10 or my other daughter 7 ) it is good, i think, to let them have some freedom with clothing but i usually have things on hand i already approve of and they can pick from that. hope that was helpful :)
My kids are so young that their style is whatever I put on them. I do have to hide certain clothes from my 3 year old or else he'd want to wear the same thing every day. He is going through a big time Batman phase!
I usually let her wear whatever she wants. She's 6 and she's gone out in some doozies but hey...she was dressed. Sometimes she'll try going for a monochromatic look but I have to tell her that just because she's wearing ALL pink doesn't mean that the three or 4 different variations of pink actually look good together...with maroon boots.
Something like this (what you don't see is that the pants she is wearing are actually capris):
Other times she'll put together a really cute outfit and I'll wonder why she can't do that all the time!
My oldest is 15 and as long as it's black he's good.
By boys were always pretty easy. They didnt fuss when I would choose the clothes for them to wear for the day. With the exception of the shoe story I posted, they generally went with what I said.
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FHA 203k vs. HomePath Renovation Loans: Differences Explained!
If you live in Grand Rapids or the surrounding areas, there are two mortgage programs that should definitely be on your radar: The FHA 203k Loan and the HomePath Renovation Mortgage. Both are government products aimed at helping home buyers purchase homes that "aren't perfect" by financing the cost of making them perfect into the purchase loan.
Although both programs are very similar, they also have some differences. Information is listed below which may help explain some of the similarities and differences between the FHA 203k and the HomePath Renovation Loan options. For more information contact us today.
The below example illustrates anticipated cash to close on a $100,000 purchase.
203(k) vs HomePath Renovation
$3,000 Min. Down Payment $5,000
$3,500 Est. Closing Costs $3,500
$1,500 Est. Pre-paids $ 1,500
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$8,000 or 8% (Total Estimated Closing Costs) $14,000 or 14%
* Both FHA 203k and HomePath allow the seller to pay up to 6% in seller paid concessions on an owner-occupied purchase. 2% for non-owner occupied HomePath loans.
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Three years after a horrific plane crash landed him in the hospital, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker says his life has changed in some surprising ways.
For starters, the rocker immediately adjusted his diet.
Saying he eats "fake meat," Barker explains, "I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital … It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of ways," he tells Rolling Stone.
He makes exercise more of a priority than ever, and also managed to wean himself off of prescription medication.
"I mean, I run every day now," he says. "I never ran before. In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day. Before the plane crash, I was battling a painkiller addiction. For years."
"I can proudly say I didn't even take any pain medication after I got out of the hospital. They told me I'd be on some of the medicine for the rest of my life, but I got off all of them. They made me a completely different person."
He and the band have also reignited their creative collaboration, and have just released a new album, Neighborhoods. Barker, 35, acknowledges the record has some "dark" elements and there "is a lot of seriousness" – which, he says, has something to do with what he has gone through.
"I looked Death right in the face," he says of the crash.
The band, too, is doing better since Barker and bassist Mark Hoppus were able to clear the air with guitarist Tom DeLonge, who left the group in 2005.
"I'm sitting on a bed and the doctors are talking about possibly amputating my foot. I'm reading this letter from Tom and there's a picture of his kids," he recalls of the first step towards reconciliation. "It was heavy," he says, adding, "I wanted to reach out to him."
Not all the changes have been positive, however. Barker openly struggled in the aftermath, which included the death of his close friend and fellow crash victim Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein. One not-so-happy after-effect of the crash is his inability to get back on an airplane.
"Unfortunately I can't do as much touring as I would like because I don't fly," he says. "It's an obstacle. I'm working on it though. I'm trying to get hypnotized, trying to talk to a doctor who retrains your brain. Maybe he'll help me fly again one day."
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Educators - if you ever get a chance to hear John Hunter speak, take full advantage. WOW!Nick Creach on John's NAIS Keynote
John Hunter's Keynote at the 2012 Martin Institute Conference
Educators - if you ever get a chance to hear John Hunter speak, take full advantage. WOW!Nick Creach on John's NAIS Keynote
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Following the tragic death of Kevin Ward Jr., take a look back at other auto racers lost through the years.
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1. Capitalism: A Love Story: I hate those people who love to tell you, "Money is the root of all that kills." Academy, Laurelhurst.
2. Zombieland: They have never been poor, they have never had the joy of a welfare Christmas. Academy, Bagdad, Grand Lodge, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Milwaukie, Mission, Valley.
3. Whip It: I will buy you that big house way up in the West Hills. Academy, Bagdad, Laurelhurst, Mission.
4. Law Abiding Citizen: I will buy you a new life. Yes I will. Valley.
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He has Derrick Rose, Rajon Rondo and Russell Westbrook figuratively circled on his calendar, the guards that, like him, came into the NBA after the Great Leveling. The Lakers still dominate because of their size and talent in the paint, true, but they are now the exception, representative of pro basketball the way it used to be played. The league has gotten what it wanted; its rules changes have made it almost impossible to guard point guards, so point guards now rule. The league is getting smaller and smaller, and quicker and quicker, and players like Rondo and Westbrook and Rose are the new normal, which is why John Wall idolizes them so. He's the latest version.
"Me and my talent, I have to prove I belong on this level," the number one pick said on Saturday. "They've already proved themselves. And that's where I'm trying to get."
Wall has not been in the savior business that long. Five years ago, no one had the 19-year-old on their radar as a franchise-changer, one whose name would adorn the side of a building and provide hope for a moribund organization. But he came on like lightning on a summer afternoon, making the John Wall Dance a YouTube sensation and leading Kentucky to the Elite Eight as a freshman. Now he's expected to do the heavy lifting to make Washington relevant again.
He spent the offseason in a whirlwind, dominating the Las Vegas Summer League, going back and forth between Washington, Kentucky and North Carolina, playing with and against Gilbert Arenas in pickup games, and getting $25 million from Reebok to be the shoe company's new signature face as Allen Iverson fades into the sunset. But now the job begins in earnest, with the Wizards looking to the 19-year-old Wall to lead them someplace, anyplace other than where they've been.
The Wizards gave the keys of the franchise to Arenas, and he drove it off a cliff with bad luck, injuries and incredibly poor decision making that culminated in last December's gun incident with former teammate Javaris Crittenton that led to 50-game suspensions for both by NBA Commissioner David Stern. It will take years to overcome the damage to both the competitive prospects for the Wizards in the Eastern Conference and to the franchise brand, but Wall's arrival has likely shaved a couple of years off the rebuilding project.
"He is our leader," Wizards coach Flip Saunders said of Wall, less than a week into camp. "I think the bubble he was in at Kentucky probably prepared him as much as anybody for these types of these situations. Unless you were there in its heyday, that's kind of what he went through (last year). So I think that's probably helped him mentally."
But young almost never wins in this league, no matter how good, and Washington won't likely win this season, not in what may now be the toughest division in the league. Wall has so much to learn on the court, from mastering Saunders' voluminous playbook to figuring out all of his options on the screen and roll (defenses don't play it passively in the NBA, Wall has noticed; big men rotate, and do you attack them, or move the ball along?) . But that's just the half of it.
Washington is a city that recognizes stars, and Wall has the look of a budding one. New owner Ted Leonsis knows how to build buzz around a young talent, just as he did with the NHL's Capitals and their superstar (and two-time MVP), Alex Ovechkin. So Wall can't just develop at a normal pace. He has to sign every autograph and do the community stuff and help sell tickets as well as get down in a defensive stance.
He's trying to find a balance. His close friends/mentors, brothers Brian and Dwon Clifton, are living in a house just down the road from his in suburban D.C., to give him a familiar face and someone who can say no. (Wall turned down a July appearance at the ESPYs in L.A. so he could practice with the Wizards' summer league team in Vegas.)
Wall acknowledges all the hype is "a tough situation" to deal with, but no one's going to feel sorry for him.
"You've just got to be what I always stay: humble and hungry," he said. "If you stay humble then you're not going to get big-headed, and if you stay hungry, you're always going to get better and compete every time on the court. That all should keep you level-headed."
So much has been said and written about how the Wizards have to, at all costs, keep Arenas away from Wall, as if Arenas was a parasite looking for a host body, and Wall's character was a lump of clay that anyone could mold to his or her liking. But if Wall is that impressionable, Washington shouldn't have wasted the first pick on him. A franchise does not turn around if its point guard is a shrinking violet, easily led. Wall may be young, and he'll make mistakes, but he does not show signs of anything other than being an alpha male in his own right, his own man, someone who is followed, not a follower. On a Kentucky team where each starter was a first-round NBA pick -- unprecedented in Draft history -- Wall was the man.
But can Wall and Arenas play together? The Wizards haven't shied away from having the two on opposite teams in scrimmages, but ultimately, they have to find a comfort level with one another. (They have been working on an intro dance, which Wall calls "Respect.")
"I think they've done well together," forward Al Thornton said. "I think a lot of people coming into it thought there was going to be conflict. Would they be able to play together? Would Gil massage the ball too much? But in this camp, it seems like they've been playing well and their chemistry's pretty good. Hopefully they'll be able to keep it up."
Wall says Arenas has been a willing teacher, showing him some tricks of the trade, how to improve his jab step, how to use his arms to create space for himself. He has not, he said, asked Arenas about the guns, and won't, nor will he make any judgments about Arenas' character because of what happened last season.
"Every time he gets in a drill and [he's] gotta be a point guard, he's like, he doesn't want to do it, he wants to be a two guard," Wall says. "It makes it a little easier. He knows that I'm looking to find him, and at the very same time, I'm trying to do as much as I can to help the team win. So whether it's finding him or finding one of the big men, he's cool with it."
Wall is also learning from Kirk Hinrich, the veteran guard the Wizards acquired from Chicago on Draft day, along with the rights to forward Kevin Seraphin. Already, Saunders says Hinrich and Wall are his two best at communicating with the other players on the floor. For all the talk about Wall and Arenas playing together it would be no surprise if Wall and Hinrich are in the backcourt just as much. Hinrich is already Washington's best perimeter defender, and Saunders has said he'll often play all of them in a three-guard lineup.
"He's not as fast as most of us," Wall said of Hinrich. "He's not as athletic. But he's a smart player. He knows the situations, and he's great on defense. He knows how to get through the pick and rolls. He knows the help side."
Someday, Wall will know all of those things. But he's on step three of a 1,000-move career. There will be many 7-for-19 nights, and double-figure turnover nights, and blown defensive assignments. The Wizards will need a lot more than the improved physiques of center JaVale McGee and Thornton, and the potential of rookie bigs Trevor Booker and Seraphin to be competitive. A fully engaged and healthy Arenas would make things really interesting. But the Wizards' future is Wall's, the two tied together and heading to open water.
"Coming from the situation I came from, I never had nothing," Wall said. "So I just stay level-headed. To see my mom happy is the key thing for me...Brian and Dwon, and my brother Ty, my mom, and my family (keep him humble). My sisters, they're happy for me, but to see my sisters still working, and still going to school, to know that they care but they're not just trying to live off of me. They still want to make it. So that proves to me that I have to still keep working."
Gregg Popovich is confused that you're confused. Why are you surprised that Popovich spent the summer working individually with Richard Jefferson?
"I'm his coach," Pop said via phone on Friday. "That's what I do. I realize these are the days of specialization, and we have 19 people working with these guys."
But Popovich knew he could not stomach another season with the Jefferson that showed up in San Antonio last season. It wasn't just that Jefferson, like any number of new arrivals in San Antonio, had a tough time adjusting to what Popovich demanded. Jefferson was sluggish and uncertain, and Popovich couldn't trust him at the ends of games to do the right thing. He hadn't really flashed, Popovich surmised, since the Nets made those consecutive Finals in 2002 and 2003, with Jefferson and Kenyon Martin filling the lanes for Jason Kidd's bounce passes and alley-oops.
And instead of being injected with the energy and excitement of a dynamic player -- as the Spurs had anticipated when they executed the three-team deal with Milwaukee and Detroit that brought Jefferson to town -- the Spurs were drained. Even though Jefferson shot the ball better than he had in five years, his average of 12.3 points last season was his lowest since his rookie season.
So Popovich gave Jefferson a choice, telling him there would be no hard feelings either way. Jefferson could agree to meet Popovich and assistant coach Chip Engelland during the summer in San Antonio to go "back to school," as Popovich put it, on regaining the fundamentals that the Spurs' coach thought Jefferson had lost over the last few seasons. He would also work with Spurs assistant Chad Forcier in New York. And he'd take part in Tim Grgurich's skills camp in Vegas in August.
Or he could refuse, and enjoy his summer.
"And I would have definitely tried to trade him on the spot," Popovich said. "I told him I would definitely go to work on getting your ass out of Dodge."
So Jefferson chose summer school, working out for two hours at a time with the Spurs' coaches all over the country. It was all basics: pivoting with the ball, jump-stopping, drills designed to improve his efficiency of movement on the court. On the defensive end, Jefferson got reinforcements on the Spurs' defensive concepts, which go into much greater detail than simply pushing everything baseline and keeping guards from dribble penetrations in the paint. He reported to camp last week with 7 percent body fat and a cut-up physique.
"I asked him if he wanted to reach his potential, or just let the next few years slough away and just put money in the bank," Popovich said. "He said 'I want to reach my potential.' "
San Antonio's core group, as we all know, isn't getting any younger. Even though Tim Duncan again came to camp in great shape, and Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili are refreshed after taking the summer off from international competition -- neither played for France or Argentina, respectively, in the FIBA World Championship -- the Spurs' margin for error, Popovich said, gets a whole lot smaller if Jefferson isn't contributing. After opting out of his deal in June and agreeing to a four-year, $38 million deal, Jefferson is going to be crucial to any hopes San Antonio has of mounting one last championship push.
Popovich wasn't sure Jefferson would agree. He'd established himself as a star of sorts, and it's sometimes hard to get players on that level to keep from coasting. They are, they often say, who they are. But to his credit, Jefferson bought in.
"I just think he needed somebody to demand it of him," Popovich said. "He's a smart guy and he's got great character. It was lucky for me that I could address him straight on. If he was a dumb guy or a smart ass I would probably have had to try to trick him. Overall, I hope it translates to more consistent play."
1) L.A. Lakers: Kobe tests his knee out in London this week.
2) Orlando: They do better when they're the underdogs, as many have them coming into the season. You'll notice I don't.
3) Miami: Wade said something interesting the other day: LeBron pushes him to get better. That's something that's should give the rest of the league night sweats.
4) Boston: KG looking sensational in the early going, with explosiveness the Celts haven't seen in two seasons.
5) Oklahoma City: The Thunder drew 3,500 for an intrasquad scrimmage at a local high school last week.
6) Dallas: ESPNDallas.com reporting that Mavericks are trying to bring assistant Tim Grgurich to the bench. That would make a lot of sense.
7) San Antonio: Tiago Splitter out a couple of weeks with a calf strain.
8) Chicago: Bulls reportedly lock up Joakim Noah with an extension, thus ending the Carmelo speculation once and for all.
9) Atlanta: Larry Drew promising more ball movement this season.
10) Utah: Al Jefferson reported at 280 pounds, saying he and GM Kevin O'Connor had agreed he needed more bulk this season. Not sure they meant that much.
11) Portland: Blazers holding fast in their refusal to give Rudy Fernandez away. He's in camp, though not happy about it.
12) Phoenix: Josh Chlidress looked great in scrimmage on Saturday, continuing solid camp.
13) Milwaukee: Corey Maggette still not cleared for fullcourt work after ankle surgery.
14) Houston: Yao turned an ankle in practice last week; club says it's no big deal.
15) Denver: Kenyon Martin says he was misquoted in Denver Post story that implied he would be playing now if he had gotten a contract extension from Nuggets. Martin is coming off patella surgery he had in June.
Can we ever have a real conversation about race in America?
LeBron James didn't "play the race card," as those who always lazily refer to discussions on race say, last week. (Once again, as FanHouse's David Steele said years ago, race is not a card to be played in any game.) He answered a question asked of him by CNN's Soledad O'Brien. His manager, Maverick Carter, seconded James' notion. Just as with James going to Miami, there was nothing wrong in James' decision -- in this case, to answer the question. It was, again, the execution that was faulty.
James is mature enough and experienced enough to know that race is never a throwaway line. Race never winds up on the cutting room floor. He should have been able to handle what was an imprecise question from O'Brien -- "Do you think there's a role that race plays in this?" -- much better. He could have asked O'Brien to be more specific -- did she mean the reaction from fans? the media? Dan Gilbert? He could have said more than, "I think so, at times. It's always, you know, a race factor," which was even more vague than the initial question.
And Carter certainly didn't need to chime in; he has not helped his friend much this offseason, finally acknowledging to O'Brien what everyone on earth by now knows -- "The Decision" is not destined for the Museum of Television and Radio.
Of course, James has not been front-and-center in the past when it comes to racial issues, which makes his bringing it up now, even indirectly, ring hollow to many. He didn't talk about race when he was winning back-to-back MVPs and collecting tens of millions in endorsement dollars, the argument goes; why is he noticing race only now, when he's getting bad press for the first time in his career? There's some validity to that.
But that doesn't mean James is never allowed to talk about race. To think that race played absolutely no role in anyone's reaction to James joining the Heat is naive in the extreme. Now, that is a far, far ways away from thinking racism was involved; that is a system of behaviors and decisions that affect the ability of those who are its victims to live their lives freely. (Frankly, there are very few people of any race who can impact James' life in a meaningful way.) But race is involved in everything in American life, from our music to our politics to our religion. To think it's somehow not involved in our basketball is ridiculous.
The question is whether race played a significant role in the reaction, and surely, no one believes that. James can't believe that. Carter can't believe that. Again, this is why he needed to be exact in what he meant.
Yet this can be constructive, if only to pound home how sensitive and defensive we all are about racial matters. Race is the ultimate dog whistle, producing different sounds for different people.
None of us think people of different races really hear what we're saying when we talk about it. Ultimately, we seem to find it easier to just shut up rather than be thought of badly. It would be welcome if a public person like James wasn't afraid to offend, wasn't afraid to learn, wasn't afraid to talk about something that almost no one volunteers to discuss.
"The Decision" was horrible. But if James wants to have a serious conversation about how his worldview has been shaped by being a black man in the United States -- even one as wealthy and as famous as he -- that would be must-see TV.
David, can you please explain why, if a team can hang onto 15 players for the entire season, what is the big deal about letting all 15 play. The Lakers have a player [Adam Morrison] who went two years in the playoffs and almost never got to get on the court. The "Inactive vs. Active List Rules" say teams must have 12 total active players and three inactive players, but in the playoff only 12 are important and the three are excess baggage. Yeah, and I know that the rules were changed not very long ago to swap out during the regular season. So why not this year let the coach have 15 to swap out in the playoffs and maybe the following year just have 15 players on a team period? Morrison played a total of 13 out of over 2200 minutes in two years in the playoff for the Lakers. Two NBA rings for 13 minutes of work -- what a deal.
What was it Pat Riley said? Something like "dress nine, play eight, trust seven, win with six?" Coaches -- and, truth be told, players -- are of the firm belief that you just can't play everyone on the active roster and have any kind of continuity or flow. Minutes equal numbers, and numbers equal contracts. So everyone wants them. But coaches have to win to stay employed, so the people they actually trust to finish games is usually much smaller than their normal rotation.
A game of Windy City Musical Chairs. From Ryan Jody:
Love your work! As a Bulls fan I think they are making a big mistake not offering [Joakim] Noah and [Luol] Deng for Carmelo [Anthony]. With large extensions coming for [Derrick] Rose and Noah, the Bulls will be paying four players (Deng, Rose, Noah and Carlos Boozer) $10 million-plus per season and are still probably not a title-contender. If Chicago traded Deng and Noah, it would be a little thin at center this season but it would have a legit "Big 3" and would only be paying three guys large sums of cash ... tell me what you think?
Someone said this to me the other day and I think it makes sense: the Bulls still need someone to guard Dwight Howard in the post if they're going to have any shot of getting out of the East. Without Noah, Chicago would have almost no rim protection. Ultimately, Bulls executive VP John Paxson and GM Gar Forman may pull the trigger anyway and include Noah in a deal for Anthony, but I think it would leave the Bulls in the same predicament Utah has found itself in the last few seasons: being a very talented team, but too small to beat the elites in their conference in the playoffs.
Root, root root for ... none of the above. From Johannes Seidl-Schulz:
I was just wondering, what is your own favorite team (are you even allowed to have one as a journalist?) and what is your favorite, but maybe not so well-known, player?
I always tell people I root for good basketball, not any particular team. Whether they win or lose, I still have to do a story on 'em, so rooting interests don't help me one way or the other. As for players ... well, I love watching Ray Allen and Rip Hamilton work off of screens. I love watching Pau Gasol's footwork in the post. I love Chris Paul in the open court. I love watching Kevin Durant rising up to shoot. I love watching LeBron with a head of steam, coming left to right, about to take a whole bunch of people up to the rim. I have a soft spot for Caron Butler, a guy that decided he didn't have to live the life he was leading as a teenager, and changed it, and became one of the NBA's real good guys.
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3 -- Minutes for overtime in the NBA D-League this season, instead of the normal five. The NBA uses the D-League to experiment with new ideas, and will continue to do this season. In addition to the shorter overtime, the D-League will test out the European system that allows defenders to knock balls off the rim without being called for goaltending.
$5,000 -- Fine amount for this season for any player that receives a 16th technical foul, double the amount players were fined last season after reaching the 16-T mark. The league is doubling fine amounts across the board ($2,000 for each of a player's first five technicals, followed by $3,000 per tech for the next five and $4,000 per tech for the five after that, through the 15th technical).
$100,000 -- Fine for Wizards owner Ted Leonsis by the league after Leonsis told local businessmen he expected a "hard cap" from the next collective bargaining agreement similar to the one the NHL current has.
1) They had none of the fanfare--they never do. The U.S. women's national team just keeps winning. Another gold medal in the World Championships on Sunday, an 89-69 cruise over the host Czech Republic. They avenged their 2006 bronze medal performance in the Worlds by winning by an average of 35.1 points. This Sue Bird-Diana Taurasi-Swin Cash era has been pretty incredible.
2) The new standards for what triggers a technical foul are a very, very bad idea. This is a very, very good idea.
3) Haven't seen the latest 30 For 30 on Vlade Divac and Drazen Petrovic, Once Brothers, but the buzz is encouraging. It's a wonderful (and tragically sad) story about one of the great teams that almost no one outside of Europe saw -- the Yugoslavian national team of the late 1980s that featured future NBAers Divac, Petrovic, Toni Kukoc and Dino Radja. When Yugoslavia dissolved into civil war, and emerged split into Croatia and Serbia, so did the friendship between Petrovic, a Croatian, and Divac, a Serb. Divac made his peace with most of his Croatian teammates but never could with Petrovic, who died in a car accident in 1993.
4) Steve Blake has already impressed the Lakers, and Kobe, with how quickly he's picked up the triangle. Shouldn't be a surprise. The Flex offense he played in college at Maryland has some similarities with the triangle, and Blake has always been a quick study. He was a terrific pickup for L.A.
5) Always liked the way Josh McRoberts played, even when he was in Portland. Now that Troy Murphy is in New Jersey, McRoberts looks like he'll be the starting at power forward for the Pacers.
6) Fred, Barney, Wilma and Betty are 50! With both of my parents working, I was pretty much a latchkey kid growing up. It's not an exaggeration that I have watched every episode of the Flintstones at least a dozen times and can recite most of the dialogue word for word. Or, at least I could. Yabba Dabba Doo.
1) Ugh.
2) I just can't dodge this inexplicable feeling that the league must have better things to do with its time.
3) We are all guilty of Heat Overkill, but do we really have to hear how "fierce" LeBron was at practice during training camp? One of my old journalism professors used to say they don't write stories about cars that drive on the right side of the road, or leaves that fall from trees.
4) Well, it didn't take long for Vinny Del Negro to come to much the same conclusion that Mike Dunleavy did about B Dizzle, did it? At least he was a little nicer about it.
5) I really don't understand why the Twins are so upset with this. It's not like it's an ad for something ilicit, or illegal. There's signage all over, and around, ballparks all the time. They're part of the tableau. If Jim Thome gets a hold of one during the playoffs, the radio call "he hit it over Sanford!" will become iconic in Minneapolis. Like Mary Richards throwing her hat.
6) A man named Frank Jordan died late last month. Most of you under 40 have no idea who he was. Many of you over 50 may not, either. But Frank Jordan is as responsible as anyone outside my immediate family for my becoming a journalist. A former radio reporter, he became Washington bureau chief for NBC News in the 1960s and early 70s, coordinating that network's coverage of the Kennedy Assasination and the resignation of President Nixon. After Frank left that job he came to American University in D.C. and became Dean of the School of Communication. That was where we met, when I was 18 and didn't know jack about being a reporter.
Frank was the faculty advisor of the school paper, and he was the person who convinced me, a sophomore, that I could be editor-in-chief -- a job that changed my life. He was always prodding me and my staff, demanding we put out a better paper the next week. His post-production critiques of the paper could be withering. But he also provided quiet counsel and comfort to me when I needed it. (He was the one who calmed me down the first time someone said they were going to sue.) When I left AU, I knew I could be a reporter for a living. That would have never, ever happened if I hadn't met Frank Jordan. He made my life better. I thank him for his.
"Success/Wealth a big magnifying glass; If U were nice b4 U got em, U now nicer but if U were an (expletive) b4 U got em, U now bigger (expletive)" DG
-- Cavs owner Dan Gilbert (@cavsdan), Friday. Can't imagine who he's talking about. (To see the unedited version, you'll have to get on Twitter and follow Gilbert. I'd love to write it all out for you here, but there are kiddies who read this.)
"I sent him a text message that said: welcome to the club."
-- Mark Cuban, telling the Dallas Morning News about his communication with Wizards owner Ted Leonsis after the league fined Leonsis $100,000 for talking about the collective bargaining agreement negotiations.
"It was unfortunate for the fans what happened, but it's time to move on. I'm sure they've moved on. But in the back of my mind, I still have a thing for Seattle and always am going to remember what they've done for me."
--Kevin Durant, according to The Oklahoman. What he said.
"Sign the extension."
-- George Karl, to NBA FanHouse, on what it will take for Carmelo Anthony to get back in the good graces of Nuggets fans. Anthony was booed when he was shown on a video screen Thursday night during a Mixed Martial Arts event in nearby Broomfield, a Denver suburb.
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It's not often an NBA game swings from a 10-point deficit to a 19-point lead and back to a 20-point deficit. But that's what Saturday night's 107-91 Bulls' loss to the Pistons featured. After trailing by 10 early, the Bulls used a 23-4 run in the second quarter to establish control. But the Pistons stormed back with a 27-5 third-quarter spurt and kept pouring it on in the fourth. Pau Gasol had 27 points and 10 rebounds for his league-leading 46th double-double and six Pistons hit double figures.
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Dropbox's New COO Has a $350 Million War Chest
When Dennis Woodside lands in his new role as chief operating officer at Dropbox, he'll have a big pile of cash to spend.
The online storage startup last month raised $350 million from investors including BlackRock, T. Rowe Price and Morgan Stanley Investment Management, according to a person familiar with the process. The fund-raising valued the company at $10 billion.
The funds will help fuel a massive expansion of Dropbox's workforce, which could double to 1,000 this year, said vice president Sujay Jaswa in an interview earlier this week. At least one new overseas office in Asia is set to open this year, he said.
Woodside could spend on big deals that bring Dropbox more users. The company's 2011 pact with Samsung put Dropbox software on high-end Android phones. The deal cost Dropbox in the short run because the company offered millions of new users 50 gigabytes of free storage each for up to two years; but it brought Dropbox new mobile users.
Acquisitions could help Dropbox add talent and technology. Though most of its deals have been small, Dropbox may look at bigger targets, Mr. Jaswa said.
At least one more key hire is needed before the company pursues an initial public offering: Dropbox is searching for its first chief financial officer.
"We're looking for a CFO whose experience allows the company to have a range of options," Mr. Jaswa said.